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CUnUKESSMAN HOWARD Of National Reputation Are the Men Who Recommend Peruna to Fellow Sufferers A Remarkable Case Reported from the State of New York CONGRESSMAN HOWARD OF ALABAMA House of Representatives, ) W ashington, Feb. 4, 1899. J The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio— Oentlenien—“I have taken Peruna now for two weeks, and find I am very much relieved. I feel that my cure will be permanent. I have also taken It for la grippe, and I take pleas, ure In recommending Peruna as an excellent remedy to all fellow suffer* ers.'*—M. W. howard. Congressman Howard’s home ad dress Is Fort Payne, Ala. ■ ■ OST people think that catarrh Is a lyl disease confined to the head and J|| nose. Nothing is farther from the truth. It may he that the nose and throat Is the oftenest affected by ca tarrh, but if this ia so it Is so ony becauso these parts are more exposed to the vicissitudes of the climate than the other parts of the body. Every organ, every duct, every cavity «f the human body is liable to catarrh. A multitude of ailments depend on ca tarrh. This is true winter end sum mer. Catarrh causes many cases of chronic disease, where the victim has pot the slightest suspicion that catarrh bas anything to do with it. The following letter which gives the experience of Mr. A. C. Lockhart is a case In point: Mr. A. C. Lockhart. West Henrietta, !4. Y.. Box 68, in a letter written to )r. Hartman says the following of Peruna: "About fifteen years ago 1 com menced to be ailing, and consulted a physician. He pronounced my trouble a species of dyspepsia, and advised me, after be bad treated me about six inontjis, to get a leave of absence from my business and go into the country. I did so and got temporary relief. I went baek to work again, but was taken with very distressing pains In my stomach. “I seldom had a passage of the bow els naturally. I consulted another physician with no better results. TU6 disease kept growing on me. until I had exhausted the ability of sixteen of Rochester's best physicians. The last physician advised me to give up my work and go south, after he had treat ed me for one year. “I was given a thorough examination with the X-ray. They could not even determine what my trouble was. Soma of your testimonials in the Rochester papers seemed to me worthy of con sideration. and 1 made up my mind to try a bottle of Peruna. Before the bottle was half gone I noticed a change for the bettpr. 1 am now on the fifth bottle, and have nor an ache or pain anywuere. My bowels move regularly every day, and I have taken on eight een pounds of flesh. 1 have recom mended Peruna (o a great many and they recommend it very highly. I have told several people that if they would take a bottle of Peruna, and could then candidly say that it bad not, benefited them, I would pay for the medicine.’’—A. ('. Lockhart. Mr. W. P. Peterson, of Morris, 111., says: "l was nearly dead with catarrhal dyspepsia and am now a well man. bet ter, in fact, than 1 have been for twen ty years or more. '■Since I got cured by your Peruna 1 have been consulted by a great many people.” If you do not derive prompt and sat isfactory results from the use of Pe runa, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and be will be pleased to give you hLa valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman. President of | The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, | Ohio. ARE YOU A ROBBER? This is a serious question for you to consider. Are you robbing yourself ami family by paying some dealer one third more for a vehicle than you would pay u> ' You can't tell until you get our catalogue and Ifarn our prices. It wiil only ccwt you the price ol the postage to learn all about our vehicles—how they art made, what they are worth and how much you can save. We ship cither vehicles or harness to any one, anywhere, for examination, and if not satisfactory to be returned without you paying us one cent. We are manufacturers of 5pltt-lflckory Vehicles and a full line of first-class Harness, and will sell them to you at wholesale prices, OHIO CARRIAGE MANUFACTURING CO. Station B, COLUMBUS. OHIO. IN 3 OR 4 YEARS AN INDEPENDENCE ASSURED If you lake up your homos In Western C'un lulu, the laud of plenty. Illustrated pimphleu, f iylD.f cxuercnoei of aimers vCtio have he ecmo wealthy In grow lug wheat, report* of _ delegates, etc., and full luiottuuioii ii<* lo reduce 1 railway riles ean he had ou application to llir Superintendent of Immigration. Department of Inter.o'- Ottawa. Canada, or lo W V. Dennett. 801 N V. i-.f* Bldg.. Omaha. Neb iDMAHAaSUOUIS WABASH R R.j IS HALT #t ATE* WINTER TOURISI RATES. ■FFCIAL. Tou/s lo Florida, Key West. Cuba, Bermuda, Old Mexico and (lio Mediterranean and Orient. 