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Mr.. EDITOR: Our advertisement, which APP
pears in this Issue of your paper, contains some
new features, which we believe TO be practical
reforms in the way of supplying the planter
with seeds direct from the grower, aud while
we have striven to make plain just what we
viii do, yet it may be misleading to or not un-
deTstOod by some; therefore, further explana-
ton will not be out of place.
There is no reason why we should not trust
an honest individual in Dakota just as soon as
we would one in Long Island. From expert
enee few people who plant seeds are dishonest,
and this fact led us to adopt methods of fur
nishing private and market gardeners direct
with our best and improved strains of market
garden growers seeds upon the only sound
business principle Of not asking pay for the
seeds before they are received, postage paid,
and inspected and a selection made
We, therefore are willing to send the seeds,
postage paid, to all who will send US their
names and addresses the seeds retained by the
planter to be paid for at half price
Growing all the kinds offered and being saved
the expense of issuing an elaborate catalogue,
employing no travelling agents to look after the
wholesale trade, and not having to rent an ex-
pensive city store, enables us to make this re-
duction and to deal directly with the planter,
saving TO him the middlemen's profits and we
still makinga fair profit.
By our methods also, the planters cannot be
subjected TO long delay or substitutions of va
rieties as when they send cash in advance to
the seedsmen who issue catalogues and require
remittances in advance.
Respectfully,
THE NEW York MARKET GARDENERS Asso-
CATION, 80 Dey St., New York.
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Brave Old General.

veteran of the late war who won the title
of the Old Genera" by bravery at the battle
of Gettysburg, was shot at Bangor, Me-, one
day last week because of sickness and old age.
He went to war when colt, carrying a dash
ing young officer who always sought the hot
test part Of the battlefield. The officer and
horse were noted for reckless daring and were
well mated. AT the battle of Gettysburg. while
making a charge upon a battery, the officer
was thrown from the "Old Generals" back,
riddled with canister, at the first fire; but the
brave old horse who was also severely wounded
in the neck staggered and fell on his knees by
the side of his master for minute, then re.
covering himself. dashed to the front through
the ranks Of the troopers, and led the charge W
to the very muZzles of the guns. This was
where he earned hfs name "Od General" He
was taken to Bangor, where he has been kept
in comfort, until it became necessary to Kill
him 10 put him out of misery,
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Itching Skin Diseases

