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The National tribune., 1890-06-05

THE bill introduced by Senator Edmunds
to prohibit the granting of licenses to sa-
looms within one mile of any Soldiers Home
is n sensible, practicable measure. The dens
which cluster around some of the Soldiers'
Homes are vile traps in which. unfortunate
inmates are robbed of their little all. BY
refusing the privilege of selling liquor to
these the Government will greatly diminish
the evils complained of. The dens will at
least not be so accessible and the traps not
lie so directly in the veterans path when
ever he emerges from the Home
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military science. Much more astonishing
things have been done in this direction by
the untutored warriors who led their tribes
OF Indian braves, and foiled attacks of vastly
disproportionate numbers. Osceola, the
Seminole Chief with little band of 200
Indians and fugitive slaves held the whole
army of the United States ut bay for years,
and was only overcome by treachery. Ge-
ronimo, Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, the Nez
Perez, made wonderful records, while stand
ing on the defensive, with mere handfuls of
men. When Lee attempted such movements
as Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Thomas
constantly made against him and his col
leagues he failed utterly. Nothing that he
ever did begins to compare with Grants
campaign against Vicksburg, or the battles
around Chattanooga; with Sherman's cam
paign for Atlanta; with Sheridan's tactics at
the OpequaI, Cedar Creek, Five Forks and
Appomattox, or with Thomas's unsurpassed
management Mt Nashville. Lees greatest
battle-Gettysb urg-was a series of amazing
blunders The more that battle is studied
the lower viii be his place among great
commanders. That his magnificent army,
wasted in objectless, unskilful and disioint-
ed attacks, escaped annihilation, was due to
the excessive caution of the Union COM
mander Had Grant Sheridan, Thomas,
Hancock, Logan or Scdgwicll been in COM
mand of the Army of the Potomac ut Get
tysburg, Lees army would have been utterly
destroyed before it reached the Potomac.
That Lee had in high degree the COM
mon characteristics of American soldiers
physical and moral courage, personal integ-
rity, and skill in leading men, we are far
from denying But that he was military
genius nobody, except one poisoned with the
virus of rebellion, will claim. That he ever
did anything to deserve the inordnatc hon
ors lavished upon his memory is preposter-
Gus.
The National tribune., 1890-06-05

GEORGIA juries are even more peculiar
than those in other parts of the country.
Frank Swain was q notorious mOonshiner in
the neighborhood of Blairsville, Ga, and q
particularly tough citizen on general princi-
pies Rev. @. II. Lance was an eloquent and
popular Methodist minister, who rode the
Bairsyille circuit" In one of his sermons
he denounced the wickedness of moonshin-
ing; Swain was deeply offended, waylaid
him as he was returning from his meeting,
and literally cut him in pieces. Swain was
found guilty of the murder, but the jury
recommended him to the mercy of the court.
Unfortunately, the basis of this recommen-
dation is not given to the public Whether
it was that Swain merely acted as the agent
of the community in properly rebuking a
minister for attacking one of the most
cherished industries Of the Georgia mount
aims, or whether they felt that Methodist
ministers were getting too numerous in that
section, and il was desirable to reduce the
number, we are left to conjecture.
The National tribune., 1890-06-05
TEN THOUSAND WATCHES
TO GIVE AWAY.

We have decided upon securing 100000
more subscribers, and to do it VIII give away
10000 Of the famous Trenton watches 10
club raiseTs.
We will send watch FREE, post paid, TO
every club raiser who sends rs n club OF
ONLY TEN subscribers for one year
This is an opportunity never before
offered. because this watch is not a cheap
oatch-penny make-shift, but genuine, full
jeweled patent-leyer movement IN dia-
mond-silver case, warranted for ID years.
DiamOnd-silver is n compound metal, As
lis name indicates, composed OF pure silver
and nickel. to give it hardness and color
il Is not plated, bat solid, 50 II wears the
same clear through. and is so warranted.
Now who wants one? There are just
10000 Of them 10 give away. and we do not
anticipate much trouble in disposing Of them
CD these terms.
An hours work viii get one We hope
onr friends VIII appreciate the opportunity.
The National tribune., 1890-06-05
WORK OF ruE Passion oFFrCE,

