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Vermont District Convention.

EDITOR NATIONAL tribune: Aug. %
a meeting of District No. Z was held
with Sedgewick Corps, No. 3, of Brattle.
boro. Fifty-three guests were present
Dinner and supper were served by the
Sedgwick ladies. Mrs. Calista H. Bangs
gave an address of welcome, and Miss
Nellie Brown, of Bellows Falls, responded.
The inspecting officer was Mrs. Mary A.
Perry, of Bellows Falls. Col. Freewood
Corps, of Putney, exemplified the work
of the Order. Sedgwick Corps will have
sewing meetings once in two weeks. A
box Is being made ready for the Soldiers
Home at Remington, Vt.-NELLIE NJ B.
CoFFEY, Press Correspondent Benning
ton. Vt
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How any man may quickly cure himself after
years of suffering from nervous weakness, lost
vitality, varicocee, etc, and restore the organs
to strength and vigor. Simply send your name
and address to DR.. l.. W. Knapp. 1l3O Hull
Bldg, Detroit, Mich, and he will gladly send
the free receipt with full directions SO that
any man may easily cure himself at home. This
is certainly a most generous offer. and the fol-
lowing extracts taken from his daily mail show
what men think of his generosity:
Dear Sir:-Please accept my sincere thanks
for yours of recent date. l have given your
treatment thorough test, and the benefit has
been extraordinary. 1t has completely braced
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The Army of the Tennessee.

At the meeting of the Society of the
Army of the Tennessee at Detroit all the
vile NJ. Dodge, New York; CORRESPONDING
Secretary, Gen. A. Hickenlooper, Cincin,
natl; Recording Secretary, Cornelius Ca
die, Cincinnati; Treasurer, Maj A. NJ.
Van Dyke, Cincinnati.
Among the Vice-Presidents elected was
Gen. r. A. Alger, Detroit. 1t was voted
to hold the next Reunion of the Society in
Indianapolis. AT the close of the business
session the Society boarded cars for Or
chard Lake, where they spent the after
noon, guests of Col. ]. Sumner Rodgers.
of the Michigan Military Academy.
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me up. am Just as vigorous as when BON
and you cannot realize how happy l am"
Dear SIr:-Your method worked beautifully.
Results we're exactly what I needed. Strength
and vigor have completely returned, and u
entirely satisfactory"
"Dear Sir:-Yours was received and had no
trouble in making use of the receipt as directed,
and can truthfully say it is boon to weak men
am greatly improved in strength and yigor."
All correspondence is strictly confidential,
mailed in plain sealed envelope. The receipt ls
free for the asking, and he wants every man TO
have it.
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Opposed to Cleveland.

