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The National tribune., 1908-10-01
THE WIRZ MONUMENT.

Editor National Tribune: see by the
papers that some ladies are going to
erect monument to Capt. Wirz. 1 do
not think he. is worthy of raising
monument to. L served as Orderly
Sergeant in Co. X, I'd Ga. Reserves, for
one year at -AnGcrSonvllic. and / know
Wirz perfectly. He represents nothing.
a lower piece of humanity never was
born on this earth: He does not and
never did represent anything Southern
or pertaining to the South, and why
anyone or anybody should want to raise
q monument. to him is past my under
standing. Raising a monument to Con-
federate soldiers and officers represents
something. I am for peace. and let US
have peace in the words of that great
man. We want all good men to come
here. We have the finest climate on
earth and land is cheap, and they will
be welcomed here just as they would
be in the North. East or West. The
war is over, and let us now have one
country, one flag and serve the Lord
the balance of our few remaining years,
and let bygones be bygones. We all did
our best and thought we were doing
our duty.-G. w. Webb, Decatur, Ga.
Wer are most willing to believe that
the writer of the above really represents
the general feeling of the Confederate
veterans and the people of Georgia, and
that the Daughters of the Confederacy
have sadly misrepresented the temper
of their people. Capt. .Wirz. as our
correspondent says, was not Southern
er, and really represented nothing
Southern. In singing him out for spe-
cial honor the Daughters did grievous
wrong to many who had fought for
them heroically in the very front of
battle
While this was a serious sentimental
wrong, the Daughters did a practical,
present-day wrong of greatest magni-
tude.
Georgia is grand State physically
the largest east of the Mississippi
sets, and from one-half to one-third
larger than such great States as Ohio,
New York, Pennsylvania and Indiana,
but with only 100000 of population,
or less than half that of Ohio or Illi-
nois, and about one-third that of Penn
sylvania and New York. Our CORE
spondent scarcely eXaggerates when ne
says his State has the finest climate on
earth. She is capable of supporting
easily a population equal to that of
New York, say, 100000. What she
needs above all things is an influx of
Northern people and Northern capital
to develop her wonderful resources, and
give her the rank among the great
States that nature intended she should
occupy. They certainly will not go
thither as long asIthe Daughters of the
Confederacy Seem to voice the senti-
.1pent of the State against Northerners.
They will naturally prefer TO go to Ten
nessee and Alabama, even South Caro-
lima, where the feeling against Union
people is not so rank and outspoken.
The National tribune., 1908-10-01
Battery II, 1st Ohio l.. A.

Editor National Tribune: In your is
sue of some months ago you stated that
Gen. Shields was wounded while riding
in a carriage at the first battle of VIM
chester, March %, 1862. He was on
horseback in the center of Battery III,
1st Ohio L. A. We were placed in po-
sition by his order, and were ready to
fire when he said, STEADY, boysi
Steady" At the same time the rebel
battery were firing at US with shell, be-
ing in position first. When piece of
der, "Give them -, boys" He then
was taken to the rear in a carriage
Then, again. you say that Huntington's
Battery was taken off the field at the
Hazel Grove. When the Third Corps re-
tired in the night of May 2, 1868, at
Charlottesville, we were the only
battery left there, without >ny support
and came away on the morning of Nav
8, leaving several guns, the horses hav-
ing been shot down. The only batteries
in Hazel Grove on the afternoon and
evening of the I'd We're TidbalPs Horse
Artillery, the 10th and 11th N. Y.
Indp't Batteries and Battery H, 1st Ohio
L. A. Clark's N. ]. Battery was not in
Hazel Grove at that time. 1t is rather
late to "butt in" The members are
rather jealous. because their battery did
not lose any guns, as he says-probably
never near enough to the rebels. Bat
terry H, 1st Ohio L. A, is not ashamed
of its record, and will refer anyone to
the reports of Gems. Sickles, Hum
phreys, Prof Bates and Capt. Randolph.
of the 1st r. l. Art, who gave the order
for us to retire on the morning of the
3d-W. H. Styer. First Sergeant, Bat
terry H, 1st Ohio L. A.
The National tribune., 1908-10-01
How, after all the fuss and rodomon-

