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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-1-25, Page 6r .,•y, ,e ,e i, „f ,H , tee + , +0, .04. '-' : Z,}e;)A{1 licence, in his tone which carried weight, 304 and Guildford Berton sank into the chain again, I it Rill 0[ Tl *,TEWARD'S SON 0+A+040+31f• 1;E+ + 404.0± +3 +0+3 + f+?:(+0N'*+3 f0::+t CHAPTER 1\XII. for it, and endeavor to reach the garden and raise an alarm? He was sorely The two men faced each other, Guild- ford 13erton quivering with rage intensi- fied by its impotence, the man Furlong calm and coolly watchful. Guildford. Berton would Have liked to spring upon him, but there was some- thing in the eyes shining from under the bushy brows which warned him that at his first movement its owner would without Hesitation put a bullet into him. "What are you doing here?" he asked, fhnding his voice at last. Furlong smiled grimly, and .nodded ea the desk, "That's rather an unnecessary ques- tion, isn't it? I was looking for -curio - sides, when you came in and interrupted m." "You are an impudent scoundrel! and If you think because I am unarmed you will get off scot-free you are mistaken," "Tall tallee won't count for much, see- ing how matters are fixed between us. It's waste- of time to threaten me, Mr. Berton. Come, you're a sensible man; lust face the music, and take things easy. Just try and think I'm a friendly visitor dropped in unexpectedly; it's rather late, It's true—" "Take yourself offt" "That you may follow me and raise a hullabaloo?" "If you think I'm going to let you es- cape, you are mistaken. Whether you go now, or wait till daylight, and are. taken here; red-handed, will make little difference; you appear to have .forgotten that, notwithstanding your cool impu- dence, I have got you as surely as if you were already in the hands of the police. I know you; before you can get out of reach the police will have an exact de- scription of you and—I think the tables will be turned, my -friend." The man eyedhim thoughtfully. "After all, you've got some pluck," he said quietly. "You're, a braver man than I took you to be, Mr. Berton. Many a pian in ney position would take you at your word, and remembering that dead men tell no tales, would put it, out of your power to .supply .the police with a description," and lee glanced meaningty at the revolver. "But I don't think" we need wast, any time in bullying each father. After all there's not much harm done." "N.Vhat! 1 find you here, having broken Into my bouse—•--" • "Excuse me. Let's have:tt.right and square. In the first place you're wrong. I didn't break into. your house. I found the little gate in that .high wall open, and I just stepped in." - "And, being in, lost no time in break- ing into my property. I'm afraid your excuse wont Weigh much with the judge and jury when you are tried for bur - „Vary, which you will be, you scoundrel.” "' -- "I dare say it wouldn't. But I'm' not being tried yet. Look here, •hadn't we better get comfortable? You dont ask me to take a seat, so I'll help myself, and if you'll take my advice you'll follow my example." As he spoke he dropped into the arm- chair, and in a leisurely fashion took out his pipe and pouch. The piaster of the cottage glanced to- ward the door. Should he make a rush tempted, but he saw that the revolver was lying within reach of the man s hand, and felt that the giittcring.eye was welching him in catlike fashion, and stood still. • "May 1 trouble you for a light?" asked Furlong, blandly. No? We11 —•-" He craned forward and lit his `pipe at the lantern, "Now; then, • Mr. Berton, I'M ready to hoar anything and everything you've got to say. Chin -music is not much in my line, but I'll allow that you feel anxious to abuse me, and I don't like disappointing you. Just blow oft the steam with some of the hardest Wwels .you know." Guildford Berton caught up a chair with a strong impulse to fling it. at the man's head, but instead he planted it m front of the door and sat down in it. ""You'll find this the worst night's work •you ever • did, my friend," he said be- tween his teeth. "I gave you a chance -a poor one—of escaping just now, and you refused it. Now I tell you that you will not leave this room until the police take you unless you pass over my dead body." Furlong laughed ;grimly. �� "Very nicely put! he said. Why, my