xt77sq8qc92w https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt77sq8qc92w/data/mets.xml Alexander, Arabel Wilbur. 1898 books b92-53-27061877 English Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, : Nashville, Tenn. : Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. Helm, Lucinda Barbour, 1839-1897. Woman's Home Mission Society (Tampa, Fla.) Methodism History. Life and work of Lucinda B. Helm : founder of the Woman's Parsonage and Home Mission Society of the M.E. church, South / by Arabel Wilbur Alexander. text Life and work of Lucinda B. Helm : founder of the Woman's Parsonage and Home Mission Society of the M.E. church, South / by Arabel Wilbur Alexander. 1898 2002 true xt77sq8qc92w section xt77sq8qc92w 1-4 M b THE LIFE AND WORK OF 9Luciuba f13. lbehn, FOUNDER OF THE WOMAN'S PARSONAGE AND HOME MISSION SOCIETY OF THE M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH. BY ARABEL WILBUR ALEXANDER. We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of Divine Providence in behalf of the human race.-Emerson. NASHVILLE, TENN.: PUBLISHING HousE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH. BARBEE SMITH, AGENTS. 189S. Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year iSgS, By ARABEL WILBUR ALEXANDER, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. TO THE WOMEN OF THE HOME MISSION SOCIETY OF THE M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH. This page in the original text is blank. PREFACE. LUCINDA B. HELM'S relation to a movement which had its birth in her fertile brain, and has grown up under her leadership to be one of the most potent and efficient departments of the great Methodist Epis- copal Church, South, makes it eminently appropriate that the story of her life and work should be told. During her life she was urged by many to publish a full account of her work; but, although possessing the ability to lead and organize, to mold thought and direct energies, she had the modesty that shrank from this task, as became a lady of her gentle breeding. The intimacy between her and the writer was such that conversations concerning the history and develop- ment of her work were frequent, and in one of these she expressed a desire that if the facts were ever given in permanent form it should be done by the author, adding: " When I am gone, I think perhaps God would use the record as a blessing." Thus, while wish- ing that a worthier pen might render this loving serv- ice, we trace with sacred feelings the footsteps of this peerless woman. It has been a source of encouragement that so many requests have been made since her death for a prepara- tion of her biography. Her host of friends through- LUCINDA B. HELM. out the Church desire to know more of the inner springs of a life that was so fair and beautiful in itself, and that brought such help and inspiration to thou- sands. In response this little volume goes forth with the prayer that its imperfections may be overlooked, and that it may contribute to the promotion of that cause for which she gave her life. We wish to acknowledge with gratitude the assist- ance rendered by Miss Mary Helm, the late Dr. David Morton, and other friends. THE AUTHOR. INTRODUCTION. THE mission of Christ to the world was to save it from sin; the mission of his followers is to give the story of this evangel to every creature. Early in life, even in girlhood, Miss Helm had received a vision of her Lord and his mission. She taught and superin- tended a night-school for negroes. Thus began the work of laboring in the kingdom of God, a work which grew from dropping a few seeds near her Ken- tucky home to the sowing beside all waters. In later years she had the privilege, among many other under- takings, of making the first donation for the establish- ment of a mission in Korea. Wholesomeness of religious life is rare; some per- sons are consumed by zeal; others are apathetic and self- controlled. Asceticism is not yet dead; while on the other hand there are men and women who feed on the emotional and sensuous side of religious life. No one was ever better poised than was this woman. With an uncompromising adherence to the right, she was no Pharisee; and, with a courage of conviction which made her a fearless advocate of truth, she was no Puritan. There was in her a joyousness of faith and a buoyancy of spirit which carried constant sun- shine. LUCINDA B. HELM. How magnificently she was endowed for leadership! Out from the discipline of a remarkable mother's realm, and from the counsels of a father invested with the care of a great commonwealth, came this woman with a body as frail as a flower, but with the courage of a Deborah. Hers was a spirit so resolute that no infirmity could conquer it. Hers was a strength of will so powerful that difficulties melted away as mist before the morning sun. Consecration, sympathy, in- tellectual grasp and soundness of judgment character- ized her life-work. " Glimpses into the inner regions of a great soul do one good," wrote Amiel in his journal. " Contact of this kind strengthens, restores, refreshes. At the sight of a man we too say to ourselves: ' Let us also be men."' It is appropriate that the author of this life-sketch should lead us along the unbeaten paths where many, who did not know Miss Helm personally, may come into closer touch with her remarkable life. As the author had learned to know and love her so well as a friend, their companionship in effort and fellowship in Christ make her eminently qualified for this work. WALTER R. LAMBUTI. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE Ancestry.................... 13 CHAPTER II. Girlhood .................................... 26 CHAPTER III. Early Missionary Work ................... 45 CHAPTER IV. Woman's Department of Church Extension ..... 6o CHAPTER V. Woman's Parsonage and Home Mission Society . 84 CHAPTER VI. Full Development of the Work ....... ......... io8 CHAPTER VII. Editorial Work ............................. 134 CHAPTER VIII. Twilight .................... i68 This page in the original text is blank. LUCINDA BARBOUR HELM. DECEMBER 23, 1839-NOVEMBER 15. 1897. Behold, what manner of love the Eather hath bUs/owed upon us, that we should be called children of God!l (,-John iii. r.) This page in the original text is blank. CHAPTER 1. ANCESTRY. "When a firm, decisive spirit is recognized, it is curioas to see how the space clears around a man and leaves himn room and freedom."-Foster. THE ancestry of Lucinda B. Helm may be 1traced back to an early period in the history of our country. Some of her forefathers, it is be- lieved, could boast of patrician blood, while others possessed a nobility higher than that of birth or station-the nobility of personal character. The family was one of the most influential of those that originally settled the Old Dominion colony. The first in the direct ancestral line of which we have any definite record was Thomas Helm, the grand- father of the late Gov. Helm and great-grandfather of Lucinda B. Helm. In 1780 he, with his family, left Prince William County, Va., where he had been born and reared, and started to seek his fortune in the yet unexplored wilderness of Kentucky. They reached the falls of the Ohio (where the city of Louisville is now situated) in March, at which place he remained for about a year; but as his family suffered from diseases contracted there, he mounted his horse one morning and set his face in- LUCINDA B. HELM. land, with the determination not to return until he had selected a permanent abiding-place. On the third day of his search he reached the foot of the hill in the vicinity of the present village of Eliza- bethtown. This hill commands the site of the place where he afterward lived and died, and also of the cemetery where he is now buried, sur- rounded by his descendants to the fifth generation. A singular circumstance is related in connection with the selection made by Thomas Helm of his future place of residence. Before leaving Vir- ginia, but while deliberating on the subject of a re- moval, he had dreamed of just such a spot as that upon which his eye rested when he ascended the hill to which we have referred. The very spring at which he drank-rushing out of its rocky bed, strong and clear-was as the visionary fountain that had appeared to him in his dream. The co- incidence startled him, and, although anything but a superstitious man, he accepted the omen as a happy one, and concluded to search no farther. This grandfather of Gov. Helm was just the kind of man to make his way in a new country. Daring, active, and possessing tastes suited to the life of a pioneer, he was soon the occupant of a strongly built fort, which he had erected for the protection of his family against the then frequent predatory excursions of roving bands of Indians. This fort was situated in the small valley which in- tersects the hills traversing the farm now known as HER LIFE AND WORK. "Helm Place." Although Thomas Helm and his wife came of good families, they did not regret the hardships encountered in the "wilderness" of Kentucky. Gradually the Indians left the state, and Mr. Helm built a comfortable house beside the old fort, which served them for a residence the remainder of their days. When a boy Gov. Helm was a great favorite with his grandparents. His grandfather was the oracle of the neighborhood on all matters con- nected with the Revolutionary era and the Indian troubles of Kentucky. It was at the knee of his venerable progenitor that he drank in the history of his country, and learned to appreciate the sac- rifices made by the patriot band that achieved our liberties. His maternal grandparents were John and Mary Larue, who had emigrated from the valley of the Shenandoah, Va., in I784. Mrs. Larue was a beautiful and gifted woman. The county in which they lived, adjoining Hardin County, was named for their family-Larue County. Their daughter, Rebecca Larue, was a babe when her parents came to Kentucky, having been born in Frederick County, Va. She afterward became the wife of George Helm and mother of Gov. John L. Helm. No man in that section of country was more re- spected than George Helm. He filled, at different times, various offices, civil and legislative, in the service of his fellow citizens. 