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The National tribune., 1885-06-18
RANK IN THE GAR,


We have this week some more contribu-
tions on Crank in the GAR" Our own
opinion about the matter is that there is
being too much pother made over the matter.
What harm is it to any one, for example, if
some one, who has been honored by his COM
rades with an Office, should happen to be ad-
dressed as captain" Major" Colonel"
or "General"? The suffrages of the men
who elevated him to the office of their leader
are quite as good warrant for the title
as most men have for their designations
We can, for instance, think of few better
bases for the title of General" than pro-
motion by the voices of his comrades of a
one-legged drummer boy to the leadership of
the 250,000 veterans who are in the ranks of
the GAR. Certainly, this man has more
right to be called General than three
quarters of those who now wear the title.
In the 2549 titles of General which the Gov
ernment conferred on account of services
during the war, there were hundreds of
Captains, Majors, Lieutenant -Colonels and
Colonels in the Adjutant- Generals, Quarter
master, Commissary, Ordnance, Medical, Pay
and other departments who were never near
the front, or were merely officers in three
months, hundred days, or other provisional
organizations. To this has been added a
corps of Generals who were the glittering
ornaments of Governors stats, and never
did anything more military than wear their
snowy uniforms. Then came in men who
have been Attorney Generals of States; Gen
eral Superintendents of Insane Asylums, etc.
Surely, if all these are to wear the title of
General, it is rather churlish to begrudge the
title to the man who, for the time being,
stands at the head of the ex-soldiers Of the
United States. So with the lower ranks.
If these titles are worth having-and the
voice of the community says they are
why shall we not appropriate them to honor
those of our comrades who are worthy of the
honor of presiding over us in the Post, the
Department, and the Nation?
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THE GAR. WATCH.

IF there is any truth in the saying that
time is money, it behooves every careful man
to have constantly on hand the means
whereby he can keep strict account of the
feeting hours This can be done without
any outlay. ANY person sending us club of
10 new subscribers to THE NATIONAL TRIB-
UsE can obtain one of our handsome and re-
liable GAR. watches, which are made a
especially for us by the celebrated Water
bury Watch Company. This most useful
timepiece can also be procured, together with
q years subscription to The NATIONAL
TRIBUNE for $3.50, and as that is the price
of the watch alone we practically make a
present of years subscription of the paper
to every purchaser Of a watch. Send for
sample copies of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
to aid You in canvassing for subscribers.
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the nlornini

who designed and built the grand statue
Is well known in the United States. He
visited America about ten years ago and q
bronze statue of Lafayette made by him
adorns Union Square, New York city. NJ
Bartholdi is fifty years old, and was born
at Colmar. He has received high honogs
in France. His colossal Lion of Belfors'
is almost as well known as his Liberty"
Several monuments at Colmar are by his
hand, and amongst his more prominent
statues exhibited within the past few
years are those of Champollion and
GribeauYal
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Rheumatism.

There cannot possibly be more distressing
infliction in the long list Of painful disorders,
not one that has baffied the skill of physicians
and entailed 80 much suffering as rheumatism.
To those afflicted We would advise to try
Durang's Rheumatic Remedy. 1t is an internal
remedy, and cures quickly and permanently.
The Editor of this paper is not only well
acquainted with the proprietor of this great
cure but will tell you that the medicine itself
is without an equal for all forms of Rheuma-
tism. Before asking your Druggist to order is
for yOu write for my free 40-page pamphlet,
and see for yourself what it has done capable
of doing. r. Il. HELPHESsTINE,
Druggist, Washington, ID. G.
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sLANDERlNG THE COMMISSIONERS.

Some i'll. conditioned fellow, who has in an
unaccountable way gained access to the col
umns of reputable paper, wrote last week
scurrilcus article on Gen. Black, because
Of his order forbidding the admission of Wis
itors, and especially solicitors, to the
clerks of the Pension Bureau during bust
ness hours. The writer dwelt with special
severity upon the alleged refusal of Gen.
Black to allow committee Of the G AR to
solicit contributions for Decoration Day ex-
penses.
The article was false and unjust in spirit
and statement. Tho order issued by Gen.
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THE Germans do not rely so much ON
treaties and pacific expressions from their
neighbors as upon the power of their own
strong right arms to preserve the peace.
They have the most powerful army in Eu-
rope but it is not strong enough, they think,
SO they are perfecting arrangements to make
the infantry about 10 per cent. stronger, and
increase the artillery raore than so per cent.
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NO CANDIDATES.

