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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12

were born in the same rude log cabin
in Kentucky, but three months apart,
in 1909, and that she herself is a
grandniece of Lincoln's mother, the
famous Nancy Hanks.
She is Mrs. Nellie NJ Moore, who
was born not many years before the
outbreak of the civil war, in the then
exceedingly primitive town of Frank
ford, Mo-, and has been for three
months past a resident of East Pep
perell, Mass, where her husband,
Charles w. Moore, is engineer in a
mill.
Miss Hall, for that was Mrs. Moore's
maiden name, spent only the first thir-
teen years of her life in Missouri, hav-
ing been sent to Kentucky boarding
school at that age. She was married
and lived in Louisville for some years,
later removed to Cincinnati, and after
the death of her husband came East,
married Mr.. Moore, a native of. Massa-
chusetts, and they lived for seventeen
years in Atlantic, part of Quincy, I'M
til they removed to Pepperell.
When asked to define her relation
ship to the martyred President, Mrs.
Moore said:
my father, William S. Hall, was
son of Martha Hanks, sister of Nancy
Hanks, who married Thomas Lincoln
and became the mother of Abraham
Lincoln. So, you see, my father was
first cousin and was second cousin to
the President.
"My grandfather, who married Mar.
tina Hanks, was Levi Hall, and they
and Thomas and Nancy Lincoln were
living together in the little log cabin
in La Rue county, KY, in 1909, when
Abraham Lincoln was born there. My
father was born three months later in
the same cabin"
When questioned as to the antece-
dents of the Hanks, Lincoln and Hall
families, Mrs. Moore says it is tradi-
ton of all three families that they
emigrated together from New England
about 200 years ago to Pennsylvania,
from there to Virginia and later to
Kentucky, as they eventually did to
Indiana and finally to Illinois and Mis-
souri,. She has been for some time
engaged in investigating the possible
early connection of the families with
New England, and intends to prepare
a genealogy embodying the results of
her labor.
Continuing her story of the vicissi-
tudes of the Lincoln, Hanks and Hall
families, Mrs. Moore says:
my aunt, Rosanne Hall, who rode
from her home in Maryland to Ken
lucky behind her husband on his horse
told me that there were Quakers
among my ancestors, as there are said
to have been in the Lincoln family.
She also said that my great-grand-
father was killed by the Indians at the
same time that Abraham Lincoln's
grandfather was, while they were
clearing the ground to plant corn, on
their arrival in Kentucky. 1t was she
who told me my father was born in
the Lincoln log cabin.
aunt Rosanne said that Abe Lin
coins mother used to walk five miles
to mill to have her corn ground, or to
buy a side of bacon, which, with corn
meal mush or johnnycake, comprised
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12

i have decided to dispose of all nv
breeding stock, and for this reason am
Offering these jacks for sale, or would
trade them for cows or good young
horses These jacks run from two to
six years old, well colored and we'll
bred, one or two of which, think. are
the best in Kansas Any one wanting
an extra good animal can get one from
me at closing out prices.
JNO. A EDWARDS.
Eureka, Kansas
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12
Almost Treason.

A man in Athens, who made his
way into the Greek palace and asked
to see the throne room, has been ar
rested and placed in an asylum. 1t
was as though he had entered the
parliament buildings and asked to
see a government official doing some
Work.lToronto Mail and Express.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12
Knows Value of caricature.

Joseph Chamberlain appreciates the
fact that caricature sometimes means
for a man in public life not undesir-
able public attention, and he once sent
one of his most persistent caricatur-
lists his photograph, with this inscrip-
ton on the back, From the real
Chamberlain to the author of the fcti-
tious Chamberlain"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12

Some grocers say they don't keep
Defiance Starch. This is because they
have stock on hand of other brands
containing only 10 OF. in q package,
which they won't be able to sell first,
because Defiance contains 16 OF. for
the same money.
Do you want 10 or instead of 10 OF.
for same money? Then buy Defiance
Starch. Requires no cooking.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12
No Editorial Colonies.

