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Mark you, what is, is r i g h t and best,
Save what is done by m a n;
So if you would the world improve,
To self confine your plan.
Tlie s u a will shine, the r a i n will fall,
The seasons come and go,
Inspite of you, do what you will;
And the wind will howl and blow.
And day will a l t e r n a t e with night,
And time will n e i t h e r pause,
Nor hasten for your prayer or t h r e a t,
Being bound by changeless laws.
But your own life you make or mar;
I t may be b r i g h t or sad;
You make by what you say and do
Your days of good or bad.
You cannot move twinkling stars,
Nor cause a leaf to grow;
But, if you will, 'tis given you
Great happiness to know.
Leave Nature, then, to her own laws;
Your destiny obey;
Your given t a l e n t s c u l t i v a t e;
And upward push your way.
A. S B.
Zhc ©lb f o l k s ^^Ht IHome.
i ' g : you've found me!"
The noon sun poured down
a flood of golden light. It
touched the emerald of the
trees in the wide, sweet orchard with
loving Angers. It glanced across the
row of shining pails and pans on the
kitchen stoop, where they glistened like
burnished silver. It shone full on the
startled face of a young man, who
stood under an apple tree afoam with
pink and white bloom. He started
straight at the man who stood like
a rock before him—a strong-limbed
fellow, with cold eyes and keen, reso-lute
face. The newcomer regarded him
in turn with a steady, calculating
glance. His right hand touched his
hip pocket.
" So you've found me !"
" Y e s , " said the other very quietly.
Yes, and, Charley I advise you not to
make any row. You'd better come
along without any fuss. It'll be better
for you in the long run."
Charley took a step forward, lurched
heavily like a drunken man, staggered
back, leaned against the trees and put
his hands in his face. The other watch-ed
him as a tiger might his prey.
Suddenly Charley withdrew his
hands and asked, almost in a whisper:
"Did you see a n y one at the house?"
Said the other: " Yes, there's a fine
old man on the side porch reading
a paper, and a dear old lady shelling
peas. I suppose, now, Charley, they're
your father and mother."
" Yes," said Charley, with a groan.
You didn't—you couldn't have told
them?" he questioned fiercely.
No," replied the stranger. " I
simply asked for you, and they told me
I would find you in the orchard. I 'd
hate like a dog to tell 'em," he added,
after a pause.
I n the name of God," cried the
young man, desperately, " don't tel^
them—don't!" breaking off, he choked
back a sob and struck the t r u n k of the
apple tree with his clenched fist.
But they've got to know it some
time," returned the other; " y o u ' d bet-ter
tell them yourself."
I tell them?" cried Charley. " I
tell—why, man, I might as well kill
them at once."
I know—I know," replied the
other, " i t ' s a bad deal all round. We
can't leave here before 6 o'clock. Now
introduce me as your friend, come out
to call on you in your old home, and to
tell you of a good thing for you, and
say you've got to go back with me on
account of this opening. O, a n y rot
like that, and I ' l l stand for it. See?"
Charley held out his hand. "Sayre,"
he said, huskily, " you're a good
fel " He could not finish t he
sentence.
Brace up; brace up !" replied Sayre,
slapping him on the shoulder. "You'll
need all your nerve now to get through
the afternoon."
"Mother and father," said Charley,
ten minutes later, " I want to intro-duce
a friend of mine, Mr. Jack Sayre.
He has heard of a good job for me, and
has taken a lot of trouble to come out
here to let me know."
" W a n t tu know," ejaculated Deacon
Hobart, as h e ex ten ted his hand in
greeting. " Waal, sir, now I am
pleased tu see ye. Ma, here, shake
hands with Charley' friend."
Ma came through the kitchen door
—a sweet little old lady, with snowy
hair, pink cheeks, and mild blue eyes.
She was quite flustered at the sudden
advent of so smartly dressed a visitor,
but, giving h im a timid bow, asked, as
any good country housewife would, if
Mr. Sayre had been to dinner.
