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The National tribune., 1910-04-28

A man of unusual interest passed
away in the person of Comrade Leslie
J. Perry, who died in this city April 25.
He was boy soldier in the I'd Wis, of
the Iron Brigade, and not only took
part in all the fighting of that regiment,
but WAS ready for any desperate expe-
dition On these he was twice cap
tureG, and confined in Andersonville for
many months In 1889 Secretary Proc
tor appointed him one of the two civil
ian members to compile the publication
of the Records of the Rebellion. He
worked on these for IL years. and the
Rebellion Records are a monument to
his industry, efficiency and high intelli-
gence.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28
A LOST CAVALRYAIAN.
He Had a Busy Time Trying to Get
Back to His Regiment.

Editor National Tribune: If you can
find space for my story, some of our
comrades may be pleased to read it.
1t is of a little episode that occurred
in the Winter of 1S62-63, while in the
defense OF Washington, and while en-
camped at Wolf Run Shoals. that am
about to relate. Should Capt. Chas.
Able and Serg't Chas. Royce. of Go. D,
14th VT. be yet alive, they as honora-
BILE men will certify to the correctness
of my statement-at least that part in
which they were interested. Our regi-
ment, the 1st Mich. cav. Maj. Stagg
commanding, was located near Wolf
Run on one side of the stream, and a
brigade of infantry commanded by Gen.
afterwards President) Hayes was To-
Gated on the other side. at Union Mills.
We We're assisting the infantry by
scouting the country outside the picket
lines. and in other ways. as duty re-
quired. One evening at about dusk
about 80 men We're ordered to saddle
their horses and report to Maj. (after-
wards GeneraD Peter Stagg at once
which we did in the midst of a severe
SnoWStorm, as was no uncommon thing
for us to do when there was a severe
storm and we had scouting to do. The
Major called to one of our men to guide
us. as he claimed to know the way to
Reynolds Tavern, which was some four
miles from Fairfax Station and several
miles from our own camp. We moved
along pretty well, as there was a full
moon, and had it been out from behind
a cloud we could have gotten along as
well as in daylight 1. having a colt
not half broken, rode in the rear, and
for some reason stopped, and was left
behind; but, thinking 1 could catch UP
as soon as I found an open space to
travel in, did not feel uneasy. But
after 1 had cantered along for some dis
tance, saw body of men in my front,
and on foot, marching toward me- Not
knowing who they were. and thinking
1T possible they might be an enemy
within our lines, and wishing to dis
concert them, I yelled and inquired IL
they had seen any cavalry pass. They
said they had not. / wheeled about
and put my horse into good gallop.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28


The Germans are. worried because
the AIsatianiyeuth prefer service in the
French army to that of Das Vaterland.
The Germans estimate that at least
100000 young men have fed from AL
SAGE arid Lorraine tor avoid service in
the German army. Last year 1.022 of
these enlisted in the French army. All
the traditions of Alsace are connected
with the French army. and in addition
to this the sentimental idea is that every
private soldier in the French army car
ries a Generals baton in his knapsack;
that is, there is a possibility for any
man to rise by good soldiership to any
position. The German army, on the
other hand, is intensely aristocratic, and
the commissions are reserved for men
OF noble birth.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

The report of the Chief of Ordnance
shows that the Maxim silencer has been
far from a success in actual field work.
Unless it is much improved it will not
be adopted in the Army. One objection
TO it is that on damp. cloudy days the
escape of gas from the silencer would
assist the enemy in locating the posi-
tion of the firing line. When the s-
leneer becomes heated it is trouble
some to the soldier, and, of course, it
will become heated after a few rounds
1t is also in the way when it is desired
to use the bayonet
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

The St. Cloud National Bank has
opened for business, and already the
deposits are gratifyingly large. more
than 100000 having been received the
first week. The bank is installed in one
of the handsomest bank buildings in
the South, the walls being of buff brick
with very tasteful design, and the in
terror finished and furnished in rich,
up-to-date trimmings and furniture.
TheNbank has a paid-up capital of $780,
600, and starts on as sound a founda-
ton as any banking institution in the
State.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

