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. Loup City Northwestern __ > BtTRUPCH. Publisher - CITY, • T~. NEBRASKA r- .•— .. " RAREBIT UIOER THE CLAES. TV VHA rwiiit is a creat ur«- m of eomplrslan, fibrous and com !•**■* as to cellular roostrurlioa. Mitntrtir^ .4 Carer and fearful as to ia*T*-at, !t is spousiT to a u hole company o' i*s stite discomforts and A«W to the : :ght aur. This Is the Po^aiar «*sie»<jb. but. tike many an “'h r popular rHr. h 1* fallacious. “I* the Toledo lllbde Not that we ■ay ao No. Indeed. |i«t Naturalist ■Jaaaes WUauc. seen tary of the de partment of agriculture. is shout to put °ot a ttwaocraph up*:* the g.-nu* rare bttidca and each and < very specie* 'f«f ia to hare the very clean'rt h'H c4 bealii. |c u,tbir under the pure toud law. It is declared in Washlac thw that a special pot- <s Mjted bar te- n dell I ered over to the tc TTCrt of the rarebit, ft bus passed through the erdeal sml tog Net a man was wound'd X<t awe lap down h» life. IT there were nightmare*. t: • were hi* ted and aaduied and now nose tliir porkr^s for lump* of sugar The whole *ystem ot Rw ".t>i ideas as to the h .' ry and habits of the rrr*>'t whether of dom*-»- . or jure"' -hnedi: g. ha* t»e>n wylnlst Rfaia roc •■-tn plates . r.t. ring upon a •fhte id rreat public tmprover>*nts. with a new to providing employment and thus keeping at home many who erfherw isc w_>dd emigrate to countries wherw work is mure readily f< und The pits also ccmtempLit' * the crea tu* of facilities that would promote industrial and afnniifjnJ dev. lop meat, big irrigation plants and the construrtloa of railway lines being part of the scheme. Ail this will be costly, but Spain has large resource* which may be utilised in the manner indicated and the new system may tare beneficial effect* At ail events the movement indicates that there is progr—dv fii and public spirit among the statesmen of Spain. The report of the fire loss for the T'sited State* and Canada during No vember is not as cno urag ug as it might b* The total lor the month »u *1C toTOtw. cg.-.'.nvi $u> M»«J in 1»» and lIS.fcSMM) in ltte Th<* ag gregste for the 11 months ended with November was tZlUtiZjTM in 1»10. Ild RlAM tn JP'<4 and tZZ!-.y~Z000 in IV v December Is r.nerally a bad fire-moeih. and the figures 'or the en tire year are not likely tc g nt rate hope that real reform has se: in. The d'Wtrurtioa by fire is entirely too large, and effective methods of ' beck ing it would represent wise ccnserv* tion. TV- story that cre s irom fine and of the Himg of I*-»rtugal not haring mos-er to puy eabfare will hardly create a mat- of sympatny In this country. Watt.Bg is healthy, and be fore *h* young x:.an starves bis rich mamma will ; r . h*m with ner.ten —e*. »'v» L r4r*-d r'm are !■ prted re bee* imp*. -c Id N't York city fee »~»»kiec au* -ru.i ,..-r \Vt:-h cun her »ucg> * * a cynical do :l*r that The Uses «trt U't enough to sTop the practice. * A mas w:th a tow salary has a bet ter rturr to her,<se rir-b thas a sac with a high tshry. tort a wealthy (Urtcnu Hmo- a tut majority oi our nnems at* prospective million jure*. Wireless telegraphy fared the lives at the people on that steamer strand ec cn the Alaska roatt. but ft should BM be taken as thereby encouraging the practice of pills* steamers upos the rocks The mop of dive oil Is short and the eottcm crop Is estimated bHow the sarlmtaa Bat it la believed that • here will be mooch cotton seed to prevent any !amine la the Item of dive ail. One thousand presumably vigorous young Mwa at Vasaar. all In danget cd Lunger because they hare no cooks' This looks like a pressing need lor a mixture at the old fashion ed girl with modern woman Thinking tfcst she m a burglar i Xeo Meaieo man abac his niece when she called him to breakfast These UM%pt poopie are •—firming. « real ctftsanca. They bare <l»eofwd the bones oi a fcu*e reptile c-htioas of years old It Kesr Jersey. That state seems « tare Lad its drawbacks as a place oi rev id race frees time immemorial. I' is asoooaesd that th? last surely lac dan<fcirr at the American revoin t.cs. has just died acala. prortac thyi •e are a tardy race. I? Is a vise bookworm that cats cj tee lata for the early bird. Hsrymrd physical director sayi v wir are becomlac masculine. Poe slaty bes near-signed and the hobbU dart may be tke explanation. that dose net permit her to eee ant a skirt that scarcely permits ker v And tke most koodcal Iran of ail U fka Chicago perns who has a habit at j—ring soused on chloroform. .. ONCE MILL HAND, NOW STEEL TRUST HEAD. NEW YORK—At sixteen years of age Jatnes E. Farrell was working in | l wi r- mill at New Haven for S4.65 a week. A few days ago he was ap- i .• nted pr< sident of the I'nited States Steel Corporation by J. Pierpout Mor . -a and other of its directors, at a salary of $100,000 a year. His rise fr -n humble circumstances to wealth and business prominence is due to his • *.;■! it>- for ao:k and his unswerving loyalty to his associates. Mr. Farrell .s of Irish American descent. 