Mangum Sun-Monitor. (Mangum, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1903 Page: 3 of 10
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ihoy arnd fl«iwora, not picture card* ion. . -nj
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S «o have a lot of val; Ktb. Then bo atlrro4 and balf raNod
amine muff in tba i«*u^ of K«-b. 13.
•aid I. "and nio»t of It Ir rnttllim Rood.
but. of rourao. If It docan't appeal to
you "
Ho shook bla hend very »adly arid
mntlcriil
"Valentino atorloa! G«»d Ixird!"
-Why. what's the matter?" I In-
quired.
"Now look here." said he. "I try to
keep pretty close to life; to write tho
thins thnt Is. and not tho dream. I>o
I maki' myself clear? Well, such be
ln« tho rase let me a«k you one riiti's-
tlon. In tho last ten years have you
known or heard of any human crea-
ture who has attached any serious Im-
portance to a valentine or had any
really romantic adventuro connected
with one?"
Yes, sir, I have." said I
A VALKNTISfc PABTT
NOW TO OCT U» AM IfcJOVAOlK
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aald h« 'WhiTo did
were'born In the same rude log cabin
in Kentucky, but three months apart,
in 18'»9S and that she herself Is a
grand niece of Lincoln's mother, the
famous Nancy Hanks.
She is Mrs. Nellie M. Moore, who
was born not many years before the
outbreak of the civil war, in the then
exceedingly primitive town of
ford, Mo., and has been for three
months past a resident of East Pep-
perell, Mass., where her husband,
Charles W. Moore, is engineer in a
mill.
Miss Hall, for that was Mrs. Moore s
maiden name, spent only the first thir-
teen years of her life in Missouri, hav-
ing been sent to a Kentucky board ng
school at that age. She was married
and lived in Louisville for some years,
later removed to Cincinnati, and after
the death of her husband came Bast,
married Mr. Moore, a native of Massa-
chusetts, and they lived for seventeen
years in Atlantic, a part of Quincy, un-
til they removed to Pepperell.
"When asked to define her relation-
ship to the martyred President, Mrs.
Moore said:
"My father, William S. Hall, was a
son of Martha Hanks, sister of Nancy
Hanks, who married Thomas Lincoln
and became the mother of Abraham
Lincoln. So, you see, my father was
first cousin and I was second cousin to
the President.
"My grandfather, who married Mar-
tha Hanks, was Levi Hall, and they
and Thomas and Nancy Lincoln were
living together in the little log cabin
in La Rue county, Ky., in 1809, when
Abraham Lincoln was born there. My
father was born three months later in
the same cabin."
When questioned as to the antece-
dents of the Hanks, Lincoln and Hall
families, Mrs. Moore says it is a tradi-
tion of all three families that they
emigrated together from New England
about 200 years ago to Pennsylvania,
from there to Virginia and later to
Kentucky, as they eventually did to
Indiana and finally to Illinois and Mis-
souri. She has been for some time
engaged In investigating the possible
early connection of the families with
New England, and intends to prepare
a genealogy embodying the results of
^Continuing her story of tha
tudes of the Lincoln, Hanka and Hall
families, Mrs. Moore says:
"My aunt, Rosanne Hall, who rode
from her home In Maryland to Ken-
tucky behind her husband on his horse
told me that there were Quakers
among my ancestors, aa there are aald
to have been In the Lincoln family.
She also said that my great-grand-
father waa killed by the Indians at the
time that Abraham Lincoln s
while they were
trade, Just 100 years ago, was one of
the first settlers In Illinois, having
gone there from Kentucky about 1820.
It was his son, the famous John
Hanks, still living in Missouri, who in
1830 induced Thomas Lincoln, Dennis
Hanks and my father to pull up stakes
and'also remove to Illinois, where Abe
was destined to achieve that fame that
gained for him the Presidency.
"Having arrived In Macon county,
111., the party, which numbered thir-
teen, settled for a while. My father
and Abe Lincoln were in their 21st
year, and they, with John Hanks, Abe s
second cousin, built the log cabin
which some say was exhibited on Bos-
ton Common thirty years or more ago.
They also split the famous fence rails
at that time, samples of which did
much to arouse the enthusiasm In the
Illinois convention in 1860, which se-
cured the Presidential nomination for
Lincoln.
