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NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES. f
Items of lrerest Taken From -Here
and T ere Over the State
Sis men s. e willing to serve Merrick,
county in U.3 capacity of sheriff.
By vote, f utton defeated the propo
sition tt ex.ead the water works sys
tem. A forger operated at Beatrice,
mulcting business men to the extent
of about $3v.
Threshing now going on in Hamil
ton county shows a wheat yield of
lYom 25 to C3 bushels.
At Fullerlaa Harry Campbell got j
caught in the belting of the roller mill j
and had his rm badly crushed
A. J. McDo aid, a pioneer citizen of
"Weeping Wa er. C5 years old, while
painting the roof of a building, lost
his balance and fell a distance of ten
feet. His injuries will probably prove
fatal.
Xews reached Auburn of the death
of Albarta Reding, wife of Thomas
Keding, a fanner living six miles
north, from the effects of headache
powders that she had taken to get re
lief. According to the annual report of
County Superintendent King, there are
twenty-two male and 14" female teach
ers in Otoe county. There was paid
to male teachers last year $13,025 and
females $02,195.25.
General Manager Sturges of the
Omaha Corn show has gone west in
the interest of the coining exhibit,
which is expected to be far ahead of
last year.
The Fremont police found Mrs.
James Bland and her infant daughter
in the union passenger station, and
.Mrs. Bland explained that she had
been there tor two days without food.
She said her husband had deserted
I'.er.
At Central City a young man who
Tefused to give his siaine pleaded
guilty before Judge Peterson to having
stolen ninety-six bottles of beer from
a Union Pacific car and was sentenced
to ten days in the county jail.
Dennis Lyhenne died at his home
southwest of Sutton from the effects
of injuries suffered in a runaway which
occurred a little over a week ago. Mr.
Lyhenne at the time of his death was
sixty-seven years old. He leaves a
wife, three daughters and five sons.
S. N. Deats. a Missouri Pacific brake
man on a local freight train running
between Auburn and Omaha was
ground to pieces at Talmage. He
was switching cars and in some way
fell in front of the cars and before
tbe train could be stopped his body
was cut to pieces.
The Nebraska Bankers association
will meet in Omaha and the conven
tion will be held September 8 and 9.
Secretary W. B. Hughes is now work
ing out the details of the meeting
which includes speakers and a place
of meeting and entertainment for the
bankers while in the state's metropo
lis. Three sales of public land were
made at the United States land office
in Lincoln last week. One. a tract of
forty acres in Chase county, brought
$1.25 an acre A tract of eighty-two
acres in Dundy county sold for $3.G0
per acre, and 3G0 acres in Chase coun
ty sold for $1.25 per acre. All of the
land sold was grazing land.
John Head of North Bend was prob
ably fatally injured and Fred Dunker
had a narrow escape from death, when
a bridge between North Bend and
Pleasant Valley which the two men
attempted to cross with a threshing
otufit gave way, precipitating the en
gine with the men on board into the
creek.
D. C. Proper of Nebraska City, a
contractor, met with a peculiar acci
dent while doing some work about a
building which he was repairing. He
bad occasion to take off a door, and
not thinking it was held very fast, he
tried to wrench it off. Tbe door gave
way partially, soma of the nails pull
ing heads through the lumber. The
door sprung back into place, and one
or the nails, head-on. was driven
through the nail of one of his fingers,
and Mr. Proper was held fast for some
time, until his cries for help brought
assistance. The wound is a serious
one and may cause hiai to lose his
linger.
C. E. Rosenberger. a large land hold
er south of Hemingford in the vicinity
of what was Nonpareil before the ad
vent of the railroad, has sued persons
Troni Colorado for the recovery of
notes aggregating $2G.00U. secured by
six of the finest quarter sections in
Box Butte county, worth $23 per acre.
If the plans of the committee ap
pointed to propose them are adopted
by the Liederkranz society. Grand Isl
and will another year have a fine au
ditorium, seating nearly 3.000 people.
The society has an entire block of
real estate free from all indebtedness
and centrally located only one-half ot
which it is occupying with its own ex
clusive hall.
John P. Michelson. .a wholesale
liquor dealer of Nebraska City, was
over in Iowa a few days since in his
auto. Some farmers set two dogs on
him as he passed in his machine and
as the road was rough and hehad to
travel slow one of the dogs grabbed
the front wheel and ditched the ma
chine. Mr. Michelson shot the dog,
after righting his machine, and a war
rant has been issued for his arrest at
Shenandoah.