No, Mr. Sayre had not dined.
" Waal, now," said the good deacon,
" how fortunate that is. We were jest
on the p'int of settlin' down. Come
right in, Mr. Sayre, and make yourself
to hum. Any friend of our Charley's
is welcome to aur home."
The deacon bowed his head and his
gentle voice rose in the blessing. He
blessed the food and the drink and
prayed earnestly for the stranger who
sat with them to meat. "And grant,
O most merciful Father, that we show
to each other the mercy and long-suffering
that thou dost to us. Amen."
Then came the smoke on the piazza
and the deacon's kindly and interested
questions, many of which werei very
hard to parry. But the climax of the
wretched afternoon was reached when
Mrs. Hobart, having finished tidying
up, brought out her knitting and sat
down to visit with Mr. Jack Sayre.
I reckon you and Charley have
known each other quite some time,
she said, gently, as she clicked her
shinning needles and beamed over her
spectacles at the guest.
"Er—well—yes, ma'am," returned
the unhappy man, trying to avoid
those mild, unworldly eyes.
" Well, then, you've known one real
good boy, Mr. Sayre," pursued t hé
little old lady. " Our Charley hain't
never given us one mite of trouble.
When he went away to t h a t air wicked
Babylon, New York, I feared for him.
I was afraid he might git tempted and
led off into sin. But a mother's
prayers go a long ways, Mr. Sayre.'
"Yes, ma'am, that's so, that's so,"
said Sayre, stealing a look at Charley
out of the tail of his eye. The young
man sat on the steps, rigid as a statue,
his pale face resolutely turned toward
the orchard.
" Is your mother living, Mr. Sayre?"
pursued the gentle old lady as she deft-ly
caught up a dropped stitch.
"No, ma'am," said Sayre, stopping
to pick up a match that had fallen
from his shaking fingers. " No,
ma'am; she died when I was quite
a little fellow."
" Poor boy !" said the dear, mother-:
ly old soul, as she gently patted his
arm with one thin hand. " Wal, now,
as you're such a friend of my boy's,
and an orphan, I want you to always
make this your home when you feel so
disposed."
' Thank you, ma'am," said Mr. Jack
Sayre, almost humbly.
' A n d you can't possibly stay with
us now for a day or so ?"
'Oh, no, ma'am. It's absolutely
neccessary we should go to-night."
"Wal, I hate ter hev ye take our
boy away. It's awful lonesome here
without him. Pa and I are kind of old
and poky, and Charley does liven us
up so when he comes home. I dunno
how we could live if 'twant fer Char-ley."
She glanced at the boyish figure
affectionately. "He's the last one,
Mr. Sayre, of a big family, and the
baby, too. Wall, God has ben kind to
spare me one fer my old age."
A silence fell. The afternoon shad-ow
grew longer. The sweet breath of
the apple blossoms was blown across
the field. The birds chirped and chat-tered
in the maples as they built their
nests. It was a scene of rest and peace,
but the cyclone that was ravaging the
mind of Mr. Jack Sayre prevented him
from enjoying himself to any great
degree.
* * •*.
He looked at his watch. "We'd
better be going, Charley," he said.
" I t won't do to miss our train."
The boy rose and gave his hand un-steadily
to his father. " Good-bye,
father," he murmurèd, mechanically.
"When'll you be back, Charley?"
questioned the old man.
" I can't say, father," was the low re-ply-
Charley turned to his mother. He
could not speak. He did not lift his
eyes to her face. She threw her arms
about h im and kissed him tenderly.
" H u r r y back to your old ma," she
said cheerfully.
The boy, staggered and caught at the
honeysuckle trellis for support. Fortu-nately
his parents were so busy bidding
Mr. Sayre farewell they did not notice
the agitation of their son.
'Good-by, ma'am," faltered Mr.
Jack Sayre, as, hat in hand, he stood
on the steps before his hostess. " I ' ve
enjoyed the day. I—er—thank you—
for great kindness."
