Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 53, Number 19, Jasper, Dubois County, 10 February 1911 — Page 2

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Joke. He was not unaware of the c! dlty of bis flrure and tho character 1st Irs of his fnce.

He came of a lanky race. Raunt, p.v.rful peile. nd capable of great endur&'i Their hard lives nrre not eon.iti.-lTe to grace of fis er. or motion .i:id their faces were rft.n seamd ar.l strongly marked Oluvate. toil and improper or Insuf flctrnt food had much to lo with clung to th western and southern j lor.i ers tbe peculiarities of form an. I action an. th facial marKlnps whieli i,!entli: .l them geographically as wily as their speech. Lincoln n it was ashauie.l cf ,-..' things -at least he nev-r . hansed his habits when he came l .to national prominence, but his r T.tinuanco "f thm did not arls from affectation They were natural to him an i he was not willing to have one set of manners for Washington and another for the people back in Illinois. That he was caroless of his appearance there was no doubt. When he sat for a photographer he never straightened his tie or smoothed his unkempt hair. but. like Cromwell, told the picture man to take him as he was. Ho knew that a portrait of a slicked up" Lincoln, as he would have said, would not have been recognized In Springfield, and h- lidn't want them to think he was putting on airs because they had e u-d him to the presidency. It. was his homeliness which per-

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f. .l".l the rer' fhat he waa cno cf then', the r; "nt he ni.il his appearance on the platformhis .'ni -hneüs and his intimate and apt f the '. hi!)le speech tlipy con!. I understand Th' re ore .T.nec.-tp whic'.i ar-' Intended to show that 'n In a conitnunit "f i.-r.soii not noted f. r n.anly l'u.ty he was c onsider .1 pre-eminently t. r-rsf Yft. although this was the subject f J ts at h! xpns-e, in cin thought any the 1. s of hlr. 1r it. This liunn llness r-i!l it l'.n- m if y "i will of hU facp. the aUar!nfä r.f his forr.. and the un:a'.alinss of hl.-i Restur-'S on1 a'titu.'- - s-- "!iied to th- people to ro naturilb with ' l- 2colnes t hart and the simplicity -f his nature In their -es when advocating the caue of the 0T';re!ed nd when opposing the fore s Rhich u. 'il-i .kstr-iv thi- nation he b-cam to many poslvflv hat. Isom- As ars afterward one old i: an who kn.w-d" him ald"Lots (f 'ni will t U you he was homely, p. en.s to m- that 's about all Rome folks around l.r.- has to t !t about Airaham Uncoln. 'Yes, I knowod him.' they say. He was the homeliest nun in Sangamon county 1 Well, now. don't you make no mistak. The folks that don't tell you nut hin" but that never knowed Mr. Uncoln. Mebbe they'd Mm him, but they never knowed him. He wa'n't homely. There's no denyln' he was 'otiR and lean, and he didn't always stand straight, an I he wasn't porllkeler about his clothes, but that night up to Bloomington in ten minutes after h" struck thr platform. I tell you he was tho hnn Uome t man I ever o." The m 'h aftfr his firs? election the publicaIi n Once ,i Vp.k in I ondm printed the follow1 g iierso:il ?ktch of I.i'imln: Ahral .!! l."i-o!n l- n Kauut a;latit more than i!x f- et hi -:r. ..r ni : limb 1. He alks slow, rr. I. ':k !.-:.. fl.uithtii;! m n ( Worlawe.rth and Nni . '.'or r .-x-inip'.e.. k' m his head inclined

