My Hair "I had a very sovere sickness that took off all my hair. 1 pur chased a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor and it brought all my hair back again." w. D. Quinn, Marseilles, 111. One thing is certain,— Ayer's Hair Vigor makes the hair grow. This is because it is a hair food. It feeds the hair and the hair grows, that's all there is to it. It stops falling of the hair, too, and al ways restores color to gray hair. SI.OO a bottle- All draf(tsts. j > ""Tf"your"dragci3t cannot sunplyytroTj •end'us ono dollar and wo will express ■ you a tv>ttle. Bo 6uro and give tho namo B of your nearest express office. Address, ■ J. C. AVER CO., Lowell, Mass. | Constipation Does your head ache ? Pain back of your eyes? Bad taste in your mouth? It's your liver! Ayer's Pills are liver pills. They cure consti pation, headache, dyspepsia. 25c. All druggists. 1 Want your moustacho or beard a beautiful brown or rich black? Then use BUCKINGHAM'S WlWSfa Frao Delivory Rules. Superintendent A. W. Machen of j the Free Delivery Bureau of the Post office Department has issued a clrcu- | lnr of instructions governing rural free delivery throughout the country. I It directs' that petitioners for such ; service be heads of families, who shall ; show the relative population along 1 the route, character of the roads, j principal vocations of the people and i distances each one now has to travel to receive mail. A map of the routes proposed is required. The petition must be endorsed by either a Senator or Representative in Congress. Each route must be over twenty miles long, serving at least one hundred families, and those desiring the delivery must hereafter be prepared i<> put up suit able boxes. These boxes will be en titled to the protection of the United States statutes. Rural carriers are not j required to deliver ordinary mail to | houses standing back from the main j road. They may carry other busi- I ness than United States mail. Fatrons are required to co-operate by keeping; the roads up to the standard in oil' weather. The maximum pay for car riers now is s.">oo per annual for a full route of approximately live miles traveled on shorter routes. Carriers are to carry a supply of stamps, stamped envelopes and postal cards, ! and must cancel stamps on all letters they collect. Sweat find fruit acids will not discolor goods dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Sold by ail druggist H. A Philadelphia resident recently con tracted for the building of 222 houses, to cost about $750,000. The coffee plant is a variety of the cin chona family. Lol> Kfward. *IOO. Tho renders of this paper will be pleased to j learn that thera is at leaat oifo dreaded (lis- j ease that science has boon able to cure in all j its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh j Curo in the only positive cure now known to i tho medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con- j stitutional disease, requires a constitutional j treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mu cous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy ing the foundation of tho disease, and giving tho patient strength by building up tho con stitution and assisting nature in doing its work. Tho proprietors have so mncb faith in Its curative powers that they offer Ono Hun dred Dollars for any case that it fails to oure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY A 00., Toledo, O. Bold by Druggists, 75a. Hall's Family Pills aro the host. In prehistoric times the rhinoceros flourished in California, while largo lions and tigers lived in the jungles. FITS permanently cured. No ITTS or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline'S Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free Dr. It. H. KLINE, Ltd.. 131 Arch St., PLila. Pa In Germany and Switzerland stoves are a part of the house. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma tion .allays pain, cures wind colic. 250 a bottle London is to have an automatic ham sandwich machine. I do not believe Piso'S Cure for Consump tion hoe an equal for coughs and oolds.—JOHN JR*. BOYEII, Trinity Spring*, Ind., Feb. 15,1900. An ounce of diplomacy is worth A pound of blunder. Ladlca Can Wear Shoes On# size smaller after using Allen's Foot- Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweat ing, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. At all druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Trial package FREE by mail. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Lettuce was introduced into England from Flanders about 1520. When the head aches and one is weary, A Garfield Headache Powder is needed. This simple remedy will cure the pain and impart vigor to the system. Send to Garfield Tea CO M Brooklyn, N. Y., for sample powders. J Hard hearts are apt to grow harder and §oft heads to srrow softer. j Brat For ibe Itowsls. No matter what ails you, beadacbo to a #ncer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. GABCARETS help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movement#, cost you just 10 oents to start getting your health back. CAS CABETS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put UD in metal boxes, every tabkrt has C.O.G. Stamped on it. Beware of imitations. I In China liquids are sold by weight and fr&in by measure. .... From the Kitten. I am only a kitten, nnil what can I do To keep myself busy the longest Jay through? I can eat u good dinner, and drink some warm miik, And smooth my soft fur till it's glossy as silk; I can piny when I'm frisky, and sleep and grow fat, And in time I'll be known as "tho fam ily cat." —Little Folks. Living Snntre.m., Of all the birde the tlr.y humming birds tire the most lovely. They look like animated jewels as Utty dart about from flower to flower itt the sunshine. As is so often the case with birds of beautiful plumage, t.key have r.o song to speak of. Moreover, they are as quarrelsome as the saucy sparrow, fighting with their mates as well as with strangers. They are very inquisitive, too, their curiosity often getting them into trouble, and some times even into the collector's net. But like most wild things they cannot bear captivity, and usually pine away and die. _ For that they aro such ex quisilc creatures, the South American Indians call them the pretty names of the beams and locks of the sun. The Girls and tho Parasols. Two little girls, named Annie and Grace, had been given new sun shades, and had fallen into a quarrAl in regard i to their respective beauty. "Mine is red," said Annie, "and is therefore the gayest and most at -1 j tractive, and will best become my com plexion and hair." - —■ * I "And iaj ns ." retorted Grace, "be- I ing blue, is much cooler to look upon j and is a more fashionable summer col- I or; and besides, its shape is better, I its size larger and its handle more I beautiful. I wouldn't have a red um [ brella for anything, so there." "And I think you're a mean, hate , ful, little girl, so there," answered Annie. Then they became so Interested in their quarrel that they laid their open sunshades upon the ground while they continued the argument. And while they were thus engaged 1 a playful summer breeze came up and, I catching up the parasols, whirled them | into a nearby pond, where they floated amid the mud and ooze much to the dismay of their owners. Moral—ln quarreling about the shadows we often lose the substance. — : Chicago Record Herald. Science for Touns Folk*. I Everybody knows, or ought to know, that the pressure of the atmosphere at sea level, is in round figures, 15 | pounds to the square inch, but it is i not generally known that this may I be demonstrated in a very simple way. Take a gla-s tube three feet in j length and closed at one end, the open ! Ing In the tube being equal to one j eighth of an incu square. Pour mercu- I ry into the tube until It is full, and ] j then, with your nnger over the open | end of the tube to keep the mercury j in and the air out, invert the tube in ': to a small vessel containing mercury. Having removed your finger from the open end of the tube the mercury in the latter is, of course, in communi | cation with that in the vessel, and you | will find that the mercury In the tube | will fall six Inches, leaving that much empty space at the top. Now put your finger over the open end of the tube again, and lift the lat | ter from the vessel. Pour the mercury I out of the tube and weight it, and you j will find that it weighs three and three-fourths ounces. That is to say, a column of mercury one-eighth of an inch square, and 30 inches in height weighs three and three-fourth 3 ounces. But a square inch is fit times as large as one-eighth of an inch, and a column i ] of mercury one inch square and 30 1 inches in weight would weigh, there | fore, 64 times three and three-fourth 3 | ounces, or 240 ounces, which is equiva lent to 15 pounds. I The pressure of the atmosphere, ' I therefore, must be 15 pounds to every ' square Inch of surface.