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ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND. MoM'ng an Aggregation of Young Wolverines into a Splendid Regiment. By CAPT. C. E. EtLKNAP, 2kt Mich. n:TE and the tikkiiy. The company was detailed one day to guard a forage train going 10 miles after corn, with strict orders against private raids on pigs and chickens. No one but lie who had lived <?:5 moldy baron for six months ran appreciate Petes situation. Pete was one oi ihe best men i:i the serv ice. never disobeyed an order?that's what made the boys wonder. g;?ing back to camp, how he was going t<> reconcile the order with the fat turkey hanging over hi:; shoulder. lien. Sheridan, riding alongside the col umn. saw the bird. To use a soldier's term, he "cut loose" on Pete. The turkey soon dangled from an orderly's horse, and Pete marching to the rear, said: "It's the first time I've served on Little Phil's staff." That night lie shivered in the di vision guard tent, and next morning wit nessed the General's contraband prepare that gay-pinniaged gobbler for dinner. The General had forgotten Pete, who shivered away the morning hours over a few pieces of green wood that smoked but never blazed. The General's cook was great on turkey dinners. Pete saw him strip off the feathers, throw the heart and fixings iuto a pan of water, then h" pounded up a day's rations of hardtack with the back of an ax in a trough cut in the top of a log. A lot of chestnut. picked up near by were roasted and mixe. witlr the broken hardtack, chopped fine Then a little water, a lot of commissary whisky, some salt and pepper, and tin cobbler was stuffed full and place in :i bake kettle over the coals, with a little water added to make steam, that escaped in thin, aromatic mists from the edge of the cover. All the time the cook was sing ing a "chune" that set the birds to twit tering in the trees. Staff officers came out that way. smelling the happiness in the air. It was a time of great anticipation. They witnessed the lifting of the cover and the filling of all the vacant places in side with sweet potatoes. Then helped to put more coals on the cover. Pete had no college education, but knew a good thing when he saw it. if it was feet away. The General came out also to get a whiff of the steam. It went to his heart. Pete's guard was relieved, and Pete was told to go and sin no more. The General said he "believed he was an honest man." Pete nodded his head and said he was. Shivering with cold, he went over to the cook's fire and begged permission to warm himself. "Ob eose you kin warm yoVelf" said the cook.' "1'se gwine to fix de table in de tent: yon watch the tire a bit." and he disappeared in the mess tent. Pete had plans of his own. Off came bis blouse, with which the coals were brushed from the top of the oven. Hastily wrapping up the hake-kettle, he started with it through the woods, down the hill, across the creek, along the bank hidden by the willows. But the darky. whs on his trail. He had come out just in time to get a flying glimpse, and was in hot chase. Pete doubled along the briers of a fence row, whose top rails had disap peared with tl*e coming of the soldiers, but he could not throw the outraged cook off the scent of that steaming hot kettle. It was neck and neck when they arrived at the company's quarters, where Pete's comrades nut the colored man under ar rest '"for chasing and swearing at a Union soldier.'' After a council of war. they marched Tiirn straight away from headquarters, down through the woods and fields a half mile to the picket lines, and there they told him to "skedaddle." never to show his form in ramp again uuder the penalty of death. As far as they could see "he was running yet." The men who carried itiuskefs picked the bones clean before they buried them deep beneath the ashes of their tent. That night they swapped the bake kettle to some fellows in the 30th 111. for a frying pan and two tin cups. There is another chapter to this story; none but one of the General's staff can give you the details. STOVE RIVER. Christmas morning />f 18t>2 came bright and cheerful, but without a visible sign of Santa Glaus. Muskets were freshly cleaned, new ammunition filled the car tridge boxes, new shoes added to the out fit. orderlies went galloping through the camps, and supply trains loaded to the canvas tops came down the pikes from Nashville. Next morning before daylight the division was out on the road headed south towards the Confederate army, in every way stronger than our own forces and only 30 miles away. The next three days were alike. As soon as the artillery began firing the rain began to fall, ami for four days we marched, skirmished and slept in the rain and mud. On the 30th as we were plodding along through the fields, ankle-deep in mud. the 15th Pa. ('av.. gay in buff-trimmed Overcoats, came galloping by down