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The National tribune., 1898-11-10

and their assertions of an unquailing deter
mination to meet it as became high-toned,
chivalrous gentlemen.
But you have met it as well as you were
able" said Bronson to one of these. "Didn' t
YOU do all you could against our fleet; and
yet, spite of your best ticks, we got away with
YOU in an hour as completely as ever people
were whipped in the world. What more
will you dO?"
Young man, you ask that question with
out the slightest conception of what is posi-
bic with free, noble and valiant people
standing in defense of their liberties and
firesides,'' replied the other with pompous
impressiveness
'tWell, that may be, ;" said Bronson dryly.
But I've read something of history.
have read the accounts Of the sieges of Sara
gossa and Londonderry, and of Leyden and
other Dutch cities. Those Spanish, Scotch
Irish and Dutch were of course, not very
chivalrous and heightened in your eyes, but
they never gave up place anything like as
easily rs you have this city and New Orleans.
You'll have to do better than you have if you
are going to make a show in history. I'm
getting rather anxious to see some of that
Dying-in-t the Last-Ditch performance, that
YOU have advertised so extensively"
What could the rebel do but walk stiff1y
away, and leave someone else to take up the
discussion, and threaten Bronson with the
consequences to the Union army of the adj
vent of the yellow fever, sure to occur within
few weeks; of the probability Of Beau
regards recapturing the place in a little
while.
desc peoples are SO bitter dat one would
dink dey had been separated from US for a
hundred years, instead of only one," said
Karl to Bronson one day, after a character
istic exhibition of temper by some of the
citizens.
80, there's special reason for the Men,
phis people being bitter" replied Bronson
- It's matter OF business with her, as it is
with New Orleans. They believe that if they
can bring about a separation of the two Sec
lions they will become the great city of this
part of the country. They are bitterly jealous
of the merchants of Cincinnati, and other
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Claiming Their Rights.

W. II. Mott, 10Th Conn, Bristol, Conn,
says regarding the pension resolutions
adopted by the National Encampment at
Cincinnati: 1.-The GAR. made no mis-
take, although some Generals and Colonies
may think it rather under their dignity.
They are not willing that their poorer
worthy comrades should ask that they re-
ceive in justice the pittance due them.
They do not care one iota for the suffer
ing of thousands of ex soldiers, their wild
ows and orphans. They only think of
themselves, and not of the good, fat pay
they drew when in the army, and which
many Of them are now drawing through
special acts of Congress, and their widows.
If the old soldiers could get what they ask
for and are entitled to it would not be of
the slightest injury to the country, but a
benefit. We have right to ask that we
receive what the laws OF Congress say we
are entitled to-
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE: WASHINGTON c.

not support family, and pretty soon the
necessities of the kitchen began to advance
parallels upon the position help by the
SeceSsionists so stubbornly; the requirements
of back and stomach became more undenl-
able than those of political consistency.
This was the crisis that had been reached
in the domestic economy of MIR. Beverly
Gibson Atherton at whose house Miss
Artemisia Simpkins was staying when
Memphis fell. He was confronted with a
problem that has racked mems brains and
hearts since the food. Things were urgently
needed, but he lacked the wherewithal to
purchase them.
Il suppose could sell four or five bales of
that cotton in the warehouse" he said to his
wife, "and at the present prices it would
give us all the money we want, and more
too But that would be specializing in the
necessities of my country, and helping our
enemies to that which they are most in want
of, and l cannot bring myself to it. No, I'd
rather see my cotton burn than that the
enemy should have pound of it,"
With this he put on his hat and stalked
down town with the dignity of Roman
Consul, in search of some Yankee officer, to
inform him that the Sunny South never
could be conquered by horde of mer-
cenaries-" No, sir, never, not as long as
there is single free white man left to resist
you, Sir"
As the door closed behind him, Mrs.
Atherton remarked to Artemisia:
"Now, Pm quite sure that Pm as devoted
to the cause of the South as Beverly is.
Everyone knows that I've made any amount
of sacrifices for it, and that I'm ready to
make all that a lady can. l went without a
new dress all last Summer, in order to present
that flag to Col Patton Anderson's regiment,
and I've done without this thing and that
thing, to make donations to our troops, until
declare that Pm n sight to look at and Pm
ashamed to 90 on the streets. L just don't
see the sense of any more doing without, and
am not going to, if can help myself"
81 don't, myself, see how it's going to help
the cause along to do without CATERS. and
wear these clumsy calf-skin shoes, and if /
knew some way to get us something better,
I'd make use Of it, even if Uncle Beverly
and such folks didn't like it. There's no
need of making frights of ourselves just be-
cause the country's having trouble" This
was from Artemisia
"Those Duncan girls i'll the next square,"
continued her Aunt, shave been smuggling
some cotton through to the Jews, I'm conf
dent. It's no use for them to say, as they
did to me at church last Sunday, that those
gay bonnets they wore were their old ones
made over, with new ribbons that their
cousin brought up from Jackson. There's
not millner in the city that's got that
bonnet-shape, and those ribbons are the very
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Col. Lafayette Bingham Dead.

