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. No matter what has failed to grow your hair don't give up hope. Try these wonderful hair growers. Many women 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 n.1 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, 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. Sent any where on receipt of price. Agents wanted write for terms. O.T. Scott and Co. 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." MOTTO : HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY In Memoriam Mrs. Karrlett McCrary, Died January 20th 1915 me But Not Forgotten" The offenses charged against the whites lynched were: rape and murder, one; fomenting strikes, one. ```markdown ``` Children:-- The Lynching Record For 1917. I send you the following relative to lynchings for the year. I find from the records kept by the Divisions of Records and Research of Tuskegee Institute, Monroe N. Work, in charge, that there were 38 persons lynched in 1917, of whom 36 were Negroes, and two were whites. Thirty-seven were males and one female. Twelve or a little less than one third of those put to death, were charged with rape or attempted rape. The offenses charged against the Negroes were: Attempted rape, five; rape, six; murder, three; killing officer of the law, two; for not getting out of the road and being isonlent, two; attacking women; disputing white men's word, two; entering woman's room, two; wounding officer of the law, one; molesting women, one; stealing coat, one; intimacy with woman one; killing man in altercation, one; accidentally killing child by running automobile over it, one; vagrancy, one; wounding and robbing man, one; attacking an officer of the law, one; opposition to war draft, one; insulting girls, one; writing insoult letter one. The states in which lynchings occurred and number in caeh state as follows; Alabama four; Arkansas, four; Arazona, one; Florida one; Georgia, six; Kentucky, two; Louisiana, five; Mississippi, one; Montana, one; Oklahoma, one; South Carolina, one; Tennessee, three; Texas, six; Virginia, one; Wyoming, one. COAL OUT-PUT LARGE. Denver Jan, 19.—The 1917 coal production of Colorado broke all records, despite the car shortage. In 1910, 12,104,887 tons were mined. This stood as the Colorado record until last year, when the output reached 12,433. 129 tons. J. M. McCrary J. B. McCrary Annie Wyly Princess Bell RAGE NEWS Negroes in the United States own approximately 20,000,000 acres of land or an area amounting to the combined territory of New Hampshire Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, as well as other property valued at $1,000,000,000, according to Mr. Moorfield Storey, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Emmett J. Scott, assistant to Secretary of War Baker delivered the principal address at the anniversary of the Race at Mobile, Alabama. CONVICTED NEGROES ASK A review of the East St. Louis raee riot trial held at Belleville, in which ten negroes were convicted and sentenced to fourteen years in the Penitentiary for the murder of Detectives Sam Coppedge and Frank Wodley, was asked in a petition filed yesterday in the Illinois Supreme Court. The petition is filed in the name of Fayette Parker, negro, a member of the St. Clair County Board of Supervisors, and nine other negroes. The petition alleges that the evidence on which the conviction was won was insufficient; that the state called twenty witnesses whose names were not previously certified to the defense; that attorneys for the state in their arguments to the jury made statements which tended to prejudice the jury against the defendants, and that Trial Judge Crow erred in presenting certain instructions. The negroes are backed in their appeal by a national organization of negroes which raised the money necessary to perfect the record. State Attorney Schaumleifel and Attorney General Brundage will appear for the people. one 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. Good Advice. Since then art not sure of a minute, do not throw away an hour—Pearson. COLORED SOLDIERS GROW VERY LONELY. And Want Some One To Write To Them At Any Time. CGLUMBUS, N. M. Jan. 10. The members of the Blue Ribbon Corresponding Club, Company A, 24th regiment, being in such a desolate place as this, where there are but a very few colored people, would be glad to hear from any one at any time, as they will appreciate it by answering the same John A. Walker is president; Ray Beooks, vice president; Edward H. Isley, secretary; Parris R. Baker, assistant secretary, and Mike H. Henby, treasurer. NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Woman's Educational and Mission Society of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association, that there will be a meeting held at the Mt. Pleasant Baptist church Harrisburg, Ill. Thursday before the 4th Sunday in Feb. 1918 unless the time is extended by the Moderator and the church, and in such case, due and timely notice will be given. Space will be given for the women to transact such business as they see fit in this meeting. We sincerely hope that all will observe the golden opportunity for doing good. Come prepared to influence some one to do more one to do more actual work. Bring your sweet spiritual papers, and bring some money also. Let us strive to do well the work assigned to our hands. Let us shine out above ignorance, superstition and prejudice. Let us strive to be a factor in the great world encouraging education and thrift, lift up the fallen, care for the distressed, comfort the sorrowing and make this district a beacon light for all who are groping in darkness. Your servant for Christ, SPARTA Our church and S. S. are prosperous under the wise leadership of Eld P. B. French. He is a home man but he is making a success both spiritually and financially. We believe that God can use any man to success whom he has called, if the minister and the people will let Him use at the time and in the place that He wants him. "Follow Me," says Christ, and I will make you to become fishers of men and my power will be with you alway. We have had many foreign ministers, and good ones too, but none made the signal success here that our own little Elder has made Thanks be unto God for the victory He has given us thru Jesus. The Supt. Wm. Macklin, was at his post, and the lesson was reviewed by the pastor. The pastor preached an interesting sermon from Luke 8:16. At 7:30 Rev D G. Hutson delivered a sermon from Exodus 14:14 "The Lord shall fight for you and ye shall hold your peace." Mrs. Mary Roberson, is very sick with the chance of recovery decidedly against her. Mrs. Lillie Smith, of St. Louis, Mo is here to stay for a few weeks on the account of her step-mother being sick. J. J. Taylor. COLP. ILL. Dear Editor: Please allow me to express a few words about our work, the work of the women an auxiliary of the General Missionary Baptist of the State of Illinois. We as a band of Baptist believers purposed in our hearts to work in His vineyard. We are willing to sacrifice our time, talent and means as missionaries for the cause since we must work out our own salvation. Today I am appealing to the pastors, presidents of our local circles, and to each individual to bestir themselves in this noble cause. The Harvest truly is ripe and the laborers are few. We want to become more interested about our state work, just to merely represent is not laboring, we have the state to see to. Our National work is in front of us and too our Foreign Missionaries are on the field and it takes Grace, Grit and Greenback to push this. Now my dear Pastors let me urge you to push your sisters that they may do more work for the State. Our next annual meeting will convene in Chicago, with Rev J E. Haywood and his good people. We want every missionary circle in the state to represent in that great meeting. We pledge ourselves as a State to