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The National tribune., 1910-08-18

We are not nearly so anxious to have
the pistoI-toting habit abolished as tC
have the boy with a shotgun restrained
He has nearly extirpated the dear little
bluebirds. These are not only exceed
ingly welcome to the sight, but they are
actively useful 1t is estimated that
the presence of a pair of bluebirds in
an orchard is worth five bushels of
fruit, so industrious are they in de-
stroying insects. The cheerful bob
white is another lamented victim of the
undiscriminating shotgun. One author
ity says:
Bob white has been accused of rob-
bing grain fields in the South, tho post
mortems have shown that only 20 per
cent of his food is grain, and that he
eats more than a thousand weed seeds
in a meal. On this basis a Virginia
bird lover proved that with all his
crimes against grain, bob-white more
than atoned by eating 5T2 tons of weeds
in that State every Winter. not to men,
ton his Summer diet of grasshoppers
and chinch bugs and wire worms and
beetles and boil weevils and caterpil-
lars"
The National tribune., 1910-08-18

Brighten. Marion p. Maus, U. s.
Army. Commander of the Department
of the Columbia, has recently return ID
from tour of inspection in Alaska
and throws some very salutary cold
water on the gold-hunting fever In
stead Of the output at Iditarod this year
reaching up to s10,000.000 or more,
Gen. Maus thinks that it will not ex-
ceed 100000, or not enough to fairly
support the 1000 men already there
Unless something is done to Immediate
ly stop the rush and even bring back
many who are there, there must be a
great deal of suffering and starvation.
Gen. Maus concludes: Alaska has now
reach the stage of big development
projects. The day for the small miner
is over, because there are no more
places where a man can get rich by a
little scratching"
The National tribune., 1910-08-18

New York is building a City Hall
which will be the wonder of the world.
1t is located near the terminus of the
Brooklyn Bridge, will have a frontage
of "3S1 feet and total depth of 173
feet. The main structure will rise 337
feet above the curb. have 25 floors. and
rising above all will be a handsome
tower Is stories high, making a total
hight of $50 feet. In the frame there
will be $4,000 tons of steel. and in the
shell 100000 cubic feet Of granite. Each
floor will be approximately one acre in
extent, and 32 elevators will carry the
people up and down. Altogether 1t will
accommodate 5000 employees and cost
S10.000.000. The foundation alone will
cost s1.443,9 600.
The National tribune., 1910-08-18
THE yICKsBURG MILITARY PARK.

The report of VIM. 7. Rigby, James
G. Everest and Lewis Guion, Commits
sioners of the Vicksburg National Mill
tary Park Commission, was given out
by the War Department last Monday.
1t says that the second observation
tower has been finished and the third
is under construction. Mississippi has
dedicated her memorial and % monu-
ments. Wisconsin's memorial, costing
Louisiana has given II monuments,
Missouri three, Tennessee one and Vir-
ginia one. There are now 445 memo
rials, monuments and markers in the
park and under construction. OF these
405 are Union and 40 Confederate.
About 100 more are expected. The
aggregate of appropriations for the
park by the United States is 81. IFS, 900.
A monument not to cost in excess Of
s125, 900 will be erected to the Con-
federate Navy on the Mississippi. The
report says with regard to portraits.
statues and tablets:
Contracts in connection with the
Union Navy memorial assure four
bronze portrait statues for the park Of
Flag Officers Andrew II. Foote, Charles
H. Davis, David ID. Porter and David
c.. Farragut, respectively. Two such
statues are in place-both Confeder-
ate-Lieut. Gen. Stephen D. Lee. full
length figure, given by his son Blewett
and friends in 81 States; Brighten.
Isham w. CARROT, bust, given by his
sons, S. B. and John F. Five more are
assured Crion-Col. VIM. F Villas
full-length figure. gwen by Mrs VIM.
F. Villas and thei: daughter. Mrs. Mary
Esther Villas Hanks; Capt. Andrew
Hickenlooper. full-length figure. given
by his family Confederate--Brig.-
Gen. Lloyd Tllghman, equestrian, given
by his sons, Frederick b. and Sidell;
Lieut.-Gen. John c. Pemberton, eQues-
trian. given by his son, Frank r.; Col.
Jas. II. Jones. bust. given by his family
in place-Union. Col. Joseph J. Woods,
given by his family. Confsderate-Col.
Edward Higgins. given by Louisiana
Parish police juries. Seven more are
assured (Union-CoI. James r. Slack,
given by Sculptor Adolph A. Weinman;
Brig Gen. Mortimer d. Leggett given
by Sculptor Henry II. Kitson. Confed-
erate--Gens. Louis Hebert and Francis
A. Shoup: Coils. Leon D. Marks. Robert
Richardson and Allen Thomas, given
by Louisiana Parish police turies). It
is reasonable to expect in the near fu-
ture and as gifts statues of Gems. Grant,
Logan, Osterhaus. BuckIand CUnion)
and Forney (Confederate)."
1t is expected that Minnesota will
give a statue of Gen. Sanborn, Nebras-
ka one of Gen. Thayer, New York one
of Gen. Potter, and Pennsylvania of
Gen. Parke. The Commission hopes
to secure the portrait. statue or tablet
of each commander of brigade, divi-
sion or corps, of every field officer or
battery commander killed or mortalIy
wounded. Each will be put in its place
in the line, and when this is done the
battle will be wonderfully represented
There are $50 tablets in the park, of
which 80 are bronze, S66 iron, 56S
Union and 32S Confederate. The
trenches, battery positions and ap-
proaches are all marked by historic
tablets.
The National tribune., 1910-08-18

