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VETERANS IN THE CITY.

n. J. Rice, 4th Mo. Boulder, Colo
Comrade Rice is in the shoe business.
Capt. Edward Fl. Santell 160th n. Y.
Sodus Point, N. Y. Capt. Santell. whose
regiment was conspicuous in the siege
of Port Hudson and the Red River eX-
penditions, was on his way to St Cloud
for a visit.
Capt. John f. Youngberg. San Fran
cisco, Cal. Comradc Youngberg, who
is now one of the leading brokers in
San Francisco and an earnest Grand
Army man, was the boy Adjutant" OF
the 5ith ILL.,, serving until the regiment
was mustered out at the end of the war.
II. E. Mowry. 27th Mass. Leyden
Mass. Comrade Mowry is a farmer
He was one of the unfortunateS taken
prisoner at Drewry's Bluff. OF the Al
members of his regiment who entered
AnderSonville only Is lived to get out
and of these about six are now living.
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President IincOln's Assassins.

Editor National Tribune: / have read
with much interest your account of the
assassination of Lincoln and the pursuit
and capture of Booth There is an Incl
dent in the flight of the assassin which
y have never seen in print. 1t may be
of some interest, and | will give it. The
night Lincoln was assassinated my
brother-in-law, MIR. II. ID. Arnold, a
member of the 18th Mich. Battery, was
on guard duty at the Washington end
of the bridge over the East Branch of
the Potomac River. His trick was from
10 to II. A short time after he went on
duty he was startled by q horseman
who came riding furiously down the
street on to the bridge. He was halted
and gave his name as J. Wilkes Booth.
and stated he was on his way to Sur
rattsville. Orders were not to moIest
citizens who gave satisfactory account
of themselves, and Booth was allowed
to proceed. Hardly had Booth passed
before another horseman, riding rapidly
came down the street. On being halted
he gave his name as John Surratt, and
that he was on his way home to Sur
rattsvill", and volunteered the informa-
ton that he was little late, as he had
been out with some of the boys having
good time. He also was allowed to
proceed. In few moments came the
terrible tidings that Lincoln had been
asSassnated. and Washington was in
the grip of that terrible excitement
which seized it, and little attention was
given to the story of the soldiers that
both Booth and Surratt had passed over
the bridge. 1t was thought that neither
Booth nor Surratt would have dared to
give their true names. All Washington
was searched as with a fine-tooth comb
and it was not until every other clue
was exhausted that the true one was
taken up and Booth chased down.
Mr. Arnold Is still living, and his ad-
dress is Jones. Mich.-B. A. Dunn, Co
c, 9th Ind- Waukegan, Ill.
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Golden. Weddings.

G. W. c. Littell and wife celebrated
their golden wedding on FEB. Is. at
their residence in Wheeler, on the Gulf
Key, Fla, and they will be very glad
if the comrades and friends will send
them postal cards. Comrade Littell
was formerly member of Co. c. 2d
H. Cav.
Comrade Henry s. Redenbaugh. of
Co NJ, 1st Ind. Cav, and wife, former
ly Rebecca Williams will have been
married so years the 11th of July. 1910.
Their home is 722 n S1st street, Seattle,
Wash, and they would be very glad,
indeed, to receive postal cards from
any of their friends.
Comrade George w. Blanchard, Co.
A. 9Th n. Y. H. A, 209 Elm street,
Detroit, Mich, was IA years old Feb.
3. and he thinks he has now arrived at
the age when birthday cards will be in
order. He wants the boys to send him
lot.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward F. Smith re-
quested the pleasure of the company
of their friends on the 50th anniver-
sary of their marriage on Monday, Feb.
IA, at 166 Concord street, Manchester,
n. H. Mrs. Smith was formerly Miss
Margaret McCoIlum. Altho a little late.
postal cards Will be in order.
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that they desired tG hang the stars and
bars right over that thing. for this IS
no Yankee church" Comrade BoIes,
who was formerly of Co. G. 11th Mo.
Cav. says this shows how traitors feel
in this country, and reiterates the state
ments so often made in the South that
they were never whipped" He says
that the most of this class of flag nat
ers in Oklahoma are those who ran to
Mexico to get away from the war in
the South. then sneaked back, and now
want to run the Government. He says
that he has met few who are like
those Comrade Talbot speaks of, but
he thinks they are few and far be-
tween. Comrade Boles- then adds:
Now, why do the rank and file want
the old standby, John McElroy. for
Commander? | will tell you. He has
stood by us all the time. We know
that he served his time in hell, and
suffered all the torments of the damned
while there, so we think it is but fit
ting tribute for him."
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Mr.. Fairbanks. American.