Three well-dressed men. riding in
an auto for which they were paying
?::0 per day to take them around to
see the farmers, attempted to con
tract wheat from 90 cents to $1 Per
bushel for future delivery.
Andrew Meyer, arrested in Lyons a
few days ago for wife beating, and
jailed in Tekaniah. committed suicide
in prison by hanging himself with
straps from his suit case. His wife
had taken the suit case to him the
day before. When he pleaded for aid
to "be released she told him he was
safer in jail, as sentiment was very
strong against him.
Some time Thursday afternoon,
while the family was at Fremont at
tending the circus. Chris Kreisal of
Cedar Bluffs killed himself with a No.
10 shotgun in his room at the homQ
of Hans Pageler. four miles west and
south of Cedar Bluffs. No reason is
known for the act.
E. D. Gould of Kearney has sold-five
of his elevators located along the
Burlington lines to the T. B. Hord
Grain company. The elevators are at
Wolbach, Cushing. Brayton. Greeley
and Horace. Mr. Gould's object in dis
posing of them is to" concentrate his
interests around Kearney.
Tigsrom
AUTHOR'S NOTE.
The material facts in this
story of circumstantial evidence
are drawn from an actual re
corded case, only such change
of names and local color being
madeas to remove them -from
the classification of legal re
ports to that of fiction. All the
essential points of evidence,
however, are retained.
3 the members of the Call-
Skin club dropped into
their accustomed places
Judge Dennett entered
with a stranger of distin
guished mein, and dignified
bearing. His white hair
andwhite mutton-chop whis
kers betokened the coun
try jurist of long experi
ence whose reverence for
the English bench caused
him unwittingly to assume the person
al appearance of a wearer of the wig
and ermine of Blackstonian days.
Judge Dennett introduced him as
Judge Tanner and assured the club
that his guest-was primed with many
a reminiscence of his long career and
would gladly furnish the story of the
evening. After the pipes oi goou iei
lowship had been burned for a space
Judge Tanner arose and began his
story of circumstantial evidence.
"I often wonder." he said, "if there
is a trial judge of any considerable
experience who has not carried some
one case as a load on his mind and
conscience for years after the verdict
of the jury is in and the condemned
led away to execution. It is a wise
provision of the law that makes the
jury the "judge both of the law and
the evideuce, and the judge but the
medium through which the law
reaches the twelve; and I cannot con
ceive the condition of mind of those
early English judges, before whom.
when they had arrived at a conviction
of guilt, even the jury was power
less. It was from their arbitrary and
unreasonable rulings, now happily not
held within the power of. the judge,
that most of our records of miscarried
Justice have resulted.
"Within my own experience there
has come one case which I believe is
as strange as any of record and which
for years, as 1 looked back upon it,
caused me to doubt the ability of man
ever infallibly to pass judgment upon
a fellow creature. The parties now
are all dead and I tell It for the first
time. But to the story.
"In a little city on the circuit in
which I have held court for more
years than I care to think of there
was at one time a hotel kept by a
very respectable man named Jona
than Miller. It was the favorite stop
ping place for commercial travellers
and thus the most prominent and best
paying hotel in the city.
"One evening a jewelry salesman by
the name of Robert Conway arrived
at the hotel just before supper. He
instructed Miller to send his grips up
to his room and remarked in the hear
ing of several at the desk that he did
not care to have them left in the gen
eral baggage room as he was carrying
a far more expensive line of samples
than usual. He also asked that the
door be carefully locked and the key
brought to him.
"Supper over, he fell in with a
salesman for a shoe house and one
for a clothing firm and they repaired
to the bar where they played cards
and drank until 11 o'clock, when they
all retired. It happened that the hotel
was well filled and the clothing man
and the shoe man had been forced to
take a double room together. This
room was directly across the hall
from the one occupied by the jewelry
salesman.
"About two o'clock in the morning
the two roommates were awakened by
groans which seemed to come from
the room of their companion of the
evening across the hall.
"They arose and without stopping to
dress hurried out to see what the trou
ble was. You can imagine their hor
ror to find Conway, the jewelry man,
dead, the bed blood-soaked, and stand
ing over him. a dark lantern in one
hand and a bloody knife in the other,
Jonathan Miller, the landlord, who
trembled violently and gasped inco
herently when they burst into the
chamber of death.
