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Potatoes to Pigs.
Potatoes which are damaged by rot
or other causes may be fed to pigs with
good results. The pig, so far as its
relish for the potato is concerned,
seems indifferent as to whether it is
diseased or not, and experience snows
that swine thrive well on potatoes
showing considerable disease and without
injury to the health of the animals.
The best plan is to boil the potatoes
and mix with corn meal.
Food for Plants
Plants require food and drink and
they have their preferences as to the
kinds desired. If improper foods are
supplied the plants will refuse them
and seek in the soil for something the
farmer has not supplied. When the
food is suitable, the plants will make
rapid growth and thrive, but when
they are sickly there is something
wrong with the food. Farmers can
> learn how to feed their plants as well
as their animals.?The Epitomist
To Protect Corn From Birds.
A young Vermont farmer has sue
cessfully used tne following meinoa 10
^et rid of crows and blackbirds, which
"were destroying his corn crop:
Take a mixing spoon full of liquid
coal tar, have it warm, then mix it
with about one-half bushel of seed
corn. Mix thoroughly. .Then dry by
mixing in land plaster or wheat middlings.
It works better if mixed a few
days before planting. Too much tar
may cause a little inconvenience in
planting. If the planted brush gets
coated soak It out in kerosene.
To Fight Weeds.
The following rules for keeping
% . down weeds and thereby improving
crops:
1st Practice rotation. Certain
weeds follow certain crops; when the
weeds get too strong change crops.
2nd. Change the method of cultivating.
Plow deeper or shallower, or
nse a different harrow or cultivator.
3rd. Cultivate frequently with light
surface tools.
4th. Sow clean seed.
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the manure pile or anywhere on the
farm.
6th. Hogs and sheep will clean up
the weeds on foul fallow land. It is
said that a weed will not germinate
after a sheep has cropped it?G. H.
.Sammis,
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?* JBive Your Horse More Water.
"Water should be before horses at
.-*11 times when indoors,and at least no
. meal should ever be offered and nightlights
ever turned out until every
-animal has had his chance at as many
brimming "buckets as he Will take.
"The shy drinker may be tempted by
many artifices, like mixing a little molasses,
or salt, or oatmeal, or flaxseed
jelly, or bran, etc., etc., with the water,
and constantly varying the flavor.
, Horses may even have all they want
right after feeding, provided they have
not been deprived of water for some
time previous. Many shy drinkers, like
shy feeders, who are generally nervous,
take all nourishment best at night j
when it is dark and quiet, ana morn- |
- ling finds the empty manger and buck- j
et which it had seemed, by day, almost
nauseated them.?Frank M. Wars
in The Outing Magazine.
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J"' The G^eat American Hog.
The possible profit that may result
from intelligent hog breeding on
a large scale is worthy of serious
thought on the part of farmers, says
. Farming.
v With the right conditions of food
supply and market?the two important
factors?it may prove to be the very
thing that the farm is best adapted
to.
The hog has always been a "fixture"
on American farms. The early settlers
raised a few that lived on the refuse
of the garden dairy, and kitchen,
and in turn provided the family with
meat during the winter. The modern
"American Hog" supplies, in his various
products, many of the wants of the
. oivilized world, not only the hams,
pork, lard, bacon, but also illuminating
onH JnVip|/?atln<r nllc fifimhs hmchpii
buttons, knife-handles, and various
.kinds of ornaments.
The hog is really one of the farmer's
* most profitable crops, and is worthy of
more attention; he is useful to the
dairyman because he will eat the byproducts
of the dairy; he is useful to
the grain farmer because he wiLl convert
the grains and grasses of the farm
into money; so from either standpoint
he will show a profit. The more care
you devote to him the better he will
pay you. One must get the idea out of
his head that anything is good enough
"for a hog; the fact is that nothing is
<oo good for him.
Jersey Cow's Butter Record.
Probably the blood of the Jersey is
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more generally umuseu auu iuui c U15U- 1
ly prized in the butter-producing districts
of the United States, as well as
^mong fatnily cows in the country at
2arge} than that of any other breed,
says Farming.
