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8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 23 1897 LINCOLN'S LIFE | IN SHORT, EASY PARAGRAPHS e i | How the Martyred President’s Day Will Be Kept in This City. | EXERCISES AT THE SCHOOLS. | Next Friday Afternoon a Summarized Biog- raphy Will Be Read at Every Center of Education in San ,‘ Francisco. | The courtesy of ables us to present the fc of Abraham Lincoln, whi friends next Friday afte No paragraph occupies more than two minutes Profess, perintendent Webster of the Public School Department en- | lowing contribution to the interest of the exercises in honor | {0 occupy tie attention of our schools and their | most only one or a little more. | Knowlton writes on the subject as follows: 876 Shotwell st., City, Saturday, P. M., May 22, 1897. [ Dear Editor: With this I leave the copy for the paragraphic life of | Lincoln of which Superintendent Webster and 1 were speaking with | you in your office last evening. H rewritten compilation from the best authors with considerable on. The style is progressive to fit the story, simple you will, from the simple and homely life of the lad youth and manhood to manhood’s martyrdom. Every boy or | h n or woman from the lowest grammar grade to the | or even university class, may find something of his or | cumstances of her class or her exercises—assign the paragraphs in the | order of their number, call for them in that order and thus have a con-| and symmetrical account of Lincoln’s noble life. ! The leading ideas are: 1. To furnish new material. 2. To give new forms to familiar materiai, 3. To give as many as possible a chance to take part, i 4. To supersede the few long and often ““borous’’ essays of pets. | 5. To show mercy thereby to long-suffering and helpless audi- Assuring you that you will do a very welcome favor to thousands of pupils and hundreds of teachers. Very truly yours, E. KNOWLTON. | necte Following are the exercises referred to: L Abraham Lincoln-—His Birth and Babyhood. n Lincoln began on the 12th day of F.bruary, 180, in a rudebitof a little farm in Kentucky. i sides of Nolan Creek in what was then Hardin County. | ty, so that that part of it now cailed Larue County takes The life of Abra! log shan 's birthplace. der one name or the otaer we may find it 0n any good county map of Kentucky. It lies near the center of the northern tier of counties just over the Ohio River, righton the south bank, straight across from Indi Look ard sce. The country wes very handsome. It had a rolling watered and abounded in game, 50 that it was equaily and a larger face, well-timbered and fertile, well- ttractive to the h and {0 tho | cailea Biue Ball were the first hilis ou whicn the their first two years on earth. vilie, now the county seat of Larue County, to which tourists 3 coln’s birtnplace have (o go first | The next five yeats he spent in_auother cabin, four miles from his first home, on Knob Creek. cabin wes only & sort of a shed-shanty, little, if any, better than many a cowshed for California cattle to-day. IL His Third Home—How They Kept *Open House.’” Hig Kentucky homes were beautiiully surroundrd, but they were not healthful. Malaria who wish to prevailed. So, lie was about 7, his iasher, Thomas Lincoin, took his whole family across the Ohio 10 & new home in Indians. This new home-farm—or ranch, as Californians would be more likely to cal along both banks of Littie Pigeou Creck, near the s.rag- gling settlement of Gentryville, in what is now Spencer County, Indiana, The first shelter they had' there was haraly more than'an Indisn wigwam. Insome points it was not as good. It was justa sortof a low shed shanty of logs and brush. Ithad a roof that was anything but ti ght, and one side wasn't there at all. It stood wide open, 0 that the family didn’t need auy door or windows, and they didn't have any. If & stray Indian, or eved a roving bear, chose to walk in to dine or sup with the family there was nothing to stop him, and the family didn’t stay to weicome him. Or, if he heppened to take it into his head to make a midnight call, things became still more gadden. Their life there was a sort of picnic all the time. They didn’t need either doorbell or knocker. They kept “open house” all the while. In wiuter snows or summer storms Abe's mother used to hang up big buffalo skins 8cross the open side, and so keep out some of the wet and the cold. You may be sure {hey never lacked for thorough ventilation. I The New Log Cabin With Four Whole Sides—Its Farniture. . After putting up with the shed-shenty abouta ye«r Abe’s father builts better. By this time the lad had become nearly §, <o that he was able and glad to help. o was his mother. Both the boy and his mother worked out in the woods with ax and hatchet snd masul, help- 1ng to build the new cabin, which had four whole sides to it. And their furaiture they made themselves, too. Abe's father took a big log, more than two (eet through, sp.itit in two with wedges, hewed off the flat side as smooth as he could with his wide broadax, bored hoies in the other side and drove in four stout sticks for legs. That was the table. It had no casters and it “staved whare it was put” we may