Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 15 August 1895 — Page 2

ME GREENFIELD REPUBLIC AN

PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. •OL. 16. No. 33-Entered at the Poitofficeii Mond-olau mall matter.

W. 8. MONTGOMERY, Publisher and Proprietor.

Mate This Week, 2,725

JAMES J.INGALLS *ho wants to return to the Senate from Kansas is a free silver man.

THE editor of the Joliet Republican wtsnessed an "outfit" in the penitentiary city the other day, which is thus described: "Yesterday a strange spectacle was seen passing through the city, attacting a great deal of attention and much merriment. A rickety Oklahomo wagon was passing through, and a legend on its dingy cover read as follows: "Oklahoma iov starvation, Kausas for desolation, Texas lor devastation, Nebraska for hell and damnation, going to Ohio to sponge on wife's relation, to hell with the Democratic administration."

IT is heralded far and wide- when some old farmer g^ts taken in by thiee curd monte men or a gold brick svviutUe, and it should be to warn others. Occasionally other people are taken in who think themselves well fortified against swindling business methods. Recently a man from Cripple Creek, Col., worked a salted mine scheme and secured certified checks amounting to §65,000 from Attorney-Gen-eral W. A. Ketchain.

Ex-Attorney-Gen­

eral Greene Smith and his deputy Leon O. Bailey, Thomas Taggart, Albeit J. Beveridge and Frank J. Holliday. As a precau ianary measure they made a little tour to Colorado and found the affair to 1)6 a lake.

D. H. GOBLE, of the Home and School sitor. received a letter from anew trustea that shows a trifty turn of mind. The new trustee says: "I desire to open up an account with some good and reliable school supply house. What commis(»n will you allow me on goods bought?" tc.

That

trustee evidently does not in-

i.d to give the taxpayers of his townpa square deal, but his blundering art shows that his judgment and ho:«t are about on a par.

The publication each year of the expenditures of the various township trustees will save the taxpayers thousands of dollars. All the township's business will be laid before the people each year and they can thoroughly inspect it. A man who was disposed to be dishonest will BO doubt be held straight and show that the aw compelling the trustees to publish annual reports to be a splendid law.

Saturday's Daily. TWO SIGN SHOT AT NEW FALKSTINE.

Ed I. iinb and Charles Ul'ery Seriously Wounded.

Thursday a big picnic was held at New Palestine and at night there was a dance Schriber's hall. No men who were drinking were allowed in the hall and as a result a crowd of fifteen or twenty drinkers collected in the street below. About 11:30 and after dance was over these men got into a quarrel among themselves, among them being Ed

Lamb,

of Fountaiu^ovvn, who works

or Charles

Eickman-

as. a farm hand,

Charles Ullery, head sawyer at the New Palestine bent wood factory aul A1 Snyder, a Cumberland saloon keeper. It is 8nid that in the quarrel Lamb threatened to shoot sonle one, when Snyder remarked, "If you want a shootng match we will begin

tright

now."

Suiting the action to the word he shot Lamb twice,once in the right shoulder and once through the right side of his-neck, when Lamb dropped. Suyder then fired a third shot at Charle3 Ullery, as there was an old standing grudge between the two. It took effect below his right thigh, going into the bone. Ullery then began shooting at Snyder, who rapidly disappeared, although four shots were fired. The men were taken into, the office of Dr. O. C. Neier, who dressed the wounds. They will both recover, but botb men had a close call. The revolvers used were 82 calibre, and it seems here were a number of other guns in the crowd. Whiskey and concealed weapons are responsible for the big majority of the shooting scrapes. The laws against earrying concealed we.ipous should be more rigidly aad strictly euforoed and violotors fiaed to the limit of the law. Snjder was arrested at Cumberland yesterday and gave bond for bis appearance at trial at.Palestii.e today.

Grand Jubilee Day at Fortville.

Saturday, August 17, the citizins of Fortville and vicinity propose having a grand day of sports. There will be a free for all bicycle race at 9:30 a. m., a game of base ball between McCordsville and Fortville. At 1:50 p. m. there will be another bicycle race, a foot race be--ween the =wiftiest runners of the ball clubs, a wheel barrow race and another game of base ball, McCordsville vs. Car-. Kiel.

Last will occur the soaped pole climbing for a nice watch. In the contests good prizes will be given in each. There will be good music all day by the Fortville Citizens band Admission, gents 15c, ladies 10c. Everyone avited. ,•

The Greenfield Laundries Ci»moli«lat« i|.

