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Newspaper Page Text6 ?' 'l*iO!lH OM E topkS 6woctcp btmrs. whjeltoa. — CV*X FOB MEVMATISM. rXLLAQBA AOJUB. j - .* Mn. FWtcni I have just received By Atlant* paper end unfolded ft un- • tn I found you. You say. you have i rheumatism. I juet laid my paper . . down to tall you a good remedy. I I U»- have known ft to cure two people of ft*" ytMwmatld*. . 1 Get some pure peppermint that pow« * * on branches. Wash and pick it care- * fully, bruise it good and pack tn a glaer Jar or bottle, and cover It with rood * corn whiskey: take a good swallow of it three or four times a day or more | A' if you think it necessary I'm sure it Will help or cur* you. You have been such great consolation * to me with regard to pellagra. I do Wish I could do something for you. You are doing a great deal of good. I think we all should appreciate you St to the extreme. How could we get K fft along without you? i— Two have responded concerning pel “* lagra This will not only help me. but I | J many other*, for some doctors say there is no cure for it. I have heard of several dying with it because doc tors did not know how to cure it.* • JL* Mrs. C. V. Chandler informs us to B < transfer healthy blood and it will cure r it. I appreciate ail the information on L this subject. V *- • I do wish I could find a mouth wash R t that would cure these ulcers in my L- mouth. Your true friend, SUBSCRIBER. MILADY TAKES HER MORNING TUB IN DISTILLED WATER IN THIS TOWN i ***“ _ HK COAUKGA. Cal.—lmagine having yoar i- S-. w ' n ‘ ln f "tub" la distiUed water taken right > from the faoeet! Tbe world's biggest cities with <U their m-xlero" improvesaests cannot F *“— anca’ tha. it tai Sea a Uttle town of 5.000 t - Sola a uttle Ml town, to do tt. That town la Coalinga tn the Coast Range mountains. - *** fW> CQVHItT. C<l. Add to this the fart that the water >• It a by-prod oct <rf the company that an wiles It and you rarely have a peculiar combine | °The country about Coalinga has very little sainfali The water obtained from wells. £ ’ drilled there, te very bracklab and unfitJ. s * drink. This didn't start the company that Pf- - supplies the water, however. The discovery i • «f o 0 tn rhe rtrtalty some years ago did. r-“ The work «t drilling for oil requires water . for steam. A company was started for the S S purpose of supply this water. It had to be gmnpcd a thousand fest high to roaeb somei*< MU. the drills it was to supply. That required very strong pump*. T» operate strong pumps requires high steam pressure, and that means a big exhaust. Then tt happened! This exhaust, am aright mind saw, was Eei : . MOTHER WILL SELL FINGER TO EDUCATE HER DAUGHTER AaweUtod Ttm*.) . CHICAGO. Aug. 5. Mr* Minnie O’Her rin swy* «h* will gladly sacrifice th* Ei - Index finger on her right hand In order to give her g-year-old daughter. I»la. a h * mimical education. > The buyer of the living finger, if the E«* transaction is culminated, will be Mra ? ’ Reginald Waldorf, of Philadelphia Mrs - i Waldorf* index finger on the right hand wa» injured by a cut from a rusty nail. | Blood poisoning resulted and the finger Ffe . WM amputated. » “There is but one thing that can re- ’ store your hand to its former condition.” K*'-‘ said the surgeon, who amputated the digit. Some other woman whose finger LAUNCH CAPSIZES AND FIVE DROWN ► CRYSTAL FALLS. Mich.. Aug. 4.-A launch carrying a party of seven berry picker* capalsed near the mouth of the t » Fence river Thursday, and five of the oc- F* • cupants drowned. They ar*: R WILLIAM PANNINEN. I » MRS. EMILE PANNINEN AND SON, I \5 year* old. 1 MRS VICTOR MATISSON. EDITH FORBMAN, 18 years old. BK John Holmes, owner of th* launch, p.- and one woman, managed to reach tbe nhore- OWES r HER HEALTH S' _ To Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Scottville, Mich.—“ I want to tell _ . you how much good LydiaE-Pinkbam’s ■ Vegetable Com- pound and Sanative ■ Wash have done me. rfßp’ w I live on a farm and » --a bare worked very V -dr* ,<i hard. I am forty fcv five years old, and A am * he mother Os thirteen children. ' Many people think It strange that lam gw - \ \ not broken down ’ Ik V .'