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The National tribune., 1909-07-22
CONFEDERATE PENSIONS.

As a matter of curiosity and interest
we give the following published regula
tions for the granting of pensions to
lConfederate soldiers and sailors In Flor
ida:
All blanks on prescribed forms must
be correctly filed, applicants name
must be signed in full and the signature
attested by two witnesses.
Widows must sign their own Chris
tian names and not the names of their
husbands.
All applications must be submitted to
the County Commissioners of the Coun-
ty in which the applicant resides before
filing in the Pension Department.
Applicant will save needless trouble
and delay by complying carefully with
the above instructions. as all claims not
properly filed out Will be returned for
correction.
All persons will be required to make
renewal of application, but further
proof of service will not be required of
former pensioners of this State If the
former claim is in compliance with the
provisions of the act of 1909.
All claims will be filed Immediately
upon receipt in the Pension Department
and will be considered as promptly as
possible and applicants will be notified
certificates and vouchers will be for
warded to all persons allowed pensions
under the act of 1909.
Under the act of 1909 only persons
who served in the Confederate States
army or navy and in the 1St regiment
of Florida Reserves and their widows
will be granted pensions.
No State troops or home guards of
this or any State will be pensioned un-
der this act.
All former pensioners whose claims
were allowed upon certificate of the
Adjutant of a Camp of Confederate vet
Grams will be required to furnish the
affidavit of a commissioned officer un-
der whom he served. or of two COM
rades with whom he served. or a tran
script from the Office of the Adjutant-
General at Washington showing the
service claimed.
| No person who owns property to ex.
ceed the value of $1,000 or whose prop
erty, both real and personal Qncluding
the property of his wife), exceeds the
value of $4,000 will be pensioned.
| The affidavit of two reputable physi-
clans will be required to establish total
disability.
Applicants are earnestly requested to
comply fully with the above instruc-
tions and not to burden this Office with
unnecessary correspondence so that the
work of revision of the pension roll can
be completed in time to make the Octo-
ber payment at the end of the quarter
The necessary blanks cen be obtained
from the Clerks of the Circuit Courts in
the different Counties. or from the
lComptroller's office.
Jefferson Bell,
Secretary State Board of Pensions.
The National tribune., 1909-07-22
An Interesting Dress Parade.

AT Springfield. Mo-, the members Of
McCrospey Fost and the Ladies' Aux
Hilary decided that they would have a
dress parade in addition to the pro-
gram on Memorial Day. After the
usual exercises I'm old army bugle
sounded the assembly, and il was sur
prising to see how: quickly the boys fell
into line for pasade. The flies and
drums marched dawn the line. playing
Hail to the Chief" and coming back
played Yankee Ooodle'' When the
AdJutant CAME t. read his orders he
startled and amused theia all by mum.
Der of things which ne must have
learned since dle left the service. as they
never heard any such srders read on
parade. David q. wool. 1z5th Ohio,
who sends the account. Says that there
were about IS veterans a,resent. repre-
senting II States. and che bugle used
showed scars and: injuries received in
battle.
The National tribune., 1909-07-22

himself. neither smoking, drinking OF
swearing. He thinks a man who re.
frains from profanity will live longer.
At the Boston Encampment he tramped
one day about the streets. and the next
day marched in the parade, and came
out as fresh as a dewberry. He be-
longed to the 7th Mass. L. A, and had
hard service in the Red River COM
paign and with Gen. Candy. The last
gun he fired was at Fort Blakeley.
ComTade Cleveland is a carpenter by
trade, and on visit to his niece in
Worcester he saw many houses which
he helped to build when he was young
man. His grandfather, Rufus Cleve-
land, served four years in the Revoiu-
tionary War, and when the war was
over paid 800 in continental money to
get married. He had 16 children, eight
sons and eight daughters. Comrade
Cleveland kept a diary all the time he
was in the army, and 1t is now in the
possession of the Massachusetts, Histori-
cal Society. He even admits writing
poetry, and has something every week
in his home paper.
The National tribune., 1909-07-22

