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The National tribune., 1903-07-09

overdid the thing and started ont too rash.
Arriving in the suburbs of Jacksboro, the
moon was full and shining brightly. We
were now tired, sullen and crusty. The
guide called halt and made a little talk,
saying that at the time when all danger
was supposed to be past, we had nearly
run into a trap. 1t was not known what
might be in front of us. If We desired we
might go through the town, and thus save
a considerable distance, but in SO doing
would be exposed to whatever danger there
was in front. If we preferred we could
go round, travel further, but avoid the
danger. He left it to us, saying for all
who desired to so through to fall into line,
and those who thought best to go round.
to stand to one side. All, save one, fell
into line. That one declared that all
might go through, but as for him, he would
not take the chances.
The guide then started and all fol-
lowed-even the one that declared to the
cOntrary-follOwed for time at n dis
tance, and then came in with the others.
Everything was quiet as midnight. No
one appeared to be astir Passing through
the town and some distance beyond, we
stopped to rest.
FODDER SPLITTING.
The guide went forward and stood as
picket. Hearing some rafting noise on the
lard road. he walked quickly back and
motioned the boys, saying, Get over the
fence" There was corn field by the
side of the road. We jumped over, and
some of the boys We're sure the Confed
crate cavalry was right on us, so they
split fodder blades at lively rate, making
noise enough to have attracted attention
for a half mile. At length they stopped,
The National tribune., 1903-07-09
WHAT ARE EXAMINING BOARDS FOR?

Geo. Schneider. I'd Mass. Cav. cannot
understand the Medical Referees address
to the Medical Congress, in which he tries
to make people think that all the trouble
is in the complexity of the pension laws.
Comrade Schneider has been dra wing a
pension of S6 per month for II years. and
three times the board which examined him
reported that he should have an increase
to at least So per month, but this has
always been turned down by the Medical
Referee. If each Post will take up the
matter of service pension with its Con
gressman there will be no trouble in get
ting the law passed.
AGAINST THE DISSERTATION OF MEMORIAL
The National tribune., 1903-07-09
'sT THE DEsEcRATIoN OF MEMORIAL
DAY.

Geo. III. Thomas Post of Silverton, Ore,
protests strongly against the tendency TO
make Memorial Day more and more of n
holiday, and wants the comrades every
where to exert themselves to educate the
young people as to what the day really
means, and to hold it in the greatest rever-
ence.
The National tribune., 1903-07-09

To introduce and prove beyond doubt that THIS
great treatment will cure Consumption, Bronchitis,
Asthma. Catarrh and Weak Lungs, DR.. Beatty has
decided to make another test oner to others OF .
Full Months Treatment, Free, including
Inspirator and all medicines complete, exactly a.
shown in illustration.
The Doctor will keep in close touch with all pa
tients during the progress of the treatment, and
will make charge for his professional services,
consultation, and the necessary correspondence.
This test course is intended to prove the genuine
merits Of the treatment and costs nothing.
When DIR. Beatty makes such liberal offer as this,
thereby saving patients the large they ordinar-
lily pend for medicine, advice, consultations pre-
scrptions, ETC., there is surely why suffer-
should hesitate to put his treatment to the test
Do not delay, but write at once, addressing DR..
NJ. Beatty. 20 West 9th St, Cincinnati, Ohio, and
tell him the nature of Your head, throat or lung
trouble, and how long the disease has had hold on
you. While the weather is warm and settled the
best and quickest results Of this antiseptic treat
ment are obtained.
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II

DR.. Marshal Beatty, the Throat and Lung spe.'
cialist. OF Cincinnati. recently completed series
OF trial treatments of his Antiseptc Medicated
Air Cure on one hundred patients: some were
consumptives OF the lowest emaciated stages,
others of a catarrhal and bronchial nature. The
record OF each patient kept by the Doctor -
the home treatment progressed. was very inter.
esting. One of the most remarkable and graft.
flying features in connection with the treatment
was the great and rapid increase In weight Of
the patients, some of them gaining as much -
20 pounds of flesh in four weeks time. This 10
certainly phenomenal, and is proof sufficient
that this great discovery has solved the problem
of permanent cure for the thousands OF suffer.
ers from all catarrhal, bronchial and lung troub-
les. In his account Of il, the Doctor says: mo
germ of Catarrh. Asthma, Bronchitis or Con-
sumption can live under the action OF this pow
erful antiseptic. When taken internally anu
breathed and inhaled into the air passages, bron.
chial tubes and cells Of the lungs, the germs arc
at once destroyed and expelled from the system,
and the disease is arrested and cured by remov.
in tba oauca
The National tribune., 1903-07-09
81 KLEGG.

