Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE Eder J. B. McCrary. Editor and Publisher of The Gazette. and Cor. Sec'y. of General Baptist State Association The above named association will meet in Chicago, this year with the Salem Baptist Church, Thursday before the 4th Sunday in May this year. MYRTLE BLACKWELL, Belgrade, Ill. Metropolis. Ill. Feb. 4, 1918. Dear Editor: As I law in your week before last's edition where our boys in Houston Texas were lonesome, I have composed six verses of poetry, which I hope will cheer them. But I want them to have God for their daily studies. Oh, boys of old Company M, All in your units of brown, Of old Metropolis town, By the fire with your friends you sit with them, At Camp Logan in your tent, Of old eight regiment. You see, How does we will miss you this spring. Not seeing you run and lean, And hearing your voices ring, In that old Base Ball team, Davis, Jones, Neely and Hutchinson, Although I say to every one, Don't forget your Royal Master, When your daily work is done. Capt Williams, Burke's and Lieutenant Blaine. Do not look for wrong and evil, You will find it if you do, As you measure meet to your neighbor, As they measure back to you. Be kind, be thankful and be true, Of whatever you may do, At Camp Logan or elsewhere in your tents. Of old eighth Regiment. Kimball, Crosslyn, Butler and Evans, Say, Oh you bugle boys, That fill the world with joy. You certainly were missed this Ball, At John Renfro's Hall. So good bye, good luck and may God bless you. Then until we meet again. Upshaw, Stewart, Turner and Scott, And all of you who I have omitted, In this piece of poetry I have written. Although I have no relatives there, But yet I think it must be fair, To feel for those who have you there, And I hope Old Teddy Bear, Will free you from Camp Logan and your tent. Of old Eighth Regiment. A Mass Meeting. There will be a mass meeting at the First Baptist church Monday night, March 11, 1918 Giving the canidates running for the office of Alderman, an opportunity to put themselves properly before the public. The Minister's of the city are requested to have something to say. The canidates are namely: Messrs John St Anderson. Edgar Orrington. Ontrue Cowper. All three are highly respected citizens of Metropolis. Everybody is cordially invited. Contribution will be lifted, and refreshments served for the benefit of the --- The Negro In It. Composed By LOUIE GREER. In the last Mexican War. The white Flake they began it, But before it was closed, The Negro had to be in it. In this great European war, The Servians and Huns Began it, But before victory can be won, The Negro will have to be in it. In the city of Houston Texas Not many months ago. A riot was started by the whites, And ended by hanging many Negroes. In the great city of St. Louis, Not many months ago, A riot was started by white soldiers, Was ended by the coming of the 24, Calvary. In the little city of Royolton, Where a Negro is not allowed to live or work, But when the great explosion came, They were glad to have a Negro in it. In this same little city of Royolton, Where they sent for the Negro to come, For there would have beed a great loss of men, Had it not have been for the Negro's rescue team. You may try to shut the Negro out. The cities have began it, But when you meet at the judgment court, God will rebuke you for the Jim-crow car. Pay them to wear a lie in court, Both White and Black will do it. But truth will shine to the end of time. And you'll find some Negro in it. White man, stop lynching, and burning. This Black race trying to thin it, For if you go to Heaven or Hell, You will find some Negro in it. We wish to thank our many friends for their sympathy and willing assistance during the ilies and death of our mother. Mrs. Saphronia Martin. We stand ready at all times to aid you in your troubles. We thank "Nehemiah's Band" and "Silver Leaf" club for the beautiful floral designs. LAVAPA MARTIN Ladies Industrial Club. Meeting will be conducted by the pastor Rev. W. M. Moody. The only way for any enter prise to succeed is to have both moral and financial support of the friends of the race. Our slogan is to have 1000 subscribers by June. Reader will you help to reach this goal by sending in your neighbor's name with $1,50? We pay the postage. Help to make a greater Metropolis Gazette. We have just received several lots of new type and have others on the way. Try our Job Department for your next job. We can serve you satisfactorily. To those who live out of town send us a job to day, and we will mail it out the first mail the next day. Special attention given to this class of work. Work how what you need and our 23 years of experience enables us to please you. ```markdown ``` East Mt. Olive Baptist Association To Be Held With Corrinthian Baptist Sunday School, Mt. Vernon, Illinois March 30th and 31st, 1918 Saturday Morning, 8:30 Institute call A. H. Bra Devotionals conducted Representatives. Topic. What is the best Teacher of Mt. Zion S Topic. What forms of School, and He Teacher of Paul Chap Topic. Can one Create capitality in a Sunday S Teacher of Central Ba Topic. How Can I Im Teacher of Shiloh, B Topic. What Can the Whose Parents Are N Teacher of Mt. Zion S Examination on the p ing Course conducted Gray, Murphysboro, Saturday Sermon. Sunday Sunday School. Sunday Morning at 11 Mt. Vernon, Ill. Sunday Liter 6:30 P. M., B. Y. P. Mrs. Vina Frison, Mu Sunday Sermon. Committee Opening. Institute called to order by President H. Bradley, DuQuoin, Illinois conducted by Mt. Vernon, and James. This is the best Method of Financing. St. Zion Sunday School, Dewma forms of Publicity are Open to all, and How Can They be Promoted Chapet Sunday School, May the Create the Spirit of Cordial Sunday School When it Seems to Central Baptist Sunday School, Can I Improve our Sunday School Philoh, Baptist Sunday School Can the Sunday School Do What Are Not Interested? St. Zion Sunday School Halliday on the primary books of the To conducted by Institute conductor Mysboro, Ill. Topic. What is the best Method of Financing the S. S.? Teacher of Mt. Zion Sunday School, Dewmaine, Ill. Topic, What forms of Publicity are Open to the Sunday School, and How Can They be Promoted? 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 ol ing at 11:00 Sermon, Rev. G III. Sunday School. Sunday Morning at 11:00 Sermon, Rev. G. H. Mitchell Mt. Vernon, Ill. Sunday Afternoon, 3:00 Literary Program. 3:00 B. Y. P. U. Work. ison, Murphysboro, Ill. Sunday Night, 8:00 committee ELLEN E. HUNTER, VIVIAN CROSS, E. M. MATTIE FULTON. Committee { ELLEN E. HUNTER, G: V. UTLEY VIVIAN CROSS, E. M. LONG MATTIE FULTON M Birthday Rally ity Baptist Church, Brookport, Birth At the Unity Baptis Sunday in March. Birthday Rally At the Unity Baptist Church, Brookport, Ill., the 3rd Sunday in March. The Pastor will preach a special at 11 o'clock a.m., members' Duties and Responsibilities Services all day. You are invited. Opening. Called to order by President Hudley, DuQuoin, Illinois I by Mt. Vernon, and Centralia, First Method of Financing the S. S.? Sunday School, Dewmaine, Ill. Publicity are Open to the Sunday How Can They be Promoted? Let Sunday School, Marion, Ill. Be the Spirit of Cordiality and Hos- chool When it Seems to be Lacking? Aptist Sunday School, Centralia, Ill. Prove our Sunday School Music? Aptist Sunday School Murphysboro Sunday School Do With Children Not Interested? Sunday School Hallidayboro. Primary books of the Teachers Train- by Institute conductor, Eld. Robt. Ill. Afternoon, 3:00 Primary Program. 