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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-02-16

'You who are telling me about my heau-
~. you have no conception how ugly /
was In the beginning" said Rachel one
night at a dinner at Moneys. II. who had
20 play tragedy had an absolutely comic
face IT would have made You roar with
laughter 10 see my square forehead, crook
ed nose ferrity eyes. and grinning mouth
/ leave you to imagine the rest. My IA
Their took me 10 the Louvre one day. /
was not greatly impressed with the pic
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-02-16
nraIse ihc custom thnt unalavcs

praise tho custom that unslavcs
a girl each glad fourth year.
That she may breathe the love she saves
As am doing here.
SO / have gent these verses true,
Love fingers on each line.
'Tis waiting there. and says 20 you,
1 am your Valentine
February II, 1892"
None other have ! ever told,
BY token, word, or rhyme,
The secret that my feelings bold
Confess this hall0wcd time.
50 long it is since first we met,
And have loved so long
] know that ] can ne'er forget
Ny longing hearts one song
i love you true. and only you,
BE mine. as ! am thine.
And take me. dear-as 1 would you
To be your Valentine
February Il, 1896"
And she who sends the valentine
Believes / do not know
The one she sent a friend Of mine
-Four years ago.
LAURENCE ARCHER, JR.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-02-16
Had Heard Ahnut IL.

"That new baby Of loungfather's IS
remarkably widc-awakc child"
so / w heard We live next door 10
it"-Detroit Free Press.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-02-16

This age demands men who have con-
victions'' shouted the irnpassioned ora
tor. Where shall We hnd themg"
In the penitentiary." replied a man
I'm the gallery.-Sew York World.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-02-16

Alas, that We a man should meet
In this progressive land.
Who will In Congress take a sat
Aud let . lady stand!
washington Stnfs
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-23

the only move he ever made after
coming to Illinois. Abraham Lincoln
helped build the old log cabin here,
but never lived with his parents in it,
having started in life for himself jltt
at this time, but it was ON this meal
orable ground that his father and step
mother spent their last days, John
Hall, a landmark in the county's his
tory and a good type of the now al
most extinct Illinois pioneer, owns
his farm and makes his home here.
His mother was a stepSister of Abra-
ham Lincoln, and they rode in the
wagon hat brought the Lincoln fam
lily from Spencer county, Ind, to Him
OILS, in 1880, when he was but a year
old, the future president driving the
OK team that hauled them. After the
death of Thomas Lincoln, Mr.. Hall
bought the place of John d. Johnston,
Lincoln's stepbhother, and has held it
since. Grandmother Lincoln making
her home with him until her death.
Mr.. Hall is doubly kin to the martyred
president, being a s%tepnephew on his
mothers side and a second cousin on
his fathers his mother, nee Matilda
Johnston. having been a daughter of
Thomas Lincoln's second wife by her
first husband. Daniel Johnston, and
his father. Squire Hall. a son of ELL
zabeth Hanks, sister of Nancy Hanks,
Abraham Lincoln's own mother. Mr..
Hall has eight brothers and sisters
who share this distinction, namely:
Mrs. Nancy A. Moore, of Toledo, ILL.,,
Mrs. Elizabeth cry, GAINESVILLE. ILL.,;
Mrs. Louisa Fox, Evansville, Ind; AL
fred Hall, Toledo, ILL.,; Joseph Hall,
deceased; Mrs Amanda Brown, of Mis-
souri,; and Rachel and Harriet. twins,
both married and one living in Cali
fornia and one in Coles County, near
the old home.
In 1891 John Hall sold the old log
house to the Abraham Lincoln Log
Cabin Association to be removed to
the worlds fair. He also transferred
to them. hoping they would be better
preserved in their keeping, all the rel
ics he had in his possession. Among
these were fence rails made by the
Lincolns. a bureau that homas Lincoln
took with him from Kentucky to In
diana. thence to Illinois one of the
drawers of which Abraham Lincoln
had used to keep his books in; a die
tionary used by Abraham Lincoln in
his boyhood days and the clock tina.
he heard tick while he studied by the
freight; a spinning wheel that had
been used by Abraham Lincoln's moth
er and stepmother, for which he used
to reel the yarn that was spun upon
it to make his clothes; grindstone
which Thomas Lincoln made from a
bowlder and Abraham often turned;
the berstead on which both Thomas
and Sarah Lincoln died and where the
president had frequently slept, and
an acre of land where the log cabin
stood, to be reserved for memorial
purposes. Mr.. Hall retained nothing
but a copy of the family record, the
only genealogy kept of the Lincoln
family, incomplete though 1t was,
which is given in full below:
Thomas Lincoln was born January
6. 177S, and was married June 6, 1906,
to Nancy Hanks, who was born Feb
ruary s., 1884.
Sarah Lincoln, daughter of Thomas
and Nancy Lincoln, was born Febru-
ary12, 1907,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-23
The Right Sort of Mother

