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THE CHARLOTT'E'neW- FEBRUARY 12, 19.09 8 THE ill DOES HONOR TO MEMORY OF LINCOLN ABRAHAM LINCOLN. of a bronze mural tablet in the col- lege chapel. Legislature Met in Joint Session. Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 12. The leg islature met in joint session today to 1S0J Horn in Hardin county. hear addresses on Abraham Lincoln. Kentucky. Feb. H was Various societies throughout Califor- descended from a Quaker fain- nia are holding meetings and ban quets in memory of the great emancipator. ily. which had emigrated irom Virginia to Kentucky about " 17S. 1810 Uemovcd with his family " from KentiK-ky to Indiana. 1S30 Uenumd to Illinois, wuere during the next few years he followed various occupations including those of a farm la- borer, a salesman, a merchant and a surveyor. 1S.10 Admitted to the bar and began the practice of law in Springfield. " lSl'.li Served as a captain and afterward as a private in the m Black liawk war. 1S:M Elected to the Illinois legis- lature as a Whig and served eight years. 18 17 Fleeted to Congress on the Whig ticket. 1S5S As Republican candidate for IT. S. Senate he engaged in a series of joint debates through- out Illinois with the Demo- cratic candidate, Stephen A. Douglas. 18C0 Fleeted President of the United States on the Republi- can ticket, the dis-union of the ' Democratic party giving him an easy victory. 18tl On April two days af- Societies Celebrate Generally. Portland, Ore., Feb. 12. The cele bration of Lincoln's birthday in this city was generally in the hands of various local patriotic societies. To night there is to be a large banquet at the Portland Commercial Club. Salute of 100 Guns Fired at Noon. Providence, R. I.. Feb. 12. Provi dence observed the Lincoln centennial with a salute of 100 guns fired at noon today and with appropriate exer cises in all of the public schools. A public meet with music and orations was held at the City Hall. Fairbanks Makes an Address. Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 12. At the Lincoln memorial meeting in this city tonight Governor Stuart is to preside and the principal address will be delivered by Vice-President Chas. W. Fairbanks. Offices and Business Places Closed. Cincinnati. O., Feb. 12. Lincoln ' ! day in Cincinnati was observed by the closing of all public offices and many places of business. Tonight ! in Music Hall a great memorial meet- ter the fall of Fort Sumter, he i ing is to be held, with Bishop Mc Dowell, of Chicago, as the principal issued a call for 75,000 vol unteers, and the control of speaker events pc.ssed from the cabi- " net to the camp. 1SSI April l'J. proclaimed a blockade of Southern ports. 1862 September 22, issued a proclamation emancipating all slaves in States or parts of States, which should be in re bellion on Jan. 1. 1SC3. 1804 Re-elected President by the Republican party, defeat ing George R. McClellan can didate of the Democratic par ty. 1SG") Entered Richmond with the Federal army on April 4, two ! Remarks 01 Toseph W. Folk ceive thG. man as a wli!e. or to ?n; . wi.mvi vr jvbvu " 4 Witt vev an imnroccinr. nf him. marked by any emphasis of distinguishing gifts Hodgensville, Ky., Feb. 12.--Joseph and traits. We sneak of him as char W. Folk, former governor of Missouri, ! acteristieally honest, but his honesty was one of the speakers at the Lin- i dof s not seem a special trait, it is i i i , . , win v iiarc or nis broad auu uijcju im- nnln ovomcaa liava T rwl i 1 1 1 1 caul : - - wivwu v j. xxv- .rnanity, hardly more than a manites- "The people of every great nation tation of his large and ample nature, have in all times honored their heroes i which was without narrowness or pet with memorials. In studying the his-itiness and therefore without deceit, tory of other people we judge them 'And when we come to speak of his at- by these tokens of affection for the il lustrious men that led them in some mighty crisis. This nation has had many men whose deeds have emblaz oned the pages' of history, but no name is now dearer in the hearts of the peo ple than that of Abraham Lincoln. Washington fought to give us this na tion, guaranteeing rights to the citi-j zen, never obtained nor exercised by any other people; Lincoln struggled to keep it as a government of the peo ple, for the people and by the peo ple. Jefferson taught the simple truths necessary for the happiness of a dem ocratic people; Lincoln applied these truths to the troubles of his time and steered the ship of state into a peace ful harbor. Jackson thundered against and overcame the evils of his day; Lincoln with a heart ready for any fate, breathed a new force into the doctrines of Jackson. We preserved Mount Vernon in memory of Washing ton. Monticello is still the mecca for the followers of Jefferson. The Her mitage is kept as when Old Hickory lived and worked and wrought. Save for an occasional monument, there