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New News ' 4 a Fortune Saved Union Pacific i,',-, Duff cf Boston Sent His Securi lies to New York Just in Time to Meet Payment on Land Grant Bonds. c:. ; k'.rp . iv..:; rf the great causes of the finaa .r.ic of 1S73 was the failure of i:;king house of Jay Cooke & rough having advanced too on the bonds of the Northern railroad, then in process of eiion. Grave embarrassment . -sod to many other railroad ros by the panic, and not the , iv.barrassed of these railroads Union Pacific, which, at that was regarded in the railroad a;:4. ncial worlds as a Boston in c;!i;::u :.. since it was one of the great rsiirrad properties of the country hich Host on capital controlled. From about 1S66 John Duff of Bos ton, who easily took rank with the great linanciers who began - immedi ate', y afrer the Civil war the. work of developing the railroad systems of the country, had been prominently identi fied with the Union Pacific. His was, in fact, a leading voice in the affairs 01 the company, and when it became evident, first to the officers of the company, and then to the public, that xh V:.---r: Pacific was not in a posi tion to n.eet the next payments on its land grant bonds, Mr. Duff was greatly concerned. He had been so closely ideatiSed for seven years with the financial management of the company tfcat he felt that his business credit, bis personal honor, and, to, some ex tent, his investments, were involved :n maintaining the credit of the Union Pad UC. Uut Low was that credit to be main tamed, with money in hiding every where, and with the Union Pacific treasury without the necessary funds to meet the payments soon due? Not taken into account by the folk who were confidently predicting a de fault by the Union Pacific was the fe-nin determination of John Duff to protect his good name at all hazards; a;:J so. the day before the coupcns o: the land grant bonds were due, Mr. Cur! called into his office his son-in-' bw. Dr. William H. Bullard, and counted out in the latter's presence a little over three hundred thousand dollars in first class securities, which. but a short time before, Mr. Duff him self had taken from his private strong box. "William," said Mr. Duff, motioning to the securities, "I want you to pack these bonds in a traveling satchel, take the first train for New York, and as early as possible tomorrow morning call at the office of Morton. Bliss & Co., the railroad's fiscal agents, and offer them in my name as security for payment of the Union Pacific land grant coupons due tomorrow." There followed some detailed instructions, and Dr. Bullard was off for New York. Presenting himself at the banking house of Morton, Biiss & Co. on the morrow, a short while before the be ginning of the business day. Dr. Bul lard opened his satchel in the presence of Mr. Levi P. Morton. "Mr. Morton." he said. "I have here a little over three hundred thousand dollars in securities of the very high est grade. They are to be deposited with you as collateral security. I have brougat them from John Duff, in Boston, and with this collateral as se curity, Mr. Duff asks you to pay the Union Pacific land grant coupons due today and to keep on paying them un til he sends you word to stop." As Mr. Morgan began his examina tion cf the securities, Dr. Bullard hap pened to look from the banker's pri vate office into the mafn office of the banking house. It was swarming with clerks armed with coupons of the land grant bonds due within less than a quarter of an hour. Carefully, cautiously, Mr. Morton looked over the securities. Finally, as he laid down the last one, he nodded his head approvingly, the next mo ment was issuing instructions that the coupons should be paid until further orders, and within less than five min utes the first clerk to offer a Union Pacific coupon received his money,, to the great astonishment not only of himself, but. also of the other clerks there assembled, and, speedily there after, of all Wall street. For good financial news travels as fast as bad, and ; within an hour Union Pa6ific stock, which had been quoted as low as ten cents on the dollar, jumped to twenty-five, and John Duff's son-in-law had his first lesson in the effect of credit upon a railroad property. Until now, I believe, It has never been reported how the day was saved for the Union Pacific by John Duff pledging, his own securities for money with which to pay the coupons. Mr. Duff himself never referred to this act of his, not even when he was openly accused of improperly using his official relations with a nationally famous trust company to secure the funds so badly needed by the Union Pacific. (Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) HowGrantBestowed a Reward Dr. C. D. Webster of the Sanitary Commission Was Given the Lu crative Post of Consul at Sheffield, England. When General Grant became presi dent one of the country's most famous "war governors," William A. Bucking ham of Conneticut, became a United States senator, and almost at once there sprang up between the two men a cordial relation that lasted until Governor Buckingham's