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HOW THE NORTH RAISED A E A DING financiers of Great Itritain and France recent ly negotiated a loan in the United States for five hun dred million dollars. .Xu attempt to raise such a vast amount of money has been made in this country since the days of the Civil war. Older heads in Walt street recall the furore which attended the successful distribution of two large loans put out by this government one for five hundred millions of dol lars and another for eight hundred and thirty millions—to pay tbs expenses incirred in the struggle to preserve the Union. Jay Cooke, the great financier of thrtt period, engineered the flotation of uoth loans and the machinery be or ganized and set in motion for gather ing up the savings of people and ex [ hanging them for the government’s •five-twenty” and "seven-thirty" bonds, while perhaps crude alongside tfre highly perfected system of con Ji'eting banking and investment busi ness which exists today, was marvel ous from the viewpoint of results achieved. He succeeded in speeding up his system to the point where sub script us for the bonds '■ame in faster than ihe treasury department could -i ppiy the engraved certificates. :t has been suggested that the bank ets who have negotiated the Anglo Dl/BIJWG the Great Con ~ flict Between the States, | the Federal Government 1 tie)as in Dire ffeed of Funds. I After Others Had Failed to j Baise the Sum, Jay CooKe, ffoted Financier, Suc ceeded by a ffetv Method. French loan may have studied the 'ooke methods. The government’s . five-twenty" loan was authorized in February, 1862. It remained on the icarket nearly a year without success, iespite various efforts of Secretary base to negotiate it. He solicited offers in New York, but the condition if the money market at the time was such that most of the bids were at a onsiderable discount below par. In ait there was not sufficient currency n N. York to absorb the loan rapid y enough to supply the wants of the jovernment. It became evident that if the loaa were to be taken it would be only through popularizing it, by seeking purchasers among the masses of the people in all parts of the country, and po longer merely upon the capital ac cumulated in the money centers. How was this to be done? The treas ury department was not adapted to the management of business of that ’haracter. There were no officers who could be charged with the under aking. All the bureaus were over crowded with overworked employees, fiesides, the laws regulating the re ceipts and disbursements of public noneys presented insuperable barriers :o a direct negotiation of the loan be tween the treasury department and :he people. w nen tnese difficulties became ob rious Secretary Chase decided to re port to private enterprise and selected Jay Cooke of Philadelphia, head of he banking house of Jay Cooke & Co., ts special agent for the treasury de jartment in disposing of the bonds. Mr. Cooke attacked the work with rigor and enthusiasm. I'nder bis man tgement there was organized a vast machinery that resulted in the enlist ng of every bank and banker and al most every newspaper in the northern nates in advocating the lean. He con iucted a publicity campaign which up o that time was probably without a parallel. The bonds were issued in denomina .ions of $50, $100, $500 and $1,000, and t was estimated that at least three million persons subscribed for the oan in amounts ranging from $50 to turns in six figures. The Cooke advertisements were spirited and confident, reflecting the rigorous character of the man who vrote them. He kept the loan before he people constantly. His newspaper “broadsides" were •haractertzed by both originality and .r.genuity. One of his most effective efforts in the line of publicity ap Jeared as a kind of farmers and me chanics' catechism, entitled "The Best Way to Put Money Out at Interest." Mr. Cooke personally called upon he editors in Philadelphia and New Pork to indoctrinate them with his GATHERED FACTS. Nearly a ton of wrist w^atcbes were :n exhibition at a recent convention 3f jewelers in New York. “Tbe ma ority of persons," said one of the ex hibitors, "call these ‘sissy’ watches, hut this term will eventually be dis :redited—for one thing, because the jfficers in the European war are de fending a great deal on wrist matches." The convention, however, is a whole, did not encourage the use if the innovation. The American