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The National tribune., 1898-08-18
Work of the Pension Office.

The report of certificates issued for the
week ending Aug. 13 shows
Army invalid: Original, 10; increase and
additional, 200; reissue, &c; restoration and
renewal, 81; accrued, 80; total, 412.
Army invalid tact June y. 1S90i: Original,
27l; increase. 80; additional, 40; reissue,
Ii; restoration and renewal 80; supple
mentals, 3; duplicate, 4; accrued, ST; total,
SAT.
Army widow, etc.: Original, 81; reissue,
/: restoration and renewal, 1; duplicate,
4: accrued, 1; total, SO.
Army widow, etc. TACT June 81, 1890:
Original, 225; reissue, =; supplementals,
2; duplicate, l. accrued, 2; total. 232
Navy invalid: Original, 5; increase
and additional, s; reissue, 1; accrued, 1;
total, Is.
Navy invalid (act June 81. 1890: Original,
Is: increase and additional, 3; reissue, 1;
duplicate, 1; accrued, 3; total. %.
Navy widow, etc. (act June 81, 1Se09:
Original, S; accrued, 2: total, 10.
Indian Wars-SurvivOrs Accrued, 3.
Indian Wars-Widows: Original, >.
Old War-.nvalid: Accrued, 2.
Mexican War-Survivors: Reissue, I;
accrued, 10; total, l6.
Mexican War-Widows: Original. 10.
Totals: Original, 666; increase and adj
ditional. $50; reissue, So; restoration and
renewal, 81; supplementals, 5; duplicate,
20: accrued, 200. Grand total. 1853.
For the week ending Aug. q the report OF
certificates was
Totals: Original, 1853; increase and adj
ditional. 375; reissue, SO; restoration and
renewal, 65: supplementals, 4; duplicate.
"a: accrued, POI. Grand total, ], 511.
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strength of the Notifications, uron which
thousands of negroes had been employed for
months; of the numbers and spirit of the
men holding the works. With the memory
fresh in its mind of the savage battle the
rebel army had waged when attacked upon
open ground on the banks of Stone River.
the Army of the Cumberland now swept for
ward with full appreciation of the bloody re-
sistance it was likely 10 encounter.
Like all experienced soldiers. 81 and
Shorty had cast aside nearly everything they
had gathered in their tent during their long
stay in camp as vanities and frpperies un-
suited to men in the stern work of q cam
paign. Consequently, the abandoned camp
was harvest to the whites and negroes of
the surrounding country, who flocked in to
gather the spoils, and provide their own
homes for the rest Of their lives with furni-
ture and utensils that they had neither skill
TO make nor money to buy. A good deal
has been said about the chickens, meat, pro-
Visions etc, which the soldiers foraged on
their way through the South. but the other
side of the account has never been stated. nor
an attempt made to compute the value of the
overcoats, blankets, boots, shoes, camp
kettles, cups, and thousand other useful
things which the soldiers contributed, volun-
tarily or Involuntary, to the wealth and
comfort of the people of the country through
which they marched and camped.
ST and Shorty drew and cooked their three
days rations, slowed them in their greasy
haversacks along with their useful half
canteens, hung their blackened tin cups on
the outside. filled their cartridge-boxes with
the regulation 40 rounds, slowed another 40
rounds about their persons in various places,
rolled their blankets up lengthwise with
their shelter-tents and q change of under
clothing, tied the ends of the blankets to-
gether, and threw them over their shoulders
scarf-fashion, pulled their socks up over the
bottoms of their pantaloons and fastened
them there with strings, and were then ready
to march anywhere in the Southern Conied-
eracy and fight ybody they might encoun-
ter
"Now," said Shorty, as they stood in line,
waiting the order to move, las old Rosy has
clearly walked up to business, l hope to
gracious that Mr. Bragg will be found at
home ready for callers We've wasted six
months waiting for him to get good and
ready, and he certainly ought to be in trim
The National tribune., 1898-08-18
THE PEACE COMMISSIONERS.

