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THE GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN

PUBLISHED EVERY THUKSDAY.

Vol.

16. No. 26-Entered at the Postofflcea« •Oond-clMB mall matter. W. S. MONTGOMERY, %3 Publisher and Proprietor.

Circulation This Week, 2,725.

THE state statistician figures out Indana's wheat crop at 20,000,000 bushels, a decrease of over 30,000,000 bushels a9 compared with last year's crop. Based on the prospects in this County that would be about right. If all the crop sold it would bring about two thirds as much money but there will be very little sold as it will take it all for seed and bread. It would however be an excellent idea for the farmers to secure seed wheat from some state or locality where there was an abundant crop this year. Selected seed wheat yields much better and make a man fine returns on his investment.,':':

THE low price of silver is the result of he hostile legislation passed by the United States and other nations during the Seventies. The laws were not passed because silver was low priced, for it had been commanding a premium for years, so therefore the laws wt re not the result of low priced silver, bun low priced silver was the result of the laws. Not only :, lower prices for silver, but lower prices f*r all products of labor resulted. The j??®, laws enhanced the value of all gold, gold bonds, stocks, notes and securities and depreciated the value of practically every thing else. The wrong should be righe l.

VISIONS of the pie counter seem to be haunting Hon. W. D. Bynum. He has seen his congressional office taken from r"him and no other yet in sight. Notwithstanding his standing up for whatever 1 the President wanted, he has not been ,«»)le to secure a firm hold on another office. He now proposes to begin July

Sth and make a series of twenty speeches 1 this state in favor of sound money. N jw if he can find a prominent citizen in I iiu state who is not in favor of sound •asc... Mud honest money let him name the man out. If, however, he proposes to carry on a campaign in favor gold monometalism he will continue his failure as a Statesman and friend of the common people.

Indiana is a bimetallic state and favors the use of both silver and gold as money. ACCORDING to the dispatches from Chicago Wednesday, wheat dropped two and three-quarter cents pet bushel on account of rumored heavy shipments of gold to Europe. Other grain and all provisions I' fell off in proportion. That clearly in*1 dicates that the amount of gold in this ,ffe country very largely regulates the price of the products of labor, both of the farm and factory. The men ewning the gold •v and bonds, stocks, mortgages, etc., payable in gold are interested in securing the absolute adoption of the single gold standard. It would give their money greater purchasing power, but it would be at the expense of all a.en who have labor or its product? for sale. The men who desire to see the single gold standard adopted are few in number in comparison 'with the great mass of the people and are through selfish interests laboring for their own especial benefit. The great mass of the people—those who live by

I what they earn with their hands, their L- brain, or both, as is usually the case, are interested in securing bimetalism, or the use of both silver and gold, as primary or redemption money. Such a use of both pi silver and gold would increase the volume of money so that it could not be so easily cornered, and shipping a few million dollarsout of the country would not lower the price of all farm products. •»'*. There is an old and homely saying "If you don't work you can't have." Everyf,' one recognizes the truth of that saying f? and can easily test it either by experience or observation. That the principle is alISfjf- so correct and just no one will deny.. If men therefore cannot have if they do not work, can not reap if they do not sow, cannot gather figs from thistles, is it right that money—gold money, can be made to increase in value by simply locking it up in an iron vault. Such is the case however. The men who own the ,. money of the world are in a position that they can lock a large part of it up and then by proclaiming and maintaining a scarcity of money, make what they do use earn them greater interest and also

Increase the purchasing power of the entire amount they possess. After the people have parted with farms, the products of their labor etc. at low prices, it is found that the locked up money has been taken out and quietly invested while the prices were low and that much money is in the country. Prices at once go up and then the original holders of the money sell 'the property back to the people at largely increased prices. They get all the money back and mortgages to secure the difference and to pay the interest the people toil and struggle. There are thousands who are Injured to hundreds who are benefitted by such a course and the former have the remedy in their own hands, and it will go weli wilh them in case they decide to and do acts for their own beat interests.

THE dairy interests are among the greatest in this country, yet too little Attention is paid to it. Secretary Morton, in the year book of the Agricultural Department, gives some excellent advice in. regard to dairy interests.- He appeals to ||||dairytnep to biiv, bretfd ant .keep vn\p

Another thing of great importance is to secure only healthy cattle. The effects of foods on the production of milk should be carefully looked after. Farmers are also specially interested in 'this subject. The wealth and fertility of this county could both be very largely increased by greater attention to dairying interests. If all farmers would keep only the best dairy cows and by careful attention to the milk and cream, secure a uniform high grade of butter, they could, through a special agent, consign it all to some commission man at Indianapolis, Cincinnati or Chicago, and secure about twice the price that ordinary butter brings. By running the land in pasture and feeding all the produce of the farm at home, the fertility of the soil would be increased wonderfully. Sell off the scrubs and common stock and keep only the be.-rt. The best is none too good.

