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FOR' THIRTY YEARS
Congressman Meekison Suffered With
Catarrh Read His Endorsement
of Pe-ru-na.
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M
t CONGRESSMAN MEEKISON, OF OHIO.
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Hon. DnVld Moclilcoii h"wcll known, not oily in his own Stato but throughout
America. Ho Ikmthh his political cuiwf by ncrviiiff four cnuttccutlvo tonus iih Mayor
of the town In width bo lives,' during which timu ho bi-eamo widely known tin this
founder of tho Mceklnon li.ndc of Napoleon, Ohio. Ho whs ulootod to tho Fifty-fifth
Congress by it very largo liuijorlty, uud is tho iicknowlodged leader of hla party in his
bcctinu of tho State.
Only oiio iltiw marred llio olhonvUo complete success of this rising statesman.
Catarrh with Its Insidious uiro.ieh ami tenacious grasp, was his only uncoil
iuured foo. For thirty years ho wngod unsuccessful warfare nguhmt this porsonul
enemv At last Pcruiiti came to tho rescue, and ho dictated tlfo following letter to
Dr. ilurtimui an tho(rosult.
have used several bottles of
thereby from my catarrh oFthc head. I feci 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 Aiccklson, ex-member of Congress.
THIS season of catching eold is iiimii
us. Tho cough and tho sneeze and
it.ii,il twang tiro to bo heard on every
baud. Tho origin of ch runic vutuiTh, tho
most eo minor, and dreadful of discuses, Is
"a cold.
This Is tho way tho chronic catarrh pen
orally begins. A person catches cold,
which bangs on longer than usual. Tho
cold generally start- i.i tho head and
throat. Thou follows .unritlvenes.; of the
nit passages which btulltia ono to catch
cold very easily. At last tho lerson has a
cold all the wlillo seeitilugly, more or less
dlschsirgo from the nose, hawking, spit
ting, frequent clearing of tho throat, nos
trils stopped up, full feeling in tho head
and soro. inflamed throat.
Tho best t'moto treat catarrh l at tha
very beginning. AJxiltloof Pcruiui prop
erly used hover fails to euro it common
cold, thus proveutlug chronic catarrh.
Whllo many people havo licen curctl of
chrould catarrh by iv single bottlo of
I'cruua, yet, ns a rtue. wno't mo ctwrrit
becomes thoroughly 'fixed, ilioro than ono
hottlo is noecssury to completo it euro.
Porium litis cured rases Innumerable
of catarrh Of twenty years' standing.
K is tho bast, if not tho only iutcrnul
remedy for chronic catarrh In ovisteucc.
But prevention is far better than cure.
Kvery person subject to catching cold
should tslto Peruna at ouco at tho slight
est symptom of cold or soro throat ut
this season of tho year ami thus prevent
what is ulir-cit certain to end in chronic
catarrh
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Mrs. A. Sncdcker, Cartersvlllo Ga.
writes:
"I saw that your catarrh remedy, Po
ruua, was doing others so much good,
'tlint 1 tlinuglit I
would try It and
sec what it would
do for mo. My
casii Is nn old ono
and I havo none
of tho aocto
symj loins n o w ,
because I havo
had tho disease so
long that I had
iidiio of thu aches
and pains, but a
general rundown
condition of tho
whole body soro
note and throat
and stomach. I
had a irood aniio-
Mra. A. Sncdcker.
tlto but my food did not nourish my sys
tem. 1 had como down from MO to about
5iK)uuds in weight. 1 now feel that I am
well of all my troubles." Mrs. A.Sedekcr.
Scad for freo liook on catarrh, entitled
'Winter Catarrh,"!) by Dr. Hartman.
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THE GREAT VIRGINIA
The eighteenth century history of
our country groups Itself nbout ouo !
central figure. Wo never escape from
the presence of the great Virginian,
and yet it was 11 time rich in human
luodtict. It Is not easy to comprehend
the causes which produced this amaz
ing frultago of ability.
Among the men who caused and car
ried the Revolution wore many wi-o In
brilliant qualities far surpassed (icorgc
Washington. Seen through the mist of
years, tlioy rise In our imagination and
pcerf fjivujuM? Hbovic"ttn' ra.r''irgin
In's sturdy Uguro, as In tho church at
Innsbruck M10 bronze statues of
friends and ullles surround tho tomb
where the great Kaiser, Maximilian,
kneels In prayer.
Among these ninkers of an empire
were great orators, and Washington
wns none; grave jurists, and he had
little learning. There, too, wer
statesmen of moro original intellect
,than was ever his. Generals there
were who had been better liad ho been
free to choose. But, by the grace of
'God, and some strange skill of nature,
this Imperial man was the master of
them all, and used them, ns he used
.himself, with but ono ambition how
best to serve the land he loved.
