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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-02-20
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Abraham Lincolns First and Fondcst
oye.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-02-20
A Stitch In Time

will save nine So will a bottle oil
Billiards. Horehound Syrup always
kept on hand save many a spell OF
sickness. A sure cure for coughs,
colds, bronchitis and whoopingcough.
Mrs. S. Hot Springs, Ark. writes;
II keep bottle of Billiards. Hore.
hound Syrup In my medicine chest,
and thank my forethought many
times. 1t has prevented many severe
spells OF sickness. Sold by Ritter Bros
Drug company.
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Abraham L.ncolns First and Fondcsl
Love.
w AMES RUTLEDGE was the
81 founder of New Salem, the little
a III town In Illinois TO which Abra.
ham Lincoln removed at the age
OF twenty-threc, and the owner In part
of the famous mill on the Sangamon.
lie was born in South Carolina and
was Of the lllustrious Rutledgc family
of that state. From South Carolina he
emlgratcd TO Kentucky and thence to
Illinois. In 1923 he settled at New Sa-
lem, built the mill and laid out the viii
lage in conjunction with Mr.. Cameron,
retired minister of the Cumberland
Presbyterians. Mr.. Rulledge's charac-
ter seems to have been pure ana high,
for wherever his name occurs in the
voluminous records before us-in the
long talks and the numerous cpistles
of his neighbors--it is almost invarla-
bly, coupled with some expression of
genuine esteem and respect.
At one time and along with his other
business, which appears to have been
extensive and various. Mr.. Rutledgc
kept the tavern, the small house with
four rooms on the main street of New
Salem, just opposite Lincoln's grocery.
There Mr.. Lincoln came TO board late
In 1882 or early In 1888. The family
consisted of the father, mother and
nine children, three of them born In
Kentucky and six in Illinois. three
grown up and the rest quite young.
Ann the principal subject of this chap
ter. was the third child. She was born
on the 18th of January, 1918, and was
about nineteen years of age when Mr..
Lincoln came TO live in the house.
When Ann was little maiden just
turned of seventeen and still attending
the school of that redoubtable peda-
gogue Mlntcr Graham, there came to
New Salem Il young gentleman of sim
gular enterprise, tact and capacity for
business. He was the pioneer Of New
Salem as n business point and built
the first storehouse there ut the extrav-
agant cost of $15. He took boarding
with Mr.. Rutledge's friend and part
ner. James Cameron, and gave out his
namc rs John Mcneil lie came to
New Salem with no other capital than
good sense and an active and plucky
spirit but somehow fortune smiled in
discriminatory on all his endeavors,
and very sOon--as early as the latter
part of 1S32-he found himself well
to do and prosperous man, owning n
snug farm seven miles north of New
Salem and half interest In the largest
store of the place. This latter property
his partner, Samuel Hill, bought from
him ut II good round sum- for Mcneil
now announced his intention of being
absent for brief period and his pur-
pose was such that he might need all
his available capital
In the meantime the partners, Hill
and Mcneil, had both fallen In love
with Ann Rutledge and both courted
her with devoted assidulty. But the
contest had long since been decided in
favor of Mcneil, and Ann loved him
with all her susceptible and sensitive
heart. When the time drew near for
Mcneil to depart he contided to Ann a
strange story and, in the eyes of per-
son less fond, Il very startling story.
His name was not John Mcneil Mt all,
hut John McNamar. His family was q
Highly respectable one In the state OF
New York, but a few years before his
father had failed in business and there
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-02-20
Pleasant and most Effective.

II. j. Chambers, Ed. Vlndicator
Liberty, Texas, writes Dec. %, 1902
"With pleasure and unsolicited by
you, / bear testimony to the curative
power OF Billiards. Horehound Syrup.
have used it 10 my family and can
cheerfully affirm IL is the most etfec-
tive and best remedy for coughs and
colds ] have ever used" Sold by Ritter
Bros. Drug, Co.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-02-20
Hunting For Trouble.

