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THE WILDERNESS CI 7 Continued from page one the rations should be sent in wagons from Bermuda Hundred to meet mem on the road This is not said in any spirit of fault finding for any delay for there was no fault to he found in what was done cither by the Second Corps its commander or the comamnder of the Army or the Potomac The IJosiiiiilnK of the SicRC With the failure of the blows of June IS to penetrate any vital portion of the enemys lines of intrenehments began one of the most remarkable chapters in the history of wars This was the so called siege of Petersburg but it was only a siege in so far as it was a methodical advance from one line of fortifications upon the fortifications of the enemy If was not truly a siege because neither Petersburg nor Richmond was surrounded and cut off from communication with the surrounding country Petersburg might be regarded as an Immense outlving fortress covering the approaches to the main citadel the Confederate Capital Only 22 miles from Richmond it was the focus for all the railroads except one leading from the south into Richmond Many of the great wagon roads also focused there For the next nine months the that goal was attained When it was at last reached the Confederate army had been hammered down to half its original strength altho the last man that the conscription agents raking the entire country as if searching for diamonds had been forced into the ranks riit Fight for the Weldon Railroad The Second and Sixth Corps were moved without a certain objective as the map were worthless the country hidden by thickets and woods and the roads perplexing It had been intended that the two corps should mutually support each other but the attempt to do so in sueh a confusing terrain only led to much trouble and delay anil finally the corps commanders were in etructed to move independently Hence tho gap that was allowed to intervene The enemys skirmishers clung to the front of both corps nd were pushed i crrat ilillirnltv They kept ran -ml anil iccurately I tle rjmeincuis mI also of the between the two corps Iee had something of his olil aggres ranged to have rations sent down from svomss anti sent A I Hill down to Bermuda Hundred to issue as the troops cs llic advance upon the Weldon crossed Finding they did not arrive 1 aiirond mil took his corps with him then directed that the corps should 1llt Icrt ne division in reserve while he march without them and arranged that alvjlIlcc with Wilcoxs and Maliones Divisions He sent Wilcox to check the Fifth Corps while he led Mahones Division thru an opening and suddenly startled Barlows Division which was on the left of the Second Corps by heavy volleys upon its Hank and rear Barlow was not in shape to receive this assault and crumbled before it Motts Division was next attacked taken at a similar disadvantage and retired and then the storm broke on Gibbons Division which was driven hack losing four guns Parts of several regiments were captured with their colors The killed and wounded were not numerous The Second Corps was reformed a little way back and the next morning advanced and established itself on the line it had intended to take The Sixth Corps also lost a number of prisoners The disaster was attributed largely to the loss in the Army of the Potomac of so many able leaders of the troops who had been killea or wounded in the severe lighting since the army had crossed the Rapidan Swlnton in speaking of tills period of the war says Had not success come elsewhere to brighten the horizon it would have been difficult to have raised new forces to recruit the Army of the Potomac which shaken in its structure its valor rebels were completely surprised The remainder of Col Geddess Brigade of Carrs Division composed of the 81st 108th and 124th III followed the Sth Iowa anil had possession of the fort at 720 oclock capturing over 500 prisoners and 50 guns Over half of Ectors Brigade fell into our hands The rest of the garrison under Gen Gibson made their escape to Fort lluger and from there to Blakely on rebel gunboats Our iitire loss was confined to the 8th Iowa five killed and 20 wounded After we had complete possession of the fort we were fired upon by the troops of the Thirteenth Corps Grangers for half an hour before they rould be made to understand that the fort was ours by officers and men standing on top of the rebel works and shouting to them to cease firing Comrade Ha worth says his regiment captured Spanish Fort at 10 oclock I think lie THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE WASHINGTON CjTIIURSD AY AUGUST 25 1910 means to sny they took possession of the fort and guarded the guns after our brigade had captured them Gen A Smith recalled his troops and the Amused at the Many Accounts Lauren Barker First Sergeant Co A 28th Wis Third Brigade Third Division Thirteenth Corps Brooklield Wis writes I have been one of your readers for 29 years and will keep on as long as I can see to read I was not one of tho first that went to the war nor one of the last to return but served three years and one mouth and as I was born in 18X7 was not Just a kid in wartime