The Kiel Press. (Kiel, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 7, 1901 Page: 3 of 8
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kfcidgenville, Ky., Correspondence.—
\Vtoen "Uncle Austin" Gollaher breath-
cd his last up in the hills of LaRua
a year ago, it was said that the
litat and only living childhood play-
mate of ex-President Lincoln had died,
iitiii that the stories still to he told of
it i boyish pranks of the great emanci^.f'
pator would be only an echo of the
detid. But still another survives.
Aged, infirm, and bent with the weight
<>f 93 years, Miss Sallle Castleman lives
all alone in a little log house back in
a secluded portion of this county, al-
most within a stone's throw of the lit-
tK log schoolhouse where Abe Lin-
coln, Austin Gollaher and she attended
school together four score years ago.
All the old structures that clustered
then we wrote notes. Since Abe was
made president I wish 1 had saved
some of them, but we were afraid the
teacher would catch on, so we tore
them up after reading them.
"The nearest church in those days
was miles from us, and my father and
mother used to go for Abe's parents
every Sunday and take them to church.
Then Abe would come over and stay
with me and we would have a time.
,ye would go that stream of water
U'n there under the hill and wade
1 around it.
f "Abe was a fighter in school, and in
my mind he was a hero. I suppose,
though, it was because he whipped a
boy for insulting me ono day. The
boy was of the bully sort, and was
much larger than Abe. One day he hit
me. It didn't hurt me, hut it fired Abe
and he thrashed him soundly, while
I stood off and cried. I don't know
what- I was crying about. Girl's never
,.round the hills of that section have I The 'W °flen fun of
one by one rotted and disappeared, j AJ>e's ragged clothes, and ot his gawky
until now the little log hut
!> V)'
stands 1 ^vements. Abe was awkward. They
atone, and she, the last of little Abe's j teased him, too, because he minded his
companions, its sole occupant, is quiet
ly winding up the last years of her
. | mother. Ho would often cry because
they pulled at his clothes and tore
allotted time. Retiring and unassum-
ing, Miss Castleman is beloved by
those of her acquaintances, and her
memory, which is remarkable, has
gained her considerable notoriety. It
is seldom, though, that she assumes a
retrospective mood when she con-
verses.
j them, but he wouldn't tell his mother,
i for he knew it would make her feel
I bad. I sometimes mended his clothes
j to keep her from knowing they were
j tore. I made Abe a pair of pants once
! for a Christmas present. They struck
! him middle always between the knees
' and ankles, not like they wear them
Yes, she said, i knew Abe Lincoln I ow. he was of them, too.
when he was a boy, but I don't think | They were the first long pants he ever
I'.at it is anything wonderful that I
^wiuld, just because he was president.
I went to school with Abe in a little
Schoolhouse that stood up there on the
hill. He was just such a common,
errrx'.B country chap, like the rest of
SALLIE CASTLEMAN.
(is in those days, only that he was
awfully smart, more intelligent than
the average boy. Yes, I felt glad when
they told me that Abe was made presi-
dent, and when the papers referred to
him as President it sounded a little
strange to me, as I always called him
Abe, and would have done so had I
met him on the streets in Washington
after he was president.
"Oh yes, I know of several incidents
connected with the boyhood life of
Little Abe. Yes, I was a part to one
of them. You know, nowadays a girl
ain't a girl unless there is a bit of
romance connected with her life, and
I suppose it was always thus. Well.
1 was Abe's sweetheart.
"Well, I guess I'll have to tell the
whole story of mine and Abe's life. |
My father was a pioneer. He came
hero from Virginia and settled where
wo now live. This is the same old j
house that he built. It was a plain old I
log house then, but it was weather- j
boarded many years ago. I was born
in 1808 in this very house. Abe's par-
ents came to this county in 1808 and
settled on the now famous Lincoln
homestead, on the other side of Hodg-
enville. Abe was born in 1809. When
Abo was but nine years old his par-
ents moved from near Hodgenville to
this section. They lived on a farm
near this one. They were poor, but
hard-working people. Abe's father
was a carpenter, but didn't make much.
He couldn't in those days. My father
was tolerably well off. The next year
Abe and I started to school together.
