Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 32, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 22 January 1909 — Page 3

fjw [jmw , Hay IKlpjo r 1 O' (wri/tunize FJLWata ArMovgi £ o Invitation to the President from the Methodist Mis- | ft '■ '"' J sionary Scciety Br.ngs Forth a Surprising Expo- ♦ , v / ’ o sition of Missionary Conditions in Africa Which ♦ O May Be Improved Greatly Through the Coming | \ of the Great White Chief “Pesheya.” f -. —„. . __

— W*»**ll»»«>Wi -^■r -vmt wp- ASHUNGTuiy. —me jft y heroes of the dark /^k / continent are not all mighty hunters and ex- ▼ V plorers. The hardest fight that is waged for the opening of the continent is not a fight in the open with wild beasts or howling savages while the world looks on and applauds. Rather it is a grappling in the dark with shadows, the shadows of spiritual gloom that loom so black and yet are so elusive to the grasp. It is a fight for the spread of light in dark places waged by men and women unused to physical hardships and with a breeding that renders them peculiarly sensitive to the spiritual wear and tear of their work. It is a fight without fanfare, without an audience, and too often without immediate results. If President Roosevelt accepts the invitation of the Methodist Missionary society to take part in missionary work while traveling through Africa he will have thrown the weight of his influence in the scales for a cause particularly in need of such help. In the same way as the president’s declamations against race suicide unquestionably have helped domestic life, so perhaps he can throw some light on a phase of civilizing work peculiarly misunderstood by the majority of white people at home and abroad. It requires no great stretch of the imagination to get a vision of the president breaching a common-sense religion to a black audience, just as he has preached domesticity, fearlessness, strenuousness and a great many kindred virtues to the people in America. But it requires an intimate knowledge of the African character, its keen sense of authority and position, its veneration for “big chiefs” of whatever country, to gauge the tremendous influence his words would carry. Great Aid to Missionaries. Even if the president should not take an active part in the work, he undoubtedly will visit the mission stations, and the mere fact that a chief of such bigness that the full scope of the African imagination hardly can take in his orbit visits familiarly with the missionaries will give a very helpful prestige to them in the eyes of the natives. Respect for his own chief is the bone and sinew of the African’s code of morals and is, in fact, one with his religion. Combined with this is a surprising penetration into the “who’s who” of other nations. It takes an African native something less than five minutes to know who is the “real thing” and who merely masquerades in the borrowed feathers of authority. The hostile attitude toward missions sometimes taken by individual white magistrates often has done incalculable harm to the work of the missionary, because these magistrates in the native eye are invested with dignity as the representatives of the great white chiefs “pesheya” (on the other side—meaning of the ocean). The coming in person of one of the greatest of these chief to the house of their own “umfundisi” (teacher) will neutralize the unfriendliness of any resident magistrate. On the other hand, President Roosevelt in his writings certainly will touch on the practical side of a work of such significance as that of the Christian missions. The question of the capacity of (he African native for civilization must be answered at the mission stations If it is answered at all. Missionaries have opened the country to white men. and the chief highways penetrating the African continent, still are called “missionary roads.” When Livingstone’s house was sacked, his books torn and scattered to the winds and his medicine bottles broken in revenge for his championship of the natives against the aggressions of the border ruffians, this disaster was the impetus that drove him to his real work as an explorsr. No one ever has accomplished more with fewer resources. To the last he remained always the missionary, traveling among the natives as one who sought only their good and had nothing to fear from them. All the world knows how Livingstone’s work became the inspiration of Stanley's career and resulted ultimately in the real opening of the dark continent. Even before Livingstone’s time his :fathor-ih-law, Robert Moffat, traveled