and having a good memory and also kept a diary of every day I was in the service I will try to get things correet I have been greatly pleased to read the history of the Western army In the department where my regiment servtd As to Spanish Fort 1 have been greatly amused for many years and have concluded that there must have been one of the largest armies In the South there to capture that fort by the number of letters I have read in The National Tribune telling what regiment and what army corps made the capture The best account that I have ever read about it was written a year or two ago by a Lieutenant that had more chance to know about it than we did and 1 think he got it about right as I was there from start to finish and know something about It and my watch was a good timepiece On March 27 18C5 our regiment had roll call at 430 a and we remained under arniB until after sunrise We then got our breakfast and at 9 oclock we marched out and formed line in the brigade and marched two miles toward the fort and at 030 a in our artillery opened ire upon the enemy and for 13 days and nights there was something doing nil the time 1 teenth Corps took possession and stood was with my company on the skirmish guard over the property that Carrs line 50 hours during the siege and I vision captured or more properly never got up and swung my ha at the speaking Col Geddess Brigade of rebels but kept iis cloSje to the ground Carrs Division Sixteenth Corps cap- as I could tured I will relate a little incident about Our brigade marched the full length the fort that I think ias not been in of the fort to make sure that there were print On the evening of April 8 some no rebels in hiding When we arrived of the 27th Wis boys were on the skir at the lower extremity of the fort we mish line near the fort and as the sent up a lusty cheer and the Federal ing grew less ami scemcu 10 stop they gunboats down the bay commenced shelling us and we got back out of their reach as soon as possible The next morning Sunday it was discovered that torpedoes had been planted in the fort and marked so that the rebels would not get blown up themselves and tlrrli Vif fnrt must ho PVnplii tml en three of the men crawled over to it at I oclock and found all gone but two of throe men and the rebel flag One of the men took down the Hag and thev crept back to the rille pits and that 27th Wis man put that flag In his we were fortunate enough not to ex- I knapsack and brought it to his home at plode one in our march in the dark the night before Was nt Spanl Fort and IHakely Thomas Barker Co I 2d Cav Chicago 111 writes I enlisted In my native town Kees ville Essex County Oct 12 1SG3 as private for three years or during the war I was assigned to Co I 2d Cav commanded by Col Morgan Chrisler from start to finish I with mv company and regiment was on Red River La campaign in the Spring of 1864 under Gen Hanks from start to finish also with my company and regiment on the Mobile campaign in the Spring of 1SC5 under Gen Canby from Armies of the Potomac and James were to He in close musket range of the Army of Northern Virginia to work by faps and approaches still closer and at the same time extend out toward the left to cut one after another of the roads leading into Petersburg The Armv of Northern Virginia was to be held there until it could be destroyed or at least greatly reduced in formid nbleness The life of the rebellion was to be sapped away This work could be prosecuted with the greatest advantage at Petersburg since the Armies of the Potomac and James would remain constantly within a few miles of their base of supplies at City Point to which great vessels came iHiniit fear of interference from the enemy bringing their freightage of what the army needed The railroad leading to City Point was first taken possession of by our army as this was protected from assault by the Appomattox River and the works at Bermuda Hundred From this the army was to gradually reach out and cut one after another of the railroads and wagon roads leading into ihe city This was a continuation of the movement bv the left flank which the Army of the Potomac had persistently followed since ft crossed the Rapidan The extension of our line first struck the Jerusalem plank road and then the railroad leading to Norfolk Tho these were comparatively unimportant to the enemy there was vigorous resistance to our advance Orders went out on the night of June 1 to fortify the ground which had been gained and to hold it In a few days the works on this line became of imposing strength At first the field pieces were put in the redoubts but these were soon replaced by siege guns brought up from City Point Most of the fortifving was done at night by heaw details from each regiment It was impossible to do It In the daytime as the lines were so close together that nothing could live that exposed Itself to the accurate fire from the enemys works In spite of this the work was of the highest engineering skill Great forts were built with strong bastions and redoubts The works were securely revetted by gabions that Is round bottomless baskets about the size of a barrel made by weaving branches of trees