A historical landmark has passed
away in the destruction by fire of the
last building at Camp Verde, which was
built in 1857, of adobe. with the walls
two feet thick and all the lumber
brought by OK wagon from IndianoIa
This was expensive, and the building
cost the Government $4,000 One of
the objects of the post was to try the
experiment of using camels to cross the
desert. In 1857 40 camels were brought
from Asia Minor to Camp Verde with
IL Asiatic camel drivers and a cara
van master To the latter the Govern
ment had guaranteed a salary of $lG0 a
month the remainder of his life, and
he continued to draw it, altho his oc-
cupation did not last a great while. The
camel experiment proved failure. The
Confederates used Camp Verde for a
prison for Union soldiers. Later the
Texas Rangers had it for camp and
then it was abandoned and the build
ings were destroyed either by accidental
fire or by the people from the surround
ing country carrying off the material
for their own uses. All that is now LEFT
of the post are the bIackened and
crumbling adobe walls.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

General Orders No. G. from D. Minor
Steward, Commander of the Department
of Tennessee, G.. A. r.. announces that
the Annual Encampment will be held
May 20-21 at Newport. Cooke County.
Commanderin-Chief Van SAINT has
promised to be present. The railroads
will not make better rate than four
cents per mile plus 25 cents. Special
interest in the Encampment is felt ow-
ing TO the fact that this will be the
first time that a Commander-in-C Chief
has ever visited the Department of Ten
nessee in Encampment assembled.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

Fred S. Jackson, Attorney General
for Kansas. has given an official opin-
ion to the effect that a woman need
not change her name when she marries,
but can continue to use her maiden
name if she chooses. young woman
was commissioned a notafy public, and
afterward decided to get married. She
wanted to retain her notarial work,
and asked the Attorney General if she
could do so under her maiden name
He replied that she could; that the
taking of the name of the husband by
the wife is wholly matter of custom
and not Of law. There is nothing in
the law to prevent his taking her name
or either of them taking any name
that they choose. He advises her, how
ever. to give up her notarial work and
devote herself to home duties.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

The wave OF emigration from the
United States into Canada seen.:; to have
spent its force, and now the settlers
are coming back in constantly increas-
ing droves. 1t Hooked at one time as. il
the whole Northwest was being lured
into Canada, and as many as 100, 900
farmers crossed the line in search of
paradise. One season has been enough
for them, and the movement back to
the good old United States has begun.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28
TO RESTORE THE DISTRICT

President Taft has come out squarcly
in favor of the movement to restore
the District of Columbia to the propor-
tons established by Washington. At
n bankers dinner the President sa d
that Washington needed strongly the
ground on the south side of the Poto-
mac, for within 80 years all the land
now within the boundaries of the Dis
trict would be occupied, and he hoped
that Congress would give him an op-
portunity to test the question. AS soon
as Congress authorizes this he would
direct the Attorney General to investi-
gate the act of retrocession, and see
what steps were necessary to undo it
and restore the District. 1t was not
necessary to include Alexandria if Alex
andria wished to stay out A report is
about to be made to the District Com
mittee of the Senate, recommending
that the Department of Justice investi-
gate the constitutionality and legality
of the act of retrocession and carry
the matter to the United States Supreme
Court If need be. AS to the constitu-
tionality of the act lawyers are divided.
The opinion is strong in many quarters
that an agreement can be entered into
with Virginia by which she will relin-
quish the control of all the former Dis
trict outside of Alexandria. and thus
give the District full possession of Ar
lington Cemetery and other desirable
land on the south side of the Potomac
A large portion, probably majority OF
the reaI-estate owners in the ceded
portion, are anxious to come back. but
in Alexandria remains the old feeling
that her commercial interests demand
continuance within the State.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

The first number Of the St. Cloud
Tribune issued from its own office ap-
peared last week. and is handsome,
newsy paper. Many difficulties were
connected with the publication of the
first number, which will be obviated in
the future. and the paper will improve
in attractiveness and goodness with each
for growing town than a handsome,
well-edited paper. and this 1t is deter
mined the town Of st. Cloud shall have.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28
HALLEY'S COMET.