During the week ending May 81. 1890. 5 223
claims were received, OF which 1924 were origi-
nal invalid, 533 widows, 4 war Of 1912, 7
bounty land, So navy, 4 old war, 90 on ac-
count of Mexican service, 50 for accrued pen
sion, and 2,Sl7 applications for increase. The
names aud po5tOfiiCe addresses Of 1852 officers
and comrades were furnished for the use of
claimants. There were 7O.392 pieces Of mail
matter received; As, l6g letters and blanks sent
out.
The number Of cases detailed 20 Special Ex-
amners was 500; 679 reports and eases from
Special Examiners cases on hand for special
examination, ! l37.
Report of certificates issued during the
week ending May 81, 1890: Original, La; in
crease, 1919; reissue, 2J3; restoration, 26: du-
plicate, 9; accrued, 20; arrears, O; act of March
3, 1888, l. order of April 3, 1881, 0; act of
Aug. 4, 1856, 0; supplemental, o; arrears, June
:, ISIS. 2; Mexican war, IS reissue same date,
o total, 1895.
Number of rejected claims reopeued, 495;
act of March {, 1890, 90.
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point to be remembered in favor of the
young German Emperor is that he is an ardent
spelling reformer. 1t is true that there is not
much reform needed in German photography
1t is nearly phonetic as is the spelling of Dutch,
Swedish, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese The
children of those lands are favored above ours,
in not having to spend years in learning to spell
All they have to learn is the shape and sound of
the letters, and they can read without further
trouble German has few double letters
"rs," ms" cts" etc, and these the Emperor
proposes shall be dropt. These reforms are gladly
seconded by the German scholars aud writers,
and so will make rapid progress. Would that
there was such a pleasing prospect in regard 10
our barbarous, stupid orthography.
The National tribune., 1890-06-05

THE census is already beginning to knock
into smithereens the doleful theories of those
partisan walters who proclaim that the
country is rapidly sinking into q morass of
debt and misery. The official in charge of
the Division of National and State Debts,
reports that in the last 10 years there has
been q net decrease in State Indebtedness
of So, $50, 434, or nearly 81 head for our
entire population. In the sams time the
bonded debt of the United States has been
reduced from 81 700, 1913, 100 to S71917s,5 $40,
making total reduction of National and
State Indebtedness of S1,O45, 275, Ola, or an
average of $1z418 per head of population.
This is more Hdn the entire State. COUNTY, and
municipal Indebtedness Of The country in 1880,
and is marvellous showing of prosperity.
Reports from 2,909 Counties show, on the
other hand, that the total indebtedness of
this class of political divisions has increased
from $l04, 493,752 in 1880 to S145, 693 $40
in 1890 - an increase Of "a, 2O0,093, or
nearly 80 per cent This can be readily ex-
planned by the immense number of costly
improvements buildings, roads, bridges,
ditches-made in the newer Counties. There
are several hundred Counties which were
not in existence 10 years ago, and all over
the country between the Alleganics and the
Rockies building costly courthouses, jails,
poorhouses, asylums, bridges, roads, bitches,
etc, has been the order of the day. To
anyone familiar with these things, the
wonder is that the indebtedness of the
Counties of the country has been increased
so little as 50 per cent.
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FORTHCOMING ATTRACTIONS.
A List of Good Things in Store
for The Readers Of The Ma
tionaI Tribune.

