Black Hair I v aa am gJ " I have used your Hair Vigor £ for five years and am greatly H pleased with it. It certainly re- H stores the original color to gray I hair. Itkeeps myhairsoft."—Mrs. I Helen Kilkenny, New Portland, Me. 1 : Ayer's Hair Vigor has g been restoring color to 1 gray hair for fifty years, 1 and it never fails to do | this work, either. You can rely upon it I for stopping your hair 1 from falling, for keeping I your scalp clean, and for | making your hair grow. | SI.OO a bottle. All drugjists. 1 ' If your druggist cannot supply yon, 9 send us ono dollar and wo will express B you a bottle. lto sure and give the namo H of your nearest express office. Address, N J. ( AVER Ho Had bomo Evidence. Raying upon the altar £*- revolver and liis kit of 'burglar tools as evi dence of liis good l'uitli William Hill startled the 300 persons who were attending religious services at tlif Pacific Garden Mission, 100 Van Bur en street, last night, by confessing that he was a thief, but now desired to turn from evil ways and live a Christian life. The Rev. J. S. Det wiler of St. Paul, and Assistant Harry Monroe of the mission, had been preaching and the latter had just fin ished his address when the self-con fessed burglar walked to the altar. "Friends," he said, "1 have been cracking safes, robbing stores and picking pockets a good many years for a living. I have served terms in Sing Sing and Joliet. But to-night I am going to end my criminal career ai'd put on a new life, I was walking along Slate street to-night when I heard the men speaking from your Gospel wagon. They said some thing that seemed to touch me. I fol lowed the wagon here and entered with the crowd. The more 1 heard the more I became convinced that this is the time for mo to reform. 1 want you people to help give me a start In the right direction. I have found it easier to steal than to work, but now I want to work for my living, and if you will help me I will work for your mission." Tlilf* significant conversation was received with the greatest enthusiasm. The man left at the close? of the meet ing, first promising Mr. Monroe to re turn to-day, when an effort will be made to get Idm work. True to his promise Hill appeared at tho office of tho Pacific Garden Mission to-day and declared that lie had not repented ids resolution, but was rather more firmly determined to gain an honest livelihood. Mr. Mom > roe started out with the new convert at once to see if lie could get him some employment.-—Chicago Daily News. The driest place on the earth is the little town of Payta, on the coast of Peru, where seven years is the aver age interval between two rains. In old times the water supply of Payta was brought down from the moun tains every night by a herd of little donkeys, who returned in the cool of the evening. TUTNAM FAnr.i.Eso DYES DO not spot, streak or give your goods an unevenly ilyed appear -nneo. fciold by all druggists. Ireland produces 210 tons of honey a year, worth SOO,OOO. It is. perhaps, natural that the aeronaut should feel uppish. ArU Tour Dealer for Allen'# Foot-YCa**, A powder 1o nhake into your shoes : rests the fcrt. Cures Corns, Bunion, Swollen, Koro, Hot. Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet and In growing NailH. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoe# easy. At all druggist# and shoo stores, '2.1 cts. Sample mailed FREE. .Address Allen S. Olmsted. L<Hoy, N. Y. There is an opening for every ipau— in the cemetery. Frey's Vermifuge For WorsAi Has many imitators. Clot the genuine, made by E. & v • I • nniK, Sin. The dark ages must be the ages of eld erly spinsters. J. S. Parker, Frcdonfa, Y., Says: "Shall not call on you for tlio $"100 reward, for I be lieve Hall's Catarrh Cure will cure any caso of catarrh. Was very bad." Write him for particulars. Sold by Druggist*. 75c. There is no filter that will make a clean conscience. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervons ness alter first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 triul bottle and treatise frea Dr. 11. H. KI.IKK, Ltd., 031 Arch St.. Phila., Fa. All men are not homeless, but some are home less than others. Mr.*. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, soften tlio gum*, reduces inllnmma tion,allays pain, cures wind eolie. 