The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-06-20


the Life Of a Successful Man.
MAINE MOTHERS EERoIsM
"Kind hearts are more than coronets.
And simple faith than Norman blood"
TLis is the capitalization By the poet of a
truth old as the ages and beautiful as the dawn
ing OF each new day.
Another poet has elaborated this truth in his
Immortal rendition of au Oriental legend. 1t
is the story, by Leigh Hunt, Of
ABoU BEN ADHEM. p
Abou Ben Adhen, may his tribe increase.
Awoke one night from "a deep dream of peace,
When 10. within the moonlight Ia ht5 ROOM
Making il white attd like ii Lily in bloom.
An angel writing IN a book of gold.
Exceeding pence had made Ben Adhem bold
Therefore 10 the presence i'm the room he shld:
What writest iliou? The angel raised iiis hehn
And with a smile made ali OF sweet accord
Answered: The names OF those VINO awe '"e
Lord"
"And Is mine one" said Abou. May. not So"
Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low.
But cleeriy sail. and said i pray thee then
Write me M who loves his feilow-nen.'
The angel wrote and vanished The next night
The angel came again with great awakened light,
And showed the names whom love OF God had
And 10, Ben Adhcm's name led all the rest.
What sweeter words can be said of any SOUL
passing TO the unseen land, than that " he loved
his fellow-men."
On Memorial Day last, at Yiroqna. Wis, a
monument to Uncle Jerry" RGsS was deGi-
Gated. Uncle Jerry" great soldier a
citizen. man; great in kindly deeds IN gen.
erous acts; i'm life useful 10 his country, IN
death mourned by her bravest sons and fairest
daughters.
The orator of the day paid q magnificent
tribute TO his memory. reviewing his public
acts, in war and peace, tracing step by step the
onward march of an honorable career.
In this tribute, at Its conclusion, the key
note of Uncle Jerry's" success is found; not
his success rs a money-getter, though honest
rewards in his case, crowned honest effort; but
that higher success which sheds its fragrance
like benedicton over the lives of those who
DO justice. love mercy. and walk humbly be-
fore their God. Let the orator tell you his
story:
But one thought troubled him at the last
Shortly before he died he called to his side
near and dear friend who had been the COM
panion and cOnfdsnt of much of his public lie,
and said TO him: DO yos know if ] have
wronged anyone?' NO, General, and ] do
not believe you ever wronged anyone, was the
reply. After moment, he said expect
have but God knows ] never intended TO
wrong any human being
mo. dear brave, chivalrous. generous
Uncle Jerry You never wronged anyone
You scattered with lavish and prodiFal hand
all along the journey from the plain of your
humble beginning 10 the mountaiB-top upon
which Won died. kind words and kind acts
which, now that you are gone, bear rich frnit-
age OF gratitude and love.
FL have not spoken Of his faults. He honored
me through msny years with his friendship.
and my heart would not suffer to speak
word of false fulsome eulogy over bis grave;
but in truth, so overshadowed by great qualities
and virtues were his few and trifing faults that
they were, even in The conflicts of his lifetime,
quite unnoticcd or forgotten Of men. They in
no wise marred the symmetry OF bis character.
hat is said of him here viii he little read
and soon forgotten. The sweet bowers which
you strew upon his grave will wither before the
sunset and the night winds will tear away
their fragrance, but the memsry OF Jerem ian
III. Rusk will forever blossom in the hearts Of
men, illrmiped by the nobility and beauty of
his great life. and redolent of 8 fragrance which
will not perish"
MAINE MoTHER's HERoIsN
From Annie Wittenmyef's war reminis-
cences. Under the Guns, to be mad from E. b.
Stillings & Co. Boston. for 81. and which every
Loyal Home Workers Circle should possess
comes this heroic story Of how Maine mother
passed through the rebel lines and saved the
life OF her boy, lying wounded at Richmond:
"A mother in Maine received the news that
her only son had been wounded and taken
prisoner. and had been sent to Richmond.
j am going 20 him. she said. Her husband
and naighbors tried TO dissuade her. On her
journey towards the front, she called on Gov
Andrew. OF Massachusetts. Ny dear madam.
be said, / can do nothing for you. The only
thing ! could do. would be TO give you letter of
introduction TO President Lincoln.
Well give me that
''when she reached Washington she called on
the President. and after a weary waiting was
shown into his presence Why. madam. said
the gresi-hesrted Lincoln. ! can do nothing
for you IL he were within our lines would
give YOU pass, but ] cannot send you 10
Richmond. At The best ! could only get you
beyond our pickets.'
Then please give me pass beyond your
pickets'
This was done. and she passed the Union
lines TO fall into the hands OF the Confederate
pickets. The latter refused 10 allow her to
proceed.
~ am going right on to Richmond. Shoot
ifyou Will And she started on They did not
shoot, but took her into camp, and from the
Headquarters Of that command she was sent
on TO Richmond
When she reached the hospital where her
son lay, the Surgeon refused 10 allow her TO
zee him. must see him. | am sure it will
do him good TO his mother As soon as
the son saw her be cried out There is nv
mother! 1 knew she would come. Hi get
vel now And, sure enough, lac did.
OUR RoLL-cALL
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OF sssociniiolIs viii be marked s.E. and D.Yl
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Smith, le9 Superior street. Cleveland, o.; Het-
tie Harvey. va. 57th Pa. Belle Vernon, Pa.
Secretary Ladies GAR. a. Total. 1926.
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