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PAGE EIGHT 1 THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY FEB. 12, 1925 Little Ktiouti Portrait of Abraham Lincoln M v i .v' Freeman Thorpe Exhibiting Hi Portrait of Lincoln. Lincoln Portrait Drawn From Life la a Way, Most Interesting of All Pictures of the Great President Freeman Thorpe, In an article pub lished In Leslie's gave a deeply Inter acting account of bow be made two life sketches of the martyred Presi dent, one of them being at Gettysburg while Lincoln was waiting to deliver als famous speech. Mr. Thorpe wrote: I was at home in Geneva, Ohio, when I heard that a train which was coming that afternoon from the east tad on board Mrs. Lincoln, wife of the aewly elected President. I hustled about and stirred up the militia com pany of the town, and when the train pulled In we had the cannon and were Irlsg a salute In honor of the future occupant of the White House. Then I was Introduced to Mrs. Lin coln as the boy who bad caused the salute. She was pleased, and treated soe very graciously. Some weeks after that I wrote to President Lincoln and asked him to stop his Inaugural train t Geneva, so I could make a sketch of him. To my delight, Lincoln replied, agreeing to y request. I let It be known in Geneva that President Lin coln would honor the town by stopping there a few minutes, on his way to take office, and from sunrise until the train arrived every bell in Geneva kept up a continual ringing. People heard (the noise away out in the country, and came in to learn what It was all about. , George G. Barnard, well-known I aculptor, it here shown at his New j York studio putting ths finishing touches to the first of four 15-foot ! beads of Abraham Lincoln which are to be placed along ths Lincoln high- j way, in four states. When the train pulled in I was the 4rst to clamber onto the platform of : the President's car. There stood Lin coln ready to clasp my linnd. Then I took my position on the next platform, 1 and began my sketch, while the crowd pushed up to shake his bund. Of course thut sketch was rough, but I ir --&vr Bal; i jrot the likeness. Then came the war. I enlisted and Krved in the Second Ohio cavalry, htlug in the Shenandoah valley. My itiealth broke, down and I was sent on (detached duty to JefTersonvllle, Ind., Co recuperate. When I regained my wealth, I went on to, Washington to cjoin my regiment. That was Just efore the first anniversary of the 4battle of Gettysburg. With my pre dous Geneva sketch of Lincoln, I went to the War department and asked for a furlough to go to Gettysburg and ' Wake another sketch of the President isTor It had been announced that Mr. Uncoln would speak on that occasion. I got the furlough and rode on the jtme train with the President, secur- et an audience. I showed him my shed drawing, made from the jOeneva "shorthand" sketch, and be complimented it. When we arrived at Gettysburg, we (found a great crowd there, Interested Ja the scenes of the battlefield, rather jtban In the program of speeches. Thure were many open graves and jfeattle victims were being burisd. Only a comparatively small number j$t people gathered about the stand to hear the speeches. I stood within 15 feet of Mr. Lincoln, as he sat on the platform. There I made another sketch. There Is a wonderful dlffer ence In Its expression from that of the Geneva sketch! The lines are deeper; the countenance more grave. We listened two hours to the ora tion of Edward Everett, then the President stepped forward, a sheet of paper in his left hand. There he stood, his left foot advanced ahead of his right, and began to speak, gesticu lating somewhat with both long arms. The crowd settled down to hear an hour's address, but It was all over In less than three minutes and the Presi dent sat down. There was no applause. The audience was astonished. Three minutes, when they had expected an hour! The meeting silently broke up. In 1871 1 went to Washington with my two Lincoln sketches. They were the only known sketches from life of the martyr President, and that fact interested the senators. ""They built a studio for me on the capitol roof, over the senate wing, and I occupied it for 20 years. I was twenty-seven years old when given that studio, but nut until last year did 1 finish my portrait of Lincoln The li brary committee of the senate recom mended its purchase, and the senate unanimously voted $2,000 for It Few but Have Kindly Feeling for Lincoln "Ton (the South) have no oath