Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE We Want to Thank The Public for the Liberal Patronage accorded us on our Opening Day We appreciate same and assure you of the same fair treatment in the future. J. Spieldoch & Co. Central Hotel Block. CARD OF I wish to thank all and supporters who and influence which elected to the office by such a majorit my duty to the best LOREN I Better Know CARD OF THANK YOU thank to thank all those loyal for supporters who gave me their influence which enabled me need to the office of City Treat such a majority. I will try duty to the best of my ability. LOREN D. WIANT Better Known as "Goat." CARD OF THANKS I wish to thank all those loyal friends and supporters who gave me their vote and influence which enabled me to be elected to the office of City Treasurer by such a majority. I will try to do my duty to the best of my ability. ```markdown ``` CARD OF THANKS I wish to thank th so loyally supporter of the First Ward, proving my record I assure you of my F. to thank those who voted vally supported me for Aldo the First Ward, last Tuesday. ing my record in the City Co ure you of my best service. F. H. ROSKEMMER I wish to thank those who voted and so loyally supported me for Alderman of the First Ward, last Tuesday. Approving my record in the City Council. I assure you of my best service. F. H. ROSKEMMER. 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 ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` THANKS all those loyal friends to gave me their vote with enabled me to be one of City Treasurer ry. I will try to do t of my ability. D. WIANT as "Goat." ose who voted and d me for Alderman last Tuesday. Ap- in the City Council. best service. H. ROSKEMMER. 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 teath 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 ROGER WILLIAMS NOTES. The base ball game between our school and Waldron has just been played resulting in a defeat for Waldron 11 to 1. Next Saturday we will meet State Normal at Greenwood Park we are confident of victory. The Golden Jubilee or home coming will be held next week winding up Sunday April 22nd with the students rally. We are hoping to meet a representative from every class that is living who have graduated from Roger, during the past fifty years. Our singers are reporting much success and expect to reporting much success and expect to return in time for the jubilee. They will repeat the Rosary in Stratford Theatre April 6th. A Southern White Minister, who commented on the singers sent out by Roger Williams University, and who lives in Miami, Florida, recently said, "The most striking thing about this set of singers, is its religious trend." There being three young ministers in the troupe, it shows that they are naturally religiously inclined, and the fact that their musical directress Mrs. Townsend calls them in together every evening without fail, for an hour of prayer service, and talks to them on their religious cultivation, shows exclusively that it is an organization that seeks the religious uplift of their people. This testimonial seems true from the peals of applause and the heart rending tears that proceeded from the hearers of this set of singers. It is indeed true, we have learued, that they have three young men aspiring to the ministry; namely, Mr. Ralph M. Gilbert, the son of the late Dr. M. W. Gilbert, Mr. Mack T. Williams, also the son of a Baptist minister, and Mr. N. McEwen Williams. The first two young men above mentioned are licensed ministers, and when they are called upon to preach, one hardly can judge which his pet vocation will be, the ministry or singing, so much do they put their entire souls into both. This is particularly striking among these singers. That is the reason that they appear to such good advantage. We sincerely trust that this body of young people will do much good for Roger williams University, the school which they repressent. This school was once owned and controlled by the A- american Baptist Home Society, but since a very disastrous fire came and destroyed the old institution, it was turned over to the Negro Baptists of the state of Tennessee, and it is now at Nashville, Tenn. This octette, with a violinist accompanying them, is only one of the good things that comes out of Roger Williams. Thus, every Negro should be proud of this school and of this particular part. Mr. Editor: Please allow space in your valuable paper to say to the public. We had our church meeting Saturday night and the church called one young preacher in question and found that he had broke the covenant of the church on failing to give satisfaction. The church voted to revoke his license, so please publish this in your paper His name is James Wellington of St. Johns Baptist church. Done by order of the Church this the 7th day of April 1917. SPAKTA I am glad to avail myself of the opportunity to speak through the organ of your paper concerning our church and Sunday School which was opened at 9:30 a.m. by the supt. The school was timely reviewed by Mrs. M. J. Blake. At 11:00 a.m. Rev. J. H. Hilly having ascended the pulpit preached a good sermon to a big audience. At 2 p.m. the congregation reassembled in the W. E. & M. work which was open by Mrs. M. J. Blake, the president of this district this meeting was made a heart to heart talk and many new thought were brought out along the lines of education to uplift humanity especially the young people. Mrs. D. Browning is president of the Society at this place Rev. French raised the collection which amounted to $5 50. At 3:30 p m. Rev. R M. Dr honey ascended the rostrum and preached a powerful sermon his text will be found Luke 6-47:48. Just preceding hour of preaching a nice but short program was rendered by the young people under the auspices of Mrs M. J. Blake. At 7:50 Rev. Hilly preached us another gospel sermon from Dan. 7:20. COLPS, ILL Dear Pastors and Brothers composing the Mt. Olive Baptist Association since the Lord has saw fit to make choice of me through your Board meeting last week as your Missionary to fill out the un expired term of Rev. I. W. Winston deceased. My Post Office address will be at Colps, Ill., should any pastor have need of me. I remain yours for the cause. J. 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It now seems likely that Jerusalem, whose glory has been sung in Jewish and in Christian literature for some 4,000 years, will pass out of Moslem hands. Not that Jerusalem VIEW OF JERUSALEM AND CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHER It now seems likely that Jerusalem, whose glory has been sung in Jewish and in Christian literature for some 4,000 years, will pass out of Moslem hands. Not that Jerusalem intrinsically is any very great prize—a city of 60,000, set down in the midst of a sun baked and poverty wracked land, a city of narrow streets and dirty alley, in itself it is bound to prove something of a disappointment to the tourist, who from childhood has heard and sung of "Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blest." But because old memories cluster around it, because it was there David ruled, the Solomon set up his gorgeous temple, there Christ walked, spoke, went to his death. Jerusalem has always been "a city set upon a hill that cannot be hid." Across the burning sands of Palestine the crusaders in blazing, blistering armor strove through long years to reach the city. You may remember the story of