A LAWSUIT LOSES ONE MILLION "Men is sho’ fickle,” said Miss Mia- WINNING mi Brown; “dey goes back on you on IN LINCOLN’S BIRTHPLACE. IN TWELVE MONTHS de slightest provocation.” “What's happenin’?" INCIDENT IN LEGAL CAREER OF been asked Miss Alice Jef- Gamblers Get That Amount From HUMOR ferson Tompkins. "Mr. Rastus Pink- ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Theodore R. Hostetter, Who ley come aroun’ tryin’ to kiss, an’ se- as not to Died In seem too willin’ an’ audaci- Woman Living in New England Whose Fa. then Was Born in the a Sanitarium. ous I smashed 'lm wlf a flat-iron, an* Simple Scheme Evolved in His Shrewd WIBEMf jes' foh dat he Jilted me!” New Brain by Which He Saved His Client, York, Feb. 9.—Theodore R. Historic Log Cabin.—Stories of the Early Days. Hostetter, the multimillionaire, who In his "Random Recollections,** "Duff" from Death on A Most Statesman. Armstrong, at the age of 32 died suddenly at a Accomplished Chas. H. E. Brookfield, a highly es- "My boy, the is the Gallows. Park avenue sanitarium in August way to succeed teemed actor on the London stags, always right. Clay said last, left a check book which shows to do Henry says: "I remember a piece which we be than Presi- Lincoln has been dead thirty-eight sick, in Indiana, la ISIS, abont the | "The river rose while grandma was that during the final year of his Ilfs he would rather right produced at the Comedy Theatre, writ- have so many garbled ten by popular author, and very fears. same time that Lincoln’s mother, away and she toiled laboriously to get There been he lost $636,000 at gambling dent" a i in this cast, amused all Most of those who knew Nancy Hanks, and her uncle and aunt home as soon as she When she versions of the famous incident in city. places he patronized were "Was he President?” strongly which us personally | could. The so much that we could hardly rehearse Mtn have also passed on into silence, Sparrow died. All were buried to- ¦ got nearly home she found everything Abraham Lincoln's legal career in those run by Richard Canfield, Phil “No; but he was right” which he by an almanac saved the tried to be didn’t It. Charles Hawtrey used every now tnd, like Washington, he has become gether In rude coffins const! used by- afloat, and as she passed a tree that Daly and Dave Johnson. It is stated "He President and then warn us: ‘Now don’t speak life of with he?” h the popular mind a sort of mystical Thomas Lincoln, who was now a wid- was well submerged she thought she a man charged murder by Hostetter’s friends that in addi- too soon on that; there’s certain to be Igure. associated with a bygone age of ower with two small children. Aft< • heard a cry from the branches. She that it is appropriate Just now to nar- tion to the sums Indicated by the "Yes—but he was not elected." a big laugh, and we don't want them Iramatlc heroism—a patron saint. Lincoln became President, someone paddled to the tree, and there found rate the correct one, as told by R. W. checks he also lost thousands of "Then he must have been both to miss the next line.’ We rehearsed Although New England loved Lin- erected a monument over his mother a her baby, John Hanks, afloat in his Armstrong, a barber of Mason City, dollars in cash. His passion for gam- right and left.” for six weeks. On the first night coln as much as any other section of grave in the wilderness, but Aunt cradle, which had been washed through who is the son of the man defended, bling, it is estimated, cost him at nothing went wrong—but the piece. There laugh lhe country did, when It came to know Roseanne told me that the selection of the door of the cabin, and had drifted and who was known as "Duff’’ Arm- $1,000,000 during the last twelve Exception to the Rule. was not one nor one least round of applause finish. Sim, yet always regarded grave about till it found lodgment in the top strong. He very with the two dudes,” the girl at the from start to he was as a the for the monument must is familiar months of his life. The attention of "Them We took off the in days, of the tree, where his mother found it. case, time before bis music counter remarked, "is trying to comedy ten characteristic product of the pioneer have been mere guesswork, since none as but a short the executors of the Hostetter estate during which we rehearsed as a stop country, and, although efforts not alto- of the graves had ever been marked, "Another of her stories was about father, who, by the way, is still living, was called to the gambling items by get me to look at ’em.” gap a conventional three-act farce don’t gether successful have been made to and there was no means of identifying Guinea niggers. I suppose you bad related to him the exact facts in a suit just eompromisea which was "Where’s your grammar?” said the no literary pretensions. I “ with think chow that he was of Hingham ances- any one of them." know what Guinea niggers were, do the affair. brought by Dave Johnson to recover girl at the book counter. ‘Two dudes’ it ran for a year." try, never till now has Massachusetts Ccming to the subject of the migra- you? Well, they were not uncommon In all the histories