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The National tribune., 1882-04-15
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AS this may reach the hands of some persons un-
acquainted with this House. append hereto as
specimens of the testimony in our possession
copies of letters from several gentlemen of political
and military distinction, and widely known
throughout the United States:
BELyIDERE, ILL, October "a, 1873.
take great pleasure III recommending Captain
GEORGE E. LEMON now of Washington D. g to
all persons who may have claims TO settle or other
business to prosecute before the Departments at
Washington. know him to be throughly Quail.
fed, well acquainted with the laws and with De-
partment rules in all matters growing out of the
late war. especially in the Paymaster's and Quar-
termaster 5 Offices have had occasion to employ
him for friends OF mine, also, in the soliciting of
Patents and have found him very active and sue
cessful. As gallant officer during the war and an
honorable and successful practitioner, recommend
him strongly to all who may need his services
s. A. HURLBUT, NJ c.
Fourth Congressional District Illinois
Late Major General U. s. Vols.
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Rural Topics.
CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM SAUNDERS,
WASHINGTON, D. @.

Correspondence issolicited 20 this column. Com
municatiohs addressed to the Rural Department
of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, 6l5 Fifteenth Street,
Washington, -. c., viii be appreciated.
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BELvIDERE, ILL, October "a Isz5
CITIZEEs' NATIONAL. RANK

WASHINGTON, d. c., January II 1879
Captain GEORGE f. LEMON, attorney and agent
for the collection of war claims at Washington city
Is a thorough, able, and exceedingly well-informed
man of business of high character, and entirely
responsible. | believe that the interests of ali
having war claims requiring adjustment cannot be
cOntided to safer hands.
JNO. A. J. CRESwELL.
President.
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Property taken by the Army i'm
States not in lnSurreCtion,

Claims of this character will receive special at
tention, provided they were filed before January
1880 If not filed prior to that date they are barred
by statute of limitation
In addition to the above we prosecute MiJitarv
and Naval claims of every description procure Pat
ents, Trade Marks, Copyrights, attend to busi-
ness before the General Land Office and other Ru
reaus of the Interior Department, and all the De-
partments of the Government
We invite correspondence from all interested az.
surfing them of the utmost promptitude energy
and thoroughnesS i'll all matters intrusted to 0ur
hands.
GEORGE E. LEMON,
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OF the West India Islands. This dye is a
popular paint with the Indians of South
America, rs well as with those in other parts
OF the world, some of them covering their
entire bodies with a paint Of which arnotta
IS the principal ingredient, using but little
else in the way of clothing. As CONNER
cial article, it is mainly used as coloring
for cheese, butter, and inferior chocolates, to
all Of which it gives the required tingc with
out imparting any unpleasant flavor or un-
wholesome quality. 1t is also used in dyeing
silks and cottons, but is not easily fixed, and
is liable to become discolored in the sun.
Varnish makers employ it in imparting rich
orange and gold colored tints to some kinds
of varnish.
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Heirs.

Widows, minor children, dependent mothers, IA
theirs, and minor brothers and sisters in the order
named, are entitled.
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CLAIMS! CLAIMS!
This Claim House Established
in 1861
GEORGE z. LEMON,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Ofce 615 Fifteenth ST., Citizens National Bank,
WASHINGTON, d. @.
P. o. DRAWER 325.
Pensions.

If wounded injured or have contracted any dis
ease, however slight the disability, apply at once.
Thousands entitled.
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War of 1912.

All surviving officers and soldiers of this war,
whether in the Military or Naval service of the
United States, who served fourteen I4 days; or, if
in battle skirInish, Eor a less period and the
widows of such who have not remarked, are en-
titled to pension of eight dollars month. Proof
OF loyalty IS no longer required in these claims.
The National tribune., 1882-04-15

HENS NEsTs.-A dry substance like wool
or sawdust for hens nests abstracts moisture
from the egqs and ruins them. This very
thing is at the bottom of the difference in
the number of chicks brought out by a hen
who has stolen her nest and by a hen who
had been set by novice The hen, if left
to herself, will make her nest on the moist
earth. The novice viii invariably make a
nice, comfortable" nest of some dry sub
stance, such as hay. The consequence is
that the moisture is taken out of the egg,
the lining membrane becomes Ieathery, and
the young chick is unable to force his way
through it.-Erchdnqe.
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Restoration to Pension Roll.

