Nothing I Ate Agreed With Me. MBS. LEJTGSA B02E2IHAMSB. Mrs. Lenora Bodenhamer, R. F. D. 1. Box !)9. Kerners ville, S’. C., writes: *• 1 suffered with stomach trouble and indigestion for some time, and nothing that l ale agreed with me. I was very nervous andv experienced a continual feeling of uneasiness and fear. 1 took medicine from the doctor, but it did me no good. *• I found in one of your Pemna books a description of my symptoms. I then wrote1 to Dr. Hartman for advice. He said I had catarrh of the stomach. I took Peruna and Manalin and followed his directions and can now say that I feel as well as I ever did. " I hope that all who are afflicted with the .same symptoms will take Peruna, as it has certainly cured me. ” The above is only one of hundreds who have written similar letters to Dr. Hartman. Just one such case as this entitles Peruna to the candid consider ation of everyone similarly afflicted. If this be true of the testimony of one per son what ought to be the testimony of hundreds, yes thousands, of honest, sin cere people. We have in our files a great many other testimonials. COULD READ THE SIGNS. Little German Knew Well the Mar riage Was at Hand. A little elderly German who keeps a stationer's shop amuses himself by making up stories about his customers and telling them to his family. “Dat young lady who has de pink cheeks, she be married soon, I Pink,” he announced one night. “Now, my Carl, you know nottings of her whateffer, is it not so?” and his wife looked severe. “It is like dis,” said the stationer solemnly: "I observe, and I know. At first she buys paper and envelopes de same: later she buy twice as more pa per, and den five times as more paper as envelopes. So I know she is be trothed. And to-day she buy only one-half dozen envelopes and five times as more paper; and when I tell her she get dem cheaper if she buy many, she say, ‘I have no need of more, t’ank you;’ so I know de friend he comes soon and so comes de mar riage on quickly.”—Youth’" Compan ion. Ghosts of Dead Lakes. In the great basin between the Rockies and the Sierra N'evadas lie the ghosts of many dead lakes. Riv ers still flow down to the dry edge of these one-time great reservoirs and are licked up by evaporation and the Chinook winds. Of all the lakes that once lay there, only Great Salt Lake, Lake Tahoe and Bear Lake are left. The Southern Pacific roils for 165 miles across the bed of what was once Lake Lahontan, and the passengers gazing idly from the windows may see the terraces and wrinkles in the crust of the fossil lake which nature robbed and defrauded of its crystal treasures ages ago.—Exchange. "Tainted Money” No New Thing. “‘Nay, nay, nay!’ said the arch bishop, waving a white, jeweled hand as the chief began to divulge some of his larger pians. ‘Tell me not of thy wicked schemes! Thy methods I must condemn utterly, but if thou bringest me the money, well, I can at least see to it that it be not used for bad pur poses. And speaking of money, we need for the walls of the apse a hun dred bags of gold. Dost think thou couldst manage it?’ “ ‘Ay,’ said the Gentle Robber, and that night he despoiled nine men, killing three that resisted longest, for he was a great lover of holy church, and a devout believer, nor could she ask of him any service that he would not perform.”—“The Gentle Robber,” in McClure’s. Supplied. “Don’t you want to get a talking machine for your home?” “Thanks; 1 have a wife at home now.”—N. Y. Herald. dr. talks of food Pree. of Board of Health. "What shall I eat?” is the daily In quiry the physician is met with. I do not hesitate to say that in my judg ment, a large percentage of disease is caused by poorly selected and improp erly prepared food. My personal ex perience with the fully-cooked food, known as Grape-Nuts, enables me to speak freely of its merits. “From overwork, I suffered several yea s with malnutriton, palpitation of the heart, and loss of sleep. Last summer I was led to experiment per sonally with the new food, which I used in conjunction with good rich cow’s milk. In a short time after I commenced its use, the disagreeable symptoms disappeared, my heart’s ac tion became steady and normal, the functions of the stomach were proper ly carried out and I again slept as soundly and as well as in my youth. “I look upon Grape-Nuts as a per fect food, and no one can gainsay but that it has a most prominent place in a rational, scientific system of feeding. Any one who uses this food will soon be convinced of the soundness of the . principle upon which it is manufac tured and may thereby know the facts as to its true worth." Read, "The Road to^Wellvllie," in pkgs. "There’s a British Battleship Dreadnought Largest and most power.ul battleship afloat. NEW HONOR TO ROOSEVELT AS LONG-DISTANCE SHOT. President Stands in Washington and Makes a Fine Rifle Score in the Opening Event for Marks men in Charleston, S. C. Charleston, S. C.