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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1912)
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I '■ Perhaps fewer bachelors would make fools of themselves If they had wives to do ft for them. — ■r*. wIMlewV Boothlng Syrup for Children Seething, softenu the gums, reduces Indemnify ttou.alUjn palm.cures wind colic, 26c a buttle, j If a woman la a clever actress the chances are that her husband will And the chorus more Interesting. to ctms- a cnu) in one oat Take UUUTfVM HKMKO OulfFiuo Tablets OrurtrtltorefWFeif nmney If It fail» to curs. H. YV, OBGvaT UgwbUn'e I won each box. 26c. Wo are her on earth to learn to v Rive and not to grasp, we gain most v. by string most.—John H. Denison. , Dr. Rtnro Pleasant Pellets regulate sad invigorate stomach, liver and bowela. Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take as candy. Whs Could Doubt It? Artist (angrily)—No; 1 don’t want .a model £ only paint flowers or Ault Model (smilingly)—Oh, that’s all t tight. finery- *me says I’m a peach. Old Wish In New Words. Mr. D. P. Seerley of Chicago is an art connoisseur, but Rome times he al lows himself to be taken away from pictarea and sculptures, and led Into a -concert hall. He had yielded to this -one afternoon when the friend beside him noticed that he looked bored, wwarr, and wan, not to say exhausted “What’a the matter?" he asked Seer hey; to which question Seerley replied with a prolonged yawn. “It’s true," admitted the friend, “that that piano player Is missing -some of the notes and-" "I wish," cut In Seerley, "he had missed ’em all!”—The Twlce-a-Montb Popular Magazine. illlAlin DONT WORRY. ■ ■Dill There is a remedy ao linllilr sur(, 80 Qu'vk. so ■J 11 E. 8 (Lf I Simple, you never fear ■ eroup.wlth this rem edy at hand. It will surprise you. Used by outward application. Docs not dis turb the stomach. No nausea, no vom ttlng. Sedgwick’s Croup Llnimsnt. All Druggists. <®EYE WATER «B1 L.TUPM1SU\ HONS a CO.. Troy, N. V RUPTURE* in a lew days fill I III It Ei without a surgical oper ettas. Ho pay until cured. Write tc DxJCJt.Mathesy.OOiy.L. ATi. Bldg.. Sioux Cl ty.U. WHIII SORE EYES I \ Court Reform—Reduce Expense*. I Carl Snyder, In Collier's. On one point I find that the ablest law yers and the progressive Judges who have aet their faces toward the light are practi cally agreed. That Is the personal guilt of the Judges, and the efficacy of direct, detailed criticism of their individual acts. Whatever excuse they may urge, how ever bound they may seem to find them ' selves by antiquated codes and rules of procedure, the fact remains that the Judges are not simply legal automatons but the executive administrators of Jus tice. Reforms are bound to come. They have largely been effected In England, and are being silently put Into practice by the bet ter class of Judges in this country. These Include In brief: The Discouragement of Appeals—In spile of the fact that we have over 600 Judges sitting on appellale courts In this country, a majority of these courts are behind their dockets anywhere from one to four years. Hut above all questions of laziness or dtlatoriness Is the fact that appeals pay. If, as In England, there were but 19 new trials granted out of a total of 1.61X1,000 of civil actions brought, there would not be 24,000 appeal decisions In the United States. The Abandonment of Technicalities of Procedure—The New York court of ap peals has set an admirable example with in recent years In declining to upset ver dicts and decisions which manifestly have nothing to do with the merits of the case. And yet this same court has recently (People vs. Faber) held that failure to ask the defendant on oeing sentenced If he has any reason to offer why sentence Bliould not be pronounced la a serious er ror and constitutes a mistrial! In 1896 to 1902 reversals In the New York appellate court averaged above 30 per cent; In the last year 3,141 appeals and more than 1,000 reversals. Here, as everywhere, the larger part of these reversals turned upon pure technicalities which did not concern the merits of the controversy In any way. Enforced Time Saving In Challenging Jurors—We N^ve recently had a fresh ex ample of ctim unendurable abuse In the trial Just terminated so abruptly In Los Angeles. Here nearly eight weeks were consumed in securing the eight Jurors. And yet the chief council for the defense has admitted, In his own defense, that he knew from March that his clients were guilty and that he knew before the trial began that the evidence for the prosecu tion constituted an Impregnable wall— that the case was absolutely hopeless. And the people of Los Angeles county foot the bill. Now confront these facts with the state ment of Justice Brown, late of the su preme court, that in all his long years of i service on the bench (before his