registered In Heaven to destroy the government, while I have the most sol emn one to preserve, protect and de fend It," said Lincoln in his first In augural. This Is the Lincoln who ap peals to the conservatives, the Lincoln who .saved the Union, says a writer In the Boston Globe. They quote him on emancipation : "If I could save the Union without free ing any slave, I would do it; if I could save the Union by freeing all the slaves, I would do it . . . Whatever I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps save the Union." However much he hated slavery, Lincoln saw the Union as his first Job, and even the stodgiest tory of today can respect him on this count. But the nouconservative (from the lightest pink to the deepest red) re members Lincoln's remark on first see ing a slave murket. "If I ever get a chance to hit that thing, I'm going to hit it hard." During the spring of 1919, one of the reddest magazines in America Haunted a full-page face of the Eman cipator on Its cover and in its edi torial section justified its course with examples from the life of Lincoln. Even Lenin, in one of his "Letters to American Workinginen," commented on the emancipation of the slaves and paid tribute to the President who ac complished it. The South always felt that had Lh coin lived it would have been spared the major horrors of reconstruction. Presidential Victory Came as Birthday Gift Almost in the nature of a birthday gift came the news to Abraham Lin coln that he had been elected Presi dent of tlie United States. The elec toral college met and voted and on February 8 congress assembled In Joint convention. At this convention the vice presi dent announced he had the returns from the states of T'ennessee and Louisiana, but In obedience to the ex isting laws, he held It to be his duty not to present them to the conven tion. Only the returns from the loyal Btates, including West Virginia, were counted. The result showed 212 elec toral votes for Lincoln and 21 for Mc Clellan. On the very day of the President's birthday, announcement came to Wash ington that the cotton ships Sherman had sent from Savannah had put into New York and Newport, R. I. The dispatches were featured In the news papers announcing the arrival of the vessels and commenting with favor on the prospects of getting cargoes of cotton from tile newly opened ports of the South. If there were any thoughts of death on his mind on his last birthday,' how ever, It is more than Hkely that they were due to a conscientiousness of baring labored under too terrific a strain for anyman to survive, espe cially with four years more of vexa; tlous problems and unceasing labor ahead. SLAYERS FORM Taking Human Life Leads Other Crimes As Causes of Imprisonment Two hunched and fifty-three per sons were sentenced to the State Frison during the two years neding June 30, 1924 for taking human lives, according to Statistics contained in the report of Hugh A. Love, chief clerk at the prison. Mr. Love's re port was included in the general re port of the State Prison, recently submitted. These crimes are classified as fol lows: second degree .murder, 158; manslaughter, 89; first degree mur der, 5 ; infanticide, 1. Next to manslaughter more per sons were sentenced for larceny than for any other crime, 81 such persons being received at the State Prison. Figures compiled by Mr. Love showt that on June there were 12 prisoners in the prison serving then fifth terms; 13 serving their fourth teams; 47 serving their third terms; 217 serving their second terms and 853 serving their first term. , Many other interesting facts are contained in the report of the chief clerk. ! Figures show a daily average of 1,265 prisoners for the two year pe riod. One hundred and twenty-nine escapes are recorded and 88 recap tures. j Only one Jewish prisoner was re ceived at the State's prison during the two year period. The prisoners received during the two year period included 373 mar ried persons, 390 single persons, 14 widows, and 21 widowers, j Laborers led in getting in jail dur ing the two year period with 599. Farmers were not even a close sec ond with 64. Mechanics were a far third with 18. Painters were fourth with 16 and cooks were fifty with 15. ! Five bankers were imprisoned, one musician, one minister, one insur ance man, two accountants, one at torney, one printer, one medical doc jtor, one school teacher, oqe tele phone operator and one stock broker. Real estate dealers and newspaper men seemed successful in