Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE For the next 15 days we will sell our books at these big reductions: Those worth $2.00 now $1.35 Those worth $1.50 now $1.00 Those worth $1.00 now .75 Children Baby's books, worth 50c for 35c All best authors and will make beautiful and valuable presents Call and look at them. Take no ones word; look for yourself. Do not send off for a book until you see ours. Meals:-Hot and Cold Lunches on short order When in the city or enroute North or South give me a call. Ice Cream., Cold Soda of the purest and best make. James Robinson Proprietor. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 12 SEP1914 Buy Your NO For the next 15 day books at these Those worth $2.00 Those worth $1.50 Those worth $1.00 Children Baby's books All best authors and tiful and valuable p Call and look at the word; look for your Do not send off for a be Mrs. Z. A Robinson Just opposite the Illin Carbondale Meals: -Hot and Cold L When in the city or enroute No Ice Cream, Cold Soda of th James. NOTICE. NOTICE. Brookport Ill., Nov. 26 '13 To whom this may concern. Greetings: This is to certify that I, A. C Crider have been appointed Dist. Deputy. Grand Master of the 7th Dist. of F. & A. M. of Illinois. I will visit all lodges in my district this year. A. C. Crider Box 172 The only way to get the genuine New Home Sewing Machine is to buy the machine with the name NEW HOME on the arm and in the leg. This machine is warranted for all time. No other like it No other as good The New Home Sewing Machine Company, ORANGE, MASS. For Sale by W. P. Baynes, Metropolis, Ill. Trustees of the Livingston Normal, Theological and Industrial Institute. J. H. Knowles, D. D., President J. B. McCrary, S. T. B., Secretary T. C. Yancy, Treasurer S. B. Kerr, Attorney Rev. J. M. Blake. Rev. H. Allison Rev. M. Hayes Rev. C. C. Phillips, Financial Agt. Rev. H. E. McWilliams I. C. R. R. Time Card NORTH BOUND. Train numbers. Arrives. Leaves. 302 10:19 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 374 2:45 p.m. 3:51 p.m. SOUTH BOUND. Train numbers Arrives. Leaves. 375 19:00 a.m. 2:16 a.m. 363 2:28 p.m. 2:53 p.m. NOTICE To the pastors and the churches composing the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association, Southern Illinois: As president of the Institute of the above association, I wish to cast your attention to the annual meeting which convenes at Dewmaine. Now dear Pastor, remember your pledges as to the 25c membership fee in the Institute, and bring up a good list of names from your churches and the 25c, and too, we are looking for and expecting the $5.00 for the Sinking Fund Department which is to aid the poor churches in our district. Brethern, if this department is a failure it is not on the president, it is on pastors, of the district as I, am not a pastor I am limited in leadership. The Bible teaches "Like Priest Like People." So you see just who is responsible for the success of the work. Come to Dewmaine with the intention of doing something for the Inststute. J. H. Flowers, Carnation Art Club. Monday p. m. July 27. The Carnation Art Club was royally entertained at the beautiful home of Mrs. Sallie Townley on Vienna St. The club opened at 3:45 with twenty members and vistors present. Receipts $5.00. Mr. D Farrow of Cairo, president of the Mt. Olive S. S convention and Miss Myrtle Long of Belgrade were present and gave timely addresses to the club. Mrs Townley was all assisted by Mys M. Henry, who it is said know to entertain their guest. After the routine of business the hostess invited the club and their intelligent visitors into the dining room where a sumptuous two course menu was served. First Course—Chick,n sandwiches, phosphate. Second Course—Ice cream. The Evil Tongue. Many an innocent person has been murdered under the legal stress of circumstantial evidence. The prison walls today hold men that were sent there through cruel suspicion of which their only crime being that they were chosen for the one for that suspicion to rest upon. What these legal lies and trumped up charges can and will do against the criminally liable innocent, the same is done to the social side of moral law and life. The murders of characters through vile-tongued scandal mongers that pretend to know the secrets of their neighbors and whisper insinuations around that they dare not come out in the open with, are infinitely worse than the mistaken and many times unwilling witness that sends an innocent victim to prison or death. These pests often spread rumors against persons that they have never seen and know absolutely nothing of and in most cases no chance of knowing anything of, yet their vile minds emit Filthy gossip, day after day. It is their high mark of intelligence, their wretched height of glory. A healthy, clean mind sees only that evil that is enforced upon it. Even then it is forgivable, and slow to condemn. This is not less true of the jealous wife or husband that is ever ready to accuse the one or other of unfaithfulness. It is often a subterfuge to cover their own dirt. The more honest and clean you are, the less you will find in the other fellow to suspect. Evil gossip will in time down the weak but the strong will continue to rise above their cowardly whispering defamers, just as the man who is tooish enough to think that every man who talks to his wife or sweetheart wants her, or the equally foolish woman who thinks that her husband can capture every woman he talks to. Gossip envy and jealousy wrecks more lives and homes than any other cause.—Illinois Idea. Notice. Notice. Mr. Editor: please allow space to say to the public that the Mt. Olive Baptist Association will convene with the African Baptist church at Metropolis, Tuesday before the Second Sunday in Sept. Every church in the district is expected to represent by delegate or by letter. Please be prepared to work for the Master's Cause. Churches send all the money you can for our Paper and the School. Please elect your delegates and send in the names, we want to make this a banner year for Christ's cause. Please send in your 200 per member for the Missionary as he seems to be so faithful. Let every pastor and church come up to the help of the Lord. I ask that letter blanks be sent to every church in time to make out their letters. I trust and pray God blessing may continue with us. Rev, D. Parrlish, Moderator What Has Become Of Him? What has become of him is what the echo is saying of the question asked concerning "Col. Bill" that veteran Negro Democratic editor of the Springfield Leader? He has failed to send us his "Windy" sheet since we gave him a load from our gartling gun. Is he still dreaming of the great things he has accomplished in the State with his paper and the 40,000? or is it, that he has had his 2x4 smooth bored, antiquated fowling piece spiked; or has kicked out at the butt and put him out of commission for a while? It may be, that, he, is helping his democratic friend, Harry Woods, out of the mudhole, or possibly he is being kept busy by "Czar" Finney. The wily "Col" flooded this part of the State with his paper with his reply to our first article at the expense of the democratic campaign fund. We guess he is looking for more campaign ammunition. Oh "Billy" where art thou in the light of investigation? We are saving one broad side bomb that we hope to bombard your hide-bound self conceived