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The National tribune., 1896-08-20
ARMY HARDSHIPS.
No One But a Veteran Can Realize
the Suferings from Army Life.

II Often Makes Our Able bodied Men Help
less Invaiids-The Story OF One Who Suf-
fered for Twenty Years, Duo to Hsrdships
When In the Service Of His Country.
from the Farmers Voice, Chicago, MI
Edison A. Wood, who now lives at $50 Wash
ingtop-B ulevsrd, Chicago, ILL.,. was born on
farm in Wyoming County. N. Y. 80 years ago.
As young man he suffered two sun strokes in
the fields When the war broke out he joined
the 57th Illinois Volunteers. with which he
served two years. when sickness forced his dis
charge The effects of the sun strokes and his
army life undermined his health, and he sooE
found his brain, heart, and kidneys were
affected. For eight years he was with the
West Chicago Street Car Company. but was
forced to seek lighter work, as the exposure IN
creased his bronchial and asthmatic troubles
He then engaged with the Pan Handle Rail
road Company. For six years he served them
in different capacities. His constitution gradu-
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spells becoming more frequent. he finally
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He said to a reporter:
1T was some time about q year ago. when
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great deal of trouble. dizzy spells, aches, anl
queer feelings, and then ] also had strange
feeling of uncertainty in the use Of my lower
limbs when walking.
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"Pbysiciaus examined my condition closely
and were of the opinion that had all the first
symptoms of locomotOr ataxia, and L oeiieVe
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81 am going to continue with the use OF the
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Subscribed and sworn to before me this 22d
day of January, 1896.
ROBERT ANsLEY, Notary Public.
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Populists have refused to indorss him, and the
effort to fuse on Bryan electors may result In
failure.
There promises to develop the biggest Sight
In the history of tho Connecticut Democracy
between the Gold and Silver men. The former
so far seem in the majority. but the Silver men
will not concede this, and the coming Conven-
ton will be very lively one.
The Gold Democrats of Nebraska will not put
up separate ticket, but will vote for tho Nc
Kinley electors.
The situation In Minnesota IL not wholly
encouraging to the Republicans. The work OF
the Free Silver agtatofs has been going on Tor
years among the farmers, who have lent
willing ear because of the low prices OF produce.
1t is feared that many Republicans have I'M
bibed the beresy In 1892 the Republicans
cast about 122, 1876 votes, the Democrats Ivy, oSa
and the Populists 30,398. This makes l3l,ooo
votes against the Republicans. The Democrats
have nominated John Lind, Swede and
Free Silver Republican, for Governor, and have
left part of their ticket open for the Popuiists
to fill. The "Middle-of-the-Road " Popuiists
will not have it this way. They claim to De
bigger than the Democrats, and that the dog
should wag the tail. The Republicans have
put strong ticket in the field, and arc going
to make splendid fight to carry the State.
Gen. w. B. Franklin, lifelong Democrat,
has come out in favor of Mckinley.
The Pennsylvania Democratic Committee
held meeting at Harrisburg Aug Is. accepted
the resignation of Chairman Wright, elected
John M. Garman, of Nanticcke, his successor,
and decided to reconvene the Democratic Con-
vention Sept. 10 to ell the places on the ticket
| made vacant by the withdrawal OF the Goid
men after the Chicago Convention.
With fine appropriateness, the band at the
Bryan ratification meeting did not play single
National air.
The Philadelphia Times-Democratic-s
that every indication now points to vote IN
| Pennsylvania of 700 600 for Mckinley, and not
| over 100000 for Bryan.
W. F. Harrity, of Pennsylvania, has been put
| forward as a good candidate for the Gold Demo
| cratic nomination for the Presidency. Sons
leading men, while conceding Harrity's avail
| ability, still think that it would be better u
| nominate man from farther West.
The Wyoming Republican Convention nomi.
mated as one of the three Electors-at-Large Mrs
| Sarah Malloy, wife Of the Superintendent OF the
| Wyoming Division of the Union Pacific Sht
| is 40 years old, and has four children.
The Iowa Gold Democrats will meet in Con
| venton at Des Moines, Aug. 26.
| The Michigan Gold Democrats will meet il
| Convention at Lansing, Aug. 26.
In his speech at Philadelphia last week, ex
| Postmaster General Wannamaker said that b.
| found no fault with the honesty of the presen
Administration but only with it's signal in
| capacity.
Tbe Virginia Republicans are preparing TO
the biggest fight in their history. They viii
have strong assistance from the Gold Demo
-rerats. and this implies that there will be iai
election. if it is possible to have one.
Even in Arkansas the Gold Democrats are
power, and they getting ready for sharl
fight against the Popocrats.
The National tribune., 1896-08-20
BRYAN SKETCHED.
A Portrait of the Candidate by Lawyer
Who Examined Him for the Bar.
INep York SUM-

