Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 23 May 1895 — Page 4
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And we have made arrangements with the best factories to send us
LATEST STYLES EACH WEEK.
So that we can guarantee our customers the yery latest stvies in footwear the
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I wish to annouiice to the people of Hancock and adjoining counties, that I have opened a
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where I would be pleased to see all who are in need of any kind of cemetery work. My stock will be found to be first-class, and prices as low as consistent with good work. All orders entrusted to me will receive prompt attention,and satisfaction guaranteed. See my stock and prices before placing your orders.
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[From The "Lift- 1 Lincoln" by William H. Hermlon and.Jex.so \V. \V ik. Copyright, 18KJ, lis .lesse W. Weill. Copyright, Ly D. Ap plcton
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Although imbued with marked dislike for manual labor, it cannot be truthfully said that Li urn In was indolent. From a mental standpoint he was one nf the most energetic young men of his •lay. Ho dwelt altogether iu the land of thought-. His deep meditation and ab- I stracnon easily induced the belief among his horny handed companions that he was lazy. In fact, a neighbor, John Romine, makes that charge. "He worked for mo," testifies the latter, "but was always reading and thinking. I used to get mad at him for it. I say he was awfully lazy. He would laugh and talk, crack jokes and tell stories all the time—didn't love work half as much as
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his pay [i'! said to me ono day that his father tautrht him to work, but he never taught him to love it." Verily there was but one Abraham Lincoln.
His chief delight during the day, if unmolested, was to lie down under the shade of some inviting t-reo to read and study. At night, lying on his stomach in front of the open fireplace, with a piece of ciiarcoa! he would ciphcr 011 a broad wooden shovel. When the latter was covered over on both sides, he would take his father's drawing knife or plane and shave it off clean, ready for a fresh supply of inscriptions the next day. He often moved about the cabin with a piece of chalk, writing and ciphering 011 boards and tho flat sides of hewed logs. Whenever a bare wooden surfr.ee had been filled with his letters and ciphers he would erase them and begin anew.
Tho first lawbook Lincoln"' ever read was "The Statutes of Indiana. He obtained the volume from his friend David Turnham, who testifies that he fairly devoured the book in his eager efforts to abstract the store of knowledge that lay between the lids. No doubt, as Turnham insists, tho study of the statutes at this early day led Abe to think of tho law as his calling in inaturer years. At any rate, he now began to evince 110 little zeal in the matter of public speaking—in compliance with the old notion, 110 doubt, that a lawyer can never succeed unless he has the elements of tho orator or advocato in his construction—and even at work in the field he could not resist tho temptation to mount the nearest stump and practice 011 his fellow laborers.
With all his peaceful propensities Abo was not averse to a contest of strength, either for sport or in settlement—as in ono memorable case—of grievances. Per scnal encounters were of frequent occurrence in Gentry vi lie in fchoso days, and the prestige of having thrashed an opponent gave tho victor marked social distinction. Green Taylor, with whom Abo worked tho greater part of ono winter on a farm, furnished me with an account of the noted light between John Johnston, Abe's stepbrother, and William Grigsby, in which stirring drama Abe himself played an important role before the curtain was rung down. Taylor's father was the second for Johnston, and William Wliitten officiated in a similar capacity for Grigsby. "They had a terrible fight," relates Taylor, "and it soon became apparent that Grigsby was too much for Lincoln's man, Johnston. After they had fought a long time without interference, it having been agreed not to break tho ring, Abe burst through, caught Grigsby, threw him off and somo feet away. There ho stood, proud as Lucifer, and swinging a bottle of liquor over his head swore he was 'the big buck of the lick.' 'If any one doubts it,' ho shouted, 'he has only to come on and whet his horns.' A general engagement followed his challenge, but at tho end of hostilities tho field was cleared, and tho wounded retired amid the exultant shouts of their victors.
Keeping Close to History.
Much of the latter end of Abo's boyhood would have been lost in tho midst of tradition but for tho store of information and recollections was fortunate enough to securo from an interesting old lady whom I mot in Indiana in 18G5 She was the wife of Josiah Crawford— "Blue Nose," as Abo'had' named him— and possessed raro accomplishments for a woman reared in tho backwoods of Indiana. She was not only impressed •with Abe's early efforts, but expressed great admiration for his sister Sarah, whom sho often had with her at her own hbspitable homo and Whom she doscribod as a modest, industrious and sensible sister of a humorous and equally sensiblo brother. From Mrs.* Crawford I obtained the few specimens of Abe's early literary efforts and much of the matter that follows iu this chapter. The introduction here of the literary
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Remarkable Stories of His Boyhood Da3rs.
feature as affording lis a glimpse of Lincoln's boyhood days may to a certain exgrate harshly 011
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ture, but that- would be a narrow view to take of hi.-tory. If Ave expect to know Lincoln thoroughly, wo must be prepared to take him as ho really was.
