Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1912 — Page 2

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The cold wave wig wagged in at laat ' i -■ Why isn’t the man “higher up?" Isn’t he really lower down? One can, when one is hunting for •bocks, find them almost anywhere. This would be a better and happier world to lire In did every on* try to make it so. The actors of the country are expected to erect a monument to the man who Invented the free lunch. A fat man’s club was raided recently In a ” Virginia town. Naturally, the raiding party expected a stout resistance. Paris restaurants are serving roast camel as a delicacy, but there Is no recipe for cooking a camel In a paper bag. % Baseball Is now to take its place among the polite arts, since it has acquired the graceful possession of a lady magnate. The brother of the former shah, who demands SBO,OOO of the Persian treasury, is named Salarl. Are there no. “y’s” in Persian. A wife with a gun came to tye rescue of her husband treed by a bear And it was the bear that was shot, too, and not the husband. A Pennsylvania physician claims to have educated two African chimpanzees to.reason. After this there ought to be hope for some humans.

Scientists declare that the world Is over 500,000 years old. It will probably be 500,000 years older before any one man gets enough money to buy it. Arizona is finding that statehood is not without its attendant horrors, as a Phoenix young woman has designed a burnt-leather “statehood sofa cushion.'’ It is said that Kipling received $1 a word for his poem. “The Female of the Species.” If he has had to read the parodies of it, the price is too small. s > A New York woman has married a man whom she rescued from the slums. What chance Is he ever going to have to assert himself around the bouse? A man who had 72 sticks of dynamite in a suit case has been arrested In Pittsburgh. We have been assured that he was not on his way to the peace meeting. * With a temperature of 25 degrees below zero the Black Hills may as wen give up any claims they have been trying to put forth in their favor as a winter resort. A Pittsburgh baby nine weeks old. was operated on for appendicitis. The youngsters of this enterprising age are certainly the most precocious on record.- .. The idea of having the Manchu princes decide their own fate is decidedly Oriental, especially in view of the fact that any fate which they may select is going to be decidedly hard to take. Yale professor tells us that the hookworm is one of the causes of the high cost ot living. We always thought that the hookworm was caused by the practice of throwing the hooks into the ultimate consumer. A Massachusetts minister has issued a Dew set oc commandments for wives. The women as yet are silent on the matter, which gives rlseHo uneasy sus plcions that they are retaliating by formulating another set for husbands. After they had gained entrance to a vault containing $500,000, Cleveland bank robbers became frightened and ran away, leaving the money behind. Things that are too good to be true continue to happen. to accept the office of coroner because he cannot bear the idea of looking on a corpse. Most office seekers are jubilant, not depressed, over the prospect of landing such a dead sure thing. A millionaire Is going to build bis bens a $5,000 chicken coop; but it is to be feared that even In such an environment they can’t be persuaded to lay golden eggs .In fact, be will be luckier than average mortals if they Jay at all. ( There is nothing eo very strange in the fact that a Massachusetts minister has left the pulpit to go into the coal business. He is preaching the doctrine that it is better to have a fire here than hereafter. ||S» said that a rule has been established in an eastern school requiring all Btudents to wriie names and numerals legibly. If this rale could be successfully adopted. hard and fast, in every school In the land, editors would have a snap where they now

ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S SUBSTITUTE

By PPOF BERNARD J. CIGRAND

COPYRIGHT BY W. O. CHAPMAN

BRAHAM LINCOLN had a substitute who served as a defender of the Union through the bloody and K epoch-making period of the Civil war. This assertion has been made many times before. It has aroused bitter controversy In varlods quarters; It has given birth to columns of print, both in support of and denial of its truth. Now, for the first time, evidence jp here presented that the story of Lincoln’s substitute is correct —evidence In the unassailable shape of an official acknowledgment from the federal government. , The exemption of the president of the United States from the taking up of arms, or serving on an actual field of battle, is provided for by a special statute drawn up to meet such a contingency. But there is nothing to prevent, the nation’s chief executive from sending forth a substitute to fight in his place, although Lincoln was the only occupant of .the—White. House who ever took advantage of this fact. The man who represented' in his person that of the martyred president was John Summerfield Staples, whose body now lies at rest in a little cemetery at Stroudsburg, Pa. The tombstone above his grave, pho-? tograph of which is here reproduced, testifies not only to Staples’ war record, but states in granite letters the fact of his having served as Abraham Lincoln’s substitute. The Inscription in question reads as follows: 3. Summerfield Staples, a Private of Co. C., 176 Regt., P. V. Also a Member of the 2 Reg. D. C. Vols., as a Substitute for ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Died Jan. 11, 1888, Aged 43 Years, 4 Mos., 25 Days. His grave also bears the G. A. R. marker, a metallic star upon which the words “Post 150“ appear. Ademall American flag flutters in the breeze, ; but the outside world seems little informed as to the career of this patriotic and distinguished soldier boy. I had heard the tradition that Lincoln during the dark days of 1864 had sent a substitute to the front. But to confirm the truth of the tradition was quite another matter. The popular opinion of those I consulted appeared to be that the tale of Lincoln’s substitute belonged in the myth category, and had no more foundation in sober fact than the legend of Washington and the cherry tree. Men high

J. SUMMERFIELD STAPLES. “Lincoln’s Substitute.” From a Photograph Taken at the Time He Went to the Front in Lincoln’s Stead.

in the ranks“or the Grand Army of the Republic assured me that they were certain that “Old Abe” was unrepresented in the ranks Of the boys in For all that it seemed to me that the story was something more than one of those romantic incidents so frequently quoted as having occurred in the lives of famous after they had passed over to the great majority; incidents lending color to laudatory biographical sketches, but rejected by the thoughtful historian as being formed of “the stuff dreams are made of." Lincoln, wljth his exalted ideals, his stern devotion to duty, his undying love for the Union and all that ft represented, was exactly the type of man to consider himself at fault if he neglected tn make every possible sacrifice in his power to the cause he held dearer than life. I corresponded with the federal/authorities at Washington on thesubject, but the received did not |end tobring meany~cToser to the goal. Instead they asserted positively that tie reported tradition was entirely without foundation. A letter from the war department stated emphatic-1

J. SUMMERFIELD STAPLES. “Lincoln’s Substitute.” From a Photograph Taken a Few Years Before Hi Death.

ally: “It does not appear from the official records of the department that President Lincoln ever furnished a substitute.” Another Informed me that “Abraham Lincoln was not Hable to draft,” a fact of which I was already well aware. Had not such been the case the employmentofa jubfitltute would have lost all significance. But a personal search through the official records of the Civil war brought to light a reference to “Abraham Lincoln, principal, and John Staples, recruit, both of the District of Columbia.” And on another page appeared an entry to the effect that Lincoln wished a representative recruit, and same was assigned as private to Company H of the Second regiment D. C. Infantry. With these entries as a base of operations it became possible to trace the substitute, and the discovery was made that John S. Staples was buried in Stroudsburg, Pa. Further details were furnished .by Mr. John W. Burnett of Massachusettes, a comrade of Staples, in the following letter: “I well recall the military career of J. S. Staples of my regiment. The awful losses of the Union army, east and west, were weighing heavily on dear Lincoln, and he, with others in public life, were considering the desirability of having personal representatives in the field for those not eligible for service at all. According to my recollection, in the fall or late summer of 1864 Mr. Lincoln had a committee of citizens of the District of Columbia search for as perfect a specimen of physical manhood as could be found to become his representative recruit. This committed, or some of them, met my dear comrade (Staples) dn the streets of Georgetown, and seeing his superbly compact form, and being at once satisfied that he was the man worthy to be Lincoln’s representative in the army, they made a proposition to him, and the loyal boy—for he was but a boy—at once signified his desire to fill the J&onorable position. He waa soon afterward introduced to President Lincoln, and the latter gladly chose him as his representative.” Although the communication received from Mr. Burnett was as convincing as one could wish, yet It was clear that without governmental sanction there still would remain doubting Thomases who would dispute the claim made in behalf of the dead soldier. Therefore, the facts in the case were laid before the federal authorities, and I received from the office of the commissioner of pension at Washington an official statement confirming the entire tradition concerning Lincoln and his substitute. This document reads as follows: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions. Washington, May 11, 1910. “John Summerfield Staples, residing |at Stroudsburg, Pa., filed an application for pension in 1882, stating that in the Civil war he had served in Company C, One Hundred and Seventysixth Pennsylvania militia, and afterwards in Company H, Second District of Columbia infantry, and that in his second enlistment he was a substitute for President Lincoln. —“The records show that said soldier enlisted, November 2, 1862, in Company C, One Hundred and Seventysixth Pennsylvania drafted militia, that he was honorably discharged May 5, 1863, and that he afterward enlisted April 3, 1864, in Company H, Second District of Columbia volunteers, from which .he was honorably discharged at Alexandria, Va., September 12, 1865, and the record also show that in this last service he was enrolled as a representative recruit for Abraham Lincoln, who was not liable to draft. “It is shown by the papers on file in this case that during the war President Lincoln decided that he would place in the army a substitute to the credit of the District of Columbia, and that he communicated his desire to do so the provost marshal of the district* with a request that he select the person who should be placed in the service, and that the provost marshal then sefit for Noble D. Larner, then a prominent citizen of this city, and stated to him the president’s wishes, and Mr. Larner afterward succeeded in getting the substitute in the person