"After serving as major In the Black
Hawk war, in which Abe Lincoln was
captain, my father became one of the
earliest settlers in Missouri, and dur-
ing the greater part of his life kept a
tavern, first at Hannibal and later at
Frankford.
"Frankford used to be visited by In-
dians sometimes, and if they didn't
Ond whisky before they arrived, they
were harmless, and their presence
caused no uneasiness. But if they
were drunk the news would quickly
spread and school would be dismissed
for the day.
"After a while a brick schoolhouse
was built one and one-half miles from
town, and to get there we had to fight
our way through wild animals and
snakes, for Missouri takes the blue
ribbon for snakes. At the brick school
we were furnished with a horn, and if
wild animals or Indians were seen
prowling about we blew the horn and
the neighboring farmers got their guns
and came to our rescue.
"When I waa a little girl Aunt
Saj]y> Abraham Lincoln's stepmother,
used to Tlslt ua, and she Trequently
put me to sleep In her arms, but I
never thought much about it till I waa
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about till it found lodgment in the top
of the tree, where his mother found it
"Another of her stories was about
Guinea niggers. I suppose you don't
know what Guinea niggers were, do
you? Well, they were not uncommon
in the days when slaves were brought
from Africa. They were very small
in stature and very unprepossessing
In appearance and they were said to be
cannibals.
"Grandma said that in her youth she
knew a young couple who bought a
pair of Guinea niggers. One day their
little child disappeared and it was
never seen again. They afterward
found that the cannibals had eaten
the child, and they were hanged for it.
"Grandma, like most of the Hankses
and Lincolns, was an ardent Metho-
dist. In her old age she always Knit-
ted Just so much on a stocking every
week day. One morning she was in-
dustriously engaged in the perform-
ance of her allotted stint, when some
of the younger folks came in with their
best clothes on.
" 'Why, grandma! What are you do-
ing?' somebody asked. 'Only knitting,'
she replied, with some surprise. 'What,
knitting on Sunday, grandma?' "Is
this Sunday?' asked grandma, in
amazement. When convinced that it
was she unraveled every stitch she
had done that morning, in order to
atone as far as possible for her dese-
cration of the day."
Mrs. Moore describes having seen
with some amusement Abraham Lin-
coln making a political speech in Mis
sourl, arrayed In a long aad exceeding-
ly crumpled linen "duster," and a tall
hat of ancient pattern. She says that
when Lincoln was nominated for Pres-
ident hia humble relatives among the
Hankses held up their hands with
amazed incredulity and exclaimed with
practical unanimity: "Abe Lincoln for
President? I don't believe It!"
"There was always something queer
about the Hankses," she says: "for al-
though they were among the earliest
settlers In Illlnoia and had their pick
of the land, and plenty of It. and some
of them had large, productive farms
never thought much about It till I waa or tne« naa
- VI1 !!!4n Up and other* reminded me of yet every one of them turned out#!
grandfather waa. while they were grown p enjoyed poor aa Job a cat.
clearing the ground to plant corn, oa US JI-UH mTWlmi the 1 "My mother owned slavea before the
their arrival In Kentucky. It *«dj. I often^ ^ too_ and my w,
but my father hotot did. nor did
who told me my father waa bors to i — ,M Orandma Hanka. any of the Hankse*. and for that rew
the Lincoln log cabin. Jok. Hanka mother, wha *on they wrr* called poor white*' by
"Aunt Ro*anna *sl4 ,UI „ oc* known aa Quincy. their nelahW* who bad *la*~. All
cote , -other «*4 to walk fro m»m «jsi Uel. of yam , t-e H«k~* were *ta»ch wpporler* of
to am to bare bee <*• k u* wound M Into s ball. , tba dmnag tba cWl war -he
He shook bis head slowly and sad-
ly. I could have cuffed him for that
Insolence, and yet his question, his
method of getting at the matter, ap-
pealed to me.
"I will spin you a little yarn," said
"a true yarn, and not a bad one.
'Delighted," said he, lying back In
his chair and closing his eyes.
'This happened to a fellow named
Jones," said I. "He was a newspaper
correspondent in the Philippines. He
had been out there six months and
hadn't had a letter from a girl."
"Particular girl?" queried Breck.
