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Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-12-22
A Trial VIII Convince Anyone.


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that the mild and immediate effect oil
Swamp Root, the great kidney, liver and
bladder remedy, is soon realized and thael
it stands the highest for its remarkable
results in the most distressing cases.
Symptoms Of Kidney Trouble.
Swamp Root is not recommended fol
everything but if you suffer from annoy
ing bladder troubles. frequently passinsl
water night and day, smarting or irritasl
ton in passing, brick-dust OF sediment,
headache, bsckache, lame back, dizzis
ness, poor digestion, sleeplessness, nerve
business, heart disturbance due to bad
kidney trouble, skin eruptions from bad
blood, neuralgia, rheumatism. lumbago.
bloating, irritability, WORKOUT feeling,
lack of ambition, may be, loss of flesh or
sallow complexion, kidney trouble in ito
worst form may be stealing upon you.
swamp-Root 10 PIeasantto Take.
II you are already convinced thas
Swamp Root is what yousnesa, you can
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lple size bottle of Swamp Root by enclosins !
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Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-12-22
1000. 900 in British Navy.

The working forces of the British
navy. afioat and ashore, include more
than 1000, 900 men.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-12-22
prevaIeney Of Kidney pisease.

Most people do not realize the alarm
ing increase and remarkable prevalency
of kidney disease. While kidney dis
orders are among the most common dis
eases that prevail, they are almost the
last recognized by patients. zDAo usually
content themselves zVith 6ocfoy1ng thu
Effects, while the original disease con-
stantly undermines the system
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-12-22
Part of the Game.

"These diplomats are queer lot"
"What makes you think so?"
"They rarely ever permit them
selves to indulge In plain yes or
no."
"Don't censure them for that. If
they were not mysterious nobody
would think they were earning their
salary"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-12-22
important to Mothers

Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, that famous old remedy
for infants and children, and see that it
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-12-22
As Others See Us.

She Cat the opera)-Don't you think
Miss Screeeher strains her voice when
she sings?
He-Perhaps but If she does, she
uses a mighty poor strainer.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-12-22
woMANs GROWING GLORY

Is her hair. II yours is streaked with
ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use La Gre
ole" Hair Dressing and change 1t In
the natural way. Price s1.00.-Adv.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-12-22
Hard to Explain.

"You say this is problem playY
That's. what the program states.
1t presents a pretty problem to me-
"Yes?'
I'm wondering why anybody ever
put up real money TO have 1t pro-
duced."
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-12-22

The Oulnlne That Does Not Affect The Head
Bscsa4e 81 ~ tunie ard laxative esrcA LAXATIVE
HrDmo Canine can - taken ~ eayune sl1hout
saF&inf asrvoHsness o. FtnElus in tns had Ihefs
IL nntF -sfptao Aainine-" y. W. GROVE .
sllnatafe 10 on each bod. 10.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-12-22
Perfectly Sober.

Gyer-That fellow, BARLEY, Is al
ways drawing the color line.
Myer-Radical, eh?
Gyer-Oh. no; he's an artist.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-12-22

Murmuring units the soul for duty.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
SLAVS FUR|OUSLY
ATTACK GERMANS
BEGIN BIG DRIVE ON EAST FRONT,
SUFFERING HEAVY LOSSES
IN FIRST ATTACK.
French Holding Germans at verdun,
Air Battle Marking Operations
German Seaplanes Raid East
Coast of England.

