The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 19, 1906, Image 2
OWING THOUSANDS
Broker Alexander Skips Out
from Augusta, G"a.
IS MYSTERIOUSLY ABSENT
Banks Are Left in the Lurch to the
Tune of $145,000?Cotton Firm's
Failure Causes Great Sensation
in Georaia Git\'.?
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Revelation of the financial embarrassment
of the firm of cotton factors
of Alexander & Alexander, at Augusta,
Ga., cne of the largest in the
state, deveic discrepancies of about
$145,(KM), following the disappearance
of Thomas W. Alexander, head of the
firm.
Mr. Alexander left Augusta July
7th, after borrowing $2-00 from a
friend, saying he was going to New
York. The following night his brother,
Bishop Alexander, the junior
member of the firm, received a telegram
from him asking that his office
desk be opened and three let- I
ters found there be delivered. On? j
oi tne ieuers was to rus ym wci,
in which a statement was made or |
the financial embarrassment of the |
firm, and saying that if Mr. Alex- ;
ander was not back in Augusta by j
Wednesday he would never be seen j
again. Another letter was addressed !
to a local cotton mill president, and
a third to Mr. Alexander's wife.
The manner in -which the money
was secured^has not been made known
by the three banks who are the losers,
except that it was in the shape of
loans. The Georgia Railroad bank
sustains a loss of $115,000, which
was marked off its books Thursday,
and charged to the surplus and undivided
profits accounts. The National
Bank of Augusta lcses $7,000, and
the National Exchange bank $2,000.
The available assets of the firm
amount to about JSU.uw, wnne me |
personal liabilities of T. W. Alexander,
in addition to the amount of
loans, is about $26,000.
'In his letters T. W. Alexander
states that he alone is responsible,
that his brother Knew nothing of the
financial end of the business, and
had nothing to do% with it. Much
sympathy is expressed for his brother.
DREYFUS DOUBLY VINDICATED.
Stain of Dishonor Wiped Out and
Reparation to Be Made.
At Paris, Thursday, Alfred Dreyfus
was completely acquitted of the !
charges on which he w;as condemned !
as a traitor, dismissed from the army
and imprisoned on Devil's Island, and
regarding which France has been torn
for years by the most bitter political
and racial agitation. His vindication
is two-fold, the supreme court first
announcing a decision establishing the
entire innocence of the accused man
and the ministry later deciding to put
an urgent bill in parliament restoring
Dreyfus to the army with ad
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vancecr raua. ami uuici wxao
reparation.
GOVERNOR GRANTS RESPITES.
For Second Time Hanging of Rawlings
is Postponed.
Governor Terrell has respited J. G.
Rawlings and Alf Moore, both of
Friday last, at Valdosta, Ga., until
the 3d of August.
The respite was granted in order
that the men may be used as witnesses
in case the supreme court
gives the three Rawlings boys a new
trial. The case comes up August 16.
JEWS FLEE FROM WARSAW.
Terror-Stricken, Forty Thousand
Leave City in One Day.
It is estimated that no less than
40,000 Jews, old men, women and
children fled from *Viarsaw, Russian
Poland, Thursday. Most of the ablebodied
male Jews remained to protect
their property.
The houses of the Jews are empty.
and armed guards are posted at the
.gates and patrols parade the streets.
ATLANTANS ENTERTAIN JEROME.
New York District Attorney and Two
Assistants Warmly Welcomed.
Monday three very distinguished
guests. William Travers Jerome, the
famous district attorney of New York,
and his two assistants, Arthur C. Vaadiver
and Francis P. Garvan, were entertained
by citizens of Atlanta. This
trio of legal talent that have become
national arrived in the city Sunday
afternoon enroute to Warm Springs,
Ga., where Mr. Jerome was slated
to address the Georgia Bar Associa
UUU.
ADMIRAL ASSASSINATED.
Commander of Russian Black Sea
Fleet Put Out of Action.
Advices from Sebastopol, Russia,
state that Vice Admiral Chouknin,
commander of the Black sea fleet,
who was shot Wednesday, supposedly
by a sailor of the battleship Otchakoff,
died Thursday morning without
having regained consciousness.
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BRYAN MORE RAD CAL.
Nebraskan Says He Has Changed
Somewhat Since 1896?Comments
on Word "Conservative."
A London special says: William J.
