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The National tribune., 1901-08-22
A FOOL FRIEND

The New York Journal is doing Admiral
Schley the worst injury by putting him
up as a 'Southerner' and a Democrat. -
who is being attacked by Republicans to
prevent him being Presidential POSSIBLE
ity. As matter of fact, Schley is no
more Southerner than any of the others
of that Pennsylvania German stock to
which he belongs. 1t was by a mere acct
dent that his forefathers, with the keen
instinct for fine lands of 1.-THE Pennsylvania
Dutch'-drifted few miles farther south
than did the most of the clan, and settled
at Frederick, Md. The whole of that
sturdy German stock-the stock to which
Barbara Frietchie belonged-were out
spoken Unionists, and their solid, Ger
man steadfastness was the holding ground
by which Maryland was safely anchored
in the Union. By marriage Schley is af-
filiated with the Baltimore Secessionists,
but his blood relations are all radical
Unionists of Central and Western Mary
land. What his more recent politics may
be is not definitely known, but in earlier
life he was uncompromisingly Republican.
But none of this has the slightest bearing
on the real case, and the people do not
want their minds confused by it. There
are just two things that the American
people want the Court of Inquiry to de-
yelcp:
l. Whether Schley acted throughout
the campaign as an American naval officer
of high rank should have acted:
2. Whether there is a ring controlling
the Navy Department, which builds up
or tears down men, according to its own
selfish wishes, and without regard to his
deserving, or the interests of the public
service.
1t is crime to obscure these plain is
sues, which the people are anxious to have
met, with any appeals to politics or sec
tionalism.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