democratic ideas with. Dear Editor: I am glad to say we had a fine meeting Sunday night. Rev. A. Lovelace preached a noble sermon. He stirred up the gift that was in him and for awhile the house was filled with the Holy Ghost. The Lords Supper was ministered and every christian seemed] to be touched with the spirit. The house of Bro. Ed. Tisdell was burglarized Wednesday night his shoes were stolen several bottles of soda water, after this they ate a hearty supper. The home of Mr. Larry was also entered by burglars but were frightened away. Reporter DON'T FORGET And don't forget that we were told the present Democratit Free Trade law is only the first step. Think of it! The first step What would the second step bring? What would the third step bring? Don't forget this in the primaries and election of the coming months. There is just as much prosperity now as there was during the Republican administration, but the Wilson Tariff has chased it to the other side of the ocean. Are you going to be so inconsiderate by your vote to keep it there? Will you still continue to vote to close up the factories and mills of this country and turn loose upon our country an army of hard workingmen, as tramps, while their wives and children are crying for bread and employ men on the other side of the Atlantic? Which will you do by your vote neighbor? I have a new supply of hair goods on hand. Call and see them. MRS. Z. A. VALLEE. Candidate for Representative from 51st Senatorial District. John L. Veach, of Vienna, announces his candidacy for Representative from 51st Senatorial District, subject to the Republican primary of September 9, 1914. Mr. Veach was born and reared on a farm near Vienna, Ill. After finishing the work of a district school he attended the Southern Ill. University at Carbondale. He has been an active leader and defender of the Republican party for 20 years, and has been elected sheff of the county two terms and believes in a faithful discharge of his duty in whatever station placed. He is an upright, Christian gentleman has always stood for honest dealing in politics and has shunned cliques rings or combinations of any kind. Because of his kind yet firm dealing with the people he has the support of and respect of the public affiliations, and being a son of a veteran he is a true friend to the old soldiers and members of the G. A. R. He is a firm believer in the enactment of stringent local and county option laws active enforcement of the same. He also favors the enactment of laws that will safeguard laboring men especially those engaged in hazardous work. If nominated and elected, Mr. Veach proposes to stand firm for best interest of the state and people whom he represent as he understand them. Good, clean men are needed in the legislative halls at Springfield and Mr. Veach is a representative of that class. Investigate and consider his claims.—Journal Republican VIENNA. Dear editor: As I have a few events that might interest the public, please allow me space for the following: We are very glad to announce that the Green Valley Baptist Church which has for so long been without services is now realizing its duties and progressing nicely. The S. S. which was once one of the best organizations in Southern Ill., is putting forth its best efforts to regain its lost reputation. We owe our thanks and appreciations to Rev Knowles, for it was he who aroused the church from its slumber and is now our pastor. Mrs. Pertie Rose and Mrs. S. T Oliver returned last week from a few days visit with friends in Brookport. Mr. and Mrs. W. J Hill of Paris are spending a few weeks here visiting relatives and friends. Miss Hettie Rose is visiting relatives and friends in Fulton, Ky. for a short time. Miss Louise Worlds left Wednesday for some weeks visit in Centralia, and other various places around there. Carnation Art Club. The Carnation Art Club was royally entertained Monday afternoon August 3, at the home of J. E. Cowper with the assistance of Mrs. Mary Robinson. Short addresses were made by Five Cents Mrs. Ruth Donlow of Brookport, and Mrs. Laura Long of Belgrace After a glorious meeting Miss Cowper invited us in to her dining room where a delicious two course lunchcon was served FIRST COURSE. Chicken Sandwiches, Pickles Ice Tea. SECOND COURSE. Carmel Cake Ice Cream. Every one enjoyed the lunch fine and wish we could meet there again next Moday. They expect to be entertained next Monday by Miss Azalia Sumner and her sister Miss Gettrude, of Belgrade. Livingston Notes. Our needs: — We need 2 Doz. small chairs for the Kindergarten department. 1 Doz. small scissors 1-2 Doz. Wall lamps with reflectors for our night school. One Wall clock. 200 chairs in our chapel room, at once. Therefore we ask each church, Sunday School, W. E. & M. Society and Manisters also individuals who are interested in education to send us a donation at once. Due credit will be given you through these columns also in our quarterly report. Any good book will be thankfully received for our library. The school is now open and students are accepted at any time. For any information write Rev. J. B. McCrary, Supt. and Secy., Box 367 Metropolis, Ill. FUTURE CITY Aug. 1, 1914. Rev J. B McCrarl:— Sir: Enclosed you will find one dollar for the Gazette. Your sister in Christ. Elizabeth Mabone. Thanks—Editor. S. BARTLETT KERR, Atty. Administrator's Notice. Estate of Henry Minkerman Deceased. The undersigned, having been appointed Administrator of the estate of Henry Minkerman late of the County of Massac and the State of Illinois, deceased, hereby gives notice that he will appear before the County of Massac County at the Court House in Metropolis, at the September term on the first Monday in September next, at whichtime all persons having claims against and estate are notified and requested to attend for the purpose of having persons indicted to said estate are required to make immediate payment to the undergraduated. Dated this 18 day of July A. D. 1914. METROPOLIS. Editor Gazette:—Rev. J. M. Blake and wife wishes to thank Mr. and Mrs. T. P. King, of Unionville for their kind remembrance by bringing them a box of edibles and other valuable things for their table and home needs. Such kindness will never be forgotten. May they live long to do much good in the world. Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Blake Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Blake Invite it. If you want opportunity to knock it your door tomorrow you've got to make a bid for it today. TO LIVE AND LEARN Don't Make Love to a Lonely Widow by Means of a Little Cherub. A bachelor, living alone until the age of forty, I had never given any thought to children. When I dined with friends, their young ones were in bed; or if some fatuous mama insisted on showing me her baby, I felt like a fool, not knowing at all what was expected of me. But the year I was so done up in a motorcar accident, I spent the summer at a place near town in one of those summer boarding houses where the "child" is permitted to run riot, notwithstanding that the landlady had told me "no children were allowed." Stretched all day in a steamer chair on the plaza, I smoked and read novels and magazines. To my utter astonishment, a large number of so-called "climaxes" were precipitated by a child. Innumerable were the tales in which estranged married couples, parted lovers, and even divorced men and women were brought together in the most heavenly harmony by the "timely intervention" of a child. I began to love and long for the dear little things. I determined to snatch the first opportunity to cultivate the acquaintance, the love and intimacy—of a child. In the stories there was no complication, no misunderstanding; in short, no limitation to the healing, soothing influence of "timely intervention" on the part of a darling little child. And their quaint sayings, pretty ways and exquisite conceits of imagination! I became saturated with the romance of childhood. At last my chance came in the most ideal way. A young, beautiful and rich widow arrived, bringing with her a real, full-page illustration, story-book dream of a boy about seven years old. Instantly I determined that the boy should bring the widow and me together. Soon after his arrival, I found the child standing near me on the piazza. He was all the romance I had devoured condensed. "Luminous, brown eyes gazing at some celestial vision beyond the horizon;" hair curled on his "high, broad forehead;" rosebud lips about to part to give utterance to a soulful, dainty gem of speech. I held out my hand. "Won't you come and speak to a poor, sick man?" I said, smiling encouragement. Into the abstracted gaze of the beautiful boy sprang a look of eager anticipation. "I—I—'ll smash your face!" he cried, taking a step toward me. Placing my sound foot on a putter, left near by some forgetful golfer, I hastily produced a box of lozenges from my pocket. "Do you like these?" I asked in honeyed accents. With a single bound, Tommy was beside me—or, rather, inside me, it seemed. He landed on my knees with the dead thud of a huge bag of sand; his head nearly smashed my ribs. Recalling the widow, I resolved to "soften the child;" to win his affections; to lead him to a knowledge of the gentle, the beautiful and the good. That was another favorite "stunt" of the story books. (If the child doesn't get in his "softening" on you first, always try it on him.) For the sake of Tommy's adorable mamma, I would fix up his little soul. Just then she came round the corner of the plaza; just at the "psychological moment." Of course, she apologized for the boldness of her little son. I was enchanted. The widow and I were "brought together" (though not exactly as I had anticipated). Tommy bawled: "Come here, muddy, and I'll get the old s-sport to give you a g-dumrop." Tommy was literally peeled off from me and dragged, yelling, into the house. Nevertheless, a happy result followed the "intervention of the child." His mother was so ashamed of him that she tried to make amends by being particularly nice to me. I lost my heart to her at once. As the way to "soften" Tommy was obviously through his little "tummy," I concluded to lay in a supply of sweets. I acted on the thought. I couldn't seem to remember anything less harmful than the hoarhound drop of my youth; so I commissioned a commuter among the men boarders to bring me a pound of them from town that afternoon. I gave them to Tommy, who was delighted—but, again, not as I expected. Quite the opposite. He produced a bean-blower and, with incredibly little practise, hit the bull's-eye of baldness on the head of an old gentleman reading on the plaza. Then he smashed several electric light bulbs, terrified all the old ladies and pretty nearly cleaned out the place. From a discreet distance I ventured to suggest that the candies were for internal, not external enjoyment. "Rats!" aneered the child. "I haven't got a sore throat. They're nasty tasting. I don't like 'em." Then he came close to me and laid one little hand—with which I had just seen him fondling a tead—against my cheek. It was the first engaging, affectionate thing I had ever known him to do, so I hadn't the heart to discour age him. With his "rosebud lips" almost touching mine, he asked quite innocently: "D-do those china t-teeth stuck on with p-pegs ever get wabby?" Hearing the voice of his mother near, I tried to change the current of Tommy's thoughts. "My nephew is coming to see me tomorrow. If you're good I'll ask him to send you some candy from town." "That's the stuff," was the delicate reply. "M-make him send b-booze drops, and I'll hide it under your bed where muddy can't take it away from me. Don't you forget it." Next day—shall I admit it?—I was infinitely relieved to hear that Tommy had gone to a children's party down in the village somewhere. He held up the whole affair; until after thumping his host in the ribs, Tommy mercifully stunned him with a croquet mallet. Then his mother brought her darling back to the hotel and put him to bed without his supper. That only a strong arm and a shingle would perfect Tommy's character was obvious. That the privilege of taking it in hand might be mine for the asking was becoming more and more apparent by the widow's daily increasing cordiality—not to say tenderness. The first of September was near. Quite infatuated with the widow—Tommy to the contrary, notwithstanding—I resolved to propose to her, and asked her to go for a walk. My health and spirits were restored and I was ecstatic as a youth half my age. We walked through a path along the brink of a babbling brook. We sat down to rest upon the trunk of a fallen tree. The time, the place and the widow were perfect. It was simply lovely. I was suddenly overcome by shyness —couldn't utter a word of love to save my soul! Then it was that the child—as advertised—"intervened." Somehow, Tommy had found where we were; and galloping toward us, like an inebriated goat, he landed on my newly polished shoes, and spoiled the shine. I was almost glad to see him. I felt that the affectionate way in which he clung to my knees would touch the heart of his mother. Putting my arm about him, I sald, in a pleasant tone: "What shall I do without my dear little Tommy when I get back to my lonely apartments in town?" "B-but they won't be lonely w-w-with the w-w-idow in 'em,' bawled the child. "What!" shrieked Tommy's mamma, springing to her feet. "What!" I demanded, sternly. "I-I was under your b-bed that day you told my nephew you'd caught a r-rich widow," said Tommy. "And he said, 'By golly, uncle, is it a sure thing?' and you s-said, 'My d-dear boy, it's a c-cinch!' That's what you said." The widow' cast a withering glance at me and swept disdainfully away. It was useless to protest. I did say that to my nephew. So much for the 'intervention of a child." I do not wish to see another. The place for children is in books. LOVE TRAGEDY OF ESKIMO Tale of a Sleeping Bag and an Adventurous Youth's Fatal Mistake. The duke of Abruzzi, who has been trying to popularize the tango at the Italian court, is fond of telling this story, which he heard during one of his expeditions in the arctic regions, says the New Orleans Times-Picayune. A young Eskimo loved a beautiful malden who lived in a hut near his own, but her parents would not hear of the match and sternly ordered the young malden to discourage her lover's entreaties. One night a great storm broke up the ice, and when the young man ventured out he found that a great crevasse yawned between the two huts. On closer examination, however, he found a narrow strip of ice that bridged the abyss, and having cautiously crossed this he crept toward the home of his adored one. He entered the hut and found the unconscious family