HAVE FORMED LAZY CLUB. .°lan vs English Workmen to Discourage the Habit of Being Tardy. Ote of the best assets of a manu•factviing plant is the interest of employes, and when this develops into friendly rivalry its value is many times Increased. Frequently workmen will adopt methods spontaneous ly that are of great assistance to the (firm. In the engineering shops of acer-

wilu ms wile ana uuuieb South Africa when no one else dared venture outside of the white settlements, and no one thought of molesting him. He was \the only man who had any influence ^over Moselikatse, the most bloodthirsty chief in South Africa. The great Norwegian missionary, Bishop Schreuder, held a similar position in the regard of the fierce Zulu chief Cetewayo, and it was Schreuder’s presence in the English camp that gave the natives courage to surrender themselves to the British when they had been vanquished in the last Zulu war in 1870. His house was the only white man’s dwelling that was left standing in Zululand. The savage army, drunk with temporary victory, split in two, one division passed over the hills to the north of Schreuder’s station, the other over the hills on the south, for the chiefs knew that in the frenzy of battle their braves could not be restrained from destroying whatever came in their way. Missionary work in most parts of Africa has lost much of its spectacular features. It now is mostly a matter of hard, grinding, monotonous work. The popular conception of missionaries includes two figures. One is that of a spiritual fanatic bent mainly on teaching the savages to sing hymns instead of howling war songs, the dupe usually of wily savages who feign “conversion” while laughing in their new missionary gingham sleeves. The other is that of a clever self-seeker exploiting the childish native to his own advantage. । The True Missionary. There is a third figure, very different from either. Kipling has written with sympathetic insight the story of the obscure official or non-commissioned officer in his struggle to beat civilization into the savage “half devil and half child.” The “Sergeant What’s-’ls-Name” of the mission field has yet to find his interpreter—or her interpreter, for the sergeant is just as often a woman. Life at an African mission station is very much the same throughout the continent. The day begins usually with the call of the bell at sunrise in the summer and an hour or two before that time in the winter, for in the matter of early rising it is the white man who must adapt himself to the native habit. After a brief sunrise prayer the boys and girls of the school are mustered in the courtyard; they shoulder their hoes, and it is away to the cornfield or the sw’eet potato patch. Standing in a row at the bottom of the field, they lift their heavy hoes far above their heads and bring them down with a force that sends the iron blade far into the ground, lift them again and let them fall with rhythmic regularity. As they do so they chant in a slow, heavy monotone, which is their nearest approach to singing, any incidents in their life that may be uppermost in their minds —the ripening of the corn, the marriage of the chief’s daughter or any of the happenings of the day. Sometimes the work lags and needs the constant impatient “Sheshani” (hurry) of the white teacher. The African holds a theory quite the opposite of Darwin’s; he believes that monkeys were evolved from a race of lazy people that loafed leaning on the handles of their hoes, until the useful implements grew into tails, to the everlasting shame of the loafers. Breakfast consists of one of the three staples, sweet potatoes, squash or corn, either as musn or on the cob. it is eaten from platters at a bare table . with a quick lunch effect, rather a test of discipline, for the native loves to . squat on a straw mat and take his . time about chewing. No greater dis- . courtesy can be offered a native than ■ to interrupt his meal. But the school bell is inexorable. Bible Images Familiar. Classes and recitations and more particularly lessons to be prepared offer more violence to the native prejudices. He likes to hear the Bible 1 stories or stories of other countries and ' to read them for himself when he has 1 mastered Ihe combination of letters in- ! to familiar sounds. The oriental images of the Bible are perfectly familiar to ' him. The idea of the patriarchs of-the • Old Testament living in tents as cattle > men and yet being really kings, which I is such a puzzle to city bred white

tain English firm the workmen a year or two ago originated what they called ■ the Lazy club. It was entirely their own idea, which for obvious reasons has received neither recognition nor - financial support from the manage- - meat, but has been a most excellent ) means of reducing the number of late ' comers. - . Whenever a workman is more than - ; five minutes late after time he finds ■ I the gat- locked and he is not allowed to enter until the half hour is up. -; This half hour is deducted from his

