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SONS OE VETERANS.

We want the name and address of
every son of veteran lin the United
States who is eligible and desirable as a
member of the Sons Of .Veterans.
We hope that veterans and sons of
veterans, mothers and daughters, will
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It will be Of greatest service to us in
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patriotic work TO get all these splendi'

patriotic work TO get all these splendid
young men united in ON Order that will
be secure tower Of strength to loyalty,
obedience to the laws, and the highest
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The newspaper men have made a
good deal of fun of Gen. c. II. Grosve-
nor for his Figures" and "claims +"
made long before the event, but he has
been astonishingly near right. He
came within one Of the votes cast for
Mckinley at St Louis, and a month
ago stated that Mckinley would have
27S electoral votes and named the States.
Again he came within one Of il.
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CHIEF WALKER di

CoMMANDER-IN-CH CHIEF WALKER did
a very graceful thing in inviting each
of the Past Commanders-in-Ch pres
ent to take turns in presiding over the
National Encampment. This was tact
full as regards them. and pleasant for
the comrades, who all desired to see
and hear the voices of the veterans of
the National Encampment
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THE Connecticut member of the Pop
ocratic National Committee has made a
formal demand on the faculty of Yale
for the punishment of the students who
interrupted and insalted Bryan. 1t will
be good thing to give them sharp
disciplining. There was no excuse for
their acts.
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ALTOGETHER. NOW.

comrades, the victory is won, the re
suit is known beyond a doubt. w
have elected Comrade Mckinley b,
more than 100000 majority owe
Bryan. We have a large majority o
the House of Representatives and con
troll of the Senate.
Now opens new era Of creates
prosperity for the country, and Of
honor, gratitude, and justice for the
comrades. They can now begin to
look back upon the past four years
as a dreary dream, from which there
has been a most happy awakening.
Their friends are once more to re-
sumo power. The men whom they
honor and who honor them will con-
troll the Government, and all will again
be we'll with the men who saved the
Nation. All that is right and just for
them can be secured to them. They
contributed very greatly to the happy
result, by their splendid support of
Maj. Mckinley and the principles
of the st. Louis platform, as against the
vicious and alarming platform adopted
at Chicago.
Never since the war were the veterans
so thoroughly united and earnest Oh one
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of the new Administration thoroughly
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added to other reasons why they should
deal properly with the old soldier.
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We want the Service Pension Bill
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IoU cannot afford to do without ,

YOU cannot afford to do without
copy Of No. 13, NATIONAL TRIBUNE
LIBRARY, entitled Chronological Rec
ord of the Battles, ETC., of the War of
the Rebellion. 1t only costs five cents,
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McKINLEY'S VOTE.

His Approximate PIuraIitfes and the Vote
in the College.
Following is the vote according to the latest
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Boston Transcript: Jndge-Wbat excuse have
you for not desiring to serve on the panel?
Talesman-Your honor, / think
Judge-Your excuse is quite satisfactory
You can go.
Tomn Topics: "You should have seen hel
face light up"
did she touch off some of the powder?"
x*x
Answers: Mother-What is the matter, my
dear? Why are you crying?
Harry between sobs)-I left my taffy on
that chair, and the minister's a-sitting on it.
."s
"Well, Willy" said grandma. shave you had
all the dinner that you want?"
Nome" replied the truthful little boy,
"but I've had all that can eat"
s"x
bits: "Mary. hope that you took good
care Of my pets while we were at Margate."
"Indead Idid, mum; only once forgot to
feed the cat"
81 hope she didn't suffer-"
80, no, mum; she ate the canary and the
parrot"
-.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN WYOMING.
Mrs. w. Winslow Crannell, of Albany, N. Y,
does not think that the practical trial Of Woman
Suffrage at all justifies the claims that have
been made for it. She says that Cheyenne, the
Capital of Wyoming, where women have voted
for quarter of q century, has population of
less than 10000. There are rs licensed gam.
bling houses, and saloons arc as numerous as
other kinds of stores. 1t has been officially
stated that not single act Of legislation aimed
at the betterment of the human race has been
passed in Wyoming through woman's influence.
Divorce may be obtained for II different rea-
sons, after six months residence in the State.
x*x
Now the workingman will continue to get
100 cents worth of dollar for 100 cents worth of
work, and it will buy him 100 cents worth of
food aud clothing for his family.
48*
tioning a widow the other day about her his
tory. my history" she replied, 81 is SIM
plicity itself My first was the happiness Of
my life; my second was goodness itself; my
third -
Excuse me. madam" interrupted the law
yer, "but really we aren't here to guess
charades.
Fl'egende Blaetter: "Say, father why have
all the pictures got frames?"
"Why, you little fool, SO that the artist may
know when to stop painting, Of course"
Chicago Tribune: II like the looks of the
high standing collar" said Cholly. "The only
objection Pve against it is that when you chew
gum you've got to hold your jaw still and move
the whole top of your head, don't you know"
k
Cincinnati Enquirer: $50 you want to DO my
son-in-law, do your" asked the old man, with
as much fierceness as he could assume
"Wel," said the young man, standing first
OIL one foot and then the other II suppose I'll
have to be- if I marry Mamie"
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TRIBUN ETS.

