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From the Kansas City Times. “It is against the rulo to permit dogs •to ride in the cars,” said a conductor on tho RockhiU line yesterday, “and there is a woman living out south who doesn't like the order. Several times in tho past few months she has boarded my car with her tittle dog. 1 have always kept the dog out hero in the vestibule and she has always been made at me for it. Last week 1 sug gested that she leave the dog at homo when she had to use street cars. Monday •he boarded my car. The dog was no where to be seen, but the woman held a bundle wrapped in a newspaper. ** ‘You won’t have to keep Fido out In the vestibule this time,’ she said to me. “ ‘So you left him at home, did you?’ I replied. She simply smiled. At Eleventh • nd Grand she left the car. As she •topped from the platform she began tear ing the paper off the bundle. Fido was 4n it. “ ‘Fido rode inside your car,’ she said, With an air of triumph. “ ‘All right,’ r replied, smiling. ‘If Fido hasn’t any kick coming I guess I haven't. Then that woman actually made a face at me.” IN CONSTANT AGONY. Wnt Virginian’* Awful Dtitreaa Through Kidney Trouble*. W. L. Jackson, merchant, of Park ersburg, W. Va., says: “Driving about in bad weather brought kidney troubles on me, and I suffered twenty years with sharp, cramping pains In the back and urinary disorders. I often had to get up a dozen times ut night to urinate. Retention met In, and I was obliged to use the catheter. I took to my bed, and the ■doctors failing to help, began using Doan's Kidney Pills. The urine soon ■ came freely again, and the pain grad • Uftlly disappeared. 1 have been cured ■ eight years, and though over 70, am ■ as active as a' boy." Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box. JFastor-Mllburn Co., Rttlfalo, N. Y. Not Impressed. From the Philadelphia Press. 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Seldom, indeed, had he ..card the vital principle of high finance auoie trenchantly laid down. t is a pleasure to comment upon the •conservative methods employed by th< Cl. & C. Merrlam company in the pub licalion of the Webster's Internationa •dictionary. Not every little slang wore or phrase is put into the book regard iess of its scholastic or linguistic qual Uties. It is this conservatism backed bi (scholarship of the editor-in-chief. *Wil 11am T. Harris. Ph.D., LL.D., Unitet States commissioner of education, am hundreds of others of the greatest edu cators of this and other nations whicl ' has made the International a stand ard in the United States supreme cour and in all the courts of the nation, a well as in colleges and public school! King Victor of Italy is one of Eu rope's many monarchs who delight i 111 lie incognito trips into the couhtrj Till: MASTER OF APPLEBY 11- — By Fra.nci» Lynde. r c j i r<A/yy A/w>vw>*»*iViVi*<VA*i*|****^*A*AAAAAAAAAAA*>ft*>v«*i*iivt CHAPTER XI.IV.—Continued. '• 'Tls your own folly,” I rejoined hotly. "You should blame neither the lady nor the man to whom she has given nothing save—” | "Save what?" he broke in savagely. I recoiled on the brink as I had so many times before. The months of ] waiting for the death I cra-ved had hardened me. "Save a thing you would value lightly enough without her love. Let us have done with this bickering; find the col onel and ask his leave to go with me, If you like. Then you may do the love making whilst I do the spying.” "No,” said he; “not while you stand it upon.such a leg as that." I reached across andogrlpped his hand and wrung It. "Shall we never have the better of thpse senseless vapor Ings?" I cried. " ’Tls as you say; I can neither live sane nor die mad without another sight of her, Dick, and that is the plain truth. And yet,, mark me, this next seeing of her will surely set a thing In train that'will make her yours and not mine. Get your leave and come with me on your own terms. Mayhap she will show you how little she cares for me, and how much she cares for you.” So this is how it came about that we two, garbed as decent planters and mounted upon the sleekest cobs the regiment afforded, took the road for Winnsborough together on a certain summer-fine morning in January in the year of battles, 1781. CHAPTER XLV. IN WHICH WE FIND WHAT WE NEVER SOUGHT. *Tis fifty miles as a bird would fly it from the grazing uplands of the Broad known as the Cowpens to the lower plantation region lying between that stream and the further Catawba or Wateree; and Richard Jennifer and I ambled the distance leisurely, as befit ted our mission and disguise, cutting the journey evenly In half for the first night’s lodging, which we hud at the house of one Phiibrick—as hot a tory as we prenteded to be. From our host