Georgia doesn't believe in cheap
colonels. A 5000 uniform is the mini
mum for any man who wants to cut
didos on the governors staff. That
may shut out some editors, but the
gorgeousness of the staff will be sus-
tanned.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12
The Elrst Horse Show.

In the month of Shebat, in the Sec
ond year of King Darius. man riding
a red horse stood among the myrtle
trees, and behind him were horses red,
sorrel and white. Wasn't that the
earliest horse show of which any au-
thentic record still abides?
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12

AGAINST REsUBMIssIoN.-Av vigorous
fight is to be made by the prohibition
lists against any effort to resubmit the
prohibitory amendment. Petitions are
being sent to members of the house
protesting against any legislation look
ing to resubmission.
TRAcKMAN's SAvINGs.-A section
hand working in Wallace county was
killed by a train and it was found that
he had So, 056 dollars on his person. 1t
represented his saved earnings during
sixteen years of working at the poorest
paid job on a railroad.
JUNIOR WARDEN.-At Abilene Grand
Master Dewey installed Thomas L.
Bond, of Salina, as grand junior war
den of Masons in Kansas, to which
position he was recently appointed to
succeed the late Judge Ellis. The in
stallation ceremony conducted by the
grand master, was attended by many
prominent Masons.
LARGEST IN THE CITY.-The Presby-
terian church at Clay Center is to have
an addition for which So, 900 has been
raised. The addition will make this
church the largest in the city.
MUMPs IN PRIsoN.-An epidemic OF
mumps has broken out in the federal
prison at Fort Leavenworth, and about
so men are confined in the hospital
with the disease. None of the patients
are dangerously i'll, although several
have the disease in a bad form. 1t is
believed that the disease was contracted
from prisoners received from Indian
Territory.
Nor ONE CRIMINAL CAsE.-The. bar
docket of the district court at Marys-
vile has not single criminal case
among the SO cases on it.
APPLES ARE PROFITABLE. Hoo
yer, of Sedgwicl1 county, believes that
apples are equal to alfalfa when the
farmer comes to count the profits. He
has an apple orchard of 100 acres, and
has been selling apples all fall and
winter and still has 1000 barrels in
cold storage. They are now worth So
to So. so barrel
FRANK SMITH KILLED.-His home
was at Emporia. He was killed at Alb
ilene, where he was using lifting ma
chinery in raising smoke stack aud
the machinery fell upon him.
AUDITING W. R. C. Books. This
work is being done in Topeka by Mrs.
E. E. Porter, of Marysville, depart
ment president, assisted by Mrs. Sarah
]. Hanna, department secretary.
KICKED THE PosT.-Henry Weithon,
of Nemaha county, was carrying post
behind a horse and TIE horse kicked it
SO that one end pierced his side and he
died.
6s3 BILLs.-This number had been
introduced in the Kansas legislature
at the close of the third week of the
session.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12
cure for Whoopinq COUGH.

DR.. Leuriraux, Brussels physician,
announces the success of his serum
for the cure of whooping cough. The
serum is injected under the skin. on
the abdomen, and cure is performed
in ten days, whereas the disease or
dinarily runs six to eight weeks.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12
Has No colored Membership.

There is not a single negro in
either house of the South Carolina
general assembly this year. 1t is the
first time that has been the case since
the enfranchisement of the negro, al
though last year there was but one
colored member.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12
Latest In New York.

A New York actress has had dia-
monds set in her thumb nails. and in
cidentally it may be remarked that
New York is the only place in the
country where people get up spasms
of excitement over such things.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12
Iast ca Famous crew.

William Hill of Houesdale. Pa, Is
the last survivor Of the new Com
modore Stockton's frigate Congress.
which raised the first United States
flag over California in 1876.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12

Recalls Harvard's Past GIories.
The six-oared shell in which Presi-
dent Eliot, Alexander Agassiz and the
Crowninshields rowed for Harvard
has been presented to the university
by T. s. Watson. The boat was built
in 1857.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12
Twin Virtues.

When a man makes very long
prayer in church, somehow his near
ers get the impression that when ne
scolds in the privacy of his family ne
keeps a long time at it--Atchison
Globe.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12
rRv ONE PAcKacE.