the pike. Then we wondered why we did not Lave the sense to enlist in the cavalry and have horses to ride. Soon from the front came the rattle of musketry, and forward we went on the "double-quick," the thumping of our hearts almost shutting off all other noise. A moment later out of the woods came frantic horses and straggling men. "On the right, forward into line!" came the quick command, and into the woods we charged, where we found a high rail fence, up to which the cavalrymen had ridden. From behind this, where they had lain concealed, a line of gray ar<?se: a single volley and the deed was done! One Major killed and the other fa Tally wounded. Captains, Lieutenants and Soldiers lay about on the ground. We did hot know a single man, yet mourned them as our brothers, our ideal soldiers. Th? enemy had vanished; so we gathered up those gallant fellows and placed them side by side, that they might not be lonely hi the woods. Who cares to go through that next day, I>ec. 31, 1S027 With the old year went out thousands of our bravest men. That is history written many times, the battle in the cotton fields and in the cedars. No more desperately fought action in all the war, unless it was that Sunday at Chickamauga. At every turn that day the regimental lines grew shorter, until night came as a relief. The next morning HO men of the regiment answered at roll call; of the "one hundred," the original company for duty, there were eight all told. The 'Cap lain wounded, the Orderly-Sergeant killed, and the Fourth Sergeant in command. Not all had been killed or wounded; one at least had run away from the com pany. as it lay in front of the brigade bat tery in the cottontield. This man had his blanket about his shoulders like an In dian. While we lay flat upon the ground we were comparatively safe from the countless shells passing both ways over our heads. To rise would be suicide. Just when the air seemed full of missiles, the man started for the rear, that blanket flapping ghost-like in the wind, as he fairly flew to the shelter of a log barn, 80 rods away. Just as he went in the door a shell struck th? corner of the shake roof, throwing it into a thousand pieces. And that barn was full of stragglers. They came out of it and from under it, where they had crawled head first, leav ing a fringe of heels stieking out, and Iway across the fields towards the woods Went a flying half-hundred of cowardly skulkers, representing every regiment In the corps. Some of fhe fellows never itopprd until they reached Nashville. 3d miles by the turnpike, and this particular man never came bark to the company. Although serving three years, he had a hospital rerord as long as his service. Another fellow, that day, while we were loading and firing at will, rammed down rharge after rharge, until his musket was full to the muzzle, then threw it away ind skipped for the rear. Coming back lrter the battle he had the courage to Vtand in the ranks with the boys, but ?otild not be made to fire his gun. !!? was not rut out fur any kind of a soldier lie couldn't shoot, cook, wash or dig breast works, lie failed as a mule driver. Ih> cause he couldn't swear, but as a shirk and straggler was a howling success. The morning of the olst the Sergeant stood near the colors, firing, when his comrades were falling all about him. A si ? >t struck his ramrod, knocking it out of his hand. A wounded comrade lying at his fret handed him another, with which he tried to load. Before he had time to draw it out of his gun, the gray enemy were on to him in a mass and that ram rod was tired into the crowd. Then lie picked the Hag off the ground, where its bearer lay dead, and rallied the regiment behind a fence, w here I hey held the line until a new position could betaken. It was right here the Johnnies got "Frenchy," the only son of Sunny France in the company. They caught him on the wrong side of the fence and pinned him through the leg to a rail with a rusty bayonet. With clubbed musket he killed two of his assailants before lie himself was killed TIIF. CAPTAIN* AND IIIS with a bullet. . We afterwards recovered his body, with the bayonet still fastening him to the rail, standing like an avenging spirit guarding the prostrate bodies of two brained Confederates. Later this Sergeant led an attack upon a field bat tery. fully equipped with gray horses, that came charging over the fields, wheel ing into/action, every animal under keen spur. Just then <Jen. Sheridan came dashing by, commanding us to '"Shoot those horses." And quick to see the point, we went at. them until it seemed but a moment and they were all down. Then the Missouri boys?the 2d and the 15th? with those terrible sword bayonets, charged out into the fields and the guns were silenced. T1 lis Sergeant soon discovered that he had been hit on the head and leg with pieces of one of those shells. Later lie, found that a round