Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1897 — Page 3

FACTS ABOUT RAILROAD TRAVEL

What Zt Coats to Carry Passengers on Western Road*, There is a surprising amount of mis- * information among (he people regarding the cdat of carrying passenger* on railroad trains and to this condition of the public mind is donbtless dne mucii of the sentiment in faTor of lower rates, which ia finding expression . through bill* for sweeping reductions in the Legislatures of many of the Western States this winter. Mr. P. S. Eustis, General Passenger Agent of thfe C., B. & Q. K. R., in an argument before the House Committee of the Missouri Legislature last week on the two-cent bill, gave some valuable- and surprising information about the passenger business in the West. His statements were based upon the reports of the InterState Commerce Commission and the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of Missouri, and are therefore beyond question. Mr. Eustis showed in the first place that the volume of passenger traffic on railroads is dependent upon the density and wealth of population in the territory through which it runs, and then compared the population of Missouri and the traffic resulting from it with the same figures in other States, thus clearly illustrating the theory of his point. The following table showing the relative population apd rates is interesting in this connection: Population Passenger lation per revenue per sq. mile, mile of R.R. Missouri 39 $977 00 Illinois... 6S 2,075 00 Ohio 90 1,951 00 New York 122 4,513 00 New England... 200 4,422 00 Mr. Eustis made the statement that, while the named rate in most of the Western States was three cents per mile, the aetpal amount received is considerably less than that sum. This is due to the fact that the railroad having a long line between two points cannot charge more than the rate fixed by a road having a shorter line, and to excursion rates demanded by the people, all of which reduce the average rate materially. ' But the most surprising assertion made by Mr. Eustis was that the Western roads, with possibly one or two individual exceptions, carry passengers at an actual loss. The St. Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern was cited as an instance. Mr. Eustis produced a statement of the expense on that road to show that the cost per passenger per mile exceeded three cents, the legal rate. The report of the Interstate Commerce Commission referring to the railroads of Illinois, lowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota and that part of the Dakotas and Missouri lying east of the Missouri river shows that it cost the railroads two and three onethousandths cents per mile to carry passengers, exclusive of any charge for taxes, rents, interest on mortgages and other items of the kind. Mr. Eustis declared that a two-cent flat rate in Missouri would reduce the average to one and three-quar-ters cents, if pot lower. It was shown that lower rates do not largely increase traffic, and instances were cited where reductions from four cents and three and one-half cents per mile did not result in increased travel. Answering the question as to whether rates in Europe were not lower than in this country, Mr. Eustis showed that while the third-class rate on some European lines is lower, the second-class rates, which are paid by the great traveling public, are higher than American rates. The conveniences of second and third-class travel in Europe are not to be compared with those of America iu point •f comfort and convenience.

New Line to Washington, D. C.

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LINCOLNS PLUG HAT.

ODD HEADGEAR WORN BY THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR. Tall and Big Enoagh for a Giant— Serve! aa a Storage Place Tor Hia Papers—Now on Exhibit in Washington. Abe's Famous Tile. Abraham Lincoln's silk tile was more remarkable than a storied urn, for Abe’s plug was about three stories high and always full of jocular stories from brim to crown. The hat that Lincoln was accustomed to wear seemed to be a foot high, with a brim almost as big aB a Southern sombrero. It was a 7% size, a heavy, cumbersome affair, and never a thing of beauty. In his debates with Douglas the hat fairly loomed into space. The smallness of the stature of the latter is well known, and when Lincoln stood beside him with his hat on the appearance they presented was that of a boy and a giant standing together. And curiously enough, when Lincoln came to be inaugurated at Washington, Douglas held the high hat in his owu baud, that no careless person might put his foot in it. The reader can readily imagine the appearance of Lincoln when arrayed in his favorite plug, if a few well-known fncts are borne in mind. The President had a gannt and grotesque frame, and stood six feet four inches in his stocking feet. His strength equaled his length, for he could lift n cask full of beer and drink out of the bung hole. It was such herculean feats as this that made him the hero he was in the eyes of the Clary Grove boys. Mr, Lincoln’s hat played a very important part in his career when he was postmaster at New Salem. It was before the days of the railway mail service oil steam or street cars. There were no “special delivery” carriers at that time. But Lincoln was equal to the demands of the situation, and became a peripatetic postoffice. As soon ns the letters were received each day lie would put them iu his hat, and stroll through the town. His tall, gaunt form could easily be descried from all quarters, and everybody was more or less concerned in the contents of the hat. Upon being questioned as to what the mail had brought, Lincoln would re-

