CATARRH THIRTY YEARS. The Remarkable Experience of a Prominent Statesman—Congress man Meekison Gives Pe-ru-na a High Endorsement; Congress Meekisun of Ohio. Hon. David Meekison is well known not only in his own State but throughout America. He was elected to the Fifty fifth Congress by a very large majority, and is the acknowledged leader of his party 1 in his section of the State. Only one flaw marred the otherwise com plete success of this rising statesman. Ca tarrh. with its insidious approach and te nacious grasp, was his only unconquered foe. For thirty years he waged unsuccess ful warfare against this personal enemv. At last Peruna came to the rescue, lie writes: "I have used several bottles of Pe runa and 1 feel greatly benefited thereby from my catarrh of the head. 1 feel encouraged to believe that if 1 use it a short time longer 1 will be fully able to eradicate the disease of thirty years' standing."—David Mleeklson, Member of Congress. If you do not derive prompt and satisfac tory results from the use of Peruna write at once to Dr. liartman, giving a full state ment of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartinun Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. NESTOR AMONG CLERKS. Judge Tomkins Works for Uncle Sam Though Eighty Years Old. The nestor among the clerks at the Pension office at Washington is Judge C. M. Tomkins, who was appointed to that bureau in 1861 and has served continuously since. From a little bu reau he has seen the Pension office grow to one of the largest and most influential branches of the govern ment, with thousands of clerks to do its work. Despite his 80 years, he is still on active duty. Judge Tomkins was a flourishing lawyer in Wisconsin in 1861, when he visited Washington to attend President Lincoln's inaugu ration, and with no thought of seek ing or accepting a government office. He was pursuaded by Timothy O. Howe to remain at the capital and fetake a clerkship on the ground that r war was sure to be declared and it would be interesting to study it at close range. "Once a government clerk, always a government clerk," the saying goes, and Mr. Tomkins has never felt any ambition to leave the comfortable berth to which his old friend appointed him. Old Candlesticks High. With the increasing demand for an tiquities, the supply of mementoes and relics of past generations is be coming exhausted, and the prices of genuine pieces are waxing higher and higher. Old candlesticks, for exam ple, that have had such continuous popularity, are scarce, and good spec imens sell for almost any price that the dealer feels disposed to charge. To tell old brass, copper or pewter from the modern imitation requires long experience and a trained eye. Brass varies much in color, its chade /Copending upon the proportion of cop fpor and zinc used in its composition, and also on the hue of the copper em - ployed. Copper itself assumes a va riety of complexions. The old Span ish and Russian copper and brass are both peculiarly rich in color and re tain their polish longer than others. In the old pieces there is silkiness of texture not found in the sorts made now. This is partly due. it is said, to the natural wear of the utensils. In some cases, such as pots, kettles and fire-boxes, the action of heat may be responsible, in part at least, for this quality. Colonial furnishings arc the kinds most eagerly sought by collectors. Twain and the King. The father of Miss Louise Forss lund, author of "The Ship of Dreams." knew Mark Twain in the days of the gold fever in California. Twain was then a "young newspaper man named Clemens," and as the men drifted apart the acquaintance was never fol lowed up. Mr. Forsslund modestly any further knowledge of ' the now world-famed humorist. Mark Twain himself is less diffident, as a story is now going its second round of the English papers testifies. Dur ing Twain's residence in England he was taxed in what seemed to him an tinjustifiahle instance. Accordingly he wrote a friendly protest to the Queen. "I don't know you," he write, "hut I've met your sou. He was at the head of a procession in the Strand, and I was on a 'bus." Genuine stamped CC C. Never sold in bnlk. Beware of the dealer who tries to sell •'something just as good." I HAMLIN'S WIZARD OIL EARACHE Atti... KRUOO IS_TB_sglT_rr_ Thompson's Ey WaUr JI pidck 0 IL 1 j\J<iVentOre. ||| f Whipped a Catamount. THE announcement that Presi dent Roosevelt Is again con templating a sojourn in the wilds of the White ltlver country of Colorado has created, as always heretofore, a buzz of comment In the little Indiana city of Crawfords ville. For tho Chief Executive of the Nation never hunts in Colorado, heat ing up or down its mountain streams or winding in and out along its tortu ous mountain paths, without the ser vices of John Cioil as guide and com panion. John Golf is a resident