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To the men of the army the gar­ lands and frills are accepted with childish delight. Somewhere In the bottom of his well- drilled and cleanly heart there is the coonsciousness of having dona t hlg thing well, and be lng most intense] y human, he gives ear to the praise of his fellow citi­ zen. And then again, garlands are gressional committees are prolific. The army know* that it its Impossible, to explain to the gentleman from tang Island or Poughkeepsie, N. V., that a little brown brother, hopping in and out of the brush, fanatically desir­ ous of clawing up an American citizen with a poisoned bolo, has little regard tor the federal statutes at large. And, of course, neither has Sammy, Jr., the uncommercial gentleman who has en­ listed for reasons best known to him­ self and whose duty it Is to catch the aforesaid Moro, and generally wear the path for those that follow after. Private Sammy does his work and he does it according to circumstances, which are essentially non political. Therefore it happens on occasionos that the aforesaid Moro Is sent yelp­ ing into eternity and Sammy Jr. re­ gards himself with a pleased grin. Also, circumstances force him to other untoward steps. Once there ww a famous soldier, Mulvaney by name, who took the town of Lungtun gpen, "na- kid as Vanus," and who, prior thereto, helped the department of information of the British em­ pire, with the Judicious administration of his cleaning rod. Which goes to show that betw*een Private Sammy and Private Tommy there is a healthy Anglo-Saxon understanding--particularly a* regards the treatment of black and brown brothers. - All this is merely preamble, but when the Moro has been carted away and the congressional committee has committed itself and the garlands are forgotten Private Sammy goes back to his own life, which to him is a highly important af­ fair. Somewhere, somehow, there remains in his brain an Impression that he is allowed the pur­ suit of happiness--and he pursues it. He does it in his own way and in divers places. The tur­ bulent tides of Juan de Fuca, which race by the gun-crested heights of Fort Worden, have heard his raucous chorus; the watermelon patches dot­ ting the desolation of Fort Riley know his foot­ print. On a Florida sandspit, in the snows of Alaska, in the heat of the islands, he purshes it-- and catches what little there is of It. The world which praises and abuses him knows him not, nor his life. The point of view Is entirely different. A ponderous civilian at the window of the paying teller of a local bank observed an officer in uniform standing behind him. "Well, I guess the country la safe," observed the rotund one, gazing superciliously at the uni­ form. | "Thank you, sir," said the officer, saluting. I This o&cer was a boy lieutenant, and his sar­ casm was natural. For within his short space of years he had played with the fangs of death and made snooks at the powers of darkness. A short time previously, at Luzon, he was ordered to find the bodies of two soldiers that had been murdered. The orders were to find the bodies, so of course they went and did. With seven troopers and a surgeon he pursued his way through jungle 6crub and cholera infested lands, without food, drenched with rain, Bleeping In swamps. They found them. One was tied alive over a red-ant hill, after being slashed with a bolo, and the other had been knifed and gagged with a portion of his own flesh. Presumably the supercilious circumferential gentleman did not know of such things and--this Is what stings-- there seem to be so many citizens of the comn- try whose ideas of the work of the army Is equally limited. Unfortunately, the men who do big things cannot talk about them. It follows that what the man of the army has to undergo, so must the woman of the army. The outside world knows the army woman as she Is not. It sees In her life a succession of society events and realizes not the horrible other side. Here is an illustration: Some years ago, In "the days of the empire," S little army woman went as a bride with her doo- ««K8 tor husband to Manila. They were ordered at umee to a unlive village up the valley, where a company of infantry had heen stationed to guard the water supply for Ma­ nila. The natives, you see, had a habit of throw­ ing the bodies of victims of cholera Into the riv­ ers and wells, thereby making life most un­ pleasant for those whites who had to drink. Such things are not mentioned in the society reports of the press. Of course the wife CCt&id h*TS yomotnft^ |)A. hind, but she did not. belief com- army that Her husband came In for dinner and rusheJ away again. Whereupon little Mrs. Army Woman went to her trunk and for the first time unpacked all the finery of the days that had been. "I found a dress which I had worn at a dance at the Presidio the last time," she said, "and I cried and I cried--" _ , Before leaving, the husband had pushed a Cues* against the door, locking her in completely, this being deemed the safest plan. Therefore on leav­ ing he had to crawl through the window, and as he hung on the window sill she bent forward and kissed him. Then