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wide publicity. This is the place and
the time to make correction. The
record could have been had upon ap-
p1ication to the proper official The
story still goes on its devious way, We
regret to add, upon statements OF those
who profess to have been present and
heard the reading of the report. The
motive which underlies the circulation
of a false statement Is as easily
imagined by one as another. 1t Is
not for us to judge. The Grand Army
of the Republic has never yet found
1t necessary to explain nor apologize
for any act Of the National Encamp-
ment. During a long series of years
it's representatives have had the most
courteous consideration at the hands of
the Congress and the Chief Executives
of the Nation. Our noble organization
has written practically the pension code
as 1t is in force today. Conscious al
| ways of the solemn duties devolvea
| upon US by pledges the most sacred
that can come to mortals. mindful of
our obligations to the living and the
dead. appreciating with grateful hearts
the respect of our countrymen, let us
here resolve anew to continue loyal to
each other and the mighty Republic It
was our inestimable privilege to serve
in the days of our young manhood.
Thanks.
The National Pension Committee
takes pleasure in noting the distin-
guished service rendered the country
by the Honorable Vespasian Warner as
Commissioner of Pensions and his
thoroly capable Deputies, Honorable
James l.. Davenport and Honorable l..
M. Kelly. Comrades tried and true.
they have given the best there is in
them to the discharge of their duties
1t seems fair TO say that this Bureau
was never in so good working order as
now. Claims are adjudicated with the
greatest promptitude. the correspofi-
dence disposed of without delay, and
each proper request given the most
courteous attention to the satisfaction of
all who have occasion to address that
important Department of the Govern
ment.
Respectfully submitted in F. c. G. L..
(Signed)
r. B. BROWN.
JNO. r. KING,
S. s. BURDETT.
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The Veterans. Invention.

W. II. Harris, 10th Kan, Fort Dodge.
Kan, says that he and some other
veterans have constructed a device to
keep butter and Inilk fresh without
ice. They bore hole In the ground.
eight or nine feet deep, with a post
auger, and have box about two feet
long and 20 inches wide with slant
ing top; then they have two old tin
buckets with the bottoms cut out. They
cement the inside of the box up 10
within three or four inches of the top
of the buckets, and then put the milk
milk or butter will keep for a long time
just as we'll as IL in an ice chest.
The National tribune., 1909-08-12
McGH,VERY'S BATTERY.

Long, Hot Work at the Second Bull
Run-Fires the Last Shots of the
Battle.
Editor National Tribune: Yours of
April % at hand. Thank you for your
answer. altho long delayed, to my ques-
tion as to what part of the last Bull
Run battlefield Capt. McGilvery's Co. F,
9Th Me-, occupied. Why I asked you
that question was for my own informa"
ton, little dreaming that there had
been any contention about it, as your
letters would cause me to believe. In
your excellent history of Gen. Pope's
campaign in map there is given the
positions of other batteries, but no men,
ton of that splendid battery or of that
splendid Captain who soon was given
the commission of Brigadier-General
and 1nspector-General of Artillery,
which would not have been given him
at that time If he had not gained it by
good fighting qualities, and who later.
at Petersburg, was wounded in the
hand, and blood poisoning caused his
death. 1 will give you my impression
where it was. Upon the retreat of Gen.
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The Widows Pension Bill.