of Mr. Staples, and he was afterward mustered into the service. “This is about all the Information I can give you with reference to the matter, and would suggest that if you desire to learn anything about the private life ot Mr. Staples you might write to the postmaster or some other person at Stroudsburg, Pa., where Mr. Staples lived and where he died January 11, 1888.” (signed) J. L. DAVENPORT, Commissioner. There are several people still living in Stroudsburg who knew Staples and remember that to him belonged the unique distinction of representing Lincoln on the field of battle. Among their number are J. T. Palmer, postmaster and principal of the public school; C. L Drake, editor of the Stroudsburg Times, and Representar tive A. Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania. It was characteristic of Lincoln that he kept the matter from the public press, and a like modesty seems to have imposed silence on the young soldier who served his country _ao well .. . ~ —— One does not have to make a very exhaustive study of Lincoln’s character in order to understand the motive which led him to send a substitute to represent him in thescenes of the bloody drama then being enacted throughout the land. His conscience was not of that easily satisfied variety which contents itself with allowing thinga to remain as they are, without indulging in exertion for the common good. His was the hand which was steering the Ship of State through tempest and crash of hostile guns, yet great as was the task assigned him, he perceived with the eagle eye that watched the course of action, a post still unfilled, an unoccupied niche where a combatant could be placed to Strike In behalf of the Union. To that post he resolved to appoint a representative, that he might be practically In person—as he was already In spirit—on the red field of carnage. It was done quietly, In that simple, unostentatious manner that distinguished all of Lincoln’s acts, whether In lofficlal or private life. He never played to the gallery, and the verdict of his own conscience was all he cared about While this is probably the only case In history where the leader of a na'tlon sent a substitute to fill his place In the ranks of fighting men, a sort of precedent may be said to b 6 found In the custom, but recently fallen Into disuse, of appointing a “king’s champion,” who was supposed to offer his body in opposition to any challenger of the reigning monarch of Great Britain. Until the accession of the late King Edward VII. to the crown of England, this functionary was a member of the royal entourage. Whenever the new king was publicly crowned the “champion” appeared before

Grave of J. Summerfield Staples, in the Cemetery at Stroudsburg, Pa.

the assembled multitude clad in martial gear, and casting down a gauntlet upon the ground, defied to mortal combat any person or persons having quarrel with or denying the right of the potentate to reign over the land. This custom dated back to the strenuous days when a monarch was also an active man-at-arms, and likely to meet in a engagement with some persistent foeman at any time or place. 'Hence the institution of “kings champion,” appointed to keep all challengers at bay, a hereditary honor, and one that was held for many generations by the descendants of the Dymoke fatally. But Edward VH., who possessed an unusually strong sense of the ridiculous, refused to permit this heroic burlesque of a mediaeval custom to be idtroduced into the splendid pageantry at his cornation and abolished the office of a warlike substitute forever.

Nourishment for Invalids.

