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Brooklyn. X Y —Freaching at
the Irvmg S: ..ire Presbyterian
Church. H..n'.hr.rc avenue and Weir
field street, the Rev. Ira Wemmell
Henderson, pastor, took as his text
Psalms 24.5: “In the name of our
God we will set up- our banners."
He said
The flag of America is the symbol
of her conception and of her pro
gress Its stars and stripes and
field of blue bear eloquent though
rilent testimony to the method of
her making, the character of her
sons and the influences that have
militated for all that is best in her
national life. Whether we be de
scended from the long line of the
forefathers who laid the foundations
of America deep and broad and
strong in the everlasting rock of the
truth of the living God or are but
lately naturalized citizens of the
land we love, the flutter of the na¬
tion’s ensign finds responsive pulse
within our hearts. For the flag
tvpefies the soul of the people, the
hope of the nation, the sacrifice of
the host who, living and dead, have
poured out upon the altar of a true
devotion to this land of promise a
meed of service, for the welfare of
the country and the glory of Al¬
mighty God.
No true patriot is he who can
gaz ■ upon the beauty of "Old Glory”
without pride and a warming heart.
For every star has a history and tells
a mighty story; every ruddy stripe
is dyed in the running fountain of
a loyalty and willing sacrifice the
like of which history cannot sur¬
pass; every bar of white reveals the
purity of the limpid, true ideals that
run, though often hidden, at the core
and centre of our nation’s life. Blue
as the arching heavens her star
strewn field is redolent with a hop.3
as vast as the profundity of zenithal
skies. Bathed in a nation's suffer¬
ings and dedicated to a nation’s lib¬
erty, the flag of our country has
gained its power and will wield a
future strength because it was set
up in the name of God and will be
upheld by the efficiency of His
mightiness. Ever remembering the
consecration for which it stands, the
services of which it speaks, the suf¬
fering to which it bears mute tribute,
the hone eternal which its proud folds
counsel, we shall never stray afar or
trail its beauty in the dirt of indi¬
vidual impurity or of national dis¬
honor.
But glorious as is the history of
the flag and magnificent as is the
progress and achievement over
which it waves, it must be sedulously
guarded from subtle dangers if we
are to preserve faultless for the wel¬
fare of posterity the heritage which
we have received. No natrm ha 3
a greater, a more auspicious, a more
logically magnificent future than
liespeak larger capacities "and oppor¬
tunities as yet unused. The sun of
our national greatness i 3 just aris¬
ing, the glory of our flag has but
begun. What the limits of the fu¬
ture may be no man may mark. We
are entering the sublime age of hu¬
man history. And America stands in
the vanguard of progression. Of our
coming eminence we may but dream.
No prophecy is to be ignored, for
no prophecy can tell the half of the
glory God will reveal in and through
America in the coming days if we
guard our hearts from evil, our
minds from wilful error, and our
flag from shame.
The dangers to our national great¬
ness and to the spotless integrity of
our flag as the embodiment of our
national life and aspiration are sub¬
tle dangers. They are not so much
overt as abstract, not so much ma¬
terial as intellectual and spiritual,
not so much objective as subjective,
not so much outward as internal.
No sane man would underestimate
the heinousness of the material sin
which threatens our flag to-day, no
one has any delusions as to the size
and the determination of the organ¬
ized and defiant forces for evil which
afflict this land. But, after all, the
forces for evil that are allied and
aggressive and overt, that are de¬
termined to rule or ruin, to gain
their ends by foul means or fair,
are not half so dangerous to the pub¬
lic welfare and to the destiny of
iAmeriea, as the more subtle and ab¬
stract dangers that are resident in
the hearts and minds of people who
want to maintain the glory of the
flag, the integrity of the nation and
the glory of Jehovah in our midst.
When all is said and done there are
more people whose faces are set for
heaven than toward hell. The great
host of the people want the right;
they do love God, they long to see
the beauty of His glory in the land
of the living. And the danger is
that these good people, seeing the
Bize of the enemy and taking the
imeasure of his power, may too
often and too long accept evil con¬
ditions as necessary simply because
they are ancient or fixed; that they
shall be too careless and indifferent
concerning the value of a stern fight
for the right in the face of in¬
trenched iniquity; that they shall be
slovenly and inexact and dishonest in
their thinking; and heedless of the
claims of the spirit of the living God
in the individual and national life.
