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* • , * " * * ' * ^ ^ « » t ** t --<*- \ ^ 11 * & ' ' ' .- »-.v^ DOG AND GAT STIR UP A RUMPUS IN CHURCH ANIMALS CAUSE PANIC DURING PRAYER SERVICE AND WOR­ SHIPERS FLEE FOR EXITS. FIGHT »Y rMTRJON HOUGH AUTHOit' Or THE Mi^lWIPPI BUBBlf hv MAftMfif O-KBTT^JER, SQ»vx=;is:-fr .tgog £>-" ••..£, cot SYNOPSIS. The story 1b told by Nicholas Triat. His chief, Benator John Calhoun, offered the portfolio of secretary of state In Tyler's cabinet. Is told by Dr. Ward that his time is shorty Calhoun declares that he is not ready to die. and if hA accepts Tyler's of­ fer It means that Texas and Oregon must be added to the Union. He plans to learn the intentions ai iOngiana witn rc-pard to Mexico throti&h Baroness Von Ritz, se­ cret spy and reputed mistress of the Eng­ lish ambassador Pakenham. Nicholas Is fitnt to bring the, baroness to Calhoun's apartments, and while searching for the baroness' house a carriage dashes up ana Nicholas is invited to enter. The occu­ pant is the bareness, who says she is be­ ing pursued. The pursuers are shaken off. Nicholas Is invited into the house and delivers Calhoun's message. Ke notes that the baroness has lost a slipper. Nicholas is Kiven the 'remaining alippcr &3 a pledge that she will tell Calhoun everything. He gives her as scourity an Indian trinket he Intended for his sweet­ heart Elisabeth Churchill. Elizabeth's fa­ ther consents to Nicholas's proposal for her hand. Nicholas Is ordered to leave at once for Montreal on state business, and decides to be married that night. Cal­ houn becomes secretary of state. Tyler warns Pakenham that interference by England in the affairs of this continent •*'111 not be tolerated. The west de­ mands that the joint occupancy of Ore­ gon with Great Britain cease, and has raised the cry of "Fifty-four, Forty or Fight." The baroness tells Nicholas she will do her best to prevent his marriage. She returns the trinket and he promises to return her slipper. Nicholas enlists the services of Congressman Dandridge, a rejected suitor of Elizabeth's, to assist in the arrangements for the wedding and entrusts him with the return of the slip­ per to the baroness. vivt CHAPTER XI. Who Glveth This Woman! Woman Is a miracle of divine contra­ dictions.--Jules Mlchelet. On my return to my quarters at Brown's hotel I looked at the top of my bureau. It was empty. My friend Dandridge had proved faithful. The slipper of the baroness was gone! So now, hurriedly, I began my toilet for that occasion which to any gentleman should be the one most exacting, the most important of his life's events. Elizabeth deserved better than this unseemly haste. Her sweetness and dignity, her adherence to the forms of life, her acquaintance with the ele­ gancies, the dignities and conventions of the best of our society, bespoke for her ceremony more suited to her class and mine. I told none about my quarters1 any­ thing of my plans, but arranged for my portmanteaus to be sent to the railway station for that evening's train north. I hurried to the Bond's jewelry place and secured a ring--two sizes, indeed; for, in our .haste, betrothal and ^wedding ring needed their first use at the same day and hour. I found a waiting carriage which served my purpose, and into it I flung, urging the driver to carry me at top speed into Elmhurst road. As we swung down the road I leaned forward, studying with inter­ est the dust cloud of an. approaching carriage. As it came near I called to my driver. The two vehicles paused almost wheel to wheel. It was my friend Jack Dandridge who sprawled on the rear seat of the carriage! That is to say, th# fleshy portion of Jack Dandridge. His mind, his memory, and all else, were gone. I sprang into his carriage and caught him roughly by the arm. I felt In all his pockets, looked on the car­ riage floor, on the seat, and pulled up the dust rug. At last I found the license. "Did you see the baroness?" I asked, then. ' At this he beamed upon me with a wide smile. "Did I?" said he, with gravity pull­ ing down his long buff waistcoat "Did I? Mos' admi'ble woman in all the worl'! Of course, Miss 'Liz'beth Churchill also mos' admi'ble woman in the worl'," he added politely, "but I didn't see her." The sudden sweat broke out upon my forehead. "Tell me, what have youvdone with the slipper?" He shook his head sadly. "Mishta- ken, my friend! I gave mo' admi'ble slipper in the worl', just ash you said, just as baroness said, to Mish Eliza­ beth Churchill--mos' admi'ble woman in the worl'!" "Did you see her?" I gasped. "Did you see her father--any of her fami­ ly?" "God blesh me, no!" rejoined this young statesman. "Feelings delicacy prevented. Washn't in fit condition to approach family mansion. Alwaysh mos' delicate. Sent packazh in by servant, from gate--turned round-- drove off--found you." My