musket ball had lodged under the skin of his right forearm, and still he did not get nervous. The whole day was one of events, and the next morning, as Fourth Sergeant commanding his company, a grapeshot large as a wal nut struck the roll of blankets yoked over his left shoulder, throwing him in a back somersault; and still he was not hurt. And while here at this position, hidden in the dense brush on the extreme right of our army, with an open field in front, a full regiment in gray came from the woods in the far front. Their colors. "The Stars and Bars," were bright and new. Out into the open fields with quick step they came, yet silent as the wind. Every one of us knew that some one was blun dering. while we were resting our guns over the slight work we had built. On they came until within 20 rods before the order "Fire" came. There was a roar lasting n full minute, then a few scatter ing shot*- and the bugle sounded "(Vase firing." Those of the Confederates not hit had dropped to the ground ami a regi ment from our right ran out into the field to their rear, making them all prisoners. Not a man from this new regiment of Ala bamians escaped death or capture?their first and only battle. The battle was one of five days. The last of those days the boys away to our left charged down open fields, then into and across Stone River, waist-deep, with icy waters, up the opposite banks over the enemy's works, and the battle was won. THE CAMP AT Mi nrHKKSBORO. Willi the return of Spring the sun seemed never so bright or the woods so green, the flowers so sweet or the birds so musical. New messes were formed, con genial spirits hovering together. Had it not been for the near-by Confederates, middle Tennessee would have been an earthly paradise. New games were in vented, old games played. Euchre decks were much plentier than prayer books. During this buttle of Stone Hiver the men lost all their camp equipage, and had no chance later to go out upon the battle field to pick up abandoned articles. After the regiment was settled in camp the Cap tain got a pass to go to Nashville. Among other things he bought a coffee-mill. Up to this time we either pounded our coffee with the head of an ax in a piece of cloth or steeped it whole, dried the berries again and traded them off to the citizens in exchange for butter-milk and other in toxicating fluids. For a time we had been toasting our bacon on the end of a stick and eating our hardtack dry, but the Cap tain brought us a huge frying pan he had had made for us at a boiler shop. He said he would fry pancakes on it for the entire company. That night he put a f>eck of hardtack to soak in a camp kettle of water. Next morning lie brought it down to the company. Adding a handful of salt he proceeded to stir up the batter. The hardtack was not soaked a six teenth of an inch, so he made a pounder out of a green stick and pounded the bat ter until a hole was made in the bottom of the kettle and some of the water ran out. After a long struggle in the presence of a full company, all of whom were hungry for pancakes, ho put the huge pan over the tire, greasing it with bacon rind. When it began to smoke he turned in the batter. It steamed and sizzled and smoked, it sputtered and bubbled and puffed. Tho smoke chased the Captain, who was pilot of the pan. from side to side of the burning logs. The cake gave out blue smoke?it wanted to be turned. Twas three feet across and two inches deep. The Captain haa not thought to buy a shovel to turn It and it Rtuck to the iron like glue in a darky'i wool. Taken from the fire It got cold, while the Captain became hot and steamed. In his despera tion he swung the giant pan about his head, knocking down half a dozen who cculd not get out of the way. Then he banged it against a tree nntil liunk? of bark fell off, the handle broke, and pieces of half-cooked batter were scattered about the camp. The good Intentions of the Captain were fnlly appreciated, bnt that ended for ?vor all Afforts to do company cooking, and during the rest of the war we lived in squads of two or three. This was but one of the many incidents of camp life that transformed the citizen soldier into a trained veteran. 1 don't remember of any sutler in our army who had prayer books to Hell, aud I also remember that just before every battle the road was checkered with play ing cards. No fellow wanted to be found dead with a pocket full of nine spots and trays, and yet one day we surprised some Confederates at a game of euchre. A shell had dropped in the midst of four fellows sitting on the ground, with others watch ing the game. Six of the party lay on their backs dead, the cards remainiug in the hands of the players when our boys came up. four of whom picked up the cards and played out the game. I then ad mired the nerve that would allow a man to handle spades and clubs thnt were spattered with red something lik?