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PERSONAL

The election of Gen. J. Sewell to the Senate
may cause his resignation as the senior officer
in command of the New Jersey National
Guard. He commands the Second Brigade,
with the brevet of Major General.
Col. John Jacob Aston, of Gov Morton's per-
sonal staff. is not the first of the family to bear
the title Of Colonel. His late uncle, John
Jacob Aston, was in the field with the Army
of the Potomac for time, serving in the rank
of Colonel.
Mrs. Elizabeth Custer, wife of the famous
General, is pretty woman, who still dresses in
mourning for her husband. She has very
sweet manner and q charming voice in which
blend the softness of the South and the dis
tinct enunciation of the West. She has writ
ten three books and any number of articles
and "recollections" of her famous husband.
She is now giving readings. The favorite
reading, she says, is "Garrson's Life on the
Frontier" She makes her home, when not
travelling, in New York and Washington.
The memory of John Hancock has recently
been honored by the Old Concord Chapter of
the Daughters Of the Revolution at Bedford
Mass. The Daughters assembled in tho First
Parish Church, the veritable meeting house of
provincial days, where John Hancock presided
over the first Provincial Congress in 1775, and
where the voice Of patriotism had often been
heard. Beneath this same roo;-tree the fire
blszed on the hearth. The walls of the house
were hung for the occasion with patriotic en-
blems The program included the display of
commissions and other documents Of local sig
nifcance, bearing the bold signature that
stands at the head of the names on the Declara-
ton of Independence.
Past Commander John II. Dettre, of Ellis
Post, 6, Philadelphia. has been presented with
q very handsome gold badge by his comrades
MS q mark Of their high esteem. The presen-
tstion address was made by A5j't William t.
Brodhead, and Mr.. Dettre replied in appropri-
ate words.
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TRIBUNETS.
shortly.

1t has come out that Casimer-Perier Is an In.
ordinate smoker of cigarets. No one is SUI
prised that be ran away from the Presidential
responsibilities as soou as the fire became at all
warm. His successor. who smokes cigars, is
probably made of stouter stuff.
II.
Couldn't Gresham get out of the serape by
claiming that Queen Lii hypnotized himr
ssS
Why don't electricians who are anxious to
find the thing that ''oHers the least possible
resistance" try Chinaman?
80
Can it be that the grippe. which is reported
in several parts Of the country, Is that which
the Treasury has lost on the gold reserve2
&~
Isit possible that Fashion has for once yielded
to Public opinionf Such thing has never
occurred in human history. Yet il is fact that
the much denounced high hat has disappeared
from the heads of theater-goers. and women now
wear slight creations that offer little or no
obstruction to the view of those who sit behind
them. Still it is not at all certain that this
change has been brought about by concession
to an outraged and long-suffering public. The
likelihood is much greater that Fashion de-
creed change for the sake of change, as-she
always does, and this was entirely oblivious to
the popular views and wishes.
They propose to send the mail over the house,
tops in Chicago. Though the method will be
way up" the postage will be no higher.
jon rnalism has reasons for congratulations.
Ell. Gov. Hogg denies that he is about to enter
its ranks.
Rev. DR.. Alexander laments that such small
proportion of the voters of the country are
Christians. Let him take comfort that more
practical Christians voted last Fall than at any
previous election for years. There seemed to
be National revival going on.
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country. If every postoffice were made
a savings bank, the amount of the
peoples savings would be increased be-
yond computation. They would not
only provide for the present needs of the
Government, but would soon, if allowed,
absorb all the rest of the public debt,
and furnish the money to build the
Nicaragua Canal, if the Government
should undertake that enterprise.
This is so clear, SO obviously the best
way, that we are amazed that even such
shallow blatherers as are now filling the
public ear with rant on the finances can
not see it.
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THE ONE BEST WAY.

If the aggregation Of cranks, dema-
gogs, and political quacks which control
the present Congress could perceive the
plainest requirements of the financial
situation, they would adopt some meas,
ure by which the Government would
avail itself of the resources of its own
people, and not borrow money of for.
eigners, to drain more gold out of the
country. They would either adopt a
peoples loan, with the greater part of the
bonds at s5 and $40, and offered fol-
sale at every Postoffice, or they would
adopt the Postal Savings Bank plan
which would be another means Of ar.
irving at the same end.
Either way would place the loan in
the hands of the common people and
pay them the gold interest.
