"It is our duty to search for the unfortunate poor, and not to wait until they appeal for assistance.

There are many destitute women and children in our midst who have been driven from their once happy and prosperous homes by the hated Yankees.

Among them are many high-toned and respectable families, whose pride shrinks from begging for bread, and who now live a life of penury and starvation rather than become the mendicant.

And if even they bury delicacy at the mandate of stern Want, they are so apt to be refused assistance by the heartless, that they imagine all of our people alike, and fearing further refusal, shrink with natural horror from a second rejection." "This can be prevented," observed Harry.

"Let the benevolent make it a business to find out the suffering who are worthy of assistance, and let such aid be given, not as charity, but as a duty we owe those who have remained faithful to our cause, and abandoned their homes rather than submit to the enemy.