T. C, Herring, of th^Troy Steam Laundry, has purchased the Greenfield Steam Laundry Qf Yak Sing and LOuie L. Siogv Ifr. Herring will consolidate the two and 4o business at the stand of the Greenfield

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A Trip to D«)toD With Dr, Harter Medtetne Co.—And The ..Grand, Reception Given By the Board Of

Tiade.

As we have previously given an account of the removal of the Dr. Harter Medicine Co. from St. Louis to Payton, Ohio we omit that part. Suffice it to say the train carried a jolly party consistintf of the managers and employees of the Med cine Co advertising managers from St. Paul and Chicago and editors from four states, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. The train was accorded a fitting reception at all the stations enroute. Here at Greenfield it will be rememl ered that several hundred people gathered at the depot to see what was a novel spectacle an entire business transplanted fr oi estate to another in one train. It was all there and business went on continuously and never in any two days did any similar business receive such a splendid advertisement. Dr. 8. S. Boots representing the Herald, Harry Strickland the Tribune and W. S. Montgomery the REPUBLICAN, joined the excursion at this city and enjoyed a very delightful trip. The trip was marked by Urge crowd* at all the stations especially Richmond where dinner was eaten. A slight accident to the engine near Dublin in which the dome was injured caused a delay of an hour. Upon the arrival of the train at Dayton it was greeted by the blowing of all the factory whistles and the ringing of the fire bells of the city. The people also were out in enormous numbers and gathered up the advertisirg matter distributed from the train. The company and its guests were taken to the Atlas, a fine new hotel, where all were entertained. The Greenfield party, accompanied by J. C. Ochiltree, editor of the Richmond Telegram, took a trip

on the

electric cars to

the

Soldiers' Home, which is indeed a magnificent place. It' has many grand and splendid buildings, lakes, water falls, fountains, flowers, monuments, pieces of ordnance, groves and hundreds of acres of

elegantly rolling land, beautified both

by nature and art. The Home now contains about 6,000 old soldiers, and one thing peculiar we noticed was

that the

larger number of them were Irishmen. At 7 o'clock the Board of Trade had prepared for a grand industrial parade, showing how well they appreciated the coming of anew industry. There were nearly two hundred carriages in line containing the managers and business force of the Dr. Harter Medicine Co., their guests and members of the Board of Trade. In addition, there were a large number of floats representing the company's business, and many express wagons, all abundantly supplied with fire works. The houses along the line of march were decorated and illuminated, and the people were out en masse, lining ooth sides of the street, so that it was a great sight. One TT remarked that Dayton was only estimated to contain" 80,000 people, but he wai satisfied that he saw 800,000.

The banquet at the Atlas Hotel was a superb affair, and showed to a great ^degree the secret of Dayton's success a commercial and manufacturing city. Her businessmen are thoroughly united in advancing their own, their neighbors and the city's business. They greet all newcomers in a broad-miuded, liberal and hospitable, manner that shows the welcome to be of the true kiud. Covers were laid for 150 ^'guests. The cuisine and service were of the highest quality and all enjoyed the bauquet to the greatest possible extent.

After dinner came the oratory. E. M. Thresher, president of the]Board of Trade and Toast Master, delivered the addross of welcome, which was responded* to by W. M. Hayner, manager of the company, who neatly introduced Hon. Thomas B. Kyle, of Troy, O., the compauy's 'attorney, who spoke at some length in a happy and plea-iug style. This was followed by a number of Dayton's leading business men who responded ,to toasts in such a style as to merit continuous apj.lause. Dayton's merits were set fbrth in glowin? terms and the magnitude of her business astonished even the home people, who had hardly realized its great'growth. There are 150 corporations representing $25,000,000 and 700 firms representing as much more. The banks haye a capital of $2,500,000, a surplus of $750,000, deposits of $4,500,000, and loans amountto $ i,000,000.

Dayton is a beautiful city, withelegaut homes, splendid business blocks, finely paved streets, electric railway system and everything that goes to make up a city of the be^t class.

