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Georgia Wells, an actress who had been playing the leading femine role of "The Clansman," died at New York after a surgical operation for appen dicitir A box containing $80 in cash and $3,000 in gold notes was wrested from Mrs. C. Schmidt in her bakery In Lockland, O., at daybreak. The thief escaped. A cable dispatch from Tokio, says that Jacob H. Schiff, the banker, was decorated with the order of the Rising Sun while in audience with the Em peror of Japan. A Ashing boat struck a floating mine March 26. off the coast of the province of Echisen, Japan, and was blown up. Seven of her crew of ten men are missing. A birdseye view of cities shows no buildings being constructed in Chi cago. Less development in this line there than in any other city. It is referred to as a "completed city." Riley Colton and Park Wright, the two self-confessed dynamiters of the bulk-head of the Grand reservoir, at Wapakereka. O.. were sentenced to sixteen months each in the peniten tiary. C. H. Home, former teller of the wrecked state bank of Canton, O., charged with making false entries in the bank's books, was discharged from custody, because the indictment was found faulty. General Luke E. Wright the newlv appointed ambassador to Japan, will 'sail from Seattle for his new post on April 29. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Wright and is due at Yoko hma on May 15. At a meeting of the western trunk line committee It was decided that .the Great Western grm tariff of 23 cents from Missouri river to the At lantic seaboard should remain in ef fect until April 15. ) The Iowa house, by a vote of 38 to 84. killed the bill to provide a state board of control for Iowa colleges. -The measure was the most bitterly fought of any this session, the col leges lobbying desperately against it ' According to a statement recently issued by the Mexican government 255 miles of railroad was built in that country In 1905. making a total mile age of 10,488 miles. The plans for new roads projected aggregate more than 1,000 miles. . The United States government has accepted the offer of the Washington Irrigation Company to sell the Sunny eide Canal and Lateral works, the largest private irrigation system in the Northwest located in Yakana and Benton counties, for $250,000. In submitting to congress the re port of the International waterway commission regarding the preserva tion of Niagara Falls, President Roosevelt sent a recommendation that a law be enacted along the lines of the .recommendation of the report That the senate and house will reach a compromise agreement on the state hood bill which will permit Arizona and New Mexico each to decide for themselves the question of their ad jmission as one 6tate seems a correct conclusion from present Indications. ' Secretary of War Taft Representa tive D. A. De Armond (Mo.) and Miss Mabel T. Boardman of Washington, addressed a Red Cross meeting at the Belasco theater, Washington. D. C, for the purpose of acquainting the .public more fully with the purposes and work of the reorganized Ameri can National Red Cross. The house committee on public buildings and grounds reported favor ably a bill carrying appropriations of $20,000,000. The details of the bill are toot fully completed and the commit tee voted to refrain from disclosing the projects to be included in the measure until the report is finally completed, which will be in about ten days. The house committee on Indian af fairs authorized a favorable report on the Burke bill directing the court of claims to adjudicate for payment the annuities which would have been due .the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians, .but for their participation in the Sioux outbreak of 1862. The Foster bill, to permit Chinese students, merchants and travelers to enter this country, was the subject of a hearing by the house committee on foreign affairs. Witnesses told of the decay of American business since the boycott the Standard Oil company be ing among the sufferers. Members of the house committee on patents are of the opinion that the proposed copyright code, which has been considered at length by a special conference in which many interests were represented. It will not be in 6faape for congressional action at the present session of congress. Major J. W. Hersey. director of the weather bureau at Milwaukee and in epector of western stations, received a telegram from Washington instruct ing him to report at soon as possible at Washington to prepare to accom pany the Wellman expedition in search of the north pole. EffiKKRCHAftDAWffN DISTANCE APART TO SET APPLE TREES. This is one of the subjects that the average fruit grower and amateur horticulturist differ as much on as any