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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

Comrade Charls F. McKenna, Pitts
burg, Pa, wants it understood by the
Pennsylvania comrades outside the
State that the movement to pension
Pennsylvania soldiers did not originate
in the G. A. r. nor in any veteran or
ganization, but was introduced and
passed by the Senate wholly unsolicited
by the beneficiaries. These as a body
gratefully appreciated its provisions and
at first determined to allow the matter
to take its own course without any i'm
'portuning on their part. Opposition,
however, developed, and then it be-
came necessary for the veterans to take
some action expressive of their appro-
val of the bill and their gratitude to
those who had introduced it. This ex-
PLANTATION seems necessary to the Penn
sylvania veterans now living outside the
State. who are omitted from the benefits
OF the pending bill. The Grand Army
of the Republic Of PENNSYLVANIA is in
no wise responsible for their exclusion
and porbably next year an amendment
will be introduced including those
Pennsylvania veterans of honorable rec
ord who are resident outside of the
State which they represented so gall
lant1y In the rebellion.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

A monument to Fighting Joe Now
err is to be unvailed in Arlington Gem
Fetery on Memorial Day. Something
over year ago it developed that there
was no monument over the beloved
Generals grave. and that Mrs. Mower
was saving from her pension money to
erect one. The Society of the Army of
the Tennessee took the matter up, and
at the meeting of the Society at Coun-
Gil Bluffs an appropriation of $1,000
was made. and the monument ordered.
The matter finally was put into the
hands of the local association here of
the Enlisted Men of the Army of the
Tennessee. which will conduct the exer-
cises. The committee consists of Luz
cious D. Alden, Chairman: Fletcher
White, H. L. Dean. Jos. e. Hart. Geo.
G.. Ross, S. R. Burch, B p. Entriken,
and VIM. p. Davis. Senator Warner
and Comrades Alden and Ross will
make addresses.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16
A SPLENDID MONTHS WORK.

The work of the Pension Bureau for
the month of April surpasses anything
in the history of the Bureau. There
were 236,010 certificates issued. The
biggest months work before was that
of June, 1891, of 5000 certificates is
sued. This was in the early stages of
the passage of the act of June 81, 1890.
Great numbers of claims that had been
in the Office for years were able to be
allowed under the new law. There are
now 325,000 cases on file, and the Pen
sion Bureau is disposing of them at the
rate of 1900 day. This rapid prog
ress should satisfy the claimants, be-
cause it shows that their cases will be
reached in little while, and they are
losing nothing from the delay, since
the pension will be allowed from the
date of application. Only about one
and one-half per cent of the applica-
tons and allowances are original, all
of the remainder being for increase.
The Bureau obtained an appropriation
of S1,000,000 to carry the act into eff
feet, and at first it seemed as if they
would be able to return a large portion
of it. Now this does not appear to be
so, and they may use the half or all of
it. Next year an appropriation OF
S145,O00,OOO will be asked for.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16
rnEsn,rEa1ANs AND nArr,sr..

| Editor National Tribune: In your is
sue of May 2, in speaking of the coming
of Rev. DR.. Aked to the Fifth Avenue
Church, New York City. you call him
Presbyterian. He is a Baptist, and not,
tas your article states, a Presbyterian.
He was called by and accepted the call
of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. l
am sure you will make the correction.
He was not the pastor of a Presbyte-
rian Church in England, but Baptist
| Church. Your articles. even where they
touch on religious things. are usually
so reliable that such a mistake is all
the more noticeable in your excellent
Ipaper. Your paper is clean. wholesome
Fand highly appreciated. I am sure. by
fits readers, and especially for your out
Ispoken stand against that curse Of
icurses, the liquor traffic. Your articles
Ialong that line, as well as from CORE
|spondents, have been exceedingly help
Iful and encouraging to every thought
iful reader of your splendid paper
Rev. +. M. Ray, Co. c, I'D Pa, Pitts
burg, Pa.
We are glad to make the correction
suggested by Comrade Ray. Possibly
we are sometimes little oblivious to
the distinctions between Presbyterians.
Congregationalists and T,aptists and do
mot keep them as carefully in mind as
we HiSnt, since tney are all CdlV1flfStS
ihave the same intellectual coloring and
latitude and only differ from one an
other on questions of subordinate i'm
portance. To our mind churches are
important indications of the mental at
titude of those who belong to them. AS
the French would say, "they define a
mans orientation," or the relation of
the Individual to the universe. The CAL
vanistic view of life, the relations of
man to his Creator and to the universe,
are strictly, not to say severely, logical,
and Che men who embrace those views
have n marked intellectual cast and an
unusual strength of character. Whether
they happen to believe in sprinkling or
total immersion, the most absolute self
government. or the supervision of a
general assembly are matters of far less
weight than their acceptance OF the
creed of life and duty promulgated by
John Calvin.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16
DEATH OF GEN. WILCOX.

