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The National tribune., 1897-04-01
TRIBUN ETS.
n IGNORANCE OF AMERICA.

ENGLISH IGNORANCE OF AMERICA.
The sublime ignorance of even educated
Engishmen as to our country has received
new and striking illustration. The Massachu.
sets people have been making efforts to get
possession of the original log of that wonder
full little ship, the May flower which. though she
could only carry $50 tons, seems to have
brought over. in addition to 100 people, several
million tons of antique furniture. family pride,
blue Presby terianism, and political explosives.
In some way the log became the property OF the
Episcopal Diocese of London, and the request
Of the Yankees for it, made through En-
bassador Bayard, camo before dignifed
tribunal presided over by no less parsonage
than the Chancellor Of the Diocese, DR.. Thos.
II. Tristran, @. c., d. G. L. and so on through
long string of initials attesting to his immense
learning. In the course of tho hearing the
Chancellor startled his august court by inquir-
ing
"Is New England part Of Massachusetts,"
Everybody remained silent aud the Chan
cellor asked. with shade of irritation in his
tone:
SIS there nobody present able to answer the
question:"
Finally a newspaper man was found, who DID
not have kites tail of initials to his name, bu'
who had somehow. all the same managed &c
pick up little general information, aud he
told lis Ludship and the Court the facts
Things went ahead then for little while will
customary serenity. when the Chancellor
| wanted to know where Plymouth was, when
the newspaper man had to be appealed to again
| 1t must be very pleasant for the English wor-
shipng Bostonians to find themselves less
known and cared about than Patagonians
| But the log was given them, and will be treas.
ured in Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth, Mass.
| minneapolis Journal: A medical paper claims
that a dentists fingers carry disease germs
| Boil your dentist.
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NEW BOOKS.

THE SwASTIKA. BY Thomas Wilson fiepors
of The Smithsonian Institution, l. :. NatloaM
Museum.
Comrade Wilson occupies an imrortaut and
honorable position among the aggregation oil
learned men as the Smithsonian Institution,
being Curator of the Department OF Prehis-
toric Authropology at the L. ;. National
Museum. In the present volume he discusses
with much skill and erudition the difficult
and littlc-known subject OF religious symbols
among savage tribes OF these symbols one OF
the most important. yet the least known, Il
probably the /" Swastika." The name is derived
from SaDskrit word meaning happiness.
geod-luck. or pleasure. The symbol itself -
Greek cross eaeG arm of which Is prolonged
by bending it ut right angle.
The Swa5tika has been used "a religious
or sgb-roligous symbol from period extend
ing back into the Bronze Age in Europe. aud. so
far as known, always with the significance OF
good fortune. 1t is one of the few things IN
the use Of which that precoeious people, the
Chinese. do not antedate US. The Chinese havo
used it. so far as Mr.. Wilson is able to learn.
only for n thousand years or SO, winch IS .
mere yesterday in China. Ii is there used, AZ
IN Europe, to indicate good fortune or bappi-
ness. Mr.. Wilson gives some beautiful plates.
reproduced from drawings made for him by
members of the Chinese Legation. In North
America it was apparently very familiar
symbol to the mysterious people whom we call
the "a Mound Builders" In 1891 excavations
in the Hopewell Mound, about seven miles
from ChiIlicothe, o., revealed a pile OF orna-
ments of thin copper. among which were we'll
formed Swastikass In the ruined cities OF
| Central America have been found Swastikas
marked on pottery. Our Indians also used IL
as decoration Among the sses it meant
good luck
The National tribune., 1897-04-01

IT is unnecessary TO call attention to
the advertisements Of Messrs. Milo B.
Stevens & Co. in this issue, unless it be
to assure our readers that so large a
space would not be given to any one
firm except that it stood in the first
rank among the thousands of attorneys
who are recognized at the Pension Bu-
reau and other tribunals at the National
Capital. For over SO years this firm
has prosecuted claims in behalf Of
clients in every State in the Union, and
the integrity Of its members has never
been questioned. The firm is worthy Of
confidence upon the ground both o.
competence and honesty.
The National tribune., 1897-04-01
1.-THE FIRST CENTURY IN THE WHITE
HOUSE."

