Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE Metropolis, Ill. Dec. 1917. Towhom it may concern: The Metropolis Gazette will begin its twentieth year in March 1918. In celebration of its twentieth anniversary the Editor has decided to publish a special edition devoted to the interest of the Churches, Schools, Lodges, City, County and State officials. There fore we take this method to ask any and all that desires to make this paper a success to send by the bearer at once your cut and manuscript to the above named office to be printed in this special edition. To the merchants in the city your ads will be printed in the latest type and borders. We are offering to the merchants special pages at special prices. No ad will cost more than 100 per inch. Our slogan is 1000 subscribers by June 1st. Will you do all in your power to encourage this effort and help to build up one good Race paper in this the Southern end of the grand old State of Illinois? 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 leading 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. THE ROYAL HAIR PREPARATIONS Royal Hair Dressing. Royal Hair Tonic THE WONDERFUL HAIR GROWERS. No matter what has failed to grow your hair don't give up hope. Try these wonderful hair growers. Many wowen 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 scalp. One bottle or 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, kiky 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. Sent 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 thr side ef 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 have to decide this all impor- question. Decide now, ere too late. "You must be vain." VOLUME Metropolis Colored Society Shocked Houston Observer Announces the marriage of Capt. Arthur Williams of this city. He left a wite here last October when ordered to Camp Logan, Houston, Texas. She teaches in Centralia. The following is from The Houston Observer: Chaplin W. S Braddon had the honor of uniting in holy wedlock Miss Bertha Barard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emile Barard, of 2114 Clay Ave., to Captain Arthur Williams of the 370th Ill. regimeut. The couple married on December 28th at the home of the bride. They have just returned after a ten days honeymoon trip to St. Louis, Mo., where the bride and groom were the guests of the Poro College Hotel. Only near friends, including Captain Haper und Lieutenant Burke were present at the ceremony. They report a very happy trip. Many presents were received as the bride was quite a fav. orite with the younger society of dear old Houston. They are at home to friends at 2114 Clay Ave. Correction. The mistake unintentionally made by sister Braddock I would be very grateful if you would please correct it. The $1.00 in her possession was given by the East Mount Olive Association, instead of the Mount Olive Association for which she thanks them very kindly. Respt. W. P. Washington. Mr Wm Bridges, Mermet, Ill Dear Father:—I am sending you this letter to let you know what rapid progress I have made for the short time I've been in service. I am Supply Sergt. next to the First Sergt. I try to do what is right by all the boys and they seem to like me. I am getting $45 00 per month, my pay started the 12th of Dec. and I am going to send it all home to you as I have no need to spend it here. My Captain said that was a 'Big jump' for me, answer and let me know what you think about it. Clifford Bridges. Camp Hill, Co. C. 304 Stev Regt. Newport News, Va SPARTA Mr. Editor: I wish to say through your paper that our Sunday School opened at 9:30 o clock, and considering the bad weather we had a very good attendance. The lesson was well reviewed by Mrs. Essie Young, in her timely review she was determined to drive home the words of God. We held an hour or more of prayer service, after which Rev French read his scripture lesson from the 3rd chapter of Hebrews, then he introduced Rev P. H. Thompson who delivered the morning sermon from 2nd Kings ONLY COLORED ARMY MAJOR Washington, D. C.—The Negro race now has a major in the Regular United States Army in the person of Major Ollie Davis, who, according to reports, has been reported from a captaincy and is in command of the Second Squadron of the Ninth Calvary, which is stationed in the Philippines. Major Davis, was born in Washington D. C. and is a graduate of the public schools here. It was while in high school that he received his first military training. During the Spanish-American War Major Davis enlisted in the First Separate Battalion, National Guard, District of Columbia, and was commissioned as second lieutenant. At the close of the war he was first lieutenant. Later he joined the Ninth Calvary and became its regimental sergeant major. His next move was to enter the military school at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and he returned to the Regular Army a second lieutenant. Major Davis was formally an instructor at Wilbertforce University and as military aid to the United States minister to Liberia. 