15 LUCINDA B. HELM. John Larue Helm, the father of Lucinda B. Helm, was born on the 4th of July, i802, at the old Helm homestead on the table-land of " Mul- drough's Hills," one and one-fourth miles north of the village of Elizabethtown. The country at that time was sparsely peopled. The war-whoop of the red man had then scarcely ceased its echoes through the forests, and herds of wild animals wandered over woodland and prairie, fearlessly and almost undisturbed. The country embraced a ter- ritory which is now divided into three counties and parts of others, and the inhabitants consisting then of a few hundred are now numbered by thousands. John L. Helm lived with his parents and grand- parents up to the age of sixteen, and for about eight years attended various schools in the neigh- hood. With a mind naturally bright and strong, and remarkable habits of industry, his advance- ment in knowledge was swift and easy. He was at his books in the morning before others had arisen, and long after they were sleeping at night he was at them again, storing his mind with the wisdom of the past. Before the age of sixteen he had a knowledge rarely acquired by men at that period of the history of his country and the char- acter of its institutions. He had scarcely reached the age of twenty when death deprived him of his father, and he was not only thrown upon his own resources for subsistence and further necessary ed- ucation, but suddenly found himself the main sup- HER LIFE AND WORK. port of his mother and the younger children. This phase of the bereavement, however, proved to be a blessing in the making of his magnificent man- hood. The members of the family found their hearts more closely drawn together in their afflic- tion, and, mutually striving to lessen each others' burdens, they lived on in hope of a better future. This came at last, principally through the un- flagging energy of the elder son. His nobility of character was further exemplified by his assumption, a few years later, of the entire in- debtedness of his father's estate, which he paid off out of the first-fruits of his legal profession. After he had become prominent in political circles, and a man of some means, he became very much attached to a young lady, who was the daughter of Hon. Ben Hardin, one of the most celebrated lawyers and orators that Kentucky has ever pro- duced. At one time Mr. Hardin was an opposing attorney to a lawyer from Pennsylvania in an im- portant case. The Pennsylvanian found himself so badly discomfited in the contest that he soon returned to his native state. His name was James Buchanan, afterward President of the United States. Mr. Hardin had a pleasant home that had become the accustomed stopping-place of Meth- odist ministers. He used to say: "My wife is a member, and I am an outside pillar of the Meth- odist Church." This young lawyer, Mr. John Helm, made fre- 2 17 LUCINDA B. HELM. quent visits to the home of Hon. Ben Hardin, and laid siege to the heart of his eldest daughter, Lu- cinda. She was a beautiful young girl, with rare intellectual gifts. He had met her accidentally one day when he had called to see her father on business. She was only fourteen years of age then, and while he was in the parlor she went in to show her father a map she had drawn. All of her studies were under the immediate supervision of her father, to whom she was devoted. Mr. Helm said he loved her at first sight. There was something irresistible about her even at that early age. As she grew older she was still more attract- ive, and her career as a young lady was a brilliant one. She spent several winters with her father at the capital, and also in visiting Mrs. Maj. William Preston and other women of prominent social standing in Louisville. An extremely rich man sought to gain her affections, but she said he had very little sense, and she realized then how intol- erable a married life would be for her unless the virtues of the man lay in his character rather than in his estates. Mr. John Helm persevered in his attentions to her for seven years; but at the end of that time he claimed her for his own, and they were married at Bardstown, Ky., in 1830. The happy and gifted young couple went to Elizabeth- town, while Mr. Helm began to build their elegant residence in which they ever afterward lived. This residence, situated about one and one-fourth z 8 HER LIFE AND WORK. miles from Elizabethtown, and known as " Helm Place," is still the home of their children. The entrance to the grounds is about a fourth of a mile from the house, the approach to which is made beautiful by an overarching avenue of Scotch fir-trees, which continue to the summit of the hill, where it opens into a circle leading to the house. It is a typical " old Kentucky home," built of brick, with spacious rooms and broad verandas. Mrs. Helm was delighted at the prospect of keeping house in their beautiful new home. The sterling worth of her character could hardly be overestimated. She was a devoted and helpful wife, and as her husband steadily rose to promi- nence she was his most fitting companion. With a noble ancestry, equal to that of her hus- band's, she was by birth and every right which society recognizes entitled to all the social prestige that can be given one. Tall, stately, and hand- some, she was indeed a queen among women, a noticeable figure in any assemblage of cultured and elegant people. In the relation of mother she showed such wis- dom and beauty of character that her large family of children were devoted to her, and have