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NO MAN’S Land & awmEM LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE ^ILLUSTRATIONS BY fay'll^*** Cos*YA/c#r /yjfi 0ri0t//3 jau/w n/rcs / SYNOPSIS C *!',•■ a m3n of SVw Y«rk «*** o..e<. l;t«lu Hi*. Sstuek. *rtw> *•'**'•• :*» i" « «nrd port* Hr accept*. ••'*" -** e dlsilkr* HlscssteCh. (hr rea 4( ». dh *r. in low n«‘ Kath Tta»t** (Wt fail* in nm1n<v hrr «W*| !• unworthy of Her *'**•*■■*' P ' llr |uli C>W*X !*-• !i two *•*'' ,M Vm Tu>t Tt'..-r- l» a •- .UM ,04 H*w.,. k sho-ts Van Tw»l Cos art struasies la wrest I hr Wpafr.1* - >16 Sen (bus (hr I* Her ill* lln r **“"*»j l ata I* arrested for muxier. •*r as tr. 04 tut _a Sir tw-gins hi* arn !»•*•«*«• naan Klwcksiu. % *» (hr *. .Mto w*4 k .a t.iaiwrlf C..a*t hr rrxr-w In. la Hla- . .1. -a has married K*! rr:-,* Tt.uatrr ai,d 'find Coast l>ui r*«*. .» a ; sHM ar.d m: sallies am a ■*** Okrowo fora > 4 riant t--at Hr res !# Maoaa w»w> is tuaml A (•(•>> at 5 am*, at a larii Island, ksoan as • Land C starts out to es P*' f’**" I’-'a » and rwanrs upon autrr dr a* Hr .1 pulrra a n.an *nd. ; |>« * ar,e fanfare and approarls *** * ' "nar law m Katherine Tliastrr. » <e espu ns h it |.o l.ustaand un l* r (hr a>*anr Of ft’i. k has ho »ert 'hr isiaiid. «T is M-r! a wlrei-w# oprratwr and has a Men** i, or Carnal Milanas liar (hat **** -!«**«-.1 n -t».r.d Via Tuvl Oust ’ “ • t-s-h laid waar CUnwi -'»•*C * man Tfaer dr* ai him Ko Mu Chapter x.—(Continued.) Caam derided to mate hiitsrll a •*•*•*< of akalrtrr totetl might be If It Sera la the doubt He «weed the rear entrance in a bound, mifc another lined biotarli charting d*»*i; The embankment. la abuse U-a. Irfan. composition of loose sand had fra*el be ntr-ggied moriieh'at 1} Mtd «*iM> lor a looting Then be tel! and rour-v, Ufiedcuui. accompanied a '■*- Jd d f:n. ruLt i»b and rinali motrr, At (be bottom Of a dencthl ot *'<*«.« thirty feel lie picked himself «J*. tt-fc n but shaken. just us a sec <m* bullet ploughed up the rand l»o pares t«> one side Tber. *ii ao long* r may question aa to the Ideality of the tat get Coast pertfcTMed hlbsarif a ; :tigle. fleeting, upnard glance, caught a cinemato graph'-- gii(Bja« of the Chinaman— Ike wxnr h»«r. uosainly bird ;n nia toaer t :; isg ganaeata. descending ibr bank -and mixed and ran bead PrnraUj, socne dlktanoe ahead, the sbaa iajr prop—-firms ot ti e fa. a« t> d eafheat loofc shape through th*- mis*. Ker r* :ion Coast hailed l( ultb • °f hope Heaven alone kr.uaa • hut Bate- r at hope the sight of ii Held out t«« hts daerd preeepfions He tiud tte ■-;) a t» red aoflus that « ooly he could hold cut until he readied the boat it so&M afford sun •am* sort of shelter—ar eine tha; he might st unable arris, some nonde s*npt «rap*sd of delehre-a i rofci n tar—at >»ting liueirte* te did auBac* to gain I Le UMthr »«•>«(. >M With bis purtwr as 1.0! fifteen feet in me ,r»r. «*- • like a rats bit ruund Us ,Irf» He had a fugitive Impression. I aa tor pasted. at a wnoun something (km: but wttfc no time tor r«-c tctiiuua. or mo.ed for Thought, hr •hot cm. of a *ud4ec painfully aine *• (he fart that he aad b-t-n mistaken, that tt*re aas ho refuge for mm there , , Thea he f ulled up cm the sound ot a heavy fall bemad fatm—a dull crash ttohtotord hr a short. stifled cry and a •harp crack as uf tao atones coming together He looked hack la litre to see the •hort. starred £<!.:«• of Appleyard vtraigh’enlng up from the tody of the fhitacuaa. to ne the little man's ball frjend.y, hall-apob gene Malle, and to hear km. say in a ton* of quiet reaa aaraace “AH right, old top lie's do* a aad three Hates out." I acre-: u.ou» aad half eahausted. staggered hack to the boat The Chinaman lay like sotne mon strous efligy at man Inert, sprawling. j • tth a sagging jaw. shut eyes and a ragged bleeding sound in the mid die a: his forehead A hit of drift —< fft «f the water bleached brand of a small tree—was twisted hrtwee* his feet, a formidably Jagged •tone la Apple* ard's hand eked out (he story of tils downfall It wise t anything. 'b» little man emplain* i with his timid, makeahtli smile tawing Coasts expression -| •aw you cuming- heard the shots to hegla a tth —-and made preparation ac cBrt.h Larky yoa chanced this way. Otherwise , . * He shrugged and cast away the •teoe that had served so lamously " Ike d better be making tracks be fore the others came do a c on us.” he • sug g*-st d calmly "Twn—you »e killed him?" Coast *c. sorry lo say" Apple f*rt moved lo cme s<de and picked w» the revolver mfcl. b tad fall, n irons ike Chinaman • band Tufort unstei* jest itataad llvkiw." oe added injtitc at n-omeotanlr. ~1t!l tars out nitcuuko at Ike brain but —kr made a dubious mouth— Tm •(raid nut Tbos* brute* are tc-gn aa 1*1* m* Still. I tktak I n same promts!