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The National tribune., 1906-08-16

Eleven days after the battle the Union
ambulanceS came over, under flag OF
truce, and took away their wounded
men who were unable to march to the
South and were paroled on the field,
and so Benson reached our field hospi-
tai at Aqua Creek, where he remained
until some time in June. when he was
sent to Chestnut Hill General Hospital
Philadelphia. While there he received
his first commission, that of Second
Lieutenant. In October following, hav-
ing been exchanged and reported fit for
duty, he rejoined his regiment in Bridge
port, Ala. The day after his arrival he
was detailed as Acting Adjutant. He
was in the march to the relief of Chat
tanooga and the battle of Missionary
Ridge. and with his regiment In the
Twentieth Corps and in all of Sherman's
campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta
and from Atlanta to the sea. He was in
the battles of Rocky Face Ridge. Re-
SAGA, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree
Creek and many lesser engagements.
He received his commission as Captain
at Atlanta in September, 1864. While
the corps was at Savannah he was rec
commended for Major. and received his
commission in the first mail that came
to the army. after leaving Savannah, at
Goldsboro, N. c., in April 1865. The
regiment was in the vicinity of Raleigh
when the war ended, and he marched
with Gen. Sherman's army to Washing
ton, passing over several of the Virginia
battlefelds and taking part in the Grand
Review on Pennsylvania avenue, May
%, 1865. He was never mustered in as
Major, the regiment having two field
officers and being below the minimum,
but received a commission as brevet
Lieutenant-Colonel.
Arriving home at Jamestown he en-
tered the office of Cook & Lockwood
and resumed the study of law, which he
had begun before his enlistment, in con-
nection with his studies at Randolph;
was admitted to the bar at Buffalo in
November, 1866, and Immediately COM
menced the practice of his profession
at Sherman, n. Y, where he remained
as a member of the firm of Benson &
Van Dusen, until November, 1869, when
he removed to Ottawa. Kan, where he
has since resided.
He was married ;an. N, Y,
on May 10, 1870, to U..e-..e L. Towsley
of Vermont. They have one child liv-
ing. Mrs. H. Ward Page, of Topeka
Kan.
In Kansas Maj. Benson. as he was
called, held the offices of Mayor of OF
tawa, County Attorney and State Sem
ator. He was member of the State
Senate, 1881 to 1885, Immediately fol-
lowing the adoption of the Prohibitory
Amendment. and was Chairman of the
Committee on Temperance. which Com
mittee framed the first Kansas prohabi-
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HON. A. w. BENSON.
Brilliant War and Civil Record of the
New Senator From Kansas.

A. w. Benson was born in James
town, n. Y, July Is, 1S43, and lived on
a farm in that County until the Sum-
mer of 1862, when he enlisted as a pri-
vate in the 154th \. Y. The enlistment
was at Randolph, y. Y, where he was
attending Randolph Academy; large
number of the boys of that institution
enlisted at the same time. Arriving at
Washington, d. c., the regiment was
assigned to duty in northern Virginia,
under Maj.-Gen. Sigel, and was in camp
at Fairfax, Stafford, and was in various
marches about Manassas and the old
Bull Run battlefield, and in the Spring
of 1863 marched, with the Eleventh
Corps, to which 1t belonged, to Chan
cellorsville. On May 2, 1863, in that
this regiment served, made a stand at
Dowdall's Tavern. and in a charge made
by Stonewall Jackson's Division Benson
was shot through the left lung, and in
the retreat was left on the field. In the
early evening some Confederate soldiers
gave him water and assisted him to a
position against the trunk of tree, in
the rear of our line of battle, and left
him there. A furious cannonading by
the Union forces indicated the position
of our line and stimulated the wounded
man to make an effort to reach it. This
he did, walking and crawling through
the woods until he reached the Union
skirmish line, where he was taken to
the field hospital of the Third Corps, in
an old Virginia barnyard. The next day
Sunday the battle reopened furiously.
apd in a Sport time the hospital, with
all the wohpded men In and about it,
was In the hands Of the Confedsrates.
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The 18th Ind.

