Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE Who Is John D. Rockefeller, Jr.? Editor Metropolis Gazette: It is somewhat amusing to see what great delight the paper takes in spreading the news as to what John D. Rockefeller says about baptism in some sort of a missionary meeting in N. Y. Presumably in Dec. 1916 or in Jan. 1918, this "Rich Young Ruler," says among other things, that immersion is not necessary for church membership. Mr. J. D. Rockefeller, Jr., is no more authority against the inspired Word, than the poorest tramp that passes up and down the R. R. What has he to commend himself but his wealth, and his self conceit? One must have an undue amount of conceit to declare the words of "The King in Zion" of no effect, and lay claim to membership in a Baptist church. We remember of seeing in the papers that J. D. R., Jr. taught a class in the S. S. This is good as far as it goes, or rather so far as he taught the right things. But he is unlike the Rich Young Ruler spoken of in Lk. that went to the Saviour to ascertain the terms of eternal life. After being advised as to what he would have to do he did not contradict the Saviour's word, but went away sorrowful, because he was very rich. But J. D. R. Jr., contradicts the written word of Jesus. Ha is very rich too; Had a very poor S. S. teacher made the expression that Mr. J. D. R. Jr., is quoted as having made, it would hardly been noticed; except by the church that holds his membership. The differ ence of this farfetched statement is not between J. D. R. Jr., and the Baptists, but it lies between he and "The Law-giver, the King in Zion," who says My Church, Matt. 16:18, etc. Matt. 28:19, reads: "Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son, and the Holy Ghost," etc. Look out! some body is mistaken here. We will leave it to the reader as to who it is that is mistaken, Mr. Rockefeller, perhaps is like a number of others that has an idea that the war will obliterate all denominational difference and the churches will all come together as as one "Big Church." There are three things for all denominations to do, to have "One Big Church" and that is to contend for a "New Testament Church, New Testament Government, and a New Testament Administrator." We may say just contend for a New Testament Church and that will include the other two elements. Baptists have ever contended for the "One Lord, One Faith and One Baptism." Her principles are purely democracy. Her principles are blood bought. Our country today is engaged in the greatest war known to history, with Germany and her allied forces for the purpose of establishing a world wide democracy. In other words to fashion the world-wide government on the order of the Baptist church. Read what the ate George Washington; the first serving promoters of our gloriously revolution. I can not hesitate to believe that that they will be faithful supporters of a free, yet efficient General Government. Under this pleasing expectation I rejoice to assure them that they may rely on my best wishes and endeavor to advance their prosperity. In the meantime be assured Gentlemen, that I entertain a proper sense of your fervent usplication to God for my temporal and eternal happiness. George Washington "The World's Debt to the Baptists Old South Leaflets Vol. 3 ppp. 4, 5. We wish to cite a bit more of history which reads "The first amendment to our constitution was secured the efforts Baptists. A considerable number of representative Baptists met in Richmond, Virginia Aug. 8th, 1789. At this meeting they petitioned General Washington to secure an amendment to the Constitution which would further guarantee and protect the religious rights of all citizens. The kindly offices of Mr. Adams were secured, and a month later, with the approval of General Washington a bill was introduced in the House of Representatives to amend the Constitution. This bill was passed September 23, 1789, and subsequently ratified by the States. It is worthy of note that the Baptist denomination was the only religious one that urged the passage of this amendment. The late late Thomas Jefferson, is quoted in the same book as follows: "I consider it (Bapt. Church Government) the only form of pure democracy that now exists in the world MOTTO : THEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY and have concluded that it will be the best form of government for the American colonies." And to day we are in the greatest war known in the annals of history; to adopt the Jeffersonian views, for the whole world, which views, Mr. Jefferson observed at a Baptist meeting. All Baptists need to sustain their views in the Bible, history and philology. Baptists are not ashamed of the blood stained banner of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, which bears the quondruple declaration: One Lord. One Faith, One Baptism, and That Ye Should Contend For The Faith Which Was Delivered To The Saints. We assert with the kindest feelings to all God's children, regardless as to what denominations they are connected but fidelity to truth, constrains to say that a multiplicity of denominations is an evil. Th world stands off to-day amazing and gazing on tee many plans of salvation, and the different doctrines to sustain them. This by no mean, signifies that they are all wrong. Jesus established one church while on earth, and He says in his wrd, the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. It is of a devine origin, and is in the world to stay until He comes. "Search the Scriptures." The statement of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., as to the non essentiality of baptism in order to become a member of the Baptist church, reminds me of a remark our good friend Elder S. H. Gibson, of Bloomington, made atone of our Baptist meetings when in this part of the state, while discussing the proper administrator and valid baptism. He said, if a monkey baptized a person that he would take him into the church. We said he was wrong on that point then, and we are of the same opinion now, and we entertain the same toward Rockefeller, Jr., as departing from Landmark of the Baptists, (Bible.)-Editor. Appeal To The Voter. Mr. Voter, on April Second you will help elect a Road Commissioner. Get the best. Eleven years ago I was elected in the country and served nine years. Up to that time the Jonesboro Road was a mud lane. I built the Jonesboro gravel road-first in the county with public money. Most of the time since it has been the best in the county. It is still in good shape. I built the first concrete abutments to road bridges in the county. This was before the county bridges were built. I built the first concrete culvert, on public roads in Massac county. I have served for two years as Street Commissioner in the City of Metropolis. We built seventy of blocks of gravel streets during my time in that office. I am not burdened with a farm like most of my opponents. When a farmer is needed on his farm it is just the a man is needed on the road. The man who gives the roads of District No.6 the attention they deserve has no time to work at any other jobs. Pledging you my best service if elected and thanking you for your vote and influence, I am, very respectfully, As Others Sees Us. Chicago, Ill., Feb. 16, 1918 Rev. J. B. McCraty, Dear Sir, Enclosed please find $1 50 as a renewal of my subscription for The Gazette, and allow me to add that you deserve much credit and praise for keeping alive your paper for two decades in so sparcely settled territory. Am feeling fine, hope you and family are well. Will write more soon Yours truly, Wm. Wheeler ```markdown ``` To Be Held With Corrinthian Baptist Sunday School, Mt. Vernon, Illinois March 30th and 31st, 1918 Saturday Morning, 8:30 Institute called to order by President A. H. Bradley, DuQuoin, Illinois Devotionals conducted by Mt. Vernon, and O Representatives. Topic What is the best Method of Financing the Teacher of Mt. Zion Sunday School, Dewmaine, Topic, What forms of Publicity are Open to the School, and How Can They be Promoted Teacher of Paul Chapel Sunday School, Marion, Topic, Can one Create the Spirit of Cordiality a pitality in a Sunday School When it Seems to be Teacher of Central Baptist Sunday School, Centr Topic. How Can I Improve our Sunday School Teacher of Shiloh, Baptist Sunday School Mun Topic, What Can the Sunday School Do With Whose Parents Are Not Interested? Teacher of Mt. Zion Sunday School Hallidayboro Examination on the primary books of the Teach- ing Course conducted by Institute conductor, EL Gray, Murphysboro, Ill. Mt. Vernon, and Centralia, School of Financing the S. S.? School, Dewmaine, Ill. City are Open to the Sunday They be Promoted? Day School, Marion, Ill. Spirit of Cordiality and Hos- chen it Seems to be Lacking? Sunday School, Centralia, Ill. Our Sunday School Music? Sunday School Murphysboro Day School Do With Children rested? School Hallidayboro. Books of the Teachers Train- itute conductor, Eld. Robt. Teacher of Paul Chapel Sunday School, Marion, Ill. Topic, Can one Create the Spirit of Cordiality and Hospitality in a Sunday School When it Seems to be Lacking? Teacher of Central Baptist Sunday School, Centralia, Ill. Topic. How Can I Improve our Sunday School Music? Teacher of Shiloh, Baptist Sunday School Murphysboro Topic, What Can the Sunday School Do With Children Whose Parents Are Not Interested? Teacher of Mt. Zion Sunday School Hallidayboro. Examination on the primary books of the Teachers Training Course conducted by Institute conductor, Eld. Robt. Gray, Murphysboro, Ill. Saturday Evening, 8:00. Sunday Morning, 9:00 Sunday School. Sunday Morning at 11:00 Sermon, Rev. G. H. Mt. Vernon, Ill. ermon, Rev. G. H. Mitchell. Sunday School. Sunday Morning at 11:00 Sermon, Rev. G. H. Mitchell Mt. Vernon, Ill. Sunday Afternoon, 3:00 Literary Program. 