Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 28, Number 46, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 15 January 1908 — Page 2

THE NAPPANEE NEWS. O. N. MURRAY, Publlaltar. NAPPANEE, : : INDIANA, BRIEF IK WES FOP THE BUS! MJN MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN ; CONDENSED FORM. ROUNDABOUT THE WORLD Complete Review ftf Happeninge of Greatest Interest from All Parts of the Globe—Latest Home and ForI elgn Items. Pour firemen were killed and many Injured in a fire that destroyed the Parker -building on Fourth avenue, New York. The loss, chiefly to publishing houses, was about $5,000,000. Edwin Collier, Sr., took his eight-year-old blind son Edwin to his wife’s grave in Ravenna (O.) cemetery, shot him dead and then put a bullet through his own body, near the heart Residents of the Ghetto in New York turned out in such numbers to attend the funeral of their poet and playwright, Abraham Goldfaden, that traffic on the Bowery ,to; The grand jury in Kansas City returned 160 indictments for working on Sunday, mostly against actors and other theatrical folk. Mrs. Henry O. Boehme of Orange, N. J., committed suicide by kneeling in front of an express train in the Lackawanna railroad. Fred Otto of Miles, la., traveling dispatcher of ! the Chicago Great Western railroad, was killed at Egan, 111., while assisting in clearing a wreck. William H. Taft addressed a large audience in the People’s Institute, New York, on capital and labor, and submitted to a rapid fire quiz from his hearers. The safe of the Bank of Adair at Adair, 111., was blown open with nitroglycerin and $7,700, all the currency in bank, was taken. Five persons were killed in. a collision on the Alabama & Mississippi railroad at Vinegar Bend, Ala. The appellate division of the supreme court of New York set aside a verdict for $460,000 obtained against George J. Gould and others by John S. Jones, an Ohio coal operator. The American Society of Equity in session at Henderson, Ky., denounced the night riders as common criminals. James A. Kemp, embezzling employe of the Washington police department, was arrested in N£w Orleans. ? Fire destroyed a business block In Sidney, Neb., the loss being SIOO,OOO. William H. Patterson, son of former Senator John Patterson of North Carolina and brother-in-law of Admiral Evans, commanding the Pacific fleet, died at Battle Creek, Mich., from pneumonia. ” - It was officially announced in Tokyo that Baron Takahira had been chosen ambassador to the United States to succeed Viscount Aoki. The socialists organized suffrage demonstration before the building of The Prussian landtag in Berlin in which a radical resolution demanding universal suffrage in Prussian elections came up” for discussion. They were dispersed by the police, and Chancellor von Buelow said the government was against manhood suffrage. Paul Bowers, aged 14 years, shot and killed a negro burglar in his home at Alverton. Pa. “ George F. Evans, vice president and general manager of the Maine Central railroad, died at Vanceboro, Me. *• Terrorists of Warsaw threw a bomb at a post car station, killing two men and injuring ten, and escaping with a large sum of money. Five Detroit firemen were injured, none of them seriously, at a fire which caused about SIOO,OOO damage in the Forrester & Cheney knitting mills. Fire in the business section of Albion, 111-, destroyed the Edwards County Bank building, the new National Bank building, the telephone exchange and four stores. - .'lt is reported in New Britain, Conn., that William F. Walker, the absconding bank treasurer recently arrested 111 Mexico, is being aided in his defense by New York parties who received part of the stolen securities. New Jersey - railway commissioners report that from July 29 to December L, 1907, 108 persons were killed and 198 injured by railroads in the state. Ex-Empress Eugenie and her suite tailed from Marseilles, France, for Colombo. Dr. Horace Newell Marvin of Dover, Del., father of the boy who wandered away from a farmhouse near Dover last spring and died from exposure, was married to Mrs. Flora Melinda Swift, his mother-in-law. The American battleship fleet, under command of Rear Admiral Evans, was sighted passing Pernambuco, Brazil, on its way to Rio Janeiro. A pew Roman Catholic diocese was carved out of the archdiocese of Chicago, and will be known as the bishopric of Rockford. Congressman William Sulzer of New York married Miss Roedelfieim of Philadelphia, whq was his nurse during a serious illness. Mail’ advices from South China tell of a terrible fire at Canton where 300 lives were lost In the burning of a restaurant. .

