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[E] (9 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1%95. nova's Washington, ! 1ds aloft her scales; cred laurel veils: pter and his throne; | bolic art, | s see him stand, the troubled land ness in his heart. deed d thought loved “the p n! be here a les hile the lakegurf in hear On Lt B e e B ¢ This bronze doth keep the very form and mold Of our great martyr’s face. 13 is he; 1 nity: those cheeks T Thi 1mmer’s gold; ! )rMS t0 beat on: the lone ago; ose silent, patient 1ips too well foretold. 0 ruled a worid of men me prophet of the elder day— 15 above the tempest and the fray With a deep-eved thought and more than mortal ken. A power was & Ora beyond the touch of art | «d strength; icwas his mighty heart. R.W. GLLDER, On the lifework of Abraham Lincoln. | r S S B o5 Tagersoll on Lincoln, der the singular caption of “Motley and rch” Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll wrote a | genuine “prose poem” on Abraham Lincoln, | ummed up and photographed in a | thus: | 2 0f mirth ana tears, of the sque, of cap and crown, of Socrates of ZEsop and Marcus Aurelius, of all t & e and Just, humorous and honest, | mercifu’ laughable, I bie and divine, and all consecrated to the use of man: while, through all, an overwbelming sense of obliga- ivalrous loy T b, and upon all dow of the tr 3 graph tion, of th And here are some more of the diamonds gleaming incidentally in Colonel Ingersoll's superb cluster Nearly all the great historic characters are Im- possible monsiers, disproportioned by fiattery, or oy calumny deformed. We Kknow nothing of their pecnita or nothing hington is now only & About the real man, who lived hated and schemed, we know but 3 Hundreds of people are now engaged in smoothing out the lines of Lincoln's face—forcing all features 10 the common mold—so that he may be known, not as he was, but, according 10 their poor dard, as he should have been. r finished his education. To the th Le was a_pupil, 4 learner, an in- knowledge. You have no poiled by what is called the most part colleges are places polished and diamonds are seare had graduated at Oxford quibbling attorney or a hypo- but their peculiarities. eel engraving. tical y Nothin power. g discloses real character like the use of It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what o man really him power. He never abused i, e: ide of mercy. * = % e was as patient as destiny, whose undecipher- able hieroglyphics were so deeply graven on his sad, tragic face. * Lincoln was th civil war. _the grandest figure of the fiercest He is the gentlest memory of our world. SRR S But why has so little been written about the real life of Lincoln? The query is not paradoxical. We have many able works written by famed anthors, and monographs about the great war-time President, but they deal almost exclusively with his career. Where incidents in his life’s his- tory are mentioned they seem to be inci- dentals, sidelights thrown on to the dra- matic and tragic events in his career to add to their living interest and intensity. The magazines of the country have explorea the whole world for subjects; biographers | have expended their literary energies in preserving for posterity the names and inner-life histories of other men less noted and famous in the land, but with one noted exception American literature has no *“life history’”’ of Lincoln. All others have been mere records of his public career. Why this is so who can tell? No character in American history is so re- sourceful of study. Washington we call the Father of his Country, though what we know of his life’s history is deficient in those points of interest—human interest— which bring Lincoln so close to the hearts of the people. Until the present time no magazine in the country has thought of writing about Lincoln in this way, 1. e., his life instead of his career. The contradistinction is not subtle. It must be obvious to the intelli- gent thinker who pauses to consider. Me- Clure, the pioneer of popular magazine publishers, has opened the eyes of the reading public to the singular deficiency in our literature of American worthies ana famous men, and in the November number of his magazine appear the initial chapters of a carefully prepared life of Lincoln. If one may be permitted to judge from this first installment, the worlk will, when finished and issued in book form, take its place among the classics of Ameri- can literature. Lincoln is not great only as a National character in our history; his name is pro- neunced by every civilized tongue and will be preserved for the future in the records of the age side by side with those of Wash- ington, Wellington, Napoleon, Gladstone, Bismarck