We never did ; but we have seen the clothing at this time of the year so covered with dandruff that it looked as if had been out in a regular snow storm. No need of this snowstorm. As the summer sun would melt the falling snovso > melt these flakes of dandruff in the scalp. It goes further than this : itpreventstheir formation. It has still other properties : it will restore color to gray hair in just ten times out of every ten cases. And it does even more : it feeds and nourishes tbe roots of the hair. Thin hair becomes thick hair ; and short hair be comes long hair. We have a book on the Hair and Scalp. It is yours , for the asking. 0 If yon do not obtain all tUo benefits yon expected from tlio use of the ViRor , write the < octor about it. Trobubly there Js some difficulty with your gen eral system which may bo easily re moved. Address. DU. J. C. ATEK , Lowell , Mass. Taking No Risks. A Columbia Heights woman , who is vouched for by the Washington Post as exceedingly fond of animals , bad an odd experience with one or two- while waiting at a city railway station for a belated train. In the seat next to her sat a small dog , who evidently belonged to an elaborate ' dressed woman iu the seat just beyond. He was a friendly little dog , and looked up at the Columbia Heights woman with a wag of his tail , which was an outward and visible sign of a desire to make friends. She leaned down and patted him on the head. His elaborately dressed mistress im mediately reached out and took her precious pet into her lap. "Pardon me , " said she , apologetical ly , "but my dog is not allowed to kis ? strangers. " Mark. TwaiR as a Linguist. Mark Twain said recently , in ad dressing an audience at Vienna , that he had not made the progress in learu- jliig the German language that he had "hoped to , but he had got far enough to be able to speak English with a Ger man accent. 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Your medicine has worked wonders for ine. " Mas. S. EABNHABT , NEW CASTLE , PA. 1 ME. ALGEH RESIGNS. THE SECRETARY OF WAR QUITS M'KINLEY'S CABINET. Vice President Hobart the One to Con vey the Kequest of the President His Retirement la Asked to Put an End to Friction. Washington special : Geu. Russell A. Alger Wednesday morning called upon President McKiuley and handed him his resignation us Secre tary of War , to take effect at the pleas ure of the President. There was no com ment except that the President asked if he wished to go at once , and the reply of the Secretary that he would remain until the assistant secretary returned , if his successor should not be chosen at once. The story of the resignation is closely guarded in administration circles , but it is said that the President indirectly re quested the resignation , and as soon as the Secretary was informed that the President wished him to retire he return ed from Long Branch to Washington and placed his resignation in the hands of Mr. McKinley. The politicians have for some weeks been anxious to get Alger out of the cab inet. The Pingree alliance was the ex cuse. They feared it , and they feared the hostility of Senators McMillan and Burrows if Alger remained in the cab inet. They urged the President to get rid of Alger , but McKinley said he could not ask for Mr. Alger's resignation with GENERAL K. A. ALGER. such an excuse. President Lincoln had refused to accept Secretary Chase's resig nation from the cabinet' even after he knew that Chase was scheming to be a presidential candidate against him. President McKinley said he could not ask Mr. Alger to leave the cabinet be cause he had announced his candidacy for United States Senator from Michi gan. The members of the cabinet were more open to the argument of the men who wanted Alger out of the way of the success of the administration. They agreed that the Secretary of War must be sacrificed , and they expressed their views to the President. At this stage in the developments , At torney General Griggs was sent as a mes senger to Vice-President llobart , to ask the Vice-President to advise Alger to re sign. Mr. Llobart figroed to undertake the delicate mission of saying to Gen. Alger what the President and other mem bers of the cabinet would not say to him. lie telegraphed Secretary Alger , inviting him to spend a few days with him at his Long Branch cottage. When the Secre tary arrived and the two men had an op portunity to talk freely , Mr. Hobart ad vised Alger to resign , saying that the country was against him and that he might as well recognize that he must be sacrificed. Gen. Alger asked if the Vice-President spoke only for himself or at the sugges tion of others. Mr. Hobart had to tell him the whole story , that the President wanted his resignation , but did not wish to ask for it ; that Attorney General Griggs had been the messenger of the President and the cabinet to him , and that he ( llobart ) was merely the agent of the administration in advising Alger to retire. Gen. Alger remarked that he would hand the President his resignation as soon as he returned to Washington. He 1 he had supposed that he and the osident were on terms of friendship justifying frankness regarding this situa tion , but all he desired was to know the President's pleasure. He