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CAPT. ROBERT E. PEARY.
He Will Soon be Placed on the Re-
tired List as a Rear-AdmiraI.

Capt. Robt. e. Peary, the North Pole
explorer, is apparently coming into his
own, and before many weeks will have
inscribed on his visiting cards Rear Adj
miral Robert E. Peary, u. S. N, Re
tired" His critics and opponents are
gradually dropping into the background,
and famous naval episode is drawing
to close. For the fight upon the rec
ognition of the explorer has essentially
been a Navy fight. If Navy officers of
the line had not been jealous Of him,
a Civil Engineer of the Navy staff, the
bill to promote him would probably
have become law without any particu-
lar ruction. Under the lead of the
Navy, few natural-born obstructionists
followed in and helped give the fight
proportions. g.,,.-......
OF course, the Senate long ago enact
ed a retirement bill for Peary. The
contest has all been in the House be-
fore the Naval Affairs Committee. But
now the Naval Affairs Committee has
capitulated, and even Representative e.
w. Roberts, of Massachusetts. who has
been earnest in opposition, is willing
that the bill should become law. -..a
The steady insistence of the Admins
tration that Peary should be recognized
with promotion, which would free him
from workaday cares, has been very eff
fective. Secretary of the Navy Meyer
started off with recommendation to
that effect, and President Taft also
urged it in his annual message. More
than that, the President has taken oc-
cason to urge the matter anew in his
public addresses. a recent mention IN
that connection was before the National
Geographic Society the other evening.
Peary is~not personally popular in
Washington, and that has initiated
against him. But he has taken very
dignified position about the proposed
mendable attitude, coupled with the
strong public sentiment in his favor,
has brought about the conversion OF
the House. Navy officers have been
quick to see the force of public senti-
ment in Peary's behalf and, aware that
their tactics must in such a situation
eventually react against them, have
mostly preferred to retire gracefully,
Once the Peary bill passes the House.
there will probably be little difficulty in
getting ii to the President. Senator
Hale, of Maine, who has been Pearys
steadfast champion, will probably. have
the House bill substituted for the one
that the Senate passed last Winter, and
that will be the end of the Legislative
history of the matter. After the Presi-
dent has signed the bill, he will prompt
Iy nominate Peary to be a Rear Admiral
on the retired list for Civil Engineers
of the Navy. The nomination will be
referred to the Senate Committee on
Naval Affairs and promptly confirmed
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REMARKABLE SWORN STATEMENT
OF A new BRUNSWICK
DRUGGIST.

Have sold your Swamp-Root for
twenty eight years and have known its
valuable curative qualities for the past
twenty years. For kidney, liver and
bladder troubles 1 have never known a
single case where 1t has failed to re-
lieve and cure. Right in my own house
hold Swamp-Root cured my wife of
catarrh of the bladder, while it cured
me of liver and bladder troubles.
Numerous cases have come under my
personal observation, which has made
me very enthusiastic about recommend
Ing Dr. ,Kilmer's Swamp-Root to any
one suffering from kidney, liver and
bladder troubles. and 1 have the great
est confidence in its merits. Have never
heard any customers who have given
DR. Kilmer's Swamp Root trial speak
of it but in the highest terms.
Yours respectfully,
JOS. +. BRADLEY, Druggist.
172 Hamilton ST.. New Brunswick. n. j.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 18th day of July, A. d. 1909.
JAS. II. VAN CLEEF,
Notary Public.
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The list Mass. ii. A.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
a brief sketch of the 1st Mass. II. A
VIM. n. Morgan, II Swan street, Bever-
ly, Mass.
The list Mass II. A. one of the fight
ing regiments, was organized at Boston
from July 5, 1851, to March &c, 1862,
and after serving out two enlistments
was finally mustered out Aug, 16,, 1865.
1t was commanded by Coils. VIM. B.
Greene, West Point man; Thos. r.
Tannatt, also a West Pointer; Levi P.
Wright and Nathaniel Shatswell in Sue
cession. This regiment was recruited
as the 18th Inf, and was changed TO
heavy artillery in January, 1862, having
been Increased by additional companies.
recruits and officers. 1t did not go to
the front until May, 1874, when it
joined the Army of the Potomac. and
was assigned to Tylers Division of
Heavy Artillery. In the battle on the
Fredericksburg pike it lost so killed. 312
wounded and % missing. 1t belonged
to Birney's Division, Second Corps. and
lost 241 killed and 243 from disease, etc.
It's total of killed and wounded vas 1923
and 102 of it's members died in Con-
federate prisons.-Editor National
Tribune. ..-
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Marrying Veterans.

