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band, can her pension be restoretL2 a. What course
should she pursue in order to get her pension ?
insurer l. Yes. 2. III the period Of widOwhood
terminated prior to March 10 1856 the widow Of
an enlisted man or nOn-COmmissiOnedO officer would
receive IS per month, and an additional 81 per
month Tor each minor child Since March 70 1886
the rate OF widows pension has been sl2 per
month, providing she married the soldier prior to
of Pensions
Inquirer, PAXTON. Tad-Can remarked vvidovvs h.
penstoned; and If so. under what law2 AHg1Dsr
Yes; under the act Of June T. 1888 during the
period oil Wldowhood. providing the soldiers death
was due to causes originating since March A 1851
while ~ line Of duty in the service
". W., LudiotC, MO.-I. To what claims does thu
order OF the Commissioner Of Pensions "a to com
pieted claims apply? 2 What is the object OF a
Board of Surgeons? Answer. l. To ali claims
which are regarded "a ready for adjudication 2
To better enable the Commissioners Of Pensions 10
determine the exact physical condition of the APP
pcant.
II. r. p, EeV Hareu, Gonna veteran applies for
pension, employs an agent. and agrees in writing
10 allow him 80 for his services in case he secures
a pension. He fails in getting a favorable report
from the first Examining Board and his claim is
rejected After several months he asks for q re-
consideration and employs another agent to press
the claim, agreeing to pay him the amount II
he - successful. Now, If his pension shoud be al
lowed, the first agent claim the fee OF SIS or
does u properly belong to the other agent? IN
s1Der. III the first attorney took steps after the
rejection to reopen the case, and another attorney
was appointed, the latter will probably recognized
and the fee paid TO him.
Mrs. L. L. B.. EIaiTG " Y-If your husband Ia
by reason OF disabilities shown due to line of duty
In the military service, permanently helpless AZ
to receive and require the regular aid and attend
ance oil another person, he should draw pension
OF $50 per month
y. s., Binghqra.on. " VI. Is the per diem pen
sion to be in addition to pension already rantedY
?. Have any bills been introduced into Congress
providing for the payment Of Arrears Of pensionP
4nsICeT. J. No 2 Yes.
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Cast out sin. Have clean hands, pure hearts,
innocent minds.
6. Confess sin. The method in the case Of
the ministry of st. John Baptist is not mem
toned. 1t may have been in a confession meet
ing. 1t may have been one to another in pri-
vate 1t may have been to st. John Baptist in
person. The admission Of snfulness is the first
step to remedy.
z. Remember time is short Eternity IS sat
hand" (V2) Act at once. Delay not secur-
ing salvation.
The National tribune., 1890-02-06

Al the recent annual dinner of the famous
New England Society at Delmonco's, in New
York, bon mol was made by the Rev. DIR. Way
land which brought down the house with roars
of laughter lie said among other bright things
that IL seemed rather hard on old New England
for her sons to sit here enjoying themselves in
such luxurious fashion, when even Plymouth
Rock pants for three dollars. and moved that
collection be taken up TO relieve the distressI
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When Baby was SICK, we gave her CastoIia.
When she WAS q Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung To Castoria.
When SIS Lad Children, size gave them Castorla.
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Consumption surely Cnrod.

