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TIE OLD CANTEEN.
The Many and Queer Uses to Which
1t Was at Last Put.

When Josiah (called "Si," for short) Klegg,
of the 200th Ind, drew his canteen from the
Quartermaster at Louisville he did not have
very high idea Of its present or prospective
Importance. In the % hot Summers that he
had lived through he had never found himself
very far from a well or spring when his thirst
cried out to be Stacked, and he did not suppose
that it was much farther between wells down
South.
Il don't see the use carrying two OF three
pints O. water along all day right past springs
and over cricks," he remarked to his chum as
the two were examining the queer, cloth-cov-
cred cans.
We've got to take 'em, any way" answered
his chum, resignedly. Its regulations"
On his entry into service boy accepted
everything without question when assured it
was regulations" He would have charged
bayoncts on buzz-saw if authoritatively in
formed that it was required by the mysterious
regulations"
The long march the 200th Ind. made after
Bragg over the dusty turnpikes the first week
in October, 1862, taught 81 the value of a can
teen. After that it was rarely allowed to get
empty. When it didn't have water in, it had
milk, molasses,, or even apple jack, for ST then
was not member of the Independent Order of
Good Templars, of which society he is now an
honored officer. Nothing could be nicer, when
he was on picket, to bring buttermilk in from
the neighboring farmhouse to his chum Steemy
Johnson, who stood post while he was gone.
The National tribune., 1885-10-08
GEN. LoaAN's' TRIBUTE.

We furnish this: week the full text of
Gen. Logan's eloquent tribute to Gen.
Grant, delivered at the Memorial services
in Washington, under the auspices of De-
partment of the + Potomac, GAR. The
meeting was worthy of the occasion in the
high character Of the, audience, and the
speaker was worthy of his theme. No
person, soldier Or civilian, could more fit
tingly speak Of the services and character
of Gen. Grant. During nearly three years
of the war Gen. logan was personally as
ISOLATED with Grant, holding many impor-
tant commands under his immediate eye.
He knew Gen. Grant as few others did, in his
every day life, in camp and On the battlefield.
All that Gen. Logan said in his mastery add
dress was prompted by personal knowledge
and sincere admiration for his chief
At the outset the speaker said that he
knew nothing of Grants life before the war.
Leaving that to Others he began with their
hrst acquaintance while their regiments were
being raised in Illinois Grants the 21st and
Logan's the 31st. They were first under fire
together at Belmont, and there began the
friendship, marked by the fullest mutual
solderly esteem and confidence, that con-
tinued up to the day of Gen. Grants death.
Gen. Logan's eloquent sentences will touch
responsive chord in the breast of every old
soldier who followed the leadership of the
Great Captain.
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OBITUARY..
Invasions of Death in the Ranks of Our

Inyasi0ns of Death in the Ranks of Our COyn=a,e
JANIscH.-At his residence in Waterloo, Wis,
Peter Janisch, Co. E. 10Th Wis. He never recov-
cred from gunshot wound received at the battle
of Prairie Grove, Ark, Dee. :, 1852.
OSBoRNE.-At Norwalk, Ohio, Sept. r. 1885,
Ralph n. IL Osborne, aged 10 years. He Was q
member of Co. A. Sd Ohio Cav.
BURToN.-WOods Burton, of Earl Park, lad,
He was member of Co. b, fifth H. and was badly
injured by artillery wheel running over his Ic..
he leaves widow and three small children
SrORY--JameS Story died Sept g. at his home
near Boyden, Sioux Co, Iowa. aged IS. He WAS
born IN Summit, SchOharie Co. y. Y, in IS;S9 He
was faithful soldier, serving through the war In
Co. Is, l2Sth y. Y. He was wounded 1T Port lEps!-
son. He was greatly esteemed Is i citizen in tue
community in which he lived. Appropriate rss,-
lutons adopted by Cottrel Post No 30
GAR, Department of Iowa.
OUG-At Kansas City Mo-, Sept Is, 1885, of hem
orrhage of the lungs, Oliver c. Dug aged "a years
Second Lieutenant of Co. f, "a w. Va Cav.
MoEsE.-At C!arks, Neb., Sept. IL Capt Jno IL
conducted under the auspices OF the Grand Army
WILLIAMs.-At Chagrin Falls, o.. recently Aaron
Williams, comrade of Post No. TO- was laid to- rest
by his comrades
NEwELL.-Sept. 10, by accidental discharge of his
gun, while duck hunting, Chauncy H. Newell
Drummer, Co. h, 18th Mich. He was n men,I.er
OF Thomas Snawly Post, No. 30 of Lakeside
Mich
WARD-At Thorndike, Me-, Sept 81 Edward
Ward, of the I'd Me. battery. He was q member OK
Post No. %, of Unity.
GREGoRY.-Serg't Virgil II. Gregory died Sept.
IL, in Columbia, Lorain Co., Ohio, aged Al. He
listed in October. 1851 when not quite IL in Co E
65th Ohio, and served more than four years with
conspicuous gallantry No better soldier ever
carried q nluslSet. The funeral was attended by
Richard Allen Post GAR, of Eyria. of which
deceased was n member, and very large throng of
sympathizins friends.
The National tribune., 1885-10-08