3:00 6:30 P. M., B. Y. P. U. Work. Mrs. Vina Frison, Murphysboro, Ill. Sunday Night, 8:00 Sermon. Committee ELLEN E. HUNTER, G. V VIVIAN CROSS, E. M. L. MATTIE FULTON. Eight, 8:00 N. E. HUNTER, G. V. UTLEY N. CROSS, E. M. LONG. JE FULTON. Committee { ELLEN E. HUNTER, G. V. UTLEY VIVIAN CROSS, E. M. LONG, MATTE FULTON. Judge K. C. Ronalds Judge K. C. Ronalds, of Saline county, is a candidate for the Republican nomination for the Legislature from 51st Senatorial District. He was a member of the 44th General Assembly Judge Ronalds, was County Judge of Saline county, from 1910 to 1914. An extended writeup will follow later. Soon French Expect To See German Tanks- Mr. and Mrs. Nellie Lyons, of this city. His father having preceded him only a few months ago. The uneral was attended at the A. M. E. church Monday afternoon by pastor Rev. I. S. Stone He leaves a mother, three sisters, two brothers, three children and a host of friends and relatives to mourn their loss. The Gazette extends sympathy to the family. Peace to his dust. With the French armies in the Field, Jan, 15 — (By Mail) Though no German thinks have yet appeared on the front, documents and letters taken from captured Germans now identify the first detachment of these weapons at Wunsdorf, possibly a training center, sixteen miles south of Berlin. So far as known three detachments of German tanks now exist the third destined for the Turkish front, possibly against the British, as indicated in the fol- --- 528-536 So. 5th Ave. We thank Bro. Wheeler, for the $1.50, also for compliments paid us. Hope to hear from him at any time —Editor: Died As chronicled in our last week's issue, Lonnie Lyons passed into Eternity Thursday of last week, after a few months sufferng with consumption. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Nellie Lyons, of this city. His father having preceded him only a few months ago The uneral was attended at the A. M. E, church Monday afternoon by pastor Rev. I.S. Stone He leaves a mother, three sisters, two brothers, three children and a host of friends and relatives to mourn their loss. The Gazette extends sympathy to the family. Peace to his dust. INTERESTING SERVI VIGES SUNDAY P. M. Sunday afternoon at 3:00 P. M. Edgar S. B. McCrary made his debut before a large and attentive audience as a Minister of the Gospel. Rev. G. W. Rowlett was Master of Ceremonies and after brief, but pointed preliminaries introduced Rev. Thos. Morris, pastor of the Antioch Baptist church, who read a portion of the 14th chapter of St. John and the choir sang a favorite of the speaker, and he then selected the latter clause of the 33rd verse of the 16th chapter of St. John. He preached a strong gospel sermon. The Holy Spirit was in our midst and church was set on fire from the pulpit to the door. Rev. I. S. Stone, pastor of the A. M. E. Church offered prayer; then the Revs. Rowlett and Morris made encouraging remarks to Mr. McCrary setting forth the trials and tribulations he will come in contact with along the way as a servant of God, but their advice was, "Be of Good Cheer, and Watch and Pray. The choir was at its best and rendered excellent music. lowing letter written by a German under officer from Berlin on November 18: "My Dear Adolphe, "I write to announoe that I will not return to the regiment. I visited the doctor yesterday and I have been declared fit for tropical service. I will leave immediately for Turkey. Monday or Tuesday I will rejoin the third detachment of tanks (Stuurtpanzer Kraftwagon- Abeilung) at Berlin Lankwitz." A previous letter written by same under officer on November 13, announced his transfer to the tank service: "I learn that I am to be with the turks. What a strange calling for an old soldier. I will give more details later. It is well when one can reach the trenches behind a plate of armor. However, it is certain death! We have seen what the English have done with their tanks. We will do the same thing. Don't write to me until you receive my new address." The new German tanks, accurate information are heavily armored and carry both machine guns and cannon. The caterpillar wheels are entirely hidden by armor plate which converges into a sharp projection at the front. Obituary Metropolis, Ill. Feb. 28, 1918. Mrs. Saphronia Martin, daughter of Mr. David and Mrs. Winnie McCaskell, was born in Dover Tennessee, where she was reared to woman-hood. She moved to Metropolis when quite young. She was married to the late Mr. John Martin, June 20, 1884. To this union were born three children, namely:—Miss Lavada Martin, of Metropolis, Mrs. Beatrice Rodgers, of Indiana Harbor Ind. and Maurice Martin, of Metropolis, all of whom survive Mrs. Bettie Wilkerson, of Mt. Vernon, Ill. President of the W. E. & M. General Baptist State Conveetion of Illinois. She professed a hope in Christ 1903 under the pastorate of Rev. A. J. Cromwell, and was baptized and joined, the then African Baptist church, now the First Baptist and remained true to her covenant until death claimed her. She had been in failing health for several months, but was confined to her room and bed only a short time, during her illness she was cheerful and had the presence of mind to arrange her business and plans for her funeral, being conscious of her death and only waited for the end to come with perfect composure of mind and utmost confidence in God and Jesus Christ who had promised to give her eternal life. She departed this life Tuesday at 3:20 p.m. She leaves to mourn their loss three children above mentioned, one brother Mitchell Barnes, of Paducah, Ky. several relatives and friends. Peace to her ashes. The funeral was attended by Elder G. W. Rowlett, assisted by Revs. J. B. McCrary, and I. S. Stone. Thursday after-noon from the Baptist church, in the presence of a large congregation. Many beautiful floral offerings were presented. SPARTA Allow me to say a few words about our Sunday School. It was opened at 9:30 by the Supt. and the lesson was nicely reviewed by Eugene Wallace. After the Missionary made his report, some brief remarks were made by Bro James Honsley, at 11 o'clock the pastor Rev. P. B. French preached. At 7:45 Rev. D. G. Hutson, preached to us from St Luke 6:48, "For it was founded upon a Rock," were the words used. The writer wishes to correct the finance report sent in last week, of the revival meeting we had two weeks ago, during the revival we realized $71.55, and donated to Rev. Young $47.25. Mrs. Sallie Williams, who has been to St. Louis under the care of the physician has returned and is feeling much better. Mrs. Anna Owens, who was stricken with paralysis is much better at this writing. Bro Jas. Honsley of Harrisburg united with the New Hope Baptist church. Mr. Albert Wilma ms who was en-route to join his wife in St. Louis, was much surprised to pass each other at a point between Sparta and St. Louis. PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. METROPOLIS, - - - - - WL. M@RS.M. J. MCCRARY, MANAGER. J.B. 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Snbject to the Republican Primary September 11, 191s. Assessor and Treasurer. © We are authorized to'announce John Kotter, Bibea candidate for Assessor and Treamrer of BU Geeky tinct, vcbject to the: Repur- _ Bean Primary September 1, 198 «. Assessor and Treasurer We are authorized to announce El- mer Brown) as % candidate for Asses- sor and Treasurer of Massac County, subject to the Republican Primary Sept. lth. Road CONMISSIONER, Samoe! 