Is Your
Hair Sick?
That's too bad ! We had no
ticed it was looking pretty
thin and faded of late, but
naturally did not like to speak
of it. By the way, Ayer's
Hair Vigor is. a regular hair
grower, a perfect hair re
storer. It keeps the scalp
clean and healthy.
"I am well acquainted with Arsr1 Heir
vlKor and I Ilka It very ranch. I would espe
cially recommend it as an excellent dressing
for toe hair, keeping it soft and smooth, and
preventing the hair from splitting at the
ends." MiBHia Fritz, Veedum, Mich.
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Hia Hani Luck. '
Brown Jigsmith is anything but
grateful to Dame Fortune.
Green How's that?
Brown He found a two-carat dia
mond in the gutter the other day, and
what do yon suppose he said?
Green Give it up. What did he say?
Brown "This is hard luck."
Marketing Potato Crops.
In line with the classic - case of tbe
oyster shippers, cited by President
Hadley of Yale university in his book
on Railroad Transportation, is the case
of the Aroostook potato growers brought
by President Tattle of the Boston &
Maine railroad before the senate com
mittee on interstate commerce. Noth
ing could better show how a railorad
works for the interest of the localities
which it serves.
A main dependence of the farmers of
the Aroostook region is the potato crop,
aggregating annually eight to ten mil
lion bushels which find a market large
ly in Boston and the adjacent thickly
settled regions of New England. The
competition of cheap water transporta
tion from Maine to all points alone the
New England coast keeps railroad
feright rates on these potatoes always
at a very low level.
Potatoes are also a considerable out
put of the truck farms ef Michigan,
their normal market being obtained in
and through Detroit and Chicago and
other communities of that region.
Not many years ago favoring sun and
rains 'brought a tremendous yield of
potatoes from the Michiagn fields. At
normal rates and prices there would
have been a glut of the customary
markets and the potatoes would have
rotted on the farms. To help the pota
to growers the railroads from Michigan
made unprecentedly low rates on pota
toes to every reachable market, even
carrying them in large quantities to a
place so remote as Boston. Tbe Aroos
took growers had to reduce the price on
their potatoes and even then could not
dispose of them unless the Boston &
Vaina i lsn A nJnA-J ; -1 J l
ajMA icuuum i to niroauy low
rate, which it did. By means of these
low rates, making possible low prices,
the potato crops of both Michigan and
Maine were finally marketed. Every
body eats potaotea, and that year every
body had all the potatoes he wanted.
While the Michigan railroads made
rates that would have been ruinous to
the railroads, had they been applied to
the movement of all potatoes at all
times, to all places, they helped their
patrons to find markets their. The
Boston & Maine railroad suffered a de
crease in its revenue from potatoes, but
it enabled the - Aroostook farmers to
market -their crop and thereby to obtain
money which they spent for the varied
supplies which the railroads brought to
them.' If tbe making of rates were
subject to governmental adjustment
such radical and prompt action could
never have been taken, because it is
well established that if a rate be once
reduced by a railroad company it can
not be restored through the red tape oi
governmental procedure. If the Mich
igan railroads and the Boston & Maine
railroad had been subjected to govern
mental limitation they would have felt
obliged to keep up their rates as do the
railroads of France and England and
Germany under governmental limita
tion and let the potatoes rot. Ex
change. .
Natural Deduction.
"You should stable your cows in wet
weatner, . remarked tne customer who
never overlooked an opportunity to regis
ter a kick. -
"How do you know but what I do?
queried the owner of the village dairy.
"Because your milk has a rain flavor,"
eipiainea tne party or the first part. -
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The Miller of tne See,
There was a jolly miller,
Lived on the River Dee;
He danced and sang from morn to night;
No lark so blithe as he. '
And this the burden of his song -
Forever used to be:
'I care for nobody; no, not I,
If nobody cares for me! ' .
Thee linftSL nn HnnKt anaotMrr1 thst
poem of Charles Mackay, here given:
There dwelt a miller, hale and bold,
Beside, the river Dee;
He worked and sang from morn till
night
No lark so hllthe 11 h!
And this the burden of his song
Forever used to be:
"I envy nobody no, not I,
. And nobody envies me!"
"Thou'rt wrong, my friend," said good
King Hal;
"As wrong as wrong can be;
For could my heart be light as thine,
I'd gladly -change with thee.
And tell me now, what makes thee sing,
. With voice so loud and free,
While I am sad, though I'm a king.
