Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1919 — Page 3

Memorials to Lincoln All Over World

X. \ y <^Y W . A^Mtf3RJK vx W . iW ffe/norSa! to , Linco/n in Chrijtiiirtia/fanvti.y' Statues of Emancipator Stand in Norway , England and Other Countries as ENell as at Home.

By J. A. EDGERTON. f BRAHAM LINCOLN Is so large a man in history that he hardly needs monuments, and the ordinary memorials the world can give. Perhaps it is the world Kl* *v > that needs these things, to remind it of what human nature may become when at its best. Merely calling to mind the fact that such a man lived has a tendency to sweeten and ennoble men. Thus the visible symbols of him refresh our memories of the highest and purest American type yet brought forth. Pretty much every large city in the land new has its Lincoln monument, or statue. New York. Philadelphia. Washington, Buffalo, Chicago and San Francisco head the list. Even Edinburgh. Scotland, has a Lincoln monument There is now under construction in Washington a great memorial building which will adequately represent the country’s estimate of the second of our immortals. The chief Lincoln monument, of course. Is the one erected at the tomb in Oak Ridge cemetery, Springfield, 111. This has been described so often in the public prints, that it is unnecessary to speak more of it here. It is now a popular Mecca for Americans, second only to Mount Vernon. Two Monuments in Capital. In the city of Washington there are two Lincoln monuments, besides a memorial kept in the room In which he died. This room, which is just opposite the old Ford’s theater, contains almost 300 portraits of the martyr president, besides various interesting mementos of his life and associations. __Qne..of .tb,e.,monnments™in.. .the„na-.. tional capital fronts the city hail. It is a fine marble shaft, surmounted by n statue of the war president. It was unveiled by President Johnson in 1868. The other monument to the great emancipator is located in Lincoln park, on the other side of the city. It was erected entirely by the freedmen of the country and the address at Its unveiling was delivered by Frederick Douglass. The pedestal is not high, but the statue itself is notable. It represents Lincoln standing with his hand extended over the kneeling figure of a negro 'with broken shackles. At least two other Lincoln monuments have been proposed at different times for Washington, in the new and beautified national capital that Is to he —at least, if our dreams come true. One of these was to consist of a memorial bridge over the Potomac, a magnificent portico of doric columns nnd a splendid driveway along the river. Another projected improvement was to be a Lincoln’ gateway to ■"the new and larger capitol building for which so many plans have been laid on paper. - _— Statues in Many Cities. The metropolis of the nation has two fine Lincoln statues, one in Union square. New York, the other In Prospect park, Brooklyn— -. —' Philadelphia "has a very handsome statue of the great war president. It is situated near the entrance to Fairmount park. It is lent a romantic appearance by the ivy that entwines it,. Buffalo has a characteristic Lincoln statue by Charles H. Niehaus.. It was

WORTH REMEMBERING

Only about one roan In each 208 exceeds fl height of six feet Before the war Norway possessed one gross ton of shipping an individual. ns compared with about one ton for every three individuals in Great Britain. J 2. The last soldier in the Civil war will have passed - away by .1045, according to the calculation of the government pension bureno, based on actuary morality statistic**

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made for the Buffalo exposition and now' stands in Delaware park. A similar Lincoln statue by Niehaus is included in the Hackley collection at Muskegon, Mich. Lincoln park, Chicago, Is itself a memorial to the martyr president. Near its entrance is one of the finest statues of the great emancipator ever made. It is the w’ork of the famous St. Gaudens and represents Lincoln tn a characteristic pose. He is standing, one hand clasping a roll, the other on the lapel of his coat. The head Is bent -forward. Some years ago was projected nt San Francisco a magnificent monument to the great liberator. It was to overlook the bay, something as the Statue of Liberty overlooks New’ York harbor. Monuments in Foreign Lands. Memorials to the first of the martyr presidents are not confined to our own land. One stands in Edinburgh, Scotland, erected by patriotic Americans In honor of the Scotch-American soldiers who fought in the Civil war. Another stands in Christiania, Norway. In the. Royal academy at London Is also a very artistic statue by . Caccia, repre-

