Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1913 — Page 3

RARE PORTRAIT OF “HONEST ABE"

'Picture Bejieved to Have Been Taken for Purposes of Presidential Campaign. IS NOW AT LEWISTON, MAINE ' _ * History of the Picture I* Fragmentary, Though It Seems Most Probable It Was Made at Quincy, 111., In the year 1848.

A portrait of Abraham Lincoln, which those who are familiar with it believe to be a very rare one, hangs upon the walls of a Lewiston law office. At all events no one has yet been found who remembers to have seen one just like it among any of the many portraits of the martyred president which have been published so frequently during the last few years in many of the leading magazines of the country. The picture Is a lithograph, evidently taken from a crayon drawing, and shows Mr. Lincoln as a somewhat younger man than the majority of his portraits do. Under it is a facsimile of his autograph, together with the words: “Republican Candidate for President, 1860,” showing that it was evidently used as a campaign portrait during the campaign preceding his first election. The portrait was obtained by the late John Read, father of the present owner of it, at Quincy, 111., during that campaign, but who took the original from which it waß made is unknown. Some years ago a book salesman who saw it claimed to know something about it, and said that it was

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. From an Old Print.

taken soon after the convention at which Mr. Lincoln was nominated, and that the original photograph was taken at the request of Mr. Medtil of Chicago, for campaign jurposes. He said further that when Mr. Lincoln went in to the photographer’s to sit for the picture he had just come from the barber’B, and his hair was plastered smoothly down upon his forehead, but that happening to catch sight of himself in a glass, Mr. Lincdln remarked that no one would know him ,with his hair so smooth as that, and ran his hands through it, giving it the disheveled appearance of the portrait. r He said further that iu making the enlargement for the lithograph the portrait was somewhat Idealized, and much of the natural ruggedness of Mr. Lincoln’s features were smoothed out. Whether this man was correct In his belief as to the origin of the portrait, it is undoubtedly true that it is considerably idealised, as will be seen -from the copy, the portrait, while retaining the essential features which are so well known, nevertheless making him a far handsomer man than |he is currently reported to have been. And yet Mrs. Read, who has seen Ihim often as a young man, always said that It was an excellent likeness, and that it looked just as Mr. Lincoln did at the time he made this speech at Quincy, in the course of the famous debates with Stephen A. Douglas on October 13, 1868.

Two Humorists Well Met.

A variety of Locke’s writings during the war referred to the great excitement caused by the discovery of flowing oil wells in Pennsylvania, whereby igreat and sudden wealth had come to many formerly poor farmers and others In that region. One catch phrase "which Lincoln especially enjoyed repeating was “Oil's well that ends well.” He was particularly fond of David R. iLocko (Nasby), whom he first met in 11888 in Quincy, l 111. In 1863 he wrote St letter to Locke In appreciation of one of Nasby'a humorous articles, and .ended the letter with this Inquiry: ■“Why don’t you come to Washington stud aee me?” Locke accepted the invitation aad spent a delightful hour (with the president

AMONG PLAIN PEOPLE

London’s Tribute to Abraham Lincoln in Appropriate Spot Tower Erected by American and English Admirers of the Great Emancipator Not as Well Known as It Might Be. Among the American visitors who throng “London each summer there are few who know that in South London there is a memorial to Abraham Lincoln. It Is a graceful tower and spire attached to Christ Church, an independent non-conformist church, in Southwark, - -U~~ Over the entrance are the words, “Lincoln Tower.” A large stone tab-

let inside records, among other things, that the tower “waß built in commemoration of the abolition of slavery effected by President Lincoln, and as a token of international brotherhood.” One of the two large rooms in the tower' 1b named Washington. When first erected, and before the smoke of London had blended all in uniform blackness, there could be seen on the spire of the

tower stars and stripes in red and white stone. The Lincoln Tower was inaugurated July 4, 1876. The newspapers of the time were crowded with accounts of the great centennial celebration, so that it is not strange that the ceremony of opening the tower was overlooked. The idea of the memorial originated with the Hon. William E. Dodge of New York;- who at the time was visiting the Rev. Newman Hall, widely known as “the dissenter’s bishop,” one of the most popular English preachers of the day. Except for the first thousand dollars, the whole cost of the tower, which amounted to thirty-five thousand dollars, was contributed, half in English sixpences and half in American dimes, entirely through the efforts of Mr. Hall, who counted the work all joy for the love that he bore to Lincoln. Southwark is a district of modest homes,—its inhabitants ate people, of small means, if not actually poor,— just .the kind of plain people whom Lincoln especially loved and trusted. It would please the great president that his memorial should v stand among such surroundings, rather than in a more conspicuous situation or a more fashionable neighborhood. Youth’s Companion.