tu, ib uu puzzie al an to tuuuxl i?" 1 was thus their own kings lived when they were in their glory. In the same way the agricultural figures of speech in the parables of Christ fit right into their own speech. Their favorite books in the Bible are those that abound in a picturesque imagery such as the Apocalypse, the Book of Job and—best of all —The Song of Solomon. It is aver" different thing when it comes to learning a foreign language and mastering the intricacies of grammar, arithmetic and geography. Grammar might as well be relegated to the outer darkness at once. When you have taught an African native the difference between a verb and a noun you have taught him about as much as his mind can grasp. On the other hand, the children learn easily foreign words and expressions in a parrot-like way. A young native who has worked for a white man for a month or two has no difficulty in calling his brethren “black devil” and "damn nigger.” Harsh Language an Obstacle. As for arithmetic, it is not easy to learn the multiplication table, when to say “nine times eight” you have to let out the following mouthful of sound: “Tata isishiyangalolonye pinda nge sishangalombili.” But the natives have an adjunct to difficult enuncia tion, a sort of first aid, in the language of the fingers. Beginning from right to left, the little finger means one, the left thumb means six, the left forefinger seven, and so on. If time or energy fail you, you simply wag a finger, or if the number goes into the tens, you wag two fingers, and the deed is done. Your breath is saved. The white woman teacher in a school of eighty or a hundred natives is likely to find, even if she has one or two native assistants, that her position as the motor nerve of this too, too solid mass of African flesh is wearing, to say the least. The industrial part of the work is not so difficult as the purely intellectual. It is not so hopeless a task to make the African native fashion something with his hands as to make him grasp anything with his brain. The women have learned in their native handicrafts such as straw plaiting a deftness of touch that make them fairly apt in the acquisition of the domestic arts of sewing, cooking, baking, washing, ironing and cleaning. Missionary’s Garden Necessary. Meantime the boys are engaged in the work of the farm or in building or carpentry. The pastor of the station is fortunate if he has a white man to assist him in superintending these branches of the work. More likely he, in addition to his cares as pastor, is physician and magistrate, his own farmer, gardener, builder, architect and furniture maker. The farm must provide food for the boys and girls of the school. The garden must supply fruit and vegetables forthe 1 missionary’s table, for he soon learns that he cannot keep his strength long if he attempts to live as a native. He must have a variety of food and, incidental ly, tablecloths and napkins. A noted African traveler has said that white men die in the tropics not for want of the necessities of life but for want of the luxuries. Besides, his house and garden must be an object lesson in civilized living quite as important as his preaching. Must Build His Own House. Shelter must be provided for teachers and pupils, and also for horses, calves, pigs and chickens. Brick is a favorite material, for the African woods usually are too hard to be worked easily. The minister fresh from a theological seminary may find that building a brick kiln with nothing but African labor is quite as difficult as to construct Greek sentences. And that is the beginning. 57e prefers not to think of the masonry, the putting in of doors and windows and the thatching of the roof. At least he does not need to worry about the floors. The native girls take that part of the building into their own hands. They simply fill it up with an even layer of red soil taken from an ant heap. They rub it and pound it and sprinkle it, and rub it again till it shines like black polished marble, and there is the floor. Healthy? Well, no; but it is cheap. When night comes the natives gather around the fire in the kitchen or the schoolhouse to sing. •••• • ♦ ♦ •

wages, but in addition he has also to pay to the treasurer of the Lazy club about five cents for coming late. If he is late more than once or so during a week everybody is aware of the fact, and the second or third time he makes his appearance after starting time he is greeted with a terrific combination of noises produced on any available material by his fellow workmen. At certain periods the accumulated funds of the Lazy club are divided, nut among those who have produced

