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The National tribune., 1902-10-02
PENSION POINTERS.
Inquiries Answered and Sugges.
tiOns Made.

G. B., Waupaca. Wis.-The only equal
ization bounty bill that passed Congress
was vetoed by President Grant. The
President has no power to return bills for
amendment. He must approve, veto, or
allow them to become a law without his
approval.
H. F., Cordz, Mo.-A child's pension
| is ordinarily the widows rate with 81
per month added. That is to say, child s
pension under the act of 1890 is $40 per
month, and under the general law, S14
per month.
w. Vincennes. Ind.-Technically the
war of the rebellion did not come to a
close till Aug. 20, 1866. In the admin
istratiOn of the pension laws the war is
held to have practically closed by July
1, 1865. After April =, 1866. hostilities
were limited to the State of Texas. Boun-
ties were offered and paid for enlistments
in the volunteer army as late as April
30. 1865 and for enlistments in the Regular
Army as late as June 30. 1865. Enlixt-
ments i'm loyal States after April IL, 1860,
are held for pension purposes not to
have been made in or for the war of the
rebellion. and any service rendered under
such enlistments must be shown to have
had direct connection with the suppress
sion of the rebellion, in order to be pen
sionable under the act of 1890.
Z. G. H., Grand Junction, Colo.-The
general law pension rate for actual loss
of arm below the elbow or of leg below
the knee IS $50, not $24. The proposed
pension bill, so far as it relates to general
law pensions does not propose to increase
rates except where there is actual loss
or disability of limb. 1t does not pro-
pose to increase all those receiving GER
tain rates of pension.
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AGAIN OFFERED
To National Tribune Readers.

The Theo. Noel Company are again
making their offer to send a package of
Vitea Ore on trial to every subscriber OF
The National Tribune, or friend recon-
mended by readers, and every person in
need of medicinal treatment of any kind
should be certain to accept the same
Their offer occupies a large part of page S
and all can profit by reading it through
carefully. This medicine was discovered
many years ago by Theo Noel, the presi-
dent of the company, at that time pres
pecting geologist, and since its introduc-
tion has been instrumental in curing
thousands upon thousands of ailing peo-
pie throughout the country of all manner
of diseases, number of which are enum-
Grated in the advertisement. The com
pany desires no ones money whom Vitae
Ore cannot positively benefit and for this
reason do not offer the medicine for cash,
but desire each person to test it before
paying for it, and none need pay unless
benefited and satisfied. The company is
regarded as reliable, is well known to the
reading public, have what they claim, and
will do as they agree. A large number of
our readers have already accepted this
offer and can consequently testify con-
cerning the merits of the medicine, but
those who have not should not hesitate to
give V. o. trial according to the liberal
offer made by the Theo. Noel Company.
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Play Ball.
Fitzgerald. Ga. Sent.

Fitzgerald. Ca. Sept. 20, 1902.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: At a meet
ing of Post II, Department of Georgia
and South Carolina, G.. A. r., held at
Fitzgerald. Ga, this day. was appointed
a committee Of one to inform you that we
are coming to the Encampment, and, fur
ther. that we hereby challenge any Post
or city (Washington preferred) to meet us
on the diamond and play us a game of
baseball for fun or marbles. The only
conditions being that our opponents must
be all old veterans. and that they wear
no spikes in their shoes. so they may not
disable us or themselves in falling over
us. We are in earnest in this matter, and
leave it with you to arrange it for us. We
are coming about 40 strong, and want to
show to the world that the old vets are
still on earth and some. at least, know
how to play ball.-A. w. KEENY, o. d.,
Post II.
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WHAT GOES UP
Must Come Down.

