CATARRg THIRTY YEARS. The Remarkable Experience of a Prominent Statesman—Congress man Meekison Gives Pe-ru-na a Hi*h^ Congress Meekison of Ohio. Hon. David Meekison is well known not only in his own State but throughout America, lie was elected to the Fifty f fifth Congress by a very large majority, and is tlie acknowledged leader of his party 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. He writes: •'1 have used several bottles of Pe ru nn. an I I feel greatly benefited thereby from in y catarrh of the head. 1 feel encouraged to believe that if 1 use it a short time longer I will be fully able to eradicate the disease of thirty years 9 standing.— David Meekison, Member of Congress, If you do not derive prompt and satisfac tory results from the use of Peruna write at once to Dr. Hartman, givingafull state ment of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartinan 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 Jake a clerkship on the ground that #RF,r was sure to he declared and it 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 genuino 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 feqls 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 rhade depending upon the proportion of cop- Vper and zinc used in its composition, ind also on the hue of the copper em ployed. Copper itself assumes a va riety of complexions. Tlie 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 are 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 tho acquaintance was never fol lowed up. Mr. Forsslund modestly J disclaimed any further knowledge of I 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 unjustifiable instance. Accordingly he wrote a friendly protest to the Queen. "I don't know you," ho write, "but I've met your son. He was at the head of a procession in the Strand, and I was on a 'bus." Genuine stamped CC C. Never sold la balk. / Beware of the dealer who tries to sell J "something just as good." Thompson's Eyo Wator jj | oicick * | L Wliipped a Cacamaunt. THE announcement that Presi dent Roosevelt is again con templating a sojourn in the wilds of the White River country of Colorado lias created, as always heretofore, a buzz of comment in the little Indiana city of Crawfords ville. For the Chief Executive of the Nation never limits in Colorado, heat lug up or down its mountain streams or -winding in and out along its tortu ous mountain paths, without the ser vices of John GoCE as guide and com panion. John Goff is a resident of Crawfords ville. At least, when lie speaks of "home" in that fashion peculiar to the men who have gone into the wilderness of the West, lie refers to the little cot tage nestled away among the syca more trees that line a lonesome, liall'- negleeted byway of the old Hoosier town. It is now nearly twenty years since John Coll' ■ 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. Goff spent his boyhood days near I.adoga, a little village scarcely half a dozen miles away from Crnwfordsville. Here there are half a hundred people inhabitin-: the countryside who yet remember the sturdy young man when he fislifed in Indiana streams and beat through Indiana woods in search of game. Ills father and Ills grandfather were trap pers before him, his uncles and his great-uncles were hunters, and ids mother had in her veins the restless hiood'of the pioneer's wife. In John Goff the traits of Iho family centred. That is one of the reasons he is se lected annually to he the companion and tlie guide of President Roosevelt, for Theodore Roosevelt, hunter, like tlie men of his kind, loves a man after his own heart. Goff at the age of fifteen had already brought his name prominently before the people of his own neighborhood. He had on this occasion been sent by his father to the home of a friend. His journey, however, was delayed until darkness had begun to fall, and young Goff, when finally he did put out. found it necessary to make liis way through the woods, where already the dark ness had grown dense. In the course of ills trip Goff was set upon by a catamount. The hardy young hunter had only a pocket knife to use as a weapon of defense. Never theless, he whipped this from his pocket, and prepared to fight for his life. The beast, as Goff maneuvred 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, burled its claws iu his shoulders and fastened its fangs in his neck. Goff, although hampered in all his movements by the burly form of the nuimai, and sick with the pain caused by the claws and teetli ripping through his flesh, finally sueeeded in sinking the blade of tlie little weapon into the cat's neck. This forced tlie beast to loosen its hold with lis teetli and gave Goff the chance to shake it from his back. After a struggle continuing for thirty minutes, the lad finished tlie cat amount, and half dead from loss of blood, he began his long journey to his home. This Goff accomplished on his bauds and knees. Every inch of the trail was covered with his blood, and upon ar rival at ills father's door lie sank from exhaustion, and was not discovered until an hour later, when he was found where he had fallen in the dead faint. The following day the body of the catamount was brought into the town. A rough sign was tacked upon it, which read: "Killed by Goff." From that time on the young hunter acquired the nickname, "By," which has clung to him through all Hie later years of his life.—St. Louis Glohe-Uemocrat. In a Vat. A brewery is often a dangerous place iu more senses than one. The vats anil the machinery are hut so mauy traps for unwary workmen. A workman in n brewery at Patcrson N. J., Abraham Snpiro by name, recently had an ad tenture of a most extraordinary kind iu connection with the apparatus of the establishment. 