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A WOMAN'S QUESTION,
Before 1 trust my
Or place my
Jefore I let thy In
Color and form t
Fate to thee,
hand in thine,
ture give
0 mine,
Before I peril all for thee, question thy soul to-night for me
I break all slighter
bonds; nor feel
A shadow of regret:
Is there one link within the Past
That holds thy spirit yet?
Or is thy Faith as clear and free as th
at which I can pledge to thee?
Does there within chy dimmest dreams
A. possible future
Wherein thy life co
Untouch’d,
shine,
uld henceforth breathe,
unshared by mine?
If so, at any pain or cost, oh tell me before all is lost.
Look deeper still.
Within thy inmo
1f thou canst feel
st soul,
That thou hast kept a. portion back,
While T have staked the whole—
Let no false pity spare the blow, but in
Is there within thy
true .mercy tell me so.
heart a need
That mine can not fulfill?
One chord that any
other hand
Could better wake qf still? :
Speak now—lest at some future day my whole life wither and deca
Lives there within thy-
The demon-spirit
nature hid
Change,
Shedding a passing glory still
On all things new
and strange?
ange 3
. Jt may not be thy fault alone—but shield .my heart against thy own.
Couldst thou withdraw thy hand one day
And answer to my claim,
That Fate, and that to-day’s mistake
Not thou—had been ta blame?
Some soothe their conscience thus; but
Nay, answer not, I
he words would
Yet I would spare t
So comfort thee, my Fate—
Whatever on my heart may fall—remeniber, I would risk
thou wilt surely warn and save me now.
dare not hear,
¢ome too Tate;
hée all remorse,
it all!
—Adelaide Anne Proctor.
YUYY YY YY YY TY IY YU IU yy uu uy
The Drowned Bedroom.
By RENE BACHE.
FATATATATATATAT ALA TATATATATATATATAT ATTA TATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATAN
The feelings with which I accepted
Worthington’s invitation were
strangely mingled. He had declared
himself unalterably my enemy, for no
other reason than that I had won the
woman he wanted to marry. She was
absent from my side, at the sick bed
of her father, and, being made aware
of the situation, he asked me to come
and spend a week at his house. He
suggested that the visit might make
the enforced absence of my wife more
endurable, and the tone of his letter
in a general way seemed to indicate
that he desired to renew the friend-
ship which had formerly existed be-
tween us.
Considering the fact that not more
than six months had elapsed since he
vowed toward me such bitter enmity,
I was surprised at the cordiality of
the communication. My intimacy
with Worthington before my mar-
riage had been close and I had
formed the notion that he was a per-
Bon singularly tenacious of an idea
once formed—in a word, that he
would cling like death to a decision,
whether wrong or right. That he
would ever forgive me for the ‘‘in-
jury” I had done him in marrying
the girl he wanted—he used that
term at the time, I remember—I did
not imagine. -But I had always liked
him exceedingly, up to the period of
our rivalry, and it was a matter of
course that I should be glad to ‘make
it up” with him. Indeed, it was ow-
ing chiefly to this desire on my part
that I decided to visit him at his
country house, which he called in hu-
mor the Moated Grange, perhaps bhe-
cause there was neither farm nor
gitch connected with the estate.
The absurdity of the name was ac-
centuated by the extremely modern
aspect of the dwelling, which was
constructed in accordance with
Worthington’s own peculiar notions.
It was of very moderate size, but pro-
vided with every possible end-of-the-
century improvement. Domestic ar-
chitecure, indeed, was always a fad
of his, and I well remember that as a
schoolboy he used to make plans on
his slate for the house he was going
to build when he grew to be a man.
Another notion of his was that he
would have two small silver bars of
appropriate shape and size to cool his
tea—a beverage of which he was in-
ordinately fond. That metal having
a property of absorbing heat, he
would use the bars alternately in his
cup at meals. I may mention that
the first thing I noticed on sitting
down at table with him, immediately
after my arrival at the Moated
Grange, was two such silver bars
which he used for his tea. He was a
man who seldom, if ever, relinquished
an idea.
