Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE NOTICE. To the Churches and Pastors composing the Missionary Baptist State Association of the State of Illinois. Dear Co-workers the time is fast approaching, that our state association shall convene in the beautiful city of Carbondale, Ill.; the city of learning a place where all can be refreshed after a year's hard earnest spiritual labors. Dr. G. W. Dorsey and his good people of the Hopewell Baptist church is preparing to give us a great opportunity for the grandest session in the history of the organization, convening on Tuesday before the 4th Sunday in May 1917. Brethren there is a great work to be done along Missionary lines, Let every pastor, layman and deacon, get busy to the work of the Master. The opportunity is now open to every willing mission worker, and soul winner. The hand of the state association is out to help him, or her. Let us start now to make the association a great factor of christian work in the state of Illinois. One tenth of all of our earnings belong to the Lord, and we have not given him what justly belongs to him. [Will a man rob God?] Let us all come up, down, out through and over to Carbondale, in May next, bringing with us some of the Lord's money that we have been spending, so that his commission, (go ye and make disciples) can be carried out. From the viewpoint of light, salt, sacrifice of time, money and life if need be, the church is given the great work of making disciples in all the world, and the teaching of them the importance of observing all the things commanded by our Lord Jesus Christ. Let the entire State of Illinois blend her christian forces at Carbondale, in May next, and by work, will, courage, money, diligence and sacrifice, do some tangible work for the Kingdom of God, and the spread of the good message and the relief of suffering humanity. We are looking for the Baptist of the State of Illinois in Carbondale, next May. The Lord help them to come. Dr. J. F. Thomas, Moderator. Dr. W. P. Washington, Corresponding Secretary. GALATIA Mr. Joe Bonds visited in Dew- maine, for a short time. Mr. Everett McFarland has re- turned from Hot Springs, where he went for his health. He has improved greatly. The Durham Coal mines are not working as good as they have been. Mr. Rufus Hinton of Carrier Mills, is staying here now. The St. Luke Baptist church have services as soon as roads will permit. Mr. Hose Taborn and Mrs. Allie White visited in Carrier Mills, Thursday. Mr. Taborn, found his wife sick. For fortune and good luck see Mrs. Mary White. Mr. Rock Cavanaugh is is visiting his uncle in Duquoin Mr. and Mrs. McFa land were in Eldorado, to see a dentist. Mr. James Wright of Grayson, is here working in the mines. Mr. Estel Troutman is contemplating on starting a night school. Hobart Washington. CENTRALIA My dear Editor: Please accept my many thanks for the coming of your paper to my home each week. We are still preaching the gospel at the 2nd Baptist church the Lord is blessing us in this field since being here have taken into this churoh one hundred and eleven members. The Lord have given us a people to stand with us in this great battle. The Ladies Sewing Circle is doing a great work. We were given a great surprise party by them, and everything to eat were given. I am trying to do all I can to build up a great baptist church here for the Lord. The devil has stirred up some great storms here but it has helped this church so much to grow in membership and prosper. Pastor 2nd Baptist church. Sewing Circle Second Baptist church was nicely en ertained at 935 E. Rexford Sec'y residence Mrs. Melvin Manon assisted by Mrs. Dan Lewis after which pictures were taken of all members that were present. Mrs John Reed Pres. deserves quite a few honors. Mar. 15th '17. Sewing Circle was nicely entertained at 609 Cormick St, Thursday Mar. 22, Mrs. Willie Simpson's residence. Sewing Circle members and the Singing choir members had quite a success with their entertainment a silk shirt was given to the one having the lucky number. The shirt was given to Mrs. Francis Bibbs, she holding the lucky number. BAZAAR CLUB RALLY The following named persons contributed to the above named club the 3rd Sunday for the benefit of Unity Baptist church, of Brookport, owing to sickness and high water the attendance was small Siste Eliza Baker, is the president. Ida Martin 25c Ruth Donlow 25c Eliza Baker 25c Dovia Chain 25c Wash Shelton 25c Frank Howard 25c Eliza Childress 15c Lula Landers 25c Mary Winiberly 25c Ike Moore 25c Nancy Moon 25c Mamie Blackwell 25c Aaron Green 25c Alonza Donlow 25c Vester Broyles 30c Hallie Titsworth 25c Leatha Moon 25c Good Advice. Since thou art not sure of a minute, do not throw away an hour — Franclia. --- MOTTO : "HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEV MAY " 77 A Cordial welcome awaits you at the Krebs Clothing & Dry Goods Co., to inspect the new and stylish Spring Clothing, Shoes and Hats coming in every day-also the moderate prices you will find here will tickle your purse. Men and Women, come trade with us and you will save money Ferry & 3rd Sts., Metropolis, Illinois. VOTE FOR LOREN D. WIANT Better Known as "Goat," for City Treasurer. Election Tuesday, April 17, 1917. $2.50 In Clubs of 3 or More $2.50 This offer is open to you and your friends only if you and they receive the paper on a Rural or star Route where there is no Daily Globe Democrat Newsdealers. It is not open to subscribers who live in towns served by Daily Newsdealers. The regular price of the 6-day- a-week Globe-Democrat is $5 per year. A special Rural Route Rate of $3 per year is made. You can cut that special price to only $2.50 per year If You Send In Two or More of Other Subscriptions Plus Your Own, At One Time. 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SPARTA Editor, I am pleased to say through your paper that our S. S. and church are still progressing. The school was opened at 9:30 a. m. by Supt. M. C. Wrice, and reviewed by wm Macklin. The first Sunday in April was our regular communion day, but owing to the inclementy of the --- 50 per year for the Daily- day, you must send at least with remittance of at least subscription alone, if you reit, remit $3 for the daily also wish the Great Sunday 50 for both Daily and Sun club rate of $4.75 for each plete club of three or more day. The advanced and advan- and of all other materials making may force an in- ny time So Do Not Delay! Co., Publishers s, Mo. weather the above special service was postponed until the 2nd Sun- day. We had a spiritual prayer and praise service with our pastor and Rev. M. E Parnell, present, all were made to feel uplifted in heart and soul. CARBONDALE. Will you allow me space in your valuable paper to state to the public a few words. We have been engaged in a great revival at the Rock Hill Baptist church in which there were twenty three converts. Rev N. H. Ellison of Dyersburg, Tenn., conducted the meeting and is a God sent man, and he delivered the gosbel to all who came far and near to hear him. Our church is doing fine under our pastor Rev. C. W. Norment, who keeps his flock well filled with the spirit and he is holding the torch of everlasting life up high so that dying sinner men and women can see it; and he is ever extending to them an invitation to accept Christ. Yours in Christ, Cornelius Robinson. --- J. J. Taylor. FIFTY YEARS AGOWE BOUGHT ALASKA THE STREETS OF MONTANA MAIN STREET IN SEWARD, ALASKA. OLD RUSSIAN TOWN OF KODIAK ON KODIAK ISLAND, OFF ALASKAN COAST. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, SECRETARY OF STATE, WHO NEGOTIATED TREATY FOR PURCHASE OF ALASKA. It Was on March 30, 1867, That We Signed the Treaty to Pay Over $7,200 000 For Purchase. Secretary of State Seward Called a Conference at Midnight, During Which the Final Terms Were Settled. At noon of March 30, 1917, fifty years will have passed since President Andrew Johnson sent a message to the United States senate announcing that a treaty had been negotiated with the czar of Russia for all his possessions on the North American continent, or Russian America, now Alaska, says former Governor John G. Brady of Alaska in the New York Sun. This possession was purchased for the sum of $7,300,000 and has returned enormous profits to Uncle Sam in the shape of gold and other metal mines and almost hexaustible coal deposits. The story of the purchase relates that as one senator came into the cloak-room a little late he was accosted by a colleague, who said: "Well, what do you think Old Andy has sprung upon us this morning? It is the most unheard of thing yet—the purchase of Russian America! I thought we would have a chance to whack him again, but this is something new." Seward Central Figure. There can be no doubt that this purchase was a surprise measure in statesmanship. William Henry Seward, sec. MAIN STREET