only answer was to spring from his carriage into my own and to order my driver to go on at a run. At last I reached the driveway of Elmhurst, my carriage wheels cutting the gravel as we galloped up to the front door. My approach was noted. Even as I hufried up the steps the tall form of none other than Mr. Daniel Churchill appeared to greet me. I extended my hand. He did not notice it I began to speak. He bade me pause. "To what may I attribute this visit, Mr. Trist?" he asked me, with dignity. "Since you ask me, and seem not to know," I replied, "I may say that T «m here to marry your daughter. Miss Elizabeth! I presume that the min­ ister of the gospel is already here?" "The minister is here." he answered. •"There lack3 one thing--the bride." "What do you mean?" He put out his arm across the dear. "I regret that I must bar my door to you. But you must take my word, as coming from my daughter, that you are not to come her<» • finisht." I looked at him, my eyes staring wide. I could not believe what^he said. "Why," I began; "how utterly mon­ strous!" A step sounded in the hall behind him, and he turned back. We were joined by the tall clerical figure of Rev. Dr. Halford, who had, it seemed, been at least one to keep his appoint­ ment as made. He raised his hand as if to silence me. a$d held out to me a certain object. It was the sllppeir of the Baroness Helena von Ritz--white, delicate, dainty, berlbboned. "Miss Elizabeth does not pretend to understand why your gift should take this form; but as the slipper evidently has been worn by some one, she sug­ gests you may perhaps be in error in sending it at all." He spoke in even, icy tones. "Let me into this house!" I de­ manded. "I must see her!" There were two tall figures now, who stood side by side in the wide front door. "But don't you see, there has been a mietake, a horrible mistake?" I de­ manded. Dr. Halford, in his grave and quiet way, assisted himself to snuff. "Sir," he said, "knowing both families, I agreed to this haste and unceremoni­ ousness, much against my will. Had there been no objection up. n either side, I would have undertaken to go forward with the wedding ceremony. But never in my life have I, and never shall I, join two in wedlock when either is not in that state of mind and soul consonant with that holy hour." All at once I felt a swift revulsion. There came over me the reaction, an icy calm. "Gentlemen," said I slowly, "what you tell me is absolutely impossible and absurd. But if Miss Elizabeth really doubts me on evidence such as this, I would be the last man in the "Where do you propose going, then, | of extension, southwest and northwest friend ?" "West," I answered. "West to the Rockies--" Dr. Ward calmly produced a tor toise shell snuff-box from his left- hand waisffcoat pocket, and deliberate­ ly took snuff. "You are going to do nothing of the kind," said he calmly.-.sums now. That would leave England "You are going to keep your promise to John Caihoun and to me. Believe me, the business in hand is vital." "1 care nothing for that," I an­ swered bitterly. "But you are the agent of your country. You are called to do your country's urgent work. All life is only trouble vanquished. I ask you now to be a man; I not only expect it, but demand it of you!" His words carried weight in spite of myself. I began to listen. I took from his hand the package, looked at it, examined it. Finally, as he sat si­ lently regarding me, I broke the seal. "Now, Nicholas Trist," resumed Dr. Ward presently, "there is to be at Montreal at the date named in these papers a meeting of the directors of the Hudson Bay Company of England. There will be big men there--the big­ gest their country can produce; lead­ ers of the Hudson Bay Company, many public men even of England. It is rumored that a brother of Lord Aberdeen of the British ministry will attend. Do you begin to understand?" Ah, did I not? Here, then, was fur­ ther weaving of those complex plots I Hi 14 "There Lacks One Thing, a Bride." world to ask her hand. I have no'time to argue now. Good-by!" They looked at me with grave faces, but made no reply. I descended the steps, the dainty, beribboned slipper still in my hand, got into my carriage and started back to the city. CHAPTER XII. The Marathon. As if two gods should play some heav­ enly match, and on this wager lay two earthly women.