kept her before their memory all down the years as their ideal of womanhood. She was such a potent factor in molding the characters of her eleven children that we insert a few pen pictures of her methods and her home associations. I9 LUCINDA B. HELM. The subject of this biography has stated repeat- edly that she owed all the worth of her character to the teachings of her wonderful mother. The noblest attributes of that mother's womanhood, the brilliant luster of her intellect, the charms and graces of social culture-all found their highest expression through her motherhood. Its respon- sibilities, cares, joys, and privileges superseded all else with her. Her sons held all womanhood in chivalrous reverence, because they accepted her as its type; while her daughters felt that with such a type before them they must needs aspire to the highest to reach her standard, and to fall below was to fail in life. Miss Mary Helm, in writing of her mother, says: "Instead of my mother pining for the opportu- nities of social life, from which she became in a measure debarred by her large family of children and by living in her country home, she made that home bright by her wonderful flow of joyous spir- it, humor, and repartee. There was no such thing as a dull hour when mother was in the house; in her absence, the sun was in eclipse. In our child- hood she was the merry companion of our games; as school children she gave a strict supervision to our studies. After lessons were over, in the eve- ning came those delightful hours of reading and conversation that I shall never forget. Ah! Chris- topher North never presided over more delightful noctes ambrosianlz. Her knowledge was lavished HER LIFE AND WORK. upon her children, who thrilled under her exqui- site reading from the master minds of literature, or glowed with the ardor that longed to emulate as she recounted the deeds of the world's heroes. I can never forget how my childish heart swelled until it overflowed in tears as she told us of Martin Luther before the Diet of Worms. Moral cour- age she held the highest, yet to fail in physical courage was a disgrace. "My mother was given to hospitality, enter- taining with a grace and dignity that made her an elegant as well as charming hostess. Parties, teas, and dinings of the formal kind were frequent; but what she enjoyed most was the informal coming together for the day of her chosen friends. There were many occasions when, for weeks at a time, the only limit to the guests was when the last bed was full. Her children were also at full liberty to fill the house with their friends; and, whether they were old or young, she was the center of attraction for them as well as for her own family, and en- joyed all the fun as much as any one else in the house. "My mother was a born commander, without the slighest element of a tyrant. Not only her own children, but everybody's children obeyed her. They could not help it, and they did not want to help it. Consistent, prompt, and systematic, she had well-defined laws for governing her family and house. My father left all domestic matters entire- 2I LUCINDA B. HELM. ly to her. His admiration for her was unbounded. What she did could not have been better done; what she said was beyond question the right thing. With the children he was always her stanch sup- porter, never entertaining for an instant any ap- peal from her decision. Besides raising eleven children to maturity, and giving them attention in every line, she was a most thorough housekeeper, and trained her servants to perfection, not only for present service, but the young for the future. Cooks, laundresses, waiters, maids, and seam- tresses all received their training from her per- sonally. It was a fine model of an industrial school, and all were devoted to her. " Every spring and fall she cut out with her own hands all the garments worn by the negro women and children, and the shirts for the men (my father owned sixty negroes); she attended to the picking of the wool, the spinning, and the knitting into socks or weaving into cloth. By her servants (the word 'slave' was never heard) she was regarded as something beyond human. Be- sides training them in material things, she instilled moral and religious truth in every way possible. She encouraged their confidence, but never brooked familiarity. Quick to defend one who was mistreated or oppressed, she was the Cour,- of Appeals for final settlement of every case where overseer, parents, children, or the strong abused their power. When sickness came she 22 HER LIFE AND WORK. nursed them all with tender carefulness. At one time there were five of her own children and ten of the negroes very ill with scarlet fever, and she gave every dose of medicine day and night, going with a lantern from cabin to cabin all through the night; and so successful was her care that all re- covered. " For years Sister Lucinda was almost an in- valid, needing her care day and night; and later, when I became a helpless sufferer for many years, she went through it all again. For eighteen months she was never out of the sound of my voice, and for five years never left me for longer than an hour. During all that time she kept up my despairing heart with her indomitable courage and unfailing hope, turning my morbid thoughts to brighter things outside of self, leading them into fields of literature and art, history and fancy. She was the most wonderful combination of an encyclopedia and a magician! But when the darkest hours would come, and my rebellious soul refused its God, with a firm hand she held my spirit in check while her own faith took hold on God in prayer. Oh, those prayers! I have never heard anything like them. They had to be an- swered, and they were." Thus this grand, broad-natured woman gave herself to her children in such a way that in after- years they naturally became distinguished for their mental and moral worth. 