There are 10000 postoffices in the coun
try. If So and $40 bonds were author
lied, it would require an average of les
than 81 800 for each postoffice to take
up the entire S1O0,000,00O. If the in
terest were fixed at 3 per cent. Their
100000 in gold would be paid out
every year, not to foreigners across The
Atlantic, but to our own people at every
village and crossroads In the country
Every holder of 500 bond would ge
So year from the Government for tht
use of his money. -
The same thing would be accomplished
by the establishment Of the Postal Say
ings Banks. Let the Government ofie
to pay 3 per cent. per annum on tim'
deposits lodged with the nearest Post
master. The common people have to
day s1,768,0OO,0OO in the savings bank
of the country, and savings banks ar
only prominent in a portion of tn
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MEXICAN PENSION ROLL

One Which is Not "Purged," and i'm Which
There Are NO Suspensions.
On the Mexican Pension Roll
there are the names of 1928
survivors and 2 ,2S2 widows, and
something over 5000 eases were
pending at latest reports. This
makes "a total of %, 49,, or sew
eraI thousand more men than
the Uniled States had Inn Mexico
Rt any ouc lime during the war.
These all receive either rs or
S12 a month.
Among Ihe names are those
Of the widow Of Gen. Samuel
Cooper. N New Yorker by birth,
who was Acknowledgement of
the United States Army mt the
outbreak Of the war, and used
his position 10 aid the rebels i'm
preparing for The struggle. He
resigned his position 10 become
Asiiutant-fsenera of the South
ern C0nfederacy, and Officfateti
as such until the rebellion coll
1apsed. Mrs. Cooper has been
drawing a pension since June
G.ISS1.
The widow Of Thomas j.
fs.Stonewafl''D Jackson. who
was next TO Lee the most popu-
lar commander Of the rebel
armies.
Thewidow Of Mai .-Gen. George
". Pickett. who commanded a
division i'm the rebel army.
The Hidow of Maj .-Gen. Gideon
j. Pillow, mo commanded "a di.
vision in the rebel army.
The widow al LiesIt.-Gen. A. II.
Hill. who commanded one Of
The three corps Of Lees army.
The widow Of Sidney Smith
Lee, Who was dismissed fronl
The Navy for going ever 10 the
enemy" and alferward became
a Commodore i'm the rebel navy.
Brighten. Jas. ne. Chalmers.
who Was FORESTS chief lieu-
ueRant.
Mai.-Gen. Dabney H. Maury.
Who commanded Ihe rebel
troops at Tie battle of Shicka-
saw Bayou.
Hen. y. Ii. Maxey. late United
States Senator from Texas. who
has beer drawing his pension
since May 20. 1857. He WAS n
Maior-Generaf i'm the rebel
army.
Hon. Jas. ". George. Senator
from Mississippi. and who
g.. t.xa
Colonel. The number Of Iiis
certificate In Is.2I4.
The widows above mentioned
are of men who were educated
at the Governments expense. and
afaeraard tonight TO destroy the
Government. They went ON the
roll at once, while last April
there were pending the claims
0f I4J.520 widows OF Union sol.
diers who had not yet been able
10 get ON the roll.
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w. A. Webb, who died in few years.
The Seth was J. L. Grattan, who was
/ killed. The 37th was Elmer Otis, who
became a Major during the war. The
3Sth was A. T.. Iatimer, who served
through the war in command of his
regiment. The 39th was B. F. Smith,
who was Colonel of the LIST and 10th
Ohio. The 10th was s. F. Higgins,
who died. The 41st was III. III. Walker,
who Joined the rebels. The AID was f. C..
Jones, who was cashiered. The 43d was
| Alex. Chambers, who was Colonel of the
10Th Iowa. The 44th was John B.
Hood, who commanded the rebel army
in the West. The 45th was James A.
Smith, who Joined the rebels. The
47th was Thomas NJ. Jones, who joined
the rebels. The 4Sth was A. III. Plum
mer, who served through the war as a
Captain. The 49th was James B. Nc
Intyre, who commanded the 4th u. S.
Cav. during the war. The 50th was L.
l.. Rich, who Joined the rebels. The
51st was r. r. Ross, who joined the
rebels. The SD was VIM. Craig, who
became Captain and Quartermaster.
