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PDBUIBID BritrUWionsoir BT ^ f V A N S L T K i ^ < EDITOR ASD PROPRIKTOR, Office in Bishop's Block,? -' •AJ0KPO#rti' PantT * T 8 ft MS OF STJB?0aiPTI01f. S#i|« fear (In Actrance) If Hot Paid within Three Month#..,... ., 9.00 %uD«cription« received for three or six MOntbe in the same proportion. * Kates of Advertising. We announce liberal rates for advertising 4 the PLtftroKALKR, and endeavor to state M'<n so plainly that the? will be readily nn- •r 9to-> l. They are »• follows: 1 Inch one year « . 500 t Tnches one year - - • • 1900 • Inches one year . • - - 15 00 S'lOolumn one yeaT - • « » - SO 00 Column one year- • - "» » "6000 Column one year - . - ... 100 00 One inch means the of one Inch down the column; single column width. Yearly advertisers, at the above rites, have the privilege of changing as often as they ehoose, without extra charge. Regular advertisers (moaning those having •t&nrUng cards) will be entitled to insertion of local notices at the rate of 5 cents per line each week. AH others will be charged 10 vents per Mne the Arst week, and 5 cents per llpe for oaoh subsequent week. Transient advertisements will be charged at the rate of 10 cents pe line, (nonpareil type, same as this Is set In) the first issue, and Koents per line for subsequent issues. This, an Inch advertisement will cost fl.OOforone week, $1.60 for two weeks, 93.00 for three weeks, and so on. The Pi/ATtfDRALBR will be liberal in giving editorial notices, but, Asa business rule, it will require a suitable fee from everybody seeking the use of its columns for pecuniary fain. ;*fe=S- BUSINESS CARDS. a J. HOWARD, M. D. OlIY-ACHN AND SURG EOS'. McHenry, I III. Office at resilience, one block east of Public School Building. i> i O. H. FBUKKS, M, D- Illa. office at Residence. Wtf. OSBOifilC, M. n. IIHYSIOM!* AND SUUGWO*. Office at Jl Residence, West Mcilenry, 111. Calls promp.ly atten<ie i to day and night. UARBIAN BROS. CIOAR Manufacturers, McHenry, 111. Or­ders solicited. Shop, la Old Mc Henry, ia Keit.er Block, third door west of Riverside House. legSf Livery Stable. * Wore Teaming at K. WltfHXMAN, i'ropnetor. ol&Bi rigs. Wi tit or w UbA»t drivers fnrnished at reasonable rates, til kinds done on short notice B NEAR THE DEPOT, %E8T MoHENRY, ILL «eepa open for the aooommodation of the' ^§blle a Firet-Olaes Salooa and Restaurant, . wnere no wm at all timeB keep the beat brands of Wines, Liquors and Cigars Vdne be will " ds of Wiues, Liqii to be found in the market. Also Agent For HRA.NSE FALK'S SILUMSE LAGER BEER. Beer in Large or Small «Cegs or Bottles al- my6 on hand, cheaper than any othert qoaii- tf considered. Orders by mail promptly attended to. OOOD HTABLlWi POB HQR8B8. MTOall and sos us. Robert Sohlessle- West MoHonry, III. . A. Eaglon a IlLQON AND RESTAURANT. - McHENRY, ILLINOIS. Pine Kentucky Liquors, French Bitters, % McHenry Lager Boer, BUSINESS CARDS." PAFL BROWN, ATTORXBT AT LAW. U.-«. Express Oo.'s Building, 87 HW1 89 Wa^liington iSt. - CHICAGO, ILL. |M. F. lELLSWORTH, ATTORNEY at Law, and Solicitor 1* Chan eery, Nunda, III. ASA W SMITH, ATTORNEY AT LAW and Boliettor xx Chancery.--Woodstock, III. la JOSLYH * 5C1SEY. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Woodstock til. i\. All business will receive prompt at ten* tioa. C. P. BARNES, j ATTORNEY, Solicitor^ and - Counselor, Oolieottoni'a specialty. . v- WOODBTOCK, ILLIKOra. LUMLEY. LAW, and Solicitor Y. S ATTORNEY AT Chaneerv, WOODS TOOK, ILL. Office in Park House, first floor. Ita A. M. CHURCH, Watchmaker and Jeweler NO- One HundredTwenty-Five State St Chi­cago, III. Special Attention given to re­ pairing Fine watches and Chronometers. VA Fall Assortment of Ooods in bis line United States War Clirim Am OF WM. II. COWLIN, Woodstock • - Illinois. Prosecutes all c.lassss and kinds of claims against the United States for ex-Soldiors, their Widows, Dependent Relatives or Heirs. Aspecialtvis made in prosecuting old and rejected ciaiins. All communications promptly answered If Postage Stamps are enclosed for reply. W M , H . C O W U K Office at Residence, Madison