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Regular advertisers (meaning those having ,v (•tanning cants) will be entitled to insertion . . ef local notices at the rate of 5 cents per line ,;•/ «ach week. A.U others will bo charged 10 cents per ".ine the first week, and 5 cents per iui*'•/ tine for eaeh subsequent week. Transient advertisements will be charged S;f' at the rate of 16 cents pe line, (nonpareil type, same as this is set In) the first Issue, and 5'cents per line for subsequent issues. Th".s, • • an inch advertisement will cost $1. for one •>v" xvoek, 41.5 for two weeks,* 92. for three weeks, and so on. l«>- 'i'h« PuisnxtAiBR will -Iw liberal in giving •d.torial notices, but, as a tmsineSH rule, it will require »t suitable fee from everybody leeklng the use of its columns for j?aouniary % gain. . • BUSINESS CARDS. O. J. HOWARD, If. D. AND 8URGEOS. MeHenry, «t res Public School Building. |)IIir <ICl VH A>U SUKUBiUA. nionouiji I 111. Oflle.e «t residence, one block east of I>nrsioiAN 1 Ills. Office 0. H. FBGKBS, M, D. and S a ft a EON, MeHenry, at Residence. M. r». WM, OSBOIIHE, PHYHIOI\M AVD 3UIIGKO--Uesideuce, West Moilenrj\ proinp.ly atten le<l to day and ai£ht. .;:jgpgi*i__ once at til. Oalts Livery Stable. HK. WKJrtTMAN, Proprietor. First • class rigs, with or without drivers : furnisha*! rfctGS. Twining of ! .11 k t.aV JoVrOT nett*K fi x NEAR THE DEPOT* WEST MoHBNRY, ILL Keeps open for the accommodation of the' Public a D irat-Olase Saloon and Restaurant, Where lie will at air ̂ es keep the beat brands of Wines, Liqutors and Oigars he found In the market. Also Agent ror FllANZ FAL.K'S Milwaulw# Lager Bnt. Beer in Large or Small Kegs or Bottles al- fiyi en hand, cheaper than any other, quail, ty considered. Orders by mail promptly attended to. GOOD STABLHTO FOR HORSBS. MPOalt and see us. Robert Sohlessle. West MeHenry, III. A. Bnglen's SALOON AND RESTAURANT. MoHENRV, ILLINOIS. S&S&-: if [ • ($*•*, ?*' , A". " • €?; • %€ ' S" : Fine Kentucky Liquors, r French Bitters, JIcHaary Lager Beer, --AND-- :-T • J. Scllitz Milwaalee Bottle Beer, In any quantity from » Snitz Qla<» to ICO barrels. AT WHOLESALE OR RETAIL Beer in bettles, ke^s or rate as •heap as the cheapest. * We buy none bat the best and veil at Reasonable Prices. Gall and see me and I will aw y«*n well. ANTONY RNGELN. BUSINESS CARDS. Paul brown*, ATT«»BHiCV AT f. \W. nr.**. Kxpress Oo.'s Building, ^7 in't 83 Wash<nKto OIIIOAOO, II-f.. St. *M. K. BliLSWORTH. ATToitSRY at I.aw, and Solicitor m Ohan oery, Nunda, III. A^A W 8»HTH, Attornbt at law and . Ohan«ery.--Woodstock, III. (otMtW In JOSLY* ft CASKY, ^TTORKISTS AT LAW, Woodstock (ton. All business will receive prompt atton O. P. BARKER, A TTORNRy, Solicitor, and Counselor, XX Oollections a specialty. WOODSTOCK, lLLlKOrS. V. S LUMLKT. ^ ATTORVBY AT I.AW, and Solicitor In Chanuerv, WOODSTOCK, ILL. OflUce in Park House, lirst floor. ;'v?a 1 A. M. CHURCH, Watchmaker and Jeweler NO. One HundredTwenty-Five State ftt Chi' cago, ill. Special attention given to re­ pairing Fine watches and Chronometers. B^A Full Assortment of Goods in his line United States War Clui Acency WM- H. Woodstock COWLIN, - - Illinois. Prosecutes all classss and kinds of claims ag»in*t the United states tor ex-Soldiers, their Widows, Dependent Relatives or Heirs. .V specialty Is made in prosecuting old and rejected claims. All coinmuniruitions promptly answered If Postage gtainps are enoiosed for reply. W M , H . V O W L i A OIBcc at Residvnce, Madison St., Woods toe a, Illlaoia. Attention Horsemen! MoilEvitr, 111., April 1st, 18%, I would respectfully invite the Public to 'call and examine m 7 stock of Horses before making arrangements elsewhere. So busl. nets dene on ̂ unday. M. 8. OOLBT? M'HIRBT IU, Quintette Orchestra, McHENRY, ILL. kra nreparedi to furulshl First Ola«s Musi* totlw Dancing Public a(}Reasonable Bate*, j, Smith, 1st Violin. Robt. Madden, Olarionet, G, Ourlis, Goinet, L, Owen. Trombone, B, Ingalls, Basso and Prompter, Addross all communications to Jerry Smith, MeHenry. The