In 1820 Abe's sister Sarah was married to Aaron Grigsby, and-at the wedding the Lincoln family sang a song composed in honor of the event by Abe himself. It is a tiresome doggerel and full of painful rhymes. I reproduce it here from the manuscript furnished me by Mrs. Crawford. The author and composer called it "Adam and Evo Wedding Song:"
When Adam wits created. He dwelt in Hucn's shade. As Mo«es has recorded,
And soon :i bride was made.
The Lord then was not willing That man should be alone, B'.it caused a sleep upon him.
And from him took a bone.
Ar.d closed the flesh instead thereof, And then he took the same And of it made a. woman
And brought her to the tn.
Then Adam hfi rejoiced To see his loving bride, A part of his own body.
The product of -.'-- siue.
Tl.e woman ii not taken From Adam's feet, we sea. Co he must- not- abuse her.
The meanin .' seems to be.
The woman was not talii .1 From Adam's head, we know, To -Low she iiiibt not rule I11..1— 'Ti« evidently so
The wo-ran she was k' From under Adam's arm. So she must bo protected j1
From injuries and harm ws
Poor Stirah, at, whos*) woddin:* this song was si-ng, never lived ro see the glory nor share in the honor that afterward fell to the lot of Jir-r tall and angular brother. Within tv._o yurs after her marriage sho died in childbirth. 1 I!is l*hysic:il I'rimcss. 1 By tho time he had reached hisseven-teent-h year he had attained the physical proportions of a full grown man. He was employed to assist James Taylor in tho management of a ferryboat across the Ohio river near tho month of Anderson's creek, but was not allowed a man's wages for thu work. He received !1? cents a day for what I10 afterward told me was the roughest work a man could be made to do. In the midst-of whatever work he was en/raged on he still found time to utilize his pen. He prepared a composition on the American government, calling attention to the necessity of preserving the constitution and perpetuating the Union, which, with characteristic modesty, he turned over to his friend and patron, William
Woods, for safe keeping' and perusal. Through the instrumentality of Woods it- attracted the attention of mail}- persons, among them one Pitcher, a lawyer at Rockport, who, with faintly concealed enthusiasm, declared "the world couldn't beat it.
An article on temperance was shown under similar circumstances'to Aaron Farmer, a Baptist preacher of local renown, and by him furnished to an Ohio newspaper for publication. The thing, however, which gave him such prominence—a prominence, too, which could have been attained in 110 other way— was his remarkable physical strength, for he was becoming not only ono of the longest but one of tho strongest men around Gentryvillo. He enjoyed tho brief distinction his exhibitions of strength gave him more than tho admiration of his friends for his literary or forensic efforts. Somo of the feats attributed to him almost surpass belief. One witness declares he was equal to three men, having 011 a certain occasion carried a load of (500 pounds. At another timo he walked away with a pair of log.- which three robust men were skeptical of their ability to carry. "He could strike with a maul a heavier blow, could sink an ax deeper into wood than any man I ever saw," is the testimony of another witness.
After he had passed his nineteenth year and was Hearing his majority I10 began to chafe and grow restless under the restraints of homo rule. Seeing 110 prospect of betterment in his condition, so long as his fortuno was interwoven with that of his father, ho at last endeavored to strike out into the broad world for himself.
In March, 1828, James Gentry, for whom I10 had been at work, had fitted out a boat with a stock of grain and meat for a trading expedition to New Orleans and placed his son Allen in charge .^f tho cargo for tho voyage. Abe's de.-ire to make a river trip was at last satislied, and ho accompanied the proprietor's
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serving as "bow hand.
His pay was £8 a month and board. In duo course ut time tho navigators returned from their expedition with the evidence of profitable results to gladden tho heart of the owner. Tho only occurrence of interest they could relato of the voyage was tho encounter with a party of marauding negroes at tho plantation of Mine. Duchesne, a few miles below Baton Rouge. Abe and Gentry, having tied up for tho night, were fast asleep on their boat when aroused by the arrival of a crowd of negroes bent
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but still no apology is necessary, for, as intimated at the outset, I intend to keep close to Lincoln all the way through. Some writers would probably omit these songs and backwoods recitals as savoring
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plunder They set to work with clubs and not onlydrovo off tho intruders, but pursued them inland then, hastily returning to their quarters, they ci\t loose their craft and floated down stream till daylight.
At a-Critical Moment.
The result of the great conflict seemed to bo in more-doubt than ever just after the emancipation proclamation. Mr. Lincoln expressed his own view of the situation with: "We aro a good deal liko whalers who have been long on a chase. Afc last we have got our harpoon fairly into tlio monster, but we must look out how we steer, or with ono flop of his tail he will yet send us all into eternity."
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A Chicago ''lady': reformer declares that men oughc to wear fikirts. The coming woman is coming with a briskness that almost- takes an old timer breath away
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A Chicago woman doctor s'i :jests rh.at men should wear skirts, mhe will linti tield of useful endeavor in attempting to persuade the women to keep on wearin« them.—New York Press.
Harriet. Hosmer may call our modern statues
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does she Hitppo.se our stataes of Oliver P. Morton and Thomas A. Hendricks would look in short skirts!'—Indianapolis News.
