\No Hair? Ori ——— \ miwwnii I "My hair was falling out very H fast and I was greatly alarmed. I i then tried Ayer's Hair Vigor and H my hair stopped falling at or.ce."— i Mrs. G.A. McVay, Alexandria, O. The trouble is your hair ! does not have life enough. | Act promptly. Save your hair. Feed it with Ayer's Hair Vigor. If the gray hairs are beginning to a show, Ayer's Hair Vigor I will restore color every D time. ji.w a bom., ah dnrfiu. ■ If your druggist cannot supply yon, p send us oco dollar and wo will express ■•jou a bottle. Be euro and give the name ■ £ your nearest express oinoe. Address, ■ J. C. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass. ■ Liver Pills That's what you need; some thing to cure your bilious ness. You need Ayer's Pills. Want your moustache or beard a beautiful brown or rich black f Use of druggist* or R P Hal' CcCo , Naihus.N H A M U LTI-MILLIONAIER. Shepherd Six Million Dollars In Mexican Mines. It Is consevatively estimated that "Boss" A. R. Shepherd, whose death occurred at his home in the mining camp of Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico, left a fortune of about ! J,000,000. Most of this is in the shape o dividend-pay ing mining stocks and i.: mining prop erties which he owned individually. He mado all his fortune in the 19 years that he had resided in Mexico. Bato pilas, where he made his home, is sit uated in the heart of the Sierra Mad res, more than 200 miles from railway communication. It is a long and diffi cult trip over a winding burro trail be tween Chihuahua and Batopilas. It is over this narrow trail that millions of dollars of bullion have been brought from the mines and a vast tonnage of mining machinery taken into the dis tant camp, all on the backs of burro 9. A few years ago "Boss" shepherd had a piano brought from New York, and shipped on the backs of burros in pieces to Batopilas. where the Instru ment was put together and played in his home. He had many exciting ex periences during hIS long rcsdence In the wilds of Mexico. Only a short time ago his life was attempted by a Mexican, who shot at him at close range. A. M. Priest. Druggist, Shelbyville, Ind.. •ays: "Ball's Catarrh Cure gives the best of •atisfaotion. Can get plenty of testimonials, as It cures every oue who takes it." Drug gists soil It. 75c. The average longevity in the United States was 35.2jn1900. FITS permanently oured.No fits or nervous ness after drat day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. t'2t rial bottle and troatisofree Dr.B. H. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. The man who expects bad luck usually gets it. H. H. QUERN'S SONS, of Atlanta, Ga., are the only successful Dropsy Specialists In the world. See their liboral offer in advertise ment in another column of this paper. Stockings were first worn in Italy about 1100 A. D. Mrs. Winslow'u Soothing Syrup for children teething,soften the gums, reduces inflamma tion,allays pain,cures wind colic. 250. a bottle He who cultivates his memory increases his chances of unhappiness. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump tion has an cqu al for coughs and colds— JOHN F. BOYEII, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15,1900. He fa most a servant who boasts that he has no master. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES color Silk, Wool and Cotton at one boiling. The weather man is seldom greeted with a itorm of applause. I ST. JACOBS I j 0!L I § POSITIVELY CURES g j' Rheumatism , Neuralgia g Backache Headache | g Feet ache | All Bodily Aches 5 | AND | CONQUERS j PAIN, j BOOKKEEPING! Taught by mail. either sex. In shortest tlnio at low est cost. Individual instruction^underxf"' rer vision. Latest iiraotioaj methods. O. D. BANCt- i KB. Fnblio Accountant. U3u Arch St. Phlladol., Pa. Yields Love and Life Recent Suicide Makes Public an Extraordinary Case of Self-Sacrifice. \/T Y dear wife, my love, I love IVI you. I will leave you at 1 PTSpR o'clock. May God blesa you. For you I will leave JIO.OOO. My love was greater than word can tell. BILL." These words, scrawled with trem bling hand on a sheet of common note paper, were addressed to Mrs. Charles Stierle, Newlon, Mont., by the man who first married her, William W. Hately. Then, on the lawn In front of his boarding-house at Omaha, and with his former's wife name upon his lips, Hately killed himself by shooting. Hately went to Omaha many years ago, as the residents of that new city William Hately. use the terra "many." Fifteen years ago he entered a clothing company's employment and soon became one of its most trusted employes. Three years later Mattie May Lowe, the daughter of a family well known and in comfortable circumstances, be came his