she heard him drop with a splash Into the disease infested pools below. Alto­ gether It was as nice a spot for the pursuit of hap­ piness as could be found. Then sb« went to phe loneliness and the dark and the centipedes and cried. The wind whipped the banana palms against the house, the rata slashed down, she heard the lizards scuddlns around and a big one outside, In a mango tree, called "tuck-coo" so that she jumped up in fear and alarm waiting and wondering. All through the night she lived the horrors. E^PICHEOTUE IMPORTANT FACTOR IN; tyAKINO TRAVEL SAFE. few, while \ CUT M& . THFr/wr wh/TI: WOMAN t/i THC+fZACPi- the place of tne wire is uy ner husband. So with him she plunged through the Jungle to the camp. She was the first white woman in the place and the only other one of her kind was 20 miles away. The situa­ tion was decidedly pleasant The house was like an inverted waste- paper basket, a three-roomed bam­ boo shack set up on bamboo poles. One room was dubbed the centlpe- dorium because--well, because ev­ ery time the bride went in it she found centipedes and other things. There were other advantages. There was no stove and the cooking had to be done over hot coals. Also the water had to be boiled and par­ boiled; not alone the water for drinking purposes, but also for washing. "There was so much cholera," she explained. The meals were served with wire nettings over the dishes and above and about them and around them was the one thought --cholera. There were other delights. The Moros were out. A sentry had been boloed. The roads were knee deep In mud and the rain poured down In torrents. There came< a night when the very soul of her was tried to its uttermost. V/F~QL//YD/I DJQJTJJ W///C/// ffsiD WOjY/r AT A /)A/fC£^/iT The rain had fallen cease­ lessly. Pools were under the house and cholera was unusually on the rampage. The rain came down In such gusts that she had to fasten down the windows, thereby making the house too dark for reading purposes. So the day long, while her doctor husband wandered about through mud and rain with chlorodyne In hand, she peered through the slats, gazing at the bamboo palmtrees whip­ ping to and fro before the fury of the storm. At the appointed time she prepared dinner. She pro­ duced her row of nans. In her girlhood days there was a household joke, "What we cannot eat we can." Now as she gazed at the canned milk, the canned butter and the canned meats she wondered if she could eat all they can. Some­ how or other the fleeting thought of the girlhood days made her choke. You see it was the rain and the storm and the centipedes and things which got on her nerves. The storm passed and there followed the silences, weird, uncanny, of dripping water, of moving things underfoot. Ultimately she heard the splash­ ing of kindly American boots, --and looking outside saw a wet Bfceclmen of Private Sammy, marchipg philosophically up and down on sentry go. She called to him, half hysterical, and he answered her with cheering words. Reassured, she waited for her husband's appearance, wrapped In an army blanket, chilled to the heart. Later, when her husband and daylight had come, she learned that she had been sitting opposite a window with a lighted candle by her, offering a splendid mark for the prowling Filipino sharpshooters. This was an experience and one which the fat gentleman in the bank had never imagined. To the army this ignorance and narrowness is incom­ prehensible. The agony and bloody sweat of hiding death had gripped him so often that Pri­ vate Sam cannot understand why the gentlemen who employ him for this class of work do not realize that there are particular horrors connected with it. Being of the army, he does not speak of them, but his gorge rises within him when fat gentlemen sneer at the uniform which he has made respected. * ^ But he remembers the pursuit of happiness and the day comes when he Is ordered home. Then It Is that the army and Its women, gathered aft, watch the walls of Manila fade from their vision. The crowding thoughts chase each other across their brains, forming themselves into mem­ ories, horrible and happy, of cholera and poisoned bolo, of the perfume of the ihlang-lhlang and the love flourishing while the constabulary band played songs of home, around the the Luneta.-- San Francisco Call. Romance of the Sweet Pea The most highly regarded and widely grown annual In Canadian gardens of today, no matter where In this flower-loving country the garden be, or whether it belong to cottager or man of means, tolling clerk or park-owning municipality, the sweet pea first came to us from the Sicilian nuns. Franclscus Cupani, a monk, who was also a botanist, sent the first seeds to England In the year 1699, consigned to an Enfield schoolmaster named Dr. Uvedale. The old Middlesex dominie was both a botanist and horticulturist, and he grew the first sweet peas ever seen in England. Cupani called the plant Lathyrus dlstoplaty- phyllus hlrsutis, mollis et odorus--an unwieldy name, out of all harmon \> ith the winged grace of the sweet pea. Later Linnaeus cut down the clumsy designation to Its present form of Lathy­ rus odoratus. Dr. Uvedale found