Former Vice President Fairbanks has
hard time between the Methodist
Church and other religious denomina-
tons The former Vice President and
Mrs Fairbanks have been having "a per-
fectly gorgeous time the last year, max
ing tour of the world, very largely in
the interest of Mrs. Fairbanks's health,
which had been undermined by long
and strenuous society career while Mr..
Fairbanks was Vice President of the
United States. They have been mostly
visiting in the Orient, and they were
royalty received by the Japanese, the
Chinese and others, and the last report
states that they are in Rome. Former
Vice President Fairbanks had been in
vited to address the American Metho-
dist Church in Rome. He had also
been granted an audience with the
Pope. the firSt to come on Saturday and
the second to come on Monday. After
everything seemed to be satisfactorily
planned the Vatican Suddenly an
nounced that it would be impossible for
his Holiness to receive Mr.. Fairbanks
if he carried out his announced inten-
ton to speak. in the American Metho-
dist Church, because the Methodists had
been active in apostaciZing among the
Catholics. Mr.. Fairbanks remained true
to American principles and tactfully ac-
cepted the condition, leaving Americans
proud OF MN Tor the exemplary man
ner in which he got out of the ticklish
position. He did the very best he could
under very trying circumstances, and
his best was very well done. The press
dispatches lead one to infer that some
one acting for the Pope blundered.
Mgr. Kennedy, Rector of the Ameri-
can College, gave a dinner to Mr.. Fair
banks, at which 144 students were pres
ent The students hall was magnifi-
al Tod FL
and the occasion was one long to, be
remembered. Mgr Kennedy gave a
toast to former Vice President Fair
banks, expressing his high appreciation
of the honor conferred upon the col
lego, and said that Mr. Fairbanks was
not among strangers but still in an
American house among men proud to
be Americans and anxious to return
home to labor for the good of their fell
low-countrymen.
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Doesn't Want to Kick. but Does.

Comrade j. w. Boles, of Pagosa
Springs. Colo, says he doesn't want to
kick, but certainly must answer Com
rade F. Q. Talbot, who seems to think
that the whole South is ready to get
under the folds iof the Star Spangled
Banner, and incloses a clipping from
the Kansas City Star, in which is a
story of the placing of a large Ameri-
can Flag among the decorations in the
Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma City
last Memorial Day, which led to split
in the church and the organization of
a second one. 1t seems that the Flag
was offensive to the men and women
of Southern sympathies, wlIe declared
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Yankees in Arkansas

Comrade Albert Hawkins, First Lieu
tenant 72d ILL.,. Foreman. Ark. sends a
of ii Yankee family in tina,
far-oT State. He was born in New
York. but served in an Illinois regiment
and has been in Arkansas since 1868
During that time he has been a Repre-
sentative in the Legislature, County
Judge two terms and Sheriff one term
The picture shows himself and family
His son-in-law, d. S. Collins, has been
Postmaster over 2 years.
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Mrs. Tag,'s Sisters.