one we know of. Our observation leads us to believe that 90 per cent of the orchards planted in Iowa are so crowded that the life of the or chard is shortened and its fruit pro ducing qualities lowered for the rea son that sunlight and air are two of the requisites in fruit growing. On the above subject Mr. Edison Gay lord, of Floyd county, who is well known by the fruit growing fraternity of Iowa says: Again this same old subject has come up for a rehearing. If we are to judge by the divergence of opinion held by writers in our various farm papers, it must appear to novices a complicated question. I, for one, wish I had no more difficult matter to deal with in horticulture. People know that their children have to have clothes according to their size. Dif ferent varieties of trees differ very much as to the size of their growth. Location and climate also play impor tant parts. A Talman Sweet in some of our middle and eastern states would need at least forty feet each way. The same variety grown in the northwest would not need thirty feet each way. If one were setting out Tetofskys twenty feet each way would be an abundance of room. One rule cannot be made to apply to all varie ties and all locations. The most ap proved plans for setting apple trees in the northwest, and one quite gen erally adopted here by our best in formed horticulturists, is about this: v?ith the large growing varieties place the rows thirty feet apart and set the trees about twenty feet apart in the rows. I refer to such varieties as Talman Sweet, Plum's Cider, and Northwest Greening. Varieties like Tetofsky and Whitney can be set in rows twenty feet apart, the trees be ing fifteen feet apart in the rows. The rows should run north and south, or, what is better still, in the line of the sun in February. This plan has been .thoroughly tested here and this ar rangement of the trees has proved to be a very important factor in protect ing the trees from sun killing, which has proved so detrimental to orchards in the northwest. Here we have too much hot sun and dry air. In the eastern part of the country they have too much cloudy, damp weather and not enough sun. In setting apple trees one needs to know his varieties and what each one requires. He must al so understand his location and cli mate. By following this plan one can have the rows the same distance apart east and west, but can set the trees oi smaller growth closer together in the rows north and south. This gives each variety its proper space and aids very much in making an orchard self protecting. Tools are more easily found and more likely to be kept in place if they are hung up than when all are thrown together in chest or drawer. Have a large board with a hole in the top to hang it up by. Hold up each tool against it and drive in stout nails in the place most convenient to hang it by. With hatchet or hammer this would mean two nails under the head, with the handle allowed to drop be tween them. ORCHARD NOTES. If orchards are to be made profit able they must receive as good care as other crops. ' Cultivators are the best crop to raise in an orchard. Watch a sod orchard. It will be gin to fail before you know it Probably nine-tenths of the apple orchards are in sod and many of them are meadows. Of course they are failing. The remedy for these apple failures is to cut down many of the orchards. For the remainder the treatment is cultivation, fertilization, spraying the trinity of orthodox apple growing. Even hoed or cultivated crops may rob the trees of moisture and fertil ity if they are allowed to stand above the tree roots. Phosphoric acid is the second im portant fertilizer to be applied arti ficially to orchards. Of the plain superphosphates, from 300 to 500 pounds may be applied to the acre. Barn manures are generally more economically used when applied to farm crops than when applied to or chards, yet they can be used with good results, particularly when reju venating the old orchard. Bleeding of the grapevine, when pruned in spring can be stopped by passing a red-hot iron slowly across the cut surface. But it is much bet ter to prune early and then there will be no danger of bleeding. CATTLE VS. SHEEP. It is sometimes asserted that cattle and sheep require the same amount of feed per thousand pounds of live weight This statement seems not to be well founded. In some experi ments at the Iowa station the cattle consumed 19.6 pounds of dry matter per thousand pounds of live weight, against an average of 29.07 by the sheep. Both sheep and cattle were on full feed. The sheep made a daily gain of 3.73 pounds per thousand pounds of live weight, and the cattle 2.14. It was found that while the sheep ate 48 per cent more than the cattle, they also gained nearly 75 per cent