81 KLEGG. ..sr.
I. T. Pearce, Co. b, ILL.,, Curran,
ILL.,, thinks that the chances for 81
and Shorty pulling through are now
very good, since the Deacon and
the family are with them. He says
that on the march to the sea, SIer-
mans Bummers held a meeting and elected
officers. 81 was chosen Chief of Bum
mers and Shorty his second in command
81 issued his farewell address, which was
published in the Washington Chronicle in
1865. Comrade Pearce is in favor of a
81 per month service pension.
''DREss UP ON THE THIRD MAN."
]. Manlove Smith, 1st Del, Moore, Pa,
says that these are times when the boys
should not only dress up so as to see the
buttons on the third man, but to see eye
to eye the one great fact which should be
considered paramount to all others, and
that if quibbling is to be INDUCED in it
Will be to the detriment of all claims that
might be advanced in our favor. Our
chances for legislation at the next session
of Congress will be lessened mmeasurably.
Everybody should unite upon the S12 per
month service pension bill.
WHERE is THE OWNER?
Len Achorn, Fort Fairfield. Me-, has a
medal on one side of which is inscribed
Geo. Washington, born Feb. %, 1892,
and Washington's head. On reverse side
is u. X. Begg, Co. F.. NJ. f. v" 9TH
War 1861. COmrade Achorn would like to
correspond with Comrade Begg or his rela-
tives or friends.
WANTS 5000 PER YEAR
Comrade s. 3. Gilchist, Carthage. Ohio,
believes in straight pension of $500 per
year, payable quarterly, for every comrade
who served so days or more. He served in
the list Ohio l.. A. from August, 1861, to
August, 1860.
WILL HELP KEEP THE WOLF FROM THE
DOOR.
John n. Shultz. McFall, Mo-, says that
the So per month service pension bill
will help to keep the wolf form the DIOR
of many old couples. He says old couples
advisedly, because in every school district
there are old couples to be found who are
with poverty, and the wife con-
tributed as much during the war as her
husband, with her brave self-sacrifce at
home.
SCATTERING.
Leroy Fl. Zimmerman, Williamsburg,
Ohio, requests that some comrade send
him the piece of poetry entitled THE Old
Canteen."
G. G. Cowan, I'd Minn. Light Art, 613
4th Ave, st. Cloud, Mimi, would like
some of the I'd MINI. Battery boys to tell
their experiences in The National Tribune
He wishes also to hear from the 14th ILL.,,
Co. +, and would like the sur
vivors of that regiment to give an account
of their first battle at Pittsburg Landing.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-06-22
FELL FLAT.

The report to the effect that Judge
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-06-22

Critz had lot Of men in his employ
over the state whom he was paying
salaries to whoop up his canvass seems
to have dropped out of sight. Some
of the would be critics who thought
they had a good thing waited very
patiently for Mr.. Critz to make some
kind of denial of the report, but as
he did not do this they have slunked
back into their holes to study out
something else that may work better.
In the meantime Judge Critz seems
to be making votes wherever lie goes,
and he goes somewhere every day.
What is here stated about this re-
port may apply to the one put out
about Major Vardaman whose edi-
torial some time ago in his paper, the
Greenwood Commonwealth, was par
ticularly severe on the president Of
this great country and seriously reflect
ed on our women. There were few
papers in the state which took up the
editorial and attempted to make polit-
ical capital out of it, but the most Of
the prominent papers did not even re-
fer to it. The Progress did not be-
lieve the editroial was ever penned by
Major Vardaman or if it was it was
not intended TO be construed in the
light some papers tried to make il
appear. Major Vardaman may never
be governor of Mississippi, but we
give him credit for having too much
sense, too much honor and too much
manhood than to endorse the senti-
ment of such an editorial, and no one
should try to make political capital
out of it.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-06-22

