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desert his flag, and who commanded the
rebel troops that tried to capture Fort PEN
sacola, one division of the rebel army at
Shiloh, and the rebel army at Perryyille,
Stone River, Chickamauga and Mission
Ridge. 1fr. Clere'dnd,s signature gaze Mrs.
Bragg a pension at once.,
Gen. Samuel Cooper, who was AdJutant-
General Of the United States Army at the
outbreak of the war. was one of the secession
conspirators who plotted to weaken the
Union and build up the seceding States,
and who became at once the Adjutant-Gen-
eral of the Southern Confederacy, and en-
ployed all the knowledge gained by his long
experience in promoting the military sue
cess of the rebellion. Though Cooper nerer
sa,c a shot fired IN the Merican rdr, Mr.
Clerelaads signature garo his ,cidosc a pension
Gen. George L. Pickett left the army
in 1861 to become Maior-General in the
rebel army, and lead the charge at Gettys-
burg and make desperate stand against
Sheridan at Five Forks. Mr. C9erelaad's sig
nature care has ,cidoac a pension.
Gen. Gideon Pillow became a Major
General in the rebel army, and fought In
the Mississippi Valley, from the outset to
the close. Mr. Cerelands signature gaze his
sUidow a pension.
Lieut.-Gen. A. P. Stewart commanded .
corps in the rebel army. Mr.. CYereland's s1g-
nature gaze has uidoac pension.
Gen. Jas. r. Chalmers was Forests
right-hand man, and one of the leaders in
the Fort Pillow massacre. Mr.. Cfepelands
signature care his ridolu a pension.
The widow of Stonewall Jackson has ap-
piled for a pension under the act, and her
claim is ready for allowance. Dir. Ctere-
lands signature gaze her this.
The widow of jeff Davis is entitled to a
pension under the law, whenever she chooses
to apply for it. Dir. Cleueland's signature
gaze her this.
Any allegation or prete1t was sufficient
to Justify Mr. Cleveland in refusing a PEN
sion to a Union soldiers widow, while
nothing was suffered to interfere with be-
slowing pensions upon those who had fought
against the Government.
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE approved of
the Mexican War Pension Bill, but insisted
upon such notifications as would prevent
granting pensions to ex-rebels and to the
widows of those who had deserted the flag
or were killed in the rebel army.
Comrades, get your uetoes ready.
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Get your retoes ready.

WHEN Cleveland was President the pa
triotic American abroad found his country
represented everywhere by men lately in
rebellion against the Government, and boast
full of their exploits against its existence.
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Heroes who have led the Union armies to vie.
tori, bat who have never made lees st the van.
quished foe, will tell you here, comrades who
fought with hem, heroes who sustained them, and
heroes who lowered their swords 10 them on this
field Of bsttle-they will tell you That the soldier
voters OF New fOrk-of whom there are $4,000 ss
least Demoeraiie-wiil not support the r0mina-
fion Of Mr.. Cieyeland.-Barke Cochran, Democratic
Conorcssmdn, IN speech at Chicago Contention.
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.RED-NosED PArRIors.D

It IL supplemented BY . steadily.increasing pen.
sion list, lootIns the Treasury to the tune OF one
hundred and fifty millions year, two-thirds OF
which 20 to the support OF eoffee-eoeers and camp
followers, and other red-nosed patriots that loaf
abont the doggeries and brothels of the country,
swearing one for another, toward ultimate ag-
grarianism a. corrupt and orrapting ever ex-
listed In the uorId.-LouisrHe Courisr-JoErn0l
(Clereldrd orQdnl
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A CLEVELAND ORGANS SENTIMENTS.

The pension fraud Is theft, and We repeat that no
honestly defend 1t. The South has been
taxed to death to par this grand army Of raseals-
these bOttle-searred buns, who reach In the empty
pslm-and when Cleveland struck the beggars In
the face he did 90 business job. We hope to
Sod that he may have chance 10 lift EN- again.
Migrants ami mendieznts should be both Viger.
ousIy slapped and kieked.-Durhap1 " O GLo6s.
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CAMPAIGN CANISTER.

