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Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-31
SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,. CAPTURES 1920
SESSION OF SUNDAY SCHOOL CONGRESS

says that this will be the fifteenth
annual gathering. that i, will be
held just prior to the World $
Sunday School Convention to meet
in Toxic, Japan This will be
the frs meeting OF the Sunday
School Congress north Of the Ma
son and Dixon Line. Heretofore
all the gatherings have been held
in the South SpringheId's in
vitation was supported by the Sum-
day school forces CT Springfield I;
the illinois Bsptists. the Board oil
Trade. the Commercial Club. the
Chamber OF Commerce OF Spring.
field. b, his Honor. the Mayor Of
the cir, aud special invitation
from His Excellency. Governor
L.owden. IL is understood IRON
Secretary Bond that the Cosven.
ton Hall OF Springfield has been
placed at the disposal OF the Con.
gfcss iorces Rev c II. Clark
ID. ID. chaismsn Of the Sunday
School Congress. presided at the
Board meeting Shsn The action was
taken.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-31
FX. BOARD MEETING A
SUCCESS.
Held With Shiloh Baptist Church,
MurphysborO. DR.. W. P.
Washington, Pastor.

The Executive Board meeting
OF the w. + & M. convention OF
the General Baptist State Associa-
ton was called to order Saturday
a m. with the p esident, Mrs
Bette Wilkerson, of Mt Vernon,
in the chair.
Business OF importance was tran
sacted in the aiternoon. Mrs. +.
M. Long. Of the Central Baptist
church, Centralia. was elected
Missionary to fill the vacancy
caused by desertion Of Mrs Nam
cy Brooks OF Dewmaine
Saturday night, DIR. c. c.
Phillips, Of Golconda. preached a
strong gospel sermon, fall oil life
and inspiration from the subject
60.
Sunday morning 9:45, the 5.
). met with large attendance not
with-standing the 5ad rainy wealth
er Rev. Sanders. sup't protein,
Collection 81 20. After devotion
ais exercises Tor / : minutes. DIR.
w. P. Washington. read the scrip
tue lesson and Rev. Edgar Nc
Crary. OF Metropolis. offered a
ierVent prayer. then DIR. Phillips.
preached a strong sermon On Miss
ions. Collection and Benediction
800 p m. Rev Edgar Nc
Crary. OF Metropolis. was introduc-
ed and preached an instructive SER
mon on Faith, then Bro. Griffin,
OF the Shiloh chnrch was examin-
ed for ordination The pastor
Dr. Washington. chairman. DIR
Phillips. catechiser. and Rev, Ed
gar McCrary. clerk.
500 DR.. w p Washington
Moderator OF the East Mt. Olive
Association was introduced and
preached a strong spiritual sermon
on the subject, A trial by a jury
which was we'll prepared and ex-
planned Handshaking, collection
and pismission.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-31

Rev. B N. Murrell OF Wash
ington. ID. G., preached two in
teresiing and scholarly sermons
Sunday at Eighth and Elm Street
Baptist church He expects to
remain here for several days he
preached at the Eighth and Elm
Street Baptist church Wednesday
eyeoing and on Thursday evening
he leetured on War Experiences
on the Western Front. : Rev.
Murrell IS graduate OF the Hi
nois State University and has for
several years been prominent in
the ministerial work During the
ate war he was called into service
and has just recently returned from
overseas where he spent some 20
m onths doing army Y. NJ { a.
work
Tbs Quincy Religious Informer
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-31
Teachers Institute

The ;. 5. Teachers Institute o
the East Mt Olive Baptist Asso.
citation held two days session with
the Hopewell Baptist church. Rev.
G w. Dorsey. pastor. Saturday
and Sunday OF last week, presided
over by Bro Algie Bradley. ol
Dewmaine Saturday morning anc
afternoon was taken up in discuss.
ing the vital questions OF arousine
in,erest in the Sudday Schools
Saturday night Rev. Edgar Nc
Crary oi Metropolis. spoke to a
fairly good audience which was en.
ioyed by the hearers Those
IRON out Of town were:-Presidenl
Bradley, Phillips, Armstead. Fox.
McCrary, Greer. Duncan. Miss
Bowers, and another lady from
Dewmaine.
Sundays sessions were interest.
ing, though the writer was not
present
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-31
Another Rare Treat