With a sweet maternal smile the old
lady looked straight into the cold,
keen, steely eyes. "Don't mention
it," she said, and then, to the unutter-able
amazement and consternation of
her visitor, she laid her hands on his
broad shoulders and kissed him.
Poor boy," she said, with divine
sympathy; " poor motherless boy."
Mr. Jack Sayre went red, then white,
stammered, choked, turned on his
heel, and took his companion by the
arm.
They stopped at the end of the lane
and looked back. The old people were
smiling and bowing and waving.
Come again !" shouted the deacon
genially. "Both my boys," echoed a
fine, quavering voice.
" Oh, God ! oh, God !" groaned Char-ley
as the maples dropped their leafy
curtain and shut out the beautiful
kindly scene.
• • •
"Wake u p !"
I t was midnight. The lights were;
dim in the car. Their fellow passen-gers
were in oblivion. Charley roused
from a troubled sleep. Mr. Jack Sayre
bent over him, his steel gray eyes
shining like dagger points. "We are
on the border," he whispered. " G e t
off at the next station and hump your-self.
Here's money enough to take
you to Montreal. Ship to t h e other
side from there. I'll look after the old
folks and tell them your job took you
to the Klondike, or Siberia, or hell !
Mind you, I 'm not doing this for you,
but for h e r . " * Again he stammered and
choked. " And, for God's sake, pull
yourself together and lead an honest
life. If I ever hear of your doing a
dirty deed again, so help me God, I ' ll
follow you to the ends of the earth and
shoot you as I would a dog. Here we
are. Git !"
• • •
" I tracked the fellow to his old home
in Vermont," ran the report of Mr.
Jack Sayre^ detective, to his chief in
the case of Charley Hobart, wanted for
burglary, " but he had given me the
slip. You see, the place was not so far
from Canadian border. And he is a
slick one !"
County Fairs Scheduled.
The official list has been completed
at the Department of Agriculture of
the county and other fairs to be held in
this State the coming fall. Among
others are the following:
Berks County Fair, at Beading, Oc-tober
2-5.
Keystone Agricultural Society of
Kutztown, September 25-28.
Bradford County Society, at To-wanda,
September 25-28.
Troy Agricultural Society, at Troy,
September 11-14.
Oxford Agricultural Society, at Ox-ford,
Chester county, September 26-28.
Columbia County Society, at Blooms-burg,
October 9-12.
Cumberland County Society, at Car-lisle,
September 25-28.
Lebanon Valley Fair Association, at
Lebanon, September 4-7.
Lehigh County Fair, at Allentown.
Pennsylvania State Fair, at Bethle-hem
September 11-14.
Milton Driving Park and Fair Asso-ciation,
at Milton, October 2-5.
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society,
November 13-17.
Union County Fair, at Lewisburg,
September 26-29.
York County Fair, at York, October
1-5.
Hanover Fair, September 25-28.
Juiiiata County Fair, at Port Royal,
September 12-14.
Iiearniug to Control Nature.
Evidence is continually increasing
that man is learning to control nature.
The latest is contained in a report from
the United States Consul at Lyons,
France, to the Department of State,
which deals with an interesting and
apparently successful experiment to
prevent the annual devastation by hail
storms in the grape-growing section of
France, by breaking up the clouds by
shooting into them with cannon. The
French government, the French Agri-cultural
Society, and a number of
wealthy grape-growers contributed the
money to make the experiment on a
large scale, the government loaning the
cannon, of which fifty-two were used,
and selling the powder for 2f cents
a pound. The experiment proved so
successful that arrangements are under
way to provide for its permanent
establishment during the storm season
throughout the grape-growing belt of
France.
American Corn.
liye is the characteristic food crop of
Germany and Russia, millet of India,
and wheat of France, while corn Is pre-eminently
an American crop, over
three-fourths of the world's consump-tion
being produced in this country.
