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SCOTT'S EMULSION
is more than a fat food.
There is no animal fat
Jhat compares with it in
nottrishktg and bwilding
Up the wasted, emaciated
body. That is why chil
d*en and anaemic girls
thrive and grow fat upon
it That is why persons
with consumptive tenden
cies gain flesh and
strength enough to check
the progress of the dis
ease.
86OTT St BOWNE, 409 Pearl Stteei, Jgem York.
SAILORS ATTACK
1 TWO INSPECTORS
^LEVATOR GRAIN COMMISSION
DISPUTE REACHES CLIMAX.
Charge Is Made that Samples Are
Taken from Officials by Force and
i Shippers Threaten Arrest of Inspec
tors for TrespassSerious Complica
tions May Result.
pedal to Tho Journal.
Superior, Wis., Dec. 5.Two Wisconsin in
spectors and a party of sailors and dock labor
ers engaged in a battle royal at the Oargill
levator in this city yesterday, and grave com
plications are expected as a result. The ele
vator people threaten the arrest of the inspect
ors on the charge of trespassing, and the Wls
(Don grain and warehouse commission's attorneys
save stated that a suit will be begun Immedi
ately against the attacking party.
The trouble resulted from an attempt on the
part of the Wisconsin inspectors to inspect some
grain on the steamer Rollins, loading at the
?he
levator. On account of a lack of inspectors,
commission has not been making much of
fen attempt to inspect on the boats, and ac
cordingly many of them have cleared without
being visited by the inspectors. Yesterday,
Jiowever, there happened to be a dearth of other
work and two men were sent to Inspect the
(rain loaded on the Rollins.
Object to Inspection.
The appearance of the Wisconsin Inspectors
^ras the signal for the beginning of the trouble.
5"he captain of the boat. Superintendent Mc
jklanus of the elevator and a grain agent who
*tv'as present are said to have entered strenuous
Objections to the Inspectors taking samples from
the boat. This. It Is alleged, they proceeded
to do and had several samples when they were
interrupted and driven from the boat.
According to their story, threats to do them
bodily harm were made by the boat officials
Bind, the superintendent of the elevator. The
inspectors tried to get away with' the samples
they secured, but were not allowed to do so.
!The Inspectors say they were caught on their
tray to the car line by five men armed with
knives, who took away the samples and de
stroyed them. The men returned to the com
mission headquarters late in the day. The
matter was reported to the district attorney
today and he will begin Suit immediately.
The members of the grain commission consider
the attack an outrage. Chairman Andrew says
that the commission will lose no time in be
ginning an active prosecution of the persons to
blame for the disorder. More trouble is antici
pated Wednesday when another boat will be
loaded at the elevator. Chairman Andrew says
that he will send a strong force of men to do
the inspecting, and that in case they are not
iible to hold their own and bring back the
samples it Is Intimated that the governor will
be asked to furnish a sufficient force of militia
to enforce the law.
FREE MAIL DELIVERY
(Valley City's New System Will Be
Effective Feb. 1.
VALLEY CITY, N. D.The residents of this
fcity have been anxiously awaiting the establish
ment of free mail delivery for some time. The
announcement Is now made that the new sys
tem will go into effect Feb. 1. There will be
Jhree carriers, a substitute carrier and fifteen
etter boxes.
ELK POINT, S. J).Some three years ago, Jo
seph Remllllard brought suit against George
.Anttrier In the circuit court here for the pos
session of a farm near Jefferson, this county.
Valued at $10,000. He was defeated and the
State supreme court now affirms the decision of
the circuit court, closing a long and bitter con
test.
LADY'S TERRIBLE
No Tongue Can Tell Suffering
Body and Fafce Covered with Itch
ing, Bleeding Sores-^Awful Pain
Doctors and Medicines Failed*
ANOTHER WONDERFUL
CURE BY CUTICURA
"No tongue can tell how I suffered
for five years with itching and bleed
ing eczema, until I was cured by the
Cuticura Remedies, and I am so grate
ful I want the world*to know, for what
helped me will help others. My body
ana face were covered with sores.