Boston Transcript: Jndge-Wbat excuse have
you for not desiring to serve on the panel?
Tafesman-Your honor, / think
Judge-Your excuse is quite satisfactory.
You can 60.
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There is no need of financial legislation.
The people of the country have just decided
by tremendous popular majority that a
change in our financial policy is not desired.
We have plenty of money and plenty Of gold
in the Treasury, and l do not think that
Congress is called to take up the considera-
ton of any radical change in our present
financial system.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-11-27
BERLlrpS MONUMENTS.
Some Of Them at Least Are Real
Works OF Art.
One Hundred and Twenty-Four Millions
Of Marks Have Been Spent In the
Erection of 235 Imposing
Sculptural Works.
Especial Berlin Letter. |

The undermining of Berlin dates,
practically, from 1871, at which time
the city became, in lieu of being the
residence of the Prussian kings for a
part of the year only, the capital of re-
united Germany and of a powerful en-
pire. Since then the process of evolv-
ing a metropolis in the full sense of the
word has been going on uninterrupted
1y. Vast suburban territory has been
annexed and he who has not seen Ber-
lin for IS years would not recognize
her, for what he sees to-day is virtually
a new city The whole belt of we'll
built, airy, broad. shaded avenues
around the old town proper is of recent
construction. All those fine, fashiona
BILE quarters, like the Hansa quarter,
the Moaft, the Bellevue, the Potsdam,
the Thiergarten quarters, are new.
Even the old town is gradually being
replaced and rebuilt. Whole streets,
dingy, narrow, made up of low, shal1y
houses are purchased of the owners by
the city and are reconstructed-spa
cious, magnificent. And every one of
these municipal enterprises has so far
turned out paying one, as the demand
for fine business quarters in the heart
of the town is brisk one, and rents paid
after such undermining are high enough
to reimburse in the total for all the
outlay, even if it runs high into the
millions.
Among the many things which the
Berlin of former days was deficient in.
monuments and public fountains may
he mentioned. Every tourist who visits
Paris and London notices that these
two elements of urban attractiveness-
monuments of great men and women
and large fountains of scuiptural and
architectural beauty-play large part
in the charms of those cities as a whole
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station have contributed their mite
towards it, the number of subscriber,
aggregating over 100000. 1t is being
placed near the old Schloss OF Roya
Castle, and it will show the old hero
surrounded by symbolical personageS
on horseback. The space covered by
this monument, with it's foundation,
, and approaches, would suffice to buili
q whole block of houses on. AS to it,
artistic beauty opinions differ greatly
The grandson of William l., the present
emperor, himself selected the mode
from among those submitted to him
and. as the young emperor is undoubt
edly man of fine taste and artistic in.
stincts, it may be that his choice vii
DE Endorsed by posterity.
1t is likewise the present emperor
who is now, out of his own pocket, car
rying out the vastest sculptural pro.
tgramme probably ever undertaken By
a single ruler. 1t is nothing less than
an ancestral gallery in marble and
bronze. This will be placed along the
so-called Sieges-AlIee, j. E., the avenue
running down in a straight line from
the column of victory to the Thiergar-
ten, and the gallery"will consist of 2.
Hohenzollern rulers more or less en-
