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SOOSEIELT FOR
FEBERORNTROL
[Believes Government Should Gen
erally Be Leader in Con
servation.
(SAD - EXPERIENCE IN EAST
[Addressing Public Meeting In Denver,
'Ex-President Discusses Water Pow
er, Coal Lands, Ranges and Forests
—Powerful Plea for Conservation.
1
/ Denver, Colo., Aug. 29.—Colonel
Eoosevelt arrived in Denver from
.heyenne this morning, and after a
[parade in which representatives of the
[state and city, the Live Stock asso
[ciation and the Spanish War Veterans
[took part, was the guest of the Den
ver Press club at a cowboy luncheon
[at Overland park. In the afternoon
ihe delivered a public address at the
(Auditorium and later spoke to the
^Spanish War Veterans, and then he
iwas the guest of honor at a “round
•up” dinner at Eljebel Temple.
Talks on Conservation.
1 Mr. Roosevelt’s main address was
on conservation, and was as follows:
This country has shown definite signs
of waking up to the absolute necessity of
handling its natural resources with fore
sight and common sense. The conserva
tjoii question has three sides. In the first
(place, the needless waste of the natural
resources must be stopped. It is rapidly
becoming a well-settled policy of this peo
ple that we of this generation hold the
land in part for the next generation, and
not exclusively for our own selfish enjoy
ment. Just as the farmer is a good citi
zentf he leaves his farm improved and not
Impaired for his children, and a bad citi
zen if he skins the land in his own selfish
Interest, so the Nation behaves well if it
treats the natural resources as assets
[which it must turn over to the next gen
ieration increased and not. impaired in
value, and behaves badly if it leaves the
land poorer to those who come after us.
I In the second place, the natural re
.sources must be developed promptly,
completely, and in orderly fashion. It is
not conservation to leave the natural re-
BourCes undeveloped. Development is an
Indispensable part of the conservation
plan. The forests, the mines, the water
Mowers, and the land itself, must all be
put to use. Those who assert that con-
Bervatlon proposes to tie them up, depriv
ing this generation of their benefits in
order to hand them on untouched to the
next, miss the whole point of the con
servation idea. Conservation does not
mean depriving the men of today of their
natural rights in the natural resources of
the land. All It means is that we of this
generation shall so use our rights as not
to deprive those who come after us of
their natural rights in their turn.
In the third place, so far as possible
these resources must be kept for the
whole people and not handed over for
exploitation to single individuals. We do
not intend to discourage individual enter
prise by unwisely diminishing the reward
Jar that enterprise. On the contrary, we
believe that the men of exceptional abili
ties should have exceptional rewards up
to a point where’the reward becomes dis
proportionate to the service, up to the
point where the abilities are used to the
detriment of the people 'as' a Whole. We
ere for the liberty’ of the individual-up to
and not beyond, the. point where it be
comes Inconsistent with the welfare of
the community. Th'ns bur 'consistent aim
Us to favor the ' actual’ -settter^the man
'Who takes as much of the public domain
■as he himself can cultivate, and there
(makes a permanent home for his children
'who come aftefhlnr; bnt We a re’ against
the man, no matters what his ability, who
[tries to monopolize large nj^sses of public
•land.
State and Federal Control.
Now, to preserve the general welfare,
to see to It that- the rights of the public
are protected, and the liberty of the indi
vidual secured and encouraged as long as
consistent with this welfare, and curbed
when it becomes inconsistent therewith, it
Ms necessary to invoke the aid of the
[government. There are points in which
'this governmental aid can best be ren
dered by the States, that is.- where the
iexercise of states’ rights helps to secure
popular rights; and as to these I believe
fin states’ rights. But there are large
•classes of cases where only authority
®f the National government will secure
(the rights of the people: and where this Is
fthe case I am a convinced and a thor
jough-going believer in the rights of the
(National government. Big business, for
(Instance, is no longer an affair of any one
•state; big business has become national
ized, and the only effective way of con
itrolling and directing it, and preventing
abuses in connection with it, is by having
•the people nationalize this control in order
to prevent their being exploited by the in
idividuals who have nationalized the busi
ness. All commerce on a scale sufficient
ly large to warrant any control over It by
[the government Is nowadays inter-state or
(foreign commerce, and until this fact is
heartily acknowledged and acted upon by
both courts and legislative bodies. Na
tional and state alike, the interest of the
(people will suffer.
