FROM LINCOLN'S 100K LINCOLN'S POR- COOPER INSTITUTE TRAIT OF LINCOLN. Abraham Lincoln GREAT SPEECHES PUCE IN ARMY By W. J. LAMPTON JIJTHICH reminds the"-— VV he loved sunshine Young Pennsylvanian Sent to BAKING POWDE And through the dreadful night Do Duty From Which President Thatheld this land Was Debarred. In its bloody hand Absolutely Pure He was the beacon light Of Freedom and of Union, GRAVE AT STROUDSBURG, PA And sad, though brave and strong, The only Baking Powder made He held the Nation faithful from Royal ISrape Cream of Tartar To right instead of wrong. j. Sumerfield Staples the Name of I had not provided the flag I had the Substitute Who Was in Person HO ALUM, NO UME PHOSPHATE "Which reminds me "•—that the not made the arrangements for elevating at the Front While Great glory it to its place. I had applied Statesman Ruled at but a very small portion of my feeble Of Lincoln shall not fade, Washington. strength in raising it. In the whole And what he gave ADraHam Lincoln had a substitute transaction I was in the hands of To freeman and slave who served as a defender of the the people who had arranged it. Union through the bloody and epochmaking Forevermore has made And if I can have the same generous period of the Civil war. This This Nation one in spirit, MOKE co-operation of the people of the assertion has been made many times The spirit that shall hold nation, I think the flag of our LA ZENDA before. It has aroused bitter controversy Our Flag unfurled country may still be kept floating in various quarters it has Tothe whole wide world gloriously. given birth to columns of print, both God In a story has told Speech in Independence Hall, Feb. 22. 1861. in support and denial of its truth. Domestic The exemption of the president of the United States from the taking up LA TRINCA ALWAYS NEAR CAPITAL of arms, or serving on an actual field of battle, is provided for by a special statute drawn up to meet such a Havana contingency. But there is nothing Lincoin Never Had Complete Rest to prevent the nation's chief executive AT ALL DEALERS During Civil War. from sending forth a substitute to light in his place, although Lincoln From the negative now in the possession was the only occupant of the of Frederick E. Meserve, New Unpretentious House, a Cottage In White House who ever took advantage York. of this fact, writes Prof. Bernard the Soldiers' Home Grounds, J. Cigrand. The man who represented Where He Spent the Hot THURLOW WEED in his person that of the martyred Months, Still Is Object The Press For Fine Job Work president was John Summerfield Staples, of Reverent Interest. whose body lies at rest in a While our recent national chief executives little cemetery at Stroudsburg, Pa. have fled from Washington LINCOLN'S FRIEND The tombstone above his grave, photograph and its summer heat and moved to of which is here reproduced, cool summer capitals, as, for instance, testifies not only to Staples' war record, Buzzards Bay, Oyster Bay and Beverly, but states in granite letters the Lincoln in his day was forced fact of his having served as Abraham ever to remain on guard in the nation's New York Editor and Statesman Lincoln's substitute. The inscription capital the year through. I am loath to close. We are not in question reads as follows: Shown to Have Had His During his four troublous years in enemies, but friends. We must not BARGAINS Washington he took no vacation and Complete Confidence. be enemies. Though passion may "J. Summerfield Staples, his summer residence was within have strained, it must not break, a Private of easy ride of the seat of government. Co. C, 176 Regt., P. V. our bonds of affection. The mystic The Anderson cottage, in the soldiers' Also a Member of the chords of memory, stretching from AIDED IN SELECTING CABINET 2 Reg. D. C. Vols., as a home grounds, was his summer every battlefield and patriotic grave Substitute for home, and it was here, guarded by IN to every living heart and hearthstone ABRAHAM LINCOLN. a company of cavalry, that he lived Died Jan. 11, 1888. all over this broad land, will yet Aged 43 Years, 4 Mos., 25 Days." while handling the reins of govern As Leader in Politics of the Empire swell the chorus of the Union when O E S A N O S ment through the Civil war. He rode 8tate Mr. Weed Was Invited again touched, as surely they will be, His grave also bears the G. A. R. to the White House every day and re by the better angles of our nature. to Springfield to Talk Over marker, a metallic star upon which turned at night, the hour more often First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861. the words "Post 150" appears. A small the Coming President's than not being late. American flag flutters in the breeze, We have the following property for sale: Advisers. His simplicity of taste was such New traits of the character of Abraham but the outside world seems little in- that he would gladly have ridden Lincoln, his appreciation of a Fifty feet near dorner of 7th street and 