* the color of hearts and diamonds. Some high-toned fellows piayed chess and checkers, while occasionally a low down cuss would rig up a chuck-a-luck game and fleece the entire division. One of the "IV* fellows put up a game of this kind and got every cent that company had. Then they mourned over it until their Captain, who had $100 in his pocket, went against the g;im<? and busted the banker, getting about $1,000 loyal money. Then the Colonel, who had been watch ing the game from behind a tree, stepped up aud confiscated the entire sum. which he turned into the hospital fund. Not until "C" company had a poker game with the ollicers of the JilUh III. did they TH RFE-FOOT PANCAKE. have money enough to buy postage, on a letter. Then money circulated freeiy. All this time the Confederates were running every printing press in Richmond, night and day, turning out $10, $20 and $.10 bills. It was just as easy to print a $10 bill as a $1, and money became plenty. A man was looked upon as de cidedly shiftless who did not carry a few hundreds of this money to pay for pigs or chickens needed in the mess. Kut the very bight of prosperity was not Reached until the next year while on the March to the Sea. Hundred dollar bets were com mon as chicken fights ami hnndred-thou sanil-dollar poker hands were held bv men whose trouser s?*ats would not hold corn husks, and who dined daily on sojjp and nigger peas. (To be continued.) A Great Invention. John A. Stransky, of Pukwanna, S. J)., has received a patent for a new smokeless gunpowder that will revolutionize the l?owder business and make the inventor rich. lie says it can be made for seven cents per pound, and one pound will go as far as two pounds of black powder, and one and one-half of the best smokeless jiowder. There is but a slight report made and the recoil or kick is not noticeable. The powder is smokeless, and can be made in any kitchen. Mr. Stransky wants a few agents to in troduce this powder. He has agents who are making as high as $2."W) per month. Write for particulars. Lieut. Charles F. Waldron. Editor National Tribune: "Frank died Saturday night." This sad message refers to Charles F. Waldron, one of your constituents, who died at his home in Welaka, Fla., March 20. Frank Wald ron served in Co. F, 2!>th Ohio, and in the Veteran Reserve Corps, from Oct. 15, 1801, to Oct. 1 1804; and as a Second Lieutenant in Co. K, 5tli U. S. Veteran Vols., in Hancock's Corps, from March 1 to May 11, 180f>. He participated in the battles of Iverustown, Port Republic, Ce dar Mountain and Chaneellorsville. At the latter place he was a Sergeant, and while intently watching and firing at the enemy in his immediate front, he, be cause of deafness, did not hear the order to fall back, and stood fast until he found himself almost in the hands of the enemy, com in c in on his right. He dashed down a ravine, but just as he began to feel se cure he heard the command: "Drop that gun!" and looking up saw a cavalry Ser geant in gray, with his carbine at "Ready," smiling at him. Of course, Frank dropped his gun and became a prisoner, but his captor wns so friendly that later on, when the prisoner started under guard for Richmond, they shook hands and parted regretfully. In later years Comrade Waldron made search through the Richmond press for his old foe, and after correspondence, and ex change of photographs, located him in Richmond, and visited him there. The re sult was that the men lieeame the warm est of friends, and to-day few mourn this death more sincerely than Serg't Hall, of the 4th Va. Cav., C. S. A. At the close of the war Comrade Waldron moved to Michigan, but later on settled in Florida, where he owned an orange grove and a 1 vineyard. He was unassuming in his bear ing, an upright and honorable man, and a good citizen, an affectionate and indul gent husband and father, a brave and gal lant soldier, and a faithful friend and comrade, whose loss will be deeply mourned. "Requiescat in pace."?Lawrence Wil son, M. P., 7th Ohio, Washington, I). O. Dr. Shoop's Rheumatic Cure Costs Nothing if it Fails Any honest person who suffer* from Rheumatism la welcome lo this offer. For years I searched every, where to find a specific for Rheumatism. For nearly 20 years I worked to this end. At last, In Germany, my nearch w.is rewarded. 