St., Woodstocc, Illinois. Attention Horsemen! - MCHENRY, III, April 1st, ltfse. ( Would respectfully invite the Public to callaad examine :n j stock of Horses before making arrangements elsewhere. No busi- nee? done on Sunday. . N. 8. COLBY H'HBNKT ILL SWIXTSTS Quintette Orchestra, McHENRY; ILL. Are prepare<l| to furaishl Fir*t Class Mueta to the Dancing Public at Reasonable Kates. J, Smith, 1st Violin. Robt. Madden. Clarionet, O. Curtis, Corpet. L, Owen, Trombone, K, In galls, Basso and Prompter, Address all communications to Jerry Smith, Mclienry. SIM01 STOFFBL, Agent for Phcenix of Brooklyn. Rockford Insur'ceCo fire.' L'g'itiing and T>rnado Insurance placed safelv and with despatch in either of above companies. Policies cor>ected, changes ami. transfers made. Call on or address SimoDStoff^ West McBwiry, Illinois. WAVERLY HOUSE, WM. H. ROTNOUK, Prop., WOODSTOCK, . « ILL. 6a mpte Room on FTrst Floor. NEW YORK HOUSE. 239 tc 243 E. Randolph St. Between Franklin and Market Streets, CHICAGO. Best Accommodation to Traveler» txnd Boarders E. G. K0EPPE, Prop. •1.6 P ER QAY, GQOD SAMPLE ROOM. A tirH-ekus Route. 7As Boy* AU Stop There. THE Culver House. RICHMOND, ILL. Good Livery. Good Sample Room. FREE BUS TO AND FRO\f ALL TRAINS FOR,PA TROJH& OF THE HOUSE. I rnn a line of carriages to Twin Lakes from uichmond, three-fourthsofamilenearer than any other »oad, and more level and pleasant Wv far. If you intend going to Twin Lakes. Mtop at Richmond and inquire for CULVER'S Br* It U alwr.vs there, rain or shine, ltound trip prices as usuai. -- C. N. CULVER, Prop. fiilD! SALESMKJT to sell XureeVy Stock VII Goods Warranted FIRST-CLASS, Permanent pleasant, profitable positions lor tne right men. Good salaries and expenses paid week ly Liberal inducements to beginners. No revious experience necessary. Outfit free, frite for tarms, giving age. CHARLES H. OHASE. Nursery mar., Rochester, N. Y Mention this paper. ll-Sm* ILL DUG SI for 13 Weeks. The POLICK GAZETTE will be mailed, seourely wrapped, to any address In the United states for three months on receipt of ONE: DOLLAR. Liberal discount allowed to postmasters" agents and clubs. Sample copies mailed free Address all orders to BICHABD K FOX, VKANKLIN SQTJAHE, New York ATTENTION! Farmers and Dairyman. ItiwlU pay those looking for CHOIfvE COWS Fresh milkers or springers, to call at nry premises before purchasing. I can furnish such by the oar load or single cow. PORTER H. WOLFRUM, CHEMUWO. Farm abont four miles northwest of Harvard, Illinois. JOHN P. SMITH, Watohmaker £c Jeweler, McHENRY. ILLINOIS. FINE stock of Clocks, Watches and Jew. rtpocial I watohos. Give me A. elryalwavson hand, rtpocial lattention given to repairing flno acalL JOHN P. SMITH. McHENRY HOUSE, McHenrjr, Illinois. JOHN THELBN Proprietor. This House is situated near the Iron Bridge and opiiostte the steamboat Lanling, has been newly renov ttc l and iiamted. in-tKle and out, and is now prepared to 'accommodate the traveling public,or, boarders, bv dav or week, on the most reasonable term?, and guarantee; to give satisfvctiou. Tiiui.publlc. is in­ vited to give ine a'call. -:o:- ) Life in Southern California. SEND 20 CENTS FOR THE TWO. JLos Angeles Times Annuml, 1*90. 48 12 pages --standard pu Or send #2 tor the Mirror 62 weeks (634 larfge pages). Full and valuable inlormallon about the most famous section of the Union. TIMES.MIRROR CO., Lo» Angeles, CM. pages} Weekly Mirror, ib'ic-itfcm. L. W. NICHOLS, JR., ©tin WatcHM- •• vei fKT' isiii; JEWELER m ENGRAVER, RICHMOND ILLINOIS. All work in mv line neatto and promptly 40&e. Fine watch repairing I sp«cialty. TO & TRADE For sale by Cao. W. Besley . Pomp Bepadtiag. CEMS^TIWIQ, ETC. The undersigned is prepared to do all jobs in the line ot Digging Wells, Repairing Pumps, Cementing Wells, or vill pnt In On short notice and warrant satisfaction. In short will do all work in tbis line. Can furnish you a new Pump, either wood or iron, warranted, as cheap as any other man. Good 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, Johnsburgn, III. L. BANTES. Johnsburgh, 111., May 2fith, 1885. OALESMEM 0 WANTED. 