text: A J?r%J 7$Kv*'j (f> SFn &b'*;sS®§ sprea <: ■ - ing, until at last your friends say, "How bald he is getting." Not easy to cure an old baldness, but easy to stop the first thinning, easy to A check the first falling time, out. Used bald ness is made impossible with — It stops falling, promotes growth, and takes out all dandruff. It always restores color to faded or gray hair, all the dark, rich color of early life. You may depend upon it every time. It brings health to the hair. $1.00 a bottle. All Druggists “ I have used your Hair Vigor and am greatly pleased with it. I have only used one bottle of it, and yet my hair has stopped falling out and has started to grow again nicely.” Julius Witt, March 28,1899. Canova, S. Dak. Writs the Doctor. If you do not obtain all the benefits you expected from the use of the Vigor, write the Doctor about it. Address, Dr. J. C. AYER, Lowell, Mass. THE BICYCLE TRADE. Combination Cannot Keep Up the Price of Wheels. The reduction in the price of bicycles from $150 to less than a third of that amount has weighed heavily upon the minds of the manufacturers who entered the wheel trust. The combination was undoubtedly made with the purpose of advancing prices to a point that would restore at least a part of the old fabulous profits, but it is doubtful if it can be made a success. Too many independent manufacturers are in existence who are free to extend their trade by offering every possible inducement in the way of price and quality, such as individual competition suggests. One of these has just issued a circular, in which he has the following to say: “We have a thoroughly organized and profitable business, both in firearms and bicycles, and there is no necessity for our joining any movement to attempt to monopolize or manipulate the bicycle trade, or to assist some of the ‘top-heavy’ firms to dispose of their factories at fancy prices and thus avoid a probable collapse.” We are and shall remain perfectly independent and free to act according to our business judgment and our sense of justice and fairness to the agents who have assisted us in building up our present large business. No one can buy better material or build high-grade bicycles cheaper than we can, and we have completed our plans and our new line of bicycles much earlier than usual, so as to make this statement frankly and squarely to our agents, and we announce our line and prices for the coming season as follows: Medium-grade roadster, $25; high-grade roadster, $35; with coaster brake, $40; With cushion frame, $50; chainless, $60. As these prices are a cut of $15 on each grade, and as the manufacturer is one of high repute in the trade, it is manifest that the trust will not be able to advance the cost of wheels next season. Besides, the day has passed when the wheelman could be persuaded that his machine, beautiful and delicate as it is, can be more costly than a small steam engine. —Louisville Courier-Journal A Credit to the Cloth. The Rev. G. W. Woodward, a Methodist minister of Goodland, Kas., makes the following announcement in a local newspaper: “I wish to inform the good people of this town that I will not accept complimentaries to public entertainments or to socials, and, when money is being raised for anything that is good for the people, do not pass me by. Let the people pay what they promised on my salary, let my salary be paid, and then if I play deadbeat, ring me off.” CHEATING THE BOOKMAKERS, New Form of Swindle That Is In Vogue at the Race Tracks. The race track bookmaker has trouble of his own. The outside public that attends the races casually and provides the money that keeps the racing ball rolling is apt, in the philosophical mood which generally characterizes the journey home, to conclude that the men who lay the odds have a "snap." But it’s not so. Many are the contrivances by which the really knowing ones among the followers of the races manage to secure for themselves a very large slice of the money gathered in by the bookmakers. Innumerable are the conspiracies concocted by horse owners, jockeys and professional "punters" to outwit the "ring," and no. Few of them are successful. Moreover, such is the nature of their business that the bookmakers are to a great extent at the mercy of their own employees. New means of fraud are springing up every day that keep them thinking to circumvent and which seriously deplete their treasury. One of the latest swindles seems not to have received from its victims the attention it deserves. When a bet is made with a bookmaker, the fact is recorded on his sheet with the number of the better’s admission badge. After the race has been run, the maker of a winning wager has only to show his badge in order to receive his winnings. In the hurry and excitement that precedes a race, it is almost impossible for the man who takes the bets to keep an accurate mental record of them all; he manages to retain a rough idea of the amount of money he risks on each horse, but of the individual bets, especially the smaller ones, he cannot possibly keep track, and it is just here the opportunity arises for this new swindle. For weeks, persons wearing admission badges have been frequently approached toward the end of the day by men who ask for the badges, managing to give the impression that they are enthusiasts of the kind that collect postage stamps or theater programmes. They are generally successful in their quest, for there are many who go to the tracks who have no use for the badge after they enter the gates, or at most, after they have tried their luck in the ring on one or two races. The numbered badge secured, the swindler, for such he is, makes for the betting ring, and while the race is being run sideways up to the particular sheet writer with whom he is in collusion. He keeps his eye on the finish, and the moment the winner has passed under the wire he whispers the horse’s name to his confederate and the sheet writer records a bet of as large an amount as he thinks safe on that horse, at the same time taking down the number of the admission badge the other has just managed to beg from an unwitting outsider. A moment later, when the makers of winning bets line up in front of the bookmaker’s stand to secure their cash the chap with the outsider’s badge is sure to be found occupying a prominent place in the line. By this ruse, which is being worked with great industry just at present, a single bookmaker might be cheated out of anything from $5 to $50 a day if his employees are disloyal to their trust.