THE LITTLE GIANT HELD HIS HAT.

move his tile*and enrefully look over the lot of letters. Iu this way he not only became acquainted with his neighbors, hut his unique nnd utilitarian hut became almost an object of revereuce. It was, however, on the' night of his election to the presidency that the noble tile served to bring about a football game, which, for genuine excitement and the prominence of the parties engaged, has never been surpassed. The news had just come to the old homestead in Illinois that Lincoln was elected. Here is the story as told by an eye witness: “A few ladies, his neighbors, went over and helped Mrs. Lincoln prepare a little

supper for friends, who hud been invited in to hear the returns. Every half hour or so we would pass around coffee and cakes. About 1 o’clock in the morning enough had been learned to warrant the belief that the ‘Rail Splitter’ had been elected. I think it was when we heard the news from New York. The men rush-, ed on Mr. Lincoln nnd shook his hands, while the women actually hugged him. Then some one went, into the hall and took from the rack that old silk hat which he wore, as long as a joint of a stovepipe, and about ns shapely, to my mind, and it was thrown up to the ceiling. As it came down some one gave it a kick; then the women joined in the fun, and we played football with that hat until it was an unrecognizable mnss. We were simply beyond control. What a ridiculous scene it

LINCOLN'S HAT WAS HIS FILE RACK.

would have been to one looking in without knowing what prompted it!” Lincoln’s hat was the most indispensable part of his whole outfit. It was, in fact, a sort of file rack. Here were all the briefs of his various law cases. Curiously enough, he carried the accounts in his head, and that is why he lost so much money. Had he reversed (be process and .kept his accounts in his hat and the cases Ih his head, he would have been better off. His hat served for Jdp satchel on a journey, and ail that was needed besides this were his saddle bags and hid horse.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged iu a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a grent battlefield of that war. We .have come to dedicate a portion of that field, ns a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that tin* nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate —we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far'above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It iB rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died In vain —that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Austin Go'laher Rescued the Future rresident from Drowning. However poor the Lincoln home may have been, it affected the new child but little, says McClure’s Magazine. He was robust and active, and life is full of interest to the child happy enough to be born in the country. He had several companions. There was his sister Nancy, or Sarah—both names are given her —two years his senior; there was a cousin of his mother’s, ten years older, Dennis Hanks, nu active and ingenious leader in sports and mischief, and there were the neighbors' boys. One of the latter, Austin Gollaher, still tells with pleasure how he hunted coons and ran the woods with young Lincoln and once even saved his life. “Yes," said Mr. Gollaher, “the story that I once saved Lincoln’s life is true, but it is not correct as generally related. “Abraham Lincoln and I had been going to school together for a year or more and had become greatly attached to each other. Then school disbanded on account of there being so few scholars, and we did not see each other for a long time. One Sundny my mother visited the Lincolns and I was taken along. Abe and I played

FROM AN OLD CARTOON.

around all day. Finally we concluded to cross the creek to hunt for some partridges young Lincoln had seen the day before. The creek was swollen by a recent rain, nnd in crossing on the narrow footing Abe fell in. Neither of us could swim. I got a long pole and held it out to Abe, who grabbed it. Then I pulled him ashore. He was almost dead and I was badly scared. I rolled and pounded him in good earnest. Then I got him by the arms and shook him, the water meanwhile pouring out of his mouth. By this means I succeeded in bringing him to, and he was soon all right. “Then a new difficulty confronted us. If our mothers discovered our wet clothes they would whip us. This we dreaded from experience and determined to avoid. It was June, the sun was very warm, and we soon dried our clothing by spreading them on the rocks about us. We promised never to tell the story, and I never mentioned the incident to any one until after Lincoln’s tragic end. “Abraham Lincoln had a sister. Her name was Sallie, and she was a very pretty girl. She Went to school when she could, which was not very often. “Yes, if you must know, Sallie Lincoln was my sweetheart. She was about my age. I loved her, and, claimed her, as boys do. I suppose that was one reason of my warm regard for Abe. When the Lfbcoln family moved to Indiana I was prevented by circumstances from bidding good-by to either of the children, and I never saw them again.”

When Mr. Lincoln went to Washington to be inaugurated he traveled secretly on the advice of his nearest friends. On account of this trip he was often charged with cowardice and reviled therefor by his enemies. In speaking of the trip he said: “I did not believe then, nor do I now believe, I should have been assassinated had I gone through Baltimore, as first contemplated, but I thought it wise to run no risk where no risk was necessary.”

