Bloomington Progress, Bloomington, Monroe County, 9 February 1900 — Page 6

RARE PORTRAIT OF LINCOLN.

I may not toe the boy you'd choose For your own valentine; But still, since circumstances make My life with yours to blend, I'll count myself as honored quite If I may be your friend." "Oh, Tom! That's magnificent! Just

like you! After school you must come m

and write it on the card in those queer, long-tailed letters vou make so well."

"Well, I say, Fan, how will the good

lady know who it's from?

"Why, put your name to it, of course.

Look hero," and Fanny pointed out, half hidden by a spray of forget-me-nots, her own name. "All artists sign their work and I don't believe in anonymous things."

"All right, and after we get it all done

and mailed we'll go to the pond. Frank Shaffer says the ice is like glass."

Many who looked on the face of Abraham Lincoln in those lively days who the great President was merely a backwoods campaigner, speaking from the same tump with Stephen A. Douglas, agree that the likeness published here is a true one. It is the property of Henry Kuhleman of St. Louis. Of its history he says: "In 1860 I saw the picture, a life-size crayon, hanging in a second-hand furniture tore. Being a lover of good pictures I said to myself quickly, "There is Moses." I asked a woman who was in the store whose picture it might be, but she did not know. I bought it for fifty cents, took it home, framed it, and only found out a year or two later that it represented Lincoln. Although an old-fashioned Democrat, uncompromising, I kept the picture in its place and learned from day to day to love the man, and when, in 1863, Loncoln ordered a draft, because the patriotism had all died out, I became a naturalized citizen, probably the only one in St. Louis in that remarkable year. A year ago I spent three months in Illinois and elsewhere to find out who had made the picture, but did not succeed. Mr. Kidd, in Springfield, thought that some one had probably made the picture while Lincoln pleaded a case in court, saying that Lincoln had a habit of running his fingers through his hair. I have communications from men who stand high men who knew Lincoln well who had never seen the picture before, but declared it the best they had ever seen when I sent them copies. I have since then distributed among my friends 500 copies of the picture, and they all fully appreciate the value of it."

I.

r WOULN'T do it, Tom." II "You don't know, what you'd do if 4 you had a stepmother." "Maybe I don't, but I'm sure of one thing I wouldn't be the first to do something wrong if I knew it." "Everybody speaks his mind on Valentine's day, and as for doing wrong, she was the first. She'd no business to be my stepmother." "Come away, Tom, and let's talk it over. Don't buy one of those hideous pictures now. Wait until you walk to my gate and back here." "All right", but I'll come back, just the jame. I'll tell you what's the matter, Fanny. You don't appreciate the situation. " You don't know how you'd feel to have some girl, not more than 8 or 10 years older than yourself, in your mother's place." "No, I suppose I don't understand it all as well as you do; but doesn't Aunt Harriet try to be agreeable to you and all the household?" "I suppose she tries, if you're a mind to call her aunt." "She is my aunt, and mamma says she makes the house seem like home again." "Your mother said that, and my mother her own sister?" "Yes, she said that very thing, and she said, too, when she knew Uncle Horace was going to be married, that she was ready to love any woman who would be kind to you. And didn't Aunt Harriet give you nice Christmas presents?" "Oh, of course. Everybody gives Christmas presents, whether they care for people or not. There's lots of cheap sentiment about Christmas, but, as Isaid before, on Valentine's day people tell the truth." "Well, then, Tom, just tell me the plain Tnth txrn rinvs hefore Valentine's day.

Don't Mark and John Farrell say a great

many things to you against your new mother?" "Say stepmother." "WV1L stenmother. then." and Fanny

"Driscoll. in her earnestness, stopped and

hpld her cousin by the sleeve. "Now tell

me.

"Why, of course, Mark and John say

if thpir fatrher ever brings home a sec

ond wife, they'll do a lot of things and

if "Now listen to me. Don't you remem ber how nice it used to be to go to Mr. Farrell's?" "Yps it's nice now."

