Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 12, 1892, Page 11

1t 1s within the Incenulty of man to enact such lea ation as will provide It Men may for gain be guilty of adulterating s wln, such s are in- nierely, but, never o life, which is doar w0 al. We 4en‘l a slip from the Amerioan Grover of Bomo tinio since. speaking of the measure. Tt touches apon the matters of difference be- tween the southern and western farmoers and the joss 1Lty of hurmony. Tt will be very gratityinz to us to see har- mony. ani to hear t this just measury be- COmES 1w aw Very respocttully, yours, it i Witnrox Asenruixa, 8 P BDO K, U wved States senator, Tho follswing lettor 1s from Mr. W. C. Marshali of Chicago, the inveutor of the “eompressod oanued boef " CRICAGO, 1k, Fob., 7, 1802 —~Dear Sir: T note with groit pleasure from press dispatchos th.t your billon the subjoct of pure food Is Koo 10 ho pross sonato. 1t will doubtiess na son stions from parties Interested i food adulterations, but it ought 10 be promptly passed. ~Very truly, yours, W, C. MARSHALL. Hox, A S PADDOCK, Unitod Statos Senate. ad tho following letters: v Md., Feb. 7, 1802.--Ro- 10 10 0Xpress to you iy ¢ offorts in the line of u eot of practical legisla- our pure food bill, rom the milk that is bought for the infant to the food that is eaton by the man totteclog on the verge of the grave 18 the country flooded with ndulterated food, drinks, and drugs that kil outright their thoussnds and work moro or loss misory on the lives of othor thousands. 1t 18 overywhere criminil to polson a mnn t; why should it not be correspe polson him by slow doegrees? Aihis, With the vietims' sufferings g us daily, are certainly caleulnted 1 forth provenitati 1t the Uiled, the fgnorant, and the Inter- eatod fall to Seo and noknowledae the fuots, they nevortheless romain the same, plainly apparent to the eyes of all honest und ob aut persons, und ¢adl londiy for redro, Respectfally, yours, HON. A. S PADDOCK, United States S I rvead the following letter from Beckwith, M. D.: Hos ConpEs, 111, Feb. 0, 1802 DeAr Sii: Your pure-food bill 1s of greator fmportance than any bill that has beon pre- sentcd In congross for tho last twenty-fivo yours: Noman with any porcoption at ail cun all to comprehiend the necessity nnd the great importance of this legislation. "The sanitary condition of the country depends moro on pure f00d than 11l things else. Our medicines of American manufacture are so adulterated that I do not pretend to buy them. I buy ana use the German products. If this congress does not puss your bill it will be universally condemned. I have been for years at work on this pure-food question. Respootfully yours, HON. A, 8, PADDOCK, 8. W. BECKWITH, United States Senate. ‘This bill, Mr. President, is correlative with the meat inspection acts. As to which I quote the following from my rewarks of the other day : *The b:ll which was passed first at the last session, called the meat 10spection bill, ro- ported from the committoo on Foreign Keia- tions, and for which an amendment in the nature of a substitute was presented by my- self from the committee of which I have the honor to be chairman—the committee on Ag- riculture—requiring the inspection to be under the Department of Agriculture instead of the Treasury department, was acropted and the bill so'passed. The passage of that bill by a ununimous vote hets, a bill more liberal in respect of its provisions than this bill; afterwards the passage of the bill reported by my distinguished friend from Missour: (Mr. Vest) for the in- spection of live animals for export, which ‘went through the senate with almost no dis- cussion and by an almost unanimous voto; then, stili later, the passage of another bill, & more imporiant measure, perhaps, than eitber of them, which I had the honor to re- port from the committes on Agriculture, and ‘which passed the senate nem. con., providing for the anto-mortem and post-mortem in- spection and examination of animals to be siaughtered or that had been slaughtered at slaughter houses, canning establishmonts, packing houses, rendering establishments, eto., and soon, cleared the way entirely for this kind of legi: on, 50 that the line is not meroly a blazed line throught the dense forests of uncertainty as to the jurisdiction of congress in respect_to this kind ot tegisla- tion, but a broad and beaten path, marked out by the constitution, measured and de- fined by recognized constitutional motes and bounds by the congress of which nearly all the senators here who now take a special in- terest in this matter wero mambers, and who glfllc!palod in the legisiatior to which I ave called attention, either voting for, or assenting by their silence to such enact- ments.” Here is evidence of the usefulness of one of the 'fuost important of the acts named, from the Washington Post of a recent, date: The vigorous enforcement of the United States ment inspection lnw I8 u source of great satisfuction to every one, and the butchers uy that thelr customers uro getting into the habitof demanaing to be told whether the meat they ure purchasing hus been Inspected ornot. A lurze proportion, in fuct the lurgest proportion, of the better ciass of meats used n Washington comes trom the great Chicago dressed-beef firms. Each quarter of beef, eacn lamb, and every plece of veal that Is brought 10 Washinzton from Chicago bears n little ticket showlng it to have been inspected by the oflicers of the bureau of anfmal indus- try of the Aericultural Department loc Chilcago, and the ticket s u g ity th meut 13 good und free from diseuse. The stock 18 Inspected before 1t s killed und also after 1t 1s dressed, and there is no opportunity for an animal disensed with cancer or infoctod with pleuro-pneumonia to siip_through. Ceuter murket butchor told a Post reporter ¥erda v that he has seen muny cattle killed or market thut had cincerous jaws. One would not Iike to think that the julcy boef- stouk or tompting slice of roast beef before bim had been out from an animal almost eaten up with cuncer, ir. President, if this bill shall become a law it will prove to be of far greater value than the act to which the ost refors, be- cause it will cover the whole range ot food, drink and drug adulterations, I think this will suftice this time, Mr. tresident. I as- sure you, howeven, sir, that