Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, . . . NEBRASKA
Sizeable Legal Fees. »
One million dollars for a fee! Tf»at
•ounds like a big amount, and yet an
assertion was made shortly after the
■upreme court made its decision which
impelled the general government to
nay $4,000,000 for the removal of the
Cherokee Indians to Indian Territory
:hat one-fourth of that amount was,to
be paid as a fee. It would not be
strange, remarks the Washington Star
If the report was correct. When we
remember the large fees that have
been paid in Indian cases there is a
natural inference that nothing is im
possible in the way of fees when claims
against the government are involved.
Contracts have been made in Indian
cases which meant that when the laws
were enacted and the money paid that
enormous fees were to be given the
attorneys. The case of the Methodist
church south is too vivid in the minds
of men in Washington not to be re
called when other big fees are dis
cussed. Here was a case where more
than one-third of the whole amount col
lected was paid to the attorney, the fee
being more than $100,000. There have
been cases known where fees of $750,
000 and perhaps larger in Indian
claims cases were paid. Nowhere has
the shrewd attorney fared so well as
in the Indian claims. Sometimes there
has been legislation seeking to protect
the Indians and providing that no
more than ten per cent, of the claim
shall be paid to the attorney. But
long before the legislation passed con
tracts were made which gave the at
torneys these enormous fees.
Kind of Hen Needed.
It one were to go to the president of
the United States and ask him to name
the country’s greatest need, he would
reply in his quick, conclusive way:
"Clean men.’’ He knows, says the De
lineator. Smart men there are by the
thousands; rich men abound more than
in any other age of the world; able
men are found in every state ana
township, but even from a population
of 80,000,000 the chief executive has
difficulty in finding the man of excep
tional character for a post which re
quires a square and flawless morality
It is to his credit that he misses no op
portunity to preach manhood. But
neither presidents nor preachers nor
teachers can do the work of fathers
except in their own families. We do
not mean to underestimate the marvel
ous influence of the mother. In most
lands men who reach success give
their mothers the credit . “All that
I am I owe to my mother,” said Lin
coln. "It was you who taught me
to write so. You really did, dear moth
er,” said the crabbed Carlyle. We get
our moral qualities from our moth
ers. our mental from our fathers, say
the physiologists, and as we look back
we find this maternal affection the
loveliest thing on earth. But isn’t there
a conviction down deep in our souls
that we should have done much better
if cur fathers had taken time and
tiouble to share oud confidences in the
• jears that counted most?
Good of Playgrounds.
Playgrounds are necessary In every
community for young and old. A few
•weeks ago the National Playground as
sociation was formed. Its chief movers
were not those primarily interested in
sport, but educators and sociologists.
In an address to the delegates. Presi
dent Roosevelt said: “I owe my first
interest in the playground question to
Jacob Riis, when he spoke of the poor
children who were not allowed to play
in the streets, but had to play in the
streets because they had no other place
to play.” Every town, even the small
one, where the child and the young
man are free from the terrible confine
ments of the city, knows that it is
wise to provide a generous playground.
Play is a right of youth. Just as sure
£.= there is no appointed adequate field
for games and romping, sd sure are
forbidden lawns to show wear, and
the windows in the barn to show
broken lights of glass.
f ——
‘ Rev. William Pierson, a local exhort
er who ran a Gospel wagon for many
years, was stricken with apoplexy in
Washington the other night while in
his wagon just as he was giving out
a hymn. He fell to the floor of the
wagon, was taken to a hospital and
died A reporter asked Mr. Pier
son’s assistant what hymn the ex
horter was giving out when he was
stricken. “1 don’t just remember the
title of the hymn,” said the assistant,
'"but it was No. 23.”
In the course of the conversation on
psychological matters the talk rested
on that ancient theme, the solitude oi
< he soul. Some one asked the girl wbc
was to graduate in June if she liked
being alone. "That depends,” she an
swered, sweetly, “on whom I am alone
with.”
The large instrument used by the
ic» man for carrying the chunks ie
said to be entirely too large this sea
son. He is thinking of using bon
bon tongs.
A daily paper is responsible for the
statement that a single county in Ne
\ ada, covering 16,000 square miles, has
nowhere within its borders even a mis
sion hall in which the Gospel 16
preached, and yet there is a popuiatios
of several thousand people in this ter
ritory.
