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CATARRH THIRTY YEARS. CONGRESSMAN BIK^KISOX OF OHIO Hon. David Meekison is well known not only in his own State, but throughout America, lie began his political career by serving four consecutive terms as Mayor of the town in which he lives, during which time he became widely known as the founder at the Meet.i ;<>n Hank of Napoleon, Ohio. He was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress by » very 11 ro ■ majority, and is the acknowledged leader of his party in his section of the State. Only one flaw marred the otherwise complete success of this rising statesman. Ca :;u rh with its insidious approach and tenacious grasp was his only unconquered foe. For thirty years ho waged unsuccessful warfare against this personal enemy. At last Peruna :.nne to the rescue, and lie dictated the following letter to L'r. Hartman as the result: “/ have used several hollies of Peruna and I feel greatly benefited (hereby from my catarrh of the head. I feel encouraged io 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. rHE season of catching colt! is upon us. | The cough ami the sneeze and the nasal twang are tube heard on every laud. Theoriginof chronic catarrh, the most XMiimon anil dreadful of diseases, is a cold. j I his is the* way the chronic catarrh gen- ( •rally begins. A person catches cold, which ci ings on longer than usual. The cold gen trally starts in the head and throat. Then follows sensitiveness of the air passages which incline one to catch cold very e asily. (U hi .t the jiersun has a cold all the while leenriugly, more or less discharge from the jose, hawking, spitting, frequent clearing •fllie throat, nostrils stopped up, full feel tig in the head, and sore, inflamed throat. The l>e:.i time to treat catarrh is at the t*cy beginning. A bottle of I'eruna prop •rlv used, never fails to cure a common arid, thus preventing chronic catarrh. While many people have been cured of chronic catarrh by a single bottle of I’eruna, 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 best, if not the only internal remedy for chronic catarrh in existence. But prevention is fry better than cure. Every fxjrson subject to hatching cold should take Peruna at once at the slightest symp tom of cold or sore throat at this season of 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. " Heal'h and Beauty ” sent free to women only. Ask your druggist for a frcp Pe ruana Almanac. REPEATING RIFLES repeat. They don’t jan, catch, or fail to extract. In a v/ord, they are the only reliable ropcat:rs. 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Most of those who personally knew him have also passed on into silence, and. like Washington, he has become In the popular mind a sort of mystfea! figure, associated with a bygone age of dramatic heroism—a patron saint. Although New England loved Lin coln as much as any other section of the country did. when it came to know him. yet he was always regarded as a characteristic product of the pioneer country, and, although efforts not alto gether successful have been made to show' that he was of Hingham ances try, never till now has Massachusetts been conscious of the presence in this locality of any living connection be tween the immortal rail-splitter and our own soil. Nevertheless for seventeen years one of the environs of Boston has har bored a woman who makes the proud boast that her father and Abraham Lincoln were first cousins; that both their bill of fare the greater part of the time. “My grandparents, Levi Hall and Martha Hanks, both died of the milk sick, in Indiana, in 1818, about tha same time that Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Hanks, and her uncle and aunt Sparrow died. All were buried to gether in rude coffins construced by Thomas Lincoln, who was now a wid ower with two small children. After Lincoln became President, someone erected a monument over his mother’s grave in the wilderness, but Aunt Roseanne told me that the selection of the grave for the monument must have been mere guesswork, since none of the graves had ever been marked, and there was no means of identifying any one of them." Coming to the subject of the migra tion of the survivors of the three fami lies from Indiana to Illinois Mrs. Moore says: “Joseph Hanks, who taught Thomas Lincoln, Abe's father, the carpenter’s tell me stories of her early life in the pioneer days in Illinois. "One story was in regard to a fresh et such as used to come almost yearly to those who lived along the river bot toms eighty years or so ago. Grandma went several miles down the river on a raft, one day, to the mill, to have some corn ground, leaving the chil dren in the log house. The river had been threatening to rise for several days, but the children well knew from former experiences, that if the river invaded the house they were to climb up on the roof for safety. "The river rose w-hile grandma was away and she toiled laboriously to get home as soon as she could. When she got nearly home she found everything afloat, and as she passed a tree that was well submerged she thought she' heard a cry from the branches. She paddled to the tree, and there found her baby, John Hanks, afloat in his cradle, which had been washed through the door of the cabin, and had drifted "AMVJ fiM /il/MO/6 '/V/BJP s>a.‘?r/?'Vr o* t /A/CCVA/ //*/&& tV/UMJf J rt/Ul ^*r/>£A o* S7/W /'raw* A 7/f*S/V£U'f sr/7ejA£ COlt S/JV t>£ />/?