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The National tribune., 1890-06-19
exceptions

LAST Monday Senator Vest introduced
the petition of w. A. Hunt and others, of
Nelson, Neb., ex-Federal soldiers, asking that
pension law may be passed, enacting that
at the age of 100 years all disabled soldiers
shall be entitled to draw pension of 81
per month, and running thence until
they die, unless otherwise cancelled by the
request of the moneyed men of Wall ST., New
York, or vetoed by the President of the
United States; and that it shall be deemed a
penitentiary onense for an old soldier to live
to the age of 100 years. 1t was referred to
the Committee on Pensions.
The National tribune., 1890-06-19
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF EXPERIENCE

IAhE ADNANIAGE OE EAPERIENCE.
In nothing is long experience of more
value than in prosecuting pension claims,
for the reason that nothing but long ex-
perience can qualify an attorney for prompt
and successful dealing with the innumer-
able intricacies that arise in the course of
practice before the Pension Bureau. For
this reason we call the attention of our
readers who intend applying for pensions
under the new law to the advertisement of
George E. Lemon on another page. Capt.
Lemons Office is one of the very oldest in
the pension business, and it has been one of
the most successful. Thousands of soldiers
have lost in the aggregate immense sums of
money by employing incompetent or dis
honest attorneys. Capt. Lemon has prose
cuted claims representing hundreds OF mil
lions of dollars. Upon the passage of every
general pension bill the country is flooded
and the veterans besieged with circulars of
irresponsible persons calling themselves at
torneys. Geterans are cautioned to employ
only attorneys of known responsibility and
experience.
The National tribune., 1890-06-19

Every man ,Cho ipore the bFae, and euery
friend of his, should take THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE. IL giUeS more and better matter
than any other family aeeekiy paper, and costs
Oaly ttc0 cents a apeek.
The National tribune., 1890-06-19

SOMEHOW San Francisco has escaped the
maladministration which is complained OF
in other municipalities She has all the
costly improvements and facilities which
have formed the excuse for indebtedness in
other cities. Yet she has debt of less than
$lO00000, while the real and personal prop
eriy OF her citizens is assessed al $305 900 900
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE is the onlu
champion the soldiers haze among Me great pa
pe,s Cf tAe country The best gay TO help all
vetcfdas is By getting IL more subscribers.
The National tribune., 1890-06-19

Hare yOH done yOHr duty in getting one NOR
subscriber for TIE Nd 7YONAL TRIBUNE2
You should do this, far it is he best tpay 10 help
your comrades.
The National tribune., 1890-06-19

THE Philadelphia Record says that "the
extra duty on pearl buttons alone will add
80 per cent. to the cost of manufacturing
underwear" Goodness gracious, how many
pearl buttons do Philadelphians have on
their underwear
The National tribune., 1890-06-19

c. G. OWENS is running for Congress in
the Second District of Kentucky on the plat
form of opposition to pensions and appro-
priations for public buildings. His speeches,
which have been sent us by the comrades in
that district, show that he is a rank old
Bourbon, who stands in the way of all prog
ress and all National sentiment, and has no
ideas behind the wretched obstructionist
policy of the trainers of the Resolutions of
1898, which have been such a source of
trouble to the country. 1t is amazing at
this late day, when the folly of these States
rights ideas has been so clearly demonstrated
by the expenditure of billions of treasure
and the blood of million people, that a
man should have the hardihood to appear on
such platform; but it takes a long while
for life and progress to reach some parts of
Kentucky, and Mr.. Givens is a fitting repre-
sentative of the Mossbacks who form a large
portion of the population of that State.
The National tribune., 1890-06-19

ANOTHER bit of rebel vaporing has van
ished under the clear light of facts. We
have heard so much of the prison on john
sons Island being of the same cruel charac-
ter as the pens in which the rebels immured
their prisoners. Comrade l. F. Mack, the
Editor of the sandusky Register, has re-
Gently had the cemetery there put in proper
shape and the graves carefully marked with
appropriate headstones, inscribed with the
names of those who died This work has
been done with the thoroughness of every
thing that COmrade Mack undertakes, and
he has carefully compared all the records
bearing on the matter. He finds there are
but BOG graves in the cemetery. The names
of those inferred there are known with few
exceptions
The National tribune., 1890-06-19

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stand that il is sent TO him for examination.
We ask that he OF she VIII look over it care
fully, noteits many special features, and COM
pare il with other weekly ireside papers. We
are very sure that If they do this they will
find il to be superior in interest and attract
iveness TO any and all Of them. Its beyond
question the best weekly family paper In the
whole country. 1t has more distinguished
contributors, and a greater array of valuable
reading matter, than any Of them.
The National tribune., 1890-06-19

