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The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13

their bill of fare the greater part OF
the time.
MY grandparents, Levi Hall and
Martha Hanks, both died of the milk
sick, in Indiana, in 1918, about the
same time that Lincoln's mother,
Nancy Hanks, and her uncle and aunt
Sparrow died All were buried to.
gether in rude collins construed by
Thomas Lincoln, who was now wild
over with two small children. After
Lincoln became President, someone
erected a monument over his mothers
grave in the wilderness, but Aunt
Roseanne told me that the selection of
the grave for the monument must
have been mere guesswork, since none
of the graves had ever been marked,
and there was no means of identifying
any one of them"
Coming to the subject of the migra-
ton of the survivors of the three fami-
lies from Indiana to Illinois Mrs.
Moore says:
Joseph Hanks, who taught Thomas
Lincoln, Abe's father, the carpenters
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in LINCOLN'S BIRTHPLACE.
Woman in New Fetker
Historic Log cabin-Stories of the Early Days.

Lincoln has been dead thirty-eight
years.
Most of those who personally knew
him have also passed on into silence,
and. like Washington, he has become
In the popular mind a sort of mystical
dgure, associated with bygone age of
dramatic heroism-a patron saint.
Although New England loved Lin
coin as much as any other section of
the country did, when it came to know
him, yet he was always regarded as
characteristic product of the pioneer
country, and, although efforts not alto
gether successful have been made to
show that he was of bingham ances-
try, never till now has Massachusetts
been conscious of the presence in this
locality of any living connection be-
tween the immortal rail-splitter and
our own soil
Nevertheless for seventeen years
one of the envrons of Boston has har-
bored a woman who makes the proud
boast that her father and Abraham
Lincoln were first cousins; that both
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13
DRAWN BY TRAINED GEESE.
Canada Man Proposes a Unique Es-
hibit at ST. Louis.

w. Olcott, an american who now re-
sides in Canada. has a flock Of domes-
tic geese that has been trained TO draw
skiff containing two persons,
through the water at a rapid pace. Re-
Gently he has been experimenting with
wild geese and he finds that they are
mucl stronger and swifter than the
domestic variety and now he desires
to capture IA large flock of wild geese,
train them to pull boats and take
them to the St Louis exposition and
place them on the lakes in place Of the
conventional gondola. Ocott recently
wrote President David r. Francis OF
the Worlds Fair Commission at St
Louis requesting that "A fund be ap-
propriated by the commission sufti-
cient to enable him to capture the
geese, maintain and train them and
transport them to the big exposition
next year.
In his letter Olcott writes that the
novelty of riding over the water towed
by pair of well-traine1 geese is be-
yond the power Of expression. "One
must experience the pleasure to fully
comprehend its cXhlaration," he
writes. "AS n means of revenue the
geese would prove vcritable mint,
and the small outlay of money at first
to gather this flock and train them
would be minute compared with the
subsequent returns when the fair was
once started with this novel attrac-
ton"
1t is understood that the st. Louis
commission is considering the propo-
s...on with favor
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13
WISDOM'S WHISPERS.

The fault-fnding woman often finds
fault with herself with just cause.
A man gains so little by loss of
temper that it pays to keep it to him.
self
A man often mistakes a womans
feelings because of his own self-satis
faction.
1t takes a woman a long time to find
out how really commonplace is her
ideal man.
Time works wonders with the won.
an who desires to forget how rapidly
is its flight.
You cant convince man that he
is minus proper appreciation of the
sensitive disposition of the average
woman.
The woman with brilliant prospects
often casts a shadow thereon by a
want of mental equipoise.
The man of steady habits finds
pleasure in the oldest sort of ways
While womans dislike for woman
is proverbial, she rarely declines to
aid the helpless of her sex.
When man matches his shrewd-
ress against that of a woman he finds
oct how much she is his superior.
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tell me stories of her early life In the
pioneer days in Illinois.
''One story was in regard to fresh
ct such as used to come almost yearly
to those who lived along the river bot
toms eighty years or SO ago. Grandma
went several miles down the river on
a raft, one day, to the mill. to have
some corn ground, leaving the chill
dren in the log house. The river had
been threatening to rise for several
days, but the children well knew from
former experiences. that if the river
invaded the house they were to climb
up on the roof for safety.
THE river rose while grandma was
away and she toiled laboriously to get
home as soon as she could. When she
got nearly home she found everything
afloat, and as she passed tree that
was well submerged she thought she
heard a cry from the branches. She
padded TO the tree. and there found
her baby, John Hanks, atioat in his
cradle, which had been washed through
the door of the cabin, and had drifted
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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 2lst
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 Lincol.l 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
Frankford
"Frankford used to be visited by In
dians 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 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 little girl Aunt
Sally, Abraham Lincoln's stepmother,
used to visit us, and she frequently
put me to sleep in her arms. but l
never thought much about it till was
grown up and others reminded me of
the distinction l 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,
III. l used to hold her skein of yarn
for her when she wound it into ball,
and during the operation she would
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13
Method Of Drying Potatoes.

