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covered with lots of fun and no acci.
dent. In East Salem an amusing in
| cident occurred. a pond of rancid
| bilge-water being frozen over was util.
lied as skating rink, and covered
with crowd of both sexes enjoying
that noble and pleasant amusement.
Among others a young lady who had
pinned a smoked herring to the skirt
OF her dress and imagined that she was
a whale, was skating with the greatest
possible style and dignity. Not far
behind her there came round faced,
brown-eyed, very pretty, touzle-head-
ed inspiration with black woolen
shawl pinned lover her head, and a
pair of voluminous wooden mittens on
her hands; putting on no style, she was
just clawing along, but getting there
all the same.
When she came up within about ten
feet of the sprig of aristocracy. she put
on squirt, and passed her like flash,
skating on her left foot, swinging the
other by way of accompaniment, and
treating
''The girl she left behind her,
to a rapidly dissolving view of pair
of very neat and clean heeled No. As.
Old though the pilgrim Is, it was hard
to resist the temptation to swing his
old hat and shout "Go it, little one"
The pilgrim has sinced learned who
the sprig of Salem aristocracy was and
he takes back nothing that he has
said.
The night was spent at the Salem
hotel. 1t is a good house, but not
equal to the Kesling.
On Saturday morning the march to
GLADDEN. Valley was taken up. Before
the pilgrim was out of Salem he was
overtaken by sprightly young lady,
of whom he politely asked for the
road to Mrs Bells. Turning around,
the party addressed took in the situa-
tion in about one second. The pill
grim had supposed that he could use
language, but pleads guilty to receiv
ing pleasant surprise when pretty
young lady gave him points on EN-
glish as she is spoken" He has never
listened to such an admirable selection
of terse words, so concisely combined,
and covering every point in the case.
On reaching mother Bells my
daughter did not recognize me. She
could not at first see back to the other
shore of the. ever widening gulf of the
weary and sorrowful years.
After discovering who I was she
could recall some memories we had in
common. After few days spent in
visiting the relations, the return trip
began. This letter is probably long
enough, and will be followed by others
comparing Iron and Dent counties.
THOMAS CALLAHAN.
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Dissolution Of Copartnership.

The copartnership of D. F. Reese &
Bro, merchants. has this day been
dissolved by mutual consent, and tho
business will in future be carried on
BY d. F. Reese, the senior member OF
said firm, who has assumed all the
liabilities OF said copartnership busi-
ness. and to whom all debts due said
firm should be paid.
Ironton, Mo-. June 5, 1894.
d. +. REESE.
w. III. REESE.
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NUMBER So.

surplus produce of this country te
absorb the surplus silver of the world
Suppose that we could put all the idle
men in America to work tomorrow al
one dollar per day each. how long
would your surplus silver last? Then,
if this could be done, the first thing
each of these idle men would do. per-
haps, would be to buy dinner bucket.
Would that hurt the tin market!
Next, he would buy a suit of clothes.
Would that damage the merchant or
manufacturer to any great extent?
Then, the more money he got the more
needs he would find to supply. and Ia
Dor alone in some shape can supply
them. That is, by the products OF
our labor we secure the products of
labor in other lines of business, and to
facilitate this exchange we must have
a medium. And that medium is mon
ey. If / can turn my labor into mon
ey, / can with that money purchase
the products of the labor of other men.
In other words, we give each other
employment. I help to employ the
hat-maker, the shoe maker, the farm
er, &C., and they help to employ me.
But. without money, how can all this
be accomplished? While money it's
self is value1ess, if it was stricken
from existence half the people in the
world would starve to death before
they could adjust themselves to the
new order of life. Then, if total de-
struction of money would have that eff
feet, can't we account for the present
depression by scarcity of money? Mon
ey should not be esteemed for the in
trlnsic value of the metal of which it is
composed, but for the amout of labor
it cost to earn it or which it will se-
cure. The abundance of silver is the
greatest argument in its favor as a
money metal. If l work for my neigh
Dor one hundred days, for which ne
pays me one hundred dollars. l have
that amount of labor laid up, the same
as the farmer has his summers work
slowed away in his barn in the shape
of hay and corn. Then, suppose that
all men who are idle, and those who
have been idle in the past, had been
how much richer would the
world be today? Then think, if you
can. how much has has been lost by
not having money enough to employ
the people. If this proposition isn't
plain enough, suppose all labor ceased
at once: the Goulds and the Wander
bilts would starve in their gilled pal
aces. Then. if the cessation of labor
would produce universal poverty, sure
ly the partial cessation must produce
some poverty. Money is, or should
be, hut a token of labor performed.
Then, if every day of enforced idleness
could be recalled, and dollars
worth of work performed in each, and
that many dollars placed in the pock-
cts of those men, would it not be vast
ly better for those men, even though
the money was materially shrunken in
value and now it took two dollars to
buy days labor? Would it not be
better to have fifty days labor to ones
credit than one hundred days. idleness?
More Anon,
p HITRJrpN
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Official Directory.
MEMBER OF CONGRESS

