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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-08-15
As To DesertiOns.

Says the Charleston News and Cour-
ier: THE New York Times having
stated that there were 27S,644 desertions
from the Northern army during the
war, the Boston Journal Indignantly
replies that the number was only 199.
045.' Only is good. We have not the
reports before us, but we doubt whether
the Confederacy had 10000 men in
active service at any time during the
war. Lee never had half as many in
the field in any campaign, and John
ston did not have much over one fourth
as many in all his Georgia campaign.
Over 100 full regiments of deserters is a
startling exhibit for the Union side.
What did they enlist for? And accord
ing to the Times there were 27S regi-
ments or Them"
The number of deserters given in
Provost Marshal Gen. Frye's report,
1866, is 1919, ,105, or about s per cent. of
the total eplstments, reduced to uni
form basis of three years service. We
have not seen the New York Times
statement, and therefore can not know
the basis of information on which it
rests. We have supposed that Gen.
Frye's report was absolutely accurate,
in so far as the muster rolls, ,all of which
he had access to, told the truth.
But the muster rolls, as Gen. Frye re-
marked in his report, were searched un-
der his direction, only to ascertain the
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-08-15
Effects of CantlOr.

There are many people in this world
who delight in what they call their
''candor, a quality which impels them
to rush to you with every petty .criti-
cism of your conduct, every lapse, from
the straight and narrow line in the
pathway Of life, that you, according to
their high standard, have been guilty
Of. Perhaps, to take the most Chart.
able view of it, some of them don't
mean to wound your feelings. Probably
in some instances they are actuated by
the highest and holiest motives of
friendship, when, with brutal frank
ness that seems almost like malice,
they look you straight in the eve and
thrust tiny, sharp pointed dagger
right into your tender heart, leaving q
wound that even time can not heal.
Your self respect is hurt, your conf
dence in your own ability to judge be-
tween right and wrong is shaken, and
you are rendered miserable, and with
it all what possible good has your can
did, friend accomplished?
If you are of temperament to be
thus affected you will probably not
give way to the very natural inclina-
ton to turn upon your tormentor and
tell some equally unpleasant truths in
return. You will not be likely to even
suggest through your tears that a little
less candor would be gratefully appre-
ciated, but why not? True friendship
does not seek to wound or to harshly
criticise, and those hypercritical friends
who seize upon every opportunity to
tell us of our little shortcomings, real
or imaginary, should as matter of
self protection he dropped from the
category and relegated to the status of
acquaintances, every slight, you know"
and be given no opportunity to vent
their narrow minded and dyspeptic
spleen upon well meaning world un-
der the guise of Friendship"
Unpleasant things sometimes have
to be told or limited at in such way
that the meaning is unmistakable, but
there is a method of SO doing that
soothes the wound even while it opens
it. Brutality is not frankness. Candor
need not necessarily be cutting, and
there is not one woman in the world
who would not gladly be told of her
faults and would profit by the telling,
if the critic only chose the right time,
place and manner for the disclosure.
To accomplish any good in this line
tact must be employed, for if it is not,
the friendly" individual who speaks
only for another's good may some day
be quite taken aback when the worm
turns and declares that truth compels
the statement that such friendship is
neither necessary nor desirable. -
Louisville Post.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-08-15

repudiates his leadership, and declares
that "the struggle is fruitless and a
hopeless one." Mr., Wilkinson might
have gone further and declared that it
is criminal outbreak which can have
only one ending-disaster to all con-
cerned. Chief Arthur of the Brother.
hood of Locomotive Engineers is equ-
ally emphatic in his condemnation of
Debs, and with few exceptions the men
whose trusted leader he is are follow
ing his advice to stick to their en-
gines."
The protest of Mr.. Wilkinson and
Mr.. Arthur against the revolutionary
policy of Debs proves that the "sympa-
thetic strikes" inaugurated by him has
not the sympathy of the great organi
zation of labor, without " hose CO oper-
alton the strike is foredoomed to fail
ure. Every man of ours says Mr..
Wilkinson, "who has gone out will be
expelled from the order, or the charter
taken away from any local lodge that
refuses to expel the men," The mean
ing of this is plain-Debs stands con-
demned by the leader of labor as a
demagogue. They do not believe he is
a man to be trusted. He is repudiated
by the cool headed leaders who have
watched his meteoric career as an agi-
tator, and his fall is inevitable. New
York Recorder.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-08-15
LEES CHRISTMAS DINNER.
A Spread in Which Borrowed Bacon
PlNYS q LeAding PArI.

