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A- Letter From Sue East*
: Ta The Ssssissa:
As- my last letter t© pm. from "ovef*
the Boe-kies" found s, place in. your
ecittma% I bave beea thinking that
y__i %m& your readers might be inter-
.. ost-edt ia a few lines from tbis historic-
. si, grand and health giving spot among
§ke Mils. Tbese_ *are not Bocky or Cascade bills, but tbey bave a beauty of
. their own and a scenery as interesting
as it is beautiful.
Some clays, ago Mrs. Chase and I deft
■<om MssMgam Mends for a few weeks
^jSrte towacd t-h _veast. -We expect to bave
■ asaotheir' w*©el_ of these pleasant and
¥ery ___|oy_Me days here at West Alex-
snder, DPa^L from here we go to Wheel-
• Ing, from *-there to Washington, D. 0.
_aad surrounding cities; tnesce by way_
<of jParksbmrg-, Cincinnati aad Colum='
* bus b©me.
1 bave no idea that during tbe time
we are -to be in Washington I sball be
able to convince Mr.: Cleveland that
be ought to live a better life or. tbat
tbe people need "a change" but, we
sball do our best to enjoy the beautiful city, made' beautiful L under a long,..
prosperous* and wise administration of
affairs of both the city and the -nation
.   by tbe still living '&. 0. P. '•■
Between most writers of today there
-seems to be a striving to see who sball
- tell most of tbe grand and beautiful
scenery, ' the* mountain passes and
•canons, tbe beautiful, and fertile- valleys, tbe fruits and tbe grains.of the
-far west, forgetting, that our forefathers have written and told in the same
words and found here in this, to tbem
—far west*—tbe same wonderful things
to write .about. But what wonderl
__Ms beautiful country- of ours is too
jsp-sat, too grand.   5_t_eie is too much
- -of the beautiful to find a place in our
salad, so we■■■•settleupon one of these
little spots, and this is our world. On.
these bill farms, generation upon generation    * bave   ' lived     and   died.
; _l?be sons of- today are living on
•"Esther's farm." v 'Bich,: (because
.satisfied) living in luxury surrounded
with everything which will contribute
to tbeir convenience and comfort. LSLm-
"provemeiits, are .not made and buildings are not .built "for a day." Upon
many of these farms stand large brick'
bouses which have been the homes of
,_; father and 'bom :- for. seventy-five, yes,
— one hundred years. The hotel in
which- we now a-fie has been the stopping place of the heroes of our country,
■ -situated on-the old sspike" roadrun-
miag £_om Baltimore, via Wheeling and
__&_ies¥.He, to Cincinnati, over which
Ms traveled every president down
tbe list to Grant, who had friends near
here. Washington found a.place here
to rest Ms weary limbs, and in this
room LLaFayette f^und a night's lodging. - Under all tips greatness we are
nesting, our sleep undisturbed, and we
rest as composedly as if none of these
things bad been. Here are the old
churches, built upon old solid Presbyterian foundations, whose congregations mostly are void grey-heads on
whose faces are plainly stamped the
word, Presbyterian. Among tbem you
at once bave a feeling of rest, peace,
.security as if in their company, Peter
might not notice you, and let you pass
through the pearly gates. In the old
43hi___h yard stands an old oak tree under whose branches the people gathered for worship, and where they s#t
around the Lord's table, while in
tbeir hands they carried their guns,
ready for any surprise from their Indian enemy. One day a man with a
hand__g_____Lef tied about his head, came
to one _»f these .services, who, while on
.-the way had been scalped. The first
burials m the. old cemetery were victims ef -the arrow and. tomahawk.
Firomthe tree they moved into a
^shusch of logs, from this into a brick,
and as their congregation grew, into
another, the largo firm church they
sow worship in. Their present pastor
has been with them forty ■• years and
Ms predecessor _*¥__: fifty. In this
church yard stands a tree which rightfully may claim a place among the curiosities; the body is 23- feet in diameter, Hjre feet from its roots it branches,
each branch is twenty inches through.
Oije is oak and one cherry, both are
sot__d and thrifty.        j
Yesterday we drove 07/er the line into "Virginia 8 miles t_( Bethany, tbe
borne and church of Bishop Alexander
Campbell. Tbe old church^tands, the
old people still live, in fact, 61$ things
prevail there as all elsewhere among
these old hills. In-this church Gar-
&eld preached to a people wbo still revere bis memory. Farther up tbe bill
are tbe beautiful college grounds, and
tbe old building,, where they are still
grinding out Oampbellite preachers,
Sixteen miles from here is the birthplace and early home of James Gr.
Blaine. For a place in the history of
this part of our country "no democrat
need apply for a change" in this fourth
class post office, not even a mugwump
can be found and humiliating as it is
and of necessity must be, an old black
abolitionist still cancels the Columbian
stamps* J» S. Chase.
Major ■ Hendershot. ■
The entertainment given by Major
Hendershot, DrumnerBoy of the LRap-
pahannock, and son, J_C. Hendershot,
st Doherty opera house, under the favor of the Ladies' Union, Monday even"
ing, was unique in character and well
enjoyed by a fair audience. Tbe home
talent numbers interspersed between
drum beats were well sustained.
The drum is not essentially a musical instrument, but the Major wielded
tbe sticks in such a manner as _o win
frequent applause. His mimic of the
express train and'of battle were thoroughly appreciated. The drum used
by the Major was tbe one presented
him hy Horace G-reely after the battle
of Fredericksburgh. The sob. used the
fife recently presented him by the W.
