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height of six feet four inches, and his
long arms gave him a degree of pow
er as an axman that few we're able
to rival. He therefore usually led his
fellows in efforts of muscle as we'll
as OF mind. That he could outrun,
outfit, outwrestle his boyish compan-
ions. that he could chop faster, split
more rails in a day, carry a heavier
log at a raising or excel the neigh
borhood champion in any feat of from
tier athletics, was doubtless a matter,
of pride with him; but stronger than
all else was his eager craving for
knowledge. He felt instinctively that
the power OF using the mind rather
than the muscles was the key to snc-
cess. He wished not only to wrestla
with the best Of them, but to be nbIe
to talk like the preacher, spell ana
cipher like the ~schoolmaster, arrna
like the lawyer, and write like the,
editor.-From Helen Nicolay's ~rhe.
Boys Life OF Abraham Lincoln. m
st. Nicholas.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-02-08

brother OF his. named Joseph, to
Spencer county, Indiana, and located
IN a farm in the wilderness within a
mile or two of Gentryville.
Lincoln grew to manhood in In
diana, seeing little Of the great out
side world. with the exception of such
1eeting glimpses as he caught of it
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 a
boatman. When he was about ~
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 munificent sum of So
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 Fl years old when he went
with his fathers family from Indiana
to Illinois. Thomas Lincoln mad been
disappointed in his farming ventures
in Indiana, and the future Of that
part of the state seemed unpromising
while fascinating tales were told Of
the better opportunities for poor men
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A GREAT AMERICANA
Inspiration In tho Life and Character Of Abraham
Lincoln-His Wonderful Political Career

The twelfth day Of February. in the
year 1909, was a day of great import
to the United States, for it was on
that day that Abraham Lincoln came
into the world, says a writer in the
Pittsburg Dispatch. The place of his
birth. unmarked to-day save for a rude
flagstaff, vas in Hardin county, Ken
lucky. known now as LaRhe county,
No great. man was ever born into a
humber home.
Thomas Lincoln, the father of Abra.
ham, had married a handsome girl
named Nancy Hanks in 1906, and
there was a little girl named Sarah
in the family when the little Abraham
was born.
Lincoln was a boy of but seven
years when his father, who had some
thing of a restless spirit, followed a
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- -ttT t..r H 1.-f .s.N --." .- .E
"out In Ilinoy," and to the Sangamon
country in "Illinoy" the Lincolns
wendell their way in numbering wag-
ons drawn by s~low-moving cattle.
With them went Levi Hall and Den
mis- Hanks, who had married Lincoln's
step-sisters.
A little later in life, and after serv-
ing in the brief Black Hawk war.
Lincoln kept store in New Salem, ILL
nois, and it was in this place that he
fell in love and became engaged to
pretty Ann Rutledge, a girl of seven
teen years, who died soon after the
engagement. This was a sharp blow
to a man Of Lincoln's affectionate ma
ture, and years later he could not
speak Of it without tears in his eyes.
1t vas after leaving New Salem and
while studying and practicing law in
| Springfield that Lincoln met Mary
Todd, who became his wife.
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...EE n#rFl
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 be-
came more and more one of 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-
pired only with his life. From the
time that he re-entered politics in 1851
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
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-02-08
LlNCOLN'S LIFE AN INSPIRATION

here" For while the thought was
appropriate to the occasion, being
used as it was to emphasize by con
trast the nations debt to the soldiers
who had fought and. died upon the bat
tlefield. it has failed completely as a
prophecy. It vas in its other parts
that the speech was profoundly pro-
phetic, and they glorify the spoken
word, giving it the effectiveness CT
many a good deed. They are SO rich
in suggestion, sc felicitous in phrasing,
SO wonderfully inspired by the polit--
cal insight of the statesman and the
deep human sympathy of a great ma
ture that they have remained, and al
ways will remain. a charter of our lib
critics.
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The Great Northern railway has
started condemnation proceedings at
Grand Forks against the owners Of
eight lots on the site that has been
selected by the company for the new
freight station, which will run a thou
sand feet from Seventh street, be-
tween International and Alpha ave-
nues. The proceedings are against
Flora J.. Lucas, Henry Engel, Jacob
Roruk and Moses Bowersock and Della
Purcell. The road has already pur-
chased several lots in that section of
the city, and this is the second action
started to secure property through
condemnation proceedings. Indica-
tons point to Great Northern i'm
provements in Grand Forks this year
that will cost in the neighborhood Of
5000, 900.
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Call TO. Drainage Meetina,

J. L. Cashel, president of the North
Dakota Drainage league, will try to ar
range a meeting Of delegates from the
drainage leagues of Minnesota, North
and South Dakota and a representa-
tive of the Canadian government, to
be held in Grand Forks early next
month. The meeting will be called for
the express purpose Of discussing the
overflow of the Red river, and the
date Of the meeting will be left to
Premier Laurier, who will be asked to
send representatives to. the confer.
|ence.
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Bankers Choose Fargo.