SOME official, with a desire to advertise
himself, proposes to seize the late Capt.
Howgate's life insurance, and turn it into
the Government Treasury in satisfaction
of that much of the Captains defalcations.
1t happens that this policy was kept up
by his devoted daughter, from her salary
as clerk, and it therefore represents her
little savings. How far Capt. Howgate,
who was q gallant soldier by the way,
was made a scapegoat for the others, We
shall not say. We shall admit that he
deserved all his punishment. But the
Government had its innings with him,
while he was alive, and it is exceedingly
small business to now follow up his daugh-
ter and try to rob her.
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tured, who told 'em he would take EN-
to the Confedrit commissary. where they
could draw plenty of Confedrit fresh pork,
they went out into the swamp, and with
cut thinking at the time what il all meant
they caught and killed Il young alligator.
skinned him and brought the meat to
Aunt Minerva Ann, there. to cook. They
didn't say nOthin' to us when they came
back, but directly they begun to think 1t
over
Pete broke down into a loud, incon-
trOllaDle blubber, while Sandy took the
position of facing the firing squad at once.
Alligator meat. groancd the Adju-
tant, beginning to grow white about the
gills.
Gator meat screeched Aunt Miner
va Ann, making a bolt for the back OF
the camp, where she was soon heard, APP
parently trying to throw up the soleS Of
her substantial army brOgans.
Alligator flesh? said the Colonel, with
amused interest. I'm so glad of il. I've
just been reading Du Chaillu's travels in
Africa, and he tells us how much he en-
jCyed, when he was hungry, eating alli-
gator steaks and outlets. I've thought
I'd like to try them myself. Why notl
Turtle is very good eating. Gourmants
think it IS the best that can be found.
Allisators must be very like them. They
live the same way, and on pretty much
/ the same things. Here, Aunt Minerva
ltl y ste Sbiic VI mat
Aunt Minerva AIMS retching stopped
at the sound OF the ColOnefs voice, and
the Adjutant's face resumed its usual
color
! LAS nice looking meat as ! ever saw"
said the Colonel, examining some of the
meat. Looks very much like turtle
steaks"
Confederate pork?' said the Adju-
tant. We'll, that is a good joke. Let's
play it on some of the other fellows. It's
too good to keep to ourselves. Sergeant,
keep this mum as the grave, and as soon
as you get rested go out into the swamp
and kill a young, fat alligator
''And I'll send mess of Confederate
fresh pork up to the General, with my
compliments, as an exhibition of the en-
terprise Of. my foragers,' said the Colonel,
catching on.
IN break cherry bone in dat wuHess
ole Eph's karkiss fer foolin' me data
picking up the stout poker, and glaring
around for her husband. Il done wonder
whdr he isT'
Can you tell me where I'll find Gen.
| Towards headquarters asked a very
tired and muddy cavalryman, riding a
drop with fatigue. 'Ah, Colonel he
continued, saluting; excuse me. / didn't
see your straps at first. Since you're a
| Colonel I'm at liberty to say to you that
We have succeeded in communicating with
our. ships in the sound, and informing
| them of the army's presence"
20, go chase yourself with your stale
news" burst out Shorty, in his gladness
to have Pete out of the scrape. The
Col0nel's had his own men down TO the
ships, long ago. Go off and hunt butter
milk and chickens. That's all you eaval-
rymen are good for. The Booth Injianny
can beat you every day in the week find
ing ships. Tell us about the cruciixion,
or the firing on Fort Sumter, or some
thing that you know something about"
ITO be continued)
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holders, and it was their patriotic duty
to in every way help the Treasury pay
an average of about S200,000000 n year
in gold. which it had to raise for principal
and interest. To do everything possible
to assist the country out of this morass
of debt seemed to those public-spirited
young men rs much of a duty as to fight
the battles in the field. So all thought
of pension was discouraged, except for
those who were so badly disabled as to
be in absolute need.
By the time of Garfield's. Arthur's and
Cleyelands Administrations age was be-
ginning TO tell ON these men. The drafts
drawn on their physical yigor by the
swamps of the Mississippi, the sands in
front of Charleston, the bleak Cumber-
lands, and the fathomless- mud of Vir-
ginia were beginning to mature, and that
relentless creditor, Age, was pressing for
payment. The strongest wills could no
longer overcome or conceal their growing
disablements. Besides, the country had,
thanks to the heavy taxation which they
had cheerfully endured, emerged from the
incubus of debt. Specie payments had
been resumed, the Treasury had been put
in most heaIthful condition, and the ex-
tinction of the National debt was in sight.
Then they who had so generously
helped the bondholders began to think
that something was due them who had
borne the heat and burden of that mo-
mentous quarter of a century. They be-
gan to ask the Government to remember
its promises to them in its hour of need,
now that their hour of need had come
Any one who reflects that men grow old
and become more helpless and needy as
age advances, must understand and ex-
pect that up to a certain period there
must and should be rapid increase in
pension expenditures, which will again
suffer rapid decline as the pensioners
begin dying in great numbers. The latter
period has not yet arrived, and the coun-
try should be deeply grateful that it has
not, and that so many of the heroes of
the Nations greatest days are still spared
the country. As the Treasury saves an
average of only $10S.2S a year by the
death Of a pensioner, it is not creditable
TO any one to wish for more sweeping
mortality among the veterans than now
prevails. An average of 81 week is GER
taInly not an extravagant price to pay to
men who rendered the country such sery-
ice. Nobody outside of the Pension Bu-
reau Is anxious to economic as to sacri-
hce veteran to save an annual outlay
of $10S.2S.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

