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we keep all kinds Of BLANKS for ,l' ','.t
use in stock. io' 'heir
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Many Of the European nations
INST be awfnlly quhrrelsone.
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~ the above iocni.on. (co
street mud Court Square, w,I
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fillery, whose famous goods |
a. bon y to 81 per gallon.
No Charge fvr ju.s.
Our stock viii imc!ndc q
Pure Whistles,
Imported aud Domestic II
Imported and Ilomo-n
A., Fine S
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strictly pure.
p2s"No goods sold by thI
he trade IS solicited Ia 4
md ju1gc-for themselves.
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COUNTY DIRECTORY.

lbItiN, EgfItt.
Circuit Courts.
ie"'n OF February, June aud October
County Courts.
'"s' monday ~ April, July, November
aud January.
arrivals and Exits of Mails
huntsville; leaves daily, at7a.m cx
''l' sunday, arrives same dav at : n
Nrnoidsburg; arrives daily NJ II o,c,,ct
w., ana leaves ut p. IN.
Hlcnville arrives every Tuesday and H.,
DAY at n. M, aud leaves We,luosJ,y MI
saturday at a. m. ~"
-. Hnrning Springs leaves every Monday
m,eunesday and Friday Mt u. m. arrives
'"eS'"y' thursday ANA Saturday al 4 u. M.
staten leaves Tuesday, Thursday and
saturday ut III a. m. and arrives n M
same days. ~ "i'
Societies.
Eureka Lodge, No. 50, \. T.. and A. NJ.
uee.s saturday night ON or before the full
p :, $. c. BARR, w. NJ.
~ NJ. MARSHALL, Sccy.
Grartsvile Lodge, No 100, LOO y
meets Saturday night in each week nj IND
o clock 7. IN. Cyrus Hickman, n g.
W. w, BRASNoN, Sccy
kichardsonville Lodge |. O. @. f. moo,s
every Saturday night
\. l.. Mack secy. ~ w.
Thorburn Posi-, No. ~. G. A. r roo,.
saturday on or before the lirsI full MOI
IN each mouth. moon
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Ne nnw have a compulsory. schnol
law that does rot compel.
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DR.. M. N. Mckee,
DENTIST.

ia UeHSUood, : " va
VIII visit Grantsville four times
year, due notice If which will ap.
pear III tho lno"l columns pf this pa-
per. All work guaranteed. 600 iy.
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Tie Mnnongahela river is SION to
lie made free river.
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can't never hev good butter onless you
have a spring-house; there's no use of
talkin'-all the patent churns that lazy
men ever invented-all the fancy milk
pans an coolers, can't make up for a
spring house. Locations for a spring
house are scarcer than hens teeth in
Illinoy, but we hev one, and there amt
better one in Orange County, \. Y.
Then, you'll see some of the biscuits my
mother makes
Bill" We'll, now, my mothers boss
biscuit-maker, too"
Jim" You kin just gamble that
mine is"
John-"O. that's the way you fell
lers ought to think an talk, but my
mother .
Tom Coming in again with fresh
vigor) =" They're just as light an fluffy
as dandelion puff, and they melt in
your mouth like a ripe Bartlett pear.
You just pull 'em open-Now you know
that | think there's nothin' that shows 4
DeIeOH ; ldlsiH 50 NcIl DIS 10 see Ulln eat
biscuits an butter. IF he's been raised
mostly on cornbread, an common doins,
an don't know much about good things
to cat, he'll most likely cut his biscuit
open with n case knife, an make it fall
as fiat as one o yesterdays pancakes.
But if he is used to biscuits, has had
'em often at his house, he'll just pull 'em
open, slow an easy like, then he'll lay
little slice of butter inside, and drop a
few drops Of clear honey on this, an
stick the two halves back together again,
an -
90, stop talking that nonsense roar
out a half dozen of the surrounding
crowd, whose mouths have been water
ing over this unctuous recital of the
good things of the table. Do you
want to drive yourselves and everybody
else crazy with such stuff as that? Dry
up, and try to think Of something else. !"
The National tribune., 1897-09-16
CHAPTER XIV.

