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The National tribune., 1883-09-06
A FAMILY OF FINE FIBER.

Near the foot of a steep hill a narrow street,
without sidewalks, turned sharply t0the left,
and we turned in at venture. The houses
were small and dingy enough to cover any sort
of wretchedness, and the women and children
might be here perhaps. Yes, here in a small,
irregular yard stood a pen which we recOg-
nized, now, Il had mistaken the first for cow
house, as the nail-workers' shop. In this pen
were a young man aad woman working with
great skill and swiitness. The girls face was
unusually pretty, having regular, refined fea-
lures, clear, though somewhat pale complex
ion, and an expression OF self-respeet and gem
tleness When she smiled, she showed regular,
white teeth; and the smile was quiet, in har-
mony with her whole demeanor. Yes you
may watch me, if you wish, she said Mother
says I'm good mailer, and l must be- for can
earn six aud three pence IN week, though |
don't work reg'la hours, and I'd earn more If
| did. The machinery makes it hard 70 earn
much now. / remember when could get nine
and six, where now / can only get six and
three, and mother would get yet more. help
her in the house good deal Would you like
to see mother? She can tell more than 1 can -
Mother" was tall, well-built woman, with
a fine face and the same air of quiet self-re-
spect. Yes, they're good nailers,p she said,
looking with pride at the son and daughter.
" | taught 'em myself / used TO do good
deal at the nailin' myself. but now Pm a little
past it.; and there's q good deal TO do to keep
the house goin'. My daughter helps me with
that, too, aud that other daughter you see
there, too. She's too young for the nailin'
they aint allowed at that till they re
turned fourteen, and she lacks six months.
There was gentleman coined around
month or two ago, and said they
wasn't 10 work such long hours neither, e 'ad
a payper, and e put it up on the wall there,
and it 'anged there. but father was white
washin' about bit to keep it sweet and clean
for the children, an | don't know wot . done
with it," The son laughed quietly at that,
and said, "Well, don't mind the payper much,
and sometimes | gets in fourteen hours or SO.
and they don't catch ne.n The mothers quick
questions led her to say, so you're come from
America just TO so about and look at things in
different countries. Wy, that's W at we'd call a
ioiiday; but we couldn't get it, not for single
day, two on rs, s,together Wy, il my daughter
there and me was to go TO Hagley for Satar-
day together sand that's only one day some
thing d get beyind, don't you see? Somsthing
cred get beyind."
She showed us into her house with pleasure
telling Us that she had lived for five and forty
years in it, and that her husband was stock
taker in q factory, and earned regular wages.
No, no, e's not nailer. I'm n mailer, and
teached the children" There had been thir-
teen children, of whom three had died. Two
are out at service. ono works for a master
mailer, one works in a coal miae near by
{" they're married y, and three arc too young
to work. The mother, though "a little past
nailin'." Is tha bakor OF broad for the neigh
The National tribune., 1883-09-06
Plain Talk to Post omcia,s.

Through correspondence with the assist
aut adiutant-generals of the various DEPART
ments of the Grand Army, the attention of
THE TRIBUNE has recently been directed to
some Of the more serious difficulties with
which they have to contend in the discharge
OF their duties. The first and principal source
OF obstruction is the tardiness of Post Off
cials in making the returns to Department
headquarters required by the rules and
regulations. Assistant Adjutant General
Pease, of Missouri, for instance, writes that
he has found great difficulty in getting com
Tades to report the muster Of Posts, and that
in the ease Of one particular Post that was
mustered last May, he was never able to get
a copy of the muster-roll, and only by acci-
dent found out that it had been mustered!
Now, neglect Of this sort is inexcusable.
It IS neither just to the assistant adjutant-
generals, who are in turn compelled to make
quarterly reports to National headquarters,
and are held responsible for any deficiencies
in their reports, nor to the Posts themselves,
which are thgs denied the representation on
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tant prospects, and finally the open country
and the pretty little enterprising town of Canon
City.
CANON CITY HOSPITALITY.

