Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE Ramblings. We left the state capitol Thursday at 1:00 a.m. for Evanston, Ill. to attend the General Baptist Association which convened at Baptist chnrch Tuesday a.m. the Woman's auxiliary convention holding a two days session which was the best and largest in its history. We stopped in Chicago a few minutes where we took breakfast with our old friend Miss Moele Parker, at 9 o'clock a. m. we left for Evanston over the "L." and in company of Rev. Hurry Knight, of Chicago arrived at Mt. Emery Baptist church at 10:30 a. m. and found a large delegation of messengers and ministers from all parts of the state. Rev. W P. Washington, of Decatur, Moderator presiding with a great deal of ability and christian ability and christian dignity, after a registration and some other matters pertaining to the opening. Rev. R J. M. Dehoney, of Quincy, read the Scripture and offered prayer, the Moderator led the song "Shine on me." Then the Rev. Dr J D. Davis, of Colp, pastor of Mt. Olive Baptist church, and moderator of the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association, who was programmed to preach the opening sermon of the Association, and it goes with out saying that he delivered an able sermon, as all who know him have long since decided that he is an able gospel preacher. Text Heb. 12:1 At the close of the sermon collection, announcements and benediction. Afternoon Service. The meeting was called on at 3 p.m. by moderator. Devotional exercises and the meeting proceeded to business. Moderator made his financial report, reporting to the association raised $128.26 turned over to the body $126.26, which far exceeds any financial report turned in by any moderator. No. of churches represented up to date The moderator read his annual address which was ordered referred to the proper committee. Evening Session At 8:30 the delegation reassembled to listen to a short program alter a short song service by the choir of twelve ladies. Prof Roberts gave a very cordial welcome on behalf of the Y M. C. A. Mrs. Craven, delivered the welcome address in behalf of the church Solo Bro. Jas. White Address of welcome by Hon. Mr. Gill, on behalf of the Press and the business men. Reading Mr. Hilson a student of the N W. University. Rev. W. H. D. Woods, D. D. responded to the address. Prayer by Dr. C. C. Phillips. Collection and announcements. Friday Morning. The meeting was opened at 9. After devotion conducted by Sister Laura Leake, Elder J. E. Haywood. The meeting was declared opened for business. Afternoon and evening journals read and approved. Report of State Missionary Eld. H. E. McWilliams and a special collection taken for him. Reports of the Mission Board Corresponding Sec. Dr. W. H. Snowden, Treasurer, Eld. H. C. Armstead were appointed. Reading of letters and the election of officers. Dr. W. P. Washington of Decatur, was elected moderator over Dr. L. Drane of Chicago, by a large majority Installation of officers. Collision and a journment. At 3:00 p. m Dr. J. H. Frank of Louisville, Ky., chairman of Foreign mission Board delivered an address, and at conclusion a collection of $50 00 was taken for missions. The association made the collection $100 00 for Foreign missions. The women raised $106 00 for the same* purpose. After completing the business of the association the meeting recessed until 7:30 p. m. to listen to a lecture to the men by Mother Prince. A strong sermon was delivered by moderator Washington. Saturday Morning At 8:30 The S. S. and B. Y. P. U. conventions were in session and ejected their officers for the ensuing year. J. W. Greer, of Colp, was elected pres. of the S. S convention. The officers were installed. At 1 p.m. the National and State officers went to Lincoln cemetery 37 miles from Evanston, in automobiles to be present and assist in the unveiling of the monument of Dr. J. F. Thomas, the late moderator of the General Baptist Association. The editor of the Gazette being a member of the National Baptist convetttion had a special invitation by Dr. E. P. Jones, Pres. of the National Baptist convention unincorporated to be a member of the party of officers composed of the following persons:—Drs. E. P. Jones, J. H. Frank, C. C. Phillips, J. B. Beckham, Mrs. Georgia DeBaptiste Ashburn, but as we had an invitation from State officer, Dr. W. P. Washington, to go in the automobile arranged for the State Officers composed of Drs. Washington, Gales, Armstead, Hnter and Mciams. The editor was a member of the State officers. We extend our appreciation to the presidents for their invitation. Mounds. Dear Editor;—Please allow a small space in your paper to say that we are still alive under the leadership of of our beloved pastor Rev. C. W. Norment He has just arrived from the State Convention at Evanston. Sunday School at 9:50, and service at 11. The pastor chose for a text the 16th chapter of Mark, and at night the pastor chose the 20th Psalm. The collection for the day amounted to $13.31 We went down to the water and buried 4 by baptism, at night they were given the right hand of fellowship. The Clover Leaf church of Joppa took up $9.17 for Rev. Dan Parrish, it was delivered to him by deacon J. Mayberry. Rev. C. W. Norment, Pastor. Joppa Dear Editor: Allow space in your paper to say the old Clover Leaf Bapist church is still moving on to Zion. We had a fine Sunday School in the morning. We were alone until night without a preacher, but Rev. J. H. Stamps was at Mermet at his charge, then he returned home the afternoon and preached us a strong sermon. He took for a text the first chapter of Jonah and the 9th verse, "What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not." MOTTO: "HEW TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY." The Ladies Aid met with Mrs Kate Howard Monday, she entertained them so nicely, and she also donated them $100 Mrs Mary Carter, of Mt Vernon, State Grand Lectarer of the Juri-diction of Ill. was in the city last Wednesday evening and lectured to the O E. S, and after the lecture, they gave their guest a nice reception, which they all enjoyed. Sister Connie Stamps, is getting along nicely, she is able to be up Mrs. Modena Bradley, is visiting her mother in Paducah, Ky. Bros, A. J. Hester, Gilbert Crider and wife and sister Sister McDaniel have returned from Paducah where they attended the Presbyty. Rev. C. W. Norment, Pastor. Mary Crigler, Reporter. Program To Be Rendered At The By The Home Mission Society At The First Baptist Church Sunday Night. Chorus Choir. Invocation Rev. G. W. Rowlett. Chorus Choir. Welcome Addres by the