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Mr. Gor man made an earnest plea for an investi gation, saying the Post Office Department had east reflections upon members of Con gress, and that a ' thorough examination should he had. Mr. A Id rich answered that the amendment as finally modified meant nothing; that if an investigation was to be had it should he "a live one." !Ie said that if any specific charges were brought in, they should be looked into by Congress, but that the demand should not be made a part of a general appropriation bill. Semi-political speeches were made by Senators Teller and Simmons. The House passed a bill reported by the Committee on Itivers and Harbors, appropriating $3.000,00*> for the restora tion or maintenance of channels, or of other river ami harbor improvements. Mr. Burton, Chairman of the committee, ex plained its provisions, and urged the j adoption of settled principles with re gard to river and harbor work with the view to considering each project accord ing to its merits. Messrs. Burgess (Tenn.) and Ransdell (La.) placed themselves on record as fa voring increases in the appropriations for river and harbor improvements, the for mer urging that they should he doubled and the latter regarding $100,000,000 as not too much. Mr. Clark (Mo.) made a plea for the improvement of the Missouri River. A large number of hills of minor im portance were passed. April 12.?The Senate was the scene of a sharp colloquy between Senators Teller and Hopkins, growing out of the reading by Mr. Teller of a letter written by the late (Jen. H. H. Thomas, of Chicago, attack ing the Civil Service administration of the Treasury Department. Mr. Hopkins took exception to the quoting of tlie^ let ter, and declared that the Colorado Sena tor would be willing to accept "authority from the slums," whereupon Mr. Teller declined to yield further, declaring Mr. Hopkins's reference to the slums to be in sulting. The incident occurred in connec tion with the discussion of the Post Of fice appropriation bill. That measure was under discussion during the first half of the session, and was passed, all amend ments offered by the Democrats being voted down. The bill providing a form of govern ment for the Panama Can.il zone was then taken up and read. The race question again was injected into the proceedings of the Iloiise of Rep resentatives, when Mr. Scott (Kan.) deliv ered a long address, in which he referred to his previous statement that it was cur rent in Kansas that Ex-President Cleve land had dined C. II. .7. Taylor, a Kansas negro politician. He read several letters from Kansas eitirt<*us that it had been Taylor's boasthfhat he had received such social attention* from Mr. Cleveland. Ho also said that-f'Mr.'Cleveland, while Gov ernor of New 'York/i and signed a bill pro viding for mixed schools. In a spirited reply. Mr. Williams (Miss.>, the mrJnorMy leader, defended the attitude of the-South toward the negro, and said that discission of the race ques tion by the Republicans was nu old game by which, whan <tithe Republican party found itself ounfiwited with issues that threatened its' supremacy, it began to wave the bloody'fdiirt. At the instaa*en of Mr. Bartlett (Ga.) n letter from * Hi,wPr<Isident Cleveland was read, datlying.itliatu he had ever dined a necro. ' ?* . Mr. P.artlett" n!*o declared .Tudg" Parker, of Now York, to be the man whom the Dcftiowats will nominate 'for President. April 13.?The Senate- begwn consider ation of the bill providing for the Govern ment of the Panama (.'anal zone. The greater part of the day was occupied by Mr. Morgan in support of amendments of fered by himself, but none of them was accepted, and the reading of the bill was ?nearly half completed. Mr. Morgan at tacked the new Panama Canal Company, and contended that the United States should proceed to carry into effect the pro visions of the treaty with Panama regard less of the demands of that company. Under a special rule, which was adopt ed after two roll calls, the House devoted itself to the consideration of a bill amend ing the law relating to the Philippine Islands. The provision in the bill in ref erence to the granting of railroad fran chises and the guaranteeing of 5 per cent, upon the cash capital actually invested in such railroads was opposed by Mr. Jones (Va.) who alleged that English and Bel gian capitalists were ready to build the roads without such guarantee. Messrs. Cooper (Wis.) aud Crumpacker (Ind.) in urging the passage of the bill, declared that it properly safeguarded the interests of the Filipinos. April 14.?The Senate devoted the en tire. day to the consideration of the bill for the government of the canal zone, and Mr. Morgan again occupied the floor the greater part of the session. The discus sion related principally to the details of governing the canal, but some considera tion also was given to Mr. Hale's amend ment requiring the use of American bot toms in the shipment of canal supplies to the zone. The House of Representatives passed the Philippine bill, following which there was an extended debate over a resolution to permit Col. Thomas W. Symons, of the Engineer Corps of the Army, to serve on the advisory board of consulting engineers in connection with Internal improvements in the State of New York. After several fiery speeches had been made in opposi tion to the resolution, it was adopted by an overwhelming vote. Consideration of the general deficiency bill was begun, al though