most distinguished soldier OF the.
rebellion passed away at Cobars, Can
ada. May 10. in the-psrson of Maj.-Gen.
Orlando b. Wilcox. Gen. Wilcox en-
tered Nest Point from Michigan in
1913, and upon his graduation became
Second Lieutenant OF the 4th U. :.
Art. In 1857 he resigned from the
Army to go into business in Detroit. but
upon the first call for troops offered his
services to the Government and was
commissioned Colonel of the 1st Mich.
This regiment he led in the first ad
vance across the Potomac. entering
Alexandria and capturing there a COM
pany of Confederate cavalry. He COM
manded a brigade at Bull Run, where
he was wounded. captured and kept
for several months in prison. He was
appointed a Brigadier-General of Vol
unteers to date from Bull Run, and
upon his release was assigned TO the
Ninth Corps, in which he served until
the close of the war. Quite a number
of times he was in command of the
Corps and participated in ali. that mag
nificeHt 'body's varied service in the
East and West. He received a brevet
of Major-General of Volunteers for the
Rapidan; of Brigadier- General. U. S.
A. for Spotsylvania Court House and
Major-General, U. S. A, for Petersburg.
He was mustered out In 1866 and be-
came Colonel OF the 26th U. s.; was
promoted to Brigadier- General; in SO
and retired in 81. Gen. Wilcox was
splendid soldier. brave, faithful, sa-
gacious and Jealous. He was true to
his duty wherever he found it and his
death brings the deepest sorrow to the
survivors of the old Ninth Corps. with
which he was so long and so gloriously
connected. After his retirement he was
for four years Governor of the Soldiers
Home at Washington.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16
NATIONAL HOLIDAYS.

Editor National Tribune: Will you
please answer these questions thru the
columns of the National Tribune.
1. Is there any difference between
National and legal holidays?
2. How many National holidays and
how many legal holidays are there
B. David, Presumption, Ill.
We have repeatedly explained In The
National Tribune that there is no such
thing as a National Holiday and there
cannot be. A holiday is in the nature
of police regulation and belongs strict
ly to the powers of the States. Con-
gress can only order holidays for the
District of Columbia and the Territories,
over which it has exclusive Jurisdiction
The authority to make holidays is
one belonging to the police powers
of the States, and is reserved to
them. Every State makes such holt
days as it pleases without reference
to the actions of other States. Per-
haps the nearest approach to a Ma
tfonal holiday is Thanksgiving Day,
proclaimed by the President; but it is
wholly optional with the Governors of
the States whether they pay any at
tention to the Presidents proclamation
OF not. There is not the slightest COM
pulsion upon them to do so, and they
can disregard the Presidents procla-
nation not only with impunity, but
without the least blame except from
the citizens of their own State who.may
think they should have done otherwise.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

