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The Yale expositor., 1898-10-14

MOVEMENTS AND DolNGS OF PEOPLE
YOU MAY HAPPEN TO KNOW.

Hold McKenna is back from Detroit.
Elder X. b. Brown was at home over
Sunday.
w. II. Ballentine was in Port Huron
Tuesday.
h. IL. Menerey did business at Port
Huron Tuesday.
Miss Phoebe Roy's parents of Capac,
visited her Sunday.
Tom Johnson and Richard Skinner
spent Sunday III Peck.
A. w. Ferguson transacted business
in Port Huron Monday.
DR.. Will III. Gowan, of Bervillc, was
Yale caller this week.
DIR. A. Mitchell and wife, of Kings
ton, are visiting in town.
Frank Minnie and Edison Palmer
spent Sunday in Mt. Salem.
Alta Harris, of Port Huron, is visit
ing in the village this week.
Duncan Bentley, of Deanyille, Sum
dayed with the Rev. Mccall.
Mr.. Stevens, of East Buffalo, was the
guest of Benz. Evans this week.
Eva. Plank, of Port Huron, is visit
ing her parents in Yale this week.
Mrs. A. Howell and Mrs. d. G. Will
Jams drove to Port Huron Sunday.
Miss l.. A. Campbell, of Bay City, is
the guest of LaRetta Etfrick this week.
Geo. Miller, of Baden. Ont, is Mr..
and Mrs James McColPs guest this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. Il. Beecher are visit
ing in Grand Rapids and Lowell this
week.
Rev. VIM. Coulter is in Mt. Clemens
this week attending the Presbyterian
synod.
Misses Susie and Ella McKernon, of
Deanville, are visiting friends in Yale
this week.
Lew Zayits is this week entertaining
his father, f. II. Xavits, of Middlesex
County, Ontario.
Maude and Hunter Patton, of AL
mont, spent Sunday with A. w. Fer
guson and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Anderson, of
Melvin, were guests of Chas. Rounds
and wife Sunday.
K. b. Goodrich and wife, of Port HUI
ron, were the guests of ID. Ferguson
and wife this week.
Mrs James Wallace, Mrs. W. Adams,
and Miss Sarah Rapley were in Port
Huron, Wednesday.
Lutte Mcdonald and wife. of Brown
City, called on their many friends in
this place last Sunday.
Chas S. Brown left this morning for
Munroe, where he has secured a posi-
ton with II. G. Moloney.
Mrs. Eya Black is in Port Huron this
week buying millinery, and will open
a store on her return home.
Robt. O'Dell, of Grand Rapids, was
in the village the fore part of the week
visiting his sister Mrs. Benz. Evans.
Mrs. William West and William Rolfe
OF London. Ont, visited at w. b. Bal
lentine's the fore part of this week.
Harry McKenna is spending a few
days in town preparing to join his
father in the north woods on a hunting
expedition.
Joe Paldi was in Croswell last week
looking over the clay beds there to see
If it would be suitable for his patent
fence post.
Robert Curtiss, of Capac, democratic
candidate for representative from this
district was in town Wednesday on
political business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Beecher and Miss
Mollie Brown went to Grand Rapids
Tuesday to attend the chapter of the
grand order Eastern Stars. Mrs. Beech
er attends as delegate from Yale chap
ter and Miss Brown as an officer of the
Grand Lodge.
The Yale expositor., 1898-10-14
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The Yale expositor., 1898-10-14

A stubborn cough or tickling in the
throat yields to One Minute Cough
Cure. Harmless in effect, touches the
right spot. reliable and just what is
IL acts at once. Grant Holden.
The Yale expositor., 1898-10-14
HARVEY TAPPAN,
1850 ATTORNEY-AT-LAW

Probate Law.
settlement of Estates.
Real Estate
Homes in Yale. Vacant Build
ing Sites. Vacant Business Sites.
/ have correct maps of the Viii
lage of Yale, and Counties of st.
Clair and Sanilac. Abstracts of
nearly all OF Yale property.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-12-01
XYhat Onr army Lacked.

