Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE Ladies coat-suits, Cloaks, Waists, Dress Skirts, Aprons, Underwear and everything ready-to-wear Here you save 50 per cent on your purchase. All garments for boys, and children Saturday Night Specials 81 Doz. good looking tan hose, value 50c selling them Saturday night for 21c. Boulware-Allen Shoe Go. Having just remodeled our store 218 Broadway we are now prepared to serve the people with the best of foot-wear. We have the best and up to date lines for those who appreciate high grade shoes. You will find our salesman to be polite and attentive. Having all sizes and widths we are prepared to fit your foot correctly. 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. WHEN YOU WANT Good Shoes-Remember that the Best you can buy are at GEO. R. ROCK'S Bargain Shoe Store, 321 Broadway, Paducah, Ky. MOTTO : "HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY Inez Long was a Centralia visitor last Tuesday. Mrs Naomi Foulks arrived home Tuesday after an extended visit in the South with relatives. The Baptist Convention convened here Thursday Oct. 15th for the purpose of organizing an Orthodox State Baptist Association. We were pleased to have some of our leading minister from all parts of the State with us, who after each had recived their own tasks returned to their homes reporting a very pleasant session. They will meet next year in Centralia with the 2nd Baptist church, Rev. H. Allison pastor. Rev. J. F. Tomas, Chicago, was elected President, F Holmes Duquoin, 1st vice. G. W. Dorsey, Carbondale, 2nd vice. H. Allison, Treas. J. B. McCrary, Recording Sec'y, W. P. Washington, Cor. Sec'y. The Court of Calanthe entertained on Oct. 17th and met with marked success. Rev. J. B. McCrary, editor of the Gazette, and Rev. J. H. Knowles, remained over Sunday. Rev. McCrary, was guest for supper with Rev J. P. Long his brother-in-law. He stopped with Rev. and Mrs. Sydes while in the city. He was entertained for breakfast at the home of Mrs. Fannie Starks, Sunday morning, and Mr. and Mrs. 'Blackwcod's for Sunday dinner. Rev. McCrary, stands high in this city and has many friends here among both races, and had to turn down invitations for meals. He preached a noble sermon Sunday morning at Corrinthian Baptist church; at 5 o'clock he addressed the Y. M. C. A. at the Shiloh Baptist church, and was highly complimented by the large audience. At night he delivered a strong sermon at the Shiloh Baptist church to an appreciative audience, Rev. Bruen is pastor. We all invite him to return again soon. Rev. J. H. Knowles, the missionary delivered a very able sermon at Shiloh Baptist church Sunday morning and one at night at Corrinthian Baptist church at night. We invite him to return again. Mrs. Helen L. Bish, has been appointed as correspondent and Agent for the Gazette, any news item turned over to her will receive prompt attention. She will also sell the paper, take subscriptions, receipt for same, make collections. Give us your job work. Patronize race enterprises they help to give you a standing among the races. Mr. Major McReynolds and Emmitt McGuire are here from Freeman Ill. The Tiger Lily Club will hold a Mask Party their first entertainment Oct. 31st at the Home Circle Hall. Nellis Morris, Pres. Lillian Gillls, Treas Helen Bish, Sec'y. Give us the news. Helen Bish, Reporter. TO THE VOTERS. Deat Friends: I take this method of answering the question whether or not I will still remain in the race for County Superinfondent of Schools. As you know I failed to get the nomination in the recent Primary by a small majority, but it was made possible that I might still be a candidate in the general election in November. I have studied the matter over very carefully and considerately and have decided to remain in the race, subject to will of the voters of the county, as I have been urged to do so by my many friends of all parties. I do not deem it necessary to canvass your votes again as I have already made a through canvass of the county, but to you whom I did not get to see before the Primary. I wish to say that I earnestly solicit your votes also. As I stated before, since my life is being given to educational work, I seek the office for the interest I have in the schools and school work. Agai: , asking you one and all for your hearty support, I remain, Very truly yours, Emma Brainard. Chas. C. Johnson for Apellate Court Clerk The people of Wayne county should show their appreciation of the honor conferred on the county by the nomination of our present-County Clerk, Charles C. Johnson, for Clerk of the Appellate Court. This can be best done by every voter going to the polls and cast his or her ballot for Mr. Johnson. While Wayne county is proud of the fact that one of her citizens has been nominated for this important office she is equally proud to know that he is in every way qualified to fill the position with credit to himself and honor to his native county. Wayna county is one of the large counties of Southern Illinois, having twenty members on her Board of Supervisors, and her court and county records are voluminous, the keeping of which entail upon the clerk much labor and care. Yet in the eight years Mr. Johnson has held the County Clerks's office he has never failed to have his records fully and accurately written up on time. The vast volume of business coming before the Board of Supervisors has been properly indexed, filed and recorded so that any citizen of county can tell in a few moments just what action has been taken with reference to any item or matter coming before the Board. The probate records are kept right up to date, as as are all the records. The organization of the many drainage districts of the county and the local improvement districts of the city have brought much extra work to the office in the last eight years. But it has all been promptly and accurately entered on record and no one has ever objected to any matter or proceeding because of any negligence or carelessness ```markdown ``` Everybody's Going to Guthries Paducah's Best St We save you money on Dry goods, Coats, Suits, Skirts, Wai Corsets, Gloves, Hoisery, Rugs, Carpe etc. "Savings Bonds" with every Meet your friends at t's Best Store you money on all uits, Skirts, Waists, Notions, ery, Rugs, Carpets, Curtains s" with every purchase. Paducah's Best Store We save you money on all Dry goods, Coats, Suits, Skirts, Waists, Notions, Corsets, Gloves, Hoisery, Rugs, Carpets, Curtains etc. "Savings Bonds" with every purchase. Meet your friends at GUTHRIES'. Rowe's Bankrupt Recently bought at Morgantown 200 men's and youths' overcoats. 250 to-date coats. 100 women's suits and winter clothing too numerous to des- coats and suits are brand new up-to-date wool, with satin linings. We will sell about 1-3 to 1-2 of the price of any Southern Illinois. ROWE'S BANKRUPT ankrupt Store at Mortgage Sale overcoats. 250 women's up- men's suits and much other numerous to describe. These and new up-to-date and of best We will sell this stock at the price of any other store in ANKRUPT STORE. ```markdown ``` Rowe's Bankrupt Store Recently bought at Mortgage Sale 200 men's and youths' overcoats. 250 women's up-to-date coats. 100 women's suits and much other winter clothing too numerous to describe. These coats and suits are brand new up-to-date and of best wool, with satin linings. We will sell this stock at about 1-3 to 1-2 of the price of any other store in Southern Illinois. ROWE'S BANKRUPT STORE. To Gideon Joiner, John Joiner brothers: or other heirs at law if any of Mary F. Coulter, Insane, or parties interested in her estate: Notice is hereby given that my last report as Conservator of Mary F. Coulter, Insane, filed and approved by the County Court of Massac County, Ill., April 21, 1914, showed $387.15 in my hands in trust for her. You are further hereby notified that the Illinois State Board of Administration of Charitable Institutions through S. D. McKenney, their Supervisor of R-embursing Investigators, claims that said amount $387.15 is due and payable to Dr. R. A. Goodner, managing officer of the Anna State Hospital of which the said Mary F. Coulter is an Inmate, to be applied in liquidation of the bill of the State of Illinois against her for support at that Institution, said bill as rendered to me Oct. 1, 1914 amounting to $543.64. You are further notified that the County Court has set Monday November 16, 1914, as a date for hearing and making final order as to distribution of said fund of $387.15 in my hands. Dated this 10th day of October A. D. 1914. S. Bartlett Kerr, Conservator of Mary F. Coulter, Insane. The Club will meet next Monday at the home of Mrs. Mattie Buchanan with the assistance of her mother, Mrs. Eva Stalls. Supper served Saturday night at the home of Mrs. Rachel Shannon, on Vienna. of the Livingston Normal, Theological and Industrial Institute. J. H. Knowles, D. D., President J. B. McOrya, 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 ```markdown ``` of the clerk or complained that his records were not promptly written up in due and legal form. Much of the work has been done by Mr. Johnson personally and all of it has been under his personal supervision. He has made a most efficient and conscientious official, one of which any county might justly be proud. If Mr. Johnson is elected Clerk of the Appellate Court the records of that court will be kept with the same dispatch and scrupulous care as have our county records. We believe he will be elected and we know he will if every voter, man and woman of old Wayne will use their influence in his interest. Let every man and woman register on registration day and on election day vote for Charles C. Johnson for Clerk of the Apellate Court and thus show that Wayne county appreciates the honor conferred upon her.