]. NJ. Brown. 18th KY, Harrodsburg.
KY, says that money is the medium of
exchange in all the pleasures and in
terests of this life. A young woman
when she marries does so to better her
condition, and hope moves her to take
the responsible step. If she can find
hope in marrying an old veteran who
has nothing but age and disease. il is
probable that $144 year will help her
to a conclusion, and the quicker her
husband is gone the better for her
There are exceptions to this, but he
speaks Of the majority. He married a
second time, and his wife is 10 years
his junior, but she is a good one and
does her duty.
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Pearls I'm Oklahoma.

Once of the unexpected products
which1is bringing wealth to Oklahoma
is pearls. They are found quite piehtl-
fully in the Jmussels which abound in
the streams of the State and also in
tue Tanks which the cattlemen make
for water for their cattle. The business
took its start from the discovery of five
pearls in a mussel shell on the Poteau
River, one of which was valued at 800
by a jeweler. The hunt for pearls has
so much of the gamble IN it as to make
1t fascinating for large class of peo-
pie. 1t is said that an Industrious, skill
full man or woman can open from 1,500
to 5000 shells in day, but days may
pass without finding a single pearl. To
be of value the pearls must have fine
color. be perfectly smooth. without de-
fault and of good shape. Where brill
liant pearl, If 1t was of the right shape
and without any defects, would be
worth $50, small dot or dimple would
reduce its value to SIS. 1t is claimed
that the dark metallic green pearls ara
the most valuable in the world, being
esteemed higher than the pearls found
in Japan or CeylOn.
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"t -''a"'
The PRESIDENT ,,,..,., !,
SIGHTSEEING.
He Wanders About the City on
Foot, Visiting the Notable
--.Dr" -.-- --
Places.

Washington is looking on with, much
interest while President Taft explores
the places of interest in the District Of
Columbia. It was unheard of that Il
President should climb the Washington
Monument, as the President did the
other day, accompanied by his Army
Aid, Capt Butt, and a couple OF Secret
Service men. The Washington Monu-
ment stands there by the Potomac day
by day, the most conspicuous landmark
In Washington, not even barring the
United States Capitol. But there are
tens of thousands of Washington people
who never went to the top of 1t and
beheld the magnificent view.
So 1t is with great number of in
teresting places, which tourists come
from afar to see and venerate. Your
Washington resident takes only a minor
interest in them, but thinks that some
day he will make a sightseeing tour
in his own behalf. 1t Is so easy, how
ever, that he keeps postponing the trip.
and in many cases dies before he has
improved the opportunity. The Presi-
dent is taking his exercise nowadays by
walking, and ne finds it interesting to
go about the city just as any ordinary
citizen would do. He went to the Cap
itol the other day-in fact, has made
two or three trips there since he enter
ed the White House. There is little new
MIN 10 see III the q, lot
he went there often while Secretary of
War. But the trip accorded well with
one of his late afternoon iaunts.
There is sort of tradition that the
President is not TO visit the Senate and
House except on formal occasions. He
has the privilege of the floor of both
houses. In the very early days the
President used to meet with the Sem
ate in executive session, but this was
quickly discontinued, and no serious eff
| fort has ever been made to resume the
practice.
The Tafts have been very democratic
| in their iaunts about Washington
more so than any other Presidential
family since the time of the Grants
Mrs. Taft goes to the shopping district
on foot, and 1t is nothing unusual to
see her walking along F street, which
| is in the heart of the shopping district
inspecting the display of goods in the
windows. Sometimes the President and
his wife are subjected to little annoy
ance from the congregation of curious
people on such occasions, but as a rule
| they attract little attention. The Wash.
ington people are so accustomed to see.
ing notable officials that they take it al
as a matter of course. Furthermore
they are pleased that the President and
his wife should go about in this way
Both are tolerably popular in Washing
| ton, which is not often the case with
Presidential families.
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HEAITH-e1vING ST. CLOUD.
HEATTH-GiVING ST. CLOUD.
Where Everyone Can Get the Most On,
Of Life.
(From the shenango Valley (Pa.)
News)