London.-With the slackening of the
fighting around yerdun, the Russians
have started a big offensive movement
against the Germans on the eastern
front. A raid by German seaplanes
on the east coast of England and by
French airmen on Metz and other Ger
man towns, the sinking OF French
torpedo destroyer by a submarine ID
the Adriatic, and the reported torpe
doing of an Austrian hospital ship by
an entente underwater boat, are re
corded in official and unofficial com
munications.
Berlin chronicles an attack OF great
violence by the Russians around Drls-
wiaty lake and Lake Narocz, but says
the Russians were repulsed with great
losses, 9,270 Russian dead having
been counted in the Lake Narcocz re
| gion.
| Saturday the Germans in the Vaux-
| Damloup sector, northeast of Verdun,
began another spirited attack against
French, but were driven back. The
4 attack was not pushed again during
| Sunday, and only intermittent bonn
| bardments took place.
/ Berlin reports the recapture OF some
| ground from the British northeast OF
| Vermilles, in the region OF La Bassee
and the driving of the French from
position northeast of Badonvillers in
the Yosges. London admits the cap
ture by the Germans of three mine
craters at the Hohenzollern redoubt
The French guns have been BUSY
bonlbarding German trenches II
Champagne and German depots north
east of st. Mihiel Five French air
craft dropped bombs on Metz ammu
milton depots near Chateau Salins ant
the aerodrome at Dieuz, while TWEEN
ty-three other machines attacked tn
aviation camp at Habsheim and tn
freight station at Mulhausen. In BAT
: ties in the air which followed, tn
Germans and the French each los
three or four machines. A German
airship attacked the entente allie
feet south of Saloniki. but with VIVA
result Berlin does not say.
Three officers and forty-four men
3 the crew of the French torpedo boa
destroyer Renaudin were lost when
D Teutonic submarine sent the vessel
2 the bottom in the Adriatic.
In a raid by four German seaplane
/ over Dover, Ramsgate and Westgat
at least nine persons were killed an
, thirty-one injured. One of the SCI
: planes was brought down thirty mile
at sea by pursuing British ayiato
y The German observer was killed
u The German admiralty officially d
mics that German submarine was r
sponsible for the sinking of the Dutc
, passenger steamer Tubantia.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
TO Build Up
After Grippe, Colds
Bad Blood

Take a blood cleanser and Alternative
that starts the liver and stomach into
vigorous action, called DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery because OF
one Of its principal ingredients-the
Golden Seal plant 1t assists the body
to manufacture rich red blood which
feeds the heart-nerves-brain and
organs OF the body. The organs work
smoothly like machinery running in
oil. You feel clean. strong and siren
uous. Buy Medical Discovery" to-
day and in a few days you win know
that the bad blood is passing out, and
new. rich, pure blood is filling your
veins and arteries.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
VILLA FLEES TO
HIS OLD RETREAT
BANDIT CHIEF REPORTED TO BE
SURROUNDED By AMERICAN
AND MEXICAN TROOPS.
II Bandit Makes Stand il is Believed
Campaign viii Soon Be Over, But
it is Possible He May Hide
in Mountains.

FL Paso, Texas.-After marching
more than 10 miles into Mexico in
record marching time of forty-two
hours. or at a speed of about thirty
three miles a day, the American pu
nitive expedition has received infor.
nation apparently locating Francisco
Villa, the object of the chase.
Pancho Villa has been driven into
a trap by the rapid advance of the
American troops, according to the in.
formation received here in wireless
dispatches from the front and in tele-
graphic messages TO General Gabriel
Gavira, the Carranza commander al
Juarez.
Everything seems now to depend on
the ability of the Carranza garrisons
to hold their end of the net. On three
sides the bandit is hemmed in by
strong Carranza columns, while on the
fourth the American soldiers are driv-
ing forward with amazing speed.
A dispatch from Washington says
Villa, fleeing with his outlaw follow
ers the advance of the United States
expeditionary forces in Mexico, has
reached his own country in the Guer
zero district, where high officers O
the army said he may almost indeh
nitely eyade capture. If the bandi
chieftain makes a stand. Washington
is satisfied the campaign will quickl!
end; but if he leaves his followers h
can, military authorities agree, reacl
a haven of safety in the nearby noun
tains in less than days riding.
In the Guerrero district and in tn
country adjacent to Babricora, Villa
at home. For years he operated Their
in defiance of the laws Of Mexico an
its constituted authorities. The mouI
tains to the west offer countless hit
ing places and routes of escape.
hard pressed, Villa might, officials b
lieve, abandon his men, don the gar
of a peon and fee so far into the sout
that it would be exceedingly difficu
if not impossible to apprehend him.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24

