Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1905 — Origin of a Popular Sentence. [ARTICLE]

Origin of a Popular Sentence.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer, after trying for some time to answer iuquirem regarding the occasion of Abraham Lincoln's use of the words, “You can fool all the people some of the tlma and some of the people all the but not all the people nil the gives it up. Colonel Hay was appealed to, but that biographer of President Lincoln had to acknowledge he never encountered the sentence when making minute investigation of Lincoln’# speeches, papers, letters and recorded sayings. An Ohio congressman who had been asked the question referred the Inquirer to the library of congress, where if anywhere the information could lie obtained. The Washington Post reports :! ■ result. Assistant Librarian Spoil'..-: made a written reply, in which lie s..ys il e sentence does not occur in any of Lincoln’s writings, adding that Mr. Nicolay. Lincoln’s secretary and associate of Colonel John Hay, in writing the elaborate biography of Lincoln, told Spofford the alleged Lincoln saying was spurious. Librarian Spofford says the real author of the popular sentence was Phineas T. Barnurn, the famous showman, who “fooled the people” more successfully than any other man of his time.

Salt on the Walks. It is worth while for property owners to know that salt on the surface of cement blocks causes quick disintegration and a consequent unsightly roughening that, of course, becomes permanent. Salt water formed by combination of the salt with snow and ice alaat as is well known, makes quickly porous the leather shoe soles of pedestrians, so that they absorb water almost like sponges, greatly multiplying the number of troublesome colds on account of damp feet. Years ago, when diphtheria in its virulent form prevailed, there were not a few physicians of good professional standing who held that the use of salt on Icy sidewalks in winter contributed not a little to the spread and also to the severity of this dread disease of childhood. Sand or sawdust or sifted ashen, for the safety of those who “stand an slippery places” are In all ways as useful as salt and better than salt, lacking all the objections here noted.—Syracuse Post-Standard.

No Cie For Water. Representative Alden Smith of Mlch-i igan made a speech at & banquet in< Detroit a few days ago where there* were unlimited supplies of champagne; toys the Pittsburg Post-Pis patch. • Smith looked around at the forest of tKitties on the tables and said: “Out in* my town. Grand Rapids, we are fighting for water and can’t get It Here Ini Detroit where you have all the water* there is apparently, you don’t use It”