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The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-22
"Be Pleasant Every Morning Until
Ten O'clock; the Rest of the Day
Will Take Care of ITSELF

This is one OF the best little ser.
mons We know. Have Won ever
stopped TO think that the morning
is the time when your temper is usu-
ally rufled. and have YOU ever
stopped to think that the cause of
bad temper in the mornin is nearly
always because your stomach has not
been working properly during the
night? 1t has contained lot of .ndi-
gestible substances that form gas
and makes you have dreams. 1t
breaks up your rest ana you wake up
in the morning tired. instead of re-
freshed. as nature intended you
should.
Our grand sires required no ad-
monition to BE pleasant every morn
ing until 10 o'clock: the rest of the
day Will take care OF itself" for they
digested their food and woke up fun
OF life and energy ready for the days
duties, and this was because they
lived on simple foods instead of high
ly seasoned palatable connections.
which contain no nourishment. Ma
ture gave US milk. wheat and eggs.
and on these foods a person can
live indefinitely. but if the milk is
skinned, and il the outside of the
wheat is taken off the kernel, and IL
the lime, the salt, and the iron, which
Is in the outer part of the wheat
berry, If these are all removed, you
have simply starch alone; the starch
goes into the stomach and becomes
sugar
DO you know that person would
starve to death on plain white bread
and water? Do you know that he
could live Indefinitely on whole wheat
bread or on whole wheat food ana
water? These interesting facts are
al set forth in q. book called Back
TO Nature which tells about proper
living and gives recipes for meals of
.he simple kind-the kind that makes
you strong and well: the kind that
makes you Pheasant every morning
until 10 O'Clock" This book is pub.
Hshed at a great expense, but it is
given free to every reader of this
paper. 1t is an advertisement OF
EGG-O-SEE," the great food-whlch
is made from whole wheat which is
baked and predisested and is all
ready to serve from the package you
buy at your grocers. You get more
life and energy from 10-cent pack.
age of EGGO-SEE than you will get
from 4 thousand dollars worth OF
white bread. This is no idle claim.
1t is a scientific fact. We want to
tell about this simple food question,
so write us and say Please send me
copy of your book Back to Ma
ture,' and the book will be sent you
at once without charge. Address
EGG-O-SEE CO., No. 10 First Street,
Quincy, III.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-22
Rain Doubles the Mail

The mail is affected by the weather
according to postal official, and
women, he says, are largely to
blame for overworking employees on
certain days IN the year. Immediate
ly after a spell of bad weather or
even one rainy day the mail will he
practically double, and then men will
have to work overtime to handle it.
In accounting for this state of affairs
he says that women stay at home
when 1t rains and answer their cor
respondence. This duty is pretty gen.
orally put off when the weather is
pleasant for more consenial occupa-
tions, but if the weather prevents
their going out then they settle ther>-
selves to day at their desks.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-22
KNOWS NOW
Doctor Was Fooled by His Own Case
for Time.

Its easy to understand how ordi-
nary people get fooled by coffee when
doctors themselves sometimes forget
the facts.
A physician speaks of his own ex.
perience:
i had used coffee for years and
really did not exactly believe it was
lnJurins me although l had palpita.
tion of the heart every day,
Finally one day severe and al
most fatal attack of heart trouble
frightened me and l gave I'D both
tea and coffee, using Postum instead
and since that time l have had alb
solutely no heart palpitation q:c,,t
on one or two occasions when | tried
small quantity Of coffee which
caused severe irritation and proved
to me | must let it alone.
When we began using Postum it
seemed weak-that was because we
did not make it according to direc.
tions-but now we put little bit of
butter in the pot when boiling and
allow the Postum to boil full Is min
utes which gives it the proper rich
flavor and the deep brown color.
Il have advised great many of
my friends and patients to leave off
coffee and drink Postum, in fact l
daily give this advice" Name given
by Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich.
Many thousands of physicians use
Postum in place of tea and coffee in
their own homes and prescribe it to
patients. There's n reason"
A remarkable little book, The
Road to Weilville,' can be found in
"a,
The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-22
TICKLESoME TRIPLES.