pica, up tunes -Ith surprising readiness, and repeafing them with trills and “variationsj’ is an amusement that never pall^on them. It gives the missionary respite for his letters homo or to fall asleep over a book or to go out ^nd look at the stars and wonder how it would seem to talk to a man of his own kind or to hear good music or merely to see elec- I trie lights, to feel hard pavements under his feet and hear the clanging of street cars. Or he may wonder how in all the petty worries that sap his strength he is to keep the freshness of mind that will enable him to present spiritual ideals in the guise to appeal to a savage people. But in this re- ; spect he often feels ‘that he is past praying for. HOW TO DESTROY EXPLOSIVES. Precautions to Be Taken with Gunpowder and Nitroglycerine. The best way to destroy ordinary black gunpowder is to throw it into a stream under conditions that prevent any harm coming to human beings or animals through the dissolving of the saltpeter. If no suitable stream is available the gunpowder may be stirred with water in tubs, or the dry gunpowder may be poured out on the ground in a long thin line and ignited with a fuse at one end. To destroy dynamite cartridges the paper wrappings should be carefully removed, the bare cartridges laid in a row with their ends in contact and the first cartridge ignited with a fuse without a cap. Even with these precautions a simultaneous explosion of the entire mass may occur, so that it is wise to ret^e to 'safe distance. The row of cai triilges^hould be laid parallel with the winta and ignited at i the leeward end so thil the flame will be driven away from F^e mass. Frozen dynamite should be handled with special care, as its combustion is peculiarly liable to assume an explosive character. A small quantity of dynamite may be destroyed by throw- । ing it in very small bits into an open fire, or the cartridges may be exploded one by one in the open air with fuses and caps. Dynamite ’ should never be thrown into water, as the nitroglycerine which it contains remains undissolved and capable of doing mischief. Other explosives which contain nitroglycerine should be treated in the same way as dynamite. i Ammonium nitrate explosives may be thrown in small fragments into an open fire, or if they do not contain nitroglycerine may be destroyed by means of water. Explosive caps should be exploded singly with pieces of fuse. —Scientific American. DUST EXPERT IN A WAY. One Man Who Is Constantly Conscious of the Presence of Dust in the Air. “No matter where you live and however high in the air yon always find dust settling on everything every- ! where, but,” said the near-sighted man, “if you want to realize this fact i as you never did before you want to wear spectacles and work at some employment that requires constant bending over. “Fourteen times a day, or as much oftener as you look, you will find your glasses coverad with fine particles of dust. Maybe you don’t look, and then maybe sopte bigger particle, some speck that is by comparison a veritable bowlder of dust, settles there square in yAwr Une of vision, 1 where it may not obstruct your sight but where it cannot, fail to arrest your attention. Then wnen you take them off to remove that bowlder you find your glasses covered with dust in finer particles, ad you would find them, indeed, however often you might look. “Over such an area as that of New York, for instance, there are tons of dust floating in the air, as though, perhaps without figuring out its weight, many people, such as housewives and storekeepers, are aware; but perhaps nobody is reminded of this so constantly as the man who wears spectacles and who bends over at his work, and on whose glasses, where it is ever before him, dust is constantly settling.”

them, it should be noted, but among the entire staff equally. Thus the late workman is made to pay the early comers for his laziness. The last distribution was just prior to a “beanfeast,” and funds accumulated during 12 months were distributed, amounting to over seven shillings a head. — System. Many a girl who is looking for a husband may discover that even after she gets him she may spend most of her time looking for him.

J Keep the poultry yard clean. Manure and cultivate the orchard soil. It needs as good care as that of the balance of the farm. The free distribution of seeds by the government, is one of the special objects of the National Grange. In trimming the feet of the colt it is not a good practice to use the knife. Rather use the rasp. Be sure that the feet are always leveled up.