“There is,” said Benjamin Disraeli, the famous British statesman and premier of England, in speaking of the assassination of Lincoln, “in the character of the victim, and even in the accessories of his last moments, something so homely and innocent that it takes the question, as it were, out of all the pomp of history and

Born Feb. 12, 1809 1 Inaugurated President March 4, ISOlt Died April 15, 1865.

LINCOLN’S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS.

SAVED LINCOLN’S LIFE.

Not Afraid pf Assassins.

Disraeli on Lincoln.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

the ceremonial of touches the hearts of nations and appeals to the domestic sentiment of mankind.”

Surveyed with a Grapevine.

Myths begin to cluster about every great man even before his death. Already it is hard to distinguish between fact nnd fancy in some of the tales told of Lincoln. One is the story that when he firsfbegau engineering he surveyed with a grapevine. According to the tradition poverty kept him from buying a chain, and with his knowledge of woodcraft he easily selected n grapevine that was properly Bhaped stripped it clean, an<l cut notches for his dimensions. Although the story Is not generally credited, old surveyors who remember the poor quality of chains In that day and their inaccuracy, by reason of wearing and lengthening, say the Lincoln anecdote has a basis of probability.

The grammar studied by Abraham Lincoln when he clerked in Denton Offutt’s store at New Salem, in 1830, is in North Dakota, in the possession of the widow of Robert Rutledge, of Casselton. In the inside of the front cover is a receipt for S3O, given with an order on James Rutledge by Offutt in Lincoln’s handwriting and over his signature.—Minneapolis (Minn.) Journal.

LINCOLN’S LOVE-MAKING.

Encountered His Political Rival While Addressing Miss Todd. In 1839 Miss Mary Todd, of Kentucky, arrived in Springfield to visit a married sister, Mrs. Edwards. At the instance of his friend Speed, who was also a Kentuckian, Lincoln became a visitor at the Edwards’, and before long it was apparent to the observant among those In Springfield that the lively young lady held him captive. Engagements at that time, and in that neighborhood, were not announced as soon as they were made, and it is not at all impossible that Miss Todd and Mr. Lincoln were betrothed many months before any other than Mrs. Edwards and Mr. Speed knew of it, writes John Gilmer Speed in the Ladies’ Home Journal. At this time, as was the case till Lincoln was elected to the presidency, his one special rival in Illinois was Stephen A. Douglas. Mr. Douglas had more of the social graces than Mr. Lincoln, and it appeared to him that nothing would be more interesting than to cut out his political rival in tho affections of the entertaining and lively Miss Todd, and so he paid her court. A spirited young lady from Kentucky at that time In Illinois would have been almost less than human if she had refused to accept the attentions of the two leading men of the locality. Therefore, Miss Todd being quite human, encouraged Douglas, and again there was what nowadays would have been called a flirtation. This course of action did not spur Lincoln on in his devotion, but made him less ardent, and he concluded, after much self-worriment, to break off the engagement, which he did, but at the same

MRS. LINCOLN.

interview there was a reconciliation and a renewal of the engagement.

Standing Up for His Country.

“They’s one thing sure,” said Farmer Corntossel, whose wife had ventured to express an opinion on national topics, “an’ ye kin note it down in yer diary an’ write it in the back of yer cook book, so’s ter remind yerself of it once in a while,” “Whut Is it, Hiram?” “This here administration ain’t afraid of Spain.” “Well, mebbe taint, but—■” “They ain’t no ’but about it. Thia administration ain’t afraid of Spain. An’ whut’a more, It ain't a-goln’ ter take no chances on glttin’ afraid of heft”

Lincoln's Grammar.

FROM EXPOSURE

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The Coyotes Were Too Cute.

An amusing Incident occurred the other day on the Lemon farm, near Garfield, Wash. Burt Lemon and an employe of the farm were plowing, when they came across three young coyote pups, which had not yet opened their eyes. While they were examining them the old ones appeared, and approached to within fifty yards. Mr. Lemon went to the house f<y a gun and a sack, aud placed the young ones in the sack, which was tied up and left In the field until time to go In from work. The old coyotes kept a respectful distance from the rifle, but hovered agouud. Several turns of the field were made with the plow, and finally, when the men came In sight of where they had left the sack containing the young coyotes, they saw one of the old ones with the sack, puppies and all, streaking It over the hill, and that was the last seen of them.—Spokane (Wash.) Review.

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Coughing Leads to Consumption.

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