Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 77, 9 February 1918 — Page 9

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TlItAHAM IJncoln. sixteenth

president of the United States.

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The Gettysburg Address

write.

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AD charge, when nineteen years old, of a flat boat on the Ohio and Mississippi

rivers. AT ihe age of twenty-one removed to Illinois. Worked on a larm, and split rails to earn a living.

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ADE a reputation for honesty as clerk of a country store. Spent his leisure moments

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the Black Hawk War in 1832. j

Afttn this he kept a store.

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study law and opened an office j

in Springfield.

TK TEGnOES used to be held as IJ slaves in the southern states.

In 184G he was elected a)

member of Congress. GALLED to the presidency in 1880. Lincoln wisely guided the ship of state through all the storm of the Civil War.

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U Lincoln was shot by an assas- j ,A sin. His death caused the fes

greatest grief.

LINCOLN was admired by people all over the world. His sterling qualities were patriotism, honesty, courage and wisdom. NO man ever had a more remarkable career than Abraham Lincoln. Solely by his own merits he won his way from the poor backwoods Jog cabin to the White House at Washington. He was one of the greatest men the world has ever knewn. St. Mary School, Griffin Jay and Matthew Mercurio.

FOURSCORE and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil

war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that' war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who hear gave their lives' that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, We cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have conseereated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note or long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, to be dedicated to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devolion to that cause for which they gave their last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom ; and that the government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.

PEGGY'S VALENTINE It was Valentine Day, but more than tat, it was Peggy's birthday, and Peggy was very happy as she trudged along on her way to school for had she not gotten a dress and four books, besides countless other things? Sho entered the school room and to her surprise she found the whole room decorated and on the board was v.vitten: A happy birthday to Peggy. Now it was a custom in this school to have a mail box. Here all the valentines were dropped and one bey was postmaster and handed thi letters out. But today the postman was dressed in a real postman's suit and the other boys and girld were dressed as all sorts of live valentines. But overhead, hanging from the ceiling was a large, very large red heart. A string extended from it to one of the bigger boys. It hung directly over Peggy's head though 6he did not notico it. The postmaster delivered the valentines, but not one for Peggy and Peggy was feeling rather downhearted, when the postmaster called hr name. But before she could move the great heart suddenly opened tnd out came valentines, fluffy and dainty, big and clumsy, boolu, handkerchiefs, games and a Liberty Bond and a Thrift Stamp that were best of all. Before Peggy could get over this surprise, her mother and lots of other s-others served ice-cream and rake and fruit. Pe?gy said afterwards it was the biggest and best valentine she had ever had Jean Trembler, 7B grade, Columbia CilyfcInd.

ROXIE'S VALENTINE DAY Once there was a little girl named Hoxie. She had just got over the smallpox. She had been sick for several weeks. It was Valentine day and she was looking out of the window when jvn express wagon stopped. Her mother went to the door and was handed a package for Roxie. She opened it and it was a valentine from her schoolmate, She was so pleased that she Jumped up and down. Next came four auto's full of girls and what a tig time they had. They had ice cream and cake. After lunch they played games and hide-and-seek. Then about 4:30 they went home. That evening her father came with his arms fnll of packages for Roxie. SV? said that it was the best valentine day she bad ever had. Florence May Webster, Chester, age 10. .11 . HONOR ROLL The following are the children at Finley school who have Dot been absent or tardy' since school began: Char line Foreman, Olive Dershem, Howard Hosbrook, Ethel Dershem, Clayton Clampltt and Floyd Williams. Gilbert Snider, Finley school, 4A grade

BOY 6COUT8 TO MEET All Boy Scoots are asked to meet at 915 North O street, Sunday, February 10, at 2:30 o'clock.

Kindness of St. Valentine It is about the kindness of the good St. Valentine that you will find the most stories. That kind Christian monk of the stories was the special friend of young people. And bis r.&me came to stand for love and loudness. As time went by, and the old pagan ritej were past away, the feast of St. Valentine took the place of the heathen rites of the festival of June some say because the saint's day came just before the one sacred to the goddess, and so it was the one most easily substituted. Have yon ever thought of the meaning of Valentine pictures the dove, butterfly, etc., you see on these gift3? They are all emblems of love and fidelity. Venus was the goddess of love, and the dove, the 6 wan, the rose, and ihe myrtle were sacred to her. You Bee many little cupids with bow and- arrow, on these missives. Cupid was the son of Venus the littl j god of Love. The bufterfly was the emblem of Psyche (the Soul). Bo, even though we find SL Valentine's Day .quite a mixture of pagan customs, mystery, and legends, we like to celebrate the day of that kind old taint b7 sending to our friends words of love and little gifts that will show our affection in the form of dainty little valentines. John W. Weber, St Mary School.

