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Prophetic Ey< "Tomorrow Departments" Railroads Securing Fuel Tanners Buy Up ForestsBanks?Training For Wc Many of the great businesses of the country, figuring on the immense exr pansion of trade which is bound to come within the ne?:t thirty or forty years, have organized what System calls "to-morrow departments," and are taking steps to safeguard against a failure in material, in supplies, in facilities. TT*?AvnmnlA 4 Vi a Dnnid r ui UAamj;ic, inv i Railroad consumes more than 7,000,000 wooden railroad ties a year. All railroads together consume 110,000,000?one-twelfth of the sawed timber in the country. Analysis determined the necessity of creating a new source that would afford the supply a generation from now. The Pennsylvania Railroad created therefore a to-morrow department? a department of forestry. The railroad has planted 2,250,000 trees in the State of Pennsylvania. In the nursery at Hollidaysburg are 300,000 trees that are ready to be transplanted this year; near Altoona the com' panv owns 14,000 acres of forestry r land and many thousands elsewhere. Here Is an expenditure which must be repeated every year for generations before first returns come in, but it is good business policy; present values depend upon future prospects. Other roads and other industries have established similar to-morrow $ departments, for timber is the raw material in lumbering, in paper, In woodworking. The International Paper Company owns or controls 3,000,000 acres of forest land in Canada. It has timber lands in New England and New York. In Vermont old and worn out farms with young spruce upon them have been bought, with no returns available for twenty years. More than this, the to-morrow departments must see to it that present consumption is most economical. In place of the old policy of extermination cutting is most scientific. Smaller spruce trees are left standing, as well as the woods not suitable for paper making. This will then furnish the cutting for the next generation. Paper mills all over the country are coming to realize this necessity of buying insurance for the future by assuring their timber supply, and so with chemical concerns. The Amer! lean Agricultural Chemical Company ! controls 2000 acres of phosphate lands in Florida ana use possessions elsewhere. i Chemical capital Is invested In nitrate beds of Chile, property which may not be .touched for half a lifetime. The lumber industries are preempting the available supply of forest, and, more significant, are planting rubber trees?during the last two years more than for the two decades previous. In McKean County of Pennsylvania Is a virgin forest seven miles square ?untouched amid denuded country? one of the hemlock properties of a leather company; and many more like concerns are learning from this example the necessity of protecting the future of their bark supply. Foresight for to-morrow is not confined entirely to the big industries. An Illinois brick company, for instance, has acquired a bank of clay three miles long, sufficient to last a hundred years. Even though good location; seem unlimited to-day, to\ morrow this company thinks they may be rare. ! Except as to protecting his markets the manufacturer operating on a small basis may not have the resources to assure himself of the safeguards for to-morrow, but hundreds of smaller manufacturers are doing this by co-operation?through their trade associations. The National Hickory Association, fcr instance, is aiming to protect the to-morrow of every one of its members by three lines of activity. It has a statistical bureau which gives information as to the most economical points for timber operation and makes recommendations for assuring a continuance of supply. Its inspection bureau is investigating the possibilities of new varieties of woods and of less expensive woods for the same purposes. The by-product bureau is making studies and recommendations in the working up of the product. Many of the railroads have bought their fuel supplies half a century ahead. A few iron and steel industries have guaranteed their ore supply for the same period. A generation ago the railroads had practically no to-morrow policy. If they had been wise enough to carry out such a policy they would not have been obliged to put the hundreds of millions into terminals which are now being spent that way. The lesson has been learned. A New York Central official declares that $30,000,000 a year is going into lands to be drawn on later. For instance, the Northern Pacific has acquired property at Seattle worth $30,000,000, at Tacoma $12,000,000, at Duluth, at Butte, at Spokane $14,000,000 more. The stated policy of the Harriman roads is to have enough future lands available so that for each additional car it can put into Immediate use 362 feet of yard" trackage and siding-:. Against the time when coal lands will be exhausted a number of Eastern railroads are acquiring water power rights through subsidiary