be quite sure. _And the chairs came out of smaller iogs in the same way. In fact they looked us if they might be the own children of the table. The chief difference was that they had three leps instead of four. Perhaps the fourth one grew out when they grew olaer. Who knows? They didn’'t call them chairsatali—jusi stools, We may see something quite like them now §n almost any cowyard or shed where the men milk. o doubt Abe was big euough and strong enough by this time to help his father make these things—the table and the stools and the stands and the shelves—for we know he wi alwsys ready end willing to do all he could to help others. Iv. Abe’s Bed—How He Made It—How He Got New Ones—Advantages. Spring and wire beds and hair mattresses hadn’t come into fashion in his time. He and the young colts and calves slept on the same things, dried leaves, grass or_straw. Toe. differ- euco was ihat they had to tnke them as they cou'd flua them. while Abe used to take a big bag or sack and go out and fiil it with the softest and best smeiling leaves he could get. When hie wanted to “make his bed” all he had to do was just stand the bag up on end, square off at itand give it & good punching—one-two-three siyle—until he thougnt it soft’ enough and plump enough for another good night’s Test. Whenever he felt like having another bed all he had to do was just pitch his bed-bag out of doors, dump out the leaves for the colts or calves to use, step oiit into the woods, gather a fresh lot, snoulder his sack, “take up his bed and walk’’ back 10 his airy loft. His bedstead was the whole floor. 1t never broke down under him and it never creaked or squeaked when he turned over or thrashed about. And he couldu’t v ry well fall ‘ot o bea,” though no doubt he often rolled out and found himself sprawling ali over the floor in the morning, rubbing his sleeny eyes and wondering what made his bed 80 terribly hard and how he came to “have the floor.” = Abe’s Work—His Supper and His Stairs. All day long, from earliest dawn till latest twilight, he worked, helping his mother in the house and his tather around the place aud on the fafm. In the house he was his mother's oniy girl for quite awbile, and outside his father could not afford to keeb any hired man. For supper he had one big piece of corn bresd. It was rare that he had butter on it or even syrup: and it was often so dry that he had to “'chew it fine” before he could swallow 1t atall.” Simple food, pure air and pleaty of hard work gave him henlth and strength, 8s they give sny boy now who g.mkm ufllrehm try them. After supper 1t was dark. He had no books to read nor any canclo or iamp to read by; and he had 1o neighbors’ boys to play with, So the tired boy got slowly off nis threc-leggod and climbed up a setof stout wooden pins driven into stcol, kissed his mother “good-night” the i0gs of 1he side of the cabin. When he wanted to g0 up into the garret, or atile or 101t he had 10 stairs nor even a ladder, only the pegs siready named; and he had 1o sort of trouble turning off the gas, putting out the lamp or blowing out the candle. He olimb d into the derz, turew off bis clothes in a hurry, etretcned himself out on his bag bed, pulled the rough, ! now, often seemed to think much more of taking care of a fine colt than of saving the strength | years after, when ne had grown 10 be a man, he said to a friend with whom he was talking ! one. | They'did not know Abe. | bu<hes and shouting and velling with all their mignt. {Qarse blankets up over him, said his praver and fn five minutes was lost in the “Land of Ncd” or roaming through dreamland, killing coons, treeing squirreis, chasing deer, cat¢hing fish or dancing round rousing big bontires of dry aud crackling brush. VI Denth of Abe's Mother—What He Sald of Her. Abe's mother was never strong. And her work never ceasad. It was hard and constant, and her food was not as good nor her rest as much as she nceded. And husbands then, as and the lives of their own wives. The family had not been in the new house quite & year when she sickened and in a few weeks died of a qu.ck consumption. Awsy out in the wilderness, as they were, they couldn’t gec any minister to sttend the funeral, and tney had no churchyard or graveyard in which to lay her remains, so they had to bury her (without any regular service) away out in the woods. Maay and mady an hour Abe used to go out there to her lonely grave among the trees and sit and cry. As soon as they possibly couid they had a good minister—her friend, good Parson Elkins— come aud preach a iegular funeral sermon. His mother's death was the first Teally great sorrow that Abe had ever known. Many {and his eyes were dropping tears as he said i1): “God bless my mother! All that Iam or ever hope to be 1 owe to my mother.” VIL Abe’s Stepmother—What She Said of Him. Alittle more than a year after he lost his own mother his father married Mrs. Sally John- son of Kentucky, Whom he had known there. She had three children, whom she brought with her, and il of them agreed, happily, with Abe and hissister. The new wife proved an excellent mother to Abe. She found him poor, barefooted nnd ragged, and at once went at work to supply all his wants. She