Nothing is more certain than that the
use Of SO called tonics, stimulants and
medicines, which depend upon alcohol for
their effect, is injurious to health in the
long run.
What goes up must come down and the
elevation of spirits, the temporary exhila-
ration resulting from dose of medicine
containing alcohol, will certainly be fol-
lowed in few hours by a corresponding
depression to relieve which another dose
must be taken.
In other words, many liquid pate mt
medicines derive their effect entirely from
the alcohol they contain.
Alcohol, and medicines containing it,
are temporary stimulants and not in any
sense Il true tonic. In fact it is doubtful
if any medicine or drug is a real tonic.
A true tonic is something which will re-
new, replenish, build up the exhausted
nervous system and wasted tissues of the
body, something that will enrich the blood
and endow it with the proper proportions
OF red and white eorpuscles which pre-.
vent or destroy disease germs. This is
what 4 real tonic should do and no drug
or alcoholic stimulant will do it.
The only true tonic in nature is whole
some food, thoroughly digested. Every
particle of nervous energy, every minute
muscle, fibre and drop of blood is created
The mere eating of food has little TO do
with the repair of waste tissue but the
perfect digestion Of the food eaten has
everything to do with it,
The reason so few people have perfect
digestion is because from wrong habits of
living the stomach has gradually lost the
power to secrete the gastric Juice, pep
tones and acids in Sufficient quantity.
To cure indigestion and stomach troub-
les it is necessary to take after meals
some harmless preparation which will sup.
ply the natural peptOne and diastase which
every weak stomach lacks, and probably
the best preparation of this character is
Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets which may be
found in every drug store and which con.
tain in pleasant palatable form the whole.
some pept0ne and diastasc which nature
requires for prompt digestion.
One or two of these excellent tablets
| taken after meals will prevent souring
fermentation and acidity and insure com
plete digestion and assimilation.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are equally
valuable for little children as for adults
as they contain nothing harmful or stimu
latlng but only the natural digestives.
One OF Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets will
digest 1,S00 grains OF meat, eggs or Other
wholesome food, and they are in every
sense genuine tonic because they bring
about in the only natural way a restora
tive of nerve power, q building up OF LOST
tissue and appetite, in the only way il
can be done By the digcstios and ossimil0tiox
..of Wholesome food.
The National tribune., 1902-10-02

U. 8. Grant, Philadelphia, 215 East
Capitol
Ladies of G. A. r., 1913 Street North
west.
PoToMAC-
Grand Army Hall. 1412 Pennsylvania
Ave.
Woman's Relief Corps, Wimodoughsis,
14th and New York Ave.
RHODE ISLAND
The Normandie.
Slocum Post, 937 X Street Northwest.
SOUTH DAKOTA
Elsmere.
TENNESSEE
The St. Louis.
TEXAS
922 Fourteenth Street.
UTAH
VERMONT
The Dumbarton.
VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA
Hartranft Post. Charlotte, N. c., 81:
East Capitol Street.
WASHINGTON AND ALASKA
721 10Th Street Northwest.
WEST VIRGINIA
The Barton.
Ladies of the G.. A. r., The Ebbitt.
WISCONSIN,
The Normandie
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ENCAMPMENT NOTES.
The Normandie.