tant prospects, and finally the open country
and the pretty little enterprising town of Canon
City.
CANON CITY HOSPITALITY.
Here it was the little girls. all dressed up
In red, white and blue, to represent the States,
who had assembled to dispense sandwiches
and lemonade and nO5egays of flowers to
their admiring visitors, came out. There is
hourIshing Post at this point and the people
ali turned out with band of music when the
CoInmander-in-C Chiefs party put in an appear
ance, rendering handsome reception and
sumptuous repast. The second party was
little out OF time, owing TO detention from
waSh-outs, and took the little town by surprise.
at least their advent was too sudden for the
musicians, although the comrades and the
ladies were patiently at their post.
There it was we found as master of cere-
monies a conrade who is something of char
acter In his way, known far and wide in that
country for the variety and extent of his
schemes and enterprises. 1t is none other than
ii. +. Blake, editor and proprietor of the FIRE.
mont County Record, and an Ohio man of
course, having served as a private in the
Sixth o. V. l. from 1861 to 1854. He has been
a bookkeeper since, a steamboat clerk, hotel
keeper, a prospector, cashier in a bank,
sheriff of Custer county, and superintendent of
q reduction company. His coat of arms bears
the legend, rolling stone gathers n mos"
And We are quite sure that any one who sees
the wide-awake young comrade, through whose
exertions Canon City did herself proud, would
never take him for moss back"
Canon City leads down to Colorado Springs
and Colorado Springs to Manitou and the Gar
den OF the Gods, OF which more anon.
A CORRECTION.
Mr.. VIM. P. Minor, in the employ of the
Silver Cord Mining Company. Leadville, Colo
rado, writes your correspondent that it was
through the courtesy of Ar Tingley S. Wood,
manager of the company named and not to
himself that THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE party
was shown through the mines. The correction
is cheerfully made as to the party conferring
the privilege, but the point must be insisted
upon that to Mr. Minors very kind and
courteous attentions the party was and is un-
der lasting obligation.
KATE 3. SHERWOOD.
The National tribune., 1883-09-06

coNRADE Henry Fay, Atlantic, lows,
calls our attention to a newspaper statement
70 The e1eet that IS the constitution Of the
6. A Z. prohibits politics and political dis
cussion within the Order, and nothing can be
gotten from Congress without politics. there
Is need Of soldier organization outside of
the Grand Ariny, and that this necessity was
revealed last winter, when only a few Posts
mustered courage to petition the United
ststes Senate in favor Of the $40 bin, and
even then aid so 8 their own peril and re-
gpOnsiblity. bow AT this statement is
from being true, no c2arade who was q
reader Of THE TRlBUEl last winter wiz
need 70 be told There wa scarcely day
during the entire session Of tsagress, when
from dozen 70 fifty or more GrSS Army
--.-sss Ct - lassa.e Of N bill
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Section 175a Hanored In the Breach.

To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
am glad 70 notice that the National En-
campmeR5 has taken 3 solid stand il favor Of
enforcing section 175i- Revised Statutes, for I
believe If ever the Law IS enforced, it viii be be-
cause those most interested show the people is
is policy 10 enforce It
Within the past year, or little more. there
have been appointed in the Bangor pOst-otfiee
five persons, only one of whom Is an old sol
dier. though he did not belong ia Bangor.
The postmaster and he IS supposed TO maks
the appointments OF Sthase serving under him)
was last year Department Commander OF this
State, G. \. Il.
Ia the custom house two new appointments
have been made, and no soldier was found
worthy 70 receive the honor | DO not know
how many railway postal clerks have been put
in, but do know thas old soldier has re-
ceived such place IN this vicinity lately, and
citizens have.
There are probably from three hundred TO
four hundred ex-soldiers and sailors IN this
city, and it seems strange that none Of them
is thought Of when a Government Office is to
be disposed of.
don't pin my faith TO politicians but hope
they viii soon be brought TO q realizigg sense
of the value of the soldiers vote.
Very truly, yours,
The National tribune., 1883-09-06
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
(EsTGBusHE0 1879

To CARE cor tsr vsso 4As soRE TiE eA7rtE, AND Fos
WIDOW AEp ORPHANS. .''- ABRkrEH LINCOLN.
Tse ykucTH oF TsE PUBIC oEsT or TIE UNITED
rarEs AuVAoszeD eY law Ihcleone DEETs INCURRED EOS
s-asGT o. HENslogs AND eogaTlEs SERVICES ~ SUP
Essre RESURRECTION FsBstucH, sftsll NOT sE CUES
ltEDi,SEc. q APT. XIV, CONSTITUTION cF TIT UNITED
-sTes.
CCNsi1CR ~ TlsE ketEST FEFCR uECTEo TO TE INTER-
oF r-E sctniEF fsfsED T-E coTRy- EARNESTLY
relswsND II 10 al coyRsDES Of T-E oFpER''
EstL NhuDERyooFT,
Ca..s.1sai,.-c,lef. G. 4. r.
The National tribune., 1883-09-06