One day it. would seem to be better,
and then break out again with the
most terrible pain and itching. I have
been sick several times, but never in
my life did I experience such awful
suffering as with this eczema. I had
made up my mind that death was near
at hand, and I longed for that time
when I would be at rest. I had tried
many different doctors and medicines
without success, and my mother
brought me the Cuticura Remedies,
insisting that I try them. I began to
feel better-after the first bath with
Cuticura Soap, and one application of
Cuticura Ointment. I continued with
Soap and Ointment, and have
taken four bottles of Cuticura Resolv
ent, and consider myself well. Any
person having any doubt Tabout this
wonderful cure by the Cuticura Rem
edies can write to my address. Mrs*
Altie Etson, Bellevue, Mich."
ITCHING ECZEMA
And All Other Itchingand Scaly
Eruptions Cured by Cuticura.
i The agonizing itching and burning
,-of the skin, as in eczema the fright-
-1 ful scaling, as in psoriasis the loss of
^hair and crusting of scalp, as in scalled
jjthead all demand a remedy of almost
'^".superhuman virtues to successfully
cope with them. That Cuticura Soap,
Ointment, and Fills are such stands
.proven beyond all doubt.
Catlcurm Sow, Ointmant,*snd Pilli are sold throughout
the werld. Potter Dnif Jc Ohem. Corp., Boston, Shit
jftef rittorf. ay-Send fox Hew to Our* ECMBUU"
'Tuesday Evening,
KINDNESS AS SEEDf
OF REFORMATIO?
JUDGE SAYS CRIMINALS NEED
CHARITABLE TREATMENT.
Believes a Kind Act IS Becognited by
Certain Classes More Readily Than
by the Average Citizen, and Tells of
One Case. Where Payment of Fine
Was'Delayed. p"
Speoial to The Journal.
La Crosse, Wis., Deo. 5.Jndfs Brindley f
the county court, before whom all minor crimi
nals come for trial, believer that a large per
centage of the prisoners brought before him are
honest and hare good hearts, altho the charges
against them are usually stealing and drunken
ness.
Iu evidence, Judge Brindley cites the case of
Otto Hettman, fined #10.71 tor assault last
Wednesday.
Hettman had but SS' and pleaded with the
court to be trusted for the remainder, so be
could avoid spending Thanksgiving day in jail.
He promised to pay Saturday if permitted to eat
turkey with his family. Saturday at 2 o'clook.the
time appointed, Hettman placed $2.71 on Judge
Brindley's desk and was profuse In his thanks
for the confidence reposed In him.
Judge Brindley says episodes of this charac
ter do more to reform embryo criminals than
all the jail sentences and other punishments
that can be Imposed under the law. He be
lieves a kindness is more readily recognized by
some clashes of criminals than by the average
citizen and contends that charity shown them
at cnce takes root and proves {he seed of refor
mation.
Give Jobs to Themselves.
When bids offered by contractors for county
road and bridge work exceed the estimates of
the county boards,' the members of. the board
accept the contracts themselves. This system
has een brought to light here when Supervisor
John W. McCann let the contract to himself
for rock to repair the road in bis township.
In the past the estimates have been fixed by
the county surveyor and bids have ,been opened
by the board of supervisors. Seldom do the bids
figure under the estimates. In every case where
the bid of the contractor exceeds the estimate the
Search forCrazed Sculptor.
Wandering aimlessly in the snow-decked tim
ber strips, or perhaps dead from, cold and hun
ger, the authorities expect to find Frank Koeh
ler, the crazed sculptor who escaped from the
county nisane asylum at West Salem a few
days ago. Koehler was suddenly stricken with
Insanity while carving an image of Christ in,
a local altar factory and has been In confine
ment for two years. Nothing has been seen nor
heard of him since his escape, tho relatives
and police are searching the county thoroly.
FELL ON HIS NECK
Farmer Killed Thru Accident with Run
away Team.
GREEN BAY, WIS.Henry Ousser of East
Wrlghtstown was instantly killed by being
thrown from a buggy. His neck was broken.
With two other men he was driving from Green
leaf to Wrlghtstown. The horses became un-.
manageable and the two men jumped from the
rig, one receiving a sprained ankle but Gussert.
who had a wooden leg, was hampered in Jump
ing and was thrown out, striking on his head.
In accordance with a notice sent out by L.
M. Mann, navigation has been declared closed
on Lake Winnebago and Cox river.
