The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-01-31

XII. Zach officer herein named will signify
her acceptance by procuring her official badge
through her Department Treasurer and report
the same to these Headquarters, where her
commission viii be forwarded. All responses
must be at Headquarters by March 81, 1896.
EMMA R. WALLACE.
JENNIE BRoss National President.
National Secretary.
DEPARTMENT OF MASSACHUSETTS.
General Orders No. are out, calling the 18th
annual Convention, Department Of Massschu-
sets, W.RC, to be held in the First Church,
Springfield, Feb. Is and H. Supper for the first
and luncheon for the second day will be pro-
vided at % cents plate. National President
Emma R. Wallace is expected to be present.
Corps committees are requested, In GeneraS
Orders, to secure information for the Flag "a.
lutte from Lou Stuart Wadsworth, 633 fremont
street. Boston.
Corps whose finances will warrant the outlay
are asked to contribute to the memorial nonu-
ment ITO the Unknown Dead" which Mary
land women are trying to erect.
Attention is called to the terrible suffering
in Kansas and Nebraska, By reason Of failure
of crops. Many veterans and their families are
destitute, aud appeals have been made from
various sources Cor clothing and bedding. These
contributions should be forwarded to Col.
Church Howe Commander Of the Department
of Nebraska GAR, Howe, Neb. Donations OF
money must be sent through Department Treas
urer Sarah E. Fuller.
From reports of Department Secretary and
Treasurer of fourth quarter ended Dec. 81
1894, the following statistics are presented:
Membership, 1922; expended in relief ~
640.71; Relief other than money, S769'3e;
turned over to Posts. $3,53490. Corps insti-
tuted: Henry II. Johnson, 164. Northheid, Dec.
90, Mrs. /. Lazell President; Gen. VIM. s: Lin
coin, 1875, Enfield, Dec. %, Mrs. Lizzie Moore,
President Contributions to Department. relief
fund, Soldiers Home memorial fund. and Ma
tional Relief Corps Home reported.
In closing General Orders, Department Presi-
dent Burleigh says: Enthusiasm, devotion,
fraternal sympathy have characterized the De-
partment during this administration. with
gratitude for human hslpfulness and many
mercies, pray that my successor in office may
be sustained by the same blessings"
DEPARTMENT OF NEBRASKA.
The 18th annual Convention, Department OF
Nebraska, will be held at Hastings, Feb. IL aud
ii.
Appeals for the drouth-stricken veterans
and their families are still numerous, and De-
partment President Cornell urges Corps having
no local relief to do to devise means for pro-
viding fuel, food, and clothing.
All Corps or Corps members whose hearts are
moved to help tho suffering veterans Oh Ne
braska and their families, can learn just where
to send supplies by addressing Departments
President Gertrude Horr Cornell, Grand Island,
Neb
FORSYTH RELIEF CORPS
Elizabeth Mansfield Irving installed the om-
GERS of Forsyth Relief Corps: Nellie e. Bacon,
President; Nellie B. Brigham, Secretary. Inc
retiring President, 8. Alice Richardson, was pre-
sented with handsome badge, Past President
Bills making the presentation. prosperous
year is pred cted, as President Bacon is ono OF
the original members of the old Auxiliary,
later Relief Corps, and has been steady
worker in lines of pension and relief. giving
special care to the children.
The closing year was full of good works, as
reports showed, the President in attendance at
every meeting Every CALL local, State, and
National, was responded to, and the old soldiers
at the Sandusky Home were generously remem-
bered. No soldiers family or the widows ana
orphans of soldiers under their care. were for
gotten Thanksgiving and Christmas.
PORTRAIT OF COL. SHANNON.
At Joint installation of NJ. G. Kenna Post
and Corps Mason, Mich. Mrs. John A. Shannon
presented to the Post life-size portrait OF
COL Shannon, after whom the Post is named,
taken when he was in command OF his regi-
ment The portrait was accompanied by
letter of thanks for the care the Post had given
Col Shannon in his last illness.
Mary Hammond was installed President.
Comrade w. j. Adams says the Post were so
pleased with the banquet provided by the
Corps that some of the boys" decided to live 80
years longer, if possible.
AS IT SHOULD BE.
The press Of Tecumseb Mich, pay hand
some compliment to Past National President
Emma Stark Hampton upon the handsome
manner i'm which she conducted the installa-
af Beers Relief COrpS. held Jointly
with the Post. at the Opera House.
Without disparaging the Post we must con-
fess says one of the newspapers, that the ritual
of the Corps on installation surpasses in beauty
that of the Post and Mrs. Hampton conducted
the exercises in very impressive manner To
those who have never witnessed the ceremony
it is exceedingly interesting"
This must be very gratifying to Mrs. Hamp-
| ton. whose revision some were 10th to accept.
and goes far to make up for the time and labor
bestowed upon it.
TWAS grand occasion, and the Opera House,
decorated in the National colors. presented a
beautiful scene. The stage setting was line,
the music grand, and the entire exercises in
| spring. Gen. George Spalding was among the
sneak ers of the evening.
Mrs Hampton delivered an address on "WOm-
ans Work in the War;" which was gem of
| patriotic literature, embelished with anecdotc
| and incident. The entire address is quotable,
| but here is something entirely new and fresh {:
"In Niagara County, N. Y. two highly -edu-
Gated young ladies, fresh graduates from cele-
brated seminary, went home and found their
| aged father alone with large farm covered
with bountiful arops and none but he to har-
| vest them. Brothers all at the front,
Workingmen had song been at high premium.
| and were then not to be had for love or money.
| Did these girls sit !rok and sigh over the lack
| of men? No; they allowed If they could drive
| i'm q carriage the could drive OIL reaper. SO
| they carefully folded and laid away their grad
| uating dresses along with their white kid
| gloves and slippers. and. taking their brothers
places in the field. successfully harvested 20
| acres of wheat. We're they not heroines? Yet
theirs was only one OF thousands of cases.
"There are 10000 pages Of official war
| records already issued by the Government, and
| it is only beginning of what is to come. Then
| what an amount of nonpareil would 1t take to
| cover the unwritten pages of deeds done by
| women during four years Of war? Not even
| the pen of inspiration could record the untiring
| labor by day, the workings of tired brains by
| night while visions of battlehelds and camp.
/ firos and endless marches were mixed with
| tried and untried plans, created to insure the
| keeping Of families together, the paying OF
debts or mortgages or to keep the persistent
| wolf from the door. And yet these devoted
| hearts and hands found time, while the mid
| night oil burned low, to make lint from the
| old linen garments, to knit warm WOODEN socks
| and one-fngered mittens. and, better than all,
| to weave into letters frem home tender and
encouraging messages together with the little
| home happenings. so dear to the boys in camp
"Well do remember hearing q fine young