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of money. but of which the State has
no report This is tax upon ali the
taxable property of the Counties.
Ready sKenehan, Auditor of the
State of Colorado, says that the State
pays out s6A 200 for the Soldiers and
Sailors Home. He gives no report of
theliamounttpaid out by the Counties.
ID. \. M5ulton, Deputy Comptroller
of California, says that the State appro-
pri9tes $4,000 annually for the relief
| of veterans, the support of the Home.
etc. '' j
F. w. Benson, Secretary of State of
Oregon, writes that the State pays $12,-
900 for the support of the Home, and
| this has been Increased.
j. Eggers. Comptroller of the State
OF Nevada, says that the State pays out
Counties
John Hirning. Auditor of the State
of South Dakota, says that the State
pays out for the support of the Sol
diers' Home about $4,000 a year, be-
side appropriating $50 each for the
| funeral expenses. He makes no ac-
| count of what. has been paid by the
Counties
From these far from incomplete re-
ports it will be seen that the several
States in the North are paying in the
aggregate approximately as much as
the Sulloway Bill will cost each year.
We have not been able to get reports
from quite number of the States, nor
complete information from any of
them, but judging from those from
whom We have replies. the total must
reach beyond $4,000. 900. and proba-
bly, will amount to $4,000, 900. which,
it is estimated, the Sulloway Bill will
cost the first year. While the Sullo-
way Bill will not take off all this bur-
den from the States, it will take q
large portion of it., and this should be
strongly considered while studying the
cost of the bill. The money which the
States spend for the relief of veterans
is taken directly from the tax payers
and can be considered burden upon
them, while the money which the Gov
eminent expends for pensions is money
raised for other purposes than payment
OF pensions, and the money is redis-
tributed to the people. This is most
important consideration that should
have The greatest weight in any study
of the Sulloway Pension Bill.
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\ FRIENDLY JOURNAL.

The Elmira, N. Y, Advertiser says
editorially:
Veterans of the civil war are greatly
interested in the bill now pending in
Congress that will make radical, hut
what is considered a necessary change
in the pension law.
I'm the bill now under discussion
pensions will be granted on service and
the rate of pay to pensioners will be
based on age limits. The rates are SIS
per month to those who have reached
the age of sixty-twO years; sixty-five
years, $50 per month; seventy years,
$25 per month; seventy-five years or
over, sac per month. 1t is estimated
that it will require an additional ex-
penditure for pensions of about forty
five millions. thus bringing the total
annual nA"aions to about 100000, 900.
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Charles F. Dode, of Jamaica Plains,
n. Y, writes to the Springfield (Mass.)
Republican, claiming that the pension
bill does great injustice to the South,
fnasmuch that we are levying a tax
upon the immense number of people
of the South who have come up since
the war, and as money is badly needed
for educating their children, and it is
beneficial almost wholly in the far
richer North. Mr.. Dode is the 5Sth va
riety of pension kickers. very large
and increasing proportion of the pen
sion money is expended in the South
and it makes much for the develop
ment of that region. The Northern
people residing in the South, on the
other hand, who have taken the greater
amount of money and enterprise there,
are being heavily taxed, and directly. to
pay pensions to Confederate soldiers
who fought against them. 1t is not
risking much to say that probably a
greater portion of the wealth OF the
South is now in the hands of Northern
people who are taxed to pay pensions to
the men who fought against the Union.
Instead of the people of the South be-
ing. taxed to pay pensions, they are re-
ceiving the benefits and are making
money out of that policy. The moneys
raised by the protective tariff, goes to
pay pensions, and are thus returned to-
the whole people thru the medium of
pensions.
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DEATH OF GEN. THOMAS j. HEM
DERSON

