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THE GOODLY COUNTRY.
I've never seen a hill but looked at me with grave content,
Good-naturedly and cheerfully, whichever way I went;
Though it were bleak and bare and brown, it shouldered to the sky,
'And looked at me in quiet peace when 1 went slowly by;
But any building, be it house, or temiiled place or mart,
iVill face a man with chilling brows that set him far apart.
I've never seen a country road that did not have the time
To loaf beside the forests where the blossomed vines would climb,
To coax me softly, lazily, to rest with it awhile
'And see the comfort it could tind in creeping mile on mile;
But city streets they blare at yon and will not If't you stay;'
They hustle you unceasingly. und drive your dreams away.
I've never seen the sky that shields the country-side at night
An ebon velvet drapery looped up with gems of li(jht
That did not seem to bend to me all friendlywise and bless
And pour a balm of comfort on my heart in its distress;
But when the city has its night the glare beats in vour eye,
And look whatever way you will, you cannot see the sky.
I've never seen a country road, or brook or hill or tree,
That did not have a kindly word to speak or sing to me;
They never crowd us to one side, they never sneer nor frown,
Nor view us strangerwise as do the streets are! walls of town.
And so sometimes I think that this may be the bidden plan
To show us how much, better God could make the world than man.
Chicago Evening Tost.
lllll UWOER THE COUNTERWEIGHT, tttit
By ALBERT W. TOLMAN.
Among his friends Harvey Monroe,
jolly, good hearted commission
merchant in one of the cities on the
great lakes, was known as "The Late
Mr; Monroe," a title that Indicated
his only serious failing. Harvey was
a thief of time.. To be sure, his pecu
lations generally extended to no
Ijiore than two or three minutes, and
often could be measured on the sec
, end dial. Still he was never just on
time, and his acquaintances formed
the habit of appointing their inter
views five minutes earlier than they
.wished to see him. By that means
they succeeded in keeping him fairly
punctual.
On November 7, 1903, Harvey met
.with an experience that effectually
cured him of procrastination.
At 10 that evening he had an im
portant business appointment at the
railroad station with a customer who
,was to stop off an hour between
trains. To reach the station it was
necessary for the merchant to cross'
the river which split the city in twain
end served as its harbor. Leaving
home five minutes late, as usual,, he
arrived at the Horton street bascule
bridge Just as it was raised to admit a
tug, towing two barges. A little ear
lier and he would have avoided this
delay. :
The river presented a long black
Vista, lined on each side with gloomy
.wharf ends and storehouse. At in
tervals it was spanned by bridges
sparkling with misty white electric
Btars. Now and then a red and green
lighted tug, churning asthmatically
along with tow of bargo or schooner,
whistled at this bridge or at that.
Up tilted the swlngingends, while the
ponderous counterweights sank into
the dismal pits below.
, Through went the tug. Down
dropped the bridge as the weights
rose, and the clogged streets emptied
themselves of vehicles and pedestrians
until the next'shrlll whistle split the
spans once more.
Like most chronic procrastinators
Harvey Monroe was always in a hur
ry. It seemed to him that the span
was kept raised unconscionably long.
Growing impatient he ducked un
der the street barrier and leaned over
close to the abutment to see where
the barges were. The bridge tenders,
buay with their duties, did not ob
serve him, and no other foot passen
ger was near. Deceived bv the black
ness he made a false step. The next!
instant he was falling beside the
granite abutment!
A few feet below he struck on his
inds and knees on a cement ledge,
he shock was violent, but a thick
cushion of slush and drippings from
the bridge broke the force of his fall.'
Down he slid, clawing desperately for
hand-bold, but finding none. Sud
denly he shot perpendicularly feet'
first into a narrow chasm, bringing
lip neck deep in ice cold water. He
tad dropped into the pit containing
the iron counterweight that balanced
the bridge.