—Philadelphia Record. Tho Mocking Illrtl and tho Itlng I>ove. On the eastern shore of Maryland , there are some beautiful woods, and these woods resound with the music of the little mocking birds that gaily j flit from bough to bough. Some years ago, about twenty-five, there lived in Talbot, a Maryland town, a little girl named Alice, and her brother William. They were the ' only children of a clergyman, and were greatly loved by every one. Like other children they had their pets, and , J being in this land of songsters among them were a mocking-bird and a ring -1 ; dove. j "Bob," the mocking-bird had a very toft-gray back, and the sprinkling of I white on his black wing 3 and tail i made him look as if he had just come i in from a snow-storm. He and the j pretty ring-dove with the black half . ting around its creamy neck were fcept in the same room in cages that j were hanging side by side. "Bob" was the pride of Talbot. He qould be heard through tho village gtreets at all hours of the day, and j very often at night, and the passers by paused to listen to the clear liquid dotes poured forth so sweetly from his tiny throat By and by an amit of the children ' | ;ame to visit them, and when the time for her to leave drew near tne family thought they would like to ihake her a present. Unfortunately they had not a great deal of money and as she had so often experessec delight at the sorys of the mocking bird, it was decided to give little "Bob" away. I do not understand how that could have been even thought of, but it was —doubtless it was supposed that an other mocking-bird could be caught in the woods. Alice and William grieved more than the others, though they wanted to bo generous; yet it was many nights be fore they fell asleep without a fearful talk about their dear little merry "Bob." One morning came a letter from Aunt Julia for Alice, and this is the principal thing that was in it: "I do not know what ails Bob. He has not sung a note since we came homo, but sits in the Corner of his cage drooping. I have tried every thing I could think of. What do you suppose is the trouble?" The family at Talbot were surprised to hear that "Bob" had stopped sing ing, and the only way they could ac count for it was that he missed his little companion ring-dove. So they decided, as they did not like to ask to have "Bob" returned, to send the ling-dove on to him. This was done, and the change in "Bob" was wonderful. He began sing, ing, singing, singing, as if his little throat could not contain the sweet melcdlce any longer. They poured forth in bursts of rapture—the little bird singing, ringing, until there was one final peal cf glorious song, and little "Bob" lay dead upon the floor of his cage. He had lost his life while show ing the joy that had come all too late to his little broken heart. I have often wondered what became of the little ring-dove, but no one has been able to tell die. —Anne Washing ton Wilson, in Little Folks. Fish anrl Tlioir Odd Little Ways. Fish have a great many curious hab its and are often very knowing fel lows. They can be ill-tempered or mild and gentle as truly as animals or boys and girls. A visitor to the aquarium at Battery Park one day re cently discovered that there are not only big fish, but tiny little ones whose ways are well worth watching. To hear of fishes with eyes nearly on their tails is surely astonislkng. Yet that is what the little "four-eyed fish" in the Aquarium seem to have at first sight. But looking more carefully the tail eyes prove to be merely black spots inside of white circles. This lit tle fish is so short and broad with its bit of a tail, that at a distance it is hard to tell which end is head and which tail. Four-eyed fish have at least three other r.amen and are known as the. bride, butterfly and peacock fish, the last name being given because the "eye" Is like that in a peacock's tail feather. There are more than twenty of them in the tank in the Aquarium, but unhappily some make themselves disagreeable by nipping and biting the others. They come from Bermuda, where they live in the shallows of the coral, flitting in and out among its crevices and fissures. Then there are the grunts, from Ber muda also. They have not deserved in the least their ill-natured name, for they are peaceful fellows. The blue parrot fish are called by one of the Aquarium officials "merry go-rounds," because for hours at a time when their tank is full of water they amuse themselves by swimming round and round in narrow circles. One of the most interesting and in telligent little things is the sea horse. Although so tiny, measuring only a few Inches, he has a head and neck shaped like a miniature horses, grace ful and erect, and the long, tapering tail makes him look like some of the strange creatures of the fairy book pictures. When Mr. Spencer, one of the Aquarium officials, tapped lightly on the glass, the sea horse came for