of Crawfords ville. At least, when he speaks of "home" in that fashion peculiar to the ntcn who have gone into the wilderness of tlie West, he refers to the little cot tage nestled away among the syca more trees that line a lonesome, half neglected byway of the old Iloosler town. It is now nearly twenty years since John Coil' set his face toward the West, and, with a determination to repair the lost fortunes of the family, made his way into the very heart of the Rocky Mountains. GofL' spent his boyhood days near Ladoga, a lit tic villnge scarcely half a dozen miles away from Crawfordsville. Here there i are half a hundred people lnhabitin;; the countryside who yet remember the sturdy young man when he fished in Indiana streams and beat through Indiana woods in search of game. His father and his grandfather were trap pers before him, his uncles and his great-uncles were hunters, and his mother had in her veins the restless b'ood of the pioneer's wife. In John Golf the traits of the family centred. That is one of the reasons he is se lected annually to he the companion and tile guide of President Roosevelt, for Theodore Roosevelt, hunter, like the men of his kind, loves a man after his own heart. Goif at tlie age of fifteen had already brought his name prominently before the people of his owu neighborhood, lie had on this occasion been sent by his father to the home of a l'rlcnd. His journey, however, was delayed until darkness had begun to fall, and young (loff, when finally he did put out. found it necessary to make his way through the woods, where already the dark ness had grown dense. In the course of his trip Goff was set upon by a catamount. Tho hardy young hunter had only a pocket knife to use as a weapon of defense. Never theless, he whipped this from Ills pocket, and prepared to fight for his life. The beast, as Goff manouvred to avoid it If possible, suddenly leaped at the hunter from its perch upon an overhanging limb, and striking square ly upon the lad's hack, buried its claws in his shoulders nud fastened its fangs in his neck. Goff, although hampered In all his movements by the burly form of the animal, and sick with the pain caused by the claws and teeth ripping through his flesh, finally sueeeoed in sinking tlie blade of the little weapon into the cat's neck. This forced tlie beast to loosen its hold with its teeth and gave Goff the eliauce to shake It from his back. After a struggle continuing lot thirty minutes, tlie lad finished the cat amount, and half dead from loss of blood, he began his long journey to his home. This Goff accomplished on his hands and knees. Every inch of the trail wus covered witli Ids blood, and upon ar rival at his father's door lie sank from exhaustion, and was not discovered until an hour later, when he was found where lie had fallen In tlie dead faint. The following day tlie body of the catamount was brought into tlie town. A rough sign was tacked upon it, which road: "Killed by Goff." From that time on tlie young hunter acquired the nickname, "By," which lias clung to him through all the later years of his life.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. In ■> Vat. A brewery is often a dangerous place 111 more senses than one. Tile vats and the machinery are hut so many traps for unwary workmen. A workman in a brewery at Paterson N. J., Abraham Sapiro by name, recently had an ad tenture of a most extraordinary kind in connection with tho apparatus of the establishment. In the middle of each of the great mashing tubs in which the malt is mixed and boiled there are, attached to a central shaft, two sets of large steel knives. When the upright shaft re volves, these knives are rapidly driven about, and thus the malt is mixed. One day lately one of these tubs was empty, and Sapiro, who had charge of them, was at work cleaning the ma chinery. Having nearly finished his task, he wished to have tlie malt turned into the mixer. Ouiside the vat stood an assistant, and Sapiro told him to go and turn a lever, tlie function of which is to start or stop tiie machinery which feeds in the malt. The man went, but instead of moving this lever, he moved the one wlilt-h starts tlie shaft in the centre of the great tub and revolves the knives. In another instant, Sapiro, who was standing on the polished copper bottom of the tub, saw the knives begin to move slowly, and knew what Ills ig norant assistant had done. Before he could avail himself of the chance to get out, tlie knivas were moving so fast that he could do 110 more than run in a circle between them—or.e ahead of him and one behind—and call for some one to turn the lever. The terrible knives moved faster and faster, and Sapiro increased ills speed, one knife acting as a pacemaker in front of hiui, the other a terrible pur- suer, anil either of them sure to cut him in two if he slackened his pace or