WOMAN ATTEMPTS,SUICIDE
bid Is cast out and the matter Is turned over to where he haB been engaged In business for
the supervisor In whose town the work Is to be I many yeaes. He is a banker of twenty years'
done. The supervisor, instead of reletting the
contract, accepts the work himself.
This system Is loudly defended by Supervisor
McCann, who now has one of the contracts.
Tries to
Wife of Wisconsin Farmer
Burn Herself. ,r
NEW RICHMOND, WIS.After nuking a
desperate attempt.on her life, Mrs. Lev is Fan
jon, wife of a Star Prairie farmer, i: been
taken to the state insane asylum at Midota.
Mrs. Fanyon has In the last six months si.own
symptoms and she was Intensely Jealoas of
her husband. She was examined as to her sanity
by Drs. F. S. Wade and P. McKeon of this
city, and within an hour after the doctors
left the house she locked herself in the bed
room, partly undressed herself, got iuto bed
and then set fire to herself. Her oldest son
smelled the smoke and suspected what had
happened. He secured an ax and broke In the
door and succeeded in quenching the flames be
fore his mother had been much^iurt and be
fore any damage of consequence was done. Mrs.
Fanyon is 42 years of age and the mother of
thirteen children.
DATE FOR PFISTER TRIAL
Case Against Milwaukee Man Set for
Next Monday.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.The trial of Charles F.
Pflster, under indictment by the last grand jury
on a charge of larceny of $14,000 as bailee, will
he taken up in municipal court on Monday. This
decision was reached by District Attorney Fran
cis B. McQovern and Attorney George Lines,
counsel for Mr. Pflster, when the calendar call
for the December term of the municipal court
Was ordered by Judge Brazee. According to the
deferse the ense will be completed within fire
days' time.
MORE TAXES FOB STATE
Wisconsin Commissioner Finds Large
Sum Omitted from Report.
MADISCN. WIS.Railroad Commissioner
Thomas has completed checking up the books
of the railroads operating In Wisconsin, for the
years back to and including 1897. As a result,
$1,000,000 more will be aded to the amount
omitted from the reports of the gross earnings
of the roads as submitted to the state in the
annual reports for taxation.
This makes a total of $10,828,438.62, on which
the state is seeking to recover taxes. At 4 per
cent, the rate of railroad taxation under the
license fee system, there Is. due to the state, he
says, a back tax of $4S3,137.56.
FIRE AT MOORHEAD
Occupants of Building Barely Escape
with Their Lives.
MOORHEAD, MINN.A two-story frame
buUding owned by John Lally was burned
to the ground. The building contained four
stores on the first floor, and the second floor
was used for living apartments, being divided
into some forty, rooms. The east half was
used as a hotel and a clothing and furniture
store. The west half was not yet completed,
but was being rushed by the contractors, and
'would have been ready for occupancy in about
two weeks.
The origin of the fire is not known. It is
somewhat of a mystery, as the building sud
denly burst Into flame and many of the occu
pants barely escaped with their lives. A resi
dence alongside on Third street, also the prop
erty of J. C. Lally, caught fire and was de
stroyed. The firemen worked hard, but to great
disadvantage, as the recent cold snap had
frozen the nearest hydrants,- and when water
was finally secured the buildings were a mass
of flames.
Lally estimates his loss at about $15,000, with
about $6,000 insurance.
The farmers' Institute was held here with
rather a small attendance owing to the in
clemency of the weather and the condition of
the country^ roads. The meeting was caUed to
order by George E. Perley. Professor W. P. P.
McDonnell was introduced and he conducted the
institute. Those who assisted him ^rere R. A.
Schultz of Leroy, Minn., L. A. Sweet of Fair
mont, Minn., and Mi'. Eliot of Ontario, Car*
The addresses made were especially* adapted
to the needs of this locality, and each speaker
called for .questions from the .audience, which
privilege was'readUy taken advantage of.
The local M. B. A. lodge elected officers for
the coming year at the annual meeting as
follows: President, Robert Tuffs vice president,
Mrs. Frank McGill secretary, B. U. Wade:
treasurer, Ward Sherman conductor, Minnie
Gleason chaplain, Fred Stally sentry, Mrs.
Lena Ryen watchman, Fank McGill physician,
Dr. D. C. Darrow deputy, E. U. Wade.
NINETEENTH ANNIVERSARY
Hastings I. O. G. T. Lodge Celebrates
the Event.
