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SOLDIERS' HOMES.4
They provide all the ordinary comforts of a home, chapels for religious services, halls for concerts and lectures, hospitals with experienced surgeons and kind nurses, library and reading rooms, amusement halls, school rooms, port
and telegraph offices, stores and workshops. Those who desire to fit themselves for active employment, may receive an education so as to take up almost any employment, or may learn trades suited to their peculiar disability, and compensation is allowed for profitable labor.
It should be borne in mind by the soldiers and their friends that these Homes are neither hospitals nor alms-houses, but homes where subsistence, care, education, religious instruction, employment, and amusements are provided, and this provision is not a charity, neither furnished at the expense of the States nor of the General Government, but being the stoppages from bounty-jumpers and bad soldiers of the war, is therefore a contribution by the . vicious and unfaithful to the brave and deserving.
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