dear sir, I could lift you. up, chair and all, and pitch you out of that window there, and you know it. But I shan't have to do that, I think—that is, if you are a sensible man, Now, Mr, Berton, I suppose you think that we are to sit here until some one comes who. can raise an alarm' and 'fetch the police, and that you. will have me arrested? Just so. I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed. First of all, let me explain matters, Oh, you needn't sneer; it doesn't give any additional beauty to that; handsome face of yours. I'm going to tell the truth,• as you'll find if you• listen attentively. What I told you lust now,, for instance,. was the truth. 1 found that. door of yours unlocked,• and I couldn't resist the temptation of strolling in. You see, I've passed it so often and looked at it so hard, every time asking myself why on earth a young gentleman, should choose to live in such a• gloomy hole, that my- curiosity—and y curiosity—and It's my weak point,o 1'li admit got the better : of me, stepped in, and waited in the opposite room—I followed you so closely•that if you'd have turned you'd have seen me, by George!—and, being in, I�aniused My- self with watching you—• - Guildford Berton succeeded in suppre- sing any outward, sign -,of the start the, man's words gave him. • . "I'd half an idea that - you, were a— well; a coiner: 1 -beg your pardon.I had, indeed. But couldn't see any trace of the work about -and I know it when I see it—and so I concluded that you were just a crank, that you'd got a ,mental twist somewhere .That caused you to take such a grim, forsaken hole as this. Then I thought that I'd wait until you'd go io bed and clear out. But I happened to. look in here, and the desk lay handy, and it occurred to me that I might find something in it that might help me to understand your peculiar character." A sneer that was half a scowl crossed Berton's face. Ah don't believe. , I see " re - "Chat's right, And now about this bargain I spoke of. Supposa, Mr. Dere ton, I possess some Infornmation which would help you in your suit with trial young lady. Suppose. I could tell you something, a secret worth its weight in gold to you, something that would make your way straight and plain, and insure your getting that young lady for your wife—what would you say? and he leaned forward and looked hien straight between the eyes. Berton smiled incredulously. "1 should say. I utterly refuse to be- lieve a word you say," he said,. "and, if you knew, me better, you would know that I -aro the last man to make terms our Ale, you a a 0arentl not at all marked the man,' apparently offended. "But, strange to say, it's the truth. The fact is, among the many trades I've tried my hand at, I've done1� bit of the detective. That was in Neth" York, I didn't stick to it long; but that kind of work leaves a mark behind. You can't lose the habit of trying to satisfy your curiosity. And you raised mine, you. did, indeed, Mr. Berton." "You impudent—but go on, my friend; your time is going short." "Not a bit of it. You think you'll have me arrested, but you won't, and I'll tell you why. Because you and I are tarred with the same brush. • We're both curi- ous men. Of the two of us, I should say you're more curious than I am, but you're too cautious to follow a man into his own house' and examine his desk, eh?" and he laughed, "Now you wonder' what I'm driving at. Wait a bit; I'm coming to it. I didn't find much in this old desk of yours to enlighten"mc about the little game you're playing at; but I • did find some- thing that gave me a slant"—ht stretched out his. hand, and let 'it' fall•- upon the photograph of Catherine Elayes-"and this, is it." The other glanced at the photograph with an !nere:Mous sneer. • • "No, it is nota plant,_and I'm not go- ing to palm offa• pack of lies on you But I0 tell you Filet I'm going to do, am going to make a bargain with: you. Wait: Better not cut in yet a while, for it strikes me that when you've heard ,what I've got to say, you'll be sorry for Netting up rough. Now, Mr. Berton, don't -'think me impertinent if, I ask;you a question. Is 11 a fact • that you want to marry the beautiful young lady up at the Court there?" • Guildford•Berton started, and the color rushed to his face, but • ho' remained Silent. "Silence gives consent, 1 give you credit for tho best of taste. I've seen., great many of the lair sex;in both hemi- spheres, and is say"—he struck the table wite his powerful fist --"that neat young. lady towers r i eve them all as•---as-a palm towers above a lilac Mise'. Wliy,. sir, if I'were as young and good-looking as you are, I should be as much in love with her as you are: From all I hear SEE D TIME `fie experienced farmer has learned that some grains require far differ- ent soil than others ; some crops need differ- enthandling than others. He knows that a great deal depends upon right planting at the right time, and that the soil must be kept enriched. No use of complaining in summer about .a amis.