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The National tribune., 1882-03-25
INTEMpERANCE AT THE TABLE.

len persons die prematurely of too much
Thousands eat themselves into fever, bowel
disease, dyspepsia, throat affections and
otner maladies. The stomach is the reser-
vl0r which supplies the whole body. 4 fever,
an inflammation, or some other malady, ap-
pears. There you will find the source of the
ease. / am acquainted with the table habits
Of large number of persons. They have
all eaten too much food. Nearly all too
much III quantity, but all have eaten food too
highly concentrated. Yesterday I saw a
dysreptic friend eating pears at fruit stand.
He said with smile, II go a few Bartletts
half dozen times day" Certain dietetic
retormers seem to think if they eat coarse
bread and ripe fruits, peck is all right.
Fine flour bread pies and cakes are great
evils A friend who has decayed teeth,
dyspepsia and disagreeable eruption, all
produced by excessive eating of improper
food, declared in response to my remOn-
STRANGE But Inever eat more than want"
Every person wants the quantity he has
been IN the habit of eating If he could
digest well two pounds a day, but eat four
pounds, he wants the latter quantity. A man
may want glass Of spirits on rising. He is
in the babit of drinking at that time.
The body is strengthened by what it can
digest and assimilate. Every ounce more
than this is mischievious. The large eater
IS always hungry The man who eats Just
enough suffers little from hunger. Pardon
word OF my own experience. During many
years OF practice at my profession L had but
little muscular exercise, l ate enormously.
An hours postponement of my dinner was
painful. Now | can omit dinner altogether
without inconvenience. have lost twenty
pounds IN weight but feel a great deal
younger. More than half the thin people
would gain flesh by eating less) have only
one dietetic rule from which never depart.
This rule, kind reader, commend to you:
Always take on your plate before you begin
to eat, everything you are going to eat.
Thus you avoid desert, and are pretty sure
not to eat too much. This simple rule has
been worth thousands to me. Yes, think
there are persons why eat too little, but
where there is one such person there are
hundreds who eat too much When in this
country of plenty person is found who eats
too little, it is, generally speaking, by eating
fine flour bread and other unnutricious
trash. Fine flour bread is but little bet
ter than sawdust. If you eat oatmeal,
cracked wheat, and beef, you will be sup
prised to find how little food you require
DiO Lewis, in Golden Rule.
The National tribune., 1882-03-25
A GIRL OF FIFTEEN TWICE MARRIED.


The marriage of Miss Ella Shores to Mr..
Howard E. White, of Danes Quarter Dis
trict, Somerset county, on the 5th instant,
deserves more than passing notice. Doubt
less many of our readers remember Miss
Shores as the thirteen-year-old bride of Sid
ney Shores; if they do not we will refresh
their memories. On the 5th of February,
$780, the Rev. 2. Bowen united the last
named parties in marriage; on the 9th of
the same month Shores was arrested at his
home in Danes Quarter, and Rev. Bowen
was arrested in Mount Vernon, and taken
before Justice A. X. Robinson, of Princess
Anne, and committed to Jail in default of
bail. Miss Shores was thirteen years of age,
and the step-daughter of Sidney Shores, who
was between thirty-fve and forty years old.
In the first place the said Sidney had mar
ried his uncle's widow, and she had not been
dead more than two months when he in
duced his wife's daughter by her first hus-
band to marry him. The child was too
young to know any better, and no blame
was attached to her In this State penalty
of $500 is imposed upon man for taking to
wife step-daughter, and the minister, upon
conviction, is fined s., 500 for performing the
ceremony.
Both Shores and Bowen were indicted at
the April term of court, 1880. Both trials
took place during the same term. Shores
was convicted, and a fine of $500 was i'm
posed upon him, he to stand committed
until fine and costs were paid. The convict
was poor man, and if the terms of the SEN
tence were to be carried out, it looked as
though the groom would pass the remainder
of his days in jail. Fortune favored him,
however, and he escaped from jail on the
Goth of May, 1880, and we have not heard
from him since. Mr.. Bowen was tried by
jury, and acquitted on the ground that he
did not know the girl or the affinity existing
between her and Shores. The whole affair
created quite a talk at the time, and the CITY
papers had long and inaccurate accounts of
it.
The marriage Of Sidney and Ella was set
aside or annulled by the court The respect
i've ages of Howard F. White and Ella, his
wife, are nineteen and fifteen years. So it
will be seen that on the same day of the
same month, two years after her first mar
riage the said Ella was for the second time
united in the holy bonds of matrimony, and
that her last husband is about half as old as
the first one.-Somer,et (lfd.) Herald.
The National tribune., 1882-03-25