There was something about his
manner that struck me as odd. While
cordial, it seemed to me a bit forced,
though maybe _ the notion was imag-
inary on my phe, inasmuch as I was
feeling out of sorts myself. He was
decidedly gay at dinner, talked more
than was his wont, while I contented
myself with listening, and he drank
a little more than was good for
him. When he showed me to my
bedroom—1I chose to retire early, be-
fng wearied by my railway journey
~—he had some joking remarks to
make about the peculiarities of the
apartment, which was entered oddly
enough by a flight of six steps lead-
ing down from the landing. That is
to say, on crossing the threshold,
one descended these six steps to the
floor of the chamber. [I thought it a
strange mode of architectural con-
struction, but having had long exper-
ience of Worthington’s eccentricities,
it did not occur to me to wonder,
knowing that he had built the house
on his own plans. He had only
finished it within a couple of months,
by the way, and he told me that I
was the first person to occupy it.
“You will find it very comfort-
able,” he said, chuckling to himself
as if over some jocular idea of his
own which he did not see fit to tom-
municate. “It is something quite
original in the way of a bedroom, I
flatter myself—built after a whim of
my own, you know. Sleep tight, old
man. If you want to light up in the
night just touch the button at the
head of your couch.”
He chuckled again as he left the
| room, and-I found myself speculating
as “to the cause of his amusement
! while I undressed myself. In three
minutes I was in bed, and in no time
| at all fast asleep.
I do not know what it was that
housed me, but some hours later I
became suddenly wide awake. May-
be it was a certain peculiar sensation
of chill in the air that disturbed my
slumber. I pulled thre heavy blan-
kets closer around me—it was ‘late
in November — and tried to go to
sleep again. But it was of no use;
my eyelids would not stay closed, and
I began to think and think in an an-
noyingly peristsent way, while gaz-
ing absently at a spot of flickering
light on the ceiling.
The spot had a curious. sort of
tremulousness, and presently it oc-
curred to me to wonder where it
came from and what was the cause of
flickering. It looked like a patch
made by a moonbeam, but I did not
see where the latter entered. For
some time it amused me to speculate
on the nature of the phenomenon,
but my surmises did not lead me to
any satisfactory conclusion. I gave
it up at length and turned over, with
the intention of wooing reluctant re-
pose, when, being nearer to the edge
of the bed than I had supposed, my
right arm fell outside. It plunged
up to the elbow into ice cold water.
Just then I remembered what Wor-
thington had said about touching the
button at the head of the bed in case
1 wanted light. I groped anxiously
for the knob, pressed it and pressed
it again, but no illumination fol-
lowed. Then I remembered having
noticed, when I retired, two knobs,
one above the other. I groped again,
touched the upper one this time—the
lower one was for shutting off the
electricity—and instantly the room
was flooded with light from eight or
ten Edison bulbs which were attached
to a pair of chandeliers overhead.
The sight which met my gaze was
by no means reassuring. As I had
supposed, the entire room was flood-
ed with water, which was already
nearly high enough to overflow the
bed. It was up to the third drawer
1 of the dressing table, and three or
{ four chairs were floating about. I
! cannot imagine a more extraordinary
scene,
Encouraged to action now that my
surroundings wemse made visible, I
{ jumped out of bed into the icy water,
and ncarly frozen by its chill waded
to the door, ascending the six steps
to reach it. 1 found it locked, evi-
dently from the outside. Surely, it
was very strange. I shook the door
with all my might, but it. did not
budge. Standing on the threshold,
at the top of the flight, I was some
distance above the level of the water,
but it was not a point of vantage
from which to force the lock.
By this time I had begun to be
really frightened. I called out re-
peatedly at the top of my lungs, but
my voice died away without eliciting
any response. Something cold
seemed to take a grip on my heart,
and looking down I saw that the
water was over the bed. It was evi-
dently rising fast.
Summoning my courage 1 descend-
ed the six steps and waded across the
room to the windows, which, I then
noticed for the first time, were at an
extraordinary height from the floor.
There were two of them, and I tried
them in succession, but I could hard-
ly reach them, having nothing to
stand upon, and it was obvious that
the shutters were securely barred,
though the sashes were lowered from
the top as if for ventilation. Some
minutes of frantic effort convinced
41
me that there was nothing to be aes
somplished.
It was now, for the first time, that
a suggestion of foul play came into
my mind. The idea struck me like a
thunderbolt; it was indeed the only
conceivable explanation of the situa-
tion. . Worthington, who had sworn
eternal enmity toward me, had not
forgotten his vow. I was at the mer-
cy of a madman. Pretending to re-
pent his hostility he had invited me
to his house for the purpose of de:
| stroying me by a method frightful in
its originality. He might easily have
murdered me in some other way, but,
having resolved upon the deed, it
was characteristic of him to select.a
method wholly novel and hitherto
unthought of. I was to die ‘by
drowning, and as slowly as possible.
