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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1906-07-19

Editor National Tribune: In the
Congressional Directory a number OF
years ago, in a sketch Of Gen. Walker
OF Virginia. 1t was stated that he lost q
leg at the battle OF Gravelly Run
March 81, 1865. Can any reader OF
The National Tribune give any Of the
particulars concerning the matter:
what part Of the line he was on, and 1,
mounted what was the color OF hi
horse? The writer's regiment, the
140th N. Y. was on the skirmish line
that morning. on the extreme left O.
the Union infantry. Please repl,
through The National Tribune or to the
writer's. r. Hagen. Painted Post
". Y.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1906-07-19

perfect sight they now enjoy with my famous
Perfect Vision spectacles.
want your testimonial also, and therefore
you this very extraordinary ofe:-
, SPECIAL. PROPOSITION
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AND MILL SPRINGS.
The Beginning OF the War NJ Seen by q
Uniontst In East Tennessee.

Editor National Tribune: have
been reading with much interest your
series OF papers relating to THE Army
OF the Cumberland
AS l was In Knoxville prior to and
during the war. had facilities for OBJ
serving much Of the tragedy and drama
played forth in that locality. / saw
much Of the organizing OF the Confed-
crate forces, including Zollicoffer's.
After the battle OF Mill Springs the
disorganized remnants Of the Confed-
crate troops for days came struggling
into Knoxville. Your description IL
singularly correct. My brother and ]
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1906-07-19

Editor National Tribune: Can any
comrade give me some information in
regards the gunboat Nick w. Hughes?
In 1865 they were stationed at Nash
Vile. Tenn. Capt. Will Van Dorm, of
said boat got orders to go down the
Mississippi. and near Island No. 10 on
May 10, 1865. the boiler exploded and
all hands were lost
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1906-07-19
CARRIED HIS EAR AWAY.
Peculiar Wound Received by q Georgi
Sergeant at Gettysburg-ThOught HI
Had Been Killed Several Times Over

A description Of the peculiar wound
ing of q member OF a Georgia regi-
ment, c. s. A.. Is given by Private Abe
erate). It occurred at Gettysburg dur
ing the terrific cannonading which pre-
coded Pfckett's charge. The Geor-
gians were making for cover when q
tall Sergeant was seen to tumble head
long to the earth. His regiment passed
along. leaving him lying on the ground.
In q few minutes he came running
up to his company, holding his hand to
the side Of his head and a. male a a
ghost
I'VE thought you had been killed, .
said the Lieutenant who was command
Ing the company.
mot auits.s replied The Sergeant.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1906-07-19
The Struggle for Missouri
A New War History Of the Greatest Value
By JOHN McELROY

YTYHE STRUGGLE for the control of the of
n
" seng0 the the mighty task before authority
tor the colossal
The contest Immediately
equal If
interest," Inc hn stake tor the city St. and the
battles OF Wilson's Creek Ridge
O
the valuable
In addition
of in tswi
IS n attractive
value
ereceved aAeA ugt3.
Address NATIONAL G.
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Editor National Tribune: I am thor
oughly disguised with Hoods endless
gable about clearing Atlanta OF women
and children. Such rot has no place.
no right In our great soldier paper
Edwin w. Finch. New Rochelle, N. Y.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-11-16

was too slow, and he gave Comancbe
yell, and threw the lines into the air
and the horses just skedaddled and run
into snow bank and tipped over the
sledge, and piled us out on ton of dad
but dad only said: This is GETTING
good"
We righted up, and dad wanted -
know where all the pups came from that
we had passed. | had been throwina
out pieces of meat into the road for :
mile or so, and the dogs were HAVING
picnic. 1t was getting pretty dark NV
this time, and we started back to town
and threw out my liver. fastened 70
the rope. and the Chicago man who bad
given the driver a drink of vodka whom
we tipped over, told him, in Russian
that when the dogs began to follow us f.
get hold of the liver, to yell wolves
and give the team the rein, for five.
mile run, and yell all the time hecanSa
we wanted to give the old gentleman
good time.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-11-16
When Is an Old Maid7