Police Cazette, Is the "nlv illustrate-) paper In the world coniiiimijg all the iatesi sensational and spurting news No salo n Keeper, Barber, or Oliio Room can Hff.jrd to be without It. It always makes friends whorever it goes. Wailed to any address 1a the United States securely wraiiped, 13 weeks for f i. Send Five Cents for sample copy. BICHAKD X. FOX, x kahKlih squakb, New York • ATTENTIOKI Farmers and Dairymsn. It Will pay those lookingjfor CHOICE COWS Fresh milkers er springers, to caU at *1 premises before purchasing. I can fumish Auoh by the car load or single cow. PORTER H. WOLFRUM, OHBMUHO. Farm about four miles northwest of Harvard, Illinois. * JOHN P. SMITH, ^Tatobmaker Sc. Jeweler, McHENRY, ILLINOIS. A FINE stock of Clocks, Watches and Jew-elry always on hand. Spacial .attention - -- watches. Give me given to repairing fine a call. JOHN P. SMITH. McHENRY HOUSE, McHearjr, Illinois. JOHN THELEN Proprietors This House is situated near the Iron Bridge and opposite the Steamboat Landing, has btsen newly renovated and painted, insitle un'l out, and is now prepared to accommodate the traveling public, or boarders, bv day or week, on the most reasonable terms, and guarautee* to give satisfaction. The».pui)llc la In. vited to give.me ajcall,. GOOD S1ABLIN5 FOR HORSES SIHOH STOFFEL, a--.* J Phcenix of, Brooklyn. I Rockford Insur'ceCo 'ire.l^rjivr'it-vng and T >rni lo Insurance placed safelv and with despatch in either ol above companies. Policies cor>ecte>l, changes aaditraastars made. Call on or add ress ; Simon'Stoffel, West McHonry, Illinois. Life in Southern California. SEND 20 CENTS FOR THE TWO, JLog Angeles Timcs AnnueU, l(-90. 48 pages; U'*ekly Mirror, 12 {(Ajres.-- standard piii>'icat.ion. Or seinl 91 tor itio Mtrrur Ji weeks litl large pages). Full and valuable iutorruation about the most faroous section of the Union. TIME^-MIRROR CO., Los Angeles, CI. D. NKEDHAM** SONS 118-11) Dearborn Stnst, CH1CAOO ltd Cbrcr Hkhk BmUfTi BajBr lum, , Dys pepsl*, Siek i^lpatToo^Uw, Oahcer, (Stirrh, Rheumatism^ e»d*cbe. C01 H. fISH) . J^jractioal Painter AND DECOBATEB. HEBRON, ILL. Decoratingy Paper-Hanging, OALOIMININO% GJStAINXNQ, Ae Oom on akort notioe and satisfaction guanut- Oall oa or addroaa^ U'-H"oni. 111,., lifts. } . , - . i" I O ii Waverly House, WM. H. ROTXOUit, Prop., WOODSTOCK, - - ILL. imol* Room on First Floor. NEW YORK HOUSE. 239 tc 243 E. Randolph St, Between Franklin and Market Streets, CUIGAOO. Btot Accommodation to Iravefar* , tu. Boarders E. G. KOEPPE, Prop. 11.5 P BR DAV, GOOD SAMPI.K ROOM. A birH-clcuu Haute. 2he Boy* All Aop There; the Culver House. RICHMOND, ILL. Good Livery, Good Sample &oom. FREE BUS TO AND FROM ALL TRAINS FOR /M TROX& OF THE HOUSE. t Mil ft line of carriages to T*rtw fAires from i.ichtnond, tbree-fourtbs ofanule nearer than any other road, and more level and deasant ity far. If you intemi going to Twin .akes, stop .at Uichuiouii una inquire for OULVER'3 W'S Iti*alwr.vs there, rain or shine, itound trip prices as usuat. C. H. CULVER, Prop. Pump Beprfting, CEMENTING, ETC. The andersigned Is prepared to do all jobs In the line of Digging Wells, Repairing I*umps, Cementing Wells, or vill put in Now Pumps On short notice and vrarrant satisfaction. In short will do all work in this line. Can furnish you a new Pump, either wood or iron, warranted, as oheap as any other man. Oood references furnished If desired. If you want a Well Dug, a Pump Repaired or a new Pump, give me a call. WOrders by mail promptly attended to, Post office, Jonnsburgn, 111. L. BANTES. Johnstrargb, 111., May 26th, 1888. -BREEDERS OF- MORGAN HORSES. Short Horn, B*d Poibi Angai, And Jersey Cattle. Hillside Farm, West MeHenry, 111. Our Morgan Stock is al) pure bred, and jriginated from the beat Morgan sto Jk. in the (Jnlted States. Old Gifford Morgan, who stands at the head jf our Stock, is one of the best bred Morgan dorses in the country, and can show radc and hotter all purpose colts than any other hone in the West. We invite the Inspection of our stock by horsemen and all