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TURSER--At Yates Center. Kan. Sept. IL, 1897,
DIR. John w. Turner, Assistant Surgeon, lst KY.
Cav Comrade Turner was Surgeon Of Wood Post,
1S5. Of Yates Center. He leaves a widow and two
daughters.
BEAM.-At Norfolk, Va. Sept. II, 1897. John T.
Beam, Co. H. 2ilth Pa, aged a. years He leaves
q widow and three children.
GILLEE.-At Brazil, Ind. Sept. II 1897 John
Gileu. Co. b, liih Ind. Comrade Giilen enlisted
June 7, 1861. and WIS discharged June 20, 1854 He
WAS r member Of Con. Candy Post, g
PRATr.-At l37 West Forty-second street, New
York. Sept. q. 1s9s Capt Henry Pratt, I2th and
s9th ". Y. aged 50 years Conirads Pratt enlisted
for three months ia the I2th y. Y. and upon being
mustered ont rs-enlistsd in the e9th ~ Y, shortly
afterward being made Lieutenant. At Antietsn
he was wounded, and he resigned In December,
lSe2 During his term OF service he was engaged
in the defeBses al Washington, and was with Pat
terson In his operations in the Shenandoah. He
was also in the Srst Maryland Campaign, Burn.
sides expedition, and present at the battle Of
Fredericksburg and in the campaign In North
Carolina Capt. Pratt was q member Of the U. g
Grant Post and also Of the Loyal Legion. He was
q widower. his wife having died about two years
ago. He leaves two chidren-a son and dsugh-
ter.
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LET HIM SPECIFY.

In his letter of acceptance Mr.. Cleveland
says:
The American people generous and grateful,
and they have impressed these characteristics upon
their Government. Therefore all patriotic and
just citizens must commend liberal consideration
for worthy veteran soldiers aud for the families
OF those who have died No complaint should be
made Of the amount of public money paid to those
actually disabled Or made dependent by reason OF
army service. But pension roll should be a
roll Of honor. uncontdminated by i'll desert and
unuitidted by demagogic This IL due to those
whose worthy names sdorn the roll and TO all our
people who delight to honor the brave and the
true.
This is a repetition of the old malignant
cant which ba. filled the writings and
speeches of the soldier-haters for years. 1t
is the insolent assumption that the pension
roll is tainted with corruption-gives feed
ing ground for bummers and hooters, and
rewards for political heelers. That this Ia
false no one knows better than Mr.. Cleve-
land.
Five years ago the House Committee
on Invalid Pensions-three-fift hs Of whom
were his political friends and supporters
told him most empbatically that what he
said in regard to corruption in the pension
list was entirely untrue, rigid scrutiny
having shown that not one allowed case in
I 600 was tainted with fraud.
In the last two Congresses he has seen
committees of investigation exhaust every
method to discover rottenness in the allow
ance Of pensions and meet with bumiliating
failures in both instances. In spite of all
the clamorous denunciation not a man was
found upon the roll who was not rightfully
put there; not single vicious method was
exposed; not dollar was discovered which
had been given for other purposes than those
contemplated by the law.
1t requires remarkable hardihood in Mr..
Cleveland to repeat the SANDER now, when
he knows he has not single fact to sustain
it and cannot obtain one.
This sort of thing Is very cheap SANDER
mongering, Mr. Cleveland. It is below the
dignity of any public man, much more that
of one who aspires to the highest Office in
the gift Of the people. Until you can pro-
duce instances or names to support such
villifcations of the brave, notwithstanding
men who are now the recipients of the Ma
TONS justice, it is simply shameless to in
suit them by inuendo.
Comrades, get your retoes ready.
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SOME of the soldier-hating papers are
going into spasms over the report that
Whitelaw Reid was elected . member of
the Grand Army of the Republic at the re-
cent National Encampment. This is ridicu-
Reid lacks the necessary qualifcation-he
never was regularly mustered into the serv-
ice of the United States during the war of
the rebellion and honerably discharged there
from. The only basis for the report was this (:
Mr.. Reid was a war correspondent in West
Virginia during the exciting struggle in the
early part of 1861 for the possession of the
State. He made great many friends and
acquaintance among the men serving there
at that time, and his letters attracted good
deal of attention. Col. Theodore F. Lang,
the Chairman Of the Eighth Corps and
Army Of West Virginia on the Reunion
Committee thought it would be pleasant
thing to have Mr. Reid present at the great
Reunion of the Eighth Corps on Grand
Army Place, and sent him q courteous invi-
tation. Mr.. Reid could not attend, but sent
a graceful letter, which was read in the Re-
union and received with cheers. This is all
there was of It,
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SPEAKS our IN MEETING.

