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RELIEF FOR CHARLESTON.

We published last week the gracefully
worded circular from Chief
Fairehild suspending contributions for the
relief of the people of Charleston, and this
leaves little more to be said. The prompt
and hearty manner in which the comrades
began to respond to the Commander-in-
Chiefs appeal shows what they would have
done had the necessities been as great as it
was at first feared they would be. Thanks,
however, to the phenomenal mildness of the
weather, the needs of the people of Charles
ton were nothing like what they would have
been had the weather become as inclement
as it usually does at this season. Then,
too, the response from all parts of the coun-
try was so liberal, that the Mayor of the
city was fain to cry halt.
The GAR. has won great credit by its
generous course in the affair, and we con-
graduate the comrades upon the fact
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THE appointment of the gallant Gen. John
NJ. Corse to the Postmastership at Boston is
one that reflects credit upon the Administra-
tiOn. Gen. Corse is the man who command
ed in the splendid resistance made by the
garrison ut Allatoona to the overwhelming
force that Hood hurled against the place.
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But rs the value Of the paper money in
which the soldiers were paid fell rapidly
during those three years the soldier was not
really paid more than $3.50.
If these soldiers had staid at home and
followed their regular vacations their pay
would have ranged from $3.50 TO 3, 900 a year
apiece. As a large proportion of them were
skillful mechanics, intelligent farmers, &C
countants, professional men, etc, it is a mod
crate estimate 10 place the average earnings
of each at 500 year. That is, the aggre-
gate earnings for the three years would have
been g., 100 instead of $3.50, so that each man
made money donation TO the country while
giving il his services for three years of 81 1850.
If we assume, therefore, that all the men who
responded to the first call served through
their enlistment we would have their aggre-
gate donation TO the country in money value
Of services Ss5s, 12l SOC, or more than the
aggregate of pensions would be years hence
if every disabled soldier in the country were
put on the pension rolls at once.
But we are only at the beginning Of the
war After these three-years men had come
out 1907 more came ont for three months
2,7l5 for six months, 1917 for one year and
3O,95O for two years. Every one of these
no matter how short his term of enlist
ment, made money sacrifices in order TO serve
his country that the men who staid at HON,
did not make.
After the failure Of McClellan's campaign
against Richmond and Buells against Chat
taaooga the Government was in imminen
peril, and July 3 1862, the President callet
for 100000 more men. This was responde,
TO by a class Of men who gave up even NOR
to enter the army than those who responde,
; TO the first call. AS a rule, they were yOun
men who had made some steps toward sci
Ting in life; they had married, or ha
bought farm, or opened a store, or bee
admitted TO the bar about the time the Wa
broke out, and while as patriotic as any
one, had felt that they should not separat
from their young wives or abandon the
business as long as there was chance tn;
the Government could get along witho,
their help. Now they hesitated no longe
but gave up everything, and enrolled the
names, accepting instead Of their comfOr
able incomes the Governments slender st
pend of S13 a month. The President callt
for 100000 and got 42l ,465.
Under the calls of Oct. Il, 1863, and Fe
!, 1864, 3l7,O92 more men VOLUNTEERED f
!. three years.
= March II, 1864, 100000 more three-yea
men were called for, and 90, 1913 responde
July Is 1864, 100000 more were called f
and 3s0, IG1 came out Besides these we
!. hundreds of thousands Of men who enlistt
for three months, 60 days, 100 days, s
months, nine months, and year.
N Reducing all, as we have said before, ia
l. three-ycars standard, we have a total
l2,23O,272 men. Assuming, again, that
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HAVE THE SOLDIERS BEEN OVERPAtD?
There has been paid for pensions in round
numbers s765OOO,OOO.
Unquestionably this is an immense sum.
1t is more than all the wealth Of Jay
Gould, the Astors, and the Vanderbilts COM
bined.
But, after all, it is only total Of $3.50
apiece for every man, woman and child in
the country, and the payment of which has
extended over q years, making the annual
payment each year per capita so cents, or
one cent rock-.foWr cents q mouth.
Is this an extrayagant price for them to
pay for the boundless prosperity which was
won for them by the sacrifice of these mems
health and lives?
1t would not seem so.
Reduced TO n three years standard, there
were {, 320,272 men in the army.
Roughly stated this would make about
$3.50 for every three-years soldier.
AS this has also been extended over "a
years, it would make an average Of Sl5.6l a
year, or S1.30 a month.
That does not seem lavish expenditure on
man who did three years Of such awful
fighting, marching and endurance of the
hardships of campaigning as were required
Of our soldiers.
Then let us take into consideration also
the absolute money sacrifices these men
made in order to serve their country and die
in defense of her institutions:
The 81 SIC who responded to the first call
Of The President hurried TO the defense OF
the Capital, saved St. Louis and Missouri
drove the rebels out of Western Virginia, and
helped fight the battles of Bull Run, Rich
Mountain, Carrick's Ford, Carnifex Ferry
Carthage and Wilson's Creek received 81 {
month for their services, or, say, S33 apiece
for all that valuable and dangerous work
Nearly every man who responded to the cal
did so AT great monetary sacrifice IN leaving
his business, his place in store or factory
or his growing crops. Nor did the money
he received represent more than fraction o
what he spent in preparing himself for th'
field. Ii is not high estimate TO say tina
