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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-10-19
TRANSFORMATIONS.
Curious Results When Coffee DRINKING
Is Abandoned.

1t is almost as hard for an old coffee
topper to quit the use of Gotta as it is
for whisky or tobacco fiend to break
off, except that the coffee user can
quit coffee and take up Postum with
out any feeling of loss of the morn
ing beverage, for when Postum is we'll
boiled and served with cream, it Is
really better in point of flavor than
most of the coffee served nowadays,
and to the taste of the connoisseur it
is like the flavor of fine, mild Java.
A great transformation takes place
in the body within ten days or two
weeks after coffee is left off and
Postum used, for the reason that the
poison to the nerves-caffeine-h
been discontinued, and in it's place is
taken liquid food that contains the
most powerful elements of nourish-
ment.
1t Is easy to make this test and
prove these statements by changing
from coffee to Postum. Read 1.-THE
Road to Wellville," in pkgs. There's
q Reason"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-10-19

and the cost of painting in after
years. We all know that wooden
houses need painting frequently, and
most of us know by experience that
it is an expensive annoyance because
outside painting must be done at the
proper season when the weather is
neither too warm nor too cold, and
when there is no dust blowing and no
flies to stick fast in the fresh paint.
A good many prefer a cement plas.
ter house to a solid cement wall or
solid cement blocks for the reason
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-10-19
passes without doffing his cap and
making the sign OF the cross.
A Generous Oliver.

passes without dofiing his cap and
making the sign OF the cross.
A Generous Oliver.
His charity abounds on all sides, and
he constantly has men employed In ex-
cess of his needs simply to keep their
families out of want. When he was
asked why he still retained the anti
quated burros and ore wagons to carry
his ore to Parral instead of installing
a tramway, he said: What would all
my men and 500 burros do If they had
no ore to carry?" 1t is along this line
or reasoning that Alvarado has built
up q philosophy of his own, which,
while it perhaps is comical, cannot
help arouse certain admiration for his
character.
Up to five months ago Alvarado's
mine was hosting about $50 tons
day, of which about so tons were sent
away for treatment and the balance
left on the dumps. The American min
ing engineer Is almost overcome when
told that 1t takes 500 men to accom-
plish such little work, but of course.
he does nor appreciate the extraordi-
nary conditions that prevail at the Pal
milla.
While no one at the mine knows
definitely what the ore yields per ton,
it is believed that the high grade will
average from $3.50 to $500 per ton, and
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-10-19
Where the Richer Ores Are Sacked

tain many expensive pieces Of wrought
silver, any of which he is quite willing
to part with as gifts to those who
catch his fancy. IIo has invested some
OIL his money in large hotel in Par
raj, but he has wisely decided not
10 run the hotel himself.
For an individual who has seen so
little of the world and VINO, one might
say, has been buried in his native
town from his birth Alvarado shows
a genius that cannot eail to obtain for
him respect throughout the district in
which he lives. His anbitions are GEN.
tered in doing good, and he still clings
to the idea that some day he will be
able to help every Merican who re-
CURES his assistance
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-10-19

and corners. The final dressing Of
course is given to and with the last
coat and there are a number of styles
OF finish to choose from, such as
rough-cast, pebbled or smooth, and
these may be made in any shade or
color that the owner may desire. Be-
fore deciding on the style of finish it
is a good plan to have the mason de-
sign few panels, all different, to
show what he can do in this line.
Still another great advantage in
outside finish of this kind when COM
pared with wood is saving in paint
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-10-19
A Ventilation Test.

1t Is very hard to make an impress
sion on those people who defend their
possessions on all occasions. A lady
was explaining to visitor the many
advantages Of concrete hollow-block
construction, Of which the walls Of
her new home were built
"The air spaces in the walls afford
insulation against heat in summer and
cold in winter" she explained. Be
sides, such walls afford ventilation
and insure more healthfuf Louse"
The visitor reflected a moment, and
replied:
"Our frame house must be quite as
we'll built. Every night we lock the
cat in the cellar, and have to let her
out Of the attic in the morning.
Youths Companion.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-10-19
SAID TO BE SIMPLE
EASILY MIXED RECIPE FOR KID
IIEYS AND BLADDER.
Tells Readers How to Prepare This
Homemade Mixture to Cure the
Kidneys and Bladder and
Rheumatism.