AS the fortune of war had favored
his larder, through some skillful forag-
ing of Ephraim, negro, who was his
faithful cook, body servant and waiter,
Gen Lee invited several officers to dine
with him on Christmas day, 1864, says
the Courier Journal. The lucky re-
cipients of the timely invitation were
five in number, all officers of distinct.
ion, among them Gems. Longstreet,
Gordon and Kershaw. They were all
on time when the dinner was called,
1t was served on rough pine table,
without cover, in Gen. Lees weather
beaten tent. 1t consisted of boiled
cabbage and eight or ten boiled sweet
potatoes and dish of rice cooked dry.
The piece de resistance, which, indeed,
the guests found it hard to resist, was
small bit of fat bacon, about three
inches square that lay on the top of
the large.cabbage. Now, bacon was as
rare in the Confederate camp as are
roses on the northern hilltops in De-
cember. You can imagine, therefore,
the self restraint exercised by each
guest as he declined in turn a slice of
the delicate meat proffered by his host,
who held the carving knife and fork
ready to cut and help.
1t was observed that when the Gen.
after helping to the cabbage, said to
the guest whose plate Ephraim held
out, ALLOW me to help you to slice
of the bacon?" the devoted servitor's
hand trembled greatly. In fact, he
seemed to be in state of decided
fright. The high military rank of the
guests would not account for his tre-
pidation, for he daily served near a
master who outranked them all. There
was no splendor left in the tracery of
faded gold lace or their battle stained
uniforms to dazzle his eyes and cause
them to roll about and glance from
bacon to guest, and from guest to ba-
con, as each answered the half quest
ion with the words, mo, thank you,
General" The discomposure of the
serving man was all the more striking
from its contrast with the serene, self
poised dignity of his master.
Dinner over, the Gen. and his guests
retired from the tent, but as they passed
out Gen. Lee turned and said in low
tone, "Ephraim, we have another cab
bage, have we not?"
The answer was, "Yes, sir, Mass Bob,
we's got annuder cabbage, sah."
Then Ephraim," said the Gen.,
Save the piece of bacon to cook with
that cabbage. "
The prompt and decisive reply was
mo, sab, Mass Bob, can't do
dat. | iist borrow dat piece of bacon
for seasonin', from friend ober dar
in Richmon', and l done glib up my
parole OBJ honor dat I'll glib him back
dat same bacon what l borrow"
The Gen, consented at once to the re-
turn of the bacon.-W Washington Star.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-08-15
An OppOrtune Time to Restrict Immi.
grafton.

1t is interesting to note the strong
reaction that has been loading the emf
grant ships with strange companies of
people who have failed to gain an in
dustrial footing in America and are re-
turning to central and eastern Europe.
1t would be good policy to aid this turn
of the tide by every legitimate means.
Fortunately the east bound emigrant
rates this season are extremely low.
We have been compelled to support
hundreds of thousands of these people
by charity during the past winter, and
the cheapest as well as the wisest form
of expenditure in their behalf would
be to buy their return tickets and send
them back where they belong. This
temporary reversal of the current of
migration affords the natural and safe
opportunity for Congress to enact law
severely restricting immigration for
period of years. 1t would be the most
popular law ever placed on our statute
books since the foundation of the Amer
ican Republic. 1t could be enacted
just now with minimum of hardship
to any interest. When the times i'm
prove and the European population
surplus begins once more to seek less
crowded quarters, the sign of mo
More Vacant Seats!" on the door of
our American omnibus would simply
give Australia, South Africa, and South
America the better chance to advertise
their comparative emptiness and their
great resources and attractions. All
the most deplorable and most danger
GUS features of the recent labor troubles,
whether those of the bituminous coal
strikers or those of the riots accom-
panying the railways strikes were clear
ly due to the fact of vast over supply
OF recently imported and not yet as
simulated working population from the
non English speaking countries of cen
tral and eastern Europe. The restric-
tion of immigration should have been
accomplished ten years ago. 1t is no
longer a delicate question open to argu-
ment, but an imperative duty demand.
ing prompt action. From "The Pro
gress of the World" August Review of
Reviews,
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-08-15


