Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-26

that to certain degree is the truth but it's not all the truth, and to that ex- tent is so far short of it it might prop erly be called falsehood Tell the whole truth, 'Tilda, he added, what ever happens and trust your good moth- CT for the rest. y
 This incident years aftelward was TO. lated to MT. Hernden by 'rilda herself who meanwhile had grown to woman hood and had become the mother of an interesting family.
 Lincoln s life while in Indiana has been generously enough portrayed when one reflects on the dearth of material. and yet the world will never tire of it's recital, for as each new incident or epi- sode floats to the surface there seems to follow demand more persistent than before for more matter of the same kind. There IS i'll Lincoln's early career, it is true the same proportion of romance and reality one finds in almost every boy life, and yet through it all there is a strange commingling of the grotesoue ard pathetic of frontier suffering and backwoods horse play of truthful his tory and neighborhood tradition which the student, though he has searched all the annals of biography, will find no- where el5e.
 To appreciate fully this strange life We must see all its rugged lineaments. We must not conceal a shrunken limb nor remove q single wart If there is a mole on the right cheek we must not turn the left one toward the camera. There must be no color and nc drapery.
 It we expect to produce a historic pie ture of tho man posterity must take him just as he was. To that end beg to make 2 eonaibption-the episode which follows. Az it is true in detail no apol- ogy IS needed for its appearance here. 1t is necessary, however, to present q few antecedent facts.
 After the death of MT. Lincoln's mother his only sister, Sarah, married Aaron Grigsby, a member of the leading family of Gent1yyille Ind Two years later she died in childbirth. Her treat ment by her husband S family both be- fore and during her illness evoked from the neighborhood more or less adverse comment, in which her brother freely joined Remembering that his sister had suffered the loss of her mother in early girlhood and i'll consequence had been subjected to the adverse fate which falls to the lot of an orphan child it Is not surprising that Abe was more sensitive to the treatment she received and more censorious in his criticism than other people. His reflections were so severe he aroused the ire of all the Grigsbys and thus erected between him. self and them a social barrier of no mean proportions.
 Soon after the occurrence related in the foregoing paragraph Reuben and Charles Grigsby, brothers of Aaron, on the same day, April Is, 1929, mar ried, respectively, Elizabeth Ray and Matilda Hawkins. The following day they, with their brides, returned to the Grigsby mansion, where their father, Reuben Grigsby, received them with a cordial welcome. Here an old fashioned infare, with feasting and dancing and the still older fashion of putting the bridal party to bed, took place. When the invitations to these festivities were issued the Grigsbys, not un1nindful of 4Abes reflection on the family name, made plain their dislike of him by omit ting his name from the list of invited guests. The slight thus put upon him led him to furnish the community about Gentryville with what he was pleased to term the First Chronicles of Reuben. " At this time he was ill the habit of com posing "pieees," in which he would "take off" certain conspicuous or sus- ceptible persons ill the neighborhood who seemed to merit either his wit or displeasure These bits of rude, coarse wit he called Chronicles, 1" and they tended thereby to caricature or hold up to public ridicule one of his victims. Written i'll an attempted Scriptural vein and on variety of subjects, they might we'll be called social ventilators. Their grossness must have been warmly ap- preciated by the early denizens of Gen. tryville, for certain descendants of the ldJCGT nave ldkGu CdfG tudb tlISy ohOuAo not be buried from sight under the dust of long continued forgetfulness.
 The original chapter of the First Chronicles of Reuben" came to light in singular manner after having been ap- parently lost for many years. A little while before MT. Herndon's visit to h. diana in 1865 carpenter in Gentry vile was repairing house that had once been the property of a member of the Grigsby family. While so engaged his son and assistant had climbed through the ceiling to the inner side of the roof above to tear away some of the timbers and there found tucked away under the end of rafter bundle of papers dust covered and yellow with age. Carefully withdrawing the pack age from it's hiding place, he opened and was slowly deeiphering it's pages when the father, noting the boys silence and flo e-,e,,opeio7, Of work overhead lr-