The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-30

mother General Grant remembers her
today and all she has DONE
The little fellow in the mended jack
ct looked SO very manly, and as the
General passed on toward his carriage
no prince could be prouder than this
little Virginia lad over General Grants
message to his mother.
The flowers were heaped about the
white stones. The bands marched out
side the big gates. The pretty children
planted little flags beside each grave,
and as the sun went down over the
beautiful trees the tramping grew far
off, and the people said one to another,
How perfect it all has BEEN
An old soldier at the gate proved to
be former neighbor of Captain Jack
son, and in talking, he inquired: ''Who
did you say this little chap was. Cap
tain?"
Pen Hunter His father, John Pen
dleton Hunter, was killed in the battle
of the Wilderness, or died afterward-
we never got the particulars straight
but they say their bones lie there
Johns, and his eldest boy, Sam's.'
Hunter? Hunter? Hun You
an the boy jump into our ambulance.
and go down to the camp to supper
You are tired, and the boy looks fit TO
drop from excitement"
Over the cobble stones of the avenue
there was no other kind of street in
Washington then-they jolted down to
the barracks. After a good supper they
sat on the bench beside the open tent
telling war stories until Pen fell asleep
with his head on the old captain's
shoulder.
Hello, comradesp' shouted soldier.
as he threw himself from the saddle
and joined the group at the door.
'Hello?' was the answering greeting,
in for all night?"
-
! The noise awakened Pen, who sat up
and looked at the newcomer. John"
said the old soldier, here's little fell
Ter from down by the James river
somewhere. Maybe he can tell you
about your old neighbors.''
'"No danger of that" gloomily re-
piled the newcomer. "All swept out
of the country. I've had to give up
looking for my people-given up" He
leaned his head on his hands and
groaned.
"Just what did you say his name
was?" the soldier asked of Captain
Jackson.
''Pen, tell him your whole name"
said Captain Jackson to the boy.
! ''Pendleton John Hunter said Pen
promptly.
The newcomer sprang to his feet.
He lifted the boy off the bench and
fercely asked, staring into his face:
And what was your fathers name?"
John Pendleton Hunter. Pen comes
first in my name?"
Slowly the soldier went on with a
gasp and catch in his breath, "And
what was your mothers name?'
! MARY Hunter
The big, tall fellow, in his army blue
overcoat, leaned a little forward as if
he might fall. He caught Pen up in
his arms and said: ooh, my boyI 1t
is my own little boy Penn
The other two men wiped their eyes
on their coatsleeves and turned away
their faces From his trembling voice
and the tears that fell on PENS curly
hair they felt that the fathers heart
was almost broken with joy.
| Pen cried, too, and then he laughed.
When he could peep out from the army
coat he said with a. twinkle in his
brown eyes: "And to think I've been
decorating my fathers grave. And
I've got father aliver'
What more could the earth hold?
Then there was a splendid journey,
a wonderful journey that Pen never
forgot, in steamboat on blue waters
and on a railroad train and a wagon