HASTINGS, MINN.Swea lodge. No. 4, I, 0.
G. T., celebrated the nineteenth anniversary of
its organization at Swea hall, the occasion being
a delightful one with more than fifty in at
tendance. This society Is one of the most
flourishing in the city.
Coroner F. W. Kramer deemed an inquest
unnecessary over the remains of Michael Judge,
a well-known farmer of Rosemount, who was
killed at that place by an eastbound passenger
train. He went to the station after coal, and
the engine whistle caused his team to ran away.
In attempting to head off the horses, and not
seeing the ^approaching train, he was run down
and instantly killed. The funeral was held
today.
EIGHT JAP PROFESSORS QUIT.^
Tokio. Dec. 9.3 p.m.The friction ex
isting between the minister of education
ahd the Imperial university has culmi
nated in eight professors tendering their
resignations. The agitation is likely to
extend and threaten the stability of the
present cabinet.
SEEKS TO COLLECT
$400,000 IN TAXES
IOWA COUNTY MAY SUB
MINING COMPANY.
GOLD
Steps Being Taken, to Assess Stock as
Concealed Property, the Owners Hav
ing Failed to Report It-Concern Is
Capitalized at $3,000,000, with Head
quarters in Colorado.
Speoial to The Journal.
Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dee. 6.Steps are being
taken by the treasurer of Pottawatomie county
to collect $400,000 from the Portland Gold Min
ing company as taxes on its capital stock of
13,000,000 for the past five years.
The stock will he assessed under the tax-ferret
law of Iowa as concealed property, the owners
having never reported it to the assessor. The
treasurer's office will claim $300,000 for the
tax Itself and the remaining $100,000 In pen
alties and interest.
The Portland company is organised under the
laws of Iowa and Its annual meetings are held
at Council Bluffs, but its properties and busi
ness headquarters are in Teller county, Colo
rado.
Most of- the stockholders reside in Colorado,
and only a few shares are owned here. The
largest, individual stockholder is James P. Burns
of Colorado Springs, formerly president of the
company. Burns is defendant In a suit for
$1,000,000 of stocks and dividends claimed by
James Doyle as his share in an old partner
ship.
The suit has had several trials here at a
cost of some $20,000 to Pottawatomie county. It
is claimed that the company should pay taxes
here since it uses the court to settle Its internal
disputes.
RUMOR OF NEW BANK
Iowa City May Have New Institution"
Next Month.
IOWA FALLS, IOWA.It is rumored that,
this city Is to have another bank, and that it
wlll.be organized under the state laws. The
prime mover in this new enterprise, and the
largest stockholder, it is said, will be W. E.
Simpson, who comes here from Marne, Iowa,
experience. The Miller building, formerly "occu
pied by the Mitchell pharmacy, has been leased
and will be used as a banking room. It is
stated the capital will be $50,000, and will
start business Jan. 1.
L. O. Bliss, one of the pioneer merchants of
this city, narrowly escaped being killed by a
fall, and now lies at his home In a precarious
condition. The details of the accident will prob
ably not be known till he fully recovers con
sciousness. He was found in the basement of
his store.
MURDERER PLEADS GUILTY
Slayer of Wife and Family "to Be Sen
tenced Friday.
INDEPENDENCE. IOWA.William McWil
liams pleaded guilty here on three indictments
found against him for killing his wife and five
children. Sentence will be pronounced upon him
on Friday. Specialists who have examined Mc
Williams say that he shows no Bigns of in
sanity. He has expressed a desire to end his
life and is being carefully guarded.
INJURY PROVES FATAL
Iowa Boy Dies from Hurts Received in
Football Game.
SIDNEY, IOWA.Harry Roe, 18 years of
age, injuries sustained in a football
geforediedsefrom
ame thre weeks ago. Not until a short time
hi death did it become known that he
had been injured. When the boy finally told
them what was the matter internal ruptures
had put him beyond any remedy.
He declared that he did not want the blame
of his death to be placed on the game of foot
ball.
SAILOR DROWNED IN SLIP
Deck Hand of Steamer at Two Harbors
Falls from Dock.
TWO HARBOB8, MINN.W. W. Gallager, a
deckhand ou the steamer Sir Bessemer, was
drowned In Lake Superior early Sunday morning.
