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CATARRH THIRTY YEARS
i CONGRESSMAN MKEKISON OF OHIO
Hon David Mcekison is well known not only in his own State but throughou
America He began his political career by serving four consecutive terms as Mayor oi
the town in which he lives during which time he became widely known as the foundei
of the Meekison Bank of Napoleon Ohio He was elected to the Fifty fifth Congress bj
a very large majority and is the acknowledged leader of his party in his bection of the State
Only one jlaw marred the otherwise complete success of this rising statesman Ca
tarrh with its insidious approach and tenacious grasp was his only unconquered foe Foi
thirty years he waged unsuccessful warfare against this personal enemy At last Perunj
came to the rescue and he dictated the following letter to Dr Hartman as the result
have used several bottles of Peruna and I feel greatly benefited
thereby from my catarrh of the head I feel encouraged to believe that If
I use it a short time longer I will be fully able to eradicate the disease of
thirty years standing David Meekison Member of Congress
season of catching cold is upon us
THE cough and the sneeze and the
nasal twang are to be heard on every
hand Theorigin of chronic catarrh the most
common and dreadful of diseases is a cold
This is the way the chronic catarrh gen
erally begins A person catches cold which
hangs on longer than usual The cold gen
erally starts in the head and throat Then
follows sensitiveness of the air passages
Which incline one to catch cold very easily
At last the person has a cold all the while
seemingly more or less discharge from the
pose hawking spitting frequent clearing
of the throat nostrils stopped up full feel
ing in the head and sore inflamed throat
The best time to treat catarrh is at the
cry beginning A bottle of Peruna prop
erly used never fails to cure a common
fold thus preventing chronic catarrh
While many people have been cured ol
chronic catarrh by a single bottle of Peruna
yet as a rule when the catarrh becomes
thoroughly fixed more than one bottle is
necessary to complete a cure Peruna has
cured cases innumerable of catarrh of
twenty years standing It is the bestrf
not the only internal remedy for chronic
catarrh in existence
But prevention is far better than curs
Every person subject to catching cold should
take Peruna at once at the slightest symp
tom of cold or sore throat at this season ol
the year and thus prevent what is almost
certain to end in chronic catarrh
Send for free book on catarrh entitled
Winter Catarrh by Dr Hartman
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only
Ask your druggist for a free Peruna Almanac
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A SENATE MUDOL
INSISTENCE ON STATEHOOD BILL
MAKES PROGRAM DOUBTFUL
SENATOR QUAYCHANGESTACT1CS
A Move to Tack the Omnibus State
hood Bill Onto Another Measure
May Cause Trouble Senators
Ready to Appeal from the Chair
WASHINGTON The omnibus state
hood bill will continue to hold its place
for the present as the unfinished busi
ness on the senate calendar but it
seems quite probable that the debate
will be transferred to the appropria
tion bills Senator Quay has entirely
changed his tactics during the last
week and after trying in vain to se
cure a quorum for night sessions on
two different occasions has abandoned
all efforts in that direction leaving
the senators who oppose the state
hood bill to take the responsibility
for delay He now apparently is the
least concerned of all to secure late
sessions
He makes no confidants but it is
evident that it is his purpose to make
his fight in connection with the ap
propriation bills and to secure prom
ises to vote for a statehood rider to one
or other of them
Thus far there has not been delay
on any supply measure on account of
the statehood debates but there will
be a decided effort to attach the state
hood amendment to the agricultural
appropriation bill It is expected that
the amendment will be ruled out on
a point of order in which event there
will be an appeal from the decision of
the chair It is quite possible how
ever that the question may be sub
mitted to the senate without a ruling
by the chair This plan has been pur
sued in other cases and has been found
to work satisfactory
Senator Cullom will attejipt to se
cure consideration of the Cuban treaty
but until the statehood bill is disposed
of all speculation as to what may be
done with other questions is idle
The anti trust bill which was sched
uled for early consideration in the
house this week will ot come up un
til late in the week if at all and
possibly may be postponed until next
week The friends o the currency
bill are exceedingly anxious to get
consideration for it and it may most
likely come in after the postoffice ap
propriation bill is disposed of in which
case the anti trust bill would be shut
out this week
Omaha Child Saving Institute
A remarkable incident occurred
some time past A woman with a young
child was on the streets in a perfect