LINCOLN We have never had in public life a man who took upon himself the wocb of the nation and suffered in his soul from the weight of them as Lincoln did; not in all ur history a man who had such a mixture of far-sightedness, of understanding of the people, of common sense, of high sense of duty, of power of logical and confidence in the goodness of God in working out a righteous result, as tiad this great product of the soil of our country. One cannot read of Abraham Lincoln without loving him. One cannot think of his struggles, of his life, and its tragic end. without weeping. One cannot study his efforts, his conscience, his heroism, his patriotism, and the burdens of bitter attack and calumny under which he suffered, and think of the place he now occupies in the history of this country without a moral inspiration of the most stirring character. Paul Mulligan, St. Mary's School.

MY CHICKEN My chicken's name is cuddle. J:st see bim wink his eyes. He's only three days old now and yet he's very wise. I think he's very ckver, the funny little peep. The way he says he loves me Is cheep, cbecp, cheep Treva Mackey 3B rrade, Sevastapol School.

MY VISIT TO THE FIELD MUSEUM When this event occurred I lived in Gary, lnd., which is not far from Chicago One day Miss Fisher, my nature study teacher said: "Tomorrow we will gr to the Field Museum. .Everyone come to my house at Tieven a. m., and bring a lunch." The next day found every one with a happy heart. Mother packed my lunch and I started for Miss Fisher s home. When I reached there, I . found about twenty had already come.. Thsn we started for the Lake Shore Depot, and it was seventhirty a. in., when the train arrived. When we boarded the train the passengers all laughed at Miss Fishor with all us children. We reached Chicago at eightthirty e. m., and from there we . took a street car to Jackson park in which stands the only building left of the World's Fair in Chicago. As we entered the gate the first thing we saw was the beautiful lawn, on which the building stood. The next thing that attracted our attention was a huge iron cage in whion v,c thought would be a very large monster, but as we came nearer it proved to bts a large ruan-of-wa; that they used in the fifteenth century. As we entered the Museum we saw a large glass cage in which beautiful birds were hung by invisible wires. Then we entered another room which contained a large number of mummies and in a glas3 cage was a dead Indian woman and baby. To the ceiling was hung by chnins the skeleton of a huge e.epbant. v 1 ,.4 In the other rooms were relics of every kind. Relics are collected from all over the world and it would be Impossible for me to tell everything I saw. Thi3 museum is on the very edge of Lake Michigan and was named for the great merchant of the wetrt Marshnl Field. And, dear reader, if you are ever in Chicago, it would be more than worth your time to see the relics In the Field Museum. Evelyn Maria Stafford, age 12 years, 7th grade, Trolwcod, O.

STORY Lincoln often told how he earned his first dollar. He had taken a cargo of bacon and garden truck down the river to a trading-post, and, having disposed of it, was strolling along the bank of the river. Two men appeared on the bank and wished to be rowed fo a steamer that was approaching. There was no landing here and passengers for steamers had to be taken out to them in small boats. These men asked Abraham to row them out in the boat. He did so, and was paid with two new silver half-dollars. He said, "I could scarcely believe my eyes. You may think it a little thing, but it was a most important incident-in my life. I could scarcely believe that I, a poor boy, had earned a dollar in so short a time. I was more hopeful from that on." Mark Iloser, St. Mary's School.

DON'T WASTE FOOD Mr. Hoover asks us to save food and we thould do it'. Every borne should have meatless and wheatless days at least once a week. We use, bran and cornmeal flour instead of so much wheat flour. Our soldiers need a great deal of meat and bread in order to do their duty. - We cai cat Karo Corn Syrup and molasses instead of so much sugar in everything we cook. In cocoa you can use Karo instead of sugar and you won't know the difference. The same in anything else. The poor orphans in Belgium are just cryiig for the food that America's children practically throw away so we should try to save in every way possible if we want to live peacefully and happily. Virginia Livingstone.