The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 29, 1898, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SU Y, MAY 29, 1898. - ' force to hold it out almost at arm’s | country was not married, I believe. If | 'The average pension drawn by the length while .he dariced. The specta- ndent on him her | veterans of the Civil War is $133 a year. pensions should be less and not greater, | her. Christmas attended a bi During e | he had a magher dep. | d ivities Bi g L [ bension would be $16 a month. If no | The average pension under the general | as it will be this year. The pension laws are all right. It |the height of the festivities Bismarck’s | cle tickled Bismarck immensely, and, POTEION SO e BT | Gependent mother, but a dependent |law which applies to scldiers of the war | I had an amusing experience with a |is the construction of the pension |attention was directed to an exceeding- | as' the Frenchman came sailing majes- 1 in the he would get a pension of $16. | of 1898 is $165 a year. If one-half of the | pension fraud not long ago. The son- |laws that has made so much trouble. I |ly pompous individual who strutted ) tically along, Bismarck . stepped for- | about the room. This was a M. de|ward and dropped a coin into the hat. oners of the Civil ¥ | Following in their order, in default of a {men who go into the army now are|in-law of a Pennsylvania Congressman | believe that if the pension laws had | | Clancy, a noted French duelist. Later | A duel was one oOf the next day’s opinion is based on a knowledge of father, the pension would g0 to @ de- |eventualy put bn the-pension list, put- | came to me to complain that his house- | been construed correctly from the be- V, & . | } precautions being taken by the sur- |pendent brother or a dependent sister |ting the number at 250,000, the agere- | hold was being disorganized by - the |ginning the Government would be pay- | on this important individual took part | events. Though it was with pistols, nsions should mot be more in a dance, but, having omitted to leave | Bismarck escaped unhurt, while his visits of one of my special agents to his | ing out about half the amount it now colored cook. The agent was inquiring | spends for pensions and the pensioners into the case of Mary Butler. would be better satisfied. The soldier DEINg | 71f the oflicer left a widow she would | = Ag T said, an estimate must be taken Now his cook, he said, knew nothing |is never aliowed to settle down to the 2 ing : about Mary Butler, but my agent had |calm enjoyment of his pension. P lSH SO lJDlE ¥ being ac- | be entitled to $16 a month, and if any | with many allowances, because so| got her so worked up that she was not | No sooner does his case go through service but t willbe children they would get 32 asmonth un- fmuch: depgads on condition 1f ‘Con- | fit for anything about the house. He |the Pension Office than he gets a no- with the same care before |til the S ] oungest of them was 16. If the | gress should follow my recommenda- | described the agent to me and I said |tice from an agent—mind, from an . mustered out. In this way the | Widow should marry or die her pension | tion and limit the pensions to widows I knew the young man was all right | agent at Washington, the capital of the Department will m would go to the children until the | to those who wer. pensioners’ wives | and suggested that he have his cook | country—saying that the agent has ex- eparsy . was 16. This is the pension [when the pensions v here | tell all she knew about Mary Butler. | amined his case and believes that he is g thers or sisters not yet | gate of | or to orphan br |16 years of age. | The pensions increase in amount with | the rank of the officer. | take $148,000,000 this_year. geon to oL his hat at the proper place, had per- | adversary was wounded. inst f he sur me that not ol he recruit rined carefu before han $20,625,000 at any time. The pension list of the Civil War will Innw and the amount appropriated for | ing that the visits of the agent upset | He went much into sociebty, and one; | rmy tells y are t e allowed, man when his f the condition of each rate for the family of a lieutenant, i i v > we! cay insisti idn’ i e B3 3 | rate fo! 8 Yo% & ant. would be a big saving.