If defiance Starch" does not please
you, return it to your dealer. If it does
you get one-third more for the same
money. 1t will give you satisfaction,
and will not stick to the iron.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12

A powder. Your feet feel unicorn
Portable, nervous and often cold and
damp. If you have sweating, sore feet
or tight shoes, try Aliens Foot-Eas
Sold by all druggists and shoe stores,
25 cents sample sent free. Address
Allen 5. Olmsted, lie Roy, N. Y.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12
His solitary chiIdhood.

OF all the years of Abraham Lin
coins early childhood we know almost
nothing. He lived a. solitary life in
the woods, returning from his lone
some little games to his cherries
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12
Successful English Evangelist.

Successful English Evangelist.
One Of the most successful evangel-
lists in England is a gypsy--"Gypsy
Smith" He is self-educated. but
London newspaper credits him with
using the best Anglo-Saxon speech
since John Bright.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible
medicine for coughs and colds--N. w. SAMUEL
Ocean Grove. N. J., Feb. IL, 1900
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12

II you wish beautiful, clear, white clothes
use Red Cross Ball Blue Large OF.
package, 5 cents.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12

Dyeing is as easy as washing when
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES are
used.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12

When a fellow marries girl for her
money it's sort of safety match.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Hurren Would Limit the Amount OF
State Printing.

The ways and means committee of the senate
has approved an appropriation for the con-
struction of a wall around the Hutchinson re-
formatOry. to be built next summer.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12

The wolf at the door is sometimes
as bill collector.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
For children teething softens the gums, reduces In
nammaton, allsys pain, wind collie. 25c bottle
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12

The regulations of some men are
based upon what they are going to do.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12
INSIST on GErTINe Ir,

A popular man often lasts no longer
than a popular song.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12

where the ancient old structure is now
no one seems to know. For many
years after the Lincolns vacated it the
cabin was used as schoolhouse.
There are several of the old-timers of
Macon county who attended school
there. They say that an elderly lady
named Macintosh was the teacher. No
body has been found who knows what
became of her.
Harristown's first white settler was
a relative of Abraham Lincoln. He
was William Hanks, who located on
section 23 in 1928 Three years later,
according to a Macon county histori-
an, 'Mr. Lincoln, John Hanks, Mr..
Lincoln's father, and John Johnson,
Mr.. Lincoln's step-brother, erected &
log cabin on section % in the edge of
the timber along the Sangamon river"
1t is hoped soon to agree upon de-
sign for the monument designed to
mark the spot where the cabin was
constructed.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12
JACKS ZOE SALE oRrp.,v

Some people wonld rather be popu-
lar than truthful.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12
In Winter Use Aliens Foo.-E..e.

Stolen sweets often cost the most in
the end.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12

trade, just 100 years ago, was one of
the first settlers in Illinois, having
gone there from Kentucky about 1920.
1t was his son, the famous John
Hanks, still living in Missouri, who in
1880 induced Thomas Lincoln, Dennis
Hanks and my father to pull up stakes
and also remove to Illinois, where Abe
was destined to achieve that fame that
gained for him the Presidency.
Having arrived in Macon county,
ILL.,, the party, which numbered thir-
teen, settled for a while. My father
and Abe Lincoln were in their 21st
year, and they, with John Hanks, Abe's
second cousin, built the log cabin
which some say was exhibited on Bos-
ton Common thirty years or more ago.
They also split the famous fence rails
at that time, samples of which did
much to arouse the enthusiasm in the
Illinois convention in 1860, which Sc
cured the Presidential nomination for
Lincoln.
after serving as major in the Black
Hawk war, in which Abe Lincoln was
captain, my father became one of the
earliest settlers in Missouri, and dur
ing the greater part of his life kept a
tavern, first at Hannibal and later at
Frankfort.
"Frankford used to be visited by In
dams sometimes, and if they didn't
find whisky before they arrived, they
were harmless, and their presence
caused no uneasiness. But if they
were drunk the news would quickly
spread and school would be dismissed
for the day.
after a while brick schoolhouse
was built one and one-half miles from
town, and to get there we had to fight
our way through wild animals and
snakes, for Missouri takes the blue
ribbon for snakes. At the brick school
We were furnished with a horn, and if
wild animals or Indians were seen
prowling about we blew the horn and
the neighboring farmers got their guns
and came to our rescue.
when l was a little girl Aunt
Sally, Abraham Lincoln's stepmother,
used to visit us, and she frequently
put me to sleep in her arms, but 1
never thought much about it till was
grown up and others reminded me of
the distinction 1 had enjoyed.
81 often visited around among the
Hankses in my childhood, too, and my
especial favorite was Grandma Hanks,
as we called John Hanks mother, who
lived in what is now known as Quincy,
Ill. 1 used to hold her skein of yarn
for her when she wound it into a ball,
and during the operation she would
where the ancient old structure is now
no one seams to knn1r For m any
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12