Editor National Tribune: / have with
thousands of other veterans of the late
civil war been struck with the apparent
lack OF discipline in volunteer regiments
of the Spanish-American war, open criti
cisms of officers. the lack of proper re-
spect shown, and the lax system organ
lied for the suStenance of troops in field
and camp. and the fact that Regimental
Quartermasters and Commissary-
eeants were not efficient or capable OF
performing the duties put upon them; all
showing that the methods pursued to pre-
pare the National Militia for emergencies
does not prepare.
The unstinted condemnation of Secre-
tary of War Alger is uncalled for and
without firm basis. II Edwin M. Stan
ton, the great War Secretary of the civil war
of 1861 -'65 had not had the great organizer,
Gen. Geo. b. Mcclellan to have laid the
foundation from which as sure basis he
controlled the armies OF the United States
in that war, his (Stanton 81 ability would
have been as naugFrt. But by great good
fortune in Mcclellan was found an or
ganizer whose genius filed every require
m eat. TIE moral education which the
North had received i'll the great epoch
which it passed through. gave great
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the only effect was to make them more sing
sish in their movements, so that they had tC
be picked off instead of brushed off.
We made a portage around the Sank
Rapids near Gilman's Ferry, where we had
crossed the river going out, and another por-
tage around the Falls of st. Anthony, and
Oct. IA, 1Si9, we pulled on to the bank at
Fort Smelling and ended long voyage, the
most interesting and enjoyable in my whole
experience on the Western frontier.
When one visits Minnesota at this day and
sees the broad farms, the comfortable farm
houses and outhouses of the prosperous in
habltants covering large part of the wild
country | have very imperfecily described;
when he sees the two magnificent cities
planted above and below the Falls of St.
Anthony, each with its thousands of inhabit-
ants and with all the appoint uents of luxury
and success; the hundreds OF smaller cities,
towns and villages dotted over that whole
region, aud all growing rapidly, the whole
scene appears to be magic, more the creation
OF Aladdin's lamp than the work OF plain,
ccmmon-Sense, unromantic people.
he ptIl
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LII

