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THE AUTHOR'S WORK.
Gen. Zachary T. Sweeney, for
several years consul-general for
the United States at Constanti
nople, is one of the most *ridely
known men on the lecture plat
forms of the country. His fame
as a speaker extends from Maine
to California, and his wide as-~
sortment of knowledge of Turk-,
ish subjeots has made him an au
thority on Ottoman history and
affairs. At present he is state >:
fish commissioner in Indiana.
M ONTESQUIEU says that the cause of the greatness
of the Roman state lay in the fact that its early
kings were all grand psog.P g "One finds no
where in history*an unbroken su.cossn.'of, such states
men and such generals." All of which is truer when ap
plied to the first sultans of the
Ottoman empire than to the kings
of Rome.
'I'he first sultans were men of
pure minds, lofty impulses and
great probity of life. Jouannin says
of the early period of the Ottoman
empire: "It was more prolific in
great men than in any other dynasty
which has reigned on the face of
the globe:" { ~ cgf,:.
' The "first 'sultan ' was Othman,
whose name, translated into Eng
lish, would be "bonebreaker." He
Gen. Sweeney. was celebrated for the length and
strength of his arm. Like Artexerxes Longimanus, he
could stand erect and touch his knees with his hands.
He was, also, called Kara Osman, because of his great
personal beauty. His personal costume was exceedingly
simple. He wore a turban of white linen wound around
a red center. He was largely a man of peace, and for
many years his reign was one of peace, and much of his
military career was defensive rather than offensive. He
allowed the widest toleration in faith, and protection to
person and 'property, alike to Christian and Moham
;medan. In A. D. 1299 he coined money with his own
1effigy, and caused prayers to be said in his name, the
official declaration of his sultanate. He was, neverthe
less, a man of strong passions when deeply aroused. On
one occasion he summoned his followers and announced
the intention of attacking a Greek fortress, but his aged
uncle, Dundar, who had marched with Othman's father,
Ertoghrul, from the Euphrates, counseled against the
attack, and set forth the danger of provoking the neigh
boring princes by such an act. Enraged at these words
of caution, Othman shot his aged uncle dead upon the
spot. The fortress was attacked and taken, which led
to many other offensive enterprises, which culminated in
the surrender of the great city, Brusa, in 1326. Othman
died at Saegud, and shortly before his death he called
his two sons, Orchan and Alaeddin, to his bedside, and,
addressing Orchan, said: "I am dying, and I die without
regret, because I leave such a successor as you. Be just;
love goodness, and show mercy." His sword is still pre
served in the treasury of the empire, and the martial
ceremony of girding on this sabre in the mosque of
Eyoub, of which there were press accounts last week,
corresponds to the coronation of a king or the inaugura
tion of a president. His ashes repose at Brusa.
When Orchan ascended the throne he besought his
brother, Alaeddin, to share with him the responsibilities
and duties of sovereignty, but his brother firmly refused
to do so, because their father gave the succession to
Orchan. He, however, agreed to accept the office of
vizier, which, in the Ottoman language, means "burden
bearer." This office corresponds to prime minister in
England or secretary of state in our country. Alaeddin,
by his military legislation, laid the foundation for Otto
man supremacy. He formed the first standing army
known to modern history. It was under the reign of
Orchan that the Janissaries, so long the scourge of
Christendom, were organized. They were composed of
children of Christians who were wrested from their fami
lies-a thousand of their finest boys each year for over
300 years. They were torn from their parents at a very
early age, and were trained to renounce Christianity and
preserve the creed of Islam. They. were carefully pre
pared for a soldier's life by severe discipline, which
taught them implicit obedience and enabled them to
bear without complaint all the hardships of a soldier's
life.
Orchan captured the city of Nicomedia in the first
year of his reign, and four years later the great city of
Nice, where the first Ecumenical council was held. Like
his predecessor, he never left a captured province till it
was thoroughly assimiliated to the Ottoman power.
Orchan died in 13.59 after a reign of 33 years, during
which the Ottoman power was extended over a large
part of Asia and firmly planted on the European conti
nent, from which it has never been dislodged.