was thoroughly kind-hearted and every way capable. And after Abe had grown into manbood and become famousshe always used 10 say: “Abe was an exceilent boy. He never gave me an unkind word or cross look. Aud he never refused to do anything I asked him todo. Abe was the best boy I ever saw."” It is pleasant to know that she lived to see Abe become President of the United States and to have the warmest proofs of the love that he always had for her as long as he lived. VIIL Schoolhouse—His New Teucher—Reading by Open Fire- light—His Books. A rough log schoolhouse stood quite & long way from Abs's home out in the woods. He went {0 that jor a few weeks. There ne learned the beginnings of reading and writing. But most of the pupils cared so littie for learning that they got on too slowly for him. Sohe made up his mind that he could and would *go it alone.” Then he leit school aud becawe his own wacher from that time on. After the rest of the fam ily had gone 10 bed he tsed to heap the dry logs up on the open fire, make a bright and steady blaze, pull his three-legged stool up near the corner of the chimney and read and think. Sometimes, when more tired than ueual, he would streteh him- self flat on the floor, swing roand so that the firelight would _shine over nis shou.der on the book and lie there and rcad away till long afier midnight. More than once he feil usieep ouly 10 be sharply waked by a red-not coal rolling against his bare foot. 5 His only books were the Bible (of which he could repeat large portions), “Pilgrim’s Prog- ress,” “Robinson Crusoe,” “Esop's Fables” and the iives of Washington, Franklin and Clay. He greatly admired Clay, warmly believed in his principles and strove for some years to imitate and to emulate him. B Abe’s Shovel-Slate and Charcoal Pencil—His Will and His Way. Young Ave spent a good part of his evenings by the fireside in writing and ciphering or “doing cums,” as the old-1a-hioned boys used o eall working probiems in arithmetic. His father was so poor that he could seldom efford 1 buy paper and pens for his son; so Abe’s Backwoods broed back of the wooden fire-shovel for his siate and use a slender stick of soft charcoal for hispeucil. Assoon as he had covered the back of the shoyel with his copies, or “sums,” in ar thmetic he would take it out to the shaving-horse and with the draw-knife shave it all clean and smooth again, so tuat he could fill it once more, When his iather or mother complained—as they sometimes did—that the fire-shovel was “getting 100 thin” Aba usad to take his ax and draw-knife out into the woods, cut down a tree of the right sort and make a new one. There was no danger of running short on that kind of slate as long as the woods lasted. When a iad has the will he'}l contrive to find the way, Young Abe always did. We can. & What Abe Could Do at 17—His Strength at 19. By the time Abs was 17 he could write 8 70od hand, do Lard examples in long divisicn, and spell better than auy oue else in te county. Ouce in & while be used to write a little picce about something he had been reading or thinking ¢bout und when the neizhbors heard it they used to say, *Ahs, hear that! Abe can do1t; the world can’t beat it. 2119 Abe had reacned his full height. In his bare feet he stood nearly s'x feet four inc tall. He was a long, lank, bony, awkward, good-natured giant. In physical strengih he the master of the whole country round. No one in his neighborhood could strike an ax deep into a iree as he conid. Indeed, few could puil it out after he had struck it in. In wrest- ling he was the champion. He may have known very liltle of what our wrestlers call the half-Neison, but wheu e got & man in one of his Lincoin grips tnat man went down and under. ! It takes a strong man to put a barrel of flour into & wagon. Lincoln did it easily, Hardly one man cun iiit a barrel of cider off the ground. Lincoln vsed tostoop forward, iifta fuil barrel of cider up on his knees and leisurely drink from the bunghole. XL Abe’s Flatboat Trip to New Orleans—How He Handled the Robbers, About tnis time—when Abe was 19—a neighhor nired him to go with his son, younger than Abe, down the Ohio and the Mississippi to New Orleans witn a flatboat load of corn and other broduce. Abe had charge of the trip and the accounts. They had nearly 2000 miles to go and the trip took aimost & month. Abe was greatly pleased with the propossl and gladly sccepted. He had never been away from home to any distance, and, like all young men, wanted to see something beyond his own home. He tola his faiher that he ‘‘wanted to see the worid.” His father shrewdly and cau- tiontngiy replied: ““Take care, my boy, that in trying to see the world you do not see the bot- tom of «ie Mississippi.”” Abe and his companion got throngh safely. But one night while their boat lay atthe levee, before they had soid their load, a gang of negro roughs ca.ue on board to rob them. They became acquainted with him that night. He very speedily showed them that he could handie a club as well as an ax. The thieving rascals, bruised and bieeding, were glad to get off with the r lives. | XIL Abe Moves to Illinois—Helps His Father Build—Country Frolic Soon aiter Abe returned from