Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE MISSIONARY VISITS. Mr. Editor: Please a low space in your valuable paper. On Dec. 17th 1916, I was with Eld. Bruen and his good people. We preached morning and night as be t we could. Elder Bruen is one pastor no missionary need fear, no pastor can treat me be ter than did he, he is a perfect gentlemen. He urged his people to pay twenty cents per member and they paid it, and what they liked paying their annual assessments that God sent man (Eld. Bruen) paid the balance. If all the pastors were like Eld. Bruin, the missionary could work in destitute fields without fear and trembling. May God bless Eld. Bruen and his good people. They give me four dollars and twenty cents. I returned home on the 18th of Dec. On the 24th of Dec. I went to Cairo, I1., 40th St., and visited the officers but failed to get them together. On the 25th I visited Future City, Cairo, failed to have service. On the 29th of Dec I visited 40th St., Cairo, and was with them in a business meeting Eld. Bamar, Mod. Mod. They called a pastor as they promised me they would on the 25th. They called Daniel Mitchell of Louisiana. On Dec. 31st we visited Zion Traveller Md City, 11:00 a. m. on the same date 3:00 p. m. we St. Johns, Mounds and assisted Eld. D. Parrish, in examining Thomas Brandon for ordination. He was publicly examined and ordained to the gospel ministry. Council; Elders J. H. Sarks, Cairo, F. Bomar; Cairo, G. W. Braddock and D. Parrish Md. City. On Sunday night Dec. 31st I was back to Zion Traveller and held Watch Meeting services and prea:hed. The Holy Spirit came in capious showers until it was about 12:15 a. m. before we could dismiss. Collection for the missionary fifty five cents I wish to say to the many Pastors of this grand Association of which your humble servant is missionary give me your co-operation by assisting me in whatever way you can and I assure you I will make you a missionary you need not be ashamed of, you can assist me by letting me help you in your revival work Bro. Pastors write any time you want me. My Post office is Md City, Ill., Box 321. UNITY. ILL. Dear Sir and Bro. We received a letter from Rev. Jno. Bruin of Mt. Vernon, with $1 10 enclosed. Said amount sent from Board meeting. Please accept thanks. My husband is in a serious condition and continues to grow weaker. MOTTO: HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY * Yours in Christ. M. J. Blake. ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY NOTES. Nashville, Tenn. Dec. 28, 1916 The school opened Wednesday day for business. Many of the students that left to be with their relatives and friends are now coming back scarcely before the atmosphere has been cleared from the excitement of the Yule-tide festivities. The notification comes to get busy for the final examination for the 1st semester. The usual gloom is shadowed, but all seem resolved to do their very best. On a whole the standard in percentage of all students have been raised from the last test examination taking that as an indicator as well as burning zeal on the part of every student to do his best we look forward to a very successful close of this semester. There are quite a number that will be here during the mid-semester. The Emancipation Day services will be held under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. They have arranged for quite an instructive program. Memorial services will be had under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. Sunday Jan. 7, 1917. Metropolis, 111.. Allow us space in your valuable paper to speak of our Young Men's Christian Association. To my mind this organization is a potent factor in the community to assist in the development of our young men. In fact it stands next to the church. Our organization was perfected Feb. 15, 1916 electing a president, Prof. G. E. Masterson, a man capable in every respect to lead the young men to a higher status in life. His sincerity, earnestness and his deep interest in the welfare of young men coupled with his christian character fits him for the place. On Sunday Dec. 17, 1916, a great men's meeting was held, the speaker chosen to deliver the address to men was Rev. I. S. Stone, pastor of St. Paul A. M. E. church. The Subject discussed "Opportunity." The subject was very forcibly delivered. Many salient points were brought out by the speaker, which were both interesting and instructive. One of the great features of the meeting was the chorus of voices that led the singing, young men who possess talent would make great men in the world if they would only cultivate that talent. We are planning a similar meeting in the future to be addressed by other prominent speakers selected by the organization. We trust we may have the cooperation of every man in the city. Another feature that will be interesting in the work of the or- organization is the Bible training class that will begin its work with the New Year. We are soliciting an enrollment for the same. Will you join? I hope that I have not used too much of your valuable space, therefore I will write more, anon. NOTICE OF PUBLICATION CHANCERY State of Illinois, Massac County SS. In the Circuit Court, January Term, A. D. 1917. Elizabeth Wymer vs C. H. Dunn and Ella Dunn, in Chancery. Affidavit of non-residence of the C. H. Dunn impleaded with the above defendants Ella Dunn having been filed in the Circuit Court of said County notice is therefore hereby given to the said non-resident defendant that the complainant filed her bill of complaint in said Court, on the Chancery side thereof, on the 24th day of November 1916 and that thereupon a Summons issued out of said Court, wherein said suit is now pending returnable on the Second Monday in the month of January next, as is by law required. Now unless you, the non-resident defendant above named C. H. Dunn shall personally be and appear before said Circuit Court, on the first term thereof, to be holden at Metropolis in and for the said County, on the 8th day of January next, and plead, answer or demur to the said complainant's bill of complaint, the same and the matters and things therein charged will be taken as confessed, and a decree entered against you accordidg to the prayer of said bill. ARTHUR H. FINLEY, Clerk. Metropolis Illinois, November 24th 1916. FRED R. YOUNG. Comlapinant's Solicitor. NOTICE OF PUBLICATION CHANCERY. State of Illinois, Massac County, SS. In the Circuit Court, January Term, A. D. 1917. Blanche Clifford vs Bert Clifford In Chancery, Bill for Divorce In Chancery, Bill for Divorce Affidavit of non-residence of Bert Clifford, the above defendant having been filed in the Clerk's office of the Circuit Court of said County, notice is therefore hereby given to the said non-resident defendant that the complainant filed her bill of complaint in said Court on the Chancery side thereof, on the 5th day of December 1916 and that thereupon a Summon issued cut of said Court, wherein said suit is now pending returnable on the Second Monday in the month of January next, as is by law required. Now, unless you, the said non-resident defendant above named Bert Clifford shall personally appear before said Circuit Court, on the first day of the next term thereof, to be holden at Metropolis in 'and for said County. on the Eighth day of January, 1917 next, and plead, answer or demur to the said complainant's bill of complaint, the same and the matters and things therein charged and stated will be taken as confessed, and a decree entered against you according to the prayer of said bill. COLFAX MORRIS, Clerk. Metropolis, Illinois, December 5th 1916 NOTICE OF PUBLICATION CHANCERY State of Illinois Massac County, SS. In the Circuit Court, January Term, A. D. 1917. Grace Lassiter vs B. B. Lassiter in Chancery. Affidavit of non-residence of the B. B. Lassiter the above defendant having been filed in the Clerk's office of the Circuit Court of said County, notice is therefore hereby given to the complainant filed her bill of complaint in said Court, on the Chancery side thereof, on the 24th day of November 1916 and that therupon a summons issued out of said Court, wherein said suit is now pending returnable on the Second Monday in the month of January next as is by law required. Now, not less you, the said non-resident defendant above named B. B. Lassiter shall personally be and appear before said Circuit Court, on the first day of next 527536 ILLINOIS CENTRAL This metropolis of the South and ga to Texas, California-via the Southern of Cuba. Panama and all South and Centr merica ports has a genial semitropical o and is replete with the historical evidenc its rule by three nations. It is here ther famed Mardi Gras is held (February 20, Horse racing every day January 1 to Feb 20, 1917. TRAIN SERVICE: Triple daily service the Illinois Central from Chicago and St. including the new all steel "Panama Lim in connection with which train such conveniences as Ladies" Maid, Barber, S Bath and Valet and Telephone service are ed. No extra fare. Lv. Chicago 12: M., St. Souis, 4:30 P. M., Ar. New C 11:30 A. M. Also o the "New Orleans ed" and "New Orleans Special." Beau illustrated descriptive booklet of this news and of New Orleans may be obtained upon quest. This metropolis of the South and gateway to Texas, California-via the Southern Route-Cuba. Panama and all South and Central America ports has a