MEMBER OF CONGRESS-:
Hon. Il. w. FYAN, Thirteenth District,
Marshfie,d Mo.
U. $. LAND OFFICE C.. NELL,
Register; VIM. B. NEWMAN, Receiver
Ironton, Mo.
). FRANK GREEN, Judge Twenty-First
--ircuit, De Soto, Mo.
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY IRON COUNTY
COURTS:

WV 1C =.
CIRCUIT COURT is held on the
Fourth Monday in April and October.
COUNTY COURT convenes on the
s1rst Monday of March, June, September
and December.
PROBATE COURT is held on the Firs
Monday in February, May, August and No
Tember.
OFFICERS:
A: w. HoLLoMAN, Presiding Judge Co un
ty Court.
CHARLES HART, county Judge, South
.rn District.
r: J. HILL, county Judge, Western Dis
trict.
J. s: JORDAN, Prosecuting Attorney.
Z. w. WHIrwORTH, collector.
w. A. FLETCHER, County clerk.
Jos. HUFF, Circuit clerk.
FRANZ DINGER, Probate Judge.
ID. +. REESE, Treasurer.
w. III. FISHER, Sheriff.
). I. REYBURN, Assessor.
q. w. HULL, coroner.
A. w. HOLLOMAN, Surveyor.
T.. IL. MCKENZIE, School commissioner.
CITY OFFICERS:
Mauor, W. T. Gay.
Msrstql, j. l.. Baldwin.
City 1ttOrR2y, J. S. Jordan.
CITY Clerk, w. G. FairchiId.
City Treasurer, d. F. Reese.
Collector, j. l.. Baldwin.
City Councitmen-W. II. Edgar, J. n.
Bishop, A. BsgIev, J. NJ. Reel, NJ. Clay baugh
and yno. Baldwin.
Street COnamittee-A. Begley ,Jno. Baldwin
Fire COmm.ttee-J. NJ. Reel, Jno. Baldwin
and NJ. Claybaugh.
Health Comnaittee-W. r. Edgar, j. N.
Bishop and A. Begley.
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DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Award.

COUGHING LEADS TO CONSUMP-
TION. Kemp's Balsam stops the
Ough at once.
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON, D. c., JUNE p, 1894.
MEXICAN PENSION ROLL.