in between poles that serVed as stakes When these were completed they were filled with earth and were strong enough to resist even cannon shot Additional security was gained by a bank thrown up in front of and resting against them Even at night this work was qrlto dangerous for the Confederates k5t up a constant fire in the direction in which they knew the work was going on At times the artillery would join in with the riflemen und shells and solid shot screech around some work particularly obnoxious The enemy did not have things all his own way by any means as our men were quite as good marksmen and as skilful in devices to repress the audacity of their foes They would take close observation during the day each man picking out his special objective on the other side Then they would put down stakes and arrange rests for their rifles fo as to aim at night with as much certainty as in the daytime Thus they were able to keep up a searching fire under and above the headlogs of the enemy and thus keep down his fire to a great extent KstahlKlimcnt of the Lines In the establishment of the lines the Ninth Corps moved to the right until Us right flank rested at the Hare House where it joined the left flark of the Eiglteenth Corps The Fifth Corps went into position on the left of the Ninth with its left resting on the Jerusalem road where Fort Sedgwick was afterwards built On June 21 the Second Corps followed by the Sixth Corps moved across the Jerusalem plank road to the left of the Fifth Corps with the intention of taking possession of the Weldon Railroad In following it the Sixth Corps went into position some distance to the left of the Second Corps leaving a large gap between them The aim was after getting possession of the Weldon road to push the Sixth Corps on toward the South Side Railroad the last of those entering Petersburg Alas for the calculations of Generals There were to be months of incessant manuvering intrenching and bloody fighting before that South Side Railroad was reached Thousands of men were to die many more thousands were to be wounded and captured in the bitter struggle prosecuted under the burning heat of Summer the A SECTION OF THE HOSPITAL AT CITY POINT quenched in blood and thousands of its ablest officers killed and wounded was the Armv of the Potomac no more This disaster wholly unforeseen infused Meade with caution and he turned his attention still more strongly to careful fortifications To be continued HOW FORT IUjAKKLY WAS TAKEN The Boys or the Sixteenth Corps Pay Tliey Made the Capture and the Thirteenth Also Claim the VrUc Here follows an installment of the Fort Blakely affair with the personal views of boys of the Sixteenth and Thirteenth Corps as to how the feat was accomplished In Command of Springfield Pierce Co 20th Wis Saskatchewan Canada writes 1 enjoy reading The National Tribune very much but after reading so many different versions of the same thing by members of different regiments I sometimes think I could not have been in the army at all Some of the old boys of the Sixteenth Corps start to finish at Spanish Fort Blakely and Mobile April 9 1865 From there our reclment marched to Talledega Ala where we went into camp and did dutv and was not mustered out until Nov 8 1805 We received our discharges at the Capitol Building at Albany I think we were nearly the last regiment out from New York State mustered out of service I took an active part with my company and regiment in all their battles and skirmishes I was only 17 years old when I returned home after serving two years On Sept 22 186C I re enlisted as private for three years in Co 20th and was honorably discharged as First Duty Sergeant at Fort Totten Dak on Sept 22 1869 nt expiration of service On the bottom of this discharge is written by my Captain Character excellent I joined Winfield Scott Post 445 A It Chicago in June 1887 Post holds two meetings eacli month Up to the present time I have only missed four meetings since 1887 I was re elected Chap Iain for 1910 making the 10th year as Post Chaplain I have attended every funeral of my Post excepting two I dont claim to be the youngest private soldier but dont think I am very far behind I have a brother William in claim all the glory of taking Spanish fn nu of ii frt Snm Fort ignoring the Thirteenth Corps ton Tex who is servlnK hLs 30th year entirely jIe wil retire Nov 1 1910 at less than I was not in command of the army 50 of years age to direct its operations so cannot say I who went here or there All I com- Tc SIXCII Corj manded was a good Springfield rifle which I still have and 1 found myself Hall Sth Wis West Union too busy manuvering that to pay any Iowa writes attention to anything else so I must I noticed accounts of the capture of plead ignorance of who got in first but Spanish Fort by the Thirteenth Corps know Tor a certainty that I ordered that the writer giving as proof that the guns Springfield into Spanish Fort between were marked Captured by the Thir sunset and sunrise April 8 9 1865 and teenth Corps The fact is that the Six it went in with myself a close second teenth Corps captured the fort A tie Where my company dashed over the tachment