The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 13, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 27 July 1911 — Page 7

7SERIAL? 1/2 STORY t\J Miss SelinaLue AND THE H"" Soap-Box Babies By Maria Thompson Daviess A* Illustrations by Magnus G. Kettner l L r E vl Copyright 1903, The Bobbs-Merrill Company. SYNOPSIS. Miss Selina Lue, spinster guardian angel of River Bluff, presides over an impromptu day nursery for the babes of the neighborhood in the rear of her grocery. Her charges are known as “SoapBox Babies.” The fact that she is single makes her an object of sympathy to the mothers. One of her friends is Miss Cynthia Page, daughter of Widow Page. Qynthla visits Miss Selina and learns that She has taken another Soap-Boxer” in Alan Kent, a young artist who wishes to establish a studio in her barn. Blossom, Miss Lue’s adopted baby, and one Cynthia Is very fond of, shows an evident preference for Alan. When Cynthia leaves, Alan hears that her mother is indanger of losing the old homestead. A near rukus. Alan admires Cynthia: Selina tells how she came to locate in the place and start the haven for little ones. She suspects that Cynthia' Is responsible for Alan’s neglect of herself. Sale of the mortgaged Page place considered. Alan’s portrait of Cynthia is discovered. Evelyn Branch. Cynthia’s close friend, shows interest in Alan Kent. Cynthia relieves Selina for a day, cooks dinner for Mr. Kent and makes a sorry mess of it. Alan declared a favorite with all the Bluff folk. Cynthia overhears his confessions of love. An afternoon tea is arranged, it proves a grand affair and Alan escorts Cynthia home. Blossom has a severe attack of pneumonia, but is nursed back to life by the combined efforts of Miss Selina, Cynthia and Alan. ! CHAPTER Vlll—Continued. ! “All you’ve get to say, Mr. Dobbs, is how glad you are that my baby is gitting well, and then give your coat to Mary Ellen and go on to your work, rejoicing fer me,” said Miss Selina Due, coming quickly to the rescue of the floundering condoler. “How did you all ever git the notion that things went against Blossom last night?” she asked. “We seen the doctor —and then you closed the front blinds —that’s always a sign—and—“answered Mrs, Dobbs, swallowing a sob. “Well, ain’t that too bad fer you all to be so upsot about a mistake! 'And if here ain’t all the Tyneses! Mercy, Mis’ Tyne, Blossom ain’t dead snor likely to be, and, please, ma’am, take them black bombasine strips joffen the children's , necks. It’s so rough it’ll rub ’em raw,” Now, Mrs. Tyne was a person of one idea at a time, and her mind was set on a speech to go with the bias-looking star she tendered ’Miss Selina Lue, so out it came, regardless of the fact that it was not at all needed. “Miss Seliny Lue,”’she said with real and practised emotion, “though she have gone from our sight and we must bury in the c-o-l-d, col-il ground, yet let us look up!” At the word “cold” <Mrs. Tyne gave a realistic shiver, and at the word “up” she cast her’eyes skyward, though the expression was in some degree marred’by a squint caused by the rays of the morning sun striking her full in the face. “That’s a real comforting thought, Mis’ Tyne, and I am thankful fer the speech and the star, too., Bennie, honey, run all up and down the street and tell everybody’ Blossom is a heap better and they needn’t git ready fer no funeral.” “Now, you know there ain’t been a death on the Bluff fer four years, since Mr. Si Bradford’s ma died, and we was preparing to have as nice a funeral as ever was fer you, Miss Seliny Lue,” said Mrs. Kinney in a tone that might have been construed as reproachful. “Well, I wanter say one thing; and it’s that I am glad me and Blossom have found out how many friends we have while we are still alive and can ’preciate them all. It never did seem jest right to hold back all the flowers and tears and white robes until people are gone where they can’t enjoy ’em none. And ’specially about funeral sermons—looks like if the corpses coulder heard all the praise spoke over them they mighter got the ambition to go on living a spell longer. Lands alive, did you all know it’s seven o’clock, and not a breakfast dish washed on the Bluff?” Mis® Selina Lue’s call to duty sent them all hurrying in different directions. Mrs. Dobbs was slow in getting started, and as she descended the steps she said: “I do declare I am -uneasy about Ethel Maud. I couldn’t find her nowheres this jnorning. 1 was jest so sorrowful about yoifrr trouble I clean forgot to worry.” “Oh, Mis’ Dobbs, honey, when 1 opened the door this morning at daybreak there was Ethel Maud scrouched down on the steps with nothing on but her nightgown, and a-moaning like, something, hurt 1 . She shot past me into the room, and when she seen Blossom so much better she jest laid down on the floor and cried herself to sleep plumb pitiful. Mr. Alan lifted her on the foot of the bed, and I know If Blossom stirs she will wake up and call me. Her little heart is that Moving she can watch even while lhe sleeps. I feel this morning more