scratched IS years. Body covered with
scales. Scratched all the time. Suffer-
ing endless and without relief. Cured
by the Cuticura Remedies. Skin now as
clear as baby's.
If I had known of the CUTrCURA REMEDIES
twenty-eight years ago. it would have saved me
$4,000 two hundred dollars) and immense
amount of suffering. My disease (psoriasis) COM
menced on my head in spot not larger than cent.
1t spread rapidly all over my body and got under
my nails. The scales would drop off of me all the
time. and my suffering was endless, and without
relief One thousand dollars would not tempt me
TO have this disease over again. am poor man,
but feel rich to be relieved of what of the doc
tors said was leprosy, some ringworm, psoriasis,
etc. took and Sarsaparillas over
one year and a half, but cure. went to two
or three doctors, and cure. / cannot praise the
CUTICURA REMEDIES too much. They have made
my skin clear and free from scales as a baby's.
All used of them three boxes of CUTIcURA,
and three bottles of CUTICURA REsoLvENT, ard two
cakes of CUTICURA SOAP. If you had been here
and said you would have cured me for $4,000, you
would have had the money. l looked like the
picture in your book OF psoriasis tpicture number
two, Z" How to Cure Skin Diseases ~, but now am
as clear as any person ever was Through force of
habit, rub my hands my arms and legs to
scratch once in while, but to no purpose. 1 am
all well. scratched twenty eight years. and it got
to be kind of second nature to me. l thank you
thousand times. Anything more that you want
to know, write me, or any who reads this may
write to me, and will answer 1t.
DENNIS DOWNING.
MATERNITY VT Ian % 1897
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Appoint an 0Id Arnr SURGEON.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In your ex-
cellent editorial, entitled Commissioner of
Pensions you invite an expression Of opinion
from the veterans, the class who are most
vitality interested in the matter. The office of
Commissioner has generally been filed by the
appointment Of lawyer, and in my humble
Judgment q reform in this respect is greatly
needed. The Commissioner Of Pensions should
be an educated physician. There are three or
four things necessary to secure a pension, and
H. order to learn these things the knowledge
and skill Of the physician is required.
i. The applicant must be disabled.
2 The disability must be traced to the sery-
ice.
3. The degree of disability must be deter
mined.
To arrive at a true solution of these oues-
ti0ns every lawyer must invoke the aid of the
medical profession, and it is a well known fact
that many lawyers don't know the umbilical "
from the right hyPochOndriac region. I
have no desire to disparage the legal profession
il the least. but it is a fact that many of the
lawyers only study medicO-legal law when
they have Z case that demands knowledge
OF medico-legal Jurisprudence. Much valuable
time 10 the old disabled soldier is consumed in
making the Pension Commissioner see and ap-
precizte what an old Army Surgeon would see
al d glance. IN selecting man for the position
Of Commissioner, don't think that a mans
Si4EtDaAttg sA1ulA Db IN exact proportion 70 the
degree that he has been mutilated in the serv-
ice.
Permit me to express the hope that our new
President-elect viii take step In genuine re-
form, and appoint 20 the Office of Commissioner
Of Pensions some old Army Sargeon-a man of
loyalty, ability and integrity. And, in con-
clusion, allow me TO express the hope that the
old boys viii not be compelled to undergo the
humiliation Of personal examination at the
hands Of q physician whose disloyalty was
beyond question, as has been done in some
localities.-C A. Mann, Commander of Swan
wick Post. No. PIP. Department of Illinois,
Tyhrefar III
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Asher d. Bice, Co. C. 18th n. Y. Berlin.
Wis, heartily Endorses the nomination of Corn'i
James Tanner as the successor to Gen. ] q
Black for the Commissioner Of Pensions. as he
aud the Corporal were schoolmates in bovhood
days and be thinks IT would be hard to find a
more able or efficient comrade to fill that posi-
tion, or one more deserving
Noel r. Church. Co. II. l69th N. Y. Peters.
burg, n. Y, thinks Corp'l James Tanner would
make the best Commissioner OF Pensions Of anv
eomrade who has yet been mentioned for tie
place, as it is well-established fact that he i
for the old boys every time
i. Curtis, Elva Station, H., would be glad TO
see C0Tpl Tanner appointed
George II. Warner. Co. C, 18th N Y, Char
lotteFille, n. T., faVors the appointment of
COrp'l Tanner
AT recent meeting Of Paul Slocum Post,
No. $, Bloomington, Ind, a resolution was
unanimously adopted requesting the appoint
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Cuticura