III Mr.. CIeveIand's soldier substitute were run.
ming for the Presidency Jon eesld, as a patriot,
find several good and sufficient reasons for voting
for him. bu. what reason zen addaee for Eoting
for the man who, in youth and Tigor, and, unlike
Harrison, did not have the courage TO go to the
fronts None whatever, OF coarse. Mr.. Cleveland
never heard a shot fired in anger, but he vetoed
more old soldier pension bills than aBy President
from Washington down. This Is his great war
record. lie slaughtered veterans BIZ the hundred.
-NelU York Recorder
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If so large portion of the really good
soldiers were Democrats, as Cleveland and
his friends assert, how does 1t come that he
appointed so few of them to Officer
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Haze you done your duty TN getting one more
subscriber fer THE Nd 7IONAL 7RIBUNEf
You should do This, for it IS the best scay to help
your comrades.
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sTRAINING AT A GNAT AND SWALLOW
ING A CAMEL,

"a S<4kN1xN0 al n ONhA NM SW hALo" W.
ING A CAMEL.
The deep butternut warp in Mr.. Ueve-
lands mind made it terribly Instantaneous
for widows whose husbands fought for the
Union instead of for the late so-called South
ern Confederacy. To get the pension bill of a
Union soldiers widow past his merciless pen
recalled the scriptural difficulty of getting
camel through the eye of needle, but he
flung back to the wall the gates which adj
mitted to the pension-roll the widows of
men who did something in the Mexican
war, or thought of doing something, and
afterward spent years in desperate at
tempt to break up the Government.
Let us recall one characteristic instance
of this straining at gnat. where Union
soldiers widow was concerned:
Thos. j. Bradley enlisted in the Spring
of 1861 in the oath O., and served until the
close of the war. At the battle of Nash
pensioned. He suffered all the rest of his life
from his wound, and finally died from its
effects in 1882 His four sons also enlisted,
and served faithfully. Two were killed on
the battlefield, third had his arm shot off
and the fourth lost an eye in battle. This
left the poor old wife and mother, at the age
of 20, without dollar in the world, and
with no one to whom she could look for sup
port. Three hundred of the best citizens of
her County, who were fully acquainted with
her needs and her great sacrifices, petitioned
Congress to pension her. The bill was
passed, Mr.. Cleveland made pretext for
vetoing it and did SO. The case of Mrs.
Bradley is fair sample of many others.
Now let us consider his feat of camel
swallowing when it came to widows of ex-
rebels:
Jan. 90, 1887, he signed bill putting on
the pension-roll, at SO a month, every sur
yiving officer and enlisted man of the army,
navy, marines, militia, or volunteers, who
| served 60 DAYS during the Mexican war
either on the coasts or frontiers of Mexico
or on the say thereto, or were actually en-.
gagged in battle, and to the surviving
widows of such officers and enlisted men
Under this act there had been claims
| allowed up to Aug. ], 1892
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OF 1900 employees in the Pension Bureau
about LOO are veterans, or the widows and
children of veterans.
Quite clearly, service In the Union army
counts for something with this Admins
tration.
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CLEVELAND AND THE HOoIESTEADERS.
enterprising, and industrious people-tens
of thousands of whom were veterans and
their families-who were trying to build
up homes in the Far West, was strongly akin
to his policy toward the pensioners. 1t was
policy of aggravating obstacles in the way
of homesteaders getting their rights-of in
sulting pretexts for delays or refusals.
The notorious VIM. A. J. Sparks was
appointed Commissioner of the General
Land Office, and month after Mr.. Cleve-
land entered office-April 3, 1S85-there
was issued an order which the present Com
missioner characterizes as "a sweeping and
undisguised attack upon all the settlers
within the public land States, and upon the
rights acquired within the limits under the
land laws" 1t was directly against the
settlers, in the interest of the spectators.
Among other wrongs it suspended all tim
Der entries, thus preventing tho imnenaa
forests of the Western States from being
acquired by purchase and utilized for the
improvement and progress of the Western
States and Territories.
Sparks's next act was the establishment
of Division of Review" in the Land
Office. which seems to have been organized
with the express object of keeping settlers
out of their rights.
The result of this policy was to throw
every division of the Land Office from two
to four years behind with its work, and the
Presumption Division was actually 48
| months in arrears. When Comrade Harrison
came into office the Land Office was clogged
| up with $4,000 cases awaiting settlement.
All this immense accumulation has been
| cleared away under the better administra-
| ton of the Office, and now, instead of having
to wait an average of four years to get title
| to his farm, as the homesteader had to do
under Cleveland, he can get it, as rule,
within 90 days after making his final proof
A comparison of the patents issued by the
Land Office in three years under Cleveland
with the same period under Harrison will
show very clearly the difference in the treat
ment Of the homesteaders:
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ment Of the homesteaders