—-Keep the poultry in vigors condition. They will so much better be able to stand adverse conditions which are more apt to arise during the winter months. Let the young stock out each day during the winter when it is not stormy or too blustery and cold. The fresh air and exercise promotes growth and strength of frame and vital organs, and that is what must be given the young animal so that the mature animal will be available. Successful fruit growing depends upon securing good stock and keeping it in a healthy, thrifty growing condition. Trees and bushes are susceptible to the attacks of fungous diseases and the ravages of insects. Sprays and washes are essential for keeping them clean and healthy. The one who uses these is on the right road to success. Pickled tongue is fine if the pickling is done right. Try this method: Make a brine of one gallon of water, three pounds of salt, four ounces of sugar and two ounces of saltpeter, boil and cool. Put in the tongues and weight to keep them under brine. They will keep any length of time. When wanted to use, soak oveer night in cold water, boil until tender, skim and remove : the skins. When the woven wire fencing gets to sagging in the middle and needs restretching go to the middle of the fence, attach the stretcher with two clasps and loosen the wire from all posts except those at the corners. Cut the wire between the clasps and take up the slack by working the stretcher. i When taut enough cut the wire be- ■ tween the clasps and splice, taking up the slack. Staple to the posts aud the work is complete. I A dairy house makes a fine equipment for the farm where many cows are kept. It need not be over 10x14 unless there is a gasoline engine for I power. In this case, a small room ■ may be partitioned off in a large building, with belt door to allow power , to be obtained from the engine in another room. In this other room may be placed the feed grinder, sheller and other machines run by the gasoline engine. Os course this is picturing how ’ one may utilize the same power handily, if he has all the machines. To measure your land, try this method: Take three pieces of board, Ix 3 inches. With these make a letter A, having the distance between the two boards at the bottom of the letter 5% feet. In using simply turn the letter, keeping one of its feet on the ground all the time. Three turns make a rod. If the field is 180 turns long and 63 wide it is 60x21 rods. There । are 160 square rods in an acre. The rest is easy. With this device a man can measure land as fast as he can walk and do it much more exactly than by pacing it off. The care which the cream receives | determines what kind of butter it will make. It is not enough, as some farmers do not seem to realize, to skim or separate the milk and expect the cream to take care of itself. The advent of the hand separator has not helped matters in this direction. On the contrary, it has worked the other way. There are some farmers who seem to consider that if they run their milk through the machine and deliver the cream to the creamery once or twice a week they have done all they are supposed to. This is a 1 sad mistake, as many creamery men ! are finding out. The ability of the buti ter maker is a very important matter, but it cannot be the only considerai tion. No butter maker can make a prime product out of improperly handled cream. Systematize the chore work. You I can save lots of time by making one task dovetail into another. We heard a farmer remark the other day that i the feeding and other chores took up ■ the greater part of his time in winter. I told him his methods w’ere not good ।or he did too much tinkering. If he ; would reduce his choring to a system I —make every step count —he could do the work in much less time. He i thought not, but a week afterward he had studied the matter over some and had worked the problem so as to reduce the time about one-fourth and he felt satisfied that he could reduce it j still more. He said it never had occurred to him that feeding and choring could be so systematized as to ! make them almost machine work. He said he used to do one thing without | reference to another but he found he I could do one chore while on his way to do another and thus save many steps. He arranged his mangers, feed racks and troughs so that one filling was sufficient for the day. He said he had no idea that so much time and running about could be saved.

Begin the education of the colt at an I early age. The half broken horse Is a menace to himself and those who would drive him. It has often been said there is more guess work in dairying than in any other department of farm work. Don t fondle and pet the young colt. Treat him kindly but firmly, and have him come to look for some little tit-bit when you call him. The farm without a good orchard is lacking in one of the most important conditions for the comfort of the family and the profit of the farmer. , A stubborn man is apt to make a stubborn horse. No man ever ought to try to break a colt who is not master of himself. It requires patience to do the trick, but it pays in the end. Keep the stalls clean. Horses cannot rest on corn cobs and other rubbish any more than could you. Give clean straw or sawdust and be sure there are no hard lumps underneath. Why not get a pair of scales, a Babcock tester and a score sheet and keep track of what each cow is doing in the way of milk yield? It is the only way you will ever be able to weed i