Many of our shrewdest dairy farmers
have selected Jerseys as best adapted
to their special purposes, not only
on account of the persistent milk flow
which they maintain, but because of
tifcir uniformity of repr&luction, and
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their ability to furnish, under the :
proper care, a large flow of rich milk f
that tops the market and captures the
fancy trade.
The Jersey cow is a small animal,
and therefore her maintenance ration
is small, while a relatively large part
-f/wH to nrofif.
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She is a persistent milker, often a !
perpet ial milker, and ordinarily not
dry more than six or eight weeks in a
year.
She has an extremely long period of
usefulness in the dairy. Five years
covers the profitable work of the average
cow. The Jersey is generally vigorous
and at work when twelve to fifteen
years old. Many are profitable
when eighteen to twenty-one years
old.
She gives the richest milk, as nearly
three thousand standard tests have
proved. The recent demonstration at j
the St. Louis Exposition is a notable
illustration of this superiority.
Almost all this butter fat can be
recovered in butter or cheese. The
practical value of this advantage is
most appreciated by the dairy farmer.
This Larger yield of butter and cheese
is of the highest grade of commercial
excellence. It tops the market.
These traits of superiority are so
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flrmly nxea m ner ureeuiug xl
fairly mated she can be relied upon to
transmit them to her descendants.
Keep Birds About the House.
The value of birds to the farmer has
only begun to be appreciated. Ninetenths
of the land owners and gardeners
do nothing to attract the birds or
to feed them. Some of them are ready
for a law to permit the killing of robins.
However, a better sentiment is
steadily growing. A letter tells me
that the writer "has a way of providing
nests for useful birds." She says:
"I put up such simple things as old
tin cans in my apple trees. A tomato
can serves a bluebird or wren admirably.
Leave the opening small;
punch a few holes in the bottom for
drainage; and you will find that a
large proportion of them will be occupied."
Many birds cannot find good
nesting places. This is getting to be
a serious difficulty with bluebirds,
wrens, purple martins, and even the
chickadees. "There are very few old
trees left, into which they can bore and
make nesting places that are safe and
agreeable." A writer in "Bird Lore"
says that he put up twenty cans and
cigar boxes and found fourteen of them
occupied by wrens and bluebird's. Will
it not pay our boys and girls to make
this experiment? I find that my catbirds
have exhausted all really prime
places for nests, and I must supply
more. They insist on a thicket, such
as is furnished by a big syringa bush.
I begin to think that it is not the
amount of fqod that birds can get, but
suitable nesting places, that win them
to us. "Bird Lore" adds a groan, because
the old farm homes, where there
. were lots of bushy trees and underbrush
are being brought up and scoured
up so that birds do not find their
old safe retreats near our homes. This
can be compensated by artificial nests.
I have a tall stump of white cut leaved
birch, in which the bluebirds have
made a hole and nested; while on top
I have a birdhouse in which the robins
find a good home. One thi**- is certain.
We cannot run our farms, and
especially our orchards successfully
without bird allies.?E. P. Powell.
Agricultural Brevities.
Feed and kill off your cockerels when
about four months old.
Vinegar diluted in warm water is the
best liquid to clear stained eggs.
Fowls much improve the character
of the stubble land over which they
range.
Replace one-third of your laying
hens every year so as to keep your
stock young.
The shepherd should not expect his
sheep to drink water that he would be
afraid to drink himself.
The brood mare can do farm work
and breed a colt at the same time but
must not be overworked.
When the colt is growing the hoofs
should be looked to occasionally to see
if they do not require trimming.
Every grower should know what is
the paying weight with him, what
weight he can sell to bring him the
greatest profit.
That kind of husbandry in whi(;h
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sneep or some kiiiu ao uul ngure ia
lacking in a most substantial means of
sustaining fertility.
There is a better margin for profit
in a well fed litter of pigs than may
be found in any other like investment
of money on the farm.
The man who misses out on a little
alfalfa patch for the sows and litters
has a new mile-stone yet ahead of him
in his path of progress.
An animal of a fixed and long-inherited
type Till control the type of
the offspring when coupled with an
animal of ordinary character.
The man who has a piece of ground
large enough for a garden should most
certainly improve it, and have a good
supply of luxuries at a small cost.
