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The National tribune., 1886-03-18
ALL ALONG THE LINE.


In response to inquiries as to why articles do
not appear promptly, there is but one answer,
Want of space. Were THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
10 times as large and our contributors letters
one-tenth as long, our columns would be full
each week. Let Us hear from all, just the
same that we may have plenty of news notes
from all along the line.
One OF our brightest correspondents is Minnie
j. Dart, Correspondent Secretary of Robert 0.
Tyler Corps, Hartford, Conn, whose letters are
always CHEEKY and to the point. Tyler Corps
is in highly prosperous condition, and enter
tanned with its sister Corps the delegates at
Department Convention in highly acceptable
mander. The Department officers are: Pres,
Mary Jane Dyer New Haven; SV.-P., Lillian E.
Hope, Hartford; J. V.-P., Mary E. Merriman,
Waterbury; Treas, Jennie Atkins Forestvlle :;
Sec. Mary Whittlesy, New Haven. The good
work is going on with encouraging results in
Connecticut.
The Pennsylvania Convention sent a letter
of coincidence to Mrs. Gen. Hancock. accom-
panied by appropriate resolutions, on the death
of one of the noblest sons of the Keystone State.
Officers of Garfield Corps, No. Ia, Inavale,
Neb.: Pres, E. b. Knight; S. V.-P., Carrie
Treas, Belle Miller; Chap, F. Paul; Con-,
Vina Lcavitt; Asst Con-, Mary Palmer; c.,
Mrs Kcslcr; Asst G., Isabella Palmer.
Mrs. Elias Goodman, wife of Comrade Good
man, 18th n. Y. Ind'p't battery, Evanston,
Wyo. Ter, writes of the glad welcome The
NATIONAL TRIBUNE receives each week in
their far-of Western home.
The election OF Maj.-Gen. Lucius Fairchld,
ex- Governor of Wisconsin, as Department Com
mander Of Wisconsin, continues true friend
of the w R.C. in the advance. Gen. Fairchiid
accompanied Gen. Logan and Gen. Stone upon
their visit TO the National Convention held in
Minneapolis. and will be remembered pleas
antly by all who met him there, and at the Va
rious conventions and Encampments, State and
National.
COmradc Robert L. Hodson, Commander of
George A. Custer Post, No. 2, Richmond, Va,
having been specially appointed to install the
officers of Custer Corps, reports the Corps in
good condition and its future prospects encour-
aging.
Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer, Department Presi-
dent, instituted two Corps at Wilkes Barre on
the evening of Jan. 27-Keeth Corps No. So,
Mrs. Palmer, President; Mrs. Patterson, Secre-
tary, and Eley Corps, No. 81, Mrs. Leonard,
President, and Mrs. Gilchrist, Secretary.
The National tribune., 1886-03-18
FALLEN ASLEEP.

Gone in her purity, fallen asleep,
Death is eternal life, why should we weep?
Close the sweet eyes in their last, silent rest,
Fold the white hands on the still, pulseless breast,
Smooth the bright hair from the forehead away,
Her Father has called her and she must obey;
Going to Him, where the crown shall be worn.
Why should we mourn for her? Sorrow and wo
Sickness and suffering no more shall she know.
Meekly and calmly the folded hands lie,
Beautiful angel, the body must die
Fold the hands meeily across the hit breast,
Christ who has died for giveth
Gone in her purity, fallen asleep,
Death is eternal life, why should we weep?
Conflict all passed, the victory Won;
Beyond all the grief, eternity begun,
Wearing the crown in holiness wreathed,
All peace at last, because she believed.
Gone To that haven where peace ere shall reign,
When time is more shall meet her again.
Gone in her purity, fallen asleep,
Death is eternal life, why should we weep?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-12-02

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Corner JEFF
ferson and Oak streets. Services, at 1880 g. m
aud d. m Sunday
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-12-02
Powerful Lenses.

