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shrine for a
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highway,
continent
beautiful
with the
traffic and travel of the nation which he saved.
Today the Lincoln memorial In Washington
stands supreme among memorials to Abraham
Lincoln—perhaps among memorials to any man or
woman In all the world, "A thing of beauty is a
joy forever,” and this is a thing of beauty. To look
from the Washington monument down the long
Mall and see the simple, massive white marble
Greek temple, its stately Doric columns reflected
In the waters of the quiet lagoon, is a sight to stir
the appreciative to ecstasy. What a trinity—the
Capitol, Washington's monument, the
ument—with Arlington near by!
Lincoln's memorial In Washington
a completed and perfected national
By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
INCOLN’S memorial In Washington Is
the center where will focus the Ameri-
can people's annual tribute on Febru-
ary 12 to Abraham Lincoln. This ine-
moiial is worthy the man and the day,
so far as human hands can express tin*
thoughts of human minds and hearts.
In a few generations It will doutyiess
have a worthy rival.' which in time
may surpass it- the Lincoln
a national road across the
___I lined w 1th memorial tret
with roadside planting, busy
people’s homage on February 12. It was oflichilly
dedicated last year—on Memorial day. This year
it will be rededlented on Lincoln's birthday in the
hearts of the American people.
In briefest words, here Is how the Lincoln me-
morial wns created ami what It is:
February 1, 1911, congress authorized the expen-
diture of 12,000,000 for a national memorial to
commemorate the life and character of Abraham
Lincoln. In 1018 plans were approved. Work was
begun February 12, 1914. The cornerstone wns
laid February 12, 1915. Henry Bacon of New York
designed a simple and massive Greek temple of
white Colorado marble, erected on a granite rect-
angular base. The memorial consists of u central
memorial hall, containing a colossal seated statue
of Lincoln by Daniel Chester French, and two
mailer rooms containing memorials of Lincoln's
Second Inaugural Address and his Gettysburg Ad-
dress. There Is a colonnade of thirty six Doric
columns, symbolic of the United States in 1865.
Above these are forty-eight festoons In high re-
lief representing the forty-eight states.
The memorial has cost almost exactly Jfi.OOO.QOO
to date. The total height of the structure above
grade Is 122 feet. Each column Is 41 feet high
and 7 feet 5 inches In diameter at the base. The
colonnade Is iss feet long. The statue of Lincoln
is 21 feet high and weighs 21 tons; its height, with
|>edestai and base, is 30 feet. The visitor enterg
the memorial to gaze from a distance of seventy
feet jit this gl-nnt’c 1 mcoln. represented as the
great war President. Or r his head Is Inscribed:
In This Temple,
As in the Hearts of the People
For Whom He Saved the Union,
The Memory of Abraham Lincoln
Is Enshrined Forever.
As to the spirit of Lincoln's Birthday In Ameri-
ca in 1923. no truer words can be said than were
spoken by President Harding w hen lie received. In
l>ehalf of the American people, the Lincoln me-
morial from the Lincoln memorial commission ap-
pointed by congress In 1911, wltii William Howard
Taft for chairman. President Harding said, among
other things:
“It Is a supreme satisfaction officially to accept
on behalf of the government this superb monu-
ment to the savior of the republic. No official
duty could be more welcome, no official function
more pleasing. This memorial edifice Is a noble
tribute, gratefully bestowed, and in Its offering Is
the reverent heart of America; In Its dedication Is
the consciousness of reverence and gratitude
beautifully expressed.
“Somehow my emotions Incline me to speak
simply as a reverent nnd grateful American,
rather than one in official responsibility. I am
thus Inclined because the true measure of Lin-
coln ts In his place today In the heart of American
citizenship, though half a century has passed since
his colossal service and his martyrdom. In every
moment of peril, in every hour of discouragement,
whenever the clouds gather, there is the Image of
Lincoln to rivet our hopes and to renew our faith.
Whenever there Is a glow of triumph over nation-
al achievement, there comes the reminder that
but for Lincoln’s heroic nnd unalterable faith iu
the Union, these triumphs could not have been.
