Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-20

undaunted soul she struggled on from
year to year animated by high sense
of duty and by a love which never waned
nor wavered. Finally she took advantage
of an opportunity to seek a new home
in foreign land where the prospects
might be brighter, and with characteris
tic courage not only faced the perils of
a trip across the sea, but continued al
most across the continent when the voy-
age was ended. The first stop was near
! Salt Lake, where with undiminished
hope and cheerfulness she renewed the
struggle to raise and educate her
charges. There is no need to recite the
details of pioneer life in those days. or
of the events which made it memorable:
no need to tell of her sacrifices and toll
until one of her boys, upon reaching the
/, ambitious age of twelve, carried home
his first wages and proposed thereafter
to share the responsibilities of the little
| household; no need to record subsequent
| progress and efforts to encourage
| habits of industry and instil a love
| of study into youthful minds. or
! TO describe the removal to Idaho
a few years later that Mrs. Mantle
old enough to work and one of whom
was freghting into Montana; no need
to tell Of the keeping of the stage sta
ton in Pleasant Valley where they
shared the work in the daytime and in
the evening studied and practiced tele-
| :%l, H.
family income might again be increas
ed; no need to tell of the gradual i'm
p1ovement in their circumstances, the
marriage of some of her children and
the removal to Butte in 1877, where tn,
skies cleared up never again to be cloud
ed by want or wish ungrat titled.
In her beautiful home she has led g
beautiful life, dispensing simple hos.
ptaity to her friends, extending aid te
the unfortunate and enjoying, to thC
utmost, the success of those she loved
Nearly all the early settlers of Butte
knew and respected Mrs. Mantle an(
few of them will ever forget the scene
in the opera house in 1895 when she wa.
present on the occasion of the public
reception to her son, Lee Mantle, jus
elected to the senate. 1t was the proud
est moment of her life. The entire audi
ence arose to do homage to this veneer
able and dignified old lady and for
; time every other purpose of the gather
ing was forgotten. 1t was that "tOucl
, of nature which makes the whole worl
F kim No man or woman then presen
f will ever forget the occasion when tn
magic word Mother brought tw
: thousand men and women to their feet
t as an old lady bent with the weight an
: honors of four score years, her fac
bcaming with pride and gratitude
, calmly arose in one of the prosceniul
< boxes and bowed her acknowledgment
t It was a tribute as impressive as it wa
| spontaneous.
There is genuine grief in Butte &
\ all that is mortal of Mrs. Mantle
laid to rest Though of late years IL
creasing feebleness had curtailed HI
social activities, yet she had mar
u friends who regard her death as a pc
sonal affliction.
| Among them she was content 10
= known as the mother of her children
vet they are proud to be known as IL
children of such a mother. And thus
their grief we must leave them with tt
consolation that the end was painle
:, and peaceful, that in all the years pr
=. ceding love and duty were the guidil
principles of her life and that on the
own part they did all that was possih
-. to smooth the path and tighten the bu
m den until the summons came to go
"a the reward to the faithful and the tru
J. B. r
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