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Deer Park and Oakland.

r To those contemplating trip to the mountains
In search of health and pleasure Deer Park on the
crest Of the Allegheny Mountains 1900 feet above
the sea level, offers ouch varied attractions as a
delightful atmosphere during both day and night
pure water, smooth. winding roads through the
mountains and valleys, and the most picturesque
scenery in the Allegheny range. The hotel is
equipped with all adjuucts conducive to the enter
tanment, pleasure andcomfort of its guests.
The surrounding grounds, as well as the hotel
are lighted with electricity. Six miles distant on
the same mountain summit Is Oakland the twin
resort of Deer Park, and equally as we'll equipped
for the entertainment and accommodation Of its
guests. Both hotels upon the main line of
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. have the advan.
tages of it's splendid Vesiibuled Limited Express
trains between the East and West, and are most
desirable resting places for Worlds Fair tourists
Season Excursion tickets. good for return passage
until Oct 81, will be placed sale greatly re-
duced rates at all principal ticket offices through
out the country. One way tickets reading from
st. Louis, Louisville. Cincinnati, Columbus, Chi
cago. and any point on b. & o. system to Washing.
ton, Baltimore, Philadelphia New York or vice
versa, good to stop of at either Deer Park or
Oakland, and the time limit will be extended by
agents at either resort upon application.
The season at these popular resorts commences
June Is.
For full information as 10 hotel rates. rooms etc.
address George ID. DeShields, Manager, Deer Park
or Oakland, Garrett County, Md.
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An Iowa Cyclone.

One of the most destructive wind-storms
known in the history of the country swept
through the northwestern portion of the State
of Iowa On Thursday, July 6, causing immense
destruction of property and involving the loss
of many lives. The exact details of tie losses
have not yet come TO hand. The storm
appears to have originated in Cherokee
County, and following south westerly course
passed through Buena Vista and Pocahontas
Counties, eliminating with great force upon
the village of Ponieroy, in Calhoun County.
At the latter place dreadful devastation was
wrought in few minutes, large portion of
the town being completely wrecked. Nearly
100 persons killed outright, and hundreds more
or less mutilated. The cyclone passing
through thickly settled portion of the State
the losses are unusually large, and it is feared
that further advices will swell the number of
dead and injured.
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thing that has impeded its progress, and shat
tering with vandslistic completeness all the
sentiment over the blood stained battle-ground,
the American Mecca"
The trolley goes out the Emmitsburg road
that runs about midway between Seminary and
Cemetery Ridges, upon which the two armies
were ststioned-to the Peach Orchard. Here
it turns to the left and pursues the narrow lane
leading to the Taneytown road. Just before
reaching the Wheatfeld it defects abruptly to
the right making for the DEVILS Den region.
The Memorial Association has from the first
opposed the electric railway, and scorned their
request for right of way over its land and
avenues. Consequently the trolley purchased
from private parties the necessary privileges,
and wherever possible il has run its route
along the line of the Memorial Associations
land.
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AT GETTYSBURG.
Annual Meeting of the Battlefield Memo
rial Association.

Annual Meeting of the Battlefield Memo
rial Association.
The annual meeting of the Gettysburg Bat
tlefed Memorial Association was held on July
A. The nonresident members present were
Gen. Daniel E. Sickles Gen. Henry w. Socum,
Gen. Joseph b. Carr, Gen. Louis Wagner, and
Col. Charles w. Hazard. The first question
that came up for consideration was the atti-
tude of the association toward the vandalstic
trolley railway. 1t did not require moment
for the directors to settle that. They decided
it was their duty to oppose the electric
road, and do all in the associations power to
prevent the Dissertation of the field. What
measures were decided upon, however, have
not been divulged. The other important gues.
ton was concerning the transfer to the United
States Government of the land and properties
of the Association.
Gen. Sickles, as a member of Congress, re-
signed from the Craftsmanship of the committee
appointed last year to devise ways and means
for this transfer, and Hon. Edward Mcpherson,
of Gettysburg, was named as his successor.
Gen. Socum takes the place of the late Gen.
Henry A. Barnum, and the remaining members
of the committee are Gen. Louis Wagner, of
Philadelphia; Gen. William g. VeaZey of YER
mont; Col Charles G. Briggs, of Michigan;
Col. John B. Bachelor, of Massachusetts,, and
Gen. Joseph B. Carr, of New York.
The effort will be made to have the next
congress act In Tue matter, anu bne MeHlOTihi
Association is expecting the GAR. Posts all
over the Union to urge their Congressman to
vote in favor of the bill when introduced.
The directors in the afternoon made their
annual inspection of the monuments on the
field. 1t was decided to open three new
avenues south of the Emmitsburg road for the
purpose of developing that portion of the
battlefield and facilitating the work of the
United States Commissioners, who now in
session here. fagpole will be erected at
Gen. Meade's Headquarters, and the Stars and
Stripes will hereafter float every day over the
little house near Zeigler's Grove.
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Panic Among Pensioners.