and the rest o the boysY asked Pete,
starting. They're very hungry, too
Lets git some fer de weneh fust,
said Patsy, cautiously. shes beefin'
most bout meat. Den weze'Il see bout
de udders."
Pete and Sandy came back with their
guns.
Clap de frog-stickers on commanded
Patsy, rs he led the way to a swamp.
Bring butcher-knife wild you're, Uncle
Ephraim.'
Pete and Sandy looked a little startled
at these preparations, but they were too
proud to ask questions or hesitate.
dis here's de Confedrit Commissary,"
said Patsy, after they had threaded their
way some distance into the swamp. Its
jest full O. meat, an I'll show how dey
draw it down at de fort"
He cut stout pole, and began looking
for alligator holes. He presently came to
one whose size and appearance suited
him, called Uncle Ephraim to his side,
and gave these directions to Sandy and
Pete:
'Dere's Confedrit pig in dere, an
we've a-gOin' to haul him out. He's little
difrunt from his brudder dat runs trough
de woods. He's not so thin, an he's got
bigger jaw an tail, an lots more meat
on him. When poke dis stick down hell
grab it, an Uncle Ephraim III pull him
out. When he comes out, keep clear o
his tail, fer he kin hit an awful swipe
wild it, an look out to job him wild yer
beyOnets jest behine de foreleg. IL you've
hit him right youze'll settle him to-wunst.
But you've got to be spry an cool at de
same time"
Il think | can ring the BELL" said
Sandy, warming up to the scheme, and
not wanting to appear inferior to the New
York boy: lie me get on this side, Pete,
and you take the other. The left's near
est the heart. Then if l miss you can
prod him. Now, don't get ratified
Who's going to get ratified" indig-
nantly inquired Pete. I'm no more like
ly to lose my nerve than you, Mr..
Smarty."
Pete's manner did not support his
words, for he was little shaken by his
experience with the fauna of this region.
Uncle Ephraim looked very rueful that he
had come along, but it would never do to
back out now, before the boys.
Patsy thrust the pole into the hole, and
felt the jaws grasp it viciously. He called
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sure you've been at something that you
/ oughtn't. Over there by the fire you'll
/ find some rice and sweet potatoes we've
saved for You. faint much, but it 5
the best that can be done now. After
\ you eat il you'd better lay down with the
! rest and get some sleep. You seed it bad,
as we all do. The Sergeant's bin asleep
! for an hour. SO've i, until / woke up to
wonder what'd become of you. I'm GO
/ ing to lay down again, and have my sleep
out. You do the same"
| Shorty stretched himself on his blanket,
and was soon snoring.
SANDY. | wonder if alligator meat is
really good mcatT' Pete whispered, as
they devoured their rations in n silence
that showed that both had something on
| their minds besides the adventures they
had just been through.
Il guess so." answered Sandy, hest
| tatingly, showing the doubts in his own
mind: Patsy the Kinch says il is. He
ought to know. Why shouldn't it beT'
Don't know. Patsy amt just our
| kind, you know. And, then, alligators
look so horrible"
That's because we amt used TO them"
answered Sandy, trying to persuade him
self ''These alligator hogs would look
just as bad, if we'd never seen 'em be-
fore"
do you really think they would?''
asked Pete.
They ate along slowly and silently for
some minutes, with each doing much
thinking. Presently Pete broke silence:
SANDY, do you think it was just the
right thing 10 palm off that alligator meat
OH Aunt Minerva Ann and-the-the
Colonel for fresh pOrkT
Aunt Minerva Ann was nearly starved
for fresh meat" answered Sandy, trying
| to stifie his own conscience.
Il know, but she wanted real pork, or
chickens, or something"
Patsy said it was all right-what
they'd bin eating down at the fort
Il tell you again, Patsy amt our kind
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

GEN. MACARTHUR talks coolly, seEsi-
bly, and hopefully about the conditions in
the Philippines. He says that the coun-
try has been fearfully ravaged by war,
and there is danger of the return of many
of the people to barbarism. But the
power of the cruel and murderous insur-
recto caste has been thoroughly broken.
The common people no longer fear tSem,
and can return to peaceful ways and ODE
dience to the laws without fear of being
murdered and their property destroyed.
The people want to become good, law
abiding citizens, and will do 30 now The
Commission is proceeding wisely, and
showing what a vast improvement the
American rule is to the Spanish. 1t will
be necessary to keep a consid erabe gar
rison in the islands for some years yet, as
might be expected, for a large part of
the country never was really occupied by
the Spaniards, and what they did occupy
was badly misgoYerned. These conditions
cannot be changed in day or two.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

THE beaver promises to become the Ma
tional emblem of Canada, and they are
proposing to coin $40 piece, to be called
the royal beaver" SIS piece, to be
called the beaver" and $3.50 piece, to
be called the "half-beaver." The beaver"
will take the place of the English "soy-
ereign," or pound sterling. Let them
have the beaver. We never did think
much of beast so stupid as TO go on
gnawing trees down with his teeth in this
age of portable saw-mills.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

THERE is side to Mrs. Carrie Nation
that should be spared jeers. She is 56
years old, and. as we all know, a very
lively woman for her age. She has been
married for % years to man now 73
years old, and who seems to have always
been pretty badly blasted by the drouth,
for she has supported him most Of the
time. She is just womanly enough to
cling to him for his very worthlessness,
and proposed to go on supporting him un-
til his death. 1t gave her something to
live for and an outlet for her feminine
tenderness. Now he wrings her heart By
applying for divorce.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

