| Show A PENSION I 1 A touching incident of mans mana perfidy and womans comans borrow sorrow bai hai baen brought oat out of the record ot of that much discussed and much abused arni arm of the government service known as the pension bureau happily ita its re ital meets with a sympathetic response legal technicalities are likely to be swept away by bythe the equities in the case and so tar far as it is in the tile po power of money to remove the suffering and the rong the general government lovern meritt after miny many long yeara years of delay will wili set itself to providing the necessary remedy in 1803 1883 alary wilson then seventeen years old and in love with daniel E liose ayoung a young cavalryman married him in ot to her parens paren BI wishes soon after be he rejoined his regiment at the front and she saw him hint no more for a year oae oze night he returned called at lier ter fathers house and introduced another woman as an big hi wild there was a scene of course and rose departed to return no more later there came a report apparently confirmed that he had bad been killed in action it was a happy release tor for mary and in time she married john W johnson another soldier broken in health from exposure ard disease contracted in be the army she lived with him until his death in 1883 i bearing beating him four children while investigating her bar application for a pension the pen ion office omee discovered that her first husband was still alive married a second time and residing unknown to her within fifteen milea of her ter own home her lier claim lor for a pension was of course disallowed and she was left without means of supporting her children and crushed crus lied by the tile knowledge that they were illegitimate now however tho the case is lei I 1 before the senate and ia Is backed by 11 14 10 I 1 I 1 1 M 1 I wro ft R I 1 JP el aji s the favorable report of 0 the pension committee their may dot not be strictly legal under the regulations and the precedent precedents bat lint they are right in declaring that her error it it can be called an error under the circumstances waa was committed innocently the committee advisee advises that she bo be iriven lie accrued pension doe due to her supposed eup posed husband at hl ha deth and that site receive hereafter a pension aa as hia his widow for the sake of humanity and justice it is limped no one will place an am obstacle in the way of 0 the bill becoming law |