When the appetite has failed, as in the case of convalescents and many weak children, nourishment is of prime importance. There is a capital way tb adtainister it, which rarely falls even in extreme cases. To the white of an egg add the juice of an orange aad the least t>tt of sugar. -Strain the mixture carefully and set it away until it ia very cold. Then it may be served as "orange jelly,” either with or without a cracker.

WHY WAIT?

Grace —I- just refused to marry Jack. He said he would not be in a position to marry for a year. Maud—Well, what of that? Grace —Why, I know a man who is In a position to marry any time.

See Riches in Swamps.

The Russian department of agricultuer has founded at the Riga Polytechnic a. school for specialists in swamp cultivation. The North Pechora expedition worked many years with great success the deserted region of the northern swamps, and proved that the swamps of the Archangel province are full of wealth, add that millions of peasants, devoured by poverty and hunger in their native places, can find food and shelter In the swampy regions after their cultivation. With small expense the swamps can be/turned into land covered with rich grass.

Indian Sacred Buildings.

The rock-hewn temples of Elephanta, in Bombay harbor, which were visited recently by the king and queen, numbered six, and four of them are nearly complete. They date from the eighth century A. D. or somewhat later. The Great Cave, 250 feet above high-water mark, belongs to a class of sacred buildings very common in India. It is a Siva temple, fully 130 feet long, the main body being a square of about 90 feet, hewn from the rock so as to present three open sides, and supported by six rows of stone columns.

Superstitious Waiter.

A man dining at a case observed that though he had ordered one dozen oysters, he was served with only eleven. The next evening the same thing occurred again. Then the diner became somewhat irritated. "Why,” he demanded of the waiter, “do you serve me only eleven oysters when I order a dozen?” .The waiter bowed apologetically. “I didn’t think you’d wanting to be sitting thirteen at table, sir.”

Vest Pocket Telephones.

They are introducing vest-pocket telephones in some of the cities of Germany. Connections are placed on walls all over town and if you happen to walk along the street and you’re tn a hurry to tell your wife that you will bring a friend home for dinner all you have to do is to connect your pocket instrument with the one on the wall, call the exchange, get your party and talk to your heart’s content.

Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the s/tF/i Signature of •In Use For Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria 1 Much Better Purpose. Miss Charmynge—Don’t you think I was made for a business woman ? Jack Hustler —No, I don’t. I think you were meant for a business man.— Stray Stories.

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44 Bu. to the Acre Is a heavy yield, butthat's what John Kennedy of Bd monton, Alberta, Western Canada, got from 40 acres of Spring Wheat in 1910. Reports from other districts In that provInce showed other exce 1lent results—such as 4.naaWmßFl ooo bushels of wheat I from 120 acres, or 33 1- 3 fcallrkl I bu. per acre. 25,80 and 40 ■ I bushelyieldswerennm- ■ rvT serous. As high as 132 n I bushels of oats to the ■ _■ were werothTPshed from ' A nrafl Alberta fleldsln 1910. VOfiJgl The Silier Cup at the recent Spokane —Fal r was awarded to the Alberta Governmentfor < itsexhlbltofgralns, grasses and t _f 1 If vegetables. Reports of excellent yields for 1910 come also from Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Western Canada. . Free homesteads of 960 JiM acres, and adjoining preemptlons of 960 acres (at S 3 per acre) are to be had KJ lu the choicest districts. iIDII* Schools convenient, cllYz/ffliw |»|’|ll mate excellent, soil the rdm hn very best, rail way eclose at ImJII hand, building lumber L/77T 1 cheap, fuel easy to get and ■MW I reasonable in price, water KI . easily procured, mixed K VaWB farming a success. |Uk & Write as to best place for setI nol tlement, settlers’ low railway ML VV rates, descriptive illustrated | “Lastßest West” (sent free on application land other Infonuutlon, to Sup’t of Immigration, - s '3e= Ottawa, Can..orto the Canadian Government Agent. (86) ?-V'S c. 4. Broughtoß, 412 Uerebuta L. AT. Bld f „Cblc»g ol W. H. ««<»«, M Boar HRJHL. 1 K Trietlon Terminal Bldg., Indlanapoll,| ero.A.Hall.lZS 22d Bt.,Mllw«rte«,Wl..

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