Even poor old Spain is following the
prod of the goth century and being
forced into progress. The report Of
Consular Agent A. L. Carleton, of AL
meria, Spain, says that the marble
quarries in his district have been
worked for many centuries in the
crude, oId-fashioned way, with the stone
being gotten out by cutting grooves with
a hammer and chisel, then driving
wedges into these, splitting the pieces
off and squaring them all by hand la
bor. The quarried stone has been car
ried off over rough roads in OK carts.
A syndicate of English capitalists has
invaded this district. and is now work
ing the quarries with improved machin-
cry. which produces marble at a vastly
less cost. Suction gas engines run wire
saws for cutting the masses out of the
quarry and to work the machinery for
lifting and handling the stone. Traction
engines carry 30 ton loads of this over
good roads TO the railroad. In order to
compete with them the other quarries
have to revolutionize their methods.
The National tribune., 1910-08-18

The scientific papers are ridfculing
the extravacant talk of the airship peo-
pie as to what they will be able to do
with their aerial navy. 1t is very dra-
matte and spectacular, the talk about
a fleet of airships lowering over fleet
Of battleships and dropping at viii ter
rfically destructive bombs upon the!.
decks. In the first place. feet of air.
ships will have to be a long time in
view after they emerge from the hori-
zon until they get over the battleships,
and during this time they will be sub
jected to a fierce storm of rifle and
shrapnel. which viii have a very dis
turbing effect upon the nerves of the
gentlemen who have their minds full of
the problem of managing their airships.
The next thing is that it is going TO re-
QuiTe the incest calculation for a man
in an airship to drop a shell upon a
battlcship. At any considerable hight
the battleship must appear very small
object, and with it in motion and the
airship in motion and currents of wind
intervening it is going to require the
to hit the seaman. Still another thing
is that the experience of the Japanese
al Port Arthur infuses great skepticism
into the much boasted idea of high
angle fire It will be remembered that
the japanese artillery claimed that so
accurate had they gotten their aim that
they were able to sink the Russian fleet
by mortar fire directed from behind a
hill, and we had much fine writing as
to the terrific effect of a 5O0-pound
shell descending from a hight of two
miles upon the decks of a doomed bat
tcship. After the war the japanese
raised the Russian ships and made a
careful study of them. when. to their
astonishment, they found that few If
any had been sunk by their fire. The
Russians themselves had sunk their
ships by opening the seacocks. Where
the ships had been actually struck the
shells had done comparatively little
damage. The steel-protected deck was
rarely penetrated. and in only one in
stance had the vitals of the ship been
reached.
The National tribune., 1910-08-18
81 KIEGG NO. 3,
81 and Shorty Meet Mr.. ROseRbauni, the
Spy, Who Relates His Adventures.
(By John McElroy