Two notable things In the temperance
issue developed last week. One was an
offer by the brewers of Texas to the
Prohibitionists of that State to pay the
expenses of a commission of IL. one
half to be appointed by the brewers and
one-half by the Prohibitionists. This
commission was to investigate the
liquor traffic in the so-called dry States.
and if it did not discover and report
that more liquor is sold in the dry than
in the wet States the brewers pledged
: themselves to give 100000 to any
charity that may be named by the Pro-
hibition State Committee. The other
was that notice has been issued to the
..blind tigers" in Charleston. S. c.. that
they must buy their supplies of liquor
from the dispensary or they will be
prosecuted for violating the law. This
shows an unexpected state of affairs in
a State where a dispensary system has
been proclaimed as an absolute solu-
ton OF the problem of the drink curse.
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lain. Upon his return home he re-
entered the ministry as Presbyterian
pastor, and in 1869 was appointed Chap
lain of the Western Penitentiary of
Pennsylvania. in which position he con-
tinued until his death. He was n char
ter member of the National Prison As
sociation and it's Secretary Tor Is years.
He was q charter member of the Allie
gheny County Prison Society. and after
the death of William Thaw its Presi-
dent. Six times he was sent abroad as
a representative of the United States
Government to the International Prison
Congresses. He was leader in prison
reform, and much of the improvement
in prison methods was due to his ef-
forts. He was equally active in the
Presbyterian Church, and was Stated
Clerk of Allegheny Presbytery for 81
years and also Moderator of the As
sembly
The National tribune., 1909-07-22
Department of Wisconsin, G. A. r.

Commander w. H. GunneI, Depart
ment of Wisconsin. G. A r., has issued
his first General Order The Depart
ment Headquarters will be in the Capt.
tol at Madison. The following staff ap-
pointments are announced: Assistant
Adjutant-General, w. J. Mckay, Madi-
son; Assistant Quartermaster-Gene
f. A. Bird. Madison; Senior Aid-de-
Camp and Chief of Staff, Louis Sholes,
milwaukee,; Chief Mastering officer. D.
j. Morey, Racine; Judge-Advocate, Geo.
S. Martin, Madison; Department Inspec-
tor. w. H. Howieson. Chippewa Falls;
Patriotic Instructor, H. w. Rood, Madi-
son. The following comrades
are hereby appointed to constitute the
Visiting Committee to the Wisconsin
Veterans Home at Waupaca: S. Clark
Burnham, GAINESVILLE; Rockwell E. Os-
borne. La Crosse; DR.. B. C. Brett, Green
Bay.
The National tribune., 1909-07-22
The Execution Before Petersburg.

Minthune Tompkins. Lieutenant. 6th
N. Y. Fl. A. New York City. says that
he does not remember any execution of
deserter before Petersburg. He was
there in the last of 1864 and the begin
ming of 1865. He remembers, however,
that two bounty jumpers were shot.
His regiment, and he thinks the 10th
N. Y. III. A and some other regiments,
were paraded to see the execution The
condemned men were paraded along the
line of troops and back to the collins. on
which they were made to sit blind
folded with their hands tied behind
them. The firing squad consisted of
five men from each of the regiments
Four of the rifles were loaded and one
had a blank cartridge.
The National tribune., 1909-07-22
The 24tll N, Y. Cav,

Editor National Tribune: would
like to say this thru your columns
which is true. Col. Newberry. of the
oath N. Y. Cav, was wounded in the
leg or thigh near an old log cabin on
Vaughn road. near Richmond. before
Richmond was surrendered. Lieut.
Col. Richards then was in command
He was shot on April S. 1865, near Ap-
pomattox or the fight there after TAX
ing Lees headquar.er train. / myself
took Lieut.-Col. Richards to Burkville
Station. 1 made box out of old fence
boards. and took him to City Point.
saw Gen. Newberry, and gave him Col
Richards's hat. and told him what ]
had done and that Col. Richards's re.
mains were at the station. Maj. Taylor
who now came in command. knew all
about the matter. but their names dom
seem to be in the book. I must say
there were many good men who never
received credit for what they did.-W
Chillson, Alma, Kan.
The National tribune., 1909-07-22
The Sd Iowa.

Editor National Tribune: Was there
ever such a regiment as the Sd Iowa
/ never see any mention of it. Please
give us its history.-W. W. Hathaway
Davenport, iowa.
The Sd Iowa, which was fighting
regiment. was organized at Keokuk in
June, 1861, and the veterans and re-
cruits were in 1854 consolidated with
the I'd Iowa. Col. Nelson G. Williams
was the first Colonel, and was succeed
ed by Col Aaron Brown. who was mus
tered out on expiration of term of SER
vice, July IS. 1864. The Sd Iowa had
total enrolment of 1909, of whom
127 were killed in battle. IL died In
Confederate prisons and 110 from dis
ease. Its heaviest losses were at Shi-
loh. Jackson and Atlanta. 1t belonged
to Pugh's Brigade. Lauman's Division.
Sixteenth Corps. Army of the Tennes-
see.-Editor National Tribune.
The National tribune., 1909-07-22
Sheridan at Cedar Greek.