the seeds produced a plant with purple flowers, and so here we have the color of the original Bweet pea. The stock was gradually multiplied, and about thirty years later one Robert Furber, a Kensing­ ton gardener, was the first to offer seeds for sale. Progress In the production of new varieties was slow in those remote days, and it was not until the year 1793 (nearly a century later than Cupani's consignment of seeds) that any new col­ ors became known. In the year mentioned, how­ ever, a catalogue was Issued, which described black, scarlet and white varieties. * What became of the black and scariet sorts, If they ever existed in those true colors, Is not known. The black must have been a deep pnrple. The blackest bloom Is still the dark purple Tom BoltoA. In this connection, seeing that for years past hybridists have been trying to produce a pure yellow sweet pea, it may be said that the yellowest bloom at present known Is the creamy Clara Curtis. A novelty In the form of a striped flower was offered In the year 1837 by Mr. James Carter, and In the year 1860 there appeared the first bloom of the choice picotee-edged varieties which are so popular today. The latter was raised by Major Trevor Clarke. It was a fine white flower with an edging of blue, and Major Clarke soored a double triumph, for his new flower was also the first sweet pea with blue coloring. The greatest revolution in the history ol the sweet pea, however, was inaugurated on July 25, 1901, when, at the National Sweet Pea society's first exhibition, held In the old Royal Aquarium, London, Mr. Silas Cole, Earl Spencer's gardener at Althorp park, displayed the famous Countess Spencer, a beautiful pink variety with a wavy Instead of the conventional smooth standard. The loveliness of the new form won the hearts of all growers at once and during the last ten years so great has been the increase of wavy or frilled va­ rieties after the Spencer type that the latter now rules the sweet pea world. Some hybridists are engaged particularly at present in adding to the list of marbled varieties, of which the blue-veined Helen Pierce Is so choice an example, and it is possible that much more effort may be expended In future In the attempt to produce flowers with a striking and delicate vej^tion. Just a few figures in conclusion, showing not the least striking phase of the romance of the sweet pea. The Sicilian monk's ponderously named plant has become about 600 different vari­ eties grouped Into 21 classes, according to color. Over the culture of these flowers a national soci­ ety numbering 938 members and mebracing 101 affiliated societies watches. „ Mills' Opinion of Marriage Among the letters written by the late English philosopher and econo­ mist, John Stuart Mill, recently pub­ lished. Is the following document, dated March 6, 1861, upon the occasion of his marriage to Mrs. Taylor, whom fee loved since long before the event of her widowhood: "Being about, If I am so happy as to obtain her consent, to enter Into the marriage relation with ihe only woo- an I have ever known with whom I would have entered into that state, and the whole character of the married re­ lation as constituted by law being such as both she and I entirely and conscientiously disapprove, for this, among other reasons, that it confers upon one of the parties to the contract legal power and control over the per­ son, property and freedom of action of the other party, independent other own wishes and will, I, having no means of legally divesting myself of these obvious powers (as I most assur­ edly would do If the engagement to that effect could be made legally bind­ ing on me, feel It my duty to put on record a formal protest against the ex- leting law of marriage. in so far as conferring Buch powers, and a solemn promise never In any case or under any circumstances to use them. "And in the event of marriage be­ tween Mrs. Taylor and me, I declare It to be my will and Intention to abso- Railroad Men's Tintepleoea Must M inspected Once a Week---SKgtrt Variation Might Mean Se­ rious Disaster. The railroad watch inspector prob­ ably has as much to do with making % travel safe as ijpaa any one man In a great railway system's employ. If a trainman's watch is 30 sec­ onds slow or fast It might mean a disaster in these days when the rails are crowd­ ed with passen­ ger and freight traffic and meet­ ing points be­ t w e e n t r a i n s harve to be ar­ ranged on the emaiisst possible margins of time. There !s one man who has general charge of keeping the watches of sev­ eral great systems in order.. His ter­ ritory extends from New York to San Francisco and h^ has offices in Cleve­ land, Chicago and on the Pacific coast. He employs a large number of inspec­ tors, who travel constantly over the various railways with which he has contracts seeing that the watches of the thousands of trainmen are kept running accurately to the second. Every employee's watch has to be In­ spected at least once a week. If it is as little as 30 seconds out of the way the watch has to be turned in to be repaired and regulated, another being loaned In its place. If this were not done systematically and continually