Get from any prescription pharma-
cist the following:
Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half
ounce; Compound Kargon. one ounce;
Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three
ounces.
Shake we'll in a bottle and take
teaspoonful dose after each meal and
at bedtime.
The above is considered by an emil
nent authority, who writes In New
York daily paper, as the finest pre-
scription ever written to relieve Back
ache, Kidney Trouble. Mfak Bladder
and all forms of Urinary difficulties.
This mixture acts promptly on the
eliminative tissues of the Kidneys, en-
aiding them to filter and strain the
uric acid and other waste matter from
the blood which causes Rheumatism.
Some persons who suffer with the
Affections may not feel inclined to
place much confidence in this simple
mixture, yet those who have tried it
say the results are simply surprising,
the relief being effected without the
slightest injury to the stomach or 9TH
err organs.
Mix some and give it a trial. It
certainly comes highly recommended.
1t is the prescription of an eminent
authority, whose entire reputation, it
is said, was established by 1t.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-10-19
Chiropodist's Prescription.

A lotion and powder for tender and
swollen feet: One teaspoonful of boz
racic acid to one pint of grain alcohol.
After bathing the feet in lukewarm
water spray them with the lotion
used in an atomizer, and fan until dry.
The effect is delightful. Then rub
over the foot this powder, or put it in
the stocking:
Powdered starch, 35 grains, oil of
bergamot, ten drops; oil of lavender.
6 drops; oil of wintergreen, 16 drops.
Mix well, and pass through a sieve.
Excellent.-National Magazine.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-10-19

ted around the window frames, cor
nice and other joints. When using
material in a plastic condition it does
not require fine mechanical genius
to make a good tight joint. 1t is only
necessary to employ men who are or
dinarily careful and who try conscien'
tiously to do the square thing.
Another great advantage in outside
clustering is the finish. OF course 1t
q understood that two-coat work Is
required in all cases, and that the
foundation is made right by stapling
the expanded metal lath securely to
he furTing strips and that the metal
carefully fitted around all angles
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-10-19
All Exclaimed,

There is a little story going round
the house of commons about a certain
member who abstained from voting
on the deceased wife's sister bill.
Questioned by one of his friends as to
the reason for his abstention, he re-
Piled: We'll, my dear fellow, it's just
like this-my wife has a sister,
John Bull.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-10-19
MYTHS WOVEN
ABOUT SIMPLE
MEXICAN PEON
PEDRO ALvARADO NOT MINING
CROESuS HE HAS BEEN REP
RESENTED TO BE.
EXTRAVAGANT TALES
ARE WITHOUT TRUTH

Believes Himself to BE Worth Mil
lions, But in Reality Has Hard
Work to Raise Comparatively
Small Sum-5ystcmatcaIIy Plum
dered by Those in His Employ
Is Famed Throughout Region for
Generosity, But Shirks Publicity.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-10-19

sweat of our brow in the laboratory,
and afterwards in practical construc-
ton.
1t is no longer necessary to use ex-
pensive building materials because we
are afraid to trust cement. In the
hands Of good workmen cement is the
best building material we have, and
we are no longer confined to any one
mode of construction. We have learn
ed how to combine cement with other
materials and to save expense and at
the same time to turn out job that
looks well and that will last forever,
and answer for street paving mate
rial afterwards.
One great advantage in outside plas-
tering is the ease with which 1t Is fit
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-10-19
Lies Need BACKING.

owen: One lie must be matched
with another, or it will soon rain
through.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-10-19
Allotted Snace.

