The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-10-19


qualification over your election National
President Of the Womans Relief Corps. This
high honor has fallen on one worthy and well
quail fed to fill the position with dignity and
ability, and your neghbors and friends IN your
home city regard your selection with special
pride, because of your good qualities OF head
and heart. The noble Order of which you have
been elected President is one representing the
purest patriotism and the loftiest sentiment of
American citizenship, and to have this import
ant representative position fail to resident oil
our fair city is an honor which gives US all the
greatest satisfaction. 1t is, therefore, with
peculiar pleasure that assure you of our
united congratulations, and wish you and your
worthy husband the best blessings OF life for
many happy years to come.
In behalf of the Joint comm ttee OF the W.R.C.
and the GAR, WATERFOWL, n. Y.
KATE c. TALETT.
ALBEIT ID. SHAW,
AMELIA NJ. FELT,
MARY GILES,
JAMES DoLAN.
resident Mink made fitting re-
Spouse 20 the complimentary greeting, after
which she was presented with beautiful flowers.
In the course of her remarks she referred TO
the fact that the Woman's Relief Corps had, in
the few years of its existence raised aud ex-
pended over 100000 in the care and comfort
of needy soldiers and their dependents, and in
conclusion said:
During the war thousands of lives were
saved and millions of money raised and ex
pended through the agency of the loyal, pat
riotic women of the North. Our Army Nurses
walked with uufaterng feet on battlefields,
through smallpox hospitals and gangrene
wards, where the air was thick with malaria
and damp with the dews OF death. But the
Womans Relief Corps claim no distinction Tor
themselves save the privilege of serving that
grander body TO whom we are auxiliary and
to honor tho memory of all who laid their lives
on the altar Of their country. Our object is to
teach reverence for the American flag, the en-
blem OF liberty; respect for the principles for
which our veterans gave the best years OF their
lives, and TO perpetuate the memory OF our he
roic dead by the sacred observance of Memorial
Day"
OUR NATIONAL COUNSELOR.
Past National President Elizabeth Darcy
Kline was installed National Counselor by
Past Department President Hood, detailed for
that duty by National President Mink. AS
Mrs. Hood was about to leave for two months
trip to the Islands, she awaited herself of the
first opportunity, aud as she was to inspect
Lincoln Corps she made this the occasion of
the installation.
AS General Orders announcing the appoint
ment had not been received by the Corps, the
installation was surprise to the mem bershp
and very pleasant one, as proved by the con-
CALCULATIONS showercd upon the National Coun-
selor. She has been the reel pient of warm
letters of congratulaton from all over the
country.
THOMAS WILEY wICKTNs
The death OF ex-Mayor Wickins of Sabetha,
Kan, husband Of Past National President Mar
garet Ray Wilkins, has been mentioned in the
editorial columns of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
The particulars received show how bravely and
patiently his sufferings were borne, and how
justly proud he was of the patriotic services of
his wife on behalf of the Union soldiers, and
of the well-earned honors bestowed upon her
in being chosen National standard bearer for
the year just closed.
OBITUARY.
Died Sept 20, 1893 in Sabetha, Kan, Thomas
Wiley Wickins aged SO years, six months, aud
eight DAYS. He was born in Kankakee. ILL.,.
where his early married life was spent. In
November, 1876, he moved with his family to
Sabetha, Kan, where he resided until the time
of his death.
He was prominently identified with the
growth and interests of Sabetha; was for nine
years a member of the City Council, served
two terms as Mayor of the city, and was
known us one Of the pioneers of the place
For 16 years he was "A member of the Odd
Fellows, serving them the greater part of that
time as District Deputy Grand Master
For two years his health had gradually
failed. the direct result of the grip culminat-
ing in acute kidney difficulty, but not until
within few days of his death did his most
Dc, ,f..r,.f
His funeral was of the largest ever at
tended in Sabetha and was conducted under
the auspices of the Odd Fellows in the Grand
Army Opera House. One hundred and fifty
Odd Fellows preceded the hearse led by the
City Band playing funeral dirge, and as the
sun neared the Western horizon all that re-
NAMED OF the loved one was laid away with
the impressive and beautiful burial service of
the Order, that. next to his family, mourned
his loss most deeply. Besides his wife he
leaves two daughters and one son to mourn his
loss.
During the entire year of National Presi.
dent Wickinss administration his eyeFv
thought seemed to be 10 save her from one
additional burden. In the beginning of the
year when she, newly chosen National Presi-
dent, returned from Washington and found his
health falling she said size had never been able
to decide whether she ought to have allowed
her name TO be presented to the Convention
Noting his leebleness she said she felt sure she
ought not to have permitted it. He replied:
g am sure You ought, and if / die in three
weeks am proud and glad of the honors that
have come TO my name"
BY force OF will power he lived until the
Convention which closed the work of his be-
loved wife over, then he returned from
Chicago to his Kansas home he loved so well.
never to 90 from ii alive. With his devoted
wife, loving children. aud soldier brother doing
all that was possible 10 soothe the closing hours
of intense suffering lie passed TO his long rest
Peace TO his memory.
STANDING BY THE FLAG.
DEAR TRIBUNE: The following resolutions
were adopted by j. i. Reynolds Corps, 81, at
the regular monthly meeting, Sept. z, 1893:
Whereas J. f. Reynolds Corps, 81, has heard
with deep regret and pain that woman of Cali
torna has cast dishonor upon the flag of America
by causing IL to lee used a carpet for the stairs in
the California Building at the Worlds Fair the
occasion OF the reception Of the West Point Cadets;
aud
Whereas the action of this person was farther
aggravated by her insisiance upon replacing the
Nag where u must necessarily be trampled upon,
notwithstanding that the Cadets had loyalty re-
fused to tread upon 1t, and although patriotic
California woman had removed it, Therefore, be il
Resotced That J. +. Reynolds Corps So, de-
nounce the action of this woman, whose name is
as yet unknown to uisoyaI. reasonable and