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# Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Lincoln Day/Conclusion of Lincolns Inaugural

CONCLUSION OF THE FIRST INAUGURAL, MARCH 4, 1861.
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal—the American people. By the frame of the Government under which we live, this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the Government in the short space of four years.
My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject! Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you, in hot haste, to a step which you would never have taken deliberately, that object would be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it. Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it, while the new administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either.
​If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there is still no single reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patrotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties.
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You can have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government while I shall have the most solemn one to “preserve, protect, and defend” it.
I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
# Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Labor Day/Working and Shirking

WORKING AND SHIRKING.
ANTONY E. ANDERSON.
A grasshopper met a bumble bee
 In a field of sweet red clover;
“Oh, why this flurry and haste?” cried he,
 “I’ve brought my fiddle along with me;
Let’s dance till the summer’s over!”
“I’m gathering stores for the winter time,”
 The bee cried over his shoulder;
“I like your fiddling, it is sublime;
 But, living here, in this changeable clime,
I must think of days that are colder.”   The grasshopper laughed in a mocking way.
 As gaily he flourished his fiddle;
A troop of butterflies, merry and gay.
 Danced in a ring through the livelong day,
While the grasshopper stood in the middle.
The bumblebee, too, was fond of a dance.
 And the day was hot for working;
But he never gave them a second glance.
 And hastened away (if near them by chance)
For he knew the danger of shirking!
He gathered his stores thro’ the sunny hours,
 And felt that his pleasures were coming;
He knew that soon there would be no flowers,
 He knew that in winter the cold sky lowers,
And he kept up a cheerful humming.   The cold winds came and the days grew dark.
 And frozen were flower and berry;
The fiddler and dancers lay stiff and stark,
 In lonely graves with never a mark—
But the wise little bee made merry!
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# Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Lincoln Day/Characteristics of Lincoln

GLIMPSES OF LINCOLN’S CHARACTER.
[Illuminated by his own words.]
WOULD WILLINGLY EXCHANGE PLACES WITH THE SOLDIER.
How willingly would I exchange places today with the soldier who sleeps on the ground in the Army of the Potomac!—To Hon Schuyler Colfax, upon receiving bad news from the army.
COMPROMISE.
I do not believe that any compromise embracing the maintenance of the Union, is now possible. All that I learn tends to a directly opposite belief. The strength of the rebellion is its military—its army. In any compromise we should waste time, which the enemy would improve to our disadvantage; and that would be all.—August, 1863
THE NEGRO.
There will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue and clenched teeth and steady eye and well-poised bayonet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation; while, I fear, there will be some white ones unable to forget that, with malignant heart and deceitful speech, they have striven to hinder it.—August, 1863.
WOMAN’S CONDUCT DURING THE WAR
If all that has been said since the creation in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice.—March, ’64.
GOD AND THE PEOPLE.
I cannot but know, what you all know, that without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me such a task as did not rest even upon the Father of his Country; and, so feeling, I cannot but turn and look for that support without which it will be impossible to perform that great task. I turn, then, and look to the great American people, and to that God who has never forsaken them.—February, ’61.
IN DISPENSING PATRONAGE THE DISABLED SOLDIER TO HAVE THE PREFERENCE
Yesterday little indorsements of mine went to you in two cases of postmasterships, sought for widows whose husbands have fallen in the battles of this war. These cases, occurring on the same day, brought me to reflect more attentively than I had before done as to what is fairly due from us here in the dispensing of patronage toward the men who, by fighting our battles, bear the chief burden of saving our country. My conclusion is that, other claims and other qualifications being equal, they have the right; and this is especially applicable to the disabled soldier and the deceased soldier’s family.—Letter to the Postmaster General, July 27, 1863.
“I AM HUMBLE ABRAHAM LINCOLN.”
Gentlemen and fellow-citizens: I presume you all know who I am; I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my many friends to become a candidate for the legislature. My politics are short and sweet; I am in favor of a national bank, I am in favor of the internal improvement system and a high protective tariff. These are my sentiments and political principles. If elected, I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.—First political speech, delivered at Poppsville, Sangamon Co., Ill., in 1832.
# Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Lincoln Day/Education a Growth