A deep sorrow will pervade the
Grand Army of the Republic and count
less numbers outside of it at the intel
lisence of the death of the Hon.
Thomas ]. Henderson, of Princeton,
Ill, who died at the home of his daugh-
ter in this city last Sunday morning
of pleural pneumonia. Gen. Hender-
son was a rare type of man. He
was as brave as a lion, as gentle as the
gentiest woman, with heart overflow
ing with kindness to all around him.
He was born at Brownsville, Tenn, in
1924, but early in life went to Illinois
and settled. He entered politics in
1S4I, when he was elected Clerk of the
County Commissioners Court of Stark
County Ill. He studied law and was
admitted to the bar in 1852. He en-
tered ardently into politics on the Free
Soil question. and was one of the orig
inal Republicans. He was elected to
the Legislature and voted for Lincoln
for Senator. When the second call for
troops came out he raised the 18th
Ill. and commanded it with great cour-
Much of the time he was in command
of a brigade. He was in the thick OF
the operations when Schofieid tried to
arrest Hoods advance across the Ten
nessee, and the opening OF the battle
of Franklin found him Frustrated on
a bed from illness and fatigue. As
soon as he heard the firing he arose,
nd Of his hrie -ada
fought thru the battle with the great
est gallantry. He was brevetted a
Brigadier-General for this. Returning
to Illinois he became leader in the
Republican Party. was Presidential
Elector in 1863, and then served 10
consecutive terms in Congress. He was
a prominent candidate for Speaker Of
the SD Congress.
Gen. Henderson was man of tall,
imposing figure. with strong voice
and convincing readiness in debate.
which made him conspicuous figure
in the House. After his retirement
from Congress he maintained his inter-
est in military affairs, was appointed
a member of the Board of Ordnance
and Notifications, and also a Direc-
tor in the National Soldiers Home. He
attended to these duties. as he had done
all those i'll life, with the greatest in
dustry and punctuality, and his death
Will be a severe loss to his associates.
He is survived by three daughters,
Mrs. Chester Burdy and Mrs Charles
Dunbar, of Princeton, ILL.,, and Mrs.
Farnsworth. of Washington, D. c.
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OF course the Richmond (Va)
Times-Dispatch foams at the mouth
at the mention of the Sulloway Pen
sion Bill, and "unpacks its heart with
cursings like drab" 1t says:
Graft. graft, and more graft. Con-
temptible scoundrels who would run at
the fire of a cap pistol are, under the
cloak of the years. stealing from the
Government on fraudulent claims. Bra
zen adyenturesses who have married
senile relics are claiming the pensions
Of widows.
Criminal extortion, graft, theft out
rageous falsehood-these have made
the pension fund swell to the bursting
point.
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Maine is the first to regret getting
thar she cried for. There is no State
in the Union that gets as much per
capita and per dollar of investment out
of the tariff as Maine. Names
great products are potatoes. hay
and lumber. All of these are
heavily protected against Canadian
competition, with % cents a bushel on
potatoes, 81 a ton on hay, and one
and one-half cent foot on lumber.
Now, and very naturally, the Maine
people are up in arms against the
Presidents policy of Canadian reciproc-
ity, which will admit the Dominion
products on equal terms with those of
Maine.
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The comrades everywhere are being
reused to resent the slurs and defama-
tons in the Metropolitan press con-
tanned in the attacks upon the pension
roll. They are writing fJrceful, unan-
swerable letters to the papers, present.
ing the veterans's side of the question.
Among these we note very good letter
written to the Chicago Daily News by
Comrade w. +. Drummer He saws:
This increase in pension is not a
charity. 1t is simply paying an obIi-
CATION due from the Government Qong
delayed) to the men who saved this
Nation. The passage of this bill by
Congress has nothing to do with the
tariff. By its passage it will put in
circulation just so much more money
None of 1t will be boarded up and put
away in stocks and bonds, it will go
to pay the grocer, the coal man, the
doctor and all who furnish the necessi-
ties of life.
''Nine-tenths or more of the survi-
vors OF the civil war are poor men, and
because Of advancing years they are
being laid of from earning their daily
bread. l know veteran with a SPLEEN
did record, who works every night,
from $50 p. m. to $50 a. M, as a
guard at street crossing of the IL"
road. who receives the enormous PEN
sion of Sl2 a month to help him sup
port himself and family, wife and
three beautiful little children. and 1
wonder how he can do it In these
times of high prices"
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Quite unexpectedly the great match
manufacturers are active in support
of the law TO prevent the sale of the
ordinary white PHOSPHORUS matches.
The Diamond. Ohio, Pennsylvania. In
diana, National, Union and Ashland
Match Companies, which manufacture
nearly the entire supply of matches,
have united in a circular asking the
retailers to support the bill now before
Congress 10 prevent the manufacture
and sale of these.
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The Great State of Ohio Indorses.
JOINT RESOLUTION