, In the matter of conservation, I heart
ily approve of state action where under
our form of government the state, and the
•tate only, has the power to act. I cor
dially join with those who desire to see
the state, within its own sphere, take the
most advanced .position in regard to the
whole matter of conservation. I have
Itaken exactly this attitude in my own
state of New York. Where the state alone
had power to act, I have done all I could
to get it to act in the most advanced
manner: and where the Nation could act,
il have done all I could to get National
pctlon in the same direction. Unfortun
lately, In the east we have in this matter
maid the penalty of not having our forest
fland under National control; and the pen
alty has been severe. Most of the states
[--although they aro old states—have not
(protected their forests, each falling to
act by Itself, because the action was real
ty the common concern of all; and where
action is the common concern of all. ex
perience has shown that it can only be
profitably undertaken by the National
government.
। As a result of the impossibility of get
ting such wise action by the several state
governments In the cast, we are doing
our best to get National legislation under
Which the National government, at the
expense of millions of dollars, shall under
take to do as regards the Appalachians
•nd White Mountains of the east what it
is now doing in the Rock Mountains here
out west. It would be both a calamity
and an absurdity for the National govern
ment now to do In the west the very
thing that at a heavy pecuniary cost it is
trying to undo in the east. By actual ex
perience in the east we have found to
our cost that the Nation, and not the sev
eral states, can best guard the Interests
of the people in the matter of the forests
and the waters, and that If It falls to
attempt this duty at the outset it will
later on have to pay heavily in order to
be allowed to take up the work, which
because It is done so late, cannot be so
well done as If it had been begun earlier.
Water Power.
Take the question of the control of the
> water power sites. The enormous Impor
tance of water power sites to the future
industrial development of this country
has only been realized within a very few
years. Unfortunatly, the realization has
come too late as regards many of the
power sites; but many yet remain with
which our hands are free to deal. We
should make it our duty to see tha,t here
after the power sites are kept under the
control of the general government, for
the use of the people as a whole. The
■ fee should remain with the people as a
whole, while the use Is leased on terms
which shall secure an ample reward to
the lessees, which shall encourage the de
velopment and use of the water power.
' but which shall not create a permanent
• monopoly or permit the development to
be antisocial, to be in any respect hostile
to the public good. The Nation alone has
the power to do this effectively, and it is
for this reason that you will find those
corporations which wish to gain improper
advantage and to be freed from efficient
control on the part of the public, doing
all that they can to secure the substitu
tion of state for National action.
There is something fairly comic In the
appeal made by many of these men in
favor of state control when you realize
that the great corporations seeking the
privileges of developing the water power
in any given state are at least as apt to
be owned outside that state as within it.
In this country, nowadays, capital has a
National and not a state use. The great
corporations which are managed and
largely owned in the older states are
those which are most in evidence in de
veloping and using the mines and water
powers and forests of the new territories
and the new states, from Alaska to Ari
zona. I have been genuinely amused du
ring the past two months at having argu
ments presented to me on behalf of cer
tain rich men from New York and Ob^o,
for instance, as to why Colorado and oili
er Rocky Mountain states, should manage
their own water power sites. Now these
men may be good citizens according to
their lights, but naturally enough their
special interest obscures their sense of the
public need: and as their object is to
escape an efficient control, exercised in
the interest of all the people of the coun
try. they clamor to be put under the state
instead of under the Nation. If we are
foolish enough to grant their requests, we
shall have ourselves to blame when we
wake up to find that we have permitted
another privilege to intrench itself and
another portion of what should be kept
for the public good to be turned over to
individuals for purposes of private en
richment. Durirfg the last session of
congress bills were introduced to transfer
the water power sites in the National
Forests and the Public Domain to the
control of the states. I cannot state too
strongly my belief that these measures
are unwise, and that it would be disas
trous to enact them into law. In sub
stance their effect would be to free these
great special Interests from all effective
control. The passage of such a bill would
be a victory of the special interests over
the general welfare, and a long backward
step down the hill of progress we have of
late been climbing.