During the period when Mrs. Taft
has been obliged to withdraw from So
cicty because of impaired health she
has been very fortunate in having with
her all of the time one or the other of
a trio of charming sisters. These have
been Mrs. Charles Anderson, of Gin
cnnati, who has been with Mrs. Taft
for the last few weeks, presiding at the
state dinners at the White House and
accompanying the President to the Cab
met dinners given in his honor. Mrs.
Anderson is one of the beSt-known and
most popular hostesses at her home in
Cincinnati. She is beautiful woman
with abundant hair, which encircles
her face in an attreole of<siver and
really enhances the youthful brilliancy
of her complexion With her were her
two daughters, Misses Katherine and
Harriet Anderson, who weresmuch feted
while visiting here. Mrs. Thomas X
Laughlin of PittSburg, WAS with Mrs.
Taft for time. and made an exceed
ingly pleasing impression ~ on all of
Washington. bat She decided to take a
trip around the world which she and
her husband had been planning for
some time, and so Mrs. Anderson came
to Mrs. Tafts assistance. Mrs. Louis
Moore, wife of Prof. Louis Moore, of
Cincinnati. the youngest of Mrs. Taft's
sisters. has been with her rather more
than either of the others. She, like
Mrs Taft. is pass.onately fond of music.
and the two sisters spend many pleas
ant hours playing duets on the Jaauti
ful white piano in the Blue Room. She
is not considered as fine a musician as
Mrs. Taft. for Mrs. Taft has a marked
talent in that direction, but she is con-
sidercd the more booliish of the four
sisters. Mrs. Moore is devoted to Mrs.
Taft, and ii is said that it is her care
that has been largely Instrumental in
assisting Mrs. TAFT back to health fol-
lowing her nervous breakdown last
Spring. Mrs. Moore spent all of last
summer at Beverly with the 'Iafts and
returned to the White House with them
in the early Fall.
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Medical Advice Free

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Representative VIM. c. Lowering Dead.

Representative Lowering. of Massa-
chusetts, died at his home in Washing
ton, Feb. 4. of pneumonia. His death
was a shock TO his many friends. and
he was a man whom everyone liked.
Mr.. Lowering was serving his seventh
consecutive term as a member OF Con-
gress from the 14th Massachusetts Dis
trict. and was the oldest member of
the House delegation, having been born
rs years ago in Rhode Island. Mr..
Lowering belonged to what is called the
''insurgent faction" of the House, and
many of their meetings were held in
his home, where they planned cam
paigns against the Speaker and the
rules. For a short time during the war
of the rebellion Mr.. Lowering was an
army engineer at Fortress Monroe. He
is survived by an only daughter. His
body was taken by Congressional del
egation to his home at Torpin. Mass.
for interment.
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Here's the happiest news that ever came
to deaf people-news that means clear anC
perfect hearing for many, many victims oi
Deafness who have thought their cases hope
less.
The best cure for Deafness yet known
cure that is having wonderful success in
fected by a famous specialist after a life
time of study and scientific Investigation.
1t is proving genuine blessing for deaf
people everywhere, for it's curing case after
case where other doctors and other treat
ments have wholly failed--it is restoring
hearing to many. many persons who had
not heard distinctly for years.
Ii you are deaf-if your hearing is fail
ing in any degree, Deafness Specialist
Sproule. originator of the new cure. will
study your case absolutely free of charge and
The National tribune., 1910-02-17
His Transformation from a
Raw Recruit to a Veteran
ILLUSTRATED

HEW BOOKS in the lit.
erary history of this
= country had such in
stantaneous success and wide
popularity as the Isl Klegg"
series. From the very first
the story attracted a host oil
readers, and these increased
IL geometrical ratio as ths
publication progressed.
1t is the story plainly, SIM
ply and truthfully told of the
development of two green
country boys into veteran
soldiers of the highest type,
The story is told with affec-
tionate fidelity by one wha
marched, camped and fought
with them, and there is a
universal agreement that it is
far the best story of the ex-
perience of the enlisted men
in the Union Army that has
ever been written. Every
detail and incident is so
truthful, so like his own ex-
perience that the veteran in
stantly recognizes it with
a burst of laughter or the
tears yelling into his eyes.
The abounding humor of the
book is one of its most fas-
sinating features. Wherever
it is possible to extract fun
out of any situation or hap
pening it is done in the real
old army way. The heros Of
the story see the fun them
selves at once and the
author vividly depicts it.
The National tribune., 1910-02-17
Paint Without Oil
Remarkable Discovery That Cuts Down
the Cost of Paint Seventy
Five Per Cent.
Free Trial Package is Mailed to Everyone
Who Writes.