—Wayne County Press, Fairfield Ill. Carnation Art Club. The Ladies Carnation Club met at the beautiful home of Mrs Laura Woodyard, on Vienna, St. Monday, Oct. 19, eighteen (18) members were present and dues collected to the sum of $3.61. There were four visitors present, they gave liberal donations and encouraging addresses. The Revs. J. W. Davie, and J. B. McCrary were present and gave addresses pertaining to club work. The visitors were: Rev. G. W. Rowlett, Mesdames Norsis Lowery, Harriett Loyd of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Minnie Tatum, of Indianapolis, Ind. The election of officers was post-poned until the next meeting. The club will give its anniversary in the near future. After the general routine of business was over the hostess invited the club into the spacious dining room where a delicious two course menu was served. PUBLIC NOTICE. FIRST COURSE Chicken Stew Tomatoes Adam's Ale SECOND Ice Cream Jelly Roll Trustees AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Hampton institute is an industrial village with some 1,200 or 1,300 students, 200 teachers and workers, 140 buildings, and an instruction farm of some 600 acres. Whatever work the Hampton school needs to have done, the students are usually prepared to do. Farming, home-making, teaching and the common industries form vital parts in the training of Hampton institute boys and girls. Blacksmithing, bricklaying and plastering, carpentry and cabinetmaking, machine work, painting, printing, sheemaking, steam-fitting, plumbing, tailoring, tinsmithing, upholstering and wheelwrighting, are the trades which are offered by the Hampton Institute Trade school. Products tell a striking story of the aims and methods of the Hampton courses. These products are expressed in negro and Indian mechanics who have gone out among their people and are now serving their communities as Christian and efficient builders for example. They are also expressed in well-built, attractive Hampton buildings and in serviceable accessories of the home and school. In the busy shops, on the scaffoldings of new structures, in odd nooks and corners of the Hampton grounds, negro and Indian carpenters, for example, have for many years been daily mastering the building art and have been preparing themselves for life's emergencies by learning how to make the best possible use of their resources — time, tools, skill and moral qualities. Today the construction of the Hampton institute buildings and the necessary repairs are being satisfactorily done by student tradesmen. Naturally a good share of this interesting work falls to the lot of the carpenters. A few years ago, when it became necessary to remodel the principal's home, one of the oldest buildings on the Hampton campus, negro and Indian tradesmen did the necessary tearing down and building up. These operations were no easy task. The bulk of the work had to be done in hot and trying weather. The boys labored with a will. They were happy to have an opportunity of doing well what professional builders considered a difficult piece of work. Later, when the school authorities decided to add a story to the Armstrong-Slater Memorial Trade school, the student tradesmen again attacked with enthusiasm the laborious task of raising the heavy roof and putting on the second story. Then came the tedious days devoted to finishing the interior work. There was always the joy of doing successfully tasks generally considered beyond the reach of tradesmen in the training. William Quinney, a colored man who has been living near here, passed through McNeil en route to Shreveport accompanied by a portion of his interesting family of 20 children and his third wife. The children with him numbered seven, and they are all by his present wife. Quinney had seven children by his first wife, including two sets of twins; six by wife No. 2, and seven by the present one. All the wives are living, and after divorcing his former helpmeets, Quinney on each occasion lived six years in single blessedness. With his record of three wives and 20 children Quinney is still only forty-eight years old and expects to acquire quite a large family before he dies.—McNell (Ark.) dispatch to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The total negro population of the United States—latest figures—is 9,828,234, according to a pamphlet issued recently by the Illinois commission appointed by Governor Dunne to arrange a half-century anniversary of negro freedom. The negroes own $1,000,000,000 worth of property and worship in $65,000,000 worth of churches. Their land covers 31,000 square miles, or 20,000,000 acres. There are 1,119,653 negro female breadwinners, sixteen years of age and over. Of these, the largest number, 634,104, are domestics, 434,041 are engaged in agricultural pursuits, 361,804 are agricultural laborers and 313,091 are servants and waitresses. The commission is planning an exposition of the progress made by the negroes of Illinois since their emancipation, which will begin August 1, 1915, and continue for 30 days in the Coliseum. More than 4,000,000 tons of ore a year are expected to be exported from iron mines in Algeria by French capitalists who have obtained concessions after more than ten years of effort. Figures relating to the output of coal in British India during 1912 have been published by the chief inspector of mines. They show a total output last year of 14,044,368 tons, which is near 2,000,000 tons in excess of the production recorded in the previous output. Every high school graduate in Nebraska receives a letter from the University of Nebraska congratulating him on his graduation and urging him to consider the advantages offered by the state university. Commenting on the condition of the colored Baptist churches in Chicago a writer in the Standard says: Their numbers help to suggest the important place which these Baptist churches hold in the life of this community. Let me supplement this by the words of a splendidly educated colored woman, Mrs. F. B. Williams, who says: "Despite the serious handicap of slowly decreasing debts, the colored church is the center of the social life and efforts of the people. What the church sanctions and supports is of the first importance, and what it fails to support and sanction is more than apt to fail. The colored churches historically, as to numbers and reach of influence and dominion, are the strongest factor in the community life of the colored people. Aside from the ordinary functions of preaching, prayer-meetings, and Sunday school, the church is regarded by the masses as a sort of tribune of all their social and civic interests. Thousands of colored people know and care for no other entertainment than that furnished by the church. What they fall to learn of the finer things of life in the church remains unlearned. These people, generally speaking, have few civilizing and elevating influences, except as they are supplied by this single institution." She concludes by saying: "Our churches could do more and be more to the ever-increasing number who need guidance, social ideals and higher moral standards, if they were less burdened with debts and an unyielding orthodoxy. The Chicago churches, however, are becoming more intelligently interested and earnest in their endeavor to meet the peculiar requirements of the city colored people." The 17 colored churches differ as widely as our own churches. Numerically, they range from a membership of 2,500 to one of 35. Financially, they vary from a debt-free larger church to the bankrupt and defunct mission church. Theologically, intellectually, socially, they differ. They are not made in a mold. They exhibit a bewildering and complex variety. They are really independent. Their churches are named after the great outstanding places of scriptural history—a fact which suggests their independence and variety—and not numerically according to historical precedence, as we have been accustomed to number our churches. And yet, in spite of the great differences between these churches, there are some common possibilities of advancement which occur to the friendly observer. The main building of the Wilson Tubercular Home and Hospital for Negroes, just completed