there is a basket- ful left of the same character which I could give to the senate if 1 had time and thore was space for them in the Record, Mr. President, in conclusion, 1 appeal to seantors to help 80 far as they may be able, 1n this particulur sphere of their legislative activities, to enact this law. I make this appeal in the interest of the public health, 0 accumulated evidence of thirty years ‘which has come to us from the investigations and the analyses of solentists whose names are known and honored throughout the whole civilized world for their iearuicg. their slall, and their devotion to the work of purifying the food and medicine supplies of the paoplo, leave no doubt as to the supreme importance of this legislation and of our duty to help enaot it. ‘The fact that many of the most virulent poisons known to science are almost univers- ally used by aishonest—impolled by their cu- pidity—to “make adulterated, sophisticat and impure foods and drugs, even more wractive in appearauce in some cases than the pure ind gonuine, hus buen indisputably established. That the health of the peopie everywhere has been impairea, that thous- ands have been sent to LLELr graves as sac- riticos to the insatiate monster of greed whence comes the inspiration for this wicked work, cannot be and is not deniea by intelli- gent men and women anywhere. If we can not stop allogether, lot us at least do what ‘we.can in the way of deterrent legislation to minimize this appalling evil. * In the uawe and in the interest of morality 1 ap) to vou to setl bounds beyoud which the wicked with impunity in this corrupt and corrupting work. Let s at least attempt to perform our part in the general effor. to elevate the standard of commercial honesty which has been so disgracefully lowered by these de- eaxuaun. frauds, and robberies, the malign influence of which s everywhere present, everywhere felt. Let us belp by our action here to protect and sustain 10 his honorable vocation the :\guol'lbh producer, manufacturer, merchant d trader, whose business is constautly menaced aud often ruined by Lhese unsorupu- lous competitors, who Ly their vile and dis- bonest arts, manipulations end misbranding are able to make the bad and impure appear 10 be the genuine; thus, by a doubie decep- tion, both &8 10 quality Aud price, making the Worse uppear the botter choice (o the unin- telligent mass of purchasers. In the interest of the great consuming pub- ile, particularly the poor, I beg of you to make 8o bhouest, earnest effort to secure this legislation. At best a great multitude of our people wre ' opposed by fear, & never- spprohonsion, which they carry to their work by day and to their beds by night, that perhape at the end of the follow- ing day or week or month their ends may 1al 1o meet. Under the strain of this grim itself becomes & burden almost oo grievous to be borne. But tbhe thought of helpless wives and chilaren, whose sole dependonce he is, renews the courage of the wage-worker from dey to day, and so he striiggles on, praying and hoplog to the end These, Mr. Presicent, sre the wmen, and ublic islative ¥ 0ot go THE these the women and children for whom, be- fore all othiers, I make this appeal. If you could save to these the possible one-third of the nutrition element of their food supplies which is extracted to be replaced by that which 18 only bulk, only the form and sem- biance of that of which they are robved by the dishonest manipulator and trader, you would go a long way toward solving the groat problem of the laboring nasses — whether for them it is ‘'better to live or not to live,” whether it 1s ‘‘better to endure the lils they have, rather than flee to those they know not of,” that lie beyond in the realm of governmental aud social upheaval and chaos. There is a good deal in the way of comic ‘‘asides” as the momentous social drama which holas the boards at this time, and whose dramatis personm are the so-called common ple, rapidly advances to the epi- logue. Be not deceived! the storm doth not abate. It is ever rising. Its violence is ever increasing. Take heed when the people de- marid bread that you continue not to give ihem & stone, lest the angry waves of popu- lar discontent muy some time, pertiaps in the near future, rise so high as to overwhelm and engulf forever all that wo most greatly value ur free institutions, and all the glories and hopes of our groat republic— which are not ours alone, but which belong, and, if they are preserved and shall perma- nently endure, will be an ever-continuing blessing to all mankind, FACTS AND FIGURES. There are 332 miles of street railway in op- eration in Philadelphia. 1t s estimated that Europe is $1,000,000,000 poorer every year by her system of armed peace, Chicago now limits her buildings to 150 feet in heighth and only on cighty-foot streets even then. It is said that the Vatderbilts own over 70,000 shares of Krie and the Mills party over 100,000 shares, The Georgia state pension list numbers 400 widows of confederate soldiers, and means an annual tax of $100,000, Krupp, the great gunmaker, 1s taxed on an income of §1,500.000, and stands at the top of his class of income taxpayers, The undertaker charged the New York Central Railroad company £5,500 for burying seven poople killed by the Hastings accident. A Now York mediumistic artist has suc- ceeded in marrying a venerable widow to whom he delivered a message from her ‘‘de- ceased friends.”” She is over 70, but has a tina figure—8$300,000 —which probably proved a strong attraction to the medium. The grand total of charitable bequests in England during 1881, excluding Baron Hirsh’s $10,000,000 for 'Jewish emigration, was §15,000,000, as against $11,500,000 in 1890, The population of Bogota, the capital of the United States of Columbia, decreased 854 dur- g 1801, There were 2,305 births and 3,150 deaths in that city during the year. L tion and immigration are not factors in the city’s economy. A stretch of track across the pampas on the new Argontine Pacifle railroad from Buenos Ayres to the foot of the Andes 1s 211 milos long, without a curve, a single brigge, an opening larger than an ordirary drain, & cut greater than on metre in depth, or an embankment more than ono metro in height. Dr. Cyrus Edson of New York, in his articie entitled *Do We Live Too