WHEN Comrades Kay, Hedges, Tanner
Palmer and others appealed against the dis
honest reputation Of soldiers rights by GER
tain New York Assemblymen, they signed
their communication in square, open John
Hancock style. When the Civil Service Re
form dudes replied they slipt out an anony-
nous circular which had no sign of signature
Or sponsorship The authors had reason to
be ashamed Of their work.
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And when 7 look acrost tbera-

Israel II. Wood ranks among his fellows iti-
zens in Philadelphia as a religious enthusiast,
or crank" but there has been a thrifty
method in his crankiness that has enabled him
| to put s., 900 in the bank within short time.
He inserted the following advertisement in
newspapers far and near:
A TTENTION, SINNERSi-A BOOK THAT EVERY
"A sporting should read better than anything
tie klnd ever printed 500 pages and no trash Price 30
Ave.
AS may be readily imagined there were
plenty of gudgeons to bite at hook so skill
fully baitcd. He received as high as a hundred
letters a day inclOsing money, for which the
writers expected to receive something racy in
the way of sporting literature. Wood, who
proved most successful " fisher of men, sent
to each a copy of the New Testament, which
he bought in large quantities at $4.75 a hun
dred, leaving him, after paying postage etc,
clear profit of AZ cents copy. When the au-
thorities took hold of the matter he claimed
that it was no swindle; that the Testament was
we'll worth 80 cents and was certainly "a book
that every sporting man should read" as well
as other people. He said it was & part of
grand scheme to evangelize the world. But,
just the same, he was ordered to suspend fur
Their operations under all the pains and penal
ties in such cases made and provided.
Nep York Tribune: Even the coolest heads
will often lose their balance in case of a fire.
The country house of a well-known member of
the New York Produce Exchange, at Scarsdale.
caught fire last Sunday from a defective fire.
place. For few minutes the destruction of
the building seemed threatened and members
of the household and guests were rushing
around in an excited condition, doing absurd
things, when some one shouted: 81 Get the
hose~ immediately two of the men present
started on run for the stables. Presently one
of them returned in breathless condition and
in a dazed sort of way threw down in front of
those who were dashing buckets of water on
the flames two garden hoes The danger was
sufficiently ever to enable every one heartily
to join in the shout of laughter that greeted
him, and he is not likely soon to hear the last
of his attempt to hoe out fire.
boy at Unionville, o., died after eating six
watermelons. Our boys have not the eonstitu-
tons they once had.
Since Berry Wallis bankruptcy has deposed
him from his throne as King of the New York
DuueS anu ieauer VI thc En6iisu "orShiplnB
clan, his place has been taken by the three sons
of a German named Pfeizer, who made fortune
manufacturing chemicals. They resemble one
another so much as to be taken for triplets, and
they increase this resemblance by identicalness
in dress and manner They buy every article
of clothing i'll London, of the loudest English
pattern, and they walk in the iff-legged,
lame-in- both feet saddle chatfed manner, which
is the new London gait
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to have effect in putting single smirch
upon our financial honor.
The man who attempts to evade or nullify
these solemn promises of preference made to
every one who went forth to serve his coun-
try, and which have since been embodied
into legal enactments, is even more Of re-
pudiator than the man who advocated de-
frauding the Nations creditors of any part
of the money which they had been promised.
The political dudes of the Civil Service Re-
form Association who are trying to defraud
the soldier of the rights acquired by him
through his enlistment and honorable serv-
ice are much more dishonest than the shysters
who try to cheat the creditors of Nation,
State, or a municipality out Of money
loaned in time of need. They stand on a
lower plane Of dishonor. It is much less
fragrant offense to cheat man out of money
loaned than to swindle him out of rights
which he has bought with years Of hardship,
exposure to mortal danger, and expenditure
of blood. We expect the people of New
York to condemn in unmistakable terms the
men who would dishonor the fair name of
the State by repudiating her obligations to
her brave sons
The National tribune., 1885-10-08