promo tion) the Impaneling of a Jury had never j required or exceeded tl«ee hours in any ease. What one Judge can do, all can do. The Restraint of Abuses of Courtesy— ' Recently, In the supreme court of New York, In a list of 40 cases, not one was i ready for trial, in a severe criticism of i the lawyers, Justice Goff pointed out i that at the time there were five parts of i this same court In New York city prac tically Idle, with hundreds of cases upon the dockets, for the same reason. Each of these five Judges was costing the peo ple of New York J17.G00 yearly In salary. The cases were largely "accident cases,” and failures to appear, on the one side or the other, were for one reason only, the profit of delay. It Is almost unbelievable that Judges who refuse to become parties to this abuse could not effect a drastic reform. In plain words, the evidence seems clear that the scandal of the law's delays In America Is due largely, if not wholly* to the blind adherence of the Judges to out sworn rules and customs which are utter ly Incapable of coping with modern con ditions. From a careful review of a largo num ber of criticisms by able Judges and re ports of the bar associations committees, 1 believe that the Judges, and the Judges alone, and unaided, could do away with three-fifths, If not four-fifths, of these de lays. Now whenever tho community at large awakes to the fact that the law's delays are due to the failure of Judges expeditiously to administer Justice, re form will come promptly, and this with out any constitutional amendments or change of laws. Ghosts and Hallucinations. From Hampton’s. The modern theory of ghosts Insists that Invariably, when they are real ghosts and1, not the spurious product of credulity and deception, they are distinctly subjective In character, anil exist only by virtue of con ditions permitting tholr creation In the mind of the person or persons seeing them. In other words, a real ghost Is never an objective phenomenon like a tree or a house. As a psychologist would say. It Is always a ’’percept having no basis In external reality.” Hess learned ly. It Is always a case of "seeing things where they ain’t." That la to say, It Is an hallucination. Indeed, the old objective view of ghosts was doomed the moment psychologists and psychical research students began to Inquire seriously Into the frequency, na ture, and laws of hallucinations. It has been conclusively demonstrated that one person out of every 10 has ex perienced at least one hallucination at some time In his or her life. Proof of this results chiefly from a re markable census of hallucinations orig inated more than 20 years ago at tho In ternational Congress of Psychology, and simultaneously carried on—principally by members of the Society of Psychical Re search—In the United States, England, France, Germany and other countries. To thousands of perrons the question was put: “Have you ever, when believing yourself to be completely awake, had a vivid Impression of seeing or being touched by a living being or Inanimate object, or of hearing a voice, which lm- , presslott, so far as you could discover, was not due to any external physical 1 cause?" Of the 27,339 replies received to this question no fewer than 3,2(5li were In the affirmative. In every case those who replied affirma tively were requested to give details, and searching Inquiry was made to determine the actuality of the experiences reported. All doubtful cases were eliminated, yet, after every allowance had been made for errors of memory and perception, there remained a surprisingly large proportion of strongly attested cases. Novel Instrument of Moral Suggestion H. G. Wells, In the Atlantic. The novel loaves Impressions, not simply of things seen, but of act» judged and made attractive or unat tractive. They may prove very slight moral consequences, and very shallow moral Impressions, In the long run; but there they are, none the less, Its almost Inevitable accompaniments. 11 Is almost unavoidable that this should be so. Even If the novelist attempts or affects to be Impartial, he still can not prevent his characters setting ex amples, he still cannot avoid, as people say, putting Ideas Into his readers' heads. The greater his skill, the more convincing his treatment, the more vivid his power of suggestion. And 11 I Is almost equally Impossible for him not tc | betray his sense thnt the proceedings of this person are rather jolly’ and ad mirable, and of that, rather ugly nnd ! detestable. I suppose Mr. Bennett, fot j example, would say that he should not do so; but It is as manifest to any dls- i Interested observer that he greatly I loves and admires his Card, as that ' Rlrnurdson admired his Sir Charles ! ! Grandison. or that Mrs. Humphrey i ; Ward considers her Marcella a very : j fine and estimable young woman. And ; I I think It Is just In