the average actual cost to q first three
months volunteer over and above what h
received was at least 500. Here in Thu
first step in the war, we have an actua
monetary sacrifice Of nearly SlO0OO,OOI
made by the young men who saved thu
country from impending ruin.
To the next call of the Presldent-that o
May 3, 1861, for three-years trOOps-657, So
men responded. These were promised 81;
a month and 500 bounty-which was no
paid unless they served two years-and tn
customary allowances for ratiOns and cloth
ing. The latter was $40 year, and tn
money value of the ration about 90 cents
day. II, therefore, the volunteer served hi
| C,1l .b,oo ,,oors Ia mould raoaiva
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NOiA 10 OuI CoihIaueS every "tAeo.
INDORsING THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
At the Reunion of the 18Th United States
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TRIBUNE, of Washington, ID. c., and we recognize
in 1t that spirit OF true patriotism which put
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NATIO.'AL TRIBUNE continues to stand by the sol
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Resolred, That we viii individually use our best
efforts to extend its circulation.
Such recognition is very pleasant; for
editors, as we'll as other people, are stimu-
lated and encouraged by having their work
understood and appreciated by those whom
it is intended to benefit.
1t is no boast for us to say that we deserve
such recognition as the comrades Of the 18th
have given us. No other paper in the eOun-
try has done anything like the service for
the soldiers that THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
has. Other papers have been and are spas
medically friendly. They are fond of in
| dulging about convention and election times
in sounding platitudes about the services of
the soldier and the debt the Nation owes
him, but they are rarely ready to do actual
battle for him when battling is necessary to
secure him his rights. 1t is one thing to
talk glibly about the debt of gratitude due
the soldier, but quite another to insist that
payment of that debt shall take the substan-
tial form of a reasonable pension to every
disabled veteran. 1t is one thing to get of
snowy rhetoric on the war, but quite an,
other to insist, against party and faction
that the soldier who did his duty faithfully
shall, other things being equal, be preferred
for Office and employment.
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE has been the
soldiers friend through sunshine and storm
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these had been at home they would -,ve |
earned on average 500 e year, or s21Uvl
during their three years Of service, instead
Of the $3.50 which the Government paid
them, we find that tie aggregate money
donation TO the country by the men who
fought its battles can be approximately ar
rived at by multiplying s1,35O-the differ
ence between S2,1OO aud S750-by 2,23O,272,
and it reaches the vast sum Of
5000, 866,2OO,
or three times the aggregate amount that
has been expended fog pensions.
In view Of this-in view of the fact that
the Nation has not given TO those who were
broken down in saving its life One-third of
the actual money they sacrificed in order to
devote themselves to saving her from de
struction-hOw preposterous is the talk
about prodigal liberality in pensions.
co Oh WITH THE COMPARISONS.
Beyond all doubt the S765,OOOOOO which
the Nation has paid out for pensions is an
enormous sum-
Equally beyond doubt the pension-budgets
Of England, France, Russia and Germany,
when compared with it, appear relatively
small.
But why stop the comparison at that
point?
We did no! stop increasing our army from
1861 to 1865, because we were getting more
men in the field than England, France,
Russia or Germany had ever put in camp.
We had to make il three or four times as
large as the customary European army, and
we would have doubled or quadrupled it
again if il had been necessary.
We did not stop our soldiers fighting be-
cause in six months they had done as much
of it as EurOpern armies usually do in the
course Of a whole war. We had started out
to conquer, and were going TO do it, and we
did il though we fought more bloody bat
ties and killed more men than England has
done in all her wars since the landing Of
William the ConquerOr.
The world had never before seen 100000
fighting men in the field 1t had never seen
any one country maintain an army of hal
that size half the length of time. Nor had il
ever before seen 8, 500 battles and skirmishes
with 100000 men frequently arrayed on {
side, fought inside Of four years. it hat
never before seen one side lose 10000 mer
killed outright on the field of battle, Will
100000 more dying from wounds and dis
ease
After instituting a few of these more
obvious comparisons one begins to wonder
not that our pension-budget is so much large
than that of European cOuntries-but tina
it is not much larger relatively than it really
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THE next session Of Congress should not
Gail 10 pass much legislation Of high impor-
lance TO the soldiers ii viii not, if COM
rades everywhere win take time by the fore
lock and make sure that every Congressman
iH properly impressed with the desire of all
Eoldiers for the legislation.
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Of loyalty, humanity, and sound Government IN
vtes the sdmiraton Of all good citizens and richiy
entities her 10 the gratitude Of al members of the
u. ad Army of the Republic: Therefore, be 1t
keso-sd b., James b. McEeda Post No. 1, GAZE,
DepdTfme'- If Utah. That with gratitude to her We
cordially ana e-rnestly commend Kate Field to our
Commander-in-Ciie a. the one especially fitted to
present the facts IN he case through the Grand
Army Of the Republic, T. The country; and we re-
specially request that he co,end her IN her good
work to our comrades everywhs,e.
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Morris tribune., 1886-01-27