raise $100.00 for the Theological Seminary and Training school at Nashville Term., and $25.00 to the Foreign Mission Board, and besides we have our Home Missionary, sister Bessie Thorburn of Panama Zone Canal to assist, and our own training school Lincoln Height Washington D. C. so you can readily see that it will be necessary for women to rally to enable us to meet our obligations. Every organization is requested to send up a liberal contribution above constitutional requirements at our annual meeting. Now sisters, don't forget our needle work we want to make a large showing in that department, you can make aprons, quilts and other pieces to sell. Yours for the fullest development of the State. M. B. Taylor, Cor. Sec. This office is in receipt of the Woman's Messenger, through the kindness of Mrs. Eva Hooper of Chicago, president of the Baptist Woman's Congress of Illinois and we thank her for same. We have placed it on our exchange list. Mrs. Ezella Mathis Carter is editoress and publisher and is a mothly edition, weich is a neat and newsy little sheet. In our next issue of The Gazette will appear an annual address of Mrs. Eva Hooper, of Chicago, to the Baptist Women's Congress Idea Not Modern. The brass paper fastener which is still used for thick documents was patented in 1867 by a government clerk by the name of G.W. McGill. Yet it was not new, for the Romans used a similar device 2,000 years ago and the modern appliance was a resurrection. W. A. PHILLIPS Walter A. Phillips, authorizes us to announce him as a candidate for the ocee of County Judge, subject to the decision of the voters at the Republican primary. Mr. Phillips, was born and raised in Illinois, near the city of Peoria. He got his education in the university of Iowa. After finishing his course in law he went to Mississippi and took the bar examination to practice there in 1912. He opened an office at Gulport, Miss and St. Louis. Mo., and practiced at both places until he came to Metropolis, in 1916. Since coming to Metropolis, he has conducted a real estate business in which he has been successful. Mr. Phillips, is a born Republican and has voted no other ticket. While at Gulport, he did not vote because a republican had no show among so many democrats. Mr. Phillips, is making the race subject to the Republican primary and if successful or defeated, will still be a republican and will use all his influence to elect the ticket in November. We have just turned out two neat jobs of minutes for the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association and the Illinois General Baptist State Association. At least the printing committee expressed their satisfaction with the work. Though we were somewhat late with the work, we feel very grateful to the printing committee as well as the entire constituents of the Baptist Bratherhood of the two aforesaid associations. The lateness is due to the fact that things have been in such a congested state of affairs that everything has been blocked to our detriment. We hope to see things opened soon. Editors are having a hard time.—Especially the Negro editors, Material has advanced almost out of reach, mail giving bad service, papers reaching their destination late. Complaints coming to this office from every quarter. We wish to inform our patrons that we are doing the best we can under the circumstances, and all we ask in return is for them to do the same with us. Since we have a wife who has stood by us these many years in giving you the best that we could but who is now indisposed and we cant tell how long it will be before she will be able to take her place in the office therefore we earnestly appeal to you to send us some money and help keep the paper going—Editor. GROVER BLAINE ALSTON AP- G. Blaine Alston, the son of Prof. J. D. Alston, Editor of the "Illinois Anchor," a member of 370th Illinois Infantry was appointed First Lieutenant at Camp Logan, Houston, Texas, Alston is a graduate of Duubar High School this city and was at one time Justice of the Peace. Before he was called to the "front" he was a Law Student. The Gazette congregulates Alston and we are sure he will succeed as he is deserving of the honor that is bestowed upon him. We, with his many friends of the city rejoice with his parents and wife. True patriotism. Patriotism is not bourgeoisness nor the depreciation of other nations. The patriotism that tells is that which is felt, not proclaimed. Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. METROPOLIS, . . . . . ILL. ERS. M. J. McCRAY, MANAGER. J. B. McCRAY, EDITOR FRIDAY JAN. 25, 1918. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Entered as second-class mail mat- er, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. B. Address all communications to J. E. McCRAY, Box 107 Metropolis, Illinois. The names and addresses of contrib- tors 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 Sur 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 pay 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 leave 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 Grazette, 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 used 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 Associati on 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 --- Generation That Really Knows What Gladness is Has Not Been Born, Asseerts Church Paper. Some sage has arisen to remark that human life up to about fifty years ago was not worth living—that only the inventions and institutions of the last half century have made life bearable. Unfortunately, there is no way accurately to gauge the degree of happiness of any period or even to define exactly what happiness is, says the Christian Herald. All we can know for certain is that the happiness of our own times is the best that is attainable to us, and lucky is he who gets his share of it. Happiness, like health, is known to us chiefly through its opposite. Health is known through disease and pain, and happiness through disappointment and misery. The masses of mankind, until this century almost dumb, now make heard their sufferings and dissatisfaction. The woes of centuries are finding utterance in the free speech of our day. The wall may cause the unthinking to suppose that the sun of human happiness is suddenly obscured. But, to the contrary, the remedies following the better understanding of wrong conditions steadily improve the conditions under which happiness may become more general. The more we hear of wrongs, the fewer wrongs we have. Philosophers may wrangle about it until doomsday, and no doubt they will; but the age which knows the least earthly misery and woe is the one that has been longest dead, and the generation that really knows what happiness is and can realize its full possession is a long time yet unborn. NEITHER PENCIL NOR PEN Writing Implement, Made of Mixture of Wax and Ground Pumice Stone, Recent Invention. A writing implement composed of a mixture of wax and finely ground pumice stone containing particles of ink has been invented by William C Geer of Akron, O.. to take the place of ordinary and fountain pens, pencls, crayons and all other writing implements, say the Popular Science Monthly. As the body of the new writing device is composed of a mixture of wax and pumice stone, which is easily worn away when rubbed against a paper surface, the inventor claims that the cells of ink intermixed with the wax and pumice stone will also be liberated, giving a uniform supply of ink. The device is made by mixing the wax, pumice stone and ink together. When it is heated to the proper temperature it is suddenly immersed in cold water. This chills and solidifies the wax mixture, producing a body having a cellular structure, each cell being filled with ink. Cactus Candy Louisiana sugar cane planters have evolved a plan for manufacturing candy from the spineless canes. In the process the peel of the plant is