Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-10


LOG CABINS, ETC.
From the New York Mail and Express
Testimonials of good will and admiration
sent to Gen. Harrison from all parts Of the
country have multiplied into collection so
large that it has been determined to give it
exclusive occupancy of one of the best rooms
in the Harrison home. So writes an Indian
apolis correspondent Everything that has
been received. the commonest and least yalu-
able relic or trinket as well as the most
laboriously wrought work of art has been
carefully saved, and at present many of them
are displayed in the hall, the parlors and the
library as attractions Of special interest to the
great number Of persons who daily visit the
house Of the republican standard bearer
while removed from public view in a bed
room on the second floor is an elegant silver
ware case, of ample capacity, filed with q
great variety of small campaign relics and
emblems, in itself museum of such attrac-
tiveness as to afford the seeker Of the odd and
interesting an hour or more Of delight Gen.
eral Harrison and his family give evidence of
sincere appreciation of these tokens of good
will in the manifest pride with which they are
shown to callers. Few strangers are permit
ted to leave the house without an invitation to
look at 'the generals presents" as they are
H.
1t was upon the special invitation of a men,
Der of the family that spent a couple of
hours few evenings ago looking over the col
lection.
LUCK BRINGERs.
There are some really strange stories told in
connection with luck bringers In the collec-
ton is a horseshoe no larger than silver
quarter, sent by blacksmith at Martinsburg,
Pa, and on the day il was received floral
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the South Side Horseshoe Club of Indianapolis,
and two well-worn horseshoes were found in
the street directly in front of the Harrison
house. There are three or four buckeyes in
the collection, one of which came from twelve
year-old girl living in Ohio, who, in letter ac-
companying the gift says that it had lain in her
mammals spool box for over twenty years, and
the little well-wisher adds: Both Of my grand
fathers voted for your grandfather. We are
going to do all we can to get you elected. and
you must do all you can, too" Lucky bones, "
taken from q white perch caught in Wabash
River, sent by Hoosier republican, and rab-
bits foot, "taken in the dark of the moon" the
present OF physician, are among the gifts
that were expected to be important campaign
aids, as well as protectors from harm.
THE COLLECTION OF CANES.
About the most interesting of the presents
are the canes which are kept in the library
where Gen. Harrison spends most of his time
while at home. They are rare pieces of skill
full workmanship, but about the most wonder
full of this lot is one that was sent to the gen.
eral within a couple of weeks after his nomina-
ton, by Comrade Truesdale, Of the Grand
Army Post at Sharon, Pa. 1t is made Of
1880 pieces of wood of thirty-eight varieties,
SO closely worked together and SO neatly
polished that it is only upon close inspection
that the wonderfully complex work of the
gainstaking old veteran can be discerned.
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half IN diameter in the thickest
part, and none of the more than
10000 pieces of wood in it are larger than an
ordinary nail head. The various colors of the
different varieties of wood give the stick a
notified appearance. In the top of the cane is
worked the emblem of the Twentieth Army
Corps, to which Mr.. Truesdale belonged An
other cane OF little less wonderful workman
ship was carved out of hickory by an old soldier
whose hands were disabled by service in the
ing that his work yields him livelihood The
handle of the cane is a well-near perfect repre-
sentation of a lady's hand partly closed below
which appears in relief as plainly as pictures or
type could make them, outlines of pioneer log
cabin. the seal of Indiana. and the White House.
with the inscriptions: Gen. BENJAMIN Harri-
son, nominated for President Chicago Conven-
ton, June, 1885"
A very long cane from maple, with the figure
OF snake about it, was sent by an Ohio repub-
ncan, who frankly says that it was made for
John Sherman with the expectation that the
Ohio statesman wonld be the republican nomi-
nee: A very large gold-headed cane is in
scribed: General Benjamin Harrison-From
the Irish Protectionists of Highland. Wis.," A
rosewood cane with an ivory handle from a
member of Gen. Harrisons old regiment now
living in California; an orange stick represent
ing some difficult work, from an admirer at
Princeton, Ind; fancy canes, in the top of
which are concealed fans or flags, and a very
plain-lOoking stick cut out of an 1910 flagstaff,
are among the collection. Gen. Harrison evil
IDENTIFY values all of them as too precious to be
used. He sometimes carries q cane, but
it is very communicating one. cap
able Of standing much hard use. When
he attended the reunion of his
old regiment at Clayton a few DAYS ago, he
took with him a light elastic stick with silver
handle, and he used it as a substitute for the
gavel of the presiding officer, and gave his
chair to tired country woman who carried
20-pound babe in her arms. Miniature log
cabins are conspicuous among the presents
and there are innumerable log cabin pictures,
books and papers, relics of the campaign Of
Gen. HarrisOn's grandfather, all sent to the re-
publican candidate by men who have, through
all the years since 1910, treasured them as
mementoes Of old wing days. One of the
imitation log cabins which has been on exhibi-
ton in the hall came from far away California
and another from Virginia. but the most per-
fectly constructed and the smallest of them all
is the work of a Minnesota man.