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The National tribune., 1903-02-12
Crittenden's Grave.

An inquiry started by a former Ken
tuckian, Isaac L. Sturgeon, now residing
IN st. Louis, Mo-, has led to the locating
of the place of interment of Col. VIM. T.,
Crittenden and his followers, who 50 wears
ago were executed in Cuba, by order of the
Spanish Captain-General, Jose de la Con
cha.
No event in the early struggles for Gu
ban independence aroused so great feeling
IN the United States as the execution of
Col. Crittenden and his party. Col Crit
tenden had organized company of Ken
tuckians, and Joined Gen. Lopez in Cuba.
Theodore O'Hara, who became famous by
writing ''The Bivouac of the Dead" also
Joined Lopez. About 200 of the Ameri-
cans escaped on vessel, reaching the
Florida coast although holly pursued Col.
Crittenden and considerable portion of
his men were taken prisoners.
Gen. La COncha ordered every American
prisoner shot
The men were led out in squads of 10.
required to kneel, and were then shot in
the back. Col. Crittenden and one of his
officers were reserved for the last. When
his turn came Col. Crittenden refused to
kneel or turn his back, saying proudly, "a
Kentuckian kneels only 10 his God and
faces his enemy always" With no band
age over HIS eyes ne StOOu erect anu re-
ceived the charge. The bodies of the he
roic men were mutilated by the rabble.
who paraded Havana with the arms and
legs of the victims on poles.
The bodies were finally given rude
burial, but the friends of the men have
never until recently been able to ascertain
the exact location.
When the Cubans finally attained their
independence Mr.. Sturgeon determined to
renew his efforts to find the body of Col.
Crittenden, and accordingly directed a
communication to the State Department
asking them to institute inquiries. a let
ter to Mr.. Herbert G. Squiers, Envoy Elk
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
of the United States in Cuba, from Secre-
tary Carlos de Zaldo, of the Department
of State and Justice, states that data fur
nished by the Bishop of Havana shows
that the bodies of Crittenden and his fell
lowers were inferred on the brow of the
hill Castillo de Artares. The Cuban all
thorities will make further investigation
and supply Mr.. Sturgeon with all the III
obtainable.
The National tribune., 1903-02-12
Jim All Right.

an tell you a good story, though it Is
rather pathetic when taken seriously"
said Alexander B. Grady, New York
drummer, at the Raleigh. ga young man
of rich and indulgent parents, whom we
will call Jim for short, got to be in very
poor health, so he decided to go to Africa.
His family instructed him not to spare ex-
pense, but to cable three times a week
how he was, and what he was doing. The
first cable ran:
"'Well Native guide, Rajah. Hunt
lions tomorrow
"The next communication did not ar
rive till two weeks later. 1t was this:
Jim dead. Killed. Lion. What dot
"RAJAH.'
'Back went the fearful message:
Send Jim's body
''SiX weeks later there was delivered to
the keeper of the receiving vault of the
town cemetery box or coffin so large and
heavy that it might have been the home Of
a second Cardiff giant, permit was Sc
cured, and the sealed coffin opened. TO
the CONSERVATION of those present there
lay the body of magnificent male lion,
resting on white satin. The following
message was soon racing to Rajah:
Some mistake. You sent q lion.
Where is Jim?'
''The following information was SOON
received:
No mistake. Jim inside lion.
The National tribune., 1903-02-12

The daily free delivery of mail to the
people of our agricultural districts is one
of the newest of American postal inno-
vations 1t is only in its infancy, but
wherever. introduced it has already revo-
lutionized life on the farm, and made it
desirable where it has always been the
most benefcient, and best adapted to the
development of character. with electric
cars, automobiles, good roads, and rurai
free-delivery, genteel and refined people
will find pleasant and agreeable llfe-a
life of purity and pleaSure-on the farm.
1t is wonderful how the roads have inn
proved since rural delivery came, and now
content and happiness have come to the
life of the farmer. With these things the
rush of the boys and girls from the farm
to overcrowded cities will be checked, and
the tendency will be in the other direc-
ton. From the beginnins<of history the
farmer has been the worlds reserve force,
and he is to-day the best hope of this
Republic.
1t is a curious incident of our civiliza-
ton that oftentimes movements of mo-
mentous Importance have their origin I'M
der modest conditions, and even against
protest. AS we view it now, it appears
unfair that the city man should have his
mail delivered at his place of business or
residence many times during the day while
the farmer should be compelled to travel
one to FIVE miles TO obtain his mail from
the nearest post office, although the mail
carrier may have passed his home.
EARLY OPPOSITION ENCOUNTERED.
But rural free-delivery encountered the
hostility of two heads of the Department
in the early stages of its career. In 1898,
Mr.. Bissell not only declined to carry out
the provisions authorizing it in section of
The National tribune., 1903-02-12
WHAT IS the USE OF YOUR SHAVING
LONGER FOR SOME ONE ELSE.

