SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY "Gnat fever" is the new scientific name for malaria, since it has been shown that it is through mosquitoes that the disease is conveyed to human beings. Mountain streams are not always safe sources of water supply. Some time ago an epidemic of typhoid iu a city of southern Pennsylvania led to au investigation, which showed that the water of the mountain which sup plied the town was polluted by a branch stream, which received the sewage of a town of 1200 inhabitants. The fact that nettle fibre has of late been found to produce the finest tis sues obtainable from any vegetable pource, has led to a project in Ger many to introduce the cultivation of nettles in the Kamerun region of Africa. If the experiment is success ful, the euterprise will be undertaken ou a large scale in connection with the weaving industries. Unvulcanized India rubber is by no means waterproof. Rolled plates of rubber were found to be capable ol taking up in two hours from 8 to 35 per cent of water at 60 degrees centi grade, the absorption increasing with the degree of compression, and a piece of best Para rubber kept under the water at 50 degrees was nothing but a mass of slime in two months. Gas liquor has beeu turned to a very useful account at Cuzzies, in France. lieet root would not grow in the fields because they had become iufected with a beet loot parasite, but with one application of the gas liquor 15 tons of beet root per acre, with 14 per cent, of sugar, four splendid crops of cereals were obtained, aud in au other set of trials using gas liquor only, four successful crops of more than 24 tons to the acre aud a fifth of over 16 tons were secured. Professor Francis Gotch describes the electric fish of the Nile, of which the Egyptians made pictures thousands of years ago, aud which still iuhabits the waters of that river, as beiug pro vided with an electrical organ that en closes the whole body. It is situated in the skin, nnd when viewed with a microscope, is £een to be composed of about 2,000,000 beautifully formed little disks, superposed upon connected rows of miuute compartments in which are the terminals of nerves. The shock is produced by an intense cur rent which traverses the entire organ from the head to the tail of the fish, returning through the surroundings. It stuns small fish iu the neighbor hood. Professor Gotch likens its action to that of a self-loading nnd self-discharging gun. The electro motive force of the organ iu a fish only eight inches long can, he asserts, attain the surprising maximum of 2011 volts. A single giaut nerve-cell at the head of the spiunl column is the source of the impulses jvhich dis charge the organ. CHEMISTRY IN MODEfWI LIFE. Tit. Mulky, Nauseous Itratigtea of Olden Time Itcplnred* The disinfection of the aick room aud the autiseptic method* which go far toward the creation f modern surgery nil depend upon chemical products whose long list increases year by year. Crude drugs are uow replaced by active principles discov ered in the laboratory—morphine, quinine and the like—and iustearl of :h bulky, nauseous draughts of oldeu time, the invalid is given tasteless capsules of gelatiu or com pressed tablets of uuiform strength and more accurately graded power. A great part of physiology consists of the study of chemical pro cesses, the transformation of com pounds withiu the living organism, and practically all this advance is the creation of the nineteenth century. Modern bacteriology, at least iu its practical applications, began with a chemical discussion between Liebeg aud Pasteur as to the nature of fer mentation; step by step the field of exploration has enlarged; as the re sult of the. investigations we have preventive medicine, more perfect sanitation and autiseptic surgery. The ptomanes which will cause dis ease nnd the antitoxins which prevent it are alike chemical iu their nature, aud were discovered by chemical methods. Physiology without chem istry could not exist; even the phcu ouemn of respiration were meaning less before the discovery of oxygeu. The humau body is a chemical lnbora- j tory, and without the aid of the chemist its mysteries can uot be uu raveled. Prof. F. W. Clarke, iu Ap pletous' Popular Science Monthly. Polo nnd War. The cheerful and uudaunted spirit that can play polo at such trying times is doubtless admirable, but all the same after the war is over, ok' possibly before, the British may ask themselves whether this universally cultivated love of outdoor amusement so excellent in itself, has not been largely responsible for the inferior professional training unquestionably ! hampering the British military lead ers. Has there not beeu too much polo, or other things of its kiud? Has not Ikivilian play taken time that should have been given to military