She entertained us with her reminiscences of the War.

With great self-denial she had served her country in camp and hospital, and was with Sherman's army in that wonderful march to the sea, and here we found her on the outpost of civilization, determined to start what Kansas most needed--a good hotel.
But alas! it was too good for that latitude and proved a financial failure.

It was, to us, an oasis in the desert, where we would gladly have lingered if the opposition would have come to us for conversion.
But, as we had to carry the gospel of woman's equality into the highways and hedges, we left dear Mother Bickerdyke with profound regret.

The seed sown in Kansas in 1867 is now bearing its legitimate fruits.

There was not a county in the State where meetings were not held or tracts scattered with a generous hand.