Just as coal, when it burns, leaves
behind certain amount OF incombus-
tible material in the form Of ashes, SO
the food and drink taken day after day
leaves in the alimentary canal GER
tain amount of indigestible material.
which IL not completely eliminated
each day, becomes food for the mil
lions of bacteria which infest the bow
els. From this mass Of leftover waste
material, toxins and ptomaine-like poi
sons, called uric acid, is formed and
then sucked into the blood where it
continues to circulate. collecting grain
by grain in the joints Of the body
much like rust collects on the hinge
as shown above.
Men and women who suffer from
iumbago, rheumatism or sore, stih
aching joints should begin drinkins
phosphated hot water, not as means
to magic relief from pain, but to pre-
vent more uric acid forming in thu
system. Before eating breakfast eacl
| morning, drink glass OF real no
water with teaspoonful OF limeston
| phosphate in it. This will first neu
tralize and then wash out of the ston
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
BAcKACHE, LUMBAGO

Uric acid causes backache. pains
here and there, rheumatism. govt,
gravel, neuralgia and sciatica. It was
DR.. Pierce who discovered new
agent, called "Anuric," which will
throw out and completely eradicate
this uric acid from the system. An
uric" is 81 times more potent than
Ifthia, and consequently you need no
longer fear muscular or articular rheu-
matism or govt, or many other dis
eases which are dependent on uric
acid within the body.
If you feel that tired, worn-out
feeling, backache. neuralgia, or if your
sleep is disturbed by too frequent uri-
nation, go to your best drug store and
ask for Doctor Pierce's Anuric Tab
lets, full treatment soc, or send 10
cents for a trial package OF -Anuric"
Tablets to DR.. Pierce, Inyalids' Hotel.
Buffalo, N. Y.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
MOTHER! LOOK At
CH|LDS TONGUE
If cross, feyerish, constipated,
give California Syrup
of Figs"

A laxative today saves q sick child
tomorrow. Children simply will not
take the time from play to empty their
bowels, which become clogged up with
waste, liver gets sluggish; stomach
sour.
Look at the tongue. mother. Ii coat
ed, or your child is istless. cross, few
erish, breath bad. restless. doesn't eat
heartily. full of cold or has sore throat
OF any other children's ailment, give
teaspoonful of California Syrup of
Figs" then don't worry, because it Is
perfectly harmless, and in a few hours
all this constipation poison. sour bile
and fermenting waste will gently
move out of the bowels. and you have
a well, playful child again A thor
ough inside cleansing" is ofttimes all
that is necessary. It should be the
first treatment given in any sickness.
Beware OF counterfeit fig syrups.
Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle OF
California Syrup of Figs" which has
full directions for babies. children of
all ages and for grown-ups plainly
printed on the bottle. Adv.
po+tarS ara uOf the nnIv naonle who
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
QUARREL ENDS IN SHOOTING.
Son of Author of Ben Bolt Killed by
Wife.

Frederick, Md.-Mrs. Eloise Young
English shot and killed her husband,
Arthur E. English, lawyer of New
York, at their home near here Satur-
day. The shooting was done in the
presence of their 6-year-old daughter
and is said to have occurred during a
quarrel. English was the son OF
Thomas Dunn English, former con-
gresham from New Jersey, and the
author of the song Ben Bolt"
Mrs. English was exonerated from
blame for the killing Of her husband
by a coroner's jury.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
Another of Aliens Killed.

Roanoke, va.-Jack Allen, brother OF
Sidna and Floyd Allen. leaders OF the
gang that assassinated officials OF the
Carroll county court at Hillsville, was
killed at the home of Mrs. Brit Mar
tin. near Mount Airy, N. c. Will Nc,
Graw, who was with Allen and who
disappeared Immediately after the
shot was heard, is being sought.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
"CASCARETS' FOR
LIVER, BOWELS
For sick headache, bad breath,
Sour Stomach and
constipation.
eel a 1o-cent box now.