3:00 U. Work. Murphysboro, Ill. Sunday Night, 8:00 ELLEN E. HUNTER, G. V. UTLEY VIVIAN CROSS, E. M. LONG MATTIE FULTON. Mrs. Anna Wade HAIR CULTURIST Colp, Illinois, is an expert in her line of work. Only a trial will convince you She presses out the Kinks The Hair plays an important part in every woman's life. Have beautiful hair Sunday Rally St Church, Brookport, Ill., the 3rd Some of Our Race Leaders of Southern Illinois. Dr. O. B. Thompson, of Carbondale, is a leading physician and is a busy man practicing not only among his people but is welcomed among the best white families. He is 100 per cent race man, and is congenial and polite, whole souled and big hearted. Don't forget to call on him when in the city. He treats all classes of diseases with marked success. Rev. J. D. Davis, of Colp, pastor of the Mt. Olive Baptist church of that city also of Marion, is a pulpiteer and an excellent pastor. He is erecting a fine church at the former place and has the leading congregation of the enterprising town. The people of Colp are very hospitable, knowing how to entertain strangers and are always delighted to have you call upon them. Rev Davis, certainly knows how to care for his brethren and always sees after their welfare. M. Duncan, of Colp, a young man of practical experience and more than ordinary ability and is one of the leading spirits of his town progressive and aggressive. He receives his friends with open arms and when once in his presence you feel safe and at home. He holds an important and trusted position at the mines in the church and Baptist S. S. J. D. Gregory, of Colp, is another fine young man with the excellent habits and sympathetic and christian feelings. He takes especial pains in showing strangers about the city and insuring them a good time. He never allows one to go wanting while under his guidance. He is destined to make his mark and come to the front. Rev, A. J. Bowers, and family of Lewmaine are among our best friends in the State and we always feel at home in their family circle. They have two fine young daughters, Misses Vivian and Willie, who take delight in entertaining the guest of their parents Miss Vivian will graduate this Spring from the Towuship High School and is a very accomplished young lady. Prof. T. L. Alston, of Metropolis a graduate of Howard University, Washington, D. C. is the principal and it goes without saying that they are being ably prepared. Rev. Bowers, is an able pastor and a strong preacher having charge of the Mt. Pleasant Baptist church, Golconda. He is a leading Mason, and his wife a member of the Eastern Star. Mt. Zion Baptist church of Dewmaine is one of the leading churches in this part of the State and adheres to the doctrine of the Bible, and has for its pastor the able services of that able and uncompromising, writer and debater, Dr. C. C. Phillips of Gelconda. The members are loyal to the church and pastor and the spirit of Christ is permeated through every member. J. J. Taylor, of Sparta, is the old reliable stand-by of the Gazette one that has never been wanting in the time of need. He is a race lover and supporter. He is a member of the Masonic order and the New Hope Baptist Church. Rev. P. B. French; pastor of New Hope Baptist Church, Sparta is a man of much ability as a pastor and preacher and is making marked success. M. of Mt. Vernon, Ill. President of the W. E. & M. General Baptist State Convention of Illinois. T. F. McCartney. Candidate for County Superperindent of Schools, of Massac County, Ill. Born in Metropolis, Ill. Attended Countrys Schools up to the Seventh Grade. Entered Grammar Grades and worked up to Graduation from the Metropolis, High School in 1806. Attended Valparaiso University, Indiana three years doing special work in scientific, teaching and Music Courses. Taught one term at Mount Mission. One term at New Columbia. Two term at Joppa. One term Principal Metropolis High School. Three years City Supt. of Schools. Three years City Supt. Jennings, Louisiana. Eight years active work in National State Bank. Three yers president of Metropolis Commercial Club Serving Second term as Mayor. Represented the City before the Government Engineers at Cincinnati, Ohio. Was one of the speakers before the Egyptian Hustlers in presenting the claims of Metropolis in 1911. Was one of the speakers before the Government Naval Board in Washington, D.C., in Sept. 1916 in behalf of Metropolis to locate the Armor Plant here. As Mayor used every precaution to see that the law and order prevailed during the building of the Big Bridge when the town had a large number of transient laborers who have caused disorders of a serious nature in other places. We went through this great work with no race troubles as were frequent when the Thebes Bridge was being built. Has helped to direct the Industrial Development of the last Three years. Made Five trips in the location of the Wilson Stove Factory-Was present in Detroit, at the first conference with Glove factory officials. The last notable success in this direction is the location of the Presnell Wholesale Pine, Lumber Yard, mentioned elsewhere in this paper. Mingo Long of Powers District is some better. PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. GETROPOLIS. . . . . ILL. MRS. M. J. MCCRARY, MANAGER FRIDAY MAR. 8, 1918. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Enterered as second-class mail matter, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. Address all communications to J. B. McCRAB, 90 Pearl St. Metropolis, Ill. The names and addresses of contributors must be known to us in every instance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity each week. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year ... $1.50 Six Months ... 80 Three Months ... 40 Single Copy ... 05 Key In Advance. ADVERTISING RATES. made known on application. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. ANNOUNCEMENT. For Representative We are authorized to announce Judge K. C. Konakis, as a candidate for the Republican nomination, for the Legislature of· the 51st Senatorial District, subject to the Primary Sept. 11th. County Judge We are authorized to announce the name of WALTER A. PHILLIPS, as a candidate for County Judges of Massae County, Ilk Subject to the Republican Primary September 11, 1918. Assessor and Treasurer. We are authorized to announce John Kotter as a candidate for Assessor and Treasurer of Massae County Illinois, subject to the Republican Primary September 11, 1918. Assessor and Treasurer We are authorized to announce Elmer Brown) as a candidate for Assessor and Treasurer of Massac County, subject to the Republican Primary Sept. 11th. County Superintendent. We are authorized to announce T. F. McCatrney, as a candidate for the nomination for County Superintendent of Schools, of Massac County, Ill., on the Republican Ticket at the September Primary election. ROAD CONMISSIONER. Samuel L. Johnson, announces as a candidate for single Highway Commis, soner in District 6. Election Tuesday April 2nd. We are authorized to announce R. N. MIZELL, as a candidate for single Highway Commissioner in District 6. Election April 2nd. ROAD CLERK We are authorized to announce Ira Morgan, as a candidate for Road Clerk of District 6. Election Tuesday April 2nd. FOR ALDERMAN We are authorized to announce the name of JOHN S. ANDERSON, as a candidate for reelection for Alderman of the First, Ward Election Tuesday April 16th 1918. We are authorized to announce Edgar Orangton as a candidate for Alderman of the First Ward. Election Tuesday April 16. We are authorized to announce Ountree Cowper as a candidate for Alderman of the First Ward. Election Tuesday April 16th 1918. 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Hall's catarrh cure is the ooly 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. 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. Rev. J. B. McCrary, will attend the Executive Board meeting of the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association at Centralia next week. Those who owe us be prepared to settle the account. Mr. Colonel Barnett, and wife Mrs. Atiza, of Carrier Mills, were in the city visiting the formers this week Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Barnett. Miss Bertha Taylor, accompanied them on the trip. They paid the Gazette office a very pleasant call Monday. Miss Mamie Barnett, of this city and Typo on The Illinois Anchor was showing them the sights of the city. Come again. Rev Stegar, is still in the city preaching some strong sermons every night at the Free Baptist church, and large crowds are flocking to hear him. He is an able preacher. Rev. Green Hodge, continues to grow weaker and is not expected to survive through the Spring Editor McCrary, is off for Centralia to attend the Executive Board meeting of East Mount Olive Baptist Association and in the interest of The Gazette. Edgar S. B. McCrary, is in Centralia this week. We thank all those who have treated our representative Edgar S. B. McCrary, so royally both in their homes, and their churches, also for the manifest interest they have taken in the Gazette by paying a part of if not all of their subscriptions, renewing and, for the new subscribers. This proves that you love your race enterprises. Rev. Green Hodge, is no better this issue. The body of Rev. Ben Kelly, arrived in the city from St. Louis, Mo. for interment. Funeral was held Wednesday after-noon from the Free Will Baptist church. Edith Dornell, was called suddenly to Memphis, Tenn. to see her husband, Leroy Dornell, who is very sick. Mrs. Harriett Jefferson, who was here attending the funeral of her son-in-law, Lonnie Lyons, returned to her home, E. Saint Louis. Mrs. Bettie Neely, is indisposed this week. Undertaker N. W. Long, and George McCrary, were called to Brookport Tuesday, to take charge of the body of Mr. Lee Jordon, who died after a brief illness. He was buried Thursday. George Sylvestal, is in Canton, Miss, at the bedside of his mother who is quite ill. Mrs. Thos. P. King, of Unionville, is visiting her mother. Mrs. Carrie McCrya, is quite sick at her home on West 8th, St. Rev. T. Turner, is at home this week, but leaves Saturday for several points in Ky. and will represent The Gazette. Mrs. Richard Winston, is at home after a visit with her two daughters Mesdames Ora Cork, and Addie Frizzell, of Lovejoy. Mrs. Lizzie Pryor, of Paducah, Ky., returned home after visiting her daughter who was sick. Mrs. A. C. Tranzor, returned home from a visit wsth her hus band in Centralia. Will Jefferson, of Paducah, was in the city, this week visiting his aunt Mrs. Arie Gatewood. Rey. W. M. Moody, the newly elected pastor of the First Baptist church, was at his post Sunday, and preached two strong sermons to a large audience at both morning and evening services. SPARTA Mr. Editor: We are thankful to the Almighty to say that our S. S. was opened at the usual hour $ \theta $ : 30 with our Supt. W. M. Macklin, at his post. The lesson was interestingly reviewed by Mrs. M. J. Blake, District Missionary of the Women's work. Some encouraging remarks were made by Revs. W. M. Jones and Edgar S. B. McCrary. At 11 a.m. Rev. W. M. Jones filled the pulpit and preached a powerful sermon using the words "Confidence" for his text; Prov. 25:16. At 3:15 p.m. we assembled in a praise meeting, and our hearts burned with the fire and Holy Ghost. Rev, D. G. Hutson, preached for us during the day from Matt, 26:11, this was quite an interesting sermon. In the meantime our pastor administered the Lord's Supper, as it our custom to take it every First Sunday. At 8 o'clock Rev! Edgai S. McCray, preached for us from the 14th chapter of St John, he laid the foundation of his discourse on the doctrine of the Baptist church. This is the fourth sermon he has preached since entering into the ministry, and I must say he is wonderfully inspired. Mrs. M. J. Blake, who is here in interest of the Women's work, proves to be an able worker. Bro. Toy Williams and wife united with the church. Mr. Lewis Exon, is visiting his home Humboldt Tenn. for two weeks. Money raised all day was $21.11 Mrs. P French, has come home from St. Louis, Mo. to stay. J. J. Taylor. BROOKPORT. Elder J. B. McCrary, pastor of the Unity Baptist church, was at his post of duty Saturday and Sunday. Church meeting was held Saturday night with fair attendance. Everything was in peace. OF THE NEWLY FLECTED PASTOR OF FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH REV. WM. MOODY, D. D. The church membership was divided into two Tribes, Reuben with Mrs. Ida Martin, leader and Benjamin, Mrs. Mamie Maxwell, leader. The rally was set for the 1st Sunday in April. There will be a birthday rally the 3rd Sunday in this month. All members and friends of the church are to give a penny for every year that they have lived. The church has taken on new life, the attendance was extra good and a good old time spiritual meeting was witnessed all day The financial part of the meeting was above the average collection. Much rejoicing was witnessed. In the afternoon the Lord's supper was taken by a large number of members. Brother and Sister G. W. Long of Belgrade, were in our midst and participated in the services. We are always glad to have them with us and extend to them an invitation to visit us at any time. Two members were received to membership of the church, one from Providence, Baptist church, Belgrade, and one from the A.M.E. denomination. The church is spiritually alive and the members are in good working shape after emerging from a most severe winter. Unity Baptist church has the most active and best working members in the Southern part of the State, no church excepted. OUR JOB OFFICE The S. S. under the leadership of Mrs. Ruth Donlow, is preparing for Easter exercises the S. S. of Belgrade will join them in the afternoon. An enjoyable time is in store for all who may attend. Mrs. Mamie Jackson, was a Metropolis visitor Monday. We have had over 23 years of Active Experience in the printing office and will give you the benefit of same just for the asking on that next job of yours. "Let Us Show You." Here and There While in the little city of Sparta I was royally entertained at the home of our reporter and agent, Mr. J. J Toylor. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor are the parents of 4 children. Three boys and 1 girl. They are broad hearted christian people, who believe in the uplift of the race, they own their own home. Try us. We print from a visiting card to a large size poster. BOOK WORK A Mr. and Mrs. Julius Manuel, who are old residents of this city became subscribrs to the Gazette. They have been married 35 years. They own a beautiful home on Oak St. built of concrete blocks. Mr. Manuel, is blind, but is us cheerful and gay as if he could see. He is a member of the Catholic church. SPECIALTY We give courteous attention to all inquiries and your patronage is earnestly solicited. Out of town work done promptly. Mr. and Mrs. John Madison, are the proud parents of eight children, and they are musical talented. Mary L. is one that makes a piano ring, only a school girl. She has never taken a music lesson in her life, it is only a gift from God. Madell, is the sweet singer, and will entertain any one who is a lover of music. Letter Heads, Bill Heads. Statements, Envelopes Dodgers, Calling Cards. Hair Dresser and Champoorer When in Sparta, always call on Mrs. Mary Nance, FOR YOUR HAIR WORK Wonderful "Dermatas" Beautifier She will always take care of you and treat you right. Mr. and Mrs. Madison, are very friendly and entertaining. They own a large home on Broadway and are members of the A. M. E. church. They will be subscribers to the Gazette. Edgar S. McCrary. The Mt. Pleasant Baptist church at Hardisburg, writes me that they will not be able to care for the Executive Board on account of the Small-Pox. Who will care for the Board? central is speak up quick. J. B. McCrary, Moderator. 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 Olmstead Sister Carrie Casiy Shawnetown Uriah Jenkins Rev. J. A. Royal Chicago " L. Drane Chicago Rev. A. J. Bowers Dewmaine Rev. D. Johnson Dewmaine " B. H. Huher Evanston " K. V. Howard Grand Chain " Robt. Grey murphysboro " J. L. Martin Colps Deacon J. Simpson Hallidayboro " J. Baker Brookport Eld. Thomas Morris Metropolis Bro. Chas. Skates Mound City Deacon J. L. Tabor Educational Board Chairman Dr. B J.Priace Chicago Cor. Sec. Sis Frankie Jenkie Cairo. Sister willie Greyer Colps Sister Emma Farrew Cairo * J. M. Owens Sparta Eld. J. B McCrary Metropolis Committee on Nomination C. C. Phillips J. E. Hey.wood G. H. Mitchell F. Bomar Sister Stella Dupree " willie Greer " M. B. Taylor Elder H. C. Armstead " H. E. Mcwilliams Members of various Committees of National Baptist Convention (Unincorporated.) Foreign Mission Board 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. 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. 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. NOTICE. Elder J. H. Hilly, Missionary for Mt. Olive Baptist Associsiation postoffice address, is Colp, Ill. OLD BLOCK PRINTS Fred R. Young, Attorney. Publication Notice State of Illinois, Massac County, ss. In the Circuit Court, April Term, A.D. 1918. Joseph Goodman, vs. Ella Goodman, Bill in Chancery for Divorce. Affidavit of non-residence of the Ella Goodman, the above defendant having been filed in the Clerk's office of the Circuit Court of said County, notice is therefore hereby given to the said non-resident defendant, that the complainant filed his bill of complaint in said court, on the Chancery side thereof, on the 2nd day of March 1918 and that thereupon a Summons issued out of said Court, wherein said suit is now pending returnable on the Second Monday in the month of April 1918 as is by law required. Now, unifies you, the said non-resident defendant above named Ella Goodman, shall personally be and appear before said Circuit Court, on the first day of the next term thereof, to be holden at Metropolis, in and for the said County, on the Second Monday in April 1918, and plead, answer or demur to the said complainant's bill of complaint, the same and the matters and things therein charged and stated will be taken as confessed, and a derree entered against you according to the prayer of said bill. Colfax Morris, Clerk. Metropolis, Illinois, March 6, 1918. Fred R. Young, Complainans's Solicitor. NEW INDUSTRY SECURED FOR METROPOLIS Presnell Lumber Company Buys Tracts For Yards. Final action was taken the 6th of this month which closed the deal for two tracts of land, 15.22 acres, from G. W. Grace and 7.21 acres from Henry Foreman, laying between the C. B. and Q. and I. C. proposed bridge line, for the Presnell Lumber & Manufacturing Company of Ackerman, Louisville, and other points in Mississippi. This tract will be used by this company for a lumber yard and finishing mill. The concern will handle yellow pine in dimension framing and general sizes. They expect to handle 100 cars of lumber per month. Employment will be given to probably 50 men. The Company will begin preparation in a few days laying switch tracks and other necessary work for early operation of the plant. Another new industry to Metropolis is the Augera Lumber and Tie Company, of Cicagoo, was added recently, and the long cement shed near the bridge line of the "Q" was leased for a hardwood lumber wholesale yard and finishing mill. Credit in securing these industries is due wholly to the efforts of Mayor McCartney, whose tireless efforts have been for a "Greater Metropolis." 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. Elder S. H. Pruitt. President. 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. Some men who fail to provide for their families will go so far when cor- nered as to tell you that they would never think of usurping this prereg- tive of the Lord's. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. 1918. 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 10 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. Metropolis, Ill., Feb. 15, 1918 To W. H. Eskew, You are hereby notified that at a sale of Real Estate made by the Sherriff 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 Additionto Brookport, Massac County Illinois, assessed to W. H. Eskew. 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. 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 somt 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 grazing in darkness. Your servant for Christ, M. Hudgins, 1209 Commercial Ave. Cairo, Ill. 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. 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 $100 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 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. 