About twenty of us chaps were going
Austin Gollaher was among the num-
ber. Austin was Abe's best boy friend
and 1 was his best girl friend, so Abe
said. No, Abe wouldn't tell a story.
You see, Abe was too poor a boy to
buy any books, and so was Austin, so
1 let them use mine. Abe was a good
Ktudent and when we had hard lessons
ha always knew his. When lessons
were hard I was rlad to let him use
my books, because he would then help
mi! get my lessons. In that way we
were thrown together a heap, and na-
turally, a common liking for each other
soon ripened into love. Our school
teacher was strict with us, and some-
time he wouldn't let us sit together,
wore.
"Abe made speeches in school,
and they were good ones, too, I
thought. He always was a talker. My
father owned a slave at that time, and
Abe thought a heap of him. He was
a mean negro and my father had a I
great deal of trouble with him, and of- j
ten whipped him. This made Abe feel i
| sorry for the negro, and I have al-
| ways believed that then was the first
time the idea of emancipation entered
his head.
"Abe used to make ink out of polk
berries and sell it in school. He had
a little store. He made money out of
chips.
"Abe's father went from here to 1111-
| nois when Abe was about thirteen
years old. I hated to see Abe go. He
kissed me good-by, and told me with
tears in his eyes—we were both cry-
ing—that he would some day come
back and claim his boyhood sweet-
heart. He worked on a farm in Illi-
nois a year or two and then clerked
in a country store. He then studied
law awhile. I then lost trace of him
until I heard he was president, and I
was happy. Wc ., he deserved to be
president. When I heard he was as-
sassinated I couldn't at first believe it,
and don't you know I cried when I
realized that he was dead.
"Yes, I am now the only living child-
hood acquaintance of Lincoln's living."
When asked how she passed away
the lime alone, she said:
"Oh, when I am not busy with my
daily duties I read the time away very
pleasantly. I never get lonesome," and
going to a corner in the little room
she raised a curtain, showing a row
works of the best authors from Milton
Ity of opportunity. Ho was in the
fullest eenso a self-made man. Not
merely that he hewed for himself a
pathway from obscurity to tho highest
civic honors. Other men have done
that. It is that he formed for himself
a character upon which his fame was
builded. Horn to abject poverty, to
neglect and abuse, the miseries of his
childhood and the sorrows of his youth
deepened the shadow with which his
spirit was endowed by a wretched
mother. Reared in backwoods settle-
ments, with tho advantages of only
one year of regular schooling, pursued
by adversity until he reached almost
the prime of life, his strength of mind
and heart conquered every obstacle.
He w:ls born to a heritage of gloom,
but he was a capital companion and
a good story-teller. His quaint humor
and wit were due to' strangely orig-
inal and sometimes grotesque intellec-
tual perceptions and to a marvelously
fertile fancy. He indulged these facul-
ties as much by exercise of will in
order to throw off the depression
which weighed upon his own spirits
as for the purpose of affording enjoy-
ment for others. In his later years,
when cares of state almost overbore
him, the relief afforded by this relax-
ation is 6aid to have averted utter col-
lapse. In the most serious crisis he
would make some quaint remark or
tell an apposite story that would cause
a laugh, and would immediately re-
lapse into profound melancholy. But
he did not obtrude his gloom upon
others. He was always companionable
in social intercourse. He was the soul
of honor, scrupulously clean in his life
and had a great, tender heart, pulsat-
ing with sympathy for every creature
in distress. He could not bear to see
anything suffer. Other men have been
admired for their intellects or hon-
ored for their achievements. Abra-
ham Lincoln was loved for his great
heart, human sympathies and sorrows.
He yearned for "peace on earth, good
will to men," he agonized over the
horrors and sufferings which war en-
tailed, but governed by an unfaltering
sense of duty, his iron will carried him
through every trial. There was not a
moment during the four years of fra-
tricidal strife that he was not ready
to hold out the olive branch if thereby
peace and union could have been se-
cured. Destiny had foreordained that
the arbitrament of arms should settle
the questions at issue orce and for a,ll,
CAUGHT BY THE GRIP.