IN SEWARD, ALASKA KODIAK ON KODIAK ISLAND, H. SEWARD, SECRETARY OF ST. FOR PURCHASE OF ALASKA. retary of state of the United States, was the eminent actor. Perhaps none of our statesmen before or since him stands out so prominently as a political prophet. This side of his character developed and became noted in the controversies over slavery before the civil war, so much so that some of his utterances became political shibo-leths, as for instance, "irrepressible conflict," No doubt he was in political parlance the "logical candidate" in the convention at Chicago in 1800. But Horace Greeley, who sat in the convention as a delegate from Oregon, with a combination of his opponents prevailed, and Seward was defeated. He did not sulk in his tent, but labored for the election of Lincoln. As he stood upon the steps of the old statehouse in St. Paul and knowing that within the years of his own life he could look back to the time when there were but eighteen states in the Union, and standing now by the Father of Waters in the midst of the continent where were many more sections awaiting organization into statehood, an affairus possessed him and he delivered one of the most remarkable passages in our political annals. It was to the effect that our system of confederation of states would spread over the North American continent and that he believed he was then standing not many miles away from the spot which is destined to become the capital of this mighty power. Then he said: "I now turn to the northwest and behold the Russian, the representative of the civilization at St. Petersburg, making his forts and harbors, but I can only say: 'Go on, Russian! Build up your forts and harbors. You are only doing it for my country, for the civilization of the United States shall yet extend to the northwest.'" Seward then, there in St. Paul in September of 1860, had in mind the Russian and his possessions in the northwest of the continent, and he expressed his belief that it would in time become the possession of the United States and of the civilization which would spread over the northwest. A seed so potent would be sure to spring forth and bear fruit when the right influences were brought to play. One and one make two. Mr. Seward had been in Washington city much, for he had passed a term as a senator from New York. The Russian envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the United States was Edward de Stoeckl. He was in office for years and appears to have been a likable man. Between these two men an acquaintance had grown to a warm personal friendship. In 1904 at St. Louis I was bold by an old friend and neighbor of the secretary in Auburn, N. Y., who remained for two days extra at the fair to join in the Alaska day exercises on Oct. 18, when the real Alaska flag borrowed from the war department floated over the building, that in vacations the minister and the secretary often camped together and did not hesitate to do their own cooking. If Baron Stoeckl proposed the sale of 'Russian America during the Pierce administration, in the summer of 1854, we may well believe that this subject was not a matter of dry conversation between these two men, who were trained to take large views of world politics. Envoy Urged Sale. The baron had a leave of absence and left for St. Petersburg early in October, 1866. He enjoyed in a high degree the confidence of our government and returned home promising his best exertions to promote good relations between the two countries. The time was opportune, for the charter to the Russian-American Fur company had expired, and also its charter to the Hudson Bay company to trade as far as Mount St. Elias had terminated. In view of the failure of the Russian company to carry out certain cherished purposes of the imperial government during its period of tenure and also in view of the political contingencies of the times, there was no disposition to renew the charter to the company. That the baron's influence was'ener- ASKA. OLD RUSSIAN TOWN OF OFF ALASKAN COAST. WILLIAM STATE, WHO NEGOTIATED TREATY getic and effective may be inferred from the fact that when he was leaving to return to his post in February, 1867, the Archduke Constantine, the brother and chief adviser of the czar, handed him a map with the lines of our treaty marked upon it. He told him that he might treat for the cession. It would appear that a draft of the treaty had been drawn before the baron had gone on his vacation in 1866 or if not then early in March immediately upon his return to Washington, for we have a record of a letter of the secretary of the minister dated March 23 insisting upon his wording and meaning of article 6 and adding $200,000 to the purchase price. Senator Sumner In Negotiations. Senator Sumner was chairman of the committee on foreign relations and would therefore by virtue of such an important office be a frequenter of the state department. The president and the party which had elected him to office were in active antagonism over questions of reconstruction. Senator Sumner was a pronounced and active opponent to President Johnson. Many of the Republican leaders in congress felt sore toward Seward for remaining in Johnson's cabinet, thus giving the administration strength and dignity. However, the state department wanted no quarrel with Sumner and endeavored to keep on good terms with him. For the most part the senator frequented the office of the assistant secretary, Frederick W. Seward, who kept him informed as far as he dared and in as good humor as possible. A few years ago I visited Frederick W. Seward at his home, Montrose on the Hudson. He said that when Mr. Sumner was preparing his great speech to be delivered in executive session in favor of ratifying the treaty he discussed with the senator what name should be given to the purchase. "The senator contended for Allaska as given in Cook, but Seward, knowing that his father preferred Alaska, urged that Alaska be not used, for the comic papers would seize such a form of the name as the foundation for a cartoon, of which there were many at the time. Negotiations at Night The secretary was living in a large house near Lafayette square. The Russian minister, who felt much at home there, calling one evening rather late found Mr. Seward in a friendly game of cards with some members of his household. The minister imparted the information that he had had a dispatch from St. Petersburg and that he was authorized to negotiate. The secretary, turning at once from the table, said: "Why not tonight? Mr. Minister, if you get the Russian legation I'll get the state department! Frederick, you notify Assistant, Secretary Hunt, Mr. Chew, the clerk, and Senator Sumner. We will meet at the state department at 12 o'clock." The minister objected that his people were scattered at theater parties and other functions, but the secretary would not put it off. Frederick obeyed his father's commands and had ordered a caterer to serve lunch. Accordingly they all met at the appointed time and place. Mr. Sumner told the senate: "Final instructions were received by the Atlantic cable from St. Petersburg on March 29, and at 4 o'clock on the morning of March 30 this important treaty was signed by Mr. Seward on the part of the United States and by Mr. de Stoecki on the part of Russia." Such a unique historical transaction was deemed worthy of portrayal on a painter's canvas. The artist was engaged for the work while all the characters were yet alive. The scene is in the secretary's office. He is seated with a chart across his lap, and the minister, a man of fine proportions, is standing polting to a large globe. Mr. Chew is evidently reading the articles of the treaty, while the rest are listening. Senator Sumner and Frederick W. Seward are seated near together in one corner of the room. Some one suggested that President Johnson should also be in the picture, but strong objection was made, and it was finally left to the discretion of the artist. He settled the matter by putting the president's likeness in a frame hanging on the wall of the office and near that part where Sumner and the younger Seward are seated. Probably this treaty stands alone in the history of diplomacy as an important treaty conceived, initiated, prosecuted and completed without being preceded or attended by protocols or dispatches. TESTING SUBMARINES. It Is an Easier Task Now Than It Was a Few Years Ago. Vessels built to navigate under water require particular care in their construction, for when they are submerged they have to withstand the pressure of water from all sides without showing the slightest leak. The newest submarines must be able to sink to a depth of 150 feet or more. At such a depth the pressure is tremendous, and if the joints are not perfect water squirts in as though through a hose pipe. Ten years ago testing a new submarine was a dangerous