The conductor of Rural Topics is very
TRIBUNE should be placed in possession of
the address Of either the Master, Secretary,
OF Lecturer of each and every Subordinate
Grange, so that copy of the paper may be
furnished for perusal by its members. II
is proposed to make the paper welcome
visitor to the home of every member of the
Order, and the Rural Topics column Will, if
possible, be kept up to the progressive plane
of other departments of the paper.
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Bounty and Pay.
Collections promptly made.
Property taken by the Army in
States not in InSurreCtiOn,

Claims Of this character will receive special at
tenton, provided they were filed before January l.
1850, II not filed prior to that date they barred
by statute of limitation.
In addition to the above we prosecute Military
and Naval claims of every description procure Pat
ents Trade Marks, Copyrights attend to busi-
ness before the General Land Office and other Bu-
reaus of the Interior Department. and all the De-
partments of the Government.
We invite correspondence from all interested as
suring them of the utmost prOmptitude, energy
and thOroughness in all matters intrusted to our
hands.
GEORGE e. LEMON,
The National tribune., 1882-03-25
MANS MORTALITY

Like damask rose you see,
Or like n blossom n tree.
Or like the dainty flower in May,
Or like the morning to the day,
Or like the sun. or like the shade;
Or like the courd which Jonah made;
Even such is man. whose thread is spun,
Drawn out and out and so is done.
The rose withcrs the blossois blasteth.
The flower fades, the morning hasteth
The sun SETS the shadow flies
The gourd consumes the man-he dies
Like the grass that's newly sprung
Or like that tale that's new begun,
Or like that bird that's here to-day
Or like the pearled dew in May,
Or like an hour, or like a span,
Or Ike the singing of the swan;
Even such Is man, who lives by breath
Is here, now there, in life and death
The grass withers, the tale is ended
The bird is flown, the dew's ascended,
r The houE Is short the span not long,
The swans near death, mans life is done.
Like 10 the bubble in the brook,
Or in glass much like look,
Or like the shuttle in weaver's hand,
Or like the writing the sand
Or like a thought, or like a dream,
Or like the gliding of the stream
Even such is man, who lives by breath,
Is here now there in life and death,
The bubbles out, the look forgot,
The shuttle's flung, the writings blot,
The thought is past, the dream is gone,
The waters glide, mans life is done.
Like an arrow from bow,
Or like a swift course of water flow,
Or like the time 'twXt flood and eb,
Or like the spiders tender web,
Or like a race. or like goal,
Or like the dealing of a dole;
Even such is man, whose brittle state,
Is always subject unto fate.
The arrow shot, the flood soon spent
The time no time, the web soon rent,
The race soon run, the goal soon won,
The dole soon dealt mans life soon done.
Like 70 the lightning from the sky,
Or like post that quick doth HE,
Or like q quaver in a song,
Or like journey three days long,
Or like snow when summers come,
Or like 2 pear, or like plum
Even such is man, who heaps up sorrow,
Lives but this day and dies tomorrow
The lightning's past, the post must go,
The song is short, the journey So
The pear doth rot. the plum doth fall,
The snow dissolves, and so must all.
Mr. DonoCa't, from old Irish manuscript.
The National tribune., 1882-03-25
War of 1912.