The third number of Isl Klegg" is
now out. 1t is full of bright funny, pa
thetic and vividly interesting episodes
of camp life. The boys have some rev
experiences on picket, and they meet
MIR. Rosenbaum, a Jew, who in his love
for the Union and devoted loyalty has
taken up getting information as his
share of the work. Deacon klegg writes
an interesting letter of his experiences
in getting home with Abraham Lincoln.
the contraband. 81 and Shorty get cap
tured on a foraging expedition. The
boys escape, from their captors, and
have some further thrilling experiences,
in which they turn the tables on the
enemy. Shorty gets a letter from a
girl which sets his heart to throbbing
These incidents are all remarkably true
to life. and will bring back to everyone
some memory of his own service in the
army. The book is issued uniform with
the preceding volumes, and every vet
eran should read it to laugh and cry
over the things that he did and saw in
his own youth. Price, so cents. or Tho
National Tribune for one year and ''St
Klegg," paper cover. 81, postpaid. In
cloth. 81. Address The National Tribe
uQe-
The National tribune., 1910-08-18

An index of the way the farmers in
the West are prospering is afforded by
the returns of the Assessors of Pawnee
County. Kan. which show an increase
of s6.O07,070 in taxable property over
last year. This is 80 per cent, which is
astonishing in what is purely an agri-
cultural country and not the richest by
any means in the State or the Nation.
The assessed valuation of the taxable
property in Pawnee County would, IL
divided equally. give every man. woman
and child s2.745 in cash. The Larned
Chronoscope says:
"Pawnee is certainly prosperous. On
top of its wealth of land and personal
property it is harvesting the biggest
wheat crop in it's history at this time.
and the outlook for corn is most prom
ising. A more happy, contented and
prosperous community cannot be
found"
The National tribune., 1910-08-18

Those tiresome people whose main
object in life seems to be to see terrible
evils in anything that the rest of the
community wants are now protesting
against the parade of the military on
the Fourth Of July. They point out
that the Declaration of Independence
was purely civil function, performed
by civilians and far from any scene
of strife. All the same, 1T took seven
years of mighty hard work by the SOL
diers to make the Declaration good.
and, therefore, the soldiers would seem
a necessary feature in any celebration.
Anyway, these people are going too far
in making denatured Fourth of July.
They have already stopped the sale OF
fire crackers in many cities. and now.
If they eliminate the troops, the Fourth
of July will hardly be worth having.
The National tribune., 1910-08-18

Stories about japanese fighting have
always to be taken with caution, as the
japanese are even bigger liars abou,
their exploits than white men. All the
same, they seem to have quite pictur-
esque little war in Formosa. They say
that they have built line of intrench-
ments 307 miles long, over mountains
from 5000 to 1000 feet high, and that
the natives will rush on to their bayo-
nets, not knowing they are dangerous.
The japanese plant guns on mountain
top, and shell the natives out of strong
holds on other peaks miles away. Japan
has now had Formosa 15 years, but her
success in dealing with the country
falls mortifyingly short in comparison
with American operations in the Phil
ippines. Before she thinks of taking
anything else, Japan had better. make
good her hold on what she has.
The National tribune., 1910-08-18

AS usual in England. the crisis which
some alarmists predicted would make a
revolution will result in a compromise
The House of Lords has accepted the
budget, and will accept many reforms
Of their membership. Just what these
reforms will be will have to be thrashed
out by general discussion. Nobody of
any weight of opinion desires the House
of Lords to be abolished. While it is
absurd to think that man can be born
into Parliament, yet a counterbalance
to the House. OF Commons is felt to be
absolutely necessary, and this will be
secured by remodeling the Upper House
and making it a more representative
body. Something will probably be done
to bring it near the character of the
United States Senate, tho this will be a
bitter pill. since if anything the British
tory breads ii is the Characterization"
of the British Government
The National tribune., 1910-08-18