is no suitable memorial of Lincoln, whose fame grows brighter as the years go by. "Here, on this farm, 100 years ago today, was born the strongest, strang est, gentlest character the republic has ever known. His work was destined jto have a more far-reaching influence man any mat. went ueiore mm. unui recently this spot, which should be hallowed by every American, was un touched and abandoned. Inspired by the idea that due regard for the apos tle of human liberty who sprang from this soil demanded the preservation of his birth place, a few patriotic .men or ganized the Lincoln Farm Association to purchase this property and to erect Lloyd Jones Was Orator at the Uni versity of Wisconsin. Madison. Wis.. Feb. 12. The 100th anniversary o fthe birth of Abraham i upon it a memoial to that simple, but Lincoln was commemorated with ex-! sublime life that here came into the ercises at the University of Wis consin this morning. The chiet oration was delivered by the Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, of Chicago. Legal Day Also in Iowa. Des Moines, la., Feb. 12. Lincoln's birthdav was observed in Iowa as a world. .This association is purely pa triotic in its purposes and the move ment has met with a ready response from every section of the nation. The governors of nearly all the states have appointed commissioners to co-op erate in this work. The South has re sponded as generously as the North In revering the name of Lincoln there lecal holiday. In Des Moines the leg islature held exercises anDronriate to i is now no North or South, nor East or .1 r . iU ,. : . . u . . m i i 4.1-. lr,.-..-.-.r i Wpst Thorn ia Vnii rTc riaor- in oil " . . i i i 1 1 i i . .... & m i i .tit were held under the auspices of theiand mat tne neart or patriotic Amen-1 -me cnange ana stress mat ureeas by the Confeder- evacuated ates. 1S63 Shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre, Washing- ton. on April 14, and died the following day. Buried at Springfield, 111. New York. 12. With cere- titude towards affairs, we can say only that he saw with his own eyes always and that his eyes were deeply discern ing, seeing the significance of ele ments whose meaning others overlook ed, that he saw beneath the surface with a singular penetration which was something more than shrewdness, ap proaching, as it did, the insight of a man to whom much more is revealed than meets the eye, because of the penetration of his own spirit. We re member, too, that he stated what he saw and his judgment of it with an ex traordinary fearlessness and direct ness of illuminating phrase, and yet did not seem so much engrossed by his effort to state it as the self-con scious artist does. The statement seems always simple and natural and is always salted with a wholesome hu mor, like the statement of a man who sees and yet is not himself immersed in what he sees, but stands enough aloof to make casual comment and turn the thing about with curious ex amination. He was deeply studious, apparently, because inevitably inter ested and not because he wished to make noticeable comment or pass as a man more learned and observant than the rest. Such was the man. with always a large way about him, natural and un affected in his approach, not stren uous to be about any praticular bus iness but inevitably roused whenever any matter of vital consequence touch ed his mind or invited his thought to exploration. A very normal man, with very normal gifts, but all upon a great scale, all knit together in loose and natural form, like the great frame in which he moved and dwelt. "There was, of course, the special flavour cf America about Lincoln. He belonged to the now fas disappearing type of frontier. He was bred where states were forming. There seems something specially "native" about him therefore, nationally flavored lo yally distinctive. His origin could never be mistaken. He could have been born and matured only in Ameri ca, was redolent of its soil, suggested always its conditions and its forms of natural life. "States then grew as fast as men and made men mature by the very pressure and movement cf their life. various patriotic societies. ca. So the memorial to be erected J here by the South as well as the North ivm nut omy ue in memory or Lincoln, but it will be a testimony that the Lincoln Day in New York, Feb. rnonieH in over 300 public schools, in C3 theatres, morning and afternoon, in 13 armories at night, with speech es by famous New Yorkers at great meetings in Carnegie Hall, Cooper Tnlon and at Columbus University and the College of the City of New York, and music by more than 7,00 voices, the one hundredth anniversary of the birlh of Abraham Lincoln is being celebrated In New York today. The dawn of day found the me tropolis bedecked with flags and bunting from the Battery to the Bronx. The official program of the ceh?bration was ufhered in at 8 o'clock this morning with the firing of the national salute from the har bor forts, the warships at the Brook lyn navy yard and the batteries ot the National Guard. During the fore noon exercises appropriate to the occasion were held in all the pub lic schools and in many churches. A feature of all the school pro grams was the reading of Lincoln's Gettysburg address. The afternoon program included great memorial meetings at Colum bia University and at Cooper Union, where Lincoln delivered his great speech on Feb. 27. 