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THE CAMESYILLE TRIBUNE
ESTABLISHED 1875
An Investment B .1
—Thai will —
OftUBLE IN 12 MONTHS
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—STOCK OF THE CEORA-ALABAMA--
INVEST^eifB mLOP iiENt l
C A ITT A b STOCK 1,500,000. MlARESr, no Tit h lull paid up and
subject to l.o assessments.
G ls. BENJ. F. BUTLER, of A I assaebs ise
Hon. JAMES W. 11 Y ATT , L:u ,e Treasurer ot U. S., r, ’“easuv
--DIRECTORS.-----
C on M'm F. Boiler, of Ma. saelui;ett ?,
Hon. Logan li. Roots, of Ark a ns; s,
II,VI \. IL Wyman, Ex-Tveasuerer U. .8 , of Nebraska,
lion Jas. W llyatt, A it it of Connecticut!
T ios. C Smith, President 17<h Ward Rank, Brooklyn,“New York,
L, M. Sanford, Pres. Rank ot N ",v Cns 1 lc,oi Kentucky.
E. L. Garfield Soc’y Thonison-Housti n E'ectric Light Co. Boston,
J. W. Perkins, Cash Mass. Nat’l Bank Boston, Mas >.
Geo. C. 8Tiolieid, Pres. N, Con..act C !uh ot New York.
ADVISORY ■* BO.' Ll
Hon Jon. B. Gordon, Ex-Governor of/la.
lion. Robert L. Try lor; Governor or Tcnn.
Hon. JM> Foraker, Ex-Governor oi Ohio.
Hon. Richard II. Bright, Ex- l . S. P Master of Washington, D. C,
Hon. E. E Main;, Apt. Concord & Montreal Rmlroad,of New Hamoshire
P It. True, Cashier S, Treasury, Washington, D. C.
Henry Eeuehtwanger, Member N. Y . fork Exchange, New York.
p. K. Roo s, Casino I' m sl National R ink Little Hock Arkansas.
F. Y. Robert, on, President FuM NAfu.ial 1.x k, Korney, Nebraska.
SUFFOLK TRUS 1 ) Trrnsfor Agents,
--2 J l W ASI11NGTON APPLET POSTON, AI VS
f —THE--
Property of the Company
Consists of
FIRST—8,00(1 City lots or *2,'>42 acres of land iu the city of Talla¬
Haralson County, Georgia, the residue remaining unsold ot
poosa, the ot which the city was originally built.
2,500 acres, on center
1 resent value 81,0 v -l,<0o. laud, adjacent to the city of
nKCOND-” 150 nil acres located «>f vat.ubje within mineral radius s’x miles from tne outre of
I allapoos‘ 1 a or
. slA3,900.
the* city. Present value & Illinois
THIRD—The issued copital stock of the Georgia, Tennessee
Railroad company, chartered for the pmpose of building a lailroad
from Tallapoosa, Ga to Stevenson, Ala., 120 miles, that will net
, capital stock of railroad
the company nearly $2,000,000 of the pay-
FOURTH—T mj. , pel ent lis Tallapoosa Oivldemls. Furnace, oo the line of the Georgia . Pacific
railroad, in ilie city ot Talapoosa, Ga., the said furnace being of 50
ton capacity, manufacturing the highest grade of cold and hot blast
oil avcoai cHr wood iron. lWm vamc fcino.OW) of the
fifth The Piedmont Ctass Works, situated on the line
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gia Pacific railroad in the city of Talapoosa, Ga., said furnace
twelve pot fnrnacc capacity and manufacturing tlint glass flasks and
prescription ware. Present value ^ 100,000-
There is already located on the properly of this company in the city
Tallapoosa, Ga., 2.800 inhabitants, 2,000 ot whom are northern people
who have settled in Tallapoosa witli n the last three years, J2 louses, 15
mamifaetunng industries ana 10 business houses, schools, churches,water
works, electric ligh.s.-AO,000 hotel anvl new manufacturing industries, etc
- 50.000 SH ‘ ’ 1ES TK K ASU BY S'T OC K-
Arc offered to the public, the proceeds to be de ted to
now establishments and developing the comp am s
now manufacturing SPECIAL LAE of
at a i
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This stock is full paid an 1 sabjeet tojio assea^ient. Itjwill pay divi-
» j>riei" alvaaceJ. «.W
linils April :m,l Ooi-hbcJ, au.l the will lo to per
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W'OrdeJs ^ukiai-d’will be liiied as iccm'vwI. in small any holders amount in srom all sec- om-
liare upwartl as it is desired to have as man}* their in the
ions of the comuiy as possible , who will, by mleres*. com-
influeuce immigration to lallapoosa and id.wanc.; tho interests ot
•any
Ihe company.