no account of the thousands whose de-
sertion was merely nominal, and who
were afterward taken up" as returned
from desertion. When Buell. reached
the Ohio river, in his celebrated march
after Bragg, in the fall of 1862, thou
sands of his men, who belonged to Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois regiments, took
French leave" They were dropped on
the muster rolls for October, nearly
every man returned TO duty within two
or three weeks. and was, after a rcpri-
mand or some trifling punishment,
taken up, under circular 90, - of the
war department, and thus restored to
his original standing. At the close of
hostilities, when the war department
was preparing to send an army of So
600 men to Texas, as a force of obser.
vation upon Maximillian s operations
in Mexico, no less than 10000 veterans,
who had faced death on the Virginia.
Georgia and Carolina campaigns, went
home before muster out, were dropped
for desertion on the muster out rolls,
and have never, as we believe, been
restored to their rights of back pay,
bounty or pension.
1t is our judgment, formed by no
means Oh perfunctory statistical re.
turns, or on hasty and crude investiga-
ton, that 100000 would more than ac-
count for all the real desertions from
the Union armies, from first to last
Those armies were made up of individ-
uals, men and boys, numbering not
less than 2,S0O,0OO, and if the real de-
sertions were not more than 5 per
cent, as we believe them to have been,
then the faithfulness of the rank and
file was something never known in
previous war history. The desertions
from the army of the revolution were
more than 13per cent of the enlistments.
We have no means of ascertaining the
number of desertions from theConfeder-
ate armies, but, leaving out of the cal
culation the desertions of "Hessians
from the Union army, in the last year
of the struggle, we have no doubt the
Confederate desertions were the larger,
proportionally. Men enough to make
six Infantry battallions deserted the
Confederate cause, after they had been
captured and imprisoned, and were
sent to the Northwestern frontier to
fight Indians; and the fact that they
made good soldiers for the Union, in
Kansas, Western Nebraska and else,
where, shows they were no mean ma
terial.
If the Confederacy could not raise
more than 10000 men for active SER
vice, out of population of 11,000, ,00G
white men, with 100000 slaves to do
the work at home, that would appear
to show that tile Confederate cause was
not very popular among the arm bear
ing population.
The topic is one that can not now be
discussed, from the standpoint of either
the unreconstructed Confederate or the
South hating Unionist, with any profit.
We never touch itand similar subjects,
but with the purpose, and in the hope,
that we help toward the correction of
errors, and the modifying of sectional
preiudices. s.-Chattanoopa Times.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-08-15
The Tariff Prospect.

The beginning of the end of the
Democratic attempt to reform the tar
i'll seemed to be in sight. The confer
ence committee, to which the whole
business has been once more referred
with full power to arrange settle
ment, is expected on all hands in
Washington to let Mr.. Cleveland down
as easily as possible, but, nevertheless,
to report in favor of the passage of the
German bill substantially as ii stands.
There will be pretense of changing
here and there. 1t is possible that coal
will be given 80 instead of 40 cents per
ton, and that the duty on iron ore will
suffer similar trfling reduction. 1t
is quite likely, too, that fiat ad va
lorem duty of As per cent. ON sugar
may be substituted for the 40 per cent.
ad valorem and the differential duties
fixed by the German bill.
If this latter change is made the Sugar
Trust will be about as well taken care
of as before, and some experts say bet
ter.
Such trifling alterations as these are
the utmost that will be attempted, and
the only real object of making them
will be to create knothoie through
which the President can crawl and
pull his letter to Mr.. Wilson after him.
German is clearly master of the situa-
ton, and the Sugar, Coal and Iron
Trusts are not going to be cheated of
their prey.-Exchange.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-08-15
The Model Congressman.