"The case seemed black enough
aeainst him. There was not a sus
picion in the mind of anyone in the
city that he could be otherwise than
guilty. Yet when taken before a jus
tice for a preliminary hearing he most
stoutly maintained his innocence and
fold a story, which had it not paled
into improbability by the slder of
damning circumstances against him
would have been plausible in the ex
treme. "He said he had just reached his
room after, as was his custom, sit
ting up until a train due at half past
one, came in. He had not had time
to remove his clothing when he. too.
heard groans coming from the neigh
borhood of Conway's room. "Like the
two salesmen, he had hurried to in
vestigate, and as a weapon of de
fense he had taken the knife. He
also picked up the dark lanternwhich
he always used in making his last
rounds of the hotel and which was
still lighted.
"When he reached the jeweler's
door he was surprised to find it stand
ing open. The groans had ceased.
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RELICS OF EMPRESS!
Objects Associated with Jose
phine in New French Museum.
A SURE SIGN.
Malmalson, Home Purchased by Napo
leon for His Beautiful Wife.
Thrown Open to' Public by
the Government.
and he entered, and going up to the
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bed. flashed his ngni upou me mM-.
spectacle of the murdered man's
body. So great was his horror and
surprise that he dropped the knife
upon the bloody sheets, and had only
just picked It up again when th'e two
traveling men entered.
"His trembling and fear at their
arrival he attributed to the natural
horror of the situation and the ter
ror of the instant thought that guilt
might point to him.
"With such a degree of sincerity
was his story told, and so firm was
the landlord's bearing before the pre
liminary court that he attracted many
sympathizers who believed his story
and looked upon him as the unfortu
nate victim of a most peculiar com
bination of circumstances.
"But these circumstances were too
patent to be ignored and Miller was
bound over to await the action of
the. grand jury, indicted and in due
course of time brought to trial be
fore me.
"In the time intervening between
his arrest and his trial the landlord's
attitude was a mixture of terror and
bravado which did not tend to in
crease the belief of the general pub
lic in his Innocence. I myself, al
though I have always endeavored to
enter a trial free from prejudice,
had I been a venireman, should have
been forced to admit that I had
formed an opinion concerning the
guilt or innocence of the accused.
"The state naturally rested upon
the testimony, of the two salesmen
who swore to the events of the fatal
evening and to entering the room
just In time to find the landlord bend
ing over the body. They were both
firm in the conclusion that his terror
upon seeing them was the terror of
discovered guilt. I admit that de
fendant's counsel should not have al
lowed this portion of tteir testimony
to go to the jury, but no objection
was made to it
"Also further damaging evidence
against him was produced to the ef
fect that he had a short time before
become liable through indorsing a
note for a large sum of money and
that his ownership of the hotel was
threatened in case he was not able
to raise the amount. This seemed
to furnish, a powerful motive for the
crime. That "he had" always borne
a good reputation, that his record for
honesty was such that he might eas
ily have raised the sum of money he
required on a loan, and his own story
of going to Conway's room and find
ing thebody were all that the unfor
tunate landlord had to offer in his
own defense.
"There could have been but one
conclusion as to what the verdict of
tbe jury would be, although I am sure
that 1 gave" them' the law without par-.
tiality. Miller took nis senteKfce with
resignation and when I asked him if
he had anything to say. he arose and
addressed the court as follows:
"'Your honor, it comes to every
man once to die. For the sake of my
dear wife who stood by me so nobly
through this terrible ordeal I should
have chosen for myself a different
end from that which is to be my lot.
I 'have no fault to find 'wttb 'the view
the jury and this court have taken of
their duty, but you are making a
terrible mistake. You have convicted
an innocent man. I am not guilty
of the death of Robert Conway. I had
nothing whatever to do with his
death. Some day the truth will come
out, but I fear it will be long after
I have done with this world. I have
no more to say but hat I anr innc
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I never couia unaersiunu "j -dldn't
see me. When they put it
on him I hadn't the nerve to speak
up. My God. I've got Miller on my
soul, too! There they both stand.
Take 'em away.' and he went into
unintelligible ravings which finally
ended in the gasp of death.
"You can imagine my state of
mind upon hearing this terrible con
fession. Was not Miller's death
MB mv soul as well? Was I not
n. '.nttinnhiA for not having
keener insight into character that I
might have read his innocence in
his steadfast attitude? Many a long
night as I walked the floor of my
Paris. Josephine, who was the star
of Napoleon's destiny, has at last a
monument that all who go to Paris
may visit. t
-It-Is Josephine's museum, erected
by the French government In the
country house associated with the
joys and struggles of her life before
she met the conqueror; with her few
married years of splendor and love;
and with the sorrows of her divorce
and lonely death. It is Malmalson.