We are immortal NTH our work Is
done.-Whitedeld.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
SAVED BY A KISS

[ What pity" I thought Surely this can be avoided Broken hearts and un- happy lives are none too few that they may be increased without word of warning, and I was about to speak, to urge, to implore, when the roar of the train was heard, and grabbing up the old valise the man stalked out, followed by his wife, carrying the girl in her arms. The passengers had alig-hted and. giv- ing the little girl the valise. he leaned over and kissed her, saying: Be good girl, Sally. Goodbye.'' Sally smiled, and holding out one little hand, said: Hiss mamma, too. papa Their eyes met; there was an awkward pause.
 "Maryv he exclaimed. and the next instant his arm was about her waist, and her head was upon his shoulder.
 Mary, forgive me, dear.
 "It was my fault, John"
 "All aboard" shouted the conductor. He looked tenderly into the eyes, now dimmed with tears, hesitated moment and then said T guess you hadn't better go today"
 I saw them driving homeward in the wagon. both silent and happy; and as the father leaned over and tenderly kissed the little girl, l said:
 And a little girl shall lead them"
 P. F. KING.
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From the Knoxville Sentinel.

From the Knoxville Sentinel
 Evidently something was wrong. could not decide whether the house hau been burned, the chicken roost roppeo' or some member of the family was dead' Perhaps crops had failed or the price of cotton gone down. Maybe the measles had proven out in the community and they were on the flight Be what 1t may trouble had come, and I saw US usly head.
 She was little and nervous; he was large and silent. Neither had addressed the other since their arrival, and an air of restraint. of embarrassment was mani- fest. He sat with legs crossed and>looked out of the window far away. She looked out of the window at brindle COW with a bell on its neck, and occasionally would take a quick, anxious glance at him.
 The bright. quaint, little 3-year-old-girl, with her pinafore and rag doll alone seemed happy and communicative. She ran from one to the other, from door to window, jabbering and talking in child fsh glee.
 and labored puffs. pulled wearily and. as I glanced at her. she quickly wiped away the uncomfortable tears I walked out on the platform to look after my baggage. I saw the man by his wagon In one hand he had knife and in the other a stick, but he had for gotten to whittle.
 I walked back into the waiting room and pojnting to an old-fashioned valise tied with a twine string ventured Going off on trip?' 'Yes, sir; me and baby are going to my mothers"
 ''Where does your mother liver" Tn Arkansaw." .'I know she will be glad to see you" I rejoined, attempting to inject some spirit of cheerfulness into the affair. "I don't know she said slowly. q aint comin-"
 Just then her husband entered and she quickly hushed and again looked out the door at the brindle COW. An, now I understand-they had quar- reled; both were sorry, but neither would give in, and the marriage relationship
 was to be broken by separation.
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Eliph' FHeWlitt on Office Holding
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once. It wears on a man and takes all the smile out of him.
 Mot if he has copy of Jarby's En- cyclopedia on hand" said the book agent. with copy of this book in his house a President can do something to all the ten thousand and one things, including every subject known to man, that is mentioned in this book, and do them so folks won't get sleepy while he's doing them, and can still keep his sweet smile. Now here" he said, opening the sample copy lis the steel engraved portrait of the President He still smiles"
 "Yes," admitted the marshal, Ines got smile or two left yet, but I'd like to , see him if he had a lot of government owned pumps or railroads on his hands, I'd like to see him come down here to Kilo and tackle this municipal owned pump.
 Why don't you write him about it?" asked Eliph Hewitt. If he heard there was a pump down here, and that it wasn't working the way the signers of the Declaration of Independence meant to have pumps work, he would come down. He would come right down, with
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see if a man has bought a copy of Jarby's Encyclopedia of Knowledge and Compendium of Literature Science and Art and If he has, 1t can use him. If he hasn't it feels he can't do the office justice and 1t lets him alone A big public office has lots of ends to it.
 T should say it has!' admitted the marshal. T found that out when they told me the pump went with the mar shal job. I'm thankful we aint got a municipal owned street car line. If l had to drive a street car and curry down the mules and money with this pump, too. I'd have by hands about full.'
 And that would be nothing at all to what a President has to do,' said Eliph' Hewitt. "I don't see how the Presidents ever managed to run this government before Jarby & Goss publish ed this book. They had to read forty volume encyclopedias. the whole contents of which, and more, is condensed into this one book. which might well be called The Presidents Guide and Helper But in them days the Presidents wasn't as hard worked as what they are now. They
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condensed, but complete-only five dol lars. Wouldn't you like to be president?'
 'I can't be-" said the marshal. "1t takes so much of my time tinkering up this pump that I haven't time to get any trusts down on me and it aint no use runnin' for President unless you have a scrap on with the trusts"
 True" said the book agent. True but with this book in hand any man, woman or child can attack the trusts from sardine oil down to amalgamated .codfish. It tells how to refuse campaign contributions, how to return them when accepted by mistake. How many men of I<ilo," he added, "have occupied large public offices?"
 q an't heard of none," said the mar shal.
 No" said Eliph Hewitt. Not one! Because this is the first time I've come to Kilo to sell this helpful and enter taining volume. Why should the nation ask a man who hasn't this book to step into public office when there's plenty to ask that has this book and reads it every day? The nation looks first to
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By Ellis Parker Butler

