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The National tribune., 1885-02-05

COMRADES are writing TO US continually,
urging US to advocate equalization of boun-
ties. We have said before that in our opin-
ion, and in the opinion of all who are in
formed as to the true condition of affairs,
that it is worse than useless to do this no1
All hope of any pension legislation this ses-
sion is bound up In the Mexican Pension
Bill, and it will be unwise in policy, and
wrong to the thousands of comrades whose
wants that bill will relieve, to do anything
that viii prevent the concentration upon it
of every effort that can be put forward in
behalf of the soldier.
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THE PETITIONS.

Previous to the meeting of Congress we
were in receipt Of letters from all parts OF
the country from ex-soldiers asking what
could be done to further the cause of proper
pension legislation at the coming session OF
Congress. Everywhere, on the part of both
citizens and soldiers, there was general
demand for additional legislation which
would correct the evils from which thou
sands of well-deserving soldiers of the Union
were suffering and give them that relief to
which they were entitled, but which the
present laws fail to do.
The Mexican Pension Bill, with it's Senate
Amendments, met the favor of all who had
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PENSION ATTORNEYS.

1t is found that there are 10000 attorneys
practicing before the Pension Office. Among
such an army as this, claimants can Ger.
tainly have no difficulty in finding compe.
tent and honorable men to prosecute their
claims. They are not confined to any
locality, for they can be found in any State
In the Nation
The National tribune., 1885-02-05
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DEFEAT OF THE NICARAGUA TREATY

DEFEAT OF IHE NICARAGUA TREATY.
Two thirds of the Senators failed to vote
in favor of the Nicaragua treaty, and conse-
quently that measure has been defeated.
The reasons that actuated the opponents of
the treaty to vote against it have not trans
pired, beyond an apprehension of foreign
complications likely to ensue. The ghost of
the old Clayton Bulwer treaty was raised
and used effectively to deter certain Sena-
tors from giving the measure their support
There will be an intense regret felt all over
the land at this action of the Senate, for it is
beyond doubt that the people of the United
States desire that we should plant ourselves
upon the Isthmus of Panama and hold it
against all the world. There is no doubt
that it is our right and our duty to do this.
1t is our right because we can exercise con-
troll over the Isthmus which will be better
for the world than that of any other Nation,
and it is our duty to do it because we have
vastly more interests involved in it's control
than any other Nation possibly can have.
The fear of European complications is
wholly groundless The other Nations of the
world who might interfere have now just as
much as they can possibly take care of else
where. England has no energies over and
above what are necessary for the struggle in
Egypt and with Germany over the South
Sea Islands to devote to difficulty with US.
France has quite as much as she cen do to
take care of the job she has assumed in Mad
agascar and China, and Germany is too much
interested in Congo and New Guinea to risk
embodiment will, any others than she is
now complicated WITH
Above all things, ridiculously weak
as our Navy is and defenseless as our coast
is, no Nation is going to risk war with us.
We have what mono of the rest have to the
same extent, that is an overlooking Treas
ury ard millions of young men who would
rally to the flag at the tap of the drum,
eager for q conflict with another power
This, with Our well-known capacity for tax
ing care of ourselves in the greatest emer-
geacies makes us really moro formidable
Nation than any of the Old World with
their immense standing armies and wonder
fully complete ornaments. We do not be-
lieve that this failure, however, will be
permanent defeat of the project. The ac-
The National tribune., 1885-02-05

THE contracted areas ofthe European coun-
tries have interfered with that consolidation
of railroad lines which has gone on so rap
idly in this country, but it is being brought
about slowly. The Russian, German and
French Governments have concluded con-
vention by which trains will be run di-
rectly from Paris to st. Petersburg, via War
saw, Dresden and Cologne, distance of
about ,276 miles, which is not so far as from
New York to Omaha. The time will be IS
hours. This is considered great achieve
ment in Europe, where they have no con-
ception of trains covering the immense dis
tances they do in this country.
The National tribune., 1885-02-05

QUESTION of the canal across the Isthmus is
too dear to the hearts of the people to be
allowed to be frustrated in this way. It
will certainly be revived by the incoming
Administration, aud almost a certainty be
carried to success The temper of the
people, as expressed by the press and the
House of Representatives, is too unanimous
on this subject to be disregarded.
The National tribune., 1885-02-05
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considered the subject at ell, and they were
anxious to do whatever they could to secure
its success. In response to these earnest re-
appealed for them, blank petitions which
have been circulated and numerously signed,
of several hundred thousand names to Con-
oreSS
The National tribune., 1885-02-05
THE proceedings of the Ohio Encampmen

