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It" What Is a Good Cow? A good cow is one, irrespective of breed, that pays her owner a net profit. The cow that produces a pront cannot always be distinguished from one rv that does not, by external appearance. Signs of good cows many times fail. Looks, in a cow, at least, are sometimes deceiving. The value of a cow is not told simply by the amount of milk she gives for a given period or the richness of that milk. We must know the cost of keeping as well as the production of the cow to determine her , .value.?Farmers' Home Journal. I Hints on Lawn-Sowing. r .1 Get the very best grade of lawn mixture for seeding, and use it liberally. \ I believe in thick sowing. This way , J- * you are not obliged to wait a year for a od sward. Sow the seed on a very r; >fttillNday, if you want an even "catch." I would advise sowing from one side, and then cross-sowing. It is a good S plan to sow just before a rain, if pos?r sible, as this will imbed the seed in H the soil and prevent it from being blown away. If the season is a dry one it is well to roll or beat down the soil | after sowing to make it compact enough to retain moisture until germination can take place.?Outing Mag* azine. Test Age of Fowls. 7; A roosters' age is determined by the 7 size of his spurs, if they are long he ;! ? is "antique." If there is a small button oa the ankle where the spurs come later he is a young bird. Ducks are fcV Invariably judged by the under lip of the bill. If a dressed duck will sustain ^ its.weight by its under bill, "lay it back | jftnd try another,-" for there is no telling Slow old it is; certainly too old to be ? real tender. But if the bill snaps easiI: ly it is a young bird. Gobblers are Mold by their spurs, the same as roosters, the age of a hen turkey being determined by the length of its beard, . says the Tri-State Farmer. Aside from the test applied to ducks there is one infallible rule which can be applied with safety in all cases. The back ? part of the breast bone can be beht eas% ily in a young fowl. If- it is sharp and hard and "refuses to yield to pres| Bare from your thumb it is an old |: bird. P'11 j/' * The Best Soils. Soils fnade up of a nearly equal pro > portion of clay, or fine silt and sand, and sand are the best. They allow the - rain and water to slowly go downward, and they have many pores, which carry I the water downward with a power greater than the force of gravitation. -These soils do not allow the water to ipercolate to so great a depth that it lean neither be reached by the roots of : .field crops, which go downward to a ' 'depth of from three to seven feet, nor *v. -rise to the roots by the same capillary power which helped carry it down h . and held it from going further. These i -soils are usually in good condition [very soon after a wet period, because ,they can absorb a great deal of moist: jture and carry it down so that the {surface it dry enbugh for tillage. Such soils are also excellent in dry weather, [because they have a large supply or ? prater stored up which can be used by ?he plant when needed.?Weekly Witness. j Riches in Corn Stalks. Prof. Wiley, of the Department of (Agriculture, says that inasmuch as every 100 pounds of corn stalks will ? |yield six and a half pounds of absolute alcohol it is obvious that the ignorant agriculturist has been allowing jan enormous amount of wealth to go ito waste. ' p Say that one acre will yield from ten ito twelve tons of grain stalks, or about 1 120,000 pounds, and you have a quantity of raw material that woll produce [1800 pounds of absolute alcochol, or 210 ? jarallons. Alcohol at the present time is jworth 40 cents a gallon. ( Ground in a wet condition and dried {Corn stalks may be kept indefinitely, and are ready at any time for conversion into alcohol. Prof. Wiley says jthat the alcohol derivable from the corn stalks that now go to waste in this country would not only drive all the machinery in our factories, but .would furnish the requisite power for all railroads and steamboats, run all our automobiles, heat and illuminate all of our houses and light the streets |of every city in the Union.?Farmers' Home Journal. Never Buy a Cheap Ram. Never buy a cheap ram just because he is cheap. He will prove dear, even if given to you. Get a strong ram, a yearling or a two-year-old. A ram is half the flock, and so a very cheap plan for improvement. While you are selecting and securing your rom, place the ewes in a fresh pasture, a plot of rape or give them a few oats that they may be gaining rapidly for a few days before and while you are breeding them. This is Considered a means to secure a large Ipefcentage of lambs. Another detail in this connection is to see that they are properly tagged. If the flock is large, do not turn the ram in to wear himself out uselessly; / /.. s i , ' .V- the last of the lamb crop will have to ^ ^<-> T af him in at) faj IUI it ii jwa UJ. jL^>t mui v? hour twice a day, and feed him well. To bring the ewes into winter quarters in strong condition is important, and they should not be exposed to the cold