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New-York tribune., 1901-12-21

Some CT the passengers the steamer Barba-
rossa which arrived here from Bremen yesterday
morning were Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Copland.
David R NcKa.. Herbert G. Squiers secretary Of
the United States Legation Peking Mrs Sq1iers.
Miss Squiers G. 3. Sherman, Miss Blanche Sner-
man, Mrs. John Kerr Tiffany. Miss TiTrany, Lieu
tenant George ] Holding L. s. A: Lieutenant
Ralph 3. Parrott. L. S. A; Lieutenant Grosven0r
L. Townsend. DR.. and Mrs. Jay and Theodore NJ
Sayboldt-
New-York tribune., 1901-12-21

Dogs delight to bark and bite, whether they
are on show in Madison Square or at large else
New-York tribune., 1901-12-21

nIv because the commission-and perhaps 'he
rovernment-takes it at its own word
New-York tribune., 1901-12-21

Some of those on the steamer La Savoie dn
here from HavTe to-day, are Mr.. and Mrs K B
Hoffman. Miss G. Lillian Robinson, Mrs =. IA, I
CIadv-in w G Reick Albert Alvarez, E Reboulln
Baron de la GotelIerie and Lazare Weller
New-York tribune., 1901-12-21

Booked to sail on the steamer Etruria to-day for
LIVERPOOL are Mr. and Mrs 5. Bass, Captain R j.
c. Eastwood. James ". Forsyth, Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Goodwin. Nh and Mrs. James A G1Iesp,e I,
George Herbert, Mrs. T. NicOl. Miss f NlcoI3
Mr. and Mrs Andrew Onderdonk, Mrs Louise Z.
PIunkett w Selignan and E. NJ SeliSman.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-21

Mr. and Mrs William Rhfnelander have issued
invitations for large Christmas dinner party at
Sherry's on Wednesday next.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-21

Mrs Seth Barton French has arranged to give a
bridge whist tournament January 20. and Mrs
H De Berkeley Parsons has issued invitations for
one on Friday next.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-21

Dr. and Mrs Octavius A White give party on
January for their granddaughter. Miss Elizabeth
Winthrop Stevens.
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He Gave Andrew Carnegie his Start. $

James ID. Reid. the veteran telegrapher
who had the distinction of giving Andrew
Carnegie his first job as messenger boy,
is still living. In Success Mr.. Reid re-
calls the incident which occurred 80 years
ago. in the Atlantic and Ohio Telegraph
office in Pittsburg. as follows:
He was so determined that | became
interested in him at once. He seemed to
have determination written on his face. His
eagerness to work and learn were very
noticeable. Before he had been with me
month, he asked to be taught telegraphy.
When | consented, ne spent all his spare
time in practice. transmitting and receiv-
ing by sound. and not by tape. He was
the third operator in the United States
to read the Morse signals by sound"
This. in Mr.. Carnegie's mind. was his
best move. After long successful years,
Mr.. Carnegie wrote of this change:
My entrance into the telegraph Office
was transition from darkness TO light,
from firing small engine in a dirty
cellar. to clean Office there We're books
and papers. That was paradise TO me,
and | bless the stars that sent me TO be a
messenger in telegraph Office
The National tribune., 1901-05-16
THE AMERICAN CONFLICT % o1z osns
of the Great Rebellion
By Horace Greeley
portraits and 80 views o
And eight guesses free.

There is no substitute for Mr.. Greeley's
great work. 1t is matchless story of
mighty events which covered period of
the Nations growth from the beginning
of the Government to the close of the re-
bellion. This work is so important a con-
tribution to our literature that no library
can lay claim TO being complete without
it. 1t is scarcely possible to be thorough
ly acquainted with the up-growing of the
American Nation out of a collection of
struggling colonies until finally cemented
into one homogeneous union by the civil
war without reading this book. Our edi-
uon OF this great work is exactly iden-
ical in matter, size Of page and type and
illustrations with the original. There has
been no abridgement or curtailment of a
single line anywhere, but in addition to
the original work we have added n brief
sketch of the life of Horace Greeley.
We have the sole right to publish an
edition of The American Conflict at
price which brings it within the reach of
many who hesitated TO buy set of books
the cost of which varied according TO the
binding, from 50 to $13.
All who are interested in political af-
fairs, or in the study Of the great ques-
tions which for more than 80 years di-
yided the country practically in two, and
everyone interested as participant in the
various wars in which we have Engaged
should have this work. Mr.. Greeley pos
The National tribune., 1901-05-16