' The suddennes of his catastrophe
tnmbfounded Monroe, although be
ad suffered no injury beyond being
J taken up and bruised. But the cold
ater in which be was immersed soon
recalled him to himself and empha
' sized the need of immediate action.
By feeling about,he discovered that
be was in a triangular space with
bard, slimy cement on two sides and
a mass of steel on the other. He
Jhust get out at once.
Just aa he thought of shouting for
help the machinery began to clank
and grind overhead, and the counter
weight slowly lifted, brushing past
blm in Its ascent to the position it oc
cupied when the bridge was down.
'As it rose, the water, which bad al
most touched his lips, began to fall,
and soon was no higher than bis
knees.
The commission merchant realized
that be must lose no time in letting
bis position be known. He threw all
bis breath Into vigorous shouts for
belp, but as the roadway of the bridge
settled into place above, it sealed the
pit wltb a lid of wood and metal
which prevented his cries from being
beard. Hurried footsteps passed
overhead; the (rumbling of wheels
echoed through bis prison, but his
frantic shouting, muffled by the inter
vening roof, attracted no attention.
Slipping, stumbling on the slimy
bottom, Harvey splashed round his
cell, talnly fingering the chill walls In
hope of discovering some way of es
cape. But, higb as be could reach,
the bard cement.afforded not a single
ledge or crevice, and In that pitchy
darkness be could not tell bow mock
farther the walls rose above him. He
had no means of ascertaining, for
there was nothing to give him a foot
hold. Harvey realized with sudden terror
that deadly peril threatened him
when the counterweight should next
descend. In grouping round his
dungeon he had lost his sense of po
sition, and could not be Bure of the
corner into which he had fallen. So
far as he knew, it was the only spot
that had not been occupied by the
tons of metal now suspended above
his head. When the bridge was
raised again and the weight fell,
what chance had he to avoid being
crushed to a jelly!
Cold and fright set Harvey's teeth
to chattering; his legs shook .so that
he could hardly stand. Unless he
could make his cries audible to the
bridge-tenders or some pedestrian the
next whistle, signifying that a tug
was approaching from up or down
river, would mark his doom. At all
hours of day and night theharbor
was a busy place, and no very long
period could elapse before the dread
ed signal would be heard.
As the horror of hla situation
dawned fully upon him a wild wave
of unreasoning terror swept over the
unhappy merchant. Almost crazed,
he hammered the walls with his lists,
dashing round and round through the
icy water, and making the well re
verbrate with his cries. Then he be
came more calm. Of what use to
wear himself out thus vainly! He
must save all his energies for an at
tempt to gain the notice of some ap
proaching pedestrian.
He stood In the middle of the pit in
dead silence, broken only by vague
sounds from outside and the gentle
lapping of water against his dungeon
walls. Presently he heard a faint
tapping of feet on the plank walk ap
proaching the bridge. Now was his
opportunity. At the top of his lungs
ho screamed hoarsely for help.
The feet stopped, as if their owner
had heard his voice and was trying to
locate It Hope buoyed the prisoner
up. He .redoubled his shouts, listen
ing painfully at short intervals. Then
to bis bitter disappointment the steps
passed hurriedly on.
Despair smote Harvey. Of what
avail to try again if those cries that,
had almost burst his throat bad ac
complished nothing! But death was
sure if he remained silent. Perhaps
the man above had been deaf, and the
next would have better ears. He
waited, hoped, trembling.
All this time the dread of an ap
proaching whistle hung over him.
Again and again he seemed to hear
it, faint and penetrating, and at every
suspicion his hair bristled. The
bridge lifted often at that hour. Al
ready it bad remained down much
longer than he had supposed possible.
Any second might herald his doom.
There was little prospect of attract
ing the notice of the bridge-tenders)
snugly ensconced in their house on
that cold night. Would another, pe
destrian never come?
Waiting there in the centre of the
pit Harvey forgot the freezing water
in w-hlch he stood, forgot his smart
ing bands' and numbly aching joints?