--Shakespeare. An automaton, scarcely thinking, 1 gained the platform of the station. There was a sound of hissing steam, a rolling cloud of sulphurous smoke, a shouting ef railway captains, a creak­ ing of the wheels. Without volition of my own, I was on my northward jour­ ney. Presently I looked around and found seated at my side the man whom I then recollected I was to meet--Dr. Samuel Ward. "What's wrong, Nicholas?" he asked. "Trouble of any kind?" So, briefly, 1 told him what little I knew of the events of the last hour. 1 told him of the shame and humilia­ tion of it all. He pondered for a minute and asked me at length if I believed Miss Elizabeth suspected any­ thing of my errand of the night be­ fore. "How could she?" I answered. "So far as I can recollect, I never men­ tioned the name of the Baroness von Ritz." Then, all at once, I did recollect! I did remember that I had mentioned the name of the baroness that very morning to Elizabeth, when the bar* oness passed us in the east room! Dr. Ward was keen enough to see the sudden confusion on my face, but he made no comment beyond saying that he doubted not time would clear it all up; that he had known many such affairs. "But mind you one thing," he added; "keep those two women apart." "Then why do y*>u two doddering old idiots, you and John Calhoun, with life outworn and the blood dried in your veins, send me, since you doubt me so much, on an errand of this kind. You Bee what it has done for me. I am don$ with John Calhoun. He may get soli* other fool for his Bervice." which at that time hedged in all our history as a republic. Now I guessed the virtue of our knowing somewhat of England's secret plans, as she sure­ ly did of ours. I began to feel be­ hind me the Impulse of John Cal­ houn's swift energy. "It is Oregon!" I exclaimed at last. Dr. Ward nodded. "Very possibly. It has seemed to Mr. Calhoun very likely that we may hear something of great Importance regarding the far northwest. A missed cog now may cost this country 1,000 miles of terri­ tory, 100 years of history." In spite of myself. I began to feel the stimulus of a thought like this. It was my salvation as a man. I be­ gan to set aside myself and my own troubles. "You are therefore," he concluded, "to go to Montreal, and find your own way into that meeting of the directors of the Hudson Bay Company. There is a bare chance that in this Intrigue Mexico will have an emissary on the ground as well. There is reason to suspect her hostility to all our plans Naturally, it is the card of Mexico to bring on war, or accept It if we urge; but only in case she has England as her ally. England will get her pay by taking Texas, and what is morn, by ta kiug California, which Mexico does not value. She owes England large owner of the Pacific coast; for, once she gets California, she will fight us then for all of Oregon. Jt is your duty to learn all of these matters-- who is there, what is done; and to do this without making known your own identity." , I sat for a moment in thought. "It is an honor," said I finally: "an honor so large that under it 1 feel small." "Now," said Dr. Ward, placing a gnarled hand on my shoulder, "you begin to talk like a Marylander. It's a race, my boy, a race across this con­ tinent. There are two trails--one north and one mid-continent. On these paths two nations contend in the greatest Marathon of all the world. England or the United States--mon­ archy or republic--aristocracy or hu­ manity!" %r •• '-tV? • -\ H CHAPTER XIII. On 8ecret Service. If the world was lost through women, she alone can save it.--Louis de Beau­ fort. In the days of which I write, our civilization was, as I may Bay, so embryonic, that it is difficult for us now to realize the conditions which then obtained. We had several broken railway sys­ tems north and south, but there were not then more than 5,000 miles of rail­ way built in America. All things con­ sidered. I felt lucky when we reached New York less than 24 hours out from Washington. Up the Hudson I took the crack steamer Swallow, the same which just one year later was sunk while trying to beat her own record of nine hours and two minutes from New York to Albany. She required 11 hours on our trip. Under conditions then ob­ taining, It took BIG a day and a half more to reach Lake Ontario. Here, happily, I picked up a frail steam craft, owned by an adventurous soul who was not unwilling to risk his life and that of others on the uncertain and ice-filled waters of Ontario. With him I negotiated to carry me with others down the St. Lawrence. One delay after another with broken ma­ chinery, lack of fuel, running ice and what not required five days more of my time ere I reached Montreal. As I moved about from day to day. making such acquaintance as I could, I found in the air a feeling of excite­ ment and expectation. The hotels, bad as they were, were packed. The public places were noisy, the private houses crowded. Gradually the tolvn became half-military and half-savage. Persons of importance arrived by steamers up the river, on whose ex­ panse lay boats which might be bound for England--or for some of Eng­ land's colonies. The government--not yet removed to Ottawa, later capital of Ontario--was then housed in the old Chateau Ramezay, built so long before for the French governor, Vaudreuil. Here, I