1. Johnson, announces asa eandidate for single Highway Commis, soner in District 6. Election Tuesday April 2nd, We are authorized to anuounce R. WS. Mizeii, as a cannidate for single Highway Commissioner in District 6 Reetion Apri! 2nd. ROAD CLERK \We are authorized to announce ira Morgan, <4 8 candidate for Road Clerk of District 6 ection Tuesday April and. FOR ALDERMAN “We are authorized to announce the name of JOUR 8. ANDERSON, as a cardidate for re- “election for Alderman of the First, Ward “Blection ‘Tuesday April wth 1918 We are authorized to announce Edgar Or- ngton ax a canidate for Alderman of the First Ward. Election Tuesday April 16. We are authorized to announce Ontrue Cow- as Acandidate for Alderman of the First rd, Election Tuesday April 16th 1918, WRemember, the paper is $1.50 ‘per year, The paper has taken amother raise, postage will be uigher, 3c for stamps and 2c for post cards. So please pay up. Fried Fish every day at th Grand Leader Cate ' = rialr g é i u 4 {Made to Grow ia” Fi Long, Soft : ‘and Silky “ eae aes = Beaees exete Ente) SS sieasite : tbe fooled all your Tife by using ome fake preparacon which claims fostraighten Kinky hair. You are just fooling’ yourself by "using It. Kinky hale cantor be made. straight. Yoo fiuat have halt first, Now this EXELENTO ?omist ADE is a Hair Grower which feeds the scalp fsud'roots of the halt and snakes Kinky BSleane dsndgott nada soe otence Dries 28e by mailon Feceipt of stamps or coins AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE ‘Write tr Pertienters SxELE-T0 mrDicine CO, ATLANTA, GA, : $100 Reward, $100. |The readgrs of this paper will, be | pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has beet able to cure in all ite stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's catarah cure is the oely postive cure now new known | to the medical fraternity. catarrh he- ing a constitutional disease, requires a ‘constitutional treatment. Hall's Ca- tarrh is taken internally, acting direct- ly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destioying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in do- ing 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 & c0., Tole. do, 0 Sold by all Druggists, 75 ‘Take Hall's Family Pills for consti- pation. Sunday asit has been several weeks since he was with them and every one knows why. Miss Maud Porter, was called iro.n ner school at Golconda, to the bedside of her graad-iather Mr. Green Hodge. Mrs. Sallie Dobson returned from Paducah, Ky. where she has been attending the bedside of her daughter. Monroe Beard, is in the city from St. Louis Earnest Moore, of Paducah Ky. is in the city visiting his par- ents, Mr. ond Mrs. Henry. Moore Mrs. Mabel Routen, isin Pa- ducah, Ky. this week visiting a sick cousin We want to put The Gazette nto 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 Mrs, Richard Winston, is in Lovejoy, visiting her daughters Mesdames” Addie Frizzell and Ora Cok Edgar S. B. McCrary, assist- ant editor of the Gazette, left last Saturday ona business tour for the paper and reports a favorable reception in Colp This office just turned out some programs for the 2nd quarterly meeting ofthe East Mt, Olive Baptist S. Institute, for which we extend thanks. Piease psy up your subscrip- tion, Can you afford to loose your race papers for want ol sup- port? Itis up to you. What are you going to do about it Mr non payer? Decide by paying up please. Mrs. Harriett Jefferson, of E. St. Louis, was called here Sun- day to attend the funeral of her son-in-law Lonnie Lyons, whe was buried Monday. Mack Cork, left for St. Leuis, Mo. Monday on business. Thos. Harmon, is at Mermet, this week finishing up a house for Bradford, sen-in-law of Robt. Lowery. If you have any Race pride and levefor truth, you will pay your subscription. Weare toiling day and night to give you the news. We solicit your patronage at the Leader 900 Pearl St, Mrs Birdie Hopson is at home at the bedside of her father Rev. Green Hodge who is seriously sick at his home on North Broad- way. ‘ Mrs. Rosa Shannon is at home from Gary Ind. visiting her par- ents Mr. and Mrs, Versie Shan- non, 5 Mrs, Earnest Nichols, is indis- posed at her home on 7th St. Rev. J. H_ Dixon, is at home from Camp Logan, Houston Tex- as, where he has been in service for the government, Mrs, Louvenia Tranzor, is vis- iting her husband Mr. Alexander Tranzor in Centralia Mr. John Smith, arrived in the city trom Camp Logan, Houstoe Texas, where be has been in ser- vice forthe government. Rev, Wa, Young, passed thru ithe city enroute to his charge at Murphysboro Eider J. B- McCrary. and Rev. Berry Thomas were called to Mermet Sunday to preach the funeral of Clifford Bridges, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Bridges, who died at a Training Camp at Newport News, Va The funeral was largely attended, and was heyd at Mt. Hebrom church, near Round Knob Rev. and Mrs. M. S. McCauley of Dyersburg, Tenn are moving to this city, We welcome them. Rev, Stegar, of Coulterville, il is preaching for afew nights atthe Free Baptist church Rev. J.B. McCrary, will at- tend the Executive Board meeting of the Last Mt. Olive Baptist Association at Centralia next week. Those who owe us be prepared. to settle the account. Mr. Mitchell Barnes, cf Padu- cah, Ky. attended the funeral ct his sister Mrs. Saphronia Martin Thursday COLP { On leaving Metropolis, J met on the train, Mr. G. W. Sumner and family who were on their way to their new new home in Car- bondale, who became a subscrib- erto the Gazette. Mr. and Mrs Sumner are the happy parents cf six children, among them are twins, one isa boy the other a girl | Alter arriving in Carterville ‘we went directly to Dewmaine and we made our first stop at the ‘Spring's tiospital The good Doctor renewed bis subscription tothe Gazette From Dewmaineto Colp, where I found myself domiciled in the home of a friend, M. Duncan, who is the President of the Board of Education, There I met the good Prof. Randall, who is the Principal of thd school and the Mr. J.D. Gregory. The latter became a subscriber to the Ga- zette. On Sunday, we attended ser- vices atthe Mr Olive Baptist church, Rev. J. D Davis is the wide awake pastor. The Sun- day School isthe largest in the in the Southern end of the State and one of the most in- teresting in thecountry, It can be a Froat Line S.S. Collection all told wasnear $8.00 The Pastor Rev, J. D. Davis preached both morning and eve- ning. Good services. Collection all day nedr $30 00 Visited the Public scheol en Moaday and found Prof Turner, Randall and Misses Lola Autry and Crace Powers at the head of the helm, They are doing all they can for the advancement of the race in general, Will preace Thursday night for Pastor Davis and his good people Leave Friday a, m, for Sperta Whatever That fs. Armedwith a hooked bill resembling # hawk, with a spread of wing as big a8 a good-sized eagle and equipped with long legs which he carries ‘straight behind him, a bird whieh Al- Jan Irish, of Sabino, Me. says is a zyphunkguilipherz and is rare in that vicinity, has been seen frequently near Sabino, ‘The imprevident Ones. * Bome men who fall to provide fer thetr families wil go so far when cor- ‘ered as to tell you that they would never think of usurping thie preruge tive of the Lord's. Subscribe for Gazette. Notice. |. To the officers and members of the Mt. Olive Baptist Agsocia- tion, Notice is hereby given that owing to the extreme Rard_win- ter and tne small pox that has raged so long in Harrisbnrg. ac- cbrdinig to repdets, « apeessitating the closing up of public places, I thertoe think it wise to change the date of the meeting from Thursday before 4th Sunday in Kebruary, and do hereby set the dete to Thursday before the 4th Sunday in March, with the same church. It will be better for the church and metnbers of the Board HU thisis not satistactory with the church and pastor Please ad- vise usatonce The missionary Elder Hilly, recommends the change of dates, and we confide in his wisdom along this line as he has been in the city and knew the condition J. B. McCrary, Same BOLIVIA'S CITY OF SILENCE Santa Cruz De La Sierra Far From the Outside World—Mail Reaches New York in Twe Menthe. * “The only tropical eity of Bolivia It stands from 1,500 feet above sen level so far from the outside world that mail deposited on January 7 reached New York on March 11, Of the 19,- 000 inhabitants of Sante Cruz De La Slerra, 11,000 are female, writes Harry A. Franck in the Century. “It is a city of silence. Spreading over a dead-flat, half-sandy, jungled plain, Ix rightangled streets are deep in reddish sand in which not only {tx shod feet, by no means in the majority, though the upper class 1s almost foppish In dress, but even the solld wooden wheels of Itt clumsy ox carts made not a sound. ‘There Is no modern Industry to lend Ite strl- dent voice, though the town bonsts three ‘stream estiblishments’ for the making of ice, the grinding of maize and the sawing of lumber, and every street fades away at elther end Into the whispering Jungle. Narrow sile- walks of porons red bricks, roofed by the wide overhanging eaves of the houses, often upheld by pillars or poles, Hine most of the streets. But these are by no means continnous, and being commonly bigh above the street Jevel and often taken mp entirely, es pecially of an eventing, by the familien, who consider this thelr veranda rath- er than the pedestrian’s right of way, the latter generally finds it easter to plod through the sand of the street iteelf. Barrier to Sight of Stars. A theory gaining scientific accept: ance is that in the void of interstellar space there is a substance which veils from our view the stars beyond a cer- tain limit of distance. Consisting pre- sumably of microscopic and widely seattered particles, it nevertheless makes a barrier to vision when dis- tances are sufficiently great. In other words, if we were far enough away from the sun there would be enongh of these particles between ourselves and that luminary to render It Invisible to us. Dr. C. G. Abbott of the Smithsonian institution, said that the estimated density of this “substance” is one tril- Hionth of that of the alr we breathe, Pretty thin, one might say. And yet a sphere (in space) whose radius was the distance from the earth to the star nearest to