of Lincoln and $115,000 on a note and checks given is plural.” brought! A sick man is always in a Seen conscious of the presence In this tion of the survivors of the three fami- in the days when slaves were in most of the school books It Is told by young Hostetter just before he “I guess not!” contemptuously re- favor of very constitutional amendment ocallty of any living connection be- lies from Indiana to Illinois Mrs. from Africa. They were small how Lincoln defended Armstrong and died. joined the other. "It takes more than tween the Immortal rail-splitter and Moore says: in stature and very unprepossessing cleared him by proving that the moon two of them fellows to make a plural." An Important Discovery. were said to be ANOTHER $50,000 FOR OBERLIN sur own soil. "Joseph Hanks, who taught Thomas in appearance and they was not shining when the murder was Granton, Okla., Feb. 9th.—After ten Nevertheless for seventeen years Lincoln, Abe's father, the carpenter’s cannibals. committed "by the light of the moon." What Worried Jones. years E. H. Gosney of Granton has at just years ago, her youth she Second Gift Ohio Col- pne of the environs of Boston has bar- trade, 100 was one of "Grandma said that in The father of Duff Armstiong was Anonymous to last found a cure for Kidney Trouble. the in Illinois, having knew a young couple who bought a sored a woman who makes the proud first settlers Jack Armstrong, who lived near New lege From Same Source. Mr. Gosney suffered very severely with from about 1820. pair of Guinea niggers. One day their boast that her father and Abraham gone there Kentucky Salem, and who was the leader of the Cleveland, 0., Feb. 9.—At a meeting Kidney Complaint and some ten years his son, the famous John little child disappeared and it was Lincoln were first cousins; that both It was “Clary Grove" boys. He it was who of the board of trustees of Oberlin col- ago made up his mind to find a cure had the celebrated wrestling match lege here President Henry Churchill if one was to be had. with Lincoln back of the old store at King announced the second anonymous He has tried and tried and experi- New Salem. gift of $50,000 from the same source mented with every kidney medicine he Afterward they became great since his election to the presidency of could hear of. Although he was always friends. Toe home of Jack Armstrong the college. The SIOO,OOO will be a disappointed he kept on trying till at and of his wife Hannah was always nucleus for the sum of $500,000 to be last his perseverance was rewarded open to Lincoln, and he visited there raised this year. New buildings and he found a complete cure. many times. planned are a chapel, biological He is a well man to-day and explains It was during the summer of 1857 science hall, administration building, it as follows: that Duff Armstrong, with a numb.er woman’s gymnasium, Y. M. C. A. and "Everything failed to cure me and I of other young fellows, attended a men’s club. was growing worse and worse till I tried a new remedy called Kid- camp meeting twelve miles south of KRUGER'S ILLNESS IS TRIVIAL Dodd’s Mason City. The young fellows were ney Pills and I had not taken many of them before I knew that I had at last drinking, as was the custom of those Alarmist Reports of Health of Boer times. Duff became involved in a found the right thing. I am entirely Leader Are Unfounded. I for quarrel with a companion named cured and cannot say too much New York, Mr. Metzger one night a short distance Feb. 9. —Friends of Dodd’s Kidney Pills.” Kruger, the former president of fiom the camp meeting. Duff claimed the When a man owns but one suit Transvaal, having received a message of that he struck Metzger with his fist clothes he is in a position to guy the from Mentone stating that health just under the eye. The stories in so his "No, gentle reader, Mr. Jones Is not festive moth. is entirely shattered, inquiry many books that he used a club or was made under the influence of liquor. Mr. by cable and the following reply was There is more Catarrh in this sectton of the slingshot or other weapon, he insists Jones is merely trying to come down country than all other diseases put together, received: Mentone, Feb. 6.—The re- and until the few was are false. The next morning Metzger a moving staircase that is moving up last years supposed to ba port that Mr. Kruger’s Is shat- Incurable. For a great many years doctors pro- was out and around, pre- health nounced It a local disease, and prescribed local but it is tered remedies, and by constantly failing sumed that he caught cold In the in- is purely fantastical. His re- Reason for Early Rising. to cure cent Indisposition was ot a very with local treatment, pronounced It incurable. jured eye. At any rate, the injury "I hope all you little boys," said the Science has proven catarrh to be a constitu- slight character and did not cause the tional disease, and therefore requires affected bis brain in some manner, teacher, "commence the week right consti- slightest anxiety to tutional treatment. Hall s Catarrh Cure, man- his friends. His by getting up early Monday