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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-01-16
CAMPFIRE STORIES.
eENERAL eRANT,s SISTER.
Her Prayers Answered in a Remarkable
WAY After TwentY-fve Years.

Her Prayers Answered in a Remarkable
Way After Twenty-Five Years.
The attendants at the Sunday evening
service at the Hanson Place Methodist
Church, Brooklyn, listened to a nara
tive about the last days of General
Grant which has not before been made
public. After his sorman, the pastor,
Rev. DR.. A. b. Kendig, introduced to
the audience Mrs. c. w. Kramer, a sis
ter Of General Grant, who told of her
efforts during the last twenty-five years
of her brothers life to secure his CON
version. Mrs. Kramer is the wife of Rev.
c. w. Kramer, who was Minister to
Switzerland during Grants second term,
and she was the Generals favorite sis
ter.
She told the congregation Sunday
evening that after her own conversion
In 1861 she became convinced that it
was her especial duty to win her broth
er's soul to God. By her prayers and her
influence she did every thing in her
power to that end from that time on. At
about the time of General Grants first
inauguration she believed her object al
most gained. He was particularly i'm
pressed with the weight of responsible
ity that had come upon him, and the
passages in the Scriptures which his
lips touched when taking the oath of Of
flee made a deep impression on his mind.
During his first term Mrs. Kramer was
much in his company at the White
House, and he often discussed with deep
feeling the subject that was nearest his
sisters heart. During his second term
his sister was abroad with her husband,
and they kept up a regular correspond
ence, largely upon religions subjects.
When the General was taken sick Mr..
and Mrs. Kramer were still abroad. Re-
ports of his condition were cabled al
most daily. When it became serious
her husband was taken i'll, and Mrs.
was unable to leave him to go
to her brothers bedside. Finally, she
said, the cable brought word that the
General was unconscious and low. But
she had full faith that he would rally,
and that her prayers would yet be an
swered. True enough, he did improve,
and he lived for some weeks. Finally, |
IN a fit Of deep dependency Mrs.
Kramer, one day in her garden at Berne,
most earnestly for the granting
Of her hearts desire. And there came
% her, as she described il to her hearers
night, a deep peace and solemn
conviction that her prayer would be
answered, and that her brother would
not be allowed to leave the world with
making his peace with his God.
q day or two there came a cable
Message from her daughter in New
FORK telling Mrs. Kramer that q great
piritual change had been experienced
y the dying man, and that in fact her
rayers of twenty-five years were an
wered.
Some time later Mrs. Kramer and her
usband sailed for New York, and they
the day after General Grants
In talking the matter over with
'r. Newman she learned that her
rother's change of view of spiritual
lings took place on the day of her 4!
experience in the garden three
lousand miles away. Mrs. Kramer's I
arrative made a strong impression on &
large audience, which listened to her
it'll rapt attention.-N. Y. Sun. !
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eREvITIEs.

ONCE that man was an innocent boy,
and some one first persuaded him to
drink, but he is no longer free. He is
now a slave TO an appetite that no power
on earth can break except the grace Of
God, and how is that to reach a man who
is saturated with whisky?
COULD we but trace the history of the
wine sent out from one single VINEYARD,
following the course Of each tiny glass
flowing out as a small rivulet in its err
rand of destruction, we should stand
aghast at the vast multitude being car
ried downward by these little streams
into the whirlpool of drunkenness soon
to be swept out by the tide into the vast
ocean of Eternity.
IN this country the rum traffic I'M
doubtedly is chiefly responsible for the
presence of children in the industrial
field. The child is driven to work be-
cause rum has disabled the father who
should maintain it, or else because the
rum traffic has increased taxes and the
cost Of living so that the wages OF the
parent are not sufficient for mainten-
ance.-Textile Record.
DR. BENJAMIN WARD RICHARDSON. in
a recent address, invites public atten-
ton to the fact that all are born total alb
s~tainers. OF the hundreds Of thousands
who have died drunkards, and of the many
who are o disabled and rapidly ap-
preaching death as drunkards, all have
begun their downward career by mod
crate drinking Stop moderate drink
.ng and drunkenness viii surely 5e
abolished. !
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eheh begin to exhaust the air. the sound
VIII keep growing fainter until the all
Is all exhausted. That is the reason.
children, that mountains are 90 silent
ana quiet, because the air OF mountains
is very rare or thin, and as the air be-
comes rarefed, sound diminishes.
IL is IN this way that God has wrapped
a great silent mantle around His noun
tains, setting them apart from the noise
ana hustle of the world, and Just here
let me leave a thought with you. Have
you noticed how often Christ went apart
from the others on the mountains to
pray, and how he chose a mountain for
hn temple when He preached thai WON
derful sermon Of the beatitudes? But
now we come to another phase of sound
Ian echo. When one OF these sound
waves strikes against an obstacle, like
a hill or wall, it is thrown back or re-
hected, just as when light is thrown
against a bright surface it is reflected
or thrown back. When this happens
with sound it is called an echo. The
most famous places for echos are grot-
toes, old Abbeys, caverns and cathedral
~tSASos ptNahoC tuC SOuuu-WdNt can NOT
pass beyond the walls and must be
thrown back. Sometimes these return
ing sound-waves become ~entangled In
turnings and windings of the cavern,
and come back very deliberately. The
farther off the echoing body is the more
sound is reflected. Sometimes an echo
will repeat W. syllables, because the
echoing body is so far off that there is
time for one reflection to pass before an
other reaches you. Then, sometimes it
happens that there are W or more
separate surfaces that the ~sound-wave
strikes and reflects in succession. If
you ever go to Scotland, children, ask
your courier to take you to a place call
ed Rosmeath, seventeen miles above
Glasgow, for there is a very remarkable
there. IF a trumpet plays a tune
and stops, the echo will begin the same
tune and repeat it accurately; as soon as
echo has ceased another Will echo
the same tune in a lower tone, after the
second echo has ceased a third will sue
coed with equal fidelity though in a
tone.''
At one place on the lakes OF Killarney
in Ireland, if the guide takes up his
pipe and plays any simple tune, the echo
will accompany him with an excellent
second. Christian at Work.
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REUNITED AT LAST.
A Veteran Finds his Wife After Twenty
Eight Years of SeparatIon.