The flag of America, as the ban¬
kers of the psalmist, is set up in the
■name and to the glory of Almighty
God. We may leave it off our coins
or place it thereupon, it matters
Tittle, but in our heart of hearts “In
God we put our trust.” Over against
ithat flag and opposed to the laws of
jDeity ^organized we have and in aggressive our midst danger's to-day
[that tion. threaten They the vitality of the na
armed, are strong, they are
they are entrenched, they do
not care to die. But they are not final,
iheir length of days may be great but
they are not eternal. They make for
Hcatli and not for life. And they
will go, as they must. The danger
lies not so much in the fact that they
are desperate and determined as in
the disposition of good men and j
true, who love the land as they love !
then God, to despair and to doubt and
to disperse. A greater danger to the
flag than all the sins that assail it
is the weak-hearteduess of the peo¬
ple of God. A bad thing is Of no
effect for long against the efforts of
the organized militant armies of God
Almighty, if they will take heart and
keep it. and keep the fight everlast¬
ingly up. What of Valley Forge and
j the first Bull Run? Remember
Yorktown and Appomattox and keep
on! Such spirit and such hope are
invincible as they are unquenchable.
Without them the very fabric of our
. national civilization is endangered as
no other foe can harm.
No sin has a longer mortgage up¬
on the future than we care, under
the grace and empowerment of the
living God, to allow. We may not
see the breath leave sin as we have
planned, but if we will struggle sin
will die. It is for us to labor. It
j s for God to direct. It is for us to
follow. He shall lead. However
insurmountable the obstacle or
time-honored the grievous sin, God
will enable us to overcome through
the might of His power if we will
but serve with steadfastness and
fidelity. But God Himself cannot
bring the victory to an army that
will not follow, or success to a pious
host that is afraid of a long fight
and a hard one. No, my friends,
weak-kneed and weak-hearted piety
is a more subtle and dangerous foe
to the nation than all the forces of
wickedness combined.
Another danger is the danger of
indifference. Men do not care about
the public good, they are too busy
or too lazy or too self-consumed and
centered to think about the public
w-eal. When sin stalks the street
they stay at home with an easy chair
and a cosy nook for comfort, saying
to themselves, “I have enough. What
can I do? Lot others battle; I am
content.” It is as though the hand
said to the foot, as Paul declared,
"I have no need of thee.” Such
men are enemies, twofold enemies,
to the republic.
A still more subtle danger is that
of loose, careless, slovenly, dishon¬
est thinking. The glory of our
schools is that they fit men to think.
But how few of our citizenship take
the time or the trouble to think
deeply, thoroughly, conclusively,
with a real and painstaking effort
not to justify a theory or a precon¬
ception, but to ascertain the facts
and to comprehend the truth. In
the press and in the pulpit, at the
bar and in the business world, dis¬
honest and lazy intellectual effort is
as rife as it is appalling. Je3us said
"Ye shall know the truth and the
truth shall make yon free.” Jesus
never dignified thought as a means
to force facts, to justify preconcep¬
tions or as a means to stultify the
truth. Jesus was a clear thinker, a
close granted thinker, an honest thinker. He
the truth.” He was not in¬
terested in supporting theories. He
gave His life to the revelation and
the comprehension of the eternal
truth of God. But to-day how other¬
wise it is, even after centuries of ex¬
ample of the unwisdom of dishonest
thought, among even the very fol¬
lowers of the Christ who was the em¬
bodiment of the truth. The press
twists fact and truth to justify the
lie, too often, for the public good.
The pulpit descants with scant wis
inconsistencfes of movements and
principles that bid fair to challenge
or to overthrow., not religion, hut
the ecclesiastical status quo. The
lawyer defeats justice by the maze
of unhealthy and obnoxious techni¬
calities and perversions of the spirit
of the law. The business man glosses
sin for a consideration. And so
it goes. Close thinking is too hard,
clear thinking i3 uncomfortable, hon¬
est thinking is unprofitable. There¬
fore, let us think loosely; let us
think good is bad—for profit; let
us clothe the ancient lie and call it
truth, that the status quo may ba
preserved. The - danger is evident.
May the God of truth protect us
from it.