4:24. His subject was ' And He said to her drive and go forward, slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.' He preached a powerful sermon. At 7:45 we again had another praise meeting Rev D G Hutson was with us at this hour and preached for us from Joshua 3, and a part of the 8th verse, subject, "Ye shall stand still in Jordan." The Carnation club made their report, Mrs Melissa Foster, pres assisted by Mrs Maud Haigler, they raised $156 53 The Golden Leaf with Mrs Ida Quisenberry pres, assisted by Mrs Birdie Terry reported $63.00 The two clubs were organized last April, and since that time they have raised $219 53 We are glad to say that we are on our way from earth to Glory, and are blessed both spiritually and financially. Your reporter J. J Taylor, We are certainly glad to see Elder French, and his church getting along so nicely. We would be pleased for our reporter Bro. Taylor, to collect at least $1. from all of subscribers. It he was the list —Editor. Ex-Giov. Deneen Ex Governor Charles S. Deneen, as principal speaker at the South Park M. E. Church, New Year's evening, emphasized the importance and the need for an organization of the better class of colored people in order that they may be able to demand proper consideration of their social and political rights. He advised that the old-time professional politicians, who seek to carry their ends by whatever means, be it foul or good, be their eliminated. Good Advice. the thair art not sure of a minute so not throw away an hour Largest Band in the World to Metropolis, Saturday Jan. 19, 1918 Here is the pick of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station Band of Jackies which will give a Concert in this city at 1:30 p. m. Everybody invited. No charge. Madam G. J. Walker. Wealthiest Negro Woman In America Madam G. J. Walker. Wealthiest Negro Woman In America Although modest and unasuming in her manner, in her conversation and in her home, Mme. C. J. Walker has the distinction of being the wealthiest woman of her race. Her residence, which she now occupies at 108 W. 136 St., New York City, is elaborately furnished from bottom to top. Each floor has large and expensive paintings, representing a different epoch in history. Lelia College (which is named after Mme Walkers daughter) is connected with this home. The parlors, operating rooms and business office are most conveniently arranged. The Irvington Mansion To say that when it is finished, the home at Irvington will cost $250,000 is no exaggeration. To see it which is now nearing completion, will convince the most skeptical that it will cost more. The writer had the pleasure of making a personal inspection of the house and premises, and no doubt it is more than one would think for, and when completed it will be one of the "showy places on the Hudson," notwithstanding, the fact that it is surrounded by such wealthy people as John D. Rockefeller, Thomas Edison's daughter and others of New York's select set. The picture and description of this beautiful mansion appeared in the St. Louis Argus, Dec 21, which was a reproduction from one of New York's leading leading papers (the Times.) Mime. Walker has many friends and admirers both white and Colored in New York, and her personal associates are among the best. MURPHYSBORO, ILL Dear Editor: Please allow me to say a few words about our church and Sunday School. We are doing very well although we haven't a pastor. We met in our regular church meeting Friday evening, and nominated a pastor and it will be voted on this week. Pray that the Holy Spirit will guide us. Rev. A. Lovelace Rioting Cured In East St. Louis Says Brundage Washington, D. C., Jan. 7. Edward J. Boundage, Attorney General of Illinois, declared in a report on prosecutions of East St. Louis race riot cases, submitted to the Senate to-day by Senator Sherman, that Illinois has but one law for all nationalities, that all are entitled to protection of life and property and that "they will get it." Race Rioting Cured In commenting on the report, Senator Sherman praised the Attorney General and State Officials saying: "With hardly an exception, the cases were tried as they were set, and with the described results, in less than five months from the time of the riot. The forces of the Attorney General are ready to continue the prosecutions at the next term of court. "Just before the first race riot in East St. Louis, one of the lawyers of the city, in addressing a white meeting which was considering the race question, advised the people that there was no law in Illinois against mob violence. The trial of the race riot cases has shown the people of that county that there is probably more law against this sort of crime than any other. At least the lawyer who made the statement probably now thinks so. "As a matter of fact law enforcement is picking up in this locality, and race rioting has probably been cured for some time to come. There is one law in Illinois for all nationalities, whites and Negroes, Italians and Greeks Frenchmen and Englishmen, Irishmen and Germans. They are all entitled to the protection of their lives and property and they will get it. Just Holding Gum in Trust A little seven-year-old Boston girl came into the house the other day chewing gum vigorously. Her mother was horrified and ordered the little one to throw the gum away. The usually obedient child shook her head firmly. "I can't throw it away," she said, "because it ain't mine. It belongs to Barbara, but she lent it to me till two e'clock." $115,000 Y. M. C. A. Building For Columbus, O. New Structure to Be Completed by September 1. Columbus, O, Jan. 11. At last, it is announced that the contract for the Spring Street branch of the colored Y. M. C. A. new building which is to be erected at the corner of Fifth and spring streets, has been left to Charles W. Schneider and Son. of this city. The