11l the middle of eacli of tlie great mashing tubs iu which the malt is mixed and boiled there are, attached to a central shaft, two sets of large stool 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, mid Sapiro, who had charge of tliern, was at work cleaning the ma chinery. Having nearly finished his task, he wished to have the malt turned into the mixer. Outside tlie vat stood an assistant, and Sapiro told him to go and turn a lever, tlie fund ion of which is to start or stop the machinery which feeds in the malt. The man went, hut instead of moving this lever, he moved the one which starts the shaft in the centre of the great tub and revolves the knives. In another instant, Sapiro, who was standing on tho polished copper bottom of the tub, saw the knives begin to move slowly, and knew wliat bis ig norant assistant bad done. Before be could avail himself of the chance to get out, the knives were moving so fast that he could do no 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 his speed, one knife acting as a pacemaker in front of him, the other a terrible pur- suer, and 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 would slip and fall. His assistant now eamo in sight, hut the man was either so dazed by the spectacle or so ignorant of the machin ery that he could do nothing hut stand and gaze open-mouthed. By keeping as near as possible to the shaft and revolving with it, Sapiro was maaagin;; 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 he could not hold out a minute longer. But just as he was about to sink a man came in who had souse enough to run to the engineer and tell him to shut down tho 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 couie to a dead stop. Sapiro sank in a dead faint on the bottom of the vat —totally exhausted, but unhurt. His Narrow I'rlsoii* In old times prisoners were Some times coutined in cells that gave them no room, either to stand upright or to lie at full length. A more distressing experience, although happily it did not last very long, befell an old plains man, who tells the story in the I.os Angeles Times. On a nipping zero day in February he started' from 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 finished 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; hut I dis liked to leave the hides, and it was cloudy and never a. star to show me my course. After studying tlio matter over for a while, I laid two of the hides down flat together, hairy side up, stretched myself at one edge and bc gnu to roll myself up, careful to leave nil airhole at tho top for breathing purposes. The hides were so limp that they conformed well to the shape of my body, and the comfortable feeling of being warm soon put tne to sloop. "When I awoke and tried to stretch and turn over I found it was impossi ble. I tried to move my arms, but that was no more to be done than if I had been bound and rebound with rope. I bad rolled myself up in two green hides and they had frozen hard, mak ing me a prisoner. "The idea ot' cutting my way out with a knife occurred to me, but try as 1 might I could not reach my pocket. It was like being tied to a plank. "When would relief get to rae, or would It come at all? The hoys knew about what direction I hnd taken, but they might not ho alarmed enough to start out and look iue 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 hoard voices. Then came tho tramp of horses' feet, and soon I was shouting and being answered. The fellows could not find me at flrst, but following the souud of my voice, traced me and took in tho situation at a glance. They pulled grass and piled It on each side of me, set it afire , and in a quarter of an hour my prison walls were thawed apart. But the hoys had to rub me a long time before I was able to stand up." Daro-Devll Workmen. "I remember," sakl a bridge con tractor some time ago while on the subject of workmen's darc-devlltrics, "when working at the big bridge across tho Niagara. When the two cantilever arms had approached within tlfty feet of each other a keen rivalry as to who should ho the flrst 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 no one should attempt to cross tho plank upon penalty of Instant dismis sal. At the noon houf 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 mhuiie and look down into the whirlpool below. I knew he was going to cross, and'l shouted to him. hut lie was 100 high tip to hear. "Deliberately he walked out until he reached the middle of the plaulc. It sagged far down with his weight until I could see light between the two short supporting ends and (lie cantilevers on which they rested, lie 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 Hot li edges of tho plank with his hands, and, throwing ills foot up, stood on his head, kicking his legs in the Mr, cracking his heels together and yelling to tiie terrified onlookers. This he did for about a minute—it seemed to mo like forty. Then he let his feet drop down, stood tip, waved Ills hat and trotted along the plank to tho other side, slid down one of the braces hand over hand and regained tho ground. Wo discharged him, of course, but what dkl ho care? He got all tho glory, his fellows envied lilni and he could command work any where."—CnEsier's Magazine. AVh.v Untruth* IJve. Many untruths are like flies—they are allowed to live simply because It is too much trouble to chase them down and kill them.—New York News, /^ c * s pi eavSa(,v tiy. '•' 'V ' "'f "^lt'' '*' ' \if // c^s Beneficially? 'f4(f / c * s trvilyas-a Laxative. S'vy ' "> • / '" / Syrup of Figs appeals to the cultured and the /", %/;-■<' 1 jj well-informed and to the healthy, because its com- SCTI "•> 'v, ••$?) / poient parts are simple and wholesome and be <•<'/>V' -- *.