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HELP WANTED-FEMALE.
WANTED-A girl for laundry work.
Call at the Bismarck hospital.
WANTED-Girl to work for her board
and go to school. Mrs. w. E. Lair,
Phone 403-R.
The National tribune., 1910-07-07
One of Lifc's Tragedies.

One of the tragedies in life which we
know must come and for which we are
never ready has come to Comrade G. P.
Harding, of Ostrander. o. Not very
long ago Comrade Harding announced
that he and his wife would like postal
cards on their approaching anniversary
and birthday; but, alas! on April 8 Mrs.
Harding passed away, and the comrade
is now alone. Mrs. Harding would have
been II years of age on May II and
Comrade Harding is now 72 He thanks
the comrades for the beautiful postal
cards which they have sent, and re-
quests that if any more be sent they
come to him alone.
The National tribune., 1910-07-07
Gen. Sickles Entertains Ladies of the
G. A r.

Gen. Daniel E. Sickles has recently
become an associate member of Lafay-
ette Circle, 3, Ladies OF the G. A. R.,
and in honor of the occasion entertained
the officers and members of the Order
ats his home. Mrs. Sarah J. Loomis
President OF the Circle, conducted the
initiation ceremony, and was ably as
sisted by Mrs. Luella Ralph, Senior Vice
President; Mrs. E. Murphy, Past Senior
Vice President; Mrs. Adams, Jr, Vice
President; Mrs. Margaret J. Caleb, Sec
retary; Mrs. Emily j. Tompkins, Treas
urer; Mrs. j.. Heaney. Chaplain, and
Mrs. Isabel II. Crombie, Patriotic In
structor. The ladies were accompanied
by Commander Fred Z. Goldthwait, of
James c. Rice Post, 29; Past Command
er. Joseph Murphy, and Comrade T. ].
Crombie, of II. B. Clafiin Post, SIS, all
honorary members of Lafayette Circle.
The ladies and comrades were intro
duced TO Gen. Sickles, and all were
greatly impressed with lively spirit and
keen interest in the affair manifested
by the General, who is in his seth year.
After a hearty handshake the company
TOOK their leave, wishing the only living
corps commander of the rebellion many
years of usefulness and happiness.
The National tribune., 1910-07-07
Was With the 14th Kan

w A. RAIDER. Co. K, 14th Kan. Cav,
Hiawatha, Kan, says that he enlisted
oct. 10, 1853, and his first experience
as soldier was at Fort Scott, Kan,
where his regiment was stationed for
part Of the Winter. The following SUM
mer while at Fort Smith, Ark, they got
orders to reinforce Gen. Banks down
on Red River. With them were the
l4th Kan. Cav. tto which he belonged)
the 18th Kan. the 1fth Kan. Cav. and
the lst and I'd Colored Inf. In all they
We're about 10000 strong, with Mai :
Gen. Steel in command. They marched
little every day. and skirmished along
the march. Old Pap Price gave them a
little diversion but he didn't follow
very far. When they came to a little
town called Camden they heard that
-8anks had been defeated. They had
10 retreat to Little Rock, and on Salien
river they had another fight, and there
the colored troops won a victory They
Were at Little Rock when Lee surren-
dered and Lincoln was assaasnated.
ihey were mustered out at Fort Gibson.
Comrade RAIDER would like to hear from
members Of the 14th Kan. and others.
The National tribune., 1910-07-07
The 1st. etlrand 10Th Conn.

Editor sNationa4 Tribune: 1 would
like to seea short sketch of these regi-
ments.-Wn. Kenyon, National Sol
diers' Home, Hampton, Va.
The 1st Conn 1'as organized at New
Haven ApfH % and %. 1861. for three
1t belonge& to TylerTs Division, McDow-
ellis Corpssan lost one killed and eight
| from disease, etc 4
The 6thEonn. was organized at New
Haven Sept. IL, 1861, and after serving
out two enlistments was finally mus
tered out Aug. 21- 1866. 1t was COM
manded by Col John l.. Chattield. who
succeeded by Col. Redfield Duryee. who
| resigned May %, 1864. Col. Alfred p.
Rockwell then took command. but was
discharged Feb. 9, 1865, succeeded by
Ilieut.-Col. Daniel Klein, in command
| at the time of final muster-out. 1t be-
longed to Terry's Division. Tenth Corps.
and lost 107 killed and 12S from dis
ease, etc.
The 10th Conn, one of the fighting
regiments. was organized at Hartford
Oct. %, 1861, and after serving out two
enlistments was mustered out Aug. 25,
S65. 1t was commanded by Coils. Chas.
L. Russell, Albert w. Drake, Ira w.
Pettibone, John L. Otis and Edwin S.
Greeley in succession. Soon after leav-
ing the State the 10th embarked with
the Burnside expedition to North Caro-
lima. 1t was engaged at Roanoke
Island, where Col Russell fell, who was
the first Connecticut Colonel killed in
the war At the battle of Kinston, Dec.
IA, 1852, the heaviest loss fell on the
9th, its casualties amounting to II
killed and 80 wounded out of 366 en-
gagged, five line officers being among
those mortally wounded. The regiment
bore itself so gailantly on this occasion
as to elicit public praise from Gen. Fos-
ter. In April, 1864, the regiment Joined
the Army of the James, and took part in
all its battles. Maj. Henry w. Camp,
the "knightly soldier" was killed at
Darbytown Road. In the desperate
assault on Fort Gregg the 10th took
the lead, and its flag was the first on
the parapet. 1t belonged to Terry's Di-
vision. Tenth Corps, and lost 1872 killed
and 100 from disease, etc. Its total of
killed and wounded was 433. and II of
its members died in Confederate pris-
ons.-Editor National Tribune.
The National tribune., 1910-07-07

