The National tribune., 1896-05-14


/ the ever present guide begins to deck him.
/ self to receive and entertain and instruct the
bride for the reward his attentions fairly earn
Cor hiIn. lie can SPY her, far of, in the throng
that sarges down the corridor of the Capitol.
lie knows her 10y her dress, by her gait, by her
manuer-thero is no deccivfug him. He has
been studying the ear-marks. so 10 speak, OF
EUptial tourists for years, aud he knows them
all Little the happy couple dream that the
moment they place themselves in the hands OF
1 this courteous little guide they go on e1hlbi-
tion. But so it is. The moving throng recoS-
nizes them as Spring blossoms and halts TO i'll
spcct them. For an hour or more they try an
tie cchoing stones aud the telephone cor
ners" Listen &c rectals about the great picr9Tes,
aud view tho houses Of Congress in session:
A ter the whole history Of the great building
and The wonderful things said and done inside
of il arc heard, a trip is made TO the dome.
Then they drift down the corridor with the
thIong that sweeps toward the House wing OF
the Capitol, and they GO forth TO visit the War
Department and the Navy builiing, and the
Muse 70, and the Treasury, aud the hundred
Other points of interest ia this noble aud his
torie city.
The Pension Bureau the other day notified
Mrs. Margaret A. Marler, OF Bonnie Terre, Mo-,
Of Gna action on her application for restoration
TO tie pension rolls, afier suspension OF nearly
20 years. BY the favorable action of the PEN
si0a Department she comes into possession OF
-. 200 and S12 month during her widowhood-
This case, which has been pending for about
three years possesses some peculiar features.
In 1864 John A. bIarler enlisted in Co. ID,
3Ist No.. aid was sent TO the front at Nicks-
burg Here he fell sick and died leaving a
widow and three small children in extreme
poverty. Mrs. Marler. after time, was
awarded pension Of s. month and 81 addi-
tional for each of her three little children.
After several years IN cx-soldicr by the name
Of Ransom 4. Walker sought her hand i'll mar
riage, aud she yielded and relinquished her
pension For more than decade sna half
the family struggled with poverty. a last the
husband succumbed to wounds received in the
army and about four years ago died, leaving
the widow broken ia health aud utterly desti-
iule
Mrs Walker then asked for pension his
widow but. while collecting the evidence nec-
osssry TO establish her claim, she discovered
another wife, from whom he had parted some
time previous TO his marriage TO her, and who
had lied but couple of years before Walker,
who ID Is understood, believed his former wife
dead when he married again. Mrs. Marler, rs
shc WAS ihen 10 be known, thought the matter
over, and Gnaiiy il occurred TO her that. hav-
ing once drawn a PENSION as john J. Narler's
widow, and never having becn legally married
TO any one else, she was necessarily bis widow
still. and such entitled TO her peuson iron
the date of its suspension 10 the present By
raling OF ihe Pension Department she was re-
qnircd 10 obtain decree OF court Of record an
nulling her supposed II arr!aGe with Walker, as
a precedent to establishing her claim as the
widow Ct The only man 10 whom she had ever
been legally married. This the unfortunate
wuinan succeeded in doing.
4
A medal Of honor has been awarded TO Will
son Smith, now Of Rome. n. Y, late Sergeant,
Co. L, \. T. AIT, for most distinsn shed gal
lantry in action at Washington, n. C., Sept. 6,
1862. This non comm ssioned officer (then
pr vste} took command Of a sun tthe Lieuten-
ant ia charge having Disappeared and fred The
same 50 rapidly and effectively that tho enemy
WIS rerHised, although for a time hand to-
land conflict with the enemy occurred over the
gun.
II
Minister Dcuhv WIN has reoreseptnd This
country IN China longer than any OF his prede-
ccssors, and WHO has had ample opportunity to
judge Of tie importance OF the work accom-
,,lsLcd by missions. has sent to the State DE.
parimcnt a voluntary dispatch upon the sub