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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-10-19


The prince is almost midget in size,
standing four feet and some few inches
above the ground. But he is sturdily
built and has a strong, intelligent Face.
The princess is slender, and, as com
pared with her husband. is tall, for he
scarcely more than reaches to her
shoulder.
There is a whole lot of fight bottled
up in the compact form of the prince,
however. He entered the Japanese army
as a private, spurning the influence of
royalty, and preferring to learn the
profession of fighting from the ground
up. He did learn from the ground
literally, too, for he slept in the fields
, and worked in the trenches with the
other infantrymen of humber birth,
until his ability and determination won
promotion for him.
During the Russo Japanese war he
| acted as a member of General Kuroki q
| staff, bearing then the rank of major.
| He performed his duties well and fear
lessly, and at the end of the war war
| raised to lieutenant colonel.
During the past two years the prince
has served the Emperor of Germany as
an officer of infantry, and has absorb
ed much of what Europe has to teach a
japanese of the military science. When
he decided to return home, the princess
| journeyed to Germany to accompany
| her husband on the return trip.
| .A.a.-
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1909-02-11
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l8O0-The Lincoln Centenary 1909
Courtships Of Lincoln /
BY James A. Edgerton
Copyright. 1908. by the
American Press Association

benevolent, honest and truthful. He
was the very incarnation of the thing
we call Americanism, Of the demo
cratic spirit He was the glorifled type
Of the common man, the voice and
leader OF the plain people. 1t Is these
things that have made him "the gen.
tlest memory of our world" Prcsuma.
bly, he had ten fingers, two ears and
the usual number Of bones found In
the human body. But why obtrude
these facts7 Tom Smith and Jim Jen-
kins are equally endowed in this re-
gard. There are a billion and half
of human entities now living, nearly all
with ten fingers, two ears and the full
complement Of bones. Most Of them
likewise have had love affairs or will
have them when they arrive at the
susceptible age; most of them old
enough to talk at all have told stories
or have tried to do SO; most of them
are plain Of face, especially II they
are OF the male gender, and all Of
them have linear dimensions Of some
sort or other. Yet there Is not sin
gle Abraham Lincoln In the whole
billion and half Why spend SC
much time on describing mans hair
and eyebrows when he has soul, or,
rather, is soul, so supremely worth
study?
Not that would minimize Mr.. Lin
coins love affairs. These things in the
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all his heart attacks came before mar
riage, which is not invariably the case
In these days of afinities and divorce
courts.
There must be no mistake made In
one regard. Abraham Lincoln was
society man. In Springfield his name
was on most Of the committees that
come guest at all houses. The same
was true in Washington the two years
he served In congress. While be was
not exactly a ladies' man for the rea-
son that he was forever telling stories
and 80 got all the men around him, he
was not insensible to feminine charms
and was as ready to fall in love as any
young man with strong passions and
an eye for beauty.
This seems 50 much matter Of
course that It is strange Mr.. Lincoln's
biographers should dwell on 1t at such
length. 1t Is on par with referring
30 constantly to his height, to his
told broad stories. It is as though we
should say that Abraham Lincoln is
chiefly noted for his ugliness, his love
affairs, his risque anecdotes and his
great length and not that he is cele-
brated for liberating a race, for saving
q nation, for being mercifu1, demo-
cratic, truth loving and white OF soul.
In other words. we put forward his
nonessentials at the expense Of his es-
sentials. We emphasize those things
In which he was not distinguished
from his kind to the exclusion Of those
! things In which he was 20 distin-
guished. Other men have had love at
fairs not essentially different from
those Of Lincoln: others have been as
ugly or as tall. and othersa have told
a. many stories. but nobody else ever
issued an emancipation proclamation;
no one else ever held together the
worlds greatest republic in the hour
Of her suprams trial; no one else, with
one exception, ever combined such
msekness and greatness, and few 9th
en- have been moro tender hearted,
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great men, which is literally speaking
volumes. The only redeeming thing
about Weems Is that he wrote Of
Washington, and 1t was for this that
Lincoln appreciated him. ! do not
know whether Washington could tell
a lie or not. but l do know that both
Weems and Sparks could and did.
Fortunately for Lincoln, most of his
biographers have been on speaking
terms with verify and did not seek to
elevate their hero into demigod by
placing him on a tall pedestal Of eu-
logistic lies. George Washington was
very much Of man, and 1t will pay
the world to forget Weems and
Sparks and get acquainted with the
FIRST president as he was.
Such an Omnivorous reader was Lin
coin that he actually walked miles
to borrow a grammar in order that
he might read that. He doubtless
would have read the Congressional
Record II he could have got it.
The only people who read the Con-
gressional Record nowadays are the
members whose speeches IRE printed
there. They never get a chance to
deliver the great bulk of these
speeches in congress, 30 the Record Is
the only outlet for their pent-up elo-
quence. The government printing
ONCE thus becomes the legislative
safety valve. Still. that Is hardly a
truthful figure Of speech. a. there y
NO steam behind this oratory. AS for
gas, It never explodes without firs,
and there b not scintilla Of fre IN
these speeches. Il II fortunate tor
Lincoln and The world that the Record
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( Read every book he could procure.

