sit by him and read, and so on. Every
request is attended to, be it ever so trivial, and when she goes
again, if the doctor has sanctioned the gratification of the sick
man's wish, the buttermilk, baked apple, rice pudding, etc., are
carried along. Doctors, nurses, medical directors, and army
officers, are all her true friends; and so judicious and
trustworthy is she, that the Chicago Sanitary Commission have given
her _carte blanche_ to draw on their stores at Cairo for anything
she may need in her errands of mercy. She is performing a noble
work, and that too in the quietest and most unconscious manner.
Said a sick soldier from the back woods, in the splendid hospital
at Mound City, who was transferred thither from one of the
miserable regimental hospitals at Cairo, 'I'm taken care of here a
heap better than I was at Cairo; but I'd rather be there than here,
for the sake of seeing that little gal that used to come in every
day to see us. I tell you what, she's an angel, if there is any.'
To this latter assertion we say amen! most heartily."

Miss Safford is the sister of A. B. Safford, Esq., a well-known and
highly respected banker at Cairo, Illinois, and of Hon. A. P. K. Safford
of Nevada.

MRS. LYDIA G. PARRISH.

At the outbreak of hostilities Mrs. Parrish was residing at Media,
Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. Her husband, Dr. Joseph Parrish, had
charge of an institution established there for idiots, or those of
feeble mental capacity, and it cannot be doubted that Mrs. Parrish, with
her kindly and benevolent instincts, and desire for usefulness, found
there an ample sphere for her efforts, and a welcome occupation.

But as in the case of thousands of others, all over the country, Mrs.
Parrish found the current of her life and its occupations marvellously
changed, by the war. There was a new call for the efforts of woman, such
an one as in our country, or in the world, had never been made. English
women had set the example of sacrifice and work for their countrymen in
arms, but their efforts were on a limited scale, and bore but a very
small proportion to the great uprising of loyal women in our country,
and their varied, grand persistent labors during the late civil war in
America. Not a class, or grade, or rank, of our countrywomen, but was
represented in this work. The humble dweller in the fishing cabins on
the bleak an