:
he was active and indefatigable in his
work. and when he spoke his party ac-
cepted his dictum.
In 1890 Judge Peters announced his
intention to retire from Congressional
life and enter the practice Of law. and
no man ever enjoyed his law practice
more than did Judge Peters. He might
have been Commissioner of Pensions
under President Mckinley, but he did
not want the office and refused the
proffer of the same
Judge Peters was one of the strong
men of Kansas from the time that he
entered its domain. He did not care
for public office, and never accepted 1t
excepting when he thought that it
might be for the betterment of the
condition of the people. In 1898, de-
string to retire from the hard work of
trying cases. he accepted the position
of Postmaster at Newton, which posi-
ton he held at the time of his death.
He was editor and part owner OF the
Kansan Republican, and took an active
part in public affairs up until the very
day of his death. He was always in
demand when a speech was wanted,
and no sacrifice was too great for him
to make for the Grand Army of the Re-
public, for the Republican Party, for
the Masonic fraternity or for the up
lifting of his chosen city and State.
Nnlle Judge refers was NOT d IdHi-
Gus man, he was a great man, in that
every action of his life was lived by
high standards, his personal friends
We're the best men in the community
and his aims and objects were ever for
the uplifting of humanity. With the
death of Judge Peters almost the last
one of a galaxy of strong pioneer men
of the short grass region of Kansas has
departed. These included Senator Pres
ton B. Plumb Joe Ady, Capt Henry
Booth, Timothy Mccarthy, Capt. James
Purcell WorreI, Bob White, Marsh and
Bent Murdock, Judge W. r. Brown,
Tom and Will Edwards and some 20
others, only about half dozen of whom
are living
The National tribune., 1910-07-07
An Interesting Book,

Mrs. Minnie Moore Wilson, of Flori-
da, has written very interesting book
on the Seminoles of Florida. Her sub
ject itself is an interesting one, and the
fact that there must always be two
opinions upon the Seminole Indian
question makes the line of demarkation
very sharp. They were either very, very
bad or else they were inhumanely treat
ed by the Government.
Mrs Moore Wilson begins her story
with the landing of De Soto in May,
1888, and from the first sentence to the
last she is in sympathy with the In
dams as a race, and with the Semfnoles
in particular. In beginning Mrs. Will
son tells something that the histories of
the country have never very often used.
She says:
1--WE have in $50 years wasted them
(the Indians) from uncounted numbers
to scattering population of only about
$4,000, while in the same length of
time "A cargo of dusky slaves from the
African shores have become a people
of millions, slaves no longer, but pro-
tected citizens. In the redskin, whom
we dispossessed of his native rights, we
recognize no equality; yet the descend
ant of the barbarous black, whose tribe
on the Gold Coast still trembles before
a fetish, may now sit at the desk of
Clay or Calhoun"
She earnestly defends Osceola, and
declares that his wariike deeds and
daring exploits of chivalry were those
of man made desperate when his
young wife, was seized and carried off
in chains before bis,eyes, and that, be-
ing the mar he was, he simply fought
to recover and aVenge her. Mrs. Wilson
gives a very interesting account of the
Dade. massacre and the hostilities
around Fort 3King. now Ocala, Fla, and
draws a tine picture of the massacre
and rescueo Mrs .gSEilson says that the
total number of Seninoles now living
is about 500. She gives the following
word-picture of thair present life:
Like theI whiterpiumed egret of the
vast forests eof the Everglades, he will
pass, like the mist1 As memories come
up we hear the faint rustic of the leaves
and see the .duskysforms of this ancient
people as.1they gIided thru the leaf
carpeted alsles of Ithe forests. We see
the happy Migwam homes, cleaning in
the red fIaIafs of the. campfire, and hear
the soft iuliabies of the grooming moth
ers; the dusky hero of the chase returns
game-laden from the hunt, and, in the
picture, framed, as it were. by the
boundaries of nature, we see long lines
of moving life, the graceful forms of
thousands of flying creatures, while the
songs of the forest minstrel hallows the
wooded silence. 1t is the home of the
Seminole"
An addendum is the Seminole vocab-
ulary, compiled by Mr. Wilson, which
includes several hundred words used
by the Indians. 1t is the first compila-
ton of the kind and the only one of
such extent. AS language it is ex-
ceedingly difficult and tedious. For in
stance, the word for buggy" is 'tose-
to-lese- -ta-pof-na-chee" One wonders
how they would say automobile
(Moffat, Yard & Company, New York.
The National tribune., 1910-07-07
Wartime Surgery,

