The National tribune., 1895-10-24
RFUNInN GREETINGS.

SPIRIT OF THE C. c.
= il not true that when once you have at
tended Loyal Home Workers Reunion you
always want to go again? This is expressed
in the patriotic greetings sent to sixth annual
Reunion by Ida NJ. Bonney, Slate Lick, Pa.
breathing the very spirit of the L.H.W.:
lit was with dffidence and difficulty that /
weuded my way up to Headquarters of the
fifth annual Reunion, September, 1894, at
Pittsburg--with difidenee because was an
entire stranger. and with difficulty because my
father, who WAS my escort, stopped at almost
every crossing and said: | don't think we'll
20 any further; will we. Lidap'
But every time he stopped j coaxed him to
90 lust little further and perhaps we
would find the place.
I'VE at last reached Headquarters where we
had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Sherwood,
/ Rev. Lemon, Ola Belle Hntham. Georgia
Martin. Mr.. Erwin. Only Amos and many
! Others whose names are. familiar in The
NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
We enjoyed ourselves so thoroughly at the
/ Reunion last year that 10 is a disappointment
not 10 be with you this time. Nv father tells
me Of has visit 10 Louisville more than 80 years
ago. when the boys in blue vent without an
invitation and did receive the hearty well
come accorded them in 1885,
What beautiful lessen of patriotism The
victor and the vanqusbed met TO talk over all
the q differences of the past. They shall march
over the old ground OF Chcksmauga as in the
1 days Of yore, but clang of war shall burst
upon the air. no smoke of battle darkeB the
MONDAY sky.
"Those fields which once ran rod with carnage
| shall sparkle with crystal fountains ana CLEAN
with towering monuments while the fragrant
! flowers shall flourish in a soil made rich by
Union and Confederate blood.
& The great poet, b. +. Taylor says:
There dome OF white blossoms where swell
led the white lent:
There are plows in the furrow where the war
wagons went.
There songs where they lifted up Rachel's
lament
"The American of today is a Nationalist not
a sectionalist We have heard of the New
South but we have also New North. and these
two linked with common patriotism have
made a new Nation"
GEORGIA MARTINS GREETINGS
DEAR LH.W. AND G.. c.: I have not been
silent so long for want OF something to say, but
because had so much TO say that didn't know
where TO begin.
And, then, after the week OF Grand Army dis
sipation and the Mammoth Cave excursion. /
am Just beginning to feel rested That cave
trip was almost fni-her. Even at this late
day am sometimes startled out of a midnight
nightmare iy the fanced voice OF Bishop:
ladies and gentlemen, we now AZ the
most difficult part Of our journry. We will
proceed to climb the corkscrew."
After nearly Is miles OF tortuous vending,
even the most sedate of us burst out into little
| irrepressible remarks: we wouldn't mind the
eorkscrew so much if there were a bottle on
! the end Of it," This thing is getting dread
! fully monotonous Say. Mr.. Guide. isn't
4 there a refreshment stand in this csve?"
Eighteen miles in a dead heat. and not
! thing that we could press into service 10 sus-
pend starvation. except two blind beetles and
al. 4 .l.g eltnvs Ind
Then, when got back 10 the hotel, at 800
a. m we couldn't get bite, until small but
/ select delegation, headed by Rose Jansen,
raided the tomato patch.
But the worst of 1.-THE very climax of the
hotel keepers sudacious cruety-was that
J some OF our tired little party haa to sit on the
veranda the rest OF the night.
Through the energetic kindness of two of
the boys four of Us girls got room with two
beds in il. But when we learned they had no
| place 10 sleep we dragged one Of the beds into
the hall for the boys, and four girls lay
down on the other bed TO the sweetest sleep
1 that ever came to weary eyes.
] The cave jaunt, the weary ploidinr, which
sdualy fell into stiff, stolid march whose
sole endesvor was 10 "pet there" broken at
/ intervals 10y little outJursis OF merrinseut; the
/ long procession OF e cures with their hickering
! lights, winding up, down aud around those
masses Of wall, over chasms. across the River
4 Echo. through narrow passes. and bringing be-
J fore Us yiVidly Dore's somber pr0eossioils in
the Purgztory" y; the mighty, awful grandeur
! OF those ancient mammoth walls aud caverns-
all were experiences never TO be forgotten, and
we each declared that had we known what
awaited US in Mammoth Cave, nothing on earth
could have induced us 10 enter it; but now that
we had entered it aud gotten out alive we
would not take a world for the trip.
There are some funny incidents 10 remem-
Der aud smile over. Hr. Walker. from Con-
neCticUt, for instance, who carried two pairs OF
4 shoes and changed them at intervals and who
! when he fell down and bis light went ont.
| hurried TO the front ranks quite forgetting
! Dell Adams with whom he was walking and
leaving her to the tender mercies Of those who
followed.
Then there was our Pennsylvania brother
who went down with us aud through the cave
with us, but who. the next morning came to
us AZ tue hotel and told us good by lust before
we were ready TO 90, because the train WAS
crowded aud he wanted q seat. We girls were
entirely overcome with admiration at his So
! licitons regard for Number One" 1t occurred
TO Us that he must have had great confidence
| in the gentlemen with whom he left u.s. and
| who were SO very kind TO u.s.
Altogether Encampment week at Louisville
! seemed to be a most enjoyable affair all round
! The L.h.M.'s generally were a good natured
crowd, and readily overlooked the incon-
veniences incident TO SO large gathering
There were some Of our loyal brotherhood
whose absence was conspicuous. Every body
missed Mr.. Erwin and Mr.. Hargrove. the latter
OF whom was down the program for paper
on Why I'm Single" As the time for Re-
union drew near, sundry epistles came from
Brown s. hills-in-the- Pines TO Lonisville-in-thc-
Push, carrying vague hints Of the approaching
cranberry season." and vaguer regrets that
our Secretary would not be with us this year
on shat account.
Well, ! don't know: never had HONEYMOON.
but ] had always dreamed that such n season
partook more of "siTupy" sucary nature.
than lemons, gooseberries cranberres or any
thing Of an acid quality. But Of course, Brother
HargrOve know.
The general inference is that he racked his
gray matter ia vain for prcsentabe reasons
why he was single. aud finally settled his
quandary by getting married. We wish you
luck Brother Hargrove, and a complete Danish
ment Of everything partaking OF the nature Of
craE berries from your honeymoon.
hessTs. Buchen and John King were also
down TO account for their being single, but
they both mysterously disappeared before the
entertainment, aud fGncied they were afraid
toteil. Fir. Bnchen, We hear. has arrived safely
nome, but u seems that Mr. King didn't stop
running ugtl he got TO Texas.
Only the ingincibie Amos was left to tell the
tale, ana MS reasons Tor his reds0n) were such
mixture OF fears-paregoric bottles. milliners'
! bl!ls. starvation, midnight wandcrings over
scattered tacis. etc. that when he had finished
We gifs all thanked Providence that he was