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The National tribune., 1906-06-28
Fortunes In Pearl Hunting.

"On the Banks of the Wabash Far
Away" the excitement over the sale of
pearls eclipses all interest In the meat
problem and the rate bill. The pearl,
ers, that Is the men who are dredging
up the mussels and examining them for
gems, are continually finding the busi-
ness more profitable and exciting stories
are in circulation as to the value Of the
finds of many of them. 1t is said that
in the Vincennes district alone $780,
600 worth of pearls and slugs were sold
in 1905, and that since the work has
been, entered into in earnest more than
$1,000, 900 has been brought to Vim
cennes from this source alone Many
of the stories of fancy prices paid for
pearls are obvious fabricattons, but 1t
Is known that often times from $500 to
$500 are paid for pearls of extra quail
iiy.
There would seem to be even more
excitement in Wisconsin and what is
claimed to be the finest fresh water
pearl in the world was found by Will
liam Bates, a ciamfisher, I'm the Wiscon-
sin channel opposite Red Wing, Mimi.
June 19. 1t is as large as good sized
marble. perfectly round. and without
flaw and with luster rarely equaled
The pearl Is translucent almost trans
parent, and when exposed to the light
shows marvellous coloring. Its
weight is S5 grains. smaller and less
perfect pearl has sold for $40, 900. and
gossip is very active as TO how much
this one Is worth, with the estimated
value at present ranging from $40, coo
TO 100000. depending upon the rivalry
of gem collectors. Bates and his wife
are hard-working fishers and have
heretofore had no more success than
would give them modest livelihood
Mrs. Bates was almost beside herself
when she discovered the pearl.
The National tribune., 1906-06-28
The 15fth N. Y.

Editor National Tribune: I Want
you to give a short history of my regi-
ment. the 154th n. Y / was in the
Army of the Potomac and in three i'm
portant engagements, Fredericksb burg,
Charlottesville and Gettysburg, and
was then transferred to Sherman's
army and participated i'll all the impor-
tant engagements of the campaigns fol-
lowing. | was in the Eleventh Corps,
which was consolidated with the
Twelfth Corps when we left Virginia
TO join Sherman. and was then in what
was known as the Twentieth Corps
James C.. Helmes, Randolph, n. Y.
The National tribune., 1906-06-28
The SunfiOwer ns n Febrifure.

According to German newspapers. a
spanish Professor has made the dis
covery that the sunfiower yields a splen-
did febrifuge that can be used as a
substitute for quinine. The sunfiower
should not only by its growing exert a
great fever-dispelling effect, but also
yield a product which is used advan-
tageousiy in malarial fever The Rus
sian peasantry seem to be convinced
that the plant possesses properties
against fever, and fever patients sleep
upon bed made Of sunfiower leaves
and also cover themselves with them.
This use has recently induced a Rus
sian physician to experiment with the
coiorfng matter prepared from sun
ffower leaves, and it is stated that he
had good results with 1t I'm malarial
feVer cases. Good results with the COL
orfhg matter and with alcoholic ex-
tracts of the flowers and leaves were
also obtained. With 100 children from
one month to II years old he has. in
the majority of cases, effected as
speedy cure as otherwise with ouf-
nine.
The National tribune., 1906-06-28
The Blue and the Grey.
By Col. M. E. Billings. Calistoga, c

