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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-02-03
AFTER THE THEATE..

Ten dollars. Quite sum TO pay
For one who earns but four day.
For just a single evenings fun.
It seems so, now the thing is done.
Three for a carriage; for you know
I never could ask her to 60
With that swell dress-the shade ecru,
And train strung out a yard or two
In plain horse car. And so nice
She looked. l do not grudge the price.
Three more for seats-down center aisle
And four rows back-just right for style.
The curtain rose. How time viii pass
While gazing through an opera glass
The curtain fell. Once more We stood
Outside. and then the thought offood
Itself presented. She said yes,
She felt quite hungry. You can guess
That what we ate, with just bit
Of rosy wine to season 1t,
Used up that other four. Time sped.
[ took her home Good night was said
Then to my home came l straight;
And here [ sit and mediate.
The cash I had four hours ago
Is gone. I have naught for it to show,
Have I regrets for it? Not one.
Twas folly, but by JOve, twas fun,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-02-03

CHASTITY face and sobbing breath. tear
ing loose the painter of q small skif
that was moored close at hand. and
putting off with frantic haste across tho
stream. And / knew-but how / cam
not tell-that he was going to fetch the
body OF the woman he loved, and whom
he had slain. For the famous sharp
shooter of the Rapidan was Rosalind
Capel.
She was still living when he brought
her in; but she had been hit mortally
in the right side, and was fast bleeding
to death. But she smiled as we lifted
her out, and her voice, though very
faint. was distinct and composed.
Lay me by Capt. Camlion," she
said, Il shall like to die beside him.
Had yoH no more worthless men in
your army, but you must line me with
a man like him -
Il was the one you were to have
had, said Hayden; ''but at the mo-
ment the captain flung me down and
went forward himself 1t was to late
to help it then. God knows | am sor-
ry. and he burst into tears as he said
Rosalind smiled strangely, and NOV
ed her hand until it touched Camlion's
Capt. CamliOn acted like the hero
he always was" she said, now almost
lnaudibly. Il loved him-never any
one else-never you, you double trail
tor she added, turning her darkening
eyes on Bolton, who knelt in voiceless
despair before her. Last night you
sold your adopted country for a kiss"
Her eyes half closed for 4 moment,
and she breathed stentorously. She
opened them once more, turned her
face toward Camlion, and made an eff
fort to lift his hand to her lips, | help
ed her to accomplish her purpose.
"Thank YOU" she whispered Il am
not fit to kiss his mouth; buff he
were alive-I would ask his leave-and
his pardon
She did not speak after this, and in q
few moments she died very quietly.
Among Camlion's papers was found
a letter TO Bolton, explaining his object
in sacrificing himself. "You are my
friend, f" it ran; Il will not stand be-
tween you and her, now that / know
you love each other; but [ shall never
find better time or cause to die III
than this"
Poor Bolton! He was acquitted by the
court-martial appointed to try him on
the charge of having given information
to the enemy; but fear there was that
in his memory which made the re-
mainder of his life more bitter to him
than any death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-02-03

FOX SALE RX DRUGGISTS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-02-03
Mrs. harrington saws

don't take any of the rostrums, as they
are regimental to the human cistern
but put your trust in Hop Bitters,
which will cure general dilapidation,
costive habits and all comic diseases
They saved Isaac from very severe ex-
tact Of tripod fever. They are the ne
pLNs una.na of medicines.-Boston Globe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-02-03
The Positive Cure

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an early stage Of development The tendency to
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1t removes fantneSs fatulency, destroys all craving
for ST nulants, and relieves weakness OF the stomach
1t cures Boating, Headaches, Nervous Prostitution,
General Debility, Sleepessness, Depression and 1ndi.
geStion.
That feeling OF bearing down, causing pain weight
and backache is always permanently cured by its
II VIII Mt all times and under all circumstances act in
harmony with the laws that govern the female system
For the cure of Kidney Complaints of either this
Compound is unsu! passed.
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POJNDis prepared at 233 and 2&5 Western Avenue,
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In the form of pills. also in the form OF lozenges
receipt Of price 81 per box for either Mrs Pnkham
freely answers all letters of inquiry Send for pamph
let. Address as above. EeHtion this Paper.
No family should be withouG LYDIA j.. pINKHAM'S
LIVER PILLS. They cure constipation, bliousness
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FgK SALE RX DRUGGISTS.
The National tribune., 1881-12-24
Is the "Press" Lying?