The third sultan was Amurath, or, as the Orientals
said, "Murad." He was 40 years of age when he suc
beeded his father, and reigned 30 years in great pros
perity and honor. His first enterprise was to extend
the European conquest of his father, but he was checked
by a rebellion in the Ottoman dominions, and was com
pelled to march his army toward the scene of insurrec
tion, which he completely quelled. He then crossed the
Hellespont and began a series of conquests in Europe,
which were only consummated by his death on the field
of Kossova in 1389.
He formed many valuable alliances through the mar
rying of his son, Bajazet, and his daughter, Nifisay. He
died upon the battlefield of Kossova. His oldest son,
Bajazet, commanded the right, and Prince Yacoub. his
second son, the left; Amurath commanded the center
with the Janissaries. The Christians were led by King
Lasarus, who commanded the center, and Vuk Branko
wich led the right, and the king of Bosnia the left. Both
armies advanced resolutely to the charge, and for a long
time stood their ground firmly while the event of the day
wsa in doubt. While the two armies thus strove to
BODY WAS THAT OF HUSBAND
Grewsome Experience of New York
Woman That Reads Like Page
of Fiction.
A New York woman had a curious
and tragic experience the other day
oae that seems more like a grewsome
page from French fiction than the
plainrecital of fact.
,Two weeks ago this woman started
out with her husband to accompany
him part way on a business trip he
was taking to a southern city. It was
arranged that she should stop to visit
some friends at a point about half
way on the journey, and after a two
dase' stay should proceed and rejoin
her husband at his destination and re
turn with him. She made her visit,
and when she reached the town where
she had expected to meet her hus
band found that he was not at the
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gether aServian 6LORNER CO/YUL-GIJENAL AT
nobleman, i- PORP COJ..GCOLEA L AT
losch Kabilo- CO/Y~ TAIT/t/OPLF
vitsch, rode to
the Ottoman center and claimed to be a deserter and
having important secrets to reveal to Amurath in person.
On being led to the Turkish sovereign he knelt as if to
pay him homage, and then stabbed Amurath with a sud
den and mortal stroke of his dagger. Milosch sprang
from his knees, and being gifted with great activity and
strength, cleared himself of the enemies that thronged
around him, and found his way to where his horse had
been left, but before he could remount the Janissaries
overpowered him and hacked him to pieces. Amurath
realized that his wound was mortal, but had sufficient
presence of mind to give orders for a charge of his re
servei, which decided the victory in favor of the Otto
mans. He died pronouncing the death doom of King
Lazarus, who was conquered. But that was not the
saddest death of the day. When Prince Bajazet realized
that the victory over the Christians was accomplished,
and he was acknowledged by his father's generals as
their sovereign, he immediately ordered his brother,
Yacoub, who had fought so valiantly by his side, to be
seized and put to death. He justified the act by saying
that "Sedition is worse than murder," a saying that has
caused so many Ottoman sultans to commit acts of
cruelty since that time.
Bajazet commenced his reign upon a battlefield, and
followed up the war against the Servians with such
vigor and success that he was named Yilderim, or
"Thunderbolt." After completing the Servian war, Baja
zet returned to Asia and increased the territory of the
sultan by conquest of several adjoining states. Cara
mania, which had long held out as an independent state,
acknowledged Bajazet as sovereign. Glutted with vic
tory and rapidly augmented power, Bajazet gave him
self over to sensual excesses of the foulest kind. He
was the first of the Ottoman princes who violated the
prohibition of the koran against the use of wine. All
Pasha, his favorite general, set his master the example
of drunkenness, and the infamy of these two lives sully
the pages of Oriental history. Bajazet was startled from
his revels by a crusade of Christian chivalry of Frankis
tan. The Christian army marched against the Ottomans
down through Transylvania, Wallachia and Servia. They
captured Widdin, Orsoca, and invested Nicopolis, but
Bajazet marched against them and ingloriously dispersed
them. After the conflict Bajazet pitched his tent in front
of Nicopolis and rode over the field of battle. When he
saw the number of his dead soldiers it enraged him so
that he said: "I will have this slaughter well avenged
on the prisoners." The next morning the Christian pris
oners, to the number of ten thousand, were led out with
their hands bound behind them and with halters around j
their necks. After allowing 24 Christian nobles from -
among the prisoners their liberty the sultan gave the
signal for the slaughter to commence, and the unhappy
captives fell in front of his tent.
