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I-- vsriit able immjjymB-. qf success On the tenth day of June, 1906, nealy one year ago, Dr. J. J. McKanna, leased the magnificent Rockingham Hotel building in Keida yiUe", 1. C, and opened still another sanitarium for the treatment of alcoholism. This step was taken with'the full knowledge of the crying need for a quick and reliable liquor cure sanitarium in the Carojinas., For the first sixty days, or until about the middle of xlu gust, patients came in very slowly.- The good people of this locality, as elsewhere, had to be "shown," and they werj shown to their hearts' content. Every man who did come o Reidsville and take the treatment went back home and told how good he felt how he hated even the smell of whiskey, and. in each case the public soon became convinced that these men were telling the truth. There were no more sprees to be marked against their names. They soon rose to their proper plane in social and business life and the public sat up and took notice. Then it was that business began to mend got better and better, until now the McKanna, Reidsville, sanitarium is doing more business than all other liquor cure establishments in the entire State, showing conclusively that GRATEFUL PATIENTS HAVE SPREAD THE NTO' In Hundreds Only a few days ago a patient arrived at the sanitarium' from1 Fayetteville, N. C, in a pitiable condition. He had been "drugged - and drugged," as he expressed it, at a hospital there in the futile attempt to keep him quiets Sixty days out of the past three months were necessary to reduce his condition to a state bordering on total collapse. This man stayed at the McKanna sanitarium just five days, and when he left his eyes were bright, his brain active, his step. elastic, and to quote him literally: "Gentlemen," said he, "I have been to Keeley. I have just recently tried a Fayetteville hospital, but there is only one McKanna cure arid I ihank.my lucky stars that I took the advice of friends and came here." And his is the experience of patients of Towris , and Cities, NortEv East, South and West 4 We would respectfully ask every man and woman who is anxious to elimmate the whiskey States to co operate with us. Send us the name of every person who needs the treatmnt., (it will be with the strictest confidence). All further, in formation and a personal letter from Governor Glenn will be sent on request. '-., SPLENDID SANITARIUM , - ay REIDSVILLE, CAROLINA Sketches of Notable Men CHARLES A. CULBERSON. , BY SAVOYARD, Charles A. Culberson. ur yp rrs before the pr the Declaration of Inde-V 't Congress, - William H. vas iDorn in Amnersi coun- fore he had advanced be od hli father took him to id ' there the boy grew to ind became one of the first he republic. He was elect velslature, and soon after i a Senator In , Congress, ,'dy he became president during his first term.' Ulster to France during the !, and upon his return was ecretary of War by Pres on, and soon after was t the Treasury Depart 'ich he continued the head the' succeeding two admln f President Monroe. He incnt tandlate for ,PreHl 1, and h! was one of the Wt U fre the Howe tt over John Q. Adams, from Webster's own State. ' When Adams was elected by the House he. Invited Crawford to remain at the head of the Treasury, but he ' declined, returned home, ac cepted a judgeship, and a few years later died. ' Crawford was not so great a man as Clay, or Calhoun, or Webster, but he was better fitted for the' Presidency than any one of them. He was em phatically a sagacious man. He was not a statesman by intuition; his statesmanship resulted from reflec tion. Though no genius, he had wis dom of the highest practical order. Webster and Calhoun were warm friends In 1825, and (both hoped to see v Crawford chosen President " over Adams' or Jackson, and it is no small tribute, to a man'a capacity and char acter when Calhoun and Webster in dorsed him for the first I'ice In the Y r- r- v ' character, !n temperament. Cautious In deliberation," he is adamant when once he has reached a conclusion, There Is nothing dazz'ing about him. If Is a cool head'always. He reflects carefully and weighs-every argument scrupulously before he decides; but his decision Is final. He Is to-day the toest prepared man In the Senate. He has in old trunks, boxes, drawers, and chests more papers and scraps of pa pers than any other of our public men, and he knows precisely where to search for any one of them. 'He he would refluest of wish.. to be burn ed. Like Baillie Nlcol Jarvie's father, the deacon, he never puts out " his hand so far that he cannot draw It back again. He Is the most capable and the most skillful politician in the Democratic party to-day. David B. Culberson was a member of Congress : for : twenty-two years when he voluntarily retired from thatJ body. As a lawyer he had no superior in either House of the national Legis lature, and for many years he presided over the Judiciary Committee. One of the finest public speakers in pub lic life, he rarely addressed the House, but when he did rise to speak he commanded the attention of alt within the sound of his voice. , He 1 was powerful in the logic of common sense. f He loved simple and homely speech. He. was a simple man in temperament' and as democratic as a hunting shirt or a coonckln cap. The late Tom Reed had extravagant ad miration for his extraordinary abili ties, and when they were both mem bers of jthe Judiciary Committee, Reed