Testimony was begun in the suit Instituted by Richard Snell, son of Col. Thomas Snell, the late millionaire railroad builder, in Clinton, 111., to break the will which cuts young Snell off with an annuity of but SSO. Sensational statements were made by counsel for the plaintiff to the effect that Col. Snell had expended no less than $300,000 upon women during the last ten years of his life, of which $76,000 had gone to his alleged grandniece, Maybelle Snell, of Kansas City, Mo., now Mrs. McNamara. The district court of appeals at San Francisco handed down a decision setting aside the judgment in the case of former Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz, -deavieted of extortion in the Freneh restaurant case. Abe Rues also benefits by the ruling. The old historic building at Newbern, N. C., which was part of Gov. Tryon’s place before the revolutionary war was destroyed by fire. Two negro farm hands who made a murderous assault on Mr. and Mrs. Martin Livingston at Goldsboro, Ga., were captured by a posse and shot to death. Cyrus J. Lawrence, aged 76, of the New York banking firm of Cyrus J. Lawrence A Son and vice president of the Bush Terminal company, died. Mack St. Clair and Solomon Lawrence, shot firerS, were instantly killed in an explosion ip a mine at Princeton, Ind. Friends of Jack London, the author, are beginning to feel anxiety over his failure to arrive at the Marquesas islands, which he was expected to reach early in December. Frank J. Mcßrien, a wealthy retired ,'huslnoo; — sli tWttS killed in New York in saving the life of Mrs. Mary Scheele of Brooklyn, who had fallen in the path of a train. Martin Maloney Os Philadelphia began court proceedings to have annulled the marriage of his daughter Helen to Arthur Herbert Osborn of New York in 1905. The candidacy of Gov. Charles E. Hughes for the Republican presidential nomination was launched at a “Hughes dollar dinner” in New York city. W. J. Bryan, speaking at Danville, 111., said he believed the Republicans would nominate Speaker Cannon for the presidency. Austin O. Sexton, once active in Chicago in state and local politics, died at the home of his daughter at Hammond, Ind. L. C. Storrs of Lansing, Mich., aged 70, secretary of the Michigan state board of charities and correction, died suddenly of heart failure on a'Queen & Crescent train near Somerset, Ky. Urban Angney, captain of last year’s football team at Kansas university, committed suicide at Laurence, JCan., by jumping from the dome.of Frazer hall. ' * \Vv^T*> Edward Burch* at ftamptoa, Va., and Miss Eva Downing' at Ky., were married • by long-distance telephone. William Shamburger perished in a fire that partly destroyed the roundhouse and shops of the Lake Shore road at Elkhart, Ind. * Christopher H. Connor, former city comptroller of La Crosse, Wis., and one of the best-known Democratic politicians in western Wisconsin, died at Spokane. Five men were injured, one probably fatally, and the lives of 50 passengers endangered by a terrific headon collision on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway in Chicago. Chinese students educated in America have taken precedence over those educated in Europe and in Japan, according to advices received at the state department from American Consul General Bergholz at Canton, China. Vernon L. Nettleton of Coldwater, Mich., gashed his sister’s throat with a carving knife and then killed himself. *W. B. Thomas was elected president of the American Sugar Refining company to succeed the late H. O. Havemeyer. ' • ” The courthouse at Calhoun, Ky., was destroyed by fire. All court records for McLean county were burned. Lansing, Mich., was seized by a strange malady, thousands of persons being stricken with nausea and acute intestinal trouble. ~ * Being unable to meet payments due on his stock in the institution Augustus Heinze lost control of the Mercantile National bank of New York. The stock was taken back by Edwin Gould. Father Charles F. Kearful of St. Joseph, Mo., has been notified by the state department at Washington that he is heir to a fortune of $500,000, left by his uncle, a prominent wool merchant, who died recently in Sydney, Australia. t Judge Munger of the federal court at Omaha ordered the jury to acquit Henry Sutton, who had been on trial on charge of conspiracy to defraud the government out of large tracts of land. Judge Walter .H. Sanborn, of the United States circuit court at St. Paul, Minn., appointed A. B. Stickney and Charles H. F. Smith, both residents of St. Paul, receivers for the Chicago Great Western railroad. Postmaster General Meyer ordered that it shall be a condition of any contract hereafter entered into for carrying the malls upon star, screen wagon, messenger or special service route, that the contractor shall not transport intoxicating liquor from one point to another upon such route while in the perfromance of mail service. Gagged with his own handkerchief, tied by the feet to the iron upright of the elevated railway and robbed of S7OO in cash and ia eheoks. waa the fate that bqfell J. Ward Flook, a collector for Libby, McNeill & Libby, of Chicago. •