MontevideO Leader: A friend writ
ing from the east says that owing to
the poor prices prevailing for every
kind of farm produce, hundreds of
farmers have failed, and that many
others must go too. No such condl-
ton exists here or can exist. The
eastern farmer is paying almost the
price of western farm each year in
interest or rent, for the privilege of
competing with the western farmer in
the raising of products which can be
raised here for one-half the labor it
costs him to raise them. 1t took Sy-
racuse long time to learn that she
could not ruin the Saginaw salt in
dustry by putting prices down to less
than cost, for while she was losing
millions the Saginaw lumbermen
were accommodating millions in prifits.
The reason was, that their fuel cost
absolutely nothing, and it was an adj
vantage to them to enlarge their boil
ers, burn more mill refuse and make
more steam. The brine was pumped
with this additional power and the
waste steam evaporated the salt. The
slabs afforded material for barrels and
the woods were full of hoop timber.
Saginaw lumberman could afford to
put salt on their docks at 60 cents per
barrel. This is about the size of the
farmers problem. Eastern farmers
cannot successfully compete with the
western farmer as long as land is so
high there and so cheap here; so diff
cult to work there and so easily titled
here; so poor there ana so rich here.
The railroads have settled the ques-
ton forever in our favor.
Morris tribune., 1886-01-27