18G0. At the uni versity ex-Senator John C. Spooner, of Wisconsin, delivered the princi pal addres-s. Noted speakers at the Cooper Union meeting included May or McClellan. Hon. Joseph II. Choate and Dr. Lyman Abbott. Tonight there are to be memorial exercises at the College of the City of New York and in all of the armories in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The music is to be a special feature of the program. At Carnegie Hall Gen. Horace Porter is to deliver the opening address and a sonnet will be read by Richard Gilder. Andrew S. Draper is to deliver the oration at the exercises held under the aus pices of the College of the City of New York. Henry Cabot Lodge the Orator. Henry Cabot Lodge delivered the ' u Ui eaF Kma ea ne nf rce Lincoln day oration today before theclvl1 conflict of nearly half a century two houses of the Massachusetts jag.. are dead and from the ashes has legislature assembled in joint ses- isen the red rose of patriotism to a sion. Tonight the Middlesex Club gives a banquet with Representative Landis, of Indian-1, as the orator. At the Home of Lincoln in His YOuth Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 12. Indi ana, the home of Abraham Lincoln in his youth and the burial place of his mother, observed the centennial anniversary of his birth with exer cises, memorial meetings and, ban quets in cities and towns throughout the state. Patriotic societies decor ated the Nancy Hanks Lincoln grave in Spencer county. General' Suspension of Business in Chicago. Chicago, 111., Feb. 12. The week's celebration of the Lincoln centennial in Chicago culminated today in a gen eral suspension of business, while the people attended a series of great memorial meetings, at which ad dresses were made by President Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton Uni versity; Hon. John A. MacDonald, of Toronto; Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, President Edwin Earl Sparks, ot Pennsylvania State College, and other men of note. common country and loyalty to a com mon flag. It will be a monument in the forward progress of a nation dedi cated to the liberty and happiness of mankind. , "It is appropriate that these dedica tion exercises, participated in by repre sentatives of every part of the nation, should be held upon the centenary of Lincoln's birth. We have not come so much to dedicate this ground, but to set it apart as a gift to the Amer ican people as a lasting memorial to the Matchless American. The man bom here has already consecrated this place. It is for us to be here dedi cated to the great task before us, that this nation should not be preserved merely to fall before the enemies of peace, but that it shall be made free from the things that dishonor and op press, l he inspiration of high citizen ship must ever emanate from this spot." At the Home and Burial Place of Abraham Lincoln. Springfield, 111., Ft?-.. 12. In this city, the home and burial place of Abraham Lincoln, the centennial anniversary of his birth was observ ed today by a practical suspension of all public business. The celebra tion, consisting of exercises in the schools and under the auspices ot various societies, will culminate to night in a great banquet, at which Ambassadors Jusseraud and Bryce, William J. Bryan, Robert T. Lincoln, Speaker Cannon, Senator Cullom and others of national prominence will speak. Woodrow Wilson at Chicago Legal Holiday in Oklahoma. Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 12 In accord flnce with a proclamation issued by Governor Haskell the 100th anniver sary of Lincoln's birth was observed as a legal holiday in Oklahoma. Bronze Mural Tablet Dedicated. Carlinville, 111., Feb. 12. The Lin coln centennial was observed at Blackburn College by the dedication Cmmmm IT GROWS HAIR MAN SAGE ' Money beck if this quick- acting haii restorer f aila to STOP FALLING HAIR CURE DANDRUFF STOP ITCHING SCALP It u the moit healthful, re freshing hair dressing made. It cools the scalp, makes the hair grow soft and luxuriant, and is not Jticky or greasy. 