The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-24

| clear ground for their house. which was
constructed OF unhewn logs. with split
basswood for flooring. shakes for shingles
and loophOleS for windows. The family
was many weeks without bread. and, IN
fact. without and staple but potatoes The
nearest peighbor lived miles away. Food
for reflection, Is IL not. that this was IN
what is now the most populous state in
the union? Yet the scenes arc within the
recollection Of living being. hale in
at the age of Is, Charity went to live
with her uncle. Calvin Cowlcy, at Law
renceville, Pa. and there began teaching
Of her life work. Here, too. the pioneers
led strenuous existence. lacking the
common necessitles For several seasons
OF 81 per week Cor teaching. and she re-
members that often she had only warm
johnny cake for breakfast. cold johnny
Johnny cake for supper. Never aimee her
experience at LawrenceVlle has she
looked lovingly Into the eyes OF potato
or wept at not tinding cold Johnny cake IN
her lunch basket,
After teaching ten years. in September
1887, when 20 years old, Charity was mar
trade. but who followed farming success
fully through most OF his life. They be-
gan life together at Bergen. NJ Y; also
lived at Alden, and removed to Michigan
In lS41. Mr.. Stevens died in 1888 There
were born 10 them four children, OF whom
but one now survives-Cassius C. Stew
Aunt Charity. being a deep thinker and
scholar. considering her carly advantages.
has from time TO time contributed inter-
esting and valuable papers TO the press.
Her last contribution published I'm a New
York Journal about two years ago. tells
of her frontier life and reads q lesson on
the eXtravagances and social customs OF
the present Her life throughout has been
punctuated with deeds of kindness and
beneyolence, prompted by sympathy for
the sick and distressed During the dark
iuNS of thc rphplllnD sbo ~ thp
most active In sending comforts and deli
cacles 10 the Michigan boys at the front.
never returned were borne back to her.
And now. those who have been socthed
by her gentle ministra tons and have
prohted by her noble examples and cor.
rect life on every hand rise up and call
her blessed
A close student OF nature and believer
In diety. her ideas OF the here and the
hereafter arc not drawn from the ll,nita-
tons OF musty tones OF uncertain origin
and meaning. or from mans theories md
creeds. Her honest answer to questions
regarding the future state Is: Il do not
know" The ruling ambition of her life
seems TO have been To he ever ready to
saw: IT have done the best 7 could"
Was there ever more exalted ambi-
One hundred md two years! 1t has
been computed that II one could watch
through this earth lirc pc would find
that nearly 15o ooo will die during the
first year. So no0 in the second wear Is
600 in the third year. and less than 1900
during the thirteenth wear. At the end
OF forty-fve wears 50N ono will have died.
at sixty wears 40 900. or considerably
more than one-thjrd will still be living
AZ eighty the number Will have been
rndnred to 7.oo0. at eiChty-five vears to
~ .onn ut nInetv-flvc wears TO 21On. and
at 100 years there Will no left but 22a.
Al the end OF los years there will be but
one survivor remaining
Aunt Charity's life is thought to he
within few months OF us closing scene.
Through all the wears II has been
pattern for those around her TO emulate
and when her earthly tenement finally
crumhles. WHOM the heart spring Is un-
wound. she will neacnfullv and without
fear sink to the s'eep that knows no walk
ing. Nav she no the last one In the
rrrnrcI, of rho -,l1Iion