Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1918 — CARD OF THANKS [ARTICLE]

CARD OF THANKS

We desire to extend our most sincere thanks to out relatives and friends for their kind assistance during the sickness and death of our beloved mother.' Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Carr and Children.

four makes twelve. Don’t you see it?” The result of the great conflict seemed to be in more doubt than ever just after the emamcipation proclamation. Mr. Lincoln expressed his own view of the sittmion with:'“We are a good deal like whalers who have been long on a chase. At last we have got our harpoon fairly into the monster; but we must look out how we steer, or with one flop of his tail he will send us all into eternity.”

M. Lincoln had several reasons for not admiring ex-President Tyler, and. a mention of him on one occasion brought out an anecdote. “A year or two after Tyler’s accession .to the presidency,” said Mr. Lincoln, “contemplating an excur- | sion in some direction his son went to order a special train of cars. It so happened that the railroad superintendent was a very strong Whig. On Bob’s making known his errand, that official promptly informed him that his road did not run special trains for the president. “What!” said Bob. “Did.you not furnish a special train for the funeral of General Harrison?”

“Yes,” said the superintendent, stroking his whiskers; “and if you will only bring your father here in that shape, you shall have the best train on the road.” ■ —— Once when a deputation visited him and urged emancipation before he was ready, he argued that he could not enforce it, and, to illustrate, asked them: “How many legs will a sheep have if you call a tail a leg?” They answered, “Five.” “You are mistaken,” said Lincoln, “for calling a tail a leg don’t make it so” and that exhibited the fallacy of their' position more than twenty syllogisms.