At a'meeting of the executive coun-
Gil of the North Dakota Bankers asso-
citation, held in Grand Forks. it was
decided to hold the annual meeting Of
the association this year at Fargo. be.
ginning July 10. At the close of the
convention. which will continue two or
three days, an excursion trip will be
taken through Yellowstone Park. w.
c. MacFadden and L. j. Hanna. Fargo.
were appointed a committee to have in
charge the excursion feature.
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WHITE HOUSE CRANK is MAD.
Dakotan Who Tried to See President
Is Sent to an ASYLUM,

Dakotan Who Tried to See President
Is Sent to al Asylum,
Hans A. Aarstad, the Hillsboro man
who was arrested in Washington early
in December while endeavoring to OBJ
tain admission to the White House,
has been committed to the asylum at
Jamestown.
Aarstad explained to the secret ser
vice men who arrested him at Wash.
ington that he had come to ask the
president to release him from a hyp-
motto spell. He claimed that people of
Hillsboro were after him and that Ger
tain officials of that place were par.
ticularly active in pursuing him. He
was held for a while at the detention
hospital and then returned to Hills
boro.
Seven years ago Aarstad was an in
mate Of the Medical Lake (Wash.) in.
sane asylum. @
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The Youth Abraham Lincoln.

The Youth Abraham Lincoln.
For both work and play Abraham
had one great advantage. He was not
only a tall, strong country boy; he
soon grew to be a tall, strong. sinewy
man. He early reached the unusual
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NA~eS AASAN
ing a piano, from the Twin Cities
without giving the local dealers an op-
portunity to fit out his house.
Ole serumgard of the Devils Lake
land Office is reported to have decided
to resign, and there are a number of
candidates for the position. P. D. Nor
ton and Senator Stade are mentions
ed"
Devils Lake is planning to NV a
fast ball team next year and a league
may be organized to include Minot,
Kenmare, Bottineau, Towner, Cando
and other towns in that section of the
state.
A couple of years ago J. S. Werner
of Dawson planted fifty quail on his
place and they did well the first year.
Now he has only four left, and offers
a reward Of $25 for the conviction of
the party who supposedly shot them.
A farmer near Washburn wouldn't
dig his potatoes last fall because he
thought the price was too low. Spuds
are now selling there at SO cents.
The people of Antler believe in get.
ting into the game. early. They have
appointed a committee for the ar
rangement of baseball matters for the
year, and the American announces
that arrangements are being made for
a big Fourth of July celebration.
Some Of the people who commended
the preacher and his assistants who
burned a blind pig at Union, Caytlier
county ARE inclined to be less radical
now since the Iigger was convicted.
His suit against the preacher will, be
tried later.
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The American Spoke First.

The American in the corner of the
English first-class carriage insisted on
lighting his cigar. The indignant Brit
Usher in the other orn protested,
but protested in vain. At the next sta
ton he hailed the guard, with hostile
intent; but the cool American was too
quick for him. Guard" he drawled,
IT think you'll find that this party here
is travelling with a third-class ticket
on him." Investigation proved him
to be right, and the indignant Britisher
was triumphantly elected. A spec
tator of the little scene asked the
American how he knew about that
ticket. "Well," explained the imper'
turbable stranger, "the corner was
sticking out of his pocket and l saw
it was the same color as mine"
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MAY BECOME A SENATOR
Speculation as to Future of PreSI-
dent Roosevelt After Term
Expires.

