THE FRIEND THAT NEVER WAS, —— who seemed be; any good me, I met a gentleman As nice as he could While I could do him He was a friend to But when I wouldn't boost He rose and took his hat And made himself exceeding We've all had friends like He stuck As long as 1 Laughed at the ancic jobes And boomed me to the When my resources vanished My money. ceased to talk, He folded up his tents and things And straightway took a walk. his game scarce that. liquid buy, nt glue 1 told me like would to SK) ¥ nd ON SEA OR LAND. too oft, alas: sonic fair weather friends; around us like a «loak can serve their ends, But when no longer we produce ance we used to do, straightway rise and That is With “hey hang When we the way # i They shake them solves And 1lit to pastures new. friend who doesn’t make of ‘a parade, sre when you're ive me the Too much But who is thi A very present aid, Who comes when yoa are And no relief ¢ an ©, And gently sa 9 “. e2v up, And kindly on me.” —From joston in need, in the. dumps old man, arazwv the Transcript: BLEOLOLES EOE LEELA OL OAOAEESAOS ELBEEE TOUGH ON O’BRIEN. QUITTER. GAOT ITITITITS & & & Nose: TORTS than illiam scarce: to be Castleadare county of indeed, as Mel widow You've the By A. A braver W. McCornathy there passed cn the road betwixt and Port Stewart in the ‘Derry. very bold are they both of them, those athys, their elie being a woman and their her dead. heard tell of the time Cormac robbers to fiight Dreen bridge Jinny Finerty’'s wedding. "He was coming home along from Port Stewart, a fairly sober, when, be- hold, just a stretch from his own cabin on the Castledarc ¥nd of the stood two evil looking fellows with And Corma: McCcn- vet some 50 -years age in his bones, and crossing the slung into. it, all: for xpence down in his bree:h- he just craftily drops aside into the shadows and begins to bray like a donkey. Then he taiks to the donkey in a persuasive, scothing tone, advis- ing him to go back home to Po Stewart, The donkey: hrays back in a confidential pitch of voice. Cormac blarneys him & bit. more, till the blackguards on the br at the supernatural proceeding: Cormac passes over alone unmolested. Well now. That same Cormac: Mec- Conathy’is brother to Willie, the bad luck to offend the fairy. day Willie was he went out the Kernahan boys of Portrush, freighter, ’twixt Liverpool and ville. . It was trips and pay, or at least, ing at all, which is what he was get- ting and plenty of it before that day. The Widow McConathy's darling he was, being her very youngest, and Cor- mac the only other son to her back. So it was the brave heart in her that spoke up and said: *Good bye to ye, says she. “I'll he Wednesday,” she says. ver mothei’s stockin’, days it'll take ye to fill shillin’s!” ‘Which was sentiment, coming from Conathy, the generous woman Still, thrce might have ficed to part stocking had not Willie found a few ces to fill with the shillings, Liver- pool two the now and z in nothing cof Portrush, Castledare itself, where as fine een, William M be 20 in not when he George Dock young inan is He is put on he Ya rd stead of and shilling going river bei es, Mo- short good Willie asthore,” lockin’ for the “An' remimber an’ the honest it with silver a very thrifty Bridget she ve is. years suf- the other pla with and a oid ‘Derry, to say and Moyville there i: fill what week, day came aiong and cConathy all; unlading Liverronl, ight lez one «Gi on hed <pPpe ithe at the fell was tiarss hia CTrOSsWise and sn it : sct : a fas and the next Wedne 3 found Willie laid up snug and Tot in his mother’s hin forby the tledare end of 1 xo. It was 2 piece f luck fcr Willie McConathy i 1 learned read a bil, fcr was an in the cain, a delightful thing looking into the weeks the 1 was knitting a stitch at a time. That book the cue Father Muldoon gave to old Cormac (the cCend. one), who, to the truth of it, had been to school once at Colerane and learn- ed a great al ‘more than he could remember at all. Anyhow, t never made a Dien cf hin. Well, now, was dr book made 1 en‘er:aining; it being all wri - Wi liam Shakes- ar. “A Midsummer Ngat's Die ) was the neme of cue piece it: it was in there whole lines tog: that Willie got to read without ping more than a good many of words. It’s a nice, der Dreen bridge for ‘ot like these when Willie his bones to mend. Cas- here to: be was tell (qe pe coel plaze they have un- summer days a3 waiting for A man can coolness and whatever If you have the little by handy, so much the When the water had thing but the is on his mind. cruiskeen ncar better for you. run under the bridge he had his hurt, Wille began to hop out on a crutch. He He took the. other aleng, too; and beiween the witcheries o’ them both he had the following ventures, which I have all from lie’s voice in my ear. “pDivil a wurrud cut of ‘im, standin’ here the past hour with all!” 