# The of the Hair S There are four verses. Verse 1. Ayer’s Hair Vigor makes the hair grow. Verse 2. Ayer’s Hair Vigor stops falling hair. Verse 3. Ayer’s Hair Vigor cures dandruff. V erse 4. Ayer’s Hair Vigor always re­ stores color to gray hair. The chorus is sung by millions. .tiers PILLS. CHERRY PECTORAL. H a d a L n cky Escape. Mrs. Shrewsbury— That man who Just passed us was Mr. Batcheller. I haven't seen him since we were mar­ ried. H e proposed to me once. You ■hould have seen the look he gave you. Mr. Shrewsbury— That so? Gloat­ ed, did he?— Philadelphia Ledger. Motberawill flnrt Mr,. Winslow's Soothing Syrup the beat remedy to use tor their children during the teething period. i n f o r m a t i o n W anted. Uppson — Yes, me dear boy, I am very proud of me family tree, doncher know. Downing— Do you ever whitewanh it? Uppson— Whitewash it! What for? Downing— To keep the insects off, doncher know? 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Th o i$ m he use < h u h a • hsrm lcsa mm -dl.-s this tarn- u> go <*r knows the actiou o f o ver Mb d ffe-> n r -med’ e « whl h h successfully aaes In Miff. r- n disease«. H-* a U tran * a vtoc u reca a rh .a sth m a ,Ia n «, hr a . rh- n m t a l i i » n «n m , M m at i , i r |<1 ■ ••ys, etc.; has hu n d red s o f t* st m- Dials, f harxes moderate. < all a> 4 see h im . I'atl nts out o f the c ty w rite for hlankr and r re dan . Send stan p © U j M T L T A T I O * THE C. 6EE WO CHINESE MEDICINE CO 162N M en tio n p a p er f. t i l rv v , -■ 25 ounces f o r 25 c e n t s J A Q U E S M F G . CO. C h ic a g o Tb s art lalle " Book o f P r « fras upon requaat. T ickled Him. A Pertinent Question. The major found Remus sprawled out A Chinaman was one day walking in tho blazing sunshine. along a street In Glasgow when a dog “You don’t seem to mind the heat, Re- ran up to him and began barking. He mui?" became greatly alarmed and dodged “ No, aah; et jes' suits me. De hottah about ail over the place to avoid It. et is de tweet ah de melon grow.” A benevolent gentlaman who happened “ But don't your garden suffer?” “ Nullin' in deh now, sah, but tatehs. to be passing at the time saw the Like to tee et so hot det dey'd roast trouble _______ ____ he _________ was lu _____ and ___________ immediately right ia de ground en den Ah wouldn't went up to him, and. putting him on hab de trouble ob buildin’ a fiah to cook the shoulder, said, in a pacifying tone: dem." “Come, come, my friend, you mustn't ^ sfrald. The dog won’t harm you. Don't you know the old proverb that harking dogs never bite. You sure- ly— ” "That's all velly well,” replied th# Chinaman; “you knowee proverb, and me knowee proverb, but does the dog anowee proverb?" ___ |||5 sftprflrstday’suspofDr.KItne'aOrestNsnr« He»»>rer.Sfnd for KreeSZ trlslbottlrsndtr.su««. ‘ n*’ "M1 . Philadelphia, p^ senior partner of the timi of F. J. c h k n k y .4 N ew Y ork , Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, Coun- A W om an 's Opinion. ty » nd State aforesaid, and that said Arm will Lured Into an abandoned burrow “She says her husband's behavior pay o n s e t h dr d d o l L l U a K rs for l h i« ni-nsner-tive v ic tim flr e e n E ves n p t n the n e i sum u m of om n u i u n u a e t u llU S to each and every cane of C atarrh that cannot be n18 e vicum, U W D ¥. a Is due to the fact that he Is Insanely Farmer Skidmore (reading signs in a , cured by the uae of H allos (’ atarrh <’ urk . , cat who has long preyed on the prairie The Kind You Have Always Bought F R A N K J. C H E N E Y . Sworn to before me a " d subscribed in my presence, this 6th dey o f December, A. D., 18S6. A. W. GLEASON, I .... I N otary Public, H a ll’s Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surface« o f the system. Send f r testim onials, free F. J. C H K N K Y dt CO., Toledo, O. Bold by Drueirists, 75c. H a ll * F am ily P ills are the beat. ! dogs in the menagerie of Central Pnrk, says the N ew York Herald, was im- p r is o n e d yesterday for many hours through tbs strategy of Dolphin, their king. Dolphin was the only prairie dog on the surface when Green Eyes looked about for further prey. Frightened by the arrival of the cat Dolphin's sub­ jects sought shelter in their subterra­ nean homes. Apparently unconscious of his peril Dolphin remained on a Jealous because of her beauty.” “I ’m sorry for her lawyer.” “ W hy?” "Because the Jury will give a ver­ dict for her husband as soon ss they see her.”