The evening world. Newspaper, February 12, 1909, Page 12

[ | soe "| amen wma aa sacar ese PONT Rent ans ay Seance a . The Evening World Daily Magazine, Friday, February 12, 1909. co | theennnrernernnnenrnnrnan @torlo, Crazy Weather. D 8 T @) ) Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 83 to 63 ) ~) | ue Bicky 1h | BOTRAN OW NOW Ay OL Si aca mie Vas perk ae By Maurice Ketten. Q Abraham ) | Lincoln y, he Story of ¢ han C0 a0), k Row, TAN - aon RR ~ 6 ond-Class Mall Matter, OMe at New York as & ning | For Fogtand and the Continent and | w) AN Countriog 13 4 ernationa rr ata © hepa He an boil One Tear f . $9.33 Personal Life ; By y One Month . .80' One Month . oo 85 % i prlishdoe s Le ell 3 ene Albert 3 | are OTOH TUES asks ; } Anecdotes © ae a of the Payson ow | ; page Terhune; & ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Martyr President ie tot ot od Oe long should the perfect , enthusiast. And Abraham “L snould think they ou reach from his body to the ground, Certain li was for speeches of this sort t @ buffoon and vulgar j . Yet the fact tt the face of fearful peril kept men’s country over is dark days. For the days were dark, indeed. triumph, Instead the South was winning victory must bear the blame, ‘That was human nature, Who was to deur i? Ang thousands of voices yelled “Lincoln!” The President was reviled, abused, cursed, laughed at, ‘The public did not stop to reaulze (hat he had to use Incompetent generals and raw recruits aud to make . OW head way against an avaiancne of graft, politic! pull and ignorance, He wae singlet out us the scapegoat for the North's hunitiiating deteas, The very people ho was trying to help turned against jin. ‘And not only was he blanied for his generals’ and advisers’ \dlotle blunders, but for the quiet, deliberate way he was managing (he War, He would not plunge the country blindly forward into fresh disasters; and for this he was called & coward, He would not declare the slaves free un\i1 he could back his declaration Ly force, and Abolitiontsts denounced him for this sensible caution, Disappointed , rabld jingolsts and Northern demagogues trled to rouse the populace )-DAY is Abraham Lincoln’s cen- tenary. He was born in a Ken- log cabin one hundred tuck, years ago, Te died on April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln grows, not be- cause under his Presidency the Union was preserved—Andrew ; Jackson had preserved the Union before when South Carolina had threatened secession; not be-| cause the negro slaves in the | Southern States were emanci- | pated—negro slaves in the| Northern States had been eman- | cipated years before, | pass the fame of { vould joke the nation’s cl | helped to ude the had jooket for an eazy er viciory, 5 yuiebody: Mare and more Abraham Lin- | coln stands as the great Presi ent | who was the exponent of the rights of man—white men, black men, all | men, | Had not the assassin’s bullet prevented Abraham Lincoln from serving out his second term, it is doubtful whether the Southern slaves would have received the unqualified suffrage. It is certain that the polithesa ugalast him, Meantime Lincoln had thought out a wise, safe pian—the only possible plan— for winning the War and saying the Union, Hampered as he was by Incompetent: and deafened by the screams of “On to Richmond!” he st! held to that one fixe: \\\ / resolve, even though It made lim the helpless butt of ridicule and slander, H AN /, Wi f was asa bulider who ts ordered to erect @ houe and is given no material excep MONA 7} : / / yf soft clay and green timber, Until the clay should be hardened into brick and $1@ s 0 "3 OW tii ' <a f Vivi / / i if timber seasoned Lincoln Was obliged to bear @ world’s taunts, Jeers and curses, horrors of the reconstruction days would have been avoided by his 4 Domestic trouLies—his Ite son's ueath and viGer mister Lunes—sieo herassed wine tenderness and wisdom. { at this time. Reading history faithfully, the real contest in the civil war was | Un re P ) not for black men’s rights but for whito men’s rigiits. The people’ $ A Camp-Fire Story. ae. h Ye ee ET i whom negro slavery most oppressed were not the mass of the black | ite { 7 ‘ i s \ x zi S Meanwhile the soldiers learned to adore bim, Their sng, “We're Coming, d slaves, but the mass of the white inhabitants—the poor whites, upon ONE MINUTE Wea \ =e = a cy Father Abraham!" echoed at a myriad camp fives, At those fires, too, were told 7 v luck s iI 7 - ) 0 uae ee ~ Sie a hundred true stories of which the iollowing js a fair sample: whom even the bluck household slaves looked down. | LATER wa = LO'( Willlam Scott, a young soldier, one night relieved a sick comrade who hae been put on sentry duty. Scott was worn out by a long march, He was found | | post, The