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The National tribune., 1883-09-13
TIT NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
AsHIEGToN, D. C., SEPTEMBER IS, 1888,
CONTENTS THIS WEEK.

1sf Page ~ TEIE SHFN ANDoAH VALLEY; Sferi-
dAu Campaign from Opaquon 10 Cedar Creek
Interesting Letters from surviving Veterans
I'd ISEe.-LoTAL FUMAN's ~ OEK. 4aces. hy-
g1el4e. and C00Eel--OUr Neekly Experience
Meeting - WoIaan's NatFonai Relief Corps
Nosk.--i'aE GtIzLsoS kAED: On the Way to
Idbby.-soME SAD STORIES: Letters from Tx
Prisoners.
Sd Page.-0uR RURAL Torres: Practical Sug-
gesi0uss for Our Aericu lbIral Readers
Questions and Answers. DORA. THE GIFT
or Con: A story lOF our Young FOlks.-TEY-
ING 10 PUT lila o. THE Track AGAIS Letters
RON il,nols elerals II reply 70 CoinIaoe Han
chcltEa LAST FIGHT: 4 Survivors account
OF lhe Faal Battle Of the war.-SoLDIERs'
HiOAUMEsts: How, and OF whai they should be
built.-El9W GHS RENO WAS hIiLED.-EHE
SIIsGE OF FOET HCDsoS.-CA ETuEE or SPANISH
EOKT.-IHE OEEGTNAL FORT SUMTER FLAG
Custer s isETGAD..CT TiJA CREEK: Interesting 2
Letters Continued from First Page.-SslTTEI's ;
BREGABL Al AzsHSILLE---ti ERE ANY THREE
YEAR &EGEE-EE.s Mustered EARLIER /? -
NHEcEAB0UIs OF TOMMY AELsoS.-PoEI-RX /:
SosEBUDT's DAZZLING.
Attn Pase.-EDIaoRIALs Conrade Van Dervort :
faeEnCVal.->eT7tatls' > Veterans IN the valley.
&c. A. T. Missionary Work Again--REUNEoE
NoTEs.--AMOsG 1HE AAIIERs: hiss Kelley :
English Letter
9th Page.-Sor PLPAYED Our YET: Reunions
of Chag1auqna County N " Veterans, 25th
Ohio 42d OHIO, Soldiers Al Hastings Eeb 9th
CbIo Co. J., Jih Iowa, Washington County IN.
- Veterans, OTIS MAlne, .ath iltlnols, 4oth
Massachusetts 14sth New York. I25th Illinois,
I3lh Connection, 55th Illinois, 20th MassacAu-
setts. and 2sth Massachusc;fs.-BAGs IL Won
Old ~ 0IE4D.
6th Page.--TuE GRAND ARMY: Affairs at Ma
tiOnal Headquarters - General teath Move
ments-SeHs from fhe Departments.
9TH Bage.-EgGIETING THEN ONE-l: The Sixteenth
Corps al Atlanta = eltsrs).-Ihe Signal ser
vlce.--eCGel 10 Lieutenant Fishes story
Casualties Of War 3 letters ).-Brothers. but
Estfanged for IweHty-six Hears.-A SoTeiy
Wounded Neteran.-A Mystery Explained, OF
How il Was Ghat General AIct5oolS " a. N,t Re
euioIc0d at HeTrgvl. le,iA y.--Sergeailt Shields
G0rFeeis Sergeant eurhy.-EOw Should q. a
j. Decorations be HOIn.-COrrecting Cilron-
ology: the Actions al Br-Eton's Lane, Ring
gOid. Leetis lanyard, Chuntllly, Carroiton
Landing, Miss. aIla LceiOWE, Aa.-lsI-n1IE,s TO
6oRLlIs PoN3l.A ES.--C CsEoSoIoGY or THE va
$th Page. .- 8CE 6FEoRGAG CeCErRE: weekly
Review Of observation-disclosures: Thirty
sj1th Massach.ise lts-AIazo Mamie, Wis ON
pany # Eleventh Pennsylvania cayatTy--Sey-
eNty-liIIth illlnOis-ssiXty third indlana- tirst
Tenth and INcIt g-Ilnth Ai2.iLe-I welEtL
EAssaehusotts--For orsy-llilsth 0hio--Aew York
Ex-I'risoners-D District OF Columbia Prisoners
-ADrENTIsEMEAIs.
The National tribune., 1883-09-13