'Twas a tiny voice, says Wil» and he looked about him to see w... was speaking. There was the Leck on the rock where he had laid it when he tcok his bit of a doze the afternoon; there was the fine little bottle, such a com- fort; and there was the crutch. Ah! There on the strand straight before him in a light made by the dancing the water Wil- ‘on- | | the day, af- | | red | dudeen, bridge, | { there of | in- | the | ri | 2 : [the idge tale @wlarm | and | | name, who had | The | with | A : On. a! haun! { me better pay than noth- | | not to | the edge | down, | for Mc- | | his | with only | bing { snapping off with the | stranded | could pool to ‘a. skewer, i smithe to | old book | zg of him | | crazed, | couldn’t "| Willie well enough. home with, care 67-4 hoy | self. six weeks since | | doon used to take-the book and go and sit on the rock by! ad- | and me | it | { with Sls 2 2) 2 ny waves reflected up against the arch! Sure, it was the little king of the book, big as life, which was not big a bit, for ple! Wi out Illie looked your Oberon, I believe. Now the king him, and the crown sideways on whiskers, and Willie airies at him. majesty,” yy. “The top 0’ says he. robes: all over sweetest. of a golden his head. had puffed tells me. he had the mud, river under puffed a had Je away 80 holdi he little robes out by the He gant the stood old on his of as bridge. pipe. minute “King O’Brien thread-like voice, Willie lcoked he correcied in a frowni into the becok a SCU- | ond. “Oberon,” he re;ea The king was mad. “I tell ye O’Brien!” “Wiiliam Shakespeare Puck's he shriek was ‘no Irish- name is Pooha; and is O’Brien. We have been suf- the injustice and Gppression of Englishman these 250 years!” Willie was brave, and what's he loved to gab. : ‘Tell me,” he savs. *“Mebbe then, was Bridget?” O’Brien began to pace up and down a rage. . “Niver ye meind her name, Don’t I know me own name, king of all the Ulster sidhee last thousand years?’ “There's no doubting ye're an Irish- man, me fine little man,” says. Willie, be daunted. ‘But ye're small to the race! Ye'd better look nine ferin’ in omad- and credit iin the book and see how to spell your own name. If that’s O'Brien, then my {name is Halloran!” And he held up the book towards of the water, where the fu- rious O’Brien hopping up and splashing the river fearfully. “May ye niver know yourself again three days of it!” screamed the king, shaking his fist Willie reached for thing he knew the poor neck in the water a leg and a half, willow branches pull drowned littl the trees. in, it moved with current. : Not an he find. It was late The tide was running cut, and Willie down to the sca It was a iracle cf ever the saints him was, they saw to swee: clerics, off the coast, where he stuck on a rock like a rat his best all smashed reens, and him with as breath in him as the bellows Donovan sat on. His head was hit into the ba i Next mornin him the rock safe in Portrush. was him. The next trying to swim and that . kept of him. He entirely if old Just him car aft: at been found have hadn't under would he as he climbed into the swift to rooon. it tc in W6 0 mnaqers out of it. him £01 fit how AB it the niles on 10 Mike hard fishing boat picked and set him down But Willie was half and. as I'm telling the trath, that hour for three days remember his own name! Portrush, they They, gocd hearts, shelter, and early Sandiy got him a crutch to off from Kernahan's at gave bim morning sound in body, but dazed noonday. McCena queer road as an owl at Now Cormac Bridget began to smell willie stayed away end ness when hy fron broken awa; hed boor table