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE has absolutely
no candidate for Commander-in-Ch Chief or for
any of the subordinate National Offices. Its
only preferences are for the men who will
be most efficient in building up the Order
The good of the GAR subordinates every
thing else. We are, first, last and all the
time, for the man and the men who have
been most jealous and efficient in building
the Order up, and whose past gives earnest
of their success in the future
We want that man made Commander-in-
Chief who, in the judgment of the National
Encampment, is best calculated to carry on
during the coming year the great work of
strengthening and developing the Order in
all parts of the country, bringing all soldiers
Of good repute within its ranks, maintaining
the most satisfactory spirit and organization,
and infusing everywhere energy, activity
and enthusiasm in the great cause. We
want the man most acceptable to comrades
inside and outside the Order, the ablest
organizer, the ablest administrator, and the
one most devoted to the Orders objects and
aims. We will say frankly that we do not
know who this man is. That is something
that the National Encampment must con-
slider and determine when it has all the can
didates before it. Whoever he may be, he is
hereby pledged, in advance, THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNEs loyal, cordial support
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CAPTURING A LOCOMO-IyE.

Our edition of this most thrilling war story
is rapidly drawing to q close. We would
therefore, advise all who desire to procure a
copy to send on their orders at once This
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we offer as a present in return for club of
eight subscribers. "'e also offer it in conjun-
tion with THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE for $500
The price of the book alone is S10O
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Mothers, Read This.

STONE BRIDGE, n. Y.
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CONNECTIONS have been invaluable to US. Our
little boy, two years old, discharged over thirty
worms in q few days, using only few Of your
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THE number of pension certificates issued
and signed during the week ending June Is,
(inclusive) 1885, was as follows: Original,
972, increase, Gil; reissue, 131 restoration,
43; duplicate, 81; accrued, 60; act of March
3, 1883, 45. Total, 1889.
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON. D. c., JUNE Is, 1885.

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the close of the war was Adjutant-General
of the Department of West Virginia.
For Treasurer they nominated Comrade
John c. Brown, gallant soldier from Steub
enville, who lost a leg at Gettysburg. He is
one of the most popular men of his County,
which has elected him Treasurer several
times
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Black was very praiseworthy one. 1t is
eminently proper that, visitors Of all kinds
be excluded from the rooms of the Bureau
during business hours. These hours are
short-from 9 to q, with halfhour for
lunch. Every minute of that time belongs
to the Government and the pensioner, ana
should be given to that service without
hindrance or interruption. There is an
abundance Of visiting time before and after
business hours. To stop in the middle of
work to entertain some casual stroller-in,
some insurance agent, or beggar for contri-
buttons, is not only to defraud the Govern
ment Of time for which it has paid, but it is
to retard the adjustment of some poor mans
claim, who is most likely pining from day
to day in abject misery, because of the delay
in allowing his claim.
To this and similar orders is to be attrib-
uted much of the splendid increase in the
efficiency Of the Office, which has been COM
mented on so favorably.
Again, the order is an act of real friend
ship to the clerks. They complain bitterly
of these solicitations for contributions, and
say that under some form or another of
moral dragooning money is frequently taken
away from them which they sorely need for
themselves and families
1t is slanderous to accuse Gen. Black of
antipathy or even lukewarmness in anything
pertaining to soldiership. He is a warm and
indefatigable friend of the ex-soldier, and is
to-day doing the greatest work for the sur
vivors of the war of any man in the country.
He was heartily in sympathy with the Deco
ration Day movement, and opened the lob
bies of the Bureau to collectors of contribu-
tions, for an additional halfhour each day
privilege not conceded to those working in
any other cause. The privilege granted was
certainly sufficient for the object in view,
and the charge of enmity to observance of
the day is falsehood made out of whole
cloth.
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General Sherman on The Tribune.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE q. S.,
WASHINGTON, ID. c.
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
X
From the nature of the articles published
in the numbers of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
sent me, 1 observe that it is published in the
interest Of the soldiers of the civil war. In
this you have my hearty sympathy, and 1
will endeavor in my own sphere of action to
cooperate with you in all practicable meas
ures to that end, without money and with
out price. With great respect,
Your obedient servant,
w. T. SHERMAN.
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Waited beneath the furnace blast
The pangs of transformation.