Later on in the campaign ST had the misfor-
tune to be with train that was captured by
dash Of Wheeler's cavalry and he was taken
to Andersonville. He was stript there of every
thing which old Wirz thought was of any value
or use, but the black and greasy piece of con-
cave sheet-iron was contemptuously returned
to him. 1t had been of greater value
to him befOre-now it was priceless. It
was all that he had to receive his scanty rations
of coarse eornmeal in; it was all that ne had to
carry water in, mix his meal into bread or
mush, and then cook it in. Next he and lit
tie squad of comrades dug with it a tunnel
through the hard clay, and under the deep-set
stockade for 100 feet or more, and make their
escape from that charnel house.
The National tribune., 1885-10-08

One day on the Atlanta campaign moved
up in line to the top of bald hill. As it rose
above the crest it was salutcd with a terrific
volley, and saw that another crest across the
narrow valley was occupied at least brigade
of rebels.
"Well stay right here, boys" said the plucky
little Colonel, who had only worn Sergeant's
stripes, when the regiment erased the Ohio
River. We've pre-empted this bit of real
estate, and we'll hold it against the whole
Southern Confedcracy. Break for that fence
there boys, and every fellow come back with
a couple of rails"
1t seemed as if he hardly ceased speaking
when the boys came running back with the
rails which they lay down along the crest, and
dropping flat behind them, began throwing
the gravelly soil over them with their useful
alf-canteens. In vain the showers of rebel
bullets struck and sang about them. Not one
could penetrate that little ridge of earth and
rails, which in an hour grew into strong rifle
pit against which the whole rebel brigade
charged, only to sustain a bloody repulse
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THE GRANT TRUST FUND.

The statement has been recently published
that Mrs. Grant had not received the semi
annual interest, due Aug. /, ON the $4,000
trust fund. This has been denied by George
Jones, one of the trustees of the fund. The
fact appears to be that both the averment
and the denial, though conflicting, are par
tally c1rrect. A difference has arisen be-
tween the trustees and the executors of the
estate of the late Edwin d. Morgan. The
latter, some time before his death, sold to
the trustees of the fund, who were seeking a
safe and profitable investment, $1S9O00 of
Wabash Railway bonds, at 115-15 per
cent. above par. Mr. Morgan guaranteed
the principal and the payment of the inter-
est for 10 years. The Is per cent premium
paid for the bonds amounted to SOS, 200, and
this is the matter at ISSUE Morgan's execu-
tors have recently offered to pay the princi-
pal, as well as the interest DUE to release
the estate from further liability. They
decline, however, to pay more than the par
value of the bonds and have deposited
$199,000 to provide for the payment The
trustees claim that the estate is liable for
the entire $780, 200, the amount originally
paid for the bonds. Pending the adjustment
of the matter Oliver Hoyt, one of the trus-
tees, has advanced the interest due Aug.
SO Mrs. Grant has the money, although the
Morgan estate has not paid the interest.
The remainder of the $250,0OO is invested in
other securities.
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Approved (:
Chairman General Committee.
NAVY DEPARTMENT,