genial semitropical climate and is replete with the historical evidences of its rule by three nations. It is here that the famed Mardi Gras is held (February 20, 1917) Horse racing every day January 1 to February 20, 1917. TRAIN SERVICE: Triple daily service via the Illinois Central from Chicago and St. Louis, including the new all steel "Panama Limited," in connection with which train such special conveniences as Ladies' Maid, Barber, Shower Bath and Valet and Telephone service are offered. No extra fare. Lv. Chicago 12:30 P. M. St. Souis, 4:30 P. M., Ar. New Orleans 11:30 A. M. Also o the "New Orleans Limited" and "New Orleans Special." Beautifully illustrated descriptive booklet of this new train and of New Orleans may be obtained upon request. Cuba, Panama, Texas and California First-class S. S. set service from New Orleans Sailings every Saturday to Havana, Cuba, ships of the United Fruit Co. and of the Stern Pacific Steamship Line: sailings of the United Fruit Co.'s "Great White Fleet," the American flag, twice a week to Palm (Saturdays) via Havana, Wednesdays did also sailings every Thursday to Central Atlantic ports. Illinois Central service to New Orleans, ciuding through weekly tourist sleeping on California via the Southern Route New Orleans and the Southern Pacific-leaving Chicago St. Louis every Monday. Double daily sard sleeping ear service from Chicago to Houston and San Antonia, Tex., and daily service to Eagle Pass, Texas, via New Orleans. le daily service to New Orleans. Descriptive literature pertaianing to such with tickets and comp H. J. PHELPS, General Passenger A New Orleans. Iniana, Cuba, via land of the South-westings of the U. S. Fleet," under Creek to Panama Sundays direct); Central Ameri- New Orleans, in sleeping car tostate New Orleans ing Chicago and double daily stand-chicago to Hous- and daily service Orleans. Trips. In order to Orleans may suring that no inconvenience Central will party to the cicago and St. February 17. The cost is road fare to bring car fare to bring car account Meals in d stand seats New Orleans leans on Miss mobile ride in through Vick interested in complete info- going to such of the above trips as you and complete information, may be W. A. S. Passenger Agent, CHICAGO, ILL. First-class S. S. service from New Orleans. Sailings every Saturday to Havana, Cuba, via ships of the United Fruit Co. and of the Southern Pacific Steamship Line: sailings of the United Fruit Co.'s "Great White Fleet," under the American flag, twice a week to Panama (Saturdays) via Havana, Wednesdays direct); also sailings every Thursday to Central America ports. Illinois Central service to New Orleans, including through weekly tourist sleeping car to California via the Southern Route New Orleans and the Southern Pacific-leaving Chicago and St. Louis every Monday. Double daily standard sleeping car service from Chicago to Houston and San Antonia, Tex., and daily service to Eagle Pass, Texas, via New Orleans. Triple daily service to New Orleans. W wish to again call the attention of the churches and ministers of the serious illness of Rev. J. M. Blake of Unity, 111. He is the president of the Minister's union, also of Rev. Winston of 114 N. Maple St., Duquoin, who is down with dropsy and heart trouble. He is our missionary and several of the churches owe him. If there is compassion within you, for Gods sake send them a doation and help these old men who have given themselves to the cause, and have worn out their lungs preaching the gospel. The brothers and sisters of the secret orders have made ample provision for their infirm members, but the ministry, are like the foolish mad which buit his house upon the sand or grasshopper that dances all summer. It will pay the negro preacher to use a business sense along with his preaching, taks out a little insurance erect a home for the old and infirm ministers. We have just recived some more of Native Salve and it is going very fast, those in Carbon- and Md. City can secure a box or more now by 50c, per box. Act quick if you want it. Send all orders to Rev. J. B. McCrary. The Profits of Gardening. In this unjust world a large part of the profits of a town garden are made by the hardware store.—Atchison Globe. THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA New Orleans term thereof, to be holden at Metropolis in and for the said County on the 8th day of January next, and plead, answer or demur to the said complainant's bill of complaint, the same and the matters and things therein charged and stated will be taken as confessed, and a decree entered against you according to the prayer of said bill. ARTHUR H. FINLEY, Clerk. Metropolis Illinois, Nov. 24th 1916. FRED R. YOUNG, Complainant's Solicitor. Paper and every other article used in a newspaper have Jumped sky-high, therefore it takes more money to operate a paper than ever before. If you appreciate our efforts to give you a good paper, you will not hesitate to pay up at once. The Gazette, office has just received a large consignment of Letter Heads. Envelopes, Bill Heads, Cards & etc. Let us do some of your job work. The brothers that promised to pay the editor of The Gazette, for the paper if they lived. Poor fellows! they are dead for they have not paid for the paper. We are preparing to hand a number of names of our subscribers to our collecting agent as they seem to think we can run on cold air. We can't and need our money to pay bills. You need not order the paper stopped until you pay up. The law says so. We will give you this week to pay some if not all. The charms of this delightful state during the period when the entire North may be in the throes of snow blizzards and zero weather are all that are characteristic of a sem-tropical climate. Warm sunshine, bright clear skies and bracing ocean breezes combine with the best hotels and other living accommodations to make it along with New Orleans at once preeminent among places to visit during the winter. TRAIN SERVICE: The "Seminole Limited" of the Illinois Central, with the exclusive feature for the accommodation of its Pullman patrons of a Sun Parlor Observation Car included in its modern-all steel equipment, affords superior southern service between Chicago, St. Louis and Jacksonville, Fla., via Birmingham. Lv. Chicago 10:15 P. M. St. Louis 11:20 P. M., Ar. Jacksonville 7:35 A. M. (Second Morning). "Florida and Enroute," a booklet pertaining to the route of the Seminole Limited and points of interest in Florida, gladly given to those interested. Mid Winter Vacation Party to the Mardi Gras In order that the Carnival Saason at New Orleans may be enjoyed under conditions assuring that nothing will be missed and without inconvenience to the individual, the Illinois central will run its fourth mid winter vacation party to the southern metropolis, leaving Chicago, and St. Louis in special train Saturday, February 17, 1917. The cost is moderate and includes: Railroad fare to New Orleans and return. Sleeping car fare to New Orleans and return. Sleeping car accommodations while in New Orleans. Meals in dining car while en route. Grandstand seats for three Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans. Excursion trip from Mew Orleans on Mississippi River. Sight-seeing automobile ride in New Orleans. Automobile ride through Vicksburg National Military Park. If interested in a trip of this kind, let us send you complete information and illustrated literature. The trips as you may be interested in, together formation, may be obtained of W. A. STEERS, Agent. GO, ILL. In order that the Carnival Saason at New Orleans may be enjoyed under conditions assuring that nothing will be missed and without inconvenience to the individual, the Illinois Central will run its fourth mid winter vacation party to the southern metropolis, leaving Chicago, and St. Louis in special train Saturday, February 17, 1917. The cost is moderate and includes: Railroad fare to New Orleans and return. Sleeping car fare to New Orleans and return. Sleeping car accommodations while in New Orleans. Meals in dining car while en route. Grand stand seats for three Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans. Excursion trip from Mew Orleans on Mississippi River. Sight-seeing automobile ride in New Orleans. Automobile ride through Vicksburg National Military Park. If interested in a trip of this kind, let us send you complete information and illustrated literature. pe for The Gazette NOTICE. Native Salve. Fred. R: Young, Atty. Administrator's Notice. Estate of Fred Jarrett, deceased The undersigned; having been appointed Administrator of the estate of the estate of Fred Jarrett late of the County of massac and the State of Illinois, deceased, hereby give notice that he will appear before the County Court of Massac County at the Court House in Metropolis, at the January Term on the first Monday in January next, at which time all persons having claims against said estate are notified and requested to attend; for the purpose of having the same adjusted. All persons indebted to said estate jare required to make immediate payment to the undersigned. Dated this 23rd day of October, A. D. 1916. The Gazette has just received another lot of new type faces and other material which adds much to the output of the work of the office. We deserve your patron age. We have a full line of card Letter Heads, Envelopes and