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COLUMBUS, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1906.
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INDEPENDENCE IN ALL THINGS Siihcwil.- p-8 . .
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Molten Rock and Earth
KE END OF THE WORLD
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Suvms r.oars .uute a man ros-
essed With a Legion of Devils,
omiting Rivers of Fire on Cities
ithin the Reach and Terrifying
apies, Across the Bay, With
iojent -Earth Shocks Hot Ashes
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-s, By Cable. The hope that
,;,!!! Vpnvius was becoming calm
, di-tsijiateu Sunday when the vol-
lucarj s more active than ever.
ie h;us spread to Naples.
earthquake shocks, which
Ht'H-t windows and cracked walls
lmi.Mings, wore experienced. The
lire fopuiaiLoi: rusnea 10 me sneers
wrnr, many
;n!ini:a has f
Tsons crying;: 4 4 The
aken us ; thej end of
v i has come.
i -trace remains, ox isoscatreaz. a
i;i!in!!i' on the southern declivity of
moitiuain where up to IS hours ago
.immi persons -lived; and- Torre An-
:ii;ita. on the shores of the Gulf
X;'les, one mile to the southward,
almost surrounded by the invading
: :inn uos oeen evacuated ov its-
J m t i inhabitant. The people were
u-lit to Naples by trains, street
-. military carts and steamships
mi!.!! meana oi transportation are
inu employed to bring away the peo-
l'n" ( Torre del Greco. The police
u lannneers are sruaroine: tne
Kuiuoiioa nouses ana several mem-
.'i' "i tno irovernment also are mere.
Work of Succor Difficult.
A U-lcsrsam received from the mavor
ebastiano, a village near the
icrvatorv on the northwest declivity
.Vesuvius, says the lava is ap-
at iiing rapidly and the people are
Tor-stricken. They have been x-for
:lils without sleep, he says, are des
nte, audi beg that assistance be
veil them. '
The work of succor is hampered ow-
to the railway service, which is
terrupted by red-hot stones thrown
. a height of 3,000 feet falling on the
racks. .
Lightning Flashes Blinding.
As yet it is impossible to count the
aters that have opened and from
bid streams of lava have flooded the
autiful, prosperous and happy land
in;r on the southeast shores of the
nl or Naples. The atmosphere is
avuv cnanrea witn electricity ana
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ow and then the flashes of lightning
re blindinc while the1 detonations
oin the volcano resembele those of
?vnble explosions.
i he churches were open all Satur-
ay night and were crowded, witn
nnic. stricken people. Members of
clergy are doing their utmo&t to
aim their fears, but the effects of
heir arguments for almost naught
Muni renewed earthquake shocks are
pponeneed. ' ,
Roaring and Smiting.'
With the danger and horror of I
the
Swift, the Packer, Dead.
Piston, Special. E. C.-Swift, the
lacker, died early Thursday morning.
r- Swift was taken ill with pneu-
,!l"iua on March 27 and grew rapidly
voi.-o. The crisis was reached Wed
"'s,'fiv, when he became unconscious,
'iil'f :i'tii.iinA,l in (lint nrtnIif inn until
h Mr. Swift's wife, it is
,H"e-'lit, is on her way to America
l0'!! a Kuropean trip.
The Berwind Mutineers.
Washington, Special The Supreme
('uit of the United States took up
case of Robert Sawver and Ar-
'J11'" "Adams, who are under convic-
'HUl oil flirt rhnrcro nf Tniirdftf On the
l'!i ?eas. Thev are two of the mem-
'w-rs of flio clTrrtiT "Rprwind. whose
"'si' lTicers were murdered off the
;Mrt'i Carolina coast last October.
,tlpy bwe-ht the case to the Supreme
u,M "u .vriis oi crrur aucgmg ii-
r?u1aiilio3 in their trial, which was
Chicled at Southport, N. ''C, by
lae Suited States Circuit Court
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lousands Are Engulfed By Rivers of
situation aside, Vesuvius presents one
of the most splendid sights imagin
able. ' The mountains of fire, Avhose
speech is by detonation and whose
acts are destruction, seem like an en
raged giant determined to make the
pigmies of earth feel the might of his
Avrath. Here and there on the moun
tain side stand the blasted trunks of
pine trees, their bare branches out
streached as though in protest against
the devastation the volcano has
wrought.