how King Richard of England, Richard the Lion Hearted, forced to turn back when he was within sight of the holy city, would not look on Jerusalem since he could not deliver it from Moslem voke. David's City Is Gone. The ancient city of David, which he won from its Jebusite founders and made the capital of Israel, has long since disappeared in the dust of its own crumbled walls. Hills have disappeared, ravines been choked with rubbish. This was the city Solomon made beautiful; here he built the temple, into whose making went gold and ivory, cedars from Lebanon and Tyrian purple; here he set up his own great palace; hither came the dark queen of Sheba and the queen of the south, bringing him apes and ivory, marveling at his greatness, his splendor, his sad wisdom. That city passed away. Its glory dimmed when Israel and Judah set up separate kingdoms. It was captured more than once. Hezekiah, one of the few kings who "did good in the sight of the Lord," strengthened the city, built strong towers, improved its water supplies. Then the city, which had submitted to Nebuchadnezzar, revolted, and the Assyrians came up against it and besieged it for a year, five months and seven days and captured it. The temple was burned, the walls broken down, the people carried away into captivity. As the prophet Jeremiah had spoken: "Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall be desolate." For fifty years the city was a desolation. Then Cyrus the Persian gave permission to rebuild it, without walls. In 445 B.C. Nehemiah, the energetic royal governor, set about the rebuilding of the walls. It was done in fifty-two days. The whole population was set to work. The Temple Defiled. A long, long story of struggle, of destruction, of rebuilding, is the story of Jerusalem. Jerusalem was quiet under Persian rule. For a century after Alexander's time it prospered as a subject of Egypt. Then came the Graeco-Syrian king, the rulers of Antioch; religious strife, the walls were broken down, the temple defiled by the sacrifice of swine, the one thing most obnoxious and horrible to the Jews, and the erection of a statue to Jupiter. The Jews fought well under the Maccabees for the restoration of their faith and of their city. Came again peace and prosperity and an era of building under Herod the Great (37 B. C.). He reconstructed the temple on a magnificent scale and made the city very beautiful. This was the Jerusalem of Christ's time, which was destroyed in 70 A. D. by the Romans under Titus. Again for sixty years the city was in ruins. The Emperor Hadrian rebuilt it and, angered by the stubborn rebellion of the Jews, made it a pagan city and forbade any Jew to enter it. We know little of it from that time till the days of Constantine. Then it had become a great gathering place for Christian pilgrims. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher was built by Constantine's order. When the first wave of Mohammedan conquest swept over Asia Minor the Christians were treated lenently. They were permitted to go on worshiping at their holy places. Conditions gradually grew worse as control of Islam passed to the Egyptian caliphs, and when the Seljukian Turks became the dominant force in the country of the prophet things became intolerable for the Christian pilgrims. That started the crusades. In 1000 the Crusaders took the city, Godfrey of Bouillon, one of the bravest, biggest hearted of their leaders, was finally chosen to rule over the captured city. "I will not wear a crown of gold," he declared, "in the place where my Saviour wore a crown of thorns." And he did not. He contented himself with the title "Defender of the Holy Sépulcher," Godfrey died in a year and was succeeded by his brother Baldwin. There was constant warfare with the Moslems in the years that followed, warfare in which the Christian rulers received very little aid from the crusades that followed the first successful one. Usually the Christian kings were too busy squabbling with each other to accomplish much for Jerusalem. The Crescent Replaces the Cross. Saladin took Jerusalem in 1187 and replaced the cross above the Mosque of Omar with a crescent. There were various flickerings after that. A treaty regained the holy city once for the Emperor Frederick II, but as he had offended the holy see he was obliged to crown himself. In 1244 Jerusalem passed out of Christian hands for the last time. For many years, however, the title of king of Jerusalem was borne by the rulers of Naples and WORLDS IN THE MAKING. We look today on the things of a century, a millennium, ago. Light traveling at the rate of 186,300 miles a second requires more than four years to come from the nearest star, perhaps thousands and tens of thousands of years from the farthest; hence in every case they are not what is, but what was. Thousands of nebulae have been discovered in the heavens. The spiral pattern of some few nebulae has long been confirmation of the theory that they are the real beginners of a solar system. But there has recently come in much evidence of the spiral character of other nebulae that the conclusion seems forced upon us that practically all are in a state of rotation and are hence supplying the centrifugal force to throw off the rings which roll themselves up into planets revolving about central suns. When opportunity is given to look directly down upon a nebula there results startling evidence of its being in rotation. There is no other way of explaining its remarkable details of structure. Some look like the propeller blades of a motorboat; some are actually caught in the act of throwing off rings which are seen condensing at certain centers, rolling themselves into planets, henceforth to travel around their suns. The great nebula in Andromeda gives striking evidence that it is working out another and a greater solar system than our own. In short, it seems that in studying the nebulae we are being admitted to the very workshop of the universe and are permitted to watch the actual process of turning out worlds. Nothing in Sicily and by them passed along to the Hapsburgs, who did not abandon it until well into the nineteenth century. In all there were seven main crusades. The second was fought by Conrad III. of Germany and Louis VII. of France. It reached Jerusalem in 1149, but accomplished little else. Louis met with a very terrible defeat. It was in the third crusade, 1189-91, that Richard the Llom Hearted fought so hard and so vainly. There Frederick Barbarossa was drowned, and Richard quarreled with Philip Augustus, the French king, and on his way home was thrown into prison in Germany. The fourth crusade never reached the holy land at all. It devoted its energies to fighting the battles of Venice in Dalmatia and burning Constantinople. This was a Latin crusade. In the fifth crusade the German emperor gained the holy city by treaty (1229), while in the two last crusades, the sixth and seventh, Louis IX. of France, St. Louis, strove valiantly, but ineffectually to regain the holy land. In the long struggle Islam had come off triumphant. In recent years Turkish rule has been far milder in Jerusalem. Christians have been allowed to worship in Jerusalem and to build churches, and pilgrims have not been interfered with. Often, it is true, Turkish soldiers have had to interfere to keep rival bands of Christians from breaking each others' heads at the holy sepulchre, but that was all in the way of worship. The city is now divided into four quarters—the Mohammedan, which is the largest and best; the Christian, the Jewish and the Armenian. Brawls between residents of the different quarters are not unusual. There are at Jerusalem a Roman Catholic patriarch, a Greek Catholic patriarch, an Armenian patriarch and an Anglican bishop. Also there is a large and handsome German Lutheran church, which was opened with impressive ceremony by the kaiser himself some fifteen years ago. the heavens is better fitted to fill the very soul with awe. As in the case of the "fixed stars", our lives are too brief, too feeble our eyes, to detect the actual motion.