25c a bottlo., I The people who sing their own praise dou't indulge in duets. I nm sure Tiso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago. Sins. THOMAS BOB BINS, Maplo St., Norwich, N.Y., Feb. 17, 1000. Australia has more than 1000 newspapers. Experiments made at Knsan, In Russia, of flie petroleum found in Si beria prove that it is almost idem lea), with Pennsylvania!) naphtha. The wells o lithe lake of Baikal are said to be rich and reliable, so far as the borings go down. Patience is a virtue, especially in people to whom we owe money. Garfield Headache Powders aro carefully prepared from remedies that build up tho nervous system; they ralievc mental strain, cure headaches and make one well and cheer ful ; they are harmlcs). Try them. In China trades and professions OX3 he* reditary in families. Experiments arc being tried near some of the coast towns in Moioceo for the destruction of locusts b.v means of fungun imported from fimtn Africa, which is said to have pit red efficacious in that country OUR -BUDGET OF HUMOR j LAUCHTER-PROVOKING STORIES FOR J LOVERS OF FUN. On the Briilffe at Midnight—Art Cookery [ —Needed Explanation—Calmer Topics A Lending Question Extenuating Circumstances, Etc., Etc. I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clock was striking the hour, And I wondered what the hour had done That the clock should strike it twelve limes one. Within the old church tower. —Philadelphia Record. Art Cookery. "What lovely browu biscuits she makes!" "Yes; in oolorature cooking she ii quite unexcelled."—Puck. Needed Explanation. Mrs. Homer—"My oldest boy Is get ting to be just like his father." Mrs. Gadboy—"ls that compliment ary to the boy, or otherwise V'—Chi cago News C'almer Topics. "Our next-door neighbor is gelHng j old." "What do you go by?" "He's quit talking baseball and gc/r.c to talking garden."—Detroit Free Press. A Leading Question. Hobb—"l put one hundred dollars in the bank for my baby the other day for bis majority." Nobb—"That's good. How long are | you going to keep it there?"— Harper's Bazar. Extenuating Circumstances. She—"You know we are told to love our neighbors as ourselves." He—"Yes; but when that was writ ten it wasn't known that I was going to have my mother-in-law for a neigh bor!"—Youkers Statesman. ~ Coulu Peep Over It. I entered the place trustingly, as is my wont "I should like to look over your col lars," said I. "Alas!" giggled the haberdasher, "I | fear your neck is too short!" For, iu despite of our vast eommer- I eial expansion, there are still among , us those who would rather he bright i than succeed in business.—Detroit; Journal. An Optimistic Confession. "Don't you think you are a little ex treme in your optimism V" Possibly. But it is due to my love of originality. This world lias so ! many conspicuous faults that there is 1 no use of trying to make any iwpres-1 sion by pointing them out. But if you j can call attention to anything that is | in the least degree praiseworthy I lie ' chances are that you will be hailed as a discoverer."—Washington Star. Friendly Treatment Had Enough. 1 Towne—"l'd hate to have that man for uu enemy." Browne—"Who is he?" Towne—"l don't know, but ho punched my bend once." Browne—"Well, if he wasn't an en- j emy I'd like to-—" Towne—"Oh, you see it was all a j mistake. After he punched me lie | said, 'Excuse me, Buddy. I took ycr! fur a friend of mine.* "—Philadelphia 1 Press. An Objector. "I nearly fainted during the cere mony," said the bride. "Really! Why so?" "Well, you know, when the minister asked if any one knew any reasons why the couple should uot marry?" j "Yes." "Well, in the intense hush that fol-! lowed, Mr. Lougwed leaned over to Jack Davis and I heard him whisper:! 'I do; thousands anil thousands of 'em.' "—lndianapolis Sun. Mashed. The beautiful Uriselda beamed radi antly upon me. "I do not care for potatoes uulesa they are mashed!" said she. "Showing," said I, "that woman's love is for the most pnrt responsive, : merely !" Here the waiter came with the beef-! steak, smothered, and as we tilled out faces with these our conversation lie- j came naturally less philosophical aud more desultory.—Detroit Journal. j Sweet Conceit, There was moonlight and the waters of the lake glimmered like molten dla-1 mouds. A thrush sang sleepily and I from a boat rocking on the lIO3OUI of! the placid waters came the faint tinkle [ of a guitar. "What would you say," he cried in I low, husky tones, leaning toward the | dainty vision occupying the other end | of tHe boat, "if I were to tell you that I think of you day and night, and even dream of you?" "Well," she replied, with a soft-stop gurgle, "1 would sny you were capable j of most beautiful thoughts." After that lie rowed viciously.--1 Denver Times. A Cautious Millionaire. Mr. Midas (about to make will)—"In disposing of my estate, while I am anxious that my sou should have the benefit of a goodly share of it, I do uot wish him to become possessed of it in hulk." Lawyer—"Excuse me for saying it, but the inference of that instruction seems to do your sou injustice. He has always seemed to iue to be a young mau absolutely free from any tendency to dissipation." Mr. Midas—"Very true, but you can not tell t. what channel ambition fo • notoriety may lure him; lie may take it Into ills ..end to become a United Stave senator,"—Richmond Dispatch, INSIDE JAPAN. ' Fist Fights Preface Death Struggles Vo Wife-Beating. In spite of qualities of easily aroused ! antagonism, of prime and Spartan [ Ideals, the Japanese are an essentially gentle race—more so than the Anglo- Saxons. Broils in which one man hits another are of rare occuvtence; blows are generally the preface of a death struggle. The women may