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The Dickinson press., 1911-02-11

Mr.. LINCOLN AS BE LOOKED IN 1860, WHEN
GRACE BEDELL REQUESTED HIM TO GROW
8 A BEARD, N AS HE LOOKED IN 1861,
WHEN HE KISSED HER AT WEsTFIELD,
n. 7.
dent, surrounded by a rail fence.
Childlike, the girl told her mother that
she thought Lincoln would look better
with a beard. Her mother suggested
that she write to Mr.. Lincoln.
II remember. the day very WELL"
said Mrs. Billings recently, ''but l do
not recall the exact wording Of my
letter, though l told Mr.. Lincoln that
I thought he would improve his ap-
pearance by raising a beard. I also
told him that the rail fence was all
right, and I agreed that If he would
grow whiskers I would try to get my
brothers to vote for him, although
they were Democrats. 1 remember I
said that I supposed he had little girls
Of his W and that they would feel
as I did about those whiskers.
"A couple Of days later I got a let
ter from him, and I still have it among
my most precious possessions. It
reads this way:
Springfield. ILL.,. Oct. 1s. 1860.
''Miss Grace Bedell: Z
my Dear Little Miss-Your very agree
able letter of the 18th is received. I re-
Rret the necessity of having to say that
I have no little girls, but I have three
boys-one seventeen, another nine and the
youngest seven years old-and they, with
my wife, constitute my entire family. AS
to the whiskers, having never worn any,
do o not think people would consider It
q piece Of silly a%ffectation If I were to be-
gin wearing them now?
"A. LINCOLN.
I'm the latter part Of February, 1861,
MI. Lincoln stopped at Westfeld on
his way to be inaugurated in Washing.
ton. He made a brief speech from the
platform of his car, and at it's end he
said, I have a little correspondent here,
and if she is present I'd like to speak
to her.
"'Who Is itY' the crowd shouted.
What is her name?'
5 mi. Lincoln gave my name, and !
was found on the outskirts of the
throng and passed up to him. He took
nj by the hand and said:
"'You see, I've let these whiskers
grow for you, Grace
"Then he kissed me, and his train
moved away.
"'sThat was the only time 1 ever saw
Mr.. Lincoln, but for several years I
heard from him frequently through
Mr.. Seward. After his death Mr..
Stewards secretary sent me a piece of
napkin that had been bound about the
presidents head and that was stained
with his blood"
The Dickinson press., 1911-02-11
Quick Both Ways,

A Scotch laird once said to his serv.
ant. John. who had complained Of his
temper. II am sure, John, 1t IS nae
suner on than it's or"
aye" said Johns 'but, laird, it's !,
nae suner OF than It's on"
The Dickinson press., 1911-02-11

Says an advertisement in the London
Express: "Mary-Waited three hours
at appointed spot until questioned by
suspicious policeman. II this is the
price Of love it is too heavy a n for
me to pay. Farewell. Potts."
The Dickinson press., 1911-02-11
Time and PATIENCE,

No road Is too long for him who ad-
vances slowly and does not hurry, and
no attainment Is beyond his reach who
s.equips himself with patience to achieve
tia Bruyere.
The Dickinson press., 1911-02-11
suits some-Death to Others.

0U1eS 00tHo-Oedtn % Oth6F6s
Iron may be good for the blood Of
some." remarked the worm as the
angler threaded the hook through him
gently. "but ! fear it will be the death
Of me!''
And yet the fish that swallowed the
iron a little later was quite carried
away with 1t.
The Dickinson press., 1911-02-11
Fatal.

The Lady-Get out! You're the man
4 gave a piece Of my cake to only an
hour ago. The Hobo-No. mum. I'm
that poor feller's ghostl-Cleveland
Leader.
The Dickinson press., 1911-02-11
An Amendment.

A health hint says, do not bolt
your food And a comedian comes
back with the observation, 1T is much
better to use a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The Dickinson press., 1911-02-11
Pleasant.

Pleasant. I
The Friend-Your wife doesn't ap.
pear to be in very good humor. Hus-
lband-No. She thinks I've invited you
to dinner.-Jean Out Rit.
The Dickinson press., 1911-02-11
HOW LINCOLN
Beat SEWARD.