How well I understood now the sig-
nificance of that chuckle of his as he
had left me a few hours earlier:
| “Built after a whim of my own,” he
had said, speaking of the bedroom
assigned’sto my ocenpancy. - ‘Why, it
| was into sa: trap, comstructed express:
ly-to capture myself, that I had fall-
en. Half mad with fear-and rage, 1
| made my way to the ‘steps again, the
water up to my waist, and; trembling
with cold, climbed out upon the top
step. Then beating the panels with
despair, alternately cursing my
treacherous host and calling upon
him to have mercy and spare amy life.
I suppose this must have continued
for five minutes or so, though it
seemed hours to me, when I thought
I heard a noise outside the door and
listened. It was a man’s footstep,
and as it approached I recognized it
as Worthington’s. :
“What's the matter, old man?” he
said. “Got a nightmare?”
“Have mercy, Worthington,” 1
cried. “For God’s sake, have mercy!”
“It’s a nightmare, sure enough,
I heard him mutter. ‘He's walking
in his sleep.”
“Open the door!” I'wailed.
“How can I open it?’’ he replied.
“The catch is on the inside, just
above the knob. Press it back with
your thumb.”
With trembling fingers I obeyed
him; the door, released, by the spring
catch—one of Worthington’s freaks
of ingenuity—flew open, and I fell
outward, half fainting. He caught
me in his arms.
“Why, what's the mat he
began, when, as he gazed down into
the brilliantly lighted room, an ex;
pression of the utmost astonishment
came over his face. Then he began
to swear with much elaboratenessg
and emphasis.
The situation began in some meas-
ure to dawn upon me, as he ran back
to his own room and, returning with
a pocket flask, poured half of its con-
tents down my throat. The fiery
stuff nearly choked me.
“You didn’t mean to murder me,
then?” I said, as soon as I could re-
gain my bredkh.
“Murder you!” he echoed. “Ha,
ha! Ha, ha, ha!” I thought he
would have a fit with laughing. Then
he began to apologize with the ut-
most humbleness, saying that he
could never make adequate amends
for the unfortunate accident that had
occurred. He still feared that I
might have pneumonia in consquence
of the exposure to which I had been
subjected. After wrapping me in
warm blankets, putting my feet in a
tub of hot water, and making me
swallow the rest of the flask, he
explained in-a few words what had
happened.
“In putting up this house,” he
said, “my notion was to build it
around a bathroom. That was my
bathroom which you occupied to-
night. I have two or three other
tubs for winter use, but for summer
I wanted a tank that my guests and
I could swim in. In winter, according
to my idea, it was to be converted
into a bedroom, thus providing an
extra chamber for guests. To shut
off the water, carpet the floor and
put in the necessary furniture was
simple enough. I confess that I
thought it rather a clever notion.
You will have noticed the walls are
tiled, and you will now understand
the peculiar construction of the
apartment, the steps leading down
into it, and the height of the win-
dows. The arrangements are such
that the water cannot rise higher
than five feet, so that you could not
have been drowned, though you
would certainly have been frozen to
death had your cries for help not
awakened me. I can never forgive
myself for the misfortune that has
occurred. In some way, which I will
find out about in the morning, the
valve shutting off the water must
have opened, flooding the room.
There is only one thing I cannot un-
derstand, and that is why you should
have jumped to the conclusion”that I
had designs upon your life.”
“You swore everlasting enmity,
you know, Dick,” I said, weakly.
He laughed long and loud like his
old: self. “I meant it, too,” he re-
plied. ‘But changed circumstances
have caused me to forgive the out-
rage you committed in cutting me
out with a certain young lady. Iam
now engaged to be married to Miss
Evelyn Goldthwaite, whom I believe
you know.”
“I do, indeed, Dick,” I said. ‘She
is a charming girl, and I wish you
all the happiness you deserve.”
That is all of the story. I suffered
nothing from my extraordinary ad-
venture beyond a bid cold in the
head. It is hardly worth mentioning,
but I may as well explain that the
curious flickering light which I saw
on the ceiling on that memorable
night was merely a moonbeam that
entered through the upper part of
one of the window shutters and was
reflected by the water.—Good Liter-
ature.