Vie haze a magnificent lot of articles Of an
usual mc-it for the readers Of TIE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE 1riicG uiu Be presented 70 them in
he near future. among these are:
RIAL RUSSIA Gy The author Of the "lstorz
Of Caaaoaeer," descriptive Of his trdrcl,
cad lie IA Russia, and ne people he mel
MCye.
~ TIE DL1NOND FIELDS. By Edgar
Nols, sorics Of lattrs from South Atrica
bg on obie contributor uho Is NOR making a
t0ET Of The great diamond delds II that por-
ton u he ar0rld. No other piper ia The
copatry kas a correspondent in that region
FLRLsL4E SKETCHES, by Ars. Kate 3.
Sha7r9od 4 continuation Of her series d
iaterotiag Ittters.
THE ROCK CHEEK lFFAIR. By Wuey
Brit0a. Il chapter IN tie carly history Of
Me irar ia Missouri.
CHIP COLE By Wiley B,itton. Ahiher-
u untold story Of he first ego,ts Of the Union
men u Missouri 10 make Aoad against the
Ponder EgGiaas UAO werc eadearoriag 10
drag tte State into Secession.
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II is matter Of grave doubt whether the
mgar-bouniy proposed in the Mckinley bill
TiI be az effective in developing home
production Of sugar as direct protection.
Whichever is the most effective way Of Sc
curing this great end should be adopted and
followed uu1inchingiy. Il is an enormous
scandal on our boosted enterprise that we.
tie greatest sugar-eaters in the world.
should be the only civilized people, except
England, who do not raise their own sugar
and that we send out Of the country every
year slO0,OOO,OOO which should be nut into
tie pockets Of our own farmers. We pay
more for sweets than for any other thing
that We import, and this money is all lost
20 Us, for it goes 10 people who buy very
little Of as IN return.
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If we divide this equally, giving half to
the rebellion and half to the Union, it will
make the total population from which the
rebels drew their men, lO,67O,7O4, and that
from which the Union forces were levied
20,280, 6S7. This would make the prepon-
derance Of the Union side almost exactly two
to one, which was very small for waging an
offensive war against people fighting on
their own ground. Again, everybody who
lived in those times knows that the rebels
The National tribune., 1890-06-05

THE common idea that churches are losing
their hold on the community meets n sharp
shock in the report to the Presbyterian
General Assembly, that the membership of
the Church in the United States had increased
last year from 1912 to 956,s6i, a net in
crease of 1903 .092 As the PRESBYTERIAN
Church makes much less effort nj proselytiz-
ing than most of the other sects, and its
stern, severely logical tenets are supposed
to DO the least inviting to the popular imagi-
nation and sentiment, growth like this, of
fully II per cent. in one year, is very sig
niiicant 1t indicates that the rising gem
GRAFTON is not falling away from the Church,
as IL commonly asserted. On the other
hand the growth is fully three times what
it would be if all the sons and daughters
of Presby terians adhered to their parents
faith. That is, at the rate which prevailed
last year, the Presbyterian Church would
double itself in little over every seven
years, While ii taxes about % years for the
population of the country to double itself.
If this is the rate of growth among the
staid, conservative Presby terians, what must
it be among those sects which labor in
cessantly to gather proselytes and converts
into their folds? Clearly, the believers in
the downfall of the churches must bring
some stronger proofs TO maintain their posi-
The National tribune., 1890-06-05
TREASONARIE STIEr-