building is to be completed about September 1, 1918, and while the contractor is a white man, the entire work is to be done by colored artisans. This building will cost, including equipment and site, when completed $115,000. N. B. Allen is the executive secretary and John P. Pontius, general secretary. Illinois Two Cent Fare Law Stands Test Washington, Jan. 14-The two cent fare law in Illinois was upheld by the supreme court with the exception of where it discriminated in favor of some cities because of a higher interstate rate. Daily Health Mint. Understand that if you are mentally unified with st. tness, old age and death, no amount of desire or affirmation can make you well, young, or long lived. To be healthy, you must be mentally in unity with health; to remain young, you must be mentally one with youth, and to live long, you must be mentally unified with life, says Wallace D. Wattles in the Nautilus. me happy girl. No trait of a girl's character is more prized than a sweet and happy disposition. It makes the home life bright, it smooths away the little roughnesses, and it is like a ray of sunshine that brightens the darkest corners and drives away discontent and gloom. The happy girl makes the happy and contented wife, who will bring her girlhood's enduring qualities to make fresh sunshine in her new home. Home Notes. Pathetic. "Tis the irony of fate," sighed the county fair aeronaut. "When a boy I wore patches on my trousers and now that I'm a man I call the skies in a patched balloon." Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. METROPOLIS, . . . . ILL. ARS. M. J. MOCRARY, MANAGER. J. B. McCRARY, EDIFOR FRIDAY JAN. 18, 1918. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Enterered as second-class mail mat- er, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. Address all communications to J. B. Mc- CRARY, 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 Ix Months.....75 Three Months.....40 Single Copy.....05 In Advance. ADVERTISING RATES. made known on application. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. NOTICE. The blank pages of the Gazette are caused by reason of American Press Association with whom we had a contract to furnish inside pages selling out to the Western Newspaper Union without giving us time to arrange with the other company. We will be able to give you better service shortly. Please psy up your subscription Can you afford to loose your race papers for want of support? 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 arrears 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, Letter Heads, Envelopes and other material. Let us do some of your work. Let us do your minute work and any other church ```markdown ``` The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's catarh cure is the oely positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. catarh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's catarh 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. Iso. Take Hall's Family Pills for consti- pation. We want to put The Gazette into every home in the city with- in 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. R. V. Bailey, of Grinnell, was up Thursday and paid our office a financial call in company of Rev. Berry Thomas. We hope he will call again soon. Among those on the sick list are: Rev. Green Hodge, and Mr. Henry Tinsley. We wish for them a speedy recovery. Mrs. Mamie Harmon, returned to St Louis, Mo. after spending several days in the city visiting her mother Mrs. Leah Reed. She is one of the employees in the St. Louis Argus office. Miss Alice Urquhart, is indisposed at her home on W. 8th St. Rev. Thos. Morris, closed a very successful revival Sunday evening at the Antioch Baptist church, assisted by Rev. Fred Bell. They had five conversions during the meeting. Mr. George Tombs, was in Cairo last week, to see his daughter who is sick. Merdames Mary Wimberly and Mattie Shelton, of Brookport, were down last week. Nehemiah's Band met at the home of Mrs Nollie Parks Tuesday evening. A large crowd was present. Mrs. Lizzie Lassiter, of Belgrade, is one among the sick, Mr. John S. Anderson, and Mrs. Lucy Brown, renewed their subscriptions for the year 1918. We would be glad if others would do as they have done. Many thanks to them. We thank Mrs. Ella Renfro of Springfield for her remittance for the Gazette and hope she will improve from her illness. We would thank all of our subscribers who are in arrears for the paper to remit at once. Do unto us, as you would that others do to you. This is one part of genuine religion. May we expect to receive a post office order in tho next mail. Obituary. Mrs Elizabeth Cannon, departed this life Dec. 31, at her home 614 E. Rexford, Centralia, Ill. She was born in West Point Miss. Nov. 20, 1879, age 38 years, 11 days. She professed a hope in Christ in 1892, and joined the Lake Grove Baptist Church of that city, and later was married to Mr. James Cannon and to that union was born two daughters, of which both have gone to that Great Beyond. In 1606 she and her husband moved to Centralia, and she united with the Second Baptist Church. She was the mother of the church, and a faith- ful member, always ready to do what she could. She was a Sunday School teacher, Vice President of the Woman's Educational Society. She was loved by all who knew her. She leaves a husband, one brother, two nieces and a host of friends to mourn their loss. The funeral of Mrs. Hattie Jones, wife