had reason to believe, was now established no less a personage tfcan Sir George Simpson, governor of the Hudson Bay Company. Rumor had it at the time that Lord Aberdeen of< Englai>d himself was at Montreal. That was not true, but 1 established without doubt that his brother really was there, as well as Lieut. William Peel of the navy, son of Sir Rebert Peel, England's prime minister. I was not a week in Montreal before I learned that my master's guess, or hiB information, had been correct The race was on for Oregon! AH these things, I say, I saw go on about me. Yet in truth as to the in­ ner workings of this I could gain but little actual information. I saw Eng­ land's ships, but it was not for me to know whether they were to turn Cape Hope or the Horn. 1 saw Canada's voyageurs, but they might be only on their annual journey, and might go no farther than their accustomed posts in the west. In French town and Eng lish town, among common soldiers, voyageurs. innkeepers and merchants, 1 wandered for more than one day and felt myself still helpless. That is to say, such was the case until there came to my aid that great est of all allies. Chance. (TO BE CONTINUED.) The Savage Einus of Japan These people are Aryans race cousins of our own--and in the days when our forefathers were hunting and fishing and fighting across the wilds of Europe, they were fallowing a similar mode of existence on the coast of Asia. If some carelul %trav- eler could have compared the two peoples at that time there would have been little choice between the dwell­ ers of the east, and those of rfhe west, In arts, achieve Jients, or tribal char­ acteristics. During the era in whlcfc t!w sboguns ruled .Japan slight atten­ tion was paid to the wild peoples of the north, and they suffered far more at the hands of vengeful trlbesmeu of their own than from any other source. But now the Japanese are developing for themselves the Island of Yezo, clearing lta forests, allotting its land, tiling Its soil and opening its miftes. So the Ainu hunting grounds have dis­ appeared, and new laws have robbed them of the right to fish the streams. Indeed, wherever Japan's sun bannet floats both law and lawlessness favoi the Japanese, and fight against the alien; and because of their helpless ness the Ainus have experienced the truth of this assertion In all its bitter ness.--Arthur Pierce Vaughn la Pa cifie Monthly. See All Things. At least, see everything that yot can see, and know everything that you can know of it, by asking ques tions See likewise everything at the fair, from operas and plays down to the Savoyards' rareshows. Every thing is worth seeing once; and the more one sees the less one wondert or admires.--Lord Chaster fie Id. Buffalo, N. Y.--In a made race for life in the hamlet of Spartanburg a cat and a dog caused a panic In tho local church during the prayer serv­ ices and many members of the con- gicgatluu wwre injured in their naste to get out of doors. The services were well under way, the church doors were open, when a dog passing up the street espied a cat in front of the church and gave chase. The cat ran Into the church, up one aisle and across in front of the pulpit, the dog at its quarry's heels. Marking furiously all the way and throwing the congregation into a turmoil. Be­ lieving the dog mad, the worshipers fled for the exists. Meantime the cat started up the stairs leading to the steeple, the dog In pursuit As the Cause Panlo In Church. belfry landing was reached the eat realised that It was cornered; so without a moment's hesitation It plunged through one of the windows to the ground, a distance of about forty-five feet, landed on all fours and In a Jiffy was across the lawn and out of sight. The dog jumped through the broken window, after the cat, but was killed by the fall. After a time the interrupted services were re­ sumed. FEAR OF PLAGUE STARTS WAR Rata and Pet Cats Slaughtered In England After Recent Investiga­ tion of Death of Animals. London.--Fear of the plague has started a war on rats In several towns of Suffolk, and in proclamations the medical officers have warned the pub­ lic to destroy all rats and vermin. Even the domestic cat Is under suspicion, and many have been sacrificed In the effort to prevent the plague. An Iron cart ordinarily used to col­ lect all sorts of dead animals, is now used exclusively for rats, and travels around the district daily with a man walking ahead and calling on residents to bring out the rats that have been killed. The official notice states that it has been proven beyond a doubt that certain animals in Woodbrldge died from the plague and a raid on the rats Is directed because they are be­ lieved to have much to do with spread­ ing disease. Efforts are being made in London to keep rats from coming ashore from vessels. The most effective means is to place