removed, dipped into hot molasses and coated with granulated or powdered sugar. The result is a confection of rich and delicious flavor. So successful have been the experiments with the new sweet that cane planters are now growing canes, which formerly was utilized, when used at all, for cattle fodder. Planters can in this way furnish plenty of raw material for the new product. Another important result in the making of what some enterprising advertiser may call "kaktus-kandy," says an exchange, is that sugar mills which have heretofore been idle for nine months in the year can now use part of their equipment in the candy manufacturing industry. Light and Thought Not all thought is travelling. The supposition that when one thinks of the moon one's thought travels to the moon is a mistake, for the thought is formed in the mind and remains there. The time taken to "think of anything," declares a writer, "occupies some small fraction of a second. Light "travels" at the rate of about 180,000 miles a second, and if it is thought which travels in what is called telepathy it would have to travel at the same speed because ether, the medium which transmits light, would also transmit the brain vibrations that accompany thought. The telepathic theory of "thought which travels" has been objected to on the ground that after traveling considerable distances, such as are sometimes claimed for telepathic communication, the brain vibrations would be so diffused and weakened as to make no impression. The Kremlin's Famous Cathedral. For centuries the ear received the crown "from God and the fatherland" in Uspenskly cathedral, in Cathedral square, on the summit of the Kremiln, and in the Cathedral of Archangel Michael are the tombs of many of the emperors down to Peter the Great. In the upper story of the treasury repose the crowns of the early czars, several thrones, war trophies and miscellaneous curiosities. In the insalern is a priceless collection of arms taken in conflict. Within the Kremiln are grouped some of the most beautiful buildings of Russia. Within its walls may be read the architectural history of Russia, while the most interesting sight is the tower of Ivan, raised to a height of 323 feet and crowned by a gilt dome. Sheemaker Finds Eight Hundred Dollars and Gems in Woman's Shoe —Gets Small Reward. Business was good with Engle the sheemaker. Many persons had brought many shoes to his shop to be repaired, and his cash drawer was full of strange silver, says the Arizona Republic. Came a boy early one morning bearing a pair of woman's shoes to be half-soiled. The boy departed. Shortly afterward Engle picked up the woman's shoes. From the toe of one shoe fell a purse, fat and tightly closed. Before the sheemaker had recovered from his astonishment another purse fell from the toe of the other shoe. Two purses, both fat. Engle opened the first fat purse. There was $200 in bills. Then Engle turned to the second purse. From that one came flashing diamonds, necklaces, rings and cardrops. More than $300 worth. The shoemaker gathered up the bills and the diamonds and put them safely away and turned to his work. Counting the bills or admiring the diamonds wouldn't make money for Engle. Then a frantle woman burst into the shoemaker's shop. No need for Engle to inquire what she wanted or why she was frantic. The shoemaker knew. The shoes belonged to her and so did the bills and diamonds and other gems. She had taken her safety deposit vault to the shoe shop. Almost in hysteria the woman recovered her money and jewelry, more than $500 in all. She chased the two purses to her and immediately a great relief spread over her. Placing 50 cents in the hands of Engle the shoemaker the woman left the shop. Engle turned to his shoe repairing. STORMS AND FOREST TREES Timber Meet Firmly Rooted Will Endure Strain Better Than That of Strongest Wood. It is always interesting to watch the effect of storms anywhere, but in the woods these effects are most varied and remarkable, says a writer. It frequently happens that a tornado or hurricane will follow a certain course and level only the trees in this fine, often leaping from place to place. In such cases all trees in its swath suffer or are blown down; but where there is a general very high wind and all trees are hit with about the same force it may be noted that the best rooted ones and not those of the strongest wood survive. Wind resistance of the whole tree has also something to do with the bending character of the trunk and branches, for where these give before the force of the storm they permit the wind to slide off. The hickory, above all, will not yield, and consequently receives the hardest strain against its entire top, whether full leaved or bare. It may be commonly noticed that in a mixed woodland, where a hard wind has driven, there are more hickories down than any other trees. His Apparent Yearn. "I expect to remain at least two weeks if your accommodations prove satisfactory," said the horse-faced gent. "I wish a room with southern and western exposure. I observe that the railroad runs within half a block of the hotel—you will kindly request the company to refrain from blowing their engine whistles in this vicinity. Persons in adjoining rooms should be cautioned about making unnecessary noises. I wish prompt service at meals, and am especially desirous of having strictly fresh peanut butter, Eata-Bitta health food, distilled water, and—" "Uh-buh!" nonchalantly returned the landlord of the Petunia Tavern. "What you want, podner, 'pears to be Ouija board, not plain village board. Well, the—yaw-w-w-wn! — house is full, and I can't accommodate you."—Kansas City Star. No Gracusea in November. It should be a consolation to women who have passed thirty to remember that the most beautiful work of human hands—the Venus de Milo—is the statue of a mature woman, comments a writer. All the Venuses, in fact, are represented as mothers. There is not a young girl in the lot. Among the Greek statues only Psyche could qualify as a Broadway beauty, and even Psyche might appear a little plump and mature to the admirers of the human reedbird. Of course, every woman should fight ugliness to her last hour. She need not lose her beauty at any age. But one does not expect to pick snowdrops or crocuses from the fallen leaves of November, and it is just as futile to hope to look sixteen when you are forty. The Beauty of Truth. Only that which has character is beautiful. Character is the essential truth of any natural object, whether ugly or beautiful; it is even what one might call a double truth, for it is the inner truth translated by the outer truth; it is the soul, the feelings, the idea, expressed by the features of a face, by the gestures, and actions of a human being, by the tones of a sky, by the line of a horizon. Now, to the great artist, everything in nature has character; for the unswerving directions of his observation searches out the hidden meaning of all things. There is nothing ugly in art except that which offers no outer or inner truth—Rodin. 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 meekness 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 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 do 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 50 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." 