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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-12-31
Early Sleep for Children.

1t is criminal economy to attempt to save
a little money by not giving every child in
your family bed to himself was the strong
way in which physician put it the other
day, addressing woman's club ON Some Of
the Important Littles of Children's Health. +"
Another thing emphasized was the need of
early sleep :" It is SO easy to let nervous
child lose sleep in the early evening, when he
or she should be hard at it, " said the speaker.
when physician prescribes some important
remedy that must be taken, and which is not
pleasant, mother feels that it is time well
expended to coax and wheedle, and even
bribe the little one to swallow it, Spend
just as much thought and effort in getting
your child to sleep every night, if he does
not fall off his chair at the evening meal
from drowsiness, as the normal child should.
Give up. concerts theaters, parties, any
thing till you have secured for the nervous,
twitching boy or girl the benign habit of sleep.
Coax him to his room, give him quick
sponge bath, tuck him in his single bed
with light wool blanket over him besides
the sheet, and in little lowered light sit by
him and talk to him till he is Quoted. Tel
him gentle, soothing stories, nothing to ex
cite his imagination, and when he is finally
asleep, have the room cool, dark and quiet
Don't let him try to sleep in room which
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-12-31
BRAD p. Cook,
Adjutant.
SERVICE PENSION.

I would ask Congress "Who saved my
home and yours during the bloody war 2"
Was it not the men who went to the front
and rescued us? Was it not your brothers
and fathers, and my brothers and father :?
In order to have peace and prosperity for
the generation to come, are not thousands of
those brave men now sleeping with the
dead? Certainly the men who won all for
the country deserve Service Pension. The
money will not be wasted abroad, but be
spent at home, where it will do the most
good.-John j. Ward, Herbert, KY.
Iwant to express my qualification at your
able and constant advocacy of that coming
question, Service Pension. If, as Mr..
Cleveland says, the "pension-roll must be
made roll of honor" how can it be better
done than by putting upon it every man
who served his country faithfully and hon.
orably? They merit this much, certainly.
james E. Bates, Whitman, Mass.
The following resolution passed our Post
unanimously:
Resolved. That 1t is the sense of J. B. Mcpherson
Post. g. a r., of Holly. Mich. that the Service
Pension law. as advocated by The NATIONAL
TRIBUNE. should pass.
j Watt Mattersill, Commander; NJ. D.
Elliott, Adjutant.
We want that Service Pension Bill passed
this session of Congress. / think that the
Democrats might try and redeem them
selves, and let the old soldiers have what
rightfully belongs to them.-Addison s.
Bean, Co. /, 4th u. S. Vet. Vols, West
Bethel, Me.
Your noble stand on the subject of Service
Pension has my most hearty approval, and
now it may not be amiss to say that Ellsworth
Post ST. located at the corner of Third
Ave. and 18th street, New York City, by q
unanimous vote has placed itself on record
as being in favor of the bilL-Edward Bell,
Adiutant.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-12-31
The Ex-Prisoners of War.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: As / have
seen nothing in your paper lately about the
ex-prisoners, take the liberty of writing q
few lines in their behalf.
There are but few Of them, and they are
mostly in bad shape, old and infirm before
their time through exposure and starvation.
The great majority of them were taken in
the front, Mr.. Tarsney to the contrary, not
withstanding; and while they could UNI
doubiedly have bettered their physical con-
dition by enlisting with the rebels, and
though they had that chance at any time,
not one in a thousand ever took it, but
looked death squarely in the face, knowing
there was no hope of escape, and died as
brave men die, or lived to drag their wasted
bodies home, and linger out the years in
misery.
propose that they be paid fixed sum
say, 50 per day-for the time they were in
prison, and continued pension of 10 cents
per month for each day so imprisoned; this
pension to be for imprisonment alone, and
not TO interfere with any pension granted
for other use, but to be in addition there
To. These are my views. Do they lool
unfair ?-RoBERT B. NcRAE, ST. Adams
WA
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-12-31
Gen. Campos ON Cuban Affairs.