our solar system would con- tain 8 quantity of the substances equal to 1,000 times the mnax of the sunt Vabtatten at Cesihi Among the varieties of so-called pearls there are at times small dark gray or blackish pearls, which are more or less flattened and lack the Jet black luster and perfect shape of the so-called binck perris, ‘These are true pearls, probably secured from pin- na shell, and possess some small value. ‘They may be easily distinguished from the false pearls by their color and shape. Very small round pearls of & golden luster are secured frori small avicuin that has a aa golden luster on the Inside, The avicula shell ts usually less than six centimeters in diameter, and I have never seen a pearl produced by this shell that was larger than a No. 6 shot. The big, perfectly round yellow pearls offered for sale are usually frauds, 7 Peasible to Be Tee Abrunt. It is sald that W. 8. Gilbert, the English dramatist, when he called on his friends, always made a quick exit. His alert temperament was evidently opposed to dawdling. He knew how tedious lingering farewells could be. Now and then one meets some one of his kind, alert, definite, considerate of others and of himself as well. But, of course, in this regard it ts possible to overdo, There are thone who leave so quickly that they create a sense of abri:ptness and possibly of concern as well. Tawir departure may be followed by such remarks as “Why did he leave in that ae ‘or “Conld ihe have been hurt about anything?” We do all kind of Job work Letter Heads, Bill Heads, Statements, Envelopes Dodgers, Calling Cards. Notice hoe NOTICE Isaw in last week's issue of the paper a notice of the women meeting with the Executive Board of the Ministers, with my name signed to it as Corresponding Sec. I know nothing of it, There was norbing said about it in our meeting at Murphys- boro last August. However, | received a letter trem the Pres. Mrs. M. J. O'Connor, of the meeting and she had sent a no- tice to the paper. Inthe Mod- erator’s notice nothing was said about the women meeting with them, but it did say for each So- ciety to send $1.09 forthe ex- penses of the Board R.L, Rowley, Cor Secre- tary of W. and M_ Society MT VERNON Mt. Vernon, Il, Feb, 14. "18. Editor of the Gazette: Dear Sir: — 1 wish to say afew words about the missionary work Iwas atthe Shiloh Baptist church of which Rev. John Bruin is pastor last Sunday night, and we took in one member, The S S$ and church seem to be getting on nicely, Lreceived $1.55, 1 am going to hold a ten days mecting in March, pray for us On the 6th aad th of Febru- ary | was with the Mount Zion Baptist church and their pastor Rev. I’) M. Madison. we had a glorious meeting there, and der- ing our stay we took in one mem ber. They only have 23 mem- bers. but they are doing fine con- sidering the membership. Februpry 10, l was with Rev CW. Norment and his church, there we hada regular old time meeting Amount of money ta- ken in was $12.50, the amount Paid to Missionary was $1.65 ;0n the 13th ef February Iwas with the members of the Baptist church at Centralih, Rey. Carter is pas- tor. They are having some work done on their church, and itlooks fine. The amount paid me was $2.40 Yours for the work, + J. H. Hitley. 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 Vs" LM. D. Wash- ington and Arbella Washington. Bill to foreclose mortgage No. 543, 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, 18. Bartlett Kerr, Master in Chancery of said Coun- ty will at the hour of 10 o’clock A. M. Saturday February 16th, A, D, 1918 ut the east door of te Court house in the City of Metropolis, County of Massa c and State of Ill., sell at public vendue to the highest and best bidder, the fol- lowing described real estate to-wit: Part of the South Half of the South- east fourth of the Southwest quarter of Section Eleven (11) Township Six. teen (16) South, Range Five (5) east. beginning One Hundred Eighty (180) feet North of the South section line and one Hundred Thirty (180) feet east of the Half section line; thence East One Hundred Forty (140) feot; thence North Two Hundred (200) feet thence West One Hundred Forty (140) feet; thence South Two Hundretd (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 Coun. ty 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 Kerr, ‘Master in Chancery. NOTICE Notice is hereby given thatthe Weman's Educational ard Mis- ston Society of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association, that there will be a meeting held at the Mt. Vleasant Baptist church Harris- burg, Ill. Thursday beforethe 4th Sunday in Feb, 1918 unless the time is extended hy the Modera- ie end the church, and in such a 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 tor doing good, Come prepared to influence some one to do more one to do more actual work. ‘Bring your sweet spiritual pa- pers, and bring somt money also Let us strive to. do well the work assigned to our hands Let us shine out above ignorance. sup- “erstition and prejudice, Let us Istrive to be a factor in the great world encouraging education and ‘thrift, lift up the fallen, care for ‘the distressad. comtort the sor- rowing and make thi¢ district a ‘beacon light for all who are grop- ing in darkness, Your servant for Christ, M. Hudgins, * 1209 Commercial Ave Cairo, 111 Notice. Notice is hereby given to afl those who are io arieais for The Gazette, thatAve will be compell- ed to cut you off our list Nov. 15 and if not paid by that time the account will be given out forzcol- lection. We are giving you fair warning as we would like to retaia you on our list. You weed the paper and the money to operate the plant I youcan't pay all pay 4 part and have to the tst of Jan, to pay up in full What about our District Minis- ters’ Alliance, Dr. Norment! It istime forustoget busy. Cafl up Murpeysboro. and get in touch with Dr. Washington. The Master expects great thiugs ofus this year. Cast your eyes upon the field, see the golden grain; thrust in cycle and help to give the gospel tothe starving souls who are waiting for the truth to shine out and illumine their darkened understanding, made so largely by preaching and teaching false doctrine. Let's weed out such teachers and min- isters from aimong US, and then KNOW NOTHING BUT JESUS. CHRIST AND HIM CRUCI- FIED Think on then reply or act 1 am yours in Him, J, B. McCrary, Moderator of Mt. Olive Baptist Association. Any one writing to this office on private matter and requiring an answer must enclose a stamp. We would thank all ef our sub- cribers who are in arrears for the paperte remit at once, Do un- to us, as yon wourd that othess do to you. This is one part of genuine religion. May we exe pect io receive a post office order in tho next mail, 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. Norment. Recording Sec. Eld. P. B. Franch Corresponding Sec. Ed. J. B. McCrary. Treasurer Eld. H. C. Armstead. Added Members Eld. F. Bomar Cairo Eld. 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. Pruitt Deacon R. Lewis Sister Sallie Thomas Chicago Sister M. Hudgin Cairo Sister J. w. winston Oimstead Sister Carrie Casly Shawnetown Urian Jenkins 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. Grey murphysboro " J. L. Martin Colpa Deacon J. Simpson Hallidayboro " J. Baker Brookport Eld. Thomas Morris Metropolis Bro. Chas. Skates Mound City Daacon J. L. Taborn Educational Board Chairman Dr. B J. Priace Chicago Cor. Sec. Sis. Frankie Jenkie Cairo. Sister willie Greyer Colps Sister Emma Farrow Cairo * J. M. Owens Sparta Eld. J. B McCrary Metropolis Committee on Nomination C. C. Phillips J. E. Heywood G. H. Mitchell F. Bomar Sister Stella Duprec * willie Greer * M. B. Taylor Elder H. C. Armstead * H. E. Mcwilliams Members of various Committees of National Baptist Convention (Unincorporated.) Foreign Mission Boa.d H. E. Mcwilliams, D. D. Chicago, Ill. Home Mission Board J. B. McCrary, S. T. B. Metropolis, Ill. Educational Board Dr. B. J, Prince, Chicago, Ill. Evangelical Board Elder F. Bomar, Cairo, Ill. B. Y. P. U. Board Dr. W. P. washington, Mt. Vernon, Ill. Beneft 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. Colp, Ill, Jan. 21, 1918 Editor Cazette, Please allow me space in your paper to say that I have been requested by our district missionary, Bld. J. H. Hilly, to ask the churches and pastors throughout the district, who failed to pay the missionary at the Board meeting to please bring or send to next Board meeting which will convene with the Mt. Pleasant Baptist church, Harrisburg, Ill., Thursday before the 4th Sunday in Feb'y. 1918. Respectfully yours, J. H. Williams, Cor. Sec. NOTICE. Elder J. H. Hilly, Missionary for Mt. Olive Baptist Associatio postoffice address, is 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 believqers 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 Tenn., 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. 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 March 1918. member of board will be present. J. H. Williams, Cor. Sec. Notice Notice is hereby given to the Executive officers of the Baptist Women's Educational and Mission Society of the East Mt. Olive Association. The Executive Board will convene on Thursday before the 2nd Sunday in March with the Central and New Bethel Baptist churches of Centralia, Illinois. I am yours for the Master's cause. M. J. O'Connor, Pres. Ruth Rollie, Cor. Sec. 