Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-01-26

'hysterla mingled with bad temper.
My mother often presented my dis
position as exemplary for her other
children to initiate, saying: "When
do you ever see Mary angry?" When
the first edition of Science and Health
was published, DR.. Ladd said to Alex
ander Tilton: Read it, for it will
do you good. 1t does not surprise me,
it so resembles the author. -
will relate the following incident,
which occurred later in life, as illus
trative of my disposition:
While | was living with DIR. Patter-
son at his country home in Rumney,
N. H., a girl, totally blind, knocked
at the door and was admitted. She
begged to be allowed to remain with
me, and my tenderness and sympathy
were such that l could not refuse her.
Shortly after, however, my good
housekeeper said to me:
IF this blind girl stays with you,
l shall have to leave; she troubles me
so much. -. 1t was not in my heart
to turn the blind girl out, and so l lost
my housekeeper.
My reply to the statement that the
clerk s book shows that | Joined the
Tilton Congregational church at the
age of seventeen is that my religious
experience seemed to eliminate at
twelve years of age. Hence a mis-
take may have occurred as to the ex-
act date of my first church member
ship.
81 The facts regarding the Mcneil
coat-of arms are as follows:
Fannie Mcneil, President Pierce's
niece, afterward Mrs. Judge Potter,
prescribed to me my coat of arms, say
ing it was taken in connection with
her own family coat of arms. !
never doubted the veracity of her gift.
l have another coat-of- arms, which is
of my mothers ancestry. When !
was last in Washington, D. c., Mrs.
Judge Potter and myself knelt in silent
prayer on the mound of her late father,
General John Mcneil, the hero of
Lundy Lane.
Notwithstanding that Mcclure
magazine says; MARY Baker COM
pleted her education when she finished
Smiths grammar and reached long
division in arithmetic, | was called
by the Rev. r. S. Rust, DID,, prin-
cipal of the Methodist Conference
Seminary at Sanbornton Bridge, to
supply the place of his leading teacher
during her temporary absence.
Regarding my first marriage and
the tragic death of my husband, Nc
Clure's Magazine says: "He George
Washington Clover took his bride to
Wilmington. South Carolina, and in
June, 1874. six months after his mar
riage, he died of yellow fever. He
left his young bride in a miserable
plight. She was far from home and
entirely without money or friends.
Glover, however, was freemason,
and thus received a decent burial.
The masons also paid Mrs. Glover's
fare to New York City, where she was
met and taken to her fathers home
by her brother George Her posi-
ton was an embarrassing one. She
was grown woman, with child, but
entirely without means of support
Mrs. Glover made only one effort
at self support. For a brief season
she taught school" My first husband,
Major George W. Glover, resided in
Charleston, South Carolina. While on
a business trip to Wilmington, North
Carolina, he was suddenly seized with
yellow fever and died in about nine
days. ] was with him on this trip.
He took with him the usual amount
of money he would need on such an ex-
cursion. At his decease, l was sur
rounded by friends, and their provis-
ions in my behalf were most tender.
The Governor of the state and his
staff, with a long procession, followed
the remains of my beloved one to the
cemetery.
The Free Masons selected my escort,
who took me to my fathers home in
Tilton, N. H. My salary for writing
gave me ample support. l did open
an infant school, but it was simply
for the purpose of starting that educa-
tional system in New Hampshire
The rhyme attributed to me by Nc
Clure's Magazine is not mine, but is,
| understand, a paraphrase of a silly
song of years ago. Correctly quoted.
it is as follows. so l have been told:
Go to Jane Glover,
Tell her | love her;
BY the light of the moon
will go to her.
The various stories told by Nc