We begin this week a most interest
ing series of articles under this title
from the gifted pen of Mrs. Mary S.
Lockwood, editor of The american
Maqazine, and whose historical studies
and writings have made her favorably
known all over the country. In addi-
ton to thorough knowledge Of her
subject, she yields very graceful
pen, and has rare faculty for present
ing that which is valuable and interesting
in the most attractive manner. Every
body has now deep interest not only
in the present occupants of the White
House, but in the historic building it.
self, and in those who have dwelt in it
and been foremost in the Nations eyes in
the past. There is a peculiar appropri
ateness in this account at the present
time. since the first century of tn,
White Houses existence will be com
pleted under President McKinley's Ad
ministration. This week. we give tn,
troublesome beginnings of life in the I'm
finished edifice, under the energetic ant
capable Abigail Adams. Next weel
we shall give the Republican Court Q
President Jefferson" and the excitin
scenes connected with the Capture {
Washington and the burning of til
White House by the British in 1914.
The National tribune., 1897-04-01
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

C.JW. WaddiN. Mo-A commissioned officer
receives for non-specifc disabilities higher
rate of pension than a private, because the
law entities him to il. In pensions under the
act of June q. 1890, however, there is no dis
tinction on account Of rank. We know of nc
reason why there should be any distinction in
the pension laws between officers and privates,
unless it is to continue the distinction that
existed in the matter of pay during service
G. E. IT,, Grorertorn, Lgd.-Until the advent
of the late Democratic Administration, all PEN
sions under the act of June q, 1890, were dated
from the date of the fling of the application.
We believe that the old practice will be re-
established, as it should be, by the present
Administration. Upon proper application you
can doubtless obtain your back pension. Con-
suit an attorney By law. all increases of PEN
sion on account of pensioned disability are
dated from the date of the medical examina-
tion which shows the increase of disability as
claimed.
r. c. c., Butler, Mo-The rate of pension of
a child who is idiotic, insane, or otherwise
permanentIy helpless, aud whose pension IS
continued after he attains the age of 10. is only
So per month during the life or widowhood OF
the widow.
J. M., Medora, Edn.-If you wish to get
increased to more than SIG per month, on ac-
count of disabilities which can be shown to be
due to your army service, you should apply for
a pension under the general law.
Il. IL. p, NarajO, Okia.-The members of the
missouri State Militia" organized under
| authority of the War Department in the Fall
| of 1861, are on the same footing under the pen
| sion laws as other volunteer troops IN the
| United States service during the war.
e. IT.. TaneprilLe Mo.-The supposed murder
| of the soldier could not be attributed to his
army service, and for this reason neither his
| widow nor the children under Is at the time
Of his supposed death, are entitled to pension
under the general law. The widow having re-
married, there is no period for which she
could be pensioned under the act of June q,
| 1880. and the children also have no title under
| the said act, because of their being over 16
| wears of age. If children otherwise entitled
under the act Of 1890. neglect to apply before
attaining the age of l6. there is no period for
which they can be pensioned under said act.
The National tribune., 1897-04-01

TIE Michigan Legislature protests
against the abolition of the Detroit Pen
sion Agency. There are other people
who see strong impropriety in ono
President trying TO extend his Admins
trati0n six months into another Presi
dents term If Mr.. Cleveland felt such
warming to abolish the offices in the
interest of economy, why did he not d.
it while he was President, and not pu
it off for half year after Maj. Nc
Kinley came in?
The National tribune., 1897-04-01