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. 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Berry Thomas, Metropolis. AN APPEAL My dear co-laborers:—Your attention is now called to the Woman's auxiliary of the Gen'al Baptist State Association of UU. We received a letter from our National Corresponding Secretary Mrs. M. B Fuller, stating that the stamp report is falling short of last year. Of course this should not be. The correspondence has increased 100 per cent since the close of the Convention, besides the increase in postage such conditions handicapped in mailing out literature to the different fields of labor. I appeal to each Department, each church and Sunday School to solicit a penny collection for the stamp donation and forward same to my address at an early date M. B. Taylor, Colp, Ill. and I will forward the same to Mrs. M. A. B. Fuller our N. Cor. Sec. up to date I have received from Mt. Zion Dewmaine. $3.15 Sister E. C. Long, Centralia $.15 and Mt. Olive, Colp 15cts, same has been forwarded to our Secretary. Let me urge you to apply promptly as the work is in need to be circulated over the field. Any one so desiring may get the annual address of Sister Fuller for 10cts each at her office 900 E. 10th St. Austin Tex. The womeu of Ill have pledged themselves to raise $100.00 for the Theological Seminary and training school located at Nashville Tenn. $25.00 for Foreign mission. It will be necessary for women to rally as never before to enable us to meet our obligation. Mrs. M. B. Taylor, Cor. Sec. What about our District Ministers' Alliance, Dr. Norment! It is time for us to get busy. Call up Murpeysboto and get in touch with Dr. Washington. The Master expects great things of us this year. Cast your eyes upon the field, see the golden grain; thrust in cycle and help to give the gospel to the starving souls who are waiting for the truth to shine out and illumine their darkened understanding, made largely by preaching and teaching false doctrine. Let's weed out such teachers and ministers from among US, and then KNOW NOTHING BUT JESUS CHRIST AND HIM CRUCI-FIED. Think on then reply or act. I am yours in Him. Any one writing to this office on private matter and requiring an answer must enclose a stamp. We would thank all of our sub- cribers who are in arrears for the paper to remit at once. Do un- to 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 the next mail. Notice. Notice is hereby given to all those who are in arreas for The Gazette, that we will be compelled to cut you off our list Nov. 15 and if not paid by that time the account will be given out for collection. We are giving you fair warning as we would like to retain you on our list. You use the paper and the money to operate the plant. If you can't pay all pay a part and have to the 1st of Jan, to pay up in full. Notice I saw 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 nothing said about it in our meeting at Murphysboro last August. However I received a letter from the Press. Mrs. M. J. O'Connor, of the meeting and she had sent a notice to the paper. In the Moderator's notice nothing was said about the women meeting with them, but it did say for each Society to send $1.00 for the expenses of the Board. R. L. Rowley. Cor. Secre- tary of W. and M. Society. 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. Roman Popes, From Earliest Time Deemed It Privilege. First Instance Dates From 409, When Effort Was Made to Arrange Peace With Goth Leader. From the earliest time of papacy, popes, as the religious heads of the Catholic church, have considered it their task to intercede as mediators in temporal disputes, observes a historian. Following are a few instances: As early as 400, when Alaric I declared he would withdraw from Rome only on condition that the Romans should arrange a peace favorable to him, S. Innocent I went with an embassy of the Romans to Emperor Honerius, at Ravenna, to try, if possible, to make peace with him and the Goths, but failed in his endeavors to bring about peace. More successful was Gregory I, who played the same part on the occasion of the invasion of Italy by the Lombardians. Owing to his friendship with the Lombardian queen Theudulinda, he actually mediated a favorable peace. When northern Italy was devastated by Attila—the venerable bishop of Rome, Leo I—the first of the great popes—by a personal encounter with the king of the Huns, prevented him from marching upon Rome. He went in 452 to upper Italy, and met Attila at Mincio, in the vicinity of Mantua, obtaining from him the promise that he would withdraw from Italy and negotiate peace with the emperor. This pope also succeeded in obtaining another favor for the inhabitants of Rome. When in 455 the city was captured by the Vandals under Geneseric, the "scourge of God," Leo I's intercession obtained a promise that the city should not be injured and the lives of the inhabitants should be spared. Another pope, Benedict the Twelfth, who from 1334 to 1342 occupied the holy see, was as unsuccessful as a mediator as the present supreme pontiff. At that time Charles IV of France had died without leaving an heir, and when his cousin, Philip VI, put the crown on his head, his right to do so was contested by Edward III of England. Benedict XII, who wanted to mediate, was not listened to, and there ensued hostilities lasting, with some interruptions, for a hundred years. The popes mediated successfully between Christian opponents in cases where it was important to unite them in the common cause of Christianity against Turkey. Pope Gregory (1271-1276), for the sake of a crusade against the Turks, worked indefatigably upon a reconciliation of the princes in Italy and Germany, and Paul III (1534-1549), nearly three centuries later, tried to prevent a war between Spain and France. Clement IX aided Venice against the Turks by mediating the peace between Louis XIV and Spain, etc. What You've Been Waiting For What You've Been Waiting For. Mulberry readers are not usually interested in pictures showing feminine fashions, notes the Outlook, but certain hatfashion in a Brooklyn furrier's catalogue are calculated to awaken a somelious intellectual activity in the man who has been leisurely coming the rise in coal and milk bills. On the first page is shown an evening wrap made of, chinchilla; its price is $10,000. The next page illustrates a wrap which is made up in various furs to suit different sized pursues. The humbler seeker for borrowed warmth may get this molleskin for the trifle of $850; more fastidious tastes may call for one of ermine at $2,000; those who prefer Hudson Bay sable may secure their choice for $15,000; while the lady who desires "the real thing" may have her wrap made of Russian sable at a cost of $75,000. An inferior garment of Russian sable, it may be added, will be furnished at $25,000 for anyone of economical tastes. Overalls and Petticoats Overalls and Petticoats. The bloomer idea is going out among the French women employed in factories, especially nutrition works, according