lovers of line animals, A few full blood Morgan Oolts and young M>rses for sale, Also one matched team, full •rtoode. in Cattle we have the full blood Short Horn jrbirhweare crossing with the Red Polled fcngus and therefore instead of sawing off the 10ms «re are breeding them off and with food auoeess, A few Heifers and Bulls, both pure bred 4ltort Horns and the cross above mentioned for sale. J. R. Saylor A Sena, W«at MeHenry, 111.. Feb. 37th, 1NW. L W. NICHOLS, JR. Ip^in Wfivrcqca. WM. 8TOFFEL. --Agvntifnr-- FIRE,. - LIGHTNING, And Aao<dental "Insurance. A!so Iowa. Minnesota, Knliraska, Alabama, and California l.auds. Call ou or address STOrNEl,, MeHenry, til. >iii'i(i'ii«ii.;ii.tiiii mi 1 ' ii j i i . 1 . i n . i n n s WANTED. Xiooalor TVavolluip. V To cell our Nursery**toeV. Hilarv, Kxpenses and Steady Employment giiaranveed. CHASE BROTHERS COMPANY. Hochester, H. t* > ••• .-A ' . * , > i TUB [,• ratal Abstinence Lifg Associatieii OF AMEHOA, Furnished the BEST and CHEAPEST in. snrance for l..tal al»stai«ers from Hleoholic liquors as a beverage. Policies self-susport­ ing after id years, Women insured on same tera»eM«|i.v?;?: - " Y;M W. Olt THANK, Harvnrd,tlf., General Agent for Mellanry County. J£T£LEB AND ENGM7IR, RICHMOND ILLINOIS. work la my Hne neatly awl tmSftir f̂ *wai<e» re^avtag aav^naHj. 1 PERRYAOWEH. Bankers, McHENRY, - ILLINOIS. This Bank receive* d'.poxils. biiys and sella Foreign and iMmextic \Ex~ change, and does a General Bankingi Business, We endeavor. to do till business en­ trusted to our care in a manner and upon te:ms entirely satisfactory to our customers, and respectfully solicit the public patronage. MONEY TO LOAN; On Real E*tate ar^d (ijlhzr first class security. Speck# attention given to cot- lections% ' INbUBANCfi > In Mrst Class Companies cif the Louteei Rates, Yows, . Beirut A." dwfir SK.BIEBS' DEPAUTMiHI Edited by WM. H, COWLIN, WOODSTOCK, :r.u--- "To ears for him who brut borne the battle, and for hi* wiiiow and orphans."--I„inoolk. *'f?riend»hip. Charity. Loyalty-- . ' % Wonhy tout of Patriot ftuhert." ; --"WmrlfHICAbO and NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. Affords unrivaled 1'a.o 11 i Ltee lor transit be tween the most important cities and towns in Illinois, Iotvn, Wisi'.nsln. Northern Mich- igan, Minnesota, Nirth and South D.lkoto, NeOraska and Wyoming. The train service is carefully adjusted to meet the requirements of through and local travel, and includes FAST VESTIBULES TRAINS Dining Cart. Sleeping Car* It Bay Coaeltes Running Solid between Ohieagoand ST. PAUL. MFN SEA POL IS, COUNCIL BLUFFS, OMAHA. DENVER AND PORTLAND, ORE PULLMAN A WAGNER SLEEPERS Chicago to San Francisco WITHOUT CHANGE. COLONISTS SLEEPERS, Chicago to Portland, Ore. A N D S A N F R A N C I S C O . Free Reclining Chair Cart CHICAGO TO DEN VER A ND PQR TLAND, ORE% . Via Ooanoil Blaffi and Omaha. For the time of tra<ns, tickets snd all lafOr* mation, apply to Station Agents of Uhicago A North-western Itailway, or to the Ueneral Passenger Agent, at Chicago. W . H . N E W M A N , J . M . W H I T M A N 3d Vice J*reaL (Jen'I Manager B. P. WiLSON, B. BUSS. (Jm'i Putt. AgL Agent, MeHenry, 111 HANLY BROS, BSBEOEES Of---- Roadster, Draft, AND 0&AD£ HOKSES. We liaving the following stallioi.s in service for the season of 1390. VON LEER. Tonng Hamble.onisn Stallion. Foal#d June 1st, 1885. Stamis IS'i hands iii^h, weight 1 l'JO pounds. Is bright i*ay. black points. Has one styte and good action. As a representa­ tive for getting good roadsters is hard to beat. "Von Leer" was sired bv George O. (97011, by Lakeland Abdaliah (351). First dam tfr Patchen, by Autocrat, second dam Dolly by Gifford Morgan. v.. ' , CHANCELLOR, JR. . Having purchased a very fine imported Clydesdale stallion, Chancellor Jr., ror our own use. will breed a limited number of mares outside. Chancellor Jr. is 9 years ol<J this spring; is a Cherry Itay with black points; 16,V hands high and weighs ulxjut 1700 pounds; strong, clean limbs, tine -action, mil l disposi­ tion. He was sirocl t»y Chancellor. (1310;, he