The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-07-31


There 10 no position On earth worth
having 10 which tho energetic and In
teiligent American bow may not aspire.
with reasonable expectations OF success.
Thanks TO Thos. Jefferson and Demo-
cratic doctrine. the road 70 wealth orl
honors OF any kind In the United States |
IL not privileged one. aud II 10 hoped |
our country will never be 20 domineered
by wealth that Il shalt become tho right
OF sons or dsughters Of any man or class
to rank themselves above their honor
able neighboss. OF whatever position In
life. or standing a. 10 wealth. To always
maintain the ambition OF the humblesi
boy In the land 10 succeed In acquiring |
honorable fame. the many instances OIL
notable Americans should be frequently |
called to their attention. and Z cuff |
ciently strong graduated income and in |
heritance tax law should be enacted TO !
prevent the accumulation OF wealth in !
families, Of sufficient amount Ia enable |
them TO override their neighbors and the
law.
Probably no instance OF an American
boy succeeding In the highest degree IL /
more forcible In It's example and incen-
tive than that Of the martyr PRESIDENT
Abraham Lincoln. His thorough homes
ty In dealing. and close study Of books |
and men, enabled him 10 attain the high |
position he reached. Born Of humble
parents. and reared in the back woods,
no over came all obstacles till he reached
the proudcst position in the world. Al
correspondent OF the Chicago News says
the farm on which Is now Lincoln CITY.
a small village in Spencer county, wasI
for four years the home of Abraham
Lincoin's parents when he was growingl
up. II was there that his mothc. died
lin 1918. The log cabin, the home Of the|
Lincolns, was OF rough oak logs. about
fifteen ~ twenty feet in size, the crew
ices filled in with mud, the door Of split
slabs, with wooden hinges, and but one
window, with no glass. There was no
chimney, large opening in the roof be-
ing left for the smoke 10 escape. The
roof was OF split slaves, pegged down BY
cross poles. The beds were few blank
cts on the dirt floor, while the table we
two split slabs set on skids. President
| Lincoln's father was Q river man, and
worked on flatboats on trips down the
Ohio and Mississippi 10 New Orleans,
and was at home only part Of the year
The Lincolns moved after three or four
sears to Illinois. The mother OF Abra-
ham Lincoln had previously died and
was buried on bill near this cabin.
u At the time be WAS n years old Lin
coin was an awkward, indolent and ap-
parently unambitious boy. There Was
nothing in bis appearance that indicated
J moro than ordinary intelligence. The
stories of his great industry, and parti'
, lcularly OF the immense number Of rails
. he split, are fiction. He did not split
} rails here. The Lincolns had no fences
. and had no need of them then. as the
country was an almost unbrokep wilder.
! ness. After Lincoln became president Z
8 lthriving business was done ID the manu-
I facture Of canes and vsrious other arti
e lcles from rails said to have been split By
him. A log cabin, said to be the origi
: nal home Of the Linc0lne, was trans
. the original cabin had been torn dow
! and AL traces Of II destroyed years b
= fore. The battle-ground % the bill W
, grown up with briars and bushes. Tb'
identity Of the grave was lost No on
z living can positively say which was th'
grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln. ON
4 was selected which was supposed 10 b
q her grave. The Studebakers Of Soutl
Bend donated money to erect . plail
slab, and placed an iron fence about th,
4 lot. The much-heralded monumen
erected in memory OF the mother o
President Lincoln does not exist, but be-
!, grandson, the present minister plenipo'
4 Tertiary Of the u. s., to Great Britain
4 IL abundsntly able pecuniarly, and ough
to tako down the present Studebake
wagon advertisement ct his grandmoth
y ers grave, and have . nice monuIncn
lin its stead.