- We pern He went away insisting that she didn’t | entitled to more. The pensioner pu = rvice d will be h’t\tu »lm3 "1 he \<\1hju\\' 1l>fl:m vnliisu-d n!nlr:i wnulsd9 five or six widows of the War of 15&: know anything. an application for a‘;, inr'reas% t:,::; a fraudulent claim f lity. draw §12 and her minor children $2 |]ast year. At that rate we shall be A few ys later the woman con- vs 1 tient becaus £ i i od | v 1 4 grows impatient because he does not! . SGALLA ate Lieut. of This system has 1 d already | each lai ing | ET20tNE pensions - to widows of the | fessed. was the case of a soldier | hear from it. In this way the pension- BY R SG 3 Joyalt irtillery. ess in the case of en- | We h ous claims coming | war of 1897 in 1984, who died nearly thirty years ago. He |ers are kept in a continual state of un- | ish soldi | shuffling g: e \ch m With the law grant- | s administration is not granting had no wife but’an enterprising pen- |rest. FHE Boanias “Ol:]e?' - dei:”bid )ihe mx:lifd“xtngehik;»lelhfniz‘;\x: e e s to minor children. I have | rewer pensions than the last. sion attorney fitted a widow to him and | e By; those iwlio Bans Beom e che | woth o and danerous fos 1 hos- on in my desk of the Injus- | ten months just past we gr she began to draw a pension. After a| BISMARCK’S STRANGE DUEL. his den, is & small, lissom, al- | 6, %p. "l Gf Tgualada, one of the e sk _flluny the gujm‘nE | new pensions. In the time ‘the womangfiied. but the agent | o 20 o o L e =3 most puny being, and Dresents a | gorcact fights of the late Carlist war. AL stewar o liberal construction of | endqing June 30 1 found another to take her place. Then | 5 X gnger] picture the reverse of Inspiriting. 3 loyal regiment that had no choice be- tha second woman died and the agent | engaged had a very amusing origin. It e R CTiR loval, nt that 0 b D i e B heaniho Was chitfibacieiary| Amne sibuches glong guitng marcl, tween annihilation and surrender un- of a soldier of the Civil War, This man | pengions should see a natur B e s Teettion ot bhs s Vi kempt, inshorn nd tatterdemallon, thayhisliatingly (ohose; thig former and al- was in the Missouri Home Guards. He |PEPSIONS SHOUIC S€€ B i : : L - ankfort. | iong of him in the ranks would break | lowed itself to be mercilessly butch- Ived two months, In the same yearop Q0000000000000 00C0000000C0000000000000000000000000000OCODthe heart of an English or German | J00G though not without rendering a ©martinet—than whom there is no great- | good account of the enemy, Whose vic- R(: h‘?’(“’hv..f‘““'\»-v 2 fxf]ujx_‘:v?yd ‘))ngo - | tory was purchased at an enormous vidow filed a claim for herself andg E E @er stickler for form and appearance on | gacrifice, children. = @the face of this earth, or at least the| In the matter of food the Peninsular | The youngest of those children was { g writer has never seen a greater. soldier is easily satisfied and no great on laws. Here is the record of | four sonths of my the children nted was 40,000. the pe a claim made on behalf o cord’ of Our nt fraudulent ca out of ( geon g they rn before the war began and was n e g nd charge on the commis: O 7 therefore more than thirty years old d I d M d 0 f h A But to come back to our: Spaniard— : o n B e e e o When HMustered In and Mustered Out of the Army. O e swanis eneass mi. ofen | mcus .y suimes M sariat. Two nd those are take | rather orty ye old now. The sockless feet, his trousers are frayed ;SCamy enough. In some “smart” corps 4 £ Pous 5 S ffee and s are allowed ear! S This before her claim was ad-Q BY SURGEON-GENERAL STERNBERG, U. S. A. and threadbare, his ill-fitting tunic | 0,05 e onet catly e und i l-'fL:.'v, ‘.“,J."Q{J&“?r';?,i‘:(." . 1 5 hangs limp and loose for want of but- | only at 9 a. m. and again at 5 p. m. e elhades b e 0 arrangements have been made be sprightly and Springy, speech of the recruit, as to hereditary diseasestons here and there and his cap, if he | One and a hLalf pounds of bread, and pension hem that amount. But I® for the examination of the men prompt and clear and manner cheerful. in his family, ete. 2 boasts one, is flung carelessly on the } black at that, is the entire ration al- wounds o that was the intent of® Wwhen they are mustered out, but Al 1ank, slight, puny men, with con- The medical examination on muster-Qback of his head. Huge woolen gloves |lowed per day by the Government. Any The D s et that LS racted figures, whose development is, ing cut will be final as to a soldier Who@of 4 bright green hue, and sadly in need additional’ luxuries (save the mark!) ate on the number, (U n Tae aat;they as it were, arrested, should be set aside. may subsequently ask a pension on ac- s dly In need | must be purchased out of his own o be examined so there shall be 10 The reverse of the characteristics of a count of disability incurred in the ©of darning, endeavor to conceal the|p,iet at the regimental canteen, > by the Civil War, ~onditi n additional pension list@doubt about their physical conditi sct in the natural course of@when they leave the army. = om the war of 18982 ©we are fully occupied pa t question depends upon a goodgrecruits S urse. In