of rebels charged out on our SconlItl 0 I ti i i 13oyaton MAP OF VICINITY OF PETERSBURG ground for the fort I know we passed over 15 torpedoes buried in the ground but with their safety caps on the rebels not daring to take them off as they had to pass over the ground every night coming out to their pits Therefore anyone can claim all the glory and I will keep a clear conscience having done Just what I was told to do and when I was told to do it GeddeVs Brigade at Spaniel Fort Frank Eckert Co 124th HI Geddess Brigade Carrs Division Sixteenth Corps Minneapolis Minn writes In The National Tribune of Jan 13 Comrade Richard Haworth Co I 23d Iowa claims that his regiment captured Spanish Fort ut 10 oclock at night I am surprised at such absurd claims The facts of the case are us follows A little after in on April 8 1865 the Mb Iowa led by Col Bell advanced boldly and In the face of a sharp musketry fire gained the crest and a part of the parapet on the extreme left of the eliemv A strmr le on drenching rains of Autumn and amid sued between the bth Iowa and the gar the frosts and snows of Winter before rlMm in their immediate front The men and we followed them back into the works and stayed and took posses lion in the night The Thirteenth Corps did not take ossession of their front until the next morning We hadnt time to mark guns but were at Blakely before night helping to capture that place We were soon on the way to Montgomery got there in time to see the great quantities of cotton go up in smoke that the rebels fired before leaving Sheboygan Wis I do not think it was ever sent back to the Southland I knew about this in Alabama and I talked with some of the comrades about it at a Reunion in Milwaukee some vetrs after the war I think there was glory enough for all of us in the civil war so dont let us brag They did their duty fought the fight As eer good soldiers can And for the service thus performed They gained the name of man If any of the dear old comrades should see this and will write to me I will be pleased to hear from them Sajs It Was the Thirteenth A Barnard Co I 94th 111 Springfield III writes I saw a letter by Comrade La cock saying that the Sixteenth Corps did the fighting and the taking of Spanish Fort He is badly off or I am If my memory serves me right and I think it does I was there I made the march from Fort Morgan overland with my brigade the 94th 111 19th Iowa 20th Wis and 26th Ind We took part in that light from start to finish and Gen Gordon Granger was in command instead of Gen A Smith I was In the charge the night the Tort was taken and was sent after we got inside of the fort with ti squad or men to pick up anything I could find We succeeded in gobbling a rebel picket post of six men and reported to Col McNutty then we got some hardtack and sowbelly for them to eat This was all done in the night The next morning the boys at Fort Blakely hearing that we hud tnken Spanish Fort went after Fort Blakely and got it Then in a day or two my regiment wns detailed to take the prisoners to Ship Island This I know to he a fact for I was there and my brigade belonged to the Thirteenth Corps We were in the charge and among the first to enter tho fort I served three years in every battle and on every march that my regiment made The Sixteenth Corps Dili It James McDevitt 4213 Lake avenue Chicago 111 writes I have read of late with some Interest two or three articles in The National Tribune in regard to what corps captured Spanish Fort on Mobile Bay April 8 1865 I shall tell your readers my experience My regiment the 95th 111 occupied the works and rille pits all of the time that we were at the siege about 13 days I think On March 27 about noon my company waa thrown out as skirmishers and took active part in driving the rebels back into their rifle pits and fortifications The artillery opened fiercely and the battle raged furiously all along the line After fighting in our works for 12 days on the afternoon of April 8 we heard very heavy firing on our right thg meaning of which we did not know But about 4 in my regiment was ordered to fall In and we were sent to the right of our position as we were to reinforce that part of our line We were there as a reserve until about 10 when we were ordered back as we thought to our trenches We kept moving until we arrived in our rifle pits There tne regiment formed line of battle and as soon as it was formed we were ordered to charge We got on top of the pits and commenced to move the timber and ehevaux de frisc in our front A great many of the tree limbs had been sharpened and lay very thick so it was a very difficult matter to get thru them When we first started there was some sharp firing but as we ncared their works we did not notice so much It was our part to charge the big red and white sand fort which had a very deep ditch in front of it After a hard climb we got on top and had Just dropped inside of the works when a battery of the Thirteenth Corps opened on us One shot just skimmed the top of the works and gave my comrade and me a close call and a big shower of sand Then one of my comrades shouted at the top of his voice You son of a gun who are you