jeremiah Sheldon, Fort Montgomery,
n. y says that he wants Comrade w.
C. Barden to know that Gen. Sheridan
reached Cedar Creek before D. m on
oct l9. 1864. The 5th syis, to which
Comrade Sheldon belonSed. was de-
tailed TO guard wagon traSns from VIM
chester to Martinsbure Set. II it went
back to Martinsburg, ana on the 18th
marched TO Winchester on that even
ing Comrade Sheldon go; pass from
MS Captain to go to tile front. and
wanted to start early. Tie morning of
oct ~ was clear and cool when he
started out just before daylight. He
heard infantry firing. About a half
mile below bliddletown Gen. Sheridan
ana his staff passed him with their
horses trotting. This was about $50
q. m.
The National tribune., 1909-07-22

The managers of the Oakwood Gene
terry near Chicago seem to be singu-
Iarly unpatriotic lot. and should DC
given a very severe lesson. Comrade
r. L. Sidwell writes that during the
first five days of June every flag which
had been placed upon the graves in the
cemetery was swiped off. and when
complaints were made to the managers
they said: "If you win examine the
rubbish pile before it is burned you
might find your fag.' Comrade Sid
well writes to know what is to be done
in such case. It seems to us that the
best plan is to arouse public condemna-
ton to an extent that will bring the
managers 20 their senses.
The National tribune., 1909-07-22
DECADENCE OF FRANCE.

The real thinking people of France
have much reason for genuine alarm
| over the decay of their splendid coun-
| try. and they are waking up to this
fact, as is shown by the numerous
books and pamphlets being written and
earnestly read. One Of these books
deals with the Seven Plaques of
France" which are described as reIig-
ious infidelity. depopulation. immorali-
| ty, alcoholism, materialism, anti-mili-
tarism and political corruption. The
decay of religious faith has undoubtedly
brought about much of the decrepitude
which has now assumed alarming pro-
portions. The determined effort of the
French to have but one church and to
impose one religious belief upon the
people is unquestionably responsible for
a large part of the decay Of religious
faith. 1t inevitably follows that when
the church becomes part of the state
and is maintained by the civil power,
with as much intolerance as the civil
laws are executed, that the church will
u,
who will so corrupt it that it will drive
people into infldelity. France is trying
to remedy this by a radical divorce of
the church and state, but as yet is not
getting much of the benefits which we
derive in this country from absolute
freedom from laws on conscience.
Socialism is doing is best to ruin the
army and navy and make patriotism as
abhorrent as the superstition Of reIig-
ion" sA%2l
The decay in population comes from
a thrifty saving people living in n coun-
try where. all OF the resources have
been expfoited, and there is no hope
of any new Industries and opportuni.
ties in life. Every French couple has
carefullyeprovided itself with means 10
live. andhwhat the husband and wife
can live on will be sufficient to support
two children after they are gone. There
fore. they VIII have no more than two
children The Government is trying to
grapple this lend of its problem by Of
fering adboanty upon large families.
This will be Unsuccessful unless the
bounty is dig enough to provide for the
support of each child in addition to
the conventional two.
In the nidss of its troubles comes an
undeniable increase in the use of in
toxicants. In the latter half of the 10th
century more than double the amount
of alcohol was drunk in its various
forms OF wine, brandy, whisky. abslnth.
beer. etc. This leads directly to an in
crease in immortality, insanity and
crime.
France was once one OF the most
patriotic, the most idealistic and the
most generous of countries. but 1t is
claimed that she is rapidly losing these
characteristics under the pressure OF
dull materialism and depressing social
ism.
The National tribune., 1909-07-22
CHEATING THE CLOCKS.

How absolutely idiotic sensible men
can be sometimes is well illustrated by
the daylight ordinance passed by the
nance provides that the clocks shall be
set ahead one hour from May l to Oct.
/, beginning next year. 1t is said that
behind the movement for the passage
of this ordinance were $50 Cincinnati
firms. representing 10000 people. Ac-
the morning will be o'clock in Cincin-
matt, and the whole days operations
proceed upon that theory. OF course,
G o'clock in the afternoon will be
O'Clock. and an hour for rest and recrea-
tion will be gained in that way. There
has been some effort made in Washing
ton to adopt a similar system for the
Government offices, but it failed because
of its innate absurdity. While In the
main it is probably better to begin a
Summer days work earlier and end 1t
earlier, this is absolutely no basis for
changing the clocks and bringing about
the unavoidable confusion of time. Gin
cinnau will now have, when this ordi-
nance goes into effect, three kinds of
time-the actual solar time. the stand
ard time. which differs at Cincinnati
about 80 minutes from the actual time
and ordinance time, which is an hour
earlier than the standard time. This
will make the greatest confusion. which
could have been avoided by the simple
process Of starting the Summer days
work an hour earlier. according to the
clock, instead of changing the clock.
The National tribune., 1909-07-22
A REAL REFORM.