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 Car Birmingham, Ala., carrying Through Drawing Chair Cars and Conches, with d also Through Drawing-room Sleeping Car Chicago To Sail Its early arrival at Jacksonville insurer 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 car Car, Chicago to New Orleans, with Special features; Barber Shop, Shower Writing Facilities and Telephone Connection to the electric lighted all steel "New Limited" trains, embracing in their e Free Roclining 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 Corporation of the "New Orleans Limited" Lines—Cuba reached through the port the Southern Pacific Lines and United America by ships of the United Formation. Gulpert, Miss., Hot Springs, A Through Drawing room Sleeping Car, Chicago to Hattiesburg (Camp Shelby) the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad from J Car reservation from St. Louis, Thirtears Limited." Chicago to Hot Spring Lines from Memphis, Vickaburg, Miss. literary Park, and is a very interesting place. ILLINOIS Railroad Tickete, reservations, train t may be had of your local ticket agent. H. J. PHELFS, Gen. Laborers WANTED: Laborer Yard; Colored labor also men for repairing wages; piece work; more chance to get steady. Apply to Mt. Ver all, steel daily train Chicago and St. Louis to St. Louis, carrying Through Drawing room Sleeping Car and Coaches, with dining cars serving all drawing-room Sleeping Car. Chicago To Savanna, Georgia, at Jacksonville insures connection with all man those having steamship connection for Havening Car from St. Louis to Jacksonville, via the New Orleans, via The Panama Limited, electric lighted, all steel, no extra-fare Fulfillment, Observation Drawing room Sleeping Cars. Effort to New Orleans, with through Sleeping Car; 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, Buffet Club, Dining Cars and Coaches 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 ing 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, Pr ships of the United Fruit Company—Sailings. Miss., Hot Springs, Arkansas, Vicksburg, ing 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 Humphis, Vicksburg, Miss., contains the Vicksburg in a very interesting place to visit enroute to MILNOIS CENTRAL ate, reservations, train time and specific facts from your local ticket agent). Literature, free for the J. FHELFS, 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 Mig. Mt. Verm 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 Conaches, with dining cars serving all meals on roofthe, also Through Drawing-room Sleeping Car. Chicago To Savanna, Georgia Its early arrival at Jacksonville insures connection with all morning trains for Florida points; also those having steamship 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-fine Fulman train carrying composite and Observation Drawing room Sleeping Cars, Buffet, Carriage Lining Car, Chicago to New Orleans, with through Sleeping Car from St. Louis, Special features; Barber Shop, Shower Bath, Valet Service, Ladies Meid, 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 Roelining Chair Cars, Buffet Club, Dining Cars and Coaches, gives tripable 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 of 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, 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 Ticket, reservations, train time and specific facts from your station may be had of your local ticket agent. Literature, free for the asking. H. J. FHELFS, General Passenger Agent 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 Some men who fail to provide for their families will go so far when corrupted as to tell you that they would never think of usurping this prerogative of the Lord's. Intolerance The truth is, the notion that an intellectual recognition of certain dogmas is the essential condition of salvation lies at the bottom of all intolerance in matters of religion. Under this impression, men are too app to forget that the great end of Christianity is love, and that charity is its crowning virtue; they overlook the beautiful significance of the parable of the heretic Samuritan and the orthodox Pharisee; and thus, by suffering their suspicative opinions of the next world to make them uncharitable and cruel in this they are really the worse for them even admitting them to be true.—Whitier. Milk for Gables. Jersey and Guernsey cows give rich fat-producing milk, and for that reason their milk has been regarded as too rich for infants. 'It is still true that the milk of the Ayrshire and the Holstein is better suited to infants than the Jersey and Guernsey milk, but the cause is not the fat, as has been thought. The fact is that the cause of the Ayrshire and Holstein milk is decidedly more flocculated and not so readily cardied in the stomach, so that it is the most easily digested by children. New Thrill for the Jaded Could personally conducted tourist shipwrecks be scheduled in advance there are doubtless some persons needing a change to whom it would appeal as an added attraction of the ocean voyage. --- Chicago and St. Louis to Jacksonville, via drawing room Sleeping Cars, Free Restraining cars serving all meals on route, car. Vavanna, Georgia connection with all morning trains for ship connection for Havana, Cuba. Alls to Jacksonville, via the "Dixie Flyer" The Panama Limited no extra-fine Fulman train carrying from Sleeping Cars, Puffet, Carrier Line through Sleeping Car from St. Louis, Bath, Valet Service, Ladies Meal, section at Chicago. This in addition to Orleans Special" and "New Orleans Equipment Drawings from Sleeping Cars, Dining Cars and Coaches, gives trip Louis to New Orleans, the gateway to. Mama, 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 Cenruit Company—Sailings subject to con. Arkansas, Vicksburg, Mississippi operated in "New Orleans Special," and Gulport, Miss., in connection with Jackson, Miss., with Through Sleeping Night Sleeping Car operated in "New Orleans; Ark., in connection with Rock Island, contains the Vickers National Millace to visit enroute to New Orleans. CENTRAL Wanted! Cars for our Lumber Cars for our foundry; ing freight cars; good no trouble; now is the work for the winter. Lumber Car Mfg. Co. Mt. Vernon, Ill. KINKY Hair Made to Grow Long, Soft and Silky AUX STAMPS were her hair was mappy and short until she was fond of her hair, now she can comb it. as tall 24 inches long, soft and silky. Don't be fooled all your life by using some fake preparation which claims to tighten kinky hair. You are just foolish yourself, using it. Kinky hair cannot be made straight. You must have hair first. Now this EXELENTO QUININE POMADE is a Hair Grower which feeds the scalp and roots of the hair and makes kinky nappy hair. Hair soft, soft and silky. It cleans dandruff and strips Failing Hair at once. Price 25c by mail on receipt of stamps or coin. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE Write for Particulars EXELENTO MEDICINE CO. ATLANTA, CA. Fortune From Small Invention. The man who was born too early to wear, as a boy, red top boots with a brass tip across the toe was also born too early to feel the true thing in the way of pride run rampant. Silverthorn brass tips, they were called, and they were most serviceable in preventing holes in the toes. Silverthorn made his fortune out of them. All Have Their Burdons Nearly everybody is handicapped in some way. So don't fancy you are unique in having things to put up with and fight against. We are here to fight—and to conquer.—Home Notes. 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. W. P. Washington. 2nd Vice Mod. Eld. C. w. Norton. Recording Sec. Eld. P. B. Franch Corresponding Sec. Eld. J. B. McUrary. Treasurer Eld. H. C. Armstead. Added Members Eld. P. Bomar Cairo E. J. J. E. Haywood Chicago Eld. Jas. Swanson Maywood State Missionary H. E. McWilliams. State Mission Board Chairman Dr. C. C. Phillips Cor. Sec. Eld. J. D. Davis Treasurer Eld. J. E. Haywood Other Members Eld. S. H. Prout Deacon R. Lewis Sister Sallie Thomas Chicago Sister M. Hudgin Cairo Sister J. w. wieston Olmstead Sister Carrie Casy Shawnetown Urban Jackson Rev. J. A. Royal Chicago " L. Drane Chicago Rev. A. J. Bowers Dewmaine Rev. D. Johnson Dewmaine " B. H. Huhter Evanston " K. V. Howard Grand Chain " Robt. Gray Murphyboro " J. L. Martin Coins Deacon J. Simpson Hallidayboro " J. Baker Brookport Eld. Thomas Morris Metropolis Bro. Chas. Skaves Mound City Deacon J. L. Taborn Educational Board Chairman Dr. B J. Priace Chicago Cor. Sec. Sis. Frankie Jenkie Cairo. Sister willie Greyer Colps Sister Emma Patrew Cairo "J. M. Owens Sparta Eld. J. B MoRary Metropolis Committee on Nomination O. C. Phillips J. E. Heywood G. H. Mitchell F. Bomar Sister Stella Dupree "willie Greer "M. B Taylor Elder H. C. Armstead "H. E. Mawilliams 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 Boards 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 Swanson, 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. J. H. Williams, Juncle Eben't Wisdom. "It's a lucky thing to do human race," said Uncle Eben. "dat de Ten Commandments wasn't loaded down wif phraseology like de laws de legis tature passae." A Maryland man cloned with an petheart's twin by mistake, and it happy. This will be a body bloo to soul-matists.