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Thursday, Aug. 8, 1895-

VIA THE

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"Natural Gas Route.'

On Thursday, August 8, 1895, the Lake Erie & Western R. R. will run their popular annual excursion to Clevelaud, Chautauqua Lake, Buffalo and Niagara Palls at the following very low rates, viz:

Peoria $7 HO Bloomington 7 00 Lafayette 6 00 Michigan City 6 00 Indianapolis 5 00 Tipton 5 00 Lima 4 00

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Sandusky, $4 00

With corresponding reductions from intermediate points. In addition to the above, the purchasers of these tickets will be given privilege of special excursion side trios to Lewis-ton-on-the-Lake, including a steamboat ride on Lake Ontario, for 25c. To Toronto and return by lake from Lewiston $1 to Thousand Islands $5 Tickets for the above side trips can be had when purchasing Niagara Falls ticket, or at any time on train.

Besides the above privileges, with that of spending Sunday at the Falls, we will furnish all those who desire a side trip from Brockton Junction to Chautauqua Lake and return. Eree of Charge. ickets of admission to places of special interest at or near. Niagara Falls, but outside the itaMtratien, including toll over the International Bridge to the Canadian side, elevators to the water's edge at Whirlpool Rapids on the Canadian side, will be offered on train at a reduction from prices charged after reaching the Vails.

Do not miss this opportunity to spend Sunday at Niagara Falls. The excursion train will arrive at Niagara Falls 7 ,a. m. Friday, August 9,1895, and will leave the Falls returning Sunday morning, August 11, at 6 o'clock, stopping at Cleveland Sunday afternoon, giving an opportunity to visit the magnificent monument of the late President Garfield and many other interesting point*.

Tickets will be good, however, to return on regular trains leaving the Falls {Saturday, August 10, for those not desiring to remain over. Tickets will also be good returning on all regular trains tip to and including Tuesday, August 13, 1895. Secure your tickets, also Chair and Sleeping Car accommodations, early. Those desiring can secure accommodations in these cars while at the Falls. For farther information call on any Agent Lake Erie & Western R. R., or address C. F. DALY,

Gen. Pass. Agt, Indianapolis, Ind. I7tl5

Abstracts of title prepared and carefttlly examined. ... 7tf

Elmer J. Binford,

wattHS?"'. Attorney at Law.

To Trade "With The

INDIANAPOLIS

The Largest Store in the State. The Largest Stock in the .State. The Greatest Values for you money."

If you buy anything of us that proves Unsatisfactory, return it and get your money back.!®

CLOTHING COMPANY,

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Largest Clothing, Furnishing Goods and Hat House in Indiana.

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.People who wish me to oascrate colts for them will please inform me by postal card which month they would rather have it done, April, May or June. I only work at it a part of each month.

ROBT. SMITH, D. V. S.

Box 177.

Fort Wayne $5 00 Muncie 5 00 Connersville 5 00 Ruslivilie 5 00 New Castlo 5 00 Carab'dge City 5 00 Freement 4 00

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GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN, THUBSDAY, JUNE 6 1895.

iTHousands ol Women:

SUFFER UNTOLD MISERIES.

IBRADFIELD'S FE/VII-E REGULATOR,

ACTS AS A SPECIFIC By Arousing to Healthy Action all her Organs.* It causes health to bloom, and, joy to reign throughout the frame.

.. It Never Fails to Regulate..." My wife Uas been under treatment of lead|nc physicians tliree yeius. without beneUt. Alter usIiik three bottles of I$ltAI)l'LRJjD'Sj 'FEMALE JtKttOIiATOIt she can do lier own cooking, millciiiK smrt wnshintr."

N. S. Bit VAN, Henderson. Ala.

ItItADFIELI KKGULATOK CO., Atlanta, On.' Sold by druggists at SI.00 per bottle.

DK. J. M. LOCHKEAD,

1I0.M20PA 1 IliG PHYSICIAN and SUKGEOK

Office at 23K W. Main street, ovf Early's drug store. Residence, 12 Walnut street.

Prompt attention to calls in city

country.. Special attention to Childrens.Womens' nud

Chronic Diseases. Late resident physician St. Louis Childrens HosjfLtal. 39tly

ELMER J. BINFORD, LAWYER. Hpecial attention gWen to collections, settllnj estates, guardian business, conveyancing, etc Notary always in office.