8 10,00 will purchase d shares or -8 3d, 0d par value of^ stock
30,00 0 u IHJ’00
50 00 15 150,00
100,00 30 30(1,00
250,00 75 750,00
500,00 150 “ 1*1,500.00
1 000.00 300 3,000.00 4%
, for stock make edeeks, drafts money and
Address all orders anp or
press orders payable to
Jas. W. HYATT, Treas.,
fia.-Ala. Investment and Development Co.,
Globe Bull ling, 244 Washing pm Street. Boston, Mats.
- 3 -00 page illustrated prospectus of Talapooso, slock p.ospectvs
•ompanv and plat of city with price list ot huild.og : ° ts „°
.pplication. Heliable agents wanted to represent the company >» C v
jonnty.
CARNESVILLE, FRA NKLIN GA, APRIL
CATHOLICISM
As It Is Known ] n
Month G^oigi'i.
A Few Facts Briefy Told.
The letter given below was not in-
tended for publication,but as it is an
interesting coromuhication from a
learned theologian—a holy man who
for more than half a century has
been a devout ambassador of Christ
—and will find a wide circle of ap-
preciative readers, w T e do nothing
amiss in giving it to the public.
In I'iiE Tkiisl’Ne of yesteidav
among other things, you say; “As
, Christ intercedes with the L-ml S.)
does the Mother of Christ intercede
Him. Is ihe fact that the
church invokes the intercession of
the Virgin Mother of the Saviour
at the great tribunal, a just cause
for the professions some persons
make of being scandalized at the
idea of praying to the Blessed
Virgin.”
1 write this to obtain a little iu-
formation from you, if you please.
Will you please to give me one or
two texts of Scripture which teach
us that Mary, the Mother of
Lord, ever intercedes for men on
earth, in proof of Christ’s inter¬
cession for us 1 will cite only two
texts of the many that might
Hob. 7-25— fi Wherefore He is
able to save them to the uttermost
that come unto God, by Him, seeing
He ever liveth to make intercession
for them.”
Horn. 8-34.—“Who is he that con¬
demn etli? It is Christ that died,
vea rather, that is risen again, who
is ever at the right hand of God,
who abo maketh intercession for
us.”
Now, Miss Ellen,, I give
us just one text, which tenches us
that the Blessed Virgin Mary, or
any other Saint in Heaven ever in¬
tercedes for us who are on this
earth? If, like other Catholics,
you object to the use of oar coui-
moa English translation of the
Scriptures. 1 * then give & us the texts
or text from the Latin Vulgate, the
standard of the Catholic church,
I have the Latin Vulgate on the
table here before me, and I am per-
f ect] y wHling ® to be governed by ^
iu this matter.
But 1 wish lor informal ion, if j-ou
please, upon another poin., in refer-
rnce to prayin ° ' to M irv J aid other
a . . Hoa TT ___ Flow they
. en can
5 ' -
hear us all at once and the s ime
time ? There are hundre ’a of mil-
lionsof IT, .A Ohristians »•>*'■•>»« n-w world 1
n-iit.v, sia, .uiopq Atiieu
11 s Gaiia and the islands of
I sea * How can Mary and the other
j Saints in Heaven hear all these
j m **^ ons °* Christians praying to
j them at the same time, and be—
them to intercede for
. .. 1 "* ie ° .. Go , a. . Is Mary
* 1
omnipresent and omniscient? Is :
Paul, and Peter and John and
other Saints in Heaven omnipres-
cut and omniscient V If they be
omnipresent and omniscient, then
j they must be infinite in other re-
| spents also, anti therefore Gods to
[ all intents and purposes, and
therefore there are as many Gods as
| there °*a* supposition are Saints l«*ds in Heaven, int» lint the
ns
-
grossest ufoltit. Jo deify, a crea-
lure .3 as bad as the boldest pagan-
But once more 1 ask for infer¬
mation: Is not Christ's iaterces-
sion all sutfieienl? Does notour
calling upon Mary and other saints
to pray for us and te intercede for
us imply lh.it wc lack faith in Christ
and do not b«ffieve that Ilis inter-
cession for 113 . will prevail with
God? When we beg Mary and
other Saints in Heaven to in ercede
for us, do we not dishonor Christ
and show a sad want of confidence
in the merit and intercession of
Divine Redeemer? ’ .