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Chicago eagle., 1890-03-08
MONROE HEATH

Monroe Heath, the thirty-third
Mayor of Chicago, was elected July
II, 1876, under special election or
dered by the Council, consequent upon
the general corporation act in April,
1915. There was no election in Novem-
Der of this year, the Mayor and Alder
men holding over until 1876. At the
same time the city was divided into
eighteen wards. He was born in
Springfield, Sullivan County, New
Hampshire, in 1923, of English descent.
His mother dying when he was but
four years old and his father when he
was but eight, his grandmother cared
for, himliuntill he was seventeen. In
Boston he adopted a mercantile life
and travelled considerably. He was in
the Mexican war, and cherishes many
recollections of that interesting period.
In 1851 he came to Chicago and com
menced painting on the north side of
Wells street bridge, where he employed
the first year but five men, III the sec
ond year as many as forty. In 1855,
in company with Henry Milligan, now
dead, he established his business on
the South Side. His present head
quarters are on Randolph street, near
LaSalle, where an immense business
is transacted. The firm name OF Heath
& NIilligan is still retained. Mr.
Heath served several terms in the
Council Col. Elliott Durand, Mr..
Heath's son-in-law, and a well-known
reporter of former days, is one of the
chief mainstays of the institution.
Chicago eagle., 1890-03-08
MR.. LELAND.

1t is to be hoped that Mr.. Leland,
who runs a bar room, with sleeping
rooms on the upper floors, on jackson
street, will let the Worlds Fair
alone.
1t would be awful if Mr.. Leland
drove the Worlds Fair from off the
Lake Front
But, then, his guests have rights.
They must be allowed to sit on the
Michigan boulevard sidewalk, so as to
have an unobstructed view of the ladies
getting on and off the Illinois Central
accommodation trains.
Chicago eagle., 1890-03-08
POTTER Of A PLUGGE
NICKEL.


A Whole Car Load Fascinated aud Fs".
bdrTGssed Gy an OuHaiced Coin.
A tall man with a dark mustache
and imperial got into a south-bourd
Broadway car at Twenty-second stros'
the other day, aud took a seat abou.
midway mp the car. When the con-
ductor came for his fare the man fished
a nickel from his pocket. The con
ductor looked at the coin sharply and
passed it back again.
What's the matter?" asked the man.
Its plugged, ," said the conductor.
The man put pair of eyeglasses on
his nose and critically surveyed the
nickel. He found that the conductor
was correct, and handed him a good
nickel. He was about to put the bad
one back into his pocket, when he
noticed that every one in the car was
looking at him. He turned red, hesi.
tated, and finally dropped the nickel
slyly on the floor. Every one saw him
do it, but every one tried to appear as if
he didn't notice it. The nickel lay on
the floor in plain sight, but no one
would look at it. All seemed to think
that they would appear as if they
coveted it if they did. Every one
seemed quite uncomfortable. Two or
three men tried to read, but they
couldn't concentrate their attention on
their newspapers. The conductor
passed over the nickel once or twice,
and tried not to notice it.
At Fourteenth street man got in and
was about to sit down, when he espied
the nickel. He picked it up and tried
to hand it to an old gentleman with a
red face and white mustache, saying
"You dropped this, sir. )"
"No, I didn't" said the old gentle
man, with a laugh.
Then everybody laughed, as if greatly
relieved. The man who had picked up
the nickel looked closely at it, turned a
bright crimson and dropped it again.
Everybody saw him, but whichever way
he looked he saw only averted faces.
The people would glance slyly at him
from the corners of their eyes and then
look away again very quickly. Again
no one looked at the nickel although
every man there knew to nicely jus
where it lay. 1t staid in the same
place on the floor until the car stopped
just above Chambers street. Here the
conductor told the passengers to take the
next car, as that one was going to switcl
off and go uptown again. As they lef
the car all the passengers took las
glance at the plugged nickel but ne
one touched it. 1t started uptown
again, and all the passengers went down
town with that nickel weighing heavily
ON their minds.-NelU York Sat1
Chicago eagle., 1890-03-08

WHEN the Omaha tribe of Indians
was broken up by their own consent,
to take land in severalty, Miss Alice
Fletcher was presented with the "sa-
cred tent. which was the very cmbodi-
ment Of all that they reycrcd under
the old order Of things, and this is now
deposited n the Peabody Museum
Cambridge Mass Quite as significant
relic has nov been proesutcd 20 Miss
Fletcher by tho Nel rcrccs The pipe
of var and council which has been
used BOZ all tbe tribal deliberations fof
over tbirIE ,au the onc which aas
HateIF uaeel amuaJ whom the lHts
mado thsilhst uHttl,ak has nov taea
given lo Miss tlafebsr. ulth due gare
mnnni auI impressive statement ihaI
Do htd destroyed .ts ..aUlHua.e bs
.aaas ths usfe aa hns.ra uIls mI
.lt..Ha Ui ibt tWfel sistsa
Chicago eagle., 1890-03-08
THE WAR ON BEER.

