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
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tom of cold or sore throat at this season of
the year and thus prevent what is almost
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IN LINCOLN’S BIRTHPLACE.
Woman Living in New Englevnd Whose Father W’a.s Born in the
Historic Log Ca.bin—Stories of the Early Days.
Lincoln has been dead thirty-eight
years.
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
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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.’’