Iastt" publishes figures setting forth that the woalth of the United States incrensed from $16,159,000,000 to over $30,000,000,000 in the decade in Wwhich the civil vccurred, Do we figure too fast in getting up some kinds of statistics? POINTS ON PROGRESS. A man has invented @ machine that will register the paces and the ground covered by a horso. Owing tothe withdrawal of the 10 por cent tax that hus becn levied on express trains in France, thero will be inaugurated on Aril 1a reauction of 10 per cont, in second-class ard 20 per cent in third-class passenger rates. The manufacturers of Chicago are forming a combination to fight the anti-smoke socioty. “Chey reason that 1t is the large munufactur- ing interests that have built up the city, and that the use of soft coal is a necessity. Two marked improvements have recently been made 1n the use of gas for lighthouse illumination. One is a process of enriching gas made from ordinary cooking coal by the addition of hydro-carbon and heated air; the other is tho new dioptric lons. The last annual report of the managor of the city gas works in Bilbao, Spain, shows a profit of nearly 0,000 upon capital amount- 1ng to only 5,000 investea in the plant. The averago net cost of gas during the year wus about 60 conts per 1,000 cubic feet and the avorage selling price was 92 cents. Bolgiam oxported last year 5,400,000 worth of firearms, The Ponnsylvania cosl operators want to construct a building entirely of anthracite coal at the exposition, and to have 59,000 tous of bost authracité on exhibition. FADS IN JEWELRY. Rare orchids are reproduced in ename with beautiful coloring and wonderful de- sign. One of the most popular fads n jewelry today is the tiny bonuet or lace pin,and prob- ably a greater variety of styles was never devised. Ivy and clover leaves in gold and enamel aro noat, sometimes containing a diamond like a drop of dew. One of the most stylish of . desiens in pins is the fleur-de-lis, which is made in jewels and gold and siiver. The fieur-de-lis is very popular now in all styles of pius, as is also the bow knot. In long hat pios there are also many beau- tiful sty ranging from the plain silver bail to the most expensive designs in jewels. It seems almost as though the ingeauity of man would soon be exhausted in jeweiry, yet each year brings forth something new, and this season 15 remarkable in that way. A new dellrg‘n in pins 18 & funny little dragon of gold, with a big bead, where rubies are used for eyes, and & tiny dismond is held in tho fork of his tongue. Very striling hair-pins are made with comb of Roman gold. ~These combs are set with diamonds or other gems, but the latest style is what jewelers call ‘*‘plerced work.” This is very like scroll work, and the designs are intricate and beautiful. Broovhes of large size are being worn v much this season, and ara genorally set with diamonds. One of the most striking designs is the “Persian Sun,” the center circle of diamonds, from which a rays spread, the latter also being set in dia- monds, ——ee— Days Wo Celebrate, The following days are celebratod by a public flag ceremony in the public schools of Minneapolis: January l.—Emancipation proclama- tion, January 12 —Invention of the tele- graph by Morse, 1338 (Approximate.) February 12.—Birthday uY Lincoln, February 22.—Birthday of Washing- ton, February 22 —Birthday of Lowell, Februar, Birthdayof Longfellow. March 9.—Engagement between the Monitor and Merrimac. Avpril 9. —Surrender at!Appomattox, April 15, —Death of Lincoln, (Half mast. ) April 19.—Battle of Lexington, April 80,—Inauguration of George Washington as the first president of the United States. May 11.—Minnesota admitied to the union, May 80.—Momorial day. (Half mast). June 17.—Battle of Bunker Hill, July 8.—Battle of Gettysburg. July 4.—Declaration of Indepen- dence. September 9.—Discovery of the Falls of St. Anthony by Father Hennepin, 1860, (Approximate). September 10.—Death of Garfield. (Hulf mast). October 12 —-Discovery of America by Columbus. October 19,—Surrender of Cornwal- 8. November 10.—Establishment of the first public ool in Minneapolis, 1849, (Approximate). November — —. Thanksgivin, December 17. —Birthday of day. hittier, December 22 —Landing of the Pil- grims, OMAHA DAILY BEE: GRAND ARMY DEPARTMENT Army Record of an Omaha Man Who En- listed at the Age of Twolve. AUGHT NAPPING ON PICKET DUTY OMeinl Instructions to Nebraska Sons of Veterans—Important Pension Rul- ing—She Didn't Like the Yanks—Notes, Elijah B. Egan of Omaha,is the young- est soldier in Nebraska. He was born August 80, 1851, His father was serving his country in the Second Missouri En- gineers and was taken sick in 1864 and wns to be sent to the hospital at St Louis and wanted Elijuh to come there to see him. The boy left Wisconsin and reanched St. Louis by boat about August 10, 1864, with $5 left. A smooth deck hand borrowed this and left him stranded in a large city. He wandered around to the hospitals and could not find his father, was arrested once or twice and at last on August 14, 1854, when 12 years, 11 months and 16 days old, en- listed as a private in Company I, Forty- first Missouri. He told the recruiting officer that he was 18, when he laughed and asked him if he was willing to swear to it. He carried a gun in the ranks for eleven months. On one o sion he saw seven bushwhackers shot to death after trial and learned by personal observation what court-martial and mil- tary executions were. Soon after this ho was kept on guard duty for almost forty-eight hours continuously. In the night he woke and found himsel! sitting on the ground, his gun gone. Rubbing himself awake, he saw his lieutenant standing near with his (Egan’s) gun in hand. He was at once placed in the guard house where the horror of the situation dawned upon him. He knew that sleeping at one’s post was deuth and he had recently seen what death was. The next morning he was taken before Colonel Weidemeyer and the fol- lowing took place: Colonel W.—Well, lieutenant, what has this soldier been guilty? Lieutenant—Of sleeping at his post. Ifound him so and took away his gun without waking him. Colonel W.—Soldier, do you know what this means? IEgan—Yes, sir; it means death. Colonel W.—What are the circum- stances? Egan—-I was on duty, sir, for nearly forty-eight hours continuously, and T could not keep nwalke. Colonel \.