u our
Instead , of , praying^ . -
creature
like ourselves, however good that
creature may be, why should we
gc right up to the Lord
. lhe ro)mta in of all blessing,
all salvation? Listen to his
‘‘And whatever ye shall ask in
naim rnavbe y tb glorified f yf, 1 in do, the that Son. if yc
shall ask anything i n my name,
Will do it. if yc love me, keep my
Commandments, and I will pray
the Father, and lie shall give you
another comforter, that He may
div^e with you forever.”—Johnll-
13,14,15,16.
Miss Ellen, as the’ambassador of
Christ, I affectionately invite you
to come directly and freely to
Christ. Honor and reverence the
Blessed Virgin and other Saints as
much as you please, and imitate
their virtues and copy their Christ¬
ian conduct; but remember that
they, like you and me are poor
creatures and like you and me, are
poor sinners, but were saved by the
grace of that all-sufficient Savior,
who will also save us as He saved
them, if like them , we trust in
Him. There is no need for a me-
diator between HI n and us. He is
the one Mediator between God and
man. We need no other.
(, rb:; word says: “lor there
one Gnd, and one Mediator be-
tween God and man, the man
Tim. 2-5.
Why do yon resort to other Me¬
diators? lie is man and God also.
He is omnipresent, omniscient and
omnipotent, and yet he is a man
with a brother’s heart and a broth¬
ers love. Von need no other
mediator, and when you go to
other mediators you dishonor Ilin^
and grieve Ilis affectionate hear?;.
“Create' love hath no man thaa
this, that a man lay down his Hie
t'o .• h i f How man.” Christ has
laid down liis life for you, and
therefore 1'e has infinitely more
love for you than have all the Saints
in Heaven including the Blessed
Virgin, and lie also has more power
than all creatures combined. Why
then pray to a creature when He
says, “ Whatsoever ye ask in my
name I will do it.” ‘-And J. will
pray the Father and He shall give
you another Comforter. ’
Praying that Cod may guide us
lata all tx.itbp-I affectionately
your friend. -if A
It lias not been our intention in
anything which has been said or
'
whlch shaTl be writtttn 0 f Catholic-
ism, . to invite . or precipitate ... a 4l tlieolo- ,
gicid «li .■.•u>sioii.
No good is ever accomplished by
a wa>' >f creeds.
4 Christ crucified” is the
stone Lf the Christian church. Then
why should denominations wrangle
over minor differences ?
It is not our faith, but the con¬
scientiousness with which we live up
faith that insuies a blissful
i, 'heritor. Sol,n gM , mm .. g*o-l,
q 1 j s re )jjrj ( -, us faith is of little cqnse-
.
<,ut ' " 111 l!l ls
^ ie ‘^ blameless, it matters not ti nv
blameless and good his religous faith
! may be.
It has not been my mtentimi u f
-
argue the right or wrong of
tenet of the Catholic church from
s ;iplural or any other
I have only desired to correct
roneous ideas that prevail
fas Tuibcxk’s readers regii
tlie aoctnne of Catholicism iid
ior ^ 1 ^ ,e teachings of the
in its proper light. This injich
would do for any society on
t j, st j s misiepresened and
interpretation the
chu!Th has given certain ponjms porUons
he scriptures, begets the faith
tile saints in lie#ven bear our
and intercede for us. Tobias
—The Anga Raphael speaking
Tobias says; “When thou '
proy witU ,. #ri ind didst , )urr
dead and <$lst leave*by dinner I
fered thy layers to the Lord.’’
again, “I m Rapiiac-1, one of
seven h#y angels which
^ P ra L** ofl he saints, and
.
go in a* out before the glory of
<W> ‘Jacob. Partin*
i ^ God
3 . 1 , 0301 . people , wh™ . on ..
deatU-d fnaye for bn
drcn^May Am the angel that
me | all evils bless these boys.'
iGeI Lvia j lw b had been e .,
pedal!v o‘rd,and blessed an 1 enlightened by
th0 L it is presumed that he
kne w the angel would hear prayers.