Editor National Tribune: had some
thing to do with keeping Missouri in
the Union. My father, man of means,
came to Missouri from England in
1922. He was an uncompromising
Union man, tho an owner of slaves. /
was born in 1899, just at the right age
and reckless when the war came on.
In the early part of the war the 9th Ill.
Cav. went from st. Louis to Pilot Knob
by the l. NJ. r. r. The men were load
ed on fiat cars, with planks put across
for seats. While passing this place in
the night the bugler fell off the car and
a wheel ran over his leg near the ankle.
We found him next morning, took him
to good room and bed. He was a
jolly fellow, talked and laughed and ate
his breakfast. 1 went to Mineral Point,
the nearest telegraph station. There I
met Maj! Pratt, OF. I think, the 18th
Wis. He telegraphed to Pilot Knob for
Surgeons to come and attend the man.
| also met a young soldier of the same
regiment, 9th Cav. His name was r.
vim or Irwin. Maj. Pratt told him to
get off at )our place and stop with his
comrade. 5 He was afraid we were reb-
els, but the Major assured him we were
all right. &.
In the evening two young Surgeons
came from Pilot Knob. A man named
Dukeshire Ihad atsponge anG saucer
full of chloroforni. MIR. Love and as
sisted by doing what the Surgeons told
US to do. The young man Irwin was so
much hurtifo see his comrade he could
do nothingd Young soldiers had not
become seasoned tofsuch sights at that
time. Bydhe time fthe Surgeons were
thru with their work Dukeshire had
chlorofoFmed the man to death. I sup
pose that the doctors on their return
reported that the soldier died from loss
of blood, which was not the case, for he
had tied strap around his leg and
stopped the bleeding before we found
him.-W. II. Evens, Co. C, 51st Mo,
Hopewell, Mo.
The National tribune., 1910-07-07
Proud OF Grandma.

Editor National Tribune: am a little
girl 10 years old. My grandpa was a
soldier. His name is John Harmon,
and he belonged TO Co. G, 18th Kan.
Cav, and I am just as proud as 1 can
be of him because he fought for our
country. He belongs to Custer Post,
G. A. r., here in st. Joseph. He takes
The National Tribune.l I guess that's
the best paper in the world for a SOL
dier to read, unless it's church paper.
l thought ] would like to write to you.
Mother told me about you. and how
much you had done for the soldiers
Mother and I think you ought to be
the next Commander-in-Ch Chief of the
G. A. r. And / guess my grandpa and
good many more people think like U.S.
hope you will be elected. Yesterday
was Memorial Day. and / went out with
mother and grandpa and the others,
eVen If it did rain, and helped to deco
ate the soldiers graves. Your little
friend-Etta Turner, st. Joseph, Mo.
The National tribune., 1910-07-07
A Good Time.

Mrs. Julia Watson, of Aspen, Colo
was filed with enthusiasm upon her
visit to Grand Junction, Colo, to attend
the Encampment of the Department of
Colorado and Wyoming. She says that
the guests of the city were beautifully
entertained. The decorations were on
a par with the entertainment, the f1ow-
ers being entirely red. white and blue,
with flags and bunting in profusion.
There was also plenty of music by
bands and drum corps.
Mrs. Watson says that it all remind
ed her of the far-away days of the war,
for the music was all of the wartime
melodies, such as was played when the
boys came home on furlough. She says
that she was only a young girl when
the war broke out, but that she re-
members the time distinctly, and says
that the first three-months men who
left the town in 81 made it seem very
much more like big funeral than any
thing else she can think of--wives, low
ers and sweethearts bidding good-by to
their loved ones made it a sorrowfuI
sight. Mrs. Watson's home at that time
was in Lisbon, Columbia County, O.,
just II miles from Salineville, o., where
John Morgan, the rebel raider, and a
posse of his men were captured. She
says that she was the proud poSsessor
cf-John Morgan's horse, and that she
helped to feed the men who captured
Jonn Morgan and his cavalry company
of 200.
Mrs. Watson deplores the fact that
each year the Encampments grow
smaller, because so many of the veter-
ans are passing away. She thinks it is
great blessing that they get pension,
but believes that the time has come
when that pension should be increased.
as they are growing old so fast and are
unable to work, SO she hopes that Uncle
Sam will open his heart and swell the
pensions of the veterans.
The National tribune., 1910-07-07
Marched 10000 Miles.

