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The National tribune., 1909-07-08
PEOPLE.

Illinois is represented in the Military
Academy at West Point by husky youth
who does not care whether they have haZ-
ing or not. His name is Joseph l.. Wier,
of East St Louis, and he is six feet in
hight and weighs 200 pounds He is in
such fine fettle that he is selected for the
left guard ON the Academy's football team,
although he IS yet plebe, and will not
graduate until 19l1 He is not fully in
conceit with his fine physical proportions,
however, since he fears they will keep him
from going into the cavalry, which he
much desires.
Il will surprise many to know that Will
liam X. Morrison is still alive He is now
81 years old and passes most of his waking
hours in playing pinochle. He is known as
the most expert pinechle player in the
neighborhood of Waterloo, i'll. His eye
sight has failed him so that he cannot see
to read, but he can tell the spots on cards,
and whenever an expert can be matched
against him he has some pleasant hours.
Col. Morrison had a brilliant career. He
was born and bred in Illinois; became a
lawyer; was clerk of the Circuit Court;
four times member of the Illinois House
of Representatives, and then had long
and distinguished career in Congress as 4
Representative from the 18th H. District.
He was only beaten twice in his district,
both times by sJehu Baker, of Belleville.
Democracy in Congress, and after his last
defeat for Congress President Cleveland
appointed hlm a member of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, to which he was
reappointed by President Harrisan, and
became Chairman of the Commission He
retired from this position in 1897, and re-
turned home to practice law. At the out
break of the war he raised the 49th ILL.,,
Of which he became Colonel. He was Sc
verely wounded at Fort Donelson, after
which he resigned.
Quite dramaie story has lately ap-
peared in the papers which shows what a
little spirit and courage will effect some
times. A French woman, intending to
make the tour of 1alsace and Lorraine in
her automobile, entered the former Prov
ince with a small French flag flying from
her car She had Lardy crossed the
boundary line before !. loyal German po-
licen,an stopped her snd told her that ac.
cording to certain regulation, made in
1889, it was forbidden to display the tri-
color flag of France, and that she must
take hers down. This the lady, who was
wealthy Parisienne, pluckily refused to
do, and said that rather than hide her
country's flag she would return to France,
which was a reply any spirited woman
would have made. Her car was turned,
and she recrossed the frontier with the
small red. white and blue flag of France
flying defantly from it. Well, it seems
the h"tel-keepers in the two provinces, who
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Experience MS a Prisoner.

Editor National Tribune: Is there no
probability of passing the prisoners
pension bill during this present Con-
gress? ] think it is time they were
doing something for US if they ever aim
to. / was a prisoner 13 months and
five days at Andersonville, Savannah,
Millen, Blackshear and Thomasville,
Ga; went from Thomasville to Albany,
65 miles, getting to Albany Dec. %, 1864
on Dec "a landed back in Anderson
vile; remained there until about April
12, 1865; then left Andersonville for the
last time; went to Albany and back to
Thcmasville, Ga; boarded the train for
Lake City, Fla. We were taken off the
train five miles from Lake City, and
bivouacked in the woods for a few days,
and on April q, 1865, were loaded on
the train and run down to Baldwin,
Fla, and turned loose like so many
wild hogs, about o'clock. April 81,
and went to Jacksonville April %. ]
landed there about IL o'clock a. m. ]
want to say 1 there and then spent the
happiest moments of my life.-F, T.
Miller, Finger, Tenn.
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GEN. CUsTER's BIRTHPLACE.
1t Was I'm New Rumley, Harrison
County, Ohio.