THE OUTGOING CoMMANDER-IN-CHI
In less than week the Drummer Boy
of Mission Ridge" will return to his COM
rades the proud Office with which they in
vested him year ago and step down once
more into the ranks beside them.
Let him not boast who putteth his armor
on as he that tal1eth it off" says the wise old
man of the scriptures, and if Comrade
Kountz was not an essentially modest man
the time has now come for him to exalt his
horn and boast.
He could do this with the greatest reason.
From every point of view his administration
appears an unqualified success.
His personality was itself an inspiration
that started his administration with happy
augurics There was splendid fitness in
the elevation to the leadership of all the
heroes of the Union of a private soldier who
had done his duty well in that humble
sphere and left leg upon the frowning
nights of Mission Ridge to attest his courage
and his patriotism.
Then he has borne himself so well in his
Office. Wherever he has gone he has made
friends for himself and the Order His pres
ence has been an example and an inspiration.
He has been welcomed from one side of the
continent to the other with ovations which
did him and the Order Of which he is the
head high honor. His visits have aroused
living interest in the GAR wherever he
has gone.
The additions in membership to the Order
in II months have been about 10000, or
more than an average of 5000 a month,
which is showing that justifes all that we
have said in praise of his executive ability.
This, in period of such great depression as
that which the country has been going
through for the past two years, is enormous
There is no denying the fact that there have
been also great number of suspensions
more than the proportion for other years
but this is directly attributable to the unpre-
| cedented hard times which have left so
many comrades absolutely without the
means for their daily food and clothing.
In any other year than the past such an
administration as Comrade Kountz has
given the GAR would have made net
increase Of membership of more than 100000
AS it is, he will go out of his Office with
100000 comrades enrolled, where there We're
23S 900 upon his entering into Office year
ago. Of these, more than 275000 are in
good standing, while most of the others
would be, could they secure the money to
discharge their Indebtedness
During his term of Office the Commander
in-Chief has travelled 10000 miles, visited
"a Departments, besides Posts in Wyoming
and Nevada. He has given the Order very
economical administration. He has been
heartily in accord with all movements look
ing to securing additional and better pension
legislation.
Comrade KountZ, his friends and those
who assisted in putting him in his exalted
position can survey this record with keen
satisfaction, for it does them all honor
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AT PORTLAND
Will be Room No. Z,
Falmouth House.

All comrades are invited to call and make
themselves at home.
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SAM JONES, the Tennessee Evangelist, de-
scribes dancing as "hugging set to music"
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Big money-steady employment. Address
Hale Manufacturing Co., Detroit, Mich.
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condition, that he has suffered greatly from
rheumatism since his discharge, and is now
disabled.
This is the view the people want taken of
the matter. Technical quibbling and hair
splitting to avoid giving some broken-down
veteran few dollars month does not find
favor anywhere. The people are willing to
pay the money necessary to maintain these
well-deserving ones from want, and they have
no patience with any sharp practice to keep
veterans out of their rights. "More pen
sions" is always more popular in any COM
munity than less pensions"
MEETING OF THE NATIONAL ENCANIP-
MENT.
Next week the National Encampment of
the GAR. will be held in the beautiful little
city of Portland, Me-
1t is unquestionably the most important
meeting of that body that has been held in
the Orders history.
The Order has gained rapidly the last few
years in numbers, in influence and in pOpu-
lar esteem. In these respects it has no peer
among the associations of the Nation. 1t
has 100000 active members on its rolls, and
represents and speaks for the 100000 or
more survivors of the great armies which
the Nation mustered in defense of its life.
Every year the meetings of the National
Encampment become more important, be-
cause each circuit of the earth around the
sun draws the Union survivors of the war
closer together demonstrates to them still
more strongly the grandeur of the work
they accomplished, and Yields more power
fully the links of fraternity forged out at
white heat in the days when the whole
country
Waited beneath the furnace blast
The pangs of transformation.
There is more enthusiasm, more zeal,
deeper love and admiration for the Order
and its objects, greater confidence in its
future, and more sympathetic comradeship
manifested among those who are about to
meet in the National Encampment than has
ever been shown before, and from this we
predict meeting that will surpass oil pre-
decessors in good fruits for the GAR.
So mote it be!
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s.1ssss ~ rs xaros so,I oEfs ssoOsO oss s.r1ss.
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PORTLAND ENcAMpMENr.

The comrades who will represent this De-
partment in the Portland Encampment held a
meeting on Friday evening last, and agreed to
leave this city on Saturday. the Goth inst, at
10 p. m. by the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad.
Comradc John A. Logan and Mrs. Logan will
probably be with the party. About so in all lwill
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-07-23

Of nature has laid abundance right at
our feet, If we will but atoop and
take it up.
Mr.. Alorzo Bates, too, is an exten.
aiye planter, and has fine crops all
around him. To have as vast an area
az he has, it is wonderful how well
he manages to keep it worked.
Tie death of The lamented T. S
Bates was a great loss to the Ridge,
sa he not only contributed great
deal Of produce to the commercial
world, but was jnst and honest citi
zen, and good man. Since his death,
his son Alonzo, assisted by Mr.. An
drew B. Watson, has been shoulder.
ing an unusual amount of agricultu-
raj duty. But from his thorough
knowledge Of farming, be ia equal to
the tack.
All the crops sbont here. two weeks
ago, looked badly; but since The late
good rains, everything (as farmer
said TO me- is "just d rearing Low.
PHAON.
Near Bates6ura, LuLY 90, 1885.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-07-23
Small GraiR.--Row 10 Prepare The
Land and When 10 Sow II.
An Essay Read by w. L. burst, Esq,
Before the Edgefield Agricultural
Society at its July Meeting.