slumbering peacefully in their sealskin sleeping bags. Very gently, so as not to alarm her, he raised the lady in his arms and carried her with infinite care across the frail bridge of ice to his own hut. Then he hurriedly destroyed the bridge with a few blows of his ax. Only then did he awaken the unconscious form inside the sleeping bag, but when she emerged he gave a great cry and vanished into the night. It was the maiden's mother. A Lovely Creation. He sported tan shoes, pink stockings, a lavender suit, pink shirt, a necktie more glaring than a stage sunburst, and one of those straw hats of the bedraggled brim, vari-hued bands variety, such as some college men and many college girls are affecting. Yet men are prone to ridicule the dresses worn by women this summer! He was a lovely creation. Solomon in all his glory could not have held a candle to him. By the way, he wore a wrist watch and had his handkerchief tucked up his sleeve. No, he did not have any bracelet. He was bound to Cambridge—Boston Record. Pretty Small. "And you call those things closets?" asked the woman flat-hunter. "Certainly they're closets, madam," replied the owner. "Why, there isn't room enough in one of them for the family skeleton." METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS "The farm is the place for the people of my race," said H. P. Ewing, in referring to the Kaw Valley Truck Farm company. "We aim to come to Kansas City and hire our help. Men who are loafing around the street corners now will be given an opportunity to earn good wages and also will be taught, practical farming in all its branches. "We are now employing nine men at the farm and will have employment for 60 when harvest time comes. As fast as our capital will permit we will lease other lands, carrying out the same system in vogue at our present location, which we call Farm No. 1. Judge Sims of Kansas City, Kan., has promised that he will parole to us some of the negroes sentenced for minor offenses, so that we may make better men of them." Among some of the ideas Ewing has put to practical use in his plan for intensive farming is in the raising of spinach. This he drills in and cultivates thoroughly, resulting in a plant that commands a ready market. Between the spinach rows he plants tomato vines. In 20 days the spinach is harvested and the tomato plants are in shape to furnish another good crop from the same piece of ground. In one plot of 20 acres on the association farm he has watermelons, tomatoes and turnips. Between the watermelon rows are two rows of turnips, and between the turnip rows a row of tomatoes are planted. The watermelon vines curling around the tomato plants steady them during hard winds, resulting in a sturdier plant, while the tomato plants furnish shade for the watermelons, each benefiting the other and at the same time making the ground produce twice what it otherwise would. While a board of directors controls the Kaw Valley Truck Farm company, the farm work is under the direct management of Ewing. The officers are: Rev. J. R. Richardson, president; Rev Bowen, vice-president; Rev D. B. Jackson, treasurer; H. P. Ewing, secretary and manager; Rev George McNeal, assistant treasurer; Nick Chiles, auditor; J. F. Bradley, attorney—Kansas City Star. No wonder the colored men, with the habits and traditions inherited from slave ancestors, tends to idle self-indulgence, where work is to be had for the asking, and food to be obtained by the occasional use of net, rod, or gun. A colored family can be brought up in rude abundance if the head of the household earns in cash even as little as $150 or $200 a year, and this he can do by working two days a week. On most of the tidal streams a boy of ten can supply the family with fish much of the year by tending a set net morning and evening. There are basket-making communities where all adults who choose can earn from $1 to $2 a day the year round. There are canneries where men and women are employed for most of the year in canning oysters, vegetables and fruit for nearly ten months out of twelve. -Exchange. Attempts recently were made to grow tobacco commercially in the south of England. In Ireland the department of agriculture for several years has offered substantial bounties in connection with this industry. However, neither in Ireland nor in England has the attempt gone further than the experimental stage. The christening of the steamship Liberia, the "Back to Africa" vessel controlled exclusively by negroes, took place at Galveston, Tex. The Liberia was waiting to take a large number of negroes to Africa under the leadership of A. C. Sam. Speech making and the breaking of a bottle over the bows by an Oklahoma negro girl formed the christening ceremony. New York will have the highest jail building so far erected if present plans are carried out. It will be built in Thirtieth street, near Sixth avenue, will be 14 stories tall and will cost about forty-five thousand dollars. It is planned chiefly for the care of women prisoners. In the Malay peninsula an English naturalist has discovered a species of ant that makes its nest in the fleshy stems of ferns that grow on the limbs of trees high in the air. Probably the highest death rate of any city in the world belongs to Cochabamba, Bolivia, where there was a mortality of 75 in each 1,000 last year. The Bank of the Phillipine Islands received about April 1 from the syndicate mine in Maebate a consignment of 500 ounces of gold, valued at $10,000. This makes the second shipment from the same mine in two weeks. The smallest tax bill in New York is on property in Tottenville. The assessment is $1 and the tax amounts to one cent a year. The city already has spent four cents for postage stamps in an effort to collect the one cent. Creek-Seminole Agricultural college, under by President J. C. Leftwich, founded by President J. C. Leftwich, is the most potent factor in developing the town, and Christian education and agricultural training among the Indian and negro youths of the town, community and state. Mr. Leftwich founded this college seven years ago, without a dollar to begin with, but with the encouragement of J. H. O. Smith, formerly minister of First Christian church of Oklahoma City, Okla.; he ventured to build a large institution. It was believed, among the people of the town, community and state, that to build a school of such character out in the forest, and in a new country, was simply folly and out of the question. Pluck and tenacity dominated the spirit of the young man to try, if but to fail. To the astonishment of all, Mr. Leftwich succeeded, in seven years, in building up a plant valued at $25,000, 300 students, and faculty of eight instructors. Eighty of the students are full-blooded Indians. Mr. Leftwich was succeeding nicely up until the 18th of May, 1912, when his main building burned, at a loss of $10,000; five students were burned to death. This was a great blow to the president and to the college. Mr. Leftwich is still determined to build a great institution, and asks the aid of his brethren in the effort to do so. This is the finest field in America for the brotherhood to help build and foster a college for Indians and negroes. President Leftwich has been traveling in the North for 12 months, appealing to the Christian churches to help him in his hour of struggle and trials. He is attempting to raise $1,000. The college proper will be located on 40 acres of land, as an agricultural experiment station. This institution is located in the heart of the red and black belt of Oklahoma, only 20 miles from Craz (Indian) Snake's "Stamp" and camp grounds. This institution now calls on the churches and interested friends to raise $2,000 at once—Exchange. How long will the negro be upon this step of life's ladder, depending upon the whites for assistance? The monotony is unpleasant to the ear in this progressive age. If they have been like the grasshopper, instead of the ant, consider the punishment as the reward. If they had learned self-reliance in the nineteenth century the negro problem would have been solved today. If negro men would form stock companies to purchase lands, erect buildings and establish stores they would not be dependent upon the white union for work. Apparently they have not the necessary confidence.