Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 10 July 1895 — Page 2

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THE EVENING REPUBLICAN.

W. S. MONTGOMERY, Editor and jPublisher.

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THE South Carolina dispensary^ law has reduced saloons from 1000 to 100 in that state. Under the law the 100 do not do as much damage as formerly as all liquor must be carried a vay and not drank on the premises. The habit of treating is thus done away with, and that will also assist in knocking out drunk eness.

THE Social Economist, in an article on "Europeau opinion on Bimetallism states that the best thinkers and ablest financiers in Europe regard the passage of the Natiosn of that country to a single gold standard as a mistake. It is favorable to cue interests of the few and against the interests of the many. They are now casting abjut to And a way of returning to bimetall ism. Such being the case, why should nob the vast mass of the people stand out in favor on a restoration of silver as money. It would benefit the vast majority of the people.

Marriage JLiceuse.

Alfred L. Jackson and Myrtle Sample.

.For 5al«2.

A three-year old horse for sale cheap. Inquire at the Guyrnon House barber shop. 82tf&w

Hello! Jleiio! Hello!

When you have a good news item call the Central office and ask for No. 31, the EYEREPUBLICAN office. We want all iue news. Also call us up on business.

For Sale House ami Lot.

For Sale a seven roomed house, a lot and a half, on North street, Glass works addition, city water and paid for three years in advance. Good barn and buggy shed. Piice reosonable end teims easy.

SGT7 JOHN ANTONI.

A Silver League to lie Organized. Next Saturday at one o'clock the Populists of this County and all others who may desire to participate are aslied to i::eet at the Court House at one o'clock p. m. for the purpose of organizing a Silver League.

By Order of Committee.

Neither Oas, Oil or Salt Water. The drillers are now 100 feet in the Trenton rock at the Boyd well near the Rariden gas and oil well and have struck neither gas, oil or salt water. They are still going down and will strike or China, The rock is porous and very promising.

A .Small Fire.

Mrs. L:zzie Howard's house was on tire a short time this morning, but was put out before the fire deprrtmenij got there or much damage was done. Sanford Snodgrass was doing some plumbing under the house and had turned one service pipe off. but there being two, the gas ignited whan he struck a match. He had a close call, as also did the house.

Xlie Water Works.

Since tns air lift pump has been put in -ut the water works one well has been supplying all the water used by the city. For some reason the pum will not draw from the other well with which it is connected. The company hassent an expert hera as the city will not take the pump unless it works all right. If it will draw from all four weils we might possibly have an abundance of water.

A Ne»t Directory.

George A. Deem, of Knightstown, has srected in the court house hall, a neat and beautiful business directory. The directory contains the cards of twentyone business firms, mostly of this city. It is a fine piece of workmanship and shows that Mr. Deem is an artist. He i3 putting these directories in nearly all the court houses in the state, and is now working on one for the Marion county court house.

Public Installation I. O. O. F. Officers. Thursday night there will a public ., installation of the I. O. O. F. officers for the present term at Odd Fellows' Hall.

Will Carr, N. G. 3. A. D. Beckner, V. G. Alfred Rottman, Secretary and M. T. Smith, Treasurer.

The Rebebah lodge will also install their officers as foliows: Mrs. Will Carr, N. G. Mrs. Charles MatheS, V. G.* Mrs. Allen Cooper, Secretary, and Mrs. Will Gordon, Treasurer.

The public are cordially invited. District Deputy Samuel P. Gordon will have charge of the ceremonies.

$100 Keivard, $100.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure In all its stages and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constituational disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surface of the ajstein, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient streugtli by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors ave so much faith in its curative powers, at they Offer One Hundred Dollars for case that it fails to cure. Send for of Tes amoaials. Address 's

F. J. CHENEY & Co. ^Toledo, O. -Sold by Drnggi&tS, 75c.

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Furniture, Stoves, Dishes, Glassware, Carpets, Baby Cabs, Sewing Machines, Etc., Etc.,

For sale at the lowest living prices. Call and see my stock. I will pay highest prices for all kinds of second hand goods.

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UpperPeninsula Points.

Tourist Tickets are on sale June 1st to Sept 30th, return limit Oct. 31st.

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Notice to Non Residents.

To Martha Riley, James W. Riley, John lliley, Elva Eitel anil May Cox:

Yon are hereby notified, that, upon the 30th day of March, 1895, the City Commissioners of the City of.Oreenfield, State of Indiana filed witli the Clerk of said City a report in the matter of opening Pennsylvania »nd Depot 6treets within said city, which report was accepted by the Common Council of said City, and the land therein described as necessary to be appropriated was so appropriated on the 22ml day of April, 1805, and a certified copy or so much thereof as contained an assessment "of benefits and damages was placed in my hands by fhe City Clerk,*wherein it appears that there was assessed to the lot of land within said City known as the Riley property Seminary Square damages in the amotuit of six hundred dollars (!f(00 00), one third of which, or iwo hundred dollars (8200.00), I understand belongs to you

Nottce is therefore siven you that the said city stands ready and willing to pay said sum of two hundred dollars (8200 00) it® whomsoever is entitled to it. WILLIAM G. SMITH, fiy5t2wks. Treasurer of the City of Grt-en field.

