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Feed Delta Feed Horse Sense.
The National tribune., 1901-07-18
,JUsT AS WE SAID.

Just as we said. That wonderful squirt
of pension allowances in June, when the
grand total ran up in the last week to
1916, with 1884 originals and 2,2S2 in
creases, did not mean any permanent i'm
provement in the pension policy. 1t
meant simply that the Commissioner had
decided that he would not carry out his
original intention of saving about $6,000,-
900, but cut it down to somewhere near
$5,000,000.
Therefore, the word was passed through
the office to take up several thousand per
fected cases, which had been stored wait
ing for the deaths of the claimants, or of
enough on the roll to make room for them
and to allow them.
Last week there was the most amazing
drop. The original allowances fell to 312,
the increases to 81, and the total to 1885,
These figures show clearly how COM
plete is the grasp of the Commissioner on
the throttle. He is going to allow a pre-
determined number of claims and no more
No matter how much proof has been fur
nished, no matter what the age and other
disabilities of the claimants, the claim
shall not be allowed until death makes
room for it.
To those who think and reflect such
figures as these are conclusive answers
to all the rhodomontade with which Mr.
Evans's press bureau fills the country.
The National tribune., 1901-07-18
ABUSE OF GEN. srcKLEs.

Gen. Sickles is receiving the same treat
ment that has for years been given Cor
poral Tanner, and any other man who has
spoken for the veterans, or veterans
rights. There is no attempt to meet his
statements or arguments. They cannot be
met, and knowing this there is nothing
left but to resort to ridicule and abuse.
Therefore, the word was passed along
to certain super-seryiceable, lacky papers,
to give the old General the ''hoarse hoot."
OF course, certain other papers were only
too glad to join in anything that was to
the detriment of the veterans.
How zealously and well they have done
their bidding the comrades everywhere
know. And they will remember, too.
They have long memories, and do not for
get as readily as some of these editors
expect and hope.
Gen. Sickles's only offending is that he
spoke out and told the truth when the
veterans needed a man OF his position
to speak out for them.
The National tribune., 1901-07-18

ST saw a squad Of Union officers come rid
ing forward. He FASTENED forward to
meet them. TO inquire where he could find
the Provost Marshal.
At that instant terrific explosion tore
up the ground in the road, and when the
smoke and shower of clay and sand sub
sided. 81 saw the leading officer lying on
the rrUund, while the horse be had been
riding was torn TO fragments, and scat
tered in every direction.
As soon Us the other officers could con-
troll their terrified horses they dismOunt-
ed and came forward to see what had
happened. Sis first thought was for his
prisoners, but as he turned % look he saw
Shorty knock the rebel Major down with
his fist, and so repress any disposition they
might have to take advantage of the con-
fusion. 81 ran forward then to help the
wounded officer, handsome young fellow,
with Captains straps One foot had been
blown off, and his leg horribly mangled.
81 carried him back & little ways, and
laid him on a bed of branches, and busted
himself helping stanch the blood, while
one of the officers galloped after a Sur
geon. They looked around to find the
cause of the catastrophe, and discovered
that the rebels had planted eight-inch
shells in the road, so arranged that the
pressure of a foot would explode cap
The National tribune., 1901-07-18

seen thing Of Il since we made that long
circuit to the right, more'n an hour ago
"HushP whispered 81. 1 hear voices"
They all became silent, while 81. turn
ing sidewise, edged his way cautiously
through the brake, without breaking Il
twig or shaking the brush-tOps.
Shorty followed in the same way, keep
ing just in sight of 81. so as to receive his
signals, and Uncle Ephraim, his fear OF
alligators having absted on the dry
ground, followed after Shorty.
The voices became more distinct, and
were approaching. Presently 81 was able
to make out that they were rebels, and
someone in command giving orders.
He turned and Signaled Shorty to come
up cautiously. and bring the others.
II can't see nothing nowhere of the
regiment he said, briefly explaining the
situation to Shorty, but feel sure tLat
we've got ahead of them and in behind
the rebel line. The lay of the land looks
that way. l should judge our boys must
be back there full halfmile to the left,
working through the upper part of the
swamp. These are rebels coming. What
must we do?'
Jump 'em, of course" answered Shor-
ty, looking at the cap of his gun.
Exactly" accorded 81. Boys, look
carefully to your locks, and make sure
The National tribune., 1901-07-18
OFT IN M1NNEsorA.

