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The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1909-02-11

ings outside of himself. Nobody that
amounts to anything is The fact that
Lincoln arose from humble beginnings
to place among the unforgotten ones
Is an infinite encouragement to all 9th
er boys who are similarly born, but
1t Is they who need the example more
than he needed the hardships. The
simple lesson Is that the soul should
arrive through any kind of circum-
ginning but the end Of the road, that
counts
The best account of Lincoin's boy
hood l have ever seen was contained
In an interview with old Dennis Hanks
which was published In one of the
magazines year or two ago. Dennis
Hanks, who did not amount to much
in any other way. was Lincoln's cousin
and boyhood friend But he did have
eyes, a memory and tongue. By
the use Of the three he has left q
graphic picture OF his playmate and Is
worthy Of note for the pictures sake
IL for no other reason. Little Abe, it
seems, was just plain, long legged
American boy who wanted to know
everything and who spent most OF his
spare time In playing pranks reading
every book he could get his hands on
and asking questions. Did you ever
see boy like that? It seems to me
have seen several Thousand. It is
hardly possible that they will all be
president, but they are starting right.
DID you ever reflect that It is this
very fact Of Lincoln's being 20 like
everybody else and yet 30 different
that has endeared him to the heart Of
the world1 He has revealed to us how
divine and noble and beautiful this
common llfs can be made. To walk
along the why We walk, amid the dust,
vexationG and annoyances, to meet the
hardShips and temptat lions We meet, ia
~ cast down and sad and discouraged
l1ee a ~ are and Vt to 80 through
4 Al With honesty. With truth. With
exength and with eood nature that
d. ~ eound - dtMcult q WONDER
| IL M ~ TIT = ~ vsry WY Lin
eoln Nent - naopt apparent thtn1z
i a1nnt Mn ey n NJ by Npsx
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The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1909-02-11

In Asia and Africa around the Mediter
ranean, little broader fringe down
the eastern coast Of the two Americas
and rather vague and grotesque no
ton In the public mind concerning
China, India, Japan and the African
continent The chief use of Asia in
those days was as basis for fables,
while Africa was only good for steal
ing ''niggers" from and selling them
into slavery.
In the United States, Indiana was on
the extreme frontier; the Louisiana
purchase had but just been made,
Florida and Texas were not yet &C.
CURED and the entire population Of the
nation was but trile over 7,O0QO 600.
Madison had been elected president
the flrst time and was about to take
his seat. The second war with Great
Britain had not yet been fought. The
crest political fact Of the entire world
was then Napoleon. He was In the
penlth Of his power and for little
man was casting = remarkably lonG
shadow. Indeed. just about this time
Napoleon was Europe. He dominated
France, Italy and Germany and had
ungland and Russia scared into Z 20.
ht1cal aSus True, Welnnston -
Wlzn4ng biz nrst Victories n Spain, bul
Wa&4oo, a. which these wefs Pro
pAsfi No. ~ ~ yeaTe dts$ant.
~ ~ patak1aI rapecta. - conpaFl
- vaar 1n6a N1th 1nl1o N0llA ~ l11k1
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1909-02-11
The World When Lincoln Was Born
BY James A. Edserton
Copyright. 1908. by the
American Press Association
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light, sail ship with Lusitania or
locomotive. 81
Politically the showing Is almost as
bad for 1.-THE good old times" Eng
land was at about her lowest ebb OF
despotism. Napoleon had snuffed out
the liberty gained by the French rev
olution. Most Of the rest Of Europe
had but traded the rule Of the kings
for the personal military rule Of this
one man. In America alone were lib
erty and democracy recognized. They
had no home elsewhere.
Spiritually the word was emerging
out OF the semi-atheism of the eight
eenth century into the revived dog
matism Of the nineteenth. No; looked
at from any possible standpoint 100!
Is just about a million miles ahead o.
the corresponding year in the proceed
ing century. And that IS not mere
Boosting. 1t Is history.
For all that, 1909 was noteworthy
year-noteworthy for it's promise rath
er than Its performance. During Il
were born two Of the great poets OF
the last century, Edgar A. Poe anl
Alfred Tennyson. And on Feb. -
1909, the very day that Lincoln was
born, Charles Robert Darwin saw the
light. Lincoln and Darwin! Where
could be found two mightier names
In their respective spheres Lincoln
who freed the bodies of men, and Oar
win, who freed their minds; Lincoln
who taught us that the black man Il
our brother, and Darwin, who laugh
US that the ape is our great-grand
father; both men majestic in thei
patient, homely simplicity; both earn
Ing the right Of earthly Immortality b.
| their unexampled services to the hu
man race; Darwin, the founder 0
evolution, who has revolutionized tn
thought of the world; Lincoln, tn
liberator Of the negro, the preserver 0
the republic, the incarnation of democ
racy. who has shown the world wha
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1909-02-11
l6O0-The Lincoln Centenary
he boyhood of Lincoln
His ln4atiable CRAVING to
Know Things He Even
Read While He Ate~Sim-
plictty and Democracy
N one room log shanty with an
earthen floor and lighted only by
a glazed paper window Abraham