of the night we learned that within two days the Brit ish outposts on the Wateree and the Broad had been advanced; and that there were rumors in the air that Lord Cornwallis, who was hourly expecting General Leslie with two thousand of Sir Henry Clinton’s men from New York, would presently move on to the long-deferred conquest of North Caro iina. "Has Cornwallis lost his wits?” Dick would say, when we were a-jug on 'he southward road again. " 'Tis a braver lordllng than I gave him cred it for being—if he will put his head in a trap that will close behind him and cut him off from his line and base.” I laughed. “You may wager Jennifer House against an acre of the Cowpens that Lord Charles will do no such un soldierly thing. If this rumor be true, wo have heard only the half of it.” "And the other half will be’—” "That my Lord Cornwallis will do his prettiest to pull the teeth of one or the other of the trapjaws before he trusts himself within them.” Jennifer was silent for an ambling minute or two. Then he said: ‘"Twill be our teeth he'll try to pull, then. The Broad is nearer than the Pedee; and ours is the weaker of the twOjJaws.” "Right you are,” said I. "And now we know what we have to discover." “Anan?” he queried. “We must learn by hook or crook who Is to be sent against Dan Morgan, and when.” “That should be easy—if the use of it afterward be not choked out of us at a rope's end.” “We can divide the rope’s end chance of failure by two. We may work to gether as the opportunity offers, bul once within the lines we must pass as strangers to each other, or at most as chance acquaintances of the road. “Good,” said he; and then his jaw dropped. "But what if one of us b( taken? Never ask me to stand bj stranger wise and see you hanged Jack! ” "I shall both ask it and promise t< do the same by you. Your hand on 1 before we go a step farther, if yoi please.” “ ’Tls out of all reason,” he demurred " 'Tis the only reasonable course. Be think you. this is no knight-errant ven ture; we are two of Dan Morgan’s sol diers bent upon doing a thing mos needful of the welfare of the countrj and its cause. 'Tls a duty higher thai any obligation friendship lays on Rich ard Jennifer or John Ireton.” At this he yielded the point, thougl I could see that the proposal jumpei little with the promptings of his gen erous heart. " 'Tls a scurvy trap you have sot fo me.” he grumbled. “The risk is chief!: yours, and you know it. You are know; to Lord Cornwallis, and to God know how many more of them, and beMke— j The interruption came in the shap ! of a troop of redcoat horsemen gal loping in the road to meet us, and w j were shortly surrounded and pu I sharply to the question. We answers each for himself. Dick was a loyalis from Yorkvllle way, eager to be set I arms against the bandit Daniel Mor gan. 1 was a refugee from "hornets' nest” Mecklenburg, also bent upon re venge. The troop officer passed us oil, some thing doubting, as I suspected. But w I were riding In the right direction, an he was unwilling to clog himself wit a pair of plain country gentlemen hel ' in iersh as prisoners. A few miles farther down thexroa the same brace of lies got us safel I through the loosely drawn vedette Itn j and by evening we were in sight of or goal I Viewing it from the rising ground * approach, Winnsborough appeared les as a town than as a partly fortifle camp. The few houses of the villas were lost In the field of tents, huts ar troop shelters, and measuring by tl spread of these, it would seem that ir Lord Cornwallis' army had been col i siderably augmented since I had la ! seen it in Charlotte. I spoke Of thi i hut Dick was intent upon the busine; of the moment. “Aye, there are enough of them, G< knows. But tell me, Jack*-I'm new this game—what's to do first when v are among them?” I laughed at him. “You are my troo er commander/ Captain Jennifer. 'T lor you to make the dispositions.” I "Have your joke and be hanged 1 you. There are no captains here." "if you leave it to me, we shall rl i boldly to the tavern, put up as trave - era, and listen to the gossips, each f t himself," I'-aeplledi and this Is what ' 3 did. The village tavern, servilely bearii ; the'king s arms thinly painted oyer t - palmetto tree of EOlith Carolina on, I » swinging sign bohrtL was 4 miserat doggery, full to overflowing with riffraff of carousing soldiery. Separat ing by mutual consent in the public tap room, Richard and I presently drifted together again at a small table in a corner, with a black boy in attendance to set before us such poor entertain ment as the hostelry afforded. "Well, what luck?” asked Dick, mumbling it behind his hand, though he might safety have shouted it aloud in the din and clamor of the place. I shook my