DR.. o. ]. Evans, Of Minneapolis, gen.
tleman of high standing, and a comrade
who served in the same regiment with
Corporal Tanner, has written a very able,
manly, dignifed letter to the Minneapolis
Times, defending Gen. Sickles, Corporal
Tanner, and Others from the assaults of
the press, and pointing out n number of
instances of his own knowledge in Min
neapolis of the injustice of Commissioner
Evans's administration.
The Times makes a very }abored reply,
in which it says:
"That there are instances of extreme
hardship and injustice no one doubts. We
have Commissioner Evans's word for 1t
that whenever case of that kind is
brought to his personal notice it receives
immediate attention and justice is done.
In other words, when some single case
becomes so fragrant that it attracts gen
eral attention, and arrays number of
indignant protests, Mr.. Evans relaxes so
far as to allow that particular case, but
no others.
This is notoriously the case. 1t was so
in the Nicholas Born case, which the u.
A. r. National Pension Committee re-
ported to the President. 1t was so with
the widow in Roscommon Co., Mich,
which excited so much Indignation. But
neither of these brought about the least
amelioration to other veterans and wild
ows, to whom equally fragrant injustice
was being done.
The Times goes on to say:
"The public is also aware that his most
violent assailants come from the ranks of
attorneys who fatten on fraudulent pen
sions."
This is absolutely and absurdly untrue.
If there is any such thing as a pension
attorney who is ''fattening on fraudulent
pensions" he is not saying a word. He
is the stillest man in the country Ii
Henry Clay Evans knows of such scoun-
drel he is grossly neglecting his duty that
he does not put the rascal in the penl-
Tertiary at once. Evans gets 100000
year from Congress for Special Examln-
ers to hunt down. such men. What does
he do with it?
If the Times will indicate such a rascal
anywhere The National Tribune will join
with it with the greatest pleasure to bring
him to Justice The Grand Army wants
all such fellows put at hard labor for the
benefit of the State.
Come, Mr.. Times, tell us, at least,
where some of these villains are.
The National tribune., 1901-07-18

Col. JAMES KILBoURNE, whom the
Democrats have nominated for Governor
of Ohio, mas an excellent soldier record,
made in the 95th Ohio. The 95th Ohio
was organized in August, 1862, and hnr-
ried to the front, to meet Kirby Smiths
raid on Cincinnati. VIM. L. McMillen,
afterward Brigadier- General, was its
Colonel. 1t was part of the little force
Of raw recruits which made q brave but
unfortunate stand against Kirby Smiths
veterans at Richmond, KY, where the
regiment lost 8 killed, Al wounded, and
GOO captured. After being exchanged the
regiment was assigned to the Fifteenth
Corps, and fought with it in the siege Of
Vicksburg and at Jackson, where the 95th
captured a rebel battery. 1t was after
ward assigned to the Sixteenth Corps, and
was part of Sturgis's luckless command
at Guntown, where it lost half its num-
ber killed, wounded and missing The re-
mainder of the regiment had its revenge
when it went after Forrest again, under
Gen. A j. Smith, and whipped him
soundly at Tupelo. 1t then went under
Gen. Mower to Arkansas, but was
brought back under A. J. Smith in time
TO take part in the battle of Nashville,
where it performed brilliant service in as
saulting the rebel works, capturing guns
and prisoners. 1t then joined Gen. Candy
for the Mobile campaign. Kilbourne went
into the regiment at its organization as
Second Lieutenant, and was mustered
out with it as a Captain. At the conclu,
sion Of the war he went to Columbus, o.,
and entered 4 manufacturing establish
ment- He showed great ability, and is
today one of the leading manufacturers
of the great State. His relations with his
employees has always been very good, and
he is popular in labor circles. Therefore
ally strong one.
The National tribune., 1901-07-18
ONCE: sss Pennsylvania Avenue N. W.
HEADQUARTERS EoR THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE

We have secured room 135, Hollenden
Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio, for the headquar-
ters 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-
venience. We shall be glad to meet there
all the readers of the paper
The National tribune., 1901-07-18