That recent wonderful discovery in
microscopy has not been even noted in
the public press may be cited as proof
of the general apathetic tendency as re-
CARDS scientific matters, says the St.
Louis Post-DtSpatch. The microscope
has always been regarded as wonder
full instrument, but by the discovery of
an entirely new kind of glass lately its
powers are increased to an incredible
degree. 1t was in the year 1878 that
DR.. Abbey read paper before the
South Kensington association in En-
gland, in which he strongly set forth
his ideas that it was possible that a
new kind of glass might be made
which would increase the power of the
microscope.
In the year 1881 he and DR.. Scott, a
celebrated chemist, began to expert
ment in the town of Witten, in West
phalia. Their funds gave out in 1888,
however, before they had obtained any
remarkable results from their expert
ments. but both were so sanguine of
making beneficial discovery if they
had funds TO continue their work that
the Prussian government was induced
to give $1,000 for the continuance of
the experiments. Prof. Abbey and DIR.
Scott then erected laboratory in Ger
many. at the works of Carl Zeiss, a
manufacturer OF instruments used by
scientists. They tried nearly all ele-
ments. and it was only about six
months ago that their long labor was
crowned with success which will make
them famous in the history of science.
The ordinary glass contains six sub
stances. The new glass made by Prof.
Abbey and DR.. Scott contains fourteen.
The most essential elements of which it
is composed are PHOSPHORUS and boron,
neither OF which is used in common
glass. With the old glass the full
power of the microscope was the dis
cernment of the 500th part of an inch.
and with the new glass it is claimed
that the 204, 700, 000th part of an inch
can be distinguished. This certainly
seems incredible, but positive assurance
of its truth is given by parties who have
tested Prof AbbeY's and DIR. SCOTS new
instrument.
When the discovery was first made
Carl Zeiss, the manufacturer, in whose
place the experimentalisls had worked,
was in favor of getting out patent so
that the discovery might prove a most
profitable one, but the fact of the ex-
periments having been conducted with
funds supplied by the Prussian govern
ment prevented the discoveries from
making it private enterprise, and COM
pels them to make it a public benefit.
The difference between the new and
the old glass consists in the refracrion
Of hight.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-12-02
A Novel settlement.

A City of Mexico correspondent
writes: Up in the mountains, about
twenty leagues from this capital, there
is pueblo" or community of pure
Indians. which is governed by six wise
old men and six venerable women, who
form sort of patriarchal council, to
which all disputes or differences occur.
ring in the village are submitted for ar
bitration. In order to attain patriarchal
dignity, man must, during his youth
and middle age, have been honest, la
borious, and truthful. The matriarch
must have brought up family of chill
dren properly, and never been given to
lying. stealing, or gossiping.
In this pueblo each Saturday is set
apart for labors of love and charity.
All the able-bodied men and women
leave their own land or usual occupa-
tions and till the grounds of the widows
and young orphans, or else work for
the benefit of the old, sick, blind, and
helpless. Sometimes, when there is
large family of boys and the parents
can not give each land ''whereon to
raise his food, some energetic youth,
who has heard of the great world called
eMexico City," desires to go there to
earn his bread and perhaps that too, of
some dusky maiden whom he designs
or hopes TO wed. The fact that he does
not know phrase of Spanish rarely de-
tiers him; moreover. there are a few
learned men in Mexico City who under
stand the Ottomie language.
When the family of young Indian
has consented to the proposed exodus
the patriarchs and matriarchs hold a
solemn council" ways and means are
discussed, and then the would-be emf
grant is earnestly admonished: BE
brave. honest, truthful, and industrious.
and never disgrace your pueblo by any
act unworthy an Ottomie.n
The lads departure is serious affair.
The entire community accompany him
to certain boundary line and the sven
cradle fathers and mothers bestow
their benediction upon him. In the
course of time, or whenever the exile
has chance to send message to his
native land, the venerable fathers and
mothers" are as tenderly remembered
as his own "blood kin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-12-02

Dispatches give the details of the
formation of two immense soft-coal
pools, one to control the trade at the
mines in Ohio, the other in Pennsyl-
vania. An immediate advance of 80
cents ton is ordered. and another of
80 cents will follow on the lst of Janu-
airy. The pools were formed at the
demands of the coal railroads, which
advanced the price of freight all around,
required the output to be regulated so
as not to create an over.supply, and an
nounced their determination to carry
no more Goa, away from the mines than
will supply the pressing demands of the
public. Meanwhile the legal officials
of the states in which these pools are
being operated seem not to have no.
ticed the fact that the operations of
these millionaire poolers constitute
criminal conspiracy for which the con-
spirators might be and ought be sent
to the penitentiary.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-12-02