Pensioners who have been uniustly dropped
from the pension roll, or whose names have been
stricken therefrom by reason of failure to draw
their pension for period OF three years, or by
reason of re-enlistment, may have their pensions
renewed by corresponding with this House.
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Increase of Pensions.

Pension laws are more liberal than former
ly, and many now entitled to higher rate than
they receive.
From and after January, 1881, shall make no
charges for my services in claims for increase of
pension, where disability is alleged, unless
successful in procuring the increase.
The National tribune., 1882-04-15

Copies of the following letter are beingwidely
circulated in this country and Europe. Moth
ing could more forcibly illustrate the necessity
for the passage of the anti-polygamy bill than
the unblushing declarations contained therein:
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Land Warrants.
Prisoners of War.
Ration money promptly collected,
Furlough Rations.

Amounts due collected without unnecessary de-
lay; Such claims cannot be collected without the
furlough,
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from one regiment or vessel and enlistment in
ether, Is not a bar to pension in cases where the
wound disease, or injury incurred while in the
service OF the United States and in the line Of
duty,
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Horses Lost in Service,

Claims of this character promptly attended tn
Many claims of this character have been erro-
neously rejected. Correspondence in such cases is
respectfully invited.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-03-17
Henry Hudsou,s Last yorare-

Among the most noteworthy Of early
Snavigators both for the importance of bis
discoveries and the mystery that en-
shrouds his fate, was Henry Hudson.
Heswas born in England aboutthe mid
die of the sixteenth century, and from
early youth he was accustomed to a sea-
faring life. Hardy, brave and adveutur-
GUS, he eagerly accepted commission
from q company of London merchantsto
search for the northwest passage, andin
.1607'sailed in small vessel, with crew
of only ten men and boy, to the east
coast of Greenland. On reaching latitude
so degrees he encountered an impossible
barrier of ice, and after three months OF
fruitless explorations returned to Eng
land for the purpose of organizing an
other expedition.
In April of the following year Hudson
again set sail, and endeavored to make
his way between Nova Zembla and
Spitzbergen. His hopes were again
frustrated by immense fields of ice, and
he returned to England without having
accomplished anything of importance.
Undaunted, however, by these failures,
he entered the service of the Dutch East
India Company, and in April, 1903,
sailed from Amsterdam in the ship Half
Moon for Davis Strait. Finding the
climate too severe for his crew, Hudson
sailed southwark along the coast OF
America, and on the 18th of September
discovered the beautiful river which has
since borne his name. Enchanted BY
the loneliness of the shores, he sailed up
the river until he reached the head Of
navigation, where Albany now stands
He afterward continued his voyage s9ith
as far as Chesapeake Bay, and the&Fe-
turned to England.
Hudson began his fourth and last Voy-
age in April, 1910, with crew OF twenty.
three sailors. In June and July he
passed through Davis Strait, and entered
and explored the great bay which nows
bears his name. Disappointed at not
finding the westward passage he was
seeking, he determined to winter there
and resume the voyage in the following
spring; but by the time the ice broke up
his provisions were so nearly exhausted
that he was compelled TO make prepare
tons to return. His crew became
mutinous through fear, 1t is said, that ne
might leave some of them behind, being
so short of provisions. Gaining posses
sion of the ship, they put Hudson, with
his son and seven infirm sailors, In an
open shallop, and sent them adrlft. The
crew managed to reach England some
time in 1911, and one of the mutlneers
betrayed their guilty secret. An expedi-
ton was at once dispatched in search OF
the great navigator, but no trace OF INN
was ever found -Harper's Weekly.
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The British Soldier.

