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The National tribune., 1903-05-21
HOW MANY WILL A SERVICE PENSION
BENEFIT?

In the first place, the passage of 81.
per month service pension will immedi
| ately raise the allowances Of all at pres
ent on the pension rolls below S12 up te
that figure. This is specifically provided
for in the contemplated law.
According to the report of the Commits
sioner of Pensions for the fiscal year end
ing June 80. 1902, there were upon the
rolls under the old law. five invalids at 81
per month. one at So per month. 10 at $4
per month, seven at So per month. and
1880 invalids at Sc per month. All
these would have their pension doubled.
There are two at $6.25 per month, two
at S6.3715a. one at $6.75. al at 81, 269 at
$50. six at S7.75 and 37,795 invalids
and 1891 widows at SS per month. All
these would receive substantially 80 per
cent more than they are now getting.
Above SIS per month there are 10 Mt
SS.25. 336 at $3.50. one at SS.62la, four
at 1915. 25S at 50. six at S925, 13 at
$3.50. five at S9.75. 25.3S3 invalids and
six widows at $40 per month.
Above $40 there is one at 5000. II
at $1O25. IA at $1O.50. two at $1O.75.
53 at S11. 169 at $11.25, 3 at $11.33 1-3,
IA at S11.JO anG 10 at Sl1.75.
A mere statement of these varying
rates shows some of the absurdities of
have 121a cents, or even 6k cents worth
of rheumatism more than another man,
who may have served with him.
A $12 per month law will stop all this
fearful waste of gray matter in the
minds of the Examining Surgeons and
pension officials in making fractional cal
culationS.
We shall have. therefore. more than
100000 pensioners now on the rolls I'M
der the old law for disabilities received
in line of duty. raised at one stroke from
their present inadequate pfttances to an
amount more commensurate with the
dignity of the Government in dealing
with those who were wounded in its bat
ties.
Coming to the Act of June %. 1890,
we find that there are 97,O01 invalids
on the rolls at Sc per month, who will
at once have their pension allowances
doubled. There are three at 81 per
month. 1868 invalids and 1862 Wild
Ows at IS per month. Therefore, more
than 100000 veterans and their widows
now drawing under the Disa bility Act
will have their pensions increased so per
cent
There are 1920 invalids and four
widows receiving $40 per month, and one
S1L5O. Thus, it will be perceived that
total Of more than 100000 of the pres
ent pensioners on the rolls will have their
allowances advanced from 25 to 100 per
cent. This is an increase that, aside
from all other considerations, is due
them from their advanced age, and
would be in itself a wholly sufficient
reason for the passage of such a law.
When we add to this the still stronger
reason of the tens of thousands of
others who have been denied pensions
because Of their inability to satisfy the
requirements of the Pension Bureau, who
are now all advanced in years, and need
pensions for the actual support of life,
we have. it seems to us, an overwhelm-
ing reason for united, energetic and
prompt action to secure the enactment
of law which will do such an incaicu-
liable amount of good to such a vast num-
Der of people.
The National tribune., 1903-05-21

SENATOR MATTHEW s. QUAY, accom-
panied by party, visited the battlefeds
of Fredericksburg last week, and the Sen
ator took particular interest in the local
ity from which he and his regiment
charged Marye's Hights. He was Colonel
of the 134th Pa, nine months regiment,
and had resigned, but rose from sick
bed to go into the battle. The Senator is
warm advocate of making a National
Park of the battleields around Fredericks-
burg
The National tribune., 1903-05-21

ENGLAND has announced a very en-
phatic Monroe Doctrine for the Persian
Gulf. Lord LansdOwne recently and for
nlally stated in the House Of Lords, I'VE
shall regard the establishment of a naval
post or fortified port ON the Persian
Gulf by any other power as very
grave menace to British interests, and
we will resist it with all the means at
our command" This is a very distinct
notice to Germany and Russia that
Great Britain will go to war at once
rather than that either of them shall es-
tablish herself where she can threaten
Great Britain's sea road to India, and
is incOmparably narrower and more selfish
than our application of the Monroe Doc
trine to this hemisphere.
The National tribune., 1903-05-21

THE recent recognition of the healing
properties of flowers has given rise to
medical discoveries of great value. At
recent joint convention of physicians and
botanists the following dicta were issued:
Orange flowers cure affections of the
heart; thyme is a remedy for infantiIe
maladies; butter-and-eggs good for con-
sumption: marigold cures poverty of the
blood; lady-slipper used In st. Vitus
dance. Further Developments awaited
with breathless interest
The National tribune., 1903-05-21

