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The National tribune., 1909-07-15
The Confederate Veterans.

The Memphis papers say that there
was great deal of disorder in the con-
clusion of the proceedings Of the United
Confederate Veterans in their Annual En-
campment in that city. The fire-eater
was present and insisted upon being heard.
but he was only tolerated and NOT en-,
cSouraged. During the afternoon reso-
luton was introduced calling for recipro-
cal recognition on the part of the En-
campment of the resolutions of good will
from the Grand Army of the Republic.
The fre-eating element fought this very
bitterly. and insisted that the Confederate
Veterans had no proper dealings with the
u. a: IT,. or any other body except those
mentioned in its own constitution and by
laws. The resolution was finally with
drawn against the protest of the better
clement, who insisted that for he Com
federate Veterans to decline to meet the
courteous messages of former foe with
at least equal courtesy, would bring the
blush of shame to every true Confederate's
cheek. The fre-eaters developed strength
enough to prevent the adoption of the
resolution, but not sufficient to adopt any
resolution of their own
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While driving over the colony lands we
noticed that the flies did not bother the
horses, and when standing still their
| tails were not being switched about, as
one will see at this season anywhere in
the North. We We're treated frequently
to watermelons, and rindS were scat
tered about on the ground without at
tracing swarms of flies. Nor were we
troubled with mosketos day or night.
There are mosketos and other pests in
Florida, but the Kissimmee Valley
seems to be singularly exempt from
them. This is doubtless due to the alb
sence of stagnant water. The lakes
everywhere were free from scum, and
the water was always good enough to
drink. The shores were not swampy,
and one could wade about without sink
ing down into mud and muck. 1 was
much pleased with the abundance and
purity of the water supply, both in lakes
and in wells of easy depth. Flowing
[artesian wells are to be had in some
localities. but the average elevation of
the colony lands will not allow top
flow, as a rule. The supply in these
wells cannot be exhausted st. Cloud
can soon have a water system, and every
farm can have good wells. BuildiIts
material is reasonable in price, but
there is no need of such heavy and
warm houses as in the North.
We saw men at work in fields and
gardens and orchards at all hours of
the day without apparent discomfort.
The Summer is said to be the off-season
in the matter of farm work-it was as
far as oranges were concerned-but we
saw all kinds of vegetables growing.
and as fine fields of corn as any we ever
saw in Virginia or any State of the
North. The fact is, people are just
finding out that they can do things all
the year around. The Winter crops, of
course, are the profitable ones, for they
are shipped North or else consumed by
Winter visitors from the North. Visitors
are prolonging their stays, and they
are going earlier, because they are find
ing out that the Summer weather is not
as extreme as it often is in the North.
The peninsula of Florida has the sea
on each side, and the winds blow over
the land night and day. From what we
experienced and were told there is no
doubt about the climate being an agree
able one. The Summers are longer, but
there is no Winter. And when the
whole thing is evened up Florida has
advantages over the North in respect
to climate. And the Kissimmee Valley
is freer from insect pests than any part
of the North with which am acquaint-
ed.
There is no question about the possi-
bilities of agricultural life. A few acres
can be made to yield a great variety of
products. A man and a mule can do
wonders on five acres. The colony lands
as far as we could see and learn are
uniformly fertile. Much of the whole
KiSsmmee region is said to be good
and st. Cloud is right in the heart of
the best of it. 1t was certainly a for
tunate location for the colony. Now, if
the comrades get together and pull to-
gether there is no reason why we can
not soon show Florida that st. Cloud is
On the map.-Bassett Lee, Herndon, Va.
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The writer was shown hundreds of
invention proving it a positive success
and giving splendid satisfaction. The
following extracts may interest our
readers:
J. w. Meyers, of Ga, orders 12
more and says: "Greatest invention for
wOmanhoOd, forever abOIishing mlser-
able wash-day. 1 am ready to have
my old washer accompany all others to
the dump" J. MCGEE, Tenn, writes:
"One young lady cleaned days washing
by old methods in one hour with Easy
Way; another in As minutes" A. p
Poppleton, n. Y: "Greatest invention
on earth."- Gives perfect satisfaction.
Washed bed quilts, greasy overalls and
finest laces." Walter Glenn, Ohio: Far
superior to any other method. Cleans
clothes perfectly without rubbing, H.
u. Conley, N. c., writes: ship 25 Easy
ways. Been out one day-have IL or
ders. Beats all other washers" Mrs.
Celestia Thompson, III: Easy WAY ex-
ceeds all expectations. Best device I
ever saw; have used washing machines
SO years." /. Beck, Ca, writes: En-
close order. Easy Way as represented
Worked days. have Is orders" J. H.
Barrett, of Ark, after ordering 3S
Easy Ways" says: II don't understand
why it does the work, but it does You
have the grandest invention / ever
heard OF" l.. d. Hendricks, of ILL.,:
Beats anything I ever heard of" F.E.
Post, of Pa: Received Easy Way -
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Wants Congress to Act.

