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good work with her guns in sea way.
She is now having new furnaces fitted
to her boilers at the Norfolk navy
yard, the crowns of the furnaces hay
ing come down some time ago, owing
to the fact that the boilers are the
same that were built for her when she
was originally laid down many years
ago. 1t is said at the Navy Depart
ment that she will be ready for service
March 4th
Captain Sigsbee asked yesterday
whether he should endeavor to save the
old material in the superstructure Of
the Maine, which. from the pictures,
appears to be heaped up over the boil
er space He has been told to let this
go, as it is valuable only as old iron
which would not pay 10 bring it back
TO the States.
A delegation from the Naval Militia
| Association of the United States was
at the Navy Department to-day. The
visit of the members, however, was not
in response to any requests sent by the
department, as has been represented,
but was simply preliminary to visit
to the Capitol, where they are to be
tee on the Barber bill to further in
crease the naval establishment of the
United States by construction of twen-
ty torpedo boats, designed principally
for the use of the militia. The boats
provided for in the bill are to be of
about $50 tons displacement, TO have
q speed of not less than twenty-five
knots. and are to cost, including arma-
ment. not exceeding S2,500000 Two
of the boats, the bill provides, are to
be built on the Pacific Coast. When
completed they are to be stationed at
the principal ports at which naval mi
litia organizations exist, and are to be
manned by skeleton crews from the
United States naval establishment,
ready for the full complement of Off
GERS and men to be fitted out from the
militia when drill or other occasion
arises.
NO SUBMARINE MINE.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 25.-In view Of
the widely published report that the
harbor of Havana contained a system
of submarine mines, statement around
which, has centered the chief public in
terests IN connection with the Maine
disaster. Senior Dubosie, Spanish Charge
d Affaires at Washington, tonight
made to the Associated Press the fol-
lowing statement which coming from
such source, may be considered as an
official denial:
Il wish TO state on my own official
knowledge that no mine exists inside or
| outside of Havana harbor, nor is there
any submarine defense of any kind.
The report is so absolutely false and
ridiculous that il could only have orig
mated in the minds of those persore
anxious to incite the evil passions of
both nations for their own miserable
ends. l consider the very suggestion
| of such a thing an insult to SPAIN
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soggy bread and sodden potatoes, and
butter and coffee whose strength had
been tlansposed-to their mutual dis
advantage; it meant return to din
ner little more inviting and satisfying !;
as much more 50 as corn-beef and cabbage
in the middle of the day exceeds as
appetizing viands morning dish of
potatoes boiled with their skins on.
1t meant a supper in the evening as
uninviting as the break fast had been.
1t meant days spent in the hardest and
most nnpleasing toll, for a delicate
ramed boy of fine tastes of sweeping
the office, Of gathering from the spittle.
Degrimed floor at the feet Of the men
the type they dropped in their careless
ness, of cleansing these of their repulsive
soil and replacing them in the boxes
yhere they belonged; Of washing the
rollers and distributing apparatus of the
resses with sponges filled with strong
se, which ate into the delicate skin of
hands and set the blood to flowing
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CHAPTER III.

INTRODUCING 4 PERSON WHOM THE READER
WILL AFfERwARD BECOME BETTER AC-
QUAIHTED wITH-THE NEWS CONTINUES
TO COME.
To one compos;tor in the room the
scene had something Of the nature Of a
revelation. Walter Armitage was much
the youngest Of all those who "held
cases " Gas the regular printers were
called) in the office. Five years before,
at the early age of 13, his mind had be-
come so inhamed with the books of ad-
venture and the biografes of selfmade
men, which formed the staple of his
reading, that he could wait no longer to
launch his small pinnace upon the ocean
OF life
He accordingly ran away from home in
the most approved manner, and reached
Chicago, as his great ideals, Franklin and
Greeley, reached the cities where they
were to erect the shining fabrics of their
greatness.-hungry, footsore, and with
all his slender worldly goods bound UP
in the compass Of small carpet bag.
He. thought he had discounted in ad-
vance all the privations and troubles he
would have to endure, but he had
scarcely reckoned what it all meant.