down to look from scarce micuies vihen under the | Willie had cr sit | there on a rock and just forget every- | { tracted woman and his bottle th 3 on it, Biddy McConat hy vas a when Cormac returned with the ook, the bottle and the crutch, but never hit of Willie him- Well, they searcled three days, and at the end of that, I">*her Mul- just said sure William ITcCon- rest his soul, wa§ a dead oe, tidewater and swept in the rush of athy, drowned in the out to sea, most like, the ebb. So the fourth day, in the morning, | which was a Sunday, Father Muldoon made ready to say a mass for the soul Willie, and to preach a sermon upon follies of going too near the water a bottle of potheen a fine clear morning over of the It was | sea-and land. Willie hopped along on his crutch the five miles from Portrush to Castledare, happy as a lark, without the last notion who in the world he was. He didn’t even care. Re remem- beréd only Yliry Kernahan saying, “Mind » iieep the road, Willie, till you cic:: le Dreen, and there at the FATA TILE HD | sione | piishments of the deceased. he was of the Good Peo- | { young men of ithe parish the “King | up | | gation severely. more | | Titania’s | doon, i | cols { drowned this | boy was up to | grab- | punt it | ! no | " fact much | he | The | knew | walk | and set him on the Casile- | old | dis- i other shore of it 1s thy's cabin,” Willie had and Rept in mind the who lived in the cabin, sounded familiar somehow. was ail he Knew. By and hy, Willie comes to bridge and the cabin, and nobody the cabin. So he walks ‘on to church where people were going Now three days of beard on him, and at Kernachan's sea packet, and the crutch which people were not used to with him, all these made it possible, what I'm telling you. Besides, they going to .a mass for his soul, and weren't expecting to himself there anyhow. Villie went on into the church.. He sat near the door and listened with reverence to the mass. When it came to the sermon. Father Muldoon re- ferred touchingly to the loss of Wil- liam Mc¢Conathy from drowning in the Dreen, and embellished iis highly moral remarks with cbservations on the industry, filial respect, religious devotion, and marked literary ac “Thank ye kindly” woman's name because it Jut that said, the in the in. were gee com- But, alas, lesson to all sad end- virtues he must hold up as’ a of one potheen half empty boside the book. share our possessing these had been his ruin. A cruiskeen had been found Thus virtue and vice charcters, and woe to ing The in all us when vice gets an upperhold! Willie listened, it was over, B Lizzie Burns wailed altar, and presently was ‘in. tears. soit-hearted indeed touched him to weening, and he when he shed a athy, as they say. much edified. When t McConathy and aloud up near the whole congre- Willie felt very over: it dll It the old = woman in that tear just of Then people see wis tion out symp | | got up to go home. 1 turned minute 5 the saw yiddy MecConathy tow2 door. ard there .in a villie wipi the tear in his “Willie hore!” she screamed. it yourself or a ghost of ve? Now when Willie heard called out by his very and looked in the face of membered all at ence who he he called out in the ye Savin’. yer riverence, laze make this all over to some needs it afore it gets says he. “For I'm not a bit in water, “not I, yer river- It was all that pesky little king of a fairy man, the divil O’Brien was his name at all. But bless the saints in heaven, here am I home again after ail these mortal days!’ he says. In all the village, not till that day, in the churchyard : was there such weeping and rejoicing and talking whatever! Well, she eye, 2) his name own mother, her, he re- was, and Father Mul- dead 1.” one as ence! in a week or more Willie was sound again, mind and limb, and went back on the freighter to work. And himself told me all about the fairy king with his own mouth when I saw him the other week or two. He sure looks fine these and he mention- ed that the steeking of Bridget MceCon- athy slowly filling on with his own silver shillings. Which both hers and Lizzie Burns have reason to feel glad of. For Wil] 25 never touched a drop of potheen from that day to necw,—New York News. Now, days is QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Japan has no fewer each model The emperor of than thirty residences, yf comfort. $1600 to the army. single guns It eosts shot from used in the over cone French of Few New Yorkers are aware of the that the East river was known as the Sait river 200 years ago. and again in 1903, people across Niagara river dryshod. phenomenon was caused up of the ice on the head of Goat island. In 1848, walked The strange by the banking ledges near the means - an old 1ilitary The term comes from the old pensioners of Edinburg Castle, whose chief business was to fire the guns or assist in quelling street riots. Old Fogy pensioner. The “pons asinorum’” refers to IJuclid’s fifth proposition—that of the isosceles triangle—the first difficult theorem, which dunces rarely get cver for the first time without stum- bling pearly as much to pay the of the municipal servants of New Yerk city as it does to support the entire army of the United States. The ‘ies amou close to $70,000,- 000 annually. It ct salaries ELS nt The present aeronautical activity recalls the kite craze of 55 years ago when kite carriages were being ex- tensively built and experimented with. With the aid of two large kites a carriage was pulled 25 miles an hour. North and east bound commuters from New York city are well satis- fied ‘at having the Grand Central sta- tion in Forty-second street, but there is considerable complaint that they have to walk to Forty-sixth and For- ty-eighth streets to board the trains. In the Cottonian library in Eung- land is an old manuscript copy of a part of the Bible in Latin. This was used at the coronations of English sovereigns 300 years before the “stone of destiny” was brought from Scone to Westminster by Edward I. In other words, the use of this Bible for the purpose in question dated back to the year 1000. Bridget MiGonae the { peared, le | lelared dead friends | to { his { him condi- | dead { heritance {a search, { missing ! mento, “ig | | years { woman's | of the state banking department. | defalcations | Will olf | Mt. | ship | libraries, { ter, | Bank, of [ tendent Edgar About | brary are {in | will be the | Ellsworth | when the debtor i Omillian | was | Arden, a {owner of a stable adjoining the build- PENNSYLVANIA STATE NEWS HOUSES WRECKED Miner Throws Cigaret Into Can of Powder, With Usual Result. Johnstown.-—Mike Shuncik, a miner of l.oganstown, threw the butt of a cigaret into a can of powder and explosion resulted, in which the man | his clothing afire, was hurled from the second floor of the house the ground. He cannot live, The house was practically demol- ished. Other boarders put out a fire |! which began to consume the hed on which the victim was reclining be fore. the flames recached the two other cang of powder under the hed. | Nearby houses were damaged the explosion. At Twin cansed the probably two men. A spark lamp drepped into a with the result that terribly burned. wrecked. an to by a powder explosion | fatal injury of from a lighted can of powder two men were The house Rocks, COMES TO CLAIM ESTATE Case of Enoch Arden Type at Lan- caster, Pa.—Encch Gets $12,000. Lancaster. — Although eflicially several vears ago and for years believed by his wife and here to have died, George Gable appeared in the local court claim $12,600 from the esrate uncie. Jacob Gable. Seventeen years aving his children. All failed and hig him doad. remarried. When Jacob Gable Gable, one of the by the court. do- many M. 290. wife effor = wife, small believing died in 1904, was declared The executors, however, refused to pav ever the in- to his widow and instituted which resulted in the long man being found in Sacra- Cal. (lable came court today ago heirs, identified he left 17 heir. The has begun ang w wife rightful husband a divorce. east as by hig as the second proceedings for in STATE TO AID PROSECUTION | Examiner Says California Bank Short: age Is Nearly $83,000. Berkey informed Washington 3ank Examiner the district attorney that the latter, in the prosecution of the People’s Bank cases, would have the ascistance of cne of the attorneys The amount of Bank is Of this at examiner states the in the California between $75,000 and $83,000. amount Cashier O. F. Piper and W. L.. Lenhart of Brownsville are held responsibie for $65,000] while Piper and Max Avner, a California. mer-:! chant, are charged with conspiring to defraud the institution out of between $7,000 and $8.000. Over $34,000 is bank said to have been TO ESTABLISH LIBRARIES Be Located in Townshin High Schocls, but ‘Accessible to All Residents. The Fast. Huntin and Allezheny are to have circulatiz the gzift of M. A. 1. Keis- president of the TItirst National Scotidale. 