"rye lived in California 20 years,
and am still hunting for trouble IN
the way OF burns, sores. wounds, boils,
cuts, spraius, or case OF piles That
Bucklen's Arnica Salve won't cure
quickly" writes Charles Walters, OF
Allegheny, Sierra county No use
h inting, Mr. Walters; 1t cures every
case. Guaranteed by Ritter Bros.
Drug Co. 25c.
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modest, delicate creature, fascinating
by reason of the mere contrast with
the rude people by whom they We're
both surrounded. She had secret,
painful absence of McNamar, which
no doubt made her all the more inter
estlng to him whose spirit was often
even more melancholy than her own.
1t would be hard to trace the growth
Of such an attachment Mt Il time and
place 80 distant, but that it actually
grew and became an intense and mu-
tual passion the evidence before us Is
painfully abundant.
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When Mr.. Lincoln FIRST saw Ann. she
was probably the most refined woman
with whom he had then ever spoken
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-20

BRYAN expected him TO sign it. Had Col
oDel BRYAN been in Governor HUGHEs's
place he would have signed it.
Governor HUGHES did not sign it be-
cause it was a foolish, III considered,
unfair measure; because it was a dema-
gogical piece OF legislation, discreditable
10 the State and injurious to all interests.
In vetoing the bill he departed as far
from Colonel BRYAN as he could go. The
reasons he gave for Withholding his
approval were the very reasons that
would have impelled Colonel BRYAN to
sign the bill enthusiastically. They were
based on common sense, intelligence and
justice.
Probably Governor HUGHES was pre-
pared for Colonel BRYAN's disapproval
when he decided on the course he was
to follow. PROFESSIONALLY he gave full
weight to the effect of Colonel BBYAN's
wrath and disgust. One can picture to
himself CHARLES EVANS HUGHES consid-
ering his official acts and carefully bal
ancing the urgings of a mind not without
capacity, plus a conscience of at least
ordinary acti witty, against the master
thought, What will WILLIAM JENNINGS
BRYAN think of this?"
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A Director for the New Theatre.

1t would be interesting to hear the
opinion Of the New York theatrical man.
ayers on the action Of the directors OF the
New Theatre. They are building the
finest playhouse that has ever existed in
this country. Their purpose is wholly
artistic. Their aim is not commercial,
but to establish in this country some
academic institution which will repre-
sent in our drama what the Coincide
FRANCHISE and the Hofburg stand for
In France and Austria. To accomplish
this purpose they are spending a large
sum of money and incidentally bestow-
ing on the city a structure that will al
ways be a source Of artistic delight and
a monument to the accomplishments Of
the architects OF this day.
More important, of course, than it's
beauties Of line and curve is the direction
Of such an institution. Such ambitious
purposes and such material
must be administered by a capable nan
Without a director cultivated in his
profession, wise and experienced in his
calling, NJ beauty or grandeur of the
building would count for much. The
fate Of the New Theatre will be decided by
the policies OF its conductors. Intelligent
control might make almost any theatre
attractive, while no beauties of design
or decoration would avail against the
blunders of a stupid management.
The gentlemen who are building this
theatre for New York and for the greater
glory OF dramatic art in this country are
just now seeking this accomplished direc-
tor. Mr.. CoNRIED, who was appointed to
act for one year, will not continue in
charge of the institution after his term
expires next winter. The director who
will have actual control OF the house
will be wanted then. There is every
indication that the theatre will be ready
at the time 1t was promised by the
architects. More difficult than building
the New Theatre seems the selection OF a
director.
So far no American manager has been
considered by the committee that has
this matter in charge. For that reason
it would be interesting to hear the opin-
ion OF local theatrical managers and
their explHnation-or would il be their
excuse?-for the necessity Of seeking
abroad the director Of what is planned
TO be the finest theatre in this country.
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Burlington Magazine for June.

Percy Moore Turner in the June number
of the Burlington Magazine now turns his
attention to the En- lish chool Of portraits
found in the Louvre, and declares that GER
tain attributions to artists like Gainsboroush,
Lawrence. Raeburn. Hoppner and others
which have been accepted in good faith by
the directors OF the great French gallery are
no more trustworthy than were those among
the landscapes which he lately exposed; Mr..
a long critical notice of the Sedelmeyer sale,
recently concluded In Paris. The %illustra.
lions In photogra yure are of a genuine Gains
borough and two Lawrence portraits. There
is a discussion BY A Modern Painter" OF the
English school Of water color painting as an art
that is typically English and that no other
also has a note on water color technique.
The interest in the revival OF plans and
methods for the excavating OF Herculaneum
which the Italian Government has under
from Miss Ethel Ross. who explains how the
excS vations OF the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries were carried out. Some O, the
been found at HerculaneumL among them the
famous small bronzes NOV in the Naples
Museum. There are fine full pa &c reproduc-
painting by Harry Wyatt, who worked in
Sir ThSmas LSwrenSe's studtot known as
Man W"-s Ha%k;l DR.. Wilhelm Bode Of
t hssrlsS7 ,,epal.1 t we N oth sS.h notes by g POt i +,
ar, 1&siuto5Ibi9a is by Jacopo pssps the Elder
Is an 9 Yginal work by the great Mich. aangelo.
Clemtht Heaton discusses the origin OF the
early stained glass in CapteTbury, Cathedral,
and c. II, Wylde the history OF tapestry, all
Art in America" in this number deals with
the two annual spring exhibitions held IN
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Nothing Doing.

For the IN all Republican booms
seem to be stalled. Mr.. TAFT has made no
p%erceptible gains by his Western progress
except il so far as his engagingpersonality
must make friends wherever it is known.
La F%oLLETTE's Badger devotees are said
to be "madder" than hornets because the
Secretary of War dared to visit the-North-
west, regarded by them as La TOILETTE
territory, Perhaps the La Toilette boom
should not be labelled Republican. Uncle
JosEPHCs CANNON hangs on to Illinois and
warns of all trespasseTs, but no kindling
c%ontagion for him spreads into adjoining
States. He is learning to pitch horse
shoes by way Of proving his undimin-
iehed youthful strength and Of winning
the affections of Missouri, Kansas, Ne
braska and other regions where the game
has been revived and talk Of ringers and
shuckin' pegs possesses the air.
Nlists veil the awful head of Mount
Fairbanks. Only the long, melancholy
withdrawing roar of waves of buttermilk
reaches us from the stern and rockbound
coast. KNOX; advancing p~rosperously,
has been checked by the exuberant COM
mendations of the Hon. NATHAN BAY
SCOTT oaWest Virginia. No boom makes
any headwav.
The Weather cannot be blamed. Ma
tional conventions are usually held when
the world is boiling, No absorbing in
terest concentrates and m%onopolizes the
attention of the country. The season
may be a little early, but for the making
of Presidents all seasons are in season.
Probably Republicans are waiting to see
what Mr.. ROOSEVELT will decide to do
and what he will finally direct them to
do. Theirpower of initiative has grown
fiabby through disuse. Why should they
bother or bestir themselves about the
selection of Mr.. RoosEvELT's successor?
He will attend to that for them as he
attends TO everything else. He
them labor.
But will the American people, after all
these years Of passionate melodrama, be
content to sit down to a tame, villatic
life? Do they not look forward to an
other President and a return TO the old
ordered constitutional paths Of govern
ment with somewhat the same dislike
with which the tippler regards the tenn
perance pledge? Constitutional govern
ment is so dull.
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aAExIclNizEp."
Its Legitimate Meaning and Iu Common
Application.

To THE EDIToR OF TIE SuS-Sir: Now
that the word "mexIoaniZed has become a
regular bugaboo with which 70 friRhten away
the third termer in the United states II would
be In line Tor us Mexicans TO resent Its con-
ventional and relative mesning as applied N
a possible condition that would arise here
were the Hon, Theodore Roosevelt willing TO
be the next candidate OF his party. Az aliens
we are deferred from indulging In academic
speculations on the propTiety OF infringing
a precedent which has been respected by all
his predecessors: but as unwilling providers
OF the pa IA llelism which Is serving here at
present as an object Of terror we abide by its
merits and beg leave 10 submit Its reasons
and genesis.
Mexico Is being rapidly "mexica nized" by
a patriotic ruler who has wreSted from the
domain Of personal poltics-the curse Of
Latin America all internal questions and
has placed them under the heading Of ECO
nomic problems" which are being solved
now with fairness and cautious judgment.
In doing 20 our President has acted with the
utmost prudence and oircumspection and with
a profound regard for private property and
the vested rights OF his fellow citizens.
Mexico is being rapidly "meSIca nized" by
a patriotic ruler who does not have any
galleries" 10 play TO while affecting a deep
concern for the welfa re OF the nation, as our
people are una nimously agreed as to his use
fulness and intentions; by a ruler who re-
spects legal interests, cherishes traditions,
peIGeites rRhteousuess anu accotus yus'ioe
to all those who gather the fruit OF their laoors
under his enlightened government.
Mexico Is being ra pidly "mexicAnized" by
na,rio,io .r,Iar ,vho n.,ar ,,,,.r. , vor5
. an,t ~ " ~ % q AZ" IL
without weishlbs ~ on the scare OF ms as
erection and conscience, knowing that by
refraining from Trades and diatribeS hi,
policy" will merit the approval and stand
tne scrutiny OF citlhens ana outsluerS' ne
knows very well that consistency IL a jewel
not to be "a mpered with constantly, as the
more Won endeayor To attract the admiration
~ . = na W I'M, me II nnae
OF others toward lts orlilancy OF coior the
duller II Will appear 10 their comprehension
and vision.
MeIico 4. heinz p, p,dIv "msxica ri,ed" nv
ns,rio,io - ~ ~, u1,aI amn
a pdtrouo ruler VINO mas hlteo our nauoh
from the penury and decentralization Of by
gone days to its actual position Of settledness
and soIyencv Ne has NOT n,ected the snIrit
- .esasssss, - NJ, epnI
OF restesspess into a legacy OF security ana
placidity. he has civ en- new life to an ema-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-20
Bryan's Hopes Dashed.