The museum is made "up of a thou
sand familiar objects which surround
ed her; and on June 1 opened the
loan exhibition of things not yet gath
ered permanently together.
There is the harp that Josephine
never learned to play type of the
broken music of her life; t the silver
gilt dinner service offered her by the
city of Paris; her bed, her bath, her
toilet table, her beauty utensils.
There are 500 samples of damask,
satin and tapestry furniture covers
which Napoleon had brought to select
from in imnerial housekeeping. It Is
raw material of the imperial stage
setting never before exhibited. It
shows Napoleon and Josephine as pal
ace furnishers and makers of tbe em
pire style.
Every school girl in America knows
the story of Josephine; but how her
destiny was bound up in this country
house of the old regime is new his
tory from documents and letters. Out
the avenue of the Champs Elysees, be
yond the Arc de Triomphe and the
river, runs the ancient royal road to
St. Germain. Six miles from Paris
is Croissy village. Almost at its edge
begin tbe wooded grounds of Mal
malson. From Croissy village, in the days
before Napoleon, a young mother took
her two small children for their airing
to the shade of empty Mahmaison.
The place was uninhabited. The
young mother was glad. There was
When It Appears Act at One.
Trouble witk tke kitoey tecretJoM
is certtlm alga that your kidaeys are
deranged and taat you should use
Doaa'a KWaey Pilla. Taey cure all ir
regularities aad anaoyaacea, reaaoTa
backache aad aide palaa aad resora
tan Wdneys to aeaiia.
Charles Cole, 294 N.
Buckeye St, Iola,
Kaas aays: "The
kidaey secretloas
were irregular,
scanty aad paiafnl
and contained sedi
ment. My back was
tiff and lame aad
my limbs swelled. I grew weak aad
discouraged.' Doan's Kidney Pills re
moved these troubles entirely. I nave
been well for two years."
Remember the name Doan's. Sold
by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foa-ter-Milburn
Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
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George There's Miss Passay. She
claims she's never been kissed.
Harry Why. I've kissed her myseir.
years ago. She means not since she
can remember.
And the Old Man Grinned.
"Duke," said the heiress, eagerly,
"did you see father?"
"Yes."
"Well?"
"We talked about the weather."
"What? Lose your nerve again?
Why don't you brace up and talk like
a man? a subject of a king on whose
domain the sun never sets!" .
"Can't," moaned the duke. "All tke
time I was in your father's office he
kept grinning at a big painting."
"What painting?"
"The battle of Bunker Hill."
Crop Growing en Small Scale.
A small holder in East Lexaan la
making an interesting experiment In
barley growing upon his land to taat
tbe possibility of raising corn oh a
small scale. In 1907 he sowed 78 spe
cially selected grains of barley, whlck
yielded 400 ears. The resulting ker
nels he sowed in 1908 and harvested
in 14 weeks, with tbe result that be
got a bushel of threshed barley, which
he has sown this year, his object be
ing to show what can be done In ce
real cultivation from very small be
ginnings. London Standard.
cent, and this I will declare to the
end.'
"How many men when facing death
on the gallows have said the same.
I wonder how many men have said
it truly. It is true, as Pope says,
that hope springs eternal in the hu
man breast, but I often wonder if we
do not make a grievous error in not
giving greater credence to the dying
statement of a condemned man.
"Jonathan Miller paid the penalty
of the death of Robert Conway with
the same stoical resignation which
had marked the end of many a man
in the same extremity. With his
death the case seemed at an end and
it passed from 'my mind along with
many other cases which have arisen
in a long and busy career. I probably
never again would have recalled It
except Incidentally .had It not been for
a strange occurrence.
"I was just retiring for the night
one evening about two years after
the execution of Miller when I was
startled by the sound of a horse dash
ing madly up to my gate. There
was a loud rapping on the door and
upon opening it the panting horseman
cried:
"'Buck Everett's just been shot
down in Kiley's saloon. He's dying
and wants to see you right away.
Says he's got an important confession
to make.'
"I hurried out. and mounting the
messenger's horse, spurred full speed
for Kiley's place, which was a disrep
utable roadhouse about a mile dis
tant. On the way I tried to recall
who Buck 'Everett might be, and at
lajst remembered him as the porter
in Miller's hotel at the time of the
Conway murder. When I arrived at
the place he was almost gone, but
with the aid of a stiff drink of whisky
he revived sufficiently to make the
following confession:
" 'I'm a goner, judge, but before I
cash in I've got to get something off
my mind. It's Conway. I've seen him
day and night. My God, judge, there
he Is 'now pointlng'his bony finger
at me! Take him away. For God's
J sake take him away.' He gasped in
terror and the froth upon his pallid
lips was bloody. We thought he was
going before his weighty secret was
told.