A good specimen of the poisonous false
hoods with which the unwhipt rebels Of
the South feed the rising generation, was
i contained in the address delivered by Col.
/ Geo. 7. Fry at Chattanooga, May TO- when
| the Confederate Ladies' Memorial Associa-
ton and n. b, Forrest Camp, assisted by
1000 citizens, decorated the graves of 5000
rebels who lie buried there. The Chat
tanooga Ijmcs says of The speech
Col. rry's address was perhaps one Of tho most
remarkable delivered IN the South since the war.
aud was greeted frequently with spontaneous out
bursts Of applause.
He started out with this remarkable as.
sertion:
affirm that tho people 81 the south never by
word or deed did violence either to the Constitu-
ton or tho Union ! affirm that the people Of The
/ South were always "a Justice loving people They
demanded it for themselves and were always will
ing to accord Il 70 every other citizen aud state Of
tho great Republic.
OF course, with such a startling ialsehood
as a foundation, the structure built upon
u was mass OF iIischOod.
He said:
The official records Of that dlrcful period show
that from first To last the North had upon her
muster roll 3C000J0 soldiers aud that the s9outi,
hRd upon her mustcr-roi from FIRST 10 last coo 900
soldicrR The North brought into mellon i've men
Tor every one the South could muster The North
had OF its command the army navy and treasury
Of thc United states II had access 20 all the world
for supplies Of men, money. arms and munitions OF
war.
This is rehearsing with hrazen efTrontery
stale old lie. II ID easy to demonstrate, to
the satisfaction Of any reasonable man, that
the rebels were not crushed by overwhelm-
ing numbers" but were conquered by the
superior administrative ability Of the Union
people, and the greater persistence, devotion
and determination OF the Union soldiers.
There never was a great war in which the
numbers-everything considered-were so
nearly equal. Look at these plain Ggurcs:
The census of 1860 showed the population
Of tire Nation to be 31,115,GH.
The population of the Northern States
The National tribune., 1890-06-05

IL Is duty you Que TO your comrades 10 get at
least one new subscriber for THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE.
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Bragg captured 20 cannon, Resecrans 3.
Bragg retreated from the battlefield and did
not halt for % miles.
About Chickamauga the orator said;
The battle Of ChIeltnmauga Sept IS. 10, 20, 1863
Bragg had 1883 Confederatos, and was reinforced
by Longstrect with I3,73S.
Total ConfederRtes Il .32l.
Rosecrans had q 392 foderals.
The victory on the part Of the Confadorates was
complete
They routed Roseerans and drove him pell. nell
from Disadvantage into Chattanooga.
The Confederales la this battle captured 81 pieces
of artillery 1900 stand of small harms 900 prison.
err, besides vast number of army supplies and
stores The number of dead and wounded on
either side hnve known.
After careful study the Comte de Paris
comes to the conclusion that at Chicka-
mauga Bragg had upwards of 10000 effect
ives, with 200 pieces of artillery, while
ROsecrans had $4,000 men, with 40 pieces
of artillery. lie puts the Union losses
I6s7
wounded 1884
Captured. s. 255
$3.50
and the rebel losses, which he was not able
to verify:
2573
W"n""ed".'''''''' 1924
Captured zoos
2o,s5o
But the most outrageous misstatements
are in connection with the prisoners of war
assert that depornbe ns were the conditions of
things al AndefsonYille and Libby they were both
The National tribune., 1890-06-05

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE is the oal0
Champion lie soldiers haUe among the great pa
pfss q The country The best Uqy 10 helD all
aeteIaAs is by gettiag ii more subscribers.
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The improvement in the weather in the
great gransry region Of the country has
made the outlook for crops much more hope
ful, and farmers are greatly encouraged.
The next best thing for them that can hap.
pen II the Tigid perseverance in the policy
which, by building up markets at home
saves them from the necessity Of marketing
their crops abroad and selling their produce
IN competition with the grain and meat from
the pauper-cunsed countries Of Europe and
Asia.
The National tribune., 1890-06-05

TIE pension situation has not altered
materially since OR last issue. The Con-
ference Committee held another meeting. at
which the proposed compromise bin was
discussed, but nothing definite was decided
upon, and the adjournment Of both Houses
over Memorial Day interlered with further
consideration. 1t is believed that decision
viii soon be arrived at. and the bill be
promptly passed by both Houses and 20 10
the President for his signature. 1t cannot
be done any too soon, for every day Of wait
ing Is sore weariness 10 the deserving men
and women who are kept outof their rights.
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WASHINGTON, D. c. JUNE 5. 1890.
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The states WHICH attempled to aecedo hnd