Judge Reyes Of Concord, Last
Surviving Massachusetts Dele
gate, Tells Story Of Historic
Fight In the Wigwam.
FUDGE JOHN s. KEYEs of Con-
cord, who until he passed away
May Is last vas the only surviv-
~ ing delegate from Massachu-
sets to the Republican national con-
vention in Chicago that nominated
Abraham Lincoln for president In 1860,
sat in his library shortly before he died
and told a visitor how the Illinois rail
splitter came to be named for the high
est officer in the land, as he recalled
the proceedings in the Wigwam, the
big hall built for the occasion:
George Ashmun had been taken by
both sides as chairman, but no n
yer knew which side he favored, and
nobody dreamed that Lincoln had
votes enough outside his own state to
make any showing against Seward.
"That's what Harper's Weekly said
before the Cooper institute speech too:
Mr.. Lincoln Of Illinois would add no
strength to the ticket
"Well, everybody thought so at that
time. Well, Don there was a call all
over the house for a b~allot-10,00O peo-
The Dickinson press., 1911-02-11

to see the
pearls of Joy on the cheeks Of
a wife whose husband he had
rescued from death.
Lincoln was the grandest fig
ure Of the ~fiereest civil war. He
is the gentlest memory Of our
world.
The Dickinson press., 1911-02-11
Ono Better.

Ono Better.
First Suburbanite-We've got a baby
grand in our house. Second Ditto
We can 60 you one better. We've got a
grand baby in ours.-Baltimore Amer.
lean.
Promoted.
They're beginning TO put on airs"
SIS that 500"
Yes: their washwoman is now a
laundress."-Detroi Free Press.
Patience is bitter. hut It's fruit 10
sWeet.-Rousseau.
The Dickinson press., 1911-02-11

Bad laws are the worst Of tyranny.
The Dickinson press., 1911-02-11
WHY LINCOLN
CREW A BEARD.

Woman Whose Suggestion as Lit
tie Girl Changed Emancipator's
Face For History Now Tells
About the Incident.
~HE woman who as a child Of
eleven was the direct cause of
Abraham Lincoln's growing a
beard is still living and is now
a resident of Kansas. She is Mrs.
Grace Bedell Billings now, but when
In 1860 she wrote the note that led
President Lincoln to wear a beard
for the first time she was Grace Be-
dell and her home was in Westf1eld,
N. Y.
Mrs. Billings father was a Repub.
hcan and had been a Wing prior to
the formation of the Republican party,
and her two brothers were Democrats.
One day during the campaign Of 1860
her father brought home a poster
which had on it pictures Of Lincoln
and Hamlin, candidate for vice presi-
The Dickinson press., 1911-02-11

{. not to up
braid, but
{ c o
vince. He
raised his
hands not
to strike,
but in ben-
Q d lotion.
He Ionged
to pardon.
He loved
IL
The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1911-11-07
=: g: Heath Hardware Co. c.

years ago. So was a son of John
A. Andrew, the great war gov
ernor of Massachusetts, and so
also was IA son of Edward Ever
EFT. But Edward Everett, like
Daniel Webster, Rufus Choate
and Robert c. Winthrop, was a
Cotton" Wing, whereas the
Hoars were Conscience" Wings.
And right here it may be remark
ed that there is tradition that
Henry Cabot Lodge narrowly es-
capped mugwumpery and it is the
mere within Of casualty that he
did not become a Democrat, and
the same may be said of Thee
dore Roosevelt, who was cruelty
though not fatally, bitten by the
tarantula of mugwumpery in 1884
There is a story, and a prosper
GUS aneedote it is, that it was
the admonition of William G. l..
Breckenridge that saved both Mr.
Roosevelt and Mr.. Lodge to the
&. o. p, but it is a little too
strange to command full credence
Bill Chandler is a Harvard man
and therefore he is of the blue
blood, by training at least. AT
the age of twenty he was admit
ted to the bar and appointed re
porter of the State Supreme
Court. He was repeatedly a mem
Der of the State Legislature and
once Speaker of its House of
Representatives. Lincoln appoint
ed him Judge Advocate Gen
eral of the Navy Department and
johnson made him assistant See
rotary of Treasury, an office he
resigned in 1867 when the quar-
rel between the President and
Congress became intensely bitter.
He helped make the present con
stitution of New Hampshire in
1876. That winter he went down
to Florida and reversed the vote
of that State by taking it out
of the Tilden column, where the
people had put it, and throwing
il into the column of Hayes, where
it was absolutely necessary to
elect Garfield appointed him
Solicitor General, but the Sen
ate, for some reason or other
his work in Florida, doubtless
rejected him, the Senate being a
tie, politically, with old Dave
Davis president pro tempore and
holding the balance of power.
The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1911-11-07
Reasons Why The Great Majestic You Should Buy

