Hair Falls

"I tried Ayer's Hair Vigor to stop my hair from falling. Onehalf a bottle cured me." J. C. Baxter, Braidwood, Ill.

Ayer’s Hair Vigor is certainly the most economical preparation of its kind on the market. A little of it goes a long way. It doesn’t take much of it to stop falling of the hair, make the hair grow, and restore color to gray hair. $1.00 a bottle. All druggists.

If your druggist cannot supply you, send us one dollar and we will express you a bottle. Be sure and give the name of your nearest express office. Address, J.C. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass.

Corn removes from the soil large quantities of Potash. The fertilizer applied, must furnish enough Potash, or the land will lose its producing power. Read carefully our books on crops--sent free. German Kali Works, 93 Nassau St., New York. Sold by 63 DOUGLAS stores direct to wearer at one profit; also by the best shoe dealers everywhere. BEST IN THE WORLD $3.00 W.L. DOUGLAS SHOES UNION MADE $3.50 Notice increase of sales on table below. Business More Than Doubles in Four Years.

THE REASONS: W.L. Douglas makes and sells ore men's $3.00 and $3.50 shoes than any other two manufacturers in the world. W.L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50 shoes placed side by side with $5.00 and $6.00 shoes of other makes, are found to be just as good. They will outwear two pairs of ordinary $3.00 and $3.50 shoes. Made of the best leathers, including Patent Corona Kid, Corona Colt, and National Kangaroo. Fast Color Eyelets and always Black Necks Used. W.L. Douglas $4.00 "Gilt Edge Line" cannot be equaled at any price. Shoes by mall 25c extra. Catalog free. W.L. Douglas Brockton Mass.

TIRE TIPS The life of a tire, ease of repair and its lasting qualities determine its worth G & J Tires are made from the best quality of rubber. They are light enough to be resilient, strong enough to be durable, and easy riding, which inspires comfort and safety. Catalogue at our Agent's or by mail. G & J TIRE COMPANY

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Wills Pills Are You Sick? Send your name and P.O. address to The R.B. Wills Medicine Co., Hagerstown Md.

Advertise in this paper. IT PAYS.

His Delicate Proposal Glasy (on Christmas morning)--What a dear little clock! Who gave you that? Marjorie—George, of course. Gladys—Is it going? Marjorie--Oh no; George wishes me to understand that I may set my own time

Each package of Putnam Fadeless Dye colors more goods than any other dye and colors them better too. Sold by all druggists.

The trouble with most men who once

do good deeds is that they waste the rest of their lives admiring them.

Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed consition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh), that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Circulars sent free. F.J. Cheney * Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. "This is uncalled for," remarked the facetious postmaster, as he but the letter in the unclaimed box. Beat For the Bowels. No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. Cascarets help nature cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the genuine put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C.C.C. stamped on It. Beware of Imitations. A man might be said to have reached a ripe old age when he begins to fall off. Ring Worm Routed "Send box of Tetterine. It's the only thing that makes any impression on a stubborn Ring Worm."--Mrs. Katie Oldham, Montalba Anderson County, Texas. 50c. by mail from J.T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga. if your druggist don't keep it.

FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free, Dr. R.H. Kline, Ltd. 931 Arch St., Phila, Pa.

Mrs. Winsole's Soothing Syrup for children teething, soften the gums, reduces inflammation alleys pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. The chap who built obelisks must have been paid by the column.

I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.--John F. Boyes, Trinity Springs, Ind. Feb. 15, 1900. When a tramp asks for a meal he makes

a sort of after-dinner speech.

SOZODONT A PERFECT LIQUID DENTIFRICE FOR THE TEETH AND BREATH 25c EACH SOZODONT TOOTH POWDER HALL & RUCKEL, NEW YORK

Gold Medal at Buffalo Exposition McILHENNY'S TOBASCO

If afflicted with weak eyes, use THOMPSON'S EYE WATER.

Absolved the Surgeon. A client recently asked Thomas B. Reed whether a jury could be relied upon to pronounce accurately as to the

intentions of a man accused of a crime. Said Mr. Reed: "When I was a young man studying law I was one day asked to give an illustration from Blackstone on the very point. I quoted the well-known incident wherein the law which prohibited the shedding of blood on the streets of London would not apply to the .act of a surgeon bleeding a man who had a fit. "The reply was satisfactory to the questioner, but a fellow-student, celebrated for keen, intelligent deceptions, put in his oar at once. "'The surgeon would be guiltless,’ he admitted. 'But how about the fellow with the fit?”’ His Taste Uncertain "Pooh," said Daisy! scornfully, "the idea of your being afraid of a poor old house-dog! Why, he eats out of my hand. “I don’t doubt it,” replied Burroughs, dubiously, "but what I am afraid of is that he might take a notion to eat out of my leg."