All else was overshadowed by the
nightmare of those tons of iron sus
pended averhrs head, ready at any
instant to descend and crush out bis
life. He knew tfint men had fallen
into these wells before, and that their
bodies had been taken out unrecogniz
able days and weeks afterward. Was
that to be his fate?
On a sudden another footfall
sounded above, firm, unhesitating,
rapid. Evidently its owner was bent
on business. A thought of his own
appointment, of his friend waiting in
the comfortable station, consulting
his watch and wondering why he did
not come, flashed through Harvey's
mind, and be rememered that it was
his fatal habit of being behind time
that bad involved-him in this predica
ment. All this shot through the mer
chant's brafn even as he raised bis
voice to shout again.
This time the passerby, apparently
preoccupied with his own-thoughts,
was not arrested by the faint cries
under him. Without hesitating the
footsteps passed on and died away.
Monroe had been almost deafened hy
the echoes of bis own clamoring.
Strange that no one else could hear
it!
Then, almost paralyzing brain and
body, came .the thing he had so long
dreaded. A faint whistle penetrated
his dungeon. He knew that ta the
open air outside It was the lou4
screech ot an approaching tug. All
would be over ere many seconds had
passed. .
Just then rapid footsteps above
again fell on his ears. Evidently
some one waB hastening to get across
before the bridge should be raised.
Monroe, grasping at the faint hope ot
rescue, set the pit ringing with his
cries.
Overhead came a creaking, a clank
ing. They were starting to raise the
draw. The footsteps stopped sudden
ly. The man had been too late to
cross, and nniBt wait until the tug
had passed.
The roof of the merchant's prison
slid harshly back. The counter
weight was descending. Whatever he
did must be done within the next few
seconds; Could he make the man
above appreciate his peril, so that he
in turn might cause the bridge-tenders
to understand-in time to check
the counterweight?
Harvey's, voice rose in a hoarse
shriek of agony, strange in his own
ears, hardly that ot a human being:
"Help! Help! Stop the bridge!"
The pedestrian above, astounded at
the cry rising so unexpectedly under
his feet, started back, and stood for
an instant petrified. Then realizing
that a life was at stake, he screamed
to the bridge-tenders:
"There's a man in the pit! Stop
the bridge!"
Monroe, flattening himself against
the cement wall, awaiting with trem
bling knees the doom that he feared
could not be averted, saw in the dim
light admitted by the sliding back of
his dungeon lid the black threatening
mass of the great counterweight over
head, and dropping slowly, remorse
lessly. He heard the shout of the
man above. Would the tenders un
derstand in time?
Down came the weight, lower, low
er. Three seconds more and It would
surely crush him. He groaned In de
spair. Then it stopped, so close to
his head that he could have touched
Its slimy bottom with his finger tips,
and he knew that he was saved.-
Youth's Companion.
ISIXG UP OVH TIMBER SUPPLY.
Three Times as Much Timber Used
Each Year as the Forest Grows.
Every person in the United States
Is using over six times as much wood
as he would use if he were in Eu
rope. The country, as a whole, con
suines every year between three and
four times more wood than all of the
forests of the United States grow In
the meantime. The average acre of
forest lays up a store of only ten cu
bic feet annually, whereas it ought
to be laying up at least thirty cubic
feet in order to furnish the products
taken out of it. Since 1880 more
than 700,000,000,000 feet of timber
have been cut for lumber alone, in
cluding 80,000,000,000 feet ot conif
erous timber In excess of the total
coniferous stumpage estimate ot the
census In 1880.
