Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE KREBS CLOTHING & DRY GOODS COMPANY Gone to Her Rest. Mrs. Emma Ramsey, the wife of Mr. George Ramsey an old resident of W. 11th St. was found dead in bed by her husband Saturday morning. Just when she died is unknown. She had been confined to her room for some years from a general break down of her nerves. The inquest was held Monday morning by Coroner Dan Miller and the verdict was she died of senility-old age and a general break down. She was buried Monday afternoon from Long's Undertaking rooms where the funeral was attended by Eld. G. W, Rowlett acting pastor of the First Baptist Church of which she was a member when active. The remains were deposited in the Kidd Cemetery to await the summons from the dead. Peace to her ashes. She leaves a husband to mourn his loss. OBITUARY. Sister Lizzie Childers, was born at Muray, Callaway Co. Ky. in the year 1852. Died Dec. 31st 1917, age 65 years. She moved to Paducah, Ky. and resided there a number of years. She professed a hope in Christ was baptized by Rev. G. W. Dupee the 2nd Sunday in March 1887 and joined the Washington Street Baptist churced of Paducah, of which she was a faithful member until she came to Brookport. She married Washington Childers Mar. 1. 1893, after which she transferred her membership to New Hope which is now Unity church of which she remained a faithful member until death called her from labor to reward. MOTTO: HEW TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIES FALL WHERE THEY MAY MEN'S SHIRTS—(Note Prices) Blue Indigo Work Shirts, sale price ..... $ 54 $1.00 Dress Shirts ..... .85 1.25 Dress Shirts ..... .95 1.50 Dress Shirts ..... 1.15 2.50 Dress Skirts ..... 1.95 3.50 Dress Skirts ..... 2.45 5.00 Fancy Silk ..... 3.95 Thirteen negro troopers of the Twenty-fourth Infantry were recently executed for the rioting at Houston, Tex., without review at Washington. No fault has been round in the verdict of the court or their sentence, but it has been felt advisable to have death penalties reviewed by the War Department before execution. Mr Henry George of Belgrade died at his home Monday, after a few days illness of pneumonia. A little infant preceded him a few days ago to the Great Beyond. Interment Sunday at the Kidd cemetery. The Gazette extends sympathy to the widow and children, and commend them to the One who doeth all things for the best. Dinner J. B. McCrary, was called to Brookport, Wednesday to attend the funeral of Sister Lizzie Childres a member of Unity Baptist church, who died Monday Dec. 31st, after a short illness. Rev Thomas Turner, assisted. Many friends were present to hear the glowing tribute paid to a well rounded out life. Mr. Monroe Board, left for St. Louis. MEN'S AND BOYS' SWEATER COATS $ .75 Sweater Coats ..... $ .49 1.00 Sweater Coats ..... .85 1.50 Sweater Coats ..... 1.15 2.50 Sewater Coats ..... 1.45 3.50 Sweater Coats ..... 2.45 5.00 Sweater Coats ..... 3.95 7.50 Sweater Coats ..... 5.95 The Gazette is 19 years old now and it is well noted for the past record it has made in spite of its hard kicks and it is destined to be the leadug Negro paper of the day. We are rather early, but to make this move a success, we must work now. As the children of Israel was commanded to move onward, we have received the command from our race and friends and our determinations are "To get up and get there. SALE! Card of Thanks. To our many friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted us during our bereavement we give to you our heartfelt thanks. Mattie Fossie. Jennie Woods. William Fossie Jr. Church meeting at Unity Baptist church, Brookport this coming Saturday night and regular services all day Sunday. So this will be the first Sundap in the New Year every member, should be present if possible and should deem it a pleasure. also a favor of Ambiguity to have the privilege. So make no excuses but come singing SPARTA. Our S. S. opened with good attendance, and the Supt Miss Willie B. Browning was at her post. After the lesson the officers were elected for the ensuing year. At 11:00 prayer and praise service after which our pastor made brief remarks as to the church using many gospel truths which were highly appreciated. At 7:35 p. m. Rev. French, selected for a text, Acts 2:37 from which a powerful german was delivered. Mrs. Anna Nance, is indisposed and Mrs. Anna Owens, is mending slowly. The Golden leaf club met at the home of Mrs. De Browning this week, under the management of Mrs. Cushingberry. J. J Taylor. For the second time this winter the Ohio River is frozen so as to lay up the boats for fear o. being cut down. No matter what has failed to grow your hair don't give up hope. Try these wonderful hair growers. Many woven have been benefited who had given up all hopes of ever improving their hair. No special system of hair culture is necessary to obtain results with these preparations. Each article produces results from its own ingredients. It is not necessary to use the Royal Hair Preparations for life one bottle of tonic and one jar of dressing will prove their value in improving the hair and curing all diseases of the scap. One bottle os Royal Hair Tonic is guaranteed to stop the most persistent case of falling hair strengthen the hair follicle and promote the growth of new hair on bald temples and all bald spots. Royal Hair Dressing is an ideal one for short, stubborn, kinky hair. It will soften the hair make it glossy and straight and easy to dress in any style. Can be used with or without irons. When used in connection with the tonic produces wonderful and lasting results. Don't neglect your hair any longer send and try the Royal Hair Preparations. Sort any where on receipt of price. Agents wanted write for terms. O. T. Scott and Co. Keystone Bldg. 16th and Lombard St. Phil. Pa. How about that load of sin you have been from year to year, Isn't it about time to unload it on the devil's territory, and load up on thir side of righteousness with the grace of God? Had you thought that this may be your last year in which you have to cheat Christ out of the glory of bringing you to God. What will the harvest be sinner, eternal happiness or eternal woe, Which will it be? You are the one to decide. You will have to decide this all important question. Decide now, ere it is too late. "You must be born again." NY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. METROPOLIS. M. M. J. MILNA B. METROPOLIS. IDA JAN. 4 18. Office 60th and Pearl Metropolis, Illinois entered as second-class mail ar, at Metropolis, Illinois. 5. Address all communications TAR7. Box 107 Metropolis. 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It is up to you. What are you going to do about it Mr non payer? Decide by paying up please. If you have any Race pride and leve for truth, you will pay your subscription. We are toiling day and night to give you the news. We solicit your patronage at the Leader 900 Pearl St. We are pleased with the many nice things said of the Gazette, but we appreciate the money you owe us the more. Remember, the paper is $1.50 per year. The paper has taken another raise, postage will be higher, 3c for stamps and 2c for post cards. So please pay up. Any one writing to this office on private matter and requiring an answer must enclose a stamp. Notice. Notice is hereby given to all those who are in artisans for The Gazette, that we will be compelled to cut you off our list Nov. 15 and if not paid by that time the account will be given out for collection. We are giving you fair warning as we would like to retain you on our list. You need the paper and the money to operate the plant. If you can't pay all pay a part and have to the 1st of Jan. to pay up in full. NOTICE. Elder J. H. Hilly, Missionary for Mr. Olive Baptist Association post office address, is Colp. Eloquence of Tactful Attorney Credited to Newspaper Story and He Loses Hia Case. An old man was arrested for beating his wife. Application was made to have him put under a peace bond. Thinking the case too small for him to bother with, relates Case and Comment, the county attorney asked Judge Albert D. Norton, then a young lawyer, to appear for the state at the trial. An attorney from Macon—a man who had quite a reputation as a "plunder"—went over to defend the old man. Curied in front of the defendant was a yellow dog. Vest's "Ecology of the Dog" had recently appeared in some paper. It was not nearly so familiar then as it has since become. When the orator from Macon saw the yellow dog at the old man's feet he recalled Scenator Vest's speech, and was alive to the opportunity for an effective appeal to the jury. "Gentlemen," and he indicated the mongrel, "when all other friends desert the dog remains. If fortune drives the master forth an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying to guard against danger, to fight against his enemies; and when the last scene of all comes, and when death takes the master in its embrace, and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by his graveside will be the noble dog he