The country in those DAYS was one OF great
plains cut up by many swift. narrow streams,
the banks OF which were fringed with heavy
woods These plains, like those Of Kansas,
Texas and Colorado, were covered with
countless herds of buffalo, and the wafer
fowl and fur-bearing animals We're practically
undi,turbed in their haunts ut that day
The advance Of the white settler has COM
pletely destroyed this paradise OF the hunter
and fisherman.
For manifest reasons / considered it i'm
portant to determine whether or not the
Red River was navigable for light-draft
steamers, and fer that purpose more careful
examination of the river than coald be made
by a land expedition was necessary. If it
could be navigated by steamers it would not
only become the outlet of the Red River
Valley, but of the whole country on the
north TO the navigable waters of the
Mississippi and so far as we had been able to
see there were no INSTRUCTIONS.
/ resolved, therefore, that instead of return
ing to st. Paul with the cort over tie same
route we followed in canning out, to under
take the return by ascending the river in
birch canoes to its head waters and thence
by short portage to the waters Of the
Upper Mississippi. This route was known
TO some of the hali-breed voyageurs OF
PembiRa
BY the kindness of the Hudson Bay Com
pany's officers at Fort Garry / procured
large birch-barls canoe about - feet long and
FIVE feet broad, capable of carrying two tons
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stamina to the rank and file Of the armies
OF the United States.
Now, as a matter Of fact there has not
been any great hattie in this war at all
comparable 10 the civil and the Franco
RUSSIAN wars. Then in what Wav NAV
it be said our soldiers have been called
upon to suffer extraordinary hardships?
/ thInil IN this way principaily-a lack Of
proper instruction, OF personal care in the
field, and lack Of knowledge in preserva-
ton OF TatiDIls and care Of same after
being issued.
The ration furnished by the United
States in 1876 was mostly hard-bread
crackers, salt meat, pork, beans and
coffee, with nloIety Of rice. sugar, fresh
peer, as circumstances allowed and by
this ration, very seldom sustained by any
luxury, the Eastern armies fought and
marched to final victory, opposed by a foe
as tenacious as were the Russians of 1912
whom Napoleon opposed
Dad the army at Santiago meet greater
obstacles than the Army Of the Potomac
before Richmond in 1852; or Grant at
Vicksburg; or Butler at New Orleans?
No. Nor was the strain at all comparable
TO McClellans retreat to Harrison's Land
ing, Va. But arose from dietary faults in
rations and the unde,eloped soldier. who
did not know how TO care for himself in
an active campaign.
Secretary 'AIeer, Of the War Department.
is worthy Of great y ase for his nlobiliZ-
ing and throwing into line $50 900 men in
less than three months time And If
there has been any lack of rations and
medical attendance, il primarily rests not
with Alger, but with the different sys-
tens under which the militia Of the differ
ent States have sought To discipline and
make soldiers i'm their different State en-
campments. The lack Of know ledge. the
newness Of the work, and lack Of cornpre-
heDSion Of duties IL be performed in large
masses Of men must be the foundation
for any remIS8nesS VI Quartermast ter
Commssa.y and Medical Departments OF
the United States Amy. The little things
VI camp life, personal cleanliness cook
ing of rations, and. above all policing Of
camps. makes or mars the percentage
ready for duty in ine-of battle or other
duties Of army life We old veterans feet
that the boys Of day have learned in a
manner that war IS not a picnic. but
the stern clash Of dynamic forces and a
struggle To the death Experience Of army
lie is not obtained IN college. counting
room, palace, or lowly cottage, but by
stern and steady duty under rigid disci
pine in camp and battle; and il takes
more than three or six months N Y
Hutchman, Co K, 18th Mass South Wey-
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| smile on his war-worn vISage, led the
| way down the line.
| Wagner was furious. The camp was
searched for whisky, but none was found
| and no one outside the musicians gave
| evidence that there had been any in
camp; but they would not give it away.
| The football games went on, but in few
days the ball was busted again. William
again received his pass to purchase a new
one; and the band God forgive us-ite
music was Wagnerian, but did not suit
George ID. Wagner Then a council OF
war OF the officers was held, but none oil
the sageS could account for the presence
OF the whisky in the band until Lieut..
John Gardner, who suffered, said: Why
| it's th-th that Bill that's who it is. Bub-
| bub- bub-bringing it in-in in the football"
! After the ball busted the next time and
| William just from town, danced gaily up
| TO the gate with his football poised upon
his palm, Lieut.. George Riley took it
tenderly from him, saying:
William, that hall gallon goes TO the
field and staff, and you go into the guard
house" William and the half gallon
went as he said, suppose can only say
about William; but it is certain that no
mere whisky was brought in by way OF
the football, and the game fell into Gin
nOcuOus deSuetude."
There are very few Of the old 18th Ind.
left now out of $40 then congregated at
Lafayette. At Missionary Ridge it lost the
heaviest of any regiment in the Union
army: 800 per cent. OF the men engaged;
being the first regiment upon Missionary
Ridge beyond all doubt, piercing the rebel
lines at Bragg's Headquarters and taking
the cannon there Immediately under the
eyes of Gems. Grant and Thomas in Fort
Wood. And our old side partners on that
occasion-the 4Gth Ind, 57th Ind, 26th
Ohio and 9th Ohio-i very rarely see
them mentioned although more gallant
men never marched. suppose they, too,
are rapidly falling away. Yet the sur
vivors should occasionally drop a line to
The National Tribune, that we may keep
up the memory OF Wagner's old brigade
w. l.. Doyle.
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Seeking same i,sn- appropriate.
HU sI,if1fnaI Sfu~


Mr.. Blykins had been reading his news.
paper and was looking thougbtiully at the
vacant wall, when his wife said
Well, have you decided? You know
said would leave il entirely to your judg-
mcnt.'
Have decided on what?"
"On name for the dog. You said vo,,
would think up something while you were
down town to day"
us that dog still around the house?"
why, Of course, he is And don't sec
why you should speak Of him in that wav.
have always wanted dog
Certainly. I'm glad he came ] was
afraid he might have strayed away Name
him Hector"
That's SO common"
well. call him Carlo"
but so many dogs are named Carlo"
Call him Pinkie .
That isn't a bit appropriate He's a
mastif, think
You want something appropriate and
unusuai?'
YES"
well, let's see. That dog came into orr
possession quite unexpectedly: some of
us are i'm favor of keeping him and some
are not, but il seems great deal easier Ia
take care Of him than il does to get rid of
him. Let's call him Phi ipDines'"
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Confederate Counterfeit Money.

