Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1921, Page 57

“MAGAZINE SECTION The Suney Stae, [emarvrss | 1921° 1 ~ FICTION Part 4—6 Pages WASHINGTON, D. (., SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 6, Abraham Lincoln’s Family Traced Back to English Puritanical Line BY CHARLOTTE WEBSTER JORDAN [among the clearest and most per- | | - Em — — — e e =g ———=, yment most charmingly dispens:d in 2| While our wyr-bruised world is e s e G [fectly proved pedigrees. 5 = i : typically gracious setting. waiting for time s illuminating, heal- 'RING the'last year the en-| ‘Young Samuel Lincoln and. his de- 1 [s’l’ £ G E I ks Dow U he W h f H h | “ooking back upon the recent Hing- ' ing perspective, we cannot do better tire country has been fol- |scendants shared the privations of (9 reat mancxpator iJ00KS own pon the orshipers o mg AT | | s e ar ATt it itanids | than Hold faBE du the friendiy ties &b Jowing swith interest the | the Furitan colony, which frequently z | [for. we wonder If it were not belter; |hand and work for the realization of L & - = 3 i |intermarried with the nearby colon- Ch h wh H' A K 1 Wh S f R 1 P F 11 after all. that this ceremonial shond the hope cxpressed in Lincoln's sim- achievements of every note- |igts of Plymouth and later joined urch, ere 15 ncestors nelt en courge [o) oya ersecution I'e have been delayed until after the war. | ple. sympathetic words n graven L worthy Pilarim descendant, and iheir | ‘orces with: them againgt the Tndians . 3 ' | While the memorial was reposing un- | upon the memorial tablet in the o A e they are. being | cSpecially in' Kinz Philip's ‘war— he:H : B . 1R dof 1L 1 The R Hingh Cele— | Ijumpaun e’ purian”chureh an \ome church at Hingham, England Dame is leion as they are being | oy’ neignbors in the oid worid, coun- | | the Ileaviest—Daptisma ecord ot Damuel Lincoln—1he Kecent I'lingham Uele~ | |vrinkwater play “was representing |1y This Pari dragged into the limelight for jus- 5,‘,,,,"1,‘,,!\2" .1;,, DEw . 8 u”} 2 = "flll lplr{ll n‘[ m»‘ I,m]voL pic, ‘tlul‘ LIV % tifiable exploitation in this their| Later on Morde neoln. Sem . . . spirit_of international kinship had A paRTOTS IO A IAtherichn Pl atsr on Nerdeesi Lineoir S22t | | bration—Lincoln's Great-Grandfather as One of a Pioneer Band. | [heen making such rapid progress that "ARRAHAM LINCOLN & ‘;' 5 el S th in | Flantation of New Hingham" to New | | - the later placing of the great protag- s M gt “ e et us then usher in the month in|j and shortly after moved on to | | LA = o e BRSO DU TS D AT T RN I |onist in permanent form in the home- To Whon® Greatest of that Lincage. w Lincol birthday falls by giv- | Pennsylvania. Here the family set up , land church not only marked a gen- Many Citizens of the United States vy i el forge and some of the original iron-, the Puritan churches in Massachu- | with flugs and bands and holid | rRels Shanays oy eaE TN i A entubiea Erected this Memorial ing credit to the ~Puritan colony of i (oo 1 g"are still in existence. In the | Sctt: i garb, welcomed back to his ancient lthe cordiality for which the two In the Hope That for All Ages Be- Hingham, Mass, one of whose pioneer | next century we find them in Virginia, | It IS probably the oldest font in use | home b distinguished kinsman | nairies hae: Dash Sraduaits prest e TERL LDt Se0 Whie ek from overseas. As it turned out. the memorial could not have been installed at a more Lincoln (the-Presi- | in our country. Other gifts have been | for whom he was |exchanged between the two Hing- | by the Indians. |hame ‘and now comes the culminating | and All Lands There Shall Be Malice Toward None | pared. tending to divert their minds | from ‘war's revulsion to one of the realiy potent after-war messages of where Abraham dent’s grandfather, | named) was _killed band, Samuel Lincoln of old Hing- ham, England. was the fouzi™ <reat- BY A. B. FARQUHAR. privilege of Lineoln. write an account of an event. to all Amcricans—the delive, Gettysburg addre: inclined alw let 2bout shiper. imagination play to % mational affairs. the public press. and though parently made %o h W had ever seen him. devolved. the tremendous Vnion. President him on that was published. the battle of cccasion 1o g0 to an interview, wa iven some pore than ¢ * ke that the President would go to burg to tuke eremonies of the new national tery helping to nade in advance for the morning of November 1 T started for Gettysburg Lincoln highway. It wa dirt road. very rough. a goodly now, and, while it took careful & ing to prevent an upset, we were ing automobiles. darkness of morning. - Reaching Gettysburg at about 7 t early residents and - wi us there. hear, the addresses. part; quaintanee with- “Abraham | saw it, which is of