Ordinary Tears. Old Gentleman--Why do you shed such bitter tears, my boy? Boston Child (pausing in his grief)Really, I cannot conceive that my tears differ as to their brackish quality from other larchrymose emissions. I have never heard of saccharine tears.

ST. JACOBS OIL THE ONLY CURE FOR RHEUMATISM AND ALL ACHES AND PAINS. 25c and 35c Sizes.

all the modern conveniences. All of the necessities of life are given him and many of the luvurles. All of this without money and without price or tne contribution of a single effort of

his own or of his people.

“Here he remains until his education is finished, when he is returned to his home—which by contrast must seem

nd le

INDIAN SCHOOLS FAIL STARTLING CONCLUSION REACHED BY COMMISSIONER JONES.

About $45,000,000 Spent on 30,000 Pupils--translated from Feverly to Affluence and Back Again to Poverty and Most of Them Lapse Into Barbarism. The present system of education for the Indian, taken as a whole, says Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones is practically a failure or at least is not calculated to produce the results

so earnestly claimed for it and so hopefully

anticipated when it was begun. He has not doubt his conclusion will be received with some surprises, but a brief review of results, he thinks will

convince the moat skeptical that it is

correct.

"There are now in operation," he

says. “113 boarding schools for the

Indians with an average attendance of

something over 16,000 pupils, ranging

from 5 to 21 years of age. These

pupils were gathered from the cabin,

lar merit of their own, not by rt

pupils were gathered from t the wickiup and the tepee chosen not on account of am' p

of mental fitness, but solely because tuey had Indian blood In tbelr veins, lie Indian youth finds himself at i. aa If by magic, translated from

Ing are glvi vlded to Ini

Books and all the accessories of learn-

en him and teachers proInstruct him. Matrons wait

bile he Is wel

clans and nurses attend is sick. A steam laundry does his washing, end the latest modern appU-

s cooking. A 1 relaxation for 1

squalid Indeed—and left to make his

tany is it surprising if he lapses into barbarism? Not having earned his edu-

valued. It is looked upon aa a right and not as a privilege; It ia accepted as a favor to the government and not to the recipient; and the almost inevitable tendency Is to encourage depen: dence. foster pride and create a spirit of arrogance and selflshneaa. "It is not denied that some good flows from this system. It would be singular if there did not, after all effort that has been maoe and money that has been lavished. In the last 20 years fully *16,000,000 have been spent by the government alone for the education of Indian pupils, and it la a liberal estimate to put the number of

It the present rate is continued another 20 years It will take over $70.-

000,000 more.

"What, then, shall be done? And this inquiry brings into prominence at once the whole Indian questli

it! on. It Stance at

Ing a v fare of

gen-

eration the government haa been tak-

vrry active interest In the welof the Indian. In that time has been located on reservations i

fed and clothed; he has been supplied lavishly with utensils and means to earn his living, with materials for bis dwelling and articles to furnish it; bis children have been educated and money has been paid him; fanners and.me-.

' - and

be hi differ

him, and Utode of

rerent ways. In the last S3 years

over $210,000,000 have been a pent upon an Indian population not exceeding 1 £0,000, enough, if equitably divided, to build each one a bouse suitable to

his condition and furnish It *

land and bull

throughUd him a

barn; to buy him a wagon and team

out; to fence h

and harness; to furnish him plows and the other implements necessary to cultivate the ground, and to give him something beat das to embellish and beautify his home. "What la his condition today? He Is still on his-reservation; be la still

•till

educated and money la still being paid

the

government

i ia stiu lent for i

dependent upon 1

wait ou him and farmers still aid him; he is Utile, If any, nearer the goal ot Independence than ha was to y and if the present policy la c he will get little, If any. a years to come. It la i this, aa ui

haa 1

tern, there haa bt but It baa not been

the money spsat "It ia Uavto terminating the

has so long been exercised over the Indians and putting them upon aa equal toot las with the white maa ao far as their reUUoae with the aoverameat

■ought to r and the

ic dignity of

Importance of building and maintain-

ing a home. He must u the more useful he ia t useful he will be to society,

be must find the Incentive to work, and

ipllfting of

understand that

more useful he ia there, the more

It la

NATURAL FASHIONS IN FEATHERS.

Change, ofCosinm* I

ark It Ird U

perl

that this regular change of cost' an important process in the life bird Itself, find determines, or termlned by. certain natural, i . whli

important periods in the life history

f tin

inct winter or autumnal suit.

idlng

a distil

and a nuptial, summer or breeding costume, separated by post-nuptial and pre-nuptial moults, while young birds

In Bird Llf*.