rains. Their wool is partly grown and they dry out slowly in these short days and the effect is deteriorating. Let them have a shelter, and as cold weather approaches let them have some roughage that they may gradually change from grass to winter rations.? Homer Hitchcock. Grafting in Apple Orchards. The old orchard can be very, much helped by grafting and fertilization. The best time to graft is in the eariy spring, and preparations should be commenced as soon as the buds have swelled a little, by the last of March or first of April. The scions should be cut, tied in bundles and' placed in some cool, damp- place, such as the cellar bottom. Scic-ns are merely the last year's growth of some trees, the kind you -wish to propagate. It is important that the tree selected should be vigorous and bear apples of a good size and color. As soon as it is warm enough for wax to work well, usually in April, you can begin to graft. If there should come an occasional cold day you can place your wax in <a pail of warm water to soften it. If the tree is large enough to contain more than one stub, look it over carefully and decide what limbs to graft and what to remove, that the tree may be well balanced. The branches need thinning out somewhat to let the sunlight in, but too manj'^must not be removed at once or , the tree will be removed at the roots and not do so well, though it may seem all right for a time. Tne branches should be sawed off smoothly close to the body of the tree so the wound will heal quickly. After the tree has been trimmed and you have decided what branches to graft, saw off the stub smoothly with a sharp, fine-toothed saw, split with the grafting knife and wedge open. Select a scion in proportion to the size of the stub and cut off a piece large enough to contain three buds. Some grafters use only two, but it is better to have-three, as often the lower bud set one-eighth of an inch into the bark and covered with wax will live, when the others are devoured by insects. . Next sharpen the lower end of the scicn somewhat like a wedge, but with the outer edge wider than the inner, so it will fit tightly into one cleft in the stub. Then set the sharpened scion into the cleft so that the inside bark of the scion will match the inside bark at the stub. If the stub is large it is better to get two scions, cutting out one the second year if both live. Now cover the stub with wax and your tree is grafted.?Richmond Times-Dispatch. Farm Notes. Sheep are very efficient aids in making clean pastures by keeping down many kinds of weeds. Cockerels with spurs are classed as old fowls in market. Market them before the spurs make much growth. Young trees should not be trimmed too liberally, as too much foliage'taken from the tree weakens its feeding power. There is no objection to selling No. 2 fruit if it is so marked. But to sell No. 2 fruit as No. 1 is where the trouble is. Whenever root grafting is used in the winter the plants should not be set out in the spring unless the grafts have grown together. Every poultryman should lay in a supply af alfalfa and clover for his fowls during the winter. Green feed is as essential as grain. Cora is low in price suicc jitai d in | certain localities, tl is possible that next season there may be but half a crop, tut the excess over that required for consumption may bring good prices. Farmers who have too much 'grain on I hand, with prices ruling low, should ! endeavor to increase the number of animals on the farm in order to convert the corn into something more salable. Crowded. A man who was doing his best to convince the world at large, and himself in particular, that he was perfectly sober tried to purchase a theatre seat and was told that there was only standing room. He bought an admission ticket and made another one of the crowd standing up in the back watching the show. After a few minutes he returned to the window and gravely handed over another dollar. "Gimme 'nother standing ticket,' he said thickly, "I want more room to see."?Bohemian. Sarcastic. "Are there ever any really sure things at the race track?" asked I the curious woman. "Yes," answered young Mrs. Torkins. "My husband is one of them." ; ?Washington Star. I . \ ' " -'v' . ' . WHERE "HEART How Fire-Fighter The F Qualities the Medical Men Can't ! f Neressarv? Firemen Must posure?The White ' Hard to Taking men for the fire department off the bottom of the civil service eligible list is not without precedent, but it is only recently that the commissioner has had very much room to exercise his power. Heretofore the qualifying mental examinations were so stiff that only about enough men to fill vacancies ever got on the list ro go before the head the department. Today the "physical exam.," "experience sheet." "memory test," and "rules" rank in importance in the order named, and while the requirements are none the less stringent, still a man with limited schooling has much more of a chance than he ever had before. The movement towards this qualifying process has been gradual. and the opportunity given the appointing power to pick "seasoned timber" is heartily