R. R. Hit, the thoroughly equipped
Representative of the Sixth District of
Illinois, in some recent comments on
the qualifications requisite for efficient
service in the House, said:
''The test of members calibre, ex-
perienre, and craftsmanship, is not
what he does ON the floor of the House,
but in committee. The hardest part of
Congressional work is confined within
the four walls of committee room.
Much is said for effect on the floor.
Well turned phrases win applause.
Men often go through parts that are re-
hearsed beforehand. In the committee
room there are no galleries, and the
representatives of the press are not
there to take notes. Members meet on
equal terms, and soon show what stuff
they are made Of There is no fooling
their associates. Wv Washington Post.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-08-15
Without Looking AT Her.

1t has been said that the American
man is the only man who can do wo-
man a service without looking at her;
he is also the only man who can look
at her as at another individual soul, O
creature related to his mother, wife
and sister, and not merely the femelle
de l'homme, writes Grace Ellery Chan.
ming in an article entitled "Politeness
in Two Countries" in the August La
dies Home Journal. That is not in
the European man. He is gallant, he
is Tattering, he can be all that is charm
ing, he can nurse poetic reve of the
budding woman, he may have an in
dividual respect for some individual
woman or women he knows, but rever-
ence for womanhood as womanhood is
not his.
On the other hand, however often
desecrated, is in American manhood,
making of many rough, he!ter skel-
ter school boy(who rarely knows where
his hat is anyway)a" brother of girls,
in the beautiful Arab phrase, and of
many bustling, hard working busi-
ness man "a very parfait gentle
knyghten where women are concerned.
No one processes that our men are
perfect, in truth. We say only that
our men are far in advance of other
men in their treatment of women.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-08-15
The Decline of DebS,

Debs is coming to the end of his reign
as the railroad autocrat of the conti-
nent. According to the dispatches
from Chicago, Grand Master Wilkin-
son of the Brotherhood of Trainmen
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-08-15

Kenneth Bazemore had the good for
tune to receive small bottle of Cham.
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhea
Remedy when three members of his
family were sick with dysentery. This
one small bottle cured them all and he
had some left which he gave to Geo.
w. Baker, a prominent merchant of
the place, Lewiston, n. c., and it cured
him of the same complaint. When
troubled with dysentery, diarrhea, collie
or cholera morbus, give this remedy a
trial and you will be more than pleased
with the result. The praise that natur-
ally follows its introduction and use
has made it very popular. % and so
cent bottles for sale by f. E. Britton,
druggist.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-08-15

My boy was taken with disease re.
sembling bloody tlux. The first thing
] thought of was Chamberlain 8 Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy. Two
doses of it settled the matter and cured
him sound and well. heartily recon-
mend this remedy to all persons suffer
ing from like complaint. l will an
swer any inquiries regarding it when
stamp isenclosed. Irefer to any county
official as TO my reliability. VIM.
Roach, j. P, Primroy, Campbell Co.,
Tenn. For sale by F. E, Britton, drug
uiet
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-08-15

When moving into our present home
found a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain
Balm left by former tenant. On the
label found the statement that it was
good for cuts and burns. can testify
to the truth of this. Nothing in all my
experience has found its equal for
treating blisters or burns. f. f. Bar
rett, manager lie Sueur Sentinel, lie
Sueur, Mimi. Pain Balm is also sure
cure for rheumatism. For sale by f.
f. Brtton, druggist.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-08-15

DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder,
Most Perfect Made.
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DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder.
Forty Years the Standard.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-18
THE TRACK.
At Brighton Beach.