corporations. The steam railroads have no present use for this power, and the money so invested must lie idle perhaps for many years; but they must be prepared for the future. Some time?no one can predict the date with assurance?the electric locomotive will upset our traditions. Then to-day's millions will return I dividends. The smallest industry can apply this same principle. The big industries are cited only because they are conspicuous instances: the Western Electric Company at its new Hawthorne plant has enough idle land to rrcvifle for manifold expansion; the I 2 in Business. of the Great Industries? Half a Century Ahead? ?Brick Makers Get Clay >rk of the Future mercantile uoiise of Sears, Roebuck & Co. has forty acres of empty prairie land around its plant, ready for to-morrow's building. The United States Steel Corporation owns land at Gary and Buffington, also seven miles of lake front, with riparian rights which will permit nf rhp making of as much land out in the lake as the company will ever require. The Corn Products Company has acquired a whole township and put its factory in the middle of it. The free land of the AllisChalmers Company will allow the duplication of its West Allis plant in a straight line six times over. Retail stores are looking to the future, particularly in congested districts, by providing foundations for structures erected capable of supporting additional stories as the vol- j ume of business demands. Down to the mirutest detail this look-out for to-morrow may be carried. A company making various lines of apparatus is overhauling its catalogue system in such a way that it will be possible to group kindred styles of apparatus under simple numbers. The plan has been to number styles i consecutively as they were originated, j Now each type is to have a thousand j numbers?style A will be called 1000, style B 2000 and so on. Improvements in type A will be numbered 1001, 1002 and so on. Adding to this the use of the loose leaf in the catalogue, the future's orderly expansion so far as concerns this one little detail is provided for. Then there is another kind of tomorrow policy?the progressive tomorrow departments, which embrace those that are studying future demands, altered customs, future markets, future possibilities in the way of inventions and devices. Farm implement makers are investing great sums in experiments so that the business of their sons may be abreast of demand and of progress. A large machine making plant spent a million dollars in one year in this experimental work. An automobile factory has devoted five years to experiments on an automobile designed for a particular and local purpose. One appliance manufacturer actually has in his vaults patents, devices and models which represent thousands or dollars invested, Dut which guarantee to this company that it will be ahead of demand for twenty years. Ideas not commercially usable to-day have been acquired for possible use to-morrow. Paper manufacturers have their eyes on the annual flax crop of the Northwest, where a million tons of fine fibre stock go to waste every year. In the South 22,000,000 .tons of cotton stalks are destroyed. An incalculable supply of cornstalks is burned and plowed under. Great areas of wild hemp and marsh hay find no commercial uses. All these products, wasted to-day, possess ingredients required In paper making. All of them are to-day under experiment. To-morrow they may be commercial actualities. In chemical plants scientists are being paid to discern the secrets of nature. Artificial rubber is a possibility. A substitute may be found for cedar in pencil making. Reversing the proposition, present raw materials are being made to produce new products. Had the turpentine been extracted from the yellow pine that went to waste last year the gross saving would have been $14,000,000. There 16 no reason why every concern that possesses raw materials should not use commercial chemistry to extract products from substances heretofore wasted only in parts. As important as a right supply of raw material, men are learning, is a supply of skilled labor. Here Europe far excels America in foresight. Only a few Industries and a few concerns here have given thought to to-morrow's supply. The movement has begun. The Winona Technical Institute at Indianapolis, training boys to skilled trades, is supported largely by business men who have .the to-morrow idea. The Lowell Textile School has back of it manufacturers of fabrics and textile machinery representing a capital of $65,000,000. Not a few concerns havj taken hold o{ this problem themselves. R. Hoe & Co. in their New York plant, the Ralrliviri T.nfnmntivi.: Wnrlrs nt Phila delphia, the Browne & Sharpe Company at Providence, are instances of NEW ENGLAND I Opportunities the Regi ble Fores Corporations and private citizens throughout New England are beginning to realize the opportunities which this region offers for profitable forest planting. This year about 2500 acres have been planted in the six