often suf fer from the prevailing ideals of mo rality, which are yet much lower than ours, but there are few wife-beaters, and the home atmosphere Is almost al ways outwardly peaceful. I't follows that a little true poltieuess on the part of the foreigner goes a long way, and almost invariably meets with a warm | recognition; you rarely appeal to the Japanese iu vain. They are as quick to respond to an act of real kindness as they are to resent an act which iias a tinge of arrogance. Our Government allowed several transports with re turning volunteers to stop at Yoko hama, and so hundreds of American soldiers visited that city and Tokie. j One of them hired a bicyole and was taking a ride about the streets, of Y'o kohnma when he ran down nu elderly Jupancse man. The soldiers rang his hell several times, hut the Japanese apparently paid no nttcution to it, and the American found himself promptly arrested and taken to court, where he was fined ten "yen" (55). He protested that lie had done everything possible to avert the accident, and asked why the man made not attempt to get out i of tlie way. The policeman then told litm that the man was blind. The sol dier looked dazed for a minute, then felt In his pocket and brought out a ten-dollar bill. "Here," he said, "It's the last I've got, hut he can have it," and he turned it over to the blind man. The Japanese were deeply touched, aud that same day a delegation of po licemen hunted up the soldier and gave him hack his flue.—Anna N. Benja min, in Ainslee's. Dislike tlie Illustration. Superintendent Bright takes excep tion to a brightly colored chart in use In country schools which represents the j farmer as painfully mowing grass 1 with a scythe at $lB a mouth, while 1 opposite an elegantly dressed clerk : cosily sells a holt of gingham to a ! beautiful young lady at 8-10 a mouth , and another city clerk below keeps books on a little mahogany desk at S2OO a month. Mr. Bright objects that the chart conveys a false idea, for the farmer, who really does his mowing by ma chinery, gets hoard aud lodgiug with liis $lO, while the dapper clerk lias to i pay $39.50 a month out of his S4O for hoard, lodging aud car fare. Also the I business houses which are looking for bright youug men to keep books at S2OO a month, carefully keep their | wants out of the small "ad" columns of the newspapers. ! The only defense of the chnrt is that It is calculated to "make pupils think." | This is true. It will make them think | that the authorities which display the chart have something the matter with I their intellectuals. ! it is rather odd that so much energy is devoted to making pupils think when very likely a small part of tiie same energy directed to the desirable 1 end of making ths educators think i would have a much better result.— Chicago News. I'cimirkallle Power. A dear old lady was taken one day |to a musical service in a Boston church. She had heard much about the line voice of the soprano and was prepared for a treat. She sat in rapt enjoyment until the I service was over, and then turned a radiant face toward her escort, who i was a young grandson. "Dear hoy," she said, "you've given mo n great treat. Her voice is per fectly beautiful. It made cold chills run all up and down my spine." "It's too bad, grandmamma," said the hoy, "but she d'du't sing to-day, j though she was there. The gentleman next me says she's been suffering from | a bad cold, and one of the chorus had to sing the solos for her." ! "What, dear?" said the old lady, I looking momentarily distressed. Then I her face cleared, and she patted his arm reassuringly. I "Never you mind," she said. "We can come again some time; but after | all, if she can make me feel that way ! without singing, I don't know as 'twould he wise for me to hear her, now would it?"— Youth's Companion. A Mnch-Looked-At Clock. ! There Is a clock on a building near j (he Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge which Is looked at every day by more persons than any other clock in the city, perhaps In the whole coun try. The clock is in plain view from tlie promenade and from the cars. The hundreds of thousands who sleep iu Brooklyn niul work In Manhattan re j gard it as an infallible guide, and I every morning four-fifibs of them set I their watches by it. Every one knows when he arrives within seeing distance of the clock, and there is a general craning of necks to get a peep at its face. If it should ever run slow or fast, the business en gagements of 100,000 persons might be disarranged.—New York Mall and Ex press. Sandwich Mail's Day is Over. The twentieth century and the pass ing of the old-time "sandwich" adver tising pedestrian made their advent si multaneously. Instead of the historic canvas-bnek-and-front sign wearer, It Is the custom nowadays to see on the populous city thoroughfares the ban ner supporter, who has troubles of his own at all times, but especially in windy weather.