Another danger is the prevalent
inclination to forget and to dismiss
religion. No theory of government,
no system of economies, no discip¬
line of philosophy, method of life,
can endure wholesomely and vigor¬
ously except there be foundations
laid in the religious consciousness
of man. Without the saving, con¬
serving, transforming and inspiring
presence and power of the spirit of
the living God as a resident fact and
force in* the individual and national
life we cannot maintain the integ¬
rity of our flag or the health of the
people. No nation can realize its
greatness, as can no individual, with¬
out God. In Him we live and move
and have our being. He is the
source of all light and progress. Ec
clesiasticism may misrepresent Him
as it has Aforetime done. But let
us never forget Him. For He is
inescapable. He is greater and
grander and more beautiful than
all our theories about Him. He is
our shield, our defense, our guide,
our love and our friend. We can
do nothing without Him. With Him
we may do anything. This is ele¬
mental, it is simple.* It is infinite
and everlasting truth. Let us never
confuse disaffections with churches
and ministers and creeds with,
atheism. However unsatisfactorily
and falteringly God’s children may
reveal Him to their fellows, let us
never forget Him, let us never cease
to serve Him. The danger is that
drifting from the church men may
drift from religion. The danger
is that leaving the Christ of the
churches, with rather much less
reason than more, they shall lose
their vision of, and shall deny the
Christ of God. Nothing could be
more dangerous to America than
that. In the day that America for¬
gets Jesus let America place her
flag at half mast. For in His truth
lies her greatness and in the appro¬
priation of Him by the nation lies
the hope of the ages that are yet to
come.
What is Life?
° ur business is, not to build quick
to build upon a right founda
tion and in a right spirit, Life is
more than a mere competition as be
tween man and man; it is not who
can he done first, but who can work
best; not who can rise highest, but
who is working most patiently and
lovingly in accordance with the de
signs of God.—Joseph Parker.
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IXTERN ATIONAL LESSON COM¬
MENTS FOR AUGUST 23.
Subject: Friendship of David and Jon
athan, 1 Sam. 20—Golden Text,
l’rov. 17:17—Commit Verse 42
Read 1 Sam. 18:1-5, 10:1-7.
TIME.—1062 B. C. PLACE.—
Gibeah.
EXPOSITION.—If Saul’s rage at
David and Jonathan, vs. 30-35. There
is something singularly beautiful in
the mutual love of David and Jona
than. The worldly interests of the
two were opposed (v. 31). Jonathan
was heir-apparent to the throne, but
bition in his love for the other. Jon
athan loved David as his own soul (v.
17; ch. 18:3) and at the peril of his
own life protected him from the
anger of Saul (vs. 32, 33). In doing
this he voluntarily renounced his own
aspirations to the throne. David on
his part bitterly lamented the death
of Jonathan, though that death clears
his own way to the throne (2 Sam.
1:17-27). David had been perfectly
safe in Naioth. Saul had sent three
companies to take him, but the Spirit
of God had come upon them and
hindered them from carrying out
Saul s awful designs. Then Saul him
self had been humbled (ch. 19:20-
24). There seems to have been little
need for David’s fleeing from such a
place of security as that (v. 1- cf Ps
91:1). Jonathan, it is true, was a
true and mighty friend, but it was
better to lean upon the arm of God
than upon any arm of flesh, Jona
than covenanted to find out for David
just what his father's attitude toward
him might be. He was to tell him
the exact facts, whecher they were
good or evil. How often we see
moral or spiritual peril confronting
those to whom we profess to be
friends and yet»do not warn them,
Jonathan had been very confident at
first that his father plotted no evil (v.
2), but David had shown him that he
might be mistaken. Evidently his
confidence in his father was not very
deep. It is an appalling thing when a
father’s character is such that even
his own son, a son of so trustful a
nature as Jonathan, is forced to dis¬
trust him. Jonathan soon discovered
how deep his father’s hatred of David
was (v. 30). Saul, in his wrath at
Jonathan because of his friendship
to David, insults Jonathan’s mother.
He no longer regards Jonathan as his
own son (v. 30).. His wrath at David
will be satisfied with nothing short
of David’s death. At any cost David
must die. Jonathan sought to arouse
his father to the baselessness of his
wrath at David (v. 32). This only
intensifies Saul’s anger. He will even
murder his own son who seeks to de¬
fend the one he so intensely hates (v.
33). There had oeen a time when
Jehovah had been with Saul (v. 13).