by Drew Piince of Wales, (673) i»am by Loft y, (4C0); grand-dam by Duke of Welling­ ton. (151'); great-grand-dam by Sir William Wallace, (89»). He combines iu his breeding the best olood Scotland ever had, and has proven his ability to get uniform colts, of great size, fine form, strong and rugged. CHAMPION, JR. The Perchon Morgan Horse. Me has proven himself a tine stock getter for geueral pur­ poses, and cannot lie .jeaten in the Northwest. Parties who intend breeding the comin? season, will ilnd it .0 their advantage to call and see our stock and get our te<uis(which wil* be reasonable. Accidents and escapes at owner's risk. Mares from a distance well cored tor, at tn id eraiexaves. J Oall and as " . '•*£ '.ti* <• * i - ' 4', - - C- A. R, Directory. M'HENRT POST NO. 613. Meets this first Thursday evening of each saonth. U E. BKBITBTT, Oom. WOODSTOCK POST, HO 108. Meets Orst and third Monday evenings ef each month. '.W. H, Monbob, Oom. KUHDA K)IT, MO 990, Meets the second and fourth Tuesday evenings of each month. C- F. Dikb, Oota. a^BTABD POST, NO 96ft. Meets the second ana tourtn Monday even tngs of.eaoh month. JohkMxbshall, Oom. Mabbhoo Post, No. 188, Meets eTerr Second and Fourth Friday evenings of each month. K. & MoBBia, Oom. WADCOKDA rOST, NO. 368. Post meets every second ana fourth Satur­ day eveulng In G. A. K. Hall, Main St. arthubCookb, Oom, Alonr the Skirmish Line. The old 15th Illinois Infantry will re- one at Belvidere May 24th, 1890. The National Encampment, G. A. R., will be held in Boston August 12. The Department of Iowa, W. R. C., has a membership of 5,983. General Alger atteu^ed the California encampment lost week. Pennsylvania has 15T camps «f Sons of Veterans with a membership of 5,056. The hall of W. C. Durkee Post, Eagle Lake, Minn., was destroyed by fire April 17th, and till the Post property lost. The widow of Stonewall Jackson has applied for a {tension on the ground that tier late husband served in the Mexican war. ' . , « . Acker Post, St. Paul, Minn., has the record of "having furnished si^ Govejjp- ors of the State." The post has a pres­ ent membership of 338, The eighth annual encampment of the Ohio Division, Sous of Veterans, will be held in the city of Mansfield, Ohio, June 10, 11, 12,18. Mrs. Hancock, the widow of General Winfield S. Hancock, recently presented a handsome portrait of her distinguished husband to tl^ Sqldiere' iiyme at Minne­ haha, Minn. Aurora Poet, No. 20, Aurora, 111., have arranged for accommodations for sev­ enty men at the encampments A harbor excursion is talked of among the features of entertainment for the del­ egates to the National Encampment. The six largest departments of the Grand Army as shown in the reports Dec. •11,1889, are: Ohio, 4(i,214; Pennsyl­ vania, 44,013; New York, 40,758; Illi­ nois, 32,313; Indiana, 25,105; Massa­ chusetts, 21,097. _v. Miss Winnie Davis, known as the "Daughter of the €onfederacy," will soon wed Mr. Alfred Wilkinson, of Syracuse, N. Y. Mr. Wilkinson is a. grandson of the Rev. Samuel J . May, of Connecticut, au associate of Phillips and Garrison, friends of the negro. "Why should any man begrudge those afflicted men the increased rates which are urged for blindness, deafness, ampu­ tated limbs and crippled bodies. No healthy man vould take their disabilities for many times the highest rates of pen­ sions proposed for them," Gen. Crook was a man of very strong affections. The ladt time that he was at the old homestead near Dayton, Ohio, was ou September 8, 1878, his 50th birthday. He told his brothers then that it would be long befoi^e he would re­ turn. "The fact is," he said, "it is easier for me tQ stay away from here than to get away if I come here. It hurts less." A long-winded Democratic organ groans because the recent "pension bill was passed after three days'debate." But it has been discussed and understood over the whole laud for years. A three- weeks' discussion would not have changcd a single vote, and the people are not hungry for Congressional oratory. It is work and