The New York World publishes the follow
ing dispatch from Madrid:
Martinez Campos, Captain-General of Cuba
before Gen. Weyler, thinks the Spanish Gov.
eminent made great mistake in not carrying
out the colonial reforms voted by the Cortes
last year. He believes that the plated
concessions might have deferred many autonO-
mists and disafected persons in Cuba from
openly joining the rebellion, and would have
made foreign interference impossible.
He does not expect much to result from Gen.
Weyler's system of operations If Gen. Gomez
and the other Cuban chiefs persevere in their
guerrilla warfare and policy of holding out in
order to exhaust the military and financial re-
sources of Spain, and at the same time to wear
out the patience of the United States.
He is said to persist in the opinion that the
permanent paciication of Cuba cannot be OBJ
tanned by force of arms alone without conces.
sions of autonomy. He would heartily sup
port any Spanish Government in repelling
foreign Intervention or mediation.
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of ordinary cotton if it we're planted. as
this was, in two-foot rows four inches be-
tween stalks He promptly declared it
would not. Ordinarily, cotton is planted
in three to four-foot rows, from IL to Is
inches apart. And here, it would APP
pear, is a radical point of advantage,
which, waving all other considerations,
is sufficient to merit the most exhaustive
experimentation. In an acre Of ordi-
nary cotton, with four-foot rows, and at
IL inches apart, there would be 1O,92O
plants. With this cotton, planted in
two-foot rows and at four inches apart,
there would be sc, $50 plants to the acre.
So that, allowing for bad season, acct
dents, ravages Of insects and worms, it
would appear that two bales to the acre
might almost be counted on as an
average crop. For one thing does seem
to be clearly established, and that is that,
unlike the ordinary cotton, this plant is
more thrifty and prolific when planted
closely.
Sat the time / visited the patch the
open bolls had been pretty well picked,
but at Mr.. Jackson's house were num-
Der of stalks which had been cut with
all the bolls filled. No photographs
had been taken Of the cotton. secured
photograph Of the field, with pickers
just cleaning up the patch, and had
several of the stalks with filled bolls
photographed. The shortest of these is
about two feet high, cutting, and has
Is open bolls. l also had a bundle OF
the stalks pulled up by the roots and
had them photographed while being
held by negro laborer. They were
average stalks, and from the root to the
tip measured about seven feet.
Con one of the fve-foot stalks in the
house counted So open bolls. found
that 80 of these hollis had five locks and
eight had six, and was informed that
some had been found with as many a.
10.
"The seed of this cotton is another
popularity. It is smaller than that Of
ordinary cotton, SO that 1900 pounds Of
seed cotton is calculated to make bale
Of the lint, instead of 1000 pounds, al
with ordinary cotton. 1t appears also te
have characteristic mark, seam down
the center of one side, and Mr.. Jackson
is authority for the statement that il
terminates from the center instead Of
from either end, as does the common
cotton. It is said there are nine seeds tt
each lock, invariably"
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-12-31
Kate Fields Funeral.

The hnal obssquiss over the remains Of the
late Kate Field were held In Trinity Church,
San Francisco. Sunday. Tho large sdi6ce was
crowded to the doors with the most prominent
people of the city, who assem- blsd = do honor
to the memory of the dead woman. The chancel,
Of plants aud beautiful floral pieces. sent BY peo-
pie from ali parts of the country. Gov. Budd
was represented BY his sts6, in full uniform.
and q number Of foreign Consuls. Federal ON.
cisls, and the heads of all State and municipal
departments werc present
The services were conducted by Rev. George
E.Wolf, and were according to the ritual of the
Episcopal Church. After the church cersmo-
MES the body was taken to the crsmatory at
Odd Fellows Cemetery, where it was inciner-
atsd. The ashes will be sent to Fl. n. Kohl
satt, Of Chicago, who will see that they are
placed in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston, &C.
cording to the wish expressed by Miss Field.
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Gen. Meredith Read Dead.

Gen. Meredith Read, ex-Ministsr to Greece,
died at Paris Sunday morning. He was Adj
jutant-General Of New York in 186O266. He
was one of the originstors of the Wide Awake
political clubs in 1860. He was chairman in
April of the same year Of the committee to
draft bill in behalf of New York State, APP
propriating 100000 for the purchase of arms
and equipments, and he subsequently, received
the thanks of the War Department for his
ability and zeal in organizing, equipping. and
forwarding troops.
He was first United States Consul-General
for France and Algeria in 1s69'73, and Acting
Consul General during the Franco-German war.
In November. 1873, he was appointed United
States Minister Resident in Greece. In 1881
King George created him Knight, Grand
Cross of the Order of the Redeemer. the highest
dignity in the gift of the Greek Government.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-12-31
4 CHANCE FOR THE Indies.