THE Virginia Constitutional Convention
has run mp against funny obstacle in at
tempting to limit suffrage by the Grand
father clause" which eyades the Four
teeuth Amendment by providing that any
one shall be allowed a vote who is a 'de-
in 1860" Having very few foreigners,
the other Southern States adopted this
scheme without question, but the Vir-
ginia Convention contains several dele
gates whose fathers or grandfathers were
living in Ireland in 1860, and they are
startled TO find that they are in danger
Of DISTINGUISHING themselves.
The National tribune., 1901-07-18

THE solemn farce of spending $500, 600
{ year in medical examinations of men
who are past GO to find out whether they
are disabled for labor in a pensionable
degree"-that is, to entitle them TO an
: average of'$2 week and then studying
these reports with owl-like gravity in the
Pension Bureau for months and years
would be intensely funny, if it were not
SO tragic to the poor men who are thus
kept out of what is due them.
The National tribune., 1901-07-18

LET it be kept in mind that all this
fanfaTonade of Evans about pension
sharks" Treasury looters," etc, etc, is
merely to cover up his unlawful denial Of
from S1.50 to So week to old men, all
Of whom can prove by the War Depart
ment records that they served at least 80
days and were honorably discharged.
The National tribune., 1901-07-18

THE proposition to erect statue TO
Napoleon Bonaparte in recognition of his
service TO us in selling Louisiana is in the
highest degree absurd. He lid not sell
the country because of any good will to
US, bat because he had to. He got be,
tween S11.000,000 and s12O00,OO0 ready
money, which he badly needed for his
coming war, and he got rid Of a piece OF
property which he could not utilize, and
which he could not even hold for a month
after the war broke out. The English
were then masters of the sea, and it was
only a question with him whether ht
would let them take it, or sell it to us.
The National tribune., 1901-07-18

THE rumor goes that Evans is prepar-
ing a wonderful report, in which he viii
sum up the rich millions he has saved
from the voracious pension sharks by a
courage and shrewdness utterly unpar-
alleled in official annals, and that, having
done this, he will resign in a blaze of
glory, to accept any poor little reward
that the President may have the heart
to offer in reward of such splendid serv-
ices. He will no longer chatter with the
President as to his reward. lie viii leave
that TO the Presidential conscience to set
tie with an applauding people.
The National tribune., 1901-07-18

ANOTHER "strong movement to de-
throne Dick Croker" has been begun in
New York. The peculisrity of all these
movements is the tremendous strength
they have while Croker is in England, and
She nervous prostration which paralyzes
them the moment Dick arrives in New
York.
The National tribune., 1901-07-18

THERE is much grumbling in Virginia
that the trusts have got the Constitu-
tional Convention by the throat, and are
throttling every move for just taxation.
Didn't suppose there was such a thing as
q trust south of Mason q Dixon's Line.
The National tribune., 1901-07-18

LOUISVILLE, KY, is putting on frills,
mind you, and seems to have a right to.
She claims 10 be
The Gateway of the South, with pop
ulation of 100000 within radius OF 10
miles;
The Greatest Banking Center in the
South;
The largest Tobacco Market in the
World;
The largest whiskey Market in the
World;
The largest Jeans Market in the World;
The largest Cement, Piows, Farm
8 Wagons, and Sole Leather Market in the
World;
More power to her elbow. The vet
Grams have 4 warm side for Louisville.
The National tribune., 1901-07-18

IT will be good idea for veterans to
keep a scrap-book of these abusive ar
ticles in the papers. They will be inter
esting reading few months from now,
when these same papers begin to whoop
'em up to vote for this or that friend of
the veterans
The National tribune., 1901-07-18
PICKETT OR PETTIGREw?-THEN NORTH
CAROLINA VIEW OF THE FAMOUS
CHARGE

CHARGE.
The North Carolina troops at Gettys-
burg have always felt particularly sore
over Pickett and his Virginians monopo-
lizing all the credit for the famous charge.
They insist that it was mostly North
Carolina affair, and not an exclusively
Virginia matter, as the Yirginians would
make out. a pamphlet setting forth the
North Carolina views has been written
by Capt W. r. Bond, of Scotland Neck,
n. c., and an officer on the staff of Gen.
Pettigrew. This has had a wide circula-
ton in the South. By the authors per-
mission we shall publish some extracts
from it in an early issue of The National
Tribune.
The National tribune., 1901-07-18