ly destitute and helpless condition
She was without friends and without
means of support and had tried in
every way she knew to find employ
ment with her little child and failed
In her desperation she appealed to a
childrens society to take care of her
little one temporarily until she could
get in a better position She was
told that she must sign papers of re
linquishment and make absolute legal
surrender of her child and give it up
with the assurance that she would
never see it again and would never
know where it was or that she must
go out again upon the streets She
clung to her child and went on her
journey although it was cold and
dreary and she was hungry- Finally
she concluded there was nothing else
for her to do but to go baclc and sign
the papers and give up her child for
ever On the day to do this some one
seeing her distress and learning the
cause of her trouble told her of the
Child Saving Institute and that it
would help her She appealed to the
institute and her child was tenderly
cared for several weeks nd in the
meantime the mother met with good
fortune and reached a position where
she was abundantly able to provide
for her own child and to keep it per
manently
Must Not Offer a Pass
ALBANY N Y Attorney General
Conneen has written an opinion in
which he holds that the offering of a
transportation pass to a member of
the legislature would constitute a mis
demeanor and make him subject to
forfeiture of his office
The giving of the attorney generals
opinion arose from the fact that the
Pullman Palace Car company sent to
Hon Francis G Landon member of
assembly from Dutchess county an an
nual pass and Mr Landon referred
the matter to Mr Conneen
Cattle Disease Disappears
BOSTON Mass Within a short
time it is believed the cattle embargo
in force in several New England states
because of the foot and mouth dis
ease will be lifted Dr Salmon chief
of the United States bureau of ani
mal industry has returned to Wash
ington and will not come back to New
England unless there is a reappear
ance of the disease There are no
known cases of the disease in New
England now
THE LAND LEASING BILL
Why a Texas Congressman is Opposed
to the Measure
WASHINGTON Additional opposi
tion to the land leasing bill has arisen
in the house from some of the south
ern members of congress Represent
ative Burleson of Texas introduced a
resolution in the house calling upon
the secretary of the interior to fur
nish the house with full information as
to what steps if any had been taken
to prevent the illegal fencing of the
public domain in Nebraska Wyoming
and New Mexico He also desires to
know the number of filings or appli
cations for part of the public domain
which have been made in the states
of Nebraska and Wyoming during the
year 1901 and 1002 under the home
stead and desert land acts and how
many persons who have made such
filing have been fraudulently used to
secure color of title to said lands for
the purpose of conveying or transfer
ring the same to others The resolu
tions also directs that upon report be
ing made the attorney general shall
immediately institute proceedings
against all persons who have illegally
fenced in government lands and to
declare all fraudulent appropriation of
lands under the acts referred to and
that in on event shall any money paid
for land be refunded where it is shown
that the filing was fraudulent When
inquiry was made as to his motive
for introducing the resolution and his
opposition to the bill Mr Burleson
stated that it would give the cattle
growers of Wyoming and Nebraska an
undue advantage over the Texas cat
tlemen for the reason that when Tex
as came into the union she retained all
ner public lands and the state had to
buy or lease their lands from private
individuals and if the Nebraskans
were permitted to keep up their fances
without paying rent or allowed to
lease lands at a few cents per acre it
would continue to work an injustice
upon the people of Texas
COUNTRYS MILITARY STRENGTH
One Hundred and Nine Thousand Or
ganized Militia in Country
WASHINGTON In view of the
vague rumors of impending trouble
for the United States growing out of
the Venezuelan situation tho annual
returns of adjutant generals of the
several states regarding the strength
of the militia of the country which
was transmitted to congress Monday
by Adjutant General Corbin is of pe
culiar interest at this time It shows
that the United States has a grand to
tal of 10S5339G men available for mil
itary duty The total organized
strength of the militia of the country
officers and men of all arms is shown
to be 10933S The strength of the
militia of Nebraska Iowa South Da
kota and Wyoming is as follows
Nebraska General staff 8 engi
neers C3 cavalry 101 light battery
148 infantry 1489 total 1711 To
tal available men unorganized 112000
Iowa General staff 2G engineers
1G infantry 2450 signal corps 60
hospital ambulance corps 58 total
2G1C Total available men unorgan
ized S1G0GS
South Dakota General staff 12
cavalry 127 light battery 35 infan
try 1085 total 1255 Total availa