"Any girl," I replied. "There was a
particular girl; not so very particular
either, and yet he'd have been mighty
glad if she had remembered him on
the other side of the world. Most fel-
lows, of course, would have found a
romance of some kind suited to their
Individual tastes and fancies out there,
but Jones didn't have the luck. He'd
been brought up In a little sociable
city where everybody knew everybody
else, and though he no longer had any
close relatives there—very few, In-
deed, on earth—there were his old
friends, including some very nice girls,
whom he had traveled a hundred miles
out of his way to say good-by to Just
before leaving his native land. They d
all promised to write to him "
"Including the girl," said Breck.
"Yes," said I, "and the fact is that
a considerable package of mail for
him, sent through the publishers
whom he represented, and tardily for-
warded, had gone to the bottom of the
Pacific ocean, but he didn't know that.
"In Manila he met a young fellow
named. George Templeton, from the
same town as himself.
"Templeton was a sergeant of vol-
unteers, and a homesick soldier If ever
there was one. He excited Jones
sympathy, which became acute when
Jones learned that there was a girl at
home who had stopped writing to
Templeton for an unknown reason.
Templeton was not naturally sensi-
tive, but the experience had made him
so. He told his secret grudgingly be-
cause it was forced out of him, but he
never revealed the name of the girl
"In the latter part of January Tem-
pleton's company was sent up into
the interior to a little, forsaken village
where there was a peck of trouble,
mall steamer came In the day before
the detachment marched, but It
brought no letter to Templeton. The
poor fellow revealed this misfortune
to Jones with tears in his eyes. He
seemed to think that this was his last
chance.
"A few days later Jones learned en-
tirely by accident that a letter for
Templeton had really come on the
steamer and had been delivered by
mistake to a surgeon of the same sur
name.
"Jones had had It In his mind to try
to get through to this place where the
trouble was. He thought he saw a
good atory in it. Ho told the surgeon
of bla intention and was permitted to
take the letter. By pulling all klnda
hlnuelf.
" 'Ilello, Jono
you coma from?'
-Tve got a letter for you. Oeorg««.
wan tho rt-ply. 'It came after you
,C" "Give It to me,' *aid Tompleton.
extending a wimk. thin hand
"Ho took tho letter and raised It to
bl* brcaat as he snnk back aKalnat tin-
pillow. Jones waited, but Temp eton
did not move. Ho lay there smiling,
with the letter on his breast. The man
was dead. 1
•• -This Is a valentine that some one
has sent to him from homo.' said
Jones when the surgeon came 1
think wo ought to bury It with him.
"'How do you know what It Is.
asked the Burgeon.
"Jones could not answer.
" 'Wo ought to open It,' said the doc-
tor, 'in order to communlcato with
the writer. Some ono might want to
know that he got It.'
"He took the envelope out of the
dead man's hand and opened It after
soma hesitation.
'Dear George,' he said In a whis-
per. 'Mail this to Frank Jones if you
know where he is. and never tell him
who sent it. I don't know how to ad-
dress him. but you can find out.'
" 'That's mine,' said Jones in a
dream.
'The doctor put the inclosure into
his hands. It was in a separate en-
velope, unaddressed.
" 'This is a friendly letter from a
mighty fine girl,' said the doctor. 'I d
like to take something of this kind
with me when I go.'
He put it back into its envelope
oud laid It inside the rough woolen
shirt which was the dead man's gar-
ment.
He has delivered your message,
little girl,' said he, 'and he'll never tell
who sent It.'
"So that's the whole story. Jones
has come back to this country, and he
has that valentine—a pretty card with
little love verse on It, but not a
scrap of writing. He doesn't know
who sent it, but if he did I think he
would find that girl. I feel quite sure
that he would find that girl."
"Not bad, as such things go," said
Breck, rising, "but conventional."
"Conventional be 1 beg your par-
don," said I. "Why, the thing is true."
"I don't see that that helps it any,"
replied Breck. "However, that's
neither here nor there. I'm hard up,
and if a valentine story's what you
want I'll go home and see what I can
do for you. By the way, it wasn't Tem-
pleton's girl, of course?"
"The one who sent the valentine?
Certainly not," I replied. "When Jones
got back to this country he looked up
Templeton's affairs a bit to see
whether he could do anything for his
family and that sort of thing, and he
happened to discover that the girl for
whose letter he had waited was really
waiting for hlm-waltlng, as I have
faith to believe, very near that rude
church in Luzon where the man closed
his eyes so happily to open the eyes
of his soul next moment in her pres-
"You mean she had died, said
Breck.