keeping out. The majority of prisoners admit 21 Special Drive JOIN 81 Boost, For A Bigger Better Beaufort Are You Interested in Your Home Town? - IF SO .3 JOIN . N The Chamber of Commerce K ' U. E. Swann, Pres. D. M. Jones, 1 V. P. ted during the two year period were between 20 and 30 years of age with 364. One hundred and seventy eight were between ages 14 and 20. .Only 51 were over fifty, j More prisoners were admitted from Wake county than fro"m any other 'county during the two year period, Wake contributed 53, and Forsythe 33. j Only eight college graduates are confined in the State's Prison but there are 35 prisoners who have had some college education. Two hun dred and seventy three of the 1,265 prisoners can neither read nor write. J Kaleigh News and Observer. TO ADVERTISE WILMINGTON BEACHES IN NEWSPAPERS Wilmington, Feb. 8. The execu tive committee of the chamber of commerce appropriated $500 yester day as a nucleus for the creation of a newspaper advertising fund that will be spent in the territory from jwhich the local beaches draw their i heaviest patronage, with the object of making the coming summer the greatest in the history of the city from the viewpoint of tourist travel. A meeting is to be called at an early date with the object of building up jthis fund to respectable proportions, j $5,000 being the amount sought, j The money is to be spent wholly jfor newspaper space in the publica tion of the territory from which the jbeaches draw heaviest, following out the same plan that has been previ ously employed and which has been ! shown to produce fine results. COUNTY AGENT MAKES SUGGESTIONS FOR FEBRUARY Farmers who are short on feed will do well to plant a few acres in oats during this month. Fulghum or nine ty day Bert oats are the best varie ties to use for the spring planting. jThey should be drilled at the rate of 1 2 1-2 bu per acre; or if sown broad cast better use 4 bu per acre. After joats get stooled out use from 150 to (200 lbs. of nitrate of soda to the jacre nfay be followed with soy beans or cow peas for hay. J All those wishing to plant pastures jthis spring and want the county agent to order thir seed for them, will please get in touch with him as early as possible so he may get the order in. These pastures should be planted before the 15th of March. .Every farmer in the county should The CHAMBER COMMERCE SPECIAL DRIVE FOR MEMBERS TUESDAY FEBRUARY 1 7th. have at least one acre in permanent pasture, as it will go a long ways to wards reducing his feed bill. Farmers should begin to figure out, the amount, the grades of fertilizer they will need for this seasons crops; get their orders in eaily, so as to prevent delay when they get ready to use it. Some of our people wait until just before time to apply their fertilizer before they place their or der with the factory, j The difference this spring in crop and cash price is too great for the farmer to use the time system, if he can jiossibly arrange a loan with his banker so as to enable him to pay cash. i The county agent will be glnd to assist all farmers, who wish to do their own mixing at home, work out formulars for their different crop?. I HUGH OVERSTREET, I County Agent. STUMP-KNOCKER GIVES SATISFACTION TO FARMERS Raleigh, N. C. Interest in pyrotol the cheap government explosive be ing sold to Tarheels at cost through the State College extension division, continues unabated in many coun ties even after two and three car loads have been ordered and distr ibuted by farm agents. I Recently when O. H. Phillips, farm agent in Stanly County was unload ing his third car many farmers came in wanting to know if some of the ; material was not placed. "Can we get some of that stump-knocker? Is lit all spoken for?" they would ask Jand even though the car contained 120,000 pounds all of it was quickly itaken. Mr. Phillips says, "Figuring1 the dynamite at wholesale iates there iwas a saving to farmers of this coun ty of $3,600 on the one car alone jand only 15,000 pounds was for the i county. We ordered 20,000 but j 3000 pounds went into Cabarrus ! County and 2000 into, Anson. We ;also made arrangements with a local I hardware store and farmers were able to secure their fuse at 70 cents per 'hundred feet and caps at $1.30 per box of one hundred. "We have had many encouraging reports from those who have used the material. They say it gives fine re sults and some men said that they had increased the value of the land by re- j moving the stumps in addition to clearing the