| Editor National Tribune: Where did the
counterfeit rebel money come from2
| first saw few bills after the battle oil
| Shiloh and during the siege of COrinti in
1862. In 1868, while the army under Gen.
Rosecrans was at Murfreesboro, Tenn.
there were lots OF it on hand. ] was
special Orderly on Gen. j. b. Turchin S
staff. During April, May and June
numerous peddlers, mostly Jews, were in
| camp every day, supplied with passes
from Headquarters, vending combs, look
ing glasses, pocket knives, matches, and
counterfeit rebel money in large she ets
like newspapers. 1t sold at 10 cents per
sheet, containing So. 0G0 in bills of So to
500. The original genuine rebel scrip was
OF very poor make; the paper and the EN-
craving very poor, and all money of this
kind was printed on one side only, while
the counterfe1tS were printed ON bot n
sides on good bank-note paper; engrav-
ings, cuts and signatures were first-class
Our boys, especially the cavalry, were
very flush with money of this kind, and it
seemed to me that especial effort was
made to have us provided with plenty of
the stuff, and somehow it became noised
around that this was authorized by those
high in authority, and for the purpose of
scrip to depreciate the value of the genu-
inc money.
| remember very wildly of setting in
several games of "draw," where the ante
was SO and limit 5000. We used to cut up
these sheets, dip the bills in coffee and
crumple them, or put a layer of bills in
the bottom of our stockings, so as to give
them rather old and worn appearance
and tainted with the effiuvia of much
handling.
We paid for everything we got on tn.
march, foraging in the cOuntry-that is.
if we could not help it. Orders against
forcibly taking anything were very strict.
| remember paying $3.50 for an old gander.
| had caught him, cut his head off, and
was just in the act of tying him to my
saddle, when the old rebel owner came
up and presented protection paper,
claiming loyalty, and signed by Gen
Buell.. He wanted pay We agreed on
above price, and thought it cheap bar
gain until we came to cook the old bird.
He proved to be tough as rubber boot.
However, he went the way of most fowls,
for it was all my mess of four had that
night for supper.
| also remember paying 5000 for red
flannel shirt, and So, $50 for pair of high
top cavalry boots, hand made, at Hunts
Vile, Ala. They were ordered by a Con-
federate, who failed to call for them. They
were just my fit. The old shoemaker
was elated when we made a bargain and
agreed on price, but no more so than /
was to get them, considering the ectual
original cost.-Wm. Seeger, Co. l, 9Th
Iowa Cav, and Co. Il, Brackets Bat
TALON, Mimi. Cav, La Crosse, Wis.
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UFatts, rptalnCd In
tPpe Ase'yican' the system cause Bripbt's Disease
Rheumatism, Govt. and other maladies OF the Bladder
and Urinary Organs. The Kaya-Kava Shrub heals the
dlsordered Kidneys restores them their natural func-
tions and eradicates from the Blood the posons which
cause disease in the system The discovery the Kava-
Kava Shrub like the discovery uunine by early Chris
tan missionaries In Peru, first made by observing
the use of the shrub by the natives. Dr. Archibald
odgson the great English authority these diseases
describes the suerings Of both Hnoos and white mis-
sionaries and soldiers these low marshy swamps and
Jungles on the Gaagss. He says:
vegetation render grounds on the anges most un
healthy districts Jungle levers and sssai the
thick aud darkcoIored Life hangs in the balsnce
in the prompt KaYa Kavs ssTnb decootsa Of tbs
wonderful botanical growth relieves the Kidneys
or all diseases that aaaict mankind Diseases Of the
aSnsys :. are the and and hence
Cure for Diseases OF ia: Kdasys-s welcomed by suffering
endorsed Hospitals and Physcaas Of Europe
The we-knewn American physician, DR.. j. M. 8.
cured four well marked cases OF Brights Disease
his patients, and writes:
ans unag asas s "a M h in
matism and propseal illusions with the remarkable
In the short time that Alkavis, the Kava-Kava shrub
compound, has been before the American public, its
Rheumatic and Gouty Disorders, have been numbered
by the thousands Alkevis has not been extensively
advertised, through newspapers otherwise but has
MADE Its way entirely its merits, and through the
fact that every sufferer make free trial of its won
derfu curative powers and Judge OF its value from
personal experience The records OF its extraordinary
cures numbered by hundreds in every part of the
country. the following being but few of the many
similar letters daily received.
Rev. w. B. Moore. d. D.. of Washington D. c., Editor
OF the Religious Word, writes Of the wonderful effects
of Alkavis. He says:
could obtain no rsie from nh vsans mS K Sh
remedies but with had given up all hopes
effected by Your Akavs decided to try same Alter the
hrs use thereof began to experience relief and following
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-12-01
A JOURNEY TO MANITOBA.
View of the Great Northwest Prairie Country Half Cen
tury Ago.
BY GEN. JOHN POPE.

