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 ing out and restored the color."— 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. Sl.eo a bottle. All druggist!. If your druggist cannot supply you, send us one dollar and wo will express you a bottle. Be sure and give tho name of your nearest express otbee. Address, J. C. A YEH CO., Lowell. MASS. II i i 11 HI mill i ■ifiiiniiini The Home of the Kindergarten. Tho 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 tho Infant ininfi, which it is designed at once to amuse and to inform. The little ones of Japan even become some what interested in mathematics by Beeing 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 tho blind fiat blocks are provided, With the Japanese charac ters raised upon them. Tea Output to be Reduced. At the annual meeting of the Cey i ion 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 he 9,000,000 pounds less than those of last year. THE SURGEON'S KNIFE Hrs. Eckis Stevenson of Salt A' Lake City Tells How Opera " tions For Ovarian Troubles May Bo Avoided. " Deati Mns. Pinkham: —l suffered with indammation of the ovaries and womb for over six years,enduring aches and pains which none can dream of but those who have had the same expe- MXB. ECKIS STEVENSON, rienoe. II undreds of dollars went to the doctor and the druggist. 1 was simply a walking medicine chest and a phys ical wreck. My sister residing in Ohio wrte me thnt she had been cured of womb trouble bv using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound, and advised me to try it. I then discontinued all other mcd icincs and gave your Vegetable Compound a thorough trial. Within four weeks nearly all pain had left me ; I rarely had headaches, and my nerves were in a much better condition, and I was cured in three months, and this avoided a terrible surgical operation." —Mas. Eckis Stevenson, 290 So. State St., Salt Lake City, Utah.— ssooo forfeit If Above testimonial Is not genuine. Remember every woman is cordiallv invited to write to 31 rs. Pinkham if there is anything \ about Iter symptoms she does not •understand. 3lrs. Pinkham s address is Lynn, 3lass. IThe Pocier—-"Ono layer of paper is bad enouahi # you hare three Hero. Baby may recover, but i ALABASTINE j IT WON'T HUB OFF. f Wall Paper Is unsanitary. Kelsomines are tain- W "JinT, r „b oil and scale. ALAHAHTINE is a \ nurelpe r mane nt and. artistic wall coatine. ready * for kiio brush by inisinir in oohl watar. tor sale by paint dealer# everywhere. Buy la package# and beware of worthies# Imitation#. ALABASTINE CO.. OnnC Rapid!, Mich. A .*%weewkkk%ve w.hoicmis, Is IIP Wa cut , e8 Cl' Ima yraiu cPvlrivar. 15 claim#, att j aluoa DIFFICULTY WITH VERBS. Troubles That Children Have In Learn ing to Talk. It has been truthfully uaid 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 learning the mother tongue, and 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 lie 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" and "beens" 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. properly framed, thinking this plan would make the child more careful in 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 are?" This the mother heard, and simul taneously recalled the first question of tile 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, and 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, and determined to make up for all of this anguish by a bountiful supply of hugs and kisses. In one supreme effort, as though real izing thnt this was her last chance, Lucille burst into a mighty sob, and 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 llllies 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 lily-honey-lris-rose perfume that I felt drowned In it, as if I had one flower trying to become 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 out, 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 thnt happened which did happen, it seemed to me as if the whole world were looking at me." Old American Hollies. In early American glassware the his tory of our national art progress lias 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. Zachary Taylor, Kossuth and Jenny Lind. Local decorative subjects ou 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, the 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 Fike's Teak pilgrim, with his staff and bundle.