-Frederick Campbell's "Suns and Worlds In the Making." "Pause, O youth or malden," wrote Andrew Lang. "before you accustom your lips to this fatal formula: I have no time to read." You have all the time which for you exists, and it is abundant. What are you doing with it—with your leisure? Mainly gossiping. Our modern malady is gregariousness. We must be in company chattering. "To be always with others, always gregarious, always chattering, like monkeys in treetops, is our ruling vice, and this is the reason why we have no time to read and why you see so many people pass their leisure when alone in whistling or whittling. They have time to whittle." A B C of Safety First There is a tradition that the man who compiled the "Stop! Look! Listen!" admonition was well paid for his philological efforts. * * * A resident of Georgetown calls attention to a sign in a workshop in that section of the city bearing the letters "A, B, C". One is placed over each machine. The proprietor explained that this stood for "Always Be Careful." Perhaps the psychology of the initial warning lies in the fact that the curiosity is bestirred enough to inquire about it—a little trick that advertisers know well—Washington Times. No Time to Read. Information for Farmers DASHEEN A TUBER MUCH LIKE POTATO DASHEEN A TUBER MUCH LIKE POTATO The dasheen, a root crop introduced into this country from Trinidad within recent years by the United States department of agriculture, is now grown by a considerable number of farmers and truckers in the south and promises to become a valuable member of the group of domestic vegetables, such as the potato, which furnish starchy foods. The dasheen is itself primarily a tropical plant. It can be grown successfully, however, not only in the warmer portions of Florida, but in other sections of the south as far north as South Carolina. The edible portion of the plant includes a large central corm and a number of tubers, of much smaller size, attached to and around the corm. In food value the dasheen is comparable to the potato, though it contains a small proportion of water and a greater proportion of protein, starch and sugar than the latter. The new vegetable may be prepared for the table as potatoes usually are or may be made into four and used in baking. The dasheen is grown from whole tubers weighing a few ounces. They require a frostless season of at least seven months with plenty of moisture. A moist but well drained, rich, sandy loam has been found to be satisfactory soil for dasheen culture. A large proportion of either clay or muck in the soil produces strong flavored, tough corms which are often unit for table use. Large crops are produced under such conditions, however, and make excellent stock feed. The crop is planted in February in southern Florida and as late as the early part of April in South Carolina. The plants are spaced about $3\frac{1}{2}$ by $3\frac{1}{2}$ feet. Dasheens may be dug for home use by the middle of September, and the main crop can be harvested at any time after the last of October. Handy Hog Catcher. A Texas hog man describes a hog catcher which he finds very handy. "To make this hog catcher, take a piece of gas pipe about three feet long and slip into the end of it an iron handle of an old shovel or scoop. Usually a three-quarter inch gas pipe will fit an iron handle of this kind. Cut a hole about an inch long in the pipe six inches below the handle. Then take a piece of wire, preferably a twisted clothesline, as it is softer and more pliable, and make a loop about six inches across in one end - a loop that will not 311 312 slip. Pass the other end into the lower end of the pipe and let it come out at the hole below the handle. Make another loop in the wire at this end so that when this upper loop is pulled up even with the end of the handle the knot of the lower loop will be well up into the pipe. To use the catcher, pull the wire loop down as far as it will come, slip it over the hog's nose when he opens his mouth, and pull up on the loop at the handle. This brings his nose up against the end of the pipe. You can easily hold a hog of almost any size, with one hand." Kansas Farmer. Green Feed For Hens. Hens need some green food in winter if they are to lay well. Mangels, carrots and cabbage are good. Hang them up so that the hens can just reach them nicely. Spruced oats are also good. Alfalfa and clover leaves can be soaked up and fed to good advantage. INCUBATOR HELPS. Run the incubator for twenty four hours so as to be sure that it is properly regulated. Disinfect the incubator at the end of each hatch. Never fill a machine without disinfecting. SELECTING BROOD SOWS. Points That Indicate Fecundity and Good Constitution. Prospective brood sows should be selected from the best animals in the herd, always taking those whose mothers are gentle, good milkers and prolific, writes a correspondent of the American Agriculturist. The sow should have a smoother forehead and lighter, finer neck than the male. The forehead should be broad between the eyes, the throat clean and trim, neck moderately thin, shoulders smooth and deep, the back wide and straight and deeply fleshed with ribs well sprung; sides straight and deep, hams deep and well rounded, body rather long, but compact, and legs moderately short and strong. Select those with wide, deep chests and well sprung ribs, as it indicates strong constitution, a very important essential with good brood sows. It is not the fat, plump sows of the herd that make the best mothers, but rather the long bodied, more vigorous ones which show quality and have good grazing and feeding powers. Brood sows should not be overrefined and delicate, as it is apt to lead to a weak constitution and possibly sterility. Previous to farrowing the main demands upon a brood sow are those for building up new tissue. This means there should be plenty of protein in the ration, secured by feeding nitrogenous feeds. A few days previous to farrowing change to a sloppy food and bulky in character, like bran, and do not feed overgenerously. This will assist in avoiding constipation, so likely to occur at farrowing and soon after. A box of charcoal, salt and ashes should be kept where they can get at it at all times summer or winter. A farmer who gives sows access to this mixture and varies the ration occasionally, providing sufficient protein, will not be troubled with sows eating their nips. immediately after farrowing feed the sow sparingly. The first day or two give her nothing but a thin slop. Then a little more nutritive food can be given, like skimmilk along with equal parts of cornmeal and middlings. By the time the pigs are two weeks old the sow should receive a full ration, practically all she will eat up clean, for the demands upon her at this time, if she has a good litter, are heavy, and