and scores of others whose ca- reers have made history. The life of Lincoln, as McClure intends publishing it, will not be a rival to the great work of Nicolay ana Hay. Theirs was *‘Abraham Lincoln, a History,” Thisis to be ““Abraham Lincoln, the Man.” The work will contain many heretofore unpublished portraits of the famous statesman and President. An unusual method is to be pursued in preparing this life of Lincoln. The incidents of his childhood, youth, early manhood and after life will be gathered *‘from the telling” by persons well, if not intimately. Some of those who have contributed their reminiscences are nearly centenarians at this time,' and the the last century fell under the spell of the adventurous spirit of his friend, Daniel Boone, and left his home in Rockingham County, Va., in 1780 or thereabouts, to move into Kentucky, where he took up 400 acres of Jand in Jefferson County, twenty miles east of Louisville. In 1784 Abruhar_n I Lincoln was killed by Indians, leaving his wife and five children to shift for them- selves. The youngest of these children, a lad of six years at thattime, was called Thomas. The death of the father was sad for this child, for it turned him adrift to become a “‘wandering laboring-boy” before he had learned even to read. For twenty-two years he weut about from place to place, doing many kinds of rough farm work, as well as learning indifferently well the trade of a_carpenter and cabinet-maker; though undoubtedly he was, as_one of his old acquaintances said, “‘a good carpenter for those days, when a cabin was built mainly with the ax, and not a nail or bolt-hinge in it; only leathers and pins to the door, and no glass, except in watches and spectacles and bottles. lumbus Graham, who was present at this wedding. “I was out hunting roots fer my medicines,” he told an interviewer, “and just went to the wedding togeta good supper, and got it. I saw Nancy Hanks Lincoln at her wedding, a iresh- looking girl, I should say over twenty. I was at the infare, too, given by John H. Parrott, her guardian, and only girls with money had guardians appointed by the court. ~ We had bear meat, * * * venison, wild turkey and ducks, eggs wild and tame—so common that-you could buy them at two bits a bushel—maple sugar swung on a string to bite off for coffee or whisky, syrup in big gourds, peach and honey, a sheep that the two families bar- becued whole over coals of wood burned in apit and covered with green boughs to keep the juices in and a race for the whisky bottle. * * # Qur table was of the puncheons cut frem solid logs.” Marriage compelled the restless Thomas to locate at last. His first home was a Eflor little cabin in Elizabethtown, and ere he remained until aftersthe birth of his first child, a daughter, when he took land for a farm on big South Fork of No- lan Creek, in what is now La Rue County, three miles from Hodgensville. Here he Tom nad the best set of tools in what | was then and now Washington County.’ He never became a thrifty or ambitious | man. ‘*He would work cncrgeh(:a]l_\'" enough when a job was brought to him,’ | said one of his old acqaintances, *‘but he He was abso- | illiterate, never doing more “in the of writing than to bunglingly write | oxn name.” Nevertheless, he had the of having, as one_ of his nephews,J. L. Nall, says, *zood, strong horse sense”; and Dennis Hanks declares | he was a man of the strongest determina- | tion when his mind was made up; be- ured and obliging, sort of man,” says Mr. Nall. | ears_old_Thomas Lincoln | married. His wife, Nancy Hanks by name, was, like her husband, a Virginian, and, like him, of & *second-rate family.” But it was only in bher surroundings and | her family that Nancy Hanks was | like Thomas Lincoln. In nature, | in education and in ambition she was, if tradition is to be believed, quite | another person. Certainly a fair and delicate woman, who could read and | write, who had ideas of refinement and a desire to get more from life than fortune | had allotted her, was hardly enough like Thomas Lincoln to be a suitable wife for him. She was still more unfit to be his wife because of a sensitive nature, which maae her brood over ber situation—a situ- | would never seek a job.” lutel, h reputation | of M | grew up, young Lincoln had many co was living: when, on February 12, 1809, his second child, a boy, was born. The little newcomer was calied Abraham, after his grandfather, and he afterward became the great ““Abe Lincoln.” & The home into which the child came Wwas a poor one. It was not the picturesque vine-clad cabin of the story-books. At the time of Abraham’s birth his father was y from home, and his mother was ufe of everything in the nature of food. But this is'only