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"Pledged but to Truth, to Liberty and Lt#; No Favors Win us and no Fear 8hall Awe." I'1' 1 *'•< % "" ' ' "i"' i n Vi«'. .i . ii i. . i--i ,.i, *.,„i VOL.16. M'HENRY, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1890. NO 15 j^ff^eary ^kutfolcr. »7r^VoBUin«o EVBKT WKDHBJDAT IT V 4 -J. VAN 8LYKE,- »«MTOB AMD PROPRIETOR. • <•'•••• "r'* v ' _ ' ** Y Office In Blshop'8 Blue*, Pnvr J Owm TRttVM OP SUBSCRIPTION, - One re.tr (In .invaace) .#1.50 If Wot Paid within Three IContha .. *00 <HtM<3riptlona notlvtd tor three, or six • month* in tfce name proportlom. 5 00 10W 15 00 so no noou 100 00 ; ^ Kates o# Advertising. We announce liberal rates for advertising D tl»« Pn\rHi>KAr,f5H, and endeavor to state hem 8^ plulilv that thev will be readily un- er stool. They are *8 follows: , _ 1 Inch one year ' »" » > t laches one year,. • » -W$ finches one yeartV . V Column one year '- * > • • 5 r»; * J t O o l n m n o n e y e a r - . . . . Column one year - One inch means the measurement of one Inch down the column, single column Width. Yearly advertisers, at the above rates, have the privilege of clinnfrini? as often as they Choose, without extra charge. Regular advertisers (meaning those having •tending cards) will be entitled to insertion of local notioes at the rate of R cents per line eaeh week. All others will bo charged 10 cents per'ine the first week, and Scents per line for each subsequent week. Transient advertisements will be charged at the rate of 10 cents po line, (nonpareil type, same as this is set in) the first issue, and !l cents per line for subsequent issues. Thus, •n Inch advertisement will cost >1.00 for one week, #1.50 for two weeks, IS.00 for three weaks, and so on. The PLAINDRALBR will be liberal in giving editorial notices, but, as a business rnlo, it will require a suitable fee from everybody seeking the use of Its oolumns for pecuniary gain. ny -- BUSINESS CAKDS. 5?, iffV,. H.r Ci* ' r tu."' '-'V- a J. HOWARD, M.*D. fMIT^IOIVN AND SURGBOK. McHenry, I IIL Office at resldenoe, one block east of Pablle School Building. O. H. FEQERS, M, D- OHTSIOIAN AND SUHGEON, McHenry, I Ills. Office at Residence. WM. OSBORNE, M. f». IYSIOIAN AND SIJBGE(»X. Offlce at «. Residence, West McHehry, III. Oalla promp.ly attended to day and night. 1 Liverv Stable. HE. VIOHTM1N, Proprietor.^'rt'iftt • class rigs with or without drivers tarnished at reasonable rates. Teaming of fcipdft 4QnP ,on abort notice. » NEAR THE DEPOT, llfiST MoHENBY, ILL, Keep* open for the accommodation of the Public a First-Ola" Saloon ani Restaurant, Where he will at all times keep the host • brands of Wtaes, Llauors and Cigars < be found In tne market. "'V Also Agent for " '"^^RANZ FALK^ Kilw&ata Lag« Star. Beer In Large or Small Kegs or Bottles ai- Mys en hand, cheaper than any other, quail- ^considered. Orders by mall promptly attended to, GOOD STABLING FOR HORSWj CTCMl and see ns. Robert •ohlessle. West MoHeary. III. BUSINESS CARDS. KMIGHT & BROWN, A TTORNKYS AT LAW. IT. S. Expreas Oo.*e t\. Building, 87 and 8!) Washington St. ' CHICAGO, ILL. JOSLVN * CASEY. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Woodstock III. t\. All business will receive prompt atten­ tion. O. P. BARNES, ./"'I A TTORNKT, Solicitor, and ^Htselor, i\ Collections a specialty. WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS. V. S. LUMLEY. ATTORNEY AT LAW, and soitottor m Chancerv, WOODSTOCK, ILL, , Office in Park House, first floor,,. A. M. CHURGHf, Watohmaker audi Jeweler NO. One HundredTwenty-Five State St Chi­cago, 111. Special attention given to re­ pairing Fine watches and Chronometers. 