death, in 1S75. About a year arter this friendship had been formed the president be came the guest of the senator at his home in Norwich, and that the people of the town might meet the head of Invention Edison Valued Most Megaphone, the Wizard Believed, Would Be More Profitable to Him Financially Than Talking Ma chine, But Was Deceived. Recently I told the story of the late Charles A. Dana's doubt of Edison's good faith in claiming that he had in vented a talking machine after the late Amos J. Cummings and myself had reported to Mr. Dana that Edison had remonstrated the machine to us, even 'oing so far as to m?ke it reproduce Mr. Cummings' own voice, inflection and all, with distinction. After he had shown us the talking machine, explained its mechanism and iac.de it perform for us, Mr. Edison vent cn to say that he got the idea ior the machine while he was at work r-trrecring his microphone transmitter. ::; nsively employed in the earlier "-iephones. Oae invention almost invariably SLses's another." he went on. "All ."ta c: notions came to me while I Jerking out this talking machine. Oae of them you will see in that big funnel up there." He pointed to a se!r upon which rested, or hung, a carious-looking object resembling a gi gantic funnel of about tall nan kt-ight. And I'm inclined to think." be- went on, "that there's going to be torc profit in that thing than in this talking machine here. I have about n.ade up my mind that I won't work ta anything unless it seems to me to Lavf- some commercial practicability. I can make hundreds of toys, but any fellow with a little ingenuity and pa tience can do that. Maybe this talk ing machine is going to be not much more than a toy. after all, but that thin? over there well, I'll show you bow it works." He called two of his assistants to his side and directed them to take tn-ir station cn the crown of a hill fihout half a mile away. V. liile they were doing so, Mr. Edi son baa the big funnel shaped thing taken out in front of his shop. Then, v-hen the men had posted themselves ' the hill and stood facing us. an as sistant, getting under the big end of Food for Our Soldiers. Mr. Squills (reading the morning P'r "Our soldiers in the' Philip pines are almost in a state of mutiny Uc av.se they have to oat wheat fcr"fii" Mrs. Squills (a famous housekeep er "That's too bad. I suppose it's heoause they don't know how to fix ti e bread. You must write to Gen eral Wood this very day and tell bitn." Mr. Squills (starting) "Eh?" Irs Squills "Yes; tell him that b' must be sure to furnish the army ith good butter; get print butter, If possible; it's often as low as fifty fonts, and never over a dollar a I' ind. Then, on baking days, when U'fe bread is fresh, tell the soldiers l' f.pread the butter on thick, and it 'iU be delicious. The following days, ken it is a little dry, give each Mdier a bowl of rich cream, and tell "in to crumb it in. I'm sure they'll lik.- it." the funnel, hld it up while Edison called through the other end. From time to time the men upon the hill made gestures to indicate that they had-heard and understood what Edi son was saying. Finally, Edison beck oned to them to report in, and when they had done so they repeated practi cally word for word what we had heard their employer say to them through the funnel. Mr. Cummings and I were almost as much astonished over this demonstra tion as we had previously been over the talking machine. "What do you call the thing?" I asked Mr. Edison. "Well, It makes a big sound, and I think I'll call it the megaphone," re plied Mr. Edison. "As I have already told you, I sometimes think there will be a great deal more in it for me financially than in the talking ma chine. It will be a great thing on ships; with its aid one ship at a dis tance can hail another ship easily, and a captain can shout his orders clearly and distinctly through it tc the utter most ends of his vessel. It can be used on land, also, for conversing at great distances. In short, this mega phone of mine enlarges the zone of action of the human voice, and for this reason I am inclined to think at times that it will be a more profitable Invention than the talking machine. You have seen what it can do, and. it does It just as easy as rolling off a log." I presume that this was the first public demonstration of the Edison invention that has passed into univer sal use under the name megaphone a contribution of human progress that has brought its father cents where the phonograph has added to his wealth by the hundred thousands of dollars. (Copyright. 1910, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) Foresight. "Who is the man who is so loudly and energetically opposing restric tions on automobiling speeding? 