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Evening star., 1909-01-24

A N ARTICLE WHICH SHOWS BY NUMEROUS
"A INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES THAT LIN
COINS GREATNESS LAY IN HIS TENDER
HEART, AND THAT 1T WAS THIS WONDERFUL
POSSESSION OF HIS THAT WON HIM THE LOVE
OF A GREAT NATION, MADE HIM ITS SAVIOR
AND GAVE HIM A PLACE AMONG THE WORLDS
IMMORTALS-STORIES OF HIS KINDNESS TO
DUMB ANIMALS AS WELL AS HIS FELLOW MEN
How HIS TENDER HEART CONQUERED AT
LAST THE SOOTHING AND BITTER STANTON
HIS GREAT LOVE FOR HIS SON TAD AND TADS
GREAT SORROW OVER HIS FATHERS DEATH
LINCOLN AS THE MODERN GREAT HEART"
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as if it were his last on earth. He had
much before him which he hoped to be
permitted to do. He found chaos every
where-a panic of statecraft in the north.
and an epidemic of anarchy In the south.
The leading minds of the country seemed
to have gone daft. They advocated the
most hair-brained. foolhardy schemes.
Seward. his greatest rival. now Secre-
tary of State. actually proposed that
Lincoln keep his hands off the helm and
let him. Seward steer the ship of state.
Chase. Mcclellan and later, Stanton. each
felt that he, and he alone, was divinely
called to save the Union. They did not
believe in their chief. The party which
elected Lincoln looked on with misgiv-
ings. 1t felt that the people had been
carried away by increasing enthusiasm.
and that ''the Rail-splitter" had been
washed UP into the White House by a
tidal wave of popular frenzy. like
stranded sea monster left high and dry
and out Of Its natural element.
While Lncoln's subordinates insulted
him by patronizing him,
He knew to bide his time
He replied to Seward with the same
masterful tenderness that he had ad-
dressed his stepbrother ten years earlier.
when John Johnston proposed his scheme
that he sell his mothers land. including
the quarter section that Lincoln had
given her with his first $500 fee-a scheme
about as foolish and visionary as Sew
ards plan for getting up war with
England, Lincoln and practfced ruling
his own spirit and forgiving in advance;
he had learned lessons in self.repression.
self-denial and self-sacrifice while smart
ing under the sense Of injustice done him
by his father, who called him lazy and
a fool as he lay beside his wooden shovel
irving to study in the Pickering twilight
preparing himself. heart and soul. for
these very crises in his own and his coun-
trys life.
There was something superhuman In
Jincoln's charity. No mortal man ever
possessed more absolutely the love that
''suffereth long and Is kind-beareth al!
things. helieveth all things. hopeth all
things. endureth all things" Those about
him comprehended his character the more
slowly because of his stories. These were
so unexpected and strange that people
failed to grasp their deep import. When
seif-appointed delegations came to pro-
test against this or to urge that the
kindness of his heart always rescued the
situation with a story. All. those stories!
The sympathy in them was exquisite.
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By Wayne Whipple.

HUNDRED ye a I s
ago a little heart
began to beat in a
log hovel in the
" 90 d S of Ken
tue ky-a heart
that was destined
to swell with the
hopes and throb
with the griefs of
the greatest nation
on earth. But its
m OF n er nev e r
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The world stood aghast and the Amer

meant &c. B. s." himself-only differed
from others in their intellectual capacity.
The dress suit in England is certainly
second nature" to most people who move
in the circle which has been described
as the intellectually elite Many theater
managers even require that the occupant
of stall seats shall wear dress suits, and
many London theaters go SO far as to
print acrGss the tickets the significant
words: Dress suit must be worn.'
When the New Nasabond Club was
formed few years ago---this club, as the
name implies, being for literary uncon-
ventionals-it was at first decided that
dress suits should be tabooed. At the last
dinner given by the club, however, no
one came without the interdicted gar
ment which again proves the power of
society even over "Vagabonds'' and lit
erary ones a that.