consumption of ar .ificial dyestuffs has attained an an lual value of $15,000,000 and grows i steadily. A wealthy young Englishman, be B .'ore going to the front, insured his rate for $1,000,000. the risk being split Sunong several offices. The first pro Blum was $50,000. ^Russia’s Caucasian army has points ' n common with the famous Foreign t legion of France. It is recruited from kill nationalities, and, like tbe legion, fchas many warriors who have joined B. views. His brother, Henry Cooke, was on terms of intimacy and friendship with the correspondents congregated at Washington and, so we are told, in vited them individually and in parties to partake of the hospitalities of his splendid home in Georgetown. Besides the countrywide publicity carried on in the newspapers and mag azines Cooke literally showered the nation with show cards, posters, cir culars, pamphlets and handbills, a mar velous variety of devices of the type to catch the eyes of the people, im press their minds and draw the money from their pockets. All the while traveling agents scoured the country from end to end seeking money iu the remotest corners of the country. It was not long be fore the name of Jay Cooke became known to every village and farm and had only to be spoken by one of his solicitors to draw the carefully hoard ed savings from their hidden recesses as if by magic. Night agencies at which mechanics mill workers and factory employees could subscribe for the bonds were es tablished in all the large cities shortly after Cooke received his appointment for the "seven-thirty” loan, in Janu ary, 1SG5. The office of a coal and wood con cern. a real estate shack, or even the front part of a comer saloon, answered the purpose, sn long as it gave the wage-earner an easy opportunity to invest his surplus earnings in United States bonds Nearly a score of these night agen cies were opened up in New York city. I Brooklyn and nearby New Jersey fac tory centers, and for weeks the "seven thirty" government furor continued at a high pitch. The remarkable success which at tended the employment of these meth ods fully justified their adoption. Within less than eighteen months after Jay Cooke took charge of the distribution of the "five-twenty" loan the enormous aggregate of $,'00,000. 000 had been diverted from the ordin ary channels of investment and trade and turned over to the government without serious disturbance to the in ' dustrial or commercial interests of the country. In all the period the popularizing i machine was in action there was no serious pressure resulting upon the money market, no exhaustion of the ! resource relied upon, no faltering or unevenness in the flow from a thousand rills which fed the constantly swell ^ ing current of the supply, in thus popularizing the loan, distributing it among the people in all sections, oc i cupations and degrees of wealth, the foundations were laid for future loans and the national credit was placed on j a broader and firmer I asis than it ever The prince of Wales has taken an oath never to marry a German prin cess. The heir apparent to the Brit ish throne, who is directly of Ger man stock, is quoted by the Paris press as having formally registered a vow' that no German blood should be added to the British throne line if he could help it. “I intend to marry the daughter on an English peer.”'said the young prince to friends recently. The prince has been serving with the British headquarters force somewhere in the region of Dunkirk. A Whitehead torpedo runs 6.000 yards, traveling part of the distance at the rate of 50 miles an hour. A theatrical man, in an appreciation of Junius Brutus Booth, declares that "intellectually he stood above any ac tor of his own or any other time." In justification of this praise these claims are made. Booth had a knowl edge of seamanship (acquired a$ a midshipman), was an expert printer, had studied law and medicine, was an acute theologian, and spoke eight lan guages fluently, besides being “the greatest actor who ever spoke the English language.” had been on before. Since the stirring days in which Jay Cooke achieved his financial triumphs the processes by which the surplus funds of (he country find their way into investment have been refined and brought up to a higher state of perfec tion. There exists in the economic structure of the nation today a Snan cial department of perfect ramchinery which applies to the country's develop