Bryan, having had the opportunity of
reading American newspapers, consented
Thursday to discuss some of
the questions which have been raised
since he has become prominent as
a presidential possibility for 1908. He
said, in part:
"I notice that I am described by
some as a conservative and in order
that there may be no misunderstanding
on that subject, permit me to say
that in one sense I always have been
a conservative. The democratic poli-1
cies are conservative in that they
embody eld principles applied to new
conditions. There was nothing new in
principle in either of the platforms
on which I stood. We were accused
of attacking property when in fact
the democratic party is the defender
of property because it endeavors to
draw the line between honest accumulation
by honest methods on the
one side and predatory wealth and
immoral methods on the other.
"It is to the interest of every honest
man that dishonesty should be
exposed and punished; otherwise the
deserving are apt to suffer for the
undeserving.
"If, however, by the word conservative
they moan that I have changed
my position on any public question
or moderated my opposition to cor- j
porate aggrandizement they have a
surprise waiting for them. I am
more radical than I was in 1S96, and
have nothing to withdraw on economic
questions which have been under
discussion.
"in? oniy quesnon we uiseusseu m j
1S96 upon which there has been anyapparent
change is the silver question
and that has not been a change in the
advocates of bimetalism, but in conditions.
"We contended for more money and
urged the free coinage of silver as
the only means then in sight for
securing it. The production of gold
has brought in part the benefit we
expected to secure from the restoration
of silver. The per capita volume
of money in the United 'States
is almost 50 per cent greater now
than it was in 1896 and the benefits
brought by this increase have not
only vindicated the quantitive theory
of money but have proven the benefits
cf the larger amount of money.
No advocate of the gold standard can
claim the triumph of his logic.
'T believe in bimetallism, and . I believe
that the restoration of silver
would bring still further prosperity,
?acfrtrin<r nan in n 5?P be.
UCdlU^O 0 w
tween gold and silver usiDg countries;
but I recognize, as do all other
bimetalists who I have met abroad,
that the unexpected and unprecedented
increase in gold production has
for the present removed the silver
question as an issue.
"While the money question has
waned in importance, other questions
have been forging to the front, and
to these questions we must apply the
same principles w.e applied to the
money question and seek to secure
the greatest good to the greatest
number by legislation which conforms
to the doctrine of equal rights for all
and special privileges for none."
Mr. Bryan added that he would discuss
the trust, tariff, railroad and
labor questions, imperialism and other
issues at length when he reached
America.
STRIKES DEFY AUTHORITIES.
Well Armed, One Hundred Take
Charge of Government Camp.
One hundred strikers have taken
possession o/ the government camp
at Corbett tunnel, in the Shoshone
reservation works, eight miles from
Cody, Wyoming, and have created a
reign of terror. They threaten the
jives of 500 other men if they return
to work.
Sheriff Halmette of Cody, with fifty
mounted deputies, heavily armed,
left Thursday afternoon for the scene
of the trouble. A battle is probable,
as the strikers are armed and are incensed
at the officers because they
drove them out of Cody, July 4.
LOWER FREIGHT RATES.
Assured Columbus Shippers Who
Will Patronize All-Waterway.
The skippers cf Columbus, Ga., are
to make a concerted effort to secure
lower freight rates. The plan is to
patronize the all-water route, via Apalachicola,
regardless of all possible
delays and inconveniences.
The situation was gone over thor*
oughly at a meeting of a special committee
from the Columbus board of
trade on the subject of a water route,
and it was the practically unanimous
opinion that a water route should be
established.
GIRL WAS ASSASSIN.
Report That Chouk*nin Died at Hands
of Female Terrorist.
According to a dispatch from Sevastopol,
Russia, it is credibly stated
that the assassin of Admiral Chouknin,
commander of the Black Sea fleet,
was a girl, disguised in the uniform
of a soldier. No arrest has yet been
made.
Excitement in Topeka.
There is great excitement over the
report that a bride who will come to
Topeka soon has a maid, says the Topeka
?State Journal. This will raise
the limit and establish a new record
in Topeka. Occasionally a Topeka
woman steals the housemaid or nurse,
exchanges their caps and aprons for
the lady's maid kind and takes her out
of town with her in order to make a
noise like an aristocrat, but it is believed
the new bride will be the only
woman in Topeka who has a really
and truly lady's maid all her own who
never helps out in the kitchen, nursery
or laundry.
Gloves.
What variety!
Kid is smartest.
Fabric gloves are here.
In most cases gloves match.