To cleanse the skin and blood of every blemish
and impurity, no agency in the world of medicine
is SO speedy and infallible as the CUTIcURA RENE
DIES.
CUTCURA, the great skin cure. instantly alays
the most agonizing itching and infam nation, clears
the skin and scalp of every trace of disease, heals
ulcers and sores, removes crusts and scales, and
restores the hair. CUTICURA SOAP, the greatest
of skin beautifers. is indispensable in treating
skin diseases and baby humors. 1t produces the
whitest, clearest skin and softest hands free from
pimple, spot. blemish. CUTICURA REsoLvENT,
the new blood purifier, cleanses the blood of all
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Every night scratched until the skin was
raw. Body covered with scales like
spots of mortar. An awful Spectacle.
Entirely cured by the Cutieura Remedies
In five weeks.
lam going to tell you of the extraordinary cure
your CUTICURA REMEDIES performed on me. About
the 1st of April last 1 noticed some red pimples
like coming out ali over my body, but thought
nothing of it until some time later on, when It
began to look like spots of mortar spotted on, and
which off III layers accompanied with itching.
would scratch every night until was raw, then
the next night the scales being formed meanwhile,
were scratched of again. In vain did consult all
the doctors in the country, but without aid. After
giving up all hopes of recovery, happened to see
an advertisement in the newspaper about your
CUTIcURA REMEDIES, and purchased them from my
druggist, and obtained almost immediate relief. L
began to notice that the scay eruptions gradually
dropped off and disappeared one by one, and have
been fully cured had the disease thirteen months
before l began taking the CUTICURA REMEDIES,
and in four or five weeks was entirely cured. Ely
disease was eczema and psoriasis. / recommended
the CUTIcURA REMEDIES to all in my vicinity, and
know of great many who have taken them, and
thank me for the knowledge of them, especially
mothers who have babes with sealy eruptiOns on
their heads and bodies. I cannot express in words
my thanks to you. My body was covered with
scales, and was an awful spectacle to behold.
Now my skin is as nice and clear as a baby's.
GEO. COTEY.
MERRILL, Wis, Sept. 81, 1857.
FEB. Z, 1SS8.-Not trace whatsoever OF the dis
ease from which I suffered has shown itself since
my cure. GEO. COTEY.
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Remedies

impurities and poisonous elements, and thus re-
moves the CAUSE. Hence the CUTICURA REMEDIES
every species of agonizing humiliating, Itch
ing, burning scaly. and pimply diseases of the
skin, scalp, and blood with loss of hair, and all
humors, blotches, eruptions, sores, scales, and
crusts, whether simple, scrofulous. or contagious,
when the best physicians and all other remedies
fail.
Sold everywhere. Price, CUTIcURA, SOC; SOAP,
25e.; REsoLvENT, 81. Prepared by the POTTER
DRUG AND CHEMICAL CORPORATION. Boston.
Rg- Send for a. How to Cure Skin Diseases 81
pages. so illustrations, and 100 testimonials.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
POLITICAL.

FGllIlAAlJs
The feature of the day on Friday last at
President-elect Harrison's home was the arri-
val of a Kansas delegation to urge Senator
Plumb for Secretary of the Treasury Trial
in the matter of the steamer CaTOndelet, which
is detained in New York, on the ground that
her cargo of munitions of war are intended for
Hippolyte is to be held Immediately. -Presi-
dent Cleveland transmitted TO Congress on Sat
urday the latest diplomatic correspondence
bearing upon the Samoan controversy, together
with the protocols ofthe late conference between
representatives of the United States, Germany
and Great Britain.-At a caucus of Republic
can Senators il was again decided not to admit
New Mexico as a State at this session of Con-
gress.-The Senate Committee on Indian
Affairs reported favorably the bill granting
right of way to the Fort Smith, Paris and Oar
danell Railway from Fort Smith through
Indian Territory to Baxter Springs, KAN
Mr. Conger submitted to the House minority
report on the bill to irrigate New Mexico by
granting to corporation 1,0000 900 acres of land
for that purpose.-The President nominated
Carroll ID. Wright, of Massachusetts, TO be Com
missioner of Labor.-The Senate passed the
House bill to quiet titles of settlers on Des
Moines River lands in Iowa.-It is stated
positively that the Governor of New Hamp-
shire will appoint Gen. Gilman Marston United
States Senator to fill the interim between the
expiration of Senator Chambers term and the
meeting of the New Hampshire Legislature.
1t is now said in Indianapolis that the
Navy portfolio has been offered TO Congress
man John Il. Thomas, of Illinois. 1t is I'M
derstood from official sources in Washington
that the Samoan conference in Berlin will be-
gin this week, with MIR. Coleman as Americas
representative.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
f. D. Newland. of Buffalo, says that strange
man threw rope around his wife's neck aud
tried to strange her. The police say it was
an attempt at suicide.-Judge Rucker, of
Denver, Colo, who acquired notoriety by his
alleged desire TO fight duel with Senator
Blackburn, slapped Col. John Atkins On the
face for saying TO a reporter that Rucker had
net the courage TO fght.-Inspector of Police
Bonfield, Capt. Schaak and Detective Lowen-
stein, Chicago officials, who were so prominent
in the Anarchist trials, have been indefinitely
suspended from the force until they can prove
their innocence of the charges of corruption
made against them by the Chicago Times
Walter ). Bradley shot his wife dead and COM
mitted suicide in Chicago on Friday last. A
dramatic scene followed the removal of the
bodies to the undertakers, where Frederick
Mann caressed the woman's corpse and covered
it with kisses in frenzy of grieE-0n Sun
day last the immense wholesale drug house of
John Wylth & Co., of Philadelphia, was en-
tirely destroyed by fire, and one fireman killed
and another very seriously injured by falling
timbers.-Harry Hartle, of Boston, had
narrow escape from death at Niagara Falls on
Sunday, where he fell from the summit of the
ice mountain to the water.
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The Throat =" Browns Bronchial Troches " act
directly ON the organs of the voice They have an
extraordinary effect in all disorders of the throat.
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ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOL LARS.