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In drefs t r:i down a:wl ar !..'b ' v.a'.'y i lr sp. ii' lir ad I l w Id- . liltan l ful, M e i I - t!:in and ilrnwa .1 ,i - that disclose the i.i ", 1 Jaw. This gr at 1 ur -ti.ls abolitionist i. r:. tv- - this honest old

ln-.'.'r. " ."i face half :.an. half-Indian. ?o T..i. te, b i -lir at . 0 scarred by a life's struggle. iwrn n '. in Kentucky. His grandfather, wl'o ranu C' ii Virginia, was killed by the Indians Ilia fr.it. r died oung. leaving a widow and sceral el ,ir. n They removed to Indiana. Abo bciriR at tho time only six yoam old. Poor and etniFRllng. his mother could only afford him some eight months' rouRh schooling; and In tho door lugs of that new and unsettled country tho hcnlthy stripling went to work to how hickory And gum trees, to grapple with remonstrating boars, and to look tut fcr tho too frequent rattle-

ftia'ie. Tall, ftrong, lithe nnd smiling. Abe tolled on as a farm laborer, mule Irlver. sheep feeder, deer killer, woodcutter, and. lastly, as boatman on tlie waters of the Wabath and tbe Mississippi. Another Kngllah writer !n describing the president Is htill more realistic than his countryman when ho says: To say that lie Is URly is nothing; to add that his figure Is grotesque Is to convey no adequate Impression. Fancy a many six feet high, and then out of froportlon ; with long bony arms and legs, which somohow seem to be always In tho way; with great rugjed. furrowed hands, which grasp you like a vise when shaking yours; with a long fr.aggy neck and a chest too narrow fur

the great arms at Its side. "Add to this figure a bead cocoanut shaped and somewhat too small for such a stature, covered with rough, uncombed and uncombablo hair, that stands out In every direction nt once; a face furrowed, wrinkled and Indented, as though It had been scarred by vitriol; a high, narrow forehead ; and sunk deep beneath bushy eyebrows two bright, dreamy eyes that seem to gnze through you without looking at you; a few Irregular blotches of black bristly hair In tho place where beard and whiskers ought to grow; a closo sot. thin lipped, stern mouth, with two rows of large whlto teeth, and a noae and oars which havo been taken by mistako from a head twico tho 8ir. "Clothe this figure, then. In a long, tight, badly fitting suit of black, created, soiled and puckered up at every salient point of the figure (and every point of thlH flgum U salient), put on !arge. lll-fllttng boots, gloves too long for the long, bony nierrs. and a fluffy hat. covered to tho top with dusty, puffy crape: and then add to this an air cf strength, physical as well as meral. nnd n iinnjt" look of dignity coupled with all this gro-tet-rpinncFu. and ou will have the imprt ision left .:pon m by Abraham Lincoln." Ward Lamon. who kn-nv him Intimately, gnes more Into details. He avs: Mr. Lincoln was about six feet four Inr-hes high, the length of his

Jo-; blr.K cut cf all j: ;ierti,in to that or Ivs lo.Iy. V.T.ni be at d .v n l:t a chair he F".'iii"d no taller than an aTi i.'an. measuring fr: m the chair to tbe crown of hi? head; bt his kne-s rof e high In front, and a marble pla-ed en the cap of one would roll dwn a Me;) descent to the hip. He weigh d abeut ISO peimds. but he was thin through the breast, narrow across the rhculders. and had the general appearance of a consumptive subject. Stnndlng up. he stoojl slightly forward; sitting down, he usually crossed his long legs or threw thorn over tho arms of the chair as tho most convenient mode of disposing of thorn. Hla "head was long and tall from tho base of tho laln and tho eyobrow;" hla forehond big and narrow, but Inclining backward as It rose. Tho diameter of his head from ear to ear wns CM Inches and from front to back olght Inches. His cars wore large, standing out almost at right angles from his head; tiia chook bones high and