New York, July 1.-THE racing at
Brighton Beach today was much better
than in some days, and the starting was
an improvement as we'll
During the running of the first and sec
ond races a dense fog hid the back
stretch entirely, so that the horses could
only be seen for very small part OF the
time. In the handicap there was a good
deal of betting, and it resulted in dead
heat. When the bookmaker hoisted the
odds, as good as 4 to l could be had on
Csndelabra, while Don Alonzo was an
odds on favorite. Then Pittsburg Phil
ard his friends got TO work, and when the
flag fell Candelabra was at 2 to l, while
to was the ruling price on Don Alonzo;
Then there was an excellent start and
Candelabra and Logan cut out the run
ming. As was expected, Don AlonZo ran
out on the first turn, but Sims wisely kept
him on the inside after that.
Running into the stretch, Comanche ran
up alongside the Dwyer horse and pinned
him against the rail.
Mary s. won, Blue Garter second, Con-
nors third. Time-2:091a.
Second race, one mile-His Grace won,
Half Mine second, Jersey Belle third.
Time-1:44.
Third race, six furlongs-Tinge won,
South Side second, Tancred third. Time
Fourth race, one and one-sixteenth
-Candelabra won. Don Alonzo sec
Fifth race, five furlongs-Hugh Penny
i:15.
Sixth race, seven furIongs-Jack of
Spades won, Derfargilla second, Son Nal
heur third Time-1:30
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-18
ANOTHER ALLEGED BLUNDER.
Given Publicity BY an Anti-Admfn-
istration Organ.

New York, July 1S.-A Washington
dispatch to a morning paper of pro-
|nounced anti-administration procliyi-
ties. says:
The fact has just come to light that
the administration, through Secretary
Gresham, has committed another diplo-
matte blunder which is considered even
more serious than the attempt to re-
store Queen Liliuokalani, which NAV
have more important results Mem
bers of the diplomatic corps among
whom the facts have created some
thing like sensation, tell this story
of it:
The Chinese minister, who has been
in frequent consultation of late with
the secretary of state regarding the
strained relations existing between
Japan and Corea, has finally induced
the secretary to send an official cable
Idispatch to the japanese government
expressing the dissatisfaction of the
United States with the policy which
Japan has been following toward Corea
and closing with these important
words:
"The United States views with re-
gret the levying of an unjust war by
Japan upon a weak and defenseIess
nation like Corea"
This is considered a greater diplo
matte blunder than the secretary's ac-
ton in the Hawaiian controversy. but
there has not been time to realize the
full extent of the message. The Jap
anese government has made no reply
and has probably not yet recovered
from its establishment. At the Japan-
csc legation here, the officials profess
to know nothing whatever about the
Ibelligerent message and express a
grave doubt as to the accuracy of the
STORY.
There is no doubt about the exist
|ence of the dispatch.
Secretary Gresham has shown a
copy of it to Sir Julian Pauncefote.
The Chinese and .Corean legations
have copies of it and the facts of its
existence are known to several mem
bers of the House and Senate Commit
tees on Foreign Relations.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-18
The Horsemen,s stnke.

Detroit, Mich, July 17.-Dan Court, a
Michigan trotter. won the horsemen's
stake race for foals of 1890 today. His
owner, S. A. Brown, of Kalamazoo, was
pres glted with a silver cup valued at
S1001 as breeder of the winner, the cup
being the Offering of the Chicago horse
men.
The first prize was $1,000, second 50, 800,
third $1,000, fourth $1,000 They were
taken respectively by Dan Court, Memo
line, Silicon, Margrave. Rose Leaf won
easily in the 2:2l trotting event, and Joe
Patchen captured the pacing race. The
weather was fine, the track in good
shape and the attendance 5000.
2:21 class, trotting, purse $2,000-Rose
Leaf won the race in three straight heats
in 2:1612 2:15A, 2:1614. Judge Fisher, Ma
vida, Mary Best, Don Lowell, Elsie s.,
Bassora, Gabrielle Greenleaf, Aunt Della,
Anteoyne, Margnetta, also started.
Horesmen's stake, for foals of 1890.
purse 81 ,oOo-Dan Court won the first,
won the second and third. Time-2;161.,
2;15%, 2:151a, 2:17 2:17. Silicon, Margrave,
Altivo, Bernadotte, Unkamel, Wistful,
Lea, Goldcoast, also started.
2:1S class, pacing, purse S2.000-Joe
Patchen won the first, third and fourth
heats and the race; T. N. B. won the sec
ond heat. Time-2:14&. 2:15, 2:13A, 2:14A
Ramon, Amelia. Havannis, Pattie D.,
Serena, Delincourt, Blue Ridge Jennie
McCov, Carrie Onward, Lord Ferguson,
Ring Rose, Russell B., Daisy Despot, White
Line also started.