Bugle Call from Marysville, Kansas • 2

THi; HUGLR CALL, TIIURSDAV, JANUARY 7, 1SS6. P. D. IIAKTMAN, Editor. Late of Co.

131b, and 147th Ills. In ft. One Dollar a Year In Advance. of a situation in your place as an employe for the Singer Sewing Machine Company. He had a family with him of ife and three or four children.

I took his note for the amount and wrote to Oakland, and received notice from there that he beat his way from there cast, and was beating his way back. If he has victimized you, or if he is there, look out for him, and if he has stuck you, send tracer after him. He left here August 27. Yours in F. C.

L. W. Nixon, Faith, Love and Charity. Commander in chief Purdett's Thanksgiving order contained the following paragraph, which we commend to Posts who have no auxiliary: II. The 19th National Encampment considering the organization and work of the Woman's Relief Corps: "Resolved, That it has our earnest wishes for its continued success; our hearty support of the purpose of the organization and our co-operation in all of its undertakings." The Commander-in-chief, after a Tlie Politics of the (Jraiul Army.

The grand Army of the Republic has no politics in the ordinary meaning of the word, that is, it takes no part in the mere scrabble of parlizans for official positions. And yet it has, in a large sense, a political mission as sacred as any that was ever entrusted to man. That mission is to teach all mankind to denounce the treason which sought to destroy our country, anil to reward the patriotism which saved it. The Grand Army stands by the great truth that in a Iree government, with proper constitutional lim Filtered at -the Marysville, Kansas, Postof-tice, as second class mail matter. Nebraska lias 214 Grand Army posts, with a membership of about 10,000.

Who says that ex soldiers are not numerous? The Posts in Kansas show a commendable activity, and seem just as zealous in their work now as their members were while "whooping up" the Johnnies in'62 and '63. We shall take special pains to publish the names and a fuil description of all dead beats and frauds ho make a business of living off the charity of the (1. A. R. The posts will please advise us of such cases as are known to them.

V. General Orders No. 10 reads as follows: "It is again declared to be the duty of I'ost Commander to appoint a standing committee of three active members on "delinquents," whose duty it shall be to procure from the quartermaster each quarter a list of all comrades who are in arrears for dues, and without fear or favor demand payment of the same. It works no hardship on nineteen twentieths of the comrades to pay fifty cents once in three months, but when the sum to be ptid is dou ilcd or trebled, the chances are that a large percentage will be lost, and with it the membership of a comrade who might have been saved to the order by the simple appliance of business principles." Post commanders should see that the following order is strictly carried out, which will be the means of retaining many comrades, which otherwise gradually drift to the rear until they are so much in arrears that they are dropped from the roll. We are indebted to Capt.

C. II. M. Vancil, of l'ap Thomas camp, Sons of Veterans, of 1 lodge City, for the following clipping from a local paper: "At a meeting called for the purpose of mustering a camp of Sons of Veterans of this city, at the court house, Saturday evening, I )ecembi 19th, 1K85, J. II.

Co'bin, of Ft. Zara camp, as mustering officer, called the meeting to order, and after stating the object of the meeting, appointed Capt. Charles inils, of Fllsworth camp, as Sergeant of the Guard; Ceo. S. Wright, i Paw nee camp, as 1st Lieutenant; A.

A. Walker, of Garnet, as camp guard; Chas. Vancil, acting Ord. Sergeant. The follow ing are the charter members: C.

II. M. Vancil, Willis P. Verbeck, John li. Mai tin, John 1 1.

Shaw, Alva O. Sherman, Frank Adams, Herbert I). Henderson, Frank I lobble, Ceo. T. Martin, Howard Graham, Colvin C.

liriggs, Allison F. Wilson. The follow ing officers were elected and installed: Captain, C. H. M.

Vancil; 1st Fieut. Frank Adams; 2d I.ieut., John li. Martin; Chaplain, Frank Hobble; Ord. Sergeant, Allison F. Wilson; (Quartermaster, T.

Martin; Delegate to Div. Fneanipment, A. F. Wilson; alternate, John Shaw." The follow ing communication, received by a comrade in Omaha last month speaks for itself, and we give it publicity for the benefit of all concerned: IUkink, Iowa. Hear Sir and Comrade: From a letter received from the commander of Lyon Post No.

Oakland, I find that one li. F. Land, to whom we advanced S9.50 to help him to Omaha, is a d. b. He represented to our committee that he hail an offer W.

C. Crook Tost, 329, G. A Sunshine. Did you ever notice what a different aspect every thing wears in the sunshine from what it does in the shadow? And did you ever think what an analogy there was between the sunlight of the cloudless skies and the sun shine that gleams into the darkened chambers of the human soul? How bright and beautiful are the golden beams that break through the riven clouds to lighten up the world again after a succession of dark and stormy days. How peaceful and happy are the blissful words of hope and cheer touch the heart and fill the soul with emotions of peace and joy after a long period of sorrow.