11 -AND- ' J. Scllitz Urate Bottls Beer, In any quantity from a Snitz tcOCO barrels. F JLT OR RETA.IL Beer in bottles, ko»s or as i «hea[ j'is the cheapest. We buy none but the best and Mil at Beftgon+ble Prices. ; Ca\\ aad see me and % will use ANTONY BN0ELN. of Nursery Stock. Si Tooanvass for tli*> n;il Steady einn'vvmont guarantee 1. SALARY and EXPENSES pud to successful men Apply at once sitting age. Mention this paper. CHASE BliOS. CO , tm* MoohetUsr, JT Y. Practioal Painter AND DECORATER. HE3B91, ILL. Decorating, Paper-Hanging, CAL CIMININO, OhAININQ, Ac Dose on short notice and satisffcotio* gnaran- M OaUoa or address,; U. FISH. -BHKBDBR4 MORGAN HORSES. Short Horn, B»d ?al*4 ingu, And Jersey Cattle. Hillside Farm, West ^JcHenry, IU. Our Morgan Stock is all pure bred, and originated from the best Morgan sto >k in the United Stales. Old Qiffrrd Morgan, who stands at the head it our Stock, is one of the best bred Morgan horses iu the country, and can show more and 'tetter nil purpose colts than any other horse in the West. We invite the inspection ot our stock by horsemen and all lovers of fine animals, A few full blood Morgan Colts and young aorees for sale. Also one matched team, full •rtoodf.. in Cattle we have the full blood Short Horn jvuu ti we are crossing with the Red Polled Angis ai d therefore instead of sawing off the ,,„rr.q <re are breeding them off and with food sueeess, A few Heifers and Bulls, both pure bred Short Horns and the cross above mentioned for sale. J. R. Ssylor A Sons. West McHenrv, 111.. Feb. 27th. 1888L CE»MAN FaiQ-Killer aid Empire Salve, Is the very best medicine ever introduced into the country. The following are the names of a few of the many who have been anred by this srreat uieili iino: al. P. Matter, (ienoo. Wis., cured of asthma •)f ten years'stan-ling. C- C. Deigan, of the same place, enred of a chronic sore li tib. .... z. Mrs. J. J. Huff, Richmond, III., cured of lung trouble of six mouths' standing, Mrs. Ilulburt, Nuu'la III., cured of asthma ind catari h of long standing. Mrs. Wetistcin, Harvard, cured of internal trouole of ten years' standing. Mr, Handesball. of Harvard, cured of ca­ tarrh, scrofula, and varicose veins of live eears' standing. ..... . , Th coil ore Borrhold, of Harvard, cared of paralyeis of two yeals' standing. Xhis new medicine has cured nronenltis, scrofula, abscesees, boils, burns, catarrh, ets.. in t relieved asthma and consumption for all who have used it. It is a sure and safe medi- ••ine for all troubles and never fails to give jaUsiai tion. Try it under a full warrantee Price ot Empire Salve haltounce box,25cents; wo ounce box, 76 cents, or three Doxes for |1 50. Painkiller, one-ounce bottle, 26 cents; wo ounce bottle, 60 cents. Call on your IruKgist for It, or send to N. LENNARDS, Harvard, lilt for eala t>r G«o. W. Bealey, West McHeajy, tmmvr HAKLY BROTHERS. lt&EKDERB O f ' Roadsters, Draft AND GRADE HORSES. We have the following stall Inns » service tor the season bf 1B99, • yow TonngHambletonlan Stallion. Foaled June St, 1885. Htanils 15^ hatuls hitrh, weight 1100 pounds. Is bright bay. black points, Has line style and good action. As a representa­ tive for getting good roadsters Is hard to beut. "Von Leer" was sired by George O. (9701), bv Lakeland Abdullah, 86 1. first dam by Patchen, bv Autocrat. Second dam Dolly, by Gilford Morgan. CHANCELLOR JR. Having recently purchased a very line imported Olviiesda'le sia Uion, I ihancellor, Jr . for our own'iise, will breed a limited number of Mares outside Chancellor Jr. is 8 years oid this spring; isa (Hierry lUv with bUck points; IliJ* hands high and weighs <ti>out 1,700 poiiIHIS; strong, cle.sn limbs, lino action, ivild ilisimsition, lie was sired by Chancellor, ll31Uj, He l>v Drew Princeot' Wales, ((173), Dam by Lofty, (40(i); grand dam by Duke of Well­ ington, (1613); great gram' 'lain by sir Willian Wallace, (894) He combines in his breeding the best blood scotlamt ever had, and has proven his ability to vet uniform Colts,of great size, line form, strong and rugged. CHAMPION JR. The Percheon Morgan Horse. • He has proven hitnsHf