EDUCATION A GROWTH
Mr. Lincoln himself told the following story of his life.—“When I was about eighteen years old I went into an office to study law. After a while I saw that a lawyer’s business was largely to prove things, and I said to myself, “Lincoln, when is a thing proved?” That was a poser. I could not answer that question. What constitutes a proof? Not evidence, that was not to the point. There may be evidence enough, but wherein consists the proof? I was reminded of the story of the German who was tried for some crime, and they brought half-a-dozen respectable men who swore that they saw the prisoner commit the crime. “Vel, vot of dot?” said the Teuton; “six men schvears dot dey sees me do the pishness, I prings more as two tozen good men, who schvears dey did not see me do it.” So, wherein is the proof? I fairly groaned over the question and finally said to myself, “Ah, Lincoln, you can’t tell.” Then I thought, what use is it for me to be in a law office, if I can’t tell when a thing is proved? So I gave it up and went back home over in Kentucky. Soon after I returned to the old log cabin, I fell in with a copy of Euclid. I had not the slightest notion what Euclid was, and I thought I would find out. I found out; but it was no easy job. I looked into the book and I found it was all about lines, angles, surfaces, and solids; but I could not understand it at all. I therefore began very deliberately at the beginning. I learned the definitions and axioms, I demonstrated the first proposition; I said that is simple enough. I went on to the next, and before spring I had gone through that old Euclid and could demonstrate every proposition in it. I knew it from beginning to end; you could not stick me on the hardest of them. One day in the spring, when I had got through with it, I said to myself, “Ah, do you know now when a thing is proved?”; and I answered out loud, “Yes, sir, I do, and you may go back to the law shop.” In a few weeks I went, and to this circumstance I owe all the logical acumen that I possess. I dug it out of that old geometry, often by the light of pine knots; but I got it, and I think that nothing but geometry will teach a man the power of abstract reasoning.”
# Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Lincoln Day/God Speed the Right

GOD SPEED THE RIGHT.
[The music of this familiar song is found in Riverside Song Book, published by Houghton, Mifflin, etc. Price 40c.]
Patient, firm, and persevering,
God speed the right;
Ne’er th’ event nor danger fearing,
God speed the right;
Pains nor toils nor trials heeding,
In the strength of heav’n succeeding,
God speed the right,
God speed the right.
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# Tamil Proverbs/பே

பே.

## பேசப் பேச எந்தப் பாஷையும் வரும்.

    Any language may be learnt by continual speaking.

## பேசாதிருந்தால் பிழை ஒன்றும் இல்லை.

    No fault arises if nothing is spoken.

## பேசில் அபலம் பேசாக்கால் ஊமை.

    When he speaks it is to no purpose, when he does not speak he is accounted dumb.

## பேச்சுக் கற்ற நாய் வேட்டைக்கு ஆகாது.

    A noisy dog is not fit for hunting.

## பேச்சுக்கு இராவணன் பின்பு கும்பகர்ணன்.

    In speech he is Ravana, but he turns out to be Kumbhakarnaan.

## பேச்சுக்குப் பேச்சுச் சிங்காரமா?

    Is contradiction becoming?

## பேச்சை விற்றுக் காய்ச்சிக் குடிக்கிறான்.

    He sells his words, and cooks and drinks.

## பேடி கையில் இருந்த ஆயுதம் போல.

    Like a weapon in the hands of a hermaphrodite.

## பேடி கையில் வாள்போலே.

    Like a sword in the hands of a hermaphrodite.

## பேதம் அற்றவர் நீதம் உற்றவர்.

    He who is impartial is just.

## பேதைகள் வெள்ளத்திலே நின்றும் தாகத்திற்குத் தண்ணீருக்கு அலைவார்கள்.

    Fools in the midst of a flood will wander about for water to drink.

## பேதமை என்பது மாதர்க்கு அணிகலம்.

    Simplicity is the ornament of a woman.

## பேயானாலும் தாய், நீரானாலும் மோர்.

    Though like a demon she is a mother, though mere slop, it is buttermilk.

## பேயும் சிலது ஞாயம் பகரும்.

    Even a demon will have some reason to assign.

## பேய் ஆடிய கம்பம்போல.

    Like a pole on which a demon dances.

## பேய் கொண்டாலும் பெண் கொள்ளல் ஆகாது.

    One may take a demon, but not take a wife.

## பேய்க்குக் கள் வார்த்ததுபோல.

    Like pouring out toddy to a demon.

## பேய்க்கு வேப்பிலைபோலே.

    As margosa leaves before a demon.

## பேய்க்கு வேலை இட்டதுபோல.

    Like setting a demon to work.

## பேய்க்கூத்தும் ஆமணக்கும் ஆள்போனால் ஆள் தெரியாது.

    A devil dance is a garden of castor oil plants, if one gets in he is not seen again.

## பேய் சிரித்தாலும் ஆகாது அழுதாலும் ஆகாது.

    If a demon smiles it is bad, and if he weep that too is inauspicious.

## பேய் பிடிக்கவும் பிள்ளை பிழைக்கவுமா?

    Will a child struck by a demon survive?

## பேய் போய்ப் புளியமரத்தில் ஏறினதுபோல.

    As a demon ascended a tamarind tree.

## பேராசைக்காரனைப் பெரும்புளுகால் வெல்லவேண்டும்.

    The avaricious must be overcome by notorious lies.