returned to Washington and handed his resignation to President McKinley. ALASKAN DISPUTE HOPELESS. Indefinite Postponement of Joint Commission Likely. A Washington dispatch asserts ihat the administration has practically aban doned hope of a settlement of the Alas kan boundary question , and the indica tions are that the meeting of the joint high commission will be indefinitely post poned. Definite action on this point , . however , will not be taken until after the arrival of Senator Fairbanks. A confer ence will then be held by Senator Fair banks , Secretary Hay , John Foster and John A. Ivasson , and the boundary ques tion discussed at length. The best the authorities hope for now is that there will be no clash in the re maining few weeks of the mining season. The situation is grave , with the Ameri can miners on one side in a state o.1 irri tation and the Canadian constabulary on the other in a very aggressive mood. Should the clash come it will not be through the fault of this Government : Everything has been done to prevent ac tion which will cause bloodshed. News of Minor Note. Texas floods damaged railroads S2- 000,000. Essex Hotel , Bloomfield , X. T. , was de stroyed by fire. Loss $100.000. . 'oanuii ' b ! . jk , Newton , lilass , de- Str.oyed by fire. Loss $20,000. Barnard Oliver , 22 , Newark , X. J. , kill er1 jjis wife by shooting , then escaped. Chas > Jones. New York porter , fell down au\ air shaft and was killed. Dan L. vDavis. Wayland , Ohio , .while intoxicated\fell under a train and was killed. SIX MORE KILLED IN A FEUD. "White-Baker Trouble trie Direct Cause of Another Tragedy. As a result of the White-Baker feud , six more victims have been found dead in the mountains near London , Ky. AH Philpot was arrest- TOM BAKER. ed one nioniing re cently and was shot while giving a bond. A general fusillade followed , in which five men were killed , and the sixth , Rich ard Loven , was found three miles from town with his head severed from his body. Deputies are being hurried from all over the State into Clay County and more shooting is expected. The dead on the White side are Hugh Griffin , James Griffin and Edward Fisher. The Baker allies dead are Robert Pbilpot , Aaron Moms and Richard Loven. Besides the dead several members of both factions are seriously wounded. The Baker-Howard feud began in De cember , 1897 , over the purchase by Tom Baker of a judgment for $40 that had been hand ed down against A. B. Howard. Ba ker had some of Howard's goods seized , and thus originated a bad feeling which devel oped into quarrels. are allies of the two factions , and the direct cause of the present is as signed to the fact that the Griffins took the , side of the Whites , and that the Philpots , the strongest faction in the mountains , numbering 750 votes , sided with the Bakers. "Bob" From quarrels it = - ' went to fist fights , SHERIFF WHITE. then clubs , then revolvers and ritles and knives. Tom Baker is the eleventh man to lose his life in the feud and the ead is not yet It is said there are not twelve men in Clay County who are not person ally interested in the feud to the extent of doing desperate deeds if the occasion seemed to demand it. If the trouble is not soon straightened out it looks as if Clay County woul < 3 , before long , be the CLAY COUNTY COURT HOUSE. scene of a small but bloody war. Judge Onear of Mount Sterling says troops will have to be withdrawn , and that the only way trill be to let the Howards and Ba kers fight it out among themselves. MOVE TOWARD PEACE. Acuinnldo and Some of Hia Leaders Make Overtures. A Washington special on Tuesday says : Important cablegrams have been receiv ed at the State Department from the Philippine commission and at the War Department from Gen. Otis concerning a new irove in the direction of peace. These dispatches have been in the hands of the President for several days , but he has declined to make them public because the uUra optimistic views heretofore re ceived from the same source have not been borne out by subsequenfevents. Thy latest dispatches , however , are more encouraging than the previous ones , but the President wishes to have some positive results before making them pub lic. All that can be learned definitely about them is that direct overtures for per.ce have been made to Gen. Otis by Aguinaldo and some of his principal lead ers. It was said by a cabinet official that if the promises are fulfilled the volunteers now being enlisted will not be needed. Oem Paul -will doubtless feel a little sheepish when he lies down with the lion. It is understood that rain only made Gea. Funston's swims the more agree able. able.When When the war is over , Aguinaldo should form a baseball team. It's the runs that count. They say the electrical show is the most shocking thing on the boards in Xew York. Xew York's last horse show was a fail ure. That city should now hold a horse less show. Soldiers in the Philippines are to wear tan shoes. Corbin desires to match their complexions. Why should any one want to cause Congressman Roberts trouble ? He has three wives. The Boston Globe asks how it would feel to be run over by an automobile. Probably it would produce that rubber tired feeling. Thirty people at Detroit were