The National tribune., 1908-01-02
Pension and Soldiers. Homes.

Post Hood River, Ore, says that We
are mistaken in our general statement
that the size of the soldiers pension
cuts no figure in the admission to a
Soldiers Home. He incloses a letter
from the Adjutant of the Soldiers Home
near Long Beach, Cal, stating that
veteran receiving s24 a month could
not be admitted to the Home without
surrendering part of the pension. The
Home was built for veterans who were
receiving pensions insufficient to sup
port them outside it. Our statement
was true with reference to the National
| Soldiers Homes. The State Soldiers
Homes have their own rules and regula-
| tionS, and are not subject to the laws of
the United States except to limited
degree. They can consequently do as
they see fit.-Editor National Tribune.
Widows Pensions.
Gustave r. Wa!dow, Corporal, 10th
n. Y, 104 Roberts Ave, Buffalo, n. Y,
makes an appeal for justice to second
wives. About 16 years ago his first
wife died, and he married a second one
Aug. 6, 1891. She has been true ard
noble woman, and they have lived to-
gether most happily. They worked
hand in hand until about four years
ago when he was SO badly hurt as to
discontinue his labor. He is now Sc
| years old, and unable to do anything
toward the support of the family. Con-
sequently he has given much more wor-
ry to wife No. 9 than he did to his first,
and he denounces the present discrim-
ination as injustice"
Mistaken Policy.
A. P. Carr, 18th Ind, Spanaway,
Wash, says that our first mistake was
in sending Commodore Perry to Japan
when he opened Pandora's box of
evils. At the battle of Mukden Japan
was whipped, but President Roosevelt
made the great mistake of intervening
and helping Japan out of her troubles. |
He had much better devoted himself
to chasing the wildcats out of his own
thickets, and letting Russia and Japan
settle between themselves. There would
have been no trouble with the little |
brown man after that.
Our Glorious Flag.
Luther Seiders, Batteries F and G, 1st |
Art. Pa. Reserves, Reading, Pa, ex-
presses the greatest appreciation for the
flag which was sent him by The Ma
tional Tribune as premium with his |
subscription for 1908. He thinks that
every soldier, no matter in what war |
he served or in what capacity, should
own an American flag, which he should
display on all proper occasions, and
which should envelop his body when he
leaves this world for the eternal camp
ing ground. He thinks no one need fear
that the rising generation will not love,
honor and protect Old Glory, as the
civil war generation has done, as there
are still millions who would die to
save it"
A Grand Record.
]. C. Jackson, Co. r, SD Pa, Lake
ton, Pa, says he is enjoying going over
his army life thru The National Trib-
une much more than he did his actual
personal experience, which had moth
ing in it worthy of note. He is proud,
however, of an item concerning the
Township from which many of the
members of his regiment were recruit
ed. Monroe Township, Pa, sent more
men to the front than it had voters,
and never had draft. He wonders if
any other locality could beat that rec
ord. There are only about SO of the
original members of the SD left.
An Incident at Sailors Creek.
James E. MacGregor, First Sergeant,
Co. L, 73d N Y, MesiIla Park, n. j.,
sends his greetings to the Sth N. j.,
and recalls that at Sailors Creek, two
days before the surrender, they got
some of the boys in gray from Long
streets Corps. 1t was beautiful sunny
day, and as the prisoners were taken in
they saw the white diamonds on the
hats and breasts of their captors, and
called out, Bully boys. Diamonds are
trumps today" Everybody was going
over the old Virginia roads very fast
about these times Comrade MacGreg-
Corps, Third Division, under Gen. Mott,
and had the advance.
The 66th Ill.
Magma Samson, Sergeant, Co. E, Seth
ILL.,, wants to hear something from the
boys of his splendid old regiment, which
did such an immense amount of march
ing, sharpshooting and rapid firing from
Missouri to the sea.
sIn God We Trust,
F. r. French, I'd KY, Lakin, Kan,
protests respectfully against the Presi
dents position in regard to the inscrip-
ton on the coins. He yields to no one
in his esteem for the President, but he
is not infallible, and in ordering the
A 2OO-Year Calendar.
Comrade Henry d. Field, Ocean Park,
Cal, has gotten out an exceedingly
handy little calendar giving the days
of the week and of the month for 200
years from 1916 to 1876.
HaIderman's Bible.
Miss Florence Wilkinson, Middletown,
Va, has Bible which her father, a
COn1ederate soldier, picked up on one -,
of the battlefields near Richmond, and
which she should be glad to return to
its owner or one of his family. On the
first page is written, Presented to Will
liam Halderman by his friend, J. w.
Boul."
Berwick, In.
r. H. Martin, 46th Ind, Delphos, O.,
corrects Comrade Sayles as to some of
his statements in regard to the capture
of Berwick, La. Brashear City is on
the east shore of the Berwick Bay; was
fortified during the war, and was then
the terminus of the railroad running
from Algiers opposite New Orleans.
Across the bay from Brashear was Ber-
wick, then a flourishing place of about
three houses. This is the point from
which Comrade Sayles saw the answer
ing signals. Berwick was not fortified,
tho it was used for camping place for
troops.
War History.
Miss Agnes E. Safely, Brookpark,
Mimi, says that she is reading the his
tory of the Peninsular Campaign with
the greatest interest, and finds it the
best and most attractive she has ever
read. She can remember the war quire
well, and finds that what is said COIN
cides with her reeollections.
Henry w. Featherston, II Stevenson