ment the combined energy of the ac cumulated savings of men and women all over'the laud. Like the transmis sion machinery of the modern indus trial plant by which the heat units in the coal bin are transformed to pounds of energy in producing useful com modities, our banking system gathers up the savings—the five hundred and thousand dollar nest eggs—from myr iad thrifty homes, unites them in pow erful funds of limitless energy and puts them to work. It is through the operation of this machinery that rail roads and public utilities are financed, industrial enterprise is promoted and the funds required to carry on state and municipal improvements are i raised. To gear this machinery up so that i large foreign loans can be arranged in this country is the problem now be fore the heads of the nation’s great financial institutions. From the very outset of the war they have realized that nations of Eu rope, being engaged in the waste and destruction of capital on a prodigious scale, would soon or late he knocking : at our doors and asking for financial aid. That time has come England I and France sent some of their most gifted financiers and men of affairs to the United States on a borrowing mis sion. baron Heading, lord chief justice ot | England, a man of extraordinary in 1 tellect and forcefulness, often spoken of as England's Disraeli of the twen tieth century; Sir Edward Holden, one of the foremost joint-stock bankers of London; Sir Henry B. Smith, an in ternational banker of wide expert ence; Octave Homberg of the French ' foreign office; Ernest Mallet, regent of the Bank of France, and Basil B. Blackett, a British treasury expert— these are the men who came to ar range for a loan to be pledged jointly by their respective countries. In listening to their arguments the American bankers constantly kept in mind the fact that in order to get the people to invest in bonds of foreign na tions they must first make them see the advantages to be gained by lend ing money abroad Obviously their position is not the same as that which confronted Jay Cooke, whose appeal for funds was. after all, largely an appeal to the peo ple’s patriotism. Cold facts concerning foreign ex changes, the movement of the crops ; and other phases of the country's bus- ! iness, vital 2S they are to general ' prosperity, cannot be expected to ' awaken the same enthusiasm as the | cry, "The- f'nion must tie preserved I" j Nevertheless, when the financial raa , chinery of the country is once set in ] motion wonde’i';l tilings can he ac complished Jt».« Cooke demonstrated this. __ Improving Human rtace. It is becoming increasingly neces sary to impress the ract that there are two distinct lines in the improve ment of any rate; one by favorable environment, which brings individ uals up to their best possibilities; the other—10.000 times more important end effective—selection of the best individuals through a sei «-s ot gen erations writes Luther fWhank in 1 Good Health. By this mean*-, and by , this only, can any race of pUnts. ani mals or man be permanently or redic- ! ally improved. To Write History ef War. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been intrusted by the English government with the writing of the official history of the war. a task which will occupy his energies for some years. He proved his fitness for this undertaking by his history of the South African: campaign. To Fight Tuberculosis. A wealthy native of India has gltei a fund of $5,000 a year for fifteen years to aid in suppressing tubercu losis in Bombay. LAND AT SALE VALUE LISTING A3 SUCH IS TO ADP $56,000,000 TO VALUATION. COUNTY ASSESSORS TO BEET Will Gather at Lincoln January 19 and 20.—Members of County Boards to Attend Also. Lincoln.—On a basis of assessment at 75 per cent of the sale value Ne braska land will be listed at $66,000, 0P0 more next year than at its last valuation, according to the statement of Secretary Bernecker of the state assessment board. Mr. Bernecker bases this statement on figures re ceived from sales records and assess ment figures from a large number of counties of the state. Lands of the state were last valued at $329,000,000. Their total next year, if Mr. Berneek er's scheme prevails as it is outlined, will boost the valuation to $395,000, 000. On a basis of taxes for ail pur poses that should bring in gross reve nue to the various subdivisions of not less than $650,000 more than at pres ent. Of that amount