Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE Publication Notice. In the Circuit Court, April Term, A.D. 1915. Henry Johnson, vs. Lizzie Henderson Johnson. In Chancery, Bill for Divorce. Affidavit of the non-residence of Lizzie Henderson Johnson, the above defendant having been filed in the Clerk's office of the Circuit Court of said County, notice is hereby given to the said non-resident defendant that the complainant filed his bill of complaint in Court, on the Chancery side thereof, on the 8th day of March 1915 and that thereupon a summons issued out of said Court, wherein said suit is now pending returnable on the Second Monday in the month of April 1815 as is by law required. Now, unless you, the said non-resident defendant above named Lizzie Henderson Johnson, shall personally be and appear before said Circuit Court, on the first day of the next term thereof, to be holden at Metropolis in and for the said County, on the Second Monday April 1915 and plead, answer or demur to the said complainant's bill of complaint, the same and the matters and things therein charged end stated will be taken as confessed, and a decree entered against you according to the prayer of said bill. ARTHUR H. FIRLEY, Clerk. Massac County Illinois, March 8th 1915. NOTICE. The Mt. Olive Baptist Executive Board will meet with the Shiloh Baptist church, Future City Thursday before the 3rd Sunday in March. Please take notice and be governed accordingly. We ask every members of the Board to be present as there is some important business to transact. We ask every church to send np one dollar for our school; our missionary and our paper. We know that times are hard but these things must be kept up and looked after. The Mount Pleasant Baptist church, Harrisburg, could not take the Board. Come prepared to do your full duty for the cause. Our Livingston is now open with a competent young man in charge and to make this school what it should be, we need your cooperation. Yours in Christ, D. Parrish, D. D., Moderator. J. B. McCrary, Sec'y. JOPPA The were services all day at the Missionary Baptist church Sunday it being our pastors day Rev Jerry Johnson is not improving fast The Ladies Aid Society is getting along nicely on the church. They met at the residence of Mrs. Ollie Aker Monday afternoon, there was quite a number present After business we were invited into the cozy dining room where a three course lunch was served. THE MENU: 1st COURSE. Salmon Croquette, Pickles. 2nd COURSE. Ice Cream. Chocolate Cake. 3rd COURSE. Fruit ```markdown ``` Mrs. Levy Williams and Mrs. Viola Williams were visiting in Paducah, last week. Mr. George Brown was visiting his sisters last week Mrs. Mamie Taylor, Mrs Ethel Crigler and Mrs Charles Rhodes of Joppa. He will leave in a few days for West Baden Ind. to join the baseball team at that place where he is known as a star center fielder. CARBONDALE The services of Rock Hill Baptist church were well attended Sunday. Sunday morning Rev. Norment beautifully illustrated to us the 6th chapter of Nehemiah and 3rd verse which read as follows: And I sent messengers unto them saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down why should the work cease, whilst I leave it and come down to you? Sunday afternoon he preached preached at the Hopewell Baptist the text being Rev. 1:18 in the evening he preached from 2 Tim. 3:1. Mr. W D. Parran who has been indisposed is able to be out again. Mrs. M. J. Allen, a teacher of the Dewmaire Public School spent a few days with her mother Mrs. J. C. Craigwell. Martha Louise the 6 month old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Duncan died Saturday morning March 13 after two days illness. Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon, Rev. Dorsey officiating. Mesdames Annie and Ida Porter of Metropolis, were visitors of this city last week and they spent several hours with Rev. Norment and wife. Miss Clara Clarkson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Clarkson, is quite ill. Mr. Ira Valentine of Murphy-boro, was in the city Monday on account of the death of of Little Martha Louise Duncan. Rev. C. W. Norment, left Monday morning for Golconda, where he will carry on a meeting. E. B. Taylor. TAMMS. We are having much success with our S. S. Sister Mary Watson raised $3. 35 for the S. S Mr. Ed Snofner is still confined to his bed. Dr. J. S. Donaldson of Daton Ohio delivered a fine talk on the progress of our race. He is to speak again Thursday night. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Bolen wishes to thank those who cheerfully gave them when their home was destroyed by fire. They saved nothing. SHAWNEETOWN Dear editor: Please allow space in your paper for this article Rev. G. W. Braddock, of Md City closed a very successful revival here Sunday night. Rev. Braddock preached some MOTTO : "HEW TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY." strong gospel sermons. He broke the record here. The church want Rev Braddock to baptize for them, and he promised to do so, and you know what else we want? we want Rev. Braddock made several friends in our town, and we promised to pray for him wherever he goes. Mound City High School Accredit Principal John W Ware received this past week a certificate signed by President E. J. James and registrar C. M. McConn, stating that our high school, having been duly examined and approved, has been admitted by the faculty of the University of Illinois to its list of accredited schools and that people who are graduates of said school may be admitted to the University without examination, while certificate lasts. This certainly speaks well for the quality of service being rendered by the present faculty of our city school, and the liberal equipment in apparatus and other facilities on the part of the Board of Education in bringing our school system up to this recognized standard of efficiency.—Ex. NOTICE. To the Baptist women of the State of Illinois, after extending to yo my congratulations and greetings for tee New Year 1915, this little note tomes to you from the General Missionary Baptist State Association of Illinois, through her corresponding secretary, informing you that we feel very keenly the mistake we made last October by notifying and organizing the Women's department of our State Association. But, since the mill never grinds with water that is passed, we will forget those things are passed, and press forward to the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Since the organization of the General Missionary Baptist State Association at Mt. Vernon, Illinois, October 1914 it has been my pleasure to travel from one end of the state to other, and we find that the women of our Baptist Zion are getting their eyes open to the fact, that we need a real sure enough Woman's General Missionary Baptist State Association. And since it is, and always has been my disposition to give honor to whom honor is due, I wish to take time and space enough right here, to dash one bouquet if no more, at our original president of Women's State Convention in the person of sister K. L. Cosby. She gave her her word while I was in Chicago, November last, that she was a Baptist, not in name only, but in reality, and cast her lot with them who proved that they were earnestly contending for the Faith, first delivered to the saints. Now, that sister Cosby, and her like-minded Baptist sisters may have an opportunity to help us to earnestly tontend for the Eaith; at our State meeting when convened next May 1915, at Centralia; when we will organize a Women's General Missionary Baptist State Association. Great preparation is being made for that great coming meeting next May, at Centralia Illinois. We are looking for our Baptist women from the North, from the West and from the East. our Baptist women in (this) the Southern part of the state, are wateeing the possession of our Baptist