Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1859-10-01
Their Ages.

InelF n gee
An exchange states as follows, the age
Of several Of the public men, who hav
been named in connection with the Presl
dency
/ Daniel Stevens Dickinson was born a
Goshen, LitchfeId County, Connecticut
September llth, 1900.
His father, Daniel L. Dickinson, was
farmer, an intelligent, upright man. wh'
through his life was devoted TO his calling
as the most honorable and useful and lei
an unsullied name.
Stephen Arnold Douglas WAS horn II
the town of Brandon, Vermont. on the
23rd Of April, 1913. His father, Stephen
A. Douglas, was doctor, and native Of
Rensselaer, county, New York.
Henry A. Wise was born in Drum
mond Town. Accommac county. Virgin
ia, December 81. 1906. lie graduated
at Washington College, Pa, when he
was about 10 years old. He then studied
law, and was admitted to the bar of Win
chester, Virginia, in 1928.
John c. Breckenridge was born near
Lexington, KY, January 81, 1921, and is
The grandson of John Breckenridge, who
who was Uuied States Senator. and Al
lorney General. His personal appear
ance is extremely prepossessng.
John Minor Bolts is a native Of Dunn
fries, Prince William comfy, Va, and
was born in September, 1902. As early
as 1884 he joined the Wing party. and in
1885 he came to Congress as Wing.
William Henry Seward was born in
Florida, n. Y, May l6h, 1901, and is
now So years old. His ancestors were of
Welsh extraction upon his fathers side,
and OF Irish on his mothers.
Unnecessary Torture.
FACTS FOR THE INCREDULoUs.-The
agony suffered by the lmping pilgrim
who neglected to boil the peas he carried
in his shoes as a pcnance, was nothing TO
the horrible twnges, the rackng tortures
which rheumatic patients suffer. We
pity the obstinacy, or the ignorance. or
the prejudice, Whichever il may be, which
has thus far prevented them from resort
ing to those great specifics for rheumatism.
OINTMENT AND Pills. 1t Is
curious, in country where almost every
one can and does read the newspapers,
that facts Of the utmost importance TO the
health of thousands should be overlooked
or disrcgardcd by any Of the . suffering
class whom they Immediately concern.
Yet, so il is. Almost daily we see per-
sons moving painfully through the streets,
with contracted limbs and joints rendered
rigid By disease. to whom the penetrating
and laxative unguent invented by PROBES
sor Holloway would b. worth its weight
in diamond dust. In the Russian hosPi-
tails, il has suppressed every other external
remedy for rheumatism. Nothing else,
say the French surgeons employed in
in those institutions, seems TO have the
slightest effect on the terrible forms Of the
maIady which exist in that inhOspliabIe
climate. The results Of its use in this
country are, we are assured, no less salts
factory. Warm lamentations should, in
all cases, preceJe lis application, as by
this means the pores Of the skin are open.
ed, and the process of absorption greatly
facilitated. The rapidity with which the
Ointment disappears under the hand while
being rubbed in, is astonishing. The IN
famed flesh, or indurated muscles seem 10
drink in the cooling, soothing, relaxing
unguent, as swiftly as the desert sands
imbibe the genial rain. As an auxiliary
to the Ointment in rheumatic cases, the
Pills are said TO be invaluable. and we can
readily believe il. All external disorders
more or less interfere with the functions
of the internal organs, and the presence
of disease on the surface always involves
a bad CONDITION Of the secrelions and the
blood. 1t is by the correction Of these
functional arrangements. we presume, that
the Pills assist the cure. Such is the the
DRY 9th distinguished inventor Of the
remedies, and as ii is consistent with COM
mon sense, (which is moro than can be
said Of all medical theories we have
nothing 20 object to it.
One thing is certain with regard 10
rheumatism in this climate In nine ca
ses out Of ten, il defies the Irregular" treat.
ment. Colchicum, the sereotyPed pres.
cription, is more hanelul 20 the constitution
than mercury itself and though it may,
by It's paraIyzing influence, so far benumb
the parts affected as to alleviate the pain,
we have never known an instance in