I ONCE THE KING LOVED ME.
I sit me Hewing on my endless seam
Within the easement, clad in hodden gray,
And count the dial yonder, in the eun
Where the leaves' shadow falls; it winds awny
Till the day goes, and all the hours are spent;
Once the king loved me and 1 am content.
I mark the earth turrets, ising high
Beyond the forest, dark, and vast, and dim.
Mine eyes iirst seek it in the dull, gray dawn,
My evening prayer goes there; it holdeth him
W ho was mine own one happy hour that went
Once the king loved me, and I am content.
I mind me of thn forest depth of green.
Of sunlight, falling in the wooded plnee,
As on yon dial. Was it heaven then?
Or saw I only heaven in his face?
I know not, all 1 know is joy is spent.
Once the king loved me, and I am content,
I mind me of the day the shadow fell,
And through the gilded halls a whisper rnn
And courtiers who had fawned stood cold far.
And with a broken heart beneath my hand
Whioh held it fast, lest life -itself be rent.
Once the king loved me, and I am content.
I stood before the queen, who, cold and Hark,
Lifting pale eyes, said softly: "Thou dost go."
(Never before had she deigned speech with me.)
Meekly I bowed and answered, "Queen, I go.
With gathered robe and stately step 1 went.
; A Temporary Substitute.
Felix Livingstone was not in a good
temper. He had a fortnight's leave,
rWhtch duty required him to spend
iwtth bis maiden aunt In the country,
ftthlle inclination strongly urged him
to go up to town In order to see the
Iglrl he loved, But on this occasion
Huty bad to be considered, for Miss
IDrury, the aunt In question, was a
wealthy old lady, and he was practi
cally dependent upon her. '
All things considered, however,
"Fate had not been so very unkind to
Felix. Left an orphan nt an early
age, he had been adopted by his
mother's elder sister, who had done
!her duty nobly by him. Now nt the
age of twenty-fivo he found himself
e subaltern In one of the line regi
ments, with a handsome allowance
from his aunt, and every prospect of
becoming her heir. But there Is
always a "but" In most people's lives
although Miss Drury had been
more than liberal to her nephew and
iorbore to exercise any but a very
nominal restraint over his actions,
yet she had given him to understand
that she meant to exert her authority
In one Important maiter, namely, the
Question of his marriage.
In due course of tlmo she Intended
Felix to become masttr of Wood
lands, her beautiful old house, and
Blnce his wife would occupy her place
as mistress. Miss Drury meant to
limit. If not direct, her nephew's
choice of a bride.
She did not approve of the modern
woman, the up-to-date girl, with her
cigarette and her slang, her talk of
golf and bridge, her contempt for
needlework, and all things pertaining
to domesticity. Felix could see In his
mind's eye the wife his aunt destined
for him a meek and modest young
woman of ultra-refined speech and ap
pearance, and always with a piece of
fancy work between her Angers and
lie shuddered at the picture. Then
he thought, with a sudden tighten
ing of his heart, of Kitty Bellalrs, as
lie had seen her last summer at the
house of a brother officer beautiful,
mischievous, high-spirited, a keen
tennis player, a brilliant horsewoman,
lull of life and laughter. She had
tharmed the young man's heart out
f him, and though Felix tried des
perately hard to banish her from his
memory, ahsence, in this case, had
certainly made the heart grow fonder.
I daren't tell Aunt Minnie about
Kitty," thought the young man, dis
consolately. "Of course If she knew
her as I do she couldn't help but love
her, although she Isn't quite her Rtyle,
hut I don't see how they are ever to
meet, since my little darling knows
no one In this neighborhood, and
lAnnt Mln never will come up to
town."
In the depth of his heart Felix was
geniulnely fond of the old lady, who
had so generously mothered him all
fcis life, and he was therefore rather
disconcerted to find when he reached
iWoodlands that Miss Drury was very
much perturbed and upset about
(something. Generally his aunt was
a very dainty looking little old lady,
exquisitely dressed, and the perfec
tion of a hostess. But on this partic
ular afternoon she greeted her nep
hew In an absent-minded fashion, her
cap slightly awry, hercheeks flushed,
and her beautiful hands trembling.
"Why, Aunt Minnie," said the
young man, anxiously, "whatever Is
the matter?"
I "Oh, my dear Felix," replied the
eld lady, looking Into his handsome
face with troubled blue eyes, "I have
had such a dreadful upset. Two of
(the housemaids are down with lnflu
lnza, and now Parkins, who is quite
invaluable, has declared she can hold
,up no longer, and has gone to bed
seriously ill, I fear."