Do not forget to give the chickens green food during the winter. Anything in the way of roots is good. Try a turnip nailed to a board, or a beet or carrot hung from the ceiling and far enough from the floor to give the hens a little exercise in pecking at the swinging vegetable. Ground corn with the cob makes the best feed for stock, for pure corn meal is too heavy, but the ground cob gives it the right bulk to overcome this. Besides feeders have learned not to grind as fine as they used to. Cracking the kernel from five to seven times is the standard rule, which mushes the cob fine enough to make it palatable. The government had on exhibition at the Omaha corn show a still for the making of denatured alcohol out of corn waste and potatoes. It was in charge of Dr. H. T. Sawyer of the bureau of chemistry and proved of great interest to the farmers, who it is fair to assume will one of these days be running their gas engines, automobiles and the kitchen ranges with the stuff that used to be practically thrown away. The planters of orchards should bear in mind that the reason for cultivating corn, trees, or any other crop is not merely to keep the weeds down, but also to maintain the soil in a loose, friable condition so air can circulate freely and thus supply the oxygen needed for the roots as well as by the soil bacteria, to prevent unnecessary evaporation from the soil and to maintain it in a porous condition so it can soak up every drop of rain that falls on it. A bushel of unslacked lime placed in the cellar is recommended to absorb excess of moisture in the cellar in which fruits and vegetables are stored. It will absorb a limited amount but a good cellar drain together with good ventilation will take care of ground water. It is a good thing to air the cellar on mild days in winter, closing the openings at night. The ventilators may safely be left open for several hours when the outside temperature is several degrees below freezing. The soy bean is coming into general use where its value is known and appreciated as a supplement to corn in producing market hogs. In a previous bulletin the results show that the gains were much more rapid and cheaper, and that the profits were also greater where a ration of corn and soy bean meal was used in comparison with one of corn and tankage under conditions prevailing at that time. The reports from other stations which have used them have been very favorable. Thinning fruit on trees is an excellent practice. It is a well-known fact that the fruit tree will set more fruit than it is capable of supporting and bringing to perfection. To aid nature in its work, growers should take away the extra fruit. The vitality of the tree is used up by the number of seeds it it permitted to ripen, not by the size of the fruit. It is readily seen that by removing some of the fruit we consere the fertility of the land, as well as aid the tree to properly mature the remaining fruit. A tree that has thus been thinned will bring forth more fruit per bushel than other trees, and beside this, the fruit from thinned trees is superior in color, size and quality. Such thinning should not be done, however, until the natural drop of the fruit is over. Extra care is needed at the time the pigs are weaned. Before taking away from the mother they should be taught to eat a variety of feeds and be supplied with them daily, so that their digestive organs will be in a position to utilize feeds independent of the Sow. Where skim milk is to be had this should be fed three or four weeks before weaning, and for that length of time after weaning. In the absence of milk, warm slops of wheat middlings will make a fair substitute. At all seasons give the young weaned pigs plenty of green stuff and charcoal. In winter and all inclement weather the young weaned pigs must not only have good shelter from rain and snow, but also the very cleanest and dryest of bedding and an abundance of it. Wheat or oat straw free of dust or mold is good, and enough • of it should be supplied so that the little animals can literally cover up , in it. Wet bedding must not be tol- . erated under any circumstances in cold weather. Pigs will cover them- . selves with it, come out into the cold of mornings and contract colds and lung trouble, resulting in check ol growth and death. Their sleeping ; quarters should be frequently cleaned, as the dust there causes them Yt cough and no doubt harbors ge^ra ol disease.