—Exchange. Bohemia has a forest area equal to 29 per cent of its total area, and the quantity of wood cut annually averages 6,474,105 cubic yards, of which 4,316,079 cubic yards are suitable for building and manufacturing, and the remainder for fuel. Bohemia exports annually about one million three hundred and seven thousand cubic yards of forest products to Germany. As a result of promising surface indication of petroleum near Villamartin, a small town 27 miles from Jerez, the Spanish government has appropriated 700,000 pesetas (approximately $126,000) for exploring the region thoroughly, and has sent a force of engineers into the field. Julius Rosenwald of Chicago has sent his check for $25,000 toward the erection of a building for negro men by the Young Men's Christian association of Kansas City. This is the fifth city to receive a like sum for Young Men's Christian association buildings for negroes. Besides Kansas City they are Washington, Philadelphia, Indianapolis and Chicago. A popular drink among the peasants of Russia is called quass. It is made by pouring warm water over rye or barley meal. It is fermented liquor and is very sour, but has been used for years by these poverty stricken people. Sandy Archer, a former slave, believed to be one hundred and twelve years old, died in Hayden station, Conn., at the home of Mrs. M. E. Garrett. He had lived there for more than sixty years. At the close of 1911 the asylums in Ireland held 24,655 insane, or 5.63 to each 1,000 population. In 1880 it was 2.50 in each 1,000. Philo Thomas of La Prairie, Wis., is wearing a pair of the old style knee-high variety of shoes which he says he bought in Janesville in the spring of 1872, 42 years ago. He has had them rebottomed four times. One of the senior directors of the Hamburg-American line said recently that although the Vaterland is 950 feet long, another ten years was likely to elapse before a thousand-foot liner would be built. BLAME THE CLIMATE Why They Gamble Down in Old Mexico. Local "Feria," When Every Gambler Lets Instincts Revel and Plays His Favorite Game—Quick Changes in a Day. Gambling, which is as old as the pyramids and as young as Broadway, is one of the chief features of life in present-day Mexico, the New York Evening Telegram remarks. And the philosophy of gambling among our southern neighbors beyond the Rio Grande is given by Henry Baerlein in his "Mexico, the Land of Unrest." "And now we come to the philosophy of all this matter," writes Mr. Baerlein. One may argue that there is none, and that people gamble in the Mexican republic for the same reasons as they gamble elsewhere. "But, according to a certain school, the Mexicans demand consideration that is quite peculiar. "They are given, so 'tis said, to gambling on account of imperfections in their agricultural economy. Wide stretches of the land are always rushing from one extreme into the other, from extreme fertility to unproductiveness. "In four and twenty hours the people pass from wealth to misery. Their wheat is all destroyed, their flocks are dying, and underneath the wheel of fortune they are helpless if it does not take another turn, which consummation is not to be brought about except by gambling. "Mexico is vast, and on the one hand there are tracts of country which unroll a savage fruitfulness—such as the part of Coahulla where it is sufficient for the cotton to be planted once in ten years, and the district near to Irapuato where, a mile or more above the sea, one has throughout the year crop after crop of strawberries; and so the jungle, round a rubber clearing, where the tentacles of the vegetation try to choke all human effort, and if they are cut will grow again, and at the rate of half an inch a day. "Then, on the other hand, we have the desert places where the summer's heat or ghastly whirlwinds or the dust goes dancing, but where cactus grows and nothing else "In either sort of territory you know what is to be expected; it will surely happen, but a great deal of the land is subject to the vacillations we have mentioned. And the causes are less difficult to find than to prevent. . . . "What a country! Portions of it change so little that we have the tale of a Chicago woman who came down to live in this eternal spring, and as the mercury of the barometer did not so much as tremble she was certain that the instrument was out of order, and she broke it! "In those other regions that we have described a laborer would formerly have chosen one of three professions—brigandage, rebellion, gambling. "Now the former has been more or less blotted out by the rurales, rebellion does not always offer the antique inducements, and the disappointed laborer falls back on gambling. He is not restricted to the lottery. "There is said to be a time for all things, and in Mexico it is the local feria (the fair) when every gambler is supposed to let his instincts revel. He can start to play soon after sunrise, and if he should be unfortunate, can visit, now and then, the image in whose honor all the festival is being held. "Monte, roulette and lotto are the chief games. It is curious to see a circle of adults, thought of the poorer classes, solemnly seated at their lotto cards and wait until the fish or bird is called. . . . "There is a demand for fighting cooks. . . . The cock fight in itself is unattractive, being but a matter of some seconds. As the one bird files across the other be brings into play the fearful spur that has been fastened to his leg. A mass of feathers tumbles down and many pesos change their owner." Peru the Source of Cocaine. There is a shrub in high Peru which does not bring the blessing of the potato—I mean the coca tree, whence comes cocaine. The leaf is chewed by young and old. Some doctors say it is very bad for the people of Peru. The infantile death rate is high. And they say few old persons are to be found. Other doctors aver that the coca leaf is very good for the peasants. I am inclined to take a view between the two opinions. I met a man in Cuzco who was running a grocery store, and Professor Glessecke told me they had very good proofs in that town that he was a hundred and fifty years old. He sold me chocolate and also coca leaves. I chewed the leaves to try to cure an ulcer in my stomach, and they helped me more than all the medicines of civilization that I had tried—National Magazine. Ups and Downs. "He proposed to her on one of the Alpine peaks and she threw him down." "Think of that!" "But he pulled himself together and asked her again." "They've been married a year now and he's more cast down than ever." Libby's Luncheon Delicacies Dried Beef, sliced wafer thin, hickory smoked and with a choice Bavor that you will remember. Vienna Sausage—just right for Red Hots, or to serve cold. Try them served like this: Cut pet bread in thin slices, spread with creamy butter and remove crust. Cut Libby's Vienna Sausage in half, lengthwise, lay on bread. 