there is nothing more important in the swine business than giving the youngsters a good start. A good breeding sow should be kept in the herd as long as she gives good service, which may be six to eight years. PREVENT POTATO SCAB. Treatment For Tubers Intended to Be Used For Seed. The per cent of scabby tubers in this season's crop will be reduced if seed potatoes are trenanted with formalin or corrosive sublimate before being cut to plant, says Professor E. L. Kilpatrick in the Orange Judd Farmer. The formalin treatment consists of soaking the tubers for two hours in a solution of formaldehyde and water at the rate of one pint to each thirty gallons of water. The other treatment uses two ounces of corrosive sublimate to each fifteen gallons of water. (Corrosive sublimate is very poisonous and should be used-with care.) Tubers are given the same time in this liquid as in the formalin Either treatment may be given by placing the tubers in an old gunny sack and lowering them into a barrel or tub containing the liquid. Tubers may be spread out on the grass or barn floor to dry, after which they are ready to cut and plant. Any number of sacks of potatoes may be treated in either solution. Since formalin evaporates very rapidly, the vessel containing it is kept covered to preserve the strength of the liquid. To Keep Up a Good Milk Flow To keep the cow persistently in milk always milk rapidly and see that every bit of milk is taken each time. It does not pay to turn the milking over to careless and inexperienced hands. A. Collapsible Table I have a table like the accompanying drawing made of scraps of lumber about the place, writes Mrs. Maude McKean in the Farm Progress. The only expense is for two pair of hinges and oilcloth to cover. The top is four feet long and two feet three inches wide. The legs are of 1 by 2 inches lumber and two feet four inches long, fastened to the table by hinges. It is very convenient, for when not in use may be dropped out of the way by folding legs across and letting it hang to the wall by another pair of hinges. I have it on my back porch ( eeded ) and use it for dressing chickens, preparing vegetables and fruit for table use and canning, also kraut and butchering. It is perfectly safe, and I have had one in my sewing room for years. In the sewing room I fasten it to the window casing. Expect Much of Baker. Home Run Baker is expected to bat in the 300 class this year. After a season of idleness Baker came back last spring under rather unfavorable circumstances. The fans at the New York grounds expected so much from the 1930 Photo by American Press Association. Home Run Baker. big slugger that he became overanxious. On top of this was the memorable accident in which Baker had three ribs broken and was compelled to retire in midseason. Baker played nearly a hundred games before he was injured. Yet his batting percentage did not exceed 260. He was improving steadily when he was put out of commission and had pounded the ball for ten home runs. Baker will begin this campaign with a desire to get back among the leading batsmen of the American league. He has spent the winter on his farm in Maryland and says that he is in top condition. There is no better third baseman than Baker unless it is Gardner of the Red Sox, so that Donovan has no reason to worry about that important infield position. Bickard 14 Poor Ball Fan. Tex Rickard, though an excellent judge of boxing matches, knows little or nothing of baseball or the men who play it, which explains the following story told of a meeting between him and Charlie Herzog. During the Giants' great winning streak last September Rickard and Herzog were introduced by a mutual friend one night. "Herzog?" mused Rickard aloud. "The name is familiar." "Why," said the man who brought about the meeting, "this is Charlie Herzog, the ball player." "Oh, yes," responded Tex, and then, turning to Herzog, he inquired politely. "Let's see, Mr. Herzog, what team is it that you play with." Herzog isn't quite sure yet that Rickard wasn't "kidding" him. Creker Likes Horse Talk. If there is anything Richard Croker likes it is a visitor who will talk about his horses, whether it is laudatory or critical. And if there is anything he hates it is the man who will look over his horses and say nothing. But it remained for a visitor to Glencairn shortly after Orby won the English Derby to make Croker supremely disgusted. Apparently a man of horse sense, Mr. Croker was delighted to show a visitor his stables. He viewed the yearlings and marries without a word, but when Orby was brought out—a magnificent type of the runner-Mr. Croker thought sure he would say something. He did. "How fast can he trot?" Bey a Wonderful Runner. Followers of track athletics who have seen Jole Ray of the Illinois Athletic club recently establish new records indoors for the three and two miles say he has all the carmarks of a real champion, and it is many years since a man stepped on a track showing more confidence than the Chicago youth. His style has improved so that he runs close to the ground and with little or no loss of power. It is considered only a question of time when he will rank as an international performer and record holder not only of this country, but of the world. Strong American League Eight. Strong American League Fight. So strong are six teams of the American league for 1917 that the manager who keeps his best men in the game most of the year probably will take the flag. These clubs are Chicago, Boston, New York, Detroit, St. Louis and Cleveland. Washington may have to be added to this list also, but baseball men believe Griffith lacks the hitting to land his team at the top. London Lawyer Billiard Champion. J. Gerald Symes, a London lawyer, is the new English 'amateur billiard champion. In his two previous appearances in the championship tournaments he was defeated in the semifinal rounds. Mr. Symes is also noted for his skill as an amateur golfer. He announced his intention to enlist. The Badger State Homing club has been organized in Milwaukee and will hold its racing under the banner of the American Racing Piscion union. Assisting Women In Their Work The Sunday School Lesson FLOUR THE art of cookery is surely one of the greatest, for not only what a man thinks, but what he eats, is he. So Georgia O'Ramey gives us this interesting recipe for a lemon pie, so seasonable this time of year: "Cream together one cupful of white sugar and a piece of butter half as large as an egg. Add two teaspoonfuls of flour, a pinch of salt, juice and grated rind of one lemon, two well beaten egg yolks, one cupful of sweet milk and, lastly, the well beaten whites of the two eggs. Bake in one crust. It makes a sponge cake on top and a lemon jelly on the bottom." HOW TO MAKE BATH BUNS. As Well as a Recipe For Sweet Milk Rolls That Excel. To make bath buns take one pound of dry, stiffed flour, one cake of compressed yeast, half a cupful of lukewarm milk, half a cupful of sugar, three quarters of a cupful of softened butter, a plum of salt, grating of lemon rind, four eggs. Soften the yeast in the liquid and stir it into the flour to make a sponge. Add the other ingredients, knead for half an hour, add more flour if required, but keep the dough soft. When risen to double its bulk in a covered pan in a warm place shape into balls, brush over with sugar dissolved in milk and bake for about twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven. Brush