These. are some of the remarkable
statements made in Circular No. 97
of the Forest Service, which deals
with the timber supply of the Unlfed
States, and reviews the stumpage es
timates made by all the important
authorities. A study of the circular
must lead directly to the conclusion
that the rate at which forest products
In the United States have been and
are being consumed is far too lavish,
and that only one result can follow
unless steps are promptly taken to
prevent waste In use and to increase
the growth rate of every acre of for
est in the United States. This result
is a timber famine. This country Is
to-day in the same position with re
gard to forest resources as was Ger
many 150 years ago. During this pe
riod ot 150 years such German States
as Saxony and Prussia, particularly
the latter, have applied a policy of
Government control and regulation
which has Immensely increased the
productivity of their forests. The
same policy will achieve even better
results in the .United States, because
we have the advantage of all the les
sons Which Europe has learned and
paid tor in the course of a century ol
theory and practice.
Lest It might be assumed that the
rapid and gaining depletion of Amer
ican forest resources is sufficiently
accounted for by the increase of pop
ulation, ft is pointed out In the circu
lar that the increase in population
since 1880 is barely more than ball
the increase In lumber cut in the
same period. Two areas supplying
timber have already reached and
passed their maximum .production
the Northeastern States in. 1870 and
the Lake States In 1S90. To-day the
Southern States, which cut yellow
pine amounting to one-third the to
tal annual umber cut ot the country,
are undoubtedly near .their maximum.
The Pacific States Will soon take the
ascendancy. The State of Washing
ton, within a few years, has come to
the front, and now ranks first of all
Individual States In volume of cut.
New York .Evening Post.
With Few Exceptions.
Wilton Lackaye says that while on
a downtown "L" train one1 morning
recently be chanced to overhear por
tions of an -interesting conversation
between two young women ocduplnf
adjoining seats.
"I see by the paper," observedopt
of the young women, "that Mr.
Blank, the octogenarian, Is dead.
What on earth is an ' octogenarian,
anyhow?"
"I don't know, I'm sure," was tha
reply, "but there's ono (Aln certain
they're a sickly lot ot peeple.. "You
never hear of one unless bo Is dying."
Llpplncott'a,
Alaskan roads are bard to bulldi
thawtac follows cutting of the sol
Cubii's Custom -
omen and Their Homes.
By Mrs. C.
To the (independent American wo
man the ,1ife ot her Cuban sister Is
simply incomprehensible.' It is dull,
uninteresting In fact, in many in
stances aggravating. From childhbod
to old age she rarely does as she
likes, but Is a slave to antiquated
customs. As a child, a servant ac
companies her to school and calls for
her In the evening, and her plnymates
are few. When the marriageable age
Is reached, her courting Is done in
the presence of others, for the young
man who calls on the Cuban senorlta
really visits the entire family, aa at
least one of them always remains In
the room, which Is brilliantly lighted,
and its occupants are In full view of
anybody passing along the street.
Even If the girl talks with her lover
through the grilled window some
member of the family Is always near
by. If he takes her to a place of
amusement she is always properly
chaperoned. After they are engaged
the vigilance of the parents Is In
creased, and the young couple are
never for a moment left to them
selves. A young man may be fond ot
a girl, yet In no position to marry,
liit after he has spoken to her father,
which he must dp early In the court
ship, be Is expected to visit her home
every night and enjoy her society
along with the rest of the family.
If they should go to a dance, with
the family, of course, the girl dances
every set with her escort.
To the American woman this style
of courtship seems particularly exas
perating; for nowhere are there more
romantic spots than around Havana.
In fact, everything throughout the
Island suggests the romance of lovers
wandering about free to enjoy each
other's company, unconscious of the
existence of the rest of the world.
Yet there such pleasure is denied
them. The Cuban girl of the better
class is usually pretty. The beauty
of her clear, olive skin is hslghtened
by sparkling black eyes and very
white teeth, while her head Is
crowned by a wealth of coal black hair.
Her whole make-up suggests happi
ness, but from an American point of
view she never really attains It. I
am told that occasionally one is brave
enough to break down customs.