Relative requesting Senators Congress support "A Bill
II. r. No 29346" pending in the Senate
Congress of the United States
Whereas Bill, H. R. No. 29346 known the suloway Bill,
granting pensions enlisted soldiers and officers who
the civil the with Mexico has passed the House
of Representatives the Congress United States and pend
ing in the Senate: Therefore
Be Resolced By the Geaey0z assembly of the State of Ohio,
heartily approve provisions of said BILL and
hereby respectfully request Senators Congress vote for and
every honorable passage by the Senate of the
United passed the House of Representatives, without
alteration amendment. to benefits provided.
That copies of this Resolution signed by the respective
each of the from Ohio in the
Congress of the United States,
Copy of Resolution adopted by both branches of the Ohio Ies
II. A. AXIIINE, Commander
Department of Ohio, g. A. r..
W. S. MATTHEWS, A. A G.,
Department of Ohio G. A. R.
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Judge George Carson. Council Bluffs.
Iowa. writes a strong letter to the Bur-
iington Hawkeye in which he says that
if the men who are carping at the Sui
loway bill could have had 10 minutes
of his experience on Snodgrass Hill,
Sept. 90, 1863, their rebukes would be
turned to praise. Comrade Carson be-
longed to Stcedman's Division, and
when they charged up the ridge against
the enemy every man felt that that
was the last of him. Every survivor
of that awful day was made older by
the strain upon his nerves.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-02-09

Florida cucumbers have a call in
the New York market at $3.50 crate.
dollhouse cucumbers range from $3.50
to 81 a crate, and the supply from
Florida is limited. Florida oranges are
in light demand at from $1.75 to 81 a
box. There is a better demand for tan
gerines at from SO to 81, Strawberries
at 40 to so cents a quart, and the to-
matos are out of market, on account of
the freeze. Florida peppers have gone
off in price. and range from $3.50 to 81.
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If Comrade II. A. Axline. Command
er of the Department of Ohio, G. a. r..
does no other good in his life than
than which he has already done in Sc
curing the unanimous Endorsement of
the Ohio Legislature for the Sulloway
bill, he will have lived his life to a
good purpose. He is an active, ener-
getic comrade to whom fraternity
means something. He believed in put
ting this into action, and his work with
the Ohio Legislature was of the highest
value
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SENATOR DICKS EARNEST SUP
PORT.

A comrade sends us the following
letter from Senator Dick:
Feb. 3, 1911.
Mr. George Graham, Means, Ohio.
Ny Dear Sir: Acknowledging your
esteemed favor, it affords me pleasure
to assure you of the utmost assistance
in my power to render in securing the
enactment into law during the present
session of the SullOway pension bill.
As you may know. during the years
l have been in public life my attitude
has invariably been to favor and sup
port any measure for the benefit of the
old soldier that could be passed by
Congress.
With kindest regards and best wishes,
L remain.
Very truly yours,
CHARLES DICK.
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ANSWERING OUR ENEMIES.

The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
has been particularly pugnacious to-
ward the Sulloway pension BILL and
Comrade H. d. Sisson, of Middle River.
Mass. answers it in a forceful and con-
Tincing letter. He cites his own regi-
ment as an example of veterans all
over the country. He knew personally.
every individual in his company, and
nearly all of the regiment. He will
guarantee that there were not more
than 20 dead-beats and frauds in the
whole 1000 men who served their
country faithfully and CALAMITY. Any
soldier who starts out to defame his
comrades may be assumed to be ono
of the skulkers. A man need only
to go into any community and study
the veterans to be convinced of the
spent millions of dollars in trying to
ferret out frauds with conspicuous fail
ure. Comrade Sisson claims that this
raid on the pension system was in
spired by moneyed corporations for DO
litical effect. There was deep.
wide and direct design in it." and if
has been cunningly working to impress
the credulous and divert to selfish pur-
poses the $150,000,000 year which
are to be spent for pensions Comrade
Ssson says:
''One hundred and fifty millions of
dollars is a big pile. Three millions of
men in deathly strife is
terrible, and past comprehension. One
hundred and fifty million dollars a
year is an fnitesimally small amount
of money to repair the damage of such
a strife. Now, taken in connection
with the magnitude of the subject, and
the results of Cleveland's efforts to
suppress pension frauds, the illustra-
tons, letters and arguments of this
last pension carnival effort, seem in
significant and peurile''
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NOTICE.