.’X: •'V,' with hard work and I 1 i Y ' W .1- lUthe care of my fam ily, but I tell them of my good friend, g*: - ypur Vegetable Compound, and that there will be no backache and bearing down pains for them if they will take .. it as I have. lam scarcely ever with- K out it in the house. " I will say also that I think there is eL hotter medicine to be found for young girls to build them up and make them strong and well. Mv eldest (laughter has taken Lydia E. Pink / ham’s Vegetable Compound for pain- X; fnl period* and irregularity, and it has r always helped her. Ixa; “I * m always ready and willing to speak a good word for the Lydia E. T Pinkham s Remedies. I tell every one I meet that I owe my health and hap. : - piness to these wonderful medicines.” | - —Mrs. J. G. Johnson. Scottville, Mich., B.F .D. 8. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound, made from native roots and nerbs, contains no narcotic* or harm ful drugs, and to-day hold* the record . for the largest number of actual cure* 2 . pf female dxseaaefc. If anybody had said ten years ago that the Democrats would not bring the tariff rates down we should have had a famous racket in denials. The Republicans believe in a tariff with protection to their manufactories— a heavy percentage in connection with the cost of the manufactured articles. I have heard this policy denounced un til I have wondered why and wherefore it did not prevail. Now Mr. Bryan is on the warpath charging the Democrat!* with entire change of front and cites their methods in the present congress to prove it. Mr. Bryan .is the leader outside of congress and Mr. Underwood on the inside. s I think Mr. Bryan will be overcome because Mr. Underwood is a solid sort of a leader and he aims to win, and he knows he cannot win unless the kow tows sonjewhat to the iron and steel men and the wool people. Mr. Bryan represents the old Idea and Mr. Underwood the revised idea and the stake that's up is the presidency in 1812 If Mr. Bryan’s following still hang to him, there will be an uphill struggle with Mr. Underwood and company. I am not very sanguine about their overcoming Mr. Bryan. He has cried tariff revision for 20 years. It will be hard to change the tune and keep his following, so It looks to me. r eatirely wasted. It might be condensed and t the water thus formed used for drinking and • w»bu t similar to the ••worm" of a still. A maae of » over 5,000 feet of pipe, the so-called "vora » la built in a huge tank. Tbe ordinary alkaline , water that is pumped from tbe wells is poured Into this tank contlnuoualy while the steam - from the exhaust pipes of tbe pumps is coo- • netted with tbe “wonn.” Tbe steam constant- - ly is being condensed and tbe clear, distilled water flows off through a long pipe line to a e reservoir for the city, shout a mile away. . Now distilled water has a flat taste and the » Coalingana are fastidious. So they built a lit t tie "riffle” at tbe end of the pipe line, over F which tbe water flows before it enters the tank, thereby being aerated. r The possibility that foreign matter may have » entered the water while it passed over tbe » “riffle” caused the Coaltngana to build a filter f at tbe outlet of tbe reservoir, so before It I finally enters the mains of the town it is • filtered and. as a result of tbe whole series of i processes, the little oil town has what Is un doubtedly tbe purest water of any comma- b ntty in tbe country. will fit and who is willing to sell her finger must be found. The new finger can be amputated and grafted on.” So an sdverttsement was published In the Philadelphia papers inviting propos als for a finger. Mrs. O'Herrin saw the advertisement and wrote that she would make the sac rifice. "Are you willing to have your finger cut off to buy the education for Isla?" was asked. “Why. certainly," answered Mrs. O’Herrin. "Haven't I made every other sacrifice a mother is capable of mak ing for her? i wil be the happiest woman in the world if this can be done" DALLAS AND ST. PAUL IN LEAD MEET BOSTON, Aug. s.