We have just gotten in very nice lot OF
Ladies' Victoria Chains at cost never
equalled before in our 10 years experience
in the premium business. These chains are
heavy rolled-gold plate, and are of two pat
terns-one with fan charm, and the other
has muff charm. The gold-plate is 4karat
fine and warranted to wear 20 years.
These chains have been sold heretofore for
1915 each. We will send either style to
any address, postpaid, upon receipt of only
% cents.
Think of it and even if you only want to
lay in an Xmas present for next December,
it will pay to get one or more of these chains
at this figure.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-12-31
COL. ANSON S. WOOD,
Candidate for Commander OF the Depart
ment of New York, GAR.

Gel. Arson 8. Wood, who is prominent can
d;date for Commander of the Department of
New York, GAR. was young lawyer at Ly-
ons, N. Y, when the war broke out. In Sep
tember, 1852, he enlisted in the 13Sth N. Y,
sfterward known Is the 9th N. Y II. A., aud
WAS comm ssoned First Lieutenant. and served
as Adjutant OF the regiment. In 1863 he was
promoted to Captain. and commanded his COM
pany 1T Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Monocscy,
Winchester, and Fishers Hill. In October,
1854. Gen. J. B. Ricketts,, commander of the
Third Division, Sixth Corps. put him on his
staff az judge advocate, .and he continued in
this position until he WAS promoted to Major of
his regiment, which he commanded at the
cspsture of Petersburg aud Of Lees army. He
was breyetted Lieutenant Colonel for meritori-
Gus service in that campaign. When his regi-
ment was mustered out he bought farm. aud
| conducted it until he was appointed Assistant
Assessor of Internal Revenue. He resumed
the practice OF the law in Wolcott, N. Y, where
he has resided ever since. He has been men,
Der of the New York Legislature, Assistant
Secretary of State, and held other Offices. He
was one Of the organizers Of VIM. Dutton Post
(now Keesler POST, Of Wolcott. and has been q
member Of the GAR for Is years. He has
been for four years President Of the Wayne
County Veteran Soldiers and Sailors Assoeia'
ton.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-12-31
A Good Bill.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: noticed
in the doings of the House last week good
move was made in the right direction by
Mr.. Connolly, of Illinois, introducing bill
to make the reports and ratings of the local
Boards of Examining Surgeons binding on
the Pension Office. Last Winter, think, a
law was passed giving the right to Exam
ming Surgeons to make ratings. If the
Boards have the right to rate, that rating
should be law unless an appeal is taken tt
the Secretary of the Interior. AS the Law
now stands it amounts to nothing, as every
one knows that has any knowledge Of pen
sion business.-P. G. HoDGDON, NORTH
Craftsbury, vt.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-12-31
A Prnhihitionist,s View

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In 1888
and 1892 voted for the Prohibition candi-
dates for President and Vice-President, but
this year the issues of the campaign were of
such vast importance that felt perfectly
justified in departing from my usual course.
Therefore, voted for our comrade, William
Mckinley. Every old soldier should have
voted for him. j am very glad that he was
elected, and i pray God that his Admins
tration may be success.-OLIvER NASH
Lee Mass
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EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: It is with
deep sorrow that pen these few lines to ex-
press my sympathy, as do hundreds Of our
comrades, in the muster-out of our friend
and comrade, Capt. George E. Lemon. We
feel that we have lost friend, indeed but
his name will ever be fresh in our memories
until we meet him ON the last camping
ground-JAMEs SCULL, Co. G, LIST New. Cav,
National Home, Kan.
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has been q sitting-room all the evening. with
ont having it thoroughly refilled with fresh
outdoor air, which may b accomplished by
throwing windows wide open for 10 minutes"
-NeW York Iimea
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-12-31

Corp'l F. J. M. Titus, Co. F, 7th Ind. Cav
Joelton, Tenn, is strongly in favor OF q
Service Pension Bill of the right kind
which will not favor any classes, but dc
Justice to all.
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ssDon't Tobacco-Spit or Smoke Your Life
Away"