/ F I were to try to read, much leas answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. Ido the very best I know how —the oery best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me wont amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, teq angels swearing I was right would make no difference. Spteehu and Presidential aJJnaet by Abraham Lincoln

Concerning the Living Lincoln. “It was my pleasure to have known President Lincoln personally,” said Alexander McDowell, clerk of the house. “I talked with him on several occasions, in Washington and at the front, and while I knew him well I do not flatter myself that he knew me well, for there was only one of him and there were forty millions of me. What struck me above all else was his simplicity and every-day common sense. “He met all men as equals, not in a patronizing way, but in a way that said as plain as words, We are all of one blood, and brothers. He was a great man and he was the only one in all the land that did not know K. “He always remembered his early struggles and poverty, and with a sympathy born of them was ever ready to give a helping hand to those compelled to travel the road that he had been compelled to travel in his youth and early manhood. “He was a Christian, not a church member—and did by his actions what so many do by their professions only. His life was the golden rule in action. He loved and had faith In his fellowman, and stood at all times ready to hold the ladder firm while they ascended and no jealous envy ever entered his mind, no matter how high the ascent, “He was a Republican and a partisan, but above all a patriot and a lever of his country. We need today partisan Republicans and partisan Democrats, men who believe in their duty and the principles of their parties and not to many guerrillas that feed between the lines, now on one side and then on the other. “In his death the south lost a sincere, honest friend and the nation a patriot”—Joe Mitchell Chappie, la "Affairs at Washington,” In National Magasine. ~ -

SUPERSTITION IN TIBET

TIBET, the mountain-cradled land of mystery, is slowly giving up its secrets, though the time is far distant when familiarity will breed contempt. sharpest contrasts to the civilization of the old and new worlds are there Been against the picturesque background of an immemorial past, extending so far back as 039 A. D., when Buddhism was first introduced from India. There are wizards and necromancers enough in the country to run the industries of a thriving modem town, and it is difficult for a westerner to understand how the natives can unquestioningly accept their hanky-panky as indubitable proofs of supernatural powers. No Occidental can thoroughly understand the beliefs and practices of a people like the Tibetans, unless his mind Is entirely denuded of its material prepossessions. Buddhism embraces practically the whole social structure of the people, for the half million Ponbos, who conserve the earlier religion of the land, are the victims of similar superstitions and practices. In no other country in the world is the priestly influence so paramount. Wizards abound. / Exorcists and religious impostors live on the fat of the land. For all the people of Tibet and far Eastern Asia, of whom the world knows little, the universe Is full of immaterial powers and Intelligences, demoniac and dangerous. Every incident is believed to have supernatural significance. All the epochs of life are heel mendicant priestß, who thrive especially among the poorer classes. The people build many temples, exhaust their resources in erecting statues, they prostrate themselves, sing weird hymns land mutter endless prayers, make offerings and give banquets to all the gods and all the devils. v Sorcerers' Thriving Trade. The wizard in Tibet is a sort of universal provider of every kind of assistance. It is the wizard who comes to the sick man’s bedside. If he dies a commemorative ceremony is held a year After his decease. Every year, libations are offered to the shades of dead ancestors. A cord is stretched before each tent horizontally, and streamers covered with Buddhist inscriptions are fastened to it. It is more than probable that the departure of many Bick to the other world is hastened by the dancing sorcerer, or magpa, as he is called, and his horrible yells, supposed to be calls for aid. The sorcerer “also does a thriving trade as a fortune teller, while divination Is a remunerative side line. When pebbles are arranged in a certain way they are supposed to convey an oracular message, and the inspection of the shoulder blade of a sheep, when hel'd close to the fire, is also part of the fake ceremonial. There is no end to it. A house has to be built, a village needs quelling, the crops are backward and scanty, the region needs rain, there is a marriage, a funeral or a birth—for all these affairs a wizard is called in for advice, and for the exercise of his mysterious powers over all forces that work against the wellbeing of mankind. Most of the Vizard-priests are men of degenerate habits and of repulsive demeanor. Some engage themselves for the merest pittance, a few bowls of rice, a' few cobs of maize and a general debauch when the feasts celebrating any of their professional duties are carried out Lamaism is the particular form of Buddhism of which these superstitious practices form an integral part, and the strange ritual of the Ponbo sect is much the same. But the Ponbo priests are compelled to celibacy. Some of them live in convents and others are distributed among the population, from whom they are scarcely distinguishable. As for the monks, the more solitary they are. the greater their reputation as magicians. When engaged In their mystic rites the sorcerers belonging to the Ponbo sect wear a tall pointed black hat, surmounted by a peacock’s feather, a death’s head and a pair of crossed thunderbolts, and beat a drum formed of taro human skulls. There is one spell still practiced among them which until recent years has been occasionally used by rustics In out-of-the-way parts of Europe. This is the sticking of pins into the effigy of a man over whom it is desired to cast a spell. Weird Cure of Olseases. The methods employed to cure diseases are extremely weird. One prescription Is to dress up a clay figure in the aick man's Clothes. His name is written upon the figure, which V thrown away. They believe that the