"The Duchess of Aosta, who always
is to be found where misery exists, is
not sparing herself in her efforts to
alleviate distress. The people call her
an angel of mercy. Sunday she took
several children from their wearv
mothers and in her carriage conveyed
them to the royal palace, where they
will remain until conditions aie
bright.
) . Hard to Breathe in Naples. ,
Breathing is momentarily becoming
more difficult because of the poison
oiiSj fumes and smokes, while the hot
ashes, which are still falling, tend to
make life a burden.
The observatory has been destroyed
and Signor Matteucci, the director,
and the employes had narrow escapes.
They passed last night in the dark
ness, save, for the frequent flashes! of
lightning, as the gas works, and elec
tric lighting plant were destroyed.
The restaurant of the funicular rail
road, too, has been obliterated.
Prisoners in jails on the mountain
side j went mad with terror and mu
tinied and were only partially quieted
by being brought here. But their
fears have been communicated to the
prisoners here, who may rebel at any
moment. The situation is critical.
Sea Not Yet Affected.
Contrary to expectations, the sea
has-not yet shown signs of being af
fected bv the phenomena, but fears
are entertained that tidal waves may
yet come and many crafts have put to
sea. Visitors to Naples are avoiding
ftie hotels On the sea front nnd.tho.se
living there are beginning to leave for
higher altitudes.
Though there is much misery, up to
the present time there have beejv no
fatalities, except at Portici, where an
died! supposedlv from
fright. , r ,
To Roast Yellow Magazines.
Washington, Special. President
rtoosevelt will deliver his Decoration
Day address this year before the Ar
my and Navv Union at Norfollr, Va.
The ceremonies there will be held at
the navy yard and in the sailor's cem
etery. The! address of the President
will be practically a repetition of the
address he delivered at the dinner re
cently given by Speaker Cannon to
the members of the Gridiron . Club
and other guests. The text of the
speech was "The Man With the Muck
Rake' in which the President com
pared some of the publishers and
writers of the present day with the
famous character m Pilgrim's 1'rog
ress. and he scored some of the sen
sational magazine writers without
mercy and expects to repeat his state
ments in the Norfolk "speech. While
the Norfolk speech will contain much
that is new, it will follow closely the
line of the original address.
English Spinners in Texas.
Houston. Special. H. W. McAlis-
ter and party of Manchester spinners
arrived here to look into the Texas
cotton trade and 'were cordially re
ceived. Asked as to whether it was
proposed to invest in Southern con
cerns Mr. McAlister1 stated that there
was now under way a study of i the
American lien land laws but he could
not go further than that
Young Girls Taken in Raid.
; Richmond, Special. Adi Gordon,
the youn? girl who was a victim jn
the notorious Dela Haynes case and
who was found in the house of Mollie
Perkmson, which was raided by , the
police, was turned' over to the Chil
dren's Home Society Tuesday
She is a mere slip of a arirl, not more
than 15 years of age. Effie Goodman
he pretty young woman who caused
the raid, was not convicted. She left
the courtroom arm in; arm with her
brother and brother-in-law -and -will
i- urn to her home. , She is 17 year3
j of age.
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Items of Interest From Many
Parts of the State
MINOR MATTERS OF STATE NEWS
Happenings of More or Less Import
ance Told in Paragraphs The Cot
ton Markets.
Charlotte Produce Market.
Chickens Spring . .
Hens per head.. ..
Ducks... .. .. .. .....
Eggs ..... .. .. .. ..
Rye.. .. .. .. ... .. ..
Oats Feed .. .. ..
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Cottno Seed .. .. . . ....
Oat Seed . 7 . . . .
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Cotton Market.