To the Editor of The Sun.
SIR: | was interested in learning the opinion
of friend, who is a resident OF Lincoln, Neo.,
and leading member of the local bar, as TO
Mr.. Bryan's qualifications, ETC. l am just In
receipt of it, and it runs as follows: w.
eyes, know Billy Bryan well. / had the
honor of being on the committee OF the bar
which examined him for admission to practice
in Lincoln in 1885. His wife was also exam
ined at the same time, and she unquestlonabiy
passed by a very considerable margin the bet
ter Of the two.
"Now, if you want to know the straight
truth of our friend Billy Bryan, it is that he IS
a very good looking and surprisingly genla!
gentleman He has sweet Irish tongue
and he seldom or never says unpleasant Things,
and is peculiarly fortunate in his ability 10
rub the fur the right way. He is, politically
q demagog and a trimmer, but socially, morally.
and intellectually, so far as he knows, he is an
upright, clean man.
LAS lawyer he has practically done no busl-
ness and has not ranked in even the fourth
class. What little he has done has been re-
marked upon as very weak and defective. AS
a business man he has had no experience. He
came to Lincoln in 1885, think late In the
year. In 1859 or 1890 he received the nominal
ton to Congress. the district being, normally,
from 1000 to 800 Republican. The Repubi-
can nominee was VIGOROUSLY unfit and was a
very unfortunate selection. Bryan was I'M
doubtediy more surprised at his election than
any one else. He again in 1S92 ana was
elected by l55 majority. caused by local DIS
affection.
From the day he was elected to Congress ne
mounted the silver hobby horse, talked inces-
sanity and most of the time well; carried ms
cuts with him for all the newspapers when he
travelled When his term expired he dId not
dare run again, but announced his desire to go
to the Senate and expected to get there on the
joint Democratic and Populist vote. 1t SO
happened that they lacked considerable num-
Der of votes. aud Bryan was. as Senator In
gals very tritely said, statesman out OF a
job
He then went on the Omaha Herald as
editor. He scored no great success as editor
and most of the time has been making silver
speeches in the South and West. and became
personally known and thereby got his nomina-
ton. He is the Patrick Henry of the silver
cause. His oratory is not impromptu or the
corruscations of brilliant genius. but, ike the
bedbug. = it gets there just the same. Socially
and morally he is all right. Politically am
'fornist' him first. last aud all the time. Ora
torically he is a skyrocket. Mentally he is the
stick of the rocket only.
He is pleasant fellow, and wish him a:
we'll as l could any other citizen of my home
city holding the same political views.
CORDIALLY yours
The National tribune., 1896-08-20
Eli Perkins's Army Stories.

"During the first battle of Bull Rum"
said Eli Perkins, in his Grant Monument
lecture, "a squad of North Carolina recruits
captured a Pennsylvania Dutchman. He
had to give up after he had shot his last
cartridge. AS the rebels came On to him
they shouted:
8 Here. what are you doing here?'
g. Fightin'! said the Dutchman.
"' Where do you belong?'
Up in Pennsylvania
GO What are you doing down here?
"'VeiI comes down here to fight
To fight eh p said the Virginians;
why don't you fl hit up in Pennsylvania if
you want to fight? What business have
you got coming INFO our State to 6ght?'
"'Vel, l coined NIT der poys.'
Well. you just light out for home!'
screamed the rebels, and if we ever catch
You down here fighting again we'll make it
hot tor youp
"Vell, vell veil, said the German. OK
scuse me- gentlemens; thought ven l fights
NIT Uncle Sam he goes efryvere.'"
The National tribune., 1896-08-20
No. 5O2.

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the Reunion organizations The meetinGs are
held on the lawn of his home, North Cleveland
avenue, every year. Capt. Williams presented
Mai. Mckinley in q beautiful tribute to bis
bravery with Sheridan in the Shenandoah.
Mai. Mckinley responded with few remarks,
referring to the work of the battery before
Vicksburg.
The National tribune., 1896-08-20
Last Excursion to Niagara Falls.