no one addressed himself to the measure. Mr. Hamilton (Mich.) discussed the question of capital and labor, while Sir. Cochran (Miss.) criticized the "usur pation of the legislative power by the Ex ecutive," nnd said that Ex-President Cleveland had given the most notable in stance of siuli usurpation in forcing his financial policjeg on the people. Mr. Cleveland, he declared, was a man whose friendship lneajffc destruction, whose touch meant paralysisj. a?d whose support meant dishonor, and <?ue who had been put into exile never aga'm be reinstated in the confidence of tfyq people. April 15.?A,ftef a day devoted to quiet, routine proceedings, the Senate was treated to a spirited, speech by Mr. Bailey just before adlQunhment on the question of the Civil Service.. The subject came up I in connection 'witii a paragraph in the Sundry Civil (appropriation bill. Mr. Bailey announflfcd To plain terms that he had no sympaWiy'Vwlth the "iridescent dream" of CltfH Service, ne declared that each party should control the patron age -while in power, and avowed himself a spoilsman. Mr. Hale saja he was In accord with much that Mr. Bailey said, but added that Congress could not be induced to change the law, even thougli convinced that It should be changed. The Panama Canal bill occupied the major portion of the day, and was passed without division, Mr. Spooner made a vigorous speech In support of the bill, and was replied to by Mr. Morgan. The Sundry Civil appropriation bill waa taken up. Consideration of the General Deficiency bill was resumed in tha House after a number of minor bills had been 'passed. The President's recent order regarding age pensions was attacked by Mr. Un derwood (Ala.), who contended -that there waa no warrant in law for it. The President also was criticised by Mr. ITay (Vn.) becnuse of certain suspen I lions of the Civil Service rules and regn ations. April 1&?The day in the Senate wm given tip to the consideration or a bill for the modification of the agreement with the Indians of Devlle Lake Reservation, in North Dakota, for the sale of their lands. Senators Dnbois and Teller opposed the hill, because it did not provide for the ac quisition of the lands in the reservation under the homestead law, and it was de fended by Senators Hansbrough. McCuiu ber. ami other?. The routine work on the ireneral de ficiency bill was nearly completed by the House. Preceding this the District of Co lumbia was legislated for in several minor matters. The feature of the day was a speech of criticism on "Theodore Kooi^velt, the Republican Presidential candidate." by Representative Patterson (Tenn.). NEW PENSION BILLS. Synopsis of the Provisions of Bills Recently Introduced in Congress. SENATE. Mr. Reams (Utah): To restore status c.r veterans of the Walker Indian War. ex tending to them provisions of Acts of lU"5 !,S! n': Ju,y 14? March 3, . ;l,Ml sl11 other acts relating to pen mous passed by Congress since that date." I N. Kes. (?2. J Mr. Rail (Del.): That all persons who enlisted in military or naval service of the ? during War of the Rebellion and were honorably discharged be entitled to pensions, after age of 55 vears, St; a "lontl,; M) years, $12; "and such pensions sVa, .l* subject to increase on account of disabilities up to $30 per month:" not to apply to those now receiving $30 or more rating for disabilities to be added, up to the maximum, to ascertain amount to be allowed; widow's pension to be $12 a month; marriage to be sufficientiv proven oy fact of parties living as husband and wile and so regarding themselves; chil dren under eight years $0 a month; under 10 years S5; under 12 years, $4; under ! ears, $3; idiots and helpless children, " month, claimants to be entitled to benefits of all doubt. [ S. 4020. J . Mr Penrose (Pa.): "That all commis sioned and non-commissioned officers and enlisted men honorably discharged who were actually engaged in the service of the U. S. during the civil war and who rendered actual military service as such officers and men not less than .'50 days, under the general command of officers of the IJ. S., under any call bv the Presi dent, or any call by the Governor of any of the I nited States during the civil war. shall be placed on the pension rolls of the T S. Pension Department at a pen sion of not less than $8 a month" if t.hey did service outside of their own state. Not IOD*>Ijt0rfere W'1'1 ot'K*r Pen?ions. IS. Mr. fiallinger (X. H.): To increase to *20 a month pensions of veterans of Mex ican War. now on rolls or hereafter added isu7r fstS4rnIan* 20, 1S87, an(1 March Mr. Rurrows (Mich): Provides for pension of- $<2 a month for those who hate lost a leg above the knee or become deaf in line of duty. [S. 4432.J Mr. Hoar (Mass.): Provides $100 a month for loss of both eyes while in line "f duty. [S. 4437.1 Mr. Penrose (Pa.): To give pensions to those to whom Congress has or do?s award Medals