there is no telling what accidents might result. Many years ago five minutes' leeway was allowed for varia­ tion In watches. Today no allow ance whatever is made. Every watch must be absolutely accurate and cor­ respond with every other watch. In the old days conductors and engineers were allowed to carry any kind of watch and regulated It themselves. The 18-hour train between New York and Chicago would have been impossible then. With watches of ab­ solute precision and that can be de­ pended upon they are now run on time to the dot, unleps something unusual happens. It is the rule that the con­ ductor on any of these fast trains must report if he is 30 seconds late on reaching any of the stops. There are JJ7 different kinds of watches for use by railroad men. They are manufactured in eight different establishments that have been approv­ ed by the watch Inspectors. Each employe has to carry a little card in his pocket which contains a full de­ scription of his watch and on which Is written the record of each Inspec­ tion. The men themselves have to buy ~ and pay for their watches. It was found by the Pennsylvania rail­ road, when they tried the experiment some years ago, that It was not prac­ ticable for the company to buy ther* Watches and Issue them to their em­ ployees. The men were careless, and in some Instances pawned the time­ pieces. The prices at which t^e watches are sold and the cost of re­ pairs are regulated by contract with the railroad company. A watch with a filled case and standard movement can be bought for about $40, but there are others that are approved and cost much less. All of th£m have to be adjusted to ten}- peratures ranging from 30 to 96 de grees, because the balance wheels of brass and steel change with heat and cold. They also are adjusted to five different positions. All standard rail­ road watches must contain at least 17 Jewels; some are made with 19 and some with 21. More than the latter number, the experts say, would be use­ less. The jewels of a watch are its bearings. They are made of rubies or white sapphires and the holes In them are so small that they cannot be seen with the naked eye. * Watches never were so cheap and so accurate as they are now. This la largely due to the standard which the railroads have established, and while an accurate watch is a good thing for the man who stays at home it is in­ finitely better for the one who travels. The, electrification of steam rail­ roads is steadily becoming a nearer possibility, although tJ^e Inventors have yet much to accomplish before the motor generally displaces the en­ gine. The opening wedge comes la the form of electrification of terminals In the largest cities, where conditions of heavy passenger traffic prevail and where the greatest objection is made to the smoke nuisance, says H. H. Windsor In Popular Mechanics. Prog- „ lfnnr. hoo haatl BflBlItt 1VOB OftVttfi I.UWOO In New York, Philadelphia and Balti­ more, and other large cities are likely to follow in the next few years. The railroads claim that substitu­ tion of electricity for steam out on the main lines would Involve prohlbi- tive losses by making Junk of millions of dollars' worth of steam locomotives. This, however, is misleading and far from true, for during the several years necessarily consumed In chang­ ing over, say, 1,000 miles of trunk line, the future would be taken into con­ sideration. As fast as the steam locomotives on one division were released they would be transferred to other divi­ sions to take the place of wornouts there, and at laBt there would be branch lines of their own and smaller roads which would absorb a great part of what motive power remained at the finish. There would be some direct loss, and some indirect, such as pla­ cing on branch lines heavier and fas­ ter locomotives than the business re­ quired; but the loss from this Item would be only a fraction of the whole. There would be other millions of dollars, now invested in locomotive re­ pair shops, thrown out of use, but this would bring its own compensation, for 'the electric locomotive goes to the Chop Cu!? inu %ji iiireo limes a year,' where the steam locomotive muBt be overhauled constantly. Moreover, the cost of repairs to the electric machine Is Insignificant compared to the cost of maintenance of the steam locomo­ tive. The elimination of smoke, cinders and sparks will contribute to the oom- fort and luxury of long-distance travel quite as much as did the air brake when it difeplaced the hand brake. England's Military Railway. The South-Western Is our most Im­ portant military line. It skirts the Channel, and has more military sta­ tions on H than any other. It con­ nects the three great naval stations, Portsmouth, Portland and Plymouth, with the two gredt camps, and serves as many garrison towns as it does ca­ thedral cities. The road it jointly owns with the Brighton Into Ports­ mouth is the only one In the country that passes through a rampart. And, owing to the concentration of the troopships at Southampton, it carries every British soldier that goes or re­ turns on foreign service.