DALAI LAMA'S PALACE, LHASA

spirit of death mistakes the little statue for the patient himself and, deceived into thinking him to be dead, troubles him no more. When a Tibetan is accused of having a demon, it is one of the worst misfortunes that could befall him. He may appeal to the official administrator of justice, who himßelf often turns away in fear from reputed victims. He is ostracized In the harshest ways and is everywhere an outcast, and there is no hope for him unless he is able to consult an honorable member of the exorcist fraternity. Fees for this affair are generally reckoned exorbitant. Even if the demon-possessed individual can Bcrape together the fee, anything may happen to him. The exorcist may drive a nail into his temple, or stick a needle through hiß arm, or prescribe repeated portions of abominable maize Bpirit for a given number of days. But whatever may be the nature of the remedy, the effects leave the man generally so much of a physical wreck that he Is led to believe that the demon has left, him, not without giving him rather a bad shake-up in the departure. When convalescent he is again allowed to become a decent member of the community. The “Forbidden Land” is inclbsed between the Kuen Lun and Himalaya mountains, and covers an area eight times the size of Great Britain. Its remote and almost inaccessible location counts for much in the preservation of racial peculiarities, making Tibet still the ethnological museum of Hl6 WbflUT Thera are lb all 8,01)0,000 Tibetans, subjects of India and China respectively. They are supple and graceful, and possess gentleness not detoid of hypocrisy. The chief features of the country are the 3,000 monasteries, perched like fortresses upon the mountain rocks, symbols of a priestly tyranny which is likely to prevail for many a long day.

YOUNG CROW HAD TO LEARN

Veteran Seaman Draws Moral From Fattl of Bird Who Refused to Listen to Its Eiders. “There’s nothing like experience,” said Captain Robert C. Warr of the Campania, who has retired from sea life after 49 years’ service. “When the young and enthusiastic and bold sneer at the caution of old age I think of two crows. “‘Look at that beautiful woman in the cornfield there!” a young crow cried. ‘Beautiful woman! Nonsense! retorted the old bird. ‘That’s a scarecrow.’ “‘But how do you know it’s a scarecrow?’ 1 % ‘Because there’s no man about ’Do you suppose a beautiful woman would loaf all day long in one place if there wasn’t a man somewhere near to admire her?* “‘l’m sure it’s a beautiful woman,' insisted the young crow. ‘And there, too, is a man’s figure behind the oak. I’m going over to size her up.’ “And the young crow flew off, and a gun banged, and a few minutes later he came limping back with a broken wing and a hole in his leg. “‘Aha,’ sneered the old crow, ‘you youngsters are all alike—think you know more about women than your elders!”’