Liquor valued“*t $7',000, seized in raids, was poured into the sewer at Topeka, Kan., under orders of the court". J. F. Selby, mayor of Hillsboro, N. D., dropped dead in Moorhead, N. D. Bishop George Worthington of Nebraska, who. was recently appointed to take charge of the Episcopal churches on the continent in succession to Bishop Henry C. Potter of New York, died suddenly at Mentone, France. Dean James B. Eddie of Salt Lake City, who was convicted by an ecclesiastical court of immorality a year ago, was formally deposed from the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church, many of the congregation weeping and hissing the sentenoe. Prominent coal operators from' the principal coal producing states of the east gathered In Washington to discuss the recent mining disasters and the best methods possible for the preservation of the lives of the miners in the future. Albert Jackson and Minnie Burton discovered Just before the day set for their marriage at Englewood, S. D., that they were brother and sister, and they have gone to northern Missouri to make a search for their mother. Fred C. Bonflls of the Denver Post was fined SSO for assaulting former Senator Thomas M. Patterson. T Charles W. Whitney, a New York stock exchange man, committed suicide. A radical bank bill was presented in the Illinois house Springfield by Representative Templeman. It provides that losses by depositors owing" to failures shall be shared pro raK among banka; Isaac Kushemoff, a 17-year-old New York boy, who was a bank messenger and disappeared, was arrested on his return from Europe, charged with taking $390 collected for the Bank of North America. Rev. D. I. McDermott, rector of a Catholic church in Philadelphia, refused to permit a lodge of Hibernians to attend a funeral in the church, and made serious charges connecting the order with the Molly Maguires. Indicted by the federal grand jury for the over-certification of 15 checks, representing in the aggregate over $400,000 and drawn by the firm of Otto Heinze & Cos. on the Mercantile National bank, F.. Augustus Heinze, the copper -magnate and former president of the Mercantile National bank, surrendered himself to United States Commissioner Shields in New York and later was released on $50,000 hail. The long overdue MOunt Royal of The Canadian Pacific railway's, Atlantic steamed slowly into Queenstown. Heavy weather and trouble with her boilers compelled her to put back. The students of Washington university at St. Louis held a meeting and formulated demandß upon the faculty to reinstate Student J. Allen Stevens, recently expelled, on threat pf a general student strike. Despondent because of., HI health gnd financial difficulties, M. A. Horn, merchant, councilman, bank director and stockholder in manufacturing concerns, drowned himself at Defiance, O. . .. Seven hundred and forty thousand dollars is missing from the Bank of Yucatan. Fernando U. Rodriguez, sub-director, and Mateo Ponce, excashier of the bank, and ten other per-; sons have been arrested. Claus A. Spreckle, son of the big sugar refiner, charges that the American Sugar Refining company has no. surplus and that it has included in its assets a o% two,. dismantled plants. Four men, who attempted to hold up passengers on the “Katy” flyer in the union station In Kansas City, Mo., werd,. foiled. The conductor struck one of the gang over the head with a lantern and all fled. A stretch of beach 300 feet long at Oregon Inlet, N. C., was washed away during a storm, carrying with it the land end of the government cable to Hatteras Station. The employers’ liability law was held unconstitutional hy the supreme court of the United States. _ ‘“Former Supervisor Lonergan of San Francisco, who confessed to accepting bribes, dropped dead. Charles M. MacDonald, formerly a prominent lumberman, died at La Crosse, Wis. Foster E; Percy of Mendota, 111., committed suicide in Chicago. H. Grey Duberly, a relative of Earl Grey, governor general of Canada, committed suicide in New York. A ves.sel believed to be the missing steamer Mount Royal was reported 250 miles west of Fastnet Light. Asa result of the overturning of a skiff containing nine men near Kickapoo, Kan/, seven men were drowned; the other two were rescued by Ernest Schweitzer at the risk of his life. Judge A. S. Berry, a well-known Kentucky Democratic politician and a former member of congress, died at his home at Newport, Ky., of pneumonia. Unless the spinners modify their demands, the cotton mills throughout the country, owned by 500 members of the Federation of Master Spinners, will be closed January 25 and 150,000 employes locked out. A schooner was wrecked od. the Diamond shoals, near Cape Hatteras, and only two of the crew of wqre 'saved. A. Ross Hill, dean of the college of arts and sciences and a director of the School of education at Cornell university, was chosen president of the University of Missouri to succeed Richard Hrjesse, resigned. Capt. William Thomas, superintendent of the Aurora mine of the Upited, States Steel corporation at Ironwood, MtCfi., was shot and Rilled Monday by John Bqndette, a miner who had been discharged.

