Lost Hair
" My hair came out by the hand
ful, and the gray hairs began to
creep In. I tried Ayer's Hair Vigor,
and it stopped the hair from com
-1 ing out and restored the color."—
Mf Mrs. M. D.Gray, No. Salem, Mass.
There's a pleasure in
offering such a prepara
tion as Ayer's Hair Vigor.
It gives to all who use it
such satisfaction. The
hair becomes thicker,
longer, softer, and more
glossy. And you feel so
secure in using such an
old and reliable prepara
tion. (1.09 a bottle. All drngtfst a.
If your drupffist cannot supply you,
Bend us one dollar aud we will express
• {1 you a bottle. Be sure and civo the nanio
of your nearest express office. Address,
J. C. AYEK CO., Lowell, Mass.
Jj
w The Home of the Kindergarten.
The Japanese have the most perfect
kindergarten system in the world. In
fact, they originated this method of
Instructing by entertainment instead
of by punishment inflicted. Their
play aparatus for such purpose Is ela
borate, but all of it Is adapted to the
infant mind, which it is designed at
once to amuse and to inform. The
little ones of Japan even become some
what Interested In mathematics by
seeing and feeling what a pretty
thing a cone, a sphere or a cylinder
Is when cut out of wood with a lathe.
They make outlines of solid figures
out of straw, with green peas to hold
the joints together, and for the in
struction of the blind flat blocks are
provided, with the Japanese charac
ters raised upon them.
Tea Output to be Reduced.
' L At the annual meeting of the Cey
% lon Tea Planters' Association it was
resolved to take steps to effect a
combination with the Indian planters
to restrict the output, says a Colum
bo correspondent. If the owners of
80 per cent of the tea acreage in In
dia and Ceylon join in the movement
a reduction of 10 per cent will be
made in the output, or an equivalent
amount of green tea be manufactured.
On no other basis, it was considered,
can the present unprofitable condition
of the tea trade be remedied, its
growth in Ceylon having been so
rapid as to overtake the demand. It
was estimated that this year the ship
ments to London would be 9,000,000
pounds less than those of last year.
THE SURGEON'S KNIFE
llrs. Eckis Stevenson of Salt
♦ Lake City Tells How Opera
tions For Ovarian Troubles
May Be Avoided.
"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM: —I suffered
with inflammation of the ovaries and
womb for over six years,enduring aches
and pains which none can drea m of but
' those who have had the same expe-
MRS. ECKIS STEVENSON,
rience. Hundreds of dollars went to the
doctor and the druggist. I was simply
a walking medicine chest and a phys
ical wreck. My sister residing in Ohio
wrote me that she had been cured of
womb trouble by using Lj'dia E.
Pinkli mil's Vegetable Com
pound, and advised me to try it. I
then discontinued all other medicines
and gave your Vegetable Compound a
thorough trial. Within four weeks
nearly all pain had left me; I rarely
had headaches, anil m v nerves were in
a much better condition, and 1 was
cured in three months, and this avoided
a terrible surgical operation."- — MRS.
' ECHIS STEVENSON. 250 So. State St.,
Salt Lake City, Utah.— {SooO forfait If
above testimonial Is not genuine.
Remember every woman is
cordially invited to write to Mrs.
Pilikham if there is anything
- % about lier symptoms she does not
Understand. Mrs. Pinkliam's
address is Lynn, Mass.
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S Tko Doctor—"Ono layer of paper is bad enough 1 W
jv you havo thro® here. Baby u-ay recover, but A
( " cannot thrive."
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A porarv. rot, rnb off and scule. ALABASTINE in a
# pure, permanent ond artistic wall rontiur. ready W
\ for the brush by mislntr in ooldl wator. Fcr sale A
W by paint dealerc everywhere. Buy in package# T
j and bo ware of worthless Imitations.
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fIENSION^a'S
Syia lu civil war. 15 adjudlcatlinc claims, atty sluca
DIFFICULTY WITH VERBS.
Troubles That Children Havo In Learn
ing to Talk.
It has been truthfully said that chil
dren learn more during their first six
years of life than during the eight
years spent in the ward schools. Dur
ing this period the child shows remark
able precocity in lenrning the mother
tongue, aud appears to learn two lan
guages as easily as one. He will learn
a foreign language, if thrown among
foreigners, better during these first six
years, than he can in a complete course
in school. This is proved by the thou
sands of six-year olds in this city who
speak good English, while their par
ents cannot speak English at all.