The last excursion of the season via the
ROYAL Blue Line to Niagara Falls, Watkins
Glen. Buffalo and Rochester is announced for
Thursday. August 9th.
special ex press train Of Pullman cars anu
first class day coaches. in charge OF an expert
epced Tourist Agent will leave b. & o. Sta
ton. Washington, $40 a. M; leave Camden
Station. Baltimore, COS a.. ~; arrive Niagara
Falls HOO p. M, stopping at the following
The National tribune., 1896-08-20
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The National tribune., 1896-08-20
Eugene Fields Estate

An inventory Of the estate of the late Eu-
gene Field has been filed and approved in the
Probate Court at Chicago. It shows an equity
of 81, 600 in the poets Buena Park home, g. 1903
in royalties from books, $6,5O3 worth of books
and furniture, and 500 in cash. The furniture
includes Gladstone Ak and Jefferson Davis
chair.
The National tribune., 1896-08-20
The Feather.

The best authority on Poultry, Pigeons, and
Cage Birds. Monthly; elegantly illustrated.
Fifty cents q year. Geo. f. Howard & Co.,
Publishers Central Power Station. Washing
ton, ID. G.
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eR,,,.o,.Ma M&..,....

Dr.. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser, 1000 page doctor book, profusely
illustrated, of which &c, 600 have been sold
at 81. so copy, will be sent FREE on re-
Seipt Of Fl cents to pay postage and wrap
only. WORLDS DISPENSARY MED.
ASSOCIATION. Buffalo. N. Y.
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Arrive Niagara Falls HOO p. m.
Round Trip Tickets. good for ten days $1,000.
Don't forget the date, Thursday, August 9th.
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A clondburst near Pittsburg drowned Six
people and did immense damage to property
Thursday morning of last week.
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Sometimes it seems
- x,,o,xv u,n,,,or tt,at

Sometimes Il seems
to weary woman that
she must certainly
give up. The SIM
=plest and easiest
work becomes an
almost insurmount-
able task. Lassitude
almost overcomeS
er. Nervousness
a n d sleeplessness
and pain harass her
and life seems hardly
worth the living.
SFSfA T.
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The I'D Ohio Battery at Canton.

Maj Mckinley addressed Reunion of the
Sd Ohio lnd'p't Battery on the afternoon of
Aug. IL. Capt. w. 5. Williams is President Of
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-03-19
Once a Cook. Now Premier.

The son of cook is now Premier of
Austria. His name is Casimir Felix
Badeni, and thus far in life he has bask-
His luck began two years before he was
born when his father, who had been a
very good cook. was created count.
The title was ut the time an empty hon
or for the distinguished chef had so
little money that he could not live with
the necessary dignity. For a time it
looked as though his two sons would
luck again came to their rescue. Their
mothers brother, Count Mier, had
married the famous German actress,
Anna Wierer, and this childless lady
became so attached to the two Badeni
boys that she bequeathed to them her,
entire fortune. Thus relieved of the
necessity of earning competence by
their own efforts, Count Badeni pro-
cured an excellent education, was grad
uated as doctor of philosophy and en-
tered the Austrian civil service. He
was genial in manner, had a great deal
of money to spend and was not averse
to spending it. and he soon made him.
self the most popular Pole at the court
of Vienna. In 1871 he became district
chief of Zolkiew and two years later
entered the ministry OF the interior. In
1888 he was made governor of Galicia.
IN office he held until he was recently
appointed prime minister of Austria by
Emperor Franz Joseph. He is said to
be worth S2,5O0,O00 but his younger
brother, who has succeeded him as gov
ernor of Galicia, has been more con-
sentative in his expenditure, and is
credited with being the fortunate pos
SCISSOR of considerably over $1O.O00,0O0.
-PearsOn'S Weekly.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-03-19