to a letter from one of the industrial centers over there, and return has been made to the skirt that ever has been the badge of femininity. Only where working close to certain machinery would make skirts dangerous have they been discarded for bloomers, or, in most instances overalls. What was taken up as a fad, says a correspondent, has given way to the older and stronger dictates of modesty. And after work, in spite of the fact that it has been work amid grease and dirt of the exceptional sort—or perhaps because of it—there is recourse to the powder puff and the other appliances of frill that in some form or other are synonymous with woman, the world over. Paper Money's Nicknames Paper Money's Nicknames. Now that paper money is a permanent part of our pocket currency, we await the inevitable nickname for the notes, which is sure to come, says the London Chronicle. If we follow the precedent set across the Atlantic in 1862, when "greenbacks" first made their appearance, we might be satisfied with "Westminster," with reference to the very admirable lithograph of the palace which adorns the reverse of the new notes. Something better than that is sure to come along. In the army the notes are known as "C3s," in jocular allusion to the remarkably narrow chest which the artist has given St. George, who is in conflict with a very robust dragon. THINGS THAT ARE NOT SEEN USED STRING TO STIR ANGER Much That Cannot. Be Explained or Understood—People Have to Look On From the Outside. "To speak frankly, uncle, I can't bring myself to bank much on a world that's all out of sight," said Howard Cranston with jaunty decisiveness. "I think I can understand the point of view of the Bible—just a little, anyhow. It was the natural thing to 'walk by faith' in those days, for there wasn't much else you could walk by. The primitive mind peoples the shadows with supernatural powers, but science has let in so much light that there aren't many shadows left. That's why faith seems to me like an anachronism. The only way to keep it untouched is to get back to the old, forgotten point of view, and look out on the world just as if nothing had been learned in the last thousand years or more." "I was thinking about Culver this morning," Doctor Gresham said, and his nephew raised his eyebrows in quirking at the sudden change of topic. "There must have been a weak streak in Culver somewhere, although I was his chum in college four years and never suspected it. He was one of the half dozen fellows in our class whom I expected to 'make their mark in the world. He didn't—as you know, I've talked with some of his intimate friends, but I've never been able to discover the reason. And yet there must be a reason—one of those subtle, intangible things that seem often to make or unmake a life, but that the keen probe of science can't quite reach." "I begin to see what you're aiming at." There was an accent of constraint in the young voice. "Of course there's a lot we can't explain or understand. We're handicapped by having to look on from the outside." The doctor nodded. "Again," he said, "there's a whole world open to you as an educated man that has no existence for Jerry Lonax. It's not only open to you, but you've entered into it, and, in a measure, possessed it. It's very real to you, and you've found it engrossing and enjoyable. You haven't a doubt about this world of thought, as we may call it, being just as real as the grosser world of sense perception. And yet you'd find it hard to convince Jerry that there is such a thing. The words wouldn't mean anything to him. He'd have to go in at the basement door and climb up, step by step, to where you stand before he'd understand. "I remember the case of an old lady, a patient of mine, who was as sure of the love of God as you are of the law of gravitation. She'd been a bed-ridden invalid for 12 years, but she had lived so close to God that every doubt had vanished. She didn't have to get back to the old, forgotten point of view, or make a shadow hand for her God to dwell in, or forget the wonderful things that have happened since the Bible was written. She just found God sometime when she especially needed him, perhaps, and then kept close at his side till she came to know him. I have often thought that God's presence was just as real to her as john was—possibly more so. That's when I first began to see that I was an outsider. I was a professing Christian, but I hadn't got into the inner circle." "One can't afford to miss a whole world, and think it isn't there, if—if the fault is all with his own eyesight," the young man replied soberly.—Youth's Companion. Walfs Who Make Good. Everybody has read stories of wwfs who got a chance and made good, we mean in fiction. That they also make good in real life, says the New Orleans Daily States, is proved by the annual report of the Children's Aid society of New York. For some time the society has been diligently searching the country for reliable testimony regarding strays who made their mark in the world, and it has made up this list of successful men rescued as children from the street or taken from an asylum or corrective institution. One state governor, one territorial governor, two congressmen, two district attorneys, two sheriffs, two mayors, a justice of the supreme court, four other judges, two college professors, two dozen clergymen, seven high school principals, an auditor general, nine members of state legislatures, two artists, 34 bankers, 19 physicians, 35 lawyers, 12 postmasters, 97 teachers, many business and professional men, farmers and clerks, besides 7,000 sailors and soldiers. Coincidence. Much has been said and written at various times concerning "the long arm of coincidence," but surely a record in this direction, relates a correspondent, was established in connection with an amusing little episode in the career of the countess of Dudley, the enthusiastic Red Cross worker who organized the first voluntary hospitals; corps to cross the Channel on the outbreak of the present world war. When, exactly ten years ago, her ladyship presented her husband with twin sons, one of her first visits on her recovery was to a village church near where she was staying at the time. The officiating clergyman was quite unaware of the presence of Lady Dudley among his congregation. Nevertheless, by an extraordinary coincidence, he chose his text the words, 'Two are better' than one—greatly to the amusement, need it be added, of the countess and some friends who were with her. Twine Swong in Air, London Busman Explained Indicated Other Cabby's Brother Was Hanged. The conversation turned on the wonderful pungency and power of invective of the old-time London cabby as narrated by Charles Dickens in "Tickwick Papers" and by other authors of that and a subsequent time. "A few years ago," said Dr. John H. Oliver, in the Indianapolis News, "I paid my second visit to London. The cabby and his horse had passed away. The horse-drawn omnibus was no more, the petrol-driven bus having taken its place. I told a Briton whom I met over there