| Georgia comes to the front with a
reform of vastly more Importance than
any which the country has heard of
for long years. The Rev. DR.. Brough-
ton. pastor of the largest Baptist church
requiring girls to be taught how to cook
and keep house. He says:
zone of the greatest needs of the
country, especially of the South, is for
better cooking and better housekeep-
ing. The average wife knows nothing
about either one. She assumes the role
of housekeeper, as ignorant as a wood
rat of such important matters. People
eat to live, not for the fun OF it.
I'VE can never develop race of
brains and bodies until there is more
attention paid to cookery. Girls have
no right to marry until they know
ences-the science of feeding and cook
ing. When girls marry they are not
qualified to keep house. They have to
learn, and by the time they do wreck
and ruin has begun.
"The remedy for this is a compulsory
law making our public schools teach
cooking and housekeeping. The Legis-
lature could do nothing at present that
would do more good than this. 1t
would save our homes and give us
better race of people,"
The girl who does not know how to
cook and yet becomes a wife is great
er mischief maker than any other single
thing that can be mentioned. No coun-
try in the world has as much and as
cheap good food as ours, and in no
country is the food as a whole so ILL
prepared. The girl who fries a beef
steak or spoils potatoes, eggs, cake bat
ter and other things by singeing them
in a flood Of hot, rancid grease is an
enemy not only to her household, but
to all mankind. The absolutely inedi-
BILE stuff which she sets upon the table
is responsible for indigestion, dyspepsia,
ill-temper, patent medicines and intem-
perance with all of its concomitant
evils. The value of the patent medi-
cines which the country people of
America dose themselves with every
year runs up into the hundreds of mil
Hons. This is largely because of the
indigestible, ill-prepared food which
they devour. This saps the bodily
strength, and most of the men who eat
the stuff turn, il not to patent medi-
cines, to whisky for relief, and there
the devil has his entrance to a wide
playground. If the girls were taught to
cook as carefully as they are taught
typewriting or stenography, or as
boy is taught the trade to which he
sets himself, the excellent food which
our country furnishes so abundantly
would be given to the men in the best
and most palatable way. when it would
contribute directly to building up the
life forces and bring not only higher
physical efficiency, but home content
ment, peace with the world and gem
erosity of mind.
All scientists recognize now that the
first requirement of man and woman is
to be a healthy animal. Upon this ba-
sis all the other virtues rest. Men and
women cannot be healthy animals un-
less they have the best Of food and
prepared in the best way. If all those
who attempt to prepare food for others
were made as skilful as our average
mechanics are in their several trades
this country would go forward at once
with a bound in all good and great
things.
The National tribune., 1909-07-22
wIRZ MONUMENT A MERE PRE-.
TEXT.
Capt. John T.. Campbell Replies 10
Some OF His Critics.

Sapt. JO1n Il. eohfpDtu hepheS 10
Some of His Critics.
Capt. John T. Campbell. Lafayette.
Ind. wields virile pen, and. further
more. knows precisely what he is, talk
Gus opponent to wake up. A recent ar
ticle of his in some of the papers
brought him a number of bitter, vindic-
tive letters. and he replies to one OF
them very effectively in the Indianapo-
lis Star. Among other things he says:
Many Northern people have the
| sooo sense TO trust the South in their
Judgment and desire in the natter OF
building q monument to- wirZ Does
she mean they approve of such a me-
mortal? BY inference. all who do not
| so approve are lacking in good sense.
There are some people IN the South. eN-
rebel soldiers, too, who most positively
disapprove of that monument The
Southern people care nothing for Wirz.
He was not worth the decent respect Of
an honorable people, The whole move
Is mere pretext to be insulting the
North. She says further: The evil lies
at some ones door, but not at that Of
Henry Wirz." How does this writer Of
model Southern editorials come to know
/ more than the commission who tried
and condemned Henry WirI? Gen. Lew
wallace was one, and q Democrat be-
fore the war. How does she at this late
day know more than the 800 witnesses
who were called and testified in his
trial. who had seen ana received his
brutal treatment?
With characteristic Southern ignor.
ance she harps about the cruelties that
occurred in the war. Why. bless their
childish simplicity did the Southern
people suppose war. when they began
| 1t, was Sunday school picnic? Yes.
| those leaders who began it thought
they had soft snap. When they got
fairly into it. and found they had wax
ened UP hell they set up a whine like a
spoiled boy who has wantonIy provoked
fight and got soundly whipped He
thought it was Just too bad that he
could not throw stones without having
them to come back at him"
The National tribune., 1909-07-22

