Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 12, 1920, Page 2

,!1 heard Lincoln and Douglas stump. MEMORIES OF ~ LINCOLN'S DAY {Told by One Who Was Ac- | quainted With the Great Emancipator and His Opponent, Douglas. RS. JOHN LYMAN CHILD, who {is eighty-two years old, knew Lincoln personally, heard Lincoln and Douglas debate, has a store of interesting in- cldents connected with her father-in- law, an ardent Abolitionist, as well as tales of her father, who served as ad- jutant-general of Illinols. Mrs. Child’s maiden name was Mary Ellen Anderson. She was born and reared near Springfield, lived in that locality for eighty years, and now re- sides in Chicago. “Yes, 1 remember when Springfield was nothing but' a mud-hole, when the horses were driven to the court Rouse, unhitched, tied to the back of the wagon and fed there. I lived on & farm not far from town; we knew the people In town and went in to the political meetings. In those days, \you know, two would talk together, .each trying to get voters for his side. Wolks sald that Douglas was the .smartest man but that Lincoln was the 'shrewdest. Once I heard Douglas say ‘to Lincoln: ‘You, sir, used to sell whisky !'* “When Lincoln got up, this was his answer to that: ‘Yes, I ald. And iwhile I officiated in one way, you, iDouglas, did in another; you did the drinking.’ “Douglas was a drinker, They sald he made the best speeches when he was under the influence. The day my father introduced him to a little boy who was for Douglas, though the boy’s father was strong on the other side, Y know he had been drinking. “This boy’s father, Stephen Child— the boy thad the same name—was known all around as an abolitionist. “The boy. only ten years old, for some reason was not on that side. Once the father while at work in the field saw his team being driven by little Stephen out to the road as fast as they could go. He hollered for the boy to bring the horses back but he pald no attention. After awhile Mr. Child saw a gang of boys drive back to the house. They had a pole in their wagon. They took this out and pretty soon began trying to raise it, for a flag-pole, in front of the house. Mr. Child (by the way, he later be- came my father-in-law) went over and offered to help, although it was a hickory pole. But little Stephen said, ‘No, this is a Democrat pole and no Abolitionist shall touch 1t! “Little Stephen had two cats that he_called Douglas and Lincoln. He tofi( fine care of Douglas but he used to beat Lincoln anmercifully. That was a long time ago, but he is still living and still remembers his cats, “My father was a Democrat. We Yived neighbor to the Childs. and one day father took little Stéphen to a meeting where Douglas spoke, After the meeting father had the boy shake hands with Douglas, and he intro- duced him as a ‘ten-year-old Democrat son of an Abolitlonist.' “My father-in-law was an awful strong Abolitionist. He sheltered col- —_———— - ored people and helped show them the way north. He had a horse named Pomp. They said he would put a col- ored runaway on the horse, send it off and be pretty sure it would do what was expected of it; would run along steadlly, then kick up its heels and throw off its load right at the door of another Abolitionist. . “My father-in-law~ used to hide the runaways in his cellar, which had no outside door, just a trap-door in the house. Ounce he had a lot of them there and searchers came along, sus- pecting him. Mr. Child told them they were welcome to search. They Jooked all around, but not in the right place. That night he loaded the col- ored people in the bottom of the wagon, piled on top bags of hay and started out for Salt Creek. On the trip at the side of the road he met a man who asked for a ride. Mr. Child raised his whip and told him to get out of the way, that he didn't want any one to ride and hurt his load. He got the people safely to Salt Creek, there in Logan. county, then showed them the way north. “Yes, I knew Lincoln, I knew Mary Todd, too, slightly. She was haughty. After their marrlage it hurt her that Lincoln was so plain and dressed so plain; she wanted him to dress up. When I first knew him he liked to wear the linsey woolsey. He was a homely man but drew people to him. . He was a great friend to the poor, made more over a ragged boy or girl than any other kind. “Everyone around Springfield sor- rowed when Lincoln was killed. I remember as though it was yesterday his body lying In state there in the state house. And I remember the day my husband and I went to pay our respects that there was the biggest fight on the streets of Springfield that I had ever seen. Colored people - had flocked there from all sides, they were present in such numbers they more than ‘filled the sidewalks. There really didn’t seem to be any room for any of the white people that wanted to go to the state house. It was shout- ed that the colored people should go First-Class Fighting Man, but Rkles‘s Criminal THE BEMIDJ! DAILY PIONEER NEW YORK.