1t is now believed that the Jett-
White case will be taken to another
county for trial. If this is true the
men will be convicted without the
least doubt and hanged by the neck
until they are dead. The testimony
of Capt. Even should be sufficient to
hang them. He saw Jett when he
shot Lawyer Marcum and there is no
way to break down that testimony,
for evidently it is true from begin
ming to end. 1t is up to Kentucky to
defend its heretofore fair name by
hanging just such characters as Jett
and White and all others who violate
the criminal laws of the state, and
the sooner this hanging begins the
better it will be for the entire state.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-06-22

1t is stated that the average Of the
charges of each candidate for state
office per county will be about two
dollars and half or about $l85 f0i
the seventy-five counties i'll the state.
This is only drop in the bucket
compared to the other many expens es
incurred, such as railroad fare, hotel
bills, etc. But the newspapers, the
power behind the throne that moves
the candidate forward or pulls him
back, practically gets nothing but a
pleasant look during the campaign
or dom -want- knowyou look If
the candidate is elected. But there
are too many newspapers or the can
didate's bank account is too small.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-06-22
PROHIBlTIONISTS NEED FUNDS
And Have Asked Friends of the
Cause to Contribute $1,000
for Immediate Use.
Special to the Daily Progress.

Special to the Daily Progress.
Jackcsn, June 22.-The prohibit
tionists of Mississippi are finding
themselves sorely in need of money to
conduct the campaign for statutory
prohibition and an appeal has been
issued to the friends of the cause to
raise fund of $1,000 for immediate
use.
The campaign committee desires to
get ont large amount of circular
matter to counter-act the effects of
the literature being distributed by the
National liquor Dealers Association,
and also to conduct the campaign of
inquiry among the legislative can
didates to ascertain if they are friend
ly to the proposition to submit con-
stitutional amendment to the people
at the regular election in November,
1904.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-06-22

1t was a trying time on Mr.. Cleve-
land the other day. Some newspaper
man asked him if he intended to be-
come candidate for president and
just at that time the cork began to go
under. Mr.. Cleveland yelled no and
jerked AZ the same time and the news
paper man went off and wrote up a
column of interview he had with Mr..
Cleveland
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-06-22

Let the next legislature do all in its
power to encourage manufacturing
Industries and railroad construction.
We cannot have too many of these
industries. Railroads are great
civilizers. They build up sections
that otherwise would never be de-
yeloped. They are wealth producers
and wealth promoters, and have
brought to the front many Jones and
Smith counties that otherwise would
have remained in darkness, both in
civilization and wealth. Let the
legislature encourage them and en-
courage manufacturing industries by
passing no law that will in the least
tend to cripple them or retard their
growth.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-06-22

Col. r. H. Henry, the handsome
editor of the Worlds Fair commits
sioner of Mississippi, is doing some
splendid work throughout the state
in the interest of creditable exhibit
of manufactured products of the state.
Every manufacturing concern should
have sample of its goods on exhibit
ton, for it would be fine advertise
ment of the factory as we'll as for
the state, and the man who does not
advertise his own business cannot ex-
pect to be successful business man.
1t is hoped that every manufacturing
industry of Hattiesburg will take
advantage of this opportunity and
have fine displays at the big show.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-06-22

Jett and White came in one of be-
ing connected with the other end Of a
rope. One jury in the twelve pre-
tended like he didn't believe the
men were guilty. But that was about
as near conviction as the public was
prepared to hear. 1t is a little won
der they had not been acquitted and
then each given chrome.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-06-22
ROOSTER IN JAIL.
Negro Prisoner Gets Chicken in a
Mysterious Manner-Jailer
Is Puzzled.
Special to the Daily Progress.
out of it

Special to the Daily Progress.
Brandon, June 22.-Jailor Morris,
Of Rankin county, is very much puz-
zled over a mysterious happening in
his jail last week. A negro prisoner
was found sitting in his cage one morn
ing tenderly nursing big One-eyed
rooster which he requested the jailer
to have killed and cooked for him.
He declined to tell how he had mana
ged to get the rooster, and as there
were no visitors IN the Jail that day,
it is impossible to fathom out the
mystery. The fowl was too large to
fly in between the bars of the cage.
The negro had his chicken, but
stoutly declared that he will never
tell how he got it.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-06-22
Hanna seems to love Teddy because
he is afraid to hate him.