found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad, but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even in death!" So well was it delivered some of the jurymen cried. All looked toward the aged defendant sympathetically. It is said that even the dog's eyes were moist. It was pretty clear the defendant's lawyer had things coming his way; but Norton had the windup, and during the noon recess he hunted up a paper which had the dog speech in it. This he produced and read to the jury in the afternoon, word for word in opposing counsel recited, and which the jury thought was original. "You see, gentlemen of the jury," said Norton. "Senator Vest was talking about another dog altogether. He never heard of this yellow cur." The jury found the defendant guilty. CAT HELPS FIND THE LEAK Ingenius Plumber Demonstrates Feline With Aid of Catnip, Is Worth Having Around. "There are more ways than one to kill a cat," says an old proverb, and "there are more ways than one to use a cat," is the new reading. Here is an illustration: A plumber was called upon to locate a supposed leak in a ten-story tenement house. After a day's cognition and sundry problems soundings and sniffings, he finally hit upon a plan. He went to a drug store and bought 10 cents' worth of field extract of valerian —commonly called catnip. Then he took the elevator to the top floor and poured the valerian diluted with water down the drain. Half an hour later he took a cat and visited each floor in turn. The cat exhibited no interest until a room in the seventh story was renched. Then, with a bound, it sprang from the plumber's arms and began to paw the wall, mewing loudly. A hole was made in the wall, and there, sure enough, was the leak. That plumber deserves to make a fortune from his ingenuity. The Duty of Parents What better legacy can parents leave their children than to teach them that success and prosperity are surer if they begin by doing everything well; by being so careful and exact in the performance of every duty, and making themselves so useful that their friends or employers "cannot do without them;" and that when success begins to crown their efforts they will "be happier and no poorer" if they use some proportion of their wealth in adding those less fortunate? Let parents and employers, both by example and precept, teach their children and their employees to be industrious, faithful, economical and scrupulously honest, and the daily papers will not send through our community so many records of crime and immorality.—Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. The Simple Breakfast. Over, under and through all eating, the simple breakfast still stands supreme, declares A. J. R., in the Minneapolis Journal. A glass of water, a cereal or wheat biscuit with cream in abundance and a peach from Colorado sliced in, two slices of bacon not so crisp that they break, two slices of home-made bread comfortably toasted, a cup of coffee poured upon the cream and sugar and stopped at exactly the right color, two of mother's doughnuts and, as you leave the table with a sigh of relief, if it be possible to get the hooks on one of baby's bits of chocolate candy for a topper, no great harm is done. With that breakfast, one may leave the house feeling that he is fortified until the noon hour rolls around again. Why Look After Daddy? Mary was going downtown with her father, and mother, after dressing her, gave a few instructions on how to behave. She ended with "And, Mary den, always hold daddy's hand when you are crossing the road." Mary looked up in innocently. "The manna," she said, "can't be take care of himself." Heat Reaching 183 Degrees Is Hurled Into One's Face Like Sheet of Fire. When the caravans in olden days went up from Samarcand and Eokhara to Mery for silks and carpets, or carried spices for Europe to the Caspian ports, some of them occasionally wandered off into the desert of Kura-Kum, and few of those ever returned. This desert, which is smaller but more terrible than Sahara, came to be known as "the bomb of caravans." If you were to venture into the desert of Kara-Kum you would travel by camel. At first you would pass through a land of scrubby bushes and rest at noon near a well surrounded by a tiny native village at the bottom of a dimple in the desert. And here you would feel your first touch of the desert heat—a heat that reaches 163 degrees in the sun and is hurled into your face by the wind like a veritable sheet of flame. In the comparative cool of evening you would push on into the desert proper. Presently from the top of a slight elevation you would see it reaching before you—a perforated storm at sea, an ocean of sand. There is nothing but sand, and it is tossed by a ceaseless wind into billows miles long that creep forward perhaps a foot a year, burying everything in their path. The wind tears banners of flying sand from their crests as you look, releasing cascades that go rummbling into the burning hollows. The path across this desert is marked only by bits of bone and stick, occasionally by a human skull. It is easily lost in the dark, and it is the thread which connects one shallow, muddy well with another. Many have lost it and they are still in the desert of Kara-Kum. TOOMBS UTTERS ONE ERROR Noted for Accuracy, Famous Publicist Makes Mistake in Georgia Constitutional Convention. In the Georgia constitutional convention of 1877 so usually accurate a publicist as General Robert Toombs uttered a singular error. He was contending in a speech for enough courts in Georgia to assure speedy justice and at one point in the debate he said: "I only desire to say one word. Six hundred and fifty years ago our rude ancestors met upon a plain at Runnimede and established a great system of judiciary in one line of bad Latin. They made King John say, 'We will sell to none, we will deny to none, we will delay to none, right and justice, and we must make as many courts as are necessary to carry out those grand utterances." Actually there is no "plain" at Runnimede, as those who have visited the historic lotality know. Anciently there was a running-mede, or meadow, on the Middlesex shore of the Thames, where races were pulled off. Possibly the doughty barons held some mass meeting in the meadow, but history holds fast that the Magna Charta was signed on an island off shore, nearer the Surrey bank, and which has ever since been known as Charter island. In London in 1600 there was a sale of the island and the wonder was voiced in the public press why the government did not purchase it and erect upon it some suitable memorial. Device to Save Worry. A "worry-saving" device that is being installed in many of the apartment houses here, says the Pittsburgh Dispatch. Is a slot machine arrangement intended to eliminate computation and dispute regarding the monthly bill for telephone service. The machine is built on the principle of the public pay station slot telephone, but is handier in size. It can be purchased outright at comparatively little cost, or leased at reasonable rates. It does away with all bills and makes complaints of overcharge impossible. In the event that a tenant has not the proper change to insert in the slot, he may insert brass checks, which are supplied with the machine. When the coin box is opened by the collector the tenant is called on to redeem these brass checks. The device is making a hit with handlords and tenants. Many Great Man Die Young. The question is often asked, what is meant by "the prime of life." It is difficult to say; people differ so much. Most great men have died comparatively young. Alexander the Great died at thirty-two, having conquered practically the whole world of his day; Julius Caesar was dead at fifty-five. Napoleon died at fifty-two, Oliver Cromwell at fifty-nine, Shakespeare at fifty-two, Charles Dickens at fifty-eight. Nearly all the men who made the French Revolution were dead before they were fifty; many of them before they were forty. Robespierre was only thirty-six when he died, Desmoulins thirty-four, Danton thirty-five, and Mirabeau forty-two. Colorado Was Not Red. It was William's first trip to Colorado. Everyone was marveling at the wonderful scenery but the little chap, who seemed troubled at it all. "What's the matter, don't you like the mountains?" asked his mother. "Oh, yes," repiled the boy, "but on my map Colorado is red." Meetly Tall "Getting up bedimes and enjoining the early morning is delightful these days!" "Yep! I often talk about doing it." Regarded Far More Valuable Than Spain to United States and Other Nations Fighting Germany. When the congress of Argentina voted to sever relations with Germany the people of the most powerful neutral left in the ranks of the pacifists showed their determination to join the allies. Argentina could work more good to the allies than could Spain. Her war potentiality is greater, for while her army is only 24,000 strong, compared to the 140,000 which Spain maintains, according to a publicist, her wealth far surpasses that of the older nation. Argentina is young