—The Century. The gold fields in Western Australia, covering 1)24,000 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 GOO and 700 speculative com panies with small capital at work in Echigo, and 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 do Cuba this rich piece of table ware was struck by a fragment of a mortar shell fired from the Socapa 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 tile 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 ion, 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 heyond his seaport town, and tho 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, x'he tax per hut is $6.00 a year, and these 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 dally papers in the United States, and each one of these prints in a conspicuous place the daily 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 are 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. I.ouis has nearly $17,000,000 in bank or in sight for Exposition pur poses, and has reason to expect a great deal more. jj|| production \\s 11 m Of a laxative of known value and distinctive is d " e t0 the originality and simplicity of the B | m action is rapidly growing in public favor, along comb.nat.on and also to the methodof manu- W,- • i . i. . • 1 • . facture, which is known to the California big thfjltr >£.•; with the many other material improvements or ' . , ~ , , JvM i a-e Syrup Co. only, and which ensures that per- bata, 1 C a^ C ' C feet purity and uniformity of product essential !srs , „ , it ■* to the ideal home laxative. In order to get 111 who Wfr w*fl informed _ . , if 1 must understand quite clearly, that in order JJWVfrf Klfcl £ff6(\& g| t0 meet above conditions ala .ative should always buy the genuine and note the full name fjr£*i Hg be wholly free from every objectionable quality of Com _ California Fig Syrup Co _ |||; jfj> or substance, with its componen par s simp e printed on the front of every package. In the |fj|lf sj|M and wholesome and it souc ac p process of manufacturing figs are used as they and g cntl y wlt h° ut: ls^, n in § e are pleasant to the taste, but the medicinal ffljsgm functions in any va y- c . axa ,v e . , virtues of Syrup of Figs are obtained from an isSE! I £§ fV n \ ost P er . fcctl y 1 e rec l ulrernen s excellent combination of plants known to be ®||p highest degree, is medicinally laxative and to act most beneficially. I 321.it, ■^UFORKIAji^HIIP^I I lli many years past, and the universal satisfaction I m which it has given confirm the claim we make, s arv FraU\C!SCO,(aJ. W that it possesses the qualities which commend LoAjisvil If.Ky. rtfrwYork.N.V i Jf<§ I frC "' drU ""^' S ' S 188 fdiy ce nts per bottle. HEADACHE, BACKACHE, DIZZINESS (PE=RU=NA CURES PELVIC CATARRH.) jj^ Mrs. Anna Martin, 47 Hoyt street, Brooklyn, N. Y., writes: *' Per una did HO much for me that I feci it my duty to recommend it to others who may be similarly a glid ed. About a year ago my health was completely broken itown, had back ache, dizziness and irregularities, and life seemed dark indeed. We had used Per una 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 I became reg ular, my pains had entirely disap peared, and I am now perfectly 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 HO 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. 1 can hardly believe it myself, but it is a blessed fact. I am perfectly well now, and have not had an acne 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 at., Buffalo, N. Y., writes: "I suffered for two years with irregular and painful menstrua tion, and Peruna cured me within six weeks. I cannot tell vou how grateful I feel. Any agency which 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 we 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, but 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, in conjunction with the Belgium Gov ernment, are having made a telephone cable to connect the two countries under the North sea. Ask Yonr Dealer For Allen's Foot-Rase, 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 ensy. At all Druggists and Shoo stores, 25 cents. Ac cept no substitute. Sample mailed FBKK. Audress Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy, 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 ornervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerveßestorer.l2trial bottle and treatisefreo Dr. 11. U. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Aroh St., Pliila.,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, roducesinflainma tion,allays pain.cures wind colic. '26 c. übottle It is one thing to count the cost, and quite another thing to pay it. Plso's Cure cannot bo too highly spoken of as a cough cure.