COmrade e. W. Elliot. Assistant Adju-
tant-General, Department Of Washington
and Alaska, Walla Walla, Wash, writes:
The Union Veterans of the Pacific
Coast States are all alive in anticipation
of the coming Encampment of the G. A.
Il. at Washington City. Every one that
can in any way get there will be in line
for the last grand parade down Pennsyl-
vania Avenue. The State of Washington
| will. for this far away State, send quite
| n large delegation. Department Com
mander Il. G.. Bedell and his staff will
be in Washington Oct. q. Department
| Headquarters will be established at 721
| 18th street, between G and II, where all
comrades will be made welcome"
One hundred and twenty-five members
of James III. Perry Post. SO, Brooklyn,
n. Y, under command of TheO A. Josep,
will participate in the Encampment par
ade. The Post will have a verteran drum
and fife corps. The members will arrive
in Washington, Sunday, Oct. ). at 4 p. m,
and will march to quarters, corner G and
9th streets northwest.
Buckley Post, of Akron, o., will arrive
early Sunday evening, and be ready to
welcome its friends at 209 East Capitol
street that evening.
Headquarters of the Sd n. Y. Cav. will
be located at 1873 Pa. ave. northwest dur
ing the Encampment.-RObt. A. Boyd,
Chairman Committee.
A Reunion Of the survivors of the 49th
". Y. will be held at Camp Roosevelt on
Tuesday afternoon, Oct. Z, at 3 o'clock,
probably in the Sherman tent. The monu-
ment erected by the voluntary contribu-
tiOns from the surviving members of the
iL- ,v,lp fI.n
Spottsylvania G. H.. Va, and will be un-
yelled and dedicated Thursday, Oct. 8. A
fine program has been arranged. The
most prominent speakers will be Lieut.
Col. VIM. G. Alborger. of San Francisco,
Cal, and Geo. Fl. Selkirk, of Buffalo, n.
y. 1t is expected and hoped that goodly
number of the boys will be present
Committee - A: 81; McKeloy, Nehemiah
Sperry, Jos. D. Wilder.
On Thursday, Oct. 8. from $50 to
1890, the Daughters of Veterans will give
a reception in Society Temple, to which
the public in general is invited, especially
the q. A. r. and all kindred patriotic Or
ders. The Society of the Daughters of
ters of the soldiers and sailors of 81 to
90, who are banded together to perpetu-
ate their memory, brighten their path
through life, help their widows and or
phans, and assist the G. A. r. in any
way they can, and it will be pleasure
to them to grasp the hand of every SOL
dier at this reception.
The local lodge of Elks is preparing to
entertain in lavish style the members of
the Grand Army of the Republic who are
also Elks.
Mrs. Calsta Robinson Jones, National
President of the Woman's Relief Corps,
has issued very handsome invitations to
the reception which the National Presi-
dent and her staff will tender to Gen.
Torrance and his staff on Wednesday
evening. Oct. g. at Convention Hall.
While invitations have been issued to peo-
pie prominent in the two Orders and in
public life, all comers will be welcome,
and there will be room for ALL Conven-
tion Hall is the largest hall ever used for
reception purposes at a Grand Army En-
campment.
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WidoNa' Papliona.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Under
date Of Sept. 10. there appeared in the
Topeka Capital special from Washing
ton on retrenchment in the allowance of
pensions. Among other things the au-
thor says:
'There are thousands of women draw
ing pensions from the Government simply
because they are widows Of men who
drew pensions. These women married
men after the war was over, many of
them just before the soldiers deaths, and
now they claim the right to draw that
soldiers pension. 1t is fair enough to
give a pension to the widow OF q soldier
who was his wife before he drew pen
sion, but | am in favor of law that will
prohibit the granting Of widows pen
sion to any woman who married the sol
dier after he was granted Government
aid. Such law would reduce the pay
ment by many thousand dollars"
Any veteran who will give utterance to
such diabOlical rot is unworthy OF men,
bership in the G. A. r., and unworthy of
confidence or respect of any man who
wore the blue or who delights in our
country's history.
There may be isolated cases where the
widow Of an old soldier is not Justly en-
titled to pension. But is there general
law on our statute books that works alb
solute justice in every case? If this
writer's views were enacted into a law
the present wives of all the unmarried
boys who left the colleges, farms and
stores at their country's call. served their
country with unparalleled fidelity, came
home crippled and MANNED, and who could
never have maintained a family but for
the pension a grateful Government allow
ed them. and afterward married, would
be placed under ban. These wives. who
are the mothers of the veterans children;
these wives, who for lifetime have shar-
ed the burdens incident to the veterans
disabilities, whose earthly possessions are
less than if their husbands were able bod
led men, shall be denied pension while
the wives who happened TO have married
few years earlier shall be remembered.
There are also many veterans who be-
came widowers since the war, who remar-
ried and have children: whose wives have
been the very personification of faithful
ness and loyalty: who have nursed and
cared for the old soldier in his infirmity.
been a mother to his children; they, too,
according to the views of this parsimon-
ious correspondent, must be neglected by
| their Government. AS well might 1t be
| urged that il an old soldier has children
born to him after he received Government
aid, they should be disinherited by the
Government their father helped to perpet-
| uate.
II this correspondent represents the
views Of any Congressman, as he pre-
| tends. then i. is safe to assume such Con-
gressmnn is still a mourner for the Lost
Cause.
IL the writer represents his own views.
and Is an employe in some of the Depart.
ments, he should be most unceremonious-
ly fired; or IL he Is q pensiOner his name
should be dropped from the pension rolls.
l-F. n. Higgason. Beileyille, Kan.
The National tribune., 1902-10-02
Thanks to Representative Jett.