REBEL MUSIC-SINGULAR LACK OF TIE
CREATIVE POWER AMONG THE SOUTH
EENERs - CONTRAST WITH SIMILAR
PEOPLE ELSEWHEBE-THEIR FAVoRITE
MUSIC, AND WHENCE 1T WAS BORROWED.
FIFER WITH ONE TUNE.
/ have before mentioned as among The
things that grew upon one with increas-
ing acquaintance with the rebels on their
native heath, was establishment at their
lack Of mechanical skill, and at their
inability to grapple with numbers and
the simpler processes Of arithmetic
Another characteristic Of the same ma
ture was their wonderful lack of musical
ability, or Of any kind of tuneful Gre
atiyeness
Elsewhere, all over the world, people
living under similar conditions to the
Southerners are exceedingly musical
and we owe the great majority of the
sweetest compositions which delight the
ear and subdue the senses to unlettered
song-makers of the Swiss mountains, the
Tyrolese valleys, the Bavarian high
lands, and the Ministries of Scotland,
Ireland and Wales.
The music Of English-speaking people
Is very largely made up of these contri-
buttons from the folk-songs of dwellcrs
IN the wilder and more mountainous
parts of the British Isles. One rarely
goes far out Of the way in attributing to
this source any air that lie may hear
that captiyates MIN with its seductive
opulence Of harmony. Exquisite melo-
dies, limpid and un.trained as the carol
Of bird in Sprlngtime, and as plaintive
as the cooling Of turtle-dove seems as
natural products of the Scottish High
lands as the gorse which blazons on
their hillsides in August. Declared
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To be eontfnued.I
---------------- ---- . -
Lincofn's Gettysburg Speech.
INep YOrR Independent.


Speaking of the dedication Of the National
Cemetery at Gettysburg and Mr. Lincoln $
famous address delivered on that occasion,
Nov. 10, 1868, Gov. Curtin began by saying
that there had been much discussion as to
how and when that address was written, and
he continued Il can tell you all about that
OF course, ] was there, and the President and
his Cabinet had arrived and were at the hotel.
Soon after his arrival, as we were sitting
around in the parlor, Mr. Lincoln looked
thoughtful Tor moment or two, and then
said
| believe, gentlemen, the committee are
expecting me to say something here to-day
If you VIII excuse me | will 90 into this room
here and prepare it, After time he re-
turned, holding in his hand a large, yellow
Government envelope, on which he had
written his address
80 Here, gentlemen he said, want TO
read this to you to see if it will do and
sitting down he read it to us, and then said
Now for your criticisms. Will it do? What
do you say?'
Several spoke in fayo- of it. and one or
two commended It i'll strong terms. Well,
says the President, haven't you any crit-
cisms? What do you say, Seward?'
Mr.. Seward made one or two suggestions
bearing on some slight verbal changes, which
i believe Mr. Lincoln Incorporated
Now, if you will allow me, gentlemen,
continued the President, will copy this
of, and again withdrew and made copy of
the address.
Ah." continued the Governor, if ] had
had wit enough about me to have begged of
him that yellow envelope, what trophy it
would have been. How much it would have
been worth TO some Of the ladies' fairs which
little later began to be held to raise money
for the hospitals and the soldiers. But did
not think of it them
The National tribune., 1897-09-16
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.