LIST 1t has the reputation being best range money can
buy.
md Ii only has the reputation hut IS range
made and will prove this TO you il You will LET
3rd 1t is Of maahe IRON material YOU can
and of Charcoal iron material that esss 800 per
greater than steel is riyted together air tight No
capes cold air the range, thus very little fuel
to do perfect work.
+h. The reservoir alone is worth the price of
any other reservoir made 1t bols Is gallons water
heated like tea Kettle with pocket against left hand lining.
and is movable and frame hence
When water gets too hot it be moved away from fire
Majestic Ranges less fuel; heat water-and heat
il hotter; practically nothing for repairs last three times
long, bakes better easier TO keep clean and gives better
satisfaction than any other range the market If you
positive that the above statements true wOudn buy
Majestic at Come in Demonstration Week and We
prove it to you.
The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1911-11-07
BILL CHANDLER DEMOCRATS
The Man Who was Responsible
for the Steal of 1876 - Has
Been an Erratic and May Now
Become Democrat.
(Savo,yard.)

"
Some time in the late fifties
of the last century, after the
death of the Wing party and the
overthrow of the Know Nothing
party, many thousands of old
Wings of the South were practi-
cally without party, though
most of them, like Archibald Dix
on of Kentucky, followed Henry
A. Wise into the Democratic par
ty. One Jordan Clark, the John
Temple Graves of that day, made
announcement in Memphis pa
per that the famous Parson
Brownlow of Tennessee, had con-
cluded to become a Democrat,
whereupon Brownlow made en-
phatic and indignant denial in a
remarkable pronunciamento that
contained things like these: Il
may consent to be a member OF
your party when Democrats cease
to lie, steal and drink mean
whiskey. ] perhaps will consider
the thing when Napoleon III,
Emperor of France, and Alexan-
der H., Gar of Russia, shall vol
unfairly abdicate their crowns
to become members of the United
States Senate from the terrific
nv of New Mexico. | will advise
about it when Queen Victoria
shall apply to some Justice of the
Peace in Kansas for a divorce a
vineule matrimonii from Albert
Prince Consort. And there
were other ensanguined stipula-
tons to the same effect.
And now there are rumors dee
laden with the portentous tidings
that Bill Chandler is to become
a Democrat. Mr.. Chandler is
the one citizen of this republic
who made President of the Uni
ted States "by his lone self. !"
On the night of the presidential
election in 1876, when even the
head of the Republican ticket
made a speech of surrender, and
everybody lese, including Chand-
Ter himself, had given it up, Mr..
The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1911-11-07

Subsequently he was Secretary OF
the Navy in Arthur's Cabinet.
In 1889 he took his seat in the
United States Senate, in which
body he was conspicuous twelve
years.
His administration of the Ma
val Department was successful IN
that it was a great Improvement
on that of the twenty years pre-
cedmg; but it was not until Gle
veland came in that John Roach
was made to take his hand out
Of the public crib. There is this
to be said of Chandler, that in
matters of pecuniary meum ct
tuum he is thoroughly honest,
and he will not allow any steal
ing by anybody if he can prevent
it. 1t is that mainly that makes
him so cordially hated at home
and in Washington.
In the Senate Chandler was
not exactly the stormy petral
that LaFollette is, but he was
aggravating to a degree. He
was the most vigilant member,
ceaseless and mtiring i'll indus
try and activity, If there was
any graft on deck he was mighty
apt to detect it, all he saw he
exposed, and a great deal of it
he defeated. If there was any
political mischief a-brewing, Ger.
tain it was that he promoted it.
From the day Ben Tillman made
his vicious and ignoble assault
on Cleveland and Carlisle, Chan
der was his friend and boon com
panion, and Chambers other
friend and boon companion was
Cabot Lodge. But Chandler was
a valuable public servant in that
he kept the Senate on edge ev-
cry sitting he attended.
If my observation was of any
account, Chandler would not hav
put on sackcloth and covered
himself with ashes if Bryan had
been elected in 1896. Immediate
ly after the Inauguration of Me-
kinley he became an insurgent.
So far as ] remember he was the
last member Of either house of
Congress TO advocate the coinage
of silver as a full legal tender
currency. He appealed to nature
az authority, and cited that for
any given period of series of
years the production of silver
The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1911-11-07
THE YOUTHS COMPANION
BOSTON, MASS.
New Subscriptions Received st This Office.