over again and sprinkle with crushed lump sugar. Stand in the oven again until well glazed. Here, too, is a recipe for sweet milk rolls; Take half a pound of flour, one teaspoonful of baking powder, a pinch of salt, one ounce of butter, a teacupful of cold milk. Sift flour and baking powder and salt together. Rub in the butter with floured fingers, mix with the milk, add a dessertspoonful of sugar, make into rolls, bake at once. Brush over with milk when half baked and then finish. IT HAS THE PUNCH. UNCLE'S RIGHT MITT MEN NATURAL STEEL LANDS PATRIOTISM MINIMUM PLANTS HONEY RESOURCES U.S. Edwin Some Tips to Encourage the Spring Bride's Housekeeping. When making starch try mixing the starch with cold water and pouring this into the boiling water. Boil the usual time, and if used when warm will not need to be strained. If sheets are wring first by the selvage and next by the hem there will be no more bother with selvages turning in when you iron them. If a teaspoonful of saleratus is added to the water in which onions are cooking and the water poured off and new added and this is repeated after they have cooked a short time longer, you will find onions more tender and digestible. Try baking your pork chops, sausage and bacon. No more thresome turning them over and saves the stove from being covered with grease. You will find that the fat that cooked out of them is clear and can be used in a great many ways. To make oranges juicier and sweeter pour boiling hot water over them and let stand for half an hour. Rubbers wore gray or shabby can be very much improved in appearance, like leather shoes, by shining them with the ordinary polish for shining shoes. U.S. Sodwin HELPFUL HINTS. Pittsburgh Dispatch. And This Is For the Children DRAPED SKIRTS In Tassels and Jackets. The Peg Top Has Brought The really, truly newest yet in silhouette is that affected by the draped skirt, worn with flowing sleeves, ball tassel sash ends and wide spreading hat. How this type of skirt is devised is interesting. It looks like a straight, rather narrow skirt, cut extra long, then just looped up on each side to shorten it to the required length, giving a puffed effect that somewhat resembles the barrel, the peg top, or whatever, you care to call the side inflated appearance of some of the new skirts. Tassels form the finish for the draping of these skirts, and the effect is really pleasing, especially when the fabric is one that drapes softly. An interesting model of this type recently seen was a fine dress serge, decorated with a twelve inch banding of hand embroidery, done in a contrasting color, the tassels being of the embroidery color. Following in the trend of the draped skirt is the flounce skirt, with a close fitting under or drop foundation. And then the long, tunic skirt, with flaring pockets on each hip. Then there is the straight, gathered skirt, flaring at the hem; then a straight line skirt, not more than two yards and many times less than this, with a short, full tunic, either platted or gathered. Some straight skirts have a cute little apron tunic, plaited and set across the front of the skirt. Other straight skirts have an apron tunic effect back and front, the back apron being longer than the front. Next comes, quite as a matter of course, the perfectly slim, straight skirt, close and trim and fashionably short, a fitting mate for the slim, straight jacket with which it is designed to be worn. Don't Be Envious. Crush all envy out of your heart. The envious person is in pain upon all occasions which ought to give him pleasure. The relish of his life is lost, and the objects which administer the highest satisfaction to those who are exempt from this passion give the quickest pangs to persons who are subject to it. All the perfections of their fellow creatures are odious. Don't be envious. PROGRESSIVE PUZZLES. To Play This Game Blank Cards and Scissors Are Needed. The simplicity of this game is its great attraction, and it is as successful as it is simple. It is only necessary to provide as many small square cards (blank on both sides) as there are guests, several pairs of scissors and a prize if you like, and the game is ready. The party should be seated in a circle around the room or, better, around a large table. Each one then receives a card, and every third or fourth player a pair of scissors, which he shares with his neighbors. It is announced that each player is to cut his card twice across so as to make four pieces. The cuts must be straight and must intersect each other, but they may go in any direction, and after the first cut the pieces should be held in place till the second cut has been made. Each player now mixes up his four pieces and passes them to his right hand neighbor. At a signal every one tries to put the four part puzzle which he has received together, and the first player who succeeds calls out that he has finished, when all must stop and pass the puzzle to the right again. The successful player is credited with a mark on the tally kept by the leader. The game then goes on as before until the time limit of half an hour is up, when the person who has the most marks to his credit receives a prize. Printing Butterflies. A game that will amuse the children as well as the grown people is the printing of butterflies. Since no art is required the contest will be equal. Give to each guest a sheet of paper that has a fold in the middle and a knife and pass around a tray containing several rules of paint—white, yellow, blue, green, etc. Let each person squeeze out a little of such colors as he or she wishes on the side of the paper. Dabs of the paint are then put on to the paper near one side of the crease, and the paper is then folded through the crease and pressed together to shape a butterfly. When it is opened a very remarkable butterfly will be sure to develop. A prize may be given for the best. Wittie's Triumph. It was Friday afternoon, and the teacher was talking to her pupils of some of the great ones of history. "And who can tell us anything about Joan of Arc?" she inquired, looking out over the class. Little Willie's hand went up with eagerness. "Who was she, Willie?" "Noah's wife!" shouted Willie triumphantly. THE KING AND THE QUEEN Among the passengers on the Finland, arriving in America, was Miss Elizabeth Shelly of Selma, Ala. She was accompanied by a Servian boy four years old, whom she adopted after his parents were killed in their house at Nish, Servia. To conform with the immigration laws Miss Shelly had to go to Ellis island with the boy and produce the legal papers given to her at Corfu. Miss Shelly said that she left New York two years ago for Servia with the Mabel Gronitich relief unit and was at Nish when the town was captured by the Bulgarian troops. After the fighting the soldiers went around the streets burning up debris. In one partly demolished house they found a boy two years old clipped in his dead mother's arms. "Bogol" was his only answer to the soldiers when they asked his name. "Bogol" later was found wandering about the streets by a surgeon in the Bulgarian army, who took him to the Servian relief unit. When she arrived at the Servian headquarters in Corfu Miss Shelly was allowed to adopt the boy, and papers were made out in the name of Bogoljub Chaptchanine, the last being the name of the province of Servia in which he was born. "Bogol," as he was called by the passengers on the Finland, now speaks English well. Text of