strong, clean-limbed. Spain is old, fuddled and doddering. The South American republic was the last dangerous nation whose people turned against the kaiser. Its entrance into antagonism to Teutonism would mark the final and crowning blunder of German diplomacy. None of the passive nations could give the allies so much in the way of vital help as could Argentina. After the United States, her sympathy and determined support are more to be valued by the democratic powers than any other unemployed nation. Now she is girding her loins to follow her great Northern sister into the good work. Argentina's population is only 8,000,000, in comparison to the 20,000,000 of Spain, but her manhood is developing while Spain's is anything but aggressive. Her character is made of cosmopolitan forces, the best and hardest of the adventurous races. BATTLE FIELD DEATH TEST Minimum Quantity of 33 Per Cent Solution of Dionin Recommended to Academy of Medicine. Uncertainty as to whether a person be alive or dead is especially great on the battlefield, and prompt decision in such cases is far more important than in civil life, writes a correspondent at the front. Dr. A. Terson has just recommended to the French Academy of Medicine a new test, those already known having proved insufficient. The best of these latter has been the injection of fluorescein, as devised by Icard. But even this is uncertain, for in some cases men who are still alive do not show the green coloration of the whites of their eyes following injection, which the test is supposed to produce. Dr. Terson recommends placing in the eye a minute quantity of a 33 percent solution of dionin (ethyl-morphine), glycerine. If death has already taken place, nothing happens, but if the man has the slightest trace of life still in him the white of his eyes will immediately turn purplish-red and swell, but this inflammation will disappear rapidly and leave no ill effect. Dyes and Worms In order to determine the action of dyes when taken into the system, N. A. Cobb of the United States department of agriculture, selected for experiments the tiny worms called nematodes. It is well known that certain of the aniline dyes have peculiar affinities for certain sorts of living cells, observes a chemist, so Mr. Cobb tried various dyes on these worms and watched their action under a microscope. He found that different organs received different dyes, so that he was able to tint the internal apparatus of the nematodes in several colors and thus watch them clearly under his microscope. And he discovered some strange facts, not the least of which is that the dyestuff undergo a chemical action in the creature's body to such an extent that you can never tell what color your dye will produce until you have tried it. Another fact of great importance is that he has found that different granules of the same cell absorb different dyes and manifestly perform different roles. Expect New Comet. A spectacle in the sidereal heavens of surpassing brilliancy may be expected the coming spring if the predictions of cometary observers are verified. Not since the great comet of 1853, which aroused a vast deal of interest, has an appearance in the sky equated what is confidently expected for 1918. The return of Halley's comet in 1910, which had anxiously been awaited, did not come up to what had been predicted and expected, and since 1882 there has not been any especially brilliant comet seen. The newcomer is described as a gigantic comet, outclassing in size and brilliancy all those seen in modern times. It will be a thing of glory in the northwestern sky throughout the spring, astronomers say, probably remaining visible for three months, being at its brightest in June. It is now speeding toward the sun at an approximate rate of 1.134,240 miles a day. Americans Train In Italy. Near a small town in Italy a handful of Americans are training for aviation service. The Gloralea d'Italia says they already have acquired a practical knowledge of piloting and that they have given proof of their perfect discipline and seriousness of purpose. Their instructors have expressed the greatest satisfaction with their work. The inhabitants of the town came out in crowds on their arrival to welcome the allies who had crossed the ocean from the country to which so many Italians had emigrated. They displayed the greatest curiosity in watching the Americans in their tense hours playing tennis and baseball, which are unknown in that part of Italy. We do all kind of Job work Letter Heads, Bill Heads. Statements, Envelopes Dodgers, Calling Cards. Suggestive Winter Ougtins Suggestive Winter Ougtins Florida, via The Semnole Limited Electric lighted, all, steel daily train C Birmingham, Ala., carrying Through clining Chair Cars and Coaches, with o also Through Drawing-room Sleeping C all, steel daily train Chicago and St. Louis to ola, carrying Through Drawing room Sleeping cars and Coaches, with dining cars serving all drawing-room Sleeping Car. Electric lighted, all, steel daily train Chicago and St. Louis to Jacksonville, via Birmingham, Ala., carrying Through Drawing room Sleeping Cars, Free Icelinizing Chair Cars and Coaches, with dining cars serving all meals en route, also Through Drawing-room Sleeping Car. Chicago To Savanna, Georgia Its early arrival at Jacksonville insured Florida points; also those having stenna so through Sleeping Car from St. Louis route. New Orleans, via T. Solid, daily, electric lighted, all steel, composite and Observation Drawing room Car, Chicago to New Orleans, with Special features; Barter Shop, Showroom, Writing Facilities and Telephone Corn to the electric lighted all steel "New Limited" trains, embracing in their c Free Reclining Chair Cars, Euflet Club daily service from Chicago and St. L. Texas, California, Cuba, Panama Direct connection made at New Orleans the "Panama Limited" making direct Through Drawing room Sleeping Car operated on the "New Orleans Limited" Lines—Cuba reached through the port the Southern Pacific Lines and United America by ships of the United Firmation. Gulport, Miss., Hot Springs, A. Through Drawing room Sleeping Car Chicago to Hattiesburg (Camp Shelby the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad from A. Our reservation from St. Louis, Thoears Limited," Chicago to Hot Spring Lines from Memphis, Vicksburg, Missouri Park, and is a very interesting p ILLINOIS Railroad Tickets, reservations, train may be had of your local ticket agent. H. J. PHELPS, Gen. Laborers 'WANTED: Laboree Yard; Colored labor also men for repairing wages; piece work; no chance to get steady. Apply to Mt. Ver at Jacksonville insures connection with all major cities those having steamship connection for Having Sleeping Car from St. Louis to Jacksonville, via the New Orleans, via The Panama Limited, electric lighted, all steel, no extra-fare Pullman observation Drawing room Sleeping Cars, lift to New Orleans, with through Sleeping Cars; Barber Shop, Shower Bath, Valet Services and Telephone Connection at Chicago. This lighted all steel "New Orleans Special" and embracing in their equipment Drawing room Chair Cars, Eufflet Club, Dining Cars and Cocoa from Chicago and St. Louis to New Orleans, to California, Cuba, Panama, Central and South. mon made at New Orleans with trains for Texas limited" making direct connection in Union room Sleeping Car Chicago to Houston and New Orleans Limited" in connection with the reached through the port of New Orleans by Pacific Lines and United Fruit Company, Pacific ships of the United Fruit Company—Sailings. Miss., Hot Springs, Arkansas, Vicksburg, King room Sleeping Car, operated in "New Orleansburg (Camp Shelby) and Gulport, Miss., in Island Railroad from Jackson, Miss., with Train from St. Louis, Through Sleeping Car operated in Chicago to Hot Springs, Ark., in connection with Vicksburg, Vicksburg, Miss., contains the Vicksburg is a very interesting place to visit enroute to ILINOIS CENTRAL tats, reservations, train time and specific facts from your local ticket agent. Literature; free for the J. PHELPS, General Passenger A oorers Want ED: Laborers for our Colored laborers for our train for repairing freight car piece work; no trouble; not to get steady work for the day to Mt. Vernon Car Mfg. Mt. Vernon Its early arrival at Jacksonville insures connection with all morning trains for Florida points; also those having stennesship connection for Havana, Cuba. Also through Sleeping Car from St. Louis to Jacksonville, via the "Dixie Flyer" route. New Orleans, via The Panama Limited Solid, daily, electric lighted, all steel, no extra-fate Pullman train carrying composite and Observation Drawing room Sleeping Cars, Euffet, Coat Lining Car, Chicago to New Orleans, with through Sleeping Car from St. Louis, Special features; Barber Shop, Shower Bath, Valet Service, Ladies' Ward, Writing Facilities and Telephone Connection at Chicago. This in addition to to the electric lighted all steel "New Orleans Special" and "New Orleans Limited" trains, embracing in their equipment Drawing room Sleeping Car, Free Reclining Chair