, Finally this courted In the presence
of the family girl marries, and unless
the young husband is wealthy, even
the joy of a wedding trip 13 denied
her. She at once settles down to a
life of Inactivity, and, ns the result,
?rows fat, and Inside of five years has
ost every vestige of her girlhood
beauty. She Is usually the mother of
a large family, and be It sold to her
fcredlt she makes a devoted mother.
She Is the picture of domesticity and
rarely leoves her home. Domesticity
does not always bring happiness, and
unhappy marriages are not uncom
mon. Divorces are unknown, and
when separations occur the unfortu
nate couple simply live opart and
neither can remarry. This seems to
be the swinging back of the pendu
lum to the other extreme, as com
pared with the loose divorce laws of
some of the States, both Bystems re
sulting In Immorality. One has but
to visit the big orphan asylum in
Havana to learn something of Cuba's
moral depravity. At the entrance
there Is a large turn-table, on which
a child may be placed and "turned"
into the Institution. The good sister
receives it and no questions are
asked.
The Cuban matron has little to say
In the management of her own house
hold, as the family literally board
with their cook, who has sole control
of the cuisine. When a cook Is en
gaged she Is paid so much per month
ten, fifteen or twenty dollars, as
the case may be for her work. She
at once inquires bow much is allowed
for the marketing, which she Is to do
each morning. On being told, she
figures out how much she can save
from the amount, and if the graft
amounts to say fifteen or twenty
cents per day, Bhe Is likely to accept
the position. She rarely sleeps at the
house, and usually has a family of
her own who are fed from the larder
of her employer. Early breakfast Is
light fruits, rolls and coffee and
at noon there Is a meal known as late
breakfast, which resembles the Amer
ican luncheon. When this is finished
the cook spends a few hours at her
home and returns at five o'clock In
time to prepare dinner. A half
grown girl is employed to wait on the
table, answer the doorbell, etc. In
some families male cooks are em
ployed. If the meals do not suit the
master of the bouse be adds more
money to the marketing allowance.
Meanwhile, the wife enjoys life in
a rocking chair, reads a little, and
does needlework occasionally. She
powders her face with a coarse pow
der until she becomes positively
ghastly. Even the children are sent
out wltb a coating of this ugly stuff
to mar their otherwise pretty faces.
Many of the boys are sent to the
United States to be educated, and
only the other day the president of
the Lehigh University told me that
be welcomed both the Cuban and the
Porto Rlcan, as they made excellent
students. The girls, however, rarely
bave the same advantages, and are
sent to Spain, where they are educa
ted in convents and retain their old
Spanish customs. It by chance one
marries an American of the right sort
these ideas of seclusion vanish and
the real woman comes to the surface.
I saw an evidence of this in the inter
ior of the island where I met a
charming Cuban girl, the bride of a
few months. Her husband was the
typical American business man de
leted to her aad but bullae. Ske
Fettered
R. MILLER.
was rapidly learning English tnd be
coming Amerlcnnized. One day she
came to my room, her. arms full of
bundles, her eyes dancing with de
light, and her pretty face wreathed
with smiles. I soon understood that
she wanted me to examine her pur
chases, and so In true American style
we discussed her bargains.
Before the Spanish-American war
the women of the higher and middle
classes were never employed outside
their own homes, but since that time
a few, forced to it by poverty, have
broken the customs and accepted po
sitions. Many, however, even though
they may be pitifully poor, refuse,
and marry in poverty and rear a tam
ily under the same conditions. The
native woman makes a splendid
dressmpker and does some wonderful
work in copying from fashion u-oks
without the aid of patterns. If by
chance you should give her an old
dress to copy, be Bure It Is not darned
or patched, for If such be the case
your new gown will be sent patched
or darned in the same identical spot,
even though new goods must be cut
away. She in a born imitator and
copies to the letter.