Do You remember Antietam and the
bitter days that followed, when our brave
soldiers lay wounded and suffering and
dying?
"There was lack of woman's nursing,
There was dearth of woman's tears, y
and there was lack, too, of medicines,
of bandages and lint, and dearth of jel-
lies and home dainties and other things
TO alleviate the sufferings of the wounded.
Calls were Immediately issued to our
Aid Societies TO forward hospital supplies
as quickly as possible. The President of
the local society of which l was a member
at once issued call for a special meet
ing, and sent out her scouts in the per-
sons of young girls to secure beforehand
the necessary articles with which to work.
Ours was a country place, where good
farms and comfortable homes abounded,
and we found it delightful days work,
my friend and ], driving from house to
house, carrying the news of the terrible
battle to those who had not heard it mot
all country folk had daily papers in those
days., and asking for and receiving every
where something to help in this hour of
need.
Well do I remember n tiny house we
found, standing by itself ON crossroad.
As we entered three shy little children
clung to their mothers dress. The moth
er's eyes were full of anxiety, and we saw
the tears fall on the worn tablecloth she
placed in our hands in response to our
appeal for something to make into lint for
the wounded soldiers. Our own tears
dropped in sympathy-tears were very
near all eyes in those sad days-and a
little unspoken prayer was in our hearta
for the safety of her soldier husband. II
was only few days later that we saw
his name in the list of ''mOrtally wound
ed" never saw the young mother again,
nor knew what became of her, but have
always retained vivid remembrance of
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acquired his art through many years Of
observation and experience.
His discharge paper from the United
States army reads as follows:
ITO All Whom It May Concern:
Know We, that Ung Hong Neck. a pri-
vate of Captain Druckenmiller's Company
!, 50th Regiment of Penn. Militia, who
was enrolled on the 18th day of June,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty
three 10 serve ninety days, is hereby dis
charged from the service of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania, this fifteenth day
of August. 1868, at Lancaster. by reason
of expiration of service. No objection TO
his being re-enlisted is known to exist
'.Said ING Hong Neck was born in
Shanghai, China. is twenty-four years of
age, five feet four inches high dark COM
plexion. dark eyes, black hair, and. by
occupation. when enrolled, n printer.
Given at Lancaster, this fifteenth day of
August. 1868. Signed. John II. Druck-
enmiller. Capt. Co. l. 50th Reg't. Pa. NJ.
''John C. Harvey, NJ. o., Pa. NJ"
Across the paper is written: "Paid in
full by Major T. f. Franklin, T. NJ"
By the way. Mr. Woo desires TO ask
n question of your people in the States.
As l said before, he is naturalized
conditions required of aliens before nat
and his papers from the au-
are in proper order.
On his return to China he was duly
registered at the Z. S. Consulate rs an
American subject. and has been connect
ed with IN American mission ever since
his return. Now, he was naturaliZed be-
fore the Exclusion Act was passed, and
even before the amendments to the Con-
stitution The query is, Is he an Amer
lean citizen? Does the recent ruling Of
the L. S. Supreme Court declaring that
no Chinese were ever or could be nat
uralized according to the Constitution ap-
ply in his case? Another thing in his
favor is the fact that he has served in
the Z. S. army. / wish some of your
learned readers would enlighten him on
the subject. Y.
The National tribune., 1901-05-16