firing at That was how the Thirteenth Corps helped us to take that part of the rort Our own gunboats and mortars kept throwing shell at us It was said at the time that no one knew anything about the charge but the Sixteenth Corps After getting inside of the rebels works we went around to their bombproof quarters and the men that did not rim we captured In their quarters After some time we sigunled the fleet that the fort was captured When we had accomplished all we could we returned to our works and lay down for a rest It was late next morning when I went over into the captured fort where I charged with my regiment and what was my surprise see all the guns In the big fort tagged with a big card Captured bv Gen Gordon Grangers Thirteenth Corps light where I was fired on by that panic corps battery It was reported at the time that when Gen A Smith saw those cards he ordered a detail from the 3d Wis go nnd take them off saying If there is any credit tor this the Sixteenth Corps should have it John Brown 69th Ind Dayton writes I saw a statement in The National Tribune in regard to the capture ot Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely I was In the Thirteenth Corps from November 1862 to the close of the war and was mustered out at Mobile Ala July 5 1865 I was in Gen Atulrewss Division at Fort Blakely and the Thirteenth Corps captured that line of forts and breastworks Fort Blakely formed the left of the rebel works Defending Mobile were obstructions of every sort also a double line of torpedoes The loss was great but no obstacle hindered no degree of carnage daunted the men They carried the works Our loss was 2000 killed land wounded A few minutes after the surrender the colorbearer of the 97th III with the flag had a hard time In getting thru the obstructions witli the colors and was the last one of his regiment to come over the breastworks He planted his Hag in front of the regiment and a line of the enemy standing in front of him with grounded arms The minute the Hag was planted relicl Lieut Moore picked up a gun and shot the colorbearer dead Moore was shot at the same time I saw them fall The Inscription on the monument erected to Moore at Blakely is Lieut Moore who fell at Blakely on April 9 1865 He fired the last gun In defense of Mobile He 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mental ana paysicaj power He becomes a man among men The drinker other bad habit and often his aliments such as stomach disorder rheumatism liver and kidney trouble eta usually disappear when he Is cured of alcoholism He bcln to love hi home and all that I near and dear to Kim He is a changed man and he finds that avery minute Is worth living Ifyoneannot wrlla tome to4ay cut this advertisement out and kt ep It as it will probably not appear again lly address Is always Edward Wood 684 iith Aveane itar lie raid pqisre Nsw York 7i For drif habits Including the taking of opium chloraL rotalne morchlne Laudanum cholera mlziur paregoric etc I have special remedies particulars of which will be sent on application If you plainly state vhat drug is being taken Tbesa treatments are not the tam as that which 1 end for the alcohol habit Tobacco hablL A KUaranteed Keraedr Write asking especially for my book on Tobacco HablL You can quit easily ana enjoy wtr oeaiiu THESE PICTURES TELL AN INTERESTING STORY 1 HaoDlIr married although Ae has had lence with drink before 3 Assured hi wife that be never feels desire for drink now 8 The Demon of Alcohol has again taken control deplte bis good Intentions 4 IfUeh arced Employers do not care for drinking men nowadays Acts strangely toward his family 6 The poorly clothed children are mocked and their father culled a drunkard 7 What little hearts goes for drink 8 The poor wife Is In despair Has received Wood Confessions of an Alcohol Slave and is greatly Interest wt sends for the Set of Remedies lO The beginning of bapplae postman delivers box 1 1 putting some medicine In bis cotee 1 He drinks It She cortlnue to give the preparation Soon he hates the tat of liquor 1 8 His ill power has returned lie promises never to touch another drop and mrsssllt 14 Getting rithof the evidences of his downfall 1 5 Regain the position he had lot employer congratulates him on having taken the Wood Treatment which Is curing so man and Aleohol I ent oat of It Xbere I nothing extrordlnIT about trtion they represent merely a typical case 1 could fbow hundrediL yea thounanda of lrtereetlnz ceries all oi Taryinz tomewnat yet wita tne Fame pvnerai outcome Hy treatment conquers the craving for drink and It EDWARD WOODS 534 Sixth Av9 4570 New York NY landmarks Our old campinfj ground on SirlnK Hill is all built up The spot wlifTo tho magazine exploded near the rivor on North Wator strret is used as a wootlyard Many of the old buildings on Government street are just the same now as when we entered the town I passed by the old theater building and imagined that I could near George JIc Farland our Drum Major singing and dancing Old Rob Itidley and that 1 could see Al Powers and Wham and Hillle Campbell waiting for George so as to help him blow in what he got for the stunt Upon inquiry I learned that