New England States by private citizens. In addition, a number of water companies have adopted a forest policy. The largest plantation of this character, which comprises over - ^ ^ ^ iuuv acres, utjiuu^s iu uc iucuuijuutan Water and Sewerage Board of Clinton, Mass. One cf the most important phases of reforestation in New England is that of planting abandoned farms and other waste land, which at present is bringing no income. In Massachusetts this waste land amounts to ten per cent, of the total area of the State, while the latest reports in Rhode Island show 22S abandoned farms. It Is this type of land which is now being planted. Wealthy men here see a good investment, and a number of them have planted tracts of at least fifty acres each this year, with the intention of increasing the size of the plantations annually. One owner in Massachusetts who started a white pine plantation of sixty-three II I I I I I II I I I II ? ! manufacturers who have assured' their labor supply by apprenticeship ' systems and trade schools. Is it only ; a coincidence that these are the three j oldest successful plants in the country? I 1 I i Another to-morrow department is ; that which looks ahead and provides ! new and wider markets. A New Eng. < ! land carpet manufacturer hatS enough orders booked to run his plant at full capacity for three years ahead, j but he realized that within that time j 1 other carpet manufacturers could ob- | tain a foothold and make inroads into ; territory which he cou?d not reach i ' now but which he would need in the , future. So he launched an advertising cam- ! paign that was designed to obtain these results slowly and to impress upon the consumer the superiority of his goods, and as carpets are not ! bought by the householder every day ; this slow process had its effect and to- ; day this manufacturer has a national ' business. | An Eastern manufacturer of a ; household article saw more than two i years ago that his line was bound to , become highly competitive. There | were no patents on his goods; small i capital was needed to start his busi- ' ness; overproduction was inevitable. \ So he took a tripv abroad, started in J a very small way a foreign trade by j mail, gradually established agencies, i expanded his trade. To-day he does only a foreign business. He is the most prosperous manufacturer in his line. While others are fighting for the profitable home market he has a non-competitive foreign market. Making a Newspaper. |. P.v .TflTTV w. MrNP!l?LT. The managing editor of the metro- j politan newspaper sat at his desk, ! with a weary look upon his face, j There was nothing stirring and his j ' mind was sick with lethargy. Sud- ( ' denly his eyes brightened and a tri- ; umphant smile played around his thin lips. Seizing the telephone re- \ ceiver, he put in a long-distance call J ] to the Washington correspondent. I Then he lay back in his chair and ; rubbed his hands together in cheerful j satisfaction. The bell rang. "Hello! Is this you, Siggs?" he ex- : claimed. "This is Smith. Not much : going on, Is there? Say, Siggs! Get j up a scandal on some government j | transaction and telegraph it in rignt away. Don't lose any time. Make it sensational and be sure it isn't so. We don't want a word of truth in it, understand!" The editor hung up the receiver with an expression of delightful and keen anticipation. "It'll bring one of those fierce and frenzied denunciations," he said, half aloud, "and then our paper will spring into immediate popularity and renown. We can help the, thing i along, too, by raving about the freedom of the press."?From Judge. A Snake Rat Killer. , Rigdon Johnson, a farmer living near New Harmony, has a rat exterminator which he says beats a whole pack of rat dogs. Mr. Johnson's rat exterminator is a chicken snake about 1 six feet long, afcd it has taken refuge in the barn and granaries of the farm. All the year it wages incessant war on the rats and mice about the place, and as a result of the snake's strict attention to business Mr. Johnson j says he hasn't a rat or mouse on his J 200 acres of land. He says he never has any corn eaten by the rats. Ho has given instructions to members of 1 his famity not to injure or molest the snake in any way, and intends to allow it to make its home on his farm as long as it cares to remain. A chicken snake is not a thing of beauty and appears to be a vicious repite. > It is a black snake with white spots 1 covering the back. ? Indianapolis 1 News. Revival of Maine Whaling. Southwest Harbor plans a new Industry during the coming summer in a revival of whale fishing. Whales are said to be plentiful off Mount Desert Rock and vicinity, and John Stanley and sons have bought the steam yacht Princess from Castine summer parties, and will utilize it for a whaling craft during the coming summer. TViq Prinroos ie a flvpr verv fast, with 215-horsepower and is seventy-two feet long. Bomb guns will be fitted on her decks, and she will go after the whales in dead earnest. Each finny monster is worth something like $500, and after he is captured he will be towed to Southwest Harbor, to go the way of all dead whales. The prospect for the whales this summer is by no means cheerful.?Lewiston Journal. Friendships never are the better for being punctured and then patched up. WANTING TREES on Offers For Profitat Culture. 