A Chicago dress reform woman wants to shorten the skirts of the women .and put. the men into petticoats so as to establish the equality of the sexes. The men may wear knee breeches, but they are not to have the advantage of women there either.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Dr. Sarah Stevenson is much concerned over the ungraceful appearance of trousers, and declares that men would look much sweeter and nicer in skirts. Let Sarah possess Iter soul in patience. At this rate of feminine progress men will bo wearing skirts before many years.—Kansas City Star. -v
It may be, indeed it is quite likely', that
tho suggestion of the Chicago doetre.-s is but the signal for a general uprising on the part of the women to put the men into pe.ttienats. They have the power to do ir, and it, needs hut the leadership of a hold and original spirit like this I'emale .Ivseulapius id' Chicago and the deed is done.— Kansas City Journal.
A well know: woman physician of Chicago has declared that men ought to wear I skirts 011 tiie street and knee breeches at
night. \\suspected it would come to this when half baked lawmakers attem.nl ed to
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WHIP AND SPUR.
A thoroughbred race liorso has been named Dr. Parkhurst. Eight hundred horses aro entered for C. W. Williams' big trotting meeting.
J. J. Douglass has been elected president of the Louisville Driving and Fanassociation.
Kremlin, ~:075^, the ex-stallion king, measures
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and girths 71^ inches. Boston has an institution known as an equine college. They are decidedly proper ill speaking at tho hub.
Charley Weber, tho jockey, has signed to ride for 10. J. Baldwin at the reported salary of ."faOU a month.
Rainapo is the favorite for tho Brooklyn Handicap this year at- to 1. Ho carries I tho top weight, 1:27 pounds.
The old race track at Guttcnhcrg. where, the runners formerly held sway, is to be used this spring as a training course for trotters.
Bicye-o riders in Southland, Australia are required to dismount 22 yards from an approaching horse and draw their machines past.
It costs the city of Xew York $100,000 a year for maintaining the horse end of the lire department. There are 400 horses in constant use.
Ormonde and Carbine, the ono English and the other Australian, and the most celebrated thoroughbred stallions of ilie day, are (55Y% inches high and have a girth of (H) inches.
C. W. Williams announces that -10 out of
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Assouan in h.^ypt iu ha completed by the end of lt'.7. There will then he a cot)tin- I nous lino from Alexandria to tho lirst eataract.
Work is practically finished on the Baltiinore double track tunnel. It has cost over fs,000,()(HI and will save 115 minutes I in the running time between Washington and Xew York. There is no other such tunnel in existence. It is practically a belt line underground.
J.Iont illainW threatened, like the Jungfrau. v. iiii an interior railroad. A Swiss engineer proposes to run a tunnel 7,100 meters long into the monarch of moun- 1 tains, starting at St. (Jervais, and then to build a vertical shaft 2,S0( meters high to the top. His estimate is that it can be dono in ten years for 0,000,000 francs.
THE RAMPANT LION.
Great Britain is pushing far beyond her own settlements and far hoyond the limits within which she lias tho shadow of a right. Buffalo Express.
The feathers on tho Aniorican eagle have begun to rise, now that the British lion is showing a disposition to lay his paw on Nicaragua.—Memphis Appeal.
As for (ireat Britain, she has grip enough on this continent, and we must not permit her to get more. This is a platform 011 which all Americans should stand shoulder to shoulder.—Wheeling Intelligencer.
By her course of conduct toward Venossuela and other of the weak nationalities of South America, England has shown an indication to ignore, if not to defy, the limited protectorate which this country has declared to exercise.—Detroit Free Press.
England has for years pursued her traditional policy of rapacious encroachment, backed by bluster and intimidation. Of course there is tho usual pretext of pecuniary obligation and persisteut delinquency—the lamb always muddies the water when tho woif is hungry—Washington Post. A
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We nv.st protest, against Dr. Sarah Hacket-fi .Vtevc-nson's proposal for men to wear ski:!.-:. It is all they can do to 1. trousers.—Indianapolis rienti nei.
Dr. Sarah Hackc'-t Stevenson advocates a dress reform by putting men in skirts. Tiiis is almost as objectionable as putting women in trousers. Denver News.
hv statute what women
should wear at p.laces of amusement, and the opinion expressed by the Chicago wornan is only an indication perhaps of what, may expected if women ever get the power to make laws. Cleveland Leader.
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LITTLK ROCK. Mav (-harles IS. Collins, the leading silver advocate iu this section, has been appointed editor of the Chicago Daily Coin, commencing jime 1.
THE TATTLER.
Miss Frances Willard calls her bicycle Gladys. Mrs. Peavy wants to raise $12,000 now to lit out a steamer to go totireonlaiul and bring Lieutenant Peary back.
Mrs. Nellie CJrant Sartoris will spend tho summer in Canada. Her return to Europe is uncertain.
Kate Field thinks our divorco laws ought to begin at the other end and make marriage more difficult.
Mrs. Strong, wife of tho mayor of Now York, seldom goes into society. Iler favorite social diversion is tho old timo sewing circle.