Get a 10-cent box now.
No odds how bad your liver, stomach
or bowels; how much your head
aches. how miserable and uncomfort-
able you are from constipation, indiges-
ton, biliousness and sluggish bowels
you always get the desired results
with Cascarets.
Don't let your stomach, liver and
bowels make you miserable. Take
Cascarets tonight: put an end to the
headache, biliousness, dizziness. nerT-
BUSINESS, sick, sour, gassy stomach.
backache and all other distress;
cleanse your inside organs of all the
bile, gases and constipated matter
which is producing the misery.
A 10-cent box means health, happi-
ness and clear head for months.
No more days of gloom and distress
IL you viii take a Cascaret now and
then. ALI stores sell Cascarets. DOM
forget the children-their little in
sides need cleansing, too. Adv.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24

ach, liver, kidneys and bowels the pre-
vious days accumulation Of toxins and
poisons; thus, cleansing, sweetening,
and freshening the entire alimentary
canal, each morning, before putting
more food into the stomach
A quarter pound Of limestone phos-
phate costs very little at the drug
store but is sufficient to make any
rheumatic or lumbago sufferer an en-
thusiast on the morning inside bath.
Millions Of people keep their joints
free from these rheumatic acids by
practicing this daily internal SANTA
ton. A glass Of hot water with tea
spoonful of limestone phosphate. drank
before breakfast, Is wonderfully invig-
Grating; besides, it is an excellent
health measure because it cleanses the
alimentary organs of all the waste,
gases and sour lamentations. making
one look and feel clean, sweet and
fresh all day.
Those who try this for one weak
may find themselves free from sick
headaches, constipation. bilious at
tacks, sallowness. nasty breath and
stomach acidity.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
Exnosition Formally Reopened.

San Diego, CaL-The Panama-Cali-
fornia International exposition was
formally thrown open to the world on
Saturday with twenty nations partici-
pating as exhibitors to justly the in
ternationar' which was added to the
exposition's title for its second year
of existence.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
sohooIboxs Elred Win War spirls.

New York.-More than $500 boys OF
the elementary schools of New York
and Brooklyn answered the call OF
the National School Camp association
Saturday and signifed their willing,
ness to prepare themselves for war in
times of peace.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
Another Dutch Steamer Torpedoed

London.-The British admiralty an
nounces the torpedoing of the Dutch
steamer Palembang, bound from Rot
terdam to Java The vessel met her
fate of the Galloper Light in the
Thames estuary Saturday morning.
All the members of the crew are re-
ported saved.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
uilla Declared outside Law.

Mexico City-The minister of war,
General Obregon, ISSUE. decree on
Saturday declaring all participants In
the Columbus raid outside the law.
The decree gives the right to any cit
izen to apprehend and kill, if neces-
sary, the followers of Villa who cross
ed the American frontier.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
New York Exports Doubled.

New York.-Exports from the port
Of New York for the week ended
March Is, were S64.022. $40, according
to figures compiled at the customs
house. In the corresponding week last
year they were SS1.144.O76.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
eaffney Denies CHARGES.

Washington.-T St. John Gaffney,
who resigned as American consul
general at Munich, Germany, on re
Quest of the state department, has
flied a general denial of the charges
which led to his removal
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
Germans Enter Denial.

Berlin.-No German submarine
could have been in the vicinity of the
spot where the Dutch liner Tubantia
was sunk and no German mines had
been laid in this region, the German
admiralty has announced.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
Tonas Aaree TO Truce.

San Francisco.-Special details of
policemen and detectives were re
moved from San Franchises China
town Saturday when announcement
was made from Chinese peace con.
ference that a fifteen-day truce had
been signed by rival tongs.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
Woman Aid in Mine.

Ell Paso.-Nrs. Wallace Rogers Of
Detroit arrived here Sunday with her
l5-months-old infant and told how she
had hidden from Mexican bandits with
her baby for two days in the shaft OF,
an abandoned mine near Cananea-
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
Ralnfall Causes Slides.

Madison, Wis., Excessive rainfall is
found to be one of the chief causes
of the Panama canal slides, according
to the committee of scientists APP
pointed By President Wilson to ia-
vestigate.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
Leauue to Enforce Peace.

New York.-The first national con-
yention of the League to Enforce
Peace will be held at Washington on
May &c and %, it was announced here
Saturday. Former President William
H. Taft will preside.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
VILLA HAD PLANNED ATTACK.
Had Boosted to American That He
Would Force Intervention.

FL Paso ,Texas.-yilla boasted three
months ago that he would force inter.
vention in Mexico by the United
States. according to story told here
by Harry Williams of Chihuahua, an
American mining man. Williams as
serted that he had heard Villa make
the boast on December Is last, when
he was a prisoner of the bandit.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
Glass Workers Wages Raised.