The Providence Press in an article headed
"The Arrears of Pension Steal" makes a scan
dalous and shameful attack upon every United
States Senator and Member of Congress who
voted for the Arrears Of Pension Act. Hear
what it says: "Nor were a majority of those
who voted for this bill actuated by honest
motives. Not one in ten believed that justice
to the Nations defenders required the enact
ment of such law"
Not "actuated by honest motives!" We won
der what Senators Allison, David Davis, Hill,
Plumb, Rollins, ex-senators Herman, Conkling,
Blaine, Gordon and Members of Congress Dun
nell Keifer Morrison, Hiscock, Bragg, Rice,
Ketcham, Foster, and others who voted for the
measure will say to such charge of dishonesty
thus publicly made against them. We should
like to hear their opinion of the Press and its
malicious attack upon their regulations. Mean
time, the question is, Did the Senators and mem
bers who voted in favor of the Arrears Bill do
dishonesty and corruptly, or is the Providence
Press simply lying?
The National tribune., 1881-12-24

more rapidly does he feel the effects of what be
tul agents of time to assist in breaking down the
strongest constitutions, and before the Nation is
aware of it, the grandest army Of modern times
will be without one single living representative
the last one of more than two millions of men who
at one time or another were enrolled under the
Flag in defence of the Usion will have passed to
his final and great reward
These are doubtless gloomy reflections, but we
cannot keep them back. We loved our COM
rades well as we did the cause in which We
fought, and we love them yet,-revere the men,
Ories of them that are no more Our hearts were
knit together through community of dangers
and sufferings. With some of them we have
shared blankets, divided hard tack, and drank
from the same canteen; and they have done the
same with us when we were needy. Some of
them mingled their blood with ours as we foupht
side by side and fell upon the same field The
tendeIest and strongest ties known to manhood
unite our hearts and we suffer when they suffer
and are glad when they rejoice Is it strange,
then that we espouse their cause when they need
an advocate-that we at all times to the extent
of our feeble ability, look after and watch over
their interests and insist upon justice being done
to them and theirs?
Is it strange that we should strive to prevent
their being forgotten by the Nation before their
shattered forms are buried out of sight, or that
we should lift up our voice against the sordid
avarice of those who grew fat in pocket at the
expense of the suferings and blood of our COM
rades-our brothers in arms? We think not
We should be less than human could we so far
forget our duty to them well as to Ourself;
and hence in the future, as in the past, we shall
continue to exert ourself in their behalf devotng
all our energies to the work of securing to each
and every one all that the Nation promised
everything that grateful Nation ought to have
freely given long ago.
The National tribune., 1881-12-24
A Charitable Old Man.

The New York Mail-Erpress says that the
Venerable Thurlow Weed is convinced that
veterans of the war of 1912 are suffering for food
and he has sent $25 to the Star as a nucleus for
a fund to be raised for their relief incidentally,
he makes an interesting explanation Of the use
he has made of the pension he confesses he has
drawn with military regularity 1t was given
for several years to Captain Lahrbush, who had
served half century in the British army, and
it is now contributed to the support of an Albany
lady of more than four years, who earned her
living with her needle until her eyesight failed.
Were all the pension money used as honestly as
that drawn by Mr. Weed soldier of the Re-
public would suffer want"
To put the matter little more pointedly, the
argument of the Mai-Erpress may be summed
up as follows: Let every pensoner who, though
Justly entitled, is yet rich enough to live with
out pension select some superannuated British
soldier or aged seamstress having no claim what
ever upon the Government and pay to him or
her the paltry sum of eight dollars per month.
Then our own disabled veterans and the widows
and orphans of our fallen comrades, together
with the survivors of the wars of the Republic
from the Revolution down, will be properly
cared for
The National tribune., 1881-12-24
A Hard COnundram.