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 METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. 1918. Metropolis, Ill. Dec. 1917 To whom 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. J. B. McCrary, Editor. TAX PURCHASER'S NOTICE Metropolis, Ill., Feb. 15, 1918 To W. H. Eskew, You are hereby notified that at a sale of Real Estate made by the Sheriff at the East door of the Court House in the town of Metropolis, County of Massac, and State of Illinois on the 12th day of June A. D. 1916, J. H. Mizell, purchased the following described Real Estate, situated in the said County, for the taxes, Interest Penalties and costs due and unpaid thereon, for the year, A. D. 1916, towit: Lot 6, Block 6, of the Mattie Johnson Addition to Brookport, Massae County Illinois, assessed to W. H. Askew. And that the time allowed by law for the Redemption of said Real Estate will expire on the 12th day of June A. D. 1918 J. H. Mizell, Purchaser. Metropolis, Jan. 28, 1918. Mr. Editor;—Please allow me space in your paper to address the people concerning the "Dominion Loss." The love and obedience of every intelligent being must be tested. If we obey God's laws and walk in his ways, we become in character like God and sinless angels. We must have a good character before we are fit to enjoy the beautiful home Christ has prepared for the faithful. God will give us courage and help to obey if we ask Him. If we refuse to let God help us we are out of harmony, or at war with Him, but we are in harmony with Satan and his angels. When sin is destroyed we must perish with it. Sin makes people unhappy and God hates it. Happiness can only be found in obedience or doing right. Before sin reached Eden, Adam and Eve knew nothing of evil, so their only test was in regard to one special tree planted in the garden. It wns called the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God said, of the fruit of this tree ye shall not eat of it neither shall ye touch lest ye die. If they had stayed away from this tree they would have never known evil, but at that tree was the only place where Satan could meet them to tempt them. Gen. 3:3 Sister Rosa B. Davie, Evangelist. Notice. To all members and constituents of the Institute and Executive Board of the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association: Dear Brethren, you are hereby notified that our Ex. Board will meet with the Central and New Bethel Baptist churches of Centralia, Illinois on Thursday before the 2nd Sunday in March 1918. We are hoping and praying for a great meeting I beg each pastor and church to think on the great work that is to be done this year for the Lord, and bestir ourselves for Him as never before. Missions is and has been our watch word, we have done much along that line, but our neglect has been more the word Missions properly understood, covers every phase of our christian work. Let us come to Centralia, with the Spirit of Missions lying nearest our heart with the evidence of it in our reports to the Board, let every church send up a good financial report for our missionary on the field, Dr. C C. Phillips, who has just emerged from a five or six weeks shut in from which time he was made unable to pursue his ministerial duties, during which time we failed to do our duty by him. At this Board meeting let us make up for our neglect by making a good financial showing for our missionary We ask S. S's. Young People's society and W. E. & M. S. S. to send us $1 one dollar to help take care of the expenses of the Board. We will try to keep this meeting fresh on your mind through this paper and the Metropolis Anchor. Yours, W. P. Washington Notice. Notice is hereby given that the Executive Board of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association according to the adjournment of the Board meetina at Unionville, last September will meet with the Mt. Pleasant Missionary Bapt. church Harrisburg, Thursday before the 4th Sunday in March 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. 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. 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. St. Louis Globe-Democrat DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, SIX DAYS A WEEK ONE WHOLE YEAR FOR ONLY IN COMPLETE CLUBS 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 star route mail delivery-or at a post office where there is no Daily Globe-Democrat newsdealers. The regular price of the Daily Globe-Democrat, without Sunday, is $5.00 per year. A special rural route rate on yearly subscriptions only, of $3.00 per year is made. You can cut that special price to only $2.50 per year IF YOU SEND IN TWO OR MORE OTHER SUBSCRIPTIONS PLUS YOUR OWN, AT ONE TIME, WITH MONEY ORDER FOR AT LEAST $7.50. You well Know the Innumerable Merits of the Always Reliable Globe-Democrat It is sold on its value as a real newspaper, a great fact newspapers. It is believed in. 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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. Officers of Ministers' Alliance. P. B. French, Sparta Thos. Morris, Mefropolis A. J. Bowers, Dewmaine Rev. Berry Thomas, Metropolis. Notice. To the Women's E & Mission Societies of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association. Dear Sisters:-The time is fast approaching for the Executive Board, each auxiliary is asked to send a delegate or some money to help defray the expense of the meeting and for the building of the Livingston Normal. The meeting is called to meet at Harrisburg before the 4th Sunday in Mar. The Vice President is requested to be present as I may not be able to be present. The weather and other expenses may not allow me to leave home, but if it is possible for me to attend, I will. I am praying for a good meeting. Sisters, let us get up and get busy and prepare for the State Meeting in May. Some of us may be gone to our Reward, but if so let those that remain close up the ranks and keep pressing forward. "Move forward" is the slogan. Yours in His Name, M. J. Blake, Dist. Pres. Indian Summer. The term "Indian summer" is applied to a period of mild, open weather 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 differentiates 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. Everybody Craves Words of Approval and Comment—Effect of the Time-ly Kind Attention. It is a human frailty to want praise. We begin young to crave the approving notice of others. "There is none like to me," says the cub in the pride of his earliest kill, "But the jungle is large, and the cub he is small; let him think and be still." Children brought up in school can generally be told from those who have been trained solitarily, says a writer in the Philadelphia Ledger, for the children thrown much with other children are less likely to develop arrogance, selfishness and conceit. They do not find their schoolmates in a frame of mind to put them on a pedestal or crown their brows with laurel. They are not regarded as little tin gods on wheels; they are lost to sight in the shuffle of the classroom and the playground. Nobody defers to their opinions; nobody minds when they stamp the foot and shout angrily. Children of a larger growth often crave an admiration which they do not get. They think to draw an audience by harping on the theme of self, and they find that the audience for that kind of recital is likely to be limited to the performer. To knock the "T" out of one's conversation is not necessarily to make it interesting. Many times a narrative loses greatly in pth and pungency by the impersonality in which it is couched. A story of adventure greatly gains by the sense of the first-hand participation of the narrator in the incidents he describes. When the first person is introduced for the sake of the edification of the reader, there need be no apology; when it is introduced for the glorification of the speaker, it is odious altogether. A man must do his work as well as he can, whether he is praised for it or not. The taste of publicity is likely to be what the taste of blood is to tiger or lion; it whets the desire for more of the same thing. There are some who rarely do a good deed without rushing to neighbor or newspaper to let it be known. To others the "free advertising" is abhorrent. They are made happy by a glowing consciousness that the right thing was done, and that auto-satisfaction of virtue is their reward. But most of us have not reached that lofty pinnacle where we can abide serenely independent of what others think or say. We want a kind word now and then to keep us going. We hunger for appreciation, even when we tell ourselves we are not worth it. Who has not known the lift a letter of encouragement, a sentence of commendation, has brought? The day is brighter for it, and we feel refreshed, renewed. Blessed are they who speak in time the heartening, quickening word. Goats' Milk Is Favored. Everyone who is at all acquainted with the milk goat knows of the value of the milk for infants' and invalid's use—one of the first points