Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1910 — The Old Soldiers Are Now Going Rapidly. [ARTICLE]

The Old Soldiers Are Now Going Rapidly.

About ninety names a day are dropped from the pension rolls, This average is equivalent to about 2,500 deaths a month, or about 32,000 annually, among the federal survivors of the civil war carried on the pension lists. How many survive who are not on the pension roll is not recorded In the pension office or the adjutant’s office of the war department. The officials refer to these unrecorded soldiers as the “Unknown army.” The old soldiers of both armies are vanishing rapidly. Just how many survive will not be known until after the completion of the thirteenth cen- ' sub, and can only be approximated now. The law providing for the taking care of the census of 1910 stipulated that there should be included a tabulation t)f the number of Union and Confederate soldiers and sailors living. The census of 1900 contained no such tabulation. The most generally accepted estimate of the total number of “individuals” serving in the Union army and navy during the civil was is 2,213,365. This estimate was prepared by Major General Ainsworth, adjutant general of, the army, which pension officials turn to for data to size np the Union forces in the war. But it is only an estimate. The records show that the total number of enlistments from the various Btates and territories during the war under President Lincoln’s various calls, aggregated 2,778,304. But of this number 105,963 enlistments of seamen and marines, leaving 2,672,334 enlistments credited to the army alone, exclnsiye of 16,422 men who were serving in the regular army. It is estimated that of these 2,672,341 there were 643,393 re-enlist-ments, which, when subtracted, brings the estimate of individuals in the navy down to 84,417, making the number of the Union side 2,213,366. This la the only official estimate ever made, and how far it varies from the actual number can never be determined. Some of the papers are advising their readers to buy their supply of coal early as they believe prices will be advanced to- a higher point than ever during the coming winter. The demand for coal is increasing from year to year and It is not only used more extensively in towns and cities but is being hauled to the country td the homes of many fanhers where the wood supply is exhausted. The price of coal is usually reduced the first of April to the lowest point, and from that time on there is a gradual increase on hard coal of about twentyfive cents, per ton per month until winter sets in. Two strangers have swindled farmers in the vicinity of Fayetteville and Glen wood, Rush county, out of amounts estimated from S2OO to S3OO by selling “medicated glasses,” which they guaranteed to “cure” the eyes. The graft came to light when one of the victims called on Dr. E. T. Smiley, of Gienwood, formerly of Indianapolis, asking him to make the glasses good. It was learned that one of the men had posed as the Gienwood physician and had said that the money would be refunded there in case the spectacles did not suit. Several other farmers and their wives called at the-Smiley office and asked that the purchase be made good. The swindlers have not .been located. \' - - Doan's Regulets cure constipation without griping, nausea, nor any weakening effect Ask your druggist for them. 25 cents per box.