A Boston lady who has just returned
from abroad tells a very amusing story
of how this one time lady of the Ameri-
can Embassy in Paris paid her respects
to Ouida. Mrs. Bigelow was in Flor
ence. She desired to see Ouida. With
Mrs. Bigelow to desire to do thing is
but one step from doing it. She there
fore drove out to Ouida's and presented
herself in her usual emphatic way at
the door. She was shown into recep-
ton room, and in very loud voice said
TO the valet: ''Will you tell Mile. de la
Rance that Mrs. John Bigelow of New
York would like to speak with her?'
Hardly had the message been given
when voice from the next room was
heard in tones equally loud TO reply:
Tell Mrs John Bigelow of New York
that ! don't want TO see her or any
other Americanl | don't like them
Mrs. Bigelow rose and answered the in
visible lady of the house with: you
ought to be ashamed of yourself We're
the only fools that read your nasty
books, anyway" In another moment
the two well-matched women were face
to face, and within half an hour the
novelist was urging her American caller
to become her guest. do come and
stay month with me, she urged.
81 should so enjoy studying your char
acter. ''Twould do you good, " was
Mrs. Bigelow's quick response; ''you
don't seem to have known any decent
women. Boston Home Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-12-02
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
III REQUIRED PLUCK.
The Way in which Ed Schiefeiin DIscov.
ered tho Tombstone Mines.

DIR. Ed Schiefelin, Of Los Angeles.
Cal, passed through Denver few DAYS
ago on his way to the east.
Mr.. Schiefelin IS barnacle of the
most orthodox type. He is an old
Rocky Mountain prospector, and was
the discoverer of the famous Tombstone
Mines of Arizona in 1877. He has a
marked personality, and would be no
ticed anywhere. He is tall and well
proportional. He wears his dark
brown hair long, and the bushy waves
hang well on to his shoulders. He
sports the regulation PREDETERMINED
hat of the miner and cowboy In other
respects he dresses neatly and in the
most approved style.
Mr. Schiefelin, luxuriously ensconced
in the padded softness of a Pullman
coach on the Kansas Pacific train. was
very willing TO relate some of the rough
and comtoruess experiences of his wild
life as a prospector before he struck it
rich.
Il followed the life for great many
years. he said. drawing stylish glove
from one of his horny hands. land
didn't strike anything. The trouble
was that l always followed the crowd,
and by the time | got there the good
places would be taken up. Finally l
struck out for myself down into Ari-
zona. spent all the summer of &c in
the Tombstone district There were no
white men within many miles, the near
est railroad point being thirty miles
away.
There were plenty of Indians,
though. Old Cochise and his band
were right around me. The place which
used to be the old chiefs stronghold is
in plain view of the present Town of
Tombstone. 1t was dangerous, Of
course, but not so much so if / had not
been alone. All around in that vicini-
ty parties of white men were killed that
summer, but. being alone, | somehow
escaped. / never built fire all that
summer, but travelled around from
place to place, making dry camp each
night.
Il went out that autumn, and during
the winter old Cochise died and his
band broke up. In the spring my
brother and myself with partner went
back to the place and each struck q
good mine. We worked them for
awhile at good profit and then sold
them out After that retired from the
business, and have settled down to en-
Joy the rest of my life.
'It's hard, rough life, and it took
me long time to get there. but l did
finally. Perseverance will generally
win,h said the old fellow dreamily.
The bell rang, the "all aboard was
sounded, and as the taain rolled off the
old frontiersman settled down into the
soft velvet cushions, pulled his long
locks and his sombrero over his face,
spread ont the tails of his handsome
froek coat, and fell into q dreamy
revery of remembrance of the old days
Of hardship on the plains of Arizona
DenCer Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-12-02
overcame His scrunIea.