Felix gave a whistle of dismay.
Parking was cook-housekeeper at
(Woodlands, and the pivot upon which
ithe rest of the household turned. She
was an exceptionally good cook, and
he knew that his aunt prided herself
that her dinners were unsurpassed
lin the neighborhood.
"I would not have minded had we
iheen alone," continued Miss Drury,
'"but the house is full of people, and 1
'have a large dinner party to-morrow."
i "What a catastrophe," eicaimed
her nephew, sympathetically, who
knew how vexed was Miss Drury's or
'derly mind when any household af
jfalra went wrong. "Can't you get a
I woman from the village to help?" .
! "Of course I can, but you don't
fknow what these village women are
llike, my dear Felix; dirty. Incompe
tent creatures, and as Incapable of
sending up a dinner as you are. No,
I must just leave Susan, the kitchen
maid, to do her best; but I know I
shall be disgraced to-morrow, and I
do not mind sp much, if my guests
don't have the best of everything.
And to make matters worse, that
greedy old Sir Gregory is coming, and
he always says he never dines so well
anywhere as here. You don't know
of a cook thnt you can recommend by
any chance, do you, Felix?" she asked
desperately. ,
This wistful appeal touched the
young man's heart. As a rule, a sub
altern home on leave is not the per
son one would naturally apply to for
a cook, but Miss Drury was at her
wits' end. Felix knitted his brows
and thought hard for a minute, at the
end of which a brilliant Inspiration
came to him.
"Look here. Aunt Minnie," he ex
claimed suddenly, "don't you worry
any more. I'll go straight up to town
first thing to-morrow, and I'll find
you a cook somehow, and bring her
back with me in the afternoon."
Miss Drury looked nt her nephew
with tears in her eyes.
"Felix," she said solemnly, "if you
get me out of this difficulty you may
ask me for anything in the world."
Felix was as good as his word. He
departed for town directly after
breakfast next morning, smiling good
humoredly at the chaff of his fellow
guests, and re-appeared triumphant
in the afternoon proudly escorting the
new cook.
"I've brought her, Aunt Mln," he
announced, rushing excitedly into
Miss Drury's boudoir. "She was at
the Rawson's last summer, and an un
commonly good cook she is. Blair is
her name, it's a great piece of luck
that she was disengaged, you know."
Miss Drury went hurriedly down
stairs to inspect the new arrival and
to explain to her the arrangements
for the evening's dinner.
"I was a little taken aback at first,"
she Bald later on to her nephew.
"Blair looks so young and so pretty,
and so er refined, but she seems
very capable and fully, qualified to
send up an excellent dinner."
"Yes," replied Felix, eagerly, "she
has had a course of cooking lessons
at South Kensington. I believe she
is no end of a swell at It."
"Really, my dear boy," said Miss
Drury, looking affectionately at her
nephew, "I am most touched by the
Interest you have shown In this do
mestic difficulty and the trouble you
have taken. If only. Blair does not
falsify our expectations I shall owe
you a debt of gratitude."
The dinner proved an Immense suc
cess, and even Miss Drury had to con
fess that Parkins could not have done
better. As for Sir Gregory, he
chuckled with delight and went stead
ily through the menu from beginning
to end. ,
"Really, my dear Miss Drury," he
said when at length he was obliged to
desist, "that cook of yours has sur
passed herself. I don't know when I
have eaten a better dinner; that
souffle was simply a work of art."
Only one contretemps marred the
harmony of the evening, and fortun
ately Miss Drury did not witness this
little Incident, as it occurred when
the ladles had retired to the drawing
room.
Felix was doing the honors of his
aunt's table when the sound of a scuf
fle arrested his attention, and with a
Johnny's Last Speech.
yOU'D scarcely expect one of my age, in
1 merchandising to engage and hope to
get a paying trade without the local paper's
aid. And yet I did that very thing; I opened
up a store last spring the sheriff took my
stock and sold it at the auction block. Don't
view me with a scornful eye, but simply say
as I pass by: "There goes a fool who seemed
to think he had no use for printer's Ink."
There is a truth as broad as earth and bust
ness men should know its worth, 'tis simply
this : The public buys its goods from those
who advertise.
hasty excuse to his guests he left the
room and rushed Into the passage,
where he found an ardent young foot
man trying vainly to embrace a very
angry but bewltchlngly pretty young
woman in a white cap and apron.