peculiar interest| ¢ of the | honor to take part in the Gettysburg From earliest boyhood a hero wor-!of David Wills, a my . becn largely instrumental in the crea- the persons and doings of men of accomplishmentof Mr. Wills that the President had and power, Lincoln interested me in-|come. tensely from the very moment of his first appearance upon the.stage of [of the different states to invite you With the Lincoln- | Douglas debates in Illinois we were | made familiar through the reports in the logical force of Lincoln’s Arguments | executive of the nation, formally set Was most impressive, we were hardly prepared to recognize in him a-pos- sible future President of the United States. Upon his nomination and subsequent election my imagination | fired me with the determfnation to! know more of thix man, who-had ap- | much out of the scanty opportunities which had been I was, ‘of course, on hand inj hington fo hear his first inaugu- ral address, It being the first time I Then came the war. which added a|been asked new interest to the man upon whom | States that on the morning of the 13th, responsi- | after the breakfast hour, he went up bilities of guiding and preserving the | to the room which Mr. Lincoln oc- I read everything about the saw - or twice. but realy did not eome to know him until shortly after!ing ttysburg., when T had Vashington to seek kindly Jistened to, 0od advice and returned r a Lincoln ‘admirer. 1\'.\1"!'1{.\[,!,\', when the first. ip- timation was given by the papers ttys- t in the dedication eme- which had been established there in commemoration of the great battle! (in which I myself had taken part, in re for the wounded), it did not take me long to decide that 1| would be present. Arrangements were hire of a -seated vehicle and at 4 o'clock on 1863 mpanied by my two brothers-l v same road that is now known as known. no danger in those days from speed- we found the town already astir with S e od_thelr colony. HINGHAM, HOME OF LINCOLN'S ANCESTO] cier; the Italian minister, M. Berti- Mr. Lincoin also had te secretaries, Mr. Nicolay and Maj. John Hay. Capt. H. A. Wise of the Navy and Mrs. Wise 1 have consented t0; (who was the daughter of Edward as 1,Evcrett) were of the party, as also were a number of pewspaper corre- spondents and a military guard of procession. The President stopped at the house lawyer, who haa natti, and several legation secretaries OT many are left who had the |nng attaches Eat 1 Pergonal _ac- with him his pri jett’s addre: EYEWITNESS TELLS OF LINCOLN| AT GETTYSBURG. mind evidently being preoccupied with anxious thoughts. i * k¥ ¥ A SMALL rustic platform Lad been erected for the speakers, the site of which i8 now occupied by the monument upon which are engraved the immortal words which were there spoken. At the conclusion of Ever- the . President’ slowly stepped forward. and in a strong roge voice, occasionally glancing at a paper which he held in his hand, spoke the {ton of a national cemetery .on.the following words: - 1 battlefield. It was upon the invitation His letter of invitation read, part “I am authorized by the governérs to be present and to participate in these ceremonies, which will doubt- less be very imposing and solemmly impressive. " It is desired that after the oration (which was to be deljv- jered by Edward Everett) you, as chief apart these grounds to their sacred use by a few appropriate remarks.” o THE writing of this address there are various mccounts. The story that the President jotted down {the speech on the back of an ‘old envelope on ‘tlie train to Gettysburg seems to have little basis in fact, al- though it is quite probable he pon- dered over it on the journey. lt seems to be fairly well "established that President Lincoln gave considerable thought to the preparation of .the “appropriate remarks” which he had to make. Mr. Nicolay cupied in the house of Mr. Wills to report for duty. and remained with the President while he flnished writ- the Gettysburg addregs, during ! the short leisure he could utilize for the purpose before -being called to take his plage in the procession, which was announced on the program to_start at 19.0'clock. After having breakfasted and talked with acquaintances and friends whom we met, | walked around to the house of Mr. Wills in order to see the Presi- dent come forth. As he came out 1 spoke to him: he recognized me and shook me by the hand before he mounted his horse to join the proces- sion. We then hastened up to the ceme- tery in order to obtain a favorable position close to the speakers, and I was fortunate in getting a place right at the edge of the speakers' stand. The cemetery then was just a hillside with but few trees on it and at that time very few monuments of any kind