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prominent; his eyebrows heavy and jutting forward ovor small, sunken blue eyes; his noso long, large and blunt, tho tip of It rather ruddy and slightly nwry towards the right hand side; his chin, projecting far and sharp, curved upward to meet a thick, material lower Hp. which hung downward; his cheeks wero flabbv. and the loose skin fell In wrinkles or folds; there was a largo mole on his right cheek and na uncommonly prominent Adam's applo on his throat; his hair was dark brown In color, stiff, unkempt, and as vet showing little or no sign of advancing age or trouble; his complexion was very dark, his skin yellow, shriveled and "leathery." In short, to use the language of Mr. Herndon. "he was a thin. tall. wiry, grisly, raw-boned man." "looking woe-struck." His countenance was haggard and careworn, exhibiting all the marks of deep and protracted suffering. Every feature of the man the hollow eyes, with tbe dark rings beneath; the long, sallow, cadaverous

face, intersected by those peculiar deep lines; his whole air. his walk, his long, allent reveries, broken at long intervals by sudden and startling exclamations, as if to confound an observer who might suspect tho nature of his thoughtshowed he , n m.n of sorrows not sorrows

of today or yesterday, but long treasured and deep bearing with him n continual sense of weariness and

pain. He was a plain, homely, sad wearydooklng man. to whom one's heart warmed Involuntarily, because he scorned at once miserable and kind. James B Frv. who became Intimately acquainted with Lincoln early In the tatter's political career, savs: Lincoln was tall and thin; his ong hones were united by large joints and he hail a ong neck and an angular faco and head. Many likenesses represent his face well enough, but none that I have ever seen do justice to the awkwardness and uugainllness of hit figure. His feet hanging loosely to his ankles, were prominent objects, but hla hands were moro conspicuous even than his feet duo perhaps to the fact that coremenv at times compelled him to clotho them In white kid gloves, which always fitted looFOly. Hoth In the height of conversation nnd In the depth of reflection his hand now and then ran over or supported his head, giving his hair habitually a dlsordered aspect. His expression In repose was sad and dull, uut his ever-rccurrlng humor, at short Intervals. Hashed forth with the brilliancy of an electric light. I observed but two well defined expressions In his countenance: otw that of a pure, thoughtful, hont tnon nhsnrhod by a sense of duty and respon

sibility tho other, that of a humorist so full of fun that he could not koop It all in. His power of nii wns wonderful. Ho strengthened every

cnn h stated and no anecdote or joko ever lost

force cr effect from his telling,

ment wilt bo pleased to glvo Informs tlon regarding tho various dlHtrh a Manltohn, Saskatchewan nud All whero freo l.omeatcada of ICO u-; . i are available.

Apropos of his large feet there Is an asecdoto

told of Lincoln when e was in ui He bad walked his hundred miles to Vandalla. In 18"C as ho had In 1831. and when tho session cic.i ho walked homo again. A gentleman of

yenard county remembers meeting him and a do .,hmn of the "long nine" on their way home

They were nil mounted except Lincoln, who had thus far kept up with them on foot. If he had any r onPi he wa hoarding it for more important purj(,ses than that of saving leg weariness and leather. The Vcatber was raw ami Lincoln's clothing was none of the warm .-t. Complaining of beiDf? cold to one of his companlwns. this irreverent member of the "long nine" tol I t.hi future president that It was no wonder t!,:t he was e dd "there was so mueh of him on the ground." N no of the party appreciated this homely joko at the expeme of his fe?t (they wero dm;bt?s able to heir it) more thoroughly than Lincoln did. We can Imagine the cross fres of wit and humor by which the wav was enlivened during this cold and tedious Jrurney, The scene wns certainly a rudo one and seems more like a droam than a reality, when wo remember that It occurred not many years ago. In a state which now contains hardly loss than throe millions of people and 7.C00 miles of railway. Casslus M. Clay in describing an address which ho delivered at Springfield In I860 says: "Lincoln nnd Drowning lay upon tho ground whl'tllng sticks nnd hoard mo throughout with marked attention. Hurrying on to my appointments, I caw him thon no more. I never shall forgot his long, ungainly person nnd plain but even then sad and thoughtful features."