NAVY DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, Sept. % 1885.
GENTLEMEN: Yonr letter of recent date request
ing that due attention be given to the claims of
honorably- discharged soldiers and sailors for en-
ployment in the Navy Department and the Yards
under its control. has been received. In reply I
have to say that it will give me pleasure at all
times to give preference to those honorably dis
charged from the military and naval service of the
United States, either for appointments to- reten-
ton in office, as the case may be, if equally compe-
tent and deserving. The efforts of the Grand
Army of the Republic to maintain in this way the
premium on patriotism displayed by these honor
ably discharged soldiers and sailors are commend
able, and shall have my cooperation. You may
rest assured the fact that man is IN honorably-
discharged soldier will not initiate against his OBJ
tanning employment in any of the establishments
under the control of the Navy Department. but on
the contrary the fact will be las il has been hereto
fore) considered by q recommendation in
favor of the applicant for the employment he seeks
should be glad to have my attention called TO any
violation of the law with reference to this subject
Very respectfully,
w. G. WHITNEY,
Secretary Of the Navy.
Thos 3. Odell, esq, Chairman; George S. Little
Jno. w. Kay and Geo. f. Hopper, Sub Commit
tee, GAR. Veterans Rights Union BROOKLYN
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ored element" and heaven knows what other
factions, elements, and subdivisions of parties
must be religiously kept. Still more than
this, the political managers and place-hunters
are always on the alert for something that
will propitiate and please these elements"
Performance goes ahead of promise, even.
Only the soldier is fattered with buncombe
compliments, and grandiloquent resolutions
which are dry husks and straw when it
comes to any steps toward fulfllment. The
reason is that these other " elements" en-
force their wishes by sharp discipline. The
politician who fails to keep the letter and
spirit of his pledges to them is slaughtered
without mercy at the polls. Until the SOL
diers do likewise, they can hope for nothing
from the politicians.
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offer that grand old soldier, Gen. Slocum, the
second place on their ticket. If any man in
the country deserved the first place it was
the gallant leader of the First Corps, the
man who was at the front in every battle in
his army, and who has since the war dis
tinguished himself in civil life by the same
courage and devotion to principle that he
displayed in the field.
The National tribune., 1885-10-08

London agricultural Gazette: In Scotland and
the North of Ireland this saying is very COM
mon in the mouths of the peasantry, though
all who use it may not understand its origin
1t arose out of an old song:
There was old man, and he had an old cow
And he had nothing to give her;
So he took out his fiddle and played her a tune
Consider, good cow consider:
This is time of year for the grass to grow
Consider, good COW, considerr'
The old cow died of hunger, and when any
grotesqucly melancholy song or tune is uttered
the North-country people say "That is the
tune the old COW died Of"
The National tribune., 1885-10-08

THE political dudes of the New York Civil
Service Reform Association did not have the
manliness to sign the circular they launched
against granting soldiers their rights. They
kept their precious selves carefully in the
background as they did during the war.
The National tribune., 1885-10-08

THE political dudes of the New York Civil
Service Reform Association are fastidious as
to etiquet, and can tie cravat or fold note
to a nicely, but they do not seem to have
learned how contemplate a thing it is to
write anonymous letters and issue abusive
circulars to which they dare not sign their
names
The National tribune., 1885-10-08

NEW ENGLAND is having the value of
forests impressed upon her people in sharp,
dollars-and-cents way, that the dullest of
them cannot help understanding. The water
season that many Of the great manufactures
along that that stream have been unable to
run, and the loss in wages and interest on
capital has been enormous. The papers of
that section say that it is an undeniable fact
that the Volume in the stream is decreasing
every year, and that it is only question of
few years when every factory will have 10
put III costly steam engines to take the place
OF the inexpensive wa:er-pOwer.
The National tribune., 1885-10-08

After the company wagon had run over and
hopelessly ruined the neat little frying pan
which ST had brought from Posey County, he
was in despair as to how he should fry his meat
and cook his "lobseouse." Necessity is the
mother of invention He melted in two can
teen he picked up, and found its halves made
two deep tin pans, very light and very handy.
A split stick made a handle and he had as
good frying pan as the one he had lost, and
much more convenient, for when done using
the handle was thrown away, and the pan slipt
into the haversaek, where it lay snug and
close instead of Gathering about as the frying
pan did when the regiment moved at the dou-
ble uuick
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b THE number of pension certificates issued
and signed during the week ending Oct. 5,
1885, was as follows: Original, I, 472; increase,
800; reissue, 81; restoration, IA; duplicate,
80; accrued, 50; Act of March 3, 1888, g.;
Order April 3, 1884, "a total, 2,675.
The National tribune., 1885-10-08
SECRETARY WHITNEY AND THE UNION
VETERANS.