than ever how we are all watched over in loving kindness that never sleeps and He ain’t ever going to forgit a single ohe of us. Ain’t it a blessed thought, and pertecting and comforting in times of trouble?” “That’s true, Miss Seliny Lue,” answered Mrs. Dobbs thoughtfully. “And we all oughter be mighty happy with so much good being done to us.” “And ain’t we? Why, it jest butters my bread of life with happiness. Look like some folks likes ter swoller they bread dry. but you and me want a little sprinkle of happy-sugar a-top of our’n. How’s Mr. Dobbs a-holding out!” “He ain't cussed a word since our trip, Miss Seliny Lue. Sometimes I sees him jest a-chawing the swears and —” “Don’t notice it, Mary Ellen. Jest hold to the thought that he ain’t a going ter do it no more, and that’ll help—” “But look yonder, Miss Seliny Lue. Ain’t —that —cute?” A n <l Mrs. Dobbs turned Miss Selina Lue around bodily. It was Carrots standing in the grocery door. He was crowing and gurgling and wobbling, but he stood his ground determinedly—alone. One flaming lock at the back of his head rose straight up with excitement, and he stretched his hand and ducked his head to Miss Selina Lue in evident triumph over his achievement. “Honey, I jest can’t a-bear to look. A mother oughter be the one ter see her baby take his first steps, and poor Mis’ Flarity is—” Miss Selina Lue faltered as she started toward tho tottering baby. “Pick him up quick,” answered Mrs. Dobbs. “They ain’t nobody in the world got a better right to any baby’s first steps than you has. Miss Seliny Lue.” CHIh’TER IX. Smiling Through Tears. “Looks like a man must think his own life have been a grand success if he goes to a-directing of his son’s.” —Miss Selina Lue. “Blossom,” said Miss Selina Lue, as she seated herself in the grocery door for a breathing spell after all the Bluff dinners had been discussed, bought, paid for, and started on their ways to the different pots, “looks like women oughter think up something different onct in a while to feed to they families. The Dobbses have had boiled cabbage fer dinner now four months hand-running, and the Kinneys have et so many fried eggs that I begin to look fer ;■ the children to show pin-feathers, it I was a-tending 7% y Ws Mm W k y® • “Jest Hold to the Thought of His. Fergiveness, and Don’t Never Give It Up.” to a husband, I would fe’el like it was kinder disrespectful to his stomik to offer it the same truck every day and Sunday too.” Blossom looked up from the china doll she was busily licking with her small red tongue’ in a sudden access of affection. The Blossom was once more abloom and abob with enthusiasm. ' “If the men folks have to put all of they lives into making of tho money to live on, looks like the women oughter put a little common sense and elbow grease into helping ’em get some comfort outen it as they go some, most of ’em handle it so keerless it shrinks up to fifty cents before it buys anything. Why, honey-bunch, wherever did you come from? I didn’t see you up the Hill.” And Miss Selina Lue’s face fairly beamed on Miss Cynthia, who came in from the back of the store. “I came down the path and through the garden,” answered Miss Cynthia. “Well, I hope you noticed how fine the garden is a-growing. There never was sich a digger as Mr. Alan before. Now, them, winter beets, couldn’t you tell he had been a-hoeing of ’em faithful?” “Yes,” answered Miss Cynthia with a shy smile that she hid in the back of Blossom’s neck, “they look like his artistic work.” “Well, you ain’t so far wrong,” answered Miss Selina Lue with an admiring glance at the soft blush behind Blossom’s curls. “If a man have got it inside him to do one kind of work big, everything else in him have got to measure up to it; and with Mr. Alan it do, pictures and beets.” “You like his pictures as much as I do, Miss Selina Lue,” said Miss Cynthia, her eyes shining with excitement at the bare mention of the treasures over in the barn. “Child, them pictures jest feeds me. Looks like all my life I’ve been living on the plain every-day eating of things and he have handed me a plate of chaloek-roos fer my spirit.” “I wish he could hear from the three he sent on to Chicago. They ought to be mounted and on the guild hall walls by this time.” Miss Cynthia’s voice was Impatiently excited, for she knew how Mr. Alan ranged for approval of his great commission, and