—How old are you? Sgan—Thirteen years old, sir. Colonel W.—D——n the boy; return him to sleep and then to duty. And the load waslifted from the heart of the boy. Nebraska f Veterans. The following circular has been issued by F. P. Carrick, commander of the Ne- braska, division, Sons of Veterans: It is requested of camp commanders that they issue at least monthly, ‘‘camp orders” attested by first sergeant, under seal of the camp, in which may be dis- cussed the affairs of the camp, division und commandety in chief and any news of interest to any brother of the order officially announced. As a rule the local press will be plensed to print these orders and it will be the means of adver- tising our organization. Try it, com- manders, and see if it does not mater- ially increase tho interest of your meet- i A duly certified copy of camp iubly be sent to these headquarters at Stockham, Neb. Brother O. D. Eaton requests that the attention of brothers be cailed to the lust sentence of his resolution as incor- porated in the report of the comnmittee on resolutions and printed on page 84 of the Journal of Proceedings of the Geneva oncampment. It should read: ‘Re- solved, That we belicve that the socio- vies (Ladies Aid) wiil give more sub- stantial aid than the D. V. tents.” General order No. 1 is promulgated herewith. . The proceedings of the Genova en- campment have at lnst been receiyed and will be sent out as rapidly as other duties will permit. The last encampment of the comman- dery in chief abolished the office of aide on the staff of the division commander, Therefore there will be no further an- nouncement mude of persons for such position. It is directed that a preliminary in- spection of every camp in this division bz held at the first meeting in March. This is not the regular annual inspec- tion, but merely preparatory to it As- sistant inspectors must be very accurate in their markings and “must forward re- ports at once to P. A, Barrows, division 1nspector, Albion, Neb. Do not_ send reports to these headquarters. When the report has been examined by the in- spector it will be returned to camp com- manders with such suggestions marked thereon as he may consider necessary. The entire ritualistic work of opening and closing camp, mustering recruits, installation ceremony and l)m'hll service must be gone through with, Every fon- ture of ritualistic ceremony must be ex- emplified to the satisfuction of the as- sistant inspector. Thoroughness in Camp commanders are aguain urgently requested to forward reports of install- ing officers to these headquarters, Since order No. 12 cumps have been mustered w8 Wisner, No. 53, by Robert Porter; Stanton, at University Place, by J. C. Seucrist; Lincoln, at Stromsburg, by H. Coon, Osceola. Applications for charters have been received from Hum- bolt, Orchard and Palmer. Camps in l\sxmins bylaws to these headquarters should send two copies, one for approval and return to camp and one for filing at headquarters. ‘The encampment committee of camp 90 have ugreed upon the following dis- tribution of prizes for the field encamp- ment as follows: If three or less thun five companies enter: Infantry—First prize, $100; second prize, $40; third prize, 815, Cavalry— IMirst prize, $75; second prize, 825, Arti lery—Iirst prizo, #75; socond prize, § If there are five or more, as follows: Infantry—First prize,$125; second prize, $85; third prize, $35, Cavalry—First prize, 8100; second prize, $50, Irllllery —Nirst prize, $100; second prize, $50, Prizes will also be given for band con- tests as follows: rass bands—First prize, $100; second prize, $50. Drum Corps—First prize, $50; second prize, $30; third prize, $20, Conditions of actering the drill will be that companies be uniformed and equipped as per United States or Sons of Veterans’ regulations. Shall be on the grounas at ieast two days of the en- campment and shall participate in the sham battle, Two guns fully equipped shall be allowed to enter as a battery. No company shall be ruled out on ac- count of technicalities in uniform of arms. Prizes for competitive drill shall be open to Sons of Velerans companies :3, also for drum ooryc, except that ! hd or of corps may be from outside the orde The brass band contest will be open to all bands that come, provided they be on the grounds two days at least, be uni- of ATURDAY, MARCH 12 formed and participate in the grand purade. Tents will be furnished for all, also wood and straw with good camping grounds. A full program will be mada out later, in good time so all brothers will be fully informed of the work for each day. DIdn’t Like the Yanks, The following stories by an officer in the union army, who foughtat York- town during the late rebellion, will give an idea of the temper and spirit with which the advent of the ‘‘Yanks™ was looked for by the megross. A couple o officers wero advapeing some distance apart from their men, when they were hailed by an old négro woman standing in the door of her ide cabin: “Bless do Lord! Jless de Lord!” she exclaimed as loud l‘t! sho could. “Yer’s come at last! yerls coms atlast! I'se looked for yer these many yoars and now yor's como. Bless do Lord!” Nothing could exeeed the old woman’s delight at seeing 'tho Yankees. This meant something, and how much? In the childish delight of that old woman what a history is shggested! Long years she had waited to see this deliverance. Slave she was, and the slow years dragged, their woary longths passed hor youth, and still hope whispored that the hour would come when the bondage would bs broken. At last 1t comes when the spring of life is gone, and yet her aged lips are eloquent with joy. A battery in charge of the First Con- necticut artillery was built in front of a large and stately brick mansion, which was surrounded by peach orchards, 1t was the property of Mrs. Baldwin, whose son and husband were in the confederate army. Mrs. Baldwin was a lady somewhat advanced in years, very socesh in opin- ion, who had remained on her estate, but ut this time was dwelling in a small house removed from the danger result- ing frow the guns of her own friends. During this time an officer belonging to the artillery corps had somo convorsn- ;ion with the lady to the following ef- ect: ' Federal OMcor—Madam, good morn- ing. Idesire to purchase a horse from you, Secesh Lady—I require what horses T have to plough. F. O. (rfllol'ril\g to the shells from the enemy)—That will be quite unnecessary. Your people are ploughing up the ground for you. S. L.