other material. Let us do some of your work. Let us do your minute work and any other church advertisements. Dignamism. Dignarn tells us: "There are many risks in business. The wise man allows his competitors to take them." --- Can Men Reform Woman's Dress? Selfishness was everywhere. Greed had carried love away; Every face was married by care— Ah! but that was yesterday. If there is one thing above all others that a stylish woman will not confess it is that she is dressing to please the men. The truth is she craves to look her best in the eyes of admirer, lover and husband. No one bemoans the advent of an absurd fashion more than the women who are will brave fashion's eccentricity to look adorable in the eyes of the man they care for. The married man has a better grasp on the situation. He need not be so careful in choosing his language; his arrows can strike home with surprising accuracy. He can adroitly shame the wife who cares for his opinion into not countenancing outandish modes, especially in the case where she has glided past the fair and forty period and has accumulated more than her share of avoirdupois. It is effective if the husband of such a wife throws up his hands in apparent horror when she shows him her new be-ruffled, hoop-skirted gown in triumph, exclaiming: "Now, Lucy, what could have pos FAVORITE OF PIEMBOM Lois Meredith. Young star who has many followers among patrons of the movie theaters. Spending Money Relative Matter Whether It's Buying Peanuts or a Private Car The spending of thousands without thought is probably not so different from spending dimes and coppers when you get used to it. The man who makes half a million over night in war babies probably feels much the same when he blows $10,000 at a lick as you do after you get your envelope and take home a bag of peanuts to the kids. There is a kind of glow of satisfaction in being able to spend a dime. As for the loss of the money—neither you nor the millionaire will know the difference by Monday morning. It is all a relative matter, says a writer. Just the same, it must be a sensation the first time you do as the man did who breezed into the Pennsylvania railroad office in New York one day last summer and ordered a private car to take him to San Francisco. Of course, the Pennsy gets similar orders every once and so often and they are not in the habit of becoming excited about them. But this was a little out of the ordinary, because no private cars were to be had; and when the prospective traveler was so advised he seemed to feel somewhat as commuters do when the incoming fall time table drops the fast summer train. In other words, he appeared to be annoyed and he showed it by ordering the railroad folk to buy him a car. They did that little thing to oblige and it cost him some $20,000—but it was worth it. He didn't have to worry once between New York and the coast about getting up and giving a perfectly good, comfortable seat to a lady. No. Alonzo, spot cash isn't always spotless cash. A tight man and a loose dog are equally dangerous. The older a woman grows the fewer adjectives she uses. Experience teaches us how to make other kinds of mistakes. Man wants but little here below, but he never gets quite enough. Out idea of a selfish person is one who is unable to remember a favor. Sometimes a woman's face overdoes it in the matter of telling her age. It isn't always the people who jolly you most who are your best friends. No. Philander, you can't always tell how much a girl wants to be kissed by the strenuous objections she puts up. A girl may call her small brother into the parlor and kiss him just to show the young man on the other end of the sofa what he is missing. Selfishness was everywhere, Greed had carried love away; Every face was marred by care- Ah! but that was yesterday. If there is one thing above all oth- ers that a stylish woman will not con- fess it is that she is dressing to please the men. The truth is she craves to look her best in the eyes of admirer, lover and husband. MARY No one bemoans the advent of an absurd fashion more than the women who are dismayed by them, but forced into wearing them. When it comes down to the truth of the matter, men are to blame for fashion's freakish- ness by not rising up en masse in protestation against them, not openly, but by clever ruses. What sweetheart will feel quite satisfied with her new hooped gown if her lover remarks with a well-simulated sigh, "Of course I don't know anything about women's styles, but in my eyes you look a thousand times sweeter, more girlish, in the dress you have just laid aside than in this new one. If you want to make me happy wear the other dress or a new one made on those pretty simple lines." Nine girls out of ten Poultry Pointers Fowls kept in a clean henhouse are more likely to be free from disease. A little practice will enable one to dry-pick chickens and fowls and those so picked will usually bring better prices. As the chicks grow older and larger, be sure that they do not overcrowd their coops, for if they crowd at night they will not make the best use of their food and will not grow as they should. Grit and oyster shell should be included in the ration for both young and old. To neglect this would be poor economy. To finish fattening turkeys give them all the whole or cracked corn they will eat two or three times a day. Now that the poultry cannot obtain bugs and worms in the fields, the need of animal food must be supplied by beef scraps, fish meal or cut, fresh bone. Spoiled grain and shrunken grain, although it can be bought cheaper than good grain, is usually more expensive to feed, because it has so little food value in it. There is no advantage in keeping males in the flock of layers until the hens are mated for the breeding season next spring. In fact, they are usually a disturbing factor. It is always better to pen pullets separately from hens and feed them separately because the pullets usually need more food to complete their development and start them laying. Feed a variety of grain, including corn, a little wheat and some oats, if possible, and the feed will cost less in proportion to the eggs produced, for fowls cannot do well on one kind of food alone. A Directoire Fur Set Sets of fur and velvet are quite the thing. One very charming directoire set consists of a bonnet, waist-length cape, and a round barrel muff of medium size. The velvet cape is circular, dropping lower at the front and back, and edged with a five-inch band of kolinsky fur. It is shirred to shoulder depth in many encircling rows and has a little fur band collar. The poke bonnet has several encircling bands of narrow fur and a shoulder depth net veil, banded twice around the bottom with narrow fur bands. The muff is a fat little affair covered entirely with hirred velvet. The fur band is aced about the center of the ff. Donkeys of the small African kind have taken the place of mules for transport work in the French trenches. It is not the first time that donkeys have taken part in military operations. The Persians and Greeks made use of them in their convoys, and there is an instance of the donkeys which carried the members of the French institute on Bonaparte's Egyptian expedition. Whenever the column was attacked by the enemy, the soldiers formed a square and shouted "Donkeys in the center"; whereupon theademicians, would seek the refuge us proffered. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire responsible for the story. Wise and Otherwise. sessed a fat woman—yes, I say a fat woman—like you to stand for a caricature of that kind I cannot understand. You will appear to weigh 200 in it. Couldn't you have realized it will make you seem to be years older than you really are? When we are seen walking together, people will suppose at a casual glance that I am taking my mother out for an aliring. If you want to please me wear something built upon simple lines." Of course the wife is thrown into a spasm of grief and tears, but the dress has become so obnoxious to her she lies straightway to her fashionable modiste, ordering the hoops and the bustle removed. The movement of Negro labor from the South in large numbers ding the past few months has crea If all the women, young and old, who constitute society, refuse to accept this freakish fashion, or that one, the makers of styles would leash their imaginations, giving a little serious thought to the fitness of the modes they launch upon a world of suffering women. Men, and men only, could work a reformation that would be an eye-oner to fashion creators. Men should set their feet cautiously down on the fat lady wearing skirts so tight that she has to be bolsted by main force into a street car; and wearing a behooped affair means extra cars for the company, if a dozen or more hoop-skirted women of ample girth are to be accommodated within a car's limits, or separate cars for mere men. Pretty young things can look like charming old pictures no matter what they choose to do. Yet men must begin to frown down absurd fashions on girls. If girls look pretty in them older women will wear them or die in the attempt. (Copyright, 1916.) MOTHER'S COOK BOOK MOTHER'S COOK BOOK On every hand are seen young man and woman failures, a disappointment to themselves and their friends, who bitterly criticize the formative period of life; they are hampered in their