for a very special reason, which she also knew. “Miss Cynthia, honey, don’t you git impatient about the letter, too. Don’t never fergit that it is the man’s part to champ the bit, but a woman must pull at life steady-like. There’s the postman now; run, child, run!” And directly in the face of her wise counsels for serenity, Miss Selina Lue hurried after Miss Cynthia’s flying figure, “Oh,” said Miss Cynthia as she stood with a letter clasped to her breast, “here it is, Miss# Selina Lue, here it is! What do you suppose is In it?” ’.’Honey, I know what he is a-hoping fer, though not letting hisself expect it much. His father being one of the men to build the big hall, Mr. Alan have jest got his heart set on his seeing the pictures—and forgiving him fer painting ’em.” “Oh, I know, Miss Selina Lue. and I tun so afraid—” “You mustn't be afraid, honey, child, but you must pray and have faith to soften his heart towards the boy. Jest hold to the thought of hie fergiveness, and don’t never give it up, whether it’s in that letter or not.” “Why, that sounds like we were sending ’thought waves’ to him, Miss Selina Lue” And Miss Cynthia smiled even in her anxiety. “Yes, I remember you told me about them ‘waves’ when I held to it that Mr. Kinney would come on back from town that time he got mad and tried to leave his family. Though you explained it fine to me, I didn’t understand it at all and I jest kept on a-praying—old-fashioned prayers vjith no new-fangled fancy label on ’em. They are jest as good today as they was in Moses’ —• Lands alive, what’s the trouble over at the Dobbses now!” A- shrill shriek rose from the interior of the Dobbs residence a few houses up the street, which was followed by a quick exclamation, at which Ethel Maud shot out of the front door, wriggled over the gate, and darted through a cloud of white dust to precipitate herself bodily into Miss Selina Lue’s lap. “They ain’t a thing in the world the matter with her, Miss Seliny Lue,” called the mother from the front window. “She burned her fingers a-lift-ing hot ginger-cake from the pan while my back were turned. She muster thought she deserved a smack, fer she cut and run to you ’fore I made a motion at her.” “Ethel Maud,” said Miss Selina Lue sternly, as she lifted the touseled head out of her skirts, “go right back and ask your mother can you have that piece of cake before you eat one mouthful. Then you can bring another piece for me and Miss Cynthia and one to divide with the babies. She always puts me and the babies’ names in her cake bowl,” Miss Selina Lue added as Ethel Maud departed hurriedly to apologize and forage. “Mary Ellen makes “her cake like she lives —kinder haphazard—but it comes out all right, mostly from being mixed with sich good intentions,” Miss Selina Lue further remarked, just before Ethel Maud returned with three generous slices on a fluted china plate of amazing design. “Miss Selina Lue, may I take part of mine over —to the river bank —he’s sketching, and I promised—” “Take the plate, child, and two pieces. Mis’ Dobbs will admire to send it to him. One's mcre’n enough fer the babies and me. And, Miss Cynthie, don’t never hold back from feeding men little attentions, even if they is dumb about showing as they likes ’em. Too many women treats husbands like hitching-posts. Now, hurry while it’s "hot.” And Miss Selina Lue fairly shooed Miss Cynthia on to her tryst. “Now,” she said? “I must git to my—” “Miss Seliny Lue. come look what’s coming up the hill! Comejjuick!” called Bennie Dobbs from down the street, his face shining with excitement until the freckles fairly stood out on the surface. “Lands alive!” said Miss Selina Lue as she went out to the middle of the street, “if it ain’t a ottermobile! From the way the poor thing’s breathing looks like it might be going to staid. They hadn't oughter push tho critter up that hill, it’s too steep fer anything but a squirrel or a trol-ley-car to climb. Run, Bennie, and ask him if ho would like us to bring our clothes-line and help him a bit.” But as she" spoke, the huge red machine gave a puff, pulled over the brow of the hill, and stopped with a shudder at the very grocery door. (TO EE CONTINUED.) New Style In Names. Rev. Dr. Henry van Dyke urges patriotic Americans to name their children after the states and the nation. He commends, in this respect, the South Americans, who use Columbia, America and many attractive Latin derivatives of famous names connected with the history of the western world. The president of Ecuador has three daughters, and they are called America; Quita. the feminine of the capital city of Ecuador, and Castilla, after the ancient race from which the Latins are proud to derive their origin. Years ago Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Indiana and other euphonious names were popular for girls. Now such a name seldom is heard. A decline of patriotism and state pride, thinks Doctor van Dyke. A Maine Record. “I think I can safely lay claim to having hauled more wood into Rockland than any other one man," says Otis Tolman of Rockville. “I have been at it sixty years, hauling an average of 200 loads a year with an average of seven feet to the load. I brought my first load Into town behind a pair of steers In 1850 and sold it to the late S. H. Burpee for two dollars a cord.” —Kennebec Journal.