Mamma. what is a grass widow"
"a grass widow, dear-is lady whose
husband plays golf
johnson says he has four bath
rooms in his new house" Made a
plumbers paradise of it. eh?"
"The doctors have finally agreed
upon the cause of jenkins illness" "
They've held another consultation.
eh?" No; post-mortem."
"Ah, dearest sighed young Broke.
leigh, Il cannot live without you.'
why no,:' quered the girl with the
obese bank balance. Did you lose your
job?'
Knicker-l see the new San Francis
co buildings will dispense with all or
namental features
Bocker-Then there will be no jan
itors?-N. Y. Sun.
stella-Say let's cut slang out.
Bella-You're on. You call me
down whenever spring line of bum
English and III do the same for you.
Cleveland Leader.
Il overheard Jones last night say
ing that his wife was beautiful"
"He must be as blind as a bat"
But he was saying it to her."
Hes diplomat. Houston Post.
Then you have no sympathy for
the deserving poor" asked the person
working for charity. "Me?" replied
the rich anu great man. Why, sir. l
have nothing but sympathy for them"
Better come to the hospital to-mor-
row. I'm going to perform very i'm
portant operation on old Skads."
what for?"
Five thousand dollars. Houston
Post.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-22
New Commandment.

Secretary Wilson does not agree
with those who say that the eleventh
commandment is do not be found
OUT day or two ago he had occa-
sion to reprimand subordinate who
in conversation with a friend let slip
some information which was of a con-
fidential nature. Never forget the
eleventh commandment again. said
the secretary, and In case you do net
know what 1t is, shall write 1t on
slip OF paper for you The subordi
nate looked at the slip, on which Mr..
Wilson had written: Keep your
mouth shut
The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-22
500 Reward, 500.

The readers Of this paper will be pleased to learn
has been able 10 n all its stages. and that Is
Catarrh Halls Catarrh Cure 10 the only positive
cure now known to tho medical fraternity. Catarrh
being constitutional disease, requires constitu-
tional treatment Halls Catarrh Cure is taken iD-
ternaly acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces Of the system, thereby destroying the
foundation Of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and assist
ing nature in doing its work. The proprietors have
SO much faith in its curative powers that they offer
One Hundred Dollars for any that II fails TO
cure. Send for list of testimonials,
Address F. J. CHENEY CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-22
Names of Kings.

Denmark S kings for 3S4 years have
all been named Christian or Frederick.
1t Is the law of Denmark that Chris
tian must be succeeded by Frederick
and Frederick by Christian. To at.
tain this. every Danish prince, no mat.
ter what other names ho may receive
always has Christian and Frederick
among them.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-22
Marconi Anticipated.

An Psychologist and an Assyriologist
were dlsputing about the relative ad-
vancement of the two ancient peoples
whom they we're studying.
why, SIR cried the Psychologist,
I'VE find remains OF wires in Egypt
which prove they understood electric
ity!"
"Pshaw!" answered the Assyriolo-
gist, we don't find any wires in Assy-
ria, fnd that shows that they under
stood wireless telegraphy!' - Stray
Stories
The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-22

languid, nervous and lame in the
morning. Doan's Kidney Pills helped
me right away, and the great relief
that followed has been permanent"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-22
Cara Of Oilcloth.

Oilcloth should never be scrubbed with
a stiff brush or washed with strong soap.
Remove all dirt by carefully sweeping with
a soft hair brush. Then wash until clean
with tcpid water and Ivory Soap. Rinse
with clear water to which has been added
a teaspoonful of kerosene. Polish with a
dry cloth. ELEANOR r. PARKER,
The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-22
Worth Studvinp

Rubbe-Why in the world did that
entomologist take so much interest in
the wedding?
Dubbe-No wonder. A beetle
browed man married wasp waisted
girl.-Chicago Daily News
The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-22
Music for Neigh bors

1--WE got to practice on the piano five
hours day" said the disconsolate
small grl.
what for?"
"'Cause mother and father don't like
our rev neigh5ors." - Washington
Star.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-22

Thousands tell of
cures made by
Doan's Kidney Pills.
John c. Coleman, a
prominent merchant
of Swainsboro, Ca,
says: For several
years my kidneys
were affected, and
my back ached day
and night 7 was
The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-22
Clean the Drains.