ble men unorganized 559GS
Wyoming General statf G cavalry
52 light battery 42 infantry 2G0
total S60 Total available men unor
ganized 9000
STATEHOOD BILL IS RIDER
Committee Attnches it to the Agricul
tural Appropriation
WASHINGTON The senate com
mittee on agriculture Saturday agreed
to place the omnibus statehood bill on
the agricultural appropriation bill as
a rider
The proposition was strongly an
tagonistic but it carried by a two
thirds vote Senators Hansbrough
Foster Wash and Quay republi
cans and Bate Heitfeld and Simmons
democrats voting in the affirmative
Senators Proctor Dolliver and
Quarles republicans voted in the neg
ative
Asks America to Aid Finns
CHICAGO Appeals for aid for the
starving Finns are being made by Dr
C J Sorrenson surgeon-in-chief of the
Northern Michigan general hospital
who is president of the Finnish cen
tral relief committee with headquar
ters in Calumet According to Dr
Sorrenson no less than 400000 Finns
are starving and not since the famine
of 1S67 which caused the death of
100000 persons have the conditions
been so desperate
Younger Will Be Pardoned
CHICAGO 111 A dispatch to the
Chronicle from St Paul says Cole
Younger who was paroled from Still
water penitentiary two years ago
with his brother Jim will be given a
conditional pardon by the state par
don board which will admit of the
ex bandit returning to his former home
in Missouri Warden Wolfer of Still
water prison has recommended a full
pardon
GOOD DAYS WORK
HOUSE PASSES A NUMBER OF
MINOR MEASURES
RELIEFFOR JVIILITARYAHD NAVAL
Land Exchange Proposal is Rejected
Refusal to Allow Holders of Arid
Railway Acres to Trade for Other
Portions of Public Domain
WASHINGTON The house Monday
passed about forty bills under suspen
sion of the rules The most important
of them was a bill to authorize the re
sumption of the negotiations with
Great Britain for the preservation of
the Alaska fur seals and to give the
secretary of the treasury authority if
the modus Vivendi is not completed
prior to the pelagic sealing season this
year to exterminate the seal herd on
Prybilof islands except 10000 females
and 1000 males
The senate bill appropriating 1500
000 for a new department of agricul
tural building was passed Among
other bills were a number to restore to
their former rank in the army and
navy and then retire officers who re
signed years ago One bill advanced
Brigadier General H C Merriam re
tired to tho grade of major general on
the retired libt
When the house convened Mr Can
non 111 reported the sundry civil
appropriation bill and gave notice that
he would call it up at the earliest op
portunity
This was suspension day and the
speaker recognized Mr Bates Pu
who moved the passage under suspen
sion of the rules of a bill to provide
for the better separation and utiliza
tion of public and private lands within
the limits of railroad land grants in
the arid region
Mr Bates explained that the bill was
recommended by the interior depart
ment and permitted the secretary of
the interior to exchange arid and semi
arid It permitted the secretary of the
interior he said to exchange arid and
semi arid lands within the limits of
railroad and wagon grants for public
lands of equal value in order to assem
ble public and private lands in more
compact bodies so as to permit them to
be advantageously used
Mr Jones Wash protested vigor
ously against the consideration of such
an important measure under suspen
sion of the rules He declared that
the amount of land involved was from
50000000 to 70000000 acres No man
could tell exactly how much land was
involved The proposition he said
was to pass with twenty minutes de
bate a bill affecting one fifth of the
public domain of the United States
People who had purchased lands
from the railroads now desired the
government at its expense to segregate
them from the railroads lands in order
that they could be used to advantage
If they received the privilege of ex
change they would select the best land
available
Messrs Kleborg Tex and Shafroth
Colo also opposed the measure
The bill was defeated on a viva voce
vote
The senate bill to authorize the con
struction of a new building for the
department of agriculture at a cost of
51500000 passed
NO TENDER OF A LIBRARY
International Court of Arbitration
Waits on Carnegie
THE HAGUE The foreign minis
ter Dr Van Lynden replying to a
question in the chamber as to whether
an offer from Andrew Carnegie of
250000 to found a library for the in
ternational court of arbitration had
been rejected said it had not been
rejected and added that no offer had
been made in a form rendering either
acceptance or refusal possible The
minister observed that in view of the
special character of the arbitration
court the best form for such a gift
would be to make it a special foun
dation Meanwhile the government
was willing to administer the gift if
it were offered
Tries to Hold Up Morgan
TRENTON X J Botho Struble
who with three others was arrested
some time ago in Jersey City charged
with sending letters to J P Morgan