Press. Mrs. Belle Tyson. Response Mr. C. J. Foster. Chorus Choir. Paper Mrs. Lucy Neely. Reading Mrs. Jennie Cowper. Instrumental Solo Mrs. Margie Stanley. Paper Mrs. Laura Long. Solo Mrs. Adelaide McCrary. Select Reading Mrs. Mattie Fossie. Sermon by Pastor Rev. T. M. Moses. Collection. Benediction. Mound City. Dear Editor: Please allow space in your paper for our report. Services were well attended Sunday. Sunday School at 9:30. At 11 the pastor Rev. Cole took for a text "He taught them as one having authority, and not of the Scribes." Each christian present was made to rejoice. At 2:30 The U. B F. and S. M. T held their annual Thanksgiving sermon, preached at the First Missionary Baptist church by pastor Cole, the service was enjoyed by all. At 8 o'clock the pastor selected for a text, "He was despised and rejected among men." For 40 minutes he made our hearts rejoice Sister Katie Edmunds has returned home after spending a few days in Clinton, Ky with old friends Notice. To the Sunday Schools composing the Mt. Olive Baptist S. S Convention, Greeting: Dear Co-Workers: The time is nearing for our District S. S. Convention to meet with the Mt. Olive Baptist church in Colp. Let each Supt. and pastor make this one of the greatest in the history of this convention. If each school will bestir themselves and send up a messenger with the spirit of the work, in them we can accomplish great things. This meeting convenes on Wednesday before the 4th Sunday in June. As I see no program committee mentioned in the minuses I ask that each auxiliary get out your program and send to the Gazette. Please attend to this matter. We ask your healthy co-operation this year. We want to do gr a things for the Master's Kingdom, we can if we will Yours for success, J. W. Corneal, 424 N. Sycamore. MEXICO HAS DIAMOND FIELD Precious Stones Said to Exist in Quantities That Will Make Their Mining Profitable. Encouragement will be offered by the Mexican government for the development of the diamond field in the state of Guerro by private capital, it is authoritatively announced. The existence of diamonds in a mountainous district of that southern state has long been known, but the remoteness of the locality and the difficulty of getting in and out of the district have heretofore prevented anything being done toward mining the gems. It was more than fifty years ago that the discovery of diamonds there was made by an officer of the Mexican army. A collection of the diamonds was taken to the City of Mexico and after being cut they found their way into the channels of commerce. Efforts to relocate the diamond field proved futile and it was not until many years later that a mining prospector came upon the formation in which the diamonds were found. He collected a large number of them in the rough and took them back to the capital, where they were placed on exhibition. Nothing was done, however, toward the development of the field. Not long ago the department of commerce and industry of the Mexican government sent an expedition in charge of Antonio Lopez, an engineer, to the locality. Mr. Lopez reported that his research had been entirely successful. Among the diamonds he brought back with him was one of enormous size in the rough which he turned over to the department of commerce and industry. He made a report to the effect that diamonds in large quantities are to be found and that the mining can be done at comparatively little cost. THROUGH WITH TIGHT SHOES Experience That Young Woman Had Recently Is Sufficient to Last Her a Lifetime. A young woman was taken to one of the downtown restaurants for dinner. She wished to make a good impression, so she stopped at the shoeshining establishment to have her shoes polished, which shoes, by the way, were a little too small and pinched considerably. They pinched even worse after they were seated at the table, and the young woman decided to do a very daring thing. So, carefully, she managed to slip her hand down to her foot, loosen the shoe and slip it off her foot. Just as that performance was ended the waiter arrived with the dinner and she straightened up to get ready for it. She reached for her napkin and horrors! The inside of her hand was as black as could be. The shoe polish had not yet dried. Worse and worse! Her friend noticed her hand. There was nothing to do but explain the situation, which she did in a very amusing way. But she vows steadily that she will never again wear tight shoes when going out to dinner.—Indianapolis News. Beards and Politics. It is surely more than a coincidence that whiskered statesmen hold high positions in many lands, writes a correspondent. Simultaneously with the appointment of Charles Evans Hughes as secretary of state in the U. S. A. comes the news of the appointment of Sir Joseph Cook as high commissioner for Australia, in London. Sir Joseph's beard is the pride of the antipodes. Again in South Africa, the electorate rejected General Hertzog who has nothing but a mustache, for the bearded Simutz. And Lenin importurbably holds his own, with a beard, while the smooth-shaven Kerensky is not merely out, but outside. Venizelos, they say, was never so popular as since his withdrawal, and the Italian press insists that when he makes a move Constantine is doomed. His is the finest beard in Europe, as Mr. Shaw will admit.—Montreal Herald. Letting the Lawyers Work a Little. "Disorderly conduct, suh," he said smilingly. "Sure that was all?" The defendant paused to consider. "Have you-all found out anything else?" he inquired. "Elmira reformatory for burglary in 1911 and twice to Sing Sing for the same crime," replied the D. A. "Right. suh. I just thought I'd let you-all find that out for yourself." said Erastus. He was convicted—From the Annual Report of the Legal Aid Society. NEEDS TOO MUCH EXERTION Writer Refuses to Go Too Deeply Into What Might Be Called "I and Me" Problem. The line, "Look what I done for you and him and me," is good American, but better American, I believe, would be, "Look what I done for him and you and I." This, however, writes Ring Lardner in the Bookman, brings up a subject to which one ought to be able to devote a whole volume, but one ain't goin' to. One is only goin' to state that mysterious rules govern the cases of personal pronouns in our language and one hasn't had time to solve the mysteries even since prohibition. We say, "He come up to me in the club," but we also say, "He come up to Charley and I in the club," or even "He come up to I and Charley in the club." Charley's presence in the club seems, for "some reason or another," to alter my case. The