41* years of age. 6 feet 1 inch in his stocking ft. t. of athletic build, has hair that Is prematurely white and a drooping mt.s’.o he of the same hue. He is married and the father of five children. He has had ;r> years' exi>erience in the steel business in both the com r ial and manufacturing departments. IS CRISIS SERIOUS? Railroad Companies Have Made Big Increase in Earnings. Argument That Advarced Rates Are Nece sary for Continued Payment of Dividends Is Disproved by Figures From Reports. V.VMn the last ten years the cost f 1 ’ i r and supplies has increased greatly and ><• rapidly that the rail car® are facing a serious crisis. Vn they are p- nnltted to raise freight they must cease to pay divi 5- ciis and will be forced out cf busi ness. Su< h Is the burden of the argu *nts that the people of the United States have heard and read frequent ly < l late, and so often have the state r. «r's been repeated that the people »r- beginning to wonder if they are not in a measure true. Ib.t there is another side to the ry. found in the reports of the rail e> companies themselves, and this -low ? plainly that though the operat ic « xp. r-if have increased in bulk, earnings have made a still greater • re-as. Annual reports of their ex - and earrings are riad*> by the "ailway companies to the Interstate mtn* rce .or:, mission, and these, com plete f«.r the years from June 30. i -‘T. to June 30. i'cC, and in part for 190S, 1309 and 1910, are at hand. From these reports the commission's a urea a of statistics has prepared the following table: KAKXINOS FOR OPERATION The earning- f Vmerican railroads r m •- i rgtntiati ci .-if the interstate r<-*» «>mmisslon down to the pres* *t time front Ju.iv 30. las?. to Juno 30. u:# -s £ = si : 3 •jj imt iee .171 .m K3S .MM .m tu .714 .73 .m ■a* lli, % K Erg ‘ * - O a iws ...im | 919.621.220 C15.SS.SC4 J2.: !W®.922 Sb4.SK.129 320.1W.42S 2.< .941 XOSl.e77.C32 K9.7S3.6C1 2.! ; •«.MS X096.70.386 3C4.S73.ia: 2.: ' *M!.MS 1.171.4<c.343 39n.ge.347 2.1 X230.751.S74 392.S3ii.573 X! ■*M4.m 1,073.361.797 341.947.473 1! l.<n5.rX462 S49.S51.047 1.J 1.1&\1C9.37« 377.190.332 • 2.1 Xiry’W.773 3C9.5IS.009 2.1 1.247.325.621 429.352.345 2.: 1.3U.S10.113 45C.641.U9 1.497.(44.S14 525.616.303 1*01.750 1.563.526.037 .157 1.736.3S0.267 , 70 1.9«0.M6.99r .!» lJ75.r4.091 __ 25.lm Ol.SSO.254 ***.• M55.7SE.1S7 7SS.8S7.896 2.589,106.578 X421.542.n04 two ... 70 X443.312.233 *•*. X779.246.875 Cam plied fmm reports on the statlsi ■* railway* in the United States. 1 65S.12S.767 610.131.520 643.30S.W5 06.277,838 Mn.6S9.7C4 734.897.<C9 ST.S14.999 938.13.107 bull- tins of revenues and expenses of .'team roads In the United States, pre 1 by the bureau of statistics and ac • •iir.ts of the Interstate commerce com missun. Statistics for 1910 are advance figures subject to minor revisions. The item ’* ft llank cannot be obtained as yet. The above figures represent sub st. T * 11} nil the mileage in the United Statt s. The item “Net Earnings.” used » . r- f- rs to the earnings from opera T- »n * nil the railroads in the United Sta!» after subtracting all operating ex it r.scs. which Include: (1) the cost of transportation and traffic exn nses; «2> the «t of maintenance of equipment: 3> the eost of maintenance of way and structures: and (4) general expenses. T- e statistics given for 1903. 1909 and ir* r.>»t compiled entirely according 1 ° tk.e rules of prior years because of ranges m the rul*=*s of the commission taking effect during the fiscal year 190*: lot the final results in the foregoing tal I** are * h-sc enough to justify the corr. parison given above for the purpose stated. Study of this table reveals two im ; portant facts. One is that in the last i ten years changes amounting to a I revolution have occurred in the busi i ness of operating railroads, these be i ing brought about by greater traffic, improved methods, larger and better , cars and locomotives and more stable I roadbeds. The last column of the table shows that the average net earn I iags for each mile of railway in the ! 1 nited States increased about 70 per MANY NEV/ YORK COMMUTERS Population of District Tributary to City Is Estimated at 7,000,COC— Few Figures. New York.