The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 13, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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Birthplace of
Great President to Be
Converted Into Public Park
rested under Military guard. Gov-
ernors and mayors met it at various
railroad stations and paid tribute to
tile life lhal began within its rough
(Imbers. When the si>eciul train on
which it rode crossed the Ohio river
front Indiana into Kentucky, it was
met at the Louisville station with mil-
| itnry honors. Col. Henry Watterson
and Adlal H. Stevenson made the
chief speeches of welcome.
The cost of making a park of the
Lincoln farm, of erecting the mem-
I orial hall and of carrying out other
I plans is being met by popular sub-
traveling I scriptions sent to Clarence U. Muc-
about the country as a show. With | kay, treasurer of the Lincoln Farm
imposing ceremonies, it was carried association. Other officers of the M-
back to its native soil, and restored soclation are Joseph W. Folk. presi-
to the very spot where "Tom" Lin- dent; William H Taft C ardina G-
coin, the father, put its rough tim- bons, Samuel L. Clemens,
hers together. On another part of the mont and Lymrn J. Gage.
farm, as an antithesis to the but, and .The movement to preserve the
as illustrative of the height to scenes of the ea.l ^ J'1
which the son attained from such a coins life has rev ( .
humble origin, it is planned to erect est in all the associations ,rfb s y,,uth.
a memorial structure which will be 'Hie graybeards of Hodgenville. the
an exact reproduction of the White hamlet which Is situated about two
House at the time Lincoln lived there. | miles
Within its \vall3 will be preserved all , |
the available historical treasures as- |
N February 12, 1909, the
Kentucky farm where Abra-
ani Lincoln was born,
ill, if all goes well, be
dedicated to the American
people as a national park.
Its 110 rocky acres in the heart of
the Blue Grass state have been pur-
chased, and an association has been
organized to restore its many natural
beauties.
The log cabin in which the future
president was born was recently res-
cued from a cellar at College Point,
Long Island, where it had been igno
miniously dumped after
This man whose homely face you look upon,
Was one of Nature's masterful, great men;
Born with strong arms, that unfought battles won,
Direct of speech, and cunning with the pen.
Chosen for large designs, he had the art
Of winning with his humor, and he went
Straight to his mark, which was the human heart;
Wise, too, for what he could not break he bent.
Upon his back a more than Atlas load,
The burden of the commonwealth, wa3 laid;
He stooped, and rose up to it; though the road
Shot suddenly downward, not a whit dismayed.
Hold, warriors, councilors, kings! All now give place
To this dead Benefactor of the race!
—Richard Henry Stoddard.
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from the
they were
tociated with his name and fame.
The date chosen for the dedication
of the Lincoln farm is especially ap-
propriate, for it marks the 100th anni-
versary of the birth of the martyred
president. Prominent Americans from
the north, south, east and west
Lincoln farm, ever
aroused by Its sale
at auction, have been telling many a
story about "Little Abe," when a lad;
about "Tom," his father, and Nancy,
his mother. "Abo" lived on the farm,
they say, until he was four and a
half years old, when, because of the
scant produce of its 110 acres, the
family was forced to move to a house
xpected to be present at the exer- in the village, where "Tom" Lincoln
xpecieu ' - . . __ I. ... «-ted his family by work-
cises. President Roosevelt has
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llow quickly the long, tight sleeve
has leaped into favor? That is at
least among the ultra-fashionable. And
they (the sleeves) are infinitely be-
coming to most women. .The sleeve in
its most approved shape has very lit-
tle if any fullness at the shoulder, and
it molds the arm right down to the
wrist, where it curves out gently, thus
'orming a cup-like frame for the
knuckles. It is predicted by one of
the most famous of the Paris dress-
makers that these sleeve3 will be im-
mensely popular in the coming spring,
wern as they will be with the sleeve-
less coats, especially with those coats
\ ich liavo very wide armholes.
Another novelty of which we wish
to speak and which we picture in our
smaller illustration, is the latest thing
in sashes. You will not notice that it
was passed around the girl's waist,
from the front, and that the ends
were brought back and tied at one
side, almost in front.
On slender figures these sashes are
infinitely becoming, and they are an
absolute rage at the moment. They
are, I think, more becoming to the
average woman than the "Fatma"
sash, as the latter must b8 drawn
very tightly round the hips and tied
—either at the back or front—several
inches below waistline.