Comrade E. G. Harper, of Elreno,
Okla, from the standpoint of Western
veteran, has written a lengthy reply to
Comrade VIM. Simmons's letter suggest
ing that the Encampment should be held
at Cleveland, O., instead of Denver, Colo.
The writer makes many good points and
the letter is interesting, but space will not
permit of printing it. While Comrade Har-
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per is opposed to any change, believing as
he does that Denver is well located to Sc
cure large attendance from the States
of Iowa. Kansas. Nebraska, North and
South Dakota, Colorado, Missouri, and
other points west of the Mississippi, in
Guiding the Territory of Oklahoma, he
takes the ground that should change be
decided upon Omaha, Neb., and not Cleye-
land, should secure the Encampment.
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have been victims OF intemperance. Mrs. Hawk
ms for years suffered the grief and anguish
shared by so many true and faithful women OF
America to-day, who h ave drink afflicted faith
ers, husbands or sons. She determined to over
come this fearful evil if possible. Her search
for q harmless, perfect and secret home cure
was at last rewarded when an old friend came
to her and gave hera remedy which had never
been known to fail. Mrs. Hawkins gave the
remedy secretly and in a few weeks, to her great
joy, her dearest relative was entirely cured OF
appetite for drink and was again restored to
health and manhood
After this wonderful result Mrs Hawkins de.
ciled to devote her life to the work OF helping
her sisters everywhere, whom she found suffer,
ing as she had suffered from the effects of alco-
hol upon q husband, father or SON With the
treatment and now offers to send this treat
ment free to any distressed wife, mother or sis
ter who will write for it. Mrs Hawkins great
desire is that every woman who needs this
medicine will write at once to her and get It,
A Grateful Woman.
MRS MAY HAWKINS, Grand Rapids, Mich
My Dear Friend: on have been the means of bring
ing sunshine into my home. Last Augusta got your
remedy ard began giving IL to my husban and from
any kind of alcoholic drinks Icannot say too much
for what remedy has done for and urge IL
to any mother sister wife who shall need
East Hampton, Ne, Feb IA, 1888. d. a. 80 w.
Thousands have saved their homes and loved
ones by this remedy and you can be among the
number II you only wish it. Mrs. Hawkins
treats every letter she receives sacredly conf
dental and you need have no hesitancy what
ever in writing her for assistance. Do not de.
lay; write her to-day. Address
Mrs. May Hawkins. Box 232 Grand Rapids. Mich
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Do not put off sending in
your subscription, and then
when you read the names and
addresses of the prize winners,
wish you had some of the cash.
Act now. See page 8.
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Do not let your subscription
expire. Remember that you do
not have IL chance in the cash
prizes distributed Dec. 81. I'M
less you are II regular yearly
subscriber OH the books at that
date. See page 8.
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Send I'm your neighbOr's sub.
scriptiOn as well as your own.
1t will give you another chance
at that cash prize. See page 8.
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E1RaMK
AABz J
CURED
Mes. May Hawkins VIII Help Every
Weman Save q Drunkard.
A Trial Package of Her Marvellous
Home Treatment E EEE for the asking.

Any true woman might we'll be proud to have
saved one poor soul from the shackles OF drink
but Mrs. Hawkins has redeem med thousands by
her noble and practical work among those who
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-10-20

While the coachman was having his
vacation his employer made sudden
announcement to his family that he
must go at once to the upper PENN
sula on pressing business, Naturally
enough he omitted to state that he
vas going in an im~provised fishing
party. Here's some money, Nan"
and he stopped to produce it, though
he had to quit packing a valise that
he had been stuffing as though he
were baling hay. Hire a man to
take care of the barn till Peter comes
back and use the rest of it as you
want to-" When he was gone she,
having the usual Napoleonic financial
ability of her sex, promptly decided to
look after the barn herself and put the
money thus saved into a beautiful
summer dress that she did not need.
That evening 1t rained and she tripped
to the stables in a macintosh that
she tossed on the nearest part of the
nearest horse. in lieu of a convenient
peg, and was Immediately kicked a
dozen feet in a straight line. The
cook ran out and displayed her pres
ence of mind by turning the hose on
her mistress and playing it on her
until she had to revive in order not
to drown. When it came to putting
hay down into the managers the cook
fell headforemost into the funnel
shaped chute made for this purpose,
and most of her blood had gravitated
to her brain before the people in the
block, two policemen, a contractor,
and a veterinary surgeon had res
cued her. She is in bed under medi-
cal care, the wife is being treated for
a general confusion of the body, and
the returned coachman is under extra
pay to assure the husband that every
thing went off nicely.-Detroit Free
Press.
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Success is more than probable for
Maude Adams in her coming produc-
ton of "L'Aiglon" at the Knicker-
booker theater, in New York, in the
autumn. If Charles Frohman even ap-
proximates the grandeur of scenic
mounting and brilliancy of costuming
with which Nine. Bernhard has
dressed Edmund Rostand's poetic
drama, he will have accomplished the
finest achievement of his career and
Will have given New York playgoers
visions of theater pomp and splendor
commensurate only with Ben Hur,"
n not excelled by the production OF
Sir Henry Irving.
AT first it is difficult to imagine the
mischievous, impish Lady Babble as
the melancholy and %distraught Due de
Relchstadt-the pale. sensitive, weak
ling prince-endowed by inheritance
with the impulses and ambitions OF a
Napoleon, but, by inheritance, too, de-
VOID OF the physical power. to g.ve
them force. The name "L'Aigion"
1.-THE Eagle) fits the play and the char
acter to perfection. Its essence is the
temper and fire of the eagle held in
restraint by the weakness of the
hedging. The eagles impulse and
ambition is to soar; it's impotence per-
mits it only to fiutter feebly in its
prison nest.
h American version of "L'Aiglon"
Will be quite as different from the
Bernhard version as will the in
depreciation of the title part. Indeed,
1t is doubtful if "L'Aiglon,' as it is
now being played in Paris, would find
even a moderate degree of favor in
New York. Bernhardt herself would
carry it to success, but such an achieve
ment would not be possible in an ex-
act translation with an American ac-
tress in the title role.
The play is in six acts and requires
four hours and a quarter for it's per-
Torrance. Its action begins slowly.
and the incidents do not gather dra-
matte force until we'll into the third
act. 1t abounds in long, f~atiguing
speeches and monologues, which are
mere rehearsals of history and French
PCAAli1o VI lnO liulS VI NdDOlSOu, anu
do not bear directly on the story. It's
cast contains forty-eight characters,
twenty-four of which are distinct and
concerned with the complications of
the plot. All have their say, and while
what they say is said well, the mass of
verbiage would be exceedingly firing
to a New York audience accustomed
to go to supper and catch the last sub
urban trains.
In the American version. prepared
by Louis N. Parker, which Charles
Frohman now has in London, at least
an hour of surplus recital of history
and rehearsals of Napo1eonic achieve
ment have ben cut out. The result will
enhance the value of the play in New
York, although in Paris. where French
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-10-20
WAS"DESEEvED SHAMEFUL"
And She Communicated Her oes by
Letter to the Minister.