job. She might not be watertight. Her balance might not be perfect, or, again, the air system might not be equal to blowing out the water from her tanks. Terrible accidents have occurred in testing new under water boats during actual submergence, but today all that is a thing of the past. A testing dock is used, which was invented by an Italian engineer, Major Laurenti. It is a huge cylinder, into which the submarine is floated. A caisson at the end is closed and hermetically sealed. The cylinder is built so as to stand tremendous pressure, and pressure is slowly applied until it equals something far greater than the submarine herself will ever be called on to endure. The men inside are in communication with those outside by means of telephone, so that if anything goes wrong the trial can at once cease. Pearson's Weekly. Creed of the Busy Man. Creeed of the Busy Man. I believe in the stuff I am handing out, in the firm I am working for and in my ability to get results. I believe that honest stuff can be passed out to honest men by honest methods. I believe in working, not weeping; in boosting, not knocking, and in the pleasure of my job. I believe a man gets what he goes after, that one deed done today is worth two deeds tomorrow, and that no man is down and out until he has lost faith in himself. I believe in today and the work I am doing, in tomorrow and the work I hope to do and in the sure reward which the future holds. I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing, somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready—right now!-Elbert Hubbard. Animal Thieves. Stealing is by no means rare among the furred and feathered creature, and many animals apparently band together for no other reason than criminal purposes. Baboons always steal in bands. When they wish to rob an orchard they do it in a very systematic manner. A sentinel is posted to warn of danger. The other baboons then line up like a bucket brigade, one or two of the members scale the trees, and the fruit is passed along from one to the other until the last one gets it, when he puts it in a safe place. Bees, while noted as workers, sometimes have lazy spells when they indulge in thieving. There are instances where whole colonies have attacked a hive, assaulted the sentinels and imates and sacked the establishment. Bees that do this repeatedly usually end by becoming habitual criminals.—New York a merican. FARMING INFORMATION PRODUCING GOOD MILK. Cleanliness and Proper Feeding Main Essentials in Dairying. Cows must be healthy and kept clean. The barn should be kept clean, well lighted and ventilated. The barnyard should be kept clean and properly drained. Utensils should be thoroughly washed and scaled or steamed and kept in a clean room. Cows should be fed good wholesome food and pure water. Milkers and attendants who come in contact with the milk should be healthy and clean. Cows should not be fed at milking time or immediately before. Dust from feed falls into the milk and contaminates it with germs. Wipe the udder and side of cow with a damp cloth and milk with clean, dry hands. Use small top milking pail. This helps to keep foreign matter from the milk. Immediately after milking remove the milk to a separate room from the barn to be strained and cooled. Cool the milk to as low a temperature as possible without freezing. Forty or 50 degrees F. retards growth of most germs and particularly those that cause milk to sour quickly. In summer keep flies out of the barn and milk room. One fly may carry as many as 150,000 germs to the milk. These may be disease germs. Manure should not be allowed to accumulate around the barn. It is a breeding place for flies. The number of bacteria in milk depends largely upon cleanliness of milking and handling, temperature at which milk is kept and age of milk. Therefore clean milk quick cooling and prompt delivery are very important factors in producing pure dairy products. Lime is a good disinfectant and should be used liberally in the dairy barn.—V. R. Jones, Dairy Husbandry Department, South Dakota State College. Spread the Manure. From the standpoint of conserving its plant food about the poorest place manure can be kept is in a heap, writes a correspondent of the Ohio Farmer. It is likely to ferment and in so doing it will lose nitrogen and organic matter, and unless it is protected from rains there is likely to be much loss from leaching. In experiments at the Ohio station manure stored in heaps from January to April lost 35 per cent of its organic matter, 22 per cent of its phosphorus, 51 per cent of its potassium and 36 per cent of its nitrogen. While I would not undertake to say that there are no losses when it is spread in the field, they are greatly reduced, as long time experiments have proved. The greater part of the leachings are promptly absorbed by the soil and are distributed where they are wanted. Ventilate the Poultry House. Ventilate the Poultry House. While warm quarters and comfortable surroundings are desirable for wintering stock, care should be taken to provide for plenty of ventilation. Often precautions against the winter wind lead to a lack of air circulation, which fosters disease germs. Ventilation, however, should not be accomplished by leaving a door or window open at any time, but may be done properly by substituting muslin for window glass. This will allow a complete and continuous diffusion of the foul air out and the pure air into the barn. Clean white muslin will let in nearly as much light even when frosted over as glass. It will at the same time make an ideal ventilator.—Farm Journal. Movable Ladder For Sile: A ladder that hangs on a track encircling the slio just under the caves is a new safety device that will be appreciated by the man who must look after his hoops every few months. By means of this ladder you can ride TOP BOTTOM around the outside of your silo simply by pulling a draw line provided for that purpose. It is also handy for painting and general repairs. The idea seems to be an ingenious improvement over the light dadders used in shoe stores for getting stock from the top shelves, only in this case the track is circular instead of straight.—Farm and Freslide. Early Sowing In Hotbed Early sowing in Hectare Seed can be sown in the hotbed before the snow is off the ground, and the plants will have from four to six weeks' start when warm weather comes in the spring. By this means the vegetable grower has that much start on the crop grown from seed in the open soil. This means early marketing, which every grower is seeking because of the increase in returns. Weeds Rob Crops of Food and Much Needed Moisture. [J. S. Gardner, Missouri station.] If the weeds have flourished in your garden or in parts of it, mow them down. If they have not gone to seed they can be plowed under later to help out the stable manure you apply, but if they have they should be removed from the garden and thrown on the compost heap. Composting kills weed seed. Weeds are expensive things to have in gardens or anywhere else; they rob garden crops of food and moisture, many of them are natural food for all kinds of insects, which, when they have devoured the choice parts of weeds, attack adjacent garden crops. Weeds may also support plant diseases that would otherwise die, and they induce mildews and rusts by reducing air and sunlight around the garden plants. These weeds are now going to seed and winter wipps will jar that seed out, and the chances for a heavy stand of weeds next spring will be quite good. Other good things to remove now, and as the later crops mature, are the crop, remnants, especially if there has been disease or insect infestation. Dead stalks are wintering places for diseases and insects. Stalks removed had best be burned, though if a compost pile is made the insect infested stalks may be thrown on it. Disease spores survive the composting temperature. Burning is safest. Hen Comfort Pays. That farm flocks are often too much exposed to the weather, and that the farmer would realize more from his poultry if he did not allow them outdoors during the winter are without doubt established facts, says A. C. Smith of the Minnesota experiment station. The idea often advanced that poultry can withstand any amount or degree of cold weather provided it is dry is not borne out by experience. House the birds comfortably if you wish eggs. Keep them in the house after the ground freezes. Let them out only during the middle of the day, as a rule, after the frost comes. If you cannot take the trouble to get them in early in the afternoon keep them in. A Concrete Well Platform. A well platform made of concrete is one of the most pleasing and satisfactory improvements I have ever made to my farm, writes a contributor to the Farm Progress. A frame four feet square and four inches deep is built and placed on a clean level space of ground. Two blocks of two inch material are cut so as to make a twelve inch square. Underneath these is placed a frame ten inches square and two and one- Anchor Belt Reinforcing Wires half inches deep. it will be noticed that this arrangement will form a one inch shoulder for the blocks to rest upon and also give the platform a half inch slope in all directions from the center. Since the two center blocks must be removed to admit the pump cylinder they should be tapered slightly on the outside edges. One and one half sacks of cement are sufficient for a platform of this size, and by adding old fence wire for reinforcement and an anchor bolt for the pump brace you will have "a thing of beauty and a joy forever." Spray the Hoggens. Some successful swine raisers practice the spraying of their hoghouses, both inside and outside, with creosote oil or other similar preservative liquid. These liquids not only preserve the wood, but also act as disinfectants; they help especially in the eradication of lice and mange. Creosote oil stains the wood black and sometimes makes it streaked, thus possibly making its use objectionable from the standpoint of appearance.