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Philadelphia Believes It Has Champion Long Distance Performer. James Welsh, Who in His Spare Moments Is Engaged as Bartender, Thumps Instrument for 30 Hours and 45 Minutes. Philadelphia.—Declaring they are willing to put the club itself in “heck” to prove the right of their fellow-mem-ber, James Welsh, to the title of long distance piano player of the world, members of the Rising Sun Social have issued a challenge to any piano player who considers himself in the Marathon class to meet their star la open contest. The Rising Sun will back their man in any amount frem SSOO to $5,000. At a recent exhibition meet Welsh proved bis right to the confidence which.b"s bee:: p 1 ?/'?d in him. Sitting down to the piano at nine o’clock in the cvenirfg, his fingers pursued the Ivories without pause until 3:45 o’clock in the morning of the second day thereafter, 39 hours and 45 minutes. When the applause had finished. William Wunder, manager and discoverer of the prodigy, announced that Welsh had beaten by 30 minutes the record established recently by Lewis Thorpe, of Bethlehem, whose time was 30 hours and 15' minutes. On behalf of the club, Wunder announced the society’s willingness as a body to back Welsh to meet all corners for the long distance championship of the world. Wunder, when not engaged in werk as an impresario, tends bar in a saloon ‘near Eleventh street and Germantown avenue. He said that he is a firm believer in Oscar Hammerstein’s latest LITTLE BIRDS ATTACH SNAKE Clackbird;, Orioles and Robins Join in Fight on Reptile—Was Copperhead 4'/ z Feet Long. Detroit, Mich.—“l suppose people will call me a nature faker when I tell of an experience I had at my country house on Grosse He,” said Attorney Jfßnes Swan. “Early in the morning 1 heard a commotion among the trees on the north side of the house where the robins build, but I would have paid no attention to it had I not noticed some blackbirds and orioles. I looked up the tree and in a fork I saw a robin’s nest and a big snake coiled just above it. The robins were dashing at the snake and worrying it, and the orioles and blackbirds were aiding them. I shot the snake, which was a copperhead 4% feet long. For hours after he was dead the birds kept flying at him and pecking him about the head. This is the first time I ever heard of a copperhead climbing up a tree to a height of 18 or 20 feet, and it is the first time I ever heard of blackbirds and orioles joining in a fight with robins against a common enemy.” Treasure for Royal Library. London.—A number, of Important historical manuscripts, the property of the late Sir Thomas Phillips, have just been secured for the royal library at Windsor Castle, including a folio volume (1364-5) containing the account of all the aids levied for the ransom of King John of France, who was taken prisoner by the English at Poitiers. From this money Windsor castle was rebuilt

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maxim, that the success of a star depends “half on talent and half on publicity.” The secret of Welsh’s success in long distance piano playing lies in what his manager terms “song-history music.” According to the latter, a man who plays the same piece of music over and over every half hour, which he will naturally do, if his imagination is not jogged, tires himself by the repetition. To obviate this, Wunder has instructed his protege in a system in which “song history" is the keynote and repetition a minor chord. Welsh takes his seat in front of the piazio and casts his mind back to the days “befo’ the wah.” Negro music floats into his mind, and for nearly an hour he plays plantation songs. When his manager believes that this Js beginning to touch his nervous system, he P”dges his elbow antj whispers; “?he tvar." Instantly Lorn Welsh's fingers come the martial strains of “Marching Through Georgia,” and ethers of the same type. In this way he plays his way through every decade with its different types of popular songs, from the flays when “Two Little Girls in Bluer vied foi* popularity with “After the hall,” right down to the up-to-the-minute “Don’t Wake Me,I’m Dreaming of You.” Several hours are taken up with this varied program, and when the time comes to repeat it the player’s nerves are unaffected by constant repetition. Wunder says that by his method of patent Marathon piano playing his protege will be able to play Without a break for GO hours. Wunder tells a story of how he discovered the latent acquisition to the ranks cf musical prodigies. Entering a salccn in the neighborhood of Fifth and Somerset streets, one night, to inquire the time, he heard the strains of a piano being played in Uhe back room. The “flawless technique” at-