- . • take made in the spring.. Decide before the seed is planted. die besttizne to reme- dy wasting conditions in the human body is be- fore the evil is too deep• rooted. At the first evi- dence of loss of tiesh Spates Emulsion should be taken imme- diately. There is noth- ing oth ing. that will r c p a i r wasted t i s s u e more quickly or replace lost flesh more abundantly than Scott's Emulsion. It nourishes and builds up the body when ordi- nary foods absolutely fail. W e'mitt seed you a .sample free. Be mire that this picture in the form of a label im on the wrapper of every bottle of Staulsion yen buy, SCOT I' c•�, I OWJAY E OfIEVILSTs Toronto, Ont,' see. end ip all .iuggMtr with a ruffianly burglar. '1011 y story; whatever it may be, to the police; I fancy you will find themas incredu- lous as I am." "Good. You've said what you ought to say, and you've said it very well. 1 give you all credit for your courage, But I'll give you another chance, and i tell you frankly that if you don't come to my —terms I shall, very reluctantly, have to tie you in that chair, and gag you while I get : clear off. Come, you're dying to ask me what 1 meant.. Just ask me a few questions. Forinstance, what do I find in the photograph of trigs lady to Interest and startle me so much?" I shall ask you knnwthing..I want t0 hear no more from you." "Then : I'll ask you a few questions, First of all, doyou know who this is? I don't ask you how you .came by It. Perhaps the young lady gave it to you, or you found it, or perhaps you stole it.". Guildford.Berton's. face flamed, but ne swallowed his rage and answered quiet- ly enough for Furlong had spoken the truth and he, was dying to hear: what the man had to say. "You don't deserve an answer," he said. • "But you'll humor me, •eh? Just so.. Well?" "It is the, portrait of the late Countess of Arrowdale's companion," said'Guild- ford Berton, slowly, and almost sul- there isn't' a, young man within twenty mites who wouldn't give all hewortr , and ten years of his life to boot to lead hex' to the altar,". Berton rose, as If unable to control 'himself, but .Furlong coolly waved to him, "Sit down, Mr. Bet'ion, I meant no offense, I wouldn't Speak a disrespect. ful word of her—ay, and what's more, I'd knock down any manatee offered to do so In my presence. Bit down and keep your temper. You'll Want all your' Potts presently," '!'here was sbmething, a subtile sIgtlf• lenly. •' "And her name was Catherine,It's written here on the card, and her sur- name was I-Iayes. And when the coun- tess left ber husband. the earl, this Catherine Hayes, went with her?". "She did." "Is she dead?" asked Furlong, very rml ,• "The countess? Yes." "This woman, the maid, this 'Cather- ine?" said Furlong. - "Yes, she is dead, too." "Dear, dear!" muttered Furlong. "Tell me, now, did she live with her mistress till the countess" died?" "She' did." "And the young lady, Lady Norah, was left in her charge, I suppose?" asked Furlong. ' - "That is so. Why do you ask? What interest= "I ask because I didn't know," replied Furlong. "I know a great deal, but not -He gazed at the portrait some moments lost in thought, then he got up and laid it at it." he on the table.. "Come and take a good look said. ' Berton • hesitated a moment, half sus- picious that it was a trap to get him away from his post in front of the door, but Furlong cast a glance of contempt at .him. "Man, can't you see I'm in earnest?" he said, sternly. "Do you see nothing? Look hard! Does nothing strike you?" "I do not understand you. I see no- thing." "Shut it—shut the door close." "You know that there is no one in the house but my servant, an eld woman. deaf anddumb, or you would pot have trifled with