THE Legislature of Pennsylvania has
passed a bill, and the Governor has
signed it, which will make Pittsburg the
fourth city in the United States, instead
Of the eleventh, placing her after New
York, Chicago and Philadelphia. The
law empowers Pittsburg to consolidate
with Allegheny, McKeesport and some
80 more corporations around the city.
If they all decide to come in, and it is
left to them to say whether they will
or not, Pittsburg will have a population
of about 100000. At present Allegheny
is recalcitrant. She always he'd her
self a little superior to her neighbor
across the Allegheny River, and does not
want to merge with her dirty, smoky,
toiling sister.
The National tribune., 1903-05-21

THE SOLDIERS HOME at Hampton, Va,
will receive extensive improvements this
Summer. There will be new quarters for
the Post Chaplain at a cost of $500;
combination barracks for old men, cost
ing $1,000, and general store and band
stand, with other erections, costing 1890
"A portion of the expense will be paid
from tine profits of the Home store, the
hotel and the canteen. all of which pay
quite WELL
The National tribune., 1903-05-21

| WONDER if it Is really impossible to
write correct history south of Mason and
Dixon's Line? 1t certainly seems very
difficult. Even a paper of the standing
of the Memphis Commercial Appeal in
sists that Gen. Miles betrayed Gen. Gus
ter, and 'the story of Miles's treachery is
still fresh in the minds Of many" The
Commercial Appeal says that Miles de-
eerted Custer, and that the subsequent
massacre was due to Miles's desertion.
There must have been head-on collisions
In the editors mind between a number of
trains Of thought coming from very diff
ferent directions, and like the Irishman,
be got fatally twisted"
The National tribune., 1903-05-21

THE greatest enemies to pensions are
prejudice and ignorance. Ignorance is the
father of prejudice. The more man
knows about the veterans and what they
did and sacrificed for the country, the bet
ter friend he is to pensions.
The National tribune., 1903-05-21

If there is a perennial prize for the phi
lanthropist who bestows the greatest hap
piness upon the greatest number, it should
institution known as the Oxford Press.
1t prints the Bible in $50 languages. I'm
agine the riotous delight of the man who
has opportunity to break the Ten Com
mandments in $50 languages at once.
The National tribune., 1903-05-21

DIR. A. A. AMEs, the corrupt Ex-Mayor
of Minneapolis. made touching appeal
for mercy when he was arraigned before
the Judge, but was sentenced 70 six years
hard labor in the penitentiary. This seems
to be bad year for the unrighteous
The National tribune., 1903-05-21

A NEW YORK politician of the gentle
sex mentions the President as being un-
der the enchantment of ''the Circean song
of bears and wolves" There is some dis
cussion in musical circles as to the selec-
tions made by bears and wolves in sere-
nading their friends. Had they been bulls
and bears the tune might be Money
MuSk
The National tribune., 1903-05-21

THE Polish authoress who attempted
suicide with a pistol in Partisan theater
and Immediately received an offer of
large amount of money for book Of
''Confc ssions," may have unwittingly in
troduced a new and flourishing industry.
The National tribune., 1903-05-21

FAR-oFF AUSTRALIA is playing her full
hand in this day Of big things While
we are tinkering around in an experiment
al way on irrigation, she has finished one
in the history Of the world. She has
built reservoir which is seven miles
long and will hold four billion gallons Of
water, and laid an iron pipe to distribute
its contents at the rate of five million gal
Ions day to the Coolgardi and Kalgoorie
mines, 32S miles away. Our irrigation
engineers might learn something by a
visit to Western Australia.
The National tribune., 1903-05-21

: WE ARE panied to learn that common
s.yaller dorg" of the village of st. Louis
persisted in biting Gen. Corbin, mot
withstanding the protests" of that distin-
guished warrior. An animal so impervious
to reason is fit for nothing but to preside
over q court-martial.
The National tribune., 1903-05-21

GREAT BRITAIN spends in year on her
navy as much as We propose to spend in
digging the Panama Canal. Yet, the Ca
nal when finished. will double the strength
of our Navy, by enabling it to be con-
centrated on either coast where it is
needed
The National tribune., 1903-05-21

THE Department of West Virginia at
its recent Annual Encampment, unani-
mously indorsed the straight $12 per
month service pension.
The National tribune., 1903-05-21