A woman census taker in Chicago
reports that in 24 fashionable flats she
visited she found only one child. How
could she expect to find them when
even the janitor could not?
WHAT TO DO WITH THE
QUEEN OF MOONSHINERS
PUZZLES U. S. OFFICIALS
Authorities Feel They Must Have Recourse to Strenuous
Action to Restrain Betsy Simms.
YOUNG, FEARLESS, AND IDOL OF OUTLAWS
In Prison for Dealing in Whisky That Had Paid No Revenue, She
Severely Cuts Jailer in Attempt to Escape—Three
Indictments Now Against Her.
Much as has been written of the
ways and doings of the mountaineers
»f North Carolina, any person at all
familiar with the lives of the inhabit
ants of that romantic region cannot
but ft* 1 that the half has not been
told.
Loyal to a degree that holds life
worth nothing if a friend can be
terved, an enemy punished or a traitor
put to death, the mountaineer is typi
cal of a state of existence the world
has long outgrown.
The average man of more sedate
temperament and cooler blood leaves
the avenging of his wrongs to courts
Bf law and the judgment of his fel
lows, but in the mountains each man
Is a court of law unto himself, and is
not faasfled with the slow methods of
justice with which other communi
ties are conversant
It has been found a matter of mon
nmental difficulty to impress upon1
these people that there is wrong in the
making of "moonshine” whisky. To
them the product of the com they
grow is theirs, whether it is converted
Into the staff of life or the delectable
liquid of the worm and still. The ef
forts of the “Revnooers" to put a stop
to the distilling of the juice of the
eorn necessarily, therefore, are not
looked upon with favor, and conflicts
with the officers of the law are fre
quent. Just now the federal officials
have a complication to deal with
whicn is more than usually knotty.
“Queen” New in Jail.
“The best looking gal in the moun
tains!” Betsy Sims, “Queen of the
Moonshiners," is languishing in the big
and lonesome jail at Columbus, the
high-up little mountain town which
Is the county seat of Polk, one of the
smallest and most isolated of the
North Carolina counties. What to do
with her is the problem puzzling the
authorities.
Betcy, though only 22, is as daring
and well versed a woman, both in the
ways ol making whisky and of sell
the good fortune to find her. on foot,
and very near the South Carolina line,
which she knows perfectly well.
When she saw the three deputies
coming, she knew they were not her
friends, and made a bold dash for the
line. As a sprinter she is a success,
and her running was like that of the
Grecian girls who competed in the
ancient Olympian games. The depu
ties did not stop to admire, however,
but gave chase and dashed across the
state line, coming up with and taking
hold cf the stout and charming Betsy
about a hundred yards over in South
Carolina.
Betsy was nearly out of breath
from the run, but had voice enough
left to give a signal, which brought
out of the thick bushes near by five
tough-looking moonshiners, any one
of whom was ready and willing to
die for Betsy any time. Betsy had a
good-sized revolver slung about her
waist, and very poorly concealed by a
checked apron, but her moonshine
friends made no concealment what
ever of the pistols which they had
in hand, and while they fingered
these, they parleyed with the detain
ing deputies, letting them understand
that they were willing to pay cash
for Betsy’s appearance in “co’t,” and
that they were “willin’ to put up $25
in greenbacks if Betsy could be sot.
fi*ee now and 'pear at C’iurabus next
t«rm.”
Deputies Made Terms.
The deputies thought it wise to
temporize, and decided to take the
cash, which the moonshiners gallantly
put up, and Betsy retired with them,
looking back archly at the officers,
her charming eyes sparkling with de
fiance and the roses in her cheeks
deepening until they were like pe
onies. Her face was framed in a pink
sunbonnet of the type which is worn
on week days by all the mountain
girls.
Betsy did not let her daring and
her adventures end with her capture,
I
MAKING A^P
BARGAIN IN \
MOONSWNf
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Betsy 5/ms
lug it, as one could find In that wild
country, even in a full day’s ride, and
■he is as pretty as she is adroit and
daring, with a killing pair of eyes,
bright and well-filled cheeks and hair
which defies conventionalities, Betsy
has cat no little figure in Polk county
since she was 1$, for even at that early
age she began her work as a seller of
contraband whisky. She made herself
such a figure, in fact, that even the
older moonshiners began to look up
to her and in their rude way to idolize
the plucky girl, who bad been bred
all her life to think the selling of
whisky was an act of the very best
sort, and that the "revnooers” were a
race of people who deserved only
death and who were sent out as op
pressors of the people. Such Is the
faith which is literally the backbone
of Betsy’s point of view, and that of
her moonshiner companions, who
make corn whisky in the shaded and
well-hidden hollows in the mountains,
through which run streams whose wa
ters are always Just cool enough to
give the distillery worms the right
touch.
