The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-02-19
HARTFORD OHIO COUNTY KY, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 49, 1909

scuttle hole In one corner. The logs
are small and rough hewn or "skeip-
ed There is no doubt about the
genuineness of tine logs except the
three top rounds which are admittedly
innerpolated to supply as many STOLEN
whi,e the cabin was stored in an
eastern city. It has two doors and
one small square pameless window.
The roof Is of loose boards held in
place by ribs and knees and the sick
chimney Is a tumble down affair but
these are not OF course original but
are supplied to complete the harmony
of the building. The cabin sands in
the center of concrete base some
forty feet square upon the margin
of which will be built the marble
museum that win shelter the cabin
forever within which will be preserv-
ed every relic of lincoln that patri-
o:ism viii yield up. Six soldiers
night and day gard the rude but sa-
cred edifice. The waste fields of the
Lincoln farm will be speedily convent
ed into a national park and on khe
Twelfth day of February 1910 will be
formally turned over ITO the national
government by the Lincoln Farm AS
sociasion. The spring at the foot of
the hill some seventy-five yards be-
low the cabin is now the most famous
fauntain that flows from American
hills. 1t is in a sink hole about ten
feet deep and after flowing about ten
feet across rock sheltered by shelly
! ing rock above drops into the ground
and in lost from sight.
A great tent swayed with The gusts
of south wind while Gov. Wilson and
ex-Gov. Faulk, of Missouri and Tiheo-
dore Roosevelt recounted the valor
and the virtues of Inc great man
whose birth was here. The Presidents
sweet faced wife and beautiful daugh-
ter and tine charming Mrs. Wilson
graced the platform from which line
nations great men spoke but TO me
the hour of the living great had
not yet come. The spirit of the
I gaunt great man in whose honor we
we're there seemed to mover gently
over 1t all. Unmindful of the throng
stood before the crumbling cabin
overwhelmed with love for that coun-
try in which from this tine low
lest and meanest condition of birth
boy might rise to the first and the
highest condition of power and inn
perishable fame. looked upon the
axe marks on the cabin walls and re-
Elected how little Thomas Lincoln
dreamed that marble walls one day
would be raised an enduring bar
rier against the decay of the labor
of his hands.
1 drank the crystal waters of the
Lincoln spring and thought solemn
ly how foreign 20 the Thought Of
Thomas and Nancy Lincoln that sa-
bred soldiers would one time res
train ten thousand thirsty men un-
til Tire PreSldenI OF elgnLy nnsllOns
of people had first drank from the
coursing siream.
Looking a last time upon tine low
ly cabin, l remembered with melan-
oholly sadness how just one hundred
years before, widhin those coarse and
barren walls that noble but rustic
mother impressed first kiss upon
brow destined TO be one day wrin-
killed. with the cares OF dissolving
nation, and finally, hooking heaven
ward l could scarce repress the wish
to send message OF the day across
the bridgeless gulf 10 those rugged
parents of potential Immortality.
]. H. THOMAS.
Narrows, Ky.