Show PENSION DEMANDS god bless the old soldier soi diers with the beat best favors of life and may he ile especially ally bestow modesty upon somo some ot of the ilia grasping boye boys who now want the earth for having saved a part of it the majority of our country defenders are re content with having preserved the this union without trying to confiscate conf lecate it with all ita its revenues reve nuee and appurtenances but a few are determined to tako take no rest until a pension ie is granted to every man regardless regard les of present health or wealth who wore the bauo bill in the late unpleasantness and it is for them few that we solemnly invoke the blessing blesi ins of modesty if the G A it had consented to the demand demind of these gentlemen the government would have been asked to ewell swell the annual pension appropriations to nearly an greater than alt all the th other public expenses of the nation combined already more than persona persons draw pension pensions from the united states treasury to the aggregate figure fi ure of annually and the number of pensioners and the amount drawn are steadily swelling in 1805 1865 at the close of the civil war the expenditure tor for thie this purpose was in round numbered num bere sonly only in 22 year years that amount bae has been increased nine fold told this appears to be b an augmentation quite as rapid an is warranted by the need ot of tho the old boldrer bol hol dier diers tho the lord who knows all things knows how bow well tho the heroes of the rebellion deserve of their country ho lie know knows how unselfishly countless thousands of them went down into tho the gleam and gloom of deaths riot he ile knows that many oj ol them now need and deserve help from the nation whose union they preserved and in whose protection they were maimed and shattered ehatt ered but ho ile knows too that tho the fame and prowess of these heroes 13 used unworthily by less 1 heroic and more inore selfish men to achieve amer a mercenary purpose every old soldier who is in honest poverty or who duffers from wounds br broken health incurred in the late war should be protected and anti provi provided aed for fo r ho ile should have such an allowance as to save him from the humiliation of needing private alms so should the dependent widows of union defenders bo be maintained buffor but for tho the thousands 0 of men who were ablo able to carry their pluck and stud health through the war and x m in prosperity in ja private life there ie is no present noces eity sity of pensions again god becse the old soldiers and nd heir their families may they never buffer the lack of lifes comfort comforts and may the government double and quadruple its present pension list in and d ita its present allowance to individuals as fast as tho the need exists but again may heaven send modesty with all its other good gifts to such of the 0 A it boys as lack that grand quality anz NEW souni sou sot ni is its all 11 aflame with progress here is an obituary bonfire in the columbia georgia sentinel on friday last just after the son had kissed the world good night and parsed into its it bed of crimson and cold gold the spirit 0 of A G sturgis vacated ite its habitation of clay and wend ed its way to the father who savo it and today to day ia is walking the glory lit hills of immortality in the new jeru balem where there in S no night CAPTAIN telling the other day of a great railway in the ilia east which for stock jobbing reason reasons allowed its line to fall into bad condition he ile concluded with by thunder the thing got so bad that the rolling stock and buildings crumbled avay into everlasting nothingness nothing nce and the track wae was nothing but two faint streaks of iron rust stretching across the country ama 40 you a chinaman ie is A candidate for tho the office of councilman at baltimore he ile is supported by a 0 countryman named ono lung the candidate should bo be defeated dathe ground that he be is noblet not yet americanized A man who expects to be elected by many vote and miyone only one I 1 lung ung is its far behind the fashion cf of today to day which I 1 ia to havo have more MOM lungs lung than votes A official remarked in effect yesterday may heaven forgive tho the word but tho the ogden girls aro are great temptations to bigamy when a married into man comes here from the east a stranger et ranger |