Capture of Betsy.
Betsy has year by year become
more and more daring, and more
beautiful. A few months ago she be
came extremely bold in her sales of
whisky, going to and from the stills,
sometimes alone, and sometimes with
male companions. Finally the state
authorities decided it was time to
■top her, so they sent three deputy
sheriffs for Betsy. The deputies had
but the very next day her moonshine
friends showed up with $150, they
having sold a horse for that sum.
There was a “big meetin’” not far
away, and it was thought it would
be a good time to buy an extra lot of
whisky, and so it came about that
then and during the remainder of the
month of April Betsy sold nine bar
rels of the stuff, some of it in Polk
county, some in Rutherford, and some
over the line in South Carolina. But,
although she kept in touch with her
business all the while, she showed up
at the term of Polk county superior
court the second week in May, es
corted always by a party of her moon
shiner friends. She wore a different
dress and a different hat on each of
three days, this being the most im
portant event in her existence to date.
Got Cases Continued.
There were three indictments
against her, but she contrived, on one
plea or another, and by means of a tre
mendous lot of swearing by moon
shiner friends, to get the case contin
ued, always putting up a cash bond for
appearance. She thus invested $200.
Then the attention of the judge was
directed more particularly toward her,
and he found the extent of her work
and the damage she was doing in parts
of two states, in her open violations
of the law. She must have felt in
the very air that something was wrong,
for when the judge took his seat on
the morning of the fourth day Betsy
failed to show up. The judge issued a
bench warrant for her, and she was
found at the home of a moonshiner not
far from the little town, brought back
and tried, and the judge decided to
make an example of the bold young
creature by sending her to jail at Co
lumbus for four months.
Astonished the Moonshiners.
The moonshiners were simply par
alyzed by the- sentence, for some of
them thought that Betsy bore a
charmed life, 90 to 6peak, and one of
them, in an outburst of admiration,
had said on the third day that she
would "come clar,” and that "no jedge
an’ no jury can tech her, in my min’.”
But Betsy bad not quite reached the
limit of her resources. The jail at
Columbus is an old-fashioned barn of
a structure, three stories high and of
brick, and is generally slimly tenant
ed. It happened that when Betsy
first entered its walls a man was there
on his way to the penitentiary to serve
12 months for the practice of the gen
tle art of manslaughter, he having in
some kind of mix-up slain a fellow
mountaineer with a knife, and ‘‘gittin’
off light,” as the other side of the
case put it. Betsy was put on the
secoua floor of the jail, this prisoner
stairway and set lire to the trap-door,
burning a hoie therein, through which
Chalmers descended. He and Betty,
after passing the compliments of the;
day, for they were acquainted, decided
on the mode of action, and then Chyrf
mers fell to work to make a tffole
through the side of the Jail, while
Betsy made a rope out of blanket* and
bedding, and aramged such goods and
chattels as she had with her ijk shape
for quick remoral. Chalmers, with
true gallantry, decided that jft was best
for him to go through the hole first,
thus testing the latter, a^d, incident
ally, the rope below. Otft he got and
flitted away.
Nearly Vanquishes Jailer.
Betsy was going, too, but as she
was half-way through the hole she
felt the rude hands of the jailer upon
her, and was hauled back into the
room. This aroused her fighting instinct
to the limit, and like a lioness she
sprang upon the jailer, who had a bad
quarter of an hour, for not only was
Betsy a good wrestler, but a star hair
puller and seratcher. Not satisfied
with these accomplishments, she
whipped out a knife and cut the jailer
Pt/ftdOED By
T//AA7Tf/fPP£0 ASCPPiP MA M00NSMMEP8 CAMP
whoa? name is Chalmers, being on the
floor above. A rather rude flignt of
steps leads from the second to the
third floors, through a well-locked
trap-doqr of wood.
How She Broke Jail.