fell! Faster and faster he ran, still calling for help. His wet slippers found very insecure footing on the polished copper, and every moment he was afraid that he tvould slip and fall. His assistant now came in sight, but the man was either so dnzea by the spectacle or so ignorant of the machin ery that he could do nothing but stand and gaze open-mouthed. By keeping as near as possible to the shaft and revolving with it, Saplro was managing for the moment to keep out of the way of both knives; but his exertions were so great that he was rapidly becoming exhausted. It seemed to him that lie could not hold out a minute longer. But just as he was about to sink a man came in who had sense enough to run to the engineer and tell him to shut down the motive power of the whole establishment. The engineer did so, and the great knives slowed down. The exhausted man had then to watch closely and move at a slower and slower pace himself, in order to keep himself still between the two knives. This continued until the machinery had come to a dead stop. Sapiro sank in a dead faint on the bottom of th vat —totally exhausted, but unhurt. III! Narrow Prison. In old times prisoners were some times eonlined in cells that gave them 110 room, either to stand upright or to lie at full length. A more distressing experience, although happily it did not lust very long, befell an old plains man, who tells the story in the l.os Angeles Times. On a nipping zero day in February he started front a Mon tana ranch in pursuit of buffalo. "I must have gone thirty miles at least before sighting my game, four cow buffaloes and one bull. I got them all, and then, giving my horse his head, I undertook to skin the buffaloes, but it was new work for me and slow. It be gan to get dark by the time I had tinished the job, and when I looked around there was no horse in sight. "I concluded then that I would have to walk back to the ranch; but I dis liked to leave the hides, and it was cloudy and never a star to show me my course. After studying the matter over for a while, I laid two of the hides down flat together, hairy side up, stretched myself at one edge and be gan to roll myself up, careful to leave an airhole at the top for breathing purposes. The hides were so limp that they conformed well to the shape of my body, ami the comfortable feeling of being warm soon put me to sleep. "When I awoke and tried to stretch and turn over 1 found it was impossi ble. 1 tried to move my arms, but that was 110 more to be done than if I had been bound and rebound with rope. I had rolled myself up In two green hides and they had frozen hard, mak ing me a prisoner. "The idea of cutting my way out with a knife occurred to me, but try as I might 1 could not reach my pocket, it was like being tied to a plank. "When would relief get to me, or would it come at all? The boys knew about what direction I had taken, but they might not be alarmed enough to start out and look me up in time. Then It was getting dusk again, and another night of .torture was before me. Could I endure it and live? "Suddenly I thought I heard voices. Then came the tramp of horses' feet, and soon I was shouting and being answered. The fellows could not liud me at first, but following the sound of my voice, traced me and took in the situation at a glance. They pulled grass and piled it 011 each side of mc, set it afire , and in a quarter of on hour my prison walls were thawed apart. But the boys had to rub mo a long time before 1 was able to stand up." Dnro-Devil Workmen. "I remember," said a bridge con tractor some lime ago while on the subject of workmen's dare-deviltries, "when working at the big bridge across the Niagara. When the two cantilever arms had approached within lifty feet of each other a keen rivalry as to who should be the first to cross sprang up among the men. A long plank con nected the two arms, leaving about two and a half feet of support at each end. Strict orders were issued that 110 one should attempt to cross tlio plank upon penalty of instant dismis sal. At the noon hour I suddenly beard a great shout from the men, who were all starting up. Raising my eyes I saw a man step on the end of that plank, stop a minute and look down into tile whirlpool below. I knew he was going to cross, and I shouted to him, but he was too high up to hear. "Deliberately lie walked out until ho reached the middle of the plank. It sagged far down with his weight until I could see light between the two short supporting ends and the cantilevers on which they rested. He saw the end in front of him do this, hesitated and looked back to see how the other end was. I thought he was going to turn. He stopped, grasped both edges of the plank with his bauds, and, throwing his feet up, stood on his head, kicking his legs in the air, cracking his heels together and yelling to the terrified onlookers. This he did for about a minute—it seemed to me like forty. Then lie let his feet drop down, stood up, waved his hat and trotted along the plank to the other side, slid down one of the braces hand over hand and regained the ground. AVe discharged him, of course, but what did he care? He got all the glory, his fellows envied .him and ho could command work any where."