Why not start n business for rsef, reap all
the profits and get Il standing in your locality.
III sou are in some ones employ, remember
he will not continue to pay you u salary only SO
long as he can make profit out of your labor.
In this era every bright man and woman is
looking to own a business, to employ help, and
to make money.
1t is just as easy to make money for Yourself
as it is to coin money for some grasping en-
pioyer, who pays you Il small salary each week.
If you are making less than $50 weekly it will
pay you to read this announcement, for it will
not appear again in this paper.
If you read it and take advantage of the op-
portunity offered, you will never regret it. To
own business yourself is certainly your am
bitiOn.
We start you in profitable business. Teach
you absolutely free how to conduct it.
To show you what others have done, we quote
the expressions OF Il few who have made money
in the nickel, gold, silver and metal plating
business:
MR. REED MADE Sss16THE FIRST THREE
DAYS" Mr.. Cox writes: Get all can do.
EIegant business ,,, Customers happy" Dave
fit made S42.75.' E. ID. Waterbury writes: Am
10 years old. Just completed job 1900 pieces
tableware. clear about Sc day profit
Gentlemen and ladies positively make s. to
SIS Il day ut home or travelling taking orders
using, selling and appointing agents for PROF.
GRAY'S Latest Improved, Guaranteed Plating
Ma, iIna; ana Outfits; NO FAKE OR TOYS,
outfits for doing the finest of plating on
WATCHES, JEWELRY, KNIVES, FORKS
SPOONS, CAsTORs. TABLEWARE OF ALL
KINDS, BICYCLES. SEWING MACHINES,
SWORDS, REVOLyERS, HARNESS AND
fact all kinds of metal goods. HEAVY THICK
PLATE EVERY TIME GUARANTEED TO
WEARFOR YEARS. Noexperience necessary
There is really wonderful demand for re-
plating. You can do business ut nearly every
house, store, Office or factory. Almost every
family has from e to $40 worth Oh tableware to
be plated, besides watches, jewelry. bicycles,
etc.
Every boarding house, hotel, restaurant,
SIS worth of work to be plated. Every jeweler,
repair or bicycle shop. every dentist, doc
tor and surgeon, every man, woman and child
you meet has either watch, some jeweIry, BIZ
cycles, instruments, or some articles needing
plating.
Eesides the above there are hundreds Of
patentees and manufacturers of metal goods
bicycles. sewing machines and typewriter re-
pair shops who want their goods plated, or to
whom you can sell plating outfit, furnishing
tuem supplies for doing their own plating.
Retail Stores who handle hardware har-
ness, tableware and plated or metal goods all
need plating and polishing outfit for refinsh-
ing goods that become worn, soiled, rusty or
furnished.
Every Undertaken requires plating outfit
for repairing and finishing collins and hearse
trimmings which are soiled, furnished or worn.
Manufacturers are making and selling tons
of new tableware, jewelry, bicycles and various
kinds of metal goods every month which has
only very thin plate, which, in a few weeks
wears Off, making the goods unsightly, unfit for
future use unless plated.
The National tribune., 1903-02-12
GRAY & CO., Plating Works, e d9s NINA; H",t" 9