Zion, while the ministers and deacons and laymen are fighting and contending for the Faith once delivered to the saints, and instead of this host of Baptist women fainting at the clouds that have been darkening the havens since last June, in the hottest battle, and the darkest hour, these women have been heard sining to Dr's. Phillips, Dorsey, McWilliams, Starks, Allison, Knowles, Parrish, Armstead, and others who are taking care of, and cultivating this Baptist (State) field, and their song is Hold the fort for we are coming, and John F. Thomas will be in the chair, and all of us Baptist women, sisters? Cosby, Anderson, Bates, Phillips, Bled. sce, O'Conner and others will be there in May. By the grace of God we will there. I am yours for the Women's Generaj Missionary Baptist State Association of the state of Illinois. . W, P. Washington, Correspnding Secretary of the Genr'l. Missionary Baptist State Association of the State of Illinois. PRODIGAL BEAU RETURNS. Declares That He Will Be Good! Some time ago a "Thorn" living on the corner of 7th & Broadway thought that he would get out and have time of his life with the "Roses" that grew outside of his garden, and begun with paying too much attention to a fair "rose" on lower Vienna Street when by some means the regular "rose" got in the wind of it and made things pretty lively for him, the result being that his "boots" were cut off and sandals placed instead, alto the "thorn" did not protest as he thought he had things his way, but the worse was yet to come. Finding out that the "rose" had quit him the "roses" all began to scorn him and stopped speaking to him as they will do a person when he is down and out realizing his deleimia he came to himself and says I will arise and go back home. So he started back on Wednesday night the 10th. He told her that he knew he had done wrong and that he was sorry but if she would allow him to come back that he would be good and do better and farther still that he would love her. Taking all these things under consideration together with that intense love she had for him her very heart melted within her, and could not bear the idea of losing him forever so they kissed and made up. He is now what he used to be "Sweet Papa." DEWMAINE Dear editor:— Please allow space to say a few words. Rev. F. Douglass was with his people Sunday. We hope that Rev. C. C. Phillips will be able to be with his flock the 3rd Sunday. No. 1 and 2 Clubs are working faithful for the rally the rhird Sunday Mrs. Azzie Johnson is over here visiting her mother Mrs. A. Spears. Mrs. Irene Russell was a Murphysboro visitor Saturday, Mrs. Martha Phillips of Pulaski, is here visiting her children. Those among the sick are: Mrs. H. Prentice, Mrs. Davis and Mrs. L. Huggins. Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Parran has lost their 2 yr. and 8 months old child. The family have our sympathy. NOTICE. The East Mt. Olive Baptist Executive Board will hold it 2nd quarterly meeting with the Paup Meals:-Hot and Cold Lunches on short order When in the city or enroute North or South give me a call. Ice Cream, Cold Soda of the purest and best make. James Robinson Proprietor. A NEW DISCOVERY THE GREAT NATIVE SALVE CURE DISCOVERED MAY 30th 1909 BY W. H. BEAN, Muskogee, Oklahoma THE GREAT NATIVE SALVE CURE was discovered 3,500 feet down in the earth. Positively no other ingredients have been mixed with it at all. THE GREAT NATIVE SALVE Cures Rheumatism, Piles, Kidney Troubles. Female Troubles, Stiff Joints, Syphilitic of All Description, Indigestion, Corns, Bunions, Loss of Manhood, All kinds of swelling and Fever, Neuralgia, Worms in children, All kinds of Skin Diseases, Mumps, Diptheria, Weak Eyes, All Kinds of Pain, Burns, Frosted Feet, PNEUMONIA, Etc. DIRECTIONS FOR USING EXTERNAL USE ONLY Take a certain quantity and rub it thoroughly into the skin. We self a box of THE GREAT NATURAL remedy that will SURELY cure y Price 50cts Per Box Address-J. B. MC Testim Metropolis, Ill. Fe Dear Sir, I bought a box of the Grapa for myself and wife and can say it Pains and Etc.—Rev. G. W. ROWLETT Carbondale, Ill., Dec. 1914. Rev. J. B. McCrary, Dear of the Great Native Saive have proven some to my friends and they too, re persons here awaiting your arrival. Respectfully yours,—JA Take a certain quantity and put it on where the misery is and rub it thoroughly into the skin. When your Doctor fails, buy yourself a box of THE GREAT NATIVE SALVE CURE, an earthly remedy that will SURELY cure you. Dear Sir, I bought a box of the Great Native Salve of you some time ago for myself and wife and can say it is good for Stiff joints Rheumatism, Pains and Etc.—Rev. G. W. ROWLETT, Metropolis, Illinois. Carbondale, Ill., Dec. 1914. Rev. J. B. McCrary, Dear Friend, I wish to say that the 5 boxes of the Great Native Salve have proved a blessing to me. I have given out some to my friends and they too, recommend it highly. I have several persons here awaiting your arrival. Respectfully yours,—JAMES ROBERSON, Carbondale, Ill. Chapel Baptist church Marion, Ill., of which Rev. A Chaais, is pastor. It will convene Thursday before the 4th Sunday in March. All members are requested to be present. Yours in Christ. W. P. Washington, D. D. Moderator, A H. Bradley, Cor, Sec'y. Hereafter any church paying missionary dues to any minister not having credentials from Rev. J. H. Knowles, who was elected Supt. of Missions by the Mt. Olive Baptist Association, will not be credited by the missionary nor the association. So be governed accordingly. Rev. Knowles was empowered at the Board meeting at Sparta, to use any of the ministers he saw fit to assist him in the mission work and they will have credentials when coming to your church. So ask them to "Show you". To the Ministers, Deacons and Members composing the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association. NOTICE. Metropolis, Illinois. The Executive Board of the Mt Olive Baptist Association will meet in its second quarterly meeting with the Mt Pleasant Baptist church Harrisburg, Thursday before the 3rd Sunday in March. Much business of importance to be transacted. Every officer is expected to be at his post. Let every church send up $1.00 for expenses. The school will have been opened and we need money. Yours in Christ. D. Parrish, D. D., Moderator. Secret of Influence Force, fervor, intensity—these are the qualities which have given their power to great leaders in all the movements by which the world has been swayed. Sometimes they have been present in men who left so little written memorial or whose efforts were folled by adverse circumstances that we can note only the fact that they must have been remarkable because their contemporaries admired and followed them. They possessed the secret of influence, though we can not tell how they manifested it. They are among the riddles of history. Chambers' Journal. Matter of Fact "Mine is a trying situation," remarked Beatrice Bustle, the beautiful cloak model.—Minnesota Minne-ha-ha. MEAT CLOGS, KIDNEYS THEN YOUR BACK HURTS Take a Glass of Salts to Flush Kidneys If Bladder Bothers You—Drink, Lots of Water. No man or woman who eats meat regularly can make a mistake by flushing the kidneys occasionally, says a well-known authority. Meat forms uric acid which excites the kidneys, they become overworked from the strain, get sluggish and fail to filter the waste and poisons from the blood, then we get sick. Nearly all rheumatism, headaches, liver trouble, nervousness, dizziness, sleeplessness and urinary disorders come from sluggish kidneys. The moment you feel a dull ache in the kidneys or your back hurts or if the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of sediment, irregular of passage or attended by a sensation of scalding, stop eating meat and get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any pharmacy; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast and in a few days your kidneys will act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to flush and stimulate the kidneys, also to neutralize the acids in urine so it no longer causes irritation, thus ending bladder weakness. Jad Salts is inexpensive and cannot injure; makes a delightful effervescent lithia-water drink which everyone should take now and then to keep the kidneys clean and active and the blood pure, thereby avoiding serious kidney complications.