All surviving officers and soldiers of this war,
whether in the Military Naval service of the
United States who served fourteen ID days; or, If
in battle skirnish, for a less period, and the
widows of such who have not remarked, are en-
titled to a pension of eight dollars month. Proof
OF loyalty IS no longer required in these claims.
The National tribune., 1882-03-25
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,,

WASHINGTON, d c, Ndrcb =, 1915.
From several years acquaintance with Captain
GEORGE T. LEMON of this city, / cheerfully COM
mend him rs a gentleman of integrity and well
qualified to attend the collection of bounty and
other claims against the Government. His expe-
rience in that line give him superior advantages
w. Z. SPRAGUE, NJ. c.,
Fifteenth District of Oh;o
JAS. d. STRAWBRIDGE, NJ O.
Thirteenth District of PeRnSyIvanio.
The National tribune., 1882-03-25

SPRUCE GUM.-FOrty thousand dollars
worth of chewing gum is gathered in the
State of Maine every year. In Oxford
county is man who makes it his business
to collect spruce gum. Every year he buys
from seven to nine tons. The gum is found
chiefly in the region about Umbagog Lake
and about Rangely lakes. A number of
men do nothing else in the winter season
except collect gum. With snowshoes, axe,
and a Sheboygan, on which is packed the
gum, they spend days and nights in the
woods. The clear, pure Jumps of gum are
sold in their native state the best bringing
one dollar per pound.-!scientifc American
The National tribune., 1882-03-25
CITIZENS, NATIONAL BANK

WASHINGTON, D. c., january L. 1879
Captain GEORGE f. LEMON, attorney and agent
for the collection of war claims at Washington City
is a thorough able, and exceedingly well-informei
man of business, of high character, and entirely
responsible. | believe that the interests of all
having war claims requiring adjustment cannot be
confided to safer hands.
JNO. A. J. CRESWELL.
President,
The National tribune., 1882-03-25

land previous TO planting. To begin with,
the land should be plowed in the fall, unless
it is of q light sandy character, when fall
plowing may not be so absolutely essential.
1t should be cross plowed in spring. ana
narrowed to a fine tilth with deep tOothed
harrow, ,pu'verzing the ground in thorough
manner burrows are then opened thirty
inches apart by running the plough twice III
the same turroY, in opposite directions, TINS
throwing the surface into ridges The pOta-
toes are planted in the bottom Of the burrows,
and after planting covered with a light coat
ing of well rotted manure, or a heavier
dressing of unrotted manure; then the fur
rows are closed by splitting the ridges,
which are finished by passing over them
with harrow. The ground for rarsnirs,
turnlps, carrots, and mangels should he
similarly prepared, but instead of being
sown in the open furrow, they are sown on
the ridge after narrowing, in other words,
when the potato planting is finished it is in
a proper state for sowing the seeds of the
above roots, minus the potatoes. The after
cultivation consists in thinning the plants
to twelve or fifteen inches apart, keeping
down weeds, and stirring the ground between
the rows at least once in two weeks and the
dryer the season the more strictly should
this frequent surface stirring be enforced.
WORMS IN LAND.-Lately there has been
much said about the agency of worms in
raising the surface of the soil by means of
their castings, and the effects which they
produce in burying ruins of buildings, and
in covering up stones in fields, &c
Doubtless something may be due to the
worms, but there is a far more powerful
agent at work over a large portion of the
globe, and that is frost. In various parts of
this country where battles were fought
during the revolutionary war, bullets are
found at certain uniform depth from the
surface, and that depth depends entirely
upon the depth which frosts penetrate Soil
when frozen expands and becomes sufficiently
loose or porous, so that stones and metallic
bodies gradually sink until they reach the
limit of no frost, where they remain.
Whether or not this phenomena of stone
burying by natural agencies is as prevalent
in tropical climates as it is in temperate
climates, we have no means at hand of
estimating, but in the absence of frost we
would not expect to find the sinkage of
stones so marked as it undoubtedly is in
frosty climates
The National tribune., 1882-03-25
Increase of Pensions.