YN a one room log shanty with an
earthen floor and lighted only by
a glazed paper window Abraham
Lincoln was born. He died In q
theater by the hand Of an actor. AS
bald statement Of the method Of his
arrival and departure that is not very
promising. But what OF it? 1t is not
the manner Of souls entering the
world or leaving 1t that tells the story,
but Its conduct while here. Jesus Of
Nazareth was born In stable among
the cattle and was executed as Grim
inal, but there was SO much radiance
In his life that 1t has reflected glory
over both manager and cross. In like
manner Lincoln has made log cabin
entrance and theater exit honorable.
After ALL 1t is the man that counts and
not the accidents that surround him.
Many writer's profess to believe that
with less humble birth and rearing
Lincoln would have remained un-
known. do not believe 1t. Despite
his ephemeral surroundings he would
have been a great, loving and a
mighty soul who would have left his
Impress for good. He was not so puny
as to be dependent on mere happen
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1909-02-11
''When noon come he'd set under a
tree an read an eat"

Abe he left that out fur other men
to divide up among EN-"
These qualities which were so con-
spicuous in Lincoln the man were
also In evidence In Lincoln the boy.
He fought worked, played, read,
fished, hunted, courted, told stories,
played jokes and did the other things,
that healthy, genuine boys do. 1t was
not the doing or not doing OF any Of
these that differentiated him from his
fellows. What, then, was 1t? Was
1t not in the habits of his thought
lying back of all these, In his very
soul texture, in the indef1nable quality
Of his innermost life that compelled
him to remain close to truth and
mercy. that made him democratic. gen
uine and simple. that forced him to go
to the bottom OF everything and that
would not let him do or think a mean
thing-was It not In these that lay
the secret Of Abraham Lincoln both ms
boy and man? The corn terminates
corn; the lily brings forth lily; the
oak begets an oak II some one can
tell of the divine seed that grows a
soul he can find the sources Of the
greatness of Lincoln-not otherwise.
Neither heredity nor environment.
neither occasion nor combination
Of all three. comes within million
miles Of explaining such man. One
might as well ascrtbe the piumage, OF
a bird Of paradise to the water 1t
drinks. Lincoln went below the sur
face in studying any question he ap-
preached, and we must 60 below the
surface. and fur below the surface at
that in studying him.
Returning to the Dennis Hanks h.
terview, here y an illuminating touch
's0eems to me now says TIE ire
peeeglble Dennis, Il peref seen Alb
after be was twelve ut b. didn't havs
= book IN his hand q n ~ pocket
He'd put book lnstoe H. shirt a.
an hie pants poeke1 w1tA eoq4 6ede
ess an % o2 p paoM q hea. Wt
noon come hdd 1T un6se 1Eos .
lrsaA ~ - An wAan ~ Co., h
~ hou6e q night haN tn y eloaI
taek ~ ~ ehimts4y. p0{ ~ =
| u fun8 ~ ~ O. ~ ~
] rid Aunt etly a1V1Je5e 3 t
Fen ~ slnaeol frSe Il
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1909-02-11
Steam Was In Its In
fancy, Electricity Only 4
Scientific Curiosity-Dar.
win Born the Same Day
RHE world Of 1909 was some.
what different from that OF
1900, In many lines Of hui