"'Come, Buck, have It out and
you'll go easier,' I said as I held his
head.
" Yes, judge. I've got to tell it,' he
whispered. 'It was me that killed Con
way. Miller never done it. The
thing took hold on me when I took his
grips upstairs and he said they was
full of jewelry. I slipped in and
knifed him as he slept and got what
there was in his pockets. I was just
turnin' to the grips when I heard
the landlord comin' down the hall. I
clipped out and got past him. and
chamber l turned these questions over
Ing my mind, never finding an an
swer that was satisfactory to my
conscience. I seriously considered re
signing from the bench. My faith
in man's justice had received a crush
ing blow. For five years I carried
that weight of self accusing guilt, and
only the sympathy of my friends and
the loyalty and trust of my townsmen
sustained me.
'One night I was seated in the study
of Rev Charles Poindexter, the rec
tor of the Episcopalian church. Be
fore a cheery grate fire we talked into
the night and to him I unburdened my
soul.
" 'My heavens, judge he said to me,
laying his hand on my shoulder.
'Why haven't you told me all this be;
fore? I might have saved you these
years of troubling. Never before have
I disclosed that which has been im
parted to me in the confessional, but
in this case I believe my duty to
the dead is outweighted by my duty
to the living. When you sentenced
Jonathan Miller you condemned a
guilty man. You remember that I at
tended him as a spiritual adviser ia
his last hours. To me alone he told
the true story of that fatal night. He
was guilty of Conway's death although
his hand did not strike the blow.
He went to Conway's room with the
intent to murder him and rob him of
his wealth. It was for that fell pur
pose that he took the knife and lan
tern. When he reached the room
he found the deed already done, aad
even as the two traveling men en
tered the room he was meditating
upon how he might secure the con
tents of the satchels and hide them.
Let your mind rest, judge; his hand
was as guilty as the hand that struck
the blow!
"Thus was the weight of years lift
ed from my mind, and this, gentle
men. is my storj"
Amid the congratulations and
thanks of the members of the Calf
Skin club Judge Grower from the
chair announced that Judge Sturgis
had a story for the next meeting.
fCoDyrfRht. 1?C3 by W. G. Chapman.)
Newly-Opened Museum of Empress
Josephine.
no one to warn her off. She read her
book while the kids played. She had
$1,000 a year income. In her legal
separation from a flirting old husband
who had not appreciated her. She was
at peace. It never came into her
head to wish Malmaison hers.
Yet it was Josephine.
She had been married to de Beau
harnais at Croissy church when but
an awkward girl. She had fled to
Croissy when she found herself alone
again.
When she met Napoleon It was love
at first sight. In a few months they
were married. On hiS return from
Italy, Josephine knew how great a
man she had. He was looking for a
country place to buy! "What kind?"
she asked. "A chateau," said Na
poleon. Stately Malmalson flashed
across her mind. "I know a place,"
said Josephine, "Malmaison, close to
Croissy!"
"Malmalson will be our home." he
said. The nation had put St. Cloud
and Fontainebleau at his disposition.
He preferred Malmaison. "It is our
own place," he said to Josephine.
France is a saving old land. Through
revolutions of the utmost violence, the
French civil service- departments,
treasuring all things confided to them,
kept the raw material of that stage
setting.
Josephine reigned over the "home."
an English word to which Napoleon
had taken a sentimental fancy. She
covered the park with flower beds,
planted fancy trees, built hothouses
and stocked the wood with thousands
of gaybirds that come flying in clouds
to eat from silver-gilt trays perched
on acajou poles.
These were the happy days of Jo
sephine. Only too soon, she was to
live alone again.
After her divorce declared a state
necessity the senatus-consulto main
tained her in the rank of a crowned
empress, attributed 2,000,000 francs a
year to her. with the chateaux of Na
varre and Malmaison. To MalmaiFf n
she retired, to be near to Napoleon
although she should never see him.
Again Malmaison became a silent
park. As suddenly as it had bloomed
into imperial activity, it faded to Its
former quiet. Again a mother walked
with her two children in its shade
the children Eugene and Hortense,
now grown up.
Going through the grounds on a
cold, damp day with Czar Alexander.
Josephine took a chill and died in
the great silk-bung bed. now a part
of the museum exhibits.