And She Communicated Her w oes by
Letter to the Minister.
Perhaps no class of professional peo-
pie receive such numbers of strange,
pathetic and oftentimes humorous let
ters as do clergynen. To them the
minds of the writers are freely op-
ened. A woman who apparently was
not successful in a matrimonial ven
ture wrote the following to a certain
6.vine:
Dear Rev. frend-You may remem-
her of marrying me about a yeer ago.,
and alas little did l think then that |
would eve set down to rite this, but
such is the case. the man I was fool
enough to give up a good COB in a fac
tory WHARF l got my seven do,ers a
week and marry was as big a skally-
wag as ever walked ON two legs. l
don't know WHARF he is now an |
don't want to know. He went off six
munts ago an l was in luck to git
red of him SO ely. He deserved me
shameful. Sed he was head boss in a
PLACE WHARF he was only janiter ard
other wise lied. he was Il g right
strate through. l drove my ducks to
a dcAl poor market when l TUX up
wit SgIny such trash as him. But l
Amt one to set down and fuss about
what can't be he,pfed an / amt shed a
tear over him an i amt likely to. My
ob5eck in ADDRESSING you is to know if
you are still living 50 l can call on
you to prove you married me if i sue
for a bill agin him. l read of a min
lister of the same name as yours dying
last week and ! want to know if it
was your or noA | will be dredful sorry
Il you are dead for it may make it hard
for me to git my bill as the other two
witnesses was his kin and like as not
they would sware they never see us
married. That's what comes of marry
ing into a family of liars. If l ever
see 0 | can tell you things that will
make your hare stand on end. Now
let me know if the man that died was
you or not and keep me posted WHARF
you are anyhow for | am bound to
have a bill"
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A r,fer who Saved a Company.

Late in the fall of SO there might
have been seer one evening a small
company of Union soldiers, fo~otsore
and hungry, YEARLY pressing on
through a forest in Tennessee, intent
upon escaping from a pursuing force
of Confederates.
Three days previous they had become
detached from the main body of troops,
and they were now seeking to join
the Union forces, canped some forty
miles away. A scout had overtaken
them the previous night and %acquaint-
ed the commanding officer with the
fact that a considerable force of the
enemy was hot on their trail.
Half-famished and nearly worn out,
the brave boys in blue had made a
heroic effort to quicken their steps.
but the ranks were DON broken, many
of the men falling farther and farther
to the rear.
Suddenly. upon the night. the clear
notes of a fife foated from a trapper's
cabin. The first few bars told the men
that the musician was loyal, and the
lively air of Yankee Doodle" awoke
the men to new life. as their feet I'M
consciously kept step to the music.
At the first sound a happy thought
occurred to the lieutenant. He called
a halt, permitting the stragglers to
come up, while he himself. with a
handful of men FASTENED along a we'll
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Field Glasses En- lang r Officers.