had been erected, but the graves of the soldiers had been marked with the names as far as they could be The majority were.unknown, of 2 "ll.zr‘%oum-. and a good many of the sol- tion not macadamized at all, very dif- ferent from the fine driveway it isi diers were yet buried on where they had fallen. It was about 11 o'clock when the presidential party reached the plat- | form. but Mr. Everett, the orator of the day, was fully hait an hour late, the fleld As it was, we came land it was nearly noon bef 5 near upsetting several times in the gan his Addru:.y;r. Ev:reotl;ehh:d b:n November | engaging personality, an_intellectual and refined face and an attractive ap- pearance, and his address, which he partly read from the manuscript 7isitors who had | which he held in his hand, was elo- eame on the same errand that brought | quent, but it was too long—probably We put up. the horles at a|an hour and a half in | stable, got our breakfasf, and pre- pared to find as favorable & place as|extensively practiced then than it i we could to see the procession and 3 gth. The art of oratory was much more in this day, and Mr. Everett was one The présidential!of the foremost orators of the time, tiad arrived the night before,|but the audience was weary before “Four ‘score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived_ in liberty, and dedicated to the propo- sition that all men are created equal. ow we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure, We are met on a great battlefield of that war, We have come to dedicate a portion of, that field as a final resting place ford those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is alto- gether fitting and proper that we should do this. ut. in a larger sense, we cannot, dedicate. we caunot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead. who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remem- ber . what we say here, but never forget what they did here. It is rather for us. the living. to be here dedicated to the unfinished. work which they who fought here’ have thus far 80 nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us. that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full meas ure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of fre Q?m,b.ndhthlt Eovernment of the peo- e, by the people. for the people, shall R vortalsttom, the: eartne Tt 2, Thege; as 1 remember them-—and T have always. had an- exceedingly good word _memory—were the exact words used by Lificoln, though the newspaper reports varied slightly from the text as bere given. [The version revised by Lincoln_himself also varies from this of Mr. Farquhar’s.] " * K % % "THERE was some applause during the delivery of the address, but less at its conclusion than one would have expected. 1 can only speak for myself when I say that I was too deepl: - Dressed—as though T had fistened tra great sermon—to join-in the applause. 1 fancy many felt the same way. One had the feeling that it was, in fact, a golemn dedication to the unfinished work which would lead whither the the mtmey, the that though the way might be long’ and hard, vet. under the inspired :leader- ship of Abraham Lincoln, there could be but one outcome, the successful conclu- sion of the war and a reunited nation, The President's countenance, which had become animated during the de- livery of the address, resumed its look of sadness, as though he were disap- pointed at the reception of his words. It is undoubtedly true that his hear- ers did not appreciate it until they had a chance to read the address and ponder. | its meaning. A mewspaper in the neighboring city of Harrisburg falled to publish the President’s address, remarking that he bad not risen to the occasion, had made a few ramblihg remarks—and even the New York Tribune, either through acci- dent or design, omitted it from its .ac- it wnl‘ { member of the Yale Art School, the stone frame was approved by the best authorities on church architecture, the inscription was written by the Rev. Dr. Milo H. Gates of New York, and the marble bust by Volk, made from a life mask of the great emanci- pator, was selected as the b to place at the side of the tablet. While this bust is not as familiar to us as are the bearded portraits of Lincoln. it i8 considered by members of his family as the truest likeness, phys cally and -spiritually. Artists and friends are all agreed that it was a perfect reproduction of his face, and greatly beautiful in and gravity. Of courss, marble can- in° mortal head,” but barring that, this Volk bust is undoubtedly the bust for the ages. It is that of a man who has held to his vision and has re- cefved time's accolade. As the beck- oning new world of freedom was the compelling vision of Lincoln’s