How, after all the fuss and rodomon-
tade in the society papers the glamour
about the 400 in the great cities, the
minds of the people naturally turn to
homely American things, is well Illus
trated by the success of "The Man From
Home" a play by Bpoth Harrington and
Harry Leon WILSON 1t had a great run
of "a weeks in Chicago, where every
body went to see 1t and thoroly enjoyed
ii. 1t is now in New York trying its
fortunes upon the cosmopolitans gath
cred there. The hero of the play is
Daniel Voorhees, Pike. from Kokomo,
Ind, and his dominant thought is that
Kokomo men, morals. language and
ideas are the last expression of human
wisdom and what ought to be. He goes
to Europe. bumps up with his sense of
Indiana superiority against everything
and everybody, and calmly disposes of
them as ridiculously inferior to what
KolSomo can produce. He sneers at the
Italian army as Knights of Pythias
parade, tells the English nobleman that
his vaunted Crecy and Agincourt were
peace conferences compared to the
fighting done by Indiana men. and finds
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

The cold weather has stopped the
cholera epidemic in Russia, at leas,
temporarily. The epidemic is as dis
graceful to Russian officialdom as any
thing which has developed. Cholera is
strictly filth disease. and wherever ii
RACES it is an indictment of the authori-
ties for permitting the existence OF
grossly insanitary conditions. 1t is said
disease has so far not developed any
real effort at improvement, and that
the breeding centers of the disease re-
main in the same terrifying condition
ready to be unlocked by the first warm
weather in Spring.
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, the Demo-
cratic nominee for Governor of New
York. is in somewhat awkward posi-
tion, since he has been a warm admirer
of Coy. Hughes. and at one time he
said:
'I have always said that I believed
the Governor of this State to be an
honest man, faithful to the trust i'm
posed in him. AItho some of his ideas
may not be my ideas, and his political
party is not my political party, feel i,
an honor TO take off my hat to tina,
man, and proclaim him one who has
worked hard and faithfully, not for his
party, but for the people of the State
of New York. He is a fine type of the
wholesome, sane American citizen"
The National tribune., 1908-10-01
Their Soul. Go Marching On.


(Tune: Battle Hymn of the Repub-
lic.' Written for and sung at the 11th
Reunion of the 35th Iowa, at Musca-
tine, Iowa, Sept. 9-10, 1908, following
roll call of the dead.)
The graves of our old comrades are
scattered so far and vide.
On battlefie.ds, on old camp grounds or
beneath the oceans tide,
They fought their country's battles and
gloriOusy they died,
Their souls go marching on.
The comrades of that army of brave
Union volunteers,
Who're still among the living give a
tribute of their tears,
To those who've gone to glory with the
passing of swift years,
Their souls go marching on.
On each Memorial Day we recall their
deeds with pride,
Comrades of the march and camp, or in
battle side by side,
They loved their country's honor, they
were patriots true and tried,
Their souls go marching on.
They bore the flag to vict'ry, the brave
flag of liberty.
Upheld its honor proudly on the land
and on the sea,
Endured and suffer'd hardships, even
died to make men free,
Their souls go marching on.
No more they hear the bugle, or the
call to mortal fray.
No cheers nor blare of trumpets can en-
thus the senseless clay,
They've gone to glory's bivouac, and
await the judgment day,
Their souls go marching on.
We're proud to see the progress of our
country great and strong,
While waiting final orders, our waiting
will not be long,
Well meet whate'er befalIs US, for our
God can do no wrong,
Then we'll go marching on,
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

Out in Kansas they know and love
the Speaker of the House of Represen-
tatives. and are not disturbed by the
furious assaults that the ungodly are
making upon him. One of the papers
gives him this hearty greeting:
"OId Joe Cannon's here in Kansas
under pleasant circumstances. People
think there is a hen on, cause he's thick
with Frank MacLennan, but he's just
come here to visit, and that's nothing
sinful, is it? Just come out to see the
prairies, and the Kansas fields and
dairies, and to chew the Kansas bur-
dock, and to loaf with Victor Murdock.
just to heaye some facts that glisten at
the voters who will listen. Let us give
him hearty greeting! 'Tisn't often that
we're meeting! Greet him, patriarchs
and mothers, sisters, cousins, aunts and
brothers, hoary sages, little friskers-
Heaven bless his dear old whiskers!"
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