accommodations only for two, making a
very exclusive conveyance for bridal
couples. The arrangement is in every way
satisfactory, and it is probable that sim
liar service will be established over the
country. The Department is ready to
make contracts with companies establish
ing these passenger and express routes,
and no doubt much mail will be carried
in this way in the future The Govern
ment is keeping up with the times in every
respect. Several of the Departments are
making experiments in wireless telegra-
ply, and we may see the day when every
man can talk to the tenants on his farm
without getting out of his easy-chair at
his own fireside, figuratively speaking. All
this logically follows in the wake of the
new postal reform.
BOON TO PEOPLE ON THE FARMS.
DIR. Mary Walker may long remain our
only example of the really self-made man,
but specimens of man-made country will
constantly more and more abound. The
use of the electric trolley and a perfected
system of macadam roads which will per-
NIT hauling the largest loads from farm
to market on any day Of the year, whether
the season be wet or dry, these roads fur
nishing the opportunity for rural mail de-
livery, will revOlutionize country life.
With these conditions brought about, the
mechanic can live several miles from the
mandatory and have a farm consisting
of few acres upon which his family
will be raised, they having the benefits of
the mail twice day, the daily newspaper,
and the advantages of quick and cheap
transportation to the village or city,
either by electric car, bicycle or automo-
bile. This will relieve the congested dis
tricts that are now covered by tenement
houses in the larger cities, bringing our
farms to a higher state of cultivation and
schooling the farmers children, both boys
and girls, for higher sphere in life than
they have been able to attain heretofore
1t is probable that the influences for good
exerted by these means are more far
reaching than any that have been brought
to bear from the Nations birth to the
present time.
BILLION DOLLAR ENTERPRISE.
We have now q billion dollar postal
servce-the receipts and disbursements,
including those of the money-order sys-
TEN, will aggregate more than a thou
sand million dollars during the current
fiscal year. Such enormous transactions,
ramifying into innumerable channels, all
of a business character, and coming into
direct relations with all the people Of the
country, demand constant exercise of
vigilance and an unceasing display of en-
terprise. Heretofore the service has
touched the people mostly through the
Postmasters. Many of these officials are
hard worked and underpaid. Few indeed
have received emoluments equal to the
labor and responsibility involveH in che
The National tribune., 1903-02-12
The Constitution in Practice.
Century,

The theory of the Constitution is that
the three Departments of the Government
the Legislative, the Executive, and the
Judiciary-are independent of one an
other In practice, the Government is not
carried on in harmony with this theory.
The system of checks and balances does
not operate as its inventors intended. The
President was to have had the power OF
selecting his subordinates; the Senate,
through the exercise of the power of con-
firmation. was to prevent the appointment
of unworthy men, especially of men who
might conni7e with the President to usurp
power. In practice most of the Presi-
dents subordinates are forced upon him.
He usually selects after consultation with
a Senator, who stands for the whole SEN
ate for he has its power behind him
through a custom which has grown to be
a rule of conduct, known as the courtesy
of the Senate"
The National tribune., 1903-02-12
THE ROYAL SILVER OUTFIT.
Prof. Gray's Famous Discovery.

THE NEW DIPPING PROCESS is the latest,
quickest, easiest method known. Tableware
plated bysimply dipping in melted metal, taken
out instantly, with a fine, brilliant, beautiful
plate deposited. All ready to deliver to Gus
toners. MAKES THICK PLATE EVERY
TIME. GUARANTEED TO WEAR to 10
YEARS. BOY PLATES 100 to 800 pieces
tableware daily, from SO to $50 worth OF
work. profits almost 1000 per cent Goods
come out of plate finely finished. No polish
ing, grinding work necessary, neither be.
fore or after plating.
You will not need to canvas. Agents write
they have all the goods they can plate People
bring it for miles around You can hire boys
cheap to do your plating, the same as we do,
and solicitors to gather work for small per
cent Put small advertisement or two in your
local paper and you will have all the plating
you can do. The plating business is honest and
legitimate. Plating on our machines gives per.
feet satisfaction. Wears for years; customers
are always delighted and recommend you and
your work.
We are an old established firm, have been
in business for years, know exactly what II
required, furnish complete outfits, the same -
we ourselves use, and customers always have
the benefit of our experience. We are respon-
sible and guarantee everything. Reader,
here Is a chance of a lifetime to go In busi.
ness for yourself. We start you. Now il the
time to make money
The National tribune., 1903-02-12

administration of their trust. Now comes
another class of servitors of the Depart
ment, the rural carriers, having an even
closer relation to the homes and daily
lives of the entire agricultural population.
That the relation will be, as a rule, salts
factory and beneficial, no man can doubt
who believes in the development of the
country and the progress of Christian civil
liZatiou
The National tribune., 1903-02-12
TREMENDOUS PROFITS.