—One thing from which New Yorkers did not swear off on January 1 is commuting, since figures just compiled show that this city's j army of commuters, the dally travel ! ^rs by city and suburban transit lines i is over 2,000,000. The population of the area, including those who do business in the city, is nearly 7,000.000. The exact figure is C.846,097. which is more than 1.000,000 greater than the population of Illi nois. the third state in the Union, in cluding Chicago, the country’s second city. This commutation district, consist ing of the territory lying within thirty miles of Times square, contains one thirteenth of all the people in the con tinental territory of the United States.' It equals the population of six large southern states, with 100,000 to spare. It exceeds the combined population of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina by something over 1.000,000. Going west one finds that the dis trict of New York has a greater popu lation than the 11 westernmost states, with nearly 250.000 in population still unmatched, notwithstanding that two i of these states, Washington and Call cent, between 1898 and 1910, while between 1SS8 and 1898 the increase of such net earnings was almost negligi ble—only eight-tenths of one per cent, for each mile of road. Thus in a decade the development of methods of operation was marvelous. In the column showing the average revenue for each ton hauled one mile is revealed the second great eco nomic fact, namely, that the com panies in the years of their greatest 1 earnings have been able to prevent further reductions in freight rates. Assuming that the character of com modities hauled has not changed sub stantially, the statements of reve nue for each ton-mile is a fair index as to the average rates charged, though the variation in long and short hauls would make it not exactly ac curate. The 23 years covered in the table divide themselves Into two periods, the first being the.11 years from 18SS to IS9S, and the second the 12 years from 1S99 to 1910 inclusive. The first period is that in which competition caused a reasonable distribution among the shippers and consumers of the country of the profits resulting from the development of the railroad industry. For while during that period the annual net earnings of the rail ways increased about $100,000,000, there was a decline cf about 25 per cent, in freight rates. This was in line with what is expected and what generally has resulted front great strides in industrial progress. But with 1S99 came a great change. In that year the annual net earnings of the railways began to increase rapid ly. and since then they have increased almost $500,000,000. and the net earn ings for each mile have increased more than 60 per cent. Have the freight charges decreased correspond ingly? Glance at that colmun of ton mile revenue and you will see that the rates have entirely ceased to decline and that consequently the people have been denied for more than a decade any share in the profits resulting from the immensely greater volume of traf Sce and the rapidly increasing net earnings of the railways. For 11 years the freight rates fell steadily, and then all at once the decline was checked and the railways began to withhold from the public all the bene fits resulting from their new prosperi ty and new methods, being enabled to do this through the tremendous con solidations that largely destroyed com petition. Half a billion dollars a year increase in net earnings and freight rates practically stationary—that is not a good argument for further in crease In transportation charges by the railways of the United States. What is a reasonable rate of return , and what is the value of the property ; entitled to such return are questions upon which the railway magnates must depend to prove their conten- ; tion. Gold Fillings as Property. San Francisco.—A new way to col- j leet dentists' bills has been invented j by the state board of dental exarain- ' ers. The first ease under it is that of "John Doe" Dreyfus, who has been arrested on the charge of obtaining property by fals^ pretenses. The property in question is gold put in the teeth of said Dreyfus by Dr. M. H. Schord of this city. Dr. Schord seeks to collect SCO. Puts Ban on Hatpins. Rochester, N. V.—The common council has unanimously adopted an ordinance making it a misdemeanor for a woman to wear a hatpin that protrudes more than half an inch from the crown of her hat. Violation is punishable by fine or imprison ment. fornia have more than 1.000.000 each. Many foreign countries have armies anil navies ami pretensions to being world powers have smaller populations than the New York district. Among them are the Netherlands, exclusive of colonies, with 5.501.700; Portugal prop er. with 5.423,000; Sweden, with 5.204. 000; Argentine Republic, with 6.210, 000; Chile, with 5.000.000; Greece and Denmark, with an aggregate popula tion of about 5,000.000. while the dis trict is within a few hundred thou- j sand of all Belgium. In view of these figures It is not dif ficult to understand the reason for the millions of dollars which are being spent here for transportation improve ments. To Teach Police Boxing. I^ondon. — Baron Albrecht von j Knoblesdorf Brenkenhoff. who was for i ten years an officer in the German army, has been appointed official in structor to the city police in wrest ling and the art of self-defense. He gives lessons three times a week to young policemen and is very proud of his pupils. While engaged In j military life the baron wis celebrated 1 as a steeplechase rider, and he owned Pensioner, an English jumper, which he rode to victory on several • occasions. Later he took to wrestling. 