The National tribune., 1883-09-06
WASHINGTON c. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1885,

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
and commenced practice in Syracuse, n Y. About
ten years ago she married the Rev. p. w. Emens
then pastor of one of the churches In the City of
Salt Mrs. DR. Emens has obtained an exceedingly
| lucrative practice.
| Respectfully, FRANK DILLON.
AN UNTRANsLATED SAINT.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug, 1883
My DEAR Mrs SHERWOOD: I notice in your
able report of the organization of Woman 9
National Relief Corps. that you very graciously
| enroll among the saints. Now, as L do not
| wish to be buried, even beneath flowers, before l
am dead, have decided to report for duty, and
save you the trouble and expense of writing an
| obituary and erecting monument.
am the person Colonel p. W. Wilcox refers to-
/ was living in Keokuk, Iowa, at the beginning of
| the war, and went out from there. was not an
| army nurse applied for such position, but was
not accepted, as Miss Dix considered me too young
| j was sent out by the ladies of Iowa with supplies
| again and again. When the legislature met, my
| work i'll connection with hospitals and battlefelds
| was so favorably reported and known that was
appointed by name in the body of the bill author
Izlng the governor to appoint State sanitary agents
| The first two years of the war were spent mainly
In the West in carrying supplies TO the front, and
often rendering service under the guns of the
| enemy. introduced reform in hospital cookery
which was accepted as great Improvements by all
the chief officers of the Government and, as be-
came the superintendent OF the work and it extend
ed ell along the lines East and West, resigned my
State Position. Our speeial-diet kitchens were all
along the front lines. At the close of the war
started project which was sharply criticised-the
| establishment of Soldiers Orphans Home for
| Iowa. The very best people of the State rallied
about the enterprise, not the least discouraged by
| the adverse opinions OF other good people. l was
sent to Washington the important mission of
securing the fine new barracks at Davenport, that
| had cost the Government S460 600. Surgeon-General
| Barnes and Quartermaster-GeneralA AIeigs backed
up my plea, and L secured the fine properly as a
gift from the Government through Secretary STAN
ton, subject however, to the approval of Congress-
i also obtained 5000 worth of hospital supplies
aS nor / her
the first three items in the requisiton: 500 ban
kets 900 sheets, 5000 pillow cases, &c. In like
proportion they ali came in, selected from the best
and by the time Congress met we had 500 children
| in the Home. OF course Congress approved. At
our request the State accepted the trust and it is
now a State institution.
1 have been in Philadelphia about seventeen
years, busy all the while. For twelve years L
edited the Christian Woman, a monthly which
had wide circulation. / was the first President
| of the Woman's National Christian Temperance
Union, and served in that position for five years.
L tell you all this that you may know that am
neither dead nor idle. have the deepest interest
in everything that pertains to the and the sol
port for duty any line that can serve the cause
so dear to my heart-the maintenance of liberty,
unity, and the American institutions that have cost
so much blood, but have made great.
Thanks for your kind words. but save them
little while longer, as L am vigorous and healthy,
ana VeIS Repe trla may work 0Fk on Tor years
THE ooMMANDER-IN-cHlEF SPEAKS FOR MRS.
To the Editor NATIONAL. TRIBUNE:
PHILADELPHIA, August 90, 1888
THE TRIBUNE of the 10th ult., by some accident,
only reached me to-day and hasten TO correct an
error IN your letter in reference to Mother Witten
| her services by Comrade Wilcox of Mendota-one
of thousands of such cases-and her grand work in
organizing aid societies. and nurse on the field
and in hospitals in the past sense MS fshe had gone
from US. Thousands of old soldiers will be glad to
| know that Mrs Annie Wittenmyer is alive aud in
hot I,ocly
the soldier and the cause he represented and that
| she is preparing to make use of her rare expert
camp and hospital had the pleasure of meeting
her at the Gettysburg Encampment on Monday
last Her address is No. 1918 Arch street
Yours, very truly, RoBT. B. BEATH.
THE SOLDIER SPIRIT IN THE FAR WEST.