Tuesday night. Oct. 28th. we
were invited to the home of Nine.
Nollie Gordon Parks, by Prof. w.
A Singleton, and Mrs. Mabel
Shannon, who entertained the club
and number OF invited guests
Tne only representative Of this o.
fiice was DIR. B McCrary, ass
the. other members had more
binding engagement at the home
OF Rev. Edgar McCrary. on 9Th,
St at the celebration and enter
tanning a young man who was
brought there by member OF the
Stork family The youngster says
he is her. to be partner OF To-
seph Edgar, and hep lay shop
devil in grand-pa's office, OF
which we welcome him. But the
prices OF provisions are very high
! to take on another boarder. but be
says he is here to stay and what
ar? we to do but to give him a,
hearty welcome. and too Josepf Il
Edgar says, Grandpa. grandpa
We brother to stay with me.
Well. back 70 the subject, much
business was transacted by th e
club. apj then some short address
es were made by the writer. Rev.
q w Rowlett, V. + Shannon.
Mrs. Myrtle Thomas. of St. Louis.
Mo-, and the president James
Townley.
The following were invited -
Mr.. and Mrs. Larry Rodgers.
Misses Mae and Anna Roberts,
Miss Hayes, Mrs. Mary Dotson,
OF Brookport, Mrs. Myrtle Hugh
es Thomas, Mrs. Georgia Hughes
and J b. McCrary.
The guests were invi.ed out into
the dining room by the hostess,
passing a bowl OF punch, where
they were invited to take a sip in
friendship to the club. The din
ing halland able were beautifully
decorated with cut flowers and
Hallowe en- decorations.
After a delightful repast all re-
turned from whence they came.
and Mrs. Lavada Rodgers enter
tanned Tor some time with music
on the piano Miss Anna Rob-
erts charmed all present with her
sweet and enchanting soprano
voice All left for their homes at
late hour feeling pleased with
their visit, and looking forward to
return again
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-31
Halloween Social.

Dunbar High School will give a
Hallowe en- Social, Friday evening
Oct 3Ist, al the school building
for the bene6s purchasing books
for the High School Library. An
interesting program viii be render
ed. Help Dunbar to reach the
mark.
Prof w a. Singleton,
Principal
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-31
Executives Plea for Repeal of War Emergency LegS-
ldtiOn Is Rejected by Representatives by Vote of
I76 to SIS, Which Is y Over Necessary TwO.T Thirds.
BULLETIN.

WASHINGTON, October 27.The House tonight passed the
prohibition bill Presidents
three hours after he had notified Congress that e could sign the
me because Of the enforcement section.
The overriding the executive I76 S. which
than the necessary thirds.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-31

Mrs. Mary Dotson. OF Brook
port, was in the city Tuesday the
guest Of Mrs. Laura Long.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-31

Mrs. Harriet Jefferson, and
grandson, Robt. Carter, returned
to their home in East St. Louis,
Saturday after visiting the formers
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mingo Long
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-31

Mrs. Myrtle Thomas Of St.
Lotris, Mo-. is in the city visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Hughes.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-31

ic on the piano to the delight OF
all. We. are looking forward to
the time when we shall be invited
tie return.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-11-28
Just two jumps ahead of the police.

just two jumps ahead Of the police.
Ras himself was entirely without
prejudice as to the manner in which
he might possess himself of some Of
the pelf Of those yillainously rich I'M
believers in America. His one idea
was to get it and get back.
George Washington Ciphers wouldn't
have trusted Goora, pere, for q ten
cent paint brush IL the latter, Der ma
gician's carpet. had suddenly walked
in upon him.
Moreover, he would have kept the
keenest Of eyes on old Ras senior, to
see that he didn't steal the knob or
the front door as he went out But
Gwen CipherS didn't inherit either her
fathers suspicious temperament nor
his quick insight into human nature
Gwen, though she didn't suspect 1t.
took somewhat after her mushy
mother
So when Ras, hat in hand. an
preached her as she sat on bench in
the historic square planning wonderful
things for the world-to be put in her
book-Gwcn did not shoe him away,
but looked at the paper he held out.
Ras had great, soulful eyes, like a
deer. and said, so pathetically, "Plis.
meesw
The writing read: "Am strange
mans In crate country. Pies show
work. Am awful crate strong"
What on earth-where did you ret
this?' Gwen exclaimed. Ras shook
his head. mo spik American"
"Well, you poor souL you've got
nice time ahead Of you, sure. But
who wrote this7" Ras shook his head
again.
Gwen. by speaking very loud indeed,
IN single words, and making series Of
experiments In the sign language, FINAL
ly got out Of Ras the two words, "cook.
ship"
well, you come with me-" Gwen
suddenly exclaimed; and grabbing
Rass coat sleeve with thumb and fore
finger she steered him over to the
West Eleventh street pension" where
she lived with Madame Blanc a Swiss
conjuress, who knew how to change
five cents worth of cat meat into q
most delectable ragout. She dragged
him to the basement door, demanded
to see Madame at once, and to that
lady said: Here's that house man
you wanted. You've simply got to take
him."
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-11-28
QUEER WEAPONS OF DUELisTs
Steel and Ball Not the Only Things
Used by Adversaries on "FieId
Of Honor"