ances- tors, so was the land of freedom for all the vision of their illustrious de scendants. at Old Hingham just as the call toi war startled a peaceful world. Every schoolboy in the United States Tablet and bust arrived | is, or should be., familiar with the| story of the migrations of the Lin- coln pioneers from Virginia to Ken-| tucky, where our Abraham Lincoln| was born, and on through Indiana to Tilinois, where the martyred President lived and is now buried. But few have | cared to go beyond that point or have ever heard the interesting story of the ancestral Puritan Lincoln, who left Hingham, England, in 1633-3! led by the minister of historic -37, An- drews. The band journeyed to Mas- sachusetts, and a few years after the arrival of the Mayflower Pilgrims Upon this exodus Cotton Mather makes this quaint comment: This light (independency), havimg be the ersecuting prelates put under a Wi dow, by the good Providence of fetched y into New England. whi good people of our Hingham did rejoice in the Tight for a season. The 130 families who thus rescued the light of religious liberty from its bushel extinction left the comfort of well established homes for the fron- \ | ‘. {the people has during the last two water's £ ! | tier edge of an untried continent be- cause they glimpsed the dawn of the| government described by the fourth great-grandson of Samuel Lincoln as ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH IN HIN X a “government of the people, by the people. for the people,” evincing at the outset that New England inde- pendence of spirit which has so large- ly saped our national institutio TH E attitude of Great BEritain toward America’s great man of found expression in Drink- play, “Abraham Lincoln” based largely upon Lord Charnwood's biography, and has helped to intensify the Anglo-American feeling of pro- tietorship in this plain man, who Gould so-state ana carry through his Prafound belief in the intrinsic worth of' the “common people. whom God must have greatly loved, since He mede so many of them.” While the works of both English authors have undoubtedly done much in cementing years that feeling of kinship so essential in our Anglo-Saxon interdependence, it is nevertheless a great pity that so painstaking a work as the Charn- wood biography should have been marred by a grave defect whose ef- fects are insidious and far reaching. This defect is a too great reliance upon the sensation-seeking memoirs of Lincoln's jealous-minded ex-part- ner, Herndon. As well appeal to Cle- menceau to laud William II. The Hern- don underdrain trickling through the Charnwood * biography pollutes many of its pages. : Drinkwater, fortunately, did not cull this rank weed from the Charnwood its humannessl not give “the kindest eves ever placed | GHAM, 1 AT THE UNVEILI CHURCH, HINGHAM, ANCESTORS. OF THE CHURCH; SIR NORWICH; JOHN W. DAVI AND THE EARL O OF THE ENGLAND, Then, too, t during peculiar brand of humor. the talented young dramat his recent sojourn in the United States learned many things about the friend- personal Influence which our great fellow countryn still e us I heard Drinkwater that he was particularly impressed during th course of his visit by the difference between the British and American at- titudes toward national heroes. That eris upon in its heroes of past centuries the American enthusiasm gocs out to those within the memory of the living, the still-palpitating tradition, and that the fact that America still looks upon coln as her great and kindly per- sonal friend is but another manifes- tation of what the dramatist grace- fully terms ouf “genius for friend- ship- 3 It is sometimes claimed that a mother country is the last to acknowl edge the surpassing merits of h fledglings who have had the temerity to forsake the home nest: but the recent memorial celebration at Old claim. For this was not the first time that Anglo-American reciprocity of feeling had been demonstrated be- tween the church of Hingham, Eng- land. and its namesake in the new world. Some years before the home village had exchanged with “Ye Free Plantation of New Tingham,” as its settlers were quaintly styled, various WHERE FIVE APTIZED, MARRIED ND BURIED. gifts strengthening the bond between [or of Abraham L the two Hinghams. * x kK \WHEN New Hingham celebrated its 275(h anniversary, Old Hing- ham sent as a corner stone for its pro- THE HOME IN THE GROUP ARE ECORGE M. CHAMBERLAIN AMERICAN while England felt the greatest pride | Hingham effectually dispels any such | ENERATIONS OF glowing tribute. ichairman, brought the meeting to a lclose by proposing a toast to the vil- :loned, with a somewhat sleepy but wide-awake enough, all the same. He has twelve millions, my dear lit- tle friend. He