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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10

announced himself as candidate for
the State Assembly, and there are old
men in Illinois who like to tell of the
queer but foIceful speeches they heard
him make as he rode about the coun-
try electioneering for himself. He did
so with triumphant results this time,
for he was elected, and for eight
years he was member of the State
Assembly of Illinois.
Then his friends sought to have him
become a candidate for governor, but
this honor he refused because he had
his eye on seat in Congress and to
Congress he went in the year lS47,
after having been defeated IS a csA.
didate for the Office of CONGRESSMAN
in 1912. After leaving Congress. Lin.
coin felt that he had had enough of
politics; he decided to devote himself
entirely to the practice Of law, and he
adhered to this resolution for some
years. Then the slavery question he.
came more and more one CT public
Importance and political discussion,
and Lincoln felt that he must again
enter the political field. The repeal
Of the Missouri compromise set him
on fire, and it was a fame that ex.
PRED only with his life. From the
time that ne re-entered politics in 1851
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10

ing in the brief Black Hawk war.
Lincoln kept store in New Salem lii
nois. and it was in this place that he
pretty Ann Rutledge, a girl Of seven
teen years, who died soon after the
engagement This was sharp blow
TO man of Linco.n's affectionate ma
ture, and years later he could not
speak IF it without tears in MS eyes
1t was after leaving New Salem and
while studying and practicing law in
Springfield that Lincoln met Mary
Todd, who became his wife She was
of a somewhat Jealous and exacting
disposition, and there We're plenty Of
lovers quarrels during the courtship.
Indeed, the engagement was broken.
but it was finally renewed and the
couple were married on the fourth
day of November in the year 1912. and
began their married life in Spring
field.
1t would take many column. to give
anything like comprehensive ac-
count of the political career of Abra-
ham Lincoln. It was almost newt
able that man of his force of car
acter, his patriotism and his interest
in the welfare of the nation should
drift into politics. We find him run
ming as candidate for the State AS
sembly OF Illinois in S32 and suffering
a defeat that did not depress him in
the least; it was after this defeat that
he and partner bought the store in
New Salem. In 1884. Lincoln again
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10

On farm in the wilderness within a
mile or two of Gentryville
Abraham Lincoln was nine wears
Old when his mother died in her home
IN the Indiana wilderness, and was
buried in the rude casket her grief,
stricken husband had fashioned with
his own hands. Left a widower with
two little children to care for, it was
but natural that he should want to
give them second mother, and af-
ter fifteen months of widowhood he
Jared back to Kentucky to marry a
young widow with three children.
Sally Bush Johnson, who was far
removed from the typical stepmother.
Lincoln grew to manhood in In
diana, seeing little of the great out
side world, with the exception of such
fleeing glimpses as he caught of If
while working as boatman and ferry
man on the Ohio and Mississippi riv-.
ers. He earned the first dollar he
ever possessed while working as
boatman. When he was about 10
years of age he hired out TO work
the front oars on a boat filed with
produce, bound for New Orleans. He
was paid the muniicent sum of IS
a month and found for his services
while on this trip. This was his first
glimpse of the world of which he was
to form such an important part in the
years to come.
He was q years old when he went
with his fathers family from Indiana
to Illinois. Thomas Lincoln mad been
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10

That fact is in itself a transcendant
tribute. individuals will act accord
ing to their temperament or their con-
ditions, but the nation as an in6iivitu-
ality, by suspsnding it's business, by
ceasing from its contentious, by bring
ing its activities of government to
halt On this birthday of it's pre-emi-
nently great modern man, pays a tri-
bute's crown of tribute to his work
and to his worth, and that is the SUI
preme and the universal homage.
We trust that the idealization of
Lincoln will always continue; that the
endeayor to reduce the measurement
Of him will cease, or will never sue.
coed. We have no sympathy with
the petty endeavors which have been
put forth to that effect in the case of
Washington. The instincts of man
kind have measured them small, who
have tried to reduce the heroic ap-
ssraisaiA of Washington in the alleged
interest of truth" The endeavor has
never enlisted large minds or large
souls, and the little ones it has en-.
listed have reduced even themselves
by the endeavor.
AS it is with Washington, so should
it be with his one peer in our history,
whose anniversary is now at hand.
The idealization of both gives us the
real men. Puny efforts to impair that
idealization affect not the proportions
of the men any more than the slime
Of flies affects the stately columns
on which flies may lighter crawl.
Those of us who saw and met Lincoln
in our boyhood are not yet far beyond
the middle period of life. They can
never feel that their experience in
meeting him did not register the high
water mark Of their lives here. So
felt those who, in former generations,
met Washington. The two, Washing
ton, the grandcst of human characters.
and Lincoln, the most human of
grand characters, should never be diff.
ferentiated in the minds or hearts OF
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10