The profits realized from plating are tremend.
GUS.
To plate set of teaspoons requires only about
&c. worth of metal and chemicals; q set Of
knives, forks or tablespoons about &c. worth.
Inc balance OF the price received for the work
Is for the agents time and profit.
Agents usually charge from &c. to 50c per
set for plating teaspoons, from SOC. to 75c. for
tablespoons and forks, and from 60c. to $1.00 for
knives.
We allow you TO set your own price for
plating. Get as much as you can. You will
have no competition You know what it costs
to plate the goods. and all you get over cost II
profit Some agents charge much more than
the above prices while others 90 the work for
half and still make plenty of money.
Let us start you in business for yourself 1t
once, don't delay single day. Be your own
boss. Be money maker. We do all kinds Of
plating ourselves, have had years of expert.
ence, and are headquarters orplating supplies.
We manufacture our own dynamos and out
hts, all sizes. and send them out complete, with
all tools, lathes, wheels and materials; every
thing ready for use.
We teach you everything, furnish an
receipts, formulas and trade secrets free,
so that failure should be impossible, and any
one who follows our directions and teachings
can do fine plating with little practice, and
become money maker.
The National tribune., 1903-02-12

Manufacturers of new goods do no re-
plating on old goods whatever, but try to
force the public to throw away the old and buy
new at high prices. but this only makes the
plating business better.
The more new thihly plated goods sold
the greater will be the demand for plating.
Plate some articles for your friends and neigh
bers by Professor Gray's Process, and it quickly
that your plating is much thicker, will wear
better and longer than a large percentage of
The National tribune., 1903-02-12


their tastes may lead to; but in the coun-
try, when the shades of night close in,
the farmer and his wife and his sons and
daughters gather around the family
hearthstone, and l for one am in favor of
all proper efforts to carry into that home
the weekly and the daily newspapers,
magazines, and other sources Of informa-
ton. in order that they may spend their
evenings in discussing the events and the
problems of the day. Do you believe that
daily newspaper is more Interesting In
the contingencies than it is in the farm
house? Are you willing to provide mail
facilities that will carry it to the one and
not to the other?"
A GRAND ARMY OF PEACE.
When John Wanamaker, Postmaster
General, first began TO agitate the intro
duction of free mail delivery in the rural
districts, he could not foresee the great
boon he was preparing for the farmers
of the land. From one end of the coun-
try to the other farmers, country mer-
chants and persons far removed from
large cities and industrial esnters are
The National tribune., 1903-02-12
You CAN DO PLATING so CHEAP

that every person can afford to have their goods
plated.
No tidy housekeeper will allow worn and
rusty tableware to go before guest when it
can be restored and made equal to new.
No person will wear jewelry or watch. or
ride bicycle, or use typewriter, sewing ma
chime, or any machine made of metalfrom
which the plate is worn off when they see sam.
pies of your work and hear your prices People
economical to throw away their old goods and
buy new when they can have their old goods re-
plated for SO small a cost, making them, in
many cases, better than when new
The best part Of the plating business is that
it increases fast and is permanent
Put out your sign. secure your outfit, do a
little work. and quickly you will be favored
with orders. If you do not wish to do the plat
ing yourself you can hire boys for IS or "a a
week to do the work the same as we do and
solicitors to gather up goods to be plated ON
commission.
It is not hard work, but is pleasant. and es
The National tribune., 1903-02-12
Mechanical Equivalent of Ice.

4 British engineer has calculated that
when boy of 100 pounds eats two ounces
of ice in five minutes. his stomach per-
forms heat work equivalent to nearly an
eighth of a horse power. In a machine
wasting no power, it would raise the boy
1914 feet high.
The National tribune., 1903-02-12

the new goods. Your trade is then established,
and within short time you will have all the
goods you can plate.
Plate a few articles for your friends, call a
few weeks. a few months. or five years later,
and you will find the plate satisfactory, and
they will give you every article they have need
ing to be plated,
When you deliver the goods plated to GUS
toners they will be well pleased, in fact, de-
lighted with the work, will pay forit promptly,
and you will be given on an average twice as
much work to be plated as they gave you the
first time you called,
The National tribune., 1903-02-12
Cure catarrh at Home.
A Practical Remedy So Simple and Pleas.
ant That Even a Child
Can Use It.