As for the costumes displayed in
our large illustration above, the first
is of dull recj cloth, the long coat being
edged with fanciful braid, while the
waistcoat and levers are of -black
Persian lamb. The second costume is
of light blue face cloth, cut in princess
style in front and trimmed with a lit-
tle soutache embroidery, and bearing
a lace waistcoat outlined with a short
ermine stole. >
There Is no doubt that many modish
women favor the English rather than
the French fashion of gowning for
evening at the theater and in dining,
even in public restaurants and at the
play. A slight decolletage is not only
charming when the neck is good, but
It is much more comfortable in our j
overheated theaters and restaurants.
But it should be remembered that by
far the greater number of people In
any audience are those having mod-
erate and in some cases very mod-
erate incomes, and that with such
even the semi-decollete gown for such
occasions is more or less of an extrava-
gance. It would seem, therefore, that
with their varied opportunities cover-
ing the opera boxes, innumerable pri-
vate entertainments, to say nothing of |
dinners at home—for wearing semi j
and full decollete gowns—the women |
tion or two ago from the humblest of
families, and when many who can
barely afford a dress suit or a low-
neck frock soring from a Ion 4. line
of ancestor;., of whon they have eveiy
right to fejl proud, the matter of
caste is a urely artificial one; fam-
ilies unhea. J of yesterday "arrive" to-
day, and the poor man of to-day is the
father or rrandfather of future mil-
lionaires.
The truth of the matter is that the
American woman as a r u 1 , no uiu11 r
barely suppoi
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Abraham Lincoln
BORN 1809—DIED 1865.
PROPOSED LINCOLN MEMORIAL BUILDING.
It is to be built on the Lincoln farm, and will be an exact reproduction of the
White House at the time Lincoln lived there. It will contain all the avail
able historical, treasures associated with Lincoln's name and fame.
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Visiting Toilet, Showing the Newest
Thing in Sashes.
what her position, dresses primarily to
please herself. This is not intelligent
dressing, and so long as she overlooks
the essentials, that is, the fitness of
the gown to the occasion, she will
never attain the dignity of being truly
well dressed, which means appropri-
ately and becomingly robed from the
top of her head to the tips of her fin
gers and toes.
Bowed to Senator Hale.
Senator Hale is the autocrat of the
of social standing would do better to j senate on naval matters, a fact which
follow the example of the refined is thoroughly recognized at the navy
Parisienne and wear high-necked
frocks, or. at least, those with Dutch
department. Last summer Secretary
Metcalf took a number of senators
necks of the tiniest possible V, when j and representatives, members of the
dining in public or at the play, remem- I naval affairs committees of the two
bering, always, that their gowns will I houses, on an "inspection' jaunt of
surely be copied as nearly as possible,
In cut at least, by many of their sex
who can not afford it.
In England it is quite different.
There are distinctly different classes,
and the quiet middle class is content
to dress as do others of the same
cluss. Hereditary titles and blue
blood. 110 matter how illegitimately
the West Indies. Mr. Hale went
along. One day the Dolphin lay all day
at some port while Secretary Metcalf
spent the time ashore. The place
bored Mr. Male, and he remained
aboard the Dolphin. In the evening
Mr. Metcalf returned, and when the
captain of the Dolphin asked for sail-
ing orders, Mr. Metcalf told bim the
the blue—so-called blue—blood may j ship would remain in port that night,
have come, are genuinely esteemed. Just at that moment Mr. Hale came
and the fact that money derived from i on deck. "How much longer will we
marrying into the vulgarest of families
may pay the bills makes Utile dif-
ference.
Here there can be no caste. People
try to make it, but when the million-
aire of to-day pring unly a genera
,
stay ill this hole?" he asked Mr. .Met-
calf. "1 was just giving orders to sail
at once," replied Secretary Metcalf.
Five minutes later the Dolphin was
pulling out aB fast as her englneB
would take her.
able historical
cepted the invitation to make the
principal address of the day.
Had the farm not been purchased
when it was for a national park, it
might even now havo been the situ
for a distillery. Because of a spring
on the farm, famous throughout Ken-
tucky for the purity of its waters, a
wealthy Lou'sville whisky manufac-
turer had sought to bay the property
that he might advertise his product
in sonfe such way as this;
LINCOLN RYE
ft{ade from the PUREST MAI.T.
: combined with the crystal waters :
: of the famous LINCOLN SPUING, :
which gushes out of the rock with- :
: In a few feet of the place where .
Abraham Lincoln Was Born.