By Col. M. E. Billings, Calistoga, Cal.
The wearing of the blue, the wearing of
the gray,
Both are marks of honor, mauger what
others say.
Erstwhile we wore the blue, the living
and the dead;
We all wear gray now, only It's upon
the head.
Well you remember, boys, the faxep
curley pate
OF Billy Scott, our comrade; 1 saw him.
boys. of late;
The golden ringlets we have seen "a
floating mid the fight
Were gone, and in their place / saw a
shock of shaggy white.
Boys" still they call us as when we
wore the blue;
'Tis right; these gray-haired boys are
just as brave and true
AS when amid the battle side by side
they fought.
They all wear gray with honor; these
boys cannot be bought
'Tis said we want the whole EARTH be-
cause we ask what's due:
All. boys! how plain 1t is to see, it is
the earth wants you
The frost which never melts, boys,
crowns all who wore the blue;
Ye wear the gray with honor now;
grand emblem of the true.
The National tribune., 1906-06-28
ODD FORM OF TREE GRATING:
How Mexicnns Have Secured Cur,ou.
Effects I'm Wood CoIorIng.
(Pacific Fruit WORLDLY

Some owners of forests of valuable
WOODS are trying experiments in the
southern part of Mexico with the wal
nut trees. 1t is not generally kncwn
outside the trade that there are manv
kinds of walnut woods and that only
part OF them have so far been consid-
cred valuable from a commercial point
OF view. Now the scheme is to make
these less valuable or worthless wal
nuts commercially valuable. And the
process Is a curious one.
1t consists of opening the roots OF
the trees and inserting one or more
nuts, which are quite small, from the
best varieties ct walnut trees l. is
said that these nuts, which are care
fully sealed in with wax or stiff,
waterproof stopper, impart a new or
closer grain and coloring to the tree
The southern Indians of Mexico have
for centuries been in the habit of se-
curing curious effects in coloring on
fine woods by inserting in the above
manner nuts of other trees into the
roots of the living tree. An enterpris-
ing planter in Tabasco has been follow
ing out this Indian idea with curious
results. He mentioned this to other
haciendados, and now several of them
are experimenting with the coarser
kinds of walnut trees with encouraging
results.
The National tribune., 1906-06-28
BIGGEST IN THE WORLD.
This Claim In Made for a Concrete Chin
ney in Montana.

The Butte MONTY Reduction Works
has what is believed to be the largest
and highest concrete chimney in the
world. The inside diameter. both top
and bottom. is 1s feet, and the height
of the chimney is 333 feet inches, or
352 feet inches above the surface;
the top Of the chimney has also the
rather uncommon altitude of 5,791.3
feet above the sea level.
The foundation of the chimney goes
seven feet below the surface the lower
portion being formed of Stag poured
into a gray-iron casting 100 feet square,
giving an area of 10000 square feet
This process was repeated six times,
giving a foundation 18 feet deep, taper
ing to sc 2-3; feet square at the top,
and full of various forms of metal sown
through the Stag. AS seven feet of
this are in the ground there Is neces-
sarily height of IL feet above the
ground.
The chimney proper was formed in a
system of sectional molds three and a
half feet high, which, when coupled to-
gether formed a complete ring. The
concrete walls contain vertical and horf-
zontai steel bars, the number reducing
as the height increases. and also rings
of one-inch T-iron wired to the bars.
The National tribune., 1906-06-28
SOME CHINESE JOKES.
Having Fun With the Barber, Portrait
Painter and Doctor
{Grand Magazine)