Editor National Tribune: Please puhA
lish a short account of the 18th Indis
and oblige-S. E. Druley, Peru, Kan.
There were two 18th Inds. The first
was organized at Indianapolis in May,
1851, and mustered out May 16. 1852.
The first Colonel was John NJ. Wallace,
who resigned and was succeeded by CoE
William H Link, who was in command
when the regiment was mustered out.
The second regiment was reorganized
by Col William H. Link at Indianapolis
from May T. 1862, to serve three years,
and mustered out June s, 1865. Col!
Link was killed at Richmond. KY, and
succeeded by Reuben Williams. who was
in command when the regiment was
mustered out and brevetted Brigadier-
General. The regiment lost 100 killed
and 195 died from disease. 1t belonged
to Osterhaus's Division of the Fifteenth
Corps, Army of the Tennessee.-Editor
National Tribune.
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Illus. ". SiuipIS, Ndtlpitl I. VI A.
Pennsylvania. Dec. 8, 1905.
Thos. NJ. Kenny. Department of
Maryland, National 4. d. c.. Dec. 5,
1905.
Clement Baiiinger, Department of
New Jersey. ~ d. c. Dec. s. 1905.
Samuel T. Walters. Department of
Pennsylvania. National A. d. c.. Feb. 8.
1906.
j. F. Leary, Chaplain-in-Chief. Feb.
10. 1906.
John Eckel. Department of PennsyI-
vania, National 4. d. c., Feb. Il. 1906.
Philip Franz, Department of New
York. National A. D. c., Feb. 2S, 1906.
b. c. Cook. National c. of A, Vir-
ginia and North Carolina, March 4.
1906.
John NJ schofeld. Lieutenant Gem
eIal, U. S. A. March L. 1906.
George H. Hopkins. Past Department
Commander. Michigan, March 6. 1906.
Chas. L. Dodd, Department of Penn
sylvania, National A. d. c., March 16.
1906.
John NJ. Thayer. Past Department
Commander. Nebraska. March 49, 1906.
w S. Moorhouse, Assistant Adjutant-
General. Department of North Dakota,
March 90, 1906.
Lucius y. Lincoln, Department of
North Dakota, National A. d. c., April
4, 1906.
John ]. Douglas, Department of Illi-
nois. National A. d. c.. April Is. 1906.
Martin T. Mcmahon, Major General
of Volunteers, New York, April 81,
1906.
B. F. Hawkes.. Past Department Com
mander. Poto.~Ge. May 3. 1906.
George w. Honey. Representative at
Large, Departu ent of Potomac, May 3,
1906
Carl Schurz. Major-General of Vol
unteers, New York, May IA. 1906.
John Knight Bucklyn. Department
of Connecticut National a. D. C., May
Is. 1906.
S. ]. Moore. Assistant Adiutant-Gen-
eral, South Dakota. May ~. 1906.
r. p. Preble Assistant Adjutant-Gen-
eral, Massachusetts, May 26. 1906.
Joseph ]. Wolley, Past Department
Commander, Rhode Island, July l,
1906
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Tennessee, National A. D. c., July 6,
1906
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Commander-in-Chief. July 19, 1906.
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/ WILL PAY

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Address DIR. ID. A. WILLIAMS,
90 POST Omce Block. East Hampton. Conn.
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Departmental Visits.

During my term of office it has been
my privilege to attend 20 Department
Encampmentso and to appear eight
times in six other Departments on occa-
sions of prominent interest to the Grand
Army of the Republic. Had it been
possible it would have been my great
pleasure to have visited quite number
of the other Encampments, but so many
of them fixing upon similar dates made
1t absolutely impossible. To do this in
volved 26,39S miles of travel and nat
urally a great deal of physical effort
and fatigue, but for myself l hold the
compensation to have been ample there
for.
During the Winter 1t was my privi-
lege to be present with the Departments
of the Potomac, assachusetts, Rhode
Island and Vermont during their Eli
campments. / made up my mind when
elected that whatever l might deprive
myself of in the way of the pleasure in
volved in visiting the larger Depart
ments, that l would make 1t point to
visit as many of the smaller ones as
possible. This discrimination caused me
The National tribune., 1906-08-16

]. C. Linehan. Past Department Com
mander, New Hampshire. Sept. 10,
1905.
Ivan N. Walker, Past Commander-in-
Chief, Sept. %, 1905.
S. P. Knight, Department of Califor-
MIA and Nevada, National A. D. c., Oct.
81, 1905.
Isaac Eckstein, Department Of New
York, National A. D. c., Nov. rs, 1905.
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No Reply From Mr.. Tawney.