49TA Full Assortment of Goods in his line UBM States War Claim Apcj OF WM. H- QOFLIN, Woodstock . • •; » ,. Illinois. Prosecutes all clftSsssa"ri(f ttnds of claims against the United States tor ex-Soldiers, their Widows, Dependent Relatives or Heirs. A. specialty is made in prosecuting old and rejected claims. All communications promptly answered If Postage Stamps are enclosed for reply. WM, H. COW LIU Office at Residence, Madison St., Woodstoea, Illinois. Attention Horseme*! MOHBNRT, III., April 1st, 1898, I would respectfully invite the Public to calland examineaif stock of Horaes before making arrangements elsewhere. No tottSi- ness dene on Sunday.. N. 8. COLBY 'v M'HSWKT IZ1> J. C0MPT0N, Aerent for the HOME, OF NEW YORK, Capital, *@,031,1 OO, AND THB jETNA. or HARTF0KD. Capital, H10,071,550, Fire tested, time tried Companies. Insures against Fire, btghtnlng and Wind-storms, at the most reasonable rates. For insurance %nd further pirticulars apply to J. Compton, Volo. Hi., who has been 36years in the busi­ ness, and always gavo entire satisfaction In mse of loss. Volo, 111., May 20th, 1890. MEN WANTED. To represent our well-known nursery in this oounty, for town and country trade. Good pay weekly. A steady position with a nur­ sery of over thirty years' standing, and a known responsibility. We want good, lively workers, and will *>ay well. Good references required. Apply quick, atatiruf age. OH ASK SOOTHERS COMPANY. 87-mS Chicago, 111. The Police Gazette, Is the "nly Illustrate ! paper in the world1 containing all the latest sensational and sporting news. No Sato.-n Keeper, Barber,: or Cluo tiooiu can afford to be without it. It always makes friends wherever it goes." Mauled to any address in the United States securely wrapped, 13 weeks tor Jl, Send if ivQ ^enu tor sample copy. BICHAJLD K. FOX, ;;4RI|AIRM.UR SQUARE, New York ATTENTION! Farmers and Dairyme|| It will pay those looking for CHOICE OOWp Fresh milkers or springers, to cell at mj premises before purchasing. I can furnish suoh by the car load or single cow. PORTER H. WOLFRUM, OHBittme. farm about four miles northwest of Harvard, Illinois. i A. Snglan's SALOON AND RESTAURANT. MoHENRY, ILLINOIS. Isf* fine Keatucky Liquors, French Bitters, McHenry Lager Beer, --AND- . Schlitz-Miiwaukee Bottle Beer any quantity from * Suits lass to 1C0 barrels. ̂ -f :^-'iH |LT WHOLESALE OB RETAIL Beer in bottles, kegs or case as ^heap as the cheapest * We buy none but the best*an< ^peli at Reasonable Prices. , : . Ckli and see me and I will use 'quwjU. ANTONY KNOSLN^ lU*. iMSe SQION STOfFIL, . Phoenix nf, Brooklyn. j Bockford Insur'ceCo Wre, Llghtnin* and T>mado Insurance placed safe!v and with despatch in either of above companies. Policies corrected, changes anditransfers made. Call on or address Simon Stofiel. Weat McHenry, Illinois. WAVERLY HOUSE, WM. H. ROTNOUK, Prop., WOODSTOCK, - - ' JLL. Samol* Room on First Floor. Quintette Orchestra, McHENRY, ILL. Are prepared to furnish First Class Mu«i<* to the Dancing Public at Reasonable Rates. J, Smith, 1st Violin. Robt. Madden, Clarionet, O, Ourtis, Cornet. L, Oiren, Trombone, S, Ingalls, Basso and Prompter, Address all communications to Jerry Smith, McHenry. NEW YORK HOUSE. 239 tc 243 E. Randolph St. Between Franklin and « \ , , Market Streets, ,J ^CHICAGO. Beti Accommodation to Traveter* and Boarders, E. 0. KOEPPE, Prop. $1.5 PER DAV, GOOD SAMPLE ROOM. A Hrl-daut*I House. Ih^Boyt AU Stop There. THE Culver House. RICHMOND, ILL. Good Livery, Good Sample Boom. FREE BUS TO AND FROM ALL TR1ANSFOR PATRONS OF THE HOUSE. I ran a line of carriages to Twin Lakes from uichmond, three-fourths ofa mile nearer than any other road, and more level and nleasant l»v far. If you intend going to Twin Lakes, stop at Richmond and inquire for CULVER'S BIM. It U always there, rain or shine. Mound trip prices as usuaM C. N. CULVER, Prop. COME TO THB Second Annual Sale 5 Short Hons THURSDAY, OCT. 30,'90, AT nm, COLTS TABV, Spring Grove, McHemy Co> 40 - 40 HEAD 40 « 40 'weuty-five Grand Cows and Heifers, Springers or Calves by their side; Good Milkers. 15 young Bulls ready for service. NONE BETX&R, WM. STOFFEL.