ambitions by chronic ill health, anemia, incipient stages of tuberculosis, and other diseases. No patent medicines nor abundance of food later in life will make up for the deficiency of building material during the cellular or tissue formation--Janet Hill. Soups of Various Kinds Soup is a food that is equally good for old and young, and a nourishing soup is especially good for growing children and should be often found in the ration prepared for them. Cream soups and purées are more nourishing than the clear broths. The latter serve a valuable purpose when followed by a hearty meat dish, but the heavier soups are a meal of themselves if served with plenty of good bread and butter. Children should have much simpler meals than the parents and, when possible, have their meal earlier, so that they may have plenty of sleep. Soup meat should never be put into water to be washed, but carefully wiped with a damp cloth, as washing deprives it of its juices. Rich Brown Stock. Almost any kind of meat and bone may be put into the stock pot and the careful housewife will not waste one clean scrap of meat or bone. Take three and a half pounds of beef, some poultry or game bones, four cloves, two bay leaves, one teaspoonful of whole peppers, two quarts of cold water, two carrots, two browned onions, two stalks of celery, some sweet herbs, like marjoram or thyme, and simmer slowly for four hours; strain and when cold remove the fat. The bones may be again covered with water and simmered to extract all flavor, and this thinner soup used to add flavor to other soups. White Stock. Take three and a half pounds of veal, a chicken or a rabbit, two stalks of celery, any poultry bones, two blades of mace, one onion, two quarts of cold water; cut the meat into small pieces, put them into the pot with the water and just simmer for four hours; strain, and when cold remove the fat. The bones may again be covered with water and cooked for a thinner soup. A most delicious dumpling to serve with a soup or stew is prepared as follows: Take a cupful of buttermilk—if sweet no soda will be needed, if soup add only a pinch of soda—a beaten egg, flour to make a drop batter and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, with a half-teaspoonful of salt. Drop by teaspoonfuls into the boiling soup and cook, tightly covered, eight to ten minutes. Nellie Maxwell School Ventilation Solved The problem of schoolroom ventilation was solved by a California school superintendent. In his study of the situation the superintendent found that ordinary windows are not properly placed to take off the heavier gases liberated by the breathing of several persons in a room, and that ventilators close to the floor are necessary. To meet this need he devised a type of schoolroom which has been widely adopted in Santa Clara county. The two outer walls are practically filled with windows, including rows even with the floor. These lower ones, like the others, are hinged at the upper edge and stand open practically all the time. It is stated that the pupils in these rooms show marked improvement in their work—Popular Mechanics. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS The movement of Negro laborers from the South in large numbers during the past few months has created considerable discussion in the public press, North and South, and not a little concern in parts of the South, writes a correspondent of the New York Times. A striking feature of most of this discussion is the absence of statements about the migration of Negroes before the present movement. The migration of Negroes northward in considerable numbers year by year for the last two or three decades has been quietly going on, although it may not have attracted much attention. The indication of this movement since 1880 is shown by the percentage of increase of the Negro population of the following nine Northern and border cities: Boston, Greater New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cincinnati, Evansville and Indianapolis, Ind., Pittsburgh and St. Louis. The census figures for these nine cities showed that between 1880 and 1890 it increased about 36.2 per cent; from 1890 to 1900 it increased about 74.4 per cent, and from 1900 to 1910 about 37.4 per cent. In the first decade the increase was more than three times the increase of the total Negro population; in the second period it was more than four times as large and shows the influence of the economic disturbances of the period. In the last period the increase was nearly three times larger than the increase of the total Negro population. The rate of increase in the southern cities has been large, although less than that of the northern cities during the same period, indicating that similar causes were operating to draw Negroes to southern cities, although these causes were weaker than those operating in northern cities. The percentage increase of Negroes in 15 southern cities was, from 1880 to 1890, about 38.7; from 1890 to 1900, about 20.9; from 1900 to 1910 (16 cities with addition of Birmbinham, Ala.), 20.6 per cent. These percentages are based upon census figures for the following cities: Wilmington, Del.; Baltimore, Md.; Washington, D. C.; Norfolk and Richmond, Va.; Charleston, S. C.; Atlanta, Augusta and Savannah, Ga.; Louisville, Ky.; Chattanooga, Memphis and Nashville, Tenn.; Birmingham and Mobile, Ala, and New Orleans, La. It may be added in passing that from 1880 to 1910 the increase of white population in these southern cities has been very similar to that of the Negroes. The causes of this movement during this longer period have been the same as those affecting the Negro population in the last few months. The only difference has been the increase in the volume of the movement because of the increase in its influencing causes. Los Angeles recently appointed a Negress to the office of policewoman in connection with the juvenile bureau. She is Mrs. George A. Robinson and she is the first woman in the United States to hold such an office. She is a most unusual woman. Before taking up her residence in Los Angeles she battled for woman suffrage in Colorado. All her spare time she has devoted to the acquirement of an education. She speaks French fluently and is now mastering Spanish. To do good to her race and to society is the mainspring of all her energies. She has organized various political and civic clubs among the colored people until now she is known as the Booker T. Washington of Los Angeles. "Let us turn from the creative field to that of performance, and see what the future holds out for us there. As the Negro lends his own inflection to any tongue he learns, so his touch' on the piano differs from the white man's. Here, too, his natural potentialities must expand," asserts David Mannes in an article written for the New York Evening Post. "Negroes either pick on instruments or play on instruments of percussion; to my knowledge they have never turned to bowed instruments. So it is that the difficulty for the Negro in playing on the violin lies in the bow. In their management of it they may approach the fine and natural legato of their own voices. "If people could hear Miss Richardson, the pupil of Mme. Leginska and now an instructor at the Music School Settlement for Colored People in Harlem, play the 'Toccata' of Debussy and 'To a Wild Rose,' by MacDowell, they would realize that between those pieces lies a varied range of musical dynamics all within the reach of our colored people." Mr. Mannes emphasizes the "intense spiritual feeling" of the Negro race as "Safety first" signs are placed in hemispherical bases, so they right themselves in case they are knocked out of place by passing vehicles. The Philippines assembly has put up a substantial prize for a means of destroying a tobacco insect pest without injuring the tobacco. The reach of the inner surfaces of the teeth as well as the outside is the alm of a double-ended toothbrush invented by a Memphis dentist. In her official position she visits the cafes, dance halls and other places frequented by Negro juveniles. She is so highly regarded by her people that as soon as a colored mother finds on her hands an unmanageable daughter she at once notifies Mrs. Robinson and leaves the matter in her hands. And it is well attended to and usually the girl is brought around to a decorous frame of mind. Mrs. Robinson is aiming to establish an orphanage for colored children in Los Angeles and is meeting with support among the white people. There are 4,000 colored orphans in California, and few places provided for their care. While in Colorado Mrs. Robinson took an active part in politics. She was the first colored woman to attend a convention in that state and later was in the convention which selected delegates to the national convention which nominated Roosevelt for the presidency. It was she who seconded the nomination for mayor of Jesse F. McDonald, an obscure mining man of Leadville at that time. Later he became governor of Colorado. The house of deputies of the Protestant Episcopal general convention, in session at St. Louis, adopted an amendment to the convention authorizing provincial synods to elect suffragan bishops for any diocese in the province to have authority over any particular race. The amendment, if it is adopted by the house of bishops and approved by the next general convention, will be a