is an orphan, and would make an ideal husband. But. you see, everything depends on you. |He wants to be loved for himself alone—this young bachelor does. |is sentimental and literary. He has {been handicapped in his love offai { because of his money. He would like to marry, but is afraid to. If he | thinks that you know he is a catch there will be nothing doing. So you must meet him at my ball, by acci- NCOLN MEMORIAL AT ST. ANDREW?" OF LINCOL! CANON A. C. W AMB! _—_— stone and was undoubtedly known to th> forefathers (whose names are now engraved upon it) before they left for erica. This old s formally presented by Ambassa- dor Bryce in the name of the English villagers, their Puritan descendants procating by sending a block of Sngland granite to replace the familiar landmark. To the old meef- ing house of the first parish in the plantation. widely known as “the 0ld gathered” in 1638 and in 1681 the oldest unaltered place of public worship now in use in the United States, and to the churches springing up around it old St. An- drew's has sent many things. Among them are a silver com- munion set, a chair and lectern which had done duty’in the old church. And, lastly, in 1890;:the original font. prob- ably ‘the oldest font now in ths United States, where five generations | of Lincolns Gincluding Samuel Lin< | coln, the pioneer in 1619) were bap- | tized. was presented to the Massachu- | setts church by the rector and people { of Hingham, England. | Now the {made their eeturn to their mother church and have celebrated the return of peace by sefting up the -Lincoln memorial at Old Hingham. Under the efficient management of its rural dean, chairman of the reception committee, the well organized ceremgpial in hon- LINGOL! ANCESTORS WERE | ncoln was most de- lightfully carried through. The morn- ing of October 15. 1919, the date of the ; services, the bells were pealing mer- rily, bands were playing. motor par- ics were arriving from the county | motion picture cameras were clicking briskly and bunting mingled with the Stars and Stripes was float- ing from every available perch. Through a living avenue of school children waving hundreds of little United. States flags and escorted by the Boy Seouts and Girl Guides, mob- ilized as a guard of honor, the mem- bers of the unveiling party passed into the old church, where more than 1,000 people were awaiting the cere- mony The bishop's sermon, text, “The vision is yet for the ap- pointed time. Though it tarry, wait for it.” was a forceful plea for the realization of our vision of a league of nations. . Immediately after the nd: based on the Do Dwell.” our amb; dor, John Da. unveiled the marble bust of the liberator President and paid him a After the band of the 1st Norfolk Battalion, had played the British na- tional antheém, followed by our “Star Spangled Banner,” healths. were drunk to the King of England and the President of the United Stat The | speeches by the Earl of Leicester, lord lieutenant of the county, and the various other dignitaries were deliv- ered and received with much ardor, undampened by the sudden patter of raindrop, and Canon Upcher, the able | lage and thamks to the donors of the N’S PURITAN | UPCHER, RECTOR ! RD MAYOR OF ! DOR; MRS. DAVIS | home memento | interesting | settler's decendants have | !from having prospected everywhere, | singing of “All People That On Earth | ©f feeling had been established be- | already loved. dent, as it were. Give him a chance to talk to you. Charm him. That { will not be difficult, for you are in- elligent and you are pretty. But | avoid dangerous subjects. Not a word which would lead him to suspect you or his money. If he is introduced to you try to make it appear that you [dido't hear his name. He must be- lieve that he has made a conquest | without your guessing who he is. | You understand me, don't you? I {have told you all this a little crudely. 1 But you know I love you. It is an loccasion which you mustn't let slip. know anything _about his position | ' grandfather of Abraham Lineoln. |Every one is familiar With the Lineoln memorial, comenting the relationship | auspicious time or when its messuge history. With Charity For Afl ; eav. é wanderings from this point—frofn |and pro¢laiming in as imperisha vas more sorely needed. It is right This fact was clearly proved cleven | YERCEUNES LW, kY. where Presi- | form as man can devise—in stone, in | that we should nonor the Lincoln Tox years ago in “The Ancestry of Abra- | gent Lincoln was born, and on through | bronze and in marble—the Puritan| cabin, but in this Pilgrim year it is = ————— — — - — ham Lincoln.” & volume carefully | Indiana to Iilinois, where he was liv- | lincage ot Lincoln the idealist, the | well for us o extend