The Saviour savs in the New Testa-
ment “There shall be joy before the
angel§ of God upon one sinner doing
lw , n » The angels must be con-
versant with our thoughts, else they
could not rejoice at our repentance.
The Lord says the saints are like
unto the angels in the enjoying of
happiness and the possession of
knowledge.
In the Revelation of St John
there is a description of the saints
praying f<>r their brethren on earth;
,‘The four and twenty ancients fell
down before the Lamb, having
every one of them harps, and golden
vases full of odors, which are the
prayers of the saints.”
Tbc Catholic church does not in-
to dishonor God or acknowledge
insufficiency of Christ as Medi-
ator, when it invokes the interces¬
sion of the saints, any more than
such things are intended by u s when
we ask the prayers of our friends
hereon earth. None of us would
dishonor God or doubt tlie power of
Christ as Mediator, but we remem¬
ber that “the Lord will hear the
prayers of the just,” and to our own
feeble petitions we would add the
supplications of those more holy
than ourselves.
There are many things connected
with the hereafter that finite minds
can never understand, and it is fol¬
ly to discuss them. We do not un¬
derstand liow the saints can hear the
prayers of millions ot people at the
same tune. Probably God is the
mirror through which all things are
seen.
Cut why argue the question? If
the saints do hear and intercede for
us’ as all Catholics believe, it is
well. If they do not, as Protestants
then we may be sure that
a Divine Lord, who reads all heavies
hears our petition®, 'understands our
motives, our conscientiousness, and
it is well.
When I liavt seen baby hands
folded and eyelids piessod down m
dreamless slumber, it has seemed to
me a beautiful and tender faith that
looks beyond the storm clouds of
earth to the great white throne and
see little hands beckoning heaven¬
ward and baby lips pleading for
loved ones on earth. When wrinkled
aud tottering age lias approached
the confines of the shadowy valley,
beyond the river of death I have
looked to sun-kissed hills and seen
those who have cared fox - us on earth
remembering us still and plead¬
ing for ns* And siuce one
May morning in the dear departed
days, when surrounded by a band
white-vailed novices and white-robed
first communicants, I first approach¬
ed the Blessed Sacrament, 1
felt that in holding the
faith, I hold a treasure
with which all earthly tlnugs are
dross- It was only to tell the
about this faith, that space has
given to articles on Catholicism.
SPECIMEN CASES.
S. II. Clifford, New Cassel,
was troubled! with Neuralgia and
Rheumatism, his (Stomach was
ordered, his Liver was affected to an
alarming degree, appetite fell away
and h was terribly reduced in flesh
and strength. Three bottles of El¬
ectric Bitters cured him.
Edward Shepherd. Ilarri burg, Ill,
had a running sore on his leg
eight years standing. I',ed three
bottles of Electric Bitters and seven
boxes oi Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, and
his leg Is sound and Well. John
Speaker, Catawba O. h.d five
r ever sores on his b*g, do tors
^ ; Bcurabl 0nc bott|o ot
Eleclric Bi>tels and one bra „ u . k
Icn . 6 Ain ; ca Sa i vecnred kim enliri .
ty. Sold by H. M. Frecu. -n's
Store.
XVI .--NO. 12.
THE GREAT LIBERATOR
APFUL 15 IS THE TWENTY-SIXTH AN¬
NIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH.
Remarkable Contrast ltetvrecn Lincoln
and other Noted liberators— William
tho silent— William ill of England,
Cromwell—Bolivar—Washington.
The present, twenty-six years after
his death, finds the popular interest un-
abated in the personality of Abraham
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TW I
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
[From an early portrait.)
Lincoln. His life and character indeed
present some strange problems to the
student of history. The more one stud¬
ies them the more is he struck with the
contrast, difficult to describe, between
this man and all other noted liberators.
The more the rhetorician labors to com¬
pose an elegant parallel the more does
he find that it is all contrast, and that
there is simply no basis for comparison.
This man was, in the radical elements of
liis character, a man apart—one sui gen¬
eris.