50 cent a large bottle at R. H. JORDAN & CO. Or. expttm ehargat prepaid, fna Gnmx Mff. C... Buffalo, N. T. Lincoln Day at the Capital. Washington, D. C, Feb. 12. The United States Historical Society, the Grand Army of the Republic and other organizations in the national capital joined in the celebration of Lincoln day. One of the most no table observances of the centenary was that at Howard University, where Secretary of the Interior Gar field presided over exercises that in cluded music, orations and the un veiling of a painting entitled "The Underground Railway." At the Lincoln Farm. Louisville, Ky., Feb. 12 Four trains departed from Louisville this ; morning for Hogenville, carrying i resident Roosevelt and a host of I others who are to take part this af i ternoon at exercises attending the ilaying of the cornerstone for the ; memorial building which is to be ! erected by the State of Kentucky on ; the Lincoln farm to perpetuate the :name and birthplace of the great j emancipator. Among those taking I the pilgrimage were several thous- and war veterans and representatives I of various organizations. The pro j gram prepared for the day's exercises calls for addresses by President Roosevelt, Governor Willson, of Ken tucky; ex-Governor Folk, of Mis souri; Gen. James E. Wilson; Bishop Galloway and several others. Chicago, Feb. 12. President Wood row WTilson of Princeton University, delivered the principal address at iTie Lincoln centennial at the auditorium here today. Mr. Wilton said in sub stance: "It was a very full century that has gone since Abraham Lincoln was born, a century crowded for all the world, but particularly for America, with sig nificant events which men could never turn from nor forget. And Lincoln seems for us the epitome of much that it contained. The nineteenth centnrv hurried the world . faster with giant strides, and that year 1809, which lay lost almost at its beginning, saw many sons of genius born into the world who was to add lustre to its annals. Al fred Tennyson, our own Poe, Chopin, iYienaeissonn, Charles Darwin. Glad stone, Lincoln, Merely read the list in its singular variety and you will be conscious that the last name strikes upon the ear with a significance all it own. so uniciue ' and separate that it does not seem to belong to a list oi names at all, but to embody some thing complete in itself as the name of j Shakespeare does. Every other man on that great roll had some charac teristic gift of his own: the music and interpretation of perfect speech, or of the perfect harmonies ot voice or in strument, or insight into the great pro cesses of nature, akin to Newton or the eloquence that stirs and guides a nation and determines the politics of the world. Bi'.t the man Lincoln had no special gift. He was of general use. He was like some great instru ment of humanity. Wherever life touched him, he spoke back its mean ing, gave forth fire to kindle its lift. Each power slumbered in him and waited to be awakened. He seemed slow of development, waited upon cir cumstances to quicken him, but always responded upon whatever scale the challenge came seemed a great res ervoir of living water which could be freely quaffed but not exhausted. There was something native, natural men now amongst us are of another, more complex kind, are less distinctive of America, belongs more obviously' to the general conditions of the world. In Lincoln's day America was still in pro cess of being made, and it was in the midst of this creative process that he was brought forth. He seems expres sive of it, and it is natural to think that he could not have been born in any other age or time and have been just what he was. "And yet, however, unlike the condi tions of our time may be to the condi tion of this, it is still true, that men such as he was, if they should arise again to renew' the integrity and de velopment of the 'nation, can be deriv ed and matured only from the common etock. only from the stock which not particular experience has specialized and no particular interest set apart. Lincoln was in the profoundest sense a man of the people, and it is safe to predict that all men bred after his whclsemoe kind and serviceable for the common' uses of humanity will be like him, derived from the unsr.ecial- ized stock of the nation "What is a 'man ol the people,' judg ed by the standard and example of this man? He is a man with his rootage deep among the people of no class or specialized kind, but lifted above the narrowness and limitations of view of the mass by the insight and study which have enabled him to see what they did not see, and the genius which has fitted him to speak, and from them as iif one of them, but for them as if released from w-hat holds them back from his leadership, tional growth, the struggle of the mass toward the light and the communion of j universal sympathy, the very travail ; of mankind, its struggle, not to unci forms but to find freedom, not to es tablish any poise but to realize pow ers. . Now touching goal, now backward hurled. Toils the indomitable world. And it is men of Lincoln's type, who feel the universal impulse and strug gle, through . whom it toils and by whom it is directed with a mastery of pilotage which no man can learn from books. Add to this the training which Lin coln gave