VIZ make no apology for deToting SO large
q share Of ouT space. this week, to an account
Of the Grand Army Encampment at Gettys-
burg. 1T was a splendid gathering and our
more than thirty Thousand comrades Of the
Department Of Pennsylvania may well be
proud Of il.
The National tribune., 1883-09-06
BANGOR. ME
To the Editor VATroyAL TaIEUNs:

To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE;
Being an oil soldier and an humble Inem-
Der Of the Grand Army Of the Republic, 7 am
glad to see the decided stand you take ia favor
of enforcing section Iz53, Revised Statutes OF
the URtted States I think It viii be wise and
safe as time passes to extend the law 70 in
elude all h0nably discharged soldiers aud sail
Ors who may be qualified 20 hold Office, even
though they were not disabled at tiRe OF dis
charge. I am not one Of the old soldiers who
grCnble because the Government does not do
more for them. / received more money than
was promised 70 me, and besides, shonla have
enlisted as d matter OF duty. even had | known
that not . cont of money would tecrae 70 nls
for my service. And I think thes was the
feeling which actuate6 large. lll.IssIsS .. the
Kansas boys Who enlisted ID GS
Respectfully, yours.
ADRIAN RxYS01sG,
Howard, FAN. Co. C, 10th kan. Ins-F
The National tribune., 1883-09-06

The writer of the article "Amoug the
Tombs," which appeared in our issue of August
3d. viii kindly send his full name and address
to this Office
The National tribune., 1883-09-06
DAYS IN WONDERLAND
Grand Canon of the ArkansaS---The
Royal Gorge.
Special Correspondence National Tribune.
MANIroU. Coz. August.

MANIToU, Col, August, 1883.
Descending from Marshall Pass over the
Denver and Rio Grande Railway, you strike at
the foot of the descent the little village of Sa-
llda, nesting under the brooding wings of the
protecting mountains, on the left bank of the
Arkansas River. The Arkansas, which has
swept down from Tennessee Pass at the head
OF the lofty Saguache tSi-watch) Range, gather
ing strength from scores of turgd mountain
streams that come from the snow peaks OF the
Continental Divide, has become as this point
quite formidable stream, and bridges washed
away and tracks undermined gave evidence Of
Its violence when swollen to flood tide.
The river has made descent of 900 or 6 900
teet from the high SUBMITS of its mountain
lakes and travelled before reaching Salida, the
deep gulches and gorges of Lake and Chatfee
counties, two of the most formidable mining
areas as we'll as awfuIly picturesque counties, in
Colorado; and here il flows along in comparative
quiet until, some thirteen miles beyond, it
piungcS into the sombor shadows and stupend-
Gus businesses of the Grand Canon of the Ar
kansas. As tiger which has been in pursuit
OF his prey suddenly halts and crouches in
omInous silence before he springs upon the
heart OF his victim, so the tawny Arkansas
halts in its turbulent course before it tears
through the vitals of the vast Front Range of
| the Rocky Mountains to seek its low and level
plains below.
Salida will not soon be forgotten by the
Grand Army excursionists, for though there is
very good new railroad hotel at that point, it
was by no means large enough to accommodate
all those wanting accommodations. Although
cots We're provided and in every room was
placed additional beds, there was still q large
proportion obliged to seek such quarters AS
they could secure In private houses or In con-
nection with stores and lotiing houses. Large
numbers who applied at the latter places found
accommodations so poor and the crowds so great
that they were glad to repair to tue train, where
the seats We're doubled over, making the best
couches available
The National tribune., 1883-09-06

TIE number Of pension certificates issued
and signed during the week ending Septem-
beE ist WAS as follows: Original Isl; IN
crease, 55s; reissue, IS; restoration, q;
duplicate, l27; arrears, o; accrued pensions
"a; pensions under act of March 3, 1888.
2Oe; total ,o5s
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To anyone who viii send, prior
TO October 10Th, fifteen NEW
TO THE TRIBUNE.
we viii forward, free Of cost, a
new Waterbury watch inclosed In
a handsome satin-Iined case, and
to keep excellent time.
The National tribune., 1883-09-06
THE ROYAL GORGE.

The rocks that line the Royal Gorge are
varied in color, running through various shades
Of yellow and terra Gotta. Ia the heart Of the
gorge they assume 4 greenish tinge, presenting
the appearance of fine moss or mould. which,
upon exam ination, was found to be minute
particles Of white and green quartz ee,nented
together under smooth transparent enamel
The rock formations in this part OF the canon
have all the outlines of vast architectural
structures, and, like all that is great III archi-
tecture, have the appearance OF increasing in
size as you reeede from them. Higher and
more abrupt rise the spurs and Assuros until
at u sudden turn in the road AZ Ear sweep of
sky is seen, then lowering SUBMITS and dis
The National tribune., 1883-09-06
WAAnAGros, D. @. August 81.