What was there in the man which
.still makes him stand for us- a larger
human figure than Hamilton, or John
Adams, or Jefferson. In some ways
jtho difference seems clear. His unself
ishness was without a Haw. His senso
of duty was like a religion. He had in
perfection both moral and physical
icourage; lie who is without fear is
rarely without hope, and it may have
'been this which gavo him such unfalt-
'ering hopefulness ns seemed to have
the forco of inspiration, tho self-sus-
talning power of prophetic Insight. No
doubt other men also possessed these
characteristics, but none had them In
so high n degree. This does help us
to comprehend him, but does not ade
quately dcscrlbo a great historic per
sonage who has become for us today
no moro than a splendid lay figure.
And yet we know of him all that wo
need to know; nlmost to much, indeed,
when tho inquisitive spirit of the re
porter Intrusivo In history gives us
details which are common to many
men and do not help us to understand
the ono man.
His slow, sure mind, his heroic pa
tience, his strong passions, his splon
did physical manhood, nowhere, on any
page, express themselves In terms of
ljfe. Is this because tho lives of tho
greatest always leave something of the
causes of greatness unreveaied? It
nay be so. Or is this stately flguro
still waiting for tho revealing biog
rapher who will give us such a life
like presentment as Carlylo has left of
Frederick and of Cromwell? It
vould seom to be easy, for what lire
reports Itself more simply! What more
rich in interest and In incident! What
personality was over more clearly built
up by efforts which raise, stono on
Etone, tho masonry of character! Its
value to tho thoughtful lies less in the
attained soronlty of tho statuesque
Washington, present to tho common
n'ir.d, than in a correct apprehension
if the process by which the crude Vir
ginia boy grew into the maturity of the
official years of our first president.
There rises before me, as I write,
the flguro of tho half educated, over
orit.us, country bred lad. Forced to
Stuart's Famous Painting of the Great Patriot.
depend on his own exertions, he learns
to survey land and accepts dally
wages a thing not fancied by the Vir
ginia gentleman of that day. We see
li 1 m nt tho camp Arcs of tho trader and
the Indlnn, and in the stillness of the
Ohio forests, plotting surveys and
measuring trees. At nineteen lie is
sent as envoy to tho aggressive French
on the frontier; next, as a militia ma
jor, he strikes the first blow In the
Seven Years' Wnr, little thinking what
it was to bring forth, and what to
tench. At the ar,o of l.rcr.ty-thrae be
comes out of tho defeat with Braddock.
ono of the few who won praise and
honor. The long border struggle which
followed Is a record of exasperating
struggles with ignorant governors, in
efficient legislators, drunken militia
and untrained officers. We come next
to the fox hunting squire, the accom
plished farmer, a master of slaves,
still longing for war the profession of
arms. Did he dream that he should
see too much of it, and would some
day write that ho hoped for a great
republic of mankind, where tho growth
of commerce would become tho most
certain peacemaker and all war would
be at an end? At forty-four he was in
command at Cambridge, last of all,
he Is twice President. Then come two
happy years at Mount Vernon, and on
a December night tho tired man finds
in death that which earth denied
the peace which is past understand
ing. Jiy purpose today is to speak to
you of Washington as I find him In his
written words, where most ho seems
to be alive. I want you to share with
me what I got out of months of pa
tient study of Mr. Ford's collection of
his letters.
These are in fourteen volumes
eight thousand pages in all. He was
tho most productive of American writ
ers. There arc three thousand docu
ments, some two thousand entirely
from his own hand. Mr. Ford tells
me that, In all, this untiring man has
left tis about ten thousand letters.
None are mere notes, and the letter
of tlint day was no trifle.
Tho handwriting demands a word
of comment. How clear it is! How
steadily tho same, with never a sign
01 haste! I have seen tho letter ho
wroto to announce Arnold's treason.
It betrnypJno sign of tho emotion that
nwful 'liour must have caused an
hour" which, informed with tho sad
loneliness of tho great, wrung from
this tranquil soldier, "Who is there
now I can trust?"
Liko most great rulers. George
Washington was a silent man. To he
callod upon for public speech embar
rassed him. He was shy, resorved,
undemonstrative, nnd, Do Lauzun says,
difildent. John Adams said, "Half his
reputation was duo to his talent for
sllonce." Well had it been for his
critic had ho had that virtue for both
tongue and pon. This resorved gen
tlomau confessed himself readily to
paper. Ho who in talk and diaries
said liothlng personal of his views, or
of what he seemed to liimsolf to be.
in his letters glvos us freely to know
wbnt ho thought ho was, morally and
mentally. It is an autobiography
quito Innocently revealed.