The Crop Reporter for August contains
good news in regard to the outlook for
corn; namely, that the demand for i t
abroad is rapidly increasing. Until
within recent years, Europe failed to
recognize the superiority and economy
of corn as a cheap food for animals, but
they are now awakening to that fact.
Indeed the increase in the export of
corn observed in the last five years has
been the most stirring feature of our
foreign commerce, the increase observ-ed
during that period being equal to
about 254 per cent. The maximum
was reached in thè last fiscal year when
the exports attained the unprecedented
total of 209,348,273 bushels, valued a t
$85,206,389. This figure it should be
carefully noted represents but one-tenth
of the total value of our corn
crop.
The Oldest Teacher in the World.
The oldest school teacher in the
world in active service is thought to be
Mrs. Sarah Davis, who regularly teach-es
t h e pupils of the National School a t
the village of Finmere, near Bucking-ham,
England.
Mrs. Davis is now in her 84th year,
and for more than fifty consecutive
years she has taught the same school,
Her first pupils were the grandfathers
and grandmothers of the children who
now daily fill the school room over
which the old dame presides.
Old as Mrs. Davis is, i t is said that
she keeps the best of discipline, t h e
pupils appear to have ap instinctive
reverence for her great age and ap-parently
feeble condition. She has
never taken out a teacher's certificate
and therefore is unable to secure the
pension to which her years of service
would have otherwise long ago entitled
her. Under present conditions she not
only maintains herself, but as the sole
support of her husband, who is 85 years
old and who is unable to work.
Things Not Generally Known.
Thé British empire is forty times
larger t h a n the German empire and six-teen
times larger than all the French
dominions.
Ostriches are often unruly, and when
they are shipped each of them has
lady's stocking drawn over the head
and neck, and in t h a t condition they
can be led like lambs.
To the Academy of Sciences (Paris),
M. Batelli reports t h a t when the heart
of animals has ceased to beat for
quarter of a n hour, it h a s been reani-mated
by abdominal message.
I n order to facilitate traffic along the
shore of the Dead Sea it has been decid-ed
to establish regular intercourse by
means of small steamers, and the first
steamer lias been purchased. It will
certainly be a shock to many to hear
of a steamer on this historic body ôf
water.
I n olden days, when tea was a rare
and precious luxury, silver strainers
were used, into which the exhausted
leaves were put when they had been
well watered and drained. They were
afterward eaten with sugar oil bread
and butter. This fact is recorded by
Sir Walter Scott in " St. Roman's
Well."
From a lecture delivered in the Sor-bonue
b y M . Mangiri,.it would appear
that Paris possesses about eighty thou-sand
trees in t h e streets and public
places in the. city. I t is calculated
there are twenty-six thousand plane
trees, seventeen thousand chestnut and
fifteen thousand elms, the remainder
consisting of sycamores, maples, lin-dens,
etc. Apparently, there is only
one oak and one mulberry.
Paper From Common Grass.
The manufacture of paper from es-parto
grass has been carried on a long
time; but the discovery was recently
made in England that common grasses
can be made into paper. No special
process is called for—simply washing
in water, treating in hot soda wash; an-other
water bath; then grinding into a
pulp.
All the common kinds of grass, it has
been found, answer equally well in the
making of this new paper, only the
grass must be cut before it has begun to
run to seed.
The fibre of the paper thus obtained
lias remarkable suppleness and
strength, which renders the paper
especially suitable for writing, drawing
and tracing.
I t has been reckoned that two
pounds of dried grass will give half a
pound of paper—in other words, one-quarter
of its weight. Two and.a half
acres of land will produce 5000 pounds
of grass.
—The United States Government will
raise the plague quarantine against
Smyrna sixty days after the Govern-ment
there officially announces
Smyrna free from bubonic plague.
They are all Useful.
The vultures are the scavengers of
South Africa. The ownerless dogs of
Constantinople are the scavengers of
that city.<
The sparrows in our cities eat a vast
amount of matter that would be other-wise
dangerous to human health; and
cats eat many sparrows to prevent
their becoming too numerous; they also
eat out our city rats and ..mice. The
bats eat mosquitoes a n d other night in-sects.