Cleverly contrasted gloves are seen.
Gauntlets appear in fetching novelties.
Showilv-adorned gloves will not
"take" here.
Yellow chamois gloves are exceedingly
smart.
Elbow lengths in colored silk gloves
are sold out.
The elbow length craze was not ex
pected to rage as severely.?mnaaeipkia
Record.
Blames Wives for Divorce.
Neither careless husbands nor pretty
typewritists, but pastors and wives
are responsible for most modern divorces,
according to Mrs. Maria C.
Weed, who spoke before the W. C. T.
U.
"The utter selfishness of wives drive
many husbands' from their homes."
said Mrs. Weed. "When a minister,"
she continued, "accepts a fee in which
he feels certain that honor has been
bartered for a title, is it not the acme
of inconsistency for him to persist
that the blunder which he helped to
consummate shall be a life sentence?"
?New York Globe.
Weaving Silk Rags.
Tiny looms for the weaving of silk
rags into strips which are afterwards
joined to make rugs or couch covers,
or even portieres, are among the interesting
inventions brought about by
the interest women are taking in all
forms of handicraft.
On the loom can be woven strips of
about nine inches wide, the warp
threads stretched as firmly as in the
big, full-edged affairs used for the
heavier sort of work. "Hit-or-miss"
pattern are popular in silk work as
they are in the old-fashioned rag carpets,
used now only for kitchen or
nursery, but often strips composed of
two colors are made, with one used
for bordering the ends.
Cow Swallowed a Snake.
Mrs. Carrie Hagen, a widow of La
Crosse, Wis., was until recently the
proud owner of a beautiful cow, the
sale of whose milk contributed largely
to the woman's support. Five or six
weeks ago the animal became ill, and
Mrs. Hagen was forced to cease selling
milk. Veterinary aid was summoned.
The oase was puzzling In tne
extreme. Then Mrs. Hagen decided
that it was best to have the suffering
bovine killed. In order to satisfy her
^curiosity as to what ailed the animal
she had it cut open. In the cow's
stomach was a large reptile. It looked
like a water snake. In its lower jaw it
had four small teeth. It is thought
that the cow, while pastured near
some creek or stream, had swallowed
a young snake, which had grown and
flourished ever since in the poor animal's
stomach. Mrs. Hagen says the
snake was an inch and a half thick
and fifteen feet long. The assertion is
borne out by neighbors.?Milwaukee
Wisconsin.
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nave ocduuiui nanu>
Soft, 'white hands, with well-shaded
rosy nails, are an-attraction not to be
lightly considered.
The hands should be manicured at
least once a week, and the time spent
on the task will be found well worth
the while. Always dry the hands carefully,
and keep the flesh about the base
of the nails free, so that the halfmoons
will show. If the hands are
very thin, fatten it by means of massage
with a good skin food. A good
preparation for tender hands, which is
both softening and whitening in effect,
Is made of powdered marshmallow root
two ounces, carbonate of soda two
ounces, with twelve ounces of barley
stirred into it While doing rough
housework always wear gloves. It
may seem a bother, but it repays the
trouble. At night rub the hands with
good cold cream, and slip on old loose
gloves. These are little duties that
take but a few mintues to do, yet if
nersisted in regularly and systemati
cally will result in softness and whiteness
of the hands.
How to Lift the Baby.
While the manner of lifting a young
child is seemingly of minor importance,
at the same time it is of enough
concern to receive consideration. The
bones of an infant are soft, not easily
broken but very easily bent and shaped
if pressure is constantly exerted on or
near the same locality. Pressure
should never be exerted on the chest
of a young infant,- the ribs are very
small and frail, and finger pressure
such as would have to be exerted by
placing the hands around the body and
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lifting the baby is not to De aesneu,
sometimes a marked depression is likely
to occur from this sort of handling,
thus hampering the free action of the
lungs and interfering with the breathing;
cases of chronic coughs have been
known to result from such degression.
Handle the young infant without pressure
if possible; this may be accomplished
by placing the hand under the
back, letting the head rest on wrist or
arm. Or extend two or three fingers
upward for this purpose, and with the
other hand lift the child by the clothes
at the feet.?Marianna Wheeler iff
Harper's Bazar.
Fashion Notes.
The woman who wears the gloves
with the small pocket for change
stitched to the palm is sure never to
lay down her pocketbook.