; Visit our distillery at Lincoln's :
: birthplace and
See and Taste for Yourself. ;
(All genuine Lincoln whisky
: shows portrait of Lincoln drinking :
from the spring.) ■
As it happened, whisky helped de-
feat whisky. When it was publicly
announced that the long drawn-out
litigation in which the farm's title
had become entangled was at last
ended, and that it would be sold at
auction on August 28, 11105, the Louis-
ville distiller sent a representative
"to bid it in," no matter what the
figure. The agent got as far as Eliza-
bethtown, Ky., some 12 miles from
Hodgenville, where the auction was to
take place, and, as it was Sunday
and the sale was to be held in the
afterno'on of the following day, he
put up at a hotel apd "took things
easy," intending to drive over to
Hodgenville the next morning. Ilut
although the trains do not run in
that part of Kentucky on Sunday, the
bottles do, and the whisky man drank
long and often In the barroom. Here |
he made the acquaintance of a young |
man from New York, who had come i
to buy the farm for its preservation |
as a park, and who is now secretary
of the Lincoln Farm association. On
learning the purpose of the man from
Louisville and noticing that "the tide
was coming in," the New Yorker got
up at daybreak the next morning and
hurried to Hodgenville 1)1 the fastest
conveyance he could hire.
On reaching Hodgenville the New
York man asked that t'.ie auction be
held as early as possible, and he
bought the farm for $;;,5U0 about a
quarter of an hour by,ore the whisky
man arrived.
• The restoration of the log cabin to
its native : tate was a spectacle as im-
posing as its conslgnni .it to a cellu"
In New York was inglorious. It was
placed 011 n special car and escorted
back to Kentucky by a squad of Ken-
tucky militiamen. At Philadelphia,
1 Italtlmore, Harrisburg,,Altoona, Pitts-
I burg, Columbus and Indianapolis it
O all but a few—certainly
not more than a score,
perhaps not more than a
dozen—it Is news that
Abraham Lincoln was hit
by a bullet fired by a
"Johnny Reb" in battle. The histor-
ies do not record it, nor the biograph-
ies. Those who saw the occurrence
thought little of it at the time, so
i iho work they had In
the presidency stood, tali and 1111-1 j.al;',i m„| the president is not known
gainly in his black suit of apparently! CYCr\0 have im,ed the Incident,
new but ill fitting clothes, li's long. | f.oncerne[j oniy with the welfare of
i a sundered nation and its suffering
1 millions, and least of all with self, it
no thought of the
perience recurred to him at any
ing at odd jobs as a carpenter. There j
they lived until the boy was nearly 1
ten, when the Lincolns moved to In- |
diana.
LINCOLN'S CALL TO DUTY.
There the Republican candidate for , _reBglng was
tali aad un- I , ,, tv,„
tawny neck emerging gauntly from
] bis "turn down" collar, his m"lan-
1 clioly eyes cunk deep in his haggard j f,""p™babie~ that"
face. Most of the members of the r|ence recurre
him be- j tjr^e jn the perio(1 0f stvess and anx
him with jety an(j jmp0rtant occupation that
committee had never seen
fore, and gazed
surprised curiosity. He certainly 1 f„jjowe(j another bullet, less honest,
did not present the appearance that (ook away h|s ,lfe
of a statesman, as people usu-
ally picture it in their imagina-
tion. Standing up with folded hands,
he quietly, without visible embarrass-
On the morning of July 12, 1SU4,
a young lieutenant-colonel of the Six-
ty-fifth New York volunteers, standing
just outside Fort Stevens, one of the
series of forts that completely sur-
rounded and guarded Washington,
saw President Lincoln walking fear-
lessly among his soldiers, discussing
the conditions and circumstances of
the then impending attack upon Ihe
city by Gen Early and his confeder-
ate forces, while a battle raged out-
side the breastworks.
Watching with the curiosity of a
soldier who had seen his president
only twice before, llie colonel was
alarmed when he saw him hit by a
bullet, which had sped through the air
from the camp of the enemy. That
1 iMi-m w voung officer was William P. Roolno,
LiiMi, in who was adjutant general and chief
i of staff to Maj.-Gen. Upton.