1t meant working the first year for
$3.50 week, and paying 50 of this for
board in an untidy and malodorous
boarding house, where he rose in the
morning from hard and chilly bed,
donned such ill-fitting raiment as his
remaining 40 or 30 cents a week would
purchase from the Israelitish beasts of
prey who kept ready-made clothing
stores.
1t meant descending to breakfast of
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level with men, given cases in the COM
posing room Of the paper, and took his
turn with the rest at the " copy-hook."
This affray between Morgan and
Bronson was spoken of as ga revela-
ton to him. 1t was in this wise: All
though a ravenous reader, he had, boy
like, eschewed the politics of the day.
AT IL there is whole world Of much
more interesting reading than is afforded
by the platforms of parties and the edi-
torals of partizan newspapers. Walter
was too deeply concerned with the senti-
mental vlcissitudes of the heroes and
heroines of Scott, Bulwer, Charles
Reade, and Wilkie Collins to know or
care about the gathering clouds which
were soon to let fall the fateful light
nings of civil war.
What political impressions he had
were the results of such odds and ends
of conversations as he listened to-; and,
as these conversations we're mostly in the
boarding house or beer saloon or upon
the street corners, he obtained the general
idea that band Of miscreants termed
! Abolitionists were in some way menacing
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FIGHTING THEM OVER
What the Veterans Have to Say
About Their Campaigns.
Some Members of Co. e. Goth Ill.,. Who
Went Out in '64.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: It was in
the early part of "a that L with some 20
neighbor-boys varying in age from Is to
q, concluded that the rebellion was not be-
ing put down as rapidly as we thought it
ought, nor the old Flag being respected as
it was Justly entitled to be.
Further, we had what we considered per-
sonal grievance on account of the way the
rebels had sent bone several of our neighbors
and neiehbors' children, including some of
our nearest friends and relatives; some boxed
up, some minus arms and legs, others with
ugly wounds.
So we decided to fill the vacant ranks and
teach the Johnnies a good lesson. We were
soon in camp around Chattanooga, Tenn.
Some of Us had never been out of the County
we were born in until we bound ourselves
to Uncle Samuel for three years, or during
the war; / remember very yivldly our trip
getting there-how the reads looked, the first
tunnel we passed through in Indiana, the
signs of John Morgan's raiders in places, the
astonishing greatness of New Albany, Louis
Vile, and Nashville, aud the ZolicOffer House,
said to contain room for every day in the
year (where we stopped to wait for transpor-
tatoaj, which wa, sight the like of VIII ch
we ncrer expected 10 see again
Here we drew our accouterments of war,
md were soon started to the front to see how
thag5 looked upon closer inspection. We
passed over the battlefield OF MarfTees5oro,
or a portion o. it, and saw unmis' akc;ble
eyidenc; of q hot time at some previous date.
Thence we passed on through Stevenson and
crossed the river and on to Chattanooga. We
soon reached our regiment and were assigned a
camping place, put up our tents by in
structiOns from those who knew how, and
soon began to write letters and go around to
the artist to have our pictures taken in full
war rc9alia to send home to our friends
They gave us drill about three times a
day until we could go through the manual of
arms pretty well. Somebody else wanted
to see what was out at Buzzards' Roost, and
we struck out from our CAMPS to try to
satisfy his curiosity.
We marched out to Ringgold crossed q
little stream at what was called Stone Church
L don't remember whether the creek was
Chickamauga or not, bat any way we lay in
the valley that night
Next day we went over by Tunnel Hill
and kept monkeying around until we got
up a terrible muss with the Johnnes at Buz-
Yards Roost and the vicinity of Rocky Face
Ridge. The fighting was what Kearny would
have called fine all along the line, so next
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Delaware Man Tells What He and His Com
rades Experienced.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: 1 was
pleased to see an article from comrade of
my own corps and division and about the
battle of fredericksburg We of the Third
Division, Second Corps, will never have to
have our memory refreshed to recollect the
18th day of December, 1862, and as long as a
member who participated in that battle lives
he will remember it above all others, as it
was more disastrous to US than any other in
which we engaged.
/ think the Winter of 1862, '63 was the
worst Winter that the Army of the Potomac
ever put in, as along the Rappahannock River
the bleak winds blew, and in front of the
Lacey House, on those high hills, it was simply
terrible, with no fires to warm Us. Being
kept out for from "a to 48 hours, some of the
men nearly froZe.