himself, and the genius to see and speak the. whole as he saw it, and the deep, feeling of the poet, and. you have Lincoln, the man whom today we celebrate and to whom we look back with the hope that ag we gaze upon him we may recover some breath of that toilsome and heroic ace in which he wrought and tri umphed. "God send us such men a?rain! We are confused by a war of interests, a clash of classes, a competition of pow ers, an effo'-t at conquest and re straint: and the great forces which war and toil amonsrst us can be guid ed and reconciled only by some man who is truly a man of the people, a n Lincoln was, not caught in the toils of any special interest, united by wide sympathy with many kinds of men. familiar with many aspects of life, and led, through many changes, to a per sonal experience which unites him with the common mass. He must not be too hot cr intense, must be large and genial, and salted with hu mor, but as certain and definite as the veriest tool of precision in his penetra tion and in his exposition of all that he sees and knows, a . man who speaks as fearlessly as he looks upon the affairs about him and who never withholds himself from any use or de clines the challenge of any call of du ty, a man of universal sympathy and universal use. whom few men can ap proach in power but to whom all men can feel akin and with whom all men can dare to be familiar. The only way in which we can worthily celebrate any great man is not by a mere tribute, ol" words, not by the weak and futile tribute of imi tation, but by the convincing tribute of those who seek to use and execute their task with the same free hand and untainted motive, who approach life as if it were again to be refresh ed and created, as if each age were the first age and every type of noble man was to be reproduced by the same native processes which made all who went before him great and worthy of the role allotted them. The way to recover great ages of achievement is never to move away from them, never to debase or spoil the breed that be get them. America has never yet lost this reproductive power, this gift of renewal, this richness and fertility of reviving strength. She must nev er cease to look upon men like Lin coln as marking, not her occasional heights of achievement, but the points which denote the rising levels of her life, the levels from which she builds and from which her sons look back only to regain their standard and lengthen their measurements of accomplishment." 1 1 1 ni a i i mnm sun M LIUbULI. I) compromise, a h,.r citizens of th vill day excited nu.n iuu' "!l BIRTH PUCE IS T lllll py, J, . r. .1 court house when fomn k ur ley announced .ha, '' HaJ "is l;ir lllTlir cIiHa,1 ... ft, - v ,-- ..1 .... - " 'I ' ri. Ttu.Y3 1 $300,000 FOR ROOSEVELT. If He Will Consent to Head a Wild West Show. j Mr. Popp "By gosh! For once in my life I know, where my cuff links are." Mrs. P. "Where are thev now?" Mr. P. "The baby's swallowed 'em?" Cleveland Leader. 'A nation is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one; And they who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all'. A great nation is led. not by the men who merely speak what it speaks every day at the street corners and in the columns of its newspapers, but by the men who lend to these things new light and interpretation and give fearless counsel for a new day. These are men who have come indeed, out from among the people but who have been elevated to a plane of vision to which the people themselves come only as they shoy them the way. And as Lincoln brought new things to con sciousness as he moved among his fel lows, and spoke to them, as Webster did when in his Reply to Hayne he formulated what many men had grop ed after but no man had yet adequate ly expressed, the coming to light and life of a national idea and an indom itable national nurnose. And' both men used the same instrument of in terpretation, the instrument of sympa thetic insight, of peeing, not other things than their fellows saw, but more, and uniting what they saw in a vision ot action "A man of the people is a man who sees as the people do, and not as the man of a class or a profession sees. He thinks, not in the terms of any par ticular interest, but in the terms of the general life about him. He is a man disengaged from his environment, free to move in whatever direction his nature impels him, unsubdued by the sunt or the life he lives in, seeing not one thing but many things, lending an ear to many voices and heeding them, not as if they were the disor rather than singular, and wholly inex- J dered voices of a mob, but as if they haustible about him. His nature sug gested always a richness that had on ly been partly drawn upon, and life ended as if unfinished, fuller of prom ise than when it began. His character stands colossal there amidst that trou bled historv of war and dis-union. like were , the concurrent voices of a cho