1 boxing and Jiu-Jitsu. ! STUDY FARMING AT OXFORD New Branch to Be Taught at Famous School—Grant of Land la Eagerly Awaited. London.—It Is likely that within ; » rerj short time Oxford university win bo augmented in notable degree by a new school of learning and new . facilities for special research and stndy. The subject of agriculture has been I ****** »P eagerly at Oxford, and Ox (ford men. likely in after life to have control of land, are encouraged to study agriculture and kindred subjects as a proper part of their training. TWa branch of university learning. wry much to Professor who left the board of agri cuHure to take up this work at Ox ford. promises well, but the lack of land for practical experiments, and of money tor carrying them on. has hitherto prevented such a develop ment as has taken place in Cambridge, where the natventty hr. done splem did agricultural work, especially in the domain of research. It is hoped that these obstacles are to be removed, and that private gen erosity will presently enable the best brains in Oxford to investigate prac tical agricultural science on such a scale as to rival not only Cambridge, but such splendid institutions as the Macdonald college In Canada. For this work much land, as well as other equipment, will be necessary in the neighborhood of Oxford, and the pro vision of both is understood to be within the scope of the scheme. It will be a cause of the greatest re joicing among past and present Ox ford men if a “pious founder and benefactor” should give to Oxford the opportunity of leadership and useful work in a subject so full of national, indeed of human, welfare. Several types of cameras are now made for taking snap shots from or of aeroplanes. House Cleaning Proves Profitable. Newark. N. J.—No one in this sec lion ot the state has found house cleaning more profitable than has Miss Ida Simonson, who got $4,000 as the result of her annual overhauling of her homestead in Vernon. N. J. While cleaning a closet she lifted a loose board in the floor and brought to light the treasure. $500 in gold and the remainder in bills of large denomi nations. The money probably was hid den there ahout 40 years ago by a re! ative, who died soon after. Tolstoi’s Grave Is Mecca. Moscow.—Tolstoi’s grave at Yasmi Poliana Is likely to become one of the chief places of pilgrimage in the em pire. Since the funeral large numbers of peasants arrive there daily. They come mostly on foot, and many are now on the way there afoot. At the grave many hundreds may be seen on their knees chanting and kiss ing the soil. The pilgrims are allowed to pass through the rooms which Tol stoi occupied, where nothing has beea disturbed. The people who declare that a man has outlived his usefulness when he attains the age of sixty years and should be put out of his misery with a dose of chloroform, will have to ex tend the limit if they wish to make a hit with the residents of t>an Jose. Cal., since it has become known that George Gates, a struggling seventy 'year-old inventor of that city, will he come a multi-millionaire through tb* sale to a syndicate of eleven of the greatest railway systems of the I nited Slates, of his patent rights in a con Crete railroad tie which he has in vented. The price to be paid for tne new tie is $17,500,000. Gates has been working on the con erete tie for about ten years. He cast thousands and thousands of concfr f lies in those years and was not dis heartened when they failed to stand tests and crumbled and crack*-.1 under «■- --" l.ll* iJM iKJii ■> a* • One <Jaj' about two years ago Cater was leaning against a barbed-wire fence. His meager funds w; re ab .at gon* and he was almost ready to give up. but the barb wires suggested a means whereby he could reinforce the concrete "1 will just cast s .:ne of tl • ■* barbed wires in the concrete." It was a happy idea, aud one that afterward proved to be worth millions. Ties were east with barbed-wire strands running lengthwise. Tests showed that 3C strands twisted in a certain manner ob'ained the best results. A tie thus made will spring l^i inches and come back to line. And a single machine will turn out the ties at the rate of 3.500 per day. Gates, who was bom in Ottumwa. Iowa, lives in a modest cottage in San Jose. Cal. He is a small, spare and unassuming. He presents the appearance of a typical Yankee workingman, and because he is out much in the air he Is sunburned and does not look over sixty years cf age. He served through the civil war. enlisting from his heme town. He was married in 1869 and went to California