Circumstances and management
have about as much to do to make
mutton growing profitable as in turning
the scale toward profit in any other
farm product
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THE BAKER'S DOZEN.
How the Extra Tale of Numbers Arose
in Trade.
Some persons, including a few encyclopaedists,
are inclined to think that
the baker's dozen originated when
heavy fines were considered necessary
to counterbalance light weights, and
the bakers, in order to insure full
weight, took the precaution to add an
additional unit. Some have called it
the devil's dozen, because thirteen
was the number of witches who used
to ride their broomsticks to the "Black
Mass" of Satan. The baker's great
book in the Astor library has another
story of Its origin.
Jan Pietersen, of Amsterdam, was
a good churchman, but nevertheless
he was afraid of being bewitched. On
the last night of 1654 he sal in his
bakeshop trying to 1-?' n out the evil
spirits by priming himself with a
glass of good spirits. Sales had been i
brisk. There were no customers in
the shop for the moment, and he sat
back, meditating on the gains he
would make on the morrow, when the
fresh New Year's cakes were put on
sale. He was startled by a sudden
rap. An ugly woman pushed the door
op At.
"Give me a dozen New Year's cookies,"
she cried in a shrill voice.
The shrillness of her voice did not
mean anything to his slow Dutch
mind. It only annoyed him.
''Well, then, you needn't speak so
loud," said Jan. "I'm not deaf."
"A d^zen!" she screamed. "Give me
a dozen. Here are only twelve."
"Well, then, twelve is a dozen."
"One more! I want a dozen."
"Weil, then, if you want another
go to the devil and get it."
The hag left the shop, but from that
night Jan had trouble. The shop
seemed to be bewitched. His cakes
were stolen. Either his bread was so
[ light and it soared up the chimney,
or so heavy that the supports of the
oven gave way beneath the burden.
His wife became deaf, his children
went wild. His trade took wings and
settled in the shops of his rivals.
Three times the old woman returned,
and each time was directed to go the
devil's sanctum. At last, in despair,
the baker called upon St. Nicholas to
assist him. The venerable patron of
Dutch feasts delivered a lecture om
charity, telling the tremblipg man to
be more generous in the future. Then
he vanished, and in his place stood
the hag, who repeated her demand
fr>r n-na mnra mVp .Tan acceded.
whereupon she exclaimed, "The spell
is broken; from this time one dozen
is thirteen." Taking from the counter
a gingerbread effigy of St. Nicholas,
she made the subdued Dutchman lay
his hand upon it and swear to give
more liberal measure irf the future.
Since that time thirteen has been
called a baker's dozen.?New Yorlr
Tribune.
Safety in Railroad Travel.
Increased safety in railroad travel
, Is one of the urgent needs of the day.
Railroads have never carried so many
people, never run so many trains, never
put on so many cars, never employed
so many men, never covered
so much territory and never been so
popular as a means of getting about
as today yet with all this has come
greater danger to human life, more accidents.
more serious accidents, more
people hurt and more damages inflicted.
The simple truth seems to be
that the railroad managers are not
sufficiently alive to the sacredness of
human life. This is the most precious
of all earthly things. It is something
that, once destroyed, can never be
replaced, and something the injury to
which may lead to results of most serious
consequences. There is a popular
impression in Europe that railroad
accidents are more frequent in America
than abroad, because the American
trains are run at a higher rate of
speed. This contention is hardly borne
out by the facts, since with the exce tion
of one or two recently established
trains, the fatest trains in the world
are operated abroad. The numerous
American accidents are due not so
much to the rapidity with which American
trains are run as to the carelessness
with which they are operated,
or the indifference with which the
American public at large views the
railroad. An accident that involves a
Derson not an employe of a railroad
or not a passenger may be partly due
to carelessness in railway management?American
Home and Garden.
Telegraphic New York.
Few persons appreciate the im- j
portance of the telegraphic business
of the metropolis. More than 4000
persons are employed by the Western
Union and the Postal Telegraph companies
in Greater New York, and as
many more perhaps in this vicinity in
the industries dependent on the wants
of the craft.
The moneys taken in for telegraphic
service in the financial district of
New York?the receipts from Wall
Street and the exchanges?are greater
than the entire telegraphic receipts of
the state of Ohio.