THIS country will be great deal older
before Hawaii gets in either as a State or
as county in California. Nobody wants
q seaI-5rown injection into the body poll
tic of Kanakas, japanese and Portuguese.
The National tribune., 1901-07-18

THE bad Filipino must not presume TOO
much on that Civil Government. 1t is not
too civil to make him wish that he were
still under military rule.
The National tribune., 1901-07-18

THERE has not been death from yell
low fever in Cuba this year. No wonder
that the Cubans are startled at the re-
suits of American domination.
The National tribune., 1901-07-18

The easiest way to pay old debts is to
call every man who asks payment pen
sion shark" OF Treasury looter."
The National tribune., 1901-07-18

GLASGOW, Scotland, which has the bad
reputation of the most drunkenness of any
place in the British Isles, is to try
new plan to get rid of the evil. 1t is
modification of the Gothenberg system,
which has worked so well in other places,
the modification being that a private cor
poration will take the place of the city in
monopolizing and regulating the sale of
liquors. The lessees will agree to make
no more than per cent. profit. provided
clean, orderly places, not too tempting, not
to sell to habitual drunkards, or those
who have already had enough and to keep
everywhere for sale excellent food and
soft drinks.
The National tribune., 1901-07-18

GEN. GOMEZ declares that it is only a
question of time when Cuba becomes part
of the United States. That will depend
wholly on how the Cubans act. The ad-
vantages of such union are all with
them. We have always taken from 80
per cent. upward Of their products, and so
it will be OF inestimable advantage to
them to get free access to our markets.
We can easily get all the sugar, tobacco
and fruits that we now buy from Cuba un-
der our own flag, by encouraging their
production in Hawaii, Porto Rico and the
Philippines. 1t is good policy to do so.
Having secured naval bases in Cuba, pro-
vided against any occupation by an I'M
friendly power, and taken other measures
of security, We can now let the Cubans
work out their own salvation as they will.
All propositions for annexation must come
from them, and We must prescribe the
terms. They will probably never be al
lowed to come in as a State.
The National tribune., 1901-07-18

THE performances at Evanston, ILL.,, are
more to the credit of DOwie than to the
people of that center of education and
intelligence. Dowie is undoubtedly a fla
grant humbug, and a great deal of a nui-
sance, but that hardly justifes mob-law
and treatment with u fre-hose. His fol-
lowers are not bad men and women; they
are simply poor, deIuded people, who real
ly want to live better lives, and be Chris
tians III all that the name implies. If
Dowie has violated any law he should be
sharply punished, for he deserves it on
general principles. But for his followers
there should be nothing sharper than rid
icule, and this applied with discretion.
Many of them are incurable, and if
weaned' away from this ism will only
straightway hunt another to grow daft
over. A larger part of them, however, if
left alone, will waken TO the folly and
humbug of their leader, and have received
valuable lesson. Such brutality as that
at Evanston is repugnant to every Amer
lean sense.
The National tribune., 1901-07-18

Nearing Savannah - Struggles With the
Swamps and Morasses-Torpedoes in the
Road.
The National tribune., 1901-07-18

Mr.. EVANS says that there is a syndi-
cate of pension attorneys here who have
been in the habit of running the Pension
Bureau or running the Commissioner.
This is absolutely without foundation.
There is no syndicate of pension attorneys
in Washington, and not one who is or
ever has been in the habit of running the
Bureau. On the other hand the pension
attorneys are at the absolute mercy of the
Commissioner, ami ne can ruin any one of
them any day he. pleases, by a simple
notice of disbarment, which will sweep
all the fruits of years of labor. The pen
sion attorneys of Washington and the
whole country are helpless before him.
The National tribune., 1901-07-18

Ii Henry Clay Evans is driven out OF
office by the pension agents of the coun-
try, none of whom can swindle him or
bulldoze him. he will have the satisfaction
of knowing that the American people be-
lieve him to be an honest man and a con-
scientious public officer.-CleUeland Leader.
Come, now, let's have an end of this
nonsense.
Who are the pension attorneys who are
trying to swindle and bulldoze?
Where are they located?
Let us have something definite: some
names and addresses. If there are such
rascals they ought to be published to the
world, and The NATIONAL TRIBUNE will
gladly help do it.
The National tribune., 1901-07-18
THAT MoMENroUs pusrATcH.

