Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1919 — Page 3

HAPPENINGS in the CITIES

Gettysburg Sees Something Different From Battle GETTYSBURG, PA. —Can the post office and the schoolhouse be linked 1 together in a successful co-ordination of producers and consumers of foodl The people of Park View district, Washington, D. C., have a flourishing com-

Community association. The teacher was made the community secretary and a postal agent of 1 the motor transport service of the post office department,. The motortruck stops each morning at the schoolhouse and picks up the crates of eggs, containers of butter, boxes of poultry, etc. These goods are delivered_the same evening at- the Park View schoolhouse in Washington and there distributed to the people of the community. The list of prices Is sent each week by the Mount Joy community secretary to the Park View community secretary. Orders are sent out and the goods shipped as desired. Payment is made by check weekly, and the community secretary at Mount Joy keeps the records of the shipments made by each farmer and makes payments accordingly. It is the first direct communication between rural and urban communities by means of the motor transport service in American history. It is but the beginning, for already the Washington community is demanding more than the entire, output of the township and other organizations are being formed to meet the demand. At-Gettysburg 55years ago was fought the greatest battle on American soil. There, on the site of battle where men went through blood and fire because of disunion and secession, has begun a movement for unity and co-operation. Children and Soldiers in a Red Cross Canteen CHICAGO.— Kenneth, eight years old; Keith Bernard, seven, and Dimples Barbara Hayes, “five and one-half, goin’ on six.” spent a day at the Red Cross canteen, 309 South Michigan avenue. Kenneth and Keith and Dimples

arrived that morning from Montesena, Wash., on their way to join their grandma, Mrs. C. £. Hayes, who lives at Norris, Ky. Just a month ago the three children lost their father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Hayes, who died of the influenza. Then Aunt Ida, who “didn’t have no other name,” took the three under her wing and gave them a home. A week later she, too, was dead of the malady. Neighbors took counsel and a col-

lection. Kenneth and Keith and Dimples were bundled up in their warmest clothing, tagged through to Norris, given $3, and started on their From the time the big train pulled out of Tacoma, their life was a round>of pleasure. For four days they delighted their felloe passengers, who took up a collection that raised their currency from .$3 to $36. A passenger agent at Union station called up Mrs. Joseph T. Ryerson, who sent her car for the children. In the canteen were soldiers who seemed to be homeless also. Dimples Introduced herself and got ,the history of each one. . * • Kenneth sat still and stately as becomes a man and managed the other two as best he might. Keith’s ulcerated tooth —it didn’t pain much and kept him In the limelight—was lanced. At supper Kenneth said “grace.” When a reporter was assisting the lady in straightening her clothes for a picture she confided in a whisper that her “bloomers was red, too, and they run red water when they was washed.” The children resumed their journey at 9:20 that night, three in a berth. Cupid and Cupidity at Indiana’s Marriage Mill CROWN POINT. IND. —Forty-odd miles south by southeast, as Cupid flies, lies Crown Point, Jnd., famous as a “lovers’ leap,” where marriage is made easy while you wait. Intrenched deeply in the affections of the town is an institution known as the “mar--k ifft * 1 f / ' riage mill” that grinds out the daily bread of a number Point’s I fIGHV Vo? influential citizens. V-Y —' And Crown Point is sore! And k VTxxdß/iV >7 POINT YqR,-} Crown Point is sore at -Chicago. And p | Crow-n Pdinf ‘is Sore" At Chicago" . P uilT I cause the Chicago newspapers have \ jA \ . I published the statement that With the \ ZX »r approval of Governor Goodrich of InZ I nW diana solons of that state were preeye- r<>/V paring to passl a law requiring a residence of one year in the -state on the part of one of the applicants for a marriage license. The repeated declarations of Chicago divorce judges that “quick and easy” marriages cause most matrimonial mismating prompted the proposed action. There were 4,028 marriage licenses issued in Crown Point last year. Practically all of the applicants were wed in the town, and practically all by two justices of the peace. The standard fee Ik $5. Up to November 4, election day. Justice of the Peace Harry B. Nicjiolson had been performing the “Bless you, my children,” act at $5 and up per scene. He was defeated and he to Florida for the winter with his family. He Is declared to have performed 18,000 marriages in office. Village gossip places the number much higher. & Herbert Wheaton, clerk of Lake county, has declared war. “We’ll fight to the finish any attempt to pass a law to stop marrying In Crown Point. I don’t see why Chicago wants to butt in on our affairs. It’s none of Chicago’s business what goes on in Indiana.”

