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Show '- Beautiful Grand Army Habit. It'Js no improper exposure of th "lodge" work of the Grand Army of the Republic to call attention to a most beautiful and effective method of the order in dispensing kindness and paying tribute to members. In each meeting of a post inquiry is raado concerning the number -and names of those incapacitated by sickness sick-ness from attending . the gathering. When the list is completed formal order or-der is made that flowers be sent to the bedside of each sufferer. Further, if any of the sick are known to be in desperate financial circumstances, cir-cumstances, a five-dollar bill, or one of larger denomination, goes with the flowerB.- Thus do the defenders and saviors of the government and of the nation remember and pay tribute to their comrades In hours of suffering and want |