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Birthplace of Lincoln of Lincoln The Lincoln Centenary f No Other American Farm Save Mount k Appreciation ] Rare Geniuses Were Born In Many Such a Wonder- 4 ||l ^ Vernon Has Produced | and Abraham Lincoln Was Great- \ 1809, y ful of Patriotism 0000 M Crop IMtota L@v® / \ est of Them All m m 0 M 0 m fa BLISS JSy By HORATIO \ By EUGENE FERRIS I « Copyright. 1000, by American Prc» Auocletlon Z Copyright, 1000, by American Press Association I COPYRIGHT, 1BOO. BY ROBERTOS L O V B — 1 — (An If • ^ ■■ ■ ■■ an ill # i VO miles from never been done Mrs. Lincoln. tiee bas Q? -=^) to the of the and Indirectly contributed split- Hodgenvllle, Ivy., She was not without a prophetic qual- EIE list ting of the Democratic party and the is a one hundred ity In divining her husband's future down thar round world's great Hodgenville, Kaintucky, deciding of the election. Oddly also, and ten acre she had Insight, men born In eminence, spiritual Or a hundred tharabouts, year ago, whose the two men were personal friends, farm that raises she suffered many sorrows, and de- SOMEWHAR 1809 and Was born a wouldn’ was and In the test of war Judge Douglas her difference from Mr. Lincoln boy ye thought lucky; centenaries will little except pa- spite Lincoln's cel- came valiantly to President triotism. The In temperament and inherited manners Looked like he never wouldn’ have a show. therefore be * * * ebrated support. crops on it are and beliefs she was loyal to him Eut I don’ know. during As for Booth, his motive in slaying for the most throughout. the present year That boy was started middlin’ well, I'm thinkin’. Lincoln has always been something pnrt stunted and One other character has been mini- Is surprisingly a there was a con- His name? it was Abraham—Abe Lincoln. '1*1 le num- of mystery. .That have a discour- mized much in the same way—William W’y, large. spiracy and that he entered into it II. Lincoln’s chief ber roaches into aged appearance. Seward, competitor his rea- J. WILKES BOOTH. thescores. Chief there seems little doubt, but X’erhaps this de- for the presidential nomination and Whites his folks was? as as Yes, pore any. the son for the step has never been made comes afterward his of state. One among poets were Tennyson, 1’oe. jection secretary wa’n’t no a Them pioneers, they plutocrats; Holmes, Fitzgerald nnd Lord clear. Whether be had private griev- from dodging thing that can be said for Seward is PORE Hough- down the humble ton. Of musicians were ance, acted through sentimental sym- about to miss was man to acknowl- Belonged right among many, there Chopin that he enough was and of Dar- pathy with the south or simply the rocks or from edge Lincoln’s greatness when he saw And no more property than dogs or cats. Mendelssohn; scientists, win and lesser crazed by the great events of the pe- trying to find It. lie refused to plot against his But * * * maybe that’s many lights; of fight- Admiral Kit Carson. riod is yet a matter of controversy In the as did some of his fellow mem- ers, Dahlgren, fertility chief, a as for a startin’. so. As good way any Marshal of statesmen, and doubtless will always remain soil, a hopeless bers of the cabinet. He was a wise C'nnrobert; Abe he riz middlin’ for sartin! and Abrn- Considering his talents and brilliant task. Whatever counselor and unselfish statesman. He Lincoln, high, Gladstone, Hannibal Hamlin bam connections, the last supposi- the the to Alaska Lincoln. family cause, had enough foresight buy and the Lincoln and the tion is the probable certainly fact remains that when the public scoffed at him for the a sort o’ Darwin, perhaps I’ve always had sneakin’ charitable one. LINCOLN IN 1862. the latest tenant act. The truth about Seward is that most celebrated of the list, were born Idee that is much Lincoln said that his life peddygrees purty on the same One abolished chat- early was unable to make enougn irom ine he was of a very high type, but not- day. SOMEHOW tails—so to weaken might be described in a line from to meet the as the his was over- Like monkeys’ long they’re apt tel slavery, preserved the world's place taxes, just withstanding height short and annals and set democratic Gray, “The simple earliest one of record, a certain farmer- shadowed. The yap that drags ’em round. No use for suchl greatest republic of the poor.” He came of English; of the name of Thomus Lin- life falls Into two * * * government a long step forward; the carpenter Mr. Lincoln’s But beats the Dutch while of wrote Quakers. His parents, good failed out of the the re- other revolutionized science