Pass the great liberators in review and
observe how very striking the contrast
is. There was William, the Silent,
founder of the Dutch republic. Save
that both were devoted to their coun¬
try’s freedom and died by the hands of
fanatic assassins, there is not a point of
similarity. A sort of parallel has been
attempted between Lincoln and Crom¬
well, but the close student of both lives
can only smile at it. When, one thinks
of the gloomy severity of William of
Orange, the man who “praised and
blamed, punished or rewarded, with the
stern tranquillity of a Mohawk chief,”
and whose “freezing looks and short, dry
answers made one's speech go back down
his throat,” he does not even pause to
institute a comparison, for all is con¬
trast. .
One often reads of Bolivar as the
“Washington of South America,” and of
Houston as the “Washington of Texas,”
of this man as
' m i the Jackson of
f \ feasts?- that his time one and as the of
Cromwell of his
country. But
A m is doubtful if in
m all the volumi¬
nous literature of
the lost twenty-
five years one can
WILLIAM THE SILENT. find any m a n
characterized as
the Lincoln of his country, or any
great number of references to Lincoln
as this or that former worthy repro¬
duced. For a short time after his death,
it is time, perfervid orators occasionally
likened him to Washington, but the
people, though they honored both, in¬
stinctively felt that the parallel was ill
chosen and failed to applaud. It would
be difficult to cite two great men who
were more unlike.
Tho reasons for this singular isolation
—a rhetorical loneliness, one might call
it—are well worth}- of study. The first
thought is that the characters so far
mentioned were warriors as well as
statesmen, while Lincoln never saw a
battle and took no pleasure whatever in
military display. Although he served in
the Black Hawk war, he totally ignored
holiday soldiering after he came home,
and the musters and maneuvers of the
Illinois militia in the ’40’s only made
him langh—as well they might. It is
not known that he ever read a work on
strategy or studied tho history of any
great war, nor is it recorded that he ever
paid the slightest attention to militia
honors or even carried a gun in a Fourth
of July parade; but it is recorded, and
was painfully remembered by some, that
militia officers were often the objects of
his wit.
When, however, we summon the great
statesmen who were not soldiers the
contrast is equally great. Of Pitt it
said that lie seemed without the
weaknesses of hu¬
manity, and only
“came occasion¬
ally into our
sphere to counsel ^ , AN
and decide,” But
Lincoln was al¬
ways in our
sphere. To the fljf ifi
weakest woman ijpi
or child, equally a
with the states¬
men and soldiers,
he was always OLIVER CEOMWELL.
thoroughly hu¬
man, always a manly man. The name of
Gladstone at once brings thoughts of the
cultured and classical—the scholar labo¬
riously trained to statesmanship. It is
questionable if Lincoln knew fifty word*
in all other languages than English, save
perhaps the Larin and Norman-French
phrases in the law books, and those he
always pronounced in the broadest
southwestern fashion—the “method”
which a local wag called the Eellinoy-
Continental.
Some one has made a comparison -with
John of Olden-Bameveld, but that gruff
statesman certainly possessed
able scholarship, and his historical know
ledge was great. If Lincoln was a reader
of general history, aside from American, 1?<seehes
that fact does not appear in bis
or state papers; but the lack of it is little
loss. Tho main object of history in train-
had got a linn grasp of tho principles
without toiling over the details. His
seems to have been one of those happily
constituted intellects which, in certain
fields of thonght. have no need of la¬
borious search among records and prece-
deuts, but by a divine instinct steer
straight across an ocean of sophism*, and
strike infallibly the weakest point in tho
citadel of error.
All mte’ligent men who heard his
Charleston (Ills.) speech (thonghtto liavo
been tho test in his great debate with
Dot as) say that the short paragraphs
in which he swept away whole volumes
of sophistw sent a thrill of assent
through the
whole vast indi-
ence, and that ,
every hearer nn- !
derstood hem y ?j
perfectly And r_.
this brings ns to, ; ,»
the true solution
of the seeming
paradox. Whilo TA
in many things '«3 (§$ wm
he fell behind the
! s t a t esmeu and
| 1 i b orators men- william in of iixo-
tioued, in one LAND.
talent he surpassed them all—lie under¬
stood human nature, and particularly
the nature of the American people. In
any judgment that required that sert of
knowledge in the last ten years of hia
life he never once failed ; or if, as some
assert, lie did fail iu one important in¬
stance, it was only because ho credited
the people with a more rapid advance
than they had then made, and they soon
came up to his position.