1t is exceedingly strange that paper
of the standing of Golfers Weekly
should publish such a woman-scaring
story as this of the probable effect of a
collision between the earth agd Halley's
comet:
This globe would be punctured like
bubble, and all the molten rock, the
steam and the gases, so long pent up
within the thin shell on which we live,
would squirt forth in a white-hot deluge.
Mountains would topple, continents
would crumble like glass, and rivers and
oceans would vaporize into clouds of
Kissing steam"
In the first place, there is not the re-
motest possibility of the earth and the
comet coming together, since at the
very nearest they will be from 10000
900 to 100000 miles apart The
next is that if they did come together
it is probable that nobody but the as
tromoners would be aware of it. 1t is
impossible for the human mind to grasp
the exceeding thinness of everything in
-interstellar space and the wonderful
tenuity, to use the scientific term, of
the comet. Everything on earth is held
together by the attraction of gravita-
ton, and this governs even the very
lightest Of our gases. There is no at
traction of gravitation in the immensely
of intersteilar space, and therefore this
matter which is flying around in the
shape of the comet is of incompre-
hensible diffuseness That is, how can
we Imagine an amount of sand such as
would make the size of a baseball scat
tered equally thru a cubic mile of
space? Probably the thinEess and the
wide separation of the molecules is even
much greater than this. 1t is possible
that the comets tail may be something
like, lampblack of an incomprehensibly
finer division than any lampbIack that
we can conceive, and that the tail is a
reflection of the light from these in
finitely minute PARTICLES The great
astronomer, Arago. calculated that the
possibilities of a head-on collision be-
tween the earth and n comet were
about one in 2S0,0OO,000.
The next scare is that of cyanogen.
Some astronomers have believed that a
large portion of the gas which forms
the comet and most of its tail is cyano-
gen, which we know in the form of
prussc acid. This again, is exceeding
ly doubtful, since the blue bands which
the spectroscope reveals may be some
thing else. The spectroscopists are not
at all sure. They only say they are
cyanogen because they look something
like that, ant they do not know what
else they might be. Even if they were
cyanogen they would have no effect
upon the earth, since the gas is of such
exceeding thinness that a man would
have to breathe with full lungs
many times to get as much
cyanogen as he gets in a single
Whit of peach blossom or an almond
kernel. Still farther: The gas is of such
exceeding thinness that it could not
possibly force its way into our compar-
atively dense atmosphere and reach
the earth. The density Of our air COM
pared to that of the gas in the comet is
about as granite would be to stream
of molasses. The earth passed thru the
comets tail June 80, 1861. and the only
visible result was the orange -colored
luminescence in the sky.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

The Nebraska farmers in the irrigat-
ing districts think that they have dis
covered a new source of wealth in en-
pIoying their irrigating bitches and
ponds to raise fish. They think this
will pay better than feeding 6O-cent
corn to cattle. They are obtaining from
the United States Bureau of Fisheries
and the mountain hatcheries eggs and
nngerlings of bass. pickerel, pike and
perch, with trout for the mountain dis
trictS
The National tribune., 1910-04-28
Information Wanted.

John Durenberger, formerly of For
est, o., has not been heard OF for II
years. A widowed mother Is anxious
to learn of his whereabouts Address
Margaret Durinberger, care of Mary E.
Kinney, Kenton, o.
Comrade Roy VIVID, of Mahanoy City.
IA, would like to know when and
where the I'd Pa. Cav. will hold its An
nual Reunion. Anyone who can fur
nish this information will confer a
favor by sending it to The National
Tribune.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28
In NIennoriam.

A memorial sketch of unusual taste
and feeling was written by e. S. Nc
Leod in the honor and memory of Com
rade Daniel Schuyler Young, NJ d., who
was Surgeon of the 21st Ohio and later
Professor in the Cincinnati College OF
Medicine and Surgery. -Comrade Nc
Leod read the memosial at the service
of VIM. H. Lytle Post, and it was
thought SO highly of that it has been
published in circular foYm.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

Halley's comet is not the only distin-
guished celestial visitor this year At
least two other comets will cross the
speedway which this old earth an
nualiy makes around the sun. One is
Temples comet, which has a period of
five and a half years and should be
along some time this Spring. The other
is D'Arrests comet, which has period
of 62 years and is due along in the
Summer
The National tribune., 1910-04-28
A Thankful Comrade.