iHIS HlaEeS SIl ,yb3 ,U45-5y. 1t VIII be
seen that while these States have much
less than one-third of the entire popu-
lation of the country, they are receiv-
ing about one-fifth of the entire pension
payments, an Unexpectedly large
amount when we remember what a
great proportion of the population was
engaged in the rebellion. When this
sum is added 10 the other Government
expenditures i'm the South it will be
seen that that section has gotten an
nuallv much larger percentage in
disbursements than the South has con-
tributcd to the revenues OF the coun-
try. The South has always paid a very
small portion per capita of the Govern
ments revenues: but, on the other
hand, the Government has expended
very literally for the improvement of
rivers and harbors, erection of public
buildings and many other objects for
WHICH the Southern Congressman have
been particularly clamorous For many
years after the war. when the taxation
was unusually high, the South paid
very little of it because of the small
consumption of articles on which in
ternal and external revenues were
raised. Even to-day the South buys
far less per capita of imported articles
which pay duties and high internal
the country. The rapid spread of pro-
hibition in the South has been destruc-
tive to the great revenues coming from
the sale of fermented and distilled spir-
its in particular.
There is another feature of the pen
sion system which is wholly left out
Of the calculations. Much the greatest
the investment of large amounts of
Northern capital and the development
of industries by immigrants from the
North. Everywhere in the South are
found factories, railroads and furnaces
built hyhNorthern capital. farms devel-
oped By Northern settlers, and truck
gardens, orange groves. peach orchards,
etc, all, created by Northern men, to
the great increase of the taxable prop
erty of the States in which they are
located, All OF, this influx of Northern
capitab all these products of Northern
skill and labor, are taxed for the pay
ment of Confederate pensions. That
is. the Tmen who have gone South to
develop that region must pay tribute
to the support of the men who did all
in their power to destroy the Govern
ment. For example, it was recently re-
ported that Georgia had since the in
stitution of her pension system paid
S14,000.000 in pensions to Confederate
soldiers and their widows. A very large
proportion of this $14.0O0,0 900 must
have been paid by the Northern men
on their factories. railroads. peach or
chards and farms. 1t is they whose
enterprise and thrift have so developed
the neglected State that Georgia has an
abundance in her treasury from which
TO pay these pensions. and the pensions
have risen in amount in accordance
with the States increase in taxable
property and the filling up of her treas
ury. What is true Of Georgia is true of
all the other States. the growth of
which has been proportionate to the
influx of Northern capital and enter
prise. The Southerners should be the
last ones to complain about any bur-
den of pension payments
The National tribune., 1910-08-18

There is no end to the funny and
grossly misleading things which one can
find in reading stories of the war by
calIow youths who do not sense the
great struggle. Tor example. in the
Omaha World is qaite an account of
Samuel ]. DonOhoe, in which is recited
the great service of the family to the
Confederacy. and continues:
Another brother. Samuel ]. Dono-
hoe was assigned by the family to stay
at home and care for the father, moth
er and sisters. This proved to be even
more arduous duty for him than TO
face the rattle of musketry and the
crash of the field guns Besides the
constant longing to fly to the aid of
Mother Virginia. in the latter years of
There is no end to the funny and
the war, he had to dodge conscription.
necessitating many Il nights hiding in
the timber and brush. In the Confed-
find in reading stories of the war by
eracy's last desperate struggle to escape
from the meSheS which Grant, Sher-
man, Sheridan and Thomas had woven
about it. mere boys and gray-bearded
men were brought into the ranks of the
gray, but Sam Donohoe was steadfast
in caring for the trust imposed upon
him, and stayed with his father and his
fathers family. S. RoSser DOnOhoe, the
youngest brother. was of too tender
years for cOnscription even in the Con-
federacy's direst straits, and he was
therefore never in the service. He
came to Omaha with Charles Donohoe,
and was employed as express messen-
ger with the Pacific Express Company
until his death in 1900"
1t is excruciatingly funny to think Of
the boy burning with desire to fight in
the Confederate ranks, and yet lying
out of the house night after night for
years to avoid being put into the Con-
federate army.
The National tribune., 1910-08-18

The directors of the E,Iberfeld Farben
Fabriken. the great chemical works of
Germany, announce that their chemists
have successfully synthesised India rub
ber from isoprene. but that they are not
ready to undertake it's production COM
mercially. The scientific world was
prepared for this announcement, as it
has always seemed possible to make
artificial rubber, and it is hoped that
the same success commercially will be
attained as in the synthesis of indigo.
1t was Is years after the chemists sue
ceeded in making artificial indigo that
they got the business on a commercial
basis, and now most of the indigo in
the world is made from coal tar. We
have no expectation that the manufac-
ture of artificial rubber will be as COM
plete a success as that of indigo. There
are so many plants in the world which
produce rubber that it is likely that
when its production is studied it will be
found that nature can produce rubber
cheaper than the laboratories.
The National tribune., 1910-08-18

Maj.-Gen. Daniel E. Sickles an
noUnccs the dedication on Nov Is of
the splendid New York memorial on
Lookout Mountain, in the erection of
which he has been the directing spirit.
Gen. SickIes has erected a monument
of great artistic beauty and one which
is a high credit to the State of New
York. The monument. which will cost
about $4,000, stands on the most COM
manding site on Lookout Mountain.
where it oyerloOks several States and
one of the most romantic landscapes in
the world.
The National tribune., 1910-08-18

