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Washington Letter

FROM OUR REGULAR \'OkREsfoNDENi'
WASHINGTON. d. c., Sept. 7, 1901.
Secretary Noble has gone to Cape
Nav Point to confer with Mr.. Harrison
about the opening Of the Oklahoma In
dian lands, the vacancy upon the In
terstate Commerce Commission, and
other important matters pending before
his department. Mr.. Harrison Is ex-
pected to return about the Is inst, but
some OF these matters required immedi.
ate attention.
When Secretary Tracy returned from
Cape May Point Saturday he brought
instructions from Mr.. Harrison to the
acting Secretary of State directing him
to cable instructions to Minister Egan
to recognize the new CHILEAN govern
ment. This ends a rather interesting
chapter of diplomacy, in which gold, as
we'll as brains, was largely employed.
To-day is being celebrated as labor
Day" here by a large parade of the labor
organization. 1t is not legal holiday,
but all work upon which organized la
Dor is employed, except at the Govern.
ment Printing Office, is at stand.stlll
Secretary Rusk meyer did an official
act that reflected more credit upon him
as manly man than when he took time,
amid the showers of congratulations
that were pouring in by WIRE upon him
on account OF the news of the official
PRONUNCIATION of the German Imperial
decree resembling the restrictions upon
American pork products, to write to his
political opponent, Representative W.
II. Hatch, of Missouri, the following
letter: 1T gives me great pleasure to
inform You that have been Notified by
the representative Of the German gov.
eminent in this country that Germany
has this day removed its prohibition
against the admission of American pork
into that country. feel assured that
YOU. as Il representative of the farming
interest of this country, will rejoice with
me at this event. The thanks of the
farmers of the country are due to you
for YOUR efforts in their behalf. and es-
recially your advocacy before the House
of Representatives Of the Fifty.first
Congress of the meat inspection bill,
without which the above result could
not have been Obtained
Representative Mills, who is now here
says there is no foundation in the report
telegraphed from New York that he and
McMlllen were trying to make com.
binatlon and dicker with the House
clerkship Tor the purpose of getting
control of the New York delegation.
He SAYS he will make no deal With any
one and that he will sink or swim solely
on his merits. He does not figure on
being nominated on the first ballot in
the House caucus, but he appears to be
confident of ultimate success.
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Lieut.. Peary's winter quarters haye been
erected only n few miles south of the spot
where Mr.. sonntag, the lamcDtcd astronomer
of IIaycs's expedition, broke through the
young ice in December, 1860, and died two
friend but Eskimo Hans TO witness bis last
moments. Sonntagg was on the way to Wis
1t the Eskimos who to day are Pcary's near
nclghbors. He desired to buy dogs of them
disease. The dispatches say that Peary was
unable to buy dogs in South Greenland, but
there is little doubt he can secure the teams
he needs from the natives whose settlements
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Every Home should have IL.

1t is not always convenient to call a
Physician for every little ailment. Having
Red Flag On! in the house you have a Physl-
clan always ut hand, it kills Rheumatism,
Neuralgia Burns Bruises and all Aches and
Pains. Price 25 cents.
There are few things in this life of which
we may be certain, but this is one of them,
Pan Tina Cough an(. Consumption Cure mas
no equal for Coughs, Colds and Consump-
ton. Price Is Cents.
At DR.. j. X Waters Drug Store.
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Bucklen's ArMica Salve.

The BEST SALvE III the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup-
tions, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refunded.
Price Is cents per box. For sale by
NJ. E. Leatherman. July "a ly
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New Advertisement Is.