and. after years of work as a railroad man. he laid off about fifteen years ago to devote his time to inventing. Those were hard years But the old Inventor, who never talks freely at best, has but little to say of his struggles to perfect his ideas, and to get big railroad men to take them up. His invention comes at the right time, for wooden ties are becoming sc scarce that the demand is three times greater than the supply and the tend ency is toward an annual increase of from ten to fifteen per cent, in the price ot ties. RISE OF PENNILESS RUSSIAN The failure of the Northern bank of New York for $8,000,000 and the story of Joseph G. Robin's career in New York is the story of the gold-filled streets of America that lures the am bitious of Europe here. Sixteen years ago he was a penniless immigrant, with perhaps a half-dozen words of English at his command. For the past year he has had a controlling voice in three banks, two bonding companies, two real estate development compa nies and two traction roads. A Russian by birth, Robin came to the United States as Joseph Rabino witz. He was about twenty-two years old then, and is now abour thirty eight. He came to this country alone, and he is still single and without rela tives here. A year after Rabinowitz reached America he fixed upon journalism as the profession he meant to follow. For I e i au ■■ » r..Tner less xnan a monin no was a re porter on the Herald, with only broken English and tremendous determination as his stock in trade. Four years later Rabinowitz had become Robin and was attracting atten tion as deputy to Gen. James R O'Heirne. Oom Paul Kruger’s commissioner extraordinary for the Roers in the United States. Within five years more he was banker and financier both, his associates in ambitious enterprises includ ing some of the best known men in the United States. In 190t’> Robin was president of the Bank of Discount, through which, as a base of operations, the merger which resulted in the Northern Bank of New York was carried out. COMMANDER TALKED TOO MUCH Commander W. S. Sims of the Unit ed States navy has gotten himself into a lot of trouble after a long and very creditable career. He attended a ban quet in London and made a speech, during the course of which he had the misfortune to "slop over.” He was very anxious to impress on the minds of his British hosts the feeling of friendship which exists in the United States, but he went too far and as sured them that: "‘If ever the time comes that the British empire is menaced by an ex ternal foe she can count on every man. every dollar, every ship and every drop of blood of her kindred across the sea.” Now, Uncle Sam thinks a whole lot of John Bull, but he doesn't propose to have every Tom. Dick and Harry making wholesale promises for him. 250 v.oniuiuiu« omid uw jachru up. President Taft characterizes the offense as conspicuous and orders that he be publicly reprimanded by the secretary of the navy. This action on the part of the president was necessary, because had he taken no notice of the commander's exuberant speech other nations would | have had a right to be offended, in international relationships it is necessary to steer a pretty straight course to avoid giving offense. If you are Just a plain, ordinary citizen you can permit your natural exu berance of expression to carry you away at a banquet and it will be nobody's business but your own—in your enthusiasm you can “stop over" if you want to and for handing out a lot of wordy bouquets you may be called a good fellow. But if you are in diplomatic service you have to be mighty careful, for every word you say is supposed to represent the sentiments of the gov ernment you represent. If you go a little too fat there is likely to be an investigation with the result that you are retired to private life without any ceremony. The same rule applies to officers in the army and navy. THE NEW SENATOR FROM OHIO The election of a I'nited States sen ator from Ohio, to succeed Senator Dick, precipitated a lively contest, ■which ended only with the selection of Atlee Ponierene of Canton, McKin ley’s old town. It is said to have been one of the hottest senatorial cam paigns in the history of the state. Mr. Ponierene is a lawyer and it ■ forty-seven years old. He is a native of the state, a graduate of Princeton and has been a practicing attorney since 1SS6. He has held the office of city solicitor and prosecuting attorney and was the most formidable rival of Harmor. for the nomination for gover nor. He was forced to accept second place, however, and was elected lieu tenant governor. .Ml . ruiun rur utai i auu uie wife is one of Ohio's popular and cul tured women, who will no doubt be warmly welcomed to senatorial circles at Washington. One of the prominent senatorial candidates before the legislature was Representative Carl C. Anderson of Fostoria, who