Her Pen Betrays Her.

A man whose fountain pen requires repairs, and borrows his wife’s to use in the Interval, has a chance to make an Interesting study. A woman’s pen, like a woman’s watch, has a psychology of its own. It betrays the feminine temperament in every movement Generally you find that In order to get the pen to write at all, you have to dip it to one side, for women always write with the side or edge of a pen. If you can get it to scratch a little as It goes over the paper, It will write; if it can’t. It leaves the paper blank. If you lay it down flat on the paper, it leaks ink. It betrays by its general conduct that it is carried wrong end up when not in action — or sometimes one end up and sometimes the other. It Is a mystery why a woman, who can be so neat and orderly about her house, and who will not let you displace a doily on the back of a chair, can always be relied on to get a watch out of order and demoralise a pen. „

Warning.

“They say a lot about that old man’s bad temper, but 1 am going to test him." ~ . "■ “Then you’ll flgd him testy.**

MUST BE CAREFUL MAN

FLAGMAN'B DUTIES IMPORTANT PART OF TRAIN BERVIOE. V Supposed to Protect His Train Against Rear-End Collisions—ls Often to Blame for Serious Wrecks. The duties of flagmen have not been standardized; that is to say, rules

collisions. On the other roads flagmen are also brakemen. When a train stops, if the stop is not of the schedule of that particular train, the figman is required to go baek 'a sufficient distance’ and, with a lantern by night and a flag by day, together with torpedoes or fuses, signal any other train that is going the same way, and on the same way. “The words ‘a sufficient distance,’ permit the flagman to use his own judgment, and the phrase 'is found in the rules of a great many railroads, big ones as well as little ones. There are roads, however, which direct that a flagman v shall go back to the fifteenth or twenty-fourth telegraph pole from the last car of his train. Whether he goes ‘a sufficient distance,’ in his opinion, or for a specified distance, measured by poles, he is to stop any train that jeopardizes his own. When his train is ready to move, the engineer signals him in with a whistle and then he sprints over the ties as fast as he can, leaving, it is supposed, one or two torpedoes on the rails behind. “The flagman, the engineer and the conductor are in a hurry. Time is so precious with them that every fraction of a minute counts. The farther the flagman walks away from his train, the farther he will have to run when li« Mtnra. Ha .!■ ° tinman hftlllf like the rest of us. Maybe the sun is pretty hot. Perhaps it is a cold or rainy night. And ‘a sufficient distance’ gives him latitude in a matter of life and death! Many a flagman has wrecked h train. y “The flagman of the Overland Express, on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad was to blame, primarily, for the accident at Western Springs, 111., on the 14th of last July. The train was stopped by signal early during the morning in a fog. It was being followed by the fast mall. The trains, so our investigation showed, were about nine minutes apart. The flagman, at the official hearing of the case, said that he went back as far as he could and that he ran part of the way. He put down two torpedoes, 1,200 'feet from the rear end of his own train. On his way back the fast mail passed him at fifty miles an hour, and a moment later ran into the Overland Express, which had net begun to move, killing 11 pasengers and two employes and injuring 26 passengers and two employes. “The trains, remember, had been about nine minutes apart. In a test, after the accident, it was found that a flagman, at a brisk walk, could have gone back 2,227 feet in six minutes. It was learned, also, that the flagman of the Overland Express put two torpedoes on the rail, which was simply a cautionary signal, whereas he should have used but one torpedo, which would have been a signal for the fast mail train to stop.

Unnatural Mothers.

It cannot be too strongly reiterated that maternal love does not necessarily include wisdom. It Is “natural” for every mother to love her children, but It does not follow that she knows what is beet for them. The animal mother does know by instinct; and we, content to take onr pattern of motherhood from the beasts, have imagined that we needed nothing more. . . . We assume that every mother knows how to care for her children; and. If we only see her keeping at it incessantly, we never criticize the method or results. . . . >We have urgent need of the unnatural mother —the mother who has added a trained intellect to a warm heart; and, when we have enough of them, the rarest sound on earth will be that now so pitifully common —the crying of a little child.— Gilman.