monkey wrench in one hand and a copy of Jarby's Encyclopedia. of Knowledge and Compendium of Literature, Science and Art in the other. and in five min utes he would either have that pump mended or he would pull it loose from the foundations and throw it clean across the state of Iowa. But I don't advise you to have him come. When he seen it was your duty to mend that pump, and that you hadn't done it, the things he would say and the way he would say them would make this weather seem like De- cember in Greenland by contrast"
 What would he say?'' asked the mar shal.
 "The way to find out is to try it." said the little book agent, but I warn you not to. It is a lot safer to buy a copy of this book, s5 a volume, and find out how to do your duty to that pump yourself. And speaking of what he would say" he said, turning to page 645, 'here is a complete article on Dyna- mite Maximite Forceite, ct cetery, with pictures of the holes in the ground that was all that was left when the experi- ments with them was concluded"
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have their being. There arc few signs of life during much of the day. There are no windows facing the streets, and the only means of ventilation on that side of the house are little holes about the size of a paving brick up near the roof
 In villages like these the people look squalid and dirty, but the dirtiest of them are loaded with jewelry. I photographed one mddle-aged dame of a swarthy com plexion who had earrings as big as an after dinner coffee cup saucer, and as she turned around noticed that she wore anklets of white metal as wide as a tin cup is high. Indeed, they looked like tin cups without bottoms or handles. Even the children were loaded with 1ewelry Some of them were not averse to being photographed, although both women and
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children held out their hands for money as soon as their pictures were taken.
 As I walked through the town I passed several Moorish coffee houses, in which were Arabs sitting on the floor, smoking and chatting, drinking coffee or playing dominoes. The coffee houses look not un- like an American stable. Their only light comes in through the door and the people sit on the mud floor.
 Chateau Landon.
 In "The Garden of Allah" the novel to which I referred at the beginning of this letter, some vivid descriptions are made of the Chateau Landon, a wonderful date plantation belonging to a wealthy French nobleman. If one would know just how much water means in the desert he may learn by visiting this place. It contains about fifteen acres and is a wonderful bo- tanical garden right here on the edge of the desert. It is date forest interspersed
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spent something like an hour on the job. I do not by that mean to say that it took that much time to get off the dirt; but the hour was used up in massage and other extras. BisSra was a famous bath ing place in the days of the Romans. It had a Roman name which meant baths, and which probably referred to the hot sulphur springs outside the city.
 With the French Soldiers.
 Bssra is under military government It is the chief station of the eastern Sahara, and it is called the aTerritoire de Com nandement One sees French soldiers everywhere and there are French of 1cers at the hotels and on the streets. They are fine looking fellows and far diff ferent from our ordinary idea of the
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wood crossing it at intervals of every few feet.
 There are villages scattered throughout the oasis. Each of these Is entered by low gate made of mud bricks and palms and this gate is always closed at night. The houses are mostly mean mud huts with flat roofs. There is some rain here, and the water runs from the roof through pipes which extend out into the street, giving one a douche on the turban or down the neck of ones gown.
 I understand that the water supply is comparatively scanty; that water rights are sold in perpetuity and that there are also leases at so much per year, and even at so much per hour. Not long ago one paid $90O for a perpetual stream half an inch wide and as deep as the rainfall
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"PIugging'' a Hotel Guest.
Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas C1ty Star