Pension laws are more liberal now than former
ly, and many are 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 no new disability is alleged, unless
successful in procuring the increase.
The National tribune., 1882-03-25
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

WASHINGTON, ID. c., lfarch l. 1873
We, the undersigned having acquaintance
with Captain GEORGE Z. LEMON for the past few
years. and knowledge of the systematic manner
in which he conducts his extensive business and of
his reliability for fair and honorable dealings con-
nected Herewith, cheerfully commend him to
claimants generally.
A. V. RICE, Chairman
Committee on InrdIid Pensions House Pens
w. F. SLEMONS. NJ. c.,
Second District of Ark,
W. p. LYNDE, NJ. c.,
Fourth District of ViS
r. W. TOWNSHEND NJ O.
Nineteenth District Of III
The National tribune., 1882-03-25

"Do Women Dress Well ?" asks Kate
Field in Our Continent. They do, Kate,
they do. When woman starts to dress she
is certainly long enough about it to do it
well.
The National tribune., 1882-03-25
Restoration to Pension Roll.

Pensioners who have been unustly dropped
from the pension roll, whose names have been
stricken thercfrom by reason of failure to draw
their pension for period of three gears, or by
reason of re-enliStmcnt, may have their pensions
renewed by corresponding with this House.
The National tribune., 1882-03-25
Rural Topics.
CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM SAUNDERS,
WASHINGTON. D. G.

Correspondence lssolicited to this column. Com
muaications addressed to the Rural Department
of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE 6l5 Fifteenth Street,
Washington, d. c., will be apprecated.l
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Heirs,

Widows, minor children, dependent mothers, IA
therS, and minor brothers and sisters in the order
named, are entitled.
The National tribune., 1882-03-25
Land Warrants.

Survivors of all wars from 1870 to March 8, 1855,
and certain heirs, are entitled to one hundred and
sixty of land if not already received, Sol
diers of the late not entitled.
Land warrants purchased for cash at the highest
market rates and assignments perfected.
Correspondence invited.
The National tribune., 1882-03-25
DeSertiOn

from regiment or vessel and enlistment in
other, is not bar TO pension in cases where the
duty,
The National tribune., 1882-03-25
Prisoners of War.
Ration money promptly collected,
FurIough RationS.

Amounts due collected without unnecessary de-
lay. Such claims cannot be collected without the
furlough
The National tribune., 1882-03-25
This Claim House Established
in 1865!
GEORGE e. LEMON,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Pensions.

If wounded, injured, or have contracted any dis
ease however slight the disability, apply at once
Thousands entitled.
The National tribune., 1882-03-25
Horses Lost in Service.

Claims of this character promptly attended to,
Many claims of this character have been erro-
neously rejected. Correspondence in such cases is
respectfully invited.
The National tribune., 1882-03-25

THE PoMEGRANITE.-Th Pomegranite,
(Punica Grdndtam,) is small tree, seldom
reaching more than 90 feet in height; it is
native of Northern Africa and Western Asia.
The ancients called it the Carthagenian
apple because it was first known to grow in
the vicinity of Carthage. 1t is cultivated in
many warm climates for the sake of its
fruits, and in temperate climates as an Or
namental plant for the beauty of its flowers
as well as that Of its fruits, even where the
latter do not attain perfection of ripeness.
The fruit is held in high esteem on account
of its delicious cooling, and refreshing pulp,
Before it is eaten the seed are removed and
the pulp sprinkled with sugar and rosewater
Several varieties are cultivated, some being
sweet and vinous, and others acid, or of a
bitter, astringent taste, and the color of the
pulp is much redder in some than in others
The rind Of the fruit contains tannin, and is
used in tanning leather; it is said to give
the yellow color to morocco leather. The
bark of the root is used in medicine; it
abounds in peculiar acrid principle called
punicin. The bark was used by the ancients
as vermifuge, and it is still used as spe-
cific against the tape-worm. The flowers
The National tribune., 1882-03-25
REFERENCES:

As this may reach the hands of some persons un.
acquainted with this House, append hereto az
specimens of the testimony in possession,
copies of letters from several gentlemen of political
and military distinction, and widely known
throughout the United States:
The National tribune., 1882-03-25