"Here wns the great purpose, here the towering
hope, here the supreme faith. Ho treasured the
Inheritance hunded down by the founding fathers.
the ark of the covenant wrought through their
heroic sacrifices ami bullded through their inspired
genius. The I nion must be preserved. It was the
central thought, the unalterable purpose, the un-
yielding intent, the foundation of faith. It w'as
wortli every sacrifice, Justified every cost, steeled
the heart to sanction every crimsoned tide of
blood.
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“He knew, of course, before the assassin robbed
him of fuller realization, that the end wns bring-
ing him out all right. He knew when swords were
sheathed and guns laid down, that the Union he
saved was riveted anew and made forever indis-
soluble. He knew that In the great crucible of
fire nnd blood the dross had been burned from the
misdirected patriotism of seceding states nnd the
pure gold restored to shining stars in dear Old
Glory again. He knew lie had freed a race of
bondmen and had given to the world the costly
proof of the perpetuity of the American Union.
But I cannot restrain the wish that he might some-
how know of the monuments to his memory
throughout the world, and that we nre dedicating
today, on behalf of a grateful nation, this match-
less memorial, whose forty-eight columns, repre-
senting forty-eight stales In the concord of union,
testify that the ’end brought him out all right.’
Washington Inspired belief in the republic In Its
heroic beginning. Lincoln proved its quality in the
heroic preservation. The old world had wondered
about the new-world experiment, and was quite
ready to proclaim its futility when the Civil why
was threatening, but Lincoln left the Union un-
challenged for all succeeding time. Not only was
our nation given a new birth of freedom, hut de-
mocracy was given a new sanction by that hand of
divinity Itself which has written the rights of hu-
mankind nnd pointed the way to their enjoyment.
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“Fifty-seven years ago the people gave from
their ranks, sprung from their own fiber, this plain
man, holding their common Ideals. They gave him
first to service of the nation In the hour of perils,
then to their Pantheon of fume. With them and by
them he Is enshrined and exalted forever.
“Today American gratitude, love nnd apprecia-
tion give to Abraham Lincoln this lone white tem-
ple. a Pantheon for him alone "
Herewith ts reproduced a new photograph of
Lincoln cathedral tn faraway England. Why—
what is the connection between Abtaham Lincoln
nnd a cathedral across seas that was built long
before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Kock?
For one thing, this "blood Is thicker than wa-
ter' and ''hands across the sea" business Is not all
buncombe. There’s considerable In It, after all.
England gave us the Lincolns, when nil Is said nnd
done. England gave us the Lincoln blood. Amer-
ica made it run richer. Doubtless It wns Provi-
dence. rather than England or America, that raised
up Abraham Lincoln.
For another thing. It Is a safe guess that Abra-
ham Lincoln hnd his beginnings beneath the
sha<low of Lincoln cathedral. "Lincoln” Is a place
name. The Lincolns of England and America took
their name from Lincoln, the cnpftnl of Lincoln-
shire. which Is an old. old city—Llndmn Colonia of
Roman times. And the name Is old, too. Why4
Hugh Lincoln Is the subject of the “Prioress'
Title" In Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales.”
Tuere were Lincolns early in our American his-
tory. Abraham Lincoln is descended from Samuel
Lincoln, who came to Massachusetts from Eng-
land In 1(137. And the Lincolns were n sturdy fam-
ily. There was Maj. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln (1733-
1810), who received Lord Cornwallis’ sword In
surrender at Yorktown. Enoch Lincoln (1788-
1820) was governor of Maine, 1827-9. Levi Lin-
coln (1749-1820) was United States attorney gen-
eral 1801-5. Another Levi Lincoln (1782-1868) was
governor of Massachusetts 1825.-34 and member of
congress 1835-41.
Abraham Lincoln’s Immediate ancestors chose
to go pioneering. New England was too settled
for them. They were of the type of American pio-
neer who moved on as soon as he saw a neighbor's
smoke or heard his dog bark. In the depths of the
wilderness, ever working westward, they became
what the world calls poor and obscure. It should
be remembered, however, that poverty and ob-
scurity nre one thing in the city and entirely a
different thing In the wilderness. A pioneer with a
title and ax, a roof over his head and m crop In
the ground is neither poor nor obscure.