According to the report Of the Commissioner
OF Pensions there are Il pensioners, all women,
on the rolls for the Revolutionary war. Seven
Of them arc daughters of the Revolutionary
soldiers. who pensioncd by special act of
the Congress of the United States; the other
seven are widows.
The widows arc Loyey Aldrich. aged &C. now
residing in Los Angeles. CAL; Nancy Cloud.
aged So. of Chum, Va: Nancy Jones. aged 81,
now living at Jouesboro, Tenn; Rcbecca Mayo
aged 49, OF Newbern, Va; Mary Snead. aged so
residing in ParksIey Va, and Esther 5. Damon,
aged 81, of Plymouth Union. VI.
The daughters are Hannah Newell Barrett.
aged 96. of Boston Julieste Belts, aged 90 OF
Norwalk. Conn; Susannali Chadwick, aged 81,
Emporium. Pa; Sarah c. Hurlburt. aged IS.
Little Marsh, Pa: Hannah Lyons tage not
given). of Marblehead, Mass; Ann NJ. Siau9h-
ter, aged &c. The Plains. Va; Rhoda Augusta
Thompson, aged 10. Woodbury.. Conn; Nancy
A. Weatherman, aged sc. Eiks Mills, Teun.
~
We have been asked, "Are descendants OF
soldiers in the Mexican war eligible TO the
D.A.R.?"
The object Of the OAR. is patriotism gener-
ally and to perpetuate the memories OF the
Revolution particularly. 1t matters not how
brave and stalwart q soldier may have been in
the War of 1872, in the Mexican war, In the
civil war, his daughters or granddaughter
are not eligible to membership in the ID. AR.
1t is glorious thing to have been kin to brave
men Of any day. bat, nevertheless, the OAR.
has its rules and there is no going behind them.
II
The Colonial Danes are in trouble too. over
| the right to their name. The Colonial Danes
| is Society organized in New York in 1890
| under the title Of "The Colonial Danes oil
| America" There were ladies also from Phila-
| delphia who were members of this original
| Society, but there were other women i'll Phila-
| delphia who wished State Society of their
| own who organized and called themselves the
| Colonial Danes. too Then the New York
| Society protested, and finally carried the
matter to Congress. Congress decided that the
Societies were too nearly akin in object and
organization to make Congressional discussion
| of the matter necessary or profitable.
| The New York Society claims that in orisi
mating and using the title "A title unique
picturesque aud descriptive" they have a;
| much right to it as man has to q trademark
or good name for his preparations. but Con
gress did not deem their plea strong enough t.
warrant its interference.
The National tribune., 1897-04-01

w. H., Madfand, O-The widow Of every
soldier. whose death can DO shown 20 bo due To
his army service, is entitled to pension under
the general law without regard to the date OF
her marriage.
II. d.. Gooderhaa. OHt.--Agpeusioner chang
ing his address shouid notify che U. $. Pension
Agent through whom his pension IS paid. OF
the change. No other action is necessary.
n. +. r.. McLsansjoro, M-There are no
rates of $50 and $3.50 under the pension laws.
Thirty-slx dollars is the rate for loss OF one
hand and one foot, total disability in one hand
and one foot. amputation as or above elbow or
knee and total disability of the arm or leg.
The National tribune., 1897-04-01

No. 10, NATIONAL TRIBUNE IL
BRARY This booklet contains chro.
biological list of battles and events Of
the late war, which is of immense value
70, everyone, no matter on which side
engaged at that time. 1t also contains
statistical tables Of losses, etc., that are
very interesting. Sent, postage paid,
on receipt oe 5 cents.
The National tribune., 1897-04-01
BASIL KANARIS.
A Cretan Story of Devoted Love
and Romantic Daring.
By RAB HAIGH.
To Appear in Issue of April is.