of Mr. Jutius Jones was attended at the A. M. E. church, last Sunday at 1 p.m. by Rev. I. S. Stone, pastor. She was a member of said church. Mrs. Jones was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Shelton, of this city who are left to mourn their loss. Besides them she leaves a husband, two children, four brothers, one sister, Andrew Doss. Jessee, Tollie and Mrs. Neely Morgan and many relatives and friends. Those present at the funeral were:—Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Morgan, Miss Linnia Smith of Murphysboro, Tollie Shelton, of Teire Haute, Ird. Doss Shelton of Galesburg Ill. The parents, husband, children and other relatives have our sympathy in this their dark hour of bereftment. Peace to her ashes. WALTER ROBERTS, SOLICITOR Master in Chancery Sale. State of Illinois, Massac County, SS. In the Circuit Court of said County, January Term A. D. 1918. Lillie V. Gowan Ys. I. M. D. Washington and Arbella Washington. Bill to foreclose mortgage No. 503. Public notice is herby given that in pursuance of a decree entered at the January Term of said court, to-wit, on the 16th day of January A. D. 1918 in the above entitled cause, I S. Bartlett Kerr, Master in Chancery of said County will at the hour of 10 o'clock A. M. Saturday February 16th, D. A. 1918 at the east door of the Court house in the City of Metropolis, County of Massac, and State of Illinois, at public vendue to the highest and best bidder, the following described real estate to-wit: Part of the South Half of the Southeast fourth of the Southwest quarter of Section Eleven (11) Township Sixteen (16) South, Range Five (5) east, beginning One Hundred Eighty (180) feet North of the South section line and one Hundred Thirty (130) feet east of the Half section line; thence East One Hundred Forty (140) feet; thence North Two Hundred (200) feet to place of beginning, except of dart of part of above sold to Blaine £ 1da Martin recorded in Vol. "26" page 469 in the recorders officeof Massac County Ill., being 50 feet off N. Side of said tract, situated in the County of Massac and State of Illinois. Dated this 17th day of January A. D. 1918. S. BARTLETT KERR, Master in Chancery. Indian Summer. The term "Indian summer" is applied to a period of mild, open westernt that comes in the fall, embracing the most of October and sometimes extending into November, and characterized by a sort of dry mist or haziness that differentities it from other seasons of the year. What causes the distinctive features of the season, especially the hazy atmosphere, is unknown, and the origin of the term equally so. Different explanations have been given of both, but they seem to be largely fanciful. Origin of Christening Shilpa The ceremony of christening ship is a survival of a barbaric custom when sacrifices were made to the gods, and some living victim or ofering was held up and its throat cut so that the blood flowed over the prow of the ship being launched. The vessel was baptized in warm blood. Now sprinkling wine or pure water is used, and the change has many advantages, though the symbolism remains. Whatever That Is. Armed with a hooked bill resembling a hawk, with a spread of wing as big as a good-sized eagle and equipped with long legs, which he carries straight behind him, a bird which Allan Irish, of Sabino, Me, says is a zyphunkquilpherz and is rare in that vicinity, has been seen frequently near Sabino. Matter of Fact. When We Lose. Money lost, nothing lost; courage lost, much lost; honor lost, more lost; soul lost, all lost. 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 $ ^{p}$ 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 $ oo 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. J. B. McCrary. Moderator. 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 increasing 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. We do all kind of Job work Letter Heads, Bill Heads. Statements, Envelopes Dodgers, Calling Cards. Suggestive Winter Outings Florida, via The Seminole Limited Electric lighted, all, steel daily train Chicago and St. Louis to Jac Birmingham, Ala., carrying Through Drawing room Sleeping C clining Chair Cars and Coaches, with dining cars serving all m also Through Drawing-room Sleeping Car. all, steel daily train Chicago and St. Louis to Jacksonville, vir- la, carrying Through Drawing room Sleeping Cars, Free Fo- r cars and Coaches, with dining cars serving all meals enroute, drawing-room Sleeping Car. Electrie lighted, all, steel daily train Chicago and St. Louis to Jacksonville, via Birmingham, Ala., carrying Through Drawing room Sleeping Cars, Free declining Chair Cars and Coaches, with dining cars serving all meals enroute, also Through Drawing room Sleeping Car. Chicago To Savanna, Georgia Its early arrival at Jacksonville insures Florida points; also those having steam so through Sleeping Car from St. Louis route. New Orleans, via T. Solid, daily, electric lighted, all steel, composite and Observation Drawing tracing Car, Chicago to New Orleans, with special features; Barber Shop, Showers, Writing Facilities and Telephone County 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, Cuba, Panama Direct connection made at New Orleans the "Panama Limited" making direct Through Drawing room Sleeping Car Gerated on the "New Orleans Limited" Lines—Cuba reached through the port the Southern Pacific Lines and Unitral America by ships of the United Firmation. Gulport, Miss., Hot