Cars, Euffet Club, Dining Cars and Coaches, gives trip daily service from Chicago and St. Louis to New Orleans, the gateway to Texas, California, Cuba, Panama, Central and South America Direct connection made at New Orleans with trains for Texas and California; the "Panama Limited" making direct connection in Union Station. Also a Through Drawing room Sleeping Car Chicago to Houston and San Antelope operated on the "New Orleans Limited" in connection with the Southern Pacific Lines—Cuba renched through the port of New Orleans by steamships of the Southern Pacific Lines and United Fruit Company, Panama and Central America by ships of the United Fruit Company—Sailings subject to confirmation. Gulport, Miss., Hot Springs, Arkansas, Vicksburg, Mississippi Through Drawing room Sleeping Car, operated in "New Orleans Special," Chicago to Hattiesburg (Camp Shelby) and Gulport, Miss., in connection with the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad from Jackson, Miss., with Through Sleeping Car reservation from St. Louis, Through Sleeping Car operated in "New Orleans Limited," Chicago to Hot Springs, Ark., in connection with Rock Island Lines from Memphis, Vicksburg, Miss., contains the Vicksburg National Military Park, and is a very interesting place to visit enroute to New Orleans. ILLINOIS CENTRAL Railroad Tickets, reservations, twin time and specific facts from your station may be had of your local ticket agent. Literature, free for the asking. H. J. PHELPS, General Passenger Agent Laborers Wanted! WANTED: Laborers for our Lumber Yard; Colored laborers for our foundry; also men for repairing freight cars; good wages; piece work; no trouble; now is the chance to get steady work for the winter. Apply to Mt. Vernon Car Mfg. Co. Mt. Vernon Ill. Thought and Kindness Best. It is not written blessed is he that feedth the poor, but he that consider greth the poor. /A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.—John Ruskin. Quite True. "I have to face the fact," mused the fashionable photographer, as he looked over some recent pictures, "that there are some very ugly features in this business." Mrs Styles—"This paper says to total number of useful domestic animals on the globe is believed to be about 1,500,000,000." Mr. Styles—"Don't for one instant think that pet dog of yours is included in that number." Heavy Annual Rainfall. The rainfall of a village among the bills of Assam, during the ten weeks from May 1 to July 9 this year, was 350 inches. The village is Cherrapunj, the rainstest spot in Asia and presumably in the world. Its annual rainfall is something over 450 inches—say, fifteen times as much as London. Cherrapunj stands on a plateau, overlooking the plain of Sythes, and it is 1,455 feet above sea level.—Westminster Gazette. Fachlona Little Changed. From the frosoco paintings of women in Cretan palaces of the period about 2000 B. C., it is learned that the women of that time pinched in their waists, had flounced or accordeon plaited skirts, were an elaborate collara shoes with high heels and hats which might have come from a Parisian bat shop, while one woman might be described at wearing a jupe culotte. --- chicago and St. Louis to Jacksonville, via rewing room Sleeping Cars, Free Leaming cars serving all meals on route, ar. connection with all morning trains for ship connection for Havana, Cuba. Also to Jacksonville, via the "Dixie Flyer" The Panama Limited no extra-fare Pullman train carrying from Sleeping Cars, Luflet, Coast Line through Sleeping Car from St. Louis, Bath, Valet Service, Ladies Service, detection at Chicago. This in addition to Orleans Special" and "New Orleans equipment Drawing room Sleeping Car, Dining Cars and Coaches, gives tripious to New Orleans, the gateway to Cuba, Central and South America with trains for Texas and California connection in Union Station. Also a Chicago to Houston and San Antonio connection with the Southern Pacific of New Orleans by steamships of Fruit Company, Panama and Cerrit Company—Sailings subject to con- Kansas, Vicksburg, Mississippi operated in "New Orleans Special," and Gulport, Miss., in connection with Jackson, Miss., with Through Sleeping Car operated in "New Orleans, Ark., in connection with Rock Island, contains the Vicksburg National Mil-ace to visit enroute to New Orleans. CENTRAL name and specific facts from your station. Literature; free for the asking. General Passenger Agent Wanted! ers for our Lumberers for our foundry; long freight cars; good no trouble; now is the work for the winter. Union Car Mfg. Co. Mt. Vernon, Ill. NEWHOME "I'll get it for my wife" NO OTHER LIKE IT. NO OTHER AS GOOD. Purchase the "NEW HOME" and you will have a life asset at the price you pay. The minimization of repair expense by superior workmanship and best quality of material insures life-long service at minimum cost. Insist on having the "NEW HOME." WARRANTED FOR ALL TIME. Known the world over for superior sewing qualities. Not sold under any other name. THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE CO., ORANGE, MASP. Enough Said. frasible Old Gent (to schoolgirl who has collided with him)—"When you run into people like that you should say, 'I beg your pardon.'" Girl—"There won't no need. I heard what you said."—Sydney贝拉 The thirst for fame is greater than that thirst for virtue; for who would embrace virtue Kself if you take away its rewards?—Juvenal. Subscribe For The Gazette, To-day. Officers of the General Batlist State Association of illinois Committee on Nomination beg to report as follows: Moderator Eld. J. F. Thomas. 1st Vice Mod. " W. P. Washington. 2nd Vice Mod. Eld. C. w. Norton. Recording Sec. Eld. P. B. Franch Corresponding Sec. Ec. J. B. McCrary. Treasurer Eld. H. C. Armstead. Added Members Eld. F. Bomar Cairo Eld. J. E Haywood Chicago Eld. Jas. Swenson Maywood State Missionary H. E. Mowilliams. State Mission Board Chairman Dr. C. C. Phillips Cor. Sec. Eld. J. D. Davis Treasurer Eld. J. E. Haywood Other Members Eld. S. H. Pruitt Deacon R. Lewis Sister Sailie Thomas Chicago Sister M. Hudgin Cairo Sister J. w. winston Olmstead Sister Garrie Cessy Shawntown Urish Jenkins Rev. J. A. Royal Chicago " L. Drane Chicago Rev. A. J. Bowers Dewmaine Rev. D. Johnson Dewmaine " B. H. Huhter Evansier " K. V. Howard Grand Chain " Robt. Grey Marphysboro " J. L. Martin Colps Deacon J. Simpson Hallidayboro " J. Baker Brookport Eld. Thomas Morris Metropolis Bro. Chas. Skates Mound City Deacon J. L. Taborn Educational Board Chairman Dr. B J. Prize Chicago Cor. Sec. Sis. Frankie Jenkins Cairo. Sister Willie Grayer Colps Sister Emma Farrow Cairo " J. M. Owens Spartan Eld. J. B. McCrary Metropolis Committee on Nomination C. C. Phillips J E. Heywood G. H. Mitchell F. Bomar Sister Stella Dupree " willie Groer " M. B Taylor Elder H. C. Armstead " H. E. Mewilliams Members of various Committees of National Baptist Convention (Unincorporated ) Foreign Mission Board H. E. Mewilliams, D. D. Chicago, Ill. Home Mission Board J. B. McCrary, S. T. B. Metropolis, Ill. Educational Board Dr. B. J, Prince, Chicago, Ill. Evangelical Board Elder F. Bomar, Cairo, Ill. B. Y. P. U. Board Dr. W. P. washington, Mt. Vernon, Ill. Benefit Board Elder James Swauson, Maywood, Ill. Publishing Board Dr. J. F. Thomas, Chicago, Ill. Resolutions J. E Haywood, Chicago, Ill. State of the Country Elder H. C. Armstead, Pulaski, Ill. Vice President Dr. C. C. Phillips, Golconda, Ill. Notice. Notice is hereby given that the Ministers and Deacon's Union will meet with the Executive Board of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association with the Mt. Pleasant Miseionary Baptist church Harrisburg. Thursday before the 4th Sunday in February 1918 member of board will be present Elder S. H: Pruitt. President J. H. Williams. Cor. Sec. ```markdown ``` MUMMIFIED SNAKE IN LOG Reptile Hermetically Scaled in Heart of Walnut Timber Discovered Trapped in a chamber in the heart of a walnut tree, which had evidently been its winter home, a blacksnake was found mummified in the hermetically sealed tomb after a lapse of 20 or more years. The layers of now timber formation indicated the period of the reptile's imprisonment. A handsome walnut log two and one-half feet in diameter, shipped to a milat at Johnson City, Tenn., from Wawneville, N. C., held the imprisoned cell of the dead snake. To the eye the log was perfect. After the carriage had passed back and forth a time or two the saw uncapped a beautifully polished vacuum, with a dark coil lying within. Lifted out, the coil proved to be the preserved form of a snake. Exposure to air caused a sudden shrinkage. "The snake had undoubtedly crawled into the tree through a hole made by a broken limb that had decayed at the base," said M. L. Schifers, a member of the company operating the mill. "The new layers of timber, which had enveloped the opening, were of a thickness to indicate a growth of probably 20 years since the snake entered the cavity to find the exit suddenly closed against its escape, probably due to the dropping of a small piece of bark which covered the opening." ALCOHOL