that I liked to sit on the outside next the driver, that I found him a most interesting character. "So do I," said my British acquaintance, but he is not at all as interesting as his predecessor of the old fashion. I was sent beside one of these old-time drivers going through a street crowded with vehicles when a bus coming from the opposite direction was in collision with our bus. The wheels of the two locked and then the highly ornate invective between the two drivers began. It was the perfect flower, yes, the full fruitage I thought of profanity and abuse. "But I was mistaken. There was more and worse to come. When the wheels had become unlocked and we were slowly moving away, my friend, the driver, drew from his pocket a bit of string and holding it above his head swing it slowly to and fro. "The other driver at once jumped down from his bus and, whip in hand, struck at the string-shaker. The wealth of epithet he then used showed that all that had preceded it was as mild and kindly as the softest baby chatter. Our driver answered not a word, but as he drove slowly on continued the string shaking. "I wondered what there could be in this simple bit of dumb-show to make the other busman so frantically angry. Then my driver gave the explanation: "E didn't like it, did 'e'? It was honest a bit of joke, don't y' see. 'Is brother was 'angled last Friday.'" Church Gives Every Man. There is a little French church in the heart of Philadelphia which has given and given to the great world strife, ever since the war began, life blood and widows' mites, and in the face of poverty is still giving, giving, according to a Philadelphia correspondent. Not one man between seventeen and fifty years old remains in the membership of the little church of St. Sauveur. All are at the front, some are with the French army, some are with the United States forces, but all have gone. All are fighting for the same great world ideal. They have left mothers, wives and little ones who do not complain, but give to the last point, not only for those they love, but for the relief of all suffering. Nearly all of them are working people, but, in addition to the struggle for bread and batter, they have found the way to adopt and support four orphans in France. In addition to the incessant knitting and sewing for the little war orphans here these brave women have also found time to make and send countless, woolen comforts and relief supplies to the war victims in France and Belgium, the orphans and the wounded. They also subscribed to the starving Armenians. War Curbs Suicide. Sir Bernard Mullet, registrar general of the British empire, announced recently that suicide had fallen off strikingly in England since the beginning of the war. The explanation is that the national unity of feeling, the subordination of self and the sharing of sympathy on all sides makes the individual's personal injuries less important and induces him to forget his own desperation. Personal indulgences and excesses of immorality, causes of insinnity and melancholia, are curbed and minimized naturally by the economies enforced upon the populace. Discipline in eating, dressing, working has also a beneficial effect in keeping the mind sane and free from morbid broodings. Would Take Glass Exe Back Would Take Glass Eye Back. Paul Gary of Anderson, Ind., is all American, with the exception of a glass eye. The substitute optic is alien. Gary tried to enlist in the United States marine corps at their recruiting station in Loudsville, Ky., but was rejected when his infirmity was discovered by Seirgt, G. C. Wright. "Didn't you know that the loss of an eye would prevent your existing?" asked the sergeant. "I thought it might," explained Gary, "but this glass blinker is the only part of me that was made in Germany, and I want to take it back." He was advised to mail it. Crop and Drug Plants. One of the projects outlined by the committee on botany of the national research council is the search for wild plants which may be used as wartime substitutes for the more costly crop plants. During the Civil war Dr. John Porcher, a Southerner, published a book giving a list of plants of the South which could be substituted for much-needed food and drug plants. It is suggested that information might be obtained from hunters, trappers, woodsmen, farmers, Indians and the foreigners, who pick up considerable food from the countryside. Similar information is desired concerning plants that can be used in medicine. Invention Is Credited to the Chinese in Year 592. Books Net in Competition With Manuscripts Until the Middle of the Tenth Century. Printing from blocks is said to have been invented in China in 592 A. D., during the enlightened reign of Yank Chien, the founder of the progressive but short-lived Sui dynasty. Printed books, however, asserts a writer in the Oriental News and Comment, did not compete with manuscripts until the middle of the tenth century. From that time block printing developed very rapidly, resulting in a great cheapening and wide diffusion of books and the consequent rapid decline of the copist's trade. No doubt the rapid dissemination of learning this entailed had much to do with the great intellectual progress made in China during the Sung dynasty, from 960 to 1280 A. D., which has been called the "protracted Augustan age of Chinese literature." Disregarding the manuscript works of the great Tung dynasty (618-907 A.D.), which were doubtless tenfold more numerous and more important than the contemperatean literary works of the whole western world, the printed books of the Sung Yuan and the early part of the Ming dynasties up to the middle of the fifteenth century have no counterpart at all in Europe. They existed in countless thousands of volumes. In 1406 the Imperial Ming library contained printed works to the extent of more than 300,000 chuan (books) and more than twice as many manuscripts, and already many printed works of the Sung dynasty had been lost during the disorders incumbent to the protracted wars with the Mongols. Undoubtedly more books were printed in China than in all the rest of the world up to the middle of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century. The great bulk of Chinese works, aside from the Confucian classics, is historical or literary, the latter being mostly essays, short poems, or critiques. There exists also a vast Buddhistic literature and very many Taoist works. Novels are not even classed as literature, although famous ones exist and some of them have been translated into European languages. There are also many famous dramas, some dating from the Yuan dynasty, but these, too, are excluded from literature proper by Chinese bibliographers. The historical records of the Chinese are of vast bulk and represent a considerable and painstaking record of the political and sociological experiences of the oldest civilized nation on earth. In close connection with these records proper we should consider the vast number of geographic treatises and especially the so-called gazetters. These latter are official