A. l.. Rice, prominent manufacturer of
Adams. n. Y, has discovered n process of
making a new kind of paint without the use
Of oil. He calls it Powdrpaint. 1t comes in
the form of dry powder and all that is
required is cold water to make n paint
weather proof, fire proof and durable as
oil paint. 1t adheres to any surface. wood,
stone or brick, spreads and looks like oil
paint and costs about One-fourth much.
Write to Mr.. A: L. Rice. Manuf'r., North
St, Adams. n. Y, and he will send you a
free trial package, also color card and full
information showing you how you can save
a good many dollars. Write to-day.
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system used in handling the bills from
the time the ink first touches the paper
until they go into circulation has been
supposed to be f1gyratively Iron bound
and copper riveted," and it has been a
boast that no theft could occur without
detection. r,.-r
Now, wouldn't this jar your risabili-
tiese Speaker Cannon has positively
been requested to set aside a room in
the House Building as gymnasium for
the use of Representatives. 1t is said
that if he consents quite a number of
the members of the House who are in
terested in the proposition will take up
a collection to buy all sorts of flesh
reducing and muscle-forming appara-
tus. 1t is said also that if the thing
goes thru and the National Gymna-
sum- becomes an established fact that
newspaper men are to be barred My,
but wouldn't there be nice, juicy stories
to tell about big "Si' Sulloway Oh a
handspring bar. or Serene Payne. the
leader of the Republicans in the House,
ia king a somersault on the cushions.
Then. there would be little Representa-
tive Hardwick, of Georgia, who could
be bad boy of the gym, and play all
sorts of tricks on the thick and thin
ones while they were exercising. The
gym would certainly he a jolly good
find for the clerks to the committees;
but if they are lei in there will have to
be a gym established for the women
clerks also, for some of the House COM
mittees have women clerks. and it
never in the world would do to draw
invidious distinctions.
Taylor Tonoske. an Oklahoma In
dian, came mighty near reaching the
happy hunting grounds most unexpect-
edly one day last week. He has been
in Washington since the opening of
Congress as a lobbyist i'm the interest of
a number of claims before Congress in
which the members of his tribe are in
terested. He had the very bad taste 10
go to bed one night, leaving the gas in
his room partly turned on. and when
found he was mighty nearly good
Indian. But the Emergency Hospital
soon pumped the gas out of him. and
he is all right now.
President Taft. in writing a letter of
regret because of his inability to attend
a banquet in honor of Civil Engineer
peary, expressed the hope that Congress
will do something for Mr.. Peary,"
which shows that President Taft has
no idea that the Navy Department will
make a ear-Admiral out of a man who
never saw days sea service in the
employ of the Navy. 1t is considered
by all of Mr.. Peary's friends that Con-
gress should give him a medal for his
research and discoveries. If Congress
chooses to do this it will hurt no one
and be a splendid compliment to Mr..
Peary, but to try to make him n Rear
Admiral would hurt. whole lot of
people.
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FREE MEDICAL ADVICE COUPON.

the Secretary of the Treasury for my
appointment 1 think l can say without
boasting that 1 saved the United States
Government 100000
Dr. Wiley declared that the investi-
CATION of stored eggs was indicating
that the decomposition OF those prod
ucts not only impaired them from q
palata BILE and digestible standpoint, but
threatened in another way the possible
development of a toxin.
The National tribune., 1910-02-17

Surg Charles +. Stokes, L. S. n. now
on duty at the Naval Medical School
Hospital, in this city, has been appoint
ed Surgeon General of the Navy, sue
ceeding Presley NJ. Rixey, whose term
expired last week. His appointment was
urged by Secretary of the Navy Meyer
and Senator Perkins, Chairman of the
Senate Naval Committee. He does not
wish to be addressed as ''Surgeon-Gen-
eral." and he positively declines to be
called "Rear-AdmNal," which is his
rank in the naval service while he
serves in his present capacity.
DIR. Rixey has held the Surgeon-Ger-
eralcy for eight years. He has been in
the Navy since Jan. 2S. 1874. and is eli
gible for retirement under the 30-year
service law DIR. RiXey was attending
physician to Presidents Mckinley and
Roosevelt. He was appointed Surgeon
General of the Navy in 1902 by Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
The National tribune., 1910-02-17

The Treasury Departments system
of printing bank notes, supposed 10 be
thief-proof and automatical immune
from robbery, has been beaten. The
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
turned out $4,000, 900, 900 in bank notes
in 1909 without losing one, but on Jan.
~ sheet of four $40 gold notes, un-
numbered and without the seal, disap-
peared.
Four days later the theft was discov-
cred when two of the bills turned up at
a local bank. The other two made a
complete cycle, and returned to the
Treasury in the course of business
The Secret Service men are baffied
and no arrests have been made. The
The National tribune., 1910-02-17