COMRADES often object to the wearing
OF the Grand Amy badge on ali occasions,
on the ground that it is cumbersome and
unnecessarily conspicuous. Nothing could
be more distinctive and, at the same time.
less obtrusiye, than the new Grand Army
sleeve-buttons, which have just been de-
signed by New England comrade, and
which, as viii be seen by reference to our
advertising columns, We offer to members of
the Order al 81 pair, OF as premium for
club OF six new subscribers to THE
TRIBuEE
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Through the courtesy Of the
Department Of Massachusetts,
@. A. r., the Headquarters OF the
Woman's National Relief Corps
has been established at No. IL
PembertOn Square, Boston. The
office hoHrs OF Mrs. President
Barker viii be from II IN. to 2
p. m., Wednesdays.
The National tribune., 1883-09-13

IF you wait to know whether the Water
bury Watch which we offer as a premium
for fifteen new subscribers TO THE TRIBUNE
is really what ii purports to be, read the
voluntary testimonials, printed in another
column, from such Of our readers as have
tested its value by actual use.
The National tribune., 1883-09-13

TIE first postal note that the editor of
rHE TRIBUNE had the pleasure Of receiv-
ng was one sent by CoEaTade J. L. Ander-
;on, Raairin, IL, TO pay for three new sub
'criptipns- The GRAND old State of Illinois
til &eads the list as that in which THE
is most widely read.
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ERs. L. A. TURNER, Treasurer Of the
mans Aat nal Relief Corps, has been
Ill Of dir neria at her home IL Boston.
Barker as been taking much needed
al her summer home at Swampscott, on
seashore.
The National tribune., 1883-09-13

CoMRADE JAMES HEEsHAw, South Chi
caeO, III, -uegests that every Grand Army
Post should have standing employment
ssnmittee. and that special care should be
The National tribune., 1883-09-13

MIS-. PREsIDEEg BARKER, Of the Wom-
I1's National Relief Corps, accompanied
Department Commander Geo. s. Evans and
ssatf, and the veterans Of the Massachusetts
Soldiers Home, upon an excursion, Septem-
Der 4fh, from battery wharf 1t was q
grand day for the old soldier boys.
The National tribune., 1883-09-13

We are indebted to J. S. Mason, Medina, o.,
for some handsome samples of his G. A. r. ex-
change cards They are fine specimens of the
printers art, and exhibit both taste and good
wosAsaa:aship.
The National tribune., 1883-09-13

Next TO the Bible aud Wehsters Dictionary,
the most necessary work in every household
and place Of business is Lippincott's Gazetteer
of the World This publication. which IS sold
at the reasonable price Of S12 per copy, is
most valuable repository of information con-
eerning the various counties. islands, rivers,
mountains, cities. towns, etc, of the globe, and
appended 70 the revised edition IS a series OF
supplementary tables OF population. based upon
the most recent CENSUS returns. fae print "A
bold and clsar. and the arrangement Of tia
contents snch Is to facilitate quick referen6A
The National tribune., 1883-09-13

How pleasant it is to hear of such pres
perity in the Grand Army as the following
letter diseioses:
TO the Editor NATIONAL. TRIBUNE:
Inclosed pleased find check for 81 for which for
ward two copies of your valuable journal to Mccoy
Post reading rooms and mail receipt to the Adju-
tGnt of the Post, with compliments of the writer
The Department of Ohio now numbers S65 Posts
and the membership is increasing more rapidly
than ever before in the history of the Order j. O.
Mccoy Post now numbers 942 comrades, and still
they come. We have splendid Post room. meet
ings weII attended, and the Ritual work of the
Order promptly carried out. Within the next two
weeks the Post will open to the comrades of the
Order n capacious and handsome reading room,
and adjoining that of its relic room, and large
donations of books, maps, pictures, daily and
weekly papers have been made to this end, and
with large membership and the deep interest
felt in this feature with us we anticipate great
pleasure this fall and during the long winter even
ings in gathering there and recounting the scenes
OF our army life from 1861 to 1866.
Yours, il f., O., and L..
CARL BANCROFT
p. P. O., j. C. Mccoy Post, No. l..
What vast influence for good it is posi-
bic for such Post to exercise in eommu-
DityI
The National tribune., 1883-09-13

The number Of pension certificates issued
I signed during the week ending Septem-
sth, ~as as follows: Original, 652; in
pse, 225; reissue so; restoration, %;
licate, 50; arrears. O; total. 1000.
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-10-21
How Mans Surroundings
Shape His Beliefs.