In the latter part of the eighteenth
century that prince OF clur.a,ans,
Count Cagliostro. proposed duel
with poisoned pills. The trouble
arose because he had called n Dhysi-
clan quack. CuElioStro. on the
ground that IA medical controversy
should be settled In 4 medical man
ner. proposed that two pills. one
deadly. the other harmless, should be
put in box and shaken up. Each was
to draw pill and swallow it.
In due course the duel came Off
CnGliostro lived. The other man died.
Some years before the war an Amer
lean student in Paris. challenged by
Frenchinnn, chose baSeballs as his
weapon. There was Immense jeerinc.
and the American was accused of
everything from insanity to cowardice.
the latter on the assumption thnt no
one could possibly be hurt-by n base
ball. But the American, taking his
stand at pitchers distance threw with
such force and accuracy that the fiy-
ing sphere struck his opponent be-
tween the eyes and laid him out fiut.
though he recovered later on.
A duel with deadly germs was So
\riously proposed by n Chicago physi-
clan in 1916. The preliminaries were
arranged, but ut the last moment the
challenged party shrank from the
ordeal.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-11-28
COMMISSIONERS SALE.

Pursuant to the authority vested
III me as Special Commissioner by
q decree entered by the Circuit
Court of Greenbricr county, West
Virginia.. on the 18th day of Sep
TENDER, 1919, in the chancery cause
therein pending. in which Boyce
brothers are plaintiffs and G. C..
tiinkle and others are defendants,
| will on WEDNESDAY, DECEM-
Der 3rd, 1919, at one o'clock p. M,
sell at public auction to the highest
pldder' In front of the Bank of
Lewisburg building, in the town of
Lewisburg, Greenbrier county. w.
Virginia, that certain tract or parcel
of land, lying in Falling Spring
district, Greenbrier county, West
Virginia, containing twelve acres
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-11-28
As to the Habit of II

Creatures Of habit, such are human
beings. They carry along with them
lot Of the primitive instincts thew
had In common with the lower Gre
alton in the ages past. A habit is only
an outgrowth Of an instinct. It is the
instinct to do the thing that was done
before until the doing of 1t becomes
second nature. The leading psycholo-
gists, and the lesser as well, for that
matter, agree that the reactions Of
the human system to environment are
limitless and therefore the range Of
things that may be done habitually
is limitIesS.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-11-28

more or less, situated OH Brushy
Mountain. west of RenickS Valley,
and adjoining the land Of J. II. May
and others.
TERMS OF SALE:-CaSh in hand
sufficient TO pay the costs Of suit
and expenses of sale, and for the
residue the purchaser to execute
notes with security to be approved
by me, due respectively at six and
twelve months, with interest from
date of sale.
FINLEY Nj. ARBUCKLE,
Special Commissioners.
r. l.. McMillion, Auctioneer
Bond with security has been Civ
en- by the above named Finley NJ.
Arbuckle, Special Commissioner, as
required by said decree.
1l-7-4t II. G. SKAGGS, Clerk.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-11-28
Will Film a BIG Game Hunt.

Writing Of East Africa reminds me
OF young man of greater enterprise
than financial resources who has fixed
up contract with motion picture
firm to go on big game shooting cx-
petition in East Africa and take with
him operators and camera. His own
cheerful view Of the undertaking is
that he will get his shooting, and the
movie firm will get their pictures and
both will reap substantial profits
Manchester Guardian.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-11-28
When Gold Iarnishes