THE proceedings of the Ohio Encampment
were of unusual interest. 1t took proper
action with reference to the representation
in Eneampments from the Woman's Relief
Corps and expressed itself heartily in favor
of the Mexican Pension bill, calling upon
the members of the Ohio delegation in Con-
gress to use their efforts to secure its passage.
The unqualified Endorsement will be of the
highest Importance in securing favorable
action upon that bill. 1t also eensured the
management of the Soldiers Orphans Home
and called upon the Governor of the State
to make change there, which action is en-
tirely fitting and proper.
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likewise. Every State organization of the
Order that has held meetings so far has
passed strong resolutions in favor of the
legislation. All the GAR. Posts in the
country have sent in or are sending in
petitions-in most instances signed unani-
mously.
The Senate of the United States passed
the bill after q favorable recommends
ton by it's Committee on Pensions. The
Committee on Pensions of your own hon
orable body has reported strongly in
favor of the bill, and at one time or another
more than majority of the House has voted
in favor of the bill in some form or another.
Such emphatic approval from such high
sources makes argument on the merits of
the bill useless. No words that we or any
one can use can possibly commend the alb
stract rightfulness of the bill to you as
strongly as it has been by the significant
action of the Senate, the Pension Committee
of both Houses, and the repeated votes of
Members-without regard to party-of your
own body
We can only ask you in the name of the
remnant of that gallant band who carried
the Stars and Stripes in triumph to the
Capital Of the Montezumas, and conquered
for us California and a half dozen States
and Territories,-in the name of thousands
of well-deserving Union soldiers who are
now eating the bitter bread of poverty and
dependence,-in the name of hundreds of
thousands of sympathizing comrades of
these woe-struck veterans,-in the name of
millions of grateful people, to forbear oppo-
sition to this eminently just measure, and
unite in its support with that magnanimity
that we have the right to expect from brave
foemen and high minded Southern gentle
men.
You have told us often and eloquently
how completely assuaged is all the bitter
ness of the war, and how you allowed no
one to excel you in appreciation of the serv-
ices of those who saved the Nation. You
profess to be able to vote upon any question
growing out of the war-precisely as if you
had been born in the North and sided with
the Union.
Now you have an opportunity that has
never occurred to you before, and may never
occur to You again, to transmute these pleas
ant and patriotic words into appropriate
deeds
Withdraw your opposition and permit the
passage of this bill, and you will do that
which will not only be approved by your
conscience, bnt gain you the applause of the
Nation and do more than anything else to
obliterate sectional lines and foster the
feeling that should cement our whole
people.
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
The National tribune., 1885-02-05

1.-THE bill to punish wife beating is making
fair progress in the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture. 1t has been discussed several times on
the floor of the House and though the old
stale arguments against it have been re-
vived and re-vamped, the supporters of the
bill have manifestly had the best of the dis
cussion, and there is reasonable prospect of
its becoming law.
The National tribune., 1885-02-05

MASSACHUSETTS has some valuable testi-
mOny to offer as to the success of prevent
i've measures in restricting the ravages Of
epidemics. They have come so near stamp
ing out the smallpox in that State thai
last year there were but nine cases, with
only one death.
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THE London Economist says that the Eng.
lish people saved $30,000,Oo0 last year by
the fall in the price of sugar. We would
save over a hundred million dollars each
year if we would raise our sugar on the
prairies of Illinois and Kansas.
The National tribune., 1885-02-05
A WOMAN,S INVENTION.