We have secured an excellent story
Of alb orbing interest for our issue of
April ID. 1t is romance of love and
heroism, founded on incidents in the
struggle Of Crete for freedom. 1t is full
of stirring incidents and fine description
of the Cretan people and country and
their inhuman oppressors.
1t viii appear in no other paper than
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
The National tribune., 1897-04-01

GEN. G.. III. GRosyENoR has no donbt
his share of the selfesteem common to
all of us, and if so he must be highly
gratifed by the way in which his speech
was received throughout the country.
The papers generally praise it to an I'M
usual degree, and the mildest comment
upon it is that it was mastery" 1t is
very difficult thingito take up sub
iect which has BEER before the country
SO long, and discussed at length by the
ablest minds, including the present
President of the United States, and to
present it in thoroughly new and at
tractive form. That Gen. Grosvenor
has succeeded in doing this is testi
nonial not only to, his. grasp of the sub
ject, but to his abilities as a reasonel
and a speaker. He has won well-de
served laurela
The National tribune., 1897-04-01

AT a meeting of the Typographical
Union of Washington last week, it was
stated that go printers had been dis
charged from the Government Printing
Office for no other cause than being
Republicans. A very large proportion
of these were veterans. Their places
were taken by Democrats, and then
Cleveland put the Office under the Civil
Service. Does the country expect that
this thing will be allowed to stand?
The National tribune., 1897-04-01

service and good character: that he can
have every step in rank that he chooses
to earn, and no extraneous reasons shall
be allowed to prevent him getting every
advancement which is rightfully his.
Anything else is a peryersion of the
American principle of citizen soldier
ship, and cannot be too severely re-
buked.
IRREGULARITIES OF A MIGHTY RIVER.
To understand the present deplorable
condition of things in the Lower Mis-
sissippi Valley, it is necessary to remem-
Der that the Mississippi River differs
very markedly from any other great
river in the world.
At some geologic period it is probable
that a narrow sea, very much like the
Adriatic, extended from what is now
the Gulf of Mexico, for about 1000
miles, up to above the present mouth OF
the Missouri River. On either side OF
this sea we're ranges of hills, which are
now generally spoken of as "bluffs. :
The distance between these ranges OF
hills-that is, the width of the sea
was from 60 to 100 miles.
In the course of ages this sea silted
up from the immense washings carried
into it by the Mississippi, Missouri,
Ohio and other rivers whose waters it
received. The whole space between
the two ranges of hills became filled up
with deposit of soft alluvial soil, rising
nowhere more than few feet above the
level of the river water which meander-
ed tortuously through the marshy PLAIN.
The present channel of the river Is
only sufficient to convey to the Gulf
the water which it receives in ordinary
seasons. In many places, extending tor
hundreds of miles, there has been artl-
fetal embankments thrown up which are
sufficient to hold back the waters from
the lands during high rises. 1t usually
happens that all the great tributaries OF
the Mississippi do not rise at once. The
snow will melt in the Ohio River water
shed, or there will be great rainfall
there, at a different time from the same
happening on the watersheds of the
Upper Mississippi, or the Missouri.
| Then one food will run out before it Is
| overtaken and augmented by the others.
But every few years all the floods
happen at once, they all meet in the
narrow channel, and then it occurs that
the waters sweep over the levees, and
cover the entire width of the old sea
from one range Of hills to the other
This is what has happened this year
The great rain and snowfall all over
nearly 100000 square miles, extend
ing from the Alleganies to the Rockies
and from the southern line of Tennessee
to the lakes has all gone off at once
and the floods at the functions of thu
Ohio and the Missouri Rivers with tn
Mississippi have overfowed the who'll
Valley from southern Illinois to. tn
Gulf, except where restrained by tn
ranges of hills before mentioned, o
unusually high levees. These floods ar
becoming worse constantly as the de
; struction of timber about the headwater
; becomes greater, and cultivation spread
: in the lowlands, with levees to confn
$ the oyerfows into narrower areas.
The National tribune., 1897-04-01

The King of Siam is coming to this
country to spend some weeks with lis
next Summer. Since he's not after
President Mckinley to put him back on
his throne, or any of the kind, he will
be quite welcome.
The National tribune., 1897-04-01

PRESIDENT MckrNLEY's alleged de-
cision not to re7appoint any ex-ofiice-
holders will probably be carried out
with the intelligent discrimination which
'usually marks bis acts.
The National tribune., 1897-04-01