this, that the novel | Is not simply a fictitious record of con duct, but also a study and Judgment of I conduct, and through that of the Ideas | that lead to conduct, that the real and ! Increasing value—or, perhaps, to avoid j controversy. I had better say tho real I and Increasing importanoey-of the novel ! and of the novelist In modern life, comes l In. In Spain. From the Washington Herald. "Tell me about Spain, romantic Spain." "Well,” said the motorist, “there are a I few bad places as you come down the mountains, but In the main the roids are pretty good.” - T—i .. i ' TWO MA oomm jOfcACE WraDILAM^ copyright 1904 ev h^rst-grcat Britain rights R^Rvn*> Miss Jane Haughton was in excellent spirits. Together with her niece, Mai sie Bingham, she had been asked to go and spend a week at Oakshott Hall in Derbyshire. "Dear Sir Humphrey and Lady Ne ville—my cousin, you know—were so pressing,’ she carefully informed all her acquaintances, "in their Invitation that I felt bound to accept it.” The intelligence, as she intended, roused such feelings of envy in the minds of her hearers that she could not help letting her triumph be seen. To Maisie, however, the matter ap peared in a different light, and, much to her aunt’s consternation, she frank ly gave it as her opinion that they had only been asked to take the places of some other previously invited guests. The next thing to do was to secure two unoccupied seats in a first class carriage, for Miss Haughton considered It incumbent upon her to travel in this manner. To her niece, however, It appeared a piece of unnecessary ex travagance, and as such she expressed tier opinion of It. "It is duo to Lady Neville,” was the Signified reply, "that we make the lourney in a suitable fashion. Be sides, my dear Maisie, for all we know, other guests may be going down to Oakshott in the same train, and it would never do if we traveled in a car -lage with their valets and maids.” "I don’t suppose we’d come to much larm by it if we did,” returned the flrl quietly. “Still, if you'd rather not, we won’t. Let me see," she added, look ng through the window of a first class mmpartment, "there’s room in here for is, I think.’ As soon as Miss Haughton and her ilece had seated themselves they took itock of their surroundings. "H’m, we’re evidently to have a trav dlng companion,” observed the girl, minting to a bag which was occupy ng a corner seat. "Dear me, how annoying!” exclaimed dlss Haughton, sharply. ”1 do so dis Ike going in a carriage with strangers, fhey always try to get into conversa lon with one.” "I'm afraid we haven’t time to change low, auntie; besides, the man will not j lecessarlly prove objectionable. For I ill we know, too, he might be going j o Oakshott as well as us." "I m quite sure he will be nothing of he sort," was the discontented rejoln ler. "In ull probability he will be some Tilgar shop person with a name like Imlth or Jones. Just look at the label Ji the handle, and tell me what It Is." Drawing the bag towards her, Maisie tlanced carelessly at the name on the abel fastened to It. As soon as she lad done so, she gave a little cry of lurprise. “Well, what is It?” inquired Miss Haugliton. Tompkins,' or some king like that, I suppose?” "No," returned the girl quietly. “The name on the label is Lord Annesley— Passenger to Oaksholt.” "Dear me!” exclaimed the elder lady •xcltedly. "This is most Interesting. Now I come to think of it. Lady Ne ville told me that she had asked Lord Annesley down to Oaksholt this sum mer. What a pity we don’t know him —It would make the journey so much pleasanter If we did. Never mind, though, his surprise will be all the greater when he finds that our destina tion is the same as his. Oh, here he lontes.” As she spoke the door was thrown open by a porter, and a stranger sprang quickly Into the carriage. "Only just in time, ladles!" he re marked affably, as he removed the bag from the seat which It had been oc cupying and settled hjmself In the corner. "Would either of you ladles like the window open?" the stranger asked. Maisie started slightly. It was very remarkable, but she was almost sure the man had said "winder.” Perhaps, however, she reflected. It was merely a specimen of the slang In which the “smart” world spoke. Her aunt, at any rate, seemed to take this view, for she answered with a smile that she would be glad to ha^e the window slightly lowered. "The hair is most oppressive today," observed their companion, us he re turned to his seat. "I beg your pardon,” exclaimed Maisie In genuine astonishment. "The hair?” “i'es. miss—the hatmosphere, I ought to say, perhaps." "Oh," returned the girl after a pause, tlurlng which It w;is all she could do to refrain from laughing outright. Miss Haughton came to the rescue Just In time. It is oppressively warm, sir," she re marked. "In the country, however. It will be rather