and coln, to get enough great divisions—that preceding now and then a lad like Little the had How Aby the word “evolution" into the lan- family, belonged to frontier, barren acres to pay for them. of the Missouri and peal compromise or no education and no Grows a guvnor, maybe. nnd of men. little money. Yet this spot of the of the up president—or guage thoughts stony, unproductive formation Republican par- son was never burdened with fame has with ev- The Is now one of the world'* these twin Lincoln’s grown earth ty and that following His hour since his death and is these things himself. schooling shrines. On Feb. 12 presidents, gov- events. His one term In was ery yet congress altogether did not amount to a year. cardinals and cabinet In growing. His hold on the hearts of ernors, Judges, the last Important public service he omniv- men comes not alone from his acts Yet taught himself, reading ministers there to orate and were foregather the first period. Following this such books as he could These but him into the orously pro- these rocks and sterile soil or brought public dedicate five or six years of law with little these were the- It was the sweetness of his char- cure. Fortunately to the for all the days no In Lincoln had eye. patches people politics. congress best—the Bible, Shakespeare, Aesop. of the hills a white acter, his mercy and simplicity, his to come. On one gained a reputation as a story teller Thomas Paine. to his common “Pilgrim's Progress,” memorial hall after a Greek two cam- loyalty truth, homely patterned and wit, had made one or Robert Burns and the lives of Wash- sense, his literary quality and his per temple will likewise be consecrated paign speeches, had Introduced a him ington nnd Clay. ns a Mecca for future feet democracy that have given and left genera- mensure to abolish slavery in the Dis- Lincolns left not the In 1810 the Kentucky tions. The Incloses an old one second, if first, place among temple trict of Columbia and had refused to and two later the men of his own land and won for Indiana, years room with a stick chimney, war was great log cabin, say that the Mexican right- was a time of intense him the affection of all lands. mother died. It one one window and no floor at door, eous. Following his term he had ap- and saddened the life. The of his on Feb misery boy’s all. In this cabin was born a man plied for the office of land commission- centenary birth, to Its will be celebrated as has been that child whom the world has taken er, to which he had not been appoint- 12, of no other American. On the birth- heart—Abraham Lincoln, war president ed, and had been offered the governor- farm in a memorial nnd liberator, man of meekness and ship of Oregon, which he declined. In place Kentucky will be mercy, strange compound of sorrow 1850 he refused another nomination building dedicated, speeches being delivered by President Roose- to congress and In 1852 delivered a velt, of War Luke E eulogy on Henry Clay. It was In 1854 Secretary Court Justice Oliver that he really re-entered politics, be- Wright, Supreme Wendell Holmes, Cardinal Gibbons ing stirred thereto by the repeal of and Governors Folk of Missouri and the Missouri compromise. That year Willson of Kentucky. The address of he was elected to the legislature, but President while short, will refused to serve. He was also a can- Roosevelt, it is one of his most am- didate for United States senator, com- be, believed, bitious efforts. It will constitute prac- ing within a few votes of winning. his last utterance ns With rnre unselfishness he threw all tically important and he to it his strength to Lyman Trumbull and president, designs place ns in the class with Lincoln’s elected him. For Lincoln to go to nearly address as he is able. The .Trumbull-, who bad hut a handful Jif Gettysburg memorial building itself 1ST small aTTft supporters, was like the tall wagging of simple but classic design. Sur- the dog, but It prevented the election rounded by Greek pillars and ap- of a proslnvery man. proached by broad flightB of steps, it In 1850 Mr. Lincoln participated in makes a striking appearance on the the formation of the Republican party, humble Kentucky farm. It complete- making his great "lost speech” at ly surrounds and incloses the little IJNCOUt IN 1801. Bloomington. He also received 110 log cabin in which Lincoln was born, rotes for vice president in the ltepub- ^(ABRAHAM LINCOLN); “All that I am, all that 1 hope to be, which after its wanderings has been he after- lloan national convention and ran for I owe to my angel mother!” re-erected on its original site.