UNDER CLEVELAND.
Fiscal year ending June 80. lss6.........". 1885
Fiscal year ending June,aQ 1887. "a. 55s
Fiscal year ending June so. lsss.... 47,1sO
Total for three 81 ,623
Average of 30 SAL per year.
UNDER HARRISON.
March s. 1889, to Dec so. lsse.."..."-.-". 1888
JAM J. 1890 10 Dec. so. 1890 125 $50
Jan. !, 1891 to Dec 90. 1891 1os.sso
JAM J. 1892, to Sept so, 1892, 81, I55
Making total Of. 800. $50 I7S
Average of l05, i79 per year.
Comrades, get your retoes ready.
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Total 1882
The great majority of these survivors
were rebel soldiers, who employed the ex-
perience gained in Mexico in organizing,
instructing and leading troops against the
Government. Very many were men who,
after being educated and supported by the
Government, deserted their flag to join the
rebellion. OF the widows there are hum
drcds whose husbands were killed on the
battlefield, in the rebel army, fighting un-
der the coiors of treason.
Among the notable widows who have
received the benefit of Mr.. Cleveland's sig
nature is that Of Lieut.-Gen. Braxton
Bragg, who was one Of the FIRST officers to
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VETERANS IN GOVERNMENT EMPLOY.

Comrade Harrison appointed that grand
old soldier-Gen. j. M. Rusk-Secretary Of
Agriculture. Upon his entry into Office he
found very few veterans and their relatives
employed in the Department of Agriculture.
Now the account stands thus:
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-12-29
HERE AND THERE.

The British museum has SO miles OF
shelves filled with books.
Mosquito and musllet are from the
same root, the Latin word for fly.
Over 10, OOO,O 90 pounds of tea were
imported into this country last year.
Patents are now granted in sixty
four countries, eight of which, singu-
larly enough, are in Africa.
An apparatus that economically de-
livers grains of corn to poultry only as
fast as used is late invention.
A Chautauqua, n. V, farmer fed his
white grapes to his cows and produced
butter of an unusually fine flavor
Hubbard T. Smith, who wrote the
music of Listen to My Tale of Woe"
is clerk in the treasury department
and q favoritc in society at the capital
He is Hoosier by birth.
1t has been found by French ply
stefan that the bilious fever 50 charac-
teristic of the tropical countries is due
to special bacterium, which though
motionless itself, is accompanied by
numberless moving spores.
Three-quartcrs of second is the
time occupied by the fall of the knife
in guillotine. The knife is weighted
with 100 pounds of lead, fails nine feet,
and cuts through flesh and bone as
easily as through bar of soap.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-12-29
SCIENTIFIC BITS.

Russia is stated to nuke the best
giant sturgeon, which iuhabits the
Caspian sea.
Herculite, the new French explosive,
is so powerful that half pound of it,
in a resent test, displaced a stone
weighing thirty tons.
NJ. Flammarion. the distinguished
French astronomer. believes that great
climatic changes are going on in
Europe and that France the United
Kingdom, Spain, Belgium Italy,
Austria and Germany have temper.
arily, at least, lost several degrees of
temperature.
Physicians are now able to wash out
the system through the natural chan
nels of circulation by means of inject
ed fluids, and Dr. Max Hldebrand of
San Francisco states that it is possible
TO infuse into the veins, without dan
ger to heanimal, an amount equal to
four times the normal quantity of
blood.
The health authorities in Germany
are said to have made use of mixture
of flour and peanuts in making bread.
1t has been found that the refuse left
after extracting the oil from peanuts
contains 50 per cent of albuminous
matter, while wheat and rye fonr con-
tain only about II or l. per cent
As the albumipous matter constitutes
chiefly the nutritious portion of bread,
either peanuts or the peanut refuse
should add considerable to the uutri-
tiOuSnesS
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-12-29
A Most Honorable Honor.