/ shall never forget the Johnnies, who had
nice fires, calling out across the river to US in
front of the city, asking US to come over and
see them and get warm. 1t was very aggra-
yating but such was soldier life, and we had
to make the best of it and take tn snow and
ice as it came. They would invite US over,
stating that they had two large hills for US to
climb very long street for us to cross and
a very heavy stone wall to cut through.
We informed them that as we were short OF
money we would defer our visit until the
Paymaster came along, then we would make
them call
The charge on Maryes flights was COM
meneed by my regiment (the 1st Del. at
about 8 n. M. as skirmishers. We unslung
our knapsacks at the depot, or machlne-shOps,
and then went by the left flank, and when we
arrived at the place where the railroad went
to the left, our head of column went to the
right and then deployed in front of Marye's
Hights. The left OF the regiment coming
about in front of that point of the stone wall,
and where that stone house was, i was just in
front of what it is said was the Washington
Battery, and there we remained until dark.
There were no troops or line OF men ever
came up to us except the Irish Brigade of
our First Division. On the right of US was a
brigade that went almost up TO the stone
house, but had to come back.
In speaking of that brigade that charged on
the right of us to one of the pioneers who
went over the river after the battle TO help
bury the dead, he informed NE that it was
Kimballs Brigade 1t was the 7th w. Va,
18th Ind and 48th Ohio.
| showed the article of Coinrade Wiley to
one of my company. He informed me that
this brigade was in his rear, and passed up
cartridges to him and his comrades after
theirs were all gone. / cannot speak for my
self; only will stick to it that they never went
over us. We were on the left of Washington
Monument-T d. GROvERsMITH, First
Lieutenant, Co. ID, lst Del.
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even called him by iD Nicholas, if
you don't have all them galleys of
miscellany proved up and the proofs in
the editorial rooms inside of five
minutes | shall have to take piece of
riglet to you"
As 10 was, perhaps, the only man on
earth that "Inky" feared or cared a
snap of his dirty fingers for, he cut
short his sporting report, jumped down
from his STOOL and busted himself lock-
ing up the galleys. He relieved his feel
ings in his usual way, by dexterously but
covertly Tipping a small leaden cut
weighing about two ounces, in such a
way that it took meek-looking "sub-
stitute" on the back of the head with
such force that the startled men-a
stranger working his first day in the
office-jumpt up several inches and
dropped his stick to the floor, hopelessly
"pi-ing" the type in it, which had cost
him halfan- hours hard labor to set, and
for which the assistant foreman was al
ready waiting; scowling and muttering
the meanwhile in a way that is simply
demoraiizing to the new comer's nerves.
The assistant foreman now completed
the poor fellows discontinue BY swear
ing very audibly, and Inky," whose
agency in the matter was not suspected,
remarked in that insolent nonchalance
peculiar to devil bows in their treatment
of the unhappy "subs.";
lis awful funny how many clumsy
blacksmithS (psinting office slang for
a clumsy compositor) are crowding
themselves into good Offices. If this
thing amt stopped pretty soon, the
whole business'll go to the devil -.
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and Buford made their hurried observations.
This relic of war has been transformed into a
building of magnificent and great proper
tions-no hospital now, but an institution of
learning.
1t was on this line that some of the most
desperate fighting took place, the First Corps,
numbering 5000, holding in check for six
long and weary hours over $1,000 rebels.
Although overwhelmed and almost crushed,
they contested every foot, giving large pOr-
tion of Meade's army chance to concentrate,
which finally gave us the field of Gettysburg.
N. K. PLOYD, 10th Pa, Germantown,
Pa
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One of the best know III i'm Mitchell County
is rejoicing the fac that af ersuffering thirty
three years witha angerOus rupture finally
cured by the system invented by DIR W ; Rice,
Smithyille. \ Y. Mr. B andin is ne er so happy
as when relating the story of his cure. For the
reater part of his life he laid up in bed his
rupture being so large that he could not fTd
truss to hold it until he EARNED of the DIR II ce
method. Mr. Blandin tells of a near neighbor of
his who was ais ruptured nd for whom Mr..
