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should assemble and transact their. business with emulation, but without i i ambition. They should "see who can work and who can best agree. Ihisj MeChesney, who invoked the blessing of Almighty God upon General Eice Post and-Relief His praver was, all his are, strong and thoughtful-, After the invocation Mrs. Grace Mas not very extensive, but an occassional pig.

sheep or chicken made itself prominent and afforded an opportunity that' was not neglected bv the veterans of the army of the Cumberland. On Committee on quarters: M. S. Roch-elle, J. O.

T. B. Spurrier, J. J. Williams.

W. N. Caswell, Wesley Smith, W. W. Sweet, J.

D. Harmon, J. D. Caldwell. Lee Taylor, John M.

Martin, B. F. Doremus, D. T. Dunbar, Alfred Ratzeli, W.

A. Richey, M. R. Clark. Smith Walker, C.

O. Alberts. J. A. W.

McKINNEY, M. Eiitor ani PttSlisier Late Surgeon 31st Ind. Vol. Infantrj-. Sbrafford rendered in the most cultivated and dramatic style an appropriate selection, which was lustily applauded.

Commander Coney then directed the exercises and the quartette gave delectable music. The contest for the roller skates began, in heated earnest, and resulted in Miss May Becker receiving 854 and Miss Lillie Thompson 259, Miss Becker winning the fine nickle plated skates as the most popular lady skater in Toeka, realizing over $100. We find the above in the Topeka Capital, which shows what is doing and what can be done bv an organized effort. We regard the W. R.

C. as not onlv a valuable auxiliary to the G. A. but a power for good among people of every class. Charity is one of our principles and is not strictly confined to the membership of our order.

We shoiild naturally look after the "household of the faithful" and relieve the needs of our comrades, their widows and orphans, but we do more. Want and suffering is looked for, and the question is not always asked as to who is the needy recipient. We have read of and know of the wTork of our noble women during the past winter and know the good thev have done. Aside from the relief they have furnished to the needy, they have made good G. R.

Posts. In every city or village in Kansas or any other state where there is an organization of W. R. C. you find a live G.

A. R. Organize your good women. They worked for us when we were in the service and their kind acts and cheering words had much to do with our success. They have lost none of their arder and will now give us their time and talent.

Thev and we working together will make a powerful organization for good. The country will feel it and we will be the better for work. Organize a W. R. C.

at every Post. A Curious Memento of the War. Sheridan is to handle the gavel at the next annual meeting of the veterans of the Army of the Cumberland. In view of that fact, Gen. J.

D. Wilder has sent to Gen. Sheridan a curious memento of the war iry the Chattanooga region a mallet Made of wood cut from the crest of Mission Ridge, and from the spot on Chiekamauga field where Gen. Ijytle fell. In the centre of the mallet is a rifle bullet, round which the wood has grown.

Frank We do not know just what Frank Leslie's mean by curious but will say that in our opinion. General Sheridan will know where the curious comes in, as he was at Chiekamauga, and his actions during that battle Avas one of the means of giving him a boost, and developing his natural ability. We our-aelves, were in the neighborhood of that battle of Chiekamauga. We did not see General Lytle when he was killed, but we heard of his death at a time when we know he could have not been killed on the crest of Mission Ridge. The Army of the Cumberland lost but few men on fhe crest of Mission Ridge and our General Lytle was killed long before any but stragglers occupied the crest.

We, as an individual, would like to know just where General Lytle fell. Can any of our comrades inform us? Comrade Wilder was, there and now lives in Chattanooga, but we can but think he is a little off on the crest bus iness. HOW COL. SCRIBNER EAT THE DOG. B.

F. Scribner was the colonel of 38th Indiana volunteers and for a long time commanded a brigade. He was not an ambitious man, but was the hero of two wars (was in the Mexican war and his long military training had learned him the necessity of discipline. The order of a superior officer was rigidly enforced by the colonel, as will be shown in the future. Just after the battle of Stone River, the army of the Cumberland was camped in and around Murfreesboor, Tennesse.