Col. Lafayette Bingham, veteran of
the war and for many years a practicing
attorney of Washington, died Nov. 6, aged
u. Col. Bingham was one of the older
residents of Washington, and enjoyed a
large circle of acquaintance. He was
prominent in Grand Army affairs, and
was member of Burnside Post Col
Bingham was a cousin of Chief Justice
Bingham, of the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia, and was born in
Allegany County, N. Y, May 10. 1926. He
was engaged in law practice in Chicago
for six years. He was a delegate to the
Saratoga Convention which is distin-
guished for having given birth to the Re
publican party. He assisted in raising
the 92d n. Y, of which he was COM
missioned Captain. He served through
out the war. While on grand review in
this city he was permanently injured,
and when mustered out was given the
rank of Colonel.
The National tribune., 1898-11-10

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Northern cities, whom they accuse Of stealing
their trade, and they think they can get even
with them by starting new Nation, from
which they can exclude foreign competition
by CUSTOM houses and tariff laws. That's
what they are fighting for not for slavery.
and they are just as savage and bitter about
it rs men always are VINO are anxious to make
few dollars in some circuitous way"
AS a rule families cannot be supported on
partizan hatred. Even the purest patriotism
and Hottest self-deyotion will not of them
selves fill the harder, and provide fitting
raimeDt.
The Memphians had gone into the war with
the enthusiasm that the French began the
struggle with Prussia; they had flung in
their contributions with reckless disregard OF
the proportion they bore TO their means, and
the results were not happy. They had crippled
themselves at the outset when they should
have husbanded their means. The opening
of the war almost Immediately began drying
up the sources of their income; ut the end Of
the first year the major part of them COM
menced feeling the pressure OF SCRATCHING
circumstances.
According to instructions from Washington
the people were Informed that they were
expected to go about their vocatons as usual,
and that no restrictions would be placed upon
business, except that contraband of war must
not he dealt in, and the circulation Of Conied-
crate money was forbidden. But the citizens
still sulked; their stores were kept closed,
and they talked about not reopening them
until Bragg's victorious legiOns relieved
them from the hateful presence OF the enemy"
But the business opportunities that they
would not take advantage of Others would
Jews from the North, scenting the possibili-
7 ties for gain, iocied down the Mississippi as
they swarmed into Egypt in the train of
! JoSeph's brethren,S and soon the business
quarters of the city was a reproduction of
/ Chatham street.
Still the Memphians sulked. They would
not do business with the Jews any more than
than they would with the Northerners: still
less would they employ the detested green
backs rs medium Of circulation. They
held as stiifly up to this as the blue-blooded
residents of the Fauborg st. Germaine from
familiar intercourse with the parvenues of
the Revolution and they tabooed as relent-
lessly anyone who violated their restrictions.
But, as We said before, intense feeling will
The National tribune., 1898-11-10