solution for the present problem of racial Episcopals, which has been urged particularly because of the Nepro parishes in the church. The suffragan bishop would be under the direction of the diocesan bishop. Opposition to the amendment was voiced in the house of deputies on the ground that a Negro never could be "a father in Christ to Negroes." In reply it was urged that as there are now Negro clergymen there was no valid objection to Negro bishops for Negroes. To perpetuate the work of Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee institute it is now proposed to raise a fund which will make a permanent foundation for the work carried on at the institute by him and now under the able charge of Robert R. Moton. Tuskegee institute has accomplished a vast deal of good for the Negroes—both for those who have attended the school and for those who, while never within its walls, have nevertheless profited by the principles inculcated there. Tuskegee institute has also been a valued help to the white people of the South in their efforts to assist the Negroes to become a useful and efficient part of humanity. Certainly every Southerner will be glad to see ample funds placed at the disposal of the institution to insure its permanence in a widening scope of labor for the best interests of both the races. Notre Dame university of Wisconsin has a Grand Army post composed entirely of priests. After the war many of the priests who had taken part met at Notre Dame and organized the post. The first commander was the Very Rev. William E. Corby, chaplain of the famous Irish brigade of New York. The annual income in the electrical industries is equal to the total annual expenditures of the United States government. the initial force in its musical inspiration. Upon this basis he builds his belief in the efficacy of music as a factor in a nation's preparedness, and in this theory he is sustained by J. Rosamond Johnson, director of the colored Music School Settlement, and one of the foremost composers that his race has produced. Of this characteristic of the colored people Mr. Mannes says: "Their musical inspiration as a rule has as its initial force an intense spiritual feeling so common in the black race, literate and illiterate. True preparedness means the stimulating of the poetical, musical and dramatic qualities of the child of today so that the man and the woman of tomorrow shall resist the onslaughts of material aggression." Some years ago, when there was danger Fisk university, the school for Negroes at Nashville, Tenn., would have to close for lack of funds a group of students went over the country singing Negro folk songs to obtain money. Again money is badly needed at Fisk, and again the Fisk Jubilee Singers are raising funds. A man in California has fenced in his estate by chains connecting cement posts, made and colored to represent tree stumps. From heretofore waste tomato seeds Italian canners are making an oil with rapid-drying qualities that is useful in varnishes. A memorial erected to the memory of wireless operators who have been lost with their ships has been dedicated at New York. Have You Seen It? Hundreds of farmers are going to buy this proven 8-16 Tractor, in the Spring. PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW to insure delivery when you want it. Same old price $537 F. O. B. St. Louis, Missouri. FORD TRACTOR SALES CO. 1701 Olive St. St. Louis, Mo. Three blocks from Union Station. Preinventory Used Car Sale Exceptionally Good Automobiles at $150 to $500 and up. Some at even your own price. The early buyer naturally gets the cholest selection. Call or write for list. Weber Implement & Auto Co. 1900 Locust St, St. Louis. Both Phones. Only 4 blocks North of Union Station. Proof of High Standing. Our idea of an influential citizen is a man who can get a check cashed at a bank after banking hours. Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer's Prescription, Overcomes Kidney Trouble It is now conceded by physicians that the kidneys should have more attention as they control the other organs to a remarkable degree and do a tremendous amount of work in removing the poisons and waste matter from the system by filtering the blood. The kidneys should receive some assistance when needed. We take less exercise, drink less water and often eat more rich, heavy food, thereby forcing the kidneys to do more work than nature intended. Evidence of kidney trouble, such as lame back, annoying bladder troubles, smarting or burning, brick-dust or sediment, sallow complexion, rheumatism, maybe weak or irregular heart action, warns you that your kidneys require help immediately to avoid more serious trouble. An ideal herbal compound that has had most remarkable success as a kidney and bladder remedy is Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root. There is nothing else like it. It is Dr. Kilmer's prescription used in private practice and it is sure to benefit you. Get a bottle from your druggist. However, if you wish first to test this great preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample bottle. When writing be sure and mention this paper. Adv. NO WORSE THAN OLD PLAGUES Doubt Whether Infantile Paralysis Causes More Deaths Than Do Diarrheal Diseases. The epidemic of infantile paralysis in New York shows sign of abating. Meanwhile, Chicago is almost free from it, and there is nothing to show that the few cases in Illinois have any connection with the epidemic raging in the East. Many things combine to make this the most awe-inspiring visitation that the metropolis has had for years. The persistent mystery of it, the high percentage of mortality and the fact that a large proportion of those who recover must suffer from partial paralysis the rest of their lives—the things may well disturb the sleep of parents. And yet, the probabilities are that diarrheal diseases are killing far more babies in New York even now than is infantile paralysis, and if the intestinal complaints leave no muscular crippling behind, in a considerable proportion of cases they do leave damaged constitutions. The old plagues are the most dangerous ones, after all.—Chicago Journal. Nickler—That is a horse. Bocker—I forget whether you say gidhonk or honkup to make it go. A woman is as vain of her small feet as a man of his large hat. The cheerful feeling you possess after a drink of something hot and flavory should be only the beginning of your satisfaction. For this very reason more and more people are turning from coffee to Instant Postum A lessened tendency to such annoyances as nervousness and sleeplessness repays them A ten-day trial of this delightful, flavory hot drink has assisted so many to health and comfort that your friend, the Postum drinker, will tell you its well worth while. "There's a Reason' SMILES M. "These pills have a horrible taste," said the lady customer. "Please take them back and give me something I can enjoy." "Very well, madam," answered the obliging drug-gist, "but please remember that the difference in the price of a box of pills and a box of bonbons is considerable." Something in the Air. Waiting for a Car. "No," replied Mr. Dubwaite, "I'm waiting for my wife. She's over there talking to a neighbor. I may be here for an hour or more." "Why so long?" "When they met the other woman drew her aside and began: 'My dear, have you heard—?' Most Worthy. "Why do you seek admittance here?" asked St. Peter. "On earth many blessed me and said I would surely go to heaven when I died," answered the shade. "How did you win such gratitude?" "I was always kind and considerate to the people who owned flivvers." "Enter," said the saint. "A place is prepared for you." "Are you a devotee of the screen?" "Cer刚ly." "Then you know all about Charley Chaplin and Mary Pick—" "The dickens I do! The kind of screen that's popular with me keeps out flies and mosquitoes." --- House-Cleaning Time Comes Every Day Now By DR. SAMUEL G. DIXON Commissioner of Health of Pennsylvania. ```markdown ``` It used to be the custom for housewives to cleanse their homes twice a year, and now advanced sanitation requires that the home must be kept clean at all times. A. M. The benefit of cleanliness about the home reflects both upon the physical health and the morality of our people. The necessity of cleanliness in our homes has become so manifest that it is not worth while to dwell further upon it. During the recent battle against infantile paralysis we took two small towns which were badly infected with the disease and had the homes cleansed, insect life destroyed, food kept clean and no garbage, ash piles or manure allowed to collect. The streets and alleys were made clean in each town and infantile paralysis rapidly disappeared. The cleaning up of the municipalities seemed to run parallel with the subsiding of the disease. The fact that the disease spreads at times beyond the boundary lines of these dirty breeding places is no argu- Your Corner Don't you like your little corner of the world? Have you sweetened it with sunshine and with song? Have you tried to make it brighter as you toiled. Have you tried to right its sorrow and its wrong? Do you think it's just the finest spot you know. And the noblest spot for effort that could be? Have you made it shed around a brighter spot? Have you tried to help the rest of us to see? Are you happy in your station and your time. And contented with the way that things go on; Have you made the little corner 'round your chime. Does it sparkle with the dewdrops in the haw? Do the thousands that go marching on their way Stop to smile before the beauty that you've brought From the chaos and the turmoll of the fray By a little friendly purpose and sweet thought? Don't you like the little corner he has given. For your gladness and your use and your delight? Have you made it just a little nearer heaven, Have you turned it from its darkness and its night? It's your corner, and it ought to be so fine No other corner anywhere could glow With the beauty and the gladness and the shine That your special little corner's learned to know. -Baltimore Sun Hummingbirds, Harmless, Should Be Preserved on Sentimental Grounds By F. E. L. BEAL Disheartened. D. "Was there much money spent in the election?" "Don't ask me," replied the disappointed politician. "If there was any money being passed around I didn't see it. Believe me or not, but I'll be lucky if I get a new silk hat and a Prince Albert coat." An Exception. "Would you like to see the log cabin where our greatest citizen was born?" "Why, yes," answered the visitor. "Do you mean to tell me that this town has turned out a president of the United States?" "No. That's one reason why we are so proud of him. He writes books and is one of the few log-cabin celebrities produced in this country who has never entered politics." A Wobbling Gait. "Didn't you know that if you struck this pedestrian he would be seriously injured?" "Yes, sir," replied the chauffeur. "Then, why didn't you zigzag your car and miss him?" "He was zigzagging himself, your honor." An Effort to Define. "Father," said the small boy, "what is a diplomat?" "A diplomat, my son, is a man of so much courtesy and distinction that you wouldn't dare offend him by questioning the reliability of any statement he may deem it expedient to make." ment against the theory of cleanliness as a preventative of infantile paralysis. At present it is well to look upon filth and insect life as factors taking a large part in permitting the so-called plague to invade our homes. Cleanliness regarding our children, homes, stables, yards and towns, as well as guarding our houses from all kinds of insect life, must be insisted upon by each individual citizen and by those in charge of the health and cleanliness of our towns, country, villages and homes. Dress and Education When little girls begin to think and talk about dress it is the mother's opportunity to form their taste on correct lines. "Pretty" is a word very often on the small girl's lips. She wants to be pretty. She understand that clothes have much to do with making people "look pretty." Under the impression that they are properly discouraging vanity, many mothers Hummingbirds are popularly supposed to live upon the nectar of flowers, and unquestionably this substance forms an important part of their food. Close observation has shown, however, that these little birds do not visit flowers wholly for the purpose of gathering honey, nor do they obtain all their RICARD Ruby-Throated Hummingbird. food from flowers. The writer has observed them hovering in front of a cobweb, picking off insects and perhaps spiders entangled in the net. They have also been observed to capture their food on the wing, like flycatchers. Stomach examination shows that a considerable part of their consists of insects and spiders, with sometimes a little vegetable matter. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL Here's Gown Without Hook We have had the dress which fastened with three, two, or even a single hook, but here is a frock which has no fasteners whatever. It is made of soft taffeta in a delicate lavender. The blouse is cut like a middy and slips over the head. It is smocked on each side of the front along the shoulders and across the back with soft green silk. White chiffon over green silk forms the collar, which is not as wide or deep as a sailor collar. The skirt is smocked to form a six-inch yoke and is sewed onto the blouse with an elastic as a waistband. This elastic stretches to permit the frock to go on over the head. A large, soft green cord, with loose tassels, ties about the waist and hangs down at one side, and a narrow green silk cord, ending in tiny tassels, laces up the front of the blouse. Time expended in putting on the frock—one minute. now try to divert the child's thoughts from the effect that clothes have on the person. Their motives are all right, but their methods are often all wrong and sometimes result in making the child too indifferent of appearances. The girl will be saved from vanity concerning her personal beauty if she is taught to see beauty in a wide range of natural objects. A flower is beautiful; a leaf with its fine veins is beautiful; so is a waterfall, and the arch of a horse's neck. It is well to explain to the little girl how the pretty roundness of her body and the glow in her cheeks are related to health. To preserve the pretty glow and keep the body lithe and graceful, clothes and shoes must be comfortable as well as pretty. Shoes must be of the right size and shape, so that the little growing toes may not be pisshapen. The little girl should learn to think of herself from head to feet, and not only of her face. Given such an outlook the little girl will regard her beauty of face and figure as something quite natural, not distinguishering her greatly from other healthy children, but yet something to be valued and improved by proper care and proper dressing. She will be ready to accept the teaching that dress should be selected for its suitability and becomingness. She will be interested in discovering for herself nature's laws of color harmony. New Fire Escape A cleverly made steel fire escape, which rolls up in a coll small enough to be carried in one's pocket, is the invention of Pietro Vescovi. To prove the excellence of his invention, Mr. Vescovi used it several times in descending from the upper stories of tall buildings of Stockton, Cal. The steel is tempered to stand the weight of two adults. A girl always tests her first engagement ring by trying to write her name on a pane of glass. Only one species of hummingbird inhabits the eastern part of the United States. This is the ruby-throat, which is more or less common almost everywhere in that region. The writer has seen 100 of these tiny creatures hovering about the flowers of a buckeye tree, and this number was maintained all day and for many days, though the individuals were going and coming all the time. In order to obtain definite knowledge as to the food of hummingbirds in general, and the ruby-throat in particular, so stomachs of this species were examined. Although the hummingbirds are the smallest of the avian race, their stomachs are much smaller in proportion to their bodies than those of other birds, while their livers are much larger. This would indicate these birds live to a considerable extent upon concentrated sweets, as stated above, and that the insects, spiders, etc., found in the stomachs do not represent by any means all their food. The quantities of food found in these tiny stomachs are so minute and the insects comprising them are so small that identification is very difficult and uncertain. The food of the hummingbird family, it appears, possesses but little economic interest, and that little is mostly in the wrong direction. The ants eaten are probably largely parasitic species and so to be reckoned as useful, while the gnats and spiders may be considered as neutral, although it is possible that some of the former may be of the gallnat family and so be harmful. The bugs eaten are probably mostly of the injurious species. On the other hand, humminb - is do no harm to any prod of dry and, as they are interesting creatures, may well be urged in grounds. WOMEN DOING GREAT WORK Club Activities Are Now Widespread Throughout the Nation, With Most Beneficial Results. The federations (National Federation of Women's clubs) of the northern and western states are actively engaged in teaching foreign-born children and their parents the American standards of life, sanitation and domestic economics, writes Corra Harris in the Saturday Evening Post. The Nebraska women have a portable school, which they send to communities in need of it. The Dakota women have concentrated upon efforts to lighten the drudgery of farmers' wives, Seven thousand women in Oklahoma are educating teachers. They sent 38 into the schools of that state last year. The Arkansas women have organized 11,000 college girls into an active domestic educational force, devoted to service in rural communities. The Wisconsin clubs specialize upon the health of children, free clinics for babies, and eugenics. Illinois has more women in its clubs than there are soldiers in the regular United States army. Ten thousand of these are giving all their time to social service. The club women of Louisiana, Georgia and Alabama are working for compulsory education laws. They have canning clubs and teachers of domestic economics and sanitation in rural communities. Twenty thousand club women in Texas are working for good roads. They have built rural club houses, established markets for farm women, offered prizes for the best conducted rural schools. Kentucky, Georgia, North and South Carolina