one of the pictures, and the destitution of the family was only |eml>urary, and partly due to the absence r. Lincoln’s father at the time. As he panions among the girls and boys of his own age. One of the latter, Austin Gol- laher, still tells with pleasure of how he bunted coons and ran the woods with oung Lincoln, and once even saved his fe. *Yes,” said Mr. Gollaher; “the story that I once saved Abraham Lincoln’s life is true, but it 1s noi correct as generally related. ““Abraham Lincoln and I had been going to school together for a year or more, and had become greatly attached to each other. Then school disbanded on account of there being so few scholars, and we did not see each other much for a long while. One Sunday my mother visited the Lincoins, and 1 was taken along. Abe and I played around all day. li [From & photograph in the possession of Stuart Brown ot Springfield, TI1. considered this the most perfect likeness ma: Hanntbal, Mo. Reproduced from McClure’s Magazine.] ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN 1858. Milton Hey of 8 de of Mr. pringfield, an intimate friend of Mr. Lincoln’s, Lincoln before he went to Washington. It is supposed t® have been taken in 1858 in The Earliest Portrait of Lincoln. From McClure's Magazine. majority have lived beyond the allotted age of three score and ten. *‘The short and simple annals of the poor” was Abraham Lincoln’s own char- acterization of his early life. It isalso true as well of the lives of his father and mother and all of his ancestors as far back as we are able with any certainty to follow them. For the present purpose it is not necessary to trace these ancestors further now living who knew bim personally and \ back than the paternal grandfather, one Abraham Lincoln, who toward the close of ation made the more hopeless by the fact that she had neither the force of character nor strength of body to do anything to improve it; if, indeed, she had any clear notion of what it lacked. Thomas and Nancy Lincoln were mar- ried near Beechland, in Washington County, Kentucky, on June 12, 1806. There was still living in 1884, in his hun- dredth year, an old man, Christopher Co- Another Early ficture of Abraham Lincoln in 1858. [After a faded ambrotype of Mr. Lincoln now in the Lincoln Monument collection at Springfield, 1L Al that is known of it is that it was taken at Beardstown in 1858, Mr. Lincoln wore a linen coat on the occasion, The picture is regarded as # £0od likeness of him as he appeared during the Lincoln-Douglas campaign.] From McClure's Magazine. . D Finally, we concluded to cross the creek to hunt for some partridges young Lincoln had seen the day before. The creek was swollen by a recent rain, and in crossing on the narrow footlog, Abe fell in. Neither Lincoln. From McClurc's Magazine, of us could swim. 1 got a long pole and held it out to Abe, who grabbed it. Then Ipulled him ashore, He was almost dead, i s > LINCOLN WORKING BY THE FIRELIGHT. “At night, Iying on his stomach in front of t! would cipher on a broad wooden shovel. take his father’s drawing: scriptions the next day.”—William H. Herndon, he open fireplace, with a piece of charcoal he When the latter was covered on both sides he would nife or plane and shave it off clean, ready for a fresh supply of in- from interyiew with Sarah Bush Lincoln. \ Lincoln as He Appeared Just Before His Election as President. and I was badly scared, I rolled and pounded him in good earnést. Then I got him hy the arms and shook him, the water | meonwhilePuurina out of his mouth., By | thismeans 1 succeeded in bringing him to, | and he was soon all right. ‘‘Abraham Lincoln had a sister. Her name was Sallie, and she was a very pretty girl. She went to school when she could, which was not often. “Yes, if you must know, Sallie Lincoln was my sweetheart, She was about my | age. Tloved her and claimed her, as boys | do. T suppose that was one reason for my | warm regard for Abe.” In 1816 Thomas Lincoln moved with his family and little Abe, then 7 years old, to Spencer County, Indiana. On arriving at the new farm an ax was put into the boy’s hands and he helped Dufid the “‘half-face | camp.” There were few more primitive | homes in the wilderness of Indiana in 1516 than this of young Lincoln’s, and there were few families, even in that day, who were forced to practice more makeshifts to get a living. These ‘‘pretty pinching | times,” as Abraham Lincoln once¢ de- | scribed the early days in Indiana, lasted until 1819. The year before Nancy Lincoln had died, and for | many months no more forlorn place could be conceived than the bereft household; but finally Thomas Lincoln went back to Kentucky and returned with & new wife— Sally Bush Johnston, a widow with