The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-04
Prayers offered for the Recoy-
cry of Florence Nightingale
of South.
SHE CARED FOR SICK
AND WOUNDED IN WAR
Those Who Wore the Blue, as
Those Who Wore the Gray,
Her Friends.
BY RALPH M. WHITEsIDES.
,v 1.eased wire n The Tribune.

prayers oI HdHy al oiu OohiS""iN1'N
soldier, and no small number of those
who wore the blue, were fervently
offered when the news became known
that Mrs. Ella & Nowsom. the Florence
Nightingale of the Confederacy, had
met with serious accident, which i'm
periled her life. The daughter Of a
Mississippi clergyman and the young
widow of an Arkansas doctor, when the
war broke out Mrs. Newsom promptly
offered her services to the Confederacy
as field nurse They were as prompt
" accepted, and she was a veritable
angel of mercy to hundreds of sick and
wounded soldiers. Less than ten years
before the story of the heroism Of
Florence Nightingale had echoed
woman went to the fields of war IN
Turkey and in Russia, and accomplished
such wonderful work in organizing a
hospital service that her name was on
every tongue. In America the name
of Florence Nightingale was one to con-
lure with. When the Civil war
started Mrs. Newsom was one of a
group of southern women bold enough
TO follow in the steps of Miss Night.
ingale. Shortly before she had lost
her husband. She had wealth, youthful
energy and social prestige to give to
the cause.
Two Nightingales Compared.
From the text of a paper on Life
Of the Confederate Nurse. Mrs. Ella X.
Newsom, the Florence Nightingale of
the Southern Army the following
comparisons between her and the Eng
lish heroine is made: CIT may be in
teresting to institute brief comparl-
son between the two heroine Night
ineales. Miss Florence and Miss Ella,
The notable feature of both Night.
inpales is the highly endowed moral
nature of each. This, considering the
humane mission selected by each, was
essentially fundamental. Strong faith
in God and love for Him; love for suf-
fcriup aud distress in humankind on the
field Of conflict; alienation of pain
and sincere sympathy for beings in dis
tress-these constituted the foundation
on which the whole superstructure
rested. Both kindled in their patients
the most intense admiration, and re-
tanned it tenaciously as long as the
patients lived Both hid the capacity
to organize and manage corps OF
workers, and to inspire them indivi.
dually with the same devotion and zeal
labored from the standpoint of entire
conservation and devotion to the work
in hand, taking no account of the lapse
Of time or inconvenience encountered.
Both endured bodily iufrmitics patient
iy and uninterruptedly and in this
manner they became successful teach
ers Of their fellow w-mortals In the great
lessons of endurance and sacrifice for
others. Each inspired, durlnr her ac-
ls Gn1I ~ nd
suffering. the most intense regard and
admiration. This comparison may be
closed with the observation that Flo
renee Nightingale, of England, be"
came the model and ideal Of Mrs. Ella
X. Newsom, the Florence Nightingale
of the southern army.
Wilson g Record.
Sevcnty-fve years of ago and thlr-
teen wears cabinet minister. That
is the record Just celebrated by Secre.-
tary of Agriculture James Wilson, and
there are no signs that Secretary Will
son will not continue for at least two
wears or more as an adviser to the
president, 1t is doubtful if there can
be found O man better qualified to fill
tho post he has held so long.
Safety Pins as Currency
stI have heard Of many substitutes
Yt
early days Of Virginia or wampum
among the Indians, but a new one has
been put across on me, - said L. O.
Ward of Los Angeles the other day.
ga young man in the employ of firm
in which I am interested recently was
sent to Central America on business
mission, His trip necessitated n jour
ney through some of the less densely
populated parts of the country. lie
went first to Tegucigalpa, the capital,
and travelled by rail for some distance.
Then he had to go mule back into the
interior. When he returned TO Los An
geles after successfully carrying out his
instructions, he submitted his expense
account. The cashier OF the company
is very particular. He never overlooks
single item in such an account. AS
result Of his inspection the young man
was called to explain a certain item,
He had spent $40 for safety pins The
cashier seemed to think that this was a
tho purchase Of such a commodity. The
returned traveller IS explanation soon
cleared up the difficulty. 1t appears
that there is not enough subsidiary coin
age in Honduras to go round, and that
the natives in the country districts
are compelled to use various articles as
In the region which this
young man travelled safety pins were
employed as money In small transac-
tions. He had been forced to invest In
about $40 worth of these to use as small |
change
L. D. Barker, postmaster Of Mobile,
is enthusiastic over his city and says |
that it has mado wonderful strides in
the last three years, Being Alabama g |
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