When does a girl become an old
maid? This question, blunt and shorn
OF delicate innuendo, is now figuring
In the somnolent discussion of Phila.
delphia society. One might say that
q girl becomes an old maid when she
falls to marry betimes, but that is not
the point. What is the exact year
that ushers in spinsterhood and closes
forever the gates of youth? OF course.
this is not matter in which man
has any word to say. No rational
wearer Of trousers would tempt fate
and the scorn of femininity by at.
tempting a suggestion, for any arbi.
trary dead line would necessarily
bring down upon the luckless mascu.
line head a storm Of reprobation. 1t
has been left to the women them.
selves to brave the peril. And they
have placed the age at 40 years.
Under this ruling a woman is a ten.
der bud until twoscore years have
counted their gloomy litany Of days
and the hair near the scalp begins to
whiten.
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| Mrs. III, WriQhf

Mrs. Pinkham claims that there IS a
KIND of dyspepsia that is caused nv q
oerangement of the female Organism
ana which, while it causes a disturb,
ance similar to ordinary indipestion
cannot be relieved without a medicine
winch not only acts as stomach tonic
out hasapeeuliar tonic effect on the a.
male organism. =" VIC Ae'
AS proof of this theory we cal, a.
tention to the case of Mrs, Wacr, S
Wright, Brooklyn, N. Y. who So aS
completely cured by Lydia E. PINK.
hams Vegetable Compound after ever.
thing else had failed. She writes:
For two years suffered with dvsnar.,.
which so degenerated the entire system That Att +
was unable to attend to my daily duties.
Iett weak and nervous, and nothing that 7 ats
tasted good and it caused a disturbance in INV
stomach. tried different dyspepsia cureS
but nothing seemed to help me, I was al,
yised 10 give Lydia E. Pinkham,s VegetahIa
compound trial, and was happily surprised
% lind that it acted like fine tonic. and in a
feWdays began to enjoy and properly digest
my food. Ny recovery was rapid, and In
i've weeks was well woman. I have rec.
it to many suffering women"
No other medicine In the world hss
'eceived such widespread and unqusli.
led endorsement or has such a record
+ cures of female troubles, as has Lydia
: Pinkhams Vegetable Compound.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-11-16
Attendance at Llensic Fair.

At the Leipsic fall fair Of 1906, the
number of firms represented as buyers
was 1856, as against 9,1O5 in 1905 and
1854 in 1903; an increase of over 81
per cent during the last three years.
The United States and Canada were
represented by ia buyers, while Latin
America, Asia and Europe were also
well represented. The official list of
sellers this year shows that 1875 firms
had exhibits, as against s,1O1 in 1905.
The countries represented, and tho
Aumber of firms from each, were o.
follows: German empire, 1851; Aus.
tsia-Hungary, 22S: France, 40; Great
Britain, 10; Netherlands, 10: switzer.
land, 6; Italy, s; Belgium, 4: Den.
mark, 2; Sweden, 2, and the United
States, l.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-11-16
First Flower of Sprinc,

In the northern United States the
snowdrop is the only garden flower
that we can count on year after year
as the earliest sign of spring. It's
pendulOus white blossoms, with
"heart-shaped seal of green" sung by
Rossetti often appear before the last
snow has gone.
Luckily, even city families need not
be without snowdrops, for they have
been known to thrive in narrow pas
sageways between all houses. Most
dubious plants like the baking hot sun
OF midsummer in order to ripen their
bulbs, but the snowdrop thrives best
IN partial shade.
It blooms earlier If it has a chance
at the March sun, but is one of the
very few that will flower regularly,
though less freely, in dense shade and
with q northern exposure.-Country
Life In America.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-11-16
Well, uncle. I would have piva, anv,

Well, uncle, would have given any.
thing If you could have seen dad, when
the dogs began to chase that liver, and
bark, and fight each other. The driver
yelled something in Russian and point
ed back with his whip, the Chicago man
said: MY God, we are pursued by q
pack OF ravenous wolves. and there Is no
hope for u.s." and | began to cry. and
implored dad, If he loved me, to save me.
Dad stood up in The sledge and looked
back. and saw the wolves. and he was
scared, but he said the only thing to do
was to throw something overheard for
them TO be chewing on while we got
away but he sat down and pulled a robe
over his head and his lips were moving,
but / do not know whom he was address,
Ing.
The Chicago man touched of cosple
OF cannon frecrackers behind the
sledge. but that only kept the dogs back
for a minute, and dad said probably the
best thing to do was to throw me over
board, and let them eat me, and | said:
Nay, nay, Pauline" and then | think
dad tainted away, for he never peeped
again until the team had run away lot
more, and cut my liver rope, and when
we got into the suburbs of st. Petersburg
the dogs had overtaken the liver. and
were fighting over It.
The driver had to pull up his horses
as we struck the town, and dad must
nave got Whit off the drivers vodka,
because he come to, and we got to the
hotel all right. and thought dad would
simply die in his tracks, but the ride /
and the excitement didhim good and he
wanted to buy gun and go out wolf
hunting the next day, but our tickets
were bought, and we shall get out of
this terrible country tomorrow.
DAD woke me up in the night and want
ed to know If saw him when he pulled
his knife and wanted to get out and
light the pack of wolves single-handed.
am not much of liar, but toldshim
remembered 1t well, and It demon.
strated to me that he was as brave q
man as the car, 'the Little Jack Rab-
bit" as his people call him.
Well, thanks to my wolf hunt, dad is
I'll right again, and now we shall 20 to
some country where there is peace. /
iont know where we will find it, but II
such a country exists, your little Henry
VIII catch on. If dads money holds out
Yours, covered with Gore.
HENNERY.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-11-16