Mothers’ Part in Warfare

Agonies of Suspense Reflected in Face of Each One That Has Son With Army. ? The late Robert J. Burdette of the Burlington Hawkeye, and of beloved memory, was a soldier in the Civil war. The following beautiful and touching tribute to mothers of that period is from his pen: 2‘When was there a generation since boys were born that women did not go to war? Never a bayonet lungeo into the breast of a soldier that it had not already cooled its wrath In the heart of a mother. While the soldier has fought through one battle, the mother has wandered over a score of slaughter fields looking for his mangled body. He sings amßdays the rough game of out-of-doors men in camp for a month and then goes out to fight one little skirmish. But every day and night the mother has walked through a hundred alarms that never were. She has watched on the lonely picketpost. She has passed the sentry seat before his tent- She has prayed beside him while he siept. The throbs of he? heart have been the beads of her rosary. What does a soldier know about war? I went Into the army a light-hearted boy. I had the rollicking time of my life, and I came home an athlete. And my mother —her brown hair silvered with my soldiering, held me in her arms and counted the years of her longing and watching with kisses. When she lifted her dear face, I saw the story of my marches and battles written iff lines of anguish. If a mother should write her story after the war. she would pluck a white hair from her temple and dip

Plans for the construction of n large floating dock for Kingston. .Jamaica, under way before the war. have been revived by the original promoters. The world’s tallest smokestack l« at Anaconda. Mont. It Is made of 6.672.214 bricks and 62.845' sacks of cement, and is 585 feet inches tall. A storage battery electric locomotive invented In Switzerland for switching, nses powerful electromagnets Instead of couplings for drawing cars.; . ■

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senting Lincoln as a boy in rough and rural dress, reading from a book. There are innumerable busts of Lincoln, some of them made from casts tluring life. One of the most famous of these busts, however, Is by a woman who had never seen the original. It is the work of Mrs. Emma Cadwalader Guild. She had fashioned the heads of kings and queens In Europe, but her most ambitious work was of him whom she had come to reverence as the savior of her own country. Art has not fashioned all the monuments to Abraham Lincoln. At the Cumberland Gap, in the Tennessee mountains, is the Lincoln Memorial university, erected by Gen. O. O. Howard. It was designed to educate the mountaineers, whom Lincoln so loved. Near Leadville, Colo., is a tall peak, over 14,000 feet above the level of the sea, named Mount Lincoln. Throughout the West are many counties and towns named for the emancipator. Perhaps the most famous and enduring monument erected by human hands to the memory of the war presdent, however, is the capital of Nebraska, Lincoln, one of the beautiful and growing cities of the great West.

the living stylus into the chalice of her tears, to write the diary of the days on her heart.”

One Good Word for Him.

The Long Island aborigines made it a practice not to bury one of their number until someone had spoken—a good word concerning the deceased. One time a a very bad old redskin went the way of all flesh and the members of the tribe gathered to lay him away. It was a silent assemblage—not a work was spoken to the credit of the dead man. Lower and lower sank the sun, and. darkness was almost ready to descend, when one old buck walked up to where the body lay and succinctly remarked: “He was a devil of a hand at skinning eels”—or its equivalent in the Long Island Indian language. That was considered sufficient to permit the hurlal to proceed, ijnd the bad olcT’lndlan was laid away not wholly “unwept, unhonored and unsung.”

Clock Runs 1,000 Days.

One of the most wonderful pieces of timekeeping mechanism ever invented keeps time in a way which would make the hands of the old-fashioned conventional clock stand still and strike in horror. It does not tick, and It keeps time in any position—even upside down—in a drawing room or a motorcar. So independent is it of the services of man that it does not require winding for 1,000 days at least, and at the end of that time an ordinary shilling electric battery wilPrenew its energy and accuracy for another 1,000 days.—London Chronicle.