When Mr.. Roosevelt %retires from the
office of President of the United States
he will be but ffty-one years of age,
and Just entering upon his intellectual
prime. Will he be content to go into
retirement from politics? If so, he will
have to forego his present love OF doing
things. Much, however, depends on
chance. If he shall be as popular when
he %retires as he is at present, or half as
popular, he will remain the head of his
party, and should he desire political
preferment, he will get it.
After his retirement from the Presi-
dency, George Washington was given
command of the army in our actual but
not declared war with France. John
Quincy Adams made more fame the
nine terms he was in Congress the last
eighteen years of his life than in all
his previous political career. General
Jackson retired from the Presidency in
1897. but he was the head of his party
until his death. in I84s. He dictated his
successor, and his will was law to both
Van Buren, and Polk. Van Buren, was
a politician until he died. He elected
Polk in 1874 and defeated Cass in 1913
General Grant was a candidate for
President in 1880, and had his man.
ayers acted with a little more sagacity,
he would have been nominated, and per-
haps elected. Grover Cleveland was
elected President in 1892 after his re-
tirement in 1880.
Mr.. Roosevelt is the youngest of the
Presidents, and when he retires in 1900
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plete social settlement in the world
and if this be so it is a fitting monu-
ment to the generous heart, sterling
character and unbounded sympathy OF
it's founder, Miss Jane Adams.
Miss Adams is now forty-ive years
old. She was born in .edarville, Ill.
After graduating at a we'll known col
lege she followed the example of her
other young women friends and lived
a life of ease and pleasure. She spent
her time mostly in reading and travel
and gradually the thought came to her
that she was absolutely without a pur-
pose in life. She saw the poor around
her, got to know their cares and wor-
ries and cast about for a means by
which she could do them ONE good.
She decided to become a physician and
took a years course in a Philadelphia
college. At the end of that time she
was compelled to rest and so went
abroad to study social conditions. h
result of her observations was her re-
turn tt America and the immediate es-
t~ablishment of a social settlement IN
Chicago.
Hull House is situated right in the
heart of Chicago's poor, in Halstead
street. It came to Miss d
through Miss Helen Culver, a niece OF
it's builder and the man for whom the
settlement is now named. 1t had been
built by it's owner years ago for MS
own home and in the belief that the
city would grow that way. 1t did grow
that way and became n of the most
congested sections of Chicago but a
peopled by all nations and of a class
of humanity unused to the fine usages
of life, unused to social restrictions
and wholly without the pale OF refined
society. When Miss Culver learned
that Miss Adams intended founding
a social settlement she gave her Hull
House. From the spacious mansion
which was once to have been a rich
mans home the settlement has extend
ed into a block of buildings and here
is the genuinely happy home OF Chi
cago's poor.
One of the adjuncts Of the settlement
is the Jane Club, an organization of
self supporting young women who are
making an effort to live up to the ideal
offered them in the personality of their
benefactor. The club is directly I'M
der the supervision of Miss Adams
and every employe of the house, and
in fact every one of the settlement, is
responsible personally to her.
Miss Adams believes in the people,
trusts them and looks to them for the
proper disposition of their duties and
their lives and in this way she has
come nearer their hearts, nearer their
condolences and nearer making them
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With Kingly Courage.

In Sweden a remarkable story is
told of King Oscars courage and re-
solution
The narrative recounts that a soldier,
a man of immense stature, while lying
under sentence of death secured a
long knife, and def1ed anyone to enter
his cell.
On hearing OF the circumstances the
King drove at once to the prison, and
disregarding the warning of the offici-
ais. entered the mans cell alone and
unarrod, locked the door behind him,
and then reasoned ' 18th the convict.
1t would have been a remarkable in
terview. even if the King had taken a
pardon to the convict. But far from
this, he actually explained to the con-
demned man why he had decided to
reject any appeal for mercy: yet he so
worked on the mans feelings that
when, with a farewell handshake, the
King left him, he was totally subdued,
and ready to meet his fate the next
morning like a soldier.
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the drift is %cityward; but there are
thousands of people who would like
to live on farms, and would, perhaps,
IL they knew something about the
growing of plants, and there is no time
like early youth to instil in the mind a
love of nature and of growing things.
So that considerable success has at
tended the school garden idea and the
nature study idea as it is being ap-
piled in a number of the older institu-
lions and in some new special schools.
A striking example of this is the
School of Horticulture at Hartford,
Conn.
In the year 1893 the Reverend
Francis Goodwin, a philanthropic cit
lien, gave about 100 acres Of Land and
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Scenes at
HarUord Scho0l
of 0rkcHlfHre.

specified but not to exceed a certain
amount, is to be used for the particular
improvement. The Senate invariably
has changed such bills so they appro-
pirate a fixed amount. This system is
regarded by the members of the House
Interstate and foreign m COM
mittee as being conducive to reckless
expenditure and the members of the
committee will refuse to accept such a
bill hereafter and purpose forcing the
Senate to indorse measures which Will
encourage the completion of work at
the lowest possible cost and the saw
ing of balances which may remain.
This action of the House committee
is in line with the general opposition
which the House is offering to what is
declared to be the encroachment of the
Senate upon its rights.
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ATTAINS TO FAME.
an OBSCURE NEW YORK Id WI
RISES TO POWERFUL AND
COMMANDLNG POSITION.

Beginning With Gas ProbingS. Charles
+. Hughes Develops Into Dominat-
ing Factor in Great Insurance lns
VeStigations.
In the history of the stage 1t has
happened more than once that an act
or, not thought to be a star, but with
sound qualities and training has ac'
cepted a part rejected by others, and
by careful study and Interpretation
made it the most interesting portion OF
the play, and achieved distinction as
the reward of his labors. And now,
before the country to-day, there is an
instance going to show that fortune
for such fidelity is not confined to the
stage.
A y r or so ago the New York leg
islature ordered an inquiry into the
methods of the gas companies OF
Greater New York, and the committee
appointed for the work had some trou-
BILE in its search for a legal adviser and
examiner of witnesses. The task, for
some reason, did not appeal to the
prominent members of the bar who
we. approached, and the choice fin
ally fell on a man comparatively un-
known. He had to be introduced to
the public outside of legal circles. But
he developed at nee into a man Of
striking force, and performed his dut-
les so well he earned the applause of
the whole State.
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SHE BAD THE MORE NERVE.
a Human Interest Incident of the
Metropolis.