There was almost panic among the old
veteran pensioners at Des Moines, Iowa, on
Wednesday, July 5. Several hundred old SOL
diers crowded the Federal building at the Capt.
tai of the Haweye State, waiting for their
quarterly payment of pension. 1t appears that
Pension Agent Marine had not received the
funds, some 100000. for the quarterly pay
ment. although he bad made requisition for it
June &C. Whom the first corners were told that
there was no money for them, fear took pos
session of them and spread like wildfre among
the rapidly arriving pensioners. including men
and women. Some one made them believe the
payment of pensions had been summarily
stopped by Cleveland, and that added fury to
fear
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A Gale at the Exposition.

A wind storm Of terrific force followed by a
downpour Of rain, passed over the Worlds Fair
Grounds in Chicago on Sunday evening, July
8, doing considerable damage to some of the
buildings and the exhibits stored therein. Some
damage principally broken glass - was in
ficted on all the buildings, but the exact
amount Of harm done to the displays by the
soaking will not be known for a few days. A
crowd was listening to the music of band in
the pavilion east of the Manufactures Building
hastily to the shelter of the big building and
entered it in much disorder. After the crowd
had gained admittance the guards undertook
to close the doors, but the wind saved them
that trouble. slamming them to with such
force that all the glass in the three big entrances
was shattered into fragments. The gale cap
sized several boats full Of pleasure-seekers, and
several persons were drowned
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SyinJIjup Old SoIdiers.

party of clever swinders have been work.
ing old soldiers of Lincoln County 80 miles
from Lansing, Mich. They represented them
selves agents of the United States Government
and stated that their business was to organize
lodges of old soldiers They organized a lodge
in Lincoln County. The lodge turns out to DO
an immense swindle. They told the old sol
diers that the Secretary of the Treasury needed
all the gold in hand to meet the stringent de-
mands of the present times; that if they would
assign their pension checks which are payable
in gold, they would receive greenbacks in re-
turn, and the gold be forwarded to Washington
The swindlers then cashed the checks with
bright new greenbacks which have since proved
worthless. The green goods men have left for
parts unknown.
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Blue and Gray Reunion.

The soldiers of both sides of the late war held
Reunion at the Chautauqua at Lexington, KY,
on July 4, at which there was plenty Of good
feeling and perfect harmony. The features of
the day were addresses by Rev. J. William
Jones, Chaplain in the rebel army, and DIR.
4. J. Palmer, of New York City, who was one
Of the youngest soldiers of the Union army
having served his time in the 18th n. Y, the
latter speaking to the subject "The Die no.
Mores." DR.. Palmer stated that his subject
was the name given to the company in the 18th
in which he belonged, together with lot of
college boys from a Methodist college all being
very religious young fellows, and they fire.
quently sang the Old Methodist hymn, "We
are going home to die no more" thus getting
the name of die no Mores"
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Fast Disappearing.