was fond of taking untenable posi tions Just to see "old Cyclops demolish them." It was the amhitl6n of the elder Culberson to represent Texas' in the Senate, not for vanity, but be cause h was conscious of his capaci ties for that theatre. . A time came when the Senatorship was his for the asking, "but he was now growing old and tired of parliamentary life. He declined it, and Texas gave It to his favorite son, the apple of his eye, the core of his heart the boy of whom he .was so proud and who ap well de served . his approbation, : The younger Culberson was born In Alabama in 1855, and the following year his father became a citizen of Texas, , Old Dave said that he Intend ed that the boy should have an edu cation that would enable him "to find his -haU' One might write volumes and not express it so well. What the father meant was that his boy should be disciplined for the battle of life; that he should be taught detail; that he should be grounded In self-rell; ance that he should know how to make his way. In the world. Many a boy, bright, healthy, vigorous, cannot nnd his hat In the morning, and the Pity of it Is they go through life Just that way always seeking what they cannot find, and simply because they were hot properly taught In childhood how -to ee!c. " And &if soon "as he was old enough youni? Culberson was 'packed off t- th" VIrtrlriisi ?j:!!t-ry Jr-''i . flee and studied under the Instructions of the old mart for "three -years and then became a student t the law de partment cf the University of Vir ginia, where tie greatly distinguished himself. Here he attracted the atten tion ol Senator Daniel. ; himself a great lawyer, who wrote a paper on one of .Culberson's legal productions at school, and predicted the distin guished career the young man waa to carve out . . -. - - ;.) .' Returning to Texas after his gradu ation, young Culberson opened an of fice at Jefferson, and engaged actively in the practice. , He was very .soon thereafter elected prosecuting attor ney of Marlon county; but his private practice made such demands on him that, In Justice to his clients, he was forced to resign the office. - While yet a very young man he appeared in the Supreme Court of the United States and, argued the celebrated cose of Le Grande vs. The United States, involv ing the constitutionality of the , ku klux act. His speech on that occasion was a legal triumph, and the court decided the case in his client's fa-1 vor. ..." "; ;.':' In 1890, at the age of thirty-five, he was elected attorney general of Texas, succeeding the redoubtable James Hogg, and two years later he was re elected. It was while he was attorney general that he again appeared before the Supreme bench at Washington and argued the case i of Reagan vs. The Farmers' Loan and Trust Com pany, Involving the constitutionality of the act creating the Texas railroad commission. When he had concluded his argument and was preparing to leave the room the clerk of court beckoned him, and upon going to tha desk he there found Mr. Justice Gray, who warmly congratulated him upon his able presentation of the case. This was praise from Sir Hubert, and a Sir Hubert not lavish of praise. Some years subsequently,, when he made an other exceptionally strong plea: before that bench. Justice Gray again sent for him, and said; "Young man. I have watched your career, and am not unmindful of the fact that the people of Texas have taken care that you should not go unrewarded." Chief Justice Fuller also heartily commend ed him.' v. y. c; t; In 1894 Culberson was elected Gov ernor, defeating the veteran John IT. Reagan for the nomination. : Two years later he was re-elected. Ills administration was eminently satis factory, and his fame went to the ut termost parts y of the Union, when, with bulldog determination, He ban ished the prize ring from the State. It cost a deal of money, and no end of vigilance, but Christian civilization cheerfully footed the bill and policed the border. IA 1899 Culberson be came & Senator fn Congress, and Is now serving his second term, He"ls a capital public epeaker, . but not a whirlwind declslmer. " What he says will set men a-thinklnsr, rather thnn a-fihoutijiT. He speaks the English f -!?, f -1 f;vr vin--r -fr-Mi th. Roosevelt. But Culberson, like all great lawyers, is a conservative. ' He does not ibelleve In pyrotechnics, ' He suspects novelty. He will sooner cross the river on a safe bridge tha.n on a tightrope. He examines every thing, and no labor daunts him. Well grounded In the fundamentals of party politics, he-tests everything by those principles. In short Charles A. Culberson is his great-gTeat-grand-father returned to life, end William H. Crawford and David B. Culberson live again In him. V understand the Democratic side of the " United States Senate Is In search of a leader. Culberson has no superior In that body. No man. is more alert swifter to see a mistake of the enemy or prompter to take ad vantage of Jt. It may be objected that he la Fablus rather than Marcel lus; but Fablus gave Hannibal more concern than did Marcellus. Fablus saved Rome; Marcellus fell In action. Culberson Is perhaps the only Senator the Democrats would cheerfully fol low. He does not create antagonisms. He has an admirable temper. He commands confidence and ' wins re spect Leadership Is as necessary to a party as to an army. No man who saw the work of Thomas B. Reed In the Fifty-second Congress will chal lenge that proposition. If the Demo