Francis B. Gessner. the Washington cor.
respondent of the Wheeling Intelligencer
writes apropos of the delegation from
Michigan asking the President to be pres
ent at the unvailing of the monument td
Gen. Geo. A. Custer, that Custer was not
born at Monroe, Mich, as the papers
claim. Gen. Custer was born several miles
west of Wheeling, in Harrison County.
Ohio, and grew to manhood in the same
County which is now proud Of having
Gen. HOllingsworth as members OF Con.
gress." The exact birthplace is called
New Rumley, from which Geo. A. Custer
as a boy wrote to his Congressman-Joh ohn
A. Bingham-asking an appointment to
West Point. Bingham was very proud OF
first after the battle of Bull Run, where
Custer had covered himself with glory and
had been promoted on the field. MIR.
Bingham tried to find Custer, but did not
succeed, and he says:
1.-The next day l was at work IN my
rooms, when there was. knock at the
door. Upon my invitation a tall soldier
entered. He had long yellow hair hanging
down his back, his eyes were blue, and
his shirt opened in front. He looked un-
like any other soldier 1 had ever seen
since the war began. Then he spoke hes
itatingly: Mr.. Bingham, am George A.
Custer, the boy you sent to West Point:
L nave IOugnt my HrSt Ddttie, anu trieu
hard not to be a coward. 1 think it my
first duty to report to you, SIR and he
saluted as if to a superior officer. Well,
took that boy TO my arms. From that
time on / kept track of him in the war,
and one day he came 20 my rooms with a
beautiful woman on his arm. He intro
duced her as his wife, and the bride told
me: Mr. Bingham. I came to thank you
for Transforming this husband of mine
from wood-chopper into General OF tns
Army of the United States.
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Found Things Right in Florida.

Editor National Tribune: II was my
pleasure TO be one Of party of 40 or
more of the comrades and their wives
who reached the ST. Cloud Colony on june
%, and spent several days there. Space
will not permit me 10 20 into details as
to ali we saw. We saw enough, however,
TO convince us that the Florida Summer
is not as hot as we expected. We were
told that ii was hotter than the average,
but II was not as hot as in the North at
the time from which came reports of heat
prostrations, but we heard of none in Flor
ida. and none of our party experienced spe-
cial discomfort iTile town site of st.
Cloud has most attractive location, fac
ing a large lake, The lend of he colony
company as far as we could judge was
good, ard we were told by distinguished
persons that as whole 1t would be hard
to find better tract of the same size of
uniformly good soil. We were all well
satisfied with the prospects. and feel thar
the colony will make desirable home for
the comrades. The Tribune has done =,
part in getting the location and =, stat
ing things so well. Now It is cor the pur-
chasers. and citizens 10 work in harmony
and build u" prosperous community. The
country is right. the climate Is right. and
now if we all act right st Cloud will be
one of the GOOD towns of Florida and 2
credit to all eoncerned-J. J. Carter. Elk-
hart Mines. Md
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got much of their money from touring
trenchmen and women, sailed into the po-
licemen at once for being entirely too
Jealous, not to say "fresh," and they made
such a fuss that the authorities were
obliged to abolish the obnoxious regula-
wanting to have done for 20 years, but
did not dare to propose. From this time
on any Frenchman or woman can tour
thru the fair provinces of Alsace and Lor-
raine with the French flag stuck in their
cars just as freely as Americans do flying
our beloved Stars and Stripes.
Who has not become we'll acquainted in
the papers and trolley cars with the pic
ture of the beautiful smiling baby boy
which Is used to advertise talcum powder,
and that of the same child, seated in a
bathtub with cake of soap in his hand?
This little fellow, four years of age, was
the son of Chicago photographer, and
it is said his father took him more than
1,OOO times in different poses, two at least
of (which were used the aforementioned
manner. The other day the little boy fell
from the open window of a car and was
killed. The poor mother, who was with
the child, tried to catch him, but it was
too late. Letters of sympathy from all
over the country have come to the couple,
for the little fellows bright, beautiful
face was known from the Atlantic to the
Pacific.
We are to have q new kind Of water
melon. Our old friend of the splotchy,
stripey coat will have to take back seat
if all the stories are true. 1t seems our
late Minister to Roumania, Mr.. Horace G.
Knowles, made the acquaintance, while in
that country, with very uncommonly de-
licious kind of watermelon, thin of skin,
less fibrous than our Georgia friend, in
size about that of a grapefruit, and of
flavor and lusciousness almost inexpress-
ible. He sent some seeds of this melon
home to the Department of Agriculture
last year, which distributed them to the
different experimental stations over the
country, and it has been found that the
melons do we'll in their new home, and
can be grown here in all their perfection
quite as well as in Roumania. Indeed, so
perfectly successful has the experiment
been that the managers of several large
hotels of New York and Philadelphia have
already spoken for the entire crop of this
year, the price agreed upon being about
three times that paid for the native big
kind The size of the new melon makes
it specially desirable for hotels and res
taurants, since one melon is just enough
for one person, the only difficulty being
that no person could ever content himself
with one Minister Knowles, to whom we
are indebted for this dainty mOrsel, fit
for the gods of Olympus, suggests that it
be called the Princess Marie" in honor
of the beautiful Crown Princess Marie Of
Roumania, so popular and beloved. 1t is
thought that the new fruit will be worth
millions of dollars to the country besides
providing us all with new sensation. Of
course. there are those who. will remain
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Made Up With Him As Years After.

