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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-07

Someone suggested that if young people
were guided more frequently to such
studies from real life as both modern ano
ancient history invite them to and as in
decd the biography Of any department. of
| learning will furnish. human characte,
and motive might not be to them the
puzzling and all but incomprehensiblt
| thing that too many of Us fluid it when
we leave the schoolroom. 1t was rot to
| he expected that the buy or girl, or the
| young man or woman. would be able t.
pronounce at once and infallbly upon
such Of his fellow beings as he or she
came into contact with, or even to always
discriminate readily and exactly. Ability
| to judge of character is one of the attril-
| utss of maturity of intellect and ex-
perience. But it would be well if tire
education of the average young person
were little more exact and ample in this
direction.
| Mrs Hotella said that she fully agreed
with the last speaker. She would be
willing to duplicate her afternoons work
every month in the year, if it were neces-
s,ry in order that this element might not
tie wanting.
Mrs. Amiabella said that it was her i'm
preston that it was less often the teachers
who failed to guide the boys and girls to
the best and most substantial books, than
the parents themselves. The books every
where required rs supplementary reading
were marvellous incentive and in some
cases lasting standard of excellence. L.
was to be regretted that too often it was
those whose opportunities were only
through books and self culture who were
most lax as to the quality OF II E read
ing. 1t was true that when the energies
had been exhausted by the long DAYS
work, and the brain itself, seemed foo
weary to undertake anything like task
work, the outlook for solid requirements
was discouraging. But guilds and
societies innumcrable had proved that It
could be COMPRISED. And in little while
reading of this sort had changed from
ia TX to a positive pleasure. Whoever was
able to Influence young people, especially
those whose formal education seemed
ended, or whose opportunities had been
meagar, could hardly do them a better
service than by giving them an impulse
to advancement in this direction. And
she thought too, that q taste of this kind
might be implanted or fostered at an early
age. Stories of real people and events
Were the most interesting Of all even to a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-07

Why suffer from indigestionY Buraock
Blood Bitters cures Dyspepsia und all dis
eases of the stomach, liver and bowels
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-07

American history said !, ''is nc
longer history without IA hero. Said
Emerson, the earth waits for exalted
manhood. What this country longs for is
personalities, grand persons to counterfeit
It's Municipalities. But the need has been
III part met since the words We're spoken.
And 1t is due I think very largely to the
development of patriotism and national
character and intellectual strength dur
Ing the Civil war and since that period
and perhaps even more to the fact that in
Lincoln we have one really great man.
great not only according to our measure
ment but in the estimate of the world
itself. D'Aubigne says that the name of
Lincoln Will remain one of the greatest
that history has to inscribe on it's annals. >
Another European historian, Henri
Martin, predicts that this man will
stand out in the traditions of his country
and the world as an incarnation of the
people and of modern democracy itself. ;
Montalembert commends his prose as a
model for the limitation of princes. And
Emerson, again, says that had he lived In
period of less facility of printing. he
would have become NEUROLOGICAL in a
very few years, like dlsop or Pilpaz or
one ct the seven wise masters, by his
fables and proverbs.
1t is well for the generations that come
after him, that he lived in ali age which
suffers TO such haze of obscurity or illu-
sion to gather, but shows Us the man
Lincoln more plainly and intimately to.
day than most Of his contemporaries saw
him.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-07

Someone suggested that many most
interesting facts had been brought out in
recent Lincolniana; there were some
aspects of his nature on which compare
lively little light had been thrown hitler
to; and there were some periods i'll his life
which had before been passed over too
hastily, but which were very suggestive
in their relation to his after life. The part
his foster mother had in encouraging and
stimulating the lad, as well as in helping
provide such rude comforts and oppor
tunitics as he had, and in implanting
sound principles in him, was not to be
forgotten.
1t seemed, too, that he did not develop
rapidly. Indeed, he came to maturity of
manhood, if we understand by the phrase
the manhood Of character and effort thai
we associate with him, very slowly
There was a period which seems to regis
ter q very slow growth of character ana
ability, the period following his twentieth
or twenty first year and covering six OF
seven years thereafter; yet from that
season Of encouragement and often seem
irgly futile effort, he gradually emerged
with ripening power of thought and
spesch at his command, and with firm
ness of will and fertility OF resource that
were surprising"
Another remarked that it seemed to her
that Lincoln was by far the most interest
ing OF our American heroes There is =
many sidedness to his nature, and an
element of mystery in it that give it a
wonderful fascinati n merely as a char
acter study.
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There are very few of us, who have
the reading habit, that can pass book
case, or pile of magazines, or even the
formal rectangles which still adorn our
centre tables, without stopping to see
what they are. And am not one of the
few. So, as l said, | glanced at them, a
little puzzled at first to make out the
connection, they seemed to be such a
medley. There We're new books and old
books, magazines of 95 and 90, aud
magazines of sc; and stray numbers all
along between. But found the counec-
ton very soon, for every one of them had
something about either Washington or
Lincoln in it And the same with the
books, tho the most of them were either
lives" or histories. L might have
known, just by the time o year.
should have found ont anyway, if l
hadn't looked, for they were talking
about it in the parlor then.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-07