Springs, A. Through Drawing room Sleeping Car, Chicago to Hattiesburg (Camp Shelly) the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad from J. Car reservation from St. Louis, Thru lears Limited, the Hot Springs Lines from Memphis, Vicksburg, Miss. itary Park, and is a very interesting place. ILLINOIS Railroad Tickets, reservations, trivit may be had of your local ticket agent. H. J. PHELPS, Gen. Laborers 'WANTED: Labored Yard; Colored labor also men for repairing wages; piece work; more chance to get steady. Apply to Mt. Ver at Jacksonville insures connection with all morning trains from also those having steamship connection for Havana, Cuba. All sleeping Car from St. Louis to Jacksonville, via the "Dixie Flyer" New Orleans, via The Panama Limited Metric lighted, all steel, no extra-fine Fulman train carrying Observation Drawing room Sleeping Cars, Fallet, Carrier Limo to New Orleans, with through Sleeping Car from St. Louis; Barber Shop, Shower Bath, Valet Service, Ladies' Mobilies and Telephone Connection at Chicago. This in addition to lighted all steel "New Orleans Special" and "New Orleans," embracing in their equipment Drawing room Sleeping Cars, Chair cars, Buffet Club, Dining Cars and Coaches, gives trips from Chicago and St. Louis to New Orleans, the gateway to California, Cuba, Panama, Central and South America. made at New Orleans with trains for Texas and California, limited" making direct connection in Union Station. Also room Sleeping Car Chicago to Houston and San Antelope New Orleans Limited" in connection with the Southern Pacific reached through the port of New Orleans by steamships of Pacific Lines and United Fruit Company, Panama and Centralships of the United Fruit Company—Sailings subject to conditions. Miss., Hot Springs, Arkansas, Vicksturg, Mississippi. ing room Sleeping Car, operated in "New Orleans Special," Tiesburg (Camp Shelby) and Gulport, Miss., in connection with Island Railroad from Jackson, Miss., with Through Sleeping Car from St. Louis. Through Sleeping Car operated in "New Orleans Chicago to Hot Springs, Ark., in connection with Rock Island and Vicksburg, Miss., contains the Vicksburg National Mall is a very interesting place to visit enroute to New Orleans. ILINOIS CENTRAL tats, reservations, train time and specific facts from your station your local ticket agent. Literature, free for the asking. J. PHELPS, General Passenger Agent Oorers Wanted! ED: Laborers for our Lumber Colored laborers for our foundry; can for repairing freight cars; good piece work; no trouble; now is the time to get steady work for the winter. y to Mt. Vernon Car Mfg. Co. Mt. Vernon, Ill. Its early arrival at Jacksonville insures connection with all merring trails for Florida points; also those having steamship connection for Havana, Ctla. 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-fine Fulman train carrying composite and Observation Drawing room Sleeping Cars, Buffet, Carriage Lining Car, Chengo to New Orleans, with through Sleeping Car from St. Louis, Special features; Barber Shop, Shower Bath, Valet Service, Ladies' Night, 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 Cars, Free Reclining Chair Cars, Buffet Club, Dining Cars and Canes, given 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 steamships of the Southern Pacific Lines and United Fruit Company, Parama and Central America by ships of the United Fruit Company—Sailings subject to confirmation. Culport, Miss., Hot Springs, Arkansas, Vicksturg, Mississippi Through Drawing room Sleeping Car, operated in "New Orleans Special," Chicago to Hattiesburg (Camp Shelly) 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 Reck 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, 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! 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. After Dave Darrington lost his voice he used to rap on the trough of his pig pen at feeding time. Then a woodpecker went to live in the pig pen, and the hogs went crazy.—The Ramrodders. A man may be a great success in business, and never rise above the title of "Mr.", but it does not take long for almost any kind of a man to become "Hen." in politics.—Achison Globe. "A public man should be careful not to say anything he will be sorry for "Yes, and yet, he's lucky if he more mays it instead of putting it be writing and signing his name to it" Completely Qualified. "There's one candidate for the Ananias club," said the tremulous man with a subdued expression, "whom nobody mentions. I don't see how they missed him." "Who is he?" "The dentist who solemnly assures you that it isn't going to hurt." "Oh, Ye of Little Faith!" "On Ye or Little Path?" Anxious Customer—Are you sure that you have that medicine mixed right?" Drugstaff—"No, I am not; but I've got it mixed the way the doctor ordered it."—Judge. Uncle Ezra Saves: Playin' on one string soon wears out the string ez well ex the player.— Boston Herald "Did you include Switzerland in your travels?" "No; I always was so afraid of falling down a crevat."—Bul, timore American. --- False Hopea. "Hor..." Even Worse. 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I must cut it off. That's funny; now there's a buttonhole too many. What's the use of arithmetic?' —Sourire. BUY OF OUR ADVERTISERS Subscribe For The Gazette, To-day. Officers of the General Batist State Association of Illinois Committee on Nomination beg to report as follows: Moderator Eld. J. F. Thomas. 