—New York Sun. OF HERRINGS AND SAWDUST. Asphalt Pavements May Be Made from These Substances. The notice of making asphalt artificially from herrings and sawdust seems so extraordinary as to suggest burlesque. Nevertheless, this surprising feat has been accomplished by Prof. W. C. Day of Swarthmore College, near Philadelphia. Specimens of the product are now in possession of the geological survey in Washington, and were shown to a Washington correspondent by Prof. Diller, one of the members of the scientific staff of that government bureau. Not long ago a very curious mineral substance, up to that time unknown, was found in Utah, deposited in veins which had once been fissures in the rocks. These fissures had been choked up by bituminous matter gushing from the bowels of the earth, and in this way the deposits of gilsonite, as it is now called, were formed. It is a singularly pure species of asphalt, and is now being mined in a large way, the production of it constituting an important industry. The stuff is used for making varnishes. For this purpose it is especially good, because varnishes made of it will not crack. Conspicuous streaks of the gilsonite run like strips of ribbon over hill and dale, so that they can be followed with the eye for miles. Some of this “gum asphalt,” as it is popularly called, was placed in the hands of Prof. Day for analysis, and he found that its make-up was such as to suggest an animal origin, at least in part. It is believed, nowadays by scientific men generally that asphalts ordinarily are derived from vegetable matter. Such matter, Being laid down in vast beds during the coal-forming period, subsequently underwent chemical processes. In Grammar, the coal-forming period was marked by chemical processes. Teacher—What is a fort? Pupil—Place for soldiers to live in. Teacher—And a fortress? Pupil—A place for soldiers’ wives to live in. ANOTHER DESIGN To Complete the Historical Frieze Around the Capitol's Rotunda. Washington Special New York Mail and Express: It has been the ambition of every administration to complete the historical frieze around the big rotunda under the great dome of the Capitol. This fresco illustrates the history of the United States from the landing of Columbus. It has been completed, except one panel or space, and as each administration has come and gone, designs have been submitted to fill that space with some event that occurred during that particular administration. The latest suggestion was made by Mr. Cleveland’s last term, as proposed to fill the vacant space in the scene of the opening of the Fair at Chicago. This picture, as to represent Mr. Cleveland, is to represent the electric button and starting the machinery of the Columbian exposition. Designs were drawn and submitted, but the project did not quite please the congressional committee which has charge of the capital. Within the last few weeks a New York artist has come forward with another design to complete the historical frieze, and this time the subject is the freedom of Cuba. The artist has treated the subject in an allegorical way, representing President McKinley as striking the shackles off the arms of a female, supposed to represent the design, and has proposed the design, and has proposed the design. . I ures, represent; and the Philip; No doubt, when the sign will be presented Cuba. Some of the artist change lead, add other flag to the Rico, Hawaii, as well as Cuba. It meets the demands to the congressional area. A DIVING BELL CRUSHED. The Tremendous Pressure of Water at a Great Depth. A crushed mass of iron in a Pittsburgh scrap yard demonstrates the tremendous pressure of water at a great depth, says the Pittsburgh Chronicle. It was constructed for a diving bell for use in Lake Michigan. As originally constructed it was about six feet square, and tapered slightly at both ends. The material was phosphor bronze, more than half an inch thick. Each plate was cast with a flange and they were bolted together, the bolts being placed as closely as was consistent with strength. The side plates were further strengthened by iron ribs an inch thick and two inches wide. In fact, the entire structure was strongly braced. The windows to be used as outlooks by the divers were three inches square, fortified with iron bars and set with glass plates an inch thick. The weight of the bell was 23,000 pounds. When completed it was sent to Milwaukee and towed out into the lake about twelve miles, where there was over 200 feet of water, and was sent down for a test. The manufacturer was so confident of the strength of the bell that he wanted to go down in it. He is glad now that he didn’t. When the bell reached the depth of about 100 feet strong timbers attached to it came to the surface in a splintered condition. Suspecting an accident, the bell was hauled up and found to be crushed into a shapeless mass. The inch-thick plate-glass bull's-eyes were shattered. The pressure that crushed this seemingly invulnerable structure amounted to a total of 1,723,548 pounds, or 1,302 tons. Odd Coincidence. In field (N.J.) Special Brooklyn Times: Homer F. Candee, the new postmaster at this place, has a remarkable family history. To begin with, his father fought in the revolutionary war, enlisting when he was 21 years old from Connecticut in 1783, six months before the war closed. After the war he was granted a pension. He had three wives. He lived sixteen years with his first wife when she died. Sixteen years with the second, when she parsed away, and sixteen years with the third when he departed. The third wife married again and lived six teen years with her second husband, when he died and she survived him ex actly sixteen years. 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Am now entirely cured and as nimble as I was at forty.”—Anson Burrell, aged 84. A lady in Cincinnati was so afflicted with asthma that during The winter for seventeen years, she was unable to sleep, lying down, was entirely and permanently cured with Brazilian Palm. S. R. JICKSON, Indianapolis, Ind. 