*#/>/■> — Mceu/v i jPi/rr//vc /?A/i3 //VUi/yVO/J were born in the same rude log cabin in Kentucky, but three months apart, in 1809. and that she herself is a grandniece of Lincoln's mother, the famous Nancy Hanks. She is Mrs. Nellie M. Moore, who was born not many years before the outbreak of the civil war, in the then exceedingly primitive town of Frank ford, Mo., and has been for three months past a resident of East Pep perell, Mass., where her husband, Charles W. Moore, is engineer in a mill. Miss Hall, for that was Mrs. Moore's maiden name, spent only the first thir teen years of her life in Missouri, hav ing been sent to a Kentucky boarding school at that age. She was married and lived in Louisville for some years, later removed to Cincinnati, and after the death of her husband came East, married Mr. Moore, a native of Massa chusetts, and they lived for seventeen years in Atlantic, a part of Quincy, un til they removed to Peppered. When asked to define her relation ship to the martyred President, Mrs. Moore said: “My father. William S. Hail, was a son of Martha Hanks, sister of Nancy Hanks, who married Thomas Lincoln and became the mother of Abraham Lincoln. So, you see, my father was first cousin and I was second cousin to the President. "My grandfather, who married Mar tha Hanks, was Levi Hall, and they and Thomas and Nancy Lincoln were living together in the little log cabin in La Kite county, Ky., in 1809, when Abraham Lincoln was born there. My father was born three months later in the same cabin.” When questioned as to the antece dents of the Hanks, Lincoln and Hall families, Mrs. Moore says it is a tradi tion of all three families that they emigrated together from New Englanu about 200 years ago to Pennsylvania, from there to Virginia and later to Kentucky, as they eventually did to Indiana and finally to Illinois and Mis souri, She lias been for some time engaged in investigating the possible early connection of the families with New England, and intends to prepare a genealogy embodying the results of her labor. Continuing her story of the vicissi tudes of the Lincoln, Hanks and Hall families, Mrs. Moore says: “My aunt, Rosaline Hall, who rode from her home in Maryland to Ken tucky behind her husband on his horse told me that there were Quakers among my ancestors, as there are said to have been in the Lincoln family. She also said that my great-grand father was killed by the Indians at the same time that Abraham Lincoln’s grandfather was. while they were clearing the ground to plant corn, on their arrival In Kentucky. It was she who told me my father was born in the Lincoln log cabin. “Aunt Rosanne said that Abe Lin coln's mother used to walk five miles to mill to have her corn ground, or to buy a side of bacon, which, with corn meal mush or johnnycake, comprised trade, just 100 years ago, was one of the first settlers in Illinois, having gone there from Kentucky about 1820. It was his son. the famous .John Hanks, still living in Missouri, who'in 1820 induced Thomas Lincoln. Dennis Hanks and my father to pull up stakes and also remove to Illinois, where Abe was destined to achieve that fame that gained for him the Presidency. “Having arrived in Macon county, 111., the party, which numbered thir teen. settled for a while. My father and Abe Lincoln were in their 21st year, and they, with John Hanks, Abe’s second cousin, built the log cabin which some say was exhibited on Bos ton Common thirty years or more ago. They also split the famous fence rails at that time, samples of which did much to arouse tlie enthusiasm in the Illinois convention in 18Gb. which se cured the Presidential nomination for Lincoln. “After serving as major in the Black Hawk war, in which Abe Lincoln was captain, my father became one of the earliest settlers in Missouri, and dur ing the greater part of his life kept a tavern, first at Hannibal und later at Frank ford. “Frankford used to be visited by In dians sometimes, and if they didn’t find whisky befoie they arrived, they were harmless, and their presence caused no uneasiness. But if they were drunk the news would quickly spread and school would be dismissed for the day. “After a while a brick schoolhouse was built one and one-half miles from town, and to get there we had to fight our way through wild animals and snakes, for Missouri takes the blue ribbon for snakes. At the brick school we were furnished with a horn, and if wild animals or Indians were seen prowling about we blew the horn and the neighboring farmers got their guns and came to our rescue. “When l was a little girl Aunt Sally, Abraham Lincoln’s stepmother, used to visit us, and she frequently put me to sleep in her arms, but I never thought much about It till I was grown up and others reminded me of the distinction I had enjoyed. “I often visited around among the Hankses in my childhood, too, and my especial favorite was Grandma Hanks, as we called John Hanks' mother, wild lived in what is now known as Quincy, 111. 1 used to hold her skein of yarn for her when she wound it into a ball, and during the operation she would about till it found lodgment in the top of the tree, where his mother found it. “Another of her stories was about Guinea niggers. 1 suppose you don't know what Guinea niggers were, do you? Well, they were not uncommon in the days when slaves were brought Irom Africa. They were very small in stature and very unprepossessing in appearance and they were said to be cannibals. “Grandma said that in her youth she knew a young couple who bought a pair of Guinea niggers. One day their little child disappeared and it was never seen again. They afterward found that the cannibals had eaten the child, and they wore hanged for it. “Grandma, like most of the Hankses and Lincolns, was an ardent Metho dist. In her old age she always knit ted just so nint h on a stocking every week day. One morning she was in dustriously engaged in the perform auee of her allotted stint, when some of the younger folks eame in with their best clothes on. “ ‘Why. grandma! What are you do ing?’ somebody asked. Only knitting,’ she replied, with some surprise. What, knitting on Sunday, grandma?’ ‘Is this Sunday?’ asked grandma, in amazement. When convinced that it was she unraveled every stitch she had done that morning, in order to atone as far as possible for her dese cration of the day.” Mrs. Moore describes having seen with some amusement Abraham Lin coln making a political speech In Mis souri, arrayed in a long and exceeding ly crumpled linen “duster,” and a tall hat of ancient pattern. She says that when Lincoln was nominated for Pres ident his humble relatives among the Hankses held up their hands with amazed Incredulity and exclaimed with practical unanimity: “Abe Lincoln for President? I don’t believe it!” “There was always something queer about the Hankses,” she says; "for al though they were among the earliest settlers in Illinois and had their pick of the land, and plenty of It. and some of them had large, productive farms, yet every one of them turned out as poor as Job's cat. "My mother owned slaves before the war, but my father never did, nor did any of the Hankses, and for that rea son they were called 'poor whites' by their neighbors who had slaves. All tue Hankses were stanch supporters of the union during the civil war.”—Bos ton Globe. WINNING A LAWS LIT INCIDENT IN LEGAL CAREER OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Simple Scheme Evolved in His Shrewd Brain by Which He Saved His Client, “Duff” Armstrong, from Death on the Gallows. There have been so many garbled versions of the famous incident in Abraham Lincoln’s legal career in which he by an almanac saved the life of a man charged with murder that it is appropriate just now to nar rate the correct one. as told by R. W. Armstrong, a barber of Mason City, who is the son of the man defended, and who was known as “Duff" Arm strong. He is very familiar with the case, as but a short time before his father, who, by the way, is still living, had related to him the exact facts in the affair. In all the histories of Lincoln and in most of the school books it is told how' Lincoln defended Armstrong and cleared him by proving that the moon was not shining when the murder was committed “by the light of the moon.” The father of Duff Armstrong was Jack Armstrong, who lived near New Salem, and who was the leader of the “Clary Grove” boys. He it was who had the celebrated wrestling match with Lincoln back of the old store at New Salem. Afterward they became great friends. Tne home of Jack Armstrong and of his wife Hannah was always open to Lincoln, and he visited there r any times. It wa3 during the summer of 185 that Duff Armstrong, with a number of othor young fellows, attended a camp inciting twelve miles south of Mason City. The young fellows were drinking, as was the custom of those times. Duff became involved in a quarrel with a companion named Metzger one night a short distance from the camp meeting. Duff claimed that he struck Metzger with his list just under the eye. The stories in so many books that he used a club or slingshot or other weapon, he insists are false. The next morning Metzger was out nr.d around, but it is pre sumed that he caught cold in the in jured eye. At any rate, the injury affected his brain in some manner, and he died. There was a great commotion as soon as Metzger died, and it was de clared that Armstrong and another man had deliberately murdered him, with malice aforethought. Arm strong was arrested and placed in jail, first at Havana, and later at Beards town, where the trial was held. At this time Lincoln wras practicing law in Springfield. The eider Armstrong had just died and the mother of the prisoner was in great trouble. She, in her poverty and distress, thought of her old friend and occasional boarder, Abraham Lin coln. and asked him to defend her boy. Lincoln willingly agreed to do so. The evidence seemed all against him. One witness swore that he saw Armstrong strike Metzger with a slingshot and others corroborated the story, i.incoin asked each one how he sawr the fight, and the invariable re ply was, ’‘Bv the light of the moon." Lincoln then produced an almanac of the current year and proved by it that at the time they swore they saw the assault in the moonlight the moon was invisible. Lincoln then addressed the jury, making, it is said, one of the strongest and moat eloquent pleas ever made in that court. At the close he turned to the weeping mother and said: “Aunt Hannah, you can have your boy again before the sun goes down." And she did, for the jury brought in a verdict of not guilty. Lincoln received no fee and asked none. Afterward Armstrong enlisted in the army. He was the only sup port of his mother, the other children being small. When Lincoln became President Mrs. Armstrong wrote to him. asking him to release her son from the army that he might come home, as she needed his services. Neighbors told her that it was non sense to write to the great Lincoln about such a small matter as the dis charge of a soldier out of such a great army, and especially when Lincoln was so deeply immersed in the mo mentous affairs of state. She only re plied : “Please God, Abe will give back my boy to me once more.” As soon as Lincoln received the letter he ordered a discharge made out for William Armstrong, and within ten days he was at home with his mother. Arm strong still lives at Ashland. He has supported himself largely since the war by raising horses. The President and His Boys. It was a frequent tustom of Lin coln’s to carry his children on his shoulders, says the Literary Digest. Ho rarely went down street that he did not have one of his younger boys mounted on his shoulder, while an other hung to the tail of his loug coat. The antics of the boys with their fath er and the species of tyranny they ex excised over him are still the subjects of talk in Springfield. Roland Diller, who was a neighbor of Mr. Lincoln, tells one of the best of the stories. He was called to the door one day by hear ing a great noise of children, and there was Mr. Lincoln striding by with the boys, both of whom were wailing aloud. ’’Why. Mr. Lincoln, what’s the matter with the boys?" he asked. “Just what’s the matter with the whole world," Lincoln replied. “Ive got three walnuts, and each wants two.’’