endorsed by every battalion chief from Harlem to the Bat tery. "The men are paid to risk their necks," was the way one chief expressed it; "to sacrifice them, if necessary. A fireman must be able' to take punishment as long as he can toddle on his legs. If he quits after the first of the gaff, we don't want him. It costs money every time a man goes to the hospital or on the pension list, and* every fireman knows the department is short of funds. We don't even like to have firemen sick. The man must be tough, used to exposure, and willing to be whipped if he lags. Books won't help him any. He's got to be born? and bruised to it. The farms give us the best firemen, and we get almost as good ones off the streets. We pick them out Of factories, railroad yards, and off the front end of trolley cars?any place, vfhere the brute in man is eager to butt against something huskier than himself and get hurt." : The Test of "Heart." According to the standard that seems to be set up by the department, a fireman may be little or he may be big, but he has got to have "heart." The examining surgeons test this with the stethoscope, the fire chiefs by driving their man into a hole full of choking smoke. They may stand him against a scorching wall of hot flame, or chase him up a crumbling wall with a scaling ladder. If he had "heart" he "makes good;" if he lacks it, there are plenty of men anxious to take his place, and they are not kept waiting. Consumption, the great white plague, is getting too common a trouble with the husky men of the fire department. Maybe it is the sudden changes from heat to cold, possibly the choking hot smoke, the poisonous vapors, or the chill of damp cellars. Anyway, a sturdy, pair of lungs and regular habits are required to keep off the dread dis "? o ty?on ease in mis vucnuuu. wm.v <? iuuh shows weakness in his lungs, the surgeons hustle him out of the department, and many a poor fellow has suffered like a dumb brute rather than confess his sickness and be retired. When discovered, they are advised to go to the plains of the southwest, where with their pension they can save money and win back their Strength. Some of them are given leave of absence, but few are willing to forsake the fascination of the city and isolate themselves on a ranch. The physical requirements for the fire department are more severe than in any other of the municipal organization. For instance, in 1899, out of one batch of about 1600 applicants, some 680-odd passed the physical examination. Out of this 680, 49 only passed the mental tests. Today, of that 49, 22 are assistant foremen, several have died or been killed, 4 are foremen, and the rest engineers. One of these foremen, in speaking of those who had met death, referred to them casually like this:, "A tank fell on 'Biliie' up on Sixth avenue: 'Mickie' went through a floor down . in Mulberry Bend, and Henry got choked in a cellar. 'Shorty' , oh, yes, 'Shorty' got the 'con,' and is laying brick on skyscrapers, won't leave the city, 'cause he knows he's only got a short time to live!" Discipline Paramount. All the training the men need they rrtL* lr> tho Honartmpnt nnlv aj% a vet U 4U ? ^ r ? - - eran chief pointed out, self-control means much, and an applicant who cnn show good clean p?.pers from some disciplined force will be taken on immediately. Discipline is absolute in the fire department. It is as strong almost as in the army or navy, and that is perhaps tffe reason why the fireman whom the public meets in trolley cars, subway, or elevated trains are invariably quiet, inconspicuous, and never disorderly. One will more fully appreciate this trait by comparing them to the average polfcema*^ under similar circumstances. The fii^man, moreover, is always neat and cleanly in his personal appearance. The horses and apparatus are as well groomed as the men themselves. This isn't accomplished entirely by rules and insulations. Neither one nor two men in each engine house and with whips could force such neatness. For the most part firemen come from thfi sober-industrious, hnrd-working . ? / / ; - - f - " COUNTS MOST s Are Made From Iough. ^ Find, But Which Are Absolutely Stand Punishment and ExPlague and Whiskey Avoid. classes. As boys they have had clean, comfortable homes, or they would not be made of the "stuff" demanded. To 11 ? 4.1 r\T*c taeir uiumeis <xnu latu^i o tu&j v ^ not a little of their training. Oftentimes you will find the father in the department as v^ell as the son, and both of them contented and happy. Those who go in to fight fire have no ambition to hoard money and become rich. There is very little gold saved by firemen. Most of them live up to their incomes, and not a few with families have hard work to keep out of debt. The single men, however, can save money, and some of them do. Wise investment helps toward the accumulation of a "pile," and before he knows Jack has a bank account. There are men in the department whose fathers are well fixed and ready to put their sons into business, but the sons prefer to wear the helmet. The writer knows instances of firemen in the service 'today who