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When visiting the wounded men in a field hospital an army chaplain came to one poor fellow who was groaning pitifully. "Come, my poor fellow, bear the pain like a man," said the chaplain. "It's no use kicking against fate." "Bedad, sorr," murmured the sufferer, "you're right, especially when, as in my case, they're the fate of an army mule." Can't Find This Perfect Woman. Belgium has been trying to discover the perfect woman. According to a symposium in Brussels, she must possess the figure of an American, the elegance of a Frenchwoman, the complexion of an English girl, the hair of an Austrian, the eye of an Italian and the profile of a Spaniard. So far the creature has eluded discovery. The best way to exterminate the ground mole is to use a mole trap. A good trap will probably be successful eventually. Delays Sometimes Expensive Business or social engagement—just a few minutes for lunch—can't wait for service. What can be had quickly? 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"Well, then, prove it!" denounced the lawyer, triumphantly, as he thrust his head toward the witness. This action woke the last spark of drooping courage in poor Miggs, and, thrusting forth his head, he yelled: "Ken! I can't write!" Snakes Got His Ball. "I lost $325 trying to kill rattlesnakes, and now I am going to walk back to my home in Brooklyn," explained a man about forty-five years old, who said he is Ezra Sellen. Sellen said he started for a walk from his boarding place, encountered a lot of rattlesnakes, killed some, fled from the others, waded a stream, and then missed his roll of bills. He said he had just money enough left to ride to this city and took the state road out of town--Middletown (N. Y.) Dispatch to New York World. Law's Uncertainties "When you poke a toad," said old Farmer Hornbeck, philosophically, "you can't tell which way he will jump, nor how far; an' it is jest about the same way with a jury." "That so?" returned young Jay Green, in a noncommittal way. 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Heard of One Person Who Knew Less About Them—Namely a Lumber- jack, Who Called the Busy Honey-Makers Flies. Somebody has been good enough to lay on my desk an agricultural paper with a marked article that relates to bee keeping, remarks the editor of the New London Day. I offer a prize of a red apple for the disclosure of the identity of the person who thus honored me by the inferential suggestion that I know anything about bees. I do not know anything about bees—I assure you I do not. I'm sorry about it, but my bee education has not been neglected; there never was any. I don't believe I was ever ever stung by a bee—not a honey bee at all events. I got stung at a bee one time; a husking bee—the only one I ever attended. I got the first red ear, and when I came to, which was in something less than a second, there wasn't a girl in the barn. And they never did come back. That was in Vermont, too, which there is no surplusage of the male human and where some of the males aren't any more than human enough to get by. But as for real bee lore—whoever left me this paper, though I appreciate the compliment and thank him very kindly, had better take it to some other shop. Because about all I ever found out about bees I found out from my primer, when I was seven, which is—why it must be quite a long while ago, come to think of it. "How doth the little" etc. And then, after asking the question the primer walks off and leaves you gaping. You never do find out from it how the bee doth. Vaguely I have the impression of reading somewhere else that he doth it with his feet. And again, come to think of it, that kind of a proceeding isn't just what we ought to expect of a model animal—picking up his living on his feet, like a six-day pedestrian or a mail carrier. It isn't in accord with modern ideas on hygiene and prophylactics. Seems to me that it isn't quite nice, to say nothing of being unsanitary. His feet! Here's where Boston is overlooking a bet. Long ago they ought to have had a society for the promotion of hygienic honey gathering and the equipment of bees with antiseptic rubber shoes. Boston is falling behind. About the only thing I know about bees is that the only was a Canuck lumberjack, who had been over to North Adams and successfully gotten himself roiled, for his roll and who was joyously trudging over Heartwilleville mountain, at peace with himself and his jag, headed again for the woods and some months more of toying with a swamping ax. A man was trying to get a swarm of bees into a hive and he the hummed lumberjack in from the road to help him. Fourteen bees at once fell upon the jack and drove him into fourteen red-hot reasons why he should get away from there. Which he did. "Hey! Where'n blankety-blank be you going? Come back here'n give me a hand!" yelled the farmer. Seventy yards away the jack stopped and made soft answer: "You," said he, "go on to —— and take care for your own tam files!" I suppose that lumberjack was the only person on earth, who has lived outside the limits of a great city, who knew less about bees than I do. I don't believe there'd be any more chance of my getting a bee mixed with a fly than there would be of my trying to help anybody at a swarming job—and that, I assure you, is no chance whatever, absolutely none whatever. Red Tape In France France is at once the paradise and the inferno of bureaucracy. For example, I wanted the gas to be turned on in my flat, Arnold Bennett writes in the Metropolitan. A simple affair! Drop a postcard to the company telling the company to come and turn it on. Not at all! I was told that it would be better to call upon the company. So I called. "What do you desire, monsleur?" "I am the new tenant of a flat, and I want the gas turned on." "Ah! You are the new tenant of a flat and you want the gas turned on. Monsleur Chose, here is the new tenant of a flat and he wants the gas turned on. Where should he be led to?" About a quarter of an hour, of this, and then at last I am led by a municipal employee sure of his job and and of his pension to the far distant room of the higher employ appointed by the city of Paris to deal with such as me. "Good morning, sir." "Good morning, sir." "It appears, sir—Monsieur Bennay, fourth floor, number 4, Rue de Calais, sixth arrondissement is it not"—that you want the gas turned on. Will you put yourself to the trouble of sitting down, Monsieur Bennay? "I sit down. He sits down. "Ah! So you want the gas turned on! Let us see, let us see." Hundreds of such applications must be made every day. But the attitude of this ceremonious official might be put into words thus: "A strange and interesting application of yours, to have the gas turned on! Very remarkable! It attracts me. The case must be examined with the care and the respect which it deserves." METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. Drink Coca-Cola And feel your thirst slip away You'll finish refreshed, cooled, satisfied. Demand the genuine by full name— Nicknames encourage substitution. THE COCA-COLA CO ATLANTA, GA. 52 Whenever you see us Arrow think of Coca-Cola. Death Lurks In A Weak Heart THEY HAD TO BE "SEBENS" 'Bena's Method of Reasoning in Matter of Slippers Quite Plain to Those Who Understand. 