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The National tribune., 1910-11-03

Walter Wellman is receiving more
praise than probably any unsuccessful
adventurer ever did. Some OF his pre-
vious adventures had struck the news
paper wits as a subject for ridicule, but
now they all admit that the infinite
courage with which he embarked upon
this enterprise into absolutely unimagi-
nable terrors entitled him to respect
One paper says, THE reckless pluck
of Wellman is the worlds toast" and
the Lo1iGon papers say that sooner or
later there viii be airships crossing the
Atlantic, and Wellman's name will be
honored as the pioneer. They all say
that when Mr.. .Wellman announces any
thing again, even if it be a trip to the
moon, they will all turn their opera
glasses upon him. Mr. Wellman and
his engineer say that they are going to
try it again, and feel confident of sue
cess. They say that the next airship
will be thinner in girth, many feet
longer and have three times the engine
power of the one that was lost.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03

The Fifth International Prison Con-
sress, which recently met in Washing
ton. showed a marked return to sanity
and mental health. The most of the
speakers were insistent upon reform
without sentimentality." The principal
subjects of discussion were prison sani-
tation, training of prison officers, the
treatment of first offenders, the death
penalty and the indeterminate sentence.
LOmbroso's myth that there is dis
tinct criminal type of countenance was
denounced as "a superstition" The
employment of convicts for public
works was strongly urged. Con~icts
could be well employed TO remove the
boulders from Rhode Island, reclaim
the tidal fats of New Jersey and the
everglades of Florida. There were linn
itless possibilities for the successful and
profitable use of those who lowed the
State some service"
The National tribune., 1910-11-03
sTuE SONS OF VETERANS.

Commander Nathan e. Harmon, of
Kansas. is deeply interested in the Sons
of Veterans and Iaudably anxious to
develop the order. In his General Or
der No. he says:
They are waking up; there are more
signs of life than formerly. Give them
a lift and they will get on their feet.
There should be at least one Camp in
every County of our great State. They
will be needed to stand by their moth
ers on Memorial Day when we are
gone. Our mantle will soon fall upon
them. Help them to organize. They
ought to be made the greatest patriotic
Order In our land, for they are the sons
of patriots. Let us encourage and help
them in every way possible"
The National tribune., 1910-11-03

The press is making the final state
ment of David B. Hills life with judi
cial calmness 1t is admitted that his
personal life was absolutely clean. He
seems to have been singularly abstem-
ious man. He never smoked a cigar,
played cards never took anything
stronger to drink than soda water. and
probably never loved woman. In
politics he followed the darkest wind
ings of machine politics, and was un-
scrupulous as to means in attaining the
end of victory, but when he gained
victory he used it to good purpose
and surprised everybody by his clear
grasp of public questions and his ca
pacity in debate and as an administra-
tor He failed of the highest credit be-
cause he never addressed himself to the
moral forces of the people, but relied
upon the dark methods of the worst po-
litical machines to gain success. Yet,
President Cleveland pronounced his
term of Governorship a clean, high
minded administration"
The National tribune., 1910-11-03

Reports from observers show that it
is high time for something to be done
in Portugal. The Church and the no.
bility were grabbing every cent that
could be wrung out of the people and
giving nothing in return. In one of the
principal cities there is not an attempt
at sanitation. Not so much as a water
pipe is in use. Consumption and
diphtheria rage as a plague and the
smell of the town extends far over the
mountains. The smallest child de-
velops consumption and commences to
cough blood before it Gan scarcely
speak. The prisons are horrible beyond
any description and the ways of JUS
tice are simply abominable. When the
Judge arrives to try those incarcerated
it is not uncommon to find many of
the occupants dead and trampied be-
yord recognition in the over-croyded
holes. The commerce of the kingdom
has been decaying rapidly. The poor
little King could do nothing. He was
in the position of Louis XVI. between
the two millstones of the nobility and
the clergy. Neither would admit of any
reform that would lessen their privi-
leges or riches.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03