TO GALL OFF TROOPS —' —-T7 - PRESIDENT WILL ORDER THEM AWAY FROM GOLDFIELD. - WARNING TO GOVERNOR Committee Says There Was No Warrant for Asking Federal Aid and Nevada Bhould Preserve Order. Washington.—President has determined to withdraw the federal troops from Goldfield, Nev., shortly after the legislature begins its special session Tuesday. This intention was made known at the White House Sunday whan the report of the special investigation committee was made public, together with a letter from the president to oGv. Sparks, dated January 4. The president says he shall be governed by the recommendations in the report unless the governor can show that the statements of the report are not in accordance with the facts. The report says: “The conditions did not support the general allegations in the governor’s request for troops, nor were his specific statements established to any such extent as to justify his use of these statements for the purpose of getting federal troops.” It concludes with this recomlhendation: “But we must also firmly believe that upon the assembling of the legislature. or within a few dayß thereafter, the troops should be removed, regardless of any request for their retention. that nfay be made by either the legislature or the governor of Nevada, it being essential that the state of Nevada shall understand this situation completely, shall recognize the fact that there will, at that date, be thrown upon it, and it alone, the primary responsibility of keeping order and that, recognizing this responsibility, it may take such action as is the duty of the state and as will be sufficient in the premises.” BATTLESHIPS ARE AT RIO. Admiral Evans Is Welcomed by the Brazilian Officials. Rio Janeiro. —The American fleet of 16 battleships, entered the port of Rio Janeiro at three o’clock Sunday afternoon, after a passage from Port of Spain, Trinidad, more than 3,000 miles, unmarred by serious accident, replete with interesting incidents and ending with a royal welcome from the thousands that had gathered to greet the visitors. . As soon as the anchorage was made the Brazilian minister of marine, Admiral Alencar, the captain of the port, the American consul, C. E. Anderson, the commandants of naval divisions and the civic authorities went on board the Connecticut and" extended a hearty welcome to Rear Admiral Evans, his officers and men. VISSCHER SHOOTS OFFICER. Well Known Chicagoan in Serious TroußTe in Omaha. Omaha, Neb —Col. William L. Visscher, widely known as journalist and humorist, Saturday night shot and seriously injured Patrol Conductor Peter Dillon while Visscher was being taken to the police station in a patrol wagon, charged with disturbing the peace. Col. Visscher was arrested first for being intoxicated. He was released, and, being anxious to return to Chicago, where he lives, attempted to board every train at the depot and was arrested again for his own protection. It was then that he shot the officer. FATAL EXPLOSION OF GAB. Man Kilter! and Others Badly Injured in poplin Hotel. Joplin, Mo. —An explosion of natural gas in the basement of the big Olivia apartment hotel here Sunday killed Marvin Reynolds, aged 20, night clerk, seriously injured several other persons and caused SB,OOO damage to property. ■■■•' i A suite of five rooms occupied by John E. Stevens, a wealthy mine owner, and his_ wife was completely wrecked and both occupants were severely injured. Ice Yacht Kills Chicago Boy. Madison, Wis.—Frank Purdy of Chicago, a freshman in the College of Agriculture of the Wisconsin university, was run down by an ice yacht while skating on LakeMendotaand so badly injured that he died. - ■■■■ - ■ Attempts Suicide But Is Hanged. Knoxville,'Tenn. —Peter Turner, a negro, was hanged here Saturday for the murder of Minnie Scott last March. Saturday morning Turner made an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. Japanese Growing Uneasy,.. .. Tokyo.—lncoming cablegrams Indicating an overwhelming sentiment in America in favor of an exclusion act are causing much uneasiness of leaders of all shades of politics, who have 1 repeatedly expressed’ the conviction that the Americans did not desire to discriminate against the Japanese and would accept the attitude of the Japanese government as evidence of its sincere desire not to embarrass the American government and at the same time to save the amour propre of the Japanese.