The bill providing for state examiner to
check up county treasures was killed by the
house ways and means committee. The same
committee favors the bill to increase the sal
airy of the governor, and opposes the bill to in
crease the salaries of the supreme court judges
The judiciary committee favors the bill to
office to file election expense statements.
There is a house bill to provide for the con-
struction of good roads by taxing for that pur-
pose the property for one-half mile on each side
of the road.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12

The committee of the whole house acted ia
vorably upon number of bills. among them
one auIn3rizing sencol district NO, 2 OF Har
and a bill to authorize a high school in Stohr-
vile township, Harper county.
A bill is before the house providing for the
publication of Noble Prentis' history of Kan
sas, which the state employed Mr.. Prentis to
write some years ago.
The house passed the bill which requires alb
stractors to give bonds; also bill requiring
young men to study law in lawyers office
two years before admission to the bar
The house passed bill exempting pharma-
cists from jury service
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12
22ND DAY.

Senator Hurrell has evolved plan to re-
duce the cost of state printing. Several bills
to remedy this have been introduced this ses-
sion. Hurren gets at the root of the matter
by limiting the amount of printing to be done.
At present state officials and boards are prac-
tically unlimited, and as a result lot of use
less reports and other stuff is printed.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12

The house cut the appropriation for postage
on the report of Secretary Coburn to 5000.
The sentiment of the house was that Mr.. Co
burns book should be sent as freight to county
clerks and be distributed by them.
Mr.. Leland is likely to get resolution
through the house which will practically in
struct Senator Burton to vote for Cuban reci-
prOcity.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12

COMMON TALK EVERYWHERE The
condemnation of the state legislature
for paying about three times as many
employees as there are members in both
houses is not confined to opponents of
the ruling party. This practice origi-
ginated in the legislature of 1893 and
each succeeding legislature has followed
the example then set and increased the
number of dead heads who draw their
So a day.
messiah" WEEK,-This year the
date for it at Bethany college at Linds-
borg is set for April TIP.
New PRISON OccUPIED.-The first
transfer of federal prisoners from the
old to the new United States peniten-
tiary at Fort Leavenworth was made
last week, when thirty paroled men
were assigned quarters in the new
prison. About March 1 it is expected
that from 800 to 400 convicts will be
transferred to the new quarters
County REeIsTRATIoN.-The house
VI ICPICSCnIollfCS III VI buc
whole decided to repeal the law for
registration of voters in the counties of
Montgomery and Sumner.
For SwINDLER--Governor Bailey
has issued a requisition on the governor
of Oklahoma for the extradition of
William Evans, now under arrest at
Woodward, O. T., who is wanted at
Lyndon, Usage county, on the charge
of swindling w. NJ. Wolf out of $3.50 on
cattle deal
For Sixth TRIAL~-The celebrated
Kansas insurance case which grew out
of the alleged death of John w. Hill
mon in that state in 1879 has been sent
back from the United States supreme
court for the sixth trial.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1903-05-14