1 don't recollect having seen him among the motorists before." "You haven't. He's not a motorist, he's an undertaker." the nation Senator Buckingham gave a large reception in his honor. Among the citizens Introduced to General Grant was a Dr. Webster. No soner had the president heard the name than he detained its possessor. "On my staff, Dr. Webster," explained the president, "was a Col. John Web ster. He was one of the best stall offi cers I ever had, and I always think of him when I hear the name of Web ster spoken." "He was my brother." said Dr. Web ster. "Then I am more than ever pleased tp meet you, Dr. Webster." replied the president, "and, now that I come to think of it, you must be the brother of whom I have heard Colonel Web- j ster speak as having served without j remuneration in the hospital service I of the sanitary commission." J "Yes, Mrs. Webster ana I were with the sanitary commission throughout the war,' Dr. Webster answered. And then, because the line behind was pressing, the brief interview came to an end. Late that evening the president told his host the pleasure he had re ceived from meeting Dr. Webster. "I know something of the very great service he gave as a member of the hospital staff cf the sanitary commis sion, whose work wos of inestimable value to the Union army," said the president; and then he asked: "Is Dr. Webster practising medicine here?" In reply the president was told that Dr. Webster was now a bookkeeper on a small salary; that the prosperous school he had founded and conducted before the war had broken up when he went with the sanitary commission, and that, returning from the field, he had been glad to get work as a book keeper. "Ah," said the president, med itatively, "there have been many such cases." And then the subject was dropped. A few weeks later the president re turned to Washington. He had not been there more than a week or ten days when official announcement was made that President Grant had ap pointed Dr. C. D. Webster of Connecti cut United States consul at Sheffield, England, at that time one of the coun try's best paying consulates. It came as a perfect surprise to all of Nor wich, Senator Buckingham and Dr. Webster included. It was an appoint ment made entirely on the president's own volition, and made, undoubtedly, that Dr. Webster might be recom pensed in some measure for the loss of his school through his devotion to the cause of the care of the Union soldier. For fifteen years Dr. Webster served as consul at Sheffield, and in all that time he was not once on a vacation. When Grover Cleveland became presi dent he was disposed to continue the doctor in that post, but political pres sure against this policy was too great for Mr. Cleveland not to heed it and regretfully he named a new man as consul. (Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) HOME OF EXILED KING IN ENGLAND fei"'.'-:- -. ' - K -Sib B JA ' .' . l Ji -M:ftSsisiWaxs. raXrSl &laxk--r r IM ONDON, England. Manuel of Portugal, who is now domiciled at Wood Norton, the country home of the duke of Orleans, is still known as King Manuel and is treated with all the respect due to royalty. Before long Man uel and Queen Amelie probably will set up their own establishment at Craycombe, an old house on the duke of Orleans estate, perched on a hill among thick eame woods. Thoueh old and not situated. Queen Amelie knows the place well, for she lived there for a short time before her marriage. Wood Norton itself is far from being palatial, but it is a large house and its royal pretensions are emphasized by the fleur-de-lis that appear everywhere about it. " Its great gates once stood, before the palace at Versailles. TO CHOKE A BORE Device Arranged to Protect New Yorker and Family. i. Montgomery Gubbins Makes Con trivance to Absorb Silly Chatter of Neighbor and Throw It Back at Her. New York "See this funnel?" said J. Montgomery Gubbins the other af ternoon. He held up an ordinary tin funnel the kind grocery men keep aear the vinegar barrel. "This funnel," continued J. Mont gomery Gubbins. without waiting for a reply, "contains my own arrange ment of violin strings and syphons and along this snout you see there is a little keyboard. It will find any per son's 'note' and I call it 'the Gubbins silencer and word catcher.' "I was forced by circumstances to invent this contrivance for the protec tion of my family and my own peace of mind. It happened this way: "The wife of our next door neighbor on the left of our Omaha home is a bore. It was her habit before this," and he waved the funnel, "to call on us several times a week just at din aer time. She always came to borrow something a cupful of sugar, a pint 3f milk or an egg. " 'Oh. I mustn't keep you from your dinner!' she would exclaim with a sniff. After declining an invitation to dinner she would take a few steps toward the door, then stop and talk and talk and talk, and every few words she would remark that she just must go home. "Courtesy forced my wife and me to stand and listen to her. On these oc casions I could always hear the dinner cool off. "Things came to a desperate pass one night when we had a distin guished person from Clam Gulf dining with us. The neighbor was there and talked so long our dinner froze. Then there came a loud snap from the din ing room. Willie, my youngest son. was surreptitiously breaking an icicle from the chicken's wing. And the dis tinguished person got mad because he wanted to do the talking himself. "Bang! An idea suddenly kicked me