"You impudent wretch!" she was
Baying, 'how dare you try and kiss
me? Mr.vLlvlngstone, help!"
Felix turned on the mnn in a per
fect fury and dragged him away.
"John," he said, looking as If he
could have killed him with pleasure,
"leave that lady alone at once and
clear out. Here are your wages.
Go!"
The man gazed at him, dumb with
surprise.
"I beg your pardon, Mr. Felix," he
stammered at length, "I meant no
'arm. I often used to kiss Miss Park
Ins. I didn't know as 'ow Miss Blair
would mind."
The cook's angry face relaxed, and
she burst into a peal of laughter, in
which, after some hesitation, Felix
Joined.
"Never mind, John," she said, "I'll
forgive you this once, only don't try
it again. I dare say Mr. Felix will
allow you to stay if you behave your
self." Felix nodded impatiently, and the
man fled to the lower regions, but it
was some minutes before "Miss;
Blair" took her place at the servants'
hall supper looking rather flushed, or
before Felix joined the men in the
dining room.
Parkins' Illness lasted a week, and
throughout that time Blair continued
to charm the palates of the Inmates
of Woodlands. All the same, Miss
Drury was rather relieved when the
last day of the temporary cook's stay
came, for try as she would to disbe
lieve the evidence of her senses, there"
was no disguising the fact that Felix
was always hanging about the kitchen,
on some pretext or another. That her
nephew could so far forget what was
due both to himself and to her, as to
even carry on a mild flirtation with a
servant, Miss Drury would not allow
for a moment. ' Her horror can there
fore be better Imagined than de
scribed when, on descending to the
kitchen the last afternoon for the pur
pose of paying Blnlr her wnges, she
saw on opening the door a pretty,
white-capped head reposing on her
nephew's shoulder, while his arm was
tenderly clasping an aproned waist.
"Kitty, darling." she heard him sayl
tenderly, "I couldn't let yon go away
without telling you I loved yon. I
know I ought not to have done so,
for goodness only knows when I shall
be able to marry you."
"Do you think Miss Drury will be
very angry?" asked the girl.
Miss Drury coughed, and at the
omnious sound the guilty couple
started apart and looked with dismay
at the intruder.
The old lady's face had turned very
white, and Felix, cut to the quick by
her piteous expression, crossed the
room hastily and took her hand.
"Don't look so shocked, Aunt Min
nie," he said; "this Is not a cook
really; It is the lady I love Miss'
Kitty Bellalrs. I met her at the Raw
son's last summer and fell in love
with her; and I knew she could cook'
beautifully, so when you were in such
a fix I asked her to come and help.
We we thought, perhaps, you might
take a fancy to her and ask her to
stop."
"Are you Archie Bellalrs' daugh
ter?" asked Miss Drury, In astonish
ment. "Yes," said the girl, gently, "he Is
dead, you know, and I am an orphan
and very poor but I love Felix."
The old lady's eyes grew very wist
ful and tender as Bhe remembered
the far-off days of her youth when
poverty had stood between her and
the one whom she loved Archie Bel
lairs. She took the girl's hand and smil
ingly put It into that of her nephew.
"So do I, my dear," she said, "and
I am sure you will make him an ex
cellent wife. I shall be exceedingly
glad to offer the temporary substitute
a permanent place in my household."
New York News,
She Can Smoke.
During the hearing of a case which
came before Justice Grantham a few
days ago, it was mentioned that one
of the members of a certain well
known ladies' club smoked cigars.
Whether they were mild, medium or
full flavored was not stated, but the
fact that a woman can smoke a cigar
tends to dispel the popular notion
that she Is constitutionally unfit for
such a habit. As a matter of fact the
Dowager Empress of Russia, who is
an inveterate smoker, prefers a mild
cigar to a cigarette; so does the
Countess of Paris, the mother of the
Queen of Portugal. Tit-Bits.
Ooooooo
ForthChildrenfe
THE THIMBLE FAMILY.
Good Mistress Thimble, neat and nimble.
Drives Brother Needle with a push and a
wheedle,
While light bister Thread, with s noiseless
tread,
A stitch drops behind as she flies ahead.
Then comes Father Scissors and gives her
a snip,
And starts them off on another trip, '
Over a hem, or down a seam,
Needle and Thread, a lively team.
Fat Uncle Emery, bright and true.
When a hard place comes will help them
through.
And pale Aunty Wax is willing enough
To smooth the way when they hnd it
rough.
Then Grandfather Bodkin, with many a
jerk,
Will do his part, and finish the work.