—Iowa Homestead. Hints About Cold Frame The soil in the cold frame should be of a good garden soil, fairly light. Many growers transfer the flats with the plants in them from the hotbed to the cold frame, thus doing away with securing soil for the cold frame. Watering should be done frequently to keep the plants growing. Ventilation must be looked after carefully. FARM STOCK. The disposition of a brood sow goes a long way in making her a profitable dam. Don't give the ewes corn. Corn makes them feverish and in- flames the udders. Infamed ud- ders are a bad thing at lambing time. The idle horses should not be fed so much-grain as when at work, but they should have a small ration. A ewe that is soon to wean should not be too fleshy. Never close the stable at night until the mud and ice are all cleaned off the horses' legs. Don't overfeed the brood sows and get them too fat. A fat sow never has a good litter of pigs. Keep the brood sows active. By SPARK PLUG Goulding May Quit. According to close Toronto friends, George Goulding, the champion walker of the world, intends to quit the track this season. It is said that he is tired of the game and will rest on his laurels. Goulding is the greatest walker ever produced and has more world's records 1 Photo by American Press Association. George Goulding Finishing One of His Famous Walks. to his credit than any other athlete. He has been competing for at least a dozen years, and at the present time there is not a man who can make him extend himself at any distance. Athletic Pluma For St. Louis Athletic Plums For St. Louis. For the first time in athletic history the annual meeting of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States will be held outside of New York city next year. It has been decided to hold the 1917 convention in St. Louis, the 1904 Olympic city, on the third Monday in November. It seems probable, too, that St. Louis will get the national track and field championships, the all round championships and the national relay championships. President Turner was empowered to instruct his new championship committee to award both of these events to St. Louis, where they will probably be contested late in September. Basketball In Japan. The baseball team from the Japanese University of Waseda were so favourably struck by the value of basketball as a sport for collegians while in this country that they purchased equipment for the game and will this winter introduce it into the three big universities of Tokyo. Mikami, the tennis player, is so strong for the game that he will add his influence and skill as a player to the efforts of the baseball players, to make the sport a feature of Japanese intercollegiate contests. New Course For Coaches It has been arranged to enlarge the scope of the summer course for athletic coaches, which was introduced at Dartmouth a year ago. The courses in track and football will be repeated, and courses in baseball, basketball and gymnastics will be added. Harry Hillman, instructor in physical training at Dartmouth, will have charge 'again. Hillman will lecture on track athletics, Horace Chabourne will lecture on baseball and Clarence W. Spears on football. Sons of Great Men. Sons of great men sometimes do approach the greatness of their fathers. Mike Murphy's son Thorea played a fine game in the back field of the Yale freshman eleven, and now comes Mike Sweeney's son Gerald with a bid for the Yale track and field team. Sweeney has cleared the bar at 11 feet 6 inches in the pole vault. Mike must concede this is quite a bit more than he was able to clear, though Sweeney the elder never used a pole. Three Mile Course Pleases Coast Crews News that the stewards of the Pong-keepsie (N. Y.) regatta had reduced the distance of the varsity race to three miles was received with glee at the University of Washington, Stanford and California. The coast crews row three miles in their annual regatta. The added mile on the Hudson made things all the more difficult for Washington and Stanford when they came east. U. of Washington Rowers Busy. University of Washington crew candidates are hard at work at Seattle under the direction of Coach Oomilibear and will take part against the picked eastern varsity shells at Poughkeepsie next June. Cleveland Another Bill Edwards. Jim Cleveland of Columbia is the nearest physical approach to "Big Bill" Edwards that modern football has produced. WOMEN'S FASHIONS and THE HOME THE WEEKLY PRESS Chelite flowers applied on hats this winter are being transplanted on to the new straws. This knockabout is a fine panama with bachelor buttons done in two shades of the chelite with large yellow centers. The hat band is white grosgrain ribbon tied in a tailored bow on one side. TORPEDOED. HEY! CUTAIT OUT, I'M GETTING CROWDED OUT OF MY OWN BED! FATHER NERPTUNE EMBROIDERY CRETONNES. How to Make Attractive Spreads by the Art of Appliqué. Simple work for busy hands seems to be in demand just at present. Appliqued patch embroidery is simple and is made quickly. To make centerpieces, cushion tops, scarfs, tidies or chair backs, clothes bags, etc., plain linen or silk is needed, preferably linen. Circles of applique are cut from cretose. The design should be a large single flower or small spray in order to cut three inch circles. The circles are beasted to the cloth and stitched on by machine close to the edge. Chain stitch around each circle with coarse thread, then run through with a white thread in what is called the blanket stitch, or whip it straight along the last row of stitches, catching it over and over. The white rolls in with the black and is very pretty. A scroll is drawn in by cutting out a figure which looks well and then tracing it off on the cloth. In a centerpiece six medallions are used, three in a pillow, three in each end of a scarf and three in a chair back. To finish the edge outline it as the medallions were outlined. Dots, which are often placed in the center of the scrollwork, are made of black in the satin stitch. Cocoanut Cream Candy. One cocoanut, one and one-half pounds granulated sugar, Put sugar and milk of cocoanut together, heat slowly until sugar is melted; then boil five minutes, add cocoanut (finely grated), boil ten minutes longer, stir constantly to keep from burning. Pour on buttered, plates, cut in squares. Will take about two days to harden. Use prepared cocoanut when other cannot be had. BEAUTIFUL TEETH. A Hygiene Note For Mothers of Small Babes. Good milk will make good teeth, for it makes teeth for calves. Good meat will, for it makes them for young lions and wolves. Good vegetables, nuts and fruits will, for it makes them for monkeys. Good corn, oats, barley, wheat, rye, and indeed everything that grows, will make good teeth if taken in their natural state, no elements being taken out, for every one of them makes good teeth for horses and cows. But starches and sugars and lard and adulterated foods will not make good teeth; therefore a wise mother will keep from very young children pastry, white bread, cakes and tea and will give them instead good milk, whole wheat bread, cereals, meat, eggs, ripe fruit, vegetables and nuts and will do well to see that these helps are given them early enough. Every mother should remember that the duty of giving her child useful and strong teeth, devolves upon her. Calves' Tongues Roasted. Have the tongues fresh and boil them until they are just tender enough to allow the skin to be removed easily, says the Country Gentleman. Do this; then lard each tongue with lardous of salt pork, put into a roasting pan and roast until they are tender, basting them with a little stock and melted butter in which there is a sliced onion. Fifteen