approximately $93,00u should go to the state. Lands have heretofore been valued at from 35 per cent to 55 per cent of their actual sales value. While under the law they should be put in at that value. Secretary Bernecker believes that the increase of the base to 75 per cent would be equitable to all the state and would result in no apparent injustices. County assessors ot tne state ana members of county boards will hold a state meeting in Lincoln on January 19 and 20. Secretary Bernecker ex pects the meeting will be well attend ed. the district meetings which he has held in November in different parts of the state having a tendency to awaken much interest in a more equitable form of assessing property. As the assessment of real estate un der the four-year law will be made the coming year he sees the need of effective and uniform work in all counties and hopes the Lincoln meet ing in January will help solve the question of property assessments. Wins Legal Victory. A sweeping victory for Gover nor More head and Fire Commis sioner FJdgell and those who have been standing with them in the legal tray against Treasurer Hall for pay ment of expenses and salaries ot that department, was recorded in the state supreme court a few days ago. A decision handed down by that tri bunal states that the treasurer has no right to protest against the operation of the fire commission, that the act creating the commission provides for taking tare of its expenses and that appropriations by the various legisla tures are not necessary as long as the act is in force and effect. “Those wiio foot the billc should be the ones to protest," the opinion states in sub stance. Then it adds that “as long as the hre insurance companies which pay the tax for tiie lire commission’s operation do not protest, it is not up to the treasurer to do so for them." The decision is of more importance than to the fire commission alone. It indicaies that the court looks upon the food commission affair—in which Treasurer Hall lias also been refusing to pay the expenses—as similar and that their opinion would be the same with regard 10 that department. Hemorrhage Among cattle. Hemorrhagic septicemia is believed by tiie state veterinarian's department to have caused the death of thirty head of cattle, out of 302 owned by C. \V. Schulz of Brule, a town west of Ogallala. John Kullard of Roscoe, ten miles away from the Schulz herd, Is said to have the same disease amon ghis cattle. Doctor Collins at Stanton reports a similar disease. Librarian Makes Report. A total of 70,403 volumes were in the state's legal library on June 1, and 71.490 volumes on December 1. ac cording to Librarian Lindsey's report. On hand In the fund for printing su preme court decisions was a total of $7,G33, enough to run until the next session. Preparing for Winter Corn Show. The state winter corn show of the Nebraska Corn Improvers’ Associa tion will be held at Hit1 Lincoln city auditorium during Organized Agricul ture we !;. January IS to 21. inclusive. Any person in ihe state may make exhibits at the show. Roosevelt Not a Candidate. Theodore Roosevelt will not be a candid: tr lor the republican nomina tion fer tiie presidency on ihe repub lican ticket, bis request to S^cretary of State Pool not to place his name on the primary ballot has been received. Stono Work, on Eoom. Reports filed in the labor commis sii ::er s office for the year 1914 by manufacturers of artificial stcnc, show the total capital invested to be $212, 029.83. The total value cf stock u^cd for the year was $179.9^0.47. Total value of production, $:’4d.899.G3. It is estimated that ninety-seven per cent of the total production was gold in Nebraska. The total for tiie year paid in wages was $110,437.79 to a total of 239 employes, making an average for the year of $2.76 per day. People Good and Well Fixed. Inspection of the county jails and poor farms of Pierce. Thurston, Wayne, Cedar, Dixon, Dakota and Thurston counties was made recently by Secretary Shahan of the state cor rections board. Conditions, financial and sanitary'- were found to be good in all of the institutions visited, al though in the details Mr. Shehan sug gested changes at some of the places. Most of the jails he found empty and the poor houses, too, indicating that not only are the people good, but are also well fixed. GREATEST LIVE STOCK FEED IN WORLD An Excellent Stand of Corn. ( i By JOHN M. EVVARD. Chief in Swine