20 down. Keep. close together; listen to the
commands, and do not fire until you have Or
ders," said the Lieutenant in command.
They marched down and appeared on the
broad steps. If the loafers seemed enraged
before, now they were frenZied; if it had been
storm Of abuse, now it was cyclone. A
shower Of stones and brickbats crashed
through the windows of the building ratified
against its sides, and knocked one of the
squad senseless. Revolyer-shots, fred in a
struggling way, battered about.
Ready" said the Lieutenant, wiping
she blood from wound torn in his face by
the Jagged end of brick. Make every
shot count-fre low; then we'll charge 'em
with bayonet, and cut our way through to
the protection of the gunboats. For God IS
sake, keep close together. Steady, now
aim"
As the guns were raised to their faces, the
bowling mob suddenly became silent and
covered; stones lifted TO throw Were dropped,
and the men who had been firing reyolvers
ran down getaways
A loud cheer-a deep-throated, sounding,
Union cbeer-Tang up the street, and as the
crowd turned in wonderment in the direction
OF the sound, they saw the 10th Ind. dashing
up, company front, at a charge bayonets.
Instantly the wolhsh mass stampeded and
trampled each other down in their frantic
efforts TO get away.
This was the end of the formidable dis
turbances The Memphians knew of the
sharp disciplining that New Orleans had re-
ceived; those of them who had property
were not inclined to risk its destruction by
futile and passionate conflicts with a force
which had been 80 terribly demonstrated in
the conflict upon the river, and 50 they ex-
erted themselves TO assist in the preservation
OF the peace. The Council met In the after.
noon and added POO police TO the force, which
was put in cooperation with the Provost
Marshal, and the Memphians settled sullenly
down TO their fate, which they described to
be conquered, bat not subdued.
They closed their stores and places of bust
ness-all except the drinking-places, which
the Provost-AiaTshal closed-and loitered
sullenly about the streets wearing the in.
Jured air of martyrs to an inscrutable dis
pensation of Providence. Nothing seemed
10 tighten up the clouds that lowered upon
their brows 50 effectively as to find a soldier
who would listen 10 their harrangues upon
she iniquity Of the "Nawthen invasion u
The National tribune., 1898-11-10
CHAPTER XII.

HOSTING THE FLAG-ASSAULT BY THE
MoB-KARL AND ARTEMISIA MEET
UNDER PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES.
Memphis sulked Indignantly.
Just year and a month after her rebel
citizens had buried the Stars and Stripes in a
grave in the cemetery, with ostentatious
funeral rites, the squad from the feet
marched through ler principal streets and
hoisted the National banner on the Postoffice-
1t was the most lamentable case of premature
interment ON record. The Old Flag was not
dead-it had only an attack of suspended
animation during the latter part of Buchanan's
Administration, which was broken by the
thunder of the guns firing on Sumter. Then
it suddenly became the most thoroughly
alive, the most forceful and aggressive
banner that ever iloated over line-of-battle.
Where it led million bayonets followed
more than ever rallied around any banner in
history
The National tribune., 1898-11-10
A Perambulating Postoffice.

The Post Office Department is about to
try a new experiment in the way OF rural
mail facilities. 1t will put in operation in
the neighborhoOd of Westminster, Nd. a
postal wagon which will make periodical
trips over a designated route.
Mai-boxeS can be placed at some point
on the route for every farmer living within
mile or two of the proposed route, and
mail will be collected therefrom. One
important feature OF the contemplated
innovation, which If successful will be
extended generally is that it will have
money order and registry matter facilities.
The National tribune., 1898-11-10


Upon news of the fall of Fort Sumter
Walter Armitage and David Bronson,
Chicago newspaper compositors, an ex-
Sergeant of Regulars, Patrick O'Neil, a
German, Karl Brentman, and one Stock,
a phlegmatic young man who is not so
stupid as he looks, enlist in an infantry
regiment. A set of toughs, among them
one "Peory." also enlist and prove TO be
towards at the first fight. Dick Morgan,
a fellow-compositor of Armitage's, enlistS
in the rebel army. The regiment duly
goes to the front, and participates at the
taking of Forts Henry and Donelson. 1t is
engaged at Shiloh and Bronson and Karl
are wounded.
Karl has an amusing romance with a
fiery rebel girl, and is badly Smtten.
O'Neil is pr NOTED Second Lieutenant,
and all the rest of the File are promoted.
O'Neil's shoulders straps are sacrificed be-
cause of a difficulty he gets into with an
Irish lady who persists in following him
and claiming him as her betrothed. The
army moves on Corinth, which is evacuated.
Brentman and Bronson participate in the
river battle of Fort Pillow, in the move
ment on Memphis, and upon the cap
tuTe of the latter city enter 1t.
The National tribune., 1898-11-10
Kentucky Monuments to be Dedicated

Gov. Bradley, of Kentucky, has issued
day for dedicating the monuments to
Kentucky's Union and Confederate troops
at Chickamauga. The Governor will at
tend with his staff, composed of so promi-
nent Kentuckians, and he calls on all
societies in the State to send uniformed
representative bodies, and earnestly in
viteS all citizens to attend.
The National tribune., 1898-11-10

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The National tribune., 1898-11-10