Now, where is their home? Well, since
you ask it,
I'll tell you they live in s little work
basket. -Martha Burr Banks, in Youth's Com
panion. CAPTURING WILD BEASTS.
In St. Nicholas, A. W. Rolker
writes interestingly of the capture of
wild animals in Africa for the menag
erie. The easiest victims of the wild
animal trapper are specimens of the
most ferocious type the Hon, tiger,
panther, Jaguar and the leopard, for
It is simply a matter of stealing the
cubs. The hunter goes to the heart
of the darkest, most impenetrable
thicket, where the Hon mother lies
with her four to six cubs, golden puff
balls, scrambling over her great yel
low body, which none on earth, save
those defenseless kittens, may come
near. Says the trapper, "nature her
self renders these babies defenseless
when the mother stirred by the pangs
of hunger, ventures forth to hunt and
to eat." Accompanied by two Kaffirs',
the hunter steals upon the unprotect
ed little cubs, the hunter, rifle In
hand, loaded with the heaviest bullet.
Quickly the Kaffirs work, for should
the lioness return, nothing but a bul
let, accurately aimed, could save
them from instant death. With the
capture of the cubs, which are thrown
into a bag, hasty flight Is made.
Capturing these cubs, however, Is
child's play compared with capturing
those lumbering, colossal animals of
the pig tribe, the rhinoceros and the
hippopotamus. There is hardly a
wild animal In existence more dan
gerous than this rarest of menagerie
captives. Awkward as the great beast
appears when at rest, once aroused
the "rhino" dashes through a thicket
with the Irresistible speed of an ex
press train. The hunters make their
way into the interior of unexplored
territory in Africa, .searching for a
rhinoceros cow with a calf old enough
to capture, and which is not so large
but that It can be transported back
to civilization. Frequently months
elapse before the search is rewarded
with success. This how the capture
is made:
Noiselessly and from well to lee
ward the trapper and his men grad
ually steal nearer until the cow and
the calf are Inclosed In a circle. From
ahead, out of the maze of cane and
creeper, sounds the uneasy stamping
of the cow. With a half snort, half
grunt, in an Instant the rhinoceros is
all attention. Head raised and nos
trils sniffing, she searches the air
steadily. At sight of one of the sav
ages the cow dashes with the speed
of a racehorse at the man, charging
the human decoy, and at that instant
the trapper's rifle Is heard, and her
furious charge Is over, provided the
bullet reaches the heart by striking
Just behind the left foreleg the only
vulnerable point In the Inch-thick ar
mor with which the beast is clad. Now
and then it hnppens that the hunter
falls to kill in time his gun may
miss fire, intervening trees may In
terfere, or the marksman may miss
his aim. Then the life of the decoy
depends on his own agility. To run
to one side before the rhinoceros is
almost on top of hlra would be fatal,
for the swift brute would overtake
him within a few bounds. His only
hope Is to wait until the deadly horn
Is almost at his feet, and then, with
the swiftness of a mongoose dodging
the aim of a cobra, to leap to one
side while the ponderous creature,
unable to turn short in time, dashes
onward under its own impetus.
Twice, three times, a clever native
hunter will dodge In this way, giving
the trapper ample time to bring down
the rhinoceros. '.
After the death of the mother cow
It is easy to track the frightened calf,
which is soon pushed, prodded and
shoved up a bridge of long skids into
the cage of a bullock cart, after which
the weary march to a market begins.
While the "ftiolno" is more savage to
deal with than the hippopotamus, still
the greatest peril lies with the latter,
for, as Bays the writer:
"The trapper hunts the. 'rhino on
land and brings it down nt a compar
atively safe distance, whereas In the
case of the hippopotamus he must
fight in the same primitive fashion
'that savages have used for ages. Hand
to maw, as it were, he must engage
this two-ton monster while standing
in the bow of a frail canoe. For the
hippopotamus, as its name, the 'river
horse,' means, is a land-and-water an
imal, and must be harpooned and
brought ashore before it expires, oth
erwise Is would sink at once to the
bottom of the river, the coveted calf
escaping among the other hippopota
mi instead of following the stricken
cow to shore, so that the youngster
may be caught."
PLAYHOUSES.
There have been much bustle and
activity among the little people of the
Massachusetts coaBt this fall, for dur
ing the summer many playhouses
were erected, and the little folks have
been as busy closing up their play
homes as their mothers with their
grown-up home-.