until the fatal fourteenth Of April
1865, Abraham Lincoln lived for his
country and he was ready to die for it.
His nomination for the presidency
had been predicted before he had any
aspirations for that Office When the
subject was first preached to him he
said: What's the use of talking of
me for the presidency whilst we have
such men as Seward Chase and
others. who are SO much better known
to the people. and whose names are
so intimately. associated with princi-
pies Of the Republican party? Every
BODY knows them; nobody scarcely
outside of Illinois knows me- =
an rot insensible to the compliment
YOU Fay me, but there is no such
GOOD lIcl; in store for me as the pres
idency of the United States
The good luck was on the side of
the United States when Abraham Lin
coin was finally elected president
Not in all the union was there a man
better fitted to hold that office during
the perilous days of the civil war,
and when the war was over the people
felt that Lincoln was the only man
who could heal the wounds of the
nation and bring real peace and har-
mony out of the bitter strife that had
lasted for four fearful years. His
assassination filled the land with the
gloomiest forebodings and plunged the
country into the bitterest grief it had
ever felt over the death of an in.
dividual.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10
THE FoREFATHERs OF LINCOLN.
All Pioneers and a Strain of Tragedy
Runs Through Their History.


Abraham Lincoln's forefathers were,
open up the wilderness and make the
way plain for others to follow them.
For one hundred and seventy years.
ever since the first American Lincoln
came from England to Massachusetts,
in 1888. they had been moving slowly
westward as new settlements were
made in the forest. They faced sol-
tude. privation and all the dangers and
hardships that beset men who take up
their homes where only beasts. and
wild men have had homes before: but
they continued to press steadily for
ward. though they lost fortune and
sometimes even life itself in their
westward progress. Back in Penn
sylvania and New Jersey some of the
Lincolns had been men of wealth and
influence. In Kentucky. where the
future President was born, on Feb. IL,
1909. his parents lived in deep poverty
Their home was a small log cabin of
the rudest kind, and nothing seemed
more unlikely than that their child,
coming into the world in such humble
surroundings. was destined to be the
greatest man Of his time. True to his
race. he also was to be pioneer-not
indeed like his ancestors. leader into
new woods and unexplored fields. but
pioneer of a nobler and grander sort.
directing the thoughts of men ever
toward the right, and leading the
American people, through difficulties
and dangers and mighty war, to
peace and freedom.
The story of this wonderful man he
gins and ends with tragedy, for his
grandfather, also named Abraham.
was killed by. shot from an Indians
rifle while peaceabiy at work with his
three sons on the edge of their from
tier clearing. Eighty-one years later
the President himself met death by
an assassins bullet The murderer Of
one was savage of the forest; the
murderer Of the other that far more
cruel thing, a savage of civilization.
From Helen Nicolay's ..The BOYS,
Life of Abraham Lincoln, in st, Mich.
olas
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10
EVER FULL OF LOCAL PRIDE.
Quality Which Made Lincoln Popular
and Iovable,