When you send IN your subscription
always state whether renewa! u new
subscriber.
When you renew from another pozf
office give former address as well
When change of address is desired 5a
sure to give former address.
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VETERANS IN THE CITY.

Perry Phillips. Tooth Pa, Hughes
vile, Pa. Comrade Phillips, who is
painter, was the first Commander of
Post 500, of Hughesville, Pa, and is
now serving his 22d year as Quarter
master. He received a gunshot wound
thru the left side and lung near Fort
Stedman March 20, 1865.
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SENATOR PENROSE INDORsEs.

cOUlTdUe SeuuS uo TIE lolloNll6
letter from Senator Penrose:
u. S. Senate, Jan. 20, 1911.
Cci- John r. Oursler, Postoffice Depart
merit. Washington, ID. c.
Dear Sir: / have your letter of recent
date relative to the so-called SullOway
pension bill which recently passed the
House of Representatives. l am in
hearty accord with the legislation ex-
pressed in this measure, and therefore
will energetically support the same
when it comes up for consideration in
the Senate.
Yours truly, BOIES PENROSE.
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Colorado Indorses the Sulloway Bill.
TELEGRAM.

Denver, Colorado Feb. 6, 1911.
Editor National Tribune
have passed resolutions
petionng nited pass the Sulloway Bill intro
duced by Republican both Houses, which Democratic and
passed unanimously. 49, -
w. w. FERGUSON,
Department Commander, G. A r.
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LINCOLN.

In calm that came when all the guns
were still,
The sections breathing from their
long unrest;
Came shot accursed, the Nations first
TO kill,
And Time wrote Lincoln on the
ages breast"
James Riley.
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.hmtered Washington. D. ., Post Office
as second-cIass matter.
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Denver, Colorado, Feb. 6, 1911.
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WROTE UNDERTAKEN
ABOUT HIS SUICIDE
". S. Gritty Was Later Found Nearly
Dead in a Hotel.

Jonesboro, Sept. ii. R. Smith, 4
local undertaken, received letter
this morning from H. s. Chitty, Cot
ton Belt section foreman on section 20,
north of Jonesboro, enclosing a check
for s133.05, with the statement that
he was going to kill himself, Chitty
could not be found and the check was
declared at the Bank of Jonesboro.
Chitty was a single man about fifty
five years of age and an inveterate CT
garette smoker.
The proprietor of West Plains
hotel later discovered Chitty nearly
dead in his room, with empty bottles
marked carbolic acid, morphine and
laudanum on the floor. DR.. Lutterloh
was called and the man was removed
to a hospital with but slight hopes OF
recovery. Dependency caused from
ill health is given as the cause of his
act.
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F BRIEF MENTION
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Frank Hughes has returned frotn a
visit in Tyler, Texas
NJ Finklestein is hg1ns tGolo visit
in Mineral Wells, Texas
Henry Brinke is ZONE tlem Mem
phis where he spent a few days
Miss Ruby Puddephatt has return
ed from a visit in Little Rock.
Luen Saunders is home flon a visit
with relatives in New York city.
Mrs. V. 0. Alexander is the guest
Of Mrs. A. R Shvfri.l at Sheriff..
Mrs. ]. r. Cromwell ard niece are
home from a visit at Shreveport, La.
Miss Werner Duncan is visiting
Miss Mildred Sutton in Little Rock.
Attorney H. K. Torey lett yester-
day for Warren, OF a business trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. Beall have returned
from Liberty, Miss, where they spent
month.
Mrs. H. P. Bradford and Mrs D. Il.
Saunders are visiting relatives in Ell
Reno, Okla.
Mrs. 0 P Kead1e and little son lef-
yesterday for Hot Springs, to spend a
few weeks.
A. Brewster has returned from New
York City, where be has been spending
a few weeks.
Mrs. Harry Well has returned from
a. several weeks visit 10 re !atives at
Dayton, Ohio.
E. P. Ladd ard wife, OF Walnut Lake
spent yesterday il the city at the
Hotel Jefferson.
Claud Sparks has IeturGed from an
extended tour CT California, Colorado
and Washington
Mrs. l. j. Moore spent yesterday the
guest Of her sister, MIS-. Minnie Eli
bolt, at Altheimer.
Dashiel Perkins, eff Memphis, is in
the city visiting his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. II. D. Perkins.
Miss Lillian and May Fortune have
returned to their home at Fordyee, af-
ter visit in the city.
Miss George Mae List returned yes
terday from a visit with Miss Eddie
Jarvis at Bankhead
Former Congressman Thomas G..
McRae, of Prescott, spent yesterday
in the city on business.
Mrs. J. r. Palmer and niece, Miss
Eula Kidd, have returned from visit
at Galveston and Dallas.
DR.. Lillian Moh1er is home from
Chicago and points in the nerth, where
she spent several weeks.
Mrs. w. ]. Robinson, OF Omaha,
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KINDERGARTEN
For Children From 3 to 6 Years Of
Age.