me as you have done," he said. "Shut the door all the same, for what I've got to say even the deaf anddumb might have ears and tongue to hear and tell. Shut the door I say." "There," he said, " are you satisfied?" Furlong beckoned to him to come near- er, ear- er, and, laying his heavy hand upon the shoulder of the other, whispered a few words in his ear. Berton started, and turned a wite face of amazement and unbelief upon him. "What!" he exclaimed. "Pshawt .It's impossible!" "It's not only possible, but it's true!" retorted Furlong, with grim earnestness. "Sit down and listen to me." As . Berton listeneddrops of sweat came out upon his forehead, and his face changed from red to white. "If, . if this is true -if I can believe iti" "It is gospel)" retorted Furlong, lacon- ically; and you do believe it. I can see it by your face, man." "Prove it—give me proofs," dropped from the white lips. • "Proofs? Yes, conclusive, irrefutable ones. Proofs strong enough for any court of law in the land." An exclafria ion difficult to describe burst froin Berton, and he rose and paced the' -room, his face working, nis hands .clasped tightly behind his back. Furlong sat hiinself on the table and watched him coolly. Suddenly he stopped before the side- board, and took out the brandy decanter, "0h, that's it!" muttered Furlong to himself; then aloud: • "Isere, steady! Not too' much of that) A glass apiece. You want to keep' your head cool,: you know, if you're going to work this properly. And you are, you know." Berton poured out a oouple of glasses with a shaky hand, and with an uneasy laugh. "When—when will you let me have he proofs?„ • In ..three days. Meanwhile keep your mouth shut. 011, yes, you can do that, 1 dare say. And now, what do yet; say toour bargain?" ��; "You want to know how much "No," he said, quietly. "I ask nothing, I'in not sure ,I'll take' anything. But, we'll see: It strikes me I'tn the honester rhan of the two, Mr. Berton. I bargained for my liberty and your silence about this little escapade of mince Well, you shall give me a hundred or two to take me out of the country, when you've done with: me and Weil cry quits.' Berton held out his hand, and Furlong tools it, but with an utter absence of alacrity- or effttsivenese. "Open the, ' door," he said. Berton Opened it, and with a nod and a quiet "In three days—l+sy Ftlday; his singular specimen of ''the genus" bur - ear went out. (d 110 continue&r +++++++++++++++++++#++ About the Farm 1 +++++++++++4+•+++++++++ CA11E' OF YOUNG STOCK, One of the -most serious faults of the average farmer is his lack of knowledge and determined purposes in the care of young stock, . says Hoard's Dairyman We judge of a Man's• understanding of any question by the nay tiee does.. his work, Look over the calves .at three, six or twelve months . of • age in nine out of ten farms, Note their unthrifty, scrawny, ill -fed looks, and then judge the owners. • Some will• say that the owners of these calves do not do half as well as they know. :In our opinion, that is not the fact, The real 'difficulty is that they do not half know .what they aught to know about these things, and consequently their work is - half done. They have never resolutely set theme selves to work to study what it means to rear a calf well. ) hen a man is work; thoroughly saturated with the 'mew- led of a• thing it holds him up to better In March last two men came Into this neighborhood looking for grade dairy. calves. 'They were mien who knew what they wanted. They purchased seven }made Guernsey -'tieifers dropped last fall of one man, and paid him an aver- age verage of. $24.28 for the lot. At the time they said they could purchase calves of • th:' s^me breeding from farmers, for len to fitsdollars apiece. What made this difference.in price? Simply the way the Calves were hand- -led as follows: (1). They were kept dry and clean, with plenty of fresh, dry bedding every day, and their quarters were kept well disinfected. (2) They were, fed skim mills, fresh from the sep- ara:tor after the first ten days, with a little ground flaxseed and blood-mefee ad- ded. When the milk was fed they were pot in stanchions and mills sot before them in pails. Afeterward they were . given a small feed of oats, followed by alfalfa hay. Butthe great care was to keep them dry and clean..,... As soon as they were 'through eating their oats, they were let out of the stanchions, ,and ran together loose in the compartment. They were fed milk morning and evening, were fed milk morning and evening. \Vhen sold they were in fine, ,clean, thrifty condition, but not tat. They each consumed in the six months they were kept, about 3,500 pounds of skim -milk, a dollar's worth of oath, two dollars' worth of alfalfa hay and flaxseed meal, and fifty cents' worth of blood -meal. Af- tee paying for the oats, hay, flaxseed meal and blood -meal, $3.50; and allow- ing .