The evening world. Newspaper, February 12, 1912, Page 13

The Of rr rns SNR ANTIETAM. That’s Why “<The Lora Must Love t e Common Feople. He Made So M.ny of Them.’’ (a INCOLN was a candidate for tion and when Forquer had concluded the Legislature. A stump he arose and sald: iL speaker, George Forquer,| “The gentleman. commenced his had retired from the'speech by saying that ‘this young Whig party, of which Mr. Lincoln| man,’ alluding to me, ‘must be taken was a member, and had receilved/down.’ I am not eo young !n years from the Democratic cdministration;as I am in the tricks and trades of a the appointment of Lond Register, | politician; but,” sald he, pointing to worth $3,000 a year, He had just | Forquer, ‘live long or die young, I built a new house and! placed thereon | would rather die now than, Iike the a Nghtning rod, the first seen inj gentleman, change my politics and those parts. Aftiy several stump orators had spoken it fell to Lincoln to close the discussion. few words. began Forquer, who was @ good speaker, esked leave to say a Referring to Lincoln, he ‘This young man must be with the chznge receive an office worth $3,000 a year, and then feel obliged to erect @ lightning rod over my house to protect a guilty con- science from an offended God.” Tho allusion caught the crowd's VISITING WOUNDED SOLDIERS - our duty as we understand It."——New York City Speech. to hear Lincoln try @ case in court, expected to revel in a display of the spread- sense of humor and Lincoln was tri-leagle eloquence that was so customary taken down and I am sorry the task devolves on me.” He then proceeded to hold up Lincoln to ridicule. Lin- coln calmly listened, but his flashing, eyes betokened a storm of indigna- umphantly elected. “Let us have faith that right makes might, and In that faith let us dare to do Typ Press Publishing Co, Sow Vie | Workt). MRS. JARR BEHOLDS THE WOES OF THE RICH. UM aan RS, JAN pu Mrs. Stry regard to the cubaret craze, whieh Mra, Jurr (for it's better to be out of the world than out of the mode) had des | termined to investigate. Mrs. Stryver was at home mothering @ very fat poodle. “Oh, Tam so glad) you have come!" she cried. “You have, children and will know what Is the mate | X; Ro what Mr, Jarr | ved an hor “best | and called on| information tn | Babette ts 6o refined in her tast will not riue In our old car. I ha’ | Mr. Stryver he may as well sell it. The {fresh air will do Babette good. But I cannot go along, I am a nervous wreck now from seeing my darling suffer so patiently!" ‘Tne maid came, and after putting on the dog's silken coat with the pocket ter With my darling Babette |for {ts handierchtet, and a mo! " sheet c ni mogram “Why, what Is wrong with the poor on the handkerchief, the weezy, obe: thing?” asked Mrs. Jarr. (ho hated mutt was taken out for ita drive in the dom) / park, “Do not speak to me for # moment!" id Mrs, Stryver in an anguished whisper, as she finished throwing Kisees and waving a ecented face hand- kerchief after the wheezy canine, tn the 1 Mrs. Stryver at poodle out of her lap and placed !t on a velvet cusn- ion near her, The dog commenced to wheeze in the most nerve racking mane her. \imported metor ear, in the bap of the Mis, Jarr could not remember any} mata, her children had wheezed in that) Mors, Jarr was thinking, at just about this time, of how her children would “Maybe it's tndigestion?* whe satd/nave enjoyed the outing in the aure anes Then, after waiting for Mrs. Stryver’ Indfgestion’’ replied Mrs. Stryver. | agitation to subside, Mra. Jarr cleared “Oh, it can't be! Babette ts only given i her throat and remarked it was @ nice pasteurized cream and I dissolve @ small | aay, Pepsin tablot tn tt, prescribed by Dr.| “What are days to me, when my Snerk. Ho thinks, too, it t indiges-| paette te i112" erled Mra, Stryver, “An, ton, but it just goes to show how fool- well, I must bear up, I must bear up!” And she did, She bore up quffictently to ask Mra. Jarr if ehe cared to have a cup of tea and wanted @ slice of lemon. leh we are to place valuable lives in the Keeping of the so-called ‘best phy cians.’ I think it's neurs Mrs. Jarr was on t As for herself, Mrs. 8 Westing chloroform, but refrained. She} oop pave @ Platte nis abe alee felt sure she could sit unmoved, | (0) » Bhe i no matter how much the fat doople | *%% - . é wheezed, but she did not deem the oc-| "Have you been to @my of these cabaret restauran "Ah, don't spea ret! ‘asked Mrs, Jarr. to me about caba- ‘That was the reason my Babette easion propitious to s “T have toll my chauffeur to com y a0, | 4 to order the} d with the new and take Babette out tn the utr, | 18 Ul" replied the other, “She asked to sal i so along with us the other night. I id not refuse her. The wretch con- Lincoln. ducting the restaurant would not per- |mit Babette to be brought in to the By Cora M. W. Greenleaf. table, ag @ consequence she got a cold © him whose heart was touched PY) «pur how are the cabaret show faintest cry vom. | #ked Mrs, Jarr, OF wor a one ereat com) “How can I remember @ thing whe pesnen abr 1 was #0 upset about my poor Babette, large ture of both hands, and generous person with a ges- “I am broad, ah, By his great tendamess, the only one Fie for the work the Lord had to be ny whom appeal for help was srr | eg eee Ge ee aaa now?” 0 him there came the summons from | "0M they refined? The cabaret en-| leansing | tetainments, I mean,” persisted Mrs Jarr 7 i “My dear," said M rT, sinking of carnage, flame and aarti), Warm-oF ear a her volce to @ whi they dance M those odfous dances, the “Turkey Bear’ t reward, When all was done Bae Bin cpeard 9 me | and "Phe Griagly Hug,’ but fortunately Most plain and suming of us al there mere A Ore Le ie pre Be Of rugged gentleness and sympathy In society such things do h mat Wleely and brave he answered to the} # lonw as they are tho fad of the call moment, They only interested me, for His name be honored thro’ eternity! 1." and here Mra. @tryver swept her jamong lawyers of the period. Instead he heard Lincoln tell the jury in a drawling voice @ series of uproar- fously funny stories that apparently had no bearing whatever on the case. Lincoln won, and the relative asked him, somewhat disgustedly, as Seti walked home together: “Abe, why didn’t you make a real | speech instead of just telling all those answered Lincoln, “a story teaches a lesson. God tells truths in parabk They are easier for com: non folks to understand and remem- ber.” “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firm- ness in the right as God gives ue to eee the right.”- -Becond Inaugural Address. HE ambulance driver let fly @ volley of oaths at bis mule team. Lincoln touched \ the man on the shoulder and sald: : an Episcopalian?” ‘man, dumfounded as he recognized his interlocutor, “I am @ Methodist.” | | done; very broa Bweet be thy rest, thou Nation's Ho have siweys said you were,” re- v ered Cami Diled Mra. Jarz, Which was also true, y | “Excuse me, my friend, but are you Evening World Daily Magazine, ABRAHAM LINCOLN COUNTRY relative, coming| [& Mond ay. February 12, 191 GETTYSBURG SPEECH. RAFTING ON THe MissssiPer THE RAILSPLITTER, “In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to | the free."—Message to Con- gress. GROUP of high officials dur- ing the civil war were ponderously discussing the attributes, physical and otherwise, that ought to go toward making up the {deal soldier. Gravely and tediously they argued over the various desirable qualities, and at each sweeping sabre blow, driven by «Better Give Your Fath to a Log. Dog Would Not Cure the Eite.’” the force of those mighty, flail-like arms, a thick branch would be shorn ih two like a twig. Shiolds took one look at the destruction wrought by his enemy's strokes. Then he turned to his friends. After a moment of length came to the question of height, Thia led to a disput to the correct length of mb for getting over the ground {n infantry marches. The 2 IN EPIGRAM AND STORY = “T, hat this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the oa by the people, for the % people, shall not perish from the earth,” Even Kiiling the debaters could not agree. One of them turned to Lincoln with the query: “Mr. President, how tong do YOU think @ soldier's legs ought to be?” “Well,” considered Lincoln, with a solemnity equal to that of the rest, “I should eay they ought to be long enough, anyhow, to reach from Mis body to the ground.” | “Though | sink out of view | and ehall be forgotten, | be lieve | have made eom marke which will tell for the cause of civil liberty tong after | am gone."