The Durham q. CO Globe is 10 more
malignant in its views than other Cleveland
organs, but it speaks out more freely thar
many dare do. 1t says:
The pension fraud Is theft, and we repeat that nc
man can honestly defend St. Tho South has beer
taxed 10 death 10 pay this grand army of rascsls-
these bottiescarred buns. Who rsac. in the empty
pslm-Rnd when Cleveland struck the teggafs IL
the face he did good business job. We hope L
God that he may have chance 10 hit en- again
Migrants aud Fnendicsuis should be beth ylgor
ousl5 slapped and kicked.
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to mako money breeding from them for the
geological gardens of the world.

to mako money breeding from them for the
geological gardens of the world.
A buffalo calf can be raised as readily a.
one from common cow, and will sell for
5000 to geological collection which is short
of buffalo. Ostrich farming has long been
a profitable business, not only in South
Africa, but in this country. 1t is believed
that it will pay well to start 8 kangaroo
ranch in the mountains of the Far West.
A New York company expects to mako big
dividends by raising silver and sable foxes
on a couple of islands it has secured in
Bering Sea. There are several skunk farms
in this country, and two enterprisiDg Penn
sylvanians are getting rich raising bullfrogs.
The latest proposition is to establish big
elephant farm in the valley of the Amazon,
stocking it with animals transported from
Africa. There are lots of queer ways Of
making money in this world, and the ways
are getting queerer every day.
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veterans, was unanimously concurred in by
committee consisting of the following
| gentlemen:
c. G. Matson, Indiana, Democrat.
T. B. Winans, Michigan, Democrat
Henry B. Lowering, Massachusetts,, DEM
ocraf.
William II. Neece, Illinois, Democrat.
John A. Swope, Pennsylvania, Democrat.
w. p Taulbee, Kentucky, Democrat.
James n. pidcock, New Jersey, Democrat.
William w. Ellsberry, Ohio, Democrat.
John s. Pindar. New York Democrat
E. N. Morrill,, Kansas, Republican.
M. A. Haynes, New Hampshire, Republic
can.
James E. O'Hara, North Carolina, Repub-
lican.
John G. Sawyer, New York, Republican.
E. II. Conger, Iowa, Republican.
James A. Loutitt, California, Republican.
La there any further testimony needed to
show how little Mr.. Clevelands windy
suspirations of forced breath" before cleo
ton can be relied on when it comes to real
action?
The record we have presented convicts
him of the grossest treachery toward the
veterans at the supreme moment-at the
time when the opportunity came for him to
make his words good. Nine Democratic
Members of Congress, strong political friends
of his, Joined with six Republican Mem
bers of Congress in formal public denun-
citation of his recreancy to his own words
and protes.ations. Is such mans words
now, when he is again seeking the votes of
those whom he maligned and injured, to be
accepted? Never!
Get your Uetoes ready for election day.
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Two men of naughty bearing met upon .
narrow footboard which spanned . filthy
slough. One hold his head on high like lawn
tennis cham pion, the other bore himself with
An air of pride BETTING the brother-in-lsw of
him who taketh city.
STAND aside. fellow" said one, "and let ne
pass"
Step off into the mud yourself" answered
the other. "Do you know who / ann"
NAV; nor do by gosh!-eare."
"Sirrah, I am the man who was cured of
catarrh, and whose portrait appears in all the
great daily papers"
CAV! Get behind yourselfi / am the hus-
band Of the woman who has put up 80 tumblers
of jelly"
And the catarrh man stepped of and stood
in the mud up to his knees and uncovered his
head while the jelly man walked across the
slough dryshod.
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The preferences accorded to veteran soldiers In
public employment should be secured 10 them
honestly and without evasion. and when capable
and worthy their claim to the helpful regard and
gratitude Of their countrymen should be ungrudg-
ingy Observation-Disclosures Letter Of accept
dnce
This is Candidate Cleveland talking. A
few years ago President Cleveland was acting.
He was turning out Union soldiers and their
widows by hundreds every week. He was
not removing Republican veterans to give
their places to Democratic ex-soldiers. No;
these latter had as little consideration from
him az their Republican comrades. 1t was
political heelers and ex-rebels who had the
call then Such Democratic Generals as
Sickles, Slocum, John M. Palmer, A. V. Rice,
Durbin Ward, Aquila Wiley, ETC., had very
little consideration from the White House.
But one Union soldier appeared in his Cab
inet--though there were two Confederate
Brigadiers holding portfolios. The Quar-
termaster- General of the defunct Southern
Confederacy was hunted up and his political
disabilities removed, in order to give him
the pleasant berth of Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary to Austro-
Hungary. Dabney 81. Maury, a rebel Major
General and bitter Secessionist was given
the Ministry to the United States of Colon
bia Ex-rebels of various ranks were APP
pointed Ministers to Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico,
Persia, Roumania, and Venezuela; and the
same partially for those who had borne
arms against the Government was displayed
in all the appointments.
The section of the Revised Statutes of the
United States giving preference to honor
ably discharged soldiers and sailors of the
Government for all offices and employment
was q dead letter fram March 4, 1885, to
March 4, 1889, when Grover Cleveland gave
way to Benjamin Harrison.
Comrades, do yoa propose to alloU a return
to that condition Of thingsf # not, get you,
uetoes ready.
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GENEROUS CONVERSATIONS