work? And has not play filled the minds of its votaries iu the British army with thoughts of cups and matches and how to win them, in stead of with the serious problems which soldiers must expect to meet and be trained to solve? We incline to think it has. We are satisfied that the British army would today be a vastly more efficient fighting machine than if its officers there had beeu less polo aud more "hay-foot, straw-foot" CURIOUS FACTS. One hundred years ago it was con sidered a wonderful achievement lor ten men to manufacture 48,000 pins in a day. Nowthreo men make 7,500,- 000 pins in the same time. After a heavy snowfall in Wyoming last winter a bunoh of horses was re covered near Battle Lake by digging a trenoh through five feet of snow for a distance of three miles. A. D. Storms applied for a marriage license ia Hartford the other day. Connecticut law requires that the Christian name in such cases be given in full. He said that he had no Chris tian name, and that the letter "A. D." did not represent anything but just themselves. With the Hindoos of to-day the ruby is esteemed as a talisman which is never shown willingly to friends, and j is considered ominous of the worst ' possible fortune if it should happen to contain black spots. The ancients accredited it with'the power of re straining passion, and regard it as a safeguard agaiast lightning. The great wall of China was re cently measured by an American en gineer. His measurements gave the height as eighteen feet. Every few hundred yards there is a tower tweu ty-five feet high. For 1300 miles the wall goes over plains and mountains, every foot of the foundation being of solid granite and the rest of the struc ture solid masonry. In the annals of psyohic scienoe wo find the following curious anecdote by M. Clovis Hugues, the Deputy, says the Petit Bleu, of Brussels: Iu 1871 he was imprisoned with his friend, Gaston Cremieux, at Mar seilles. One day when they met iu prison the latter said to M. Hughes, "When they shoot me I will prove the immortality of the soul by ap pearing to you iu your cell." Some days later M. Hughes was awakened by a rapping on his table, which was continued for some time. Later he learned that his friend had been shot at that very moment. A novelty in the matrimonial line was reported from Kansas City, Mo., a few days ago, it being nothing less than the marriage of a couple 200 miles apart by moans of telegrsphio messages. The groom. M. A. M. Candell, was in Kansas City expecting to go to Mulhatl, a town in Oklahoma, where his bride, Miss Cuudiff, lived; but he was suddenly required to start for Washington where he is employed by the Government, and therefore tolegraphed his bride to conseut to have the marriage ceremony by wire before he started.for Washington. He went to the judge's office and secured the marriage license; then he went to the telegraph offico iu company with tho clergyman. They signaled to the telegraph office iu Mulhall and found that Mis 3 CunditT was at the other end of the wire. At her end of the line, the bride was accompanied by her parents and sister. The ques tions and respouses were wired back aud forth, and repented nt eaoh end to the couple by the telegraph opera tors. The - ceremony required just twenty-five minutes. Sheep In Spain. In Spain there nre some ten million of migratory sheep, which every year travel as much as two hundred miles from the plains to the "delectable mountains," whore tho shepherds feed them till the snows descend. These sheep are kuown as transhumnutes, and their march, resting places and behavior are regulated by ancient and special laws aud tribunals dating from the fourteenth century. At cer tain times no one is allowed to travel on the same routo as the sheep,which have a right to graze on all open nnd common land on the wuy, aud for which a road ninety yards wide must be left on all inclosed and privato property. The shepherds lead the flocks, the sheep follow, and the flocks are accompanied by mules carrying provisions and large dogs which act as guards against the wolves. The Merino sheep travel four hundred miles to the mountains, and tho total time spent on the migration there and baok is fourteen weeks.