Our people have for many years pro
ceeded upon the assumption that the
Nation should control file public land. It
is to this assumption of National outlook
that we owe our wisest land legislation,
from the Homestead Law to the Irrigation
Law’. The wise use of our public domain
has always been conditioned upon Na
tional action. The states can greatly help,
but the Nation must take the lead, as re
gards the land, as regards the forests and
w’aters; and perhaps peculiarly in the case
of the waters, because almost all streams
are really inter-state streams.
Coal Lands.
The same principle applies with pecu
liar force to the coal lands, and especially
to the coal lands in Alaska, whose pro
tection and ow'nership by the Federal
government is so necessary, both for full
and free industrial development in the
west, and for the needs of our fleet in the
Pacific. The coal mines should be leased,
not sold, and those who mine the coal
should pay back a part of the profit to
the people. It is the right and duty of the
people to demand the most vigilant trus
teeship on that part of that branch of
the Federal government in charge of the
fuel resources of the United States.
The Neutral Ground.
Remember also that many of the men
who protest loudly against effective
national action would be the first to
turn round and protest against state
action if such action In Its turn became
effective, and would then unhesitating
ly invoke the law to show that the
stat® had no constitutional power to
act. Long experience has shown that
it is by no means impossible, in cases
of constitutional doubt, to get one set
of judicial decisions which render it
difficult for the nation to act, and an
other s‘bt W'hich render it impossible
for the state to act. In each case the
privileged beneficiaries of the decision
invoke the aid of those who treat the
Constitution, not as a healthy aid to
growth, but as a fetish to prevent
growth; and they assail the advocates
of wise and cautious progress as being
opponents of the Constitution. As I
have said before, I am a strong believ
er in efficient national action, where
such action offers the best hope of se
curing and protecting the interest of
the whole people as against the inter
est of a few. But I am emphatically
in favor of state action, where state
action will best serve this purpose: and
I am no less emphatically in favor of
cordial and hearty co-operation be
tween the nation and the states where
their duties are identical or overlap.
If there is one thing which is more
unwise than another, it is the creation
by legislative, by executive, or by
judicial action of a neutral ground in
which neither the state nor the nation
has power, and which can serve as a
place of refuge for the lawless man,
and especially for the lawless man of
great wealth, who can hire the best
legal counsel to advise him how to
keep his abiding place equally distant
from the uncertain frontiers of both
state and national power.
The Open Range.
I am (here at the invitation of the
Colorado Livestock association, and I
desire to express my appreciation of
their steadfast stand for decency and
progress in the handling of public
lands and national forests. They have
met and overcome the unrelenting op
position of some of the most Influential
stockmen of the state; they have won
because they have been right. I want
to express also my appreciation of the
work of the American National Livestock
। association. It has been One of the really
important forces working toward ef
fective railway regulation, while its
, support of the policy of federal range
control has given it a large place in
( national affairs. As an old-time stock
man I realize that the present order
of things on the open range cannot
• continue, and that the sure way to pro
tect the range itself, prevent the in
crease of big outfits, promote the equit
able use of the grazing lands, and fos
ter genuine homestead settlement, is to
extend over the open range a system
of range control somewhat similar to
that now in effect on the national for
ests.
Whatever system of range control
may be adopted in detail, there are two
things it must not do. It must not
, •handicap or exclude the small man by
I requiring him to spend more money
, for fences than he can afford, and it
। must leave every acre that can be set
> tied by bona-fide homesteaders freely
open to such settlement.
I do not believe that a single acre of
our public lands should hereafter pass
! into private ownership except for the
[ single purpose of homestead settle
’ ment, and I know that the stockmen
stand with me in their desire to re
[ move every obstacle from the path of
’ the genuine homesteader, and to put
every possible obstacle in the pathway
1 of the man who tries' to get public
! lands by misrepresentation or fraud.
This is absolutely necessary on the
‘ agricultural lands. It is at least equal
ly necessary on the mineral lands. It
would be a calamity, whose baleful ef
fect on the average citizen we can
1 scarcely exaggerate, if the great stores
' of coal and other mineral fuels still
owned by the people in Alaska and
elsewhere should pass into the unregu
lated ownership of monopolistic cor
-1 porations.
The Forest Service.
