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.