Gen. Bragg was then making his headquarters at Shelbyville, some twelve miles south. The near presence of Rrajrg was an incentive to discipline and all hands were anxious to obey orders as far as safety was concerned, but the order in regard to pillaging was not so easy to enforce. The means for what the soldier called foraging (an improvement on pillage) is our desire and we hope our com rades, in making their choice, will act for the best interest of the entire Department. Emporia Post made a start" and brought forward their man in the person oP Comrade Col.

Taylor, of that Post. Since that time Gen. Rice Post presented a candidate, Comrade Caldwell, and now comes Jo Hooker Post with a series of resolutions showing up the Qualifications of Gen. T. T.

Tavlor and placing him in nomination for Department Commander. We are a member of Jo Hooker Post and one of the committee on resolutions. We can say that the Post placed comrade Taylor in nomination because, first of personal pride and for the general good of the order. We know Gen. Tavlor and know that he is well known all over the state, better, possibly, than any other man spoken of.

His military history is a grand one. His first service was in the three months service, then in the three years service until the close of the war. He was on the staff of Gen. Sherman during the At lanta campaign and in charge of out posts and skirmishers and on the staff of Gen. Hazen at Fort McAlister, near Savannah, and lost a portion of his hand at the charge on that fort and was breveted a bregadier for o-allantrv.

Since the war he has been in public life and held high and honorable positions. Was Post Commander in Ohio a member of the National Council or Acimi strati on. Jo Hooker thus puts forward her candidate with the feeling that the interests of the Department will not suffer in his hands, and in asking the support of comrades we promise to be loyal to the decision and render eheer- til obedience to an any comrade that is elected. W. R.

C. We have in another column said the W. Pv. C. something in regard to and we think we will not be considered monotonous if we say more.

Through tne mnuenee or department uom-w ufander Stewart, camp 111, W. R. vas organized in Hutchinson and has been order only a few weeks, but they have not been idle. Previous to their complete organization they worked with the Post in its public in stallation and accumulated a small fund to start with. Since that time thev have given an evening lunch, and through their influence the attorneys of our city agreed to make a public ex hibition in shape of a debate on the suffrage question.

This debate was interesting and instructive and a crowd filled the opera house for two evenings. At each evening an appeal was made to tne crowd ana resulted in raising quite an amount of money which is being dispensed by the W. R. C. wherever thev can find a needy one.

Our comrades at Arlington have a W. R. C. and we have cause to know that they are workers. During the installation services of Perryville Post No.

202, the W. R. C. furnished a dinner and we can say it was a success and came near causing a fit of indigestion our case. Tne tacts are tney carried the joke a little too far.

Their bill of fare was both elaborate and rich, and with their kind words they persuaded us to eat too much. We did not need to eat any for several days as a result of our natural hoggishness and want of discrimination. Perryville Post as well as every other Post, can testify to the efficiency of the W. R. C.

Let us have more of them. Let those who have means contribute liberally to their treasury, resting assured that it will be well used and not many days before it will be returned in the consciousness of having been the means of doing good. CHARITY NEVER FAILETH. The G. A.

R. charity fair of General Rice Post is proving more than a success. The attendance vesterdav and last night exceeded that of all former davs and nights. Each day adds to the attraction, interest and attendance at the fair. Over 400 people took their meals at the dining rooms yesterday, and over $50 was taken in at the door last night.

The exercises last night were called to order by Commander Coney and were opened with prayer by Rev. S. one occasion a party of the second Ohio, which belonged to Col. Scribner's brigade, had occasion to interview a sheep and two of them were making their way to camp with their divey and passing near the colonel's tent came under his observation, and he stopped them. They avered that they had paid their money for the sheep, but failed to convince the colonel.

He had orderly to take charge of the mutton, and after giving the bovs a good and solemn lecture on the subject of pillaging sent them to their quarters without their mutton. The boys soon had reason to think that instead of sending the meat to the hospital, the colonel had, with the assistance of his staff, eaten it, and they determined to to be even with him. HOW THEY GOT EVEN. Near the reserve of the outpost was a farmer who was owner of a fat dog. The boys proposed to purchase the dog, but the farmer wanted no pay, being glad to be rid of it.