IN the preceding installn1ent Gen. Pope
told how he with others went on an ex-
ploring trip from Fort Smelling to tie Ma~i-
toba coun'r1. In this chapter he tells
o his fascinating canee trip up the
Red River Of the North on return to Fort
Smelling.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-12-01

We notice that Drs. Starkey u Paen, pro-
prietors of Compound Oxygen for the cure of
Chronic Diseases, have removed to llI2
Girard street, Philadelphia, Pa They are
well known to US, and we wish them i'll
creased success and usefulness in their new
Office They have been established for more
than twenty-five years, and have been very
successful III the treatment OF chronic and
other diseases.
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CLOSE OF A LONG TRIP.

We resumed our voyage down the river at
an early hour next morning. and at sunset
encamped on an island 100 miles below Fort
Ripley. The season was SO FAR advanced that
the ice formed every night, and the frost was
severe. The musketoes, however, did not
cease their attacks, nor did the cold appear
TO affect either their appetites or their fury
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The WONDERFUL KAvA-KAVA SHRUB,
A Free Gift TO Every Reader,

Agreat ply stefan declared that Nature has provided
III the field OF Botany Remedy every disease
man had the ability discover it. As disease is the dis
turbance OF some natural function OF the body so Nature
provides remedy for such disturbance and thus cures
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The disease. This seems specially
true Of the late discovery Of the
kaya-kaya Shrub, or as botanists
call il, the Piper Hehysticum,
found on the Gauges river, East
India. This wonderful shrub has
Il peculiar and most beneficent
effect upon the human Kidneys in
conditions of disease. The Kid
neyS, as is we'll known, separate
from the blood and cast out
through the Urine, certain poison
Gus matter, such as Uric Acid,
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"A SIMPLE CATARRH.CURE
have spent nearly fifty years in the treatment of
Catarrh, and have effected cures than any spe-
cialist in the history OF medicine. As must SaoT,
retire from active life viii, from this time on send
tne means OF treatment and cure used in my
Eracsice, free AMI postpaid to every reader OF
ths paper who suffers from this loathsone danger
cg5 ana cisS listing disease. This is sincere ofer
Wnicn anyone is free to accept. Address, PROFESSOR
D. A. Lawrence, Il4 West 22d ST., New York.
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there being in this whole distance of 400
miles by the river no place with less than
four feet depth of water.
Below north of Pembina the Red River
at once ceases 10 be navigable at all, as 1t
runs over almost continuous rapids all the
way to Lake Winnipeg. Above Breclen-
ridge it again enters the rapids and can only
be navigated by canoes with numerous
portages."
The broad Valley of Red River between
Pembina and Breckenridge, with Its I'M
mense fertility OF soil and advantage, for
settlement, was practically isolated both
north and south from any water communi-
cation The railroads. however. have now
penetrated and are continuing TO penetrate
that region from every direction, and the road
up the Rel River from Winnipeg now being
built by the people of Manitoba, viii COM
plete the connection Of that Province with
the American system Of railroads
BY natural condition and situation that
whole region must have its ontlet by way of
the Red River to the United States, and
what nature clearly points man is now doing
As the daily incidents of our voyage for
weeks after we pushed off from Pembina
are much the same for one day as for another,
think an account OF one day viii answer
for most OF the rest. Oar camp for the night
was at some convenient point OH the river
hank
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A DAYS JoURNEYING.

At daylight we re-embarked in the canoe
and padded up the river til about 8 O'Clock,
when we landed for breakfast, wEicl, like
dinner and supper, consisted of pemmican
warmed i'll hot water and nixed with little
-four. hard bread, and stroiag tea, and always
plenty of ducks or elk meat.
We continued oar voyage after breakfast
until near or = o clock. when we landed again
for dinner or lunch, then resumed our voy-
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VIEWING A NEW COUNTRY.

The river-bed and banks were muddy. and
with the exception of a small ripple scarse
visible about 90 miles above Penlbina. there
was no interruption TO the dull, sluggish flo,y
OF the current. From Pembina TO the mouth
OF the Bots des Sioux (the present Brecken-
rdgel the river offered easy and unob-
stTucted navigation for Hght-draft steamers