A committee consisting of Col. H. S
Redman and Col Samuel G. Pierce, OF
Rochester. N. Y, have gone to New
York City to confer with representa-.
tives of the Eastern Trunk Line Traffic
Association to obtain, If possible, q
one-quarter cents from all points with
in the Associations territory to the Ma.
tional Encampment at Rochester. The
Publicity Committee and the Pension
Committee of Rochester are working
hard to secure the Encampment, and
feel that they are on the road to suc-
cess
The National tribune., 1910-08-18

The Department of Kentucky an
the railroads on account of the unjus,
discrimination against the veterans
This means. we presume. that only the
officers and delegates from the G. A
r., w. r. C. and Sons of Veterans will
attend, with the mass of the comrades
and their wives remaining at home. The
railroads deserve such a boycott, much
as we regret the absence of our Ken
lucky friends-from the great gathering
which will be deprivation to them as
well as us.
The National tribune., 1910-08-18

Comrade John w. Frazier. Chairman
Of the Philadelphia Brigade Associa-
ton. has gotten out a handsome little
pamphlet in advocacy of the erection
in Washington of a statue to Gen. Geo.
G. Meade. This contains the letter to
Gov. Stewart, the Governors reply, and
the letters of great number of prom
insnt men urging such a monument to
the man who commanded the Army Of
the Potomac longer and far more sue
cessfully than any other.
The National tribune., 1910-08-18

In the past decade the acreage OF
corn and wheat in the United States has
been increased by 80 per cent. At the
same time we have decreased our ex-
portation of corn and wheat from near
ly one-fourth to one-tenth of our total
production, while the average price of
these products has increased so per
cent. This is an astonishing triumph
of the principle that the tariff produc-
ton would increase the home market
for the farmer and the price of his
products. Tho the farmer has grown
much more than ever before, yet he Is
getting much more money for what he
raises, and is no longer compelled to
give so large part of the cost to the
railways and steamships which carry
his grain and meat for thousands of
miles to find market.
The National tribune., 1910-08-18

pretty accurately what the dollar-a-day
bill viii cost. 1t proposes to give every
civil war veteran on the pension roll 81
day. That would be 1865 a year
There are about $4,000 civil war vet
Grams on the roll. Therefore, to find
out what the dollar-a-day bill will cost
it is only necessary to multiply SIS, 900
by 1865. The rates above 81 a day will
not count, as there are comparatively
few of them.
The National tribune., 1910-08-18

All fears as to Mayor Gaynor's sink
ing under his wound have been pretty
well dissipated, and now it is believed
by everyone that he will be able to
and be back at his desk in a month.
Tho family are even more optimistic
than the physicians. The Mayor ex-
presses no bitterness against his assail-
ant, and hopes that he will be treated
as insane rather than criminal
The National tribune., 1910-08-18

1t is to the high credit of the District
of Columbia Militia and its efficient
commander, Brig.-Gen. Geo. H, Har-
ries. that it passed thru the recent man.
uvers at Gettysburg without the least
of the grumbling and the complaints of
illness customary from the militia when
assembled in camp for practice in field
work. The health report is particularly
excellent. Only 26 one-thousandth Of
one per cent. of the Regulars and mill
tia at Gettysburg We're or have been iii.
This is the lowest rate of sickness ever
known in a camp of instruction, and
the health of the militiamen Wed With
that of the Regulars.
The National tribune., 1910-08-18

A plan is under consideration to build
a clubhouse at Lake Gentry, one of the
four beautiful sheets of water which
surround the St Cloud tract. The coun-
try in that neighborhood is good
hunting and fishing district, and there
are several families there now. The
construction of a school house will very
shortly be considered. This would make
an ideal place for a clubhouse or for
Winter cottages.
The National tribune., 1910-08-18

The old superstition in Florida was
against deep plowing, and three or four
inches was as deep as ever a plow was
allowed to penetrate. The idea was
that deep plowing would "kilT' the soil.
Possibly better reason was that the
small, weak ponies then in use could
not plow deeper than four inches. This
idea has changed very rapidly, and Geep
plowing is now the rule among the bet
ter class of farmers. This loosens up
the ground. and makes it hold moisture
better, SO that it is preventive of the
effects of drouth. 1t is found that
ground plowed as deep as Is inches 10
all the better for It, The deepening is
not all done in one year, but at the rate
of about an inch a year