Name Of the little book just receiyed-tells
about Notobac. the wonderful, harmless. eco
pomical cure for chewing, smoking cgaret, or
snuff habit. You run no physical or financial
risk, for Notobac is absolutely guaranteed to
cure or money refunded. Your druggists got
Il or will get il. Write for the book-maiiod
free. THE STERLING REMEpy Co., Box g. In
diana Mineral Springs Ind. Agents wanted
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No. 2ss is a Grand Army

No. 293 is a Grand Army
badge made Of rolled gold
plate. At the top are the
double eagles in rolled gold
Below them two rolled gold
cannon lying upon a pile Of
enarneled cannon-balls. d.
rectly below this is the United
States flag made of red sad
blce enamel and rolled gold.
Attached to the flag is the
star containg the various mill
tary emblems, 50 well known
to our readers that we VIII
not endeavor To describe
them. The whole charm v
about two inches in length.
Price, mailed. .........-.--l-Jo
With THE NATIONAL TRIB-
uNE for one year .......-.oS.0O
Free for q club of scvoD
subscribers
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These goods sent by express the receiver paying
the express charges.
There Is a National movement on foot to provides
nag for every schoolhouse Under this offer no school
need be without one for q contribution OF few cent?
by each pupil will secure at our prices The0o
flags are of the same bunting used by The Army and
Navy and will Last for years
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Inequalities in Pension Ratings.

1t is not what the propretors say. but what
Hoods Sarsaparilla does. that tells the story.
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THE AMERICAN FLAG,

Every patriotic American citizen would like TO own
O flag BY special arrangement we have obtained
manufacturers prices line Of American faxA
They all sewed bunting flags The stars
stitched on sides by machine; zigzag stitch,
no edges Strong cam
heading. Full number
of stars on all, except the
smallest sizes We VIII
send these flags at tha 1pl.
The Meeker herald., 1896-06-06
WAFllko Indiana.

An island In the Gulf of California Is
inhabited by queer human beings. The
Ceris, without doubt. are one of the
most interesting tribes Of aborigines to
be found on this hemisphere. They
are said to have fair skins and blue
eyes and bear no resemblance whatever
to the Indian tribes of the mainland
or of the peninsula. In former days
they made excursions upon the main
land. spreading havoc along the coast.
but in later years they have kept close
ly to their island home They are ex-
tremely fierce and warlike and use
venomed arrows in fighting.
The island Is known to be very
mountainous. with innumerable rug
ged canons and gorges. where the In
dians ambush and which renders SUBJ
DUNG them almost an impossibility,
Beyond the fact of the existence Of the
Ceris tribe very little is known. Their
habits and language are said to be pe-
culiar to themselves. while their origin
is a subject OF conjecture. The island
shows no sign of vegetation from the
gulf and their method of gaining sub
sistence is unknown. Shippers cruis-
ing in those waters carefully avoid this
island peopled with blue-eyed savages
and Its rugged outlines. which loom up
In the gulf. shrouded in mystery
Oakland (Cai) Echoes.
The Meeker herald., 1896-06-06
Logan Was Dowued.

Gen. John A. Logan was a regular
church attendant in the later years of
his life. He had most profound rev.
erence for the Bible. and was Influenced
considerably by Bible quotations.
speeches, says Washington corre-
spondent
i remember, though said a venera-
BILE ex-member of Congress few days
ago." when a Bible quotation nearly
threw him into convulsions. It hap
pened this way. Logan and Thad Stew
ems were walking up to the capitol one
morning over quarter of century
ago. 1t was in the days when Stevens
could walk, for you may not be old
enough to remember that during the
last ten years or so of his life like Oil
yer P Morton, he had to be carried
around in chair. AS they reached
the west entrance of the Capitol they
were met by an old colored preacher,
who was known to both of them for
the reason that like many other preach
ers of that day, as well as this, he was
always soliciting contributions for
church building, buying an organ, or
something else in religious way.
ana shsh aadfessrhs hfmseif more no To to
his urbane companion than to the
general. Il want that contribution to
our church. We colored people haven't
got many friends, and we have to call
on those we have very frequently"
would be glad to help little this
morning, answered Logan. but the
fact Is am broke
Never mind put in the old COM
moner. Stevens; III give you lift at
the same time handing the preacher
IS note. The preacher was most pro-
fuse In his thanks. AS he was about to
turn away Gen. Logan said to him:
Mr.. Stevens is very liberal with his
money this morning, he won from me
last night playing poker
1t matters not said the preacher.
God moves in mysterious ways his
wonders to perform
The Meeker herald., 1896-06-06
o, some of the incidents of the foress