pleasant.” "Ah,” was the reply, "the country's all very well In Its way, but I prefer the town. Most of my gentleman friends agree with me, too,” he went on confidentially. “You see, there’s so lit tle gayety to be had anywhere out of London.” Just then, to the evident relief of Miss Haughton, who felt that the situ ation was becoming uncomfortably strained, a gradual slackening of speed warned the travelers that they were approaching a stopping place. A mo ment later and the train drew up along side the platform of a country station. As it did so, the stranger glanced out of the window. "Market Bevls,” he observed. "It’s a pity it ain’t dear old Margit. I be lieve we stop here for five minutes or so. Now, what do you two ladies say to a little refreshment? Perhaps you’d fancy a cup of tea, miss?” he added, turning to Maisie. "Not for me, thank you!” replied the girl, a smile of amusement breaking over her features. “Could I get one for you, then?" he Inquired of Miss Haughton. “Oh, I couldn’t think of troubling you.” 1 'Finn' f noma If " xxrn a fViA nxnmnf ~ *• >l.| *» UO IMU J. OllipL i O” ply. “Where the fair sex is concerned I’m only too anxious to oblige. I'll be back directly,” he continued, as he stepped on to the platform. As the carriage door closed after him Maisie looked questioningly at her aunt. “Well,” she remarked after a pause, “I don’t think very much of Lady Ne ville’s friends if Lord Annesley is a fair specimen of them.” "Really, Maisie,” returned Miss Haughton, severely, "I’m sure that Lord Annesley is a most obliging young man. He is so genial, too, and quite devoid of the aloofness that marks so many people of good family nowadays.” "H’m,” was the reflective answer. "Not only Is he devoid of ’aloofness,’ but ho Is equally devoid of aspirates. Didn’t you hear him speak of Qak sholt ’All Just now?” "It Is excessively bad form of you to discuss him in this way," returned the other. “You must remember that Lord Annesley has traveled abroad a great deal, and It Is therefore quite conceivable that he should have picked up—well, a foreign manner of speak ing. At any rate, I trust that, while we are at Oaksholt, you will remember what is due to his rank.” "Oh, that will be all right,” answered the girl calmly. “I don’t suppose I shall see very much of him. He'll have to make haste,” she continued, "or he won’t get back in time. The train will be off in a moment.” "Oh, dear,” exclaimed Miss Haugh ton, glancing o\^ <*<■ the window, "I do believe the guard is going to put an other man in this carriage. It's one of those valets or footmen of whom Lord Annesley spoke, I am sure.” “Here you are, sir!” exclaimed a porter, hastily opening the door of their carriage as they glided out of the sta tion and ushering in a stranger. “Plen ty of room in here.” As the newcomer settled himself in the seat occupied by their late travel ing companion, Miss Haughton glanced at him disapprovingly. “This is a first class carriage,” she observed severely. "So I perceive,” was the calm re sponse. Miss Haughton glared angrily in the speaker's direction. It seemed, how ever, to have no effect, for the stranger, after deliberately placing the bag with Lord Annesley's name on it in the rack over Ills head, sat down in the corner it l had been occupying. "That seat belongs to a gentleman,” she observed, determined to put the In truder in his proper place. "Oh, that's all right,” he remarked, actually smiling—a delightful smile, thought Maisie, watching him from the opposite corner. "My—er—predecessor has got into another carriage. He was very nearly left behind altogether,” he added. i Maisie glanced at the speaker with interest. His nicely modulated voice ■ was a pleasant change after the strid ent tones of their late fellow traveler. His appearance, too, she considered, was infinitely preferable, for he, at any rate, looked like a gentleman. She noted also with satisfaction that his mustache was Just the sort, she liked. I must upoiogize for my intrusion.” I he observed quietly. "At Market Bevis I got out of the carriage In which I traveled from Kusion, and went to the bookstall to get a paper. As the train started again before I expected It to, I hadn't time to get in anywhere else. However, I’m only going as far as Oak sholt, that is the next station at whicii we stop.” "Pray don’t apologize,” Miss Haugh ton observed coldly. "We also are get ting out at Oaksholt.” At this intimation the stranger looked at the speaker as if about to make a remark. Miss Haughton’s glance, how ever, did not seem to encourage him, for Instead of saying anything, he un folded a newspaper and began to read it. “Why do you snub the poor man so?” whispered Maisle. "Because it is necessary,” answered the other shortly. “Footmen and valets require to be kept in their places.” The remainder of the Journey was passed in silence, for