In the case Of black mark made by
a gold pin upon white cravat, the
discoloratiOn is not due to furnishing
but to friction. Gold jewelry sometimes
furnishes In the shop through being
wrapped in cheap tissue paper, placed
in boxes with Inferior Innings or tied
up with rubber bands. It will some
times tarnish in sympathy with unlac-
quered silver exposed In the same
showcase.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-11-28

paper Syndicate.l
Miss Gwen Ciphers, daughter of an
Indianapolis paint and wall paper mar-
chant and one Of the kind of women
who name their first borns Archibald
If fine and Gwendoline II superfine.
met up with Ras Goora, son Of a
Caifa rng picker, In Washington
square.
Gwen was the ninety-six thousand
and first girls college graduate to
come from Indiana to New York to
soften the heart Of the world with her
pen. HaS was the second young man
to come from Caiffa, Syria, with the
oennite purpose of acquiring, within
Six months, capital enough to buy
licorice plantation.
The first Caifra youth to achieve this
ambition had been Tufa Goora, Ras's
cousin. He had returned, after a brief
absence, with small hatful of the
golden coin OF the infidels, and had
purchased the most excellent planta-
lion Of Hal Akab: also the second
hand hivver Of the departing French
consul.
Eela karhagian, sloe-eyed daughter
OF the Armenian doctor. seemed dis
posed TO condescend to Tufa under
these circumstances. Ras. too, had
yearned h0pelessly for Eela. He de-
termined to put over a performance to
equal or excel his cousins. He knew
OF 3 better plantation and a newer
Ford. The plantation he wanted was
so near to town they could run in to
the picture theater; if
And RaS would have made his adj
venturing voyage to the other side of
the world even had he known positive
~ what had merely occurred to him as
a probability-that Tufa's money had
been the fruit Of series of predatory
enterprises which made 1t by the rarest
OF good luck that he ever returned 10
Caiffa. He had got out of New York
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-11-28
Arkansas Diamonds.

Arkansas has several diamond mines
that have turned out about 5000 dIa-
monds valued ut about $4,000. The
geological formation in which the gems
are found is called peridotite and IS
akin to the famous South African kim
berlite. 1t occurs In chimneys like
those Of South America. The Arkan-
sas mines have been neglected during
the war. With diamonds increasing in
price and popularity, 1t is said, the
mine owners are making plans ta
work their properties In a more ex.
tensive and systematic way.
Plumber.
The gentleman burglar flashed his
lamp in the startled eyes Of the
aroused head Of the family.
where's your valuables?" he de-
manded, politely.
"For heavens sake, don't shoot I"
pleaded the victim. my jewels are
In that box on the bureau; my money
is In the handbag on the dresser; my
husbands watch
1mpaticntly shooting n hole In the
pillow, the burglar snapped:
Don't kid me! I asked you where
you keep your butter and eggs ~
But with shrek OF desperation
the woman leapcd upon him. for TINT
was too much. too utterly much =
Richmond Tincs-Dispatch.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-11-28

Thoroughbred Berkshire pigs fog
sale. Male and female. Prices
reasonable. j. j. ECHOLS, Lewis.
burg, w. Va. If.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-11-28
Owens Protege
n
BY WILL T. AMES

copyright. 1913. by tho Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.I
New-York tribune., 1919-01-12
Bunch of Students Upset Few Policemen, Hoisted
the Flag of the Republic, and 1t Was
All Done Overnight

by Vienna dispatch to the Prague
newspaper "Venkov," reprinted in "Pesti
Naplo." Accordingly, on the eve of the
Magyar revolution the Archduke Fred
erick sent the following letter to King
Charles:
Everything can be saved yet You must
order the troops to shoot down every
damned republican. You must employ my
methods. There are still loyal troops left
who will, on your command, restore order
We have to terrorize the people; if we get
scared We'll lose everything If you do as
| advise you, we can still save the throne,
the dynasty, the empire. But we have to act
ruthlessly and without delay"
Fortunately, this letter was captured
by Magyar officers who supported the
revolution, and bloodshed was avoided.
One of the most important parts in
the Magyar revolt was played by the
Minister of War Of the Karolyi Cabinet,
Lieutenant Colonel Adalbert Linder.
This young officer was, at the beginning
of the war, captain in the artillery, and
was later promoted for gallantry at the
front to the rank of lieutenant colonel.
An interesting account of him is given
by his friend, Charles Hubay, young
Hungarian business man now residing
in New York. He says:
II met Captain Linder about seven or
eight years ago at the house of my aunt,
the Countess c. He was gay and verv
clever man, with a cosmopolitan education
and extremely liberal views. We became
friends and he conided to me that he
heartily despised his profession.
II was at the time serving my year in
another artillery regiment. One day l told
Captain Linder that liked military life and
intended to apply for commission.
Don't be fool, the captain said 'The
military profession is the rottenest in the
world. In peace time we are paid for loaf
ing around, and in war for numbering people
whom we never met and who never harmed
us in any way. If had son I'd rather
kill him than consent to his choosing the
army for trade"
1t is no accident that this convinced
anti-militarist became the military leader
of Hungary at moment when the ter
rible disaster into which it's alliance with
Prussian militarism precipitated the
country was for the first time fully
realized by the Magyar people
New-York tribune., 1919-01-12
BY the Way, Who Was Hertline?