The strenuous effort of these little
ones to acquire a medium for the ex
pression of their quaint ideas, as well
as their own desire to speak correctly,
was shown the other day in a conver
sation between a little student and her
mamma. The child had experienced
much difficulty in mastering the vari
ous forms of the verb "to be," and had
been corrected times without number
by the mother, who believes that the
time to teach correct English is during
the first stages of progress. The child
persisted in mixing her "ams," "weres"
aud "beeus" to an alarming degree,
and had been corrected, until the
mother had lost all patience, and at
last told the child that in the future
she would not answer questions not
prrfperly framed, thinking this plan
would make the child more careful lu
the selection of words.
The other day the mother was sitting
crocheting a jacket for the baby, and
Lucille stood near, wondering what her
mamma was doing. Finally her curios
ity became so strong that she said:
"Mamma, what is that going to be?"
The mother, busy counting stitches,
failed to hear the question, and con
tinued her count without answering.
The child, thinking she had not an
swered because she had made another
horrible blunder, thought a while and
st last said:
"Mamma, what is that going to arc?"
This the mother heard, and simul
taneously recalled the first question of
the child. Wondering what would
come next, she maintained silence, and
the little one stood in perplexity, first
on one foot, then on the other. After
some weighty thinking, she said:
"Mamma, what are that going to is?"
No answer, and another period of
silence, then:
"Mamma, what am that going to
were?"
Still no answer, and tears filled the
blue eyes, aud the red lips became
pursed with perplexity. The eyes
'filled and ran over, and still the mother
sat unmoved, with a mischievous smile
lurking in her eyes, waiting for further
results, aud determined to make up
for all of this anguish by a bountiful
supply of hugs and kisses.
In one supreme effort, as thougli real
izing that this was lier last chance,
Lucille burst into a mighty sob, anil
breaking the bonds of self-restraint
with which she had bound herself,
screamed out:
"Mamma! What was that a'goin'
to was?"— Milwaukee Sentinel.
A Moonlit Garden.
The following bit of description Is
from "Confessions of a Wife," by
"Mary Adams," a new novel dealing
with marriage, in the Century. It is
a young woman who is speaking, and
Job is her dog:
"For Job and I went out into the
garden, and the world was as white as
death, and as warm as life, and we
plungeu into the night as if we
plunged into a bath of warmth and
whiteness—and 1 ran faster than Job.
The yellow June liilies are out, and
the purple fleurs-de-lis; the white
climber is in blossom on the tree-house,
and the other roses—oh, the roses!
There was such a scent of everything
in one—a lil.v-honey-iris-rose perfume—
that I felt drowned in it, as if I had
one flower trying to hecomc another,
or doomed to become others still. It
was as quiet as paradise. I ran up the
steps to Ararat, and Job stayed be
low to paw a toad. The little white
rose followed me all over the lattice,
and seemed to creep after me; it has a
golden heart, and such a scene as I
cannot'describe; it is the kind of sweet
ness that makes you not want to talk
about it. The electric light in the
street was our, for this suburb, being
of an economical turn of mind, never
competes with the moon. There was
moon enough—oh, there was enough,
I think, for the whole world! For,
when that happened which did happen,
it seemed to 1110 as if the whole world
were looking at me."
Old American Bottles.
In early American glassware the his
tory of our national art progress has
been written. Choice and precious
indeed are the crude blue-green and
brown amber bottles made early in
the nineteenth century—the portrait
bottles bearing busts of Washington,
Franklin, Lafayette, De Witt Clinton,
Zacliary Taylor, Kossuth and Jenny
Lind. Local decorative subjects on
many lines of idea were treated by the
first American bottle-makers; and the
most exquisite Venetian bottle cannot
outrank in value, to a patriotic Am
erican collector, the primitive old
flasks ornamented with Indians, Ma
sonic emblems, the eagle, stars, flags,
log cabins, cannon and steamships, or
such outdoor themes as the seasons,
birds, fruits, trees, sheaves of wheat,
tlie fisherman, deer, the gunner and
his hounds, and the first bicycle. The
earliest American railway, with a car
drawn by a horse, is historically cele
brated on a glass flask, as well as the
bold Dike's Peak pilgrim, with his
staff aud bundle.—The Century.
The gold fields in Western Australia,
covering 321,000 square miles, are the
largest in the world.
OIL WELLS OF JAPAN.
Modern Methods of Drilling Have De
veloped Petroleum Industry.