or Honor: $75 a month after the at?e of f>0 years; the age limit not to apply to veterans of the civil war I S. 4483. J Mr. Rtmiham (X. II.): To extend bene fits of acts to pension veterans of Indian wars to those who took part?and to widows of those who took part in?the Indian wars in Utah in 1857-58, P-30.] ? , . . . JiorsE. Mr. Fuller (III.): Provides $12 a month pension after 05 years of age; pension to continue to widow, if parties married prior to June 27, 1800. [H. R. 11881. j Mr. \\ anger (Pa.): Provides pensions for civil war veterans who served (K) days or more; $4 a mouth after 02 vears of age; $<; after 00 years of age; $8"after 70 years; to which shall be added $1 a month for each completed half year of service. In cases of total incapacity for manual labor, where frequent personal at tendance is necessitated, double these rates; for total ami permanent disabil ity, necessitating constant personal as sistance, treble the stated rates. $8 a month to the widow, if married prior to July 1, 1900. [H. R. 11800.] Mr. Houston (Del.): Provides pensions: After age of 55 years, $0 a month; (JO years, $12; subject to increase for disa bilities to $30 a month, separate disabil ities to be added till maximum is reached; $12 to the widow; doubts to be resolved in favor of applicants. | H. It. 12041.1 fUl ): To pension widows at $12 if married to the soldier prior to June 27. 185?0. | H. R. 12153.1 Same: To pension veterans after 02. if incapicitated for manual labor, at $24 a month. |II. R. 12154.] Mr. Miers (Ind.): To pension soldiers of the ciyil war, after 65 years of age, at $10 a month; to veterans of Mexican or Civil War, who are incapacitated for manual labor, $12 a month, to which shall be ad ded one cent for each day from muster-in to muster-out. the age of 70 years to be deemed total disability; veterans of Mex ican or civil war disabled to a degree re quiring attendance of another, and not having an income in excess of $250 a year, to be paid $30 a month. To the widow, if married prior to June 27 1800 $10 a month, f II. R. 12377.] Mr. Lacey (Iowa): Directs payment of $30 a mouth to pensioners whose disabil ities and sequences thereto are the result of gunshot wounds equivalent to loss of a hand or foot. To amend See. 4000 R. S. March 3. 1873, "which provides that the rate of $18 shall be proportionally divided for several^ disabilities to make up the total of $1<," so that "pensioners now on the roll, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, whose disabilities are the result of gunshot wounds and sequences thereof shall be computed ?vt $25 in lieu of $18! Pensioners on the roll to receive the increased rates from the passage of this act and without additional medical ex aminations." [H. R. 12511.] Mr. Sullivan (Mass.) by request: To au thorize payment of pensions in "groups" as to time?certain agencies to pay on the fourth of January, March, Mav, Julv September, Xovember; the others on fourth of intervening months. IH R 12538.] 1 Mr. Crumpacker (Ind.): To amend act authorizing payment of half the soldier's pension to his deserted wife; and to pro vide for and regulate such pavments when the pensioner is odmitted to*a Sol diers' Home. [H. R. 12040.] ^Mr. Slayden (Tex.): To repeal Sec. 471(1, R. S. (which is the section pro* hibiting pensions to former rebels, their widows, children or heirs), [IT. R. 12830.} Mr. South wick (N. Y.): Provides $100 a month^ to the totally blind. [H. R. Mr. Field (Tex.): To pay $20 a month pension to survivors of the Mexican War fH. R. 13084.] Mr. S. W. Smith (Mich.): Provides $72 a month for those who, in line of duty while in service, lost hearing of both ears or lost a leg at or above the knee or an arm at or above the elbow. [H. R. 13085. ] Mr. Snook (Ohio): Provides pension for loss of eye $30 a month; loss of one eye Catarrh Whether it Is of the nose, throat, stomach, bowels, or more delicate organs, catarrh is always debilitating and.shoold never fall of attention. It Is a discharge from the mucous mem brane when kept in a state of inflammation by an impure, commonly scrofulous, con dition of the blood. Hood's Sarsaparilla Cores all forme of catarrh, radloally and permanently?it removes the cause and overcomes all the effect*. Get Hood'*^^ and deformity of th6 other, $50: loss of sight of one eye and half the sight of the other, $70; loss of one eye and three fourths of the other, $85: loss of both eyes, $100 a month. lucrease to those now on rolls to begin March 2. 1903. |H. It. 131 <*"?.] Mr. McCreary (Pa.>: To increase to $1(#> a month, pensions of all now on rolls at $7- a month because of haying lost the use of their sight by reason of their serv ices in the Army or Navy of the U. S. IH. K. i:nor>.i Mr. <Jibson (Tenn.): Provides that any officer or enlisted man. entitled nn<ler any existing law to a pension of $12 a month, shall hereafter receive in addition, per month. $2 for every year or fraction of a year exceeding six months, that he was in I the service. 