—President Roose velt may congratulate himself on be ing the champion long-distance rifle shot of the world. Standing in Wash ington, he shot a rifle three times and hit a target each time in this city, more than 450 miles away. While he did not make a bull's-eye, he yet man aged to get within the 24 circle twice and the 21 circle once, and so scored 69 out of a possible score of 75, a very creditable performance for a person who shoots only between ses sions of congress, international inci dents and other big and engrossing things. The occasion of the target practice of Mr. Roosevelt was the opening of the fifth triennial schuetzenfest of the National Schuetzen Bund of America, in Charleston. It wras the wish of the riflemen to have Mr. Roosevelt there in person, so that they could show him that a rifle could speak as well in German as in rough rider. As he was busy in Washington, the presi dent could not oblige, but he wanted to shoot, and did so. Here the secret must come out. Mr. Roosevelt did not use the White House as bis shooting gallery, despite the strenuous reports that sometimes And their way past Pete, the bulldog. Strategy was used, and Lieut. W. Melton Farrow was the strategist. It must be confessed that Lieut. Farrow aimed the gun, but President Roose velt shot it off, and the record is his. Lieut. Farrow brought a 32-caliber rifle made by him several years ago, and after three weeks’ work ad justed it on a pedestal on which it could be held for shooting at the tar get. Attached to it was a magnetic contrivance, which, by the completion of an electric circuit, pulled a deli cate hair trigger and did the shoot ing. The button to complete the circuit was in the White House. But the bare pleasure of pressing the button was not all that the presi dent was to have for his part in the performance. Near the rifle was rigged a big telephone receiver, and when Mr. Roosevelt made his shots he was able to hear the welcome crack of the rifle. Gov. Ansel then conveyed to the president the congratulations of the National Schuetzen Bund and its guests on the excellent score he had made and the thanks of them all for opening the fest. The band played “My Country, ’Tis of Thee," and there was a great salvo of cheers. The president said ths?t he could hear the cheering ana the music very distinct ly, and he was sure that everybody was having a jolly time, and he would like to be with them. Growth of the Telephone. Millions of Instruments Are in Use in This Country. Washington. — Statistics issued at the close of the year 190*5 show that there were in use in the United States alone more than 7,000,000 telephones, while an aggregate of a little more than 6,000,000 miles of wire was used for telephone' service. The telephone industry gives em ployment to 90,000 persons in the United States, an increase of 171 per cent, in six years, while during the same period the number of stations has increased 239 per cent, and the wire mileage 349 per cent. There is little doubt that much of this increase is due to the general adoption of the so-called message rate system in place of the flat annual charge formerly in vogue. By making the charges proportional to the num ber of calls the use of the telephone has been widely extended both be cause of the greater willingness of people to become subscribers under such conditions and because the sys tem gives an incentive to the local telephone companies to give good ser vice and encourage the use ol the tele phone. Another cause for the increase in the number of telephones in use is doubtless the extending number of large business buildings in various cities, since the telephone is an ab solute necessity in the modern tail building, making it possible to tran sact business as well from the twen tieth story as from the ground floor. The installation of the telephone in every suite in the modern hotel and large apartment house accounts for a portion of the increase. EAT SWEETS, SAYS DOCTOR. Sugar Most Strengthening and Choco late Antidote for Fatigue. London.—A noted Harley street physician bids fair to become the most popular physician in London, especially among the youth of both sexes and among the dentists. Every body should eat at least a quarter of a pound of sweets daily is his dictum. “Nothing,” he says, “is more strengthening than sugar. It is pos sible to work for hours after eating four ounces of chocolate without feel ing the slightest fatigue. If I had my way every soldier In the British army should be allowed a quarter of a pound of sweets every day. My prac tice is to take five or six lumps of sugar in every cup of coffee or tea.” Asked as to toothache, the physician replied: *1 can only advise people to clean their teeth oftener.” THE POSTAL TUBES OF BERLIN. Connect the Central Office with the Principal Stations. Berlin.—The Berlin postal authori ties are revolutionizing the convey ance of letters and parcels. The idea on which they are experi menting is to have an underground tube with it large enough. circumfer ence to admit a man in a stooping pos ture. These tubes are to connect the central post, office with the principal stations and with the district offices. Two sets of rails are built in this tube or tunnel, one over the other, not side by side. The upper sot of rails is supported on the sides of the tube, thus practically dividing it in two. Small carriages, running on two wheels, are automatically driven by electricity along these nils. No locomotive is used nor is there any attendant with the carriage. As many as six of these cai-riases can be run together for conveying letters and parcels from the arrival station to the central poet office and the ice to the various district,