Another County heard from on the
whisky question. The club women all
over the United States are writing Pres
ident Taft to uphold Dr. Wiley's deci-
sion as to what shall constitute whisky.
The campaign on the White House was
begun by Mrs. Beulah Amidon. Chair
man of the Food Sanitation Committee
of the General Federation of Woncn's
Clubs of the United States. She sent
out circulars to every woman's club
in the United States. asking the men,
bers to write personal letters to the
President. Apparently they have all
needed her injunction. The President
has given all the whisky interests until
July 90 to file briefs. and will not de-
eide the question until then.
The National tribune., 1909-07-22
After As Ycan.

A sketch recently published in The
National Tribune of Commander McCaus.
land of Maine. brought him the following
very welcome letter:
bethlehem. Pa, July 9, 1909.
"a. W. McCausland, Gardiner. Me.
my Dear Comrade: In looking
through this weeks National Tribune
notice a description of your wound al
Gettysburg. On, I think, tie third day
of the battle I dressed the leg of one
whom thought was very young. IL my
memory serves me right half the thigh
from the knee to the body, the flesh was
turned back almost to the bone.
81 dressed the wound of the boys, as
I took him to be, in the barn a short dis
tance from Cemetery Gate down the Bal
timore Pike.
'Were you the boy?
Sincerely yours.
"Jno. ii. Wilson"
In the correspondence which followed
they both recalled little incidents which
fully confirmed the identity Of both Sur.
geon and patient. Comrade MeCausland
hopes to meet Surgeon Wilson at the Ma
tional Encampment.
The National tribune., 1909-07-22

The Sacramento Union takes up the mat
ter of the treatment of the veterans at the
SawteNe Home. and cannot understand why
the veterans should be subjected to the
conditions brought about by the admins
tration of Gov. Cochran. and cannot under
stand why one of the wealthiest countries
in the whole world cannot spare a few
hundred dollars to give comfort and decent
meals to the men who fought to defand
the Union and without whose efforts there
would probably have been nothing left Of
this Union except scattered fragments.
The National tribune., 1909-07-22
Champ Ferguson.

j. p. Milligap, Wiley. OsIa.. wants to
know who captured Champ Ferguson,
and also where he was captured. Was
II not at Nancy Bradley:s, on Plum
Greek?
the war records are silent on this
SUBJECT Can any of our comrades sup
ply the information?-Edi NatiorsI
Tribune
The National tribune., 1909-07-22
FIRED THE LAST GUN.
n Man Who Thinks He May Have Fired
the Dnst Cannon In the Civil War,

Comrade Moses A. Cleveland. Will
loughby, o.. who has been n subscriber
to The National Tribune for so long
that he cannot remember when he be-
gan. is phenomenon in many respects.
He Is 81 years old. and challenges any
man OF his years to a foot race. 1t Is
hard to find any other man in his
ncighborhood who is sprier on his pins
than he is, and his mind is as active as
his body. He attends every National
Encampment. and Is the life of every
crowd that gathers around him. He
attributes his unusually good health to
the fact that he has taken good care OF
The National tribune., 1909-07-22
To Change Memorial Day.

A. d. Adams Post, Lyons n. Y, me-
morializes the Department of New
! OK. u. A. r.. to change Memorial
Day to the first Sunday in June.
n j. Eveland. 40 Fonda avenue, One
onta, N. Y, urges the change of Me-
mortal Day to Sunday, and agrees with
Rev. U. S. Milburn, who says that a
parade with music would not disturb
the sancity of the Sabbath, since pa
rades of this kind are frequent at fu-
neralS on Sunday
The National tribune., 1909-07-22
HEADQUARTERS AT SALT LAKE
The National Tribune VIII Be ut Home
at the KnutsfOrd.

The National Tribune will have head
quarters at Salt Lake City in Rooms
eoa and 2O5. Knutsford Hotel, adjoin-
ing G. a. r. National Headquarters.
We will be glad to have all the COM
rades call at our headquarters. and we
cordially invite our friends to make use
OF them as meeting point, and to have
their mail sent to. Some of The Ma
tional Tribune people will reach the
hotel on Sunday. Aug. s, and be glad te
meet all Corners.