FROM BANANAS NOW Cults of the Fruit to Be Displied by Americans, Who Will Direct Plant at Honduras. Bananas suitable for export must always be of a certain size or number of hands. The rejection of smaller bunches by the fruit companies has always been a source of complaint and also of loss to the planters. It is now proposed to use them in the manufacture of alcohol, says a report made by Consul E. H. Lawton at Tegucigalpa, Honduras. By executive order, the president of Honduras, Jhnes signed a contract by which an American of long experience in the fruit business in the tropic, representing a company of American capitalists, is granted the right to erect a distillery at San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The concessionaire has deposited $25,000 with the government as an earnest of good faith, which is to be credited toward export duties on the alcohol at three cents gold per gallon. The company proposes to supply planters with funds for planting sugar cane on the worn-out banana lands, and will also distill from the cane, the bagasse of which is to be used in the manufacture of paper. Experiments will be made in the manufacture of paper from banana waste. Irishman at the Front. The first American officer to be killed in France was Lieutenant Fitzsimmons of Kansas City, who lost his life when German siren bombed hospitals in the rear of the British line where he was stationed as a medical officer in charge of wounded. The first American noncommissioned officer to lose his life in the overseas expedition was Sgt. Patrick Cassidy of Syneuse, N. Y. The first American private soldier to give up his life for his country in France was Private James Tracy of Philadelphia. The first American soldier to win the French war cross with palms, awarded for conspicuous gallantry, was Private John McClain of Peckskill, N. Y. All these young men, as their names indicate, were Americans of Irish descent which is a fair enough record, says the San Antonio Light, for the descendants of the Emerald Isle. All of them are said to have been native-born Americans, too. Veddi Instead of Joseph. Verdi inducted of Joseph. Some years ago one of the members of the Tristeza council was informed by a secret agent that, within a few hours' the city would be faced by a demand on the part of Austria for the erection of a statue of Emperor Francis Joseph in its principal square. A meeting of the city council was immediately called. It sat during the night hours, and passed a resolution attaining the intention of the city to put up a statue to Verdi on the very spot chosen by the hereditary enemy. On the following morning the demand of Austria was received, but the council replied that their decision was already taken, and that it could not be revoked. The people of Tristeza see in the statue of the great Italian composer, observes a correspondent, a symbol of irredentism, not only because of Verdi's nationality, but because the five letters of the name Verdi stand for "Viva el Re d'Italia." The Ruto. "Cael Liebkau, the German social- METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. JANUARY. 1918. fet," said a socialist at Cooper Union, "had, before the war began, many wily ways of bamboozing the German government, but, of course, after the war started, a man of his liberal views couldn't possibly keep out of left. "I once heard Liebknecht make a fiery speech against the kulser in Berlin. A police official, seated on the platform, rose in the middle of the speech, and whispered in the creator's ear. Liebknecht turned to the audience and said: "The police official on the platform commands me to retract the words I have just spoken. True words should never be retracted. Let us, however, make a concession. Let us retract the word, but keep the idea." IAP SOLDIERS IN WAR GAME Trench Fighting at Night, Mining and Counter-Mining Included in Modern Combat Practice. The week's fighting maneuvers of the Engineers' battalion of the Japanese Imperials Guards and First division were carried out on a scale never before attempted, says the East and West News. The war play occurred at Otahura, in the Tochigi prefecture. The operations included rival armies' trench fighting at night, exactly as practiced in the present Europe war. Mining and counter-mining, with many other special features of modern warfare, were practiced. The present type of hand grenades was used. Japanese were first to introduce these missiles at Port Arthur, but the recent form of the grenade is quite changed and the weapon much improved. The Mills standard, bomb, a British invention, was chiefly employed. It is about the size and shape of a large lemon, is made of steel, the outside corrugated into 48 small squares which, upon explosion of the bomb scatter in a wide area. It will not explode until released from the hand of the thrower. A lever, fitted into a slot at the top, extends halfway around the circumference and is held in place by a fixing pin. A small metal ring upon this pin readers its extraction easy when ready to be thrown. In casting, the bomb and lever are tightly grouped in the right hand, the left foot is advanced and the bomb is hunted with an overhead bowling motion, much as in cricket. As the bomb leaves the hand, the lever, actuated by a spring, is loosened and falls to the ground, thus removing an impediment to the true flight of the missile. When the lever flies off, a strong spring is released, forcing the firing pin into a percussion cap. This ignites the Truse, which burns until the main charge of ammunition explodes. UNKNOWN LAKES AND RIVERS Interior of Labrador Found to Possess Many Unmapped Bodies of Water and Streams. Chadus of lakes hitherto unmapped and rivers equally unknown were traversed in the interior of Labrador by the exploring parties of representatives of the National Geographic society and the Carnegie museum, Pittsburgh, which arrived at St. Johns, N. F., recently, says a correspondent. The journey covered about 750 miles over a route never before traveled by white men and was made more difficult by the fact that the five Indians who were taken along as guides proved to be unfamiliar with the country. The party included E. B. C. Todd, curator of ornithology in the Carnegie museum; O. J. Murie, curator of mammals in the same institution, and Alfred Marshall of Chicago. They left Steven Islands bay on the north side of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, about the end of May and traveled north by canoe and portages, renching Fort Chimo, near Urgna bay, August 22. In addition to mapping the country, they studied its natural history. Mr. Todd said the existing maps of a large district were found to be very accurate and altogether misleading, having been made by guesswork from information supplied by Indians. German Mayor Has Sense of Humor. The Prussian town of Altwasser has developed a humorous burglunaster. The Schwabische Taugwacht says: "The burgomaster of Altwasser, who has been flooded with anonymous letters accusing him of failing in his duty as regards the food supplies, has caused a reply to his accusers to be posted at the town hall. It reads: "I am blamed in letters for the scarcity of potatoes, for the heavy rains and the consequent muddy state of the streets, and for the unlawful appropriation of food cards on the part of many of the inhabitants. Besides the writers of these missives attack me for providing my household with more than I am entitled to and for pocketing public funds as salary. "I invite some of these pettifogging spirits, who have no other resource than to besmirch the reputation of their public officials, to come and dine with me any Sunday. "They would regret not having stayed at home to parriake of the meat with which they are no doubt provided, instead of the cabbage and turnips which they would find representing the joint on my table," Japanese Seek Match Outlet. Plans are now under way to secure a wide market in foreign countries for matches of Japanese manufacture. At one time Japanese matches had an excellent market both in the East and in the West, says the Pathfinder, but, owing to lack of standardization of the product and to the marketing of inferior goods by some of the manufacturers, it finally fell off quite seriously. It is now proposed rigidly to maintain a high standard of quality in all Japanese matches and to have the product of all members of the newly formed match manufacturers' federation inspected before shipment abroad. Men Must Go Out Shopping. One result of the reaping of men by women in many of the British industries is the increase of shopping by men unfit by age or physical disability for army service, notes a correspondent. Tradespeople who have noticed the gradual increase of their men customers, are not at all adverse to the innovation, because they find generally that a larger amount of business can be got through in a given time. Special to The Gazette. "Lo These Are Parts of His Ways" Revs. D. H Harris, J. M. Mason, F. A. McCoo, R. L. Darden and E. T. Martin, whose churches