"Preclaely," I replied.
"And Jones hasn't iound the one
girl who remembered him upon the
far side of the world?"
"No." said 1. "but he will "
Breck lighted another of his deadly
cigarette.
"Why can t I write this thing for
you?" he inquired.
"Not for your life, my friend," said I.
"Why not?" he demanded.
"Because 1 am Jones.' " said I. "and
at present the matter is sacredly con-
fidential. When I have found that
Klrl I shall write the atory myself."—
Chicago Record-Herald.
Hl*» day |«goa4* ss4 ea*i<*ise.
«rn «»>i * «alo»itee party "s ie
>4»i»' *miIi| mabo a hh*i laif
f. aad pioiiy affair la Ibal ««»•
4 »aow an4 ico lb* Hill** a«»w
baa fn>m iioto immemorial boon
4 lo Si Valonliao. and Ibo *os-
>ial liano *oa4* bl* Ia4y lute a
■». i uf Iba Immacutato bloaa »ma,
card boaring an appropriate
On Iho rar4 ar« a* many pin
a* there are loiter* In bla
If ibo lady fair l* unable la
rlabily auo** tho name *bo la in d iiy
bound to alvo tho ■••ndcr w»» colo ol
•-aa* at Kaairr. whkb I* eun*ldrre4 t«»
be In the nature of a forfeit. Hut lo
return to our party link la the eolar
for decoration*, alth heart*, bowknot*.
horssaboea and wlabbosaa u*ed wh« r-
j ever opportunity offer*. l*or*ieroa •!
pink hearta cut from a light qualilf
i <>f cardboard and *trung on ribbon.'
| ore very effective, with bunches o
i h»m suspended from ga* Jet*, pie
I lure* and draped over laco curtain*,
j The room* *hould have tho rose color
predominating, for on (hla one night
: in the year every one must look
(uroiigb roao colored gla**ea.
If card* are played the game must
bn "heart*." with score card* heart-
shaped and the marker* bo candy
I.earis with a hole in them to lie on
J to tho score card with pink ribbon.
Tho moltoea Inscribed on the old-
I fashioned candies affords much merri-
I ment.
After the cards present each lady
with an arrow tied with a ribbon, the
gentleman with a bow decorated In
tho saine manner. Tho colors are
matched and partners thus selected
for the supper table. With very lit-
tle trouble a heart-shaped target of
white muslin can be prepared with a*
heart painted of green on the outside,
one of black, a third of yellow, fourth
blue, fifth rod. This will look like
a series of hearts. Fasten target
against the wall and give each guest
a "fate" card. When the arrows are
shot the color upon which they hit
determines the fate of the shooter.
For Instance, the arrow striking ths
green Indicates that:
"I^ove and riches wait, I ween.
Illm or her who hits the green."
"Should your arrow pierce the blu«h
Love is on the wing for you."
"She who passes colors all
Has lovers many at her call."
"Loveless, weeping little
If her arrow pierces red,
"Into the black.
Nary a smack."
"He who passes one and all
Hi* chance to wed I* very amall."
A valentine dining-room Is a dream
of beauty with the walls hung with
green vines and pink hearts. In the
center of the table have a heart of
white snowdrops with pink rlbbona
running to each plate, which is also
marked by a pink heart name card'
ornamented with a bunch of snow-
drops for the ladles and a pinK carna-
tion for the gentlemen.
Serve oysters or chicken In heart-
shaped pastry shells, tomato or "love
apple" salad, Ices or cream In heart-
shaped forms and cakes in the same
shape Iced In pink.
A Valentine to Paint.
This picture, prettily colored, will
make a very sweet valentine. Paint
the leaves greeu, the flowers yellow
with orange centers, the vine stem
greenish brown.
The cuplds should be a delicate skin
color. The larger figure In the center
should have dark hair and the little
one light. One dress should be pink
and the other blue.
When it is painted cut It out care-
fully, and if you have a piece of stiff
colored paper or white cardboard,
paste It carefully to this at the two
upper corners only.
Th3 card should be an inch or tTe
larger all around than the picture.
On Valentine'* Day.
Lock your hearts up well to-day.
There"* * rascal thief about;
Throw the precious key away
U you'd keep him out.
He's a Hatt*
He will call y
of deceit.
rer. and so
m all that * ■•wi-
rt. I know
and wtlea he'll try.
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