Where Names and Business Fit; It Is to Laugh NEW YORK. —Among the features of this cosmopolitan city that furnish amusement without cost to many observant residents are names over stores and business establishments. The appropriateness of the nomenclature-

to the calling is sometimes startling ~anß generally amusing? Here are a few of the most striking of the names found in singular JtiXtapositlon to -Jmsinossesu-atulJ callings and which seem almost like humorous fiction: Foddb er, hay and "oats ; Vamp, shoemaker; K’ene, laundry; Tieman, haberdasher;Goodman,pastor; Eiseman, optometrist; Piper, orchestra leader; Jim Rub, Chinese laundryman; Berry, undertaker; Lott, real estate; Rapper

& I\lingwell, cjoaks and suits; Holder, trunks and bags; Ketcham, private detective agency; Takhme, photographer; Dire, steeplejack; Sterling, silversmith; Burns, kindling wood'; Tinker, tinsmith; Stitcher, cobbler; Healin, physician; Rickey, liquor dealer; Smokanh, cigar dealer; Black, blacksmith; Korn, chiropodist; Pullerti, dentist; Waver, hairdresser; Waters, milk dealer; Brakehue, stocks and bonds; Swift, expressman; Smashitt, moving electrician; Glem. lamps; Nqyeg, boilermaker; Smith, hoiseshoer; Keys, locksmith; Dyer, cleaning and dyeing; Goodshowe. theatrical manager; Skinner, taxidermist; Snow, ice dealer; Sha-pe. cutlery; Bright, illuminated signs; Pyle, dock builder; Shlpinann, stevedore; Taylor,? tailor; Feeder, restaurant keeper; Kohlers, paints and varnish; Baker,’ baker: Sweetman, confectioner; Penny-packer,/ toy banks; pain, glazier; Hammersmith, hardware; Wright, public stenographer; Fir gers,public ...accountant. .....

munity ecu LUI'. TII6 ddhflmirilty Stvtetary. is a postal station agent. One of the motortruck routes from Washington leads to Gettysburg, Pa. In this region hundreds of tons of vegetables, fruit, and so forth, have rotted simply for lack of a market. The route passes through Mount Joy township, Adams county, Pa., which is on the edge of the historic battlefield of Gettysburg. The producers gathered in , the Two Tavern schoolhouse and formed the Mount Joy

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MORE than half a century after his death Abraham Lincoln still is the most Influential name and his personality is the most magical, in American history. There is no mystery about this. The explanation is simpie. Lincoln was a president , TtSI who was human. Human in his genius for statesmanship and in his frailties. Human in his love for story telling and relaxation, and intensely filled with the humanity that will not knowingdo an unkind or unjust act. It is not that he was perfection in any of the walks of life in which fate turned his steps, for there were better law’yers in his time ; there were even better story tellers than Lincoln; surely it would not -be difficult to name better military officers than Lincoln was, or more learned men and greater orators than he. But Lincoln was a man of the people and Americans like that kind of man, ■ writes Joseph Jackson in the Philadelphia Public Ledger. They hoard every scrap" of writing that the—man ever "wroteTHis walking sticks, his dnapb dated old law books, his broken-down book-case, everything that once belonged to him or in which Not long ago in New York they sold at auction a slip of paper on which lie showed that, good politician as he was thought to be, he was a poor hand at guessing results of a presidential election. Yet this slip of paper brought $1,025, and Lincoln had not even signed it, but it was known to have been written by him. It might be mentioned here that Lincoln proved himself to be a very poor prophet, and overestimated the strength of General McClellan, .his political opponent in the election of 1864. Accords ing to Lincoln’s estimate he felt sure of the New England states and a few others, totaling 120 votes in the electoral college, and he set down as “the supposed Copperhead vote” the states of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. Delaware, Maryland, Missouri. Kentucky and Illinois, and their 114 votes he believed would be cast for General McClellan. As a matter of fact, however, only New Jersey, Delaware and Kentucky went against him, and he carried the election by a vote of 212 to 22. There were reasons for Lincoln’s belief that the he had set down as “Copperhead" w’ould go against him. The drafts of men had been resisted in more or less energetic form in many of these commonwealths, notably New York ana Illinois, and the large number of sympathizers there might easily lead to his conclusion. But what he had ndf taken Into the fullest account was that the majority of men in the North were "Tbyar hUHm or their natural sympathies, and they stood by Lincoln to the end. Was Real Self-Made Man. If anyone were asked to ’Same the most Ulus-* trfons example of what we have called the selfmade man in America, there would instantly occur the name of Lincoln. In a country of self-made men he stands in high relief. There is no one totake a place beside him, for not only, did he overcome every natural difficulty placed in his way, in his determination to achieve an education, and they were numerous, but along with It always Went that equally, strong determination not to achlevesuceess by a»y unfair means. ----- ’ He adm if fed tha t hiK education was “defective," and that was a weak word for ft. Many men with a great deal more have been failures. And (Lincoln had every opportunity of becoming a fallCrc, but he realized his educational weaknesses nd strove, th remove them. That he did remove (them seems tn be testified to by many writers. f At one time—probably it is to be seen there yet f— there was exhibited in one of the colleges at