The Border States, which furnished men
to both sides, had in population:
3O14 7ik
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-14

dered the sack. inside which t ne whita baboon was kicking vioien tly, and screaming like child. It.wa dreadful to hear it's shrieks.
 ''Wc scrambled down the sit les of the kloof and ran for horie as fast as we could manage. When we we re near the waterfall and within about three hum dred yards of the garden wal l, we heard voice behind us, and thi gre, leaping from rock to rock, and runni ng over tho grass, was tho whole family of balloons, headed by the old man.
 "'Run. run! gasped Hen6tr. ik, and did, like the wind, leaving him far behind. dashed into the garden, !here some; kaffirs were working, crying The baby ans! the babyans!' Luckir v the mon had their sticks and speers 'oy them and ran out just in time to. saa 70 Hendrix, who was almost o,,era ,ken. The oaooons made good fight for it, how. ever, and 1t was not till the Id man was killed with an assegai thaa they ran away.
 Well, there Is little h ut in the kraal at the stead Where my father sometimes shuts up natives ,Sho have misbehaved. It is ve ry strong, and has, barred window. To this hut Il Iendrik carried the sack, anSI, having unn ed the mouth, put 1t down 'on the floor g, Id ran
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-14
SENATOR CHANDLER.
Why Famous "Old Zach'' Once Hurried
 Out of Ohio,

---~~
 Out of Ohio.
 twas in the smoking-roo1n one of the comfortable parlor cars on the De- troit, Lansing X Northern road: the time was last Sunday evening, and the speaker prominent Michigan Repub- lican and man who was close per sonal friend of Michigan's great Sena- tor.
 ''The last time 1 saw Senator Chand- Ter, said the gentleman, who is one of the best reconteurs in the State, was during the Garfield campaign. when he had concluded his labors in Ohio and was on his way to Wisconsin. But l am going to give you the story, as near as l can remember, in his own lan- guage, and only regret that can not re- produce his inimitable tone and gcst- ure. 1 asked if he had seen Garfield lately.
 "'Yes,' he said, with that inimitable drawl of his. I saw Garfield the other day, and he did not want me to leave Ohio, but l told him l had to. I was afraid to stay in the confoundcd State any longer
 told him that when left home bought of my friend Bohl a new hat
 ''Then made a speech at Akron, and when l got through with my talk my good Detroit hat was gone. and in it's place was left this internal old Ohio hat Showing. with an inimitablc grimace, hat that had seen better daysl. ''Then 1 went to place they call Tiffin to make a talk. l had a gold headed cane that had been presented to in of u-bic great deal. I laid it down when began to speak, and when l got through the cane was gone.
 "Then 1 went to Cleveland to make a talk. Now R l Ribbon Reynolds had l been there some time before, and had | met with grClt success, and when as though almost every man had bit of red ribbon in his buttonholc. 'I thought it would be good idea to kind O touch upon it in my speech, and | was figuring the thing over in my mind when it came time for me to begin. Just as got on my feet and put my notes on the ta ble by my side some fool ! opened the window at the back of the stage, and some of my notes tiuttered down among the audience. 1 was dHAOyco ttU CulS, duu LOOK something from my pocket to weigh l down the pages of notes which were left when 1 was aware that something had | created a sensation among the audi l ence. There was shifting around, a good deal of smiling. and some sub dued snickering. For moment thought something was wrong with my | clothes, but 1 soon ascertaincd that every thing was as right as usual, but the sensation seemed to increase, and it bothered me.
 At last glanced down at my notes. and to my horror discovered that when supposed l had used my jacll-knife for a paper-weight I had really taken my corkscrew for that purpose, and there it lay in full view of that audience of red ribboned men.
 And so I told Garfield was afraid to stay longer in Ohio.
 At Akron 1 had lost my hat, at Titiin my cane, and at Cleveland I had come blamed near losing my reputation. No, no more Ohio for me.'-Adrian l Mich Times.