BY way Of reply to General RosecF:ns as
well as TO the thousands Tgho are like him
appreciative readers Of TIE TRIBUNE, we
may say that there Pre- many improvements
which we contemplate making in TIE
TRIBuNE when the opportunity serves and
its circulation justiGes. He and they may
be sure that all that money and brains
can do 10 make it . great newspaper win be
The National tribune., 1883-09-06
GRAND CANON OF THE YELLOWSTONE.

On the lovliest of lovely August mornings
the d. & Il. G.. conveyed that enthusiastic
party from Salida to the Grand Canon, whose
mighty wonders had been SO often dreamed of
Many of the number had been lingering for an
hour or two over the antics of a large Rocky
Mountain grizzly, whose keeper took great
pride in exhibiting in all his bearish ugliness
Towering peaks were all around us, piercing
upwards into the perpetual view, the ranges
heading Salida-ward in all directions, pretty
much as the trains come from converging
routes into a great union depot. There the
train follows the river, and the river gathers
momentum until it finds the vent in the Front
Range, which, for ages upon ages, it has been
tearing asunder, and We plunge into the howl
ing wilderness of mountains as q rabbit would
strike into thicket of thorns. Colder and
colder it grows, with the inciosing walls of the
fractured mountain crowding up to the very
roadway of the iron monster. Closer and closer
they grow until the river and the railroad can
no longer run side by side and where modern
engineering has bridged the obstacle by hang
ing the railroad on iron spikes above the water
and higher up still the telegraph lines go sing
ing along with their messages over projecting
iron bars drilled into the solid rock
Try, for moment TO imagine the sides of
the room in which you sit, thirty feet across,
steadily and slowly rising above the tree-tops,
above the churches, above the loftiest hills,
above the dome of the national capitol,-yes,
ten times, twenty times above the dome of the
capitol! Imagine yourself looking up thou
sand feet, two thousand feet, three thousand
feet, up and up until your neck aches with the
effort you are making to catch glimpse of the
far blue sky above. Imagine the sides of that
room d scanned. ragged, tawny mass of naked
rock, striped with brown and red deposits from
oozing rocks. Imagine that while you are
seated there you become conscious of great
noise and echo, that you hear waters raging
and tumbling below you, the rolling and crash
ing as if great rocks were being hurled down
upon you. Imagine yourself looking down to
great depths of sliding rocks aud eddying
whirlpools and beyond to what seems a topping
wall Of loosened granite. Imagine that some
power possesses you and you are seized and hur-
ried along in a zigzag, winding, preeipitous way
into d hundred, a thousand similar rooms sach
as you have just left. Imagine all this, and add
to it by study OF all that is wild and weird in
Dante's " Inferno" and you will have a dim
consciousness of the impressions of those who
attempt the wonderful pass. Yet, using Dantes
words we can but say:
"Ah mel how hard thing to say
Wbat this forest savage. rough and STERN
The National tribune., 1883-09-06
THE DANCE HOUSE.

at Salida the mayor presented himself and
showed 1.-The boys" around, the chief sights
being the dance houses and gambling hells in
full blast. The mayors intentions were be-
yond dispute; it was not his fault if there was
nothing better TO exhibit. The dance house is
peculiar feature of lie on the frontier. 1t is
a saloon attachment, and the rules are that
every man pays fifty cents for the privileges of
the evening, with the expectation that at the
close OF every dance he will invest ten cents each
for himself and partner in the drinks. The
longer they dance the more they drink, and
the result is free jamboree long before
morning, with all the participants in state of
maudlin intoxication. The profits to the keeper
of the "shebang" are immense
Enter one of those dance houses of an early
evening, and one sees a square open space
thicily lined with men, some of whom have
come in with the purpose of joining in the wild
debaucherieS others from simple curiosity to
see and know all that is going on. At first
there is considerable restraint as the girls ap-
pear, dressed out in tawdry. finery, and the
men present have to be urged by them to come
upon the floor and take round. In this re-
spect the dance house society is not unlike that
OF the average company, which Is always under
constraint in the early period of its assembling,
until some one starts in and breaks the ice.
by and by some swarthy faced cow boy
with the leather tringeS dangling from his leg
gings; makes dash for one of the girls. Then
follows a miner with the nails In his shoes like
the spikes of . railway and red shirt collar
rolled back from the throat. They grasp the
girls round the waist and spin and whirl and
curve and gyrate around and around the room
until it is like taking dose of opium and bel
ladona just TO look at them. Very much of the
time the girls are not ON their feet at all, but
in the frenzy of the mad craze are hugged up
against the brawny breasts of their compan-
ions, often half senseless with exertion and
lightning tangle-red. For hours and hours
these girls will go on in this way, stopping
only when the music generally violin or twol
ceases for new supply of stimulants, and
then dashing in with new zest and vigor Is
it any wonder that in year or two the poor
wretehes whom the very desire to cut loose
from all restraint has led to that giddy, desper-
ate state OF existence die and are buried with
out regret aud w thout tear. The men who
dance with them and buy the drinks for them
retire from their carousals to prosecute their
work, and sometimes gain both money and dis
tinction. The misguided, degraded creatures
who minister to their lowest passions know
that their doom is sealed when they accept
their lot. From rccklessness to deT2nchery,
debauehery to crime, crime to the paupers
burial-this and this only is the history of one
and all.
The National tribune., 1883-09-06