+. GREECE has heard the Sultan say
the Powers be --" so long with en-
tire impunity That she is moved to do
the same, and SO far has had fair sue
cess.
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WHILE the Government of the great,
rich United States steadily ran in debt
during the past four years, that of the
little Republic Of Hawaii has steadily
reduced its debt and pushed forward
toward sounder financial basis. This,
too, in spite of rebellion or two, To-
mented by the past Administration. and
some other troubles. The able men who
are ruling the CROSSROADS Of the Pacific
decreased expenditures while increasing
revenue and promoting the archipel-
ago's industry and commerce. The
Hawaiian national debt is now little
| over 100000, which shows how little
of pecuniary burden we should assume
in annexing the islands. They now have
to pay 6 per cent. interest on this, and
have abundance Of revenue with which
to do it. If they were annexed this
debt could be refunded at 3 per cent
which would be savingof about $780,.
600 year in interest.
The National tribune., 1897-04-01
SONS OF VETERANS.

1t is high privilege to be eligible to
membership in the Sons of Veterans.
This will be more gHongly appreciated
every year. The MAGNITUDE OF the war,
and the unparalleled-gallantry and de-
votion Of those Wiz Fought it through
to victory are bell better understood
every year by the ple atlarge. In
the years of the val land those which
Immediately folldi6N it, there was a
systematic depreciation of the soldiers
of the Union. There were great
number of reasons for this. The men
who did not go to war we're disposed to
depreciate the services and character OF
those who did, Selfish politicians were
naturally opposed to the introduction OF
claims which interfered with their own.
Those in the vanquished armies, and
their friends could not be expected to be
very complimentary to the visitors. The
ex-soldiers themselves were not conscious
of the greatness of the work which had
been done. They knew that in their
own particular part they had been kept
very busy, and had been called upon TO
do herculean things. But they had been
kept too fully occupied to become aware
that there were hundreds Of thousands
of others fighting just as hard as they
did, having the same trials and hard
ships, and showing the same unconquer-
able courage.
We have now got to such a distance
from the war that we can begin to fully
understand its magnitude and appreciate
the elevated manhood of those who
fought it through. The motives and
reasons for depreciating them have lost
their force. The more that is known OF
the history Of the war the greater wonder
and admiration for its soldiers. 1t Is
undeniable that they were heroes Of mold
and stature unequalled by any previous
warriors in the worlds history.
1t is a great thing to have sprung
from the loins of such men. To be q
son of man who bore his part honor.
ably in the great conflict gives at once a
presumption of manhood, patriotism, and
devotion to principle, which commends
him to favorable consideration. Sons Of
Veterans are naturally drawn to one
another by the. mese fact OF thell
paternity, and as such Sons are every
where coming to the front, or are already
there, in. every form Of business and en-
terprise, as they are strong force II
every department iof intellectual effort
they form the material for the forma
ton of the grandest and strongest or
ganization ever built up.
The times., 1897-11-09
Bit at a Bare Hnnk.

From the Detroit Free P1eSs)
I'D give d months salary to get even
with ttiat fellow vowed the man who sells
steam engines. Y eS, and I'd do 1t will
ingly too" aud in his wrath he threw a
book the long way of the room till it
struck the wall, following up this display
of temper by kicking a hole III the waste
basket. Il can take q joke as well anany-
one. but when the chances are that you re
goingro be manned or killed just Ia amnse
some one else, | draw the lire
4 went up there to make a bid and there
were five others in competition. One OF
them. when out OF the running, came to
me and said: BumpIy, I'm dislsd. ia
rather see You get this than IT, nave it
go tG any otiierof the fellows here. know
the ropes, now tlrtt it is too late, but f'H
pat YOU on. Just go aU that old ca plain on
the purchasing committee rough Shod. In
innate first tnat lie can't tell the truth
Follow that uP with bold assertion that
hes officially corrupt andha been rohhing
the city ever since he had Il chance. Keep
going right after him aud You viii scare
him into giving you The contrae ct
II foli wed this advice. You know bow
it is up there. They have a promiscuous