the stranger, find ing his attempts to open a conversation so determinedly repulsed by Miss Haughton, gave himself up to his own reflections. “We’re very nearly at our destina tion,” remarked Miss Haughton a few minutes later, glancing through the window. “I wonder who there will be to meet us at the station?” she added. “We’il soon see,” returned the girl, as the train came to a standstill. “Why,” she exclaimed excitely to her aunt, "here’s Lord Annesley coming back again!” At her words, the stranger looked up as if about to make a remark. Before he could do so, however, the door was opened and the man who had left the carriage at the last station appeared on the step. His entrance was greeted by Miss Haughton with a smile of wel come. “I was afraid you had got left be hind at Market Bevis,” she observed. “There wasn’t time to get back to this carriage before the train started,” was the answer. At the sound of his voice, the last comer, who had been gathering his be longings, turned around and faced the speaker. “Ah, there you are at last, Simpson!” he remarked quietly. "I missed you at Euston, and in my hurry, had to travel in a second class carriage as far as our first stopping place. Just take my bag and put it into the brougham for Oaksholt Hall.” “Yes, my lord,” returned the other, touching his hat deferentially. “I’ll at tend to it at once.” “I understand that you are also bound for Oaksholt Hall?” remarked the stranger, with a bow to Miss Haughton. “Under the circumstances, perhaps, you will permit me to offer you seats in my brougham. My name, 1 should explain, is Annesley.” Bipartisan Friendships. From tile New York Mall. Rep. One of the more obvious tokens of the better nature with which Amer eans take their political differences nowadays is the number of warm per sonal friendships among public men .vhich cross party lines. A quarter of i century ago the daily adjournment! if Senators Edmunds and Thurman to :hat part of the capitol where "cold tea” was dispensed was noted as evl-! lenee of a bipartisan friendship which was the exception to the rule. Now .very republican in political life has scores of good democratic friends, and lemocrats have many warm attach nents among "the enemy.” Where the inte-bellum congressmen were prone o pistol-toting, the congresses of the iresent day expire with members sing ng college songs and regardless of po itical affiliation fraternizing with each! ither like schoolboys. Speaker Cannon has pretty nearly as nany admirers on the minority as on, he majority side of the house. It willi 10 remembered that the sturdiest de ense of Congressman Wadsworth,! vhile he was being hammered for his attitude on beef inspection, came fromj rohn Snarp Williams, the house demo •ratic leader, who asserted that Mr. iVaduworth had "cast more votes igainst his own interests than any; nember of this body” was probably in-i ended to help the Genesee congress nan surmount any factional opposition hat might appear in his own district., lhamp Clark and Senator Dolliver nade a joint speaking tour several rears ago, which only in form was a :ontroversial debate. Each one came lut of it saying that the other fellow •ught to be elected president. Although frank Hurd was the most radical free rader Ohio ever had, he was about the inly democrat that voted for McKin ey, the champion of protection, the rear the latter was deprived of his ieat in a house contest. The days when, 'Thad” Stevens, hearing both of the rontestants for a seat in congress de icribed as “infernal scoundrels,” in luired, as a preliminary to voting on he case, “Which is our infernal scoun lrel?” are over, not soon to return. These evidences of enlarged ameni ies between political opponents are he natural result of a more enlight med tradition, cleaner and* squarer ■ampaigns. the banning of small, tricky lolltical devices, the feeling of respect hat arises between opponents who lave experienced the force of fair ilows soundly dealt, and the sense of ■ompanionship that develops between nen who are associated in public life ind daily occupy adjoining seats un ler the roof of the capitol. After all, nost of the legislation of the nation is ion-partisan, and the republican and lemocratic gentlemen are more often .vorking in harmony than in conflict, [f it were otherwise there would be no lontinuity in the national progress. - — -_ Latest Things in Collars and Belts. From the September Delineator. Among the accessories that nowa lays are so Important, ribbon seems to predominate. Sasheo and boleros; gir iles and armlets; belts and shoulder powt, and streamers floating from each ind all of them, are seen. The effect s charming and thoroughly feminine. Collarettes and boas with their myriad loops of curled satin ribbon look like 3. mass of flower petals and are most becoming when of the right tint. The fancy belts are