People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — Relics of Lincoln in Indiana [ARTICLE]

Relics of Lincoln in Indiana

To-day there are people living in Spencer county (Indiana) who were small boys when he (Lincoln) was a large one, and who preserve curiously interesting impressions of him. A representative of Me Clure’s Magazine who has recently gone in detail over the ground of Lincoln’s early life, says: “Tke people who live in Spencer county are interested in any one who is interested in Abraham Lincoln.” They showed her the flooring he whip-sawed, the mantles, doors, and window-cas ings he helped make, the rails he split, the cabinets he and His father made, and scores of relics cut from planks and rails he handled. They told what they remembered of his rhymes and how he would walk miles to hear a speech or sermon, and, returning, would repeat the whole in “putty good imitation.” Many remembered his comings to sit around the fireplace with older brothers and sisters, and the stories he told and the pranks he played there until ordered home by the elders of the household.—Me Clure’s for December.

The latest instance of British bluff is just beginning to attract serious attention. England is making a resurvey of the boundary line between Alaska and Canada, and changing it so as to include in her possessions the best part of the Yukon gold fields now occupied by Americans—territory undoubtedly purchased by the United States of Russia. England undoubtedly hopes to have the matter arbitrated by European arbitrators, as the result of such arbitrations is always against the United States. The Alaskan grab is but a repetition of the Venezuela steal. If these prove successful, nothing but American warvessels will place a limit to England’s cupidity. And somebody besides Cleveland will have to set the limit.—The Sentinel.