Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-04-18
STUDY THE CAREER OF
HONEST ABE LINCOLN

Washington.
It is well for every American boy
and the lnv'a father. to study tho
career and emulate the example of hon
est Abe Lincoln. the greatest man of
The nineteenth century. The fact that
70 million foreigners of en- uutiouaiti,t
come Nv our shores auuunllv makes b.
necessary for the old fashioned I.iu.
colin Amcricauism to Eight for ia life. .
/ In fact. the Lincoln pattern IL already
marrrd hv Influences over which we. ag
pcoplo. have little or no control Ma.
raham l.incons. even ON small scale,
are not very numerous.
! He wns raised ON "a farm. the insij,u.
! ton which has produced the best mon
of our country. The city has NOT equal.
led the country i'm producing strong
mon. Read the lives Of the ruling
minds of our country for one hundred
wears. and observe what a large place
the farm has in American biography.
Pure mir. omen fields. sound sleep. hard
work SET over against late hours.
excessive amuscmcnts wasted hours
and the artificinlitv of crowded city.
The furrow grows more whcnt
than tho street The harvard is more
vboIosomo than the prizc ring. The
story of Lincoln's life from the day
when he was ten wears old. when he
saw the rude coffin containing the
mortal remains of his mother laid
AWAY in n lonely prairie grave. to the
> hour when Booth shot him in Ford \
! thentcr. is n romance Of reality
e Washington and Lincoln were very
/ different. Washington was the rich.
90, man In America. while Lincoln
might he considered the poorest. Wash.
, ington WINS an aristocrat and born in n
I palace. while Lineoln frs, opencd his
a the Presidency. /, IL n matter of which
2 we may feel national pride that two
% sueb mon. represcn,ing luxury and
n poycr,v. may reach the top. What
@ would Lincoln hive been had he been
$ nursed in Whit.chapol or ~. Peters.
y burg, lie might have been an anar
!. cbis,. There il no telling what n hoy
l. NAV become in the United States.
? Lincoln WINS not what the world
q calls n handsome man. lie was long.
h and lnnk and lean. Somebody WAS nm.
!. kind enough 10 saw that all really use.
ful men are homely. Mrabeau. So.
q crotcs. Jobnson. TaImoge. Gladstone.
:. and Lincoln are examples of upliness
n combined with power. Most men. if
they look In the mirror. might be nm.
dulv convinced of their power. The
10 "willie boysn seldom rise. Pretty
70 people. like dolls, ARE not often valu
able The dandy has never come from
the enb;n. Farms and mines give
Q. strength and extract the usefulness.
n from n mnn. Lincoln was IN. embodi
ment Of such plain. unadorned. nwk
ward manhood.
II The writer has always Thought of
.ists in making oneself understood and
of hitting the nail right ON the hcad
ne every stroke. then Lincoln was nm or
VI ator. After Everett. polisbed. mapni
Ne Gccnt and rhetorical. had finished with
his great Grafton Mt Gettysburg. Lin
coin unfolded n niece Of foolscap paper
and began TO read through his iointe,
:" spectacIes. the greatest hit ~ elo,,uenc,
" the world has ever heard II IL n great
or specch than the Grafton on The crown
=. by Demosthenes. Even Cicero ueye
!, uttered sucb words
Inspircd in cannon sense this WA
the secret of HIS groatness Uo al,
sensible things. Common sense nm,
conro,e mixed mn in the single hattie n