Release;! ty Pe-ru-na—Congressman
Howard's Recovery—Congressman
Geo. H. White's Cass
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POWELL
THE COURT HOUSE AT PETERS-
BURG.
(Where Lincoln and Douglas Met in
Debate.)
and Providence raised up Abraham
Lincoln, mighty of mind, mightier
still in the power of common sense,
strong in resolve and tender of heart,
to be the ruling spirit of the times, to
temper firmness with mercy. There
was not a dTop of blood of hatred in
Lincoln's body. During the feverish
days of the civil war he was one man
whose motives were never questioned,
whose wisdom was trusted, whose
strength never failed, whose ear was
always open to appeals which his
heart was only too ready to grant.-
and Shakespeare down to the latest "sow ^ork ledger.
literary works."
Miss Castleman is an extraordinarily
intelligent old lady, and talks quite
interestingly upon any subject that is
broached, her manners are refined and
her appearance rather striking.
LINCOLN
INCOLN Day, Feb.
12, is generally ob-
served by Repub-
lican organizations
much as Jackson !
day is the occa- !
sion for the annu-
al gathering of i
Democratic clans. |
The custom of eel- I
ebrating the anni- I
versary by appro- |
priate exercises in 1
the public schools is extending as time
reveals more distinctly the magnitude
of the work Lincoln wrought, the truo
proportions of the man and the funda-
mental character of the principles he
exemplified.
It is a notable fact that in
all the lists of the ten greatest men
of the centur the world has produced
Lincoln's name is found near the head
in all and foremost in many. The
entire world now recognizes his great-
ness. Not alone in mind was he great,
but in heart and character. He was
typical of the American Mea of equal-
Scrupulouj Honesty.
When Lincoln was a struggling
young lawyer, whose office furniture
consisted, as he said, of "a chair, a
three-legged table and a rat hole," he
collected thirty-six cents for a client.
Several weeks passed. Lincoln was
hard up, and only through the kind-
ness of a friend was he glothed and
fed. Like other young lawyers he
had hope from day to day of additional
business with accompanying fees, but
he did not touch the money in his
hands, and finally turned over to his
client the identical thirty-six cents he
had received. It was a small matter,
but it showed the character of the man
in small things. The money paid to
him was the money he turned over. It
was his rule in after life to keep sepa-
rate the money in his hands belonging
to other persons.
Good Ad*)tee•
To a man who offered him a case of
doubtful merit, Lawyer Lincoln wrote:
"Yes, there is no reasonable doubt but.
that I can gain your case for you. I
can set a whole neighborhood at log-
gerheads; I can distress a widowed
mother and her six fatherless children,
and thereby get for you ?600, which
rightfully belongs, it appears to me, as
much to them as it does to you. I
shall not take your case, but I will
give you a little advice for nothing.
You seem a sprightly, energetic man. I
would advise you to try your hand at
making $000 some other way."
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La Grippe is epidemic catarrh.—it
spares no class or nationality. The cul-
tured and the ignorant, the aristocrat
and the pauper. The masses and the
classes are alike subject to la grippe.
None are exempt—all are liable.
Have you the grip? Or, rather, has
the grip got you? Grip is well namod.
The original French term, la grippe,
lias been shortened by the busy Amer-
ican to read "grip." Without intend-
ing to do so a new word has been
coined that exactly describes the case.
As if some hideous giant with awful
Grip had clutched us in its fatal clasp.
Men, women, children, whole towns
and cities are caught in the banefuj
grip of a terrible monster.
Pe-ru-ntt For tlrlp.
Mrs. Dr. C. U. Powell, President of
Spworth League, also President of
Loyal Temperance Legion, writes from
Chehalis, Wash.:
"1 have used several remedies in
cases of severe colds and la grippe, but
none 1 consider of more value than
Peruna."—Mrs. Dr. C. I). Powell.
After-Effcehi of Grippe.
Miss Emma Jouris, President Golden
Iiod Sewing Circle, writes from 40 Bur-
ling street, Chicago, III., as follows:
"This spring I suffered severely from
the after-effects of la grippe. As the
doctors did not seem to help me 1
bought a bottle of Peruna."—Miss Em-
ma Jouris.