Senator Stanford of California, it is
we'll known about Washington. has the
fastest horses in this part of the country.
and he is very fon of ride behind
one of his flyers. but he never handles
the ribbons. Racing he abominates,
and nothing will induce him TO deviate
from rule not to personally try con-
illusions with another horseman. Last
spring the senator was annoyed on
several occasions by q horse owner in
this city who perf 'sted in Z mpting him
for q brush whenever tn, Y met in the
Monument grounds. But all his efforts
were futile, and as the fellow did not
know who the quiet, elderly-looking
man was, he frequently bantered him
to let his horse ou' just for fun, but the
senator refrained from racing. greatly
to the wonder of the driver who usually
accompanied him from his residence to
the senate. One day, however, there
was change in the programme, when
the senator delighted his man with
commission. 1t was necessary for the
owner of the trotter to go over to New
York, and On his way to the station he
met his annoyer. After reaching the
depot, and slowing his valise in a
parlor car, the senator called his driver
aside and said: Give that man good
brush if you meet him going back. and
take the conceit out of him." This was
what the driver wanted, and, as good
luck would have it, the horseman was
waiting for the senator's conveyance
Just inside the Monument lot ''Inside
of hundred yards" said the senator S
driver afterward, Ibis horse was passed
as if he had been standing still, and
Mr.. Stanford was never bothered
again. - Washington Crstic.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-12-02
what western Women Read.

Women are becoming greater read
ers, if | may Judge by the eagerness
with which they call for the latest
books. But they crave novels, and the
cheap novels, too. These libraries" in
paper covers are preferable to the ordi-
nary woman reader for very simple
reason-they can bend the backs, roll
them up so as to carry them convenient
ly in their hand-satchels and throw
ttses4l- away viTUr. rristioa. dara saxt
the house of nearly every woman in
good circumstances in the city has more
Or less of this paper cover literature in
it, thrown aside like the daily papers
after it has been read once made an
experiment with these books. bought
two sets, one in paper covers, the other
in stiff covers. and when would offer
tho latter to the lady she would want to
know if had the same book in ''libra-
ry." cts not as easy to read stiff
back book" she would generally say
4 Bookseller IN the Globe Democrat.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-12-02
She Did Not Like Women Gus
toners.


81 hate women customers" replied
saleswoman in dry-goods store. She
had been asked plumply whether she
preferred waiting on men, and this was
her plum. answer.
''Why do you prefer men?"
Because they know what they want,
and do not care to keep you standing
an hour while they tumble over and
rumple up the goods on the counter
Why, only to-day / was showing lady
black stockings. OF course they were
all the same size and quality, yet she
dragged every pair out of that box and
then wanted to sec more. | handed
down two moro boxes. just like this one,
and then she asked if we had any more.
/ told her no, and then she said | might
wrap up one pair for her, The lady
next to me made nine different sales to
gentlemen while was fooling with this
one woman. | am going to try to get
q place in a hardware store. or some
place where women do not have to deal
with women. ~ itts5urg Dispatch.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-12-02
For the HERALD


| dreamed dream and whether that
dream marks my life here as success
or as failure | have often wondered
But, be as it may, do believe it was
sent to me as warning; as picture of
what could come to were to continue
in the direction and the path was then
travelling. As to what this path was |
care not to mention; it will suffice to say
it was sin. | was travelling in this path
knowing it was wrong; that it was lead
ing me down, down, down to ruin and
disgrace-yet ! continued, hoping each
day to reform and do better.
But instead of growing better l was
growing worse; my pride and self-re-
spect were growing weaker and weak
er; my bright hopes and prospects had
nearly all vanished before my very
eyes and | must soon have been left q
ruined boy on the shores of manhood,
had it not been that the hand of a Di-
vine power touched my sleeping eye
lids and babe me in vision see my sit
uation.
1t seemed was on journey in a
wild and barren country. | came to a
hill, very high and steep one. At the
foot stopped and looked about, hoping
to find road leading around to the
other side; but, to my sad dismay could
find none. Nothing but high rocks and
deep canons were on both sides of me.
| looked forward and upward. There
was path leading up among rocks and
thorns, one well beaten and worn. |
turned and looked back over the road |
had come. Nothing but an immense
plain or waste land, as far as the eye
could reach, lay before my vision.
Must | turn back and have all this
weary travel, which seemed like years,
for nothiDgP No, | must go on, must
climb.
So thinking, l began my journey.
On and on; now resting on a rock hun
dreds of feet from below; now hanging
to shrub with but toe-hold for nv
feet; now clinging to vine, and mex,
crawling on my hands aud knees,
went up and up. Thousands of people
by this time, it seemed, were in COM
pany with me, many passing my by.
At last. weary and fatigued, when |
had nearly reached the top fell; down,
down, down, down, down, grabbing at
trees and shrubs, but each time fall
ing, came to the bottom.
looked up from where l had fallen.
They were all on top and passing over.
| thought to myself, If they can cross,
why not IPn So with renewed courage
l tried again. This time did not get
SO high as before till l slipped and
down, down. down | came again.
Inied third, fourth and fifth
time; but failed. each time growing
weaker and going less high. till at last
fell in despair and woke up.
Now you have my dream as / dream
ed it. 1t was lesson to me and in
which feel have protited by. / give
it to not because wish it become IA
nous; not because | believe you need
it; not because | believe in dreams, but
because ! hope you will learn lessor
and profit by it,
ORvILLE ID. EASTMAN.
Cuba City, Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-12-02
An old Virginia Tradition.