James Fadden, OF Meriden, n. H., says
in letter todThe National Tribune thai
there should be asunited effort on the part
Of the veterans TO get full justice from
Congress. Comrade Fadden is 7S years
1860, and next year when the call was
made for 1900 men to suppress the re-
bellion he ENLISTED in Co. tG 7th Mass.
Inf, and participated in the great battles
of the great Virginia campaign; received
a severe wound at White Oak Swamp, Va,
but was able to take part in the fierce con-
test at Antietam,, after which he went into
the hospital, and was discharged, re-en-
listed a year later, and served to the close
of the war. He is an active member of
the G. A. II. Post at his home.
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PEOPLE.

Maj. ]. NJ. Hadley, father of Herbert
S. Hadley, who is making such a fine
record as Governor of Missouri, died
June 21 at his home in De Soto, Kan.
The Governor was warned of his faith
er's condition, and went to his bedside
by special train. Maj. Hadley was a
pioneer of Jackson County, Kan, To-
eating at Shawnee Mission in 1855. He
was an ardent Union man, and at the
outbreak of the. war at once enlisted IN
the 9Th Kan. He was promoted to Sec
ond Lieutenant in that regiment, and
after 15 months service became First
Lieutenant of the 9th Kan. Cav. Later
he was Major of the regiment. He was
elected to various offices in Johnson
County, and for over 80 years had been
proprietor of the De Soto Flour Mill
He was one of the most prominent citi-
zens of the town, President of the State
Bank, large land owner and connect
ed with many of the institutions. He
was buried at Olathe.
The question of public amusement is
becoming one of the great problems in
this country, especially the open-air
amusements People must have play
hours, and they must have something
worth while to interest them in these
play hours. This gives special interest
to novel performance at Cambridge,
star figure. She was supported by a
company numbering about 200 persons
The play was Joan of Arc" and was
given in the grand stadium of Harvard
University, and witnessed by more than
$4,000 persons. Miss Adams rode a
real horse, and the number in the sup
porting troupe gave a good semblance
OF the great historic events represented
in the play.
King Edward has one daughter who
confesses to being an old maid, since
she has now seen Al bright Summers
She is maid by choice, and freely ad-
mits that she has not yet seen a man
whom she could love sufficiently to give
herself to. She is the Princess Victoria
the second of the daughters. Her eld-
est sister is the wife of the Duke or
Fife, and has two daughters. Her
youngest sister. Maud, is the Queen of
Norway, and has a son. Quite a num-
Der of prominent men have been men,
toned as her future husband, but she
denies them all. Among these were
Prince George of Greece and the Grand
Duke Michael, the Cars only brother
Comrade ]. E. Dana, Charleston. w.
Va, considers himself about the oldest
coal operator in the great Allegheny
valley. He went to the Kanawha Val
ley after having been mustered out of
the Sd n. Y. l. a., and entered busi-
ness. In those days the only way they
had of getting coal was to put it on
great barges, float it down the Kanawha
TO the Ohio and thence TO a market
further down one of the great rivers.
The barges carried 400 tons of coal
each, and had crew of eight men and
a pilot. At the stern of each barge was
steering car SIS feet in length and
sweeps at the sides by which the men
roEed when the barge got caught in
still water or an eddy. There has been
a vast improvement in this work since
then. with the introduction of steam
towboats. -25--
The National tribune., 1909-07-15
A City Man Writes of a Trip to Fqorids