Gallager, while walking on the fender on the
north side of Dock No. 5, fell into the slip. A
search was made for his body, which was found
late Sunday afternoon. He was a member of
the seamen's union, under whose care the body
will be taken to Butler, Pa., his home, for
burial. He was 26 years of age.
VICTIM WAS LOUIS ESSIG
Coroner Will Investigate
Farmer's Son.
Death of
SLEEPY EYE, MINN.The man who was
struck by a passenger train Saturday evening and
killed west of Springfield has been identified
as Louis Essig, son of Henry Essig, a farmer
who lives three miles from that place: He
left home.to go skating and followed the track.
The wind'Was blowing hard, and he evidently did
not hear the train when It came up behind him.
The fact that there were no bruises on the
body other than a severe scalp wound back of
the head and on the forehead, has led the coroner
to believe that suspicious circumstances sur
rounded the death of the young man, and he will
begin an lnanest here today. The dead man
was about 21 years of age, and well thought of.
His father was for many years a Springfield
business man.
FUNEBAL OF CONSUL ESTES
Body Arrives frem Germany and Is
Buried by Masons.
MADELIA, MINN.The remains of W. R.
Estes, late United States consul at Sollngen,
Germany, vrho died at that place on Nov. 14,
arrived here yesterday. The funeral was held
at the" First M. E, church under the auspices of
the local Masonic lodge, of which Mr. Estes was
a member.
ASK CITIZENS TO HELP
Veterans Want Memorial Day Burden
Removed to Younger Patriots.
STILLWATER, MINN.B. J. Mosier and J.
N. Searles have been named as representatives
of Muller and Crook posts, G. A. R., to prepare
a memorial to be presented to a massmeetlng
of the near future, asking citizens generally to
take the burden off the hands of the old soldiers
in Memorial day celebrations in the future on
May 30 of each year.
The estate of W. H. Keene has be%n assigned
to the several devisees. under the wlU, giving
life and fee estates to the widow, M. H. Keene,
Gardner"Keene, Benjamin T. Keene, Earl Keene,
Charles Keene, Sarah A. Johnson. Charles 0.
Keene and Harvey B. Keene.
The estate of the late Charles J. Munson has
been settled and assigned to Josephine O. and
Edith Munson. Fred F. Johnson has been named
as administrator of the estate of Johannes
Johnson, deceased, giving $1,200 bond.
PIERRE FINDS OLD LTD
Once More Slot Machines Are Taken
Out by City.
PIERRE, S. D.By order of. the authorities
all. slot machines in the city have been taken
out, and it is announced they will be kept out
In the future, but such moves in the past have
not been long lived, and it is a question whether
the present ban will remain in force any longer
than those In the past.
Yesterday a car of buffalo from the Philip
herd was shipped to Chicago, where the buffalo
will be slaughtered and placed on the market for
the holiday trade. Seven of the animals were
sent In the shipment, and all were taken at a
good price..
SUES MAN WHO SOLD GUN
Father Asks $10*000 Damages in Con
nection with Boy's Death.
MENOMINEE, MICH.The father of little
Amos Benville, the lad who was shot thru the
eye and head with a 22-rifle, while looking into
the muzzle of the weapon, has sued the dealer
who sold the boy the rifle for $10,000 damages
for having sold it to so young a boy.
W. A. Le Due, John Fosher, Tom and Bob
Hannon of Manistique, Mich-., have begun an
action against a Portland,. Ore, timber concern
for an alleged attempt to locate them: on a
tract where no timber existed.
SHOT BY A WOMAN
Corporal in Twenty-fourth
Killed at Helena.
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to the old coffee slavery.
of physical ailment, drink it.
vbe
Infantry
HELENA, MUNT.James Scythes, a corporal
In the Twenty-fourth infantry, was shot and
killed yesterday by Nora Menzle, who says
he was abusing her, and that she shot In self
defense. The woman was arrested. Scythes
had been in the army''thirteen years and saw
service In-Cuba and the Philippines. ,V!-T
$100,000 FIRE IN MANASSES. i''
Manassas, Va., Dec. 5.A. Are broke
out early today which swept the business
section* of the town. The estimated loss
ia over $100,000.
THE MINNEAfQLIf JOURNAL. December 5, 1905.