Mrs. Charles Nommenson, wife of a
jeweler, of oS7 Fulton street, Brooklyn,
was sewing i'll the second floor sitting
room of their home the other afternoon,
when i'll walked a burglar with a pistol
in his hand.
Il got in the wrong house by mis-
take" said he, as he DOTTED his hat with
a bow. Il wanted to see Mrs. Wilson.
="
Get outi' ordered Mrs. Nommen-
son, producing a revolver of her own
and covering the mar with the rapidity
of thought. "A man who gets in the
wrong house by mistake doesn't draw
a revolver on a woman. You are a
theft"
II rang the bell and it was not an
swered. The door was open, so I
came in"
You are a thiefp cried the woman,
rising and keeping her revolver on him.
/ Will give you three minutes to get
out. If yoa are not gone then, | will
shoot and kill you. One-two@"
The burglar lodged out of the door.
Mrs. Nommenson was at his heels, her
eyes not leaving him for a second, that
he might not get the drop on her. The
man saw he had lost in the game of
nerve, and he backed down the steps.
At the front door he fumbled at the
latch. He could not open the door. 1t
seemed to present an opportunity to get
the best of the woman
you will have to let me out" said
the burglar.
mot much," said Mrs. Nommenson,
you want to get me at close quarters"
Then as she kept him covered with
her revolver, she told him how to un-
latch the complicated lock. She kept
him covered until the street door closed
on him. Then she returned to her sew
ing.
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Napoleon.
Napoleon going about like a raging tiol
seeking whom he might devour."

Sir Conan Doyle considers Napo-
leon as perhaps the most wonderful
man who ever lived. He writes that
what strikes him most ''rcibly is the
lack of finality in his character.
When one decides that he is a COM
plete villain, he reads Of some noble
trait, al then loses his admiration
In some act of incredible meanness.
But here was a you. man, OF
thirty years, with no social advan-
tages, very little e%dv"ation- his
family poverty striker, entering a
room in company with Kings, each
and every one jealous of any atten-
tons shown by him to any n Of
them.
He must have had some private
charm, for his intimate friends loved
and worshipped him, and withal he
was the most amazing and talented
liar that ever lived, and n who told
the truth only to himself.
An originator of great schemes that
seemed fantastic and impossible. his
n"'esty Of detail brought success
where another man would have failed.
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Man ofthe Hour.

And so MI. Charles e. Hughes is the
subject of no little speculation. The
obscure New York lawyer of the other
day is a powerful man of this day.
He is mentioned for both political and
business honors. He might have been
the Republican candidate for mayor in
the recent municipal campaign, and
had he been might likely have swept
the city. He is now mentioned for
his party's leadership in next years
gubernatorial campaign. He is like
wise suggested for the presidency of
the Mutual Life Insurance Company.
And should he decline preferment in
both of these lines, and decide to stick
to his profession, he is assured of a
vast increase over the practice than he
enjoyed before.
All of which goes to show that 1t
pays to do whatever you set out to DO
with all your heart and mind.
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HULL HOUSE.
MISS JANE adams THE PATRON
SAINT OF 4 MOST REMARK
ABLE INSTITUTION.

Hall Game Has Said that 1t is the
Most Complete Social Settlement
in the World-Founder a Wonderful
Woman.
The name of Jane Adams is known
to-day from n end of this vast coun-
try to another, and included in that
space are thousands of men, women and
children who regard her almost in the
light of a patron saint.
Miss Adams is the founder and
present chief moving spirit of Hull
House, Chicago, the greatest social set
Element ever known in this country.
Hull House is not really one house
but a series of buildings which have
grown up around one big dwelling
which years ago was given over to
Miss Adams for the accommodation
of the city's working people. The set.
Element includes a museum, theatre, a
restaurant and various other buildings
which are for the sole use of people to
whom life's joys are overbalanced by
cares and sorrows.
Hall Caine, the famous author, has
said that Hull House Is the most COM
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CoIOring Matter in Food.

Since we have been brought face to
face with the fact that most every
article constituting our daily diet con-
tains some artificial coloring matter,
there has been a demand for some
method by which we can test such foods
in order to determine whether OF not
they contain artificial coloring. The
Department of Agriculture has but re-
Gently ISSUED a bulletin containing a
classification of the colors used in food
products as well as methods for their
detection.