 The hotel detective stepped out of the elevator and walked over to the counter.
 well, I plugged him. he said.
 s'Plugged him? Who, What for? Where did you hit him?" quickly asked a friend who was standing by.
 Didn't hit him anywhere; just plugged the keyhole of his door. Never hear of plugging him before? When we have a guest whom we suspect is getting ready to leave without settling, or whose credit is exhausted and fails to settle up, we just wait till he leaves bis room, and plug the keyhole in his door, Then he plug fits over the end of a key It is placed in the lock and turned. The key is then withdrawn. leaving the plug in the door,"
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would stand, and $500 for stream of four inches Where the water is let out by the hour so often per week an Arab watch man stands at the hole where 1t flows out with an hour glass, and when the sand has run through shuts off the sup ply.
 Dreary Life.
 I cannot describe the dreariness of com- mon everyday life in these Saharan oases. About the only green thing one sees in the streets is the palm leaves overhead. Inside a garden there may be patches of vegetables and grass with trees bearing various kinds of fruit; but in the villages everything is as bare as the middle of the road, and that in land which might be tropical paradise. The houses themselves have no gardens in or about them. They are joined close to- gether, and are more like a catacomb than a place where people live, move and
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bered more by the number of palm trees fl owns than by the number of its inhab- itants. It is comprised in six little mud villages scattered throughout plantations which support about 15o,000 date trees.
 The French town is surrounded by walls and entered by gates. It has several wide streets, the chief of which is the Rue Bertha, which runs from the railroad sta ton past the public gardens and on out toward the oasis of Tougourt. 1t goes by the oasis of Old Biskra, which is two miles off; and upon 1t is a street car line over which one can ride the whole of that distance for two cents Another ear line will take him to tine hot springs three and a half miles away for the same money, and this is far down in the Desert of Sahara, in the very baekwoods of the
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globe. The two-cent rate is made with out tickets, and it is less than half the nickel which we pay at home.
 I shall send this letter to the United States for five-cent postage stamp, and can telegraph from here across the Med iterranean to Paris for less than you can send a message from New York to Chi cago. My cab rides cost me thirty cents a trip or fifty cents an hour; and if l prefer to move about on a camel the rate will be about $1 per day.
 When I take a Turkish bath in the United States have to pay s1, with twen- ty-hve or fifty cents extra for fees. I had a Moorish bath here today for twenty cents in bathing establishment which would be considered fine in any American city, and this included a thorough mas sage and cup of delicious Turkish cof- fee at the close. The men who bathed me were brawny Arabs. as yellow as gold. They were naked to the waist and they
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French army. They are straight, broad shouldered bronze-faced men, who have seen fighting with these tribes of the desert and show it. Some of the officers have the appearance of dudes, and they are noted for their politeness, but no one dares to presume upon their weakness.
 The territory of Biskra is about as large as the state of Ohio, and it has popula- tion of less than 100000, all told. These natives live in number of oases scat tered here and there over the desert. Biskra itself is commanded by a major, assisted by a captain, three leutenants and a military interpreter. In the other oases there are captains, lieutenants and interpreters. The town has electric lights and 1t has schools for both French and Arabs. It has a negro quarter as well.
 The French city Is made up of flat roofed white houses of one or two stories. Many of the roofs have walls about them, and the women and children play on the
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The social capital of the Desert.
 Gam bling hell and camel races.