were denied constitutional rights in the recent session of the North Wood River Baptist Association, have issued a call to any churches in this "District not belonging to any Association to send their pastors and three messengers to the St. John church 3736 Wabash Ave. Tuesday Oct. 16th 2:00 p.m. '17, for the purpose of consider the future course of work in "a new orgnaization." The above taken from a leaflet or sheet edited by Dr. E. T. Martin, of Chicago, presumably for the education and salvation of his "congregation." "His congregation" We take it for granted that he is the owner of it. Because his article shows that these pastors own their churches (whose churches were denied the constitutional rights) The word Baptist is no where associated with the article. "The Chicago Baptist Blade" a kind of "A milk and cider" paper edited by Dr. E. T. Martin, "Purports to give the Why's and Wherefore," of this new organization known as the "Union Association" We are not finding fault with Dr. Martin, for his new organization, what we are complaining of is his malediction that he tried to heap upon the constituents of the Missionary Baptist State As ociation because they would not recognize "The church federation, alien immersion and Freewill ordination," that is to say, allow ministers of other denominations to baptize for the Baptist churches and accept the Freewill ordination. Is meant whereever other denominations have entered new fields, and established churches the Bapti is must not go into that territory, etc. "Jesus, says 'Go ye into all the world'" "ita lex scripta est," such is the written law. But says Dr. Martin, whose churches were denied constitutional rights, Meaning the ministers whose names the article con ains. He thinks they have greater legal right to withdraw from the association for a supported violation of the human law, than those who withdrew from the State Convention for a violation of the Diving law. The truth of the matter, that Dr. Martin, is not a Baptist, or he would know that the Baptist churches do not belong to neither pastors nor associations. A minister who by his declaration or implication denounces the doctrine of the New Testament has no right whatever to lay claim to a Baptist pulpit. If one should hesitate over this statement, he has only to read his little book gotten out by him four or five years ago. The Dr. makes a personal thrust at Dr J F. Thomas of Chicago and Dr Boyd, of Nashville, Tenn., in his Chicago Baptist Blade of Oct. 1917. He seems to be charged with madness against them as well as the constituents of the General Missionary Baptist State Association. We guess he feels that Dr Thomas, had something to do with the chopping off of his official head. We guess it is a trying ordeal for one like the Dr. who was once prominent in the official circles in the city of Chicago, to drop down to the bottom, and have to start up the ladder "round by round." "King Boyd," issued a bench warrant to bring the body of the North Wood River Association dead or alive," says Dr. Martin. Much learning makes the Dr. mad Dr. you are mistaken this matter was settled in the Chicago National Baptist Convention and in the State Convention, you and your followers tried to unsettle it with a padded delegation from several churches in and about Chicago. But when the messengers of the churches of the N Wood River Baptist Association met in a certain town, they readjusted matters and the messengers filed into the Kansas City Baptist Convention. So in the North Wood River District. The matter was agitated by certain ones as to whether or not the churches were represented thus the General Missionary Baptist State Association and the National Baptist Convention would continue its affiliation with the said Association or return to the State Convention, so the matter was to be settled by a referendum by the churches in the North Wood River District, Dr. E. T. Martin, as chief director of the move as we understand. So the churches decided in favor of the General Missionary Baptist Association, which cooperates with the National Baptist convention unincorporated. This is why we suppose that the Dr. charges King Boyd, with issuing a bench warrant, to bring the body dead or alive to Atlanta. Our friend and brother betrays his weakness here, he shows that King Boyd, as he styles him, is a stronger man, hundreds of miles away than he is on the scene. To dignify an untruth so glaring as the King Boyd affair is absurd, Doubtless the Dr. feels this way because the Baptists in the State would not take orders from him. Dr. you ought so kow that regular baptists will not take orders nor bow their knees to no one but God. Our chiefest reason for giving Dr Martin's article some little consideration is because of inconsistence. He has claimed to stane out against the State and District splitting up, under any circumstances, it will be remembered that he styled the Bethlehem association as an Ishmaelite, and denounced the writer and the State Missionary, Dr. H. E. McWilliams, to the lowest terms he charged them with selling out to the Southern Baptist Convention, Of course Dr. D. H. Harris, could eave stopped this notorious falsehood, had he had an interest in the truth. During the time he was President of the State Convention, we told him in private that we could make terms we thought with the mission board of the Illinois Baptist State association (white) to assist the negro Baptists in the State to commission work. Dr. Harris, the then President of the convention flatly told us that he did not want their help. This was during the time the convention met in Chicago. Things became so corrupt that year along doctrinal lines that in the Auroa meeting the entire new staff electee and the declaration of principles were adopted, but it will be remembered when the convention met in Carbondale that a powerful combined political trickery had destroyed the declaration that had been adopted the previous year and the milk cider Baptist had been put back on the throne. Then the regular Baptists adopted the principles this great tide of political trickery in the Carbondale convention but this was not the end of it. It popped up its hydra head again. Then to save the Baptists from further disgrace, the regular Missionary Baptist got together and organized a General Missionary Baptist Association, which corporates with the Southern Baptist Convention and the Illinois State Association. In the Paris convention in June they voted to cooperate with the Southern Baptist Convention. Of course this is no new thing because the Negro Baptist throughout the country for the most part cooperated with ed with the National Baptist Convention, but the slavery question was raised by a few leaders to keep the people in the dark "Now say they," we eave voted to cooperate with the Southern Baptist Convention now and our eeroring brethren ought to come back. No brethren you come and confess your faults and we will receive you. Dr. Martin, has incorporated in his article missit passages of scripture, but it is this scripture that fits your case: "Be ye sure your sin will find you out, and whatsover a man soweth that shall he also reap." Da. Martin, with his Union Association which application is characteristic of its liberal views. Though we will not interfere with him if he will let us alone. We have many other to write that we in his own State of Georgia. "But you cannot bear them now." We admonish the Dr to be mindful of this little bit of poetry, which read: Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. METROPOLIS. . . . ILL. CRS. M. J. MOCRARY, MANAGER. J. B. MOCRARY, EDITOR FRIDAY JAN. 4, 1918. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Enterered as second-class mail matter, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. Address all communications to J. W. MOCRARY, Box 107 Metropolis, Illinois. The names and addresses of contributors must be known to us in every instance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity each week. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year.....$1.50 In Months.....75 Three Months.....40 Single Copy.....05 In Advance. 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The paper has taken another raise, postage will be higher, 3c for stamps and 2c for post cards. So please pay up. Any one writing to this office on private matter and requiring an answer must enclose a stamp. Notice. Notice is hereby given to all those who are in artests for The Gazette, that we will be compelled to cut you off our list Nov. 15 and if not paid by that time the account will be given out for collection. We are giving you fair warning as we would like to retain you on our list. You use the paper and the money to operate the plant. If you can't pay all pay a part and have to the 1st of Jan, to pay up in full. NOTICE. Elder J. H. Hilly, Missionary for Mt. Olive Baptist Association postoffice address, is Colp, Ill. The Gazette has just received another lot of new type faces and other material which adds much to the output of the work of the office. We deserve your patronage. We have a full line of cards, Leiter Heads, Envelopes and other material. Let us do some of your work. Let us do your minute work and any other church ```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 oely 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. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for consti- pation. We want to put The Gazette into every home in the city within 30 days. Will you help us neighbor? Special inducements will be given. Let every reader help us to get subscribers. Build up your Race Enterprise. Fried Fish every day at the Grand Leader Cafe. Mr. Will Upshaw, and wife of Rockford who were i the city spending the holidays with the formers parents, returned to their home Thursday. Mrs Carrie Buchanan, of East St. Louis, is in the city the guest of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tinsley. Rev. Thos. Turner, spent the holidays with his family. Nehemiah's Band, entertained all of the clubs Tuesday evening at the home Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Nicholls. A most pleasant evening was spent. Mrs. Margaret Tossey, is on the sick list. Mr, John Beard is very sick and is not liable to recover. Mr. George Harold, of Chicago, was the guest of Niss Nollie Park, during the Xmas holidays, returning home the 2nd Mr. Alex Stars, is still on the sick list Rev. Geo. Crippens, is visiting in Elkville for an indefinite time. Miss Naomi Alston who has been sick is able to be out again. Mr. and Mrs. Tibue Terrell, of Elkville, are visiting their parents Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Sumner of Brookport. Er. Horace Jackson, of Gary' Ind, is visiting his aunt, Mrs. Arie Gatewood, Mr. N. Cork, has returned home after a visit with his parents n Grand Rivers, Ky. Mrs. Narcis Lowery, who is on the sick list is improving. Dog Found Owner describing dog and paying for this notice and for keeping, can get the dog. See Leon Renfro. Col. John R. Marshall, of Chicago, who saw service in Cuba, in 1898 with the 8th Ill., Regt., was in this county the 2nd on business connected with the State Penal Institutions. He has a good position under the present administration as a special deputy Warden to look after all of the colored persons out on parole from the State Penal Institutions. This is a good position and this is the first time a colored man has held this position. He receives salary of $1500, and expenses per annum. Mr. E. C. Phillips, was at home for a few days from Mattoon, where he conducts a ton sorial parlor. Mrs. Laura Hutchinson, left for St. Louis to visit her daughter Mrs. Louvenia Berry. Miss Mae Roberts, spent the holidays with friends in Carbondale and other places. Mr. Ed Phillips, of Mattoon spent a few days in the city visiting his sisters Mesdames Bessie Cork and Love Rentro. Jessie Williams, of Ottawa, Ill, was in the city last week visiting his brother Harry. Miss Ada Morgan, of Murphysboro, visited her grand-parents Mr. and Mrs Ellis Shelton last week. She is teaching in Hallidayboro. Wm. Fossie, Jr, returned to Camp Logan, Houston Texas, Sunday after attending the funeral of his father Wm. Fossie Sr. He was accompanied to the camp by Mrs. Lillie Fossie and children, who went to visit the husband J. Lester Fossie. Jessie Williams, of Ottawa, is visiting his brother Harry of this city. Miss Maud Porter, spent the holidays with her grand-parents. Miss Gertrude Hall, of Joppa is spending the holidays with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar McCrary and son, enjoyed an elaborate dinner Xmas day, at the home of Mr. D. L. Tandy. Mr. Tandy is a progressive grocerman. Mrs. Edith Darnell, of Memphis, Tenn. is in the city visiting her mother Mrs Mary Jones. Mrs. Beatrice Franklin, of Indianapolis, Ind. is spending the holidays with her mother Mrs. Minnie Cook. Chas. Griggs, who has been employed as engineer an in Gary Ind. was in the city last week visiting his family. He returned Sunday to his work. He says, "Gary is the place for good work." The smallest day wage is $3.80. Griggs makes $4.02 per day. Mrs. Bertha McMurray, and sister Miss Netta Blackwell of Murphysboto are spending the holidays with their parents Mr. and Mrs. Gus Blackwell. Mrs. Mary Lou Fossie, returned to Paris Wednesday after attending the funeral of her father-in-law, Wm. Fossie Sr. Maurice Martin, who has been spending several months in Indiana Harbor. Ind. is at home visiting his mother Mrs. Sophronia Martin. The Post Office at the First Baptist church Monday Eve. was a decided success in spite of the inclement weather. The First Baptist church is having a week of prayer and song service. Watch meeting was observed Monday night and a spiritual feast resulted, one was added to the church. St. Paul A, M. E. church, observed watch meeting and which resulted in a splendid meeting was enjoyed. Elder Fred Belt, is in the city conducting a meeting at the Antioch Baptist church, this week with Elder Thos. Morris, pastor in charge. We look for great results. and praying for an out pouring of showers of blessings from Him who giveth all good and perfect gifts. We want to make the 3rd Sunday in January 1918 a birthday rally and every member is asked to give one cent for every year he is old. It wont hurt you to do this brother, sister. Don't make any new resolutions if you have not lived up to your old. Aaron Blackwell Smitty Mayes, and Terrel Lyons, were released from Company M 8th Ill. Regt., now the 137th Regt. on the account of physical defects and have returned home We are informed that several others are likely to be sent home, being unable to pass the test. Notice. Notice is hereby given that the Executive Board of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association according to the adjournment of the Board meetina at Unionville, last September will meet with the Mt. Pleasant Missionary Bapt church Harrisburg, Thursday before the 4th Sunday in February 1918. We are praying for a great meeting, and invite all the members to join us at that time and place in a spirit of meckness and prayer, Prepare good strong gospel sermons and come prepared to bombard Satan's camp and Sin as never before. Cry aloud and spare not, and make this meeting worthy of the name in every particular. To the Ministers. Let each minister come prepared $ ^{d}_{o} $ to do his christian duty, to give liberally for the expense of the meeting, to be able to do this have your church to send not less than $ 1.00 by you or in a letter for said purpose. To the Churches. Let's be all that word "Missionary" stands for. Be true to the cause for which Jesus died, and think of the foot prints of the Baptists stained with blood, from John the Baptist and through all the ages until now for the principles set forth in the Bible and send up 5c per member this quarter for the missionary. We have a man out on field looking out for the waste places and his family is looking to him, while he is depending on you. Do all you can for the District and State work this year. I know you are loyal to Christ and your Association. Commence now to collect your money. Let us go through the gates, gather up the stones and lift up a Standard for the people. Yours in the cause. A S. S. Contest. A Sunday School Contest of the Unity Baptist S. S. Brookport, First Baptist and Antioch Baptist S. S. Metropolis, commencing on the 3rd Sunday in Nov. and to continue up to and including the 1st Sunday in Jan. 1918. The contest will be for attendance and collection. A prize is to be awarded to the winning school. The schools are to report each week through The Gazette, as to attendance and the collection. The arrangements as to terms of contest will be arranged by pastors and Superintendents. This is done with a view of incasing the attendance of the schools. Now is a good revival season as the people for the most part cannot work and they want some place to go. Get them to church and 'Let down your net on the right side.' Officers of Ministers' Alliance. resident; ..... Elder ..... C W Norment. Carbondale Vice President W. P. Washington, Mt. Vernon Recording Secretary H. C. Armstead, Pulaski Vigilant Committee Elder Wm.....Young, Joppa " D. Parrish, Md. City " S. H. Pruitt, Duquoin " F. Bomar, Cairo " P. B. French, Sparta " Thos. Morris Mefropolis " A. J. Bowers, Dewmaine Rev. Berry Thomas, Metropolis We do all kind of Job work Letter, Heads, Bill Heads, Statements, Envelopes Dodgers, Calling Cards. Suggestive Winter Ougtins Florida, via The Seminole Limited Electric lighted, all, steel daily train Chicago and St. Louis to Birmingham, Ala., carrying Through Drawing room Sleeping clining Chair Cars and Coaches, with dining cars serving all also Through Drawing-room Sleeping Car. all, steel daily train Chicago and St. Louis to in., carrying Through Drawing room Sleeping cars and Coaches, with dining cars serving all drawing-room Sleeping Car. Electric lighted, all, steel daily train Chicago and St. Louis to Jacksonville, via Birmingham, Ala., carrying Through Drawing room Sleeping Cars, Free