WHEN TO CUT GRASS. Some OF the
correspondents of the New England Home
stead are going for Superintendent Sanborn
of the College Farm for claiming that grass
should not be cut until it is in bloom, in a
very sharp way. One of them says:
After reading Prof Sanborn's writings, l
must say that | am very much astonished
that any practical farmer, and certainly a
professor in State college, should advocate
the cutting of grass in bloom or a few days
subsequently. have had fifty years ex-
perience in cutting and feeding hay Many
seasons much Of it was cut too late. Our
present crop gives the best satisfaction of
any / ever fed, and four-fifths of it was cut
IN June. From my experience l am salts
fed that 1,500 pounds of timothy cut one
week previous to bloom will make more
butter, beef or mutton than 1000 pounds
one week subsequent to bloom. Nine tons
are cut too late where one is cut too early
There was an article in the Homestead, |
think two years ago last summer, purporting
to be the experiments of German chemist
with grass, claiming that if cut while green,
85 per cent. was nutriment; when in blossom,
62 per cent; and when seed is fully formed,
or ripe, 81 per cent. nutriment. 1 am no
chemist, but think that article worth more
than any other ever read. If that is near
a fair representation Of the value of grass in
the different stages, Prof Sanborn is ad-
vocating the waste of millions in the Middle
and Eastern States. l hope he will repent
and be converted from the error of his
ways"
The National tribune., 1882-03-25

sD- Any person desiring information as to my
standing and responsibility will on request be fur
nished with satisfactory reference in his own
vicinity or Congressional District.
The National tribune., 1882-03-25
RErvIDERE III Octoberot rs-

I take great pleasure in recommending Captain
GEORGE z. LEMON, now of Washington, D. c.. to
all persons who may have claims to settle or other
business to prosecute before the Departments at
Washington. l know him to be throughly uuali-
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-
termasters Offices. l have had occasion to employ
him for friends of mine, also, in the soliciting of
Patents, and have found him very active and sue
cessfu As gallant officer during the war and an
honorable and successful practitioner, recommend
him strongly to all who may need his services
5. A HURLBUT, NJ. c.
Fourth Congressional District Illinois
Late MGjor-G General Z. S. VoLs
The National tribune., 1882-03-25

CROP ESTIMATES. - Cereal estimates of
the Department of Agriculture of the crops
of 1881, as compared with those of $780, show
reduction of 81 per cent. in corn % in
wheat, q in rye and in barley. The pro-
duct of oats was about 1 100000 bushels less
than the previous year Aggregate product,
all cereals, 2,O63O29,57O bushels, against
2,18, 3,5O1-decrease, "a per cent. Values
are in round millions, as follows: Corn,
$780, 100000; wheat, $3.50 600; oats, S193,-
000,0O0; rye, $4,000, 900; barley, $33, 100000;
buckwheat, S8,OOO,OOO Total, 81 ,465,OOO 200,
against S1,361, 100000 in 1890 Thus it
appears that while the aggregate yield of all
crops in 1881 was one fourth less than in
1880, the total value was over $10O,OOO,O00
greater.
The National tribune., 1882-03-25

ROOT CRors.-The present short supply
a potatoes will encourage the planting of a
large area this year, and with an ordinarily
propitious season the importation of potatoes
VIII cease, with small likelihood of ever being
renewed. A primary cause of short potato
crops is that of imperfect preparation of the
The National tribune., 1882-03-25

PRESERVING WOOD.-The Builder states
that NJ Lostal, a French railway contractor,
recommends quicklime as preservative for
timber. He puts the sleepers into pits and
covers them with quicklime, which is slowly
Stacked with water. Tirber for mines must
be left for eight days before it is completely
impregnated. 1t becomes extremely hard
and tough, and is said never to rot Beech
wood, prepared in the same manner, has
been used in several iron works for hammers
and other tools, and is reputed to be as hard
as iron, without the loss of the elasticity
peculiar to it. According to the Kurze
Berichte, lime Stacked in solution of chic
ride of calcium is used at Strasburg as fire.
proof and waterproof coating for wood.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-10-20

JAS. MAcDouGALL, 10y A, w., furniture, car.
,psls, mattresses, plano, &c.
Il. B.teOk, 10 A. NJ, household furniture, rose
wotsf plano, &c.
WILLIAM III. LYME 4 CO., p. NJ, two-storv
taWf dwelling on the west linz Of Twenty.
eishti-treet between Clay and Leigh.
y. THOMPSON BROWN, 10 NJ. the lilo, Sc Bazaor
ini street kstwecn Mayo and Fifteenth.