--Westmins­ ter Gazette. lutely disclaim and repudiate all pre tense to have acquired any right* whatever by virtue of such marriage "J. 8. MILL." How It Was Done. The Picture of Misery--Yus, lidy, there was a time w'en I 'ad money to burn, an' where I made the mlstakt was w'en I did burn It The Old Party--And pray what did you burn It with? The Picture of Misery--Wlv an al flame of mine.--Punch. Pay No Rent or Taxes. They ought to be a happy lot of people In the Isle of Tiree, In the West Highlands of Scotland. A spe­ cial commissioner states that on the Island there are 200 families who have never paid taxes nor rent of any kind. The population Is 2,000, and Is governed by one policeman, who also watches over the Isle of Coll. He has not made an apprehension -for over six years. There have not been any li­ censed premises for half a century, yet the island is dotted with distiller­ ies. Railroad Signaling. The development in railroad signal­ ing in the last few years has been tre­ mendous, chiefly along electrical lines, and the plant Installed for the use of the Pennsylvania tunnel and terminal Is the largest single Installation of its kind ever made in this country. Quite Necessary. Manager--In the last act of your musical comedy we should Introduce a detective. Author--What for? Manager--To unearth the plot. ELECTRICITY VERSUS STEAM NATURAL ACT FOR MOTHER I -- t -V. Inventors Have Much to Accomplish Before Motor Generally Dis- . places the Engine. Wireless Telephone on Trains. At last the modern business man can transact his business while aboard a railroad train. Recently a young inventor, Henry Von Kremer, applying the principle of wireless telephonic communication, succeeded ip carrying on a conversation from a train going at a rate of 40 miles an hour, with a signal house miles down the track. This feat was accomplished on the Brighton railway in England. Two Hues of wire were laid along the track, one telephone apparatus was In­ stalled in the signal house and an­ other was set up in the baggage car. Von Kremer, on the train, dictated several telegrams to the man In the signal house.. Mr. Van Kremer's Invention Is not a new one, but Is said to be an im­ provement over other apparatus, since it does away with all contact with the wires, the impulse "jumping" the dis­ tance of 18 Inches between the car bottom and the roadbed. His greatest difficulty was overcoming the Induc­ tion of the nearby telegraph and tele­ phone wires. He succeeded in doing this by suspending a loop of wire about the car in which his telephone was stationed, thus cutting off all in­ terfering outside currents. It' is be­ lieved the system can be extended any length. Women Understand That Not Herol||| but Simply Love Projn^^.^J, Self A few days ago, In a sdofewliil squalid neighborhood, a house caught fire. The flames shot quickly through the litter on the floor and the untidy array of clothing on the walls. A wom­ an talking with a neighbor ran scream­ ing to the house and without an in­ stant's hesitation sprang through the smoking doorway into what already seemed an Inferno. A moment later she staggered out, her hands and faco blackened and blistered and her clothing on fire. In her arms she bor* her baby, safe from harm. , The afternoon papers came out with the stqry, printed under headlines ex­ tolling this mother's heroism. Map read it on street cars, and as the^ eyes gleamed with the stirring of the spirit which leaps to greei noble deeds they said: "That woman dared, to da what mostjroen would be afraid to do." « But the mothers who read it at home did not think that way. Perhaps the danger to ihe baby, the wrecking of the home and the burns the woman suffered brought moisture to their eyes, but to them the act was not one of heroism--it was simply what any natural mother, no matter how timid, would do under the same circuo> stances.--Cleveland Leader. REST AND PEACE Fail Upon Distracted Household^ When Cutlcura Enters. Sleep for skin tortured babies and rest for tired, fretted mothers Is found in a hot bath with Cutlcura Soap and a gentle anointing with Cutlcura Oint­ ment This treatment, in* the major­ ity of cases, affords Immediate relief In the most distressing forms of Itch- iug, burning, scaly, and crutueu uu> mors, eczema, rashes, lnflammationsi irritations, and chaflngB, of infancy and childhood, permits rest and sleep to both parent and child, and points to a speedy cure, when other remedies fall. Worn-out and worried parents will find this plure, sweet and econom­ ical treatment realizes their highest expectations, and may be applied to the youngest infants as well as chil­ dren of all ages. The Cuticura Rem­ edies are sold by druggists every­ where. Send to Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., sole proprietors, Boston, Mass.. tor their free 32-page Cuticura Book on the care and treatment of skin and scalp of Infanta, children and adults. Completely Pauperized. Albert W. Hebbard, New York's charity expert, said at a recent din­ ner: « "The great danger of charity Is Its pauperizing effect. This effect must be avoided, or the recipients will all become Jack Hanches. "Jack Hanch, on the score of bad health never worked, and the pastor of the Methodist church, a man whose heart sometimes outran his head, Bent the idler and his family weekly gifts of food and clothing--supported the whole crew, In fact "A church visitor, after listening to Jack's complaints one day, said: " 'Yes, of course, you have had bad health, we know that; but one thing at least you ought to be thankful for, and that la our pastor's kindness In sending you all this bread and meat and Jelly and blankets and so on. Don't you think It 1b good of hfhi to look after you so well ?" "'Good of him?' said Jack, Impa­ tiently. 