Editor National Tribune: have been
a reader of your paper for some time,
and have never seen anything to COM
pare with your pension bill. I was one
of the long termers. 1 served from
July 10, 1861, to April IS, 1856, and
only get $12 a month. My service COM
menced at Edna, Knox County, Mo-,
with the 21st Mo-, under Col. Daniel
More. We drove the rebel Gen. Greene
from Athens. Iowa (across the Missouri
River), then started South to Shiloh,
where we got into a very hard fight. 1
was captured there, and was exchanged.
l rejoined my regiment, and chased up
and down the Mississippi River. We
went to Memphis, to Vicksburg and
back to st. Louis. We marched thence
to Independence, Mo-, after odd Gen.
Price, and sent his army to the four
winds. Thence to Nashville, where
Hoods army was scattered. Thence to
Eastport, where we had nothing but
hominey to eat for two weeks.
We went to New Orleans, and took
ships to the mouth. of Fish River, Fla,
and then back to Spanish Fort and Fort
Blakely, where we helped in the siege
that destroyed the rebel army there.
We went in succession to Montgomery,
Ala, Mobile, Cahaba, Mobile and Fort
Troy, where the sandfeas and mosketos
were as thick as rain and malaria grew
in the water like jelly. Many of the
boys were SO sick there. that we could
not wait on each other We went back
to Mobile. stayed there till we recov-
cred our health, then l went with the
regiment to Fort Gains, a fiat island
about 10 feet above sea level, 10 miles
from any other land. There we were
discharged and sent to st. Louis via
New Orleans, where we were paid off.
and then home. Our regiment marched
10000 miles during the four years
and nine months.-James Hobbs, Ser
geant, Co. D, 21st Mo-, Hilo, Douglas
County, Mo.
The National tribune., 1910-07-07
SOiIinp the Flag.

Albert w. Armstrong, Co. K, LIST Colo.
Cav, Hepburn, Iowa, in speaking of an
article in The National Tribune of June
3 in which eloquent tributes were made
to Old Glory, and to another article,
entitled Keep the Flag Clean" sends
in an time which he thinks should come
under the latter head. He says that
recently in Des Moines, Iowa, a leading
citizen of that city delivered an address
on temperance, in whiih he placed at
one side of the rostrum a demijohn
with the Stars and Stripes waving over
it. On the opposite side of the rostrum
he placed a boy and girl, and then
proceeded to explain to his audience
that the flag protected the liquor inter-
ests of the country, but afforded the
youth of the land no protection. Now,
that speaker did not, perhaps, intend to
insult his country's flag, and certainly
did not intend to misrepresent to his
hearers, but he simply allowed his zeal
to get the better of his judgment, and
that is something that a public speaker
should never do. AS the late A. Ward
would say, that speaker Stopped over"
and stopped over badly. Comrade Arm
strong declares that the flag affords the
same protection to one class of people
that 1t does to another, but with a little
bit of irony he says:
However the liar has a little advan-
tage over his brother, the rum seI,tr,
for he is not taxed to support the Gov
ernment, while the saloonkeeper is. It
seems to me that the great trouble with
very many-perhaps majority-of
Americans fail in their conception of
what our National banner represents
They look upon Old Glory as it waves
from masthead, and think of it as mere
ly representing American jurisdiction
and political power. Now, that view is
altogether too base, too sordid. 1t rep
onfc
principles underlying that Government,
those principles, those eternal truths
the Fatherhood of God and the broth
erhood of man."
AS matter Of fact, the lecturer re-
ferred to by Comrade Armstrong is one
of class given to telling half truths;
but in saying that the flag protects the
liquor interests of the country he
does not even speak a half truth. He
simply told lie. The laws of the land
protect every interest of the country;
but If the people are not alive to their
interests and do not themselves obey
the law ii is not the fault of the flag
One might just as well say that horse
thieves, murderers and all classes of
miscreants are protected by the law
because in thousands of instances they
go unpunished; but 1t would be an out
right lie to say that the law protected
them and did not protect the innocent
and 1t is a shame and an outrage to use
the flag in that manner. 1t is just as
much desecration of the flag as it would
be to tack it on the floor for a carpet
The National tribune., 1910-07-07
HALLEY'S COMET.
Past Commander Fairback's AstrOnomi'
cal Reflections.


