With Your Name 



Printed 



on it 



Just the Thini^ 



for Valuable 



Papers 



FREE 



CHAS. E. ELLIS 



FIVE THOUSAND 



POCKET BOOKS 



/ AM GOING TO GIVE THEM AWAY 



1 PUBLISH the ereateat Farm Paper in the World— "The Metropolitan and Rural Home." Before I was a pub- 

 lisher I was a farmer. Now I am intensely interested in buth . I b'-lirve fsirming and publishing are the greatest and 

 best businesses going. Sometimes I even think farming beats putilishinir. 

 And now — just to show you howl feel toward farmers, I want to tjive live thousand of them eaoh one of these Pocket Boitks 

 If you are a farmer I want to eive you one. I want to triveyou one of these Pocket Books so you can show it to yuiir 

 friends and say: "My friend Ellis, publisher of the greatest Farm Paper in the world, gave me this." Then you and 

 your friends will think of me and my paper — The Metropolitan and Rural Home — that goes to half a million farmers every 

 month — and you will say amons yourselves ' 'That Ellis nnist be all right. I want to read his paper and see what he says 

 in it. " These Pocket Books I am eoing to give you are made from genuine Rubber Covered Cloth. They are just the 

 thing to carry valuable papers — such as notes, contracts, tire insurance policies, weight receipts, etc., as well as money. 

 They fold up flat and fit your inside coat pocket — just the kind of Pocket Bonk every man likes to own. 



Now yovi don't pay anything for the Pocket Book. It's FR£K. I send it to you postpaid and don't ask you a cent. 

 But to sbuw that you are willing to be just as liberal with me as I am with you, I want you to send me '20 cents for The 

 Metropolitiin and linral Home for a year. Nowdon'tsay, ''that's what I expected, ' ' Wait a minute and read the rest. 

 You haven't L'ot to the most liberal part of my offer yet. Read this announcement all throUL'h. I would do as much for 

 yon^ if you were me and I were you. If you will do as I ask, I will have your name and address printed on the 

 inside' of your pocket book, so if it gets lost, it will be returned tu you at once. When I send it to you, I ■will also 

 send you some sample copies of The Metropolitan and Rural Home and I will contiinie to send the paper to you for Three 

 Mouths. Then, if you don't like it. just say so and I'll send you back your 30 cents and stop your subscription 

 and y<iu may keep the Pocket Biiok for your trouble. That gives you the paper three months FKl^K, to say nothing of 

 the tine Pocket Book. Now — what do you think of that for an offer? 



A GREAT BIG ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE -F R E E 



Mind you. The Metropolitan and Rural Home is a great Big Mui^azine Paper. It is printed in clean, plain type on nice paper and there are lots of pictures every month. 

 1 just "mention these tbimrs because thev are extras— it's the stock, dairy and farm news, and tiood stories, that make my paper the best farm paper in the world. 



Ifyou don't tell me at the end of three months to stop the paper, of course, I'll keep your subscription— enter your name as a regular subsbriber and send you The 

 Metropolitan and Rural Home for a full vear. 



Now I'm Sony I liaven't got more of these Pocket Books, but there are only 5.000 to give away, so you'll have to hurr>' n little if you want one. They are such irood 

 Pocket Books that they'll iro like wildfire and vou oui_'ht to stop riirht here, fill in the order blank a"nd mail it to me at once, so as to be snre to get one of these Pock- 

 et Books. I put that blank in here so you needn't hunt for paper and ink unless you want to. Use a lead pencil, fill out the blank, enclose twentj* cents (stamps or silver) 

 and mail it to me just as quickly as you can. Do it right away, so the Pocket Books won't be gone when I get your subscription. 



CHAS. E. ELLIS, Publisher. 22 North Williams Street 



Metropolitan and Rural Home Subscription Department 264 



New York City 



pppp POCKET BOOK BLANK 



X 1. V t ^ I -J SIGN THIS AND SEND TO ME AT ONCE 



C. E. Ellis, New York. Dear Sir: Send niu Tlie Metr(>l>i>litail aiifl Rural Home for a year unless I toll you to stop it at the end of three months. Also send me 

 one of those FREE Pocket Books with my name printed on it. I enelose '20 cents ( silver or stamps) which you are to return to me if I tell you at the end of three months 

 to stop my Rubseription to your paper. Yoiirs truly, 



iign. 



Address 



Stale 