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Instead of containing a hidden sting they
were full of balm for the smarts and
wounds of his hearers. Men sometimes
scoffed because Lincoln laughed while
much at his own stories as with his
hearers from the pure pleasure Of giving
pleasure. If ever face was illumined
by the glowing heart behind it it was
Abraham Lincoln's. This was why wom-
en- left his presence exclaiming:
"They say Mr.. Lincoln's an ugly
man. 1t is a wicked lie-I think he
has the loveliest face ever saw
"Homelyn' may express it, but Lincoln
was never ugly" His face often shone
like the face of an angel" for his SYM
pathy made him an angel of light to
many a breaking heart
1t was Lincoln's heart that prompted
the emancipation proclamation long be-
fore it was promulgated-but it was his
head that held it safe until the fullness
OF the time was come Then he did it
with fear and trembling at first, but
afterward his heart rejoiced.
The Gettysburg address is warm with
the great love Of Lincoln's life. Here is
a new story illustrative of his homely.
spontaneous sympathy. 1t Is of modest
the speakers stand just before Lincoln
arose to deliver that immortal address
He saw that the crowd was pressing
tighter around her, SO he came to her
rescue.
Here" he commanded. "hand that
lady up to me-" Then he tenderly placed
the unconscious woman in the rocking
chair that had been reserved for himself.
When she began to revive, she found her
self being famed by the President of
the United States. on a platform in the
presence of thousands of people! This was
too much for shrinking old lady In pla in
garb. .I-feeLbetter now she protest
ed feebly II want-to go-back there"
ooh, no indeed" laughed Mr.. Lincoln
kindly. you are all right here. 1t was
all We could do to pull you up out of that
crowd and we could never stick you down
into to it again!"
1t seems strange now that Stanton, of
all men. was among the very first to ap-
preciate the simple grandeur of the Get
tysburg address; Stanton, rude, sneering,
caustic, contemptuous, obstinate; Stanton,
who took pleasure In insulting Lincoln
when they had first met, eight years
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II could not bear the idea of abandon
ing even q dog. Pulling off my shoes and
socks. I waded across the stream and
triumphantiy returned with the shivering
animal under my arm His frantic leaps
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,ful of alert and fearless men who are on
the watch constantly. each one some
times doing the work of three men with
out a word of complaint Others may
sleep or take recreation, but these men
must be ever ready to save, preserve,
protect or recover.
The patrol tug Vigilant lies at her
wharf at full steam day and night. ready
upon the instant for any emergency, and
at least once a day she goes over her
beat on the river much as policeman
patrols his beat on land, while the gaso-
line launch Major Sylvester and other
smaller launches are on duty for work
that the Eigilant cannot do. Under a re-
cent enactment calling for hinge smoke
stacks the Vigilant has had her stack
amputated. pending the completion of
new one This has decreased her speed
considerably. though it enables her to
pass under most of the bridges. How
ever, she cannot go beyond the long arch
bridge until the new stack has been ad-
justed.
In charge of Seret. Dean, who acts as
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ed. and were thus caught red-handed
One of these men was well known in
Washington, and the ether was a poor
fisherman who was assisting him in the
.'pastime.' Upon arriving at the harbor
headquarters, which boast no accommo-
datiOns for men or prisoners. it was
found that the services of the officers
having the men in charge were urgently
needed to help anell a small riot being
Waged by some excursioniSts just in from
force stationed there, there was no one
to guard the prisoners while the officers
attended to this new trouble.
I'VE will wait here. officer, said one of
the prisoners, until you return. Do not
be afraid We will be here when you re-
turn"
Being good students of human nature.
no doubt. the officers did leave the two
there while they went out to restore order
on the wharf. and upon their return found
the prisoners waiting for them. Later.
at the proper time, the we'll known prls-
oner paid the fine of his lawbreaking as
sistant as well as his own. The officers
also tell of the night four men went out
and brought in fourteen of these offenders
against the harbor law, and many other
interesting experiences.
4
In the old days gambling was carried
on to a great extent on the river. An
old ferryboat called the Columbia was
used for this purpose for years. A small
boat carried the passengers out to the CO.
lumbia, where roulette, big-six and al
most every known gambling possibility
was carried on. in defiance of the harbor
police. Later, when the jurisdiction of .ne
District OF Columbia was more Specif1cal-
ly determined her unworthy namesake
was driven out of the river and now the
police do not have any trouble this way,
though they keep a close watch on all
craft. Near the Aqueduct Bridge is the
building once used by the notorious Jack
Heath as a gambling resort. 1t stands
on the Virginia side and was beyond the
interference of the river police. 1t is used
at present as the quarters of a boat club.