head. "Nothing as yet, . save that I overheard a tipsy corporal ! telling his tipsier sergeant that the ofli- [ cers would be holding a revel tonight at a Tory manor house situate some where beyond the camp confines to the northward; the house of one Master Marmaduke Harndon, if T heard the name aright.” Then I added: “ 'This rabble is too drunken to serve our pur pose. ’Tis only the common soldiery, ] and we shall learn nothing here.” “There was at least one who was not i a ranker,” said Dick, and there was something akin to awe in his voice. Then he leaned across the table to whisper. "Jack, I've fair had a fright.” I smiled. Fear, of God, man or the devil, was not one of the lad’s weak nesses. "You may grin as you please,” he went on; “but answer me this; do the dead come back to life?” "Not this side of the resurrection re veille, if we may believe the domin ies.” "Then I have seen a ghost—a most horrible mask of a man we both know to our cost.” "Name him and I will tell you wheth er he be a ghost or no.” ”’Tis the ghost of Frank Falconnet; or else it is what of the man himself the fire hath left,” said Dick and I marked his shiver at the word. "No!” said I. "I tell you yes.” I sprang up, but the lad reached across the table and smote me back into the chair. "Spftly, old firebrand; 'twas you who said' the public matter must take j precedence of the private. Moreover, if this be Francis Falconnet whom I have seen, your sweetest revenge on him will be to let him live—as he is.” I “I will kill him as I would a wild beast,” I raged, thinking of that mid night scene in the great forest when my sweet lady had gone on her knees to this fiend in human guise. “And so should you,” I added, “if you care ^ught for the honor of the woman who loves you." But now It was this hot-headed Rich- I ard I have drawn for you who saw farthest and clearest. "All in good time,” he said, coolly. “At this present we have Dan'Morgan’s fish to fry, and sitting here saucing this devil’s mess of a supper with thoughts of private revenge will never fry it. Set your wits at work; Falconnet's ghost has put mine hopelessly out of gear. Ye gods! but ’twas a most fear some thing to look at!” I did not answer him at once, and whilst I plied knife and fork for the sake of appearances, l would think upon what he had discovered. This reappearance of Francis Falconnet was not to be passed over lightly. What would he do, or seek to do? Nay, what devilish thing was it he might not do? If the fire had burned his passion out, it had doubtless kindled a feller blaze of revenge. And if his thirst was for revenge, how could he quench it in a deeper draft than by harrying the woman we both loved? 'Twas only by a mighty effort that I could drag my self back to Dick's urging and the needs of the hour. “To have some chance of hearing gos sip to our purpose, we must make shift to gain admittance to this officers’ rout at the manor house," I said. "The devil!” quoth Dick, “ I venture that’s easier said than done—for two plain country gentlemen.” "Never fear; there will be others there lacking fine clothes, and so the throng be great enough, we may pass current in It.” Richard pushed his plate back with a grimace of disgust. “Let us be at it, then. Another grapple with this pig-bait will finish me outright.” A half hour later we were tethering our cobs at the already crowded hitch ing rail in front of a goodly mansion some mile or more beyond the camp limits on the northward road; a ram bling manor house to the full as large as Appleby Hundred, with a shaven lawn in front, and within, lights and music and sounds of revelry. "By the Lord Harry! but this Master Harndon would seem to be a man of substance,” says Dick. , And then: “Can you pick out a [ good horse in the dark, Jack? It may come to a race for our necks, by and by, and these cobs of ours are . too broad-backed for speed.” , I said I could, and so we went deeper into the cavalcade at the hitch-rail and marked out two clean-limbed • chargers, a gray and a sorrel; this be „! fore we gave the final touches to our plan of action and passed up the broad [ 1 avenue to the manor house. I CHAPTER XLVI. t ' HOW OUR PIECE MISSED FIRE AT t HARNDON ACRES. For a doorkeeper some one or an - other of the officer guests had set a ■ sergeant on guard, but though the night I was yet young the man passed us into ' the great entrance, hall with a hie ^ cough and a wink that spoke thus early 3 of an open house and freely flowing it good cheer. 