Editor National Tribune: Returning
TO a busy city printing office after an
absence of two weeks, find an accumu-
lation of work, and yet l feel it a duty
to write you briefly concerning our visit
TO the veteran colony ct st. Cloud. I
went with the idea of making Florida
my future home, and accordingly took
along my family, so that all of us
might view the land where we may
shortly live. The trip from Baltimore
to Jacksonville by sea was a pleasure.
The morning ride up the st. Johns
River, 2S miles from the ocean, to jack
sonville, Florida's metropolis, was an
inspiration, and 1 might say the same
of the whole journey. l believe almost
without exception every member of our
party enjoyed the trip from start to
finish. / know the Holt family did.
William Penn is reported as saying
to his son: Il expect to pass thru this
life but once. If there is any kindness
or any good ] can do to my fellow
beings let me do il now" / think those
who are trying to induce others to en-
gage in agricultural pursuits in a
friendly climate are doing some good
in the world. Farming is one of the
chief home-building and wealth-creat-
ing occupations of man. The land pro-
duces that which man cannot do with
out-food and clothing. Without the
land and its products the city and its
multiplied industries could not exist.
And yet the city is a necessity to agri-
culture, for it consumes the products
of the soil and makes them profitable.
But the drift to the city of late years
has become topheavy, and there is need
of a campaign having for its slogan,
Back to the Land" There are mil
lions of landless and homeless people
In this country, and perhaps not one of
IN
his own home. The instinct of self
preservation is first in every human
being and the ownership of something,
L home in most cases, comes next.
= l cannot think of anything that will
appeal more directly to men than to fof-
low them up with your home-makins
proposition. Cecil Rhodes once said:
There is so much to do and such little
time to do it in," and so now to the
business in hand. You planned a colony
In Florida, and have made wise loca-
ton. The climate is a benediction and
the soil a garden, at least what I saw
of the colony lands. The lake in front
of the town of ST. Cloud and those ad-
joining the farm lands abound in fish,
and there is game in plenty in the
country not far distant. And we are
told that there are no fierce storms to
do mischief and make AFRAID
Take the items concerning the loca-
tion-transportation facilities, water,
soil, fertility, variety of products tim
Der for building purposes and the lit
tie needed for fuel, uniformity of tenn
peratuce, healthfulness, air that makes
life worth living, a surprising freedom
from mosketos, flies and insect pests,
and opportunities for home-making and
livelihood under comfortable auspices.
with recreation on land and water, etc.
there ought to be half million people
In the splendid valley of kissimmee,
and your effort in that direction is well
timed and placed and deserves complete
success.-Chauncey Holt, 27 Vande-
water street, New York City.
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agriculture he abolished. 1 took it in
hand, and pavs II four very busy years
work: elevated it to the dignity Of
full Department of the Government. In
time of peace, 7as important as any 9TH
er, laid the foundation of what is now.
and may Itruthfully say that Wilson,
Secretary. is now because l, Commits
sioner, wase then. AS for Department
ment of the Government, reporting to
the President as much then as now.
There, 1 think1I have had my say, and
I'll go out andIlook after some planting
of sweet corn oand such.-Wm. G. LIE
Due, Hastings MINI.
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them away The easy way OF cleaning
clothes is here to bless our dear women.
The invention that killed wash-day
troubles is named Easy Way. Name
tells the whole story - easy on clothes,
easily used, kept clean, handled, easy
on women, makes wash-day easy.
See How Simple, Different, Easy.
Put Easy Way on any stove; add
water, then soap, then clothes; that's
all. In to minutes clothes clean.
Laundries clean clothes without rub
bing - the Easy Way does the same at
your home. Dirt removed automatical-
ly. except to move knob occasionally.
Entirely unlike old methods. Scarcely
anything to do but wait between
patches. The Easy Way develops en-
ergy by mechanical manipulation asso-
ciated with hot water, super-heated
steam, soap-suds and scalding vapor,
utilized as compound force all con-
tanned in a closed metal compartment.
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A Splendid Opportunity for

How often have many OF our lady
readers prayed for the death OF wash
day troubles. for cleaning clothes with
out rubbing, running health. looks,
etc-for the man to cut wash-day in
two.
He lives-a genius of Cincinnati has
invented a new device that is proving
a blessing to women folks. Made wash
day wash-hour, troubles all over -
changed-theres a new way of clean
ing clothes = astonishing, but true. A
family washing can now be done in 80
to so minutes, while you rest, with less
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A yirginian Down i'm Florida.