1st Vice Mod. " A. P. Washington. 2nd Vice Mod. Eld. C. w. Norton. Recording Sec. Eld. P. B. French. Corresponding Sec. Eld. J. B. McCrary. Treasurer Eld. H. C. Armstead. Added Members Eld. F. Bomar Cairo E. I. J. E. Haywood Chicago Eld. Jas. Swanson Maywood State Missionary H. E. Mewilliams. State Mission Board Chairman Dr. C. C. Phillips Cor. Sec. Eld. J. D. Davis Treasurer Eld. J. E. Haywood Other Members Eld. S. H. Pruntt Deacon R. Lewis Sister Sallie Thomas Chicago Sister M. Hudgin Cairn Sister J. w. winston Dingate Sister Carrie Casly Showcourt Urish Jenkins Rev. J. A. Royal Chicago " L. Drane Chicago Rev. A. J. Bowers Dewmaine Rev. D. Johnson Dewmaine " B. H. 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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. Plaasant 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. J. H. Williams, Cor. Sec. THINKING ALOUD IN RUSSIA Crowds Assemble on Streets to Participate in Debates Which Really Amount to Very Little. Along the Nevsky that evening in the parks and open spaces, little herds of people were packed together as sheep crowd together under a tree or an August afternoon. In the center two persons debated, shaking their hands in each others' faces. They had been talking like that for weeks all over Russia, writes Arthur Ruble In Collier's Weekly. All Petrograd was one big village meeting—the village habit of talking over together the village's business being transferred to the capital. And coming in late at night from the edge of town, you could see every now and then these black little clumps of people, still talking, still huddled there vaguely pathetic, like sheep under the trees. Any one of hundreds of excited phrases flung off in these little debating clubs might. I suppose, have sent a man to jail or Siberia in a generation ago. Now they could say anything, gather anywhere, listen as long as they wanted. Russians have a gift for talking and a happy lack of self-consciousness in doing it. They really like to make speeches. Mr. Root, in one of the lighter moments of his stay in Petrograd, remarked that one of the tragedies of the Russian revolution was the turning loose on the world 150,000,000 orators. Now one saw some old peasant, a giant of a man, come down with a barge of firewood from the north, perhaps, holding forth with great quantitiness of phrase and gesture to an amused group of city folks. Or white one talked some expansive old fellow, in the long cont, cap and boots of the old-style merchant, would be doing a sort of comic accompaniment on the edge of the crowd, throwing out his arms and putting a "galubchik mot" ("my little dove") between every other sentence. Much of this talk which looks interesting—so expressive is voice and gesture—turns out to be a mere sort of thinking aloud. Indians in the Great War. Indians have been volunteering for service in the United States army since 1861. In 1802 Lieutenant Scott, later chief of the staff, organized and trained a troop of the Seventh cavalry, which was highly commended by the inspector general of the war department. The Indian is trained as the Swiss train their boys, so that they may be able to fire a gun accurately and earn a living. He has all the qualities of a good soldier—endurance, patience, courage and an instinct for scouting. London Tit-Bits says. The Canadian government recognized the great fighting ability of the many Indian nations and tribes who volunteered their services for king and country at the outbreak of the war, and there are hundreds of Indians enrolled in many of the different Canadian regiments at the front. Many have made the supreme sacrifice, among the first to fall being Lieut. Cameron Brant of the Six Nations Indians, who was a linear descendant of the distinguished colonial warrior, Capt. Joseph Brant of Revolutionary fame. The Strength of Woman. "The work women are doing in this war!" exclaimed a member of the railroads war board, at a banquet. "Driving ammunition trucks, digging trenches; even, as in Russia, fighting in the front line! "Woman comes more and more to resemble Cornellius Husk's daughter, Maine. When Husky Mame, as she was known in the township, presented her future husband to the old man, Corn Husk sighed and said: "Take her, son, but take good keer on her, for the little ladybird has been riz-tender-like. Four acres a day is all I ever ast her to plow, and two acres of corn is all she's been used to hoe 'twixt sun-up and dark. She kin do light work, sech as rail-splittin' and well-diggin', but she ain't used toough stuff, and you must be gentle with her. I tell you, son, it's hard for the old man to give his little sunshine up. He'll have to split his own wood and tend his own stock now." Dream Came True. The encyclopedic Andrew Lang is responsible for the following dream record, according to Katherine Cox, writing in the Occult Review: "A certain barrister sat up late one night to write letters, and at about 12:30 went out to put them in the post. He returned to his rooms, and while undressing for bed missed a check for a large sum, which he had received during the day. He hunted everywhere in vain, went to bed, slept, and dreamed that he saw the check curled around an area railing not far from his own door. He woke, got up, dressed. METROPOLIS WEEKLY CAZETTE, JANUARY. 