—Are they planting also? F. O.—They have not planted any of us yet, but as they have not concluded their work I cannot tell what they will 0. S. L.—Ah, well! if they piant any of your blue coated comrades I hope they won’tsprout. Good morning. The officer withdrew. Evidently the lady thought Uncle Sam’s sprouts were quite thick enough on her estate. portant Pension Ruling. Secrotary Bussey has made an impor- tant decision in the pension case of Rudolph M. Manley of Company I, Forty-seventh Pennsylvania volunteer militia. On June 15, 1863, President Lincoln issund his proclamation, calling upon the executive of the state of Pennsylvania for 50,000 volunteers to serve for the period of six months.un- less sooner aischarged. 1n compliance with this order the Forty-seventh regi- ment was raised and mustered into the state service for nihety days, instead of for six months as désignated in the call. The records of the war department show that Manley was mustered in on the 27th of June, 1 and was mustered out with his company on August 13, 1863. During this'service the ovidence on file shows that the soldier suffered a sunstroke, from which he has never re- sovered. Upon his application he was granted a pension of $24 per month, but on June 13, 1891, his name was dropped from the pension roll, upon the ground that it had been astertained thut the regiment to which he belonged was not in the United States service, bul in the service of the state of Pennsylvania. This 18 the position tuken by the judee advocate geune of the army inade- cision rendered September 12, 1890, every detail of camp work means wide awake camps. It can be ascertained by inspection if a camp is ‘“‘wide awake.” Let us make the annual inspection of 1892 a thorough one by giving closo attention to the preliminary inspection. Where the brother detailed is unable to perform the work, the camp commander will detail some brother of the camp other than the sergeant or corporal of the guard or chaplain for that purpose* Let the reports be sent in not later than April 10 regardlessof failure to have meetings of the camp. Although a thorough inspection cannot thus be had it will prove to be a benefit to the camp and a source of information to head- quarters. The Divislon council met at David City, February 6, and elected Brother A. 1. Searl of” Columbus to the vacancy caused by the resignatian of D. O, I'rae- man removed from tho state. O. D. Eaton was chosen chairman of the council and A. E. Searl clerk, “The following resolution was adopted and approved by the council: A Resolved, That it is the sense of the brothers present that the competitive drill be governed by the mnew United States army regulation tactics, These tactics can be procured of Past Colonel I, J, Coates, Omuhu, or M. Hall, Hillsdale, Mich, ©Other matters of importance to the division were discussed and many valu- able suggestions given Assistant Secretury Bussey, howe ver after an elaborate review of the luw and ovidence in the case concludes that it comes within the first subdivision of section 4,603 of the revised statutes, which includes among thoso entitled to the benefits of pension ‘‘any officer of the army, including regulars, volunteers and militia, or any ofticer in the army or marine corps, or any en- listed man, however employed, in the military or naval service of the United States or in its marine zorps, whether regularly mustered or not, disabled by reason of any wound or ln{'ury received or disense contracted while in the ser- vice of the United States contracted while in the line of duty.” The assistant secretary directs that Manley’s name be restored to the pen- sion roll. This decision restores to a pensionable status the 50,000 soldiers who served in the Pennsylvania militia about the time of Lee’s invasion of that state. Notes. Of the twenty major generals of the war of the rebeilion credited to Ohio seven only survive; of the twenty-seven brevet major generals twelve are living. There are 169 copipderate battle flags in the collection of.war relics at Wash- ington. Of those, twanty-eight soparate reglumental colors Ware captured alter Plokett’s charge a {xottysburg. The first drops gf blood shed in the war of the rebelliosare deciured to be at the prosent time dg the possession of Colonel B. F. Huwkeds of the pension office in Washington, and to have been shed by Colonei B:#. Kelley, who com- manded the federsl forces at the battle of Philippi, the firet battle of the war. 1892—~TWELVE PAGE One of the first bu'lets fired pierced Colonel Kelley's lung and stained his vest, which was preserved. Colonel Kelley did notdie, although the surgeon pronounced his wound mortal, and lived 1o a good old uge. In fact,if tho sur- @eons of 1862-°65 had known as much as thoir brethren of today do, one-half of the wounds pronounced mortal would have boen easily cured. b ke i TEXAS RANGERS. Remarkable In Physique and Abllity. The rangers wero the largest men I saw in Texas, the state of big men, writes Richard Harding Davis in Harper's Weekly. And some of them wore remarkably handsome in a su burned, broad-shouldered, easy. man way. They were also somewhat shy with the strangers, listening very in- tontly, but speaking little, and then in a slow, gontle voice, and s they spoke so seldom they seemed to think what they had to say was too valuable to spoil by profanity When General Mabry found they would not tell of their adventures, he asked them to show how they could shoot, and as this was something they could do, and not something already done, they went about it as gleofully as school boys at re- cess doing ‘“‘stunts.” They placed a board, n foot wide and two feet high, somo sixty foet off in the praivie, and Sheriff Scheeloy opened hostilities by whipping out his revolver, tuening it in the air and shooting, with the sights up- side down, into the bullseye of the im- promptu target. He did this without discontinuing what he was saying to me, but rather as though he were punctuat- ing his remarks with audible commas. Then he said, “I didn’t think a’ you Rangers would let a little one-penny sheriff get in the first