genius and individuality Of pupils rath-
er than seek to dwarf and repress.
The revolt against this dead level of
uniformity in education is the same as
that against straight lines and geo
metrical figures In landscape garden
Ing, against the severely regular in art
and against the stiff. the unnatural and
the artificial In all departments Of life.
There is nothing so hideous as a row
Of houses made on the same pattern
except q row of men made the same
way. God gives us infinite variety,
and we shall have very much more
interesting, creative and worth while
world when We get sense enough to
follow Gods lead The internal world
Of the individual is the most real, the
most precious and the most holy thing
we know. 1t is time that we learned
to respect and venerate this thing fresh
from God and made in his image. II
the gardener Is delicate In his treat
ment of the flower. how much more
delicate should we be In our treatment
Of the individuality which is the flower
OF the soul.
Lincoln's form Of self impaired edu-
cation may have left him lacking in
polish and In some sorts Of culture,
but 1t still left him Lincoln with oil
his virility and plquant personality, and
the world - infinitely thankful for the
result.
According to the omniscient Dennis
Hanks what little schooling young Abe
got was due to bis mother and after
ward to his stepmother ABE was
som'ers round nine years old" 1ays
Dennis, ''but be never got over the
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life of any man are beautiful and are
cherished according to the degree Of
his development With man OF Lin
coins tender heart and sensibilities
such things would be sacred and holy,
not to be profaned by light references
or prying eyes. A mans public life
belongs to the public. His private and
domestic affairs are his own. The
mere fact that one is prominent does
not make him the legitimate prey of
the merel.a curious. Many great men
have had unhappy home lives. Poor
Lincoln was none too fortunate In this
regard. But he is at least entitled to
respect, even though he was denied
his full measure of happiness. Such
respect would shield him from a pry-
ing scrutiny after death that would
never have been given his affairs dur
ing life. With all due respect to
Messrs. Lamon and Herndon. who.
having been his law partners. should
have been his devoted friends, 1t must
be said that they have dragged his
purely private affairs to light in very
tactless II not an indicate manner.
Moreover, many Of their conclusions
rejecting on his parents and some re-
garding his wife have been shown by
thorough investigation to be untrue.
For example, Herndon says that Lin
coin absented himself on his wedding
night. As careful biographer as Ida
N. Tarbell denies this and gives the
word Of numerous personal friends Of
both Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln to prove
her statement. In the same manner
several Of Herndon's allegations con-
corning Thomas and Nancy Hanks
Lincoln have been proved untrue by
the actual records brought to light.
The simple facts are that Lincoln's
parents, his early life. his education,
his courtships and his domestic life
were about such az fall to the lot Of
the average man born. reared ana Nv
ing his adult life In similar environ.
ment. His stories were about such q
were told BY other frontleEsmen, law-
yers and politicians In his day, except
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By James A. Edgerton
Copyright. 1908. by the
American Press Association