—Cassler's Magazine. Wliy Untruths Live. Many untruths are like flies—they are allowed to live simply because it is too much troublp to chase them dowu and kill them.—New York News. ■ \ I A cts Berveficially, truly as-a LaxaiivL W / t Y j Syrttp of Figs appeals to the cultured and the /if V/-' > Y'' **" "■ ''fS" } II we h informed and to the healthy, because its com / ponent parts are simple and wholesome and be- V/ cause it acts without disturbing the natural func /•/"'< " N lions, as it is wholly free from every objectionable * y quality or substance. In the process of / „<• \ . O \ manufacturing figs arc used, as they are f ""2L Yi pleasant to the taste, but the medicinal f%.-W < f ,W\ :x Y virtues of Syrup of Figs are obtained from an excellent combination of plants vmis&t/ I /*■'/ known to be medicinally laxative and to -Jj ''? / /Jjfos). act most beneficially. wLwj' fg&reS&frp > (My / Y To get its beneficial effects—buy the Y{* J genuine—manufactured by the S 1 • -i 1 w S&h Frar\cisco. Cal. Louisville, Ky. new York.N.Y. "...'vji* for eala, by all Price- fifty -cents per- bottle-. Germany's Army Is for Defense. The German army, like the German nation, has been squeezed into exist ence. Germany, open on every side to attack, has been the great battle ground of Europe through all the cen turies; and by constant pressure with in and without the army has had its growth. It was the result of stern necessity. It was defense or death; and that, in spite of the commonly re ported military aspirations of the Ger man Kaiser, is the keynote of the sys tem. The army must be made power ful enough to defend the country from the attacks of any one power or all of them together. If It is necessary to march into France in the course of such a war, well and good; but that is not the fundamental purpose of the army. A Public Forest for Germans. Emperor William, of Germany, car rying out his purpose of converting the Grunewald into a vast pleasure ground for the use of the inhabitants of Berlin, has approved plans for new roads, playgrounds, picnickers' glades ind restaurants in the forest. One of the Emperor's objects is to encourage outdoor athletics. The forest contains 11,550 apres. It is a royal hunting preserve but the foresters are now killing off the deer and wild boar there. Found Ring in a Fish. Henry Buermann, of New York, found what he says is a solid gold wedding ring in the stomach of a iish. Buermann, who has a cafe at No. 8 Barclay street, stopped at a Front street fish store and bought a half of a 16-pound cod. The cod had come from Boston on the Bay State cold storage car the night before, and was already nicely cleaned. But when he was preparing it later he found the ring imbedded in the ribs. The ring is more than a quarter of an inch in breadth, and bears the inscription, "Lew to Lou, '89." The best way to euro indigestion is to remove its cause. This is best done by the prompt use of Dr. August Kocnig's Hani burg Drops, which regulate the stomach in an effectual manner. In Hungary the legal age of an indivi dual dates only from baptism. How's Tills? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any oase of Catarrh that cannot bo cursd by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F, J. CXENKT k Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J.Che noy for t ho lust 15 years, and believe him ner fectly honorable in nil business transactions Rnd financially able to carry out any obliga tion mndo by thoir firm. WKB I & TKUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Warm NO, KINNAN&MARVIN, Wholesale Drug gists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Curo Is taken Internally, act ing dlrootly upon tho blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Price. 75c. per bottis. Sold by nil Druggists. Testimonials froe. Hall's Family I'llls are the best. The leech is the only animal which pos sesses three separate jaws. FITS permanently oured.No fits or nervous nenaafterfirst day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerveßestorer. s2trial bottle and treatisetroe Dr.R. H. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St.. Phila., Pa. It is a notable fact that most of the sub jects of King Edward VII. are Hindoos. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing 3yrup for children teething,softentho gums, reducesinflamma tlon,allays pain,cures wind colic. 