^ --Agtait for-- FIRE, - LIGHTNING, And Acoidsatsl Insnranoe. SfeAleo Iowa, HinnesotA, Kebraska, Alabama, Si«t UaIlfo|nla Lands. .Call on or address WM. STOlFEL, McHenry, Ul: : & c -- s AL.1KSW WANTED. Looal ox* graveling. I To cell onr Nursery 3tack. Salary, Expenses and Steady Employmeaft guaranteed. JfAU 1B0XUO8 COMPAWT, Jftoehester# V. T. PERRY AO MoHENRY. This Bank rect and sells Fireigri change, and does a i Bankers, ILLINOIS. deposits* buys Domestic Jsx- General Banking Business, We endeavor to 4o all business 'en­ trusted, to our card in a manner and upon te;ms entirely satisfactory to our customers, and respectfully solicit the public patronage, i MONEY TO LOAN; On Real Estate <md other first class security. Special (Mention given to cot- lections^ XNbUAANCE •in First Class Companies of the Lowest Rates. Yours Respectfully, P I R R Y A O W E N . AGO AND THE CHI RAILWAY. Iflbrds Miivaled fawiities for transit be tween the most Important cities and towns in Illinois, Iowa, Wise main. Northern Mich, igan, Minnesota, North ani South Dakota, S e braMka and W yoming. The train service Is carefully adjusted to meet the requirement*of through and looal travel, and includes FAST VESTIBULED TRAINS Dining Cars. Sleeping Cars & Day Coaches Sunning - ST. PA UL. MINNEAPOLIS, COUNCIL BLUFFS, OMAHA, DENVER AND PORTLAND, ORE HFernra of Sale* Notes payable six months after date, with­ out interest if paid when due; if not paid when due to draw interest at 7 per cent per cent p'r annum from date until paid. The usual 2 per cent discount for cash. Foi cata­ logues apply to FRANK COLE\ \ Spring Grove, F R E D H A T C H , f M c H e n r y C o I I L O. BECK IN O TON, Auc. JOHN P. SMITH, Watohmaker & Jeweler, MoHENRY. ILLINOIS. AriNE stock of Clocks, Watches ana Jew-elry always on hand. Special attention given to repairing fine watohes. Give me ^ JOBX P- BMITB. Agents Wanted! LlBHR™bUnUTKKMS win be given to introduce our new book, Bible Brilliants: *0 CHER'S mm f HOME The greatest success of the year, and some­ thing entirely new m the booa line. Koyai Quarto; size, 95£xll?£; finest of paper; large type; 320 illustrations. 68 full page, two of them printed in nine coiirs; retail price only 12.50 Thousands will be sold for Holiday Presents. Those first in the field will reap a harvest. Act quick or you will miss it. FOBSHEE A MACMAKIN\ Cincinnati, 0, v. J. BarMaa* J.J.Barbtaa BARBIAN BROS. Wholesale and Retail DEALBBS; nf FINE DIGARS, MoHENRY IILLINOIS. Having leased the brick building one (door -'South of tue post office, we have opened a retail store, where, at all times can be found line cigars of our own manufacture, together witli smoking and chewing tobaeeo of the best brawls. , Pipes a Specialty. We have a very large assortment aad Tory handsome patterns. CALL3AND 8SS U3. BAB •m -BKXSDBBS OF- MORGAN HORSES, Short Horn, Ssd Polled Aagu, And Jersey Cattle. Hillside Farm, West McHenry* III. Our Morgan 8took is all pure bred, and originated from the best Morgan stosk in the United States. Old Gifford Morgan, who stands at the Head it our Stock, is one of the best bred Morgan dorses in the country, and can show more and tetter all purpose colts than any other horse in the West. We invite the Inspection of onr stock feT horsemen and all lovers of fine animate, A few full blood Morgan Oolts and young eorses for sale. Also one matched team, fan bloods. In Oattle we have the full blooS Short Horn rtiich we are orossing with the Bed Polled ingus and therefore instead Of sawing off the iorns we are breeding them off and with food success, A few Heifers and Bulls, both pure bred Short Horns and the cross above mentioned fir sale. . J. R. f aylor & Sons. Wast McHenry, 111., Feb, 27th, 1888. PULLMAN 4b WAGKER 8LEEPERS $hic*go to San Francisco WITHOUT CHANGE. COLONISTS SLEEPERS* Chicago to Portland, Ore AND SAN FRANCISCO. Free Reclining Chair Cars CHICAGO TO DENVER AND PORTLAND* ORE, Yin Council Bloflk and Omaha. For the time of trains, tickets and all Infor­ mation, apply to Station Agents of Chicago A North-western Railway, or to the Ueneral Passenger Agent, at Chicago. IF. ix. NIL WMAN, J M. WHITMAN 3d Fice Pre*. tktn'l Manager. W. A. THRALL. B. BUSS, tfsn. Put* A 2'k'L. Agt Agent, McHenry, III inn; iin UBpfr 1 ' S0LDHBS' SSPABT1IKHT. Edited by ,WM. H. COWLIN, ---WOODSTOCK, at.