So far the President has only selecte
two of the Peace Commissioners. These
are Secretary Day, for the President
and Senator C. X. Davis for one of the
other Republicans. Both these selec,
tions will be highly satisfactory to the
country. The third Republican mem
Der is still being discussed. 1t is be-
lieved that Senator Allison was offered
the place, and positively declined it.
Senators Frye and Proctor h"ve been
mentioned. Ex-senator Edmundss
name was not considered, because he
was strongly opposed to the war, and
is the attorney for large Spanish inter-
ests. 1t has been suggested that the
Commission be made non-partisan, by
appointing Admiral Dewey, instead OF
a third Republican. Admiral Dewey's
knowledge of the Philippine situation
would be of great Importance to the
Commission, and he will be consulted at
every step, whether on the Commission
or not.
AS to the Democratic members there
is more difficulty. Several prominent
Democrats who have been mentioned
are reluctant, because their party seems
to be divided on the question of " I'M
perialism," and they do not want to
hazard their political fortunes until
there is fuller development. The
friends of Gen. Schofield take this OPP
portunity to urge his appointment.
They claim that he has always been a
Democrat, that he was strongly in favor
of the annexation of Hawaii, and has
had some diplomatic experience. Mr..
Frederic Coudert, the New York lawyer,
is still under consideration. He has
the great advantage of thorough
understanding of French, in which
language the negotiations will be carried
The National tribune., 1898-08-18

Naturally, it set in with terrific rain
such rain as only Middle Tennessee can
produee-as soon as the Army of the Cum
berland began to move. Marching orders to
the Army of the Cumberland always seemed
a signal for opening the floodgates of heaven,
and such deluges as the oldest inhabitants
could not remember to have seen before.
For six long months every thought in the
Army of the Cumberland had been concen
trated on the insignificant village of Tulla
homa and its outlying defenses of Shelby
vile, War Trace, Liberty Gap, Hoover's Gap,
Spring Hill, and Columbia. Reports reached
it constantly of the impregnable character OF
the positions occupied by the rebels, OF the
The National tribune., 1898-08-18

THE adventures Of ST Klegg and his tall
friend, Shorty, both of the 200th Ind, were
so numerous and so interesting during their
service in the civil war that it will take the
author long while to relate them, and the
sketches will appear in many issues. His
friends have seen their graduation from rIty
recruits to veterans, and have followed them
in their campaigns to Murfreesboro', after the
battle of Stone River and there they are
quartered for the Winter. In the immedi-
ately preceding chapters Shorty and ST, hav
ing been informed that certain Mrs. Bolster
"a woman of meager attractions but fiery
temper, who has fallen in love with Shorty
harbors nest Of guerrillas aud Spies decide
to break it up. They pretend they wish to
desert the Union cause and go with her. She
takes them to den in the mountains
where by strategy, they capture some rebel
officers, a spy, guerrilias, aSd lot of contra
band goods. Mrs. Bolster, who was bent on
being married to Shorty, is forced to be mar
ried to one of her admirers, Thomas Jefferson
blackberry. 81 and others return to the den,
and capture a rebel Captain, who leads a
charge on the house, but who turns out to be
Levi Rosenbaum, Hebrew, who is Union
spy. He has important papers and news, and
Shorty takes him to headquarters
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NOW FOR THE PENSION BUREAU.


For obvious reasons we have re-
Trained from pressing pension matters
upon President McKinley's attention
while he was overbardened by the mo-
mentous questions of the war. But
now that peace has come, we shall insist
that the Pension Bureau and its man.
agement be given the consideration that
is due the veterans and their dependent
ones. Some decisive action must be
taken. The affairs of that office are
going from bad to worse. The weekly
reports show steady diminution in
the effectiveness of the immense force
employed for the ostensible purpose Of
adjudicating the claims of the men who
gave their country everything. For
the week ending Aug. 6 but 1853 origi-
nal claims were allowed, and for the
week ending Aug. II this beggarly
number was reduced to 666. Commits
sioner Evans is pushing the policy OF
how-not-to-do-it with far more vigor
than any of his predecessors. 1t is a
policy of cruelty to tens of thousands of
most deserving men and women who
have suffered and waited long, agonizing
years.
There must be remedy for this sort
of thing, and we shall not rest until we
have found it.
The National tribune., 1898-08-18

BLANCo expresses some uneaslness
about being able to manage the volun-
teers when the terms of peace are made
known. The best thing for him to do
is to turn the job over to Gen. Shafter
or Gen. Lee. They will find a way to
manage those fre-eating youngsters, and
will not say much about it, either.
The National tribune., 1898-08-18