Biandin mt for the Rice treatment The dav it
arrived this neighbor was suddenly stricken with
a strangulated hern Il two doctors and half
dozen men held him down, the pain being so in
tense that he was out of his mind MIR Blandin
arrived on the scene just in the nick o time and
q few minutes after the patie"t II feVived
from a powerful dose of CIiOrofOrIu the Rice
system was put On. they had i'm UP ud dressed,
and he walked out tH his barn The circum-
s-anccS of these two Cur, ttra ted wide atfcn-
tnn throughout the StIte. DR. Rice has recently
prep red = book giving Il fu desert 'fiou of his
method l. is q ONE cure Il very mil 60 {,
and hest of all il cures wituou Ia II. fauger,
de'entnE fir m work or incOnvC'ie of any
kind Readers should send tor this bn X and
ail it TO anyone ey know to be- rtii red.
Such an act OF kindness viii be worth great
de / TO those who suffer from rupture. rite
TO DIR w. CE. B SIS, SmithvIIie, JEFF.
CO.. n. Y.
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A Builder Of Bone and Muscle


is the verdict of those who have had occasion
to use DIR. PETERS BLOOD VIrALIZER. In
other words. it does not only cure the disease,
but it builds mp the weakened system. Mr..
J. G. Krimmer, of Gnghamsburgh, Ohio,
writes "Dr. p. Fahrney, Chicago. Ill.
Dear Sir:-I am past sixty-fve years Of age.
Three years ago I was taken down with
kidney disease / doctored with several of
the best physicians in the country, hut they
failed to help me. L was in such bad way
that sometimes / had to get up as often as
thirty times during the night. | sent for a
trial box of your BLOOD VTrALIzER. After
using it but three days Icommenced to get
better. The improvement has been steady.
i am in better health now than / was
years ago. / seem TO be- new man. My
face looks bright and fresh; but it is not
only my looks that have changed, | also feel
much younger than i did years ago Your
BLOOD ViTALIZER has done much for me.
can not recommend it TOP highly"
DIR. PETERS BLOOD NIrALfzER rejuve-
mates the oid-makesl the weak strong. 1t is
not drug store medicine. Sold to the
people direct by special agents of the manu-
facturer. For further particulars, address
DR.. Peter Fahrney, il2-ll4 SO. Hoyne
Ave, Chicago, Ill
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of carrying water to supply an almost
Unsuitable demand of turning the huge
wheels of the presseg, until his arms
ached and his head swan.
1t meant-when his time of relaxa-
ton came-that he could choose be-
tween hanging around the sitting-room
of the boarding house, which was filled
with coarse men, smoking sitting tobac-
co, whose jokes and conversation were
still more offensive, or Of shivering along
the streets, gazing into brightly-lighted
stores, containing food and clothes and
books and pictures, that were to his boy
ish eyes as the wealth of Ormuz and of
Ind, but to which he could no more
enter than the banished Peri could Para
disc.
Scores of sad nights, he lay sleepless
upon his hard bed, his unmatured mus
cles aching with the grievous strain of
the days work, his stomach nauseated
with the coarse food, his heart bitter
from the petty tyrannies of the Offices
discipline, and sorrowfully compared
the actual present with his sanguine ex-
pectations. A feebler boy would have
wept; still feebler, said like the spirit
less Prodigal Son: " will arise and 90
to my father" He did neither He
had burned all his bridges behind him,
and would stay where he was and fight
it out to the bitter end
Patient endurance to the end Of the
year was rewarded by an advance of
wages to 81 week, and relief from the
most distasteful of the drudgery of the
office, A new boy was put to sweeping
out, picking up the dirty type, carrying
the countless pals of water washing the
inky surfaces with lye, and turning the
big wheels of the job-presses. The
easier but more responsible work of feed
ing the presses was given to Walter, and
he was allowed to practice setting type
part of each day, and made rapid
progress in that branch Of the art.
His increase of S1.50 per week made
all his horizon brighter. For $3.50 a
week he obtained a much more COM
Portable boarding house, and he was en-
abled to clothe himself more nearly in
accordance with his desires and the Gus
tom of other boys of his age.