—Donald Hammond has been sentenced to a term of three and a half to seven years i{l state prison. Hammond, 24-yegr-old son of Wil- llam Hammond, dean of Cornell University, was placed on probation under a sus- pended sentence last August, after he had pleaded guilty to forging a check for $2,000 in the name of Norman Bradford Jr., a wealthy Newport, R. L., clubman. He violated his pledge by forging other papers and committing many thefts. At the outbreak of the war in 1914 young Hammond hurried to Canada and enlisted’in the first contingent. He was cited for herolc conduct in battle. He was caught in the first gas attack and wounded by an exploding shell. ‘stealing jewelry and money from his hosts. « Neglecting to get his discharge, he escaped frora his hospital and returned to America. A number of New York hotels and business houses were the first victims of his forged checks and unpald bills. Lionized at Newport and Atlantic City, he speedily ended his welcome by Finding (;w, authorities closing in on him, he returned to England, joined the royal air force, gnined a reputa- tion as a terror among his comrades and the German forces opposite his aerodrome, and was made a sub-flight lieutenant. In a daring rald over the enemy trenches Hiammond was wounded again. . He gave up flying and returned to the United States. Invited to Maine and New Hampshire watering places, he soon scandalized his friends, including many young soclety women, by his drinking and thievery. FLs His father and several friends sent him to Manitoba. He tired of the quiet life and reappeared in Boston, stole $15,000 worth of bonds, was cap- tured in New York, changed places with a murderer he met in the Tombs prison, pleaded gullty to the other’s charge and succeeded in some mysterious way in obtaining a suspended sentence under that name. ] out into the road, not take all the sidewalks. A big fight followed. there was much noise and confusion. But the molice finally stopped it. Lin- wirs. Joan Lyman Child. coln lay in state a day and night, an army of people had oppelcunity to pass along as he lay there with the guards about him.” KATHERINE *Liquid refreshmenis were sold in taat general store In New Salem where Lincoln worked. (Copyright, 1920, Western Newspaper Union) OF THE SEVENTH GEKERATICN Great War President Might Well, if He Had Wished, Boast of His American Ancestors. POPE. So unique is the individuality of Abraham Lincoln that one is naturally surprised to learn that the name has | ever been horne by anybody else. As a matter of fact, on the evidence of a recently published genealogical chart of the former president’s family, there have been four others. The fifth and famous Abraham was of the seventh generation of Lincolns in the United States. The chart shows that Sam- uel, son of Edward Linceln of Hing- ham, England, was apprenticed to a weaver and mariner, and that he came to America in 1637, living first in Sa- lem and afterward in Hingham, Mass. Thus by about 17 years, if the gene- alogy is correct, Abraham Lincoln missed being a Mayflower descendant. New Lincoin Story. A Washingtonian who was a mere boy at the breaking out of the Civil war recently related a small incident | that is as typical of Lincoln as any of the thousands of others that have gone before. This man had enlisted in the first regiment enrolled in the capital city. The recruits had been drawn up on Pennsylvania avenue and reviewed Uy the president and his sec retary of war, Mr. Seward. These two dignitaries passed down the liné of troops <nd as they passed the man who now relates the incident, Presi- dent Lincoln remarked : ¢ “Seward, I suppose there are & hun- dred men in these ranks who could hold your job or mine.” Latitude and Longitude. An_old countrywoman_called upon — Lincoln fo present him with a pair of stockings a yard long—she had knit them herself. He was touched and held them up to be admired by all the officials present. “I thank you, ma’am,” he said, with tears in his eyes, “I shall take them with me to Washing- ton, where I am sure they have noth- ing like them.” George Boutwell, afterward secre- tary of the treasury, set everybody .31 into a gale of laughter by declaring: | “Well, this ]ady certainly made a very | correct estimate of your lasitude and longitude.” Lincoln’s Library. The Bible is literary, political, his- torica] and educational. Abrahagy Lin- coln had only three books in hi: ea.riy manhood: the Bible, Aesop’s Fables and Weems’ History of the United States. The Bible was the great book that gave the martyred president his simple. tender, beautiful literary style, both for speaking and writing. The fables gave him his story illustrations, while the history made him familiar with the great characters and events of the nation. Leave'the Bible out of his life and he might have been a moral wreck ; at least/there would have been no Abraham Lincoln as the world sees him today.—Exchange. Right Views on Good and Evil. Good citizenship demands and re- quires what is right should not only be made known, but be made preva- lent; that what is evil should not only be detected, but destroyed.—Abraham Lincoln. FURS FURS FURS Why pay high prices for Furs and Fur Coats. Trap your own skins and we will make your furs to order. All work guaranteed. We make a specialty of relining and remodeling Furs and Fur Coats. 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