'Why, what's he for?'" Madman at Throttle. An exciting adventure with a mad engine driver on a milk train occur­ red recently, in which a disastrous collision was averted. When his con­ dition was discovered the train was traveling 60 miles an hour with an­ other train carrying 400 passengers only a few hundred yards ahead. Both were bound from Albany to New York. The conductor of the milk train, who noticed that instead of go­ ing at ten miles an hour the train was traveling seven times as fant, climbed Into the tender and discov­ ered that the throttle was wide open and that the driver was lying on the floor of the cab with blood flowing from a wound in the side of his head. The conductor and. the fireman tried to reach the throttle, when the wound­ ed man sprang to his feet and# fought furiously to frustrate their plan. For five minutes the extraordinary strug­ gle proceeded. The driver was only overcome when the danger of a col­ lision with the crowded train was im­ minent. Fable of Pan of Biscuits. A Vassar girl married a Kansas farmer. Two weeks later a cyclone made the happy pair a friendly call. It cavorted around the premises, ripping up the fences, scattering the haystacks and playing horse with the barn, but when it looked through the open window it drew back in alarm. There lay the bride's first pan of biscuits. "I ain't feelin' very strong thia morning," murmured the cyclone. And with another glance at the ter­ rible pan it blew Itself away. Suffragists Make Jelly. At the pure food show in New York recently the suffragists had a booth, where they showed work of their own'hands. Preserved peaches'! for Instance, were made by the woman lawyer, Harriet Johnston Wood. Jel­ lies, and all sorts of preserves, besides homemade bread and cakes were shown as the product of the industry of women who want to vote as well as keep house and be lawyers and doc­ tors. Officer Feared Trap. Opening the door of an express car, westbound over the Pennsylvania railroad at Altoona, the other night, to investigate a report that a man was secreted therein, a railroad officer was surprised when a voice cried: "Hello!" "Hello!" he replied. "Come in!" in­ vited the unseen occupant. "ThanksI" responded the officer In mock polite­ ness, suspecting a trap. Taking the precaution to protect himself lu cauo of an attack, he entered and found he bad been talking to a parrot t Sympathy. Sandy Pikes--De millionaires have delr troubles, pard. Look at de hard time dey have dodging taxes and sub- penas. Gritty George--Yes, dey have al­ most as hard a time as we do dodging buildings and work. Hard. One of the hardest things In the world Is Co found a reputation for worthiness upon the ability and achievements of one's ancestors. Deadlock. "Who is that man who has been sit* ting behind the bar day after day?" Inquired the stranger in Crimson Gulch. "That's Stage Coach Charley. He's in a peculiar predicament. He went to town last week and got his teeth fixed. Then he came here, and, beln' broke, ran up a bill on the strength of his seven dollars' worth of gold ffllln'. Charley won't submit to bavin' the nuggets pried out an' the proprietor won't let him git away with the col­ lateral, and there you are!" WISE WORDS. A Physician oh Food. A physician, of Portland, Oregon, has views about food. He says: "I have always believed that the duty of the physician does not ceaae with treating the sick, but that we owe It to humanity to teach them how to protect their health, especially by hygienic and dietetic laws. "With such a feeling as to my duty I take great pleasure In saying to the public that In my own experience aiid also from personal observation I hare found no food equal to Grape-Nuts, and that I find there is almost no limit to the great benefits this food will bring when used in all cases of sick­ ness and convalescence. "It is my experience that no physi­ cal condition forbids the use of Grape- Nuts. To persons in health there Is nothing so nourishing and acceptable to the stomach, especially at break­ fast, to start the machinery of the hu­ man system on the day's work. "In cases of Indigestion I know thai a complete breakfast can be made of Grape-Nuts and cream and I think it is not advisable to overload the stomach at the morning meal. I also know the great value of Grape-Nuts when the stomach Is too weak to digest other food. • "This is written after an experiencf of more than 20 years, treating all manner of chronic and acute diseases, and the letter is written voluntarily on my part without any request for it" Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," In pkgs. "There's a Reaaoa,*