-- lb oare for Mm who ha* borne the battle, and for hi* tridow and orphane."--LINCOLH, "FriendshipilCharily. Loyally ̂ Worthy [ton^pf Patriot Jfhthers." It* A. R. Directory. ; : ; M'BBHBT POST HO. 843. Meets the linn Thursday evening of eaeh month. L. E. BBRHCTT, Oom. WOODSTOCK FOST, HO 108. Meets first and third Monday evenings of sa^imfisth. W. H, Motreoa, Oom. •OIDi KMT, vo ns. Meets the second and fourth Tuesday evenings of each month. « 0- F. Din, Oom. HA.KTAKD POST, HO 90S. Meets the seoona ana xourtn Monday-even ings of eaoh month. JOHH MARSHALL, Oom. MAKKHOO POST, HO. 189, Meets every Second and Fourth Friday sveaiags of eaoh month. K. B. Mouats, Oom. WATTOOHDA KMT, HO> 388. Post meets every eecond and fourth Satur­ day evening In G. A. H. Hall, Ualn St. AKTHCTK COOKH, Oom. L. W. NICHOLS, JR. 0(L»n Wvici1*' '--""v-iir JIWKLER 'AND IEUUI RICHMOND ILLINOIS ' if l Wo. 9701. Record 2t2& Will be for service at the barns of George W. Owen, McHenry. Illinois. TERMS, $50. One half payable in Cash, balance by Note due six months from service without interest. Interest after due at 8 per cent. "George O." was sirea by Lakeland Abdaliah 351. by the founder of our trotting wonders, old Uysdykes Hambletonian, 10. Dam of George O. i» by Autocrat, a son of Georee M. Patcheu, 30, record 2:23#. She p a c e d a t s i x y e a r s o i l a h a l f m i l e i n VMX, and at 17 years a fall mile in 2:2<. "George O." has had very limited advan­ tages in the stud, never having bred a stan­ dard bied mare, but his colts are all very speedy and sell tor long prices. He sired a two-year-oki with a record or 2-49. trial # mile In 1:22 to Road Cart. QEQBGE W. OWES. McHenry, Illinoit. T WMfiD ! A good pushing Salesman here- First- class pay guaranteed weekly. Commis­ sion or salary. Quick selling new Fruits and Specialties. . FARMERS oan get a goid paying iob for the winter. Write for full partic­ ulars, FRED B. YOUNG. Nurseryman. 8u»2 Rochester, N. \. j - ! & | < f " " I f f ] S » r . e n " V o r * s e n t 10 wdt ft vabi.iif:, but to take c*i:irfc<J of looul agents; territory rights re- served; li'ieiness too large to bo managed from main Instruction and transportation FUEE to right pnr- ties. Address I'reas. GASKEIA LiTKHA- ItY CLUB, » Frank- ••a*: " Along the Skirmish line. Out of 1,385 bills passed by the last Congress 881 were for pensions to indi­ viduals. The number of pension daims received to Oct. 1,1890, under act of June 27, 1890, is 431,747. The horso used by Cteneral TT. S. Grant during the war is said to be alive not far from St. Louis, Mo. A reunion of veteran members of the Woman's Relief Corps and Sons of Veter­ ans was held at Fredonla, Kansas, Oct. 2, 3 and 4. The Grand Army Post and Camp of Sons of Veterans of Medicine Lodge, Kan­ sas, have arranged for a grand reunion to take place Oct. 22 to Oct. 25. A reunion of veterans at Erie, Neosho county, Kansas, is announoed for Oct. 24 and 25. Mrs. Elisabeth Custer, widow of the famous General Custer, has been visiting friends in Chicago for the past two weeks. Since his election in August Commander in-chief Wheelock GT. Veazey has fh&de an extended tour in the departments west of the Mississippi, vie., Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. The National Encampment decided to go back to the old ritual and it will come into use again Jan. 1, 1891. The com­ rades all agree that it is a happy change. Grant Park, Galena, 111., is being graded preparatory to the • placing of the Kohlsaat statue of the OldCommandery. The Sons of Veterans Camp of Barring- ton was recently presented with a sword captured from the rebels during the late civil war. Comrade Crisinger, of Post 7, Chicago and husband of Delia Crisinger, President of Abraham Lincoln Woman's Relief Corps, No. 108, lies dangerously sick at his home, No. 4142 Wentworth avenue, the result of an accident on the railroad near Dubuque, Iowa. The Western Society of the ArmyjOf the Potomac held a