This is the severaleth time that
Grover has made the statement that
he is not a candidate for president
and he seems to mean what he says
The democratic party had as we'll to
trot out another horse and let Grover
continue to fish.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-06-22
WHITE CAPS BREAK LOOSE.
Unknown Parties Fire Into Two
Negro Houses, Wounding
an Old Negro.
Special to the Daily Progress

Special to the Daily Progress
jackson, June 22.-The whitecaps
have again broke loose in Amite
county, and the depreciation is attri-
buted to fresh agitation of the ne
gro question in that county. I'm
known parties fred several shots into
the houses of two negro families on
the Day place, and during the melee
an old negro was seriously wounded.
The authorities are making an inyes-
itgation.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-06-22
MURDERER TO HANG.
Jim Allen Will Be ExeCted at
Charleston Tuesday Unless
Sentence Is COMMITTED.
Special to the Daily Progress.

SptOIdI 10 LH6 DaIIy IIOSItoo.
Charleson, June Unless Gov
renor Longino grants a communication
of sentence, which at present does
not seem at all likely, Jim Allen, a
negro murderer, will be hanged at
this place Charleston, in Ta'lahat-
chic county, on Tuesday. Allen S
case was recently affirmed by the su-
preme court The sheriff has made
all necessary preparations for the exc
cution, which will be in private
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-06-07

manned inside Croft Is a man of in
ventiye genius and possessed of some
mechanical skill. He had given some
study to the invention OF car fender
and a guard rail on street cars. They
seemed to be successful. but had not
Melted him much profit He Immediately
began thinking TO devise something by
means of which a letter box could be
attached TO a lamp post without run
ming the rods through the box and
fastening them with nuts. AS he watch
ed the collectors upon their rounds he
was still further stimulated to invent n
fastener by observing that on rainy and
stormy mornings much of the mail was
damaged by reason of water finding It's
way along the rods into the box.
Letters often Lost in the Boxes.
While still planning he read in
newspaper that a manufacturing firm in
New England had lost large order for
bill of goods which he had sent in
letter. Three months after the letter
w2s mailed It was found caught in a
letter box and held firmly by the rods
which fixed the box TO the lamp post.
Thus the collector had daily failed 10
find It when reaching in for the mail.
Another incident moved him. Formerly
the letter boxes were painted while at
tached to the posts without being re-
moved Then a sign with the word
paint was attached TO warn the users
of the box. In one instance which came
under Groffs observation a young
woman had had costly gown ruined
by coming in contact with a newly
painted nIailbox. Croft argued with
himself that the box should be so fas
tened TO the post that 1t could be easily
removed for repairs or to be painted.
Inventor Was Laughed at.
Croft studied and worked over the mat
ter continuously when not engaged in
active police duty. He confided his plans
TO some OF his brother officers. and
told them he was some day going to
make fortune out of the invention.
They laughed at him. Finally he hit
upon the proper sort of device. 1t
is thus techinally described: On the back
of the letter box and integral with it.,
are two parallel flanges, overlapped by
a horizontal projection. base plate
curved TO fit the posts is provided with
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-06-07
CATS AND DOGS AS PETS.

IT HE pet dog is going out of fashion
and the pet cat is coming into
style. You will not see one-third as
many Washington women carrying pet
dogs nowadays as formerly. OF course,
they do not carry the pet cats around
with them. but some women will be
sure to do that just to attract notice.
The decline of the pet dog is believed
to be due to the opposition OF apart
ment house owners to having dogs IN
their buildings. dog is a nuisance;
a cat is a treasure. That, at least,
Is what the cat fanciers say. Then,
again, dogs are costly and cats are
cheap. But on the other hand, dogs
are true and affectionate and cat is
without affection and is intensely sell
fish.
Families anxious to have a pet cat
can get enc for nothing. Splendid stray
cats may be obtained almost any day
from the animal shelter of the Humane
Society. Ordinarily persons calling for
a cat at the shelter are supposed TO
the running expenses of the institution;
but those who cannot afford to pay
need only say so and upon proof that
they will give proper attention to the
animal they will get as fine cat as
can bl found on any backyard fence.
The true cat fancier, however, wants
nothing that has not a pedigree. He
seeks a Persian or an Angora. and pays
as much as 800 for a good specimen.
These fancy cats are delicate acd re-
Quire the utmost attention. For an all
around hardy pet. destined to live nine
lives. there is nothing like the common.
everyday eat.
The age of a cat is from twelve TO
fifteen years. The oldest cat on record
reached twentyfour years.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-06-07