## பேராசை பெரிய நஷ்டம்.

    Avarice ends in loss.

## பேர் இல்லாச் சன்னதி பாழ், பிள்ளை இல்லாச் செல்வம் பாழ்.

    The presence of one without reputation does no good, wealth without a child is useless.
# Tamil Proverbs/போ

போ.

## போகா ஊருக்கு வழி கேள்.

    Inquire the way to the village whither you are not going.

## போகாத இடத்திலே போனால் வராத சொட்டு வரும்.

    If you go where you ought not, you will receive a cuff that might have been avoided.

## போக்கணம் கெட்டவன் ராஜாவிலும் பெரியவன்.

    An impudent person is greater than a king.

## போக்கு அற்ற நாய்க்கு போனது எல்லாம் வழி.

    A hungry dog finds a way wherever be goes.

## போசனம் சிறுத்தாலும் ஆசனம் பெருக்க வேண்டும்.

    Though one’s food be slight, the dish must be large.

## போதகர் சொல்லைத் தட்டாதே, பாதகர் இல்லைக் கிட்டாதே.

    Obey your religious teacher, approach not the house of the wicked.

## போதகருக்கே சோதனை மிஞ்சும்

    A religious teacher meets with many temptations.

## போதும் என்ற மனமே பொன் செய்யும் மருந்து.

    A contented mind is a specific for making gold.

## போரில் ஊசி தேடின சம்பந்தம்.

    Akin to seeking a needle in a heap of straw.

## போரைக் கட்டிவைத்துப்போட்டுப் பிச்சைக்குப் போவானேன்.

    Having stacked your corn, why go abegging?

## போரோடு தின்கிற மாட்டுக்குப் பிடுங்கிப் போட்டுக் கட்டுமா?

    When an ox is accustomed to eat at a heap, will it be satisfied with a handful?

## போர்த்தொழில் புரியேல்.

    Do not practise the art of war.

## போர் பிடுங்கிறவர்கள் பூரக்களம் சாடுகிறவர்களை மாட்டுகிறார்களாம்.

    It is said that those who steal from a corn-stack, will frighten those who glean stealthily.

## போலைக்கு ஒரு பொன்மணி கிடைத்ததாம், அதைத் தூக்கக் கண்ணில் தொட்டுத் தொட்டுப் பார்த்ததாம்.

    It is said that the hollow-headed woman obtained a gold bead, and that she examined it when she was sleepy.

## போலை பொறுக்கப் போச்சாம் பூனை குறுக்கே போச்சாம்.

    It is said that the destitute went out to gather orts, and a cat went across the path.

## போனகம் என்பது தான் உழைத்து உண்டல்.

    That which one eats as the fruit of his own labour, is properly called food.

## போன சுரத்தைப் புளி இட்டு அழைத்ததுபோல.

    Like inviting a fever that has subsided, by giving acids.

## போனதை நினைக்கிறவன் புத்தி கெட்டவன்.

    He lacks sense who broods over the past.

## போன மாட்டைத் தேடுவாரும் இல்லை, மேய்த்த கூலி கொடுப்பாரும் இல்லை.

    There is no one to seek the lost cow, none to pay the hire of the cowherd.
# Tamil Proverbs/பை

பை.

## பைசாசைப் பணியேல்.

    Yield not to a demon.

## பைந்தமிழ்ப் புலவோர் பாட்டுக்கு ஏற்றவன்.

    He is worthy to be sung by poets.

## பையச் சென்றால் வையம் தாங்கும்.

    If you walk gently, the earth will bear you.

## பைய மிதித்தது வேடன் அடி, பதறி மிதித்தது பன்றி அடி.

    The light footstep is that of the hunter, the firm footstep is that of the hog.

## பைய மென்றால் பனையையும் மெல்லலாம்.

    If masticated slowly even a palmyrah tree may be chewed.

## பையிற் கட்டிவைத்த பொருள் பறிகொடுக்கப்பட்டது.

    The wealth tied up in a bag was lost.
# Tamil Proverbs/பீ

பீ.

## பீரம் பேணி பாரம் தாங்கு.

    Preserve your strength and bear the burden.

## பீறின புடைலை பெருநாள் இராது.

    A ragged cloth will not wear long.