$3 for the value of a calf when a week old—the price allowed by calf-buy- ers—we have $17.75 per calf as pay for 3,500 pounds of skim -milk and the lab- or. Twelve calves were kept in the, apartment. Does' it pay to make a lit- tle study, of calf -life?.. If our calves, pigs, colts and poultry are not given the rigbt care and feed the first year of their lives they get a Setback in growth from which they never recover. The bottom reason for all this poor live stock that floods the country is a lack of knowledge on the part of how to feed and care for the young things. In the fly season, a little time and ex- pense in spraying the calves three- times a week with some of the fly lotions on the market will help them wonderfully in their growth and thriftiness. There is good money in knowing what and 'n doing it. Too many farmers think they cannot afford to spend the time that le necessary to do such work rightly. If they ate working for money, here is where they can most surely find it. How. ever, there is no time of year for cheap and effective calf -raising like the win- ter, provided warm .quarters are given. The above is only an outline to illus- trate why some succeed and others fail. It is not only the amount of feed giveff to animals, but the care thatis given them that counts. Alevays see that they are comfortable. Just now see that you are prepared to have all your stock dry and warm for the winter. It is your piece to prevent them from using all the grain given them to keep from freezing. Grain should be turned into profit by. the return of your stock. It is 'Cheaper to build warm stabling for stock than to prevent them from freezing by feeding grain. • Given an Opportunity Ceylon Natural GREEN Tea.wil prove its superiority over all Japans. Lead packets only, 40c, 50c and foe per lb. • By all grocers. HIGHEST &\WARD ST. LOUIS, 1904. well fatted chickens on the market than in marketing lean chickens. , 3, That 'four months old is the most profitable age at which to market chick- ens. 4. That heavy chickens are . not gen- unity as saleable as medium weight ones, 5. That the type of chickens dosired in Canada or 'Great . Britain is a young plump bird, with a broad full breast, white coloredflesh, white or yellow col- ored legs without feathers. or spurs, and with a small bead. 6. That crate fattening of chickens as the farmers' business; that it does not require a -large outlay to fatten one nr two hundred chickens; that the chick- ens are fed from troughs, and that ma- chine feeding is not necessary. 1 -TINTS TO BREEDERS. Well-bred sheep, like Our well-bred animals, will telt you pretty nearly what they will do for you from the beginning; An inferior sheep .never does that. Breed only pure-bred sires in every class of stock, and you will soon have pure-bred darns, too„ and raise pure- bred stock to the top of the market and sell for breeding at pedigree stock prices. The draft and coach -horse importer breeders all over the country are enjoy- ing an unusual demand, especially far the better class of stallions. They find the demand increasing with each im- portation. The mares should be kept for .breed- ing, as the best farm teams and the most profitable breeding stook on the farm. Not a, single draft 'mere should be sold that will breed, and in breeding Lhe best, dealt -sires should be used to grade up. -to the high grade and high price class. LIVE STOCK NOTES. Ventilate poultry -houses from but one side. .The best way is to drop .the win- dows in front from the top. Do not lel any draughts blow through the poul- try -house. The dairyman who would have his cows give milk for a long period; who would secure the maximum flow when milk and butter are highest, and who would have the bulk of his milking to do when he has the most time to do :t, ' that dairyman should have