and lovabe.
Perhaps Lincoln's most winning
quality with young and old alike was
his sincere belief in his fellow towns
men and their community, says Fred
edlck Trevor Hill in the Century Lo-
cal pride never had a more buoyant
champion than he. For him Sanga-
mon county in general, and New Sa-
lem in particular, was the promised
land, and he was confident that the
people were equal to the task of de-
veioping 1t according to its needs.
Thus when 1t was first suggested that
the shallow. snag-bound Sangamon
river was navigable and might be
made a great highway of commerce,
he eagerly championed the theory and
worked with voice, pen and hand to
realize a practical result The Sanga-
mon IS still unnavisable and New Sa-
lem has disappeared. but Lincolns
plea for improving the waterway re-
mains as evidence of his sincere be-
lief in the future of the community
and to show us what he could do with
weak cause at the age of %.
The argument is not remarkable.
but it is exceedingly interesting and
suggestive. Although he was young,
and boyishly enthusiastic. Lincoln did
not oyerstate the possibilities nor un-
derestimate the difficulties of his case,
and despite the really laughable at
tempt which was afterward made to
force the passage of the Sangamon.
there was nothing ludicrous in his
plea. What he claimed sounds reason
able. and what he hoped for possible,
even in the face of failure.
This early effort plainly indicates
Lincoln's natural aptitude for logical
statement. But it does more than
that. 1t displays a. trait which few
lawyers possess; for the ability to
present facts clearly, concisely and
effectively without taking undue ad-
vantage of them is rare legal quality.
1t requires not only ability, but cour-
age; not only tact, but character 1t
is one of the infallible tests which
distinguish the legal bravo from the
jurist
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10
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Oliver Wendell Holmes said that
one man is always three men, the
nan as he sees himself, the man as
others see him, and the man as God
sees him.
We know how Abraham Lincoln
saw himself. Lincoln's estimate of
Lincoln was very modest, humble
and moderate one
We know how other people now
see Abraham Lincoln in the light of
the translations of his actions by re-
suits and by time.
We can reverently believe that
Abraham Lincoln as God saw him
brought neither reproach nor contra
diction, to say the least, to the con-
ception of him by the people Of the
earth. when they came to understand
him in the light of the events to
which he will ever be sublimely relat-
ed In human estimate.
n :
Wht!e his IS fame and service
THIS republic for manifest reasons,
mainly remembers and observes, all
nations OF the world write him among
the immortals, and the ascent of every
one OF them to better things is SYM
pathetically assisted by the force and
the fragrance of his career here.
He is gradually becoming idealized.
That is not to be regretted. His IDEAL
iZation is only that revelation of him
from the skies to men, as God saw
him when the heavens received him
out of our sight.
We are glad our government and
our people make his birthday a. ho]i-
day. We are aware that it is difficult
to hold the observance of his birthday
TO solemn ceremonies or within memo
rial services. That is the law of
the effect of holidays among free peo-
pie, as distances in time increases
from the death of the entirely great.
The significance is less in the celebra-
ton Of the time than in the fact of
setting it forth by law and by senti-
ment as a. holiday at all.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10

If you want to make a vi lows
face beam with satisfaction tell her
how well she looks in weeds.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10

The President has nominated Will
liam T. Vernon CT Kansas for Register
OF the Treasury. The name was sent
to the Senate Monday.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10

Washington was we'll representa-
at he great suffrage mass n2ee5ins;
at Cooper Union New York. Strong
speeches We're made By Mrs. Mary
Church Terrell. Hon George H. White
and Prof, Kelly Miller.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10

The Fifth Congress district of Vi
ailia will be without representation
in the House for the rest OF this SEES
sion OF, Congress. Claude Swanson,
who was its Representative has re-
signed his seat in the House and is
now governor of the Old Dominion
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10

The sub-eXecutive com mittee OF the
National frc-Americal Co neil i'll
held its semiannuat meeting in this
city next week.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10

Ara lgeIncnts have been made by
Secretary Loeb for q reception AT the
White House Wednesday,, Feb uary
at 2:33 O'Clock p. IN. to dele?a
ton from the Manassas Industrial
School,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10

The consensus OF opinion II Wash
ingtOl is that the man t. succeed
Hon. r. r. Hit who will retire, is
Col. Frank O. Lowden. He can have
TIC place if be wants it and is gen
erallv believed that he will accept
the nomination. The election Of Col.
Lowden would mean that the Illinois
delegation in Congress would be kept
at its present high standard.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10

One reason for sending all the Afro
American regiments to the Philip
pines at this time, it is under stood,
is because il is figured that they will
better stand a campaign in China il
case Of an outbreak in that country
following the boycott against Amer
lean goods.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10

MIS-. Anna J. Cooper. principal of
the N street high school, was trained
at Wiiberforce ollege and the st. Aug
Justine Normal School. Mrs. Cooper
was appointed in 1887 and has been
principal Of the N street school since
1901.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10