new and better point of view for each
generation. 1t would have been impos.
sloie TO write within five years. or fifteen
years, after his life was finished, either of
the noble biographies which give us our
ampiest and most accurate KNOWLEDGE of
Lincoln. The perspective was wanting. as
we'll as the clearer and ,profounder nnder.
Standing of tho critical aud troub.ous
times in which he lived The farther
away we get, the larger and nobler seems
MS share in it, and in the shaping of our
country's destiny itself Aud the better
we Know the man whom we are coming
to recognize as really both in his work
auo character, intrinsically the greatest
III our history, as one who must be named
great man, judged by the most exacting
of world standards.
And even the popular and apccdotal
NE oil him has its place and USE as much
as at the first. There are always those
VINO are willing to know these things, vet
who care little for any other presentmcnt
OF hero. And it is better that they
should know Abraham Lincoln so, than
not at all, or only in outline.
wish we might have, for such
readers, large proportion of whom.
though not all, are young people, many
lives OF ali our American leaders. of Grant
and Sherman, Sheridan and Garfield, and
OF the leaders in civic life as well do
not see why they might not by and by
suppiant the dime and nickel literature of
the plain and prairie, the shop, the ranch
ana the mining town There is surely
enough stirring incident to put into them.
ana enough bravery and daring And it
would not be long before good many of
these readers would be ready for the real
biographies
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HUsHNOC COUNCIL No. 1ss. n. IF nsat-
~ ingx Ist and Sd Tuesdays In each mouth
at Golden Gross hall Srr1 CAV q. a.
Ii. A. SMITH, Recorder.
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My Ernest has an essay on Abraham
Lincoln to write before the twelfth . Mrs
Hotella was saying land he has had to
stay in with a sore throat a plumber of
days. 1t g little better, but this paper
was on his mind, for ne hadn't even got
the material together; but l told him if
he d stay in the rest of the week, I would
go myself and get the books and other
could be at work on it, -.
But, said Mrs. Hotella, 81 didn {
realize what l was undertaking. I should
think half the boys in town were looking
up Abraham Lincoln, and that every
literary society, of young and old, was
planning to give Martha Washington
evening. For, when she found that | was
going around to the library, Betty wanted
to know why l couldn't bring some
things she'd got TO have about Washing
ton, too, and / told her | would. And l
don't know which was the greatest stint
Half the things on the list were out, and
there We're boys and girls reading and
taking notes out Of most of the other half
So | had TO go into Dir. Hotspur's and see
f he would lend something and then TO
the minister to see if he could help me
out
You were fortunate in having list, -
sighed Mrs. Carfern. My Johnny had
some points to look up for q discussion,
and he had to spend three afternoons look
ing for what would fill maybe two pages
of foolscap And he wouldn't have found
taat, in readable shape, If the librarian
hadn t advised him coed deal about the
hooks he had better consult.
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'There may not be so much that is
new to tell about them, said Mrs.
hctella, Though as to that | think we
have been told great deal that is in
teresting and new about the boyhood and
youth of Lincoln, in ono Of the serial
biographies; but there IS a new genera
ton to tell it to. And there must be a
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New York produces Market,