* entry ta the David and Uo Hack cu»—what? . . . Come aloe* mom no tia* to waste." Me dropped tk* weapon Into a pock et, sad Coast's arm. began to trot hits a loo* the brack In tke dl Mctut of tke Echo * dory "Yob ***.' ke commented severe ly. “ahat ruam at coin* out alone Vert time I *o cjultn*. I want you to stay at koaw aad keep out of inis chief Vow you bear met" CHARTER XI. While kb crew wa* whipping the dory's bead warp round a deck-cleat. Ctmt stood In tke cock pit of tke Echo. I row tin* though:! ull) at tke Merced loom of bad to starboard, skuie sea low seemed to fall cold epos hio maul with a sinister presage of suffer in* aad disaster For there was Katherine, there Blacks lock, there mystery, terror, death; . . . and there to himself must be, for her Oat of tke horror and turmoil of Us last kali boor be emerged with COiflCDOB mmA SbC moat aot bo ktfi a loot ta that place ot nameless perils Such doubts as he had previously entertained no lunger found tooting in bis thnugnts: it ».4* settled now; be would stay. In the emotional stress of Ins un ... encounter with the woman temjiorarUy he had forgotten the vic tim ot tbe bowstring But now, bas ing bis conclusions on what she bad told h:m ot th - personnel ot the is land. he caw without doubt that the man could hi ve teen no other tnau 'hat Mr. Power she had named as t:la< -katock's assistant. Power was an Irish name: Coast had catalogued the man as of Irish extraction, at sight. . . . It ihe motive for the assassination r n. iced dark, that Blackstock was 1 privy to it. If not tbe prime instiga tor of the crime, was as patent as daylight. < i:*st knew in his heart that be i I was fated never to leave No Man's ! i-at : whi!<- the woman he loved re (turned there with the man he teared. despised and hated. Mr Applcyard. having made last ! the dory, sat himself down, filled and ] igh'-d hi> pip.. and tor several mo n-.-nts regarded Coast with a look at ■ nee contemplative, penetrating and sympathetic. Then he chose to divert his employer with an enigmatic obser vation "S:! ; ot you." be remarked coolly “But—" “Tut, tut! Leave tt to me: I’m th* doctor, and I’m banding you the only possible prescription, based on an ex haustive diagnosis of the symptoms, et cetera. And you’d better hump yourself. As things stand,” the little man paused to explain with a trace ot impatience, seeing that Coast made no move and was on the point of in terposing further objections, “we have the advantage of our friends ashore. We know who they are, but they don’t know us. But if we stick round here it's only a question of time before we're discovered. Whereas, if we fold our tent and silently teat it, we can return anon (get that ’anon?') and they’ll have less excuse for identify ing us with the first rash intruders. Morevover, we shall have had time to study the situation in detail and plan our campaign accordingly. . , . Now will you get that mud-hook up?” He turned his back to Coast and prepared to uncover the motor, while his putative employer, mystified and talked into a condition of semi-hypno sis. silently rose and clambered ior ward. By tbe time he had weighed in tne light anchor and returned to the cockpit, the little engine was trob bmg busily and the Echo had begun to move. Appleyard at the wheel, im perturbable, steering by the compass on the seat at his side. He nodded sat istactlon as Coast began to coil the cable, still dazed and almost inclined to credit the preposterous situation to a waking dream. "Hoodl” said the little man. "Now get below and change—you can't af ford to catch your death, standing round In those dripping rags—and re lieve me, that I may do the same. Furthermore, I'd be glad of a drop ot grog. We ll talk later.” "Do you mind telling me where Held His Breath Fearing He Was Discovered. Coast . ame out of bis abstraction with a start. "What's that?” he de manded sharply. "! said: ‘Silly of you.'” "What d'you mean by that?" “I mean." drawled the little man. “that you’re wasting valuable time standing !her<* with your hands idle and trying to make up your mind what's best to be done about it. If »e were only a bit better acquainted, or if you had a grain of perspicuity in your make-up. you'd have realised •ng ago that you'd better leave it all to me." "What—!" stammered Coast. “What in thunder are you talking about?" Aipievard removed the pipe from lit:- n.nutk and waved it comprehen tvely toward the island. "That." he -aid sententious, smiling sweetly up Into the amazed face of his companion. Your predicament." he added. “II you'd only stayed put. I'd have had •■verything fixed, but of course you bad to butt in and complicate matters. Not that I'm at all dismayed; 1 can still ar:acge everything satisfactorily. I think. But you oughtn't to inter fere. If I didn't like you so much I'd be awful' vexed, honest I would!" Coast sat down and gasped with .