The receipts of the cable companies
alone exceed $7,000,000 annually.
This city is the' headquarters of the
New York Telegraphers' Mutual Benefit
association and the Telegraphers'
Aid society, of a flourishing telegraphers'
insurance association, the GoM &
Stock Insurance company, and a telegraphers'
building and loan association
with more than 1000 members.
Here also is the Magnetic club, a social
organization of those engaged in
ti%^ business, and the Morse club,
which has a banquet on the birthday
of the founder of the craft and fails
not on Memorial day to wreath his
statue in Central Park.with flowers.?
New York Pres?
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SAVED HOBBS MUCH TROUBLE.
Mean Trick Played by Wag on Good
Samaritans.
In the town of Newbury, Mass.,
there lived a man named Nathan
Hobbs, who sometimes drank more
than was good for him. One cold
moonlight night two deacons were
walking home from pTayer meeting.
Hobbs was just aheid, and heard
them coming. In a minute he was
down at the roadside, where he lay
like a log.
The deacons rolled and shook him,
but he didn't move.
"Well," said Deacon Smith, "what
I
Grateful for Their Help.
are we going to do. We can't let him
lay here and freeze, and we can't
carry him home; that wouldn't do."
"I'll tell ye," said Deacon Moare,
"we'll take him up to Mr. Flint's
barn."
So one took his feet and the other
his shoulders, and they began their
up-hill walk, wheezing and puffing
away. Twice they laid him down and
nearly concluded to let him lie there.
but finally they reached the barn.
They tugged him up into the haymow,
and let him down.
"There," said Moare, "I believe we
have done our duty. Certainly he
won't freeze, an' I dunno but it's going
to take a week to sober him up."
And the deacons started for home
again.
"Hold on, gentlemen," shouted a
voice. They turned, and, there in the
moonlight they saw Mr. Hobbs walking
with rapid strides toward them.
"I want to thank you gentlemen for
your kindness," he said, "and if you
don't mind I'll walk along with you.
The deacons became suddenly mute,
and the silence seemed to be getting
so painful that Mr. Hobbs decided to
take a short cut for home across the
fields.
Cold Has No Terrors for Him.
Seth S. Patten of Alexandria, N. H.,
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IS OII6 OX xne leniainctuic uieu iu uai
vicinity. He works in his sawmill
and about the farm clad in the same
clothes as in August, trousers made
of blue drilling, a cotton shirt and
drilling vest, with no underclothes at
all. On the coldest day this winter,
when the thermometer registered 10
degrees below zero, he was reshingling
his barn attired in this same
fashion.
Drawn by a King.
This sketch was drawn by King
Carlos of Portugal for the Paris newspaper
Figaro.
Bear Has Two Teeth Pulled.
A performing bear traveling with a
vaudeville company playing here this
week was the patient in a case of dental
surgery to-day.
The bear has been out of humor for
some time on account of toothache
and the two troublesome teeth were
removed by a local veterinary.
The animal was strapped on his
hank tn the floor and the trainer and
veterinary set to work. The tusks
were so firm that the job took an
hour and a half. The animal performed
as usual that evening.
There is no similar case on the records
of dental surgery.?Pottstown
correspondence Pittsburg Press.
Strangest Street in the World.
The city of Canton possesses the
strangest street in the world. It is
roofed in with glazed paper fastened
on bamboo, and contains more sign- ,
boards to the square foot than any
street in any other country. It contains
no other shops but those of
apothecaries and dentists. Appropriately
enough, it is called. Physic
street.
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WOULD HAVE SATISFIED JURY.
Circumstantial Evidence that Surely
Was Most Conclusive.
An extraordinary story is told concerning
a Leicester lady's recent adventure
with a supposed burglar and
its surprising sequel. Two married
couples, occupying adjoining houses,
were on very friendly terms, and one
lady informed the other that she and
her husband were to spend the evening
at. the opera house. The lady delayed
her departure to meet her husband,
and put the poker in the fire
to make it burn brighter. Just as
she withdrew it, red-hot, she heard
someone trying to open the front
door. Going down noiselessly she
saw a man's hand through the letterbox
aperture, with an Jngeniouslycontrived
piece of wire, with which
the person was trying to pull back the
spring catch of the lock. In an instant
she applied the red-hot poker to
the man's hand, rubbing it all over.