CHASK MEMORIAL FUND.

An Appeal In Behalf of the Wl.low of tne late Governor of ludlana.

The citizens of Indiana are interested in knowing that the late ex-Governor

Mr. Chase left $3,000 life insurance written for his wife's benefit, the proceeds of which, under the most favorable circumstances, would not realize over $200 a year, and I now state that this sum is the only provision available for the support of Mrs. Chase. Tiere is an additional $1,000 life insurance, payable to the estate of Mr. Chase, which will be wholly absorbed in paying debts.

Mrs. Chase has no home, as stated in several papers, her only property consisting of a lot in Irvington, covered by a mortgage, which she is unable to pay• It will occur to all right-minded people that these statements furnish a sufficient explanation of the memorial futd in behalf of Mrs. Chase. It is proper to state that, thus far, the offerings to the memorial fund have not met the expectations of its promoters.

I now wish to remind the people of our good State that this appeal in behalf of Mrs. Chase rests on the broad basis of patriotism and State pride. Mrs. Chase is the widow of the ex-Governor of Indiana, and the true issue is, shall she be allowed to go through the remainder of her life blind, helpless and without a shelter, to say nothing of her future care? Is it not the fitting and righteous thing to proceed at once to make ample provision for the comfort of this noble woman, who so well deserves our best gifts?

In conclusion, I feel sure that all will join in this closing statement, that it well becomes the patriotic people of Indiana to make prompt and generous response to the memorial fund in behalf of Mrs Chase. All offerings to this fund will be properly acknowledged and devoted to the purpose, first, of procuring a modest home for Mrs. Chase, and as far as possible, securing her future care. The situation calls for prompt action. All communications should be addressed to me at Wabash. A. M. ATKINSON.

Wabash, Ind. June 18.

The Indiana University has issued its ^annual catalogue for the year 1894—'95 which is a pamphlet of 130 pages. The total enrollment for the year is 771. Of these 47 are graduate students. The largest previous enrollment was 633 of the year 1893—'94. There were in all 106 students who received degrees at our last commencement 76 A. B. 18 LL. B. and li A. M. Among the new professors are

Dr. Frank Fetter, chair of political economy, formerly ofCornell University Dr. H. W. Johnston, professor of Latin Dr. Robert Lyons, professor of chemistry. He returns (rom a three years' course of study in Germany. On account of the growth in the number of students, instructors have been added in chemistry, botany, Greek, French, German and English. The faculty now consists of two professors emeritup, nineteen professors, six associate Professors, two assistant professors, twenty Instructors and five tutors and laboratory assistants, making in all fifty- four members of the faculty. A comparison with other institutions shows that no institution of its size in the country has drawn more widely on the resources of the best American and European universities. All University publications will be sent on application to President Joseph Smain, Bloomington, Indiana.

Fourth of tlulv Excursion Kates via Petinsylvania lanes.

On Wednesday and Thursday, July 3d and 4th, special excursion tickets will be sold from all ticket station^n the Pennsylvania Lines to any station on those nes Within two hundred miles f^om station wiere ticket is purchased. Retttrn coupon will be good until July 5th, inclusive. Tickets will not be sold to adults for 1*ss than twenty-five eents. nor to :li Id. lot leas tliaft fifteen,cent.:. 35l2&4

His Attempt to Make a Lawyer of Himself.

A BOOK HIS CONSTANT COMPANION.

Why He Loved a Story—His Defloiency a Salesman—How He Kept His Head Above the Waves of Destitution—A Surveyor

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J. Chase died before making adequate provision for the care of his wife, concerning which I deem it important to make a brief statement. At the time of Mr. Chase's death numerous and cocflcting statements appeared in the public prints concerning his financial affairs, which differing statements have greatly hindered the success of the enterprise inaugurated by Mr. Chas's friends to provide a home and future support for his wife. Having been chosen}by Mrs. Chase to hive charge of her business affairs, I am prepared to state the exact financial situation, to which I ask the careful consideration of a patriotic and generous public.

[Prom "The Life of Lincoln" by William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik. Copyright. 1888, by Jesse W. Weik. Copyright, 1892, by D. Appleton & Co.]