titled to posthumous fame, together
with As men who distinguished them
selves during their reigns. Each of tie
"a, in fact, will be thanked by two
paladins. The last man in this gallery
will be, of course, William I. Four of
these groups are already near compile
ton, and the whole enterprise is to be
concluded within ten years.
Among the public fountains of Ber-
lin three are particularly fine, the
Gcdllossbrunner, the ranGel-Brunner
and the one in Victoria park, the latter
being really waterfall of some magni-
tude. The enormous fountain near the
ochloss was executed by Begas, and is
OF oxidized bronze, With Neptune in
the center and a whole brood of nymphs
and tritons and mermaids around him,
sporting in the pellucid waves. The
project is now to put to other foun-
tains Of similar size near this one, for
the square on which it is placed Is
large enough for the purpose.
But in the matter of public foun-
tains Berlin has still much to do, for q
score of them could be advantageous
" placed in different parts of the city.
In this, as in other things that tend to
beautify the city, the motto is, how
ever: mo rest" And thus it vii be seen
that, ten years hence, much will have
TO be included in the sketch like tie
above, which now, for obvious reasons,
had to be omitted.
WOLF Won scHIERBRANp.
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| BECKY BOSS, BELLE OF THE CAMP
However, it makes little difference in
this small kingdom whether one re-
ceives all the homage, or whether two
share it; there is little room for i'll will
and rivalry where the watchwords are
ever good fellowship and good times. ,
What a rollicking, jovial set of people
they appear to an onlooker, carrying as
they do their festivities far into the
nights, for l1nock-down-Jack, cards
and pullaway are games very fascinat-
ing TO the wild, free nature of the
gypsy. .r d..
He is not a late riser, however, for his
horses have TO be fed early and exer-
cised before the sun becomes too
strong.
Indeed, horse racing and horse trad
ing are the business pursuits of all the
male members of gypsy camps, and
they are ever ready to talk trade with
anyone who owns a four-legged steed.
Six o'clock generally finds the camp
astir, and soon after that hour blue
circling wreaths of smoke from the
camp fires denote that breakfast is be-
ing prepared for the hundred hungry
souls that owe allegiance to old Queen
Seeds.
After breakfast each one goes to his
proper avocation. One man takes
charge of Nellie r, fast mare with
record of 2:17a4, and the pride of the
band. Foxy Johnny, the LAWYER
alias Nutty, owner of Little Greary, and
aged Is years, gives his attention to
the matters of deeper import, or &C.
casionally bestrides Little Geary with
the intention of giving her a half-mile
clip, for he is proud of Little Geary with
her record IF 81. Little Geary,. how
ever, prefers Myer Lowell as a rider.
and not unfrequently leaves Foxy
Johnny, the lawyer, in an undigni-
NED position close to the spot where
she stood when he mounted her.
Myer Lowell, alias Cowboy, takes the
other horses out to pasture. and indeed
there are many of them, often 70 or
%, but Cowboy Lowell is an expert and
II is claimed that he can turn five horses
out on the prairie and catch them ali
again In two minutes, or throw a wild
morse by catching it by the fore legs
with his hands and giving it a hercu-
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AMONG THE GYPsIEs.
Headquarters of a Thrifty Band
Located at Chicago.
In Summer Men. Women and Children
Live In Tents, In Winter They Seek
Shelter in Tenement Houses
Some Camp Scenes.
[spec,al chicago r.etter.l


