Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1899 — Hall's Catarrh Cure. [ARTICLE]

Hall's Catarrh Cure.

Is taken internally. Price cents. ■ " Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.—Lavater.

General Benjamin F. Tracy, format Secretary of the Navy, and who la «#S present an associate of General Rea*? jarnin Harrison in representing tbi*s Government in the matter of the Venezuelan boundary dispute, finite tbe keenest enjoyment in smoking. During! his recent voyage to Paris be passed #j good deal of hte time In the smokbi|)|| room of the steamer. Bat the G«ii| eral was nearly 50 years old before h# ■ acquired tbe taste for tobacco. Pirs- - vious to tbat time smoking made Mote: During the early ’7os he was engage#; as counsel In a celebrated case and w«UM compelled to devote not only the da§S| but tbe greater part of tbe night, to ki|| task. Once, when be was tborougMill fagged out, an associate suggested tbat a cigar with his coffee might have a soothing effect. General Tracy succumbed to tbe temptation, and before ’ he was aware of it bad finished bMg| third cigar. They seemed to quiet tall nerves, and he was able to work over | hie papers the whole of tbe night. Since tbat time, perhaps out of tnde for the effect of those three etM gars, General Tracy has been a smoker, i —Philadelphia Times.