— Cleveland Leader. A 5*., S. f . Car. Morrison P O R T ! AND. O f t f G O « . *•. « ' - 1 w>* Q M w r itin g t o » l r . r t l M n p l « u « ■ » • n u . .n t u l a p a p n r . llc lp h lc U tte ra n c e . They found It necessary to ford Bear creek, and Hans did not enjoy it, al­ though he faced It with exemplary fortitude. Once safely across, he turned and surveyed the stream gravely. “Several times yuu cross It.” he said, enigmatically, “but yet once Is the last time.” C For A Infants S T and O Children. R IA Bears the Signature o f 1 T h a t D ead ly H atpin . That deadly Implement, the hatpin of modern times, Is a descendant of sa equally formidable toilet article used by Roman women. The Aspaslas and Julias and Claud- Ins who decked themselves a couple of thousand years or more ago, to the un­ doing of the particular Buibus or M ar­ cus they desired to fascinate, wora bone hairpins of prodigious length. Yet, like the women of this present time, they seem to have experienced j the same difficulty in keeping them In place. This fact eumc to light during excavations at Sllchester, In England, a hundred or so of these bone hairpins being found in the Komnn bath, col­ lected, mnybe, by the bath attendant, to prove all these centuries later that there Is nothing new under the sun, and that In all ages the same little foibles have been possessed by women. Prof. L . H . Bailey, director of the New York state school of agriculture at Cornell, is writing several articles H trc n n o u s L l f i , which are soon to appear in The Cen­ “ Say,” roared the irate citizen as A* tury on the subject of the young man rushed into the office o f the village week­ and the farm. H e w ill tell why he ly, "w h ere 's the editor?” ,. „ ... .. thinks the young man now leaves the “Want to see him p erson ally?" queried | « Suddenly darting forward Green farm, and he will show how the farm the office boy. You bet 1 do," answered the I. c. “ I’m 1 E y®8 mad® an attempt to seize his vlc- An be made more attractive and better «oing to thrash him within an inch of tlm. The latter, however, dodged the worth the young man’s while. hig life. See?” cat’s attack and ran to the other side D ia m o n d E x p e r t . "Oh, all right.” answered the boy. 0f the lnclosure, followed by Green First Stranger— Excuse me, sir, bnt I Just have a seat, please. There are Eye8. Then began a chase which last- aaderstand you are a good judge of dia­ three others ahead of you. I - „ .. . 1 ed for more than five minutes, and monds. Second Stranger— That's right. For bronchial troubles trv Pi-o’s Cure aDdad by the disappearance of Dol- First Strsnger— Would you mind giv­ for C o n s u m p t i o n . 1 1 is a go o d c o u g h phln into an abandoned burrow Just ing ms your opinion of the atone la this ■ledicln*' At druggists, price 25 cents. as he waB apparently about to be ring? A G reat Llglit B re a k «. ! caught by his pursuer. Second Stranger— Don’t know any­ Proser— “Your friend Barrett Is Green Eyes hesitated a few seconds thing about stocea; I'm a baaeball um­ dead.” and then started to squeeze his body pire. See ? Poet— “ Impossible! W hy, I was at through the entrance of the burrow, T h ey W e a r a M ask. his rooms last night reeding my latest 8mall and slim, he finally suceeded In Nearly every shopkeeper in the land poem to him.” , making his w ay inside the subterrn- Is forced. In the conduct of his busi­ Proser— “Come along with me to nean chamber. Witnesses of his nt- ness, to wear the mask of diplomacy. the inquest, then. The coroner is still tack on Dolphirf stood in front of the This was illustrated the other day In a In the dark as to what caused that lnclosure for half an hour wnltlng for downtown art store. sudden relapse.”— Cleveland Leader, him to reappear, but he did not come iU 'iX It is as impossible to conquer the king of An elderly lady, connected with ------------------------------------------------------------ out o f the burrow. diseases— Contagious Blood Poison— with Mer­ some of the best families, made her They were surprised soon afterward cury and Potash as it would be to conquer the purchases and paid a small sum on ac­ to see Dolphin poke his head cautious king of the forest in a hand-to-hand encounter, count of a former bill and the goods ly out of a burrow which evidently led as thousands who have had their health ruined Just bought. As she placed the new to