011
my fists; }-yelled and screamed in my |
Basis For Comparison,
In its efforts to form a sound basis
for comparison of the condition of
public roads, and for calculating
progress made in improvement of
these means of communication, the
Office of Public Roads, at Washing-
ton, has been collecting data to show
what was, in the year 1904, the ex-
act extent and condition, the charac-
ter and the cost of the highways of
the several States. In its issue for
January the Good Roads Magazine
gave a summary of the results of
this inquiry, so far as they had been
learned at that time. Additional re-
ports on the subject have since been
issued, including the following:
In 1904, Califérnia had 46,653
miles of public roads, of which 5843.5
miles were ‘surfaced with gravel,
418.5 miles with stone, and 2541.5
had been oiled, making in all 8803.5
miles of improved roads, or 18.8 per
cent., of all her roads. It appears
that there was 0.29 mile of road per
square mile of area, 1 mile of such
road for every 31 inhabitants, and 1
mile of improved road for every 168
inhabitants in that State.
Appropriations are made from
time te time by the Legislature to
build State roads in mountain re-
gions, all the cost thereof being paid
by the State. Convicts in the prison
at Folsom are employed in breaking
stone. The crushed rock is sold for
use in concrete work and on the pub-
lic roads. The price f. 0. b. at Fol-
som is thirty to forty cents per ton.
The cost of operating the crushing
plant for the year 1904 and prepar-
ing 54,552 tons of the material was
$15;654.95.
New Jersey had 14,842 miles of
public. roads in the year 1904. Of
these roads 481 miles were surfaced
with gravel, 1901 miles were mac-
adam, and 40 miles were covered
with shells, making a total of 2422
miles of improved road, or sixteen
per cent. of: all the roads in the
State. There were in New Jersey
1.97 mile of road per square mile of
territory, 1 mile of road for every
127 inhabitants, and for every 777
inhabitants there was 1 mile of im-
proved road.
On these roads the State spent
$250,000 in the year named, the total
expended on them that year having
been $3,024,811.25. This includes
$891,831.48 for repairing, mainte-
nance and construction of bridges.
In the year 1904 Oklahoma had
43,554 miles of public roads, or 1.1
mile of such road per square mile of
territory, which equaled 1 mile for
every 9 inhabitants. No improved
road was reported, but 298 miles
were described as impassable.
The territory seems to have spent
$774,775.59 on her roads in the year
mentioned, or $17.79 per mile of
road, which outlay was equal to $1.94
per inhabitant. .
Utah had 7090 miles of public
roads in 1904. Of these 597 miles
were surfaced with gravel and 11
miles with stone, making a total of
608 miles of improved roads. This
was 8.5 per cent. of her road mile-
age, 0.086 mile per square mile of
area, 1 mile of such road for every
39 inhabitants, or 1 mile of improved
road to every 455 inhabitants.—Good
Roads Magazine.
J
The Question.
An expert statistician has figured
that bad roads cost the people of the
United States $500,000,000 annually
If this is true it is high time the
question receive proper attention.
For many years men have been agi-
tating the better building of roads,
but- even those who would be most
benefited thereby have been prone
to dub these agitators ‘‘cranks.” But
the agitation received a great impetus
with the advent of the bicycle, and
when the automobile came additional
energy was generated. But the farm-
ers, the ones most interested from
a financial viewpoint, Qave been slow
to join the crusade. It is estimated
by men of experience in road building
that a macadamized roadway, eight-
een feet wide, may be built for an
average cost of $3000 per mile the
country over. This presents a good
opportunity for some comparative
figures. The country loses $500,000,-
000 a year because of bad rpads. In
round numbers $200,000,000 has
been appropriated for the army and
navy. At $3000 a nile the money
appropriated for the military arm of
the Government would build 70,000
miles of macadamized roads within
the next two years. In ten years
750,000 miles of sueh roadway could
be built, and in another four years
the money saved would give us more
for the army and navy than would
have been appropriated in the four-
teen yvears—and we would also have
the macadamized roads. Statistics
are mighty interesting things when
one gets started on them.—The Com-
moner.
The Kiss.
it has no value for only one per-
son.
It is the expression of supereme
happiness for two persons.
The child gets its gratis.
The young man steals it.
The old man buys it.
It is the right of children, the priv-
ilege of lovers and the mask of hyp-
ocrites. =~ -
For a young lady it represents
Faith, for the wife Hope, and for the
old maid Charity.—New York World.