The weather was cool, and there was
a fire in Betsy's room. She did not
feel equal to the task of getting out
of jail unaided, so she sought the com
panionship of Chalmers. They talked
to each other, commonplace while the
jailer was anywhere within hearing,
but business when he was out of the
way, the business being the best means
of getting out. Betsy was the more
resourceful of the tw'o, and so, taking
a "chunk of fire,” she went up the
five times. He was compelled to
knock her down and then to tie her
hands and feet.
The matter was at once reported to
the judge, who ordered that she be
placed in the strongest cell and close
ly watched, and at the next term of
court she will be indicted for an as
sault with intent to kill, not to speak
of another indictment for attempt to
escape. Some of her moonshiner
friends have in a o.uiet way made
threats that she will not stay in jail
long, but the county authorities say
they can hold her.
Betsy's exploit in the jail has given
her an added importance and value
among her associates.
Clje l^aration System
aitb Justness
By CHARLES F. PIDGIN.
The term “busi
ness” must be used to
include all financial,
commercial and indus
trial enterprise, and
when so used it covers
a very large field. Into
this field the system of
summer vacation may
be said to have pent
trated to a comparatively slight extent. The great mass o» working
people do not in any large measure enjoy vacations, except such as
they take with loss of pay. »
In some degree, however, this question is kindred to the ques
tion whether shorter hours and better conditions for labor have had a
good or a bad effect on business. The answer to this question, of
course, is easy, because the figures are at hand to prove the increased
productivity of the American workingman in the more favorable en
vironment.
Still the direct question of how business has been affected by the
summer vacation system admits also of a direct answer. It may be
said decisively that it has not hurt business wherever it has been tried.
If it has not been tried on a very extensive scale, speaking com
paratively, it yet has been tried on a sufficiently extensive scale to
prove its merits. In the case of the salaried clerk distinct benefits
undoubtedly have followed the introduction of the summer vacation
system.
In the first place, the person who looks forward to a vacation
has constantly in mind a goal at the end of whicji is a certain prize.
Other things being equal, the position that offers him a vacation offers
to him a distinct attraction. He aims to retain that position during
the months preceding the vacation season, and he looks forward to
the prospect with pleasurable anticipation. It is often a joy that
lightens toil.
The employer himself, I think, is r$ady to testify that he is the
better off, as well as the employe, for the rest and recreation that the
employe obtains on a vacation. A tired employe may be as ineffective
as a lazy one, and the wise employer appreciates this fact.
Again, there is an economic advantage in the present vacation
system, because it tends to take so many thousands of people out of
the city every year for a period of two weeks or more, who distribute
their expenditures in travel and in country places, which are developed
in many ways by the money that the summer visitors bring.
The summer visitor has been the builder, to a great extent, of
prosperous towns and communities, that but for his visits would have
remained undeveloped.
Travel is a good thing for the trav
everybody whom the traveler meets or
with whom he sojourns.
This is a phase of the summer
vacation system that has been of dis
tinct advantage to business.
^WAYS OF COOKING LAMB.
•;A Few Recipes Approved by Our Eng
lish Cousins, with Lamb Pie
as Matter of Course.
Stuffed Breast of Lamb.—Take one
or two berasts of lamb according to
the quantity required; put it whole
into warm water, and boil gently foi
one-half hour, remove to a dish, then
take out as many of the bones and
pieces of gristle as possible, spread
the meat quite flat, then set aside to
get cold. Make a stuffing with bread
crumbs, chopped parsley, finely
minced sweet herbs, and a little
chopped lemon peel; season with pep
per and salt, bind with an egg. Put
| the stuffing on the boned side of the
lamb, roll up tightly, and fasten with
small skewers; place in a baking-tin
sprinkle flour over, and bake one hour.
Braised Shoulder of Lamb.—Bone a
shoulder of lamb, cut off the knuckle
season well with pepper and salt
spiinkle with flour and a little mixed
sweet herbs. Roll up tightly, and bind
w-ith tape, or fix with small skewers
Put into a fireproof earthen dish with
cover, with it put about one ounce
butter, and cook for about 20 minutes
Cut up in slices two shallots, two on
ions and two carrots, add to the meal
with a tablesponful of chopped pars
ley, and a bunch of sweet herbs; near
ly cover with stock, then set in the
oven, covering closely, and cook for
two hours. Remove the meat to a hot
dish, take off the tape, strain the
gravy over, and serve very hot. A
dish of tomatoes baked in bread
crumbs is a nice vegetable to serve
with this dish.