Ollice—Wilson block, opposite court-houso.

R. A. BLACK,

•A-ttorney "Law Rooms 5 and 6 L. C. Thayer Block,

Notary Always in Office.

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Abstracts of title prepared and carefully examined. 7tf

Elmer J. Binford, Attorney at Law.

Amos Gambrel at the fair ground has one of the best bred'stallions in Indiana. A Bourbon Wilkes by Charleston 2:12^ "Post" Registered in National Stud book No. 21,672. If you want road horses breed to a trotter. A trotting colt with goodj action will sell for twice what a pacer will. If you don't believe it go to the sales.

HE best investment

in real estate is to keep build

ings well painted. Paint protects the house and saves repairs. You sometimes want to sell—many a good house has remained unsold for want of paint. The rule should be, though, "the best paint or none." That means

Strictly Pure White Lead

You cannot afford to use cheap paints. To be sure of getting Strictly Pure White Lead, look at the brand any of these are safe: "Anchor," Southern," "Eckstein," "Red Seal," "Kentucky," "Collier."

FOR COLORS.—National Lead Co.'s Pure White Lead

Tinting Colors.

These colors are sold in one-pound cans, each can being sufficient to tint

pounds of Strictly

Pure White Lead the desired: shade they are in no sense ready-mixed paints, but a combination of perfectly pure colors in the handiest form to tint Strictly Pure White Lead.

A good many thousand dollars have been saved property-owners by having our book on painting and color-card. Send us a postal card and get both free.

NATIONAL LEAD CO., New York. Cincinnati Branch, Seventh and Freeman Avenue, Cincinnati.

For fresh bread, pies, cakes, candies, oysters in all styles, or Warm meals, call at Harry Regula's bakery, on West Main street. 86tf

The Rocky Mou-itaiiis.

Along the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad abound in large game. Moose, deer, bear, elk, montain lions, etc., can yet be found there. The true sportsman is willing to go there for them. A littlf book called "Natural Game Preserves," published by the Northern Pacific Railroad, will be sent tipon receipt of fonr cents in stamps by Charles S. Fee, Gen'l Pass. Agent, St. Paul, Minn. 15tf

For Hale.

Four acres, first class' garden land. Young orchard bearing fronting on improved street at a bargain. 23t4 GEO. O. KNIGHT.

Lime at Geo. O, Knight's feed store. ..23t4

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The Hanks Girls at a Camp Meeting.

TH0&A.S LINCOLN AS A FARMER.

Abraham's First School Days Dennis Hanks' Remembrance of tho Olden Days. The Lincoln Family Cabin—An Uninviting Frontier structure. .• .•••••••

[Fron» "The Life of Lincoln" by William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weill. Copyright, 1888, by Jesse W. Weik. Copyright, 1S&2, by D. Ap- &

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As a family the Hankses wero peculiar to the civilization of early Kentucky. Illiterate and superstitious, they correspond to that nomadic class still to bo met with throughout the south aud known as poor vrliites. '*They are happily and vividly depicted in the description of* a camp meeting held at Elizabethtown, Ky., in 1806, which was furnished me in August, 18C5, by an eyewitness. "The Hanks girls," narrates the latter, "wero great at camp meetings. I remember one in 180G. I will give you a scene, and if you will then read the books written

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find somo apology for the superstitions that were said to be in Abe Lincoln's character. It was at a camp meeting, as before said, when a general shout was about to commence. Preparations wero being made. A young lady invited mo to stand on a bench by her side where we could see all over the altar. To the right a strong, athletic young man, about 25 years old, was being put in trim for tho occasion, which was done by divesting him of all apparel except shirt and pants. On the lel't a young lady jvas being put in trim In much the same manner, so that her clothes would not be in the way and so that when her combs flew out her hair would go into graceful braids. She, too, was young, not more than 20 perhaps. The performance commenced about tho same time by tho young man on the right and the young lady on the left. Slowly and gracefully they worked their way toward the center, singing, shouting, hugging and kissing, generally their own sex, until at last nearer and nearer they came. The center of the altar was reached, and the two closed, with their arms around each other, the man singing and shouting at the top of his voice: "I have Jesus in my arms,

Sweet as honey, strong as bacon ham.