1,000 bcoks for each selected by County Superin- R. C. Shaw and Professor Reed of the Scottdale schools. 200 of the hooks in each li- devoted farm life. libraries will be located high schecels, they to all residents of zdon, town- Scottdale. Pleasant schocls | | The were library {0 While the the township accessible township. of Savings causes Insanity. miner, loaned $150 in the mines at several weeks ago, and disappeared recently me despondent. He the. county "home at raving. maniac. The money lcaned represented the savings of nearly a year. The missing man has not been located. Loss John Omillian, a to another worker beca taken to Drops Dead From Excitement. Fire destroyed the four-story build- ing ot Cadwalader and Berks streets, Philadelphia, occupied by Kerr, Say-! lor & Co., manufacturers of carpets, | and the Pennsylvania Gas Fixture Company. The loss is estimated at $150,000. Milton Hoagland. aged 50, ing, dropped dead from excitement | while removing horses from his place To Work for Local Option. The Ministerial Association of Char- leroi has taken up local option work in that town. A committee will en- deavor to have Governor J. Frank. Hanly of Indiana and other temper- ance lecturers deliver addresses. To | secure the election of members of the | Legislature svho will vote for a local | option is the uhjeer of the movement. Fire Destrove Landmark: A relic of stage coach days was de- stroved. at Greensburg when an old log house which served as an inn and relay station on the old Pittsburg pike was burned. The house was 125 years old and was a familiar landmark, half a mile beyond the borough limits. Robbers Demolish Store. Robbers broke into the East Side drug store of Charles L. Hay, at Du- | bois, in which a branch of the post- 1 office is located, early this momng | and almost completely demolished it. All of the furnishings of the store | were wrecked, and show. cases were smashed and strewn about the room, the cash register was broken open and a considerable amount of money taken. The loss of stock will amount to about $1,000. In the postoffice seVv- eral mail pouches were broken open and a quantity of stamps taken. | of 1 to | Heckscherville i operated | the { resume FROM FEN TO JAIL Rocco Racco, Black Hand .ly, Faces in Lawrence Coun- Two Charges.. alleged founder of the society in Lawrence believed to be the real local ‘king of the order, is now hind the bars of the county jail. He has just been brought from the Riv- erside penitentiary in Pittsburg, where he served a year for defraud- ing - an Italian school teacher in Hillsville out of a considerable sum money, Racco will be two charges of Black When arrested at New 1906, $2,000 bail was demanded Italians furnished the cash and posited it. in bank, the which then gave bail for left - hurriedls but was New York, ij as he leave. for Rocco Racco, Black Hand county and tried in March Hand robbery. and de- Racco. captured was about in to Italy. CONFESSES AN OLD MURDER Italian Admits Killing in Florida Sev- enteen Years Colossa is confined lie. jail ‘on: the f murdering a fellow Augusthe, Fla. Ago. Gabriella Drookvi € -country- 17 years recently appeared Darratt and declared his guilt, claiming that: a man was shadowing him stantly and he was afraid his The magistrate ed the Yiff in “St. infornied that Joe vlian, had been m and the irderer deputy sheriff, who is the crime also knew the alleged loverliis on his ‘way north. TRY TO ASSASSINATE PRIEST Partially Wreck Parish Adjoining Residence. to Kill Several. The third attempt at of Rev. Father port, was made house was partially and an adjoining two-story residence vecupied by families was destroyed. The attempts to kill - the priest were made, it is said, crted his influence to break The