"Oh, no, Tom," and Fanny shook her

IipjiiI slowlv. and thev walked on. Mam

ma doesn't allow Charlie to go there at

all. You know it isn t like it used to De,

and it isn't like vour own home."

bovs eet very noisy soiaetimes,

hut John and Mark like it. and when

their old auntie objects they mke her go into another room and shut th& door." "And weren't the curtains set on fire one evening?" "Yes; we didn't mean to do tht, but a stepmother isn't mother, and Pm going to let Mrs. Kent know it." "By sending her a comic valentine?" "How else could I?" "Sure enough! Since she has been just as kind to you as she possibly could be for the four months she has been yoyr stepmother. Now, Tom, think it over, if Aunt Harriet has done any willfully wrong thing besides being your stepmoth

er; If she has said one single unkind

word "

"Oh. Dshaw. Fanny, where's the use

"Well, since you mean to tell the truth

on Valentine's day

"But I mean to send that ugly picture

with the verse just to let her know what

I think of her."

"What is the verse? Do you remem

ber it?"

"I think so: Oh, long-tongued vixen, wiry scold! I and my little brother

Hate you because you're plain and old,

And 'cause you're our stepmother.

"Seems to me there's no truth in that.

You have no little brother, neither is Aunt Harriet 'plain and old,' nor is she

a scold."

"Well, she's my stepmother, and I can't

find another stepmother valentine in

town."

"It seems to me, then, that if you must

have a valentine, and if you really want

to tell Aunt Harriet the truth because

of the day, you'd better make one."

"How could I make one? "Very easily at least you and I to

gether could make a valentine, much more

appropriate for Aunt Harriet than any

thing you'd find in the stores. We can take a piece of plain cardboard and I'll

put on a border of flowers in water col

ors, and you make rhymes so easily, you

know."

"What would I make rhymes for?"

"Why, to tell your stepmother the

truth, and to say, like a man, no more under cover of the day than you'd be

ready to say to her face."

They were standing at Fanny's gate,

and Tom leaned against it and kicked the

snow off his bootheels.

"Oh, well, of course, if you look at if

that way-: "

"Now, Tom, honestly, wouldn't you

rather be on friendly terms with your

stemnother than not?"

"Oh, I never meaut to quarrel witn

her, but I'm not going to make love to

her."

"No. but it would only be a nice little

attention to send her a neat, pretty valen

tine, and say something pleasant by it,

You know how nice your father is to your friends, and now's your time to be

nice to his."

"W ell all right, Fanny; have you got

a niece of cardboard? Fix it up, and I'll

make a rhyme; but it won't be anything

fine."

"Just tell the truth," Fanny said gay-

ly, and she ran up the walk, "that is the

finest thing in the world.

III.

It was growing dusk before they left

the pond, and when Tom reached home it was quite dark. He found the house very quiet. The girl who let him in said

Mr. and Mrs. Kent had gone out for a sleigh ride. Tom dropped his skates, heavy coat and cap in the hall, and himself on a couch heaped with cushions that stood near the open lire in the parlor.

There was no light but that from the fire,

and the room was very pleasant with its wavering shadows. Tom remembered

what Fanny's mother had said about the new Mrs. Kent making the house seem like home, and looking about him he knew that it was true. There were flowers on the table among new magazines

and there was a dainty little sewing basket, and Tom would have gone on with his inventory, but he began to feel very sleepy. His eyes closed. He was dreaming confusedly of school and skates and sleigh bells and valentines, and then, mingled with all, there was talking and people coming in and banging a door, and

then some one saying "sh-h-h!" Then

very plainly he heard his father say softly, "Ah, Tom! how much the rascal looks like his mother in this light!"

"Yes," a gentle voice answered. "I

wish he would allow me to love him, for

her sake if not for his own."

"Be patient you'll win him. His

mother's son must be a gentleman."

Then Topu felt his father s hands un

der his ankles, and his feet were lifted from the floor to the couch. Another pair of hands tucked an afghan over him,

and the two left' the room.

Tom stretched himself, opened his eyes,

and was wide awake.

'Good old daddy!" he whispered. "I

guess it wasn't very mean of me to just

stay asleep. It's hard on a fellow to

waken suddenly, and that little mamma!

She acted as if I was a baby, with her

lsh-h-h!'" and Tom turned his face

against the cushions and laughed. "Now,

I'll hurry. The governor expects me to

be a gentleman, and it'd be a mean trick to disappoint him."