Galveston, firm.. .. .. ..
New Orleans, firm. . . .
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Mobile, steady .. .. .. .
Savannah, steady . . ....
Charleston,' firm ..
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Wilmington, steady . . ....
Norfolk, steady . : ....
Baltimore, nominal . .
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New York, quiet ....
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Boston, quiet
. 11.70
Philadelphia, steady ....
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Houston, steady . . ' .
Augusta, firm .. . . . . . .
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Memphis, steady . L ....
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Charlotte . . . . . .
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Poe Will Get $47,000.
Winston-Salem, Special. John ,W.
Poe, who received over $000 from the
city of Winston for the killing of his
wife in the reservoir break in
November, 1004, announced that he is
in receipt of , a message from Wash
ington advising him that the govern
ment has jreeognized and decided to
pay his claim of $47,000 'for cotton
destroyed fin- Guilford county, during
the Civil War by Federal troops. Mr.
Poe says 'that several hundred bales
of cotton owned by him were burned
by Northern soldiers. He has de
cided to let District Attorney Holton
collect the claim.
Union Depot at Goldsboro.
Goldsboro, Special. A site has
been selected for the union 'depot at
Goldsboro by the railroads interested
hi the matter, and the corporation
commission officially notified of the
cl oice of location. This site is at the
western terminus of Mulberry street,
running south, to Walnut, and it is
believed that the intention is to re
move the tracks from Center street
and belt the city. The Atlantic Coast
Jjine authorities have the drawing of
the plans for the handsome structure
which is to be reared here for the ac
commodation of the traveling public,
and as-soon as these designs are com
plete work on the building will begin.
The Abels Furnish Bond.
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Waynesville, Special-The verdict
of the coroner's jury in the case of
the killing of Sam Ray here three
days ago was that the dead man
came to his death at the hands of
either Policeman AbeLor his brother,
Dr. J. F. Abel. The Abels were then
arrested on a bench warrant and tried
before Judge G. S. Ferguson for the
killing of Sam Ray. He bound them
over to court in the sum ofj $1,500,
which they promptly gave.
North State Brevities.
Mr. L. A. Dodo7orth, of the Char
lotte Cotton Exchange and Board of
Trade," has secured an itemized list of
all goods that wer- shipped, eihter in
or out of Charlotte in car load lots,
duriner the past month. During
March, lSl cars Of commodities, all
classes, were shipped out while 2,618
were shipped in. making: a total of
4,299 cars handled during the month
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1 The North Carolina Christian Ad
vocate says that a letter from Dr,
Lambeth, secretary of the board of
missions, announces that Rev. Ste
phen A. Stewart, a member oV the
Western Nortli Carolina Conference.
now at Harvard University, has of
fered himself to the board for work
in the foreign field. Mr. Stewart is (
a 3on of Mrs. S. M. Stewart, of Mon
roe. ' - ;
Mr. P. H. Elkins has purchased the
Siler City Grit and will edit it, suc
ceeding Mr. W. E. Lawson, who has
made it good exponent of Western
Chatham."
BANKERS, FARNERS, COTTON
The Acreage May be Slightly Increas
ed This Year Over Last But . Not
Over 1904.
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V ;A special to the1 Columbia, (S. C.)
State from Bal t imore says j ' v
r Sunamerizing 15 pages 'of ..letters on
the cotton acreage outlook from
several hundred bankers in North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Tex
as, Louisiana, Arkansas, - Oklahoma,
and Indian Territory, the States prac
tically embracing the cotton belt of
the South The Manufacturers' Record
says this week: j
"The replies indicate a tendency
towaiil a slight increase in acreage
for the cotton belt as a whole, an in
crease. hoAvever, not overcoming the
decrease in 1905 from the acreage of
lOOljVtmd a tendency to be restrained
by certain natural factors. The re
plies show steady advance in diversifi
cation of crops, a firmer purpose than
ever on the part of! bankers and farm
ers to stand together for the common
good and a greater degree of comfort
among the growers.