Dayton will do much for the Dr. Harter Mediciue Company, and the company will do much for Dayton with its 20,000,000 pieces of advertising matter and its hustling business representatives. We had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Kahoe, of the Herald, Mr Huffman of the Times and News, and Abraham and Charles Bickham of the Journal, all succeessful and genial Dayton newspaper men, who are continuously advancing Dayton's inter ests. There are no drones in that busy business hiVe^all are workers and pushers, and tbq, success Dayton ,has won js the legitimate rewards of well-directed labor. Dayt'onians are locally loyal and liberal and we fell in love with ,their st^le. To W. M. Hayner' and W. S. Kidder, managers, and "W. 'H. Yeazell, of the Harter Medicine Compaiay^'the representatives frb'tii Greenfield are under obligations for many courtesies. May th?y and their company live long 'and prosper. i,

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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.

Imperial Dignity Conferred on the Man of Ajaccio.

PIU3 VII PBESENT8 THE 0E0WN.

Ko Killer of Mankind Ever Confirmed by Sach Acclaim—Plots Against His Life. Pichegru, Georges Cadoudal and the Duke of Enghien Put to Death.

[Copyright, 1895, by John Clark Ridpath. 1 XV.—SERA-T-IL EMPEREUR DES FRANCAIS?

•To the ancient order in Europe the apparition of Bonaparte was intolerable. His establishment in the Consulate was a menace to all that survived of the eighteenth century. To t&e princes of Cbristendem the Man of Ajaccio appeared at first as an ambitious adventurer. Risen to power, they esteemed him a parvenu and political bastard. Now they beheld him confirmed by the almost unanimous voice of a great people. For him the Gallic enthusiasm burst out in wild applause. By the Treaty of Amiens he was recognized as the fellow of kings and emperors. The greatest portent of all this—that the peaceable ratification of the Consulate for life tended to make permanent the results of the French Revolution, thu3 invalidating the ancient regime, and converting its offspring into stalk-horses and specters.

The phantoms of the Past accordingly resorted to conspiracy. Francs had blown her feudal ghosts across the borders. Some of them hovered in London. Some were in Berlin. All places on the

NAPOLEON BY GERARD.

right bank of the Rhine were infested by them. The descendants of the Houses of Bourbon, of Orleans, of Conde, flit ted dimly in the horizon. They had their following. Their secret friends squatted in the very shadow of the TuHeries. As for open war, they had had enough of that. Of secret intrigues and plots and crimes there was now no end.

The conspiracy which exploded in the Rue St. Nicaise was only the beginning of plots and plotting. It is in evidence that the agents of the British government lent a willing hand to the secret crimes that were to compass the destruction of Bonaparte. On his side there was corresponding vigilance. It was equivalent to death for any to lift the hand against him. His immediate subordinates were without exception loyal. But all the disapointed, hovering at a distance, scowled at his rising star.

Among the plots of the day that of Georges Cadoudal, leader of the Chouans of Brittany, was conspicuous. From being an insurgent in the Royalist revolt of 1799, he had fled to England, \yhere' the count of Artois, afterwards CharlesX., received him with'open arms. In 1803 he made his way secretly to Paris. Thelre he conspired with the disgraced General Pichegru, Napoleon's old master in mathematics at Brienne, to destroy the life of the First Consul. The plot was discovered, Pichegru was seized, imprisoned, and on the 5th of April, 1804, was strangled in his cell. Cadoudal, trying to escape, killed two policemen, butvpas overmastered, condemned, and on the 25th of June, 1804, Was guillotined. General Moreau, the hero of Hohonlinden, who had become a Royalist, .was accuscd of complicity in these schemes. Convicted of having knowledge of the plot of Cadoudal, ho was condemned to two years' imprisonment but Napoleon commuted the sentence into exile, and Moreau chose the United States as his refuge. After eight years, he entered the service of Russia, and in 1813 was mortally wounded at the battle of Dresden.

The result of these attempts was farreaching. At this time the living representatives of the demolished monarchy were the counkpf Provence, afterwards Louis XVIII., who was at Warsaw the count of Artois, in London the young Orleans Philippe, afterwards the Citizen King, in Switzerland and the duke of Enghien, descendant of the great Conde, at Ettenhoim, in Baden. All of these were more or less implicated in the plots against Napoleon. The duke of Enghien in particular was believed to be a fellow-conspirator of Pichegru and Cadoudal. The latter bad been secretly visited in Paris by a mysterious personage whom the passion of the hour declared to bo the Conde prince. Notwithstanding the fact that Baden was neutral territory, a body of French soldiers was Bent secretly to Ettenheim the chateau was surrounde(l, and on the night of the 15th-of^ March, 180,4, the duo d'Enghicn was seized in lied aii} hurried away-to the fdrtress of Yincennes.