1t always hurts us to find fault with
mothers, yet in these progressive days
it sometimes happens that a woman's
nature gets perverted. and the foun.
tain of maternal tenderness and devO-
ton grows muddy and inactive while
she is running about proclaiming what
she will do and what she won't do on
questions that have no vital bearing
on her life, but which she has fused
and fumed herself into believing are
important to her welfare.
Let us give W clubs for a while
and start a training school for moth
ers. We do not need anything so much
in the world as good mothers. AS well
expect the housekeeper to turn out a
batch of good cookies. if she makes
them of Sawdust and alum. as to eX-
pect the children to develop into good
citizens without the right sort of
mothers. The right sort of mother
knows where her boy is all day long.
She spends her time entertaining him,
rather than entertaining ShalloW-hcad-
ed callers from everlasting to ever
lasting. She tells him stories. reads
to him, picks out tunes with him on
the piano. She is 'chummy' with
him, too, and has his complete conf
dence. She does o allow her girls to
30 to the depot to see the trains come
in, nor does she permit them to spend
nights away from the guardianship OF
their own home. She is watchful al
the same time that she is kind, loving
always. but never lanGuid in the per
Torrance of those duties which the
vast responsibility of motherhood has
laid upon her. Give us better mothers
and the world will soon be full of bet
ter men and Observation-Disclosures
Times.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-23

Gould. of San Francisco. The match
box is not worth, intrinsically, any
more than thousands to be found in
any large jewelry store. but it's own
err will never part with it if he can
help it. 1t was given him by the late
Gen. U. s. Grant.
When the ex-President visited the
Pacific coast in 1879. he had for his
bodyguard Officer Gould, who attended
the distinguished visitor faithfully.
One night, after a trip over the city
in a carriage, Officer Gould found on
the G a of the carriage a matchbox
made of two rifle shells. Five Ordin-
airy matches We're in the caSe, which
was made on the principle of a tele-
scope. n shell fitting over the other.
Both shells had been exploded, as the
dent of the firing pin was plainly
visible. The larger shell bore the
mark 81 SO. No. IL" on the end, while
the smaller one, which acted as the
cap. was unmarked. The matchbox
measured two and a half inches when
closed.
Gould knew that the unique match
box must be the property of Gen.
Grant. and fastened after him to re-
turn it. The General was in his
room by the time Gould reached his
apartments. The orderly carried a
message into the room, and in a few
minutes the general appeared. Officer
Gould held out the match safe and
told the general that he had found it
in the carriage. Gen. Grant looked at
it in silence for a minute, and, in his
kindly manner, said: you may keep
it. Some day you may learn the his
tory of the shells from which l have
made this matchbox. Good night"
The General turned on his heel and
entered his rooms without another
word. Officer Gould has never learn
ed the history of the shells, but he
treasures the souvenirs just as much.
New York Press.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-23
THOMAS
Jan. IL, 1851.

On the base is the word Lincoln in
large letters. and a small footstone
bears the letters ''T. L." The monu-
ment was placed where it now stands
on the 18th day of May, 1880, twenty
nine years after Mr.. Lincoln's death.
Thomas Lincoln's second wife sleeps
by his side. and she. too, deserves
more than passing notice in the pages
of history. Abraham Lincoln loved her
as Il mother, and it is said that he
owed much of his straight character
When he was elected president, and
before going to Washington. he Wis
tied his fathers grave and the lowly
home that had sheltered him for so
many years. She, with a mothers in
tuition. was fearful of the great task
he was undertaking of leading the
nation in it's hour of greatest
peril, and told him she knew he
would be killed. Abe only laughed
and said in his characteristic way that
he guessed not" but her fears We're
realized. She died in 1869. and such
was her fame that the whole surround
ing country Joined in the funeral pro-
cession. No stone marks her last
resting place.
Two miles southeast of the grave
yard is the old Lincoln farm on Goose
Nest prairie-so named in early days
because the woods surround it in the
form of a goose nest-to which Thorn
as Lincoln moved from Macon county
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-23