more. In considering the above figures, it should be remembered that sheep will consume much waste material that cattle will not touch. IMPORTANCE OF GOOD SEED. One of the most important things in growing a good crop, whether in the garden or in the field, is good seed. The safest plan in nearly -all cases is to secure the needed supply in good, season, purchasing from re liable dealers who advertise, and then carefully test the seed before risking the crop with them. Seed should not only have sufficient vitality to germi nate under reasonably fair conditions, but should be sufficiently vigorous to send up a strong, thrifty plant. Both in gardening and truck farm ing, much time and labor may be saved by planning ahead in good sea son; determine what crops are to be grown, the acreage, and the place; by knowing these things in advance more or less work and preparation can be done, and at a less cost and saving of time. In nearly all cases after the season opens in the spring the work is pressing, much, seeming ly, is to be done at once, and it is quite important, if the best success is to be realized, that all be done in good season and in a thorough man ner. With the work all planned and as much of the preparatory work done as possible the task of getting done what is necessary in the grow ing season is much easier. While every day's work cannot be laid out for any considerable time in advance, yet a general plan to be followed through the season may be deter mined much better now than after the season fairly opens. The time for sowing oats is near upon us, and this important crop mast not be neglected. While there may be other crops which will produce more there is no other grain so good for horses. We want good feed for horses. The horse which is worked hard every day needs the best, and if it can be had, it should be given. I have been feeding sheaf oats to my horses all winter, and intend to have them to feed every winter. Do not by any means neglect the oats crop. IN THE BERRY AND TRUCK GARDEN. If the asparagus has been tucked away in its bed under a blanket of manure, work this in at the oppor tunity and get early "grass." Don't have the garden near the road. There is too much temptation to lean on the fence and chat with passersby when you should be dig ging weeds. I know, I have tried it. Do not become discouraged because the pepper seed is slow in coming up. It is the "nature of the critter." If given a chance it will make up for lost time after it once gets through the ground. Supposing the pie plant to be cov ered now with a mulch of manure, as it should be, work it in as soon as the frost is out, and cover the soil around the plants with three inches of coal ashes. Now watch the proceedings. The ordinary farm garden is at a very conservative estimate worth a hufelred dollars every year. Then how nice it Is to have everything fresh from the ground, without having to buy dried up and tasteless stuff from the grocery. Many farmers object to large pota to vines. We have learned that the small vines are the very ones the bugs like the best. Potatoes cannot grow without vines. If other condi tions are favorable, big vines and big potatoes go together. If some folks would spend the time they waste poring over the almanac to see if "the sign is right" in getting their crops well into the ground and caring for them they would not have so much reason to complain later in the season about the "moon not being in the right quarter" when they plant ed. The mangel wurtzel beet is a "dandy" for stock feed. Try a small patch for your milch cows, and you'll keep it up. The seed should be planted as soon as the soil can be gotten into good condition. Plant in drills 20 to 30 inches apart, dropping from 12 to 20 seeds to the foot. This will re quire from 10 to" 15 pounds of seed to the acre. As soon as the young plants have started sufficiently to make the rows visible, they should be culti vated, and should receive constant at tention so as to keep the surface soil loose and destroy the starting weeds. Wlfen the beets are about two or three inches high they should be thinned out so as to stand six to ten inches apart in the row, and cultiva tion should be discontinued as soon as the roots have commenced to form. Only one man really wins on the farm, and he is the man who sets out to win. Luck is the flickering of the fire-fly's wing. Success comes from following to steady blaze of the star of honest endeavor. STICK TO THE FARM. The men who make a success in life are those who follow a business in which they are deeply Interested, and then stick to it. There are seasons of good crops, and there are seasons of poor ones; seasons of good prices and seasons of poor ones. The dark side Is what scares the