Next in comparison to these bits of
good fortune was the kindly notice of
benevolent gentleman whose hobby
and most admirable one it was, too
was encouragement and assistance of ap-
prentices He procured Walter admis-
sion to library whose well-lighted, we'll
warmed reading-rooms, with shelves
filled with the books Walter was yearning
to read, was the happiest possible change
from the dreary sittingroom of the
boarding house, with its odors of stale
cookery and its crowd of loungers puff
ing choking tobacco smoke.
so the year passed with comparative
comfort, and at the end Walters ad-
vancement in knowledge and skill was
recognized by another raise of $50 per
week in his wages, bringing them up to
which, in those cheap days, was
regarded as unusually good pay for a
boy, of is.
iie had continued to progress in this
manner, until, a few weeks before the
opening of our story, he had finished
the long ascent from the lowly position
Of apprentice to that of full workman,
and though he was yet several months
from Is, he was advanced to the same
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time we wrote home we had news that was
real interesting. Our regiment lost heavily
that day in killed and wounded, but Il don't
remember just how many. The 10th and
10th ILL.,, 10th and 14th Mich. were brigaded
with US, and were also badly mixed up in the
fracas and lost severely. They were brave
men and good fighters.-J. NJ. FOWLER, Co.
Z, Goth H., Crab Orchard, Ill.
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GETTYSBURG.
What Was Recalled by a Tramp Over Part
of the Field.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: I recently
found myself with little company of friends
seated in Reading Railroad train bound foI
historic Gettysburg. LAS the train neared
the great battlefield, we observed the Stars
and Stripes floating from Barow's Knoll. and
then came line of monuments extending fol
a long distance.
Arriving at the station, we tramped out to
Barlow's Knoll, which is on the right of the
Eleventh Corps position. Here Gen. Barlow
was desperately wounded, and Lieut.. Wilkin-
son fell at his battery. Here the Eleventh
Corps lost half its number. We tramped
over the lines of the First Corps The monu-
ments are scattered over u great and beauti-
full country, and are very grand. The Goth
Pa. represents an oak tree We were much
interested in the Buford monument. 1t rep.
resents that distinguished General, dis
mounted, with his field glasses in his hand.
1t was upon this spot that Buiord stood the
morning of July 1, 1865, when he ordered
Califis battery to open. The gun that fired
the initial shot now rests at the foot of the
statu- The 113d Pa is represented by a
huge block of granite. with the hie-size fig
ure of Coor-Serg't Ben Crippen i'll the de-
fiant atti ude in which he met his death.
The old Mcpherson farm is exceedingly
interesting as we'll as historic. There stands
the old barn 50 familiar to the Bucktails.
The old house is In ruins. The l50th Pa.
monument stands near the old barn. There,
many of our Germantown boys were killed
or wounded.
We left the monument and tramped over
to McPherson's woods and viewed the
spot where the gallant Reynolds fell. This
grave, like the surroundings, is full of in-
terest Here the old hero of Gettysburg
John Burns stood and fired into the rebel
ranks and fell wounded; here Gen. Archer
and his rebel brigade were captured. Monu-
ments are everywhere, each telling its story.
We tramped down to the Lutheran Semi
nary, and stood on the spot where Reynolds
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A Young Keystone state Soldier.

George F. Shindler, Harrisburg. Pa. writes
that Pennsylvania had some very young SOL
diers in the army. His brother, III. c.. Shind-
Ter, Co. Z, 10th Pa, enlisted at the age of
IA years, nine months and % days. He was
with his regiment from January, 1862, until
the end of the war"
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Has been used for over FIFTY YEARS by MIL
LIONS OF MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE
TEETTINC;. with PERFECT SUCCESS. 1t
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best remedy for DIA I;tHCEti. sold ~ jFusittS IN
every part OF the word. BE tnd as's for Mrs
Winslow's so ptEug syrup" and take other kind.
Twenty-Five cents bottle
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EDITORIAL NOTE.-The next installment
will tell of the war fever in Chicago and the
beginning of enlistments. Dramatic events,
true to life. multiply rapidly in "A File of
Infantrymen."
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druggists refund the money If it fails TO cure.
25c. The genuine has l.. B. Q. on each tablet.
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