The hand was withdrawn with an
agonizing cry of pain. The lady greatly
frightened by the incident, rushed
into her friend's house next door for
assistance. Then she was more astonished
than ever to find her friend
annointing the terribly burned hand
of her husband.?London Mail.
MRS. MULQUEEN GOT A BARGAIN.
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And the Grocer's Comments Can Not
Be Printed.
At Thanksgiving time Lucius Hill, a
leading grocer of Augusta, Me., found
himself somewhat overstocked with J
turkeys. On the evening before 1
Thanksgiving, as he. was going home
to supper, he pointed to a particular
bird that was somewhat below the others
in size and amiearance. and said
to one of his clerks, Fred K.: "You
may sell that one for 15 cents," meanins:,
of course, 15 cents a pound.
When Mr. Hill returned from supper
he saw that the turkey referred
to was missing, and he inquired who
had bought it. Fred informed him
that he had, sold it to Mrs. Mulqueen,
The Grocer a l-ooser.
and she was much pleased to get even
so poor a turkey for 15 cents. He had
sold the whole turkey for 15 cents.
Work That Kills.
A visitor from South Africa described
what is doubtless at once the most
deadly and most highly paid kind of
work in the world.
"In the gold mines of Johannesburg,
he said, "the miners suffer terribly
from the dust produced by drilling
into the earth. Getting into thj?
lungs of the men employed in the
work, It produces consumption, whicb
often proves fatal in a comparatively
short time.
"This is so well understood that the
miners in charge of the work are very
nigniy paia; a luremau, m mvw UJ.O.J
receive as much as ?1,500 a year.
But even enormously high wages will
not always tempt men to shorten their
lives in this way, and this is one ot
the chief causes of the labor difficult
ty on the Rand.
Wooden FloWer of Guatemala. One
of ;he most remarkable botanical
curiosities in the world is the
wooden flower which is found in the
crater of the Volcan del Fuego, or
fire volcano, of Guatemala. It resembles
a half-blown rose, with four distinct
petals, curving gracefully from
the point of Junction with the stem;
The Guatemalan Indians regard the
plant with superstitious reverence,
and believe that it is indestructible.
They have a tradition that when one
side of the Volcan del Aqua, or water
volcano, burst out in 1841 and let
loose a raging flood of angry waters, a
shrub of this plant was the only thing
that escaped destruction. The Indians
uflnnror Mn railSfi or
ueucvc liiat vuv MV?> v v?
prevent an eruption of the volcano.
Making Mape.
Four colors at most are -needed to
distinguish the surfaces ot separate
districts onvany plane map, so that
no two with a common boundary are
tinted alike.
Od. this diagram A, B, and C are adjoining
districts, on a plane surface,
and X borders, in one way or another,
upon each.
It is clearly impossible to introduce
a fifth area which shall so adjoin
these four districts as to need another
tint.
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A Smiling Face Pay*.
There is a minister living out cf>
the East Side who is a great joker.
Ke loves 10 tell his jokes at the table,
and, when he does so, the other mem*
bers cf the family are expected to
laugh. The minister has a son twen- .
ty-one years eld, who gets awfully *
tired of the jokes. Recently he got
in the habit of scowling when his
father would spring hi3 alleged witticisms.
The minister noticed this and
thereafter it was impossible for the
sen to s?cure a second helping cf any
of the food his father served. *As a
result the son would sometimes leave
the table hungry. One day the family
had turkey for dinner and the son decided
to get all he wanted of it, even > |
if he had to laugh at his father's
jokes. Soon after he had eaten his
first allowance his father sprang a J
pun and the young man laughed. It
wasn't a simple laugh! it was a rear,
which only ended when he fell orf . \;j
his chair. When the son had pulled
himself together again his father
looked sternly over his glasses.- "
"Ahem! Henry," he said, picking'up
the carving knife and fork, "pass me
your plate and let me help you to 9
seme more of this excellent turkey.**
?Kansas City Journal.
The
Gray Wolf a Fighter.
From a private letter written by Dr.