5ih avenue facing without escort, but the secretary of compliment, his own estimate of his north for $700. $200 cash balance any terms at war, the trenchant Stanton, Insisted inaugural address and his insistence on the cavalry escort, for the president's 6 per cent. on telling the truth, even though it safety. were not only unpopular but humiliating Lincoln said he did not want it Lots 17 and 18, Block 58, $740. Terms one third cash,, to himself, are revealed in a he "couldn't hear himself think" with balance 6 to 12 months^ letter of a long correspondence between the soldiers clattering along beside him and Thurlow Weed, first before and behind him. But with his Lots 4 and 5, Block 80 $700. Terms one-third cash bal6 editor of the Albany Evening Journal, usual complaisance in what he deem and for many years the Republican to 12 months. ed non-essentials, he yielded. Some leader of the state. times he rode horseback, accompa Lots 23 and 24, Block 73, $625. Terms one-third cash,, The letter written by Mr. Weed has nied by the escort. At times he was not been preserved, but it was in brlance 6 to 12 months. called on to make a sudden journey praise of President Lincoln's inaugural from his cottage to the White House 9 room house with 50 ft. lot, $3600 6 room modern house address and of his speech of notification. One such call was on the receipt of But the answer is in the 37/^ ft. lot, $2350. Easy terms, best snaps in city. news of the reverse at Chickamauga possession of William Barnes, Jr., of Lincoln mounted his horse and rode 6 room modern house $3100 easy terms. Albany, chairman of the Republican state committee and grandson of Mr. 10 room house, water and plumbing roughed in for fix­ Weed. In it President Lincoln expresses the opinion that the inaugural tures, $2600. A snap. In regard to the Great Book, address will wear as well as or better havt only to say that it is the best 160 acres, 30 miles from Int. Falls. A splendid land than anything else he has produced. gift which God has given man. All proposition, $8.00 per acre. the good from the Saviour of the It is not at all likely that the pres ent generation will agree with his es world is communicated to us through 4 room dwelling house, $1000. Close in. timate of the lasting qualities of the this book. But for this book we address.. Few persons now know, except could not know right from wrong House and good lot. $6.00. $200 cash. Also close in. in the most' general way, what it All those things to man are con tained in it. was about, while his Gettysburg ad of dress has become one of the classics^ Receiving a Bible from Colored People Choice Farm and Timber Claims in this Locality Baltimore, October, 1864. of the English language. Mr. Weed was one of the strong personalities A of the convention at Chicago Few Good Homesteads For Sale. whieh nominated Lincoln, the Lincoln's Summer Home. J. Summerfield Staples. head of the New York delegation, and in the moonlight to the White House, in charge of the campaign which had WESTERN CANADA LAND CO. formed as to the career of this patriotic to take up the task of organizing the for its purpose the nomination tof and distinguished soldier boy. means of ultimate triumph out of William H. Seward, generally regard what looked like defeat. There are several people still living ed as the leading candidate. New litis Block. Visitors to Washington today look in Stroudsburg who knew Staples The defeat of Governor Seward was at the summer home of Lincoln with and remember that to him belonged a great disappointment to. Mr. Weed, reverent interest. It is about four the unique distinction of representing and as he was preparing to leave the miles from the White House, to the Lincoln on the field of battle. convention-city he was askecj to visit north, and though tall buildings lie Among their number are J. T. FREE Mr.Lincoln at Springfield. He did not Willard Hotel Palmer, postmaster and principal of between It and the heart of the city, do so at that time, but went to Iowa, a little vista has been kept open the public school C. L. Drake, editor where he had planned to rest, but on THIS of the Stroudsburg Times,: and Representative through which may be seen from the his way back to Albany he did stop A. Mitchell Palmer oi grounds the dome of the Capitol. IQth and St. Peter St., St. Paul BEAUTIFUL and had a five hour conversation with Pennsylvania. It Was characteristic the nominee of his party. PILLOW^- of Lincoln that he kept the matter Lincoln's Usual Swear Word. It was that conversation that began day American Plan from $2 per from the public press, and alike modesty On one occasion Lincoln, when entering —tinted a friendship that lasted through the day European Plan from $1 per seems to have imposed silence the telegraph office, was heard on go^od life of Mr. Lincoln, and this last letter on the young soldier. Special Weekly Rates. to remark to Secretary Seward, "By The importance for man and beast Pure quality was one of many that passed between jings, governor, we are here at last. of the prescribed weekly rest, the One does not have to make a very Linen Crtuh. the men.' They were ordinarily in relation Turning to him in a reproving manner, sacred rights of Christian soldiers exhaustive study of Lincoln's cha* "cter to national matters, but not infrequently Take Hamline Union Depot Mr. Seward said: "Mr. President, Ail we ask is that you buy and sailors, a becoming deference in order to understand the motive the personal element crept where did you learn that inelegant expression?" 