Beside the River Dee?" .
The miller smiled and doffed his cap;
"I earn my bread," quoth he;
"I love my wife, I love my friend,
I love my children three;
I owe no penny I cannot pay;
I thank the River Dee, -That
turns the mill that grinds the corn
That feeds my babes and me."
"Good friend," said Hal, and sighed the
while,
"Farewell, and happy be!
But say no more, if thou'dst be true,
That no one envies thee. '
Thy mealy cap is worth my crown;
Thy mill, my kingdom's fee;
Such men as thou are England's boast,
O miller of the Dee!"
Charles Mackay.
The Child's First Griei.
"Oh, call my brother back to met
I cannot play alone;
The summer comes with flower and
Where is my brother gone?
"The butterfly is glancing bright
. Across the sunbeam s track;
I care not now. to chase its flights
Oh, call my brother back!
"The flowers run wild the flowers we
sow'd
Around our garden tree;
Our vine Is drooping with its load
Oh, call him back to me!"
"He could not hear thy voice, fair child,
He mar not come ta Him-
The face that once like springtime smiled
un earth no more thou It see.
"A rose's brief bright life of joy,
Such nnto him was given;
Go thou must play alone, my boy!
xny brotner is in heaven!"
f
'And has he left his birds and flowers.
And must I call In vain?
And, through the long, long summer
Bours,
Will he not come again?
'And by the brook, and In the glade.
Art all our wanderinc n'arl
Oh, while my brother with-me play'd,
wouia 1 haa loved nim more!"
-Mrs. Hemans.
WILES OF THE HORSE TRADER.
Tricky A rts to Make Old One Young;
and Doctoring; and "Doping;."
Probably In no business are so many
tricks and wiles practiced as In that
of horse dealing. It la safe to affirm
that thousands of horse? are , sold
throughout the country every year un
der false conditions, and. so skillful
have "fakers" become that it takes a
very clever" and experienced man to
detect the doctoring tricks of those who
are anxious to sell a bad animal to the
best advantage. -
Perhaps the commonest of all faking
or blshoplng, as it Is often called a
term derived from, a man named Bish
op, who during the eighteenth century
obtained a great reputation for making
old horses appear young Is in relation
to a horse's teeth. At full age a horse
has forty teeth, and not until the fifth
year are they all visible. Six months
later the "nippers" or iront teeth be
come marked by a natural cavity and
it is the presence or absence of these
marks that certifies the animal's exact
age.
A the horse gets older, these marks
wear away, and it Is then that the co
per or faker sets to work to make
fresh cavities, as found In a horse of
the age he wishes to represent The
surface of the teeth is cut out with a
steel tool and the black lining of the
groove, which must be visible, burnt in
with nitrate of silver or some other
chemical. In this way horses which
are often over 8 or 8 years of age are
sold as 5-year-olds.
The age of a horse -is often increased
as well as reduced by means of faking
the teeth. A 8-year-old will often be
transformed into a 5-year-old by means
of chiseling out the side milk teeth
with which horses are furnished up to
their third year, when they are sup
planted by the permanent ones. The
extraction of the former, of course,
brings on the latter much quicker than
would be the case In the natural order
of things, thus making a horse appear
much older than It really is. .
-There are various ether things, how
ever, besides the teeth, which give
away the age of a horse and which
have to be faked if the animal is to
fetch a fair price. In old horses there
le generally a certain curlty or depres
sion of the skin in the forehead im
mediately above the eyes. This disfig
urement is remedied by a process
known as "puffing the glims." A fine
pointed blowpipe Is introduced under
the skin above the eye, through which
the coper blows gently until the deep
hollow is filled and Is replaced by a
perfectly smooth surface.
The faking of broken-winded horses
la an art in itself, so to speak. It is
generally accomplished by means of
drugs, arsenic being chiefly used. The
"coper" also pays strict attention to
such an animal's diet previous to a
show. If during the trial a horse is a
little short-winded the owner will turn
furiously upon the groom for giving his
horse too much hay, when in all prob
ability it has had nothing to eat or
drink for hours.
The groom will thereupon explain
how the animal got loose and ate a
bushel of oats and half a truss of hay
in the night and that he was afraid of
losing his place if he said anything
about It This explanation will, In nln
cases out of ten, satisfy the intending
purchaser and remove any doubts
which he might have had.
A singular dodge is resorted to by
the "coper" when he comes into po
session of a lame horse out of which
he desires to make some profit The
method is called "beanlng" and con
sists In making a horse which is lame,
say, for Instance, In the left fore foot,
lame In the right one also.