at Wilson, N.C., is used as a center for training nurses and testing the alliments of patients. In addition to this main building there is a farm of 40 acres, half of it in pine woods, on which it is hoped that buildings may be erected for patients who are able to work while taking the treatment. Lucifer matches—that is, matches tipped with an explosive substance that bursts into flame on being struck—were first used about 1834. Many improvements have been made in matches since then, the most important of which was the invention of the safety match, striking only on the box. The annual meeting of the National Nebro Business league was held this year in Muskogee, Okla. These meetings are always largely attended. The delegates include not a few colored men who by their industry, intelligence and thrift have attained a competency if they are not to be reckoned wealthy. They are successful farmers, physicians and lawyers and merchants and mechanics. Very largely they are from the Southern states. This year, as usual, Booker Washington was one of the speakers, and gave his accustomed counsel emphasizing the opportunities which are open for those who devote themselves to useful employments everywhere. There was an industrial parade which gave impressive proof of the progress and attainments of the colored people in agriculture, in stock raising, in artisanship, in schools, in churches and in homes. In spite of narrow prejudice and in many places unworthy hostility, the colored people are making progress that is worth while. When a man tells a young widow that he is not worthy of her he knows she knows he's lying. Experiments by the Japanese government of producing camphor by distilling the leaves and branches of camphor trees have reached a stage at which 317 gallons of distillate are produced from each 400 pounds of leaves. That man has a powerful clutch on his high speed lever who can refrain from starting anything he knows he can't finish. When a woman marries for spite she usually spites herself more than her husband. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL THE DYNAMITE CAR Not Explosive, It Was at Least Valuable Freight, to Be Handled With Care. Bv HARRY LILLY. Fuming and swearing, Ikey Lantern swung aboard the caboose of No. 23, local west, as she pulled out of Shacktown. Family troubles were hard enough on a man without any addition. He had an altercation with his daughter the night before over the eternal Hazenfritz question, and now, here, next to the caboose, was this car—with as many placards as a wedding trunk—Dynamite! High Explosives! Handle Carefully! Keep All Lights Away! Ikey's passion welled up and up until it reached the acme of anger. He was too angry to swear. For if there was one thing of which he was more apaid than of snakes, it was dynamite. Ikey usually waved his hand scornfully at the agent as his train ran by the station, but today he was too angry to administer the customary insult to his daughter's suitor. For three years George Hazenfritz had been trying to gain Ikey's consent to the match; and for two years Ikey had watched the morning passenger train, and after, as his local freight rumbled by, had given a mocking salute to Hazenfritz, the agent. There are but two passenger trains a day—one east and one west—over the branch of which Shacktown is one terminal, while Slowtown, the county seat, is the other. So when Ikey, having watched the morning train, pulled out with his way train, he knew that there was no possible chance for an elopement that day. On the next morning when Ikey was working east again, the conductor on the opposite run would watch the passenger even more zealously than Ikey himself. He was Ikey's choice for a son-in-law. Ikey turned over his bundle of way-bills. There were bills for three cars whose contents were to be distributed at the various-stations along the way. There were bills for two cars of kegs for the brewery, a car of sand for the foundry, a car of scrap from the Jew at Shacktown to the Jew at Slowtown, a car with a little jag of company's stuff, but not a scrap of paper that said a word about dynamite, or anything more dangerous than whisky. When the train stopped to unload freight at the first station out of Shacktown, Ikey made an inspection of the car. It was sealed and side-carded from Shacktown to Slowtown, contents dynamite. Some one had sketched a death's head, in red ink, on the card. "That cursed Hazenfritz," muttered Ikey, as he signaled to go ahead. The long day wore on with its monotonous dropping of a car here, picking up another somewhere else, stopping at every fence corner to pick up, or unload, freight; and ever on Ikey's mind was the dynamite car. Once, at a station half way up the run, he caught a fool brakey striking a match to light his pipe on the door of the dynamite car. Another time, when making a shift, the engineer struck her so hard that Ikey held himself down with both hands, expecting to go up any minute. Then he went forward and cursed the engineer, but this made things worse, for after that he hit her a bump whenever he could. It was dark when, at last, No. 23 pulled into Slowtown. "You're late, old man," remarked the agent, as Ikey entered the office and threw down his bills. "Lucky to get in at all," snarled ikey, "Lucky we didn't take the sky route." "Why? What's the matter? Had any trouble?" asked the agent. "No, only some wooden-headed fool shipped up a car of explosives, dynamite, on our train; and every time that fool engineer struck her, he struck her harder than the last. Lucky, as I said, we didn't take the sky route." "A shipment of dynamite?" repeated the agent, taking up a message which he kept beyond the range of ikey's vision. "We don't get any dynamite up this end. Where's the way bills?" he asked, as he turned over the bunch ikey had just brought in. A faint smile played around his mustache as he spoke. "No bill did I see for it, but it's side-card plainly enough," hissed Ikey. "Then, you couldn't expect Hazenfritz to make a side-card and a way-bill in one day." Another mysterious smile was half-born beneath the agent's mustache, but he said nothing. Ikey marched up town to his boarding house and the agent took a lantern and went out into the yard where the dynamite car stood. He broke the seal and, holding the lantern in the doorway, peered in. Evidently he was not afraid of dynamite. When Ikey reported for duty the next day, a shifter was setting out a car for his train. "What have you got in her this time?" he asked, in a jocular voice, as he proceeded to tear off one of the offending placards. "Hold on there!" cried the conductor of the shifter, pointing to the door. It was sealed and side-carded. Ikey jumped three feet, and when he alighted let out a string of curses that was appalling. The side-card read "From Slowtown to Stringer Squares. Contents Dynamite." String- or mines are on a little coal road which connects with the main branch at Shacktown. As Ikey tore into the office the bill clerk was making a memorandum bill for the dynamite car. "What kind of tub-headed idlets have you got in the offices of this road, anyhow?" he bellowed. "I hauled this internal bottled volcano up here yesterday, and now you're sending it back again for fun." The agent stepped out of his private office and handed Ikey a message. It read: January 7, 1907. Shacktown, T. P. K. Showtown, S. C. R. 6673 to you yesterday in error, return via train 24 today for Stringer mines.—G. H. Ikey crumpled the message and tossed it into the waste basket. "I'll report that pig-headed Dutchman to headquarters at once," he screamed. On the return trip, Ikey, when duty did not require him to be on the alert, was meditating deeply. He was turning a question over and over in his mind, and as the train emerged from tunnel No. 6, a half mile west of Shacktown, he came to a conclusion. He would lick Hazenfritz. He would do it well, too, if it cost him his job. The desk at which Hazenfritz sat was near the door, and faced into the office. There was a screen behind him to protect him from the drafts of the door. Ikey would sneak up behind this and land him one that would lay him out. Then he would pound him until he was tired, or some one interfered. He would teach him not to send out dynamite cars on his train. Possibly the darned thing didn't contain dynamite. Perhaps it was an empty car that Hazenfritz had sealed and sent out for a joke, knowing that he was afraid of dynamite, and out of revenge, because he had refused to let him have his daughter. If that was the trick, he would see that they didn't have the laugh on him. The innocent looking shack up at Slowtown, he was in it, too, or why did he smile so queerly when the dynamite car came in? And what was in that message he held away from sight? Well, he would fix him, too; might as well he was at it. As the train pulled into the station ikey leaped off and crept up the office steps. His lantern swung from his right hand. His left fist was doubled. Cautiously