Edward L. Munson, of Fort Assinfir
boine, Mont., we are permitted to
qucte a sentence or two which gives
a notion of the pewer of the gray
wolf, a matter that was referred to
in an article recently printed in these
?~1" ?? ~ TW. VTunc^n oO v<5 " & fnrt?
WlUliiiiO* Ju/x , iUUuwvu WI - r
night ago I ran. into an immense old
dog wolf which must have weighed
150 or 1G0 pounds. I had only three
dogs with me as the rest of the pack was
off after a jack rabbit. The dogs,
all fine fighters, all started for the
wolf, and he whipped them in one, y 4
two, three order, in less time than it >
takes me to tell it One he threw
ever a cut bank, crashed in the chest . -M
of another, and gashed the third dog's
throat. I do not think that he could
have done up three 100-pound wolfhounds
as easily, though these dogs
of mine are all good fighters and sav- V^jgl
age brutes, and one was an 85-poun4 '**
staghound."?Forest and Stream. rags
Sunday-School Attendance Record. The
four children of Mr. B. Hall-'
worth, jeweler, of Great Harwood,. * J
England, have created a unique rec-" - ord
by their remarkable attendance
at the Congregational Sunday-school in
that town, for a period totaling.fifty-one
years. There was only one V ^
solitary absence during that time/that ''?4|
being on account of illness. Alice
Ann, the oldest daughter, aged twenty- ^
one, has never missed for fifteen
years, and Clara, aged eighteen^ ^
james, agea sixteen, ana iu*cniDaxa,x ,<-<
aged thirteen, have respectively a rec?
ord of twelve, thirteen, and eleven s. /-S
years' unbroken attendance.
Cheap and Filling Food.
Now these be the virtues of the ^- ^
cereals; they are cheap, easily swaJ? ^>$1
lowed and of moderate nutritive value. V;f|
There is an element in the average hiK t v',;f?
man mind, half puritanic; half stingy,^ .J/gg
which is inclined to count as a virtue,
[ the ingestion of any food which is not ^
' especially attractive but believed
! be nutritious. In fact, to eat that '
| which is xbeap and filling is one of
j the petty vices.?McClure's Magaaina v ^
Lacking in Styie.
Tailor (standing off and inspeccir; - i
him)?'You don't like that even ?.;
suit? .Why, my dear sir, the fit is |j
solutely perfect, every line.
Cholly?I know It. It fits me too
| well. 7 The other chaps will say I
couldn't possibly have bad it mac/
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I KNIFED
Ci)A? Knifed an Old Soldier.
An old soldier, released from coffee
' at 72, recovered bis health and tells
' about it as follows: ?
"I stuck to coffee for years, although
it knifed me again and again.
"About eight years ago (as a result : ^
I of coffee drinking which congested my
liver), I was taken with a very severe
attack of malarial fever.
"I would apparently recover and
start abotit my usual work only to snf*
fer a relapse. After this had been-repea
ted several times during the year I
was again taken violently ill.
"The doctor said he had carefully V j
studied my case and it was either 'quit 0coffee
or die.' advising me to take ^
TXnofMm ii-a "I had alwavs V
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thought coffee one of my dearest \
friends, and especially when sick, and ^
I was very much taken back by the
doctor's decision for I hadn't suspected ?<||jj
the coffee I drank could rossibly cause p
my troubles. \
"I thought it over for a few minutes
and finally told the doctor I wou\d
make the change. Pcstum was procured
for me the same day and made (yi
according to directions; well, 1 liked it .$
and stuck to it and since then I have
been a new man. The change in health
began in a few days and surprised me,
and now, although I am seventy-two
years of age, I do lots of bard work
and for the past month have been
teaming, driving sixteen miles a day.
besides loading and unloading the
wagon. That's what Pogtuni In the
place of coffee has done for me. I now
like the Postum as well as I did coffee.
"I have known people who did not V, ^
care for Postum at first, but after hav*
J * 1 I* OAMinl.
ing ieamea 10 iuhkv u
ing to directions, they have come to like
it as well as coffee. I never miss a ? >
chance to praise it." Name given bjr ;
Tostum Co., Battle Creek, Micb.
Look for the little boob, "The Boatl . |
to Wellvllle," In pigs. :*