Gay. Nobody had a gun, and no one
would have known how to use gun, and
all looked like poor people going to
prayers. There were troops everywhere
and every soldier acted as though he
was afraid something would happen to
spoil their chance of killing anybody.
The snow on the streets was clean and
as white as the wings of peace dove,
and dad said the show was no better
than a parade of laboring men at homo
on Labor day.
Suddenly some officer yelled to the
parade to stop, and the priest at the head
OF the procession, who was carrying a
cross, slowed up little, like the drum
major of band when the populace at
nome begins to throw eggs, but they kept
on, and then the shooting began, and in
minute men, women and children were
rolling in the snow, bleeding and dying,
the marchers were too stunned to run,
and the deadly guns kept on splitting
IRE, and the street was full of dead and
dying, and then the Cossacks rode over
the dead and sabered and knouted the
living, and as the snow was patched with
red blood, dad tainted away and fell off
the picket fence, and hung by one nant
leg, which caught on a picket, and
crowds rushed in every direction, and
II was an hour before could get
drosky to haul dad to the hotel.
Dad collapsed when he got to the hote,
and | got doctor and a nurse and for
TWO days had to watch the revolution
alone, while dad had fits of remorco
cause he brought me to such a charnaI |
house, he said.
Well, If you ever go anywhere, travel
ing for pleasure, do not 20 to Rms
sia, because it is the saddest place on
earth. have seen no person smile or
laugh In all the ten days we have hpen
here, except Cossack when he run a
saber through little girl, and his laugh
was like the coyote on the prairie when
ne captures a little lamb. The neonlo
look either heart-broken or snarIv lilo
the people confined in an insane asvlnm
at home.
The car, who a week ago was loved
by the people. who believed if thew went
to him, as to their God, and appealed for
guidance is to-day hated by all. and in
stead of Nicholas the Good" since bo
away to a castle in the corn
Try. and craWled under bed, all the neo-
pie call him the Little Jack Rabbit .
and his fate is sealed, as a bomb will,
blow him into pieces SO small thew will !
nave to be swept UP in a dustnan for
burial, maybe before dad and can 90.
out of Russia. N SCI
Gong to st. Petersburg for pleasant
'uting Is good deal like VISITING the
chicago stockyards to watch the bioo I
men Kill the cattle. ana tie butchers ~
he stockyards, calloused against anx =
ceiling for suffering animals, are lilo u
be soldiers here who shoot down their 9
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sherman, Texas. R. F. D. S5, July IS, 1904
]. L. Ward Medicine Co. ~ -''''

S<NS't7t ~ L ~ %, d uly 10, IYUb.
" l.. ward Medicine Co.,
Big Springs, Texas.
Gentlemen-FOr twelve months. suf.
Tered agony with stone in the bladder
and was compelled to call in Doctor ar
Ieast twice a month; but he could onIv
give me temporary relief.
~ read of the great merits of Wards
Aidhey Pills, so purchased two boxes, and
AFTER taking them I have not even had a
symptom of the old trouble. | heartily
recommend them to anyone suffering with
Kidney or Bladder trouble. Yours truly.
j. b. HOLCOMB.
P.S.-Send us your druggists name
and 10 cents and we will send you a
6O-cent box Of Wards Kidney Pills,
The greatest Kidney Remedy upon the
market.
A guaranteed cure for Kidney and
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Desire to Pass Water, Inflammation
Irritation or liberation of the Bladder
or Kidneys. Removes Gravel or Stone
from the Bladder. Sold and guaran.
teed by your local druggists.
J. L. WARD MEDICINE CO..
Big Springs, Texas.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-11-16
THE EMPIRE OF SPEECH,
What Has Been Done by Improve
ments in the Telephone to
Advance It,