To tie Editor Please inform your readers that
Ihoye positive remedy for COusum pGn by ia timely
use thousands of hopeless been permnnenty
cured snail DE GLAD 10 send two bottles of my reay
iHEE 70 any VI your readers who have ptiou IL
hey "lli send me their Express aud +. o. Address Re.
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HAbuN = NIAhhE Mrs. ID. A. kOBLEISON.
In Aaron : Clarke. OF Stark, Fla. the Young
people Of the G. c. viii ser a veteran Of CO. who
has been "a NATIONAL TRIBUNE reader for eight
years, and who has averaged subscriber
every year. His grandfather a soldier under
Washington; lis own command being Co. II, LIST
Mass ii. a. lie is one OF the veterans warmly de-
voted 10 the G. c.
Mrs. d. a. Robertson. wife Of Lieut. ID. A. Rob-
ertsOu. Co *, 18Th Iowa. l. a matron of Sc and an
srtist among our Home Workers. She gives spe-
cial attention 60 landscapes and fower-paiuling.
She Il a native OF lee County, III; tall with dark
hair and eyes; fond OF home, books, music and
loWers
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ST. Parkersburg, w. Va, and VIII ]. Wallace, ST
Albans VT The idea ia spreading Let us heal
from other States.
A c. c. ACRoSTIC.
Aunt May" Keeler's mysterious call on the @
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yer cake basket of unique design and ornamental
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but submits these thanks in rhyme, since she cannot
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There is a band of oil the best,
However great may be the rest;
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Know all IL is n. r. c. C..
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The Editor gives thanks To all
Or rich, or poor, great or small.
True thanks for loving thoughts or deeds,
High purposes aud modest needs,
Eternal truth that heavenward leads.
Dare 10 be strong when duty calls,
Extend a hand to him who falls,
Around your hearth let pity draw,
Rise in the might of purer law.
Now heaven bend down forcvermorc,
To bless your basket and your store;
Clasped in the arms OF Sacred Love,
Close rest until we meet avove.
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Charles ii. Bensinger. McComb o. was former
ly known to the G. c. a. Harry Kane" He is
the son 81 Capt. William Bensinger Of the Mitchell
raiders hight five feet 10; weight lss pounds: oc
cupailon farming; great reader Of books and
neTspaprr.. and well up IN public affairs Te is
Tsia;. ss-,'.-,3s.- - - - kifi.
q Co. J.. I'd y. y. farmer; born in Woodford
County, H. sept =, lS5s a resident Of Kansas
since $50 She has brown hair and eyes: hight
i've feet four; highly intelligent and accGnul-led
and would make a certain {. c. boy very happy.
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First HonOr-Emmeu Searcy, Warirhce. Tenn.
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1. Be heralds for Christ; get things ready
for mis- coming make straight paths; fill val
legs; level hills aud mountains of sin away
with all crookedness; smooth every rough as
perity; herald be earnest. crying aloud warn
men.
2. Repent. The meaning is not so much that
we should weep. We must stop SHINING, change
our evil courses, turn about toward righteous
ness and away from iniQuity.
3. Go TO church. Take pains to hear Gods
heraids and teachers. Ii is well for society to
turn out and attend religious services
A. Receive the ordinance of baptism. This is
a rite ordained of Christ for universal use in
tho Church.
D. seek that holiness implied in baptism.
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Ella q. Webb Las been a G. C. member for the
past ycar- She j. i; has dark hair and eyes /:
weight, lDs pounds hight five feet three inches
Lila h . member Of the Methods, Church and r
teacher IN sunday school Sine D. "a cTayou artist Of
line ability, and Intensely fond Of good literature
Nella -. Hampton has long been a most indus
trlous and eilceut member 81 The g C., couiribut-
ing regularly 10 is several departments. She il a
brunei. hye feet four inches tail. and weighs 100
pounds. Her time. when moi employed teaching
The National tribune., 1890-02-06

"A good paint for single roofs shat can be-
applied cold aud dries quickly-can be made AS
follows One barrel OF coal tar, 10 pounds of
asphatum and 10 pounds of ground slate; mix
by tho aid of heat aud add two gallons of dead
oil
Every farmer should raise pigs and cure
his bacon. There is no meat equal to that pro-
duced at home. You will at least know what
you are eating" which is valuable point in
favor OF home-raised meat, only healthy,
thrifty stock will he used for the home supply
correspondence the Rural New Yorke, lost
| recently two horses rs the result of feeding
moldy ensilage rs Ia part Of their ration; after
feeding for about n month both horses were
taken on the same day with ccrebfo spinal
meningitis. Mnsty hay or other fodder is said
To be dangerous in the same way to horses.
1t IS not profitable to use straw at $50 per
ton for litter for stables where leaves are scarce;
AS many MS can be got should be raled up and
the deficiency made up by hardwood sawdust,
dried swamp muck, or even sand. Chips from
planning mills waste from wool factories, any
thing, in fact, that will absorb the moisture
will answer the purpose.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-01-25
Philadslphla Germnn ma