10 be one Of President Roosevelt's
strong cards. Why does he not try
some OF the publicity medicine on
the scandals OF the War and Post
Once Departments of his own ads
sninistration?
The Amphitheatre donated to the
University Of California by William
Randolph Hearst. mentioned In my
last letter, and in which President
Roosevelt will speak when he goes
to Berkeley, seems 70 be q superb
gift. AS everybody knows, Mrs.
Phobe A. Hearst, the mother of Rep
resentative Hearst. has given one
million dollars to the University OF
California, and is devoting her time
to the supervising of plans and de-
tails in the development of this great
institution. Mrs. Hearst, by the
way, is the only woman Regent in
the United States. Mr.. Hearst's
Amphitheatre is modelled after those
of the ancient Greeks. IL will cost
one hundred thousand dollars when
completed. 1t will contain nine sec
tons Of seats, each section to have
more than twenty tiers. They viii
be on a steep incline and will seat
eight thousand persons. Around
the top a broad walk will furnish
standing room for two thousand
more persons. Below the tier-seats
will be a platform level with the
stage provided with seats. The Am
phitheatre will accommodate in all
fourteen thousand persons.
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Considerations OF moment not con-
fined to Porto Rico" have caused
the administration to let up on the
prosecution of officers down there
who are accused of smuggling. The
American District Attorney already
had lot of the natives of Porto Rico
in the penitentiary for the same of
Tense, and was proceeding against
the American officers when he was
stopped by the above telegram from
the Attorney General. Does that
mean that the same condition exists
in the Philippines and the airing of
the Porto Rican matter would pre-
cipitate the prosecution of men in
the Philippines? That all this rot
tenness coming to the surface at
one time would swamp the admins
tration aud knock out the nomina-
ton of Roosevelt? That certainly
is considerations of moment.
Where, oh where, is that universal
panacea, PUBLICITY?
CHARLES A. EDWARDS.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1903-05-14

The way it looks to an ordinary
observer is that the Republicans of
Baltimore City at the recent election
did not secure the full fruits of
Democratic treachery only because
OF treachery in their own rsnks.
Perhaps. however, the recent ex-
hibition will clear the political at
mosphere and thus result in good.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1903-05-14

300 Moros were killed in the re-
cent capture of Taraca, Mindanao,
by Captain Pershing's troops:
$50 send In your chiefs and surrender.
It's the same IL you fights or You runs,
You may hide In the caves,
They'll be only your graves.
For you can't get away from the guns. v
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1903-05-14

Mayor-elect Robert NJ. MctAne
has resigned the Office OF State s
Attorney of Baltimore City and
Edgaf Allan Poe has been appointed
his successor. Judge Stockbridge
named Mr.. Poe.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1903-05-14


Senator Foraker has been spend
ing some time 10 Washington re-
Gently and it is learned that there is
prospect of vigorous fight between
the Foraker followers and the Han.
ma supporters in the Ohio state con-
vention to be held next month. Sem
ator Foraker has drafted a plank
for the state platform endorsing Mr..
Roosevelt's administration and urg-
ing him for the nomination next
year. Mr.. Hanna's contingent is
understood to oppose this plank.
They do not admit that their leader
is candidate, but they claim il is
too early to endorse anyone and that
there will be plenty of time later on.
Mr.. Hanna's influence among south
ern republicans is well known. OF
late he has missed no opportunity to
pose as the workingman's friend,
and it is possible that he may at the
last moment avoid the fight which
Senator Foraker is preparing for
him, but in any event, unless he alb
solutely defeats Mr.. Foraker and the
proposed plank, he will come out of
theconvention with seriously married
presidential prospects. +
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1903-05-14

United States Senator German is
70 sail from New York this week for
Europe. He will be accompanied
by Mrs. Gorman and Miss German.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1903-05-14

Everybody interested in the adj
ministration is beginning to shy
rocks at General Miles for his re-
port of the conditions existing in the
Philippine Islands. He recommends
in that report that the army in the
Philippines be fed on beef on the
hoof killed fresh, because he ascer-
tanned that the army is still living
on embalmed beef. The War De-
partment pays no attention to his re-
commentator for the reason that
the beef trust could make no profit
out OF the government if Gen. Miles
suggestion werecomplied with. How
long viii the people stand it2
II the President will return and
make as close a study of the work
ings Of the civil service here as he
made OF the animals in Yellowstone
Park, he viii find same game that
hrs crepfin under the civil service
tent more worthy Of his gun.
In trust haifimU nuhls~;&x $500.