BALKED BY A TRIFLE. Bhe Shattered His Magnificent Dreams -of the Future. She was a Manhattan miss of four and a half years, as dainty and demure a bit of the eternal feminine as ever coquetted with the, lordly male. He had Just passed his fifth birthday, strong and sturdy, with the Belf reliance and protecting spirit of the truly masculine. For eight weeks they had been playmates, romping and bubbling over with life, and surprising all by their freedom from childish strife. Now he was going away. His father was dead and his mother had made arrangements to plaqe him in Bchool. “When I come back from school I’m goin’ to bring you lots o’ things,” he said, as he kicked at the base of one of the big stone posts in front of the apartment house. “What are you going to bring me?” she asked with a visible increase in interest “I’m goin’ to bring you a horse.” “Oh, a horse!” v “An’ a carriage—” “Oh, won’t that be nice!” Clapping of hands. “An’ a big house—” “Oh—ee!” “An’ a motorbeel.” “Yes,” she applauded faintly, “and won’t you bring me some candy?” He pondered heavily. "No, I don't b’lieve I can,” he hesitated. “I’ll have to ask mamma to get that. She’s got all the pennies.” Thus did the insignificant concrete problem of the present shatter the magnificent dreams of the future. "I’d lots rather have candy,” said the little maid. Seattle’s War on Rats. “We have begun arresting people in Seattle who fail to comply with a recently passed ordinance relating to rats,” said Dr. S, J. Fowler of the state of Washington. “Just before I left home two butchers were haled into court for violating the law, in that they had failed to make their premises ratproof. “After the law was passed the police went about informing all market men, grocer*- and dealers in food products that they must fortify their , houses against the rodents or else be liable to arrest. The purpose fas to cut- off the rats from their sources of sustenance, and thereby make easier their extermination. The butchers arrested did not try to make their places of business secure against the entrance of the pests, and they will no doubt have to suffer. “We have slain tens of thousands of the rats since the campaign of destruction began and are beginning to breathe,jaiQte freely,, for at- one time it was they'might spread the bubonic plague that find appeared in San Francisco and cause a frightful sacrifice of human lives. Golden Rose of Virtue. The pope has decided to bestow the. Golden Rose of Virtue on the queen of Spain. This is the highest order which the pope can confer on a Catholic princess. The Golden Rose, which was first presented by Pope Urban VI. to Joanna of Sicily, is a mimic plant of pure gold standing in a golden pot. The lqaVes of the plant are set with small diamonds in imitation of dewdrops. Police Magistrate at Eighty-Five. < Magistrate Alexander Bartlet of Windsor, Ont., is 85, but still serves as police justice. In 1908 he will have been 40 years on the bench. Becoming a Nation of Sportsmen. Germany is fast becoming a nation of sportsmen. According to jstatistics just issued the properly registered sporting clubs of various denominations with the empire have an aggregate membership this year of 470,000. Success. “That man made a success of everything fie turned his hand to.” "Everything?” > . “Yes; even marriage.”—Detroit Free Pres* THE MARKETS. New York, Jan. IS. LIVE STOCK—Steers 33 75 @ 760 Hogs 4 30 @ 4 45 Sheep 3 80 @ 679 FLOUR—Winter Straights.. 460 @ 476 WHEAT—May ............... 1 12%® 1 13 July 1 06%@ l 0714 CORN-May 70 @ 701( RYE-No. 2 -Western 9114® 93 BUTTER—Creamery Firsts. 21 ® SO EQGS—Good toJZholce ...:.. 32 @ 36 / CHEESE 914® 1514 , CHICAGO. CATTLE—Choice Steers .... *6 50 ® 6 38 Fair ttf -Good Steers 6 00 ® 5.50 ; Yearlings, Plaln.to Fancy 800 ®6 SO Fair to Choice Feeders.. 225 ®4 2b Calves 4 00 ©8 00 HOGS-Prime Heavy 4 35 @ 4 45 Mixed Packers-TTrrtT77t.. “4 30 ® 440 Heavy Packing 4 26 @ 436 BUTTER—Creamery 21 @ 29 Dairy *. 17 ® S3 LIVE POULTRY 9 @ll EGGS 15 ® 25 POTATOES (per bu.) 66 @ 60 GRAlN—Wheat, May 1 06 @ 1 0514 July 99 <0 1 OOH Corn, May 6974® -6014 1/ Oats. May, New 52 @ 5214 Rye. December ~,, 76 @ 76VS MILWAUKEE. GRAlN—Wheat, No. FNor’n *1 12 O 1'13% May 1 04%& 1 0614 _ _ Corn, May 69H<@ *0 Oats. Standard 62 ® 6214 ... Rye, No. 1 84 ® 86 KANSAS CITY. GRAIN-Wheat, May .v-M 00 ffl 1 0014 - July 91 @ 9114 Corn, May 54 ® 6414 Oats. No. 2 White 6014® 5114 ST. LOUIS. CATTLE-Beet Steers 83 26 @6 00 L Texas Steers 290 @ 5 26 HOGS—Packers .. 400 @4 45 ! Butchers 440 ®4 60 SHEEP-r-Natlvss 300 @5 00 j , OMAHA. CATTLE—Native Steers .t.. |3 SO ® 5 76 1 Stockers and Feeders.... 300 @4 60 I Cows and Heifers 200 @4 40 HOGS—Heavg, 4 15 @4 25 SHEEP—Wethefs 6 16 @ 660

