The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-04-12

ton nave contributed DoBiy 10 tHc pihHo auu
library fund for the Soldiers Home. stevens
Corps, 1, Seattle, alone gave 800 to the piano
fund.- and A. Lincoln Corps Wslla Walla, $40.
Price Corps Centralia, has spent S74.2o In fur
nishing room, and others have contributed
needful hospital supplies.
The Ohio Soldiers Orphans Home is having
q remarkable religious revival, and hundreds
have given their hearts to their Savior. The
movement began with the Christian Endeavor
meetings Instituted some two years ago, and
held from cottage to cottage since that time.
Eta l.. Pearce is the efficient President of
E. S. Griffin Relief Corps so. Scranton, Pa;
Margaret Brestley Secretary. The President
is Director of the Pennsylvania Memorial
Home Board, and is an active worker in all
soldier lines.
Senior Vice. President L. Haydn has issued 8
touching memorial order announcing the death
of Dept Secretary Adeia M. Wright, the lovely
daughter of the Dept President and greatly
mourned by all who knew her. All Corps
charters will be draped 30 days.
Blundon Corps, 6, Charleston, w. Va, is max
ing an autograph quilt, with the hope of add
ing to their relief fund. The quilt will be
presented to the National Relief Corps Home.
The plan is to have square from every State
in the Union-44 in all. The autograph of
each National President will be on the quilt.
Each square is dark-blue with a white Grecian
cross in the center. upon which the names are
written. Mollie NJ N. Cornell. Department
Junior ice-President Is one of the leaders in
the enterprise.
Mary B. Mendenhall, Department Core
spending Secretary of Indiana, sends most en-
couraging news of the growth of relief work
and patriotic interest among the Corps OF In
diana. Letters from all parts reach her bring
ing words of cheer and encouragement. The
demands upon Corps for help have been great,
but all responded generously.
Work highly c0mnIi-
mentary in their mention of the reelection OF
Department President Kate E. Jones The
lion Citizen says: "In congratulating the
President-elect the Citizen also congratulates
the W.R.C of this grand old State in continuing
at it's head lady who for ftnoss, ability, in-
tegrity and devotion to the cause has no superior
In tho Corps"
Past Department Treasurer Elizabeth ].
Harlan, of Ohio. who for the past five years has
made her home at Seattle, WASH, where her
husband Mai. Harlan, is Post Commander, died
there March 8, after several weeks of serious
illness. She was devoted wife and mother, as
we'll as a sterling friend of the soldier and his
interests, and made a fine record in Relief Corps
work in Ohio while serving with Department
President Isabelle T. Bagey at her former
home, GAINESVILLE. Maj. Harlan's hosts of Ohio
friends will extend him fraternal sympathy in
his affection.
Department President Emma r. Wallace, OF
Illinois, has provided for a committee on the
Salute to the Flag" which she has strength
ened by the addition of Past Department Sec
rotary Josephine Cleveland, of Springfield.
Illinois Department has instituted Corps at
Peotone and Irving Park since last General
Orders. Nevus Corps, /. Rockford, is still the
banner Corps in relief, having pended S19037
for the quarter ending Dec. 81, 1893.
Davy Crockett Post and Corps, Waco, Tex,
entertained the Lone Star flag of Texas with
HAITI nrrhf
The comrades very CALAMITY gave the Corps
precedence and happy evening was spent;
Lavantis Conger President. Crockett Corps
supplied hot coffee in new tin cups with all
necessary etceteras on lap boards OF Texas pine,
with one of which each guest was supplied.
Lizzie M. Hill, Secretary, writes that Old
Brigade Relief Corps Johnston, VT. celebrated
Washington's birthday by arranging a soldiers
family gathering, over 150 persons partaking
of sumptuous free dinner. At the afternoon
Campfire the old soldiers recounted their ex-
perience, and members of the W.R.C. and the
clergy joined in the fluctuations. An original
poem recited the thrilling record of the Yer
mont Brigade
Wisner Post and Corps, Ithaca, Mich are re-
ported among united and happy organizations
of that State. One of the interesting features
of their joint installation was the account, by
A. ]. Brown, of "Old Abe" the American eagle
which shared the vicissitudes of war with a
Wisconsin regiment, often in battle. Sara l..
Brown is President of Wisner Corps.
Francis A. Clay Corps, 90. Conway, Mass, is
represented as one Of the Furnishing organiza-
tons of the old Commonwealth; Elizabeth
Johnson, President.
Mrs. Edward Roby, of Chicago, is writing a
book on the Fourteenth Corps Army of the
Cumberland. member of that Corps. B.
Leander, met Mrs. Roby in the parlors of Notre
Dame College on Washington's birthday, and
presented her with badge emblematic of the
National coors; very pretty design IN the
form of dove.
The Journal of 18th National Convention,
W.RC., appears in neat style, considerably
reduced in size and on the whole decidedly at
tractive. 1t is being issued at Department
Convention to save expenses, a piece oil
economy that cannot be too highly commended.
An excellent portrait of Past National Presi-
dent Margaret Ray Wilkins adorns the
frontispiece.
Replying to inquiries, we would say that the
quotation, "Tol the BELL" in the annual ad-
dress of Department President Caista r. Jones,
delivered before 10th annual Convention, De-
partment of New Hampshire, is from Dream
of the Ages" by Kate B. Sherwood. Canton. A
special Memorial Day rate of $3.50 is given on
this volume post paid; on Campfire and Me-
mortal Poems, rs cents, post paid. Former
prices $3.50 and $780, Memorial of the
Flowers" and "Guarding the Flags" bound
together in paper, 10 cents. Suitable for Me-
mo rial Day exercises.
National Secretary Sarah E. Phillips arranged
the program for the last social evening of the
Syracuse Union, where, among other decora
tions, wasthe flag presen ted Col. John'G But
Ter, April IA. 1861, by the ladies of Syracuse as
he, with his Butler Zouaves, were leaving fol
Albany to join their regiment for the seat OF
war Mrs. Phillips's husband was of that COM
pany, the first to go east on the New York Cen
trail Railroad. Mrs. Chandler, National Special
Aid, read "The Old Flag" from Mrs. Sher
woods Campfire and Memorial" volume
there were excellent patriotic addresses by
| the National President and Secretary, and the
ladies of the Union voted their patriotic even
| ing one of the best that has been given.
Fairbanks Relief Corps, Detroit, Mich, Of
which Past National President Hampton and
| National Treasurer Cheney members, ha:
passed its 10th milestone, having in that time
| raised and expended nearly 400 in relief il
addition TO donations of clothing and food moi
reported. Fairbanks Corps is among the fore
most of Detroit benevolences.
The Perils of ExtempOre Prayer.
It was Wesleyan gathering, and they
had met to say farewell to a missionary ant
his wife. A Layman WAS asked to pray, ant