4 acres this year, expects to plant fifty acres annually for the next ten years, while others intend to plant tracts of various sizes ranging upwards to 200 acres apiece next spring. f White pine is, of course, the species most generally planted, but other species which make excellent growth and are being used more and more are Norway spruce, for timber and pulp-wood; chestnut, for telegraph poles, posts, ties and lumber; red If far rill an nrt/1 4 {aft KIaaU U/innf van iuj |/nco auu ncs, Uiativ lUUliai., for fence posts, and sugar maple for a variety of products. It is not only on these tracts of waste land tbat planting is beginning to play such an important part. The practical farmer in this region now realizes mat ine cneapest ana uest way to get the special wood products which he needs on his farm, is by planting the trees. He realizes, too, the protective value of plantations which serve as shelterbelts and windbreaks. Altogether, this region offers excellent opportunities for tree planting.?From Forest Scrvice, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Germany is the chief land of duds at present. - - THE NAVY'S DUMMY DRILL GUN By Walter L Baasley. The recent brilliant and surprising scores made by the ships at target practice at Magdalena Bay shows a marked advance over previous years, and demonstrates that the men behind the guns have been trained up to the highest point of efficiency In the 1 various operations connected with firing the batteries, such as quick landling of shells, ammunition, pointing and sighting, and other matters entering into the performance of successful naval gunnery. As recently announced by the Navy Department, The 7-Inch Dummy Drill Gun of Our high-speed target records are the battleship Maryand of the Pacific Squadron carries off the honors, winning the trophy by the fine score of 76,470; the cruiser trophy goes to the Albany, having a score of 76,924, while the gunboat trophy was won hv thf> Wilmineton. whose record was 67,448. As the successful achievements of these creditable and record-breakjng performances are due almost entirely to a particular method of training, it will he of timely interest to picture and describe the dummy drill gun. By the use of this device the men become experts in lifting and loading the heavy shells, and develop into human automatic machines, handling the weighty projectiles and shoving them into the breech with great rapidity and skill. The main object of the "dummy loader" is to give the Bhell men an opportunity to acquire speed and proficiency in the Handling j of the shells without wearing out the breechblocks of the guns. Of late j much attention is being paid by all j the ships In the navy to .these drills, for in actual service much depends upon the promtness and accuracy of the shell man. Should he "muff" a shell at the critical moment, or let It roll away from him, should he drop It?in short, should he fail to send It home safe and true when the breechblock of the big gun is swung open for him?the consequences might be serious. The "dummy loader" is the latest invention of the Ordnance Department, and is a facsimile of the breech and powder chamber of a big gun up the point where the rifling begins. Loading It requires the identical motions that are employed In the loading and firing of the real weapon. One man opens and closes the breech; the shell man grasps the projectile and quickly rams it inside, followed by the dummy charge of powder in a bag; the shell comes down the return chute on the left side of the apparatus; the "take-off" man catches Lhe shell as it falls out at the end, and shoves it again to the loader at the front. The dummy powder charge is handled in the same way, and the whole makes a continuous operation for the loader. By the time he has put in the last shell and the breech is closed and locked, it is ready to be swung open again by the plug man, and an additional shell shoved in. A marked economic improvement in the saving of the life of guns is thus obtained. The breechblock of these costly weapons would soon be worn I RING EDWARD'S PR SANDRINGHAM HOUS The purchase of this estate by tl ?Hond<ui hv n rliscrnfeful niece of iob cumulation of revenue from his duchj Knife and Fork in One. Probable the Indiana man who invented the combined table knife and fork was alarmed by the recklessness with which his rural acquaintances handled their cutlery, and wanted to save them from cutting their throats. i n Knife and Fork Combirad. l__ by the constant slamming and the denting of quickly-thrown shells. The new device is manufactured : ' entirely in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, I N. Y., in the ordnance machine shop, j It is made mostly of steel; although J there are a few parts of brass and J cast iron, the supporting framework 1 ] and return chute are entirely of steel.! ! The one shown in the accompanying | . illustration is the latest seven-inch : 1 model, and is on board the battleship 1 j New Hampshire. It is seven feet < four inches long, four feet four inches ! i high, and weighs about 1800 pounds,! t costing the Government $375 to man- 1 ufacture. 