THE PittsbuTg Post, which, from its tone, We
Judge to be owned or controlled by the late John
A Bentley, at the end Of a haf-column article
upon the Arrears Act, entitled "A few Pension
Facts" propounds this conundrum:
Does any one suppose who has studied the
man, that the rightful President, Samuel J. Til
den, would have allowed such measure to be-
come law, without having exhaustively ciphered
out its cost to the taxpayers?"
We will say to the editor of the Post that while
we concede Mr. Tilden's ability to deal with
cipheTs of every description, including dispatches,
yet the question prepounded cannot, in our opn-
ion, be answered until the Sage Of Gramercy has
paid to the United States, in full, the amount of
income tax lawfully assessed against him, and
which is now quite number of years overdue.
The National tribune., 1881-12-24

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE is not a partisan
1t is soldiers paper, and the warm and true
friend of all who risked their lives in the Nations
defense. Those familiar with its past history
will coDcede that it has had none but kind
words for Democratic Senators and Members of
Congress who have proved themselves friendly
to the men who saved the Union, regardless of
politics or party names.
Nor has the TRIBUNE hesitated to criticise and
condemn Republican Senators and Members, as
well as others, who have used their high stations
to oppress our surviving heroes and crippled vet
erans.
The TRIBUNE's opposition to the Sixty-Sur-
geon Bill demonstrates this fact most fully.
And what the TRIBUNE has been in the past it
will continue to be in the future, viz. and out
spoken and uncompromising friend of the Union
and of every man, Republican or Democrat, who
faithfully served it in time OF need; friend Of
the widows and orphans made by the war
friend of National progress and the earnest and
untiring advocate OF any and all measures intro
duced in Congress which are calculated to secure
the rights and advance the interests of the men
who put down the rebellion upon our own soil,
as also of the gallant remnants of those who
made our banner glorious in Mexico and oD
other fields of conflict.
The National tribune., 1881-12-24
The New Rebellion.

THE bondholder's rebellion has begun. The
money kings are seeking to violate law by forcing
the repeal of solemn and well ll-considered act of
Congress. They are playing the rebel game Of
1861 over again, only instead of the doctrine OF
secession, money is the causus belH. The rebels
cried, ave will not part with State Rights
perish the Union The bondholders now cry,
ave will not part with the Governments money
to pay honest debts-perish the soldiers. Down
with the pensioner. Let the Arrears Act be
repealed"
And what shall the ex-soldiers do, in view of
the existing state of affairs? We say, Rally
Round the Flag, Boys,"-stand firm, shoulder
10 shoulder as you did twenty years ago-and
avarce and rebel malice cannot conquer Then
"Old Glory led you to victory over the armed
foe, although scarcely smaller army of barking
copperhead ours were tearing at your heels
now, with the same Flag overhead, one brave and
united charge viii sweep the field Of all these
canting hypocrites and useless vermin. up,
men, and at them"
The National tribune., 1881-12-24

THE New York Euening Post, edited by Carl
Schurz, the late John A. Bentley's factotum, not
only advocates the repeal of the Arrears of Pen
sion law, but also the withholding of pensions
from those who have been paid arrears until the
amount paid has been thus refunded to the Gov
ernment. The Erening Post claims to be Re-
publican paper-God save the mark! And its
editor used to make political campaign speeches
over the country for 5000 per night and expenses
terms strictly in advance-for the good Of the
party.
We will observe that he fixed his own yaIua-
tion of the services rendered.
Ex-soldiers may safely set him down as semi
civilized crank
The National tribune., 1881-12-24

As AN amendment to the propositions of the
the names Of pensioners published, we suggest
that publication be also made Of the names of
holders Of the Government bonds, resident in the
United States, and the amount of interest paid to
each since the war. Also, that the United States
cause the editors Of those papers now engaged in
warTing against our disabled veterans and the
widows and orphans of the dead, to publish
their own military histories, showing what ser
vices, if any, they rendered the Union during the
rebellion.
The National tribune., 1881-12-24
Important Announcement.