minutes before they are to be taken out sprinkle with fine breadcrumbs moistened with melted butter. Have the oven very hot and brown them well. Take them out of the roasting pan, and into the pan put a little white stock, let cook and thicken it with flour. Add one tablespoonful of vinegar and serve separately. Serve red currant jelly with the tongues. FATHER NEPTUNE —New York Evening Telegram. Instruction and Amusement For Children A FESTIVE IDEA. This Fetching Way of Arranging Your Dining Table. It is a new idea now among observing housewives to have, instead of the round or square luncheon cloth, one long runner for the square or oblong table, with enough large and small doilies matching it to fill in along the sides. Of course both ends of the table are covered by the runner, an excellent idea when part of the meal is sewed from the table instead of from the "side." While this arrangement is especially appropriate for the oblong table, it can be used for the square, oval or round table with some modification. In the square table the symmetry is often better preserved by two runners crossing in the middle. In the oval or round table the ugly line where the runner falls over the rounded edge is done away with by cutting the tranner, rounding the edge to fit the table and setting on the end to fit with a fine seam or a bit of beading. This arrangement means that the runner could be used only for the one size of table, but it is worth the trouble. Square hemstitched dolllies with a simple corner motif are used with the plain hemstitched runner. It is a good plan to make plate dolllies and napkins of the same size and decoration, so that if one gives out the other may come to the rescue. A large dolll for the plate will do away with an extra tumbler or teacup dolly. For Stout Women. Becoming to the stout woman are tundes of plaited Georgette crape weighted at the edge with a band of velvet and drawn in loosely at the waist line with a knotted or buckled sash. The plaited Georgette hangs in graceful lines, and such a tunic is flattering to the figure, disguising embonpoint more successfully than a fitted tailored frock of cloth material. The skirt may be of velvet, cloth or silk, and the band at the tunic edge should be of similar material, the cuffs also to give continuity of the costume. Escaloped Carrots and Potatoes Fill a buttered baking dish with alternate layers of potatoes and carrots. Cover with a white sauce made as follows: Melt two tablespoons of butter, add two tablespoons of flour, cook slowly and add two cups of milk, season with salt and pepper. When thick pour over the potatoes. Bake until the vegetables are done, if raw ones are used, or cooked vegetables may be used, requiring less time in the oven. Instruction ar THE LITTLE RED HEN. A Game In Which You Hunt For the Eggs. The little girl who is giving the Easter party prepares a number of small straw nests and places from one to four candy eggs, the size of jelly beans, in each of them. While all of the children are sent out of the room these nests are placed ground so that they can be seen only by those with sharp eyes, but the nests must be in plain sight. It must be impossible, however, for any one to see how many eggs are in the nests. One player is chosen "little red hen." When the guests return to the room each child in turn asks, "Where are your eggs, my little red hen?" and she replies, "They are hidden away for Easter." Then the questioner has one guess to locate them, and she asks if the eggs are in some nest which she sees. The first player may say, "Are they in the nest on the music cabinet?" The little red hen always says, "Look and see." When the player finds the eggs she may keep them. She also takes the place of the little red hen. As the nests have different numbers of eggs in them, the children will not only be interested in finding the eggs, but will be anxious to see many eggs each child finds. There is added pleasure for the little ones in taking their turns at being little red hen. Little Artists. In summer time we play that we Aerartists great and grand, And then we draw a picture Of the sandman on the sand. In winter time we play that we Are sculptors great, and so We have to add a statue of The snowman on the snow. But though we work so very hard All through each summer day The whitecap waves are sure to come To wash our work away. And though in winter time we strive So hard to get snow, The sun will blow our statue Or the wind will blow it down! —St. Nicholas. Ambition. Ambition. Ambition is a splendid servant, but a dangerous master. Have an ambition. You are not worth much and never will be worth much unless you have. Make it an ambition worth while and never, forget to leaven the selfishness in it with devotion to the human duty of service to humanity. Possibly it is better to have a bad ambition—certainly it is better to have a poor ambition—than no ambition at all. But an ambition, like an appetite, needs watching and controlling—Duluth Herald. A. Rare Disease. Small Florence, making her first visit to the country, heard a mule bray for the first time in her short young life. "Oh, grandpa," she exclaimed, "that horse has the wheoping cough." The Sunday School Lesson and Amusement For A French Father's L For Children Her's Last Goodby o has been visiting his family for a few the trenches. The picture when it came by," which would signify that the father The child being carried fondly by her return and must some day be told that A French Father's Last Goodby RF Photo by American Press Association from Medem. Here is a French soldier-father who has been days and is now ready to return to the trenches from France was called "His Last Goodby," which will never return to his loved ones. The child mother must be awaiting her father's return and her dad had died for his country. Here is a French soldier-father who has been visiting his family for a few days and is now ready to return to the trenches. The picture when it came from France was called "His Last Goodby," which would signify that the father will never return to his loved ones. The child being carried fondly by her mother must be awaiting her father's return and must some day be told that her dad had died for his country. When Baby Charlie comes along We have to stop and wait. And if we do not carry him We always are too late. Then Molle takes him in her arms— She's only ten years old— And Charlie grabs her round the neck With a stick. But Molle never seems to care. She grabs him tight, and then She shifts him round upon her, hip And hurries on again. The Boy Scout Oath. On my honor I will do my best— Third. To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight. Text of the lesson, John x, 1-18. Memory verses, 11, 12. Golden Text, John x, 11. The Golden Text seems to be the heart of the lesson this time if not always. While in our lesson He is the Good Shepherd laying down His life for the sheep and giving unto them eternal life, with the assurance that they can never perish nor any power take them from Him (verses 11, 15, 27, 29), in Heb. xlii, 20, 21. He is the Great Shepherd risen from the dead, living His life in us and working in us that which is well pleasing in the sight of the God of Peace. In 1 Pet. v. 4, He is the Chief Shepherd, who shall give rewards to His faithful followers at His appearing. In Gen. xlix, 24; Ps. ixxx, 1. He is the Shepherd of Israel. This last shall be fully seen when Ezek. xxivx, 11-16, and verse 31 shall be fulfilled, and then shall be seen the significance of Ps. xxiii as never before in the history of the world. In our lesson chapter He is talking to Israel, but He spoke of other sheep whom He must bring (verse 16), and some of those we are now gathering to complete His body, the church, but the full gathering of the nations to Him shall be after Israel has learned to say, "The Lord is my Shepherd," according to Zech. ii, 10-13; "Many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day and shall be my people." Also Jer. iii, 17. "At that time they shall call Jerusalem the Throne of the Lord, and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord to Jerusalem." He had been dealing with and was in the midst of thieves and robbers, who sought to enter the fold, but not by the door. They were persistently robbing God and making His house a den of thieves (Mal, iii, 8; Matt, xxii, 13). He is the door as well as the Shopherd, the only way of access to God, God's own appointed way, and it is not possible to come to God but by Him (verses 7:9; chapter xiv, 6). But by Him, the door, any man may enter in and be saved and In Him find pastures green and waters of quietness (verse 9), peace as a river and righteousness as the waves of the sea (Isa, xviii, 17). All who are not Christ's are in the employ of the leader of all thieves and robbers and thieves and murderers, the