lex div. ibid. issked.
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saueezer, rather shortly. History is his
tory, whenever you get it, or however you
take it. And | never could see the sense
of administering it in lump, just be-
cause it happened to be the twelfth or the
twenty second Of February, or the seven
teenth of April or the thirtieth of May
either"
HBut the children don't take it all that
way | fastened to rejoin. 'They have
their history every week in the school
wear. and every day in the week It's
only one thread of the web that they pick
I'D and look at on the birthdays An
unusually stout and conspicuous ravel
ling. to be sure, one that almost made
the pattern, or held the fabric together Of
itself, in its time. but only strand or
two, after all, and it seems to me to be
very good way to examine it, toe"
sMay be So" she answered only half
convinced 81 was only thinking it
would be better 90 have the interest last
a little longer, if it wasn't quite so lively
in spots" And, she went on, "Im sure
I'm glad to see and hear something be-
sides Napoleon. / shouldn't have much
minded if it had been Captain Kidd that
was the next fad, if it was only somebody
else. The reason good many of us dun't
fairly know now what Napoleon Bona
paTte did, or what manner OF man he
vas, or even what happened to him, ex
cept about the old guard and st. Helena,
is because there have been SO many Of
him. I was relieved to see that one or
two editors thought there might be some
thing to say about A braham Lincoln and
George Washington, and that maybe the
American reading public would just as
lives read it. -
The oasis., 1896-01-25

J.A.NAUGLE, Asst Gen Manager.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-10-18

the gl0ries and the sDiondor Of the uni-
verse o. Cod
He prostr1ted himself on the floor,
touching it's stone with his forehead.
When he arose he addressed m- in ms us
ual gentle tones.
For thee. also. I give thanks, my son,
tha. hon hast come to me, 90 have Part
fin my day of achievement and TO con-
tfnue my work For 7 have been lonely,
and my hear5 loves thee. ami ! daen
that heaven hath sent thee 10 be- my
comfort and MY strength. Bu- thou 3it
consumed with wonder and 1 have much
TO tell thee. Let us 20 10 a place where
We may have more ease.
With a loving lingering glance toward
the great circle of lens, he eXtnguished
the lights and summoned ALL who con
Quoted us back TO the Dalace-for such
it was. A swinging lamp shed soft lus-
ire over the silken cushions on which We
rested. Duskv attendants fitted in the
back ground. with Jurbaned heads, and
here legs that showed beneath their
white linen TUNES. ALI, with well-dlled
pouch and glowing brazler, stood ever
ready to renew the soothing pipe which
be had placed in my hands. observed,
however. tha, my companion did not
smoke.
"T6ese things are not for me-" he
said. observing my surprise, "and Il
fins seem to.put q sEghtupO my guest
I must crave thy. pardon. The sight OF
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-10-18

painful to my dilated pupils, strained
wide by their prOtracted struggle with
darkness.
Some distance beyond, about midway
in the chamber, rose a large square frame
constructed Of heavy timbers and sup
porting a massive ring, or wheel, Of me-
tai. fully twelve feet in diameter. This
comparison, however, is misleading, for
though there Wss o strong suggestion Of
the pOnder0us tire Of some great driving
wheel, there appeared neither spokes nor
mub;sO far as could see it was an empty
circle of bronze, enclosing nothing. Be
fore il stood a scafiOld, apparently adjus-
table at various heights.
On this platform was crouched a hui
man figure. For a moment-sO singu-
lar was the attitude and so perturbed was
my mind with hideous fancies-I feared
that Il was not alive; that this griZzled
and conJorted shape, so strangely en-
thrOned, was some shTOuded and en-
balsamed Pharaoh, set up there in the
childhood OF the world. Then l saw that
it moved plainly, this was a living man,
though The gestures were quite unac-
cOunteble. He seemed to be passing his
finger tips lightly over some substance
in the space before him, yet nothing was
visible. He also made a curious move
ment as if rubbing something with the
ball of his thumb;chis he did several
times in different places.
Finally ne rose to his full height,
which was considerable, though he was
much bent. His back was toward me
and his head was turbaned but I saw
enough of his white hair and flowing
beard to make it eviden, that he was
advanced in years. He now turned, des-
conded from the platform, and approach
eli the lamp. / observed that his feat
ures we're noble and Of European cast,
though he was robed in oriental fash
ion. He was so intent that ne never
raised his eyes. but bending over the
lantern. closed the slides and made GER
tain adjustments.
The place was now quite dark. Only
the minutest spark escaped from the
lamp; bu. far down the gallery bright
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-10-18