President Diaz, of Mexico, is a gratify-
ing exhibition of the emptiness of Prof.
Osler's theories. He is now rs years old.
and intellectually and physically seems
in his prime. He recently addressed
the youag cadets of the Mexico Military
School, and strongly impressed upon
them the necessity of taking care Of
themselves by temperance, chastity and
self-contrel. To illustrate what his
ideas had resulted in practice, he ran
to a tall pole in the center of the room,
and climbed it hand over hand to the
top. Then gracefully sliding down, he
said:
young gentlemen, if you live as ab-
stemious a life as 1 have led, when you
are Is years old, as 1 now am, you can
do the same feat"
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

Much is expected in the way of pro-
ventilating school houses by electric
fans. These carry the dust with its
germs to ctaatral furnace. where it is
burned. In Toledo, o., there are 25
school buildings equipped with motor
driven ventilating fans. The success
which is attending the operation OF
these sets people to thinking about their
use in Office buildings, theaters
churches, etc.
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

After bitter struggle in Indiana the
temperance forces have defeated the
liquor men, and secured the adoption of
a County local option law. The ques-
ton divided both parties, the Repub-
iicans being in favor Of a County option
bill and the Democrats of a Township
local option. Both sides are glad that
it is over, and they have cleared the
decks of this troublesome question in
time for the Presidential campaign.
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

The French people have as many
schemes for checking the declining pop
ulation as ours have for monetary re-
forms. Among those proposed is a tax
on bachelors, a pension to every family
that has more than three children, the
exclusion from the Civil Service of bach
elors. and preference given in promo
tion to fathers of three living children
or more. AS one man in every four in
France is on the Civil Service roll, it is
believed this measure will be effective
in encouraging an increase in families.
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

The stories told of the smallness of
the power obtained from-a given amount
of coal and the greatness of the waste
under the steam boiler are now eclipsed
I'm the story of energy wasted in light
making. Sir James De War says that
i'm candles, lamps and coal gas we get
only two per cent of the energy in light.
while SO per cent takes the form OF
Eleat or some other manifestation. The
better, but still expends 81 per cent of
its force in non-luminous work. The
arc lamp gives 10 per cent of energy in
light, while the magnesium lamp gives
rs.
The National tribune., 1908-10-01
Germany is feeling an alarm that sh,

Germany is feeling an alarm that she
is travelling in the path of France in
the matter of a decreasing birth rate.
In 1872 there were 407 births in every
1000 inhabitants, but in 1905 this had
sunk to "a births per 1000 inhabitants.
It is still higher than the ratio in Eng
land and Wales. which is 28.1, where
France has now only 21.3 births per
1000 people. The decrease is most
marked in the cities, while the birth
tionary
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

Edison says that the success of the
Wright flying machine is more in the
brains of the Wright brothers than in
the machine itself. By their long prac-
tice they have acquired a Knowledge
and skill in air currents and conditions
precisely like that which skilled bicy-
Gle rider acquires of the conditions
around his machine. He has an in
stinctive knowledge of what to do at
any given instant.
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

1t is now claimed for New York that
it is the third German city in the world,
with a population of $4,000 of German
birth or direct paternity. The cities ex-
ceeding it in German population are
Berlin, with 2,0S4,0O0; Vienna has a
population of 100000, but it is not by
any means wholly German, being made
up of Magyars, Italians. Jews and the
many divisions of the Slavs The next
strictly German city is Leipzig, with a
population of 100000, while Breslau.
Dresden, Cologne, Main
and other places in the German Empire
run down from 100000 to 100000 popu-
lation.
The National tribune., 1908-10-01
pEsTnUcTIoN OF THE MAINE.