Perhaps a small pebble is Inserted
between the shoe and the hoof of the
latter foot,' the pain of which causes
the animal to limp with the right as
well as the left leg, one thus counter
'balanclng the other and making It ap
pear as though It was the horse's nat
ural gait In lieu of a small pebble a
small iron wedge is sometimes driven
underneath the foot corresponding with
the lame one, thus causing both legs to
go lame alike, which only gives the
horse a different motion.
"Doping" Is a term usually applied
to the trick of making horses appear
spirited and high-steppers by means of
drugs or chemicals. An animal Is oft
en made to pick up its legs In the
quick, nervous style of a thoroughbred
by having the back tendons of the leg
rubbed with turpentine, cow-Itch and
ammonia, which burns like fire and
makes the animal prance with pain.
Occasionally, says a writer In the
Boston Herald, the "coper" Is success
ful In selling what is known as a
"rogue" horse one who resists all at
tempts to be put into harness. With
a sharp razor the sides of the horse
will be shaved in certain places, mak
ing It appear as though the animal was
just out of harness and a thorough car
riage horse.
. The same performance will be gone
through just below the withers, where
the collar chafes, while, If the horse
be a tricky one,. chloral hydrate and
opium will be administered. It is not
until the unlucky purchaser tries to
harness the horse to a carriage that he
discovers the animal's temper and its
unmanageable ways.
TAKES -TOOTHPICK'S PLACE.
Dental Cleared by . the Dm of a Gam
' Band.
The dentists have been preaching for
the past decade the virtues of dental
floss and the dangers of the tooth
picks, but without much avail. Un
fortunately, dental floss is not often
conveniently available, and a good sub
stitute that is always at hand is a slen
der rubber band. The illustration, to
TAKES THB TOOTHPICK S PLACE.
repeat the circumlocution of the in
ventor, shows "a device for removing
obstructions from between the teeth."
It comprises a forked handle having
branches provided with slots adapted
to secure a rubber strip slipped there
in. Tiny knobs fixed on said strips pre
vent the rubber from pulling out and
likewise serve to protect the cheek and
tongue when , using the device. The
elasticity of the rubber permits It to
enter the interstices between teeth,
even when these are abnormally mln-,
ute. " ': :
Women Not Artistic
During the last hundred years ' In
France and England the education of
women has been more artistic than
that of men. Far more emphasis is
put upon music and drawing In girls'
schools than in the corresponding In
stitutions for their brothers. And yet
Galtotf found, In Investigating nearly
900 cases, that 28 per cent males and
S3 per cent females showed artistic
tastes. In spite of the larger oppor
tunity which the modern woman has to
develop her artistic faculties, the re
sults in the two sexes are practically
the same.- -:
A Discrepancy.
Johnny Pa, half -fare la 3 cents and
whole fare 5 cents. Isn't It? .
PapaTea, my boy, that Is right
Johnny But you said two halves
always equal a whole. Puck.
He I hope you don't make a fool ol
your husband? -
She No; I don't have to. Tonkers
Statesman.
Appropriate. A Southern cornetlst,
named Burst has three children- Alice
May Burst, Ja.mes Wood Burst, and
Henry Will Burst . :
. So Natural. Mrs. Cassldy 'Twas
very natural he looked. Mrs. Casey
Aye, shure he looked fur all the wurld
lolke a lolve man layin there dead.
Breaking the News. Mistress If
you want eggs to keep you must lay
them In a cool place. Bridget Ol'U
mlntlon It to the hens at wanst mum.
His Experience.
"Regarding a woman," said Hen peek,
"To this said conclusion I've come:
When man puts a ring on her finger
He puts himself under her thumb."
Awful. Uncle Hiram They say
that the sun never sets on the British
Empire. Aunt Hannah Doesn't it
now? And we have such lovely sun
sets over here!
Very Likely. "Have you any taste
for Thackeray?" asked Mrs. Oldcastle.
"No, I can't say that I have," replied
her hostess; "Is that anything like this
paprika they're puttin' In everything
now?"
Correct "Pa," said little Reginald,
"what is a bucket shop?" .""A bueket
shop, my son," said the father, feel
ingly, "Is a modern cooperage estab
lishment to which a man takes a bar
rel and brings back the bung-hole."
Insinuation. Patron (In restaurant)
What are you bothering me for?