—Choio* of the con vention city and election of officers for the ensuing year were the features of the last meeting Friday of the sev enth annual convention of the Associat ed Advertising Club* of America. Dallas, Tex-, and St. Paul, Minn., were tbe leaders for next years' convention. The Texans have been making a spec tacular appeal throughout the conven tion with tueir cowboys and Lone Star banners. Supporters of the three candidates for , president, Herbert 8. Houston, York; L H. Sawyer, of St. Louis, and George W. Coleman, of Boston, all claimed the victory in sight. Among today's speakers were W. V. Crawford. Waco, Tex.; L H. Buckley, Columbus, Ohio, and W. O. Foote, At lanta. Ga. WAR DEPARTMENT FINDS DEARTH IN W. P. CADETS WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. he war de ' partment has begun a determined cam paign to procure the highest number of cadets allowable under the law for the class entering the United States military academy next Jun*. While the entrance examinations will not be held until April, senators and rep- I resentatlves already are being urged to scour their districts for the young men best qualified for the military service. [ There are now 100 vacancies in the class . entering next year, for which no candi dates have been presented. These vacan ' cies extend to nearly every state and ' territory. ! REMSEN BOARD WOULD i WELCOME DISSOLUTION • WASHINGTON. Aug. 4.-The Remsen pure food referee board would welcome ’ a finding that it la illegal, declared Dr. ‘ Ira W. Remsen, chairman of the board before the house committee < t igricul 'tural department expenditures today. 1 This is the tribunal to w«!ch Dr. Wiley’s ’' pure food decision, are referred and > which reversed Dr. Wiley's finding that k ’bensote of soda was deleterious to health, t ! METHODISTS RAISE , $1,435 FOR WESLEYAN t| CAMILLA, Ge., Aug. s.—Dr. Alns- I j worth, president of Wesleyan college. II wax heard by a large congregation Sun . day. His subject was “Christian ISdu ■ i cation." and was the moat interesting 11 ever heard in this city. He easily raised $1,485 for *the Wesleyan I endowment fund. i POPE PIUS FELICITATED ; ON EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY . ROME, Aug. s.—Friday was the Bth an . I niversary of the nomination of Pope Pius | X to the pontificate. Many felicitations from Italy and abroad were received at > the Vatican. Notwithstanding his recent . Indisposition, the pontiff celebrated mass 1 In his private chapel in the presence of a few intimate*, including his sister*. THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1911. ’ Cd l M lil SnriY YEARS AGO TODAY May 29, 1861—William H. Russell, War Correspondent of the London Times Was. in the South, and Sending His Paper Letters That Were to Have Great Influence in Eu rope—Spirit of Southern Women Fifty ;’ears ago today William H. Russell, war correspondent of the Lon don Times, was touring the- south and writing to his paper letters describing what he saw—conditions of life In the southern states, their preparation for war, their attitude toward the north and Europe. Those letters represented the observa tions of the most prominent military correspondent of the day, a man trained t o see the vital fact, and they gave a picture at once graphic, accurate and impartial of the state of affairs as ho found it. . In view of both of the writer’s per sonal prominence and of the great in fluence of the Times, these letters re ceived official attention far beyond that accorded to other contemporary ac counts. At Washington as at Mont gomery they were carefully read, and In London the British cabinet ministers were influenced by them. To Charleston, Savannah, Mohtgom ery, Mobile, Pensacola, New Orleans went Mr. Russell and his notebook. He saw and heard all of importance there was to see and hear. He found the south eager to fight and confident of winning its independ ence; at the same time he also found that tt was not yet prepared for a great war and that already the effects of that war were being felt. There were high lights as well is shadows in the southern pictures this stranger among us drew, and to do full justice to his reports it will be neces sary soon to return to them in this series. -> CLOSE VIEW OF SLAVERY. One note in Mr. Russell’s earlier let ters which did not/ escape the states men of Europe was that relating to slavery. He made it clear that he be lieved the cause of the south rested on slavery, and portrayed in a graphic de scriptlon*one of the least engaging as pects of that domestic institution of the Confederate states —a slave auction at Montgomery, Ala., then the Confeder ate capital. "My attention was attracted to a group of people to whom a man was holding forth in energetic sentences," he wrote under date of May 8. " ‘Nine h’un’nerd and fifty dollars! Only nine h’un’nord and fifty dollars offered for him!’ exclaimed the man. ’Will no one make any advance on nine h’un nerd and fifty dollars?” “A man near me opened his mouth, spat, and said ‘Twenty-five.’ •' ‘Only nine hun’nerd and seventy-five dollars offered for him! Why, ’’at’s ra dak’lous —only nine,’ etc. Beside the orator -auctioneer stood a stout young man of five and twenty years of age. with a bundle in his hand. He was a muscular fellow, broad shoul dered, narrow flanked, but rather small in stature; he bad on a broad, greasy, old wide-awake, a blu* jacket, a coarse cotton shirt, loose; and rather ragged trousers and broken shoes. "The expression of ;hls face was heavy and sad, but it was by no means dis agreeable, in spite of his thick lips, broad nostrils and high cheekbones. On his head was wool instead of hair. "I am neither sentimentalist nor black Republican nor negro-worshiper, but I confess the sight caused a strange thrill in my heart. I tried in vain to make myself familiar with the fact that I could, for the sum of 1975, become abso lutely th* owner of that mass of blood, bones, sinew, flesh and brains as of the horse which stood by my side. There was no sophistry to persuade me he was not a man; he was, indeed, by no means my brother, but assuredly he was a fel low-creature. “I have seen slave markets in the east, but somehow or other the coloring of Orientalism cast a glamour over th© na ture of the sales which deprived them of the disagreeable harshness and matter of-fact character of the transaction be fore me. Her* it grated on my ear to listen to the familiar tones of the Eng lish language as the medium by which the transfer was effected “The negro was sold to one of the by standers. and walked off with his bun dle, God knows where. ‘Niggers is cheap,’ was the only remark of one of the bystanders.’’ Slave sales had often been described by opponents of slavery, and seldom with as much moderation as this. Yet the print ing of this description in England, at this time, was not calculated to please the south, while it set the British minis ters to thinking hard and had a decided effect on the course pursued by them in maintaining neutrality. May 30, 1861 —President Lincoln Was Living Simply and Working Hard, the Only Calm Man Among Excited Throngs—A Glimpse of His Daily Life in the White House" Fifty years ago today Abraham Lin-1 < coin, president of the United States, was living in the White House a simple, un- i ostentatious life, with more hours of la- ' bor to each day than the hardest-work ed clerk in Washington. j In one respect it was the happiest ‘ time in his presidency. Since the firing • on Sumter he had been freed from the £ rush of office-seekers who had so har- : rassed his first weeks in the White ' House, while the horrors of real war, 1 the long daily tale of dead and wound- - ed, had not yet come to bring into his ’ that afterward was never absent from them. I Though he felt keenl ythe responsible 1 ities of his position, though he could see 1 beyond the glitter and parade of the j camps about Washington the din and carnage of war, he could still appear to cast off some of his load of care. I He was getting Into the routine of t work, too, and he could feel his way ( about now without groping. It was a , period of transition; a new man was ( coming inta being, a man the north j should know and love as “Father Abra ham.” j THE PRESIDENT’S WORKSHOP. < The office in which Lincoln did his < work and spent the greater part of his < t 1 < ; i SETTER THAN SPANKING Spanking doss not cur* children of bed wetting. There i* a constitutional cause for tbla trouble. Mr*. M. Summers, Box 327 South Send. Ind., will send free to any mother her , successful home treatment, with full instruc- < tiona. Send no money, but write her today if your children trouble you in thia way. Don’t blame tbe child, tbe chance* are it can’t help It. This treatment also cure* adults and i aged people troubled with tris* difficulties by day or night. ... "We do not like slavery,” Lord Palmer ston, prime minister, said about this time to Charles Frances Adams, American minister at London, "but,” he added, i "we want cotton." These were Indeed the two conditions that made Russell's letters from the south of so much importance to England in aiding its government and people