Mr. Rentiers, of the British Consu
late service in Japan, has submitted
to the British Board of Trade a re
port on the petroleum industry, which
has of late attracted much attention
and reached considerable dimensions
in that country. The only place in
which the oil is produced in large
quantities is in the province of Ech
igo, on the west coast, the center of
the industry being the town of Ar
nase, where the largest oil company
in the country has been at work since
1888 with machinery imported from
the United States. Here wells are
dug in the sea and carried above the
sea level by a double ring of piles
filled in with earth. In the north
ern part of the province oil was dis
covered in 1889 and led to a fever of
speculation. In 1892 there were be
tween COO and 700 speculative com
panies with small capital at work in
Echigo, nnd most of them failed. On
their ruins arose large companies
working on a great scale and with
imported machinery. Hand boring
has almost ceased to exist, and with
improvement in methods of winning
the oil came improvement in the
transport of the oil to the refineries.
Pipe lines were introduced to convey
it from the wells to the refineries
and from the latter to the railway
stations, and it has been proposed
to construct a pipe line all the way
to Tokio, the capital, about two hun
dred miles away. In 1899 the total
production of the oil in Japan was
18,833,915 gallons, of which 18,713,-
230 gallons were produced in Ech
igo.
A Historic Punch Bowl.
The most revered piece of silver
plate In the United States navy is
the massive 18-pound silver punch
bowl of the battleship Indiana, which
bears the honorable scars of an his
toric battle. During that famous
blockade and naval battle before San
tiago de Cuba this rich piece of table
ware was struck by a fragment of a
mortar shell fired from the Soeapg
battery, and which burst in the ward
room passage of the battleship. A
five-pound bit of the shell struck the
bowl on one of the stoutest parts of
the body, yet where the seal of the
State of Indiana forms the central
portion of a beautiful decoration. The
seal is still there, but not as the art
ist designed it, for it now forms a
part of a large, irregular indentat
tiou, which, in the estimation of the
officers and men of the battleship,
enhances the value of the bowl a
thousand times over.
Portugal Halts Civilization.
The Portuguese sits at his cafe at
the coast of his East African posses
sion and collects custom dues and
sells stamped paper. For fear of the
native he dares not march five miles
beyond his seaport town, and the
white man who ventures inland for
the purposes of trade, or to culti
vate plantations, does so at his own
risk, as he can be promised no pro
tection. The land back of Mozambi
que is divided into "holdings," and
the rent of each holding is based upon
the number of native huts it contains,
ihe tax per hut is so.oo a year, and
those holdings are leased to any
Portuguese who promises to pay the
combined taxes of all the huts. Ho
also engages to cut new roads, to
keep those already made in repair
and to furnish a sufficient number of
police to maintain order.
All Newspapers Talk Weather.
There are over 2,000 daily papers in
the United States, and each one of
these prints in a conspicuous place
the dally weather predictions. Did
it ever occur to you that there is no
other information that receives pub
lication and attention by readers each
day of the year in every daily paper
of the country? There arc 47 tri
weekly papers in the United States,
434 semi-weekly, and 14,734 weekly
publications, the greater number of
which publish the weekly weather
crop bulletins of the bureau for their
respective States.
St. Louis has nearly $17,000,000 in
bank or In sight for Exposition pur
ples. and has reason to expect a great
deal more.
rTt\e-yi\tific production Ifs fxc&ll&rvcc- S
of a laxative of known value and distinctive !s d " e to the originality and simplicity of the K
action is rapidly growing in public favor, along combination and also to the method of manu- ' ig|
with the many other material improvements of facture, which .s known to the California big Hgfe
the age. The many ' Syrup Co. only, and wh.ch ensures that per- -•
° feet purity and uniformity of product essential
7.vt ' , • / 1 to the ideal home laxative. In order to get £sß?*
m who art- wcrll informed . m
must understand quite clearly, that in order V* JD L.L *- i^Mv
to meet the above conditions a laxative ® b ° ldd always buy the genuine and note the full name jjjffjfij
be wholly free from every objectionable quality q . Company-California Fi Sv rup Co.- It ;
or substance, with its component parts simple . J, . 5 . f- Swvt
and wholesome and it should act pleasantly P r,ntcd ° n tlle fr f on of ev "Y P acka S e " In , the M
and gentlv without disturbing the natural process of manufacturing figs are used as they
functions in any way. The laxative which arc P leasant to the taste ' but thc m^cnal
r \n\ * c *1 iu- ni virtues or Syrup of I- igs arc obtained from an iMiSvT
fu is mos per cc y q • > excellent combination of plants known to be
est egiee, is _ medicinally laxative and to act most beneficially. s|||';
Syrup of Fids a j— r. . /1;
The sale I nsilli L of fa 1 (ALIFORKIA |"W if
many years past, and the universal satisfaction ftjjfjC jj
which it has given confirm the claim we make, S&r\ FrfiUXCi-SCO CaJ. 'x
that it possesses the qualities which commend LoubvilU.Kv. H*W York.N.Y ®
it to public favor. '
for 3*le by &11 —• Price fifty cents per bottle.