Production, Animal Husbandry Section, Iowa Experiment Station ) Indian maize, or just common plain I everyday corn, the greatest live stock grain feed in the world is not with out its shortcomings. That corn grain alone furnishes a very inefficient ration for growing pigs swine men thoroughly appreciate. The corn must be supplemented with so called high protein feeds: alfalfa, clover, rape and other pastures or tankage : oil meal, skim milk and other concentrates in order to render the ration acceptable from both the stand point of physiologic gains and eco nomic returns. Why not supplement the whole corn grain with "40 per cent protein" glu ten meal, "26 per cent protein" gluten feed, or "22 per cent protein" corn oil cake meal, products of the corn that supply, in so far as the ordinary so called protein is concerned, an abun dance, yes a superabundance? In practice we find but little of the high protein corn products fed to pigs, presumably there is a reason why. That reason is quite evident— they are not as efficient as the sup plements which are widely and suc cessfully used. Cattle have successfully grown and ; In addition have raised their young ou 1 corn products. This has been thor oughly demonstrated by Hart, McCol lum, Steenbock and Humphrey of the Wisconsin station. Hut it is well to keep dearly in mind that cattle eat , the entire "above ground" corn plant grain, stalk and all: whereas swine [ for the most part subsist upon the I gram only. It has been possible at this station to winter ewes fairly suc i cessfully on corn grain plus corn si lage. but corn grain alone for preg nant sows has been a disappointment. Fatal Proposition. Com grain alone for very young ! growing pigs is a fatal proposition— it is a ration that brings on vital dis orders ending in death. Old, quite ; heavy mature hogs, such as yearling or older stoclters and sows, fatten out i most surprisingly well on com only: | in truth so well ordinarily—that it ■ does not pay to add purchased or j home grown supplements at this time, ! this being particularly true if the ani I mals are healthy, and have had phy ! Biologically good previous rations. Here are some 1915 results with com supplemented in the first case with high protein corn products—glu ; ten meal, gluten feed, and corn oil i cake meal: and in the second case with wheat middlings and tankage. There were five two-and-one-half ; months-old pigs weighing at the bq | ginning 42 pounds each fed for 100 days, all feeds being self-fed in sepa rate self-feeders, free-choice or cafe teria style: First Second Case. Case. Ration. Sh. Corn S. F. Sh. Corn S. F. Gluten Meal S F. W. Mlds. S F. Gluten Feed S. F. Tankage S. F. Corn Oil Cake Meal S. F. Average daily gain.46 1.13 Final weight per pig.SS.4 155.2 Feed eaten daily per pig... 2.57 4.62 Feed required for 100-lb. gain: Sh. corn .461 300 Gluten meal . 1 Gluten feed .24 Corn oil cake meal.63 Wheat middlings . 54 Tankage . 55 Total all feeds .549 409 Cost 100-lbs. gain*. *7.03 *5.90 ; *Feed Prices—Shelled eorn. 70 cents: aluten meal. St.lB; gluten feed. $1.45: oil cake meal. SI 45: wheat middlings. *1.43; and tankage. *2.30 per cwt. Pigs Not Wise. Manifestly the pigs were not ‘‘wise j enough" to balance their ration with the various com products even though there was an abundance of all ever present. But on the corn, tankage, and middlings they made a very creditable showing; in this case the pigs evi dently found the stuff that did fairly good business in the production of gain,!. Another group not given, but whicl^ were fed a little buttermilk in addition to the self-fed corn, middlings and tankage made a very fine show ing. gains being a little more rapid and somewhat more economical, cost ing only $5.58 (buttermilk charged at 25 cents'. Where fourteen different minerals were allowed «*.t free will along with the com products to still another group (figures not given I the results were negative, that is the minerals did not seem to assist. Among others PREPARE FOWLS FOR MARKET Greatest Profit Is Secured by Selling Poultry Just as Soon as Ready— Fatten in Pens. Cockerels designed for the market should be prepared in the shortest possible time, as the greatest profit is secured by marketing the fowls just as soon as they are ready. Leghorns and the lighter breeds should be sold as broilers as soon as | they reach one and one-quarter to two these were given: rock salt. etrSrcoal. : limestone, bone ash. cinders, slack