In opening the discussion of "Snall
Grain" "how to prepare the land"
and "when to do it," I will take up
first the cereal most generally and
successfully grown in our County, VIZ:
Oats. The laat census rsttarhs show
Z the oat production Of the United
States in 1879, in Found numbers. as
407. .O00. 600 ba4hels. Of that amount
only about ne.half-uf une petf.-a.h.5
or 2,7l5,00G bushels. were grown in
South Carolina. Our own County pro.
duced of that amount 4l5,000, or
nearly half million bushels, about
l53 per cent .>of the crop Of the State.
We naturally say this was good for
one County, and feel like boasting
again, as some of us have done in the
past, of having made at some psrticu-
lar time anywhere from 20 to rs, and
even 100 bushels per acre. But re-
member that it took $4,000 acres 10
produce the 4l5,000 bushels, which
gives us only about III bushels per
acre. It is true we raised much more
than that in 1882. probably three
times as much, for I know nearly one
fourth Of that amount, or one hun.
dred thousand bushels, was grown in
one Township alone. But those are
the figures that go to the world as
our annual crop, III bushels per acre
for the County. and lO3 for the State,
while in the North. West the average
was about thirty.fve bushels per acre.
How shall we prepare our lands to
produce more than III bushels per
acre2i Alasl too few of US have done
aswsll this year. Asthis is supposed
to be q body Of our most advanced
and practical farmers, I feel embar.
rassed in attempting to open dis.
cuasion on amall grain culture. at this
period of the history Of agriculture,
and not being able to say eomething,
Of my own knowledge. of those ina
proved implements, the Seed Drill,
the Broadcast Sower and the Roller,
which are so exteneively used in put
ting in grain in sections where the !
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-07-23
An Essay by Capt. III. b. Gallman,
Read Before the EdgefeEd Agri-
cultural Society at its
July Meeting.

To the Southern farmer there ls no
crop Of more Importance than the oat
crop, especially so since the introduc
tion Of the red rust proof variety.
Cotton perhaps may alone be excepted.
And to a great extent these two great
crops, cotton and oats, seem adapted
to our county. We may not be able
to compete with the Red River planter
in cotton, nor with the Westel n farm
er in oats, but when We take into
consideration our advantages, diver
sity of crops, soil, climate, water,
health, and with our proximity to
markets, we should feel grateful 10
benefcent providence that our "lines
have fallen to us in pleasant places, ="
and that only industry, thrift and
economy are necessary to make US a
prosperous and happy, if not "a wealthy,
people. The red oat seems to be well
adapted to The on States, and es-
pecially tt ..er portion of the
cotton belt. NO food crop can be pro-
duced at so small acost, or serve 30
good a purpose, as oats and no crop
yi,lds more generous return-when
We take into consideration the amount
ofslabor beloved upon it, and the
sloveuly manner in which that labor
is generally done.
1t was the custom in ante bellum
days, and in TACT up to very recent
date, to scratch in, or bog in, as the
case might De, a few oats late in win.
ter or early in spring, on the poorest
portions of the farm, and this was
regarded at the time as venture of
doubtful nature. Consequently there
was not much expected, and less
realized. For such ayatem as this,
there might be several reasons assign
ed, only three of which | here men
tion-the cheapness Of slave labor,
the prevalence Of rust in the old
variety Of oats, and the high price OF
cotton that obtained for few years
succeeding the war.
1t is said that every i'll has it's cure,
and every sweet it's bitter, though we
may not always be able to realize the
truth of the adage. But we can now
really give thanks for the low price
of cotton, if it will divert our atten
tion to the production of or own
supplies for man end beast. Aud
nothing presents itself with more
promise of such contamination than
the cultivation Of the red rust proof
oat. When we look at the humiliat-
ing position of the o!d king" neg
lected and abjectly seeking place in
commerce, with cotton mills slut
down, with more cotton and more
goods than the world demands, and
no prospect in the near future OF re.
action which will makea pound Of cot