EX-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND has made a
very liberal contribution to the monu-
nent TO be erected in Richmond to Gen.
j. Z. b. Stuart, and in his letter trans
mitting the contribution he says:
''All living Americans, North and South,
are rec0nciled-surely we can be recon-
ciled with the dead. and can find COM
mon pride in recalling the memory of
those who illustrated the brave heroism
in life and death, which we lovingly rec
ognize as the best feature in the character
of our people"
! Has this any political significancep
The National tribune., 1903-05-21

SECRETARY Roor gives US the crafty
information that there win be no more
changes in the Army uniform.
The National tribune., 1903-05-21

MANY people whom we meet in society
are like the Mock Turtle that Alice saw
in Wonderland-they used to be real.
The National tribune., 1903-05-21
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WASHINGTON. D. c.. MAY 81. 1903
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-16
DEMANDS on MISS GOULD.
A List of Petitions Received for Char
ity IN One Week.

AS a protest against the indiscriminate
demands made on her charity Helen
Gould had her secretary make a list of
the petitions received in one week, and
mailed this, in the form of a printed
circular to subsequent petitioners. The
list begins bravely with request for
81 600 000 with which to found a colony
n Cuba. goes on with 231 requests for
money. 81 for loans, 149 for sums to
raise mortgages. etc. shows who wish
to sell manuscripts, I who are anxious
10 name their little girls Helen G., one
who longs for $500 with which to erect
a monument TO a parent. 4 modest
young women who would like help
toward their trousseauz Zone suggesting
81 900 as d neat and appropriate SUM,
IS crank letters and % requests for in
terviews. In ali the seven DAYS showed
1903 letters, each asking something. But
1853 OF the writerss specified the sums
desired. and these alone. if obliged,
would have relieved Miss Gould OF ST.
SIS. 502 Only a very level head and a
very gentle heart can retain their OPP
timism against such evidence Of human
greed as this. And without optimism
such lifework as hers would be iIn-
pOssib le.=Esvery bCdy's Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-16
BEGINS WORK.
Legislative Committee Investigating
Investment Companies.

St Louis. Feb. 16.-The joint 1egisla-
tive committee appointed to Investigate
the methods of business followed by the
turf and other investment companies
for the purpose of using the information
as a guide in the ens ctmeut OF correc-
tive legislation got down to business in
earnest A summons was served on
somebody connected with each one Of the
following concerns and the day was
spent examining witnesses:
Turf Investment companies, F. J. Ar
mold & Co. J J. Ryan & Co, Tnterna-
tional Investment company. The Chris
ty Syndicate. st. Louis Turf Syndicate,
BrOlaski Investment company.
Brokerage firms. Cleage Commission
company, Brooks Brokerage & Commits
sion company. Dolan Commission com
panty, Thomas r. Price & Co, brokers;
Rialto Grain & Security company. Col
onial Securities company Security In
Vastment company. National Securities
company. tinted Securities COMPANY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-16
Notes and Personal Mention.

Mr.. and Mrs. John Baird Nicholson
spent Sunday with the formers family
in Lawrence
Mr. Chester woodward and his broth>
er MT Brinton Woodward. of Lawrence
left today for St Augustine, Fla, foi
an absence Of several weeks.
Mr. Henry Strong, who was the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs H. p. Dillon returned
to his home in Kansas City this morn
ing.
Miss Florence Miller. of Usage City.
is here for the Quigley-FIoiland wedding
Wednesday. and IS the guest of Miss
/ Villa Rodgers.
Miss roster and Miss Lillian Foster
went to Kansas City today to be the
I guests Of Mrs A. H. Connolly for few
days
MT and Mrs h L. Armstrong spent
/ Sunday in Lawrence
Mr.. Leon futile. Of Chicago, was in
town Sunday and today on business.
Miss E,Vangeline IngersOll left tOdas
/ for Hot Springs. Ark. to take the posi-
! ton C director Ct nurses in the Ozark
sanitar51lnl.
MIR and Mrs. f. r Cartilage have re-
4 turned from visit to their son in the
( City of Mexico.
Miss Eda smyth is the guest of Miss
Eugenia Piatt. in Lawrence.
The Iclanthe club meets Tuesday af-
ternoon with Mrs Frank StrawH
Miss Clara Hazel. Of Lincoln. is the
guest Of Mrs. J. Y R0Wles.
Mrs Noble PreEfis viii go to Ottawa
4 Tuesday for week.
Miss Esteile Riddle of Minneapolis
viii visit her sister at the College of
! the Sisters Of Bethany this week.
Mrs Ed Ogston viii leave the middle
of the week for d visit in Los Angeles,
California.
Mrs. c. e Esterley of Lawrence is
the guest of Dr. ard Mrs. D. E. Ester
I ley.
Dr.. c. 3. Reed. DR.. J. P. Root of
/ Kansas City ard DR. George E,sterley
of Lawrence left for Chicago today to
attend a meeting Of the Odontographs'
/ society
The Aid society of the First Congre-
gational church viii meet with Mrs.
Kirkpa trick. 500 Sixth avenue west
/ Wednesday afternoon at half after 2
/ O'Clock
The View Church Workers of the
First Baptist church VIII give q thin
bic party at Ire home OF Miss Ger
T trude Barnes corner OF Thirteenth
! avenue and Clay street. Wednesday af-
: teruoon.
Mrs. Clifford smith and her children.
/ Hazel and Merrill left today for Cal
weston, Texas. 10 visit Mrs. Smiths sis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-16
PERNELL SUIT CALLED.
Relatives of Mrs. Chrisman Try to
Get Property Decided to Mulatto.