About n score of men, chosen from the I'd,
Dist aud 33l Ohio, and led by J. J. Andrews.
daring Union spy, are comm IssIoned to pene-
trate tho rebel lines to Marietta, Ga, take
train. run uorihward again. destroying the
Georgia Railroad, and so break communication
with the South. They leave their division
commander. Gen. o. NJ. Mitchell, April Z. 1862,
near Shclbyviic, Tenn. reach Chattanooga on
the 1lth unfortunately delayed one day.
Reaching Marietta, they return by train next
day, steal the engine and three cars at Big
Shauty, in the face of 10000 Con federates, and
dash away.
They are pursued by train. Bridges are
burned, tracks destroyed, wires cut; but the
fuel gives out. They are almost captured.
All Wilson tells how the men jump from the
engine, aud details part OF his thrilling ad-
ventures in Guiding the pursuers. The country
! j. full of enemies. Wood and Wilson are sur
prised by - cavalry squad and captured
Old Snow Captain of the squad, thinks
thcy are Southern men trying to escape con-
scriptiou They tell plausible story. and
arc allowed to go OH promise to return home.
They arc harborcd by Unonist, and later
guided on their way and to a boat. A danger
ous passage is mndc down the Tennessee.
They reach Stevenson, Ala, End arc captured,
| soon identified rs engine thieves, and thrown
into Ioathsome dungeon at Chattanooga,
known as "Swms's Hole" They find there
their companions in the Andrews Raid.
The horrors of rebel prison are aptly de-
scribed Owing to Gen. Mitchels sudden np-
pearance all the prisoners are hurried of by
railway TO Atlanta, Ga, but are returned to
tho Chattanoo prison after the Union troops
leave that immediate vicinity. Andrews re.
eevcG his death warrant Twelve of the men
are taken to Knoxville. The remainder work
encrgetically to escape.
Andrews and Wolam escape, but the former
is recapturcd. All are taken to Atlanta An
drcws is executed. Wolam returns. Seven OF
those who were taken to Knoxville, and thcrs
tried. arc hanged Mt Atlanta.
Led by Capt David Fry. an East Tennessee
scout, the prisoners escape. oyerpowering tho
jailer and rush for the woods. They scatter.
Wood and Wilson, running together, reach the
woods, crawl across n road between rebel
piekets and strike out in tho general direction
of the Gulf. Wood and Wilson find boat and
go down the Chnttahoochoe River to Columbus,
Ga. After numerous adventures they gradu-
ally approach the bay.
They come in sight of tho Union feet, and
rejoice to see the old flag once more.
The National tribune., 1897-09-16

to Port Royal while we were with them,
and we took passage to that place on the
same boat On our arrival we learned
a piece of news that caused us much
sorrow. Only short time before, our
old division commander, Gen. Ormsby
NJ. Mitchell, had breathed bis last in
that place, where he had been placed in
command but little while before the
yellow fever seized upon him and carried
him off
What privilege it would have been
to us to have reached the place and seen
him before his death. | recall hi
almost prophetic words on that memoir
able evening, far away in Tennessee, az
beneath the canopy of little clump OF
trees, we silently gathered about him ia
hear his last instructions to us, and at the
conclusion of which he shook hand,
with each man and said, as the tear
seemed to start from his eyes, Boys, !
fear | shall never see you again"
Nor did he ever see one of the little
band again, and believe he died in the
thought that our lives had all beea
sacrificed And if he did die so be-
lleving, 1t was cause of pain and
sorrow to him, for his was a noble
humane and sensitive nature, a soul Of
honor-too merciful to WELD the bloody
sword of a Marlborough or Butcher il
wars carnage, and too honorable Il
sacrifice the humblest private in hi
army to crafty ambition or to exaf
his own fame.
Instead of being military genius
an instrument of destruction and muir
der, as the profession of arms implicit
that leader should be-Gen. Mitchell
in my opinion, was the reverse. He
sought to accomplish great results, great
ends by far-reaching calculations Of
strategy, by means that would, if posi-,
bic, avoid the sanguinary clash of arms
and the death struggle On the battle
field.
The organ of destructiveness must bs
large in the successful soldier, and the
general who lacks it, lacks one of the
first qualifications in his profession.
War is but the measurement of the
power of brute force and strategy be.
tween two contending Nations or armies,
and the power Of one or the other mus;
be broken before there is a permanent
and satisfactory peace. So the General
who cal infict the greatest slaughter
and destruction on his adversary In the
shortest time is greatest in his profession
greatest in the art of peace, and, for
aught know, the greatest humanitar-
ian, although am aware my last asser-
ton is open to enlightened controversy.
Measured by this rule, Gen. Mitchell
would not have taken rank among the
most successful commanders, although
he possessed many military qualifications
in an eminent degree. Although he
was a West Point graduate, in the same
class with Lee and Joseph E. Johnston,
and knew the theory of war, yet it was
profession distasteful to him, and he
had sought the more congenial field of
letters and science, in which he distin
guished himself. He was, at the time
of his enlistment, a professor of mathe-
MATES, philosophy and astronomy in a
Cincinnati college.
TO be eontfnued.l
The National tribune., 1897-09-16
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE WASHINGTON