111. It. 132<>7.| Mr. Fnller (111.): To rate disabilities not of service origin the same as if of service origin, up to $12 a month. 111. It. I33.?l.l Mr. 4Jibson (Tenn.): To increase i>en sion of pensioners, after age of <>2 when 1 hoir pensions nn* less than *12 a month, by payment of an additional JS2 a month for each yenr of service. III. II n:;<;2. l Mr. Slayden (Tex.?: To pension at $12 a month every honorably disehargcd per son who actually serve?l not less than Ml days in the Mexican War. inelnding inn rines, militia and volunteers and their willows. Those who engaged in the late rebellion not to be included in benefits of this bill |II. K. 13848.1 Mr. Snook (Ohio): To increase pen sions for loss of sight of one eye while in the service to $30 a month: loss of sight of one eye and deformity of the same, and disease of the other. $?'??>: loss of one eye and half sight of the other, to $70; loss of I ope and three-fourths of the other, to loss of l>oth, to *1<M>. III. It. 13804.1 Mr. Moon (Pa.): Provides that there shall be paid for disabilities sustained while in service and in line of duty: for loss of hand or foot, or total disablement thereof. Sift a month: of leg or arm. above knee or elbow. *40: at hip or? shoul der, preventing use of artificial limb, f?ne hand and one foot. S*10; both feet. $1 (tO a month. [II. R. 14002.1 Mr. Patterson (Tenn.l: To prohibit pay ' ments to foreign residents, except for wounds and disabilities received in actual service. I If. It. 142.?8.] Mr. Gibson (Tenn.l: To exempt appli cants for pension or increase of pension on account of sige. under Order 18, from medical examination, unbss other than age disability is alleged. | II. It. 144<?.M Lay in Rear of Lee's Army. Editor National Tribune: What Comrade E. W. I)ayton says about 1 ort Whit worth is all right; I was there, in that same Co. I>. He neglected to tell about Tom Vanderbilt and me. however. Torn and I were sent back to find a fallen comrade and help him to a Surgeon s care. When we returned to the fort we found it vacated, and set off to find our regiment. We took the track traveled by the rebels when they skedaddled; but in the afternoon found that we were in the rear of I^ee s armv, and that our friends were all on the other side of the enemy's lines. We forth with fell back in a masterly way. with out waiting for orders, or maps, and with out regard to strategic position. It would be easier for us to go around Lees army than through it, you see-?the shortest road to the East is sometimes by way of the South! Itain began to come at dark and we crawled into the brush and lay down. We could see big fires in Peters burg, and hear explosions there of all sorts, so far as pitch, tone and detonation was concerned. Two men who said they were artillery buglers joined us and saiu that we were behind I*ee, and would bet ter get out of that. We told them we weren't taking orders from heavy artillery men anv more, and that they better lie down and keep hush. They said we were lost, and would be picked up by Lee. loin told them to lie down, keep quiet, and be fore morning we would have about us enough Corporals and Sergeants to cap ture Lee's headquarters and its guards. In the morning, when the strangers took off their overcoats we saw that one was an artillerv Corporal, the other an artil lery Sergeant. About 2 o'clock in the night we could hear the rebels going past and vou may l>e sure that we didn't stand up to count them! ^We just got as tight to the earth as we could flatten. At day light we got a sight of blue clothes and the red clover leaf and then we were glad. We attached ourselves to a Pennsylvania regiment?148th I think?and went along. Participated in a brush at Sailor s Creek and in the afternoon we found our own regiment and were happy again. I am still serving TTncle Sam; this time I am running a rural free delivery route. He tacks it on pretty heavy: no let-up for weather, rain, shine, flood, famine or foraging.?W. S. Taylor. Co. D, 30th Wis.: and Co. K, 23d, V. R. C. M't'd, London, Wis. A RELIABLE HEART CURE Alice A. Wetmore, Box 67, Norwich, Conn., says if any sufferer from Heart Disease will write her, she will, without charge, direct them to the perfect home cure she used. Service Pension. C. C. Brown, Co. M, Weatherford. Okla., is strongly in favor of the service pension bill as a matter of principle, since it would not do him any good. It would simply be an act of justice to the brave boys who saved the country and the Flag. Every one of them ought to have, instead of $12 per month, at least $25. He served in the Spanish War in the Third Brigade, Second Division, First Army Corps, and is a Roosevelt man from head to foot, inside and out. OF INTEREST TO PENSION ATTORNEYS. 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