HEADACHE, BACKACHE, DIZZINESS
(PE-RU-NA CURES PELVIC CATARRH.)
C==3
Mrs. Anna Martin, 47 Hoyb street,
Brooklyn, N. Y., writes:
" PH'UMO did so much for me that I
feci it my duty to recommend it to
others who may be stmt tart y afflict
ed. About a■ year ago my health, was
completely broken itown, had back
ache, dizziness and irregularities,
and life seemed aark indeed. We
had used Peruna in our home as a
tonic and for colds and catarrh and
1 decided to try It for my trouble. In
less than three months 1 became reg
ular, my pains had entirely disap
peared, and I am now perjectly
well."—Mrs, Anna Martin.
Miss Marie Johnson, 11 Columbia, East.
Detroit, Mich., is Worthy Vice Templar
in Hope Lodge No. 0, Independent Order
Good Templars. Miss Johnson, as so many
other women also have done, found in Pe
runa a specific for a severe case of female
weakness. She writes:
"I want to do what I can to let the
whole world know what a grand medicine
Peruna is. For eleven years I suffered
with female troubles and complications
arising therefrom. Doctors failed to cure
me, and I despaired of being helped. Pe
runa cured me in three short months. I
can hardly believe it myself, but it is a
blessed fact. I am perfectly well now, and
have not* had an ache or pain for months.
I want my suffering sisters to know what
Peruna has done for me."—Miss Marie
Johnson.
Miss Ruth Emerson, 72 Sycamore st.,
Buffalo, N. Y., writes: "I suffered for two
years with irregulnr and painful menstrua
tion, and Peruna cured me within six
weeks. I cannot tell you how grateful 1
feel. Any ugency whicn brings health and
strength to the afflicted is always a wel
come friend, and to-day the market is so
Frog Farming.
After laughing at the French peo
ple for their frog-eating proclivity,
the United States is doing very well
in that line, for the Food Commission
estimates that wo catch in this coun
try about 2,000,000 frogs. These frogs,
which have been hopping for years
more and more into gastronomic fa
vor, are sought for in all parts of the
country, furnishing a paying indus
try, not only for the hunters of them
in their natural haunts, hut for scores
of persons who have frog farms and
raise them as they might raise chick
ens. To these persons the frogs
mean an annual investment of SIOO,-
000, according to the report of the
commission, and that means $150,-
000 to the consumers.
The British Postal Department, iu
conjunction with the Belgium Gov
ernment, are having made a telephone
cable to connect the two countries
under the North sea.
Aik Yonr Dealer For Allen's Foot-Ease,
A powder. It rests the feet. Cures Corns.
Bunions, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching,
Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's
Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. At
all Druggists and Shoo stores, 25 cents. Ac
cent no substitute. Sample mailed FBBK.
An dress Allen S. Olmsted, Leltoy, N. Y.
In the Grand Canyon of Colorado a
man's voice has been heard a distance of
eighteen miles.
FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerveltestorer.f2trial bottle and treatisefroe
Dr. 11.11. KLINE, Ltd., 981 Arch St., Pbila.,Pa
One miner is killed for every 1,060,000
tons of coal raised.
Mrs.Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
| teething, soften the gums, redueesinflamma
tion,allays pain,cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle
j It is one thing to count the cost, and
quite another thing to pay it.
Piso's Cure cannot bo too highly spoken of
as a cough cure.—J. W. O'BIUKN. 822 Third
Avenue, N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jau. 6,1900
When a fellow is a bad egg don't try to
beat him.
filled with useless anil injurious medicines
that it is a pleasure to know ot so reliable
a remedy as you place before the public."
—Miss Ruth Emerson.
It is no longer a question as to whether
Peruna can lie relied on to cure all such
cases. During the many years in which
Peruna has been put to test in all forms
and stages of acute and chronic catarrh
no one year has put this remedy to great
er test than the past year.
Peruna is the acknowledged catarrh rem
edy of the age. Dr. Hartman, the com
pounder of Peruna, has written a book on
the phases of catarrh peculiar to women,
entitled, "Health and Beauty." It will he
sent free to any address by The Peruna
Medicine Co., Columbus, O.
If you do not derive prompt and satis
• factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case and he will be
pleaded to give you his valuable advice
gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President of The
• Hartman Sanitarium. Columbus. O.
Guests Pass With Glaciers.