other night I was reading a play script by one of this country's foremost dramatists, and recurring in it was the stage direction, "A look passes between he and So-and-So." But this playwright wouldn't think of saying or writing, "She passed he a look." My theory on this particular point is that when the common American citizen, whom we will call Joe, was in his last year in school (the sixth grade), the teacher asked him how many boys there were in his family. He replied: "Just Frank and me." "Just Frank and I," corrected the teacher. And the correction got Joe bailed up. NO CHANCE FOR COLLECTORS Steins Now Valuable Only as Memem- toes Are Kept Securely Chained to the Wall. Beer steins, wine glasses and bar towels are rapidly joining the dust covered and mildewed relics of the days that preceded January 16, 1920, when the prohibition law went into effect. As the saloons become scarcer, bar room paraphernalia, from a relie collector's viewpoint, become more valuable. One restaurant in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn is taking no chances on losing its mementoes of the past days. The stained glass windows of the old saloon remain, but the bar has been removed to make way for the tables of the new restaurant. In the redecorated establishment a shelf runs entirely around the room. All along the shelf are exquisite old German beer steins, relics of former days and more valuable now as mementoes. Passing through the handle of each stein is a chain, which is nailed to the wall. Unsurpulous souvenir hunters, waiting until the waiter's back is turned, find their designs foiled. What the old bar has left of the old regime it purposes to keep.—New York Sun. Sleepy Sickness. Sleepy sickness is quite a different disease from the somewhat similarly named, but far more deadly, sleeping sickness, which is a tropical disease. Sleepy sickness was first noticed in England in 1913. There is little doubt that the cause of this mysterious complaint is a microbe. The microbes concentrate their attack on the brain, causing lethargy and facial paralysis, the patient lying for days in bed with motionless head and expressionless face, like a mask, reminding one of the effigy on a tomb. Doctors are not yet definitely agreed as to whether the liccough epidemic and the sleepy sickness are different diseases, or whether the one is merely a symptom of the other. Probably the latter view is the correct one, seeing that violent and prolonged hiccoughs were noticed in connection with the outbreak of sleepy sickness that ravaged Vienna in the early part of last year. French Children Make Toys French Children make toys. One of the most interesting toy manufactories of France is not a factory at all, but a communal school in Paris, directed by an amateur designer, who during the war interested the children in the making of toys after his own designs, which were so original that there was an immediate demand for them. Furthermore, the children who were making the toys became so much interested in the work that a large sum was realized, part of which was turned into the treasury of the institution, but a part was spent in giving the workers some diversion. The business is to be continued on a larger scale than ever before. Sun's Glow Changes in Shape SATISFIED WITH THE TEST After Somewhat Belated Proof of the Purity of the Liquor, Brothers Slept in Peace. "Testing" corn liquor is one of the most frequent preliminaries to conviviality these days, it is rumored, alleged, indicated and otherwise noised abroad. Lightmin' that burns with a white flame is supposed to be dangerous, to contain wood alcohol, and to otherwise be undesirable; shine that burns blue is supposed to be the honest effort of a master-maker of spirits. Sometimes, however, zeal for drink overcomes caution, even of this uncertain sort, with the result that the following occurred a few nights ago. Two young brothers in mild iniquity secured themselves a plum. They, being fairly law-abiding in other respects, went to their room to drink it. They drank it, at least, most of it, and became somewhat affected by its presence with them. They undressed, turned out the light and retired. After about 20 minutes, one aroused himself and called to the other. "Say, wake up, we didn't test that liquor!" "Well, must do it," was the drowsy reply, "won't do drink it 'thou testin' it." They arose, turned on the light, found the drop or two of liquor left in the flask, poured it on a hand-mirror, touched a match to it with due solemnity and care, saw the blue flame and returned to their beds absolutely satisfied. -Atlanta Constitution. HE GOT THE "BUG LETTER" Discovery That Made the Victims Madder Than Before He Sent in Original "Kick." There is probably no easier way to get a laugh out of an average American audience than to mention an Englishman's sense of humor, and to read what an American may have to say about the British humor may be exasperating to an Englishman, but the reverse is not always true. An Englishman, J. C. Squire, for instance, may write about American jokes and not be the least bit irritating. In his "Life and Letters" Mr. Squire's chapter, "Goals and Humour" contains several fine American jokes, and among them is one that concerns a traveler on a sleeping car who had written a complaint to headquarters about the presence of vermin in his berth. "He received back from the administrative head a letter of immense effusiveness. Never before had such a complaint been lodged against this scrupulously careful line, and the management would have suffered any less rather than cause annoyance to so distinguished a citizen as, etc., etc. He was very delighted with this object apology. But as he was throwing away the envelope there fell out a slip of paper which had, apparently, been inclosed by mistake. On it was a memorandum: 'Send this guy the bug letter.'" Relic of Glacial Age Devil's Pulpit, located about two miles east of Batavia, N. Y., is a relic of the glacial age. It is a huge mass of rock shaped like an hour glass, and is one of the most peculiar and striking natural formations in the whole state. The base is fully 30 feet across. It slopes upward to a narrow rock, corresponding to the neck through which the sands of an hour glass sift, and then broadens out to form what looks like the upper chamber of the glass. It is composed of limestone and stands 20 feet in height. The nearest bedrock like it is five miles away to the north, and geologists believe this means that the rock was torn loose from its original mother vein and dragged those five miles by the big glacier