In spite of the many precautions
taken by the English in South Africa
with regard to dressing their officers in
exactly the same fashion as their men,
so as to avoid the Boer sharpshooters
picking them out and shooting them,
the casualties among the officers have
by no means been diminished. The
reason for this is that the enemy's
practiced eye has discovered that field
glasses are used only by those in
command, and as the suns rays prac-
tically ~heliograph to the. sharpshooters
wher S3littering on the glasses the po-
sitiok of the British officers, the dam
ger t o them remains the same. This
is how the earl of Airlie met with his
death, not by a stray or chance bullet,
bat by a regular shower of lead shot at
him through the reflection of the solar
rays onto his field glass. 1t is claimed
that when Sir George Colley lost his
life on that fatal crest of Majuba hill,
which proved too hot a place for the
English years ago. the bullet which
killed him drove some of the glass
from his military telescope into re
wound, from which it would appe ir
that field glasses were even then q
si%ngularly dangerous landmark.
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National G. A. r.. Encampment.

Elaborate preparations are being
made in Chicago for the entertainment
of the Grand Army of the Republic
during the closing days of August.
Michigan avenue, downtown, will be
transformed into a court of honor of
surprising beauty. The general
scheme of the decorations is to place
q triumphal arch at Van Buren, street
and one at Park Row, connected by
Corinthian columns placed al regular
intervals on both sides Of the street,
forming a colonnade broken only by
the pylons that flank each side of the
reviewing stand. The arches will span
colonnade; one will be dedicated to
the Grand Army and one to the navy.
The reviewing stand will be tianked
on either side with large four-column
pylons decorated on the top with a
large American eagle in plaster, rest
ing on an Illuminated ball. The Pres
ident's box and the balustraGe guard
ing the space reserved for distin-
guished guests will be decorated with
staff in rich design. Electric lamps,
strung throughout the trees, will
transform Michigan avenue at night
into a fairyland. A boat viii be sent
out into the lake opposite Lake Front
Park every night of the encalupment,
and the water will be a blaze Of light
for several hours. Set pieces portray
the various generals Of the civil war.
President Lincoln and his cabinet n
the heroes of the later struggle will be
interspersed throughout the PRO-
gramme to give the old soldiers an OPP
p~ortunity for their heartily enjoyed
cheer. The veterans will be made wei
come. Special committees vii ASS
in the pleasant duty of making them
feel at home.
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MISS LUCILLE MULHALL.

against. To decline, pointed out the
visitors, would be ~ungracious not alone
to the territory, but to its most distin-
guished guest. Governor Roosevelt's
visit vas an event of the highest i'm
p~ortance. The festival was a patriotic
one. 1t celebrated the country's vic
tory in war. And without Miss Lucille
Mulhall, Oklahoma's peerless cowgirl,
it would be inadequate.
This appeal to her patriotism con-
quered Mrs. Mulhall, and she consent
ed to her daughters appearance for
this occasion only. Lucille, overioyed,
went into training and was delighted
to find that her term in the scholarly
shades of the convent had not lessened
her skill with the lariat and rife. 1t
was her last chance and she meant to
make the most of it. In the fall she
will return to the convent in st. Louis
and in course of time. if her mothers
hopes be fulfilled, she will be too dig
nified a young lady to engage in any
more boisterous diversions than a CO.
tillion.
But she will never forget the proud
moment when, flushed with victory,
she was presented to Governor Roose-
welt, who bowed to her tremendously
and told her that not a Rough Rider
in his famous troop could have done
better than she.
The Mulhall ranch is on Beaver
creek, fifty miles from Oklahoma City.
Its owners are of a Southern family
and have imported with them into the
solitudes most of the reflnemen.s o.
civilization. In the drawing room of
the Aomestead, for example, is a baby
grand piano on which the mother and
daughters play classical music. They
are environed with books and period
icals and their conversation shows
that exile On the prairie does not pre-
vent them from taking a lively inter-
est in the thought and culture of the
day.
Mr.. lack Mulhall, the father of the
family, is the general live stock agent
of the st. Louis and San Francisco
railroad, but the ranch is his own and
little Miss Lucille is his mainstay in
its management.
In earlier years it was her privilege
to claim every yearling calf that she
had without assistance roped and
branded with her initials Il. M"
This system worked very we'll for a
time, but Lucille's ambition increased
with her skill and her private herd
kept pace with both. The climax came
when, during a short absence of her
father, she roped and branded twenty
of the finest and widest steers on the
ranch. Wishing to avoid Bankruptcy,
Mr.. Mulhall made haste to sepeal the
law.
Miss Agnes Mulhall, the elisr dau@h-
ter, is as accomplished a ra,.cnwomsn
as her little sister and is also a fine
musician and elocutionist. She is best
known for her championship of the
Dalton gang Of outlaws, whom she be-
lieves to have better qualities than
they are CREDITED with-and better, she
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sEWARD'S INDEPENDENCE.
Interesting Incidents In Distinguish
Mans Early Career. y