A Philadelphia German named
kleeinan hns discovered process for
making sugar out of ''black strap. the
refuse from molasses. The ..black
strap Is thinned with water and mixed
with Ignite. after which 1t is purified.
The result Is said to be fair quality
OF sugar.
The objection against making lead
pencils out ofpaper instead OF wood has
been overcome. Oae OF the difficulties
has been the toughness OF the paper
covering and Its consequent resistance
TO the action OF a knife. BY new pro-
cess the molecular cohesion OF the pa
per is modified In such manner that
1t can be cut AZ easily as cedar wood.
An ingenious device for preventing
the odcr OF cooking from escaping into
a room has been patented. The 'nven.
ton is OF the simplest possible descrip-
ton. and consists OF hood with folded
sides or leaves, which covers the sides
OF the stove. The odor passes into the
hood. and Is carried directly into the
chimney
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-01-25

Bavarian authorities are bestowing
pains and energy upon the effort to
systematic plan TO stamp out tuber-
culosis. One difficulty in the way is the
apparent impossibility OF determining
whether contagion or Inheritance is the
more important factor in the propaga-
ton Of the disease. The Bavarian doc
tors are not satisfied with the opinion
now dominant in Berlin that heredity is
of no consequence and that a thorough
prophylaxis may be established upon the
suppression OF every possibility OF con-
tagion, but they have proposed to the
Government an experiment on an ex-
tended scale for determining this point.
In the State prisons OF Bavaria the NOR
tally from the tuberculosis now aver
ages from - to 90 per cent. IL DIR.
Comets views as to the deadly character
OF the deposits upon old stoi walls are
sousd then 1t is probable that the whole
Internal surfaces of these old prisons are
simply seed beds for the propagation OF
tubercle bacilis and that when a man is
nominally condemned TO incarceration
for year there is involved In his SON
tence an unintentional condemnation to
death by tuberculosis. Science.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-01-25
TIE wooncock.s prAk.


hers of the bird Family.
These long-beSked. migratory birds,
sbich are AZ interesting 70 the gour-
mnnd "a 70 the hunter, are In Germany
only for a short time in the spring and
FALL, during their passage through the
country. The woodcocks remain CON
sealed In the darkness 81 the woods all
day and do not leave their hiding place
until IL begins TO grow dark; then, in
the spring, they ny In zig gags around
the edges Of the woods, often in twos or
threes, finally coming to the open, damp
places OF the woods, To the pastures, or
10 the edges Of water lying near the
woods, in search Of food, which prefera-
bly, consists Of different kinds OF worms
and insect larvR. In the morning twi-
light the woodcock repeats this zig-zag
fight and searching for worms. At
their breeding places they fly in the
same way again as soon as the young
in the late fall the birds seldom move
In this way. They then generally hurry
to tho feeding places.
In these places whore the ground is
perforated by numerous small holes,
each having diameter about equal to
that Of a thin lead pencil, which are
formed by the continuous pushing in and
pulling out OF the Htoodcock's long bill
The sensitive soft point of the upper
bill forms feeling apparatus with the
help Of which the bird discovers the
worm under the surface OF the ground.
He possesses the power of arching the
upper part of the bill from the middle OF
Its length and then closing the points so
as 10 grasp the worm. This curving IL
caused by the displacement OF part q
the jaw bones and the elasticity OF the
long upper jaw brings 1t back into place.
/ This popularity was known TO hunters
as early as the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. Won Gochhausen
MAT. Yenat., l7lOl wrote as follows on
I the subject: This bird can when
searching with his long beak in .
swamp and finding worm press the
points OF his bill together for about a
+ fingers width, and then separate it be-
yond like nippers," etc.
1 This and other writings have been
4 forgotten. because the curving OF the
4 bill generally occurs while working un-
der the surface Of the ground, and con
sequently tame birds are seldom seen 70
do 1t. Long years ago the writer had
the good fortune TO see this movement
made by a tame bird, and published an
account Of his observations in 1855. As
already stated, the birds sometimes
curve their bills when not working in
the ground, particularly when deyour
ing large worms.
The woodeock does not live long in
captivity, his inclination TO migrate
shows itself continually, but he is not
afraid OF men and never fails to eat the
worm which is thrown To him. In spite
of his voracity, however. the woodcocl
generally grows thin, when in captivity
and finally dies. Illustrirte Zeitung.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-01-25