that swept down from the polar regions ages ago. Natural erosion did the carving that gives it the hour glass contour. ```markdown ``` New Timekeeper Clock. Bolling eggs, developing photographs, or any other operation that requires short but accurate account of time, may be allowed to proceed without attention through the use of a novel clock, described in Popular Mechanics. The four-inch dial is at the top, and in the lower part of the case is a vertical scale, reading up to 90 minutes in one-minute divisions, and carrying a small slide that is set by hand. At the end of the period set, a four-inch gong on the back rings until it is shut off. Though a valuable addition to the home kitchen, the new timekeeping clock is intended especially as a labor-saving accessory for hotel and restaurant kitchens, photo galleries, laboratories and other places where the measurement of minutes is needed. Snapping Movie Picture Usually 150,000 to 200,000 feet are run through the cameras to get a six-reel, or 3,000-foot motion picture. The director stations three, four or two cameras to take the same scene. We has one camera close beside the struggling violin and here, another grinding fro, an elevation, still another at this angle, one more at that angle. When all of these negatives are developed, parts of each enter into the composition of the completed reel. Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. METROPOLIS. . . . . ILL. MRS. M. J. McCRAY, MANAGER GEO. L.B. McCRAY, EDITOR EDGAR'MCCRAY, ASSIST. EDITOR Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois Enntered as second-class mail mat at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. Address all communications to J. B. McKay, 903 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 week. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.00 Three Months.....50 Single Copy.....05 In Advance. 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We can cheerfully recommend it. The prayers of the righteous availeth much.—Bible. SUFFERING? Most of the pain we suffer is unnecessary. Why continue to endure it—to sacrifice your youth, beauty, and enjoyment to it? The combination of simple harmless medicines found in Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills is especially effective in relieving pain without bad after-effects. For more than thirty-five years sufferers from headache, neuralgia, backache, toothache, sciatica and pains from other causes have found relief by taking these pills. Why don't you try them? ASK YOUR DRUGGIST Mother—"In all the wild storm your sister Maggie weat out with her throat all bare and exposed." Brother—"Rain won't hurt her. She's got a rubber neck."—Life. Be Ye Sure Your Sins Will Find You Or. To insure publication all correspondence should reach this office not later than Tuesday morning. The editor. Any church needing a good pastor and a splendid preacher, a man of high ideals and broad vision, we can recommend Rev Jno. Bauen, of Mt Vernon, Ill. who successfully pastored Shiloh Baptist church of that city for 5 consecutive years. His address is 1011 Herbert, St. For prompt Service, Shoe Repairing at a moderate price try Castleman's Shoe Shop 515 W. 8th St., and save money Mrs. Lee Beile Tandy, left Friday for Princeton, Ky, to attend the Commencement exercise. Mrs. Eli Huff, is still confined to her bed, with some improvement. Mrs. Laura Hutchinson, is dangerously sick at her home. For prompt service shoe repairing at a moderate price try Castleman's Shoe shop 515 w. 8th St. Mrs. Laura Alston, who have been out os the city for sometime returned home to be at the bed side of her mother who is not expected to live. Quite a few people went to New Columbia ou a fishing party Thursday. For prompt service shoe repairing at a moderate price try Castleman's Shoe shop 515 W. 8th St. and save money. Rev. T. M. Moses, has returned home from Cairo, where he conducted a revival at the 19th street Baptist church Mrs. Nolan Pryor, and Mr Bernice Christy are on the sick list "Cancer Truths" Free to Sufferers a remarkable book about cancer and its treatment without cutting has been published by Dr. O. A. Johnson, Suite 555, 1823 Main Street, Kansas City. Mo. The book, "Cancer Truths," tells of this eminent specialist's experiences in treating thousands of cases of cancer without the knife in the last twenty years. This book should be read by every cancer sufferer. A copy will be sent free, post-paid, to anyone who writes Dr. Johnson. First American Train Robbery Train robbery, a pastime which was for some years very popular in the West, was inaugurated 48 years ago at Verfido, Nevada, when the Overland express was held up and despoiled of about $50,000. This robbery marked a new departure in the field of crime, for previously only stage coaches and travelers had fallen prey to holdup men. When western outlaws are discussed, the name of Jesse James is usually the first brought up, but he was not the pioneer train robber. That dubious distinction belongs to one Buck Taylor, who, with four companions, pulled off the train holdup which was the first of a long string of suicidal crimes. How Lightning Kills Numbers of cases of death by lightning have failed to reveal any direct effect of the passage of an electric current through the human body. The evidence indicates that death was caused entirely by shock. The result is psychological rather than physical, the shock inducing heart failure or other organic disturbances. Sometimes strokes have been fatal to a mother although the child in her arms was unharmed. Persons under the influence of a drug or intoxicated seem to escape. This seems to indicate that the psychological element is an important consideration.—Popular Science Monthly. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL. Esperanto a School Course. Esperanto, the artificial interational language, has been ordered introduced as an elective course in the commercial schools controlled by the Paris chamber of commerce4 The language was studied by a commission, whose members reported favorably upon it after several tests. One test was the translation of three complicated documents into French and then translation of the French texts back into Esperanto. It was found there was no change in the sense. The introduction of Esperanto in all schools was recommended, not as a substitute for any other language, but as a means of communication. Dogs Vaccinated Now Professor Marie Remlinger of the Pasteur institute, Paris, who is having wonderful success with the new service developed by Professor Balle of the government veterinary school at Alfort, promises absolute immunity for dogs from rabies. This new vaccine is a mixture of the old Pasteur serum for rabies and of the virus of the disease. It acts quickly, is easily applied, is inoffensive, and costs little. It is curative as well as preventative. Eighteen dogs vaccinated with the new serum two months ago have been rendered absolutely immune. Used to That. Mason—Any startling new fashions? Russell—No. As usual, the only real shock in the spring feminine fashions is administered by the price tag.