The suit of Mrs. Lucinda J. Espy
against Fred PerneI TO set aside his
deed to the property at rs Kansas ave
nue., was begun before a jury in the
district court this morning
The property was decided to Pernell,
who is a very light mulatto, by the late
Eliza Chrisman a year before her death
and the suit TO set aside the deed IS
brought on the ground that she was not
mentally capable of transactng bust
ness and that the property was decided
to Pernen without any consideration.
A suit was brought in the same court
some time ago to set aside the will made
by Mrs. Chrisman but when it was
found that there was another previous
will, and perhaps two such wills, nearly
the same as the one admitted to pro-
bate it was decided to settle the Etiga-
ton. When that was done the execu-
tors of the estate. DR.. A. 5. Embree and
s. S. Oft Of Topeka. relinQuished all
claims of the estate to the property at
713 Kansas avenue, which is the north
half of the Topeka Cash Dry Goods
store.
Mrs. Lucinda Espy. who lives at Ur-
bana, Ohio. IS d cousin of the late Mrs.
ChriSman The name of her daughter.
Mrs. Clara Louise Thayer, has been sub
stituted as the plaintiff in the case. Her
attorneys. il stating the case to the
jury, claimed that Mrs. Chrisman was
not sound mentally when she decided the
property to Pencil. The point viii also
be made that the executors decided,
when the other suit was pending, that
Mrs. Espy should have the Kansas ave-
nue. property.
The attorneys for Pernell claim that
Mrs. Chrisman's wealth, which amount
ed to several hundred thousand dollars,
was the result of money made by her
father and her husband who worked
large numbers of slaves many years
ago. For this reason Mrs Chrisman felt
kindly disposed toward the colored race
and gave literally to colored institu-
tons
1t viii also be shown PerneH had been
a member of the Chrisman household
since his birth and that he and his aunt,
Caroline Pernen were both cared for by
Mrs. Chrisman and that in the viii Car
oline Pernell was given a annuity OF
$500 to be paid during her life time from
the funds given the Ohio Wesleyan col
lege by Mrs. Craftsman.
The defense viii also ATTEMPT to show
that Mrs Chrisman had no children and
no near relatives and that her many
cousins and second cousins in Ohio
preyed upon her and that to avoid them
she moved to Topeka many years ago,
taking the Pencils with her. Another
point will be that Mrs. Chrisman said.
when she decided the property to Per
nell that she expected the distant rela-
tives to attempt to break her Will and
10 keep them from defeating her inten-
tions toward Pernell that she would
deed him the building.
Several legal points are involved and
if the deed is set aside there seems TO
be some question as to who the property
would go to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-16
COOLEST IN YEARS.
Weather in Wyoming Is Severe
Even for That County.

Rawlns Wyo. Feb 16.-The loss to
sheep on the red desert where 100000
Craze, viii be heavy as the result of the
Intense cold. The weather is now mod
Grating. but the continuation of the
storm for six or seven days has weaken
ed the sheep until deaths are Of hourly
occurrence.
The weather is the coolest which has
teeu experienced for many years At
-Iedicine Bow. i'm the center of the vast
sheep grazing country the temperature
registered from % to g degrees below
zero for four nights. In the Encamp-
ment country il has fallen to 40 below,
and all mining opera tons have ceased.
The fail of snow in the mountains av-
erages from 20 to so feet and many small
mining camps VIII be sn0Wbound for
weeks.
I'm spite Of the storm the Union Pacific
hy extraordinary efforts has kept its
line clear, although an passenger trains
are running hours behind time. A score
of snow plows are working day and
night from Cheyenne to Ogden.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-16
SOUTHWEST COLONIZATION
Aid and inducements offered by the
Missouri Pacifc Railway.