Lincoln cathedral Is one of the finest In Eng-
land. It was in process of erection from 1075 to
1J501. It Is of early English architecture nnd Is
524 by 82 feet, with a matchless central tower 271
feet high. The cathedral's famous bell, “Great
Tom of Lincoln* weighs about 5’4 tons. The north
gate of Llndum Colonia still stands and is the only
Roman gate in Britain still in use. Not far away
is Boston, the mother of our Boston.
What Lincoln and Lincoln's birthday moan to
the English-speaking nations of earth cannot be
better said than was said by Elihu Root at the
presentation of the Salnt-Gaudens statue of Lin-
coln, the gift of America to the British people. He
said, among other things:
“Put aside superficial difference, accidental and
unimportant, and Abraham Lincoln appears, In the
simple greatness of his life, his character, and his
service to mankind, a representative of the deep
and underlying qualities of bls race—the qualities
that great emergencies reveal, unchangingly the
same In every continent; the qualities to which
Britain owed her life in the terrible years of the
last decade; the qualities that have made both
Britain ami America great. He was of English
blood, and he has brought enduring honor to the
name. Every child of English sires should learn
tho story nnd think with pride, ’Of such stuff as
this are wo English made.’
“He was imbued with the conceptions of Justice
nnd liberty that the people of Britain had been
working out in struggle and sacrifice since before
Magna Charta—the conceptions for which Chatham
and Burke and Franklin nnd Washington stood to-
gether. a century and a half ago, when th? buttle
for British liberty whs fsctfA hwd w.<i BHfaln
as well as for America on the other side of the
Atlantic. These conceptions of Justice and liberty
have been the formative power that has brought all
America, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, to order
Its hfe according to the course of the common
law. to assert its popular sovereignty through rep-
resentative government—Britain’s great gift to the
political science of the world—nnd to establish the
relation of Individual citizenship to the state, on
the basis of Inalienable rights which governments
are established to secure. It is the Identity of these
fundamental conceptions in both countries which
makes It impossible that In any great world
emergency Britain and America rnn be on oppos-
ing sides. These conceptions of Justice and liberty
are the breath of life for both."
WOMAN ROUTED SIX INDIANS
Single-Handed, Mrs. Merrill Slew Red-
skins With an Ax, Only Ons
Escaping.
During the summer of 1787, Mr.
Merrill's cabin in Nelson county, KyM
was attacked by seven wandering In-
dians, writes Lewis Appleton Barker in
Adventure Magazine. The barking of
the watchdog at midnight was the
family's first knowledge of the ap-
proach of any one, and, unfortunately,
Mr. Merrill, opening the door to learn
what wus afoot, had his thigh and ana
immediately broken by rifle fire, thus
placing him at the very beginning l.ors
de combat. As he fell he cried out to
his wife to close the door. Mrs. Mer-
rill, the equal of any man in both
strength and courage, seized the ax
and dropped the bar of the door, Just
as several Indians appeared in view.
It was not long however, before they
had effected a breach and were half
way into the little room. With onl>
the ax as a weapon this Amazonian
woman killed or seriously wounded
four of her assailants.
The other three, ascending ; •
roof, made an effort to make n •
trance by means of the great." I
Undaunted, the lone defend? t
four savages wallowing iu the!
at her feet, seized her choicest
sion, a feather bed, and, ripping n op. »
threw It upon the fire, making a blind-
ing smoke, in which two of the re
mainlng fiends dropped to the hearth
nearly insensible. It was but the w-.k
of a moment to dispatch these two as
she had the others.
One would have thought that ti ls
would have been enough for the sole
survivor, but apparently he, too, was
not devoid of courage. For scan ly
had she succeeded In ridding herself of
those who had come down the chimney
than her attention was called to ie
last one who was even then hurling
himself over the threshold of is
broken door. There was not even
time to raise her weapon for a g >d
blow, but Just as it was In her hau ls,
she drew the keen edge of the g ry
ax across the cheek of the In. ru<( ?r,
inflicting a deep gash.