The cigarette factories employ a
large number of women, and a visit
there will destroy the romantic Idea
of Carmen. These girls are for the
most part slovenly, rouged beyond all
reason, and many of them smoke as
they work. None of them presents
the trig appearance of the American
working girl. It must be taken Into
consideration that their hours are
longer and pay less. In the busy sea
son, I am told, they sleep sometimes
on chairs at the factory In order to be
at work early. There is no child-labor
law in Cuba, and many little girls
who should be at school are employed
in these factories pasting stamps,
packing cigarettes, etc. The fore
man explained that the children
worked from necessity, as they were
orphans, their fathers having been
killed in the late war.
Havana Is a theatre-going town,
and here one finds the Spanish and
Cuban actress. She differs little, as
a rule, from the American player and
loves publicity. At the Ablsbu Thea
tre one evening I saw two little one
act Spanish plays. They were some
what like the delightful comedies
which made Koslna Vokes famous.
Three of these are given each evening
at this theatre by a stock company,
who have been playing there each
night for three consecutive years.
Tickets are sold by the act rather
than for the entire evening, and one
may come to any or all the plays. An
orchestra chair may be obtained for
the sum of fifty cents for each play.
Standing on the lower floor is sold for
thirty cents per act. For the first
pluy our tickets were blue, and for
the second, when we sat on the oppo
site side of the theatre, they wera
pink. These slips were taken up at
the close Instead of the beginning of
the performance. The crowd usually
comes in for the second play, which
begins about 9 o'clock, and in which
Senorlta Esperanra Pastor, the star,
usually appears. This lady Is viva
cious and graceful. She dresses a
part well and Is a comedian of ability.
The Cuban home is built for cool
ness, and the patio, which Is filled
with beautiful plants and often
adorned with a fountain, is the cen
tral feature, and all the rooms open
on it. If the house is two stories
(the majority are one) the living
room Is on the lower floor while the
sleeping rooms are above. If the
family should own an automobile or
carriage It Is kept In the front hall.
The horse Is often stabled In the rear
and adjoining the kitchen. There
are no chimneys on dwellings in
Cuba, and no provision Is made for
heating the houses. Hot water is a
luxury, as the only fire Is in the
small charcoal stoves on which the
cooking la done. All garbage is re
moved at night, and one Is spared the
nauseating garbage cart so common
in our cities. Few private houses
have bath rooms. A house on the
Prada will bring from $100 to $200
per month, while a most ordinary
dwelling in a good neighborhood will
rent for $50. The ceilings are very
high at least fifteen feet. Carpets
are not used, as the floors are of fan,
cy tiling, which is kept scrupulously
clean by mopping each day. The
furniture Is made of mahogany, with
cane seats, or is of the wicker va
riety and rocking chairs predominate.
Upholstered furniture is never used.
The windows bave grilled iron bars,
many ot which are fashioned In fancy
designs. Glass panes are rarely
found, but Inside shutters are used
to shut out the sunlight during the
day.
The typical bed in Cuba is of iron,
and decorated at the bead and foot
with medallions of painted scenery
inlaid with mother-of-pearl. A mat
tress is not often used, and sleeping
on woven wrre springs with only n
thin quilt between the sleeper and
the springs is not the most pleasant
sensation. However, after a few
nights one realizes the comfort of
cool beds in the tropics. At Santiago
they never use feathers in pillows,
but fill them with a species of grass
which bears a small seed. The mice,
are fond of these, and one night 1
was awakened by something moving
under my head. I soon discovered
that it was a mouse enjoying the seed.
As the majority of rooms in Cuban
hotels have two beds, I simply trans
ferred my quarters to the other side
of the room and did not disturb ths
little animal at his midnight lunch.
Leslie's Weekly.
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Eul Cambridge. Mail.
1
Time to Repent.
The prophet up in York county who
declares that the world will come to
an end in 1914 Is evidently not entire
ly without compassion, lie Is willing
to give the Inhabitants a reasonably
long time to mend their ways and get
their affairs in order. Philadelphia
Bulletin. 27
" 1 "
Ways to Raise Funds. i
In Guatemala whenever money la.'
badly needed one or two millionaire
are sentenced to death, and their es
tates confiscated. This is less hu
mane than the Wall street method,
though no more effective.