The members of Samuel L. Hughes
Post, 534, Department of Illinois, Collins
vile, ILL.,, have unanimously passed resolu-
tions of gratitude to Hon. Thomas +. Jett,
Representative, for his service in procur-
ing for them a cannon, which has been
received and mounted in the public
square, and also for his eloquent and
patriotic address on the occasion of the
cannon being dedicated to the city. They
feel all the more grateful to him because
his action in their behalf was taken after
the fortunes of politics had placed Mr.
Jett outside of their Congressional Dis
trict. They promised him their lifelong
appreciation and assistance at any time
in the future when it can be of any value.
The National tribune., 1902-10-02
New Use for Refined parafttne wax.

A new and important use for Refined Par
affin Wax seems to have been discovered by
prominent resident Of Ohio. living near
Lancaster, who had two trees badly damaged
by storm, one being a maple and the other
apple. In each case large limb was
broken down from the trunk. but stii attach
ed to it. The limbs were propped up and
fastened securely with straps, very much as
a broken leg might be fastened with splints,
and then melted refined wax poured into and
over all the cracks. The surgical opera
ton" was entirely successful. The Paraf-
fin prevented the escape Of the sap. kept
out the rain and moisture that would have
rotted the trees. prevented the depredaflons
Of insects. and the limbs seem thus far to
be perfectly re-attached to the trees.
The National tribune., 1902-10-02
A Correction.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Will you
permit me to correct an error in the issue
of The National Tribune of Sept. 1S? In
the column devoted to the National En-
campment'' the comrade, speaking of the
battles of Franklin and Nashville, says Of
the Fourth end Twenty-third Corps,
that they were reinforced by Brig. Gen.
A. ]. Smiths detachment of the Fifteenth
Corps 1t should have read. "Was rein
forced by Maj.-Gen. A. ]. Smiths detach-
ment of the Army of the Tennessee
Right Wing of the Sixteenth Corps."-P.
c. Smith, 10th H., Kansas City, Mo,
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California Veterans Association.