another passage connecting with and lives blighted through the use of these min­ bill In her reticule she said to the at­ the underground chamber Into which erals w ill testify. They took the treatment faith- ‘ ¥ a m i tentive shopkeeper: he had lured the cat. After surveying fully, only to find when it was left off, the dis­ “ N ow — er— no bothering me about the village with keen eyes Dolphin ease returned with more power, combined with this, you know; no sending around to came out of the burrow and in re­ the awful effect* of these minerals, such as mercurial rheumatism, necrosis my place. I f yon do send a man I’ll sponse to his sharp barks other prairie of the bones, salivation, inflammation of the stomach and bowels, etc. set the dog on him.” dogs left their homes to come to the When the virus of Contagious Blood Poison enters the blood it qnickly con­ "YouTl have no trouble about it, TRADE surface. taminates every drop of that vital fluid, and every muscle, nerve, tissue and NARK. madam,” was the suave answer. "Take | While they were perehed on knolls bone Incomes affected, and soon the foul symptoms of sore mouth and throat, yonr time about it; all the time you late in the afternoon faint cries issued copper-colored blotches, falling hair and eyebrows, swollen glands, sores, want,” and he smiled like a seraph from the entrance of the burrow etc., make their appearance. Mercury and Potash can only cover up these until the old dowager's coach rolled off which Green Eyes had entered. They evidences for awhile; they cannot cure the disease. S. S. S. has for many np the street. Then he turned to a were followed by the appearance of years been recognized as a specific for Contagious Blood Poison—a perfect friend who was taking It all in and his head and then o f his body as he antidote for the deadly virus that is so far-reaching in its effects on the sys­ muttered: for many, many years has c u r e d squeezed out of the borrow. His body tem. S. S. S. does not hide or mask the disease, but so thoroughly and “ Durn her old picture, I won't see a and c o n tin u e s to curs completely cures it that no signs are ever seen again. was covered with dirt, and he had evi­ red cent of that money In nine months. S. S. S. while eradicating the poison of the disease R H E U M A T IS M dently been compelled to dig his way But what can you do? You've got to w ill drive out any effects of harmful mineral treat­ N E U R A L G IA out of his prison. Without making be polite.” LUMBAGO ment. A reward of fi.ooo.oo is offered for proof any attempt to attack the prairie dogs BACKACHE that S: S. S. contains a mineral ingredient of any The O perator. be hurried from the village. S C IA T IC A kind. Treatise with instructions for home treatment and anv advice wished, A New York matron bought a sew­ S P R A IN S WUhout charge. T H E S W I F T S P E C I F I C C O ., A TLA N TA , G A . ing mschlne recently, and her 11-year- T h e C o q n e t ie . B R U IS E S old daughter, anxious for a novelty, There are sqorea of girls who are SORENESS says the New York Sun, laid out the S T IF F N E S S neither beautiful nor witty, but they W e 4 o c ro w n nn<1 b r Mg" w o rk w it b oa t pg'n . F R O S T - B IT E S printed direction« and attempted to O ur I N j e t r n ' *• xp* r ic n c e in p in t* w o rk en- are natural bom coquettes, and as a kbl«*M an to ft* y o u r m ou th c o m fo r ta b ly . I>T. run the machine. All seemed to be consequence are perfection In the av­ W . A . N% iBe hat fou n d a R »f> w a y to e x tra c t P ric e , 25c. a n d 50c. going well, till the mother’s attention erage man’s eyes. The beautiful girl teeth n b n o lu te iy w i hout pain. Iff. T. P. W in e lx an e x p e r t a t iff) M ftl i n f and crow n was attracted by a deep sigh and a generally banka on her face being her •nM briMg w ork . K x tra c t ng ir e * w b o o whispered “O dear! I cannot And It.” fortune, but tho coquette cultivates the p la tes o r u riflgM a re • rd r *d. "W h a t Is It, daughter, that you can­ habit o f aaylng pretty, flattering not find?” she asked. thlnga, stud) ing the trick of amusing ( “ Why, mother.” was the reply, “the PISQ f# CURE FOR half a dozen men at one and the same DENT I ST S CM*! S «Miai Ail list FAILS. directions say, ‘Place the screw te the I time and of making each man think be ! < - n «h syrup. T mjkmi U ood. Li right o f the operator,' and I can't find ! in tim «. 8oi4 by