A court-martial under General Hullin was immediately ordered, and without wit£essei|o* gtlier legai.plfeof, the Duke was condemned to be shot. On the morning of the 21st of March, just before the day, he was led into the ditch outside the wall, 'and there, by the ghastly light of torches, was s^ot dead., His bo&y tfrfcf tbrbwn, itritlfttrt fembVal, of tbff bloody?^garments, intd a {iit'tliat had been digged the day before! *TW

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X: MENFIELD REPtjBLICAft, TflU&SDAY lUft. ll 1895.

Certain it is that the death of Enghieu hastened the transformation of the Consulate into the Empire. The seat of the First Consul was already in everything but the name a throne. Why not make it a throne in fact? The facility of the French for change rendered easy the project which the temper of a heavier and more serious race would have rejected. Like the Athenian fancy, the Parisian mind flies quickly to the new. It hovers about the brilliant, the extraordinary. It satisfies itself with glory and enthusiasm. All these qualities in the soul of the people worked to the advantage and purpose of Bonaparte but there was not wanting a measure of opposition. The Napoleonio desire soon found expression. Petitions began to be sent up from all parts of France. These were couched in suggestive hints to the First Consul that he should consolidate his power.

On the 13th of April 1804, the first formal proposition fo$ the conversion of the Consular Republic into an Empire was made by Curee in the Tribunate. The measure included the title of Empereur des Francais for Napoleon, with the right of hereditary succession in his family. Though the influence of the government was strongly devoted to the scheme, the proposal met with serious opposition. The conspicuous voice of Lazare Nicolas Carnot, grandfather of the recently assassinated President of the French Republic, was heard above the din of affirmative applause. But on the 18th of 'May the measure was carried in the senate.

A consultum was promulgated, by which the Imperial dignity was conferred on Napoleon Bonaparte, and the decree was at once sent to the people. Another surprising election was held, at which 3,524,254 voters recorded their decision. Of these, 3,521,675 were in the affirmative, and only 2,579 in the negative 1 Whatever critical history may say-of the antecedents of the Empire, certain it is that no other hereditary ruler of mankind was ever confirmed in power by such an acclaim of his countrymen! With good reason the feudal notion of territorial dominion hitherto expressed in the titles of rulers, gave way under this Imperial election for Bonaparte was made Emperor, not of France, but of the French.

Notified by the Senate of the establishment of the Empire and of his own nomination thereto, Napoleon accepted the trust. The ceremony of notification was at St Cloud. Josephine was also congratulated by the Senate. The Palace of St. Cloud was thronged on the occasion with the distinguished and elite of France. Just after the ceremony was over, a footman, rich in gold, lace and scarf, made his way into the crowd, where the Baron Claude-Francois de Meneval—secretary to Bonaparte after the disgrace and dismissal of Bourrienne—was standing, and said: "Sir, the EMPEROR wishes to see you!" It was the first time that that astounding word had been applied to Bonaparte! History for nearly a century has confirmed it. At St. Helena he himself—offended at the small-minded officiality that designatecl him as General Bonaparte—said indignantly, "I shall always be known in history as the Emperor Napoleon!"

The Empire thus created was made date from the 18th of May, 1804 b\.t the coronation of Napoleon did not take I place until the 2nd of the following De- I comber. Practically, the change in the government was not great. The stream of Consular power flowed into, the wideiiing rive$ of Imperialism without a bend or the noise of cataracts. The coronation was a scene memorable "in human annals. Pius VII., conciliated by the late Concordat, Came willingly from Rome to crown the soldier of fortune, and to leave on him and his work the Papal benediction.

It was at the altar of Notre Dame— where the Revolutionists of the Terror had danced the Carmagnole—that ,tlie Emperor-elect of the French knelt to receive the diadem. The Pope gave it but Napoleon, taking it from his hand, put it on his own head—a thing most fitting to do for he had made it for himself!

Josephine was crowned with her im perious lord. Returning from Notre Dame to the Tuileries, the Emperor,, on reaching his own apartment, tore off as rapidly as he,could the imperial vestments, and got himself into his usual apparel for he was a man of business. The occasion was sunlit with splendor, and all hearts seemed full of life and light: all but one—the heart of Josephine. To her what ominous significance was in that clause of the senatus-consnl-tum which made the crown hereditary in the family of Napoleon! Dire word was that word "family" to Marie Josephe Tascer, whilom Madame de Beauharnais, now Iiuperatrice des Francais. For dhe was forty-one and a-half years of age—epoch well fiigh fatal to possible motherhood.