our pilgrimaze : = fle: N searc i v] a 1 for the resi- orator, e very spirit of a & eyond e log cabin, back t the compiled after much researching on | N& when nominated for 8 mociacy icelebrated this month on | homeland, where we may read the Her W aSted Evenln both continents by the English and ? iy | Pilgrim day. classic message in its: new setting 2 i American authors. Lea and Hutchin. | g | It was originally planned to crett|and rejoice in the fact, historically e son. ~\"dh'""lf ‘f” ‘“‘l“l ““d"“": '§ [e) LD Hingham Church is naturally | this memomln in 1914. as one of ::ae | proved and internationally ratifiec | Tin e as been formally accepted P | comm+meorative events marking he | t; PUri . linenxe has’ been formaliyfiaczenied| 55 orsincoud iof thi IHuatrioustass | commpunersiys, exelis imssking CIC| AL the lgrestoat dosckudant of Bus | By Frederic Boutet drew's of Hingham, England. nx“srsndant of one «-f its parishioners, | petween Great Britai an{l the L'nilt;l’(‘ In RS s S L e PSR T e whose registry is ~the baptisma nd for some y¢- /8 t most cordia) | States. The outbreak of the world | . p;, . VALl > Tecord of Samuel Lincoln. the pioneer. | 10 (o8 SO F¢ o between this | War delaved matters until the shadow | ham L. Sh o he Amerienn Ao HE por(ly Mme. de Thermasse.| was full. She made no answer. But who, with a band of fellow parish- !clations have .iste { of the Ztppelin should disappear. and | lineage, many eitizens of the United States at whosc house the fete was|he felt her delicate fingers tighten e et Wl Tlingham viljage | English villager of Hingham and its |the memorfal (a bronze tablet with | have erected thix memorial i Fada ven Simone| About his. He bent forward. His when archbishop and king annouiced | New Englanc ¢aughter of the same |suitable inscription. with the \'olklf"‘fd -lluun bet that In ! to be held. had given Simone|jips just grazed her's. But already Their determination to-complete the | o BT T80 o at which Abra- | Lust of Lincoln inclosed in a stone ! 100 nL, lands there whi the most precise instructions.| she had rixen to her fect and drawn work begun by King James and “har- = M : 3. |frame in architectural conformity g B 1 “He will come as a Carthaginian|AWay step or two. He also got up. Tv all the Puritans out of England.” ham Lincoln’s ancestral great-grand- | vith the church intcrior) was finally e oo e H " K “Ph, Stmanl Both were trembling a little. For a The name of Lincoln originated in | tather, Bamuel Lincoln. was baptized { get up in the north wall of old St. HE otiginal plan for the Lincoln general,” she said e generdl had i jmoment neither spoke. Nortolk county, England, and Abra- |in old St. Andrew’s has been present- | Androw’s in October. “Ambassador pa- | T el el Lo e 2 name, but L don't remember it. He| “It has been @ beautiful ball” she ham _ Lincoln's. Englich lincage is cd by that venerable church ta one of ‘vis unveiled the bust, and the village, ablet was designated by a T Soted akr | Baee e e he. silence. “What he answered. “Especially “Mine is very simple. But you— ou are so magnificent as a Cartha- inian general. He smiled | _“Thank you for the compliment. But T'm not a Carthaginian general. 1T'm a Byzantine emperor—" He stopped. She had given a start . lof terror and surprise. Byzan- dieu! she i “A Byzantine! You are a itine emperor! Mon Dieu! Mon {1 made a mistake. It isn't you jcried. | She was so panic-stricken that she iforgot all about the necessity of con- jcealing her disappointment. i “You made a mistake?" | He looked at her dumbfounded. | “Yes. No. | Then. bursting into tears. she told him everything: her mother. a widow and ambitious; her own thirst for {luxury: their shabby genteel life, the necessity of a rich marriage the iassistance given them by Mme. de | Thermasse: the lictie conspiracy « i(hal evening—the projected capliva- {tion of a young man in the costume of a Carthaginian general. whom she was to make fall in love with her | without appearing to know who he | “Thank you. thank you, dear WitF friend.” i b € ' hroken sentences. Simone's mother was a widow very; Shie talked fust. in brokin SOCICT worldly, ambitious and energetic. She | i tears roling in WLER JVUE {had been campaigning for two years to marry her daughter, who was 1 £vod-looking enough, but lacked u do:. |She kissed Mme. de | sleek, fat hands and bubbled over with gratitude. “You are a providence—for us, as lalways. Simone will show | worthy of your confidence. succeed. won't you?” She will ! flected. { “I hope so. I will do my best.” | “Above all, dear child. don’: forget {that tie; will "bé a Carthaginian ge. eral. He will wear a robe. 1 think Do you know what a Carthaginian general's costume is like?” “She ought to,” the mother