—The Spec tator. Best Exorcise For Reducing Flesh. The Turkish bath is, according to expert authority, a lazy and not al ways a sure way to get rid of super fluous fresh. In faot, the enforced quiet of two or three hours which should follow the properly taken Turk ish bath is apt to nullify the loss of weight by the profuse perspiration. To be preferred to the hot-air or hot box bathing, according to the same authority, is a system of exercise that similarly induces perspiration, and at the same time tends to produce muscle, the real enemy to fat. Probably the best and simplest exercise is walking. This does not, however, meau drag ging around in olothes that gird the waist, neok, arms and corsage to the point of stricture through poorly ventilated shops. A brisk tramp in the open air in light, easy clothes, with head erect and chest thrown out, is the way to get the real benefit ol the exercise of walking. Brazil's Large Output of Gems. In 150 years of mining operations Brazil has yielded about 8100,000,000 worth of gems, or a total output whioh is equalled every six or seven years by the product of the Kimberley mines. The African diamonds are commonly admitted to be less beautiful than those from Brazil, but their total sale already exceeds by millions the value of all the gems Brazil has produced, though Afrioan diamond mining has been carried on only about thirty year*. Quail Hunting in Egypt. Much lin3 beeu said lately of tho enpture of quail in Egypt, touching the protest made by Frenchmen against carrying the birds across French territory for English use. Until this matter rose nobody seemed to know that quail existed in Egypt, but they do—by the millions. The passage of bands of quail over the const of the delta of the Nile, from J Port Said to Alexandria, begins in ! September and lasts a month and a half, the birds arriving in little groups ! and alighting ou the dunes. Generally the chase is made by means of nets of live meters high, which the natives extend on cords fastened to poles, in the fashion of curtains gliding on their rods. In reality the net is double. The first near the side of the sea is of meshes very large and loose, but on the back is another net where the bird will really come and perch itself in the folds formed by this second net lof small meshes. There is another method of capture which is more pict uresque. Rows of dried branches are ! placed on the Bhore. At the foot of each branch is disposed a tuft of fresh herbs, in the middle of which is ar ranged an opening which ends in a snare. The quail, tired by its journey, takes refuge in the branch, without figuring to itself that it is going to put itself into a trap where a native will surprise it and kill it. With these perfected means of destruction it is not astonishing that each year more than half a million of these poor little birds are taken.—St. Louis Post- Dispatch. Boundaries of New York State* New York's boundaries, thougji ap parently settled in 1770, have been subject to critical examination from time to time by various Commissioners and agents and have been re-examined and established under authority of | various legislative enactments. An I aut was passed by the Legislature, May 26, 1875, directing the Commis- I sioners to resume the work of ex ; amination of the true location of the monumeuts which mark the several boundaries of this State, as author ized by the Senate resolution of 1807, and in connection with the authori ties of Pennsylvania aud New Jersey, respectively, to replace any monu ments which may have become dilapi dated or been removed, ou the bound ary lines of those States. A com mittee was appointed for this purpose Tune 1, 1875. In 1880 the New York Commissioners met Commissioners appointed by the States of Pennsyl vania and New Jersey for the pur pose of ascertaining the boundary lines as originally established and marked with monuments. The Com missioners were authorized to renew any dilapidated or lost monuments and to erect additional ones if deemed necessary. Under the provisions of this law the New Jersey boundary line was oompleted as recently as 1883 and the Pennsylvania line in 1885. A New Thing in Schools. At Usenberg, in tho Hartz Moun tains, in Germany, I investigated thoroughly Dr. Herman Lietz's school. It represents strongly the reaotion | against the machine method of cou | trolling a public-school system. Dr. ; Lietz has fifty-five pupils, represent ! ing nearly as many countries. Tho school is on a farm of eighty acres, I containing orchard, garden, cereal fields and workshop. The principal building is an old powder mill. The | work of converting it to a school-house was done by the boys. The boys do the farm work and everything that is to be done. Their studies begin at 8 o'clock in the morning and at the end of an hour they exercise. They re i turn to books and after a period of study they have a luncheon. After another hour's study they have more play. Dr. Lietz has something new for the boys every hour, and the way they rushed at their work and at their play was remarkable. The afternoon is spent in the workshop and out of j doors. The result of the system is that the boys are not dull for a minute. ; Their minds or bodies are always at | work.