Mrs. M. Duncan, Middleburg, NJ Y,
writes that her husband is entirely blind
and in his S1st year. This Winter Con-
gresham G.. w. Fairchild succeeded in
getting bill thru to give him $40 q
month more on account of his blind.
ness. so that he is now drawing $40 a
month, and he wants to express his
thanks to the Government and the Con-
gress for their generous aid to him in
his afliiotion.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

The shrewder and older of the Demo-
cratic leaders are taking account of
stock as to how far they have been
helped or hurt by their alliance with
the insurgents against "Cannonism.
The opinion seems to be that they have
lost far more than they gained. When
it came to the showdown in the House
there was seen to be nothing but noise
in the cry of "Cannonism,' and the
slight change in the rules took the wind
out of the salts of all who were raising
the clamor. If the Democrats had been
left alone to manage the thing their
own way there would not have been
such an exposure, and "Cannonism"
would have been worked industIiously
and as n COED enough issue until after
the election of the House of. Represcn-
tatiyes.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28
ITINERARY OF THE COMMANDER.
I\-CHIEF

AdJt-Gen. George % Eddy furnishes
the following itinerary of Commander
in-Chief Van SAINT:
Montana-Helena, May and 5.
Observation-Disclosures May IL and
-
Kansas-Hutchinson May IL and
13
West yirginia-Charleston May IT
and is.
Kentucky-Central City. May>lS and
10.
Tennessee-Newport. May 20 and 81.
Iilinois-sIay "a and 25.
Iudana-Terre Haue, May rs, &c
er1 81
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

Connecticut is in danger of losing its
character as typical Yankee State
Years ago the Irish seemed likely to
become the dominant element, but now
the Irish are going into the background
as rapidly as the old Puritan element,
and the Italians and Russian Jews are
taking possession of the Land of Wood
en- Nutmegs. The native-born parents
only contribute 80 per cent of the
births, while the Italian, Slav and Jew
families make up most of the remaining
CT per- cent
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

"CoI. Roosevelt stood silent before
the tomb of Napoleon" says the dis
patches. Napoleon would have done
the same thing if the conditions had
been reversed
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

For the smallest state in the Union
Rhode Island has been remarkable in
producing big men. 1t is to be hoped
but hardly expected that she will select
some one of approximately his size to
succeed Senator Aldrich.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28
comrade John r. King. Past Com

Comrade John r. King. Past Com
mander-in-Chief. has been appointed by
Gov. Crothers Delegate from the State
of Maryland to meet the Commission
created by an act of the Legislature of
the State of Pennsylvania to arrange
for the proper celebration of the 50th
anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

Andrew Carnegie unhesitatingly pro-
nounces the present tariff law far the
best that the country has ever known,
and he predicts development of inter-
ests under it which will surpass any
thing in the previous history of the
country.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

General Orders No. 5, by Thomas r.
Gockel, Department Commander of
Alabama, sets the date of the 22d An
nual Encampment of the Department
for Tuesday, May 10. at Birmingham,
Ala. In issuing this Order the Depart
ment Commander extends his thanks to
all comrades for their help in increasing
the membership and for the fraternal
earnestness with which they have held
up his hands during his administration.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

When YOU send in your subscription
always state whether renewal or new
subscriber.
When you renew from another post
Office give former address as well.
When change of address is desired be
sure to give former address.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

Portland, Me-. will unvail $40, 900
monument to Thos. E. Reed in August.
If anything, Speaker Reed was worse
abused by the Democrats than Speaker
Cannon
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

The farmers complained that the
Spring was unusually dry. but tTIis does
not account for the fact that we drank
1000. .999,999 barrels of beer more in
March than in February
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

Think of its being so cold on Monday
that the Southern Baseball League
called off all its games. At Jacksonville
that day the maximum thermometer
was So and the minimum 54.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

Prime potatoes down to 35 cents are
somewhat of an embarrassment to the
ciamorers about the increased cost of
living.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

In humility and sincerity the Hous-
ton Post prays:
"Oh, Lord, now that everything is
coming our way, purge every Demo-
cratic soul of hot air and valnglory,
and insert large installments of COM
mon sense in every Democratic era
mum: and. oh, remember, Lord. our
prOneness to make fools of ourselves
just when we have the world by the
tail and down-hill pull, and see that
we don't get in bad this time"
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

IF you want to help the Treasury,
lose or throw away your nickels as rap
idly as you can afford. The Treasury
makes $46, 400 on every $4,000 worth
of nickels il coins
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

"Jeff's wind is improving" says
sporting item. The greatest improve
ment would be to shut it off altogether.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28
NOTICE.

