Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE President Message to Constituents Composing our District. GREETINGS: Dear Brothers and Sisters, having been honored to the Presidency of our district W. E. & M. Convention of the East Mt Olive Baptist Association. Now, a glance at condition of things brings me to the point to say the work is large and as the Master said unto the disciples, without me you can do nothing. If I may be allowed to speak in behalf of the work I would say without your co-operation I can do nothing as president. Our spirits must agree in the work of the master, let us arise and work valiently for the master. May I suggest that every sister and brother join in the great work of building up the master's kingdom. I will remind you of a beautiful legend that I read, which I hope will remind us of our duty. A certain hostess invited the master to a grand repast, in which one came in and related to the hostess the sad condition of one who was in great need of clothing, the hostess replied. I am busy now, the Master is to dine with me today, come later and I will look after your needs, another came in and said, I am bare looted and cold, can you help me? and she repeated the same thing she told the first one, in the meantime another came in aud said, he had a brother sick and in prison, will you help me? she replied, this is the third time I have been interrupted the master is to dine with me today come another time. So after she had made everything ready and the master had not come, so she went out to meet Him, and said, I made everything ready and you did not come, but the master replied, I came, but you did not know me, I came naked, hungry, sick and in prison and you did not know me. Brother and sister, does this strike your minds, that the way we are to help Jesus, is to help one another. The work is large let us arise and be engaged in the work doing everything that will advance the master's kingdom. Come to our next annual session at Shawneetown. Aug. next as never before, inspired with christian zeal, and financial servor to push the battle to the gate I am your obedient servant Mrs. M. J. O-Conner, President, Carbondale, Ill. DIED Mrs. Louann Barnett, of Joppa died very suddenly while in Mt. Vernon, visiting She left here Wednesday of last week and was stricken Thursday and died early Sunday morning, at the home of Mrs Mattie Howard Her remains were shipped to this city Tuesday and was taken to the home of Mrs. Deli ah Casey her mother. Funeral and interment was at Metropolis. Thursday She a mother, two brother, son and a host of relatives and friends to mourn their loss. Mrs. Herriet Sanders, Mrs Soonie Sanders of Caio, Mr. Queen Ada Hill, of Union City. Tenn., Mrs. December Smith and daughter Bertha of Elkville, relatives of the deceased were here attending the funeral. PRETTY BABY GIRL TUCKED IN BASKET IS GIVEN TO NEGRO BOY. Nashville, Tenn. Jan. 21. Given a basket and note at Fifth avenue and Commerce, with instructions to carry it to Sixteenth avenue and Broadway, failing to find anyone there to receive the basket and unable to locate the owner at the place where it was given him, a negro boy walked in to the Nall Drug Company. Fifth avenue and Broadway, Saturday afternoon, and when the basket was opened it was found to contain a pretty baby girl. The note read as follows: "Please do something for this baby. It was given to this boy to take to a party and she could not take care of it. I suppose the crittenden home would take it. Respectfully." No name was signed The negro claimed that he did not know what the basket contained until it was opened at the drug store by Detectives Woosley and Vaughan, who were stopped by the negro and told of his troubles. No Clew to Identity. In the baket with the baby was a bottle of paregoric with the label showing that, it came from the Nelson Drug Company, but the location and city had been torn off the bottle. The baby was about two weeks old, with fair skin, and was neatly dressed and snugly tucked into the wire handled split basket and so covered up as to be completely concealed. The little girl never uttered a cry during all it long journey with the negro boy, and when unwrapped at the drug store was lying on its back, gazing at the strange faces about it. Nothing about the basket or note cast any clew as to the identity of the tiny stranger or its parents other than the label on the bottle, and officers have been unable to locate any such place as Nelson Drug Store. The negro boy gave as a description of the woman who employed him to unde take the task as being about five feet four inches in height, about 25 years old, weight about 120 pounds, dressed in a blue tailored suit and a small black hat with a blue veil. A negro woman who cooks at a house on Fourth avenue happened in the drug store while the baby was there and said a woman had stopped at the house Friday with the She left there, saying she was going to Cookeville, and the description given by the cook fits that given by the boy. The officers are now trying to locate this woman. Mrs. Felix Carter of 109 Fifth avenue north, took the baby into her home and will care for it until other arrangements can be made or the mother found.—Ex. MOTTO : 'HEW TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY NEGRESS TO BUILD $100,000 HOME NEAR ROCKEFELLER'S Hot Springs, Ark , Jan. 14. Mrs. C. J. Walker, a wealthy negro of New York, has confirmed the report that she would erect near the estate of John D. Rockefeller in Tarrytown a residence to cost $100,000. The woman is at present delivering a series of lectures to members of her members through out the South. She made $500 000 alter advertising to take the kink out of the hair of negroes and to make it grow. She stated tonight that she had purchased about five months ago four and one half acres of land at Tarrytown, paying a New York bank that held a mortgage on the property $10,000 more than the mortgage called for. "I intend to erect on that property a home that will cost me no less than $100,000." she said, and it is going to be very swell " Mrs. Walker stated she lives in New York at 108 Thirty-sixth street, both of which properties she owns. —Globe Democrat. SPARTA Editor Gazette: Our church and S. S. are getting along nicely. The Supt M. C. Wrice and all teachers were at their post on time. Elder J. R. Smart, of Ala., reviewed the school, who at the hour of 11:00 a. m. delivered to to us a powerful sermon from John 14:8. At 3:30 p.m., he delivered another good sermon from Rev. 4:8. 9, and again at 8 o'clock p. m. from Acts 20:26. Rev. Smart is conducting a ten days series of meetings for the salvation of sinners. We pray that much good may be done in this place. Mrs. Nectie Macklin who wa under the care of a physician for two weeks is up again. Mrs. Amanda Wrice, is much improved, We are sorry to learn that little Miss Willie B. Browning is very little better. Ira Allen, was shot by Sam St. James, in the restaurant of Theo Anderson Sunday evening the 14, inst. He died the 21st at eight o'clock a. m. all negrces. Booze and gambling were at the bottom of the killing. COMPANION CULTURE. Miss President, Officers and Members of the Women's Convention of Mt. Olive Baptis Association: Through the Divine Providence we are permitted one more to meet in annual session. We lay much distress on the training of our children, we make a great matter of their schooling what is without doubt, more gravely needed is an education of ourselves is carefully undertaken the education of our children becomes a comparatively easy and a natural task. I say children, because Jesus says, except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven This may be a surprise to some who think their schooldays are over, it is not uncommon to hear it said that a youth or a girl still in their teens or early twenties has just finished his or her education. Whereby we mean their days of going in and out of school are over, thence forward having as we say got an education, they are to address themselves to the real business of Life. But all this is false premise, for as a matter of fact the whole business of life may be said to be education and in the life that is worth while, it does not end so long as life continues. "Jesus Of. Nazareth Passeth By." Somebody has said that St. Luke is the gospel of humanity, it is here that you find Jesus as a great physician, here you see him as a helper, here you behold him going everywhere on errands of mercy, here he is speaking in parable, here you see him working miracles, to heal the sick and raise the dead. Our Master was on his way to Jerico, and a blind beggar sat by the wayside, he heard that the Master was coming, and long before you could have seen him as the blind can only hear, springing to his feet when he knew that Jesus was approaching, he cried out: tell me who is coming? some one said to quit his cries, is is Jesus of Nazareth passeth by," Jesus is still passing by. He is the central figure in history, take him away and you have lost the keystone of the ar h lose sight of Him and the foundation stone is gone is gone is gone; take him away and peace departs, lose the vision of him and there is no pardon. He is still passing by. Christ came into this world and suffered and died, he was not only a man, but he was the son of God as well. He is seated at the right hand of God but he is here in the persons of the Holy Spirit of God, moving in the singing, stirring in the speaking, quickening memory, holding up before your own sense of need, and then speaking to you as only God can speak. "Come unto me, all ye that are weary and heavy laden, and, I will give you rest." So if youa will accept him, pardon is yours. If you will claim him, peace is yours, if you will lay hold upon him forgiveness is yours every sin blotted out, every transgression put a way, Oh! accept him today if ye will hear his voice and harden not your hearts for. "Jesus of Nazareth Passeth By." MARY COOK, 316 Division St., Cairo, Ill. "Col". W. T. Scott. Dead. The Metrope.itan daily papers of Jan. 25th chronicled the death of 'Col.' W. T. Scott, formerly f. Cairo, but who for many years lived in Springfield, and edited The Leader, a Democratic Organ. More next week about our friend and brother. The Workers. "Did a musician of note score your opera?" "Me; the critics did." In order that the Carnival Season at New Orleans may be enjoyed under conditions assuring that nothing will be missed, 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. The Cost is Moderate and includes: Railroad fare Sleeping car fare to New Orleans accommodations while in New car while enroute. Grandstar parades in New Orleans. Ex- on Mississippi River. Sight- Orleans. Automobile ride to Military Park. Particulars and booklet, giving this special Mid-Wi of your local H. J. PHELPS, General B Includes: Railroad fare to New Orleans and long car fare to New Orleans and retrnrn. Slo modations while in New Orleans, Meals file enroute. Grandstand seats for three M ins in New Orleans. Excursion trip from New Mississippi River. Sight-seeing automobile ride s. Automobile ride through Vicksburg City Park. Cars and booklet, giving more general informa this special Mid-Winter Vacation Party, of your local ticket agent or J. PHELPS, General Passenger Agent, CH1C and includes: Railroad fare to New Orleans and return. Sleeping car fare to New Orleans and retrnn. Sleeping car accommodations while in New Orleans, Meals in dining car while enroute. Grandstand seats for three Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans. Excursion trip from New Orleans on Mississippi River. Sight-seeing automobile ride in New Orleans. Automobile ride through Vicksburg National Military Park. IN MEMORIAM DIED JANUARY 26, 1915. MRS. HARRIETT MCCRAR IRS. HARRIETT MCGRAH "Gone, but not forgotten." Your Chair is yet vacant. Rev. J. B. Mrs. I. HERE WE A ORINGTON With the very Latest and most Up- Parlor. All Shines 5c. Ladies Work Clothes called for an Metropolis, Ill., Ferry St., Between 3rd and 4th Rev. J. B. McGrary. Mrs. Princess Bell. Mrs. Annie Wiley HERE WE ARE AT LAST ORINGTON & ALSTON very Latest and most Up-to-date Shoe Shining and All Shines 5c. Ladles Work a Specialty Clothes called for and Promptly delivered Opolis, Ill., Phone 243-11 St., Between 3rd and 4th. HERE WE ARE AT LAST ORINGTON & ALSTON With the very Latest and most Up-to-date Shoe Shining and Pressing Parlor. All Shines 5c. Ladles Work a Specialty Clothes called for and Promptly delivered Metropolis, Ill., Phone 243-1Ring Ferry St., Between 3rd and 4th. me space in the paper to say that our pastor Rev. J. H. Starks, of Cairo, was with us the 2nd Sunday and will be here again the 4th Sunday. The wife of S. I. Richards is very sick. Mrs. Calhoun, called on us last night. We have had several deaths here. Mrs C. E. Messer was one. We had a good prayer meeting the 1st Sunday. ```markdown ``` Editor of Gazette: to New Orleans and return. Meals and retrnrn. Sleeping car New Orleans, Meals in dining and seats for three Mardi Gras cursion trip from New Orleans seeing automobile ride in New through Vicksburg National more general information as to outer Vacation Party, ticket agent or passenger Agent, CH1CAGO MORIAM TT MCGRARY. McCrary. Princess Bell. rs. Annie Wiley. RE AT LAST & ALSTON o-date Shoe Shining and Pressing a Specialty I Promptly delivered Phone 243-1Ring successful meeting with 28 converts. He thanked the Baptist for their assistance, especially Mrs. George Brown, as a faithful worker. Rev George Brown. The clubs of the 1st Baptist church are preparing for their club convention in February, Saturday before the 2nd Sunday. We are in a better condition now than ever to do your job work. Give us a trial as the negro must live, by honest toil and sweat of his face or by the toil of others: we prefer the former. We only ask for an opportunity in the race of life as do others. DO ENORMOUS EXPORTS RAISE OUR LIVING COSTS? $\textcircled{1}$ $\textcircled{2}$ $\textcircled{3}$ $\textcircled{4}$ $\textcircled{5}$ No. 1 shows trucks loaded with food for export before the French line pier, New York; No. 2, workmen packing up barrels and boxes of food for export; No. 3, transferring flour from pier to barge; No. 4, unloading crates from railroad, to barges; No. 5, truckloads of eggs for export. Each load contains 12,000 dozens of Photos by American Press Association. Foreign Trade Expert Says No. Jump In Prices In America Is Not Due to Great Demand From Europe For Our Products, He Points Out. IN view of statements by packers, produce dealers and grocers that the high prices for foodstuffs are due to the marked increase this year in exports, the latest figures compiled have been obtained from Oscar I. Austin, statistician of the foreign trade department of the National City bank, New York. Mr. Austin, who has made a study of exports, denied there is ground for the extortionate prices because of shipments, from this country. In the following statement he shows the situation clearly: So far as I can judge from the latest official figures of exports of foodstuffs the sudden increase in prices which we have noted within the past few weeks can scarcely be due to an increase in exports, which, as I understand, is the chief argument made to sustain the very recent increase in prices. The latest, official figures which we have of the exports of the United States as a whole cover the month of September, 1916, and the nine months of 1916 ending with September. A very large proportion of the food articles exported the movements out of the country in September and in the nine months ending with September are less than those of the corresponding periods of 1915, so far as relates to quantity. As I understand the situation, the sudden advance which has been made within the past few months in many articles is based upon the assertion that there is now a very large increase of exports over the corresponding period of last year and hence the necessity for the sudden increase of prices at the present moment. The present export situation can be illustrated by the figures of a few of the principal food articles. Take fresh beef, for example. The quantity exported in the month of September, 1915, was but 6,676,000 pounds, against 18,408,000 in September of 1915, and for the entire nine months ending with September only 138,243,000 pounds, against 208,064,000 in the corresponding months of 1915. Flicked beef exports in September, the latest month for which we have complete figures, amounted to only 2,481,000 pounds, against 4,022,000 in September of 1915, and for the nine months ending with September 22,988,000 pounds, against 34,857,000 in the corresponding months of 1915. Of oleo, oil which is largely used in certain of the foreign countries in the manufacture of butter. Do exports of September, 1916, were but 10,455,000 pounds, against 12,619,000 in Septem- The following figures of exports are from the foreign trade department of the National City bank, for September, 1915, and the corresponding month of 1915: Staple. 1916. 1915. Fresh beef (lbs.). 6,676,000. 18,468,000. Pickled beef (lbs.). 2,481,000. 4,022,000. Harms and shoul. 1916. 1915. Cattle pork. 17,424,000. 17,762,000. Pickled pork (lbs.) 3,715,000. 6,588,000. Potatoes (bushels) 429,000. 729,000. Dried apples (lbs.) 10,143,000. 27,468,000. Green apples (barrels) 604,000. 1,286,000. Wheat (bushels) 13,108,000. 21,526,000. ber of the year before, and for the nine months ending with September, 1916, they were 659,042,000 pounds, against 77,041,000 in the corresponding months of 1915. Of oleomargarine the exports of the nine months ending with September were 4,201,000 pounds, against 5,560,000 in the same months of 1915. Canned beef exported in the nine months ending with September, 1916, was but 39,691,000 pounds against 60,431,000 in the corresponding months of the year before, though in the single month of September the exports were larger than in September 1915. Hams About a Standoff. Of hams and shoulders the exports of September, 1916, were 17,424,000 pounds against 17,742,000 in September of the previous year, though for the nine months ending with September there was a very small increase. Lard exports in the nine months ending with September were below those of the corresponding months of 1915, having been in the nine months of 1916 327,757,000 pounds against 345,850,000 in the corresponding months of 1915. Canned pork exports in September, 1916, were 260,000 pounds against 402,000 in September, 1915, and fresh pork 622,000 pounds against 1,435,000, though for the nine months ending with September there was a large increase in the exports. Pickled pork exports during September of last year were but 3,715,000 pounds against 6,589,000 in the same month of 1915, while for the fell nine months the figures are practically identical with those of the same months of 1915. Canned sausage exported in September, 1916, was but 272,000 pounds against 355,000 in the same month of 1915 and for the nine months ending with September 3,229,000 against 4,234,000 pounds in the nine months of the preceding year. Less Butter In Nine Months Of butter the exports of September of last year are much above those of September of the year before, but for the nine months ending with September are below those of the corresponding period of 1915, white cheese shows a similar increase in September over 1915, but a decrease for the nine months of 1916 compared with the corresponding months of 1915. Of potatoes the exports for September, 1916, are but 429,000 bushels against 720,000 in September of the previous year, and the nine months ending with September show no material increase over the corresponding period of 1915, having been in the nine months ending with September, 1916, 2,761,000 bushels against 2,755,000 in the same months of 1915. Dried apples exported in the nine months ending with September, 1916, are but 10,143,000 pounds against 27,466,000 in the corresponding months of the year before. Of green apples the exports of nine months in 1916 are but 604,000 barrels against 1,286,000 in the same months of the year before. Dried apricots in the nine months ending with September, 1916, were 10,482,000 pounds against 18,860,000 in the corresponding months of 1915, and canned or preserved fruits were but $2,565,000 value against, $4,114,220, the quantities not being stated in the official figures of exports. Great Drop In Wheat Outgo. Of whetst the exports of September are but 13,108,000 bushels against 21,523,000, and for the nine months, ending with September 113,312,000 bushels against 161,761,000 in the corresponding months of the year 1915. The quantity of flour shows practically no change, the increased prices of wheat and consequently flour being doubtless due to the much shofer crop in the United States in 1916 than in the previous year, also to the fact that the wheat crop of the world in 1916 is materially below that of 1915. Of course it is not improper to assume that the demands of the war, which have now covered twenty-eight months, would naturally increase the prices of those articles for which it is creating such great demands, but with reference to the very recent and very great increase, that of the past few months, the latest official export figures above quoted do not seem, of themselves, when compared with corresponding conditions, one year ago, to justify the large and very recent advances in price. To Prevent Draft. To keep windows open and yet feel no draft while sleeping take an old sheet or a piece of cloth as long as the bed and about a yard and a half wide. Fasten a loop of tape or elastic to the corners of one lengthwise edge, loop over the posts at the head and foot of bed on side next to the window and you have a screen that will keep off all draft, but still give plenty of fresh air. —St. Louis Post-Dispatch. An Old Coat. My coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing - Hugo. SPORTS IN GENERAL By LEFT JAB Throwing Grenade Is Sport. Throwing the grenade is becoming a popular form of sport in France. A special chevron has recently been designated to be worn on the arm of the best grenade thrower in each company. Besides the army; the sporting clubs have taken up grenade throwing, and grenade matches now take the place of throwing the hammer, the discus, etc. It is claimed that some of the soldiers have thrown a grenade 253 feet, but this is challenged by the sporting experts on the ground that the throw was not made before a regular organization and was a free arm throw. before any club in any city that the bout would draw well in a finish contest. According to close friends, Stecher is more than willing to take on Lewis. According to the regulations, a grenade cannot be thrown straight from the shoulder, like a baseball, but is given a swinging overhand throw, much as a cricket ball is bowled. Brannigan is Ring Pioneer. It is popularly presumed that among the present day boxers old Jim Flynn, the fighting fireman of Pueblo, holds the record for years of service within the ropes and Sam Langford and Sam McVey the mark for the greatest number of return matches. This is all wrong. Both records are held by Patty Brannigan, the little red haired battling bantamweight of Pittsburgh. He is the "grand old man" of the game. There are several older boxers than Brannigan in years in the ring, but not in experience. Flynn is in the sixteenth year of his career. Brannigan is beginning his nineteenth annual camp jump. Ferdie Schupp of the Giants, who finished the season in cyclonic fashion, put only showed the mechanical equipment, but coolness and a share of baseball brains. Schupp pitched 140 and a fraction innings in 1916, and only twenty-two runs were scored off his pitching. Still fewer runs were earned off him. Michigan Strong For Athletics. Intramural Athletic Director Floyd A. Rowe of Michigan will endeavor to interest all the students in sporting activities and has a number of assistants to instruct the 5,250 students in football, baseball, soccer, hockey, track and indoor baseball. Lewis is After Stecker. "Strangler" Lewis is again hot on the trail of Joe Stecher, the Omaha wrestling wonder. The men have already met twice, and each time it resulted in a draw. Lewis says he is more than anxious to wrestle Stecker The Sunday School Lesson Text of the lesson, John II, 13-22. Memory verses, 15, 16. Golden Text, Matt, xxl, 13. As in our last lesson, our thoughts were carried back to Jacob's dream and that which it pointed onward to, so in this marriage at Cana, where He wrought His first miracle and manifested forth His glory (chapter II, 11), we are taken back to the first marriage in Eden and onward to the marriage of the Lamb (Rev. xix, 6-9), after which will come the kingdom, when He will drink again the fruit of the vine and others shall eat and drink at His table in His kingdom (Luke xxii, 18, 30). If these earthen vessels of curs, these mortal bodies, were as full of the water of the word as the vessels at the marriage were full of literal water up to the brim. He could easily change the water to wine and we would be filled with the Spirit and with joy and peace in believing, and perhaps be counted drunken, as the disciples were at Pentecost (11 Cor. iv, 7; Col. ill, 16; Rom. xv, 13; Acts, ii, 13-15). As this marriage was at Cana and that was Nathantel's home (11; xx1, 2); if it is of interest to you to think of this as being the marriage of Nathantel you are at liberty to do so until you can see him and ask him about it. But it is the Lord Jesus and not Nathaniel in whom we are especially interested. Let us not forget Mary's word to the servants: "Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it" (verse 5). After a brief stay of a few days at Capernaum with His mother and His Jerusalem and His disciples, we next find Him at Jerusalem at Capernaum (verses 12, 13). We think of the first Passover to which He went with His mother, and Joseph, when He was twelve years old, and when, after three days' search for Him, they found Him in the temple, and when they asked Him why He had so dealt with them He replied: "Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business"; or, as in the revised version, "in my Father's house" (Luke ii, 42:51). "We now find Him again in the temple and again He calls it "My Father's house" (verses 13, 17). In verses 18-22 He speaks of His own body as the Temple, for both the tabernacle and the temple were typical of Him as the true tabernacle and temple, in whom God dwelt (Heb. vili, 2). When God gave Moses instructions to build the tabernacle in the wilderness He said: "Let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them" (Ex. xv, 8). The temple was for the same purpose that God might dwell in the midst of His people—Israel; an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel that all the people of the earth might know that the Lord is God and that there before any club in any city that the bout would draw well in a finish contest. According to close friends, Stecher is more than willing to take on Lewis. A. A. Photo by American Press Association. "Strangler" Lewis. If such is the case it looks as if the mat fans can look forward to the winner of the bout as the champion catch-as-catch-can wrestler of the world now that Frank Gotch is out of it. is none else (I Kings viii, 20, 60). The body prepared in the womb of Mary was for the same purpose, as it is written, "A body hast thou prepared me" (Heb. x, 5). As we had it in a recent lesson, "The word was made flesh," "God manifest in the flesh" (John i, 14; I Tim. iii, 16). Every redeemed person is now a temple or mansion, in which the Father, Son and Spirit come to dwell (I Cor. vi, 19, 20; John xiv, 17, 23), and all the redeemed are living stones built upon the foundation of Jesus Christ, the chief cornerstone, in whom all the building, fifty framed together, growth unto an holy temple in the Lord, an habitation of God through the Spirit (Eph. ii, 19, 22; I Pet. ii, 4, 5). The tabernacle and the temple might be desecrated and defiled, and they were; the individual believer also and the whole company of believers called the church may be defiled, but He who was the true tabernacle and temple, was never defiled by a sinful thought or word, or act: He was without sin. He knew no sin. He did no sin. He was the Lamb of God without blemish and without spot. Therefore He could as such bear our sins by dying in our stead. "His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree" (f Pet. ii. 24). It is His own death and resurrection which He refers to in verses 18-22. They asked Him for a sign, and He told them that this would be the sign, just as at a later date He spoke of Jonah's experience as typical of His death and resurrection (Matt. sll. 38-40). In connection with the temple as a type of Himself it is most interesting and suggestive to note that in the thirty-fourth year after its completion if was desecrated and plundered by the king of Egypt (f Kings, vl. 37, xiv; xiv. 25). It was probably in His thirty-fourth year that He was crucified. As to His cleansing the temple, He did it again at the end of His ministry, as recorded in Matt. xxl. 12, 13. when He, told them that they had made His house a den of thieves instead of a house of prayer. May He cleanse us from all that hinders and make us as individual believers, all prayer. I like to think of His two dwelling places, heaven and the lowly heart of every penitent sinner. (Isa. ivii, 15), and here is another answer to the question in last week's lesson, "Master, where dwelling thou?" The last two verses of our lesson chapter tell us that He did not believe in all who said they believed in Him. He knoweth them that are His. The word translated "commit unto" in verse 24 is the same word translated "believed" in verse 23. He considers our hearts and sees whether we are real and true or merely professors. Words only amount to nothing (John ii, 4). MYSTERY OF THE PLANETS. Science Cannot Penetrate the Hazy Veils That Mask Them. It is not known definitely whether the planet Venus rotates. If it does it may possibly have a life and a vegetation like our own, though we suspect that it is clothed in eternal cloud. Of Saturn's rings we cannot say whether they consist of millions of tiny moons like brickbats or whether they may be even smaller still—a veil of shining dust. Of Jupiter we can only say that it is covered with clouds, though of their substance we know notbring, and that according to Professor Lowell and Sir William Huggins some of the bands we see on it may be rifts in the clouds revealing the body of the planet. Little lines crisscross these bands. Photographs of Jupiter taken at Fingstaff observatory, Arizona, seem to indicate that these lines, too, are the upper clouds of Jupiter. But whenever we see a planet we see it badly. Even Mars, the most clearly revealed of them all, is constantly obscured by a refracting haze, so that even the famous "canals," though nearly 500 in number, are only perceptible a few at a time, and an unskilled observer would probably not make them out at all. Sandstorms, sometimes snowstorms, sweep the surface of the planet, and because the winds of Mars are very gentle and slow, moving these occurrences take a long time to pass by. A snowstorm on Mars - if indeed it was a snowstorm and not merely a fog - once lasted three weeks. INDIANS AND MEDICINE A Funny Way of Giving a Sick Child a Dose of Oil. The Indian, says the Rev. J. Hines in his book "The Real Indians of the Plains," has the idea that any kind of medicine is equally good for all complaints. He believes, in drastic measures, and unless he feels the effect of the second dose of the medicine he loses faith in it, and gives up taking it. He prefers purgatives and emetics, but even in them the Indian is wont to discriminate, and he thinks castor oil is especially "good medicine." Very often mothers would send to the mission for castor oil for their infants and then come the next day and complain that the medicine had not operated and that the child had done nothing but cry ever since it took the medicine. Then my wife would pour out another teaspoonful and band it to the mother and request her to administer it in her presence. The child would object, as most children do, and that part of the oil that left the spoon would trickle down the cheek of the child. The mother, partly to remove the oil and partly to pacify the child, would give the child a kiss that covered the whole of its cheek and in so doing would remove the oil with her lips and swallow it herself. Then she would lick the spoon clean, hand it back to my wife, and that is the way Indian women give castor oil to their children. After witnessing this performance we had no difficulty in understanding why the child got no benefit from the previous dose. HOW SOAP WORKS. It Cleans Because It Emulsifies the Oil That Holds the Dirt. Why does soap take out the dirt? The answer to this question has been argued many times by chemists, and as cleaniness is necessary and enormous quantities of soap have to be used it is well that we should know how soap does its work. It is fat or oil that especially makes things dirty. If only we can melt or get rid of the oil on hands or clothes we soon can make them clean, and the real use of soap is that it disposes of oil. It does this in at least two ways. Most soaps have in them a great deal of alkali. This alkali dissolves the oil. But soap takes the dirt from things in another way; as we know when we use soaps that we have no alkali in them at all. It has the power of breaking up oil into a number of tiny little drops, with all the dirt that the oil has collected. A collection of tiny drops of oil held in some other fluid is called an emulsion. Water alone will not form an emulsion of any oil, because oil and water will not mix. That is the reason why we cannot get clean with water alone. 'But when' water has soap dissolved in it it is able to make an emulsion of the oil on anything we are washing and so make it clean.—Exchange. Government Crop Er Nearly 20,000,000 sched. handled each year in the b. crop estimates of the United States department of agriculture in making up the government monthly crop reports, according to the annual report of the chief of the bureau of crop estimates. Nearly 160,000 names are on the voluntary crop reporting lists; forty-four paid agents are constantly making personal investigations, one agent covering a state, and a force of 105 clerks is employed in Washington, o handle the large number of reports from the voluntary crop reporters, and to keep records of crop information of this and foreign countries. The work of crop reporting has been so improved and systematized that estimates of production of important products can be made with a close degree of accuracy. The most complete record in existence is kept in the bureau of the estimates and statistics relating to the world's crops and live stock. What Other Women Are Talking About THE GINGHAM DOG AND THE CALICO CAT A These delectable friends of Eugene Field will serve the children as nursery pets, or they may be drawn with their accompanying rime as a top for almost any fancy box. In the first case shoe buttons make the bright eyes. Please observe the cat's expressive tail. THE RICH UNCLE. MONEY TO LOAN ON GOOD SECURITY TREASURY NEWEST TEA GOWNS. Hints About Becoming and Beautiful Lounging Robes. Like everything else, the tea gown, once a trailing, diaphanous affair, much befilled and furbeloved, meant for hours of ease, has had to yield to the exigencies of the times and has been pro tem. shorn of its train and other extraneous decorations and enlarged its functions from tea time to dinner. It has come into the category of trainless garments and is sometimes even ankle length in its shortness; also the little loose conceit that has come to be almost inseparable from it is pursuing a successful career. A black and white tea gown of much charm has a fourreau of white brocade crepe de chine, over which is a flowing dress of stress, which reaches only to the knees, of black nylon patterned with silver, the bodice being shaped and puffed fully round the figure and caught in front with a silver rose. The sleeves are of white shadow lace. Over all is worn a long, graceful three-quarter length coat of filmy black lace edged with a full drill, which is caught and testooed at regular intervals with single silver roses. Another beautiful one is in purple satin, so simply made as hardly to warrant description except for the beauty of its coloring. Its sole ornament consisted of a very wide high belt, exquisitely molded to the figure, of cerise brocade in which was a delicate tracery of gold, from which hung two long ends weighted with heavy gold tassels. The shoes to be worn with it were of fuchsia colored and gold brocade. Kimona Nightgowns. A kimono nightgown is the most simple to make and can readily be fashioned without a pattern. Fold the crape crosswise in the center (three yards of material will be sufficient), and cut a square or circular neck in the middle of the fold. Cut out a triangular piece nine inches from the fold, thus forming short sleeves. This piece is not wasted, but sewed to the bottoms of the skirt as a gore. Make French seams; hem, face the neck and sleeves and the gown is ready for a bit of trimming. Reading and lace around neck and sleeves with a narrow ribbon for a drawstring are all that is necessary. A flowered crape with colored ribbon to match will make a very pretty gown, and the actual work of making it can be accomplished in a very short time. The Sickroom. In case of sickness the patient's room should have in it only the necessary pieces of furniture—bed, one chair and table—no carpets and no draperies. It can then be easily kept clean and sanitary. Scrubbing should take the places of sweeping, and the dripping should be done with a cloth wring out of a disinfectant solution. Care used in the sickroom and about the things used by the patient will have much to do with checking the spread of disease. HOME COOKERY Apple Charmeuse. Slice into a baking dish four tart apples. Add one tablespoonful of melted butter and one-half cupful of sugar. In a separate dish mix a batter of one-half cupful of sour cream, a small half teaspoonful of soda and flour enough to make a thick gravy. Pour over the apples and bake in a moderate oven forty-five minutes. Serve bot. Oyster Bisque. Stew the oysters and strain out of the liquor, which may be set on the back of the range. The oysters must be chopped fine and, with rolled cracker, put through a colander into the liquor again. Add plenty of salt and pepper to taste and a pint of cream, all the better if it is whipped. Bring to a boil and serve. Salmon Loaf. Drain the liquor from a can of salmon, turn the fish into a bowl and remove bones and skin. Break it up fine with a fork and sprinkle lightly with salt. Add a cupful of bread or cracker crumbs and break an egg into the mixture. Mix thoroughly, moistening with milk until quite soft. Turn into a deep buttered pan and bake a light brown. Beef Sausage To one pound of clear suet add two pounds of lean beef. Clear the suet from the skin and chop suet and beef very fine. Season with a teaspoonful of finely powdered sage, a saltspoonful of thyme, a saltspoonful of pepper and a teaspoonful of salt. Mix and mold into flat cakes and fry a delicate brown. A little onion juice may be added to the sausage meat if liked. Headcheese The best headcheese is made by adding beef. Take one hog's head, clean and wash it thoroughly, removing the eyes, internal parts of the ears and nostrils. Remove the tongue. Cut the head info small pieces, put into the kettle with four pig's feet and three pounds of lean beef. Boil all together until the bones slip out. Remove the bones, pick the meat into bits, season with salt, pepper and onions or sage and mold. Country Gentleman. Quilts and Comforters Quiltmaking time is here. Try this method this winter: Use a good quality of material for the covering, one that will not wear out in many years; save a piece to bake over the end of the comforter to be taken off and washed when soiled. Use well washed and teased wool for filling instead of cotton. Wool costs twice as much, but gives five times the warmth and years practically forever. Make some of the comforters of fine feathers. If you dampen the feathers a little they are easily handled. Instruction and Amusement For Children MORE SHELVES. Convenient Places to Put Things Mean We Need a Carpenter. Most of us accumulate things more rapidly than we accumulate places to put them. To those who live in flats and apartments and others in bungalows or cottages the old time attic is a thing of the past; hence the endless quest for convenient places to put things. One thing is certain, and that is that it is well nigh impossible to keep the house in order where things must be kept in close quarters and that unless there is a place to spare for everything it is impossible to keep everything in its place. Here shelves come to the rescue. Here shelves come to the rescue. If there is a man in your family with any sort of knowledge of carpenter work or if you are somewhat of a dabster at hammer and hails yourself, you need not pay more for your shelves than the bare cost of the boards and the braces, screws and paint used to finish them. If you are cramped for room for towels and bed linen it is a good idea to put up shelves in the bathroom. These might be made from two foot boards, the lowest one some six feet from the floor and the one above it a foot and a half higher. These shelves should be given a double coat of white paint and, if you choose, may be fitted with a white lawn curtain to keep the dust from the linen and to give a more complete appearance. By placing the shelf above the head line it does not interfere with the spacing of the bathroom. Deep Breathing. Deep breathing, sensible breathing, every day breathing-long life depends upon it, good looks-always. Yet nineteenth of the world's creatures hate to breathe, and young folks especially are as niggardly in the matter of filling their lungs with clean, wholesome air as if they thought they were dealing with poison. Twenty long breaths night and morning will quickly im- prove the looks of a girl who has be- gun to go down with study and care- lessness, and surely there is no bea- tifier cheaper than deep breathing. PUMPKIN PIE. - Cut pumpkin into small pieces, - removing the rind and seeds, - Cook very slowly until tender, - using as little water as possible, - Continue cooking until dry and - dark and rub through a colander. - Mix two cupfuls of cold milk, three cupfuls of pumpkin, - one cupful of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of salt and three well beaten eggs. Cool, pour into buttered pie tins lined with pastry, sprinkle the tops with cinnamon and bake. Amphion, the Son of Jupiter, and His Wonderful Playing on the Lyre. Wonderful Playing on the Lyre. In the land of fable there once dwelt a man named Amphion, whose father was Jupiter, the greatest of the gods of old. Amphion played on the lyre, a kind of musical instrument, and so beautiful did he evoke music from it that the very stones responded. It is said that once he wished to build a wall around the city of Thebes, and instead of setting about it as you or I would have done he began to play, and instantly the stones marshaled themselves and fell into the right places, so as to form a wall. Now, you and I may not have such command of music, but we may learn from this story from the land of faible that if we put ourselves into anything that we do we may accomplish much more than if we went about our work as a task. If we have big tasks to do and do them to the tune of love and good fellowship, how easily the work falls into the same spirit with us and does itself. If on the contrary, we enter upon a task in a 'ringling mood there will be no rhythm in our work, and it will fall apart of its own accord, and one part will war with another, and we shall accomplish nothing. If Insects Were Big. It is only because insects are small that there is enough food to go around, for if even one species were as large as we the world would stare. Listen to this: If the average baby ate as much as the silkworm baby does it would be bigger than the largest giant in a month's time. And if a man ate in the same proportion as a dragon fly does he wagli eat a whole Thanksgiving dinner in five minutes and follow it up with another and another until he had completed the day. The Hen. The hen is such a funny bird. She only says a single word. And that sounds just like "Walk, walk, walk." Why is it that she cannot talk? I like to give her lots of grain. At morning and at night again. She walks in such a dainty way. I often watch her when at play. And every day she hunts a nest. And tries and tries her very best To lay a lovely egg for me. That I may have it peached for tea. A Bridal Commission By JOHN KENAN I WAS sittin' with Amelia before the fireplace, with the logs givin' out a cheerful heat. Amelia didn't seem happy, though, and I asked her why she looked so melancholy-like. "I tell you, Mr. Grimshaw," she said. "Did you ever hear the song, 'No One to Love, None to Caress?' Well, that's the way I feel. Father ever since mother's death has been restless and cross, and now he's goin' to give me a stepmother. I haven't any brothers or sisters to love, and I'm goin' to have a stepmother to hate." "Why, Amelia," says I, "the thing for you to do is to get married." "How can I do that with nobody to marry me?" she asked, awful sad. "How you talk?" says I. "You know mighty well there's lots of fellers that would be glad to git you." "I'd like to know where they are. If you know any sich I wish you'd send em around." "Sartain. I'll git you a husband in no time. Air you particular about his bein' good lookin' or havin' a farm of his own or anything like that?" "No, I ain't particular, leastways I won't be. if you can fix me out before paw brings that red headed widder into the house, 'cause I know I've got to git out when she comes in." "How much time is there?" "Well, I heard paw say the other day that he calc'ated to be married before the end of next month." "Supilhan. I send you a feller that suits you and you suit him, what is there in it for me?" "I don't see what I can do for you. Mr. Grimshaw, seein' that I haven't got a cent in the world, and there isn't any favor I know of that I can do you. But I suppose"—looking down at the floor—"havin' made the match, you'd be entitled to kiss the bride." "This bothered me a lof. I was to fix up a match by which another feller was to git all the kisses he wanted for a lifetime, and I was to git one kiss on the weddin' day. "It seems to me, Amelia," I says, "that's like sellin' a man a house wo'th a lot o' money for a commission. He gets a whole house, and the broker gits a few dollars." "You forgit," said Amelia, "that the broker don't want all the houses he sells. What would he do with 'en? Besides, when a man buys a house if argys that he's able to own a house and wants a house, and wants that particular house. I don't see that the broker carrs anything more than his commission. Do you?" "I don't see as he does." says I, scratchin' my head. And I didn't. Howsomever, I couldn't git it out 'o my noldle that I was goin' to git the little end 'o the bargain. But "I felt FORMER "SNOY NO MISS MARIE PEARY-WHEN SH Miss Marie Ahnighito Peagy, dau- of the north pole, was chairman of a co- ington, which gathered toys and gave wards of Washington at Christmas t plan that includes the distribution of the play centers to the little invalids district of having been born in the er accompanied Admiral then Lieuten- has been called "the snow baby," and FORMER "SNOW BABY" NOW GROWN UP MRS. BENNETT MISS MARIE PEARY-WHEN SHE WAS THE SNOW BABY AND NOW Miss Marie Almighito Peary, daughter of Admiral Peary, the discoverer of the north pole, was chairman of a committee of the Junior league of Washington, which gathered toys and gave them to sick children in the hospital free "words of Washington at Christmas time. This is the preliminary work in a plan that includes the distribution of toys given by the children who attend the play centers" to the little invalids in the free wards. Miss Peary has the distinction of having been born in the cold arctic regions, to which her mother accompanied Admiral then Lieutenant) Peary on an exploring trip. She has been called "the snow baby," and her middle name is of Eskimo origin. BOY SCO S PATRIOTIC. They Are Ready at a Minute's Notice to Serve Old Glory. A scout is a patriot and is always ready to serve his country at a minute's notice. He loves Old Glory and knows the proper forms of offering it respect. He never permits its folds to sorry for Amelia, powerful sorry, for I had a stepmother myself. "Is it customary," says I, "to pay commission before the transaction's impleated?" "Not at all," said Amelia. "That wouldn't do." "Why not?" "Well, the broker, havin' got his pay, wouldn't take any pains in the matter." "If he didn't do his work he might return what he'd received." "In that case he'd git double pay for nothin—that is, if his commission was a kiss." "Isn't there somepain among business men like payin' part down, the rest when the deal has gone through?" "That's got nothin' to do with brokers; it is when you buy a piece of property yourself." "Well," I says, givin' it up. "I reckon I'll have to wait for my pay till I've done the job." I got up and was goin' out when Amelia said: "How soon are you goin' to send a feller?" "I dunno. Somehow I don't like the transaction. Seems to me he'll git the lion's share." "Well, Mr. Grimshaw, since you look at it that way I don't know but I ought to make it more to your interest, to do the job. I might double the commission, one-half payable in advance." "Now you're shoutin'," I said, and instead of goin' away I sat down again and tuk the first half o' my commission. It tasted so good that I began right off to hanker for the other half of my pay. "Amelia," I says, "you couldn't pay it all in advance, could you?" "Sartain not. What would there be to hold you to your work?" I thornt awhine, and then I said: "Supposin' I make the deal for myself." "What do you mean by that?" "I mean supposin' I jist take the other feller by the nape o' the neck and put him out. Then, instead o' actin' as his broker, I acquire the property in my own name." "Land sakes, Mr. Grimshaw!" "That was all the talkin' we done. I was hungry for another kiss, and I tuk her in my arms and had a dozen without stopin'. "Good gracious, Mr. Grimshaw, what you doin'?' she says. "I'm makin' a fust payment to bind the bargain." Amella and I was married before her father brought the stepmother to his house, and Amella found a home with me. One of her old flames on our weddin' day claimed a right to kiss the bride. "What did you do to earn it?" says I to him. Amelia bust out larfin. For Children SOW BABY" SOW GROWN UP E WAS THE 'SOW BABY' AND NOW chief of Admiral Peary, the discoverer committee of the Junior league of Wash- them to sick children in the hospital free time. This is the preliminary work in a toys given by the children who attend in the free wards. Miss Peary has the cold arctic regions, to which her moth- anti Peary on an exploring trip. She her middle name is of Eskimo origin. touch the ground. He knows how his country is governed and who are the men in high authority. He desires a strong body, an alert mind and an unconquerable spirit, so that he may serve his country in any need. He patterns his life after those of great Americans who have had a high sense of duty and who have served the nation well. --- Heroic Missionaries. That the expenses of the American board in foreign mission work were about $100,000 more this year than last—exceeding $1,200,000—is an inadequate measure of the increased burden placed upon our missionaries, says the New York Evening Post. There have come repeated reports of the heroism of men and women in Turkey, and native workers there in mission schools have perished; the labor of the missionaries in behalf of the Armenians, Syrians and others has received official recognition. At the recent convention at Toledo much was said also of the risks run in China and Mexico. The responsibilities of the missions in relieving suffering have not been more increased than have their opportunities in effective teaching in some fast changing countries. Thus it is stated that in Mexico the democratic spirit is more favorable to religious innovation; that in the Philippines civilization and Christianity are progressing hand in hand and that in Asia the disintegration of Islam seems foreshadowed in the dissatisfaction in Turkey and the Arabian holy war. To the movement for their encouragement, which the laymen's missionary movement and other agencies have promoted, the efficient work, material as well as moral, of the missionaries during the war should give an impetus. --- Churches in the country ordinarily compete rather than co-operate, Gifford Pinchot, chairman of the Commission Church and Country Life, told delegates to the Federal Council of Church of Christ in America in reporting the results of a survey of rural churches, in Ohio. "In the 1,200 rural townships in Ohio," Mr. Pinchot reported, "there are more than 6,000 rural churches and more than 1,780,000 persons. The great majority of the rural churches are without resident pastors, and in 26 per cent of the rural townships no church has a resident pastor. "In rural Ohio there is one church to every 286 persons. In each rural township there is an average population of 1,470 persons, and there are five churches. This is an overabundance of churches. But churches in the country ordinarily work against each other. They compete rather than co-operate. For this reason the country churches are often to one another the greatest obstacles they have to encounter. "These facts indicate not how well the churches in the country are co-operating an Christian service to the community, but how great is the need of such co-operation." CURIOUS COURTSHIP. Chinese Girls Allowed No Choice In Picking a Husband. As soon as the Chinese lady is old enough to be married her father chooses a husband for her. She is never allowed to see him herself. Her father carries on all the courtship for her. The poor Chinaman does not see his girl until the day of the wedding. He does not know whether she is pretty or whether she has a temper. On the great day the bride is dressed in very gay clothes and placed in a sedan chair, and she is carried toward her husband. A crowd of people go with her, carrying torches which are lighted even if it be a noon wedding. A band of drums and fites precedes the chair, and no matter how hard the bride tried to get away, she could not, as the chair is locked, and an old servant carries the key. The key is then given to the bridegroom, and he is the only one privileged to open it. When he opens the doors of the sedan chair he lifts the veil the little Chinese lady wears' over her face, and if he does not like the face of his future bride he orders the servants to take her back, to her father's roof, and he pays the girl a sum of money to make up for the loss of his companionship. But if he thinks he is going to like the little lady he asks her to come in, and the chair is sent back empty. Then there is a grand feast, and the Chinaman is married. Queer, isn't it? Aren't you glad you live in America and are free to weed whom you love?—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. TRACING A CRIMINAL The Most Expert Will Leave Some Mark That Betrays Him. Successful criminals nearly always specialize in their work, and it is owing to this fact that detectives in many cases are able to track them down, says the alphabets. Ledger. Not only do criminals make a practice of committing one particular style of crime, but the methods professional crooks employ are practically always on the same plan. Offer a burglary, for instance, will always enter through the fanlight over the front door of a shop, another by breaking in at the back. Most burglars, too, will continually repeat a burglary in the same neighborhood. It is by carefully observing and notting the special systems notorious crooks adopt that detectives can often effect their arrests. Many a time a burglar has occurred and the criminal vanished, leaving apparently no marks by which he could jig traced, and police officials have been able to produce him in court within a few days, to the utter astonishment of all concerned. It does not matter how subtle or careful a criminal may be, he always leaves some betraying sign behind for the well informed detective to accuse him. Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON PRINT BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. METROPOLIS, . . . . . ILL. M. M. J. MOCRARY, MANAGER. J. B. MOCRARY, EDITOR FRIDAY JAN. 26, 1917. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Interested as second-class mail matter, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. Address all communications to J. B. MOCRARY, Box 107 Metropolis, Illinois. The names and addresses of contributors must be known to us in every instance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity each week. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year.....$1 00 ix Months.....75 Three Months.....40 Single Copy.....05 In Advance. 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 Canada, 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. H. Starks, Corresponding Sec'y. Read r if a blue or red mark appears on the head of your paper marked with notif J. cu K. Young, Solicitor. Master in Chancery Sale. State of Illinois, Massac County, ss. In the Circuit Court of said County, January Term A. D. 1917. Elizabeth Wymer Vs. C. H. Dunn, and Ella Dunn. Bill to foreclose mortgage No. 340. Public notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a decree entered at the January Term of said court, to wit, on the 11th day of January A. D. 1917 in the above entitled cause, I, S. Bartlett Kerr, Master in Chancery of said County, will at the hour of 10 o'clock A. M. Saturday February 10th A. D. 1917 at the east door of the Court House in the City of Metropolis, County of Massac, and State of Illinois, sell at public venue to the highest and best bidder, the following described real estate to-wit: Lots Three (3) and Four (4) in Block Seven (7) in the Fostlewaite and Morton Addition to the village of Brooklyn, now the City of Brookport, in Massac County, State of Illinois. Terms of sale, Cash in hand. Dated this 11th day of January A. D. 1917. S. BARTLETT KERR, Master in Chancery. 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 Guaranteed. --- $100 Reward, $100. 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 & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists. 