"There is a general purpose appear
ent all along the line for the bankers
and growers to continue, even with
greater zeal, the policy of cooperation
Wlfieh worked so successfully dur
ing the past season. This does not, of
course imply less acreage as: a whole
in 190G than in 1905, although such a
reuu'tion jn promised in a number of
localities. Nor does it imply that the
acreage in some States will not be in
creased. New lands in Texas, Okla
homa, Indian Territory and Arkansas,
and, indeed, in such older States as
Georgia, South Carolina and Missis
sippi, are .being opened up and are
going into cotton. In sections like the
delta of Mississippi, where no fertili
zer is yet used, or where it is really
cheaper to buy. supplies than to raise
them with, cotton at 10 or 12 cents, a
moderate I increase in acreage mav be
expected and many individuals will
plant from 5 to 10 per cent wider than
last year. But in the main the banters
are not encouraging any great "expan
sion, but, on the other hand, are stand
ing "by tlw wisdom of the past 12
months and are receiving from the
farmers hearty support. Some far
mers are still holding, not because
they expect much better prices, but
because they do not need the money,
and those who may not be satisfied
with the price at the time they gin the
coming crop are assured that they
.will have no difficulty in obtaining ac
comodations from the banks and mer
chants who are backing up the grow
ers in legitimate plans to make their
crop a,paring one. At the same time
a voice of caution is raised against
any combination to get excessive
prices, that being held as censurable
as are efforts of Wall street bears to
depress prices. Here and there, where
experience has not taught wisdom,
the all-cotton idea is abroad, and some
few. planters really favor a permanent
S-cent basis for the staple.
' ' The readiness with which the
growers favor conservatism in plant
ing this year and their determination
to work along with the banks are due
to the steadily increasing j comfort of
the many. The day of the old credit
system is passing, and now the grow
eis are found in various stages , of
prosperity, from ability to pay off
old debts and to lift mortgages to
ability to lend money themselves
Their bank accounts are greater then
ever before and they are investing
their surplus in permanent forms.
They are Duying more land and bring
ing the present holdings to a high
state of cultivation. New homes with
modern conveniences are being built
and old ones are being improved. Up-
to-date impliments and machinery are
being purchased, a better grade of live
stock is appearing, some farmers are
investing in town property and mov
ing in so that their children may enjoy
better school facilties, the farms be
ing rented, and more bank stock and
cotton mill stock and cotton seed oil
mill stock are being held by the far
mers, while better ' school buildings
and better churches in divers country
neighborhoods bear witness to pros
perity growing out of better prices for
cotton, and to the "incresing ability
to maintain a policv : insurimr even
greater prosperity in! the future.
"Necessarily to diversify, to divert
some energies from cotton-growing in
to the raising of other crops, is giv
ing place to deliberateness in follow
ing the policy as this stronger finan
cial condition of' the farmers permits
them to enlarge upon the wisdom of
not( depending upon one crop. Diver
sification, Which implies more fertiliz
ing aud greater attention given to the
crops, begjui primarily for thousands
of growers in carrying out a "hog
andIhominy',1 . campaign that is, in
living on one's own farm, in making
supplies at home. The growing in cer
tain favored sections of early vegata
bles and fruit for Northern markets,
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he tobacco crop, as much a staple in
some sections of the South -as cotton
is in others, and rice and sugar plant-
ing nave, oi course, engaged the atten-
lon of. many persons for years. New
tacts once devoted to cotton, or that
ordinarily might have been planted in
cotton, are being given over to a
greater amount of cane, tobacco and
rice, while in many localities more and
more attention is being, given to
peaches, cantaloupes, melons, toma
toes, potatoes, peanuts, alfalfa, corn,
wheat, hay, grapes, oates, pears, ap
ples and berries more ?ows chickens
and hogs are being raised, more mules
and horses and more live stock gener
tlly for home use or for the market,
as immigration is becoming more
needed to meet the demand for labor
and as a larger and larger number of
farmers are perforce driven to handle
crops that they may work themselves.