was painful; listened breathle5sly. The
cid man continued with half-clOsed eyes
in dreamy retrospect.
Il was young then, and erect like you;
I had not yet attained my fortiejh year;
the aged sheik was still sovereign among
his people. Ismail slumbers with his
fathers now, and my years are doubled
and my shoulders are bent beneath their
weight And all these years have 1
spent mainly in this chamber, toiling at
my task.
"All the days of my life have 1 given
i, ne cried, with mounting enthusiasm.
His voice rang louder and ne spoke with
the rapt intensity of a devOtee.
More than ten thousand Of my days
have I given, and many q sleepless night
as well, for the shaping Of it; but it is
worth them all. God grant that may
see its revelation"
His voice fell. swift were The years,
and slow was the labor. Line by line IL
was done; film after film have l rubbed
away its adamantine substance as l fash
toned il. Uunumbered times, as l
wrought it toward perfection, have 1
proved its form by tests like those by
which we measure the infnitesimal pull
sations of the luminous aether. II is
color that proves best" he cried. That
is suresJ. There must be no variation
in color or light. You shall see
He daTkened the chamber and adjust
ed The lantern as on the nigh, of my ar
rival. Then he waited.
amy vibration Of the air." he said,
cor The slightest inequality Of tempera-
ture, would be fatal TO the experiment
Even our breathing here behind the
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lamp. its heat and the heat OF our bodies
are uHfavordb'e, though unavoidable
conditions. Now look, and speak not"
/ brought my eye TO the tube. a field
OF gc.den Ugh. appearei, ike the moon
al full, but many times larger A slight
writhing movement was, however, dis
cerDible. Gradually this ceased, and
the Illuminated circle seemed absolutely
uniform.
rs It not perfect" he exclaimed
Al once The luminous disk grew trem-
Ulous. like the surface of a liquid when
the vessel containing it is Jared; turn
ed from the tube.
rs il not per1ect?" he repeated. "Yet
If there We're q deviation no greater than
a thousandth part Of the thickness Of the
flmy tissue of a drar0n'Gy's wing, l
should detect it and should deem my
task incomplete. But heaven is kind.
La ilaha liz Allah, lie cried, his voice
again rising N the rapurous chant OF
Mohamnedan devotion. Not much long
er would this failing eye and aged h1nd
have served But ii is finished, and be
fore these eyes, that have scarcely turned
aside 10 view the beauties OF earth, are
closed in darkness, they shall behold
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f9raficism of men. waiting for ne. this
was painted al ever the wrapping in
which Il was enC.sei, for -ucy had
swathed it like 4 mummy; ard The same
symbol recurrcl in every part 81 me
psuvrus rec) Il wI.ch l found reside IT,
He led me to heavy eaas. from
which lie Hf,el q roll disccloied END
brittle with -se. IL was covered WIN
You see that the name is always en-
closed in a cartouche, Ike -he TILES CT
Egvpt's kings, and by IFS ancient guar
dams it was undoubtedly r553Taal as
divine" ,.., .,.-
chest.
For more than thirty moons" he con-
tinued. in the quaint oriental style Wnlch
had evidently become q second nature 'Gs
him "for more than thict7 waN4ngs ana
warnings OF the moon / stuai5d .h9Se
tracinrs before I could dsc.pher Jnem'
for Il was needful TO master net only q
forqot+en tongue. but tne obscure and
subtle signs By which II was eApresssu'
I rs a strange document, Tux, OF the mys-
tic lore Of the Pharonic pries,cid-t'
,be-a ave norfions when are q riddle TO
ma even INTERPRETATIONS and warm
mos AGAINST know not what. But Il
has taught me nucn; 1t was mere mat 1
first found the clue.
Nv curiosity had reached pitch that
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-10-18