These playhouses are much more
than shacks, for they are carefully
planned and have verandas, three or
four rooms and even an 'upstairs."
One fortunate little woman who has
a house at the end of an old fashioned
garden has across the front a covered
veranda, furnished as out-door living
room. The entrance door, ornament
ed with a brass knocker, opens on
a small hallway, from one side of
which asconds a winding staircase.
An oldtlme hall lantern hangs from
the staircase beam. To the right
opens the living room, twenty feet
long by ten feet wide, with a fireplace
in which logs are always plied ready
to be lighted. To the left of the hall
way is the kitchen. Here is a stove
of medium size, and along one side of
the wall Is a dresser fitted with glass
doors, which permit glimpses ' of
Dutch china. Directly opposite are a
table and a roomy closet, with an ar
ray of cooking utensils on hooks. The
floors are covered with rag mats.
On the second floor is a single room,
which the little lady of the house re
tires to when she Is tired of the world.
There are a pretty writing desk, well
equipped with writing materials, and
a roomy couch, piled high with soft
pillows. The walls are hung with
posters. The windows are draped
with white muslin curtains, and on
the floor is a pretty rug.
Another playhouse is like an Eng
lish cottage, and has pretty latticed
windows which open outward. The
shingled exterior Is stained dark red,
with door and window trimmings of
pure white. The quaint entrance
porch opens upon a single large room,
furnished with tools and other appli
ances for manual training.
On the Salem shore is a little house
made over from a discarded bath
house. It stands near the water's
edge, and across the front is a wide
covered veranda. Inside Is a fireplace
of brick, and between two windows is
a piano, which the Bmall hostess and
her friends may bang on all day if
they please.
At Peach Bluff Is a beautiful Col
onial playhouse, designed for the
comfort of both the boys and the girls
of tho family. It is painted white,
with green blinds, and the entrance
porch la supported by Colonial pillars.
As it Is Intended to be a place where
the children' can have a good time,
the furniture Is of the plainest, most
substantial oak, and the floors are
without carpets. The walls are of
plain boarding, not even painted. Be
yond the living room are two smaller
rooms, one for the girls, where they
may cook to their heart's content, and
the other for the boys, where there
are tools and a carpenter's bench.
One of the most elaborate of these
playhouses, a four-room cottage fully
equipped for housekeeping, is at Co
hasset. It has a latticed entrance
porch, with built in seats, with flow
ering shrubs about the sides and
front, and window boxes in the win
dows. The first floor is divided into
living room, dining room and kitch
en, all furnished with sheathed walls
and ceilings and hardwood floors. The
living room has low white bookcases,
with cretonne hangings of pink and
white. Muslin curtains drape the
windows, and on the walls are pret
ty prints. Small rugs of artistic de
sign partly cover the floor. The dln
ing room has a plate rail on which
have been placed numerous souvenirs.
Opening from this room is the kitch
en, where the little maiden may cook
and serve what she pleases. On the
second floor Is a good sized bedroom,
furnished with two cot beds, a wash
stand and several chairs. Curtains
shade the windows, and Japanese
grass mats cover the floor.
On this same estate in Coh asset Is
a playhouse for the boys. This has
an exterior finish of Bhingles left to
stain with the weather. Across the
front and rear extend broad, uncov
ered verandas. The Interior consists
of a single room fitted up as a boy's
den, and in the loft above is ample
storage room for footballs, boxing
gloves, tennis rackets anc? the treas
ures dear to boyish hearts. New
York Tribune.
Burglars Are. Unknown.
Consul Edward 3. Worton, of Mal
aga, cannot encourage American safe
makers to attempt the building up of
a trade in that district of Southern
Spain. He writes as follows: Not
over half a dozen American-made
safes could be found In this entire
consular district, and tho outlook for
the development of the safe trade is
not an encouraging one. The demand
for safes generally is extremely light.
Many business men possess nothing
in the way of a Bate for the protection
of valuables or books. The annual
fire loss is Insignificant, and burglars
or safe blowers are unknown, so there
Is no actual necessity for the purchase
of a fire-proof, burglar-proof sals.,
History Lesson.
" Diogenes, dear children, was ihe
man who lived in a tub, and who
searched for an honest man. "I'm
honest," cried a candidate for re-election.
"Where's your tub?" asked
Diogenes. "Look at my barrel!"
cried the candidate. But Dl went on
hunting.