Lieut.. Schofeld reached a Captaincy
May IA, 1861, and was an active and
valued assistant to Gen. Nathaniel Lyon
in the operations by which Missouri was
secured to the Union. His first volun-
teer commission was as Major in the 1st
Mo. Art. He was promoted to Briga-
der General of Volunteers in Novem-
Der, 1861, and to Major-General Nov.
%, 1862. He soon came into command
of large portion Of the troops in Mis-
souri,, and showed so much capacity in
the management of affairs in that trou-
bled region that in the beginning of
1864 he was given command of the inn
portant Army of the Ohio, then occupy
ing eastern Kentucky and East Tennes-
see.
AT the beginning of the Atlanta cam
paign he joined Sherman with portion
of his forces, and during the campaign
he commanded one wing of Sherman's
army, the other portions being COM
manded by Gems Thomas and McPher-
son, until the latter was killed, when he
was succeeded by Gen. o. o. Howard.
Of the value of his services Gen. Sher-
man has given the most fattering testi-
mony. He was foreseeing, active, enter
prising, and thorough, always on time,
always ready, and always doing all that
could be expected.
After the capture of Atlanta he was
sent back with Thomas to head off Hood,
aud the forces under his command
achieved the brilliant victory Of Frank
lin. He commanded the Twenty-third
Corps at Nashville and in the pursuit of
Hoods shattered army. His command
was then transferred to the coast of North
Carolina. He took Forts Anderson and
Wilmington, and marched to join Sher-
man, defeating the rebels at Kinston.
He was present with Sherman when Joe
Johnston surrendered. Hewas appointed
Brigadier-General in the Regular
Army TO date from the battle of Frank
lin, and promoted to Major-General
March 4, 1869.
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SENATOR PETTIGREw's constituents
are naturally very indignant at his
voting with the Cuckoos to prevent a
condemnation Of the Hawaiian policy.
il is claimed that the pie counter In
fnenced the Senator's course.
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EXECUTE THE LAWS.

Thomas Jefferson, for whose princi-
pies a great devotion has been expressed,
said
"The execution of the laws is more
important than the making of them"
This the pensioners of the country
have found out to their sorrow. The
laws upon the statute books, and which
were put there after the most thorough
discussion and consideration by Congress
and the country, provide, as far as the
letter of the law can well provide, that
every Observation-Disclosures disabled
soldier shall receive a pension. TIE
equally obvious intent of those was that
this pension should be granted at once,
SO that the pensioner should have the
benefit of it during the years that might
remain to him. Particularly was this
true of the Act of June 81, 1890. The
great object of that law was to do away
with the sickening delays arising under
the old laws Its principal intention
was to obviate the strenuous require
ments for evidence of incurrence of dis
abilities, and to give worthy pensioners
some measure of Immediate relief while
waiting for the prosecution of their
claims under the old laws. This idea
was constantly reiterated in Congress,
in the press of the country, and in the
public meetings, where the matter
was discussed. The fundamental idea,
the actuating motive of the law, was
this one of extending prompt relief to
every Observation-Disclosures soldier who
was suffering from disabilities. 1t came as
near being a Service Pension Bill as
was possible at the time. 1t prescribed
merely as conditions for a pension
service of at least 80 days, an honor
able discharge, and the existence of a
disability. AS very few men had passed
through the service-long and arduous
as it was in most of the cases-without
mourning some disability this was
felt and believed to be practically
Service Pension Bill.
1t stands on the statute-books in that
shape to-day, without the change of
sentence, a clause, a word even. If
executed according to its letter and
spirit, if executed according to the clear
ly-expressed intention of the Congress
which passed the law, it would at once
place on the pension roll substantially
every man in the United States who
served 80 days during the rebellion and
was honorably discharged.
Let us have the laws executed accord
ing to the welI-defned will of the au-
thority which made the laws.
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If consistency in official reports is at
all desirable there should be an editor
appointed to bring those published by
the Treasury Department into more
harmonious relations with those sent out
from the Department of State. The
Treasury Departments experts have
been having an uphill work trying to
support the free traders vehement as
sertions that it is impossible to manu-
facture tin-plate in this country, and that
all attempts to do so are merely "politi-
cal fakes" intended to support the cause
of McKinleyism." On the other hand,
the State Department sends out, care
lessly, and apparently without thought
of its sister Departments efforts, vo-
luminous report from Mr.. Howells, our
Consul at Cardiff, Wales, in which he
says that until recently South Wales
enjoyed monopoly of the tin-plate
trade, and that the people of the United
States were its best customers; but that
since we have undertaken to supply our
own wants in this as we have long done
in other branches of the iron and steel
trade the American demand has greatly
fallen off. The Welsh manufacturers,
he continues, take very pessimistic
view Of the future, and see no hope of
brighter prospects, in the face of the
probability of the American demand
growing smaller, and concludes:
The American tin-plate works, which it
was thought would have to stop, are going
| on as vigorously as ever, competing for and
| often securing orders which formerly came
| to this country. The most striking feature.