1 Before reaching the target ground, 1 the Battleship New Hampshire. ] due to practice with the dummy. tlie gun crews are kept at systematic and continuous drills with the dummy loading machine, consequently the men have acquired the top-notch In speed, coupled with a mathematical precision in the handling of the projectiles, powder charges, etc. When .the vessel reaches the range, and as, at the speed assigned, a very short time interval is anowea ror tne run, it is important .to begin firing at once with the rapidity consistent with "getting on" the target. The size of the target varies according to calibre and practice, but the target screens for the great guns are about twentyone feet in length and seventeen feet in width and are distant from the ' range about 1600 yards. The Navy 1 Department provides four trophies 1 for excellence in gunnery?one each for battleships, cruisers, gunboats and torpedo craft. In addition, money 1 rewards are distributed according to ] gun rank or rating among the successful crews.?Scientific American. ( : - : Fire Will Not Scorch. The most careful of cooks with the J many different viands in the course of preparation under her eyes will slip up occasionally and relax her vigilance for a second, when some : one of the articles on the stove Is touched by the finger of fire. Scorched food is one of the most inexcusable I < offenses of the cook. A simple piece 1 of apparatus to prevent this mishap 1 has been devised. It consists of a 1 metal affair resembling an inverted pie plate, generously perforated with < small holes. This rests' on the bottom of the kettle and effectually pre- ' vents the contents from coming into contact with the overheated bottom. 1 IVATE RESIDENCE. ; ;e, norfolkshire. ne King, when Prince of Wales, was bery which absorbed most of the acr of Cornwall. Maybe he h&d labored desperately trying to cut a large amount of salad on a small plate with a fork without putting his foot on the salad. May be he was a one-armed man. However that may be, he devised an implement which has many advantages, r. -nritVi o clnt in thp shank. 1 U iO (A L\Jl XV ti nu fc* ? In this slot is a wheel with a penknife edge which acts as a rotary cutter, cuting the food when rolled over it. The uses of such an implement are manifold. It is handy in cheap restaurants, as it reduces the necessary stock of table utensils and saves time in washing.?Boston Post. E Pluribus Unum. Her fingers toyed with the fringe of her mantle, "No," she answered, "I fear I cannot centre my affections upon any one man." A smile played about his thin lips. "In the light of modern progress," he exclaimcd, "I cannot ask it. I now have the honor to inform you that a syndicate is backing me."?Independent. CONFESSIONS OF A CLOWN. U T^rnrt, There In on Sale a Book Brimful of American Kumar. Any bookseller will tell you that be constant quest of bis customer* s for "a book which will make me augh." The bookman Is compelled \0 reply that the race of American lumorists has run out and comic lit- i irature Is scarcer than fanny plays. wide sale is therefore predicted for i :he "Memoirs of Dan Rice," the 1 31own of Our Daddies, written by 1 Haria Ward Brown, a book guar- 1 mteed to make you roar with laugher. The author presents to the pub- 1 ic a volume of the great Jester's nost pungent Jokes, comic harangues, :austlc hits npon men and manners, 1 ectures, anecdotes, skotches of adventure, original songs and poetical illusions; wise and witty, serious, satirical, and sentimental sayings of ihe sawdust arena of othor days. 1 Did Dan Rice, as proprietor of the 1 !amous "One Horse Show," was more jf a national character than Artemus ! 5Vard, and this volume contains the humor which made the nation laugh aven while the great Civil War raged, rhis fascinating book of 500 pages, beautifully illustrated, will be sent postpaid to you for $1.50. Address Book Publishing House, 134 Leonard street. New York City. The Emperor of China and the Viceroy )f India between them govern more than ialf the population of tne world. Do Your Feet Ache and Bnrn? Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, i powder for the feet. It makes tight or aew shoes feel easy. 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"The pink envelope which heralds iismissal in the modern business office is doubtless effective," said a man.who had just received one, "but it is not as picturesque as the method which Uncle Jimmy Gilbert used to use in his printing office. When a man noma TTn<M<a .TprrV dfOVe a nail in the wall for him to hang his coat and hat on. One morning the man would come to work and find the nail driven in up to the head. He linew that he was through then."