—London Answers. Land for Canadian Soldiers. The forest reserves held by the Canadian federal government and all situated in the West, comprise an area of approximately 27,500,000 acres, and consist of tracts of land unsuitable for agriculture which have been set apart permanently for forest production. Att the request of the soldier settlement board areas totalling about 480,000 acres were withdrawn from the reserves in order to be made available for soldier settlement. For the most part these areas consist of small tracts of a few hundred acres, withdrawn from a number of different reserves. Only in the cases of the Riding mountain and Porcupine reserves were the areas larger, about 220,000 acres being withdrawn from the former and about 240,000 acres from the latter. Dress and Insurance Rates. Swiss women who wear short skirts and low-necked gowns will have to pay higher rates of life insurance than those who do not. The Swiss insurance companies have announced that in fixing the premiums on policies of women's lives they will take into consideration the women's wearing apparel. The shorter the skirt or lower the decollete, the higher the insurance rate will be. The Swiss companies justify this action on the ground of a great increase of illness and disease among their women clients which they claim is due to the wearing of short skirts and low-necked dresses. unpossible. "I should think a girl's ankles would get cold." "How can her ankles get cold when she has a fur neckpiece?"—Louisville Courier-Journal. FIGURING ONE'S INCOME TAX Directions That May, or May Not, Be Helpful in Making Out a Correct Return. In the direction of helpfulness the Winstead Saturday Night suggests that if your income is $2,400 a year and you have a diamond ring and an automobile and are married to a brunette girl twenty-six years old, you take the amount of your income, add your personal property, subtract your street number, multiply by your height add your wife's height and divide by your telephone number. You will then carry your minus, separated from your plus, to schedule G on the tenth line of which you will subtract the multiple, which you put on line X, schedule K, entering in column A. If you have a child in the family subtract $200 from your income, add the amount of your personal property, multiply by your waist measure, subtract the size of your collar, add the child's age, multiply by the amount you have given the church during the year and divide by the number of your automobile license tag. If there are two children you deduct $400 from your income, add the weight and age of the second child, divide by the date of your birth, multiply by the size of your hat and subtract the weight of your mother-in-law. The result of the above computation should be carried to line VIII, schedule I, after deducting from the total of G, P, and A, and adding F, C and I, carrying it to column D, which will cover all taxation except the normal and surtax. Packages which, because of improper labelling, misrouting or any one of many other reasons, fail to reach their proper destinations are a source of great annoyance and expense to shippers and carriers alike. The total payments made by all roads for lost packages last year, aggregated an enormous sum, exclusive of payments made for known robbery cases. The "No Lost Package" Drive idea was enthusiastically received by the army of employees of the Burlington Route. Circulars of information were distributed, cartoons "burlesqueing" the wrong way of doing things were scattered broadcast. The sentimental side of the freight handlers found expression in poetic efforts which also were given wide distribution. Many shippers, appreciating the efforts being put forth to insure safe transportation, came forward in a spirit of cooperation, with a "Perfect Package Week." At the close of the drive, the records showed the astonishing decrease of 70 0-0 in the number of lost packages, compared with the same period last year. Two weeks later, 60 0-0 of the "shorts" reported had been located, the goods forwarded to destination and delivered. From present indications, an unbelievably small number of claims, as the result of lost or strayed business, will result from business, will result from business moved during the period of the drive. ALTAR USED BY COLUMBUS Relic Intimately Associated With Great Discoverer Has Recently Been Brought to America. Angel Curras of Corunna, Spain, and Gonzales Blanco, noted Spanish artist, have brought to Brooklyn the original small altar presented to Christopher Columbus by Queen Isabella and used by Columbus on his first voyage of discovery on the flagship Santa Maria. The antique was obtained by Curras after several years of endeavor, and is to be delivered to Pernas, Collado & Co., an exporting firm. The authenticity of this altar and a number of other antiques which Curras brought is certified to by affidavits made before Ralph C. Busser, American consul at Corunna. The altar was originally a gift from Queen Isabella to Christopher Columbus, according to the account given by Mr. Currans, and besides eight carvings in bone depicting scenes in the life of Christ, contains also small portraits in carved bone of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. The small shrine is about sixteen inches high and fourteen inches wide, and the hinged cover, in two pieces, folds over the top, making a compact cabinet. Each of the doors has a hanging iron knob used to unfold the shrine. According to the documents in Mr. Currans' possession, this shrine is one of a collection of twenty antiques he is bringing to this country. On inspection by customs officials, the shrine was ordered sent to the appraisers' stores, that a valuation might be put on it. SEEMINGLY 'TWAS EVER THUS Example of Eternal Triangle Will Soon Be Presented to Another Judge and Jury. Not so very long ago there lived together in Indianapolis a certain man and woman. They were well past middle age, and their children were reared and gone. One evening the man of the family nervously marked the passing