into action. I rushed to the kitch en, snatched this funnel from the hands of the cook and ran to my work shop. Presently I emerged triumph ant. "Walking nonchalantly .toward that talking female with the funnel held carelessly in my hand, I planted my self directly in front of her and pressed one of these keys. The result was just as I had planned. The wo man's jaw kept on moving, but she spoke soundless words, at least the only sound heard was the thud-thud of her words dropping like pebbles into this funnel. "I pressed another key. The woman stretched her jaws as wide open as she could, then her words began to roll from the funnel back into her mouth. When her mouth was full of words I pressed a third key. Then she ate her own words. "I kept this up until she got a vio lent attack of indigestion and we had to send for the doctor. The medical man said but here's my train." BARS SALE BIRDS' PLUMAGE Aigrettes Cannot Be Sold by New York Milliners After July 1 Next by Statute. New York. The 'plumage of forty three specimens of birds formerly used to decorate women's hats can not be sold by the milliners of New York state after July 1 next, accord ing to the annual report of the Na tional Association of Audubon Socle ties. The most Important feature of a law recently passed by the state leg islature, the report continues, is the prohibition of the sale of aigrettes. New York is one of the three greatest centers for the sale of aigrettes, the others being Paris and London. The aigrette is taken from the mother bird when nesting, and costs her life and the life of the young birds. The Audubon societies have been fighting for the protection of these birds for many years. The passage of the so-called plu mage bill will prevent the use of their plumage as well as that of most wild birds of the country and all the birds native of New York state. TIGHTS BREAK STAGE LURE (JSE )0GS TO SOLVE CANCER A man's character is known by thfe nature of his amusements. Paradoxical Fate. Jeacher Why was Lot's wife turn tiJ into a pillar of salt? Pupil Becauae she was too fresh. Large Profit from Ducks Sixteen-Year-Old Girl Gives Up Her. Aspirations to Be Star Taken to Her Home. St. Louis. Miss Isabel Embrey, six teen years old, who ran away from her home in Meridian, Miss., to go on the stage, was cured of her stage am bitions after dancing in tights for two nights in the chorus of a St. Louis theater. She forsook the footlights and fleshings for a prosaic job in a department store, and Was tearfully willing to return home with her pa rents. They left with her the ether day for Meridian. She said that she went first to Cin cinnati and played a minor part one night in the venerable drama, "East Lynne." As the ascent to a starship in the play proved more steep and difficult than she had expected, she left Cincinnati for St. Louis. Father, mother and daughter had a reunion at police headquarters, and the girl cried as she told of her ex periences. She had been living at No. 3501 Morgan street, but gave her address as the Jefferson- hotel, she said, to impress her girl frlend3 in Meridian. Animals to Drink Water Mn Which Fish Live to Solve Cancerous Mysteries. Tramp Secures Pies. Sharon, Pa. "Fire! Fire!" shouted a tramp at the home of Rev. Thomas Barnes in Brookfield township Just as the family sat down to chicken din ner. Everybody rushed out just in time to see the man disappear. An other man went in the back door, stole the chicken and two pies from the table and fled before the family dis covered the trick. East Portland, Me. Is cancer com municable through fish to human be ings? Through the establishment of a test bureau at the United States fish hatcheries here the government in tends to try and settle for all time this much mooted question. Dogs are to be used in the experiment. A half dozen little mongrels which will be enrolled as charter members of the "cancer squad" have just arrived, ac companied by Dr. Harvey R. Gaylord, director of the Gratwick cancer labor atory at Buffalo, N. Y. The doctor has achieved fame through his discov eries that the laws of immunity ap ply to cancer. The dogs are to be fed on the best and most healthful sterilized food, have ' the best sanitary quarters and have a canine physician all their own. To appease their thirst they are only allowed to drink of a pond in which there are fish. These fish and the dogs, carefully tended, may thus be made to solve another of the great puzzles of the medical world. That is, if the cancerous proclivities of the fish are transmitted through the wa ter, then the dogs, it is believed, will show it and prove that the danger of this disease is ever present for hu man beings who drink water in which fish live. Prof. Charles G. Atkins, In charge of the hatchery, says: "We now have a number of dogs and expect shortly to receive more, sent here to aid in investigating the cause of the throat disease known as goitre, which is one of the numerous forms of cancer." That the cancerous disease affecting both dogs and fishes is similar in na ture has already been established That it is identical remains to be demonstrated. The