Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1888 — A Mother's Prayer Answered. [ARTICLE]

A Mother's Prayer Answered.

Bangor Commercial. A very peculiar case is reported from Burlington by Mr. J. W. Bradbury, a resident of that town. On Friday of last week. Mrs. Esther Potter, of Long Ridge, died at her father's house, Alonzo Tripp, of consumption, after a lingering and painful illness. She was the mother of four children, three of whom, with a bereaved husband, a father, mother, brothers and sisters, she leaves to mourn her loss. But what seemed the hardest part of dying was that she must leave behind her babe of seventeen months, and her frequent prayer was that it might be permitted to go with her. At about 11 a. m., feeling her hour of departure was near, and calling her friends around her bed, bidding them good-by, kissing her children, one by one, a last farewell, and clinging to her babe as though no earthly power could sever the tie that bound them together, she earnestly prayed that it might accompany her on her journey home; and the child, who, but an hour before was aIL well as usual, playing about the room, immediately after receiving a kiss from its dying mother, closed its eyes, and in five minutes or less the spirit took its fight and the child was dead. The mother expired about 7 p. m. Both were buried in one coffin. Henry Bergh, founder and President of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, died at New York Monday. Hisacitivity in behalf of the right of animals to kind treatment has given him a world-wide reputation. Wm. Pittman and a man named Blaine at Springeville, A. T, had a quarrel over cards and agreed to settle it by a duel. Both men fell dead at the first fire. Rice & Griffin, sash and blind manufacturers of Worchester, Mass., have divided $1,476 among their employes as their share of the profits of 1887. 1 Much adieu about nothing—A woman’s fare well-