Lamb Pie.—Middle of the neck of
Iamb with just about two chops of
the best end is used for this pie. Put
it in warm water, and stew gently for
one-half hour; there should only be
enough water just to cover it; divide
the meat in convenient size pieces, re
move as much bone as possible, dip
each piece of meat in flour, then sprin
kle with pepper and salt, and a very
little chopped parsley; cut up two
sheep's kidneys in quarters, dip in
flour, arrange them with the lamb in
a pie-dish, nedrly fill the dish with
the gravy the meat was boiled in,
and from which the fat sould have
been removed; cover with a short
crust, and bake in a moderate oven
for one and one-half hours.
Stewed Neck of Lamb with Peas.—
Cut up two-pound neck of lamb into
convenient size pieces, put them in
a stewpan with a breakfast-cupful of
green peas, a small lettuce cut in
pieces, six or eight green onions.
iCover with cold water, then stew very
gently for one and one-half hours.
About 20 minutes before serving, a
few more peas may be added at the
same time, writh salt and pepper to
taste. Serve on a very hot dish.
Cold Roast Lamb Minced.—Cut the
cold meat into small dice, boil the
bones and all the rough pieces in a
little water for one and one-half
hours with a chopped-up onion
Strain this gravy into a clean sauce
pan, add a little mushroom ketchup
and seasoning to taste. Put in the
meat, keep it on the stove for one-half
hour, but do not let it actually boil
or the meat will harden. Serve on a
hot dish surrounded by sippets of thin
toast.
USE OF THE COLD MEAT.
There Are Many Delicious Ways of
Serving What Is Left of a
Cold Roast.
The cold roast sliced thin is pink
and juicy and makes a delicious sup
per with some palatable condiment
It is best, however, to save it till the
next day, as even the most appetizing
dish is not relished as much if served
twice on the same day, says What-To
Eat. Only perfect slices should be
served cold, reserving the ragged bits
for other uses. These may be warmed
in the gravy with a little chopped on
ion, and poured over split hot bis
cuits. Or they may be made into de
licious hash with potatoes and onion,
and served on slices of toast. Still
another way is to run them through a
chopper with half the amount of
bread crumbs and a small onfon. Add
the cold gravy and a beaten egg. This
may either be molded into small, flat
cakes and fried, or baked in a loaf to
be served with tomato gravy. A sim
ple but palatable salad may be made
by chopping fine some of the bits, add
ing an equal amount of chopped cel
ery and a little onion; make a dress
ing of vinegar and made mustard.
Serve on a lettuce leaf, garnished with
hard-boiled eggs, cut in quarters
lengthwise.
There Is no more delicious or di
gestible meat than a rare beef roast,
if properly cooked, and each successive
“warming over” may be made a de
light.—Prairie Farmer.
To Make Colors Fast.
To preserve the colors of ginghams,
printed lawns, etc., and before wash
ing almost any colored fabrics, it is
recommended to soak them for some
time in water to every gallon of which
Is added a spoonful of ox gall. A
strong, clear tea of common hay will
preserve the color of French linens.
Vinegar in the rinsing water for pin*
and green fabrics will brighten these
colors, and soda answers the same
purpose for both purple and blue.
Tne colors of the above fabrics may
be preserved by using a strong, milk
warm lather of white soap, putting
the dress into it instead of rubbing it
on the material, and stirring into a
first and second tub of rins.ng water
a large tablespoonful of ox gall. To
prepare ox gall for washing colored
articles empty it into a bottle, put in
it a handful of salt and keep it closely
corked. A teacupful to five gallons of
the rinsing water will suffice.
Under the Matting.
When laying matting, place several
thicknesses of newspaper under it, to
catch the dust which sieves through
After a thorough sweeping, freshen
matting by going over it with a
cloth dampened with ammonia water.
When Cleaning Carpet.
To clean your carpet, lay it face
down on grass and whip with rattan
switches. Then sweep thoroughly on
both sides, and lastly go over the
right side with a cloth wrung out of
ammonia water.
TONIC TREATMENT
Weak Stomach and Sick Headache
Cured by Dr. Williams’
Pink Pills.