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SALZRR SIRO CO. W Co Prow, Wl», SriDERS MAKE VOYAGES. Th«* (in to Sen la III); Klilpn Rig* King The spider is a born aeronaut and makes ascensions that sometimes carry him far out to sea. During his voyage around the world in the ship Beagle the naturalist Darwin gave par ticular attention to the spider and his airship. This last consisted of a ; single strand of web silk, and the in sect—in this case a tiny red gossamer spider one-tenth of an Inch long came aboard in great numbers while ttie Beagle was sailing sixty miles from land. The threads of silk which they used in their aerial voyage were two and sometimes three feet la length, while they themselves were 80 light that they were able to voyage about on the heat waves that rose from the wa ter on a warm day. Companies of sev eral thousand—inale, female and young—would appear in the Beagles rigging, and immediately upon arriv ing they would drink thirstly of any water that could he come at. The sharp-eyed Charles Darwin thought that this thirst was caused not so much by the salt ocean air as by their pass ing through the dry, raretied upper re gions of the atmosphere, showing that they sailed at considerable heights in their voyages. The little travelers were very active during the time they remained aboard, running about the rigging, spinning webs from an ap parently endless supply, dropping, climbing and even skimming over the smooth surface of the ocean. Many other insects find their way out to sea, some going of their own will, while others are blown off laud. One evening while the Beagle was ti n miles from the shores of t’atagonia she was surrounded by vast swarms of butterflies reaching beyond the range of a telescope. There was no space free of them, and they resembled nothing so much as a snowstorm. There was no wind and the insects were seemingly on a voyage of their own choosing, but before dusk a strong breeze came up and it was very like ly that tens of thousands of them w*'re drowned on their pleasure trip. At another time a number of beetles— eight distinct species—were drawn tip in a net set for specimens of small fishes. Four of these species were natural swimmers and Darwin con cluded that they had been washed out to sea in the current of their native river. The most remarkable case of the sort during the voyage was that of a large grasshopper which flew on board when the ship was 370 miles from the nearest land that was not guarded by an unvarying trade wind. How it ever got away from its own kind was a problem that even the wise naturalist could not solve. Flies some times travel out to sea with a ship, but after a few days they leave the ves sel and are apparently lost. A LARGE VILLAQE, Though Moncoiv h fopu lous ’ft* A p penrnaie li Provincial. In Russia everything is large and everything is loud. Moscow is 1 ian immense village and everything in it is built broad, not high, because there is so much space to cover. The public squares, unpaved and surrounded by t\ little rim of cobbles, are as big as meadows. The arcades and passages, with their cellars below, their steps above, their glass roofs, are so enorm ous that they could hold the Passage des Panoramas and the Burlington ar cade and the galleries at Milan, with out filling more than a corner of them. Colors shriek and flame; the Muscov ite eye sees only by emphasis and con trast; red is completed either by an other red or by a bright blue. There are no shades, no reticences, no modu lations. The restaurants are tilled with the din of vast mechanical or gans, with drums and cymbals; a great bell clashes against a chain on all the trams to clear the road; the music one hears is a ferocity of brass. The masons who build the houses build iu top boots, red shirts and pink trousers; the houses are painted red or green or blue; the churches are like the tpmples of savage idols, tortured into every un natural shape and colored every glar ing color. Bare feet, osier sandals and legs swathed In rags pass to and fro among the top boots of the middle classes, like the inner savagery of a race still so near barbarism, made evi dent in that survival of tii • footgear of primitive races. turwou'i Rffninf from Monopolies. 1 Mr. Goto Shimpei, head of the civil governmimt of Formosa, says that dur ing the six years which have elapsed since Japan obtained possession of Formosa she has invested 140 000,000 yen ($70,000,000) of public money in the island and it is now yielding a revenue of 15 per cent on the capital sunk. The main part of this revenue is obtained from the opium tax, the camphor monopoly and the salt mo nopoly, which yield 4,000,000 yen ($3, 000,000) each. Three years ago, when the present governor-general went to Formosa, the revenue was only a lit tle over 5,000,000 yen ($2,500 000), but there is every reason to think that it will soon amount to 20.000.000 yen ($10,000,000). According to the finan cial scheme originally mapped out, the central government was to furnish 2, 000,000 yen ($1,000,000) annually for twenty years in aid of Formosa's ad ministrative expenditures.