relation between the two has not yet been worked out, and that is just what the scientists want to learn, among other things. Dr. Harvey R. Gaylord, who is in charge of the experiments being made, said : "The dogs do not contract the can cer from the fishes, it is believed,, but by drinking water from the ponds where the infected fish specimens swim." The United States government is at present taking under consideration the advisability of establishing a per manent station here where experi ments in connection with cancer may be made upon dogs in lieu of human beings. Freedom to Wed Demanded. Rome. A movement is on foot among the telephone girls of Rome to have abolished the regulation which forbids them to marry before they reach the age of twenty-eight years. Italian women reach their prime be fore they are twenty, and consider their chances of marriage greatly les sened by this government regulation. 'X- Elder Down, in Demand the World Over, Great Source of Income to the Icelander. No other down is so highly esteem ed or brings so high a price in the world's markets as that of the eider duck. In Iceland and the Westmann islands, where these birds nest, they are rigidly protected by law and by public sentiment. These ducks make their nests of down from their own breasts. They pluck the down out with their bills and form it into a circular mound that has the property of retaining heat to an extraordinary degree. If this down be removed, the duck sup plies a second and even a third- lot from the same source. :The eider farms in Iceland are' fre quently situated on little islands off the coast covered with low hummocks. To protect the brooding ducks from the elements the Icelanders construct small shelters of rough stones. On these farms, it is said, the ducks be come so tame that any one with whom they are familiar may handle them without frightening them. Separate buildings on the Icelandic eider farms are devoted to the clean ing of the product. Down clings tenaciously to anything on which it is thrown, a circumstance that is utiliz ed in cleaning it. There may be seen a number of frames of an oblong shape, and along these numbers of strings are loosely stretched. The down is cast on these near one end, and a piece of wood is drawn rapidly backward and forward over the other end. The down clings to the strings, but all impurities, such as grass and! seaweed, fall to the ground. It takes a quantity of down to make even a small weight, and several nests must be used to obtain even a moder ate amount of down. The price at the farm is about two dollars and a half a pound. CHAMPAGNE OUTLOOK IS SAD Grapes Half Devoured by Insects, Half Withered 'by Mildew, Being Gathered in France. Paris. A writer In the Temps draws a melancholy picture of the grape harvesting in the Champagne districts. "The sight presented by the Cham pagne vineyards, so animated and joyous in the times of abundant har vests, is one of desolating sadness this year," he says. "Instead of long lines of workers gathering the thick clusters, a few wine growers only can be seen weighed down by implacable fate. "And yet the grapes are being gathered, if these miserable berries half devoured by insects, half with ered by mildew can be called grapes. They are thrown into casks and borne to the furnace, where they are burned that the eggs of the insects, the germs of the parasites may be de stroyed and not endanger the next season's crops. "Champagne, at this time of the year, is always crowded with, work ers from Alsace and Belgium, who come for the grape- gathering. This year the district is deserted. In the villages the misery is appalling. "For four years vine growers have had to fight to preserve their vines, and in those four years they have only gathered the value of one good harvest. Many are irretrievably ruined." CARIBOU STOPS PACK TRAIN Ten Thousand of Animals Seen by Miners on Trail Between Circle and Fairbanks. Seattle, Wash. Caribou In a herd of countless hundreds, densely crowd ed on a mountainside, held up a pack train for four hours while the antlered host passed slowly by on a lonely trail between Circle and Fairbanks, Alaska. This was seen by Capt. R.T. Bar- Congress in China in 1913. Peking. An Imperial parliament, the first in the history of China, will be. convened in 1913, according to an offi cial edict issued the other day. nette, a mining operator, just arrived here for the winter. The herd was one of the largest ever viewed by a white man is the be lief of Captain Barnette. Reports printed in the local papers state that this run of caribou was witnessed by persons in other parts of the Tanana hills. It is estimated that the number of animals was 10.000. The caribou were going south. Captain Barnette and his pack train had just reached a wide trail across the Tanana hills and was about to start the ascent, when a drove of caribou passed by. This herd was followed by smaller bands. Then It was seen that the herd stretched back as far as the eye could see. The stam peding animals bore down almost up on the party and thundered by in a flying wedge, the width averaging about one-quarter of a mile. It is the first time in years that caribou have traveled through the region between Circle and Fairbanks. WEAK, SICK PALEFACES Will Be Interested In This Sugges tion From the Pen of a South Carolina Lady. Gramling, S. C. "I was so weak," writes Mrs. Lula Walden, of this riace. "when I began taking Cardui, that it tired me to walk Just a little. Now I do all the sewing, cooking, washing and general housework, for my family of nine, and have not been In bed a day. "I was almost a skeleton, but now I weigh. 