If there is any truth in what expert
testers tell US, the worlds stock of
good, original jokes is ludicrously small
"a dozen or two at the very outside
An early investigator into this moment
Gus question, a certain Hierocles who
| lived some 1900 years ago, put the
number in his day at exactly 81 The
researches of Hierocles probably did
not extend so far eastward as China.
so there is no impropriety in asking
now whether some of the jokes which
abound in the literature of the Celestial
Empire are entitled to the honor of
originality or not. Here are three
specimens:
A careless barber. trimming a GUS
TONER'S ears-Chinese BARRIERS pay par
ticular attention to this part of the
human anatomy-put his patient to
great pain and uneasiness. Are you
<doing my left ear now?" asked the vic
tim. No, sir; I've not quite finished
the right ear yet" "Ahi 1 fancied you
were trying to pass through to the left
without going around"
"A portrait painter without clients
was advised by friend to paint a like
ness of himself and his wife and hang
1t in some conspicuous place, so that
would-be customers might Judge of his
skill. He did so, and his father-in-law
the next time he called Immediately
saw tne picture Pray, asked the
visitor, what woman have you rep
resented there?" why. sir. do you
not recognize your own daughter?" MY
daughter" was the indignant answer
If you intend that to represent my
daughter. how dare you paint her sit
ting thus Intimately with a man whom
L have never seen before. and who
must be an entire stranger to her ?"
The painters feelings need not be de-
scribed-
The gibes at doctors are innumer-
able. The following is a typical ex-
ample:
One of the judges in the neither re-
gions dispatched an imp to this world
of ours to seek out and bring back
good doctor. When" the imp was
instructed, you come to the house of
doctor before which you descry no
complaining ghosts you viii know you
have found man Of the kind wanted"
The messenger set out, but in front of
every doctors door he came to there
was an immense throng of angry spirits
proclaiming the wrongs they had suf-
fered when in the flesh at the hands of
the medicine man. Finally, however,
he reached a house where there was
but one solitary ghost fitting backward
and forward. "This is my man." he
said to himself; he must surely be a
clever fellow" When the imp came
to make inquiries, however. he learned
that the practitioner had barely been
in practice for day,
The National tribune., 1906-06-28
The Prolific Fly,

New Orleans Times -Democrat)
The biologist brushed a fly out of his
beard.
1T Is early for these pests" he said
Il wish We could exterminate flies
They are as useless and as harmful as
snakes.
& And how prolific! From June Il
September the average fly mother &C
cumulates family of 100000 ch.l-
dren. If all these children lived, the
flies would crowd mankind off the
earth.
But flies. as it fortunately happens.
are particularly afflicted with micro
scopic parasites and with innumerable
sorts of germ diseases. These things
kill them off and they are also killed
off by birds. bats and toads.
AN odd fact about flies is that they
lever sit down. They could IL they
would-their hind legs would fold un-
der them like dogs or a horses.
"ut. no; no sitting down for Mr.. Fly.
He comes into the world on his feet,
and on his feet he departs. Think of
it. not to sit down once from blrtn to
death"
The National tribune., 1906-06-28
SCIENCE AND INVENTION.
Work the Worlds Busy Brains in Discovering nventng and
Creating.

f. Some years ago DOC" Carr. of st.
Charles County, Mo-, began making
Missouri Meerschaums' for his friends
by whiting them out of corncobs.
They. met with so much favor that he
entered the business for profit and since
that time there has been an enormous
development of their manufacture with
a great deal of ingenious and compli-
Gated machinery devoted to the work.
The corncob pipes are becoming as
popular in Europe as in this country,
and the trade is increasing in them
every year. The most of the pipes are
turned out in Franklin County with
Gasconade County a good second. In
1905 there were 2,076,711 pounds Of
these pipes or nearly 25,000,000 separate
pipes, which sold for s456,S76. With
in a years time the industry has nearly
doubled and the demand for corncobs
has become part of the resources of the
farmers of Missouri.
The National tribune., 1906-06-28
Shoshone Land Drawing.

Any soldier who desires to register
through an agent for a quarter section
of the Shoshone Indian lands, south of
the Yellowstone Park, can do so by ap-
plying to Harvey T. Heating, Room 10,
Board of Trade Building, Columbus
Ohio.
Mr.. Harvey Keating has opened an
office at the above address for the pur-
pose of securing agents for soldiers
who want to be represented at the
drawing Mr.. Keating successfully
registered through agents a large num-
Der of soldiers at the Uintah opening
last year in Utah. AS the law requires
an agent for each soldier. Mr.. Keating
will personally supervise the registra-
ton of every soldiers name at the reg
istration point, and send to him the
certificate OF registration issued by the
land clerks
The National tribune., 1906-06-28
Lest We Forget.