There aie none living who do not, in a greater or less degree, have nn influence over the earthly happiness of others. The sense of contributing to the pleasure of others augments our own happiness. Unselfishness, christian charity and loving kindness, are sunbeams ol the soul. 000 in Charity. From the Commander in Chiefs Thanksgiving order, issued Nov.

26, we learn that during the past three years the Grand Army has expended half a million dollars in charity. We extract from the order: "The season is upon us when our post camp fires shine the brightest, when special efforts are mr.de in aid of our charitable work It is the season, as well, when want and sickness come with double knock upon the door of comr des who, enduring for their country in the day of their strength the privations of the winter's camp and field, now find through misfortune or because of decrepitude, the result of privations so endured, that they are unable to secure for themselves and their loved ones the comforts or perhaps the necessaries of life. 1 he official returns made by departments to these for the years 1883, 1884 and 1885, show that there was expended in those years from the charily funds of the posts and departments the sum of 5430,364.81. Fstiniating for departments which failed to make reports on this head, and for posts delinquent in returns lo depart ents, it is confidently believed that within the period named a sum exceeding $600,000 has been distributed through our regular channels for charitable purposes. Comrades are aware that, aside from aid administered through these means, there are special contributions and collections for like uses which aggregate a large amount.

These things are declared not for boasting, but that there may be just appreciation of the usefulness of the Grand Army, and particularly that there maybe proper ground of appeal to all the survivors of the great struggle, eligible under our laws, to cast in their lot with us, that we and they may more easily 'bear each others burdens and so fulfill the law of the Poy (who dues nut appreciate sermons): "Well, I'd just like to know what preachin's for, anyway?" Small sister: "Why it's to give the singers a rest. careful observation of the results of the work of the Corps, finding room in it for commendation only, recom mends with all earnestness that their organization be encouraged and per severed in until every Post of the Grand Army shall have by its side this efficient aid in all our works of benificence, these best guides of doing good. There is no testimony to the worth of our great institution more decisive than the fact that the woman's faith and work, which was our bow of promise in the dark days, still follow us with unforgetting kindness, only asking leave to serve our cause. Addressing them as the only recognized auxiliary of the Grand Army of Hie Republic, their renewed efforts are invoked in behalf of our comrades in distress, and of the widows and orphans of those deceased, ami their co-operation will continue to be welcomed in all that pertains to the general upbuilding of the order. Man has so little time here on earth that if he devotes much of it to bitterness and hate, he makes a mistake that cannot be corrected.

Eull of frailties, as all mortals are, it should teach forbearance and gentleness. It is so easy, if one wishes to do so, to find reason for disliking a neighbor, but is it not just as true that the faults one reprobates in another, he may without hard trying discover in a degree in himself? Or, if not these, then others equally to be reprobated? A time comes to every man when desires fail, hopes vanish, hates perish, and the soul leaves the body. At such an hour all that has been of hate leaves also; and it were so much better did not that hate ever enter one's being at all. Life is too short lor bitterness anil hatred. How much will your new school books cost, Johnny?" asked his father.

Johnny calculates to himself, sotto voce, "Lemme see; sixty-two cents for a new 'rithmetic, one dollar and twenty-five cents for a new joggraphy, twenty-five cents for a hockey, half a dollar for a new bat, and a quarter for candy." Then out aloud he says, four dollars." itations and restraints in the power of the majority, mobs and rebellions can never be justifiable. Under our system of government the majority can never wrong the minority. In a country constituted and regulated as this is, a rebellion can be but an attempt on the part of a minority to thwart the will of a majority, and any such attempt is a rebellion against the very essence of democratic government. In fact, the late revolt which the Grand Army sup pressed, was begun for the avowed reason that an insignificant minority of the people of the Nation were not permitted to dictate the policy that should prevail in the organization of territorial government; the slaveholders rebelled because a very large majority of the people of the Union had determined that slavery should be excluded from any new territory that might be organized. Such a rebellion was doubly wrong, because it was not only a rebellion against free government, but an abnegation of the plain truth that every human being, guiltless of crime, has a right himself to enjoy the fruits of his own toil.

The Grand Army does not teach that we should cherish hatred to wards those who fought on the side 01 tne rebellion. 1 lie war is over, and the sword, the last arbiter ot political disputes, has decreed that the Union is indissoluble, and that we are to live together as one people, and the Grand Army boys will ever be ready to welcome those who wore the gray, to an equal participation in the government with themselves. Those who went estray are back in the Union. We forced them to come back. We have condoned tbeir offense, but the very word means a forgiveness with the implied condition that the offense is not lobe repeated.

With this understanding, the Grand Army is ready to join hands with its late adversaries in building up the greatest and happiest Nation that ever existed on the earth a Nation whose people shall live together in brotherhood and harmony till time shall be no more. Ex..