not talk the people de­ mand. Jokes on Corporal Tanner 6 Corporal Tanner enjoys a good joke, even on himself, and tells the following: "I was at a hotel, and a colored boy hap­ pening in tl-e room as I was about to retire, I asked him to pull off my shoes. Now, anyone who knows me understands my condition, and will understand what it means to pull off my shoes [the Cor- has artificial limbs to both knees]. I had unfastened the straps, and knowing what would come, I awaited develop­ ments. The boy took hold "and pulled, and--off came a portion of my leg. The poor fellow stood aghast, staring speech­ lessly at what he had done, and then, throwing down the artificial limb, he fled. I yelled for him to come back, that it was all right, and, somewhat reassured, he came back, and I told him to pull off the other shoe. He took hold of it, but rather gingerly, and then gave a pull, and lo.and behold, he held another shoe and part of a leg, in his hands. Ht didn't stop but dropped it as he ran. Gracious, how he did get out of that room! Would he come back for my calling? Not a bit of it. He had no further use forme." The Corporal tells another nw. iTfi i was in San Francisco, and was taken with pneumonia, and for days it was thought to be all up with him. One morning as he lay white and exhausted and apparently dying, Major B., the landlord came in, as was his wont, to in­ quire after the patient. "1 was con­ scious," said the Corporal, "and heard him come to the foot of the bed. He was a very kind man and had done all in his power for me. 'How is the sick man' he asked. 'There is no change,' said my wife. 'Don't you think he ought to have something warm put to his feet? Aren't they cold?' Then I heard my wife say after a little pause: 'Well, I don't know, Major, but you can see for yourself, There are his feet by the window.! There was a dead silence. I was too sick to see bow he looked when he got that informar tion but my wife told me about it after­ ward. The Major appreciated the*humor in it and while I was convalescing we all laughed over it many a *"»»-- Times-St^r. r. - * ^ * • Vt-« I Heroas and HerMw. ' ~- General Lee viewed secession with horror. His first position was that he would content himself with not drawing his sword against his own people. This position he abandoned for a second one in which he announced his intention of drawing his sword only for the defense of his native State. This second position he abaudoned for a third one, from which he made his raids that ended at Antietam and Gettysburg. Morally, he was swept back from line to line by the force of pub­ lic oj)inion within the Confederacy, just as in the physical contest he was forced back from the Wilderness to the Appo­ mattox apple tree by the military forces of the Union. The mau who in two such contests, abandons wnat conscience and ambition urge him to maintain, and does that which he is unwilling to do, is not of the stuff of which heroes are made. George H. Thomas, another Virginian, holding at the outstart views similar to Lee's, and subjected to the same family, social and political influences, won both the moral and physical victory, while Lee won neither. If the Virginians will erect a statue to their fellow-Virginian, Thomas, an un­ doubted hero, the New York Seventh will doubtless be glad to participate in the dedication.--Phtiadelphm Iaqmti0^$ The Hero of the KSBmrge.̂ ^41. Senator Hoar has introduced a bill pro­ viding for a pension of $50 a month to tbB on# surviving dj^nghimMM***** Winslow. She is now living in ROxbury, a confirmed invalid. In 1887, Congress, by a special act, granted a pension of f 50 a month to the widow of this gallant officer in recogni- of his invaluable services to the country; but at her death recently, it lapsed. It is now merely proposed to extend the same recognition to the daughter. Admiral Winslow .won an enviable place in history as the commander of the Kearsarge in the short and sharp battle when it defeated and sank the Confeder­ ate cruiser Alabama, which had long been