MAJ.-GEN. WARREN KEIFER, who had
the unusual distinction of being Major
General in two wars, and who had ex-
ceptional opportunities for information ut
Santiago, talks very coolly and sensibiy
about the Schley matter. He says that
Schley has made a mistake in calling for
a court, since it will develop how little
he actually had to do with the battle. 1t
was really Captains fight. Admiral
Sampson had given the Captains explicit
orders as to positions and what to do.
No general order was given after the bat
tie began, and so it made no difference
where Sampson was. Schley gave no or
ders, except the famous one about the
loops. With this exception the battle
went on precisely as Sampson had
planned, with the addition of what every
Captain found necessary to do from mo-
ment to moment.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

THE German tariff is not the first STEP
In a general European combination
against this country, for the reason that
it hits the Russian and Austrian grain
markets harder than our own, if any
thing. There never will be European
combination against us, for the reason
that every one of them have troubles of
their own, and they are going to make
the best terms possible with us. as with
each other. The European concert has
been attempted too often. and too often
disastrously failed to be worth while wor-
Tvin9 over
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

JUST what Vice President Roosevelt
meant mt Hutchinson, Kan, when he
warned the veterans mot to envy a life
of case" we are unable to make out
from the tci:graphic abstract of his
speech. The easy life which veterans
leads Oh his pension of 81 week is hard.
Is calculated 10 arouse any ones envy.
And certainly those whom the Commits
sioncr viii not allow even this much do
not lssd an easy life.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22
HEADQUARTERS FOR THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE

We have secured room 135, Hollenden
Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio, for the headquar-
tiers of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
during the National Encampment. This
is directly across the hall from the Ma
tional Headquarters of the G. A. R., w.
r. c., and Ladies of the G. A. R., and all
comrades are invited to make use of it.
They can make appointments to meet their
friends there, direct their mail to be sent
there, and otherwise make it their con-
yenience We shall be glad to meet there
all the readers of the paper.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

Mr.. WINTERS, the highly skilled artist
who got away with $4,000 of United
States gold, is an illustration of an old
and well-known rule with criminals No
matter how much cunning they display in
the planning and execution Of their crime,
it seems to desert them in the moment Of
success. Winters showed phenomenal
ability in the planning and execution Of
his scheme, but as soon as the gold was
sunk in the bay he became as putty in the
hands of the detectives.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

THE steel strike is a struggle between
two gigantic corporations-one seeking to
monopolize the steel production of the
country, the other to monopolize certain
forms of skilled labor. II the labor union
were not so proscriptive to American
born boys who want n chance to learn
hishly-paid trades, and so favorable to
the importation of skilled lGborers from
abroad, the public would have more SYM
patty with ii.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

SOMETIMES, when a sound, clear-headed
lawyer like Assistant Secretary Campbell
pricks Evans's fatulency with the keen
point of logic the result is humorous. For
example, the decision elsewhere given,
where Evans refused a pension to some
soldiers minor children, on the ground
that tie mother had remarked. Mr.. Camp
bell points out that they were children
of their father, also, and inherited some
rights from him, which were independent
of their mothers action.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

NEW York continues to be very well sat
fsfed with the operation of her inheritance
tax, which seems to be as fair, just, and
well-wOrking a revenue system as can be
devised. The State Treasury will receive
something like $4,000 from the estate of
the late millionaire dentist, Evans.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

Gov. ODELL has been giving Chatauqua
fresh breath of common sense. He told
the attendance that it was wrong to speak
of politics as degrading. Politics must
necessarily be just as good as the people,
for the Government was theirs and was
precisely what they made it. If bad
man was elected to office it was the fault
of every man in the community, and partf-
cularly of those Who stayed away from
the POLLS
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

THE German newspapers report a bad
attack of mouth disease in Count Won
Waldersce, since his return from China
From the way they are speaking of him
they need to import the American term
''blOwhard" to properly characterize his
big stories of very small deeds.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

IT used to be said that it cost us $4,000
for every Indian killed. Great Britain s
South African war is costing her $1,000
000 day. The net results of last week S
operations we're "a Beers captured. As Il
business proposition we seem TO have al
ways been far ahead Of the British.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22
PORT HUDSON:
A Renaissance of the Civil War.
By Col. Prentiss Ingraham.