Nov. 16. 1901 promised to write
YOU what / thought OF Florida, thru the
kindness of the editor of this good,
much-read paper, but can give only an
outline OF a few things. since L can't
charter the whole newspaper. / can
only write of middle Florida, and not
able to do it Justice. / am doing so
thru love with the place. and you Know
one in love is blind to faults
St Cloud is a jewel on the breast OF
Florida, set with gems from every state.
and some from foreign countries. The
colony of st. Cloud does not mean the
townsite alone, which is two miles long
and one mile wide, but the country for
miles around. Some are having their
acres laid out in lots. and the town is
still being made larger.
Everything that will grow il the
South can be raised here and natures
fast Strawberries ready for the table
in three months after planting. Now.
don't take from this that everyone who
has been here three months is eating
strawberries and cream. Oh, no; for
it takes some time to clear the land
and get it ready to plant, as usually
there is a rank growth of foliage of
some kind, an occasional pine tree to
take off. a house to build, and. lumber
being in such demand. delay is some
times caused in building. Ones first
thoughts mere are not WHAT We
eat or what we shall wear, but rather
wherewith shall we be sheltered. There
are only a few houses for sale compared
to the many people who are coming in.
One can buy anything to eat here that is
for sale in the North, and some things
that are not.
The Southern people do not live like
the people in the North. Now that the
South is being settle. nth people from
the North. they wi -orm "happy
medium" One feels a happiness they
cannot EXPLAIN; even the kicker, tho
still a kicker thru force of habit. is
much improved, but cannot stay in st.
Cloud long, as it is too hot for them.
A few days ago | saw pleasant
sight. 1t was two men with boat
oar strung full of FISH that were still
living, weighing from five to % pounds,
and they were selling them right and
left as they went down the street.
Since the game law came in some
have brought in some deer and wild
turkeys as trophies.
Every letter asks if we have snakes.
Yes, we have: and tho we live in a
state of intoxication, a Southern snake
does not think enough of Yankee to
get into his boots; they We're raised
with Johnny Rebs. as the old soldiers
playfully call them, and, like them, are
shy of Yankee 1t is not fashionable
here, either, for ladies' TO converse Win
them, as it was in Mother Ewes time
in the other garden of Eden. The ones
most to be feared are the snakes in
the grass.
Many come here between the ages OF
so and 80 for their health who are
cured and enjoy pioneering with the
rest.
There are amusements for old and
young, fine band and a uniformed bal
hot al of
of several denominations, well attend.
ed A high school is being built tc
rank with the best in the State.
Hope this will find all we'll and happy
as it leaves us.-Mrs. Ralph Livingston
st. Cloud, Fla.
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The MARINE CORPS.
A New Commandant to be Ap-
poinnted-Several Officers Dis
ciplined as, the Result of the
Big Quarrel.