he peeled over the screen. He could just see the outline of a head on the other side. The lantern described a vicious circle in the air and—crash—caught a gaspipe, while fragments of the globe fell around. Six feet of lusty manhood rose with a catlike spring and caught ikey by the throat with one hand, then reached around and caught him by the back of the collar with the other. Letting go of his throat, but still retaining a hold on his collar he shot him out at arm's length, drew him back, shot him out again until his bones creaked. "You deserted old copper-faced Mussulman"—jerk—"I knew you were a contemptible old sneak"—jerk again—"you have been all your days"—jerk once more—"but I didn't think you'd try to assassinate a man"—another jerk—"you didn't get the right man, either"—jerk again. Then he stopped for a moment as a terrible din, caused by the simultaneous blowing of three locomotive whistles and cheers from 24 throats was heard outside. "There, go take your medicine!" he bellowed as he shot lkey out of the door. "You lost the game, you cowardly old shack, you." Ikey, under the impetus given him by the foot of the muscular cashier of Shacktown, went clear across the platform, at the end of the freight house. He brought up on the edge of a group which opened and admitted him to its center. Right in front of him was the dynamite car, and on the crossing at the end of the freight house. There was a step ladder, dressed in bunting, in front of the door of the car. The car, also, had a strip of bunting from end to end. A man was assisting a woman in bridal costume to alight from the car. At the sight of her face Ikey wilted. It was his daughter and Hazenfritz. They had taken their wedding journey on his own train in the "dynamite car." Just Right. "I see by the papers that large areas of land in Holland have been flooded to a depth of three feet as a precautionary measure." "That's a good idea. Too deep to march through and not deep enough for battleships." Putting Him in His Place. The Angel—Perhaps, when we are married, I might take a small part in the show. The Star—Don't worry, dear, your part will be small enough, as my husband.—Puck. His Achievement. "Has he ever made good at anything?" "Yes, indeed." "What?" "Once he bet that he could eat 12 ears of corn at one sitting and he did." "I wonder what would be the price of an omelet in Paris now?" "That would depend on whether you ordered it made of 'new-laid' eggs, 'fresh' eggs or just eggs." Libby's California Asparagus If you've never tasted Libby's California Asparagus, there is a treat in store for you. Grown on the islands of the Sacramento River, the finest Asparagus region in the world. Put up fresh from the garden as soon as cut. Tender and flavor. White or green —peeled or unpeeled. Insist on Libby's. If your grocer cannot supply you, send us his name. Try this recipe:— Asparagus with Eggs—Salt and pepper well one can of Libby's Asparagus. Beat four eggs just enough to break up the yolks, add a tablespoonful of melted butter, pepper and salt, and pour upon the Asparagus. Bake eight minutes in a quick oven, and serve immediately. 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The stranger gazed at it for some considerable time and was heard to mutter: "I don't believe there is anything there at all." With that he put up his hand to confirm his belief. Immediately there was a yell that almost threw the place into a panic. The man sprang into the air, rushed out of the door and, as he disappeared, was heard to say: "I monkeyed with the buzz-saw, all right." It Helps a Lot. Eve, for the first time in their married life, was telling Adam just what she thought of him. "This is the original rib roast," chuckled Adam. And that was the beginning of the saving grace of humor—Judge. Dr. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar-coated, easy to take as candy, regulate and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels. Do not gripe. Adv. American railroads employ 1,315,229 persons, who last year received $1,272,830,589 in wages. W. L. DOUGLAS MEN'S & WOMEN'S SHOES $2.50 & $2.5 $3.59 $3.75 & $4.50 and $6.00 BOY'S SHOES $2.25 & $2.50 $3.00 & $3.50 $3.00 $3.00 Over 150 Styles All Sizes and Widths Beware of Substitutives WEAKING W. L. DOUGLAS has purchased the value by having his name and the retail price stamped on the sole before the shoes leave the store. The retail price for inferior shoes of other makes. W. L. Douglas shoes are always worth what you pay for them. Douglas shoes are made, and the high grade leather used, you would understand why W. L. Douglas shoes are not for sale in your country, due to direct freight from the U.S. to hold their value. If W. L. Douglas shoes are not for sale in your country, due to direct freight from the U.S., you write for illustration granted Cataloging showing how to order by mail. Birthplace of Froissart and Watteau. Birthplace of Prolissart and Watteau. Both Valenciennes and Malines, two of the latest towns to come into prominence in the western theater of war, have now little association with the production of lace beyond giving their names to the famous varieties. At Valenciennes, indeed, the manufacture has been discontinued, but the place has an alternate fame as the birthplace of Prolissart, the historian (nearly six centuries ago) and of Watteau, the artist (230 years ago). There are 50,000,000 acres of forest in Japan, almost half the total area of the country. Oldest Bank in Missouri Our Certificates of Deposit are a simple and safe investment. Not subject to fluctuations of the Stock Market. You deposit Cash, and when the time is up you withdraw Cash, plus the interest, at the rate of 8% per annum for two months or 4% per annum for twelve months. Issued in sums of $0.00 and upwards. Mail your check, and we will send you a certificate by registered mail. CAPITAL and SURPLUS $3,000,000 PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM A toilete preparation of neat hips to eradicate dandruff. For Restoring Color and Bond of Hair and Skin. Made in USA. FATIMA, Turkish-blend cigarettes are the purest form in which tobacco can be smoked, and their flavor is "Distinctively Individual" Liggott & Myers Tobacco Co. 20 for 15¢ FATIMA TURKISH BLEND CIGARETTES Canonry & Cameron Co. MACMONDAY BRIGHT & FRESH TASTED CIGARETTES NO GOLD TIPS FINEST QUALITY "Przemysl." "Przemysl" is one of the few really simple proper names that have secured notoriety in the Russian invasion of Galicia, it is pronounced "Pzhem-isl-l," with the accent on the "pzhem." Just how easy this is one may appreciate by considering Przemyslany, in the first syllable of which the "r" is sounded, thus: "Przhe," with the Austro-Hungarian variation of "miscellany" following. In pronouncing "Przemysl" you should carefully hold a "p" betreth your teeth while pronouncing "ahem" (which is a soft, mushroom, dumdum variety of "shem") and just as you are about to eject it deftly insert the "p" in the outer hook of the "z"; thus: "Pzhem." Nothing can be simpler. Escapes in Heat of Battle. Reports indicate it sometimes takes a lot to kill the modern soldier, the New York World states. Sergeant Pougere of France received eight bullet wounds, a broken arm and other injuries, and although shot in the calf, thigh and ankle, escaped being captured by Germans and limped ten miles to his regiment. Another French soldier received six bullets and three bayonet wounds and is recovering. The French war office estimates only two men are killed out of every one hundred hit. The penetration is so clean one soldier did not know he had been hit for three hours, and another bullet went through two soldiers and lodged in a cavalryman's saddle. Finally Captured Eagle. After defying a score of traps and as many guns of farmers, who have sought vainly to impose summary sentence for the loss of hundreds of chickens over a period of six months, Old Baldy, a monster eagle, was caught by a man with a lasso. He lay waiting in the shadow of his chicken house for the chicken thief for more than eight hours. The bird swooped down shortly after daybreak. The lasso was thrown around the eagle's neck. The man wanted to capture the bird Mlive, but it fought no desperately that he was forced to shoot it. The eagle measures eight feet seven inches, from tip to tip, and weighs 73 pounds. LIGHT BOOZE. Do You Drink It? A minister's wife had quite a tussle with coffee and her experience is interesting. She says: "During the two years of my training as a nurse, while on night duty, I became addicted to coffee drinking. Between midnight and four in the morning, when the patients were asleep, there was little to do except make the rounds, and it was quite natural that I should want a hot cup of coffee about that time. I could keep awake better. "After three of four years of coffee drinking, I became a nervous wreck and thought that: I simply could not live without my coffee. All this time I was subject to frequent bilious attacks, sometimes so severe, as to keep me in bed for several days. "After being married, Husband begged me to leave off coffee for he feared that it had already hurt me almost beyond repair, so I resolved to make an effort to release myself from the hurtful habit. "I began taking Postum, and for a few days felt the languid, tired feeling from the lack of the coffee drug, but I liked the taste of Postum, and that answered for the breakfast beverage all right. "Finally I began to feel clearer-headed and had steadier nerves. After a year's use of Postum I now feel like a new woman—have not had any billious attacks since I left off coffee." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek. Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville,' in pkgs. Postum comes in two forms: *Regular Postum—must be well boiled.* 15c and 25c packages. Instant Postum—is a soluble powder. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly in a cup of hot water, and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage instantly. 30c and 50c tins. The cost per cup of both kinds is about the same. "There's a Reason" for Postum. —sold by Grocer PEACE HERO PASSES AWAY Bishop Tucker, After Remarkable Service in Uganda, Is Gathered to His Fathers. Another great name, worthy to stand with those of Hannington, Pilkington and Mackay, has been added to the roll of the heroes of Uganda, in the death of Bishop Tucker, who went out in 1890 as bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa. That vast territory has since been divided into three dioceses, of which Uganda is one. Artist and athlete before he decided to enter the church, he brought an unusual combination of qualities to his chosen lifework, and when, after several years of service in the home church, he offered himself for the foreign work he was recognized as a man of exceptional power. After 21 years of effective service he was retired for reasons of health in 1911, and since that time has been one of the canons of Durham (England) cathedral. One of the most dramatic episodes in his missionary career occurred in 1892, when Bishop Tucker had the bones of the martyr Bishop Hannington exhumed and given Christian burial outside the great thatched church of St. Paul on Namirembe hill, Uganda, and the slayer of Bishop Hannington, King M'wanga, was present as a member of the Christian congregation. ELECTRICITY TO FIGHT FLIES Successful Way Found to Destroy Pests That Attack and Ruin Rose Trees. The latest application of electricity, according to Popular Electricity and Modern Mechanics, is that of killing the green fly by means of an electric spark. We read in this magazine: "This fly is a species found on rose trees and is exceedingly disastrous to the flowers. Heretofore considerable difficulty has been experienced in ridding rose trees of these pests, but the electrical method recently devised is proving both practical and efficient. Briefly, the fly-killing apparatus consists of a small spark coil, spark gap, high-frequency transformer, switches and other accessories. A flexible conductor conveys the current from the high-frequency transformer to a brass-ball electrode fitted with an insulating handle so that it may be held without danger of shock. To use the apparatus the electrode is brought near the flies on the rose bushes. A spark then jumps from the electrode to the tree and kills the flies, the current passing through the tree to the ground without damage to the leaves or flowers." WORLD'S SHIPPING. According to a recent statement of Lloyd's, out of an aggregate merchant vessel tonnage of 47,000,000 gross tons in 1913-1914, 40 per cent were credited to Great Britain, 11 per cent to the United States, 11 per cent to Germany, about 5 per cent each to Norway and France, 3 per cent each to Holland, Italy and Japan, and from $2\frac{3}{4}$ to $1\frac{3}{4}$ per cent to Russia, Sweden, Austria-Hungary, Denmark and Spain. GUEST COULD NOT KICK. "You look hungry." "Yes, I went out to dinner with Jinx today." "And did you not have a good dinner?" "Fine, but Jinx wanted to give me his idea of how the war was being fought and he pulled every one of my dishes across the table and used them to represent the different countries." NUMBER THREE SPEAKS. "So you married a widow?" "Yes." "Does she sing the praises of her first husband?" "No, indeed." "You ought to be glad of that." "Umph! I get no rest. She's always singing the praises of her second husband." HER PRACTICAL PA Suitor—Your daughter, sir, is willing to trust me; why can't you? Her Father—She doesn't care how much a thing costs, and I do. THOSE DEAR GIRLS. Maud—At the seashore this summer I had over a dozen proposals. Ethel—How persistent a summer acquaintance can be. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, IL. Death Lurks In A Weak Heart IN STERLING LIVES A GIRL Who Suffered As Many Girls Do—Tells How She Found Relief. Sterling, Conn.—"I am a girl of 22 years and I used to faint away every month and was very weak. I was also bothered a lot with female weakness. I read your little book 'Wisdom for Women,' and I saw how others had been helped by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and decided to try it, and month and was very weak. I was also bothered a lot with female weakness. I read your little book 'Wisdom for Women,' and I saw how others had been helped by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and decided to try it, and it has made me feel like a new girl and I am now relieved of all these troubles. I hope all young girls will get relief as I have. I never felt better in my life."—Miss BERTHA A. PELOQUN, Box 116, Sterling, Conn. Massena, N.Y.—“I have taken Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and I highly recommend it. If anyone wants to write > me I will gladly tell her about my case. I was certainly in a bad condition as my blood was all turning to water. I had pimples on my face and a bad color, and for five years I had been troubled with suppression. The doctors called it 'Anemia and Exhaustion,' and said I was all run down, but Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound brought me out all right.”—Miss LAVISA MYRES, Box 74, Massena, N.Y. Young Girls, Heed This Advice. Girls who are troubled with painful or irregular periods, backache, headache, dragging-down sensations, fainting spells or indigestion, should immediately seek restoration to health by taking Lydia E. Finkham's Vegetable Compound. Pettits FOR SORE Eye RED EYES Salve SMALL WARS MEAN BIG POEMS Greatest Battle Hymns Have Not Been Inspired by Titanic Struggles Like the Present Ore. The greatest poems have been written about little wars. The Iliad was written around a siege carried on by a handful of barbarian chieftains against a city of the second class. The battle of Chevy Chase was a border skirmish following upon a cattle-stealing expedition. And Kipling's imperial muse is at her best when she sings of petty wars with colored tribesmen, Britain's far-flung battle line was far flung against Dervishers and Afrids; it was seldom brought into collision with field intrenchments and siege artillery. Little war, or else big wars in anticipation of retrospect, these are the rich soil for the poet. A great war in the actual, the fate of an empire truly at stake, may make poets out of the common crowd, but subdues the poet to the level of the common crowd. There is a solemn tone about Kipling's latest verse which has its effect. Only it is not exhortation we wanted, but exultation; not an appeal, but a clarion call. When an entire nation is affame the poet is apt to find his mission rather perfunctory. A CLERGYMAN'S TESTIMONY. The Rev. Edmund Heslop of Wigton, Pa., suffered from Dropsy for a year. His limbs and feet were swollen and puffed. He had heart fluttering, was dizzy and exhausted at the least exertion. Hands and feet were cold and he had such a dragging sensation across the loins that it was difficult to move. After using 5 boxes of Dodds Rev. E. Heslop. ing, was dizzy and exhausted at the least exertion. Hands and feet were cold and he had such a dragging sensation across the loins that it was difficult to move. After using 5 boxes of Dodds Kidney Pills the swelling disappeared and he felt himself again. He says he has been benefited and blessed by the use of Dodds Kidney Pills. Several months later he wrote: I have not changed my faith in your remedy since the above statement was authorized. Correspond with Rev. E. Heslop about this wonderful remedy. Dodds Kidney Pills, 50c. per box at your dealer or Dodds Medicine Co. Buffalo, N. Y. Write for Household Hints, also music of National Anthem (English and German words) and recipes for dainty dishes. All 3 sent free, Adv. Good Reason It was a very youthful class in physiology. "Why," asked the teacher, "is it best to eat soup first when one is very hungry?" The pupils stared at her blankly. Then Jamie enlightened them from the depths of his experience. "You can get it down, faster," he announced. Heavy Cost of Bad Weather It has been figured that a day's continued frost or snow in England results in the idleness of 1,000,000 workmen. New Jersey's 1913 mineral production was valued at $40,715,061. PICKED OUT THE RIGHT TIME Girl Made Victim of Hoax by Mischievous Friends Went Home In a Fury. One day several of my girl friends called to see me. We started to make some candy when I discovered that we didn't have any chocolate in the house and said that I couldn't possibly make it without "a speck of chocolate." Mary, one of the girls, said: "Why, what kind of chocolate is that—couldn't you use any other kind?" One of the girls gave me a pinch and I said: "Oh, no, I couldn't use any other kind. It's a new kind. You telephone the grocery and order some, Mary, and we'll start the candy. Now be sure and order 'Asnecka.'" "So we fled to the kitchen and left Mary to telephone. We sat in the kitchen holding our sides with suppressed laughter while she called up one store after another trying to get "Aspecka chocolate." She finally gave up in despair and then we told her. Needless to say, she went home in a fury, as mad as a wet hen. She barely spoke to as for weeks after that.