Public Sale.
Public Sale.
Hammond Urncr
Bus. Loc.-David f. Halter.
DEATH OF Mrs. SUSANNA WEDDLE.-Su
sauna, wife of Henry Wcddle died at her
home on Eastst, this place on Sunday last.
She liyed to reach a ripe old age AMI aied re
spcctcd for her kind ways and upright lite.
She was the mother of Joseph a. and Curtis
Wcdde of our town. She was member of
the Lutheran church her body was inferred
In the Hill Cemetery on Tuesday.
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III arriaaeS,

On August Goth, in Washington, d. c., by
Rev. l.. A. Thirlked, at the parsonage,
Mr.. Isaac E. Wachter and Miss Louisa f..
Buckley, both of Nj. Pleasant, this county.
On A ngust Goth. Mt the Reformed parsonage,
in Frederick, by Rey. DR.. E. R. Esbach,
Mr.. Charles r. Hoffman, of Braddock, and
Miss Ella NJ. Stone of Frederick.
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may continue to send it until payment is mad'
and collect the whole amount, whether the paper il
taken from the Office not.
No paper will be discontinued until paid up.
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VERY I'LL Mr.. Jos. E. Webster, OF this
place, has been extremely Ill during the past
two weeks he is suffering from serious
form of heart disease. Wcarc gratifed to be
able to report his condition during the past
two days as much improved.
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Mr. Allen J. Williar has severed his con-
ncction with the Frederick Shoe Factory and
now engaged as salesman in Mcssrs. Renner
IL Kcnp's dry goods Store on Market st,
Frederick
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A PERFECT, PROMPT, and radical cure for
Darrhea and Dyscntcry, is Humphreys Spe-
cities Nos. Four and five. Thousands use
them with complete Success.
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LEICESTER OF WILLS.

CHERlFFALTY.
Having concluded to become a candidate
for the next Sheriff of Frederick County, l
hereby announce my name as candidate
for the same subject to the next Republican
nominating convention, and would most re-
speclfully solicit from my friends favorable
consideration of my name for the next can
didate for said office.
Very Respectfully.
A. D. DOTY,
apr0 If of 14th Jefferson District
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Deafhs,

On September 9th, in Mcchanicstown, Su-
sauna, wife of Henry Wcddle, aged 81
wears, II months and II days.
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Additional Locals.

Fruit taken for subscription.
Biggs Bros spring wheat fours aud
Crown Stock Food arc for sale by the best
dealers in every town. Try them.
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MOUNTAIN LAND.

deceased. situated on West Main-st, con-
tanning 2 acres, more or less, improved with
a large two story brick house, stable and
other buildings good water and fruit.
For further information call on the persons
residing on the properties or Adde'S either of
the undersigned,
TERMS: One third Cash, one third Six
months. balance in Twelve months, or all
Cash at option Of purchaser.
sILAS M HORNER. J Executors of
THEO. MCALLISTER, Estate of
]. HARVEY COBEAN, John WithcrOw
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new Embellishments.

TTAMNIOND UKNEls,
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~ OFFiCE.-RecOrd Street opposite
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Peary's Arctic Quarters.

SOLD by druggists, price Use.
The Portland daily press., 1891-07-27

post in any state. The test is whether n
nan served his country in 1875. no mat
ter from whence he came. In another col.
umn is table showing the men furnished
and the losses in war by states. and I cite
those figures here to make clear the Fact
that the Grand Army, by reason of its COM
position, is dissemination of national
Ideas. In that list the states of New York,
massachusetts,, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illi-
nois and Indiana figure among the hun
dreds of thousands in the quotas furnished
the government.
Admitting that one half of those men are
dead, and the remainder, or one-half of
them, in the ranks of the Grand Army in
those same states today, will Gen. Veazey,
when he marshals the battalions on this
Silver Anniversary" parade, find the
1900 and odd Green Mountain boys in the
ranks where the high crowned army
hats are sprayed with evergreen? No; the
east has peopled the west since the war,
and the Grand Army has sprung up and
grounded its traditions, erected its affairs
and displayed its symbols on soil where
volunteering was not known in 1861. The
Pacific states, the territories even have
well filled ranks of the Boys in Blue, and
the veterans of the great eastern and CEN
trail states hail today from anywhere be-
tween the oceans. There are state lines in
the convention of the Grand Army, but
only for convenience in organization, and
the smaller states combine in forming de-
partments.
So grand encampment of the veterans
is patriotic celebration each year by hun
dreds of thousands of people who are, and
who represent, the nations defenders, and
who giorify the nations triumphs and pray
for her perpetuation.
The war on the northern side was q ma
tional struggle, and the men who fought
the northern battles could not fail to be
converted from New Englanders, Network
ers and westerners into nationalist. They
were drawn from their separate corners to
mingle their blood upon very narrow fields
and to go back remembering that no state
was grandest in the sacrifice, that COM
mon altar drank the blood of all. Broadly
the war was scattered over wide area, but
Che hard fighting was narrowed down to
limited sections, and it might be said tho
men of the east and the west went forth as
to an arena to contest, in the name of
union and nationality, for the mastery.
State emulation there was, but national
life was the prize and national glory the
reward
The Portland daily press., 1891-07-27