meeting at the Grand Pacific Hotel last week Tuesday evening. Colonel Freeman Conner presided. The badge used by the Society of the Army of the Potomac was adopted for use of the Westers Society. A memorial on General W. S. Hancock was read by Cap­ tain Richard Robbins. A tribute of re­ spect was paid to the memory of Colonel Knox, Forty-fourth New York Volunteers. The annual reunion of General U. S. Grant's old regiment, the gallant Twenty- first Illinois Infantry, was held at Decatur Wednesday, Oct. 8. About seventy vet­ erans attended. E. D. Wilkin, Lincoln, was elected President and Addison Mc- Pheeters, of Sullivan, Corresponding Sec­ retary. The next reunion will be held at Sullivan, 111., Sept. 19,1891. Lieutenant S. J. McKinley, of Osage la. probably carries more scars of rebel bullets than any other veteran now living in the United States or elsewhere. He passed through many of the hardest fought battles of the war) and was wounded in every fight in which he par­ ticipated. He is one of the few who draw the full pension limit--$72 per month-- and his disabilities are such that it was procured for him by special legislation. Carnegie's Thoughtfalness. Eulogizing the untold benevolence of this country in the matter of pensions, in a recent speech in Dundee, Scotland, Andrew Carnegie was attacked by aTory paper, which called attention to the^ fact that the widow of a Scotchman who had fought through the war of the rebell­ ion in the Union army in the United States was permitted to suffer in destitu­ tion at that place without pension. At the request of Mr. Carnegie, the United consul, Mr. Bruce, investigated the case and found that the woman referred to was the widow of John McEwan, who was a private in Company H, Sixty-fifth Illinois Infantry. She was- immediately asked to sign an application for a pension which Mr. Carnegie brought with him together with the necessary affidavits to support the claim. He left the meeting of the iron masters at New York last Fri­ day and went to Washington to lay tbe case before the President. The latter at once forwarded the papers to Commis­ sioner Raum, with the request that they receive immediate attention. Mr. Car­ negie also stood ready to make good the pension if any technicality was likely to prevent its payment. t ? ------- Young Bayonet Points the Frani. • - That young soldier hater known as "Young Bayonet Points," in his semi- occasional abuse of the old soldiers who fought on the Union pide, not having Corporal Tanner to "blat" about, has commenced on General Raum, and to demonstrate to our comrades, as we have often done heretofore, as to his consist­ ency and truthfulness we quote the fol­ lowing from this young copperhead, or as appears in his columns. From the Democrat soon after Cor­ poral Tanner stepped aside: Pension Commissioner Rama is shak­ ing up his bureau in a way that must de­ light the veterans whose claims have been rather slow in getting through. Recently he issued an order abolishing the board of review and distributing the forty members of that cumbrous body among the five adjudicating divisions of the office. Six of the ablest men in the board have been assigned to duty in the board of review as a committee to whom all the more important and difficult questions will be referred. The remain­ ing thirty-four reviewers, together with the forty special examiners recently re­ called from field work, having been dis­ tributed among the adjudicating divis­ ions, thus increasing their effective work­ ing force by seventy-four men. With these increased facilities for adjudicating there should be less growling at delays than heretofore. -A little later: "The pension claim agents are reported as being very much opposed to General R turn's business-like methods as Pension Commissioner." And now he is anxious to have his readers believe that it is the Republican papers who do not like Gen. Uau,i»4i thereby thinking to cover his track&fv, ALONG THE PICKET LINE. Raum is getting an awful roasting from his