President Taft will probably nominate
a new Commandant of the Marine
Corps soon. Secretary of the Navy
Meyer has recently taken the subject up
at the White House offices, with view
to settling forthwith one Of the most
tenacious controversies that have arisen
during the year within the naval serv-
ice.
The Administration asked Congress to
provide four-year term for the Com
mandant. Heretofore Marine Corps
officer appointed to that high station,
carrying the rank of Major-General, has
served till he reached the age of retire
ment from active duties 1t is one OF
the very choicest billets in all the mill
tary service, as the Commandant is on
duty all the time at Washington, with
opportunities to make pleasant trips
occasionally to various parts of the
country.
A few months ago there was a big
shakeup at Marine Corps headquarters
in this city, as a result of a quarrel be-
tween the retiring COmmandant. Gen.
George +. Elliott and some Of his prin-
cipal subordinates
The designation of Gen. Elliotts sue
cessor has been deferred, in the hope
that Congress would enact law re-
Istricting the tenure to a term of years.
Congress seems averse to doing anything
of the kind. Senators and Representa-
tives, who have been resisting legisla-
ton for. the reorganization of the De-
partment, are in considerable part re-
sponsible for this opposition.
Half a dozen Marine Corps officers
of the line are being considered. 1t is
said that Col. w. P. Biddle. the senior
line officer who has been acting Com
mandant, will not be selected. Prob
ably the new Commandant will be
either Col Littleton w. Il. Waller, one
of the best-known officers of the Corps,
or Col. George Barnett. Col. James E.
Mahoney, who is a native Of Massachu-
sets, may get the place, IL the oppOsi-
ton to Waller and Barnett is too force
full. There is also a possibility that it
will go to Col. Lincoln Karmany. Col.
Henry c. Hams. a staff officer, is said to
have some chance
The President has been inclined to
Col. Waller, but he hestates to name
him because of his connection with al
legged brutalities in the treatment of the
Filipinos during hostilities in the
archipelago
The leading staff officers of the Ma
rine Corps have been sent to various
distant posts as a matter of discipline
growing out of the recent troubles
under the Elliott regime. The new
Commandant will have a delicate task
in adjusting this situation and in con-
Quoting the Marine Corps on a basis OF
high military efficiency which the Pres
ident and Secretary Meyer insist upon
having IA
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terday morning, travelling by wagon
from Evansville, Ind, to st. Cloud, Fla.
and their equipment for travelling and
camping on the way was noticed by
many people as it passed thru town
yesterday morning. The party left their
Indiana home on the 7th day of No
vember. and expect to reach their des-
tination about the middle of January.
Mr.. Masters has been journeying by
easy stages, but expects to travel more
rapidly over the remaining 400 miles OF
his trip. Nothing of an unfortunate
nature has happened during the Jour-
ney SO far, and the party is enjoying the
balny breeZes of the Southland
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TO ALL WHO ARE DEAF

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The 9th and 18th Battery, Ohio l.. A.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
a short history OF the 9th and 18th Pat
terry, Ohio /. Al. j. Sway, Lodoga.
Cal.
The 9th Battery, Ohio L. A, was or
ganized at Camp Wood Oct. II, 1861,
and after serving out two enlistments
was finally mustered out July %, 1865.
1t was commanded by Capt. Henry S.
Wetinore, resigned Dec. 49, 1862, sue
ceededl by Capt. Harrison B. York. 1t
belonged to g Williams's Division,
Twelfth Corps land lost one killed and
% fr5th disease, etc. 20
Thais1sth Battery. Ohio l.. A., was
organized at Camp Portsmouth Sept.
49, 1862, and mustered out June 20,
1861 1T was Commanded by Capt. Chas.
C. Aleshire, brevetted Major March l3,
1865. 1t belonged to Steedman's Divi-
sion, Reserve Corpse, and lost two killed
and II from disease, etc.-Editor Ma
tionaI Tribune
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Is EPILEPSY CONQUERED?
New York Physicians Have Many Cure
to Their Credit.

New York. JAN 19.--Advices from
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consulting physicians of the DIR. Water
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Persons suffering from epilepsy
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New York, for supply of the remedy,
which is being distributed gratuitously.
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Rupture Cured ~
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CURE FOR INDIGESTION

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FREQ Asthma Cure.

D. J. Lane. q chemist at lis Lane Bldg,
st. Mary's. Kan, manufactures remedy for
Asthma In which he has so much confidence
that ne sends 81 bottle by express to any
one who will write him for it. His offer Is
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one taking the treatment is to be the judge.
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Information Wanted.

VIM. Elliott, R. r. I, Rose Hill, Iowa.
wants to hear from his comrades OF the 9th
Ind.
n. E. Houghtaling. Otford. Neb., wants
information Of contract doctor from Ohio
whose wife was Nancy Drake, of Alabama,
and of Harvey Devo, an Indian soldier. or
any other nurses or cooks in Eruptive Hos
pital No. 3. located in Albert Sidney John,
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mer of 1864.
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I received your Soul Growth Of
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On Their WAY to st. Cloud.

The following is taken from the Daily
Blast, Admission. Ala, of Dec. %, 1910:
"F. NJ Masters. with his wife and
two little girls, passed thru oxford yes
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Cure Takes Place While You Work

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Letter to
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picture / should be desperate. But every ons
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know only well with what heartburnings
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