his cows come fresh in 'the fall. It is certainly a far reach from the one cow to ten acres, to the intensive dairying of two cows to the acre. The modern cow is a wonderful machine. She is all pedigree and milk veins. We balance her ration, so that when we want a pale blue article of milk (such a, is served to city customers who ob- ject to the "yellow . scum") we feed her one sort of ration, and if we are after butter fat we take another breed and make another sort of balance, and the thoroughbred responds with the prompt- ness of a nicely adjusted engine. , FOR CHICKEN FATTENERS. Mr. F. " C. IIare, Chief of the Heroin - ton Poultry Division, .points out as the result of -experience that the farmers and poultry rearers of Canada should realize: 1. That pure bredor high-grade chick- ens can be reared more cheaply; can be fatted more cheaply in the 'fattening crates, and present a better market ap- pearance than do common chickens, or scrub chickens. 2. That there is more profit in placing PERSONAL POINTERS.' Interesting Gossip About Some Pisoniin- ent People. - Mme. Sarah Bernhardt possesses a long chain of Ane gold, t0 which at close intervals; are attached ' about thirty cl'tarms, ranging from a crucifix to a skull carved out of a ruby. Mr. George Meredith, the great nove- list, began his •career with only ane gui- nea in his pocket. With this he bought a sack ofoatmeal, and being too poor to buy fuel, subsisted during the whole af. the time he was writing his • first work, "Evan Harrington," an a most unpala- table drink of oatmeal and water. Sir ' Thomas Lipton possesses two interesting Nelson mementoes, both of which he keeps on board his yacht Erin. One is a cigar -cabinet which ismade of oak and copper saved from Nelson's Foudroyant. It is 3 feet long, 1% feet wide, and 1 foot deep. Another memen- to of the hero is the solid silver cande- labra bestowed upon Nelson by the Corn, poration of Portsmouth in 1879. The: German Emperor endeavore to follow the "rules of life" laid down by his favorite physician, as follows: "Eat fruit for breakfast. Eat fruit for lunch. Avoid pastry and hot cakes. Only take Potatoes once a • day, Don't drink . Lea or coffee. Walk four miles every day, 'wet or fine. Take a bath, every day. Wash the face every night in warm water. Steen eight hours every night." The Kaiser.' ascribes • Itis excellent physical condition to close adherence to this ad- vice. One of the most charming traits of the Princess of Wales is her affection for old friends. Lady Eva.. Dugdale, who accompanies her to India., is one of the friends of her girlhood. As Lady .Eva Greville she and the then Princess May were playmates at Warwick Castle and the Princess's home. The friend' ship continued as they grew up, and no• party for visiting the Continent in Which, the Princess went was complete without. Lady Eva. Now the ]atter - is one of el.R.H.'s Women of the Bedchamber,, and married to ono of the Princess's; Equerri rlr, Edison thinks thatpeople cat and sleep too much and do not work enough. He lived. for two months on 4 ounces of food at each of his three daily meals. This restricted . dietary, made him• brighter mentally, and diminished nes-, ther his strength nor his weight. "Of' course, I varied my fgod," he said. "It would take a teaspoonful of peas, a( small piece of toast and cavaire, a tiny sandwich, a little bit of ham, or a frag- ment of rye bread with Swiss cheese, and so on." Mr. Edison is sixty years old, and his working day lasts from 5 a. m. until midnight, He rarely takes more than five minutes for a meal. The present Duchess of Devonshire is considered the luckiest woman in the world.: To most women to - be a duet--• ess is an impossible dream, but this: fortunate lady has twice had the. straw -1 berry -leaves on her brow—first as Duchess of • Manchester and now of De- vonshire.. She is chatelaine of Chats- worth and Hardwicke Hall, in Derby- shire; Holker Tali, in Lancashire; Bolt - an Hall, on the banks of the lovely Wharfe; Compton Place, • Eastbourne; beautiful Lismore Castle, County Wet, erford; and Devonshire House and Chis- wick House, London; with a chateau in, France and a villa on the Riviera. Professor John Dewey, head of thee Department of Psychology at Columbia University, believes that children should be taught to call their parents by their Christian names. I•Ie