{
FIGHT IN CHURCH
Clergyman Takes Hand in Fray Fol
lowing Communion in Philadel-
phia Church.
general
fight,
A genuine
rough and tumble
in by the rector, the
Knight, vestrymen and members. of
the congregation, was the unusual
climax of morning services at Em-
manuel Protestant Episcopal church,
Marlborough street and Girard ave-
nue, Philadelphia. The rector was
much shaken up as the result of -a
personal mixup with George Shegog,
the leader of the faction actively op-
posed to him. No one was seriously
injured, but several of the partici-
pants counted bruised heads, numer-
ous lacerations and badly torn cloth-
Ing as souvenirs. The congregation
had participated in communion only
a few minutes before the fight.
The Emmanuel church has been
faction-torn for some time and the
rector is under $1,000 bail upon the
technical charge of having embezzled
last year's Easter collection. Last
Monday two sets of vestrymen were
chosen at the election, one favorable
to the rector and the other to his op-
ponents.
and free-for-all
participated
Rev. E. G.
AHEAD OF ALL OTHERS
Pennsylvania University Leads
Increase of Students.
The board of trustees of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania held its an-
nual meeting on the 11th at the office
of Gov. Stuart, ex-officio president of
the board . Provost Harrison report-
in
ed that there were nearly 4,000 stu- |
dents of whom 3,000
Pennsylvania, and nearly
ers of the teaching body.
th of the univerkity the past five
years has exceeded in percentage of
increase and in absolute numbers that
come from
400 memb-
The grow-
of any ether university in the United:
States. It is estimated that $2,500,000
will be required to meet the necessary
expenses the next two fiscal years.
The tuition fees received amount to
little -more than one-third of the ex-
pense account of the institution. The
university has only a small amount of
income from invested funds.
Legislative Notes.
The following bills passed finally:
Authorizing the appointment by
County Commissioners of three as-
sessors in each legislative district in
counties having a population of not
less than ene hundred and ninety
thousand nor more than five hundred
thousand.
Providing for the abolishing of rail-
road crossings at grade over streets,
roads: and highways within cities,
boroughs and townships of the first
class and for the payment of the costs
and expenses incurred in making the
changes.
Regulating rates and charges
carrying freight and passengers
narrow guage railroads.
Regulating the public service of
stallions and to require their registra-
tion.
Authorizing County Commissioners
to rebuild bridges on sites owned by
corporations or hy private persons or
built by public subscriptions over a
stream or river forming a boundary
line between two counties where the
bridges have been destroyed.
direct and approve such sales.
Providing for the appointment of a
guardian for insane persons, feeble-
minded persons and epileptics unable
to care for their own property; au-
thorizing the guardian to support the
wife and children of such persons
bearing the duties of the guardian and
authorizing the sale of real estate of
the ward.
Making the fraudulent procuring of
a party's own signature forgery.
Regulating the sale of wheat, rye,
corn, buekwheat, bran and middling.
Appropriating $180,000 to State Col-
lege to complete the agricultural
building and to pay deficiencies in
maintenance.
for
by
Little Girl Bleeds to Death.
After her right ear and part of her
right cheek had been cut off by. a
scythe, Mary, the 9-year-old daughter
of J. N. Williams, a farmer living near
Addison, bled to death before medical
aid could reach her. The girl at-
tempted to remove the scythe from
the bough of a tree, and it fell,
striking her in the face.
Civil Service Examinations.
Civil Service examinations
clerks éarriers will be held
Vande
ton Ay il
the postoffices at these places.
The nominations of J. M. Swear-
ingen, Thomas D. Carnahan and Jos-
fah Cohen to be judges of the newly
created Common Pleas Court of Alle-
gheny County, were reported from
committee and, confirmed by the Sen-
ate.
for
and at
20 tn fill vacancies in
on
Camden Foreman, 30 years old, was
arraigned at East Drady, charged with
attempting to wreck a fast passen-
ger train running from Juffalo to
Pittsburgh on the Duffalo & Alle-
gheny. He denies his guilt.
As the result of slippery rails, a
collision occurred on the Sharon &
West Middlesex street railroad line
at South Sharon. Motorman William
Fouts had both legs broken and sever-
al passengers were cut by glass.
Guard’s Rifle Practice Season.
General orders were issued from
the headquarters of the National
tuard of Pennsylvania today announc-
ing that the current season for rifle
practice will open May 1 and close
October 31, next. i
Norristown—The eleventh section of
the State Hospital for the Insane was
completely destroyed tonight, © en-
tailing a loss estimated at $50,000.