At a convenient place the canine wTas slaughtered and carefully dressed, and the two bovs the legs cut off. started for camp with the hind quarters swung across a gun. In passing the quarters of the colonel they ap peared anxious to avoid notice, but were really anxious the colonel should see them. He saw them and this time he was in a towering rage. They were the same men who had once before committed the same crime and the discipline of the army would not allow him to excuse them the second time.

The colonel's orderly took charge of the meat and the men were sent to the guard house for safe keeping and as the guard house was near headquarters the boys enjoyed their stay by knowing that Col. Scribner and his staff had made a meal not of mutton, but of dog. Just after the meal was over one of the captains of the second Ohio came up to enquire why his men ere in the guard house and was particular that the staff should hear the colloquy. Col. Scribner informed him that the men were confined on account of being caught the second time in the act of pillaging and as it was a grave ofl'ense he could not allow a repitition without punishment.

The captain was very indignant and said his men should not be punished without cause and he could see no reason why they should be punished for killing nothing but a dog. A sudden idea come over the colonel, he stared at the captain and said, you say it was a dog, captain T' "I did sir, say it was nothing but' a dog, and a poor one at that. The colonel attempted to get rid of his meal by running his finger down his throat. One of the staff was heard to remark as he disappeared in his tent, "I thought that was funny tasted meat." The bovs were released from the guard house, but the colonel and his staff were frequently reminded of their meal. When riding through camp the boys would whistle and bark at them much to their chagrin.

The last time we saw the colonel, he was grand marshal of a large masonic procession in his native town, in 1869. On passing a crowd of spectators at a prominent corner, some of the colonel's old regiment were present, and greeted him with the old whistle and bow-wow. He recognized the greeting gratefully, and remarked, "can't you ever forget that dog?" In Preparation. The following is the list of commit-ties appointed by the Garfield post to make arrangements for the G. A.

R. department encampment, to be held on the 23rd, 24th. and 25th of February next: Executive committee: B. H. Downing, H.

D. Heiserman, C. F. Derby, Geo. E.

Harris, and M. S. Rochelle. Reception committee; H. D.

Heiser man, Geo. W. Larimar, H. C. Sluss, J.

P. Allen, A. Smith, J. T. McMillen, John Fisher, J.

H. Aley, L. X. Woodcock, J. M.

Balderston, A. W. Oliver, N. F. Neiderlander, W.

L. Buckner, Geo. Steenrod, H. L. Taylor, C.

C. Furley, J. A. Ask, John Wallace, James McComb, N. G.

Hacker, R. P. Murdock. i HUTCHINSON, KANSAS, FEB. 17, 1880.

WE WANT To hear from every Adjutant in the State. Give us the workings of the Ordere, tell us of Post meetings, of youJ open meetings, your public and crivate camp fires. The fact is every A. regular meeting should be a private amp fire. Let us hear from you.

GEN. HANCOCK DEAD. Our readers have all heard of and read the above announcement, and the effect has been to cause men of all con ditions of life to take a retrospective look, and in looking naturally wonder why so many of our prominent men have died recently. The old Scotch preacher said, "There is rasin in all things," and there is reason in this; a cause for all this apparent or real mortality among men who have attained eminence. Prosperity kills some, but over eating kills more, and in our opinion over eating is the greatest cause of mortality among our popular and public men.

Gen. Hancock could face a six gun battery or a brigade of infantry during the war, but he could not face a modern fashionable dinner, and in making the attempt he was placed on the causalty list and reported dead. GOOD NEWS. We learn that congress has voted a pension to mother Bickerdyke. We regard this action of congress as an act of justice long delayed.

AVe have no doubt however but some one will raise a howl over this action. "Who is mother Bickerdyke We will tell you She was not a handsome woman in the common acception of the term, but she was a large hearted woman and had hand-some ways. During our late war she left her home in Illinois and spent her time with the- army, and when we say time, we mean all that can be implied by the word time. Hundreds, nay, thousands! of our sick and wounded have cause to remember her gracious services. She was strong physically and hence would carry out the desires of her heart, which was to relieve want and suffering, and she did it most royally.