wife. Two children were born as a result of the marriage- Jean, now eleven, and Robert, now nine years of age. The Hately home, though not large, was happy and filled with ordinary comforts. Hately came from a good family, one that knows how to live well. His mother, Mrs. Thomas Hate ly of No. 4 Cross Row, Gateshead, England, is reputed to be wealthy, but Hately's nature was one of independ ence, and although frequently strug gling against a semi-poverty, he al ways refrained from applying for as sistance from his mother or from his brother-in-law, E. F. Deright, a prom inent safe dealer in Omaha. His wife was always affectionate and seemingly content in her posi tion, although her friends say she sometimes sighed for more of the world's comforts than Hately was cap able of giving her. Hately a little over a year ago moved to Newlon, Mont., taking his wife and two children with him. Pov erty, gaunt and real, there overtook him. He was no longer able to pro vide his wife with the comforts to which she had been accustomed, and he noticed that her affection for him was rapidly departing. It was a still greater grief for him when he dis covered that her love had not only been lost to him, but that her heart had been won by another, Charles Stierle, wealthy, manly and withal honorable. Not a taint of suspicion was directed against the wife. Al though loving Charles Stierle and with the former love for her husband dead within her, she still followed the duty of a wife and uncomplainingly clung to him. But Hately saw. It was agreed that a divorce should be obtained by Mrs. Hately with Hate ly's consent, so that she could wed her new love. The divorce was granted and Hately never uttered a murmur. Hately returned to Omaha tame- Mrs. Hately. dlately after the divorce was granted. He procured a positicn with Thomas Kilpatrick & Co., and for the past year had shown no failure in his duties and no reduction in his commercial abilities because of his troubles. New Mining System. A gold-bearing clay found in Santa Cruz county, Arizona, is of such a refractory nature that the usual meth ods of separation have failed abso lutely to extract the gold therefrom. After practically every known meth od had been tried and failed, the in genious scheme of drying the gouge thoroughly and beating it vigorously with a club was adopted, with com plete success. This is a mining sys tem unknown in any other part of the world. Enforcing Obnoxious Laws. The city marshal of Mexico, Mo., is causing a good deal of disturbance in that city. He insists on enforcing the ordinance which provides that all j places of business shall be closed on Sunday. This absurd proceeding has so outraged the feelings of the alder men that five of them have resigned, another threatens to follow suit, and even Mayor Jones intimates his inten tion to do likewise. Thus the odd sit uation is presented of the lawmakers refusing to assume responsibility for the government of a place where tho law is enforced. The marshal says he believes in Gen. Grant's declaration that the way to repeal an objection able law is to enforce it. Plan to Honor Gen. Sigel. Admirers of the late Gen. Franz Si gel propose to ask the New York city authorities to change the name of Cedar Park, at One Hundred and Fif ty-second street and Mott avenue, to Sigel park, to honor the memory of the patriot and soldier. Gen. Sigel was a resident of the Bronx for more than a quarter of a century, and his friends say that as he was the most prominent veteran of the civil war ' who lived in that part of the city it would be appropriate to commemorate his patriotic services in such a sub stantial way. Many public officials and citizens of the Bronx favor the plan. Father and Son in One Pulpit. Recently father and son appeared in the same Brooklyn pulpit—that of the Greenwood Baptist church. Rev. Dr. Robert Bruce Hull is pastor there, and his son, Rev. Robert Chipman Hull, was well received. The latter is just turned 21 years of age, and during tho summer has been preach ing in the Strong Place Baptist church, Brooklyn. The father preached Sunday morning and the son in the evening. The Law of Compensation. In days gone by when as a swain I used to court the girls, I'd often note the monstrous hats Above their fluffy curls. And then I found the reason for Their hats' most wondrous growth. For underneath them —from the sun Was shelter for us both. Alas! those days are past and gone, Their hats are now quite small; I find' now when the sun is hot, No room beneath at all. But compensation's everything, 'Tis nature's rigid law; The girls now join me underneath My spreading Panama. Farmers Keen in Business. Johnstone Bartlett, a lightning-rod agent, called on the