Tariff revision is not bothering a bit
a lot of very talkative and very enter
prising men out West. They have
something much nearer home to think
about. Tacoma, in her feverish effort
to prevent her rival, Seattle, outstrip-
ping her, padded the census to the ex-
tent of 1926, showing a gain of 208
per cent in 10 years. The Tacomaites
are vigorously denying the charge.
Seattle is also accused of padding in an
attempt to overtake San Francisco and
Portland is accused of trying to un-
warrantably overshadow the fact that
Seattle and other Pacific ports are get
ting ahead of her. Boise believed that
her duty to the State of Idaho called
upon her to make a showing not war
ranted by the actual number of resi-
dents, and Minneapolis is taunted with
mastering number of phantom" citi-
Zens to keep ahead of her oldtime rival,
st. Paul. 1t is recalled that this is no
new offense. Ambitious Omaha, in
1890, reported 140,152 people, against
30,51S in 1880. a gain of $50 per cent.
There was no exposure at the time, but
this year the enumerators find only
102,552 people in the thriving metropo-
lis of Nebraska. st. Joseph, Mo-, was
equally reckless in 1900, and reported
a population of 102.979. This year the
enumerators can only find 77,403, and
nobody believes that $4,000 people
abandoned the city in 10 years
The National tribune., 1910-11-03
Says He Has No Kick to Register.

Editor National Tribune: / have been
in st. Cloud over a year, and have
found the climate superb and the land
ready by proper treatment to produce
100 per cent on the amount of capital
invested l have one of the finest loca-
tions in st. Cloud. half way between
the railroad and the lake, and during
the time that I have lived here not a
drop of water has laid on the land after
a good downpour of rain over five min
utes I have now growing in my garden
orange trees, banana plants. peach
trees, fig trees, pecans, sweet potatoes,
irish potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes,
cabbages, onions and other plants for
Fall crop. and am perfectly satisfied
with st. Cloud and the officers in charge
of the company's interests here. L
know they are doing all they can to
advance the interests of the settlers of
our fast-growing town. L have no kick
to register. Yours truly. E. Oliver,
St Cloud, Fla, Oct. 3, 1910.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03

The short-lived Republic established
fn Spain in 1873 is held up as a pre-
diction as to the future of the Portu-
guese Republic. a far larger propor-
ton of the Spaniards are educated and
capable of self-government than the
Portuguese, yet the Republic establish
ed by CASTELAR, and Serrano only last
ed from 1873 until 1875, when Alfonso
XII was enthroned in Madrid with all
the pomp and circumstance of the
rites of Roman Catholicism. CASTELAR,
confessed frankly that the Spaniards
were not ripe for self-government.
Fully four-hfths of the population OF
Portugal are duh, illiterate peasants,
who have no more conception OF the
real responsibilities of free citizenship
than the Chinese or Hindoos. The So
called Republicans are bookish theor-
lists who do not agree among themselves
as to what Republicanism means, and
If they did agree they could not make
the peasants understand 1t.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03

The missionaries in Korea have fear
ed that the absorption of that country
by Japan would interfere with their
work, but they have been happily dis
appointed. and the japanese officials
have assured them that they recognize
the good work they are doing and are
anxious 10 promote it. A Christian,
Judge Watanab, is at the head of the
judicial Department, and it is felt that
his position is an assurance of fair
treatment of the missionaries and their
converts.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03
One of the First Settlers and There to
STAY.

Editor National Tribune: I arrived in
st. Cloud June %, 1909, and found no
house here except headquarters of the
Seminole Land & Investment Co. Now
we have one of the best little cities in
the country. The stories about this town
being under water during the rainy sea-
son are false; also concerning the
deaths. 1t is the healthiest place
ever lived in My wife had the eczema
for Is years, and the doctors could do
her no good, and she is now cured with
out any medicine. This will make a
city in spite of all false reports We are
here to stay.-Jacob Hoffer, st. Cloud,
Fla, Sept. 80, 1910.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03
Total number on roll.