We take occasion to inform the friends of THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE that the subscription price
will be continued at the reduced rate of one
dollar per annum until March 31st next. We
take this step in order that all who desire first
class soldiers paper-one that is at all times
thoroughly alive to the interests of those who
perilled their lives in defense of the Union, and
one that is ever fearless and outspoken in their
behalf-may have the opportunity offered of
sending us their subscriptions. We feel greatly
encouraged by our past experience and are deeply
grateful to the thousands who have thus far given
us their cordial support To extend our useful
ness we only need to extend our patronage Give
us 100000 subscribers and we will put shoulder
to the wheel of legislation that will set the car
of justice moving in the interests of every veteran
who served the United States in any war, and of
every pensioneT and claimant for pension OF
bounty who has a just claim against the Govern
ment. Send in your subscriptions without delay.
Now is the time to act. The enemy are already
taking up arms against the pensioners Now is
the time to meet them, before they have in
tTenched themselves behind their national banks
and bonds.
The National tribune., 1881-12-24

We ARE OF the opinion that the ex-soldiers OF
the Union have no warmer friend in Congress
than General W. s Rosecrans His efforts in
behalf of Soldiers Home in California are al
ready producing good results, and though others
may take fright at the threatenings of the money
kings we have sufficient confidence in his we'll
known integrity and independence to lead us to
believe that old Rosy" as his boys used to call
him, will stand by his comrades through good
report and evil report He is not the sort OF man
to be seduced by dattering promises or to be
awed by threats. He is a true patriot, who
knows what is due to the men who have upheld
the countrys flag and honor, and will see to it,
so far as he is able, that justice is done thems
every one,
The National tribune., 1881-12-24
Sh2nRGl NEGLECT.

The usual number Of bills to provide pensions
to the veterans Of the Mexican war have already
been introduced in Congress. Whether proper
action will be had upon them is another matter
entirely.
1t is a burning shame for Congress to be SO
dilatory ia dealing with these worthy men.
Year after year bills are introduced by the score
speeches are made by the Dozen the Capitol is
fooded with eloquence, and yet the sessions have
expired and the proposed measures for relief
have perished also. We cannot understand the
reasons for all this (all our law makers seem to
agree that the Mexican veterans ought to be
pensOned) unless those who hold the Nations
purse-strings are waiting for the last one of the
gallant heroes who won US glory and rich terri
tories beside, to die.
We do not propose to let this matter drop with
this brief paragraph. We propose to ring it into
the ears of Congress until shame or a sense of
justice compels that body to do what it ought to
have done long since-pension the Mexican
veterans.
The National tribune., 1881-12-24

OLD THURLoW WEED has edged his way into
print by claiming tke credit of having supported
for many years with his pension granted him
for service in the war of 1912 a superannuated
British soldier. Why did not Mr. Weed, if he
was charitably inclined, devote his pension to
some one of his own worthy and needy COM
rades? Why not let his charity begin at home
instead of dispensing it among those who have
never rendered the Government, whose money
he uses, any service whatever, and have no claims
upon it?
The National tribune., 1881-12-24
Trying to Get Even.