a concave slnz disk on each hawser. The rat when he reaches the disk cannot pass and must either go back to the ship or Jump In the river. BOY OREAMS OF OWN DEATH Scene Youth of Seven Describes aa His Funeral Soon Becomes a Reality. Philadelphia. -- "Mother, I Just dreamed I was dead." cried seven- year-old Charles McGrath. when he awoke and ran to his mother's room. A few hours later he was crushed un­ der a pile of bricks and stone that fell from a chimney on the roof of his home. He died while his mother was carrying him to a hospital. Mr. and Mrs. McGrath were startled by screams from the room where Charles Blept The lad ran to his moth­ er's room, trembling with fright "Oh, mother, I dreamed I was dead," he cried. "I was all covered with blood and they put flowers all over me In a coffin." Believing that the child was ill, Mrs. McGrath did not allow him to attend school. Charles and four-year-old Charles Keenelly went to the roof of the McGrath home to fly a kite. Soon afterward Mrs. McGrath heard screams from the housetop. She ran to the flat and found her son pinned tinder a mass of brick and mortar, f^iian from the top of the chimney. Wife Cant for » Beating. Washington.--In effect, the right of a man to beat his wife, in so far as the law of the District of Columbia is con­ cerned, was upheld in the United States Supreme court in the case of Jessie E. Thompson, who sought $70,- 000 as damages for assault and battery. The court found that neither the com­ mon law nor the code allowed such a suit Boy Shoots Himself to Be a Hero. New York--George Curtis, agsd seventeen years, shot himself in the arm in New York city and then in­ formed the police he had been shot by a "hated rival" whose name "he would die rather than reveal." Before the police had gotten very far be admitted he shot himself in the arm that ha might appear to be a hero is the area of his sweetheart ILLINOIS HAPPENINGS Peoria.--The Peoria Dairymen's as* soclatlon has warned users of milk In this city that they will get no mlllc if they fail to shovel off the snowi from their walks. Mollne.--Although beset by train j robbers and left without food for 36 hours while Journeying half way across the continent to marry a man she had, never seen, Mrs. Fannie Kelley of this city, aged thirty-two years, is still ©a romance bent Rockford.--The public schools of' Rockford will cost $399,421.16 the com­ ing year, which is $120,735 more than last year. Kowaiiee.--when he attempted to board a moving freight train at Shef­ field, Albert Koppitz, aged eighteen' years, slipped on the ice and was crushed to death beneath the wheels. . Mattoon.--Several Mattoon mer­ chants have been made the victims of a check forger, a young man giving the name of Harry Hamilton. Jacksonville.--A stranger in tho city succeeded in passing four worth­ less checks upon local merchants aud the police have failed to locate Mm. Rockton.--Two puppies overturned a lamp in the tenant house of Charles Hyatt and the entire building with, all lta contents were destroyed. Chicago.--Risking his life in the flames and smoke, Detective Ser­ geant Michael Oonnors of the Des- plaines street police station rescued thirteen men from a blazing rooming house at 1020 West Lake street He was almost suffocated three times In efforts to reach those in peril, but fought on until every man, was safe. The flames started when one of the roomers was aroused by the ringing of his alarm clock. He sat up In bed suddenly, yawned and stretched his arms. In doing so he accidentally knocked over a lighted lamp, which set the room on fire. Pax ton.--St Mary's new Cathollo church at Paxton was dedicated. It it a stately brick structure of Romanesque style of architecture, with beautiful interior decorations. The building was erected at a cost of approximately $11,000. The pastor is Rev. P. H. Durkin. The dedication was given by Bishop Dunne and was followed by solemn high mass. Peoria.--The boy banker, E. W. Butler of Chicago, who secured his release from the Peoria county Jail Thursday, was rearrested later by the sheriff of Fulton county, on a similar charge of embeztlement and now languishes In the Fulton county Jail at.Lewiston. Qulncy.--A Woman known as Elizabeth Miller, wante<l here on a bigamy charge, was arrested in Day­ ton, O. She is charged with marrying three old soldiers within three weeks and securing $100 of pension money from each. Chicago.--Michael Lurgio, an Ital­ ian, who had been on trial in Judge Scanlan's court for several days on the charge of murdering his wife. Elizabeth, in a rooming house at 133 South Morgan street, May 14, was found guilty by a jury. The jurors recommended that his punishment be fixed at twenty years in prison. Bloomington. -- Louis Mack, pro­ prietor of a bakery, was found dead in a field near here, shot through the heart. The accidental discharge of a gun while he was hunting is be­ lieved to have been the cause. TuBcola.