of time. Sad suspicion gripped the heart of the woman. The husband explained that he would have to be away from home that evening—on business. The wife explained that she did not wish to stay at home alone, and would go to a neighbor's home. She left the house first. But she did not go to the neighbor's home. Instead she slipped into the rear seat of the curtained darkness of her husband's automobile, and covered herself with a robe. After a while he came out of the house and drove away. He drove to another house in the city and drew up in front. He left the car and entered the house. The wife also left the car and took a position in the shadows nearby. After a few minutes' wait the man came out of the house with another woman on his arm. The eternal triangle was completed, and the same old thing happened. Now they are getting ready to tell it to the judge. New Smoke.Burning Device. A new smoke-burning device. A new water-cooled baffle-plate device for installation in the firebox of a conventional up-draft furnace has the effect of converting it into one having some of the characteristics of the down-draft type. It is described in Popular Mechanics. Its construction is simple, consisting of two hollow steel compartments of different heights, arranged crosswise of the firebox, at a point somewhat to the rear of the center, with the higher one at the back, thus dividing the firebox into two distinct combustion zones. As the two chambers are separated by a few inches and the higher one reaches to the boiler by the crownsheet, the gases and smoke liberated by the forward portion of the fire are forced to pass over the top of the low forward section, down between it and the rear section, under the latter, and over the hottest part of the fire, where they are consumed. CATCH 'EM WHEN YOUNG? Excursion After Easy Money Ended on the Scaffold. By EDGAR TAYLOR WHEELOCK (Copyright, 1921, American Press League). A certain young man, whose name and the full details of whose life it is not necessary to repeat here, died in the Cook county jail, Illinois, in the autumn of 1920. A jury had decided that he was a menace to society and must be removed. Became a Spender When a Boy. This man had acquired extravagant habits when a youth by frequenting pool rooms, cabarets, dance halls and other pleasure resorts with the result that he took to petty stealing in order to raise money to pay the pluper. An arrest, a term in Pontiac and a parole followed. An unusual feature of this case consists of a series of articles printed in one of the Chicago newspapers under the heading "Benting Back," in which this young man pictured himself as a repentant sinner struggling to regain a respectable position in society and an opportunity to make good and earn an honest living. Of course the identity of the individual whose story was told in the articles was not disclosed until later. Given Chance to Make Good. As a matter of fact a position was given him by one of the large industries. He was placed in a position of trust and paid a living salary; he knew from actual, personal experience what habits of extravagance would lead to; his story as it was related to the newspaper reporter demonstrated beyond question that he had nothing further to learn on that head. But the habits acquired as a budding youth apparently were too strong for him. He began a systematic course of embezzlement from the first and in the end committed murder in a moment of panic while attempting to hold up a motion picture manager in order to get easy money to help him out of immediate financial difficulties. Arrest, confession and the scaffold followed quickly. Merely a Typical Spender. This young man belonged to the spending class, like all criminals. All spenders are not criminals but all criminals are spenders. It is a fact that the criminal class are notoriously hard up practically all the time. On the other hand, the savers are the people who come to own property. It is estimated that but 42 per cent of the families in this country own their homes, and it is safe to estimate that 95 per cent of the home owners belong to the saving class. The best way to educate savers is to catch them when young and show them what they may expect to find at the ends of the two roads. HALF-LEARNED LESSON Idle Money, Like an Idle man, Earns Nothing. BY EDGAR TAYLOR WHEELOCK. (Copyright, 1921, American Press League.) During a Liberty loan drive in a large city while the world war was on there came to a booth where subscriptions were being received an elderly man who could not speak English. Fortunately a member of his own race was in charge of the booth and negotiations were soon under way. Would Trust the Government. The man, it appeared, had been a citizen of the United States for a number of years, but had never learned to speak the language of the country. Some friend had told him the government was asking the people to lend money to pay the cost of the war and was offering its bonds as security for the loan. He had confidence in the stability of the government and was willing to intrust his savings to it. After going over the ground carefully and being informed of all the facts relating to the proffered bonds, the rate of interest, date of redemp- NEEDED COURSE IN WISDOM In Ancient Days It Was Well Recognized That The Young Required Proper Instruction. Instruction of the young by the old was not out of date when "The Wisdom Books" were written, according to Dr. Josiah H. Penniman, acting provost of the University of Pennsylvania. "The people who wrote the Bible were very human," declared Doctor Penniman, and he illustrated this with many passages from the Scriptures. "The book of wisdom told the people what to do, and most of the people needed it," Doctor Penniman, said. "There were just as many wise as foolish virgins—and probably the average has been maintained." Among Doctor Penniman's other sayings were the following: "They offered money to Job when they knew he did not need it." "Be sure your sin will find you out," he quoted, and then added, "You know perfectly well a lot of your sins will find you out." "The tongue has always been one of the greatest mischief makers, as witness where there is no whisperer contention ceases." "I need not explain 'he that winketh with the eye findeth sorrow.'" "Sob stuff was apparently used in olden days, for Dellinh said to Samson, 'Thou hast told a riddle unto thy neighbors, but not unto me.'" "What does he get for it? was asked of Job as it is today of those who get into the public view." Doctor Penniman declared Job was the most artistic of the Wisdom