—Letter to 4. G. Henry. mm \NE hundred and was born. '@) He began life in a backwoods cabin; his parents, friends and neighbors were ibliterate and pennileas. Every etep of Lincoln's rise from ignorant poverty wae a victorious Aght against circumstances. From day laborer to lawyer; from politician to statesman; from mere statesman to deliverer of his tortured country—there in brief te the etory of hie career. Not BECAUSB of his eurroundings, but in SPIT of them, he won immortal greatness. At every turn there were obstacics that would have crushed a lesser man, And every obstacle overcome made him but the stronger for future conflicts. Simple to uncouthne three years ago. to-day Abraham Lincoln shrewd with no taint of craft, honest almost The quaint humor and homely wit at which his more polished con temporartes were wont to aneer were later recognized as mighty elements in the man's greatness. A Lincoln toa sabre duel, The future President had never held @ sabre in his hands, but he at once accepted the challenge. The ombatants were to meet at a ee- |cluded spot on @ river bank. When “I thought you must be an Epis- copalian,” drawled Lincoln, “because you swear just ike Secretary Seward, who is achurob warden.” “You may fool all of thc people some of the time anc some of the people all of the FIRE-BATING attorney named Shields challenged “No, Mr. President,” answered the! | S’Matter, Pop? MA,] HERR PoP COMING Tm Gonna JumP, OUT AN SCARE ~~ | Shields arrived Lincoln was already there, and wae whiling away the moments of waiting by hewing big branches from a nearby tree, At Ef time. But you cannot foo all of the people all of the tlme.”"—Campaign Speech. Copyright, 1912, by The Prem Publishing Ce, (Thue New Yars Warld,) SAY! YA WANTA TAN THAT, DOGGONE MAN RATER BACH ToTHE 200! Do YOU “TL an to a fault, he endured success ag hv would have endured fatlure—unmoved. | . consultation one of these frie n- nouficed that Shields was content to make a peaceful adjustment of the quarrel. Lincoln smiled, laid aside the terrible sabre and assented to the compromise. He had won his first and last duel without so much as crossing swords with hia foe. Range By CA. Selizer, Author of “Abrahem Lincoln, his hand “and pen. He will be good, but God knows when.” (Coprright, 1911, by Outing Publishing Company.) AYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, Tuck ager of th —Lines in Lincoln's School | wens vgunuyes' you seat Book. tramye. “Hl ‘puthie le “alveady overt mevilice toreatra workers. 4 tall ik — map aw Hee to him for @ position on rane emaciated and his < >the elghteen-year-old boy re-|ar i gts ef if from Duagee crui@ had deserted from the | mogatin sive fare oe ere army, had been captured, | Ager’ refusal ts ergamtony thn ty ne court-martialed and sen- Sitter ‘The. other aah tenced to be shot. Filends of the young deserter pleaded vainly in his ¢ JF THere’s ANYTHING GETS ME UP ‘N THE 175 A CONSARN DOG YAPPIN AT MY HeELS. TM GLAD THERES NONE IN, THis BUILDING Nester” are uni and ha 4 behalf until tt occurred to them to ian Tiss bark 9 e'relan onthe Varret carry their request over the heads of . ens the War Departmen: officials and to Sake ‘ma cxptcts, pete make a personal appeal to President gf Fs rey aa te Lincoln, The President read and re ne Son read the evidence in the case, as mt hare tet well as the plea for mercy. Then he Fi.xer° win prepares ie he ys a indorsed the latter with the single pote terse, gloriously buman sentenc CHAPTER X. “I don't want anybody as young as @ighteen to bo shot!” By C. M. Payne (Contiaued.) The Nester on Carrizo. 