Robert H. Terrell, who was rec IT.
~ reappointed justice OF the peace
was banqueted by a number of re-
preventative citizens at Gray's cate,
Monday night. Mr.. Shelby j. David
son acted as POSTMASTER The at
fair was very pleasant
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11
Care of the Infants Mouth

mouth must be carefully ceansed after every
feeding with mixture made from one small tea
spoonful of bicarbonate of soda dissolved in SIX
tablespoonful of warm water.
Babies whose mouths are not kept scrupulousy
clean are sure to have special troubles when teeth
ing begins. Swollen, inhamed and red gums when
the teeth about to come is of the evil
results of neglectng to keep the mouth sweet
and pure.
There are several most painful affections and
diseases of the mouth and throat in babies which
arise entirely from neglect of cleanliness in the
care of the tongue, gums, etc. In children with
tendency to consumption and scrofua a slight
form of blood-poisonng is caused by the presence
of those little white ulcers all the mouth
which so often escape the notice of mother and
nurse.
All sorts of disease germs are grown and prop
agated in unhealthy mouth, and these mi
crobes conveyed through the food all over
the body, causing diarrhoea and many kinds of
digestive troubles.
In measles the constant cleansing of the mouth
is most essential and will help to prevent the
bronchitis which so often accompanies the disease.
AS soon as child is old enough he should be
taught to scrub his mouth out with soft tooth
brush, dental soap, and plenty of cold water.
So long as he is too much of baby to perform
this most necessary health rite himself the nurse
or mother must by no means neglect it.
THE DANGERS OF THE COMFORTER"
All sorts of little pimples and "breakings OUT
occur round baby's lips just because the inside
of his mouth has not been "spring cleaned"
thoroughly and constantly.
You viii often find that baby is suffering from
"sore mouth" or thrush, to such degree that
sucking milk from his bottle is extremely painful.
A common source of poisoning and impurity
in babies mouths arises from the use of the rub
ber Comforter" This falls about in all sort of
dirty places, on the road, all over the house and
nursery.
It is picked up, and, after perfunctory rub on
nurses apron, is popped back into babyis mouth
covered with myriads OF microbes to poison his
sweet little rosebud mouth.
He sucks his dirty little thumb after putting
his pretty fingers into every sort of forbidden
mess So that the least nurse can do to counteract
ali these hazards is to keep the cavity behind the
sweet lips as clean and wholesome as skill and
care can devise
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11

worth your time and money. Some women will
fuss and worry over gown that no matter how
beautiful the trimming may be, it will never be
anything more than made over frock. The
means employed for its regeneration have not
been cleverly enough introduced the amateurish
touch is painfully evident.
And it frequently happens that when frock
has been properly handled it proves to be more
attractive and becoming than it did when first
turned out by your modiste.
BANNER YEAR FOR MADE-OVER THINGS.
With the free lance extended to women for
all sorts of top garments it will not be diff
cult matter to remodel last winters garments,
provided, of course, that they of good cut and
we'll fitted.
If you happen to have a three-quarter semiit-
ting coat such has been worn for several sea-
sons past, cut it down to the now accepted
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11

disposal apply IT. az Ssown In the centre sketch.
The plaid has been cut into bias bands and
mounted over an entirely new under blouse of
batste, null, silk or what you please The
sleeves are also touched, and band is placed on
the skirt to simulate a square yoke.
Bretelles are easily made. Join two pieces of
cloth or silk together by means of black velvet
ribbon, the whole attached to the girdle. Yokes
vests and chemisettes afford so many attractive
possibilities Velvet bows, little scarf ends of
chiffon or silk, buttons, buckles, tassels and
brads pave the way for new and attractive made
over garments.
Of course it requires courage to splice though
garment, but then you will get your ideas about
dressmaking well founded for number of tricks
may be picked up in taking apart dress which
has come from a good modiste
And maybe you will not have much respect
for your figure you had before, for well
sprung bone at the hips gives very neat curve.
In time you will learn to doctor these defcien-
cies. MARJORIE.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11