faint-hearted. The man with grit and pluck is ready to fight such battles. Take Abraham Lincoln's advice: "Keep pegging away." No business man expects to succeed who does not keep accounts. The tanner should not expect to fare bet ter than the business man. Fruit growing is profitable, but It must be done intelligently; no hap hazard careless work will do. REASONS FOR PRUNING TREES. If one were asked for specific direc-. tions as to how to prune a fruit tree it would be unsafe for him to make an answer without first having seen the tree. No dogmatic rules can be given, though a generalization might be ventured, says the Mirror and Far mer. Each tree required different treatment. Each tree presents a new set of problems to be solved by the pruner. Different reasons exists as to why a certain tree should receive peculiar treatment or pruning differ ent from that given another of the same age, variety and growth. The chief reasons for pruning are as fol lows: First To modify the vigor of the plant. Second To produce a larger and better fruit Third To keep the tree within manageable shape and limits. Fourth To change the habit of the tree from fruit to wood production, or vice versa. Fifth To remove surplus or in jured parts. Sixth To facilitate harvesting and spraying. Seventh To facilitate tillage. Eighth To train plants to some de sired form. The trained horticulturist no more thinks of neglecting pruning than omitting spraying. He places a high estimate on these operations, for he knows what they mean to him in dollars and cents and in the longevity of his orchard's usefulness. "A friend of ours, the owner of only ten acres of good land, lives as comfortably and happily on the prod ucts of this little farm as any man on a much larger place. He keeps a pair of brood mares, which raise him two good colts each year, barring ac cidents. He keeps two good cows, three or four pigs, about seventy-five hens and a few stands of bees. He keeps about two acres in small fruit, strawberries, raspberries, currants, gooseberries, grows three or four acres of potatoes each year, an acre of broom corn, which he works Into brooms in the winter, an acre of on ions and the rest of his land in corn. He raises very large crops, for he plows deep and fertilizes his land heavily and takes good care of all tops while growing. He has in addi tion a plum orchard and a big aspara gus bed, which both bring in quite a little money each year. He told us that he lived well and saved a little money each year, and yet there are lots of men who really believe that thjy cannot live 'on less than 160. acres." HORTICULTURAL NOTES. Nearly every kind of tree, shrub and vine requires a different method of pruning. Do not be in too great a hurry to remove the mulch from strawberry plants. Many a crop is ruined by the early frosts catching the plants that have started early on account of the mulch having been removed too early. Give early and good cultivation be tween the rows of strawberry plants, then place the mulch between the rows at the proper time. The mulch will keep down the weeds and con serve moisture. Young plants of raspberries should be dug before the buds start in the spring. A mistake is too often made in not planting potatoes early enough. Where we have wanted early pota toes we have often planted seed on frozen soil below the surface. We beat our neighbors with early pota toes' by nearly three weeks. Try it Potatoes, onions nnd peas should be the first vegetables to be planted in the spring. If you have any wood ashes apply them as a top dressing for grapes or scatter them in the orchard as far out as the limbs of the trees extend. Many a young orchard is starved to death. Trees that are growing re quire food just as much as animals. In raising onions for seed the soil can hardly 'be made too rich provided only thoroughly rotted and fired ma nure is used, and care taken to mix well with the soil. A good top dress ing of wood ashes is often beneficial. Have the soil in fine tilth, sow the seed at the first favorable opportunity; cov er the seed lightly, and if the soil is sufficiently dry to admit of firming without packing, firm after sowing the seed. Be careful to give clean, thor ough cultivation. PRUNING THE FORSYTH I A. Already, in many localities, these spring favorites are out of bloom and ready for pruning whenever the grow er can spare time for the work. The Jrooping sort is more graceful if not pruned too severely, but it will send out shoots many feet long before au tumn if pruned now. There are many complaints about this shrub, mainly due to ill pruning. A few days ago a lady applied to her neighbor for an armful of bloom, saying that her own bushes had been ruined because pruned too severely by her gardener, a man