1TE ack woman had remarked } the sudden prospertty that bad arrived at the camp. Unele Henry had edvanced 4 very plausible story. “They're strays from the Lasy U ranch—over where I asked for the job I get them runnin’ wild on the range an’ some day I'm goin’ to drive them back, Then I reckon that manager wil) Sive me @ job. You reckon?" “T don't know," returned the sick them. doubthully; “you've killed one of em, Uncle Henry, grinning mildly, “that stear te shore tender an Juicy, You feel some better sence you wot fresh beef, You reckon? The sick woman smiled wanly. very ood to me, | he anid evantiy. For a moment sho stared unsesing or the rock walln of Carrizo Creek nen whe volced the tnterroxation that, | through repetition, had grown so deeply Into Uncle Henry's consciousness that he heard it nig dreams, bur- dened with onations of | her volce: "I don't want to die un I find him." ‘Il reckon we'll find hi @ returned softly Then he rose and went over to her. goin’ instde.” he aug most tog Coal fur DiDYaTHinK] | | fro soe an yer LAIG WU2 Gon Unele Henry laugned y're Lazy he sald ure weloome to look at the brand.” rng® boas snarled, We ain't lookin’ et any brand," ne| allt | I'm ready. ‘The | ence Riders Another Great Cowboy Romance “1HE 71WO-GUN MAN” returned gruffly. “At least if we do We'll look at them later. I reckon you know what I mean.” “I'm not sayin’ that I'm exactly de- ighted," returned Unole Henry, “ ain't no use tryin’ explain to you fone ain't exactly returned the range boss. “You got any particular place where you might want to say @ last word?” Uncle Ienry dropped bis grim humer. @ought those of the rang boas Gey were gravely serious, almost pleading. “I'm goin’ to say the last word now, I reckon.” He came closer to the Gah ‘does and Sere al, te Sve re er," he said, ‘an’ don't let her know where I've gone.” ‘The range bose started and sat erect yj in hie aaddle, staring down at Unete Henry with wide eyes. “Her? he eafd tn eudden Gamay. “Heri ‘ “My niece.” returned Uncle Men “She's over tn eadin astoop. ‘The horses of the little troop had te- come strangely agitated: their riders spurred clover and crowded around Uncle Henry. The range boss had for- Gotten his ptetol—it ate loosely tm the ba) of hie hand, unatmed. “You got @ woman here? he ques. toned tensely. “Bhe ain't a bit well,” returned Uncle Henry gravely; “she's run down some- what. She didn't have any grub to speak of when we got here, an’ she ain't a bit well. That why I teok your steers, She needed some fresh beef an’ I got it for her. ¥ reckon that on't make no difference to you mi But tt did to her; abe'’a some better sence.” The six Laay J punchers eat on their horses like graven images and the range bos: in grave silent contemplation. Then a tall, youns Puncher, whose face had grown pallid very recently, spurred forward and apoke hoarsely “I reckon It does make some differ We ain't here to peraecute nv woran hat's chorused the others. ronge boas gave over a moment cision, “We don't know whether he's ro nor not. We'll ride down an cle Henry started forward, ting, “I don't wa 1 don't pre you to bothe want her te hone aneered 4 coldly, “th » There ain down there. ory opened his mouth ¢ en closed It again suddenty ‘s swept the space between the en and the but. he commanded hoarse! She's comin x heard volces and had dectfe! nvestigate, She came toward the wiv, wavertnely, falteringly, the ales Night streaming over her pale face and at her eyes a haunting, un natural gleam. intartiy the men of the Laay J ed thetr ponies tnto line and sat The deep silence t f h a rance lasted un v ¢ said quaveringly, her eyes aw athe « |, uncer aly glances, "Ww , what toes this mean? Uncle Henry had stepped to her #i@e and was supporting her, his arma about hor shoulders to protect her from the chill wind that was sweeping down the | valley of the Caf@ino, (To Be Continued)