It is intensely interesting to note how
accurately this one mental faculty
worked during the war, even when he
was utterly perplexed on military or
technical matters. Of the effect of
movements in tho field he often confessed
his ignorance and his fears, but as to the
effect of this or that movement on the
people his instinct was unerring. Ilis
mind seemed like a delicately adjusted
barometer, that recorded every day tho
exact feeling of the great middle class o’
the people, and after listening one hour
to the so-called radicals, who insisted on
more positive action, and the next hour
to those who protested that the radicals
were ruining tho country, he seemed to
know “just bdw much the people would
stand,” as he expressed it.
Viewed in the light since thrown upon
it, his equipoise, while one faction was
hammering him on one side, and the ex¬
treme opposite faction hammering on
the other, and
each faction ve-
t A Leniently assert¬
L 'A ing that “the
troops from om
A section w i ] 1
m / T A , throw their arms” down if
this is dono o?
» jrA that is not dono,
seems little short
o f i n s p iration;
' A / When the- one
. ,
WILLIAM PITT. party broke out
in denunciations
he told them calmly that he must “hold
tho border states,” and when the
other protested angrily he painted out
in a way that convinced the most angry
that “the sooner the union is restored
the more nearly will it be the union as
it was.” Hence the logic was irresistible;
the only true policy for those who want¬
ed no change was to unite all their ener¬
gies in restoring the union.
And it is wonderful how quickly the
people “caught on,” as we now say. The
men of the two extremes made the most
noise, but they were not the people—no#
even a large minority of the people. Be¬
tween them was the great and truly
conservative middle section—and in this
instance the middle section was to a
great extent geographical as well as po¬
litical. Abraham Lincoln was one of
them; he thoroughly understood them,
and by that knowledge he guided the
nation through the storm to union and
peace. J. H. Beadle.
Lincoln’s Law Student.
In 1837 Abraham Lincoln located as a
lawyer in Springfield, then a city of
1,800 people, and far more prominent,
therefore, than now. And there, in that
profession, with various changes of part¬
nership, he remained till he left it in
1801. Mr. John H. Littlefield, an artist
of Brooklyn, N. Y., who studied law
under Lincoln, gives these interesting
reminiscences:
X wn.s a young man then, and had gone to
Springfield from Grand Jiapids, Mich., to study
law under Messrs. Lincoln & Ilerndon. law¬
yers. I arrived Saturday night, and Sun«lay
morning took a si roll from thp hotel with a
companion. A tall, rnrlanoholy looking man,
leading a little boy, passed us. My companion
gaid, ‘That is Ahrabain Lincoln and his boy
Tad.” I confess I whs not prcpossexocd with his
personal appearance. After I lxjcame a stu¬
dent in Lin office his wonderful magnetism
and greatness grew upon me until I became
his most ardent admirer aud Supporter. It
was very pleasant studying law under such t.
genial and kind hearted man. lie always
looked melancholy when hid hu e was in re¬
pose. He rend very little, but thought very
much. His favorite position when unraveling
some knoiiylaw point was to stretch both of
his leg« of fail length upon a chair in front of
Irm.
In this position, with books on the fiible Bear
by and in hi- lap, ho worked up his ease. No
matter how deeply interested in his work, if
any one came in ho had something humorous
and pleasant to say, and usually wound up by
telling a joke or au anecdote. 1 havo hoard
him relate the same anecdote three times
wiihia as many hoars lo persons who came in
at different j>eriotl-, and every time he k ighed
as heartily and enjoyed it as if it were a Oraad
new story. liis humor was infectious, i had
to laugh bet-xusc I tuonghtit funny th t Mr.
Lincoln couli en Joy a story no repeated?;, told.
There was no order In the office oi a!L Mr.
Lincoln Sometimes put ou a new shit cf eathes,
but in a few hours its newness dLjars>su M.
A very curious feature in tne g aeral
Lincoln history is that the f mily
had apparently entered on a rap; l de¬
cline some time before Abraham was
born. The Lincolps of New Eirffand
and Pennsylvania stood high. Th- eldet
Abraham Lincoln left the valley of nexi Vir¬
ginia with some substance. Yet tlie
generation ranked among the poorest of
“poor whites,*’ while in His great liber¬
ator the old stock was renewed.