In his message vetoing the Dependents
Pension Bill, President Cleveland said:
cannot but remember that the soldiers Of our
civil war. ia their pay and bounty, receive such
compensation for military services rs has never
been received before since mankind went to war;
that never before, on behalf Of any soldiery. have
so many and such generous laws been passed to
relieve against the incidents of war
GROVER CLEVELAND.
What was this generous compensation
At the time the war broke out, the pay of
soldiers was s11 a month, payable in gold.
In 1861 this was raised to $13 month, and
paid in paper. In 1863 the pay was raised
to $16 month. AS the paper dollar was
worth SO cents in 1862, the man who got
S13 month really received $11.44. In 1868
the paper dollar was worth $50 cents, so
that soldiers $16 month meant really
but 5000. In 1864 the dollar was worth
492 cents, so that S16 was only worth S7.s7.
At this time common laborers were receiving
from So to $3.50 day, and mechanics from
| So to S., 30 that man who went into the
army had to sacrifice from $44 to $134 a
| month in wages. At that time wheat ran
up to $2.75 . bushel, and -four to s12 q
barrel; calico and muslin ran up to rs cents
yard. soldiers pay for month would
do little more than buy barrel of -four for
his family or plain calico dress for his wife.
The compensation that Mr.. Cleveland
talks about was really beggarly stipend,
that would not provide the commonest
necessaries of life for the smallest family.
If the compensation was SO generous, why
did it not tempt the briefess young lawyer
Cleveland from his dingy Office to the turbu-
lent frontf
Getyour cetoes ready for election day.
| THE NATIONAL zRIB UNE for sir
| .,ay3 ofy.~ a. -r,cf;na fnn n ,a,y.
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TIE Eag iish ressel-owneFs are about TO
make general reduction of 10 per cent in
the aireaiy low wages OF their seameD
Can't some wiid-ered free trader show that
this is disect result Of the Mckinley Biil9
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INCREASING HER srArURE.

INCREASING HER statute.
Flint-You know how very short Miss Tiny
Tott is?
Gooney-Aw!
Well, she is taking measures to increase
her hight materially"
"Haw!"
eyes; she is going to be spliced next week"
"HaWi haWi"
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BREEDING BEASTS OF THE FOREST

BREEDING BEASTS OF THE FOREST.
Raising wild animals is rapidly becoming
an extensive business. This is not alto
gether departure, for in the early part Of
the century French peasants made fine in
comes by raising wolves at time when the
Government was paying large bounties for
wolf scalps. Some of our people have bsen
accused of breeding foxes, wolves bears
ETC., when the State scalp market was such
as to yield fair profit in the business. But
the business new is open and legitimate.
A Georgia man is reported to be making a
good thing out of an extensive herd OF
beavers that he has located and bred up.
An Omaha company has bought ths only
herd OF buflaioes in tho United States
outside the Yellow Stone Park, and expects
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KNEW IT ALL.