You ought to clean all the Grain
pipes connected with the house at
least once a week, by flushing 1Am
with hot sal soda water, or a lyy 80
luton.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-22
POSITIONS

Secured all graduates In TeleErnphy,
housekeeping, Shorthand. Typewritinis.
Full term. Sept. 4, 1905. Catalogue md
Telegraph FuiaIer Free. (. N. kenrns,
Principal, Modern School OF Business,
Denver, Colorado.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-22

Civilization consists largely in court
ing b. mail and contracting debts. The
happy savageS do neither.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-22

A straight life is the shortest dis
tance between honesty and honor
Saturday Evening Post
The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-22

Mrs ~'rs'~-'u s~-,;.i-- S--CD.
tJ Shi'drcn CetLIns, softens Ine gurns reduces In.
illumination, says pain, cures wind collie CSC bottle
The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-22

The seat OF conscience often seems
TO be In the lIvc1.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-22

ldleness Is the incubator of lot OF
industrious niquity.-Chicago Tribune
The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-22

For fexibilitv, smooth finish, stiff
ness and durability Defiance Starch
has no equal-1Oc for 16 OF.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-22
DOES YOUR BACK ACHE?
Cure the Kidneys and the Pain Will
Never Return.

Only one way to cure an aching
back. Cure the cause, the kidneys
The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-22

Secretary of American Humane Assc
ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-05

economy will deliver lectures that will prove of live interest to stock raisers, dairymen and tillers of the soil in gen eral. These lectures will be free and large attendance is invited
 The old idea that the farmer need know little or nothing of science has been exploded. In no calling in life is the demand for educated men more ac- centuated than it is in the business of farming. The old-time farmer who learned only by experience can still make living if he labors industri- ously but agriculture is fast coming to be a great commercial proposition, and that being so, theory and practice must go hand in hand if the farmer is to reap the full reward of his labors. Auburn cannot be too highly com mended for the up-to-date work it is doing for the agricultural industry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-05
A man am, cross'd with diversity.
 Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Ierome's Visit.

District Attorney William Travers Jerome has accepted an invita- tion from the Birmingham Board of Trade to be present at it's annual banquet to be given on July 20, and his coming will be awaited with interest. hecently Birmingham has had the honor of entertaining some of the nations most distinguished citi- zens, including the President and the Vice President, but Mir. Jerome will not attract any less attention on that account Southern people have heard much of this man, and Birmingham is anxious to show him the consideration which is his due
 Folk, Hearst and Jerome are young men who have occupied the lime light considerably here of late. All are wig orous personalities. MT. Jerome has had the misfortune to be rather warmly eensured in some quarters for alleged dilatory tactics in punishing the insur- ance grafters, but there is no reason to believe that he worried greatly on this account. Besides. he gave good excuse for his methods-an excuse that was supported by able lawyers in New York
 Another reason why Birmingham is eager to see MT. Jerome is that he is destined for higher honors in the fr- ture, provided no unexpected develop ments cause him 10 be laid on the shelf. He is already a national figure of much prominence and it is only a matter of time when he will be equally conspicuous in national politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-05
Street Pavinq Era.