Only slight changes were made in the new Imperial administration. All such modifications looked to the unity and glory of the Empire. Napoleon preserved as much as he could of the personnel of the preceding Consular government. His two colleagues, Camhaceres and Lebrun, were appointed the one arch-chuncellor and the other archtreasurer of state Joseph Bonaparte was made grand elector, and Louis the Imperial constable. Eighteen of the great generals who bad become'sucb with poleon ip ti?ef field Were mad« ttttahi! of France. The ^transformation pwqpt. over the landscape like the, dappled shadow of a sunny cloudL Tjie •Christmas holidays of 1804 came to Paris in a blaze of splenddr. "WiV Qaffro World danoed and smiled under'wreaths of ivy and the flash of crystal oandelabrd, and tbe mutter-of? distant wa^ wae scarcely beardvon the, widened and-confident bor-

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of

which it succeeded, had a sword sharpness for all its enemies^ The killing of Enghien created a tremendous sensation throughout Europe. Europe had not at learned that the blood of kings and princes is even as the blood of other men.

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SKETCHES OF LINCOLN.

More Unique Letters to Mary S. Owens.

AN UNFORTUNATE -COMPOSITION.

The First Letter After the Drawn Battle. He Seems Easily Satisfied—A Peculiai Screed to a Friend—Miss Owens' Opinion After Her Marriage.

[From "The Life of Lincoln" by William H. Berndon and Jesse W. Weik. Copyright, 1883, by

3earn

FRIEND MARY—You will no doubt think it rather strange that I should write you a letter on the same day on which we parted, and 1 can only account for it by supposing that seeing you lately makes me' think of you more than usual, while at our late mfeting we had but few expressions of thoughts. You must know that 1 cannot see you or think of you with 'entire indifference, and yet it may be that you are mistaken in regard to what rny real feelings towards you are. If 1 kncw.you were not, 1 should not trouble you. with this letter. Perhaps any other man would know enough without further information, but 1 consider it my peculiar right to plead ignorance and your bounden duty to allow the pica.

I want in all cases to do right, and most particularly so in all cases with women. I want at this particular time, more than anything else, to do right to you, and if I knew it would be doing right, as I rather suspect it would, to let you alone, I would do it. And for the ourpose ot making the matter as plain as .possible 1 now say that you can drop the subject, dismiss your thoughts—if you ever had any— from me forever, and leave this letter unanswered without calling forth one accusing murmur from me. And I will even go further and say that if it will add anything to your comfort or peace of mind to do so it is my sincere wislr that you should. Do not understand by this that I wish to cut your acquaintance: I mean no such thing. What I do wish is thatour further acquaintance shall depend upon yourself. If such further acquaintance would contribute nothing to your happiness, I am sure it would not to mine. If you feel yourself in any degree bound to me, I am now willing to release you, provided you wish it, while,' on the other hand, 1 am willing and even anxious to bind you faster if 1 can be convinced that it will in any considerable degree add to your happiness. This indeed is the whole question with me. Nothing would make me more miserable, nothing more happy, than to know you were so.

In what I have said 1 think 1 cannot be mis understood, and to make myself understood is the sole object"of this letter.

If it suits you best to not answer this—farewell—a long life and a merry one attend you. But if you conclude to write, back sifcak as plainly a9 1 do. There can ba neither harm nor danger in saying to me anything you think just in the maimer you think it. My respects to your sister. Your friend, LINCOLN

A Ludicrous Letter.

For an account of the final outcome of this affaire du coeur tbe reader is now referred to the most ludicrous letter Mr. Lincoln ever wrote. It has been said, but with how much truth I do not know, that during his term as president the lady to whom it was written, Mrs. O. H. Browning, wife of a fellow member of. the legislature, before giving a copy of it to a biographer, wrote to Lincoln asking his consent to the publication, but that he answered warning her against it because it was too full of truth. The only biographer who ever did insert it apologized for its appearance ill his book, regarding it for many reasons as an extremely painful duty. "If it coukl be withheld," he laments, "and the act decently reconciled to the conscience of a biographer professing to be honest and candid, it should never see the liprht in these pages. Its gro tesque humor, its coarse exaggerations in describing the person of a lady whom