REASON FOR WOMEN'S “NERVES’* V""~ In Very Many Cases It la Weakened Kidney*. Mrl. Frank Roseboom, 512 S. Washington St, Moscow, Iddho, says: "In*therited kidney trouble grew steadily worse with me until so nervous I oould not sleep at night. X was dizzy and spot* floated before my eyes. My back and hips ached and every cold settled on my kidneys and made me worse. I have used many different medicines and was discouraged when I began with Doan’s Kidney Pills, but now thesymptoms that alarmed me are gone.”" Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box, Foster-Milburn Cos., Buffalo, N. Y. Shielded. “I suppose you think yon could nun the government better than we do?’*’ said the statesman. “I do,” answered the energetic citizen. “And I do not doubt you are happy and hopeful in that belief?” “I am.” “It is a beautiful state of mind. It would be a pity to destroy it by allowing yon to be elected to office.” tTATa or Ohio, City or Tolmdo, i Ldoa* Coott. f Tun J. Cum mtkM Oftth that ha U aenlor partner of the Arm of F. J. Caxxir a CO., doing basinets In the City of Toledo. County and State aforesaid, and that said Arm will pay the earn ot ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of CaTanna that cannot be cored by the hee of Hau-'i CaTanae Goan. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed In my pretence, this eth day of December, A. D., 18M. , A. W. GLEASON, . I Notabt Pcblio. Hall's Catarrh Care Is taken Internally and act* directly on tha blood and mucoaa surface* of th* system. Send for testimonial*, free. F. J. CHENEY * CO.. Toledo, O. Bold by all Drnnlste, 73c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. BLAMED ON THE RAILROAD. First Thought In Irishman’s Mind After the Accident. Railroad claim-agents have little faith in their fellow creatures. One said recently: “Every time I settle a claim with one of these hard-neaded rural residents who wants the railroad to pay twice what he would charge the butcher if he gets a sheep killed, I think of this story, illustrative of the way some people want to hold the railroad responsible for every accident, of whatever kind, tht£t happens. Two Irishmen were driving home from town one night when their buggy ran into a ditch, overturned, and they were both stunned. When a rescuer came along and revived them, the first thing one of them said was: ‘Where’s the train?’ ‘Why, there’s no train around,’ he was told. ‘Then where’s the railroad?’ ‘The nearest railroad is three miles away,’ he learned. ‘Well, well,’ he commented. ‘I knew it hit us pretty hard, but I didn’t suppose it knocked us three miles from the track.’ ”

THE SOFT ANSWER. Stern Parent—-I hadn’t any of the advantages you have had. How do you suppose I have got on as I have? Young Hopeless (intending to make a soothing reply)—Er—l expect the grass wouldn’t grow under you? feet, sir! RAILROAD MAN Didn’t Like Being Starved. A man running on a railroad has to be in good condition all the time or ho is liable to do harm to himself and others. A clear head is necessary to run a locomotive or conduct a train. Even a railroad man’s appetite and digestion are matters of importance, as the clear brain and steady hand result from the healthy appetite followed by the proper digestion of food, “For the past five years,” writes a railroader, “I have been constantly troubled with indigestion. Every doe. tor I consuTted seemed Ib want to starve me to death. First I was dieted on warm water and toast until I was almost starved; then, when they would let me eat, the indigestion, would be right again. “Only temporary relief came from, remedies, and I tried about all of them I saw advertised. About three ago a friend advised me to try GrapeNutß food. The very first day I noticed that my appetite was satisfied, which had not been the case before; that I can remember. “In a week, I believe, I had more energy than ever before Jn my life. I have gained seven pounds and have not had a touch of indigestion since I have been eating Grape-Nuts. When my wife saw how much good this food was doing me she thought she would •try it awhile. We believe the dlspoverer of Grape-Nuts found the 'Perfect Food.’ .” 'f . ✓ Name given by Postum Cos„ Battle Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Wellrille,” In pkgs. "There’s a Reason.”