—Dean Jackman, in Chicago Tribune. Wonderful Memories of the Blind. The ncuteness of their memories seems to be a compensation for the blind. One of the visitors to the read ing-room for the blind in the National Library at Washington expressed a desire to learn to use the typewriter. There was none provided, so Mr. Hutchesou very kiudly sent down his own. The girl sat down to the machine, nnd had oxpinined to her tho position of the letters and the key j board slowly read to her twice. She practised for a few moments, and then wrote a letter in which there were only three mistakes, a feat wnich it would be difficult for a seeing person to sur pass, One afternoon Mrs. Ward, the Kansaß vice-regent of the Mount Ver non Association, read in the Pavilion. While doing so she repeated Iron Quill's well-known verses on Dewey's victory, beginning "Oh Dewey was the morning." . Later in the aftornoon one of tho blind listeners brought to her a complete copy of all of the verseq, which he had remembered from hear ing her.—Woman's Home Companion. "Silent French," the Englishman. General French is known as "Si lent Frenoh." The now famous cav alry leader started his career on the I deck of a man-o'-war, abandouded it for the infantry, and on leaving this entered the cavalry branch of the ser vice. For about twelve days he was an Eighth Hussar, from which he trans ferred to the Nineteenth at that time one of the slackest and worst disci plined regiments ia tho service. How ever, under that spendid horse-sol dier Barrow, well backed by French, the regiment was rapidly licked into shape, and became famous for its scouting and the skill and oleverness of its non-commissioned officers. THE NATION'S DRINK fIILU 91,146,897.822 For Alcoholic Beverages, Coffee, Tea and Cocoa. It appears from statistics recently compiled that the consumption of al coholic stimulents in this country is not on the increase. Of recent years there has been a marked decline in the use of spirituous liquors, which is in part accounted for by the decided increase in the number of illicit dis tilleries operated. The output of the stills are not reoorded, and there were four times as many seized in *1899 as in 1890. However, to increase the per capita consumption to the 1890 mark would call for an illicit produc tion twice that which is probable, namely, 18,000,000 gallons. The following table shows concisely the per capita consumption for ten years: Spirits, Win®, Deer, Total, gallons, gallons gallons. gallons 1890.. 1.40 .46 13.67 15.53 1891. 1.42 .45 15.28 17.16 1892. 1.5) .44 15.10 17.04 1893.. 1.51 .48 16.08 18.07 1894.. 1.33 .31 15.18 16.82 1895.. 1.12 .28 14.95 16.35 1896., 1.00 .26 1 5.16 16.42 1897.: 1.01 .53 14.69 16.22 1898.. 1.10 J2B 15.64 17.03 1899.. 1.15 35 14.94 16.43 The statistiis show also that ap proximately 75,000,000 gallons of spirits were consumed in drink, and that the approximate cost to con sumers was 8338,896,026. The con sumption of beer has been steady for several years; in 1899 it amounted approximately to 1,135,520,629 gal lons, which oost the consumers abont 8569,159,028. The consumption of wine, both imported and domestic, was abont 26,360,690 gallons; this, at an estimate, cost the consumers about 865,534,026. The alcoholic-drink bill of the con sumers of this country for 1899 was approximately 31,000,000,000, as fol lows: Beer (domestic) $5GG,3(11,(101 Beer (Imported) 2,797,427 Whisky (exclusive of quantity used la arts 338,890,026 Wlues (domestic).. ... ..... 45.G71.17t Wines (imported 49,802,852 Total $973,539,030 Statistics on the comsumption ol tea, coffee, cocoa, chocolate and so foith, reveal some interesting facts. The consumption of coffee, it appears, has almost doubled in ten years. The net consumption has been esti mated to be, for 1899, about 673,475,- 771 pounds. This many pounds will make abont 1,346,951,542 gallons. The cost of the whole to the con sumer was abont 8134,695,154. In the past year there has been a small inorease pel capita in the use of tea. Thbre was 72,834,816 pounds im ported to make 433,474,880 gallons, at a cost to the consumer of about 833,613,588. The retail cost of tho cocoa and chocolate is estimated at 85,000,000. The total drink bill of the country was approximately 31.146,897,822, as follows: Alcoholic drinks $973,539,080 Coffee 134,095,154 Tea ..... 33,013,58(1 Cocoa 5,000,000 Total $ 1,146,897,82J All this represents a cost of $15.09 to each of the 76,011,000 inhabitants of the United States. In other words, every man, woman and child in tho country would have to give 44 cents a day to pay the nation's drink bill.