"Just at this moment the young lady holding to my arm whispered: 'They aro to married next week. Her name is Hanks.' There wero very few who did not believe this true religion, inspired by. the Holy Spirit, and the man who could not believe it did well to keep it to himself. Tho Hankses were the finest singers and shouters in our country."

Here my informant stops, and on account of his death several years ago I failed to learn whether the young lady ehouter who had figured in the foregoing sceno was the president's mother or not. The fact that Nancy Hanks did marry that year gives color to the belief that it was she. As to the probability of the young man being Thomas Lincoln it is difficult to say. Such a performance as the one described must have required a little more emotion and enthusiasm than the tardy and inert carpenter was in the habit of manifesting.

The Boy at School.

Sarah, the sister of Abraham Lincoln, though in somo respects like her brother, lacked his stature. She was thickset, had dark brown hair, deep gray eyes and an even disposition. She was married to Aaron Grigsby, in Spencer county, Ind., in the month of August, 1826, and died Jan. 20, 1828. Her brother accompanied her to school while they lived in Kentucky, but as he was only 7, and as she had not yet .finished her ninth year when their father removed with them to Indiana, it is to be presumed that neither made much progress in the matter of school education. Still it is authoritatively stat$d that they attended two schools during this short period. One of these was kept by Zachariah Riney, the other by Caleb Hazel. It is difficult at this late day to learn much of the boy Abraham's life during those seven years of res-

HOUSE IN WHICH THOMAS LINCOLN DIED. idence in Kentucky. One man, who was a clerk in the principal store of the village where the Linoolns purchased their family supplies, remembers him as a "small boy who came sometimes to the store with his mother. Be would take his seat on a keg of nails, and I Would give him a lump of sugar. He would sit there and eat it like any other boy, but these little acts of kindness, "observes my informant in an enthusiastic statement J&nde in 1865, "so impressed his mind'Unit I made a stead* fast friend in a man whose power and influence have since been felt throughout the world."

A schoolmate of Lincoln's at Hazel's school, sfeeaking of the master, says: "He perhaps donld teaoh spelling and reau^ng. and indifferent, Writing and possibly oould cipher to the rule of three, but he had ho other qualification of a teacher unless yre acoept large size md bodily strengpi. Abe was a mere spindle of a boy Jad his due proportion of harmless mischief, but as we lived in a eountry abounding in hazel switch* es, in the virtue bf which the master had great faith, Abe of course received his dueallowuida." yC

This, part of the boy's history is pain-

full., league *nd dim, and even after arriving at mans estate Mr. Lincoln was significantly reserved when reference was mdclo to it. It fs rarely mentioned in the autobiography furnished to Fell in 1850. John Duncan, afterward a preachcr of some prominence in Kentucky, relates how he and Aba on one occasion ran a groundhog into a crevice between two rocks, and after working vainly almost two hours to get him out "Abe ran olf about a quarter of a mile to a blacksmith shop and returned-with an iron hook fastened to the end of a pole," and with this rude contrivance they virtually "hooked" the animal out of his retreat. Austin Gollaher of Eodgensville claims to have saved Lincoln from drowning one day as they were trying to "coon it" across Knob creek

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a log. The boys were in pur

suit of birds when young Lincolu fell into tho water, and his vigilant companion, who still survives to narrate the thrilling story, fished him out with a sycamore branch.

Meanwhile Thomas Lincoln was becoming daily more dissatisfied with his situation and surroundings. He had purchased since his marriage, on the easy terms then prevalent, two farms or tracts of land in succession. No terms wero easy enough for him, and the land, when the time for the payment of purchase money rolled around, revertea to its former owner.

Starting Life Anew.