Now that wo havo entorod upon tho making of a now year, it 1b natural to look back ovor tho past one, for tho purpose of ascertaining what has been dono. Tho bualnosa man and tho farmer havo taken stock, and both, if they aro keen in busluosa dotall nnd Interest, know exactly their financial position. Tho f armor of Westorn Canada is generally a business man. and lu hla stock-taking ho will havo found that ho has had a euecossful year. On looking over a number of reports fiont from various qr.ititcvB, tho wrltor finds that in splto of tho visitation of drouth In a small portion of Alberta, Saakutchowan and Manitoba, many farmers aro ablo to report splendid crops. And these reports como from different ecctlons, covering an area of about 25,000 equnro miles. As, for Instance, at Laird, Saskatchewan, tho crop rotuma showed that .1. IJ. Peters hnd 12,800 bushels from 320 acres, or nearly 40 bushels to tho acre. In tho Ulalno Lake district tho fields ranged from 35 to DO bushels per acre. Don Crews having 1.150 bushels from 24 acros; Hdmoiul Trotter 1.200 bushels off 30 acres, whilo fields of 30 bushels wero common. On poorly cultivated fields but 13 bushels were reported. In Foam Lako (Sask.) district 100 bushels of oata to tho acre wero secured by Angus Dobcrtson, D. Mcltao and C. H. Hart, whilo tho averago was S5. In wheat 30 bushels to tho aero wero quite common on tho newer land, but off 15 acres of land cultivated for tho past three years Georgo K. Wood secured 495 bushels. Mr. Jarnos Traynor, nenr Regina (JSask.) is still on tho shady sido of thirty. Ho had 50.000 busholfl of grain last year, half of which was wheat. Its markot valuo was $25,000. He says he Is well satisfied. Arthur Somors of Strathclalr threshed 100 acres, averaging 25 bushels to the acre. Thomas Foreman, of Milestone, threshed 11.000 bushels of wheat, and 3,000 bushels of llax oft C00 acres of land. W. Wonthorstone.

of Strathclalr, threshed 5.000 bushels

of oats from 96 acros. John Gon

tllla. of Gillies, about twenty-five milos

west of Rosthem, Sask., had ISO bush els from 3 acres of wheat. Mr. Gon

zilla's general average of crop was over 40 bubhels to tho acre. Den

Crulso, a neighbor, averaged 45 bush

els to tho aero frcm 23 acres. W. A.

Rose, of tho "Waldorhclin district, threshed C.000 bushels of wheat from

240 acres, an average of 25 bushels. 100 acres was on summer fallow and averaged 33 bushels. He had also an

averago of CO bushels of oats to tho aero on a 50-acro field. Wm. Lohman,

who has a farm closo to Rosthorn, had an averago of 27 bushols to tho ncro on 00 acros of summer fallow. Mr. Midsky. of Rapid City (Man.) threshed 1,000 bushols of oats from 7 acres. The yield of the dlfforont varieties

of wheat per aero at tho Experimental

Farm. Brandon, was: Rod Fife, 28

bubhols; Whlto Flfo, 34 bushols; Proston. 32 bushols; oarly Rod Fife, 27 bushels.

The crops at tho C. V. R. demonstra

tion farms nt Strathmoro (Alberta) proved up to expectations, tho Swedish

variety oats yielding 110 bushols to

the acre. At tho farm two rowed barley went 4S& bushels to tho aero.; Yields of from 50 bushols to 100 bush- J

els of oats to tho aero wore qulto common in tho Sturgeon River Settlement near Edmonton (Alberta). Hut last year was uncommonly good and the hundred mark was passed. Wm. Craig had a yield of oats from a mens ured plot, which gavo 107 bushols and 20 lbs. per aero. Albert Teskoy, of Olds fAlbertal threshed a 100-acre field wble'.i yfeUW 101 bushels of oats por acre, and Joseph McCartnoy had a 'large Held equally good. 'At Cupar (Sask.) oats threshed 80 bushols to tho acre. On tho Traqualrs farm at Cupar, a fivencro plot of Marquis wheat yielded 54 bushels to tho acre, while Laurence Darknol had 37 bushels of Red Flfo to tho acre. At Wordsworth, Reede Dros.' wheat averaged 33 Vi bushels to the acre, and V. McMillan's 32. Wllliam KraUt of AHx (Alberta) threshed j 1,042 bushels of wlntor wheat off 10 acres, or about 53 bushels to tho acre. John Lay croft of Dlnton, near High River. Alberta, had ovor 1,100 bushols of spring wheat from 50 acros. E. F. Knlpo, near Lloydmtnster,