"Dear me!" Tom thought, I never

dreamed of dishonoring my dear mother's

memory. I've been greatly mistaken. Behaving like a boor and a lout is a shame to her, especially when I look like her."

II.

IV.

TELEPHONE SERVICE.

Next morning on his way to school

Tom called, as usual, for Cousin Fanny.

She met him at the door.

"You're early, and I'm glad of it Come

in. I've something to show you.

She hurried him into the library and

showed him a cream-tinted card a trifle

lareer than a cabinet photograph. It had

I a border in delicately tinted flowers.

"I'ansies for tJiouscnt." sne explained

"here and there an orange blossom, just

a gallant little reminder of her wedding

day a few months ago, and these blue forsret-me-nots. Aunt Harriet will not

begrudge you a little memorial of your

love for your own mother wniie behaving like a gentleman to her. Now, if you can think of anvthine else "

"No, Fanny, that's all right. You're

a daisy. Now, here s my contribution.

I guess I've told the truth; read it. And Fanny read: "I'm not a sturdy, stalwart oak, You're not a el?ing vine;

Next morninsr Tom was up early. He

was anxious to be by when the valeT tine came. It would surely be delivered in the

first mail. Early as it was, Mrs. Kent

was in the dining room directing the awkwnni new maid about her work. She

turned with a smile as Tom entered, and

he could see that there was a siiaae or something very near like fear in the dark

eves, lie reit nis iace siu "-"

shame that his behavior naa maae sueu slender, girlish woman feel afraid of him. In that instant a great resolve took possession of him. With about the same feelA nf mornines on approaching

the tub for his cold plunge he walked

straight to her, as he had used to approach his own mother, and, with a tremulous "Good morning, little mamma," he kissed her pink cheek.

While his hand still resiea ou m?i shoulder, and her face was a mixture of smiles, wonder and lovely color, Mr. Kent came in. "Hello, you early birds; what are you up to?"

Mrs. Kent answerea: "T -wfla teachine Christine her duties,

and I wanted to be sure to have your iroiontine and Tom's by your plates. I

didn't expect any one else to be up so

early. . . , , .

.Tnst then came the postman s snort,

cVinvn rinsr. and Christine went to the

. .

door. Mrs. Kent took two small parcels from the sideboard, handing one to Tom,

the other to his father, air. ivent iouna o lien nt.if nil v bound cony of Mrs. Brown

ing's sonnets, and Tom could he be

lieve his eyes? A handsome new watcn:

r.fcriistine fame m witn a nanuiui or

mail. Tom's head swam. Oh, if he had

made a mistake! He rubbed nis eyes. aM,ir it wna nfi drpam that he and

Fanny had made that pretty valentine!

No, there was the big, strong manina envelope in Mrs. Kent's hands.

"Ah, ha!" said Mr. Kent, "mat iooks suspiciously like an old sweetheart sending a reminder of lang syne."

Mrs. Kenjrs hands shook a little as sne held the card and read the lines. She an

swered Mr. Kent gayly:

"No, indeed; no old sweerneart; a young:, new one; one I've been so anxious to win," and she passed the card to her

husband, giving Tom sucn a glance rrom her tear-wet eyes as set his boyish heart thumping. "Well done, Tom!" Mr. Kent exclaimed. "And Cousin Fanny is the artist. Now I call that clever handsomely done, for both of you!"

Tom drew a long sigh. What an escape he had had! He told Fanny all

about it, adding:

"And now, little cousin, I want you to remember this: Whenever you know of

me intending to do a low-down, mean

trick, or whenever 1 get a notion that it's smart to treat any one unjustly, I wish you'd remind me of this Valentine day." Fanny said she would. Margaret Holmes Bates, in Chicago Inter Ocean. November In Lincoln's Career. Nov. 6, 1800, elected President. Nov. 10, 1803. delivered the famous

speech at Gettysburg.

Nov. .8, 1804, elected President for A second term.

Up In Detroit they had, once on a

time, a telephone war. It resulted in

the establishment of a new company

Whose avowed object it was to cotnpe! competition and thus benefit the dear public. Now the oldest of the two

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