three children, John, Sarah and Matilda. The new mother came well provided with household turniture — things unheard of before by little Abraham—*‘‘one fine bu- reau, one table, one set of chairs, one large clothes - chest, cooking utensils, knives, forks, bedding and other articles.” She at once made the cabin habitable and taught the children habits of cleanliness and com- fort. By this time Abraham had become an important member of the family. He was remarkably strong for his years, and the work he could do in a day was a decided advantage to Thomas Lincolv. The ax which had been put into his hand to help in making the first clearing he had never been allowed to drop. homas Lincoln also taught him the rudiments of carpen- try and cabinet-making, and kept him busy some of the time as his assistant in his trade. With all his hard living and_hard work Lincoln was getting in this period a desul- tory kind of education. He orce told a friena that he “read through every bock he had ever heard of in that country for a circuit_of fifty miles.” From everything be read he made long extracts, using a tur- The House in Which Abraham lin coln Was Born. From McClure’'s Magazine. key-buzzard pen and brier-root ink. When he had no paper he would write on a board, and thus preserve his selections | my mind. flowing with life. There was Abraham and his sister, his stepbrother anc} two siepsisters and Dennis Hanks. Young Abe was not often allowed to take part in the FPe]]ing-ma:ch. for the one who ‘‘chose first’’ always chose Abe Lincoln, and that was equivalent to winning. as the otherg knew that “*he would stand up the longest. The nearest approach to sentiment at this time of which we know is a story he once told to an acquaintance in Spring- field. It wasa rainy day and he was sit- ting with his feet on the woodsill, his cyes on the street, watching the rain. Suddenly he looked up and said: “Did you ever write out a story in your mind? ‘T did when I was a little codger. One day a wagon with a lady and two girls and a man broke down near us, and while they were fixing up they cooked in our kitchen. The woman had books and read us stories, and they were the first I ever had heard. T took a great fancy to one of the pgirls, and when they were gone thought of her a great deal, and one day when I was sitting out in the sun by the house I wrote out a story in I thought I took my father's horse and followed the wagon, and finally I foundit, and they were surprised to see me. I talked with the girl, and persuaded her to elope with me; and that night I put her on my horse and we started off across the prairie. After several hours we came to a camp; and when we rode up we found it was the one we had left a few hours before, and we wentin. The next night we tried again, and the same thing happened—the horse came back to the ame place; and then we concluded that we ought not to elope. I stayed until I had persuaded her father to give her to me. I always meant to write that story out and publish it, and I began once; but 1L canclnged it was not much of a story. | But I think that was the beginning of love with me.” BOTH TIRED OF LIFE. Albert Nelson and Amos Simon Attempt to Commit Suicide in Different Ways. Albert Nelson made a determined at- tempt to commit suicide in his room, 44 Third street, yesterday morning. With a razor he sliced the right side of his neck six times and the left side five times. He did not consider this sufficient, so he slashed both arms ten times altogether, but although he severed several veins the arteries escaped. and 1t took Drs. Bunnell and K inne two or three hours to stitch and dress the wounds. Although he Jost considerable blood he will recover, as none of the wounds are dangerous. Nelson had been working in orchards in Sutter County and came to the City six months ago. He had been trying to get employment here without success, and as his funds had dwindled down to $i2 and there was no prospect of obtaining more he thought the best thing he could do was to commit suicide. He expressed his re- gret that he had not been successful. He 1s about 24 years of age. Amos Simon, the well-known ‘‘pro- fessor,” j\:msed into the bay off Meiggs wharf vesterday afternoon with suicidal intent. He was rescued and taken to the Receiving Hospital, where he was soon pronounced out of danger. Hard times is attributed as the cause. —————— DAVIS' BONDS FORFEITED. Four of Them Turned In to Judge Bahrs Yesterday. The four bonds filed as surety for the ap- pearance of J. C. Davis to answer the charge of forgery before Judge Bahrs have been ordered forfeited, as Davis is out of the State and has no intention of return- ing. Jones and 0’Donnell, the City’s bond at- torneys, are