Toads eat millions of flies a nd
other insects. And so vultures, owner-less
dogs, sparrows, cats, bats and toads
are all doing the work for which they
were clearly intended.
The Cow Was More Important.
A woman went into an apothecary's
shop the other day with two prescrip-tions,
one for her husband and t he
other for her cow.
She inquired what was the price of
them, and the apothecary replied i t
was so much for the man and so much
for t h e cow.
The woman, finding she had not
money enough, reflected for a moment
and said:
" A t all events, give me the medi-cine
for the cow; I can send for my
husband's to morrow."
^BSOJLUfELY 'PVRE
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
ROYAL BAK1NQ POWDER CO., HEW YORK. .
The Girls All After Him.
An Atchison boy, says the Atchison,
Kan., Globe, is to be sent away to
school, to avoid the attention of girls.
The young man is honestly disposed,
and tries to work, but the girls call
on the telephone so much that his
employer is disgusted. His parents fear
that the young man may be led into a
marriage too early in life, therefore
they will send h im away, although his
interests lie at home. Not only the
girls clias^Jiim, but mothers as well;
the mothers lay all sorts of traps to get
the boy To call on their daughters. Of
course, Only a few girls and mothers
pursue this course, but enough do it to
cause t h e boy's parents to send h im out
of town, although he has good pros-pects
a t home, and would do well if let
alone. Cannot the girls and mothers
who pursue this course realize that
they are being severely criticised?
The criticism will finally become open
revolt; people will not submit to a
reversal of nature and the rules of re-spectable:
society.
Ice Cream Sandwiches.
The latest thing that the purveyors
to the gastronomic demands of the
office boys, messengers and clerks in
the Wall street district are supplying
to their patrons, is t h e ice cream sand-wich.
It made the first appearance
during the hot spell of last week. A
young man showed up with a wagon
and began to descant on the value of
his wares at the. corner of Nassau and
Wall streets., lie soon had a crowd
around him, and the first man that
tried an ice cream sandwich bit into it
gingerly. I t was made of two graham
wafers and a slab of ice cream between.
The wafers were fresh and crisp and
sweet and the ice cream was good.
Then, ice, it has t h e advantage of being
cold in addition to being palatable. Thé
cost of the sandwich was one, two or
three cents, according to the thickness
of the slab of ice cream.
This new edible made such a hit. t h a t
its fame spread through the Wall street
district the first day and the young
man who invented it did not have
enough of stock to satisfy the demand.
The second day the brokers themselves
got to buying ice cream sandwiches and
eating them in a democratic fashion
side by side on the sidewalk with the
messengers and the office boys. All
the other ice cream and lemonade ven-dors
saw that they were outclassed and
immediately began to sell imitations.
The young man held the bulk of thu
trade, however, throughout the week.
A liittlo Shaver's Curiosity.
Fouivyear-old Artie had often been
an interested spectator while papa was
shaving; indeed he was missed one day
and finally discovered by the piteous
wailing of poor puss, whom he h ad
lathered and was attempting to shave
in his improved shop under the dining:
room table. The other- day he had a
new experience, for he delightedly-plied
mamma with questions, while he
superintended t h e frosting of his birth-day
cake. Finally he capped t he
climax by asking: "Mamma, when
you get the cake lathered are yon going:
to shave i t ?"
Enterprise at t h e Eden Musee.
For sevéral years the Eden Musee in
New York City has been growing more
popular as an amusement place. This
is due entirely to the enterprise shown
by the management. There are In
reality three features at the Musee and
there is a continual rivalry between
them. They consist of waxworks,
moving pictures, and afternoon arid
evening concerts. Each department is
is under the charge of a skilled man-ager
whose only object is to excel in
that particular feature.