3 As we had hoped to find it, this rout at Master Harndon's was a stifling 3 Jam, and a good half of the guesls were y in civilian plain clothes, neither Paris ;, nor London having as ytft reached so r far into the Carolina plantations to proscribe homespun and to prescribe f the gay toggeries of the courts. This s for the men, I hasten to add; for then, d as now, our American dames and maids e would put a year's cropping of a plan d tatlon on their backs, thinking nothing e of it; and there was no lack of shim y mering silks and stiff brocades, of hlgh i- piled coiffures, paint, patches and pow >t der at this merrymaking at Htundoi 9, Acres. i is Lacking an Introducer, and wanting moreover, nothing save the leave tc d have standing-room In the throng as o lookers-on, we gave Mr. Marmadukf e Harndon, a sleek, rotund little gentle man, smirking and bowing and tapplnf >- the lid of his sliver snuff box, a widi is berth, and with an agreement to mee , later for the comparing of notes, Jen to nlfer and 1 went apart at the door o I the ball-room, each to lose himself ii le the assembled company as an otte: 1- slips into a pool, namely, without ruff jr | ling it. re 'Twas easily done. Wlnnsborougl j had by this time become a refuge cam] ig for all the loyalists In the region round re about, and there were many In thi ts present company who were strungeri le ./ms to another, uneasy,.shifting flgurei a | in the gay throng, beneath the not'* anke of haughty dames and prlnkipg dandy officers. Beneath the notice, I say; and yet I would qualify this, for more than one of tie epauletted mac aronis trod upon my toes or bustled me rudely In the crush till X trembled, not for my own self-control, but for Richard's, making sure that the lad was having no more gentlemanly wel come than I. ‘Twas with some notion of finding ampler room for my feet that I edged away through the fringing wall-crowd in the dancing room toward a curtained archway at the back. As yet I had overhead naught save the silly persi flage of the belies and beaux—a word here and another there—and I was be ginning to fear that this was as poor a place to look for information as was the pothouse, when a thing befell to set me a-qulver with all the thrillings the human heart-strings can thrum to in one and the same instant of time. I had shouldered my way out of the ball room medley and into the less crowded room at the back. This proved to be a rear drawing room serving for the nonce as a refectory. There were little groups and knots of chatterers standing about.; fair maids, each with her ring of redcoated courtiers, laugh ing and jesting or picking daintily at the viands on the great oaken table In the midst. Rounding the promontory of the ta ble’s end to come to anchor in some quiet eddy w'here I could listen un noticed for the word 1 was thirsting for, X must needs entangle the bu,tton of ray coat-cuff in the delicate lace of a lady’s sleeve in passing. The wearer of the sleeve had her back to me, and I saw the white shoul ders go up in a little shrug of petulance whilst I sought to disentagle the but ton. Then she turned to face me and the words of apology froze on my lips. ’Twas Mistress Margery, standing at ease with—good heavens! with Rich ard Jennifer and Colonel Banastre Tar leton for her company! Here was a halter, with a double snaffle at the end of it, was the thought that flashed upon me; and I was gath ering my wits to brazen it out in some such manner as to leave Jennifer un attainted, when my lady gave a littie start and a shriek. “La, Mr. Septimus; how you stalled me!” she cried. Then, with a tremor of the lip or a pause for breath-taking, she presented me: “Colonel Tarleton, Mr. Septimus Ireton, of Iretondene in Virginia.” And next to Dick; “Mr. Richard, my very good friend, Mr. Ire ton.” ’Twas done so cleverly and with such an air that even Dick, who had known her from childhood, was struck dumb with admiration, as hts face sufficiently advertised. And, indeed, I had much ado to play my own part with any de cent self-possession, though I did make shift to bow stiffly, and to say: “I see I should have brought the Iretondene title deeds with me to make you sure that I am not my rebel cousin John, Mistress Margery. Your servant, Col onel Tarleton; and yours, Mr. Rich ard.” Dick’s bow was an elaborate hiding of his tell-tale face, but the colonel’s was the slightest of nods, and I could feel the sloe-black eyes of him boring into my very soul. Had my lady given him but a mo ment’s time I make no doubt he would have come instantly at the truth and the little farce would have been turned into a tragedy on the spot. But she gave him no time. The spinet in the ball room alcove was tinkling out the overture to a minuet, and she laid the tips of her dainty lingers on the colo nel’s arm. “This will be ours to walk through, will it not, Colonel Tarleton?” she said, playing the sprightly minx to the very climax of perfection. Then she dipped us a curtsy. “Au