rrara = m ussaToa r0sT0rrlos .s se0o.a-ass ss7la.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-22
Saved by n Faithful Dog.

The Grand Ronde Post briefly men,
tened the fact of a snow slide having
occurred recently i'm Antelope Valley,
in which four children were for a
time buried alive. 1t seems that
during the day three of Cy. Prescotts s
children and one of Mr.. Boards were
coasting on a hill, nearly quarter of
a mile from the residence of the for
mer, when IA huge mass of snow over
hanging high ledge of rocks near by
became loosened, and before the chill
dren were aware that anything had
happened, all four were overtaken and
buried several feet beneath the mass.
Fortunately Mr.. Prescotts dog, a
faithful animal and devotedly y attached
to the little ones, was with them en-
joying the sport. On their disappear
ance the dog commenced bowling and
barking, which attracted the atten-
tion of Mrs. Prescott, her eldest daugh-
ter, and hired man, who instantly
surmised what had happened, and
were not long in reaching the spot,
where they found the faithful canine
paving away the snow, as if endowed
with human intelligence. First one
and then another of the children were
uncovered, until all were eXhumed,
black in the face and apparently life
less. They were brought to, however,
the first expression Of one being, "Ma,
what made you wake me up?" and of
another, "Why don't you let us sleep?"
Evidently they suffered but little, and
were unconscious from the first.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-22

Walla Walla Union: Sister Super
ior, of st. Mary's hospital, has re-
turned frem Vancouver, where she
has been to make arrangements for
the building of new hospital in this
city. The building will be of wood, >
stories in height and with accemmo-
dations for about IS patients. The
structure will be built facing 9th street
with a frontage of 100 feet, and from
each side of the building an l. will run
back 100 feet. Every modern conven-
ience will be put into this building
As soon as the plans are completed
bids will be received and the building
will be pushed ahead Immediately. The
present hospital will be remodeled and
used as an academy by the sisters.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-22
PACIFIC COAST.

There is some little talk abont building a
suspension bridge across the Willamette at
Oregon City.
Cold weather has damaged the Shoalwater
bay oyster beds, and it is thought the trade
will be seriously affected this spring.
Joseph Ferguson is to supersede f.. H.
Morrison as Register of the Laud Office at
Walla Walla. $. G. Wingard has been re-
appoined Judge and j. B. Allen U. S. At
torney.
Reports from nearly every precinct in
Puyallup valley indicate large increase in
hop acreage over last year. The crop of 1888
Is likely to be prolific one.
1t now leaks out that the Mcfarland child
at Dayton, who was taken with the small.
pox, contracted the disease from dog which
came in contact with the patients at the pest
house
A gentleman who claims to know, asserts
that the railroad surveyors have, after three
years trying, found it impossible to locate
practicable route over the Cascades to the
south OF Green river, and that il is now un-
derstood any route over the mountains in
Pierce or King counties must come by way
of Renton.
The Leager says the Episcopal college pro-
jected at New Tacoma is certain to be built.
Four blocks for it have been secured from
the Tacoma land company. G. b. Wright,
of Philadelphia, formerly president of the
Northern Pacific railroad company, has
pledged Bishop Paddock that if his friends
would raise $4,000 he himself would add
thereto $4,000. The bishop, who is now in
the east. announces that large proportion
of the $50 600 has been raised