An effort to amend the Widows PEN
sion Act of April 19, 1908, so as to
bring the marriage limitation down to
the date of the approval of the Sullo-
way Bill by the President. failed thru
non-action in the House of Representa-
tives. Senator McCumber, Chairman
of the Senate Committee on Invalid
Pensions secured the unanimous ap-
proval of the premier body and it was
passed without dissenting vote. 1t is
our hope that this bill will have the
favorable action of the Sixty-ffrst Con-
gress this Winter.
At the Forty-second National En-
campment the committee on pensions
used this language in closing its re-
port:
in view of what has been accom-
of laws which generously bestows n
country annually upon the defenders of
may we not now consider the work of
general pension legislation for at least
a few years. closed"
Unfortunately the phrase "a few
years was printed in the press three
years" From many sections came bit
ter reproaches that the National En-
campment should attempt to put lin
itation upon pension legislation. The
Committee had in mind only a sugges-
ton, and not legislation. The report
was adopted by a unanimous vote,
without a word of dissent. 1t were an
idle task to attempt to explain the
error thru the medium which gave it
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| Congress), as Senior Colonel, acted in
| command of the two.
] quote from Col. Keifer's report on
| page 62, Series One, Volume 81, part
second, War Records, as follows:
After marching about four miles
from Winchester, on the Martinsburg
| Road, firing commenced on our front
| and right. My regiment was formed in
| line Of battle by Gen. Elliott. skir-
| Tpishers were thrown forward, and
the line advanced a short distance to
the northward. My regiment was on
the left OF the 123d Ohio, and on the
extreme right. By direction of Gen.
Elliott, l moved my command by the
left flank. TO the northward. on a
line parallel TO the Martinsburg Road,
until my left was five miles from Win
chester. / formed my line facing the
east, where the enemy was discovered
IN my front, in the woods, and behind
stone walls. With the consent of Gen.
Elliott l charged with my regiment
upon the enemy, outfianked him on his
right. and driving him thru the woods
upon his artillery occupying the woods
upon the east Of the road, opening a
destructive fire into the enemy's ranks.
throwing him into confusion. We also
silenced two of the enemy's guns f12
ponnders) in our immediate front. cap
turing one of his caissons. Not being
supported On my right the enemy soon
appearing in large numbers in that di-
rection, l withdrew my regiment a
short distance, changed direction TO the
right, and again advanced on the enc
my. The 1920 Ohio came up to my
support on my right, and in 20 min
utes We once more cleared the woods
IN our front, shooting down the gun
ners and horses of the enemys ar
tiliery and bringing off some of the
enemy's horses. A large body of the
enemy again appearing on our right,
ordered both regiments withdrawn,
which was done in good order to the
west OF the Martinsburg Road. The
enemy soon occupied the woods in su-
perior force. Again l ordered charge,
which was nobly responded to by Off
GERS and men. After a severe con-
fiict, in which the two lines were en-
gagged in places as near as 20 feet, the
enemy gave way. My whole line then
advanced to the enemy's artillery,
shooting and driving his gunners from
their pieces and silencing them. Ny
whole line was then Withdrawn by my
order from the woods, and under the
marched to Harper's Ferry, arriving at
35 miles and fighting nearly Two
hours On the way
The Reports.
On page So. Vol. 27 (part second),
War Records, Gen. Elliott reports how
many of his brigade arrived at Har-
per's Ferry on the afternoon OF June
10, 1863, as follows:
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Father Of the Youngest Boy.

Jacob Affolter, 51st Ohio, Tuscara-
was. o., says that Corp'l VIM. Lowell.
18th Ohio, is the father of the youngest
boy in this country who is the son, OF
veteran. His boy was born July 26,
1909. Corp'l Bill is as years old. and
is the father of Is children-13 boys
and three girls. He has five children
under IL years of age. He has named
the last arrival John A. Logan.
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have in my possession a prescription for
nervous decline, lack of vigor weakened
manhood, falling memory and lame back. ETC..
that has cured many worn and nervous
men right in thei- own homes-wfthout any
additional help or medicne=-that L think
every man who wishes to regain his manly
power and virility, quickly and quietly. should
have a copy So have determined to send
a copy of the prescription free Of charge. In
ia plain. ordinary sealed envelope to any man
who will write for IT.
This prescription comes from a physician
who has made special study of men, and
am convinced Ii Is the surest-actiug combi-
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vigor failure ever put together.
L think owe 1t to my fellow man to send
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anywhere who IS weak and discouraged with
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this splendid recipe in plain ordinary en-
velope free of charge great many doctors
would charge $500 to $500 for merely writing
out prescription like this-but I send It
entirely free.
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Sheridan at Cedar Creek.

A. c. Wallan, Co. B, 18th w. Va,
Logan, o., gives a boys recollection of
the arrival of Sheridan at Cedar Creek.
He belonged to the old Kanawha Bri-
gade, Second Division, and was on the
The National tribune., 1909-08-12
M & CICAL.

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The National tribune., 1909-08-12
PENSION LEGISLATION
The Report OF the National Com.
mittee on Pensions.