Only the mind the most callous can
withhold sympathy from Colonel BRYAN
to-day. That good and wise man has
experienced a bitter disappointment. He
is plunged In grief. His hopes are dashed,
his plans are shattered. Try as he may,
he cannot check the tear that courses
down his classic cheek.
Colonel BRYAN, as the world well knows,
has given much effort and many sleep
less nights to the cultivation. OF the po-
litical ~intellectuals Of CHARLES EVANS
HUGHES. The Colonel has seen in Gov
ernor HUGHES a man OF his own kind: a
cool, logical man a man Of studious habit,
a man Of conservative, but progress
sive, ideals. In HUGHES the Commoner
has disceEned a ft heir 20 the Bryan
theories and practices, High projects
has Colonel BRYAN had for Governor
HUGHES.
Governor HUGHES might have retained
the respect and affection Of Colonel BRIAN
by signing the two cent fare bill. Colonel
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To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir; The
great march in the advancement OF ideas In
regard To property in the last 100 years
would seem TO call for attention:
Is 1t not lawful for me TO DO Shat l will with mine
~own1-Jesus. In me parable OF ne ldborsrS OF me
Vineyard, Matthew H.. Is.
do not believe that any advantage comes either
TO the country as a whole or TO the individuals In
he1ting the money by permitting the transmission
In their entirety OF such enormous fortunes as have
been accumulated In Amehca,-Theodors Roosevelt.
al JdntEo1n, June 10.
A man has come into possession Of a large
fortune. honestly acquitted. After providing
for his family and connections he devises a
certain amount 10 friends. He endows hos
pitfalls, libraries, old peoples homes, DC. He
pays his ia xes in the same proportion as other
people pay theirs. II he has protection he
pays for IL, oftentImes for more thar he gets.
He dies, n the Roosevelt idea is for the
Government to snatch a~aya portion Of what
was left TO each beneficiary and spend It for
its own purposes. Might apparently makes
right, but ! can see no difference between such
a method and a footpad who meets you on the
street and EFFORTS money from you with a
pistol.
The words OF Jesus will have, to be remod-
elled. is II not lawful for me 70 do what
will with mine own" is obsolete. II the
Roosevelt idea Is correct, that it is right to
take q portion OF a mans goods after he dies.
by the same logic II is right TO take the whole.
l can see no difference. Is this 10 be the
coming rule? CHARLIE B. WHITING.
HARTFORD. Conn, June 10.
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incredible. II ID evident from the vote
cast in the Chamber on Tuesday, Az to
1853, when the Governments demand for
a p~ostponemenf of an Interpolation con-
corning it's proposed method/of dealing
with the nascent in%surrection was ap-
proved, that the Reactionists must have
combined with the Socialists to make up
the minority. Monarchical and clerical
newspapers, It seems, are daily pointing
out how much better of we're the people
under n monarchical regime. We may,
Of course, take for granted that the OPP
ponents OF the political combination nov
in power will seize every opportunity TO
discredit il.
Whatever nay come Of this revolt OF
the wine growers, 1t is certainly a more
ominous phenomenon than any that vas
witnessed in France a week before the
overthrow of the restored Bourbon mon
archy in 1880, or that OF LOUIS PHILIPPE
in 1913. Those revolutions could fairly
be described az bolts out OF a clear sky,
At each of those co~njunctures it turned
out that the army could not he relied
upon, and it is at least possible that a
similar experience awaits the Govern
ment headed by NJ. CLEMENcEAU. 1t is
significant that the War Office has taken
the p%recaution OF removing from Langue-
doc all the regiments recruited in that
region and has replaced them with ma
tives Of the north.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-20
FREE SHIPS VS.. SUBSIDIES.
Honif Construction Advocated as the Only
Profitable Plan.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: James
McGufog Brown in his letter to The sun
urges free ships" as a sure way 10 build up
American shipping. and he cites the ex-
ample OF Germany and France. But Mr..
Brown Is Hrong as % his facts. A foreign
built ship can get a French subsidy, and
Germany. in her CONTRACT with the North
German Lloyd. requires that the subsidized
imperial liners shall be built in German ship
yards. as far as possible OF German material.
Both nations have had an illumins ting ex-
perience with the free ship policy when they
tried free ships alone.
Under this policy the French mercha mt
tonnag e actually fell of from i,o72, 900 tons
in 1870 TO Ola, 900 tons in 1881. Then the
French Government in desperation adopted
the subsidy system. under which its tonna ee
has grown to /. 100. 900 tons. Germany. under
free ships alone. saw her tonnag &c gain only
from i,oss 600 In 1878 to l,243. 900 In 1881. Then
Bismarck advocated the present elaborate
system of imperial aid 10 German shining
by mail subsidies, rebates, discriminating
rates. DC, with the result that Germany's
merchant marine Is now p W I'd Of 3. 900, 600
tons. German shipowners occa sionally MIR
chase craft abroad. but IL Is well known that
the whole influence OF the imperial Govern
ment is ererted 10 honor and reward those
who build at home, this being now the In
variable practice of the North German Lloyd
Company and the general practice OF the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The Merchan mt IA rine Commission asked
the practical shipowners Of the United states
two veal rs ago whether they desired free ships.
In @ ratio Of about tEenty to one they said
that they did not believe that this was the
merchant. marine: All the principal hmeri-
can investors In forei gn ships, including the
Morgan combinat lon. replied that they Would
not bring their foreign built ships under the
m lrinQn GQ q ~ N fraa phin a..
subsidized.
In view of these facts the free shin idea
has virtually sunk out Of sight ip. Congress.
are ~ academic free traders of Inadequate
information. who rely chiefly on statement
Of hostile, foreign steamship ma ma gers, and
n thee hostile foreign steamship mana gers
New York is full Of representative OF British.
French. German and other European mari,
time interests who will tell you frankly that
ships because Il would absolutely xiii Hmerie
can shipbuilding and clinoh the foreign
monopoly OF our carrying trade.
hut this Il a very good reason why Ameri-
eKpedient; The more ships we build In this
country the cheaper those ships will be AZ
our experience on the Great Lakes has demon
.,it rss from II E We had imgor,ed d al 0yT loOomo-
at home, does anybody believe that we should
Spuntriesl Sixty or seventy years ago mem
hm.T ge%s' p @Sden tSst sT tS.H w ons telling the
10 buy their railroad equipment from In S}tsabe
workshops. But the American people did
not look at the matter In that way.
CLEVELAND. June IL.
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Don Canseco Goes.