THE BLOODY GROUND IN THE EAST,
10000 Union dead lie in the cemeteries Of
that district, and tens of thousands were
taken north from there for burial. The
great movements of Confederate invasion
of the north, under Bragg and Hood. were
met and checked in that section.
Thomas was the Rock of Chickamauoa. -
and the bulwark of Nashville, within that
region, and Hooker fought abovethe clouds
at Lookout Mountain there. Brave Wal
lace fell there fighting for the rescue of
Prentiss at Shiloh. There Lytle went
down with the battle cry warm on his lips:
"We can die but once. Let us charge
There Corse held the fort at Altoona Pass,
and noble Mcpherson, the richest sacrifice
west of the Allegheny range, died Drawing
the storm of Hoods onslaught at Bald
Hill. On the southwest border Grant
wrested victory from disaster at Shiloh,
and on the northeast Burnside hurled
Longstreet back from the gates of Knox
vile. In the interior Rosecrans spurned
danger amid the battle hail at Murfrees-
boro, and on the south Sherman stormed
Tunnel Hill and Mission Ridge, not halt
ing until his banners f1oated above the last
stronghold of the west, Atlanta; while on
the waters that lave the western border
Foote's fleet of gunboats swept the chan
mel of enemies afioat and on shore.
Were the veterans who cherish the men,
cries of this hallowed ground called upon
to rise in their bivouac quarters at the
Detroit encampment and salute old com
rades in arms state lines would be seen
to melt away in the rush. The battlefields
of the Union were the nurseries of their
fraternal ties.
Bloody Battles OF the war.
Naturally a picturesque battle Ike
Gettysburg, or ascene of wholesale slaugh-
The Portland daily press., 1891-07-27

occasions was less Fort Donelson, 1862
where the Union loss was $40 killed, the
Confederate probably less. Lookout Noun
tain, 1868, where the Union loss was 500
killed and the Confederate less, and Resaca.
1864, where the Union loss was over 500
killed, but the Confederate is not recorded.
Where the figures for certain great battles
are not obtainable computation of losses
for the whole campaign win serve to show
to what extent the Union troops suffered.
In the 'Seven Days Battles" 1862, there
were los, 900 Union against 10000 Confed-
crate at the outset. The Union loss in
killed and wounded was 9, 796; the Confed-
crate, 10, 1876. In the Maryland or Antie-
tam campaign, 1862, the Union loss was
11,660, killed and wounded; the Confed-
crate, 14,212.
In the Vicksburg campaign, 1863, there
were 43, 900 Increased to II, 00O) Union, and
10000 (reduced to $4,000 Confederates en-
gagged. Union loss, 5000, killed and wound
ed; Confederate, 1882.
In the siege of Port Hudson, 1868, 4,044
Union soldiers were killed and wounded.
In the Chattanooga campaign, 1868, in
GLIDING Mission Ridge and Lookout Noun
tain, the Union loss was 5,465, killed and
wounded, against Confederate loss of
254l.
In the Atlanta campaign, 1864, the Union
force ranged from 5000 to o., 900, and the
Confederate from 65,000 to $4,000 The
Union loss was q, 245 killed and wounded;
the Confederate, 1885, In the Wilder
ness campaign, 1864, from the Rapidan to
the James, the Union loss was 5O,499 killed
and wounded. In Sheridan's Shenandoah
campaign, 1864. the Union loss was 1881
killed and wounded. In the siege of Peters
burg, 1864, the Union loss was &c, 97S killed
and wounded, and in the Appomattox cam
paign, which.included the final assaults on
the Petersburg trenches, the Union loss
was 8,6S7 killed and wounded.
These details need no establishment of
words to strengthen the picture of what
the veterans endured in order to win
the honors grateful people now ac-
cords them. And it is not only whist was
suffered after the harness was put on, but
what was dared before the issue had gone
so far. After Shiloh and the "Seven Days"
in 1862, the government asked for 100000
men, and 100000 rushed to arms. After
Murfreesboro, Gettysburg and Chieka-
manga at least million men volunteered
to keep the depleted ranks up to fighting
strength.
The Portland daily press., 1891-07-27