TIE war lasted just ia days-from
April q, the date named In the act OF
Congress passed April 25, to the signing
of the protocol, Aug. II. Properly
speaking, the war should be said to have
begun with the destruction of the Maine,
Feb. 15, which would add GA days to
Its duration.
The National tribune., 1898-08-18

The Madrid papers complain that
the loss of her colonial empire reduces
Spain to the second rank of Nations"
They misstate the case. Spain passed
definitely out of the first rank among
Nations during the War of the Spanish
Succession-1666-1700. exactly 200
years ago. She could not then hold her
place with such powers as Great Britain,
France and Austria, and has been stead
lily retrograding ever since. She has
rapidly drifted to leeward, while Great
Britain. France, Germany and Russia
have gone ahead.
The National tribune., 1898-08-18

PEOPLE talk about the difficulty of
governing the 100000 or 100000.
more or less, people in the Philippines
What is the necessity of trying to gov
ern most of them? Spain has never
attempted to. She has extended a sys-
TEN of onerous taxation, as far an her
soldiers could enforce il. over most Of
the leland of Luyon, but she has done
very little in the way Of governing the
hundreds of other islands which make
up the group. The wild and half-wild
tribes that inhabit them have been left
to their own devices as wholly as VIC
used 10 leave the Indians of the Ia,
West when they were doing nothing
worse than scalping one another. Min.
danao, the second largest island, has
never more than pretented to accept
Spanish authority. Much of the island
lie under the authority of semi-civilized
Sultan, under whom are q number O
other Sultans. governing districts. I'm
less il shall turn out that the other islands
can be made of value and their people
civilized. there is no necessity of tryins
to govern them. They can be let alone
a. We let alone the i-Utes, the Diggers
Mohaves, Navaj oes, Pueblos, Zunis, etc
They are in better shape for this thar
our Indians used to be, for they are OIL
separate islands, where they cannot hur
anybody but themselves.
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PRoTocoL comes from the Gree

PRoTocoL comes from the Greek
protos. first; and kolla, glue; and
meant the first leaf which was glued on
to the rolls of papyrus, and which con.
tanned the date and brief of the con.
tents In diplomacy it means the first
memorandum or draft Of an agreement.
The National tribune., 1898-08-18

IT was only so short time ago as
April 90 that Congress authorized the
President to "intervene in Cuba" 1t
has been the most energetic interven-
ton" in history. Other nations are
likely to think long time before pro-
voking another like it.
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THE Peace Commissioners will prob
ably allow the Spanish officers to retain
their side-arms, and certainly ought 10
let Blanco keep his typewriter. What
would he be without that useful ma
nLinn2
The National tribune., 1898-08-18

SPAIN don't want to take her soldiers
home.
They will tell unpleasant stories.
It will cost great deal of money,
which the officials want for themselves.
There is an abundance of that kind
of material in Spain without them.
She should be obliged TO. We can
eli up Cuba with much better material
our Southern negroes, for example
The National tribune., 1898-08-18
ExEGESIs OF THE MONROE DOCTRINE