According to this, there were 474 del
egates entitled to seats in a total of
1897. That is, had everyone been
present, there would have been a little
over one delegate to every three life
members. Neither of these classes was
fully represented, but 1t is likely that
the delegates were much better repre-
sented in proportion than the life mem
bers. These life members were usually
much older than the delegates, and a
very large proportion of them have lost
interest IN the National gathering. 1t
has been said that at come of the re-
cent Encampments the elected repre-
sentatives showed up in greater
strength than the so-called House of
Lords. This we do not think was the
truth at Atlantic City. The life MEM
bers were out in very strong force
there, and especially toward the close
of the Encampment. The custom, and
1t is an unfortunate one, is for a large
proportion of the delegates to lose in
terest in the National EnCampment aft
er the election of officers and the Sc
lection of the next place of meeting
and go off on side trips or pleasure
excursions. leaving highly important
business TO be transacted by the small
er number of faithful ones, who con-
scientiously attend the National En-
campment until it is adjourned.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03
The 122d Ill.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
short account of the 122d Ill.-Caleb
Coon, Petersburg, Va.
The 122d ILL., was organized at Car
lonville, Sept. 4, 1862, and mustered out
July 15, 1865. 1t was commanded by
Col. John l. Rinaker. Its Lieutenant
Colonel was James F. Drish, and its
Major James f. Chapman. A medal
of honor was awarded Private George
Stokes by the Secretary of War. The
1924 belonged to Dodge's Division, Six
teenth Corps, and lost 40 killed and i21
from disease. stc.-Editor National
Tribune.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03
st. Cloud Is a Real Town.

Commercial travelling men with their
grips come now on every train, our
business houses having already assumed
proportions which not only surprise
them, but all newcomers. The fame or
ST. Cloud as a real town, and not
paper one, is spreading far and wide.
There are now about so business con-
Germs, and new ones are being added
every week. There Is scarcely a thinG
in the line of merchandise that cam
not be had in st. Cloud, our dry-goods,
clothing. shoe, grocery, hardware, fur
niture and drug stores all carrying we'll
assorted stocks And a little over
year ago this site was pine forest.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03

One of the improvements that the
Florida Vegetable Growers Association
is advocating is in crates. 1t is found
that the smaller the crates are better
orrboth the seller and the buyer. For
celery a 12-inch crate, size IL by 90 by
% inches, is thought best. The lettuce
hamper now in use will be replaced by
crate measuring by 20 by "a inches,
which is said to have many advantages
over the hamper now in use and will
command premium of % cents a
package over it.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03
The grocerg say that we are to have

The srOcers say that we are to have
much cheaper sugar, with the price
of granuiated dropping as low as "A
cents. The cause of this is the greatly
increased production all over the world,
particularly in Hawaii, Java, Cuba and
Louisiana. Beet root sugar has in
creased in production fully 10 per cent.
Raw sugar is now selling at $3.s7 a
hundred, a break of nearly 81. Cuba
is Offering her raw sugar at 2A cents
to the trade.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03
St. Cloud Not Good for Undertakers.

Editor National Tribune: 1 have lived
in Florida for three years. 1 have a
nice home in Lakeland, Fla, but we
left it last October and came to St
Cloud. 1 built a two-story business
house on Pennsylvania avenue which
cost me s1,700. l have rented the low
er room for furniture and undertaking;
and, by the way, the occupant is doing
well in the furniture line, but the un-
dertaking is not so good as he has had
only one call in three months. Yours
for st. Cloud-P Rothrock, ST Cloud,
Fla, Sept. 80, 1910.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03
THE VETERANS
COLONY IS 0. K.
St. Cloud Warmly Indorsed by
the Comrades and Their Wives.
The Best New Town in the
United States.
Gained in Health and Wealth.

Editor National Tribune: have been
here nearly one year, and have i'm
proved greatly in health and have lost
no wealth l am pleased with condi-
tions and the treatment OF the COM
pany. I bought another lot last week
and got a square deal. We are not an
exception to all other communities, and
have parties not satisfied; but as rule
they own no property. but have come
in possession of good health, and now
blistering the hand that healed them.
Yours truIy-W. J. Caskey, st. Cloud,
Fla, Sept. 80, 1910.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03
The 10th Ky,

Editor National Tribune - Please
write a little history of the 10th Ky
j. r. Mattingly. Quincy, Ill.
The 9th KY. was organized at Leb-
anon Nov. 81, 1861, and mustered out
Dec. 6, 1864. 1t was commanded by
Col. John NJ. Harlan, who resigned
March 6. 1868, followed by Col. Will
lam Hays, in command at the time of
muster-out. The 10th belonged to
Bairds Division, Fourteenth Corps, and
lost 72 killed and 149 from disease, etc.
At the battle of Chickamauga the regi-
ment lost 166 in dead and wounded
Editor National Tribune.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03
Well Pleased With St. CIoud.

