Died at St. Paul, Minn., July 11, 1897.

ferns, with a large bunch of yellow chrysanthemums tied with a yellow ribbon on one corner. The Department of Massachusetts, W.R.C., sent, "in loving remembrance," a large basket of red roses tied with red ribbons. The Department of New York, W.R.C., sent a Corps badge of white roses. The W.R.C. Home Board, the Corps of Syracuse and Watertown, with friends and neighbors, filled the house with lovely flowers in set pieces and bouquets. The Department President and staff, the members of the W.R.C. Home Board, with members of the Grand Army, accompanied the remains to Albany.

I can only add, in closing, that our loved sister was as beautiful in death as in life. No trace of suffering was there, and we could only feel she sleeps.

"Her greeting smile was pledge and prelude

Of generous deeds and kindly words."

Faithfully in F., C. and L.,

LIZABETH A. TURNER.

National President: Mrs. Norton will now read her memorial

to Mrs. Hasenwinkle.

MEMORIAL TO MRS. HASENWINKLE.

Mrs. President, Ladies of the Convention and Comrades:

This special service has been set apart by our National President, in which to pay a tribute of honor and respect to the memory of one we all loved. The Department of Minnesota, W. R.C., comes to you through its representatives, with a sorrow and anguish so deeply written in all our hearts that it seems now as though time would never heal the wounds. Like a flash of lightning out of a clear sky came the sharp stroke of the pen, the ring of the telephone, the rapid clicking of the telegraph, and the headlines in the papers, all telling us that our loved sister, our National Senior Vice-President, our Past Department President, Marie Barbara Hasenwinkle, had gone from us forever.

I feel my utter inability to express or portray to you all that she was to us. On that bright, beautiful morning of Sunday, July 11, just as the curtains of night were slowly drawn aside to usher in the dawn of a new day, a noble and useful life suddenly and

unexpectedly came to a tranquil and peaceful close. How very beautiful and appropriate that He should have selected that day to call for her! The messenger came in haste, but she was ready. This life, so marked by a virtuous purpose during its continuance, so desirous of service for others, yet so unselfish for itself, and so very dear and valuable to the home, and to a large circle of friends, calls for some word of memorial, inadequate though it may be, from our beloved Order, which she loved with a loyalty, in which there was "no variableness, neither shadow of turning."

Marie Barbara Hasenwinkle was born in Strausburg, France, Aug. 4, 1846. She was the daughter of Edward Zimmerman and Barbara Shoetelle, and was the lineal descendant of noble ancestry. Several members of her father's family were noblemen, and were officers in the Prussian army. In 1848 her parents came to America and the next ten years of her life were spent in New York City, Elizabeth, N.J. and Chicago. After this time her home was in St. Paul, with the exception of two years, in which she lived at Hudson, Ill. Early in life she evinced a great desire for learning. At the age of ten she was obliged to leave school to assist in home duties, she being the eldest daughter and her mother an invalid. This was a great sorrow to her, as she was a devoted student and ambitious to obtain a thorough education. She would often beg her father to converse with her in English that she might learn the language. In a diary kept at this time one could not help but be impressed by the simple confident trust she had in God as her Heavenly Father, and which was beautifully expressed on every page. She was a member of the Methodist Church, and her trust in an allwise, guiding Providence never faltered, and she never could believe that the happenings in our life come about incidentally or accidentally. On June 2, 1868, she was married to Henry Hasenwinkle, who was a soldier in the Union Army where he bore an honorable part, and who is now a prominent citizen of St. Paul. The most complete devotion to each other and the fullest confidence existed between them during all their married life; and to more perfectly cement their happy union, they were blessed with four lovely children, Elsie Barbara Lloyd, Madeline Estella, Harry, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. In her home life she was the crowning glory. The devoted wife to whom her husband always turned when wisest

counsel was most needed; the affectionate mother with a thoughtful tenderness for all, and with a quickness to discern when one of her loved ones was in trouble, to that one, she gave a full measure of her love and sympathy.

A refined and cultured woman of gracious presence and charming manners, she sought to make the home life the "dearest spot on earth" and she labored not in vain. She believed in the higher education for women and found ample scope for work in the different organizations with which she was connected. In 1890, she was a very active worker in the "Women's Educational and Industrial Union " of St. Paul. We find in the Chicago Tribune of July 12 of that year the following item:

"PROTECTING THE YOUNG GIRLS." THE NOBLE WORK OF MRS. MARIE HASENWINKLE OF ST. PAUL.

ST. PAUL, MINN., July 12. (Special.) - Mrs. Marie Hasenwinkle is one of the leading workers in the cause of the Woman's Educational and Industrial Union of St. Paul. She is a kindhearted and intelligent woman, who has long made a study of the lives pursued by young girls who flock to great cities in search of employment, and out of her desire to lighten their burdens has grown the Women's Educational and Industrial Union of St. Paul. The promotion of the educational, social and industrial advancement of women Mrs. Hasenwinkle considers a fruitful field of labor, especially in the great cities of the land.

"The objects of the Union," said Mrs. Hasenwinkle, "are to help women in all lines of work. We strive to encourage and protect the working women of the city and to surround them with good influences. More good can be accomplished by earnest women in this way than in any other line of charitable work. There are many good influences that can be thrown around the girls in our factories if good women will only engage in the work One of the objects we aim to accomplish is to find places for girls who come to the city in search of work. We direct them to boarding places and try to keep them from becoming homesick and away from evil influences. During the present year we have succeeded in inducing our merchants to give their employees a half holiday Saturday as well as to close their places of business at six o'clock the other five days in the week. This was done by securing the promise of our ladies that they would not shop Saturday afternoons nor after the evening closing hours other days. To my mind the most important work to be done by Christian and charitable women at the present day is to be found in working for the upbuilding and advancement of their own sex, to protect them in