revoir. gentlemen. ’Tis a thousand pities yqu had not joined sooner, and so had the red coat and small sword to grace you here." When they were gone Dick laughed sardonically. “Saw you ever such a cool-blood lit tle Jade in all your life? ’Twas with j me as it was with you; I, too, stumbled upon them, and the colonel bustled me and set his heel on my foot. I dare say I should have had myself in irons in another moment but for Madge. She slipped in between and introduced us as sweetly as you please.” “Nevertheless,” said I, "the colonel recognized us both.” “No! Think you so?” “ ’Tis certain enough to play upon. What we do now must be done quickly or not at all. What have you over heard?” He swore softly. “Never a cursed word; less than nothing of any inter est to Dan Morgan.” “We must try again. ’Twill surely be talked of here if the army is about to move. Do you take a turn in the ante-room and meet me in a quarter of an hour at the outer door.” I At the word, Dick promptly lost himself in the throng whilst I made a slow circuit of the refreshment table. Once I thought 1 had the clue when a girl hanging on the arm of an infantry lieutenant said: “Will it be true that you will presently go out to hunt the rebels down, Mr. Thornicroft ?” But the prudent lieutenant smiled and put her off cleverly, leaving his fair ques ! tioner—and me—none the wiser. (Continued Next Week.) Girls and Their Education. E. S. Martin in Harper's Bazar: And ! there conies in the special complication ] that afreets ..the education of girls. : When you have a line girl with a good ! mind, who can learn anything in rea i son, and he trained to almost any sort ! of useful labor, after her education has I come to the point where specialization ' might begin, you have to lace the pos sibility that by going on aniT giving her i a special thing to tiling about and worlt at, you may be aiding to divert her from a woman's greatest career | to one, notable it may be, but less sat isfying and of less importance. The risk—the apparent risk—is not that a girl may know too much to marry, but that during the years when marriage is best, and easiest, achieved she may be so busy with other concerns as to miss meeting the man whom she ought to marry. For while It may be confidently as serted that no mere intellectual pre occupation is going to hinder a girl ' from marrying the man whom she recognizes to be the right man if he come along at the right time and sug gests it to her, it is possible that she may be too much preoccupied to recog ; nize him when he conies, and also that ! her work may remove her lrom the so ! eial point she would naturally occupy i and cause her to miss meeting him al together.^_ The House's Expensive Rugs. The latest i jngrcssional fad is for Persian rugs, three of which, worth $2.ui)0 each, are in the speaker’s lobby on the bouse side. These are the finest rugs ever 1 seen in the capltol, being handsomer even than anything on the senate side. The rugs are so fine that some of the new members showed an unwillingness to i walk en them until they saw the pages i and other nouse employes throwdng eignret? and cigar butts on them. "We'd i better take down some of these pictures i oh the walls and hang up the rugs,” de i dared Colonel Ike Hill, the democratic . "whip" of the house. A Deadhead. Connie Mack, manager of the athletics of Philadelphia, was talking about the dis astrous games with the New York giants. Suddenly the look of pain faded from his face, and a gentle smile appeared. “One funny thing, though," he said, “I did see on that unlucky day. "As the crowd was pushing and strug gling to get out at the game’s end, a boy bored his way to the fence, and began to climb over it. “A policeman hastened towards him. “ ‘Hey, there, kid,’ he yelled; ‘none o’ that. Go out the way you came in.’ “But by this time the boy had reached the top. He said, as he vanished on the other side: “ ‘This la the way I came in.’ ” Danger of Realism. From an Exchange. David Belasco was talking about stage realism. "It may go too far,” he said. “It is a dangerous thing.” He smiled. "A stage manager.” he said, “once had a subordinate with realistic ideas. The manager was producing a play containing a snowstorm, and the sub ordinate had charge of the snow. “ ’Confound you,' said the manager, at the end of the snowstorm scene, 'what on earth did you mean by making the snow out of brown paper?’ “ 'Aain't the scene laid in London?* asked the other. “ 'Yes. But what of that?’ ‘Well, that’s the color of London snow.’ ” Facts and Proof. Hulett, Wyo., Dec. 4.—(Special.)