morning." ufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo. Ohio, and he died. Is only cure health is unimpaired.” “Yes’m," replied the constitutional on the market. The elder Armstrong had just died little Johnny, “I It Is taken Internallv In doses drops to a from 10 and the mother of the prisoner was in COPPER GOES HIGHER always love to get up early Monday teaspoonfuL It acts directly upon the blood CASE and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer great trouble. She, in her poverty morning." one hundred dollars for any case Itfails to cure. and distress, thought of her old friend Supreme “And you feel all the better for It, Send forcirculars and testimonials. Address Court Acts In Boston and F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. and occasional boarder, Abraham Lin- Montana Litigation. don’t you, Johnny?” Sold by Druggists, 73c. coln, and asked “Yes’m. That's the mornin’ we Hall's Family Pills are the best. him to defend her Helena, Mont., Feb. 9.—The Su- boy. Lincoln agreed to do have pancakes and syrup.” Even happiness may become mo- willingly preme court has issued a of cer- so. The evidence seemed all against writ notonous. were born In the same rude tiorari in the application ot the Bos- log cabin him. One witness swore that he saw Full Limit. Dr. Lawrence’s special treatment in Kentucky, ton and Montana for a writ ot super- cures but three months apart, Armstrong strike Metzger with a Jenkins—" What I told you was that Dyspepsia. Guaranteed, 50c. Lawrence ia 1809, and she visory control restraining Patrick that herself Is a slingshot and others corroborated the Dr. Price-Price never insisted upon a Co.. Des Moines. la. Sample free. grandniece of Lincoln's Mullins (Heinze) from examining the mother, the story. Lincoln asked each one fee for his advice from those whc When Nancy how books of the company in the Coman- it comes to waltzing the awk« famous Hanks. he saw the fight, couldn't afford to pay him.” and the invariable re- che case. This removes the case ward man gets there with both feet. She is Mrs. Nellie M. Moore, who ply was, "By the light of the moon." Markley—“Well, when he got was born not many years before from the district to the upper court McCarthy’s “EZ FOOT COMFORT" the Lincoln then produced an almanac injunction through with me he asked me if 1 of war, In The in the Pennsylvania ” positively cures Chilblains. Price 25c. outbreak the civil the then of the current year and proved by It had any money and I said ‘Yes.’ exceedingly mine case secured by Heinze also was F. R. McCarthy, Jefferson, la. town of Frank- that at the time they swore they saw Jenkins—“ Well?" ford, Mo., and has been for three vacated by the court An old bachelor recommends the the assault In the moonlight the moon Markley—“Well,”he said, “I’ll take months past gold cure for feminine heart troubles. a resident of East Pep- was Invisible. Lincoln then addressed FALLING BUILDING KILLS FIVE perell, Mass., where her husband. the jury, making, it is said, of the In Winter Use Allen’s Foot-Ease. Moore, Is engineer in a one Charles W. strongest and most eloquent pleas Several Others Hurt by Collapse of As to Sex. A powder. Your feet feel uncom- mill. ever made in that court. At the close Old Structure in Buffalo. Towne—l see there's a western fortable. nervous and often cold and to define her relation- damp. If you have sweating, When asked he turned to the weeping mother and scientist who declares that the Insect sore feet the Buffalo, N. T., Feb. 9. —Joseph or tight shoes, try Allen’s Foot-Ease. ship to martyred President, Mrs. said: "Aunt Hannah, you can have which says “Katie did” is the mala Moore Hanks, livingin Missouri, who In never seen again. They afterward Becker, William Burke, John Schnei- Sold by all druggists and shoe said: still your boy again goes and the one that says “Katie didn't,’ stores. 1830 Induced Thomas Lincoln, Dennis found that the cannibals had eaten before the sun der, Adam Herzog and Michael Am- 25 cents. Sample sent free. Address "My father. William S. Hall, was a And is female. Hanks and my father to pull up stakes the child, and they were banged for it. down." she did, for the jury brose were killed and M. Straus and the Allen S. Olmsted. Le Roy. N. Y. son of Martha Hanks, sister of Nancy all nonsense, be and also remove Illinois, where Abe brought in a verdict of not guilty. Belser and Charles Fagel in- Henpeck—That’s Hanks, who married Thomas Lincoln to "Grandma, like most of the Hankses were cause if notice the one that says The under dog may have our sym- was achieve fame that Lincoln received no fee and asked jured by the collapse of a building at you’ll pathy, and the mother of Abraham destined to that and Lincolns, was an ardent Metho- did" frequently had the last but we don’t bet on him. became gained Presidency. none. Afterward Armstrong enlisted William street and Fillmore avenue “Katie you for him the dist. In her old age she always knit- Magnet Lincoln. So, see, my father was In the army. He was only & word. I'll bet they’re both females. Pile Killer Cures Plies. "Having arrived In Macon county. ted just so much on a stocking every