The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-19
OVER THE GLOBE
n1onkxEa A GOLDEN STREAK x30N THE TREASURY.
no-eixth Goes Into the South-How 4md Where the Government Dis
 tributes Pensions s-7Arttc sJTI
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 Snhington Evening Star.
 There is not a portion of the globe.
 ~m the region of arctic ice, snows and nr bears to the hot, fever-fnfected
 NME1aa of the tropical islands of the
 &6ian Ocean and the depths of dark,
 04forial Africa, that greater or les- 1F 9oiden streams from the Washing
 - coffers of Uncle Sam, at Fifteenth U&reet and Pennsylvania Avenue, do Mpt How tof some one who. sAaying 9trved his honored flag on 4the field of &4tt1e, is today remembefed by his ofateful country" said pension office <lcial. .&
 .I will wager anybody an even- money bet that he cannot off-hand xife the location of the Seychelles 1s- 3Xnds: yet there are two United States B&usioners residing in these unhealthy, lot, tropical islands in the far-off in- 4dfan Ocean, who draw $252 annually from this government. On the Island < of 0Gauritius. of which the Seychelles 111ands are dependency, is another
 nsioner, who draws $s6. while in the (m0ro Islands, which are situated in &fo Mozambique channel. between the &6Dt of Africa and Madagascar, a long Thya from the pension office. SEQ an- 66aily is drawn by pensioner.
 s..sro the rock of St. Helena, where Napoleon died, go. $l44 to one man. Ten
 0&n in the republic of Liberia spend fbere q. .4S4, while in Sierra Leone, the Ufitish possession adjoining Liberia on
 9 north, now lives one pensioner who IT Eiven $90 Portuguese East Africa 6hd the Transvaal each have one rouIdent pensioner. making Q total of fhirteen in Africa
 xssTo the lagoons and canals of Bang ko1x. the capital of Siam. SC $252 to two Gx-GoIdIers, while six, drawing S594, re- Gl1e In India. Continuing our travels to China, we will leave $3,237 to be Distributed among twenty. At Yoko- &8ma for the nine residing in the land sok, the chrysanthemum.. we win de- b6ait q, COG We will then set sail for Honolulu. where forty-eight reside, drawing ss7ss. .s
 ovsr . Thousand in Europe.
 ssgince all eyes are centered on 'Rus- s1n 1t will be of interest to know that afne pensioners of the United States reside within the Czar's domains and annually change 1,260 American dollars into fubIes.' Germany has more dis abled United States soldiers than any other continental country, for 610, drawing $s6.00O, live where Emperor William rules. In France there are nevenfy-two, drawing $10,000; in Greece thef8 are i've, drawing $S40: in Austria f1fex& are thirty-six drawing $5,000; in 1tAIM there are thirty-three. drawing &4,e60. in Portugal, six receive Ss46; in Belgium there are fifteen. receiving <3,1O0. while little Switzerland comes in with sixty-nine, receiving $9.7O0. and Sweden has fifty, drawing $7,000.
 sOTer $eo.0 900 goes to Ireland annually, ald Isle who were disabled in the civil war. Tn England there are 32S draw ing $4s.50o; 1o2 in Scotland, drawing ST ,a00; in Wales, thirteen, receiving s1, 4o0 and there Is one solitary man on the Isle of Man, who gets s72.
 Under the star and crescent seven residents of the Sultan's possessions receive $1,o00. Spain shows her good will by allowing us to pay $S34 to seven Pensioners there. Among the fjords Of far-away Norway forty-two men are $7, ,40e better off for having once shoul- dered agun, fer us. One pensioner. re- Ekypf. In little Denmark. there are fwanty-seven who get s3,S00 a. year. On the British fortress-island of Malta, in the Mediterranean, $252 go to two pen- eioners. and S720 is drawn by five in the balmy Madeira Islands. One lonely man on the Island of Cypress is cheer ed by the receipt of SIP year. and there are three in the Azores Islands.
 Two Regiments in Canada.
 ssNearly two full regiments, or 2.219 of former United States soldiers, live in Canada. and they draw the neat agwre@ate sum of $Sl2,9 every year. F1fty-five more live in Cuba, and are paid $5.500. There are twelve in Porto Hico receiving $500. and nine in the receiving $1.260. Scattered the different islands of the West Indies there are thirteen more who are paid S1 300 annually. There are also two in the Danish West Indies,