women are conducting and financing "moonlight" schools for illiterates. Kentucky has 1,000 of these schools, and there is a certain club woman in this state who has taught 1,800 men and women how to read and write. Pretended Deafmutism A French medical journal, Le Caducee, reports a strange case, the simulation of deafmuthism by a young soldier, following the explosion of a great shell. The case is given by M. Berryuer. In consultation the man seemed to be an absolute deafmute. Before the explosion his speech and hearing were normal. He had at once been told that he would recover, information that did not appear to afford him any special pleasure. Close watching did not disclose any evidence of simulation. He was then placed in a state of semi-consciousness with chloroform, and in this condition conversed without difficulty. A dressing was applied to his throat for the psychic effect. Afterward he admitted recovery, but exhibited no delight over his good fortune. It was supposed that the original shock was genuine and that after this came the thought of deliberate malingering in order to keep out of the fighting line. He had played the part of a mute for six weeks. Spooning Wastes Time. "Spooning is a waste of time." Dr. Joel H. Hildebrand, chemistry professor at the University of California, told his freshman class. Then he added: "Physical attraction should be secondary. Men and women should meet on the common ground of intelligence and fellowship. Their interests should be genuine. To commence a friendship with spooning puts the relation on a false foundation. Both are concealing their better selves, their real interests behind the mask of conventional silliness. "It is the beauty of the soul and not of the skin that a man should seek. No marriage founded on sense beguillement can be happy, for these charms are short-lived. The bond should be such that a man could love his wife even though she became blind and her hair fell out, for these external beauties are the smallest part of the foundation upon which true love rests. A wife does not need to be a Venus." Dangerous War Souvenirs. Gun shells are not proving a success as souvenirs if we are to gauge the new custom by the number of accidents reported in the newspapers. The last affair of this kind seems to have occurred in London, England, near Paddington, at the home of an army captain away on foreign service, who, as a polite attention to his wife, sent her a shell with a time fuse, obtained as a trophy from a field of battle. On receiving it the lady gave it a prominent place in the drawing room, but not knowing its dangerous character omitted to warn the servant girl. The latter, by some clumsy maneuver with the broom, managed to knock it over, and it exploded, fracturing her right leg and elbow and demolishing part of the house. Use of Artificial Gas. That the use of artificial gas as a domestic and industrial fuel is increasing and that its utilization for illuminating purposes is decreasing is indicated by a report recently issued by the department of the interior, which covers the use of the product in 1915. It is pointed out that 266,204,248,000 cubic feet of gas was sold during 1915, and that the value of this production amounted to $175,832,132, according to statistics collected by C. E. Lesher of the United States geological survey, and 128,103,346,000 cubic feet of coal gas was consumed during the same period, valued at $48,882,007. The statistics show that 30 per cent of the gas was used for illuminating, 48 per cent for domestic fuel and 22 per cent for industrial fuel COLT DISTEMPER You can prevent this loathsome disease from ruining through your stable and cure all the colts suffering within it when you begin the treatment. No matter how young, SPOHN'S is safe to use on any colt. It is wonderful here it prevents all distemper, no matter how colts or horses it treats. It also prevents all goods houses and manufacturers sell SPOHN'S at 50 cents and $1 a bottle; $5 and $10 a dozen. SPOHN MEDICAL CO., Chemists and Bacteriologists, Goshen, Ind. U. B. A. 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"Well, sir," replied the senman, cautiously, "I couldn't just say where he is—but he's dead."—Pall Mall Gazette. COVETED BY ALL but possessed by few—a beautiful head of hair. If yours is streaked with gray, or is harsh and stiff, you can restore it to its former beauty and luster by using "La Creole" Hair Dressing. Price $1.00.-Adv. Literal One. "That's a good sign, my man," said the passing pedestrian, as he watched a driver of a coal wagon fix his chute in the hole on the pavement. "What's it a good sign of?" asked the man, pausing in his work. "Why, it is an infallible sign that coal is going down." COLT You can preve through your life it when you begin SPOHN'S is safe it prevents all di at any age are goods houses and animal houses CO., Chemist na That Knife-Like Pain Have you a lame back, aching day and night? Do you feel sharp pains after stooping? Are the kidneys sore? Is their action irregular? 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ADVERTISING RATES. made known on application. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. The Churches, B. Y. P. U.'s, S. S. and W. E. M. Societies are requested to send 500 each to the Executive Board which meets in Centra ia, Ill, Mar. 14, 1917 by letter or messenger to assist Rev. J. N. Washington in school at Nashville, Tenn. Don't forget to specify for what purpose. This is aside from the amount churches are required to send up for missionary, and expenses of Board. Please do not fail. Rev. J. B. McCrary, Moderator Rev. J. H. Starks, Corresponding Sec'y. Read r if a blue or red mark appears on the head of your paper marked with an [X] it is to notify you that you owe for the paper and are notiged lto pay up. We, the pastor and members of the Unity Baptist church, Brookport, ask that every pastor and church in the district lift an after collection after each service Sunday to assist us in paying for shingles to cover our church, it will not hurt you. Send money money to pastor, J. B McCrary, Metropolis, and you will be receipted through the Gazette. Who will respond to this Macedonian cry? $3 25 will buy us 1,000 shingles, $1 65 will buy 500 shingles and 85c will pay for 250 shingles. The S. S. and other auxiliares can help us in this hour of need. J. B. McCrary, Pastor. In the Sunken Submarine. "It's too annoying that we should be stuck down here. I bought myself the most splendid tomb only last week."—Lustige Biaetter. The Workers. "Did a musician of note score your speeches?" "No; the critics did." Geo. H. Crippins The Blacksmith W. 7th Street, between Market and Pearl Streets; Metropolis, Horse Shoeing and Rubber Tireing a Specialty General Repair Work Give me a trial. All work Guardanced. ```markdown ``` The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's catarrh cure is the oily positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's catarrh is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. send-for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & gO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. There are quite a few of the Sand hogs back in the city now. Walter Lashley of Minneapolis, Minn., visited his mother Xmas. Miss Beatrice Cook spent a part of Xmas in Grand Rivers, Ky. Edd Neely is at home from St. Louis. Those who entertained friends in the city Xmas were the Roberts Sisters, Miss Maude Porter, Captain and Mrs. Williams and George McCrary. Prof. and Mrs. Kivel of Brookport, were in the city Xmas. Mr. Will Dewitt and son Fred of Elkville visited Mrs. Nancy Crippens last week. Captain and Mrs. Williams and daughter Ethel and Miss Alice Hershaw were Paducah visitors Wednesday of this week. Misses Maud Porter and Anna Roberts were home Xmas. Edgar McCrary spent Xmas at home. Mesdames Deborah Wilson, Minnie Baker and Bessie William are in the city from Michigan. Mrs. Rosa Lee Sylvester visited her mother Mrs. J. E. Jones, Xmas. Aaron Long visited his sister in Brookport, Saturday and Sunday. Miss Love Phillips went to Elkville, Thursday to visit Miss Belle Claybrookes. Mrs. Mattie Howard returned home from East St. Louis, Thursday of last week. Mr. and Mrs. Alonza Donlow were in the city Xmas day. Mrs. Mamie Harmon of Cairo, was here during the Xmas. Mrs. Minnie B. Woods and sisters, Mrs. Myra Young and Mi's Daisy Stahls visited their parents during the holidays. Those on the sick list are: Mesdames Gracy Williams, Sena Overby, Sallie Townsley Messrs. George Crippens and McKinley Bogans. Mrs. Millie Griggs went to Ind., to spend the holiday. The following named persons of Metropolis, visited Mr. and Mrs. Ben Maxwell and Mr. and Mrs. Aionza Donlow of Brookport, Saturday the 30th: Mesdames Mienie Albritton, Mamie Harmon, Lillie Towles, Ollie Upshaw Rosa Simms, Misses Izora Rodgers, Carrie Urquhart and Myrtle Long, Messrs J. T. Upshaw, James Simms and George McCrary. Mrs. Cora Burton and granddaughter were here during the Xmas festivities visiting the former's sister Mrs. Leah Reed. Mrs. Pearl Carter left for her home in St. Louis, Mo., Monday she was accompanied as far as Centralia by her sister Mrs. Lena Phillips. Mrs. Lana Phillips, of Centralia was at home Xmas visiting her mother Mrs. Mollie Claybrooke Mrs. Birdie Hopsen, of Champaign, Ill.. spent the Xmas holi in the city. Misses