The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-04-28
THE RELIEF CORPS.
News and Gossip of the Great Auxil-

National Orders for Memorial Day, with
suggestions from the National President,
are as follows:
The WOmanS Relief Corps, auxiliary to
an organization composed of the men who
by their deeds of yalor on land and on sea,
made it possible that this should continue
one Nation with one flag and with one
united people, honors the dead as well as
aids the living, ScatterS blooming flowers
over the lowly graves of the veteran whose
last long sleep is in that low green tent
whose curtain never outward swings, as
well as watches by the side of the old de-
fender to whom the parting OF the worlds
draw near, and affords relief TO victOrS on Il
hundred battlefields with whom the battle
of life has dealt harShlv.
The Woman's Relief Corps remembers
that Memorial Day founded by that typical
i volunteer soldier and leader, John A. Logan,
with its ceremonies and lessons again APP
proaches and the National President en-
IONS upon all Departments ami Corps,
officers and members that they give cheer
| full and loving assistance to the Grand
| Army of the Republic in the observance OF
| the day so appropriately set apart for the
| remembrance Of the Nations dead and in
| the services OF the Sunday preceding.
And shall we not remember, too, those OF
/ our sisters whose loving hearts and helpful
hands, once busy for the good of the Post
| and Corps, have been StIlled forever in
| death. Let their graves, too, be adorned
| by the bloom and fragrance of flowers, as
| their lives were made beautiful by their
| deeds Of loving kindness and charity.
BY command of SARAH J. MAEIrN, Ma
| tionaI President.
| MARY Ii. SHEPHERD, National Secretary
The National President calls attention
| to tie recommendation of the Cha plain-n
Chief OF the Grand Army of the Republic,
4 -,I Nv he Dt.t Mt ,nl Enc
mcnt to the effect that the Assistant Ad
| jutant-General of each Department request
| each year Of the President of eaci9 Depart
| mcnt of the u oman's Relief Corps an Off
cial report from the Department Chaplain
| W.R.C., as to the numGcr of Relief Corps
| particle ating W tn Posts in Me roral 81 b
| bath services, and numtor of Rel -ef Corps
| members attending such services.
| The National President also Urges De
| partments and Corps to make Ii 'eral con
tri;utions for the decoration of the graves
of the Nations dead on battleields and III
I N2tioral Cemeteries on Mcmora Day
| Contributions to be forwarded through
the rcgular channels to the Quartermaster
General Of the Grand Army of the Republic
MISS wILLARD's PATRIOTISM.
Miss Frances E. Willard was patriot
| and loved the flag with her whole heart
! Though universal in her sympat!lies anC
| brotherly love, yet no matter how far away
she wandered, or under what banner she
found temporary protection, she always re
turned to the home land loving it above
| every other and with new desire to sec
| the banner of beauty and glory floating
over "a free, brave, happy, and virtuous
| people. 40
AS someone has well sad, the Stars and
! Stripes were to her an emblem OF broader
| freedom than other countries know, and
thus indicated her own, great and grand
| spirit Her parting was. n Tell the women
not to forget their patriotism, " and now thai
she has gone, women all oeer this broad land
| of ours, remembering hersYords, are taking
upon themselves anew thevvow to teach the
! children of the land that the flag of ouI
country means liberty, purity, temperance
reciprocity of rights, intelligent, conse-
| Grated citizenship. G rs
| In the church at Evanston, H., of VIII oh
| Miss Willard was member, there was a
marked display of flags when the me-
MORALS of her were pronounced. One o.
! them was a silk flag with; a gold plate upon
| the standard telling thatit was the flag oil
| the Worlds Columbian Exposition, carried
| at the head of the Dedcatory procession
! Oct. -, 1872. There was also the Peace
| flag bearing the following Inscription
| This flag has travelled over 4 ,H0j miles o.
this country, and always floats in the in
| terest of liberty, peace and arbitration. II
floated over Miss Willard in life, and we
float it over her in DEATH"
Miss Willard was Daughter of the
American Revolution, holding her member
ship in .Janesvil e, Wis, as well as of the
Woman'S Relief CorDS