Thus do the peculiaritles Of natu-
raj objects supply molds in which
the metal of religious faith, already
lying latent, readily sets. and not
only directly. but indirectly, do they
shape the forms of faith, The rush
ing river, e.g. not merely attracts
the reverence of the primitive man
to itself, but by its swift aud treach-
erous motion, its sinuous course,
and snake>like hiss and CLEAN, it is
persoDified as mighty divine SER
pent, and next makes sacred by
association the serpents of the cOun-
try about. The sky, personified by
the ancient Egyptians as q hea-
venly goose. enveloping and hatchs
ing the cosmic egg made sacred
bencefOrth all geese to the pious
jewellers by the Nile. In chimes
like Egypt, where the skies are
rainless and the whole aspect of
nature equasle, almost unchahging,
there the gods are marked by calm
ness of bearing and serenity OF ma
ture. We must 60 to the slopes of
the Himalayas or the ridges of the
Apennines to find the bowling
Rudra, with his attendant Maruts,
the Founders, rushing wildly
through the glenS, or to see the bull
locks slain in honor of Jupiter
TOnans, the Thunderer. In cold and
temperate climes it is the eulivening
and warming sun that is loved and
adOred; but, in the sultry air of the
tropics, the sun and the sky of day
become evil and destructive deitie5,
and affection is transferred to, the
refreshing sky of night.
So, also, in their ideas Of heaven
and hell, there is natural contrast
between the man of the tropics and
the man of the Arctic zone. To the
first, the future home of the good is
some abode of GOODNESS, some gar
den Of the Hesperides, or breezy
Olympian height, and the place of
punishment place of fire. To the Ice
lander hell is the place Of cold, worse
far to him than fire, and heaven
some comfortable hall surrounded
by hedge of flame. Again, in hot
chimes, where the soil of the river.
bottoms is deep and rich, and nature
teens with productiveness, there
the gods are credited with the same
sensuous nature; religious ideas are
apt to revolve about the mysteries
of procreation, and the worship of
the people is apt to include not q few
impure rites and symbOls.-Profes-
sor James T. Bixby, in Popular
Science Monthly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-10-21

which both body and mind are ex-
ercised, fed and trained, and TO the
quality and quantity OF the nutri-
tious particles OF matter, material
and intellectual, which go to make
the substance of the one and the
spirit of the other.
Feed your child on pickles anG
sweet-meats, allow her to wear
paper-sOled shoes and an INSULT
cheney of flannel, and we all know
what the consequences viii be
dyspepsia and hectic cough. Does
it never occur to you that the
analogy applies to her mental
sustenance and equipment ?-tbat
if we feed her uniformed and emo
tional nature with high-spicsd &,
morbid, unreal fiction she will be-
come incapable Of digesting better
literature, and that by the time she
is woman anything solid will be
rejected by the pampered appetite
Have you never seen this, yOp
mothers?
GOOD fiction is truly q legitimate,
healthiul and improving means Of
pleasure and profit. by the perusa
of clever novels of real and idealiz-
ing pictures OF human life, our
mental range of vision is extended,
the focus of our intellectual glasses
is truly adjusted, our sympathies
enlarged, our prejudices driven
away, our knowledge Of anG
due regard for the just
value of life increased and verified,
are amused, improved, touched,
warmed, helped and urged to help
others. There is no better means
of impressing on our minds the
facts of history or the qualities anG
values of human nature than by the
historical or critical novel. But
such are not the results which
usually follow the perusal of "the
light literature of the day." which
library people prove young girls
devour yearly in unlimited quanti-
ties.-Rarper'S BGzar,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-10-21
YOUR DAUGHTERS.
What Kind of Novels Do the limo
cent Dear Ones Read?