ExEGEsIs OF THE MONROE DOCTRINE
One of the humors of the war has
been the sudden and deep interest in
the Monroe Doctrine which the roar of
Dewey's guns awakened in the minds of
European diplomats. They have since
been laboriously explaining to US just
what the Monroe Doctrine means, and
how carefully we should regard it.
The fun in this is that we ourselves do
not know exactly what it means, and
any two well-informed Americans, if
called upon to explain it, would prob
ably give widely differing definitions.
Upon only one feature are we solidly of
one mind. We all, of every party and
shade of political belief, agree that it
means that no European power shall
acquire any territory, or extend any
that it has already acquired, this side
the Atlantic. This is firmly settled,
and every American would unhesita-
tingly vote for war to resist any attempt
to infringe upon 8 the prohibition. But
that is as far as we have gone. Beyond
that we are still in the tentative and I'M
certain stage, with any number of shades
of uncrystalized opinions among our
citizens.
The Monroe Doctrine is not, and
never pretended to be, part OF inter-
national law. Consequently, it is not a
subject for discussion, agreement or ad-
vice by foreigners. 1t is purely do
nestle affair, a piece of National
policy, which we must settle absolutely
for ourselves and in our own way. 1t is
no more matter for foreign considera-
ton than our currency system, or our
local option laws. We announced, 70
years ago, that we would oppose any
further extension of European possessions
upon this side the Atlantic. We did
this upon our own motion, for reasons
that seemed good to u.s. We did not
ask them at that time, nor since, to pass
upon those reasons. It would have been
as fitting to ask them to pass upon our
homestead laws, or system of internal
improvements, or any other purely
domestic matter. We felt strong enough
at the time to assume the responsibility
of such an announcement, and that was
all that was necessary. 1t has been
maintained ever since, not because other
Nations acquiesced in its rightfulness,
but because they felt that We were
strong enough to uphold it, and would
do SO. The most serious attempt against
it was made by Napoleon I'LL, when he
thought we were 80 weakened by in
ternal strife that we could not maintain
/ n
it. ~
Being purely q matter of National
policy, with ourselves the sole judges of
its scope and application, we have the
most absolute right to extend, qualify,
amplify or abridge it as we choose. 1t
does not for an instant follow that it
must mean to-day what it meant yester-
day. If we choose to extend it to
cover the whole Pacific, or Africa,
China, or the Mediterranean, then the
question is solely with ourselves whether
it is good National policy to make such
an extension, and whether we have the
power to do SO.
If the Monroe Doctrine had ever
been accepted as part of the code OF
international law the-case would be very
different. Then we should have to con-
suit other Nations before altering it.
LEE lost more men on his Antieta m
i IL e. . 4
The National tribune., 1898-08-18

THE war has cost about $3.50, 100000
I'D to date. Uncle Sam never made a
better investment
The National tribune., 1898-08-18

LEE lost more men on his Antietam
campaign than Skaters entire force at
Santiago.
The National tribune., 1898-08-18

1.rEHtp Al WASHINGTON sosroEEos ssc0sOess WAITER.
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ALSO

No. 5.--All the right, title and interest
OF the defendant, Adeiine F. Smith and
Edward Smith, in and to ali that certain
lot, piece or parcel of land situate IN the
Thirteenth ward of the city of Scranton,
county of Lackawanna and state of Pen \.
sylvania, being a part of lot No. "a, in
square or block No. S. and situate on the
northwesterly side OF Monsey avenuc.
upon the plot of Dicksons Addition to
said city, duly recorded in Lackawanna
county in Deed Book No. AZ. page IA; said
lot being rectangular and forty ,4O) feet
in width on said Monsey avenue. the
same in rear, and one hundred and seven
ty-one and twenty-fve one hundredths
O7l20 feet in depth. Being the same
premises conveyed to Adellne f. Smith
by deed OF M. II. Carpenter ct ux., dated
April 7, 1896. Recorded in Lackawanna
county Deed Book No. 146 page 907 All
improved with a two-story ten-roomed
frame dwelling house. with also a large
barn thereon.
Seized and taken in execution at the
suit of Cooperative Building Bank VS..
Adeline f. Smith and Edward Smith.
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ALSO

