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that had gotten out of running
order, so she asked her hu ,5and
to take it to an old gentleman
named Joseph Hickman to have it
fixed. He mounted Black Hawk
aud taking the reel before him
started for Mr.. Hickman's, some
six or seven miles distant. AS he
passed by David's fathers he set
the reel on the stiles and came in
to see the family and kiss the lit
tie ones. Sitting ON a chair, he
took David and little Esther on
his knees and using the muscles of
the feet as springs, raised his
knees up and down saying, "Yink-
ee, dinkee, yinkee, dinkee," for
some time, much to the delight of
the children. Then kissing them
goodbye he started to Mr.. Hick
mans.
That evening a neighbor rode
hurriedly up to the house which
was about quarter of a mile from
the main road, weeping. David's
father went out to hear these
words; "Mr. Moses, your father
fell from his horse the other side
of Columbia and broke his skull
and is dead" Such sorrOwful
weeping as now swept over the
house was not soon forgotten. 1t
could not be known whether the
horse stumbled and thus threw the
rider or whether he was scared and
suddenly stepped and turned. The
reel fell on one side, and as the
captain was a very heavy man,
weighing more than two hundred
pounds; the fall in which the
forehead struck first showed the
cause of his death.
The shock caused Mrs. Moses to
become quite prostrated.
Her daughters having homes and
families of their own, could not
come to the old homestead, so she
moved to her son Jacobs, only
short distance and in about a year
passed to her reward saying as
she left the earth, "Lord Jesus,
receive my spirit"
DBvid's mother had chills so
continuously that his father de-
termined to try a change of eli
mate and sold his farm and moved
to Lee county Iowa, near Keo-
kuk, building a neat frame house;
he employed white hands and for
his wife a young lady, Miss Sa-
rah Allen-a tall, lighU-haired,
blue-eyed girl with very sweet
temper, and lover of children.
David's father was quite a re-
ligiOus man. The ueighberhOOd
had cottage prayer meetings.
When the time came for the meet
ing at Mr.. Moses house the house
was full. Several spiritualists in
the neighborhood had been at
, tending the prayer meetings and
almost broke them up with their
seances. The leader, a middle
aged woman, arose and began to
give way to expressions of spirit,
when David's father went to her,
and laying his hands on her shoul-
der, told her if she continued her
foOlishness he would put her out
of the house. Seeing the deter
mined look and manner of the
: man she became as meek as lamb
and never again tried spiritualism
in his presence.
One day a Mormon peddler came
to his house aud wished to sell his
goods. Seeing a cat cross the
floor Ne said, "What you take for
the catl Me wants the cat" Up
spoke David, "What do you want
the cat for!" vMe take it to Salt
I Lake"
Near this northern home was a
!, town called Melrose, just opposite
: NauvoO, the Mormon city. David
saw the tower of the NauvoO tenn
pie of Mormonism often. Ii
was here short time before that
I Joseph Smith was killed, But
}, having elected Brigham Young as
e his successor they moved to Sail
K Lake City and there fiOurished ma
: terially.
;, David's mother taught him tn,
lines;
Speak gently, IL is better far
!, To rule by love than fear;
Speak gently, let no harsh words mar
e The good we might do here.
e Speak gently TO the little child;
% Its love be sure TO gain,
- Teach it in accents soft and mild
u IL may not long remain.
le Speak gently to the aged one,
% GrieVe not the care-wOrn heart;
y The sands of life are nearly run
III Let such In peace depart.
4. Speak gently, kindly to the poor.
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