" Everywhere there might be a de
sire to depart from the safe and sure
policy of last year and to yield to the
temptation to plant more cotton, un
der the impression that agreater crop
would not affect the price, it faces the
possibility that the supply of labor
will be insufficent to make even a crop
equal to that of last season.. From
every one of the States comes com
plaints of a scarcity of farm labor,
Oklahoma joining in the chorus. The
younger negroes especially are loath
to pf ollow in the footsteps of their
parents, and are either rendering in
ferior service or are quitting the
farms entirely for idleness or disu
ltory work in the towns and cities.
Lumber mills, the naval store indus
try, mining, railroad building, dam
construction and building operations
generally offer higher wages than the
farms, and, in the case of whites, the
demands of the cotton mills are hav
ing somewhat similar crippling effect
upon farm operations, in spite of the
inclination noted here and there for
operations under the spur of fair,
prices for cotton to attempt to make a
little crop of their own. Indeed, such
is the. activity in lumbering that not
a few farmers, as is reported from
Louisiana, are following the field hand
to the lumber camp and are turning
out their own cotton ecreage for the
year. :: -'
"Another influence against exten
sive expansion in acreage is the back
wardness of the season in the Carolina
and Georgia, as well as in Texas and
Oklahoma, the ground being still wet
and cold, or the Crop of corn, the suc
cess of which will largely determine
the acreage of cotton, not' being suf
ficiently advanced to give a basis for
any estimate. In a few spots, too, the
boll weavil is regarded as a deterrent,
though one correspondent takes a
jocular view of the power of the cotton-boll
weavil against the cotton
bear."
TERSONAL GLEANINGS.
Ex-Mayor Van Wyck. of New York
sailed to make Paris his permanenl
home.
When Secretary Root makes his trir.
to South America next summer he will
go on the cruiser Charleston.
Jean Baptiste Millet, the artist
brother of Jean Francojis Millet, the fa
mous painter, died recently at-Paris.
E. S. Curtis, of Washington, has
been making an exhaustive study ir,
photography, of the American Indian.
Andrew McConnell, a practical phi
lanthropist, of Washington, will at
tempt to place libraries in all the small
towns of the South.
William IT. McDonald, the actor and
singer, who was one of the founders ol
the original Bostonians, died at Spring
held, Mass., of pneumonia.
: The presidency of the Rhode Island
Agricultural College has been accepted
by Professor Howard Edwards, of th
Michigan Agricultural College.
The Rev. Dr. John atson (Ian Mac-
Laren), of Liverpool, England, will be
the lecturer extraordinary in the west
em Theological Seminary next year.
The Rev. William Howe, a Baptist
clergyman, will be 100 years old on
May 2G, 1900. He is the founder ol
Tremont Temple, Boston, and lives in
Cambridge.
James M. Breslin, widely-known ho
tel man, for years identified withthe
business at New York, Chicago. St.
Louis and other cities, died at New
York, aged seventy-two.
Senator Allison, of Iowa, senior Sen
ator in point of service, is seventy-
seven. He has been in Congress forty
three years, thirty-three of which ha've
been spent in the Senate.
Dr. Paul G. Wooley, director of the
serum laboratory of the Bureau of
Science, in the Philippines, has accept
ed the directorship of the pathological
laboratory which Siam proposes ta
start.
FOR LADIES ONLY.
Irate GuestSay, young man tthat
age-telling slct machine in the parlor
Is a rank fraud. I dropped a nickel
in it and received a printed card giv
ing my age as forty, while I'm a trifle
over sixty. -
Hotel Clerk I beg your pardon, but
that machine is for ladies only. Chicago-News.
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Living 1 40 per cent cheaper U
London than in New York.