Wakely and Spanish Fort were nearly covered with pine and grasses The little grocery that stood where St Michael commences on Dauphin is no more giving way to a Catholic infirmary The samclttle stream crosses the street at that point The boys all had i good time at Mobile for there we got pay and stayed long enough to enjoy it and none more than my dear chum Capt George Donne of whom I could never get trace after the war 1 think that I will take my vacation next Winter in Florida COUIKX WKDDINGS Cninrnile mill Mr Ciore Phelps Joll flte I will ri Ielirnte their KM wedding anniversary Aug Ilin ami would like very iiiiii Ii tn reielte raids from the eoin rnilf Comrade Ihtlw served In Co 1M Comrade and Mrs Charles Itnss of Leo minster Maks eeliliratid their golden wedding anniversary April 111 JIIO Hundreds of guests attended the reeeptlou In the afternoon anil a large number lu the evening Comrade anil Mrs IIiiks receded 30 lu gold and many beautiful presents Comrade Muss served in Co 4th Mass II A and is a member of Charles II Stevens IVfet 53 Comrade anil Mrs John Grant 104 Xnrtli 4th street Mount Vernon III celebrated their gnldeii wedilbig anniversary April fi 1110- Their ehllilren grandchildren and a number of relatives were present and had a most enjovable time Comrade rant served lu Co I Ind CSV nnd Is a member of II Wallace Post Hi lie has been a subscriber and reader of The National Tribune since its earliest numbers and sincerely hopes Comrade MeKlroy will be the next Comuiander lnChlef Comrade Grant and his family will be pieased to bear from any of the comrades Comrade George Jacobs II No 4 Phillips Me writes to Comrade John Me Klroy the editor of The National Tribune It is with great pleasure that I write to let you know that I still live nnd hope to until after the national Kncnmpmcnt I think I voice the sentiment of nil the old boys from franklin County If not the whole State of Maine when I stand up for John MeKlroy for our next lie seems to be the choice first last nnd all the time His name Is proclaimed from Maine to California nnd veterans ull ovrr the United Stntes hope to be able to attend the National Kncpmpmcnt nt Atlantic City In September I expect to be on my wedding trip about that time ns tnv wife and I If we live until Aug II 1010 will celebrate our golden wedding I would be very much pleased to see or hrnr from you Have been a subscriber to Tho Kutlontd Tribune for more than 25 yenrs HAVE YOU HAY FEVER OR ASTHMA We desire to place In the linntln of all per voiih Fuffeiinf from either of these tllstresslntf aliments our pamphlets coutulnliig hundred of bona title testimonials revrlvcd from people who have been tienetUel ami cured In the past by the use of IIIMAUYA We have reliable testimony ntiowlitfr peimanent relief to person who have nunred for jears nfter all other remedies nnd chnti of climate had failed Wo do not uak you to rrly on our statement an to the mvrttn of Iltmalyu but to rrad the testimony of actual eufferem who hae been cuied hy lti ue and topU 4 of which will bo Kludly cent you on nppllratton Theae you can verify to the fill lent extent If tt be fo deidred Hlmnlya can be purchftved from all druKKlt If not lnntock It can be had through their Jobber or wholesaler We shall he pleaned to aenrt free trial cnee of Illmalyn by mail to any sufferer of Hay Fever or Asthma who la a reader of Tile National Tribune Write The Hltnala Co 819 Howard Ktt Detroit Mich It tobta yeu nothing to give trial We have lost two of onr best comrades lately our Post Commander Issac Stanley of Kingfield who dropped dead May 4 and our Quartermaster Lewis Irescott had severe shock Saturdav May JO and died June I was the originator of I Clayton Post It was organized March J7 lSS i It has only a small number now only 20 members nnd we bave lost since its organization 24 members by death I have served the Post for 20 years as Commander nnd Adjutant nnd ns Senior Vice Commander and Quartermaster I have been on Thomas Stewart succeed In Terr manr cases after all methods fall Frequently larire sums are pld for treatment In ran ltarlums lnmtutrs etc yet the liquor habit Is conguei only for a brief period and the drinker is after ard pr manemly cured by the WoocV Method My system consists or two fbnas of Treatment AandH My A iet of Remedies Is guaranteed to cure al eohoIm In thrr days If the drinter willingly taxes tho rnifftie Uv of Remedies la the secrtt method which pradually causes a detestation of drink so that the person nates even tee oaor oi ic Tne Woods Uenedles are guaranteed1 under the Pure Pood and Drun Act and are covered by a cer tificate which Insure success The preparations can tabn bv dnnbers of ant jre men or women rieaae Leep this advertisement ycu can do a kind ness make homes happy and perhaps rave a Ute by sowtaguustouioeewnoneeauieEooanewi aaareas and James Tanners staffs also on a dozerf or more Department Commanders staffsS Comrade Charles Trlbon 21 FbeparJ street Ilrockton Mass writes that be celebrated the 1h anniversary of his marriage nnd his Mil birthday He Is now past his SGth birthday and his wife Is near heo Kid 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