from expressing their aspirations as
people of broader culture do-in paint
ing, in sculpture, in poetry and prose,
these mountaineers makesong the flexible
and ready instrument for the communl-
cation of every emotion that sweeps
across their souls.
Love, hatred, grief, revenge, anger,
and especially war seems to tune their
minds to harmony, and awake the voice
of song in their hearts. The battles
which the Scotch and Irish fought to re-
place the luckless Stuarts upon the Brit
ish throne-the bloody rebcllions OF
1715 and 1745, left rich legacy of
sweet song, the outpouring of loving, pas
sionate loyalty to wretched cause !;
songs which are to-day esteemed and
The National tribune., 1897-09-16

he took dinner at our house when he
came up to dedicate the big white
church at Simpkin's Corners, and when
he passed up his plate the third time
for more chicken, he seq, seq he: I've
ct at a great many hundred tables in
the 80 years have laborcd in the Vine
yard of the Redeemer, but | must say,
Mrs. Higgins, that your way of frying
chickens is a lcetle the incest that ever
knew. | only wish that the sisters gen.
orally would get your reset Yes,
that's what he said, a lcetle the incest "
Tom" An, then, we'll hev biscuits
an butter. I'll just bet $500 to a cent,
and give back the cent if | win, that
we have the best butter at our house
that there is in Central Illinoy. You
The National tribune., 1897-09-16

sung wherever the English language is
spoken, by people who have long since
forgotten what burning feelings gave
birth to their favorite melodies.
For century the bones of both the
Pretenders have nodded in alien soil +;
the names of James Edward and Charles
Edward, which were once trumpet blasts
to rouse armed men, mean as little to
the multitude of to-day as those of the
Saxon Ethelbert and Danish Hardica-
mute, yet the world goes on singing
and will probably as long as the Eng
lish language is spoken" Wha'll be
King but Charlie ?" "When Jamie
Comes Hame," cover the Water to
Charlie" "Charlie is Ny Darling" "The
Bonny Blue Bonnets are Over the
Border Saddle Your Steeds and
AVA" and myriad others whose inf
mite tenderness and melody no modern
composer can equal.
Yet these same Scotch and Irish, the
same Jacobite English, transplanted on
account of their chronic RIGHTEOUSNESS
to the mountains of Virginia, the Caro-
linas, and Georgia, seem to have lost
their tunefulness, as some fine singing
birds do when carried from their native
shores The descendants of those who
drew their swords for James and Charles
at Preston Pans and CulIoden dwell to-
day in the dales and valleys of the Allie
GAMES, as their fathers did in the dales
and valleys Of the Grampians, but their
voices are mute
The National tribune., 1897-09-16
National Eacampment, Union Veteran
Legion, Columbus, ..

The Baltimore & Ohio r. r. announces re.
duced rates from all points on its line east of
the Ohio River for the National Encampment
of the Union Veteran Legion ut Columbus
ohio, September 22d and 23d. The tickets
will be sold for all trains September 18th to
2lst valid for return until September 9th.
BY taking the historic b. e. O., an additional
interest will be added to the trip, as that line
follows the banks of the stored Potomac for
many miles, passing through the City of Wash
inston, Harper's Ferry, Point of Rocks and
Cumberland. In addition to the interest at
tached to the locality. the scenery in this
region is the grandest OH the Continent
Through trains run direct to Columbus
carrying Pullman sleeping cars.
For further information, call on or address
nearest B. & Q. Agent.
The National tribune., 1897-09-16

The Commander seeing his weak, fall
tering condition, leaned over the rail,
as Wood came up, and, reaching out,
took hold to assist him, and, as he did so,
the rotten bit of old moss which covered
Marks shoulders and back all pulled
Oft and exposed his emaciated, bony
The National tribune., 1897-09-16
ITO be continued.l
Called the Turn.