the death sentence is read to the guilty
wretch. When the prisoner reaches
the place of execution, he mounts q
scaffold, and he is manacled to a chair.
Then around his neck is placed the
band of the garrote. Two turns of
powerful thumb-screw crush the neck
Of the victim, and almost sever the
head from the body. Death is claimed
to be absolutely instantaneous.
The political prisoner fares worse
than the criminal guilty of assassina
ton. Most of the political prisoners
are sent to Ceuta, Africa. Ceuta is an
old Moorish seaport town in Morocco,
opposite Gibraltar. The town is on the
side of the ancient mountain, Abyla,
which forms one of the Pillars of Her
culeS, the Rock of Gibraltar being the
other. 1t is almost impregnable, and
is to Spain what Siberia is to Russia,
with the exception that it is even more
horrible. The town was built by the
Moors about 945, and it is probable
that there is no other place in the
world where SO many devices of tor
ture are concentrated.
Ceuta is a very small place and the
Moors constructed a chain of fortress
es around it to guard against any pos
sible attack. 1t is in the center of
these ancient and decaying fortresses
that the dungeons are located. They
are heWn out OF the solid rock and are
in tiers to a depth of fifty or sixty feet.
The approach to them is made through
narrow openings in the stone floors of
the fortreSSeS, and when the horrible
hole is opened the foul Odor of filth
These dungeons are inhabited almost
solely by political prisoners, and many
CubanS arrested during the present re-
bellion are there. Some are in solitary
confinement. Others are in dungeons
holding thirty or forty men.
When a man is placed in solitary con-
finement, hole it cut in the masonry
large enough to admit the passage of
his body, and he is dropped i'll.
blacksmith follows and YIELDS on the
letters. Locks and keys are never
used. A heavy weight with a chain is
welded about the waist. A chain at
tached to the latter is welded to an
iron ring sunk in the wall of solid
rock. The hole in the masonry is
bricked up again with the exception
Of a small space 81 few inches square.
Through this comes the scant air and
the scraps Of food allowed the vic
tim
After that the man is left to live or
rot. The filth of these holes cannot be
adequately described. Death is merci-
full here for few men survive the tor
ture for any length Of time.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-03-19

echoes OF tho inquisitiOn perneate its
treatment OF raalefactorS. for as such
the Cuban insurgents are regarded.
The prison system OF Spain is more
barbarous to-day than that of either
Turkey or Russia, and that is saying
a good deal.
For more than a thousand years the
Spaniards have made study OF tor
ture, and the long accumulation OF
tion to another, and elaborated on by
each. makes their prisons the worst on
earth. There are men forgotten and
unnamed rotting away in the Spanish
dungeons to-day, under conditions
more horrible than that pictured by
Dickens in his Tale Of Two Cities, in
the character Of the Old doctor collfin-
ed in the BastiIe for twenty-five years.
Men who took part III the previous Gu
ban rebellion, nearly q generation ago,
may still he living in the dungeons.
Thirty years hence some of the men
who are now fighting so y:lliantly i'll
Cuba may be rotting away i'll the same
makes them desperate and bloodthirs-
ty, and eager to accept a thousand
risks to shake off the torture which
awaits them.
Each week patches Of Cuban sus-
poets are forwarded TO Spain. TO be a
suspect is equivalent to being guilty,
and those who go will, in all probable
ity, never return. If wealthy plant
or is suspected OF furnishing financial
aid to the Insurgents he is bounced up
on and shipped eff. Infinitely better
would hayc been his fate if he had
joined the insurgent army and been
killed on the field of battle. The ordi-
nary suspect is not executed. but if he
be proved guilty Of treason the gar
rote viii speedily end his troubles.
The CARROT $ the official form Of cap
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-03-19
Truths Rules of Life.

Never lie-or at least if you must lie,
lie about something nobody knows or
cares about, so you will not be caught.
Avoid exaggeration. Every one is
'ontO it.
Never laugh at the fate of others
excepting only the predicament of the
man who. with seven bundles of dry
goods for his wife had fallen into three
inches of city mud that should have
been removed three hours before.
Never treat a man to a cocktail in
the expectation that he will treat you
to one in turn. On the contrary, stand
before the bar talking about yourself
until >he is willing to treat you to shut
YOU up. You are then ahead of the
game and can cease talking with dig
nifty and drink.
Never give your seat in car to any
but a pretty woman. The homely ones
all have disagreeable tempers and
might not thank you. which would
be disappointing. l don't think.
When a man asks you to lend him
fifty dollars, don't lie to him. Be man
and tell him you haven't got it. You
can't fool man who is dead broke.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-03-19
The Ideal Salesman.

A prize essay on the successful sales
man says: HE must be enthusiastic!
He will never be fully successful until
he thinks his business is the best thing
in earth! He must be true to his trade
and earnest in his ayocation. 1t is
scarcely necessary for me to urge the
importance Of increasing his ability by
learning all that is to be learned in the
business, even to the minutest detail.
The salesman should be an expert in
the examination Of his own goods. He
should never represent weave or fab
ric until he is sure of what he is hand
ling. When he is himself cheated, his
customer likewise is swindled. Once
understanding his business the sales
man starts out on the pathway Of sue
cess