devil, of whom He said in a recent lesson that these religious hypocrites were his children (verse 10; viii, 44). With righteous wrath He denounced them in these words: "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?" (Matt, xxii, 33.) Order Is Power. There is power in order—material order, intellectual order, moral order. To keep one's word and one's engagements, to have everything ready under one's hands, to be able to dispose of all one's forces and to have all one's means of whatever kind under command—that is order; to discipline one's habits, efforts and wishes; to distribute one's time, to take the measure of one's duties and to make one's rights respected, to employ one's capital and resources, one's talent and one's chances profitably. Order is power. Baking Day. Baking day is full of joys For little girls and little boys. Sister bakes the cake, true. But brother eats it when she's through! The Spirit through Paul said to Elymas, who tried to turn a man away, from the door to life, "O full of all subtilty and all mischief, child of the devil, enemy of all righteousness, will not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? (Acts xiii, 7-10). Contrast the Good Shepherd, who by laying down His life for us has provided life, and life abundantly, for all who will receive Him. He gives freely that which He has purchased at so great a price, even the sacrifice of Himself. Life eternal, the water of life, eternal redemption and all that is included, in such expressions become the sure and everlasting possession of all who receive Him, and there is nothing in the Bible that in any way conflicts with the positive assurances of verses 27-30. See Heb. 1, 3; 1x, 12; Rem. vl, 23; lil, 24; Rev. xxii, 17. There can be no contradictions in the Bible, for the same Holy Spirit wrote the whole book. As to life abundantly, compare pardon abundantly and an abundant entrance into His kingdom (isa. lv, 7; 11 Pet. j, 11). The Lord gives not only freely, but fully, all that He has purchased for us, and He desires to be able to give full rewards for service in that day (11 John 8) which He certainly will do if we have been faithful. Salvation is wholly of grace and the same to all, but the rewards will be according to our works (Rev, xxii, 12). Note the wonderful statement in verses 17, 18, that no man could take His life from Him, but that He laid it down of Himself, having power to do this, and to take it again. His was the only life that could not be taken from Him. It is true that they killed Him but it was because He allowed them to do it. He willingly suffered all that was put upon Him, leaving us an example that we might follow His steps, who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered He threatened not, but committed Himself to Him who judgeth righteously. Then, having left us a perfect example and having no sin of His own, for He was without guille. He took the slinner's place and suffered in our stead. His own self bearing our sins in His own body on the tree (1 Pet. j, 21-24). Hirclings seek their own welfare rather than that of the flock, but true followers of the Good Shepherd seek the welfare of the sheep, not considering themselves. David took his life in his hand when he delivered part of his flock from the lion and the bear, but the Son of David actually laid down His life for his flock. When He puffeth forth His sheep He goeth before them, and He only asks that we keep close to Him and follow Him fully (Deut, xxxk, 8). Carrying Baby. First.—To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the scout law. Second.—To help other people at all times. TWO gentlemen of Four Aces, a mining town, were consulting as to how to get rid of an enemy. One demurred at shooting since a court had been established. "You see, Jim," he said, "they'll keep us in jail forever waltin' to try us." "Don't you worry about that, Pete," said the other. "This yere community isn't ready for real law yet." So they shot their man and stood trial. The citizens of Four Aces, eager to try the new legal system that had been introduced, did not inconvenience the two criminals at all by delay. The murder was committed in the morning, and by 3 o'clock in the afternoon the trial commenced. A limb of the law named Simpson was prosecuting attorney, and one Waterman was assigned by the court to defend the accused. To save time they were tried together. The first hour was occupied in fencing between the prosecutor and counsel for the defense, the latter claiming that the first shot killed the gambler, and the man who fired it was the murderer, while the other could not be tried for killing a corpse. An appeal to the judge established the fact that both were instrumental in the deed and they should be convicted or acquitted together. Then the prosecutor summoned witnesses who saw the shooting. The first was the barkeeper of the saloon, who was standing behind the bar at the time. He testified that he saw the two men open fire at the same moment on the gambler. Question—What were you doing when the shooting commenced? Witness—Tom O'Brian had first called for some plenon, and I was reachin' to the shelf back o' the bar for it. Question—How could you see the shooting when your back was turned to the shooters? Witness—There was a big lookin' glass behind the bar. I seen it in that. "Your honor," said the lawyer, turning to the judge. "I move that this man's testimony be stricken out. He did not see the shooting. He merely saw a reflection." The judge considered for awhile, then decided that a reflection was not a thing in itself, therefore the testimony of the barkeeper was not to be considered by the jury. There were several other persons in the room at the time of the crime, but counsel for defense proved that the eyesight of one was bad, that another was so deaf that he couldn't hear a cannon fired, to say nothing of a revolver, while a third had been sitting at a table in a jog in the room where he could not see the group in question. Friends of the accused swore that they had known them for years, both had taught Sunday school and neither had ever carried a revolver indeed, they would not know how to handle such a weapon. The prosecutor endeavored to impeach the veracity of these witnesses, but when he called on citizens present to swear that they wouldn't believe them under oath one of the witnesses announced that if any man dared to question his word or his sacred honor he would let daylight into his carcass. This effectually prevented the impeachment of any of these witnesses. When the lawyers had got through with the case there was an impressive silence in the court. The judge seemed averse to instructing the jury to acquit the murderer, but he could not see how he could do anything else. He was scatching his head when Oliver Budd, a prominent citizen of Four Aces and leader of the late vigilance committee that had ceased operations in view of the introduction of law into the place, arose and said: "Your honor, these yere men have been tried accordin' to law, and the evidence shows that they are as inernent as two turtle doves. I suggest that before givn' up our former method we try 'em by the Lynch system, jist for to see how the two compare." The judge accepted the situation and gave up his seat—a cracker box before his desk, a board between two barrels—to Mr. Budd, who took his place and said: "Let all the witnesses for the prosecution stand up in line." When the line, was formed Judge Lynch or Mr. Budd said to them: "These yere two men air charged with the killin' of Charles Beenton, gambler. All of you who know for sarten that they done it hold up your hands." Every witness held up a hand. "That'll do," said Mr. Budd; then, turning to the large number of spectators present, he added: "Citizens of Four Aces, you have seen a trial by court methods and a trial by Lynch methods. All who are in favor of the fust say 'Aye.'" A dead silence followed. "All those in favor of these galoots bein' treated to Lynch law say 'Aye.' There was a roar of 'Ayes' that struck terror into the accused men. "Such heart' the case," Mr. Budd concluded by virtue of being head of the vigilance committee. "I call upon the members for the purpose of eliminating the prisoners." Ten minutes later two farms were dangling and the citizens of Four Aces had resumed their usual vocations. Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. METROPOLIS, . . . . ILL. WRS. M. J. MOCRARY, MANAGER. J. B. MOCRARY, EDITOR FRIDAY APRIL 6, 1917. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Inverered as second-class mail matter, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. B. Address all communications to J. B. MO- BARY. Box 197 Metropolis, Illinois. The names and addresses of contributors must be known to us in every instance, in order to secure publication. We want the newe 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. ANNOUNCEMETS We are authorized to announce the name of T. F. McCartney, as a candidate for re-election to the office of Mayor of the City of Metropolis, at the City election in April. We are authorized to announce the name of Judge W. F. Smith as a candidate for City Judge, subject to the decision of the voters at the April election. We are authorized to announce the name of Rolla Finney, as a candidate for Clerk of the City of Metropolis, subject to the will of the voters at the April election. We are authorized to announce the name of W. D. Almon, for City Treasurer, subject to the April election. We are authorized to announce the name of Esq. Sol. H. Grace, as a candidate for Road Commissioner of District No. 6. Election, Tuesday, April 3rd. We are authorized to announce the name of James H. Morris, as candidate for City Treasurer of the City of Metropolis, subject to the voters at the April election. We are authorized to announce the name of Robert N. Smith, as candidate for re-election to the office of City Judge, Subject to the voters at the April election. We are authorized to announce the name of J. H. Mizel l, as a Canidae for A.derman of the First Ward, Subject to the voters at the April election. We are authorized to announce the name of F. H. Roskemmer, as a Candidate for alderman of First Ward, subject to the decision of the voters at the April election. We aae authorized to announce the name of Roy R. HELM, as a candidate for City Atty., subject to the decision of the voters at the election, Tuesday April 17th. Teachers Convened In Gairo The Southern Illinois Teachers Association convened in Cairo, March 29-31st with County Supt., W. A. Spence, presiding in its 36th annual session. The Cairo people are entertainers and need to be congratulated on the success of the meeting. Thursday a. m., about 32 Massac county teachers in company of Rev. W. A. Spence, the president of the Asso'n went down in "Egypt." Rev. Spence is a Baptist minister and County Supt. of Massac. He is indeed a great leader and orator, a deep thinker and sound reasoner and we are proud that he is a citizen of Metropolis. We are sure before long he will be one of the great leaders in the United States. Thursday Eve, the president's annual address was a masterpiece of oratory. The Imperial Quartette of chicago, furnished music for the occasion. The leading educators from this st: $ , Iowa and Penn , were in attendance, and delivered excellent addresses. The Reception committee gave five free boat rides on the beautiful city Ferry boat. The next session will be held in cardamale, 1918 EDGAR MCG. $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 catarh 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. Miss Maude Porter was in Paducah, this week. Rev. J. W. Davy is on the sick list this week. Rev Thos. Turner was in the city this week. Mrs. Julia McCane is convalescing at this writing. Misses Beulah Long and Ellen Bowden, of Choar, Ill, were in the city Saturday the guest of the former's cousin, Mrs. J. B. McCrary. Be on hand at the Easter hunt at the Grand Leader Cafe, Saturday night April 7th. Given under the auspices of the 1st Baptist church. The infant boy of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Renfro, died with the measles Saturday March 31, at the age of 1 year and 6 mos. The funeral was attended from the residence Monday afternoon Rev. I. S. Stone, of the A M. E. church officiating. Interment in the Odd Fellow's Cemetery. We must urge that those who have not paid their subscriptions, to do so at once as we need our money to meet our obligations. We thank those who have paid us up to date. We have been asked to extend the time for raising the price of the paper to $1.50 per year, and we have decided to extend the time to May 1st, as the winter has been so hard. All those who want to take advantage of this rate $1.00 per year must do so before May 1st. Editor. Messrs. Samuel and William Williams and Claude Grooms in company with their cousin Mrs. G. E. Williamson paid the Gazette office a very pleasant visit Saturday. Call again. Mr. and Mrs. James Turner, were Paducah, visitors Monday. Little Clifford the son of Harry Williams, is dangerously sick. Mrs. Lee Belle Dukes and daughter Miss Margie Tandy were Paducah, shoppers Monday. Everbody is cordially invited to attend the Easter exercises Sunday 9:30 a. m. at the First Baptist church. Benj. Maxwell of Brookport was in the city Saturday. The Executive Board of the W. E. & M. Society of the Baptist State Association met with the Mt. Zion Baptist church Dewmaine, Saturday March 31st. Members of the board responded to the call of the president nicely and had a splendid session, all who attired d this meeting went home highly elated and with a determination to do more and bring more money to Carbondale, than they have ever before, after transacting such business that claimed the attention of the board the president called off to be called on again in Carbondale, Ill. During this session $15 75 was raised (one da') and in the evening the missionary circle of Dewmaine, rendered the board a splendid program afterwhich Eld, J. D. Davis, of Co'ps, Ill, took the stand and preached a strong sermon in the interest of the women. We were all highly lifted up over the sermon and we can say come again Eld. Davis. The Circle served chicken and sherbert. Maggie B Taylor. NOTICE To the Women of the Mt. Olive Baptist District please take notice the Executive Board with the auxiliaryys meet at Sparta, with the New Hope Baptist church. Every officers of the W. E. & M. is urged to be present. Sisters, we need to get busy along the line for the Master need your service and he has promised to reward every good work; and the Educational work is lagging We ask that the Pastors in the District will please encourage the women. The Lord gave them to you as helpers and whatever they try to do for good the Master would have you to help them. "Let her alone," she has done what she could, was once spoken as a memorial. Sisters, we are praying for a great meeting. Let each auxiliary send something for the work, we especially hope to see the missionary at this meeting. M. J. Blake. District Pres. There are several vacant churches in Southern Illinois, and good pastors are very much in need, especially in the Mt. Olive District. We need broad men, men who are able to construct and reach the unreached and unsaved. We need and must have a good sound gospel minister in the Mt. Olive District for Missionary. Who will it be? It will require an able man, of exceptional qualifications one apt to teach, pray for the work and that God will send more laborers into this vineyard. Where are the license ministers? of our churches? Have the churches been making and encouraging young men to prepare for the ministry to take the places of those who have passed into their reward, and others who will shortly do so? We must have recruits to fill the places made vacant or soon the Baptist pulpits and churches will be lost for leaders. The churches and older ministers have made a sad mistake by not encouragifif the younger men. They turned down their own for others and now you are in dire need of men, your own men who should follow in the footsteps of their fathers. The crisis is upon us, turn your eyes upon the harvest and see that the laborers are very few indeed. Will you correct this evil by appciating your young men. "Take what you have and make what you want," you can make strong preachers if you will. Metropolis, Items. Sunday at 7:00 p. m., the B. Y. P. U. convened with the District President, presiding. A Junior and Senior class were organized aud add much to the union. At the same hour officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, ..... Mrs. Lee Belle Dulc 1st Vice Pres....Mrs. G. E. Williamson Secretary. ..... Mrs. L. A. Towles Ass't Secretary Miss Alice Urqphat Treasurer ..... Mrs. Bennie Jackson Librarian ..... Miss Avery Woods The officere will be installed Easter Sunday at seven o'clock p. m., by Edgar S. B. McCraary, district president. Come and make this a grand affair. This Union is striving to retain the Convention Banner. Mrs. Samuci, William and Clanee Groyms, of Eddyville, Ky., were in the city last week visiting their cousin Mrs. Gracie Williamson, The latter will stay and spend the remainder of the school session. ROY R. HELM. ANNOUNCES In this of The Gazette, Roy R. Helm announces for City Attorney to succeed himself. He has no opposition. He has conducted the affairs of this office in such a fair and impartial way that the voters have the uttermost confidence in him. His ability and honesty is an established fact, and the rights of the citizens will be amibly cared for and are safe in his hands. The following are the names of those who donated to pastor