—Adv. No Task for Tyros One of the men at the front has told us how he tried to milk a cow—without the expected result. This is not an easy task for an unpracticed hand. Leslie Stephen was once on a long tramp in Switzerland, accompanied by his friend, Doctor Morgan. They missed their way and found themselves, parched and hungry, far from any dwelling place. At length they came across a cow, from whom they determined to extract some nourishment, each holding on to her horns in turn, they had to abandon all hopes of milk. This, remarks Doctor Morgan, is "one of the very few occasions on which I ever saw Stephen fairly thwarted." Much More Cheerful "A scientist says that the sun will never cool off." "I'm very glad to hear that." "What difference does it make to you who will be dead millions of years before anything of the sort could happen, anyhow?" "Well, it's more cheerful to think of this old world, so good in spite of all its faults, rolling along through the sunshine 30,000,000 years from now, with a warm, throbbing load of human freight, than to picture it a desolate ball of ice plunging through eternal darkness." That Cured Him. You should have seen the way Wurtles moaned over his petty ailments. He was one of those chaps who were always bewailing their ill state of health, when all that is really the matter with them is the need of a little lecturing. "Oh, my chest, doctor!" he wailed to his physician one evening. "My lungs feel so compressed. Some people tell me to inhale sulphur fumes. Others recommend a seaside holiday. What would you advise me to do?" "Try fresh air," said the doctor shortly. "Five dollars, please." Smallpox Stamped Out Of 2,164 deaths in the great epidemic in Montreal 85 per cent were of children under ten years. It is estimated that 60,000,000 persons died of smallpox in Europe in the eighteenth century. The disease is practically stamped out now in civilized countries. Doctor Rotch reports that in Boston in 15 years there has been no death from smallpox in children vaccinated. THE DOCTOR'S WIFE Agrees With Him About Food. A trained nurse says: "In the prairie of my profession I have found so many points in favor of Grape-Nuts food that I unhesitatingly recommend it to all my patients. "It is delicate and pleasing to the palate (an essential in food for the sick) and can be adapted to all ages, being softened with milk or cream for babies or the aged when deficiency of teeth renders mastication impossible. For fever patients or those on liquid diet I find Grape-Nuts and albumen water very nourishing and refreshing. "This recipe is my own idea and is made as follows: Soak a teaspoonful of Grape-Nuts in a glass of water for an hour, strain and serve with the beaten white of an egg and a spoonful of fruit juice for flavouring. This affords a great deal of nourishment that even the weakest stomach can assimilate without any distress. "My husband is a physician and he uses Grape-Nuts himself and orders it many times for his patients. "Personally I regard a dish of Grape-Nuts with fresh or stewed fruit as the ideal breakfast for anyone—well or sick." In stomach trouble, nervous prostration, etc., a 10-day trial of Grape-Nuts will usually work wonders toward purishing and rebuilding and in this way end the trouble. Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Look in piks, for the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. You are require, true, and full of human HER FINAL EFFORT Outdid All Her Former Successes as Matchmaker Extraordinary By LAWRENCE ALFRED CLAY. (Copyright, 1955, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) It was said of Aunt Mary Baker of Wellsville, shortly before she died at a good old age, that she had made more matrimonial matches than any five women in the state combined. She was only thirty-five years of age when her husband died, and instead of looking solemn for a year and then marrying again, which she could have done, she said to herself: "No no. There is work to be done "No, no. There is work to be done and my mission shall be to do it." Did she mean that she was going into the cause of temperance? That she was going to smash show windows and set houses afire in the cause of woman's rights? That she was going to work up a taste for mutton instead of missionary in the cannibal islands? That she was going to furnish a hundred bucksaws and a like number of sawbuks and coax the tramps of America to take off their coats and get up a sweat? Nothing of the sort. She wasn't even going to give a turkey dinner to one hundred poor families and give half of them a colic from overeating. Aunt Mary's mission was to be the bringing together of loving hearts and stand by them until a minister had made one heart out of the two. The hearts wouldn't be loving hearts exactly until brought face to face, as it were. They would first be lonely and discouraged hearts. She didn't propose to meddle with the male and female who stood a fair chance with their natural attractions, but to search out those on whom nature had vented her spite by giving them homely faces, lop shoulders, protruding teeth, bowlegs and other handicaps. It was not only a merciful mission, but a glorious one. Aunt Mary was called home at the age of seventy-two, and the number of matches she had arranged since she took up the business averaged two per year. She lived with relatives, who found no fault with her whim, and she drove about the country with an old horse and buggy looking for despairing hearts, Many a widow would have been glad of her assistance, but she would not give it. When she had heard of a homeless old maid, living from five to twenty miles away, Aunt Mary would drive to the address and introduce herself. "I have come to arrange a marriage for you." "But I am so homely that no man ever even walked home from prayer meeting with me," might be the reply. "Yes, you are very, very homely, but I hope to find a husband for you. He will be as homely as you are, but you must expect that. Homely men and women make the best husbands and wives. You look to me to be a good-hearted woman." "They say I am." "Good at housework?" "I am told so." "How about romance?" "I've got over expecting a prince to come along." "And the age is about thirty-five?" "About that, but this is making a business of getting married, isn't it?" "My dear," replied Aunt Mary, "if you were only eighteen you would fall in love with a young man because he wore a cute necktie. A youth of twenty would fall in love with you because you sang alto. To make a sensible marriage you must mingle business with it, at least enough to know how the first month's rent is to be paid." "But who is the man?" would be asked. "I don't know yet, but I shall find one for you." And good Aunt Mary would go driving about the country asking: "Do you happen to know of a homely widower or old batch?" "How homely must he be?" "Well, homely enough to scare a cow out of the road. If he isn't so very homely in the face then he must have bowlegs and be humpbacked." And she would hear of a man that might fill the bill, and she would trail him down and talk to him, and it generally ended in a marriage. It was said that she had only three failures in all those years, and one of them because an old maid fell into a well and froze to death. At length Aunt Mary set out to make her last match. She didn't know that it was to be her last, but she realized that she had grown old. She had run across an old forty-year-old that for homeliness beat all who had gone before. She took a sensible view of the situation, however. "With my homely face I could not expect a man to marry me unless he wanted to exhibit me as a side show freak," the maid admitted. "Then you are aware of your looks?" "When I can drive the pigs out of the garden by merely showing my face at a broken window pane, hadn't I ought to be aware?" "But it isn't the handsomest wife that makes home the happiest. Nature gives every man and woman a feeling that they want a home. Even the birds have that feeling—a homely bird as well as a handsome one. Some man is waiting for you to help make a home." "Ther he'd better hurry up before the Judgment day arrives!" laughed the old maid. As Aunt Mary had about resolved that this should be her last case, and as her eyes told her that this was the homeliest woman in the United States, her pride as a match-maker was aroused. She had heard of an extraordinarily homely man fifty miles away, and started to drive there. When twenty miles from home she met a man in a buggy and he called out to her: "Hello, Aunt Mary—I was bound for your house." "Wanted to see me, eh?" Wanted to see me. "I did and do. Two years ago I married a girl for her good looks. She didn't know as much as a cat about housework, and she was bad tempered and lazy. In six months she eloped with a drummer." "And you pursued them and killed him?" queried Aunt Mary. "Well, I never heard that I did. If I had pursued it would have been to thank them both! I applied for a divorce instead and got it." "And now you want another wife?" "Yes, but not a good-looking one. I don't want her even plain looking. Indeed, I want her homely." "My mission, as you know, has been to bring two homely people together, but—" "I want you to make an exception in my case. I am a farmer, and live at the crossing of two prominent highways. There is not an hour in the day that a tin peddler, chicken buyer or agent of some sort or other is not calling to chin with the wife. I know that the one who ran away with the drummer had sixteen offers to elope before he came along." "And you want a wife that will scare everybody away?" "That's it." "Well, I have on hand and ready for immediate delivery an old maid that will either delight your heart or scare you out of the county. I have seen the homelest in the land, and she takes the medal over all." "Has she lost a leg or an arm?" "No." "No." "Good-tempered?" "A homely woman invariably is." "Know how to bake beans." "I am sure she is a good house-keeper." "One more question," said the man. "Does she snore?" "I will guarantee that she does not." He then told Aunt Mary all she wanted to know and repeat to the other party, and a date was arranged for the meeting. "Remember, if she isn't mightly homely it's no marriage!" warned the man as they parted. "You'll have to go to Africa to find a homelier one!" laughed Aunt Mary. The date came for the meeting. The man was on time. Aunt Mary was there to make the introduction. The couple shook hands and then stood back and looked at each other. A shade of disappointment settled on each face. Aunt Mary was quick to observe it. "Well, isn't she homely enough?" "Why, she's a good-looking woman," was the reply. "You led me to believe that she was a fright to see." "And she led me to believe that you were a fine looking man!" added the old maid. Aunt Mary sat down from the weakness of her knees. She had never met such a case before. Three or four minutes went past and then she loosened a bit of pink ribbon pinned to a curtain and held it up. "What's the color?" "Green!" was the prompt reply of one. "Blue!" was promptly replied by the other. Aunt Mary was saved. They were color blind. "Well, I did want a fine looking husband," said the old maid, "but they say a man with a face like a squash is always a good man." "And I didn't want another handsome wife, but I'm no kicker," added the man. "T'll get a shotgun and a buldog, and I guess we can keep the fellers away." They had the thing turned about, but they married and have lived very happily, but the husband wonders now and then why even a chicken buyer never calls at the house. Wastage and the Consumer. Wastage and the Consumer. Oursupply cuts prices, especially when the product is perishable. But, the glutting of city markets with country produce does not lower the cost of living. On the contrary, the consumer pays for the necessary wastage. Co-operation among farmers and co-ordination in distribution is therefore as much to the advantage of the city dweller as of the producer. This is the moral pointed by Doctor Meeker before the American Economic association. The unorganized condition of the farming industry is one of the causes of the high cost of living. The agricultural departments of nation and state are busy teaching the farmer how to raise bigger crops, how to secure better yields of garden truck. This alone is teaching him how to lose more money and how to increase the cost of living in the city. When these governmental agencies teach the farmers how to market their crops we will have the apparent contradiction of higher profits for the farmer and lower cost of living for the city folk.—New York Evening Mail. What It Amounts To. Lawyer—So you want to start divorce proceedings against your husband? On what grounds? Client—Incompatibility, artistic temperament and psychic cruelty. Lawyer—In other words, your husband is not making enough money to suit you?—Puck. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS One of the very important phases of the work of the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth is a summer school, held for the rural school teachers during July of each year. To this come about a hundred teachers from the rural districts, men and women, who are heart and soul in the work. Some of these teachers are well trained and competent, but the greater number are wholly unfit to teach. Many have had no training above fifth grade, and often can only read and write with great difficulty. During the winter of teaching, they often have to travel many miles to their school houses, which are usually meager dilapidated frame buildings, neither wind nor rain-proof, where they are compelled to teach all grades and ages in one room. For this they receive pitifully small salaries, and if they want to add any special work over the regular curriculum, the pennies of the children, with a share of their own small income, are forced to meet the added expense. They must find enough inspiration during this one short month at the summer school to carry them through their trying winter. The state of Virginia contributes to the work. Besides this summer school, there is held for these rural teachers of northern Virginia, a Teachers' institute during the Christmas holidays, where all questions relating to school life and work are discussed by prominent speakers, as well as general discussions on subjects of school hygiene and teaching methods. There is no doubt that the work accomplished by the school, both in its training of the children and in the broader field of its community work, is of vital importance to the people of northern Virginia—not alone to the colored man, but to the white man as well. That the white man fully realizes this can be judged by the fact that the mayor of Manassas says that the colored community all love and work for the school, and forget to get drunk and get into jail. One mayor told a friend of the school, some years ago, that he attributed his empty jail to the influence of the Manassas Industrial school. The great financial stress confronting this country on account of the European war, and the diverting into foreign channels of much of the support which in ordinary years goes to our own philanthropies, has forced Manassas, as well as other schools of this type, into a very difficult position. The vitality of this work is too strong to let it die, but if the struggle for existence becomes too great, the work must suffer. There is danger of the crippling of one of our most valuable institutions, which has only gained power for good through years of untiring effort and sacrifice. White citizens of South Carolina have contributed $10,000 for a hospital for Negroes, to be erected at Columbia. There are 75,000 colored people in the state who are without hospitals where they can go for treatment, as the hospitals for white people do not admit them. In Kansas 17 per cent of the women are married, 14 per cent separated, divorced or widowed, and 69 per cent are unmarried girls. Fifty-four women have received medals and rewards for heroism from the Carnegie Hero Fund commission during the past ten years. Although the most intelligent, leaders of the race are proud of the folk-lore songs as the rhythmic cry of the slave, there are those who feel ashamed of them because they hark back to the days of ignorance, superstition and childlike trust. Doctor Du-Bois says of them: "They are the music of unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of the death and sufferings and unvoiced longings toward a truer world of misty wanderings and hidden ways. They are the most beautiful expression of human experience born this side of the seas." Special emphasis is placed on these songs in all the southern colored schools, especially in Tuskegee, Hampton, Spellman and Fiske university, to which the Negro folk-lore will always be indebted for its revival. The Fiske jubilee singers sang the slave songs so deeply into the hearts of a half-credulous world that it can never wholly forget them again. Flifty St. Louis women have formed a league with the object of cleaning up that city of rats. The Henry S. Denison memorial building for medical research at the University of Colorado has now been made ready for use. It contains laboratories for research in bacteriology, pathology, physiology, chemistry and clinical methods. Spain has just given assurances to the officials of the Panama-Pacific International exposition that her participation in the exposition will proceed according to original plans, and that the war will have no effect on Spanish participation. The New Jersey state board of education decided that the Bordentown Industrial School for Colored Youths shall be made an industrial institution in fact and not merely a school for the academic training of Negro residents of the state. Contemporaneously with this decision the board accepted the resignations of James M. Gregory, principal of the New Jersey school; Mrs. Gregory, the matron, or preceptress, and J. Francis Gregory, teacher of English. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory had been associated with the school for 18 years, or practically since its inception. Both admitted that, although they had been trained to teach academic branches they did not feel equipped to care for the needs of a purely agricultural and mechanical arts school. Attempts to choose a successor to Principal Gregory precipitated a wrangle in the board and the matter was laid over for a month. The committee on the Bordentown school recommended the selection of William R. Valentine, a Negro educator of Indianapolis, who was graduated from Harvard in 1904. He is now a supervising principal, having charge of a number of schools, and for three years has been vice-president of the National Education Association for Colored Teachers. Former Senator Joseph S. Frelinghuysen and John P. Murray thought that more than one name should be presented for consideration. He also advocated making the selection from Tuskegee institute with a view of bringing the Bordentown school into closer touch with Booker T. Washington and his associate educators. The committee was disposed to resent the comment of the objecting members as a reflection upon its judgment. The Bordentown school, as recently brought to public attention, has been an object of serious criticism for its seeming failure to accomplish the aims for which it was established. In short the industrial features, including agriculture and the mechanical arts, were subordinated to the teaching of academic subjects. The situation is to be exactly reversed, according to the plans for the future outlined by the state board. Never to have had instruction in art and yet ability to paint well enough to have a picture hung at the Charcoal club's exhibit in the Peabody institute at Baltimore, is the fortune of Ernest Atkinson, a Negro porter. "It must be natural instinct," said Atkinson, "for I never had any instruction and never saw an artist work. I just studied other paintings, and what I observed in other paintings I applied to my own work." Atkinson is twenty-eight years old and was born in Kingston, Jamala, where he lived until eight years ago. He then took to the sea and it is to his memory of those years that enabled him to reproduce his present work. His work is an ocean scene, showing the waves breaking against the shore and two boats in the background, one beating against the wind and the other running before it. His talent was first discovered by Charles H. Webb, an instructor in the Maryland institute, when he was asked to criticize one of Atkinson's paintings. Mr. Webb was astonished at the skill shown, and suggested that it be submitted to the Charcoal club's exhibition. It was submitted without any name on it, and was one of the 82 selected out of the 210 offered. Talk of cutting down next year's cotton acreage in the South—which may be an economic necessity—comes largely from white planters. What the mass of poor Negro tenant farmers will do is a distressing problem, as Booker T. Washington has said. They have never been taught to plant any crop but cotton, and the system under which they borrow money in the spring to carry them and their families until the harvest is based on cotton growing exclusively. If many of them cannot plant cotton in the coming year they will be idle and plunged into the deepest poverty. The North now has its une-ployed; the South may have a horde of Negroes to look after before the end of 1915.—Springfield Republican. Mrs. Mary S. Howarth of Chester, Pa., just admitted to practice in the supreme court of Pennsylvania, is the first woman in that state to be so honored. Corsets worn by the women on the islands of Malayasia are made of telegraph wires. Bakers in Rotterdam have started to make bread composed of equal parts of flour and potato. They like it. Potatoes there are cheaper than wheat flour. Dr. M. D. Edwards of St. Paul has served 40 years as pastor of Dayton Avenue Presbyterian church, his first and only pastorate. More than 46,000,000 bunches of bananas were imported into the United States last year, or about 40 bananas for each man, woman and child. BILIOUS, HEADACHY SICK "CASCARETS" Gently cleanse your liver and sluggish bowels while you sleep. Get a 10-cent box. Sick headache, biliousness, dizziness, coated tongue, foul taste and foul breath—always trace them to torpid liver; delayed, fermenting food in the bowels or sour, gassy stomach. Poisonous matter clogged in the intestines, instead of being cast out of the system is re-absorbed into the blood. When this poison reaches the delicate brain tissue it causes congestion and that dull, throbbing, sickening headache. Cascarets immediately cleanse the stomach, remove the sour, undigested food and foul gases, take the excess oil from the liver and carry out all the constipated waste matter and poisons in the bowels. A Cascaret to-night will surely straighten you out by morning. They work while you sleep—a 10-cent box from your druggist means your head clear, stomach sweet and your liver and bowels regular for months. Adv. Safety First. John Sharp Williams stepped out of the senate chamber in response to the card of Bob Gates, who is a Washington correspondent of distinguished appearance and much political sapien. Bob asked him a number of questions and then, in parting, he asked: "By the way, Senator, have you got a good cigar about you?"