'Bena was much excited over the prospects of camp meeting that was about to take place in her neighborhood. For weeks she had been preparing gay and gaudy feathers for the array, and now her outfit was complete, save a pair of much-desired patent leather slippers. She approached her mistress. 'Mis' Ford," she said, "I sho' wants to git a pair o' slippers fo' de meetin' commences, an' I ain't got a single cent lef." "What size do you wear, 'Bena?" asked her mistress. 'Mah right numbah is fo'," she replied, "but I has to weak sebens, 'cause fo''s hurts me dat bad I jes' natcherly can't hardly walk."—Woman's Home Companion. ECZEMA ITCHED AND BURNED R. F. D. No. 4, Box 55, Holland, Mich.—"My child's trouble began by getting红 and sore around her neck, and her face, behind her ears, under her arms, and different parts of her body were affected. The eczema appeared in a rash first. It was wet and looked as if it was sweaty. It seemed to itch and burn so that she could not sleep or rest. It got so bad at last that behind her ears was one crust or sore so that I had to cut her hair. There was a hard crust covering her neck. She could not have her clothes buttoned at all. I could hardly change her clothes. It caused an awful disfigurement for the time. She would cry when I had to wash her. "We had her treated for some time but without success. I got one cake of Cuticura Soap and one box of Cuticura Ointment and I had not used more than half of what I bought when she was all cured." (Signed) Mrs. G. C. Riemersma, Mar. 21, 1914. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address postcard "Cuticura, De. L. Boston."—Adv. Outspoken. Mrs. Smith's four sons made the life of her old colored servant a burden. One day Uncle Andy was busy in the garden hoeing corn, and for half an hour Tom, the most mischievous of the quartet, had amused himself throwing clods of dirt at him. At last Andy threw down his hoe and stamped indigently down to the house. "Miss Ella," he said, to the little culprit's mother, "Ah jes' has to tell you dat dat boy Tawnam de meanes' chile yu got—an' Ah tells you fo' yo' face and tells you behine yo' back:" Long-Lived Family. The record for longevity is held by the Garrett family of Stranraer, Scotland, the oldest member of which, Mr. James Garrett, has just passed away. Mr. Garrett claimed to be the oldest fisherman in Scotland. A native of Stranraer, he was almost a hundred years old. His mother and father, who were also natives of the district, lived until they were one hundred and one hundred and three years respectively. His oldest surviving son is now well over seventy years of age. Cures Old Sores, Other Remedies Won't Cure. The worst cases, no matter of how long standing, are cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr. Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil. It relieves Pain and Heals at the same time. 25c, $10.00 A Mere Toy. Silas—That city fellow follows his vocation closely and yet he spends all of his time at play. Hez—How does he manage that? Silas—He leads a string orchestra. 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There is in my district in Florida an attractive village named Callahan. "One day a stranger walking along a road in the country near a creek saw a youth fishing. "Young man," said the ministerial-looking individual, "can you tell me the way to Callahan? "Yes," replied the boy, "take the first road to your right." "Instead of proceeding on his journey, the stranger gazed intently at the boy a few moments and said: 'My young friends, don't you know you are wasting your time in a way that is dreadful to contemplate? You are fishing, just fishing, when you ought to be a-studyn' of books to prepare yourself for life's struggle. My boy, you're sure on the road to perdition.' "Road to perdition," replied the indignant youth. "What in blazes do you know about roads? You don't even know the road to Callahan." The Tango In Church Mother, like countless other mothers, had been doing much tangling and hesitating of late. She had taken dancing lessons. 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It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents. The people who are satisfied to put it off till tomorrow generally put it off indefinitely. Animals Provided by Nature With Means of Defense. Hedgehog and Porcupine Are Notable Instances and Are Generally Respected by Their Fellow Creatures—The Armadillo. In these warlike times, a survey of the methods of attack and defense adopted by some of the lower orders of creation affords a theme of more than ordinary interest. One meets with some animals which simply invite their neighbors to tread on their coat tails, and those that accept the challenge are generally very sorry for themselves afterward! Others have the power of instantly converting themselves into a veritable "Palace of Peace," though the walls thereof, in some cases, may bristle with bayonets. The hedgehog and the porcupine afford instances of this kind. They are feeble folk, dull-witted, slow-footed and taciturn. Popular superstition would have us believe that the hedgehog, at any rate, is a "very devil of a fellow," who will not only rob hen roosts, but will levy a further tax on the farmer by milking the cows. Poor, maligned, misunderstood hedgehog! It is true that he is guilty of petty theft on occasion, but crime he can never rise to. Being of a quaker-like disposition, when danger threatens he simply retires within himself, tucking his head between his hind legs. Thus he automatically becomes a sort of animated pin cushion—the "business" end of the pins outward. Nothing will induce him to display further sign of hostility. The "fretful porcupine," when red-handed violence overtakes him, thrusts his head between his forelegs and turns his back on his enemy, as if unwilling to witness the pain he is about to inflict. For when in this position he presents a most formidable and dangerous armament of spines as sharp as needles and far stronger. But the porcupine is burly, and often fat. Hence, to a hungry lion or tiger, eight and twenty pounds of toothsome meat, which "tastes like veal," is worth a few pin pricks; and he is accordingly slain. Often, however, the biter is indeed bitten, for lions have been found with podcupine quills stuck through their cheeks or driven well home into the foot. Dogs are often blinded, or even killed, in making similar ventures. The spines, both of the hedgehog and the porcupine, are nothing more than excessively enlarged hairs, and on the bodies of these animals every graduation between hairs and spines can be found. But in the two animals now to be discussed the armature is of a very different kind. In the armadillo the body is invested in a coat of mail, formed by a bony backshield, hinged across the middle, and overlaid with horny plates. The crown of the head and the tail are similarly protected. When threatened during his walks abroad, all this armored cruiser has to do is to double itself up, so that his head and tail come together and close the only aperture left by this acrobatic feat. The South American armadillo has a cousin in Africa, the manis. In this animal the body is protected by a cuirass of horny plates, formed of agglutinated hairs. His mode of repelling unwelcome advance is to bend himself double and enwrap himself with his tail. Peaceful persuasion must be long-sustained indeed before it will prevail in inducing him to unfold. But the manis has another method of escaping unwelcome attention. He will grip the bole of a tree with his hind legs, and then, supported by his tall, he will bend his body earthward till it makes a right angle with the tree. Thus posed he will remain motionless for hours, and look for all world like the stump of a broken branch! The device of the armadillo has a parallel in the tortoise. 