One Which is Not "Purged," and in Which
There Are No Suspensions.
On the Mexican Pension Roll
&here are the names of 1928
survivors and 1882 widows. and
something over 5000 cases were
pending at latest reports. This
makes a total Of %. 497. or sew
eral thousand more men than
the United States had in Mexico
at any one time during the war.
These all receive either S. OF
$I2 "a month.
Among the names are those
ID the widow of Gen. Samuel
Cooper. a New Yorker by birth.
who was Adjutant-GeneraI of
1ae United States Army at the
outbreak of the war, and used
bis position to aid the rebels i'm
preparing for the struggle. He
resigned his position TO become
AdiutaRf-Genera of the South
ern COnfederacy. and Ofiiciated
rs such until flle rebellion COLI
Iapsed. Mrs. Cooper has been
drawing a pension since June
G. 1857.
The widow of Thomas j.
"St0newaIl") Jackson. who
was next TO Lee the most pOpu-
laF commander Of the rebel
armies.
The widow Of Mai .-Gen. George
Il. Pickett. who commanded a
division i'm the rebel army.
The widow Of Mai .-Gen. Gideon
JsPiilOW, who commanded a di-
vision i'm the rebel army.
The widow of Lieuf.-6sen. A. h.
Hill. who commanded one of
ffe three corps of Lees army.
The widow Of Sidney Smith
Ice. who was dismissed fr0m
the Navy for going over 10 the
enemy" and afserWard became
aGomm0dOre i'm The rebel navy.
Brighten. Jas. IL. Chalmers.
who was FORESTS chief lieu
tenant.
Maj.-Gen. Dabney HI. Maury.
who commanded the rebel
troops at the battle Of Chicka-
saw Bayou.
HOB. Ss ID. HaXey. 1ate united
States Senator from Texas. who
LAS been drawing his pension
since May "a. 1857. He was a
majOr-General i'm the rebel
army.
Hon. Jas. Il. George. Senator
from Mississippi. and who
served i'm the rebel army as "A
Colonel. The number of his
certificate is II, 2I4.
The widows ab0ye mentioned
are Of men who were educated
at the government expense. and
afferward fought 10 destroy the
government. They went on the
roll at once. while Last April
HERE were pending the claims
of 1880 widows Of Union sol.
oilers who had DOt vet been able
10 get ON the roll.
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THE discussion of the tariff goes
slowly on, with the business interests of
the country wringing bitterly-contested
concessions from the malignant residuum
of the Southern Confederacy, which is
in charge of the bill. "The sting of a
retreating army is in its tail is an old
military apothegm. The dead and gone
Southern Confederacy has left venom
GUS tail, which has tried hard to sting
the country to death, and has at least
poisoned every vein and artery of bust
ness with wasting, paralyzing disorder.
The Nations healthful vigor is strug-
Cling heroically to overcome the deadly
virus, and will in time, but it has been
q terrible sickness-the worst except the
rebellion-that it has ever undergone.
Already it has cost the people far more
in actual dollars and cents than the war
of the rebellion did. The maddening
part is that all this was utterly unnec-
essary. There was no more sense in it
than there would be in releasing an In
cendiary who had once tried to burn
your house down, placing him once
more in the house with can of kero-
sene and a box of matches, and then
leaving him unrestrained to do as he
pleased.
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So the laundering goes on.
MORTALITY AMONG VETERANS.

MORTALITY AMONG VETERANS.
Much interest is felt as to the exact
rate of mortality among the veterans,
and a number of able actuaries are try
ing to arrive at some data which will
furnish reliable data for calculations.
The difficulty is in estimating accurately
the effect upon them of their hardships
and strains. This has been calculated
as adding all the way from 5 to ~ years
TO their ages. The report of the New
Jersey Soldiers Home for last year af-
fords some materials for this calculation.
The Home registered $40 veterans last
year. Of these 40 died, and their aver
age age was 62.76 years. The death of
40 in $40 is about one in II, or nearly six
per cent. Still closer, it is little over
5S in every 1000. Estimating that
there were 100000 veterans alive Jan.
/, 1894, by Jan. 1, 1895, 5S,262 will
be dead. This would mean that 5S2,-
600 will be dead in 10 years. Really
there will be a much larger number,
since the death rate increases very rap
idly with each year now.
This gives some idea of the enormity
of the crime of torturing these poor men
with delays in settling their pension
claims; of holding over 100000 claims
unsettled in the Pension Bureau, and of
resorting to all manner of pretexts to
deprive those who are already on the
roll of their meager allowances
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FINANCIAL MrsmAsAGEMENr.