Dried potatoes, a new product.
evolved by the South Carolina expert
ment station. The potatoes are boiled.
peeled and evaporated in cannery
and Will remain in perfect condition
Tor years. The preserved potato be-
comes fit for eating after being
soaked in warm water for an hour.
An acre of potatoes yielded 357 BUSH
els. which made 1O5 bushels of the
dried product, nearly a pound to 3b
pounds of the raw product.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

A stout calf maketh a full stockins.
Only the sympathetic are entitled 20
sympathy.
Short-sighted people are naturally
close observers.
Marriage adds either to a mans hap.
piness or to his misery.
The man who has but one suit OF
clothes has no redress.
When the average man tells lie he
is in hurry to prove it.
The atmosphere of society is apt to
make a green man turn red.
If a man has neither friends nor
enemies he has lived in vain.
There is plenty of room at the top
of the creased pole of success.
Amateur photographers are willing
to take anything except advice.
If you would retain your friends
don't remind them of their faults.
When a mans temper gets the best
of him it shows him at his worst.
1t is a wise woman who can smile
at compliment and then forget it.
Some clearinghouse spring chick
A man usually makes lot of new
tracks in attempting to cover his old
ones.
When they overtake horse-thief in
Arizona they call halt, then call for a
halter.
Leave your worries at home when
you travel. You can get a fresh sup.
ply anywhere.
If people were compelled to follow
the advice they give there would soon
be an advice famine.
Many drunkard despises himself
for his weakness-and dcspises wat.
cred liquor for the same reason.
A traveller says that Norway is the
most democratic country on earth. He
should look up the election returns
from TeXas.-Chicago News.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13

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 M. 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 resident of East Pep
perell, Mass, where her husband,
Charles w. Moore, is engineer in a
mill.
Miss Hail. 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, up-
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 a
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 a tradi-
tion 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 tu
Indiana and finally to Illinois and Mis-
souri,. She has been for some time
eHSdSeu III luftSllSatlHtS liS loH'sioiN
early connection of the families with
New England, and intends to prepare
q 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 side Of bacon, which, with corn
meal mush or johnnycake, comprised
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SONAl.

A monument to Dante is to be erect
ed in Rome.
Col. Henry C. Lockwood, soldier-au
thor, is dead.
Ian Maclaren has come cut against
what he calls Generalization"
A. A. Aal is st. Louis merchant
who uses but two letters in signing his
name.
Senator Pettus of Alabama is wear
ing pair of eyeglasses he purchased
in 1868.
Prof. Baron Won Krafft-Ebng of the
University of Vienna, celebrated nerve
specialist, died recently.
Dr. Sewell, the grand old man o:
Oxford. warden of New college, is to
resign. He is SO years of age.
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema has been
engaged by Sir John Ard to make
painting of the Pharaonic temples.
Among the letters received by Bjorn-
stjerne Bjornson on his SEVENTEEN
birthday was one frcn his nurse, aged
ninety.
Mrs. Elizabeth NJ. Gilchrist of Sara.
toga n. Y, sent Queen Alexandra, as
New Years present, a beautifully
embroidered luncheon set, the work OF
the giver.
Lady Gage has discovered in her Es-
sex (England) country house some in
tercsting correspondence between
Thomas Gage, last royalist governor OF
Massachusetts, and Samuel Adams,
John Hancock and Josiah Quincy.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13