shot on you.” He could afford to say this, because he had been a Ranger himself, and his brother Joe was one of the best captains the rangers had had, and he and all of his six brothers are over six feet high. But the taunt produced- an instantancous volley from every man in the compuny; they did not take the trouble to rise, but shot from where they happened to be sitting or lying and talking together, and the air rang with the roports and a hundred vibrating little gasps, like the singing of a wire string when it is tightened on a banjo. They exhibited some most wonderful shooting. They shot with both hands ut the same time, with the hammer under- neath, holding the rifle in one hand, and never, when it was u revolver they were using, with a glance at the sights. They would sometimes fire four shots from a Winchester between the time they had picked it up from the ground and before it had nestled comfortably against their shoulder. They also sent one man on a pony racing around a tree about as thick us & man’s leg, and were dissatisfied be- cause he only put four out of six shots into it Then General Mabry, who seemed to think I did not fully apprec ato what thoy were doing, gave a Wi chester rifle to Captain Brooks and my- self, and told us toshow which of us could first put eirht shots into the target. It seems that to shoot & Winchester vou have to pull a trigger one way und work a lever backwards and forwards; this would naturally suggost that there are three movements—one to throw out the empty shell, one to replace 1t with another cartridge, and the third to ex- plode this cartridge. Captain Brooks, as faras I could make out from the sound, used only one movement for his entire cight shots. As I guessed, the trial was more to show Captain Brook's quickness rather than his marksman- ship. I paid no atteation to the target, but devoted myself assiduously to manip- ulation the lever and trigger;and vimed biankly at the prairie.” When I had fired two shots into space, the captain had put his eight into the board. They sounded as they went off like fire crack- ers well started in a barrel, and mine, in compurison, like minute guns at sen. The Rangers, I found, after I saw more of them, could shoot as rapidly with a revolver as with a rifle, and had be- come 50 expert with the smaller weapon that instead of pressing the trigger for each shot, they would pull steadily on it, and snap the hamimer until the six shots were exhausted. S “HUSTLERS” AND “RUSTLERS.” Such Are the Citizens of the Great North- western Citles, The keynote and countersign of life in the cities of the northwest is the word “*hustle,” writes Julinn Ralph in March Harper’s, ~We have caught it in the east, but we use it humorousl we once used the southern word *‘ske- dadale,” but out west the word hustle is not only aserious term, itis vhe most serious in the language. One day, as I sat in the lobby of ono of the great hotels 1n the older pair of twin cities, I heard two - old friends greeting one another with ardent expressions of friondship and delight. - They had not met for a long while, and each asked about the other’s Lizzie and Fanuie and their respective little ones, All of a sudden I heard one say: ‘*Well, see you tonight, I suppose, I have got to go.” *Where have you got to go to?” the other inquired, plainly disappointed that the pleasant interview was not to be prolonged. “Where? the other echoed. *“Why, to hustle, of course. I have lost ten minutes standing here talking to you, I'm going out to hustle,” The word always jars upon the ear of an eastorn man when it is seriously spoken, but it is profitable to that other expression once dominant in tho west, but now all but abandoned. That was the word **rustle.” The noun “‘rustler” and the verb ‘‘to rustle’” meant pre- isely what is conveyed by the newer 'ms a hustler and w0 hustle. At the first blush, as they say out west, rustle seems the better word, There is a hint of poety in the suggestion of the sound of moving leaves upon the ground or of tho silken dress of a lady moving rapidly. Moreover, that was what the word was intended to convey, the iden being that of a man who moves so rap- idly that the dead leaves upon the earth rustled as he swept along. But in its origin it is a word of evil intent, for the cowboys invented it, and applied it to cattie thieves, rustlers being the swift raiders who stole upon grazing cattle on the plains, and rustled off with as many head, or heasts, as they could get away with. Therofore rustle is the worse word of the two. But to one who lives where peither word is 1n familiar use there is little choice, since the actual meaning of hustle is not far different from that of jostle. Both imply a serious and even brutal lack of consideration for other persons, who are elbowed and pushed out of the way by the hustler as rowdies are hustled along by the police. Shooting ——— The Man Should Be Around. Washington Star; Congressman John Allen told a story the other night of an electioneor dowr in Mississippi who srandiloguently reforred to the old say- ing, ‘‘The office should seek the man, not the man the office.” A few days afterward the speaker was noticed elec- tioneering in old-fashioned style, with drinks and cigars Being called down angasked about his assertion of a fow days before. thas *‘the office should scok the man,” he replied: “T still maintain my position. The offioe should indeed seok the man, but by Gad, sah! the man should be around when the oftige is looking for hiwm.” STORIES OF FRONTIER LIFE A Matrimonial Incident of the Barly Days in Buffalo County. FOUR CORDS OF WOOD FOR A WIFE Cruel Joke Played Upon an Ambitions Town Lawyer In Nobraska City—A Champagne Supper and an Enaorsement—A Tragedy on the Plains, Among the many stories of pioneer life in Buffalo county old settlars love to ro- late, there {s one told about Alvin Peathers, a farmeor living near Kearney, soouring a wife for a bachelor neighbor and receiving four cordsof wood as com- pensation for his services. A young German whose name may have beon Gustave Hagen, took up & homestead in the Wood River valley and lived alone in his little “‘sod shanty on the claim.” At that time some na- tural timber, suitable for firo wood,grew on the banks of the little stroam whore now only the wild plum, willow and othor small