Lincoln the Ideal of American Youth

Oxford a pri n ted copy of a let ter Lincoln wrote to a mother who had given five sons that the Union might be preserved. A label beneath this copy of the letter bears the simple comment that this is “one of the finest specimens of pure English extant.” And that comment by one of the greatest universities in the world is on the work of a man who never had a year’s schooling in his life. it is small wonder that Lincoln’s life is upheld to the poor boy as a shining example of what determination to learn and succeed will do. Lincoln’s grandfather, like many others, followed the magnetic Daniel Boone into the wilderness of Kentucky. The Lincolns at that time were not poor folks. as many have believed, for the grandfather, whose name also was Abraham, sold his property for $17,000 before he set #ot for the unclaimed lands where some say the mammoths still existed. But when later he died, Thomas, the father of the future president, did not inherit much, if anything, and had to start out for himself at an early age. He married Nancy Hauks, the niece of the man he worked for, and she became the mother nf Ahmiinni Lincoln, the president. ~~ Little Chance fer Education. Kentucky then (1809) had been a state for seventeen years, but it was a wild wilderness of a land. There were few books, no schools in the modern sense, and little hope for anything but hard work. It was exactly the kind of country for a great man to make a start in, for unless he had some elements of greatness he never would achieve his goal. • • It was a country of hard knocks,.as well as hard work, and it all made for economy of time and study. Lincoln’s mother, who was a bright, delicate woman, taught her son as much as she could. A visiting schoolmaster gave him some lessons in the ordinary “Three R’s.” The- country was so sparsely settled and so distant from civilization that at the little church the services that were held were conducted by Itinerant clergymen. The boy Lincoln grew up here ip a small log cabin that Was without windows, and whose wide chimney was built on the outside of the cabin. At night a log in the fireplace gave all the illumination the place afforded. By this firelight, to the music of the crackling burning logs, young Lincoln, extended flat on the floor, studied and worked out little problems in arithmetic, which in that section was regarded as of greater importance than a deep knowledge of English literature. Lincoln’s mother died when he was nine years of age, or about a year after his father moved to Indiana, and the following year his father married Mrs. Sally Bush 'Johnston. Contrary to the impression, mainly created by the old fairy tales, the second Mrs. Lincoln was a model stepmother. Studied While Working. At the same time~young LincoTn Was working as a farm hand. He borrowed books from neighbors and greetlily devout ed them. The one (>ook that impressed him most was WCems’ “Life of Washington.” He received his exalted idea of the Father of His Country from that book, which deified the first president rather than told his life. But Lincoln believed in It and it influenced his life. He read “Robinson Crusoe” and Bunyan’s "Pilgrim's Progress" and a history .of the United States, and it was on these that he founded all his knowledge of biography, history and literature. But he knew those books by heart, for he had to memorize them, as they all were borrowed. He walked miles to a store where a St. Louis newstaken to borrow it, and thus ike received his new’s of current events. And all the while he was working, and working fiard. Now ferrying, now plowing, but always in this backwoods country, for he was quite a young man when his father removed to Illinois. Lipcoin was about twenty-two at the time when