The building was occupied by 230
feeble-minded persons. The attend-
ants succeeded in getting all of the
occupants out safel@
KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS
elsewhere.
“much better now than
A SOCIAL LEADER
OF KANSAS CITY
Attributes Her Excellent Health to
Peruana.
Rww—
MRS. W. H. SIMMONS.
N RS. W. H. SIMMONS, 1119 E-~ 8th
AYA St., Kansas City, Mo., member
the National Annuity Association,
writes:
“My health was excellen. until about a
year ago, when I had a complete collapse
from overdoing socially, not getting the
Proper rest, and too many late suppers.
My stomach was in a dreadful condition,
and my nerves all unstrung.,
“T was advised by a friend to try Pe-
runa, and evenfually | bought a bottle. F-
took it and then another, and kept using
it for three months.
“At the end of that time my health was
restored, my nerves no longer troubled me,
and [ felt ‘nyself once more ad able to
assume my social position. [ certainl, feel
that Peruna is deserving of praise.’’
There are many reasons why society
women break down, why their nervous
systems fail, why they have systemic or
pelvic catarrh. Indeed, they are especially
liable to these ailments. No worder they
require the protection of Peruna. It is
their shield and safeguard.
An Indian Race Legend.
A new-State paper says that the
Seminole Indians believed that when
the Great Spirit created this world
He made three men, all fair of skin.
He led them to a lake and bade them
jump in. The first obeyed and came
out whiter than. when he entered the
waters; the second hesitated, going
into the lake when the water was a
trifle muddy, hence came out copper
colored; the third leaped in last and
came out black. According to the le-
gend, the Great Spirit then led them
to three bundles, askin® - each to
choose one. The black man chose the
heaviest, which was found to contain
spades, hoes and other implements
used in the performance of manual
labor; the second found in his sack a
fishing rod, a gun and warlike weap-
ons; the white man chose the sack
which contained pen, ink and paper,
and this, so the story goes, laid the
foundatron for his superiority over
other races.—Kansas City Journal.
How Lion Is Henpecked. .
“Should some of the strenuous .la-
dies of the United States happen to
visit the New York. Zoo,” said the
animal painter, “they would be en-
couraged in their contempt of man.
The lion is often lauded as the creat-
ure of pre-eminent courage. But in
domestic life he isn’t a circumstance
compared with the lioness. When
she smiles, he humbly approaches
and fawns upon her. When she
frowns, he litigers trembling in the
corner. And if perchance she emits
a growl he crouches close to the floor
until her majesty may feel in better
humor. No, indeed. Many human
husbands may feel that their wives
are inclined to domineer. But ot
complete subservience of male to fe-
male the king of beasts is the most
striking example.””—New York Press.
ROMANTIC. DEVONSHIRE
The Land Made Famous by Philpotts®
Novels.
Philpotts has made us familiar
with romantic Devonshire, in his fas-
cinating novels, “The River,” *‘Chil-
dren of the Mist,” etc. The charac~
ters are very human; the people there
drink coffee with the same results as
A writer at Rock House,
Orchard Hill, Bideford, North "ecvon,
states:
“For 30 years 1 drank coffee
break{ast and dinner but some
vears ago I found that it was produc-
ing indigestion and -heart-burn, and
making me at night.
These symptoms were followed by
brain fag and a sluzzish mental con-
dition.
“When I realized this, 1 made up
my mind that to quit drinking coffee
and having recd of P'ostum, I con-
cluded to try it. 1 had it carefully
made, according. to, directions, and
found to my agreeable surprise at the
end of a week, that I no longer suf-
fered from either indigest heart-
Purn, or brain fag, and that I could
drink it at night and secure restful
and refreshing sleep.
“Since that time we have entirely
discontinued. the use of the old kind
of coffee, growing fonder and fonder
of Postum as time goes on. My di-
gestive organs certainiy do their work
before, a re=-
sult due to Postum Food Coffee, I am
satisfied.
“As a table beverage we find (for
all the members of my family use it)
that when properly made it is most
refreshing and agrecable, of delicious
flavour and aroma. Vigilance is,
however, necessary to secure this, for
unless the servants are watched they
are likely to neglect the thorough
boiling which it must have in order
to extract the goodness from the
cereal.” Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little
book, “The Road to Wellville,” in
pkgs. “There's a reason.”
for
was rectlasy
ion,
Bo.