But He was with him no longer (cf.
ch 1.0 • 1 O \ nrv.„ ----- Qanl’c
experience was apparent to all who
knew him at all intimately. So muen
of the Bible record of Saul’s history
is taken up with the dark picture of
his last days, the days of his disobedi¬
ence and apostacy, that we forget
there was a better time in his history
when God was with him (ch. 10:7),
when the Spirit of God was upon him
(ch. 11:6), when he went out to do
battle for Jehovah, when he was
humble, . brave, generous, large-heart¬
ed and obedient to God. It. is
bright beginning of his public life
that makes the dark ending so Ull
speakably sad. This awful change all
came because he rejected the Word
of the Lord (ch. 15:23). The saddest
men on earth are those who are
forced to “I ____
say, once knew what it
meant to have the Lord with me,
but He is not with me now.” There
are many of whom this is true. Jon¬
athan gave up at last his attempt to
reconcile Saul to David (v. 34). His
anger and grief were not so much for
his father’s treatment of himself as
for his treatment of David whom he
loved.
II. Tlie Parting of David and Jon
athan, vs. 35-42. It would not do for
anyone to see Jonathan with David
for that would imperil his own life;
so they had arranged a y ery simple
plan , so that ,, Jonathan could
know whether let David
it was safe for him to
come out of hiding and at the same
time not let anyone else know there
had been any communication between
David and Jonathan (vs. 1S-21)
M hatever the perils might be, they
must meet at least once more. David
did not for a moment distrust Jona¬
than’s fidelity. Jonathan might have
good reason to play him false, but he
knew he would not do it. Jonathan
ought to have gone a step further and
have come out of the camp of David's
enemies and cast in his lot with him
he knew was God's chosen man (cf.
ch. 23:16-18). There are many to¬
day , who , are willing to help David
but wno are not willing to go to Him
without the camp bearing His re
proach (Heb. 13:13). The parting of
David and Jonathan was exceedingly
touching. There were demonstrations
of affection on the side of each such
as was rarely seen. David seems to
have been the one who was most over¬
come (v. 41). Though they went dif¬
ferent ways they were to be united by
an everlasting covenant (v. 42; c f vs
13-17). David remembered the Cov¬
enant when he came into power (2
Sam. 9:3). As it was an everlasting
covenant that Jonathan wished David
to make with him, so it is an evarlist
m« covenant that our David makes
With us, and our David also makes
covenant, not with a
our seed well us alone, but with
a s (Acts 16:31; 2:39).
Among the improvements which are
contemplated at the naval station at
Guam is the adoption of permanent
facilities for dredging, and th navy
department will provide a dredge
which will be so constructed that it
may be used as a derrick also There
has been much difficulty in maintain¬
ing an adequate depth of channel in
me approaches to the Guam station,
and the desired condition has bet-n
obtained by using drags This was
primitive, and by no means effective
and the acquisition of a dge will
ile an important he out
fit f this, remoti station.
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liaising Turkeys.
The farmers of the United States
generally could profitably increase
th number of turkeys they produce.
This class of poultry always sells
Wi el!, and anyone who can give tur
keys a good range can make a profit
from them if he handles them cor
reetly.
The excessive death rate during
the first few weeks of the poult's ex¬
istence is the leading drawback to
turkey raising, but most of the
trouble which is so common at this
stage can be avoided by careful and
judicious management,
Be sure that the young do not
ge t chilled while hatching or shortly
afterwards, and have their coops
drafts and dampness. «««*v Locate <r nr them
in a wel1 drained spot where the sun
s'nine 3 unobstructedly for the greater
part of the day, until the arrival of
sultry summer weather. This mat
ter of freedom from dampness is
very essential.
Keep the poults confined to the
coop or to a covered run on damp,
chilly mornings until all the dew
has disappeared from the grass and
weeds. Aside from such times, the
youngsters may be allowed entire
liberty after they are five or six
d ? „ vts } : J(1 The f mother J turkey L should
be ies ^ nc ^ e< ^’ ^ or a * ime Q ^ ^
"' ithin limited range by means of a
string or some other convenient
method of this kind.