A Veteran Finds his Wife After Twenty
Eight Years of Separation.
A special from Flint, Mich, says: Ne
hemiah Dennis, of New York State, babe
goodbye to his wife and baby son in
1861 and went to fight for the Union.
For a time he correspondent with his
wife. Then of a sudden he ceased writ
ing and his wife felt sure that he had
fallen in battle. After the war one of
his comrades told Mrs. Dennis that Ne
hemiah had been killed. Mrs. Dennis
and her son Henry, now a man, not long
ago came to Genesee County and rented
a farm where they have since lived. Re-
Gently she applied for a pension as the
widow of Nehemiah Dennis. A special
agent of the Pension Department sent
to investigate the case, learned that the
man whose widow she supposed herself
to be, was alive, and that he also had
applied for a pension and was living in
Missouri.
They were made aware of each others
existence by this officer, a short
time ago, and Nehemiah Dennis
arrived here, was met at the
depot by his son and taken to his wife,
whom he then saw for the first time in
twenty-eight years. Instead of being
killed he had been captured and sent to
Libby Prison. Upon his release at the
close of the war he went back to his old
home, but his wife had gone, and he
could find no trace Of her. He advertised
and searched for years to find her, but
at last lost all hope and went to Mis-
souri,. The reunited family will con-
to live here in Genesee County.
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FORT D~oNELsoNss GHOST
General Grant Wished the Country to be
Full of just Such Spirits.

General Grant Wished the Country to b,
FUN Of just such Spirits.
The camp-fires of General Grant,
army were lighting up the thick woods
just beyond the Tennessee; the gun
boats were hurrying up the swoller
river, while the snows and rains of Feb
ruary turned TO ice; at the first day o.
the terrible battle at Fort Donelson the
sudden change of weather brought tc
the soldiers agonies Of cold and suffer.
ing.
The fight lasted three long days. Shot
and shell were poured into the Tennes-
see river, the gunboats driven back
with heavy losses, but Grants fearless
men kept up the siege until the fort sur
rendered. After the victory the whole
North was exultant. The bells rang
joyfully, and cannon shook the New
England cities and towns; but. frozen
and dying, hundreds lay on the red
snow of the battlefield
Mother Bickerdyke, the famous Union
nurse, had followed her boys south
ward, had blessed them as they went
out in the morning to battle, made them
barrels of good Government coffee, and
as well as possible, without houses or
hospitals, prepared for their return.
This was her first sight OF a battlefield,
and she told me that none afterward so
overcame her.
After the wounded had been cared for
with all the small comforts she had, and
the exhausted officers had fallen asleep.
somebody noticed a bright light moving
quickly over the dark, deserted field,
where the dead were still lying, await
ing burial when it should be light
One officer after another looked out,
and word passed down the line, go and
and see what it is" General Grant him
self wrapped in his blanket stood out
side his tent, while his orderly followed
the ghost across the snow, and the terri
fed men huddled close together over
the camp-ires whispering that 1.-THE
spirits were walking about" Nobody
spoke aloud. The wind whistled across
the broken fences and through the icy
rafting branches of trees as the orderly
returned.
"Well," said he to the General, 'it's
only Mother Bickerdyke, sir. with her
big lantern; here she comes"
General Grant touched her on the
shoulder as she came up and asked in a
low voice, lis there anything wrong,
mother?'
''0h, nor she replied; but you see,
General, after l got the poor fellows
up, and full of warm broth and
hot coffee, l couldn't some way fell sat
till l was sure, by my own eve
sight that nobody was lying out there
n the cold and dark, alone and alive.
his awful night; so I've just hooked 'em
III over and made sure-bnt they are
dead, quite dead. poor boysT"
She swung her lantern bravely along
oward her row Of tents, while General
irant, worn and haggard. wrapped his
about him, and said to a stat
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-01-16
FOR GIRLS AND BOYS.
ON NEW YEARS DAY.