Line your Irish lace coat with mous+V10
iionitv nf rhp will b#
oc1x11u ^ lii^ v^uvi vj v* vmv .
very much, enhanced.
Shoes of patent leather with white |
kid tops and black buttons are preferred
by some to the all-white shoes
to wear with light, thin gowns; it
would be hard to say which is the better
style for both are very modish.
Three box plaits front and back provide
ample fullness for the small girl's
low-necked, no-sleeved dress which is
worn over a guimpe. The plaits are
fastened to a two-and-one-balf inch
circular band which takes the place
of a yoke.
Automobiles and automobile apparel
now occupy the attention of a host of
men and women?especially the apparel.
Every woman seems to be trying
to find a coat and a hat that will
be practical and becoming too, and she
is succeeding beautifully. There never
were so many automobile hats shown
and worn as this season.
The accordion-plated sheer blouses
which accompany some of, the new
princess skirls are very dainty accessories
to this favorite skirt. The yoke
is of fine embroidery and cloth bands
like the skirt follow it and the bottom
of the short sleeves to give the
effect of an entire costume.
Wide tucks and flat ribbon bands
seem to be the favored skirt trimmings
for graduation and other sheer gowns
while folds of the same are much used
on wool materials.
Make one of your negligees with the
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snort sieeves siooucu v.ivc** w
shoulder and lace together the spreading
edges with velvet ribbon.
Women's Ignorance of Business.
Thousands of girls are sent out into
the world with what is called finished
educations, who can not give a proper
receipt for money, to say nothing of
drawing a promissory note, a draft or
a bill, or understanding the significance
and importance of business contracts.
Such a woman, says 0. S. Marden in
Success Magazine, presented a check
for payment to the paying teller of her
bank. He passed it back to her with
the request that she be kind enough
to indorse it. The lady wrote on the
back of the check." I have done business
with this bank for many years,
and I believe it to be all right Mrs.
James B. Brown."
Another society woman in New York
City presented a check for payment
at the bank, and the teller told her that
it was not signed. "Oh, do they have
to be signed?" she responded. "What
an awful lot of red tape there is about
the banking business."
I know of a lady whose husband
made a deposit for her in a bank and
gave her a check book so that she
could pay her bills without annoying
him. One day she received a notice
from the bank that her account was
overdrawn. She went to the bank and
told the teller that there must be a
mistake about it, because she -still had
a lot of checks left in her book. She
knew so little about business that she
thought that she could keep drawing
any amount until the checks were all
gone.
This sounds ridiculous and almost
incredible, yet the very girl who laughs
at it may make even more absurd
blunders. Many an accomplished woman,
when given a pen and asked to
sign an important document drawn up
by an attorney or a long-headed business
man, will sign it without reading
it or even asking to be informed of its
contents, only to learn afterwards by
disastrous results that she has signed
away her property and turned herself
out of home. Only a short time ago I
read of a lady who had won a suit involving
about $20,000. New evidence,
however, was brought forward, vwhich
caused the court immediately to reverse
its decision. It was proved that
the lady had sworn falsely. She was
perfectly innocent of any such intention,
but she had sworn, that she had
never signed her name to a certain document.
The document was produced,
and, to her utter astonishment, she saw
her signature affixed to it. She acknowledged
at once that the signature
was hers, although she had just sworn
that she had never signed the paper
in question. It appeared that, during
her husband's lifetime, whenever papers
were to be signed, he told her
where to write her name, and she did
as she was told, without having the
slightest idea, of the contents of the
papers.
NEW YORK'S GREAT klTOHENS. .
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Getting Sigger Every Year?Ovens
Out Under the Street.
In recently-built hotels in New York
the kitchen is a space about 150x200 I
feet, floored with red tiles. The walls |
where exposed are tiled in white. The j
ceiling is 14 feet high. j
At the entrance is the chef's office,
and near him the principal refrigera- j
tor for the storage of meat. Along !
one side are from 50 to 100 lineal j
feet of ranges adapted to coal, gas" and j
charcoal.
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In front of these are the cooks' j
tables, in the steel tops of which are i
Kint-c tininc.moria otirl ctpjim t&blftS. '
Underneath are steam plate warmers, i
Above the cooks' heads are racks, on ;
which is hung a picturesque array of !
copper pots, skillets, sauce pans and !
kettles, and above this again is the j
elaborate system of ventilating ducts ;
which carry off the smoke and odor j
from every appliance where heat is
generated.
