Back-pension Pay Good as Fortune.
Frank Ferris, seventy-nine, of Atchison, Kan., who served during the Civil War in the Third Regiment of Missouri Infantry, applied for a pension in 1890, but because he could not produce his discharge he was denied one. He kept on in his efforts to prove that he was a soldier, and some time ago secured the help of United States Senator Thompson.
Recently the adjutant general of Missouri, in going through the records that were kept in that office during the war days, discovered the dates of both the mustering in and discharge of Ferris, and on the strength of this the pension will be allowed.
He will receive $30 a month and back pay for twenty-three years at the rate of $12 a month, or more than $3,000 in all.
Ferris is a carpenter, and a poor man. His wife is nearly eighty years old. There is general rejoicing.