—Chicago News. Pitch Cloak for I.lfe-Savlug. A pitch cloak Is the newest form of life-saving apparatus. It is a Swiss invention. It weighs about one pound, and will keep even a fully-equipped soldier above the surface of the water. It has water-proof pockets In which food and drink may be carried, as well as blue lights, in case the wearer is shipwrssked in the night. Two Little Virgirvia^rvs A True Story. Viola and Steenie, two little Virgi nians, descendants of Martha Wash ington's family line and the youngest representatives ot thai distinguished name, lived with their parents and Aunt Kathy at Rose Hill, a lovely old home on a slope, not far from the hanks of the historic Potomac river. There was a shady grove in front of the house full of pretty play-places and mossy rock brakes, Viola, the elder, was tall and strong, with long, thick golden hair, and in her sweet bine eyes a frank, open ex pression which always told what she was thinking about. She was "big sis ter” to "little brother," who was fra gile and slight, witli gray eyps ami brown hair. Everybody loved Steenie. he had such nice ways, and although he was little, his notions of honor anti right were big. He loved everybody and every living tiling on the place, from the horses and dogs to the chick ens. ducks, and the tame rabbit and swallow which were their special pets. But most of all he loved his sister. | and would always do what she thought, best, so they were companions In ev erything :*nd always happy together. Both W’ere fond of outdoor sports and delighted to go barefoot. This once led lo wliat might have been u serious ac < blent, for one day while climbing up into a cherry tree, Viola lost her hold and fell through, her bare foot catch ing by the heel in the notch of the tree, and her head suspended over a spiked fence. Steenie ran in terror to ward the house to bring Aunt Kathy to the rescue, crying: “Come quick! quick! or Viola will be killed!'* Fortunately for Aunt Kathy could n't clttm—a boy was on the grounds near by, and running up. helped to disentagle the victim. Another of her hair-breadth escapes was to come bounding down on an old cellar door which had lost its hinges. Aunt Kathy, who happened to be near, sprang forward in time to break her tall. When she was picked up unin jured. her aunt reminded her that site should thank God for sparing her life, and the little girl immediately knelt down where she was, and said: "I thank thee, dear .lesus, for letting Aunt Kathy catch the cellar door." evi dently considering her aunt a special providence. Both children dearly loved Nellie Gray, a white horse ott which they rode together. Sometimes it happened they got pitched over her head, and then the horse would lift her feet care fully for them to crawl safely out, and neigh wilh delight. One night the big barn took file, and grandma, who was visiting them at Rose Hill, was so scared that she put Steenie’s clothes on him wrong side out. Afterward she found the two children on the garret steps in the i dark, their hands clasped in each oth- ! er's. praying to God. av.ay from the confusion, thinking He could hear them better off by themselves. Afterward, when Viola was older, the barn burnt down again, and seeing the glare of the flames from the house, she was the first one to try and get the animals out. Her own riding horse was among them, and in her efforts to save it, she went back twice into the building and got severely burnt. She said afterwards: “I felt so selfish, safe outside, with all those poor things suffering in there! ” With so many live pets, there w'as a death occasionally and a regular burial ground was provided for those they bad loved. Aunt Kathy heard loud wails one afternoon, and looking from her window saw approaching a sad procession—Steenie carrying an old trunk tray, on which was tlie body of a favorite cat, while Viola, armed with ‘‘COME quick: or viola will br KILLED!” a shovel to dig the grave, walked be side him weeping. They paused beside the paling fence for the family to say farewell to “dear kitty," and then proceeded to their cemetery. Indoors these little Virginians had a lovely old cabinet with brass knobs to the drawers, and here were arranged on soft cotton a wonderful collection of bird’s eggs, bright wings and but terflies. Some of the eggs were from the South—sea gulls, alligator and heron, which V’iola insisted on pro nouncing “he-ron." Another drawer bald Indian relics arrows and curios taken from a strangely formed mound