Many people have found out the truth about old fashioned coffee.
They have overcome disease caused by it.
The plan was easy and sure.
.Quit Coffee and use Postum.
Proof with one's self is stronger than any theory.
The Postum army grows by hundreds of thousands yearly.
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The old fashioned Coffee Magnates are now deriding Postum through
Because their pocketbooks are hurt they would drive the people back
One coffee prevaricator says: "It (Postum) has lately been exposed
and found to contain an excess of very ordinary coffee."
Another that "it (Postum) is made from a small amount of parched
peas, beans, whea^,'dried sweet potatoes, and paste of wheat middlings."
Here's to you, oh faithful followers of the tribe of Ananias.
$100,000.00 CASH
will be deposited with any reputable trust company (or a less amount if
desired) against a like, amount by any coffee roaster or dealer. If the
charges prove true we lose, if not we take the money as partial liquidation
for the infajrious itisalt to our business.
The Postum Pu^s Food factories axe the largest in the world, the
business having been built upon absolutely pure food products, made on
scientfp|cv'lines,
"for a reason" and the plain unvarnished truth told every
day*and all the time. These factories are visited by thousands of people
every month. They are shown ifttij every cranny and examine every in-
gredient and process. Each visitor sees Postum made of different parts of
the wheat berry treated by different mechanical methods and one part
blended with a small part of pure New Orleans molasses. So he knows
Postum contains not one thing in the world but Wheat and New Orleans
molasses. It took more than a year of experimenting to perfect the pro-
cesses and learn how to develope the diastase and properly treat the other
elements in the wheat to produce the coffee-like flavor that makes suspi-
cious people "wonder." But there never has been one grain of old fashioned
or drug coffee in Postum and never will be.
Another thing, we have on file in our general ^offices the original of
every testimonial letter we have ever published. We submit that our
attitude regarding coffee is now and always has been absolutely fair. If
one wants a stimulant and can digest coffee and it does not set up any sort
But, if coffee overtaxes and weakens the heart, (and it does with some).
Or,if it sets up disease of the stomach and bowels, (and it does with
some).
Or if it causes weak eyes, (and it does with some).
Or if it causes nervous prostration, (and it does with many).
Then good plain old fashioned common sense might (without asking
permission of coffee merchants) suggest to quit putting caffeine (the drug
of coffee) into a highly organized human body, for health is really wealth
and the happiest sort of wealth.
Then if one's own best interest urges him to study into the reasbn, and
"There's a reason," he will unearth great big facts that all of the sophis-
tries of the coffee importers and roasters cannot refute. Take time to read
the following from the famous Dr. B. F. Underwood in The American
Physician:
Coffee as a Factor in the Production of Gastric and
Cardiac Disorders.
BY B. F. UNDERWOOD, BLD.
The pathogenetic properties of coffee have received but scant attention
from medical authors, although, it is not doubtful, I think, that, more than
any other single substance, coffee is responsible for the great prevalence
of nervous, gastric^ and cardiac diseases*at the present time, and that the
great increase in sudden deaths from heart affection in recent years may
justly set, down to the-use or abuse of coffee as a beverage.
Shoemaker" in !$ "Materia Medica,'*. treating' uptfh coffee, says:
"Used'in excess it disorders digestion and causes functional disturbance
of the nervous system, shown by headache, vertigo, mental confusion and
palpitation of the^heart. It increases secretion, blunts sensation, exalts
reflex excitability, increases mental activity, and may produce insomnia and
great nervous restlessness,I'
to say upon,the subject.
and this is as much as any medical author has
In my case it may be merely the zeal of the recent convert which in-
spires me, but I feel strongly from both my personal and professional ex
perience that.t^ate is *o much more that could and should be said about.,
Defective Page
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The Coffee Importers and Roasters are Attacking!
POSTUM FOOD COFFE E
All Along the Line.
"THERE'S A REASON."
ease that it could not be ignored.
went on to uninterrupted recovery.
There's a Reason for
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tfle deleterious effects of coffee and its potency as a factor in the production
of disease. This has been so strongly impressed upon me the past winter
that I am impelled to make a contribution to the subject, by reporting a
few cases in which coffee was so manifestly causing or continuing the dis-
Case I. In the lajkter part of December, 1903, I had under treatment,
an old lady, 74 years, who was convalescing from an attack of pneumonia.
She had responded favorably to the treatment and was doing nicely ex-
cept for a peculiar rise and fall of the temperature and an irregular action
of the heart. She had been troubled more or less with weakness of the
heart and at this time its action was giving me a good deal of concern, 'its
beat being irregular and feeble, at times much more so than at others. A
study of conditions and causes threw no light on the case until I found
that the irregularity was more marked, on the mornings when she had
coffee, which she did not have every morning. As I could not discover
any other cause I advised that she should not take the coffee. After some
demur on the part of the patient she acceded and Postum Cereal was sub-
stituted for the coffee. A favorable effect was almost immediately appar-
ent the irregular action gave place to a steady, regular beat, the pulse
became fuller and stronger, the temperature became normal and the case
Case II. The result ^in case one set me thinking. For some years I
had been troubled with nervous dyspepsia, w^th cardiac irritability, and at
times, great irregularity in the action of the heart, intermittent beat of the
pulse and much nervous depression, all of which, in spite of treatment was
steadily getting worse. I had had light enough thrown on the cause, if I
had not been so blinded by prejudice that I could not see. As, for in-
stance, on one occasion, when the coo, who did not believe that coffee
was any good unless it rivaled in color her ebony face, gave me a cup of
coffee one morning that was fully up to her ideal, and whieh, although I
noticed that it possessed nearly the strength of Samson, I drank without
consideration.
I had been feeling rather better than usual for a day'or two, but soon
after breakfast I was attacked with such peculiar sensations that I was un-
able to go out, and was obliged to call upon a colleague for treatment.
Singularly enough, although I had the feeling that I was under the influ-
ence of some drug, it was not until some time afterward that I realized
that I had been poisoned by the coffee. Under strong tonic treatment I
grew better for a time, but in December, 1903, I began to grow worse
again, and treatment failing to effect any improvement, it began to look as
if I was in danger of a complete bVeakdown.
The colleague who was treating me was suspicious *f kidney disease,
but a urinary analysis cleared up that point, but I did not improve. It
was at this time, as I have said, the result in case No. 1 set me thinking,
and I found from a study of the modalities, that I was worse and more de-
pressed after taking coffee, and it finally penetrated into my inner con-
sciousness that possibly coffee was the cause of my condition. I took my
own prescription and gave up coffee, with the result of an almost immedi-
ate change for the better. The depression disappeared, the cardiac dis-
turbance ceased, and the dyspeptic symptoms lessened and a steady
improvement set in.
Case HI. About the same time I had under treatment a young lady
suffering from chronic nephritis who presented an almost endless variety
of symptoms, which would yield to treatment for a time, only to return'in
an aggravated form. Among the more persistent and annoying of these
was a gastric irritability with an absolute refusal of the stomach to digest
or absorb any foott, progressive emaciation with great weakness, and a
constant sensation of hunger with nausea and frequent spells of vomiting,
when the food taken would be returned unchanged palpitation of the
heart, oedema, hectic fever, colliquative sweats, etc. Under treatment and
a most rigid diet the mitigation of the symptoms was Very slight.
I had advised her that coffee was injurious and should be given up,
but it was not until her condition was almost hopeless. that she could be
induced to follow my advice and refrain from coffee. The beneficial effect
of this was apparent at once: the stomach began to recover its tone, the
irritability ceased, the vomiting stopped, and the food taken was digested
and absorbed the sensation of continual hunger disappeared, the emacia-
tion lessened and her strength slowly returned. Of course, the disease has
not been cureH, but a curl which seemed hopeless before has been made
possible.
As a result of these experiences, to which more could be added, in all
cases of intractable nervous or/gastric diseases I have come to regard cof-
fee as an incitant, and an important, if not the chief, factor in the produc-
tion of the disease, and to insist upon its discontinuance as a part of the
treatment, and, I may add, with uniformly good effect. I have found also
that, although the giving up of coffee has been in many cases done only
under protest and with great reluctance, it has been attended with but
little difficulty when a palatable and satisfactory substitute was provided.
In my own case and in that, of the others described I used the Postum
Cereal and found it entirely satisfactory. Even the most inveterate coffee
drinkers after a short use of the Postum seem to lose all desire for coffet
and to be perfectly satisfied with the Cereal. -T~
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