You progressive stockmen have stood
heartily by the conservation move
ment, and with you have stood many
others throughout the West, to whom
large credit is due, such as the lum
bermen in Washington and Oregon, the
irrigators in California, and the sup
porters of the country life movement
in and around Spokane. I want to
make my acknowledgments in partic
ular to the Colorado Forestry associa
tion, which has supported the forest
work of the government with such un
selfish zeal. The forest service has
enemies because it is effective. Some
of its best work has been met by the
bitterest opposition. For example, it
has done a real service by blocking
the road against the grabbers of water
power, and again by standing like a
rock against the demands of bogus
mining concerns to exploit the national
forests. I have always done my best
to help the genuine miner. I believe
that one of the first duties of the gov
ernment Is to encourage honest mining
on the public lands. But it is equally
important to enforce the law firmly
against that particularly dangerous
class which makes its living off the
public through fraudulent mining
schemes.
Much of the opposition to the forest
service, like much of the opposition to
conservation, takes the form of direct
misrepresentation. For example, the
cry is often heard that the national
forests inclose great areas of agricul
tural land which are thus put beyond
the reach of settlement. This state
ment seems plausible only till the facts
are known. In the first place, congress
has specially provided, that whatever
agricultural land there may be in any
national forest shall be open, unden.
proper safeguards, to homestead set
tlement. And in the second place, when
the opponents of conservation are ask
• ed to point out the great stretches of
inclosed agricultural land on tha
ground and in the presence of experts,
instead of in speeches in a hall, they
fail.
Reclamation Service.
The National Irrigation Congress is
to hold a session in the city of Pueblo
late in September. I am keenly sorry
that I could not nave accepted the
invitation to be present. I must, how
ever, be in the East at that time. But
since I cannot be present then to ex
press my keen, long-held, and deep-felt
interest in the reclamation of arid
lands by the federal government, I
desire to do so now. There is no more
effective instrument for the making of
homes than the United States Recla
mation Service, and no government bu
reau while I was President had reach
ed a higher standard of efficiency, in
tegrity and devotion to the public wel
fare.
Like the Forest Service, the Reclama
tion Service has clashed with certain pri
vate interests, and has had to pay the
penalty of its service to the public in the
form of bitter opposition from those with
whose profit it has interfered. The cry
has been raised against it that the gov
ernment must not do for its citizens at a
less cost what private interests are ready
to make them pay for at higher prices.
Now, I believe fully in the private de
velopment of irrigation projects which the
government cannot undertake. There is
a large and legitimate field for such work.
But the essential thing Is to make homes
on the lands, not to enable individuals to
profit from the necessities of the men who
make those homes. There is no more
warrant for objecting to the reclamation
of arid lands by the government than
there would be to protest against the gov
ernment for patenting agricultural lands
directly to the actual settler, instead of
through a middleman, who could make a
profit from the transaction. The men who
assert themselves at the cost of the com
munity instead of by service to the com
munity we have always had with us, and
doubtless we always shall. But there is
no reason why we should yield to them.
The Reclamation Service has not done so,
and that is the chief reason for the at
tacks upon it.
I don’t think that there is one among
you who is a better and more thorough
going westerner than I am. There has
been no support given to .the conserva
tion policies so welcome as that which
came from the west, and none in the
west more welcome than that W’hich came
from Colorado. There are men and or
ganizations in Colorado, and I mention
Delta in particular, whose support of the
conservation policies has been of the
greatest value to the Nation. It has not
I always Keen an easy thing for them to
stand for what was right, to stand for
the real ultimate good as against the
seeming temporary good; but they have
stood for it steadily nevertheless.
From the standpoint of conservation
the east has wasted much of its own
superb endowment; and as an American,
as a lover of the west, I hope that the
west will profit by the east’s bitter les
son, and will not repeat the mistakes of
the east. The east has wasted its re
sources, It suffers from the effect of the
waste, which now puts it at a disadvan
tage compared to the west, and it is
sorry. Most of the capital and very
many of the men now attempting to
monopolize your western resources are
from the eaet. The west should learn
the lesson o’ the east’s mistakes, and It
should remember that conservation in
the west yvill help the west first and
most, and that the movement for con
servation is most earnest, most vigorous,
and most effective in the west and among
western men. That is one strong reason
why the conservation policy has come to
stay.
Frequent Changes of Name.