was withheld from him. Think about
trusting, famishing eager eyed boy
being turned loose to wander In that
desert!
There is one other advantage IN the
Lincoln style of education. 1t at least
left his individuality unimpaired. He
was not put into hopper and ground
into the semblance Of every Other
young man that went through the
same mill. He remained as God made
him, not as some board Of trustees
and professors tried to make him over
He was not subjected to the deaden
ing process Of educational uniformity.
II there is anything that has made
this Anglo-Saxon civilization worth
while 1t has been the work of those
who dared to protest and revolt, the
Independent, the revolutionist and the
nonconformist. We have stood up for
our individuality, the dearest gift Of
God to man. Variety makes life bear
able. The whole movement of art, Of
civilization, of progress, is away from
the stupidity regular, spiritlessly uni
form, deadeningly monotonous, that
would make all men on the same intel
iectual pattern. That all who go
through the average university hopper
do not have the divine spark quenched
is due to the fact that their God-made
Individuality is stronger than the man
made molds in which they are placed
II one may order suit Of clothes to
fit his individual shape, why may he
not order an education also fitted to
his needs? Why Is an embryo poet
and merchant In the making fed the
same mental food? The elective sys
TEN in education has a small start,
thank God, and that beginning will
grow, let us hope, until public schools
and universities will try to develop
and bring out the peculiar difference
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Death Of Ann Rutledae.
The Mary Owens Affair.
Lincoln and Douglas as
Rivals In Love ~ ~
? OST men have several affairs
Of the heart, and little or
nothing Is said about them.

With Lincoln 1t is different
His courtships are magniHed. torn to
pieces, paraded before the world, his
tenderest emotions being dissected and
laid bare tn manner the most cal
lous. His despair over the death Of
one sweetheart, his letters to another.
his Misunderstanding with a third,
who finally became Mrs. Lincoln-all
are set forth to the last detail. They
are only such experiences as occur to
most men, with variations, of course
to fit each individual case With 9TH
ers they are considered sacred, how
ever. and IL mentioned at oil 1t Is with
delicacy which one would wish
shown to his own love affairs It
seems to be the price OF greatness that
nothing is sacred. II the future I'M
mortal whispers tender nothings in a
corner they are afterward bawled
from the housetops. If he SO much as
casts melting glance at some fair
one 1t is photographed for the inspec-
ton of future ages.
There are three affairs In the life Of
the martyr president and fourth Is
limited at by at least one biographer.
The average man can remember an
equal number and perhaps several
more. The beauty with Lincoln is that
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1909-02-11
OST OF the presidents lave
been college men. The great
est OF them, Washington and

NA been college men. The great
49, est OF them, Washington and
Lincoln, were not. Lincoln
indeed had little formal schooling Of
any sort. And those who taught him
were better fitted for mauling rails
and boys-than they were for teaching.
According to his own word, there was
less than year all told of even this
Indifferent instruction. AS matter Of
fact, however, Abraham Lincoln went
to school all his life, and he had bet
ter teacher than any Of these-himself.
He was as hungry for knowledge as
the average growing boy is for food.
He literally devoured books, any kind
Of books. including the Bible and the
dictionary. Books were as scarce then
as new novels worth reading are now.
As a result this lad with the starving
mind read and reread many times ev-
cry book he could procure. As Shake
speare, Aesop, the Arabian Nights"
and the prophets were among his au-
thors, it can be seen how much better
OF he was than those who are flooded
by latter day fustian.
Indeed, the meagerness OF the future
presidents schooling was by no means
an unmixed evil. What he did get he
digested. Like Franklin. he tried to
reproduce it, thus gaining style of
his own. Such mental appetite had
be that he even devoured the statutes
OF Indiana with as much eagerness
as the schoolgirl of today reads Laura
Jean Libbey. At least presume that
schoolgirls read her Somebody must
or she would not write.
It is said that Lincoln also read that
impossible book, "Weems' Life of
Washington" which has spread more
misinformation about the Father of
His Country than is told about most
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18O0-The Lincoln Centenary 1909
LinCOln's Education