— New York Post. lluttle Between a Fox Terrier ami a Snake. A fox terrier belonging to Deputy Sheriff' James Smith, an attache of the Distriot Attorney's office, of Koch ester, N. Y., had an encounter with a black snake on Smith's farm, a mile out of Brighton, the other day. Mrs. Smith went out to the barn to close one of the doors, and on coming back saw the snako lying across the path. Sho ran to get a stick, and just then Gyp, the fox terrier, came bounding 1 out of the house. Gyp seized the snake by the body near the head and i the snake wound itself about Gyp's neck. Mrs. Smith returned with a stiok and tried to help the dog out, but could not get in a blow that would tell. Gyp Anally sank down exhausted in the roadway, and at the same in stant the snake's coils slackened and it dropped dead. Gyp, after panting for a few moments, got up and was as well as ever. Tho snake was five feet Bix inches in length. Strategy of nn Fugle. A strange tale comes from Susque hanna County. According to a vera-! cious correspondent, three wildcats at Fiddle Lake attacked a big eagle, which is wintering among the trees in a liemlock grove near the lake. Al though attacked from three points, the bird gallantly held its own : and slew two of the wildcats. This is the way he did it: Singling oflt one j of the cats, the eagle grasped it tightly | by the neek, burying its talons deep I in the flesh, then, rising almost per- [ pendicularly for about 100 feet, al- I lowed his prisoner to drop on a ledge of rooks. Two falls killed the first victim, but three were reqnired to get away with the second. The survivor, seeing the fate of his companions, flew down the mountain side.—Pitts burg (Penn.) Dispatch. Keep Chicken. 011 the ltoof. Men with ohickens for sale are seen in the streets of Havana, Cuba, every day. They usually have these tied by the feet to the sides of the saddle and ride on the saddle. The chickens are sold by the half dozen, 36 being the usual prioe. If yon buy half a dozen and put them in your coop, the man thinks that you will wish some more the next day or two day after ward anyway, and appear at that time, and thereafter two or three times a week. These men are usnally farmers and are native Cubans. When a housekeeper wishes to fatten a chicken or turkey for eating she nan ally keeps it on the roof of the house for several days previous to killing it, The wheat crop in Manitoba is ex pected to exceed last year's by 2,500,000 bushels, and the oat crop by 600,000 busbels. What Shall Wo Ilare For Detaertl This question arises In the family dally. Let us answer It to-duy. Try Jell-O, a delicious and healthful dessert. Prepared In 2 mln. No bolllngl no baking! Simply add a little hot wator A set tooool. Flavors: Lemon, Orange, Baspborryand Strawberry. At grocers. 10c. Padua's pilgrims to Rome for the jubilee will make the journey on bi cycles. Do Your Feet Ache and Burn ? Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or new ■hoes feel easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot, Smarting and Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores, 25 cts. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen 8. Olinstead, Leßoy, N. Y. Morocco is famous for its fine mules. The best come from Fez and are worth S2OO each. Ptso's Cure Is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of throat and lungs— Wm. O. Exdslet, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. Nevada has a population all told of 45,761 —about one-fourth of the aver age congressional district. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever Is a bottle of Gnova's Tabtilms Chill Tonic. It Is simply iron and quinine la a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price 00c. The 33 largest towns of England and Wales have a total population of nearly 12,000,000. Dyspepsia Is the bane of the human sys tem. Protect yourself against its ravages by the use of Beeman's Pepsin Gum, The bakers' strike has revealed the fact that London's baking is nearly all done by Germans or other foreigners. H. M. Norloo, Bt. Paul. Minn., says: Please send me one bottle l-rey's Vermifuge for en closed 25c. I cannot get a bottle in this city. The population of Edinburgh is now within about 1,000 of 300,000. Jell-O, tlie New Dessert* Pleases all tho family. Four flavors:— Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. At your grocurs. 10 ct§. Cigarettes are smoked almost exclu sively in Germany. 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Address, ib •ou-Stewart Slfg. Co., Ulowonla, Pa. The fire department of Chicago lias 98 steam fire engines. Hall's Catarrh Car# Is a liquid and Is taken Internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Write for tes timonials, free. Manufactured by F. J. CIIENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Denmark claims that there is not a single person in her domain who cannot read and write. Fits permanently cured. No fit* or nervous- E after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great re Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise Dr. R.H. KLINE. Ltd.'J3l Arch St.Phiia.Pa. California will raise 125,000.000 pounds of prunes this