Editor National Tribune: Wife and I
are home from our trip to st. Cloud
and both of us feel better in every way
as the result. My wife was not feeling
well when she started, and 1 hesitated
about taking her down in the Summer
to what l thought was a hot country
She was sick on the ship going from
Baltimore to Jacksonville, but she stood
the return trip very much better, and
now feels that the journey taken under
some apprehension was most beneficial
Our advance impressions of Florida
underwent considerable change after
personal observation and experience
We had heard a good deal about it be-
ing low, sandy and swampy country,
with Summers of intense heat, when
nobody could work because of the
warmth and fierceness of insect pests.
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(profit s39.OO). w. C. Wilson sold En
a half day (profit $21.0O). w. r.
Stephenson, Texas, ordered pa In 60
days. One agent in Russia, just ordered
1000. Only sales a day make 5000
weekly profit.
Why should any of our readers be
hard up or poor with such a chance at
hand. Better write today for free SAM
pie Easy Way 1909 Offer, agents plan,
etc., and show the world what you can
do. Address: Harrison Mfg. Co.,
1850 Harrison Bldg, Cincinnati, O.
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Floral Decorations.

The head gardener at the Temple
Block, Salt Lake City. is making extern
sive preparations for an attractive floral
display in the Temple grounds during
G. A. r. week. On the main front
there will be the word Welcome
standing out in brilliant flowers and
bold relief. Beneath this will be an
eagle in Clipped granite, with. out
wings and the G. A. r. badge
and two flags.
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Attention. I'D N. W

James e. Macgregor, of Mesilla Park,
New Mexico, formerly First Sergeant of
Co. +, 73d n. Y, writes: Il would
learly ike TO near from any comrades
Il my old regiment, the 73d N. Y. ed
u. Y. Fire Zouaves). l know that they
rave or had regimental organization
II New York City. but not having their
tddresses cannot write to them direct. A
eew lines from them or any one of them
would. l believe. add years to my life.
am greatly interested in the colony in
tlorida, and anticipate trip to that
section next Winter"
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PENSION DECISIONS.
Minors-Title--Act June 27, 1890,
Widows.


The mother of the claiming children
is still living, having married the sol
dier subsequent to the passage of the
TACT of June 81, 1890, remarrying one G..
probably early in the year 1908. She
has no title under the act of June 81
1890, but she has status as his widow
under the general law, from his death
up to the time of her remarriage. The
minors declaration under the act OF
June 81, 1890, was filed before the re-
marriage of their mother. Held: i
Claimants have no title under the dec
laration in question. 2. No individual
who has a direct or collateral right to
pension, whether proved or otherwise.
can divest himself or herself of such
right for the purpose of bestowing it
upon another whose title is a contingent
one. IS. 4-30-'09.
Service-Texas VOlunteerS-ActS Of
May 80, 1908, and July 27, 1S92-In-
dian Wars-Mexican Marauders.
Texas Rangers.
The military service required by the
act of May 80, 1908, to give to the sur
viving officers and enlisted men of the
Texas volunteers who served in defense
of the frontier of that State against
Mexican marauders and Indian depre-
dations from the year 1856 to the year
1860, inclusive, penSionable status, is
service of 80 days in the military SER
vice of the United States, or that the
Government of the United tSates recog-
nized such service therein as United
States service by reimbursing the State
of Texas therefor.
The military service required by the
act of May 80, 1908, must be such SER
vice as would have been recognized as
a pensionable service under the provi-
sion of the act of July 81, 1892, If the
Texas volunteers referred to in the act
of May 80, 1908, had been specifically
included in said act of July 81, 1892, or
such required service in said organiza-
ton for which the United States Gov
ernment has reimbursed the State of
Texas, as evidenced by the muster rolls
and vouchers on file in the War Depart
ment.
The proof in the present claims does
not show that the service rendered by
this claimant was a pensionable service
within the provisions of said act. 10.
4-30-09.
of the Rebellion-3d Colo.
Cav.-Act of June 81, 1S9O-Indian
Outbreaks.
AS soldiers entire service was rem
dered on the Western Frontier against
hostile Indians, and in no way connect
ed with the suppression of the late re-
bellion, his minor children have no
title to pension under the act of June
27, 1890. 20. 4-30-'09.
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dOHe d TWO
weeks wash 4
| n g in As !
m | n u t e s.
clothes clean
ed W / t hout
any rubbing.
You don't rec
ommend them
high enough"
e. N. ElliottJ
N. c.: MY
W j f e highly
pleased. Says
it's a God send
blessing to wO-
m a n k 1 n d."
Lauretta Mitch
ell, Ohio, writes:
Received Easy
Way tod a y.
Done big wash
ing with it in 4.
minutes. Sold
already" II. {
Smith, Va: "Eas
w ay perfect
satisfactory. Do'
all cl a i m e
Friends deligh
ed: would hard
believe t h e
eyes"
This inventiC
must indeed !
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The firm wants agents, statesmen,
managers, men and women = all or part
time at home or travelling, taking Or
ders and appointing agents. Offers
splendid inducements, $4,000 to $4,000
"a week. Easy Way new. Nothing else
like it. World unsupplicd; million to
be sold. Where operated people stop,
get excited, watch it; IL see, 10 buy.
y. Boucher, Mass, orders as more and
says: Everybody wants one; best bust
ness 1 ever had +. S. Wishart, n. c.,
sold 8 i'm hours - (prOft S2f.0O). II.
o. Cowan, N. ", sold 13 i'm 6 hours -
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Memorial Day at MontcIair.