—J. W. O'BRIEN, 322 Third Avenue, N., Minneapolis, Mian., Jan. G, 1900 When a fellow is a bad egg don't try to beat him. filled with useless and injurious medicines that it is a pleasure to know of so reliable a remedy as you place before the public." —Miss Ruth Emerson. It is no longer a question as to whether Peruna can be relied on to cure all such eases. 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 be 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 pleased 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 ing. These glaciers are not running away, by any means, but they are de teriorating slowly, with a persistency that means their final annihilation. Hotels that a few years ago stood very near to a great river of slowly moving ice now find themselves a considerable distance away, and the attractiveness of the site is lessened. Laid Up for Sixteen Weeks. St. Jacobs Oil and Vogeler's Cur ative Compound Cured Him. 44 I have been a great sufferer from Rheu matism for many years. I was laid up with Rheumatic Fever for nine weeks in 1894, and again for sixteen (16) weeks in 1596. 1 tried many medicines I saw advertised and others I was recojnmended; finally I was induced to take Vogeler's Curative Compound, which did me more good than all other medicines. 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 had been taking medicines for years without obtaining benefit, but Vogeler's has practi cally cured me. I have recommended Vog eler's Curative Compound to a lot of my acquaintances, and they tell rae that it has worked wonders. 41 Wishing you every success in the sale of your Vogeler's Curative Compound and St. Jacobs Oil, I remain, gentlemen, 44 Your obedient servant, "GEORGE CLARKE, Gardener, "23 Beechcroft Road, Surrey." Send to St. Jacobs Oil, Ltd., Baltimore, for a free sample of Vogeler's Compound- Ciflele litatent FOR EVERY Price SI.OO CUTICURA SOAP, to cleanse the skin 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 SIN OLE SET of these great skin curatives i 9 often sufficient to cure the most tortur ing, disfiguring, itching, burning, bleed ing, crusted, scaly, and pimply skin, scalp, and blood humours, with loss of j hair, when all else fails. Millions of People USE CUTICURA SOAP, assisted by CUTICURA 1 OINTMENT, for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, forclcanslng the scalp of crusts, scales, and dandruff, and the stop ping of falling hair, for softening, whitening, and soothing red, rough, and soro hand.-*, for baby rashes, Itchlngs, and chaflngs, and for All the purposes of tho 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 perspiration, In tho form of washes for ulcerative weakneescs, and for many sanatlvo, antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women. CUTICURA RWOLVKXT PILLS (Chocolate Coated) aro a new, tasteless, odorless, eco nomical substitute for the celebrated liquid CUTICURA RESOLVENT, as well as for all oilier blood purifiers and humour cures. In screw nap vials, containing GO doses, price 26c. Sold throughout the world. Boat, 25c., OintmSitt, flrtc.. Pii.ls. Ittc. British Depoti 27-2H, ( hurterhouie Sq., London. French Depoti 5 Hue de la Pel*. Parle. Pot- TBE Dkco A CIiCM. (JoHPf Sole Prop*., Boiton. U. 8. A MX* CANDY CATHARTIC All 25*. 50*. ■MLFCIAILITIIILLIILIIIILW DRA*FTU Genuine stamped CC C. Never sold in balk- Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "something just as good." SEND FOR OUR FREE CATALOGUE OF BASE B&M, BALL, FISHING TAC- J£D& KLE BICYCLES, KO DAKS, TENNIS, SEW ING MACHINES, BABY " CARRIAGES AND JFFLUSG SPRING AND SUMMER LOFLBV SPORTING GOODS. IT WILLSAVE YOU MONEY MB WE ACTUALLY SELL AT WHOLESALE PRICES FOR CASH. T A /M/ I / CHMELZER ARMS CO TACKLE • KANSAS CITY. MO. ■■■■dbMWHHWBHKHP Colorado Beats eWorld IN SUGAR BEETS. Six Million Dollars have Just been invented in sugat ! factories. Four Million more will be invest d ths year. Ihe best posted sugar men of the world are i buying immense acreage for sugar beets. Colorado I took first prizes at Chicago exhibit lust month tor highest tonnuge per acre, and highest i ereentage of ! sugar, being over twice as much as some States. We ■ are offering g lew shares ot stock tor sale in Th Colorado Sugar Mfr. Co. The first and only sugar stock offered to ti.e public. Tho coinjumj owns on i ! ol the most modern and complete refining plants in tho world, situated in a district where the highest j price is paid for sugar in the Country. Local capital ists have subscribed Five Hundred and Fiity Thou ; sand Dollars in cash. This is an opportunity of a i lifetime. Factory is built and paid lor. For full particulars write to WW. CKLDint iV CO., 20 llroadwnv, New York, or J'lxctiaiige iluilding, Denver, Colo. I\ N. U. 20, 02
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