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