brush is found. On the young rman’s homestead wood was more plentiful than elsewhere and the bachelor’s solitude was sometimes bro- ken by a neighbor in quest of wood. One morning as the bachelor was eat- ing his breakfast of pork, rye bread and barley coffee, Mr. Feathors called. The Ionely situation appealed to his sympa- thy. After the usual greotings, Feath- ors said: “Hagan, this must be a hard way to live. Why don’t you get you a wifo.” Now, Gustavo was a_German, and far away from the home of his youth. The rosy cheeked German frauleins who came to this country were gathered into the homes of his more fortunate *‘lands- men.” The “jankee” girls were not much more numerous. Neighbor Feathors koew of a poor family living near who camo to this country’ the year before. There was a large family to be fiuIv- ported and the struggle for comfortable living was a hard ono. A lucky thought struck Mr. Feathers. “‘Gustave,” said he, **What would you give for a wife?” “Vell, I don’t know,” sald Gustave, “I haf got noting to gif.” *Well, said Feathers, “I'll tell you what I'll do; I will get you a wife today if you will give mo four cords of wood.” Gustuve was astonished at the propo- sition, but soon promised the wood for the wife and arranged to be in Kearney in the afternoon, Feathers went direct to the home of the poor family and found them nestled together in one little room which was \L their poorly-built shanty contained. The eldest; a daughter about 17, was the object of his visit. She was clad in a calico dress and a pair of worn-out shoes and looked pinched and cold in her scanty attire. A half-dozen vounger children huddled together with bare feet and thin summer garments on. Poverty made the parents will- ing to do anything within renson, to better the condition of their family and they were favorably im- pressed with Mr. Feathers’ proposition. This errand was soon accomplished and Mr. Feuthers drove to Keuarney that afternoon with the bride-elect. On their arrival the young German was found waiting and the bride accepted the prof- fered hana of her suitor. She was then taken to a store where genoral merchan- dise was kept and fitted out with com- forta.le clothing, Nobride ever looked happier in wedding garments than this poor girl who had lived in poverty on the cold, bleak prairie. Thi marriage which i3 ore of the first on the Buffalo county vecords, occurred that aftornoon in the office of the county judge, John Barnd, who resides in Kear- ney. Gustave returned home that even- ing with a wife and Mr. Feathers called early the next day for his wood. Both were well pleased with the bargain, The couplo prospered aud the Gorman's thrift and economy have made him one of the wealthiest farmers in the county. Four children blessed this union, but the childron were beraft of their affection- ate mother about two . A Judiciat Joke, Judge Bradford of Nebraska City, was a keen, bright lawyer, and never al- lowed the perpetrator of a practical joke to escape him unless ho was repaid forefold. 1In 1859, one Joseph Murphy of Sldney, Ia., had incurrod the dis- pleasure of the judge. Judge Bradford convinced Murphy that he would be an ornament to the supreme bench of Utah, there being a vacancy at thut time. Murphy, an ambitious wight, but said to have enough brains to carry him along in his practice * as a lawyer, asked the judge what should bo the first stop. Ho was told that ho had bottor sccure the influence of the Nebraska judges and bar, beginning with Nebraska City, and as the lawyers of that place were a wine- drvinking, high-feeding gustatory set, he had better, before broaching the subject gonerally, invite them to a supper, the judge to ar- rango the preliminaries, if satisfactory to the victim, and seo that those whose influence it was desirable to secure were on hand. The authority was given without any restrictions being made as t0 its oxtent. Tho duy was appointed, supper prepared, champngne in floods provided, and Mr. Murphy appeared when his guests wore assembled to con- ciliate and secure friends and backers for his high commission. Supver over and the wine partly drunk, Judge Brad- ford announced that this entertainment had been prepaved at his instance; that Mr. Murphy was a candidate for the er- mine of Utah; that he knew him well and could vouch for his capacity; and begged the guests to manifest their friendship for him and their apprecia- tion of their host’s generosity hy unit- ing in n general recommendation of his friend for the post he sought. Accordingly, a committeo was ap- pointed to prepare resolutions, and at the end of a suitablo retivement and delay, the chairman, Hon. J. Sterling Morton, read the following: Whereas, We are convened hera this evening at the invitation of a distinguished and eminent member of the high and houor- able professiun of the law—a bright, particu- lar star in the firmement of legal erudition, whose eftulzence flluines tbe fertile and magnificent valley of the Missouri river—Joseph M\:rrhy‘ esq., of i'remont county, lows; therefore, be it Resolved, 1. That in the intellectual ecou- of Joseph Murphy are all the elements aud acquiremonts appertaining to the sound, practical aud profound lawyer, the reliable, staunch, active, energetic wud sagacious democrat. 2. That the sald Joseph Murphy for his lonesty, integrity, hberality aud indowmitavle industry and sobriety is peculiarly fitted for & 868t Upon the bench of the supreme coury of Utab, for which place he seems Lo us the man-—the man furnished at this crisis In the affalrs of that polygamous commonweslth, as @ Napoleon was 0 Fraoce by the baud of o never erring destiny. 