replied. “Otherwise it was time and money wasted keeping her at schoo! until she was sixteen.” * ok ¥ % Alfll) the throng at Mme. de Ther- now looking for her Carthaginian. I have seen him,” the “He is here; stout hostess had whispered to her. Her mother had slipped away into the cardroom and she was free to operate in peace. Eluding invitations to dance, she pushed through the crowd, always alert and attentiv Her heart beat fast. She was very anxious to succeed. Her costume—Autumn Dew—offered a striking contrast to her own da zling_youthfulness. She was that evening much more beautiful than her costume. with her thick hair (as red- dish brown as her e crimsoned leaves and _scintillating dewdrops, with her dead-white skin. like a pearly dawn, and the supple grace of her figure accentuated by the changing and vanishing tone of the silk gown she wore. A little tired she had stopped near the door of a big gallery in which there was danc- ing. Suddenly a timid voice asked her for a turn. She faced about and feit her heart throb violently. The man who spoke to her was tall, with a pale face and black hair, the latter encircled by a blue headband. He wore a painted robe, a short cloak and high shoes th purple laces. It's he,” she said to herseif, won- dering at the good fortune which had thrown in her way the one person she had been looking for. She took me- chanically the arm offered to her. The thought that she had to make herself attractive embarrassed her at first. She was so habituated to the other idea—that she must defend herself against those ‘whom she pleased too well. She ‘didn’t know what to say. But her lack of ease charm to her companion. Moreover. the ice was soon broken. They found something to laugh over. It was the sight of a gawky May Rose who waltzéd furiously in- the arms of an infatuated schoolboy grotesquely dresscd as a‘druid. A stout priest dripping with pérspiration, but very grave, who had taken off his triple rown and wasitalking about the Bal- kan situation with a Louix XI wear- ing spectacles. also diverted them From that voint on they g00d comrades and danced with les restraint. They discovercd that the were marvelously in accord. the same tastes and the same repug- nances, after the manner of voung people’ who strike up friendships. Having talked about others. they be- gan to talk about themselves. Simone oided personalities. She kept her mind on her great objective. But, littlo by little, she attained a degree of self-confidence which she had never felt before. In a low and guarded voice the Car- thaginian was paving her discrestly turned compliments. He showed in- telligence and wit, and, in addition, a sincerity and vivacity which seemed to be struggling through an habitual reserve. Already a certain intimacy twean them. k supper together. E? tete-n- a little side table. tete, at After sup- ception rooms, still well filled in, spite of the early departures, they wan- dered into the winter garden. They sat down there in the shadow of some big, moistly fragrant plants. Her head whirling a Jittle with the intoxication of her success, Simone allowed herself ta be lulled by the tender phrases which he whispered. She felt perfectly happy. Never ha. any man who had murmured words | of love to her moved her:as she was Thermasse's | hersel | “gh. ended by telling him how h You will succeed, Simone, Simone knitted her brows and re-| masse’s costume ball Simone was | yes) strewn with | must have appealed as an added | pe-. fleeing the cotillon and the re-i ibreast, added to the verisimilitude of iher costume. e “Forget me. Forget me. I can't, you see. 1 can’t. But I didn't cuquette with iyou. It was real, I assure you. It be- lcxme real. What a misfortune! Mon Dieu! What a misfortune:” ppY she would have been to love him and |marry him If he had only been ric, Listening to her, he grew paler and paier. His miserably dejected air con- | 4 strangely with his sumptuous iy his shoulders i {zaiment. He shrugzed $ Yes:; ves; it is a misfortune” he {gaid finally, in @ wearicd voice. Tt ie | t misfortune. :'",{:? you krov." b added. with i it smile, “I am. all the same the h:;u;; man with the twelve millions. 