? Boston Record. , Deep Mines In Michigan. The deepest mines in Michigan, if not in the United States, are in the Lake Superior copper district. The Red Jacket shaft of the Calumet and Hecla mine is 4820 feet vertical, while the Tamarack has two shafts Dver 5000 feet deep?namely, No. 5, which is 5180 feet, and No. 3, which Is 5230 feet vertical* These Tamarack shafts were sunk to extract ore from the copper lode first exploited in the Calumet and Hecla, and they cut a lode having a dip of thirty-eight degrees at a vertical depth of 4660 feet. By attaining a depth of one mile underground and by showing with what ease operations are coniucted at that great depth, these Lake Superior mines have demonstrated that man is likely to be able to penetrate at least as profoundly into the earth as the ore persists. ' Caraway Seeds Fetch 'Em. "Speaking about bread?and who Is not speaking about it," said the old East Side resident?"I have noticed that people who have lived in this part of town for any length of time always come back to the East Side to get their rye bread, no matter where their improved circumstances enable them to live. It is the caraway seeds that fetch them. Our bread has more caraway seeds in it than the rye bread made in any place slse in town, and people who have got used to our caraway loaves don't feel satisfied with any other."?New York Press. The vineyards of Algeria produce the greatest yield to the acre. Charms Chi Delig'I ?1 A. T rost i rcT': IIMkM M?t*?<IMi AkikM ^ ' I '1'1' ~ " A Compound ol Indian Corn.,Sugar and Salt ^ jvj Postum Cereal Co., Limited I,> ?.UH Crmk. nukltMi. U. f. *- // > . T --- ?/ * * ~ TOILET ANTISEPTIC NOTHING LI ICE IT FOR TUP ILL f|| P*Hn* excels any ?Senf2rfc* I alt I tt I ffl'm doomnj, vktnmg and remormg tacts from ffce teeth, besides destroying all genes of decay end disease which ocdtaaiy tooth prrpcfabocs cannot do* TUP kinirni Fertile end as a ao?&I 011 RlUUin wash disinfect* the moadk sod throat, panSet die breath, and kill* the gamt which collect in the moath, carting sore tnioal bad teeth, bad bceaih, grippe, and erach acfaf. 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Million boxes a month. ^if-^tfiompson's Eye Water J in MKT VI K You Know Howto ?vf IUNEI Handle Them Properly profit, you want to do it intelligently 'and to profit by the experience of other*. you need to know on the sub man who made his living for and in that time necessarily much money to learn the best for the small sum of 25 It tells you how to Detect Feed for Eggs, and also for for Breeding Purposes, and , . the subject to make a success. SENT ! IN STAMPS. \ 4 Leonard St.9 N, Y. City, | A Sight For the Elk. At a country fair out in Kansas a man w^nt im tn ft tent where some elk were on exhibition and stared wistfully up at the sign. "I'd like to go in there," he said to the keeper, "but it would be mean to go in without my family and I cannot afTord to pay for my wife and seventeen children." The keeper stared at him in astonishment. "Are all those your children?" he gasped. "Every one," said the man. "You wait a minute," said the keeper. "I'm going to bring > the elk out and let them see you all." Wanted Her Money Back. George Cohan, the player, tells of a theatrical combination that encountered much bad business in its tour of one-night stands in Ohio and Kentucky. ' x The "date" that proved fatal to the life of the organization took it to Marietta, in the Buckeye State. The first performance was a matinee, and the audience was a number no? much larger than the proverbial "corporal's guard." The disconsolate business mnnaeer was hurrying out of the office on some errand to the "back" of the house, when he stumbled over a little girl dissolved into tears. "What's the matter, little one?" he asked, forgetting his own troubles at this sad sight. "I wants me money back!" yelled the youngster between wails. "Don't you like the play?" asked the manager. "Don't get discouraged. You've seen only the first act." "I don't care nuthin' 'bout the play," howled the little girl. "I'm afraid to set in that gallery all alone!"?Lippincott's. It has been demonstrated by numerous experiments in Europe as well as in America that the pulp possessing the best fibre for paper, and the most practical to make,, is that derived from the wood of the spruce and fir. fAOne of the biggest pieces of engineering in New England is a 2500horse power dam in the Union River at Ellsworth, Me. It is constructed of hollow concrete and cost nearly $500,000. N.Y.?28 ' 1 ildren its Old Folks Nasties *7] The crisp, delicious, golden-brown food, ' made of Indian Corn. A tempting, teasing taste distinctly differ ^ an iu 9 uwu, Vj fA "The Taste Lingers" V Sold by Grocers. p Popalar pkg., 10c. */< yr Large Family sire, 15c. M Post am Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Mieh.