This is tribute by a gallant Confed-
crate officer, who was among the defend
ers of Port Hudson, to the brave boys
in blue who besieged that place, and par
ticularly to those who formed the cele-
brated Forlorn Hope. 1t will appear in
an early number of The National Tri-
hunp
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

If Senator TiiInan is so certain that
the whites are going to remain on top,
In spite Of the devil" why is he so afraid
TO have the negroes learn useful trades?
If the whites are predestined to be the
top-layer, the higher the lower strata are
raised the higher the elevation of the
whites.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

IT is very easy to estimate the value
of Henry Clay Evans's savings" to the
Treasury. Every time he embitters some
poor old veteran, or veterans widows de-
Ginning years by denying his or her pen
sion he saves on an average S1o8.2S a
year, or trifrle over 81 week. Think
of how much misery the deprivation of
that small amount inficts.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

THE cruiser Cleveland, soon to be
launched, is named after the metropolis
OF Ohio, and not the heavy-tonnage
HarTeyized-nickel Statesman who was
twice President OF the United States.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

WE certainly made mistakes enough in
the war of the rebellion. but never so
many as the British have made in their
South African scrape. But we did not
repeat our mistakes, and we quickly
worked out our incompetents, and put
men to the front who were ''onto the
job" which the British seem incapable
of doing
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

Mr.. LEADBEATER is a Councilman of
Alexandria, Va. OF course, if he must
beat something lead is much better than
his wife and children. But why not
change his name little and lead better
life?
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

IT ONLY took one cargo of Brazilian
coffee TO convince the Porto Ricans that
they don't want the Constitution TO fol-
low the flag. Uniform duties and taxes"
are all very well, when they are very well,
but there are times when they are not,
and free Brazilian coffee is one Of them.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

EVEN California is invading Europe
with her oranges, lemons, prunes, apples
and pears, which arrive there in better
shape, and costing less than the French,
Spanish and Italian.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22
AFlELD WITH cRocKER's BRIGADE
By David M. strain, Co. B, 18th Iowa.

By David M. strain, co. b, 10Th Iowa.
This is a simple narrative of the every
day doings of this famous brigade, which
was composed of some of the best fight
ing regiments in the magnificent Army of
the Tennessee.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

So far Fighting Bill Chandler seems
to be satisfied with the Knockout he has
given Fighting Bob Evans, and Evans
isn't saying a word.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

Mr.. EVANS pays $1,000 year each to
men to prowl around neighborhoods and
try to collect gossip to serve as a pretext
for taking 81 week from some poor old
widow
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

GEN. MILEs's visit to West Point was a
rude jolt to many of the cadets, in show
ing a really great soldier who never was
In the Academy.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

AS England has spent S50O000O among
the Missouri and Kansas farmers for
mules and horses, it would look as IL
Webster Davis made a mistake in choos-
ing sides.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

WHO says that it viii take ages to
Americanize the islands? The Porto
Ricans are already giving up cock-fght-
ing for baseball.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

Mr.. EvANs's gossip-hunting spies cost
the Treasury 100000 year.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22

A bridge-builder is always tried by his
piers.
The National tribune., 1901-08-22
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kAdDd -
<y1'Shorty
On theharch to the Sea
Copyrighted. 1892 by the publishers of THE NATIONAL
- 5T:iTRuSE

Great Need of Meat in the Army-Pete and
Sandy Draw Some Confederate Fresh
Pork "-Contrition at Deceiving the Colo
nel-The Colonels View of the Matter.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-01-29
About the Dress Goods.

It's a clearance sale of win
ter goods and early introduc-
ton of spring fabrics at special
Sale Prices.
Fifty pieces of plain and
fancy cheviot, tw OF on ed
cancels hair, plaid goods,
homespuns, clearinghouse and
serges-in good shades of Ok
ford, navy, brown, green and
hobby checks mostly 46 to
IS inch cloths that sold from
$1.oo to SIPS a yard. Your
choice at SO cents a yard.
This is but one Of the good
things offered.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-01-29
EMPLOYEES LAID OFF.

Rubber Shoe Workers in Middletown.
Middetown, Jan. 2S.-The employees of
the shoe department at the factory Of
the Goodyear Rubber company have
again been laid off for an indefinite per-
iod The time the men will be out of
employment is not known. Work Will
be provided as soon as trade conditions
warrant The weather has been ex-
tremely unfavorable for the rubber
trade this season, although the COM
pany is fairly busy in the boot depart
ment.