Editor National Tribune: I came to
st. Cloud June II last with my family,
and made thorough investigation Of the
country before buying property. The
Summer weather was what 1 dreaded,
but 1 found it pleasant, the nights al
ways comfortable. My health has been
greatly benefited, my catarrhal trouble
is rapidly leaving me. 1 bought five lots
near the center of the town and 10
acres a couple of miles out. Myself
and family are greatly pleased with st.
Cloud and its prospects--T. II. Ladner,
St. Cloud, Fla, Sept %. 1910.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03
uomesick for St. Cloud.

Editor st. Cloud Tribune: Your ami
versary issue is great. l am getting
homesick for the Southland, and intend
to pack my trunk and hope to be in
ST. Cloud in a couple of weeks, and strut
down New York avenue to the corner
of 18th street and give one Hip. hur-
rah for st. Cloud and all the good peo-
pie living there Yours sincerely
C. c. Lester, Milwaukee, Wis, Sept. 20,
1910
The National tribune., 1910-11-03

BY its prompt SUPPRESSION of the great
railroad strike, the Republic has shown
itself the strongest as well as the best
Government that France has ever had.
Less formidable agitations overthrow
the thrones of Charles x and Louis
Philippe.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03

Curator Granger has found in the
Big Horn region the fossil ancestors of
the horse which lived about 100000
years ago. They were the size of
shepherd collie. but 100000 years
was certainly time enough to grow up
Is hands
The National tribune., 1910-11-03

When you send in your subscription
always state whether renewal or new
subscriber.
When you renew from another post
office give former address as we'll.
When change of address is desired be
sure to give former address.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03

People are astonished that there are
really so few snakes in Florida. There
are a few ratlesnakes in the swamps
along the rivers, and these are some
times driven to the highlands by the
foods. Old residents say that it is many
Years since they saw stumptailed moe
cosin. The razor-back hogs, the timber
cutters, turpentiners and woods fires
have been very destructive to the SER
pentS.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03

President Taft will sail for the 18TH
mus on Nov. 10 from Charleston. S. c.,
on board the armored cruiser North
Carolina, and under the convoy of the
sister ship Montana. He will arrive on
the Isthmus Nov. IA and remain there
four days.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03

Commander Dewitt c. Hurd, of New
York G. A. R., issues a feeling order
upon the death of Past Commander
at Lake View Oct. 6. Comrade Swift,
who rose to the rank of Captain in
the I'd n. Y. Mt'd Rifles, was granted
a medal of honor for gallantry in front
of Petersburg
The National tribune., 1910-11-03

The shipping statistics show that the
course of trade is rapidly veering toward
the Panama Canal in anticipation of
its opening During the first six months
Of 1910 the vessels arriving numbered
ass, as compared with 3S4 for the six
months preceding This was a gain of
20 per cent. The average number of
vessels arriving has been 19 a week.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03

The pure food agents seem to be
in their activity. Last week
they confscated 2,400 pounds of butter
in Philadelphia and 10 barrels of to-
mato pulp, which were declared to be
filthy, putrid and decomposed.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03
MEMBERSHIP AT THE NATIONAL.
ENCAMPME,NT.

A number of letters have reached us
asking for the ratio of the elected dele
gates in the National Encampment to
the so-called House of Lords, and how
FAR the influence of the delegates con-
trolled the action of the Encampment
1t is impossible to answer this question
accurately, as there was no vote taken
at any time which gave the names of
the voters. The Committee on Creden-
tials presented the following list of
those eligible to membership in the En-
camDment:
The National tribune., 1910-11-03

five months there last winter and IKE
it very much, and would like to come
back next winter. Hurrah for St Cloud
and the good comrades there Yours
in F., c. and Ll-C. Conklin, Coolville,
Ohio. Sept. 26.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03
Spent Last Winter in st. Cloud and
FtEaS II

Editor st. Cloud Tribune: I like to
get your paper and hear about what
is going on with the comrades. I spent
The National tribune., 1910-11-03
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.

