The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1865-02-21


washing machine, and would detail
men to assist her when she wanted
them, and she worked hard, and made
good deal of money in that way !;
then she was sometimes manager for a
mess for the officers, and by the infu-
ence Of more than a hundred names of
officers and men she was given spe-
cial permit to have a tent to keep goods
for the soldiers. ne" / was not worth
anything when I came out" said Mrs.
F., ''and now have fourteen hundred
dollars, all my own earnings, besides
supporting my child, and another one
that have adopted since left home"
| ."Adopted another child! How good
of you, but how happened it?" 4 Jdaa
e"There was a little, bright, beauti-
ful but terribly neglected boy that at
tached himself to our brigade as we
were passing through Philadelphia; the
soldiers petted him at first, but he had
been so fearfully neglected that at last
they would not have him with them !;
he was absolutely and wholly on the
wide world at ten years of age-and
Icould not help it, / had 10 take him,
could not shut my heart to him. 7
got him whole new suit Of c.,vtnes,
cuutt on his hair, and made him perfect
! ly clean, and told him he was my boy.
'O,' said he, when he got washed and
clothed, ! feel like new boy"
He would never open his mouth
about his family or his previous life,
aud when Mrs. f. afterward met some
Pennsylvania regiments, she inquired
about him. They told her that his
father died in California, that his moth
er was confirmed drunkard, and that
he had always been in the streets, left
to lie and cheat and swear and steal,
like his companions, and. that she bet
ter not have anything to do with him.
Knowing that he had never shown the
slightest tendency to any of these faults
since she had known him, never using
an improper word or taking so much
as pin from her without asking, she
did not change her mind about keep
ing him, but sent him to Vermont,
where he is going to school and max
ing progress so rapid rs TO surprise
every one, sand" said Mrs. f., 81 love
him just as well as my own boy; can't
help it," "My mind sent me to you,"
said the boy to her. We tell this sto-
ry and leave each heart to feel who
rules in Heaven and on earth and who
sent that child to its home and true
mother. / 9rrfN e hYor
The incidents of Mrs. F's expert
ence are, many of them, so interesting
that we would gladly relate them if we
had time. Ten men in their company
re-enlisted through her influence, and
there was one who would have desert
ed but fer her remonstrance. The
brother would re7enlist could she stay,
but without her will go home when his
time is up. She has saved him as well
as Others from sickness, and never from
fighting man has she received other
than the most respectful treatment du-
ring the whole three years. The last
time we saw her she was on the steps
of the Treasury, where she had been to
invest her 81, 400, saying if it was not
safe there it could not be anywhere
Her merits and the reQommendation of
those who know them have procured
for her the promise of a place in the
Treasury, which we are sure she de-
serves and which we doubt not she will
honor, neither suffering from the shafts
of SANDER, nor from the misconduct of
few; for her experience of three
years in the army has proved that a
woman is always perfectly protected
when clothed in the panoply of her
own purity.