To the Commander-in-Chief and Mem
bers of the Forty-third National
Encampment. Grand Army of the
Republic
Comrades: The Pension Question"
still holds the center of the stage in
at Washington.
OF the making of pension bills there
| is no end. In fruitless efforts at ex-
pressing the ideas of individual con-
stituents, Members of Congress have
industriously cast their drag nets into
| the uncharted sea of proposed legisla-
| ton. In time. these rudderless bacques
were gathered into that haven of rest
presided over by the House Committee
on Invalid Pensions, whence no traveller
e'er returns. with the formal reading
and reference of these oft lily con-
ceived attempts at amending the exist
ing pension code, the public, thru the
press, is advised OF new panaceas for ills
which grow with the years. Thus a
new source of contention is added to
the long line of divergent views which
serve to distract and to breed distrust
For months past the country has
rung with the slogan of "a dollar a day
for the men who served the Republic
in the time of National peril. No such
proposition has officially been made in
either House of the Congress. No such
pension bill has been introduced, so far
as your committee is advised. No
Member of either the House of Repre-
sentatives or the Senate will attempt
the passage of an act to place the name
of each survivor of the Army, Navy
and Marine Corps with a service of 80
days or more, on the roll at the rate of
S! q day, in lieu of the pension now
paid them under laws of the United
States.
1t was cruel wrong to give currency
to this wild statement and permit it
to go unchallenged to this time. With
out attempting to fix the responsibility
for this grossly eXtravagant rumor, for
it has never assumed the dignity of a
half truth, it must be said that it pro-
ceeded from Il source high in official
life Posts and Departments have in
dorsed the straight-a-way dollar DAY
bill without having any such proposed
legislation before them. In good faith,
these comrades have deemed it possi-
BILE of accomplishment and they have
been permitted to continue under this
thinly-vailed delusion to the point of
impatience with those who sought to
show them the error into which they
had been led.
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Classified Advertisements.
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The National tribune., 1909-08-12
Criticisms on the G. A. II.

Your committee notes the unfortun-
ate disposition to indulge in bitter criti-
cism of the Grand Army, because all
that Is desired is not obtained thru
Legislation. Comrades who wear the
little bronze button, in not a few in
stances have arraigned the Order for
alleged shortcomings. They are not
those who have rendered service In
these matters of which they complain,
but ambitious. possibly. of notoriety, they
seek to gain it thru methods inconsist-
ent with their solemn obligation taken
at their muster into the ranks of our
Order. Not familiar with the history
of pension legislation in the past nor
mindful of the trinity of principles
which binds us together, they place
self above the common good and give
full rein to unbridled tongues, to the
hurt of US ALL 1t were better for them
and the organization which has now
so nobly served this people, that either
they cultivate the Christian grace of
gratitude or surrender the badge con-
ferred in response to voluntary appli-
cation for the greatest honor which can
come to defender of the Republic.
The National tribune., 1909-08-12

FOR SALE-A FULL SET, Il VOLS, OF THE
Roster OF Ohio Soldiers, in fair condition. VIII sell
for best offer. B. II. Maxwell, 5o3 MadisonAA Ave,
Steubenyille, Oh.o.
The National tribune., 1909-08-12

RESPECTABLE AND THOROUGHLY COM Pc
tent lady would like a position houseR eeper for IA
wei-to-do soldier widower who has good home with
good conveniences Address Mrs. Aida NJ. Raker
1919 Philip Street, Missoula. Montana.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

BABY CHICKS Sc each. shipped safely anywhere.
Culver Poultry Farm, 9)i Burnham. Benson Neb.
u ROTHER: Accidentally have discovered root that
Id Will both tobacco habit and indigestion
Gladly send particulars b. Stokes, Mohawk Florida
90 ACRES In the fruit belt, N miles of Chester,
SO Ark. For sale or trade. REV. NJ p. JULIAN,
Chester, Ark.
The National tribune., 1909-08-12
The G. A. R. Stands for Principle.

! It will not be possible within the
scope of a report OF this character to
review all the bills offered in Congress
as affecting pension legislation since
the Forty National Encamp-
ment closed. 1t will Ge of interest we
trust, and we deem it our duty to refer
! to the uBbroken rule which has guided
all National Encampments in legislating
on this most important and delicate
problem. The Grand Army of the Re-
public has never stood for a class. but
always for the entire membership with
out regard to rank or length of service
when such service was of 80 days or
more. To have turned aside from this
principle, or to depart from 1t now,
would be to set at naught the chiefest
corner stone of the structure which
has endured 43 years. The Grand
Army of the Republic is the one or
ganiZation in this country without
caste. The rights of one comrade are
the privileges of every other as a fun
damental fact.
Bills have been introduced in Con-
gress to create what is styled a Voun-
| teer Retired Roll, applying to these
who were commissioned as officers; to
provide something like this for nom
commissioned officers and privates; to
authorize the Secretary of the Interior
to enter upon a roll the names of those
who served Is months in the held with
credit" with certain limitations. Each
class is to be paid on given schedule
based on rank, service, and age, etc
each class differing from the other in
the rating attempted to be fixed by
these several acts.
To write these bills into law, or to
pass any one of them, would be a wide
departure from the wise policies which
have controlled all the pension iegis-
lation of the past tnlrtl of a century.
The Grand Army 0f the Republic can
not at this late date afford 10 say TO
the country that a comrade who wore
the insignia of RANK is more deserving
than the comrads who sto1d beside
him with musket or 4 saber. Our
great Order in its pension policy has
exemplified the true American spirit
in It's consistent and insistent demands
for equal payment for equal disabjli-
ties whether they came from service IN
the field or from iniirmiIies due 20 ad-
vancing age. Shall We now set up a
new standard and thus revive the grades
essentially necessary in tinie of war,
but repugnant to the citizenship of the
great Rpnublic N of naacaS
The National tribune., 1909-08-12
Defending a Blockhouse.