Two or three recent important i'm.
proVements of the telephone show what
undeleVeloped capacities still lie hidden
in this wonderful far talker of modern
science. In the first place, says the Cos.
mopolitan, 1t has become possible to
eliminate the telephone girl as a con.
Meeting link, or rather a connector of
Inks, between the sender and the re-
ceiver Of a message. One can now
switch on" without her Intervention.
II you wish to talk with friend by this
new system, you simply look up his or
her number, and then on dial, or min
iature switchboard, in your own house
or office, you turn the indicator to the
digits representing that number, and
Immediately your friends bell rings.
and. without any further preliminaries,
you may begin your conversation. The
switching mechanism at the central ex.
change has automatically followed the
movements of your indicator at home
and put you into direct communication
with the desired point. Besides, It gives
delightful sense OF privacy to q tele.
phone talk. Mechanical contrivances
possess no ears and no memories. and.
having nothing to forget, make no blum.
ders.
But II the automatic telephone excites
grateful wonder, another recent inyen.
tion-the telephone that takes your
speech, keeps it unuttered If your friend
happens to be out, but speaks it into his
ear as soon as he returns, whether the
interval be an hour or week-must be
regarded as marvel of marvels. That
may consist either of a steel |
wire wound on revolving drum, or a
hard steel disk revolving in a horizontal
plane, Above the revolving wire, or
disk, is placed small electromagnet &C.
tuated by the telephone circuit. All the
varying impulses that come over tho
telephone wire under the influence Of
he speakers voice are impaired by the
little magnet to the steel moving he
meath 1t, and they make upon that steers
surface series of magnetic Impressions.
Ike invisible dots, each of which DOS.
esses Its own peculiar polarity and de-.
rec of intensity. 1t is just as if the
teel were sheet of paper and the mag.
let pen, and the magnetic impulses a
cries OF alphabetical signs jotted down
n the paper-only nothing is visible To
he eye. But the hundreds of little mag
etic poles are there, though unseen.
nd when the wire or the plate carrying
hese mystic hierglyphics Is again
assed under the electromagnetic 1.-THE lat
er being now connected with a tele.
hone receiver) they reproduce exactly
le same impulses that created them.
lese impulses passing into the receiy.
yibrate the speaking membrane and
I've forth the voice and the words which
ley had stored
The only thing that man who has q
legraphone in his office needs to do "a
set the apparatus going when he has
me to listen to it, and if any of bis
lends have been speaking to it while
was out. or busy, or asleep, their
essages will be repeated.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-11-16

TOR told me that DAD was IN a condition
OF nervousness that he needed something
10 happen to get his mind off of the
AWFUL scenes he had witnessed, and
asked me If l couldn't think of some
thlng to excite him, and wake him up,
and then dad said, after he got so he
could 90 out doors: "Hennery. you have
always been Johnny on the spot when I
needed diversion, and want you to take
your brain apart, and oil the works, and
see II you can't conjure up something to
get my blood circulating, and nv pores
open for business, and anything you
think OF goes, and | swear | will not
KICK II you scare the boots off of me-"
Well, that was right into my hand,
and l set my mind to strike at four D, m.
mad been out riding once with the Chi
cago man, in sledge, with three horses
abreast, all runaway horses. and the
driver was a CossaCk who dashed the
horses into run every smooth place he
found in the road. and it was like run
ming to fire, so got the Chicago fell
low to go with me and we found the Cos
sack and he was drunken than usual,
There is a kind of liquor here called
vodka, which skins wood alcohol and
carbolic acid to finish, and when a man
Is full OF it he is so mad he wants to cut
his own throat. This driver had nut
up s1deboards on his neck and had two |
1ags in one, and we hired him by the
hour.
told the Chicago man the circum-
and that | had got to get dad
out OF his trance, and he said he would
help me. When was out riding the
day before l noticed that the road was
[ull OF great dane dogs, wolf hounds and
stag hounds, which followed their
masters sledges out in the country, and
he dogs loafed around, hungry. looking
or bones, and fighting each other, so
iecided to get the dogs to chase our
hedge, and make dad think we were
chased by wolves. thought that would
make dad stand without hitching, and
did.
The Chicago man bought some cannon
recrackers, and bought cows liver
ND hitched 1t to rope, and hid it in the
ack seat, and my Chicago friend and | ,
ook the back seat. and we got dad in the
eat behind the driver, and started about
n hour before dark out In the country -.
through a piece of woods that looked
ute wolfy. On the way out the driver ,,
1t his horses run away few times like
on have seen in Russian pictures. and 4,
ad was beginning to sit up and take
office, and seemed to act like man who !
Spects every minute to be thrown over q
recipice, and mixed up with dead y
orses. Dad touched the driver once on
lie coat-tail and told him not to hurry =
COMPOUNDED fast, and the driver u
fought he was complaining because II
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-11-16
IL Will Stav There.