EDITORIAL NOTE.-Kar1s joyous hopes as
the result of having rescued his-charmer re-
ceive setback through feminine incon-
sistency. other members of the File on a
lonely picket post near Ccrinth have a fight
that wins shoulder-straps for O'Neil. All
this is told OF in the succeeding instalIment.
The National tribune., 1898-11-10

Mexican War-Survivors: Increase and
additional, 3; duplicate, 1; accrued, 30
total, Z.
Mexican War-Widows: Original, 5.
Totals: Original, 1853; increase and ads
ditionaI, 469; reissue, rs; restoration and
renewal, 70; supplementals, 6; duplicate,
s; accrued, 1871. Grand total, $50.
The National tribune., 1898-11-10

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powers OF this New
The National tribune., 1898-11-10
MUSIC rs 4 HEALTH-cIVER.
Applying the Influence Asserted by 1t to the
Human System.

A machine has been invented by which
musical notes are conveyed to the human
body for the purpose of restoring mental
and physica! harmony. The inventor
thus explains it: II was led into an ex-
tensive study of the phenomena of emo
tons produced by and excited in the
brain by musical tones, and also their
by reflex action to the motor
nerves and muscles.
The National tribune., 1898-11-10

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The National tribune., 1898-11-10

Rev. Howard Wilbur Ennis is one of the
leading spirits among the Sons of Vet
Grams in Washington, D. c., and is Pastor
of the Western Presbyterian Church. He
is eloquent, jealous and very popular,
and there is mingled feeling of sadness
and pride in learning that he has received
unanimous and very fattering call to
the First Dutch Reformed Church OF
Brooklyn, N. Y, one of the principal
churches of that city. Everybody is glad
that such a well-deserved compliment
has been paid him, and everybody regrets
that it will take him away from Washing
The National tribune., 1898-11-10

The flag few out to
the joyous breeze, and
showed its brilliant
colors to rejoice and
make glad the hearts
of all loyal men. As
1t did so the crews of
the feet and the SOL
diers on the transports
raised swelling cheers,
while the loafers on
the streets yelled for
JEFF Davis and the
Bonnie Blue Flag.
The squad looked
down from the roof Of
the Postofnce and saw
a sight to make the
bravest thoughtful.
The streets around
about were filled with
q acknowledgements
ing mob, all apparent
ly drunken with slim
ulants and rage. Vile
epithets and obscene
taunts rose from their
rufianly lips. They
were hungering like
famished wolves for
the blood of the few
adventurous men who
had dared thrust them
selves into the tigers
jaws. Karl looked for
q moment with paling
eountenance, and in
stinctively shifted his
cartridge-box to the
front, as if anticipat-
ing the order to begin
firing, and placed q
fresh cap ON his gun.
1.-The wnetched cow
ards" said Bronson,
with curling lip; If
they were so hungry
for fight why didn't
they take a hand two
hours ago? Then they
could only stand off
and howl, and scamper
back from the levee
when they thought a
gun was pointing in
their direction. Now,
when they are 500 to
one they want to fightl
How / would like TO
have Inky here with
one piece loaded with
grape! One Whit
would take the pluck
out of those blowhards,
like the gas escaping
from a ripped balloon"
Qnla men WE'LL
The National tribune., 1898-11-10

The War Department is informed that
the transport Chapman is bringing to this
country 81 cannon, taken from Moro
Castle and other old Notifications around
Santiago. They are probably only useful
as souvenirs, and 1t is the intention to
distribute them to the various States by
act of Congress.
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CHAT OF THE CORRIDORS.

Stately Massachusetts avenue, which
traverses the entire city, from southeast
to northwest, and is shaded by quadruple
lines of splendid lindens, has always
been a favorite for official residences.
Now one bock-that between 18th and
18th streets-has the homes of three mem
bers of the Cabinet: Postmaster-Ge General
Smiths at 1774; Attorney General Griggs' S
at 1907, and Secretary Cages at Ills.
The National tribune., 1898-11-10

1t is expected that the work now going
on at Fort Monroe will make that the
most formidable artificial ratification in
the world.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-03-23
No Necessity Of Being Blind or Deaf.

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healthfulness in hundreds OF cases which
in the past have been considered ineura-
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Putting off the necessary treatment
causes serious damage in hundreds of
cases which might be wholly restored.
In 1877 Miss Annie Rolfe, 257 Forty
fifth ST. Pittsburgh, came under the
treatment Of DR.. Sadler, s04 Penn Ave ,
for polypus and discharge from the ear.
The condition was perfectly cured, and
in 1897, she expressed, unsolicited, her
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