In his address at Sandwich, Mr.. Cleveland
spoke Of the treatment Of ex-Presidents and
he reported great variety of opinion as to
what 1t should be. There are two kinds OF
ex-Presidents. those who do not want to be
Presidents again and those who do. In the
case Of the latter. the fact that they have
been Presidents is liable to be overlooked or
forgotten In the presence of the more stirring
fact that they want to be Presidents, SO they
are not likely to be treated as ex-rreSicenis
at all, but as Presidential candidates. Grov-
or Cleveland's case is one in point. The
public are not regarding him as an ex.Pres'-
dent, but as Presidential candidate. IL Is
entirely within his power to cause himself TO
be looked upon merely as an ex Presiden',
but as long as he neglects to exercise that
power he can hardly complain. in view OF all
the circumstances that the public regard him
as candidate and discuss him from that
standpoint.
The Portland daily press., 1891-07-27
DETROIT EXPOSITION BUILDING.

General quarters or the q. A. II.
The highest loss sustained In any one
battle, counting the percentage on the
number engaged, occurred in the First
Minnesota at Gettysburg, July 2, 1868. In
most desperate crisis Gen. Hancock or
dered the regiment, numbering only 262
men, to charge on an advancing brigade of
Confederates and take its colors. The deed
was CALAMITY accomplished, but with loss
of rs killed, 2S per cent. of those engaged.
The wounded numbered 159.
Next to the First Minnesota in high per-
centages of killed in single battle stands
the Fifteenth New Jersey, which lost "a
per cent. at Spottsylvania. Following this
is the Twenty-fifth Massachusetts,, which
lost "a per cent. in killed at Cold Harbor.
The Twenty-ffth charged upon breast
works lined with men whose muskets were
kept loaded and handed up in relays. The
One Hundred and Forty first Pennsylvania
also lost "a per cent in killed at Gettys-
burg. 1t fought in the Peach Orchard.
Records as brilliant, in some respects, as
those have cited might be continued I'M
til hundreds had been accorded place of
honor. But this would display only one
side of the sacrifice that saved the Union.
The triumph did not come through for
lorn hopes alone, nor did Victory stand at
the beck of those only who stood ready to
"get themselves killed, most beautifully"
In order to win her smiles
The war was one of invasion and con-
quest, as well as of desperate lighting.
Weary miles had to be marched under
burning sun and through winters storm.
Sieges were laid where deadly miasma
killed more than bullets did; marvellous
works of engineering. of intrenching, of
running saps in the face of incessant fire,
of climbing mountains, of building cause
ways for guns and ammunition trains. of
patient labor day by day for weeks and
months to get ahead a foot at stroke to-
ward the skillfuIly defended strongholds
of the enemy; all this was accomplished
by voluntary exertion from men not in
ured to the exposure and strain involved.
The proper lifework Of the masses who
went to the front was laid aside and in
thousands of cases never resumed by the
survivors, because of lack of strength
when the battle was won. aale4 youths
they were. the two and asouarters millions
The Portland daily press., 1891-07-27