paperweights of round. smooth peb-
bles are useful gifts. and can he made
very artistic if one Yields a brush to
sketch some view. One seen lately
bad a flock of birds sailing over n
beach. and the words beneath: "When
the swallows homeward fly The
large white clam shells found on the
south side Of Long Island, make con
venient pin trays, and are very pretty
painted with a marine view or a pen
and-iuk sketch of some quaint little
figures. such as two ~Sun-bOnneted
children, pail and shovel in hand. and
the line what are the wild waves
saying?' A pebble paperweight for
papa's office desk could have n sketch
Of a rocky shore with the verse.
"Rreak. break, break, on thy cold
gray shores. O sea."-New York
Times.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-23
TO FISH WITH A KITE.
The Ingenious Device Thought Out
by n Long Island Man.

Richard B. Ramel of Bellport, l.. l.,
is building a kite big enough and
strong enough to carry blue fish line
and tackle together with it's own cord.
far enough ont to sea to permit the
dropping of the hook in a school Of big
bluefish. The largest bluefish keep
well Out to sea, and it is difficult TO
get at them in a boat, as they scatter
upon the least intrusion. The fishing
line is to be so fixed to the kite cord
that when the kite is far enough off
shore. a sharp tug on the line will
sever the thread which holds 1t, and
causes the trolling tackle to drop into
the water. The splash that will fol-
low will resemble that which is pro-
duced by the dropping of that species
Of live bait which appeals most po-
tently to the bluefish papate, and in
the scramble after the counterfeit del
icacy. Hamel says. there is no doubt
that the biggest fish will prevail and
devour the hook before the others get
a chance at it. In the meantime the
fisherman's assistant "a pull in the
kite and prepare it for another trip.
AS the bluefish is most abundant when
the wind blows from the shore. the
kite scheme is regarded as feasible
New York Commercial Advertiser.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-23
Can You ShOOtf

A correspondent of the American
Field sends that paper the following
rules. which If carefully observed by
those carrying weapons will avoid
many sad accidents:
/. Never under any circumstances
point your gun toward a human being.
.. Never carry it so that If it were
accidentally discharged 1t would even
endanger the life Of a dog.
3. Always think which way your
gun is pointed. and if a companion is
in the field with you no matter how
near or how tempting the game ap-
pears, do not shoot until you know
where he is; a stray shot may be suf-
ficient TO destroy an eye forever.
4. Never carry Il loaded gun In a
wagon.
5. Never carry a loaded Il over A.
fence; put 1t through and then get
over.
6. Always carry a gun at %half-cock;
If a breechloader, never let the ham
mer rest on the plunGers.
7. Never get in front of Il gun; if Won
are falling. drop 1T so that the muzzle
will he from you.
8. If the cartridge sticks, the stout
blade of a knife will probably extract
It: if not, take out the other cartridges
rut a straight stick and poke it out
from the muzzle: even then do not get
in front of the CUR.
Q. After firing one barrel, take the
cartridge out of the other and examine
the wad to see that it is not loOsened,
as it sometimes is after a heavy re-
cOil. for. should it get into the barrel
it is liable to burst the gun.
10. Never take hold of the muZzle
of a gun to draw it toward you.
II. Never set a gun up so that if it
should fall the muzzle would be to-
ward YOU.
II. Never keep a loaded gun in the
house.
Follow these rules, he self-pOssessed,
and the fields will afford you sport
without danger.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-23
CHINA's GREAT BELL.
The Largest and Most Perfect i'm Use
I'm the World.