Near the man kitchen and about
one-half its size, says Indoors and
Out, is the soup and roasting department,
provided with stock, soup and
grease boilers and an oven for roasting
fowl or large joints of meat. Such
an oven in one of the new hotels has !
a capacity of 1000 pigeons or 300
chickens or 16 large ribs of beef.
The boilers are huge copper affairs,
double jacketed, and some of the
spits for roasting meats are turned
by electricity. This department contains
its own refrigerator, in which is I
kept all uncooked food prepared here, j
Other departments are the vegetable j
room, butcher shop, oyster room, :
bakery, ice cream department, confec- j
tionery shop, china store and the great .
storprnnin Tn addition to these de- i
partments, where the chief classes cf I
food are prepared, there are innumer- |
able booths and counters where I
dishes of a lighter order are made !
ready for the hurrying waiters.
Sandwiches and salads, for example* !
are prepared near the garde manger, j
Coffee urns and roll warmers, griddle
and waffle ranges, toasters and egg !
boilers must be where their products j
can be most conveniently delivered to
the room above.
The kitchen should not be removed
more than one. floor from the dining
room, grill room or cafe to be served.
Dumbwaiter communication- is impracticable,
as it cools the food. The human
waiter must have free access to
the kitchen, and so speedy that he
shall spend the greatest possible time
in the dining-room within call of pat?
rons.
Having dropped his written order in
a tube, he must go to the proper place
in the kitchen to obtain it when prepared.
On his way to the ranges he
should pass the counter, near the kitchen
entrance, where bread and rel- j
ishes are supplied, for he must be !
placing these before his customer |
while the fish or meat is being cooked, j
As he starts up the stairway he i
must pass the checker, who places the
ynv;c; upuu >v uaiv vci uc 10 ounug.
For salads he must be able to reach
the salad department with equal ease.
For wines and liquors he must go to
the bar of the kitchen.
Whatever number .of stories a hotel
displays above the street, the business
of the enterprise goes on in those below
the pavement, and so hard pressed
is the city hotel for space that every
foot the law allows the owner to
reach under the sidewalk is eagerly
seized. The bakery of the new Hotel
Belmont, for example, is under the
pavement at Park avenue and Fortysecond
street, and one of the ovens is
directly over the subway as it makes
the -curve there.
.A Valuable Dog.
Mark Twain is immensely popular
with the farmers living around "Quarry
arm," his summer home near Elmira,
N. Y. He and his neighbors
exchange experiences and both profit
thereby. The genial humorist tells of
one farmer who purchased a hunting
dog that was highly recommended to
him by a man who did not seem particularly
reluctant about parting with
it. When the dog was delivered the
farmer looked it over with considerable
misgivings. It seemed shy and i
bashful and hardly the animal it was
cracked up to be. Anxious to give it j
a trial, however, he took it out shortly
afterwards and, as luck would have
it, ran across a fox. The dog took after
the fox and the two were soon out j
of sight, the farmer following as rap- |
idly as he could. Finally he meet j
another farmer who, in response to [
his inquiry, stated that they had j
passed in his direction. Asked as to
how they were running, the second
farmer replied: "Wall, it was nip and
tuck, but I think the dog was about
three feet ahead."-r-LIppincott's
The Crown of Gold.
"The late Paul Lawrence Dunbai,
the negro poet," said an editor,
"once addressed a Sunday school in
New York. I heard the address. It
was delightful. An odd incident happened,
though, at its end, an incident
that Dunbar laughed at as heartily as
the rest of us.
"Dunbar, toward the close of his re- |
marks, said:
" 'And, my little friends, if you do
all these things some day you will
wear a gold crown. Yes, ehch of you
some Clay Will wear a genu viiuwu. I
"A little chap in the front row,
catching the poet's friendly eye,
piped:
" 'My fader wears one now.'
"'No!' said the poet
"'Yes, he does?on his toof,' said
the little chap."
The French find fun in legislation
just as do some of the so loos of
American States, - .
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Danger of Relying on Secrecy to Pro.
tec* a Process.