of stones which had been discovered near the river bank, where it was sup posed Indians had been buried. One day the children’s grandma heard a gnawing sound from the cab inet, and on investigating, found that mice had injured several of their mo3t precious treasures. Viola and Steenie were in despair, and Viola cried: “G grandma, 1 would rather they had ! gnawed my leg.” I Grandma succeeded in restoring most of the Injured property, much to their delight, and arranged the things again so the damage hardly showed. They also owned a large glass aqua rium, filled with pretty pebbles and grasses, with minnows, tadpoles and water Inserts. They had read "Water Babies” with great interest, and knew as much as the author of these deni zens of the earth, air and sky. As they grew older, ail over the place they found and named beautiful spots where they played, worked and dreamed away the bright summer days. Down in the grove a long rock ledge they called "Sofa Hock." made a grand seat where they could lie and imagine all soru of wonderful things. Then there was “'Fairy Knoll." full of wild flowers; and ‘‘Sycamore Hall,” under j whose waving branches they would tell and listen to marvelous tales. But "Boulder Glen" was the best oi' all. for 1 there the beautiful spring called " '76" ran clear and cool, and they never tired of listening to the story of how in revolutionary times "Morgan’s men" met there, and the soldiers agreed to meet on the spot again when they re turned. Years after only three of the j company came to the meeting-place. It was in this beautiful and historic spot they had their picnics, gathering watercresses from the shady banks and eating delicious lunches out of Aunt TO THE CEMETKRV. f\auiy s mg itasKi’i. itere tuey reau “Treasure Island” and Hawthorne’s Tales, or when tired would stretch out on the grass and looking up in the blue sky. would wonder what “heaven was like.” Steenie knows now, for he has left Viola and gone there, and some day she will know, too, when "big sister" and “little brother" meet again in the beautiful land of the forever.— Kate Dandridge, in Youth's Compan ion. An earnest effort was made to pass the hill before congress to convert into a national park the historic camp MOV NT VERNON. grounds of valley forge, where- Wash ington and his men passed the bitter winter of 1777-78. A small portion of the tract has been acquired by the state of Pennsylvania, and the well pre served brick building in which Wash ington had his headquarters is now owned and cared for by a patriotic body formed at the centennial of Val ley Forge, but the larger and equally historic portion of the field, on whir It the soldiers camped and suffered, is still in the hands of private owners The intrenchments and otlu r history landmarks are gradually vanishing. ft is desirable that the whole tract lie acquired by the national government and be forever preserved as a national park, as in the case of lhe Chiekamau ga and Gettysburg battlefields. It is a curious fact that the move ment to preserve historic grounds of this kind at the national expense has come only since »hc civil war. The idea seems to have started from the great cemeteries where so many of the soldiers of the civil war lie buried near where they fell. The extension of the reservation to include the whole field of conflict and to preserve its his toric landmarks under federal author ity was a natural step from tills begin ning. At last it has dawned upon the people that it. may be well to extend tlie same process to the more import ant revolutionary battlefields. Private associations and city or state govern ments have done some good work in this direction, lint it is only of recent years that the plan for national reser vation has had any serious considera tion. There has been talk of making such a i&rk of the historic grounds at Sara toga, where Burgoyne surrendered to Ciates. The proposition to preserve the Valley Forge tract is one that appeals still more strongly to the Imagination of the patriotic American, for the suf ferings of that terrible winter tested the nerve of Washington and of his patriots even more severely than the dangers of battle. It is strange that the idea of reserving this spot was not acted upon a century ago. when the whole tract could have been bought for a trifle. It should be bought now and guarded as sacredly as Mount Ver non. Tableaux for X Washington’s Birthday. * ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ i Impromptu burlesque tableaux illus tration some of the principal events In Washington’s life will be appropriate for this national holiday and will prove a mirth-provoking entertainment. When two rooms are connected by folding doors a whole room may be used for the stage, with a screen at the hack of the stage. The doors