No. 4.-All the right. title and interest
of the defendant, Bridget Kearney, ad-
ministratriX of Martin Kearney, de-
ceased, in and to all that certain lot or
parcel of land situate, lying and being in
the city Of Scranton in the county Of
Lackawanna and state of Pennsylvania
described as follows. viz: Being lot num-
Der twenty-three (23 in square or block
number twenty-six (26) and situate upon
street called and known as corner of Fig
street and Stone avenue, upon the town
plot of the city of Scranton. said lot being
forty (4O) feet in front. forty (4O) feet in
rear and one hundred and forty (14O feet
in depth; being the same promises con
veyed by deed dated twenty-fourtn day
of October A. d, 1898, to Martin Kear-
ney by George Fisher and Isabella G.
Fisher, his wife, recorded in Deed Book
So page 1853, etc. All improved with n
two-story frame building with basement
Seized and taken in execution at the
suit of Mrs Hannah Coar, assignee OF
Peter Murray VS. Bridget Kearney, ad
ministratTix OF Martin Kearney, deceased
Debt, s962.1G. Judgment No. Si7. Nav
Term. 1898. Sci, ia. to Nav Term, 1885,
JOHN ]. MURPHY, Atty.
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No 35.-All the right, title and interest
of the defendant, William Smith, in and
to all those certain lots, pieces or parcels
OF land situate in the village of Priccburg,
in the borough of Dickson City, county Of
IackaWanna, and state of Pennsylvania: I:
one Of said lots being known as lot No, l2
and the other one being known as lot No.
rs in block No. 20 and fronting on Car
bondale turnpike; being together 100 feet
in front by about $50 feet in depth, 0c-
cording to a plan on map entitled
"Moore's Map OF, PrIceburg," Coal ana
minerals reserved. And being the same
premises conveyed to William Smith by
John p. Townsend, ct al, by deed dated
August 4. 1888, and recorded in Lacka-
wanna county in deed book No. li2, at
page So.
Improved with a two-story double
frame dwelling house and a large frame
one story building used as hall, and out
buildings.
Second-A tract of unseated land con-
tanning about 42i acres, situate in the
township of Lehigh, county of Lacka-
wanna surveyed to William Wheeler, be-
ing the same premises conveyed to Will
tam Smith by tho Commissioners OF Lack
awanna county by deed dated October 49,
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No. 29.-All the right, title and interest
of the defendant, Thomas +. Mccormick
in and to all that certain lot or piece Of
ground situate in the Seventh ward of
the city of Scranton, county OF Lacka-
wanna, state OF Pennsylvania. described
aaccoTding to a survey thereot dated July
Veyor, as follows, to wit: Situate on
the southwesterly side OF Phelps street
beginning at the distance of three hun
dred and thirty-eight (339 feet southeast
crly from the southeasterly side OF Ca
pouse avenue, containing in front or
breadth on the said Phelps street forty
in length or depth southwesterly one
hundred and forty Qi0) feet. Coal and
minerals reserved by sufficient terms in
law. All improved with two-story
buildings
Seized and taken in execution at the
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ALSO

No. ALI the right title and interest
of the defendant, Catherine Judge, In and
10 all the following described lot of land
in the city of Scranton, county of Lacka-
wanna and state Of Pennsylvania. Being
lot No |, in square or block No. 49, and
situated upon street called and known as
Stone avenue, upon the town plot of the
city of Scranton, intended to be duly reg
istered and recorded. Said lot being forty
(40) feet in front and forty (40) feet IN
rear, and one hurdred and forty Q4O) feet
in depth. Being the lot conveyed by AL
fred Hand and wife TO Catherine Judge
by deed dated the 2sth of May, 1888. and
recorded in Deed Book No. rs, at page sfG
etc.
Seized and taken in execution at the
suit of use of Trustees of Hyde Park
Lodge. No. 30l, Sons OF st. George, VS.
Catherine Judge. Debt, sl9l Judgment
No. 800 September Term 1898 FL ia to
September Term. 1898.
BROWNING, Atty.
ALSO
No. 10.--All the right, title and interest
of the defendant in and to all that lot of
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SHERIFE'S SALES.

land situate in the borough of Archibald,
county Of Lackawanna and state of Penn
sylvania, described as follows: Being
known as lot No. 13 in square or block
M on the plot of lots of the grantor In
said borough known as the town OF row
Ter, the map whereof Is intended TO be
duly recorded. said lot being on the cor
ner of Main avenue and Elliott street,
and being sixty (GO feet in front on Main
avenue, the same in rear. and one nun,
dred and fifty $50 feet in depth. Coai
ana minerals reserved. Improved Win
two-stOry frame building thereon. .
ALSO-All those pieces or parcels OF
land situate, lying and being In the Dor
ough of Archibald. In the county of Lack
swanna and state of Pennsylvania, de-
scrlbed as follows, viz: Being known as
lots Nos. IL and L.. in square OF block
m. on the plot Of lots Of the New YORK,
and Ontario Land company, in said bor-
oueh known as the town of Fowler, sald
lots each being fifty (50) feet In front on
Main avenue the same In rear. and one
hundred and fifty O50) feet in depth Coal
and minerals reserved
Seized and taken in execution NJ the
snit of Peck Lumber company vs.. George
Wartko. Debt. 1904. Judgment NO III,
HULSLANDER & ALswORTH,
Attorneys.
Also at the suit of Max Rosenpluth, as
signed to n. ID. Rosenfed. VS.. George
Wartko. Debt, S275. judgment No lli4
March Term, 1898. Fl ia. to september
Term 1898 WARD & HORN,
Attorneys.