latest attempt was planned to exterminate of the first workmen to mine when the strike was off. con life. with and was rich. Tt 18890 she L.andia, a urdered escaped. familiar mur- Plan assassination when the nie frame foreigners’ a strike. also re-enter the declared THREE YOUNG SKATERS DROWN Weight of Large Crowd Too Much for | : lise | no special effort may -along Thin Ice. Three Italian boys were in a vond near Bangor. had been skating when the drowned The lads ice, under v SR 5 : | the weight of a large crowd of merry- obtained on cashier's checks to which | | : i : v | the signature of Miss Mary Bird is al- |leged to have been forged. | makers, gave way. The drowned boys Biglioni, aged 14; Angelo azed ib, and Peter Falconi, The bodies were recovered. were. 17. aged Railroad Conductor Killed. Charles Stanley, a Lehigh Railroad conductor residing at City, was Killed at Easton, and body was found on top of a freight car. There was a hole wilroad men who knew not believe he was struck by They contend that he was ful and: that: if he had. been an overhead obstruction his would have been crushed. Stanley do a bridge. too care- hit by head Board of Pardons to Meet. The regular meeting of the of pardons will be held January when the caseg scheduled for the meeting will be heard. granted a further respite Cnreio, © the 1. murderer, . from January 17 January: 23. Curcio’'s ‘case come hefure the board of the fifteenth. 15; De- cember Stuart Saverio county Historic Mine Fire Extinguished. After 18 months of incessant fight- ing officials of the Reading Iron Coal Company, announced that fire in Old. Pine Knot colliery at has been extinguish- The fire has been burning in mine for 28 vears. The old and workings will now be joined and together. od. the new Over 4,000 Will Go to Work. Announcement was made that on 1st of January, practically every depariment of the Cambria Steel Company's plant at Johnstown would operations and that fully 75 cent of the men laid off during recent financial stringency would Over 4,000 men are per the returpy to work. affected. Captain Hurst Resigns. Captain Nathaniel J. Hurst of Com- pany E, Tenth Regiment, N. G. P., has resigned because of press of private business. - ‘He is a veteran of the | Spanish War and the Philippine cam- | probably Lieutenant His successor will Adjutant paign. be Battalion James Harkins. Cameron Cool. Unknown robbers entered the home of - Cameron Cool at West Pittston and. after fracturing his skull with a blunt instrument, robbed him of $300. Cool died tonight. He was a breeder Robbers Kill and owner of race horses. Waynesburg. — Diphtheria is epi- demic at Jefferson. There are three cases in the family of Charles Bur- nett, while children of Dr. Forest Sharpnack, George Moredock and John Neal are among others ill Uniontown—Thieves broke into the house of William Yauger near Percy and choked Yauger and his wife to force them to reveal the hiding place of $2,000, the savings of a lifetime. Washington. ——- After striking down Mrs. Mary Vitka, at her home in Canonsburg, a burglar robbed her of $8 and jewelry. Alleged King of the | be- | Castle during | officials of | He | i sulting in the | self-confessed | before | of | communicat- | Augustine | in | A | with ! House and | John Chenelik, of Ex- | parish | wrecked by dyna- | two because he ex- | evidently | several | | men | go | contests Philip | Talmeiri, | | tation | teams draw good recruits and soldiers | to enlist there. Valley | Jersey i his | | these in his head. | | practice. | general, | heen Iwas board | 1¢ | tice Gov. | 10 | 1ckawanna | a will | pardons on & ! the ! SINKS AND DRAINS A FRE- QUENT CAUSE OF TYPHOID Purify These and You Will Be Safe From Contagion — Disinfecting the Only Preventative—Borax, a Simple, Safe and Sure Method. How to keep our homes clean, sweet and free from germ influences is a | question. While alarm, there is no occasion for it is always well to be fore- *An Ounce of Preventinn Is Better Than a Pound of Cure,” and no ounce of prevention has yet been discovered that is more armed on the theory that upon | simple, more direct and more effec- i tive, yet harmless to the human sys- tem, than 3orax. Jorax has been known and used for generations as