—New York Sun. Tiie rarest dog m the world 1s said to lie the mnguificcat Tibet mastiff, Dsamu, belonging to H. C. Brooke of New York, a known lover of pets and curios and unique reptiles. At the last great dog show In the Crystal i alace Dsamu took the first and spe cial prize for the best dog of any variety. lie is a beautiful and docile creature. Garfield Headache rowdera are good for all sufferers from headaches, weak nerves, in somnia, depressed spirits and other common ailments. Tho nerves and general health are improved by taking this simple remedy. The reason given for the substitu tion of the drum for the trumpet In tiie Italian army is that in these days of short service a young soldier learns to march to (lie drum far sooner than to the trumpet. Again, It is found that trumpeters are very subject to pulmonary affections. Phosphate comes largely from Flor ida, Tennessee and 'South Carolina, and by the improved process now in use makes the best fertilizer. The potash used comes principally from Germany. I A LUXURY WITHIN THE REACH OF ALL. rom ' Se e ' ,, positively I n -All that we eat I certainly must choose, do not allow AND 1 INSIST WE LION COFFEE use, •■= < Fee Mixtures Ob, promise me that for our comfort's sake, Egg mixtures, f R Wmm Each morning LION COFFEE , can makc _ Glue . And when the luncheon hour i, near .t hand Chemicals, Watch our advortlsomenU Again I'll need a cup of LION brand, or Similar At ntght when you come home, my dear, to dine Tii i „ A cup of LION COFFEE must be minej I ION Just try a package of No brand can healthier or better be- COFPEE LION COFFEE So promise me-oh, promise met and you will understand tho Voulmow that LION COFFEE I. not glued ttU It . . -, In nulhons of good homes 'tis often praised; absolutely reason ot its popularity. Ti. in the bean-the package weighs a pound; fPure Coffee. I ■ .. ~ _— _ Inside, a Premium List is always found. Li I 111 Kb Kh And I will save the lion heads outside t is now used in millions of T ° "m th useful presents they provide. I Tl ,,s s one pledge I will exact of thee— TIOIHGS. So promise me—oh, promise me! W In every package of LION COFFEE you will find a fully illustrated and descriptive list. No housekeeper, in I fact, no woman, man, hoy or girl will fail to find in the list some articlo which will contribute to their happiness, H comfort and convenience, and which they may have by simply cutting out a certain number of Lion Heads from ■ the wrappers of our one pound sealed packages (which is the only form in which this excellent coffee is sold). E How Are Your Bowels? About the first thing the doctor says mhum Then, "Let's see your tongue." Because bad tongue and bad f bowels go together. Regulate If nfrn W die bowels, clean up the tongue. i now sis wa y |\f *° ce P ar| d well. I You can't keep the bowels V healthy and regular with purges or piHs* They move you with awful S ri P cs then you're worse than ever. Now what you want is Cascarets. Go and get them today-Cascarets-in metal box cost 10c. Take one! Eat it like candy and it will work gcntly-while you sleep. It cures, that means it strengthens the muscular walls of the bowels, gives them new life. Then they act regularly and naturally. That's what you want. It's guaranteed to be found in GUARANTEED palm nftor eatlliir. lifer trouble, anllow Complexion alodlai* wedlrtue In (lie world. ThU !• abiolnle proof of and dlzzincaa. AVlteu your bowela don't movo resell- rroat irerlt. anti our uuat tcattiuonlnl. Wo hare faith and larly you are Wick. CoitMtlpMtion kllla UUFre vrltl artt C'A UCIKKTR nbaolutolr people than all other dfweaaeM io t elli. r. lit 1 a "<>•*? i-afuadad. Oohuy today, two iSOc^h®*f • atarter for tlio chronic nllmenl* and Ion? y*-ra of I#t P a2tlafl®S nrteVueluK ole*koe boa!return tha muued fiOe autfering that co.uo aiterwn'. No i.mvtcr what bnL om.ui boa'tH oa hy iaU. or .hVd. ut.t fro ail you. atari luklng; CASCAHt'.TS tn-dny, for yon whom J o>i uurcbuard It, unci urt your money Dork r-r hotk Will novel* get ivell and ho niellall the lime l'utll borci. Take oar Hdrte* no matloi* what all* yon 'taitlo* you put your boivela right. Tako our stdrice; atari day. JTcwltk will j ulc kI y t' •w a d▼on w! II hleaa^tho--! The government statistician gives the approximate result of the census In New South Wales as follows: Pop ulation, 1,302.232, comprising 715,207 males and 047,023 females. Increase during the past decade, 220,908, com prising 102,045 males and 127,303 fe males, or 1.87 per cent per annum. DROPSY cnaoa. Book of idHtimonialH an J lO daya' treatment l ife. Dr. H. H. GREENS SONS. Box B, Atlanta, Qa. •'The Smnre that made Wmi Point fnmoni." I McILHENNY'S TABASCO.j •rTTvW.L.DOUGLAS S3. & $3.50 SHOES SSSt. £>- 1 t |*t tho t "-tt of the foot, and the construction of the shoe, lt*{§ m^aMn| r 'tkllS n imd AA -' 1 knowledge that have made W. !.. Iloaclas phoe* the u*m m t in- world for men /ffL **•" ""hatUute. Insist on Imvliiif \V. 1.. Imiiirlaa blkhi with naine jflK v '' &K " I,e "'~ a Js&b'- ~Jm W. 1.. 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