"With all his lovo of coremony and
his personal dignity a man with
whom no one took liberties -It is in-
teresting to see, as we have already
seen, how humbly and how slmp'y he
writes of his defects. He says. "I
have no genius lor war." He finds it
hard to learn this business warfare
and at the same time to practice it.
He excuses Sullivan's defeat. "All of
us," ho says, "want experience In mov
ing moil "upon a large scale: our
knowledge of military matters is lim
ited." As a critic of war ho was tho first
to insist again and again that the com
mand of t:fB sea tVas all-iniportarit.
What tho British fleet will do puzzles
him. but not the plans of his adver
saries on land. He predicts Bur
goyne's disaster, and tells Greene that
such tlefeats as his are victories.
We have been told that he was no
great general. If, with half-fed, ill
clad men, with constant lack of arms
and powder, and at last with inertia
everywhere and a country in ruins; if,
with such means he baffled a foe rich
In men, money nnd sea power; if with
little ho accomplished all he set out
to do, there must at least be a label
for this form of greatness.
Turning from his liery courage and
reckless exposure in war, there aro
In these letters many evidences of ten
derness and humanity. They aro
shown early in life, when ho says that
he would readily die in torture to
save the frontier people from Indian
cruelty. They appear in his extromo
unwillingness to make reprisals on
innocent men. Ho steadily refused, as
he says, "to avenge cruelty by cruel
ty." He reproaches a general for such
conduct, nnd pleads mercy for the
Tories while Sir Henry Clinton is car
rying on a savage warfare of murder
and rapine.
This man had no children. He wa3
the ancestor of a nation. Let no repe
tition of his pralso lose for you tho
true value of the man. He left to us
tho heirs of his renown, a record of
unfailing courage, a story of heroic
conduct, an example of lifelong duty
tho unequalled life of an unequalled
day. From an address by Dr. S, Weir
Mitchell.
The Character of Washington.
Notwithstanding his reserve, or
tho "shyness" upon which his biogra
phers descant, Washington knew men
nnd how to rule them. He may havo
lacked elements of companionship,
but he know how to control the undis
ciplined patriotism of tho country
and mold to his will the rather un
promising material of which tho patri
ot army was composed. There were pet
ty jealousies to allay In the army and
In Congress, and a thousand discour
agements to surmount. Through it
ali ho followod calmly his guiding star
of hope. The oarller nulogists defied
him; tho colder and more philosophi
cal analysts who succoeded them
found human traits in him. Mr. Halo
says ho was a man of hot passions, of
strong impulses, of vigorous deter
mination: "a man who forecast tho
future, kept It in sight, and meant to
havo his own way; and he was a
man who had his own way very re
maikably." AH this is very dolightful to know.
It brings Washington Into kinship
with humanity. This is a hero who
may bo understood, in part, at least,
by Americans of the most distant aco.
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A Golfer's Maiden Speech.
Representative "Nick" Longworth
of Ohio, the amateur golf champion of
Hamilton county, made his maiden
speech in congress tho other day.
Fred Ireland, one of tho official sten
ographers and liimsolf a golflac, re
ported the speech. He began his notes
as follows: "Representative Long
worth teed up his first oratorical ball
today nnd made n pretty drive for 180
yards. He snt in trouble ia tho long
grass with his metaphorical iron on
the second shot, but came out brave
ly with a poetical approach and holed
down in five with a peroration that
gave him bogy.'
Dispensed With Useless Eating Tools.
Governor Van Sant, of Minnesota, is
visiting Washington, The governor
was a burly and breezy steamboat
captain on tho Mississippi and is
called "captain" to this day. Every
timo ho goes to the capital they tell
tho story of his first dinner at tho
Whlto House. When ho sat down at
the table be found several spyonr..
several forks and several knives in
front of him. The governor inspected
tho cutlery carefully. Then he choso
ono knife, one fork and ono sihooii,
brushed the rest aside and allowed he
would eat his dinner with the selec
tions ho had made.
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A young Virginian says: "Having
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abovo tho average and not having a
nervous temperament, my system was
able to resist the inroads upon it
by the uso of coffee for somo years but
finally the strain began to tell.
"For ten years I have been employ
ed as telegraph operator and type
writer by a railroad in this section
and until two years ago I had used cof
feo continually from tho time I was
eight years old, nearly 20 years.
"The work of operating tho tele
graph key is a great strain upon tho
nerves and after tho day's work was
over I would feel nervous, irritable,
run down and toward the last suffer
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ralgia. As I never Indulged in Intoxi
cating liquors, drugs or tobacco in
any form I came to the conclusion
that coffee and tea wero causing tho
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system and having read an article in
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