W. C. X. U.

The r.ext regular meeting of tne local society will be helu today at 3 o'clock. at McMiUan Hall, at which time delegates to ti e state convention, held last week at 1 attle Creek, will report The del' gates in attendance were Mis . Jennie Voorhois, Mrs. A. C. Clark, and Miss Fmma Bower and we trust that they have come back so filled with renewed enthusiasm and love for the work, and with such improved methpds of carrying on the various departments, that weas a society may be enabled during the coming year to do better and more intelligent service. Flower Mission Department. Flowers have always had a mission, and people havo always vaguely recognized that they were among the most persuasiva preachers of the gospel ever conimissioned, but it was left for the W. C. T. U. to give this beautiful mission organized form. The idea was born, as all W. C. T. U. women know, of the busy brain and loving sympathetic heart of our 'white ribbon saint, " Jennie Casseday, herself a shut in for more than thirty years, and 15 has developed under the direction of "organized mother-love ' until it has become a mission whose field is the world, and the record oí whose work only eternity can reveal. Jennie Cassaday was born in Louisvüle.Ky.,inl840,one of a family noted for ies gifts and graees of mind and heart Lier mother diod when Jennie was little mor.e than a baby ; her father, was one of the prominent merchants of Louisville, and her girlhood was spent ainid the bright surrounaings of a wealthy Christian home. Justasshewas stevping across the threshold of womanhood she was thrown from a carriage, and the spinal injury which resulted made her a physical invalid for life. It was her own love for tlowers in heisickroom which firstsuggested to her the ilowor mission, and she so enlistea the sympathics of her friends that very soon women, old and young, Gfatbering inspiratior. froin her sick-bed, went out once a week iuto the slums and prisons, the cottages and hospitals, carrvlrijr not only fragrant flovvors with text-card attached, hut often food and clotbes as well. Miss Williard, on a visit to Louisvüle in 1881 heard of the "best lovod woman in the state'1 and sought her presence. "We talked" said Miss Wiliard '-of the ministry of these winsome heralda ol good-will with the beautilul mission with which Miss Cassaday was already connected, and I asked if she would accept the Buperitendency of such a department shoitkl it be eetablisbed by the W. 0. T. U. eonvention.'1 sented, and froin that day uutil hot death, Feb. 8, 189:5, dlrected the work of this beautifui pbilanthrophy frorn hei sick-bod. June !ith, the anniversary of Mis ( lassadny'a birtb is observed as a special day for the distribution of flowers and other work in connection with this department. Suitable services werecondueted at the jail last Sunday and Binanlar sarvieces wiU be held next Sunday at the hospitala under tbc direction cf .Jrs. Charles Worden, "Supt. of Flower MÍS8Í0Q."