CONDENSATIONS

A soldier In France tells how, when ids company’s phongraph broke down, •‘the mechanic put a part of a 17-ceu-timeter shell In, filing .cogs on it. and It amused us for some two weeks after.* . ■ \ The Birmingham (Eng.) city council approved a project for a very large expenditure, in electricsupply equipment. new scheme provides for the construction of a permanent generating station Kt Neche!*’ 4

This is Young’s Memorial cemetery at Oyster Bay, N. Y., where the body of Theodore Roosevelt was interred after simple services. Inset is a portrait of Rev. Dr. George E. Talmadge, pastor of Christ Episcopal church, who conducted the ceremony. '

WIPING OUT ALL TRACES OF WAR

Thrifty French Already Cleaning Up Battle Ground to Plant Grain. TASK MOST DIFFICULT ONE Removing of Barbed Wire Entanglements Is No Easy Matter— Nar-row-Gauge Railways Being Torn Up and Trenches Filled In. Paris. —Eradication of all traces of the 52 months’ war has already begun everywhere along the old stationary front which marked the line of the opposing armies since the inception of a war of position. Barbed wire entanglements are being torn up, trenches are being filled in, camouflage is being taken down, narrow-gauge railways removed, and shell dumps and other depots for material being transported away. This is the. first time that any field fortifications have been permitted to be touched by the civilian population. Even after the Germans had been driven from the Chateau Thierry region south of the Marne to north of the Vesle, the military authorities refused to permit barbed wire to be taken up or earthworks filled in.

In most cases this work is being done by civilians, but everywhere with the release of the older classes of French soldiers and the numerous reformes —wounded discharged from the army—there are enough men familiar with field works to supervise the removal of them. Difficult Work. It is no easy matter for the novice to pull up barbed wire, and in places, -•paFtieularly— -4a --the--north of the Aisne, where the Thirtysecond division fought with General Mangin’s superb Tenth army and won for themselves the sobriquet of “The Tigers,” the entanglements cover hundreds of acres; the belts being hundreds of yards in depth. This wire dates back from September, 1914, and is rusty and dangerous to handle, owing to the presence of tetanus microbes. The newer “giant German wire,” the strands of which 'are a quarter of an inch thick and which bristle with barbs, is equally hard to remove. . The old wide trenches which were In vogue earlier in the war before the development of the minenwerfer as. an accurate piece of ordnance, are hard to fill in, as their parapets have been washed away by rains and blasted to bits of shellfire. They are like great ditches, furrowing the earth in every direction. The newer, narrower trenches, shored with timber and provided with duckboard floors are easier to fill in. The thrifty French first pull out the shoring and let the rain act on the trenches for a couple of weeks in which time they invariably fall in, then they shovel over the top, smoothing it off. No attempts are made to fill in the dugouts, the entrances merely being boarded up and covered over. Tn many of these German dugouts there are infernal machines and man traps likely to explode when the first person enters. Loose boards on the stairs or bits of string stretched. across the entrance set off explosives. Ln many other dfigouts there are corpses of friends or foes, killed underground by bombs hurled down the exits. All roads in the zone, -where the opposing armies have swayed back and forth are lined with fox holes, as the American doughboys call tb° tiny shelter caves they are taught to dig with bayonets and mess kits and which provide such wonderful shelter ■’against shrapnel. Everywhere in the belt of terrain marking the extreme limits of the passage of the fighting troops there are endless rows of these Xox boles dug Into the ditches beside

WHERE ROOSEVELT SLEEPS HIS LAST SLEEP

the roads. They tell the silent tales of bodies of troops on the march spied out by enemy airplanes or captive balloons and caught under concentrated Are by many batteries. Then the men are ordered to take cover, and si nee there is none to take they must improvise their own shelter. It is a remarkable sight to see how fast a soldier can dig a cave that will shelter his body with no implements but a bayonet and mess kit. They loosen the earth with the bayonet and scoop it out with the big, long-handled tin cup, sometimes working with the skillet in the other hand. Only light, Decauville railways are being taken up, all standard gauge lines which have been laid since the war remaining in position until such time as the administration determines what shall be done with them. Fe\v pieces of artillery remain in their emplacements, nearly all of those which were overlooked in capture durteg attacks having been dragged out