q sense of falling. I gtasped aJ the sad
de posts, bu- misse-i them, cIuJched
va.uiy Ia the slippery hair as I Slid
dlwuwards, and suddenly found myself
lHmped. ulhurt, ON q little hillside;
while the camel. author of an my isas-
l-rs. scrlU h.cl over the hillside and
disappeared.
Here. indeed. was @ situation; my las1
chc-ee of life seemed gone with the es-
Gaping brute AS quickly as l could 1
gathered myself together and stumbled
after him, but soon realized that this
was folly I halted and looked about me.
The bin was steep. though not high, and
I stood about halI way mp the slope. Just
above me q clump of bushes lay in black
shadow Gid not stop 20 reason on The
strangeuess of the thing, bur simply
staggered toward the supposed shelter
with @ dun purpose OF crawling under iC
and sleeping tiu morning. Hy6uas, SER
penis, wolves? PerhaDs-buJ i was
ircd
But no bushes were there. As reach
cd the black blot which / had mistaken
for O th.Cket, l stumbled upon a heap OF
stones and rubbish and pitched head.cng
into The throat of q cavern.
The opening however. was too regular
90 De natures hand.work. IJ was nearly
square; the smooth flowers slanted down.
ward. and I could feel-f0r I had landed
on all f1urs-a series of grooves which
had been cut cr0sswise 20 give better
f0O-hold understood at once; in this
region ancient -cmbs. burrowing deep
into tine solid rock, are 700 common to eX-
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full of the strange figure l had per-
ceived.
we were now nearing The Rock Creek
where there is a bridge over a deep
stream. | felt more nervous than ever.
We dashed around the curve and whiszed
by Rock Creek station, which is only a
mile from the bridge. IS We passed
glanced at the steam gauge fer an in
slant. A cry from jim caused me 10
turn quickly toward rim. He slt rigid,
his eyes large and staring. His Jaw
dropped, The very picture of terror. lie
pointed with q shaking finger out mo
the darkness. 1 turned and looked, aad
then | began myself 10 shake There
on the metals was the most aidcous X
IRE Of a woman outlined on The back
ground light Of the engine. nov mo.lon-
less. now whirling in q witch dance, huz
ell the time mOtioning lis beck.
Frank gasped jim, 3u, scaTcely
above a whisper, don't 90 over the
bridge. Don't 90 for heavens sake!
Don't 60 until You are sure IFS sac!
Il suppose I was pretty badly cared
At any rate / put on the brake for al I
was worth. couldn't have s.od the
impulse to have stopped the train.
AS we came to O STOP could hear TO
roar of the water in Rock Creek, Just
ahead. ! stepped out Of the cab ana met
the guard coming up.
What's the matter? WHAT'S Tho
natter he asked impaien.ly
Il felt decidedly foolish. There was
no gigantic women TO be SEN Cow.
Nothing could be made Oh. more than
a few feet away IN the binding S8rm.
"'Well, said /. we've seen someth ug.
7 don't know what it is-seem,l IKE It
was great black ghOs, that WAS waving
lis hands and warning us NOS to- 80 .1r-
ward.
THE guard looked at me cur.9us'v.
Are yen crazy, Prank? la said. I
should think you were. Bu rcTo SO
uear the bridge well take lock s' it,
we took cut our lanterns aud sent
ahead. leaving Jim with the en- le he
looked fr.ghtened TO death. h.- IN
YOU we hadn't gone five reds bois We
stopped in horror.
"There at our feet lay black chasm,
filed with the roar Of the t.Fer rs
swollen with the spring rains f. .ashal
down toward the lake. Tie u-. Vac
washed away
Only a few splinters Of v..' 1ni
twisted iron chung TO the a9u..H.ar While
nc~ far out over the b'.ctu .l1t
awful black figure Of a woman a.nc.I
again on the thin air. D.. r-a against
me shaft OF light that Ja Light
threw"
1T was Ginsing its arms ~n2- .5 10 in
wild @lee The guard su.. ID ne
chasm and then at me.
".NYas that The thing you wken
Won stopped The uain?' ne asked.
Yes
"'WeI. it's something more ~ luck
that saved us tonight, Frank
I'VE went back slowly ~ '-e Taa,
feeling very queer and jnoat4., '3o' !
can assure you. Several pas I1.s A-A
come running forward og t-s amoo
Among them was you-- le..o" rom
Chicago. about IS years DID, wlo vac
smqr.e- .nan the whole %. Us. rs IL
turned out.
when ne was tod OK me woman IN
black he turned and looked en- lie loco
motive headlight. Then Dr. ran up
toward IT. looked mp as be id 81, and
I saw a peculiar spot Oh The glass.
"'Tbere's your woman in black! said
the how
'Gbni there T. was. sure en0ugh-that
I'm