coal, wood ashes. Glauber salts, ep som salts, calcium citrate, and com mon baking soda. In truth the pigs having all these minerals before them did not do so well. The addition of a calcium lactate (found in sour milk) and a potassium phosphate to gluten feed produced positive results in some Wisconsin trials by Hart and McCollum, that is the pig did gain to 275 pounds on this mineral gluten feed ration, but no material growth was secured on gluten alone. These minerals were fed so as to approximate in the ration the mineral content of milk. Of course potassium and calcium were supplied in our trial but in a different form. The objection might be raised that the pigs might not have been suiti ciently good judges of what was goed for them, to select the correct ration. But the great practical significance of this objection fades into insignificance when we realize that pigs fed '•free choice" style on any of these rationn make successful selection: 1. Corn and alfalfa. 2. Corn and rape. 3. Corn and clover. 4. Corn and tankage. 5. Corn and skim milk (sweet or sour), buttermilk or whole milk. 6. Corn, wheat middlings and tankage. and so on. Countless hundreds of such combinations could be made up, and the pigs would wax fat on any of them. But this does not unquf.lt fiedly maintain that the pigs might not err in their selection of corn products when they only are available. But before the test is completed these pigs will have an opportunity to e*it of a mixture compounded with gluten feed and the minerals as used at Wis consin. but this will not be until theae pigs have had opportunity to select these as their own appetites dictate— and have failed to make progress. In general it is considered that the i inefficiency of ordinary corn grain is due to possibly four outstanding defi- ; ciencies: 1. Protein sparcity. 2. Quality of proteins inferior—i. e are not made up of the right kind ot elemental building stones—as are the i proteins of milk for instance. 3. Mineral elements lacking, espe cially calcium and others. 4. Proportion of the various min eral elements not right, or in other words the “mixture is bad.” To make corn efficient is to supply what it lacks as well as to better pro portion the existing constituents so j they will make the most acceptable physiologic mixture. ______ FEED TESTS MADE WITH YOUNG LAMBS 1 Missouri Experiment Station Gives Results Obtained With Lot of Western Ewes. In tests made by the Missouri ex periment station four lots of eight ma ture western ewes, each with their seven to ten, twenty to twenty-two day-old suckling lambs, were fed 55 days as follows: Lot 1, rye pasture and grain: lot 2, rye pasture; lot ?, blue-grass pasture and grain, and lot 4, blue-grass pasture, the grain mixture consisting of equal parts of cracked corn, oats and bran. The eyes lost 1.98, 10.19, 2.26 aDd 11.64 pounds per head, respectively. Although the ewes in lots 2 and 4 lost heavily, they were thrifty and in healthy condition. The average daily gains of the lambs were 0.46S, 0.449, 0.597 and 0.45 pounds per head. The grain consumed by the lambs per 100 pounds of gain was 42.55, 39.33, j 41.57 and 49.33 pounds for tje respec- i tive lots. The average total gain con sumed per ewe in lots 2 and 4 was 99.78 and 110.93 pounds, respectively. — Feeding Silage to Calves. Calves should become acquainted with silage early in life, beginning with a very small quantity in connec tion with other roughage and in creasing gradually. In this way the young animals develop normally, mak ing rapid gains while the cost is kept at the minimum. - pounds, as beyond this weight the gain is not made at a profit and the birds soon become hard and “buddy." The heavier and slower maturing breeds can be marketed as broilers, fryers or as soft roasting chickens, but in either case they should be made ready as quickly as possible. Fattening in pens has been found the most economical method of prepar ing broilers for market. A silo this year may be worth two next. IPs easy to find reasons why others don't do the foolish things we do. ————— _ - Write yinrlne Eye Remedy Co., (hleafS , tor illustrated Book of the Eye Free. A woman dressed as a nun at a mas querade ball naturally makes a good appearance. Dr. Pierce’s Pellets are best for liver, bowels and stomach. One little Pellet for a laxative—three for a cathartic.