—putting the request under the head of unfinished business. "No, I haven't but one left—and I just now bit the end off it preparatory to lighting it," replied John Sharp. "If I'd just been a minute or two sooner—" suggested Bob. "Not exactly," called the senator. "The fact, is, when I started out here I bit the end off the cigar just for fear you might ask for it." 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"I am almost in despair about my condition," somberly stated Alexander Akenside, the well known dyspeptic. "I cannot seem to find anything that will help me. My stomach—" "I doubt there being any help for you. Ellick," interrupted Sanford Merton, a pessimistic person. "But if you would have your stomachic symptoms deleted by a competent censor it would relieve the rest of us mightily."—Puck. Two Viewpoints. "Alas!" sighed the writer. "If I did not have such a large family making daily demands on me what master-pieces I could write and what wealth I could win." "It's tough working all alone," sighed the writer across the way. "If I only had a family to work for and to make effort worth while, what might things with the pen I could accomplish!"—Judge. Hard to Decide. Proudley—If Dobleigh has finished his painting, why doesn't he send it to the exhibition and let people see it? Emmerley—Because he's in a quandary about giving it a name. Some of his friends want him to enter it as 'The Falls of Niagara' and others advise him to turn the canvas upside down and call it 'A Yellowstone Park Geyser.'"—Puck. On the River Styx "Something wrong here," said Charon to himself after collecting the tickets on his ferry boat. "There are eight passengers on board and I've only seven tickets. It looks like I was getting a shade the worst of it this trip." A STRANGE COINCIDENCE. UNCLE TOMS CADIM GARDEN ANIMAL GREAT SHOW 10 20 30 Barnes Tormer—In the piece we play tonight the scene is laid about the time of the Spanish war. Hiram Subbubbs—Yep, and the eggs the boys have been buyin' up was laid about the same time. E Pluribus Unum. Hinkedink—Doctor Digglewig is a specialist, isn't he? Plunkelunk—Yes. He has two specialties. Hinkedink—What are they? Plunkelunk — Consultations and fees. A Plum. Madge—How is Dolly getting on in politics? Marjorie—Fine! A rich brother Socialist is going to marry her and let her spend all his money.—Judge. Natural Reduction Holax—I guess he is; at least he is never round when wanted. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS, ILL SPLENDID WHILE THEY LAST New Year Resolutions Are Good Things, Provided They Are Not of the Priggish Assortment. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, at a tea at the Acorn club in Philadelphia, said of New Year resolutions: "They are splendid things—provided, of course, that they're not priggish. There's a type of girl that leans to priggish resolutions. "In my childhood, I remember, a little girl came to play with me about New Year's time who was simply insufferable. "What's the matter with her? I asked. "Oh,' said another little girl, 'she's keeping all her New Year resolutions, but she'll be all right again in a day or so." Scattered Remarks When the fat plumber met his friend the thin carpenter he grinned and said: "Saw a queer accident yesterday morning." "What was it?" the carpenter asked. "Professor Diggendelve was crossing the street with the manuscript of his lecture in his hand when an automobile bumped into him and scattered his notes all over the street." "Was the professor hurt much?" "No, but he was knocked speechless." A SMALL ONE. Knight Stands—I want you to understand that I am star of this company. Howell Rant—You may be billed as a star, but you couldn't be found by a Lick telescope. Enlargement of the Pocketbook Two Manhattan physicians were enjoying the breeze from the front seat on the "hurricane deck" of a Riverside drive bus one sultry afternoon when part of their conversation was overheard. It ran like this: "I performed an operation for appendicitis on the wife of a millionaire yesterday," sand the stouter of the pair. "Yes," said the other. "What was she suffering from?" Unselfish. They had just been married and were about to start on their wedding trip. As is the custom with bride-grooms, he was embarrassed to the point of forgetfulness, but he met the situation like an expert. "Why, Harry, you bought only one ticket," said the bride reproachfully. "Just like me, dear," said Harry quickly; "always forgetting myself." Making Progress. "Briscom is devoting all his time to that new war balloon he thinks he has invented." "How far has he got?" "Why, yesterday he ripped the roof from two hencoops and a sleeping porch, crashed through a woodshed and a pergola and landed on his neighbor's garage five doors away." Specialized Pity Elderly Unfortunate—Help me, kind lady! Anything you can give? The Kind Lady (who happens to be an antivivisectionist)—Just the thing! I'll give you one of Fifi's old blankets; your poor dog must feel the cold terribly—Puck In the Dentist's Office. "It is queer people get so frightened just about having a tooth pulled." "It is that, especially when you consider they always have their nerve with them." Intrenched. Hickville Stage Hand (to member of visiting "Hamlet" company)—It certainly can't be no fun havin' to play a grave digger night after night. Actor (cheerfully)—Oh, the position is not to be sneered at when a hostile audience starts a bombardment.—Puck. More Strategy. "Call on all the regiments for volunteers with red whiskers." "For what purpose, excellency?" "To lie on their backs and furnish an imitation of fall foliage as an ambush." Change Without Variety. Boarder—Here's a nickel I found in the hash. Landlady—Yes, I put it there. You've been complaining, I understand, about lack of change in your meals. Mollified. Attorney—How old are you, Madam? Witness—Sir! Attorney—Beg your pardon; how much younger are you than the lady next door? Death Lurks In A Weak Heart The United States Wheat Production Admits of 100 Million Bushels for Export. The talk in the press some little time back of placing an embargo on wheat, brought forcibly to the minds of the people of the United States a condition that may at some time in the near future face them. 100 million bushels of an export of wheat means a splendid revenue to the country as well as to the farmer, and if this were assured year after year, there would be reason for considerable congratulation. But last year's magnificent and abundant crop, which was estimated at 891 million bushels, cannot be expected every year. With a home consumption of 775 million bushels, and a production in many years of little more than this, the fact is apparent that at an early date the United States will have to import wheat. It will be then that the people of the United States will be looking to other markets for a supply. And it is then that the value of Western Canada lands will be viewed with considerable favor. The great area of wheat in Canada will then be called upon to provide the greatest portion of the old world's supply, and also, in the opinion of the writer, that of the United States as well. At present there are only about 12 million acres of these lands producing wheat. There are five times that many acres that can be brought under successful cultivation. Apart altogether from the value of these lands as wheat producers there is an increased value to them from the fact that the soil is especially adapted to the growing of many other kinds of grain as well as all manner of cultivated grasses, while the native grasses are a wonderful asset in themselves. The climate is