Up to last Saturday night, which ends
III months of the fiscal year, the Govern
ment's receipts had been $2S2,904,721,
and its disbursements $356,197, 337,
making a deficit so far of s73,992,616.
This is an appalling showing of incom-
potency in the management of the Gov
ernment's business. 1t looks as if the
deficit for the fiscal year will not fall
far short of s75,00O,0OO. At the same
time the gold balance in the Treasury
had fallen to S67,S04,972, or nearly
100000 less than it was last January,
when the Secretary of the Treasury be-
gan the sale of $5O,0O0O00 in bonds to
repienish the stock. Now all those are
gone and the gold, too.
Where this will end no one knows.
We can only dread, for bitter experience
seems to bring no wisdom to those in
control of our finances.
Among the many stupid things done
has been the provision in the Wilson
Bill postponing the collection of the duty
on sugar till Jan. 1, 1895. This means
an actual present of S30,000,000 to the
growers of foreign sugar. They are now
sending every pound of sugar that they
have to this market, and have stocked
up the country SO that there will be no
duties collected on sugar for at least
year after the bill goes into effect, and
the Government will lose all the revenue
for that time.
So the laundering goes on.
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AS WE feared, Gresham has duplicated
his Hawaiian blunder in Central Amer
lea. President Harrison told the Eng
lish Ambassador plainly that the question
of the control of the Mosketo Coast was
one for Nicaragua alone to settle, and
that we should permit no foreign inter-
ference. Gresham has carefully reversed
this, and allowed the English to set up
one of their tools as "King of the Mos
keto Coast" in direct defiance of the
rights of friendly Nation. There are
also large and growing American in
terests in that country, which will be
placed at the mercy of the English.
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SPECIAL sfEANNEss.

Veterans in Government employ all
over the country are being made the
victims of a particularly mean persecu-
ton. Not only are they being dis
charged in great numbers, in violation
of the spirit of the Civil Service law
and of the solemn promises of the Ma
tion TO its volunteers, but this is accom-
panied by vicious malignancy in the
charge that this is for incompetency."
The object of this is to discredit the old
soldiers in the eyes of the country and
make out that they are claiming place
and employment simply on the ground
of their army service, and are unable to
do the work required of them. This
record will prevent their restoration to
the public service in the future.
Nothing can be more untrue than such
charge Under thu" daily efficiency rec
ord " system adopted by President Harri-
son, which was the most sensible and prac-
teal in the history of the public service,
the Union veterans made fine showing.
They were distinguished by intelligence,
ability and fidelity to their duties. The
Government never had so fine a BODY of
clerks and other employees. Thousands
OF those who have been discharged for
"incompetency" can point to years of
splendid daily records, which placed them
at the very head of their fellow clerks.
The charge of ";ncompetency" made
by some rewly-installed political striker,
anxious to weed out the old soldiers. is
refuted by the records of the Depart
ments.
We can safely challenge a comparison
of the actual efficiency records made by
these men with those Of any other class
of men in the Government employ.
1t is bad year for the old soldiers
everywhere, but the dawn of a great
change begins to break. As the BOYS
used to sing in Andersonville
Wen stand the storm; il woa't i,e ioag;
Well snciOr by and by.
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THANKS TO ALL.

The Editor of THE NATIONAL TRIB-
UNE receives hundreds of letters from
comrades indorsing our course, offering
us practical suggestions, praising the
contents of the paper and wishing us
long life and continued prosperity-all
OF which are most gratefully appreciated.
AS it is impossible for us to answer these
by mail, we. wish. to hereby acknowledge
them, thanking the veterans for their
advice and encouragement.
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Mr.. W. j. HAMPTON, one of the very
brightest newspaper men in the country,
is urging matter that it seems strange
no one has ever thought of before. It
is to use the Star-Spangled Banner as
the design for our postage stamps. 1t
seems to us that there is everything to
be said in favor of this, and there could
not be prettier design for stamp
than miniature flag, printed in the
regulation colors. The only objection
that we can anticipate is that stamps
have to be licked, which Old Glory
never has been, and, we trust, never
will be. Also, that sometimes stamps
don't stick, while our flag always does,
except when Gresham is in power. A
stamp with our banner ON it would
have National meaning and dignity
wherever it went all over the world,
and would familiarize even the heather
of the isle" with the appearance of the
Flag of the Free. We hope the COM
rades will take up the idea, and give it
their hearty appreciation.
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APPARENTLY the work of the PEN
sion Bureau, for the week ending June
8, jumped up little. There was an
aggregate of 1,433 allowances, as against
1896 for the week previous. But this
apparent increase does not bear ANALYSIS
well, for there were only ST. original
cases allowed, against 635 for the pre-
vious week. Of these, but 100 were
under the old laws, and 324 under the
act of June 81, 1890.
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ARE YOU GOING
TO THE
NATIONAL ENcAMPMENT 2
ES?
Y e s.?
Then tho National Tribune VIII Fur
nish You Transportation.