1918 walked down the street and found his check in exactly the spot where he had seen it in his dream!" Kipling Made "Tommy Atkins." Rudyard Kipling has written an American story, "Captains Courageous," Kipling made "Tommy Atkins," Sir George Younghusband, who has been in the British service for forty years, declares that nobody ever heard of "Tommy" until Kipling made Private Mulvany and the other two of the "Soldiers Three" talk about him. He says that he had asked innumerable old British officers if they ever heard of "Tommy Atkins" before Kipling wrote about him, and they all agree that they never did. WAR SAVING GAME European Conflict Takes Sportsmen Out of the Field. Increase in the Price of Guns and Ammunition Makes Hunting a Rich Man's Sport. Despite the war the permanent wildlife protective fund is continuing its battle to save American game from extinction, writes Frederic J. Haskin. War is a benefit to wild life in that it takes many hunters out of the field and has raised the average price of guns and ammunition about 50 percent, making hunting what it is rapidly becoming in this country, anyway—a rich man's sport. The wild life protection fund, in its literature and the lectures of its campaigning trustee, William T. Hornaday of the New York zoological park is seeking to spread the idea that the sportsmen must act to save the game that they are robbing themselves and future generations if they do not. This idea has been well set forth in a poster of the New Mexico Game Protection associations, which have set out with determination and success to save the wild life of that state. The poster is as follows: "Your grandfather hunted elk and buffalo until there were none. "You are hunting deer. There still are some. "What do you want your son to hunt? Rabbitz?" The average New Mexican reading that sign knows that it is true. He has heard from the old-timers what the abundance of game used to be; he sees in a flash the long generations of ruthless destruction, the inevitable end when the mountains where he loves to hunt will be lifeless. Another difficulty in the path of game preservation lies in the opposition in congress to federal action in the matter. Nothing but federal action saved the wild fowl. By reason of the migratory game law, drawn by government scientists and providing protection for waterfowl from Canada to Mexico, they are now believed to be safe for a hundred years. The fact which the average sportsman does not realize is that when a species of wild game is reduced to a certain point it cannot "come back," no matter how much it is protected. For example, in 1884 the buffalo hunters said and believed that there would always be plenty of buffalo. In 1855 they went out to hunt them and there was none. It took them two years to realize the fact that the buffalo was practically extinct. Wolves and hunters destroyed the remnant much faster than it could breed. Of course the buffalo has been overworked as an object lesson in game protection. As opponents of protective measures have pointed out, the buffalo could not have survived civilization except in very limited numbers anyway. But this is not true of deer, elk and mountain sheep which inhabit the high mountain ranges that will always be a wilderness. There is only one measure which can save them, and that is the provision of game refuges in national forests where these animals can breed unmolested, and the increase restock the surrounding country. Dress in London. Something might be said of the changes that three years of war have brought about in our clothes, says the Manchester Guardian. Evening dress is not abolished, but it is becoming much less customary in theaters and restaurants, and people coming up to London who used to bring evening clothes with them no longer do so. Stiff white collars are disappearing, and the soft collar is worn by all classes. The democratic process had already set in at the house of commons. One remembers the shock that Mr. Keir Hardie's cloth cap created on its first appearance there, but it has advanced immensely since the war began. Frock coats are in small and diehard minority. Spats are on their last legs. Top hats survive miraculously, it might, seem, until one remembers their enduring qualities, so that their persistence is only a form of war economy after all. Dining With the Private Dining With the Private. It has come at last—the offense of an officer dining in public with a private. It was bound to come, soon or late. The present writer, notes the London Daily Chronicle, met not long ago a private in uniform and two men in mufti. Of the two, one who should have been wearing the uniform of a second Heutenant, explained: "Private Blank, here, is my uncle. He is up for a visit, and according to regulations I ought not to be seen about with him. Since I joined the army I have grown bang out of my civilian rig, so I've borrowed a suit from the guv-nor, haven't I, dad?" "Yes, you have, and it's my best, you villain," answered the second civilian. Mostly Sp. "You're under arrest," exclaimed the officer, as he stopped the automobile. You're under arrest, accused of officer, as he stopped the automobile. "What for?" inquired Mr. Chugglas. "I haven't made up my mind yet. I'll just look over your lights, an' your license, an' your numbers, an' so forth. I know I can get you for somethin'." No Alarm. "Did you hear there was a great breaking out at the jail?" "What was it? The worst characters there?" "No: the measles." RUINED CITIES OF FRANCE Many of Them Have Taken on a Character of Permanency, so Endless Does War Seem to People. There is