~HE world Of 1909 was some.
/ what different from that OF
! 1909 In many lines of hui
man endeavor 1t Is doubtful II
all the previous centuries saw as great
changes as have taken place In that
single century. The age of steam was
then in its earliest infancy. Watt had
watched his teakettle and invented his
engine, 1t Is true; Fulton had made his
was in that very year, 1909, taking out
his patent but George Stephenson was
then laborer and was only dreaming
Of his locomotive, which was not to
materialize until five years later. Thus.
while the use of steam as motive
GUS revolution to be wrought by 1t
had not yet started.
AS for electricity, 1t was only sci
entiflc curiosity. AS far as any prac
teal employment of 1t was concerned,
that did not come till years later. In
1909 water and horsefesh were the
chief motor powers; boats wagons and
stagecoaches were the almost exclu-
give methods Of travel; candles and
tallow dips were used as illuminants
there were but few newspapers. and
! these small and poorly printed, and
letters were infrequent, voluminous
and cost much for postage. Only a
small percentage Of the population was
educated, dueling was in vogue, slav-
cry was in existence on both sides
Of the ocean, there was little democ-
racy or liberty anywhere except in
America, and about the only things
that were as they are now were love.
death and taxes. Yet that was only
hundred years ago, barely life
time for some people. Truly, the world
moves. 1t took it a long time to get
into the habit, but 1t is ''going some"
now.
In 1909 about all the world that was
known were Europe. a fringe Of land
The Prescott daily news., 1909-11-24
FOR TAX ASSESS

We are authorized to announce G. k, Blake as a candidate for Tax Assessor of Nevada County subie to the action of the demo- cratic primaries.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-11-24
NOT A MATTER OF INSTINCT
Experiments Have Proved That the Duck Does Not Naturally Take
 to the Water.

1t has. turned out, under the searching experimentation of recent years, that much that we have SUD- posed to be instinct in animals is not instinct at all, writes E. T. Brewster, in McClure's. For ex- ample, the young duck proves to have no instinctive impulse to enter the water; does not recognize the element by sight; is, in short, in precisely the same situation as a chick-until, by happy chance, il gets its legs wet Wet legs, how ever, and the lift of the water on the body at once start up the swim ming reaction; and away sails tn. duckling, as chicks and children de not.
 The chick, on it's part, has a def mite instinct to peck at any smal object that catches its eye. Thaf takes care of its feeding. But the chick has no corresponding instinct to drink, and would die of thirst be- fore it would recognize water h> sight alone. Drinking it has to leaiu for itself, by picking at dewdrops or spots of light on the surface ol the water, or particles at the bottom of its cup. Even the hen, contrary to general belief, proves to have nc instinctive fear of the water for her offspring. A hen that has raised g few broods of ducks and seen them take to the. water becomes highly distressed when d subsequent hatch If chickens do not swim. In fact hens have been reported, under these circumstances, to lead thair chicks to the waterside and push them in.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-11-24
Booth Lowrey at Emmet

If Booth Lowrey has a superior on the platform, I have never heard him. Hon. s. A.. Mynders State Superintendent of Educa' ton, Tennessee.
 Prof. S. J. Pulliam of George town college in a letter to the
 ap says; 'Lowrey is simply great. We have never had a man who pleased our pupils as much as Lowr,v. 1 want hian on our coursa next season.
 His lectures are eloquent, hum- erous, pathetic, and powerIW. co mmeud him as a man ol strons and great power.-Dr' | M. Savage, President s. w.. h. University, Jackson, Tenn.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-11-24
Kills Her Foe Of 20 Years.

''The most merciless enemy 1 had for twenty years" declares Mrs. James Duncan, of Haynesville Me, was Dyspepsia. I suffered intensely after eating or drinking and could scarcely sleep. After many remedies had failed and sevs eral doctors gave me up I tried Electric Bitters which cured me NowI can eat any- thing. I am 70 years of age and am overjoyed to get my strength and health back. again." For Inr- digestion. Loss of Appetite, Kid ney Trouble, Lame Back. Female Complaints, it's unequaled. Only 5Oc at Hesterly Drug Store.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-11-24

|. os W y liN. I i0'lhA tA
 vS.
 Mrs. T. l.. Arnold, ct al,
 Defendants
 WARNING ORDER The defendants Eva BarI Boss, Lois Barrow Cooper, ' Maymond Barrow and VIII Saxon Barrow are warneo| appear in in this Court wl1nl9 days and answer the coml of the pla ntiff, T. G. Wylle.c c,)
 F. E. Murrah, O' Oct. 25th, 1909.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-11-24
SHE WAS GciNG BATHING.