— An ounce of fact Is worth a ton of theory and It Is evidence founded on facta that backs up every box of Dodd’s Kidney Pills. The evidence of people who know what they do. Mrs. Mffy Taber, highly esteemed resident of Huldtt, says: “I know Dodd’s Kidney Pills are a valuable medicine because I have used them. I took seven boxes and they cured me of a severe attack of Kidney Trouble. They relieved me from the first dose, and when I had finished the last box I had no pain and my Kidneys are now acting properly.” Dodd’s Kidney,Pills are now recog nized all oyer the world as the great est Kidney Remedy science has ever produced. They cure Rheumatism, Dropsy, Gout, Lumbago, Diabetes, Uri nary and Bladder Troubles, Bright’s Disease, and all disorders arising from any form of Kidney Disease. Beginning to Take. Slodgers (hastily arising from redhot car seat)—“Gee!” Mrs. Slodgers—“What's the matter, dear?” Slodgers (gingerly scratching his arm)—“My vaccination is beginning to take!” _ rirs. Winslow’s bootuinq syuup ror CMMran CeathinK; softens the gums, reducos inflammauon s' '•«ys pain. cur«s wlml onHr* cpnt~ a bottle Women’s Work in Big Hotels. From Leslie’s Weekly. The employes in the linen room in a big New York hotel receive $20 a month, with room and board, and their hours are well regulated in most of the large hotels. The parlor maid or maids come next on the salary list, with $18, room and board and the tips often bring this sum up to $30 or even $50. The maid’s duties are to keep the par lor swept and dusted and herself tidy and ready to attend the women guests who desire her services. The chamber maids, bathroom girls, paint cleaners and scrub women (of whom every hotel employs a small army) each receive $12. The work of the two last named is distinctly dif ferent. A scrub woman would not think of cleaning paint and a paint cleaner would think that she was demeaning herself in scrubbing the floor. Through out the house the question of social distinction is argued, the maids feel ing above the bathroom girls, the par lor maids above the other maids and the linen room girls above the parlor maid, and so on. Human nature is much the same the world . - In the parlance of hotel employes scrub women are known as “sou brottes,” the chamber maids are the "chorus" while the parior maids are called “show girls.” The “soubrettes” begin their work at 1 o'clock in the morning and do not finish until about 5. They scrub the floors and go throughout the house with soap and hot water. At the hotel Victoria—(the exception among the various hotels mentioned) the employes are permitted to enter the help's dining room at any time of the morning or afternoon be tween regular meals and have a cup of tea and a light lunch—a system which has much to do with the con tentment reigning among the employes of this establishment. The cost is only a trifle, and although the plan has been in operation for some time those who enjoy its advantages do not abuse it. THE “COFFEE HEART.” It Is ns Daiifft'rous ns the Tobaees or YVlilBlty Heart. “Coffee heart” is common to many coffee users and is liable to send the owner to his or her long home if the drug is persisted in. You can run 30 or 40 yards and find out if your heart is troubled. A lady who was once a victim of the “coffee hairt” writes from Oregon: "I have been a habitual user of cof fee ail my life and have suffered very much in recent years from ailments, which 1 became satisfied were directly due to the poison in the beverage, such .as torpid liver and indigestion, which in turn made my complexion blotchy and muddy. “Then my heart became affected. It would beat most rapidly just after i drank my coffee, and go below nor mal as the coffee effect wore off. Some times my pulse would go as high as 137 beats to the minute. My family were greatly alarmed at my condition and at last mother persuaded me to be gin tlie use of Posturn Food Coffee. "1 gave tip the old coffee entirely and absolutely, and made Posturn my sole table beverage. This was ti months ago. and all my ills, the indigestion, in active liver and rickety heart action, have passed away, and my complex ion has become clear and natural. The Improvement set in very soon after 1 made the change, just as soon as tile coffee poison bad time to work out of my system. "My husband lias also been greatly benefited by the use of Posturn, and we find that a simple breakfast with Posturn. Is as satisfying and more strengthening than the old’ heavier meal we used to have with the other kind of coffee." Name given by Pos tum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Read the little book, “The Road to WsllrlUe,” In pkgs. _ Are You Tired, Nervous and Sleepless? Nervousness and sleeplessness are us ually due to tho fact that the nerves are not'fed on properly nourishing blood; they are starved nerves. 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