The Importance of moulting in bli

emii to th

is E

big n porta tself. ted b lysiol

tant latt

inct , nui DC. SC iptial rom I

Juvenal or first winter

ill-marked post-natal or postjuvenal moult The moults occur at' regular periods, and the appearncc of a bird before a certain day In the spring with a summer costune ia as irregular as a straw hat in March or an Easter costume on St Patrick's day. Here le the diary of a typical dresser, the common term, which Dr. J. Wright has recently published: 1. The Natal Down—Thl» covers the chicks thickly, and Is yellowish, with

tling

dusky area cn the chin and sides of

iportance of moulting in birds,

In determining the value of their plu-

iwd; own ne is t the

de-

lonal nark itory suit, ding

and

birds

my or natal plumage

'enal or first winter dross by

the

illector. Is well known;

rhape so well ki ■ change of costui ocess in the life o: determines, or 1«

•tain natural, seasonal

end physiological changes, which mark

tnt periods in the life bli latter. Most adult birds

er or autumnal summer or brec ed by post-nuptial

-nuptial moults, while young l pass from the downy or natal plui

to the

black tpsts c

above and a

tne throat.

2. The Juvenal Plumage—This Is acquired by a complete post-natal moult shortly after leaving the egg? Dusky arklngs and buff edgings are consplcms above the lower parts being a e. r brown, blending the top and back of the bead. The bill and feet are flesh-colored. 3. First Winter Suit—Thti suit Is gray. The forehead Is white, the occiput black. The hill and feet are

wholly black.

4. First Nuptial Costume—An en-

■ely new suit of i bill and feet coral red.

6. Second Winter Suit—Another entirely new suit, with the bill and feet again in black, and a number of minor

changes In feather markings.

6. Second Nuptial Costume—Preceded by a complete moult; consists of a suit similar to the second winter coa-

but varied somewhat in stripes

tume, but and checks

QUAINT AND CURIOUS. A country postman in Belgium so overcome with grief and shame at missing the mail train that he went fro: eat water i

drowned himself.

England holds the record for the longest railway run without a atop This Is Paddingtln to Exeter—191 miles. France cornea next, with Paris to Calais—186 1-2 miles. America'!

The skin of the muskox, which is a denizen of the "Barren Grounds” and the Arctic region of Canada, has taker the place of that of the extinct buffalc for sleigh robes. It varies In price from *60 to aa low .as *5 for a pool article. A strange sight was witnessed al Bologna recently. A bellringer i

bell

church waa struck b thrown violently t

trough the window

of the tower on to the roof, some 51 feet below. He escaped with nothin*

more than a shock.

There are altogether In •even cities, 13 towns, 62 ruined cit lea, 143 villages, 16 abandoned settle ments and 338 haciendas. Scarcely any of these places has as many au 10,000 inhabitant*, the population ol the great majority falling below 1000 A pet crow, when confined to a cage used to spend hours coasting down t small Inclined plank, using the top o: a mustard can for a sled. He wouU carry the sled up to the top of th* plank, step Into it and slide to th*

the greates

glee.

The average load of freight train* la 260 tons. The coat of handlln* freight averages three mills per tor par mile. There are about d.OOO.OOt freight trains per year. Freight man agers want to increase the freight lost *0 tons per train, and by ao doing fig are oat an increase of *44.000.000 pei

again and again with t

• *Bt*o 'ite Wl. ant

$2000.00 PER DAY GIVEN AWAY! VALUABLE INFORMATION '-» ____ u'litnby tm 0aX Tr * mlam Jimumry t, »»•*, | EXTENDED FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR OF IMzl ' ■ • • (ex—ft Wrm—xt Bo. xapl | PRESENTS WILL BE 01VEN FOR TA0S~1

iat’Srex&e o? otuftSS—c* I9 ° M ’ ***** 4 g, l Rqnolfo' 8 oi., Strartenj, 8, J. B., Scluitppt, 6oldtn Cron, Beycoliis’ Sun Cured, Both t Bn.'i Mjgjjj, Spectled Beauty, Applt diet,-. Mm't Pride, Earij Bird, P, B. Hum ft (Mmural Letf.Citta and 9. M, T. To Mpprechte our offer, these loots should be conslderod i That we aie giving $2000.00 per day for toga, to Ox the memory of chewcrs on oar trade marka placed on tobaccos, to identify oar beet efforts to pleaee chewere, and prevent them from being deceived by Imitators. Full descriptions of Preaenta offered for opx , . . tags will be famished upon request to R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO., WINSTOlSUfll, L 0.

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Kallf Isas Pletarce, rich 1 Cloth baand Kovel, read 1

nd Kovels read Overywherai

as for dally nooN

err Cover* wo can predaeoi

SabaertptloB to "dw _ Pocket Match Salks, tbe booty at aooai Boa’s Neckties, varied ta doaisa•aoacadore that are reetlly taa J Aad wood Stool Kaxare. hollow creaad. With Leather Kaxar Straps are fsaadt A Wedilac Bias, a Tarenoleo Bias. Ax Oyal Mac wtll pleeunrebrtas. A Garaot Bias far roach or waa. A Brewh-P!a made cn n so loot ataal A Bllror Bracelet fbr the wrloa, Aad Belt Bcakloe are In tko Hot 1

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