A Denver woman has sued for a di-
vorce from her husband, who is deaf
mute. She alleges that he turned a
deaf ear" to her requests for support
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13
Manv School Children Are sickIv,

Mother Gray Sweet Powders for Children.
used by Mother Gray. a nurse in Childrens
Home. New York. break up Colds in "a hours.
cure Feverishness, Headache. Stomach
Troubles. Teething Disorders and Destroy
Worms. At all druggists 25c. Sample mailed
free. Address Allen S. Olmstcd, Lc Roy, NY.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13

knicker-SOmebOdy calls death tho
great leveler." Bickor-What bosh, 1t
makes some of us go up and others go
down
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13

There Is more Catarrh IN this section OF tho
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed TO be-
incurable. For great many years doctors pro-
nOunced 1t q local disease, and prescribed local
remedies. and by constantly failing to cure
with local treatment. pronounced 1t incurable-
Science has proven catarrh to be Il constitu-
tiOnal disease. and therefore requires conSti-
ufacturcd by +. j. Cheney ~ Co. Toledo, Ohio.
is the only constitutional cure on the market
1t is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to
Il tcaSpoonful. II acts directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They Offer
one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cura
Send for circulars and testimonials. Address
+. j. CHENEY & Co, Toledo, ONO.
Sold by Druggists, 15c.
Hall s Family Pills are the best
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13

Nodd-I took so much last night that
don't remember a thing | said. Todd
That's nothing. | don't remember a thing
my wife said.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13
Rheumatism Positively Cured.

simple remedy which renders the dis
ease impossible. and as unfailing as fate
In its cure. Send at once 25 cents for rec
ipe. Prescription Co. EoX 25j. Denver.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13

NOT a FISH STORY.
Baxter's Bullhead cigar as as good 90
smoke as you can find.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13

Mild" Well. | should say so-Bax-
ters Eulhcad &c cigar. Smoke as many
as you like: they won't hurt you.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13

'Did'nt you tell me that Jones was
very Intelligent man. Certainly he is"
"Then how does It happen that he is
serving on a iuryI'
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13

A common example Of literary sue
cess is where a pig picks up living from
his pen,
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13

What's the matter Mr.. Dumps" The
doctor says I'll die If | don't diet"
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who uses but two letters in signing his
name.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13

Ian Maclaren has come cut agains
what he calls .'Overeducation."
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13

When a man matches his shrewd.
ress against that of woman he finds
out how much she is his superior.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13

While woman's dislike for woman
is proverbial, she rarely declines to
aid the helpless of her sex.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13

A traveller says that Norway is the
most democratic country on earth. He
should look up the election returns
from TeXas.-Chicago News.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13

Many drunkard despises himsel
for his weakness-and dcspises wat
cred liquor for the same reason.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13

A monument to Dante is to be erect.
ed in Rome.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13

Col. Henry C. Lockwood, soldier-au.
thor, is dead.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13

Senator Pettus of Alabama is wear.
ing pair of eyeglasses he purchased
in 1868.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13

If people were compelled to folloy
the advice they give there would 500
be an advice famine.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13

The fault-finding woman often finds
fault with herself with just cause.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13

The man of steady habits finds
pleasure in the oldest sort of ways.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-13

A man often mistakes a womans
feelings because of his own self-satis
faction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-26
SPANGLED NET DINNER GOWN.