especially favorable to the raising of live stock, such as horses, cattle, sheep and hogs. All these bring into the limelight the adapting into the limelight the adaptability of the soil, the climate and all other necessary conditions, to the carrying on of dairy farming, in a most profitable way. There is no question that high prices for all that the farmer can grow or raise will continue for some years, and this is the great opportune time to take advantage of what Western Canada offers. Lands may be had as a free grant. These are mostly located some little distance from railways at the present time, but sooner or later will be well served by railways that are projected into these districts. Land may also be secured by purchase at reasonable price, and on easy terms from holders of same. In many cases farms partly improved In many cases farms partly improved may be rented. A Winnipeg paper said recently: "Canada wants American immigrants. They make good Canadian citizens." And then speaking of the erroneous impression that has gained some publicity in a portion of the United States press, says: "It cannot be too forcibly impressed upon the American mind that in coming to Canada they place themselves under the freest democracy the world knows. 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Box 107 Metropolis, Illinois. The names and addresses of contrib rors 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 ix 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. Announcements. We are authorized to announce T. F. McCARNEY as a candidate for Mayor of Metropolis, subject to the decision of the voters of the city at the April election next. We are authorized to announce W. H. KARR as a candidate for Mayor of Metropolis, subject to the decision of the voters of the city at the April election next. We are authorized to announce F. H. ROSKMER, as a candidate for Alderman of the First Ward, subject to the decision of the voters of the ward at the April election next. We are authorized to announce JAY C. WILIS, as a candidate for City Treasurer, of Metropolis, subject to the decision of the voters of the city at the April election next. Persons who owe the Gazette would greatly lesson the financial burden of the publishers by remitting at once. 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. Native Salve. We have just recived some more of Native Salve and it is going very fast, those in Carbonand Md. City can secure a box or more now by 50c, per box. Act quick if you want it. Send all orders to Rev. J. B. McCrary. Ordination Licentiate license blanks at the Gazette office. Baptist Women of State Convention. Galesburg, Ill. Dear Sisters-Greeting: This is to notify you that our annual meeting will convene in Rock Island, Ill, in June, McKinley Baptist church. Let us begin to work in earnest for its success. President is calling for five Hundred Dollars (500.00) this year The banner will be given for the largest amount of money brought in. Remember the art and needle work Department for Foreign Mission. Our Educational needs, Aged Minister Fund Home Mission Fund. REPRESENTATION FEES. District Asso. $5.00 five delegates. Local Circles $2.50 three delegates. Life Members $5.00 Children Pands $1.00 Annual Members $ .50 Yours in the work. Susie F. Hazle. 718 Arnold. Subscribe for The Gazette. ```markdown ``` Mrs Maggie Williams, of Eddyville, Ky., is in the city visiting her cousins Mr. and Mrs. John Tossey. Mesdames Ida and Annie Porter, visited Mrs. Carrie Galdwell of Carbondale, last week. Mrs. Carrie Osby, and daughter Icelia visited the former's sister Mrs Essie Daughterty of Brookport last week M s. Cornelia McCallister, arrived in this city last week from St. Louis, Mo., Mr. Wm Moore was in Paducah, Monday to see his wife. Miss Cinda Hodge, is convalescent. Rev. J. M. Blake, who has been very sick since Nov. 7th, with heart trouble occupied the pulpit Sunday at the First Baptist church in the absence of the pastor. He preached a strong gospel sermon Sunday night to a very good audience. Text, "I am not afraid of the gospel." We believe that the Rev. practiced some on the second story of the Livingston the days he was better, because he still carries that old gospel ring with him and knows well how to get shouts and have the visitation of the Holy Spirit. Mrs. Hattie Owens visited in Paducah, Wednesday and Thursday. Rev. Lee R. Crim, of Choat, has moved his family to this city and will reside on 9th and Broadway. We welcome them to our city and neighborhood. Messrs Jas. Baker and Washington Shelton of Brookport were in the city Saturday on business, They paid the editor and family a pleasant call. Rev. Thos. Shelton, of Joppa, preached at the Antioch Baptist church Sunday night to a good audience. Rev. A. A. Crim, of Unionville, pastor of the Free Baptist church this city, was at his post Sunday and preached three strong gospel sermons to his congregation. Messrs George Collins and Jno. Tossey are on the sick list. Mesdames Margaret Tossey and Laura Toombs are on the sick list. Arthur A Tucker visited his family Sunday. Rev. B. C. Long, of Choat, was up Thursday and ordered us to print him 4000 Stawberry tickets. He has One hundred acres of Wheat and 14 acres of Strawberries. He is one of the most successful farmers in the County. Rev. Love of Choat, passed thru the city Saturday. Rev, Thedford was in Mt. Vernon, at his charge Sunday. Mrs. George Wheeler is indisposed this week. Miss Hattie Hayes, of Paducah, Ky., is in the city the guest of Mrs. Lottie Halleck. Little Edna Harmon is on the sick list this week. Mrs. Leah Reed returned home Tuesday from St. Louis, Mo. where she went to attend the bedside of her sister Mrs Maggie Water for mrre than four weeks. Mrs. Waters is convalescent. Mrs. Reed spent Sunday and Monday in East St. Louis, the guest of Mesdames Jno. Jefferson and Wm Buchanan. Frank Delishman of Pulaski, Co., was in the city last week on business. Aaron Long of the Powers district has been quite sick but is much better now. Garrett Tranzor, of Tenn., is in the city visiting his brother Alex Tranzor. Mrs. Minnie Robinson received word Monday that her father Mr. Pete Bradford was dead. He lives down near Boaz, where he owned a good farm. Mr. Henry Bonds has been quite sick with tonsilitis. N. W Long was in Brookport, on business Monday. Mrs. Lucy Brown was in Brookport last week visiting her daughter Mrs. Irene Haynes. Rev J. B. McCrary, is in Md. City this week, Miss Mary Lou Black well, who has been making Paris, Ill, the last few years is at home visiting her parents. AGENTS—It's new—your opportu- nity. We trust you to $3.60 worth Starr's Powdered Enamel. Repairs chipped and rusty spots on granitware. Stops all leaky metalware without heat, soldering iron or tools. Agents coining money. Sample with particulars, 10c. Starr, 1910 Monroe St., Toledo O. U. S. A. The men here dont seem to know that prize fighting is not allowed between the two sex, for they are forever donning the gloves with the fair sex. For Groceries and cold drinks go the First or Last Chance Grocery on 9th and Pearl Sts. Monday night at the First Baptist church, the Church Aid Society met with a good attendance Mrs, L. B. Dukes presiding. The program was rendered to the delight of all present. The debate "Resolved that Women are the better factor than Men for training boys and girls" was well debated by Messrs. Shannon and Townsley affirmatives Edgar McCrary and Miss Ollie Buchanan negatives. Five Jurors were selected and the debate started. It was interesting from start to finish. The decision: We the juvors decide that Woman is a better factor than man for training boys and girls. There are a lot of women here that act as Sheriff's. We would like to know who elected them, and who are their bondsmen? 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. 