—Cleveland Plain UNIFORM MAKES MANY MEN Apparently Dull and Impossible Recruits Quickly Catch on When They Don Khaki Clothes. "Want to see something funny?" asked a lieutenant of a correspondent. The correspondent di. "Well, come over here and watch that beauty drill." The lieutenant led the correspondent over in front of one of the companies. "Watch that man," he said. Watch that man, he said. The man was a red-faced, vacant-looking specimen in civilian clothes, who seemed not gifted with mere ordinary intelligence. He could not stand up straight, could not manage his hands and feet, could not learn right face, right about face or left face. Every time the sergeant gave a command the beauty gave him a silly grin and considered that he had done his duty. So the sergeant took him to one side. "Well, now, we will have a lesson by ourselves. Now watch me." The sergeant was very patient. For half an hour he tried to drum a little intelligence into his pupil's head, but at the end of that time the man was even more confusel than before. The next day the same sergeant said to the correspondent: "Want to see something grand?" The correspondent did. The sergeant pointed to the same man. "Just look at him," he said proudly. The private was standing straight, his eyes were bright, his feet were obedient and he looked like a man. "Wonderful," gasped the correspondent. "What did it?" "It the uniform, bless it," said the sergeant. "It makes men out of the most impossible." "We are all little boys still, aren't we?" mused the correspondent. "I think even I could be a soldier in a uniform. And think of owning a sword!" Slam Attaches Enemy Firms The Slainese government has issued a notification ordering all German and Austrian business firms to be attached and wound up. Among the business houses to be liquidated are three of the leading drug stores in Bangkok, two hotels, two dental offices, one photographic studio, one printing office, one rice milling firm, three general import houses, one rice mill engineering office and one underkaker's establishment. The importance of Germany's grade interest in Slain, notes a correspondent, may be judged from the fact that the imports from that country into Slain through the port of Bangkok amounted to $2,067,266 in the fiscal year ended March 31, 1913, and to $2,453,859 in 1914, while exports of native products from Slain to Germany were valued at $2,110,085 and $2,747,206 during the respective periods. A large share of the shipping was also under German control, so that out of the total number of 914 ships of all nationalities that entered the port of Bangkok during 1914 those of German registry numbered 261 vessels. At the time of Siam's declaration of war on July 22, 1917, the German vessels in the Bangkok harbor consisted of nine steamships, of 11,765 tons; five steam fighters, of 1,317 tons; two tugs, of 55 tons; seven barges and two large coal hulk. Ueos Zone Time at Sea. The French navy having recently adopted the use of standard or zone time at sea, the hydrographic service of the French ministry of marine has just issued a large chart of the world, on the Mercator projection, showing the limits of the standard hour zones on both land and sea, together with other pertinent information, says the Scientific American. The land areas in which standard time is used are indicated by red tinting for the even-numbered zones (beginning with zone 0, in which Greenwich time is used), and blue for the odd-numbered zones. Violet tinting is used in the case of countries such as British India, Nigeria, British East Africa and Venezuela, in which the legal time is intermediate between that of two standard meridians. Countries not using zone time are tinted yellow, and in case they uses a uniform official time the difference between such time and that of Greenwich is indicated, also the location of the observatory, if any, from which the time is taken. No Bermuda Vegetables There will be no fresh Bermuda vegetables this winter. A delegation of Bermuda truck growers who recently called at the shipping board offices in New York in an attempt to secure transportation facilities to their New York market were informed that it was exceedingly doubtful that any vessels would be available for this use. The Bermuda truck crop, which is ready for market about January 1, has reached the New York market heretofore on British bottoms. These ships have been withdrawn for war purposes. War Wrecks Nerves. So terrific is the strain of the present warfare upon the men under fire, writes a correspondent, that nervous and mental disabilities are responsible for one-seventh of all the discharges, while wounds are responsible for one-tirred of all discharges—or about half as many men disabled through nerve-wreckage as by shrapnel. Descriptive Cognomen "What kind of vine is that you have on your wall?" "I don't know its bontanical name, I call it the Bammer vine because it METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. JANUARY. 1918. CANADA HAS PARK BEGINNING OF MAN Permanent Playground Established in Rocky Mountains. Highest Peak, Glaciers, Forest Track Streams and Valleys Form Attracc Canada is following the example of the United States in setting aside tracts of her Rocky mountain region as permanent playgrounds for the people. The latest of those is Jasper park, fur up in the wild Northwest, where the play is still too rough to attract any great hordes of urban dwellers, but which is one of the most beautiful bits of mountain scenery in the world. The building of the Grand Trunk Pacific railroad had a good deal to do with the setting aside of Jasper park. In Jasper park they have fenced in the highest mountain in Canada, an immense tract of virgin forest and hill country, a miscellaneous assortment of nameless glaciers of various sizes, half a dozen big trout streams and numberless little green valleys that look as though they were laid out by a landscape gardener. Thaf the park is still difficult of access and calls for pioneering methods in its exploration is only another recommendation in the eyes of the lover of the out-of-doors. Here also certain important rivers take a humble start in life—such prominent streams as the Saskatchewan and the Columbia. The land looks as untouched and as primitive as Virginia must have appeared to John Smith, but as a matter of fact it has a long and romantic history whose record is still to be written. And may the man who writes it wield a skilful pen and may he possess a real imagination, for his subject deserves it. This region lay for centuries on the boundary of the preserves of two great fur countries—the Hudson's Bay and the Great Western. Here they fought battles without number for the trapping rights—skirmishes between man and man instead of between millions and millions, but all the more full of daring, of strategy, and of adventure for that. And there too, was a favorite hunting ground of those free lances of the wilderness, the free traders, who committed the ultimate sin of bearing allegiance to no company, and many of whom paid for it with their lives. These cold, green glaciers have seen a thousand thrilling dramas played out years before the "explorers" came, for the trappers were too busy to publish accounts of what they found. They were after fun, nevertheless, in Canada as in the "states," they were the men who really opened the West. In Snoreastic Vein. There was a drumming bombardment at Verdun when an American general officer visited the battlefield. Fifteen minutes after he reached the dugout of the colonel, who was to be his host for the day, the telephone wires were cut. They were never reestablished. However, they were not needed. The French advanced systematically. The colonel kept in touch with the rear through his liaison runners. "By and by," said the American, "he released a carrier pigeon. It flew away through the gunfire. The ground was obscured by the clouds of dust and torn earth. Airplanes were swooping overhead pelting us with machine gun fire. The air was filled with vivid flashes from the massed guns. It trembled with the continuous shocks. "Why did you release the pigeon? I asked. 