1t has been long-standing reproach of
women that they are deficient in ingenuity.
We are continually reminded of the fact
that not one-hundredth of one per cent of
the multitude of patents that are issued
from the Patent Office are the result of the
cunning and labor of the feminine brain.
Except jar of pickles, corset fastener,
and two or three similar matters of small
moment, the millions of women of this coun-
try have been utterly barren of devices to
promote either the comfort or luxury of the
people.
Under the influence of larger education
and the same stimulus which has moved
their fathers and brothers and husbands to
make the museum of the Interior Depart
ment wilderness of fantastic and curious
forms, the inventive faculty of the woman
seems now to have begun to develop apace.
Naturally, they attempt something which
is suggested by their surroundings.
One of the things which has perplexed
the female mind ever since the formation of
society has been something that would re-
tain the husband at home on alleged lodge
nights" This, like the problem of keeping
boy on the farm, has heretofore bafied all
attempts to solve it. Mrs. Alexander Har-
vey, wife of the foreman of the carding
department of the Washington Manu-
featuring Company, Gloucester, N. j., has
hit upon a device which, if not effective in
securing the end desired, has such merit of
originality as would excite the admiration
of Patent Office Examiner.
Mr.. Harvey, who is gentleman six feet
high, good looking in proportion, and with
manners which ingratiate him with all he
meets,-men as well as women,-is a man
whom it would seem best to keep in of
nights. Mrs. Harvey did not take any great
stock in his excuses for leaving her side
after the evening meal, Though he certainly
belonged to a number of beneficiary and
other Orders, she could not believe that their
meetings were held as frequently as he
alleged them to be. So just before one of
the stated meetings at which Mr.. Harvey
was to figure, he was Frustrated by a sudden
and inexplicable illness Eruptions broke
out ali over his body and limbs to such an
extent that he was forced to take his bed,
and the great lodge of Independent Orders
of Free Lunchers, or whatever else he may
have been High Muk-a-M uk of, was COM
PEELED to bewail his absence at that impor-
tant meeting. This occurred frequently
afterwards, and at length its coincidence
with the time of the alleged meeting nights
became rather marked. Still the innocent
man suspected nothing until the family ply
stefan noticed the marked similarity of the
eruptions to some which he, the Aforesaid
family physician, had produced on the chest
of pneumonia patient by the use of croton
oil. Following UP this trail he discovered
that Mr.. Harvey's undergarments had been
regularly dosed with croton oil as lodge night
came around. Mr.. Harvey has taken the
only revenge in his power and applied for a
divorce, and supported his application with
the testimony of Mrs. Harvey's lady friends,
to whom in her exuItation she could not re-
frain from divulging the secret
The National tribune., 1885-02-05

THE Fourteenth Annual Encampment,
Department of Virginia, Grand Army of the
Republic, met at Norfolk on Thursday last,
and, as was stated in our editorial columns
he would be, Cox Henry deb. Clay, of New
port News, was elected Commander. The
other officers elected are s. V. c., Francis
Kulp, of the Soldiers Home; J. " c., Rufus
S. Jones, of Hamilton; Chap, William
F. Teemer, of Norfolk M. D., Lewis Wal
tiers, of the Soldiers Home. Delegates to
the National Encampment, Edgar Allen, of
Richmond, and W. FL. Palmer, of Norfolk.
Council of Administration, H. NJ Lamar, of
Portsmouth; Peter Morton of Richmond !;
j. Reardon, of the Soldiers Home; J. Half
fieinger, of Hampton, and j. Burnett, of
Richmond. The late Department Com
mander, B. c. Cook, eloquently said in his
address:
With pardonable pride point to the earnest
and widespread memorial of our comrades who
sleeping peacefully in the graveyard5 of the
Nation,-where the flowers, with loving hands. or
perhaps tear, strewn upon the graves of those
who stood with US for the same flag that not
single stripe should fade single star pale from
its spiendor,-who fell and died that its majestic
folds might wait to the nations of the earth, that
story that can never but once be told. Nay, more,
the blood of our blood and the flesh of flesh who
during the never-to-be-forgotten days of 81 to 60
gave US back blow for blow, joined with Us In pay
ing loving tributes to their memories.
As the years glide by, the softening influences of
time have erasedmany of the from our hearts,
and the hand of the victor has been clasped by that
of the vanquished, and the Blue and Gray vie
with each other in deeds of Fraternity, Charity and
Loyalty-proelaiming one united country.
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number opposite your name on the yellow
address slip you will know that your sub
scription is nearly expiring, and you should
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renewal.
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MAI. A j. CROCKETT, A. A. g. for the
Department of Maine, reports: "The GAR.
is booming in this section
The National tribune., 1885-02-05

BRET HARTE cannot repeat the words Of
the Heather Chinee." He has always
wanted to forget that he ever wrote it.
The National tribune., 1885-02-05

ANDREW JACKSON DAvIs-the great
apostle of Spiritualism-does not place him
self in any better light by his statements in
his regular application for q divorce. He
says that he was married in 1855 to Mary
F. Love, Spiritualist lecturer, but year
later his attention was called to the fact that
her former husband was procuring an abso-
lutte divorce from her. As soon as Mr.. DAyis
learned this he ceased to cohabit with her,
but continued to maintain brotherly and
fraternal relation, and to hold her out as his
wife, because of their business relations,
which made it necessary sometimes for her to
travel with him on his lecturing tours"
That is, for the sake of little business adj
vantage, he has for % years imposed upon
the community as his wife woman who
was not his wife. The most of this time,
too, he has been parading his affection for
her and gushing over her in print and in
speech, which now he virtually confesses was
merely done for effect on the public. The
referee to whom the application was referred
has recommended that it be granted.
EVEN stupid old Russia is waking up to
the need of keeping the peoples money at
home and circulating among the people
The falling off in the prices of cereals has
stimulated the dull Muscovite mind on this
topic, and so grand tea plantation will be
started next Summer at Sukum Kali to raise
part of the staple for which the Russians
pay such enormous sums every year to
China Tea is to the Cars subjects even
more of an item than sugar is to our own
people. Last year they imported ~ million
pounds, at least half of which was carried
overland through Siberia.
The National tribune., 1885-02-05
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 NUM- ers of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
sent me, / observe that it is published in the
interest of the soldiers of the civil war. In
this you have my hearty sympathy, and
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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AN lICLE I.
NAME AND OBJECTS.