Once in the life of every man he hears
the seven whistlers' call. They arc
strange birds, on whom mortal eyes
have never rested. the whistle Of whose
wings sometimes falls upon the startled
ear. And there is always a portent OF
something momentous for good or
evil, even though they may not "dree
their weird for weeks after the seven
whistlers' zeal" Like all portents,
their coming is mostly in the cleaning.
For then, after all, is tho .'witching
hour There is in the quiet of Sc
eluded countryside in the twilight hush
that comes down from the mountain.
and the twilight shadows which fall
from the heavens, mystical signiil-
canoe Of another world, and OF the
flimsy structure of the veil intervening,
which is to be found at no other hour
Of the twenty-four.
1t is then, by some lonely wood pond,
or some valley circled by the woods,
that the hush is broken by faint, far
beat, distinct note in the air, not on
earth or in the sky overhead, taken up
and repeated six times. and ever grow
ino clearer and more distinct, and
finally pealing away with q rush OF
wings and a sound Of passing ike that
which in all the Mediterranean isles
signaled the death of the Great Pan =
when Christ was born.-Cor. DesT0H
Free Press
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-12-02
An Actors Pet.

The Wallack family owns dog of
such extraordinary size that people stop
and look after it when it moves maies-
itcally along the street. For long
while young Mr.. Arthur Wallack was
seen accompanying the dog. but recent
ly an attachment sprang up between
bis father, Lester Wallack, and the
monstrous pet, which nothing apparent
~ can sunder. The animal is as near a
horse in size as any dog ever saw. I
should judge, from looking at it, that it
is cross between a ST. Bernard and an
English mastiiE 1t is good-natured, as
most big dogs are, and it follows the
old comedian about with an air of abso-
Lutte devotion. Mr.. Wallack, though a
man of considerable size, weighs less
nnd looks smaller than the dog.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-12-02
First Appearance OF Rats.


1t is but little over a century ago
1775-that the first brown rat (the or
binary house rat) made his appearance
in America. He went as a stowaway
on shipboard, either from India or Per-
STA, or possibly from some AIediterran-
can port. Rats were unknown in Eu-
rope until the middle of the eighteenth
century. In every town, village, and
hamlet in the United States, now, the
rat is almost as well known as the dog
or the cat, and the rodent population
must be far larger than either of the
Others. So rapid is the increase Of the
species that single pair, if unmolested
for year, win have an offspring of
hundreds in that time. In dwellings
and city sewers the house rat is the
ruler. and his black brother is driven to
the wall. In the fields, and along the
marshes bordering the sea coast, the
musk rat and the cotton rat hold sway.
Rats of many species are now to be
found wherever human habtation ex-
lists. 1t is easier to render building
tire-proof than rat-proof.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-12-02

Asa Mexican spreeist Minister Man
nlng is beating Special Envoy Sedgwick
out of sight. He is said TO have ended
up the prolonged spree with which be
began his "dutiesn at the Mexican CAPT.
tai with a fit of jimjams. We got the
news from despatch in sound Demo
cratic paper, so it can't be partisan
lie
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-12-02

The Philadelphia. Enquirer thinks
that if the Republicans in the New
Jersey legislature will nominate Will
liam Walter Phelps, or Capt. Howey,
for Senator, they will get the two Labor
votes in the Legislature and thus be
able to elect their candidate.