Having determined

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emigrating to

Indiana, he began preparations for removal in the fall of 1816 by building for his uso a flatboat. Loading it with his tools and other personal effects, including in the invoice, as we are told, 400 gallons of his whisky, he launched his "crazy craft"

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a tributary of Salt

creek known as Rolling Fork. Along with the current he floated down to the Ohio river, but his rudely made vessel, either from the want of experience in its navigator or because of its ill adaptation to withstand the force and caprices of the currents in the great river, capsized one day, and boat and cargo went to the bottom. The luckless boatman set to work, however, and by dint of great patience and labor succeeded in recovering the tools and the bulk of the whisky. Righting his boat, he continued down the river, landing at a point called Thompson's Ferry, in Perry county, on the Indiana side.

The head of the household now set resolutely to work to build a shelter for his family.

The structure, when completed, was 14 feet square and was built of 'small hewed logs. In the language of the day it was called a "half faced camp," being inclosed on all sides but one. It had neither floor, door nor windows. In this forbidding hovel these doughty emigrants braved the exposure of the varying season for an entire year. At the end of that time Thomas and Betsy Sparrow followed, bringing with them Dennis Hanks, and to them Thomas Lincoln surrendered the "half faced camp, "whilo he moved into a more pretentious structure—a cabin inclosed on all sides.

Thomas Lincoln, with tho aid of the Hankses and Sparrows, was for a time an attentive farmer. The implements of agriculture then in use were as rude as they were rare, and yet there is nothing to show that in spite of the slow methods then in vogue he did not make commendable speed. "We raised corn mostly," relates Dennis, "and some wheat—enough for a cake Sunday morning. Hog and venison* hams were a legal tender and coonskins also. We raised sheep and cattle, but they did not bring much. Cows and calves were only Worth §(5 to$S, corn 10 cents and wheat 25 cents a bushel.''

So with all his application and frugality tho head of this ill assorted household made but little headway in the accumulation of the world's goods. We are told that hewa3 indeed a poor man, and that durirrr his entire stay in Indiana his land barely yielded him sufficient return to keip his larder supplied with the commonest necessaries of life. His skill as a hunter, though never brought into play unless at the angered demand of a stomach hungry for meat, in no* slight degree made up for the lack of good management in the cultivation of his land. His son Abraham never evinced the same fondness for hunting, although his cousin Dennis with much pride tells us how we could kill a wild turkey on the wing. "At that time," relates one of the latter's playmates, descanting on the abundance of wild game, "there were a great many deer licks, and Abe and myself would go to these licks sometimes and watch of nights to kill deer, though Abe was not so fond of a gun or the sport as I was."-

The cabin to which the Lincoln family removed after leaving the little half faced camp to the Sparrows was in some respects a pretentious structure. It was of hewed logs and was 18 feet square. It was'high enough to admit of a loft, where Abe slept and to which he ascended each night by means of pegs driven in the wall. The rude furniture was in keeping with the surroundings. Three legged stools answered for chairs. The bedstead, made of poles fastened in the cracks of the logs on one side and supported by a crotcbed stick driven into the ground floor

the other, was covered with fkins, leaves and old

clothes.

A table of tlft

same finish as the stools, a few pewter dishes, a Dutch oven and a skillet completed the household outfit In this uninviting frontier structure the future president was destined to pass the greater part of his boyhood. Withal his spirits wero light, and

cannot be de

nied that he must have enjoyed unrestrained pleasure in his surroundings. It ia related that one day the only thing that graced the dinner table was a dish of roasted potatoes. The elder Lincoln, true to tha custom of 4he day, returned thanks for the blessing. The boy, real* izing the scant proportions of the meal, looked up into his father's face and irreverently observed, "Dad, Ioalltheje" —meaning the potatoes—"mighty poor

COME TO THE WATERS

WHOEVER THIRSTS MAY DRINK AT THE FOUNTAIN.

Rev. Madison C. Peters Speaks of Denom* icational Uij,-3try—Salvation Limitless Christ's Dying Love—Every Human Bo fng an Olrji-ct of the Father's Care.

"The Living Water" was the title of Rev. Madison C. Peters' impressive serman at the Bloom ingdale Reformed church, New York, Sunday, June 2. Ho :q took for his text Isaiah lv, 1, "Ho, every one that thirstcth, come ye to the waters." The following is from the preacher's discourse:

The figure is oriental. Ho! is a cry arousing attention. It brings up the 4) image of the hot, sandy waste, and, by contrast, that of the cool, bubbling fountain. What can better symbolize salvation than water? Water cleanses. It is of a fructifying nature it soi'tens and mollifies the earth. There is healing virtue in it it is the one thing we cannot live without it is the only thing that absolutely quenches our thirst it is free and easy to come at it is a common element from which none is barred.

