The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1917-06-08

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WEI. HORNER,
Cooperative Observer.
ton and the steamboat beglnhiR8: I
told him about old Scott and Jackson /;
told him all 1 could think about the
Mississippi, and New Orleans, ana
Texas, and his own old Kentucky.
And do you know he asked who was
In command Of the Legion of the
WestT 1 told him it was very gal.
liant officer named Grant, ard that bS
our last news he was about to estnb-
llsh his headquarters ~ Vicksburg:
Then, Where was VicksbuPgT
worked that out on the map; it was
about hundred miles, more or r,less,
above his old Fort AdGAfS; and I
thought Fort Adams must be Il fhFrI
now. 1T must be at old VicL's plan
tation,' said he; well, that is
thahseP
'f tell you, tnghanl, II was hard
tiiihs to e6tiGehse the history Of hnlf
century intd that talk With a sick
mar. And | do not kndN What told
hil.-,of emigration, and the meahs ~
it-ot steAhpboats and railroads and
telegraphs-of invehtions and books
and literature-of the colleges md
West Point and TIE Naval school
but with the Queerest Interruptions
that ever you heard. You see it was
Robinson Crusoe asking all the accu-
nulated duestiOts Of fifty-six years.
''I remember he asked, oil of d sud-
den, who was president now; and
when 1 told him, he asked If Old Abe
was Gen. Benjamin Linc6ln's son. He
said he met old General Lincoln, Nhefi
he was quite u boy himself, at some
Indian treaty. 1 said 10, that Old Abe
was Il Kentuckian like himself bHt
could not tell him of what family he
had worked up from the ranks. Good
for him = cried Nolan; 4 am glad of
that. As I have brOoded and won
dered, have thought our danger was
In keeping III those regular success
sions in the first families Then
got talking about my visit to Wash
ihgtoa. / told him of meeting the Ores
gon congressman, Harding; told him
about Smithsonian and the exploring
expeditions told him abdtit the eapi-
tOl-and the statues for the pedii1ebt
and CrawfOrd's Liberty - and
Greenough's Washington: Ingham,
told him everything l cotild think of
that wOulG show the grandeur Of his
country and its prosperity.
"And he drank 1t in, and enjoyed 1t
as l cannot tell you. He grew more
and more silent, yet l never thought
he was tired or faint. l gave him
glass of water, Iut he just wet his lips,
and told me not TO go away. Then he
asked me TO bring the Presbyterian
Book of Public Prayer, which lay
there, and said, with a smile, that it
would open at the right place-and so
it did. There was his double red
mark down the page; l knelt down
and read, and he repeated with me,
For ourselves and our country, o gra-
ciOus God, we thank thee, that, not
withstanding our manifold transgres-
slons of thy holy laws, thou hast con-
tinued TO us thy marvellous kindness
and so to the end of that thanksglv-
ing. Then he turned to the end of
the same book, and read the words
more familiar to me- Most heartily
we beseech thee with thy favor to be-
hold and bless thy servant, the presl-
dent of the United States, and all
others in authority-and the rest OF
the Episcopal collect. 'Danforth,'
said he, Il have repeated those prayers
night and morning, it is now fifty-fve
years And then he said he would
go to sleep He bent me down over
him and kissed me; and he said,
Look in my Bible, DanfOrth, when 1
am gone And l went away.
But 1 had no thought it was the
end. l thought he was tired and
would sleep. / knew he was happy,