The memory of the soldier who
tute of Abraham Lincoln may be hon
ored by statue. Few persons know
that President Lincoln sent a substitute
to the front during the stormy days of
the civil war, but his name will ne en-
graved in the niche of fame if the bill
providing for a statue in his honor be-
comes law. A bill appropriating $780,
O00 for the purpose was presented in
the House by Representative Palmer,
of Pennsylvania.
The name of this hitherto unrecog-
niZed hero was J. Summerfield Staples
of Stroudsburg, Pa. He died there 10
years ago, and it is at Stroudsburg that
1t is now proposed to erect the statue
While it has not been usual to make
much of substitutes, men who enlisted
for q monetary consideration, there
have been some notable instances of
just exactly this character. OF course
it was impossible for Lincoln to go, and
this young man wanted to go, but could
not see his way clear to leave home
and he fought bravely and well in the
place of a man who had a previous;
military record, and who it may well
be believed would have been glan to
have aided in putting down the rebel
lion had he not been at the helm and a
mighty pilot thruOut the four Years of
stress and strife. But it looks just a lit
tie bit as tho Pennsylvania, which Is so
lavish with her money, should be able
to erect this monument herself, espe-
cially as it is to stand upon her own soil.
The National tribune., 1910-02-17

TIE oldest member of the Army
Nurses of the Civil War Association died
last week. She was Miss Nancy Pen
dergast, apd in November, 1862, while
living in Charleston, Mass, volunteered
TO serve as a nurse, and was sent here
TO Washington, where she was assigned
TO the Columbia Hospital. She was lat
ser sent to Annapolis, and after thAA bat
ties of Fredericksburg and Getty shurg
.she was both surgeon and nucse. She
The National tribune., 1910-02-17

DR.. Fl. w. Wiley, Chief of the Bu-
reau of Chemistry, says that his Iabora-
tory has saved to the Government fully
$4,000. 600 in 10 years, and he has the
figures to prove it. He says:
I'm the II years / have had charge
of the microscopic tests of sugar at the
various ports. under an arrangement be-
tween the Secretary of Agriculture and
The National tribune., 1910-02-17

There has very suddenly been an
eruption of State organizations in the
District of Columbia or the revivfying
of the old State organizations Kansas
has lately organized, Ohio has practi-
cally reorganized, the Maine residents
of Washington have lately sat up and
taken notice, and now the Nebraska
Republican Club of the District is being
quoted. They held a meeting, attended
by quite so Nebraskans, the other night,
and among their speakers We're Senator
Elmer J. Burkett. e. G. Snyder, w. e.
Andrews. Auditor of the Treasury, and
Judge John r. Webster. The keynote
of all their speeches was a plea for har-
mony in Republican ranks to insure the
success of the party at the next cleo
ton.
The National tribune., 1910-02-17

The wag has-said that politics is the
vice of Washington women" and if you
go to an afternoon tea or the 'at home"
of woman in official society, you can
pretty nearly guess that what the wag
said is no joke.
The National tribune., 1910-02-17

system used in handling the bills from
the time the ink first touches the paper
until they go into circulation has been
supposed to be figyratively Iron bound
and copper rivetsd," and it has been
boast that no theft could occur without
detection .-r
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Senator Stevenson. Of Wisconsin. who
is one of the oldest members of that
distinguished body. the House of Lords,
has other interests besides those over
| which Vice President Sherman holds
the gavel. He gets every week from
his farm in Wisconsin a seven days
report of just how much milk and but
ter his fine cows produce. just how val
ua BILE are the eggs which his fine hens
lay, and so on thru the gamut of farm
stock and productions. His pet COW is
a Holstein. and her name is Gertrude
Wayne. He says she is a good old
girl" and he is willing to stack up her
milk and butter products against those
of the White House COW or any other
bovine in the country. Last week in
seven days Gertrude produced 613
pounds of milk, and from this milk 26
pounds of butter. On her best day she
gave nearly SO pounds of milk, and this
produced four and nine-tenths pounds
Of butter. and that is sure producing
some.
The National tribune., 1910-02-17

There has been introduced in Con-
gress a bill to give former President
Roosevelt the franking privilege.
Franking privileges are now enjoyed
by Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Harrison,
both widows of former Presidents, and
while these former Presidents lived they
themselves had the franking privilege.