NO rEOh luWncys
I gave this communication to the
press the same day that sent 1t to Mr.
Tawney. The press gave it wide pub
licity. Mr.. Tawney never made any
sign showing that he had received It,
Our able and indefatigable comrade,
Hon. Joseph a. Goulden, OF New York
in the course of an earnest speech de-
livered on the floor of the House on the
Goth of last March, in defense of our
ageing and aged comrades, said: II am
opposed to Section of the pending bill
as contrary to the practice and custom
of this Government from its founda-
ton to the present time, unless q SER
vice-pension bill is provided for those
who have passed the so-called age linn
it," and he added III this proposition
becomes law or is ever seriously con-
sidered, 1t should exempt the brave men
who so Loyalty served their country in
the days of 1861 to 1865 and in the
war with Spain" He included my let
ter in his remarks, and ii was printed
in full in the Congressional Record of
that date.
Some extreme measures were fore
shadowed and prepared for; for 1 say
to you here now, as 1 said to some of
you in your Department Encampments.
that when ] am in fight. and feel that
my cause is not only just. but desper-
ate. l Will fight with any weapon that
God will let me lay my hands on. Mr.
was the forceful, unanimous protest
which reached him from the comrades
OF the Department of Minnesota, then
in Annual Encampment assembled; per-
haps II was this action of Minnesota
Joined with other matters; anyhow. q
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-30
A PERIL TO THE PUBLIC
purposes.

The summer season is East approaching it's end, and
there hardly day during its that did
furnish example OF the evil minstratons OF the omn
present fool He be found every gathering OF
human beings always menace to life and 10 limb
The part OF him is that he essentially
villanous. If several reprsals might his
kin for the future lie is simply fool with the fools
calculating stupidity. Irresistible mpuse DO
some dangerous thing because II appears He IS
often murderer in everything except premedtation.
Manifold the kinds of folly this blight humanity
.perpetrates. He points gun-whch, of is
loaded-at the head of friend; rocks a rowboa or
dances in Frequently he varies these
place achievements by throwing lighted match
bottom gasolene launch explosion that
destroys human life
OF course the serseless perpetrators of such fatal
acts with grief folly;
but this is but that
common should have forbidden
What be done with the didn't know" fool7
Nothing in preventive unless wise men. skilled
premonitory symptoms. made killers power
put way appear to be dangerous
society.
All their witless lives together less
that OF one OF their innocent Victims
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-30
MATRI1ONIAL ADVERTISING

Recent exposure of "The House Love" at New York
simply emphasizes the old story many
otherwise sensible and prudent, willing TO
select wives the basis of
be something particularly appealing printed
lonely desires the protection
OF good man.
II the advertiser hints that she is o.
so much the better though the element
always strong in OF the kind usually caught oy
matrimonial advertisements. Romance and tho hattery
that is good man" able bring happiness
refined and "affeconate" is generally a powerful
incentive for a rush In make a himself
1t can be safely declared that not decent
thousand seeks husband by advertising Marriages
been known TO follow vicious method courshp
but the chances always terribly
cerned Almost invariably the women involved adven
turesses who use Dan Cupid a decoy.
The average who cannot among women
he knows who will be helpful loyal loving as
wife is unfortunate indeed. hope
matters better by perusing the personal
newspapers, the sheets published by matrimonial
agencies.
Instead OF that dangerous he would be far
wiser IL he conented himself reading King
remarks on the ways of the strange woman"
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-30

who struggling for the realization OF popular
ideals.
Colonel Bryan has grown much in popular
esteem. About that there be question.
During the decade in which he has been such a
conspicuous figure in public life he has increased
the number of his supporters and added to the
measure of public confidence accorded him.
This result is probably due to a more just
appreciation of the character and worth OF the
man, and his sincerity in maintaining principles he
believes will prove of the greatest benefit to the
American people.
Colonel Bryan has made a signal advance in
public esteem during the period he has devoted to
foreign travel. No doubt he will be so told at the
formal reception to be held at New York this
evening but he is too we'll poised TO permit him
self TO believe he is the only presidential timber
available in the Democratic party.
He will simply regard the demonstration as
an expression of the good will of the people toward
fellow citizen OF distinguished reputation and high
purposes.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-30
HOW LONG WILL 1T TAKE3