a flue vtork getter for general purposes and cannot be beaten in the North­ west. Parties who intend breeding the com­ ing teason, will Hnd it to their advantage to call and tee our slock and get our terms which will be reasonable. Mares from a distance will be well eared for,'at owner's risk, at moderate rates. Call and see us. SQLQIEBS' SSPABTMSIT. j wholly in favor of its continuance in the present degree, he should have the bene­ fit of whatever doubt there may be in that regard." The claimant is allowed $31.25 per month from Nov. 12, 1888, anjji $50 per month therealter. -Edited by WM. $1. COWLIN, •WOODSTOCK, ILL. ."T? crtTf for IUm who ho* borne the bottle, and for his wiiime and orphans."--LINCOLK. "WendiAip, Char it//. Loyalty--* Worthy sons of Patriot fYUhers." I": C A. R, Directory. K'HKNRT POST MO. 618. Meets the ftat Thursday evening of each Month. L. E. BKNWKTT, Con, » WOODSTOCK KNIT, MO M8. Meets first and third Monday evenlnjrs of each month. W. H. Illoitioi, Com. MfMDA K>8T. MO 3S6, Meets the second and fourth Tuesday evenings of each month. ' C- F. DIRK, Com. HAKVA.XD POST, MO 9158. Keets the secono ana tonrtn Monday evem ings ot each month. JOHM MARSHALL, QM, MAKKMQO POST, NO. 168, Meets every Second and Fourth Friday evenings of each month. E. R. MORRIS, Com. WAUOOHDA POST, MO. 868. Post meets everv second and fourth Satur­ day evening In G. A. B. Hall, Main St. AKTHURCOOKB. Com, HANLY BROS. 85 tf. s W A N T E D ! ALrrsTTET? to canvass tor the stie of Nursery stoc.k. A full line of leading specialties, SALARY A N D E X P E N S E S p a i - 1 t o N u c e o u f ' u • m e n No experience necesnarv. Write for terms stating age. (MenWm I hi* paper ) C. L. Booth tiy,B°iHS5!kMp$rk" WANTED. Men to takeorders for Xur«ery Stock, on Ral- ary or Commission. 1 can make a successful . s&m&sr Of any one who will work and follow my Ir- strnctious Will furnish handsome outlit tree, andpav your salary or commission every week. Write'for terms at once. E. O. GRAUAM, > urseryroan, Rochester, N, Y. Agents Wanted! LIBKRAL*1 TERMS will be given to introduce our new book. Bible Brilliants: "°Hf0ME|'S BIBLE STORIES, The greatest success of the year, and some­ thing entirely new In the boos line. Ro>al Quarto; size,"93^x11%; tinest of paper; large tvpe; S'-'o illustiations. t>8 full page, two of them printed m nine colors; retiil price only 13.60 Thousands will be sold for Holiday Presents. Those first in the field will reap a harvest. Act quick or you will miss it. FORSHEE 4 MACMAKIN, Cincinnati, 0. A&3HT3 WAHTBD. LOCA OR TR4VKLINO. LIBERAL PAT 1> P ermanent work. Qaicfc Selling Spcidlfe STOCK WARRAN FED. Elegant Outfit FREE. Experience not re* quired. Complete instructions to insure success. JAS. E. WHITNEY, Nurseryman, jifrf fefrtwh at x« j9 • . . . . :*v * ,* .V : j v. T. . Aloiur the 8kirmish tin*. Illlnoifi has 32,139 comrades. The last official reports show 576 posts in good standing. A colored Camp of S. of V. was muster­ ed at Springfield, Illinois, Dec. 10. Thirteen posts have failed to make their last quarterly reports. The old State Armory at Troy, N. Y., was recently sold at auction; price, f 8,- 000. The department of Rhode Island held its annual encampment at Providence Jan. 18. The Union Veteran Legion and the Union Veteran Union are in favor of a perdiem service pension. The twenty-third annual encampment of the Department of Connecticut was held in New Haven Thursday, Feb. 6, 1890. Mrs John A. Logan is to be the guests ol John A Logan Post, No. 186. Cam­ bridge, Mass., during the National En­ campment. The Sons of Veterans are progressing finely in Kansas add Iowa. Many new •camps have been formed this winter. Four Camps in Minnesota are named after the different colonels Of the "Old First" regiment, Minnesota volunteers. One hundred and sixteen Camps and 2,103 members are the encouraging figures of increase since last Nationul En­ campment. The comrades of W. H. Wallace Post, No. 55, Centralia, Wednesday evening, Jan. 29, dedicated a new post hall. Ad­ dresses were made by General James A. Martin, General Pavey, Colonel Ike Cle­ ments, and