the lastey There It ‘& soidier contracts the grip@Scanty length of the tunic sleeves, but | rhich is kept by-a civilian, though the prices are Kkept within reasonable bounds by a regimental committee. The private eats little or no meat, es- pecially when on active service, and to this is_attributed the wor perative power of -Spanish good constitution will indicate infirm vice. health or a weakly habit of body: in Cuba and has a recurrent attack@tWo or three inches of a brown sinewy flabby, white skin; long cylin- when the war is over, it will e re-garm insist on peeping forth at the leas long, flat feet; Very fair garded as a new case of grip, that isgexertion. His rifle is carried anyhow— fine hair; wan, sallow all. e Gsometimes at the trail, sometimes at countenance, etc. There was no exa tion of the men% . gope, and often slung behind his Before his examination the recruit mustered out at the end of the Civil®,’® - % . 3 e M ched with scap and wat- War. The result of this neglect wasgP2Ck: but always in a different position | gneir wounds healing extr, He must be examined nude, and that millions have been spent by theqt® that of his neighbor in the ranks. |and rapidly. Orn the m: Government investigating the cases of*® The order is invariably a straggle and | satisfied with a chunk of dry black men who have claimed that their deaf-Qthe formation is more easily guesSed at | bread, a little oil and a clgve or two of or blindness or lameness or chronic@than identified by one accustomed to | 8arlic, the whole washed down by a ease was due to exposure while they, LEE anav . modest allowance of water. e M vice A donbt moEtberomns & anatD; poulc ements and | T 1070 fghting ration that the e no ground ior the complaint e 2712000 men enlisted, oythat, our examination has -been . too » the official reports. ol- b3 <trick and has shut out some good men. Ainsworth estimates that there@3trict and has shut out SOmE E90° TET 2,100,000 men actually in service.@Lhere gre plenty of good sound m o7 e are 990,958 pensioner: the country anc s no reason Why the following points must be noted: 000 are veterans \ve should not have them. Here are the That he has the free use of his limbs you see, more than a third of thePconditior \ry in a recruit: SEETiHIs oL ent T ‘lmfl‘l";r‘hr‘;‘e‘rf“‘;‘whfg; 10 took part in the Civil War st e . ; ing, vision and speech are ; the ; A tolerably just proportion between 'Ry, "ng tumors or ulcerated or ex- neces: {fi:]figéuijm atne n;mo"“‘ different parts of the trunk and ¢ (ol iicatrixed legs; no rupture or e claims were made in good {am,'()s_tra‘lighl ser.rlcd ranks of more discip- | American soldier would find it hard to Gubs ond the PLllinsines ' Ome a we aped head, thick upronie cutaneous affection; that he and the men who were unable to trace@lined troops. S i stomach! No wonder the typical Span- Ay course of events it is to beDhair, a countenance expressive of has not received any contusion or their physical troubles back to the war@ Yet withal the Spanish soldier is a | jard is lean and evil smelling and un- cted that 85,000 will be on the pen-©health, with a lively eye; skin not too wcund of the hogd that r:\uy gnp;\‘l{r h{s 1}::;; felt aggrieved. bl ©@good fi:h;;'r \1‘ ht"pll;r'};\ifh;l:n lhaly, ?s | wholesome looking voll thirty-five vears hence. But@white; lips red; teeth white and in good faculties; that he is not a drunkard; e precautions which the surgeon-gmany a bloody field has attested. In R e T L\\rf 1 : :fif.‘:;hf,‘fb % pen ‘,g“..f,‘:({;,”‘,,’,_ Sioe iatrop skin firm; is ot subject to convulsions, and has general’s office is planning to take Wil guerrilla warfare his fame is pre-emin- | If %?S\.»Ef'"r‘;?fin?rg‘g oL e pamo mitan. will prob Civil War now Chest well formed: belly lank; limbs no infectious or other disorder that may provide against this injusti nd at@cnt, and amidst the greatest privations.| 3Te Biaced face C4fy OGRRr: LOC S02 S not sure the list. muscu of moderate unfit-him for military service. Inquiry the same time protect the Government@he bears his hard lot cheerfully and | onds the silent one will be giving out & S hat Aled’ foriris paveidiedl Olength; gait should is also made concerning the parentage from willful or unconscious fraud. uncomplainingly. Notwithstanding his ! distinctly audible note. WHAT THE AMERICAN CARTOONISTS THINK OF THE WAR ,;‘ Z @ WA\\&Q TOWQF STATES SFoke i L(Ma‘zfl///g/{fl/ I = "THE HORRORS OF “WAR. Walting_for Those Fifty Million Tourixt Dollars, That Won't Turn Up This Year. = = ~ CHICAGO “INTER- OCEAN! WONT YOU WALK INTO_ MV PARLOR, But Just Walt Till Ho Stansd Tor mo-romne Plote Sal THE SPANISH PLY! Q, 3 R OCEAI .SAID THE spiDER TO THE SPANISE - Wl . DAILY INTE 7