-.stor.ishment and Irrational resent ment. "Kither you're mad!" he said j —“raving—or—” J "You its- your first guess.” the tit- I tie man interrupted calmly. “I'm talk ing sense, and I'll prove it. Listen: you're cudgelling your — bmm! — brains for an excuse to go back and establish yourself on No Man's Land — persona grata to the inhabitants, temporarily at least. Aren't you?" Coast’s jaw dropped "How do you know that?" be breathed, thunder- j struck I'm the test little guesser you ever j met." replied Appleyard complacent- | lj "Take It from me. I'm wise to a lot more than you ever dreamed, i Furtbi-rn. re. I'm for you. Now, with ■ that entente clearly established, are you willing to put yourself in my hands and rest easy in my assurance that you'll win out. or do you prefer to blunder on in your infatuated, bull beaded way and take your chances?" “Hut—but—who are you? What do you know?” “I'm the man in the know In this case, all right. But that's not the point. I’ll explain, and to your satis faction. later. For the present, the questions is: Will you or won’t you trust me?" Coast made a helpless gesture. "Go on." be said. “Good enough. Now," continued Appleyard. rising, “the first thing to do Is to clear out of this. You get the anchor up and I'll start the machin ery." we’re bound?” Coast inquired with mild sarcasm. "Not at all. This course ought to take us clear of Devil’s Bridge.” re turned the little man helpfully. Coast was in a more cheerful mood, too. when he returned, the confidence and courage of his manner bearing witness to the restorative power of plenty of hot coffee and bacon and eggs. <TO BE CONTINUED.) THE BOY AND THE BICYCLE Fat Man Moved to Remorse After Witnessing Effects of Anger on Bike and Boy. A fat man was complacently pursu ing his way through a cross street. He carried an open umbrella and oc casionally wiped his moist face on a large silk handkerchief. Suddenly around the corner came a small boy on a bicycle. He turned so quickly that the fat man had no time to get out of the way. Nor had the boy any chance to sheer away from his bulky obstacle. The front wheel struck the fat man a glancing blow, shaking his dignity and scraping his leg. As for the boy. he and the bicycle went down with a crash. But the lad was up again in a moment and rais ing the bicycle bent over it solici tously. The fat man was mad. He was so mad that he sputtered incoherently, and then with a vicious swing of one of his tan shoes kicked a spoke out of the offending wheel. “There,” he roared. “I guess that’ll teach you not to ride on the side walk!” The boy stared at the dangling spoke. “What did youse do that for?” he whined. “It took me all the year to save up fer that bike—an' now look at it!" And he knuckled his eyes with a grimy fist The fat man was touched. His rage suddenly vanished. He fumbled In his pocket and drew out a dollar bill. “There, kid," he said, “take this and get the wheel fixed.” The boy let go of the machine nad grabbed the bill. "Say, youse can have th' bike,” he yelled, and scooted around the corner as fast as his legs would carry him. A Good Business Man. Doctor—“Now, Mr. Macdonald, I must take your temperature.” Macdonald (nee Israels)—“Ach,but you cannot Everything is In der name of my wife!"