FOUR MILE, IDAHO TY., August, 1888.
| To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
can fully assure you that THE TRIBUNE Is the
paper eagerly looked for by the cid vets who are
scattered through this country. though many, like
myself, never heard of it till lately. A eomrade
sent me copy and have sent you several sub
scrbers since, and will do all possibly for the
circulation of the soldiers friend. Our Post No. q
Idaho, take several copies and we will try to make
clean sweep in the Post for you. The Post is eft
| Lewiston, the shire town, and the members
| scattered far and wide go thirty five miles TO
attend Post meetings. When the bugle sounded
the assembly TO fall in we did So and organized
| Post No. 2 Provisional Department of Idaho We
report TO San Francisco, Cal Now that the De-
I
have been organized, we may possibly be attached
TO one of these. We want to organize another Post
near here II we can, and will try to have Depart
ment of our own.
None of US were able to visit Denver although
would have liked to have gone for was mustered
out there, and it the headquarters of our regi-
| ment and would probably have met many of my
old comrades. Our Post is well represented from
the Armies of the Potomac Cumberland TenDes-
see and the Gulf and from all the States and the
navy; also from the flagship Roanoke Colds
borongh-North Atlantic Squadron. We have
of the men of Andersonvle-who fourteen
months confined there-Chaplain Rigsby of
Post.
lam right glad to see that the womans Relief
Corps and Auxiliaries to the Posts formed q
National organization, and / hope to hear
| that the work ar the Denver Encampment has
been carried through TO permanent success The
loyal women of the Christian Commission did {,
noble work for the boys in the days when
| the soldier was more than fraction. And
| hear from some of Them How their eyes were
filed with hot, burning tears to see the wounds
and bruises painful and bleeding when the
boys laid in their Old bloody garments-for IN
! Gle Sam had none TO change them. And when the
Ladies' Aid Society sent down clothes, bandages,
lint and comniisSaries for the boys, their gentle
hearts would have been filed with satisfaction to
have heard the hurrahs of those wounded and
bleeding boys, each one of whom would have voted
them angels and bTeyeted them then ard there
| for their charitable and Christian conduct.
How sorrowful, yet how heroic, these loyal
women We're to see march away under the ban
ner they presented us with--aways kind and
cheerful word of encouragement for all. Yes | be-
Eeve they VIII make reliable aids to the Order, and
| hope to see the organization perfected
Yours, in F., c., and L., WM King.
REPLY TO MARLBORO LADIES.
CuREALL, HOWELL. Co., Mo-, August, 1888
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
| I have been reading in your valuable paper an
account of the grand rally of the G.. A. X. at Dem
yer. with their sisters of the Woman's Auxiliaries
II Is concerning the latter that desire to speak
am quite ignorant concerning the object for which
these societies have been instituted but if the OBJ
ject of the ladies is henecent one either socially
intellectually, charitably, think the dscrimi-
nation which some of tie members strongly con-
| tend for IS both unwise and unjust. Particularly
| would like to know what Mrs. Barnes and the
other ladies OF Marlboro have done and suffered
| for the Union and its soldiers. that only select
few are admitted TO the Holy Temple 1t is evil
dent that were to knock at their gate for admit
tancc it would not be opened TO me- as am neither
There were three brave, noble boys who gave their
lives In defense of the Union, who called me amt
but make claim to exceptional favors for the
sacrifices they made believe that If the acts and
the selfEacritices Of every loyal woman who passed
through the fearful struggle could be portrayed to
view, many who now claim exalted position for
their devotion and labor to the holy cause, would
fail very low in the scale. It would seem that the
ladies who Were farthest away from the smoke of
the battlefield the most strenuous for dscrini-
nation and higher seat in the synagogue Mrs
Barnes seems to rest her claim of pre-emnence for
the Marlboro ladies, more for the work they have
done within the last thirteen years than their la
bors during the Of their labors and their re-
suits am quite ignorant but they must have been
very great, or else they eanently Pharisaical.
IL was an easy matter to be loyal woman in
EHn.Al.