VII.

That Lincoln's attempt to make a lawyer of himself under adverse and unpromising circumstances excited comment is not to be wondered at. Russell Godby, an old man who still survives, told me in 1865 that he had often employed Lincoln to do farm work for him and was surprised to find him one day sitting barefoot on the summit of a tyood pile and attentively reading a book. "This being an unusual thing for farmhands in that early day to do, I asked him," relates Godby, 'what ho was reading. 'I'm not reading,' he answered. 'I'm studying.' 'Studying what?' I inquired. 'Law, sir,' was the emphatio response. It was really too much for me as I looked at him sitting there proud as Cicero. 'Great God Almighty I exclaimed and passed on."

But Lincoln kept on at his studies. Wherever he was and whenever he could do so the book was brought into use. He carried it with him in his rambles through the woods and his walks to the river. When night came, he read it by the aid of any friendly light he could find. Frequently he went down to the cooper's shop and kindled afire out of the waste material lying about, and by the light it afforded read until far into the night.

Preliminary Practice.

One of his companions at this time relates that "while clerking in the store or serving as postmaster heSvould apply himself as opportunity offered to his studies, if it was but five minutes' time would open his book, which he always kept at hand, study it, reciting to himself then entertain the company present or wait on a customer without apparent annoyance from the interruption. Have frequently seen him reading while walking along the streets. Occasionally he would become absorbed with his book would stop and stand for a few moments, then walk on, or pass from one house to another, or from one crowd or squad of mvn to another. He was apparently seeking amusement, and with his thoughtful face and ill fitting clothes was the last man one would have singled out for a student.''

It was not long until he was able to draw up deeds, contracts, mortgages and other legal papers for his neighbors. He figured conspicuously as a pettifogger before the justice of the peace but, regarding it merely as a kind of preliminary practice, seldom made any charge for his services. Meanwhile he was reading not only lawbooks, but natural philosophy and other scientifio subjects.

It has been denied as often* as charged that Lincoln narrated vulgar stories, but the truth is he lovec^ a story, however extravagant or vulgar, if it had a good point. If it was merely a ribald recital and had no sting in the end— that is, if it exposed no weakness or pointed no moral—he had no use for it either in conversation or publio speech, but if it had the necessary ingredients of mirth and moral no one could use it with more telling effect. As a mimic he was unequaled, and with his characteristic gestures he built up a reputation for story telling, although fully as many of his narratives were borrowed as original, which followed him through life. One who listened to h|s early stories in New Salem says: "His laugh was striking. Such awkward gestures belonged to no other man. They attracted universal attention, from the old sedate down to the schoolboy. Then in a few moments he was as calm and thoughtful as a judge on the bench and as ready to give advice on the most important matters. Fun and gravity grew on him'alike."

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Striking Figure.

As a salesman Lincoln waS lamentably ^deficient. Hew as too prone to lead off into a discussion of politics or morality, leaving some one else to finish the trade which he had undertaken. One of his employers says: "He always disUked to wait on the ladies, preferring, he said, to wait on the men and boys. I also remember he used to sleep on the store counter when they had too much company at the tavern. He wore flax and toW linen pantaloons I thought about five inches too short in the legs—and frequently had but one suspender, no vest or coal He toore a calico shirt, such as he had In th6 Attack Hawk war coarse brogans, tan oolor blue yarn socks and straw hat, old style and without a band. His friend Ellis attributed his shyness in the presence of the ladies to the consciousness of his awkward appearance and the unpretentious conation of his wearing apparel. It was more than likely due to pure bashfulness. "On one occasion," continues Ellis, "while we boarded at the tavern, there came a family, consisting of an old lady, her spa and three stylish daughters, from the state of Virginia, who stopped there for »two or three weeks, and during their stay I do not remember Mr. Lincoln's ever appearing at the same table with them."

As a society man Lincoln wps singularly deficient whjle be lived in Now Salem aiid jbvtft during the remainder of his life. He never indulged in gossip about%he ladies nor aided in the circulation of xillago scandal. For woman he bad a W|h f*i|gfifd.j)»d I jau testify, £'V*v

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GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY, JUNE 27 1895.

SKETCHES OF LINCOLN.

ibat during my long acquaintance with aim his conversation was free fr^m injurious comment in individual cases— freer from unpleasant allusions than that of most men. "While wooing that jealous eyed mistress, the law, Lincoln was earning no money. As another has said, "He had a running board bill to pay and nothing to pay it with." By dint of sundry jobs here and there, helping Ellis in his store today, splitting rails for James Short tomorrow, he managed to keep his head above the waves. His friends were firm —no young man ever had truer or better ones—but he was of too independent a turn to appeal to them or complain of his condition. He never at any time abandoned the idea of becoming a lawyer. That was always a spirit which beckoned him on in the darkest hour of his adversity.