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LOUIS, NO. 31-1914. Heart Memphis, Tenn. Price $1.00 Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. METROPOLIS, . . . . . ILL. MRS. M. J. MCCRARY, MANAGER FRIDAY AUG 7. 1914 Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Met ropolis, Illinois. Address all communications to J. B.MOKARY, Box 107 Metropolis, Illinois. The names and addresses of contributors must be known to us in evey instance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity each week. One Year ..... $1 00 ir Months ..... 75 Three Months ..... 40 Single Copy ..... 05 In Advance. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. ANNOUNCEMENTS. We are authorized to announce the name of DR. SAM W. LATHAM, of Saline County, as a candidate for the State Senate, subject to the Republican primary election to be held September next. FOR REPRESENTATIVE We hereby announce the candidacy of ELWOOD BARKER, of McLeansboro, for member of the General Assembly for the 61st Senatorial District, subject to the Primary of Wednesday Sept. 9th, 1914. COUNTY JUDGE We are authorized to announce the name of Judge W. F. M. SMITH as a candidate for re-election to the office of County Judge, subject to the decision of voters in the Republican primary election, to be held in September 1914. We are authorized to announce the name of LANNES P. OAKES, as a candidate for County Judge, subject to the will of the voters at the Republican Primary Wednesday September 9th 1914. SHERIFF. We are authorized to announce the name of David L. PARIS, as a candidate for Sheriff of Massac County, subject to the will of the voters at the Republican Primary Wednesday, September 16, 1914. We are authorized to announce the name of U. E. 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Mrs. Ruth Doalow of Brookport attended the Carnation Art Club Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Jenzie Cowper. The Crescent Cafe, has put in a new line of Staple and Fancy groceries. Your patronage is solicited. Mr. Henry Stewart of Shady Grove was in the city Tuesddy. Mr. and Mrs. James Simms visited relatives in Paducah, Ky. Tuesday. Miss Clie Buchanan and neice Avery Woods, are visiting relatives in Chicago. Mr. Otto Routen and wife spent Sunday in Joppa. Rev. J. W. Davies is at his home in Hopkinsville, Ky., visiting his family after an absence of several months. Go to the Crescent Cafe for your ice cold Soda. Removal. We have removed our Millinery and Book Store from 3rd street to Music Hall building on 4th street where we invite all of our customers and friends. Z. A. VALLEE. Don't listen to the sophistry of the Demo-Progressive politicians, because they are bank-rupling this country. The democrats are quite active in republican and progressive communities in discussing and helping to select candidates to be nominated in Sept. on the Republican tficket. They are insisting on and encouraging republican to vote for the weakest candidates for the nominees in order to defeat them in November. But we are inclined to believe that the intelligent voter of the Republican party is wise enough to select their strongest men for the places to be filled and thus defeat the astute democratic politician. This same class of politicians known as curb-stoners are loud and long on the Streets Corners praising certain men who they know cannot poll the ful party vote in order to decoy the unthinking voter from the strongest candidate. The elements seem to be unfavorable to the Democratic Administration. what moved. If our Assistant Missionary would perd time with the poor less churches and accele with them and assist in raising money and saving souls it would be in keeping with the vote of the Executive Board. What think ye? The Gazette would advise you to be on your guard, lest a worse thing come upon you than what has happened through the election of Wood on Wilson and Gov, Dunne. For Groceries and cold drinks go the First or Last Chance Grocery on 9th and Pearl Sts. Wanted—100 customers at the Last Chance grocery to buy 3 cans of best tomatoes and corn for 25c. Company M of the 8th Ill. Reg't. returned from Springfield Sunday. They report a good time with no accidents. The 8th of August will be celebrated here in old style Saturday. Several excursions are billed for the city. Miss Ruby Smith leaves Sunday for Chicago where she will attend the annual session of the Eastern Star. Mrs. L. Mitchell was in Paducah, last week to visit her stepmother who is very sick. Mrs. Amanda Barnard was a Paducah, visitor last week. The little son of Rev. Williams died Saturday morning after a short illness. Funeral at 1st Baptist church Sunday afternoon, Rev. J. W. Davie off ating. The remains were laid to rest in Kidd Cemetery. W. H. Clements, 14: Sunday as a delegate from Illinois Star Lodge Odd Fellows to the annual session which convenes this week in the city of Milwaukee Wis. The editor is spending a few days at Dewmaine, attending the East Mt. Olive Association this week. Rev. J. S. Ross, of the Free Baptist filled the pulpit of said church Sunday. Mrs. Myrtle Thomas of East St. Louis is visiting with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hughes Subscription Payers. Subscription Payers. D. W. Helm Metropolis. L. G. Simmons Mrs. L. M. Dooley, Chicago Samuel Wilson Metropolis Mrs. Elizabeth Mahone Cairo The East Mt. Olive Baptist Association convened in Dewmaine Tuesday. They are expecting a large delegation from the Mt. Olive Association. Go up to the help of the mighty. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Fossie are the proud parents over a brand new baby boy. Mother and baby are doing well. The 24th Congressional district should be redeemed from democracy and placed in the Republican column next fall where it rightly belongs. Congressman Fowler, a good man and a splendid lawyer, but he cannot represent a republican district, in a Northern State. He has to vote with and support Southern ideas. In fact he is to the Democratic party what a tail is tail is to a kite. The Republican party stands for protection for the farmer and the laboring man of America. Get your votes ready to wipe Free Trade off the political map. There is an old expression Sold again and got the tin. Free Livingston Institute Second Session This school is well graded Department. All work is well technical and able Instructors, select work Special Courses in Medicine and in Theology. Entrance Fee $2.00 per month. 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