had the endorsement of the American Federation of Labor. Mr. Anderson began life as a bootblack and newsboy and has made a successful uphill struggle against early limitations SEVEN YEARS OF MISERY AH Relieved by Lydia E. Fink barn’s Vegetable Compound, SikVston. Mo. — “For seven years I Buffered everythin?. I was in bed «—--j for four or five days at a time ocrj | month, and so weak I could hardly walk. 1 cramped and had j backache and head 'ache, and was so 'nervous and weak 1 that I dreaded to I see anyone or have ! anyone move in the room. The doctors JTri gave n:<: uieuicuie ui ease me at those times, and said that I ought to have an of*-ration- I would not listen to that, and when a fri( nd of my husband tolJ l.irn about Lydia K. Tinkham’s Vege table Com;>o!!'id and what it hail done f ir ids wife, 1 was willing to take it Now I look the picture or health and L ei like it, too. I ran do myown house work. hoe my (garden, and milk a cow. I can entertain company and enjoy them. I can visit when I choose, anfi walk a3 far as any ordinary woman, any day in the month. I wish I could t dk toeverysx;fTeringwomanandgirl.” —Mrs. DEilA BETnittrE, Sikesto:^ Mo. The most successful remedv in this conntry for the cure of all forms of female complaints is Lydia E. I’ink L-m’s Vegetable Compound. It is more widely and successfully used than any other remedy. It has cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, in flammation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing do wn feeling, indigestion, and nervous prostrationraf ter all other means had failed. Why don’t you try it ? ROYALTY AS THE GODFATHER Difficulty in Europe Successfully Over come by the Exercise of Some Diplomacy. In the early days of the reign of the late King Leopold of Belgium a sev enth son was born to a Brussels worn an. and "-hen the king heard of it and was told .hat the boy was the seventh successive one, and that no girl had come to the family, he asked to be the baby's godfather. Ever since then every seventh son born in Brussels has had the same honor, and the moth ers have received gifts in keeping with their station in life. King Al bert, in carrying out the old adage a short time ago had some difficulty “because the seventh son was twins,” according to the Frankfurter Zeitung He could not stand for both boys, be cause that would give the family two Alberts. The remedy was found by i Queen Elizabeth, who suggested thai \ her little son. the duke of Brabant, | be the godfather of the eighth boy, ' who consequently received the nams I of Leopold. To Arrange Flowers. Here are five golden rules which j should be observed by those who often I arrange flowers. Use plenty of foliage. Put your flowers in very lightly. Use artistic glasses. Do not put more than two. or, at the most, three different kinds of flowers in one decoration. Arrange your colors to form a bold contrast or. better still, a soft har mony. The aim of the decorator should be to «how off the flowers—not the rases that contain them; therefore the simpler ones are far preferable to even the most elaborate. Glasses for a dinner table should be either white, a delicate shade of green, or rose col or, according to the flowers arranged in them. Warm Spot. Adirondack Guide—What is yout climate in New York? New Yorker—Well, occasionally II gets down to zero. Adirondack Guide — M-m-m! Don't you ever have anv cold weather.”— Life. Nothing Much. "I don't know whether I ought to recognize him here in the city or not. Our acquaintance at the seashore was very slight.” "You promised to marry him, didn’t you?” "Yes. but that was all.” Twenty-Five Years of It. “Why do people have silver wed dings, pa?” “Just to show to the world what their powers of endurance have been.” —Judge's Library. EASY CHANGE When Coffee Is Doing Harm. A lady writes from tlie land of cot ton of the results of a four years’ use of the food beverage—hot Postum. "Ever since 1 can remember we had used coffee three times a day. It had & more or less injurious effect upon us all. and I myself suffered almost death from indigestion and nervous ness caused by it. "1 know 11 was that, because when I would leave it off for a few days I would feel better. Rut it was hard to give it up. even though I realized how harmful It was to me. At last I found a perfectly easy way to make the change. Four vears age ' abandoued the coffee habit and began to drink Postum. and 1 also in fiuenced the rest of the family to do the same. Even the children'are al lowed to drink It freely as thev do ^ater. And it has done us all great } no l°nSer suffer from indigestion end my nerves are in admirable ton« ftnee I began to use Postum We never use the old coffee any more We appreciatae Postum as „ a Itghtful and healthful beverage whf^ not only invigorates hut h ch given by Postum Co Battle n JJich. ’ Ba”le Creek. OB-- * n.w