—Chicago Tribune. PICKED OUT THE RIGHT TIME Schoolboy a Good Deal More Thoughtful Than Most Youngsters We Ever Heard Of. A popular member of a certain school board tells a good story of a certain schoolboy who enjoys the unique distinction of having attended one school for 11 years without being once absent or late. In evidence of this the youth is the proud owner of 11 medals. When the eleventh medal was conferred the boy's mother was asked whether her son ever had any illness. "Oh, yes," she replied. "Measles?" "Yes." "Whooping cough?" "Yes." "How is it, then, that he has been able to make so remarkable a record at school?" "Well, he generally had 'em in his holidays," was the proud mother's interesting reply. PIMPLES RUINED COMPLEXION 724 E. N. Ave., Olney, IL. "When my trouble first began I noticed little pimples coming on my face. They itched and burned so badly that I had to scratch them and that only made them worse. About a week later my face was so badly covered with pimples and blackheads that I was ashamed. My complexion was ruined. The pimples would sometimes bleed and fester. "I bought a box of complexion cream and used it but without effect. One day I heard of Cuticura Soap and Ointment and I decided to give them a trial. So I got a cake of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment, washed my face with the Soap and applied the Ointment and in two weeks I was completely well." (Signed) Chas. E. McGinn, May 5, 1914. Cuticure Soap and Ointment throughout the world. Sample of each free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post card "Cuticure, De. Loston."—Adv. Strong Man's Weakness. Speaking of great feats of strength Franklin H. Lane, secretary of the interior, recalled an incident that happened in a western state. One afternoon an elderly woman visited the penitentiary, and on pausing before a certain cell was told that the inmate had been imprisoned for stealing a piano. "I am very sorry to see you here," remarked the woman turning to the convict. "Is it true that you stole a plano?" "Yes, ma'am," was the frank admission of the convict. Then he added: "I did it in a moment of weakness." "In a moment of weakness!" gasped the elderly visitor. "Mercy me! I presume that had you your usual strength you would have walked away with the whole house!" Approaching, but Not Close. "When I left Havre on my way back to England," says Representative Gardner of Massachusetts, "600 French soldiers lined up on the dock and sang 'God save the King' in English. By the nine gods of war! as our own General Bingham would say, this incident, taken in connection with the Belgians stepping to the front chanting 'it's a Long Way to Tipperary,' seems to indicate the approach of the much-touted brotherhood of man." Paw Knows Everything. Willie—Paw, why is the way of the transgressor hard? Paw—Because so many people have tramped on it, my son. More of It. "Juno was an ox-eyed beauty." "I guess if she lived in these days she would be a peroxide one, too." YOUR OWN DRUGGIST WILL TELL NOT Try Murine Eye Remedy for Red, Weak, Watery Eyes and Gummiated Eyelids: No Smarting—just Eye Comfort. Write for Book of the Eye by malt Fee. Murine Eye Remedy Co. Chicago. Do the elevators in a department store come under the head of shop-lifters? Fashion Note. "One blessing, at least, will come to us from this dreadful war. We shan't be inundated with shocking French fashions." TheHumanAutomobile The human body, like an automobile, changes fuel (food) into power. When the fuel is inert (food) it does not valves or locks the door, waste products the machinery and reduce the power. The speaker was a leading club- woman. She resumed: "At a club dinner the other evening a man fashion writer—man fashion writers are the best—sald to me: The kidneys, like exhaust valve, should carry off the waste (uric acid), but weak kidneys can cause weak gynae, rheumatic palsis, gravel, cancer and fatal Bright's disease. "A truce to these foreign modes! They are caricatures." Donna's Kidney Pill help the kidneys right off of the kidneys, best-recom- mended for adult kidney issues. "Caricatures?" said I. Caricatures? Yes, perhaps. But wouldn't it be more accurate to call them take-offs?" A Missouri Case Mrs. C. Eberta, Mrs. Herman, Mo. says: "Dream night kidney trouble kept me in misery was so hard times couldn't walk or get out of bed. My feet and pains in my back pains in my back were awful. I doctored for years, but already I took Dean's Kidney Pills and they cured me. The been permanent." "Every Picture Talks & Story." What It Takes. "I've got lung power enough to learn the cornet." "Have you got courage enough?" The area of taxed land in Japan is 37,998,560, of which 964,710 acres are residential property. If a man had to go fishing for a living he would want to stick around the house all the time. Get Donn's at Any Store, 500 s a Box DOAN'S KIDNEY PALLS FOSTER-MILBURN CO., BUFFALO, N.Y. How scornfully a woman who merely powders can look at one who paints! Save the Babies. INFANT MORTALITY is something frightful. We can hardly realize that of all the children born in civilized countries, twenty-two per cent, or nearly one-quarter, did before they reach one year; thirty-seven per cent, or more than one-third, before they are five, and one-half before they are fifteen! We do not hesitate to say that a timely use of Castoria would save a majority of these precious lives. Neither do we hesitate to say that many of these infantile deaths are occasioned by the use of narcotic preparations. Drops, tinctures and soothing syrups sold for children's complaints contain more or less opium or morphine. They are, in considerable quantities, deadly poisons. In any quantity, they stupify, retard circulation and lead to congestions, sickness, death. Castoria operates exactly the reverse, but you must see that it bears the signature of Chas, H. Fletcher. Castoria causes the blood to circulate properly, opens the pores of the skin and allays fever. Genuine Castoria always bears the signature of Pink Eye, Epizootf Shipping Fever SPOHN'S DISTEMPER CURE For DISTEMPER For DISTEMPER Sure cure and positive preventive, no matter how horses at any age are infected or "exposed." Liquid, given on the tongue; acts on the Blood and Glands; expels the poisonous germs from the body. Cures Distemper in Doge and Sheep and Cholera in Poultry. Largest selling live stock remedy. Cures La Gripe among human beings, and is a fine kidney remedy. 50e and $1 a bottle; $5 and $10 a dozen. Cut this out. Keep it. Show to your druggist, who will get it for you. Free Booklet. "Distempers Causes and Cures." Special Agents wanted. SPOHN MEDICAL CO., Chemists and Bacteriologists GOSHEN, IND., U. S. A. Is Get Our Gold. Just how Europe re- 25,000,000 in Ameri- here is the way it peoples hold great can securities, which we bought bonds is- ry. When the war saw the need of ac- ce of these bonds. their American bro- market price. They they could get, but something offered. heavy Constipation Vanishes Forever Prompt Relief—Permanent Cure CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS never fail. Purely vegeta- ble—act surely but gently on the liver. Stop after dinner dis- tress—cure indigestion, improve the complexion, brighten the eyes. How Europeans Get Our Gold. Do you know just how Europe recently got that $125,000,000 in American gold. Well, here is the way it was done; Europeans hold great amounts of American securities, which is to say they have bought bonds issued in this country. When the war crisis came they saw the need of actual money in place of these bonds. They cabled to their American brokers to sell at the market price. They took whatever they could get, but there was always something offered, so the sales were heavy. improve the complexion, brighten the eyes SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE Genuine must bear Signature The purchasers of these bonds gave their checks. These the brokers cashed at their banks and got currency. The currency of the United States is made good by the deposit of gold in the teasuries. For every gold certificate in existence there is the actual metal in the treasury. So the brokers, getting the currency from the banks, went to the sub-treasury in New York and asked for the actual gold. They received it and sent the gold to their customers abroad. Brentwood SPECIAL TO WOMEN The most economical, cleansing and germicidal of all antiseptics is Paxline Old Charon Must Explain. A soluble Antiseptic Powder to be dissolved in water as needed. His boat made fast after the last trip of the night, Charon, homeward bound, encountered a stranger in one of the ill-lighted streets along the water front. As a medicinal antiseptic for douches in treating catarrh, inflammation or ulceration of nose, throat, and that caused by feminine fills it has no equal. For ten years the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. has recommended Paxline in their private correspondence with women, which proves its superiority. Women who have been cured say it is "worth its weight in gold." At drugists. 