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SKETCHES OF LINCOLN.

Settling Down to the Practice of Law.

EITECT OP HIS POLITICAL DEPEAT.

His Talent as a Story Teller—How He Appeared In the Law Office—His Most Striking Characteristic—How the Fees Were

Divided.

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[From "The Life of Lincoln" by William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik. Copyright, 18S8, by Jesse W. Weik. Copyright, 1892, by D. Appleton & Co.]

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While a member of congress and otherwise immersed in politics, Lincoln seemed to lose all interest in the law. Of course what practice he himself controlled passed into other hands. I retained all the business I could and worked steadily on until, when he returned, our practice was as extensive as that of any other firm at the bar. Lincoln realized that much of this was due to my efforts, and on his return he therefore suggested that he had no right to share in the business and profits -which I had made. I responded that, as he had aided me and given me prominence when I was young and needed it, I could afford now to be grateful if not generous. I therefore recommended a continuation of the partnership, and we went on as before. I could notice a difference in Lincoln's movement as a lawyer from this time forward. He had begun to realize a certain lack of discipline—a want of mental training and method. Ten years had wrought some change in the law and more in the lawyers of Illinois. The conviction had settled in the minds of the people that the pyrotechnics of courtroom and stump oratory did not necessarily imply extensive or profound ability in the lawyers who resorted to them. The courts were becoming graver and more learned, and the lawyer was learning as a preliminary and indispensable condition to success that he must be a close rcasoner, besides having at command a broad knowledge of the principles on which the statutory law is constructed. There was, of course, the same riding on circuit as before, but the courts had improved in tone and morals, and there was less laxity—at least it appeared so to Lincoln.

Political defeat had wrought a marked effect on him. It went below the skin and made a changed man of him. He was not soured at his seeming political decline, but still he determined to eschew politics from that time forward and devote himself entirely to the law. And now he began to make up for time lost in politics by studying the law in earnest. No man had greater power of application than he. Once fixing his mind on any subject, nothing could interfere with or disturb him. Frequently I would go out on the circuit with him. We usually at the little country inns occupied the same bed. In most cases the beds were too short for him, and his feet would hang over the footboard, thus exposing a limited expanse of shin bone. Placing a candle on a chair at the head of the bed, he would read and study for hours. I have known him to study in this position till 2 o'clock in the morning. Meanwhile I and others who chanced to occupy the same room would be safely ant1, soundly asleep.

On the Circuit.

On the circuit in this way he studied Euclid until he could with ease demonstrate all the propositions in the six books. How he could maintain his mental equilibrium or concentrate his thoughts on an abstract mathematical proportion while Davis, Logan, Swett, Edwards and I so industriously and volubly filled the air with our interminable snoring was a problem none of us could ever solve. I was on the circuit with Lincoln probably one-fourth of the time. The remainder of my time was spent in Springfield looking after the business there, but I know that life on the circuit was a gay one. It was rich with incidents and afforded the nomadic lawyers ample relaxation from all "the irksome toil that fell to their lot. Lincoln loved it. I suppose it would be a fair estimate to state that he spent over half the year following Judgos Treat and Davis around on the circuit. On Saturdays the court and attorneys, if within a reasonable distance, would usually start for their homes. Some went for a fresh supply of clothing, but the greater number went simply to spend a day of rest with their families. The only exception was Lincoln, who usually spent his Sundays with the loungers at the country tavern and only went home at the end of the circuit or term of court. ''At first," relates one of his colleagues on the circuit, "we wondered at it, but soon learned to account for his strange disinclination to go home. Lincoln himself never had much to say about home, and we never felt free to comment on it. Most of us had pleasant, inviting homes, and as we struck out for them I'm sure eaoh on© of us down in our hearts had a mingled feeling of pity and sympathy for him. If the day was long and he was oppressed, the feeling was soon relieved by the narration of a story. The tavern loungers enjoyed it, and his melancholy, taking to itself wings, seemed to fly away.

As a Story Teller.

In the role of a story teller I am prone to regard Mr. Lincoln as without an equal. I have seen him surrounded by a crowd numbering as many as 200 and in some cases 800 persons, all deeply interested in the outcome of a story which, when he had finished it, speedily found repetition in every grocery and lounging place within reach. His power of mimicry, as I have before noted, and his manner of recital were in many respects unique if not remarkable. His countenance and all his features seemed to take part in Vg) performance. As he neared tho pith or point of the joke or story eve®' vestige of seriousness disappeared from his face. His little gray eyes'sparkled, a smilo seemed to gather

up,» curtainlike, tho corners of his inotijth', his frame quivered with suppressed excitement, and when the point, or "tub," of the story, as he called it, came no fltje's laugh was heartier than his. Thesroackwoods allegories are out of date now, and any lawyer ambitious to gain prominence would hardly dare thus to entertain a crowd, except at the risk of his reputation, but with Lincoln it gave him in some mysterious way a singularly firm hold on the people.