/ know OF man with some money he's
saved,
But who longs for million or so;
He is trying 10 get IL in Wall street. but
The process is painfully slow.
And each day that he spends with the
bulls and the bears
In the effort his fortune TO make.
He wearily asks. as he juggles with
shares
How long will It take?"
There is also a son OF the silver-bound
With a boom in his bonnet so CAV,
1t urges him on TO the White House with
speed.
And gives him no rest on the way.
And this is the question we put TO our
selves
And ponder. asleep aDc awake;
ITO whip him and make him aware OF the
fact,
How long will it take?"
A newly-made husband. entranced with
the bliss
or welded existence, OF course.
And pretty young wife with a grievance
10 air,
Who is waiting to get a divorce;
He. dreading the time when the honey
moon wanes,
She. longing her bondage 10 break,
Are using the very same words TO inquire.
How long will 1t take?'
A fellow whose faith in himself is i'm
mense,
With more dollars than wisdom or wits,
Has started a newspaper all by himself.
And is watching thf cash as IL fits.
Till the last OF his surplus has melted
away
For the press-agents moss-mantled
fake.
And the merry cartoon, and the candi-
dates tune,
How long will IL take?'
Have you met him?-the man with n mis-
sion, who means
This wicked old world 10 reform:
who intends II to be like the garden that
grew
Ere Noah sailed out in the storm.
The grafters will all be philanthropists
then,
And toll for humanity's sake,
And nobody ever will gamble or drink
How long will IL take?'
-Mnna Irving. I'm Leslie's Weekly.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-30
THE BOYS HARD LOT.

Along with other enlightenments OF the
age the genus boy seems now 70 be better
understood and appreciated than in the
days Of the colonies. The worthy advo-
Gates OF the precept that children should
be seen and not heard" were apt TO for
get that If young people were heard at
proper seasons they were much more apt
TO be "seen" 10 advantage when occasion
required The boys OF 100 were no worse
than those OF to-day. What modern lad
could sit through a two-hour sermon
without the aid Of much wrigging and
squirming and an casional kick or two?
Mr.. w. r. Bliss, in his book on colonial
meeting-houseS. tells how the youthful
portion Of the congregation was regarded
by our very t-grandfathers.
Certain laws enacted In Massachusetts
at the end OF the struggle with King
Philip declared that the war was a pun
ishment for "the disorder and rudeness
OF youth I'm many congregations in time
OF the worship OF God" John Eliot pas
tor at Roxbury, evidently thought this
harsh charge to lay at the boys door. for
nothing TO do with IT. and that the war
was judgment OF the people for wear
Ing wigs
In 1866 John Dawes. Of Boston. was en-
powered 10 take care OF all young peo-
pie that are disorderly I'm time OF God s
solemn worship" and 10 correct the un-
Pike was paid G16 for keeping boys TN
subsection In the time OF service for six
months. When hired the second time he
doubled the price.
on Cape Cod four men were appointed
by a town TO take care of the boys on the
Lords day and 20 whip them II necessary.
Such officers were termed inspectors o.
youth" In Duxbury, as late as l16O. a
committee was chosen'to look after tine
wretched boys" on the Sabbath.
What did these colonial lads do to re.
quire such supervision? One almost
shrnks from examining into their lawless-
ness but the records reveal the depths or
their iniquity.
They did not stand up as their elders
did for the long prayers, but sat with
their hats on during ye whole exercise.
They ran out before the prayer was done
and "ye blessing pronounced They were
guilty OF rude and idel behaver such as
smiling and larfing and intising others to
the same evil" OF pulling the hair or
their naybers in time OF puhlick worship.
ones Imagination might go on and add
the paper bnlls and nutshells which were
probably thrown from the galleries where
1.-THE wretched boys ware imprisoned,
the shaking Of benches. the sly punches
and the similar ebulltions Of youthful
spirits which went TO make up the sum
total OF colonial wickedness.-Yo
Companion.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-30
SAWDUST AS A FUEL.

Little material goes 20 waste in any
kind OF manufacture nowadays" said
Gus Kissinger, Of Ludington. Mich, at
the Plankton house. Years ago tre-
mendous loss was incurred In the saving
Of logs. but at many Of the Michigan
sawmils. including those at Ludington
and Manlstee, slabs and sawdust are now
Of value.
"The dust once collected in such guam
titles as TO be a hindrance TO work in
the mills II occupied much space on
the surrounding grounds. The slabs
were Piled In all directions. They were
free 10 any one who would be accommo-
dating enough to haul them away by the
wagon load.
AFTER the sawmils had run for many
years salt was discovered and wells
were bored Now some of the largest
salt blocks I'm the world are along the
western coast OF Michigan and the fuel
used In running their machinery comes
from the sawmills, In most cases the
owners OF the large sawmills became the
owners OF the salt wells. and the two en-
terprises are run as one plant."-Milwau-
kec Sentinel
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-30
GAS COAL ECONOMY.