Pittsburgh, Pa.-Four thousand EN-
pIoyees of the Macbeth-Evans Glass
company were notified Saturday OF an
increase in wages amounting to 10 per
cent effective April 5.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
Ammunltlon ReIna smuaaIed.

Ell Paso, Texas.-Ammunition is be
ing smuggled across the border into
Mexico daily, according to statement
made here from an authoritative
source.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24

To keep clean and healthy take DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regulats
liver, bowels and stomach.-Adv.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
II MAY Be.

81 see jonquils and daffodils on sale.
How is it that the early flowers are
always Yellow"
Dunno. Guess spring is bilious like
the rest of us.'-Louisville Courier
Journal.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24

All things come with the waiter who
serves an order of hash.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24

Quicksilver is thirteen and one-haif
times heavier than. water,
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24

A woman doesn't realize her strength
until she discovers a mans weakness.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24
WRITER GETS HONOR
AMERICAN NEWSPAPER coRRE-
RESPONDENT DECORATED FOR
BRAVERY ON BATTLEFIELD
MEDALS ARE NOT FAVORED

Special Permission of Congress Neces-
sary for American to Accept Deco
ration From Foreign State--Many
Offered but Few Are Permitted.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24

Even the man VINO is tired of this
world is seldom in hurry to move on
to the next.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24

Potters are not the only people who
make family jars.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-24

When the charge tnaI loDDy hao
been at work and was at work was
| published, many of the senators and
representatives made light of the &C
cusation and said that Mr.. Wilson
would have to work to prove what he
| had said. Within a few hours the
president undertook to prove his
charge and the lobby investigation of
comparatively recent history was on.
| II is not too much to say that the
old-time lobbyist. the pernicious type.
has been absent from Washington for
some time. although he keeps up his
work from a distance.
good deal has been written from
time to time about Hobbies. 1t has
come TO be recognized and proof mas
haan adduced this winter Of the fact
that the letter lobby is more effica'
cious than a personal lobby. and ordi-
narily it has little that is pernicious
about it
The letter lobby consists in the re-
CENT of letters and kilograms by sena
tors and representatives from their
constituents urging them to support
This hill or that bill or to oppose this
bill or that bill. When the letters
and kilograms come in in huge mum
hers. as frequently they do. they have
marked effect
The canteen was letter written
out of the army; the pure-food Law
was passed largely by aid OF letters
written to senators End representa-
lives. and a good many other acts have
fonnd a place on the statute book
that would have failed if the peopl,
had not taken their pens in hand.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-01-22
WORKMEN ON BOARDS.

Kansas City, Mo,-Thc Kansas City
Post, published by Frank p. Walsh,
agrees with President Gompers' sugges-
tion to President Wilson that working
men should be PLACED on various Gov
ernmcnt boards.
IF workers were appointed" says the
Post, they might be able to give new
insight TO many problems which now are
managed in onc-Sidcd way.
THE clash of ideas between different
interests in any body of men clothed
with power is the first step toward cur
ing and ending disagreements. There
are but few men not susceptible to the
power Of truthful argument. The world
has been trying for centuries to bring
peace between widely separated factions
through plan of each meeting by itself
and ccmcnting its opinions all the
tighter
"A healthful brush between men of
varying opinions would result in mutual
recognition of the rights of all concern
ed"
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-01-22
WOULD CHECK PELLAGRA.

Washington-Secrctary Of the Treas
ury McAdoo has asked congress for an
Immediate appropriation Of $4,000 for
studies and demonstration work" with
a view of checking pellagra and typhoid
fever. With the request is a report
IRON the public health service, which de
clares that improper food has been shown
to have profound influence on health
Of populations and to be directly rcspon-
slblc for the increasing prevalence of
pellagra."
Increased demonstrations, the report
said, are urgently required to prevent
pcIlagra from becoming vcrtabIc
scourgc III many rural communities" In
Mississippi alone there were 1884 cases
and l,o2i deaths from pellapra last year,
and in certain other states it has exceed
ed tuberculosis as cause of death. 1t
is estimated that there have been ap-
proNimatcly 5000 cases Of pellagra
throughout the country this past year,
with more than 1900 deaths.