The British soldier always presents
the appearance of scrupulous cleanliness.
He Is secured, brushed and scrubbed
beyond reproach. His hair is enriched
with pomatum and his shoes are radiantly
polished. His little cap is worn in a
manner determined by considerations
purely aesthetic. He carries little cane
in one hand and pair of white gloves in
the other. He holds up his head and
expands his chest portentously, and
bears himself generally like a person
who has reason to invite rather than to
evade the fierce light of modern criticism.
He is the darling of the approaching
housemaids of the West End, and on
this ground considerable ill-feeling exists
between him and his rival, "the bobby"
or policeman, Susan sometimes favoring
the one, sometimes the other, and some
times-horrible dictul-both. On the
other hand, when on parade, the extreme
perfection of his appointments makes
him look very well, and anyone who sees
the big parade for the Queens birthday
or a general review at Aldershot, will
have no hesitation In saying to himself
that these are the handsomest troops IL
the world. The long squadrons of
cavalry and horse artillery shining and
shifting, the dragons, hussars and
lancers, the beautiful horses and ac-
coutrements, the capital riders, the
handsome faces, the wonderful wagons
and guns, seem even more theatrical
than military. But the interior aspect
of one of these brilliant regiments is
quite different thing. To see the man
carrying their coal, cleaning their bar
rack rooms and breakfasting on dry
e
romance. 1t Is distressing to see a
splendid life guardsman, in shining
cuirass and plumed helm, jack boots,
long spurs and clanking sword. carrying
a basin of weak tea and piece of bread,
which he is about to consume, with the
aid of a savelogy or a pennyworth of
butter from the canteen, for his evening
meal. He ought, according to his ap-
pearance, to sup on a chine of beef and
O fiagon of nut brown ale, as IN days
of yore, when a soldier was not such
mere regulated part of. machine, and
was better paid In proportion to the
earnings of the community. There IS
one word which affords a kind of magic
key to the whole existence of the soldiers
of the British army. That word Is re-
gulations Whether on or off duty,
whether on parade or in his barrack
room, whether sick in hospital or taking
his walks abroad, the soldier must be-
have according to regulation. The guide
to his daily course of life is to be found
in a red book entitled, "The Queens
Regulations and Orders for the Army. ?"
Not only must private soldier be dressed
and accoutred exactly according to rule
when he appears on parade. but even
when he walks out of barracks in pursuit
of recreation. He may or may not have
chilly habit of body, or be partial or
not to carrying a slender cane in his
hand; but the wearing of a great coat or
the carrying of cone will depend, not
upon his own notions, but upon the re-
gnlations issued by his commanding
officer
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First Temperance Law.

The following extract from Hon. Chas
b. Floods correspondence to the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, under the head Of
''Old Times Politics, shows how Ohiot
first temperance legislation under the
present Constitution was adopted
The passage of the first temperance
law afforded an illustration of the want
of good faith which not unfrequently
shows itself in Legislative doings. 1t re-
quires a majority of the votes of the
members elected to each branch of the
Legislature to pass bill, and In all cases
the yeas and nays are required. The
temperance law was being passed-the
yeas and nays. were being called-when
the Clerk discovered member, pencil
In hand, keeping count of the vote. The
member had evidently been drinking,
and, although the call was made slowsg
and distinctively to give the member O
chance to keep q correct account, yet he
missed it by one vote. When his name
was called he did not vote when called
second time, after all the other mem
bers had voted, he did vote, and his vote
passed the bill. He thought it required
as 1t did by his count, two votes TO PASS
1t +; but, too far gone in his cups to count
correctly, 1T required but one, and when
he voted IN its favor that one vote was
supplied, and the temperance bill was
passed. Some of his indignant friends
rushed to his seat and rudely demanded
that he move a reconsideration, but tbe
demand was made in such manner 40
to excite the anger of the member. and
he refused. Thus was the first temner-
ance law under the present Constitution
passed by the vote of a member in sit
uation too far gone to count the numhey
of Senators voting"
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The Gnlf Stream and Europe.

There was a time within the human
epoch, says James GeikIe, IN an article
on 1.-THE Gulf Stream and the Panama
Canal, when the European climate was
SO genial that many delicate southern
species of plants fourished luxuriantly
In regions where they cannot now exist.
Thus in the neighborhood of Paris. the
fig tree, the laurel of the Canary Islands,
and other Southern species, found a con-
genial habitat. The Canary Island
laurel does not grow further north now
than near Toulon, on the borders of the
Mediterranean. 1t flowers in winter,
and repeated frosts would therefore pre-
vent its reproducing its kind. That this
plant formerly fiourished near Paris Is
thus a striking proof Of changed climatic
conditions, for the winters in Northern
France must then have been extremely
genial. The land and fresh-water shells
which were contemporaneous with that
remarkable fora in Northwestern Europe
tell precisely the same tale. and this is
still further illustrated and confirmed. by
-
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A New Church BenacIary.