She was very pretty girl clad in diaphanous summer gown. She was going to the beach and she didn't care who knew it, for she car ried. her bathing suit in most primitive fashion. It was simply inclosed in bath towel, and carried by a narrow strap. Shoes, stockings, powder, comb, brush, hairpins and other feminine necessities were not in evidence. Perhaps she dispensed with them. Anyway, she reused the curiosity sf car full of people.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-11-24
A Broken Bac k

That pain in your back caused by lumbago, stiff muscles or a strain is all easy thing to get rid Bal!ar Is Snow Eminent cures rneMm ltisin.. lumbago, sore and stiff muscles, strains, sprains, and cuts, burns bruises, scalds and all aches and pains, You need a bot = tie in your house.
 Sold by Hesterly Drug Store.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-11-24
If there is anything about

If there is anything about your ailment that you don't understand. or if you want any medical advice. write to the doctor. and he will answer you fully. There is no charge for this service. The address is pr. w. B. Caldwell, 5Oe Caldwell bldg. Monticello. III.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-11-24
In Nevada Chancery Court

T. c. Wylie, Plaintiff
The Prescott daily news., 1909-11-24
WARNING ORDER.
Young Girls Are VlctlnlS

of headacheas well as oldei N en. but all get quick relFl prompt cure from Dr. kins < Life Pills. the worlds Dess "xs \ edy for sick and nervous lsr .ts They make pure blood. ana ss' ss. nerves, and builds up your 'v Try them 25c at Hesteray Store.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-11-24
ti.AT) TO k..L-.

Bacon They say the house fly be- comes full grown in about four weeks. Do you believe that?
 Egbcrt-Yes if everybody around the house is bad shot.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-11-24
Ube Rrescott Daily Hews
 PUBLISHED BY The News Printing Go.

Entered as saconl class mail matter November 4th, 1905, at the postoffice at Prescott, Ark, under the act of Congress-, March 8, 1879.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-11-24
FOR REPRES ENTATlVE

Wear authorized to announce J. H. Rogers as q candidate for representative from Neva- da County in the next Arkansas Legislature, subject to the action of the Democratic Party
The Prescott daily news., 1909-11-24
Free Laxative
 Cured Legions

Realizing how difficult it IS to con vince the average person that one remedy is different from another, even though recommended for the same purpose, and that where one fails the other may still succeed, the dispensers of Dr. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin, the great herb laxative com pound, have for several years sent free trial bottles of the remedy to any person who would send name and address,
 Through this offer many hundred thousand samples have been distributed Dr. Caldwelps Syrup Pepsin has never been recommended for anything but such conditions as constipation. liver. trouble. biliousness, sour stomach. indigestion datulency, dyspepsia, sick headache, heartburn and similar symptoms of stom- ach, liver and bowel disease. That 1t experience of Mrs. Lydia Dixon of Mingo. Ky, Mrs. N. Cunningham, of Talent, Ore. $. R. Tucker of Hattiesburg, Miss, and a host of others They originally sent for the free trial bottle and then, being convinced that the remedy was helping them, they bought the regular 50-cent or S1 size bottle of their druggist, and in a short while were cured.
 While Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Is sold by druggists with the guarantee that 1t will do as claimed or money will be refunded, yet any reader suffering from a stomach, liver or bowel complaint IS invited to write to Dr. Caldwell at the address below for free test bottle. which will be cheerfully sent. We doubt if there is a laxative in America that has so many families using 1t in the home as Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Owing to great life-saver of children, women and old folks. It Is pleasant to take and never gripes. .
The Prescott daily news., 1909-11-24
FOR SHERIFF

We are authorized to announce Mir. D l., D!llard of Albany township as a candidate for sheriff of Nevada county. subj ect to the actio
 of the Democratic primary. n
The Marshall republican., 1909-08-06

All Transactions will be Guaranteed. Ifyou don't get
good merchandise at the very lowest possible figures it
will be only due to the one fact that of your not coming
here after them during this BIG - A SALE.
The Marshall republican., 1909-08-06

7h to AUG. 21st. To all persons within a radius of so
miles of this town, we will refund their railroad fare if thew
will buy as much as $500 worth of goods any day during
this big sale. The only condition is buy a round trip
ticket and present your return trip ticket to us and we will
pay exact amount to you that you paid for it-You can
afford to 60 miles to attend this sale.
The Marshall republican., 1909-08-06

You will find every one of these suits to be of cele
brated makes, such as Sten-Bloch, Schloss Bros. and L.
Systems makes. All hand tailored garments, cloth steam
shrunk before being made up, cold water shrunk canvas
fronts, sewed with silk and guaranteed to hold their shape:
Pants cut taper waist, full cut and good outlets. We do
not bar a suit in the house from this sale, as we put in all
of our Blacks and Blue Serges. We do not give you a few
suits to select: from, but instead hundreds of them. ANY
thing you can find in the city you will see in this sale. We
can tit any man, no matter how small, on up to a man
that will wear a SO stout, so long stout or the tallest slim
man that may come along. All the year around weights
can be had in any of our 3 piece suits.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1909-10-14