—Everybody's Weekly. MANY HOG HOUSES DEFICIENT IN SUNSHINE AND VENTILATION No Building on Farm Pays for Itself so Quickly and Is Responsible to Great Extent for Small or Large Litters — Ingenious Method of Outside Pens Shown in Illustration. A Well-Built and Well Arranged Hog House. Showing Arrangement of Out side Pens. (By J. A. WARREN. Formerly Assistant Agriculturist. United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) On the average, the hog house is the poorest building on the farm and the least adapted to the purpose for which it was intended. Good barns may be seen on a large proportion of the farm#, but are generally hard to find. It is economy to put up first the buildings that will help most to make money. A large portion of the farm ers recognize this and build a good barn before putting up a good house, saying “the barn will help build the house but the house will never help building the barn." This principle seems to be lost sight of when it comes to the hog house, yet no other building on the farm pays for itself so quickly. Unpublished data collected by the writer show that good hog men average about seven pigs raised to the litter and many surpass this record. The same data indicate that the gen eral average raised on the farm does not exceed four pigs to the litter. This | wide difference is very largely due to the housing. Many houses which cost enough to be good are thoroughly unfit for the purpose because the sun cannot shine into the pens. Nearly every large hog house is deficient In either sunshine or ventilation, or in both. The illustration shows a house built by one of the most prominent Duroc , breeders after careful study. It is a most serviceable structure and one of the best the writer has ever seen. It is one of the few hog houses that have proved so satisfactory that the owners are willing to duplicate them. This house has been copied by a num ber of farmers in the vicinity, some of whom, however, have made the mis take of building a longer house and not making provision for outside pens for the extra inside pens. The are sheathed, papered, and sided. The roof is shingled. The outside floors on the east, west, and south are 6 feet wide. This house is j 22 by 36 feet and contains ten pens. [ It was built north of Omaha in 1905 and cost, complete, including labor. ?275, or $27.50 a pen. This includes the outside floor and pens. The gates across the alley all lift off their hinges so they can be remov ed or replaced in a moment. This ar rangement makes it very convenient in sorting hogs to change them from one pen to another or to make extra pens when crowded. When swung across the alley the free ends of the gates fasten with common house-door bolts. By putting these on so the knobs turn up instead of down, the owner finds that hogs can not open them. If the knobs turned down the hogs could open them readily. The fronts of the pens next the alley are all loose panels which lift out. In this way the whole house can be made into one large room in a few minutes, noth ing but the pen partitions being left in place. The inside pens are 7 by 8 feet, ex cept the middle one on each side, which is 8 by S feet. (The pens are irregular in width because the lumber cut this way to better advantage.) The hog doors are 22^4 by 31 inches in the clear. The large doors are 3 by 6 feet, divided in the middle. The upper windows each contain four 12 by 11 inch lights and are set solid and close together. The lower windows each contain four 10 by 12 inch lights. The most striking feature of this house is the ingenious way in which outside pens have been provided with out having them on the north side. The ventilators are 6 by 6 inches inside. The lower ends are 2 feet above the floor and the u: per ends just above the comb of the roof. The south rafters are extended to meet the north rafters so that no studding arc needed under the south edge of the north roof. Whether this gives any advantage is doubtful. The sunshine will strike the floor in all pens several hours a day after March 1. CRY OF “BACK TO THE LAND” Experts Studying Out Problem oi Why So Many City Bred. Men Make Failure at Farming. (By PROF. J. W. SPILLMAN.) A special study of the equipment, management and income of a large number of small fruit and truck farms, many of them run by people who have recently come from the city, is being made by the office of farm management of the United States department of agriculture. This study has given us somewhat a new point of view. In general these small farmers are not successful. This fact has led us to study the ques tion more closely, and as a result a scheme for the management of a 40 1 acre farm is outlined which seems to be practicable. The diagram shows a convenient scheme for subdividing forty acres to fit it for the cropping-system outlined. It will be observed that the forty acres are divided into eight fiveaere tracts. One of these is set aside for what may be called the "homestead.” These five acres are at the center on one side, and it is supposed that a public road passes this side of the tract. Of these five acres, half an acre is utilized for the house and yard and the barn and barn