Lying in its dock can be seen the beau
tiful yacht MayfiOwer, belonging to the
President, with it's immaculate, white
CARRIED crew lolling on deck. and the Pur-
itan, the first and largest monitor ever
built by the government, will be pointed
out. lying below the navy yard. together
with the smaller boat used for the cruises.
More tackles are here seen, not SO attrac-
lively attired, perhaps. but looking exceed
ingly comfortable and at ease. Up on
the bank. nearby. is the War College.
where the West Pointers come to be fin
quarters also follow the river bank, and
ated near. Here all the vessels made are
tested as to speed and draft, and other
necessary information.
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Nanchua Awakened and Places Shoulder to Wheel of Progress

side, and the architecture altogether is
not unlike that of our best prisons at
home.
These buildings are situated In courts.
one of which we entered as we came
through the gate. At the same time
gang of seventy-fiye convicts marched
in to take their afternoon meal. They
had been working on the roads outside
the prison. / asked the director to stop
them in the sunlight that l might make
snapshot with my camera. He did SO
and / had a. good chance to study them.
The convicts are tall. burly fellows. weigh
ing. l venture. one-third more than the
average Chinese of America. They all
wear queues and their faces are about
the same as those OF the Tartars ] see
on the streets. The prison dress is of a
Jacket or coat which falls TO the hips and
a pair of thick trousers which look as
though they were made of quilted COM
fort, sIcn as we use on our beds. Ine
material is wadded cotton. The color is
light gray, except on the back where
cross OF dead black is painted. Each
are SO chained together that he can take
but one short step at a time.
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AS looked l asked the director to
point out some of the bad cases. He
replied:
You can tell them by their collars.
You see the most of. the collars are of
the same gray color as the rest of the
garment: but some are red. black and
blue. These black-collared fellows are
each in for thirty years. The convicts
wearing the blue collars are in for TWEEN
ty years, those wearing red for ten, while
the gray have still shorter sentences
The most Of our men have been con-
victed Of robbery and assault with intent
to KILL The murderers We have in an
other prison, which has just been con-
structed."
After making the picture I followed the
convicts on into the wards and saw
them eating. AS looked the director
told me that he gave them two meals
day. consisting of a breakfast at and
dinner at 3. Said he:
"The men rise at $50 am. and stop
work at in the evening. 1t costs US
about five or six cents of Your money
q day to feed each of them, and we are
now spending fifty Mexican dollars, or
about twenty dollars In gold, per day for
the food we are serving to the $40 men
we have here. We make the prisoners
pay for their meals by their work. We
allow each about ten cents day and of
this six or seven cents is taken out for
his board and clothes. The rest he can
put in his pocket. Oh, I assure you, they
are treated quite WE'LL"
While we waited the food was brought
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and its officials are appointed from Pc
king. 1t contains three great provinces.
each of which has a governor. and over
the whole is vceroy. who lives at
Mukden. Most of the reforms have been
largely due to the provincial governor,
His Excellency Tang Shao vi. who was
recently in the United States to return
thanks for the remission of the Boxer
indemnity. This man was for a long time
director Of railways of North China. and
as such was closely associated with Yuan
Shih kai who until lately held the place
of Ii Hung Chang in the councils of the
empire. Under Tang common schools
have been started, and the young Chi
nese mind is being trained along the
studying arithmetic and the modern
sciences. and they have a military drill
several times every week A big indus
trial school has been established, and also
the agricultural college of which l have
written in previous letter.
l drove out into the country yesterday
to look at the beginnings of a forestry
department, which may some day clothe
the bare, dry hills of southern Manchuria
with trees and from there to an expert
mental farm where modern agriculture is
being taught.