After all. the monster parade of the
Socialists in New York, in the interest
of Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone. was
not success. The New York papers
variously estimate the number in line
at from 10000 to 10000. 1t should not
be difficult to get $4,000 Socialists in
line for such an extensively ADVERTISED
demonstration in a city so filled with
foreigners as New York. About 40 per
cent of the paraders were women. Only
so of the $50 trades unions in the city
were represented. Red flags were every
where, but there were few American
flags carried. The inscriptions on the
transparencies were not notable and
frequently stupid or silly.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16
In 1877 the people of Hancock cour

In 1877 the people of Hancock Coun-
ty. Me-, went crazy over the prospect
of getting rich in day upon copper
mines streaked with gold. Companies
were organized in Bangor with an al
legged capital of s 900, 000 and Min
ing Exchange for the sale of stock was
the Iiveliest place in the city. Every
farmer in the County attacked the rocks
on his farm with dynamite or dug a
hole to find copper. Then came the
ruinous collapse. The craze is recalled
by the purchase of two abandoned
mines by Portland firm. which intends
to pump the water out-of the mines,
not the stock-and resume operations.
There is probably enough copper there
to pay for working on ar economical
business basis, but not enough to float
much stock.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16
THE p,TrsBunG HIGH SCHOOL BOYS.

THE PII0TsBURG HIGH SCHOOLBOYS.
The Pittsburg High School has an I'M
surpassed record of, service in the war
of the rebellion. There were only 254
boys in the high school from the time
it opened in 1855 to the end of 1864.
OF this number 68, or 24.8 per cent, en-
tered the army during the civil war.
AS very many of the boys were too
young to serve it is believed that the
record of "a per cent of total enroll
ment is unparalleled and unequaled by
any other institution in the country. A
fine bronze tablet was unvailed March
1, 1907, at the High School building and
made, as 1t deserved to be, great occa-
sion. Among other particulars was a
poem on the unknown Grave" writ
ten by George w. Dithridge in memory
of his Lrother, who was killed at the
Second Bull Run and buried in an I'M
known graHe.iA The bronze memorial
tablet is piece of very handsome and
artistic work and shows an open book
upon which are engraved the names,
rank, company and regiment of all the
high school boys who entered the army,
and with this the names and places OF
death OF those who were killed or died,
also the names of those who were
wounded and We're prisoners of war.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

Merging" still goes on, all the fervid
0ratory and the restrictive legislation to
the contrary. 1t sscs on because sound
business reasons demand most of it.
Now all the New EsSsand lines are to
come under one management by the
merging Of the Boston & Maine and
New York, New Haven & Hartford sys-
TENS 1t is claimed that this is not in
two roads do not compete, the Boston
Il Maine covering the northern half of
New England and the other road the
southern half.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

Navy ordnance officers have of late
been giving considerable attention to
the subject of wire-wound guns, a type
of gun which is being developed in the
Army as substitute for guns built up
Of q series of jackets. Al present, how
ever, it does not seem likely that the
wire-wound principle VIII be adopted
by the Navy, as it is not thought that
the advantages are sufficient to justify
the change to the extent which oper-
ates to its favor in coast fortifications.
The wire-wound gun is lighter. but 1t
requires correspondingly heavier
ing in weights. which is Of prime i'm
portance on shipboard.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

The alarm about the wheat crop
which has rushed the price up beyond
a dollar does not seem to have u justi-
ficatfon in facts. The Government re-
port shows that while there has been
some deterioration in the conditions
since April l there is every reason TO
hope for more than a good average
crop. The reported condition of S2.9
is about eight points below that of May
4 of last year. With every allowance
for abandoned fields and damages it is
expected that the crop Will be upward
of 405, 100000 bushels. While this falls
short of the bumper crops of former
years 1t is yet quite . good crop. The
run in Chicago was based upon the as
sertion that the Government report
would show a condition Of IS or less.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

Mr.. ]. Edward Addicks's friends deny
that he is at the end of his career and
assert that he is at the beginning of one
which will be far more brilliant than
that which has come to an end in a
poor tenement house in Hoboken. He
Is said to be maturing plans for taking
over contracts to double track the ST.
berian Railway its entire length, which
will involve an outlay of some $4,000
900, altho the work will be done by po-
1itical convicts. If he succeeds in this
1t will put him in better financial po-
sition than ne has ever been before.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