to follow the* beginnings of the struggle in which they were commercially so vi tally interested. UNCONQUERABLE WOMEN. The reader of Russell’s letters 50 years after they were written cannot fail to be Impressed by the unconquerable spirit At New Orleans he noted "a afreet ringing, silvery voice, Issuing from a very pretty mouth,” saying, “I'm so de lighted to hear that the Yankees in For tress Monroe have got typhus fever. I hope it may kill them all.” He found in a New Orleans home that "the mistress and all her seamstresses were busily preparing flags as hard as the sewing machine could stitch them, and could attend to no business for the present.” He had earlier noted that “all the laaies in Mobile belong to the Yankee Emancipation society. They spend their days sewing cartridges (bags for pow der charges for cannon), carding lint, preparing bandages, and I'm not quite sure they don't fill shells and fuses as well.” In the home of the general command ing the militia at Savannah, "the hall was filled with little round rolls of flannel. These are cartridges (bags) for cannon of different caliber, made by the ladies of Mrs. Lawton's cartrige class. There were more cartridges in th? back parlor." The sorrows of separation tbe war was bringing to some families were impress ed on Mr. Russell when he called on Capt. Henry A. Adams, commanding the frigate Sabine, on blockade duty off Pen sacola. The captain, though born in the north, had married in Louisiana and had a plantation there. After a long voyage he had returned home to find his state had seceded, one son in the Confederate army and two others serving in the Virginia forces. “God knows," he said, “when I open my broadside, but I may be killing my own children.” His daughter was vivandiere of a Louisiana regiment, and wrote him, that she "trusted he might be starved wmle blockading the south.” WAR SCENES IN NEW ORLEANS. .At New Orleans Mr. Russell found the only activity that of preparation for war. One great business house had al ready closed its doors and others were likely to follow suit. All large transac tions were over for the season. The levee wa B nearly deserted, except by river steamers and those wnich could not run the blockade. Money was fast vanishing. Bills on New York were worth nothing and bills on England were at 18 per cent discount from the pa rvalue of gold. From want of funds the municipal authorities threat ened to close the city schools and disband the police, while employers were unable to pay their workmen, and the British consul’s office was thronged with English, Irish and Scotch, entreating to be sent north or to Europe. » “Mechanics and skilled laborers are in a state bordering on destitution and star vation,” Mr. Russell wrote. “All busi ness except tailoring for soldiering and cognate labors is suspended." So cautious were the banks, he found, that to bor row $1,500 a man of wealth and high standing was obliged to give as security 110,000 of Confederate bonds, lately bought at par. “The whole question now is,” he noted, May 27, “what will be done with the blockade?” , That blockade which a month before he had heard ridiculed in Charleston was now making its pressure felt, as "the constant advice in the jour nals to increase the breadth of land under corn and to negleot the cotton crop" plainly attested* Yet he found that southern confidence was great. “With their faithful negroes to raise their corn, sugar and cotton while their young men are at war; with France and England to pour gold into their lap with which to purchase all they need in the contest, they believe they can beat all the powers of the northern world in arms. “Illimitable fields, tilled by multitud inous negroes, open on their sight with their manufactures, their industry and their wealth prostrate at their throne, crying out, ’Cotton! More cotton! That is all we ask!’ ” v- (Copyright, 1911, by Associated Literary Press.) day was on the second floor of th* White House on the south side, with a fine view of the Potomac and of the Virginian shore. Tbe room had an old-fashioned, half faded look about it, and had been little altered since the presidency of Andrew Jackson, “Old Hickory’s” favorite arm chair, oddly shaped and of Mexican make, still remained there; his portrait, a dis colored engraving, hung on th* wall along with the photograph of John Bright, and even the marks of his shoes were visible on the bricks above the fireplace. There was a big cloth covered oak ta ble, around which were hek • < >• /<■ meetings, and between the windows was another table at which the president sat and wrote. A tall desk with pigeon holes for papers, a Tew odd chairs and two plain hair covered sofas completed the furnishings. The only books always to be found there were the Bible, the Federal stat utes and a copy of Shakespeare; but vol umes of military history treatises on the art of war and the like from variou* libraries continually came and went. There were also two or three map frames from which hung military maps on which the movements of the armlet the location of each force could be trac ed and marked and in the course oi time also folios of maps were leaned against the walls or hidden behind th* sofas. LINCOLN'S DAILY SCHEDULE. Lincoln was an early riser, and often 6 o’clock found him at his desk. It is told that a friend of his, passing the White House early one morning, dis covered him on the sidewalk peering up and down the street. “Good morning, good morning'.” he re plied to the other's salutation, “I’m look ing for a newsboy. When you get to the His breakfast was df the lightest—an egg, a piece of toast, a cup of coffee. After 9 o’clock began the hours for vis itors, continuing until 2 ip the after- ■ uni society WILL MEET 111 WAYCROSS ■ / 65th Anniversary of State Organization Will Be Held August 9 (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) WAYCROSS, Ga., Aug. 4.-The 65th anniversary of the Georgia State Agricul tural society will pe observed at the an nual convention here August 9 and 10. An admirable program has been arranged, as follows: FIRST DAY-WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9 The convention will be held in the su perior court room of the Ware county court house, and will be called to order at 9 o’clock a. m., by President John W. L. Brown. The exercises will be opened with pray er by Rev. Whitley Langston. ADDRESSES OF WELCOME. His honor, John M. Cox, mayor of the city of Waycross, will welcome the dele gates in the name of the municipality, and Prof. E. A. Pound will deliver the formal address of welcome on the part of all the people. * Hon. J. J. Conner, of Bartow, will re spond in the name of the delegatee. ENROLLMENT OF DELEGATES. Under this call, delegates will report to the secretary—each giving the name of his county, his own name, and post office. THE ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. By Col. John W. L. Brown, of Bartow. An address: "Education,” by Dr. David C. Barrow, chancellor of the University of Georgia. * Debate: Twenty minutes. Convention adjourns at 1 p. m. AFTERNOON SESSION. The convention will reconvene at 3 o’clock p. m., and be called to order by the president A paper: “Pure Milk and Its Relation to Public Health,” by Dr. Roland B. Hall, of Bibb. Debate: Twenty minutes. An address, “Bacteriology as it Relates to the Farmer,” by Mr. J. C. Temple, bacteriologist, Georgia Experiment Sta tion. Business: Resolutions, etc. Convention adjourn at 5 p. m. i Upon adjournment, a passenger train, with ample accommodations, will be ten dered for a trip from the Union station to the Atlantic Coast railway shops, and to the large plant of the Hebard Cypress company—engaged in sawing and in manufacturing timber brought from the Okeflnokee swamp by the company’s own railway. NIGHT SESSION. The convention will meet at 8 o'clock p. m., and be called to order by the president. An address: “Georgians and their Re sponsibility," by Hon. G. R. Hutchens, of Floyd An address: "The Apple in Georgia,” by Mr. Edward M. Hafer, of Fulton. Adjournment. SECOND DAY—THURSDAY, AUGUST 10. The convention will be called to order at 9 o’clock a. m., sharp. Prayer by Rev. W. H. Scruggs. An address: “The Georgia State Filr.” by Mr. W. E- Dunwody, president of the Macon Georgia State Fair association. Remarks: Twenty minutes. • A general talk on agricultural topics by a representative ot the national de partment of agriculture. An address: “Some Essentials,” by Mr. W. L. Williamson, of Jackson. Debate: Twenty minutes. Business: Consideration of proposed amendments to the constitution of the society. Selection of the next place of meeting— August, 1912. • Election of