The battle of Nicopolis was the high-water mark in
the power of Bajazet. He soon made preparations to
invest Constantinople. The Byzantine king searched all
Europe for assistance, and even descended to the humili
ation of asking aid from his old-time enemy, the pope of
Rome, but all in vain. Just at the moment when it
seemed that Bajazet was on the point of entering Con
Sstantinople a cluod arose in the eastern horizon in the
shape of Tamerlane, the Tartar, who, though 70 years of
age, had succeeded in uniting a number of conquered
provinces into a strong empire, and had marched against
the dominion of the Ottoman empire, captured the
ancient city of .Sivas, and put the inhabitants to the
sword, killing among others Prince Ertoghrul, the son of
Bajazet, who, when he heard of the death of his son,
hurried at the head of his veteran troops against Tamer
lane. He seemed, however, to have lost his usual cau
tion and sagacity; with only 120,000 men he swept for
ward against an army of 600,000, and, to show his reck
lessness, engaged in a grand hunt in the neighborhood
of Angora until they were entirely exhausted. Return
ing to his quarters, he found that the wily Tartar had
taken possession of his camp and poisoned the stream,
and his weary and thirsty troops had to spend the night
without water. The next day he led the dispirited army
to battle, and while many of them gave a good account
of themselves, others were so exhausted that they gave
themselves over to the enemy, and on the field of
Angora, where his ancestor, fIrtoghrul, nearly two hun
dred years previous had laid the foundations of the Otto
man empire, he was overthrown, and his empire shat
tered to fragments. Bajazet; with one of his sons, was
captured, and made a show in the triumphal pageant of
his conqueror. He was carried in a latticed litter, and
there arose a current story that he had been placed in
an iron cage. Thus the empire of the Ottomans, that
had swept over Asia and a large part of Europe, till it
had earned the title, "Wrath of God," suddenly termi
nated, and the Ottoman power seemed gone forever.
Nothing so characterizes the rule of the Turk as its
recuperative power. Often has it been seemingly over
thrown and swept from the face of the earth, but imme
diately there arises again a mighty power having the
same spirit as its predecessor. Mohammed I., the son of
Bajazet, took the shattered fragments which his father
had left and began the work of building up the Ottoman
power. The Greeks said of him that he was "as perse
vering as a camel." He was the youngest son, and,
hotel where he had been stopping, but
had left hurriedly oFr New York the
day before. She waited long enough
to send a telegram to her husband's
office and to their house in New York,
asking if he had arrived, and to re
ceive a negatFve answer from each
place.
Concluding that he had been unable
to reach her by telegraph while she
was on the road, she decided to re
turn home. She was disappointed,
but not at all perturbed as she jour-,
neyed northward. She had to change
naturally, his elder
brothers disputed
his right to the
crown. They raised
opposition s t an -
nents. but Moham
dards and set up opposition governments, but Moham
med was endowed with great statesman-like qualities,
and gradually he eliminated all opposition, and in 1413
became sultan over the entire Ottoman empire. His
reign lasted eight years, but in that space he accomp
lished great things. He was not aggressive like his
father, but he was very prompt to resent any encroach
ment upon his dominions. He was called Chelebi Mo
hammed, which means "Mohammed, the Gentle," and it
was a very apt designation of his character. There are
only one or two inhuman things recorded of him. He
caused his only surviving brother, Kasim, to be blinded,
and he killed the child of Suleyman. The only mitiga
tion that can be plead for these acts of cruelty is that he
had experienced so much discomfiture from the jeal
ousies of his brothers that he decided to put out of the
way all who might become opposers of him. It is char
acteristic of Turkish princes that they always aspire to
and intrigue for the sultanate, and the reigning sultan is
not safe while one is at liberty. Abdul Hamid, the late
deposed sultan, imprisoned his brother, Murad, in the
palace of the Cheragan until a few years ago, when he
ended his imprisonment in death. The present sultan,
Mehmet Reshad, was so closely confined in the Yildiz
palace that it amounted to actual imprisonment. Mo
hammed I. died in 1421, and was buried near the beauti
ful green mosque of that ancient capital of the Turks.
He was succeeded by Murad II., who was a man of
equal prudence and clemency as his predecessor, but his
ambition was much greater, and he lost little time in
giving proof of it. The Greek emperor, forgetting his
cordial relations with Mohammed, and looking upon
Murad II., who was then a mere youth of 18 years, with
contempt, released a pretended son of Bajazet-Mustafa
by name-who had been for years in close custody at
Constantinople. Mustafa subdued the European prov
inces, and seemed in a fair way for some time of dis
planting Murad, but he was at last overthrown and
hanged, "to convince the world that he was an im
postor."