fashionable length, reaching midway between
hips and knee-line. Take in the seams to make
it tighter fitting. Add new collar and cuffs poss-
bly, a vest cloth trimmed with fancy braid and
decorative buttons.
For little coat of hip length that hung loose
ly last winter, belt it in as shown in of the
sketches. This was tried the other day with the
pictured result. Two Sits were made at the sides,
then overcast with silk in the buttonhole stitch.
The original model did not possess vest, but
one was easily inserted with a collar to match.
Ivory white broadcoth was chosen embroidered
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11


dish; cover with rich biscuit dough
or puff paste if preferred, rolling either rather
thin. Do not bake so quickly that the top browns
before the paste is cooked through.
PARSNIP FRITTERS
Boil four or five parsnips When tender take
OIL the skins and mash them fine Add to them
teaspoon of whole wheat -four and beaten egg
Put tablespoon of beef drppings in frying
pan over the fire, and to it saltspoon of salt
When boiling hot put in the parsnps, make it
into small cakes with spoon When one side
is delicate brown turn the other. When both
are done take them ON DISH put very little
of the fat in which they were fried over and
serve hot.
BROWN SOUP. OR MOCK OK TAIL
Take the bones from good cold roast. Sirloin
or ribs of beef make the best soup of this kind.
Add about a pound of fresh lean beef, which
should be cut rather small and Drowned in a
saucepan with little butter. Make nice dark
brown without burning, Add about two quarts
of boiling water or more, according to the soup
you require, and bones you have for stock. Take
a little mace, few cloves whole tablespoon Of
whole black pepper and also of whole aspice tied
in piece of cheese cloth; couple of carrots cut
up fine, turnip or two, according to size three
or four onions sliced up fine. Boil all together,
bones and vegetables, for whole day Next
morning skim off any fat, strain through a col
ander and serve with sippets Of toast. (Of
course, heat to boiling point).
PARTRIDGE STUFFED AND ROASTED
Fry half pound of calf's liver with four ounces
of bacon fat and minced shallots or small onion
for ten minutes. Season well with pepper and
salt, and pass through wire sieve. Moisten three
ounces OF crusty bread crumbs with hot milk,
and stir over the fire until smooth paste is
formed. Add dessertspoonful of butter, pepper,
salt, and little mace, and finally the sliced
liver and bacon and one raw egg Remove from
the fire and when cold stuff the birds with it.
Brush them with warm water and roast in a
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11


dark blue silks were chosen. This seem rather
barbarous in color, but in reality it was exceed,
ingly pretty Inc little belt was taken around
the waist run through the Sits and fastened on
the vest with small buckle
HERE is A COLLAR TRICK.
To get the right curve for collar cut circle
for the neck, then lay the paper Hat on ING coat
and clip shape to suit your taste. lnis ericS
gives YOU a good curve that you otherwise couia
work on for hours without getong;
vs. So much can be done with the plain and fancy
lno;ds esneciallv the pull braids. Bargains are
- he n;cted nm on the side tables worth several
Emes their present value. Buttons, TOO, ehhVeh
last wears coat ,.,r,
plaid and striped silks for collars, cuffs reyers
and a little odd touches are charming Oh oarA
cloths. 4.;,or;v,, +ale
- 70 the little tailor around the corner and lei
him give the garment businessllke pressing y
Nth his heavy hot irons. This is well worth ot
cents or dollar, for it practically removes tna'
tell-tale amateurish air.
SUMMER FRoCKs AS HOUSE GOWNS
NJ not wait until next summer to wear out
,,orr Drettv frilly little frocks, those OF muslin
iii, or voles These will be just the right caper
Co. oresent indoor wear and you Will get tneir
worth while still in fashion Next summer we
NAV he sporting crinoline and poke bonnets;
i''IS ,,a r. see women wear light clothes for IN
door INV evening wear the year round. Nothing is
%ore n00r becoming or effective than these sefsame
droperies ,U we trailed around during the summer.
There are so many clever ways of transforming
waists into really stunning up-to-date models.
For instance, the skeleton waist can be cut from
most any style bodice, worn over aeI OF aIo isce
Ton waist being outlined by narrow black velvet
put on in several rows. ,,
little suspenders may go over the shoulders,
bringing into view a new guImpe or chemsette.