u ~ = III oSc
I'm the World.
When the first announcement of the
mission Of the United States bell of
liberty to the Atlanta exposition APP
peared in the press, IN April last,
there rung out, far away in the Celes-
tial Empire, the advent of peace and
liberation from her foreign foes.
China's bell of liberty at Pekin, the
capital.
For the last 400 years-that is, ever
since the discovery of the New World
this bell, the largest and most finish
ed on the globe, raised it's tongue of
peace and prayer in China. The ia
! nous bells at Moscow and Mandalay
are both unhung, the former being
fractured and otherwise defective, but
the Pekin bell is ringing on, suspend
ed by It's wooden beam and sheltered
beneath the roof of an open fan, still
as bright and sound as when it left
Its matrix.
China's bell of liberty is in many re-
spects the finest work of art in China.
a product of native skill, which could
probably not be duplicated by the
highest ability of of western
foundries. 1t weighs 10000 pounds,
stands ii feet high with a circumfer-
ence of 81 feet and nearly 1 foot in
thickness. Without a flaw or defect,
1t is completely covered, in relief, both
inside and out, with myriads of Chin
csc characters, each one an inch in
size. They form prayful extracts from
Ruddhistic classics.
1t is one of the vagaries of Budd-
hism that its prayers of the faithful
may be infinitely and acceptably re-
peated by mechanical helps, as, for
instance, by revolving wheels. So
here, when the lips of this mighty and
eloquent bell are moved by fitting ton
quo, they breath forth in deep, sweet,
prolonged and wonderful vibratory
voice these prayers to Buddha, and
call. as well, all devotees to worship.
One of tn chroniclers of the fifteenth
century states that it was a period of
supreme suspense in Pekin among all
lovers of art and religion, from EN-
peror down to humble craftsman, as
the day and hour approached for pour
ing the molten metal into that myriad
lettered matrix. and for producing Ia
Chung. the noblest bell in all the world
and no doubt the other day an almost
equal interest was awakened when it
rung out the advent of peace with
Japan and the restored liberty of the
empire.
The artists who successfully accom-
plished the holding and casting of this
great bell were not only congratulated
by Buddhistic ecclesiastics and theil
followers. but they were enobled nv
the emperor. while their work itself,
amid changing creeds and dynastiee,
is imperishable, being as clear cut and
perfect to-day as when it first came
forth from the crumbling mold of
sand.-Baltimore Sun.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-23
FRANKS OF SCOTTISH FAIRIES.
The highlander still Hold to Their
Belief in the Fair Folk.

The highlander Still HOld 10 lhesr
Belief in the Fair Folk
There still fingers a widespread be
lief in the north of Scotland that the
fair folk" or .gweed neebors," as the
as the fairies are called, have a crav-
ing for human milk, and during the
first days of convalescence a mother
must be zealously guarded lest one Of
the "wee people" come and rob the
child of its nourishment. Sometimes
they succeed in carrying off a mother.
Tradition tells of the wife of a farmer
who a spirited tot the palace of the
fairies in a large cave on a remote
part of the Caithness coast. Notwitll-
standing the kindness of the fair folk,
the woman pined for her home, and
offered as a ransom the finest milk
ow in her gweed mans byre; she
was permitted to return to the home
stead. and the COW was led to the fairy
hillock. 1t disappeared, but, later. re-
turned eel and weak. On occasions,
too, the child is stolen, for have not
the fairies one in every seven years to
pay "the teind to hell?" They then en-
deavor to sacrifice a human babe rath-
err than one of their own number.
A north country fisher had a fine
child. One evening a beggar woman
entered the hut and went up to the
cradle to gaze into the eyes of the
babe. From that time good health left
it, a strange look came into it's face,
and the mother was troubled. An old
man begging for food passed that
way, When he caught sight of the
child. he cried: THAT'S a a BARN;
it's an image;;and the gweed folk has
stoun his speerit." Thereupon he set
to work to recall the fishers BARN. a"
peat fire vas heaped high on the
hearth and a black hen held over it at
such a distance that 1t was singed and
not killed. After some struggling the
hen escaped up the lum. A few mo-
ments elapsed, and then the parents
were gladdened by the sight Of a hap
| py expression once more On the child's
face. 1t throve from that day for
ward.-Scottish Review.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-23
RELIC WITH A HISTORY.
An Old Bronze Cannon of Spanish
Make Going to Destruction.