Mans Early Career. "
When William H. Seward left home
to go to Union college, like many an
other country boy he felt ashamed of
his rough homespun clothes, and the
thought OF them made him SO uneasy
that he soon ran into debt with the
most fashionable tailor of the place.
The senior year in college began, but
the tailor had not been paid. Doctor
Seward would not settle what he re-
garded as an unnecessary account, and
his son could not pay the debt while
remaining a student On a slender al
iowance. The incident became so dis
agreeable that young Seward determin-
ed to make himself financially indepen-
dent. On the first day of 1919 he start
ed secretly for Georgia, hoping to Sc
cure a position as teacher of an acad-
envy. BY the time he was within so
or forty miles of the end of his journey
his purse vas almost empty and he
was compelled to proceed afoot. His
strength and were all but
exhausted when he came upon a log
cabin in the woods, which was FORUM
ately occupied by a family that had re-
Gently moved from Auburn, N. Y. The
young stranger received a hearty well
come, and was informed that the
sought for academy was in a settle
ment close by, and that his rural host
was a trustee. On the following day the
trustees met and examined the appli-
cant. who then withdrew while his
case was under discussion. His posi-
ton was a serious one. with only
~eighteenpence in my pocket, a thou
sand miles from home, my little ward
robe left thirty miles behind" said
Seward, in later life. where was l to
go? What could l do?" Fortune was
with him. He was soon informed that
his application had been accepted, and
that his salary as head of the academy
would be eight hundred dollars a year.
Seward gladly accepted. Proud of his
appointment, he sent his father a news
paper containing an nnouncement OF
it DR.. Seward flew into a passion,
wrote to the trustees, telling them that
his son had absconded from college
"AehouL Cduec, DIluSlHS ulSSFdCe ana
sorrow upon his too indulgent parents,
and that all who harbored him would
be prosecuted to the full extent of the
law. This frightened no one, and it
did not cause the very independent
principal elect to alter his plans: but
by the same mail came other letters.
What a fathers anger could not do
was quickly effected by the grief of
a mother and sister. Young Seward
obtained permission to resign on con-
dition that he should stay until the
arrival OF a suitable successor. So after
successfully opening the new academy
he started for nome. 1t was not until
he had been for some time a practising
attorney that Seward was able to lay
by a sum sufficient to pay for his
youthful vanity In clothes.-Youths'
Companion.
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asserts, than some of the officers OF the
Jaw who hunt them. The Dalton
brothers stopped at the Mulhall ranch
one night and asked for a nights lcdg-
ing. 1t was granted them. Miss Null
hall entertained them as c~eremonious-
ly as if they had been bank presidents.
She played, sang, recited and con-
versed on topics far removed from
their crlme-stained and harassed lives.
The outlaws were c~aptiyated and SOFT
ened. They had probably never mes
a more cultured m before; they
had certainly never been entertained
with the same delicacy and considera-
ton.
They treated Miss Mulhall with in
finite respect and departed in the
morning with many expressions Of
esteem and gratitude. On her part,
the impression from the encounter was
such a favorable one that she will not
heal a word said against the Daltons.