the writer was willing to marry, its iiw-

pntatiou of toothless and weather beaten

old age td a woman really young and handsome, its utter lack of that delicacy of tone and sentiment which one naturally expects a gentleman to adopt when he thinks proper to discuss the merits of his late mistress~all these and its defective orthography it would certainly be more agreeable to suppress than to publish. But, if we begin by omitting or mutilating a document which sheds so broad a light upon one part of his life and one phase of his character, why may we not do the like as fast and as often as the temptation arises? And where shall the process cease?" 1 prefer not to take such a serious view of the letter or its publication. My idea is that Mr. Lincgln got into one of his irresistible moods of humor and fun —a state of feeling into ^hich he frequently worked himself to avert the overwhelming effects of his constitutional melancholy—and in the inspiration of the moment penned this letter, which many regard as. an unfortunate composition. The class who take such a gloomy view of the matter should bear in mind that the letter was written by Mr. Lincoln in the fervor of early manhood, just as he was emerging from a most embarrassing situation, and addressed to a friend who, he supposed, would keep it sacredly sealed from the public eye. As a matter of fact, Mr. Lincoln was not gifted with a ready perception of the propriety of things in all cases. Nothing with him was intuitive. To have profound judgment and just discrimination he required time to think, :and if facts or events were forced before him in t'oo rapid succession the machinery^ of-'bis judgment failed to, work. A knowledge of this fact will accoibrit' for tbb letteur, .abd tUsQ serve,.to rob tjbe otfprisdi if any, was committed, .of hjilf fts sev^ritj.,

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W. Weik. Copyright, 1892, by D. Ap-

pleton & Co.]

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During the warm, dry summer months Lincoln kept up the lovb siege without apparent diminution of zeal. He was as assiduous as ever, and in August was anxious to force a decision. On the 16th he had a meeting with her which terminated much like a drawn battle—at least it seems to have afforded him but little encouragement, for on his return to Springfield he immediately indulged in an epistolary effusion stranger than any that preceded it:

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The jhe stime month Miss Owe^.^^e^^ifiiial de-

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suffered since I saw you, 1 shall necessarily have to relate some that happened before. It was, then, in the autumn of 1836 that a married lady of my acquaintance and who was a great friend of mine, being about to pay a visit to her father and other relatives residing in Kentucky, proposed to mo that on her return she would bring a sister of hers with her on condition that I would engage to become her brother-in-law with all convenient dispatch. I of course accepted the proposal, for you know I could not have done otherwise had I resly been averse to it but, privately, between you and me, I was most confoundedly well pleased with the project. I had seen the said sister some three years before, thought her intelligent and agreeable, and saw no good objection to plodding life through hand in hand with her. Time passed on, the lady took her Journey, and in due time returned, sister in company sure enough. This astonished me a little, for it appeared to me that her coming so readily showed that she was a trifle too willing, but on reflection it occurred to me that she might have been prevailed on by her married sister to come without anything concerning me ever having been mentioned to her, and so I cdfncluded that, if no other dejection piv.se ntod itself, I would consent to waive this. All this occurred to moon hearing of her arrival in the neighborhood, for, be it remembered, 1. hud not yet seen her, except about three years previous, as above mentioned. In a few days we had an interview, and although I had seen her before she did not look as my imagination had pictured her. I knew she was oversize, but she now appeared a fair match for Falstaff. I knew she was called an "old maid," and I felt no doubt of tlio truth of at l^ast half of the appellation, but now, when I beheld her, I could not for my life avoid thinking of my mother, and this not from withered features, for her skin was too .full of fat to permit of its contracting into wrinkles, but. from her want of teeth, weather beaten appearance in general, and from a kind of notion that ran in my head that nothing could have commenced at the size of infancy and reached her present bulk in loss than iio or 40 years, and in short, 1 was not at all pleased with her. But what could I do? I had told her sister I would take her for better or for worse, and I made a point of honor and conscience in all things to stick to my word, especially if others had been induced to act on it, which in this case I had no doubt they had, for I was now fairly convinced that no other man on earth would havo her, and hence the conclusion that they wore bent on holding mo to my bargain. "Well," thought I, "I have said it, and, be the consequences what they may, it shall not be my fault if I fail to do it." At once I determined to consider her my wife, and, this done, all my powers of discovery were put to work in search of perfections in her which might be fairly set off against her defects. 1 tried to imagine her handsome, which, but for her unfortunate corpulency,was actually true. Exclusive of this, no woman that I have ever seen has a finer face. I also tried to convince myself that the mind was much more to be valued than the person, and in this she was not inferior, as I could discover, to any with whom I had been, acquainted.

Shortly after this, without coming to any positive

understanding

During

After all my suffering upon this deeply interesting subjecfi here I am, wholly, unexpectedly, completely, out of the "scrape, "and nowf I want to know if you can guess how I got out of it, out, clear, in every sense of the term, no violation of word honor or conscience. don't believe you can guess, so I might as well tell you at once.

As the lawyer says, it was done in the manner following—to wit: After I had delayed the-// matter as long as I thought I could in honor do—which, by the Way, had brought me round into the last fall—I concluded I might as well,, bring it to a consummation without further delay, and so 1 mustered up my resolution and made the proposal to her direct but, shocking to relate, she answered no, "At first I supposed she did it through an affectation of mod-, esty, which I thought but ill became her under the peculiar circumstances of her case, but on my renewal of'.the chargo I found she repelled it with greater firmness than before. I tried it again and again, but with the same'success, or rather with the- fame .want of success. I finally was forced to give it up, at which I very I unexpectedly found myself mortified almost beyond endurance. I was mortified, it seemed to me,' in hundred different way's. My vamty was deeply wounded by the reilection that I I hafl been too stupid to discover her in ten-,. tions, and at the same time never doubting that 1 understood them perfectly, and also-

that she, whom I had taught myself to believe nobodv else would have, had actually rejected

mc th all fancicd greatness. And. to

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Motiffflrcai,. MJBIU nmofe of my vlue 4# h|»

ciited ainpt•*!

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•ubjeM of tlilslfetter^^a^&r ft® 4Jaoover that, in oi^«r 'td'*iW rf fdll and in-

I

with her, I set out for

Vandalia, when and where you first saw me.

my stay there I had letters from her

which did not change my opinion of either her intellect or intention, but, on the contrary,

confirmed it in both. All this while, although I was fixed, "firm as theBurge repelling rock," in my resolution, I found.. I was continually repenting the rashness

which had led me to make it. Through life I have been in no. bondage, either real or imaginary, from the thraldom of which I so much desired to be free. After my return home I saw nothing to change my opinion of her iq, any particular. She was the same, and so was I. 1 now spent my time in planning how I might get along through life after my contemplated change of circumstances should have taken place, and how 1 might procrasti nate the evil day for a time, which I really dreaded as much, perhaps more, than an Irishman does the halter..

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my. fancicd greatness.

the who le, I then for the first time began to suspect that I was really a little in love with her. But let it all go. I'll try and outlive it. Others have been made fools of by the girLs, but this can never with truth be said of me. 1 most emphatically in this instance made a fool of myself. I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason—-I can never be satisfied with any one who would be blockhead enough to have me.

When you receive this, write me

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a

long yarn

about something to amuse me. Give my ro spects to Mr. Browning. Your sincere friend, A. LINCOLN.

Mrs. O. B. Browning, A----

As before mentioned. Miss Owens was afterward married and became the.' mother of five children. Two of lier sons served in the Confederate army Sh» died July 4, 1S77. Speaking of Mr. Lincoln a short time before her death, she referred to him as "a man with a heart full of kindness and a head full of

Not According to the Code.

While at the rendezvous at Rushvilleand on the march to the front Lincoln, of course, drilled his men and gave them such meager instruction in military tactics as he could impart In marching one morning at the head of the company, who were following in lines of 20 abreast, it became necessary to pass'r, through a gate much narrower than tho lines. Tho captain could not remember the proper command to turn tho com- TVi pany endwise, and the situation was becoming decidedly embarrassing when one of those thoughts born of the depths of despair came to his rescue. Facing the lines, be shouted: "Hait This company will break ranks

for

two minutes

and form again on the other side of tbe gate. The maneuver"was successfully executed.

Lincoln Ht the Bar.

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He never toot advantage of! a map's !..low character to prejudice .the jury*, MlvbincpTn "tbpught his duty to Jrtfc client extended to what ,was honorable and

minded, just and noble—nothing farther. •-,Sehc&%he meanest than afc tbe baf iklwa^a paid -great deference and tfe-'. s]pect to him.—David-Davis. Sept 10, 1866, MS. VF

L&'aoln saiS, "History la not histoxj