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Remarkable Discovery of Frenchman Expected to Make Revolution in Price—its Advantages. Paris.—A remarkable discovery, which, it is believed, will make a revolution in electric lighting, is announced by a young French scientist, M. Dussaud, and is making a great sensation among experts. By its means it is asserted that illumination can be produced at one-fiftieth part of the cost at present necessary. M. Dussaud’s invention consists partly in the repeated interruption of a low voltage current for a fraction of a second each time. At each cut-off the lamp rests for an infinitesimal period, so short that the eye receives the impression of continuous light, but long enough to allow the fllament to cool. Combined with this intermittent current small lamps about an inch in diameter used, with a filament of tungstenate, which offers very little resistance to the current, and yet gives a light thirteen and a half times greater than any of the lamps now on the market. The consequence of the alternate heating and cooling of the filament is that the lamp remains practically cold, the surface never rising above 40 degrees centigrade. It can therefore be placed as close as is desired to the condenser of an optica! instrument, thus enormously increasing the light. With a low current a light of 19,000-eandle power, it is said, can easily be obtained with suitable apparatus. Cinematograph films of the

tracted his trained ear, and he went ir to question the player. The bpnd ot music cemented a friendship, which resulted in the piano player becoming a member of the Rising Sun Social and being taken under the wing of the man who, in his behalf, now issues a challenge to the world, backed by every cent owned by the hundred and odd members of the club. MEAT EATERS ARE MERRIEST London Doctor’s Think Flesh Diet Tends to Joyous Temperament— Vegetarians Laugh Less. London. —If you would always be merry and bright you should eat plenty of meat. The influence of diet oe temperament was raised in a recent lecture by Prof. Henry. He said that the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans, who refrained altogether from the use of milk, cheese and butter, were hardly ever known to unbend tn laughter, but the Thibetans, who were partial to these commodities, were a mirth loving, merry race. Dr. Talbot McCarltey said that in his men and women who lived on milk and butter, cheese, and such things tyere more .serious minded than people who enjoyed good, hearty m,eals of meat. “Meat eating,” he added, “makes a nation warlike and fierce, it develops the animal side of man, and it therefore acts upon him as wine, makes him happy and full of spirits. Meat eaters should certainly be the merry men of the nation. "Vegetarians and those who live on milk, cheese and butter are more sefious minded and generally better mentally equipped then flesh ; eaters, but they haven’t the courage and warlike propensities Os their meat eating brothers. “One can undoubtedly alter one’s temperament a lot by altering one’s diet, but heredity must always play a large part in such things,”

standard size can be made to throw a picture 16 feet square, while if the image is kept to its present dimensions it is so brilliant that it can be Shown in broad daylight. The new light, it is claimed, will replace magnesium in flashlight photography, while in medicine it serves the purpose of the X-rays in some cases —the cold lamp enabling the hand, for instance, to be placed close against it, when it becomes perfectly transparent. A number of patents have been taken out, and the new apparatus will shortly be placed on the market at a low cost. M. Dussaud has already many Ingenious inventions to his credit, including a sound magnifier for the deaf, an improved phonograph and a cinematograph for the blind. May Break Law for SSO Hat. Buffalo, N- Y. —The city court has decided that a man is justified in stretching the speed limit a little to reach shelter before an approaching shower spoils his wife’s new SSO hat. This was the excuse given Judge Judge by Frank Rautens, a local grocer. The defendant was released on a suspended sentence. Original Star Spangled Banner. Baltimore. —The original star-ban-gled banner that inspired Key to write the anthem, will be unfurled over the ramparts of Fort Henry on September 12, the anniversary of the battla of North Point.