1t 81 very unusual to find a mother
who is Indifferent to her daughters
clothes. Even when that daughter
is but wee tot the petty details of
costume are scrupulously looked
after, and the maternal mind allows
itself to be painfully disturbed over
incongruousness of tint between the
ribbons serving as fllet and neck
tie, and by meagerness of garniture
on frock and apron. Practical
minded women will ever, in spite of
girlish remonstrance, insis. on low
heels, loose clothes, and warm
wraps, and with wise saws
and hygienic maxims, crush
the fashionable yearnings of
budding womanhood for French
heels, a genteel waist and sleeveless
jackets
But what can be said about the
endeavor to provide for our daugh-
ters' mental nourishment and intel
lectual adornments To develop in
them taste for great and noble
thoughts, and the cap 3city to enjoy
companiOnship with pure and
elevating writers, and association
in ideal worlds filed with honest
men and pure women? To arouse
that instinct for pure knowledge
which is indeed the main purpose Of
education, certainly Of that kind of
education which is "the leading of
human souls to what is best, and
making what is best out of them 7"
There is no more amazing phase
of Nineteenth century feminine
development than its passionate
and enervating indulgence in nause-
Gus mental pabulum, and the ap.
palling extent to which an unlim-
tied supply of such stuff is furn-
ished to the young. The same
woman who is conscientiously care
full of the school companionship of
her daughter of II or Is years is
apparently criminally Indifferent to
the character of her associates in
the world of books. She will watch
what boy carries her girls books
home from school, but tOrgets to
look below the cover of the new
novel that same daughter has
brought back from the circ dlating
library, stopping there for it on the
way home,
Now this apathy or ignorance in
regard to what young girls read is
for the destruction of
the finer tone of character of many
of our children developing into
and explains good
deal Of the frivolity, dem0ralizing
and unfortunate affairs"
which from time to time startle the
community and bring sorrow and
disgrace on highly respectable fam
lies.
During the formative period of |
life, when both mind and body are
changing and unfolding from the
state OF the child into the
completeness of the woman, the fu-
lure stamina-moral powers of re-
and physical capacity of |
the purer mental tone |
and healthy bodily muscles-are
dependent upon the manner in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-10-21

course, failure is made, and q block
splits IN TIVE. But the judgment of
the workmen is singularly correct,
and the block is generally thro wn
out in is full integrity.-Herbert
futile, in Horper's Magazine.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-10-21
F,Auerbach&Bro.

in daily receipt of Novelties and beet makes OF
goods for Europe st ds sWss to p ss
our Tng Of g ysaGs Pes
ana u ORR VELVET PLUSH AND SILK DEPARIMENI
Contains batter o ysas: ssnp are R Ts7s
G pride Ourselves 5o1 me a psvn
oae eres Italian SILK Ca:n Gn Marguerite "D"1 "
his dsDs5 aS y t. B0Ss5i. one 9o s r d5e
odaSi JoIs One One # tb Coronation
OUR IhbE mp c4 b}A HSE REPAE!hESt
FRIMMING AND DRESS BUTTON "
hldEsN kN6 E EHB 6oIpERY
edd ASSIGNMENTS OF the very Goods, mostly OF our own
53 Ws es es aii Rss6 CeFs
THE stpIyOT" CORSET; price s125.
r 0 will be found be-fHUg and most durable Correct ever
offered the Public e +bo
l" 0 BUTTERIOK PATTERNS
o,eua3 department for the sale OF THESE justly cees0 hS'
OUR CLOAK AND FUR DEPARTMENT
S6 a2a sS's
resent % the b S ss design apd dstsss
P M the offer them A are apparent IS the cause OF our
'a0'% oARPEg OIL CLOTH AND CURTAIN DEPARTMENT
Has s snd s G Of and De Dsp sGa
reasonable prices OUR LADIES' SHOE. DEPARTMENT
Contains the st.. Goods S :t for Ladies' Children and e'ns
DIR GENTS BOYS and CHILDREN,s INN. .r,,r,,
P P6Rs 81 sa0 aoo Rsg bRFAREmr
Garry the styles only and cur prices will show saving Of fully
~ ''-" BLANKETS AND QUILTS.
P @ gd ps as aa
regular pF0s WE MEAN WHAT WE SAY.
you to look look before you purchase elsewhere
Wholesale that twenty Utah
them Larger Better Goods and Lower Prices than
'0 Mail Orders prompt filed. undersold
-EsrABLIsHED 1se4.-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-10-21

One o! the hammers at q Pittsburg
mill strikes ninetyrton blows. On
this account it ia known among the
workmen as the ''stepmoth or. -"
They are putting up steam whistle
near it tina. will be heard eight miles
and be called tho "mother-inrlsw."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-10-21

WHY are you ilP Why do you
suffer ? Everybody knows all
aches and pains. all languor and de-
bility, are cured by Browns Iron
Bitters.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-10-21

For LOUNGES and Mattresses, GO
to SoRENsEN s. CARLQULSTs First
South street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-10-21
UNDERTAKING,
JOS. VIM. TAYLOR
UNDE RTAkERs