160 pounds, and am still gain ing. I think Cardui the greatest rem edy for women on earth." You ladies, who have pale faces, sallow complexions, and tired, worn out expressions, need a tonl 3. The tonic you need Is Cardui, the woman's tonic. Cardui Is the Ideal tonic for women, because its Ingredients are specifical adapted for women's needs. They help to give needed strength and vi tality to the worn-out womanly frame. Being a vegetable medicine, contain ing no minerals or habit-forming drugs of any kind, Cardui acts In a natural way, and Is perfectly harmless and safe for young and old. In the past 50 years over a million ladles have been benefited by this standard woman's remedy. Why not you? Please Try Cardui. N. B. Writ tt Ladies' Advisory Dept., Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga. Tenn., for Strcial Instructions, and 64 page book, "Home Treatment for Wom en," sent In plain wrapper on request. At the One Horse. Jere L. Sullivan, the head of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees' In ternational Alliance, said in Cincin nati, apropos of Labor day: "Our American hotels are better than they used to be, and for this bet terment my organization deserves no little credit "We have today no such hotels as the One Horse of Tin Can, where, If you asked for a bath, they used to give you a shovel and tell you to go down to the hollow and dam the. creek. "An English earl, once visited the One Horse hotel. The landlord with out ceremony led him outside, pointed to a window on the fifth floor, and said: " 'Thar's yer room.' " I When a man is turned threescore and ten he's making a bit of overtime. Note From Basswood Bugle. Somebody took the rope off the bell in the fire engine house to use for a clothesline, and now, when there Is a fire, the constable has to climb up Into the tower and ring the bell with a hammer. Somebody took the ham mer the other day, and, when Hank Purdy's corncrlb ketched fire, the con stable had to hurry down to Hilli ker's store for to borry a hammer. Hilllker had lent his hammer to Dea con Renfrew, who lives four miles out In the country, and by the time the constable had got there and hunted around in the barn for the hammer and got back to the engine house, tha angry elements had done their worst and Hank's corncrlb was a mass of smoldering ruins. Judge's Library. t Schuf2 Was Sure of Him. .i Carl Schurz was dining one night with a man who had written a book of poems, so called, and who was pleased with himself., The poet was discoursing on tha time-worn topic of politics of the men who take office. "I consider politics and politicians beneath my notice," he said. "I do not care for office. I wouldn't be a senator or cabinet officer, and I doubt if I could be tempted by the offer of the presidency. For the matter of that, I would rather be known as a third-rate poet than a first-rate states man." "Well, aren't you?" Schurz shouted at him. Got Out of the Habit. "I see you have got a young man stenographer?" "Yes." "Don't you think a pretty girl stenographer adds a great deal to the attractiveness of an office?" "I suppose she does, but I can't dictate to a woman somehow. I s'pose it's because I have been married so long." Precautionary. The Millionaire Doctor, Is it abso lutely necessary to remove my ap pendix? "Not absolutely, but it Is safer to begin with some simple operation like that." Life. Somehow the average mother doesn't think she is doing her duty unless she spoils her children. HEALTH AND INCOME Both Kept Up on Scientific Food. Good sturdy health helps one a lot to make money. With the loss of health one's Income is liable to shrink, if not entirely dwindle away. When a young lady has to make her own living, good health is her best asset. "I am alone in the world," writes a Chicago girl, "dependent on my own efforts for my living. I am a clerk. and about two years ago through close application to work and a boarding house diet, I became a nervous In valid, and got so bad off it was almost Impossible for me to stay in the office a half day at a time. "A friend suggested to me the Idea of trying Grape-Nuts food which I did. making It a large part of at least two meals a day. "Today, I am free from brain-tire. dyspepsia, and all the ills of an over worked and improperly nourished brain and body. To Grape-Nuts I owe the recovery of my health, and the ability to retain my position an? income. Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." ETer read tbe above letter f A f" one appears from time to tliae. They are sreanlae, true, and full of Mama a laterest.