How Lincoln appeared and acted in the law office has been graphically and, I must confess, truthfully ?&>ld by a gentleman, now in New York, who was for several years a student in our office. I beg to quote a few lines from him: 'My brother met Mr. Lincoln in Ottawa,Ills., one day and said to him, 'I have a brother whom I would very much like to have enter your office as a student.' 'All right!' was the reply. 'Send him down, and we will take a look at him.' I was then studying law at Grand Rapids, Mich., and on hearing from my brother I immediately packed up and started for Springfield. I arrived there on Saturday night. On Sunday Mr. Lincoln was pointed out to me. I well remember this first sight of him. He was striding along, holding little Tad, then about 6 years old, by the hand, who could with the greatest difficulty keep up with his father. In the morning I applied at the office of Lincoln & Herndon for admission as a student.

A Modest Office.

"The office was on the second floor of a brick building on the public square, opposite the courthouse. You went up one flight of stairs and then passed along a hallway to the roar office, which was a medium sized room. There was one long table in the center of the room and a shorter one running in the opposite direction, forming a.T, and both were coverd with green baize. There were two windows which looked into the back yard. In one corner was an old fashioned secretary with pigeonholes and a drawer, and here Mr. Lincoln and his partner kept their law papers. There was also a bookcase containing about 200 volumes of law as well as miscellaneous books. "Tho morning I entered the office Mr. Lincoln and his partner, Mr. Herndon, were both present. Mr. Lincoln addressed his partner thus: 'Billy, this is the young man of whom I spoke to you. Whatever arrangement you make with him will be satisfactory to me.' Then, turning to me, he said: 'I hope you will not become so enthuisastic in your studies of Blackstone and Kent as did two young men whom we had here. Do you see that spot over there?' pointing to a large ink stain on the wall. 'Well, one of these young men got so enthusiastic in his pursuit of legal lcro that he fired an inkstand at tho other one's head, and that is the mark he made.' I immediately began to clean up about the office a little. Mr. Lincoln had been in congress and had tho usual amount of seeds to distribute to the farmers. These wero sent out with Free Soil and Republican documents. In my efforts to clean up I found that some of the seeds had sprouted in the dirt that had collected in the office. Judge Logan and Milton Hay occupied the front offices of the same floor with Lincoln and Herndon, and one day Mr. Hay came in and said, with apparent astonishment, 'What's happened here?' 'Oh, nothing,' replied Lincoln, pointing to me, 'only this young man has been cleaning up a littlo.' "Lincoln's favorite position when unraveling some knotty law point was to stretch both of his legs at full length upon a chair in front of him. In this position, with books on the table near by and in his lap, he worked up his case. No matter how deeply interested in his work, if any one came in he had something humorous and pleasant to say, and usually wound up by. telling a joke or an anecdote. I have heard him relate the same story three times within as many hours to persons who came in at different periods, and every time he laughed as heartily and enjoyed it as if it were a new story. His humor was infectious. I had to laugh because I thought it funny that Mr. Lincoln enjoyed a story so repeatedly told.

Dividing the Fees.

"There was no order in the office at all. The firm of Lincoln & Herndon kept no books. They divided fees without taking any receipts or making any entries on books. Ono day Mr. Lincoln received $5,000 as a fee in a railroad case. He came in and said, 'Well, Billy,' addressing his partner, Mr. Herndon, 'here is our fee. Sit down and let me divide.' He counted out §2,500 to his partner and gave it to him with as much nonchalance as he would have given a few cents for a paper. Cupidity had no abiding place in his nature. "I took a good deal of pains in getting up a speech which I wanted to deliver during a political campaign. I told Mr. Lincoln that I would like to read it to him. He sat down in one chair, put his feet into another one and said: 'John, you can firo away with that speech. I guess I can sfand it.' I unrolled the manuscript and proceeded with some trepidation. 'That's a good point, John,' he would say at certain places, and at others, 'That's good—very good indeed,' until I felt very much elated over my effort. I delivered the speech over 50 times during the campaign. Elmer E. Ellsworth, after colonel of the famous zouaves, who was killed in Alexandria early in the war, was nomint lly a student in Lincoln's office. His head was so full of military matters, however, that he thought little of law. Of Ellsworth, Lincoln said, 'That young man has a roal genius for war!'

Lincoln's Hatred of Oppression. 5® To Newton Bateman, October, 1860: "I know tiiere is a God, ^id that he hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is iu it. If he has a place and work for me, and I think be has, I believe I am •ready. I nin nothing, ^nt truth is everything. I know I am right because I know that liberty is right, for Christ teaches it, and Christ is God."

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