Icie Wimberly, Mary White and Rosevelt Simms of Brookport, were in the city last week. Odes Renfro was an cut of towr visitor last week. Miss Alice Hershaw, of Indianopolis, Ind., spent the Ymas holidays in the city the guest of Captain and Mrs. Corine Williams. Miss Myra Scott of Cairo, Ill. visited her aunt Mrs. L. A. Mitchell during Xmas week. Mr. Ed Phillips of Mattoon was here a few days during the Xmas visiting his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Maxwell, of Brookport, spent Xmas day in the city visiting relatives. Mrs. Kimpie Gipson, of Bloomington, Ill., is in the city visiting her mother Mrs. Mary Robinson. Rev. and Mrs. J. B. McCrary spent a part of Xmas day in the City of Brokoport; they took dinner with Mrs. Ruth Donlow Sunday. The pastor received several useful presents from some of the members, also from Mrs. Cora Burton, of Paducah, Ky., tor which accept thanks. We have the promise of more and we are looking. Miss Maud Porter, is attending Teachers' meeting in Golconda this week. The clubs of Unity Baptist church, Brookport, are working faithfully. The Bazaar club, the oldest is working to pay off the debt as they have already raised money enough to put in the auditorium windows but let the officers have it to meet pressing demands. Mrs. Eliza Baker, is the president. The Busy Bee Club, with Sister Ellen White, captain is doing a great work, they are doing a grand work' They are purchaseing the flooring assited by Bro. Wm. White, The Unity Drill Team, with Bro. Frank Howard, president, is looking after the electric lights. The Juvenile Gleaners, with Sister Nannie Blackwell, president will look after the incidental expenses. Most of our members are energetic and faithful workers and hard to be excelled anywhere and the few "slow drags," don't make the devil good servants. They will all soon be gone. The editor expects to be in Cairo, and Future City, the 2nd Sunday, be prepare to pay your subscription. Rev. John Adams, (white) who was a former pas. or of the Baptist church, Brookport, promised to make the Unity Baptist church and its pastor a present to a Bible when we entered the new building. He will present it the 3rd Sundy ain January at 3:00 p.m., and deliver a sermon at which time we hope to sender a program. Bro. Jas Robinet (white) promised to donate us a fine altar and we hope to have and him too on that day. The colored and white churches are invited to be present. Watch for program. J. B. McCrary, pastor. Invention of Cut Glass. Pressed glass was invented by an amble carpenter of Sandwich, Mass., but in the primitive state of affairs it profited him little. More than 200 years ago a Boehmian glassmaker conceived the idea of making cut glass. This idea was destined to revolutionize the entire glass industry of the world. The inventor began by making the walls of the article on which he was working thicker than he was wont so that he might cut the glass with a sharp knife into figures as he chose. The Executive Board of the Mr. Olive Baptist Association, held with the Shiloh Baptist First Day-Afternoon Session At 3:00 the Ministers' and Deacons' Union was called to order by the moderator J. B. McCrary, who sung "Amazing Grace," and read Heb. 11:1-16, afterwhich Rev. F. Bomar, lead in a fervent prayer. Then the moderator made a statement about the absence of the president, Rev. J M. Blake, At this time Rev. S H. Pruit, vice president, came forward and took charge of the meeting, after which Rev. J B. McCrary, read letters from Revs. Blake, and I. W. Winston, and J. N. Washington, which was received with sighs and regret; because of the illness of the two above named ministers. Homes were assigned and benediction announced. First Day-Evening Session At 8:00 the meeting opened song and prayer. Rev. S H. Pruitt read Rom 12.1-12; Singing, "I love thy Kingdom Lord" Rev. F. Bomar offered prayer, afterwich Rev. J. D. Davis, arose and took for a text John 12:21, subject, "The inquiring Greeks," from which he delivered an excellent sermon. Rev. R. Thompson lead in a levent prayer. Then the committee on finance came forward and lifted a collection of $1.00. Announ cements by the moderator and the benedition by the speaker. At 10:00 Rev. P. B French, conducted the opening service by reading John 5:1-13 and sung "Come we that love the Lord." Deacon S. I Richards offered prayer. Afterwhich the moderator Rev. J. B. McCrary, announced the meeting opened for business and the minutes of the evening session were read and approved. Then followed an informal conference and reports which were somewhat encouraging considering the inclement weather. Rev. F. Bomar, of Cairo, made a good report, and paid for Mt. Moriah church $1. and Mt. Carmel City church $1. Rev. J. D Davis, of Colp, made a splendid report for his church and paid $4.50, Rev P. B. French, of Sparta, made an excellent report for his church and paid $5.55. Rev. John Bruen, of Mt. Vernon, made a good report and paid $250 for his church. Deacon S. I. Richards of Harrisburg, made a nice report and paid $1. for the Mt. Pleasant church. Re. G. W. Braddock of Md. City was received as an annual member of the association on the payment of $1. also Rev. Joe Hill of Mt. Vernon, who paid annual dues of $1, and Rev J. H Starks, of Cairo, made a eport and paid $150. The moderator introduced Rev W. P. Washington, the moderator of the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association, who made a most excellent address. The finance committee lifted a collection of 60c. Benediction. Afternoon Session. At 2:00 the moderator opened the meeting by reading Acts 6:1 to 16. Singing "I am not ashamed to own my Lord," and offered prayer. The minutes of the morning session was read and approved. The time arrived for preaceing and Rev. P. B. French read Eph. 5:1-14 and offered prayer. Rev. G. W. Bradock The Grand Leader Cafe No. 900 Cor. Ninth and Pearl Sts. For a Nice Clean Cafe, where you will meet your friends and receive careful an courteous attention, come to the Grand Leader Cafe In connection with our cafe, we will conduct a 5c and 10c variety bargain counter. Our Motto: The best is not too good for any of our customers. Hot and Cold Lunches Served Hot cat fish, "Kentucky Oysters" Saturday night. You can get soup, stew, pork chops, ham and eggs, tripe, pig feet, etc., in fact, we can serve you on short order. Give us a trial is all that we ask. Everything in sanitary condition. Watch this space each week. took for a text, Matt. 26:41 Subject, "Prayer," from which he preached a powerful sermon. Rev. Landers. Presiding Elder of the C. M. E. church offered prayer, after which a collection of 75c was litted. The condition of the District missionaries was carefully considered by the Board and on learning that both Revs. I. W. Winston and W. D. Sims, were unable to go about their work, because of ill health the Board thought it best to put a substitute on the field. A motion prevailed to put Rev. G. W. Braddock of Md. City, on the field to serve until the above named missionaries regained their health or otherwise removed by the Board or the moderator. Rev. Landers, congratulated the beard for their choice, saying it was a good one. Song and benediction by the Rev. Braddock. At p m. the services were conducted by Rev. P. B. French, and Rev. S H. Pruitt, and a and a short sermon was delivered by Rev J H. Starks, of Cairo. Rev. S. H Pruitt, offered prayer afterwhich the moderator made some encouraging remarks about the work of the Board. Then the committee lifted a collection of $1.75. Total amount praised in the session was $23.70. A vote of thanks were given to the, Shiloh Baptist church and her pastor for their hospitality, The Board adjourned to meet with the Second Baptist, church J. B. McGRARY, Mgr. of Centralia, on Thursday beited the 3rd Sunday in March 1917. REV. J. B. MCCRARY. Moderator, REV. J H. STARKS. Cor. Sec'y. [ Master In Chancery Sale. State of Illinois, Massac County sa. In the Circuit Court, of said County. August Term A. D. 1916. The City National Bank of Metropolis, Ill. Vs. John Lackman and Adn Lackman, Bill to foreclose mortgage No. 297. Public notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a decree entered at the August Term of said court, to wit. on the 29th, day of August A. D. 1916 in the above entitled cause, I, Lannes P. Cakes, Special Master in Chancery of said County, will at the hour of 10 o'clock A. M. Saturday September 30, A. D. 1916 at the east door of the Court house in the City of Metropolis, County of Massac, and State of Illinois, sell a public vendue to the highest and best bidder, the following described real estate to-wit: All of Lot One (1) in Block One (1) in the Goulds addition to the City of Brookport, Illinois, as per recorded plat thereof, and a parcel of ground off the westerly side of Lot number Two (2) in Block number One (1) described as follows:-Beginning at the Southwest corner of said lot number Two (2), thence Northerly to the Northwest corner of said lot; thence easterly on the Northerly line of said lot, 9 feet; thence Southwesterly in a direct line to the point of beginning, being the property conveyed to me this day by H. W. Meyer, situated in the County of Massau, State of Illinois. Terms of sale Cash in hand. Dated this 30th day of August 1916. LANNES P. 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