Secretary Long and Admiral Crownin-
shield. Chief of the Bureau of Navigation.
are having a little discussion as to the
authorship of the momentous dispatch to
Commodore Dewey, ordering him TO begin
hostilities. 1t is purely a matter of recol-
lection, and Admiral Crowinshield's recol-
lection is that Commodore Dewey's cable
gram to the Navy Department stating that
at the request of the Governor of Hong
Kong his squadron was to leave at once
for Mrs Bay, China, to await further
orders led to the immediate conyening of
the Cabinet
The Admiral was present at the meet
ing. and after the Cabinet had decided
that the Spanish feet in the Philippines
should be attacked at once, he states that
Re went into an adjoining room and pen
ned the dispatch to Dewey. His recol-
lection even covers the color of the paper
on which the words were written, which,
he states, was yellow, and was handed to
him by Col Webb Hayes, son of ex-Presi-
dent Hayes, who was at the White House
at that time.
But Secretary Long believes that the
order to give battle went forward from
the Department before Dewey's cable
gram announcing his intended departure
from Hong Kong was received in Wash
ington.
He thinks that the order was written
by young officer in the Bureau of Navi-
CATION, and that he should have credit
for the tersely- y-worded telegram" which
was as follows:
Washington, April "a, 1898.
Dewey, Hong Kong:
War has commenced between the
United States and Spain. Proceed at once
10 Philippine Islands. Commence opera
tions at once, particularly against the
Spanish fleet. You must capture vessels
or destroy. Use utmost endeavors.
LONG"
With all respect to both Secretary Long
and Admiral Crowinsheld, we no not be-
lieve that the literary mechanism of the
order is such as to be at all creditable to
anybody. There are more words than are
necessary to convey the meaning, which is
an item when cable tolls are $3.50 word,
and there are unnecessary repetitions.
There was no need of repeating lat once"
or urging an American officer to 'use best
endeavors" That was more forcibly i'm
piled by the message itself than this use
less injunction. Altogether 33 words were
used where it could have been said better
in 10. For example:
'War has begun between United States
and Spain. Proceed Immediately to
Philippines and begin vigorous operations,
particularly against enemy's fleet
The National tribune., 1901-07-18

JOHN McELRoY, ROBERT W. sHoPPELL,
BYRON ANDREWS.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-10-31
NJ. QUAD.

First Little Girl lat n fashionable
seaside resort)-I'm glad to get quaint
ed with you. cause you're nice.
Second Little Girl-So'm l with you.
That's what we come for. Mamma
says so herself.
ITO get 'quainted?"
"Yes, with nice p~eople-people in So
ciety. you know"
why, that's just what mamma
wants. We're to get 'quainted with
people In society"
Amt you In society al home?"
mo. You are, aren't your
mo; we've been rakin and scrapfn
the whole winter to come here and get
'quainted with people in society. you
know"
"So've we."
Then your folks amt anybody at
homer
NO"
Neither are we"
"Then there amt much use In us get
tin 'quainted. is there?"
"S'pose not"
"Goodby"
"Goodby!"
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-10-31

night A neighbor who had heard OF
his illness called to tender his synpa-
fhies, and Mr. Bowser took advantage
OF the occasion to remark:
ssThIs Is a serious case, and OF course
I am suffering as II on the rack. but
you notice how calmly I take II. I am
not a man to make complaints. and
even with death staring me In the face
| am trying to preserve a cheerful de-
meanor."
Dir. Bozser wanted beer. ginger ale
and lemonade. He wanted str1 .ber-
ries and jellies and Ice cream. He in
sisted that Mrs. Bowser telephone his
condition to the doctor every hour, and
yet he declared that the family ply
stefan didn't know enough to doctor a
dizzy headed at He set out with tears
In his eyes to tell Mrs. Bowser what 10
do as a widow, but at the end of ten
minutes charged her with a desire to
zee him planted" so that she could
marry again. OF the Is special dishes
prepared for him be slipped at M or
two. and when night came he drew up
his knees, with O sigh. and groaned
out:
Il should have gone to the hospital In
the first place. l might have known
that I couldn't get any attention In my
OVID house"