Every person who places his eaiH ia my bands can
rest assured that his interests Wf be CareIv looked
after There thousands entitled pension ho have
never applied, and who be isopaTi teir rights
by negectng 70 le their claims believe ta Congress
viii pass Ihe Arrears BILL which viii disabled
enlisted man OF officer entitled psi 4ls o. dEs-
Charge and in the event of such ilW eigz enacted IL
Is possible that IL aRGy jRe{gds gV ths eidinls rs
ale ia The Pension BTsGU az re dr. D1sszgs
Hence the importance 10 claimants OF dis their claims
also believe that Congress wi be liberal Ia egs
lating upon pension matters and % Is therefore 20 the
interest of every ex-soder sailor 20 inquire into his
rights.
There fees in pension claims PAYABLE in advance
The law regulates ali such fees and they paysbs
only in case of success
have been very successful In obtaining increase Of
pensions and all who think they rated low should
consult BY letter. viii ad wise them Tree u charge
whether or not think they entitled ghsr rate
Remarked widows of soldiers sailors who failed
20 hle their claims for pension prior 90 y 1850 can
now under new law, secure a pension Il otherwise
entitied) for the period OF theiE Wii0whaOd- MANY
rejected ard abandoned claims can ROW be suc-
ceSSfully prosecuted under rulings and
invite correspondence from ali parties Interested
All classes Of claims before tue Executive Depart
ments prosecuted with energy and tiS;p:cn. Core
spondenGe invited from all parts OF the country regard
ing Claims of any nature against the Government
refer TO clients and others in any Congressional
District IN the United States and VIII give particular
references application.
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ment of Comrade James Tanner as Commits
sioner of Pensions.
J. K. Kid Co. nj, 9Th Iowa Cav, Jefferson
City, No., says his choice is Corp'l Tanner.
Joe Hicks, Co. B, 26th Ohio. Louisville, KY,
seconds the motion that Corpl Tanner be made
Commissioner of Pensions.
Various Opinions.
Jas. Morgan, 14th Ill, Grard, Kan. thinks
that SO many good men have been recommend
ed for the position of Commissioner of Pensions,
among whom are Gems. Warner MO-, Alger
Mich, and others equally deserving; there
fore thinks the whole subject should be rele-
gated to Comrade Ben Harrison, where it
belongs, thinking that the President-elect will
certainly give the boys good man for the
place.
]. B. Hoyden, Co. Fl, 18th Wis, Waseca
Mimi, thinks that if Gen. Harrison wants to
find the man to I'LL Gen. Blacks place as Com
missioner of Pensions, and do it acceptably, he
could go further and fare worse than by choos-
ing Gen. John p. Rea, of Minnesota, the late
COmmander-in-Chief of the GAR. He was a
gallant soldier, is one of the best judges in the
Northwest and is besides, well known as the
friend of the soldier.
G. II. Erisman, Co. E, 18th H., Gibson, No.
is Of the opinion that Hon. Joseph Cheadle, of
Indiana, would make good Commissioner.
H. Goodander, Co. G, 36th Ind, Poplar
Bluff, Mo-, says that a majority of the old COM
rades in his section are in favor of the reten-
tion of Gen. Black.
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ukMlO Soft, white and free from chaps and
llHNDO redness, by using CUTICURA SOAP.
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Louisiana State Lottery Company.