New Orleans, in 1830, they moved to Illinois. The Indiana home had proved unheaithy, and the labor of clearin off the heayy timber was too great. In Tllinois they could have brosd prairies of rich land free irom timber. Toe next mouth after Abe was 21 they movea with ox-teams 200 miles in fifteen days, into Central Iilinois. There they seiticd on the north slde of the Sangemon River, just where the prairic lund runs into the woods. Abe stayed long enough to help his father build_a comfortable log cabin for the family; then he and Jobn Hanks split walnut rails enough to fence s fiftecn-acre cornfield, fenced it in securely aud saw his father fairly started in the new home. Then he told his father that us hie had now come of age, he must begin to work for himself. He did so. But he did not go out of the neighborhood. He broke up iand, plowed, split rails, chopped wood aronnd in his If he can’t find & way he'll make ntry had few sottlers and many wild beasts. When the men wanted récreation they had a grand wolf hunt. They would set up a tall pole ina ciesring. Then they formed a circle of men ten miles round. At the signal all began to go towsrd the pole, beating the Tue frightened woives and other animals inside tie great circle gradually crowded around the poie, where the men, closing. 1n ox: them from all sides, shot them dows in heaps. Our rabbit-drives down round Bakers- field are somewnat like these. ik How Abe Made His Ax Pay for His Clothes. Abe didn’t care much for hunting, He Was too kind hearted. But he always did his part to Lietp destroy the animal pests that hindered settlement. Yel, after all, he liked the ax much better than the rifle. The settiers had little or no money. They did business by ex- change or barter. When they wanted anything they would give something else for it or pay for it in work, Once, when Abe wan'ed anew pairof trousers he made & bargain for them with a Mrs. Nancy Miller. They made clothes then out of a coarse but very strong kind of toweloth, | weven from flax or hemp, and dyed brown. It is not much to look at but it wears well und long. In the great war the Coutederate soldiers came to the army in many cases wearing s | cloth something of the same sort. They calied it “butternut” from its color. Abe 101 Mrs. Miller that he would spiit 400 good fence rails for her for every yard of good towcloth she wou'd weave for him. They clcsed the bargain ana that was the way in which Abe clothed himself with his ax. XI1v. Abe Keeps Storo—Disciplines a Profane Bully. This first yeer after he was 21 Abe hired out to tend a grocery and varlsty store in New Salem. Tnatis o the snme river, toe Sangamon, about twenty-five miles off from his home. While showing g00ds to thres women one day a bully came inand began to talk versy offensively and profavely. *He showed plainly that he was trying 1o pick & quarrel. Lincoln begged him not to use such langunge before ladies. The bully replied that he had found the chance he wanted, said he would say wnat he chose and would like tosee the man who could stop him. Abe kept perfectly cool, told him to wait till the lsdies had gone, when he wouid attend {0 his case. As soou as the ladjes had left the bully became quite furious and swore that he must have satisiaciion and bave it “‘right away, 100.” Abe calmly reptied: ‘Well, if you must have a good thrashing, Isuppose I mayas well give it to you #s any other man. The bully said that the nan who could thrash bim was just the man he had been looking for.” 8o out of Coors they went and Lincoin made short work of him. He instantly threw him upon the ground, held him as easily asif he had been a child, reached out one of his long arms, gathared a lotof the “smart-weed’’ which grew sbout the spotand rubbed it into the bully’s face and eyes till ha fairly bellowed with the pain. As soon s he noliered” that he had got enough aud geve up Abe went and brought water, helped the fellow to wash out the smarting stuft and did all he coula for his comfort. The outcome was that the bully ceased to be a buily, became Lincoln’s made quite & deCent man of himself, XV, How He Came to Be Called ‘‘Honest Abe.’’ His service in thestore was always sokind and poiite thathe gained everybody’s respect and goodwill. One day a woman made & mistuke and paid bim 6 cents too much. He did not notice it at the time, but found 1t out soon after she had gone. As he could not leave the store he waited tili after “shutting-up time,” then walked to her home. five miles out of the villsge, and gave her back the 6 cents. Another time, just as e was closing the store for the night, x woman came in and asked for half & pound of tea. The tea was weighed out and paid for, and ne closed the store for the night. When Abe came to the store the next morning, one of the first things he noticed was a four-ounce welght on the scale instead of the eight lie should have used. ~Asso0on as he saw his mistake he weighed out the othar four ounces, closed the store and took & long welk be- foro breakiast to give the woman what she had paid for. A man often shows hisreal characier in smail things more than in grester ones. Honest Abe was faithful and trustworthy in small things. Indue