'Have your other means of communication suddenly failed?' "Oh, no," said the colonel, smiling benevolent. "It is only that I am very fond of birds and I thought it would please the pigeon." Doing Their Bit. War tanks carry pigeons for sending out messages in case of need. This is yet another use to which pigeons have been put in this war. The ingenuity of the French in this respect, however, is hard to beat, observes a correspondent. In one of our allies' war museums is an apparatus which shows how the French have attempted to get news from their invaded territories. It consists of a balloon, which carries 40 carrier pigeons. In floating over the land now occupied by the enemy it drops from time to time a little parachute, to which is attached a basket containing a carrier pigeon, an aluminium message holder, several sheets of thin paper, pencil and detailed instructions for use. The finder of the basket, after writing a message, has only to slip it into the holder in the bird's leg and set it free. The homing instinct then allows the pigeon to find its way back to the French lines. Burglarproof Cage A burglarproof cashier's cage, located in a car house in an isolated district, has been installed by the Washington Water Power company, says the Electric Railway Journal. It is described as follows: "The cage is sheathed with iron on the outer walls and the door, and the windows are provided with steel curtains, counter-weighted, which can be lowered for complete protection. In the bottom of each steel curtain is a trap or hinged box which can be swung inside or outside without at any time affording a direct opening into the room. Cash is placed in the trap on the outside, which is swung in to give the cashier access to it. A small peek hole with sliding cover is provided Origin Is Retreating More and More Into the Past. Topic Still Absorbs Interest of Anthropologists and Other Scientists, Each Discovery Renewing Discussion. The antiquity of man is still an absorbing topic among anthropologists and other scientists and fresh discussions arise with each new discovery of ancient human remains. In this connection, it is interesting to note, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger, that Dr. Arthur Keith of Edinburgh, an authority on the subject, believes that the living Australian aborigine is of an older type than any of the fossil remains of modern man found in Europe. The New York Medical Journal says: "The date of the origin of the human species, by each new discovery of missing chapters in its history, is shifted to a more and more remote time. The Neanderthal skull, which, by its prominent supraorbital ridges, its length and flattening from above downward, seemed to link man closely, if loosely, to the higher apes, still had a brain capacity quite equal to that of the average modern man, and on this account pointed to a still more remote beginning of the human being. The brain of the Neanderthal man was not only large but elaborate, and, as shown by the remates of his culture, he possessed fire and made flint implements. Though ancient, he was anything but an ape. "The Heldeberg skull, which resembled the Neanderthal remains but was still more markedly similar in general features, had also a capacious brain case and is believed to have belonged to a creature with comparatively high mental development. The Neanderthal man is placed some 200,000 years back, while the Heldeberg skull is presumed to date to a doubly remote time. "The prehistoric remains found by Doctor Dubois in Java, the bones of Pithecanthropus, as he has been called, were of decidedly earlier geological date, as indicated both by their surroundings and by their own features; the brain case were small and the cranial traits were otherwise more apelike than those of any other known remains. 'All the structural characters of Pithecanthropus, so far as we know them, are exactly of the kind we expect to find in the early ancestral types of man.' The uncarthing of the Java man pushed the date for the origin of the human type backward another period of a few hundred thousand years, or into the Miocene epoch of geological time. "The chain linking modern man directly with an early type similar to the gorilla or chimpanzee seemed to be growing strong until, in 1912, the bones of an ancient man of another type were discovered in England in the Plitvack cave. This, according to Dr. Arthur Keith, who is as great an authority as can be found, is the oldest specimen of true humanity yet discovered." The brain of this being was, in size, at least, up to the modern standard, but otherwise the bones are the most similar recorded." Silver Thimbles in War. Many English women gave their jewels and much money to the war fund, says the Ladies' Home Journal, but there were thousands of others who wished to give and were unable to do so. That is, they were until a wise woman suggested that little trinkets, such as silver thumbnails, be collected and melted down for the silver they contained. Here is what the silver thumbnails purchased in one year: Seven motor ambulances. Five motor hospital boats. Five motor hospitals. One thousand one hundred and ten dollars for hospital supplies. Ten thousand dollars for disabled sailors' agency. Eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars for star and garter fund. Fifty thousand dollars for soldiers and sailors. American women who think they cannot afford to give anything to the various war funds might find these facts interesting. Serious Casualty List Serious Casualty List. In the domestic relations court of New York Mrs. Annette Busy was a witness against her husband, James, who was present to respond to the boast: "Work—done or avoided." Mr. Busy allowed that he is a carpenter, hampered by an education of the most classical type. "The fact of the matter is," he explained, "that I have sought work rather constantly until lately. I have been disheartened by the fact that I could not get work such as I deserve. I do not like carpentry, and I can speak five languages. I want a good situation or none." "Five languages," sneered Mrs. Busy. "What good are they? Four of them are dead and the other wounded." Dynamite Savea Potatoes. A resourceful farmer found a new way to use dynamite and saved a nearly matured crop of potatoes in a badly flooded field, says the Scientific American. Usually heavy rains filled all the neighborhood drains and ditches; in his emergency the owner put down a number of boles eight to twelve feet deep with a post nuger and exploded a charge of dynamite in the bottom of each. This opened-up passages into the sandy sub-sol, through which the surplus water drained rapidly, and the crop was saved, although many nearby crops were ruined by the acres of A Money-Saving Proposition ST. LOUIS Globe-Democrat DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, SIX DAYS A WEEK ONE WHOLE YEAR FOR ONLY IN COMPLETE CLUES OF THREE OR MORE This real bargain offer is open to you and your friends on the following bases only: You and they are to receive the paper via rural or street mail delivery or at a post office where there is no Daily Globe-Denocrat news dealers. The regular price of the Daily Globe-Denocrat, without Sunday, is $5 co per year. A special rural rate on yearly subscriptions only, of $3 co per year is made. 