lot. This space is ample for what we have in view. One half acre is devoted to garden, one and a half acres to orchard and the remaining two acres to a paddock, into which to turn the stock for ex ercise. By judicious management these two acres can also be made to furnish some pasture and some soiling-crops. The other seven five-acre tracts are to be devoted to a seven year rotation. When this rotation is in full swing, the crops on the farm for a given year are as follows: Field A, potatoes; field B, three acres of cabbage and two acres of onions; field C. corn; field D. cow-peas, field E, corn; field F,clover; field G, clover. The next year each of these crops would move to another field as fol lows: The potatoes would go to field G, which was in clover the year be fore. The cabbage and onions next year would go to field A. The corn on field C would go the next year to field B. Cow-peas in field D would go the next year to field C. The corn in field E would go to D, while E would be sown in clover and F in clover. The next year each crop would move to another field in the same Forty-Acre Farm Subdivided Into Eight Five-Acre Traces. This Shows a Convenient Method of Subdivision Which Gives Access to All the Fields Without Wasting Much* Land in Roads. Length of Lines Given in Rods. manner, so that each year potatoes are sown after second-year clover, cabbage and onions are planted after potatoes, etc. NEED FOR MORE SHEEP ON FARM Animals Mast Have Abundant Shelter From Rain end Snow—Require hat Little Grain. — We would invite no one to turn aside from successful cattle raising or dairying to venture upon what may be to him an untried experiment in sheep raising. But on many a dairy farm, and especially on farms with insuffi cient live stock, there may be room for a small bunch of sheep; and the study and care of these may develop such results as point the way to the keeping of larger numbers. They must have abundant shelter from rain and pnow, but It need not be in a warm barn, says the Farm and Dairy. Wet, whether from above or under foot, is to be scrupulously guard ed against by the sheep-owner. Ex posure In a cold rain is bad for a horse or steer; it is doubly bad tor Sheep. The sheep shed should be on a high, well-drained site—indeed, sheep should be allowed to run over no low. wet land, no matter how attractive the herbage thereon may be. Except that the ram should have a little grain now and then, to maintain his virility, and the ewes a little at lambing-time, the flock will require only pasturage for the greater part of the year, with clover hay or like rough age for winter feeding. The farmer with only himself and a child or two to carry the burden of caring for animals, will often find the keeping of sheep more advantageous than the keeping of cattle. Lessons From Experience. The poultry raiser who notes his flock carefully, taking into account what they are doing and capable of doing, ought to know more how to feed and what to feed than anyone advising at long range. Purity of Honey. The candying of honey is one or the best proofs of its purity, for adulter ated honey will not granulate. Scientists Sounding Waters oi Oldest Known Lake. Motives of Expedition Said to Be Purely Scientific—No Elements of Commercialism Entering Into Ultimate Object. Jerusalem.—An expedition, the pur pose of which is thoroughly to explore the Dead sea and its environs under the leadership of Dr. Bruhl of the Uni versity of Berlin, has just arrived from Europe and continued to the scene of its future operations. The motives of the expedition, so it is emphatically averred by Dr. Bruhl, are purely scientific, with absolutely no elements of commercialism enter ing into its ultimate object. The work of exploration will con sist in the major part of sounding the depth of verious sections of the lake as well as analyzing the complex composition of its waters, studying its shores, investigating the nature of the different minerals that are said to abound in that region, exploring, as far as is possible, the channels of the many rivers and hot water streams, apart from the Jordan, which flow into the sea, from both the eastern and western mountain ranges that hem its shores, examining and classify ing the varieties of fish that exist in large numbers only in the extreme southeastern section of the lake, which consists mainly of shallows and marshes. It must be remembered in this con nection that it has always been firm ly maintained by those who visited the Dead sea and wrote treatises