In educating the children of Chica-
go to believe that beer is poisonous
and hurtful beverage, the City Board of
Education is doing an injustice to
prosperity
Beer is a light temperance drink,
and its substitution for alcoholic bev-
erages of a much stronger and dan
gerous kind has worked much good in
all large communities.
Before lager beer took the place of
strong drink, no one ever heard of
workingmens building societies, and
drunkenness was very common.
1t is owing to the great popularity
of this temperance drink that the parts
of Chicago inhabited by the working
classes compare with the best in the
solidity and character of buildings and
improvements.
1t is an impudent and an untruthful
statement for the Board of Education
to make in its text book that beer is
an unhealthy drink,
Two to one that the author of the
book never had any "spongy fat" ol
any other kind Of fat on his body ex
cept, perhaps, in the interior of hi,
skull.
This textbook must go
1t teaches Haunting lie, and by de
stroying beer would restore whisky a
popular drink.
IT is q fraud and a delusion, and
withal, an imposition.
Prohibition may do for Kansas
where the rain refuses to fall in sum
mer for fear Of being locked up for vic
lating the "wet laws" of the State
Chicago will have none of it.
Whiskers, Onahan, and Company
take notice.
Chicago eagle., 1890-03-08
MAD IT our WITH MARY.

Two ladies were riding in car, and
as they rode were overheard discussing
the question of servants.
"Yes, my DEAR said the first, Il am
in the miseries of engaging a new
servant. My husband says my hair has
turned several shades grayer since the
last tour of the registry offices began
1t exasperates me every time see yor
to remember how long you have had
the comfort of that treasure of yours
who manages everything for you. ]
suppose she is still with you?"
You mean Mary?" said the other
"Yes, she is still with me. | couldn'
get along without her, but like mos
treasures, she has got completely
spoiled. She thinks she owns me anC
the house and everything else. Bu
last week | couldn't stand it any longer
and / had it out with her. L tell you
felt positively worn out when l wen
up stairs, and they all scarcely believed
me when | said, WELL I've had it on
with Nary"
Did you really?" asked her friend
much interested. "How did she tax,
it? And what in the world did yol
say?"
con, yes" replied the courageou
woman. Il thought it was no us
trihing any longer Oh! l was yer,
decided with her. She was quit
abashed, l can assure you"
What did you say asked her frien,
eagerly.
Il looked her right in the eye, and
said, why, Mary"
And the intrepid woman drew her
self up with the air of one who Ina
bearded lion in his den.
Chicago eagle., 1890-03-08
PERSONAL.

Mr.. JOHN G.. NEUMEIsTER is recOv-
ering from his recent severe attack of
rheumatism.
COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE
Manner bids fair to become the most
popular man who ever filled that Office.
CONGRESSMAN Mason spent the week
in Chicago. He attracted large audi
ences wherever he was, and inquiries
after his health were generally accom-
panied by petitions for Office.
RUMoR has it that Mr.. c. McAuliffe,
the efficient night editor of the Herald,
is to become managing editor of the
new EUeniHg Herald. A better man
could not be selected for the place.
In the reappointment of Mr.. Martin
J. Russell as South Park Commits
sioner the Judges of the Circuit Court
honored themselves and pleased the
people. There are too few men of
Mr.. Russells stripe in public Office.
JOHN c. EcKEL is making a great
record as city editor Of the Times.
The mastery expose by that paper the
other day of that reverend scoundrel,
Cahusac, was a fine piece of work. The
reporters who deserve credit for it are
Charles w. Beck, A. c. Babize, and
Miss f. H. Brodlique.
Mr.. OWEN MURRAY, the handsome,
accomplished, ana popular South Side
Democratic leader, has returned from
a pleasant visit to San Antonio, Texas.
While in the South, Mr.. Murray met
Corporation Counsel Hutchinson, who
left Chicago for his health. Mr..
Murray reports Mr. Hutchinson as
very much improved.
Mr.. b. p. HUTCHINSON, the well.
known Board of Trade man, is a regu.
lar reader of The EAGLE He tells II,
that he voted for Scott in 1852, but Won
SO on Pierce. That was his first vote
He did not cast his ballot in 1856, but
voted for Lincoln in 1860, and foi
Grant in 1868. He voted for Greele,
in 1872 for Hayes in 1876. and was
"agin' Blaine in 1851. Mr. Hutchin
SON. position iu politics can no longe
be doubted, as he was for Harrison il
/ 1sss
Tuf Bachelors Association of thr
STANDARD Club which was organize,
four months ago. gave lts third dime
saturday evening AZ Che Eicheliel
Hotel Commissioner Monheimor acte
a toastma-tet anil called 90 thc mem
beers Con- sI,oche, and songs other
present ve.e y / Srhmalth q
fleahet Philadelphia Nao u,rau
.raae lIl Manned lluh NtfAa
.twluN Edward tHed An thmu
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Foreman lasrh teh lma ltHiH
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Chicago eagle., 1890-03-08