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The other day a famous author was telling me how he felt when his first story was accepted. He said that within a few minutes the thought flashed across his mind, that he could not stop—but must go on. One good story must be followed by another and another and another—also his reputation would die and he would be humiliated. He said that the feeling was not exactly comfortable—that the prospect was in a way terrible. "Being successful," he said, "is not easy. The successful man advertises to the world that he can do certain things well—and he must go on making good or back off the map. It is a great sensation, a great experience—worth almost anything—but it isn't a snap." It is the same way in business, says a writer in the American Magazin. The salesman who sets a high mark has to go right out and beat that mark or suffer by comparison with his own record. He can't sit down in a rocking chair and devote the rest of his life to receiving congratulations. Have you ever sat in a restaurant and compared your job with that of a waiter? Tay it some time. No matter what your work is I am sure you will see the point if you watch the waiter and think how exactly his job typifies yours. Take, for example, my job—that of an editor. An editor's job is exactly like that of a waiter. He has to go and get something good and bring it in. And after he has brought it in he has to go right out and get something more and bring that in. The minute he sits down or stops to talk unnecessarily with the guests, he ceases to give as good service as before. Then the guests who praised him a moment ago begin to growl. And so, almost immediately, he has turned from a good servant into a poor one. This fits any line of human activity. A continuous performance is what is wanted. Nothing else counts. JUDICIAL SYSTEMS ARE OLD Men Wrangled Over Rights and Wrongs From Time They Began to Live Together. The concrete beginning of a systemized judiciary, writes Lewis M. 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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. 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 $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's catarrh cure is the oily positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's catarrh is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. cHENEY & cO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. NOTICE Elder J. H. Hilly, Missionary for Mt. Olive Baptist Associatio postoffice address, is Colp, Ill. 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. 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. Prof. McCieland Smith, is some what indisposed this week. Miss Maud Porter, who teaches in Golconda, spent the week-end with her grand-parents. News reached this office of the death of Jerry Tranzor, a brother of Alex Tranzor of this city, who was shot and instantly killed in Centralia last week Geo. Jamison, a brother-in-law left to attend the funeral. More particulars next week. Rev. G. W. Rowlett, was called Tuesday to St Louis. Mo., to attend the bed-side of his sister, Mrs. Anna Yard. We wish for her a speedy recovery. Miss Netta Blackwell, of Murphysboro, arrived in this city Sunday to visit parents and friends. Mrs. Blanche Blakeinore, formerly of this city, but now of Evansville, Ind is in the city the guest of her mother, Mrs. Chas. Criggs. Mrs. Nannie King, of Unionville, is in the city attending to the wishes of her mother, Mrs. Nannie Jones, who is indisposed. Mother Tossey still remains very feeble. Mrs. Daisy Sivels, of Dewmaine was in the city a few days this week the guest of Mtss Naomi Alston. Eld Thos, Turner is at home from Tennessee on account of the illness of his daughter, Eliza. Mrs. Laura Hutchinson returned from St. Louis, Mo. Tuesday, She left Adell Renfro very sick. We wish to acknowledge the receipt of a large wall map of the United States from Congressman T. S. Williams, for which we thank him as it is the very thing for this office. We thank Mrs. J. F. Moore, of Harrisbug, for the $2.50 back subscription sent to this office this week. It eame in the nick of time while we are snowbound. The one redeeming feature of our Race, is, most of our women are honest and a debt never gets too old for them to pay, or try and they never refuse to pay or to frame up some flimsy excuse to evade paying their honest debts like most of our men will do, and it is too largely true of our ministers and professional men. How can we ever make any headway in Race enterprices With this lack of honesty or disregard for our word and obligation to racial development along business lines. You would be astonished if we were to print the names of our leaders? who make loud and long windy speeches and who appear to stand for something in society, in church and in the community, who will not pay any honest debt whatever, but are loud mouthed in demanding what they think are theirs. Oh thou hypocrite, thou art weighed in the balance and are found wanting. Say, really be true and send in a remittance ere death WALTER ROBERTS. SOLICITOR. Master in Chancery Sale. In the Circuit Court of said County, January Term A. D. 1918. Lillie V. Gowan Vs. 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, A, D, 1918 at the east door of the Court house in the City of Metropolis, County of Massac and State of ill., sell 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 thence West One Hundred Forty (140) feet; thence South Two Hundredd (200) feet to place of beginning, except a part of above sold to Blaine and Ida Martin recorded in Vol. "26" page 469 in the recorders office of Massac County ill., being 50 feet off N. Side of said tract, situated in the County of Massac and State of Illinois. Terms of sale, Cash in hand. Dated this 17th day of January A. D. 1918. S. BARTLETT KERB, Master in Chancery. WHERE BITES ARE TREATED Mission Dispensaries Cure Many Africans Who Sustain All Manner of Dangerous Injuries. Africans go to the mission dispensaries to be cured of bites from all kinds of animals, and a large number of them are cured. The commonest bites are from snakes, say a writer in World Outlook. In Inhambane are 18 to 20 varieties of poisonous snakes, some very deadly, whose bites mean a fight for life. Hyenas kill or carry off hundreds of children each year, and most of those who are rescued have terrible scalp wounds, as the hyena carries a child by the head. Other biting pests of the region are lions, from whom few escape alive; scorpions, very poisonous and fond of getting into beds; hypo files, large files that in biting take huge pieces of flesh and cause great swellings; sharks, of which the bay is full. But the most common, bite and seemingly the hardest to heal, is the human bit. The Africans when they get angry use their teeth to good advantage. There is scarcely a morning that several do not come to the dispensary. One boy had his lower lip bit off, and for him a new lip was made. Woman Suffrage. It was in the early days of the advanced movement of woman suffrage, muses an exchange, when by the magistrate's orders a number of "enthusiasts" went to Holloway jail. Among them was a most excellent charwoman who was employed at Clement's inn. A sympathetic meeting was held on their release, at which the chairman spoke in eloquent terms. "Here you have," he remarked, "a body of deficately nurtured, earnest-minded women who, for some trifling interaction of the law, find themselves condemned to prison, and there for the first time in their lives—" "Beg pardon, sir, for interrupting," said the charwoman, jumping up hastily, "but I think I ought to tell you that I did once get seven days for banging my old man on the nose!" 