A Los Angeles paper tells the story of
recent occurrence at a veterans reunion.
L. L. Lyons, now well-known citizen
of Los Angeles, was in the cavalry of
Gen. Hunter in his raid upon Lynchburg.
When Gen. Hunter was driven back Ly-
ons was sent by Gen. Averill to direct
Gen. Dufiie which road to take. Lyons
had been on hard duty the night before,
and on returning from seeing Gen. Duffie
had to stop for a little while. when he
dismounted and sat on fence, and while
dozing came near falling off. He got down
and took a seat on the ground, and was
soon fast asleep. When he awakened he
found that somebody had slipped the reins
off his arm and gone off with bis horse,
carbine, blankets and trappings generally.
Lyons swore immediate death to the thief.
and secured another mount of Gen. Duffie,
with which he returned to his command.
Recently Il. p. Coddington, now resident
of Los Angeles. but formerly of New Mex
leo, Joined CoInrade Lyons's Pest, and in
relating "reminiscences CoddingtOn told of
his being wounded thru the hand, which
cost him some fingers, in the attack upon
Lynchburg. While he, with other men,
were making a hard retreat, he came
across a cavalryman asleep by the roadside.
Coddington hastily slipped the reins from
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At Stone River.

Editor National Tribune: To cor.
rect an error, please insert the follow.
ing in your valuable paper: Negley's
Division at the battle of Stone River
Tenn, did not belong to Crittenden'.
Corps, but belonged to Thomas's Corps
and consisted of two brigades. One
brigade was commanded by T. r. Stan.
ley, of the 18th Ohio, and the other
brigade was commanded by II. T, Mil.
Ter, of Il think) the 18th Pa. Stan.
ley's Brigade was the 18th and 69tt
Ohio, 18th ILL.,, and 11th Mich. Mil
ler's Brigade was the 21st and 74tt
OHIO, 77tb and 18th Pa. At the be
ginning of the battle Negley's Division
was on the extreme right of Thomas's
Corps. After the fight began McCook
formed his corps on the right o.
Thomas with Sheridap's Division beinf
the left of McCook's Corps and joinine
on the right of Negley.-D. A. Wood.
land, Co. A, 18th Ohio, Arcola, Ill.
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THE VETERANS IN FLORIDA.
More Letters from Comrades Who Made Summer Visit to the
ST. Cloud CoOny-They Found Many Things to Surprise and
Delight Them
Some Surprises in Florida.

Editor National Tribune: l have just
returned home from a visit to the st.
Cloud Colony, and find it much hotter
here than down in Florida. This matter
OF Summer temperature was only one of
| the surprises of our trip. The uniformity
of the climate is fact easily understood.
great part of the State is peninsula
bounded by mild seas, from which come
constant winds, both day and night. These
are the trade winds which fill the sails
of ships. These winds modify the heat of
Summer and the cold of Winter. Singular
to say they are not filed with moisture.
and accordingly the humidity is not great.
States, and in the Lake States. Sultry
nights and heat prostrations are not
known.
Another surprise was the abundance OF
water, of fresh water lakes and rivers
and no green scum on the surface, as can
be seen in ponds and pools and streams
| in the North. Well water can be had at
20 to 80 feet in driven wells. ST. Cloud
is located on East To-hope- ka -l-ga, one of
the large and pretty lakes of the State.
The shore is not swampy, the bottom is
sandy, and there is good fishing. With
the park that is planned along the lake
front the people of st. Cloud will have as
charming n view as can be imagined.
Another surprise was the uniform fer
tlllty of the soil of the colony property.
am not acquainted generally with Florida.
but was assured by those who know that
it would be hard to find as large tract of
really good land without some break or
undesirable feature. We saw evidences of
what the soil will do. 1t will produce
everything grown in the North, besides
many things not possible to grow north OF
the Potomac and Ohio rivers Something
can be grown every month in the year
We saw plenty of orange and grapefruit
trees laden with green fruit. with here
and there ripe ones still unpickej from
last Winters crop. We were a little be
low the regular cotton belt. and had heard
before going that Florida was not corr
country. There is some mistake about
this. for we saw stalks containing five and
six ears of corn, and the fields looked as
thrifty as most anywhere in the North.
Livestock and poultry do well, usually get
ting no care nor feed. finding what they
eat on their OWE account. There are 50
many things I might say, but will close,
with best wishes for the st. Cloud Col
ony. l believe the comrades will find il
10 be all their fancy painted.-Daniel NJ
Wright, Port Allegheny, Pa.
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First Flag OH Capitol Dome.