penuity was death, Ory the President couhl save bls {a Lincoln was told about the case and pardoned the lad, adding: } “It from this day Scott does his duty so that if 1 could be there when he comes to die le could look me in the face and say, ‘1 have done my duty as & soldier,’ his debt to me will be paid. When weep mothera of Union or Confederate soldiers appeated to Lincoln lis great heart could never resist their plea. So well was this known that many adventuresses put on mourning and went to Washingtua lo urge unjust requests in behalf of unworthy prisoners. Lincoln's Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, has been described as a brute, And to judge by all the authorities [ have been able to consult, the term “brute” flatters him, In Lincoln's days of early struggle as a country lawyer anton bad in: ed and browbeaten him, Jn spite of tits, Lincoln made him War and Stanton continued much the same coarse of behavior toward the It infuriated him to have Lincoln pardon He had often spoken sneeringly of Ming him “the original gorilla,” and had referred to him as a victim of “painful imbecility.” Once Stanton spoke of the President as “an old fool, hearing of it, sighed anton says I'm asleep at i must be one, He ts generally right.” coln endured Stanton’s br n ces with the gentleness whose on la granite strength, In lime spirit he endured the slighte and abominable attacks of all his enemies, From the first he had been bom- ze -——— | parded with assassination plots. He more than once sald he knew violent death would reach him before his Presidency should be at an end. Yet he took no pres cautions against murder, and would allow no swarm of secret gervice men to dog Gertrude, the Food Burner, Settles Down Once More | hr eps. He summoned up hie fesings thus a > “It is better to dle once than to suffer a thousand deaths from fear,” The South was governed by a few thousand men, The great slave- | holding class included only eight thousand families. The Northern | Like a Peace Dove in th é Ja rr Kitchen. Bu bs Ala s—! States had hardly finished a long struggle for white men’s right to vote] # ee a ie lage ; i A Break in the Clouds. } and to hold office. Property qualification for white men existed in ! “ hronommenmennn cling emaninp nl aaanhitin oe soecncind 2 ‘ : y 4 u nes B: to go out in service: she could go OM| “We must give her a chance, She, hood, and, as T had no rubber gloves, i eniet lat 1 New York City after negro slavery had been abolished. The New y Roy L. McCardell. 7, riage, But on account of her fam-/ Seems ao willing,” ald Mrs. Jarr, “You!she couldn't bring herself to do the | At tert cane FOO a eer Reais wate teeenee of Union, victories England Ste ta Saat ni ee take ; a “ HAT are you so busy fort |tiy @ wouldn't care to go on the se | know she didn’t bring her things t acrubbing and wouldn't wash the dishes made it safe for Lincoln to Issue the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves, WDghe : ates re governed by a small class of property owners al-| W asked Mr, Jarr, ‘The last) just now because there are so many time because she didn’t know whether | because she says the young man she is most to the extent that the South was. Gay or 80 you have been con- | plays belng produced that, according to she'd stay or not, and this morning engaged to s she has beautiful . . ; stantly sweeping, | 5 |. That's one| when she left to go get them she was t uldn’ o The Democratic party had ceased to be Democratic. In the South | y ping.) the papers, are: not) moral f jhands and she couldn't spoil her matte ety stengti, In July, 1868, came the capture of Vicksburg, The same week it represented the vested right of slavery and its class distinctions. scrubbing andlreason. And then Gertrude said she|real sympathetic, and she sald, ‘You! montal chances by putting them In hot | * ony, 5 a | dusting.” liked us ang felt so bad for me not. mustn't work so hard Mrs. Jarr, It | water.” | Lee and the flower of the Confederate army were routed at Gettysburg and £ | : te | | flying back in panic rout to Virginia, The tide of war oad turned; and with It The Republican party was more the offshoot of the old Democratic | | f He chose the moment for this when his proclamation would rouse the North to ‘fresh activity and would most Keenly injure the Confederacy, The North was | finally learning (ike a giant boy that has grown too fast) how to make use of its “Somebod: has 1 a ey really paina me to see you do it.’ So; “ in"! y es y {having a good girl that ane determined Di y Why don't you pay her ao much a | TYIDE Mieke iat or of the pubic. to do it,” 14 |to let by-gones be by-gones and come that shows that Gertrude {!8 con-| week and let her hire you to do tha party of Andrew Jackson than of the aristocratic Whigs. Especially | Mra, Jars, quiet! ele | slderate.” | work?" asked Mr. Jarr. | ‘ phe net Onkueaat e ett ee eee ochaaranat Tao had eae ' in Fire CIM SATR eT ne ieee The last girl What did she mean by letting by-| “You think she'll stay this time, then, | don youl Interteres @ ante} Mray/| (euucouabatne terri es Clon sia ea eet) Sorel been tea) caer iel anne Roe raat d ork State did former Democrats constitute the majority of had never seemed! gones be by-gonee?” taked Mr. Jarr, and all your dreams of having a neat) Jarr, “I have great hopes of Gertrude; 0m The Haht ct ithaluesidentia lanky e/eiack Clad DeUreiandinlsiead) AINE vitana the early Republican conventions. They left the Democratic party | to get out of the) "sie came here and burned up « break. and capable girl, if you can stop her she's the only girl that ever lett that | * Set tile ue SUENTLES ae aba ante nanatea Oa y | leltch@njfand| good’ teat t! t day, f from burning the food, will bs reallzed?” 1 hround, The Reptblicans r. iomin ted Lincoln, The Democrats nc.sinated Gen. | fast for the first day, demanded a | came back to the place of her own free Jellan, whose military fame had become dimmed by the judlerous George B, ™ failure of hia cal gainst Richmond, The public voice spoke, with the result| that Lincoln received 212 electoral votes to McClellan's 21. The plain people had ") 4 once more stood by Lincoln, It was of these that he once said: . “God must love the common people or He wouldn't haye made so many.” ‘Though success was at hand, Lincoln bore tho public's worship with the same it-had ceased to be Democratic. \ y a democrat, not using the word. taking Lincoln’s own definition of ment of the people, by the people and for becar ness knows what week's wages and left; came back for asked Mr. Jerr, | will, If I don't complain why should she did in It, for another dollar, got it and never re. ‘Well, sald Mra. Jarr, “I thought 1! yo after she lett It (urned, and now she's back again for might do the cooking for awhile and!” «qt» mighty strange,” sald Mr. Jarr, was a sight.” some purpose of her own—I don't know show her how, You know Gertrude | 1¢ you women have no girl you coi “Well, now that |what it is, but I know it jen't to do the comes from an excellent family in New! plain the work is killing you, and you'll pr DDT CARDES you've got Ger- work, for you are doing t Jersey and never had to cook.” \ tet everything go tlill you get one, When Abraham Lincoln was in the partisan political sen democracy to be a gov Early tn April, 1965, eae Contederate army fiying toward Appomattox, Richmond was abandoned and fell nto Union hands, Lincoln went at once to the captured Confederat> capital, The | negroes he had freed flocked about him, shouting, dancing, seeking to kiss the | hands and garments of thelr beloved emancipator, Tears ran down Lincoln'e furrowed face at the sight of the liberated slaves’ hysterical Joy, Europe acclaimed Lincoln as the hero of the day, America was vibrant with enthusiasm over his prowess. He stood gloriously vindicated. He had smashed [the Co federacy, He had destroyed slave , He had rescued the Union, His won. |drous life work was done. Only the last awful scene remalued, | Nor was Lincoln wholly ignorant of his coming fate, On the morning of April 14, 1855, he told a friend ne had dreamed of standing on the deck of | ship ‘that was moving rapidly toward a dark and Indefinite shore, the people. He trusted the common people. He believed in the con-| true, the food burner, back, you need | “well, I wanted to have the house| “You never had to covk, either” sald! yoy have a servant you'll do all your unmoved face that had met their denunctations, Only to hix close friends did he non people. He wis the exponent of popular government. not worry about that,” sald Mr, Jarr,|elean for her,’ sald Mrs, Jarr, “1, Mr. Jarr. ewe work and hers, too, uncomplalning- show the rant furan, heart Sin tiuneee y his calm exterior, Ida Tarbell tells ; “he'll do a lot of things in the Kitchen | wanted to start in right with Gertrude, | ‘Well, {t 1s different with me. I'm not) ly, Weren't you fixing up her room this rewire beats Ky rat eeetGH Neuere CRRA Cate ! |-In the scorching and charring line.” Tf @ giri comes to a piace and finds it so sensitive,” said Mrs. Jarr, “Every- | morning?’ _ ibe EEE) EAU OM Ua a acm 8 Jt this war ~ “Now, I wish you wouldn't say thone dirty sie thinks that's the way the time Gertrude thinks of her family she, Yes," sald Mrs. Jarr, “Gertrude sald eee ne ara re ex iuera var vine ifort iene ATMnOeNaranClcenTh jue Relea ea , ote Jart SGertrade (people ike it. Go I always atart a new |geta a nervous epeil and hae to go out| I had so much better taste than she eee ee oe here, We've 6 Leva the GaGa Ghee ’ hear you, and she's so sensitive, giri in with a clean house and expect in the alr.” RET EEA NSIESLSBHORSIOBIITFARETE MEF Tees ianeey kc usiitie Sis besa meee nehetes elueenecnes aaa BIE Weve Besides, 1f she did burn the dinner a| her to keep it that way.” Yes, and in Gus’s side door,” wald Mr, | garr answered it. He listened a mo- | #° (0! : Meer few times, it was because she was so ‘Do they?” asked Mr, Jarr. | yarr quietly. | ment and then said: Ih One sentence of his most memorable address sums up his feelings toward the | nervous, because she was so anxious to. ‘No; generally they do not,” admitted) “I cannot belleve thet of Gertrude,| ‘It's Gertrude, She's taken another Pedi ‘ se, She told me ao herself.” Mra. Jarr, "But Gertrude his been here she {a too refined,” aaid Mrs, Jarr, “The place and asks If you please won't send “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right a8 ed Mr. Jarr, | uefore.'’ Arak thlog ahe aked! mo wal? there| her her’ week’al wages’ andl, gocd|rers| God elves) us (o)aee the: right, let Us Anish the) Work! we/Ate)iny to) bindiup) the | ly doasn't have| ‘For one day,” suggested Mr. Jarr, | was a good manicures tn tho nelghbor. | erence!” nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and orphans,” le : Piece acoecreaneaanasaasusenantaasannaannaanaad Wi t I + With t It F cree By J. K. Brya "| { Victory and Death. } ‘ A - ns Quen ee Oe re inter Isn ithout Its Fun & & ws By vB. Bryans Grant emahed Seve diese at Prana ene ee a As i¢ of what pure democracy can produce Abraham Lincoln} | Lamon, one of his oldest acquaintances, that @ few nights earlier he had dreamed stands i a his highest claim to fame th of walking turough the White House and of hearing sobs on every side, He I his highest claim to fame that when} met a soldier and asked Who was dead. The dream soldier answered ‘Th | President. He was killed by an assassin!’ All this is not as remarkable as it | Lincoln was always superstitious, was the victim of horrible dreams and the United States were governed by a slave-owni: | seoins. | Janvor aware of bis own constant’ peril from assassin: | atocracy in one! an aristocracy of position and wealth in the fection an er section | 1, notwith- On the night of Good Friday, April 14, 186, Lincoln nt to @ a formece al f rd's Theatre. Ag he sat in the Presidential box washing Mie | play a disreputable actor, John Wilkes Booth by name, entered the box from {) | Pinind and shot Lincoln through the brain, A man in the box grappled with ¢ Penne tho stabbed nim and leaped to the stage shouting Virginia's motto: “Blo” rannis!” C’so ever with tyrantsi”) and "The South ts avenged.” The eacaped to an alleyway, Where a saddled horse was held ready for him, Peete regained conaclousness. Barly next morning he died, ie Grieve aa never before. This martyr, for whose death men now he ar of the ce As the representa neo strife of factions, ° wrath of inter- inciple of an indestructible Union of a sov- The n { no better man ¢ l be found te the wept unrestrainediy in the streets, Was he whom those same men had so lately s of the I S the interest 1 welf 3 reviled, And sorrow was sharpened by remorse. The way flags that had been t ! rest und wellure of the com- { ut to celebrate the return peace were changed In an hour for miles of mon people of the l Txt awathed nearly every building In all the North and West, mor ft mingled with fury. Mobs surged through Washington, threatening = at tn every theatre, lynch every actor and w vengeance on the tO are even in his death the hero who had p Hise vowara Canal furved by his gentlé influence the mourners’ mad ra 04 OY tus according to the Governinent reports, trackeé down and sho} | qeath’ Vike a rabid cur, A notebook found In his pocket contained the decidedly yuthful words y “iL am abandoned, with the curse of ( Glass to Conduct Electricit IN bape ‘ t n ety of Edir Surg nh upon me!* Tedib, FAD Re Gees | ieee ; ON accomplices i the murder plot four were hanged and others con Wide, ana Praia Gs TRUd peed In wsllaAied GiOe GF aeIdE TAL Oh, Willie! You're going to fl." | Ey hy didn’t you «ome rround ¢ ) “Look here, Fido, {f you can’t }. a better hor > inan| sere Ee eas the IMews of ihe tragedy awept the land, all business was sue pore reetten e te pena Sear ee of ordjaary peees It is us ' Naw, [ ain't! n m jut uryin’ a vc fe athe ist aah e i A 1677 | this I shall have to discharge you an’ get an automo-| pende The alr throbbed with the sound of weeping, Cities were muffied In Gbree of the giass nave been used ia Biles eEl(a gold ma DSI 1028) s all | ume I feels Hke workin’ de sun comes bile!” ‘A nation mourned. For the kindly, misunderstood patriot who had saved | Out and does me out of a job!” | that nation lay . (THE END)