]. T. Pickard, Stanton, Mich, 4th
Mich. Cav, thinks that Comrade Sher-
wood refers to blockhouse about four
miles from Murfreesboro that was gar
risoned by men of the 4th Mich. Cav.
They beat on Wheeler's Cavalry a little
while after the battle of Chickamauga,
when Wheeler was making his raid on
our communications. Comrade Pickard
was with those who were following
Wheeler.
The National tribune., 1909-08-12
The 33d and dsth, U. 8.

Editor National Tribune: have not
been able to find one member of Co.
d. 33d or 18th U. S. There must be
pleasure to me to hear from some of
them.-Benjamin F. Newcomer, Will
coxen Building, Freeport, Ill.
The National tribune., 1909-08-12
Battlefield Bible.

William Mitchell. Biltmore, N. c..
referring to an article about finding on
the battlefield Bible inscribed Sidney
p. Dula," says that his sons wife is re-
lated to the Dulas, but the lady, Mrs
Lucy Schoonmaker, failed to give heI
address, and he would like 20 have it to
communicate with her
The National tribune., 1909-08-12
The 1st N. J. Cav.

Maj VIM. Harper, Soldiers Home,
Bath, N Y, says that the history of his
regiment, recently published in The
National Tribune, was not complete.
His name did not appear in it, altho he
served in it as a commissioned officer
from Feb. 2, 1852, until the regiment
was mustered out. Upon his arrival in
Trenton he was promoted to Major and
given a commission as Lieutenant Col
oneI but not mustered.
The Official Roster shows William
Harper as Major to date from April
81, 1865. He mad been breyetted Ma
jor March 8, 1865.-Editor National
Tribune.
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NOTE:-The above is TIE lcrgcss Mail Order soec-
tacIe House n the world and Is perfec.ly reiahas
The National tribune., 1909-08-12

VETERANS on THE CALIFORNIA SELF
v SUPPORTING HOMES nj Gait Will welcome
rrades who want such homes. You risk nothing
here; u dollar does 10 make = home a colony
than among arge farms Mild summers; oranges
rpen ia wilter. Wells, 81 p1utry pays extra well.
b Marks, Box 605 Galt ta.if)rnia.
The National tribune., 1909-08-12

On page SO, Vol 27 (part second).
War Records, Gen. Elliott reports how
many of his brigade arrived at Har-
per's Ferry on the afternoon OF June
10, 1863, as follows:
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-02-20

The statue of our eminent de-
parted citizen, Senator Don. CAT
fiery, is being erected on the court
house square. The statue is the
result of private subscription on
the part of some of our best cit
liens, but the feeling of perpetu-
ating the memory OF a great man
is shared by every citizen of IA
parish, among whom the lamented
deceased per 'ormed life work
that will scar SsIy ever be forgot
ten for it's great and unselfish de-
votion to their interests. Due an
nouncement will be made of the
date of unwilling of the statue.
AS this statue will be on the north
part of the square we would sug-
gest that the Confederate Veter-
ans take up the matter OF erecting
a monument on the opposite side
"a suitable monument perpetual
ting the valor and heroism of our
Boys who shared the perils of war
in the great conflict of forty five
years ago. Such monument,
while serving as an inspiration to
our young and perpetuatine glo-
rious memories, would prove a
distinctive ornament to our new
scat of Justice.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-02-20
MEETING OF CREDITORS.
In the District Court of the United
States for the Eastern Distric;~of
Louisiana.
In the matter of Ernest Druilhet: Bank
rupt. In Bankruptcy, No. 1850.

All the creditors Of Ernest Druilhct,
of Calumet, ST. Mary Parish, Louisiana,
adjudged bankrupt, on the 1ith day of
February, A. D., 1909, on his petition
in the District Court of the United
States for the Eastern District of Louis
lana, are hereby notified that the first
meeting of creditors of the said bank
rupt will be held before the undersigned
Referee at the Court House IN Franklin,
Louisiana, on the 25th day of February,
A. D., 1908, at the hour of 10 o clock II.
m.
Whereas said creditors shall present
and prove their claims, elect trustee
and fix the amount of his bond; shall
determine in what manner and at what
time the property of the bankrupts es-
tate shall be. sold, and shall take such
other steps as are pertinent and ncces-
sary for the promotion of the best in
terest of the said estate, and shall do.
such other things as the law requires
and may be brought before them.
GORDON A. SANDOZ, Referee.