about the milk goat that presents itself, asserts a writer. The goat is practically free from tuberculosis. According to the annual reports of the bureau of animal industry (U. S.), covering federal inspection of animals slaughtered for food, there were inspected during the eight years, 1907 to 1914, inclusive, 579,617 goats, of which not a single animal was condemned for tuberculosis. This fact alone should be the strongest argument in favor of the milk of the goat. The cream globules of the milk of the goat are smaller than those of cows' milk, and because of this milk being condensed the cream globules are contained in a more perfect state of emulsion than the cow's milk. An argument in favor of sterilized milk is that authorities agree it is actually more easily digested than is the fresh milk, this referring to goats' and cows' milk alike. Field Crops of Canada. The census and statistics office has issued its preliminary estimate of the total value of the field crops of Canada for the past year, as compared with the finally revised estimates of 1916 and 1915. The estimated values for 1917 represent the prices received by farmers and are calculated from current market quotations. According to this preliminary estimate, the total value of all field crops for 1917 is placed at $1,035,687,000, as compared with $886,494,900 in 1916 and $825,370,600 in 1915. The items making up this total are as follows: Wheat, $451, $74,000; oats, $236,142,000; hay, elver, and alfalfa, $145,561,600; potatoes, $81,357,000; other grain crops, $134,006,700; and root and fodder crops, $49,974,700. In the year 1916 the crops were as follows: Wheat, $344,096,400; qirts, $210,957,500; hay, clover and afflua, $171,613,900; potatoes, $50,982,300; other grain crops, $84,679,800; and other root and fodder crops, $84,165,000. Kerensky Real Diplomat Here is a Kerensky story told by a man lately returned from Petrograd. Kerensky was summoned from his hotel after midnight to the headquarters of the provisional government. A fellow guest at the hotel poet Kerensky as he was going out and, learning of the summons Kerensky had received, exclaimed: "Not another revolution, I hope!" "I don't know," replied Kerensky, and hurried away. The next day his fellow guest asked Kerensky what had been the trouble which had brought him out so late the previous evening. Kerensky smiled. "I had forgotten to sign a letter," he replied. "Sea Jitneys" Suggested for Attack on German Bases. Canadian Naval Airplane Fighter Home to Recover From Shrapnel Wounds Expresses an Opinion. Theorizing about war conditions has grown quite as tiresome, no doubt, to the people who read newspapers as it has to most of the people who write for them. Yet, now and then, you meet a man who theorizes from the facts of experience and knowledge and who points something out that gives food for thought. Such a case, it seemed to several of us, when a quiet little chap, son of a Canadian millionaire, told us his view of the war in its present stage, a New York correspondent of the Cincinnati Times-Star writes. His brother was killed at the Marne and he himself is home to recover from shrapnel wounds received when he was flying a naval airplane some thousands of feet above a town on the Belgian coast. "The outstanding fact, just now," he said, "is that the German U-boats are doing pretty nearly as much as they were expected to do and that we have no effective defense against them. The Germans are almost justified in believing that they are on the way toward starving England into submission. If we don't find a new and successful way to combat the U-boats the situation in England will soon be very critical. Of course, I fancy a way will be found. But it must be something entirely new in warfare. For my part, I am convinced that success can be obtained only by the apparently desperate undertaking, of assaults by sea upon the U-boat bases. I say 'apparently desperate.' By any known or tried method such assaults would be simply useless and suicidal. "The German harbors are mined, netted from end to end and fortified with tremendous shore batteries of heavy and aircraft guns. How can the bases be attacked? Well, of course, that will be settled by some one else than I, but I have heard a theoretical plan of attack proposed by one of our naval men which made a great impression on me. He said we must build thousands of small submarines—something like the 'sea jitneys' which manufacturers have talked about—and go into the German harbors with swarms of them, at the risk of losing ninety-nine out of every hundred boats and crews. Barrage fire and bombing have been the new and successful things in land fighting. "This officer's proposal is for something like an undersea duplication of this plan of attack. Most of the little boats would be lost, no doubt, but most of them would succeed in doing material damage with one or two torpedoes. Nets would be blown away, mines exploded, guard ships sunk and such other disorganization of the harbor defenses accomplished as to give the big ships a chance to complete the work. Yes, it's true that a man would hardly need to worry about his return trip if he went in on one of these little boats. It would be work for volunteers. But the volunteers would be plentiful enough. That I am sure of. "If such attacks promised to win the fight against the U-boats, men would be willing to go. It would be enough for them to know that they were striking the sea-murders at their home, and that some of them might possibly get back." German Schooling. German schooling has proved antagonistic to co-operation, although demanding unity of action through mass obedience. It has failed to foster real co-operation, for co-operation is a method by which persons of their own volition and by no compulsion may work together harmoniously, writes Winthrop Talbot in the Century Magazine. Only when training and schooling are the common privilege of all is that state of civic development possible which permits society to become co-operative in its action. In other words, a socialized society becomes more and more possible only as all individual members acquire each the widest vision, and thus the power to co-operate harmoniously. The Crow. I have seen no bird walk the ground with just the same air the crow does. It is not exactly pride; there is no strut or swagger in it, though perhaps just a little condescension; it is the contented and self-s possessed gait of a lord over his domains. All these acres are mine, he says, and all these crops; men plow and sow for me, and I stay here or go there, and find life sweet and good wherever I am. The hawk looks awkward and out of place on the ground; the game birds burry and skulk, but the crow is at home and trends the earth as if there were none to molest or make him afraid.—John Burroughs. The Mystery of Love. The Mystery of Love. Love is the great mystery of life. It may be the growth of years, months, or an instant, says the Christian Herald. Man sees a million beautiful faces; he hears a million sweet voices; he meets a million women with flowers at their breasts and light in their eyes—and they do not touch him. Then he sees the one, and she holds him for life and death. She is no nobler, better or more beautiful than were those he passed by, and yet his world is empty without her. Assuredly there is far more than fashion in this universal force we call love. Comfort for Sufferers in Stories of Careers of Noted Authors and Scientists. Those who are afflicted with ill-health may derive some comfort from the statement, quoted in a recent book on "Suffering and the War," that "Coleridge claimed that the greatest works of the nineteen centuries were all written by men of feeble health—Spinoza's 'Ethics,' Bacon's 'Novum Organum,' and Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason.'" As another instance of the triumph of the spirit, Sir Isaac Newton, it is stated, according to London Tit-Bits, was a most unpromising child, with a frail body and poor eyesight. "He showed no aptitude for study, and was first incited by the desire to get ahead of a boy who kicked him." Another great writer who accomplished much despite the handicap of poor health was Herbert Spencer. Like Newton, as a boy he was backward in his studies. A new life of Spencer by Hugh Elliot says: "He was very backward as a boy in the ordinary subjects of children's lessons. . . . Morally, he was extremely disobedient and contemptuous of authority." At thirteen "he found the discipline (of his school) more severe than he cared about, and run away home to Derby again, walking 48 miles the first day." Yet as a man, "without money, without special education, without health, he produced 18 large volumes of philosophy and science of many diverse kinds, published a variety of mechanical inventions, and on endless other subjects, great and small, he set forth a profession of new and original ideas." MANY 'SUCKERS' IN NEW YORK Glib Tongue About All That Is Needed to Get the Money in Eastern Metropolis. Gullible and curious are the two chief characteristics of the smart guy, and there is no one who knows this better than the street fakir. One of those sharp-witted fakirs