1] %ehanged costumes at the last min- i ute. But 1 am the young man, all ' ey! Money:"” ! She stood there gaping. watching the {blue headband and the painted robe disappear in the throng of departing guests. { When Lincoln Lost His Inaugural Speech CRING the four months which in- 1 D" fervenea between the etection o Abraham Lincoln and his inaugura- tion, besides other and many duties, he devoted himse'f to writinz i inaugural address. This first inaugural speech, now become classic, was i written in a quiet room on the second floor of the building occupied by his brothier-in-law. as a store, and near the statehouse, in which Lincoln was installed in the sovernor's room, Iy after his election. i ST this address which gave Lin coln what he described as the mOst agonizing half hour he ever spent With the care and secrecy which sti eurrounds the preparation and print- Ing of an inaugural address, this e ‘mous document was written and placed in the hands of one of the editors o a newspaper, the Illinois State Journas The editor, with a single compositol locked himself in the cOmPposing rovii The speech was set up, proof taken an iread und a dozen copies printed: after | hich the type was immediately dis- buted. This was all done almost der the eyes of the correspondents w i whom Lincoln daily talked. _ o i Mr. Seward and other advizors Bad It sted that owing to verisl e the country it would be weil for the President-elect to arrive at Washington some days ahead of tu inauguration. This could be ar- ranged, as he had received many. in- vitations to stop en route at the principal cities through which he Would have to pass and address thc legislatures and other public bodies. Ligcoln -decided to leave Springfield by special train on Feoruary 1. companied by Mrs. Lincoln. thei children, his two private secretaries and about a dozen personal friends. The inaugural address, which had been so carefully sguarded, wus placed by Lincoln himself in a small. old-fashioned oilcloth carpet bag and intrusted to his son Robert to cari without, however, explaining its con- tents. On the journe | was having his first i public life, _enjoyed _every mile | The trip, and when the train arrived {at Indianapolis. he was so bent on | Seeing the sights that he hurried 1o the hotel ahead of his distinguish- ed father, gave the carpet bag to the hotel clerk with other luggage and | started out to enjoy himself. Lincoln had hardiy settled in his | room when he_remembered the pre- cious message, but the bag containing |t was nowhere to be seen. 1t is said | that his anguish was intense as he | pictured to himself the theatricaifty | of the situation, as word after word |of his inaugurel address would be flashed over the wires and appear in flaming headlines in the morning papers. He knew the country to be Walting with ill-concealed impatience for some official utterance from him upon a situation already tense to the point of breaking. He hurried down to the hotel of- fice to inquire about the bag. and seeing 2 pile of luggage behind the 1 a h | counter, cleared the latter with a single spring and began to search like mad. Carpet bag after carpet bag was torn moved by this one, who pleased her more than any other. and whom shel And it was such an extraordinary piece of luck! open until there, quite at the botto: 1ay the little black oilcloth one ¢ou- taining the speech. It was for the English critics to THE VOLK BUST OF LINCOLN, Bift. count of the.dedication. Mr. Greeley, whom I afterward met at an agriculturai fair at Elkton, Md., and to whom I showed the Westminster Review article, discover . for America the wonderful strength, purity and’ thoice of Lin- coln's English as exhibited in the first and- second inaugural addresses * ok kR iHE took her hand. _He mirrored his eyes in her big brown ones, }la President’s special train having | he had finished. 1 was anxious for jeft Washington at noon of Wednes- {bim to coriclude ‘in order ' that we Aay, the 18th. Three members of the | might ‘hear.the President. 1 observed t—Mr. Seward, Hecretary ' of | Mr. Lincoln closely. He listened at- “Abraham Lincoln.” The chief defect of his drama lies in the fact that, al- hough he has given us an jmpressive gk k kK posed memorial tower one of its most T]-mx .calbe ‘the informal feature 1 [mden for use in his thoughtful play. State; Mr. Usher, Secretary of- the |tentively to'Mr. Everett's speech, nodded his head:and admitted that the |man, he has made him a humorous |ancient landmarks, a large block of ot-in sy stternpon ies af ik \ Interior. and Mr. Blair, Postmasterjit appeared to me that, it t grasped ti & s it 8 too much to | flint that for centuries had stood in ¢ with glints of gold, and suddenly he and the Gettysburg address, all of General—accompanied the President, fweary him. and, B Toce ..,a‘.’f.fi:fl' 4 .,Z me"‘.p?ecdfi'.m x She slnifcancs #:‘3,';"":“‘22(23" erom . our. English | the Old Hingham market place, where | rectory, where seventy people en-lggked her if she would marry him. -~ which have now been translated into as did the French ministegy M. Mer: “expression of care gnd sadnmess, hist - °; (Copyright, 1921.) Cousins & comprehension of Lincoln's,it was probably used as a mounting joyed the-social hour and refresh- The young. girl's cup: of ‘happiness I \ N