Commodore ". II. Beehler, who is
the Commandant Of the Naval Station
at key West, gives in the October Cen
tury most important contribution in
q study of the destruction of the Maine
and how it probably came about. He
points out how successful the Confed-
crates were during our war in destroy
ing Union vessels by improvised torpe-
does. They destroyed more vessels in
The lessons learned during our war
were probably taken to heart by some
Spaniard, who proceeded to put them
into practice. Commodore Beehler says:
e'The Maine was destroyed by the ex-
plosion of a mine. and this mine was
probably an improvised affair, a wine
cask with about 200 pounds>of ordinary
gunpowder and buoyant, fitted with any
kind of a mechanical contact fuse, a
bottle of sulphuric or other strong acid,
arranged so that when struck by a yes
sci the acid would ignite and explode
the mine This cask could have been
fitted with a chain and anchor so that
the mine would float 10 feet above the
bottom and 20 feet below the surface
of the water. I believe that doubtless
such a mine had been placed about 30
feet ahead of the Maine, then lying at
the buoy, riding to the trade winds, as
usual in that harbor, so that when the
ship should swing she would strike the
contact mine and blow herself up. The
Maine was in the act of swinging at
the time she was destroyed. The piaus-
ibility of this is confirmed by all the
circumstances of the time and place.
The trade winds prevail in the harbor
of Havana, and ships head to the wind.
but the trade winds fan once in every
four or six weeks. and ships that had
been heading northeast swing around
and head southwest. Such was the case
that evening in Havana"
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

Canadian scientists have come to the
conclusion that snow contains about a
pound of nitrogen per acre, and that,
therefore, the old farmer idea of snow
manuring the ground has scientific
basis.
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

the Haunting banners that greet him
everywhere in Europe pretty cheap af-
fairs compared with Old Glory floating
from the Kokomo Court House. 1t is
hardly likely that the play will have
the success in New York that it had
in Chicago. The citizenship of New
York is too raw and green from its
transatlantic home to take so kindly
10 exuberant Americanism
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

New Haven, Conn, wants the sesqui-
centennial of the birth of Noah Web
ster celebrated on the 18th of October.
Certainly if we are to honor the men
who have made a profound impress
upon people, Noah Webster has first
claims. No man stamped himself more
deeply upon country than Noah Web
ster, by his spelling book and diction-
airy, and the language spoken in the
United States, which has no superior, if
it has an equal in the world, for lucidity
and exactness, is largely the work of
Or. Noah Webster. He helped greatly
to make it systematic, exact and un-
doubted in it's clearness. In these re-
spects it surpasses any other dead or
living language.
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

Owing to the drouth Pittsburgers are
only allowed to battle once a week.
Think of having to go six days without
a bath in such place as Pittsburg,
where even the silvery rays of the
moor nave a fur of SCOT.
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

Bleached -four is the next subject for
attack by the Pure Food Commission.
Bleached flour is but little better than
starch as food, but those who want to
name
The National tribune., 1908-10-01
WASHINGTON. D. c.. OCT. l. 1908,
NOTICE.

When you send In your subscription
always state whether renewal or new
subscriber.
When you renew from another posi-
office give former address as well.
When change Of address Is desired bs
sure to give former address,.
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

II Gov. Haskell keeps on his intem-
perate bandying of coarse epithets which
prove nothing, the people will soon re-
gard him as guilty of anything that may
be charged against him.
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

Richard B. olney says that ''the coun-
try is pining for a rest" He is silent
as to its chances of getting it right
away.
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

Questions of throbbing interest are:
Where did Mr.. Hearst get those letters? :?
How many more has he? Whom do
the rest implicate?
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

The claiming is not one side by any
means. II. James Hawkins, of Guthrie,
claims that Oklahoma will certainly go
Republican.
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

Another life to throw contempt on
Oslerism is that of Rev. o. P. Crandall.
of Ridgebury, n. Y, who is a vigorous
and effective preacher at 50.
The National tribune., 1908-10-01
FOREST CONSERVATION.