In every progressive city in the United States emphasis is given to the fact that this is the street paving era. No modern town Is worthy of mention unless it can point to miles of modern paving. Washington city in the early days of It's history was mud-road town, but now it is famous for It's splendid driveways as well as it's im- posing buildings. Men are now living who can recall the capital of the na tion as a meanly built and meanly paved city. Today it is paragon among the cities of America Years ago when citizens of Washington be- gan to be assessed for street improve ments many there were who opposed what they termed lavish expenditure of money; but now every property owner of Washington realizes the fact that the original cost of paving has more than trebled tne value of his real estate.
 Birmingham has made a good start in it's paving improvements, but it is only a start. This city entered the skyscraper period and the street paw ing period at about the same time. The tall steel frame buildings have given Birmingham a metropolitan appear ance that it did not have before. But as important in adding to the substan- tial character of the city as the sky scrapers are, the paving of the streets is even more important.
 Of Birmingham's 120 miles of streets, twelve miles have been paved, and handsomely paved four miles are under contract to be paved and ordinances have been introduced in the city coun- cil for paving eight additional miles. This will leave still nearly hundred miles outside of our paving line. The time must come when Birmingham will be without a single mile of unpaved highway In the meanwhile the city council and the city engineer should block out at least fifty miles of the un- paved streets and proceed without de- lay to the work of paving them. If property owners will only take res sonable. common sense business view of the matter they will not object to the assessments. On the other hand, they will hail the city's enterprise with satisfaction and regard the money invested as most wisely spent.
 Well paved streets mean clean streets and clean streets mean com fort and health. Let the good work 20 on without halt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-05
DAN HAD A READY TONGUE.

From the Buffalo Express.
 Dan Mccormick greeted Justice Simon A. Nash. Jr, pleasantly yesterday morn ing from the prisoners dock.
 'Dan.' said the court, "I'm afraid it's up to me to send you down."
 But. Sir-I mean yer honor-I was to a weddn' last night"
 That's no excuse You promised me two months ago that you would stop drinking.''
 q did, and I lived up to my promise"
 'orhe policeman says you were para lyzed''
 I'm not the man to call a lad in uni form a liar, and it's truth I promised you I'd quit. But don't you remember yer Honor, that weeks ago I begged of ye to let me have one drink day? An ye did. Yer noble boy. Si, and ye saw how hard 1t would be for me to keep me promise unless I went gradual like
 And one drink made you so full you couldn't stand up?" thundered the justice. Thirty"
 'Whisper, judge. Ye see as soon as heard about the wedding, which was three weeks ago. l stopped the drink entire, so ye see I had nearly twenty drinks a. comin to me under the agreement ye made and ye must admit yer honor, that twenty drinks is''
 Go along with you" exclaimed the justice. But remember" he added, that you take your drink A day or you lose Ye cant save up"
 Dan went.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-05
STORIES OF "SCoTTY."
A Picturesque Figure Against Tame
 Backqround of Civilization.

Ralph D. Paine in the Outing Magazine.
 You cannot cross the Nevada desert without hearing much gossip about "Sot- ty," he of the meteoric special trains and the colossal bluffs A ''busted COW punch CT" with an exotic imagination, he has juggled fact and fancy until the shrewdest men in the southwest lock horns in argu- ment as to whether "Scotty' has a mine in Death Valley or dreamed it. When met him he was coming out of the desert with a bag of ore on a burro and the an- nouncement:
 "Im due to take a little whirl down the road. I'm going to bluff old Hartman out of his boots. I'll bet him fifty thous and dollars I can beat him in a race from the coast to Chicago, me taking special on the Santa Fe and that old fgger-head pulling out on the Union Pacific. I'm afraid he'll take water. He's a counter felt on the level, he is.
 They say I've killed fifteen men just to see lem kick" continued "scotty' as he cooked his hat over one eye. "It aint so. WOulun uO no Sucn tnl0B. Iney don't know me. 1 fool 'em all I've got pair of glasses that can see fifty miles, and a gun that shoots five miles, and when they try to trail me into the valley l run blazers on em. I'm due for a little race down the pike behind an engine. Maybe I've got mine and maybe not. Maybe it's on Furnace creek in the Fun eral range, Death Valley. and maybe it's somewhere else and maybe I ain't got cent"
 A bizarre figure of a man who harmon zes immensely well with the romantic mystery of Death Valley, 'Scotty' has managed to find and somehow maintain the notoriety that is dear to his soul To my knowledge he 'blew in on his "whirl' some six or eight thousand dollars ed vanced under a grub-stake contract by a hypnotized New York banker which funds were to be used In developing the alleged mining properties "Scotty" refused to tell his packer where the mine was, and squandered all the money advanced, which accounts for a good part of his flaming prosperity As a type of the van ishing west. he makes a crudely pictur- esque figure against the dull background of a tanned civilization.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-05
Firecrackers In New York.