about it long ago that no fish of any kind can make their habitat in any part of it, and this long established belief was disproved only recently by a pleasure party of Americans, long resident in the country, who visited the southern er.d of the lake and dis covered fish. So it remains for the members of the German expedition to arrive at the causes, which undoubtedly must Scene in Jerusalem. be due to varying conditions of chem ical composition of the water that nake it possible for fish to live in certain sections of the lake and not in ethers; and, in short, to find out everything about this strange body of i water from scientific standpoints that is worth knowing. What ultimate political or commer cial motives. If any. underlie the sur face of the enterprise time only can show. This is by no means the first at tempt made to explore the Dead sea region. Lieut. W. F. Lynch of the American navy, as early as the year ; 1848 spent considerable time in re j search and exploration of that region ; at the expense of the American gov ernment and at great risk to his per . son. Despite the hardships. Lieutenant Lynch was fairly successful in taking measurements as well as soundings of different parts of the lake. Accord [ ing to the lieutenant's narrative, the lake measures some 46 miles from | north to south ar.d from 6 to 12 miles east and west. Its total surface area was therefore computed to be 250 square miles. Its greatest depth was 1.300 feet at its northern end. and its shallowest part being at its southern extremity, varies from 5 to 15 feet only. The lake’s depression below the sea level is 1.312 feet and a tropical climate makes its temperature almost unbearable during certain seasons of the year. Crying Baby Is “Exhibit A.” Buffalo. N. Y.—A crying baby was offered in evidence, and after much argument between opposing counsel was marked for identification as "Ex hibit A” in a case brought up in the city court here. The action is for $1,000 damages, and the baby is pro duced as the principal evidence for the plaintiff. “I desire to offer this infant in evi dence,’’ was the announcement of one of the attorneys as a woman came behind the rail bearing a bundle in fcer arms. The attorney for the de fense promptly objected. “Nobody ever heard of such a pro ceeding.” he said. “I contend that it is perfectly proper to have the child marked for identi flcation,” contended the plaintiff's law yer. The argument continued for several minutes, the baby holding his own in | the noise-making. Finally the court ; settled the dispute by directing the stenographer to mark the exhibit. Finds Cancer Cure. Paris.—Professor Wasserman, noted scientist, claims to have discovered a cure for cancer by treating the dis ease with selenium and eosin. Selen ium was discovered fcy Mme. Curie, who found radium. Mince Pie Barred. South Hadley, Mass.—Believing that mince pie and apple dumplings make the girls so sleepy that they cannot do their afternoon lessons well, these luncheon delicacies ar* barred at Mt Holyoke college. OF COURSE, Mr. Stockson Bonds—Noah was a wonderful financier. Mr. Dustin Stas—How so? Mr. Stockson Bonds—He floated a stock company when everybody else was forced into involuntary liquida tion. It a Woman Had Done It. Trust the suffragettes to make capi tal out of the merest indiscretion of mere man! The following is an ex ample, taken from one of their publi cations. the Newsletter, for January: “A lovely little press item floating up from Chatham Courthouse, Va., made the editor laugh and laugh. It said that a juror sneaked out of the jury room while the rest of the Jurors were asleep, and went and milked his cow. He laid out to get back before the others waked up, but somebody saw him and told on him. and the trial had to begin all over. If a wom an juror should do that out in Wash ington or Idaho, wouldn't it be a proof of the incapacity of the sex for the duties of citizenship?” Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. —Prof. James. Time is a wound healer, but it's no good as a wrinkle remover. GRAND TO LIVE And the Last Laugh Is Always the Best "Six months ago I would have laugh ed at the idea that there could 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 38, 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 fdr 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 ‘Pcstum, 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.” Ever read the above letter? A lew appear* from time to time, Tfcep ■re premiae, true, and tell of hnmaa latrreat.