crats of the Senate of 1907-08 are led with half the skill the Republicans of the House were in 1891-93, It wilt have a tremjmdous effect on the pollt- leal situation VTien the Southern Senators retired in 1861 and Douglas died, thd Demo crats of the. Senate wer,e In a great deal worse fix than their successors are In the present JSenate." They were few- In number and without lead ership. The two ablest men' amohsr them were powerless In the grasp of the demon of drink. Garret Davis was not yet a Democrat Lazarus V?. Powell was discredited for his South ern sympainies. latnam was more than half a Repbllcan. : Turple' was a Senator but a few weeks. Doollttle was yet a futl Republican. Hendricks was not yet a Senate. Thurman did not come in until 1889. : There was no leadership, and very nearly no party. Hendricka and Thurman put a differ ent face on thfngs, and it was the wise counsel of Thurman,' supported by Bayard, Lamar, Hill, and Casserley, that (gave the Democrats the Senate In the Forty-sixth Congress. . It took twelve years' for the "Old Roman", to accomplish it, but he had but a handful of supporters to (begin with, yet he hewed his way to the majority by the sheer force of logic and thf Invincible truths of old-fashioned De mocracy, a principle that has never for one moment been In a minority In this, republic since the ordination of the Constitution of the United States. Tilden iraw with perfect vision when, as early as 170. he made .the declarai 4lon: "The.Democratlc party - wa never beaten when It was Democrat ic." The Trying of the Meflllistei v BY ELLEN FRIZELD WYCKOFF r-it i. CHAPTER I. ! A DECISION. - "There is one thing certain!" - "That Isn't our income, is it?" "Well, hardly." . : "And it isn't the honor of a man." , "Nor the charity of a girl." "Nor the chivalry of a boy." The boy laughed. He 'was only 17, and people who are 17 laugh in the face of calamity. The girl was IS and the boy's sister, but you wouldn't have guessed that Just at first, for she was pretty pretty as a May pink and dainty as an apple blossonv -v , Her hair was yellow and soft, and it went back from her low, white forehead in a series of deep, natural waves to the back of her proudly poised head, where It terminated in the regulation pig tail, with a black bow at the end of It. - Her eyes were of a nameless color a sort of gray-blue, and they were fringed with black, curled lashes and shaded by delicate brows. And there waa her nose, of innr. tip-tilted and saucy, and her lips, cut after the delicate fashion of Cupid's ouw, ana a delicate chin finished off wun a deep dimple, t l -bne laughed when theboy did, but she left oft sooner.,.:,'-. '-. ;U' ..'.,-' "Don't Hardy, . we ought not : to laugh. ' You keeD forgetting that we are In great trouble. Instantly the boy's face was grave, and , then his. eyes were like his sis ter's only tender and graver, but his face was rugged almost homely. "You are right, Drusle; I ought to remember. We've got to thin. There's one thing certain; some thing's got to be done." Week before last the Crooedvllle Chronicle came out with heavy black lines between the colums. The editor, Harding MacAllister, was dead. There were his children. Last week there had been no paper. Tnis week there , would be one. leader of the Senate, and Mr. Culber son is hot the man. Mr. Roosevelt has accomplished ;: more' Impossible things than any other man since Na polean Bonaparte. . H is . absolute master of one party anfll jclalms an option on the other; If the Demo cratic party is going to take orders from a Republican President' it Is useless to even think of Culberson for the titular leader of such a layout. If he Is made leader In nanfe he will be leader in fact, and the' party In the Senate would as well, or better, go out of th5 political business as to name a leader and then take orders from the enemy. With strong Democratic i i1 - ' ' ! 'i t . , - v fit must come nut ntvt Hardy said, and the blue ail of hla eyes, leaving them c gray. "The Chronicle?" "Yes." ' "WThy, I thought" "So have I thou eh t nd t ' it ihas come too; We must g the paper." "But the mortgage?" Aunts vug ui lite nuns we i get out of the way," he said, i little an then: Which one of us had belt Colonel Swinson?" , "Which one?". "Look-4iere, Drusle, If we s to be independant we'll have iiuju uuiuijf. i uu ii nave io to jruu aio a Kiri ana lie ID. Ant time you're a young lady " "Why, Hardy!" "Oh, well, if you want to go Sara " "What are you driving at kii vrvi & nil wen ua a lhjv see Colonel Swinson, only I & j what to say to him." "We'll both go to him." The printers are gone." "Slocum Isn't." "But he " "Was the best' of them r" "And can we get him ? "You see, he isn't youn others, and-" '"That Is a 'dlsadvantar "TO him. Hardv lanrhJ just the thing for us. He is w saw mm today. I can set tvr you. we'll just have to do glad we learned." Yes. Do you know fM son?" .", , "Not very well." Hardv looked tti fire. It was not a vrv hr; It has been said that tronf ' tomes In pairs. This h;ut I n tuitura case, ; came the treachery of a fr' he had helped. And witi came the proverty . that r world a dark place to the r girl. Some times before the !r death the .MacAlllsters hJ pretty, home amonsr the maples at the end of tho ! -street that straggled , t' r sleepy oil town. . - Since that diy tv'. V- two rooms." iTrs. "ai: ,;, , 'natured lun-'.'.i'.y, Y ' ' hflnful, but r v ' rnv th "
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