time he became ruler over great ones. VY. Abe Captain in the Black Hawk War—The Dry Leaves—What He Did in the War, In 1832 Honest Abe enlisted to fight the Indians. The war is called the “Black Hawk,” from & lending ehiefof the Bacs. Af.er the men enlisted for the war assembled they elected Honest Abe their cantain. Fortunately they did not have to fight, but Lincoin made himself immensely popular by the thorough care he took of his men, his never-faili: g good nature and his ability to tell more stories and better ones than any man in the company- One day, some time_before the war, an Indian walked up to & settler’s cabin, saylng: «Ugh! Ugh! Toomuch white man! Ugh!” Then he threw a handful of dry leaves up into the air, and as the wind blew themall about the Indian shrugged hisshoulders and pointed to the flying leaves, as much as tosay: ‘““As the wind scatlers those leaves so will the red man scatier tue paiefaces!” Then b went away, looking scowlingly back. Honest Abe used 10 say that the only fights he had in_this war were with the mosquitoes. He sn1d he never shot at a singie Indian, but he saved the lije of one old savage. And he scemed always & great deal betier satisfled with himsel! for baving saved that one life than if he had shot twenty Indians through the head. The Biack Hawk War hardly merited the name of a war atall. It made no military repu- 1atfons, but i was remarkable for the fact that two of the simplest, homeliest and truest men in it afterward becamo President of the United States—Zachary Taylor and Abraham Lincoln. Much more distinguishied wars have turued out much less noted men. XVIL Honest Abe Postmaster, Surveyor and Law Student. After Lincoln came back from his bloodless war he became postmaster of New Salem. The place was %o small and his duties so light that he found time to it himself for surveying land and did qu te little business in that line. Theu he began the study of law. On sultry summer mornings one might have seen his anch {riend and | dalia, s0 he actuaily walked the whole distance, over & hundred miles. After that they eiected that when Abe could not get zoosequills to make pens of, and had 1o slate, ho would take the | Jaws ROt for his own State only, but for the whole country. | military rod, flourisnea it full in the little rebel’s face, sternly threat over six-foot length stretched under somo shadetree, sometimes flat on his back, sometimes leaning on one eibow, absorbed {n a lawbook. As the shade moved round he would move with it, 80 that by night he had traveled more than ha!f round the free. 5 As soon {- ng b’eg..n to practice all who had knuwn him as Honest Abe began to bring lhei‘; business (o hita. They might admire other men because they were “smart,” but they respecte aud trusted Abs because they knew be was honest. 'Whein he said a_thing people know that he believed it and they believed it too. And they aiso knew that he could never be hired to sey what he did not believe, or 10 do what he thought was uot perfectly right. That gave nim immense influence. xVIL How Lincoln Saved Young Armstrong From Hanging. Lincoln was not only honest and truthful, he was shrewd and sharp. In a fight near whero ne bad lived s man was killed. One of his friends was arrested for the murder. Everybody thought him guilty, and felt sure he would nang. After studying the case Lincoln made up his 1wind that the accused was innocent. His mother was 100 poor topay a lawyer. Lincoln wrote her that he wou.d glad!y defend her son for nothing. : On the trial the chief witness swore that he saw the prisoner strike the man dead. Lincoln questioned him sharply. He asked at what time of the duy he saw the murder done. Wit- ness snid it was in the evening after aark, but hesaw it all by the bright moonlight. ¢ sure?’ asked Lincoln. “I am.’’ ¢aid the witness. “Do you swear 112" suid Lincoin. positively,” said the witness. Then Lincoln took an almanac out of his pocket, opsned it to ihe place where the leaf was turned down, passed it to the court and the jury witu the quiet remark: ““This aimanac shows there was o Ioon shining at the time ac which the wiiness swears he saw the murder done.” ‘Ihe jury saw the witness haa not told tne truth, imme- diately declured the prisoner *not guilty,” and he was at once set free. The prisoner’s mother had shown great kinduess to Lincoln when he was poor and friend- less. Honest Abe always paid his debts. % Eggleston works this incident into his story, “The Graysons. XIX. Lincoln aund the Pig. One fine morning Lincoln bought & new suit. Having put it on he started for the court- house to defend a lawsuit. On the way he saw a pig mired in a deep mudhole. Tne creature would struggle pari way up the slippery bank and then full back again over nis head in mire and water. Lincoln thought, **If that pig is left there he will sure y smother to death.” Then he looked at his glossy new suit and thought again, “If I try to get nim out I shalisurely spoil this new suit. I really can’t afford to spoil this suit forany pig.” Sonerode on. But hiskind hears would not let him forget the struggling pig. After he had gone about two miles he said to bimself, I have no nght to let that poor pig