books, and in some respects of all the books of the Bible. WAS CENTER OF INTEREST Student Quite Unwittingly Furnished Amusement for a Large Number of People. While I was a student in college I think I amused the largest number of people it was ever my fortune to entertain at one and the same time. I know I came nearer to wishing to vanish off the face of the earth at that moment than ever before or since. The morning schedule in this college consisted of four periods for recitations with five minute periods of intermission between classes. All classes were dismissed and summoned from and to classrooms at the same time by a small bell operated exactly like the ordinary doorbell. This bell was installed in the entrance hall of the building—where most of the students congregated during intermissions. For the convenience of the students a telephone was likewise placed in this hall. One morning the usual crowd of students was gathered in the hall, waiting for the signal to call them back into classes. When it came, mistaking it for a telephone call, I hastily picked up the receiver and called "Hello." No answer—so I repeated my "Hello" louder. By this time I had the attention of most of the students—they stopped their chattering and were intent on watching me wake up. It was a rude awakening.—Exchangg. With Remarks From the General. With Remarks From the General. While I was a lieutenant in the army at a western training camp we had a parade and divisional review before a well-known general, and I invited some girls to see it. We were marching along in a column of fours with another company on each side of us. We were to keep on this way until we got in front of the general, when we were to turn left and go forward, the command to be "Squads left." I must have been excited, for I shouted "Squads right," and, like good soldiers, my company obeyed. There was great confusion, of course. The general saw it all and sent an orderly to get me. When I confronted him I received some cutting censure. During the most heated part of his lecture I saw my friends standing at the fence not five feet away, taking it all in.—Chicago Tribune. Bismarck's Unique Park. Bismarck, the capital of North Dakota, is to be congratulated upon its plans for the construction of a historical park, adjacent to the state house. It is proposed to employ 16 acres, a feature being a replica of a Mandan Indian village of pioneer days, with other appropriate historical elements. This is an exceedingly commendable idea and its originator is to be felicitated upon it. In various museums Indian relics are preserved, but nothing is recalled which is comparable to the village symposium carried out as proposed.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. Fads Hygienic Necessity. As Walter Dill Scott suggests, every business youth, on beginning his or her business life, should adopt an avocation, a fad, some outside interest, only less absorbing than his business, and should continuously cultivate it as a foll, a rest, a saving grace to his business. Provided this fad or unbusinesslike interest be one not too narrow and one not too difficult and fatiguing, the recipe is fundamentally an important one for this matter of business hours as well as for personal hygiene in general.—G. V. N. Dearborn, M. D., in the Scientific American Monthly. The First Thing. "Started your garden yet?" "No. Haven't located the neighbors who own the tools I'll want to borrow."-Detroit Free Press. East St. Louis Gazette East St. Louis Gazette The Metropolis Gazette Publishing Co., has Established a Branch Office East St. Louis, Ill., where a Job Office will be operated under competent management. Splendid inducements have been assured us by the leaders of the city. We have plenty machinery and force o take care of the situation. Rev. Edgar McCray, is now in the city perfecting arrangements. We have 25 years experience in type setting, job and newspaper work —The Editor. Office 1318 E. Broadway, East St. Louis, Ill. Phones Bell, E. 1987. St. Clair 1969. Call or Phone us the news and your next Job or Ad. Rev. Edgar S. B. McCrary, Editor and Manager. ST. LOUIS PHONES EAST ST. LOUIS PHONES Bomont 3148 Night Calls Office: Bell, E. 1987 Central 3798-L Promptly Answered St. Clair 1969 R. M. C. GREEN FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Free Funeral Parlors Automobiles For All Occasions Office: Office: 2635 Market St. 1318 E. Broadway St. LOUIS, MO. E. ST. LOUIS, ILL. Dr. Hall's Liniment Rheumatic and Neuraligia Liniment. Good for Rheumatism, Neuraligia, Aching and Swelling Joints. All Local Pains, including Corns, Bunions and Toothache. There are two sizes $1.00 and 50c bottles. No order sent through the mail for less than $1.00. This Liniment is guaranteed. Distributor for Illinois, MRS. M. J. MCCRARY 903 Pearl St., Metropolis, Ill. DR. ERNEST HALL, Atlanta, Ga. Rev. J. B. McCrary, Moderator of Mt. Olive Baptist Association and Pastor of Unity Baptist Church, Brookport, Ill., wishes all of the pastors and members of the District. Many Conversions. Take Your Insurance With The Underwriters Mutual Insurance Co., They are Steady and Reliable. Pay all Sick and Death Claims Promptly. 1902 Market Ave. L, R. LESLIE, Dist. Supt. Phene St. Clair, 1569 L. EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL. Trade with those who advertise with Us Phone: Bell, E. 1987 Kin. St. Clair 1969 METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL To the W. E. and M. Society of the E. M. Olive Association Greeting: It is indeed a pleasure to me, as well as a duty to address you in interest of our work. I count it a sacred privilege to be one in the ranks of the christian women of this world, a participant in the efforts as a building in the Master's cause. Since our meeting in August I have tried to look well into the work. My heart is devoted to the furtherance of this great cause. We hope to accomplish much for the Lord this year, midst hard struggles and adverse circumstances, for God has declared in his holy word, "If I be for you I am more than all the world against you." Now I realize that different fields of labor require different planning, so I hope that each president of the different circles will get busy and pull off a big revival in the home work and in the near future we will be called together and decide on a universal plan to raise some money for the cause. My dear co-workers, I need your cooperation. To make this work a success naturally we must work together. We must know each other, and we must never let the spirit of jealousy creep in among us. God's plans are