No matter what may be said about
Phifa delphia otherwise, it is overshad-
owed by the gratifying >fact that So per
cent of its families live in separate
dwellings, and very large proportion
dcipha has the smallest SUM popula-
ton Of any large city in the country,
and its workingmen are generally more
eontented and orderly than anywhere
else. This is because it is emphatically
home city. as much so as any village
in the country.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

Tho Tom Reed be gone his influence
yet remains with us and it was invoked
very effectually last week by a member
of the Missouri House of Representa-
tives to get majority for his bill. He
had bill before the House providing
for the searching of houses in which in
toxicating liquors were sold contrary to
law and which went to the limit of such
course and contained provision that
no action should lie for the liquor seized
or for damages for liquor destroyed.
The members who were not anxious to
go upon record on the bill tried the old
Democratic dodge of being bodily pres.
ent but otherwise absent and the author
of the bill, Representative Stapel, rush.
ed up to the Speaker with determined
request that he "be a Car, be a Tom
Reed and make the members vote"
The Speaker could not resist the appeal
decided that there was quorum pres
ent and put the measure to vote with
the result Of its receiving Sc votes, or. "a
more than 1t needed. Otherwise II
would have been badly defeated.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

light is thrown upon municipal
ownership by schedule of market
prices for meat in France, where the
slaughter houses are owned by the mu-
inequalities. The prices at Rheims,
which are fair sample of those in all
other cities, are: FiIlet of beef, SO to so
cents; faux fllet, 80 to S5 cents; runrp
steak, q to 35 cents: veal, 20 to So
cents, and Nation, 20 to SIS cents Some
of the very lowest grades of meat, suit
able for making soup for the working
people, may be purchased at from 10
to Is cents, but it is principally bone
Other prices are: Horse. meat (fiilet de
chevaD, IL to Is cents; horse meat,
cheap quality, 6 to 10 cents
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

The newspaper men say that the
trouble about the jamestown EXPOSE
ton is that the Norfolk people tried to
get rich the first day. They are now
learning their mistake in the startling
tifminution of the attendance, and prob
ably after a due period of bitter re-
pentance will begin to bring forth fruits
in furnishing abundant acconfmoda-
tfons to the visitors ait reasonable
prices An immense amount of work
will have to be done, however, before
this is accomplished.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

We are to have no tariff war with
Germany. Germany has made some
concessions, tho they do not amount to
placing us ons the favored Nation
basis. The duties on our agricultural
products are to remain as at present,
much to the disgust Of the German
Agrarians, who were trying hard to
have our foodstuffs put under still more
severe restrictions and exclude their
competition.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

The harrow of the law drags right
along regardless of the eminence or
wealth of the men who are rolled under
dts iron teeth. Chares S. Fairchild.
Secretary of the Treasury under Presi-
dent Cleveland, President of the New
York Security and Trust Company and
Trustee Of the New York Life Insurance
Company, has surtandered himself to
meet six indictments for forgery, and
has been released on $4,000 bail.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

After seven years of trial the Com
puisory Arbitration act in New Zealand
has completely broken down. Neither
side is satisfied with Its workings, and
its complete failure is recognized. The
workingmen can neither be fined nor
sent to Jail for its violation, and the
employers find it cheaper to pay the
fines for the lockouts than to obey the
law
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

Is Mrs. William Thaw trying to hold
up the public? Frank Semple, the man
ager of her estate, denies that she will
give large amount to the Westminster
College, in Denver, and says that she
will greatly curtail her charities and
'benefactions until the fate of her son is
Ls1ari6ed
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