There is reason in all things;
but there doesn I seem to be in
all people.
Kicking a man when he is
down is sometimes the only way
to make him get up.
The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1911-11-07
Set of w are
FREE.

If YOU call at store during Majestic Dcmonsla-
tOn Week and allow to show you the many advantages
and superior ques of the Gre Majestic Range and will pu
chase the regular price will give You Free the beau
ul and useful Souvenir Set of Ware illustrated in this adj
verseme. This made to match the quality of the
Majestic Ranges and know all ladies will the beauty
and utility of this set especially the first three pieces which
entirely and cannot be had alone by purchase
cep at very high price The prices of the Majestic
Ranges are the but give the set FREE with each
Majestic Range bought during the demonstration week only
The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1911-11-07

was practically 10 to ! of gold
i'll the element of weight, which
was nothing in the world hut a
reiteration of Bryan S contention
that a bushel of wheat and 4l2l1.
grains of standard silver were
always and everywhere of equal
value.
The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1911-11-07

Serials and Other Stories.
The 81 issues of 1912 will contain
the equivalent of 80 volumes of the
best reading, including nearly 800
Stories, Articles by Famous Writers.
Athletics for Boys, Chats with Girls,
the Doctors Weekly Counsel, etc.
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The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1911-11-07

Barnum, the chairman of the
Democratic national committee,
addressed a thoughtless and fate
full note of inquiry to The New
York Times, a Republican news
paper, asking for returns from
the election in South Carolina,
Florida, and Louisiana. That
note was shown to Bill Chandler.
In such a situation as was thus
presented to such an observation
as his, Bill Chandler is the most
adroit, the most resourceful, and
the most audacious man in the
world. As quick as flash his
nimble mind discovered that the
Democrats were not quite abse-
lutely assured. SO he wrote a
half dozen lines claiming 1Sl cleo
toral votes for Hayes and the
election of the Republican candi-
date, and signed Zach Chandler s
name to it as chairman of the Re
publican national committee, who
was then fast asleep in Chica-
go, having gone to bed utterly
defeated and .humiliated. The
next morning the Republicans
took heart, claimed everything,
and subsequently they stole ev-
erything- all because Bill Chan
dler was not in Tibet, or Tophet,
when Barnm sent that momen-
tous inquiry to The New York
Times.
Though born in Yankeeland,
it may be opined that, like Dan
iel Webster and Benjamin F.But-
Ter, also natives of New Hamp-
shire, Chandler is neither Puritan
nor Pilgrim, but Scotch-Irish. BE
that as may be, he is of Wing
antecedents, and reckless as the
statement may seem, stranger
things have happened than the
advent of William +. Chandler
into the Democratic camp. A
son of William Lloyd Garrison
became a Democrat, and Garrison
himself, who had championed the
1.-THE tariff t of denominations, "
lived to champion absolute free
trade, the repeal of all tariff du-
ties, and the abandonment of all
custom houses.
A great grandson of Roger
Sherman, grandson Of Samuel
Hoar, son of f. lockwood Hoar,
was a Democratic member of
Congress from Massachusetts, 20
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The Republican platform of
1896 contained plank that was
a pledge to send a commission to
Europe to plead with statesmen
and financiers to rehabilitate sill
yer as a money metal on pari-
ty with gold. That plank was in
serted to counteract the defec-
ton of Teller and Stewart, and
for the benefit of Wolcott. They
might have offered to send over
there to ask Europe to join with
the United States in a declara-
tion that hants' exercised ma
terial influence on the social, po-
litical, and spiritual affairs of
mankind, and they would have
done that, too, had they thought
Their ewas a vote in il.
When Chandler made his speech
il was ON the proposal TO raise
the commission, which was done
with a solemn face. Ny old
friend, James b. Crcary. of Ken
lucky, was one of the commission
and he was the only man in the
world who took the thing seri-
ously; but then, he would have
entered upon the liant expedition
with equal gravity. OF course
nothing came of it but a junket
and silver dropped out of our
politics with dull thud.
The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1911-11-07