Children from three to six years old
are too young to be made to study
from text books or to DE confined to
the school-room for hours at time,
but the Kindergarten gives the child
the instruction that the awakening
mind demands in the best possible
manner, at the same time teaching
the child to play intelligently thus
building a firm foundation for body,
mind and character and forming for
the child habits of industry and con-
centration that will be beneficial to
him in his maturer years. If you
want your child to succeed in school
start him in.
THE KINDERGARTEN,
Miss Annie Martin, 1104 West 5th
Ave- Phone 1924. 9-7-4t
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STEAMER SINKS.
THIRTY DROWNED
Chilean Vessel Strikes Uncharted Rock
OFF Coast Of Peru.

lima, Peru. Sept. IA telegram re-
ceived today from the purser of the
Chilean steamer Tucapel. which Was
wrecked near Quilca, says that the
total number of persons drowned was
81 Ninety other We're saved.
Those who lost their lives were
the captain, the first and second Of
ficers, 20 members of the crew and
nine deck passengers.
Tucapel. during a heavy fog, struck
on an charted stretch of rocks 20
miles north of Quilca which lies seve-
raj hundred miles south of Lima. The
vessel was of 1872 tons net and en-
gagged in trading ON the west coast
of Africa.
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Trinity Cathedral will leave this af-
ternoou for Warren, where he will OF
fieiate tomorrow at the marriage Of
James I. Hornor of Helena and Miss
Dunn, daughter of Dir. Dunn, of War
rem. Little Rock Democrat.
y. +. Holland, of Toledo, Ohio, is in
the city visiting his brothers, NJ. Hol-
land and lack Holland. and sister.
Mrs. f. p King. He accompanied Lit
tie Miss Mary Holland, daughter of NJ
Helland to her home in This city after
visit to her grandparents in Ohio.
Dr. @. C. Hankinson, who left the
City several weeks ago to enjoy his
annual vacation, will return home to-
day. During his absence he visited
relatives in Ohio and Indiana and en-
joyed an auto trip with a party Of
relatives and friends il Michigan. He
also attended the big aviation meet
in Chicago
MIR. and Mrs Carleton EoN have re
turned fom Minneapolis. st Paul Chi
cago and Duluth, Nina. where they
have been spending a few months on
their bridal trip. They are at home
With Mr. and Mrs G. Z. Mclean at
Fourteenth avenue and poplar street
until they build new home. which
they expect to do in the near future
Congressman Joe T. Robinson, can
didate for Governor, Will arrive in
Pine Bluff next TuesdaY to spend Il
few days here with friends. Congress-
man Robinson will in all probability
be employed to aid District Attorney
Nixon in the prosecution OF W. G
Alexander, who will be tried at the
coming term of the circuit court ON
a murder charge, for the killing Of
j. p Kelly, al the Brookhill saloon
several weeks ago. Ii is also re-
ported that Congressman Robinson
has been employed to aid iii the pro-
seeution of ]. w. Ethridge, Who will
be tried for the alleged assassination
of Albert McVay in this city few
wears ago.