Hotelkeepers in the Alps have a
new trouble and are complaining at
the loss of patrons, who are moving
away from the glaciers. Yes, the at
tractive glaciers are actually passing
from the landscape, and as they re
cede the hotels along their borders
find that their registers are shorten- I
ing. These glaciers are not running
away, by any means, but they are de- ,
teriorating slowly, with a persistency j
that means their final annihilation. ■
Hotels that a few years ago stood I
very near to a great river of slowly i
moving ice now find themselves a
considerable distance away, and the i
attractiveness of the site is lessened.
Laid Up for Sixteen Weeks.
St. Jacobs Oil and Vogeler's Cur
ative Compound Cured Him. |
11 1 have been a great sufferer from Rheu
matism for many years. I was laid up with
Rheumatic Fever for nine weeks in 1594, and
again for sixteen (16) weeks in 1896. I tried
many medicines I saw advertised and others
I was recommended; finally I was induced
to take Vogeler's Curative Compound, which
did me more good than all other medicines, j
In fact, I feel quite a different man since I
have been taking the Compound. All my !
neighbors and friends are quite surprised to
see me about and looking so well. 1 can !
only say that Vogeler's Curative Compound
taken internally and by using St. Jacobs Oil
outwardly acted like magic in my case. I I
had been taking medicines for years without
obtaining benefit, but Vogeler's has practi- J
cally cured me. I have recommended Vog- 1
eler's Curative Compound to a lot of my
acquaintances, and they tell me that it has
worked wonders.
44 Wishing you every success in the sale of
your Vogeler's Curative Compound and St.
Jacobs Oil, I remain, gentlemen,
44 Your obedient servant,
44 GEORGE CLARKE, Gardener,
44 23 Becchcroft Road, Surrey." j
j Send to St. Jacobs Oil, Ltd., Baltimore, for !
a free sample of Vogeler's Compound- |
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CUTICURA SOAP, to cleanse the skla
of crusts and scales and soften the thick
ened cuticle, CUTICURA OINTMENT,
to instantly allay itching, inflamma
tion, and irritation, and soothe and heal,
and CUTICURA RESOLVENT PILLS,
to cool and cleanse the blood. A SINGLE
SET of these great skin curatives is
often sufficient to cure the most tortur
ing, disfiguring, itching, burning, bleed
ing, crusted, scaly, and pimply skin,
scalp, and blood humours, with loss ol
hair, when all else fails.
Millions of People
USE CUTICURA BOAP, assisted by CUTICURA
' OINTMENT, for preserving, purifying, and
beautifying the skin, for cleansing the scalp
of crusts, scales, and dandruff, and the stop
ping of falling hair, for softening, whitening,
and soothing red, rough, and soro hands, for
baby rashes, Itching*, and dialings, and for
all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nurs
ery. Millions of Women use CUTICURA .SOAP
In tho form of baths for annoying irritations,
inflammations, and excoriations, or too free
or offensive porsplrntion, In the form of
washes for ulcerative weaknesses, and for
many sanative, antiseptic purposes which
readily suggest themselves to women.
CUTICURA RESOLVENT PILLS (Chocolate
Coated) aro a now, tasteless, odorless, eco
nomical substitute for the celebrated liquid
CUTIOURA RESOLVENT, as well as for all other
blood purifiers and humour cures. In screw
nap vials, containing CO doses, price 25c.
Sold throughout the world. SOAP, 25C., OucrifSrr,
50e , PII.LS. 2c. IJritl.h Depot i 27-2S, Charterhou** *□.,
London. French Do pot i A Hue de la Paix, Pari*. POT
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Beware of the dealer who tries to sell
"something jnst as good."
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Colorado Beats eWorld
IN SUCAR BEETS.
I Rlx Million Dollars have Just been invested in sugst
factories. Four Million more will be Invest dtn 8
> ''ar. i lie !>"-1 |nistt><| suinir m-n .t the world are
i miyiiur immense acreage for sugar beets. Colorado
i took first prizes at Chicago exhibit last month lor
highest tonnage per acre, and highest i errantage of
sugar, being over twice as much as some States. We
aro offering a few shares ol stock for side In The
| Colorado Sugar Mtr. Co. The first and only sugar
stock offered to ti.e public. The compute owns nm
of tho most modern and complete renninvr plants in
1 the world, situated In a district where the highest
; price IN paid for sugar in the Country. Local capital
ists hnvo subscribed Five Hundred and Kilty Thou
sutid Dollars in cash. This is au opportunity of a
lifetime. Factory is built and paid for. Fur full
I particulars write to
W.H. fKLDHH vV CO.,
2D llrondwuy, New York, or Lxrliuuge
lluililinji, Denver, Colo-
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