Goldsmith W. Hewitt is his name; he is by the
grace Of God and the magnanimity of the loyal
element of the United States rebel member of
Congress, and he halls from the State of Alabama
He is the author Of the bill to repeal the Arrears
of Pension Act, published in another column. He
doubtless reflects the wishes of those who elected
him to Office and may be accepted as their mouth
piece. Had they the power they would rob not
only the disabled veterans who wore the blue but
also the Government itself. They tried to do so
in 1861. They stole our Treasury, our army, our
ships of war; our arms, forts, and arsenas, but we
whipped them in the end and succeeded in get
ting back portion of the plunder. 1t cost us
billions of money and the lives of nearly five
hundred thousand noble, loyal men, to put down
the rebellion, and left us with vast army of our
own crippled soldiers and thousands and thou
sands of helpless widows and orphans to care for
but the price paid was not thought too great
We have not forgotten these things nor have our
enemies They have never loved us since Apo
mattox put an end to their wicked rebellion
They have been waiting for an opportunity to
get even. The time having, in their opinion
arrived they now, like the assassin Guiteau,
in the back, too under what may be aptly termed
the devilish pressure of their own hateful spirits
and the inspiration Of the money gods. They
strike not the strong-those able to care Tor and
defend themselves-but at the cripples, the wild
ows and orphans left by the bloody strife treason
brought on. o. well, if the great North and West
can stand it, if such true and loyal soldiers as
Rosecrans, Bragg, LIE Fevre, and others now in
Congress can approve of it, if Grant, Hancock,
Sherman, Sheridan, Rice men all known to
fame in their country's history-can accept it, if
the survivors of the grandest army the world has
ever known does not condemn it, perhaps Mr..
Hewitt's measure may become a law; and if it
does, what then?
To be consistent the Government must needs
collect from those who received the same the
amounts already paid out under the Arrears Act; !;
and as the majority of the benefciaries are not
worth a dollar, we suggest that Imprisonment
for debt be re-established. What Jolly time the
copper heads and rebels can then have in casting
into iails the wrecks of forms that once stood
so manfully between treason and the Nations
capital!
Go on, Goldsmith, the loyal people of the coun-
try may, perhaps, desire to get rid of the Union
soldier STANDARDIZATION is becoming more re-
spectacle than loyalty, perhaps-go on, and let
us see just how far Senators and Members hail
ing from north of Mason and Dixon's line are
prepared to follow you in the matter Go ON
and show US the men who sympathize with you
in your effort to rob, under the guise of legisla-
ton, the soldiers, living and dead, who once de-
feated you in battle. 1t will be worth something
to us who survive to know who our friends really
are if we have any.
The National tribune., 1881-12-24

AND THE Providence Press has evidently gone
crazy thinking over the same subject. 1t heads
a halfcolumn article, THE Arrears of Pensions
gress that passed the arrears Act" and about
the pensioners and disabled veterans generally,
as it doubtless would have done during the war
concerning its own income or other G Governmental
The National tribune., 1881-12-24

THE TAX upon National banks, silks, tlia-
monds, bank checks, &c, should not be repealed
until Congress has made ample provision for the
payment of all just debts, including pensions and
bounties growing out Of the war of the rebellion
The National tribune., 1881-12-24

THE New York Herald and Buffalo Courier are
locking after job. They want the names of
pensioners published Of course neither of the
papers mentioned would make any charge for
giving publicity to the list of the crippled veterans
and helpless widows and orphans of the rebellion
who are now robbing the Treasury
The National tribune., 1881-12-24

If YOU are opposed to the repeal of the tax
upon national banks and bank checks and the
other articles Of luxury which the rich alone,
enjoy, until the Government has settled with it's
ex-soldiers in full Write to your Senators and
Members of Congress and tell them so.
The National tribune., 1881-12-24

THE Cleveland Leader has been bitten by a
crank newspaper. 1t has gone rabid over the
Arrears of Pension Act. This is only canine
madness, however. There is no manifestation of
brain in the LEADERS, article to be affected
The National tribune., 1881-12-24

If YOU opposed to the repeal of the Ar
rears of Pension Act, write to your Senator and
Member TO that effect.
The National tribune., 1881-12-24

THE New York MailErpress, in speaking of
the use made of his pension by ThurIow Weed,
who for number Of years devoted it to su-
perannuated British soldier, says: "Were all the
pension money Used as honestly as that drawn
by Mr.. Weed no soldier of the Republic would
suffer WANT
That is TO say, if all the pension money paid
out by the Government were to be devoted to
discharged British soldiers who never served in
our armies during any war, our disabled veterans
would then be all properly cared for Bah!
The National tribune., 1881-12-24

EVERY ex-soldier should write to his Senator
and Member of Congress expressing his views
upon the pending bills regarding pensions and
bounties. Congress dare not ignore the soldier
element-nOt yet.
The National tribune., 1881-12-24

THE Buffalo Courier claims the honor if any
there be, of having been the first paper to suggest
the publication Of the names of pensioners prop
ostion, by the by, which has also been made by
the New York Herald
1t is wonder that the cranks who run the
journals mentioned did not also suggest the idea
of posters, Offering rewards for the detection of
frauds upon the Pension Office, and also, that a
National ROgues Gallery be established, to include
photographs of all Government pensioners 1t
seems there are no honest pensioners. Why not
place all the cripples, widows, and orphans the
war made under police surveillance and be done
with it?