of supposed experience. But the probability is that they had been pruned too late, rather than too hard. This shrub should be more grown. Co-operation among farmers bids fair to be a means whereby to solve many of the vexed questions that are uppermost In the mind of the agricul turist To be sure of a 'continuous supply of fruit for the family a few. trees 3hould be planted each fall or spring. A CURE FOR DEBILITY Or. Williams' Pink Pills .A Reliable Remedy for the Weak, Ailing and Bloodless. When the body is weak and the blood thin it is sometimes difficult to find the cause unless a wasting illness has pre ceded, or the sufferer happens to be a girl on the verge of womanhood. Obscure influences, something un healthf ul in one's surroundings or work, may lead to a slow impoverishment of the blood and an eufeeblemeut of the whole body. When a serious stage has been reached there seems to be nothing that will accoaut for it. Mr. C. E. Legg, of Tipton, W. Ya., has found a successful method of treat ing weakness and bloodlessness. He sbbYYS "I used Dr. Williams Pink Pills for weakness caused by a lingering malarial fever that began in the spring of 1896. The worst effects of this were indiges tion and a bod state of my blood. I was siuemic, as the doctors say. People generally would say that I didn't have blood enough, or that I didn't have' the right kind of blood ; mine was too thin. My kidneys and liver were out of order. I was badly annoyed by sour risings from my stomach. There was a good deal of pain, too, in my back and under my right shoulder blade." " How long did these troubles last? " For over two years. For four mouths of that time I whs under the care of a physician, but his inediciuedid me no good. Meanwhile I learned of the cures that liad been wrought by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills." "You owe your cure to these pills?" I certainly do, and I also kuow that they are helping others to whom I have recommended them. They have real merit aud I know of nothing that would take their place." For further information and valuable booklet address the Dr. Williams Medi cine Co., Schenectady, N. Y. WITH THE SAGES. There is always a soft berth for the fellow who can rout some one else out of it He lives long that lives well; and time mis-spent is not liver, but lost. Fuller. Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer. Shakespeare. Love, instead of being weakened, Is strengthened and deepened by being windened. Dr. Philip Schaff. That only which we have within can we see without. If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. Emer son. Everything is prospective, and man Is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane so lution of the enigma. Emerson. Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue. Schil ler. It is a great wisdom not to believe everything which thou hearest, nor immediately to relate again to others what thou hast heard or dost believe. Thomas a Kempis. Evil thoughts, if cherished, blight virtue, destroy purity, and undermine the stablest foundation of character. They are very much like rot in tim ber, like rust in iron. They eat into the man. Addison. Oldest University. The oldest university in the world is at Pekin. It is called the "School for the Sons of the Empire." Its an tiquity is very great, and a grand reg ister, consisting of stone columns, 320 in number, contains the names of 60,000 graduates. The Coffee Debate The published statements of a num ber of coffee importers and roasters indicate a "waspy" feeling towards us for daring to say that cofTee is harm ful to a percentage of the people. A frank public discussion of the sub ject is quite agreeable to us and can certainly do no harm; on the contrary when all the facts on both sides of any question are spread before the people they can thereupon decide and act in telligently. Give the people plain facts and they will take care of themselves. We demand facts in this coffee dis cussion and propose to see that the facts are brought clearly before the people. A number of coffee Importers and roasters have joined a movement to boom coffee and stop the use of Pos turn Food Coffee and in their newspa per statements undertake to deceive by false assertions. Their first is that cofTee Is not harm ful. We assert that one in every three coffee users has some form of Incipi ent or chronic disease; xejUze for one moment what a terrible nnace to a nation of civilized people, when one kind of beverage cripples the energies and health of one-third the people who use it We make the assertion advisedly and suggest that the reader secure his own proof by personal inquiry among coffee users. Ask your coffee drinking friends if they keep free from any sort of aches and