Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-08-01
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENTS.

-- w AsHINGION, ". Y. July ~, 1909.
EdiEo, of CZereland Leader:
S1E-WiTl you please, without delay
give place in your columns to few earnest,
heartfelt words, addressed to the good peo-
pie Of your statei who are at work, or are
willing to work in behalf of the soldiers2-
They all want to know how they can use
what they have to spare in such way as to
save thereby the greatest number Of lives.
Just no,O It is easy to,tell them how.
Men in the army are, during all seasons,
from serious causes, peculiarly liable to di-
arrhoea which if allowed to continue be
comes chronic and this in its last stage is
death, slow but sure. After prolonged and
intense suffering the victim dies.
In allof the earlier stages of this terri
ble disease however, it may be checked, the
patient cs.red, by the simpleness of black
berry in some form. This life-saving berry
grows abundantiy in our land, thank God
and is now growing, still ripening for use,
so that for a little while yet this rich
precious fruit may be found on the bush,
and in the market, and may be had at from
two 10 three dollars per bushel, in most
parts Of the country.
VIII not those who have them growing
preserve rs many as they can for the
soldier? Who that has any money to spare
will refuse or neglect to buy some Of these,
and either themselves preserve them, or
end theurto the aid society ladies who
! Will receive them as a sacred trust, and
nrrpare them Tor sending to tho sick sol
| dier who needs them. Buy one bushel or
five. or ten, or moreif you are able. Ii you
are moi able 10 get as many as you would
ike buy all you ca,r for surely a tele lives
saved are better than none. But try TO
get bushel or at laast peck remember
ing that YOU are securing that which is life
to The sotdier.-remember the peculiar
medicinal virtue Of the blackberry it seems
invariably to cure, while every medicine
often fails.
The hospital surgeons regard the black
| berry mice. in any way preserved as of in
estimable value. 1t seems possessed Of
quality not found in any other fruit or
ED. or mineral ever used. 1t seems the
| chosen messenger of God to call the slowly
| wasting victim Of chronic diarrhOea from
approaching death back to vigorous life, to
| call the soldier hero from the awning
grave, to take his place in the ranks once
| more TO do valiant service thereto strike
| heavy blows for country, for all that makes
! life dear to US. Brave noble fellow, will
ling az he is to do all this, shall he not have
| this precious medicinal fruit and liVe2 He
/ IL Inn - I
do not dry or can them, but send along all
that you may have already dried or canned.
| The convalesceut may be strengthened by
them.
NoU knowing how precious the juice of
the berries is to the soldier, sick with this
| disease, the good people of the land have
themselves consumed hundreds and thOus
ands Of bushels which ought to have been
made into sirup, jelly, wine, brandy, or
| cordial, to be carried by loving hearts and
faithful hands to the thousands of sick
men wasting away in hospital. Let no
more be eaten by those who would rather
save many a sick and sinking hero's life,
than crafty their own selfish appetites.
| Let no more be left in the markets, to be
consumed by the well and hearty.
Oh my friends, if you could see the
| skeleton forms that are to be found at all
times in the Hospital-wards of Washing
ton and elswhere, and remember that the
| Juice Of the l&ackberry would doubtless
have saved them could it have been given
to them in time you would resolve to Sc
cure as many as possible, to be preserved,
to be held sacred to the service of restor-
ing to life and health the sick and suffer-
ing soldier.
In the city, the Sanitary Commission is
trying to buy up all the blackberries it
can get, and good women are making them
into cordial, brandy, wine or syrup, to be
used only in cases Of diarrhea. This, the
commission is doing here, though often
obliged to pay for the berries in Washing
ton and vicinity as high as So or So per
bushel. The branch commission in CIeve-
land and the various aid societies through
out the State might accomplish very
much more, at very much less expense
You have doubtless already done much; F.;
Will YOU not do as much more as you can |
while the blackberry season lasts? Will not
all the men and women in the State, who |
love the soldier and the cause he serves |
do whatever they can in aid fthe aid So
cieties in this, their present holy hopeful
effort for the saving of hnman lives 2