Some one, probably a Democrat who voted for him in the preceding fall, recommended him to John Calhoun, then surveyor of the county, as suitable material for an assistant. This office, in view of the prevailing speculation in lands and town lots, was the most important and possibly the most profitable in the county. Calhoun, the incumbent, was a Yankee and atypical gentleman. He was brave, intellectual, self possessed and cultivated. He had been educated for the law, but never practiced much after coming to Illinois taught school in preference. As an instructor he was the popular one of his day and age. I attended the sohool he taught, when I was a boy, in Springfield, and was in later years clerk of the city under his administration as mayor. Lincoln, I know, respected and admired him. After Lincoln's removal to Springfield they frequently held joint debates on political questions. At one time, I remember, they discussed the tariff question in the courthouse, using up the better part of two evenings in the contest. Calhoun was polite, affable and an honest debater, never dodging any.question. This made him a formidable antagonist in argumentative controversy. I have heard Lincoln say that Calhoun gave him more trouble in his debates than Douglas ever did. because he was more captivating in his manner and a more learned man than Douglas.

But to resume. The recommendation of Lincoln's friends was sufficient to induce Calhoun to appoint him one of his deputies.. At the time he received notice of his seleotion by Calhoun, Linooln was out in the ods near New Salem splitting rails. A friend named Pollard Simmons, who still survives and has related the incident to me, walked out to the point where he was working with the cheering news. Lincoln, being a Whig and knowing Cqlhoun's pronouueed Democratic tendencies, inquired if he had to sacrifice any principle in accepting the position. "If I can be perfectly free in my political action, I will take the office, "he remarked, "but if my sentiments or even expression of them is to be abridged in any way I would not have it or any other office. A young man hampered by poverty as Lincoln was at this time, who had the courage to deal with public office as he did, was certainly made of unalloyed material. No wonder in after years, when he was defeated by Douglas, he could inspire his friends by the admonition not to "give up after one nor one hundred defeats."

Honors were now crowding thick and fast upon him. On May 7, 1833, he was commissioned postmaster at New Salem, the first office he ever held under the federal government. The salary was proportionate to the amount of business done. Whether Lincoln solicited the appointment himself or whether it was given him without the asking I do not know, but certain it is his "administration" gave general satisfaction.

Nature's Stamp of Greatness.

No little of Lincoln's influence with the men of New Salem can be attributed to bis extraordinary feats of strength. By an arrangement of ropes and straps, harnessed -about his hips, he was enabled one day at the mill to astonish a crowd of village celebrities by lifting a box of stones weighing near 1,000 pounds. There is no fiction either, as suggested by some of his biographers* in the story that he lifted a barrel of whisky from the ground and drank from the bung, but in performing this latter almost incredible feat he did not stand erect and elevate the barrel, but squatted down and lifted it to his knees, rolling it over until his mouth came opposite the bung. His strength, kindness of manner, love of fairness and justioe, his original and unique sayings, his power of mimicry his perseveranceall made a combination rarely met with on the frontier. Nature had burned him in her holy fire and stamped him with the'seal of her greatness.

In the summer of 1843 EAncoln determined to make another race for the legislature, but this time bf ran distinctly as a Whig. He made, it is presumed, tjfce usual number of speeches, but as the art of newspaper reporting had not reached the perfection it has since attained we are not favored with even the substance of his efforts on the •tump. I have Lincoln's word for it that it was more of a handshaking campaign than anything else.

The election took place in August Lincoln's friend, John Stuart, was also a candidate oh the legislative ticket. He encouraged Lincoln's canvass in every way, eveu at the risk of sacrificing his own chances. But both were elected. The four successful candidates were Dawson, who received 1,800 votes, Lincoln 1,376, Carpenter 1,170 and Stuart 1,164.

At last Lincoln had been elected to the legislature and by a very flattering majority. In order, as he himself said, "tcr make a decent appearance in the legislature," he had to borrow money to buy suitable cldthing f^nd to maintain his nciw: dignity. Coleman Smoot, one of hi* friends, advanoed him "$800, which he returned,'' relates the generous Sm.oot, ^'according to promise." Herp we leave our rising yopng statesf miin to take up a different hot very in-

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