Entered at Washington, D. C, Post once
ss second-class matter.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03
JOHN McELROY. Editor.

Office: 18th and Streets Northwest.
The National tribune., 1910-11-03
NOTICE.

WASHINGTON, d. C, NOV. 3, 1910
The independent-reporter., 1910-03-17

not pleasant company; he Is a non
entity wherever he is. and people
shun him as they would the Evil One
himself
Grouchiness is chronic with some
people; 1t is spasmodic with others;
it is but once in a life time with the
great majority. That last declara-
ton is the saving grace. If the
disease were chronic with all people
at all times, the rest of us would be
willing to HE ourselves to some for
eign clime-Africa. If you please.
The moral is that it is just as easy
to take life sweetly and meet all
conditions with a smile of cheerful
ness as it is to crouch 1t seven days
in the week and make life miserable
to every one else. 1t takes courage
sometimes to smile through trials but
it is worth all the self-sacrifice one
Is put to- 1t is worth while. too, and
therein is the balm that heals.
The independent-reporter., 1910-03-17
She Know the Saint.

Margery's cousin, Cecilia, was eight.
en and pretty. She was also devoted
% music and spent hours practicing on
/ large pipe organ. This, together
With the fact that she invariably wore
/ rapt expression when so engaged,
armed for her the nickname Of st.
cecilia. 1t happened, that Margery's
mamma was called to town and left
ier five-year-old daughter in charge Of
IN obliging neighbor. This lady un-
iertook to amuse her young guest by
moving her collection of prints,
lmong which was copy of the famil-
ar presentation Of the patron saint of
music seated at the organ.
This, my DEAR" said the obliging
iostess, "is a picture of st. Cecilia"
"It doesn't look bit like her." spoke
ip the tiny visitor.
"Why, how do you know?" inquired
he astonished owner Of the print.
How do / know" returned the
equally astonished Margery. why,
st. Cecilia is my own first cousin. She
cached rna my prayers an how 20
)lay jackstones."
The independent-reporter., 1910-03-17
The Clever MuskraS.

"Muskrats can swim two or three
mile under the ice. I've seed 'em do
It," said New Hampshire guide.
How do they breathe. Jake?"
"I'll tell ye. The muskrat he takes
a big breath. and he plunges into the
cold water. and he swims right out
where the ice is-not bit afeard.
Then when he can't hold his breath no
longer he sticks his nose right up agin
that ere Ice ceilin and blows out a
long breath. The breath makes big
air bubble. the Ice oxygenizes the air
in the bubble, so as it's real good to
breathe ag'in. and old Mr.. Muskrat he
Just draws 1t down inter his chest and
swims on his way. The air he started
out with can be oxygenized seven or
eight times that thar way before 1t
gifts too poor for breathin'. and the
muskrat II cover about two mile be-
fore he has to come to the surface
Exchange.
The independent-reporter., 1910-03-17
When Children Smoked.

In the seventeenth century In Eng
and the practice of Juvenile smoking
vas almost universal, at least accord
ng to Jorevin de Rochefort, French
traveller of that period. In an account
published In 1871 he gives a descrip-
ion of an evening he spent in Worces-
er He was catechized by one Of the
ownsmen as to the habits of the
French people. while we were walk
ng about the town." he writes, she
asked me If 1t was the custom In
France as in England that when the
children went to school they carried
n their satchel with their books a pipe
If tobacco, which their mother took
.are to f1ll early In the morning. It
,erving them instead Of breakfast, and
hat at the accustomed hour every one
aid aside his book to light his pipe,
he master smoking with them and
teaching them how to hold their pipes
ind draw In their tobacco, thus accus-
.oming them to it from their youths,
believing 1t absolutely necessary for a
mans health"