50c. large box, or by mail. The Paxton Toilet Co. Boston, Mass. "What's the idea?" asked the old sailor. "Summons," the stranger replied, producing the papers. "The interstate commerce commission wants to know how you killed off all competition. You public-service corporations are in for a hard winter." Approval. ELASTIC STOCKINGS "Are you still interested in gardening?" "Yes," replied Mr. Crosslots. "I like to see gardening get every encouragement. I have bought an interest in a hardware store." ```markdown ``` For relief and protection of Varicose Veins, Swollen and Ulcerated Legs, Weak Ankles, Knees and Sprains. Wrap your leg with a bandage and you will always have a bad leg. An elastic stocking made properly to your measure means even circulation aiding the healing process. Send for literature. Altruism. Teacher—Johnny, you have been writing your excuses. Johnny—I know, mum; it takes all pa's time to think of his own. DISCO MANUFACTURERS 618 PINE STREET ST. LOUIS, MO A married man very seldom pays any attention to rumors of war; he is used to the real thing. This R is for You! If You Suffer From Hot flashes or dizziness, fainting spells, hysteria, headache, bearing down pains, nervousness—all are symptoms of irregularity and female disturbances and are not beyond relief. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is directed to the real cause and promptly removes the disease, suppresses the pains and nervous symptoms and thereby brings comfort in the place of prolonged comfort. It has been sold by druggists for over 40 years, in fluid form, at $1.09 per bottle, giving general satisfaction. It can now be bid in sugar coated tablet form, as modified by R. V. Pierce, M. D. Sold by all medicine dealers or trial box by mail on receipt of 50c in stamps. Every sick woman may consult us by letter, absolutely without charge. Write without fear as without fee, to Faculty of the Invalid's Hotel, Dr. R. V. PIERCE, President, 863 Main Street, Buffalo, New York DR. PIERCE'S PLEASANT PELLETS REGULATE THE LIVER Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. METROPOLIS. . . . . ILL. M. J. M. McCRAY, MANAGER. J. B. McCRAY, EDITOR FRIDAY OCT. 23. 1914 Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Enterered as second-class mail matter, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. Address all communications to J. B. McCRAY, Box 107 Metropolis, Illinois. The names and addresses of contributors must be known to us in every instance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity each week. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year. $1 00 1x Months. 75 Three Months. 40 Single Copy. 05 In Advance. ADVERTISING RATES. made known on application. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. Persons who owe the Gazette would greatly lesson the financial burden of the publishers by remitting at once. Ordination Licentiate license blanks at the Gazette office. STTAM OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO LUCAS COUNTY, S. S. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh cure. FRANK J. CHENEY, Sworn to before me and subcribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. (SEAL) A. W. GLEASON, Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY, & CO., Toledo, O Sold by all druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills lor Consti- pation. NORTH BOUND. Train numbers Arrives. Leaves. 302 10:10 a.m. 10:20 a.m. 374 2:25 p.m. 3:35 p.m. SOUTH BOUND. Train numbers Arrives. Leaves. 475 10:00 a.m. 10:10 a.m. 476 2:28 p.m. 2:35 p.m. We look to see the entire Republican ticket of the county elected. They should receive every republican ticket of the county elected. They should receive every republican voter—They went into the primary and took their chances with the other candidates. They should receive he full strength of the party, whether we got our choice or not. Let us as republican stand together and elect Sherman and Williams, they will represent the principle of the G. O. P., which has made this the greatest country on earth. Look around and see the closed shops and factories and then vote to return the Republican again to power. The Republican party is the ship a like the sea," so far as the negroes rights in this country are concerned. Dr. Latham, should be elected from the 51st Senatorial district to fill the place of Senator D. W. Helm who will retire. Every voter regardless to party affiliation should cast their vote for Dus S. Williams, candidate for Congress from the 24th district. He will vote for protection for the American laborer. Charles Johnson should be elected for Appellate court clerk. He is fully competent for the position. ```markdown ``` Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury as mureury, will surely destroy the sense of small and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Cartarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheny & Co. Testimonials free. Sokil by druggists. Price 75c. per bottle. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. I have the school books you want, bring me your old ones and I will take them in as part pay for new ones, Z. A. VALLEE. For Groceries and cold drinks go the First or Last Chance Grocery on 9th and Pearl Sts. Send us a trial order for the Great Nature Salve, 50c a Box. Why suffer when you can be relieved for such a small amount. Read our guarantee on the front page of The Gazetre. Notice is hereby given that we cannot print a list of names contributing to churches unless $1 accompanies same. Letter Heads and Envelopes can be had for the asking at this office. We print them. There was never a time in the history of this country that the negroes fared as well under the democratic admistration as under the republican rule. Ask the deposed republican negro office holders. Mrs. Lottie Halleck, who has made St. Louis, Mo, her home for a long while is in the city the guest of Mrs. Chas. Reed and other relatives. Walter Crouse, of Washington, D. C. is in the city visiting the Crouse family and other relatives and acquaintances. Mrs. Amanda Barnard, left Tuesday for Fulton, Ky. where she will visit her parents indefinitely. It will be to your interest to come and see our new fall hats before you buy, Z. A. VALLEE. Revs, A. A. Crim, and J. H. Patterson and Mesdames Pearl Gibbs, and Hattie Beard left Wednesday for Eddyville, Ky. where they will represent the Free Baptist Church this city in the Eddyville, Quarterly Conference. You will agree with me that you never saw such stylish hats for the money as I am showing you now, no trouble to show goods Z. A. VALLEE. Reader if a blue or red mark appears on the head of your paper marked with an [X] it is to notify you that you owe for the paper and must pay at once. If you want your skin to look pretty and soft, try a bottle of Dixie Liquid Bleach at McCrary & Sons Miss Carrie Urquhat was a Paducah, shopper Wednesday. Rev. B. Thomas, and Wife Sundayed in Belgrade. The Eld, preached in the after-noon and Evening. Rev. J. B McCrary, and Mr. Lacey Patterson has returned home from the Grand Lodge, of Masons which convened with the F. & A. M, Lodge in Decatur. Mr Willis Jones, is visitind his daughter in Chicago, this week. I am still with you in the School book and Millinery business and earnestly solicit your patronage. I will treat you right. Z. A. VALLEE. Mrs. Lacey Patterson, and Pice have returned home from Lyon, Co. Ky after spending several days out of the city. Mrs. L. M Phillips, a teacher in Centralia, visited relatives, and friends in this city Sunday. She was accompanied home by Mrs. Boyd McKane who is to be treated under Dr. Wallace. Mrs. Cornelius McCalliste was called home Sunday from Paducah to be with Elsie her daughter who is sick. Mr A. Watkins, is ill at his home in