Reclining Chair Cars and Coaches, with dining cars serving all meals on route, also Through Drawing-room Sleeping Car. Chicago To Savanna, Georgia It's early arrival at Jacksonville insures Florida points; also those having毯 so through Sleeping Car from St. Louis route. New Orleans, via T. Solid, daily, electric lighted, all steel, composite and Observation Drawing roving Car, Chicago to New Orleans, with Special features; Barber Shop, Shower Writing Facilities and Telephone Conn to the electric lighted all steel "New Limited" trains, embracing in their Free Reclining Chair Cars, Buffet Club daily service from Chicago and St. Louis. Texas, California, Cubs, Panas Direct connection made at New Orleans the "Panama Limited" making direct Through Drawing toom Sleeping Car located on the "New Orleans Limited" Lines—Cuba reached through the port the Southern Pacific Lines and Unitral America by ships of the United F formation. Gulport, Miss., Hot Springs, A Through Drawing room Sleeping Car Chicago to Hattiesburg (Camp Shelby the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad from a Car reservation from St. Louis, Through Lines Limited," Chicago to Hot Spring Lines from Memphis, Vickaburg, Missitary Park, and is a very interesting p ILLINOIS Railroad Tickets, reservations, train may be had of your local ticket agen. H. J. PHELPS, Gen Laborers 'WANTED: Laboree Yard; Colored labor also men for repairing wages; piece work; chance to get steady Apply to Mt. Ver at Jacksonville insures connection with all men also those having kismship connection for Having Car from St. Louis to Jacksonville, via the New Orleans, via The Panama Limited, electric lighted, all steel, no extra-fare Pullman, Observation Drawing room Sleeping Cars, Pullman to New Orleans, with through Sleeping Cars; Barber Shop, Shower Bath, Valet Services and Telephone Connection at Chicago. This lighted all steel "New Orleans Special" and embracing in their equipment Drawing room Chair Cars, Euffet Club, Dining Cars and Coat from Chicago and St. Louis to New Orleans, to California, Cuba, Panama, Central and South made at New Orleans with trains for Texas limited" making direct connection in Union room Sleeping Car Chicago to Houston and New Orleans Limited" in connection with the reached through the port of New Orleans by Pacific Lines and United Fruit Company, Plys of the United Fruit Company—Sailings Miss., Hot Springs, Arkansas, Vicksburg, Sleeping room Sleeping Car, operated in "New Orleansburg (Camp Shelby) and Gulport, Miss., in Island Railroad from Jackson, Miss., with Train from St. Louis, Through Sleeping Car operated in Chicago to Hot Springs, Ark., in connection with Vicksburg, Miss., contains the Vicksburg is a very interesting place to visit enroute to the MILNOIS CENTRAL acts, reservations, train time and specific facts for your local ticket agent. Literature, free for the J. PHELPS, General Passenger A Oorers Want ED: Laborers for our Colored laborers for our own for repairing freight car piece work; no trouble; no to get steady work for the way to Mt. Vernon Car Mfg. It early arrival at Jacksonville insures connection with all morning trains for Florida points; also those having Meanship connection for Havana, Cuba. Also through Sleeping Car from St. Louis to Jacksonville, via the "Dixie Flyer" route. New Orleans, via The Panama Limited Solid, daily, electric lighted, all steel, no extra-fare Pullman train carrying composite and Observation Drawing room Sleeping Cars, Euffet, Car and Dining Car, Chicago to New Orleans, with through Sleeping Car from St. Louis. Special features; Barber Shop, Shower Bath, Valet Service, Ladies' Maid, Writing Facilities and Telophone Connection at Chicago. This in addition to to the electric lighted all steel "New Orleans Special" and "New Orleans Limited" trains, embracing in their equipment Drawing room Sleeping Cars, Free Reclining Chair Cars, Euffet Club, Dining Cars and Coaches, gives tripte daily service from Chicago and St. Louis to New Orleans, the gateway to Texas, California, Cuba, Panama, Central and South America Direct connection made at New Orleans with trains for Texas and California; the "Panama Limited" making direct connection in Union Station. Also a Through Drawing room Sleeping Car Chicago to Houston and San Antonio operated on the "New Orleans Limited" in connection with the Southern Pacific Lines—Cuba reached through the port of New Orleans by steemships of the Southern Pacific Lines and United Fruit Company, Panama and Central America by ships of the United Fruit Company—Sailings subject to confirmation. Gulport, Miss., Hot Springs, Arkansas, Vicksburg, Mississippi Through Drawing room Sleeping Car, operated in "New Orleans Special," Chicago to Hattiesburg (Camp Shelby) and Gulport, Miss., in connection with the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad from Jackson, Miss., with Through Sleeping Car reservation from St. Louis, Through Sleeping Car operated in "New Orleans Limited," Chicago to Hot Springs, Ark., in connection with Rock Island Lines from Memphis, Vickaburg, Miss., contains the Vicksburg National Military Park, and is a very interesting place to visit enroute to New Orleans. ILLINOIS CENTRAL Railroad Tickets, reservations, train time and specific facts from your station may be had of your local ticket agent. Literature, free for the asking. H. J. PHELPS, General Passenger Agent Laborers Wanted! Laborers Wanted! WANTED: Laborers for our Lumber Yard; Colored laborers for our foundry; also men for repairing freight cars; good wages; piece work; no trouble; now is the chance to get steady work for the winter. Apply to Mt. Vernon Car Mfg. Co. Special to The Gazette. "Lo These Are Parts of His Ways" "Pastors Confer." Truth forever on the scaffold Wrong forever on the Throne. Yet the scaffold sways the future And behind the diu unknown, Stanps God within the shadow keep, ing watch above his own." C. C. Phillips, Golconda, Ill. Wood for Lead Pencla. The annual output of lead pencils in this country is more $20,000,000. The cedar wood is used in making them weigh about 100,000 tons, and nearly three-fourths of a cent's worth of wood is required for each pencil. No other wood is so good for the purpose, and the timber is becoming scarce. Old cedar planks and fence rails now find a ready sale. Profit in Study of Names PROFIT in STUDY or NURTURE To study out names may often bring a good deal of not only amusement, but positive instruction and education. Try it on your friends, or perhaps, better, your enemies. For then you can prove for yourself the old proverb (hereby invented on the spot). Tell me your name and I can tell you what your ancestors were. Evan Worse. "A public man should be careful not to say anything he will be sorry for." "Yes, and yet, he's lucky if he merely says it instead of putting it is writing and signing his name to it." ```markdown ``` icago and St. Louis to Jacksonville, via drawing room Sleeping Cars, Free Fe- ning ears serving all meals en route, or. connection with all morning trains for ship connection for Havana, Cuba. Al- to to Jacksonville, via the "Dixie Flyer" The Panama Limited no extra-fare Pullman train carrying from Sleeping Cars, Euffet, Car and Din- through Sleeping Car from St. Louis. Bath, Valet Service, Ladies' Maid, action at Chicago. This in addition to Orleans Special" and "New Orleans equipment Drawing room Sleeping Cars. Dining Cars and Coaches, gives trip- ouis to New Orleans, the gateway to U.S., Central and South America with trains for Texas and California; connection in Union Station. Also a chicago to Houston and San Antiope- n connection with the Southern Pacific of New Orleans by steerships of and Fruit Company, Panama and Cori- uit Company—Sailings subject to con- kansas, Vicksburg, Mississippi operated in "New Orleans Special," and Gulport, Miss., in connection with Jackson, Miss., with Through Sleeping with Sleeping Car operated in "New Or- Ark., Ark., in connection with Rock Island contains the Vicksburg National Mil- ace to visit enroute to New Orleans. CENTRAL time and specific facts from your station Literature, free for the asking. Central Passenger Agent Wanted! ars for our Lumber vers for our foundry; big freight cars; good to trouble; now is the work for the winter. Union Car Mig. Co. Mt. Vernon, Ill. NEWHOME "I'll get it for my wife" NO OTHER LIKE IT Purchase the "NEW HOME" and you will have a life asset at the price you pay. The elimination of repair expense by superior workmanship and best quality of material insures life-long service at minimum cost. Insist on having the "NEW HOME". WARRANTED FOR 'ALL TIME. Know the world over for superior sewing qualities. Not sold under any other name. francible Old Gent (to schoolgirl who has collided with him)—"When you run into people like that you should say, I beg your pardon." Girl —"There won't no need. I heard what you said."—Hydraey Bulletin. Fame Before Virtue. The thirst for fame is greater than the thirst for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards?—Juvenal. Enough Sale.