"One of our correspondents defends the police from the seedlings many other correspondents are giving them for not en-
 forcing the ordinances that prohibit such use of small explosives Tn the streets as has made miserable the lives of nervous people for a week or two past and will continue to do so until the Fourth of July has come and gone,'' says a writer in the New York Times. ''The police can not stop the boys from indulging in this noisy and dangerous sport, he says, be- cause when the policeman appears on the scene the sport ceases, and the cor respondents suggestion is that the sale of fireworks be prevented until a reason able time before the festal day. It Is quite true that to arrest all of the boys who are now making nuisanceS of them selves to many by premature celebra- tion of the country's birthday IS mprac- ticable, but it Is also true that any police
 man who chose to do so could capture dozen or so of the offenders, and if this were done, and punishment of ponderable severity inflicted, the multitude of little misdemeanants would soon realize the peril, if not the enormity, of their acts.
 AS TOT the pronlOltlon ol SaiS, 'hdt IS already restricted within limits considered reasonable by the city fathers. the req soma bleness being determined for them, of course, by the pressure of one sort or another brought to bear by the dealers in fireworks And the same pressure doubtless aims the eyes of the patrolmen to an offense that makes business for friends and neighbors. Right at the bot tom of the evil, however, Is the belief. much stronger and more widespread than the nervous folk suppose that the fire cracker is an amusing toy, that its snap is an agreeable sound and that to make a lot of harsh noise is not at all bad way to celebrate the Fourth Of July Of course, the method is barbarous, enor- mously expensive, and often fatal, but about three American adults out of four, and all American infants like 1t and en- ioy taking part in 1t. And there you are! The doctors may wall over the fees it brings them, the insurance companies may count up their loses, and the neu- rasthenics may write angry letters to the newspapers, but until the country comes to a different pind on the subject the thing is bound to go on every year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-05
Americans Travelling Abroad.

A. B. Hepburn a former comptroller of the currency and now president of a New York bank, has made an estimate of the number of Americans who go as tourists to Europe every year and of the amount of good American money that they leave in the old world. He is greatly exercised over the matter. for he figures that Americans spend in Europe half billion dollars annually. This vast sum, he points out, is a seri- ous drain on our country and accounts to some extent for the periodical strin- gency in the money market of the United States.
 MT. Hepburn is far off in his esti- mate of the amount of cash left on the other side of the Atlantic by American tourists. A half billion divided by four would perhaps be an excessive esti- mate. However, the amount of money carrleu aDTodu anu spent III Europe iS not large enough to be felt as a drain. MT. Hepourn evidently would be glad to see Congress enact law restricting the number of tourists from this coun- try and the amount of money they might be allowed to spend while tray cling abroad. But he loses sight of the fact that every fellows money is his own and that he has right to do with it as he pleases; and of that more i'm portant fact that travel broadens ones vision. Travel is educative, and no rich fool goes to Europe and spends his money lavishly but comes back home a little wiser.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-05
STORY OF FAMOUS TRADEMARK

From the National Magazine.
 The story of this trade mark is inter. esting. It Is said that Mir. Pierce was in Dresden at one time and saw the beautiful painting of which this trade mark Is a reproduction. The picture hung In the Dresden gallery, and the story goes that it was painted for a young nobleman. who. while travelling in Switzer- land, fell in love with beautiful waitress He married her and took her to Paris where he secured the services of a famous painter. who executed for him portrait of his wife In the costume in which her husband first saw her MT Pierce. it is said, cabled home to have a copy of this picture registered as the trade mark of Walter Baker & Co-the picture of La Belle Chocolatiere" that Is now well known throughout the whole world.