Assistant Adjutant General C. A. Partridge. Woodstock Camp, S. of V. No. 267, is officered as follows: Captain, C. P. Barnes; First Lieutenant, Orson Dickin­ son ; Second Lieutenant, Frank Holcomb; Chaplain, Edgar Still; First Sergeant, Fred Morse; Q. M. S., Charles Renich; S. G. Owen G. Mead; Color Sergeant, Bert Freestone. In the Eastern Hospital for the Insane, Dr. Richard Dewey, Superintendent, are over 100 soldiers driven insane from wounds received in the late war. One of them, Mr. Homerkeiser, has seven bullet wounds, one of them in his head. Many others are fearfully wounded, from the pains of which they are so insane as to be dangerous to themselves and attend­ ants. Evidence of the extent to which the "New South".is purged of the old South's disloyalty is furnished in the fact that Governor Gordon, of Georgia, issued a proclamation making Monday, January 20th, a public holiday in honor of Gener­ al Robert E. Lee's birthday. If in the great struggle for its life, General Lee had defended the Union which educated him for soldierly service, be woujd not have been thus honored by Gov. Gordon, but in fact was thus honored solely be­ cause he was recreant to that duty. The proclamation was in execrable taste. Pension Deoia'oa. Assistant Secretary Bussey has ren­ dered a decision in,the case of Daniel A. Wood, late of Company K, First West Virginia Cavalry, in which the former ad­ verse action of the Pension Bureau is re­ versed and the claim for increase and re- rating of pension is allowed. Upon the report of the examining surgeons the Commissioner of Pensions allowed only $30 per month on the ground that the condition described by the surgeon is not considered permanent. The Assistant Secretary, referring to this action, says: "When does a disability become perma­ nent? From recent testimony it appears that the pensioner's condition has not ameliorated since his last examination. He has been on his back for two years. How many more years must he lie there before the doctors can decide that the disability is permanent? I can not be­ lieve that it is necessary to wait until the pensioner is dead before deciding whether his condition of helplessness is permanent or not. The probability from a medical standpoint (as appears from the examin­ ing surgeon's certificate, which I regard M thr flviilsiWH nn ^w Vv _V ' ' ^<7 Arrears ot Pay and Bounty. On Thursday Jast Secretary of the Treasury Windom transmitted to the House of Representatives, with favorable recommendation, a communication from the Second Auditor of the Treasury, mak­ ing estimates of appropriations to pay claims of volunteers who served during the war of the rebellion, and their widows and legal heirs, for arrears of pay and bounty, during the six months ending June 30,1890, and during the fiscal year ending June 30,1891, as follows: Jan. 1 to June 30, 1890, $390,000; Jujy 1, 1890, to June 30,1891, #680,000. Gea«ral Kilpatriek'a Saber. One day last week, Senator McPherson, of New Jersey, and Mrs. Kilpatrick, the widow of the late General Judson Kil­ patrick, called upon Secretary of War Proctor and presented him with the large cavalry saber which was worn by the General during the war. Senator Mc­ Pherson made a short presentation specch, giving a history of the sword, and extolling the virtues of its former wearer. Secretary Proctor, in accepting the saber for the War Department, said that he thanked Mrs. Kilpatrick "in behalf of the War Department and the people of the country for the presentation of the sword of so brave and gallant a soldier as General Kilpatrick, It shall have an honorable place and faithful care in this Department; and every soldier who looks upon it will be reminded of the courage and brilliant career of the man who bore it, and be inspired for like deeds of valor in behalf of his countiy." fie was Shot full of Pins. There is in Georgia to-day a Confeder­ ate General who was literally shot full of pins during the late war. He was an ex­ temporized pincushion, but the pins saved his life. On one occasion the Gen­ eral was lying in his tent at night. The Federals were near enough to shoot into camp. It is saia he had just finished a letter home and had thrown himself down for a few hours' rest before the hot work that would begin in the early morn­ ing, when, ping! a ininie bullet from a sharpshooter's rifle sped through the tent and struck the General in the left side.