Paducah. The Gazette wishes for him a speedy recovery. The Free Baptist are engaged in a series of meetings with good prospects, Sunday at 12:30 the Rev A. A. Crim immersed three (3) candidates in the Ohio with a large crowd to witness the affair Mrs. M. J. McCrary and son Edgar, wishes to thank the Misdames A. W. Watkins, D. Bolden, and Lizzie Hodge for the kind treatment extended to them while in their city. Mr T. Shelton, of Murphysboro is in the city visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Shelton. The Ass't Editor and Mgr. of the Gazetta took dinner with the Mr. Corcor Bolden and mother Friday. Every-thing was made pleasant for them. Mrs. Bolden, is "One More Cook" and we invite them to our city any time. Rev. A. J. Day was seen in the city last week. CARTERVILLE Dear Editor: please allow me space to say in your paper that we have enjoyed the day with our new pastor in the person of Rev. H. C. Burton lovely attendance in Sabbath School this morning the people have began to take great interest in the financial part of our school. Rev. Burton preached from Matt. 9th chap. 6 and 7th verse. I. A. McDonald and D. N. Riggins visited at Co'ps, Satur day and Sunday. Rev. J. H. Hilly has been sick this week. Sister M. B. Taylor has been seriously sick for the last two weeks. Rev. J. H. Perry is pastor of Normal A. M. E. church at Normal, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. H. Y. Patterson were the guest of Mr. W. E. Reynolds Sunday. Mrs. W. E. Farrar is the guest of her mother this week at Grand Tower. When you want music by a good brass band write Prof. W. F. Oliver, Director. Rev Pluett organized another Baptist church at Freeman Ill. Sunday. W. E. Reynolds, Reporter, Wednesday After-noon, Oct., 14-1914. The Athelete Club of the A. M. E. Church met at the beautiful home of Mrs. Sammuel Wilson's, which was hansomely decorated with lovely cut flowers. There were fifteen members present and dues collected to the amount of $1 05. The program was rendered to the delight or all present. The club is progressing nicely membeing added each week. The hostess invited the club into the dining hall where we came FREE FREE N Memoirs of Napoleon In Three Volumes This man caused the last general European war. His personal memoirs, written by his secretary, Baron De Meneval, are full of the most absorbing incidents, especially in view of the present great European struggle. Just a hundred years ago, his ambitions bathed the Continent in a sea of blood. France alone, under his leadership, fought Germany, Russia, Austria, Italy, and Great Britain—and even. Get these Memoirs Free Byspecial arrangement with the publishers of COLLIER'S, The National Weekly, we are enabled to offer a limited number of these three-volume sets of the Memoirs of Napoleon free with a year's subscription to Collier's and this paper. The offer is strictly limited—to get advantage of it you must act promptly. Sherlock Holmes Stories Exclusively in Collier's in short brief notice. Miss Sullivan will inform Editorials and widely quoted Comments on Congress will continue to be an exclusive feature. Special Offer to our Readers Your own home paper and COLLIER'S. The National Weekly, together with the three volumes of Newman's Monthly, will supply the price of Collier's alone, plus 50c to cover the cost of packing and shipping the Memoirs. Send your order to this office now. If you are already a subscriber, your subscription will be extended for one year from its present date of publication. COLLIER'S $2.50 One gazelle. Special combination price, including the three-volume Memoirs, postpaid in contact with delicious refreshments. The club was invited to meet at Miss Agnes Neely's resi- on 9th, st. next Wednesday afternoon. Agnes Neely. SPARTA. We left Mt. Vernon, Saturday for Sparta and preached here Sunday. I met many of my old friends, who received me gladly, and I found them working hard for the cause of Christ. The church has been repaired both inside and out and is one of the nicest little church in the district. Rev. P. B. French, is the right man in the right place; he is doing great work and his members have great pride in church work. They all seem to love him. They have all repaired their homes. They have put in electric lights in the church and need to be praised for their industry. They are Baptist indeed. Every pastor in the district should take on new life from him in giving their people good service. Send Mrs. Anna Owons the Gazette, also M. C. Wrice. I leave today Monday for home D. Parrish, D. D. Every vote cast for Robins will mean a vote for Sullivan. Read our Paducah, advertisements on front page. It will pay you to patronize those who advertise in this paper. Just say that you saw it in the Gazette. Mhe editor of the Gazette will be in Md City, Mounds, Cairo, Carbondale and Murphyshoro next week, those who owe be prepared to pay please. Don't pay out money for magazines. We can give you four monthly magazines for 18 cents extraff you will subscribe to The Gazette for one ear. Livingston Institute Second Session This school is well graded Department. All work is well tatal and able Instructors, selec work Special Courses in M and in Theology. Entrance Fee $2.00 Tuition Rates: Tuition per c Tuition, Normal and English Tuition, Instrumental music ( Tuition Typewriting (including Tuition Plain Sewing per month Tuition, Vocal music Tuition Printing Industrial Department per month. Printing Free Board and Roomsible rate. In every case, 4 weeks wi All charges must be paid in a and Prospectus Address J. B. McGRARY, Box 107 This school is well graded and equipped Grammar School Department. All work is well organized under Departmental and able Instructors, selected for Special Departmental work Special Courses in Music, Bookkeeping, Shorthand and Type Writing, Bible Study and in Theology In every case, 4 weeks will be counted for a school month All charges must be paid in advance. For any information and Prospectus Address J. B. McGRARY. Supt. and Sec'y. Box 107 Metropolis, Ill. CANDIES Largest Assortment Metropolis. Pure fresh. Also fresh Gandies and Pea Howell's Va Largest Assortment of Candies in Metropolis. Pure, wholesome and fresh. Also fresh Salted Peanuts. Candies and Peanuts 10c per lb. Howell's Variety Store. Across the Street from the Post Office. S. BARTLETT KERR, Solicitor. Administrator Sale of Real Estate. By virtue of an order and decree of the County Court of Massac County, Illinois, made on the position of the undesigned F. W. Bormann, Administrator of the Estate of Henry Minkerman Deceased, for the leave to sell the Real Estate of said deceased, at the October Term, A. D. 1914, of said Court, to-wit; on the 19th day of October 1914, I shall on Saturday 21st day of November next, between the hours of ten o'clock in the foreroom and five o'clock in the afternoon of said day, to-wit; at the hour of 10 o'clock a. m., sell at Public Sale, at the east door of the Court House in said County, the Real Estate described as follows, to-wit: The Northwest Fourth of the Southeast quarter, and the West half of the Southwest fourth of the Southeast quarter of Section, twenty-one (21) in Township Fifteen (15) south Range Four (4) east, 3d P. M., in Massac County, Illinois, on the following terms, to-wit: Cash in hand. Dated this 19th day of October A. D. 1914 F. W. BORMANN, Administrator of the Estate of Henry Minkerman, Deceased. 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If you haven't already subscribed 5 DROPS Alcoholic Pure FOR USE IN THE BAR OR BREWING WITH A BAR OF WATER WITH A BAR OF WATER WITH A BAR OF WATER 500 ML October 6th 1913 and equipped Grammar School and organized under Department ated for Special Departmenta Music, Bookkeeping, Shorthand and Type Writing, Bible Study a Session aton. Theological Department month..... $1.00 tureses per month each " 1.00 including rent of instrument)..... ..... " 2.50 rent) per month..... " 1.50 h..... " 1.00 Free Fre- nts Domestic Science, Milli- nery and Dressmaking $2 Board and rooms can be secured in private families at a reasona- l be counted for a school month advance. For any information Supt. and Sec'y. Metropolis, Ill. ent of Candies in wholesome and Salted Peanuts. nuts 10c per lb. iety Store. 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 legs. This machine is warranted for all time. No other like it No other as good The New Home Sewing Machine Company, ORANGE, MASS. Box 172 For Sale by W. P. Baynes, Metropolis, Ill. NOTICE. Dear Bro: Please give notice to the public that I received a notice from Rev. H. Allison of Centralia, that his church wants the Mt. Olive Baptist Association in 1915. In our last church meeting we, the St. John Baptist Church of Mounds, agreed to let Centralia have the above named Ass'n, in 1915. Therefore the Mt. Olive Badtist Ass'n, wil convene with the 2nd Baptist church of Centralia, Ill. Tuesday before the second Sunday in Sept. 1915. D. Parrish D. D. Mod. Mounds, Ill., 10-12-1914 ```markdown ``` Illinois