A Kansan claims to have been the
first person to place a flag on the CAPT.
tol dome at Washington, d. C., and ne
is A. H Mccormick, of Pittsburg, Kan.
He is a member of the present House
of Representative of the State Legisla-
ture.
Mccormick was at the time lad of
16 years, the incident occurring in
1861. He enlisted in the 57th Pa,
from Rush County, Pa. His regiment
went to Washington, from there to be
ordered South.
I'VE were waiting in Washington"
said Mccormick recently, in telling of
the incident, when we heard that a
Massachusetts, regiment was coming
along. Some of the fellows thought
that their advent should be signaliZed
in some way or other. AT that time
merely the skeleton frame of the dome
was up-the big steel ribs and girders.
So one of the boys of our company
concocted the idea that good way to
celebrate the coming of the Massachu-
sets boys was to place flag up on this
skeleton dome. There had never been
a flag put UP there.
Some of them went to employees of
the Capitol building and asked them to
put up the flag. They all demurred,
So the fellows practically gave up the
idea.
Ever since was a little shaver 1
loved to climb, and would Chamber
about on trees and buildings, and find
it real good fun. So when l heard OF
their predicament I volunteered to do
the job. They got a common flag about
eight feet long on a staff about 20 feet
long. 1 fastened the flag to my back
and started up, hand over hand, on the
girders and ribs. 1t wasn't much of a
job, and it didn't scare me any. The
Goddess of Liberty was not on the
dome then, but lay in three pieces over
at Bladensburg, where it was nodded
out of Mexican cannon.
Il fastened the staff in hole at the
very top of the dome, for the skeleton
crown had been put up. That is all
there was to it. / was paid many COM
pliments for the feat, and it is a mat
ter of record that the flag put up was
the first ever to be put on top of the
dome. The Baltimore Sun had a long
piece about it at the time, and the re-
porters looked up the matter, and de-
clared that it was the first flag to float
over the Nations Capitol. I've climbed
up worse places since. l have been
in the business of coastructing water
works plants for good many years"
Mr.. Mccormick came to Kansas in
1868 from Minnesota.
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Hunting for Mad Anthony's Cannon.

Henry Longwell, GO years old, is re
ported to be hunting in Northwestern Ohio
for an old brass cannnn which was broker
down during Mad Anthony Wayne's at
Valley, and was buried to prevent the In
dans getting it, Mr.. Longwell says tha
he got information from two uncles of hi:
who were in Waynes army, one of whom
died in 1870. He said that the cannon was
buried in the banks of Flat Rock Creek
about 25 miles east of Fort Wayne. Mr.
Longwell thinks that he is in the exact
neighborhood, and is provided with an elec
trical metal finder, which, it is said, viii
locate a silver dollar buried in the earth
The National tribune., 1909-07-08

raised here or the numerous herds Of cat.
tie and fiocks of sheep feeding on our ex.
tensive pasture lands, but doubtless
enough has already been said to indicate
to prospective settlers the many advan-
tages we of this section enjoy. At pres
ent writing we are almost constantly en-.
tertained, by day and by night, with the
glad, sweet songs Of the mocking bird, q
SPLENDID songster. whose chief delight is to
exhibit his wide range of musical notes,
and to contend with others of his kind for
supremacy in the musical world. And we
are not bothered with the English spar
row. Very truly yours.
EZRA J. STEWART.
Shaker Colony, Ashton, Fla.
The National tribune., 1909-07-08
Founder of the Ku-KIux Dead.

Capt. Josiah l.. Pearcy, Confederate
soldier, and one of the founders of the cele.
brated Ku-Klux Klan, died in Washington
last week at the age of g. He was In.
spector of Artillery on the staff of Gen
John c. Breckinridge and started the
ku-Kfux Klan at Pulaski, Tenn, to break
down the negroes and carpet-baggers. He
was prominent in Tennessee politics, and
claims TO have introduced Senator Robt
L. Taylor into public life. He induced
Taylor TO run for the Governorship, and
was appointed by him Warden of the State
Prison, where he served four years. Capt.
Pearcy was Assistant Secretary of the
Democratic Congressional Committee II
every campaign since 1902.
The National tribune., 1909-07-08
Potatos I'm Oklahoma.