THE Vine and Spirit Gazette tells
a good story ION" the House of Com
mons. After an all-night session
which resulted in the passage of the
original Irish closing bill, radical
temperance measure, a reporter, at 7
o'clock in the morning, went to the bar
of the house-not that where members
are arraigned, but where they refresh
themselves, and asked for a little
brandy. Bless you" said the waiter,
'they have drank up every drop of
spirits in the House Of Commons hours
ago, in order to pass Sunday closing
law for poor Ireland"
Chicago eagle., 1890-03-08

A sEABCHER among old deeds and
records in London recently came across
a statement that Samuel Wilson be-
queathed a sum of 100000, which has
considerably increased, to be lent to
men who have been set up one year,
and not more than two years, in some
trade or manufacture in the city of
London or within three miles thereof,
and who can give satisfactory security
for the repayment of same" 1t has
not been claimed for many years.
Chicago eagle., 1890-03-08
Thirty nine Aldermen
in Imminent Per-
sOnal Danger.
A Special Grand Jury TO In
VeStigate AIdermanic
CrOOkedneSS.

A prominent law firm in Chicago
has for three months been quietly
taking evidence in relation to the
crookedness, or alleged crookedness, of
certain Aldermen.
Two Aldermen and members of the
present Council have "squealed, " and
there are breakers ahead for some of
the leaders.
Great care has been taken to keep
the investigation a profound secret
and thus far the effort has been most
successful.
THE EAGLE betrays no confidence,
however, in saying what it does about
this matter.
1t must give the news.
The time is not yet ripe to give
names, but when it is. look out for a
sensation
As soon as the law firm at work on
this matter finishes its Job, specia
Grand Jury will be at once impan-
neled
Thirty-nine men, including members
of the present and three preceding
Councils, are under investigation. "L"
road deals, conduit jobs, and variety
of other matters will afford material
upon which to base indictments.
Chicago eagle., 1890-03-08

ONE of the most remarkable women
in England is Mrs. Meredith, who has
created and directed the career of that
complicated organism known as Mrs.
Meredith's Institutions with degree
of unerring good judgment and won
derful executive ability Her father
during her childhood held an official
position connected with the prisons in
Ireland, and was early impressed with
a desire to do something to mitigate
the desolate lives of the women con
victs. Some time in 1860 she began
speaking at the Social Science Con
crosses and elsewhere of the evils
which resulted from the incarceration
of women at Brixton, shut off from
all beneficial outside Influences, and
of the imperative need to make decent
citizens of the discharged convicts.
In 1866 she obtained leave to visit the
inmates of the prison, and many years
she made it her daily duty to go to the
woman prisoners with words Of coun-
sci and sympathy. Feeling that
helping hand must be stretched out to
the discharged prisoners if their prom
ises of reform were to be fulfilled, Mrs.
Meredith established a refuge for them
in houses adjoining her own home, and
later opened mission on Chaplain
road, where they are employed at laun-
dry work or needlework. and no female
prisoner is allowed to pass from out
the prison gates without some attempt
being made to reclaim her to the ranks
of honest citizens. These women,
though hardened by crime possess
one instinct of womanhood hard to kill
love for their children and a desire
to save them from cowuptirg inhu-
pnppS
Chicago eagle., 1890-03-08
THE WORLDS FAIR.
take notice !