Full 40 years have come and gone since
the boys of 81
Came marching back. in their faded
blue, from the fields that they
had won.
FUN 30 years have passed away. their
ranks are sadly thin.
But whitened locks nor feeble limbs
can quench the fires within.
And now they tell how once they fought
their country's battles DER:
OF charges made and victories won on
battlefieids of yore;
OF Gettysburg and Donelson you often
hear them tell:
OF comrades dear who perished there
in the rain of shot and shell.
At Mission Ridge. at Seven Oaks. on
Chickamauga's plain,
Death walked abroad, with awful mien
Grim Reaper, through the grain
Right on the brave old heroes went.
nor finched when facing death,
Their lines of blue closed up when
thinned by the baleful cannon's
breath.
With Farragut at New Orleans and
bloody Mobile Bay
They worked their guns. and courted
death. fighting their bloody way
Past forts manned with the very best
- of Dixie's Cavaliers.
And broke the yoke the slaves had worn
for many weary years
Shall we, their sons. forget the deeds of
warriors gone before,
When the same old Flag they fought
to save Is colored with their
gore?
Shall we forget. and calmly sit, while
the grizzled vetrans march
Beneath the trees of this broad land.
their own triumphal arch?
Shall we forget the sainted dead who
at their country's call
Gave up their lives in prison pens, and
sleep beneath the pail
OF Southern cypress. OF beneath the
snowy cotton fields.
In graves unmarked. still slumber on,
at rest upon their shields?
No! no, say! Wen not forget the deeds
of these our sires,
But on our affairs will renew our Ma
tion's hallowed fires.
Our dear old Flag, the Stars and
Stripes. we'll proudly raise. on
high,
Our hearts will throb with a patriots
zeal. our cheers will reach the
sky.
Our fathers deeds will be the pride of
thousands yet unborn
A thousand years Will scarce efIdce the
glories that adorn
The noble brows of those we love, Co
lumbia's bravest sons,
Who offered life, a sacrifice, mid the
thunder of her guns.
Let us, then, stand. their loyal sons,
and lend helping hand
To those who in the hour of need gave
succor to our land.
Their mem'ries keep, their graves keep
green, the Flag that once they
bore
In Southern lands shall be our pride
and care forever more.
And when at last our race is run, and
we cross the shining strand,
We pray our sons may do the same, and
keep our native land
Free from the hand that would destroy
what they fought hard to goin.
And try as hard as they have tried our
Nation to maintain.
A. F. Tomlinson,
Junior Vice Commander, Camp so, S. V.
Written on the occasion of the 10th
Annual Encampment of the Illinois G.
A. r., w. r. c., S. of ", at Galesburg,
ILL.,, May %, %, "a, 1906.
The National tribune., 1906-06-28
FlOOr Polish.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
me good recipe for a polish for
hoors.-Amos Healing, ST. Clair, Mich,
L. Put a small quantity of sperm
aceti In a saucepan on the fire and mix
with 1t enough turpentine to make ii
iluid. Apply to the floor a thin coat,
using piece Of flannel for the nur-
pose. Rub with dry flannel and brush
the same way oak stains are brushed.
Inc rubbing and brushing process, says
the Practical Carpenter, take a long
time. IL properly done.
z. Dissolve one-half pound potash in
three pints water In a saucepan ON tho
ilre, and when the water boils throw
IN one pound beeswax cut up into small
pieces. Stir until the wax is melted
II the polish is too thick when cold.
add more water. Apply with a brush.
palhtihg tne boards evenly, and when
dry rub with flannel tied to the end NJ
a broom. vi
The National tribune., 1906-06-28