threatening him with death unless
money was sent them pleaded guilty
in the United States district court
and was sentenced to one year and
to pay a 100 fine
Doings of Congress
WASHINGTON The house com
mittee on appropriations Monday re
ported the sundry civil appropriation
mill Among its numerous items are
the following providing appropriations
to carry on the work of public build
ings
South Dakota To complete Battle
mountain sanitarium 350000 Aber
deen postoffice 75000 Deadwood
50000 and Spearfish hatchery 3
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AT A STANDSTILL
Venezuelan Embroglio Still far from
Settlement
WASHINGTON No answer has
como from tho allies to Mr Bowens
last proposition
Tho British ambassador sent a long
cablegram to Lord Lansdowne stating
what might bo expected in case Great
Britain and Its two allies insisted upon
the preferential treatment blockading
the other powers Tho text of the
cablegram cannot bo published but it
informed the foreign office that Mr
Bowen in the event of a refusal of
his proposition would call on the rep
resentatives of the other claimant
powers in Washington and explain to
them that Venezuela was being
forced by the triple alliance to yield
to a plan which would affect seriously
the interests of France Belgium Nor
way and Sweden Denmark Spain
Holland and the United States
When this step is taken it is expect
ed France will make representations
at once to London Berlin and Rome
protesting against any interference
with the previous arrangement it has
made with Venezuela for the settle
ment of claims France may be join
ed in this protest by the other claimant
nations
There is reason to believe that the
French government already has sound
ed the United States government to
learn how much in common there may
be between their interests in Vene
zuela It is said that there is a strong
resemblance between the claims of
the two nations perhaps enough to
link them together in resistance to any
policy on the part of the allies which
would tend to destroy those interests
The French officials had not doubted
that equal treatment would be recog
nized and this unexpected turn of
events has caused much surprise and
concern For the present it does not
appear to be the purpose of French
authorities to assume an imperative
position but rather set forth what
they regard as the manifest equities
of the case
After conferring with those in au
thority an official said that the French
position is based on two essential
principles
The first is that a pacific settlement
between two sovereign nations is en
titled at least to equal treatment with
a war settlement If not a precedent
would be established which would be
an incentive to war as countries first
adopting force in the collection of
claims would have superior rights to
those observing the usual pacific means
of settlement
The view is freely expressed here
that the United States France and
Belgium are in effect pacific allies
as they did not resort to force against
Venevuela It is insisted that the
present attitude of the allies tends not
only to prejudice the rights of the
pacific allies but also establishes the
dangerous principle that a resort to
war is preferable to efforts to main
tain peace
SOMETHING IN BUTTER NAME
A Ruling that Renovated Cannot Be
Replaced with Process
OMAHA Process butter manufac
turers of the city have received from
James Wilson secretary of agricul
ture a letter in which he refuses to
consider the request of the national as
sociation of process butter manufac
turers that a change be made in the
regulations of the department by
which the word process may be sub
stituted for the word renovated on
the packages of butter sent out by the
factories In his letter the secretary
says that the word renovated has
been adopted by the department after
considering the question at length and
upon the recommendation of dairymen
and that no good reason has been
shown why the regulations should be
changed He also refuses to make a
rule for butter for export different
from that for process butter for do
mestic consumption
Cabinet Talks It Over
WASHINGTON It is known the
Venezuelan question was under con
sideration for some time at the cabi
net meeting Tuesday but at the con
clusion of the sitting no member
would discuss for publication this
phase of the meeting It can be said
that this government while deeply
interested in the pending negotiations
has taken no part in the controversy
Both the president and his cabinet are
entirely hopeful of an early ad
justment although it is realized fully
that serious obstacles yet remain Ui
be overcome
Congressman Rumple Dead
WASHIXGTOX A telegram receiv
ed here announced the death of Rep
resentative John X W Rumple of
the Second Iowa district at St Lukes
hospital Chicago Saturday morning
Mr Rumple was afflicted with cancer
and had been in the hospital practio
ally all winter
LONDON Amelia Sach and Annie
Walters baby farmers were hanged
at Holloway jail Tuesdav
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