aie there in that vile mud, and what's more I won’t either.” He at once turned his horse round and hurried back to the spot. The poor pig was still struggling, but had rown so weak that he cculd not reach s high as before. Lincoin dismounted, carried & half dozen fence rails to the edge ot the bole and placed thewa £o that he could reach down without faliing in himself. Then he ot upon nis knees, bent over and reached those loug arms of his down, seized the pig firmiy by tne foreleg and pulled him up onto the rails into safety. The pig, to tired to stand, grunted out his best thanks as he lay panting from his long exertlons. Lincolu siid him and pushed iiim out of danger, and then rode on, plastered with mud but happy at heart because he had done good even 10 an animal. X Lincoln State Legislator—Moves to Springfield—Goes to Congres Soon after the wer in 1834 many people in Illinois began to think they would like to haye a man like Honest Abe help to make their laws in their Stute Legislature. They elected him. He accepted, but he was 30 poor that he could not pay horse hire to get to thé capital, Van- him inany times, and once more, at Jeest, he walked the hundred miles to the State capital and walked back again, another hundred. In 1837 Msjor Stewart, a lawyer of Springfield and a warm friend of Lincoln, Invited him to move to thai city and become his law partner. After considerable modest hés'tation Lin- coln accepted and lived in Springfield tili he died, except while President in Wasnington. The next time the people e‘ected him to office they senc him to Congress to help make e had got qui.e a long way up from the ime when he had worked with John Hanks spiitting rails and fencing cornfields around his fathor’s eabiu. _But the people of the whole country were golng to have someihing to say about his destiny. He was going higher sill—he was going to the very top. XXIL The Meeting for Naming a Candidate for President—The Two Fence Ralls, Chosen President. In the spring of 1860 the people had a great meeting in one of the Illinois towns. They had met 1o name & mau whom they would like to see President. Lincoln was there. Afier a number of speeches a man rose and said that there was some ofie there who wanted o give a present to the meeting. The meeting voted that he might doso. Then John Hauks and ono of his nefghbors brought in two old fence rails and a banner with these words painted on 1t . ABRAHAM LINCOLY, THE RAIL CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY IN 1£60. TWO RAILS FROM A LOT OF 3000 MADE IN 1830 BY JOON HANKS AND ABE LINCOLN. The meeting rece‘ved the rails with cheer aiter cheer and chose Lincoln thelr candidate. Abou: two weeks alter they had a much larger meeting in Chicago and chose him there again in the same way. And then, when Novemver came, the people of the countrs slso chose Abraham, the iliinofs rail-splitter, for the President of the whole country. 1t wouid seem as 1f he hud quite reacned the very top, wou.ditnot? But he was to go higher yet. We shall see. 1 XXI The Great War—Why So Many in the South Wanted to Quit the Union. In the spring of 1861, less than six weeks after Lincoln became President, came the terrible war between the Norti and the South. One strong reason why so mauy in the South wanted 10 get out of the Union was the great change waich nad come aboul sitice 1776 in the way of doine work in the North aud in the South. At the time of the Revolution, when we broke away trom England, ail the States held siaves, They had them in the North'as well as in the Soutn. And many ti ink that the North wouid have he'd them as long as the South if 1t had 1d.”” “But the North was too cold for the negro. S0 they claim (fint it was not &s muca “Christianity" as “climate” that made thrifty New Engiand give up slavery. But, be that as it may, littie by litile the slaves of the Nortn became irce. while those of the South still remained’slaves. So it came to pass that tne whites of the North, having no siaves, had 10 work with their own hands, while the Southern whites kept up the oid way of working with the hands of their negro slaves. More and more, year after year, these different ways of doing the work led to still more different ways of thinking about work and workers. The South thouzht it menial and unmanly to work, looked down upon those whites who were wiiling to work, and, finaily, became unwilling to' remain united with men who submitted themselves to the hardships of labor suitable only for slaves. XXIIL The Gulf Widens—Rebellion—3acession. The North considered labor respectable, dignified, honorable. The South looked down upon work. They deified laziness. They despised those who had to work or chose to work with their own hands, This growing diff2rence in the they looked at manual Jabor made it more and more impossibie for the South, as it was, 10 live in union with the North. S0 the “irrepressible couflict,” as Mr. Sewatd phrased it, had to come. It did. It came sharply, suddealy, bloodily. Thizty years before, in Jackson's time, Sonth Carolina had proclaimed nullification and attempted secession, With colos-al self-conceit and the incredible blindness that grows out of it sne actuaily