officers. Adjournment, 1 o’clock p. m. AFTERNOON SESSION. The convention will reassemble at 3 o’clock p. m. An address: “Wilt Disease and Black Root in Cotton," by Mr. E. L. Worsham, state entimologlst, of Fulton. Adjournment, sine die, at 5 o’clock p. m. Immediately upon adjournment, all del egates will be taken in autos and other conveyances around the city, and out to the well known Deen farms. John W. L. Brown, president; Martin V. Calvin, secretary. Experiment, Ga. noon. Often, in spite of the efforts of those about him, the schedule would be utterly set aside, the 2 o’clock limit quite forgotten. !. “He would break through every reg ulation,” compared his secretary, “as fast as it was made.” In receiving visitors he was to the last degree informal. In reply to their cards he would often go from his pri vate office out into the hall to meet them, for, he said, “anything that kept the people themselves away from him dis appointed him.” To old acquaintances whom he asked to come and see "the place" he would say, “Call me ‘Lincoln.’ 'Mr. President’ is entirely too formal for us.” Carl Schurs told how, when he asked if he might introduce his brother-in-law, a young German, to the president, Lincoln said cordially, "Bring L.m tomorrow about lunch time and lunch with me. I guess Mary (Mrs. Lincoln) wnl have something for us to eat.” They came and were amazed at the absence of for mality. His own lunch usually consisted of but a biscuit and a glass of milk, with some kind of fruit. Nor was th* din ner, that came between 5 and 6, after some hours of reading papers and doc uments of all sorts, affixing his signa ture to the letters he almost never wrote himself, or consulting with mem bers, unduly hearty. His secretary, John Hay, declared that Lincoln ate less than any other man he had known yet he was fond of the strong, simple food of his boyhood, especially of bacon. HIS HATS AND GLOVES. In matters of dress Lincoln was pro verbially careless, although his long, lean frame would have put any garment at a disadvantage. Ordinarily he wore black. “An ill fitting, wrinkled suit of black, which put one in mind of an vndertaker’s uni form at a funeral," was his garb when ATilliam H- Russell, of the London Times, had seen him late in March. “Round his neck a rope of black silk was knotted In a large bulb, with flying ends project ing beyond the collar of his coat.” Ward H. Lamon, nis friend and at times virtually his body gard, complained that Lincoln “had a very defective taste in the choice of hats.” and that with him the high hat of his customary wear “aerved the double purpose of an orna mental headgear and a kind of offic* or receptacle for his private papers and memoranda.” With gloves Lincoln was still more at sea. "The necessity of wearing gloves," says Lamon,” he regarded as an afflic-, cruelty to animals.” tion, a violation of the statute against On one occasion an old western friend with his wife had come to see the pres ident. and had been invited to take a ride with him and Mrs. Lincoln in their "new barouche,” which Lincoln had one* call ed “The slickest glass hack in town.” Each man, it seems, had sought his wife's advice as to the propriety of wear- A Great Offer - - - . . - “The Journal Handy Tool Set” The Handiest mm Household , n ■' “ rilri Our 11 Readers . 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More often he would drfie to some one of th* many camps about 'SVashington, to wit ness a camp a flag raising, s review or some other ceremony. The private soldier friend, th* lad in the ranks, and for him the presi dent would do anything— tyiything but make a speech. "I have mMle a great many poor speeches," he said, "and I now feel relieved that my dignity doe* not permit me to be a public speaker." He was happiest when romping with his younger boys, Willie and f'Tad”— when he could run off with them for half an hour of playing horse or blind-man’s buff, or cantering about with one of them on his shoulders, in boisterous and very unpresidential fashion. Evenings “Tad” would lie about the office until he fell asleep, when his father would perch him on hie shoulder and bear him off to bed. Lincoln’s most frequent walk wa* along the gravel path that led across the lawn between the White House and the war department building. 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