a new kind of city on earth today, a strange, nightmare kind of a city that has taken on for the people of northern France almost a character of permanency, so endless is this war. People have lived through so much sinne August, 1914, that they seem to themselves to have been always at war, and, looking forward, they see nothing but long years of warfare. The ruined cities such as Arras have become a part of the natural order of things, and the strange life in them has come to seem a natural sort of life. Towns like this are found by the score where the slow pressure of the allies is forcing the Prussian back, says a war correspondent. They are the towns that have been bombarded and bombarded again, taken and retaken, assaulted and captured, and cannonaded by those who held them the day before, until it is a marvel that one brick remains on another. They are full of ruined houses and shattered quarters of all degrees of destruction, and, stranger than all, they have blocks and sections that by some miracle escaped. Here is a row of houses that might be in the far South, 200 miles from the battle front. The shutters are up and the streets are deserted, as though the people were late in rising. Here is a public square pitted with shellholes, one side fronted by a row of buildings, whole save for broken windows, the other bounded only by shapeless masses of brick and stone. Here and there a slow smoke curls upward from some gnawing fire. A hundred yards away there may be a stubborn family still occupying its old home, but nobody puts out the fire. The civilians are too hopeless and the soldiers are too busy. And here is a house with the front sliced off by a shell and the rooms still all in order—a strange spectacle—with beds and bureaus and chairs and tables all in order, as though some enterprising furniture dealer had undertaken a new and ambitious form of window display. For the most part the noblest buildings, the churches and public halls and the towered relics of the Gothic period are gone—the furnish too easy a mark for the rangefinder. And ever and again a dull crush tells of another shell carrying on the barbarous work. Blind Belief. Swedish Consul Gustavus Swan said, in discussing the war: "The exposures from Buenos Aires show that Germany believes all's fair in love and war. Germany duped my own government no less than the Argentine government. "Germany, it is clear, believes all's fair in love and war as blindly as scientists believe in facts. Hence she goes horribly wrong, like the eminent New England scientist wrote to Tennyson one day: "Dear Sir: I find in a recent poem of yours, entitled "The Vision of Sin," the following unwarranted statement: "Every moment dies a man and every moment one is born." I need hardly point out that this calculation, if correct, would tend to keep the sum total of the world's population in a state of perpetual equilpse, whereas it is an established fact that the said population is constantly on the increase. 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The Globe-Democrat Co., Publishers St. Lenis, Mo. ```markdown ``` It is gratifying to learn that many architects have responded to the call of the signal corps of the war department for volunteers from the profession to go to France and assist in the construction of aviation camps there, says an exchange. These men enter the national service as first lieutenants, as so many members of other American professions have done. They will provide the government with expert aid in the carrying out of a task which promises to rank'among the most important of the war. The entente campaign in the air will be vastly increased next year if present plans hold. The number of machines to be put into service is expected to reach far into the thousands. British children all over the country wherever the chestnut tree grows are gathering horse chestnuts as told in the Christian Science Monitor. It is their particular contribution to the winning of the war, for ripe horse chestnuts have been discovered to provide a good substitute for the grain which is used in the making of munitions. It will be quite valuable service, for the computation is that every ton of chestnuts will save half a ton of grain. The gathering is organized by committees in connection with the schools, and woods and lanes see bands of young patriots enjoying their "war work" hugely. The hope that the appeal for the production of more food might result in some increase of wheat-growing in the East has been justified in Vermont. It is estimated that 81,000 bushels of wheat were grown this year, against 25,000 bushels last year. The Vermonters have also done well along other lines, for the estimated yield of corn, wheat, oats, barley and potatoes in 1917 is 10,008,000 bushels, compared with 7,847,000 bushels in 1916. Cheatnuts to Aid War. Vermont Increases Food. From the fresco 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 founced or accordion plaited skirts, were an elaborate coiffure, shoes with high heels and hats which might have come from a Parisian nat shop, while one woman might be described at wearing a juppe collette. 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 costum cost is essential to maintain the costum cost. Insist on having the "NEW HOME" WARRANTED FOR ALL TIME. Known the world over for superior sewing qualities. --- Fachlons Little Chapord we want opportunity to knock door tomorrow you've go to bed for it today.