A new scheme has brokn out among
the t.rn.--churches tosprovideses---
poo Nc fD.--l- IN 0rufI ls 0tsKert
a farm, to which poor peoIe are sent 10
work out their salvation infear and tur-
nip patches. This combination of re-
ligion and ruta bagas is certainly happy
one, and ought to come into general
practice. Steady work on farm cannot
but be far more preferably to the poor
OF church than good adTlce and fine
conversation, that is now svished upon
them regardless Of cost There is
always something on fam that any
body can do, and do we'll, nd that win
be worth good wages, if ne laborer is
fairly remunerated, and curch society
would be sure to do this. Them IN the
fall. when the golden harvest was gath
cred, the church membts would of
course give their patrvnageto their own
farm aad lay in their winer supply of
potatoes, carrots, beets. onions; ETC.,
from their own vines and lgtrees, so to
speak. The report of the Superintend-
emit would show whittier be farm was
drifting financially, and if NEEDED any
fertilizing top dressing in he way of a
mortgage. Ministers whee health IS
poor, from hard study al oEerwork,
instead Of being sent on q expensive
tour to the Holy Land, cold be trans
planted from the sitting asnosphere of
the study to the beaufifd air OF the
balmy, breezy country, an set to rails.
ing cucumbers on the farm The exer-
else would do them good, yen II they
did not raise enough cucupbers Tor
mess, and what the churcl lost on GU
cumbers it would more TN save on
travelling expenses. It sees to Us as
though the true plan Of sivatlon has
been struck at last 1t Is ot through
any OF the five hundred ditrent plans
advocated by the five hund}d different
churches, but through the 2dest cauii-
flower, the lowly onion andthe golden
croomeck summer squsn- feoSs
StSS5,
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An Awful Omen In .Roms..

Tacitus records that just prior to the
breaking out of the instruction of the
Iceni. headed by their heroic Queen
Boadicea, the Roman subjugators of
Britain were alarmed by unequivocal
Indications of an approaching storm.
At Camalodunum the statue of Nero
fell to the ground and turned its back
where the face had been, as if it fed be-.
fore the enemy. Women were seen as
if mad, singing wild songs, IN which
they foretold the destruction of the
colony. Strange noises were heard in
the House of Assembly, and loud howl
lngs In the Theater. In the estuary of
the Thames there was an appearance
like that of a sunken town. The sea
assumed the color of blood, and human
forms appeared to be left on the shore
by the ebbing tide" These terrible por
tents were remembered by the Romans
long after the rout of the Iceni and
the death of their warrior Queen some
where between the sites of Coldbath-
fields Prison and the terminus Of the
Great Northern Railway. That the ex-
lstng age, however, obstinately refuses,
as rule, to attach any belief to portents,
and wholly disregards the croaklngs of
ravens. be they never so hoarse, from
battlements, the hooting of owls, and
Other premonition from the brute crea-
tion, Italian patriotism might be slightly
alamed by an occurrence which has
taken place at Rome. On the occasion
when the anniversary of King Victor
Ennanuel's death was commemorated,
and as the lengthy procession was
streaming down the Capitoline Hill on
its way to the Pantheon, there was heard,
higi above the clangor of the brass
bands, strange and dismal bowling.
Whalce came this lugubrious ululatlon?
Was 1t the voice of the Camaan Sibyi,
hovTing IN MD air, invisible to the
multitude, but making audible her never
ending moan over the confagration of
the Capitol IN which the books that she
sold to Tarquin were DESTROYED? After
while the source of the bowling was
traced. For a very long time a fierce
controversy has ragged among antiquar-
les IS to whether the celebrated bronze
figure of a wolf, called by Byron "the
th1mderstricken nurse of Rome. (" in the
Museum of the Capitol, is the wolf men.
tioned by Dionysius and Livy, or the
animal whose effigy is cited by Cicero.
Apparently with view to bringing these
polemics to a close, the Municipality of
Rome have in recent years caused to be
ex@vated, in the rocky side of the
Capitoline, den in which accommoda-
tion has been provided for twolve wolves.
They are obviously, could they become
artisulate, entitled to dub themselves
respectively the Ciceronian and the
DiOnysian wolves; but, as matter of
fact, the unfortunate beasts, pent up in
chesrless captivity, are not unaccustomed
to relieve their exacerbated feelings by
slnneks and yells, which probably cul-
minated IN ear-splitting howls under the
intolerable provocation of patriotic
hymns from an indenfite number of brass
bands, playing, as italian brass bands
usually do, villainously out of tune
London Telegraph.
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Tattooinr confined Criminals.