Tam Samson was q gray haired vet
eran sportsman who on one occasion
when out moor fowl shooting and. feel
ing the weight OF years begin TO press
upon him. expressed the belief that the
expedition was TO be his last and de-
sired. in somewhat tragic style, that he
might die and be buried in the mOOrs.
Burns, hearing Of this, Immediately
composed his famous elecy. in which
he related at length the exploits and
skin CT his hero. ending each verse
with the plaintive line, Tam SamsOn's
dead"
Some one having told samson that
Burns had written q poem. - gey
queer ane, about him. he sent for the
poet and in something Ike wrath ask.
ed him TO read what be had written
On hearing the recital Of his exploits
he smiled grimly and seemed by no
means displeased. But" he exciaiu1-
ed. I'm no dead vet. Robin. Where
fore should ye say that I'm dead9-
Burns retired for q few minutes; then
he returned and recited 10 Tam the
following verse. which he had CON
posed in the interval:
PER CONTRA
Go. Fame. an canter Ike a Sly
Through a the streets an neuks % EiIlie.
Tel ev'ry social honest billie
To cease his grievin
For yer. unskaith'd by Deaths EieE gull
lie.
Tam Samson's Twin.
Samson laughed gleefulIy aud ex-
claimed. That's no bad. Robin; rhat'u
DO" And the poet was received once
more into his good gaces.-ChambeIs
Journal
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1909-10-14
AFTER The BATTLE.
An Incident That Seemed 70 Explain
Joshua's Miracle.

An Incident That Seemed 20 Explain
JoshUa's Miracle.
There was an incident ia our life az
Brandy, connected with Gettysburg.
which Is worth relating. Batchelder.
whose map Of the battlefield Of Getrys
bury is authority and whom we had
fallen IN with while we were there.
asked TO Join our mess at Brandy when
be came to the army to verify the 20
sitiOns Of the various commands. One
night we bad just sat down TO dinner
when he entered our big hospital tent
quite tired.
We'll" he announced after taking
his place at the table. Il have been
down IN the Second corps today. and
believe I have discovered how Joshua
made the sun stand still / first went
to - regiment and had the officers
mark on the map the hour Of their
position at a certain point Then
went to - regiment in the same bri-
gade. They declared positively 1t was
one or two hours earlier or later than
that given by the other. So It went
on. no two regiments or brigades
agreeing. and If l limited that some OF
them must certainly be mistaken they
would set me down by saying with
severe dignity, We were there. Batch
elder. and we ought to know. guess
and made up my mind that # would
take a day Of at least twenty hours
instead Of thirteen at Gettysburg 10
satisfy their accounts. So when Josh
ua's captains got around him after the
fight and they began to talk It over
the only way under the heavens that
he could ever harmonic their state
ments was to make the sun stand still
an give them all a chance"
Any one who has ever tried 10 estab-
lish the exact position or hour when
took place in an engagement
will confirm Batchelder's experience
and possibly, II net TOO orthodox, &C
cept his explanation OF JOshua's feat
Morris Schaff in Atlantic.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1909-10-14
A MONSTER SKULL.
One That Was Said to Be Bigger Than
5ushel Basket.

BuShel Basket.
One Of the most remarkable finds Of
gigantic human remains Of which We
have any record was that said TO have
been made at Palermo. Sicily. in the
year 1916. when an entire skeleton OF
unheard of proportions was unearthed
by some marble quarry men. These
mammoth remains measured exactly
thirty-fOur feet from head 10 foot and
nine feet seven inches from point 10
point Of the shoulders
A stone ak buried with this old time
giant may still be seen at Palermo in
section ~ OF the st. Isorent museum.
II is made Of a blush looking. fine
grained bowlder and appears to be
about two feet eight inches long by one
foot broad and nine inches through in
the thickest place A musty. rusty look
ing tag attached TO the relic informs
the visitor that IT weighs ffty-two
pounds. but the general verdict is that
It could not weigh over thirty or thir-
ty-hye pounds
The skeleton was burned by a mob
In the year 1862 during the prevalence
Of the black death ar Palermo the
ignorant. superstiti0us people believ-
ing that IL was connected in some mys-
FERROUS way with the death dealing dis
temper. The skull Of this giant. &C
cording TO Able Ferregus. was large
" excessive Of the baskets sayd to
hold the bushel. being fitted above and
belowe withe teeth TO the number Of
sIxty-foure. the each of which would
have weighed two ounces.
Cavalier Scroy claimed 10 have found
4 skull on Tenerife THAT had sixty
Westminster Gazette.