Incorporated BY the legislature In 1855 for Educa-
tlOa ana charitable purposes and its franchise mada
paIt OF the present State Constitution in 1872 BY
overwhelming popular vote.
It's MAMMOTH DRAWINGS take place
SemI-AnuHnlly June and Deeember1. and
ITS GRAND SINGLE NUMBER DRAW
INSis take place in each of the ether ten
months of the year, and are all drawn in
public. at the Academy Of 1iusic, New Or
In
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FAMED FOR TWENTY YEARS.

FOR integrity Of It's DRAWINGS,
and Prompt Payment of Prizes,
Attested as follows:
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Drawings Of The Louisiana Silts Toffsrv Com
pdny, and sIs person manage and control he Drag
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NTH HONESTY faiess and IN GOOD faith tolcard az
parties AMI lcs authorizes the Compusy 70 ,sss llis
certificate, Nth fac-simdes Of or sigatsrss 1t.
tached, IN eta advertisements"
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nETEnTtUEo The Kansas Detective Bureau wants
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ne Ess undersigned Baeks and R17tss ,rlt nm M ,.,
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DIMPLES bIacllheads red, rough, ehapped and
{ IIYl oily skin prevented by CUTICURA soar.
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31000 m A VEhpand expenses to good men
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every County In L. S. Stamp for reply
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WY ANTED-By Claus laden Fairbury, ui-The ad-
w dresses of Capt Charles IT, YOge Lieuts. Charles
Yarges and Anthony H. Heminover, of Co. D. 1s2d H.
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WATERBURY,, VI. Jan, 20, 1887.
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WANTED--ADDRESSES.

YXTANTED-By c. J. Bell. CPS Kansas avenue, Topeka,
w Kan.-The address of any Clerk Orderly who
was with headquarters left wing Sixteenth Corps at
Kenesaw Mountain, Ga; or AdjtGen. J. ". Barnes or
Abide Camp Geo. Q. TichenOr.
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section of buiding-lots. Every heavy rain, of
course, peRetrates that surface stratum and in
warm weather the subjacent melange becomes
an effective hotbed of contagious diseases
typhoid, remittent fevers and diphtheria
Similar effects may result from the neighbour
hood of the stagnant pools which American
tolerance allow to accumulate at the inter
section of railway dams and new streets. To
what extremes of noisomeness nuisance of
that kind is often permitted to go was illus
trated last year in large city of the Ohio
Valley, where condemned " old canal was
drained just enough to expose the accumu-
lated filth of its ditch, and there left to tester
under the influence of the Summer sun week
after week, till the increase of typhoid cpl
denies at last provoked mass meeting of the
outraged citizens. With the muzzle of heavy
loaded damage-suit under his nose the negli-
gent contractor then made it convenient to
abate the nuisance in short order, though not
before the poison of his pest holes had carried
death and disease to half hundred homes.
Building-sites i'll the vicinity of such mala-
rial traps are, happily, not in great demand,
and with similar crcumspection home seekers
should avoid the neighborhood of maIodorous
factories-soap- boieIies, fat-rendering estab.
lishments and kindred perfume emporiums.
The main reason why such nuisances are toll
Grated in the heart of popuous cities is, after
all, the prevailing ignorance concerning the
hygienic tendency of their pest-odor. In the
Middle Ages thousands of wretched Hebrews
We're torn limb from limb on mere suspicion
of having poisoned the waters of public wells,
and at present, when the true value of health
is far more generally recognized, no amount of
bribery will much longer enable worshiper
OF the mlghty-but not quite almighty-dollar
to poison the public life-air with impunity.
ITO be continued