8. That we earuestly, solicitously, anx- fously ana praverfully peiition his 'excel Ienoy, James Buchanan, the president of ths 11 United States, to nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the United States sonate, confirm our friend and host as assool- ate justice of the supreme court of Utab, And Turthorfore be it Rosolved, That wo wish Josoph Murphy, esq., long. life, nonor, happiness and pros perity in the world; that we thank him for this entertaiument, aud that when, iate, he may be called to roturn to heavon. his ecatatio psyetological ossence may evaporato 1o sing forevor and ever bouoath the ambrosial palm troes of that viewloss world whore the hesperian oligarchy blooms perennially for- ever and aye. The resolutions were, of course, voci- ferously adopted. Mr. Murphy paid the bills, but, it is, porhaps, unnecessary to add, nover received the appointment. An Incldent of 1852, Slowly and painfully a few tired oxen drageed a huge wagon ncross the dried up plain. The heat was intense and the swollon tongues of the woary cattle told a story of drouth and fatigue. Contrary to the usual oustom the freightor had his wife and children with him, and on either side of the lumbering wagon rode half a dozen stalwart youths armed with the long barrelled rifles of that date. The pale face of a woman, worn and tired from a weary vigil over a sick daughter, dying for lack of wator and proper care, was now and then thrust through the opon- ing in the canvasand turned in mute inquiry to the man riding beside the wagon, ‘No water vit, Madge,” ho replies sadly while a tear trickles down his rough face. It was the familiar story of the earlior days of the gold fover. They had left their comfortable farm in the east and started on the long, dangerous trip to the great wost of which thoy had heard such glowing tales, but which was proving a barren desert to eyes unaccus- tomed to the broad praivies Whore for milos the plain stretchos in one un- broken line with no traco of life or water. “Ef this heat keeps up and we don't got to water soon half thoso critters'll bo a-dyin’on our hands,” muttered the old man as he noticed the panting cattle snifiing the hot air. Suddenly the leaders stopped and eraising their henda bellowed eagerly while i twas with difli- culty thut the riders controlled their mounts. The staid oxen wheeled in a direction at right angles to the trail and in spite of the efforts of their drivers started at a rapid walk which soon becume n clumsy trot. In a few moments more they wero nding knee deep in a pool of brackish water surrounded by soft mud and a whiush slime. The thirsty animuls were much ro- freshed and soon pushed on atan in- crensed rate. As evening foll it was noticed that the oxen appeared to be in pain und one after another foll dying by the trail until the wagon was hopelessly crippled. It was decided to go into camp until morning, when the horses would have to be harnessod to the heavy wagon. Lato that night the dozing ~watchers were startled by a_rumble of hoofs and in un instant a dark mass of rapidly moving bodies rushed past the wagon, while their frightencd horses broke their lariats and followed the phantom caval- cade neross the dark plal Nothing could be done. Pursuit was hopeless until morning, and the old emfgrant surmised that the stampede had been caused by Indinns who would watch for and pick off any straggler who might venture away from the shelter of the wagon, ! Late in the afternoon of the day fol- lowing a party of frontiersmen who had had heard the sounds ot distant firing and started to the relief found the ruing ofularge wagon and near it lay the podies of the freighter and his sons, Some articles of woman’s clothing seattered about showed that the party had not consisted of men alono, and a knowledge of the habits of the cruel foe told the would-be rescuers that the women of the party had been carried away to a hopeless captivity more horri- ble than the death and mutilation which had been the lot of of the male members of the unfortunate family. A well defined trail showed the direc- tion taken by the victorious Indiuns, va horsemen galloped in that ion to wreak vengeance on the and if possible rescue their helpless can- tives from n fate infinitely worse than death. After a several hours’ ride, ame to a small stream on the bank of which they found the ghastly traces of diabolical tortuve. Hacked and wutilated beyond recog- nition lay the charred remuains of the women thoy were trying to save. The Indians had been hampered in their fight by the helpless victims and had put them to a lingering death. Revereatly the rough men dug a shal- low grave and tenderly laid mothersand dnughters to rest beneath the sod of that Great West which had been fraught with pain and suffering and doath to them and to many another party of san- guine . travelers who have started on that long journey to the land of gold,but had instéad been called to that lf)oll('u[\ll home where are “‘treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust doth cor- vupt and thieves break through and steal.” Further pursuit was useless and tho party slowly retraced their path whilo the dark brows and moistened eyes told that they were filled with thqughts of the terrible tragedy. LIRS, i SPEED AND SAFETY. % No More Dan Slow Cone In & paper on fast trains in March Lip- pincott’s, Charles . Deacon snys: The prevailing ideas regarding rail- way speeds are very erroncous at any rate. The majority of people, even th most intelligent among those who ha bitually travel, obtain their conception of spoed from the figures of tho time- table, forgetting that in nearly every in- stance considerable portions of the route must be traversed at much less than tho average rate required to cover the total distance in the schedule time. There aro very fow, if any, of the fust express trains which do not on some part of the *'run’ reach or excecd a speod of n milo a minute, Yet, by reason of superior railway and well-constructed cars, the accelerated velocity 18 unnoticed; while running at from sixty to seventy miles un hour the pussenger calmly perusos his newspaper or book, children )vluy in the aisle, and a glass brimful of water may be curried from oue end to the other of the smooth-roling coach without the spilling of a drop. Would fuster trains be dangerous? No. In the history of railrouds no in- stance can be found whero a train has been derailed by reason of runming at a high rate of sp There s no moro danger, intriusically, ut 100 miles an bour then at forty. The dungers to be guarded against bear litte or no rela- tion to the gquestion of speed. “I'hostrict supervision of tracks and bridges, the ubolishment of crossings ut grade, the fonctug of all lines of rallyny and the prevention of tresspassing thereon-— ibove ull, an effoctive system of signuls and safegunids for the guidance and protection of tralns—thes b men s met, the 100-mik n-hour yor” will bo u sufor conveyal than o city horse car, orous Than the s,