From me Wdthfn0fon Herald.
Washington is all broken up over the prospective
departure of Sedor Don CHsotoro canseco, second
secretary Of the Mexican Embassy who has been
never be Itself again after Sehor Don Crisoforo
goes. To that a la mode thoroughfAre. and 10 the
downtown hotel al which he has lived during the
considerable period that he has been q part OF
Cousin DiAz's diplomatic establishment here. he has
lent q grace and a distinction which well Informed
persons say could not possibly have been otherwise
obtained.
No day was too stormy for Senior Don CTisoforo
to favor Connecticut avenue pedestrians with q sight
OF his fAultleSsly Attired form and his stern, strong,
Interesting face. Sometimes he rode, but more
often he walked. slowly. and with the dignity he
hitting a diplomat, his walking stick describing exact
geometrio designs In the air meanwhile. SO often
was he seen on the avenue, indeed. that among the
coarse. unfcellng hoi polioi there grew up a belief.
amounting almost To a conviction. that Sehor Don
Crsoforo did comparatively little work at the EN-
bassy. But. whether he worked at the embassy ~
not, be certainly worked. No man could change
his clothes as often as SehoT Don CTisoforo changed
and changes-his, even with the aid OF a battery
OF Wallets. without the expenditure OF much physical
energy. His family is one OF the veAlthiest In
Mexico, and Senior Don CnEoioro probably has
spent more money In his apparel than any man In
Washington.
He has been a prominent heure In that section
OF Washington society" which Affects the diplo'
nttIsts, and his lntimates are deeply ~regretfsl over
his prospective departure. While the Mexican
Embassy has given out nothing In the premises
Il Ia known that Ambassador Creei and his siaH
realize that II will be quite impossible 10 get an
other man like Sehor Don Cnsoforo Canseoo 70 take
the post OF second secretary when that valued mem.
Der OF the diplomatic family departs Howard.