Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE UNIVERSITY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 14 NOV1914 METROPOL VOLUME XVII. NO 40 4. roadway Hecht's 208 Br coat-suits, Cloaks, Waists, Dress Underwear and everything ready you save 50 per cent on your purcha garments for boys, and children Saturday Night Specials good looking tan hose, value 50c them Saturday night for 21c. roadway Hecht's 208 Br Paducah. Ky Hecht's 208 Broadway ts, Cloaks, Waists, Dress Skirts, wear and everything ready-to-wear 50 per cent on your purchase. All ents for boys, and children day Night Specials looking tan hose, value 50c selling Saturday night for 21c. Hecht's 208 Broadway Paducah, Ky. 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 81 Doz. good looking tan hose, value 50c selling them Saturday night for 21c. Boulware-Alen Shoe Co. g just remodeled our sto way we are now prepa remodeled our store 218 we are now prepared to people with the best of 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. MOTTO : "HEW TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY." RAMBLER "Old Rambler," left the city List Saturday at 10:20 a. m. for Murphysboro, via the I. C. R. R on business in company of our son George. We reached the city at 2:30 p. m. and was shown the way to our friends Mr. and Mrs. Wm Lovings, where we found the busy housewife at the door with her usual charming smiles, loving and gentle words. We were ushered into the commodous apartments and seated where we were soon made to that we were welcome as their guest during our short stay in their beautiful and busy little city. Soon the husband was at home from the mines who greeted us in a cordial way and after swapping a few words of greetings we were invited into the dining room where we found the table laden with the dainties of the season and viards of the land. After satisfying our appetite we were soon off for the city with our host to take in the city and visit a few friends We called on Dr. J. H. Fulton A. B., our old friend and found him well and happy as that was pay day with the Prof., as he is principal of the High School of Murphysboro, with 3 associate teachers who are doing good work notwithstanding an overcrowded school. We visited our old friend Sister Mary Mack, formerly of Metropolis, and found her suffering very much from rheumatism and other complications. She was very glad to see us and spoke of Metropolis as being the dearest place on earth to her and the people as being the best people of any she had ever met and she desired to meet them again. We visited the lovely home of Rev. Robt. Gray, and found him somewhat indisposed, but he and his good wife made it pleasant for us and passed around some choice bunches of Concord grapes which were very appetizing indeed. He made our hearts glad and bound us more closely to him by writing us a check without our asking for some back subscription which we accepted with a "Thank-you-sir." That is one thing we never refuse. We have found out that the negro preachers as a whole are not bad fellows after all. We next visited the A. M. E. church where we found Rev. J. N. Reddick pastor, we met many of our friends at this church as the ladies were serving a lunchcon in the basement. This is a beautiful and commodous edifice, well lighted and splendidly arranged. Rev. Reddick is well pleased with his appointment. We found Rev. Denton, in charge of the Baptist church and they are preparing to begin the erection of a nice church building which will be another addition and a credit to the colored citizens, as the negroes are largely judged by the progress they make along church lines and their educational status. The trio in company of the hostess left the entertainment at a late hour returning back to Mr. Loving's home where we domiciled all night. Mr. Lovings and wife, have saved up a neat fortune and have not wasted their earnings, but they have several places and they are erecting a $1000 00 bungalow for rent. We left for Carbondale, Sunday a. m. at 7:27 where we soon found ourselves seated in the class of the Rock Hill Baptist S. S. Mss. Hattie English is the efficient Supt. and that is a well regulated school. Miss Hamilton was the teacher of the advanced method. She is well cultured and is one of the city teachers. She is in the right place (the school room.) This school as a whole for discipline, scholarship is in advance of many of our S. S. Pastor Norment should feel proud of his teachers and officers. We gave a short address as did Mr. Crawford, who said he was recently from a visit to Africa. At 11:30 a.m. we listened to a good sermon delivered by a visiting preacher from West Tennessee of the C. M. E. church. We were invited to the home of Bro. and sister Frank Bowers, for dinner, and after conversing with their refined and accomplished daughter who is a teacher in the Public school. We were conducted into the dining room where the house wife had busied herself in preparing a very excellent dinner for us, and we said, it is good for us to be here just allow us to remain here in this home during the winter. Mr. Bowers is a very intelligent gentleman is a deacon of the Baptist church and has charge of the engine and boiler rooms at the Normal University. He is also a reader of the Gazette. We returned to the Rock Hill Baptist church in the afternoon, this being a rally day for them, there we met the city ministers with part of their congregations, namely: Elders G. W. Dorsey of the Baptist, Vinne, of the A. M. E. church and White of the C. M. E. church, who delivered a strong sermon at 3:30. At night Rambler filled the pulpit having a large audience out. The sermon was short though bristled with many solid truths so much so, that only the quick and thoughtful reasoner could say amen, others were left no doubt to wonder if it is "I" that was meant in the text. The pastor of this church carries a large intelligent audience and he has done a good work since taking charge of the church. In this rally which has run since the first of October rolled up 146.83 which was a splendid showing. We nestled cozily in the elegant home of our friends Mr. and Mrs. James Pyles where we breakfasted before leaving for home. Bro. Pyles, a deacon of the Rock Hill church and W. M. of Tuscan lodge 44, F. & A. M. A good husband and a splendid provider. They are readers of the Gazette. We visited the busy Cafe of James Robinson, where he enjoys a large of the white and colored. He is enterprising and accommodating. He is ably assisted by his wife besides being compelled to keep two other persons regularly employed on the ac- Everybody's Going to Guthries Paducah's We save you Dry goods, Coats, Suits Corsets, Gloves, Hoisery etc. "Savings Bonds" Meet your friends at W. H. Crawford ed Dramatic Artist w the historical roll of Plays-Julius Caesar Homelet, Romeo, and Venice, Dunbar's Poet This entertainment m all people. He sings of tribes of African p 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 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. W. H. CRAWFORD Coming of W. H. Crawford, the world’s renown- Dramatic Artist who will appear here in the historical roll of Shakespeare’s Master lys-Julius Caesar, Richard the Third, melet, Romeo, and Juliet, Merchants of nice, Dunbar’s Poems. His entertainment meets the approval of people. He sings in the native tongue ribes of African people. --- W. H. GRAWFORD THE WARRIOR Proi. W. H. Crawford, the world's renowned Dramatic Artist who will appear here in the historical roll of Shakespeare's Master Plays-Julius Caesar, Richard the Third, Homelet, Romeo, and Juliet, Merchants of Venice, Dunbar's Poems. This entertainment meets the approval of all people. He sings in the native tongue of tribes of African people. He will open up his show just as soon as he can secure a suit-building, then the negroes can have reserved seats and will not have to be jim-crowed. James is one among the Gazette best supporters. It will pay you to call on him when in the city if hungry. Carbondale, is blessed with a colored doctor, Dr. O B Thompson, who is being kept busy looking after his thriving business. The people do not hesitate to laud him to strangers on the account of his worth to the race and the city. He has of late performed some successful opertions which were turned down by white physician. Thus he is coming into the lime light as an equipped surgeon. 1. ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` GUTHRIES'. Coming We left at 7:00 a. m. Monday for home feeling wiser for having made these cities leaving behind us pleasant recollections of our friends Rambler. Variety. Now Maid—"Please, mum, there's a man at the door come to collect on something yez bought on the installment plan." Mistress—"Ask him whether it's the encyclopedia, the phonograph, the brass bed, the piano, or the sewing-machine."—Harper's Bazar. the manly girl. No trait of a girl's character is more prized than a sweet and happy disposition. It makes the home life bright, it smooths away the little roughnesses, and it is like a ray of sunshine that brightens the darkest corners and drives away discontent and gloom. The happy girl makes the happy and contented wife, who will bring her girlhood's enduring qualities to make fresh sunshine in her new home.—Home Notes. CAP and BELLS Quickly Discovers His Error in Attempting to Sell Poetry to Gentleman Wearing Pink Shirt. "How about a collection of the world's best poetry in six volumes?" said the book agent. "Selections from Shakespeare, Milton, Spencer and all the famous poets." "Say," exclaimed the man at the desk, wheeling around in his chair and displaying a poker vest, a pink shirt and a diamond stud, "what sorter guff are you tryn' to gimme?" "Beg pardon," answered the resourceful agent, as he reached into his satchel and drew out a paper-covered volume, "I was just about to ask you if you would like to have a copy of the life of John L. Sullivan, written by one of the most noted referees in the business?" Ask Some Milkman. The following notice recently appeared outside the office of a busy Boston firm: "Boy Wanted—One who knows the city well." Presently a bright youth presented himself for a job. "Do you know the city well?" asked the manager. "No sir," replied the young hopeful, "but I could find it."—Boston Globe. No Wonder He Was Sore. "He makes me tired! I tried half a dozen times to say something, but he talked me to a standstill each time with his talk about the European war. He thinks he knows all about it." "That was too bad, dear. What did you wish to say?" "I wanted to tell him what caused the dogone war and how it was going to come out." Just the Thing Reporter—You sent me to interview General Leadenhail about the war, but he says the president has forbidden military men from expressing their opinions. Managing Editor—Didn't he give you any opinion at all? "Nothing but vague generalities." "Well, write them over into a leading editorial."-Life. Poor Papa. Little Bobby—Papa, did you ever see a cyclone carrying houses in the air and cows and horses and wagons upside down? Papa—No, my son. Little Bobby—I should think it 'ud be tiresome to live to your age and never see anything—London Tit-Bits. Mean Brute "A woman can't be in two places at the same time," snapped Mrs. Gabb, during the usual morning fuss. "I notice that you can be in and out of the house at the same time when some female that you don't want to see happens to call," replied Mr. Gabb. NEVER TOUCHED HIM. J. M. The Bill Collector—I can't keep coming here every day for this bill. Mr. I. M. P. Cunius—I've often won- dered why you didn't try to get a better position. Sure Thing. "I bet I'll have the finest lawn in the place." "I won't take you." "Why not?" "Because the first thing I know you will be hedging on that lawn bet." Plenty. "Why don't you lay by something for rainy day?" "I have." "Huh! I'd like to know how much?" "One dollar. And the latest quota- tion on umbrellas is 98 cents." CARNAGE LACKING IN GAME Thanksgiving Contest Played Without Single Player Being Disabled Was Not Football. Clarence Alcott, the Yale coach, comforted a slightly injured half back, on the side lines at New Haven, with a football story. "Once upon a time," said Alcott, patting the brawny shoulder of the sufferer, "there was a wonderful Thanksgiving day game between two great varsities. "This game was played almost faultlessly. The interest was maintained to the very end. Star play succeeded star play with the precision of clockwork. But— "Not a man was disabled. "Not a single doctor was called out. "Not a nose was broken, not a tooth loosened, not a drop of blood dyeed the ground. "The spectators, at the end of this phenomenal game, shook their heads and sighed. "It was magnificent,' they said, 'but it was not football.'"—Boston Post. The Best of Them All "You are taking a good deal of interest in horse racing of late," said one traveling man to another. "Yes." "I suppose you are well posted as to all the different styles of gaits." "Pretty well. I ought to be." "Well, of them all, what do you think is the best?" "Well, as a man of experience, I'll tell you: The best of all is the old front gate, at 9:30 in the evening, with the little black-eyed girl on the other side of it."—Merchant Traveler. GEORGE PARKER Big Crow—How did you find out that Willie Raddish was going to be married; he told me that I was the only one that knew anything about it? Little Crow-How could it be other wise? He proposed in a cornfield. Blessed Assurance. At a deadly dull winter resort in the South, where people really go to rest, a visitor one day sought excitement by interviewing an old fisherman. "This is a dangerous coast, sir," he said. "Many an' many a man has been drowned on that there bar." "But none of the winter visitors have ever been lost here, have they?" asked the visitor to reassure his wife. "No. Visitors is seldom lost. After a tide or two their bodies generally washes ashore."—Boston Post. His Final Request. They had arrested the moving picture manager as a spy. He was drum-headed, found guilty and sentenced to be shot. "Have you any parting request?" the boss of the firing party asked. "Don't make it too long." The movie man nodded. "My operator," he said, "has never seen a real execution. Just let him turn the machine on the last scene and don't hurry it any."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Obliging Conductor The fussy lady had noticed that the rude man sitting beside her on the street car had expectorated on the floor. The fussy old lady immediately signaled the conductor and that official came in to see what was wanted. "Do you allow spitting in this car?" demanded the fussy lady. "Well, no," replied the conductor, "but you can come out on the platform if you want to, lady."—Cincinnati Enquirer. A Scientific Explanation "There's something uncanny about my husband," said Mrs. Wasserby. "What makes you think so?" asked Mrs. Blinders. "No matter how soundly he may be sleeping, the moment I start to go through his pockets he wakes right up." "That isn't so hard to explain. Some men are such tightwads that their subconscious minds tell them when their money is in danger." Art's Unkindness. "My farewell appearance was an occasion of the greatest enthusiasm," said one prima donna. "Yes," replied the other. "Isn't it remarkable that such a large number of people should have seemed so delighted to hear you for the last time." Highly Significant "Doris is writing a great many veres these days." "What kind do you suppose they are?" "I am afraid they are poems of pass- sion. She uses red ink." METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS The majority of Negroes of Texas are engaged in the occupation of farming. Most of them are farming because their fathers farmed before them, they were raised on the farm and know little else, and really little of that. Their woeful ignorance of the science underlying agriculture, of recent discoveries, of the use of modern machinery and the marketing of their crops is appalling. They do not practice home economies because they have not had the opportunity to learn anything about the subject. So these people go on from year to year doing the work of the farm in very much the same way it was done a generation ago. No particular effort has been made to reach these farmers with modern agriculture and home economics. The beauty, independence and importance of the farmer's life have never come to them. They only know the drudgery and wretchedness of it all. Is it surprising that so many are deserting the farms and seeking service in our cities? To those acquainted with conditions surrounding the average Negro farmer and farmhand it is not surprising. There are some conspicuous examples of successful Negro farmers in Texas, but theirs are individual cases, and most of these successes are due to fortunate circumstances and not to any particular effort to promote the general efficiency of the Negro farmers as a class. Articles appearing in the papers from time to time, speaking of Negro prosperity and citing these conspicuous individual successes as examples of what the masses are doing are misleading and really do the Negro farmers, less fortunately situated, great harm, for those in position to help him help himself conclude that the Negro farmer is doing well enough. We are all glad that a few individual Negro farmers are succeeding, but at the same time we are very much concerned about that very large body of toilers of the soil for whom the sun of prosperity has never risen. Honest men everywhere will agree that the only way to eradicate evils, and to make living conditions better, is to tell the truth about them, awaken sentiment, find a remedy and then apply it. The purpose of this letter is to arouse the people of Texas to the importance of making farm life more attractive to the Negro farmer and thus hold him on the farm, and to attract others back to this life from congested conditions of living in Negro sections in our large cities, making all of them useful citizens in their communities and producers of not only enough to supply their own needs but producers of a surplus which may go a long way to increase our food supply and materially reduce the high cost of living. Now somebody please rise and say: "It can't be done—we've tried it." The fact that it has never been tried in Texas in earnest on a sufficiently large scale and well organized effort to result in much good. A few good men of our state are doing the best they can, for example: R. L. Smith of Colorado county and now of Waco has done more than any other single individual for the uplift and improvement of Negro farmers through the medium of his farmers' organization, the Farmers' Improvement society, and an agricultural college at Ladonia, Tex., supported by this organization. This society is self-supporting and deserves additional aid for its splendid work. E. L. Blackshear of Prairie Among the surprises that the department of fine arts will give the world when the Panama-Pacific International exposition opens in 1915 will be the presentation of paintings by Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph; Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat; General R. S. Baden-Powell, warrior, and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. Engravings by Paul Revere, the famous patriot, will be displayed. If a young man has money to burn any number of anxious mothers try to hand him a match. In New Haven there is exhibited the earliest known skate, roughly fashioned out of the bone of a horse. It is at least seven hundred years old, is about twelve inches in length and was found in an excavation made in the city of London. Be frugal of your common sense; it will some day be above par. The fiber of a plant growing extensively in Argentina has been found to possess qualities similar to the kapok of the Philippines. All Danish passenger steamers and ferry boats on the route between Sweden and Germany will probably soon be equipped with the wireless telephone. Telephone stations will be erected on the coast. As a rule, the money a man doesn't save by remaining a bachelor would be more than enough to support a wife and ten children. He who marries a widow need not hope to be called the best man that ever lived. View college has rendered service that is valuable to the Negro farmer through his Negro Farmers' congress, of which he is founder and president. The agricultural department of the same college, with C. H. Waller at the head, has turned out a number of young colored men who are doing excellent work. But almost all the work done so far has been voluntary, and has not reached the masses through organized effort emanating from some central authority. The state of Texas has never put forth any effort to reach these farmers and increase their efficiency, and yet a large proportion of the productive wealth of Texas is committed to this unskilled labor through the rich lands they control and cultivate.-Wade C. Rollins in the Houston Post. The sum of $55,000, appropriated by congress for expenses of the exposition to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the emancipation of the negro and to show the advancement and achievements of the negro race in education and in the industrial work of the nation, to be held next year, near Richmond, Va., will be turned over by the government to a depository at Richmond, when designated by the governor of Virginia. This fund may then be withdrawn by order of the treasurer of the Negro Historical & Industrial association of Richmond, Va., approved by the governor of the state. The treasurer of the organization will be required to give bond to the Negro Historical & Industrial association, as the governor may direct or approve. No bond will be required by the United States, the disbursement of the fund will not be done under federal supervision, and no accounting to the federal government will be exacted. This outlines the procedure set down by W. W. Warwick, acting controller of the treasury, in response to the inquiry of the secretary of the treasury as to the manner of withdrawal of the fund from the treasury, and as to what bond, if any, the disbursement agent should be required to execute to the United States, and how the money should be accounted for. It is stated in the reference that Giles B. Jackson, president of the negro organization, has given notice of the appointment of a disbursement agent. Acting Controller Warwick points out that the appropriation act provides only for supervision and direction of disbursement of the fund by the government of Virginia. He also cites the precedents, indicating the absence of any responsibility to give bond or to account to the United States for proper disbursement of the appropriation. Shantung can boast of 40 centuries of agricultural activity. It is still an agricultural province with an area of 55,000 square miles—about equivalent to that of the state of Wisconsin—with an estimated population of 30,000,000, and has been forced to a degree of intensive cultivation unknown to the farmers of the United States. All the relatives from the country round were gathered at the home of Frank Taylor, Tomah, Wis., for a family party, when the conversation drifted to Albert Taylor, who as a boy of fifteen ran away in 1884 to join a circus and had not been heard of since. While they were talking the door opened and Albert walked in. If a woman still laughs at her husband's jokes five years after the wedding bells have jingled the divorce lawyers get discouraged. M. A. Johnson of Rockland, Me., has a pair of rubber boots which he bought in 1883. The boots were worn on a farm at intervals for six years, and have since been worn on many hunting and fishing trips. They are still sound and dry. Of the emigrants leaving Ireland during the year 7 per cent were destined for the United States and 21½ per cent for Canada. From the province of Ulster there were 12,392 immigrants, or 40 per cent of the total. There was launched at Port Arthur recently the largest steamer on the Great Lakes, having a capacity of 585,000 bushels or 12,000 tons of oats. Tinplate imports into the United States fell from 135,000,000 pounds in 1902 to 4,500,000 pounds in 1912, while the quantity exported increased from 3,500,000 pounds in 1902 to 183,000,000 pounds in 1912. Attending the same school for 13 years without being absent or tardy is the remarkable record of John Pugh, nineteen years old, who has just graduated from the Deepwater (Mo.) High school as the only boy in the class. Success may not depend so much upon what you do yourself as upon what you can jolly others into doing for you. Many a woman acts rather stiffly after her first tango lesson. MOVIES TO AID DETECTIVES New York Police Commissioner Will Henceforth Use Films in Identifying Criminals. Before resigning as second deputy police commissioner of New York, J. Robert Rubin, who had charge of reorganizing the detective bureau, arranged for the use of moving pictures in connection with criminal identification. The system, which is considered of special value in training new detectives, is expected to be in operation on a small scale in a short time, and if funds are voted it may be extended throughout the city and eventually to police administrations in other cities. "With younger men constantly replacing the old detectives we believe that the moving pictures will soon be an important factor in police work," Mr. Rubin said. "Its first application is planned in connection with the line-up. "At present much time is lost by detectives who have to attend the line-up, but with the movies the films can be displayed at any time in headquarters or at division stations. "As New York headquarters is practically the clearing house for all criminal investigations, detectives and police officials coming from other cities could see a procession of crooks or suspects on the canvas and in many cases identification undoubtedly would follow." FAMILIAR TO "MOVIE" FANS Despite Necessary Make-Up, Audiences as a General Rule Recognize Favorite Actor. As an exponent of character acting Rex Downs with the Kalem company, has made himself a pronounced favorite with moving picture audiences everywhere. Though the nature of his roles makes it necessary for him to A. Rex Downs. assume some fearful and wonderful make-up the spectators of the many successes in which he has appeared probably recognize him by the excellence of his acting. Among his successes may be mentioned the parts of Fernandez in "At the End of the Rope," Lieutenant French in "Grey Eagle's Revenge," and Harding in "Kidnaped by Indians." New Idea in "Godmothering." "Dear misse kathlyn I have a new pershun cat, will you please name it for me." This is from an epistle, evidently written with careful pains by a very young miss of Los Angeles. There are all kinds of lovable mistakes and appealing blots in the letter. Miss Williams has replied to the writer stating that, as the sex of the Persian kitten was omitted, it would require a little time and consideration to hit upon a strictly neutral title. "A baby has been named after me," said the gracious actress, in showing the letter; "but this is the first time I have been asked to play godmother to a cat." Train Beasts for the Movies A private dramatic school for trained wild animals for moving picture exhibitions has been established near Fort Lee, N. J. The apartment where the pictures are made is equipped with all the appointments necessary for a proper stage performance, and in a large menagerie adjoining the studio are the caged animals, which are taken out for daily rehearsals. Remarkable success attends the training of these beasts, which rarely attempt to harm the human actors who are engaged with them. Indeed, no person has thus far been injured in the school. Made Her Way by Merit. Lylian Brown Leighton, noted Selig player, rose rapidly in the film firmament from an obscure character role to principal parts. She was the attractive widow in "The Decision of Jim O'Farrell," and then took a prominent part in "Oh! Look Who's Hers" and "When a Woman's Forty." Miss Leighton was the blundering washerwoman in the "Red Head" series. At present she is a member of the comedy company at Selig's jungle zoo. Keene Professione Separate Keeps Professional Separate. By the terms of Mile, Lydia Borelli's contract with George Kleine no motion pictures of her may be shown in city at the same time she is showing there on the legitimate stage. Count the Cost! Men who watch their pennies are learning that FATIMA gives them a chance to enjoy 20 real 15 cent cigarettes at a price only slightly more than they pay for 10. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. 20 for 15¢ FATIMA TURKISH BLEND CIGARETTES NO GOLD TIPS Cameron & Cameron Co MACKENDALE UNIT & FINE SINCE 1870 FINEST QUALITY OLD SORES OLD SORES Since 1869 ALLEN'S ULCERINE BALVE has beamed more old sores than all other salves combined. It is the most powerful salve known and comes from the backtop app, drawing out the poisons. By mail 56 cents. Book free. J. P. ALLEN MEDICINE CO., Best, 824 ST. PAUL, MINN. In the per capita consumption of tobacco Holland leads the world, with Belgian second and the United States third. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels. Sugar-coated, tiny granules. Easy to take as candy. Adv. Not Due to Ignorance Doctor biriggs received a note from a farmer living back quite a ways in the country, requesting him to come as quickly as possible to see his child who was very sick with "a very bad cold." The doctor examined the child and then turned to the mother. "Don't you know," he asked, "that your little girl is coming down with the measles?" "Yes, doctor," was the woman's reply. "I knew she was." "Then why in the world," asked the doctor, "did you write me that she had a very bad cold?" The woman hesitated for a moment, then, looking at her husband, said, with sullen frankness: "Neither him nor me knew how to spell 'measles.'"—National Monthly. The more a man makes love to a woman the more she admires another man to whom she has to make love. Sometimes a man wakes up and discovers that he has a boss wife—and they live happily ever after. If people don't take the trouble to matter you they have no immediate use for you. An economical woman tries to make her waist as small as possible. Never attempt to borrow trouble; if you do, people will insist upon presenting it to you. Every little helps—especially little kicks when you're going down hill. Virtue is its own reward, but even an angel blows his own horn. The "Meat" of Corn —the sweet centers of choice Indian corn; cooked, seasoned just right, rolled thin as paper and toasted until they become golden brown flakes—crisp and delicious! That's why Post Toasties That's why are better than ordinary "corn flakes." Toasties are packed in an inner container inside the tight-sealed, familiar, yellow carton — keeps the food fresh and crisp for your appetite — Corn Flakes sold by Grocers. NO GREAT DEMAND FOR BOYS Male Children a Poor Second With Those Who Would Become Foster Parents. "The French are receiving in their homes refugees from Belgium and northern France. The Germans are doing the same as regards the refugees from oriental Prussia." The speaker was a returned tourist. He went on: "Many French and German households have neither room enough nor means enough to take in a whole family. They must confine themselves to one child. Well, they invariably bid then for a little girl. They never want a boy. "I have seen in my travels several hundred of these offers to take in children—and every blessed offer was for girls. What is the cause of this? The cause must evidently be that girls are better behaved, more amiable and nicer all around than boys. "The war, besides teaching me geography, has taught me that female children stand miles higher in popular esteem than male children. What's the trouble with us males? We'd better look to ourselves." War Snatches. Simeon Ford, the humorist of New York, said the other day: "We are a nation of humorists. We exact humor even out of war. As I walked down Broadway the other morning I overheard scraps of talk like these: "The missionaries have been looking for heathens in the wrong countries." "What's the matter with the late Rudyard Kipling resurrecting himself and giving us a new war song? "Carnegie's peace palace? The kaiser has turned it into a fort." First Aid to Matrimony. "The English military uniform," said General Holland in Canton, "is the best looking and it is also the best to fight in. Take the photographs of the wounded and dead English officers—Viscount Hawarden, the Hon. W. A. Cecil, Lieut. the Hon. R. Keppel. Did you ever see such a handsome lot of uniforms? "No wonder all the English soldiers marry well," General Holland concluded. "Handsome is as handsome does—and the English uniform certainly does havev among the English heiresses." A Short Run. Bibson—I understand the management only had a short run with their new play. Gibson—Yes, the audience only followed them to the city limits. A woman forgives an injury one day and forgets that she has forgiven it the next. In jam, confectionery and tin box factories of Great Britain many women earn only $1.50 per week. This is a free country, but you should be ashamed to say some of the things you think. And one good action is worth more than a hundred good intentions. Many a woman's imagination makes her an invalid. You don't have to play poker with a man to win his friendship. Some women sweeten their tea with gossip instead of sugar. Gold may be the key to society, but poverty is the strongest bar. Fools who keep their mouths shut may pass for wise men. Silence is the wisest argument of an ignorant man. Tone Up! Not Drugs— Food Does It —wholesome, appetizing food that puts life and vigor into one, but doesn't clog the system. Such a food is Grape-Nuts The entire nutrition of wheat and barley, including the vital mineral salts—phosphate of potash, etc.— Long baked, easily digested, ready to eat; an ideal food with cream or milk, and fine in many combinations. "There's a Reason" for Grape-Nuts sold by Grocers. SOUPS EASY TO MAKE SOUPS EASY TO MAKE PALATABLE AND ECONOMICAL ADDITIONS TO THE MENU. Enable Housewife to Utilize Leftover Materials Which Could Not Be Prices of foodstuffs are keeping wonderfully normal, but it behooves the housekeeper in these uncertain times to learn to make the very best use of the supplies which she obtains, so that she can supply nutritious meals at the lowest possible cost. Soups provide a great deal of nutrition, and in making them cooked bones, whether of meat or fish, make a really good basis for the stock, while the water in which vegetables have been cooked is also excellent for soups. Into the stock pot can go all meat trimmings, bones, carcasses and giblets of poultry and game, all rinds and trimmings of tongue, ham and bacon, all liquids in which meat or vegetables have been cooked and all stripings of vegetables. All these should be properly trimmed, rinsed and put into the stock pot. Simmer, but do not boil the soup. Ten minutes' rapid boiling will cloud a kettleful of soup. Do not add the vegetables until the last hour of cooking. The delicate flavoring of both meats and vegetables is easily driven off in the steam if they are boiled rapidly or cooked too long. An easily prepared and cheap soup is made as follows: Place some bones, cooked or uncooked, in a pot with an onion, two carrots and two sliced turnips, two stalks of parsley, a little pepper and salt, and pour in sufficient water to just cover them all. Bring this all just to a boll, then draw the pan to the side of the fire, and let the contents simmer for two to three hours. Now cook and blend one-half an ounce of dripping and three-fourths ounce of flour. Strain the liquor on to this, stirring well. Then put all back on to the fire and simmer for fifteen minutes, and serve. To make an inexpensive vegetable soup slice down half a carrot, half a turnip and one onion and fry them in one-half an ounce of clarified dripping for five minutes; then lift them out, make the fat hot again and fry in it one-half an ounce of flour until a brown color. Take the pan from the fire, add one and one-half pints of stock, stirring over the fire until it boils and is smooth, then put in the vegetables, a bunch of herbs and a little salt, and let all simmer until the vegetables are tender. Lift out the bunch of herbs and serve the soup. This is a good onion soup: Peel and cut up rather small three good-sized onions and cook them in two ounces of dripping in a covered pan for one hour until tender, then moisten with one and a half pints of hot water in which a cauliflower or beans have been cooked or even plain water. Add some slices of bread cut diagonally and season with pepper and salt. Cover the pan again and let the contents simmer for at least an hour. Crush the onions through a sieve and just before serving gradually add a tablespoonful of grated cheese, stirring rapidly into the soup to blend. Epicurean Croquettes Soak a finnan haddie one hour, using milk and water in equal parts to cover, then put in oven and let stand for 30 minutes; drain and separate into flakes. There should be one and three-fourths cupfuls. Cook one tablespoonful of chopped shallot, two tablespoonfuls each of chopped green and red peppers in three tablespoonfuls of butter five minutes, add one-third of a cupful of flour and one cupful of milk. Stir in finnan haddie, add one-half teaspoonful of salt, one-fourth teaspoonful of paprika and a few grains of pepper. Cool, shape, crumb and try. Pickled Fish. Cut the fish up into convenient pieces, rub them well with salt, and let them lie for a few hours. Then put in a pan with water to cover them and bring to a boil. When boiling move the kettle back where they will boil slowly from three to five minutes, but not longer, or the bits will fall to pieces. Lift the pieces out carefully and pack them in a crock, putting a thin layer of sliced onions between each layer of fish, and while still hot pour cold spiced vinegar over to cover them. Sour Milk Johnny Cake. Two tablespoonfuls of butter and one cupful of flour mixed with one cupful of cornmeal; add half a cupful of sugar, half a teaspoonful of baking powder and half a teaspoonful of salt, one cupful of sour milk, and two well-beaten eggs. Turn the mixture into a well-buttered pan and bake in a hot oven. Sour cream may be substituted for sour milk. Marguerites. Whites of three eggs, one quart of peanuts (in shell), one teaspoonful vanilla, one and one-half or two cupfuls powdered sugar; beat whites of eggs very stiff, chop peanuts rather fine; mix all together and drop on saltine crackers, brown lightly in oven. About Kid Gloves. Always powder the inside of new gloves before wearing them, as it makes them easier to slip on. It also prevents the dye of colored ones from staining the hands. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. You Look Prematurely Old Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR DRESSING. PRICE. $1.00, retail. MRS. 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A wildower never invests in a guitar or the purpose of serenading a spinster. He begins right where he left off at the end of his first courtship. Self-conceit is a good asset. A man can't hope to be popular with his friends unless he is popular with himself. The girl who is a good cook usually deserves a better, husband than she gets. And many a poor man after winning a woman's hand finds himself under her thumb. When a man says he was driven to drink he always insinuates that some woman handled the ribbons. Many a harmless looking bottle contains a lot of fish stories. YOUR OWN DRUGGIST WILL TELL YOU Try Marine Eye Remedy for Rod, Weak, Watery Eye and Stimulated Bloody. No Hurting, Just Eye Comfort. Write for Book of the Eye by mail Free. Murine Eye Remedy Co. Chicago. It's easier to make a bad matter worse than it is to make a good matter better. Success always gets applause, but it doesn't always respond to an encore. After the second baby arrives a woman seldom changes the style of doing up her hair. NOT SUCH DEADLY ENEMIES "Bloody Chasm" That Separated Nationalists and Ulsterites Might Have Been Bridged. As all the world knows, international war has proved a great conciliator in Ireland. As a contributor to the Bystander says, you cannot give much attention to the dismemberment of the empire when you are not certain whether you will have an empire to dismember. There is a geniality about the Nationalist volunteer that makes you know that he would rather fight some one else—Germany in this case—than Ulster. A few stories are current that help to show how very ripe Ireland was for conciliation. Not long ago a company of Nationalist volunteers, passing a company of Ulstermen, and being uncertain as to the customary etiquette between deadly enemies—saluted. In a northern district there was only one field suitable for drilling, and as the two opposition armies wanted it, the owner began bidding them against each other. Northern canniness asserted itself. The commanding officer of one battalion approached the enemy, and they agreed to rent the field in common, and use it on alternate days! A third anecdote relates that while some Ulster volunteers were drilling a Nationalist was seen sitting on a fence watching them. When he was questioned by an Ulsterman he explained that his own company had mislaid their rifles and could not drill; "but," he added, "we were waiting to see if we could get the loan of yours when you've done with them." MODERN WAR IS MERCIFUL Under Existing Conditions the Wounded Are Given a Fair Chance to Recover to Health. A general impression is that with powerful weapons of great precision greater loss of life and greater pain are caused. The view is almost certainly inaccurate. The modern bullet, says the Scotsman, unless it is of the soft-nosed type, is on the whole merciful, and either kills outright or gives its victim a fair chance of recovery. It does not, as a rule, mutilate. The ambulance corps was practically unknown 60 years ago, and not only is aid brought more rapidly to the wounded, but it is far more effective than in the pre-Lister days. Rapidity of conveyance has increased beyond all comparison. In the present war it is true to say that in many cases men have been lying in a British hospital within 24 hours of receiving their wounds. If the risk of being hit is greater, the chances of recovery from injury have been immensely increased. Money for Christmas. Selling guaranteed wear-proof hoslery to friends & neighbors. Big Xmas business. Wear-Proof Mills, 3200 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.—Adv. Resonant Tum-Tums. Little Madge had been listening to her mother reading from the paper. All was silent for some little time, and then Madge burst out laughing very suddenly. "Why, dearle," said the mother, "what is it? "I was thinking of what you just read about the wild people in Africa, mother," replied the child. "But there was nothing amusing about that, dear." "Why, yes there was, mother," said Madge, "about their beating on their tum-tums till they could be heard for miles."—Everybody's Magazine. The Greatest Chasm The greatest chasm between the producer and the consumer is the mudhole. I would not discourage foreign missionary work, but I am rather envious of the permanent highways that have been constructed in some of the countries to which we are sending Christian missionaries.—Homer T. Wade, secretary Texas Good Roads association. Expenses Cut Down. We must admit that the cost of living is rather high," said the campaign adviser. "Well," replied Senator Sorghum, "we must do something with the money. We can't buy votes with it any more."—Washington Star. Lay something by for a rainy day, and just as soon as the clouds begin to gather some fellow will come along and borrow it.—New York Times. Undesirable Lot. She- No, I don't like the crop of wild oats on it. "Perhaps it is just as well. They'd starve to death later." "All the world's a stage," quoted the sage. "Yes," replied the fool, "but it lacks an asbestos drop curtain." WINCHESTER Self-Loading Shotgun 12 GAUGE, 5 SHOTS The recoil reloads this gun. You simply pull the trigger for each shot. This new gun is safe, strong and simple. It has all the good points of other recoil-operated shotguns, and many improvements besides. Among them are Nickel steel construction and a reloading system that requires no change for different loads. It's the Fowling Gun Par Excellence Dead Soldier's Gift Among the contributions to Queen Mary of England's Work for Women fund received recently was an engagement ring which arrived by mail, accompanied by the following letter: "The boy who gave me this before he went away will never come back. He made me promise before he joined his regiment to give it away if anything happened to him. It's a hard wrench to part with, but I promised him to do so. I send it to you as his gift to the Queen's fund." NEARLY CRAZY WITH ECZEMA 354 Plum St., Youngstown, Ohio.—"Blotches like ringworms started to come all over my face and neck. Later it took the form of white flakes and when I would rub they off in little white scales. The eczema so disfigured me that I was ashamed to go out anywhere. It itched all the time and whenever I perspired or got my face the least bit wet, it would burn until I very nearly went crazy. 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"But," said a German-American. "we've got so many men, you know, congressman—we've got so many, we can afford to—er—to lose—" "My friend," Mr. Bacon interrupted, "would you excuse your cook for serving you watery soup because there had been a rainy season?" Where England Leads. England is ahead of the United States in the development of the automatic telephone service, and contracts for automatic exchanges of the total value of nearly five hundred thousand dollars have been placed. A maid of twenty tries to act like a widow of forty, a widow of forty tries to act like a maid of twenty—and there you are. Boils Billiousness Malaria Constipation Are Yo Dr. Pierce's Perhaps this case may be similar to yours. J. Wesley Tilm of (Box 673) Selma, Cal., writes: "Tillm says, 'It gives me much pleasure to be able to send you a testimonial, if by its reaching some people you have been able to help them, we have for you. 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The Cutter Laboratory, Berkeley, or Chicago. W. N. U., ST. LOUIS, NO. 44-1914. An Emotionalist. "So you're hanging around broke again?" said the policeman. "Yes," answered Bill the Burglar. "I haven't a coat. I broke into a house night before last and the poor mark of a taxpayer told me such a hard luck story that he had me sheddin' tears an' lendin' him my last cent." Befitting Punishment. Edith—The writhe! So he actually proposed to both of us! Oh, I wish we could think of some way to punish him! Madge—We can; you marry him dear. Crawford—I hear he thinks of marrying again. Does he hope to get a wife like her first? Crabbear—No; different. Neuralgia There is no need to suffer the annoying, exercising pain of neuralgia. Sloan's Liniment laid on gently will soothe the aching head like magic. Don't delay. Try it at once. 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Ordination Licentiate license blanks at the Gazette office. STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO LICAS COUNTY, S. S. LOSA 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 interpally, 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. I. C R. R. Time Card NORTH BOUND. Train numbers. Arrives. Leaves. 302 10:10 a.m. 10:26 a.m. 374 2:25 p.m. 3:85 p.m. SOUTH BOUND. Train numbers Arrives. Leaves. 375 10:00 a.m. 10:10 a.m. 377 2:28 p.m. 2:35 p.m. 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. Dr. W. A. Springs, of Dewmaine, it is said has added to his hat another feather. During the recent disaster at one of the mines of Williamson County, he was the last doctor to arrive on the ground, and after they had failed to bring life back to some of the men and had abandoned all hopes his negro went to work with a will that knows no failure and if by such a human skill nursed to life three given up as dead. Now his praises are being sung on the lips of those who only a few moments before derided and laugh him to scorn. This sun sure does move. 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 Light Liquid Bleach at McCrary Sons It will be to your interest to come and see our new fall hats before you buy, Z. A, VALLEE. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury as mureury vid surely destroy the sense of smsll 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. Testimonial free. Sold 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. We learn that Mrs. Ferguson is very sick. 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. Edgar S. McCrary, left for Carbondale, and several other points Sunday on a collection tour for the Gazette. He will visit Duqjoin, Centralia, Colpsville and Dewmaine. We hope that our subscribers will pay him promptly. Mrs John Tossey stuck a nail in her foot last week. Mrs. Amanda Bareard has returned home from a visit to her mother at Fulton, Ky., after a two weeks stay. Boyd McCane, went to Saint Louis Sunday to purchase goods for his store. He has added to his pressings and cleaning rooms Gents furnishings. This speaks well for "Mac," and he should receive a good patronage from our people. Mr. Mingo Long, is very much indisposed this week. Little Reta Long, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Long is uery sick. Mrs. Bessie Cork, Misses Love M. Phillips, Mossie and Mae Roberts were Paducah, visitor last Saturday. Rev. R. Earl, Sundayed in Paducah. Installation services will be held at Antioch Baptist church the 5th Sunday at which time Rev. Thos. Morris, will be installed pastor. There Shall Be No Alps The above is the expression of a great general to his soldiers, it would be well it some of us would take heed to the command of the great General, Jesus Christ, we then perhaps would not think it necessary to always watch the flock, of which we are called to sheperd. A church that has to be watched every Sunday by the pastor, is not what the Lord wants it to be. A church must not only be "evangelical, but it must be evangelizing" it must have the evangelizing industry, which must lead out to help others. For churches to realize this fact they must first be taught it from the pulpit. Though if the minister is like the church that feels that he must be there every Sunday to keep it from going to waste he not the church are apt to be of much worth to the cause in general. Having preluded our remarks thus far, we wish to say now, that the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association adjourned its session with the Mt. Zion Baptist church, Dewmaine to hold the first, executive Board with the Mt. Pleasant Baptist church Golconda, three months from the adjournment of the Association. Upon this notice the pastor A. J. Bowers advised the church what would take place, so the church interested herself as never before to receive the board, Through the leadership of the pastor. The building has been greatly and neatly improved both in and without. The pastor came over on Wednesday of last week to make ready for the brethren and provided homes for them all, and not one of them put in their appearance. A number of communiations were sent here addressed to the Board we received a telegram, charges unpaid from Moderetor Washington stating that he had great love for the cause of the Baptist and was not unmindful of the honor conferred on him. But he had a rally to come off on Sunday "Amen." Dr. Washington is to be blamed more than any one else, because of the fact that if he could not be present, he knew it before Friday, and he could have advised, Elders Dorsey or Vice Moderator, Lane and they no doubt would have been here to have held the meeting. There is getting to be too much Associational, or Conventional interest and lip gush loyalty, which fades away as time goes. President J. H. Flowers not a "hen scratch" from him sent no communication whatever, nor did he write his vice that he would not be present. E. J. Jones of Dewmaine is the Vice and is ex-president of the S. S. Convention we have known him a number of times to lay aside his vocation, which amounted to $4.65, per day, to adhere to the trust committed to his care. "Honor to whom it is due." To the East Mt, Olive Executive Board, when convened with the Mt. Pleasant Baptist church, Golconda, find herewith enclosed $1.00 to help advance the cause of the Master, add it to the expense of the meeting. We are sorry that our pastor can not be present pastor James Field is to be commended for acquaintin his church with the recommendation. All the pastors, in the district are members of the Executive Board and voted at the association, that if they were not present they would send one dollar to the board. Dewmaine, Ill. Nov. 5, 1914. Greetings to the Board when convened with the Mt. Pleasant Baptist church. May the Lord crown your efforts with success. Find herewith enclosed $2, for Supt. of Missions, Bro. C. C. Phillips. Done by order of the church. A communication was received from State Missionary H. E. McWilliams, of Elgin expressing his regrets that he could not be present. A communication was received from the church of Sycamore, of which pastor Young his charge. The amount raised during the meeting was $44.25. We organized a kind of protem affair so as to report the amount of finance raised. The amount realized for the Church Aid and Building Fund $23.00 The remainder for pastor and church with the exception of $3.00 for the Supt. of Missions. Brethren do you not think that you owe the pastor and church an apology for your derelict o duty. The Church is somewhat apprehensive of Elder H. C. Armstead, as it is not a habit of his to remain away from the executive board, nor any other religious delegation. Had the brethren been mindful of their obligations we could have easily raised the $100 co. The Church is waiting to hear just when the board will meet, in fact they voted for it last night. (Sunday.) We are giving every atom of our brain, and every quiver of our nerve for the cause of the Master, and we see no reason that every minister that God has Put into the work should not make some sacrifice for the cause May the Lord touch the heart of every brother and sister that they may see the great responsibility that is resting upon them. Brethren and sisters will you not kindly respond to the pledges made by you which are more than past due? Remember the R. R. trains are not carrying Bro. Phillips for nothing. You can save us of the expense and trouble if you will. C. O. Phillips, Supt. of Missions, Golconda, Ill. NOTICE. The Mt Olive Baptist S. S. institute will be held Friday before the 5th Sunday in Nov. with 2nd Baptist church and school Md City. Every elective officer of the 5 convention, the teachers and superintendents are requested and urged upon to attend this the last meeting of the year. Let each school send $1.00 to assist in the work. Be sure and come prepared to take a part on the program. Begin today Let us make this meeting worth while Rev. Bell, the pastor and Sister Jessie Blackwell, assures us of a royal reception. Rev. Jerry Johnson of Joppa, the Free Baptist preacher who was shot in Fulton, Ky., a few weeks ago is still living. I am still with you in the School book and Millinery business and earnestly solicit your patron- age. I will treat you right. RHEUMATIC SUFFERERS GIVEN QUICK RELIEF RHEUMATIC SUFFERERS GIVEN QUICK RELIEF TEXAS BORN PRAIRIE DROPS Absolutely Pure TEXAS BORN PRAIRIE TWO & FIVE BOTTLES WITH A BOTTLE OF MINT MINT MINT Pain leaves almost as if by magic when you begin using "5-Drops," the famous cold remedy for Rheumatism, Lumbago, Gout, Sciatica, Neuroalgia and kindred troubles. It goes right to the spot, stops the aches and pains and makes life worth living. Get a bottle of "5-Drops" today. A booklet with each bottle gives full directions for use. Don't delay. Demand "5-Drops." Don't accept anything else in place of it. Any drugs. gist can supply you. If you live too far from a drug store send One Dollar to Swanson Rhematic Cure Co., Newark, Ohio, and a bottle of "5-Drops" will be sent prepaid. Livingston Institute Second Session Opens Monday This school is well graded in Department. All work is well tuned and able Instructors, select work Special Courses in M and in Theology. Entrance Fee $2.00 Tuition Rates: Tuition per month Tuition, Normal and English or Tuition, Instrumental music (i.e. Tuition Typewriting (including Tuition Plain Sewing per month Tuition, Vocal music Tuition Printing Industrial Department per month. Printing Free Board and Rooms ible rate. In every case, 4 weeks will All charges must be paid in an 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 Entrance Fee $2.00 a Session S. BARTLETT KERR, Solicitor. Administrator Sale of Real Estate. By virtue of an order and decree of the County Court of Massacre County, Illinois, made on the petition 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 forenoon 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 Soutwest fourth of the Southeast quarter of Section twenty-one (21) in Township Fifteen (15) south Range Four (4) east, 2d P. M., in Massacre County, Illinois, on the following terms, to-wit: Cash in hand. Dated this 1914 day of October A. D. 1914 F. W. BORMANN, Administrator of the Estate of Henry Minkerman, Deceased. 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. The rainfall of a village among the hills of Assam, during the ten weeks from May 1 to July 9 this year, was 250 inches. The village is Cherrapunjil, the rainstest spot in Asia and presumably in the world. Its annual rainfall is something over 450 inches—say, fifteen times as much as London. Cherrapunjil stands on a plateau, overlooking the plain of Sythea, and it is 4,455 feet above sea level.—Westminster Gazette. Believe Mountains with Dr. Mitter and Photographs 15 dance 31 cues. October 6th 1913 and equipped Grammar School organized under Department used for Special Departmenta Music, Bookkeeping, Shorthand Type Writing, Bible Study a Session in. 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