Vermin are frequent source of
trouble and loss with poults and tur¬
keys. This is a matter deserving of
more attention than it usually re
ceives, as lice are generally numer¬
ous on turkey fowls. One of the
best things that can be done is to
give the setting hen a thorough dust
ing with a reliable brand of louse
powder two or* three davs before the
i eggs commence to hatch; this not
only frees the hen from the vermin
but prevents the poults from con
tracting the vermin from their moth-
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er as soon as they are hatched.
Watch the fowls carefully from time
to time throughout the summer for
indications of the presence of ver¬
min, and give them treatment for
same frequently.
Bread crumbs or bread and milk
make one of the best poult feeds for
the first few days. After the first
few meals an egg, hard boiled and
chopped fine, may be added by way
of variety. Also, commence feeding
oatmeal and cracked corn or wheat,
and green cut bone or meat in some
form. Feed oLen and a little at a
time for the first few weeks. Fre¬
quent and careful feeding is very
important. A supply of good grit for
grinding the food, should be con
stantly accessible to the poults from
the beginning.
Feeding the Herd.
Now, a word about feed. This is a
subject to which you will have to
give special and careful attention.
You must not only look to the needs
of your cattle, but you must endeav¬
or to get their rations as nearly as
possible from products of your own
farm. Economy is one of your
watchwords. But you must make it
a study and it will take you several
years, says a writer in Holstein
Friesian Register. Look first to the
needs of your cows, and next to the
cost of the feed. Your heifer calves
should be fed sweet skim-milk for
about six months, and you can mix
with it a little corn meal and oil
meal, or these can be fed separately.
After six months, if on good pasture,
they will require no feed; but as
fall comes on they should not be al¬
lowed to run down and become poor
before winter feeding is begun. This
feed should consist of bran,
oil meal, etc., with fodder, hay and
straw for roughage. I would feed
no corn. A few weeks before your
heifer is due with her first calf you
should begin feeding her a mixture
of food rich in protein. Do not over¬
feed her, but gradually increase the
feed until by the time she drops her
calf she will be getting about all she
wants to eat. You will find that she
has made a very large udder and
rnk. St 0 aVw casing!
For days aRer
feed lightly gradually increasing.
and jou will find her responding
well to your attention. There is no I
danger from milk fever with the first
calf; but from then on, and especi¬
ally with the third and fourth calves,
you cannot feed so heavily before
calving, neither will she require it;
for by this time the habit of milk
giving will have been well formed.
Good Milkers.
High-grade cows are not any too
plentiful and prices for such stock
are high. Young milch cows that
will yield from thirty-five to fifty
pounds of milk per day are worth as
many dollars. Farmers and breeders
have recognized the demand for fine
stock of this class and during the
past year many excellent animals
have been selected and kept for
raising. Much of course depends
upon this selection; the cow? for both
milk and butter are -greatly im¬
proved by careful selection and feed¬
ing. The feeding is important. If
an animal is stinted and starved and
chilled during a period of its growth,
it will never fully regain what it has
lost, no matter what good treatment
it subsequently receives. Successful
breeders recognize this fully and
provide for the winter, and are par
ticularly careful to keep their young
stock vigorous, healthy and growing
through all the trying portions of
the year. This midway treatment,
before stock begins to produce, is
often as important a matter as selec
tion.
Pure breeds are not. of course,
necessary to success. It is not pos¬
sible for every farmer to have pure
breeds. He may be a number of
years breeding up his herd to a satis¬
factory high grade standard. Good,
milking cows of every breed, and of
no particular breed, possess certain
qualities in common which guide the
farmer in the selection of dairy stock.
According to the late Professor Al
vord, of the Department of Agricul
ture, they have generally neat, well
balanced heads, light fore and heavy
hind quarters, mild, gentle eyes, slop-
ing shoulders, rather than upright,
large udders, good-sized teats, with
well developed milk veins and mel¬
low skin and soft, glossy coat.
The milk of young cows is gen
erally richer than that of old ones. j
The most profitable age of the milker
is supposed to be from four to nine
years. Yet for many years after
that cows may be splendid milkers
and highly profitable, but their milk
becomes relatively somewhat poorer,
and during the animals eat more, especially |
the winter. As animals grow
older, having once become lean, they
are more difficult to fatten.
Farm Poultry,
In speaking to the farmers of
Greenfield. Mass., not long ago. Fro- !
fessor W. P. Brooks, of the State
Agricultural College, considered
poultry keeping from the standpoint
of the farmer. New England he be
lieved to be one of the best sections
for poultry keeping, because of the
markets and the quality of the soil.