Of some of the incidents Of the forest
warfare of the day.
The warriors who had engaged in this
raid on their former friends. the set
tless along the Allegheny. retreated
two or three days journey into the the
wilderness to an appointed place. where
they found their families. One Of the
Girtys was with the Indians. No
sooner had the last of the warriors
come. with their scalps and prisoners,
including the boy Brickell, than ten OF
their number deliberately started
back to Pittsburg, to pass themselves
~ friendly Indians. and trade. In .
fortnight they returned. laden with
goods Of various kinds. including
whisky. Some OF the Inhabitants, sore
from disaster. suspected that these In
dians were only masquerading A.
friendly, and prepared to attack them.
but one Of the citizens warned them OF
their danger and they escaped. TheiR
enrontery was as remarkable as their
treachery and duplicity. They had
suddenly attacked and massacred set
tiers by whom they had never been
served an appearance Of entire friend
ship up to the very moment of the as
sauit. Then, their hands red with the
blood OF their murdered friends, they
cams boldly into Pittsburg, among the
near neighbors of these same murder
Cd men. and stayed there several days
TO trade. pretending to be peaceful
aiiies OF the whites. With savages SO
treacherous and SO ferocious 1t was
mere 1mpossibility for the borderers to
distinguish the hostile from the friend
iy' as they hit out blindly to revenge
the blows that fell upon them from
unknown hands. Brutal though the
frontiersmen often were, they never
employed the systematic and deliberate
bad faith which was favorite weapon
with even the best OF the red tribes.
The Meeker herald., 1896-06-06
The Duke Vt wellington.

When engaged on the two pictures
The Queen Receiving the Sacrament
and THE Christening of the Princess
money was spent in taking them from
one nobleman's house to another to
obtain sittings, but often to find, after
making an appointment with duke
or lord, that he was engaged, and
after waiting for hours, that he re
gretted not then being able to see Mr.
Leslie, but would be at his service OF
The iron duke was an exception and
the day after he received note from
my father l saw white-haired elderly
gentleman walk up the short gravel
path and steep steps of our little villa
and shading his eyes from the sun, take
rapid survey Of the front garden as
he stood on the steps, and how, wher
a small maidservant answered his
knock and question. "Is this Mr.. Les
lie's?" with Yes, sir. What name.
please?" his reply in very clear, loud
-vosess s--4aAe ss~ar-~e- e-vvoasa.1ss.y---nssssy
made the girl drop where she stood
and not only brought my father, palette
and brushes in hand, to her rescue, but
many heads out of the upper windows
of the adjoining villa. Then before 60
ing indoors he informed my father and
all the neighbors in the same loud tone
that the distance between Apsley house
and ours was "five miles," repeating 1t
more than once, and when my father
ventured to say, 81 think not quite SO
much. your grace" he closed the. argu-
ment with: oh. yes. 1t must be; I'm a
good judge of distance and consider 1t
certainly over five miles" The duke
had come on horseback and was much
pleased when told that my father would
wait upon him for sitting at Apsley
house, but on doing 50 he was received
by the duke with: well, Mr.. Leslie
didn't you find 1t long way? Ovel
ave miles. am sure"
A few days later my father chancet
to mention this to Sir Edwin Land
seer. who knew more of the duke thar
ne did. Sir Edwin said: ut is no use
to differ with the duke; 1 once die
about some engravings Of my own pie
lures, with which he was having a room
papered. and ventured to suggest tina;
as many of them were valuable proof.
they might be attached to the wall only
by paste around the edges, 30 that al
any future time they could be removed
without injury. But he cut me short
at once with: No, no: that would no;
do at all. What do is this: get q
man with pot Of strong paste and a
big brush and he pastes them all over
the backs and up they go at once. with
no more bother about them.'"