Murad again proceeded to invest Constantinople. He
had drawn his lines from the Golden to the Wooden gate,
when a revolt in Asia Minor caused him to hastily cross
the Bosporus in order to put down an insurrection of
one of his brothers. Murad's fighting qualities were soon
put to a severe test. The Christian states were all in
flamed, and Hunyady was their leader. He was sup-
posed to be a son of King Sigismund and the beautiful
Elizabeth Morisney, but whatever his parentage, he was
valiant, fortunate and famous.
For 20 years he was the terror of the Ottomans. At
Hermanstadt he totally routed the Turkish army of
20,000 men and publicly hacked their general to. pieces.
He was as cruel and bloodthirsty as any of the Turks,
ahd his favorite music for dinner was the shriek of
dying prisoners. He also defeated the Turks at Vasay
and Nissa. He made the fearful passage of the Balkans
in winter, following the Turks, who had skillfully barred
the passes and formed an icy wall by wetting the roads
in freezing weather. But, for some unknown reason, he
suddenly abandoned the campaign, and returned to Buda
pest with a large amount of plunder and captives.
Murad seized this opportunity to negotiate a treaty,
which was solemnly sworn upon the Gospel and the
koran to last for a period of ten years. The death of his
oldest son so sorely afflicted Murad that he turned from
the joys of empire to peace and retirement, and abdi
cated in favor of his son, Mohammed II., and retired to
Magnesia to spend the remainder of his days. No
sooner was this news conveyed to the Christians than
they resolved to break the treaty of peace, and the pope
and Greek emperor used their spiritual influence to in
duce Hunyady to break his oath, claiming that "oaths
are not to be kept with infidels." Hunyady was finally
influenced to break faith, and marched upon the unsus
pecting Turks with 20,000 men. He took a number of
strange places, and on reaching the Black sea marched
as far as Varna, where he learned that Murad had been
aroused by his advance and had collected an army of.
40,000 men, which were then being conveyed acloss the
Bosporus by Genoese vessels. When the armies met a
copy of the violated treaty was placed on the point of a
lance and raised high above the Turkish standard as a
visible appeal to the lord of truth, who punishes perjury.
The Hungarians were ingloriously defeated, and Hunyady
was compelled to retreat in disorder; after which Murad
again retired to Magnesia; but a revolt of the Jan
issaries against his force recalled him to the responsi
bilities of leader, when he reigned six years longer, and
died in 1451, with undiminished prestige and glory.
Five years after Murad's death, Mohammed II. in
vaded Europe and laid siege to Belgrade, the key to
Hungary. Hunyady stirred himself to a valiant defense,
and John Capistran came to his aid with a band of 60,000
crusaders, who had gathered together to fight for
Christendom. The Turks were defeated. Mohammed was
wounded, and 25,000 Turks lay dead upon the field of
battle. In less than a month Hunyady died, and 60 days
later was followed to the grave by John Capistran. The
reign of Mohammed H. was marked by violence and
treachery. Again and again he broke faith with his ene
mies, and garrisons which surrendered under the solemn
pledge of the honors of war, met with ruthless slaughter.
cars twice on the way. Each change
involved a wait of ten or fifteen min
,ptes at a small junction town. As she
was pacing up and down the station
platform at each of these places she
saw a big, pine-covered coffin box un
loaded from the express car and put
aboard the north-bound train. At
Jersey City the same box was being
unloaded and it crossed the ferry
with her in a hearse. She noted idly
that one of the hearse horses was
white and the other black. She went
first to her husband's office, but the
His first act was to murder his baby
brother. Cruel and sensual, yet he
was a cultivated man, fond of poetry
and learning. He even acquired the
surname, "Father of Good Works," as
well as "Sire of Victory." He ac
quired, also, the title of "Conqueror,"
after he had captured Constantinople
in 1453. The Turks had coveted Con
stantinople ever since the dream of
Othman. Bajazet had besieged it.
Musa came near capturing it, and
Murad II. had patiently planned its
conquest. They had captured every
thing but the city, but their ambition
could not be crowned while the cross
waved over it. Paleologous, who had
long dallied with and cringed before
the Mohammedans, roused himself,
and seemed to renew the immortal
Greek spirit in his final defense of the fated city. With
only a few followers, possibly less than three per cent.
of the besiegers, he walked the walls, encouraging his
enervated troops by deeds of splendor and valor. After
a siege of 53 days the city of Byzas, that had lifted her
proud head so long above the rushing waters of the
Bosporus, was at last stormed by the victorious Turks,
and the Greeks fled in dismay, and Mohammed II. en
tered in triumph and rode his horse into the Santa
Sophia. The cross fell from the churches of the city
and the crescent rose in its place, and still flashes back
the gleams of Asiatic sunlight to the Ottomans. The fall
of Constantinople swept away the last obstacle in the
path of Islam. It fixed forever the triumph of the east in
its struggle against the west. It gave up the civilization
of the Mediterranean to Oriental barbarism. It struck
all Europe with consternation.
"MOON CAPTURED BY EARTH,
NOT DETACHED"
By PROF. T. J. 3. SEE.
(Astronomer in Charge of Naval Observatory at Mare
Island, Cal.)
I have mathematically proved a discovery that the
moon is a planet captured by the earth from space and
not a detached portion of our globe. I reject entirely the
long-accepted theories of Laplace and Sir George Darwin
ascribing earthly origin to the moon. My discovery is
supported by rigorous mathematical proof, based on the
methods of Hill. Poincare and Darwin.
This announcement is a further development of my
discovery promulgated last January, that all planets and
satellites are captured bodies, which have since had their
orbits reduced in size and rounded up under the secular
action of the nebular resisting medium once pervading
the solar system. I showed how these bodies, which once
revolved around the sun like the asteroids now do, had
made circuits close about the planets. In the neighbor
hood of a planet like Jupiter the sphere of the sun's con
trol is shown to have an extension, or protuberance, on it,
like the neck of a bottle, or hourglass with very unequal
bulbs, and when the small bodies moving about the sun
came into this neck they could revolve about Jupiter, and
in many cases again return to their paths about the sun.
In other cases after revolving about Jupiter they would
be captured by the action of the nebulous resisting me
dium about the planet, and stay there forever as satellites.
By revolving about the planet for a long time their
orbits would be rounded up into almost perfect circles,
and made smaller and smaller, till they became just like
the satellite orbits are now observed to be. Such has
been the origin of the satellites generally, and the rings
of Saturn have had a similar origin-by the capture of
waste nebulosity once circulating around the sun. When
this matter is once brought in near the planet it cannot
again escape, but must stay there permanently, because
in the space near the planet the planet's attraction is
supreme.
In the case of the terrestrial moon, however, more
than usual uncertainty existed as to how this large satel
lite originated, and a special investigation of the problem
had to be made. The moon's mass is relatively very
large, about one-eightieth'of the earth's mass; and then
Darwin's argument that the moon had once been a part
of the earth, had to be overcome. I have proved mathe
matically that our moon, too, had been captured, and had
come to us from the heavenly spaces.
It was originally a planet like Mercury, but not quite
so large, and moved about the sun at nearly the same dis
tance as the earth. Then it came between the sun and
the earth in such a way as to enter the neck of the space
resembling a bottle neck projecting from the sun's sphere
of control and enclosing the earth. This neck was quite
small and narrow, but the bulb of space enclosing the
earth and constituting its sphere of attraction was of con
siderable size. When the moon had once left the sun's
control and gone into the bulb about the earth, it met
with some resistance, and the neck became closed, so that
the moon was "bottled up" under the earth's control, and
could not escape. Hence, it has remained with the earth
ever since, and will always abide with us.
By revolving about the earth in the space controlled
by our planet, the moon has met with considerable re
sistance, and its orbit has become smaller and smaller
and also rounder and rounder. Thus it has come nearer
and nearer the earth, but never has been closer than at
present. Darwin's theory of the moon's detachment from
the earth is overthrown, and an entirely new theory de
veloped which has the support of all the highest mathe
matical science now known.
The famous outstanding inequality of six seconds in
the secular acceleration of the moon's mean motion is
thus explained. This perturbation in the moon's motion
had been discovered by Halley in the time of Newton.
It was partially explained by Leplace in 1787, but gravity
alone would not account for the observed acceleration
since the time of the Chaldeans, B. C. 720, and the out
standing difference had perplexed the greatest mathema
ticians for more than a century. Having discovered that
the moon was originally captured, and was still slowly
nearing the earth, I have removed the last difficulty, and
the result will be a decided improvement in astronomy.
hour was late in the afternoon and it
was closed. Then she went up town
to her home.
As she was about to enter the apart
ment house a hearse drawn by a white
horse and a black one drove up, the
undertaker climbed down and pressed
the button below her name on the
row of call bells at the entrance. She
asked him what it meant. Thinking
she was some inquiring stranger the
undertaker told her that he was bring
ing home the body of a man who had
died on a train near the city whence
she had just come and that the under.
taker who had taken charge of the
body had forwarded it in compliance
with the dying man's request. In a
daze the woman asked the dead man's
name. Then she fell fainting to the
floor. It was her husband.
No Wonder.
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Myer-So? Who is he?
Gyer-He's a government weathe
forecaster.
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Force of Habit.
In spite of the impediment in his
speech the fervent lover had nerved
himself up to the point of a proposal.
"Mum-Mum-Maud," he began, "I
mum-mum-may call you MumcMum
Maud, may I nun-nun-not?"
"Why, yes, if you wish to, Mr. Chat
terton-Harry."
"That's rah-rah-right. Call me Ha
Ha-Harry."
"Ha-ha-Harry!"
"Thank you, Mum-Mum-Maud, there
is sus-sus-something very nun-nun
near my heart that concerns yuh-yuh
you. Can you gug-gug-guess what
It is?"
"Why, no, Harry." '
"Then I'll tut-tut-tell you. My dud
;dud-darling. I lul-lul-love you. Wph
wuh-will you bub-bub-bub-bub-be my
wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wife ?"
"Oh,. Harry! This is so sudden!"
A JOB FOR TWO.
"What you fellers got in that box?"
"It's all right, officer. We're takin'
home Mamie Casey's hat wot she wore
at de lawn party last night!"
WHAT WERE THEY THERE FOR
Reporter's Seemingly Superfluous
Question as to Happenings at
Cabinet Meetings.
Postmaster General Meyer is of a
serious turn of mind, but he has a bit
of humor in his makeup, nevertheless.
Being looked upon as the shrewdest
politician in the president's cabinet, he
is the objective point for newspaper
correspondents on cabinet days.
Last week as Mr. Meyer emerged
from the White House a newspaper
man asked:
"Mr. Postmaster General, can't you
give us some news about the cabinet
meetings ?"
"There really is nothing to say," re
plied the cabinet officer. "We dis
cussed nothing of especial impor
tance."
"Do you mean to say you did not
discuss politics?" the newspaper man
queried.
The postmaster general burst into
laughter. When he recovered his us
ual serenity he said:
"Do you suppose we were all muz
sled?"
AN OLD TIMER
Has Had Experiences.
A woman who has used Postum
since it came upon the market knows
from experience the wisdom of us
ing Postum in place of coffee if one
values health and a clear brain. She
says:
"At the time Postum was first put
on the market I was suffering from
nervous dyspepsia, and my physician
had repeatedly told me not to use
tea or coffee. Finally I decided to
take his advice and try Postum. I
got a package and had it carefully
prepared, finding it delicious to the
taste. So I continued its use and very
soon its beneficial effects convinced
me of its value, for I got well of my
nervousness and dyspepsia.
"My husband had been drinking cot.
fee all his life until it had affected
his nerves terribly, and I persuaded
him to shift to Postum. It was easy
to get him to make the change Ut
the Postum is so delicious. It cero
tainly worked wonders for him.
"We soon learned that Postum does
not exhilarate por depress and does
not stimulate, but steadily and hcpest
ly strengthens the nerves and t&a
stomach.
"To make a long story short, our en
tire family continued to use Postum
with satisfying results, as shown tin
our fine condition of health and we
have noticed a rather unexpected im
provement in brain and nerve power,"
Increased brain and nerve power
always follow the use of Postum in
place of coffee, sometimes in a very
marked manner. "There's a Reason."
Look in pkgs. for the famous little
book, "The Road to Wellville."'
Ever read the above letterf A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genunse, true, and tall of husuas
"aterest,