Hood’s Sarsaparilla Acts directly and peculiarly on the blood; purifies, enriches and revitalizes it, and in this way builds up the whole system. Take it. Get it today. In usual liquid form or in chocolate eoated tablets called Sarsatabs. Prudential Reasons. • > “So you are going to send your cook off. But isn’t her name Arabella Gunn?” j “What’s that got to do with our getting rid of her?” “But, my dear boy, isn’t there an jrdinance against discharging A. Gunn within the city limits?" IN AGONY WITH ITCHING “About four years ago I broke out with sores on my arms like boils. After two months they were all over my body, some coming, and some going away. In about six months the boils auit, but my arms, neck and body broke out with an itching, burning cash. It would burn and itch, and come out in pimples like grains ot wheat. I was in a terrible condition; I could not sleep or rest. Parts of my flesh were raw, and I could scarcely bear my clothes on. J. could not lie In bed in any position and rest In. about a yeai* the sores extended down, to my feet. Then I suffered agony with the burning, Itching sores. I could hardly walk and for a long time I could not put on socks. “All this time I was trying everything I could hear of, and had the skill of three doctors. They said it was eczema. I got no benefit from all ibis. I was nearly worn out, add had given up in despair of ever being cured, when I was advised by a friend to try Cuticura Remedies. I purchased Cijticura Soap, Ointment, and Resolvent, and used exactly as directed. I used ■ the Cuticura Remedies constantly for four months, and nothing else, and was perfectly cured. It is now a year, and I have not had the least bit since.. I am ready to praise the Cuticura Remedies at any time. (Signed) E. L. Cate. Exile, Ky., Nov. 10, 1910. Although Cuticura Soap and Ointment by druggists and dealers everywhere, a sample of each, with 32- ■ page book, will be mailed free on application to “Cuticura,” Dept. 21, K, Boston. ' ‘ Varyrng Prices of Lobsters. Lovers of lobster ought to gbt a lot of comfort out of a recent paragraph In the famous old Kennebec Journal, which says that the. crustaceans are ; “dirt cheap.” However, the Journal adds, “they are not as low in price is in the old days, when they sold I six for 25 cents, but the price has fallen to 16 cents a pofind, which is decidedly different from the figures that werb being quoted early in the spring. Then they were being bought Mlve for 50 cents a pound from, the fishermen, and the price in Boston and New York soared to 80 cents a pound, and, in some cases, beyond.” Might Helo. Mrs. Willis (at the Ladies’ Aid soI ziety)—Now, what can you db for the 1 poor boys at the front? Mrs. Gillis —I was reading today where the soldiers are always making sorties. Now. why can’t we get the recipes for those things and make them ourselves and send them to the boys?—Puck. Mamma’s Angel Gets Busy. Fond Mother-—And has mamma’s angel been a peacemaker today? Mamma’s Angel—Yes, ma. Tommy Tuff was a-lickin’ William Whimpers, an’ when I told 'jm to stop he wouldn’t, an’ I jumped in an’ licked the stuflln’ out o’ both of ’em. Easy. Knicker—How- can you identify your umbrella? Bocker —By the man I took it from. A SPOON SHAKER. Straight From Coffeedom, Coffee can marshall a good squadron of enemies and some very hard ones to overcome. A lady in Florida writes: “I have- always been very fond of ; good coffee, and for years drank it at least three times a day. At last, however, I found that it was injuring me. “I became bilious, subject to frequent and headaches, and so very nervous, that I could not lift a spoon to my mouth without spilling a part of its contents. “My heart got ’rickety’ and beat so fast and so hard that I could scarcely breathe, while my skin got thick and dingy, with yellow blotches on my face, caused by th© condition of my liver and blood. “I made up my mind that al| these afflictions came from the coffee, and I determined to experiment and see. “So I quit coffee and got a package of Postum which furnished my hot morning beverage. After a little time I was rewarded by a complete restoration of my health in every respect “I do not suffer from biliousness any more, my headaches have disappeared, my nerves are as steady as could be desired, my heart beats regularly and my complexion has cleared up beautifully—the blotches have been wiped out and it is such a pleasure to be well again.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the ilttle book, “The Road to Wellville, in pkgs. “There’s a reason.” Ever read the above letterT A new one appears from time to time. They are Kenutne, true, and full of humaa taterest.