-
-oh. where are you going. Brother Philr'
Cried little Hal on New Years Day.
elm going calling on the girls"
And saying this, Phil went away.
But Hal was puzzled why he went,
And turned 10 mamma: Mamma say
What makes Phil md my papa
Go making calls on New Years Dayf'
And mamma fondly stroked his curls.
'Its just the custom, =" she began,
"For boys TO call on girls today,
And men on ladies, little man"
And little Hal looked satisfied.
And as he turned away he thought,
'Iguess I'll go a calling, too;
really, truly think l ought"
So on went coat and tippet warm,
And then his gloves aud cap OF fur.
snow, where shall | go hrstf' he said.
There's May Chapel; I'll call on her."
But Brother Phil had calling cards;
III get some on my mammals tray.
So, thus equipped, he left the house.
And rang the door bell OF Miss May.
us May Chapel at homer" he asked.
The servant smiled and answered Yes
"Ive come TO call on her. you see,
But III just leave my card, guess"
He gave the maid his card, which read,
"Leander Ross" and then retired,
To call upon another friend,
And gave his name as Horace Myard."
But as he turned away again
To make a call on Bessie Rue,
Who should he see but Brother Phil,
WhR nglyOA aaAr, -. - asf
'oh' yes" said Hal; indeed I am;
/ had six cards, but I've used half.
] got them of mammals tray
Why, Brother Phil. what makes you laugh
Birdie Kane, in Interior.
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RANDOM SHOTS.

WAsHTENAw COUNTY, Mich, has 400
resident Grand Army comrades.
THE New Hampshire W. R. C. has
thirty-seven corps in good standing.
HIRAM TH.soN, a veteran of the war Of
1919, recently died at Niles. Mich, aged
90 years.
PHILADELPHIA has three grand posts,
the entire membership being colored
comrades.
Mrs. r. A. ALGER is to become a men,
Der Of Fairbanks Corps, w. r. c., De-
troit, Mich.
GENERAL SHERDAN's Memoirs have
thus far given Mrs. Sheridan on sales Of
books 500, 900.
HIRAM TmsoN, a veteran of the war Of
1912, recently died at Niles, Mich, aged
ninty-three years.
THE Grand Army of Ohio is organized
into battalions and brigades, and now
they are holding battalion and brigade
reunions. The Ohio Soldier speaks very
encouragingly of the plan.
GENERAL T. w. HYDE has put in an
estimate Of $50, 900 for the erection of a
suitable hospital at the Togus Home,
Me-, and Congress will be asked to
appropriate that sum at the next ses-
sion.
GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, a son of lit
tie Mac" the commander of the Army
of the Potomac, has recently been APP
pointed treasurer of the BROOKLYN
Bridge Company at a salary of 81, 600 a
year.
THE State of Kansas as shown by a
special census taken by township as
SCISSORS has in its population 100, 600 ex-
Union soldiers. OF this number only
about 1000 are members of the Grand
IT costs sass, 900, 900 a year 10 support
the armies of Europe. The Union
army, between 1861 and 1866, lost more
men than all the armies Of Europe com
bined have in the last th~ree-quarters of
century.
COLONEL NJ. A. DILLON, of the old Cd
New Hampshire, and now commander
of the Union Veterans Union,
las lately been awarded a medal of hon
'r by the War Department for conspicu-
'us bravery in action.
THE Department Of Iowa, w. r. c.,
las a membership in good standing Of
1888. During the third quarter s62I.72
vas expended in relief; 263 soldiers
and ifty-eight members fam
lies heve been assisted. Corps No. 1862,
suthven, not a year old, expended
in relief. Clinton Corps, No. 10,
as over $500 in the treasury.
JOSEPH H. OSBORN, Eleventh Mich
gan Cavalry, died at Middle Granville,
I. Y, recently, aged ~forty-two years.
Osborne enlisted at the age of
o~urteen years, and was very severely
rounded, carrying the bullet in his body
p TO the day of his death. At the close
I the war he served for three years in
he regular army, and was mustered out
nth the rank Of quartermaster-ser-
cant. He leaves a wife and three chill
THE officers or members Of all regi,
rents which served in the Department
I the South during the late war are re-
uested to elect delegates to a meeting
Z said department, which will be held
! Boston, Mass, at the time of the
Of the National encampment
. A. r., in 1890. The object Of the
will be the formation Of a So
ETY. Of the Department Of the South,
or further particulars address William
d. Pierponts Seventh Com ecticut New
ayeL. Ct
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officer "a by, $50 that's the ghostf I
wish the country was full of just such !"
Wide Awake.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-01-16