year. Mrs. Winslow'sSoothln? Pyrap for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma tion. allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. The Chicago city architect has made plans for a mansion for stray dogs. To Care m Cold In One Day. Take LAXATIVE BKOMO QUININE TABLETS. All druggists refund the money If It falls to euro. 1. W. Qeova's Signature la on each box. 86c. About 30 cities in Wisconsin are sup plied with water from artesian wells. H. H. GREEN'S SONS, of Atlanta, GA., are the only successful Dropsy Specialists In the world. See their liberal offer In advertisement In another oolumn of this paper. "THE MESSIAH" ON THE PLAINS Annual Musical Event of tho West That Attracts Thousands. "Because of Its surroundings, and uplifting by its earnest methods and teaching, the Easter performance of 'The Messiah,' by the Swedish colon/ at Lindsborg, in central Kansas, is each spring one of the Interesting events of the west," writes Charles M. Harger in the Ladies' Home Journal. "A musical festival that, out on the comparatively sparsely settled prairies, can bring together 10,000 people dur ing-holy week, many of them coming 200 miles, must be excellent Indeed. The growth of the audiences In this instance, year after year, indicates a thorough appreciation of a worthy rendering of Handel's great oratorio. The Swedes are a singing people, and the religious sentiment is strong in their hearts. The one cherished day for this colony of perhaps 3,000 fami lies is Easter,and the chief glory there of is 'The Messiah.' Four hundred men and maidens participate in these renditions. The orchestra numbers 50 pieces, and is supplemented by a three manual pipe organ. The leaders, di rectors and soloists are all members of the Lindsborg community, and teachers in the college there." Tarrot DiJrl of Grief. Elmer, Pa., telegram to Philadelphia Times: A parrot belonging to Captain Theodore Jones, of this place, died a few days ago, and the owner is satis fied that the bird died from grief. Mrs. Jones recently died, and she had an attachment for the parrot, which helped her to while away many hours. Soon after her death the bird began to droop and called for Mrs. Jones re peatedly until it died. A MlHogynlNt'a Suspicion. During the interval between the sec ond and third acts at English's last night the program showed that the or chestra would play "The Spider and the Fly." It played Mendelssohn's wedding march. Now, a suspicion might arise—but, of course, only in the mind of a misogynist.—lndianap olis News. I DROPS V * EW DISCOVERY: t iM 1 l/ilVrO 1 quick rlUfaod onr M wor at £**—• ®°° h tactimoniali Mid 10 days' trMlam WWmm. Or. H. B. OBllB'S SOBS. Box B AtluU. o*. H^SwSS?, { Thompson's Eye Water LIKE MANY OTHERS Clara Kopp Wrote for Mrs. Pinkham's Ad* vice and Tells what it did for Her. 44 DEAR MRS. PIXKIIAM : —I have seen so many letters from ladies who were cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's remedies that I thought I would ask youradvioe in regard to my condition. X have been doctoring for f/lAßyv four years and have taken different pat ent medicines, but received very little 4^ H troubled with back jHT ache, in fact my whole body aches, ml! stomach feels sore, V I by spells get short f I of breath and am /J . very nervous. Men* | ,| ( ■■ struation is very ir / MSt 1 1 regular with severe | \ bearing down pains, cramps and back- C ache. I hope to hear J* from you at once."— CLARA KOPP, Rockport, Ind., Sept. 27, 1898. 44 1 think it is my duty to write a letter to you in regard to what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did for me. I wrote you some time ago, describing my symptoms and asking your advice, which you very kindly gave. lam now healthy and cannot begin to praise your remedy enough. I would say to all suffering women, 4 Take Mrs. Pinkham's advice, for a wo man best .understands a woman's suf ferings, and Mrs. Pinkham, from her vast experience in treating female ills, can give you advice that you can from no other source.' " —CLARA KOPP, Rockport, Ind., April 13, 1599. Try Crain-O! Try Crain-O! Ask your Grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new L food drink that takes the place of | coffee. i The children may drink it without ' injury as well as the adult. All who I try it, like it. GRAIN-0 has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it g without distress. X the price of coffee. 15 cents and 25 cents per package, Sold by all grocers. Tastes like Coffee Looks like Coffee Insist that your grocer gives yon GRAIN-© Accept no imitation. !' Vf OUT!) your familyM comfort It \ HIRES Rootbeer m Will contribute more to it than tons of ice and a trroH* of fund. G gallons for 25 cents. L HIKES CO. JEGH&J p Beat cough Syruu. Tastes good. Caa ■
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