The political rechristening of streets
in Paris is outdone by the case of the
Island of Reunion, which changed its
name four times in just over half a
i century. In 1793 it was Bourbon, as
' it had been for a century and a half,
but the convention then changed, it
to Reunion. Under the empire it be
: came Ue Bonaparte, at the restora
tion it reverted to Bourbon, and final
ly, in 1848, it became Reunion once
more. So the septuagenarian island
' ers of this last year could recall an
; unparalleled series of compulsory
changes. They must have thought
themselves lucky a few years later
when the second empire refrained
’ from Bonapartizing this island again.
Mr. William A. Radford will answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
subject of building for the readers of
this paper. On account of his wide expe
rience as Editor, Author and Manufac
turer, he is, without doubt, the highest
authority on all these subjects. Address
all Inquiries to William A. Radford, No.
194 Fifth Ave., Chicago, 111., and only
enclose two-cent stamp for reply.
It is one of the healthful signs of
present day building that the interior
arrangement of a house is given more
attention and is considered more im
portant than is its exterior appear
ance. Home builders have outgrown
that period when matters of design
were regulated by what the neigh
bors would think.
A generation ago every house had
to have its front and back parlor; the
former preferably garnished with a
round tower bay window arrangement
on the corner and the exterior elab
orately supplied with fancy orna
ments, if the building was to com
mand any distinction at all in the
community; and all of this was to
the general detriment of the home in
terior.
A modern house, on the other hand,
Is designed to meet the needs of the
family life, providing rooms that are
well lighted, well ventilated, of
proper size and so arranged that the
work of house keeping may be re
duced to its lowest terms.
The architect draws his floor plans
and lets the exterior appearance large
ly take care of itself. Yet, in spite
of this, the modern houses planned
in this way are more attractive in
their general exterior appearance
than were the pretentious, over
ornamented dwellings of old.
Simplicity and directness are the
two first requirements for successful
design-elements which come strong
ly into play in this present-day idea
of home planning.
In the accompanying design the
most important consideration was to
have the first floor so planned that
an impression of spaciousness be
gained upon entering the front door;
at v the same time it was desired that
the dining room and kitchen be sep
arated from the rest of the house at
times, when a certain privacy there
Is desired. This is a very frequent
requirement; yet, it is surprising how
often our houses as they are built
fulfil but part of this requirement.
A glance at the first-floor plan will
show an arrangement which accom
plishes the purpose very successfully
in this case. Entrance is had at the
center in front into a spacious square
hall; to the left the stairway as
cends to the second floor; to the
right through the column archway is
the lafge living room, 14 by 25 feet,
occupying the entire left side of the
house. This is a beautiful room, with
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First Floor Plan.
beamed -ceiling and having a large
brick fireplace at th 3 further end.
The dining room is in the center at
the rear, directly bacK of the entrance
hall. This room is reached byway
of a broad doorway from the side
of the living room, double doors sepa
rating the two when desired.
Both the living room and dining
room are exceptionally well lighted,
the three window groups being both
attractive in appearance and efficient
for lighting and ventilation. It is
seldom that one finds so good an ar
rangement as this in a house of
square outline, which, of course, is
the most economical to build. It is
usually n’ecessary, in order to secure
the desirable features mentioned, to
’ arrange part of the room in an ell
[ or otherwise complicate the design.
t The arrangement of the kitchen and
. pantry will be seen to be very con
■ venient for the preparation of meals.
• On the second floor three large bed-
J
rooms and a bathroom are provided
r Eacn room has cross ventilation.
There are five clothes closets; also a
. nice space for a sewing room in the
' well-lighted upper hall. The exterior
, of this house is very simple, yet it is
highly attractive. It is a modern
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Second Floor Plan.
adapatation of the Dutch colonial
style. Cement plaster on metal lath,
is employed for the walls. A number
of attractive color schemes are feas
ible for its use; cream color for the!
cement plaster and brown for the
wood trim around the doors and win
dows being perhaps as good as any.
The roof is of slate.
The cost of this house is estimated
at ?4,000.
FUSSY ABOUT THE CHANGE
Man, Unlike Woman, Does Not Like
the Way It Usually Is Given
to Him.
To be sure, the change we receive in.
these days of the high cost of most
things does not burden our minds or
our pockets overmuch, yet we should
like to receive the little that is coming
to us in a more orderly arrangement
than is customary in the smaller busi
ness transactions of daily life, says the
New York Tribune. Usually our
change is shot back in a little metal
box via a miniature overhead railroad.