The irish Sentry. ,
An Irish soldier on sentry duty! bad,
orders to allow no one to smoke near
his post. An officer rith a lighted ci
gar approached, -whereupon Pat bold
ly challenged him, and ordered him to
put It out at once. The officer with
an air of diseust threw away his ci
gar, but no sooner was his back turned
than Pat picked It up and quietly re
tired to the sentry box. ,
The officer happening to look
around observed a beautiful cloud of
smoke issuing from the box. He at
once challenged Pat for smoking on
duty. - ' '; ' . -
"Smoking, is it, sur? Bedad, and
I'm only keeping it lit to show to th
corpora when he comes 'as evidence
agin' you."
Time Lost by Spectacle.
Dr. Abraham Huntslnger has Just
given out a table relative to the time
lost by persons wearing glasses. He
says it's mostly time wasted, and cost
ly time to some. Dr. Huntsinger bases
his figures on the study of mankind
for years.
He says the people who wear spec
tacle! remove them and put them on
again at least five times a day, and fig
ures that 20 seconds are required for
each such operation.
The man or woman who carries
glasses for a period of twenty-five
years (the period being placed low by
the doctor) will lose thirty-two days
of eight hours each as a result of the
habit to take off and replace eye
glasses. Indianapolis Newg.
As He Was Told.
"What was the cause of that awful
racket and disturbance in your office
Just before you came this morningF
asked one lawyer of another.
"You know that young farmer's son
who came yesterday to begin the
study of law with me?" said the man
addressed. -
"Yes." ;
"Well, I. thought he might as well
begin at the bottom of the ladder, and
I told him that when he arrived this
morning the first thing for him to do
would be to clear out the office. He
found there half a dozen people wait
ing to see me on business, and he
bundled but the lot!;"
GETTING RED OF MOTHS.
Upholstered ' furniture can be kept-"-free
of moths by taking the furniture
out doors once a month and beating
It thoroughly , with strips of ticking
abeut an inch wide attached to a
piece of broom handle. Should one
hit the hard wood with this it will
not mar it, while the regular rattan
and wire beaters mar more furnltue
frames, ruin more covers and break
up more inside fillings than a dozen,
chllden could do. The main reason
we have moth is we are always go
ing to beat out our upholstery furni
ture, but rarely get around to it.
Clothing, Including furs, to be stored
in the wardrobe during summer, caji
be kept entirely exempt from atteck
If put Into new flour sacks, linen
sacks or anything of that nature and
tightly tied so that a moth can not
enter at the mouth. Chests serve
the same purpose when tight enough
to prevent moths from entering.
The boilers of the battleship Vir
ginia; have been changed and .improv
ed at the Newport News yards.
Generally speaking the smaller, a
man the larger his troubles . seem .
to be. So. 15-'0.6.
DECAYED STARCH.
. A Food Problem.
'An . Asheville man tells how right
food did that which medicines, had
tailed to accomplish:
"For more than 15 years," he says, "I
was afflicted with stomach trouble and .
intestinal indigestion, gas forming in 1
stomach and bowels and giving me
great distress. These conditions were
undoubtedly due to the starchy food I
ate, white bread, potatoes,4 etc., and
didn't digest. I grew worse with time,
till, 2 years ago, I bad an attack which,
the doctor diagnosed as appendicitis.
When the surgeon operated on me.
however, it was found that my trouble
was ulcer of the pancreas,' instead of
appendicitis.
"Since that time I have had several
such attacks, suffering death, almost.
The last attack was about 3 months
ago, and I endured untold agonies.
"The doctor then said that I would
have to eat less starchy stuff, so I be
gan the use of Grape-Nuts food for I
knew it to be pre-digested, and have
continued same with most gratifying
results. It has built me up wonder
fully., I gained 10 pounds in the first
8 weeks that I nsed Grape-Nuts, my,
general health is better than ever be
fore, iny brain is clearer and my nerves
stronger.
"For breakfast and. dinner, each, I
take 4 teaspoonf uls of Grape-Nuts with;
cream, a small slice of dry toast, an egg
soft bailed and a cup of Postum; and I
make the evening meal on Grape-Nuts
and cream alone this gives me a good
night's rest and I am well, again."
Name, given by Postum Co.. Battle
Creek, Mich. e '
There's a reason. Read the little book.
"The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. j
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