ails. You will be startled at the percentage and will very naturally seek to place the cause of disorder on something aside from coffee, whether food, inherited tendencies or some thing else. Go deener In your search for facts. If your friend admits occasional neu ralgia, rheumatism, heart weakness, stomach or bowel trouble, kidney com plaint, weak eyes or approaching nerv ous prostration induce him or her to make the experiment of leaving off coffee for 10 days and using Postum Food Coffee, and observe the result. It will startle you and give your friend something to think of. Of course, if the person is one of the weak ones SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY. Ons touch of nature Is worth 'two of the pocketbook. , Don't cross your bridge till yon come to it and maybe it won't be there. Remember while yon think you are aggressive others probably think you are a knocker. When a man says he has "an equi ty" in a piece of property It means he hasn't much interest What has become of the old fash ioned farmer who imagined he earned a living for three or four town peo ple? The dressmakers can tell far ahead if the season is to be gay, but it takes the milkman to tell what particular week. When some women pass along the streets they have this look on their faces: "Now I'll bet that man wants to flirt with me!" After a woman has been married for a few years to a man who moves often, she hates even an orator who has moving powers. There is no waste time that wor ries a man half so much as the few seconds he spends waiting for Central to answer the telephone. You know how people kick; at the park last night a woman complained because she couldn't hear the bands in the moving pictures. If we had so much time we could stay in bed. and know that supper would be breakfast when we got up, if all the clocks were stopped, and time was all and everything; if as sured, that death would forget us, and we would spend an eternity on earth, we do not believe we would have time to read predictions, letters or advice. Atchison (Kan.) Globe. Worth KaenliK that Allcock's are the original and only genuine porous plasters; all other so-called porous plasters are imitations. THE GENTLE CYNIC. No man can be selfish with his hap piness. The wages of sin often come with out working. It takes a lot of luck to push a man up hill. When some people tell the truth they have to label It. Some people seem tireless in mak ing other people tired. It isn't the stingy man who keeps his troubles to himself. When women grow jealous the devil proceeds to get busy. If we could only hock our troubles the pawnshops would be full. The pessimist never hopes for the best, yet growls if he doesn't get it. We would never suspect how nice some people were if they didn't Ml us. Contentment flies out of the win dow when ambition stalks in at the door. The dollar that looked so small when you borrowed it seems as big as a Ferriss wheel when you have to pay it back. First Shedding of Tears. It will be news to many that as a rule we do not weep until after the fourth month of life. One of the lead ing physicians of Europe says that he has been unable to satisfy himself that any asserted instance of weeping at an earlier age is genuine. Moans, screams, etc., go for nothing. The ques tion has to do with shedding tears. and says T can't quit" yon will have discovered one of the slaves of the cof fee importer. Treat such kindly, for they seem absolutely powerless to stop the gradual but sure destruction of body and health. Nature has a way of destroying a part of the people to make room for the stronger. It is the old law of "the survival of the fittest" at work, and the victims are many. We repeat the assertion that coffee does harm many people, not all, but an army large enough to appal the in vestigator and searcher for facts. The next prevarication of the coffee Importers and roasters is their state ment that Postum Food Coffee is made of roasted peas, beans or corn, and mixed with a low grade of coffee and that it contains no nourishment. We have previously offered to wager $100,000.00 with them that their state ments are absolutely false. They have not accepted our wager and they will noL We will gladly make a present of $25.000.00 to any, roaster or Importer of old-fashioned coffee who will accept that wacer. Free inspection of our factories and methods Is made by thousands of peo ple each month and the coffee Import ers themselves are cordially invited. Both Postum and Grape-Nuts are abso lutely pure and made exactly as stated. The formula of Postum and the an alysis made by one of the foremost chemists of Boston has been printed on every package for many years and is absolutely accurate. Now as to the food value of Postum. It contains