own party papers. The "New York Tribune, the Boston Record, and the Milwaukee Sentinel will be satisfied with nothing short of his removal! Oth­ er papers, no less vehemently Republican manifest the same humor, and the pen­ sion-pestered President will not be per­ mitted to pass the matter by. ^ Raum must go. The McHenry County Democrat, about once a month prints what they are pleased to designate a Soldier Depart­ ment. We did not find the following in said department, and never expect to: THE SOLDIERS' FRIENDS. Votm ob & Few Pension Bills Compiled from Official Records. The Arrears of Pension Bill, passed Jan­ uary 19,1879: Democrats for the bill 48 Democrats against the bill................. 61 Republicans for the bill ..........116 Republicans against the bill.............None The Widows' Pension Bill, passed Feb­ ruary 2,1886. (Increasing widows' pen­ sions from |8 to #12 per moutli.) Democrats for the bill... 80 Democrats against the bill..66 Republicans for the bill ..... 118 Republicans against the bill ........None The Amputation Bill, passed Aug. 4, 1886: . Democrats for the bill 76 Democrats against the bill 51 Republicans for the bill 91 Republicans against the bill None The Widows' Arrears Bill (giving ar­ rears of pensions from the death of their husbands, to widows entitled to pen­ sions), passed the Senate by the follow­ ing vote : Democrats for the bill..... 1 Democrats against the bill .20 Republicans for the bill 22 Republicans against the bill None The Disability Pension Bill (gives pen­ sion to all disabled soldiers and to de­ pendent parents and children). Democrats for the bill 28 Democrats against the bill 56 Republicans for the bill 117 Republicans against the bill ....None The Prisoners-of-War Bill (Gives pen­ sion for term of imprisonment of all who were prisoners of war thirty days or more). Democrats for the bill 24 Democrats against the bill...,...,*..,. 78 Republicans for the bill .............119 Republicans against the bill.............None The Democrats voted three to one against the bill, and as it lacked five votes of the necessary two thirds, it was defeated. "II" Waa Ben Butler- The Oxford (Me.) Democrat tells a good story of the late Cyp Whitman, who had a very peculiar voice. Cyp was a member of the Twelfth Maine in the Department of the Gulf. One day the regiment was out on dress parade when a short, stumpy officer, with short legs and a broad expanse of abdomen, came ridbig past Cyp allowed his astonish­ ment to overcome his discretion. "What is that?" he asked in his inimitable voice. Instantly discipline was lost, laughter ruled supreme. Cyp was arrest­ ed and' taken to the guard house, and finally before the regimental officers, and was asked, "Did you not know that mil­ itary discipline forbids you to speak dis­ respectfully of an officer? " And again was heard that thin drawl, "Was that an officer?" And now it was the officers' turn to roar and Cyp was dismissed without punishment or reprimand. It is added that the officer was Benjamin Franklin Butler. In deed Condition. (CIRCULAR LETTER NO. 1.] Comrades:--The Grand Army of tl0 Republic was never in better condition than at the present time. Its strength and power are commensurate with its numbers, now nearly one-half milling comrades. Bat its mission is not com­ plete. We are comrades, not for personal benefit to ourselves, but to enable us in­ dividually to do good to others who stood at our side in the shock of battle. There are far too many such, not enrolled with us, and therefore not within the teach of tfae hall benefits of our order. They lose the advantage and inspiration of fraternal associations which 'the Post room, the only club house of the average veteran, affords. The relief fnnd of the Post is not sure to reach them in their distress. They do not go with us to visit the sick, to feed the hungry, or to bury the dead comrade. Our badge, which Grant and Sheridan prised and < Sheridan wears, does not decorate their breasts as the insignia of honor