I n the waxworks department t he
daily news is watched with much
eagerness. Whenever an individual or
an event is likely to become of world-wide
importance a study is made in
wax and before it is placed on exhibi-tion
it is approved by the directors
of the Musee. I t often happens that
after groups are made they are not
placed on exhibition simply because
the personage or event is not as im-portant
as it first seemed. The result
of working ahead is that in a mar-elously
short time a figure or group
cau be placed on exhibition, notwith-standing
that usually two weeks time
required to complete a wax figure.
When King Humbert was' assassinat-ed
the entire art force worked night
and day and within sixty hours the
dead king was lying in state a nd
Brasci was seated in his cell. The
alleged murderer Han-is who was the
cause of the recent uprising against the
hero in New York City, is now on
exhibition and in a few days there will
also be shown a picture of Katie Scharn.
I n anticipation of important events
in Europe nearly one hundred figures
are being prepared and thus all times
the Musee keeps thoroughly up to date
in its wax department. The same
amount of enterprise is shown with
moving pictures. The Musee has its
own photographers who are constantly
on the move. They are in China now
and soon will have pictures of the
march to Pekin. , The Musee has also
arrangements with the leading manu-facturers
of films so t h a t in case of great
necessity pictures are taken exclusively
for the Musee arid not shown elsewhere
until discarded by the Musee. This
was the case .with the picture of Queen
Victoria leaving Ireland. A series of
twelve pictures is shown each hour
during the day and evening and the
Musee has such a collection of pictures
that it is never necessary to show tlie
same series the second time in one day.
Each week the entire series are changed
and new pictures take their place. The
afternoon and evening concerts are
highly interesting and have choice
programmes each day.
Over the State.
The Schuylkill Valley Traction Com
pany will have a trolley men's day,
when all money taken in v\ ill be given
to the employees.
Thomas Darby, a paper maker, em-ployed
at Lafayette Mills, is mys-teriously
absent from his boarding
house in Conshohocken.
Thomas Clyde, who left his Consho-hoken
home twenty-five years ago, has
returned to find relatives and friends
all gone. He has been a cowboy in
Arizona.
Burglars took $500 from the trunks of
lodgers in Mrs. Agnes Schultz's board-ing
house, at Springfield.
While playing base ball at Palmyra,"
Enos Basehore was hit above the left
ear and has been unconscious several
days. '
While bathing in the Bushkill, at
Easton, Antonia Vacisco vvas drowned.
Striking dynamite with a hatchet at
Hickory Eidge, to hear an explosion,
nine-year-old John Bulvko's right hand
was blown oif.
The recent cyclone through Upper
Dublin township blew down 1,000
bushels of apples in the orchard of Wil-mer
Atkinson.
Robert Wright, ten years old, of Con-shohocken,
had a limb amputated
while playing along the railroad.
Robert attempted to jurhp off a freight
car, when he fell beneath the wheels,
l i e is the sixth member of the Wright
family to be injured on the railroad in
two years.
Mike Rusnork, a single man, recent-ly
from Poland, died at the Lackawan-ni
Hospital from scalds alleged to have
been inflicted by his sister-in-law, Mrs.
John Rusnork. On August 17 she dun-ned
him for his board and he made
some offensive remark, whereupon she
seized a caldron of boiling water and
doused it over him.
Thomas Jones, an Easton teamster,
while returning from Phillipsburg, N.
J . , shortly after 12 o'clock Saturday
night, was assaulted on the Delaware
bridge by William Taylor, of Phillips
burg, and Harry Conger of Easton.
The trouble was the result of an old
grudge which Taylor had against
Jones. Jones' assailants dislocated his
aw, kicked h im on the head and then
umped upon him. He was rendered
unconscious and removed to the hos-pital,
in which condition he remained
until Sunday evening. He is not ex-pected
to recover. Conger was arrest-ed,
but Taylor has fled.
The Magistrates' Association of-
Reading has completed arrangements
for the State-convention of the Magis-trates,
to be held Septemher 18 and 19.