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he forsook farming and sought a position as a clerk in a country store. Whether Lincoln ever would have been heard of had not the Black Hawk war occurred about a year after he went to work at New Salem, Sangamon county, remains a question. It need not bother any one, however,- because the war did occur and Lincoln did go into it as a captain of volunteers. ~ ~~— This might be said to have been the turning point in his career. Up to this time he had not found himself. He was studying, but drifting. He does not appear to have had any aim in life beyond the ambition to educate himself and to succeed. Lincoln afterward said that his experience in the Black Hawk war gave him greater pleasure than anything that had occurredto_Uß. tg ... tl.at time. He had no opportunity to distinguish himself in that little conflict, but he returned to New Salem a man of more public importance than when he left it. He started a store, but it failed, und the debts fell upon him. He was appointed postmaster, the first federal office he ever held. He ran for the legislature, but was defeated. But the dfext election he ran again, and was elected "and later returned for another term. Law and Politics., While he was keeping a general store he began the study of Iqw. He once said that one of his first books was a copy of the laws of Indiana, and that was about all the law he knew up to that time. It was while serving as a legislator in Illinois, that Lincoln first turned his attention to the blot of slavery, which he began to oppose with all his might and influence. After he decided to retire from the legislature he started to practice law, having been licensed to practice in 1837. He removed to Springfield, where the remainder of his days, until he went to Washington as president, were mainly spent. In 1846 he was elected to a seat In congress, but he declined re-election and settled down to the practice of his profession in Springfield. Lincoln spent his spare time in the store of his friend, Joshua Speed, which was the rendezvous of many prominent men in that section. He was famed for his stories and for his keenness in debate. It was in this little general store that Lincoln first met Douglas in debate. Douglas was regarded far and wide as a little giant in debate, and he remarked that the store was no place for him to debate any question with Lincoln. By this time Lincoln had become something of a politician. His party was the Whig. He took a lively interest in political affairs, and finally took part on the Whig side in a joint debate with the Democrats. Lincoln was the last speaker in that debate, but his words took the deepest hold of the spectators and added greatly *to his reputation. It was in Springfield that Lincoln married Mary Todd, who, it is interesting to note, was also sought in marriage by Douglas, who thus became Lincoln’s opponent in love as well as in politics, but was beaten by him in both. As a lawyer Lincoln might have appeared lazy to those who did not understand his methods. He disliked office wmfElud the drawing of legalpapers, but when a case had to be brought to the attention of a jury or a court Lincoln was&ln his element. He was a born debater and story-teller. He knew how to get the jury in good humor and how to make his point to them reach home. He had the genius for putting the human touch to all he did, and his homely similes and good stories often went further than his opponent’s knowledge of the law. Apostle of Abolition. But it should not be Imagined that Lincoln knew no law, for that would be a mistake. He often would sit up to the small hours of the night reading law and studying a case, while his opponents probably would be soundly sleeping. When he went into court he was master of his case, and that goes a long way toward winning a verdict. The practice of law was beginning to take a firm hold on Lincoln to the exclusion of politics when the Missouri Compromise was enacted. That roused him, and from that time onward he was strongly for the abolition of slavery. His position was known, throughout the country, for he had stumped the East for Taylor years before, and the stories of his quiet humor and fund of anecdote had penetrated the East, consequently, when it was evident to the country that it stood on the eve of a conflict between slavery abolition, Lincoln was made the nominee of the party that was firmly intrenched on the principle of no compromise with slaveholders. He was nominated, and was enthusiastically elected at the national election in 1866; - He had scarcely taken his seat when the war no one suffered under it more than -did Lincoln himself. But he meant to do his duty, and, as always had been "his habit, be did it then, although it was most unpleasant and most difficult. When the war made its Inroads into many homes, Lincoln had an Unpleasant duty to perform. He left at home and did what he could for their boys at the , front- He received the mothers at the White House, talked things over with them, and nearly every one of them left feeling that her boy had a friend who looked after him although he was far away in an army corps doing his duty. It was this gentle character who was coldly struck down just when the war was at an end and the country was getting ready to rejoice at the glorious news. The yvhole country. South as well as North, mourned the loss, for even in the South, where the war had been most disastrous, thq mime of Lincoln was joined In memory with a grand, human, just character,'' who was even more than man.