poisoned by ice cream. This is enough to make one shiver with horror. The Pittsburg Telegraph calls Agui naldo a dictator. He is certainly a great chap for running things. The sublime porte distrusts the peace conference. Things may be coming His Convalescency's way , but it looks Ar menia. Of course , there will be people mean enough to call attention to the fact that those Western cyclones sneaked in on the weather bureau. CHICAGOAN A "FUGITIVE. School Board , * ei-rctary Graham Te About $3-1,000 s-hort. Alter five years of service as clerk , sec- 'retary and school agent i'or the Chicago Board of Education , W. A. S. Graham has proved faithless to his trust and fled the city , a confessed defaulter. His shortage is believed to amount to $34- 500 , although in a statement left behind he estimates it at ยง 2:3,000. : In his flight he left behind to suffer for his misdeeds his wife and three little children. To cover his shortage he left a schedule of his real property in Chicago and Evanston - anston , estimated by himself to be worth $25,000 , and which he wished turned over to the School Board or the surety com pany which was on his bond. With the schedule was a confession of his guilt. The last trace of Graham was his ap pearance in New Orleans less than a week ago , accompanied by his wife and three children. This was the initial step in his flight , the family having hurried to the Southern city while Graham's friends thought he was touring westward in search of rest and quiet. It was his in tention to keep his family together , but the illness of Mrs. Graham and her baby precluded this and the family returned to hicago after Graham had written a complete confession , turning over all his property for the benefit of the school fund that had suffered from his peculation and had worded a faltering declaration that he hoped to live to undo the wrong he had accomplished. This done , the defaulter departed. Where he went or what hi3 intentions for the future are no one knows , but the surety companies that are upon his bond and will have to make good the shortage are hot on his trail. BIG STRIKE SPREADS. New York Traction Employes Quit Work in Sympathy. Wednesday brought two startling sen sations into the great New York traction strike. Brooklyn strikers or their sym pathizers destroyed a part of the Fifth ci venue elevated road with dynamite , and about half the men on the Second'avenue line of the Metropolitan system in New York City struck in sympathy with the Brooklyn strikers. The strike on the Metropolitan system was not authorized by the leaders. Some of the more enthusiastic men who attend ed the Cooper Union meeting got together and decided that the only- thing to do waste to strike. They formed themselves into a committee and went to the Second ave nue car stables early in the morning and asked the men to come out. Every car was stopped as it reached the stables , and each man on the car was asked to quit work. The strike spread to the Sixth ave nue line of the Metropolitan company , where a number of motormen quit work. The conductors refused to strike. General Master Workman John M. Parsons of the Knights of Labor , who presided at the meeting in Cooper Union , did not want the men to strike. There were disturbances at several places and four men were arrested. It was said that those who were trying to get the men out were discharged employes. During a con ference the men told Mr. Parsons that this was only the start of a general strike of all employes of the Metropolitan Kail- way system. At Cleveland , Ohio , the most serious violence since the street railroad strike was reneAved was the blowing up of a switch with dynamite and the -burning of a small ollice and waiting room at Murray Hill Tuesday evening. Xo one was injured. Xo clew to the dynamiters could be found. RECRUITING IS UNEQUAL. It Need Not Be Confined , However- "Within State limits. The fact that some regiments Are being recruited so much more rapidly than oth ers the Thirty-first , Fort Thomas , for Instance , had nearly GOO men , while the Thirty-fifth , Vancouver Barracks , had but about twenty-five has been the cause of many inquiries directed to the Adju tant General. The people want to know whether the regiment must be recruited within the State limits originally set forth , or wheth er the recruiting hi the more populous dis tricts will be kept up with \iew of fur nishing recruits for regiments which have act been so successful , even after the quota for the regiment shall have been obtained. The Adjutant General says that the latter will be the case , and that recruiting will continue everywhere until the total number requisite for the ten new regi ments has been raised. CHINAMEN ARE CANNIBALS. So Say Laborers at AVork on Mexican Central > ail way , Near Tampico. San Antonio , Texas , advices state that great excitement prevails in the seaport of Tampico , Mexico , over a brutal act of cannibalism which was committed by some of the laborers on the Mexican Central Railroad near Tampico Saturday last. last.The The Chinamen who were recently im ported to work oh the railroad are charg ed with having murdered a female Mex ican child and are said to have eaten its flesh. The child was the daughter of a Mex ican section foreman. The affair has in censed the Mexicans against the Chinese , and the celestials are flocking into the city for protection. It is reported that1 the Mexican rurales have arrested the i criminals. 