Less than one-fifth of the poultry
products used in Massachusetts are
now raised in that State.
.
A sheltered location on sandy soil
was recommended for the poultry
buildings. Glass fronts, were to be
avoided, a better plan being to leave
the south side of the house entirely
open. Hens in such houses are more
hardy and will lay better than those
in coops with glass fronts. The
front should be protected by cur
tains in severe weather. Experience
at the college has proved corn to be
a better egg producer than wheat
and is less expensive. Animal food
is of great importance, more so than
vegetable matter. Rye was found
, , be _____
a great egg Producing food,
, but usual,y is to high in
° cost,
Changing the Mood.
When General Leonard Wood was
a small ,, , boy he called
was up in the
grammar class. The teacher said:
"Leonard, give me a sentence, and '
we’ll see if we can change it to the
imperative mood.” '
Leonard.^ Cart " said
"Very good. Now change the sen¬
tencs to an imperative.”
"Get up:” said young Wood.
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“Rather slow."
“But I thought you were to meet
two capitalists last night?”
“I did, but they had hardly got to¬
gether before they discovered that
each had a baby just learning to talk,
and you can imagine how much of a
chanoe I had to get a word in.”
Southwestern’s Book.
Hicks’ Uapudine Cures Nervousness
Whether tired out., worried, overworked or
what not It refreshes the brain and
uL rVe Its Ll q ul 'J and pleasant to take,
10c., or 25c., and 50c., at drug stores.
CHINESE INDEMITY.
Honorable Treatment at the Hands ol
United States.
The House adopted the joint resolu¬
tion for a remission of $10,800,000 of
the Chinese indemnity growing out of
the Boxer troubles of 1900. Even with
this concession, sufficient remains to
pay all claims arising from the up¬
rising.
This attitude cannot fail to be ap¬
preciated in China. It will do mora
than a thousand empty speeches to
cement friendly relations between the
two nations.
The cum ^required by this country
>—noticeablj^smaller than that of tho
other nations concerned—was de¬
signed to cover all American losses
arising from the insurrection. Our
authorities w'ere wise enough and
humane enough to eradicate, so far
as possible all idea of punitive dam¬
ages—a fact, which has been made
clear to the Chinese.
Now that it has been found that
the award of $24,400,000 was far mere
than necessary to meet these claims,
the United States is doing the only
}Tight and fair thing to be done under
the circumstances. It stands out in
'sharp contrast to the other powers in
this resipect, and it has reason for sat¬
isfaction with Itself.
It is predicted that within a fe*
-years China will become a power in
the Orient that will overshadow even
•Japan. Its importance in a commer¬
cial sense is evident now We shall
>reap the reward of our fairness and
friendship when it comes into its own.
—'Huntington Advertiser.
SELF DELUSION
Many People Deceived by Coffee.
We like to defend our indulgences
and habits even though we may b&
convinced of their actual harmful
ness.
A man can convince himself that
whisky is good for him on a cold
morning, of beer on a hot summer
day—when he wants the whisky or
beer.
It’s the same with coffee, Thou
sands of people suffer headache and
nervousness year after year but .try
to persuade themselves the cause Is
not coffee—because they like coffee
“While yet a child I commenced
using coffee and continued it,” writes
a Wis. man, “until I was a regular
coffee fiend. I drank It every morn¬
ing and in consequence had a blinding
headache nearly every afternoon. coffee
“My folks thought It was
that ailed me, but I liked it an
would not admit it was the cause o
my trouble, so I stuck to coffee an
the headaches stuck to me.
“Finally, the folks stopped buying
coffee and brqught home some P° 3
turn. They made it right (directions
on pkg.) and told me to see w -
difference it would make with m
head, and during that first week o
Postum my old affliction did n
bother me once. From that da>
this we have used nothing but P° 8 u
in place of coffee—headaches are
thing of the past and the whole a
ily is in fine health.” smells 6° ,
“Postum looks good, ■
tastes good, is good, and does go
to the whole body.” “There’s a k
80n ’” Battle
Name given by Postum ^ Co-,
Creek, Mich. Read, "The R° a
Wellville,” in pkgs. #
Ever read the above letter
one appears from time to time
are genuine, true, and full of u
Interest.