^ The blow stunned him and he lay as dead for a few momentn. ' When he recovered consciousness he felt a stinging pain in his breast and tearing open his sbirt, found that the ball had struck a package of pins his wife had given him, thinking they would be needful in those days when there would be no one to sew and patch, and had driven every one of them into his flesh. They had saved his life but he was a walking cushion bris­ tling with pin-heads.--Atlantu Journal. Ike G A. B. national Pension Committee. Comrades Geo. S. Merrill, Mass.; John S. Kountz, O.; J. W. Burst, IU., and R. W. Blue, Kan., of the G. A. R. National Pension Committee, were in session in Washington last week and were joined by Commander-in-chief Alger. The only member of the committee absent was Past Commander-in-Chief Lucius Fair- child who was detained at home by ill­ ness. * The Commander-in-Chief and the com­ mittee called on the President, Secretary Noble and Assistant Secretary Bussey, by whom they were cordially received, and given much encouragement. They appeared before the Senate Committee on Pensions and the House Committee on Invalid Pensions, and earnestly urged the immediate passage of legislation em­ bodying the recommendation they pre: vjouely formulated. The chairman and members of those committees expressed their warm sympathy with the objects the committee desired to accomplish, and promised to do all possible to secure the speedy passage of the wished-for - legisla­ tion. Quite a number of influential members of both Houses were also interviewed to the same effect. The committee left for home quite en­ couraged as to the prospects.--National Tribune. A Veteran indeed. There is one man in this city who is a living example of how near a human be­ ing may come to death and be saved by modern surgical skiU. Lieutenant Charles A. Myers was an officer in the late rebellion, and at one of the naval battles was in command of one of the guns on board of the Monitor. A shot struck the porthole of the turret and filled the interior with a shower of iron and steel fragments. Myers was knocked senseless and was carried to the sick room of the ironclad. When examined by the surgeons it was found that his skull, collar bone, one leg, both arms and five ribs were fractured. Most of the sur­ geons predicted his death within twenty- four hours. A young physician of great ability and promise on board took the sufferer in hand, and after a year of hard work brought him back to health. Among the many operations involved were the transplanting of skin, the re­ moval of a rib, and the taking away of a large portion of the skuU and its replace­ ment by a piece of hammered silver. The scalp has re^grown over the plate, but still allows the latteroutlines to be seen and felt. In the twenty-saveu yean •$! . A. Lieutenant Myers has enjoyed splendid health and strengh. Yet men are often killed by the bite of a mL--Ntw Tm* Star. Per Mem Sate terrion Fenriee MIL The foUowing in our opinion is the bffi of all others that should be favorably acted upon by Congress during its pres­ ent session. Who can honestly cay the measure proposed is not one that if equitable and fair to every man who wore the blue, that is, if unprejudiced? To grant pensions for service in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps erf the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and Home of Representatives of tie United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll of the United States the names of all persons specified in the fol­ lowing section, upon making due proof that they performed the service specified in said section. SEC. 2. That persons entitled as bene­ ficiaries under the preceding section an as follows: Any officer or enlisted man who shall have served