this time, April, 1906, he is enjoying good health and great opportunities for service in Miraflores Hospital, Canal Zone Panama.

Alma Hearne took a course in the Iowa Washington University at Mt. Pleasant, graduating in the class of 1899. In May she married Rev. C. H. Holland, a classmate, who had been a mission teacher in Chili, South America, where he contracted lung trouble that caused his death in Feb.. 1902. For two years Alma taught in the New York Deaconess training school, and in Nov. 1904. went to Jubbulpore, India, as a teacher in an Orphanage of three hundred girls.

Samuel Hearne, the father, served three years during the Civil War in the Second Iowa Infantry, was in the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Corinth. He now lives with his daugther, Mrs. Jennie H. Brookhart of Washington, Iowa. All the family are members of the Methodist church. A PIONEER MOTHER.

Mrs. Nancy (Jackson) Hearne. born in Worcester County, Maryland, 1812. She came west with her husband, Thomas Hearne. T836. traveling by boat on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to Keokuk. On the journey westward, May, the eldest born, was stricken, and in a few days was dead. The boat paused to give the little one a lonely resting place on the Kentucky shore. The sturdy, industrious father pushed on to the far West, and 1836 entered a rich tract of land on the Des Moines river, two miles north of Keosauqua. We can scarcely imagine the condition of things in those days. The Black Hawk war had been over but a short time; the red men did not vet understand that the whites had a rizbt to the rich valley. The timid young wife, with her helpless little ones, was often visited bv the inquiring Sacs an(I Foxes. "Ten Indians to one white man" made tip the population in those clays. A camp of several hundred Indians less than a mile from the home often caused anxiety. Trinkets and bright colors were regarded covetously by the braves. They loved the little "pale-faces" and somtimes brought offerings of fish and venison, asking to borrow the baby. The food and clothing was all prepared in the home. The ‘wool-carders,’ spinning-wheel and loam all serve to remind one of the industry and patience of the past generation.

Grandma "is the last leaf upon the tree," She is a woman of

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