Bill Chandler. natural born
insurgent, kept it up until the
Boston and Maine railroad pitch
forked him out of the senate
giving his seat to one of ifs attor-
neys. Subsequently Chandler ran
with Roosevelt in the mighty oc-
topus chase. Daily and dilligent-
~ he fetched and carried be-
tween the White House and Till
man and Bailey until Teddy put
him in the Ananias Club. The
late Midas Hartman did not live
10 get even with Midas Ryan.
Will Chandler ever get even with
RooseveltY You bet he will.
And Chandler is to be a Dem
oeratl Well, well, well!
The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1911-11-07

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Evening journal., 1911-04-10
GREAT FIRE
VISITS TOKYO
Loss Will Reach $lO,OOO,OOO
in the Burned TenderIOin
District
ONE HUNDRED LIVES
MAY HAVE BEEN LOST

BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
TOKYO, Japan, April 10-Already
cry is being raised by some of the
reformers against the rebuilding of
Tokyo's famous yoshiwara, the larg-
est licensed tenderloin quarter in the
world, which was destroyed by fire
yesterday. II is improbable. how
ever, that any attention will be paid
to the request as the Japanese author
tiles are convinced that the system Of
segregating, licensing and regulating
vice is the best yet solved
The loss i'm yesterdays fire will un-
doubtedly reach S10,000,000 Although
most of the buildings were frame,
many of them We're filled with the
most beautiful furnishings TO be had
in Toxic and hundreds of the inmates
of the quarter had costly jewelry
which was destroyed. Five thousand
houses were burned, including sew
eral hospitals which the government
ordered maintained in the quarter.
The firemen and officials today be-
gan a systematic search of the ruins
for bodies of women who lost their
lives. 1t is believed certain that a
number perished in their burning
homes. but there is a wide difference
of opinion as to the number, some
saying there were less than a dozen
while other officials insist at least
100 perished.
Evening journal., 1911-04-10
DIAz PLANS
TO ESCAPE
Two Regiments Of FederalS
Guard Avenue to the
Coast
OUR WAR DEPARTMENT HAS
AGENTSTnROUGHOUT MEXICO

by United Press Leased Special Wire.
WASHINGTON. April 10-Conf-
dental reports received at the War
College from the United States army
officers in Mexico today show that
President Diaz has laid careful and
complete plans to escape from his
country.
Only two regiments remain In Mex
leo City. The other troops which
were stationed in the capitol. together
with several additional picked regi-
ments. have been detailed to terri
tory where there are practically no
insurrectionists, I'm such manner
that they form an avenue leading di-
rect from Mexico City to the Atlantic
coast.
II became known today that Mexico
is literally honeycombed with conf
dental agents from the War Depart
ment Many Of them are army OFF,
GERS. Reports are made on every
movement of troops, and the informa-
tion is marked down on a huge map
i'm the War College, pins with colored
heads representing companies or regi-
ments
The last move of President Diaz
is chronicled with a line Of pins lead
ing direct from Mexico to the Atlantic
coast.
Evening journal., 1911-04-10
TO FIGHT LIGHT
LEASE AT POLLS
Newark Voters to Pass on
Question at Town Election
Tomorrow

NEWARK, Del. April 10.--The fight
over the action of the town Council
I'm leasing the water works and cleo
trio light plant TO the new Newark
Water and Electric Company without
advertising for proposals, which has
waged for nearly two months, will be
renewed In all it's vigor at the annual
town election tomorrow.
Those who are fighting the lease
have placed a ticket in the field for
president of Council and four members
Of that body. and the advocates OF the
lease have announced that they will
nominate second ticket. Political
lines will not be drawn as only lease
and ':anti-lease" will be the issues.
Joseph "A Hossinger is the candidate
for Mayor. The Mayor presides at the
meetings of Council He is unopposed.
J. p. Wright who was I'm favor OF the
lease is the retiring Mayor. Other can
didates are:
First district-Clifford Wilson, citi-
zen's ticket. unOpposed.
Second district-Eben Frazer, citi-
zen's ticket. unopposed.
Third dlstrict-Frank VI. Smith and
Howard Leak, lease candidates; Rob-
ert J. Morrison and J. B. Luton, citi-
zens ticket.
David c. Rose and DR.. Walter Steele
hold over.