Science intends, during the next
few weeks, to present its readers with
discussions of the urgent questions of
the day by some of our leading writ
ers and students of social science and
political economy. One of the princi-
pal objects in this discussion is to
compare the attitudes of the two great
schools of economic writer's towards
the practical questions of the day, the
labor question, the relation of ethics
to the principles which rule in the
conduct of business, ETC., etc.
Morris tribune., 1886-01-27

Forty clubs in st. Paul alone, aver
aging two hundred strong, propose to
devote themselves solely to winter
first two weeks in February. Many
more will come in from other direc-
tions-Wlnnipeg, Duluth, Saltwater,
Minneapolis, Red Wing and many
other cities will be represented by
large uniformed clubs. Nothing like
it has ever before been seen in this
country. All the features, sports, etc.
will be elaborately illustrated in the
Pioneer Press. Now is the time to
subscribe.
Morris tribune., 1886-01-27
THE MAN AND THE BOY.
EBEN E. REXNORD.

Many farmers are too careless about
the boys. They seem to act on the be-
lief that the boys will take care of
themselves, and it is not necessary to
do much for them beyond feeding and
clothing them, and getting what work
they can out of them. Of course, they
send them to school, but there is an
other sort of education which every
farmer ought to supervise, and that is
practical one.
Boys are quick to learn, and you
have only to get them interested in
thing, to teach them how to do it.
When you set them at new piece of
work, explain it to them. Tell them
not only how to do this or that thing,
but why you do it. Explain the rea-
sons for it, and set them to thinking
for themselves. Encourage them to
be self-reliant, and when they have
done anything well, give them the
credit to which they are entitled.
Treat the boy as if he were a man
for he is, OH smaller scale than your
self-and he will act like man. Take
him in to YOUR confidence, and make
a companion of him, and he will sur
prise you bY his manliness and his
sensible ideAs. These ideas may be
crude, put the germ of good sense is in
them, and it lis your duty to assist in
their development in every possible
way.
Too many NIB EN- make their boys feel
that they are pf little or no account
while they arel boys. Lay a RESPONSE
bility on boyL and he will meet it in
manful spirit. On no account ig-
more their DISPOSITION to investigate.
Help them to u Understand things. En-
courage them to know what they are
about. we are too apt to treat boys
seeking after knowledge as mere idle
curiosity. DON'T ask questions," is
poor advice to y oys. If you do not
explain puzzling things to them, you
oblige them to make many expert
ments before they find out, and though
experimental knowledge is best, in
one sense, in and ther it is not, for
that which can bel explained clearly,
does not need Experimenting with
LII the principle Involved is under
stood, there is no further trouble, and
the boy can go ahehd inteIlIgently.
AZ
DO not wait for The boy to grow up
before you begin t0 treat him as an
equal. A proper amount of conf
dence, ana words OFF encouragement
and advice, and giving him to UNDER
stand that you trus6 b i'm In many ways
helps to make man of him long be-
fore he Is man In eAither stature or
wears
Morris tribune., 1886-01-27

GALVESTON, Feb. lin the bovcott
organized oy the knights of Labor against
sne mallory Steamship Company, the rail-
ROAD onciais say tna5 no reports of delayed
Ireignt nave YET reached them from interior
points Inc efect Oh the boycott will prob
aoiy not ne Ieit before Mon day. Trouble is
expected to begin when th q railroads tale
the Mallory freight desti ned for the in
terror. Prominent knight ! annroband |.
general strike on all roads Headline o,,+ -
Galveston. Two merchantsI of th;s o;t,-
Friday ordered their EASTERN agants 70 sh;',
via other lines than the Malldhrv Tba No.
colt has the approval of | Grand Masts,.
Workman Powderly and the ceneral axscu.
tive committee.
Morris tribune., 1886-01-27
The st. Paul Ice Carnival is attract

The st. Paul Ice Carnival is attract
ing great attention in all parts of the
country. Not less than five thousand
men will be arrayed in the picturesque
winter costumes at the storming of
the palace, which occurs early in the
month of February.
The Pioneer Press, with character
istic enterprise and dash, has made
arrangements to properly illustrate
these interesting and novel scenes,
and all who are interested should at
once subscribe.
Morris tribune., 1886-01-27

remainder arrives at New York, and
at Niagara and Buffalo. 1t is Curl
Gus fact that China sends us two hum
dred and twenty thousand dozen eggs,
worth eleven thousand, four hundred
and sixty-six dollars, and that San
Francisco reports an import of eggs
to that amount exactly.
Morris tribune., 1886-01-27
FARM NOTES.