the parts of the wheat ber ry which carry the elemental salts, such as lime, Iron, potash, silica, etc., etc., used by the life forces to rebuild the cellular tissue, and this is particu larly true of the phosphate of potash, also found In Graps-Nuts, which com bines in the human body with albu men and this combination, together with water, rebuilds the worn-out gray matter In the delicate nerve centers all over the body and throughout the brain and solar plexus. Ordinary coffee stimulates In an un natural way, but with many people it slowly and surely destroys and does not rebuild this gray substance so vitally important to the well being of every human being. These are eternal facts, proven, well authenticated and known to every properly educated physician, chemist and food expert. Calumet Baking Powder The only high grade Baking Powder sold at a moderate price. Com plies with the pure food laws of all states. Trust Baking Powders sell for 45 or 50 cents per pound and may be Iden tified by this exorbitant price. They are a menace to public health, as food prepared from them con tains large quantities of Kochelle salts, a danger ous cathartic drug. When a girl is nice to you it's hard to tell whether she really likes you or wants a favor. Lewis' Single Binder costs more than other 5c cigars. Smokers know why. Your iealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, I1L THE ATTIC PHILOSOPHER. Never look a gift auto in the oil tank. Love finds the way in and sense the way out. If you can't be good you can at least be careful. Sometimes a thing will meet you half way if you start first. It's generally the small minds that find the petty things in life. It's hard work making people think you are having a good time. When a man gets too lazy to work he cries down with the rich. The good things you covet never seem so good after you get them. Many a man has given up when suc cess was tugging at his coat tails. It will help you to succeed if you count every cent and make every cent count. People who wouldn't borrow a nickel will borrow a hundred dollars worth of trouble without provocation. If everybody led ideal lives the world would get monotonous, and newspapers have to go out of busi ness. Sometimes it's a question of who gets the most in a matrimonial ven ture the preacher or the contracting parties. Will F. Griffin in Milwaukee Sentinel. A volunteer in a Colorado regiment at Manila has been cured of stuttering by being shot through the throat by a Mauser bullet. Please remember we never say or dinary coffee hurts everyone. Some people use It regularly and seem strong enough to withstand its attacks, bet there is misery and dis ease in store for the man or woman who persists In Its use when nature protests, by heart weakness, stomach and bowel troubles, kidney disease, weak eyes or general nervcus prostra tion. The remedy is obvious. The drug caffeine, contained in all ordinary coffee, must be discontinued absolute ly or the disease will continue in spite of any medicine and will grow worse. It is easy to leave off the old-fashioned coffee by adopting Postum Food Coffee, for in it one finds a pleasing hot breakfast or dinner beverage that has the deep seal brown color, chang ing to a rich golden brown when good cream Is added. When boiled long: enough (15 minutes) the flavor is not that of rank Rio coffee but very like the milder, smooth and high-grade Java, but entirely lacking the drug effect of ordinary coffee. Anyone suffering from disorders set up by coffee drinking (and there Is an extensive variety) can absolutely de pend upon some measure of relief by quitting coffee and using Postum Food Coffee. If the disease has not r-scome too strongly rooted, one can with good rea son expect it to disappear entirely In a reasonable time after the active cause of the trouble is removed and the cellular tissue has time to natural ly rebuild with the elements furnished by Postum and good food. It's only just plain old common sense. Now. with the exact facts before the reader, he or she can decide the wise course, looking to health and the power to do things. If you have any doubt as to the cause of any ache or ail you may have, remember the far-reaching telegrams of a hurt nervous system travel from heel to head, and it may be well worth your while to make the experiment of leaving off coffee entirely for ten days and using Postum in its place. You will probably gather some good solid facts, worth more than a gold mine, for health can make gold and sickness lose it Besides there's all the fun, for it's like a continuous in ternal frolic to be perfectly welL There's a reason for POSTUM Cwal Ca, UL. Battte t'fo S ' imwfis&m&s&&5gsB&ms3m$g rSggSSgBSg&aM wwMrmr - jtn hiE'H ' '"' i"Fia-atiiii fi' "jeJ