come of substantial, well-to-do families, and who have themselves, saved their wages and doubled them by profitable investments. One of these men has a father who owns a big ranch in the west, and the "old man" is just as proud of his boy as though he were back on the divide counting cattle. There are college graduates In the department, and high school boys without number. "We get a lot of youngsters crammed full of sentiment and romance," said a .lieutenant the other day. The lieutenant himself is not more than 30. "They read trash in the newspapers, trash in the novels, in the magazines, and they've got it fast in their heads that they're cut out to rescue some beautiful daughter of the rich owner of a brownstone front! Those boys are absolute 'nutty'?something loose ? x ?? - i~i~ v?A nrm.-w ,' ? up uere, ULppm& uis ucau. tt uj, h the Old man didn't keep an eye on them, they'd get lost at every lace curtain blaze. Not that they wouldn't be just as eager In a tenement, for they would. It is hard to hold them anywhere, but they certainly are blessed with the idea that they are cut out for a sensation. It all comes out of them by degrees, though. Doesn't take long to get you level in this department." Cutting Out the "Booze." Whiskey is the hardest thing.firemen have to contend with. In the vernacular, it is referred to as "booze." i More men are stripped for this taan anything else, and it is the cause of knocking out more men than consumption or fever. Firemen take to drink, primarily, because they are the class of men who demand excitement, and !* AU ?? ? Vi o y~A nnAnorll hoaM 11 LLXC\ UdYCU L a uaiu cuuugu u^uu to see the folly of it, their taste finally gets the better of them. The department, however, will not stand for drunkenness, and a "boozer's" life is a very short one in an engine or hose company.' Exhaustion, the cold, partial suffocation, and a decline of spirits bring the men to drink, but if they begin it too strongly they find it difficult to stop. Many will refuse to touch it, even at a fire when they are numb from the cold. Instead, they almost invariably ask for hot milk or coffee. Nevertheless, fires have occurred in the wine and spirit district where "booze" flowed about as freely as water, andt men have stood for -hours at the nozzle on nothing but liquor, which they used alike for food and stimulant. This is a reason why the department demands temperate men among the applicants, and why one indulgence is responsible for such severe penalties at trials on charges. The department is constantly on the lookout for good drivers. Good drivers are rare, and the congestion of traffic in the streets is making it more difficult each year to ' keep enough of these men on hand. They are continually being hurt, if not fatally injured, and a constant change in drivers works bad results with the horses. Green men with good "nerve" make the best Tliov mn c?f lilrn liAr&O? anH I UiiVClO. X Ut J I_LI UOb iinw UVli^VW uuu become the animals' masters. Then they are taught to swing corners and cross a track. Next they get the job of assistant driver, and when their superior gets hurt the berth is vacant for them. Veterans say teamsters and draymen lack the "nerve" and dash of the trained "green hand." The city lad kr/ows too well the dangers he is up against to make him daring enough in r? crowded street, and as time is everything in answering an alarm, too cautious drivers are not wanted. Downtown, where vehicles take to the sidewalks to get out of the firel men's way, is a yellow haired lad from the country. He comes from one of the oldest families in the state, and is a driver of a fire patrol wagon. To see him going up Broadway, bareheaded * mmt r* ft ?* TtfJ f V* Ko l?A la ICe CUlUtJSl Wiuiei ? uajr, mm uuit hands and his team at full jump through the thick of the noonday traffic, makes one feel the excitement of the life and cease to wonder why men like it. He takes care of his horses, his harness, and his wagons, too. A.11 that is a part of his labor. The fireman's life is not without its hum-drum toil and monotonous drudgery.?NewYork Evening Post. \ % _ * r I - " ' t . j * " AUSTRALIANS MEAT EATERS. Consume 262 Pounds Per Capita According to Latest Report. That the United States is one of the greatest meat-eating countries of the wo.'Id is shown by statistics presented by the Bureau of Animal Industry. It is the fashion to deprecate the fact that Americans eat too much meat. However, the people of Aus- ! tralia are entitled to a greater degree of criticism than Americans in this matter. They not only consume much more meat per capita than Americans, but lead the world in meat eating. A comparative tabulation has been prepared showing that in 1900 the annual per capita consumption of meat in pounds in Australia was, 262, in the United States 179, in the United Kingdom 122, in Germany 99, in France 89, Sweden and Norway 82, Denmark 76, and Belgium 70. The country for which stands lowest in the matter of meat eating is Italy. The latest statistics given regarding that country are for 1895. The consumption per capita then was but 27 pounds