Did you ever notice how you rise
from a chair? If the chair has arms
do you lean your own arms upon them
and pry yourself up as if by two crow
bars? Or do you let your arms lie or
hang quite loosely not using them at
all. and simply rise from your chair
with the strength and power within
your body, that noble, beautiful body
the Creator gave perfect into your care
and keeping? This latter is the only
proper way
If the chair has not arms then do you
put your hands upon your thighs and
again pry yourself up TO a standing po-
sition as though you We're a log of
wood instead of a woman? All wrong
and lazy and horribly ungraceful. A
glorious strength resides inherent in
the region of the hips. 1t can be devel-
oped almost limitlessly. When you rise
from a sitting position. simply get upon
your. feet AS a practice sit down, fold
your arms across your breast, then rise,
sit down and rise again in the same
manner till it becomes easy. In rising
and sitting assume that you have no
arms at all. Keep it up, for thus you
Will gain the habit of correct sitting
down and rising.
One point more along this line. There
is a tendency in all persons assuming
Tic S4Lll1tS pasture 10 sag upon ana
around the hips, as though the individ-
ual did not have backbone enough to
hold himself. and especially herself.
erect. This sagging tendency is in
dulged in till the woman sometimes be-
comes barrel shaped around the body.
How correct the sagged. barrel
body2 It is easy enough if you have
clear grit. If you have not clear grit,
you are not much good anyway. This
is the way to restore the sagged.
slumped body: After you have sat down
in the above described proper way,
without using your hands and arms in
the process, notice especially whether
your abdomen touches your thighs. II
it does, then you are a badly sagged
down woman. but not hopelessly so.
By sheer force of will and the magnif-
cent strength in the lower half of YOU
pull your body up till it no longer
touches your thighs. Try it. What a
sense of lightness and exhilaration this
simple movement gives youi
Now, hold that position permanently
when you sit The woman who sits
properly never Tolls back upon her
spine, pressing upon and injuFing the
great plexus of nerves in the back be-
low the waist and getting for herself a
weak back. If you value grace and
health of body, do not loll back in a
rocking chair or anywhere else. Here
is exactly the right way to sit: Bear
your weight evenly and squafely upon
the pelvis and the strong bones at each
side of your spine. Hold yourself per-
fectly erect, poised in this position
upon the pelvis. AS you sit draw your
body up to its full height in front and
hold it So If you breathe deeply and
fill your lungs with air. it viii be a
great help in holding your body erect.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-26

Then there is the dainty Dresden
shepherdess kind of a room. with it's
mingled pinks and blues, its white
woodwork and it's simpering empire
pictures. 1T smells of soap and water
freshly starched muslin curtains and
all things good and simple. even if a
trihe crude. Such room. I fancy
would attract me if were a man and
did not look for more than certain
sweet pretuness in a girl, together with
the quality of being a good housewife
and keeping things in beautiful order.
Then there is she of the picturesque
turn Of mind, with her old pewter and
copper ware, her quaint tables and
chairs and bits of old tapestry hung
upon the wall But there is apt to be
dust on her mantelshelf and her own
attire is apt to be careless and media
val. like her furniture. Her views of
life. too, are apt to be ultra and some
how or other queer, like her color
schemes.
Then there is she who delights in
ruby lights with deeply eolored, rich
hangings in oriental effects and soft
mellow tones which appear as if blur
red together by the hand of a painter
The simmer of a sea green fan against
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-26
WOMAN hrst right

II WONIAN'S hrst right is the right
~ to live. That being granted, it is
- plain that her greatest need IS
= financial Independence Proba-
lily half the women of civiliza-
ton get this financial independence by
proxy-that is. they have husbands or
fathers who support them. The rest
must take care of themselves or starye
or go to the poorhouse or to the bad
and die as surely as if. a little more
slowly than, when they expire of star
walton.
Admitted. again. that woman's first
right is to her life, her next right, then
win be to an occupation whereby she
may earn a livelihood. The need Of
schools for boys to learn how to work
was plainly shown in this country a
generation ago. but the like crying need
in case of girls educators and philan-
thropists shut their eyes to until with
in a few years. Now, the boys having
been safely provided for, the girls may
come in and take what is left. In a few
of the largest cities of the Union have
been opened technical schools for girls
The school of work is an outgrowth
of the kindergarten idea. The kinder
garten in America was planted by two
women. Miss Peabody of Boston and
Miss Blow of St. Louis. In it's primary
manual training classes the teacher
found that little girls learned to use
their hands and fingers quite as adept
~ as the boys did The kindergarten
opened a view of the next step in edu-
cation before American eyes. That
step had already been taken in Ger
many 1t was the introduction of man
ual training into the common schools.
For 200 years we had been educating
children's brains without reference Ell
Their to their hearts or hands. College
graduates among men were seeking
places as street car conductors. Wo-
men teachers became a drug in the
market, so that employment for the
old TINY ones could not be found. The
old style schoolmistress was inclined to
look down upon all manual labor and
even now and then to pride herself on
not knowing how so much as to wash
her own handkerchief
The public school hand training had
perforce to include girls as we'll as
boys. There is a difference between the
manual training school and the trade
school. Manual education gives an all
round use and development of the