The comrades are now beginning to
think seriously of attending the great Ma
tional Encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic, which is to be held in
Pittsburg next September. As usual,
the question Of transportation is the first
one to consider, and here THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE comes in with its offer of
assistance, as it has done in previous
National Encampments. 1t will give
every comrade an easy chance of obtain
ing tirst-class ticket over the railroad
from his home to Pittsburg and return,
by obtaining small club of subscribers
to the paper. This is great opportunity.
All the old veterans want THE Ma
TIoNAL TRIBUNE, and are ready to take
it if some one will ask them to subscribe.
Anyone can get a ticket with little
effort. Write to us for further informa-
ton as to the number of subscribers we
will require for ticket.
Some comrades may find it easier or
prefer to solicit for subscribers to The
american Farmer, as there may be many
more farmers than veterans among their
neighbors We will make the same offer
for clubs for that paper.
Write us at once for terms and SAM
pie copies and begin work at once.
Subscribers can be sent in as they are
obtained, and will be credited on the
ticket offer. If enough are not secured
to entltle the canvasser to ticket they
can be applied on any other premium.
Address
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
1929 New Work avanua
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SENATOR Quay, of Pennsylvania,

SENATOR Quay, of Pennsylvania,
comes out of the Sugar Trust investiga-
ton in fine shape. He was not accused,
by rumor or in the public prints, of
having any connection with the dis
graceful affair, but he came out frankly
and said that he bought sugar stocks
at a time long before the matter came
before the Senate in any shape, and
when it seemed perfectly proper that he
should do so. He sold out again when
it seemed improper that he should bold
the property, as the time approached
for the subject to be taken up in
the Senate. This was manly and
square. There is no law, moral or stat
ute, against Senator dealing in stocks,
or in any other property which is not
subject of immediate legislation. The
offense charged against the other Sena-
tors was that they held stocks which
were liable to be increased in value by
legislation, and that they were using
their positions to obtain inside informa-
ton, which would enable them to specu-
late to advantage in those stocks. The
Senators belonging to the dominant party
were for obvious reasons more vulnerable
to this charge than those belonging to
the opposition. The investigation has
injured several of them very much, with
out any blame falling upon those in
opposition.
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THE end Of the coal strike, we are
sure, marks the beginning of better
times for the whole country. Its settle
ment will give hope that the season of
labor troubles consequent upon the adj
justment of things to a new order is
about over. The Wilson bill has been
shorn of many Of its most obnoxious
features. Bad as it is, without a re-
deeming feature from enacting clause to
date of going into effect, it is still very
much less harmful than when it came
from the House, and the business world
has come to the decision to endure it
until it can be repealed. In the mean
while everyone has become intensely
weary of the long paralysis of business
and determined to attempt to do some
thing and make the best of conditions.
The shops, stores and factories are empty
of goods, and the people are everywhere
in want of supplies. They have made
their old shoes and clothes last as
long as possible, but now the time has
come when they must have new
ones. The banks are full of idle money
which should be earning interest and
dividends, and the country is full of
active, energetic men who feel that they
have but few years in which to gain
competence, and must make the most of
their period of manly strength. This is
the salvation of the country. The most
pernicious legislation may retard and
embarrass but it cannot keep them from
going to work to do the very best they
can. They are beginning to do this
now, and we predict that the Fall will
see great revival of business.
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The House Committee on Invalid
Pensions has decided to report favorably
Representative Bryan's bill to restore
to the pension-roH widows of soldiers
who remarked and were dropped from
the roll, but who have again become
widowed and are dependent. This is
an act of justice, though the number
affected by it is quite small. The Gov
eminent gained by the loss of their PEN
sions when these women remarked, and
it is only fair to renew their allowances
when they are again deprived of their
supporters.
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IT is something that the Populists
have not thought Of, but really it would
be much better for the Government to
go into the business of making sugar
than to allow s140,OOO,oOO a year go
out of the country for foreign sugar, or
to permit the sugar trust to scoop In
100000 a year on the immense
quantity that our people eat.