Leaving the plantation l visited the In
dustrial School. This has now sixty stu
dents who are learning manual training
under Chinese who have been educated
abroad. Ii has large carpenter shops in
which beautiful furniture is made. and
that from the native woods. $. 1t is only
the lower part Of Manchuria which has
no forests to speak. of. Along the Sungari
river there are vast areas of walnuts.
oaks and other. hardwoods. Some OF, the
best timber Is only eighty miles from
the railroad. but the transportation is
bad that Oregon pine can be brought
across the Pacific and up here to Mukden
and sold at lower rates than the Man
churian lumber. At present there Is a
scheme to build railroad to connect the
forest regions with the South Manchu-
rian system, and when that is done the
Manchurian wood will be used all along
that line from the Yellow sea to Siberia
Some of the finest OF the native timber
is walnut. 1t Is the color Of cherry and
its grain is as close as that of birch. In
the industrial shops this wood is being
used for fine furniture. When stained 1t
closely resembles mahogany.
This school teaches all sorts of iron
working. 1t has spinning and weaving
departments. glass-blowing shops and all
the up-to-date appliances of the manual
training schools of America. The stu
dents are bright young fellows of from
fourteen to eighteen years Of age. They
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pilot as we'll, and manned by couple OF
policemen. an engineer and fireman the
latter being civilians), the little tug makes
her way down the line of wharves. the
officers carefully inspecting every visible
foot of dock as they pass. They know
the history of each landing place. and if
YOU are lucky enough to be aboard. they
will tell that there was big fight as to
the riparian rights of these same docks.
and how the government finally won. but
that the claimants made a good thing of
it when it came to the settlement. And
they can detail numerous incidents con-
nected with different wharves in the days
when Washington was not quite the
model city it now is
One of the first duties of the harbor
force 10 to see that the harhor regulations
are complied with. No craft must anchor
outside the white buoys. as the channel
must be clear at all times and every YES
sci occupy its own anchorage. Some
times complaint of an infringement of
this rule will be received, and the Vigi-
liant will be sent to investigate. Upon ar
irving at the scene the officer in charge
will assign the newcomer place of an
chorage If the captain of the latter
vessel is a sensible man he will immedi-
ately proceed to the position indicated:
but IL he takes it upon himself to be
obstreperous and annoying he finds him
self in durance vile pending his return
to reason.
In steaming past the Anacostia flats
the police say that their chief trouble
now is with the illegal fishing carried on
hereabouts. It is against the law to use
seine in the river, as it is used for
spawning purposes only and vet this law
is constantly defied. These men. as a
rule, are pretty hard customers, and
sometimes put up fight, and the officers
frequently experience considerable diff
Guilty in making the arrests. In case OF
big fight an officer could be killed and
be possible, as smost of their depredations
are carried on in the dark, and there
being no artincial light obtainable. the
chances are that he would escape abso
lutte Identification. Usually there is no
serious trouble in taking them in. though
the story Is told Of two officers who went
out to where some men were engaged in
this business, and the men waded into
shallow water and defied the officers. not
believing that the latter would also enter
the water to get them. But one of the
policemen accepted the challenge and
waded out and upon arriving and en-
gaging the fishermen he was seized and
held under water until, had not the other.
a colored officer, gone to his rescue, he
must have certainly drowned.
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Another story Is OF small launch ar
irving where two men were endeavoring
to gather in their nets, and the men
aboard offering assistance in the task.
Not knowing that the newcomers were
river policemen, the fishing twain accept
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six feet long. Their necks were fitted
into holes, and the framework was such
that it could he opened and closed. The
women could not feed themselves, and
they could not move unless they all went
together. At the same time l saw men
undergoing similar punishment. They
were loaded down with heavy planks
which rested upon their shoulders, their
heads coming out through a hole in the
center: some such cangues We're further
weighted with iron. I saw one man who
was Enclosed In barrel so tight that
his head came out through hole in the
top, and his hands through the sides.
The holes were just large enough for
the wrists: the man could not scratch
himself nor convey his food to MS mouth.
At that time no criminal could be pun
ished until he had confessed. and every
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Chinese who was arrested was pounded
with bamboo on his bare thighs or
struck on the lips with piece Of leat.-er.
or made to kneel upon sharp chains until
he could stand it no longer and said he
was guilty. Such things have been abol-
ished here in Manchuria, and, l under
stand. in China as well.
l spent the greater part of today in
going through the new prisons which
have just been built here at Mukden.