The Missouri Pacific Railway is bend
ing every effort towards developing thu
agricultural mineral and industrial re-
sources Of the West and Southwest. To
attain this end. it asks the aid and co.
operation of every farmer. miner mer-
chant and professional man along its
lines.
The development of the products os
any section of the country means JUST
so much more capital to be spent i'm thai
section. Prosperous neighbors make y
prosperous community, especially If
they live and have their interests at
home.
Ii is this class of persons that the
Missouri Pacific Railway asks the pa
irons along its lines to invite to their
sections
You furnish the names and addressee
and we VIII furnish the necessary de .
scri9tlve and illustrated literature to
induce them to settle in your COM
mun.,z.
We wish to colonize the West and
Southwest, and offer every inducemon5
iu the way of excellent Transportation
faculties and low rates to all prospective
settlers and homeseekers-
II. c. TOW NSEND.
Gen Passenger and Ticket Agt
ST Fsoufe Mo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-16
DEFENDS LYNCHING.
New York Press Club Hiss Senator
TiIlman at Banquet.

New York. Feb 16.-Something of
scene resulted at the Press club ban
quet Saturday night. when Senator
Tillman defended the summary way in
which southerners punish negroes.
At first he was listened to with
silence, if not enthusiasm. but after
rev minutes Kisses became more and
more frequent and finally someone
called out, What about your nephew
The remark created a momentary up
roar, but that was all
After an inpassiOned recital of the
perils to the white population of the
south threatened by the increase of the
powers Of the negroes, Senator Till
man said:
We were compelled by the exigen-
cies of the situation to use the shotgun
and the tissue ballots and we used
both. Way Because in the state of
South Carolina there were 30. 900 more
negro voters than there were white
voters
South Carolina. ne continued, had
established free schools and ever since
there had been more negro children in
them than white children.
Do you think it was our purpose to
raise these negro children to q condi-
ton of enlightenment in order that
they might govern u.s." he asked and
then. in answering his own question,
he Numbered out.
BY the Holy God. MOI"
Three months ago he continued.
the president wrote a letter in which
he said that when a negro showed him
self qualified to I'LL public office he was
unwilling TO shut the door of hope on
his face
Commenting on this the senator said
if the present condition of education
continued and the negro gained posses
/ sion of the state Of South Carolina and
subordinated the white. the ceplOrable
result would be that in a hundred years
the population would be half mulatto.
He had no practice bic solution of the
problem, unless the north took its share
of the blacks.
His address grew more in1passioned
as he continued TO defend the summary
measures adopted for the punishment
of negroes guilty Of crime and espe-
/ cially against women.
( What about your nephew" shouted
someone, and thereby raising a mo-
mentary uproar
There is much 7 could say and would
like to say bat 1 regard it as highly
J Inappropriate to refer in public to fam
lily affairs, responded the senator when
I silence was restored.
Before concluding his address be said
I that if the policy Of raising the negro
/ to power in the south was carried too
far the result would be blOodshed, which
would be heaped upon the heads of
those who tried to force the white pop
ulation into subsection to the black
This was not a threat. but simply a
statement of what he knew from his
ACQUAINTANCE with the conditions in
I the south
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-16
INCHES OF SNOW
Accompanied by 40 Mile Gale in
Chicago.

Chicago. Feb. 16.-seven inches Of
snow on the level accompanied by a gale
reaching velocity of more than 40
miles an hour ushered in a cold wave
which this morning sent the mercury
close to the zero mark. The traction
and steam railway service. telegraph
and Telephone wires are suffering from
the heavy fan Of snow. Loss OF life
was less than anticipated, but one per-
son so far as known having succumbed.
An unidentified man was found frozen
in a -snowdrift down town. The cold
which at midnight registered u de.
grees above, gradually increased until 4
below was reached early in the day
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-16
SEVEN MEN HELD UP.
Imprisoned in an lee Box Half
an Hour.

Chicago. Feb.16.-seven men were held
up. robbed and marched at the point Of
revolvers into the ice box in a South
State street saloon today and kept pris-
oners for half an hour while their cap
tors deliberately sampled liquors. There
were six customers and the barkeeper
in the saloon when three young men en-
tered. compelled them TO line up and
submit TO being searched. When atten-
ton was attracted to them by their fir
ing revolvers the highWa ymen were enl-
crying from a saloon opposite and a
chase ensued resulting in the capture OF
two of the men.