with a gift of gab made a cleanup in the financial district the other day, remarks the New York Tribune. He went down there just as the deckhands of the big corporations were pouring out of the skyscrapers for a bite to eat. He had a grip full of little black boxes that looked like cameras. "Here yer are," he shouted, "for two nickels or one dime. The cutest little thing you can imagine. Stand on the sidewalk, fix this little box at the right angle, and you'll be able to look into a second-story window and see what's going on without the slightest inconvenience. "In the old way, when you wanted to peep through a keyhole you went down on your haunches, at some personal inconvenience. Besides, there was always the danger of being shot in the eye with a hatpin or a knitting needle. Buy one of the cute little toys and you can stand on both feet, and without endangering life or limb, you can see all that's going on in the room." Nearly every one who stopped fished out a dime and bought one. Then a cop came along, the fakir slipped away and the crowd melted. Everybody who bought the little "camera" tried to work it 40 different ways, and then discovered that they had been stung. How Rome Encouraged Birth Rate How Rome Encouraged Birth Rate. To encourage the birth rate the Romans made use of the age-long fight of women with property for the power to control it. This power that it took the women of England and America living under the English common law 2,500 years longer to achieve was granted by Numa Pompilius, in 715 B.C., to women who were mothers of three children, who were privileged to have "free administration of their own affairs without guardian or tutor." To the women who had inherited large fortunes this must have been an exceedingly effective inducement to the rearing of large families, and an excellent counteraction to the various influences in Roman life which would tend to keep the birth rate down. This is probably one of the few isolated examples where militaristic ideals worked for the benefit of women. Patch Up Telephone Poles Patch Up Telephone Poles. The ever-increasing cost of lumber has led to the use of many devices to save wood. One of the most ingenious is the method to save telephone poles, which rot at the base just above and below the surface of the ground. The upper portion remains sound for a longer time than the base. A short pole, crossover so as to withstand decay, is placed in the ground beside the old pole and firmly fastened to it. This adds several years to the length of time the pole will serve. The arrangement also serves as a protection to pedestrians; for since the part buried rots long before the upper part, the fall might occur most unexpectedly.—Popular Science Monthly. Not Extravagant. An English, Irish, and Scottish soldier were returning to camp after a stroll. They were footsore and tired, and a kindly farmer on his way home from market gave them a lift on the road. The soldiers were very grateful and wished to reward the farmer for his kindness. Said the Englishman: "Let's stand him a drink." "Sure," said Pat, "that is agin the law. Let's give him some baccey!" "Hoot, maddies!" interjected the Scot. "Don't be extravagant. Let's shake hands with the mon and wish him good night." WORTHY OF MORE MENTION Brakeman Seldom Properly Appreciated in Life or Appropriately Honored in Death. Following a railway accident recently, there was great relief in official circles when the report was made that only a brakeman had been killed. Only a brakeman! And there were hundreds of others waiting to fill his shoes. Only a brakeman! His name was not given in the telegraphic report of the accident. He had not made a name to which the world would pay tribute. There were only a few friends who knew him in the railway Y. M. C. A. and a brother and sister in Russia, Home, family, friends he had left in the land of oppression to come to America, the country of opportunity. Alone, ignorant, untrained in American ways, he was only a brakeman in the official report telling of his death. Only a brakeman! Yet it is such as he are moving our freight, trucking the meat that supplies our tables, hauling the coal that heats our homes, bringing the milk with which we feed our babies. Standing on top of their freight cars, leanning against the wind, with the dust of the deserts in their faces, the rour of the engines in their cars, and the grime of the nations on their hands, wherever you find cars, engines, freight, soot, danger, there you will find the brakeman, toiling sleeplessly, hopefully, uncomplainingly, with death stalking ever at his side, to give us comforts and make our homes happy. Yet when the car couplers pinch him within their giant jaws or the wrecked train crushes out his life beside the railway track, the reports that the public reads record the death of only a brakeman.—Milwaukee Journal. ONE OF WORLD'S CURIOSITIES Fir Tree in Belgium Has Characteristics Unlike Any of Its Kind So Far as Known. What is claimed to be one of the most curious trees in the world was found in Belgium by M. Louis Pire, president of the Royal Botanical Society of Belgium. It is a fir tree, still standing at last account, in the forests of Alizac, Canton of Vaud. "This particular tree," reports Professor Pire, "stands 4,500 feet above the sea and is surrounded by a forest of firs, which it exceeds in height by 30 to 40 feet. "The trunk of this tree is ten meters, or a little more than thirty feet, in circumference at the base. At about a yard from the ground it puts out, on the south side, seven off-shoots, which have grown into trunks as strong and vigorous as those of the other trees in the forest. Bent and guarded at the bottom, these side-trunks soon straighten themselves up and rise perpendicularly and parallel to the main stem. "Another most curious fact is that the two largest side-trunks are connected with the principal stem by subquadrangular braces resembling girders. These beams have probably been formed by an anastomosing of branches, which, common enough among the angle-sperms, is extremely rare among conifers." Ben Franklin's Simple Diet Ben Franklin's Simple Diet. It is amusing to read how Ben Franklin thrived on a biscuit, or a slice of bread, a handful of raisins, or a tart from the pastry cook and a glass of water, varied at times by boiled rice or a potato, or a hasty pudding of his own making. Upon this fare grew America's greatest statesman and the world's greatest philosopher. The rich and ambitions youth of these days would scorn such a diet, holding that it was the eating that made the man. But Benjamin not only saved time and money by his new diet, but as he says: "I made greater progress from that greater clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attended temperance in eating and drinking." This abstemious life did not seem to detract from his health, but rather contributed to his longevity, for he lived to be eighty-four years old. Formation and Color. The iridescence of macro, or mother-of-pearl, is a matter of form and not actual color. In fact, all "changeable" colors are more or less the result of form even where there is pigmentation beneath, such as in certain ribbed silks. When sunlight bears directly upon lively ribbed metal, as a file, there is the same play of colors. In the case of mother-of-pearl an interesting experiment has been made. An impression of the pearl was taken upon pure white wax. It was then found that the apparently smooth surface of the pearl had still sufficient irregularities to impress upon the wax a surface that resulted in similar color unimagestations.—Edmin Tarrisse. Secret Interference With Nature. Regret Interference With Nature. Australia is regretting the laws passed some years ago ordering the slaughter of hawks, cwls, carrion crows or other birds that prey on young animals and birds, says a Sydney dispatch to the Cleveland Press. These have now been almost wiped out, with the result, as described by a recent writer, that decaying bodies, numerous on sheep farms, have been left to be demolished by the larvae of blowflies, which, have now increased to such an appalling extent as to threaten the sheep on the runs with destruction, the animals becoming "flybown" and eaten up alive by this dangerous pest. RAINS HELP INDIAN VILLAGE Geod Rice Crops Grown in Abundant Moisture and Region Is Noted for Good Cattle. Sylhet is a city in the most curious part of India—the great; low lying, jungly, flooded, tea and rice districts of the far Southeast. Sylhet tea is known all over the peninsula. So low do these regions lie that the heavy rains of the rainy season result in their being flooded for many months of the year. Though far inland, after the rains this is literally a sea, where all travel is by boat and even ships of some size can navigate. The torrental downpours flood the lower parts of the country to a depth of many feet. There is one little village at the base of the Khasia hills which had a measured rainfall of 60 feet in one year, an exchange says. The villages of this curious district about Sylthe are set on the crest of hills. After the rains fall they are islands. The people are very expert boatmen and