They are far different from those / have
visited in China. A few years ago l went
through the jails at Shanghai, notwith-
standing a warning that the prisoners
might tear my clothes off If / did so.
On my way to the prisons l saw many
men loaded with cangues. One was stand
ing in framework so hung by his neck
that his toes barely touched the ground.
l could smell the prison before / came to
it. and was almost sfckened by the ter
rible stencil l went through The
buildings were low Chinese structures.
without floors or sanitary cOnveniences
The cOnvicts were chained to the walls
like wild beasts. and some had chains
about the neck as well as the feet. The
prison had its dead house connected with
1t. and deaths from starvation and tor
ture were common. The iaiiers got most
of their incomes from squeezing. They
had the right to sell food to the criminals,
and the prisoners who had no money
were likely to starve. The law. gave
each man certain fixed rations. but the
JdieT COulu lcSS VI iIoiC az Ai~
pleased
X !.
The prisons l have visited here are In
costly buildings covering acres. and
found the criminals treated like men. not
beasts 1t was through the courtesy of
LANG Yu Ho. the counselor of the vice.
roy, that 1 was able to inspect them. Mr..
LANG is a graduate of Yale College. and
as such is glad to have America know
what his country is doing along the lines
of our civilization. He sent two English
speaking Chinese officials with me. and
a director Of the penitentiary accompa-
MED us as we went through, the wards
We visited two prisons during the morn
ing. and in one found three hundred and
seventy convicts working away at al
kinds of labor:
This latter prison covers about four
acres 1t is surrounded by wall of gray
brick fifteen feet high. and it's front gate
is guarded by two six-foot Manchu SOL
diers who presented arms as we entered
The buildings are large one-story struc-
lures made of gray brick and heavy tiled
roofs. They are SO built that they form
a series of wings running out from a
central point like the spokes of a wheel.
so that the guards standing at the hub
can command four or five asles at one
time. The cells face the aisles on each
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Potomac Park ones attention will prob
ably be attracted by three or four tents
on the bank in lonely spot. That is
where the detail stays which watches the
soldiers garden. The government allows
to each man ration and everything else
must be bought by the man himself,
hence fresh vegetables which are not in
Guided Tin the mess. must be acquired by
the soldier. and the cost is quite some
thing to the man. Now, Potomac Park
being reclaimed land is peculiarly fertile,
being covered with a luxuriant spontan-
eous growth. and the soldiers conceived
the idea of planting garden. Obtaining
permission. they were allowed a detail to
watch and work. and they have one of
the finest farms to be found in any ccun-
try place. The price of the vegetables
thus obtained represents thousands of dol
lars to the boys in blue and enables them
to have better than they could have pro-
cured for the amount too. 1t is a recrea-
ton after mans heart, as well. as the
place is an ideal one in which to pitch
tent and spend the summer days.
Farther toward the city is where the
tramps congregate. Sometimes these tired
gentlemen erect rude summer cottage,
though often they do not SO scorn the
provision of nature. and here they spend
weeks at time if not disturbed by the
unsympathetic police
Complaints coming In from the city of
missing milk bottles and mysteriously dis
appearing breakfast rolls. however. in
spire this heartless body to inhuman ac-
tivity. and raid is made on the "Hobo's
Rest" and a score or more of the brother
hood are hauled ANONYMOUSLY from their
rural retreat to grace a more restricted
sphere.
Another and very important duty of
the harbor police is recovering the
bodies of the drowned. During the last
quarter. according to Sergt. Dean, there
have been forty reported drownings, and
of these twenty-six bodies have been re-
covered. The morgue is very seldom with
out it's gruesome occupant. Sometimes,
when there is certainty as to the loca-
ton of an accident, the river police drag
night and day, almost without an hours
rest, until the unfortunate is found or it
is decided that the corpse has been washed
down the river. In Georgetown harbOr
there are rocks which stand up out of
the water while just beside them the
river is hundred feet deep If a drowned
person is washed down into one of these
water traps it is impossible to recover