Learning to dismount is one OF the
things hat bother the amateur bicycle
rider. 1t is very appropriate that he
should study this in the fall Of the
year.-Rochester Poss-Express
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1890-07-03

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Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-20
PATHS.

The path that leads to loaf of bread
Winds through the swamps of toll;
And the path that leads 10 suit of clothes
Goes through flowerless soil
And the path that leads 10 a loaf of bread
And the suit Of clothes are hard TO tread.
And the path that leads to house of your owl
Climbs over the bowldered hills,
And the path that leads to a bank account
Is swept by the blast that kills;
But the men who start in the paths to- day
IN the lazy hills may go astray.
In the lazy hills are trees of shade
BY the dreamy brooks of sleep,
And the rollicking river laughs
And gambols down the stee;
But when the blasts OF winter JDe,
The brooks and rivers are frozen dumb.
Then woe to those in the lazy hills,
When the blasts of winter moan,
Who strayed from the path to bank account
And the path to a house of their own;
Those paths are hard in the summer heat,
But in winter they lead to snug retreat.
- Yankee Blade.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-20
The Effeets of Mental Exhaustion.

Many diseases, especially those of the
nervous system, are the products of daily
renewed mental exhaustion. Business
avocations often involve An amount of
mental wear and tear very preiudicial to
physical health, and the professions, if ar
duously pursued, are no less destructive to
brain and nerve tissue. 1t is one of the
most important attributes of Hostetter's s
Stomach Bi;ters, that it compensates for
this undue loss of tissue, and that it i'm
parts new energy to the brain and nerves.
The rapidity with which it renews weak
ened mental energy and physical vitality
is remarkable, and shows that its invigor-
ating properties are OF the highest order.
Besides increasing vital stamina, aud coun-
teracting the effects of mental exhaustion,
this potential medicine cures and prevents
fever and ague. rheumatism, chronic dys-
pepsia and constipation, kidney and uterine
weakness and other complaints. Physi-
clans also commend it as medicated
stimulant and remedy.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-20

scraps are called "tailings," and are either
sent back TO the casting kettle or used in
the manufacture of oxides of lead. The
white lead which has passed through the
screen accumulates in the tank of water in
which the screen has revolved. Through
an opening in the bottom of this tank the
white lead passes to the hopper leading to
the eve of the milestone, where it is
ground between two burr stones, passing
from the first mill Immediately to sec
ond, and from there to the floating tank,
the finer lead being carried farther IN the
floating tanks by stream of water, and
the coarser being deposited nearer and
afterwards returned to the mills to be
ground.
When sufficient quantity Of white lead
has accumulated in the floating tank to fill
a kiln, the water is drawn off, and the
white lead, in pulpy condition, is pumped
upon the kiln to be dried. In olden times
these kilns were hearths constructed of fire
brick, with fires beneath and fues running
the entire length of the hearth to dlstrlb-
ute the heat uniformly, but it has been
found cheaper and more advantageous to
use long copper pans with steam jackets,
by which means the temperature can be
regulated at will by opening or closing a
single steam valve. The white lead, hav-
ing been placed upon the kiln or pan, is
allowed to remain there until thoroughly
dried, which usually requires from three TO
FIVE days. The white lead is now ready TO
be mixed with linseed oil, which is accom-
plished by the two being stirred or agi-
tated together. When the oil and white
lead have become thoroughly combined
the mixture is again passed through the
mills to insure perfect fineness and thor
ough incorporation of the oil. This is the
last operation in the process of manufac-
ture, and ii only remains to pack this fin
ished product in packages of such sizes a:
may be required.