rus; a man to whom they are all fa miliar voices conveying many mean ings which are really only one. A man of the people is a man who moves in a tree, unconventionalized. unstan dardized world, in which the choices one of Rodin's only half moulded fig- of the individual will are native and ures, revealing less than it suggests, original, in which no course seems only in part disclosed, shrouded in fixed and obligatory by reason of any lines that lead the imagination off conventional predilections. He is a into infinity and very great conjecture, man who typifies and embodies the "And so it is deeply difficult to con- very principle and impulse of all na- Bridgeport, Conn., Dispotch, Jan. 31, to Baltimore Sun. If President Roosevelt will consent to head a "Wild West Show," he can draw a salary of $10,000 a week for thirty consecutive weeks, accord ing to an offer just made to him by James M. Atlas, proprietor of tie Hotel Atlas, of this city. Mr. Atlas who says he is an old friend of Mr. Roosevelt and used to wrestle with him when he was governor of New York, has sent the president the fol lowing letter: 'Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Pres ident of the United States: 'Dear Sir: Will you accept an en gagement of 30 weeks at a salary of $10,000 a week $300,000 in all com mencing the first dav of. May. 1909, to head a 'W'ild West' exhibition en titled 'Theodore Roosevelt's Congress of Routh Riders?' "An early reply will be greatly ap preciated by yours truly. "JAMES M. ATLAS." Atlas says that he is backed by a circus syndicate, and is ready to ad vance the $300,000, or any part of it, as an evidence of good faith. In his own mind, he has already mapped out the performance. He says the pro gram will be about as follows: Part 1. Grand assemblage of "Theodore Roosevelt's Congress of Rough Riders." Col. Roosevelt rides out on spirited mustang and bows gracefully to the audience in style made popular by Buffalo Bill. Part 2. Battle scene, San Juan Hill. Some of the original Rough Riders and led up the hill in the face of a galling fire. Col. Roosevelt heads the charge. Part 3. Hunting in the Wild West. Mounted on his favorite bronco. Col. Roosevelt rides around the arena, shooting glass balls and performing other difficult feats of marksmanship. Part 4. The inauguration. Repro duction of the famous scene in Wash ington when, the popular idol took the oath of office for the second time. Mr. Atlas, who is an old-time wrestler, says he feels certain that his remarkable offer wil be accepted. "That's no dub sum, $300,000." he said. He can postpone his African hunting trip until autumn. Think of the money he would make and the big crowds that would applaud him. "We will furnish everything for his comfort on the road. There will be a private car for him, or two, if necessary, and one for his steno graphers if he wants to carry on his literary work. "This is the biggest idea in the history of the show business and it is all my own." Hodgenville, Ky., Feb. 11. The cen tenary of Abraham Lincoln's birth will be observed genf rally throughout the United States but nowhere will th commemoration exercises command more attention than those to be helu in this little town on February 12th. Two miles from here on the Lincoln farm, which has been purchased by a national association, formed for the purpose, President Rooseveit will iay the cornerstone of a memorial building now being erected by popular subscrip tion to mark Lincoln's birthplace and to protect for all times the little log cabin in which the martyr president was born. The centenary address on this oc casion will be delivered by President Roosevelt. General Luke E. Wright, the secretary of war, will speak on behalf of the Confederate soldiers. Gen eral Grant Wilson will represent the veterans of the Union Army and Lin coln's native state wil be represented by Governor Augustus E. Willson, of Kentucky. Other addresses will be made by Bishop Galloway, of Mississip pi, and ex-Governor Joseph V. Folk. Hodgenville. which is near the geo graphical center of the state of Ken tucky and not far from the center of population of the United States, prom ises to become a new Mecca in Ameri ca, and the Lincoln farm a second Mt. Vernon. Although Abraham Lincoln had other homes. There is a sentiment about his birthplace that does not at tach to any of them. He li-d here for eight years and before he left, knew very much of what Mark Twain calls "the model little farm that raised a man.'' He went . swimming in the nearby creek and by the light from the huge fireplace in the little one-room cabin he learned his first lessons. It was in 1806 that Thomas Lincoln brought his bride. Nancy Hanks, and established the rude little" home that three years later was to welcome into the world the future president. Theirs was the rough life of pioneers; the farm was then as it now is, a sterile piece of land, and to make both ends meet the older Lincoln did jobs of car pentry in the vicinity, besides working the farm. The actual necessities of life were seldom lacking, but it was a life of severe poverty. For some years Thomas Lincoln served as a county supervisor of public roads, an impor tant position in that time. Land own ers paid their poll tax with pick and shovel then, and on road mending days he used to take little Abe along both for company and for help. There are old timers here now -who claim that there is not a section of the old pike within several hundred miles of his home alony which Abraham Lincoln has not played or on which he has not driven his ox team.