prevent a private contract between the
claimant and her agent. the Commissioner
was asked his views on this subject.
''The matter las;not, been btought TO my
attention. replied the Commissioner; but
should it be brought up. l think l should
rule against it; then, of course, it would
be appealed to the Interior Department
and final ruling would be- secured
An allusion was made to the report cur
rent some time ago. to the effect that the
Commissioner might be made Minister TO
Japan. Mr.. Evans was very frank about
the matter. and explained that there was
nothing in the rumor. His daughters had
gone on a visit to Japan with some friends,
and the report had resulted from this cir
cumstance.
BY the way, in this connection, it may
he stated on excellent authority that Col
Buck, the present Minister TO Japan, now
at home and in i'll health, will be reap
pointed Minister TO the Island Empire.
While Mr.. Evans did not say so. the
impression is current in the Pension Blu
rcau that the present Commissioner of
Pensions will retain his position, at least
until the end of the current fiscal year.
and make his report covering that period.
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( periences Of n cavalryman than there is
TO be found in this story. The reader
of these pages will go with the author
into his life and see how the boy was
transformed into a soldier; will march
with him over mountains and across riv.
ers; will camp on the hillside and stand
guard IN the moonlight and in the rain
storm; will be with him as a yidet in the
lonely forest, and again in the wild charge
The humorous, the pathetic, the pre-
posterous, the extravagant phases Of war
are all told with the pen of a master
Finally comes grim battle, the defeat, the
surrender, the travelling through the South
Richmond prisons and at ghastly Belle
Isle; then comes the climax in the prison
stockade at AndersonvilIe ITSELF with its
10000 men, its poverty, its starvation. its
death. All these things are told with the
dramatic power of truth, and they are
The National tribune., 1901-05-16

''The Commissioner exhibited the re-
ports to which he alluded, which showed
the condition of work in the several di-
visions. In the Middle Division, South
ern Division, and some others. the work
was either marked current" or zone
month" behind to two and one-half
months" behind In one division, in case
of widows. the work was mine months"
behind, and the Commissioner explained
that he had last week transferred 10
clerks from the division where the work
was cleared up, to the division in ques-
ton, in order to bring it up also. Ii may
be explained in passing that the divisions
are geographically arranged, being di-
vided into Eastern, Western, Southern,
etc, the various sections including the
States in the part Of the Union thus des-
ignatcd.
1t having been stated that some attor-
neys maintain that the section of the act
restoring pension TO remarked widows,
which prohibited any payment OF fee to
an agent or attorney, would be held to
mean simply that the Government would
not pay the attorneys fee by draft as in
other cases, taking the amount from the
accrued pension of the claimant does not
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c U; S. frigate sSusquehanna came to

the U. S. frigate SusQuehanna came to
Shanghai.
The Surgeon on board, DIR. ]. S. Mes,
sersmith. was interested in young Woo
&. and invited him to join the naval ser
vice, and thus go TO the States, which he
pedition Commodore Perry made the first
treaty with the japanese, opening some
of the MikadOs ports TO the merchants
and missionaries of the west.
Soon after the frigate returned to San
Francisco, and Mr.. Woo went on to the
Navy Yard at Philadelphia in March,
1855. He was then honorably discharged
from the frigate, and DR.. Messersmith,
having become much attached to the
young Chinese. the latter went to Ian
caster with him. He remained in that
Pennsylvania town and entered the Ian,
caster Examiner-Herald office TO learn
the art of printing.
In 1868, | believe, soon after the battle
of Gettysburg, there was call for volun-
teers for three months service, and Mr..
Woo promptly responded. He was for
tunate or unfortunate enough not TO see
any actual fighting, but the company
went to Maryland and remained in the
neighborhood of Hagerstown on guard
duty for almost the whole period. he
was honorably discharged at the expira-
. ton of service.
Mr.. Woo is an enthusiastic Union man,
and while talking with MIN the other day
on his war experience, and regretting in
a way that he did not see any active SER
vice, he said: But We were ready TO
fight. though"
You were. anyway, on the winning
side" / remarked.
yes he replied, quick as fash, and
a glow of the old fire played around his
eyes, "and on the right side, too
Since his return, Mr.. Woo has been
with the American Church Mission, and
was connected for many years with the
Mission Hospital, st. Luke's, as well as
having charge of a church in a flourish
ing village near Shanghai. He has great
reputation among the Chinese for his heal
iCingg powers, though he never took any
regular course in medical college. He
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THE SToRMING OF
SAN JUAN HILL
AND THE
FIGHT AT e. CANEY