He Actually Walked Miles
to Borrow q Grammar
and Went to School All
His Life - - -
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-08-18

school; Miss Craft in the grammar
room; Miss Goddard in the iutermed-
iste; Miss Virgins. second primary
and Miss Strain, first primary.
The tin roofing IS all laid on the
new brick block and carpenters are at
work on the inside wood work.
Jos. McColl has sold his grain eleva-
tor to Cribs Vollerson for So. 500, but
is to hold possession for nearly year
yet.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Green were
Denison callers Sunday.
Mrs. Nsllie Christensen and chill
dren, who have been visiting her rela-
tives for the past two weeks. started
for their home ct Kearney. Neb..
Monday. They will stop off few
days in Council Bluffs on their way.
Sears Nelson went to Kiron Mon
day and Tuesday Joined the Kiron ex-
cursionists aud went 20 Lake View.
Harry Huntington arrived in town
Sunday from Wendt, s. D.
Mrs. Fred Hendricks Of Council
Bluffs arrived Sunday for visit with
her parents. Mr.. and Mre. E. D.
Butts.
Henry Row has the material on the
ground to build IN addition to hit
residence.
C. O. Miller has been ON the sicl
list. but 10 now improving.
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VAIL ITEMS.

Mr., and Mrs. Robt. Dieter came in
from jackson township Saturday even
ing and visited over Sunday with re-
latives. Mr.. Dieter will have pub
lie sale August "a, and expects to get
started for Michigan in two weeks,
where they will make their future
home. Mr.. Dieter and family have
been residents Of Crawford county for
many years and their departure will
be greatly regretted by their many
friends in the county.
Robert Champion Of Kansas City
and Tom Champion Of Cleveland.
Ohio. visited here last week with
their brother. John. and sister, Mrs.
John Doherty.
Mrs. B. Byrnes celebrated her
eightieth birthday last Monday.
Miss Fannie Woolston left for Des
Moines Thursday. where she will be
the guest Of relatives until after the
fair.
Miss Jewel Fanske. who has been
the guest Of Vail friends for the past
week. left Friday morning for her
home at Pierce. Neb.
Thos. Fitzgibbons and John Nc
Donnell drove over to the county seat
Monday on business and pleasure.
Miss Edna Woolsoncroft ID visiting
relatives at Rockwell City.
Miss Name and Peter Msngan left
Tuesday for Dunlap to visit relatives
in that vicinity for couple OF weeks.
/ NJ. Kelly was transacting business
in Denison Thursday.
Miss Olga Wahlin went to Arcadia
Friday for couple of weeks stay
with her sister. Mrs. O'Dien.
Henry Bonker went to Omaha Fri
day on business.
Ed. Killesn spent Sunday in West
Side.
Mr.. T. Quirk went to Denison last
J eek. where he will spend month
at the home Of bis daughter. Mrs.
Thos. Fitzpatrick.
Miss Merle harrington spent last
week with relatives at Dunlap.
Henry Gfonemeyar spent part of
last week ia Chicago.
Mrs. Thos. Connsll. WHO has been
visiting her sister. Mrs. 7. J. Ken
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ney and other Vail friends, left last
Saturday for her home in Omaha.
Miss Lizzie Costello visited her
uncle, VIM. Lynch, at Logan last
week.
Miss Tena Nelson and the Misses
Olson were calling on Denison friends
Friday.
Miss Ruby and Garnet Norman Of
Denison were guests at the Jas. Duffy
home last week.
John Murphy made . business trip
to Arcadia Saturday.
John Holland was q Denison caller
Tuesday.
Birkhoefsr Of Dow City and Baker
Of Sioux City were buying horses here
last week.
Mrs. Mundt and Mrs. Adam Short
were calling ,on Denisys friends Sat-
urday.
Miss Lessis Marshall Of Denison
came last week to visit friends and
attend to business pertaining to her
farm north Of town.
Maurice O'Connor made . trip to
Denison Wedne sday ON legal business
p. Finneran and wife are visiting
their daughter in Omaha for the past
week.
Thos. Curry Of Geneva. Neb., was
calling on friends 10 this locality last
week.
Miss Margaret Regain came from
West Side Sunday evening and will
spend few days here with friends
before leaving for FL Reno. Okla, to
begin her school duties.
Jim Brogsn and wife expect to
leave for Vivian, s. D.. the fore part
Of this week for visit with Mrs.
Brogan's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thos.
Giblin.
Mrs. W. F. Mitchell made trip
to Carroll Sunday to see her husband,
who is 10 the hospital at that place for
treatment.
Miss Ella Eiffert was the guest Of
Miss Luella vennink here . few days
last week.
G. E Dingman is enjoying two
week g vacation at Onxwa and Sioux
City.
Miss Maude Granny was calling on
West Side friends Sunday.
Miss Evelyn Fitch came up from
Carroll Saturday evening for an over
] Sunday visit with her folks.
Miss Bertha Trexell of Denison
spent last week here with her Vail
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kral visited
Carroll friends Sunday.
Mrs. Henry Gronemeyer spent last
week with her parents in Carroll.
Mrs. Thos. Fitzgibbons was busi-
ness caller in Denison Friday.
j Mr.. and Mrs. K. Hawley were in
Denison Tuesday on business.
Ed. Ryan, Jr.. came from Omaha
last week for q couple of weeks stay
with his father.
Glenn McGrath took bis departure
Friday for Chicago and New York for
a months visit,
Mr.. John Breen lost two valuable
COWS with the heat last week.
j Mrs. M Dupont and Earl Harring-
ton returned Saturday from weeks
visit with Omaha friends.
Rev. H. Hostettler Of Denison spent
Sunday in Vail.
DR.. Young made trip to Denison
Tuesday in his auto.
/ Mr.. Ogle and family have moved to
Dakota and thus Vail loses another
family.
Bob O'Connell, Walter McAndrews
and James Hill expect to leave for
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DOW CITY ITEMS