the sup- occupied by Straus Son as a tan- first cousin and 1 was second cousin to port of his mother, other 111., the party, which numbered thir- week One morning she was in- the children nery. The men were part of a force The gift of silenoe has saved many the President. day. being small. That Settles It. teen, settled for a while. My father dustriously engaged In the perform- When Lincoln became engaged in razing the building prepar- a reputation. "My grandfather, who married Mar- President Mrs. Armstrong wrote to atory to “1 see that some one is advocating and Abe Lincoln were In their 21st ance of her allotted stint, when some the erection of a new one. Wlir.N tha Hanks, was Levi Hall, aud they him, asking him to her the project of a newspaper printed tn YOU BUT BLUEING year, and they, with John Hanks, Abe's of the younger folks came in with their release son Chicago Board of Trade. Insist on getting Russ Bleaching Blue. Don’s and Thomas and Nancy Lincoln were from the army he might a compact tabloid form like a book,* take a cheap Allgrocers, lue. second cousin, built the log cabin best clothes on. that come Chicago, Feb. Imitation. living together in the little log cabin home, as needed his 6.—Quotations oa the said Mr. Torque. some say was exhibited on Bos- “ she services. “It is never late in La Rue county, Ky„ in 1809, when which 'Why. grandma! What are you do- Board of Trade to-day: too to mend," said years ago. Neighbors told her that It was non- "The very idea!” cried Mrs. Torque; the who too lazy to begin. ton Common thirty or more ing?' somebody 'Only knitting,’ Wheat— Open. dose. man was Abraham Lincoln was born there. My asked. sense to write to the great Lincoln High. Low. “It’s simply ridiculous.” They also split the famous fence rails surprise. May 3 .79% * » .79 father was born three later in she replied, with some 'What, .79% 3 .79% “In what way?” Dyeing Is months that samples of which did about such a small matter as the dis- July 74% .74% .74% .74% as easy as washing when cabin.” at time, knitting on Sunday, grandma?’ 'ls Corn— the same charge of a soldier out of such a great “Why such a paper would be simply PUTNAM FADELESS DYES much to arouse the enthusiasm in the this Sunday?' asked grandma, in Feb .43% .43% used. are When questioned as to the antece- army, and May 43% .43% useless to put under a carpet." Illinois convention in 1860, which se- amazement. When convinced that it especially when Lincoln 44% .46 .44% .44% dents of the Hanks, Lincoln and Hall was so deeply immersed the July 43% .43% .43% .43% The more a man owes con- cured the Presidential nomination for was she unraveled every stitch she in mo- Sent 43% .43% .43% the more families, Mrs. Moore says It is a tradi- mentous .43% Not a Question of Faith. spicious he Is as a financier. Lincoln. had done that morning, in order to affairs of state. She only re- Oats— tion of all three families that they plied: God, Abe Feb MU .MH .MH .MU Patient—Although, doctor, I bars “After serving as major in the Black atone as far as possible for her dese- "Please will give back Muy .37H emigrated together from New England my boy to .3»H .S7H -«H sent for you at the earnest solicitation Hawk war, in which Abe Lincoln was cration of the day." me once more." As soon as July S2’4 .« .12% .32% Thompson's Eys Water about 200 years ago to Pennsylvania, Lincoln received the he ordered Pork- of my friends, and to please them, let captain, my father became one of the Mrs. Moore describes letter May 18.85 18.85 16.72 18.75 from there to Virginia and later to having seen a discharge made for me tell you that I have not the leasl earliest settlers in Missouri, and dur- with out William July 16.3> 16.30 16.26 16.26 Kentucky, as they eventually did to some amusement Abraham Lin- and Lard— faith in medical LUMPY JAW CURE. ing the greater part of his life kept a making Armstrong, within ten days he modern science. ONE APPLICATION 18 ENOUGH. Indiana finally Illinois coln a political speech in Mis- Feb 9.45 9.45 9 45 9.45 and to and Mis- was at home with bis mother. May 9.40 932 9 Physician—Ob, that doesn’t mattei Dr. J. C. Mitchel l a Lump Jaw tavern, first at Hannibal and later at souri, 9.4214 37V4 prepared by souri. She has been for some time arrayed in a long and exceeding- July 9.25 9.20 at all, I assure you. The mule has nc Cure io a vetenua- Frankford. ly 9.2 S 9.17 ft nan. Cures d!chml wka on engaged in investigating possible crumpled linen "duster,” and a tall S. ribs— hordes itnii tumors on pigs af- the May faith in the veterinarian, yet the lattei "I around among hat of ancient pattern. says The President and Hie Boys. 9.15 9 IT 9.19 9.12 ter caatratio t. One bor tle cures early connection of the families with often visited the She that July 9.06 9.00 9 00 just more At It was a frequent custom 9.06 cures him the same. N.. JIWwM four or head. ilrug- New England, and intends to prepare Hankses in my childhood, too, and my when Lincoln was nominated for Pres- of Lin- -6* igflT'ligW * *'*. >1 oo Del vere«l si 15. No coln’s to carry his • ure St. I’.iv MAK
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