On one occasion when a public re-
cop:ion was given to Daniel Webster
asa1hotel in Boston. a particularly OBJ
icquious old Office seeker was intro
dneed. The man hattered Webster
until the great man was tired OF him.
aud bidding him good-day. settled
DOWN heavily into the nearest chair.
BuG the man. instead OF passing on.
fingered near ana seemed TO have
something still on his mind though
he looked very blissful. Webster OBJ,
served this and said not very good.
naturally: May | ask you sir. II
you want anything more OF mep" oh
oh no said tho man. smirking;
only, perhaps. | may be permitted
to remark that am proud to say that
my hat is having the inestimablo
honor TO occupy the same chair with
Daniel Webster. Webster had. as a
matter OF fact sat down on the man s
tail beaver hat and crushed it out oil
shape --Argonaut.
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These are Facts z"o-.
Honsekeepe,y SbonN Seriously C0nnder.

knowledge and skill attained by over quarter OF
century's experience is available in its present
preparation. The consumer is not experimental
upon By changes of formula that are constantly
being made in other powders in an effort to get a
mixture that will not cake" or lose its strength,
or that follow changes of proprietorship or manu-
facturers. The Royal Baking Powder is always
certain and equal in its work; teaspoonful does
the same perfect work to-day that it did yesterday
or last week or month, or last year.
While the last teaspoonful in a can of Royal is
as good as the first, other powders lose their
strength after being made short time, and par
ticulary after the can is opened.
The cxactness with which the active principle
of each ingredient prior to mixing is ascertained
by expert chemists; the actual prohibition enforced
against the receipt into the works of an impure in
gredient; the care with which the materials are
dried, coated and prepared before their combina-
ton, and the precision in packing the powder so
that it shall be delivered to the consumer in the
perfect condition in which it leaves the factory,
are some of the details which go to make the
perfect Royal"
The same means are not employed by other
manufacturers. There have been a great many
limitations of the Royal, but no equals. Pure
materials are not employed, care is not taken in
their preparation and combination, while in the
great majority Of baking powders alum is added to
give them strength, while cheapening their cost.@
The great popularity and general use of the
Royal Baking Powder attest its superiority.
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0ARNERED sHEAvEs.
The cotton crop of 1879 was $40, AIS
N laa. ~ aQt xvoa esE sta

The cotton crop of 1870 was $40, AIS
bales; of 1891 was s. 655,51s
Among the recent inventions In
electric heating device are hand
stamps, curling-irons, coffee urns aud
branding irons
A bicycle maker in England has be-
gun using an alloy of aluminium and
titanium. which is rs per cent stronger
than pure aluminium.
A new variety of wheat, the grains
Of which are nearly twice as large as
the ordinary kernels, was grown last
season near Moscow, Wash.
1t is calculated that the Mississippi
annually deposits into the Gulf OF
Mexico sufficient mud to cover a square
mile Of surface to height of eIo feet
Theother day fifty jars of fruit fell
and were destroyed in the cellar of
house at Yardley, Pa. AMI fifty neigh
bors each brought the woman can of
fruit to make up her loss.
William l.. Loose, a Berks county,
Pa, shoemaker, has just completed a
pair of high-topped boots for himself
that were made entirely of hog skin.
This peculiar leather is so tough that
1t can scarcely be cut with a sharp
knife
A prize of 5000 francs has been of.
fered by Baron Leon dc Lenval of
Nice to the inventor of the best appli.
cation of the principles of the micro.
phone in the construction of portable
apparatus for the Improvement of
hearing in deaf people.
Workmen cutting up n huge bowlder
at Lumberville, Bucks county, Pa
found hidden under it a sword of revo-
lutionary date. Relic hunters say the
sword must have been buried by one
Of General Washington's soldiers dur
Ing the famous march to Trenton.
A snow white deer was killed near
Lock Haven Pa, the other day, by
George Mccartney of Dluphin county.
tits the only one of the kind ever killed
In the county, and is the first killed in
the state since benjamin Haley shot
one in SchuyllSill county twenty years
apO.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-12-29
HOW SHE SAW 1T.
From Her Standpoint 1t Was More I'm
portant Than Dinner.