--A coroner's Jury decided that Thomas Lahne, who dropped dead, died from heart failure brought on by excessive eating. Chicago.--Italian barber shops of fJouth Clark street are getting the benefit of the decision of the China­ man to part with his queue. There are no Chinese barbers in the Sbuth Clark street district, and Italians, with characteristic thrift, havs no­ tices written in Chinese posted on their windows announcing that they are ready for all the queue trade that comes their way. The Chinese have fallen in with this suggestion. The reason the Italians are so anxious to .get this business is that there is a double profit in it, for they not only get paid for the hair cutting, but get the queues besides, and queues are a marketable commodity. Peoria.--The Ingersoll Monument association has tentatively selected a site in the court house square, opposite the Young Men's Chris­ tian association building, for a bronze statue of Robert G. Ingersoll, the statue to face the Y. M. C. A. building. The association has ap­ pealed to members of the board of supervisors to aid in defeating the plans of the Ingersoll followers. Shelbyville. -- Asserting that he stole to get food to keep him frum starving, Clarence Darrow, seventeen years old, confessed to breaking into E. Miller's Ice plant He took wrenches, lubricators, brasses and other articles to the value of about $50. Miller found them in a second­ hand store, where the boy had sold them for $2. Bloomington. -- Chicago & Alton officials and representatives of the post office department have been unable to complete details In relation to the proposed new fast mail trains between Chicago and St. Louis. A postponement has been decided and the new train will not go into service until January 29 Springfield.--The report of the state auditor on the condition of the 518 state banks in Illinois at the commencement of business on Janu­ ary 9 gives their total capital, surplus, contingent fund and undivided profits as $103,684.S62. Bloomington.--Mrs. Charlea Sweeley of Wing low has been arrested on a charge brought by Roy Youta of that place that she set fire to a dwelling house which the woman's husband had rented, but which the wife disliked. The state has five witnesses who will testify they saw Mrs. Sweeley go to the house shortly before the fire was discovered. She was placed under bonds of $500 to await grand jury ac­ tion. 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OH Jake says that this was the Indian^ paradise before the advent of Nrly white settlers. Jake Hunt is destined- not to die % poor Indian. His lands are as rich an4l productive as any in the valley and command a high price. He is said to have married aeven times during ni* long career, but there will be only • widow and a few children to fall hair to his valuable property.--Husum Cor­ respondence Portland Oregoaian. Back, Than, to the Farm. Richard Croker, during his visit to New York last month, discussed with a reporter the high cost of living. "The farmers are all right," said Mr. Croker. "It is the people who slst on living In the towns who fin$ everything too dear. In the towmfc you see, the expenses are aa bottler some as the children. "A little boy in a tiny flat looked u#- from his drum one day and said: v •' 'Mother. Adam and Eve lived Paradise. What was it Uke there? " " Like what it Is here,' hla mothe#1 answered, 'when you eight rliildrfllt are all at school." CHEATED FOR YEARS. Prejudice Will Cheat Us Often If W* Let It. Tou will be astonished to find Vow largely you are influenced la everj( way by unreasoning prejudice, la many cases you will also find that the prejudice has swindled you, or ratlMr, made you swindle yourself. • ease in illustration: "I have been • constant u*er of Grape-Nuts for nearly three years.* says a correspondent, "and I am hap» py to say that I am well pleased witli the result of the experiment, for sucfc It has been. "Seeing your advertisement to al­ most all of the periodicals, for a loos His© I looked upon It g, hesx. But after years of suffering with gaseous and bitter eructations from my stom­ ach, together with more or less loso u of appetite and flesh, I concluded to try Grape-NutB food for a UUls Umo and note the result. "I found it delicious, and it «M M* long till I began to experience the beneficial effects. My stomach re­ sumed its normal state, the erueta» tions and bitterness ceased and 1 hOTO gained all my lost weight back* ' "I am so well satisfied with tho result that so long as I may live anfc retain my reason Grape-Nuts ahaS constitute quits a portion of rnjr dallX food." Read "The Rood to Wenrfflo" lO jkgs. "There's a Iteasret." tfcup ttlM.ss'C lettert A di «ue mpp*mr» from Use*- *« are yeaatea* tr«w% fall <«