- At this time Kentucky offered few allurements to a poor man. and in 1814 the Lincolns sold the little farm and moved to Indiana. Subsequently Abraham Lincoln moved into Illinois and the rest is history; But through all the years that followed he never forgot his first home. He rarely referr ed to it, but after he had become presi dent of the United States he is known to have said: "When the war is over, I'd like very much to visit my old Ken tucky home. I remember it well." But he never did return and the lit tle log cabin had a varied history. Thomas Lincoln sold the place to a family named Creal, and it remained in their hands for over 70 years. Its beautiful rock spring was apparently its one redeeming feature and only recently has anyone awakened to the realization that these one hundred and ten acres had any value bevond their yield in corn and sorghum. Froni time to time newspapers have announced that the Lincoln birthplace farm was to be sold, but as a matter of fact it has only changed hands twice eince Thomas Lincoln's original transfer. A few years ago it was given into the management of a Rev. J. W. Bingham, who removed the log cabin to the ex position at Nashville, and later sold it to some exhibitors who took it about the country as -i traveling show. But a year or two ago the logs were found in a cellar at College Point. Long Isl and, where it was stored, and with cere mony was restored to its original site. The farm itself has been the sun ject of litigation for several years and efforts have been made by various in terests to use it for one purpose or another. Many schemes have ben sug gested from time to time but none of them have borne any large national significance. Finally in 1903 it was advertised that "on August 2Sth the Lincoln farm was to be sold between the hours of 10 and 2, from the court it was void to M-. (";, r ::'b;r:( tive. After the pap-r I r,'' V ly drawn and record... - j'ai'T'i ed to drive- back t.. iin'', n encountered one of the ,. ',. , n '-i v.no was mercilefi-Iv hu-rv'r , y to reach the auction i if','.;!,' indignant salutatjcm r.-.V.'-i ' -Vi 'j'-oili announcement th.it ih.- j; was in his pocket. "What am I u, j.J!V v, back?" the other f-huui.-,) ' :" "I'll give you $it.it.i.. ,.r it But Mr. Collier h;id :, .,.,' r'l the place and it was ih.i I,-.- Kr Instead he interest. i a -r,.!!''(lw':-sentative American cu:.-!,, , rTfc ing a national assM i.-uiuu , f "" ervation of this ground. Thu citizens organize, u,,. nn(,, tl V1"1 Association which was pr..,.,,,,'' ' porated undr th laws , t"l ..V'"" New York. The tItl- i L '. ijirtnpiaee was tian;erre,l mi': elation and the program fr the membership of th.. m,.,; at once begun. In 0rjer t., n.;:. memorial to Lincoln re.r, ,.n1 uies oi an tne pop.. ru. eon',..; of more than ;. i l-. s and anyone contributing u m-.'i " ae r. r.t.. J.. . ' 11 4 K'Q in me. organization. 1 Joiah (to newly-wed,.., n.jv, "I wish you long, happy l;,,. a4 i fcee :io reason, since r,i lie fc t perience, wuy you and M.,rja t pull together as steady and har.v T-i successfully us a team of W- diah "No doubt we coul-1 if ti , only one tongue between v- t,... 5 EAB OARD Axa Line IUitw Those arrival an-1 d.-r.artr t PS the time M.i -" r"Jr-5 aS ,.r companies a'r4 piverV Z uZ? 'ft arrive in Charlotte Schedule lakin;f c-JT-t Jai the passenger with the i-nd-VJ Ka soho-lule time o; fV . as may f. in.-id.r.t to thir "Jrij" tnre ,s esereise.1 fo ?iv.. r,,;v V- hut this ruJnpL"- lu.ll re!ipns,bl'i '"urs or vl",a'x? !fa-Ye charlt,lto as fr..,wS--No. 4H. .iailv. at 4-3n m ..- .... tZZJtV?11 anl Wilmin"Rtr.'..BJ: Monro w.th T. for Atlanta. H:r minpham and the Southwest- wih for HalHsh. W.-Mon anl l'rtST,V-' with at IUm'.et for lialeish. I: mond. Washington. New York No. 133. daily, at i(:Z a. ti . f..r I iv colriton Shelby and Kut.VTfordtoa without change. No-- daily, at Z n- m. for M. v roe. Hamlet. WilminRt-n and all W, points, ronnevtins at II.,mkt 'h for Columbia. Savannah and ail Kl-n-da points, and No. gf fr igr- it !;, mend, Washington and N.-h- York No. 1 32. daily. H:lt p. rn.. fV.r IKm'w rennet-tin with 41 1-,r Atlanta, rr minKham and the Southwest, with trj;n S4 at Hamlet for hnioa l. V.'a-Tc-ton and N'.-w York: with :;i r,t &w for IJat.