who proudly marched away at Father
Anranam's call-marched away and disap-
peared. No one can say of the spared that
the same men came back, exactly the same
men. 10 tramp all day under load of
sixty to seventy pounds under a southern
sun, where the roads are thick with dust,
the water stagnant and rank with decaying
matter, and keep at it until men fall, never
70 rise out OF the chill that strikes them as
they reach the earth; then to plunge into
swamps and stand waist deep in water
whhe constructing roads and bridges or pry-
ing out guns and carriages from the mire;
to be drenched in winters rain to the
skin and then experience fall Of mercury
below the freezing point without change
OF clothing or fire to thaw the ice that in
cases the limbs like armor; to maneuver
and light and foil the enemy under these
last conditions, and feed meanwhile on
horse meat cut from carcasses slaughtered
In battle in order to hold the ground, as
was done at Murfreesboro; to march by
night and fight by day for week with
only three days food supply at the start, as
was done in the 'Seven Days." an! was
almost paralleled in the Vicksburg and
Chattanooga campaigns, this would rot
be laid down as a practical regimen for
young fellows Of twenty to twenty-five
The Portland daily press., 1891-07-27
Totals. ................G77s,oo i

The column of deaths represents those
who died in the service, 10000 OF them
from battlefield wounds. 1t would be I'M
fair to yield the palm of glory to those
states so fortunate in numbers as TO count
their volunteers by hundreds of thousands,
and their martyrs by tens of thousands
When 1t came to the stern work OF the war
the test was one of manhood, of pluck and
devotion. Every state entered that con
test, and it is interesting to give the old
adage the go by once more and compare
the result From a list of 800 fighting regi-
ments, compiled by Col. w. F. Fox, the stat
istician. 1 have selected the following
forty-flve infantry and nine heavy artillery
regiments, that lost over 200 killed and
mortally wounded in battle, and nine cav
airy regiments that lost over 100 each in
battle, giving the lie to the slanderous
mot that, though never spoken as alleged,
has been widely repeated. "Who ever saw
dead cavalryman"
The Portland daily press., 1891-07-27
Campfire Echoes.

DR.. B. f. Stephenson founded the first
Grand Army post at Decatur, Ills, in April,
1866, or twenty-five years ago. Gen. Alger,
past commander-in-chief, and chairman of
the committee in charge of welcoming the
boys to Michigan, has named this encamp-
ment the "Silver Anniversary" because
the order has reached the quarter century
mark.
Fort Wayne was begun soon after the
war of 1912 as defense against British i'm
vasion. 1t is located on a bluff command
ing the city and the river, and is near the
general quarters of the encampment In
war times the boys called it "bandbox sol
diering," to do garrison duty with ''shined
up" shoes and polished accoutrements, but
no doubt they'll have admiring eyes for the
dandy regulars who keep the Yankee armor
in business trim at Fort Wayne, ON the
border.
The Michigan Soldiers monument, in
the grand square in front of the Detroit
city hall, was designed by Randolph
Rogers. 1t was erected in honor of the
Michigan heroes who fell in battle during
the civil war.
The exposition buildings are the general
quarters provided for the veterans. The
structure is one of the largest and finest
of the new buildings of the city. The
quarters are arranged in bivouacs by
states, and the men "camp out" on
the floors of the large halls The soft
side" of the boards are padded with
straw mattresses out of regard for the
dainty habits that have grown on the vet
Grams since the war. If that isn't good
enough they may bring their own beds or
hire them in boarding house.
A silver anniversary is q reminder that
time flies. To have done anything worth
celebrating after twenty-five years means
that there was a score or more of years
Roadway at the start. In the case of the
veterans the Roadway was over twenty
five years, and now they are growing gray,
and may pause to consider WHOM answer
"Herep at the next roll call, and who will
be put among the missing. At the twenty
fourth encampment last year Gen. Charles
Devens was among the Massachusetts men
who welcomed the veterans to Boston.
Gen. Sherman was one of the merriest of
the vast throng at the mammoth campfire,
and Gen. r. f. Tobin was Eelected to hold
second place to Commander-in-C Chief
Veazey for the year 1891. Their silver an
niversary will be with ''the grand army
2 above"
G. l.. K.