and ten years earlier in Italy was as low as 18 pounds. The causes for the United States ranking high in the score of meatconsuming nations are given as: The I^asence in the country of enormous herds of animals intended for food; the vastness of the highly developed industries which handle and market these animals; the comparative cheapness of meat-food products, and the increasingly prosperous conditions of all classes of the American people. The reasons for the remarkable consumption of meat in Australia are said to be the proportionately large number of animals in that country as compared with its sparse population, and the consequent abundance and cheapness of meat as an article of diet. The figures here given do not include poultry, game, rabbits, fish and the iii-_ xr mrtKo.Moralrl IlilC.-1"iKW J. Ul XV vjivwv To the Point. "The most laconic man I know of is a deaf and dumb man in our town," one of the party remarked: /'He never writes on his little pad more than enough to convey his meaning. "It happened he was a good poker player, and one night won a watch and chain from a young man of the town. The young man's father, a very pompous individual, heard of it, and, meeting the successful gamester on the street next day, stopped him. The deaf and dumb man produced his little pad. On it the irate and pompous j father wrote: T understand you won Bob's gold watch the other night.' He handed it to the deaf and dumb man, expecting to see him change countenance and offer to give up his spoil. The latter did not quite do that, however. Instead, he took the pad, wrote two worcfe carefully on 4t, and returned it. The pompous father read inscribed thereon: "'And chain!' "That ended the affair." Big Tree for Kansas. There, is a legend outside of Kansas that there are no trees in this state, or if any, they are scrubs and will not furnish shade for a yearling calf. This story was shattered last week by the woodmen who were clearing up some land for Ben Wilson, six miles northwest of Lawrence. A giant old Cottonwood was felled, and the loe: measured 6 feet 4 inches in diameter. The body of the tree was cut into nine foot logs, and one of them broke down the wagon upon which it was loaded. The tree grew near the banks of the Kaw River, an<Jr made about 5,000 feet of lumber. The chopper got logs three and a half feet in diameter from some of the limbs.?Lawrence Gazette. English Jurors' Remuneration. The scale of remuneration of English common jurymeh is absurd. In a civil case in England a common juryman is allowed 5 shillings ($1.25) a day for "a view"?that is, for inspecting any property or thing in dispute? but otherwise he is, in law, not entitled to any remuneration. It is usual, however, in the High Court to give him a fee of 1 shilling, anM in .the counties 8 pence. Special jurymen receive much higher remuneration. The fee in the County Court is 1 shilling a case, in the Mayor's court twopence, and in the London Sheriffjs court fourpence.?Chambers' Journal. The King's Uniform. When John Burns entered the Cabi? ~ A nrnm rnmnrf. hp WOllld Ilt'L IUC1C ncic i uuiuis vuo. u ? refuse to don the cocked het and epaulets of official uniform. The king asked him about it "Not true," repliedkMr. Bums; "and, besides. I have already worn your Majesty's uniform." The King naturally asked when that was. "When I was in Pentonville," answered Mr. Burns, alluding, of course, to his three months' sentence after the Trafalgar square riots.?TitBits. Wholly. "But," protested Hamm, who had made his debut in vaudeville the night before, "the audience wasn't justified in trp?Hner me as they did. My act wasn't half bad." "Well," replied Crittiek, "neither were the eggs they passed up to you." ?Philadelphia Press. Got the Wrong Title. "Colonel, have a drink?" "Sir, I never drink!" "Pardon me, mister."?Washington Herald. At Rheims, France, portable bathtubs, filled with hot water, are delivered tc order. A Sold Step. To overcome the well-grounded and reasonable objections^ of the more intelligent to the use of secret, medicinal compounds, Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., some time ago, decided to make a bold departure from the usual course pursued by the makers of put-up medicines for dotnestic use, an^so has published broadcast and openly to the whole world, a full and compfftte list of all the ingredients entering inWhe composition of his widely celebrated mpdicjfies. Thus he has taken his numer^ds oatrons and patients -into "< his full/onfarence. Thus too he has removed^ is/nedicines from among secret nostr/m/of doubtful merits, and made aI 1 /vf I^ nA?!?n VJ vuntpvgmvm' ]*i jhisiald atea Bl Efercs. has ?hnwTT tnHL his formulas are ol such e-Ycencnoft that he is Jt/V subject them? thp-iiiiipst scrutiny. Wot only does the wrapper of every bottle of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, the; famous medicine for weak stomach, torpid liver or biliousness and all catarrhal diseases wherever located, have printed upon it. in plain English, a full and complete list of all the ingredients composing it, but a small I;' book has been compiled from numerous.; standarcfcmedical works, of all the different: ,x schools of practice, containing very nomer-' ous extracts from the writings of leading! practitioners of medicine, endorsing in-thai strongest possible terms, each and every lngrw ; ? dient contained in Dr. Pierce's medicines.'