23 LUCINDA B. HELM. The eldest son, Ben Hardin Helm, educated at West Point, afterward a lawyer of high standing, was finally a brigadier-general in the Confederate service, and fell at the battle of Chickamauga. In i86I he became a brother-in-law to President Lin- coln, having married Mrs. Lincoln's sister. The President, who was his personal friend and ad- mirer, offered him the position of quartermaster- general of the United States army at the begin- ning of the civil war; but Mr. Helm declined, tendered his services to the Confederacy, and was killed when in command of what was known as the " Orphan Brigade." Lizzie Barbour Helm, their eldest daughter, married Hon. H. W. Bruce, who was a member from Kentucky of the first permanent Congress of the Confederate States, and is at present chief attorney of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. George Helm, now dead, was a lawyer, and a man of very noble character. Their fifth daughter, Emily Palmer Helm, mar- ried Martin Hardin Marriott, who died young, [and she has for two years managed the Industrial Department of the Scarritt Bible and Training School, in Kansas City, Mo.]; while Misses Mary and Lucinda Helm have been known and loved in Methodist Church circles all over our Southland for many years. Thus is strikingly shown that for generations back the Helm family has been distin- guished for strength of mind and nobility of charac- 24 HER LIFE AND WORK. 25 ter. These qualities were illustrated in a marked degree by the beloved founder of the Woman's Home Mission Society of the M. E. Church, South. With the mind of a lawyer and the heart of a saint, she gave her remarkable intelligence, energy, and faith to the establishment of a work that has iden- tified her inseparably with the history of American Methodism. CHAPTER 11. GIRLHOOD. "alNo one is born into this world whose work is not born with hiln." -Lowell. I T was said by Lucinda Helm's mother that she I believed little Lucinda was converted before she could talk, so marked was her individuality even in infancy, and so devout her instincts be- fore they could hardly be called "beliefs." Prayer was to her little mind a most sacred thing, and she became conscious of a higher Power in her life almost as soon as she was conscious of her mother. When as a very small child she was wil- ful or obdurate, she could not be corrected as the other children, but the mention of God in prayer made her perfectly submissive and obedient. Be- fore she was old enough to go to school she taught herself to read, and the Bible was her text-book. It was a matter of remark by the other members of the family that little Lucinda, a mere prattling infant, should open the old family Bible, and at her mother's knee learn the letters and spell out the words. She writes in later years of the joy she experi- enced in the gift of her _irst Bible. She says: " When I was very small my father brought home HER LIFE AND WORRKK. one day some Bibles. He gave each of my two older sisters one, and I thought that was all; they were always coupled together. But there was one more. When I took in the idea it was for me I sprang up with a bound of joy. My mother had told us stories out of her big Bible, and now I had a little one all my own! I shall never forget my delight as I hugged it to my heart, or my father's merry laugh at my impulsiveness. How I loved that Bible, loved to find the stories, loved to know my father brought it to me! With what zest I re- peated the lines: Holy Bible, book divine, Precious treasure, thou art mine! Many times in after-years in the agony of sorrow I have soothed myself to sleep by holding it to my heart as I did that first day it came to me when a little child." The honesty, simplicity, and frankness that characterized her during her entire life was stri- kingly prominent in her childhood. Absolutely faithful to her convictions of right and wrong, even in childhood, she resolutely refused to compromise any matter of principle, and would endure with unflinching steadfastness popular disfavor, if need be, to maintain the right. She has told us that when childish difficulties arose in play she invari- ably chose the side of the weak ones or those in disfavor, and used every means her little brain could devise to properly balance things. A ver- 27 LUCINDA B. HELM. itable peacemaker and missionary she was from the beginning. Her love for books and study was all-absorbing. Everything interested her. The world was a sort of fairy-land, out of which she would often weave wonderful stories, to the great delight and entertainment of her child friends. She never