Capt. Geo. III. Pettis, Secretary and
Treasurer Of the California Volunteer
Veteran Association, Providence, r. l.,
has issued call for the 18th Annual Re
dnion Of the society. to be held at Wash
ington, D. c., during Encampment week.
Headquarters will be established in a tent
on the White Lot in the locality assigned
to the Seventh Corps. The business
meeting will be held Thursday, Oct. 8, at
10 O'clock A. m
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900, nearly 200 commands having been
organized in the States and Colonies II
is further stated that about 100 commands
are in process of formation. The organi-
zaton expended for supplies, relief, etc,
| last year $165,00O. and there is now
| $1,000 in the National Treasury.
The reports of the Adjutant-General
and Quartermaster-Gener We're turned
over to the Council of Administration for
examination and report.
The National Auxiliary. Ladies of the
Spanish War Veterans. held its Annual
Meeting in Detroit during the National
Assembly. The principal business trans
acted was the election of National officers
and steps to provide for the general ex-
tension of the Association. Mrs. Gen. John
A. Logan declined to again serve as Presi-
dent. and acting upon her suggestion Mrs.
Flora a. Lewis. of Washington. was
elected as her successor. The other Ma
tional officers elected were: Mrs. Isabelle
Alexander. of Cleveland. Ohio. Senior Vice
President: Mrs. William ii. Hubbell, Of
New York. Junior Vice President: Mrs.
f. S. Hodgson. of Washington. Inspector;
Mrs. Henry y. Couden. of Washington.
Chaplain: Miss Cornelia Clay. Treasurer;
Mrs. L. Gertrude Mitchell, of Washing
ton, Condu, tress: Mrs. l.. NJ. Huyck,
Washington, Guard; Mrs. l.. NJ. Fergu-
son. Washington. Color Bearer; Mrs. Ellen
Spencer MuSSey. Referee, and DIR. Ida
Heiberger. Surgeon.
Mrs. Lewis appointed Mrs. Hoyt A.
Holton Corresponding Secretary, and Miss
Agnes l.. Little. Recording Secretary, both
of Washington.
National Council of Administration
Miss Harriet Il. Hawley. Washington:
Mrs. Avery Ohio: Mrs. Mary T. Denein.
New York: Mrs. Isabel Thonnay. New
York; Mrs. A. E. Wilkinson, Washington:
Mrs. Matilda Il. Sprague. Washington;
Mrs. Dennison. Ohio: Miss Jennie Nc
Bride. New Jersey: Mrs. Eggleston. Ohio;
Mrs. Mary Thomas. Brooklyn: Mrs Rose
Wheeler. New Hampshire: Mrs. Royce.
District of Columbia.
Miss Clara Barton. of the Red Cross So
ciety, was elected National Sponsor for
life.
A son of Mrs. Lewis. the new Presi-
dent, was killed on the firing line at San
tiago. Among the notable women at the
Convention was Mrs. Capron, widow of
Capt. Allyn X. Capron, of the Rough
Riders, who was killed at the head of
his troop during the first days fight be-
fore Santiago.
Commander-in-Chief Urell was given a
rousing reception upon his return from
Detroit. Friday evening. by the local Span
ish War Veterans. and his comrades of
John A. Rawlins Post. G. A. r.. and En-
camDment Co. Union Veterans Legion
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No; 18th III. Cav.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Thanks
for that article On the Bible in the public
schools. Give us more of it. The action
Of The National Teachers's Association
was weak as branch water. Was Com
rade McElroy in the 14th Ill. Cav? l am
well acquainted in Posy Co. Ind. and
know a host of Bean Blossoms-went to
school with some of them. Hurrah for 81
and ShOrty.-W. l.. DE MURBARN Pastor
q. B. Church. 11th KY, Third Divi-
sion. Twenty-third Corps, Army of the
Ohio
The National tribune., 1902-10-02
Who IL III

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: have in
my possession badge with the following
inscription: "Wm. w. Eaton, Co. 1, 1st
Hegt; Mass. Volunteers CHooker's Diyi-
sion)." l would be pleased to have II re-
turned to the owner or his relatives upon
proper proof being submitted to myseIf.
James w. Webb. Rnnkin's Post, 10. 13
Wilioushby st. Brooklyn, N. 7.
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Tons of Checks.

Commissioner Yerkes. of the Internal
Revenue Bureau, has been compelled to
rent an outside building in which to re-
ceire and store checks and drafts bearing
imprinted stamps now being sent in for
redemption. The original act providing
for the redemption of these imprinted
stamps limited the time within which they
could be presented for redemption to two
years from the time they were purchased
from the Government. Subsequently that
time was extended to Jan. I, 1904.
Almost Immediately after the act was
passed banks and large business houses
began sending in their surplus stocks, and
in a short time the quantity had reached
the point where the weight threatened the
wallis of the rooms and corridors where
they were stored, necessitating a prompt
removal. Up to this time 1874 tons have
been destroyed or returned to the senders
after cancellation, and there are now
about GO tons on hand, with the daily
receipts almost equal to the cancellations.
The National tribune., 1902-10-02
Sigel Monument,

A committee, of which Gen. Stewart l..
Woodford is President, has started a
movement to secure public aid in erecting
a monument to Gen. Franz Sigel, who
died recently at his home in New York
City,
The National tribune., 1902-10-02