-igh. lortsni.ut h and .r1 k Through sleeper on this trin f-,.T, "h:irlotte, X. C. to i'ort.'inuuth. W daily. Trains lows: No. 13::. 10:Cj a. m.. daily. points ..ortti and South. No. 40 daily. m.. from VIM- mintiton and j.II lo.,l points. No. i::j. dailv. p. .. jr'n Itulh- orfordton. ShHl.y. l.in.-olntn ami C N. YV. llailw;y p..i:;s. No. "f. 11 ... ni. dailr frfn W:! niinston. Ilaml.-t :uil Monro.-; : from points Kast, North and S'Uthav. connect ins: ni Ha!i,lt and Monro. Connections are inale at Maml-t wWl through trains for points North. Svjtii and Soiit ii w.-st." whi. h are . oi:,r"'S"J of vestioule day -oa-h-s. t''''n !'. mouth and "Atlanta, and Wavhiretmi and Jacksonville, and sle p:t,s cars - tween Jersey City. I'.irtninrtain a; Memphis, and Jersey City and Ja-k--v ville. pHf ,-ars n" nil through trs.r;. Kr information, time t !,).-. ttv tions or Seaboard d-!oriptv li-.-T-tu apply to ticket aironts or aM-..". JAM KS KKIU JIU ". I. A. 32 Selwyn Hotel. Cftarl .n X. c- SOUTHERN RAILROAD X. D. The following rl.edole C nrrit publlabrd oIt mm laforaall" rr not ciiaranterd. January 4. ! 1:20 a. to.. No. daiiy. f..' inffton and point N'or.h P-!:'-'' iTawinp Koom td-Tcrs to N"' Hay coaches to Washington. 3:3 a. m. No. .i.I'y for r'm hia. Savannah and Jack.-env :de. 1 - ' man tl ritrms r..ni j..-.'t"-s to S t-A- I My (w r. t" house step., at public outcry and to ft?1 wlns the highest bidder." !Ahviiie. ta and Jacksonville. Jacksonville. .-.:30 a. m.. No. i. daily, fer V.i'tr--and local points. . 5:52 u. m.. No. 41. dr::j . for ton and point- North. I'-i r :' Charlotte to Washington. I'-l.-51 sleeper Atlanta to 'Ul'-lph. , 6:30 a. m.. No. li. daily for bia. Rnd local points. . 8:00 a. m.. No. 1. daily "? day) for Statesville. TaScrs-.. : local Mations. C.r.n.: - , IS su m.. No. 39. daily ? Dav roaches CharlotS" Stops at prinelpi! joints '";:' -'t ... 10:0S a. m.. No. T.. Ua-iv . : n and points norra. '-!:." V m sleepers to N-w , ches to Washington. I'.r. r.f Mr. Robert J. Collier, of New York city, had been negotiating for the property and upon the appearance of this notice he dispatched Mr. Richard Lloyd Jones to Hodgenville with In structions to buy the place if possible. The day set for the bidding was Mon day, and as the laws forbade Sunday railway operation In this neighborhood, Elizabethtown. 12 miles away, was as near as Mr. Jones could come by rail before Monday noon. At the little hotel in Elizabethtown Mr. James met two individuals who he learned were sent on the same mission as himself. One represented a prominent Eastern merchant, the other a distilling con cern which recognized the commercial value of the pure water from the rock spring and the bottle label bearing the inscription "Lincoln Birthplace Whis- sey. kotn nad come with th tn. nd io.i r.o.its ii.i. i.. strnetinnc! f "n;,! J i -1 - I slp(-r,ir "li:t r lo: I e to V "v V 'J I W 1L 111 211111 I 1 1 , KPI1. I " . V. At. to room vice. 11:00 a. ta.. No. ?S. !a;:v. ' Salem. Hoanok". nd local ; 10:0i a. m.. No. 37 d..::. to New Orleans. Iraw!:iR ' er. New York to Atlanta, re train. iJininc ear sotvk'-. 11:35 a. in.. No. 11. d' lanta and local point.1. No. 46. 3:t"i p. m.. da:! boro and local points. 4:35 p. m.. No. '7, d::- and local points. , c 5:0O p. m.. No. 41. da.V.. '." day. for Sene.a ar.l '"';'. 6:05 p. rv. No. :M. dt ly - '; day. for Statesvil!-. Taj .'r ;;.. local points. Connect V ; for Asheviilc. Ki.-xvi;l- noopa. -, n-ntt m "V. n i ,ii,:v ' Tl- . . .. .... r 1:1 Ii-- . t A child is known by his manners. Irish. Only One "BROMO QUININE." That Is LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Look for the signature of E. W. GROVE. Used the World over to Cure a Cold in One Day. 25. and tho sen timent which they displayed about their mission was intense. It eventual ly worked their ruin, for, before eve ning, their patriotic enthusiasm had been stimulated to a high degree, and by midnight both were peacably abed. Mr. Jones came here by buggy early the liext morning and sought out the commissioner who was to conduct the sale. With the thought of the two gentlemen who were still resting in Elizabethtown he tried to persuade the commissioner to start the sale promptly at 10 o'clock. But that offi cial was for having it in the afternoon, tiaally 12:30 was agreed upon as a 'Charlotte to t: -l.ioo -1. and New Orleans l.:f 1 inptoa and points Nrt. rooni sleepers, f)'. s. rv '" 1 cars to New York. ' vice. Solid Pullman ir:.:u :ZZ p. in.. No .15. d...v.. ' and points. South. V room sleepers New Y orx leans. New York to :'.r::'.-' " lotte to Atlanta. "" ; ingion to New Orleans. 1' vice. TleVets clf.enin:r art.t ,1t.x,l r,f.,rr.atioa 'a" ed at ticket ofoce. No. U . Street. , -..-., C. II. AKKItT. v--!'rrccn . ,.;! . . I ' s. ii. 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The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Feb. 12, 1909, edition 1
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