WASHINGTON, D. c.. APRIL IS, 1910.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

The news of the unprecedented storm
which swept over dozen states at the
end of the week, with q heavy fall of
snow and very low temperature,
makes the sunny land of st. Cloud more
attractive than ever. Great damage
was done in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio to the fruit early corn and vege-
tables. The damage extended as far
south as Mississippi, Tennessee and Ar
kansas, where there was the coolest
April weather on record. At Spring
field, ILL.,, April "a, all records were
broken, with a drop of 10 degrees be-
low freezing. The colonists at St Cloud.
luXuriating in fresh vegetables and
balmy skies, read these reports with
mutual congratulations that they are
outside the sphere of influence" of Bit
ing old Eoreas.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28
IMPROVEMENT OF THE MIssIs-
10 SIPPI,

J. ]. Hilb gave the meeting at St
Paul, Mimi, chunks of solid sense in
regard to the improvement of the Mis-
sissippi. He, said that the six-foot chan
mel from Minneapolis and ST. Paul was
absolutely ineffective and useless. They
might as wefl lath and plaster the river
as to dig six-foot channel Anything
less than boat drawing 20 feet was
beaten every day in the week by a
boXcar. He had had experience which
settled his mind on this fact. He built
at one time the largest boats on Lake
Superior, and they carried 5000 tons.
Soon he found that for $2S day more
he could run boats that carried 10000
tons. They could not get along with
less than 10-foot channel on the Mis-
sissippi, and if they could have Is
foot channel the boxcar would be out
of the running. A 20-foot channel had
made Duluth the largest seaport in the
world, yet the greater part of the
freight there was handled by rail. Less
than one per cent of the freight out of
st. Louis goes by water.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

Number of civil war in
valids March 81, 1910. 5T1, $50
Decrease 1893
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

Entered at Washington. D. C, Post Office
as second-class matter.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

Office: 18th and f Streets Northwest.
The National tribune., 1910-04-28

JOHN McELRoY, Editor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-17
NATIONALS BUY
OUTFIELDER SWAIN

The Warrington club yester-
day closed a deal whereby Out
fielder Swain Of the Vancouver
club Of the Northwestern League
will become q member of the Ma
tiOnals.
Swain was recommended to the
locals by Cliff Blankenship,
formerly a catcher Of the Ma
tionnls, and, according to Blank
enship, is sure to be q star in
fast company.
Whether Swain will be able to
report here at once has not yet
been decided, but 1T Is most
likely that he will not join the
team until late in the fall or next
spring.
The transaction which makes
Swain the property OF the WASH
ingtOn club was q cash one. Ne
gOtiatiOus for Swain have been
on for some time, mention of
which was made In The Star
several days ago.
Swain leads Off for Vancouver,
which indicates that he Is a fast
man. He leads the Northwestern
League with an average of $50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-17
PIRATES WIN AGAIN
Make 1t Four Straight From
Giants With Another Finish.
WILSON'S HITTING TIMELY
Mathewson Fails to Stop Rally
When He Goes in to Relieve
Crandall in Seventh.

PITTSBURG. July 16.-Pittsburg to-
day made it four straight from New
York, winning in the eighth inning.
Mathewson was then on the rubber,
having relieved Crandall in the middle
Of the seventh inning. The feature was
the batting of Wilson, who made two
three-baggerS and a single. hitting in
a run and scoring two himself. Score:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-17
TWO FOR "CARDS."
Bresnahan's Bunch Take q Pair of
Games From Boston.

ST. LOUIS, July 16.-St. Louis won
both games of a double header from
Brooklyn today, to 2 and 5 to 3.
Pitcher Sallee, who was indefinitely sus-
pended, is to be reinstated, according to
President Robson of the local team.
Scores:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-17
HAMMER THE BALL.
Yankees and Maps Break Even in
Double-Header.

NEW YORK. July 16.-Cleveland and
New York split even on today's double
header. the locals winning the first game,
to 3. and the visitors the second, 8 to 4.
Wolter made a wonderful catch in the
early contest, and the features Of the
second were the timely hitting of Bemis.
Stovall and Daniels. Scores: