Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 32, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1886 — Page 9

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LINCOLN'S TWO MOTHERS. A Brief Sketch of two Women. Unknown Noble The expression of sadness which was so noticeable in Lincoln's face is said to have been a direct inheritance from his mother. Previous to his birth she had fallen into a hopeless state of mind, induced by loneliness of heart and long suffering. She was the wife of a man who, if all accounts of him do DOt lie, was destitute of energy and any sense of responsibility. It is said that any mention of his mother brought over Lincoln's face an expression of sadness almost approximating aguish. The cause lay deeper than any knowledge he ever gained. It was an anti-nval impress. She was a strangely sad woman During the latter years of her life she became reserved and shrink'ne, in decided contrast to the joyous sociability of her girlhot. Her maiden name was Nancy Hanks. Dr. Holland said of her: "She had much in her nature that was truly heroic, and much that shrank from the rude life around her." From his father Lincoln inherited his conversational habit and love of anecdote. Thomas Lincoln was brilliant as a store-box whittler and leader of grocery store dialogues. His chief earthly pleasure was to crack jokea and tell stors in a group of chums who paid homage to his wit by giving him the closest attention and loudest applause! "His son po9at-4ed this accomplishment," says Laura C. Holloway, in her book entitled "Mothers of Great Men and Women.' bat in his case it. was indulged in more to ma?k deep feeling and to avoid unpleasant subjects than for the pleasure the telling of Btories gave him. All his life he put barriers between the world and himself through the medium of humor." Thomas Lincoln was a rolling stone. He changed his residence whenever the mood seized him, a feasible undertaking any time since his worldly goods were never bulky. He was a carpenter 'ostensibly, bat worked only at hunting. He could scarcely have been greatly addicted to his trade, when the bedsteads in his cabin were made of saplings with the bark on. Nancy Hanks married him on the 23d of September, lsot, and probably regretted it ever after. In comparison with the people about her Mrs. Lincoln was a learned woman. She could read and write, though her husband could not. She taught her little son to read and write in their scanty cabin, and the few books she possessed were a comfort to her otherwise dismal existence. She died of what was then called the "milk sickness." after a long illness, when Lincoln was ten years old. How pathetic were those last days when she saw herself fading out of life, leaving her children in pinching poverty to the care of a careless father! Lincoln had a sister named Sally, two years older than himself, who married in her eighteenth year and died less than a year later. How earnestly she tried to make her son understand that be must set bior self some particular task in life and do it well! He could write fairly when she died. A year later he wrote to the minister who bad married bis parents, requesting him to come and preach his mother's funeral sermon, since there had been no service at the time of her death. Three months later the minister came, and the funeral sermon was preacned over her grave in the Western wilderness, in the presence of the children, their father and about twenty of trie neighbors. To this day no stone marks her restLug place. No words can describe the loneliness and misery of Lincoln's life in the year that followed. In the brightest days of his manhood he could not look back upon that time without agony and humiliation. A fw months more than year after the death of his mother fat blessed him with a stepmother, who was to him mother, friend, and companion. Eh Wftl a Widow when Thomas Lincoln mar