Having won the Worlds Fair, Chi
cago must make it a success. Past
differences must be forgotten and
everybody must join hands in the de
sire to promote the general welfare.
The United States of America must
aid to the full extent of its power.
The success of the Columbus celebra.
tion will be a national blessing. rs
failure will be a national disgrace.
What will our Congress Of arch.
bummers do in the matter?
The protcctionists if they love
American manufacturers os they "a,
they do will vote o. iev million. of th,
dollars earned iu protecting Awcu
can industries toward exhibiting
American product. at Chicago.
Tho tfertralcn It tbey want % le
daee ths "uWIu u badly a tbs,
cav lhgy dn and wipe aaI tbe subJe
huu gan ,ala .utsl th. uulu
utheaeo
If lhe natmatI IeWtHam d..iI, %
Chicago eagle., 1890-03-08
PENSION AGENT CLEMENTS.

Mr.. Isaac Clements has been APP
pointed Pension Agent at Chicago.
He is from Southern Illinois.
Harrison is President
Biographies are scarce in Wash
ington.
But as Mr.. Clements can probably
throw stream of tobacco juice as far
as any man in the State, the people
must not grumble.
Pension politics are becoming profit
ohio
Chicago eagle., 1890-03-08

SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Clara Barton,
and other more or less prominent women
have organized the Lucy Webb Hayes
Temple Association. Their aim is to
erect in Washington a monument to
the late Mrs. Hayes. They want five
thousand charter members at $5 a
member. Several hundred members
have already been obtained.
Chicago eagle., 1890-03-08

CHAUN CEY M. DEPEw, at the Su
preme Court banquet: "For the first
legal paper l ever drew l charged
$1.50. A farmer was my client, and he
beat me down to 81 Twenty years
afterward | wrote paper precisely
similar, and received for it $500, with
many thanks.
Chicago eagle., 1890-03-08
GREEN BAY RUM.

Mr.. Green Bay Rum, the Commits :
sioner of Pensions at Washington, has
decided to become a candidate for
United States Senator, to succeed
Charles B. Farwell.
As this will be a fight between COM
mercial interests, the market reports
will be watched with great interest.
Chicago eagle., 1890-03-08
MURDEEED ms FRIEND IN 4
DhEIH

A curious theory of murder has pre-
vailed with the Governor of Kentucky
in obtaining the pardon of W. b.
Tompkins, sentenced 10 prison for life
in 1887 for the murder Of Samuel
Purdv. The two men were warm
friends ans had roomed together for
several years. Cries were heard from
their bedroom one night, and Tomp-
kins was found standing in the middle
Of the room gasmng for breath, while
Purdy lay murdered ON the bed.
Tompkins gasped He's gone ont the
door but the door was closed and mo-
trace OF any ono was discovered In a
corner Of the room was q poker covered
with blood aud hair According 10
lumpkins be said he had been aroused
Hy some ono striking across him AZ
twdy who las at Che back sileat tbe
go ind hal sci tel Che nssaiaut uh
lW brukeu atat rulya mmU
$500 Was wtHurhei ani famplns
.hemwfiy protested ua iunaroaea g.
Ir Iat thapfueauunF atrnet 4al
He .ulsr eha sufJ coo case naa ba
lu,r lhst be allied bH i.sad Is 4
llsam sal apae tba aaysl theau hs
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Chicago eagle., 1890-03-08

In one of the small islands of the
New Hebrides trading vessel recently
put ashore a sailor to buy some yarns,
arranging to call for him in few
hours. While he was waiting band
of natives attacked him and carried him
off into the interior, where subsequent
ly he was roasted and eaten.
Chicago eagle., 1890-03-08

The Emperor of China had to choose
between depriving his sheep and goats
of their pasturage on the lawns around
the Temple of Heaven and having an
open quarrel with his mother, the Dow
ager Empress. He preferred the latter.
Chicago eagle., 1890-03-08

PTEsIDENT VAN HOME, of the Cana
dian Pacific Railroad thinks that
journey around the world will be made
in thirty-eight days within few years.
This will be when the great transasi-
attic railroad across Russia shall have
been completed.
Chicago eagle., 1890-03-08

DoCToR MCKINNoN, Superint,n ndent
of an industrial school in Canada, who
has charge of 108 boys, has figured out
the average cost of feeding healthy
boy at club rates. 1t amounts to
$1.073 per week, or about $56 per year.
Chicago eagle., 1890-03-08

THE London Times will. be about
S75, 600 out of pocket for accepting as
genuine a batch of manuscript that not
one Yankee editor in a thousand
would have given a second look at
without smelling mice.
Chicago eagle., 1890-03-08

nected him with the top of the pit.
Examination has shown that a very
large cavity, depth and width un-
known, exists, and this was probably
caused by recent earthquake.