A correspondent of the Chicago Tri-
6,ne proposes that confined burglars,
highwaymen, thieves and rogues for a
first offense should be imprisoned for a
short time and tatooed, say, on the fore
arm. For the second offense of the
same kind let him undergo longer i'm
nrisonment and be tattooed ON the hand.
For the third offense longer or life i'm
prisonment and be tattooed on the cheek
or the exposed part of the neck. This
would be the brand of Cain. Recording
these tattoo-marks would facilitate the
identification of criminals, as the body
marks cannot be erased except by surgi-
cal operation at the expense of perma-
nent scar. The fear Of tattooing would
act as powerful deterrent to those
about to commit crimes, and also take
away the motive to escape from those
who had merited and received the third
penalty or open tattoo and were SEN
fenced to long periods Of imprisonment
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An Angel Fish Caught.

An angel fish, said to be the first even
brought to this city, was caught with a
hook and line, by some italian fishermen
twenty miles outside of Farallon Islands
dealer on Montgomery street, where it
was hung up in the window to excite the
wonderment of passers-by. The speci-
men is about three and half feet long,
has head as large as a mans, beneath
which are a PAIR of wing-like fins,
spreading out over two feet from tip to
tip, from the lower extremity of the
wings-they are much more like wings
than fins-and the body tapers off to .
small tail The back of the fish is q
dark gray and brownish color, slightly
notified and studded with sharp, thorn
l,o,-cz l,lna
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Adelina Patti.

Adelina Patti was born at Madr;d
April 8, 1843. Her full name is Adsl;n >
Maria Clorinda Patti Nicolini. She NO
educated at New York, and on Nov % De-
1859, she made her debut as a singer q
Donizettis Lucia al Ldm1ner1aoo.,. -
She made her first appearance at Lon.
6ula, and Nov. Is, 1862, appeared -
Paris in the same role. Patti afterv.ss
sang at Paris, London, st. Petersbmnrlsu
and in some of the leading cities 3.
Europe with great success. She mel %
married at London, July 90, 1868. to th as
Marquis de Caux, but the union was ' &c
unhappy one, and the parties separatsd -
The Marquis, although a titled ind;
vidual, was not all that was to be en-
pected, and was long virtually Supports
by his wife. Not long since Patti v sa
married to Nicolini, who is singing WITH ue
her.
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and tbssv at s;vtr Is per gallon
vonld sn;onnt Ia S51 15a gallons
Of syrup at twenty cenper eauon VIII
cost $50. 60. but add per cent. to
cover possible continge1s tne extreme
cost is $50 Deducti1thls from the
value of the sugar anFrup, StlS2O,
and we have left S67 dor uansporta-
ton to refinery, refnee1penses and
| profits.
A KENTUCKY farmer res tne iollow-'
advice about sheep ne common
sheep of the countrv y only a very
small profit, while good tswoids yield
good revenue lardnterest on the
investment. Let me istrate the diff
ference, so that it will press Itself on
the minds of those whare not using
high grade or thorougled stock. An
average farm in this sepn should keep
100 sheep yearly. for beverage farmer
is not progressive. and ieves N going
slow. He buys the anon stock of
the country-100 head 50 each, and
q grade ram. for Sc With ordinary
good luck he clips 4OObunds of wool
and sells the 400 pour; at % cents,
amounting to 500, res IS lambs,
worth SO each, making 20, to which
add the value of old vel $275, and we
have total of 5000. educt the cost
of keeping the sheep or year, $3.50, to
which add the cost of res, $500, and
deduct five per cent. foloss. $15. max
ing o total of 1866, whic leaves Q profit
of $50, not estimating be value of the
manure. If the same rmer buys 100
high grade ewes at s65Oestimating the
keep of the. same for Oh year at $3.50,
allowing five per cent. bs, $50, total,
$500. Per contra the VS. are worth
5000. wool ten pounds aerage, On ~
8 % a total 8 81 -. =
ing a net profit of S265 ad the manure
besides. tA