Cougresstuau Howard' letter.
Port Payne, Ala.
'rhe Peruna Medicine Co.. Columbus,
Ohio:
Gentlemen.—"I have taken Peruna
now for two weeks and find I am very
much relieved. I feel that my cure
will be permanent. I have also taken
It for la grippe and I take pleasure in
recommending Peruna as an excellent
remedy to all fellow sufferers."—
M. W. Howard, Member of Congress.
1m Grippe l.w Tm the System In a
Deplorable Condition.
D. L. Wallace, a charter member of
tho International Barbers' Union,
writes from 15 Western avenue, Min-
neapolis, Minn.:
"Following n Severe attack of Tit
grippe I seemed to be affected badly
all over.
"One of my customers who was
greatly helped by Peruna advised me
to try it, and 1 procured a bottle tho
same day. Now my head is clear, my
nerves are steady, I enjoy food, and
rest well. Peruna has been worth a
dollar a dose to me."—L. D. Wallace.
<irlpjw Causes De-nfnep*.
Mrs. M. A. Sharick, chaplain G. A. it.
Woman's Relief Corps, writes from
Fremont, Wash.:
"When la grippe was the prevailing
illness in this Western country I was
(aid up tiie whole winter, 1 partially
lost my hearing, and had a very bad
case of catarrh of the head and throat.
1 read of Peruna, tried it and had
my hearing restored and catarrh cured.
1 cannot speak too well of Peruna."—
Mrs. M. A. Sharick.
I.ti Grippe Cured in lift Kir*(. Stage.
Lieutenant Clarice Hunt, of the Salt
Lake City Barracks of tho Salvation
Army, writes from Ogden. Utah:
Two months ago I was suiTering with
so severe a cold that ! could hardly
speak.
"Our captain advised me to try Pe-
runa, and procured a bottle for me, and
truly It worked wonders. Within two
weeks I was entirely well."—Clarlca
Hunt.
Congressman White'* Letter.
T rboro, M. C.
I Gentlemen—"! am more than satis-
fied with Peruna and ilnd it to he an
excellent remedy for the grip and ca-
tarrh. / have used it in my family anil
they all join me In recommending It as
an excellent remedy. "--Geo. ti. White,
Member of Congress. i
ICenmlurd In ITeeVlo Health After Cured
of La Grippe.
Mrs. T. W. Collins. Treasurer Inde-
pendent Order of Good Templars, of
Everett, Wash., writes:
"After having a severe attack of la
grippe I continued in a feeble condi-
tion even after the doctor called me
cured. My blood seemed poisoned. Pe-
runa cured me."—Mrs. Ti W. Collins.
Address The Peruna Medicine Co..
of Columbus, O., for a free book on
catarrh.
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afford complete protection to botb rider and
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Into a wulkinK cost. Every curment war-
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if your dealer doen not hav« Kxcel ~~
•ior Itraud, write for catalogue.
H. M. SAWYER «. SON. Solo Mfrt.,
East Cambridge, Mass.
Congratulation)* froui Manj Ijluds.
Professor Cornelius Tiele of 1,/eyden
university, on the occasion of his sev-
entieth birthday, the other day. re-
ceived congratulations from all parts
of the world, especially from England,
where he is known by Ills Gifford lec-
tures in Edinburgh. The universities
of Oxford, Cambridge and D.iblln and
other learned societies have sent ad-
dresses, and Edinburgh university has
mads him a doctor of law hontrla
causa.
Vben Answering Advertisements Kindly
Nentioo Th! t'ascr.
No Smoke iintwo. Rmoke moat with
KRAUSERS* LIQUID EXTRACT OF SMOKE.
Mad* from hickory wood. < Jive* deliciousflavor.
Uhoapur.ch-aner than old wiy. Kfnd for cir-
cular. K. 11 mutter A llr ., Milton, Pa*
AIL LISt PAIL
Beet Cough Syrup. Tastes Good.
In timo. Sold by drm
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Christ, J. H. The Kiel Press. (Kiel, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 7, 1901, newspaper, February 7, 1901; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc102431/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.