Offices of the morgue and the inspectors
room. Behind these will be the room
which the ambulance wagons will enter
| from the wharf. Their lifeless burdens
will be taken into the receiving room,
which adjoins the cold storage room. In
the extreme rear is the engine room,
where artificial ice is to be manufac-
tCred by the ammonia process.
On the second floor are to be the room
for the autopsies and medical examina
items for signs of life, or causes of
death; the inquest room. the room for
witnesses, and the inspectors quarters
hich have bathrooms and kitchen adj
| Joining The Office of the District Cor
oner will also be in the building, on this
| floor
The witness room of morgue has al
ways its number of spectators, drawn
through actual concern or mere morbid
curiosity, though few can bear the sight
without finching.
| Browning moralized well upon the
gbustly spectacle of the dead, as he
described the Paris morgue:
First came the silent gazers; next
4 screen OF glass; we're thankful for;
Last the sights self, the sermons text
The three men who did most abhor
Their life in Paris yesterday.
So killed themselves: and now. enthroned
Fr-t on his copper couch, they lay
'onting me, waiting TO be owned.
thought. and think, their sins atoned.
Poor men, God made, and all for that
The reverence struck me; Ger each head
Reiigicusly hung its hati
Each coat dripped by its owners bed,
! Sacred from touch; each had his berth,
His bounds, his proper place Of rest,
Who last night tenanted on earth
| Some arch, where twelve such slept abreast
| Unless the plain asphalt seemed best.
! How did II happen, my poor boy?
/ You wanted 10 be Buonaparte,
And have the Tuilleries for toy,
And could not, SO il broke your heart?
| You. old one by his side judge,
We're. red as blood, Il socialist,
| 4 Ieyeler. Does the empire grudgc
| You've gained what republic missed?
| Be cuiet, and Ignc lench your fist
| And this-whv, he red in-vain,
! Or blacll-poor fel low that is blue,
| What fancy it. turned your brain?
| Oh women the prize for you.
Money gets women; cards and dice
| Get money, and i'll luck gets just
The copper couch and one clear. nice,
+ Cool squirt OF water DER your bust,
The right thing to extinguish lust!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-06-07

a rim which abuts against the box
and upon two opposite sides OF which
are formed counter fanges, adapted to
slide into the fianges on the box. The
plate is attached to the post in the us
ual way. A spring is attached 10 the
inner side of the plate, being made adj
Unstable by a slot and screw bolt. so
that when the box is in position on the
plate the button on the end of the
spring will be forced into hole in
the box, thus automatically locking the
box and the plate together. The box
can be removed from the plate only by
opening the door through which the mail
is taken out, and pressing back the but
ton, when the box is easily slid upward
and disengaged from the fanges. The
plate although removable when neces-
sary, is intended TO remain permanently
fixed.
Patented in 1854.
Croft Interested his brother, D. B..
Croft, in his invention, and took out a
patent upon it on May 8. 1894. 1t was
nearly a year afterward that he was
able to interest the postofflce officials
sufficiently in the fastener to give 1T a
trial. Finally he succeeded in interest
ing James Willet, since deceased, then
postmaster at Washington. The appli-
ance was placed upon number of boxes
in Washington and worked successfully.
Soon every box in the city was equipped
with them. Just when Machen became
interested in the device is not known.
but gradually the fasteners were Or
dered for other cities, until more than
100000 of them are now in use. They
We're first manufactured at a foundry in
Wilmington, Del. but when IL was sold
to a trust. the work was transferred to
Adrian, Mich, and afterward to York,
Pa, where it is now made when there
are orders for new fasteners. During
the Spanish American war the shops
were so busy that Croft found it difficult
TO have the fastener made.
In itself the appliance Is considered
by the postofiice officials to be a good
one, although the price paid for 1t is far
in excess OF it's actual cost, and the
profit consequently large. 1t is not
against the fastener that the present in
vestigation is directed, but against the
payment which Machen is alleged to
have received to approve and order 1t
for use by the department.