the lesson, John xii, 1-11 Memory verses, 2, 3. Golden Text, Mark xiv, 8. The passover referred to in verse 1 was the last one ere He laid down His life as Christ our passover sacrificed for us and concerning which He said, "I have heartily, desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer" (I Cor. v. 7; Luke 'xxii, 15, margin). Only six days before that the events of this evening transpired. He is again in the hone in Bethany to which He loved to come, and they made Him a supper at which Martha served, and Mary must surely have helped, too, as well as doing the other great thing recorded in our lesson. Lazarus, who had been three or four days in paradise, was there, too, but we have no record of any utterance from him after his return. It must have been with him, as with Paul, that it was not possible for him to utter what he had seen and heard (II Cor. xii, 4, margin). Mary, whose custom was to sit at His feet and hear His word whenever she could find the opportunity, had evidently taken it into her heart that because of the cruel death He was to suffer no friends could be near Him at that time and had therefore obtained some very costly ointment of spikenard with which to anoint Him beforehand if she should find opportunity. The occasion had now come and she was ready for it. He will never fail to provide the opportunity for those who desire to minister to Him. Putting the accounts in Matthew, Mark and John together we learn that she poured the ointment on His head and on His feet and wiped His feet with her hair. Because Luke does not mention this anointing, but does speak of an anointing and feet washing with tears in the house of a certain Simon by a woman who was a sinner, some have thought that Luke described this anointing by Mary, but the incidents are wholly different, at a different time in His ministry and under altogether different circumstances. The name of the woman in the incident in Luke is not given, and we have no reason to give her a name. The Lord has left her unnamed. Let us also do so, while we thank God for her salvation. Returning to the incident of our lesson, we note that the house was filled with the odor of the ointment (verse 3). We think of the sweet perfume that filled the holy place where priests ministered to the Lord day by day, and we remember that the sacrifice of Christ Himself was unto God an odor of a sweet smell, and our service unto Him is spoken of in the same words (Eph. v, ii, R. V.; Phil. iv, 18). It should greatly cheer us to know Is For the WAR WAIF FOUR SERVIA Among the passengers on the Fl Elizabeth Shelly of Selma, Ala. She w years old, whom she adopted after his Nish, Servia. To conform with the im Ellis Island with the boy and produce. Miss Shelly said that she left New Y Mabel Grouitch relief unit and was at the Bulgarian troops. After the fighti burning up debris. In one partly de years old clasped in his dead mother's the soldiers when they asked his name about the streets by a surgeon in the Servian relief unit. When she arrive Miss Shelly was allowed to adopt the name of Bogoljub Chaptchanine, the Servia in which he was born. "Bogol, the Finland, now speaks English well. Soap Bubble Races. Soap Bubble Races. Soap bubble races are great fun, and bubbles may be made quite tough and durable by melting a little gelatin and putting it in the soapy water from which they are made. They may be colored by adding a tiny bit of carmine or paint. The children should be divided in two parties of equal number, one party stationed at each end of a long bare table. Each party blows its own bubbles and endeavors to send them by gentle little puffs into the domain of the next party or over the boundary line of the table, which is divided in two by ribbon or tape across that He looks upon our ministry in this way. He who reads the heart spoken of Mary's ministry as a good work wrought on Him and an anointing of His body beforehand for His burial, and added that wherever the gospel should be preached in all the world this would be her memorial (Mark xiv, 69). Audas and some of the others are indignant and said, "To what purpose is this waste? This ointment might have been sold for more than 300 pence and given to the poor." Judas cared for the poor, but he was the treasurer and a thief (verses 4-6; Matt. xxvi, 8; 9; Matt. xiv, 4). We are not surprised at his finding fault, but it seems unlike true disciples to call anything done for the Lord a waste. Yet there are many professed followers. Yet there are many professed to all right to spend all they wish on themselves, to but give to the Lord by giving to the poor or to missions is in their eyes at least unprofitable. How comforting it must have been to Mary to have Him say, "Let her alone; she hath done what she could!" (Mark xiv, 6-8). In much service for Him we may not have the approval of the leaders in church work, but if He approves that is all we should desire, taking as our motto II Tim, II, 15, with the stand taken by Paul in Gal. l, 10; Thess. l, 4. It is most interesting to note that Mary of Bethany was the only woman who anointed His body for burial. Other women bought spices for that purpose when it was too late, but never used them, for He had risen when they reached the tomb (Luke xxiii, 55, 56; xxiv, 1-3). Nicodemus provided about a hundred pounds weight of myrrh and aloes, in which he and Joseph wrapped up the body when they lovingly laid it in the new sepulchre in the garden, wherein was never than yet laid (John xix, 38-42). In Martha, Mary and Lazarus on this occasion may be seen by combining them what a well rounded Christian life ought to be. In Martha there is quiet ministry without being cumbered; in Mary the worship of true and believing devotion, which is always costly, for even David said, "I will not offer unto the Lord my God that which doth cost me nothing" (II Sam. xxiv, 24). In Lazarus there is the power of a resurrection life, because by reason of him many of the Jews went away and believed on Jesus, but the chief priests consulted to put Lazarus again to death (verses 10, 11). Many came together at this time simply to see a man alive who had been dead and not for Jesus' sake only (verse 9). It is well when our motto in all things is "For Jesus' sake only," willing to be always delivered to death for Jesus' sake that the life of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal bodies. The Children BUND IN AND ADOPTED Island, arriving in America, was Miss was accompanied by a Servian boy four parents were killed in their house at migration laws Miss Shelly had to go to the legal papers given to her at Corfu,ork two years ago for Servia with the Nish when the town was captured by the soldiers went around the streets mollished house they found a boy two arms. "Bogol" was his only answer to. "Bogol" later was found wandering Bulgarian army, who took him to the at the Servian headquarters in Corfu boy, and papers were made out in the last being the name of the province of as he was called by the passengers on the middle. Prizes are given to the side which gets the most bubbles across the goal in a given time, and, of course, the ordinary race consists in each side's blowing its separate bubble as long a distance as possible. Jack and the Clock. "Why is it that I am like the clock?" Said laughing Jack to me. "Because I have two hands and a face, As any one can see." The difference "twist the clock and Jack Is quite too plainly