tor their valiant service. No veteran joins the Grand Army of the Republic and enters into its work in the spirit of true comradeship without being lifted to a loftier manhood and to the plane of better citizenship. Wether®- fore fail in duty if we fail to do our ut­ most to bring all who offered their lives for flag and country within our organi­ zation. They all know that snch mem­ bership can not infringe the free exercise of political inclination or religious faith. The Commander-in-chief therefore ap­ peals to posts and comrades to bring upon our rolls all worthy veterans of the Union army and navy who are not there already, and to let none be dropped therefrom for inability to pay the small dues incumbent upon membership. He also solicits from department com­ manders and all comrades frank sugges­ tions upon matters within administra­ tive jurisdiction pertaining to the welfare of the order. By vigorous co-operati©n along our lines they are sure to be great­ ly advanced, and our countrymen will ever rise up to bless us for true devotion to "Fraternity, Charity, mid Loyalty," even as they hold us in honor for brave deeds on the battle-fields of the Republic. Yours in F., C., and L., Official: W. G. VEAZEY, Com'd'r-in-chief. J. H. GOULDIKG, Adj't Gen'L Badly Battled. the war," said Maj. L. with a merry twinkle in his fine brown eye--"once fatally, but you see I am still an inhabi­ tant of this beautiful earth." "Perhaps," suggested one of his listen­ ers--a N. Y. Tribune man--"yon wete like the man of whom the country news­ paper man wrote.. "The ball entered his left side, inflicting a mortal wound. With good care he will be able to pull through ail right.'" "That's just where the ball did enter," replied the grizzled veteran cheerfully. "It as in the Shenandoah valley with Sheridan and we were having a lively time of it, a regular hare-and-hounds race all the time; it seemed. We were chasing Mr. Johnny Rebel out of the country and in one of onr charges I suddenly stopped short, feeling as if a red-hot sword had been thrust through me. I was wounded badly too. The ball had entered my side and had passed clean through my body leaving a fierce burning trail. Well,' I said to myself. 'Abe L., this time you are a dead man. No man can' live when a bullet has ploived it's way through his vitals.' "I staggered out of line. The fighting business was so brisk just then that wounded men were looking out for them­ selves. I managed to get to a log and sat down on it to wait until I should die. The pain was so fearful that I could barely move my limbs. It seemed to paralyze my nervous and muscular force. As I «at there watching the men scamper along, one of my old comrades passed me. "'What'sthe matter, Abe?* ha Cried. 'Hit?' "'They've.done me this time,' I an­ swered. " " 'Hope not,' he turned to yell bade a* he ran. One doesn^t expect delicate in­ tention at such times. "Well, I waited to die, until finally I said to myself, "if this is dying it isn't so bad after all.' "I unbuckled my belt to ease the pain, and thought that I would like to see what a deadly wound looked like. I took a look and there was no wound there. 1L could not believe my eyes. I knew I had been hit, for I could feel where the ball had come out in my back; I put my hand around there to touch the hole and could not find it. There was not a sign of a wound in my side, not a mark cm - the skin. It took me not more than thirty seconds to buckle my belt around me and make a run for my company. I caught it in twenty minutes. "'How's this?' two or three ot tha boys panted. "We thought you w«ie killed.' " -Well, yon see 1 am not I said, falttag into the ranks. "I had been hit by a spent ball, and that night when 1 examined my side 1 found a black and blue spot on it as as my cap. I didii t mind it in the least. A man who suddenly recovers from mortal wound fuels pretty eliywrfuL" ============= . , « . MONEY TO LOAS on fun land, HftMF and in anu»uuu» to snifc borNNMnt* Hfc* quire at thk otitea lor m