To tell what she did, would be to give the history of the army of the Tennessee. But others of diffierent commands can with grateful hearts testify to having received the benefit of her kind acts and hard work. Since the war she has at every opportunity come to the front where suffering was real or apparent. Grasshopper year found her in Kansas with supplies which she personally dispensed to the relief of the needy of the far west. The House bill allows her $25 per month, it is too small, it may keep her from want if she used it all herself, but such is not her nature, and if our Nation wanted to dispense a charity thev could not do better than to vote Mother Bickerdyke a large amount and rest assured that she would not live in gorgeous luxury, but would see that the amount thus voted would find its way to the needy and the suffering.

$25 per month for life does not do justice only as far as it goes Hence we call it fractional justice. POST COMMANDER. Ill our last issue we spoke on this subject and remarked as to the extreme modesty of our comrades. Candidates are coming to the front now, and we are safe in saying that as far as heard from all are in possession of the needed qualifications and we do not recognize among any of them a known enemy, and we see no need of regarding any of them as anything but friends. "We do not know the motives that induce any of them to become candidates or to accept when solicited.

We hope they do so for the honor that will naturally be reflected on them by being chosen to that position. It is a position of honor and a proud one, and a position that should not be sought for selfish ends or conferred on account of sinister motives. Our corn- rades who form the State Encampment ji. riusron. Committee on finance: H.

W. Lewis. John A. Doran. Geo.

W. Walter, C. A. Tan Ners, J. M.

Allen, L. Walker. Committee on decorations: C. Derby, Cash Henderson, C. E.

Martin, J. A. Ask, A Richey. Committee on entertainment: Geo. E.

Harris, Charles Hatton, A. Brulm, J. A. Ask, J. M.

Martin. Committee on music; C. F. Derby, John Wallace, Murray Mvers. Committee on arch; E.

Dumont, Wesley Smith, D. E. Cale, John Busby, John Bowman, W. W. Sweet, Jerry Wilson.

Committee on printing; John Wallace. Comrade Branch writes us some ras py words in regard to the society of the "Army of the Tennessee. We, like the comrade think that the time for distinction as far as rank is concerned has passed. We could not all be brigadiers in the service, yet some officers of that rank were necessary, and were re-spected and obeyed accordingly. We know and have seen many men of inferior rank doff their hats or present arms to.

men they knew were their inferiors in all that it takes to constitute a man. They did it because they were soldiers, not hireling soldiers, but citizen soldiers. Citizens who for the time being, had laid aside the garb of the citizen and for the good of the country, had sworn to respect and obey their superior ofticers. The citizen soldier did his work faithfully, his work in the field is done and the need of distinction has passed. There is one other point of distinction, that the time has passed, more, it never should have existed.

We refer to the distinction that is made in pensions. The pay allowed to rank was in a great measure, due to supposed qualifications and increased responsibilities. The pay was commensurate with services rendered as far as our officers were concerned but that a disability incur ed by an officer, should be paid at a different rate is preposterous. The enlisted man suffers as much in the injury, and feels the loss of a leg equally with the brigadier, and the cost of subsistence is just the some after he is out of the service. We all like to live in splendor, and live oh the good things of the land, but luxuries are not the neccessities of life, in fact they are in many cases the bone of life.

Our government is bound to furnish a good and healthy diet to those that depend on it for support and it does not require any more of the substantials for the support of the officer and his family than it does the enlisted man and his family. To sum XI i-i- iL.l 1 UP LUti milLiex we ha mai 11 a DriSa" dier after his discharge can afford to live in luxury, let him do so, but we can see no reason why he should have a larger pension than the enlisted man who suffers from the same disability or whose family is just as dependent and just as deserving. Money to be Made. It is said that dull times are not known by the agents for the "great publishing house of George Stinson fc of Portland, Maine. The reason of this exceptional success is found in the fact that they always give the public that which is keenly appreciated and at prices that all can afford.

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