This log cabin was removed from Sometimes Col. Roome has thought
the Lincoln farm, in Kentucky, and 0f writing to Lincoln's biographers
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HUT IN WHICH
WAS BORN.
carried about the country for some
time by a showman. Later it was
dumped ignominiously into a cellar
in New York city, from which it
was rescued and restored to its na
tive state.
ment or emotion, listened to the dig
nifled little speech addressed to him
by Mr. Ashmum, the president of the
convention, and then responded with
a few appropriate, earnest and well-
shaped sentences, expressing his
gratitude for the confidence reposed
in him, his doubts of his own abilities
and his trust in a helping Providence.
Then followed some informal talk,
partly of a jovial kind, in which the
hearty simplicity of Lincoln's nature
shone out. and after the usual hand-
shaking the committee took leave.
One of lis members, Mr. Kclley of
Pennsylvania, remarked to me as we
pa: d out of the house: "Well, wo
i i- ht have done a more brilliant
ihing, but we could hardly have done
better thing."—From "Reminiscen-
and telling them of the incident, but
he procrastinated, not considering
it a matter ot sufficient Importance to
Interest them. Lately, however, not-
ing the renewed interest in the minut-
est detuils of the life of Lincoln, he
believes that Americans would like
to know the facts.
When Ihe bombardment of Sumter
was In progress Walker, the confed-
erate secretary of war, making a fiery
speech at Montgomery, Ala., declared:
"The flag which now llaunts the
breeze here will float over the dome
of the old capltol at Washington be-
fore the first of May."
That boast appeared in the same
issue of the newspaper that printed
President Lincoln's cull for troops,
and intensified the fears for the se-
curity of the capital already great
because of the probable secession of
Virginia and the doubt as to the po-
sition of Maryland. •
President Lincoln realized how
much depended on his holding Wash
ington. The loss of the capital doubt-
of the North would be broken, despair
would follow, discouragement, defeat.
So he bent his first efforts to de-
fending the seat of government from
those who would set up there a new
nation not conceived in liberty.
His deep anxiety In those days be-
fore the troops arrived and when
Beauregard's army was said to be ap-
proaching, will be recalled by all who
have read the story of the war. Af-
ter the arrival of the Seventh New
York regiment of "dandies," who
dined at Delmonico'g before departing
and the Massachusetts and Rhode
Island regiments of farmers, mechan-
'"3 and tradespeople, the capital was
in no danger until the attack of Gen.
Early, when the Incident of Col.
Itoome's story occurred. But 'his did
not entirely 'elievo tlii anxiety in the
heart of thv man who, from the win-
dow of his executive office, could see
a traitor Hag flcatiaj over the home
across the river wli?re Washington
had lived apd died.
When the fortifications were thrown
up around the c;tal l incoln knew of
every detail of the work, consulte'd
with the men in charge, informed and
advised them. It was, therefore, no
occasion of comment when 1'" left
the White House on this July 12 and
walked among the soldiers. They
stood, ready for action, behind the
wall? while from the plain below came
the soinid of conflict.
Gen Karly's own story of his move-
ment upon Washington shows the
situation in the confederate ranks on
that day. He had approached Wash-
ington from the north. Having heard
that the outer works were feebly
manned, he meant to take them by
surprise, but before his first divis-
ion could be brought up, he says, he
saw a cloud of dust In the rear of the
works and soon a column of men
In'blue filed into them on the right
and left. Then skirmishers were
thrown out In front, while an artil-
lery fire was opened on the confeder-
ates from a number of batteries.
"Our skirmishers were all thrown
to the front," wrote Gen. Early, "driv-
ing those of the enemy to the cover
of their works, and wo proceeded to
examine the fortifications in order to
ascertain if it was practicable to car-
ry them by assault. They were found
to be exceedingly strong and consisted
of what appeared to be Inclosed forts
for heavy artillery, with a tier of low-
er works in front of each, pierced'for
an immense number of guns. Ihe
whole being connected by curtains
with ditches In front and strength-
ened by palisades and abattis. The
limber had been felled within cannon
range all around and left on the
.ground, making a formidable obstacle,
and every possible approach was
raked with artillery."
Thus it would seem that President
Lincoln Incurred little danger 011 the
day when he went about within the
fortification walls. l!ut that he was
I11 some danger Is shown by Col.
Rcome's story.
CI S of a Long Life," by Carl Scburz, J ,,,ag woum result In European recog
ill McClurc's. 1 nition of the confederacy; the spirit
Lincoln's Sarcasm.
Probably the mo.t cutting thing
Lincoln ever said was the remark be
made about a very loquacious man;
"This person can comprcBS the most
words into the smallest ideas of auy
mau I evev met."
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