the children can swim almost as soon as they can walk. This is probably the only part of India where the canoe is in use. A craft not unlike the American is manufactured by hollowing out a tree trunk very thin. Larger canoes, propelled by 20 paddles, are made in the same way, and canoe racing is one of the principal sports. The villagers of these island villages keep diminutive cattle which they feed largely on marsh grasses cut from boats. As a result of abundant feed and lack of exercise, the cows grow fat and sleek to a degree unusual among the lean Indian cattle. Their milk, butter and cheese are known as delicacies in the nearby cities. These sate villages raise unusually fine rice, by planting before the rains begin. As the country is flooded, the stalks of the rice grow with the rising surface of the waters, so that rice stalks ten feet long may be seen when the floods recede. MONK FIRST TO USE CORK Discovery That Is Universally Made Use Of Was the Result of Chance. The discovery of cork for stoppers is ascribed to the monk Don Perignon, who managed the cellars of the abbey of Haut Villiers in 1675. One day he ran short of the usual stoppering, which was pads of hemp or cloth steeped in oil, and being something of a botanist, he had noticed that the outer layer of the bark of certain species of the oak tree was of comparatively soft wood. He procured some of this porous material and shaped it so that it would fit into some partially fermented bottles of wine. Later on opening the bottles he found that the effect of the confined carbonic acid gas which this new stopper did not allow to escape acted on the wine so as to make it effervesce. From then on for a long time it was supposed that this phenomena was due to the action of the cork on the wine, and effervescing or hissing wine became the rage. Enterprising merchants saw the possibilities of this wood, and they introduced it for general purposes as stoppers. Evolution of Wheeled Vehicles. Evolution of Wheeled Vehicles. When the world awakened from its apparent long sleep of the middle ages, during which the art of vehicle construction, like all other arts, sank into oblivion, manufacturing was revived and from this awakening, about 1400 A.D. marked improvements are found. Emperors and kings vied with each other in the effort to outshine and outclass one another, and through this rivalry we note substantial advancement. In 1550 A.D. it is said there were only three coaches in Paris, and within the next century we find the feudal lords throughout continental Europe supplying themselves with the most extravagant and luxurious of equipages, some costing more than $10,000 each. The artist's skill was employed, poet's song beautiful songs in their praise, and the epidemic spread, creating an eager desire upon all to outrival their neighbors. The Opium Habit. There are three different forms of taking opium. Some people, for example the Turks, eat it; others, like the Chinese, smoke it, while the inhabitants of more civilized countries usually drink it as handanum. The drug is obtained from the marije fruit of the common white poppy. Inclusions are made in the heads of the plant, from which a creamy juice exudes, hardening on its exposure to the air. This is scraped off and made up into small cakes, in which form it is sold. The confirmed opium enter or smoker reduces himself to an indescribably wretched state of mind and body, and very seldom lives to be forty if the practice has been acquired at an early period in life. Yiddish is a term used to designate a language which is spoken at the present moment by some millions of people. Strictly speaking, Yiddish is not a language, nor a dialect, but a jargon—the jargon used by Judeo-German communities dwelling chiefly in Germany and Russia, and by the inmigrants coming from those countries to the United States. Yiddish owes its existence to the persecution to which the Jews were subjected in Germany at the time of the Reformation. Its essential basis is high German, with an admixture of Hebrue and Slavic elements. Institutions in Havana Have an Influence Probably Not Felt in Any Other City. In Havana the whole political, social and commercial life pivots on the clubs. They are a tremendous influence in every way. They are of all kinds, of all sizes, of all degrees of expensiveness and exclusiveness. The largest are the so-called "centros," which were founded under Spanish rule, by men of Spanish birth, in order to furnish a bond and a meeting place for men from the same province of Spain. Thus the "Centro Gallego" was founded for Galicians, and the "Centro Astrucalo" for Austrians. The former of these is now the largest club in the world. Besides these centros, there are numerous other sorts of clubs. There are clubs for the laboring man, where for $1.50 a month he gets not only the social and convivial privileges of the club-house, but benefit and protective insurance, night school advantages for his family, a hospital for himself, even the services of dentists and opticians. One club goes so far as to maintain an asylum. On the other hand exclusive clubs of the conventional type are not lacking—clubs for the rich, yacht clubs, athletic clubs and political clubs. Havana's motto seems to be: "To each man a club according to his needs." Practically without exception these clubs, large and small, have housed themselves in beautiful buildings. White marble walls, statuary and mural painting, pillared halls and fountained courtyards reflect the artistic spirit of Latin America. Havana's clubs go far toward making her a beautiful city. MEANING OF JACOBITE TOAST Glasses Raised to "the Little Gentleman in Velvet" Had a Peculiar Significance Centuries Ago. "To the little gentleman in velvet" was a favorite Jacobite toast in the reign of Queen Anne. By "the little gentleman in velvet" the Jacobites meant the mule that raised the hummock against which the horse of King William III. (William of Orange) stumbled while riding in Hampton court. The king was thrown heavily to the ground, breaking his collar bone. A severe illness ensued under which the king's feeble constitution gave way, and he died early in the year 1702. He left no children and the crown passed to Anne, a sister of William's deceased wife, Queen Mary, and a daughter of the deposed king, James II. It was the plan of the Jacobites to bring back to the throne James the Pretender, a son, it was claimed, of James II by his second wife, Mary of Modena. The execution of their plans was not attempted until the house of Hanover came to the throne. The attempt of the Pretender James in 1715 was a miserable failure, but the attempt of his son, Prince Charlie, in 1745, was a more formidable affair. He collected a considerable force in Scotland, invaded England and reached Derby before compelled to retreat. He was finally defeated at Culloden. Soup Eating Lost Art. Owing to the high cost of ingredients soup eating may become a lost art. America today holds the medal for spectacular and musical soup eating. There is no nation so accomplished in the art of eating soup audibly as ours. No race of people extant can eat soup and keep up a steady conversation (without slopping it on its shirt bosom) as successfully as the American. A foreign writer once remarked that he dearly loved to hear an American eat soup. Some nations drink their broth and boulon in silence or sop it up noiselessly with bread, thus robbing the process of all its interests. But America blows its broth cool, then musically sucks it from the spoon, allowing it to hit the base of the empty stomach with the chug of a pile driver. The way some of us strain soup through our mus-taches is decidedly artistic. But, like many of the lost arts of our aborigines, the doom of soup eating is in sight.—Cartoons Magazine. Frenchman Invented Micronhone Frenchman Invented Microphone. The inventor of the fundamental principle of the microphone on the modern telephone is said to have been the Abbe Rousselet, a French phonetician, born at Saint Cloud (Charente) in 1846. He became a vienor and curate at Cognac and Jurrezac, then assistant professor of French philology at the Catholic institute of Paris, and two years later he opened the first course of experimental phonetics ever established. In 1857 he was appointed director of the laboratory of experimental phonetics at the College de France, the plan for which originated with him. He is the inventor of phonetic instruments, the maker of several discoveries tending to cure deafness and stuttering and the author of a number of works on his specialty. Salmon's Many Foes From the time the mother salmon, in answer to the primal urge, leaves the ocean, until the young return, the salmon faces and is preyed upon by more varied enemies than perhaps any other denizen of the deep. Man, bears, birds, eat the mature fish, as do also the hair seal and the sea lion. The eggs are a rich and eagerly sought food by trout and ducks and other fresh water fish and birds. The young fish, too, are preyed upon by many species of the larger fish. Yet, in face of such tremendous odds, the salmon for countless ages has maintained the balance of numbers largely in its favor.