the terror of Northern commerce. Of that action the Secretary of the Navy wrote at the time: "The battle was so brief, the victory so decisive, and the comparative results so striking, that the country will be reminded of the brilliant actions of our infant navy which have been repeated and illustrated in this en­ gagement." There is abundant precedent for grant­ ing this aid to the invalid daughter of the naval officer to whom the country was so much indebted, and if there were not it would be well to create one. We should hope for the unanimous support of this bill by the Massachusetts delega­ tion in Congress, and for its prompt passage.--Boston Globe. "Neverwas a more just debt owed than the equalization of bounties. One of the most unjustifiable things that the Gov­ ernment did was to pay the men who came out the third year of the war f 200 more bounty than those who had already served two years. It virtually fined those who had come out first $200 for being so prompt to respond to its call. Not but what those who came out after September, 1863, deserved every cent of the f300 bounty which the Goverment gave them. At the prices of greenbacks which prevailed this represents 4Iess than $150 in the money of to-day, which was b, small inducement indeed for a m«.n to )3ave his home, and the high wages of the time, and march into the bloody hell of the wilderness, or the protracted pande­ monium of the Atlanta Campaign. But the veterans of the two years' fighting should have been put on a level, so far as the Government's payments to them, with the new levies. The long delay of Congress to repair this injustice, as far as p jssible, is inexcusable." The Department of Georgia, the smallest departmeut in the Grand Army and containing the greatest number of Federal dead, appeals to comrades of the other departments for contributions to enable them to suitable decorate the graves of the 40,000 or more l uion soldiers who are buried at Marietta, An­ derson ville, Beaufort, and Florence. The commander of the Department of Minnesota has divided his department in three divisions, and placed the second and third divisions under the immediate command of the seeior and junior vice commanders, retainiug the first division under his own orders. In this way every post of the department will be visited by at department officer afc fetal twee during thenar. The Hew Pension Bill. There, is a difference of only a few million ' dollars between the estimates of tll£ /..! money required by the Dependent Pea- sion Bill which has passed the Senate ^ the bill which has just passed the Houst» -* :'?l Neither bill can be characterized as *»fr / e x t r e m e m e a s u r e , a n d n e i t h e r i s m o r e ' | than cdn reasonably be asked by the vet- | ^ erans as a fulfillment of the pledgee of the if,, I Republican party. The feature of the * • ^ House bill pensioning all veterans over the age of OO will be the one which will be the most violently denounced by the free traders, but their solicitude for the sur­ plus should not lead them to ignore th* fact that at the age of 62 the United Is] States deems its military officers fib sub- '.1 % jects for retirement from active service. "^1 If there is at that age a weakening ol * § j physical activity which incapacitates • 'f army officers for duty, surely ft is not , unwise to recognize the same principle in its application to the case of our volun- -- .J , \ teer soldiers and seamen. As to the dis4-; ability feature of the bill, it ought not to ! be necessary to point out that after all If ^ its pronises to the veterans and after all '*•' ^ they have done in its behalf, the country " '* \. can ill afford to permit old soldiers and . J sailors dependent on their own exertions > ^ to have to resort to the poor-house when *. r , * they are no longer able to earn a liveli- \ sj| hood.