Editor National Tribune: Now all
seems quiet on the Potomac, but the
heavenly bodies, especially Halley's
comet, which travels at % miles sec
ond, is hundreds and millions of miles
away, circulating around our solar sys-
tenn.
After all the astronomical intelligence
we have read in the last six months, to
a close observer the question arises:
Are all the hundreds of comets red-hot
metal of the most intense hardness? -?
Are they not simply scavengers within
our atmospheric conditions who gather
and attract the hundreds and millions
of parts of mineral germs in our solar
system? The great English astronomer,
Richard Proctor, Iectured in st. Louis
in 1887. By the way, Proctor married
one of the handsome daughters of Cen
Jeff Thomson, whom we boys in blue
called the Swamp Fox. He command
ed a rowing Confederate force between
Frederickstown and Memphis. Tenn.
Jeff Thomson before the war was Mayor
of st. Joseph, of our State. Those who
knew the Misses. Thompson say that
they were the handsomest. most attrac-
tive of all of Missouri's daughters.
Proctor said that there was continually
falling from other planets and comets
on our earth such an immense volume
of mineral matter that were it not for
our WHICH ulSSOiNoS II elS ~
falls, this mineral matter would destroy
all life on our world. This continued
raining of matter has been and will
continue to be unperceivable to the
naked eye.
For days and months before Halley's
comet became visible the moon in ris-
ing and setting did so in glare of red
atmospheric display. Here we can ac-
count for one of Natures secrets, yet
not so to the Almighty Builder and Con-
troller of the hundreds and millions of
suns and worlds. Students of astronomy
know only from what knowledge we ac-
quire from works Of the most noted
astronomers, that these mineral germs,
falling on our small world for millions
of years, have formed the mineral de-
posit of our and other countries. A
student of geology, after reading and
attending lectures by the most learned
teachers of this science, wonders and
wonders how it could be possible to
have in the bowels of our earth layers
and lodes of iron, lead, zinc, silver and
gold mixed between quartz harder than
granite.
We know that coal strata are a FORM
alton from decayed vegetation; that the
coal oil found in the bowels of the
earth are the drippings from vegetable
composition That is one reason why
this oil is so beneficial for the many ills
of the human system.-Henry Fair
back, $3.50 North Grand avenue, st.
Louis, Mo.
The National tribune., 1910-07-07
CIVIL WAR ECHOES
CHARACTER SKETCHES
AND
STATE SECRETS
tBy a United States Senator's Son and
Secretary

We have recently obtained a job lot
of copies of this interesting book, the
author of which, Mr.. Hamilton Gay
Howard, a lawyer, was the Secretary
of his father, Senator Howard, and
who left college to come to Washing
ton with his father in 1863, and saw
with young mans eager, curious eyes
all the great men who figured upon the
stage of action during that momentous
period. 1t is no attempt to give his
tory, but 1t is a collection of gossip.
"reminiscences and admirable pen pic
lures of the men who were shaping the
mighty events.
The book. which is handsomely got-
ten up and illustrated with portraits,
has had a large sale among the best
class of readers. The authors impress
sions of such men as Lincoln, Sumner,
Wade, Conkling, Andrew Johnson and
others of lesser note are extremely vivid
and interesting and the book should
be in the hands of everyone who wants
to form a correct idea of the men and
events of the day. We will send 1t
postpaid for so cents. Anyone renew
ing his subscription to The National
Tribune can obtain 1t by sending 25
cents extra. That is, s1.25 for The Ma.
tional Tribune one year and the book.
Address
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE,
Washington, d. @.
The National tribune., 1910-07-07
Ila@ Day.

Mrs. Anna B. Roberts, Department
President of Maryland, w. r. c.. has
the following to say about Flag Day,
which is sentiment with truth:
Flag Day. June IA, is one of the
most important days in the year for the
teaching of patriotism and love for the
Flag and our country. The public
schools should have our first care. It
is there we reach thousands of children
that can be reached in no other way.
We should urge the observance of all
patriotic anniversaries, but especially
Memorial and Flag Days. Do not neg
lect to display Old Glory. See that it
floats from each home on these days
and other holidays. Patriotism is the
backbone of Nation, and we should
try with all our powers to promote it."