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. Little Robinson Tucker is on the sick list. Mrs. Ellen Buchanan, Jr., was called to Paducah, Ky, Monday to be at the bed-side of her mother Mrs. Catherine Dodge. If you want your skin to look pretty and soft, try a bottle of Dixie Liquid Bleach at McCrary & Sons 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. REV. J. H. KNOWLES. Rev. J H. Knowles, 2407 Poplar street Cairo, is the elected missionary for the Mt. Olive Baptist Association. He is also authorized to solicit money for the Livingston Normal. Theological Industria Institute of Metropolis, Ill., Wanted----100 customers at the Last Chance grocery to buy 3 cans of best tomatoes and corn for 25c. Dont fail to attend the great Baptist General Association which will hold its annual meeting with the 2nd Baptist church Centralia, Rev. H. Allison, the efficient pastor has charge of the arrangement for the large gathering of Baptist men and women who promise to be there All aboard for Centralia in May where all eyes are centered for the General Baptist State Association to do business for the Master. Meet me in Centralia brother, and lets join hands and swing around the center (Christ.) Tax Purchaser's Notice. Metropolis, Ill. March 1st 1915. To John Chapman, Sol Thorp and and unknown owners, and parties interested. You Are Hereby.Notified, that at a sale of Real Estate made by the Sheriff at the door of Court House, in the town of Metropolis, County of Massac, and State of Illinois on the 14, day of July A. D. 1913, W. N. Kelley purchased the following described Real Estate, situated in the said County, for the Taxes, Interest, Penalties and Costs due and unpaid thereon, for the year, A. D. 1912. towit. Lot number One (1) in Block number Six (6) assessed in the name of John Chapman and Lot number Seven (7) in Block number Five (5) assessed in the name of Sol Thorp, and all situated in the Village of Robinsville, Massac Co., Illinois. And that the time allowed by law for the redemption of said Real Estate will expire on the 14th day of July A. D., 1915. A. F. Roby assignee of W. N. Kelley Purchaser NOTICE. The Board of Trustees of the Livingston Institute, located in Metropolis, solicit the co-operation of the pastors and churches of Illinois and elsewhere in securing students and finance. The school is now in actual running with a competent corps of teachers, with Prof. William E. Bailey as principal in charge, and is ready to give students training in in the common branches or in the higher course. For any information address Rev. J. B. McCrary Sec'y. Box 583 Metropolis, Ill. 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. For Sale by W. P. Baynes, Metropolis, Ill. 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. Great Native Salve will cure any case of piles in 30 days. For sale at Gazette office. "Nuff sed." Dr. Milton Nazei giammae europaeo iUNA- WEA, WAHA, HAOUR. As ungherao zo Livingston Institute This school is well graded and equipped Grammar School Department. All work is well organized under Departmental and able Instructors, selected for Special Departmenta work Special Courses in Music, Bookkeeping, Shorthand and Type Writing, Bible Study Tuition Rates: Tuition. Theological Department per month..... $1.00 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. Tax Purchaser's Notice. Metropolis, Ill., Feb. 15, 1015. To Lyman E. Klotz, The Gulf Connecting Lines R. R. Co., unknown owners, heirs, tenants and parties interested or in possession. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED. That at a sale of Real Estate made by the Sheriff of Massac Co., Ill., at the east door of the Court House, in the City of Metropolis, County of Masoac, and State of Illinois, on the 14th day of July A.D. 1913, William Wright purchased the following described Real Estate, situated in said County, for the Taxes, Interest, Penalties and Costs due and unpaid thereon, for the year A. D. 1912, to wit: That part of the S1-2 of the Northwest quarter of Section 13, Township 16 South, Range 5 east, 3rd P. M. Massao Co., Illinois, formerly owned by John D. Smith, who conveyed same to Lyman F. Klotz in whose name said tract is now assessed, and contains 2 1-2 acres. That William Wright assigned his Certificate of Purebase to S. B. Kerr on the 11th day of August A. D. 1913. And that the time allowed by law for the redemption of said Real Estate will expire on the 15th day of July A. D. 1915. S. B. KERR, Assignee of William Wright, Purchaser. Tax Purchaser's Notice. Metropolis, Ill, Feb. 15, 1915. To John Chapman, unknown owners, heirs, tenants and parties interests d or in possession. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED That at a sale of Real Estate made by the Sheriff of Massac Co., Ill., at the east door of the Court House, in the City of Metrobolis, County of Massac, and State of Illinois, on the 14th day of July A. D. 1913, Thomas Roberts purchased the following described Real Estate, situated in said County, for the Taxes, interest, Penalties and costs due and unpaid thoreon, situated in said County, for the year A. D. 1912, to wit Lot Two (2) in Block Five (5) of the village of Robinsville on north side of the City of Brookport, Massac Co., Illinois. That Thomas Roberts assigned his Certificate of Purchase to S. B. Kerr on the 11th day of August 1915. S. B KERR, Assignee of Thomas Roberts, Purchaser. Tax Purchaser's Notice. Metropolis, Ill., Feb. 15, 1915. To L. E. Klotz, The City of Brookport, unknown owners, heirs, tenants, and parties interested or in possession YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED, That at a sale of Real Estate made by the Sheriff of Massac County Illinois at the east door of the Court House, in the City of Metropolis County of Massac and State o, Illinois, on the 14th day of July 1913 S. B Kerr purchased the following RHEUMATIC SUFFERERS GIVEN QUIOK RELIEF DROPS Naturally Pure Made with 100% Arabica Tequila and 100% Agave Nectar Pain leaves almost as if by magic when you begin using "5-Drops," the famousold remedy for Rheumatism, Lumbago, Gout, Sciatica, Neuralgia 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 of the directions for use, Don't delay. Demand "5-Drops." Don't accept anything else in place of it. Any drug 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. described Real Estate, 14 nated in said County for the Taxes, Interest, Penalties and Costs due and unpaid thereof, for the year A. D. 1912, towit: That parf of S 1-2 of Southeast fourth of the Northeast quarter of Section 14, Township 19 South, Range 5 east, 3rd P. M. Massa Co., Illinois which lies south of the I. C. R. R. right of way and North of the Easterly end of Caldwell Street of the City of Brookport, Ill., Assessed to L. E. Klots containing 1-3 of an acre. And that the time allowed by law for the redemption of real Estate will expire on the 14th day of July A. D. 1915. S. B. KERR, Purchases. Of unusual interest is the announcement of the ST. LOUIS GLOBE DEMOCRAT to be found elsewhere in this issue. The "Twice-a-Week" edition of that sterling publicatik n a great Semi-Weekly newspaper with a weekly Farm and Home Magazine Section in colors, is offered at the special rate of two years or two yearly subscriptions for one dollar. The DAILY GLOBE-DEMOCRAT, six issues per week. is offered to Rural Free Delivery and Stat Route patrons, yearly y subscriptions only, for $2.30 per year, or if the Sunday paper is desired, seven issues per week for $4.50 per year. The regular price of the DILY GLOBE-DEMOCRAT including Sunday, is $6.00 per year, Daily without Sunday $4.90 per year. Sunday $2.90 per year. Read the announcement and order the GLOBE DEMOCRAT, either daily or "Twice-a-week", to-day. Addres Globe Printing Company, publishers, St. Louis, Mo. For the Great Native Salve Cure, that was discoved 3500 feet down in the earth, Call on or write The Gazette office. 500 per Box.