The symptoms of stomach trouble
vary. Some victims have a ravenous
appetite,others loathe the sight of food
Often there is a feeling as of weight ou
the chest, a full feeling in the thn a;
Sometimes the gas presses on the h art
and leads the sufferer to think h<- b -
heart disease. Sick headache is a fre
quent and distressing symptom.
A weak stomach needs a digestive
tonic and that there is no better tome
for this purpose than Dr. Williams Pu..;
Pills is shown by the statement of M
A. O. Merrill, a mining man, of Oneal*.
Calif., a veteran of Battalion C, Thir l
U. S. Regular Infantry.
“ I had never been well since I left
the army,” he says, “alwayshaving ha :
trouble with my stomach, which wa
weak. I was run down and debilitated.
Could keep nothing on my stomach,
and at times had sick headache so bai
that I did not care whether I lived or
died. _ My stomach refused to retain
jveu liquid food and I almost despaired
of getting well as I had tried so many
kinds of medicine without relief. Then
I was bitten by a rattlesnake and that
laid me up from work entirely for a
year, six months of which I spent in l>ed.
“ One day a friend recommended Dr.
Williams’ Piuk Pills to me and I began
taking them. They cured me when all
other medicine had failed. I have
recommended the pills to a great many,
for daring my recovery every one asked
me what was helping me so' and I told
them Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. I can
not speak too highly of them.”
If yon want good health yon must have
good blood. Dr. Williams' Piuk Pill
actually make new blood and rest nr
shattered nerves. They are sold by
all druggists or sent, postpaid, ou re
oeipt of price, 50c, per box, six boxes for
$2.50 by the Dr. Williams Medicine
Co., Schenectady, N.Y
Suggesting Safe Coarse.
McFibb—That fellow Huskle called
me a liar!
Newitt—Yes?
“Yes. What would you do about
It?’’
"Well, if I were you. I'd make it a
point always to tell the truth when
he’a around.--Catholic Standard.
Best He Could Say.
"What do you think of these peek
a-boo shirtwaists the girls are wear
ing?”
"Well, they’re almost clothes.”—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
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i prominent merchant
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and night. I was
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REASON OF HIS GRUDCE.
And It Was Good and Sufficient, Ac
cording to His Con
struction.
“Sir,” we said to the stranger whom
we were endeavoring to enlist in our
society for the preservation of Niagara
falls, “now that we have outlined the
motives and principles of our organi
zation will you not put your name in
the roll?”
“Not by a long shot,” he growled,
relates Judge.
“But. sir,” we argued, surprised at
such a callousness toward the beauties
of nature, “surely you, like all other
patriotic citizens, wish to see this ma
jestic spectacle of grandeur preserved
from the ruthless hands of commer
cialism.”
“Don't care a hoot about it.” he
muttered, turning, as though to leave
ns.
We clutched at his coat lapel and
begged him to wait a moment.
“Do you mean to sr.y.” we continued,
“that you do not care if this mighty
cataract were changed from a marvel
ous. inspiring, awe-compelling sight to
a measly, factory-dotted cliff?”
“As I told you,” he answered, shak
ing himself loose, “I don’t care a con
tinental cuss what becomes of Niag
ara. I went there on my wedding
tour.”
Then we noticed a large bump where
his bald spot is growing toward his
neck.
Iwows now
Doctor Was Fooled by His Own Case
for a Time.
It’s easy to understand how ordi
nary people get fooled by coffee when
doctors themselves sometimes forget
the facts.
A physician speaks of his own ex
perience:
“I had used coffee for years and
really did not exactly believe it was
injuring me although I had palpita
tion of the heart every day.
“Finally one day a severe and al
most fatal attack of heart trouble
frightened me and I gave up both
tea and coffee, using Postum instead
and since that time I have had ab
solutely no heart palpitation except
on one or two occasions when 1 tried
a small quantity of coffee which
caused severe irritation and proved
to me I must let it alone.
“When we began using Postum it
seemed weak—that was because we
did not make it according to diree
tions—but now we put a little bit of
butter in the pot when boiling and
allow the Postum to boil full 15 min
utes which gives it the proper rich
flavor and the deep brown color.
“I have advised a great many of
my friends and patients to leave off
coffee and drink Postum, in fact I
daily give this advice.” Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Many thousands of physicians use
Postum in place of tea and coffee in
their own homes and prescribe it to
patients. “There’s a reason.”
A remarkable little book. “The
Road to Wellville,” can be found in
Pkga.