thought herselt greater than the whole Union besides. Her geometry tood on its head. It fell over. She tried to make the part greater than the whoie. Neither mathe- matics nor patriotism could permit. But we may not blame her too severely. Our early history shows that there hava been others. Massachusetts did the same thing more than 200 years ago. When the first colonial confederation resisted her attempted control she threatened secession. When refused her own sweet way, She stubbornly refused to piay. Fortunately for our history, when the self-willed little sister Carolina tried to make trouble in the family, Andrew Jackson was its father. *Old Hickery” quickly took down d By the Eternal” to hang every traitor on a gibbet higher than Haman’s, and so speudily stamped out the kindling flame of secession. Th Secession Revives, Extends—Lincoln’s Onth—The First Gun—War. But, though the flame of secession_disappeared, the embers still smoldered. The same troublesome little State, encouraged by the biindness and inefliciency of the invertebrate President preceding Lincoln, renewed he: tantrums, prociaimed secession, fired the first gun at the heart of her parent ana thus, attempting patricide, became the first armed rebel. Ten other States followed the unfiliai, muraerous and suicidal action of our “stormy-btrowed sister,’” ns Dr. Holmes called her. This attempt of these eleven Siates to break up the Federal family caused the civil war for the preservation of tne Union. These eleven deliberately set themseives to destroy the Union. In the most forbearing, tender, eloguent and loviug message in ali our history President Lincoin said 10 them: “You can hnve no oath registered in heaven to destroy this Government. 1 bave the most . A CLP OF COFFEE Of the right rich flavor is a “whole breakfast,’”’ without which every- thing else is minus. We have so many kinds it is hard to recom mend one or another. 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Fancy seroil front, reed boiy, rufiled edge sateen , upnolsiere in art i hub. steel wheel AT 56.25 Tabrique, pat AT $8.50 i plush roll; ribbed edge painso wheels and s it fo b:ake. AT New fancy pattern, hool 10p, Teed body, uphoistersd 0 & $9.50 Huieiyor bt Luxe, with silk plush roil; patent hub,' RUBBER TIRE, ' stecl wheels, pacene foot brake. We have finer carriages, of course, as high as $30, if you want them. (19718722 Market St. 2327 Geary st. tead f.r liustrated Catalogue. THURSDAY. THURSDAY. L.MIAY 27 solemn one (o preserve, protect and defend it. “] am loth io close. “We are noi enemies, but friends. We must not become enemies. “The mystic cords of memory, sirotching irom every batile-fieid and pairiot greve to'every ltving heart and hearthstoue over ail this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Unlon ‘when touched, as they surely will be, by the better angels of our nature,” But the willful, spoiied children would not listen. With clenched hands they struck their father full in the face. Thatended the time for reasoning or persuading. Their own insane deeds compelied him to take the rod of stern discipline into his unwiiling hand and to use it mostsharply. Without becoming himself a traitor 10 liberty and freedom President Lincoln could have done nothing else and nothing less than he did. The south “struck the first blow.” The President had to strike back and to keep striking until he struck the last blow. And no one is now giadder than the “new South” that he did so. XV. President Lincoln Frees the Slaves—Peace—Death—Honor—Fame. The North had more men and more money. The South had the advantage of fighting on their own ground. They fought *‘on the inside. The war lasted four terrivle years. Millions of brave men, on both sides, took part in it oa land and sea. Thousandsupon tnousands of them were kiiled. During the progress of the war Lincoln gave their frecdom to all the slaves in all the States then iu armed rebe.lion against the Unfon. He did this “as an act of military necessity, war- ranted by tue constitution.” § His proclamation of emancipstion is one of the noblest documents ever published fn the world, The war went on. General Grant became commander of all the armies of the Union; Gen- eral Lee of those of the rebellion. VWhen the Southern ieaders saw that it was useless or hope.. less o fight any longer they laid down their arms and made peace. The saddest thing about the close of the war was the murder of President Lincon by a mad- men assassin named Bootn. He killed Lincoln while others of his kind tried to kill Lincoln's highest advisers and helpefs. Booth was shot, the others hanged. The best people of al the South wept with all Ioyal Americans over the murder of Lincoln. They knew that their insane fanatic had killed their best friend. Had he lived he would have reconstructed the Union far more speedily, pleasantly and efficfently than it was attempted by the ignorant, willful, narrow-gauge man who succeeded him. Lincoln’s'great, kind heart took in the whole country, the South as warmly as cie North. He loved both andloved all, s every true American aiways does and must. And sll true Amerieans love Abraham Lincoln and delighi to honor him this day as