*., ' cause it acts without disturbing the natural func '' tions > as '* is wholly free from every objectionable " A') ' * quality or substance. In the process of jOM!hM■-■■■'.' . . <:?sW'\ % ' A.:;y™ manufacturing figs are used, as they are /. X ,i '¥ >•■?; pleasant to the taste, but the medicinal rasitfcft virtues of Syrup of Figs are obtained I , v Ktf .V Ji v it *4\ from an excellent combination of plants / **' / i'' ,r '/. known to be medicinally laxative and to /*>":•;. act most beneficially. /'' - , To get its beneficial effects—buy the ' " I ,;n k francisco. C&l. Lovnoville, Ky. new Vork.N.Y. For call, by ell Price, fifty cents per . bottle.. Germany's Army Is for Defense. The German army, like the German 1 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- j in and without the army has had its ' growth. It was the result of stern j 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 va3t pleasure ground for the use of the inhabitants of Berlin, has approved plans for new roads, playgrounds, picnickers' glades ind restaurants In tho forest. One of the Emperor's objects is to encourago outdoor athletics. The forest contains 11,650 acres. It is a royal hunting ! preserve hut tho foresters are now killing off the deer and wild boar there. Found Ring in a Fish. Henry Bucrmann, of New York, found what he says is a solid gold wedding ring in the stomach of a fish. 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 l'rom Boston on the Bay Stale 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 i is more than a quarter of an inch in j breadth, and bears the inscription, ; "Lew to Lou, '89." The best way to cure indigestion is to j remove its cause. This is best done by the prompt use of Dr. August Koenig's Ham 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 Howard for any case of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by Ball's Catarrh Cure. F. .T. Cxr.NET ,V Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, haveknowni'. J. Che ney for the lust lii yours, and beliove him ner fectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obliga tion made by their firm. WEST A THUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. WALI>IN(I,KINNANAMARVIN, Wholesale Drug gists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, act ing directly upon tho blood and mucous sur- I faces of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle, | Sold by nil Druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are tho best. The leech is the only animal which pos sesses three separate jaws. FITS permanently cured.No fits or nervous re.esafter llrit day's use of Dr. Kliua's Great Nerveßestoror.s2trlal bottle and treatlsefraa Dr.E. H. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phlla., Pa. It is a notable fact that most of the sub jects of King Edward VII. are Hindoos. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for ohildrea toothing,sotynathegums, re'ilucesinflamma tion,allays pniu.cure.s wind colic. 25c. übottle The denti,st that hurts the most doesn't always charge the least. You can do your. dyeing in half an hour with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Exports of cattle have increased twenty per cent, in five years. lam sure Plso's Curo for Consumption save.l my life threo years ago.—Mas. Thomas Bob junb. Maple at- Norwich. N. Y- Feb. 17,1993. 1 Where Connecticut Got Its Name. It might be imagined that Connect i leut is called the "land of steady hab- I its' on account of the exemplary con- I duct of its citizens. But it obtained ; that title In a different manner. John j It. Matthews told just how recently at , tho Waldorf-Astoria. "11l the early j colonial times," he said, "it was the : custom to provide every one who as ; sistcd 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 firßt gov ernor, John W'inthrop, refused to pro vide rum and in his inagural address deplored the custom of tippling, say ing 'lt 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 tho cleverest female politician ever seen in Wash ington. She is conversant with every county in Texas, knows every man of j prominence in the State and attends to nearly all details of Federal pat- i j ronage there. It is related of her j 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 tho appointment. j Price of White Star Line. I I It was officially announced in Lon- j I don, England, that the purchase price j I of tho White Star Line, on its joining I the International Mercantile Marine i I Company, is $59,497,180, of which sls.- | I 736, 150 is payable in cash, $25,174,000 j in preference shares and $12,587,000 ] in common stock. The shareholders thus receive over $50,000 for each ! 1,000 shares. An aluminum alloy is now used as a J substitute for copper in the manufac ture of nails and tacks. The white metal is much cheaper and in everv | way as durable anil desirable as copper, I I Your Hair i fetPSza'awgjfmacarexEfnT-xaeiajgmMMH | "Two years ago my hair was V jj falling out badly. I purchased a i | S bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor, and I 1 I soon my hair stopped comingout." < i Miss Minnie Hoover, Paris, 111. j Perhaps your mother had thin hair, but that is 1 no reason why you must 3 go through life with half- 1 Starved hair. If you want § long, thick hair, feed it 1 with Ayer's Hair Vigor, and make it rich, dark, and heavy. SI.OO a bottle. All druggists. If your druggist cannot supply you, send us one dollar and wo will express you a bottle. He sure and givo the name : of your nearest ox press office. Address, I | J.C. AYEIt 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 roiles on week days and to walk the same distance on Sunday, and when asked why, re plied that he was not allowed to use ihe 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 I I OIL I i g POSITIVELY CURES | i g Rheumatism : Neuralgia Backache Headache Feetache All Bodily Aches 8 AND 5 1 CONQUERSi 1 PAIN. | j The simplest remedy for lndiges-1 tiou, constipation, biliousness mid | the many ailments arising from a i disordered stomach, liver or bowels is Blpans Tabules. 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-Coot pocket is enough for an ordinary occasion. The family bottle, liO centa, contains a supply for a year. HPOPQY NEW DISCOVERY; ,i, M IJt |\ W I w ■ ouiclr ralfrf ami euraa worn ram. boaS ol ts.liroouia.a ,a0 1 O dura* Iraatuiaua Pre*. Dr. I. I. COSES aaosi. Bar >. OtUata. Da. ■I |
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