me edition sor 1880 OF the sferiing MesiicA
Annnal, kaoum as HnslsfieFas Almanac, Is now
ready. and may b. ohtsiasd. tres 81 soafs of
druggists aud general couBtFy dealers Ia ali
IN every riviiised portion Of the Western lem
iApherr. Ihi1 Almanac has hccu Issued rcsf a.
larry NJ the commencement ~ every year for
ever one fourth Of century IL combines, With
the Aoundest practical advice for the preserva.
uon sud restoration Of health, large amount
Of interesting aud amusing light reading, and
the calendar, astronomical calculations, chFo-
uologiral items. ETC., are prepared Sith Grs Al
care. and wall he found entirely accurate. The
issue Of Hosi@tfer's Almanac for is1o viii prob
ably be the largest edition Of a medical work
ever Published Ia any county. The proprie
tors. Messss. Hostel er 4 Co, pittsburgh, Pa,
on Fecelpt Of a two-cent stam9 viii forward q
copy by NATL 10 any person who cannot procure
one In his neighborhond.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-01-25

owe 10 having used DR.. David Kennedys "a
vorite Remedy, of Roundout, N. r., At rhme
when was suffering all that q human beina
could endure. Ny troubles began In my kid
My physician said I had Brights disease. Latei
had bad attack OF gravel SIX years ago last
June-how well | remember that day. saw
Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy advertised In
our paper. After using three bottles | was well
have never had q return OF the disease, aud
though am over sixty years OF age | am wig
orous and strong, a. was In my prime What
physicians and the many remedies had taken
could not do, DIR. kennefy.s Fayorite Remedy
did; IL stayed the disease and made me vel
woman.--Mrs Emiliue z. Miner, Burg Hill %
DIR. KzsNKDY's FAvoRfrK REMEDY, made al
Rondout. n. Y. u; 8 for 81.
send for hood, how TO cure Kidney, Liver anf
Blood disorders.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-01-25
GRADES IN AUTHORITY.


An Interesting study Made ny an Eater
prsslnK Reporter.
Authority on board Of q steamboat Is
an interesting study. II runs on a slid
ing scale. but. unlike the gamut, II only
slides one way. This is bad for lower
c. on the steamboats,, but he has TO
stand it. A good illustration of how
the thing works was given yesterday
afternoon just above Madison street
bridge.
The captain OF steamer was trying
TO make landing at the dock. but the
operation was attended with some diff-
Guilty. A line from the bow had been
run out and made fast 70 post. but the
vessels stern was swinging OF into
the stream. The skipper. with scowI
on his brow. stood on the bridge alb II
the wheel-house and stared AT the first
mate, who was hustling around on the
hurricane roof amidships Down below
on the quarter-decx the second mate
was helping the third mate and a deck
nand TO take the turns out OF n stern
line, which was snarled up on deck in
stead OF being made fast on the doc &
''Mr. Olsen. said the captain, in a
gentlemanly tone Of voice to the first
mate, why in thunder don't you get
that line out. you long, lean, lank.
knock-kneed. tar-tainted wreck OF re-
turning reasonP Don't you see we re
swinging ofrP'
AYE. aye. SIR" Mr.. Olsen replied,
respectfully touching his cap to the
skipper
Then Mr.. Olsen leaned far over the
rail. and raising his voice he called the
second mate attention 20 matter OF
great Importance.
Mr. Peterson he yelled. what ;
eating you. you tow-headed, block-eycd
lubberl DO you want to choke the
stream Get move on you. and he
quick about it."
AYE. aye. SIR" was MIR. Peterson's
response TO this delicate attention rc-
ceived from his superior. He then
gave the third mate some instructions.
Swanson he gently but firmly re-
marked. IL II crack your blooming skull
II you don't hump yourself. you gaunt-
eyed. bow-legged, stock-flsh feeder
Bear hand there lively there. and
get that line out"
AYE. aye. sir" said Swanson In O
humble voice
Then Swanson gave the dock-hand.
who gets twelve dollars per month. q
clout ON the SIDE OF the head which
knocked him down. Then he jumped
on him with both feet and shouted
why in thunder don't you pay out
that stern line. you low-lived. white
livered. mule-eared, hog-backed. slab
sided, bcnch-legged. feeble minded
mollingrubberl What are we paying
you forP" And he finished on the poor
man with kick in the ribs.
The deck-hand ran the line out and
made the boat fast. Then he wen
down In the hold. where he annointed
his person and dubbed himself with q
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