The establishment of a Scandina
vian steamship service to America is
being actively urged in Sweden, Nor
way and Denmark. ,
XTL fiRNEW THAT PAW-PAWN
X a5 PILLVbU TOOK LAST
UVIH iTOMACH AND BOWELS IN COODCOMDmal
Itlanyen's Paw Pew Pill eonxthsll-e-lnle
acuity by gentle methods. They do not scour, (rip
or weaken. They are a tunlo to tho stomach, ll-a
and nerrosi ln-morte Initead ofweaken. They en
rich the blood and enable tbe stomach to nt all the
nourishment from fool that Is put Into lb These
plllsoontalnnooalonwli they are soothing, hefUroa
and stimulating-. For sale by all drusideu In 10c and
Sao else. 11 you need medical ad-ice, writ llaa
yon Doctors. They will sdriw to the nest of thet
ability absoltit-ly free of Chance. IHllNVON's)
A3dana JeOersenStSnFhUaaelahla.Pau ,
Mnnyon'l Cold Remedy earns a cold In one day.
FMoeaao. Munyon's Rheumatism Remedy relle-as
as a few boon and oores In a few days. Prloa Sao.
A Valid Reason. '
The Countr Vat! EconomlteT
The Countess Yes. Father say.
we are living beyond his means. Lip-
plncott's.
Only One "Ilronio Quinine,"
That is LaxHtive Drnmo Quinine. Look
for the signature of E. W. Grove. Used the
World over to Cure a Cold in One Day. 2So
t
Heads of Philadelphia's police de
partment plan to equip each patrol
man with a pocket electric search
light. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup forCh!Mrea
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 2oc a bottle.
Over-Education a Curse. ,.
But, some one asks, how can you
ever expect a boy to graduate from
college or university If his education
does not begin until he is 10 years of
age? He will be far too old.
First I answer that the curse ol
modern child-life in America Is over
education. For the first ten years of
this, the most sensitive and delicate,
the most pltable life in the world, I
would prepare It. The properly pre
pared child will make such progress
that the difference In time of gradua
tion is not likely to be noticeable;
but, even if It should be a year or
two later, what real difference would
It make? Do we expect a normal
plant to begin bearing fruit in a few
weeks after it Is born? It must have
time, ample time, to be prepared for
the work before it. Above all else,
the child must be a healthy animal.
I do not work with diseased plants.
They do not cure themselves of dis
ease. They only spread disease
among their fellows and die before
their time. Luther Burbank in Nau
tilus." Charles Reade's Method of Work.
Read's literary work was, Sir Rob
ert Anderson remarks, a rare combi
nation of genius and plodding. A
brass scuttle which stood by the fire
place held the illustrated and other
papers which reached him week by
week. From there he culled anything!
that took his fancy, and the cuttings
were thrown into a companion scuttle,
to be afterward inserted in scrap
books, and duly Indexed. Materials for
his novels and plays were thus sup
plied or suggested. The accuracy of
his descriptions of events and places
was phenomenal. Westminster Ga
zette. CLEAR-HEADED
Head Bookkeeper Most Be Reliable.
The chief bookkeeper in a large
buslqess house in one of ' our great
Western cities speaks of the harm cof
fee did for him:
"My wife and I drank our first cun
of Poatum a little over two years ago.
and we have used it ever since, to tha
entire exclusion of tea and coffee. It
happened In this way:
"About three and a half years ago
I had an attack of pneumonia, which,
left a memento in the shape of dys
pepsia, or, rather, to speak more cor
rectly, neuralgia of the stomach. My
'cup of cheer' had always been coffee
or tea, but I became convinced, after
a time, that they aggravated my stom
ach trouble. I happened to mention
the matter to my grocer one day and
he suggested that I give Postum a
trial.
"Next day It came, but the cook
made the mistake of not boiling it
sufficiently, and, we did not like it
much. This was, however, soon rem
edied, and now we like it so much,
that we will never change back. Pos
tum, being a food beverage instead of
a drug, has been the means of curing;
my stomach trouble, I verily believe,
for I am a well man to-day and havw
used no other remedy. I
"My worl: as chief bookkeeper la
our Co.'s branch house .here Is of a,
very confining nature. During myt
coffee-drinking days I was subject to
nervousness and 'the blues' In addi
tion to my sick spells. These have
left me since I began using Postum; .
and I can conscientiously recosjmend
It to those whose work confines therm
to long hours of severe mental exer
tion." "There's a Reason."
Look In pkgs. for the little book.
"The Road to Wellville."
Ever read the above letter? A newi
one appears from time to time. TTaey
are genuine, true, and full of ' tit
tatorest, ,.:.
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