From Her Standpoint 1t Was More I'm
portant Than Dinner.
oh Charlie did you see the run
away9n
No. l didn't I'm starving Nellie
Hurry up dinner"
oh, ii was awful The horse was
galloping like mad. 1t was an ex.
pressman's wagon and a trunk"
Tell me ut dinner Nellie. I'm
SO hungry | can't speak the truth.
But my dear the children"
What! the children! Good heav-
ems
oh. they're all right; they wero
10 the house but they might have
been right in the middle of the
road
VIII you ring the bell for Han
nah?"
On. Charlie. was so frightened;
ran to the window and saw the
wagon tip over-Oh-oh-oh- h h
What on earth"
/ Harry might have been riding in
that very wagon! He often does"
But he wasn't it appears"
No Gear; doesn't it seem like a
special providence; but oh Harry,
/ some poor woman lost her"
! WAS anybody killed, Nellie:"
| Her trunk was thrown out right
| III front OF our door, and the beauti-
fll woman's clothes were scattered
all over the pavement Such
| lovely"
What became OF the beautiful
WOMAN"
oh, Charlie. I'm so excited
don't knaw what I'm saying. Such
lovely gowns. and cloaks. and"
WAS She eXpressman hurt Nell
! lie?
Il IN Bure | don't know whether he
was or not the stupid! someone
came and took away the things.
just Iowa Il runaway Charlie don I
yon?'
lIanrahs timely entrance with the
dinner saved Charlie from another
version Of the affair
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-12-29
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
once Building Improvements-A Hun.
drcd Miles of Electric Road to he
Built-SellIuR Franchises

drcd Miles of Electric Road to lie
Built-Selling Franchises.
ST. LOUIS Mo, Dec. 24.-Every new
Office building that rises with its ten
and twelve stories in st. Louis has an
improvement on the one built the
month before, that shows what in:en.
ton is doing for the convenience of the
business man. Rapid and intelligent
elevator service is the one thing needed
in these big edifices. At present, in
most of them, this is very irregular.
You may ring the bell, wanting to go
down, and along comes an elevator
going up. You have 10 wait till it
comes back. The newest idea is a
! double bell on each floor, one of them
! marked, "up" and the other down"
! You ring the bell that shows what you
want, and the elevator going your way
! comes to your floor and stops. The
| elevators that run continuously up and
! down without bells are being aban-
| doned, as there is too much waste Of
! power with them.
If the Assembly passes the street
railway bills now before 1t. over hum
! dred miles of electric roads will be
added before next fall to those now
| running in the city. There are men in
the city who, taking advantage of this
/ intention of the railway builders to
extend their lines into every nook and
corner of the city, are making fortunes
by keeping their eyes open and invest
! ing small sums of money judiciousiy.
! There are some of these men at every
meeting of the Assembly. When an
/ application for new franchise IS
made, they take note of the route.
The next day they drive along the pro-
jected line looking for vacant lots.
Then they see the owner and offer to
pay his taxes in exchange for a years
/ option. In most cases he is glad to
| get the offtr and closes with it at once.
The other man pays the taxes and
watches the railroad bill. Ten to one
he closes the option before the year is
out, and makes a thousand per cent
on the investment, as the property
jumps up at the approach of the new
road. business of this kind could
not be carried on at all in city grow
ing less rapidly than St Louis is
There are thousands of people all
over the United States who have pleas
ant memories of visits to the great
woodland resort of st. Louis, Forest
Park. They have walked through it
by the footpaths, or driven along its
beautiful drives, and have marvcled at
its scenery, its geological collection
and its botanical garden. All these
tourists will doubtless be interested in
knowing that in year or less there
will be belt line OF electric railway
running around tie park and connect
ing with the city lines SO that visitors
may see the pack from every side and
return to their hotels without leaving
their seats. At certain points on the
line it will be possible to leave the
cars and, by a walk of few hundred
yards, reach the lakes with their boats
and music, the tennis courts and the
haunt of the wheelmen at the summit
Of lung. testing hill The franchise
| FOR this road is TO be sold at auction,
and as it is certain to be largely pat
'onized the price viii be big one.