a purifier and preven- tive inating from uncleanly conditions re- and and when used as a hot solu- the proportion of two hot offending against epidemic influences orig- from unsanitary sinks drains, tion in table=- gallon of the removes every spoonfuls to a flushed through tions, germs and water loca- trace of disease renders the pipes clean and wholesome. Jorax in addition to its hygienic qualities, is a household and can mestic purposes. necessity, dg= It softens the water, will kitchen be used for numberless linen dazzling white, the make it makes cleanse every article in or dining room and bright, will prevent moths, soften and whiten the skin, remove dandruff and cleanse the scalp, and for cleansing and ster- ilizing baby’s milk bottle and nipple has no equal. Borax, unlike every other and disinfectant, less to the system, and is simple, economical, and can be purchased at any. druggist or grocery. A ‘dainty book in colors, called the “Jingle Book,” will be sent free to any Mother sending name and address of her baby and tops from two one-pound cartoas of "20-Mule Team” Borax, with 5c. in stamps. Address Pacific Coast Borax Co., New York cleanser is: absolutely harm safe, Effect of Athletics. Aside from its physical effect, the moral effect of athleties, in the case of the soldier, at least, is of no small value. My experience has been that are likely to drink in the ball or baseball season, even though they may be addicted to the of intoxicants. And this though have been made these lines by those in charge the sports. The class of men who in for athletics and excel in such are the most desirable sol- diers and the best all-around men. Still another advantage of athletics is that gocd athletic teams and the repu- for a post of having champion Moral less foot of Army and Navy Life. Hinpophady; Hippophagy being in low later days. somebody himself to show what respectable history attaches to the Among the ancients, espe- in China, cating horseflesh was and it was only killed in Eu- rope by a papal decree of Gregory I11, though why horseflesh should have interdicted not appear. It only the famine caused by Napo- lecon's invasion that revived the prac- in Germany, where it has sur- ever since.—London Globe. 2 Watch for the Blind. A watch for the use of the blind has the hours indicated by movable buttons in relief on the dial. A strong minute. hand indicates minutes only. A blind person who passes his hand over the (dial finas tne button indicating the house depressed. FOUND A To Be Clear of the water in has set an exceedingly cially does vived WAY Coffee Troubles, “Husband and myself both had the coffee habit and finally his stomach and kidneys got in such a bad condi-- tion that he was compelled to give up a good position that he had held for years, He was too sick to work. His skin was yellow, and I hardly think there was an organ in his body that was not affected. “I told him I felt sure his sickness was due to coffee, and after some dis- cussion he decided to give it up. “It was a struggle, because of the powerful habit. - One day we heard about Postum and concluded to try it, and then it was easy to leave off cof- fee ‘‘His fearful headaches grew less frequent, his complexion began to clear, kidneys grew better until at last he was a new man altogether, as a result of leaving off coffee and tak- ing up Postum. Then I began to drink it, too. ‘Although I was never as had off as my husband, I was always very nervous and never at any time very strong, only weighing 95 1bs. before I began to use Postum. Now I weigh © 115 1bs. and can do as much work as any one my size, I think. “Many do not use Postum because they have not taken the trouble to make it right. I have successfully, fooled a great many persons who have drunk it at my table. They, would remark, ‘You must buy a high grade of coffee.” One young man who clerked in a grocery store was very enthusiastic about my. ‘coffee.’ When I told him what it was he said, "Why, I've sold Postum for four years but I had no idea it was like this. Think I'll drink Postum hereafter.’ ” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Welle ville,” in pkgs. ‘‘There’s a Reason.”
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