Er. 0. at the late national ei_eam oment
at Indianapolis. Major Hendershot
and son remained in Cla^e Tuesday,
giving an entertainment at Harrison
that evening.
The SbhtihbI/ obtained an interview
with the Major while in the city and
found him very much of a -gentleman
as well as soldier. The son also is very
pleasant, being well educated and
quite a traveler, though not much enjoying the business of giving entertainments. They both expressed the intention of soon ceasing that work, but
the local W. B. C. obtained a promise
to retura to Clare to be present at the
dedicati©a of tbe Soldiers' monument.
Believing most of tbe readers of the
Sehth-BL would be interested in knowing just how Major Hendershot got his
title of "Drummer Boy of the Rappahannock," we induced him to tell the
story. Sober. Henry Hendershot enlisted at Detroit when eleven years
and eight months old as drummer boy
in. the 9th Michigan**- infantry, Colonel
LDuffield. The regiment was mustered
in Oct.. 25, 1861. At Murfreesboro,
Tenn., July 1862, he was.captured but
paroled and returned to Detroit.
Though not exchanged, he reinlisted
in Co. B of the 3th Michigan infantry,
as Robert Henry Henderson to-avoid
being recognized if captured again, the
penalty being death if found fighting
again under a parole. He accompanied
Chaplain Taylor to Washington and
joined Ms regiment before Fredericks-
burh in November.
On the day of the attack on Fred-
er ic__§bu_gh be crossed the river jwith
a "folorn hope." hanging to tbe btern
of a' pontoon. Returning across the
river he carried with him a clock, Lknife
and "fork and other articles found in a
house on the confederate side. He
then crossed again to the confederate
side set fire to a house, found a musket and captured a prisoner with it
and returned with bim, delivering him
in person to General Bumsideat the
Lacey House, where three cheers were
given for "Robert Henry Hendershot,
the drummer boy of the Rappahannock," the expression being used then
for the first time. Gen. Burnside advised nim not to c_oss the river again,
but wben the next charge was made
he earned a musket and was wounded
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TRTMIN & SCHILLING.
in the leg and was carried back to the
LLacey House. As soon as he was able
to go, Burnside sent him to/ his own
home by way of LNew York, where
Horace Greeley presented him with
the finest drum to be had. He was
employed in the Treasury department
until his leg was entirely well when he
entered the navy for six months, but
returned to City Point where he was
employed by Grant as a spy. Before
the close of the war be entered Richmond twice and Petersburgh three
times and brought back valuable information to the commander.
At the close of the war'Grant recommended Rabert for cadetsMp at West
Point, but he was unable to pass the
physical examination and so did not
enter. He then went to school at
Eastman's business college at Pough-
keepsie, L_T. Y:, being then about seventeen. Two years later he was married and has two daughters and a son.
LFor the past 19 years he has been in
the railroad mail service and his home
is in Chicago.
Wanted—A Creamery.
The matter of a creamery is being
agitated again, and should not be
dropped this time until pushed to completion. No matter what the reason
may have been for letting the past
year go by without a creamery, every
one seems to be of the opinion that it
would be a good thing. Those wbo
have had. experience or known the
effect on a community are the most
enthusiastic in its favor.
When the question of a creamery
was up for discussion last fall few of
the business men of the city took an
active interest in it. This was due
solely to the fact that they had not
been shown that it meant dollars in
their pockets. As soon as they do see
it, which we trust will not be long,
there will be a zealous rivalry between
the farmer and the store keeper to
see which can do most to hasten the
establishment of the creamery. The
farmer already sees that a factory to
turn his milk into a first class butter
product for the eastern city market
means a larger profit for his cows,
renders him independent of the local
market wMch is often over stoekfd,
brings him back ready and steady cash-
from the east, relieves the housewife of
caring for the milk and puts himself
in position to pay cash and make consequently better bargains.
To the merchant there are almost
equal advantages. The greatest of
these he may not at first fully measure; it it this, that' tbe cash flowing
from the eastern market to the farmers' pockets in this vicinity would, of
itself be a great loosening up of trade.
2fo one understands better than a
merchant that the cash, he takes, in
over the counter is continually flowing
to the cities where he buyes his goods.
The only way cash can be brought
back from those apparently bottomless
gulfs of the eastern manufacturing
centers is for the farmer to sell his
produce or the local small wood manufactories to get returns for their
shipments. The reason the merchants
of tbis city experience such an annual
dull trade every summer is because the
farmer then has nothing to ship.
Every one is familiar with the remark,
"Business will begin to pick up as soon
as the farmer sells his wheat." But
witb that grain a drug on the market
the farmers' resources are still further
cut off. With a steady monthly or
even weekly cash return for dairy product through the spring and summer,
to say nothing of the other six months,
tMs state of affairs would change and
trade would be good the year through.
It would no longer be either "a feast
or a famine."
Tbis is not all. not only would sales
be larger and steadier, but collection
would be better. While we always
favor new manufactories, we do not
hesitate to express the opimon that
a well established creamery in Olare
•would do more to build the business
interest of the town than a, factory
employing 25 men.
LNow let country and city join in
talking the matter up, organize, carefully select committees, 'push the
matter along, and by spring the. community can have a creamery, the
profits of which will pay the building
sin less than two years, or like that at
Scottville, which is. less favorbably
located, in oueyear. We have written
the above at no one's suggestion, but
because we are desirous for the prosperity of Clore and vicinty and are
confident that this is one of her step^
ping-stones to wider influence. Nor
is our confidence founded largely on
theory, for our earliet experiences
were had in the choicest dairy country
of America, where dairying was not a
side issue but the chief occupation.
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