There are some blessings which come
without Congressional action and are
far greater than any law can secure
Kansas has been suffering from drouth
mainly in the wheat belt and the out
look for crops was quite depressing.
April bade farewell to the State, how
ever. with what seemed a most unkindly
snow which covered the central part Of
the State to a depth of from one to two
inches. Then the rain came and an
inch fell in "a hours, so that the Kan
sas wheat crop is saved and Secretary
Coburn reports that Information gath
cred by 1000 experienced observers
shows that the condition of the wheat
crop is "a and that there are $4,000
Bcres more in grain than ever before.
This makes good the prospects of boun-
tiful crops for Kansas and greatly aids
the prosperity turnout the country.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

The ordinary buckets which are used
on dredgers are usually called clau-
she'll buckets, but Louis A Desy, Mon
treal, Canada, has obtained a patent
upon them, and designates them as
orange.peel buckets.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

st. Louis has taken census and finds
that she has population of 704,s53, or
an increase of 1888 over the Census
Bureaus estimate of 1906. st. Louis
Is beyond doubt destined to be one Of
the greatest cities in the world. and no
one will be surprised that she is making
rapid progress toward that consumma-
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

That the South Is not so unanimous
in support of the Peerless One is shown
an editorial under the caption, about
the Recent Mistakes OF Mr.. Bryan"
Many Of the other papers in the South
seem to be in the same frame Of mind.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

The question has been raised wheth-
er ION earth or sin earth is the cor
rect form in the Lords Prayer. The
matter is one of the proper translation
of the Greek. The King James Bible
SAYS '.fn EARTH" fhe Douai and Bishops
Bibles say ION earth.''
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

most significant item appears in
the statistics of the savings banks Of
the world. Germany has more than
twice as many depositors as the United
States. but the Americans have an av-
,erage of s433.70 per capita to their
credit. while the Germans have only
sI5S.S0 and the British but sS5.24.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

President c. T. Kramer. of the Ma
tional Retail Grocers' Association, adj
vises the retail srocers everywhere to
go actively into politics. Excellent add
vice. This is a Government of the peo-
pie and by the people. anG all the peo-
pie should take their full shar1 of 1t.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

Albert H. Ellis, New York, N. Y,
assignor to Wyckoff, Seamans & Bene-
dict, has patented combined typewrit-
ing and adding machine which it takes
80 columns of the Official Gazette to
describe
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

Devotees of the Second Empire are
shocked because the eX-Empress Euge-
ME has been summoned to court as
"Veuve onaparte"-Widow Bona
parte. 1t is explained that under the
law all French citizens are equal, and
the deposed Empress is no different in
her legal status than any other French
widow.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

Faith in the Panama Canal is grow
ing. New Orleans is beginning prep
aratfons for a grand carnival in 1915 to
celebrate its opening.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16

For a retired Boss Geo. B. Cox seems
to have things in Ohio marvelously well
in hand
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-16
NOTICE.

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When you renew from another pos
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When change of address is desired De
sure to give former address.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-08-01
PLEASURE SEEKERS KILLED
N A RAILROAD ACCIDENT
Horrible Catastrophe 10 Caused BY
the Failure Of the Crew Of
Freight Train to Obey Orders

Salem. Mich ~ Tbirty-one people are
dead and more than seventy injured
many Of them seriously. as the result
Of head-on collision between this
village and Plymouth, when Pere
Marquette excursion train bound from
Ionia 10 Detroit, crashed Into a west
bound freight In a cut located at
sharp curve OF the Pere Marquette
railroad. about a mile east OF Salem.
The passenger train Of eleven cars.
carrying the Pere Marquette shop
employees Of Ionia and their families
to the Michigan metropolis for their
annual excursion. was running at
high speed. probably fifty miles an
hour, down a steep grade. II struck
the lighter locomotive OF the freight
train with such terrible force as TO
turn the freight engine completely
around.
Responsibility Is put square upon
the crew OF the freight train by on
cials Of the road. One OF those who
arrived At the scene OF the wreck
soon after the accident secured from
the crew Of the freight the orders un-
der which 1t was running, and which
clearly showed the position Of the
excursion train. and that
the freight had encroached upon the
other trains running time.