VETERANS.
The following correspondence, which ex-
plains itself, has just been made public.
We gladly accord to Secretary Whitney the
full measure of credit for his patriotic and
manly reply to the letter of the committee.
1t cannot be otherwise than satisfactory to
the worthy veterans of the war:
BROOKLYN, N. Y, July 1e, 1855.
hon. WIN. q. WHITNEY, Secretary of the Navy,
Washington, d. G.
The undersigned, a Committee appointed by the
Executive Committee at its last regular meeting
for that purpose respectfully request that in the
several Navy-Yards and in the Department gem
orally due attention be given to the laws concern
ing those honorably discharged from the military
or naval service of the United States during the late
war, either in original appointments to position
the preference to which they entitled if equally
competent, to be retained when reduction in force
IS for any cause made necessary. In this connec-
ton we would state that too frequently in reduc-
ton of force the soldier or sailor honorably dis
charged has been the first-not the Iast-to go. We
have been told when we have sought TO secure for
these men generally occupying positions as me-
chanics or laborers their rights under the law that
the soldier and sailor business played out"
or have been advised to bring some of the poll
ticians from the ward to plead for them. Such
things are all wrong. Those with appointing
power should understand what the law of prefer
ence in such cases is, and govern themselves
accordingly without making it requisite to urge
individual cases to plead for these wards of the
Nation, when circumstances and their necessities
have placed them in require them to seek public
employment. The main trouble in this respect in
the Brooklyn Yard we found among the foremen,
who seem to have more regard for the political
element and their own retention than they had for
the veterans or the just claims of such men upon
the Government. In view of the change now oc-
curing in the Yard here, we have seen Commodore
Ralph Chandler, Commandant, submitting to him
the abstract principles involved. He has kindly
taken them under consideration and we believe
has called the attention of the Board, in ses-
sion examining applicants for foremanshp, 10 the
letter and spirit of the law. This however, will
only affect this locality. Can not ask, with
some hope, that our position meet your approval;
that you will issue order to reach every branch
of the Navy Department covering the preference,
which has been promised by law since 1865, en-
phasized in 1876, and never, pas tally enforced
until after this organization became necessity.
This is not matter of sentiment. but one of
right; not question of party, but of patriotism.
Shall we ask in vain?
For the GAR. Veterans Rights Union
GEORGE s. LITTLE
JOSEPH w. KAY,
GEORGE F. HOPPER,
subcommittee.
Approved:
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THE politicians pledges to the soldier
seem to be the only ones that can be broken
with IMMUNITY. Promises to the saloon
keeper, to the beer-seller, to the labor-unions,
to the Irish element" the German ele-
ment," the Bohemian element" the "col-
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BONANZA FARMING.

Oliver Dalrymple, the great bonanza
farmer, gives the following table of the
expense of raising bushel Of wheat by his
methods:
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GEN. JOHN G. BLACK, Commissioner of
Pensions, arrived home last Friday, and re-
sumed the duties of his Office
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TRIBUNETS.

HIS FIRST WIFE.
'Gmes Whitconl5 Riley:
i buried my first womern
In the Spring, and in the Fall
was married to my second,
And hain't settled yit at all
For I'm allus Observation-Disclosures
OF the first ones peaceful ways,
a biiin' soap and singin'
or the Lords amazin' grace.
And I'm thinkin' of her constant,
Dyein' carpet-chain and stuff,
And n maxim up rag carpets,
When the floor was good enough,
And / mind her he p a wedin',
And | recollect her now
A drappin' corn and keepin'
Clos't behind me and the pillow.
And I'm allus thinkin' of her
Reddin up around the house,
Err a cookin' for the farm hands,
Er drivin' up the cows;
And there she lays out yender
BY the lower medder fence,
Where the cows was barely graZin'
And they're usin' ever sence.
And when look acrost there
Say it's when the clover's ripe,
And I'm settin' in the evcnin'
On the porch here with my pipe,
And the othern hollers Henry -
Why, they amt no sadder thing
Than TO think of my first womern
And her funeral last Spring