seen. I wish they were alike in this; Its face and hands are clean. - Children's Friend. IN the leafy month of June, 1914, I was making a pedestrian tour through Switzerland, and when I emerged from there it was over the heights lying on the west. Standing on an eminence I was looking down upon France spread out before me when, glancing aside, I saw a young woman sitting before an easel sketching. She turned her face, and, seeing a woman standing near her, she smiled. I went to her and looked at the picture. I sat down on the ground near her, and while she remained on her sketching stool and worked we chatted. I attempted to interest her in the United States, but she did not appear to admire our institutions. "You are a nation of individuals," she said, "and there is nothing to weld you. Many races are represented among you, and the people of each race stand together and keep up their national traditions. If a war should break out between any too nations here the people of each in America would come back to fight for the fatherland, even those who had been born on American soil." "You are mistaken," I replied. "Our foreigners are glad to escape the disadvantages of a monarchical form of government. They become naturalized, and that makes them American citizens." "Let a war come in Europe," continued the artist, "and you will see." "You prefer an emperor." "Yes, we Germans are one people under one head. We have the most efficient form of government." I asked her where she was going, and she said that she intended sketching along the French border northward. She described the scenery northward as attractive, and since I was wandering at will I concluded to go a part of the way with her. She received the announcement coldly, but when I added that I would take the first good road I came to down into France she seemed better pleased. So we proceeded northward together, she stopping now and again to sketch. Her pictures were very singular. Indeed, they were rather, it seemed to me, the groundwork for pictures, and when I told her that I did not understand them she told me that they were memoranda from which pictures would be painted on her return to her home in Berlin. We kept together till evening, when we came to a hotel where we asked for rooms. We were told that there was but one room vacant, and if we cared to accept it together we might do so. My companion expressed herself as agreeable to the plan, and I also consented. "I must look out for my passport." I said to her when we were going to bed. "A stranger in Europe without a passport is like a fish without gills." And I put my passport under my pillow. When I invoke the next morning and looked toward the other bed it was vacant. Nor were my companion's clothes in sight. Her sketching materials, too, were gone. I got out of bed and went to the door. It was locked from the inside. Turning to a window, I noticed that a few feet beneath it was a shed. It occurred to me that my artist friend had gone out by the window and descended from the roof of the shed. Was she a thief? I opened my bag, where I kept, my money. The funds were there. I counted them, and none were missing. Relieved. I dressed myself and put my hand under my pillow for my passport. It was gone. I was glad that my cash had been spared instead of my passport. I could get on without the one, though I might need it sorely, but not without the other. But what did the girl avec with it? For my life I could divine no reason for her stealing it. She was going back to Berlin to work up her sketches, and surely in her own country she needed no passport, especially one belonging to another. Going to a mirror to do a bit of prinking before descending to breakfast, my image reminded me slightly of the thief. Then I remembered that we were both about the same height and build, both blonds and both blue eyed, though she was of lighter hair and eyes than I. Nevertheless, I could not divine why she should want my passport. The first gun fired by the Germans a few weeks later forced the reason into my stupid brain. The border between France and Germany was a hotbed for spies on both sides. This girl was doubtless a spy for the German government. She was laying down memoranda in the shape of a basis for pictures of the topography of the ground on the French border. But before the war opened I saw her again. I had put up at a hotel near the German border and took a sent in the dining room for supper. At a table near by sat the girl who had stolen my passport. If she saw and recognized me, which she probably did, she maintained her equanimity perfectly. It was within my power to send her to a fortress, probably to death. 'All I had to do was to denounce her. Had I been able to inflict upon her a suitable punishment for stealing my passport I would have done so, but to cause her to be treated as a spy was too much for me. I am an American and had, no interest in the military problems between France and Germany, so I permitted her to walk out of the dining room unmolested. When I finished my supper I asked the landlord, describing her, where she was. He said that she had just left the house. Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHER OR PRINT BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. GETTAPOLIS, . . . . . UL. MRS. M. J. MOCRARY, MANAGER. J. B. MCCRARY, EDITOR FRIDAY APRIL 20, 1917. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Interested as second-class mail master, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. Address all communications to J. B. MORARY, Box 107 Metropolis, Illinois. The names and addresses of contributors must be known to us in evey instance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity each week. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year.....$1 00 In Months.....25 Three Months.....40 Single Copy.....05 Star In Advance. ADVERTISING RATES, made known on application. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. NOTICE. NOTICE To the Women of the Mt. Olive Baptist District please take notice the Executive Board with the auxiliarys 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 needs 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. We had a good meeting all day both spiritual and financial. We realized $21.99. Rev. French was called by a message from Duquoin, Ill., to attend the funeral of Rev. D. Fox wife who died last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm Macklin Mr. and Mrs. James Overall's attended the funeral of Mrs. Fox Mr. M. Duncan of Colps, attailed th: Executive Board meeting here. He is a nice young man with many good qualities he is a member of the school board in his city. The Sewing Circle will meet at the home of Mrs. D. Browning. The Golden Leaf club will meet at the home of Mrs. Nettie Macklin this week. J. J. Taylor. 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. A Crime Self-Punished. A thief entered a house in Riverside Drive and stole five volumes of poetry. There's a crime that carries its own punishment—New York Herald. ```markdown ``` $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 only 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. eHENEY & co., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Mrs. Princess Bell, was a Paducah shopper Saturday. The Ladies Minstrel given Saturday night at the Odd Fellow's Hall under the auspices of the Industrial club of the First Baptist church was a success in every respect. Prof. McCelland Smith closed a very successful term of school in Belgrade Friday. The Sunny Juvenile Club of the First Baptist Church will have a rally Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock The pastor, Rev. J. W. Davie will preach a special sermon to the children. The church choir under the direction of Miss Tandy will render excellent music. Come and assist them as they are anxious to win in the coming election for Mayor. 