CATARRH IN HEAD. — Pe-ru-na- Pe-ru-na. rw w > lIIL w i J||lw J a F' MR. WM. A. PRESSER. MR. WILLIAM A. PRESSER, 1722 Third Ave., Moline, 111., writes: “I have been suffering from catarrh in the head for the past two months and tried innumerable so-called remedies without avail. No one knows how I have suffered not only from the disease itself, but from mortification when in company of friends or strangers. _ “I have used two bottles of your medicine for a short time onlv, and it effected a complete medical cure, and wiiat is better yet, the disease has not returned. emphatically recommend i Peruna to all sufferers from this disease.” Read This Experience. Mr. A. Thompson, Box 65, R. R. 1, Martel, Ohio, writes: ‘"When I began your treatment my eyes were inflamed, nose was stopped up half of the time, and was sore and scabby. I could not rest at night on account of continual hawking and spitting. “I had tried several reme^_ was about to give up, but thought a zould try Peruna. “After I had taken about one-third ol a bottle I noticed a difference. lam now completely cured, after suffering with catarrh for eighteen years. “I think if those who are afflicted with catarrh would try Peruna thej would never regret it.” Peruna is manufactured by th« Peruna Drug Mfg. Co., Columbus, Ohio Ask your Druggist for a Free Peru nt Almanac for 1909. THE GIRL AND THE LOBSTER. Possibly Harmless Remark, Though Decidedly Malapropos. Dorando Pietri, at one of the many Italian banquets given in his honor in New York, talked about professional athletics. “Amateurism is no doubt more ro- ' mantic than professionalism,” he said, “but we live in an unromantic age.” He smiled. “Only the other night, at one of your gayest Italian restaurants,” he said, “I overheard a dialogue that illustrated forcibly the age’s lack of romance. “It was late. At the table next to mine a rich young Italian contractor was supping with a beautiful young girl. As the young girl played with the stem of her wineglass I heard her murmur: “ ‘lt is true, isn’t It, that you love me and me only?’ “ ‘Yes,’ said the young man, ‘though this lobster is certainly mighty good.’” A SPEEDY ONE. n ' Miss Tapps—Of course, some typewriters are extremely expert. Clerk —Oh, yes. I know of one who married a rich employer in less than three months. The Common Strain. The stress of life may touch some lightly, may appear to pass otners by, but most men whom we meet, with whom we deal, who work for us or for whom we work, know well the common stress of humanity. If In all our human relations this thought could be kept before us it would revolutionize life. We would be humanized —ennobled. We would care for men as men. We could not escape the transforming realization of an actual brotherhood if we recalled and thought upon the undeniable fact of our own part in the universal brotherhood of the common strain. —Schuyler C. Woodhull, in The Bellman. HER MOTHER-IN-LAW Proved a Wise, Good Friend. A young woman out in la. found a wise, good friend in her mother-in-law, jokes notwithstanding. She writes; “It is two years since we began using Postum in our house. I was greatly troubled with my stomach, complexion was blotchy and yellow. After meals I often suffered sharp pains and would have to lie down. My mother often told me it was the coffee I drank at meals. But when I’d quit coffee I’d have a severe headache. “While visiting my mother-in-law I ‘ remarked that she always made such good coffee, and asked her to tell me , how. She laughed and told me it was easy to make good ‘coffee’ when you use Postum. “I began to use Postum as soon as I got home, and now’ w y e have the same good ‘coffee’ (Postum) every day, and I have no more trouble. Indigestion is ' a thing of the past, and my complexion has cleared up beautifully. “My grandmother suffered a grea,L deal with her stomach. Her dos*jr told her to leave off coffee, iijfd then took tea but that was just a? bad. “She finally was indeed to try Postum which she ha^^sed for over a year. She traveled" luring the winter over the greatej^art of lowa, visiting, something had not been able to do for yearpr She says she owes her ' preset'good health to Postum.” MS’rne given by Postum Co., Battle : >^ek, Mich. Read, “The Road ' • Weliville,” in pkgs. “There’s a Reason.” Ea er read the above letter? .5 nevr nnc appears from time to time. They are Kenuifie, true, aud full liasnan 1 interest.