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.
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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.
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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
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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. *
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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.