resentatves in the Imperial and Prus
sian cabinets.
And when, less than a month after
forming his government, he introduced
into the Prussian Chamber the bills for
establishing universal equal suffrage
and the reform of the House of Lords.
ne energetically repelled the imputa-
tlon that he would lend hand to low
ering the position of the Crown. He
had been monarchist throughout his
life, he cried, and he would die mon
archist. Yet, when at the end of Sem
tember he went to the Great Armv
Headquarters to lay his resignation in
the hands of the Kaiser, he was COM
pelled-again by force Of political cir
cumstances to advise him to make a
formal surrender of his imperial pow
ers to the Reichstag. It was under
Hertllng's advice, as was generally un-
derstood in Germany, that Wilhelm II
issued his decree of September 80 stjn-
ulating the establishment of parlia-
mentary government.
The evident fact of Hertling's chan
cellorship was that he was in posi-
ton for which he was not made, posi-
ton that called for Bismarckian will
power, yet for which he had only the
mild energy of the philosopher. This
old professor had written philosophical
books. He had written about John
Locke and the Cambridge school of
philosophy, about matter and form and
the definition of the soul, and he had
speculated about things beyond the bor-
derland Of the mechanism of the
New-York tribune., 1919-01-12
narchy AS Painlessly Removed by the Hungarian,

night and by the break of day had
triumphed without the shedding of blood.
"Thc National Council, originally so
ciety III which mercy the Karolyi party,
the Social Democrats, and the bourgeois,
radicals organcally united for common ac-
ton, has developed, through the peculiar
course Of events, into the only organized
power in the state.
"The scales were turned by the attitude
OF the troops Of the Bucharest garrison
Some days before, q Soldiers Council had
been formed by the officers and men and
had joined the National Council In the
streets its members invited officers and men
to remove the rosettes from their headdress
and replace them with tricolorcd cockades
They also induced the officers and men to
gather before the meeting place of the Ma
tional Council and there TO swear loyalty to
the National Council in groups
"Cnder the direction of members of the
National Council the troops occupied the
Central Postoffice and the Telephone Cen
trail late in the evening" The entire body of
officers declared itself at one with the
troops. Only a few generals, referring to
their duty, declined to join. They were ar
rested and turned over to the National
Council"
Among the first acts of the National
Council on assuming supreme power
was the issuance of several proc, anna
tlons, announcing the change of govern
ment, admonishing the populace to OBJ
serve law and order, thanking the garri-
son for its assistance in carrying the
revolution to a bloodless victory, etc.
Sales of liquor were prohibited, under
severe penalty. An appeal was directed
to the workers to stop the general strike,
as all the objects sought were attained
Steps were taken at once to resume
operation Of public utilities and the
newspaper plants.
The most interesting of these proca-
nations, however, is ore issued to the
gendarmes. This picked body, CORE
spending in spirit and makeup to the
famous Royal Irish Constabulary, was
always considered the most ruthless and
effective instrument of the old regime,
used IN suppresslng unrest in cases where
even the employment of regular troops
was regarded as risky. There was no lit
tie fear that the revolution might meet
with resistance on the part of the gen.
darmes, in which case street battles and
bloodshed on large scale would have
cnsued
The appeal issued by the National
Council says in part:
"Gendarmes! Our Hungarian brethren!
eve wish to save the Hungary that has
been thrust into deadly peril through the
criminal and ignorant leadership of it's
rulers.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-12

An impressive and characteristic ac-
count of the new regimes first day, with
the garrison's taking the oath of allegi-
ance for a climax, is given by the Buda-
pest correspondent of the "Algemein-
Handelsblad," an Amsterdam newspaper.
He writes:
"On the broad steps leading UP to the
parliament building plain man, of middle
build, steps forward from among the group
of notables. This man in civilian clothes is
the first Hungarian citizen Minister of War.
Lieutenant Colonel Adalbert Linder.
In a few but spirited words he addresses
the crowd. He says that the Magyar soldiers
are not conquered. They have defended the
freedom of the fatherland 1t is Prussian-
ism that has been conquered, the foreign
idea for which the Magyar people, led astray
by its guilty leaders, had to bleed through
four years. He calls on the officers and
soldiers of the garrison to take the oath of
allegiance to the revolutionary government.