After his return from Elba, Napo
leon revisited Malmaison. In spite of
the giant work of gathering his
armies together once again, he spent
two days in dreaming over the chateau
and gardens.
But Not in.
Evelyn I saw you in bathing this
morning, George. It's funny you didn't
see me.
George I didn't expect to.
Evelyn I was sure you saw me at
one time. I was standing close by
yon on the beach.
George Oh, yes. I saw you In your
bathing suit.
Mothers' Day in England.
Provincial England is smiling in a
superior way at America's belated dis
covery that the country ought to cele
brate mother's day. In the villages
of Cornwall. Devonshire and Lan
cashire mothers day has been a .rec
ognized institution for generations. It
Is celebrated on mid-Lent Sunday.
A Hot Prescription.
"I want you to prescribe for me.
doctor." said the sallow-complexioned
man. "I have cold feet; what would
you suggest?"
"A ton of coal, promptly replied
the witty physician. "Five dollars,
please."
Not Her Fault.
"It Is the duty of every man and
woman to be married at the age of
32." said the lecturer.
"Well," said a woman of 30, with
some asperity, "you needn't tell me
that. Talk to the man.'
Used His Victim's Care
"It's a good rule never to give your
card to a beggar who promises to re
turn your loan of 50 cents or one dol
lar," remarked a New York .clergy
man the other day. "Not long ago,
he continued, "a man in clerical clothes
called on me, presented the card of a
minister out on Long Island, and bor
rowed enough money to get home on.
He asked for my card, promising to re-
Jturn the amount promptly, and that
was the last I heard of him until I
learned that he had been arrested in a
near-by town for swindling. As my
card was the only one found on him,
he was docketed in my name. I dis
covered in the newspapers that I was
behind the bars without knowing it."
Did a man ever ask you to go on a
fishing trip with him but what he
asked you if you could row?
America's Famous Song.
The author of "The Star-Spangled
Banner" was Francis Scott Key, who
lives in American history as one of its
notable figures. The inspiration for
the song came from the bombard
ment of Fort McHenry, near Balti
more, by the British fleet.
Key had been taken prisoner and
witnessed the bombardment from one
of the British men-of-war on which
he was detained. As the battle pro-
and Strires waving defiance at thfl
British guns from the tall staff on the
parapet of the fort.
Tills suggested the song to Key,
and almost before the guns had been
silenced he had written some of the
inspiring lines which later were completed.
Of Course They Are.
"Shad is a fine thing."
"So is marriage. Sometimes I won-
gressed the American patriot could der if either is worth the trouble."
I catch fleeting glimpses of the Stars 1 Louisvile Courier-Journal.
International Manners.
A German lady, we perceive, has
started a school wherein the art of
eating Is taught Not the art of ac
quiring food, but the art of dealing
with it when it is on the table. An
international school of table manners
would do as much as The Hague con
ference to reconcile animosities.
There is really nothing, for example,
in which we could not agree with the
American if he would only come over
to the British notion of eating an egg.
Possibly the Rhodes scholars will
think the matter out at Oxford. West
minster Gazette.
THE NEW WOMAN
Made Over by Quitting Coffee.
CofTce probably wrecks a greater
percentage of Southerners than of
Northern people for Southerners use
it more freely.
The work it does is distressing
enough in some instances; as an illus
tration, a woman of Richmond, Va,
writes:
"I was a coffee drinker for years
and for about six years my health waa
completely shattered. I suffered fear
fully with headache and nervousness,
also 'palpitation of the heart and loss
of appetite.
"My sight gradually began to fail
and finally I lost the sight of one
eye altogether. The eye was op
erated upon and the sight partially
restored, then I became totally blind,
in the other eye.
"My doctor used to urge me to
give up coffee, but I was willful and
continued to drink it until finally in a
case of severe illness the doctor in
sisted that I must give up the coffee,
so 1 began using Postum, and in a
month 1 felt like a new creature.
"I steadily gained in health and
strength. About a month ago I be
gan using Grape-Nuts food and tbe
effect has been wonderful. I really
feel like a new woman and have
gained about 25 pounds.
"1 am quite an elderly lady and be
fore using Postum and Grape-nuts X
could not walk a square without ex
ceeding fatigue, now I walk ten or
twelve without feeling it. Formerly
in reading I could remember but little
but now ay memory holds fast what
1 read
Several friends who have seen the
remarkable effects of Postum aad
Grape-Nuts on me have urged that I
give tbe facts to the public for the
sake cf suffering humanity, so. al
though I dislike publicity, you caa
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