in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States, in­ cluding regulars and volunteers, subse­ quent to the fourth day of March, eight­ een hundred and sixty-one, and prior to the first day of July, eighteen nundred and sixty-six. SEC. 3. That the rate of pension for such service shall be at the rate pep month of one cent for each day's service rendered in said Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States. SEC. 4. That the period of service *lufl be computed from the date of muster in­ to the United States service to the date of discharge; but no pension shall be granted under this act to or on aceoont of any person who deserted prior to July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, un­ til he shall have obtained a propercertifi- cate of discharge from the service from which he deserted; and no discharge which was given to any person by reason of re-enlistment as a veteran volunteer, or to enable him to accept a promotion, shall be deemed a discharge from the services within the meaning of this act. SEC. 5. That pension under this act shall be at the rate specified in section three, and shall be paid to the persons entitled thereto for the term of three lives from and after the passage of this bill. SEC. 6. That this bill is intended as a service pension biU, and is intended as an ' addition to all invalid pensions which havs been or may hereafter be granted for disability. The Ghost of Fort Donelao». •%[ The camp-fires of General Grants* army were lighting up the thick woods just be­ yond the Tennessee; the gunboats were hurrying the swollen river, while the snow* and rains of February ice. and at the close of the first terrible battle of Fort Donelson, the sad­ den change of weather brought to the soldiers agonies of cold and suffering. The fight lasted three long days. Shq|) and shell were poured into the Tennessee River, the gunboats driven back with heavy losses, but Grant kept up the siege until'the fort surrendered. After the vic­ tory the whole North was exultant. The bells rang joyfully and cannons shook the New England cities and towns, but, frozen and dying, hundreds lay on the red snow of the battlefield. Mother Bickerdyke, the famous Union nurse, had foUowed her "boys" south­ ward, had blessed them as they went Out in the morning to battle, imni> \.€v '9mm • "J! m /4pf *: W, barrels of good government coffee, as well as possible Without houses or hos­ pitals prepared for their return. This was her first sight of the battle-field, she told me that none afterward so over­ came her. After the wounded had been cared lor with all the small comforts that she M and the exhausted officers had falfrm asleep, some one noticed a bright light moving quickly over the dark, deserted field, where the dead were still lyings awaiting burial when it should be light. One officer after another looked oat and word passed down the line, "Go and see what it is." General Grant himself, wrapped in his blanket stood outside his tent while his orderly foUowed the ghost across the snow and the terrified men huddled close together over the i^mp fires whispering that "the spirits were walking about." Nobody spoke aloud. The bitter wind whistled across the brok­ en fences and through the icy, rattling branches of trees as the orderly returned. "Well," said he to the General, 'it is only Mother Bickerdyke, sir, with htfr big lantern.* Here she comes." General Grant touched her on the shoulder as she came up and asked in a low voice: "Is anything wrong, mother?" "Oh, no," she replied; "but you see, General, after I got the poor fellows bound up and full of broth and coffee I couldn't some way, feel satisfied till I was sure, by my own eyesight, that nobody was lying out there in the cold and dark, alone and alive, this awful night, so I've just looked 'em all over and made son --but they are dead, quite dead, poor boys!" She swung her lantern bravely slmy toward her row of tents, while General Grant, worn and haggard, wrapped lus blanket about him and said to a staff officer close by: "So that's the ghost! 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