Saskatchewan, had 800 bushels of wheat from 20 acros. W. Motcalf had ovor 31 bushels to tho aero, whilo S. Henderson, who was hailed badly,

had an average return of 32 bushols of

wheat to the acre.

McWhlrter Uro, and John MoDaln,

of Redvers, Saskatchewan, had 2o

bushels of wheat to tho ncro. John Kennedy, east of tho Horpe Mills district near Edmonton, from 40 acres of spting wbeut got 1.707 bushold, or 41 bushels to tho ncro. J. E. Vatidermirgh, near Dayslow, Alberta, threshed four thousand bushoH of wheat from 120 acres. Mr. D'Arcy, near thoro, threshed ten thousand and fifty-eight bushels (machtno measure) of wheat from 11 vo hundred acres, and out of this only sixty acres wns new land. At Flomlng, Sask., A Winter's wheat averaged 39 bushels to tho ncro and several others report heavy yiolds. Mr. Winter's crop wns not on summer fallow, but on a piece of land broken In 1882 nnd said to be tho first broken In tho Homing district.

It Wasn't a Fire. Tho principal of ono of tho . f

York East Side night schools wo m-

rolling a now pupil, who was Uw-1

out in a Kiilt of clothes eo new 'iMt

It hurt him. Just before the hoy t 0 In tho principal had heard the mi.i.j

of Uro engines In tho street

"What Is your natno?" tho prlrx h a

asked the lad.

"Tom Dugon," was tho reply. "Whero was tho fire, Totnti

asked the principal as ho wrote t, ,

tho name. Thero was no reply, y a scowl.

"I Bay, whore was the fire?" re: -

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"Don't git gay wit mo." writ. t0

soniowhat astonishing answer i.

wasn't no fire, eeo? I bought db. I,. :o suit nnd I paid seven-fifty for it "

Very Tortuous Indeed. Tho late Hugh .1. Grant of x York onco talked at a polltK.il i quet, about a noted corporator, yor. "Oh, yes, he's a grand mind, said. "A grand legal mind. He -tho most tortuous mind in An,, n Mr. Grant shook his head "A tortuous mind Indeed." hipoated. "Why, If he swallow, d nail, he'd bring up a screw."

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Important to Wlothora Examine cnrefully every Lomv rf CASTORIA, n safe and sure n nu : ur Infants and children, and see t.. .t

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Signaturo of CukCUcJM In Use For Over 30 Years. Tho Kind You Havo Always Bought.

Illness at the Zoo. An unexpected result of the Ivrugueso revolution was tho lndiBii;tmn of tho animals nt the Lisbon zoolKtcal gardens. They all became ill, having been so alarmed by the bombardmont that they refused to eat ami drluk.

Naturally. "Does your husband go In for golf" asks the caller. "No," sho answers. "He sws "ut for It."

rn.KH ernnn toi4 mv Yonrilroiik-tit III rclunu nwnpj If PA" IVT. 1IHNT faß to um nnr caw f HC . I r. li:cUln' of i'rutniiltnw Po lu 6U UUj

A po4dmist Is a man who tan nJoy the beauties of an apph biesem because ho only thinks of the possible Btomache acho It represents.

Dr. Pierce Tlcnsant Pellet cu-r r pation. Constipatiou ig the caudiseases. Cure the cnutK? and u , the disease. Kany to take.

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