The Living Water.

"Ho, every one that tliirsteth." There is an exclusive and sectarian bigotry, in a measure common to all churches, which talks rather of the church than of Christ, of sacrifices rather than of the sacrifice, and which praotically regards the grace of God as flow- j.' ing in the channels of its own exclusive ordinances, and the healing power of the living water as abiding rather ia the earthen chalice than in the sparkling spring.

To hear these men talk of ordinations and confessions and baptisms and con- A firmations one might think that this

There is not a human being in the world who is not an object of the Father's love. A father said to his son who came back a fourth time: "No, I forgave you three times. I will never forgive you again. And the boy went off and died—away frgm the father's house. But God takes back his children a thousandth time as cheerfully as the first. As easily as the schoolboy'with a sponge wipes off the figures on his slate God will wipe out all our sins.

The Got! We Can Love.

When the broken hearted, bereaved mother had worked herself into a frenzy over "the horrible decree" of the God of Calvin, Edwards and Hopkins, the old colored nurse gathered the pale form to her bosom and said: "Honey, darling, ye ain't right. Dar's a drefful mistake somewhar. Why, de Lord ain't what ye t'ink. He loves ye, honey. Why, jes'feel how I loves ye—poor, old black Candacer an I ain't better In him as made me. Dar jes' ain't b"t one t'ing to come to, an dat ar's Jesus. Jes'come right down to wliar poor, old black Candace has to stay allers. It's a good place, darlin. Look right at Jesus 1 Dar's a God ye can love."

God requires no austerities, no penances,

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pilgrimages to secure salvation.

There is a religion of forms and a religion of faith, of piety and of 'phariseeism, of penitence and penances, of ritualism and of righteousness, a religion of the crucifix and a religion of the crossIn this they differ: The. on,e is a religion of free grace, the other a religion of merit. Away with these false coins of"

spiritual currency wherewith man would sell to man the living water. My tears and blood cannot mingle meritoriously with the tears and blood of the Lamb of eternity.

The spread table is God's own table, and we are to be receivers of his fullness and grace, 'without money and without price." God cannot sell his love, his mercy, his restoration of his erring children. He does not meet us on the ground' on which a creditor meets his debtors. He frankly forgives us all. "Buy without money'' impresses us with the worth ~, as well as the freeness of the thing obtained.

A ship was sailing in the southenr waters of the Atlantic, when the people 1 on board saw another vessel making signals of distress. They bore down toward the distressed ship and hailed them, "What is the matter?" "We are dying1 for water," was the responsa "Dip it up then," was the answer "you are iff the mouth of the Amazon river." There those sailors were thirsting and suffering, hoping and praying for water, aadt supposing that there was nothing bol the ocean's brine around them, when, is* fact, they had sailed into the mightiest river on the globe and did not know it Though to them it seemed they must perish with thirst, yet' there was 299 miles of fresh water all around them* and they had nothing to do but to "dij* it up." You have no atonement to nialMr for your sins—it is already made—thar fountain is opened the water is flowing* around you you are in the midst of tt| there is nothing for you to do but to.dfp it up. Nothing to do, but something take—the water of life—freely.

Gentleman Never Swears.

A real gentleman never swears. E* haveoftenheard it said of a very profane* man, "Heoan be a gentleman when b# wants to be." A man who can be a gen^ tleman when he wants to be never wanflp to be anything else.

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fountain of salvation were like a mineral spring at some fashionable watering place, inclosed and appropriated and surrounded by liveried water dippers, soi that the soul that will not drink from these particular denominational cups must needs perish in agony. To be told that salvation is to be found only or even especially in any one church is blasphemous bigotry. The church altogether, in its different denominations, is only a company of thirsting men, who must come and drink each man for himself. "Every one," no matter how unlovely, no matter how lost, wherever 4 there is a lip to thirst and an ear to hear, free as the air, impartial as the sun, limitless as the dying love of the Saviour tlml opened it, there flows the priceless fountain unto the thirst of the world.

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