6 Skeins to the best sentiments of a'Christian which led him to send a substitute of car to 10th St. in.A Without replying to the people, and a due regard for tlje to represent him In the scenes of the Riohardson's They did not meet again until after secretary, Lincoln a^dr&sed the oper* Divine will, demand that Sunday bloody drama then being enacted the election, When Mr. Lincoln invited ators, saying: "Young gentlemen, ex labor In the army and navy be reduced throughout the land. His conscience Grand Prize the leader of the party in New York to cuse me for swearing before you 'By was not of that easily-satisfied variety to the measure of strict necessity. Springfield to talk over the make-up of Grecian Floss jings' is swearing, for my good old which contents itself with allowing a cabinet. Although Mr. Weed had selected BIRTHDAY And mother taught me that anything that tilings to remain as they are, without •General Orders, November 16, governors and their cahinets in had a 'by' before it was shearing. indulging in exertion for the common New York state, this was the first time with which to embroider it and a specially Lincoln and the Humorists. The only time, however, that'Lincoln good. His was the hand which was WEDDING During some of Lincoln's daily visMs he had ever been asked by a president writtendiagram was ever heard really to swear was steering the Ship of State through GQIII5' to the war department there were for assistance of that kind, and he told lesson for on the occasion of his receiving telegram tempest and crush of hostile guns, yet PRESENTS nany spare moments while he waited Air. Lincoln, so. They discussed men snd we will give you the Pillow Topand from Burnside, who had been great as was the^task assigned him, tor fresh news from the front or for under consideration, but Mr. Weed Abaoiutefy Free, ordered a week before to go on to the he perceived with the eagle eye that Back We have an endless assortment the translation of cipher messages, admitted in his autobiography that relief of Rosecrans at Chattano9ga, watched the course of action, a post of appropriate gifts, representing and when he did not fill up the otherwise the .men were Mr. Lincoln's selection, We have five ether equally who was in great danger of«an attack still unfilled, an unoccupied niche the newest ana finest products of idle time by telling stories he. and when he objected to this one or from Bragg. On that day Burnside where a combatant could be placed to the Jewexers'Art. artlstio Design* fwoulV that one the president-elect would read aloud some humorous article telegraphed from Jonesboro, further Strike in behalf of the Union. To that Wedding Rings, Beautiful from a newspaper, as, for in* turn the, conversation ,b^. one of his By mail 5 cents extra.. away from Rosecrans than he was post he resolved to appoint a representative, Diamonds, Sparkling Jewels, stance, Orpheus Kerr's droll reports inimitable stories. that he might be practically when he received the order to huiry from MackerelviUe, or Petroleum Some of the letters showed that Mr. We carry a full line of needlework: in person—as he was already in Watches, Unique Silverware, toward him. When Burnside's telegram V. Nasby's letters in. sarcastic Lincoln had a grasp of political detail supplies. Stamping and order work was placed in Lincoln's hands he said, spirit—on the red field of carnage. Sterling Novelties, Ricli Cut vein at other times Artemus Ward's with which he had not been credited. "D Jonesboro." He then telegraphed It was done quietly, in that simple, specialty, Glass, Clocks, Etc. THE BAZAAR inimitable lectures. Some of Nasby's After his election and before his inaugural Burnside as follows: unostentatious manner that distinguished letters were irresistibly funny, especially he used Mr. Weed to convey "September 21, 1863. all of Lincoln's acts, whether NELSON'S those relating to the continuous to a convention of editors his view in official or private life. He never "If you are to do any good to Rosecrans If inn. International Falls. struggle for the postoffice at "Confedrlt on secession, and in one and another it at flayed to the gallery, and the verdict will not do to waste time Jewelry Store Cross Roads" and to the backwardness the correspondence was kept up even A. of his own conscience was all he cared Jonesboro.N LINCOLN." 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