Much interest has been aroused by
the discovery of large deposits of cim-
olite, commonly known as Fuller's
earth, near Comerville. Tex. The main
deposit is on the right bank of small
creek and it is estimated that it con-
tains over 500, 600 tons of cleaned milled
earth The value of the find may be
estimated by remembering that Fuller's
earth is worth from five cents to 10
cents per pound retail and about two
cents wholesale. A large plant is to be
erected at once to prepare the earth
for commerce. 1t is extensively used
in the refining of oil as wen as for
many other purposes, and the largest
pocket SO far known in this country
has been in Georgia. which has, how
ever, only few hundred tons.
The National tribune., 1906-06-28
The Martyr.
New York SUM-

New York Sun.)
He read the packing-house reports,
His actions thereto fitted,
And thereon from his bill of fare
All kinds of meat omitted.
He next put up the bars on fish;
Decided. after wrangling
They ought to make the fisherman
Wear white kid gloves when angling
angling.
When he beheld the gentle COW,
No milk he dared to tackle,
Nor would he eat an egg without
A photographic cackle.
Thus in a while 1t came about
He perished frOia starvation,
And on his tomb they carved the words:
"Died of Investigation"
The National tribune., 1906-06-28
The Army of the Cumberland.

As one of the rank and file, Comrade
P c. Helder, Sergeant-Major, AID Ind,
wants to thank The National Tribune
for giving the history of the Army of
the Cumberland SO frankly and truth
fully and from the standpoint of a man
in the ranks
There was a spy shot while trying to
escape from the guard at Murfreesboro,
who used to visit the camps and sing
for the boys. While his songs were not
operatic they We're very taking, and
Comrade Helder desires to know II
any of the boys remember him. The
first fight of the 42d Ind. was at War
trace, Tenn.
The National tribune., 1906-06-28
Az Electrical Tailor.
fNew York Press.(

Electricians have a tailor. His shop
is in the Broadway shopping district,
and he boasts an exclusive trade. His
trousers, VESTS goats and overcoats are
live-wire-proof.
Yes, I'm, "a sort of life preserver," /"
said the tailor, speaking OF his wares.
I'm Russian and my non-live-wire
clothes aretthe invention of Russian
Prof. Artemieff, the head of the Kief
Electrical College. He Is a great man
and is said to- have saved more lives
through his invention than any other
human being. 3
The non-live-wire suits are made of
closely woven metal hair fibers, and
then lined with non-conducting linen.
Caps and masks are of the same
Heavy voltages make no impression on
the suits"
do you ever have call for suits from
other than electricians"
yes, 1 make them for museums and
cranks, and l have three customers who
wear non-live-wire overcoats back and
forth to business"
The National tribune., 1906-06-28

William n. Whitley, a prominent in
ventor of agricultural machinery,
Springfield, o., has what he thinks the
chief work of his life and which will
bring happiness to every farmers
home. 1t is machine driven by gaso-
line which will rock the baby, wash
cream, run a sewing machine and do
other things. A company has been
formed to build the machine. We have
only one Improvement to suggest. That
is, phonograph attachment which will
collect all the gossip of the neighbor-
hood and retail il out as desired to the
ladies, and thus save them that severest
labor of every woman's life, talking.
The National tribune., 1906-06-28
Pensions to Arm, Testers.

William Haney. u. S. N, Newark, N.
j., has his ire aroused by an appeal in
the New York papers for pensions to
those who endangered their lives by
serving as arms testers in the armories
during the war, for which they re-
ceived $3.50 a day. He thinks that
they hadn't the slightest kick coming
since they had an easy berth, good pay
and the comforts of hcme, all sadly
contrastins with the men who went
into the field and to sea in danger Of
shot and shell and endured the hard
ships of life afioat and ashore In ac-
tual war time.
The National tribune., 1906-06-28
Wheat Bugs.