publications issued by the empire, provinced, district, or even township, and treat not only geography and topography proper, but also the antiquities, natural and manufactured products, and even the biographies of famous men, population, taxes, astrology, marvelous happenings, etc. Antiquity of Jerusalem The wonderful uniquity of Jerusalem has only been appreciated in recent years. Up to 50 years ago, observes the Chicago Examiner, it was thought that Jerusalem was of little importance as a city unit it became the "City of David," king of Israel. But, with the discovery of the Tel-el-Amarina tablets, in Egypt new, light was shed upon the history of the sacred city. There were found six letters written by the king of Jerusalem to the Pharaoh of Egypt, dating from the fifteenth century B. C. The name of this king of Jerusalem was Abd-hiba, or, as some scholars read the cuneiform, Abd-sadak, and he writes to the Pharaoh beseaching him to send soldiers, almost as the Turks must have sent messages to Germany asking for re-enforcements that they might save the day. Pioneers Lived on Corn. We ought to be proud of corn. The corn-fed critter, human and otherwise, always has been strong, vigorous and of high vitality. In serving corn dishes on its dining cars the Southern Pacific railway distributes a small card giving recipes and other interesting information, as follows: "The government desires that wheat be used as sparingly as possible and that corn be substituted. "America was pioneered on corn; the Pilgrim Fathers almost lived on it. Corn was the first crop planted in all the virgin soil as it was settled, from the Atlantic out across the Alleghenies; upon the broad prairies, and beyond. The schoolmaster was giving the boys a lecture on thrift and pointed out how squirrels stored up nuts for the winter. Then he asked for another illustration of thrift in animals; and one boy cried out: "A dog." "A dog! In what way does a dog practice ecommy?" "Please, sir, when he runs after his tail he makes both ends meet." The master laughed, and another boy said: "A bear, "Well, what does the bear do?" "He makes one cost last him a life time." Motive Power of One of the Civil War Railroads Was Primitive in the Extreme. The history of railway operation in this country offers many curious and interesting details. Among them none are stranger than those that concern the Memphis, El Paso and Pacific railroad, a 40-mile line operated between Marshall, Tex., and Shreveport, La., during the Civil war. The owner was John Higginson. He had many titles: chairman of the board, president, vice president, superintendent, trainmaster, roadmaster, freight and passenger agent, treman, conductor and master mechanic. The motive power was of the best in those days, and consisted of several yoke of oxen, commonly known as "hay-burners." The oxen were, it is said, generally on time. Mr. Higginson ran his train on a tri-weekly schedule. When he had gathered up a "cargo" and everything was ready for the trip he loaded the oxen into the first box car in the train. In the next car he put the freight and the passengers, and in the third he himself rode. The cars started down the steep grade out of Marshalf and after they had robed as far as they would Mr. Higginson set the brakes and proceeded to upload the oxen and pitch them to the coupling of the car. Then he released the brakes and started the train up the grade. At the top the oxen were again loaded into their car and another start was made downhill. By repeating this operation several times Mr. Higginson and his train would finally reach Shreveport. The passenger rate was 25 cents a person. Freight charges were anything the owner of the line could get. Since there was no competition, Mr. Higginson's made money. All freight was marked "red bull" and handled as soon as received. This, however, was not the first "hay-barnulug" railway in the United States. Most of the early lines made use of animals. The Baltimore & Ohio at one time employed horses to haul freight and passenger trains over the first 15 miles of track constructed. Youth's Companion. VICTIM OF HIS OWN JOKE Senator Had Not Intended Jocose Remark to Be Taken as Seriously as It Was. An official of the house of representatives met a distinguished United States senator in the halls of the capitol. They were old friends, and both were born in Kentucky. It was at a time when there was not much stirring about the big building, and the two sat down to talk. The conversation turned on what the doctors of America were doing, and discussion of specialists. The official suggested that he had a relative who was a distinguished alien at. "There would seem to be a good field for work along his line right here in the capitol," remarked the senator. "I know some members of the house and senate whom he might examine." "Well, I expect him in Washington very shortly," returned the officiak, its all innocence, "and I want him to meet you." It was not until several seconds later when the senator laughed that the official realized that an explanation was in order. Superstition Concerning Moon. That the moon can make people mad is still a prevalent belief, and even most of those who pride themselves on being free from all superstition would hesitate to lie where the moon can shine upon them while they sleep. For would they not run the risk of being "moon struck?" Does not Othello in the agony of his soul exclaim: "Tis the very error of the moon. She comes more near, the earth than she was wont. And makes men mad. Science ridicules all of this today, pointing out that the moon can send us nothing but her light, which is only a feeble reflection of that of the sun, and the attraction of her gravity, which seems to affect the rise and fall of the tides. - Wanted Officers to Learn Dancing Wanted Officers to Learn Dancing. That the great Lord Nelson urged his midshipmen to learn dancing has been discovered through the publication of a letter written by the hero of Trafalgar to the earl of Cork. Captain Nelson as he then was wrote: "It it necessary that your son should be made complete in his navigation, and if the peace continues, French is absolutely necessary. Dancing is an accomplishment that probably a sea officer may require. You will see almost the necessity of it, when employed in foreign countries; indeed, the honor of the nation is so often entrusted to sea officers that there is no accomplishment which will not shine with peculiar hoster in them." Early Intoxicating Liquors Early Mexican liquor. Piliny says: "The natives who inhabit the west of Europe have a liquid with which they intoxicate themselves, made from corn and water. The manner of making this liquid differs. In Gaul and Spain and other countries it is called by different names, but its nature and properties are everywhere the same. "The people of Spain in particular brew this liquid so well that it will keep a long time. So exquisite is the cunning of mankind in gratifying their curious appetites that they have thus invented a method to make water itself produce liquor."