SECTION l. The name of this organization shall
he the Omaha Union Veteran Club, and shall have
for it's object,
First. To uphold and maintain the principles for
which its members fought.
Second. To and maintain the rights of
honorably discharged soldiers and sailors; the
procuring of employment for deserving unem-
ployed Union soldiers.
Third. The cultivation and strengthening of the
social ties which had their beginning in the COM
mon prvations and dangers of the camp the battle
field and the prison pen
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-06-18
she's fainting," and lifting her into a

she's fainting." and lifting her into a
chair that stood near.
"What of it? She's none of ours"
said the wife; but something in her
husbands face made her go after water
when he asked her.
A crowd gathered about, all anxious
to do something, all filed with that
quick gush of sympathy that makes us
less ashamed of the human race. Her
face grew more and more ashen. A
family murmured name, solver
only heard by the man who bore il
and the. patient lips were silent forever.
"Had one o. them turns with her
liver" explained Mary TO the distant
relative who took charge of all Todd's
belongings, sent Mike and Mary to
shift for themselves, burned the old
note and the neck-tie, wondering what
Todd gave house-room to such trash
for, and gave the arithmetic to an un-
promising son who was wrestling with
long division. Thus are the relics more
sacred to us than the tombs of our
saints desecrated by careless hands. =
Chicago Ledger.
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The I.ime.Kiln Climb.

"Doan' look fur infallibility in de hui.
man race" said Brother Gardner, az
he arose and looked down upon the cir
Gle of bald-heads in fatherly way.
"We has all got our off-days an our
weak spots. We size up man as pos
sessin' honesty, industry. patience,
morality, an religun, an we admire
him accordingly. Fust we know he
slips cog. He am tempted outer dc
true path, an we whoop an howl obe1
his downfall as if it war sunthin' I'M
precedented. 1t amt bekase he was
not n fairly good man, but mo- bekase
we had gin him too many vartues. He
couldn't hold up under all of 'em.
when / gin Trustee Pullback do
Job of reshinglin' my cabin 1 fully be-
/ didn't hand him de money to buy de
nails, nor did l sot around wild my eyea
shet an let him mix third-class an
fust-class shingles together. 1t war
my dooty not to frow temptashun in his
way.
"When Whalebone Howker comes to-
me an axes fur de loan of dollar
believe him honest an truthful an up
right, but take his note for thirty days
jist the same. If L didn't he might be
tempted to lie me outer it. 1t am my
dooty to see dat he doan' drap any OF
his vartues by de wayside.
Il doan' 'speck TO find de truth IL
eberybody. L doan' 'speck to find al,
men honest. Some men kin shoulder
about two of de cardinal vartues an
walk frew life all right, but when you
add another you am gwine to break
'em down. We grade our hosses into
draught, roadstcrs, family. am speed.
ers. We doan' 'speck family boss to
go out an trot in 2:20, an we doan'
'speck our speeders to pull coal carts.
When il comes to men we grade 'em all
alike. No matter what DER blood,
whar' bon, or how brung up. We
'speck to find 'em all possessed of huff
vartues to carry 'em half way TO heaben
when dey die. 1t am 'specktin' entirely
too much. While we may consider all
men 10 rly honest, we mustn't advertise
- reward Tor so lost yesterday, an
'sreck de finder TO hire n street kvar IN
his hurry to restore de lost cash. While
We may reasonably expeck all men to
speak de truth, we ain gwine to git
rich outer cashin' checks fur strangers
nor believin what we read on de circus
posters.
lie been turnin' de matter ober an
ober in my mind fur desc many Vars
past, an 1 has come to de fixed conclu-
shen dat de right way am fur TO regard
all men as straight, but to keep yer eye
peeled fur de defects. Let us now open
on de thirtyffth degree an purceed
wild de. purceedins. detroit Free
Press