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. Mesdames Amanda Barnard and Bennie Jackson, accompanied Rev. J. B. McCrary to his church in Brookport Sunday. They report a very pleasant trip. Miss Anaie Roberts closed her school at Joppa last week. Mrs. Lizzie Singleton of Connerville, Ind. is in the city visiting her mother, Mrs. Sallie Dobson. Mr. Raymond Stevenson, of this city, but formerly of East St. Louis died at the home of his sister, Mrs. I. S. Stone Saturday. N. W. Long and Co. undertakers prepared his body for burial and the remains were shipped to Springfield, Ill. where they were deposited to awaite the Resurrection Morn. Rev. and Mrs. I. S. Stone accompanying the body. Peace to his ashes. Prof Lee R. Crim closed a very successful term of school Friday afternoon. Mrs. Laura Bradley, of Joppa, spent Sunday in the city the guest of her cousin, Mrs. Princess Bell. Thos. P. King, of Unionville, was in the city Saturday on business. Mrs. Tommie Herron, of South Pearl St. is still indisposed. Watch for the Dream of Fair Women at the Odd Fellow's Hall, Thursday Evening April 26th Fine Strawberries, Lettuce, Beets, Onions, Beans and New Potatoes Friday night for Satur- CENTRALIA Please allow space in your valuable paper to say a few words respecting the Second Baptist church as a member and one that has the peace and prosperity of the church at heart. I wish to say first that no doubt the readers of the Gazette have been informed of our very creditable progression along both spiritual and financial lines yet the foregone conclusions, may have been a proposition for reconsideration after hearing that our pulpit was declared vacant since. At this juncture we call your attention to read between the lines; second, you remember the statement made by ex. President Lincoln that you can't fool all the people all the time. I must be frank in my saying instead of a smooth sea, we have had a rough one for a few months and our old ship come near being stranded upon a rock and battered to peices by the wind and waves. But let me call your attention to a story that will illustrate the truth about the church of Christ, One said there is nothing wonderful about the way water rushes over Niagara Falls, and his reason was because there was nothing to stop it; the same thing can be said about the stability of the church of Christ for Christ has challenged the very gates of hell, that they shall not prevail against it. The great trouble with our churches is that there is too much envious ambition among us, two or three vain and proud men in a peaceful congregation have by contending for the preference, disturbed the peace, obstructed the prosperity of many a church when there is no real virtue in them at all, they take the advantage of the weaker ones and agitate controversy. Envy is the most despisable evil that exist among any people. It caused the archangels to rebel against their Creator and resulted in one third of them being cast out. It has been the antogonizer of good and righteous efforts in the world and surely ought not to be known in the Church of the Liv ing God. O vain man why boast thou, thyself in mischief? for the goodness of God continue a hint to the wise is enough. I have said enough probably too much thanks be to God that we are able and will contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints, no man can drive God's sheeps, he must lead them, he must love them or else he is a failure to start with. D. H. Young. Don't fail to visit The Grand Leader Cafe, 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. The Executive Board of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association, will convene in her Second quarter Session, with the above named church, on Thursday before the (3rd) 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 McCraary's fire 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. KINKY HAIR Affiliate. Co. Exelento Rock. Co. Gentlemen. By picture shows you what you need for: EXELENTO QUININE COMPOUND has done for my hair. Before I used it my hair was short and course, and now it is thick, lush, and so soft and silky that can do it my way. I want it. CELIA GREEN. Don't let some fake Kink Remover fool you. You really can't straighten your hair until it's nice and long. That's what EXELENTO QUININE POMADE Goes, removes Dandruff, feeds the Roots of the hair, and makes it grow long, soft and silky. After using a few times you can tell it will be so pretty and long that you can fix it to suit you. If Exelento doesn't do so we claim, we will give your money back. 25% by mail on receipt of stamp or coin. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. Write for Purification. EXELENTO MEDICINE CO., Atlanta, Co. The Art of Sleeping. Slumber commences at the extremities, beginning with the feet and legs. That is why it is always necessary to keep the feet warm—Family Doctor. Dignamism. Dignam tells us: "There are many rishis in business. The wise man owls his competence to take them." 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 after your pastors entreat them to represent in the State Association which convenes in the beautiful City of Carbondale, Ill., May 23 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 get 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 sick 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 c me off the battlefield and will in His name. Now, dear baptist women, please read and, consider, what have said and remember that of Saviour is an individual Saviour and wants each one to play his her part, so do not hide your taent but come and join us, an help do a great work for th 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. Statement of the Ownership, Management. Etc., Required by the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912. of Metropolis foy April 1917 State of Illinois, County of Masseus ss. Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforefald, personally appeared J. B. McCrazy, who having been duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he is the Editor and owner of the Metropolis Gazette and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: 1. That the names and addresses of publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are: Publisher, J. B. McCrary, ..... Metropolis, Illinois Editor, J. B. McCrary ..... Metropolis, Illinois Business Managers M. J. McCrary, Metropolis, Illinois Geo. L. B. McCrary.....Metropolis, Illinois. 3. That the bondholders, mortagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortagages, or other securities are none. Origin of Christening Shirts. The necessity of christening ships is a survival of a barbaric custom when sacrifices were made to the gods, and some living victim or offering was held up and its threat out so that the blood flowed over the prow of the ship being launched. The vessel was baptised in warm blood. New sprinkling wine or pure water is used, and the change has many advantages, through the symbolism remains.