was formerly • member of the faculty of the University of Michigan, where they tell ,this story. The professor was working in his study; one day, when water' began to tricklel through the ceiling. He ran upstairs to' see what was the matter,. and found his young hopeful in the bathroom and the floor.flooded. Professor Dewey was, abouto express his feelings, when then youngster exclaimed:— "Don't say a word, John, but get a mop," Pope Pius X. has three devoted sister, who, in order to be near him, have left their home in Venice and taken a resi-, dence overlooking the Vatican. At everyi meal, it is said, a chair is placed for: their distinguished brother, who, al- though he can never come to them in: person, is with them, they say, in spirit, He is always "Beppi" to his siters. On a certain occasion, when in audience. with him at the Vatican, one of them in- advertently addressed him by this famiee tar name, to the horror of the Cardinals standing near. He, however, gave • no indication that he had observed this. serious, but quite pardonable, breach oe el:ipuette. The Shah of Persia never, under any circumstances, sleeps on a bedstead; and no matter where ho has stayed, whether it be in Royal Palaces or hotels, he has either had the bedstead removed front his sleeping apartment, or else has rele. gated it to some remote corner, so as to enable him to sleep in the exact ten, tre of the room on a couple of huge cushions or soft Oriental matresses stretched upon the floor. And just be4 hind the cushion upon which his head rests there is always a small table, up, on which are five portraits. The centre one is of himself. It is flanked on ee ther side by those at King Edward and Queen Alexandra, while beyond theta on either side are the •picluresa of , the Emperor and Empress of Russia. These portraits accompany him ' everywherce and may be said to watch over hissluna bets in his own dominions as well ati abroad. ST E.YE.S 1 Q Through Coffee Drinking. Some people question _ the statments !, that coffee hurts the delicate nerves of' the body. Personal experience' with thousands -prove the general statement true and physicians have records of great number`s of cases that add to the testimony. The following is from the Rockford, Ina Register -Gazette: Dr. William Langhorst of Aurora has` been treating one of the queerest eases of lost eyesight ever in history. 'The patient Is O. A• Leach, of 13 each County, and in the last tour months he has doc- tored with all 01 the specialists ahr.ut the country and has at lest returned home with the fact impressed en his mind that his case is 'incurable. A portion of the optic nerve has been ruined,rendering his sight so, limited that he is unable to see anything before rum, but he can sere plainly anything at the side of hint. There have been but few cases of this kind before and they have been caused by Whiskey or tobac- co. Leach has never used either, but has been a great coffee drinker and the specialists have decided that the . case has boon caused by this. Leach stat- ed himself that for several years he had drunk three cupe of toffee . for break- fast, two .at noon :and one at night. Ac- cording to the records of the specialists of this eountry this 18, the first case ever, caused by tI-ie use of coffee. The nerve is ruined beyond aid and his case is Incurable. The feet that makes the case a queer one is that the sight forward Wei been lost and, the sate sight has been retained. According to the doctors statement The young man Will have to give up coffee or the rest of his sight will fallow and the entire 'nerve be r'uincd,—Begister'Gazettq - Lot it be remembered that ['he-Neste- may he ,i emay he attacked in one case and the stomach in the :other, while in others it may be the kidneys, , heart, bowels or general nervette prostration. The remedyis obvious and should bo adopt. ed before too late, Quit coffee, if you show incipient die. ease. It is easy if one can have well -boiled. Postum Food Coffee to .serve for the ho morning beverage" The withdrawal c theold kind f c flee thatis doing a o on th g �. harm and the • supply of the elements le( the Postum which Nature uses to rebuil the broken down nerve cells, insures quick return to the old Soy of strengt and health, and it's well worth whi to be able again to do things and fe well. There's a rumen for PCS1JM'