TN my family medicine chest no
remedy is permitted to remain unless
1t proves beyond doubt the best to be
obtained for its particular purpose.
For treating all manner Of skin
troubles, such as Eczema, letter,
Ringworm, ETC., Hunts Cure has held
Its place for many years. I have
failed to find a surer remedy. It cures
instantly"
R. NJ. Swami,
Franklin. La.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-11-16
Ladies', Privilege In Leap Year.

The ladies' leap year privilege took
Its origin in the following manner:
BY an ancient act Of the Scottish
parliament, passed about the year
1928, it was "ordonit that during We
seign OF her maist blessit majestic,
Margaget ilka maiden ladee, of bath
high and lowe estait, shall haze libertie
to speak We man she likes. Gif he re-
fuses to tax hir to be his wyf, he
schal be mulct in the sum of ane
hundridty pundis, or less, as his estait
may be, except and alwais, gif he can
make 1t appeare that he Is betrothit
to anither woman, then he schal be
free"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-11-16
nelghbors because they are hired to do

neighbors because they are hired to do
so. The murder of those unarmed work
Ing men, that Sunday, has changed a
helpless, pleading people into anarchists
with deadly bombs in their blouses
where they were accustomed to carry
black bread to sustain life, and with the
menace OF Japan in the far east and an
outraged people at home, Russia is in a
bad way, and if was the car or grand
duke, would find a woodchuCk hole and
arrange with the woodchuck for fur
nished fiat.
| didn't think there was going to be
anything going on in Russia except
bloodshed and bombs, and things to
make you sorry that you were here, and
was willing to take chloroform, and let
them carry me home in box, with my
description on the cover, until the doc.
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HOW DEBILITY sR0H|
And A., why Or, Williams b.,
are a Specific for INK
Physica! De,,'oa nssua

The symptoms ofgeneraI d.,,.
according to the cause bp. n
always present, a tcndepcv .eakass
and fatigue easily, ringing; in 70 ?, pq
Son sometimes black spots p a sI ne
the eyes weak back, vertigo S'n s d
neSScaused by inability to st 9% :. watal
ana .ho . undressing sleep. The ' oaa
ene trouble may be some drain Aas
system or it may be mental I, or y o.
o t;"sl work sometimes insuficisIp.a pm
tion due to digestive disturbauu'.la ~
meat ane la,ter case there is generallvsS
appetite and a coated tongue y. a s
general hnguor aud DEBILITY %Sa
Miss Lula NJ. Metzger, a stan.
hv,ngat II Mill street, W.tertoSs' , = !
suffered for over a year fr CU"a, NJ
debility. 1T was caused br v, ON gas]
she says, "and had no ANNIE; Htiiefstotl
want to go anywhere, NV foo9' ql@|
t! good, ] was run down i liza di@|
llstleSs. Itook medicines bnt t u y
to help me; Finally friends lucy ials|
mended DR.. Williams Pink PHI. t .
mott mother and she got some for ma us p = n !
them for some time and wa. ', i |
cured and have had no re Sas ea y u
trouble" '''ura Of ~
DR.. Williams Pink Pills cnra !,
because they actually make 'r no usafe
rlch blood, and as the blood 's vi ~
nourlshment to all the OrgapsaN u s'rs
OF the body, nerves as well as Iaa
the new blood stimulates the a o masls'|
do the work that nature expects Dec .Sl Y y
and normal health follows, w.. us,|
IS this treatment sufficient h | ou.I Oa Y
blllty but many severe nervous S Sus y
as well. 'D' uiS0'ds,|
The pills are sold by all drp,,;...
Will be sent postpaid, on recent - y q
20 cents per box, six boxes a. n y a
DR., Williams Medicine Co. - S.S I, q
ady, N. Y. Send for free diet Soos