Some years ago the Goldsshmldt
Company, of Essen, Germany, perfected
a process of detinning tin
scrap, but instead of patenting the
process they depended on secrecy to Vmake
it profitable. The usual result ??.,.j
of such practice followed. Two of
the employes knowing - the secret,
proved unfaithful and sold their
knowledge to a concern which commenced
the work in Holland and from
there it was brougl^ to America. The ^
American concern in turn was served
in the manner. The result was
that undesirable competition was established
by two plants, one at Paulsbpro,
N. J., and the other at Joliet, IlL
The company first on the ground In
this country commenced suit again %
the competitor, seeking to enjoin them
from usine the knowledge obtained
through the defection of ?ne of their
employes. The case was thrown Out
cf court, as the court would not stain .
its hands with such disreputable proceedings,
none of the parties haying
good standing. The operation of
a plant on the principle of secrecy
puts a premium on dishonesty. The ^
patent laws of most countries offer
adequate protection for most inventions
and discoveries; if that protec* ,
tion is not sought, but rather that
of secrecy, the possibility of recovery
of damages in case the secret is stolen
by competitors is very slight in- J,
deed.?Machinery.
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NATURAL BRIDGES. \.V
, Two
Theories in Regard to Thelf
Formation.
It is commcnly believed, says the
Geographical Record, that natural
bridges, of which the Natural Bridge
cf Virginia is the best known Am- ?
erican example, are due to the falling
in of cavern roofs, leaving only a
part to span the stream which the.
destruction of the cavern has brought ' "
to the surface.
By a study of the North Adams
Natural Bridge, Professor Cleland'v^
has been, led to ue cvuuuiwu * in
this case at least the origin ifi
quite different In thi? case the bridge
seems to be due to the solution of :-'-3
the limestone along a joint plane near;
the former course of Hudson Brook, &E
At first only a small amount of water: |aa
seeped along the joint plane but after
awhile, it made a channel lar^.;*J|
enough to divert the entire brook
der the surface, giving rise to fhst;>:||
bridge.
Walcott had previously offered
similar theory for the Natural' Bridge* Jg
of Virginia, and Cleland concludes
that while the falling in of caverAJ^
roofs may occasionally give rise to^|||
natural bridges the most common
cause for such bridges in marble, j
limestone, sandstone and lava is thaKv^
outlined above.
Dry Farming and irrigation.
There is nothing inimical to irrigfer';^
tion in the dry-farming movement
Each has a wide field before it many
regions it is probable that a ?*
combination of irrigation and dry- ^:
farming methods will be found desir*
able. By an economical use of t2to > Jf
water stored in reservoirs, in acco^d^-i||
ance with dry-farming principles, and Ja
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tha* fall in the soil as taught by the ^
advocates of dry-farming, and draw-'^|
Ing upon the irrigating ditches only - p
to supply the deficiency, it is possible ^
that irrigation reservoirs may be able
to supply double or treble the acre* ^
age they can serve by the present
wasteful methods, and that great "
stretches of territory in which the
rainfall is too small to allow the sue*
cessful application of dry-farming r:
methods alone may be covered with
waving grain fields?From John JjCowan's
"Dry-Farming?the Hope of ;
the West" in tha Century.
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' 1 OUTDOOR
LIFE
Will Xot Offset the 111 Effects of ' v
Cnffoa One Cannot Dijrest It.
A farmer says:
"It was not from liquor or tobacco
that for ten years or more I suffered
from dyspepsia and stomach trouble; f
I they were caused by the use of cof* <3$
[ fee until I got so bad I had to give
up coffee entirely and almost give up
eating. There were times when'-1
could eat only boiled milk and bread ^3
and when I went to the field to work
I had to take some bread and butter ;s^|
along to give me strength.
"I doctored with doctors and took
almost everything I could get for my
stomach in the way of medicine, but M
if I got any better it only lasted a Jj!
little while until I was almost a ;-?
walking skeleton.
"One day I read an ad. for Postum
and told my wife I would try it, and
as to the following facts I will make
affidavit before any judge:
"I quit coffee entirely and used *-.i
Postum in its place. I have regained
my health entirely and can eat anything
that is cooked to eat. I . have
increased in weight until now I"
weigh more than I ever did; I have
l not taken any medicine for my stomach
since I began using Postum.
i Why, I believe Postum will almost ?
digest an iron wedge.
"My family would stick to coffee
at first, but they saw the effects it _4
had on me and when they were feel- ;
ing bad they began to use Postum,'
one at a time, until now we all use
Postum." Name give by Postum x
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Ten days' trial of Postum in place
of coffee proves the truth, and easy *5
and pleasant way. "There's a rea- T|p
son. '
Look in pkgs. for a copy of the >
famous little book, "The Road" to j
Wellville."'
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