are included in the chapter '.The Cavalry
at Santiago" The Governor has correct
ed in this work many of the misstatements
made by correspondents at the time This
volume forms the greater part of the his
tory of the Spanish-American War, and
up to this writing has only been sold at
$500 copy. The Governor, however,
has permitted n special limited edition to
be published and on which we made a
most liberal offer.
One handsome volume, 800 pages, large
tyne, with fine half-tone portrait of Gov.
Roosevelt in Rough Rider uniform.
The charm of the book is without par
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be severe and parliamentary at the same
time" so Mr. Roosevelt shows that he
can he accurate and entertaining at the
same time. Never before has there been
n book so perfect from the standpoint of
the statistician and never one more fas-
cinating from the standpoint of the general
reader.
The above book. postpaid. and
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tentiOn upon the ever
changing panorama Of
active warfare, the voice
of heroes dying in prison,
pens was lost. No news
came from the men herd
ed like cattle beyond the
mountains Of the South.
The Nation knew little
of the horrors behind
the stockade.
The author of Ander-
sOnyille has told a thrill
Ing story. If it has hor-
rors they are not Of his
invention.
The book, however,
will be found TO treat not
only Of prison life, but to
abound In incidents of
the camp, the march,
The National tribune., 1901-05-16
VETERAN MISSIONARY
Rey. Hong Neck Woo, a Soldier
of the Civil War.

Special correspondence to THE NATIoSAL TRIBUNE.
Shanghai, China.
Your correspondent has been fortunate
enough to secure some very unique war
news, but not related to the present war
in China. 1t is bit of the echo of the
American civil war. The hero is the Rev.
Hoong Niok Woo, or, as he then spelled
his name, Ung Hong Neok, a native OF
Shanghai, but naturalized American
citizen. He was student at the board
ing school of the American Church Mis-
sion, then under the charge of the first
Bishop Boone, and one of the first con-
verts. At that time Commodore Perry
was in the East on his expedition, and
The National tribune., 1901-05-16

This book tells the story of Mr.. Lincoln's
life as it has never been told before. The
narrative presents him as man rather
than as an official. The history of the
war period abounds in incidents and anec-
dOtes told of him and by him.
There are thousands of incidents of his
associations with Hamlin, Steward, STAN
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Sumner, Chase, and al the other long ar
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time. No attempt is made to give n his
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I is i m p o S s ! b ] e,
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sessed the wonderful faculty of being able
not only to write forcibly upon civil af-
fairs, but also to describe campaigns in
q most graphic manner; therefore, no his
tory of the war of the rebellion written
since his time surpasses in interest the
work which he began and finished while
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CONTENTS.
Raising the Regiment.
The Start for Cuba.
Gen. Young's Big Fight.
The Cavalry at Santiago.
In the Trenches.
The Return Home.

Remember, this is a special edition, au-
thorized by Gov. Roosevelt. 1t is limited
and after the present lot is disposed of
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The Rough Riders.
BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

This book is Governor Roosevelt's best
known work. 1t has been praised and
quoted from by the press of the whole
country. No otner work on the Spanish
War has had such a wide circulation or
attracted such attention.
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North Liberty, Iowa ian . 1890

North Liberty, Iowa, Jan. 2, 1899.
Editor National Tribune: / have re-
ceived of you The American Conflict, a
history of the late rebellion, written by
thing of the kind that have seen. l have
been in battles that he gives descriptions
of that are wonderfully correct.
"A. G. Moreand.
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The Every Day Life
of Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln's Life and Character
Portrayed by Those Who
Knew Him-A Complete Per
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BY FRANCIS F. BROWNE.
100 Original Illustrations; $50 Pages;
8VO. Cloth Bound.