--Boston Journal. , ;4 * 't" /> The Order of the Sons of Veterans htm two great objects in view, first to incul­ cate friendship, charity and loyalty among its members and among citizens generally; second, to preserve the results of the late war. Let no one for a moment suppose that we seek to keep the spirit; of enmity between the North and South. That is farthest from our (|bsigns. We are firmly of the oplttion, however, that the late war established some princ i pals which should be preserved as the results for which our fathers fought. We believe thit the war taught that" these United United States are a nation, and that the processes of the formation are fully ended. We believe that it taught that there is room in this country for but one flag, and that flag the stars and stripes. We believe that it taught that men are equal in their rights before the law. We believe that it taught that allegi- ance is due to the Government of the United States of America, and that the States which compose our Union are ^ sovereign. , .t . , , It is these results of the war that Sons ot Veterans seek to preserve. We must also aid the Grand Arm the Republic in caring for destitute vet­ erans, and the widows and orphans ot ~~M deceased soldiers, and in securing proper observance of Memorial Day. ! 2 It has been remarked by a great his-; ^ -N torian, that they which neglect the art of,, ] war and forget how to fight, cannot serve liberty. ' Tf - 1 We accordingly endeavor to foster th» V}, ' martial spirit formed in the breast ot fĵ l every freeman, by drill in the school of 'j[ 1 the soldier, by the military character ot , ^ our organization, and by keeping fresh ^ • in our minds the traditions of our fath^' era. • We extend a hearty invitation to all worthy sons now without the pate of out* ̂ organization, to unite with us in the accomplishment of this grmul work. Picket Guard. ; > . * ' » . Peaatatt. The question of pensions interests the veteraus at the present time. The last* Natioual encampment of the Grand Army adopted the following resolution: Resolveil. That the action of the twenfr* f second annual eucampment upon the^f matter of pensions is herebv reaffirmed! and readopted, and that the pensoit committe of the Grand Army of the Rt -* , public be instructed to pursue all honor, * '< able meaus to secure legislation in accord- , T< ance with the said twenty-second annual : :> encampment. The resolutions of the twenty-second v 1 encampment were as follows: Resolve<l, That it is the sense of this : encampment that the time hascome when the soldiei-s and sailors of the war for the- preservation of the Union should receive*^ the substantial and merited recognition of this government by grauting them service pensions in accordance with es- ' " * ? $ tablished usage; and farther " Resolved, Thatthiseucampmentfavore ' the presentation of a bill to Congress • $ which will give to every soldier, sailor , * >\ and marine who served in the army or s, navy of the United States between April, '"y,4 1 1861, and July, 1805, for the period oS Jig' ; sixty days or more, a service pension of of* J $8 per month, and to all who served a period exceeding 800 dayn an additionnl '|l » amount of 1 cent per day for each day's , service exceeding that period. Your committee also earnestly advo- 'Sfi cate the passage of a bill placing the widows of Union soldiers, sailors and '7^ marines on the pension list without re- gard to the time of the service or the V s cause of the soldier's death. ' 'tS, And your committee further report v. that we do not withdraw our repeated - ?• approval of the bill now before Congm**, "Vj&xJj which was approved and endorsed by the- ' 3 national pension committee of the Grand *, "S * Army, known as the disability weusiou bill. . '• ** t m,-": ""ir % .• -Str:" nv-* "The State ol Massbebasetta will prob* ably appropriate $50,000 to aid in de­ fraying the expenses of the 24 th National • Encampment. The City of Boston will a appropriate $25,000, and the merchants s of the city will probably contribute $100,- ' 000 more. This will put the finances ol- the Encampment on a magnificent foot­ ing --much better than any one." 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