A full line Of Caskets, MeraIlic Case
Redwood Cofins and Undertskers' Goods CO.
SANITY on hand.
All Orders, by Telegraph or Telephone, os.y
or night, viii receive prompt attention:
Telephone communication with ONCE O.
residence.
West Te1oPle street, southeas: of.~.Vailey
Eou.e. p O. BGI ca.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-10-21
IMPORTANT
COMMUNICATION,

Editors Herald:
We have just received the follow
ing information, which may be Of
interest to many Of your readers,
viz: That the steamer ''St. David'
left Yokohama about the 1st of
September with over $4,000 chests
of Fine Teas, part of which is con-
signed to us, and We shall he able
to furnish the public with the same
in q few days. Would also state
that we are constantly in receipt of
the newest and best family supplies
to be had inI the markets east,
west, and at home.
A CORDIAL invitation is extended
to the public to call and verify our
statements.
Yours Truly,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-10-21

ESTABLISHED 1864. =
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30
A New Mexico sand-storm.

The sand-storm, of which we had a
very lively sample recently, constitutes
the one and only disagreeable feature of
our New Mexico climate butthis doesn' t
come often nor remain long, and dis
agreeable as it is when its visits occur,
it is paradise itself in comparison with
the cyclones of the Mississippi Valley,
scattering death and destruction in their
pathway, and is infinitely less disagree
able and uncomfortable than the driv-
ing snow-stOrms of the North, the mar
rOw-chilling east winds of TIL. Atlantic
coast, OF the mud that envelopes the
earth for weeks at time, throughout
North, South and East The sandstone
is never uncomfortably cold, it is never
muddy, and never strong enough to be
dangerous; it is simply ''dirty ''-and
that expresses all of it. 1t fills your
mouth, and nose, and eyes, and ears; it
piles UP drifts of sand on the lee side of
fences; just as drifts of snow are piled
up in New England. though not so great
a depth; it fills the air with sand every
where, indoors and out; it covers the
counters and desks and goods at your
store, and the furniture and even the
dishes at your house; the tightest win
dows are not proof against it; il comes
IN under the doors and around the
frames, and filters through the most in
finitesimal cracks, through which you
would think the air itself could not pen
citrate; the atmosphere of your room is
filled with it, and the paper upon which
you try to write is covered with it; like
''the gentle dew of heaven it falls
alike upon the just and the unjust, and
falls everywhere; it is useless to fight
against it, and your best course is to
make up your mind at the start to en-
dure IT, and to say in the words of Pat
rick Henry, Let it comet But, after
all, 1T is clean dirt; it doesn't stick like
mud and it doesn't soil anything. The
blow lasts usually from one to six hours.
and when it is over all you have to do is
to "shake yourself" busting and sweep
ing will remove all vestiges of it from
house, clothing and furniture; every
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30
Sixty Wives.

Conductor Lane, of the Conneaut ac-
commodation, says the Cleveland Her
aid, tells good story illustrative of the
curiosity of certain people, and the
average willingness to credit any and
all rumors that may be classed as
gossip.
1t was two or three days after the
Mormon reunion at Kirkland had closed
and about twenty of the saints who had
remained behind had boarded the train
at Willoughby. They soon began to
sing, and as the conductor passed on to
the rear of the ear. he was grappled by
trio of ladies, who asked in unison,
pointing to the Mormons:
who's theme
Those. . said Mr. Lane, s'are Nor
MONS
''Mormonsl Heaven and earth! Are
there Mormons on this train?"
eyes, replied the conductor, and
then explained that they had been in at
tendance at the Kirkland reunion, and
were on their way home.
The ladies stood up and watched the
unsuspecting saints long and carefully.
One of them even wandered out into the
aisle to more closely .scrutinize their
queer fellow-passengers.
''Of course there's "a good many more
women than men, arn't there?' asked
one of the ladies. toying with the ques-
ton they so much wanted to ask, as to
the number of wives.
'''Oh, yes" explained the conductor,
there's about four or five women to
every man"
You don't say and the ladies con-
fidentially whispered. Finally. one of
the most bold asked:
GLOW many wives did you see any
one man have?''
''Oh, said Mr. Lane, ''they quite
frequently have ten or fifteen. There
was one Oh my train yesterday with
twenty-five. He was not recognized,
however, as very much of Mormon.
l took down one old fellow the other
day with sixty wives.
A chorus of ''ohs" followed, and,
while the ladies dissected the choice
morsel of gossip, the conductor passed
on through the train