The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-09-05

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
Thursday will be day Of general sight.
seeing and pleasures, when the c. c. Will have
their first glimpse of real, old fashioned batbe
cue.
Thursday evening the entertainment pro-
gram. with speech and music and song, will be
held in the East Side Baptist Church. between
Preston and jackson streets; program to be
given in full next week.
REUNION NOTES.
Comrade Redington, of the Acme Haversack,
is getting out a special Encampment edition of
the Fun of The Blue and Gray" Do not fail
TO secure a copy 1t will be full of spirited
songs and poems. including the latest flag song,
by Kate Brownlee Sherwood written for the
September number of Our Country, and Shake
Hands" written for Veteran 90. of Kansas
City. who begin their Southern tour by taxing
in the 29th National Encampment.
Georgia Martin, Chairman, Committee OF Ar
rangcmrDts, sixth annual Reunion, writes that
arrangements for splendid time are fast near
ing completion. She writes that Olive Lee
Race, 1913 Jefferson street, Toledo. will ar
range side trips for c. C.'s who may desire to
extend their visits South. She has spent much
time at Chattanooga and Atlanta. and knows
the ins aud outs.
GO TO THE MAMMOTH CAVE.
Georgia Martin writes that she has just
learned that the round trip from Louisville to
the Mammoth Cave and return will no S3,
hotel fare and guide extra Entire expense
will probably not exceed 50. This is great
reduction AS the Mammoth Cave iAover 100
miles distant.
Ladies who expect to go should provide
themselves with blouse waist and short skirt
= nn1. al 10 nah n frah
and should also take wrap. the cave tenn
perature is considerably less than that OF the
outside world.
scRIP's CHIPS.
This chip, which am going to delectate my
readers upon this week, is. be it known, a full
sized chunk as big as California tree. / am
going to chop off enough chips to entertain you
Tor few brief moments, and / advise you to
read this dissertation. the very desideratum for
the iuguhrious and tenebrious, who believe In
the deterioration of the l.. II. w.
/ have observed that there many c. C's
who will not join the L. II. W. They do not
any benefit in so doing.
Now, first the l.. ii. w. is not a thing aloof
from the c. c., but is, to the contrary, the &. {.
organized, and contains the very leading work
of the c. c. The l.. Ii. w. is the life
OF the c. c., and through its organized efforts
has promoted, what individual c. C's could not
do. "ln unity there is strength in organiza-
ton there is concentration OF action, and IN
concentration of action there is power.
If aid or relief is sought by someone, there
is no haphazard attempt to secure it, but there
is Benefit Committee TO look after aud in-
vestigate the case for all the G. C.; and knowing
this. Two or three persons will not conflict with
each other in attempting to do something that
may have occurred TO both at the same time.
Organization protects the ranks. as it calls for
an investigation aud recommendation by re-
sponsible persons Investigations in the future
should be even more carefully made than in
the past and a membership card bearing the
Secreiarys signature should be issued to each
member showing the date of ex piration of such
membership, SO that in visiting anywh If,
member runs across desires to look up
another member. he has credeBtial of mem-
bership or passport of membership. in the
Order. having been investigated and accepted
into the l.. Ii. w.
The names of all applicants should be pub-
lisbed in THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE each week.
to allow the filing of any protests within 10
days against any applicant, should there exist
reasons for not admitting the same to member
ship.
Another word, C. C.: Your Reunions have
been the enjoyable on tcome of organized efforts
in arranrning them, and l have noted that
some of the c. C. who do not see why they
shonid join the L. III. w, their own organiza-
ton, paying only p cents year, are asking
the tirciess Georgia Martin for accommodations
at l.. II. w. Headquarters, and want 10 attend
the Reunion. We welcome with open arms
these c. C., but, ask you, is it exactly fair to
deprive US of your support as l.. Ii. w. MEM
beFs, and then ask favors at the hands Of an
organized body which you do not fit to
join?
The greater the strength of the i. II. w, the
greater results will be attained, and the more
benefits and greater recognition from the world
will be secured.
Besides, there is the educational work in pa
triotic teaching and in progress, encouraging
all young Americans to learn, and how 10
learn iutelligently, their duty to our country
without making it burden to study.
All of this is the selfish side of our work
what we can get out OF it from those who do
the actual work.
The most important reason for joining the
L. H. W., with its broad principles of Progress
aud Patriotism, is to do good TO others; To
mutually help each other To understand what
duty TO Onr country means; TO stand by each
other in Hffiiction distress and to counsel and
comfort each other in all the relations Of life.
How many Z. C.'s will promise to join ?-.Scrips.
wooING: TO
Fair lady there is sorrow
Zen ia sweetest JOY;
W e learn on each To- morrow
e. The lille y that will happiness destroy.
Now list I, oh, lady fair
While ia these lines tell
8 tale of woe, which no repair
Can loving passions quell.
Let us suppose the Sun
Loved "a maid of charming grace,
Aud she his heart had won,
With her sweet, smiling face.
And she. Respondent Venus,
Most beautiful of stars.
Ia the days thai passed between US,
Had loved the god OF Mars.
And still The Sun arrayed
Ia gorgeous tints and hues
Outshoue all rivals-and lie prayed,
TO win the hand he sues
Nor knew he In his lingering love
That there shone a god OF Mars.
" hose ra.tnly form looked from above
0n This iaifest Of the stars.
Mars saw and lnved-and loved again,
And sought her a. his bride;
Nor could ne leave kcr without PAIN
rTwas heavenly biss) 10 have her by his side.