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Henry Tinsley is on the sick list. Rev. J. H. Patterson, pastor of the Free Baptist church, Metropolis, we have been informed was dismissed last Saturday night in a regular business meeting and, Wm Barnett, of this city was elected. We feel that they have made a good selection. Rev. I. S. Stone and wife returned from Iaris, Mo., they went last week on the account of the serio illness of the former's father. He was muh improved when they left Rev Stone, has commenced his reviva again in earnest and the solicitation of all christians is extended. Mrs. Sadie Bradley, of Mount Vernon, came down with the body of Mrs. Lou Ann Barnett, of Joppa, who died early Sunday morning in Mt. Vernon, after a few days sickness Erysipelas and blood-poisoning. We appreciate the job sent us Carbondale, Eastern Star Chapter for financial cards, also Joppa Chant. Paper has advanced out of sight but we are holding down at the same old stand by your assistance we can continue, otherwise we will have to lock up shop. Can you afford to withhold your work from a negro enterprise and let it go the wall? You need the Gazette to fight your battles. We have just completed a neat job of book work for the Free Baptist yearling meeting of Southern Ill. Mr. Mack Hooper, was dangerously hurt last week by a tie falling on him. He is improving slowly at this writing McKinley Bogan is quite sick at this time. The little child of Mr. and Mrs. Ulysses Bogan is very sick. Grandma Tossey, has improved. Mrs Gracie Williamson, still remains quite ill. Mrs. Laura McClellan, is not much improved. Rev. W. D. Simms. of Newberg. Ind., is improving, we have been informed by Rev. J. D Davis, of Colp, who called to see him recently, and he wants to be able to come back on his work in March. He also is in need of funds. He is our missionary and and should receive aid. Mrs. Millie Griggs, and little son Charles have returned from Evansville. Ind., where she visited her sister. Mrs. Blanche Blakemore, is at home again. Wallace Bell was a Paducah, Ky., visitor Wednesday. Mrs Laura Bradley, and Mr. and Mrs Jesse Aker of Jopps, were up to a tind the funeral of Mrs. Luana Parnett Thursday. Ed Lockett is in the city Jas. Wright is on the sick list. Quite a number of citizens of Joppa came up to attend the funeral of Mrs. Lue Ann Barnett. Mrs. Willie Palmer, is confined to her bed on W. 8th St. Rev. J. W. Davie, has returned to his charge from Hopkinsville, Ky., where he spent two weeks with his family Rev J. M. Blake, is critically ill at his home at Unity, Ill., and is in need of help from the churches, also Rev I. W. Winston of Duquoin. How dwelleth the love of God in you if you fail to help the needy? Every church could and should take a collection for the poor and distressed brothers. Who will be the first to send a donation Monday? Fifty cents will help. Report to the Gazette what you have given. Mrs. Princess Bell, is improving at this writing Mrs. Ellen Buchanan Sr. is indisposed. The Gazette Office has been supplied with a new Electric Motor, and we have a two horse power gasoline engine for sale. Any one in need of a good engine it will pay you to call and see the Gazette Manager. 901 Cor. 9th & Pearl Sts. Rally at Unity Baptist Church. Brookport, Ill., Jan. 22, 1917 Sun ay was the day appointed for a rally and a special program and the presentation o a Bible by Rev. John Adams, (white) and a $20.00 rostrom, by Br. James Robinet, (whe) e Baptist deacon but we were rained out. We had a very good Sunday School in the morning and at 11:20 Rev. Berry Thomas, preached a very good sermon. At 3:30 p. m. Rev. J. N. Redick, pastor of the A. M. E. church was with us and delivered an able address. At 7:00 p. m. pastor, Rev. McCrary, preached a short sermon to an appre- Total collected for the day was $10.00 The raily will continue over next Sunday, so as to give all a chance to Pay in their $1.00 asked for and we hope not to be disappointed. Be there on time and hear the special sermon by the pastor and music by the choir. Following are the names and amount of money given Sunday: Brothers Bright Long, $1.00 W. B. Tittsworth, . . . James Baker . . . Frank Howard $1.00 Wm. White $1.10 Aaron Green 75c W. B. Baker 50c Alonzo Donlow 15c Sisters Hallie Tittsworth $1.00 Ellen White . . . Mary J. White 50c Mammie Jackson 25c M. J. McCrary 25c Ellizu Baker 20c Lizzie Smith 10c Rev. J. B. McCrary, wife an son Edgar and Rev. Berry Thomas also Mr. Elmae Sims were guest for dinner Sunday at the homs of Bro. and Sister Wm. White Sunday. Miss Mary Whithe their only chily is a splendid Cook. Rev, and Mrs. McCrary, and son Edgar took supper with Mr. and Mrs. Tittsworth. The two former stopped with Brother and sister James Baker, and the latter at Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Donlow. Reporter. The first grand child of the editor and wife, was born 'an. 13, 1917. He has been added to the of The Gazette, and will play the part of office "devill" His name is Joseph Edgar, Alphonso McCrary, Jr. Mr. and M s. Edgar S. B. McCrary, are the proud recipients of a fine 8 pounds baby boy, who will be first in city among our people to be awarded a prize by the State of Illinois. Mrs Belle Tyson of Princeton, Ky., mother of Mrs. Edgar McCryar, is at the bedside of Mrs. McCryar. Rev. I. W. Winston, Not Expected to Survive Long. Duquoin, Ill., Jan. 21, 1917. Editor Gazette, Please allow space to say to the min- sters and friends of Rev. I. W. Winston, of this city, that he is very low and you want to see him it will be wise to see him soon. From a sister in Christ, M. C. Rollis. NOTICE IS GIVEN To our subscribes that beginning with the 1st of March the subscription price of The Gazette, will be raised to One Dollar and Fifty Cents per year in advance, instead of $1.00 the present price. Those who are in arrears with the paper that will pay up between now and the 1st of Mar, and renew for one year can get the paper for $1.00 The price of the news that we have been printing our paper on advanced the 1st of the year to almost double to what we were paying until we are compelled to raise the price of subscription in order to keep our paper running. We either have to raise the price or cease the publication of this organ. We cannot very well afford to do this, as the Negroes of Southern Ill, should have a mouth piece through which to speak. After the 1st of March we will be compelled to place all of our delinquent subscribers Out for collection, because any one could have paid the small price one dollar a year if had tried. We have several who have ordered their paper stopped without paying us and these will be placed for collection as the law protects in the collection of subscriptions. The Gazette has been published since March 4th 1898 and with your assistance we will continue its publication, and give you a better paper in the future. We have eliminated the foreign advertisements from our patent insides and give you pure reading matter in its stead, and hope to be able in the near future to give you all home print or at least to increase the size of the paper. All of the weekly papers white and colored with a few exception of a few colored have raised the price of their subscription to $1.50 and $2 00 per year in advance and we not raise our price last fall, as we thought possibly the cost of news print would fall but instead of a fall the price was raised to almost double. We would like to have you to continue to read the paper. Take notice to the above, and Read! then Act! OBITUARY Roy Eugene Buchanan the infant son of Mr. Roy and Mrs. Odie Buchanan, was born July 28, 1916 and died January 22nd 1917. Age 5 months and 24 days. Cause of death pneumonia fever. This was their first and only child and is a severe blow to the young couple and yet. God knoweth best and gathered it with the angels. Funeral from the family residence on West 8th St., Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the presence of a audience of relatives and friends. Rev. J. B. McCrary, officiated. We command the parents to God who gave it, and suggest that will of the All wise be theirs. The Gazette extends sympathy to the bereft. There will be a "Ladies Minstrel," at the Odd Fellow's Hall, Monday night Jan. 29. '17. Everybody is invited to come out and enjoy the occasion by listening to the old plantation and rag time songs. Hear the monologues, recitation and jokes Flenty of good music, plenty of Ky. Oysters and other good things to eat. Ladies of Industrial Club. Admission not Everbody. 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 and 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, "KentuckyOysters" 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. For one and all, a successful New Year. J. B. McCRARY. Mgr. Howell's Variety Store Southern Illinois' Largest Independent Variety Store. Specials at Howell's 3 Bars Lenox soap 10c Mail Boxes 10c Oranges sweet kind 1 cent each Face Powders and Paints 5 & 10c White Aprons 10c Pillow Cases 10c each We handle kitchen utensils Hard- ware, Townls, Ribbons and many things space forbids to mention. HOWELL'S Variety Store, Ferry Street, Opposite Postoffice Metropolis, Illinois. Subscribe for The Gazette