All the old wooden ships Of the Navy are fast
disappearing from the Navy register. The St.
Louis one Of the old-timers, has recently been
condemned by Board of Survey as unfit for
further service, and will be put up for sale to
the highest bidder. For many years she has
been receiving ship at League Island Pa.
but is now found inadequate even for that
duty. She is a wooden sailing vessel, Of only
$50 tons displacement, and was bnilt at Wash
ington as far back as 1928. Her class, it is
said. included the Cyane. John Adams, Fair
field, Falmouth, Levant, Vandalia, and Vim
cennes, none of which remain ON the Navy list.
Her bestremembered service was on the coast
of Africa, when the ships of various nations
cruised there to put down the slave trade, and
that gives her record an interest, now that she
is likely to quit the Navy.
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On the other hand, comrades from Washing
ton, who visited the battlefield during the
ceremonies held there on the first four days of
this month, say that the railway will enable
comrades to visit all parts of tho battlefield at
one-third the cost which has been charged
during recent years by the liverymen of Gettys-
burg; and that although the road has marred
some of the points of interest to a certain
extent the benefit which will be derived by
the visiting public because of reduced trans
portation expense will Offset this Dissertation of
one of the worlds famous backgrounds. There
are two sides to every question, and comrades
can take their choice. But it does look to the
writer as though the field of the famous battle
should not be desecrated in this manner
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figuring the landscape by cuts and fills of from
10 to II feet. and then effects juncture with
the Reading Railroad branch. At this portion
of the line few days ago one of the gangs I'M
earthed the bones of some of McCand less's
Pennsylvania Reserves. Without moments
hesitation they were tossed into the cart with
the dirt and dumped away with it, citizen
of Gettysburg, however, sickened by such
wantonness. gathered as many of the bones as
possible and gave them decent burial.
The Reading tracks are followed toward the
town as far as Hancock Station Here the
trolley turns to the right in front OF the line of
battle of the Second Corps. If there is one
spot on the battlefield that should be sacred it
is this stretch from where Hancock FELL
wounded, to the Brian House. along which
Pickett's Division of Virginians beat in vain
in the grandest charge OF the century, and
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which has gone into history as designating the
"high-water mark of the rebellion"
The trolley vandals have run directly across
the line of Stannard's Vermont Brigade, over
the position of Battery (Wier's) 5th u S.
Art, over the advanced positions Of 80 Con-
federate regiments, which comprised Pickett's
command, right along in front of the Bloody
Angle" and the spot where Gen. Garnet died
is buried beneath the electric road-bed
From the Brian House the trolley passes
along the north side of Zeigler's Grove over a
huge FIJI, follows the Taneytown road to the
field south of the Soldiers National Cemetery,
and. turning to the left. skirts the cemetery
wall to the Baltimore Pike, and thence returns
to the town, passing the place from which Gen.
Howard directed the Federals into position
after their retreat of the first day.
all these CONCESSIONS TO the Electric Railway
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The President Sick.

report was received from Gray Gables,
where President Cleveland and family are at
present quartered, to the effect that Mr. Glove
land is confined to the house with severe
attack of rheumatism in his foot and knee, q
complaint from which the President has been
subject for many years. The trouble has been
hanging about him for several weeks and has
80 increased that he will be compelled to take
absolute rest in order that he may return to
his post of duty at the special meeting of Con.
gross next month. He will be compelled to
deny himself to all visitors for the present
similar attack confined Mr.. Cleveland TO the
house for couple Of weeks about this time
last year.
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Below the LOOP" at the southwest edge of
the Whestfeld, there is a three-foot fill directly
on the ground over which Brooks Brigade
charged against Longstreet's columns on the
afternoon of the second day. Back OF the
Devils Den there is one cut ~ feet deep, that
has destroyed that locality beyond reparstion,
and made il an eyesore TO the tourist and
stranger.
4 group Of granite rocks 75 by 25 feet that
formed portion of the defenses in front of the
left of the Third Corps have been blasted for
material to I'll a swampy portion Of the track.
The powders that covered the combatants in
the desperate engagement between the 4th Me.
and 10th n. Y. and the 44th Ala. and the right
Of Benning's Confederate brigade have also been
put TO the same use.
In the words of Col. Bachelor, of the United
States Commission: For the distance of over
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and all the pristine beauty is gone forever, the

and all the pristine beauty is gone forever, the
victim of corporate greed.
But 1t is through the valley of Death I"
itself that the dissertation rules supreme. Over
this ground Gen. Crawford led his division of
Pennsylvania Reserves against Hoods Con-
federates, and sent them beadlong from the
Federal front. Huge powders litter the valley,
every one of which sheltered soldier and
afforded rest for his musket The place won
its sanguine name honestly. Plum Run ran
red with blood, and the turf was carpeted with
the bodies of the slain, blue and gray that lay
side by side where death had found them in
the struggle. But all the sacredness of such
associations has been As naught. and with q
ruthessness that resembles the ruthlessness
of the Vandals that King Attila led, the
trolley has blasted the powders asunder, piled
the fragments into a road bed, and run the
hideous track right down the center of the
valley"
The railway then climbs around the western
and northern faces of Little Round Top, dis
The National tribune., 1893-07-13
Farragut Association of Naval veterans.

