The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-01-10

WIN Il wac tfAbS wa DN'
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
we're such that / could not refuse her.
Shortly after, however, my good
housekeeper said to me:
IF this blind girl stays with you,
/ shall have to leave; she troubles
me so much"
it was not in my heart to turn the
blind girl out, SO | lost my house
keeper.
My reply to the statement that the
clerks 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-
- date of my first church member
ship.
The facts about the Mcneil
coat-of-arms are as follows:
Fannie Mcneil, President Pierces
niece. afterward Mrs. Judge Potter,
prescribed to me my coat-ot-arms'
saying that it was taken in connec-
ton with her own family coat-of-arms.
| never doubted he veracity OF her
gift. | have another coat-of-arms'
which is of my mothers ancestry.
| When | was last in Washington, u.
c.. Mrs. Judge Potter and myself
knelt in silent prayer on the u
OF her late father, General John Nc
Neil, the hero of Lundy Lane.
Notwithstanding that McClure's
magazine says, MARY Baker com
| pleted her education when she fin
ished Smiths grammar and reached
long division in arithmetic | was
| called by the Rev. r. s. Rust, ID. d.,
Principal Of the Methodist Conference
Seminary at Sanbornton Bridge, to
supply the place of his leading teach
err during her temporary absence.
Regarding my first marriage and
the tragic death Of my husband,
McClure's Magazine says: He
George Washington Glover) took his
bride to Wilmington, South Carolina,
and in June, 1874, six months after
his marriage, he died of yellow fever.
He left his young bride in a miser'
able plight. She was far from home
and entirely without money or e
Glover, however, was q freemason,
and thus received a decent burial. The
masons also paid Mrs. Gloyer's fare
to New York City, where she was met
and taken to her fathers home by her
brother George. Her position
was an embarrassing one. h was
a grown woman, with a child, but en-
tirely without means of support. '
Mrs. Glover made only one emo 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 Carolinh, he
was suddenly siezed 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 excursion. AT
his decease, | was surrounded by
friends. and their provisions in my
behalf we're most tender. The Gov
ernor of the State and his stan, with
la long procession, followed the re-
mains of my beloved one to the GEN.
etery.
The Free Masons selected my es-
cort, who took me to my fathers
home in Tilton, n. H. My salary for
writing gave me ample support.
did open an infant school, but 1t was
simply for the purpose of starting
that educational system in New
Hampshire. The rhyme attributed to
me by McClure's Magazine is not
mine, but is, l understand, a para
phrase of a silly Song of years ago.
Correctly quoted, it is as follows, so
III have been told:
, Go to Jara Glover,
To tell her | love her;
:. BY the light Of the moon
? will 60 to her.
The various stories told by Nc
Clure's Magazine about my father
| spreading the road in front of his
| house with tan-bark and straw, and
about persons being hired to rock
: and swing me, ! am ignorant of. Nor
do l remember n such stun as DR..
> Patterson driving into Franklin, N.
: H., with a couch or cradle for me in
: his wagon. I only know that my faith
: er and mother did everything they
could think of to help me when | was
i'll.
I was never "given to long and
lonely wanderings, especially at night"
as stated by McClure's Magazine. I
was always accompanied by some re-
sponsible Individual when | took an
: evening walk, but seldom took one.
| have always consistently declared
that l was not a medium for spirits.
i | never was especially interested in
the Shakers never "dabbled in mes
: merism," never was an amateur
~clairvcyant." moi did "the supersti.
tious country folk frequently seek
, my advice" l never went into a
: trance nor described scenes far away
( as McClure's Magazine says.
My oldest sister dearly loved me
but I wounded her pride lei
!, adopted Christian Science, and to Q
Baker that was q sorry offense.
: McClure's Magazine calls DR.. Dan
+ lei Patterson, my second husband
, ian itinerant dentist" It q y tina
4 affer NV marriage we lived I