ward at once from his dim corner, and seemed to pay the closest attention to all that was said to him. Mr. Spencer has known them In laboratories to grow tame enough to come when one called and cling to one's finger with their slender tails. Among the strange and Interesting fishes who have had Individuality all their own is the exquisitely beautiful angel fish, with a gorgeous blue band about the edge of the body and fins. His name Is as 111 suited to his temper as the grunt's was found to be. for the angel fish cruelly kills his mate. The green morays, or great eels, which grow from 10 to 15 feet long; the queen trigger fish, with a spine on its back which raises or drops like the trigger of a pistol, and the pretty moonflsh from our own Gravesend bay, which look like mother of pearl and fairly cast a slight reflection from their brilliant bodies, all attract many visitors, and appear to he conscious sometimes that they are being shown off. But the carps at the entrance, so say ihe attendants, actually seem to weary of the crowds of sightseers, and when they stand motionless and open their mouths languidly, It is their way of yawning and says to curious visitors: "Oh, dear! Why can't you go away and leave us alone."—New York Tribune. The Hnrefoot Fml. The latest sensation in Dublin Is the adoption by a number of society peo ple of the "barefcot" fad for their chil dren. Considerable attention Is aroused now and then In the streets about the fashionable squares by the appearance of smartly clad children, walking barelegged and barefooted, all but a slight sandal. The idea, is that the children are made bardic and less likely to take co'.d by this exposure. —Dublin Freeman's Journal. Death to Cockroaches. Mix equal parts of dry flour and plaster of paris, stirring in a little pul verized sugar, spread It on a plate or shallow basin or pan and set on the floor where the pests are most numer ous. Fill a second plate or pan with water and connect the two with a few pieces of wood, thus forming a bridge from the one to the other. The roaches will ravenously eat the mixture, drink the water and Dud themselves miniature plaster casts a little later. —Good Housekeeping. Prefer Their Own Method*. It is a kindness to household pets to leave the arrangement of their own beds to themselves. Given the mater ials and places, the cat and dog will both, after turning and twisting to their hearts' desire, make of the blan ket or shawl, or the straw of the ken nel, the kind of a bed that their in herited instincts call for. A woman who tried to build a nest of the Eoftest white cotton from her jewel box for her canaries met with rankest ingratitude from her pets. As fast as she arranged the fleecy stuff in the wire nest, the birds scolded and pulled it out. Finally she scattered it In tufts about the room, whereupon they helped tnemselves to It, and made, she said,, a nest for all tho world just like her own creation. But again, human eyes evidently lack a few qual ities possessed by the lower orders of iife ■' r•• • * - A man who made pets of his fowls says that every spring he and the old rooster mako the nests for the hens. He puts in the hay, hollows It out carefully, and as he rises thinking his task complete, In walks the rooster, and, after turning and treading and arranging matters to his liking, steps out with the air of a judge, and says, "That'll do—that'll do—that'll do."— New York Tribune. A f-uggentlon to the Itmudiimlter. The old method of making bread al ways demanded that the bread be set to rise over night and then be kneaded twice in the morning besides the thor ough kneading at night. Quick-pro cess bread is fully as good and should be made as follows: Mix together equal portions of luke-warm sweet milk and luke-warm water and for each pint of this mixture add one compressed yeast cake dissolved in three tablespoons of cold water. Add also a teaspoonful of salt. Add flour, stirring in in with a spoon until a stiff dough is formed. This dough should bo so stiff as to be turned from tho mixing howl in a mass. Now knead this, adding more flour until tho dough sticks neither to the board nor to the fingers. Grease a large earthen bowl, put into It the dough, brushing it over with melted butter to prevent a crust forming. The temperature is the main thing now. The bread should be left to rise for three hours in a temperature of 75 deg. —the end of that time form the bread into loaves, put into greased pans and set it to rise for another hour at the same temperature. Then bake. This makes two loaves of bread.—Now York Sun. 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