The National tribune., 1895-01-31

| urges all New Jersey Loyal Home Workers to
| forward their annual dues, % cents each. to NJ.
| Warner Hargrove. Secretary, Browns Mills. N.
| J., who will receipt for the same. To each
| sleepy member she says: wake up, If you
ever expect the Order 10 be prosperous one"
| Uncle John Dean says he has not joined the
| Loyal Home Workers, because they have no
benefit fund. o. but they have Uncle John 4;
| only it is all in common treasury. All the
| money over and above necessary expenses will
always be subject to the order of the Benefit
| Committee Of which Alice Putnam, Fredonia,
| n. Y, is Chairman.
PASSING IN REVIEW.
Mabel Woosey, Burton. O., sends heartfelt
thanks to all who helped make her Christmas
| birthday happy. Ali gifts appreciated. includ-
! ing THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE. for which two
! friends subscribed Mabel will write to all
sending stamps and says: pray God to bless
and reward you ALL"
Ralph S Parsons Mt. Jewett Pa, Lock Box
! ~, sends nice letter requesting photographs
and autographs from G. c. members, and in
closing says: May this be tho happiest year
of the Editors life, followed by many others."
Thank you, Ralph, and the wish is warmly
rcciprocatcd.
| NY brother. VIM. W. Martin, VS.. Co. d. 4th
| Ind. Cav, Pekin. Ind, enrolled in the c. c. to-
| day, desires 10 correspond with l.. H.W. who can
give good influence as to character, etc. He
would like especially 10 correspond with loco.
| motive engineers. and will furnish reference to
| all those desiring il.
Our old-timo C. C. friend, Katie T. Hand,
| formerly of Wisconsin, has seldom been heard
| from since her marriage and early widowhood.
| In letter on her work in the Historic Com
! mitree she reviews the sad three years of her
life and says: Though there is a void in my
| life which never can be filled. still / have
learned to say, Thy will, not mine, be done
/ Ia, l. l.. n. II
| happy; in the words of the Salvation Army,
there is sunshine ia my heart"
i would like G. G. friends to know that my
address is changed from Galesburc, H.. TO Free
port, Ill.,, where | shall be pleased 10 hear from
| all OF my old friends and many new ones; aud
il there are any living at near Freeport, |
should he pleased to have them call to see me-
Lou j. Finstra. 126 Galena street, Freeport,
ILL.,
Ellen J. Coolidge, enrolled in the c. c. to-day,
would like to exchange autographs with the c.
c. Glen Murphy, Hertigal Hall. Valparaiso,
Ind, will exchange cabinet photographs.
Flccta Umstcad Smith, writing from Halsey,
Ore, says she has not forgotten c. G. friends,
! though for some time silent. She thinks the
changes made mt Pittsburg were for the best.
aud that Brother Amos l.. Seaman has been n
true friend of Progress aud Patriotism, and
should have the support of all To tho c. G.
she says. May God bless you all and help you
to do the right"
CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES.
DEAR Loyal HOME WORKERS: am keep
ing very still about c. e.. matters in general
nowadays: therefore you may know that what
i may say here is not the result of any criti-
cism ! may have made regarding TIC action of
the Pitshurg Reunion, or of any particular in
dividual at any time. In "A TRIBUNE recently
handed me by = friend ] found an article in
which q any member tof the Loyal Home Work
er5l who docs not lend brain and energy to the
cause of Progress and Patriotism in tho Loyal
Home Workers" is charged with being mo
true patriot and unfit for so good country as
America"
With all reverence to the Order of which /
am proud to be member, must say / con-
slider that an extravagant statement.
There are circumstances under which il is
consistent for member to be inactive and
yet BIO loyal Loyal Home Worker and a
true patriot; aye. there are circumstances un-
der which it would he disloyal for member TO
devote time and money 10 this society work.
Each one define these circumstances as
his owH conscience dictates but they sll may
be summed up in the one word-duty.
Don't you know that duty is ever looked
upon an impairment little caller who must
10 endured.
And yet how necessary that we each do
embrace it; for
This above ALTO thine own self he true:
Aud il shall follow the night tie day,
Thou canst not then be false 10 any man"
Therefore ] maintain thai. since we do not
and can not know the peculiar situation Of
each individual, neither you nor / nor any
other person may say that any member who
is inactive is not loyal Loyal Home Worker
and true patriot, and unfit for SO good
country as America. Besides, il might be well
to think of the old-tme admonition-" Judge
not lest We be iudgedu
The injustice of the remark I have Just
criticized / feel keenly or / should not speak
OF il. However, it is a comfort to me to
know that, although / refused to serve
on the Progress Committee and have for
time taken place among tho Inactive ones
am still true-blue and faithful at heart
1t is hard to bear the displeasure of those
with whom / once laborcd. but it has cost me
far more to put aside a work in which feel
so deep an interest.
Emma K. Martin, Insane Hospital, Indepen-
dencc, Iowa.
OUR PATRIOT sIREs
FRIENDS OF THE G. C.: have been an in
tcrested reader OF The NATIONAL TRIBUNE
for three four years. My father is n SUBJ
scriber. and also one of the "boys in blue"
having served three years and two months in
Co. q, 95th Ohio.
have read with interest the sketches Of
army life and battles, and although young /
am proud that my father was soldier There
is no class Of men in the United States to-day
which deserves more honor, respect and care
than those grand old boys, who went forth in
the prime OF life to fight for our country. and
hope to see the day when the young and rising
generation will reverence the name of United
States soldier. and point to the records of their
fathers with pride
Then, what would this country be if it had
not been for the soldiers? The poorer class of
this country would have been slaves, no better
than the ignorant negro of the South
am glad that my father was one of the
men that helped free this country from slavery
aud make it ono of the grandest glorious, and
most free country on the globe.
In Biblical history we read of Moses leading
the children of Israel out Of bondage under
Pharaoh in Egypt. but in the United States
school history of to-day we find that in the
years of 1876 the United States was freed
from bondage by the Union soldier, the best
men OF our country. and the pride of mothers
hearts
Emma they went at the Nations call. to
tight and 10 die. If needed. for their country.
May all the Union soldiers live &c. enjoy their
well-carned fame aud honors
L. w. Pine, Dunkirk, q.
DIVIDING THE FUNDS.
DEAR LOYAL HOME Workers: / desire to
say few words to the Indiana members con.
corning the disposal of the Division money we
had In the treasury.
by agreement of number of the members
have paid the dues of each member in good
standing to National Headquarters for the year
1885,
There was still surplus of 50. I,consultea
II. Il =.