Regent Hotel.
u. S. Grant Post. Chicago, etc, The
Ebbitt.
INDIANA
Riggs House.
INDIAN TERRITORY
Senate Hotel.
Iowa.
| The Barton.
KANSAS
Hotel Oxford.
:53S Street Northwest.
LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI
Metropolitan Hotel.
MARYLAND
MASSACHUSETTS
Cochran.
Post 10, Fitchburg, Central Union Mis-
sion.
Post SO, Leominster. McCauley's Hall,
! 2C9 Pennsylvania Avenue Southeast.
Post Is. Boston, Washington Hall,
Pennsylvania Avenue and Third Street
Southeast.
1SeNnOluS I'OSt, weymouth. MTS. Auliai
~. Baden. 21i A Street Southeast.
MICHIGAN
The Arlington.
Post II. Detroit, Mrs. Hughes, 1912
Fifteenth Street Northwest.
MINNESOTA
The Ebbitt.
MISSOURI
Hamilton House.
Ransom Post, st. Louis, Hotel John
son.
Frank Blair Post. st. Louis, Mrs.
Doxey. 211 ID Street Northwest.
Hassendeubel Post, 1921 q Street and
713 18th Street.
MONTANA
NEBRASKA
The National.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
The National.
New JERSEY
Ebbitt House.
Marcus l.. Ward Post. Newark, Balti-
more Hotel.
James Garfield Post, Newark, CONNER
cial Hotel.
Aaron Wilkes Post, %. Trenton, 1904
Massachusetts Avenue Northwest.
Van Houten Post, 215, East Capitol
Street.
Woman's Relief Corps. New Willard.
NEW MEXICO
Senate Hotel 225 Pennsylvania Ave.
NEW YORK.
Ebbitt House.
Bidwell- Wilkerson Post. Buffalo, St.
James Hotel.
Vn.or,n,, AvSo,;ot;o, Now yorl Cifv
st. James Hotel.
Koites Post, New York City, George
Bcsslers Hotel, 800 Pennsylvania Ave.
Baldwin Post, Elmira, 217 East Capt.
tol Street.
Grant Post, New York City, Hotel
Johnson.
Mansfield Post, New York City, Hotel
johnson.
Horace Claflin Post, New York City,
VaInum Hotel.
NORTH DAKOTA
The Herndon, 1885 New York Ave-
n. w.
OHIO
National Hotel.
Stoker Post, Findlay. Mrs. Huff, 81 X
Street Northeast.
Forsyth Post Is, Toledo. Mrs. Beal, POI
r Street Northwest.
Old Guard, Dayton, Washington Hall,
Third and Pennsylvania Ave. Southeast.
Relief Corps, 135 Carroll Street South
east.
Memorial Post, Cleveland. free quarters
Bulkley Post, Akron, 2l5 East Capitol
Street.
Woman's Relief Corps, The Ebbitt.
OKLAHOMA
Senate Hotel, 225 Pennsylvania Ave.
OREGON
PENNSYLVANIA
Ebbitt House.
Schuyler Post, Philadelphia, Lincoln
National Bank Hall, Seventh and d
Streets.
Mays Post. Franklin. Varnum Hotel.
Birney Post, Philadelphia, 1925 H
Street Northwest; Naval Post, Lawrence
Hotel.
Post SO. Harrisburg, 621 Seventh Street
Northwest.
Hays Post, Pittsburg, the Litchfield.
Anna Ross Post, Philadelphia, POI East
Capitol Street.
Zook Post, Norristown. Amazon House.
Mclean Post, Reading, La. Fetra's
Hotel.
Mcpherson Post, Pittsburg. Howellton
House.
Abe Patterson Post. Allegheny, Ard
more Hotel
Lincoln Post, Shamokin, 1895 Rhode
Island Ave.
John A. Koltes Post, 22s. Cutler House.
222 Third Street Northwest.
Post II, Norristown, Emerson House
COZ Pennnsylvania Ave.
Post Al, Pittsburg, 215 East Capitol
Street.
Post 10 nevisfovn vV;thePt. u.u