prosecuting at torney to-day and asked that warrants be issued for the arrest of twelve Ajtchison county farmers, says the Nebraska State Journal. He says he started out of Atchison a week ago with a team of good horses and a new spring wagon, but that during tho week lie was swindled out of ev erything, in trading horses, and was compelled to walk back to town. Ho did no business, and lost all his lightning rods. The prosecuting at torney said that getting the best of a horse trade was no violation of law, and Bartlett left for tho east, saying bank presidents were easier than farmers. Stood Dead in Doorway. A Boston man who has just returned from ruined St. Pierre says that a friend of his who entered the city as soon after the eruption as the fire and heat allowed, spoke one evening of entering a house in St. Pierre in an endeavor to find the family's bodies. There stood in the doorway a strange man to whom he touched his hat as ho went in. He found the family all dead within, and, sickened by the sight, made haste to come out again. In the doorway he again encountered the stranger, and, thinking he might mean some mischief, this time ob served him more closely. He was looking into the eyes of a man two days dead.—Boston Transcript. New Idea In Dirigible Balloons. Flying machines steering by Hertz ian waves was Patrick Alexander's striking position at the late Berlin scientific ballooning conference. He claims that an unmanned balloon, carrying instruments for registering temperature and moisture at differ ent heights, can be sent fifty miles and steered back to the starting point. PLAGUE OF ANTB. Billions of the Creatures Havs Taken New Orleans. By a sort of eminent domain billions of small, red ants—hyinenopterous; genus Linnaen —have taken possession of New Orleans. The quaint, historic City of the Gulf is overrun with count less numbers of the pests. Not con tent with taking up their homes in the streets and in public places they have invaded the homes. Tho citizens seem to be unable to combat the new-com ers, or, even with most extensive ag gressive measures, to make any appre ciable diminution in their numbers. The newspapers of New Orleans have talked volubly this summer of the al most total disappearance from the city and vicinity of the mosquito. Also they have told that daring experiments have revealed the fact that those that remained are not so strong, hefty, and aggressive as usual, but instead are degenerating into weak, lean, puny creatures that are not at all bother some. Another unusual thing which the papers discussed at great length was the almost total absence of the pestiferous fly, saying that few of the Insects were to be seen about the public market this year. Then came the plague of ants. They came no one knew whence, in great armies. The pavements and sidewalks were made brick-colored by their presence, and the housewife and cook were pestered to desperation by them. But the phil osophical people are reasoning that the little red ant is less bothersome than the fly or the mosquito, that he is an excellent and ever-industrious scaven ger, and that he has never been ac cused of being the means of spreading contagion. MUST CEASE TO BE COMIC. Royalty In Bulgaria and Servla Re fuses to Be Laughed at. The King of Servia and Prince Fer dinand of Bulgaria have formed a trust to stop ridicule of their royal persons. Whenever a comic paper hereafter alludes to Ferdinand's tre mendous nasal organ, or his ambition to become a King, or when even a misguided editor levels words of dis respect at King Alexander or his bon nlo wife, Draga, presto, he will be clapped into jail at the instance of joint diplomatic action by Bulgaria and Servia, both countries at the same time, agreeing to prosecute any subject of their own who dares make light of other European royalties. Heat and Sunstrokes. The discovery of a distinction be tween heatstroke and sunstroke is claimed by Dr. Moussoler, a French naval surgeon, who believes that a con siderable saving of life should follow. Heatstrokes, he affirms, results from prolonged exposure of the whole body to moist or dry heat exceeding 104 de grees Fahrenheit, and its ill effects are due to the action of the superheated blood. Sunstroke, instead of being caused by high temperature, Is induced by chemical rays from intense sunlight falling on the cranium. It can occur only in the tropics, and the immunity of blacks is explained by the fact that a dark skin or other substance almost completely stops the passage of chem ical rays. By a new lay in Montreal, Que., all bread must be sold by weight, except fancy bread under one pound. The council passed the law after a bitter contest lasting for months past be