Apparently this was too much ev >n
for him, and with one terrific yell he
made for the forest.
Horace Greeley’s Barn.
Dti'ing the Illness that resulted In
his death. In 1872, Horace Greeley •x-
pressed a wish in talking with tin
daughter, that after lie was gone id
forgotten, his old barn would still be
serving a useful purpose. Although
the famous editor 1ms been dea l or
half a century, his wish Ims been
a reality, and ids daughter and I ,-r
husband are living today in the b< se
into which they transformed the "id
concrete barn.
Some years after the death of Gree-
ley, lire destroyed all the frame l ulld-
Itflis on the estate, and the family
sought lefuge in the old barn a ar
emergency home. Later, with the as-
sistance of an architect, the old barn
was remodeled into a comfortable and
modern dwelling. The corners and
part oi the foundations are of recent
masonry construction, and the chim-
neys and trimmings of brick have been
added. The new residence is described
in Popular Mechanics.
Elk All but Annihilated.
Elk once occurred in nearly every
state, but the larger number are now
confined to national forests and nation-
al parks in 14 states, according to the
forest service, United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture. Of a total of
72,000 elk reported several years ago,
over 52,000 find range on the national
forests some time during the year.
The once large herds of antelope
found in all western states have been
almost annihilated, but the 2,400 head
now existing on the national forests
in 10 states constitute the nucleus of
future nerds. A total of 13,000 moun-
tain sheep in 11 states, and 10,000
mountain goats in four states are re-
ported. A few representatives of many
other big-game species are still found
In widely scattered sections of tlie na-
tional forests, while fur-bearing ani-
mals under protection show a remark-
able Increase in most localities.
Gophers Commit Suicide.
A self-exploding gun for the ex-
termination of pocket gophers is now
being used by a number of farmers
who are bothered witli these pests.
The gun, illustrated and described In
Popular Mechanics Magazine, looks
like a miniature cannon. It Is mount-
ed on an aluminum frame with three
ground spikes so arranged that the
barrel can be pointed directly Into
the gopher's runway. It shoots a
standard .410 shotgun shell. In set-
ting, the dirt is first scraped away
from the hole. The gun is then
spiked Into the ground with the bar-
rel pointing down into the burrow.
A small piece of cork or cob is placed
over the end of the trigger wire.
The slightest pressure on the trigger-
wire, cork releases the hammer, and
bang! the full charge of the shot hits
the gopher in the face. The gopher
virtually commits suicide.
Fighting Malaria With Tractors.
Malaria ha.s a new enemy in the
motor plow, which drives away dis-
ease by Introducing cultivation. Ex-
periments lately made with four tract-
ors with a special plow blade turned
up furrows ten inches deep so suc-
cessfully that It Is pronounced prac-
ticable to reclaim swamp lands hither-
to unproductive and given over to
malaria. The land tested was formed
by a stratum of roots and marsh plants
upon a marshy bank of decomposed
vegetable material, which In turn
rested on soft mud that yielded easily
to the weight of wheels.
AT AGE 71, FINDS
HOUSEWORK EASY
Mrs. Jennings Says Tanlac Re-
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Attack and Ended
Stomach Trouble.
“I was almost an invalid nnd Tan-
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the grateful and characteristic state-
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felt sick, my legs and arms so tired
and veak I could hardly use them, and
I scarcely had energy and strength to
dress myself. I Just kept getting
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I am seventy-one, I had begun to think
my age was against me ever getting
well.
Jmost from the day I began taking
j Tup ac I commenced to feel stronger.
: 8o I kept picking up with every bottle
I until now I can easily do all my house
work, for I am feeling fine. I wouldn't
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Just grand."
Tanlac is far sale by all good drug-
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Vlvertlsemeht.
Rapid “Skinning Machine.”
High speed In skinning animals Is
attained by a Frenchman’s Invention
of a tool In which three knives are ro-
tated by an electric motor at a speed
of 2,800 revolutions a minute.
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