A neglected cold lays the foundation
for catarrh; neglected catarrh lays the
foundation for consumption. DR.. Bloss-
er's Catarrh Cure will break up the cold,
or cure the catarrh and prevent consump-
ton.
The symptoms of catarrh are a dis
charge, which either blows from the
nose or runs back and drops into the
throat; dull headache; stopped-up feel
ing in the nose and head; extreme liability
to take cold. etc. These conditions often
lead to noises in the head, deafness, sore
throat. bronchitis, asthma, Indigestion and
consumption.
If you suffer from any of the above
troubles you should begin the proper treat
ment at once.
DIR. Blosser's Catarrh Cure is the best
remedy known to medical science for these
diseases. 1t cures 95 out of every 100
cases.
Samples Mailed Free.
In order to demonstrate its virtues, a
three days trial treatment will be mailed
absolutely free to any interested sufferer.
The price of the remedy is S1.00 per box
Zone months treatment), sent postpaid.
Address DR.. Blosser Company, 800 Wal
ton ST., Atlanta, Ga.
The National tribune., 1903-02-12
FREE-W WRITE US TO-DAY

for our new plan and proposition; also valuable
how the plating is done. Sit down
and write now. SO we can start you without de-
lay. If you wish to see sample of plating by
our Outfits, send &c. postage. Send your adj
dre9 ANYWAY.
The National tribune., 1903-02-12

pecialy so when your business is netting you
so TO S35 week for or hours work day.
Tnis is only minimum income which may
be earned by any one who is not lazy; hustlers
should make 500 weekly
The National tribune., 1903-02-12
Samples Mailed Free.

lauding this magnificent step in the on
ward march of progress, which is the
elimination of Nations beneicence.
Scattered all over the world is great
The National tribune., 1903-02-12


600 Postmasters now receive less than $50
per annum compensation, it would seem
that the individual loss would not be
serious if the offices We're abolished, and
their emOluments added to others near by,
which are found necessary.
NEW SYSTEMS SoF MAP-MAKING.
In order to facilitate matters, those in
charge of the rural free-delivery system
have found it necessary to make maps of
areas in which the service has been es-
tablshed, which differ from all other
maps manufactured by the United States
Government. They give in addition to the
usual features every house, store, church,
road, box, hall, post-Office, postal station
and factory within the area covered
These maps are made in the Post-ofiice
Department, from plats, surveys, records,
maps, ETC., obtained through agents from
officials of the Counties in which the SER
vice is established and from which it is
possible to secure correct data along the
various highways.
AUTOMOBILES IN RURAL DELIVERY.
The Post-office Department conducted
an automobile letter-carrier service in
Buffalo during the Pan-American EXPOSE
and was not an experiment. The first
regular rural route has been established
between Portland and Pennville, Ind, and
is a success. 1t covers distance of -
miles, and one hour is required for the
mail to reach it's destination. There are
several small way stations served The
route is covered twice each day. The ma
chine leaves at in the morning and at
in the afternoon. Half an hour after
it reaches its destination it starts on the
return trip. This gives time enough to
answer any important letter by return
mail. The machine generally used on this
route will carry dozen passengers, but in
rough weather smaller one is used, with
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-03-26
RESCUED FROM FLOOD.
Father Dead, Mother and Eight Chill
drep Starving.

ALBANY, n. Y, March 25.-Driven
to the upper story of their humble
dwelling on Montgomcry's island, in
the Hudson, by the flood, Mrs. +. j.
Harney, her eight children and the
body of her dead husband were res
cued late yesterday. The rescue was
made by Captain Ulster Davis and his
crew with tugboat.
Inside the house there was pitiful
sight. There was the mother with her
eight children about her. Those old
enough to realize what had happened
were crying for that, while the younger
ones were crying for food, of which
there was none i'm the house.
Mrs. Harney said her husband died
at $3.50 o'clock in the night of acute
pneumonia.
The rain was so general that the flow
of water into the Hudson and its tribu-
taries was very great, and the rise was
beyond expectations. The water in the
river opposite this city is 14.05 feet
above normal and rising at the rate of
an inch and half an hour. At Troy
there is a seventeen foot frcshet.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-03-26
Preaching Orders Turned Down.

PARIS, March 25.-The chamber of
deputies, by vote of 304 to DAG, re-
jectcd all the applications for authori-
zation made by the religious preaching
orders. The entire session was devoted
TO discussion of the governments bill
which opposes the application of the
preaching orders for authorization.
Among these orders who are thus eX-
PEELED from France is the English Pas
sionist order, who conduct n church in
the Avenue Hoche for English and
American Catholics and in whose be-
half British Ambassador Monson and
United States Ambassador Porter re-
Gently interested themselves.