Jndge.I
Private Moriarty the raw recruit Halt,
will yez? Who goes there?
Capt. Bighead (indignantly)-FOol!
Private Moriarty unabashed) Advance,
fool. an give tn countersoign.
The National tribune., 1897-09-16
CHAPTER XVII.

Hailed by Commander Crossman, of the
L. S. S. Somerset--In the Hands of
Friends Agatha Veterans Just
Rage-Sent on the Way Homeward.
The National tribune., 1897-09-16


in the series of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
LIBRARY:
No. 1. Statistics Of the War.
No. 2. Words Of lincoln.
No. 3. Miscellaneous Memoranda.
No. 4. Pension Statistics.
No. S. History Of Slavery.
No. 6. The Monroe Doctrine.
No. 70. Commanders U. S. ArmY.
No. 9. The Story of Cuba.
No. 10. Life Of Maj.-Gen. Geo. Il.
Thomas.
No. II. life of Hon. Vim. Mckinley,
No. IL. Life of Gen. p. H. Sheridan.
No. 13. The Chronological hist Of
Battles, etc.
No. IL. Life of Admifal Farragut-
No. Is. Fun Of the Mar.
No. l6. Fair Ohio. Csong)
No. II. Glorious Pennsylvania. sonsI
No. 10. Poetry Of the War.
No. 19. Life Of Gen. U. S. Grant.
No. 20. Memorial Day Poetry and
0ratOry.
No. 81. Hawaiian Islands.
No. q. The Alaskan Gold Fields
and HOm to Get There.
These pamphlets contain historical. Stats
teal, and other valuable information of great
interest to American citizens and being com
piled from official sources, may be relied upOS
Us correct.
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
Washing ION ID. O.
The National tribune., 1897-09-16

Z WERE ROWING OUR
Notwithstanding little
boat right along, just as
though we intended to capt
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The Dinghy tariff bill is now law.
The conference report was made to the
senateNon Saturday morning and at 8
O'Clock in the afternoon it was adopted
by vote of forty to thirty
President Mckinley signed the bill
a few minutes past o'clock.
One democrat and two silver republ-
cans voted for the bill IN the senate. 1t
is protective tariff measure in the ex-
treme and, while we believe it an impo-
sitlon Oh the people, we are glad 1T has
at last become law. The republican
hobby will be put to test and the
American people will have the expert
ment. BY the time consumers pay an
increased price for everything they buy
they will known what high tariff and
'Sound money! means.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

The people of Barber coun-
ty do not feel a particle more
hopeful now than they did in
go or '92. They do not ex-
pect any relief until 1900 and
that is rather far off. They
are working hard. and expect
to be as merry as they can
under the circumstances.
But that the people are in a
much better condition and
are feeling more hopeful than
they did in 80 and '92, is alb
solutely false.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

ONE OF the national banks of this
city this week issued some new money.
The government printed it for l per
cent and all that was necessary to make
it money was the signatures of the
president and cashier. 1t IS then ready
to be loaned out at 6 per cent. This
is what they call sound money: honest
money that doesn't cost them but one
cent for dollar. But when the govern
ment puts out the old fashioned green
back (which the bankers, owing to their
influence oyer congress, have depreci-
ated in value), it understanding to
these construction lovers-money at
all, but rags, fiat, deprecated currency.
promises to pay, etc. If anyone has
the hardihood TO say that the green
back is money he is at once called nv
the DEVILS canonized saints. the nation
al bankers, a repudiator and an anar-
chlst. If, on the other hand, any one
should say that the national banks
should issue the money, he ise at once
taken in hand by these worthless. court
ed, hattered, favored, wined and iined.
called patriot, an advocate of sound
money, good business man. etc. and
maybe spoken of as man who must
De prevailed upon by the people to ac-
cept an Office for the good of the coun-
try.-Uncle Sam, Cumberland. Md.