At a largely attended meeting the lo-cal
adopted resolutions deploring the
increase in wife-beating cases brought
before the Magistrates of this State. Res-solutions
were adopted favoring t he
whipping-post for wife-beaters, and the
members of the association pledged
themselv to do all in their power to
have the Legislature provide for the
establishment of the whipping-post sys-tem
as a punishment for wife-beaters
in this Commonwealth. *
A Much-Married Turk.
I n the village of Bodra a Turk named
Ismail, aged 120 years, is in such good
health that he frequently walks to
Bartin, six hours distance, to sell eggs,
for h e is a poultry dealer. He has had
thirty-four wives, the last of whom he
married only a few days ago. The
bride is sixty years his junior, and the
marriage was celebrated with much
solemnity to the sound of drums and
fifes and of volleys from firearms. The
whole village was a fete. The wed-ding
procession included all the male
progeny of ihe patriarch bridegroom,
consisting of 140 sons, grandsons and
greatgrandsons. The number of his
female progeny is not stated.
Express Train Wrecked.
Over one hundred and fifty people
made a marvelous escape from death
near Reading on Saturday morning.
The Pottsville Express on t h e Phila-delphia
and Reading Railway, due a t
Reading at 8 A. M., left the rails two
miles north of the city and ran into an
embankment. I t was making fifty
miles an hour, and passengers were
thrown from their seats in promiscuous
confusion. The entire train excepting
the engine, was derailed, and the four
cars were thrown against the embank-ment
and were badly damaged. The
supposition is t h a t a coupling dropped
from the t a n k and derailed the train.
Fireman Samuel Williams, of Potts-ville,
was caught between the cars and
literally cut into pieces. Portions of
his body were buried near by.
Not for Bald-Headed Readers.
Fair-headed people usually possess
between 14,000 a n d 160,000 hairs on the
scalp, the nii&ber being about the same
for man and woman. Dark-eyed peo-ple
haye, on an average, about 105,000
while red-haired people are said to have
only 30,000 ' hairs. But the latter ap-parently
possess one great advantage
in the fact t h a i they retain their hair
better, seldom becoming bald.
You assume no risk when you buy
Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diar-rhoea
Remedy. The Inland Chemical
Co., of Lititz will refund your mony if
you are not satisfied after using it. It
is everywhere admitted to be the most
successful remedy in use for bowel com
plaints and the only one that never
fails. It is pleasant, safe and reliable. -
jy-4mo.
Why let
all your
n e i g h-bors
and
f r i e n d s
think you
must be
C Y S f I f f t w e n ty
J l l l l J l l l J . y e a r s .
older than you are?
Yet it's impossible to
look young with the
color of 70 years in
the hair. It's sad to
see young persons
look prematurely old
in this way. Sad be-cause
it's all unneces-sary;
for gray hair
may always be re-stored
•
GOSHEN, 111.
Genessee Pure Food Co., Le Roy, N. Y-Dear
Sirs:—Some days since a pack-age
of your Grain-O preparation was
left at my office. I took it home and
gave it a trial, and I have to say I was
very much pleased with it, as a sub-titute
for coffee. We have always
used the best Java and Mocha in our
family, but I am free to say I like the
Grain-O as well as the best coffee I ever
drank.
Respectfully yours,
S 1 - A. C. JACKSON, M, D.
For over half a cen-tury
this has been the
standard hair prepara- p,
tion. It is an elegant
dressing; stops fall- •
ing of the hair; makes
the hair grow; and
cleanses the scalp
from dandruff.
$1.00 a bottle. All druggiits.
" I have been using Ayer's Hair
Vigor for over 20 years and I cau
heartily recommend it to the public
as the best hair tonic in existence."
Mrs. G. L. ALDERSON,
April 24,1899. Ector, Tex.
If yon do not obtain all the benefit!
Sou expected from the Vigor, writ»
m Doctor about it. Address, •„. ,,
Bit. J. C, AVER,
Lowell, Mali.
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