—Adv. Framiug a satisfactory alibi for the writing of obscene letters probably is the most difficult undertaking. Every woman's pride, beautiful, elear white clothes. Use Red Cross Ball Blue. All grocers. Adr. Prepared. Maddern—I understand ink is going up. Clixon—I don't care. I just filled my fountain pen. HANDS LIKE VELVET Kept So by Daily Use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Trial Free. On retiring soak hands in hot Cuti cura soapsuds, dry and rub the Oint ment into the hands some minutes. Wear bandage or old gloves during night. This is a “one night treat ment for red, rough, chapped and sore hands.” It works wonders. Sample each free by mail with 33-p. Skin Book. Address Cuticura. Dept. XY, Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. Philosophical. "Don't you come across a good many things in the Bible that you don't un derstand, like the problem of Cain's wife, for instance?” queried the lay- V man, as he sat at a City restaurant table. "Oh. yes. of course,” acknowledged the clergyman. "Well, what do you do about it?” “My dear friend,” replied the min ister, laying down his fork, "I simply do just as I would while eating a nice fresh herring. When 1 come to the bone 1 quietly lay It on one side, and go on enjoying the meal, letting any idiot that insists on choking himself with the bone do so.”—London Tit Bits. Chopin’s Birthplace Destroyed. The birthplace of Chopin, the Polish composer, has been completely de stroyed by the fleeing Russians. The country estate at Zelazowa-Wola near Warsaw, where the immortal genius was born, was burned and of the mon ument of the composer in the park of the castle nothing is left but a pile of broken stones. Guess. A little girl who made frequent use of the word "guess” was corrected for it and told to say “presume" instead. A lady friend, noticing the admirable set of the little girl's apron, asked something in regard to the pattern. "Mamma doesn't cut my dresses and my aprons by pattern,” said the small lady. “She just looks at me and pre sumes.” Changed His Grammar. A scboolmarm. reproving a young offender, said: “Now, Tommy. Tom my. you know better than that—you shouldn't say Willy done it;' that isn't right.” "Ah, no, of course not,” said Tommy, with just resentment; “then Willy lied about it ” Contradiction. "There are so few suitable mar riages it seems to me nowadays.” “How can you say so when the press chronicled in this one week tbo mar riage of Miss Corn to Mr. Cobb and of Miss Snow to Mr. Blizzard?” He Was Hopeful. "Henry,” said Mrs. Peck, severely, “I hope I didn't see you wink at that young woman we just passed." "My dear,” answered Henry, meek ly, “I hope your hope is correct.” Orders It Up. "Do you pass the plate at church?'' "No; 1 go to sleep and let it pass me." HARD TO DROP But Many Drop It. A young Calif, wife talks about cor fee: “It was hard to drop Mocha and Java and give Postum a trial, but my nerves were so shattered that I was a nervous wreck and of course that means all kinds of ails. “I did not want to acknowledge cof fee caused the trouble for I was very fond of it. At that time a friend came to live with us, and I noticed that after he had been with us a week he would not drink his coffee any more. I asked him the reason. He replied: ‘I have not had a headache since I left off drinking coffee, some months ago, till last week, when I be gan again here at your table. I don't see how anyone can like coffee, any way, after drinking Postum!’ “I said nothing, but at once ordered a package of Postum. That was five months ago. and we have drank no coffee since, except on two occasions when we had company, and the result each time was that my husband could not sleep, but lay awake and tossed and talked half the night. We wero convinced that coffee caused his suf fering. so he returned to Postum, con vinced that coffee was an enemy, in stead of a friend, and he is troubled no more by insomnia. “I have gained 8 pounds in weight, and my nerves have ceased to quiver. It seems so easy now to quit coffee that caused our aches and ails and take up Postum.’’ Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Postum comes in two forms: Postum Cereal—the original form must be well boiled. 15c and 25c pack ages. Instant Postum—a soluble powder— dissolves quickly in a cup of hot water, and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage instantly. 30c and 50c tins. Both kinds arc equally delicious and cost about the same per cup. "There’s a Reason” for Postum. —sola by Grocers.