The potato season in Oklahoma opened
with a rush at the beginning of last week,
with an opening price OF so cents bushel,
and indications of total yield Of nearly
$4,000 bushels. 1t is expected that the
farmers will receive about $400,Gao for
the crop The potatoes are unusually fine,
and in great demand, and the price is much
better than in many previous years.
The National tribune., 1909-07-08
Foretold His Death.

Editor National Tribune: About two
minutes before the bugle sounded the
charge on Fort McAlister, Lieut.. John
Smith, Co. ID, 11th Ill, Color officer,
told me we were going to take the fort
in few minutes, and he said: There
shall meet death; it's my last battle
j. w. Gee, Co. c, 111th H., Jefferson,
Okla
The National tribune., 1909-07-08
Their Golden Anniversary.

Comrade Patrick F. Gallagher, first
class fireman, U. S. S. Gazelle, and Mrs.
Gallagher were both born in GLASGOW,
Scotland. They were married there
May %, 1859. Their friends by scores
reminded them of the date when the
50th anniversary was reached. The
mails brought congratulations from
scattered friends in all quarters, and
they entertained great numbers OF call.
ers at their home in Holyoke. Mass.
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Original Rolls.

Comrade John ]. McNally, Wells
burg. w. Va, writes: Thru kindness
of Maj ]. p. Glass, Jr., have a few
copies of the original roll of Co. A, 74th
N. Y, which will send to members or
their families on receipt of postage"
The National tribune., 1909-07-08

DON'T Like your gray mus
taohep Then mako it q
rich brown or black. Use
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the cavalryman's arm and rode on. Com
rade Lyons admitted all the facts, but In
stead of shooting Coddington, hugged him
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did not much whether lived died. was in such
constant misery had taken only three Teaspoons Of
and have improved ever since. have had the Rheuma
tism for So and every year of the &c. but
due to that faithful medicine of Certainly Light
doctors, friends etc., surprised to going
around as am am sending you of my photos and
an endorsement for this great remedy. ]. J.QUICKER.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-05-01
Sanders Good Roads Plan.

The Sanders good roads plan
in brief is this: Governor Sand
ers proposes that the parish
adopting his good roads snail
first anticipate its revenues LOT
ten years, guaranteeing a lump
sum to be expended in a year OF
two as needed. If the parish
spends $4,000 a year on roads II
will thus guarantee $4,000 fol
Immediate use. The Governor
will then have the parish sur
veyed by the State Board o
Engineers and a definite plan 0
Improvement drawn up. II
execute this plan the conylcts o
the State will be used, the PAL
Iish paying only for their kee
and incidental expenses.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-05-01
Ad. Talk That Sounds Good.
Cleburne. (Ala) New Era.

Cleburne. (Ala) New Era.
| have no patience with the re-
tail dealer who depends on the
sidewalk and the weather for his
trade.
But it isn't necessary to be
sensational; simply make reada.
BILE news of your advertising.
1t is the business of the newspa-
pers to distribute news and if |
want a moderate priced, stylish
hat, your advertising is ten times
more interesting to me than the
press dispatch that some galOOt
in Oklahoma or Texas hanged
himself.
Good advertising is news.
Print this on the ceiling over
your head so that you will read
it the first thing every morning
when you wake up.
Keep your eyes on fashion.
Fashion is to-day the biggest
influence in the world; not nee
essarily the best influence; but
the biggest. We control fashion
fashion controls us. 1t always
comes down the pike with q
= whirl. When the storm breaks
} haul in your advertising canvas
and stop buying. Fashion hur
, ricanes are short-liyed.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-05-01
Mothers Day 10 Msnie May.

Joe Mitchell Chapple. May National Magazine
Among all ages, races ana
creeds-men, women and child
rem; white, yellow, red or black;
free or unfree; Christian or pa
gan; civilized and savage; moral
and vicious every human heart
responds in some degree when
the chords Of memory, vibrating
call up thoughts Of the purest'
strongest of human emotions
mothers love. Men and nations
may differ as to the fitness OIL
many holidays now observed,
but all will reverently wear q
white flower on the second Sun
day of May in honor OF TN
! sanctity of maternity, and in ioV
ing recognition or in memory O
e "the best mother in the worlI
your own"
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