had robust health after she was four years old, and when she was eight the family phy- sician told her mother that she might die any mo- ment from heart-disease or she might possibly live for fifty years. Although often prostrated by illness and always very delicate, she advanced rapidly at school. When but a little child she stood at the head of a class of nearly grown boys and girls, her blue eyes sparkling with intellectual ambition, while her poor, weak heart beat so hard and fast that her little white apron would quiver from its puls- ing. Many times she had to run aside from her frisking, romping playmates, and rest under the old apple-trees in their shady back yard. One would hardly have thought, seeing her then so sweet and fragile like the blossoms that fell upon her, that she would after all have a career of wider useful- ness than any of her companions. The favorite playground for the children was a large garden back of the house; and as their mother was a nat- ural florist and horticulturalist, their yard was bril- liant with flowers and shrubs from early spring until snow. 28 HER LIFE AND WORK. The old - fashioned garden was divided into squares, each square bordered with flowers of ev- ery variety, and there were summer-houses dense- ly covered with honeysuckles and grape arbors. Little Lucinda loved the old-fashioned flowers: the daffodils and morning-glories. The wide, well-kept walks made splendid race-tracks for the children and their friends in the neighborhood. In the lower part of the yard was a large spring, and the brook that flowed from it was to them en- chanting in its sparkling beauty. They made sail- ing-vessels in which they fancied themselves "storm-tossed and wrecked on cannibal islands." Lucinda could excel all the others in making cataracts and sailing her little bark boats as she accompanied them with wonderful made-up fairy tales of adventure about them and their crew. She was so imaginative, and read so many stories from "Arabian Nights " and other child-lore, that she was unanimously chosen as the best at making up stories, half the charm of them being in the fact that she and the others too were so carried away in fancy that for the time being it was reality to them. All the children had their little negro maids, who played with them, and Lucinda was much at- tached to hers, and continued so until the maid's death, which occurred soon after she became free. An important personage, who figured largely in 29 LUCINDA B. HELM. the home of her childhood, was old Aunt Gilly. She was nurse to all the eleven children; but little Lucinda was preeminently her " chile," partly be- cause her ill health so frequently made her require a nurse's care. The children often had " night-schools " inasmall way for the negroes, and here Lucinda was in her element, especially on Sunday afternoon, at which time she was superintendent and principal teacher. At their prayer-meetings they would get her to come and read the Bible for them, then they prayed one after another, and when they prayed lovingly for " little Miss Cindy," who had read God's Word to them, it made her very hap- py. She says in speaking afterward of those days: " They continually looked to me for this service. If one of the older ones sat spelling out the words in her Testament on a quiet Sabbath afternoon, it came very natural for me to sit down by her, take the book, and read the precious words to her. I learned to find the most comfort- ing passages that told of God's wonderful love and his bright promises of the ' happy land of Ca- naan.' " Of those early years of ministry to the negro servants and others she again says: " More times than I can count did God speak through my child lips to the blind, the sick, the sinful, the sorrowing, the old, the dying-speak to their hearts through me with a meaning I could not then comprehend, 30 HER LIFE AND WORK. though the words passed my lips. It was God speaking to them, not I. He was using my voice to say his own words." When she was about eleven years old her father became Governor of the state, succeeding J. J. Crittenden, who resigned to accept a place in President Taylor's cabinet. He removed his family at this time from their country home near Elizabethtown to the seat of government at Frank- fort. Here she was brought into contact with un- accustomed gaiety, calculated to fascinate a young and ardent nature, but she was glad when the family returned at the end of a year to their beau- tiful old home. Her father, after serving the first term as Governor, applied himself to his pro- fession for the three years following, and then became President of the great Louisville and Nash- ville Railroad, of which he was practically the originator. The first train that crossed the Roll- ing Fork into his native county bore the Presi- dent of the road. He was a proud man that day, and justly so. He had lived to serve the ma- terial interests of his people, to see his own be- loved county wedded to the beautiful Ohio, fifty miles away, and his heart dilated with a sense of pleasure as his lifelono friends and neighbors, from the positions they had taken up beside the track all along the course, waved to him their congratulations as he was swiftly borne on his way to Elizabethtown