25c. u buttle The dentipt that hurts the most doesn't always charge the least. You can do your, dyeing in half an hour with PUTNAM FADELESS DIES. Exports of cattle have increased twenty per cent in five years. lam sure Pico's Cure for Consnmptlon saved By life three years ago.—Mns. TUOMAU ROB mhs. Maple Bt.. Norwich. N. Y.. Feb. 17.1905. 1 Where Connecticut Got Its Name. It might be Imagined that Connect j icut is called the "land of steady liab | its' on account of the exemplary con i duct of its citizens. But it obtained j that title in a different manner. John j R. Matthews told just how recently at the Waldorf-Astoria. "In the early j colonial times," he said, "it was the custom to provide every one who as sisted at a dedication, church build ing or barn raising with a 'hooker' of good Jamaica rum. These functions, needless to say, were popular. When the charter creating Connecticut a crown colony arrived there was, of course, a celebration. The first gov ernor, John Winthrop, refused to pro vide rum and in his inagural address deplored the custom of tippling, say ing 'it did not lead to steady habits.' Thereup the Nutmeg State had a title to hand down to posterity. Cleverest Woman Politician, Miss J. N. Strong, private secretary to ex-Congressman Hawley, of Texas, is credited with being the cleverest female politician ever seen in Wash ington. She is conversant with every county in Texas, knows every man of prominence in the State and attends to nearly all details of Federal pat ronage there. It Is related of her that she once went to see a Cabinet Minister in regard to a place for a Texas constituent. The official was not disposed to give the place to her applicant, but in a pleasant and court eous manner said: "I am sorry to disappoint you after looking into such pretty eyes." "It seems to me, then," was the quick answer, "that the eyes ought to have it." The Cabinet of ficer was so pleased with the retort that he made the appointment. Price of White Star Line. It was officially announced in Lon don, England, that the purchase price of the White Star Line, on its joining the Internationa! Mercantile Marine Company, is $53,497,180, of which $15.- 736,180 is payable in cash, $25,174,000 in preference shares and $12,587,000 in common stock. The shareholders thus receive over $50,000 for each I 1,000 shares. An aluminum alloy is now used as a substitute for copper in the manufac ture of nails and tacks. The white metal is much cheaper and in every way as durable and desirable as copper. Your Hair "Two years ago my hair was falling out badly. 1 purchased a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor, and j soon my hair stopped coming out." I Miss Minnie Hoover, Paris, 111. i Perhaps your mother had thin hair, but that is no reason why you must go through life with half starved hair. If you want long, thick hair, feed it with Ayer's Hair Vigor, ! and make it rich, dark, and heavy. If your druggist cannot supply you, send us one dollar and we will express you a bottle. Be sure andgivo the name of your nearest express office. Address, J. C. A YER CO., Lowell, Mass. Odd Sunday Law in Scotland. As an instance of the observance of the Sabbath in Scotland an Eng lish paper tells of a postman having a route between Stirling and Blaird rummond. He was observed to ride a bicycle over his six miles on week days and to walk the same distance on Sunday, and when asked why, re plied that he was not allowed to use the machine on Sunday. An investi gation followed, and the postman's explanation proved to be correct. Chicago Through British Glasses. Chicago's university professors are called "slangy freaks" by a recent British visitor, on whom all the hos pitalities of the town had been "poured in sparkling showers." But as he also called its policemen "por cupine sluggards," honors are compar atively easy between the cops and the faculty, anyhow, with the rest of the community looking on rather amused than otherwise. ST. JACOBS 1 OIL I I POSITIVELY CURES § g Rheumatism Neuralgia Backache Headache Feetache All Bodily Aches $ AND o I CONQUERS I PAIN. 1 fcfcfcJWWHteOOOOWOOMOOOOO The simplest remedy for lndiges- 1 Hon, constipation, biliousness and | the many ailments arising from a i disordered stomach, liver or bowels is ltipaus TabuXes. They have ac complished wonders, and their time ly aid removes the necessity of call ing a physician for the many little ills that beset mankind. They go straight to the seat of the trouble, relieve the distress, cleanse and cure the affected parts, and give the sys tem a general toning up. At druggists. The Five-Cent packet is enough for an ordinary occasion. The family bottle, 60 centa, contains a supply for a year. npnPSY ne y d ?otery; VJ IV ■ O ■ aaiek relief end cures wont CAMS- Boek of teitunoniele end |0 days' treatment Free. Dr. H. a. OBUtSN SSONS. Bex B. Attest*. e. Heat Cough Syrup. Tarn* Good. Use H In time. Sold by drupelet*. M
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