John NJ. Wheeler Post, accompanied by
the Ladies' Auxiliary No. Z and John j.
II. Love Camp, No. -, Sons of Veterans,
conducted Memorial Day services at Mont
clair, N j. During the services at the
church, beautiful silk fiac was nresented
to the Sunday-school by Comrade Mortimer
Whitehead, and memorial badges given to
each of the pupils and teachers.
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Observance of Memorial Dax.

Kelley Post, Kingwood, w. Va, has
adopted strong resolutions as to the sa-
credness of Memorial Day. No distrac-
tions should be introduced, but the day
need not be all tears. 1t should be
mingled with JOY for the deeds the vet
Grams did, the work they accomplished,
the Union they helped to save. The
National Encampment is memorialized
to take sufficient steps in this direction,
and at once.
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Memorial at Chelsea.

Comrade ]. P. Thompson, 33d Mass,
sends us an account of the Memorial Ser.
vices for the inmates of the Soldiers Home
at Chelsea, Mass. The services were un-
der the direction of the Massachusetts, DE-
vision of the Sons of Veterans, with
Division Commander f. E. Warren pre-.
siding. Addresses were made by Conn
mander Warren, Col. G. e. Hapgood, and
others.
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Colorado Springs HospftnbIe.

Colorado Springs is preparing to give
the veterans big time. Stop-over
privileges will be allowed for the city,
which is the gem of the mountains, and
it is expected that great numbers will
visit it and stop there for several days,
taking trips around the picturesque
country
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Memorial to Col. Alex *. Mcclure.

Col VIM. Curry Post conducted a me-
mortal service June % in honor of the
late Col. Alex X. Mcclure. Comrade
John w. Frazier made an address, and
there were others by Hon. John l.. Kin
sey, Hon. Henry Clay and other promi-
nent men. John d. Worman, Com
mander of Curry Post presided
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Congress and Memorial Dav.

T. L. Lowden, PittsfeId, Mass, was
srievei to read that Congress worked
merrily away on Memorial Day without
even putting the dear old Flag at half
mast in the morning. He feels that the
Lords Day is the first to be observed and
held in reverence, but that next comes Me-
mortal Day. He thinks that the Nation
at large is not in sympathy with such pro-
ceedings. and that there should be some
expression which would bring Congress to
its senses
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pelighted with the Country.

Henry Dale, 18th N. Y, is a carpen.
ter and contractor by profession, and
has just returned from visit to the
colony In Florida. He is delighted with
the country and prospects, and will go
down there in the Fall. He expects to
be very useful to the colony In his bust-
ness of contracting and building.
The National tribune., 1909-07-15

1t Is a caution now
the Easy Way goes
after dirt-gently, but
thoroughly. Surprises
all who see. Sounds
strange, may be hard
to believe-but listen,
the writer saw it dem
onstrated - it's all
true. No experiment.
Thousands are in Use
The National tribune., 1909-07-15

WOrk than gettIHB q
meal. No backache,
headache. heartache
much less time
no rubbing, squeez-
ing, pounding - no
injury to clothes =
no drudgery-thats
past. Goodbye wash
boards, washing ma
chimes, etc. Throw
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Deaths in Annawan, Ill.

Comrade H. Hirshberger furnishes the fol-
lowing list of deaths of veterans in Anna
wan, H., during the last six months Lewis
Stagner. 112th ILL.,; William Gochaenaur
27th ILL.,. William P. Baker, 1st Me. Cav !;
John Willet, 112th Ill. Ii. II. Harris, 112th
ILL.,. and James Warnock, oath Pa,