'MID FLAMES AND DEBRIS. ! Biirninsr Hotel Collapbit > , Hurl in jj Firemen Into the Ruins. While Milwaukee firemen were swarm ing up the walls and over the roof of the burning Plotel Grace , the structure sud- lenly collapsed and twenty firemen were precipitated into the ruins. Of this num ber one is dead , eleven are in hospitals and several are so badly injured there is little chance for their recovery. About twenty other firemen narrowly escaped iieing carried down , but saved themselves > y jumping from the south wall to an ad joining building. HOSPITAL STORES FOUND. Boxes Intended for Porto Jiico Turn Up at Manila. On Sept. 5 last the ladies of the Army and Xavy League of Portsmouth , Ohio , sent to Company H of the Fourth Ohio , then in Porto Rico , two large boxes of hospital stores and other supplies. In the boxes were also some private pack ages. The boxes never reached the Ports mouth company. A letter from the physician in charge of the hospital ship Relief , now at Manila , says the boxes were found and all excepr 7iie private packages will be used. Gave Baby the Wronjj Name. A young girl had an amusing experi ence at a baptism the other afternoon. She was occupying the exalted position of sponsor for a little girl baby , and never having served In such a proud capacity before , she was slightly nerv ous and perplexed. "What is your name ? " demanded the clergyman performing the ceremony. "Mary , sir , " she replied at once , and "Mary" was accordingly written In a tiny book and the minister passed on to the next applicant for baptism. The worried sponsor listened eagerly to what was demanded of her next neighbor , and to her horror she found that the question was not at all In tended to learn the name of the sponsor ser , but was solely concerned with the name of the infant. The agitated god mother hurriedly approached the clergyman , interrupting the ceremony to exclaim : "Oh , sir , Mary Isn't the baby's name at all. The baby's name Is Rebecca Elizabeth. " And amid the irrepressible laughter of all assembled the baby was christen ed Rebecca Elizabeth. "I should never have dared to face its mother , " the sponsor said later , "but I think the baby would have forgiven tbe mistake and blessed me for It. " Xo Disqualification. Maj. Whipple , of the Second Massa chusetts Regiment , had been a soldier and an oOicer in the civil war , and in the meantime had seen much service In the Massachusetts militia. When the Spanish war broke out , he wished to go to the front with his regiment. But all the officers , as well as men , had to undergo a physical examination at Worcester. Maj. Whipplewas a man of great bodily strength and perfect health and activity , but the lapse of time had left him a little deficient iu the matter of teeth. An examluing sur geon proposed to exclude him ou that account. Then the major , who could not stand being shut out from the chance to serve bis country in such an emergency , waxed wroth. "Look here , " he exclaimed , "I'm goIng - Ing down there to shoot Spaniards ! I don't propose to eat them ! " We do not know what answer , by word of mouth , the surgeon made to this protest , but the fact is that the niajoc went to the war and distin- guishec | himself in it,1 even eating his Bhare oE hardtack with the rest , and escaping all the illnesses that fell to the lot of younger men. Youth's Com panion. Kilts in the Mosquito Season. Out of the 400 men required for the Victorian Scottish regiment only si : .ty- four have been enrolled , and on the third occasion of receiving applicants only eleven entered their names. So bare legs during the coming mosquito season are too much for the Victorian Scotsmen's endurance. South Austra lian Critic. REGISTER OF TREASURY. Hon. Judson W. Lyons , Register of the United States Treasury , in a letter from Washington , D. C. , says : as.TR wfj Bl'ILCIKO HOX. JUDSOX W. LYONS , KEGISTEB OF THE TREASUKY. April 23 , 1899. 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Dr. Hnrtman , in a practice of over forty years , never lost a single case of cholera Infantum , dysentery , diarrhoea , or cholera morbus , and his only Pe . desiring remedy was ru-na. Those ing further particulars should send for a free copy of "Summer Catarrh. " Ad dress Dr. Hartman , Columbus , Ohio. Recret. Visitor What lovely furniture ! Tommy Yes ; I guess the man we bought it from is sorry he sold it ; he's always calling. Brooklyn Life. FREE FOR ! O DAY& By sending" 4 cents in postage we will , by return mail , send you a Sample Bottle of our famous Remedy , " 5 Drops. " for the positive cure of the following [ TR1DEH1RI ] , lowing diseases : RHEUMA TISM , SCIATICA , NEURALGIA , . Asthma. Hay Fever , Catarrh , Toothache , . Nervousness , Neuralgic Headache , Heart Weakness , Earache , Malaria , Dropsy , Creeping Numbness , BRONCHITIS uud LA GRIPPE. Don't fail to avail your self of this great opportunity , and RE MEMBER it is only for 10 days from issue of this paper. 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