never before. ashington was our Father, Grant our defender, Lincoln our preserver. All honor— eternal honor—to them and to him! 2 i+ XVI. Comparison—Summary—Conelusion. Washington was born rich—Lincoln poor. Washington had the best chances alad could have—Lincoln none. Washington had the stronges: frienas to help him into the best places— Lincoln lacked all these. In all these respects Washingion had a hundrediold the advaniage of Lincoln. Remembering these things ana otners like them, and fairly considering the dopths irom which he sprang, the obstacles he conquered and the heights he gained, we must certainly conclude that Lincoln was at least as great as Washington. When we get the glam or and the glare of hi<torical jashion out of our eyes we may even claim that he was greuter. Certainly his life and his fame are far more encouraging to every struggling son of houest poverty and bereditary toi Lincoln’s life ana character are a benediction and an inspiration to American youth. They wrought a revolution in our ideas of true greatness and 1is methods of attainment. In him we have a siatesuan without crait, a politician without meanness, a ruler without arro- atie, uc;.ir‘i‘u.nn u;l;hout prl-hu;uom cant. Hulwl; great without vice, philanthropic without olly, ambitions without selfishness, successful without vanity—the typs the frae American youth shouid aim {0 become. . 350 an0 modeldtonnd Humble chid of the backwcods—boatman, axman, hired Inborer, clerk, sur debater, lawyer, orutor, po.itician, legisiator, statosman, President, stanch ‘friend, true Christiun, noble man—we' hail and Bonor thee. Thy life and its ta® spenkably gr-at resulis are the choicest gifts that mortal has ever bestowed upon us. Grateful to that gracious heave: which gave thee to us—grateful to thee for thine unfailing truth to thysel, thy country and thy Gud—we shrine thee 10 our inmost hearts, crown thee on our highest pinnacie of patriotic fame and laud and biess thee evermore, 4 veyor, captaun, emancipator, savior, will be given with an excellent cast, and the management of the Orpheum, the Colum and Moroseco's Grand Onera- house will assist in the good cause by al. lowing the popular members of their companies to appear. Mr. Duffield, Mr. Frawley’s popular manager, 1s managing and the public can seel assured of a very interesting pro- gramme. Torough the kindness of Mr. Feist, president of the Emporium, spate has been given at the entrance of that well- known store. where the sale of tickets will commence. Flowers will be sold from prettily arranged flower booths, pre- sided over by m-n{ prominent society dies. A number of young men popular in business and society circles wiil act as ushers. Miss Margaret Craven will be present and will assist generally in help- ing the worthy cause. any well-known members of the Olympic Ciub, inciuding Robert. Mitchell, are interesied in the good work. The three acts ot “Back to the Old FOR THE BIG DRIVEWAY, Grand Benefit for It to Be Givea on Next Friday Afternoon. “Back to the Old Home” Already Exciting Cossidersb e Interest in Diverse Circles. The grand benefit to be given Friday afternoon, the 28:h inst., for the boule- vard is creating quite a stir in society and business circles. Three acts of *Back to the Oid Home,” the beautiful New Eng- land play written by Lotta Day Coleman, Home"’ will be well presented. The beau- tiful singing of a double quartet will b2 a feature of the acts given, as they will ap- pear in the scene of ‘ithe old farm’-— being heard in costume of tramps—and throughout the piece their singing will be effective. The scene of the old farm, the sweet singing, the pure sentiment and realistic characters, will no doubt be well received by the public. Mis. Coleman, in kind consideration of a worthy cause, thought her play of New England life, with its scenes quiet and beautiful and a good moral to the story, would be appropriate for the occasion. She has worked hard for the cause, and as many prominent people are interested the afternoon promises to be one of - success. Prices will be arranged in accordance with the tira Rehearsals sre undes way, and from all accounts the boulevard will no doubt profit from the entertainment. e ——————— GRATEFUL LADIES. Managers of the Children’s Hospltal Return Thanks for Favors 8AN Fraxcisco, May 22, 1897, The lady managers of the Children’s Hospi- tal and Training School for Nurses desire to thank most heartily through the columns of the press the following firms besides many in- dividuals, who have so kindly and willin.ly asslsted (hem in their recent Gingerbread Fete. MRrs. WENDELL EASTON, lhe press Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson, P. Rosst, W. K. Vickery, Robert Hoohstadter, Mihran Broa., E. T. Allen, Henry Wegener & Co:, Son Bros, Goodyear Kubber Compsny. Hale Bros., Georgs Haas & xon, Beruheim & Co., Golden Kula Bazair, G. F. Roberts, B 1l & Co., shreve & Co., Rt Weill & Co.. Cook & Co., Xatiay, Dohrmaun & to., Langiey. Michaels & (o, Neuman, Levison & Co., Mack & Co, J. C. Jolinson & ' Co., @ola Bowen &' Co.. Abrabamson. Heunisch & Co.. Osborn Hard: ware Company, ©. 8 Warner, L' N. 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