ONLY RICH DRINK

Maine Woodsmen Now Have to Pay $5 for Pint of Whisky. Bangor, Me.—-War, which used up so much alcohol and starved the distilleries. and the bone-dry law affecting the shipment of liquors from wet into dry territory, have made anything like warm sociability, let alone hilarity, impossible in Maine to any save the wealthy. In the olden days a woodsman or a sailor went into a Bangor bar (and at

WINS SERVICE CROSS

Chaplain Thomas Swann or the Episcopal church at Saginaw, Mich., arrived in New York recently from England. Chaplain Swann was awarded the distinguished service cross for extraordinary heroism In action at the Marne and Vesle rivers during the first two weeks In August, He was in the front line trenches adnrlnistering to sick and wounded soldiers, and on one occasion went over the top 200 yards under heavy fire to rescue two wounded doughboys.

SYMPATHETIC TWINS SICK AT SAME TIME

Norway, Me. —Henry and Benjamin Hosmer of this town are twins. It has been their experience through life that when sickness overtakes one the othet is stricken too. Recently Benjamin, who is a soldier in the army overseas, was taken to a base hospital suffering from an attack of Spanish influenza. Here at home at the same time Henry was also down with the influenza.

of their pits and placed in the public square of the nearest French town or village. But there are still hundreds of thousands of live shells, hand grenades and millions of rounds of small arms ammunition lying about everywhere. The earth is pitted with holes made by “duds” which may explode the first time the farmer’s plow strikes against them. Despite that, however, the thrifty French are cleaning up their country, preparing for the sowing of crops next spring.-- ———

one time there were 181, including seven varieties to choose from), laid down a dime and took a drink of what could easily be identified as whisky. But now a drink of whisky is served with Black Hand secrecy, and many a wink and whisper of caution in some dugout up an alley, or maybe taken in a dark hallway from the dirty glass of a bootlegger, and costs 25 to 40 cents, while a half pint costs $2 to $2.50, a pint $4 to $5, and a quart $6 to $10, according to quality, time and place. There seems to be plenty of whisky, or near whisky, here and elsewhere ir Maine, but the high cost of drinking has driven common folks out of the

‘COUNT’ ADMITS ‘GOOD LOOKS’

Declares Widow Whq Charges $24,000 Theft Made Love to Him. New York. —Louis Alberthy, known as “Count” Csaki Bela, on trial before Judge Mulqueen in general sessions, charged with th? larceny of $24,000 from Mrs. Anna Gruich', a Newark (N. J.) widow, who asserts he went through a fake wedding ceremony with her, denies all her charges. Mrs. Gruich testified the “counts made ardent love to her. The “confit” swore she made the same brand of love to him, unsought. She s:\id she believed he was single. He asserted she knew all the‘time he was married and “went up in the air” when>he threatened to leave her. The “count” added that she became Infatuated with him ori account of what he admitted to be his “good looks;” that she gave him as presents. in amounts of SIOO to $250 a week, the money he i» alleged to have taken from her; that she invited bim to Newark and offered to start him In. business and threatened him when he refused.

MAN MISSING MANY YEARS

Found Wandering About Boston, a Vio--stim of Aphasia, He Is Identified by Family. Boston—An aged man was found wandering in the South end tn a daze, ille was d victim of.aphasia. His clothing or pockets had nothing to aid in the identification. Newspapers published a description of the man and bis photograph. After three weeks he was restored to virtually normal condition, but was unable to tell the hospital physicians hisname or address. Mrs. J. 11. Borofsky of East Boston saw the description in th? newspapers, went to the hospital'aud identified the man as her father, for whom she said her family had been searching many years.