H"Su" AssocIatIoh OF SaV8I Veterans.
The Farragut Association of New York City at
its annualImeeting elected the following officers:
capt, Rev. Samuel Altman; Com, Thomas
Giiligsn; Lieut. Com, P. L. Flynn; First
Lieut.. James f. Burrage; Second Lieut., Ben
Jamin blanchard; Third Lieut. Thomas Pick
enry; Fourth Lieut., James McGIinchy; Chap
lain. Robert Edwards; Surg. Charles L. Nc
Fariand; Sec, George w. Bostwick; Pay
master. William II. Black. Engineers: Chief,
Erastus Barry; First Assistant, William Cor.
nell; Second Assistant, Robert Minre; Third
Assistant, Edward Kenny. On Independence
Day the association was the guests of Ulrich
Dahlgren Post, 25, Elizabeth, N. J. The
Farragut Shipmates have also accepted an in
vitatiOn OF the Gideon Welles Naval Assoeia-
ton of Connecticut to take part in the annual
Reunion at Savin Rock, New Haven, July 13.
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one mile before reaching this locality the road
cuts through the scene of some of the most
desperate encounters Of the battle, in which
DE Trobriand's, Tilton's, Sweetzers, looks
Kelley's, Cross. and Words Union brigades,
and Kershaw's Semmes's, WofTord's, Ander-
sons, and RObertson's Confederate brigades,
contended for hours. The railway cuts straight
through lines Of battle, forest trees are leveled,
powders and lodges blasted, streams are
bridged, and the whole character Of the field is
changed"
After curving around 10 the southwark of the
Devils Den, the trolley swings abruptly north
ward and tears IL way down the Valley OF
Death" This was the most romantic portion
Of the battlefield. Thick, heavy pines, making
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A Soldiers, Monument Dedicated.

The new Soldiers Monument at Three
Rivers, Mich, was dedicated with appropriate
ceremonies recently. Washington Gardner
delivered the Grafton and Gov. Rich, Com
Kidd, Of the GAR, and Mrs. Bliss President
of the Woman's Relief Corps, also made ad-
dresses In the evening the Coldwater, Kala-
mazoo, and Three Rivers National Guards, to-
gether with local civic societies, marched to the
monument, where they were greeted in salute
of song by chorus of a ladies representing
the States of the Union
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A GOLD WATCH.
FULL-JEWELED, NICKEL MOVEMENT.
at the Lowest Price Ever offered.
No. 3I5, Price SIG.

Is
At the Lowest Price Ever offered.
No. S15, Price SIC.
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, true to it's
long-established policy of offering to its
subscribers the greatest bargains that can
possibly be discovered, has contracted for
100 Waltham Watches, which it offers at
prices that will insure their speedy sale.
These are full-jeweled gold watches. In
the works are 10 jewels, four pairs in set
tings, stem winding and setting apparatus
compensation balance, safety pinion, patent
micrometer regulator, so simple that even
child can regulate the watch Logan's re-
nowned Breguet hair-spring, and the greatest
improvements known in the manufacture of
watches at the present day. The works are
full nickel, while the full plate, which covers
the interior works, and patent dust-band,
keep every particle of dust from the delicate
mechanism within, thereby saving many
bill for repairs. The case bunting only is
made of solid Ak. gold in two plates, stiff
ened between with sheet of fine compost
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Waltham Watch Co., in honor OF New York's
best-known wholesale dealers. THE Ma
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this is a genuine full.jeweled Waltham
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for examination. At the end of this time
the watch may be returned if not satisfac-
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This is a limited lot of watches, and
when this special offer is discontinued no
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registered mail delivery insured and guarsn-
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Company were secured from the town authori-
ties OF Gettysburg and from private owners of
the land which is now used for farming pur-
poses. OF necessity the railroad has been COM
PEELED to wind in and out and around tho
reservations where monuments have been erect
ed and the ground set aside for different regi-
ments, but in the main the road passes between
the two lines of battle
very singular feature Of the whole affair is,
that the citizens of Gettysburg are opposed to
the road, and are not interested in it in any
way, the money spent thus far in building it
coming from outsiders. The road is nearly
completed and ready to be operated. and has
cost thus far about $500 An effort is being
made, however, to bond the road for $3.50. 000
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A Retired Army onicer Dead.