NO RELIEF FOR 15 YEARS.
All Sorts of Remedies Fall: io Cure
Eczema .Sufferer Tried Cuticura
nnd is Entirely Cured.
"1 have had ecema for over fifteen
years, and have tried all sorts of remedies
to relieve me, but without avail. 1 stated
my cane to one ot my friends nnd he
recommended the Cuticura Hemedies. I
bought them with the thought thnt they
would be unauceexxhil, ns with the others.
But after lining them tor a few weeks 1
noticed to my surprise thnt the irritation
and peeling of the nkin gradually de
creased, and finally, after using five cakes
of Cuticura ttoap nnd two boxes of Cuti
cura Ointment it disappeared entirely. 1
feel now like a new man, nnd 1 would
gladly recommend these remedies to all
who are afflicted with skin diseases. David
Blum. Box A, Bedford Station, N.
Nov. 6, 1905."
Women Chosen Lawmakers.
Nineteen women holding seats In
Congress. 'What do you think of It?
Not In any little congress of wo
men's clubs vf anything of that sort,
but. In the lawmaking body of a na
tion. Not one in 10.000 persons in
this quarter of the globe knows this
Is a fact, although there Is really no
reason why they should not know it.
Thpse women have won congression
al honors and assumed the duties of
lawmakers in Finland. At the elec
tion held In that country only a
couple of weeks, ago the Socialists
developed surprising strength and,
consistent with their pretensions,
they nominated a number of women
for Congressional seats. This forced
the other parties to do the same
thing. When the ballots were count
ed it was found that 19 women hhd
been elected, nine o! them Socialists.
They have taken their seats and
promise to make good lawmakers.
To fully appreciate the Importance
of this, It must, be borne In mind that
never before have women or a wo
man been elocted to the national law
making body of any country. Wo
man's National Daily.
How Marbles Are Made.
Most of the stone marbles used by
boys are made In Germany. The re
fuse only of the marble and agate
quarries is employed, and this Is
treated in such a way that there is
practically no waste. Men and boys
are employed to break the refuse
stone into small cubes, and with
their hammers they acquire a mar
velous ' dexterity. The little cubes
are then thrown Into a mill consist
ing of a grooved bedstone and a re
volving runner. Water Is fed to the
mill and the runner Is rapidly re
volved, while the friction does the
rest In half an hour the mill Is
stopped and a bushel or so of per
fectly rounded marbles are taken out
The whole process costs the merest
trifle. Philadelphia Record.
COFFEE COMPLEXION
Many Ladies Have Poor Complex
ions FTom Coffee.
"Coffee caused dark colored
blotches on my face and body.' I
bad been drinking It for a long while
and these blotches gradually ap
peared, until finally they became per
manent and were about as dark as
coffee Itself.
"I formerly had as fine a complex
ion as one could ask for.
"When I became convinced that
coffee was- the cause of my trouble,
I changed and took to using Postum
Food Coffee, and aa I made it well,
according to directions, I liked It
very much, and have since that time
used it in place of coffee.
"I am thankful to say I am not
nervous any more, as I was when I
was drinking coffee, and my com
plexion is now as fair and good as
It was years ago. It is very plain
that coffee caused the trouble."
Most bad complexions are caused
by some disturbance of the stomach
and coffee Is the greatest disturber
of digestion know:. Almost any wo
man can bave a fair complexion if
the will leave off coffee and use Pos
tum Food Coffee and nutritious,
healthy food in proper quantity.
Postum furnishes certain elements
from the natural grains from the
field that Nature uses to rebuild the
nervous system and when that Is in
good condition, one can depend upon
a good complexion as well as a good
healthy body. "There's a Reason."
Read "The Road to WellvUle," in
5ks.
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