The power efficiency OF certain soft
Goals when used in the gas producer plant
IS two and one-half times greater than
when used in an ordinary steam boiler
plant. This is shown by geological sur
yev tests. which also develop that the
softest grades Of bituminous coal and
Ignite are equal in power production
with the best grades, even SURPRISING an
thraclte for some purposes.
The peat Of New England may also be
utilized I'm the gas producer plant and
save the factories there one-third OF the
s0O0O 600 annual coal bill for manufac-
turing purposes.
Authorities I'm the geological survey
claim that the use of producer gas would
add hundreds Of years 10 the duration or
the American coal reserve.
Suction gas is mixture OF water gas
and carbonmonoxiae. the former being
produced by decomposition OF overheated
steam into hydrogen and oxygen, the lat
ter being generated by the combustion OF
coal under a lack or air. This mixture
is sucked through the apparatus by tho
gas engine during the loading stroke.
Experiments in Belgium under a brake
test with an inferior quality OF COKE
containing about % per cent Of moisture
and ash, showed n consumption OF fuei
o. orN IA pounds per boiler horse power
per hour. Now some $4,000 horse power
are worked with suction gas I'm all parts
OF the world
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-30
ABOUT THE HOUSE.

Should the lamp be overturned, smother
the flame. DO not use water, for II Will
simply spread it. Instead, throw down
-four, sand, garden earth or salt. any OF
which will have the desired effect.
III cases OF sickness. when disinfectants
are needed In sinks and basins, use car
bolio acid, allowing four tablespoonfuls 10
each pint OF cold water; pour down the
pipes and let II remain half an hour be-
fore flushing.
Dirty bamboo furniture may be cleaned
with a small brush dipped In warm water
and salt The salt prevents 1t from turn
ing yellow, and the washing makes the
bamboo look bright. Rub very dry with
soft cloths, and you will be delighted with
the result
To polish a mirror use sponge dipped
I'm spirit, and rub we'll over the glass
Thep have ready some powdered blue tied
up i'm a cloth, and dust IL over the glass.
Having done this, rub the glass lightly
and quickly with a soft cloth. and
then polish well with a good wad of tissue
paper or a silk handkerchief.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-30
KEEP TO THE RIGHT.

The search for anniversaries and for
objects ana persons and events to COM
memorate Is going beyond all bounds.
Even with our relatively short history
the plastering public places and private
buildings with tablets and monuments by
countless self-advertising societies is be-
coming a good deal OF a nuisance and iu
Europe, If all the memorials TO the emf
nent dead that are proposed are set un.
IL looks as though little room would be
left for the living TO move about In.
Some ingenious Dresden Saxon who has
been loklng into the matter announced
that this year. 1906. is the 150th anniver-
sary of the establishment Of the useful
rule, Keep TO the Right" and that the
place wher II was first enforced was the
long bridge over the Elbe at Dresden
The credit for that sensible arrange
ment goes further back than that. TO 1870.
and that highly patriarchal monarch
August the Strong, Elector of Saxony and
King Of Poland. famed for the $50 odd
children that were fathered on him, one
Of whom at least amounted TO something
as a general, Maurice de SAKE. who with
the Irish brigade licked the British at
Fontenoy and by initiating the paternal
Irregularities ultimately enriched French
literature and the women suffrage peo-
pic with George Sand.
The Keep 10 the Right" rule is the
sole scrap OF wisdom left TO mankind by
August der Starkc. and it would have
tCen well for his reputation II the fact
had been made known sooner. His COM
mGnds were disregarded. however, after
his death and TIL 100. when another much
abused statesman, Carlyle's friend. tho
prime minister, Count Bruhl OF the many
bteeches. whose name still Cllngs 60 Dres.
don's splendid terrace above the river
bank not only established minute regu-
lations for the observance OF the rule
fCr "all coaches wagons. drays and other
vehicles. sledges riders and foot passen-
gers. pushcarts, sedan chairs. bearers or
pack and OF baskets" but posted police
men on the bridge TO see that they were
obeyed
The irony OF history sent Frederick the
Great OF Prussia Co that bridge soon af-
ter. with painful results for SaNony, while
Bruhl withdrew 10 a world where breech-
e. arc needless
The rules and the policemen have stay
ed on the Elbe bridge ever since Tho
unwary foreigner who starts out upon the
bridge discovers that he must go clear
&c the other end unless he can elude their