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 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 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 then 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 ..... J B. McCrary, Metropolis Corresponding Secretary ..... J, D. Davis, Colp Treasurer ..... 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 Metropolis " 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 Outings Florida, via The Seminole Limited Electric lighted, all, steel daily train Chicago and St. Louis to Birmingham, Ala., carrying Through Drawing room Sleeping elining Chair Cars and Coaches, with dining cars serving all also Through Drawing-room Sleeping Car. all, steel daily train Chicago and St. Louis to Omaha, 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 Birningham, Ala., carrying Through Drawing room Sleeping Cars, Free Recycling 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 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 roving Car, Chicago to New Orleans, with Special features; Barber Shop, Showroom, Writing Facilities and Telephone Connexion to the electric lighted all steel "New Limited" trains, embracing in their e Free Recycling Chair Cars, Buffet 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 Generated 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 J Car reservation from St. Louis, Throwears Limited," Chicago to Hot Spring Lines from Memphis, Vicksburg, Missouri Park, and is a very interesting place. ILLINOIS Railroad Tickets, reservations, trin t may be had of your local ticket agenii. H. J. PHELPS, Gen. Laborers 'WANTED: Laboree Yard; Colored labor also men for repairing wages; piece work; more chance to get steady. Apply to Mt. Ver New Orleans, via The Panama Limited, electric lighted, all steel, no extra-fare Fullmast Observation Drawing room Sleeping Cars, Fuffalo 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, Buffet Club, Dining Cars and Cosem 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 long 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, Packages of the United Fruit Company—Sailings Miss., Hot Springs, Arkansas, Vickskurg, long room Sleeping Car, operated in "New Orleans (Camp Shelby) and Gulport, Miss., in Island Railroad from Jackson, Miss., 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 ILINOIS CENTRAL. Tests, reservations, train time and specific facts from your local ticket agenii. Literature, free for the J. PHELPS, General Passenger A Oorers Want ED: Laborers for our Colored laborers for our train for repairing freight cars piece work; no trouble; no to get steady work for the way to Mt. Vernon Car Mfg. Mt. Verm Its early arrival at Jacksonville insures connection with all morning trains for Florida points; also those having steamship 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 Fullman train carrying composite and Observation Drawing room Sleeping Cars, Erffet, Car and Lining 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, Buffet Club, Dining Cars and Coaches, gives triple 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, Panama and Central America by ships of the United Fruit Company—Sailings subject to confirmation. Gulport, Miss., Hot Springs, Arkansas, Vickslburg, 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, Vickslburg, Miss., contains the Vickslburg 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. The Improvident One. Some men who fail to provide for their families will go so far when cornered as to tell you that they would never think of usurping this prerogative of the Lord's. Intolerance. The truth is, the notion that an intellectual recognition of certain dogmas is the essential condition of salvation lies at the bottom of all intolerance in matters of religion. Under this impression, men are too apt to forget that the great end of Christianity is love, and that charity is its crowning virtue; they overlook the beautiful significance of the parable of the heretic Samaritan and the orthodox Pharisee; and thus, by suffering their speculative opinions of the next world to make them uncharitable and cruel in that they are really the worse for them, even admitting them to be true.—Whittier. Milk for Babice. Jersey and Guernsey cows give rich fat-producing milk, and for that reason their milk has been regarded as too rich for infants. It is still true that the milk of the Ayrshire and the Holstein is better suited to infants than the Jersey and Guernsey milk, but the cause is not the fat, as has been thought. The fact is that the casein of the Ayrshire and Holstein milk is decidedly more flocculated and not so readily cardied in the stomach, so that it is the most easily digested by children. New Thrill for the Jaded New Thrill for the Jaded. Could personally conducted tourist shipwrecks be scheduled in advance there are doubtless some persons needing a change to whom it would appeal as an added attraction of the ocean voyage. --- chicago and St. Louis to Jacksonville, via Drawing room Sleeping Cars, Free Refining cars serving all meals en route, ar. The Panama Limited has extra-fare Fulman train carrying from Sleeping Cars, Etflet, Car and Lau- t through Sleeping Car from St. Louis. Bath, Valet Service, Ladies' Maid, section at Chicago. This in addition to Orleans Special" and "New Orleans equipment Drawing room Sleeping Cars, Dining Cars and Conches, gives trip Louis to New Orleans, the gateway to Panama, Central and South America with trains for Texas and California; connection in Union Station. Also a Chicago to Houston and San Antonio cap- in connection with the Southern Pacific set of New Orleans by steamships of Fruit Company, Panama, and Cen- uit Company—Sailings subject to con- kansas, Vicksturg, Mississippi operated in "New Orleans Special," and Gulport, Miss., in connection with Jackson, Miss., with Through Sleeping high Sleeping Car operated in "New Or- s., Ark., in connection with Rock Island, contains the Vicksburg National Mill- ace to visit enroute to New Orleans. CENTRAL Same and specific facts from your station Literature, free for the asking. General Passenger Agent Wanted! Cars for our Lumber Rivers for our foundry; ing freight cars; good to trouble; now is the work for the winter. Lion Car Mfg. Co. Mt. Vernon, Ill. KINKY Hair Made to Grow Long, Soft and Silky ARKY ST. ALBERT now her hair was warm and short until she was熟睡. Yourself long, now she can comb it. as this 24 inches long, soft and silky. Don't be fooled all your life by using some fake preparation which claims to tighten kinky hair. You are just fooling yourself and sting it. Kinky hair cannot be made straight. You must have hair first. Now this EXELENTO OUININE POMADE is a Hair Grower which feeds the scalp and roots of the bair and makes kinky nappy hair long, soft and silky. It cleans dandruff and sting. Failing Hair at once. Price 25s by mail on receipt of stamps or coin. AGENTS WANTED EVERWHERE Write for Particulars EXELENTO MEDICINE CO. ATLANTA, GA. Fortune From Small Invasion The man who was born too early to wear, as a boy, red top boots with a brass tip across the toe was also born too early to feel the true thing in the way of pride run rampant. Silverthorn brass tips, they were called, and they were most serviceable in preventing holes in the toes. Silverthorn made his fortune out of them. All Have Their Burdena All have their burdens. Nearly everybody is handled in some way. So don't fancy you are unique in having things to put up with and fight against. We are here to fight—and to conquer—Home Notes.