Jaw! What do know about ponitry2"
young man, I am Methodist minister and
have attended Is annual conferences"
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE for 81
ueeks-mna after the sIeetion-.for 10 essts.
This 10 q great offer.
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"BEFORE AND AFTER"

In June, 1884, when Mr.. Cleveland was Z
candidate for the Presidency, and seeking
the votes of the veterans, he signed pc
tition for the passage of the Service Pension
Bill to give every tonorably discharged SOL
der So month. Not content with signing
it, he added the following Endorsement:
am sure that the subject OF this petition Is
worthy of the prompt. careful consideration Of
Congress, and that the fullest justice should be
done to the parties in whose interest this move
ment Is made.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Feb. II, 1887, when, as he thought, securely
anchored in the White House for another
term, he said in his veto of the Dependent
Pension Bill, q measure which did not 90
nearly so far as the Service Pension bill
Never before in the history Of the country has II
been proposed to render Government aid toward
the support Of any of its soldiers based alone upon
a military service recent, and where age and
circumstances appeared SO little 10 demand such
aid.
Hitherto such relief has been granted to surviv-
ing soldiers few in number venerable in age, after
q long lapse of time since their military service.
Gnd parting benefaction rendered by q grateful
people.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Can there be any confidence placed in q
man who will 60 back On his prediction
promises 30 shamelessly? We are sure there
cannot. Get your vetoes ready for election
dan.
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A MIscoNCEPTfoN.

Maj. sunklands "a prominent citizen Of Ar
kansas)-I'd like book of poems, sub.
Bookssller-By what author, srf
Maj. Sunklands-I don't know that it makes
any particular diffunce, sub, just 30 it has .
han'so binding. Iwant it to give as buth-
day present to my niece. What would you
suggest, suhs
Bookseller-A handsome binding3 Take
Chaucer.
Maj. Sunklands-Thanks, sub. don't
mind sortuh mingling pleasuh with business
What kind Of tobacco do yon user
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A POOR NARKsMAg.

PUOR NARk5MAN.
so Scatterton went hunting with you, Oh?
Poor marksman isn't hep"
"Poor2 / don't believe he could hit flock
of barns if they were to fly up 10 feet from the
end of his nose!
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"wE'LL SLEEP TOMORROW, BoYs,-

z J. z CUTTER, co. K, 18th ME-, RIVERSIDE. CA
lAt Fishers Hill the writer heard Gen. Sherida
~ cheeriIy, as he rode past in the dusk. We
eep tomorrow. boysl" So We pursued Early
,uted army all night. in good spirits. though hui
~, for issue Of rations was "a hours oysrdue.l
Now evenings shadow comes,
Heavy with victory,
Where Massanutten looms
Above the dragged way,
But in the covering night
Phat takes the vanished rout
Pressing their mbling Sight
The close pursuit streams Qua
For what were the avail
If darkness rob the day
Make void the blood and Toll,
And bear our prize awsyf
So now the Generals voice
Restores the columns poise-
Bids hearts and muscles brace
Wen sleep tomorrow, boys!"
The golden hinges turn;
The score of years Is Ioug,-
Again the campfres burn,
Again goes round the song.
From nights Of toll and gloom,
To sleep-forbidden eyes
Peace restful triumphs como.
And freedoms victories
No more the battle rocks
Along the blighted plain.
While from its sleely shocks
We thresh the iron grain;
Nor now the fallen lie
And list the passing shout,
And drain the canteens dry
While fast their blood flows Qua
Like sound Of viols' boards.
Tempered to grain of age,
In hum OF CHEEKY words
Cometh the full hearts gage,
Old friendships fame their ligh3
Where now the line deploysy
Wei keep The fires tonight,
And sleep to- morrow. boyst
Though broken are the fouFs
That stood in rain or shine
And stacked their arms with oua
Together in the line.
Ye. Msmory's brooding bent
Makes the ranks full again,
And her close sheiter-tens
Covers the comrades In.
Wherever Man hath part
Shinsth kindier sun,
And he hath better heart,
For deeds that these have donss
And look the flags are brightI
Upon our children's heads
Playeth superEal light
Down from the sllken shredsi
o, sweet 20 join our mates
For the brief campfre's span.
While in the near time waits
The Chris. who ioveth mani
For where the people come,
In Freedoms holy Joys,
To deck the honored tomb.
WE'LL SLEEP TOMORROW, BoTsi
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The NATIONAL TRIBUNE for sir
weeks-unta after the electi0n--for 10 CENTS
This is great offer.
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Comrades, get your retoes ready.
PREFERENCE FOR VETERANS.

The preferences accorded to veteran soldiers in
public employment should be secured 10 them
honestly and without evasion. and when capable
and worthy their claim to the helpful regard and
gratitude Of their countrymen should be ungrudg-
ingIy acknowledgement erelands Letter of Accept