tween the races, the English bakers, insisting that it must be enacted as a protection for the poor, who, they claimed, have been frequently defraud ed. (Jerxtly. cts P |e * srarvl ly* 7 M s Beneficially; vM s truly "as-'a Laxative. si '■/ ' mt / Syrup of Figs appeals to the cultured and the j/\ -Y/.V 'JJr • / well-informed and to the healthy, because its com 'jl,. ifflrH) / ponent parts are simple and wholesome and be cause it acts without disturbing the natural func jjjlp' genuine—manufactured by the '■y\ . ; I w .Sei\"F~r^r\cisco."C^l. Louisville, Ky. fttw Ycrk.N.Y. "".W For so.lt. by all Price, fifty cents per bottle. PE-RD-NA NECESSARY TO THE HOME. A Letter From Congressman White, of North Carolina. PE-RU-NA IS A HOUSEHOLD SAFEGUARD. No Family Should Be Without It. PERUNA ia a great family medicine. The women praise it as well as the men; it is just the thing for the many little catarrhal ailments of childhood. The following testimonials from thank ful men and women tell in direct, sincere language what their success has been in the use of Peruna in their families: Louis J. Scherrinsky, 103 Locust street, Atlantic. lowa, writes: "1 will tell you briefly what Peruna has done for me. I took a severe cold which gave me a hard cough. All doctors' medi cines failed to cure it. 1 took one bottle of Peruna and was well. "Then my two children had bad coughs accompanied by gagging. My wife had stomach trouble for years. She took Pe runa and now she is well. "I cannot express my thanks in words, but I recommend your remedy at every opportunity, for I can conscientiously say tnat there is no medicine like Peruna. Nearly every one in this town knew about the sickness of myself and family, and they have seen with astonishment what Peruna has done for us. Many followed our example, and the result was health. Thanking you heartily, I am." L. J. Scherrinsky. Mrs. Nannie Wallace, Tulare, Oal., President of the Western Baptist Mis sionary Society, writes: "I consider Peruna an indispensable ar ticle in my medicine chest. It is twenty medicines in one, and has so far cured every sickness that has been in my home for Ave years. I consider it of special value to weakly women, as it builds up the general health, drives out disease and keeps you in the best of health."—Mrs. Nannie Wallace. Peruna protects the family against coughs, colds, catarrh, bronchitis, catarrh of the stomach, liver and kidneys. It is just as sure to cure a case of catarrh of the bowels as it is a case of catarrh of the head. The Cape Town exhibition next year will be followed in 1904 by an interna tional peace exhibition in Johannes burg. There id no satisfaction keener than being dry and comfortable when out in the hardest storm YOU ME SUM OF 17115 CL IP YOU WEAK MF* tSS* *^7 \ 'WATERPROOF U OILED CLOTHING I MADE IN BLACK OR YELLOW 1 AND BACKED BY. OUR GUARANTEE. A. J. TOWER C0..805T0N.MA55l T L 11 ASK YOUR DEALER Lf^ If he Will not aujk>{/ .you dC * end for our free cotnloflue of tfofments and hats. CANDY CATHARTIC Genuine stamped CC C. Never sold In bulk. Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "something just as good." | HOy. H. j Congressman George Henry White, of Tijrboro. N. C., writes the following let ter to Dr. Hartman in regard to the mer its of the great catarrh cure, Peruna: I louse of Representatives, Washington, Feb. 4, 1899. Gentlemen—" 1 ant more than satis fied with Peruna, and. find It to he an excellent remedy Jor the grip and catarrh. I have used it tn my /amity and they all join me in recommend ing it as an excellent remedy." Very respectjully, George 11. White. The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, 0.: Peruna is an internal, scientific, syste mic remedy for catarrh. It is no pallia tive or temporary remedy; it is thorough in its work, and in cleansing the diseased mucous membranes cures the catarrh. If you do not derive prompt and satis* frfctory results from the use of Peruna write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium. Columbus. Ohio. A year ago last June I was trou bled greatly with indigestion after meals. Often upon retiring at night I would be seized with dizziness, which often kept me awake for hours. I was recommended to take Ripans Tabules by one of my friends who had himself found use for them. I immediately found re lief in their use, and have since had no return of my complaints. At druggists. The Five-Cent packet is enough for an ordinary occasion. The family bottle, , 00 cents, contains a supply tor a year. Best Cough Syrup, Tastes (load. Use PS in time. Sold bv clrueglets. Fffl DROPSY Boue of UMtiinooi&i* *nd 1 O day*' trHAtmn.il bine. l)r. U. U. U&SfifiTsgOKß. Box B. AUAULA, UA. P. N. U. 41, 'O2. Thompson's Eyo Wator