Head Usher The gentleman at the
next table wanted me to ask if you
wouldn't please face the other way.
He says he was nearly eaten by an al
ligator once and can't bear to see you
eat"
The Realist Alexis came home one
night with Ms clothes full of holes.
"What has happened to you?" exclaim
ed his mother. "Oh, we've been play
ing shop ever since school closed,"
Alexis replied. "Shop?" echoed his
mother. "Yes. We opened a grocery,
and everybody was something," Alexis
explained. "I was the cheese."
Could Do Without It "You remem
ber that I gave an order for a pound
of liver a while ago?" "Yes," was the
reply. "Well, I find that I do not need
it, and you need not send it" Before
she could put down the telephone re
ceiver she heard the market-man say
to some one in the store: "Take out
Mrs. Blank's liver. She says she can
get along without it"
Recommendable." "My husband Is
so poetic," said one lady to - "ther in
a car the other days. "Poor dear!" In
terrupted a 'good-natured looking wom
an with a market basket at her feet
who was seated at the lady's elbow
and overheard the remark. "Have you
ever tried rubbln his j'ints with hart
shorn liniment inum? That'll straight
en him out . as quick as . anything I
know of." ... .
The Secret of Harmony. Young
Mrs. Mead had just engaged two ser
vants, a man and his wife. "I am so
glad you are married!" she said to the
man. "I hope you are very happy, and
that you and your wife never have any
difference of opinion.' "Faith, ma'am,
I couldn't say that" replied the new
servant "for we have' a good many;
but Oi don't let Bridget know-of thim,
an so we do be getting along well."
Generals Saved Him. When Gen
eral Robert E. Lee was fighting Grant
in "the last days" an old darky be
sieged headquarters with requests to
see "the gin'ral." "Well, where do
you belong?" demanded General Lee.
"I b'longs to y'r company, gin'ral," re
turned the darky. "No; you don't"
declared the General, snarply. "Every
body in my company has been shot
How Is it that you haven't been?" The
darky scratched his head. Then from
his twisted mouth camt. a confidential
whisper: "Well, yo' see, gin'ral. It's
this a-way. I ain't been shot "'case
when dey's a fight goln' on I always
stays with the gin'rals."
Took It for Granted.
' When Lady Davy was advanced In
years there came to Rome a very fool
ish Russian on " whose credulity his
friends used to practice. Among other
things they informed -him that there
had till shortly before been in the city
an English lady at whose house her
friends used to assemble. After her
death they found it so inconvenient to
lose their point of meeting that they
had her embalmed . and placed every
evening on her accustomed ottoman.
As he became very anxious to assist
at one of these strange reunions, some
one agreed to take him there. When
he arrived, there, sure enough, sat the
shriveled old lady. He circumnavi
gated the ottoman several times, find
ing all that he had been told was too
true, then threw up his arms and with
the cry, "It is too horrible!" rushed
from the room. Sir Grant Duff's
"Notes from a Diary."
Took It as Personal. .
Daisy Why was Maude Oldglrl so
angry about her photographs? Didn't
they flatter her?
Maiale Oh, they were as pretty as
the artist could make them, but on
the back of each one it said, "The orig
inal of this picture is carefully pre
served." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
There are times when a man doesn't
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She Suppose you ask me and find
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. Clara I was tempted to give her a
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make a scene. 1
Minnie You mean, dear, you didn't
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"This Is what I get for marrylns a
poet," pouted the tall brunette. "We
are too poor to hire a girl, so I have
to cook the beefsteak and onions."
"My dear girl," ; said jthe matron,
whose husband is an editor, "you
should be very proud." j-.
"Proud of what?"
"That you should have found a poet
who can really afford beefsteak and
onions."
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The Last Perry Expedition Survivor.
The newspapers chronicle tbe death,
June 22d, of two members of tbe Perry
expedition to Japan, 1853-54. The
July Century contains tbe personal re
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S. Bewail, who was a member ot Com
modore Perry's party, and who is prob
ably the last survivor of the famous
expedition. ...
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Yellow Art.
Tommy Figjam Paw, whose picture
is that feller there where you're read
in'?" Paw Figjam Why, that's a half
tone of a second cousin of the step
brother of an( aunt by second marriage
of the foster sister of the chap who
Is' suspected of being in possession of
information as to who was an accom
plice of the mysterious unknown who
assisted in kidnaping Sloppy Sadie the
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Bought has borne the sisriia-
Signature of -
rsrtlamt, O. Oammt Amnta