made of soft leather or ef silk. Those of plain kid ire sometimes shaped at the back, or ornamented with tiny gilt buttons, the buckle or clasp being also of gilt. Belts r>f silk webbing, studded with steel beads, are closed with jeweled buckles and slides, and are equally smart in black, white and colored. Japanese leather is greatly favored, and Pom padour and Dresden silks produce charming results. Patent and dull leather and ktd are equally popular for belts of the plainest sort to be worn with the linen blouse and short skirt, or With the tailored frock. Stocks and belts in a variety of shapes are made of linen, duck, pique, etc., and are decorated with hand em broidery in blind or openwork effect. In sours cases, the belt and stock match, but tilts Is not necessary. The buttonholed, scolloped edge, is a fa vorite finish for these pi'etty trifles, and the belts are closed with pearl or heavy gilt buckles, or pinned with a large old fashioned brooch. Cluny lace Is at the height of Its popularity, and lends itself charmingly to all sorts of neck and sleeve decora tion. Collars of Cluny lace, in star ef fect are pretty and add greatly to the appearance of a plain frock or coat. The flat, detachable collar accompanies the chemisette In some cases, and may be arranged very becomingly, In flat effect, especially, If the neck Is short. A medallion center Is a pretty feature of some of the Cluny lace chemisette* with-stocks attached. _ ■ and other ilk, due to an inactive condi : tion of the Liver, Stomach end Bowels,; ; may be obtained most pleasantly and• | most promptly by using Syrup of Figs; : and Elixir of Senna. It is not a new; ; and untried remedy, but is used by■ ! millions of wcQ-informed families through-! : out the world to cleanse and sweeten i , « : and strengthen the system whenever a ! ; laxative remedy b needed. ; When buying note the full name; . of the Company—California Fig Syrup: : Co^—printed era every package of die; genuine 1 : Regular price 50*per hot cne size only.: For sale by all leading druggist*. | DEFIANCE Gold Wafer Starch ■nskes laundry work a pleasure. 18 oz. pkg. lOo. Make the Liver Do its Duty _ Nine times in ten when the liver la right the stomach and bowels are right CARTER’S LITTLE LIVER PIUS gentlybutfirmly c< pel a lazy liver to) do its duty. Cures Con stipation, In digestion, Sick Headache, and Distress After Eating. SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. Genuine must bear Signature We are our best when we try to be it not for ourselves alone, but for our brethren.—Phillip Brooks. Superstitious Waiter. A man dining at a cafe observed that though he had ordered one dozeD oysters, he was served with only eleven. The next evening the same thing occurred again. Then the din er became somewhat irritated. “Why,” he demanded of the waiter, “do you serve me only eleven oysters when I order a dozen?” The waiter bowed apologetically “I didn’t think you’d wanting to b« sitting thirteen at table, sir.” BIG DIFFERENCE. First Passenger (In street car)—1 wish you’d get off at the next corner. Second Passenger—Off the car? First Passenger—No; off my foot GRAND TO LIVE And the Last Laugh Is Always the Best "Six months ago I would have laugh ed at the idea that there cquld be any thing better for a table beverage than coffee,” writes an Ohio woman, "now I laugh to know there is. "Since childhood I drank coffee free ly as did the other members of the fam ily. The result was a puny, sickly girl; and as I grew into womanhood I did not gain in health, but was af flicted with heart trouble, a weak and disordered stomach, wrecked nerves and a general breaking down till last winter, at the age of S8, I seemed to be on the verge of consumption. “My friends greeted me with ‘How bad you look! What a terrible color!’ and this was not very comforting. “The doctors and patent medicines did me absolutely no good. I was thor oughly discouraged. "Then I gave up coffee and com menced Postum. At first I didn’t like it, but after a few trials and following the directions exactly, it was grand. It was refreshing and satisfying. In a couple of weeks I noticed a great change. “I became stronger, my brain grew clearer, I was not troubled with for getfulness as in coffee times, my power of endurance was more than doubled. "The heart trouble and indigestion disappeared and my nerves became steady and strong. “I began to take an interest in things about me. Housework and home making became a pleasure. My friends have marveled at the change and when they enquire what brought it about I answer 'Postum, and nothing else in the world.’ ” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek. Mich. Read the little Book, "The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. “There’s a reason.” Evtr rend the nbove letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human Interest.