going to sue the sureties, and if the amounts cannot be recovered the matter will be brought before the Grani Jury. Two of the bonds have already been reported upon unfavorably by the police, 0 it 18 not expected that the suit will de- velop much. The sureties are B. F. Kehr lein, on all four bonds, and P. Bebau, H. Solomon and I. Solomon on one each, —— Park Music To-Day. Following is the attractive programme pre- pared for to-day's open-air concert in Golden Gate Park: March, rtuna’ .. Overture, “ Semiram * Ballet de Coppella’ . Euphonium_ solo, * Grand -...composed and presented by W. H, ( Potpourri, “ Musical Tour Through k.'urolp(;l:er‘d Overture, “ Rienzi’ *“Serenade. solo for horn with fito t or] £. Sehlott; i y A Seléction, :'T Lombardi .../, -, oW Dard Walt eendt M 1 “Jolly until he secured a copy- book. The wooden fire-shovel was hisusual slate, and on its back he would cipher with a charred stick, shaving it off when covered. The iogs and boards in his vicinity were always filled with his figures and quotations. ]gy night he read and worked as long as there was light, lying in front of the immense fireplace, and he kept a book in the crack of the logs in his loft, to have it at hand at {)gep of day. When acting af ferryman, in his nineteenth year, anxious, no doubt, to get through ‘the books of the house where he boarded, before he left the place, he read every night ‘‘till midnight,” so says his roommate. _No newspaper ever escaped him ting on the counter in dGentryville. Ind. , and sit- of Jonea‘frocexry-store 1 i I » Young Lincoin u: to delignt his friends” by his discussioxfeo‘} politics. Even then he handled the sla- very question in his protagonistic talks, Young Lincoln was not on Yy winnipg in these days in the Jones’ grocery-store a reputation as a debater and story-telier, he was becoming known as a kind of back- woods orator. He could repeat with effect all the poems and speeches in his various school readers, he could imitate to perfec- tion the wandering preachers who came to Gentryvilie, and he could make a political speech so stirring that he drew a crowd n:&\‘x’t bim every time he mounteq a stump. Young Abe’s life on the Ohio Ri: ferryman was uneventful, excepvzer:: i% served to widen his views of men and things. Though his life was a hard one measured according to the standard of the present, it was not without its amusements, At home the rude household wag over- We will offer until Novem- ber, 15, 1895, the Dr. West or the Morse Electric Belts at the following cut rates: $10 Electric Belt, $15 Electric Belt 225 Electric Belt. 30 Electric Belt One Belt only to each cus- tomer. ~Dealers not supplied at above prices. State your case fully, our physicians will answer guestions free of charge. Write or call NO-PERCENTAGE PHAR- MACY, 953 Market St., Or FERRY DRUG_CO., 8 Market St., 8. F. | thirty minutes every morning to get all the He was taken to the Receiving Hospital | NEW TO-DAY. T BN It Is a Good Way to Waste Time and Spend Money. The Copeland Treatment Is Not Experiment, but Is a Certaln and Permanent Cure, as Proven by Mr. Wigmore’s Statement—$5 a Month for Treatment, Including Medicines. Undoubtedly thousands of our readers have had experience in trying thisand tnatremedy, advertised as a ‘“sure cure” for catarrh and chronic diseases, only to find the same result, namely, the expenditure of much money and the waste of valuable time, with no benefit derived. Trying experiments is & good way to waste time and money. This is a truism deserving of serious thought. The oid saying, “Didn’t get much, but gained a lot of exper: " may sound pretty, but to the person who has tried it very little satisfaction resalis. Many people are trying experiments in endeavoring to find relief from catarrh, with the same oid story wasted time and money. Other peopl T rience may be yours. There is a w rom the distressing ailment, w ago passed out of the experimental is now recognized as the most successful, fidence, A long list of patients, num many thousands, will cheerfully testity mildness and thoroughness of the and that the results obtained by the sy Drs. Copeland, Neal and Winn are perma and lasting. It has been before the publ years,and has grown steadily.in the confid of all who have tested it. The claim is estly made that it is the one best adapted every way to give relief and cure. It can proven to everybody’s satisfaction. AFTER NEARLY FOUR YEARS. Mr., Alexander Wigmore Repeats His Statement and Adds That He Has Never Had Any Return of the Symptoms. Mr. Alexander Wigmore, an employe of the San Francisco Stove Works, resides at 22 Perry street, and is well and favorably known. Four years ago he made the following statement for publication: ALEXANDER