An Old Bronze Cannon of Spanish
Make Going to Destruction.
An old bronze cannon of Spanish
make lies on the beach at Alameda
Point half sunken in the sand. Its
cumbersome carriage has been stolen
or has rotted away. The tide buries
it continually deeper, and soon, if left
there to the effacement of the sea, 1t
will be lost to sight and to memory.
And yet this particular cannan, with
out doubt, vas one of the two that
rang out across the bay the first artil-
lery salute that bay eve heard. This
salvo was fired in September. 1176,
precisely 119 years ago. 1t was to
celebrate the completion of Prcsidia.
OH which the soldiers of Moraga had
been working nearly a year. Just be-
yOnd the point was anchored the ship
Son CarlOs-first to enter between the
pillared gates of San Francisco Bay
and her guns answered the uprOar
from the land.
The San Carlos brought along with
the supplies from Presidio at Mon
WY " iINSF WIN nav
ed on the ramparts of the fort that
lay next to Il present Preside on
the western side. Later the San Car
los brought six more guns of larger
caliber. These We're for the Castillo
de San Joaquin, and they now occupy
prominent places at Fort Mason,
where the old relics stand pointing
across the water like veterans in old
dotage. They would be useless for de
Tense. but they are martial and pic
turesque monuments of the old Span
ish days. They are the marks of the
foundation stone of San FranciscO's
history.
In the Presidin there is now only one
| piece of Spanish ordnance. It's com
paDion is acros the bay in n wood
pile, where the high tide covers 1t.
When and how the gun was taken
from its old stand is a matter of specll-
lation. 1t is thought. however. that
several years ago Capt. Zalinski. who
was then evolving designs for his dy-
Mantle gun. had it taken from one of
the forts to Alameda Point and used
it for experimental purposes. Guns
beside which it stood 100 years age
now occupy places of honor. 1t is for
gotten. The North Pacific coast runs
within 20 feet of the place where II
lies, and the labor of transferring it tc
the place from which it was taker
would he very ~slight.-San Francisco
Call.
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Don't wheel up a steep hill. Leave
that sort of thing to fellows who have
not enough sense to go in when it
rains. What gain is there In it, any
how? Yau con walk up and push your
wheel Just as fast, and with one-quar-
ter of the eXertion. If too much wheel
ing on the level road is bad, too much
hill-climbing is ten times worse. If
you could look into the minds of the
smart hill-climbers, you would find
that they half kill themselves TO make
bystanders think they are wonderful
riders. Really, that sort of thing is
o silly to talk about with patience.
Don't coast too much. If you feel
that life without coasting Is a mock
cry, then go to some hill that you are
thoroughly familiar with. where there
are no crossings, where you can watch
the road for nj least ore hundred miles
ahead, and then take care. No matter
whether you have coasted down the
hill IA hundred times before or not. the
danger is always just as great. Per-
baps we are in so great peril as
when we think we know it all.
Don't "Scorch' in the streets. At
cny crossing you liable to run over
some pedestrian or to collide with a
big truck or carriage. Either one may
mean a life lost, or at least broken
bones. You wouldn't drive a horse at
a 2:4O gait through the streets. Re-
member a bicycle is quite as danger
GUS.
Don't ride on the left side of the
street. Your place is on the right side,
because a bicycle is a vehicle in the
eyes of the law, having the same
rights and subject to the same rules
as any other vehicle. If anything hap
pens to you because you are on the
wrong side Of the street you cannot
o " damages.
Don't think, because somebody you
know has wheeled a Century that
vol must do it, too. There is really
very little satisfaction in riding one
hundred miles merely for the sake of
saying that you have done it. If any
other wheelmen chooses to tire Ii is
muscles and overstrain his heart for
a mere bit of boasting, let him do it.
l know that most of us are sorely
tempted by the Century folly. But
think \ moment. If you owned a fine
thoroughbred horse, would you run
the risk of running him forever by
speeding him to the utmost limit of his
strength for a whole day? Yet is not
your W health more valuable to you
than all the horses in the world?-Har-
per's Round Table.
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SHOULD HAVE A MONUMENT.
Thomas White, of the Boston
Party, Buried neRr WOOdvale.

Thomas White, of the Boston
Party, Buried near
In the Evans church yard. in Broad
Top Township, Bedford county, Pa,
lie the remains of one, Thomas White,
born in Ireland, March 10, 1889, and
who died at the Settles place. II ear
the present site of Woodvale Park,
Huntingdon county, Pa, September
IS. 1920. On July 1, III, he married
Elizabeth Jones, who was born June
"a, 1854. and died February ., 1874.
From this union twenty-One children
We're born; several of the sturdy SONS
We're found in the American ranks
fighting for our country in the war of
1912. That Thomas White was one of
the fifty men disguised as Indians and
helped to break open the three hun-
dred and forty chests of tea, and pour
ed the contents into the sea, there is
no room for doubt. The writer's grand
mother, born February, 1902. was II
daughter of Thomas White, and often
heard her father speak of his being
one of that party. 1t is said that HI
carried ONE of the tea in his shoes
for several days. My father is still
living, and he it was who chiseled the
rude letters on the rough mountain
stones, hat by the side of Thomas
White marked the last resting place
of Elizabeth White. wife of Thomas
White. But the grave of Thomas
White is marked by two unlettered
mountain ones.-Huntingdon Pa,
Local News.