$1 00 50 2 50 - - - - $4 00 Address all letters ried her Mrs. Rallie Johnston a Kentuckian, with a kind heart and agreeable person. When Lincoln first saw her she was young, good looking, cheerful and full of energy. From the moment she set foot in the cabin she took a liking to the lonely, motherless boy a liking which soon ripened into love on both sides and endured until death. She, too, was one of Tbomaa Lincoln's victims. He had represented that he was a farmer in comfortable circunutance in Indiana. She found his home a poverty stricken cabin, his only support an occasional odd job which he did for the thrifty farmers of his neighborhood. She made the best of her unfortunate bargain, and found in the son tue companionship and help which were, lacking in the father. Great "was her influence upon the lonely life of the future great man. The furniture she brought with her gave the Indiana cabin an air of comfort, and her two dnghters anf one son brightened it with il ! childish pleasures. The little family Lved affectionately together. Lincoln was devoted to bis stepsisters and stepmother, and they wer in turn deeply attached to him'. In later j ears, when they were married and had homes of their own, nobody was welcomed more joyfully than "Brother Abe." After his tragic death they often spoke of his affection for their mother and of her's for hira. After Lincoln left home to work for himself he sent her a share of the first money be earned, and as long as she lived" he contiued to provide for her comfort. When his father died he was unable to attend the funeral on account of illness in his own family. After be was elected President of the United States he went to ee his stepmother. Their meeting and parting was most atiectionate. They never met in this world again. After the assassination, in an interview with Mr. Herndon, wih overflowing eyes, Mrs. Lincoln said : "I can say what scarcely ose mother in a thousand can say. Abe never gave me a cross word or look, and never refused, in fact or appearance, to do anything I requested. I sever gave him a cross word in my life. His mind and mine what little I had seemed to run together." How a Wife Makes Scolding Pay. Lewlaton (Me.) Journal. There Is a little family in Kennebec County in the inner circle of which a very curious custom prevails, and it must be admitted that the custom is one that might tend to breas up the peace of a less liberal household. The family consist si tiply of a husband and wife, and they life hapilj enough and there would not be a cloud on their horizon but for one thing the husband's temper. In most respects he is an exemplary and kind young man, and as far as any one can see he is very fond of his wife, but when things go wrong during the day or when be is not feeling well it takes but little to make him extremely irritable. On such occasions he is wont to indulge in many expletives not found in the dictionary, and has been known to call bis wife almost everything but an angel. Finally his wife became tired of this sort of thing, and even the extreme penitence of her husband when his irritation was over failed to suffice. Therefore, taking him in one of his penitent moods she made him agree to the following price list of epithets: Lsiv old thing, price. ...VvOld waggle tongue, Shiltlem huwiy. wlce-lör price 20c Old fool price 1XcXnlj old hea, price.-fiOe Oom pau h. price 10p Miscellaneous 10c Driveling Idiot, price15c Having once gotten him to agree to tbeee terms, she procured a pasteboard DOi, ana. bavine clued the cover on, she cut a alit in the top, large enough to admit of the passage of all coins, and then waited. It was not long before something went wrong, and as usual the husband lancbed out at the poor wife. But, paper and pencil la hand, she jotted down the epithets, and made $2.35 that attack. When calmed down he beer

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West Market Street, asked them to think it over. I do net think they will. It seems almost wicked to cutoff the best part of a dress and put it at the other end of the skirt to be trodden under feetcf men. as I may say. They smiled good naturedly at me as I tried to impress my views upon them, but should 1 go there again next season and mingle in the mad whirle of Washington, where these fair women are also mingüng m said sad whirl, I presume that I will find them clothed in the same gas-light waists, with trimmings of reai verteora; down we Daca. Still, what does a man really know about the proper costume for women? He knows notniDg whatever. He is in many ways in consistent. Why does a man frown on a certain costume for his wife, and admire it on the first woman he meets? Why does he fight sny or religion and Christianity and talk very freely about the church, and get mad if his wife is an infidel.. Crops around Washington are looking well. Winter wheat, crocuses and indefinite postponements were never iu a more thrifty condition, tuite a number erf people are here who are waiting to be confirmed. Judging from their habits, they are lingering around here in order to become confirmed drunkards. 1 leave here to-morrow with a large, wet towel in my plug hat. Perhaps I should have said Dothing on this dress-reform question while my hat is fitting me so immediately. It is seldom that I step aside from the beaten path of rectitude, but'last evening, on the way home, it seemed to me that I didn't do much else but step aside. At these parties no charge is made for punch. It is perfectly free. I asked a colored man who stood near the punch-bowl, and who replenished it ever and anon, what the damage was, and he drew himself up to his full height. Possibly I did wrong, but I hate to be a burden on anyone. It seems odd to rae to go to a llrst-class dance and find the supper and the band and the rum all paid for. It must cost a great deal of money to run this Government. Fun ay Sam Jones. Chicago Sermon.l the devil is a mighty smart chap. He makes us believe that we are as good as we can be, that we are pretty good sort of fellows; or he takes the other side, and makes us think we are too trifling to be converted. How many men are there in Chicago to-day who think they can tote their own skillet? The trouble is, there are too many shallow wells that go dry in June and get full of wiggletails. Down-in Georgia they have a long-necked gourd and a pine knot at the country springs. They drink, out of the gourd and the pine knot is to hit on the pine box of the spring to scare the wiggletails down so they can dip up a drink. Laughter. How many of our ml a 1st era are using pine knots? Applause. We want to be brought down low. God fishes on the bottom. Applause. Paul was a great man. His heart was as big as bis head. It takes both to make a roan. When you will see a man who is all brains and no heart, I will show you a solid, sordid Doctor of Divinity. Applause. - He's all gone to head. I hear the women in Chicago have all gone to feet Laughter. We all have some thorn in our side like St. Paul. . - Boyeotting Mrs. Logan. (Washington Special. ' The latest instance of threatened boycotting is said to be given in an anonymous letter received by Mrs. Logan. Mrs. Logan is one ef the ladies interested in the Garfield Memorial Hospital, for the benefit of which it is proposed to give the calico ball at the Chinese Legation building. The writer warns her that if she goes under the roof of the Chinese Minister it will be an Indication that aha sympathizes with Chinese immigration, and the laboring men of Ute country

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