Unhealed War Wound.

Veterans and near-veterans were fighting all the old battles over again on the street car, says the Kansas City Journal. Thrilling escapes and blood-curdling adventures had been related by the dozen when the turn came to a little old man with a long beard. Stroking his adornment carefully, the old man said: "Well, boys, the war cost me Just 3900 in cold cash. I didn’t want to go, so I paid a substitute the money to serve for me. Do you know that fellow went all through the war without getting a scratch? I could have done the same tbtng and saved my money. I tell you, war is a calamity.*

governing them are not the same on all roads. A flagman is sup posed to be a careful man, the best brakeman, indeed, on the train. I have known cases, however, yhere green hands were given the job. Theoretically, and actually on some lines, a flagman is only required to protect his train against rear-end

GIVEN HIGH POSITION

by Holmes and Bishop, Baltimore John T. Hendricks, New General Traffic Manager Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain.

LITTLE WORRIES IN ENGLAND

Ladies Demand Separate Compartments on Trains, and Then Re- • fuse to Use Them.

They are having a little difficulty ons English railroads. Some few years agoa number of indignant spinsters said that it was a foul outrage that women should be required to travel in the; same compartments with men, and although the railroad officials knew 1 well that nothing short of a staff of! police could compel women to travel! anywhere else, they acceeded to the; demand and attached the “ladiesi only” label to the requisite number of compartments. But now comes a new complication, and this time tilecomplaint is from the men. Traffic has increased enormously, the trains' are crowded, and the straphanger has become an institution. But why, ask, the men, should we hang to straps,, why should we be packed like herrings in a barrel, while the compartments reserved for women are practically empty? For that is the fact. The women will not travel in the compartments reserved for them. They would rather form a part of the perspiring multitude in the general compartment than usq the accommodation that has been especially reserved for them. Now If a man ventlirfifi tfl ln.ifa4ft a -f>TVITT” IMHII ■- AaiSSeF *■* ■ fAC? tS t/uxj vR/Ui partment he is speedily reminded of his transgression by the stern hand of authority. But the woman may Invade the smoker, and does invade It, and has even been known to demand the extinction of all pipes anti cigars. , An experienced conductor, whoso name is wisely concealed, says that women like to avoid “the. frigid silence of a ‘ladies only’ compartment, where the window is adjusted according to the scowls of the occupants,’* for the pleasanter company to be found among men. “Women enjoy playing the part of a listener to the conversation in a men's or mixed compartment, and their vanity is gratified by the little courtesies that are paid to them.”

Want Two Engineers on Trains.

One of the important measures to be introduced in the next Connecticut legislature is a measure to provide that there shall be two engineers for every fast express train in this state. The bill has the backing of the labor unions and has for its chief argument that it would be conducive to public safety and would save the railroad company much money in life and property damages. The expense, it is argued, can be looked at only.in the light of a low price for a great public benefit Where there are two engineers, one man could not interpret signals alone, could not drive' recklessly and could not go to sleep, it was pointed out

Some Wreck Story.

A railway collision at Kldderpore. India, was discrlbed by a native station master in the following picturesque terms: "I have the honor to report that yesterday morning the lup ran into V down. The two trains were inextricably commingled. Carriages to the right of them, carriages to the left of them, carriages everywhere and nowhere. Thank God, no lives lost, except guard of I up’s left eye*

Had Figured in History.

A notable character In the person of a woman, named Mary Hughes, died the other day at Solva, Wales. She was one hundred and six yean old, and could not speak a word of English. One of 11 children, she had a brother who lived to be one hundred and three. Her mother took part In repelling the French In 1797, when a force of 1,600 landed In Cardigan bay. but was at once surrounded by the local militia, and surrendered.

Midnight Howls.

“Is Insomnia a contagious disease?” asked the boob. "No,” replied the wise guy. “Whydo you aakr “When my neighbor's dog can't sleep at night, I can’t, either," replied the boob., /

Gossip Ahead.

“We ought to have a most interesting year with our card club.* “That so?” __ “Yes; three of last year’ll member* are suing for divorce.’’