Putnam patriot., 1909-02-05
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glimpse but what Il shows k rather pleasani-the generous child and the patriotic household
 The fife Of solitude and deep prisa. ton had a powerful influence oil MT. Lineoln,s subsequent career HeneVer entirely ontgreN +, and tod meant that he never should outgfow il. IL was that which hound his destiny Into the life of the nation. Its sembfe as pect made him serious and sometimes
 melancholy; its absolute neatne>S tn natures heart in pleasant country
 and beneath q genial sky created In
 him the note el cheer and that richness ef hamaF which never fofsook him
 amld thr burdens ot heaS test cane.
 He enjoyed segy little schooling
 His mother, however, could read and
 wtite-.a distinction that few el her sex dwelling on the frontier could boast. ! Doubtless. she was The unconscious originator of all hts youthful tastes, i hopes and ambitions. Like thousands oi ethei great men, he owed to his ule- thet an untold debt of gratitude, and he WAS never inscnsihie 10 the ohliga- lion. When she died in the autumn of ISIS. and was borne to her grave in little clearing in the forests of south ern Indiana, where the family had fixed their abode, the boy was heart broken, and because no funeral service had h<,en performed in''connection with the sad event, he rested not till finally he secured an itinersnt preacher who had known his mother in their Ken lucky home and who preached \ ser mon cset her grave, then covered with the winters snow. That service of re- bgion was all the consolation that came to his yearning and desolate spirit, so young and tender. and 10 the heart of his beloved sister Sarah, who was a year or two older tAan himself, and whom his mother had committed 10 hts ever faithfal care with her dying blessing.
 The year following the mothers death WAS even more desolale and for loFa than any ef the preceding ones had eecn ia the Lincoln family. The building in which the children and the smb4liealess father a~elt---we cannot call II home--had neither doors nor windows. and the hand earth the only fioof, bal Il was in such plaee as this ! that the education of Abraham Lincoln hegan. Stretched bstore the open fire si night, he read and Fs~r resti the small ! stock ef books that the family rsassess- ed. oF the scattered nesghtoFho<Ni could furnish. Among these weFv Inc Bible, ! Esopss Fables, kaayan> Pilgrims Progress, The I.tfeef Henry Clay. and Wexmas tafe es N sshingtea. Amid such ssesaes and in rude but natural state eg sesctcis. thts heso et American history grew ar toward manhood. He was brave. sirenx. active. sesaaatc-Al- WAYS rvads te take the pars ef The weak. 10 deny himself to s~s4si osheE>- lie es Aeasier ln all the sports ol the frontier, but never oraSgaEt eg \ ty- rant la any sseid es tosl Of psssime. Few could equal hiea in the severe lse>ar> of ihv clearing cr the fagsn. We have } never hst great character ln car his ! tory who very eaa>egs Fe>emesea him in soagA and tsaen sssemeaed hln Sise ia na4aAae<i,
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