fields so that cultiva- 2 Special Drive of ti Joseph House 2 V. P. J. P. Betts, Secty-Treas. tion was more easily done. One grower who removed several big pine stumps stated that the wood was worth $25 and only 50 'joints of py rotol was used in the operation. I feel that the supplying of this ma terial has been a distanct service to our people." OAK TREE IS FAVORITE j TARGET FOR LIGHTNING ! Trees with wide-spreading root systems or with roots that reach deep into moist soil are relatively good electrical conductors and, generally speaking, are 1n most danger of being struck by lightning, says the Weath er Bureau of the United States De partment of Agriculture. The rod ding of valuable threes to protect against lightning is therefore strong ly recommended. ' Jo tree is immune; but among trees of the same kind the one standing well above its neighbors is in most danger, even in a dense forest. This may be due to the greater heig.ht of the tree or the kind of ground it stands on. Trees growing in the open are in more danger than those in a thick stand of timber as are also those growing along an avenue in a thick stand of timber, as are 'or border of woods. Those growing ;in moist soil along the banks of a 'stream or lake are better conductors for lightning than those growing in drier soil. Sound trees in general :are less likely to be damaged than ; those with rotten wood. Trees growing in loam and sandy soils are struck more frequently than those in clay, marl, and calcareous soils. Oaks often grow to great height and mostly in loam and sandy soils. More lover, they are a good example of a starchy tree, which is a better con ductor of electricity than an oily ;tree like the beech. The oak also is a tap-rooted tree, with its root sys j tern extending deep into j'he soil, which constitutes another factor of danger from lightning for it. Studies in various localities, particularly in western Europe, have shown conclu sively that the oak is struck much more often than other kinds of trees, Elm, ash, poular, and gum trees are also Very susceptible to lightning ', damage, while those least attractive to lightning are the chesnut, maple,, lder, and mountain ash. COMMUNITY CLUP ENDORSES SCHOOL BOND ISSUE The February Business Meeting of the Beaufort Community Club was held Thursday afternoon February" 5th, in the Rest Room. The meeting was called to order by the President, Mrs. M. L. Davis, after which the min- . utes of the last meeting were read and approved. After the Treasurer report, Mrs. Mace, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee report ed having made $6.00 from a market held the prceeding week. Miss Lot tie Sanders, chairman of the Library Committee stated the Library was progressing nicely, but new subscrib ers were needed and urged all Club members to take out subscription cards. Mrs. Daniels, chairman of the Music Department read the spring program for her Department. On February 19th this department will meet at the home of Mrs. H. M. Hendrix and study Colonial Music The subject' of the bond issue for the purpose of building a much and long needed high school was discuss ed. The Club voted unanimously to endorse and support the bond issue. A committee for nominating officers for the Club for 192526 was elect ed as follows; Mrs. A. D. O'Bryan, chairman; Mrs. Will Potter and Mrs. A. J. Cooke. Mrs. O'Bryan told of the organization of a Garden Club, with the following officers: Mrs. G. W. Lay, chairman; Mrs. A. D. O'Bry an, vice chairman; Mrs. Buell Cooke, ,Secty and Treas. It is the aim of this Club not only to give much pleas ure to the individual members but to do a great deal towards beautifying our city. After the business a pleasant so cial half hour was spent. Tea and sandwiches were served by the Enter tainment Committee. MRS. U.t. SWANN, Publicity chairman. I The building and loan association has been a great value to Beaufort Those who own stock in it have made its benefits possiblea nd are the ones who deserve the credit. J Young men and young women some day or other you will want a home of your own.You had better prepare ot get it by buying tome building and loan (hares right now. ' A ubcription to the Beaufort News it a good paying investment. It will keep you informed about what is hapening in your town and county. The News has some subscribers who have been with it ever since it start ad." They Iconw good thing when they see t and are friends worth having.
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