sure and simple, let us adopt God's way, for man has failed every time he attempted to declare great things without the help of God. Now we must not fail to be loyal to the Home Mission Board, also to our home field, and the old Ministers Home God will judge us by our works. It is our duty to plan well for a more thorough work this year than ever before. Our Moderator Eld. J. D. Davis, is very active in trying to go over the top our next annual meeting. To be a real Woman's Auxiliary, means we must represent with something; I mean we must raise money by the hundreds. To do so it requires a program of unselfishness, an object clearly defined, and a voice by the people. Our State Work must be a real live wire in Southern Illinois. We must work to that end. We want every circle to represent in our next meeting which will convene in Evansston in May 1921. We must take the field for God, the harvest is ripe, the field is white. Let us pray the Lord to send laborers into the vineyard. Multiply your gifts by your prayers, our faith by our works, and we will go over the top this associational year for God. May God bless and direct our work. Maggie B. Taylor, President. An Editorial. It is strange that some men style themselves as Baptist Ministers and have no regard for the truth. Dr. Olive says as long as the condemned churches, and pastors were members of the writers Association they were alright. Though they represented in the accused white State convention. On I how misery loves company In the first place there are no Minister, in this end of the state in so far as we know, nor churches that have been condemned. It is true that Dr. stands condemned. He is in a crowd by himself, and want company. He is the only one that stands out prominently condemned, and he ought to be. When a man has the brazen affrontry to mount a pulpit and denounce the men that have made it possible for him to have a place to preach and have endeavored to preach a whole Christ and accuse them of being thieves and robbers just because he is anxious for leadership, and thereby attempts to create another organization, for the purpose of caring out sinister purposes is a bad man no matter who he is. There is nobody worried about his so called Zion Association, let him meet with Dr. Grave or any where else they, care to meet with and hold his indignation meeting respecting the Publishing House. Everybody knows that are tolerably well informed that that, is a dead issue. They were defeated in every court, seven suits in all. Now Dr. point to one baper that has condemned the churches and Ministers Just say that they have condemned me, me, me, me and me is miserable, and misery loves company. They have repented, believed and already been baptized. We wonder what the Dr. means by the word already. This word is the straw that broke the Camel's back. That one C. C. Philips is a down right hypocrite. Ha, ha. Read The Gazette. Notice. To the S. S. composing the Mt. Olive Baptist Sunday School convention of Southern Ill., the Executive Board appeals to each school to send up as much as they can to represent the District in State convention, which convenes in Evanston, Ill. in May. Please send representation by May 14th, send all moneys to J. W. Corneal Pres. and receive a receipt for same. 424 N. Sycamore St. Cartarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure cartarrh deafness, and that is by a constitutional remedy. Catarrhal Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tubes When this tube inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result. Unless the inflammation can be reduced and this tube to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Many cases of deafness are caused by catarrh, which is an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Medicine acts thru the blood on the mucous surfaces of the system. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Catarrah Peafness that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine, Circulars free. All Druggists, 75c. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. By Associated Negro Press. An Appeal. March 11th 1921. To all churches, Sunday Schools and Auxiliaries, that to make up the General Missionary Baptist Association of Illinois. I beg you in the name of Jesus Him who said 'Go.' To adhere to the above call from Africa, through our Foreign Mission Board of Louisville, Ky. In building this new station in South Africa. We have done well, but we can do much more this year. Let us make a united effort on Easter Sunday, Collections should be sent at once to the Foreign Mission sent at once to the board, all collections sent to the Foreign Mission board from your Easter services, to be reported in our State Association at Evanston in May next. I am asking God to help the loyal Baptist of the grand old state of Illinois in the above special effort, to come up to the help of the Lord against the mighty. ILLINOIS the work is large, let us pray much for both physical, and spiritual courage the message might be made plain. Let Illinois and help Illinois, awaken to our Master's call of duty. All roads lead to Evanston in Evanston in May next. I am respectfully yours in His name W. P. Washington. To the Sunday school and B. Y. P. U. Workers of the State of Illinois. You are called to meet in the first annual state Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. convention of the general Baptist State Association at Evanston, Ill. Saturday May 21 at 8:30 a. m. All district conventions and S. S. Union's are urged to represent in this meeting by messengers or letters. Convention representation fee $5.00 Sunday School $2.50; B.Y.P. U. $2.50 Sunday School on Sunday at the usual hour, by districts instead of classes. What district will win the banner? J. Ward Greer, Pres. Mrs. Georgia E. Brown Cos. Sec. Mme. Nollie Parks Mme. Nollie Parks Agent for Mme. C. J. walker's Hair preparations and Scientific Scalp Treatment. Every woman who wants hair can have it, no matter how short, how stubby or what condition the scalp. For long and Beautiful hair, Use AN OPEN LETTER TO THE COLORED PEOPLE We wish to say to our people of Massac County, and the surrounding territory, thereto. Having been solicited by a number of my people, also encouraged by some of my white friends who wish to see, and help secure employment for all returning soldiers, to enter the Undertaking business. 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A Maryland man eloped with his sweetheart's twin by mistake, and is now happy. This will be a body blow for the soul-matists—Cleveland Plains Dealer.