| however, is the seriously diminishing call
| for Welsh terne plates, the American works
being equal to supplying almost the whole
| trade; and though there have been large
shipments Of finished black plates, it is not
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THE Cuckoos are having q tough time
trying to maze q martyr out of Mrs
DomiLis.
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The Cuckoos in both House and Sem
ate always want to talk Of something else
when the Hawaiian subject comes up.
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THE Hawaiian Government acted
with wisdom and decision in arresting
Mrs. Dominis, lately Queen of that
country. She is merely private citizen
of the country, having no more rights
and privileges than any other. She has
no hereditary rights to the throne. but
was put there merely because at the
moment she seemed to be the most 'avail-
able" candidate. When her admins
tration had become an intolerable nui-
sance she was deposed by the same power
which had elevated her, and thereupon
returned to her position as a plain citi-
zen. Very clearly she has been guilty
of conspiracy against the legitimate
Government, and is amenable to the
charge of high treason. Arms, dyna-
mite, and other discriminating evidence
were found in her house. She would
have no grounds for complaint if the
Government meted out to her the pun
ishment she proposed to inhict upon
those who overthrow her Government
that is, beheading. Probably the Gov
eminent will Danish her, when she will
come to this country. She might get a
place in sideshow, or join William L.
Wilson and Col. Breckenridge in the
lecture business. She would draw a
paying crowd in either capacity.
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thought that the trade will continue but
that it will be gradually absorbed by the
American mills
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s. T. Allen. Greensville, r. l. F.. 1
Chris Schaus, Nina, Pa. .. 1
Ezra s. West, West Berne, Pa. 9
Henry Crutchler, Stinnet. KY.
Jas. Cosgrove, New Market, n. J. 1
John Swezy, Elizabethyille, Pa. .25
Jonas Swab .35
John r. Sedberry, Smithland. Ky. so
Geo. A. Tweedie, Pembine, Wis. 1
The following contributions have been
collected by W. FL. Lloyd, Co. A, lat Wis,
Iawrenpehuro Tam.
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SWANS only sing before they die.
Congressman Jerry Simpson, as he APP
proaches political dissolution, is doing
something to commend himself to the
people of the country. He made some
really telling speeches recently at the
Friday evening sessions of the House,
fifty rebuking the trueulent eulogists of
the Lost Cause, and advocating the just
claims of his comrades, the veterans.
Last week he told the workingmen of
Baltimore that the real place for them
to secure their rights was at the ballot
box. This cannot be told the working
men too often or too emphatically.
There is absolutely no reason or justif-
cation for them, above all others, for
breaking the laws. They have the
making of the laws in their own hands.
They have the votes which place the
lawmakers and law-executers in office,
and this leaves them without an excuse
for disobeying them. If the laws are
bad let them see that they are amended,
which they can do. But as long as
they are laws every citizen, from highest
to lowest, must yis id them implicit obedi-
ence. If Simpson had begun as he is
ending, he would have been very USE
full Representative.
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THE bombastic talk of Vest and VIM.
T.. Wilson about comfortable surplus in
the Treasury" is simply of piece with
the disastrous financial bosh with which
they have been deluding the people for
years. The cold, unmistakable facts are
that in January the Treasury ran be-
hind s6,700,000 in ordinary expendi-
lures, not including s2,2OO,O0O for re-
demption of bonds which had become
due. This made total deficit for the
month of s8,900,0OO, or at the rate of
more than s1OO,OOO,OOO year. Their
recklessness of statement is the more
glaring when it is recollected that at the
very time they were making it the COM
mittees to which they belong were anx-
iously considering proposition to in
crease the taxes on whisky and beer to
help fill the drained Treasury.
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One Which il Not "Purged," and I'm Which
There Are No Suspensions.
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.rs..e :. rre ~.s.eIoa tosI ssoO.0.ss ..rrsA
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Can it be that the grippe. which is reported
in several parts Of the country, is that which
the Treasury has lost on the gold reserve?