}' ?pne of these little books will be . mailed free; to any one sending address on postal card or; by letter, to Dr. B. V. Pierce. Buffalo. N. Y? i and reauestlng the same. From this little; book it will be learned that Dr. Pierce's med* icines contain no alcohol, narcotics, mineral! agents or other poisonous or injurious agents! and that they are made from native, medidr I nal roots of great value: also that some of' the most valuable ingredients contained in> Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for weak,; nervous, over-worked, "run-down." nervous; and debilitated women, were employed, long, years ago, by the Indians for similar ailments affecting their sqnaws. In fact, one of tbe most valuable medicinal plants entering into the composition of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription was known to the Indians as "Squaw-Weed." Our knowledge of the uses of not a few of our most valuable native, medicinal plants was gained from the Indians. As made up by improved and exact processes, the " Favorite Prescription " is a most 1 efficient remedy for regulating all the wom-t' " , anly functions, correcting displacements, asj prolapsus, anteversion and retorverskm.. overcoming painful periods, toning up the] nerves and bringing about w perfect state of health. Sold by ail dealersin medicines. A Deceiving Soldier. Sergeant Day was a3 regimental at a button stick. 44 "Shun!" he criad to his squad. "Quick .march! Left wheel! Halt! Take Murphy's name for talking in the ranks." "But he wasn't talking," protested a corporal who'was standing near. "Wasn't'he," roared Sergeant Day. \ "Don't matter, then. Cross it out, and put him in the guard room for deceit i-_ mat" ' lug UAC AAV ?A-r* WW. 9 f -V.-^ The grocers are/handling Ar^o Red ' Salmon becanse it takes no argument $?*? to sell it, and the cnstomers come $ back for more. Sea of Oranges. v y, A sea covered with oranges is one of the unusual attractions near this city, at the mouth of the Santa Clara. River. Thousands upon thousands of oranges floating on the ocean's surface, many of them strewing the beach, give an indescribably beautiful. -golden hue to the sea. / * ^ There was wonder for some time as to how the oranges got into the sea. The belief was general that they came from washed oat orchards in the east end of the county, owing to the high storm waters la the river. This Is not the case, however % The oranges were deliberately thrown into the Sespe Creek from the Sespe v. % River twenty-five miles back from the coast. From the -Sespe they found their way back into the Santa Clara River and thence into the sea. ; The oranges are from Nthe great y&a packing.houses in the Sespe country. They are known as culls, but, most, of-,: them are good, or were when,dumped off the bridge. It Is claimed .thalj 1 ' only the best oranges can be shipped ' and sold.?-Ventura correspondence Los Angeles Times. >' ' tSHOULDERS OF THE WORK' < y HORSE. 3 One of the strongest points in pre? paring horses for spring 'work is in - 3 having their shoulders in good, ssund condition. With this to start with and soft, weil-fltrting collars, there need be but litle fear of any difficulty in keeping them all right, no matter . haw hard the. labor the horses have to endure. By keeping the 'collars well cleaned of any dirt which may have accumulated upon them, from the sweating of the. horse and by bathing thiem daily with cold water, th6re need be but little fear of had shou* ders.?Epitomist. DOCTOR'S FOOD TALK. . Selection of Food One of the Most Important Acts in Life. . . 'A Mass. doctor says: "Our health and physical and mental happiness are so largely under our personal control that the proper selection of food should be and is one of the most important acts in life. "On this subject, I may say that I know of no food equal in digestibility r and more powerfal in point of nutriment than the modern Grape-Nuts, '' r four heaping teaspoons of which ia sufficient for the cereal part of a meal, and experience demonstrates that the user is perfectly nourisnea from one meal to another. "I am convinced that the extensive J and general use of high class foods of ? this character would increase the term of >human life, add to the sum total of happiness and very consider- j ably improve society in general. I ' j am free to mention the food, for i / personally know of its value." j$ Grape-Nuts food can be used by, babes in arms or adults. It is ready cooked, can^be served instantly, either t : cold with cream, or with hot water or ; i hot milk poured over. All sorts of puddings and fancy dishes can be made with Grape-Nuts. The food is x ^ concentrate's and very economical, for four heaping teaspoons are sufficient for the cereal part of a meal. Read the little book, "The Road to WellvUifc" in pkgs. "There's a Reason."