WIGMORE, 22 PERRY STREET. “I am as happy a man as there is in Francisco to-day, and the reason for it is th I have been cured of & chron trouble which threatened my very life. I st fered greatly for years. My nose was clogge up so that Iconld not breathe 1 has been nearly twelve vears s was perfectly Naturally I was ¢ to breathe through my My was always open. My throat and came dry and par M swell up and feel too big blew ont considerable nasty s nose and there was a constant dripping throat. At night I would fall into a_doze only to wake up with a choking sensation in my throat, and I would have to hawk and spit up a lot of yellowish phlegm or mucus which gathered there. In the morning I felt misery aole and all tired out. My head would “W. mpe mou fearfully at times. Then there was a dul heavy feeling just over the eves and across th bridge of my nose. 1t would take e At lea mucus out of my throat. I had very appetite. The sight of food made me feel at the stomach. 1 was elways tired and seemed to get rest enough. 1 lost all My hearing commenced to fail feel myself growing worse. Atone time I weighed 184 pounds, but I lost flesh until I onl weighed 150 pounds. I commenced to cough a great deal and I noticed that the spit up was mixed with blood. smelled bad. I was very weak. get one foot before the other. I had hot cold flashes over my body. Night sweats came on and 1 was afraid that I had the consumpe tion. Iwas treated for my trouble, but got no better. One day I read of a man who had been cured by the treatment of Drs. Copeland, Neal and Winn. I decided to try them and did, Since beginning treatment I gained 16 pounds in weight. 1 do not have those headsches now. The night sweats, the cough, the drop- ping in my throat, the hawking and spi all are gone. I wake up in the morning freshed and ready for work. In shorr, I fe strong and well ; ‘not a trace of my trouble r. mains. Icannot say enough in praise of the conscientious, gentlemanly manner in which I was treated. 'Tam a well man aud I want to recommend these docto: NOW, READ THIS. Mr. Wigmore was interviewed during ‘the past week and said: “You ean republish my statement made nearly four years ago, and can dd that T hdve not had even the slightest re- turn of the trouble, showing conclusively that the cure is permanent.”” THEIR CREDENTIALS. Dr. W. H. Copeland is a graduate of Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York City, was president of his class in that famous institution, and, after thorough hospital training and ex- perience, devoted his time and attention to special lines of practice. Dr. Neal and Dr. Winn passed through a similar course, and have for years been asso- ) Dr. Copeland. Neal won first honors in col- 7d was appointed resident physi- cian of the City Hospital. He filled the osition with honor and received the hospital diploma. He also holds several gold medals for special excellence in various branches of medieine, and after graduation was elected an adjunct professor of his college. Dr. A. C. Winnisagraduate of Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and of the medical department of the University of Missouri. They have devoted them selves entirely tothe treatment of their specialties. Years of experience in these special lines, preceded by extensive hospital work, have fitted them in s notable degree for the practice of their profession. COMPLETE HOME TREATMENT. If, for any reason, patients cannot visit Drs. Copelan al and Winn's offices in persou little k hardly they can, by sending their address and name, get_their symptom sheet. From it they can easily describe their symptoms fully and satis- factorily. Then a diagnosis can be given and the proper medicines xent with directions for using. By following these directions carefully and using the medicines properly they can obtain speedy relief at their homes. Patients are requ‘lred to write letters at frequent inter- vals, so that the pro; gress of the treatment can be watched the same as if they called at the office. Every mail brings additional proof of the success of the mail treatment. $5 A MONTH. No fee larger than $3 a month asked for any diseoasg, Ougr motto “A Low Fee, Quick Cure. Mild and Painless Treatment.” Tie Copelnd Melieal Tnstitas, PERMANENTLY LOCATED IN THE COLUMBIAN BUILDING, SECOND FLOCR, 916 Market St, Next to Baldwin Hotel, Over Beamish's, W. H. COPELAND, M.D. J. N D. SPECIALTIES—Catarrh and all diseases of the Eye, Ear, Throat and Lungs. Nervous Dis- eases, Skin Diseases, Chronic Diseases. Office hours—-9A. M. t0 1 P. M.,2t05P7 X, 7 108:30 P. M. Sunday-—-10 &. M. t0 2 P. M. Catarrh troubles and kindred diseases treated successfully by mail. Send 4 cents in stamps for question circulars,