The tribe of gypsies who have pitched
their tents along the pleasant fields
which skirt Western avenue, just north
lof Forty street, at Chicago,
can probably boast of occupying one
camping ground for longer period
titan any other bard CT gypSSes in the
country, with the exception of the
tribe of Egyptian gyhsies al Layton
O. They have, in fact, been residei IS
of Chicago for four years, participating
in its advantages, sending their chill
Ccen to its schools, sharing its pleas
u1es, entertaining it's citizens, but
avoiding its responsibilities--living
still the wild, free life of the rowing
bands which call them kindred.
Thirteen families, numbering almost
hundred souls, are there, living in
10 tents, as happy as crickets and quite
as lively. Nor is 1t poverty that drives
these people to seek the prairie for q
home, for almost all of them own prop
erty. In fact, Elvira Wharton, the chief
fortune teller, is supposed to be worth
about $1,000. Joseph Lowell holds New
Jersey property 10 the value of $4,000,
while Myer Lowell is said to own prop
erty in Dayton, o., worth $4,000 AL
most all of the men own property, and
yet there are but two registered
voters in the camp.
1t is just ID years since the band left
Great Britain. From 1882 until 1892
they wandered from state to state,
trading horses in one place and buying
property in another with the boot of
their trades, until they landed in the
state of California. 1t was then that
the news of the selection of Chicago
as the site for the worlds fair reached
them and they promptly turned their
faces back toward the rising sun, under
the trusty leadership of old King Seeds,
and took the trail for Denver, Col.
Many and severe were the hardships
they endured on their weary march
through the mountains, and many and
heartfelt were the exclamations of joy
when King Seeds determined to take
the cars from that city to Chicago.
King Seeds, however has been gath
cred to his fathers since the arrival
of the band in Chicago, and the queen
has assembled the nomadic throne. But
the honors of the Office are now some
what divided, for there arc some who
insist that ElHra Wharton Is really
queen; at any rate Myer Wharton
takes charge of the interests of the
camp and watches it with Jealous care,
even at night. But be that as it may,
no one has ever heard of Mother
Seeds being formally deposed and no
one seems to desire that she shall be,
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more piasticaJly Tine IN the uorts4l
OF other monuments erected to the
memory Of great German poets the
Schiller monument, standing near the
Royal. theater, and the Leasing monu-
ment, in the ThiergaIten, are note
worthy. Most popular, though, and
also very beautiful, is the statue of
Queen Louise, in the very heart CT tine
Thiergarten (near the bronze eff1gy of
her husband, King Frederick William
IIl.), which every visitor in Berlin
never Calls to see and which, ON the
birthday of the martyred queen, be-
comes a veritable bower of flowers.
The huge column of victory, near the
reichstag building, is fitting pendant
to the Nendome column in Paris or
the Nelson column in London. II is
made up entirely of cannons taken
by the Prussians in their three victori-
| Gus campaigns-1664, 1866 and 1901
! but the base and foundation are pol
ished granite. From the top, 1875 feet
| high, one enjoys a fine view of the city.
A similar monument is the one on the
summit of The highest hin near Ber-
lin. the Kreugberg, which was erected
of bronze to thankfully commemorate
deliverance from the Napoleonic re-
gime in 1918.
Among tie great men IN whose honor
monuments are now erected in Berlin
are Frederick the Great, Frederick Will
liam Ill, the Great Elector, the two
Humboldts, Butcher, Stein, Dennewitz
and many others, and within the next
I two years number of great scientists,
like Helmholtz, Siemens, ETC.. will be
similarly honored. Within the past Is
months three or four other large mon
uments have been erected, such as the
symbolical one of Beroiina ON Alexan-
der Platz. the large Luther monument
on Molken Market, and the two of AL
brecht the Bear and of Margrave
Waldemar near the Muhlendamm.
But of much greater magnitude will
! be two large monumental enterprises
now in process of execution The frs.
of these is the national monument to
Emperor William l., which is to be up-
yelled on the centenary of his birth
March %, 1897. This will be, by all
odds, the largest and most expensive of
all, and all over Germany men of every
s.zaSe
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The Berlin people felt this after the
war with France, and they have gone
about to remedy the defect in their own
city. They have done as much as time
and means would permit within the
short space of 25 years, and they now
may truthfully boast that they have
succeeded artisticaIly as well. Still Ber.
lin in this respect is a good ways behind
the older capitals of France and Eng
land, not to speak of Italy, that cradle
of modern art, where the very stones Of
the old cities proclaim their. past great
Dess. Yet, as J. said, Berlin has done
wonderfully mach for so brief time.
AS to the means needed these have
been furnished in all sorts of ways.
Voluntary subscriptions - in some