J. W. Fitts, Centralia, Ill. Mr. John Reed, Mr. King, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Hester, Mrs. Annie Ferguson, Mrs. Hebuberton, Mr. Bob Ferguson, Mrs. Claborne, Mrs. Offutt, Mrs. Frances Bibb, Mrs. Hampton, Mrs. Christian, Mrs. Simpson, Bernice Bibb, Lillian Dorsey, Lillian Reed, Gallette Offutt, Leota Skinner, Gladys Bibb, Lillie J. Offutt, Mrs: Simpson, Elizabeth Offutt, Mrs. Mattie Coleman, Mrs. Cooper, Mrs. Hester King, Mrs. Easley, Mrs. Wright, Mrs. D. Cornell, Mrs. Ned Taylor, Mrs. Burise, John L. Reed, Mrs. Simpson, Miss Elizabeth Offutt, Mesdames, Mattie Coleman, Cooper, Hester King, Easley, Wrigha, D. Cornell, Ned Taylor, Burris, John L. Reed, Brown, Phillips, C. Clayon, Susie M. Pearle, Earl Bicee, Leake, Williams, Croper, Elizabeth Offutt, colem, Hampton, Winson, Will ams Hailiburton, Roller, Reed, H. Kinds, Joe Mason, Susie Mccallister, A. Bibbs, A. Furguson, Allison, Mosley. Thompson, Misses Lillie Offutt, Gallette Offutt, Lillian Reed, Elizabeth Offutt, Mr' and Mrs. Simpson. The Executive Board of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association, will convene in her Second quarterly Session, with the above named church, on Thursday before the (8rd) Sunday in April 1917. Dear Brethren:—We are about 30 days late, and yet we are in time to make the fourth coming Session a splendid one; if each member of the Board will work to that end. Since winter is over and Spring is here, let each one get busy, and do his share. This is Moderator McCrary's first year in the chair, and as long as he is right we don't want him to fear. Let us do our best to bring up our share, and make this one of the greatest banner year. We regret to say that our missionaries are gone to the City above, and the home beyond. Rev. I. W. Winston and J. W. Braddock, both bowed their heads to deaths miraculous knock. Hence in the above meeting we must do our work over if we want some one to travel this District over. Please be on time, and don't get weary, because we've got to get a man that will go in a hurry. Please don't let this become an offense, but just bring along some money to held bear the expense. Please don't forget the time. On Thursday morning about half past nine, at Sparta, Ill. on the M. and O. line. April 12, 1917. Rev. J. B. McCrary, Mod. "J. H. Starks, Cor. Sec. 616 21, St. Cairo, Ill. 17 this does for my baby, Before I used it, my hair was so thick, and now I am now 18 in 24 inches, kong, and so soft, and ally that I can do it I am doing it. CREA GRIZZLE doct. remove Dandruff. the Roots of the hair, and makes it grow long, soft and silky. After using a few times you can tell the difference, and after a little while it will be so pretty and long that you can fir more. To do that, we will claim, we will give your money back. 28c by mail on receipt of stamps or coin. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE! Write For Partners. EXCELENTE MEDICINE CO., Attention. Native Salve. 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, Subscribe for The Gazette NOTICE TO THE BAPTIST WOMEN OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. Dear Co-workers, this has been a severe winter, sickness and death has invaded our ranks to the extent that it has kept us from being as active in our visits as or our pen as we might have been. But those of us whom the Lord has seen fit to spare must do service for Him, and we must be up and doing. We want to achieve many good things in His name this year. Dear Sisters, the State Association is right at hand, only two months and a few days; so if we have not been busy let us get busy and stay busy. We can accomplish much in that time if we can get the co-operation of the pastors; the greatest pull back we have is from our pastors, who are holding their churches out of the State Association that is why we wave not the women to work with us, they say "Our church is not not in yet." Dear pastors the Lord has sent you to lead the people not to hold them back. Why not loose the women and let them come to our rescue? Advise them to come, lead them in. No you stand in the way and say we will wait and see what they are going to do. Instead of saying "come on, let's go up and make the State Association a real thing, let's make it what God wants it to be. Don't you know you are loosing grounds while you are waiting. You Sisters of the Baptist, cause, get alter your pastors entreat them to represent in the State Association which convenes in the beautiful City of Carbondale, Ill., May 22 to 26th, so that you can join in the work of the women. When the minutes come out with so few names of our good and worthy women, it makes the public wonder if that is all the Baptist women of the State of Illinois. I say, no no no, but the pastors are keeping them at home to work for them and will not give them a chance to come out and do a greater work for the Master. They forget the commission is to "go into all the world and make disciples. We must start with the churches, then the district, then the state, then the nation eat but, dear sisters, if you cannot get your church and pastor to enlist in this state work, come and join us individually: be so determined that the women's work shall be second to none, that we will become annual members and carry on the work just the same. I will not hinder your local work but will prepare you for it. We need you, God needs you, and does not intend for man to hinder you from doing His bidding. Now, let every Baptist woman in the State of Illinois take up arms and say on to Carbondale on May 22nd. Our watchword is, Forward; our motto is, One Lord, one faith, one baptism. I am lying in bed siek writing this letter, and as near as the time is at hand I may not be able to meet you, but the Lord knows best, and just what He wants me to do, and I am striving to do just that; and if it pleases him to call me in before the meeting, all will be well; since He will call me off the battlefield and will go in His name. Now, dear baptist women, please read and consider what I have said and remember that our Saviour is an individual Saviour and wants each one to play his or her part, so do not hide your talent but come and join us, and help do a great work for the Master. No organization is right if there is not a free play of individualism no organization for church service is worth while if it does not minister directly to co-operation. In the churches individuals have free play and yet cooperate under the law of the Master with his fellow members. The State W. E M. Association is an organization where the individual can work and we as churches must come as quickly as possible to the place where in every enterprise we are prosecuting, every member of the church will be in it according to the measure of his or her ability. Just as in the battle, ever soldier is to stand in his place and do his part; so in the Illinois State Women's Educational and Missionary Association, every Baptist woman is expected to stand in her place and do her part, and may God help us to do that this year. Do not forget the art and needle work department. Your S. S. class can report, your B. Y. P. U., your young ladies and old ladies Sewing Circle, also your Cradle Roll and Children's Band all can reprent in Carbondale in May from 22nd to 26th. May the blessings of a Merciful Father rest upon you and directy your way is the prayer of your humble servant. Bettie Wilkerson, President. EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING Due notice is hereby given that the Executive Board of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association will hold its 2nd quarterly meeting on Thursday before the 3rd Sunday in April with New Hope Baptist Church Sbarta, Ill. st10:20 A.M. Let us have a full attendance of the Board as we must elect a missionary and attend to other business which may claim our attention. We are delayed in our meeting be-Centralia could not care for us. The Mt. Olive Baptist church, Colps, and the pastor Rev. J. D. Davis, extended us an invitation to meet with them if we failed to secure a place. We thank the pastor and church for the invitation also, Rev. P. B. French and his good and faithful members. We will be there. Rev. J. H. Starkes, Cor. Sec'y. Cairo, Ill. Don't fail to visit The Grand Leader Cale, 9th and Pearl Sts. Perfectly sanitary from floor to ceiling Open every day and night. Congenial and polite service measured to all. Good order and fair treatment is our "Motto." Our Chef are of the very best. We serve Parties, with the best of service. We handle fresh light bread if we can get your patronage. We handle choice candies and cream. You are always welcome and will receive a warm reception. A Crime Self-Punished. A thief entered a house in Riverdale Drive and stole five volumes of poetry. There's a crime that carries its own punishment—New York House.