then take the place of curtains and answer very well. In case there are no folding doors a large room can he curtained off with sheets suspended from a rope stretched from one wall to the other. It is best for the audience to sit as far away from the stage as possible. Pumpkin lanterns set in a row on the floor form a funny substitute for foot lights. The face is not cut through, hut the features are cut thin enough to allow the light to make them visible, as all the light must be thrown on the stage. Here are some appropriate tableaux Tableau 1—“Washington's Infancy.” Washington’s mother seated at a spinning-wheel while her son Is asleep in a cradle near by. The wheel may he made of a bicycle turned upside down and steadied with the aid of hooks. A broom is fastened in an up right position to the bicycle and on (he handle is tied a handkerchief to represent flax. A string tied to the flax is held by Mrs. Washington. The wheel must be set in revolution during the tableau. Mrs. Washington must wear a white cap, kerchief and apron. A cradle for her son may he made of a rocking chair by standing it on the tip end of the rockers and placing a footstool under the back of it. A pil low with a large rag doll should he placed in the cradle, and the latter may be draped with a shawl or sheet. Tableau 2—“State of the Country”: The properties needed are two chairs and a board. The board is laid across the back of the chairs, thus forming a table. A large man dressed to rep resent an early settler by wrapping a blanket around his legs and putting a paper ruff around his neck is seated back of this table, on which boxes of beads and jugs of whisky are standing. One Indian seated on the ground in front is bargaining to sell some furs, while a second at the side is drinking whisky out of a jug. This picture may be made very ridiculous by put ting signs to this effect on the table: “Beads marked down to the lowest price.” “Bargain sale of firewater." “Goods almost given away in exchange for skins." "Red flannel at a fearful sacrifice.” Tableau 3—“George’s Father Taking Pay for the Cherry Tree”: A stout man in colonial dress—that is. a three-cornered hat made of paper, skirt of paper fastened to his coat and bows at knees, and a little boy similarly dressed, who is In the act of giving his father some paper money. In his hands he holds a hatchet. Tableau 4—“Bunker Hill:” Bunker Hill may be made of chairs piled up and covered with gray blan kets. A red-coated soldier on one side a 114.a blue-coated one on the other are both trying to climb the hill and to get at each other. Each carries a poker. The costumes may be made very ridiculous, as, for example, giving a fool's cap to one man. Tableau 5—“Washington crossing uir urinnuri* For this make use of a washtub for a ship; its sail is a towel fastened with pins to a stick, the stick being tied to hioont held aloft hy Washinglon. A second man in the tub may be fishing from behind. Tableau B—"Surrender of Cornwal lis”; Washington sitting at a table on which are strewn a quantity of papers. Cornwallis at one Hide giving up his sword. Some ears of corn strung on string around his waist and across his breast add to the ludicrous effect. Corn wallis must look as though he had spent the night in a barn. Tableau 7 -"Franklin at the Court of (ieorge IV.": King George in regal attire with a crown upon Ills head, seated on a throne, while lords and ladles are grouped on cither side. At the side of the throne a paper sign Is pinned on the wall: "All must bow their knees to me—George IV." Franklin is in the act of shaking hands with the king, and the courtiers all look aghast. Tableau 8 "Franklin at Home.” Franklin is seen walking along with a loaf of bread under one arm and in the act of eating a second loaf, stuf fing a large pud of it into his mouth. Tableau 9 "Washington Dictating the Declaration of Independence”; Washington is seen standing in a contemplative attitude with hta hands under his coat tails, while a pretty young lady, in modern dress, is sit ting before the typewriter taking down Washington's words. Tableau 10—"Washington's Inaugu ration": Washington and a judge In a long black gown and white wig (cotton bat ting) are standing in the center of the stage, while the judge reads from a long scroll. Washington looks very happy. Tableau 11—"The Minuet”: Washington and his partner, both in colonial dress, dancing the minuet. This last tableau may be made very effective. Four or even six people may take part in this if the doorway is large enough for them to stand in graceful positions. Pretty costumes for the ladies consist of short-walsted dresses; this effect may be gained by tying a broad sash under the armpits over a light cotton dress. A truly Christian life has greater power than all Christian literature.