DOW ClTY ITEMS
u
Stanley Curtis is visiting his par
ents at the NJ. E. parsonage.
Mrs. L. B. loon and son, Billy,
arrived in town q few days ago to
viist friends.
Harry Kuykendall and wife Of Chi
cago came the latter part of last week
Tor visit with his parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Cal Cuykendall.
Mrs. Agnes Holiday Kern Of Bell
Plain is visiting her parents and
friends this week.
Mrs. Willard Saul and children.
Who have been visiting in this vicinity
f0rsseveral weeks, nave returned, to
thesr home near Douglas. Wyoming.
Z. Cohen and N. r. Wilder have
both invested in fine new autos which
they brought up from Omaha last
week.
Tie horse. buggy and harness which
vas stolen firm the George Bell barn
was found . few days later near
Woodbine where it had been driven
and left. No clue as to who was the
thief.
o. A. Cooper's son, Roger, fell
from horse he was riding and in
jured his arm quite badly.
D. S. Miller is improving his pro-
perry with new cistern and cement
walks.
Aunt Nellie Crandall and her daueh-
ter. Mrs. Henry Bell. are visiting the
Chas. AcHenry family at Mitchell,
S. d.
Mr. and Mrs. j. r. Best went to
Onaha Friday.
Dr.. Carr Of Denison was in town
Saturday.
I MIRA. Laura Kent Warehouse Of
Omaha came up Friday. returning
home Saturday.
Jesse Bremser, one Of the former
Dow City business men. but now Of
Nebraska, arrived in town Saturday.
Attorney Sims Of Denison was q
business visitor Saturday.
Jack Scott. who is already an ex-
pert blacksmith. is now in Council
Bluffs working in the automobile re-
pair shops and will soon be prepared
to do expert work in that line.
DIR. Van Metres little son is quite
nick but it is hoped he will soon be
out again.
Miss Rena Brake. the efficient
salesiady in the Bremser store, went
to Cherokee Saturday for week Is
visit with relatives.
Fred Rue Of Fort Dodge visited
Sunday ut the home of his brother.
e George Rule.
Mrs. /. Bixler and daughter. Lott
tie. started Monday morning for Grim
nell. near which place they expect to
spend the next two weeks at the home
of Mrs. Bixler's brother. This is q
well earned vacation for Miss Lottie.
~ she has been faithfully at her work
10 the Cohen store for several months.
The fourth quarterly meeting Of the
a. E. church will occur next Saturday
at ten O'Clock.
DIR. Van Metre mother is here for
visit. from Waterloo.
Norris Wilder drove to Vail Sunday
in the new auto.
Henry and Sears Nelson were Sum
day guests at the home Of their BROTH
II. 3d.. Ia Denison.
William Galland and wife went To
Missouri Valley Friday and remained
over Sunday with their son. Ed and
family.
School will commence August 30th
with the following teachers: Prof.
Bunch and Miss King in the high
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tsThe family physician said all he
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