The clerk pulls the crumpled wad
hastily apart to verify the amount,
and stuffs it into our hand. That Is
the system.
If the customer be a woman, well
and good, for she stuffs the ball into
her bag or pocketbook in very much
the same way, and departs. At the
end of the day’s shopping she sits her
dowm with a scrap of paper and a pen
cil, makes calculations that would be
wilder a mathematical astronomer,
talking to herself the while, pulls the
wads apart, counts the bills, then, her
account made up, stuffs them back
again in very much the same disorder
ly condition.
But with man it is different. He Is
methodical, fussy even, about the 1
money he carries around with him. He
carries his bills neatly folded, usually
once lengthwise and once across. He
has a finicky way of arranging them
face upward, with the demoninant in
the upper right hand corner, and he
keeps the bills of the same denomina
tion together. The cashier in the wire
cage of the retail business is not so
particular. She —it usually is a she—
can handle money upside down and
face downward without discomfort or
. confusion. She apparently puts it
. away as it happens to come out of the
carrier; she certainly takes no cogniz
. ance of these male peculiarities in the
■ way in which she makes change. So
bewildered man halts in the aisle, in
; tent on bringing order from chaos,
, blocks up the passage, and is jostled.
, We know that the bulk of the retail
; trade of the country is carried on by
1 women with women, who understand
■ each other even in this, but has mere
’ man no rights in the matter? Since
1 society is so busy reforming every
-1 thing it happens to think of, can it not
> start a movement for the orderly ar
-1 rangement of our change?
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ALMOST WORN OUT.
Ella Fontine—ls your knee tired,
dear?
Slenderly—lt must be, pet; it’s gone
to sleep.
The Stylish Fisherman.
One of the guests at a fashionable
summer resort in West Virginia got
। himself up in his best “fishing togs”
| and started along a certain mountain
I stream.
Meeting a native, he ask|d: “Here,
my good man! Kindly tell me whether
it would be worth my while to try
fishing in this vicinity.”
The native regarded him scornfully.
“The fishin’ ain’t good,” he finally
said, “but I ain’t informed as to how
you values your time.” —Lippincott’s.
Not to Overdo It.
Lily—l’se gwine to a s’prise party
tonight, Miss Sally.
Miss Sally—What will you take for
a present?
Lily—Well, we dldn’ cal’late on
takin’ no present. Yo’ see, we don’t
wan’ to s’prise ’em too much.
Detected.
It was at a Fourth of July meeting
in the little city. The mayor, William
Smith, rose, and at dignified length
read the Declaration of Independence.
There was a pause; then from one
of the mayor’s old schoolmates came
the loud whisper: “Bill never writ
that He ain’t smart enough.”
LACK OF MONEY
Was a Godsend in This Case.
It is not always that a lack of
money is a benefit
A lady of Green Forest, Ark., owes
her health' to the fact that she could
not pay In advance the fee demand
ed by a specialist to treat her for
stomach trouble. In telling of her
case she says:
“I had been treated by four differ
ent- paysicians during 10 years of
stomach trouble. Lately I called on
another who told me he could not cure
me; that I had neuralgia of the stom
ach. Then I went to a specialist who
told me I had catarrh of the stomach
and said he could cure me in four
months but would have, to have his
money down. I could not raise, the
necessary sum and in my extremity I
was led to quit coffee and try Postum.
“So I stopped coffee and gave Post
um a thorough trial and the results
have been magical. I now sleep well
at night, something I had not done
for a long time; the pain in my stom
ach is gone and I am a different
woman.
“I dreaded to quit coffee, because
every time I had tried to stop it I suf
fered from severe headaches, so I con
tinued to drink it although I had rea
son to believe it was injurious to me,
and was the cause of my stomach
trouble and extreme nervousness. But
when I had Postum to shift to it was
different
“To my surprise I did not mlw cof
fee when I began to drink Postum.
“Coffee had been steadily and sure
ly killing me and I didn’t fully realize
what was doing it lyitll I quit and
changed to Postum.” _
Ever read the above letter! A sew
one appears from time to time. Ther
are genuine, true, and full of hwna*
interest-