James T. Leavy, First Lieutenant, U S.
Army, retired, died at Harper's Ferry, w. Va,
July 8. He was native of Kentucky, aud
when the war broke out entered the service as
Sergeant of Co. Ii, Sd KY. Cav. He became
Lieutenant in 1862, and in 1864 was mustered
out of service. He was appointed a Second
Lieutenant in the Regular Army in 1867, and
was assigned to the 7th Cav. He was retired in
1858. He was brevetted Captain for gallantry
at Shiloh. His wife and daughter reside in
Washington, where the body was brought for
interment.
The National tribune., 1893-07-13
GETTYSBURG
VANDALISM.
How the Sacred Soil is Being Used
by Corporation.

The Gettysburg battlefield covers an area of
25 square miles, the fight of July l, 1868, taking
place to the north and west OF the town, while
the battles of the second and third days were
fought to the southwark. 1t is over the field
where the fierce battles of the second and third
days took place that the electric railway has
run its desolating tracks, destroying every
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Athens County. O., Monument.

The citizens of Athens County, o., unvailed
. monument to the memory of the soldiers who
went to the front during the late war for the
preservation of the Union, on the 4th of July,
at the Countyseat, Athens. Speeches were
made by Judge Nathan Goff, of West Virginia !;
Judge Hunt, of Cincinnati; Hon. J. Warren
Keifer, and Mai. Townsend.
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No. 81 is magnificent ladies' gold filed
watch, guaranteed by manufacturer to wear
like solid gold for Is years. 1t is tastefully
engraved. The movement contains seven
jewels, exposed pallets, and compensation
balance. 1t Is a perfect timekeeper, and
usually sells at from $50 to $25. We offer
it to our subscribers for only S13.25
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No. 80. This is one of the latest ladies'
watches. The case is guaranteed to wear 20
years. The thumb-piece and all parts sub
ject to constant use are made Of solid gold.
The movement contains II jewels in set
tings, exposed pallets and compensation
balance. We offer it to our subscribers, de-
livery guaranteed, for SIS; or sent with
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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06
Process of Making Postage Stamps.

Every part of postage stamp making
is done by hand. The designs are en-
graved on steel, 200 stamps on single
plate. These plates are linked by two
men, and then are printed by girl
and man on large hand press.
They are dried as fast as printed and
then gummed with starch paste made
from potatoes. This paste is dried by
placing the sheets in n steam tanning
machine, and then the stamps are sub
lected to pressure of 1000 tons in n
hydraulic press. Next the sheets are
cut SO that each one contains 100
stamps, after which the paper between
the stamps is perforated, and after
being pressed the sheets are filed
away. If single stamp is injured the
whole sheet is burned. st. Paul
Pioneer Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06
The Oldest Trees.

The Soma cypress of Lombardy is, ]
believe, the oldest tree of which there
is any authentic record. 1t is known
to have been in existence in AZ b. G,
There are, however, many trees fol
which vastly greater antiquity is
claimed. The Senegal aobabs-some
of them-are said to be 5000 years old.
The bo tree of Anuradhapura, in
Ceylon, is perhaps the Oldest specimen
Of another very long-lived species; it
is held sacred upon the ground that
it sprang from branch of the iden.
tical tree under which Buddha reclined
for seven years while undergoing his
apotheosis. This oak is well known
to be long liver, and there are speci-
mems still standing in Palestine, of
which the tradition goes that they
grew out of Gains staff. The haw-
thorn, again, sometimes lives to be
very old; there is said to be one in
side Cawdor Castle of an "immemorial
age."
The cedars of Lebanon may also be
mentioned, and there are, according
to Dean Stanley. still eight of the
olives of Gethsemane standing, "whose
gnarled trunks and scanty foliage will
always be regarded as the most affect
ing of the sacred IN emorialsi in or about
Jerusalem. Notes and Queries.