The blessed rain has come to break
the 'drouth, to bring water to the thirsty
fields, and to stop the fear of fires de-
the interior has suffered severely, the
complaints have been louaest from the
country around Pittsburg, and these
point at once to a source of the evil and
remedy The wholesale destruction
of the timber on the mountains not only
brings to that country the devastation
of resistless floods, but is the cause of
the severest effects of the drouth. With
the mountains and hills denuded of
their natural covering, the rainfall is no
longer caught by the leaves and humus
of the soil, but rushes in torrents as
clay sides TO swell the streams to over
flowing at one time, and leaving the
ground as dry as house roof at an
other. The springs dry up, the rivulets
dwindle and disappear, and the great
Ohio River, which was once a principal
artery of commerce, was this year so
low that small boys could wade across
it almost anywhere. Next Winter will
see it from SO to 100 feet deep, mad,
turbid current submerging the country
on either side of its overfiown banks,
and carrying to the Gulf of Mexico the
rich soil which it has robbed from the
hillsides and valleys along its course.
The remedy for this is such an intelli-
gent forest system as France found nee
essary to adopt to prevent her being
rendered waste like the Desert of Sa-
hara. 1t is not improbable that the
Sahara was once fertile fields, supply
ing Rome with a large portion of the
food that her swarming millions de-
manded. The destruction of the woods
allowed the desert to spread until at
places it reaches the Mediterranean. The
same is true of Palestine, once the
Lords own vineyard. Probably if we
had the history we should find it SINH
lar all over central Asia. We know that
the ancestors of all the people in Europe
and America once lived there in what
is now a treeless desert.
More than a century ago intelligent
Frenchmen saw clearly what their coun
try was threatened with, and began re-
foresting and rebushing the mountains;
that is, where trees would grow they
were planted and carefully cultivated,
and where it was impossible to raise
forests the crests of the mountains were
covered with such bushes as would
thrive there and give protection to zhe
soil. We must do something Of this
kind in this country and at once.
Here is a matter for our most earnest
thought. The States of Pennsylvania
and West Virginia should at once begin
reforesting the mountains which con-
tain the sources of the streams running
into the Ohio. AS the floods devastate
the lower country 1T is likely that this
should be made a National question,
and the General Government enter into
those States for the benefit of the peo-
pie along the lower course of the Ohio.
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

break the drouth. Heavy explosions
and great fires were alike ineffective. i
The National tribune., 1908-10-01
An instance of wanton disregard ,

An instance of wanton disregard Of
veterans feelings by the present man.
agement of Soldiers Homes is recent
order by the Governor of the Pacific
Home that inmates must not mutilate
their uniforms" by wearing their G. A.
r. or other badges. There seems no
excuse for this. and it is a petty exhibi-
ton of tyranny.
The National tribune., 1908-10-01
Number of pensioners July

Number of civil war inya-
lids July 81. 1908. ...... 619, ,10SI
Decrease -. ........... 1877
The Marshall republican., 1908-01-10


Deathbed jokes are generally not au-
thentic. The celebrated one attributed
IN Tom Hood, for instance-that he pro-
tested against blaming the undertaken
who had Numbered into coming before
the great wit was dead and said that
the man had come only to urn a lively
Hood"-is known to b decidedly
apocryphal.
Nevertheless n remark somewhat Of
the same sort, which Is attributed to
Lord Chesterfield In his last illness, Ii
undoubtedly authentic. Chesterfield
was very III, and his death was only a
matter of a few weeks, but his ply
slcian advised that he be taken for an
easy drive In his carriage, and he went
out.
As the equipage was proceeding
slowly along Il was met by n woman
who remarked pleasantly to the great
invalid. "Ah, my lord. I am glad to see
ou able TO drive out"
IL nm not driving out. madam" an
swered Chesterfield. II am simply re-
hearsing my funeral."-st. Louis Re-
public.
The Marshall republican., 1908-01-10
Big Business of Swift & Co.

The total business of Swift
81 Co., the packers, exceed
led $50 million dollars in the
year ending September 30,
1907, according TO the report
to stockholders that has just
been made public. The net
profits were So, 203, 900. or
about 2.5 per cent on the total
business done, equal TO 1914
per cent Of the so millions of
capital. The dividend paid
amounted TOT per cent, and
81, 70i, 900, was added 70 tue
surplus. Depreciation charges
were more than 81, 900, 900.
The company's report says:
We have been, and are now
doing a profitable business
and the prospects for the
coming year are favorable"
The company has n branch
in Marshall, near the G. & A.
depot.
The Marshall republican., 1908-01-10
Factory Assured.

X. Mckenzie, of Buffalo, n.
y, who was in Slater Satur-
day meeting the farmers in
regard To a canning factory
there says the factory il as.
sured and he will remain in
Slater several weeks making
all arrangements. He ex-
poets to begin building about
February LIST. Mr.. Mckenzie
seems an able business man
and means business. His
company has already eleven
branch factories throughout
the country and he thinks
Slater an ideal location. They
expect TO can all kinds of
fruit, tomatoes, berries, etc.
He is asking no inducements
to locate the factory in Slater,
but is trying to sell some
stock TO the farmers in order
to insure the success of the
enterprise and they are TAX
ing kindly to the enterprise.