The farmer who let's things go to
waste about him is sure to be one of
those who complain that farming
don't pay.
Morris tribune., 1886-01-27

those who complain that farming
don't pay.
One of our most useful buildings, a
correspondent writes us, is hay shed
built with strong posts set in the
ground, boarded up and down, and a
double-board roof. 1t is fifty feet
long, sixteen feet high, twenty feet
wide, and, when full of hay, held for
ty tons. In the front of it, for sixteen
feet, is a shed under which wagons
can be driven. This is boarded over
ten feet high, and is very handy to
run load of hay or grain under, if
caught in a shower. This shed also
serves as store house for small tools,
chains, etc. Strips of one and one
half by three inch stuff are pailed
around the shed on the posts, and in
the racks thus made, are placed all
the spades, shovels, axes, grub hoes,
mattocks. spare forks, stone hammers,
chains, trace chains, and all other
odds and ends of useful things which
are wanted at moments notice. Be-
fore this was done, there was always
hunt here and there for any little
thing when it was wanted; time was
lost, and temper was lost, too; after
wards, every one-there being con-
venient place for the tools-lett them
in their places where they belonged,
and they are now always ready when
wanted.-American Agriculturalist.
NoRTHWEsTERN DAIRYMEN'S AssOCI-
/. ALTON.
The Twentieth Annual Convention
of the Northwestern Dairymen's AS
ISOLATION will be held at the Opera
House in the city of Beloit, Wiscon-
sin, commencing Tuesday, February
18th, and continuing four days. This
association, the largest in member
ship of any organization of the kind
in the United States, has become ia
nous on account of the exceeding
great value of its yearly conventions
in bringing to tho front the best dairy
thought of the times. 1t comprises in
its membership some of the most not
ed and successful dairymen in the
northwest. The addresses forged
from the close practical experience of
those men, and the discussions, which
follow, invariably bring out multi
tude of valuable truths for the instruc-
ton of those that listen. Every man
who is wrestling with the problem of
"how to make the cow pay" should
attend this convention. Beloit is sit
uated in Southern Wisconsin on the
Madison Division of the G. & N. w.
ion of the G. M. & st. P. R'y. Re-
duced railroad fare will be afforded to |
all who attend and become members
of the convention.
A very interesting programme has |
been prepared, embracing in the sub
jects discussed all branches of the |
dairy question. Full opportunity for
the exhibition of Dairy Machinery
will be afforded and breeders of dairy
cattle are invited to attend the con-
vention and exhibit selections from
their herds.
w. d. HOARD, Pres,
Ft. Atkinson, Wis.
r. p. McGLINCY, Sec.,
Elgin, Illinois. |
Morris tribune., 1886-01-27

The value of our egg import is near
ly three millions of dollars, as stated
in the Customs returns, or about six
cents dozen. Happy is the consum-
er who can buy them for twelve cents
while he who eats them at the res
taurant, pays five or ten cents for
each specimen that he takes upon his
plate. It is curious fact, known to
those who take meals at our city res
taurants, that the price of eggs is I'M
varying. They cost as much there in
January as in June. OF the egg inn
port into the United States, three
fourths come from Canada, mostly
from Quebec aid Ontario. One-fifth
comes in via Vermont, and another
fifth at Buffalo, another at Niagara,
and another at Boston and Ogdens-
burg. Nearly one-half of the impor-
tation is into New England, and the