One of the inconsidered problems of
the big fire concerns the sacking of the
wheat crop. Nearly all the empty
grain bags in the State were in San
Francisco waiting shipment to interior
points when the fire came. Practically
all these sacks were destroyed. 1t is
nearly time to harvest the wheat crop,
and unless the farmers can get bags
they will have to cut the grain for hay,
with a loss of millions
The National tribune., 1906-06-28
The SD N. Y.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
short sketch of the 33d n. Y.-Peter
Mead, Penyann. Mich.
The 33d n. Y. was organized at FL
mira, May %, 1851. for two years. and
was mustered out June 2, 1863 Its
Colonel was Robert F. Taylor. 1t be-
longed to w. F. Smiths Division. Sixth
Corps. and lost Al killed and los from
disease, etc.-Editor National Tribune.
The National tribune., 1906-06-28
III 1sToRY of the 1st Regt. of Tennes-

III 1STORY of the 1st Regt of Tennes-
Ii see Volunteer Cavalry In the Great
War of the Rebellion, with the Armies of
the Ohio and Cumberland under Gems
Morgan, Rosecrans, Thomas Stanley and
Wilson, 1S62-1S65. This book of s65
pages, size 6x9h inches. and 80 ilustra-
tions, is subtantially bound in cloth, Is
type. 1t contains a complete roster Of
the regiment, with date and place of
those who fell in battle, died of wounds
tr- CEtted States on receipt of S150.-W.
H. Carter. 965 Broadway, Knoxville,
Tenn.
The National tribune., 1906-06-28
The Cavalry Charge.
By Francis A. Durivage.

With bray of the trumpet
And roll of the drum
And keen ring of bugle
The cavalry come.
Sharp clank the steel scabbards,
The bridle-chains ring,
And foam from red nostrils
The wild chargers fling.
Tramp! tramp. DER the greensward
That quivers below,
Scarce held by the curb-bit
The fierce horses goi
And the -visaged Colonel,
With ear-rending shout,
Peals forth to the squadrons
The order-''Trot OUT"
One hand on the saber
And one on the rein,
The troopers move forward
In line on the plain.
AS rings the word "Gal1opi"
The steel scabbards clank.
And each rowel is pressed
To horses hot flank:
And swift is their rush
AS the wild torrents flow
When 1T pours from the crag
On the valley below.
CHARGE" thunders the leader:
Like shaft from the bow
Each mad horse Is hurled
On the wavering foe
A thousand bright sabers
are cleaning in air;
A thousand dark horses
Are dashed on the square.
Resistless and reckless
OF aught may betide,
Like demons not mortafs,
The wild troopers ride.
Cut right. and cut lefti-
For the parry who needs?
The bayonets shiyer
Like wind-Shattered reeds
VAIN, vain the red yolley
That bursts from the square,
The random-shet bullets
Are wasted in air.
Triumphant. remorseless.
Unerring S DEATH
No saber that's stainless
Returns to it's sheath.
The wounds that are dealt
By that murderous steel
Will never yield case
For the Surgeon to heal.
Hurrah! they are broken
Hurrah, boys, they fly
None linger save those
Who but linger to die.
Rein up your hot horses
And call in your men,
The trumpet sounds Rally
To color" again.
Some saddles are empty.
Some comrades are slain,
And some noble horses
Lie stark on the plain
But wars a chance game, boys,
And weeping is vain.
The National tribune., 1906-06-28
Electricity smeIts Magnetic Ores.

Experiments at Sault Ste Marie have
demonstrated that magnetic as we'll as
hematite ores can be successfully and
economically smelted by electricity. Not
only can the electric process be applied
to various grader of Canadian ores, but
iron ores containing considerable per-
certage of sulphur and phosphorus, and
which up to the present have been re-
garded as valueless. can be successfully
treated. by the higher temperature
available in an electric furnace.
The National tribune., 1906-06-28

According to bulletin issued by the
United States Geological Survey, the
production of Portland cement in 1905
amounted to 32;246,812 barrels, valued
of S,740,931 barrels in quantity and
S9,S90,74S in value over 1904 This
shows how the concrete idea is expand
ing. Probably no other industry in the
country is increasing by leaps of 33 per
cent annually.