## பீற்றற் பட்டைக்கு அறுதற்கொடி.

    A broken cord, and a ragged basket (well-bucket.)
# Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Arbor Day/Which Tree is Best

WHICH TREE IS BEST.
Which is the best of all the trees? Answer me, children all, if you please. That for a hundred years has stood, The graceful elm or the stately ash, Or the aspen, whose leaflets shimmer and flash?
Is it the solemn and gloomy pine, With its million needles so sharp and fine? Ah no! The tree that I love best, It buds and blossoms not with the rest; No summer sun on its fruit has smiled, But the ice and snow are around it piled; But still it will bloom and bear fruit for me— My winter bloomer! My Christmas tree!
—Youths’ Companion.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Arbor Day/What do we plant

WHAT DO WE PLANT?
HENRY ABBEY.
What do we plant when we plant the tree?
We plant the ship which will cross the sea.
We plant the mast to carry the sails:
We plant the plank to withstand the gales;
The keel, the keelson, and beam and knee:
We plant the ship when we plant the tree.   What do we plant when we plant the tree?
We plant the house for you and me.
We plant the rafter, the shingles, the floors;
We plant the studding, the lath, the doors,
The beams and siding, all parts that be;
We plant the house when we plant the tree.
What do we plant when we plant the tree?
A thousand things that we daily see.
We plant the spire that out-towers the crag,
We plant the staff for our country’s flag:
We plant the shade from the hot sun free:
We plant all these when we plant the tree.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Arbor Day/What will you be

WHAT WILL YOU BE?
Dear little tree that we plant today What will you be when we’re old and gray? “The savings bank of the squirrel and mouse, For robbin and wren an apartment house, The dressing-room of the butterfly’s ball, The locusts and katydid’s concert hall; The school-boy’s ladder in pleasant June, The school-girl’s tent in the July noon. And my leaves shall whisper them merrily A tale of the children who planted me.”
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# Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Christmas/A Christmas Gift

A CHRISTMAS GIFT.
ELLA M. POWERS.
This short dialogue may be given by two pupils, a boy and a girl. The girl should have an old doll in her arms, the boy should carry an old drum with the head broken.
Girl—
This doll, Kris Kringle brought last year.
Gone is one eye, her hair, her ear;
And now some new ones he must bring.
The kind that walk and talk and sing.
Boy—
Here is a drum I had last year,
You see it sounds now very queer;
I left it out once in the rain,
I've begged for other new drums in vain.
Girl— (Seating herself at a table.)
Let's write a letter to Santa Claus,
Telling him what to bring, because
It must be hard to bring, you see.
The very things we want; Dear me!
(Girl reaching for paper, ink, and pen, writes. Presently she reads:)
"I'll have a hundred wax dolls when you come.
And please bring a nice, rich sounding drum;
Bring hundreds of books and games, a store,
And a thousand candies and lots more."
The letter is done and now we'll away
And mail it to him right off today.
Boy—
I guess he'll think 'tis very shocking,
To expect so much in one small stocking.
—The Intelligence.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Arbor Day/Which shall It be

WHICH SHALL IT BE?
First boy—  If we are all to choose and say  What trees we’d like to plant to-day,  Seems to me none can be  Half so good as a Christmas tree!  For surely even a baby knows  That’s where the nicest candy grows.  Candy on a Christmas tree,  That's what pleases me!
Second boy—  :Planted out, ’twould never bear—  But, after all, why should we care?  The richest thing is what we bring  From sugar maples in the spring;  So now I’ll set a maple here.  For feast and frolic every year.  Sugar from a maple tree.  That's what pleases me!
Third boy—  Sweets are good most any day,  But as for trees, I’m bound to say.  A shag-bark tall is best of all  When once the nuts begin to fall;  And so a hickory tree I’ll set.  And piles of fun and nuts I’ll get.  Nuts from a hickory tree.  That’s what pleases me!
Fourth boy—  I shall plant an apple tree.  That’s the best of all for me;  And each kind to suit my mind,  On this one with grafts I’ll bind.  Ripe or green, the whole year through,  Pie or dumpling, bake or stew,  Every way I like ’em best,  And I’ll treat the rest.
—Youths’ Companion.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Christmas/A Christmas Problem

A CHRISTMAS PROBLEM.
Suppose the reindeer that Santa Claus drives,  Should get frightened and run far away, And no one could ever find them again,  What then would the children say?
Then Santa Claus couldn't come any more,  For he never could find his way And walk so far in one short night,  Unless each day was a Christmas day.
—The Intelligence.
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# Street v. Ferry

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United States Supreme Court
119 U.S. 385
Street v. Ferry
J. G. Sutherland and Arthur Brown, for the motion.
John A. Marshall, in opposition.
WAITE, C. J.

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# Street v. Lincoln Safe Deposit Company

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United States Supreme Court
254 U.S. 88
Street v. Lincoln Safe Deposit Company
Argued: April 26, 1920. --- Decided: Nov 8, 1920
Messrs. Joseph S. Auerbach and Charles H. Tuttle, both of New York City, for appellant.
Mr. Assistant Attorney General Frierson, for appellees.
Mr. Justice CLARKE delivered the opinion of the court.

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