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The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-02-10

main ne a a plain, homely, sad. weary-looking
man TO whom ones heart warmed invoiuntarny'
because he seemed at once miserable ana Anu.
James p Fry. who became intimately acQuaint-
cd with Lincoln early In the latters political ca
reer. saws: Lincoln was tall and thin; his long
bones were united by large joints and he mad a iong
neck and an angular face and head. Many ike
nesses represent his face well enough, but none
that I have ever seen do justice to the awkward
ness and ungainliness OF his figure. his ieet,
hanging loosely to his ankles, were prominent
objects, but his hands were more conspicuous even
than his feet-due perhaps to the fact that cere-
mony at times compelled him to clothe them In
white kid gloves, which always fitted loosely.
Both In the height of conversation and In the depth
of reflection his hand now and then ran over or
supported his head, giving his hair h~abitually a dis
ordered aspect
His expression in repose was sad and dull. but
his ever-recurring humor, at short intervals, flashed
forth with the brilliancy of an electric ngnI l
observed but two well defined expressions in his
countenance: one that Of a pure, thoughtful. hon
est man, absorbed by a sense OF duty and respon-
sibility: the other, that OF a humorist SO full OF fun
that he could not keep it all in. His power OF
analysis was wonderful. He strengthened every
case he stated and no anecdote or joke ever lost
force or effect from his telling.
Apropos of his large feet there is an anecdote
told of Lincoln when he was In the legislatures:
He had walked his hundred miles to Vandalia, In
1896. as he had in 1884, and when the session
ENOGEu LO WohnO
Menard county remembers meeting him and a de-
tachment of the 'long nine" on their way home.
They were, all mounted except Lincoln, who had
thus far kept up with them on foot. II he had any
money he was boarding it for more important pur-
poses than that of saving leg WEAKNESS and
leather. The weather was raw and Lincolns
clothing was none of the warnlest
Complaining of being cold to one OF his COM
panions, this irreverent member OF the long nine
told his future president that 1t was no wonder
that he was cold-"there was so much OF him on
the ground" None of the party appreciated this
homely Joke at the expense OF his feet (they were
doubtless able to bear it, more thoroughly than
Lincoln did. We can imagine the cross fires Of wit
and humor by which the way was enlivened during
this cold and tedious journey.
The scene was certainly a rude one and seems
more like a dream than a reality, when we re
member that it occurred not many years ago, In
a state which now contains hardly less than three
millions of people and 1900 miles OF railway.
Cassius M. Clay in describing an address which
he delivered at Springfield In 1856 says: "Liheoln
and Browning lay upon the ground whiting sticks
and heard me throughout with marked attention.
Hurrying en- TO my appointments. I saw him then
no more. Z never shall forget his Iona, uDgainly
pers1n and plain but even then sad and thoughtful
features"
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-02-10
PAINFUL FINGER NAILS CURED

'ihave suffered from the same trou-
BILE (painful finger nails) at different
periods of my life. The first time Of
its occurrence, perhaps twenty-five
years ago, after trying home remedies
without getting helped, l asked my
doctor to prescribe for me, but it was
not for a year or more that my nails
and fingers were well. The infiamma-
ton and s~uppuration began at the
base of the finger nail. Sometimes 1t
was so painful that 1 had to use a
poultice to induce suppuration. After
the pus was discharged the swelling
would go down until the next period
of inflammation, possibly not more
than a week or two afterwards. These
frequent inf1ammations resulted in the
loss of the. nail. l had sometimes as
many as three fingers in this state at
n time.
Perhaps ten years later I began
again to suffer from the anne trouble.
Again I tried various remedies, among
them a prescription from a doctor of
a friend of mine, who had suffered
from a like trouble. This seemed to
help somewhat for a time, but it was
not a permanent cure; next tried a
prescription from my own doctor, but
this was so irritating to the sensitive,
diseased skin that I could not use 1t.
] began to use Cuticura Soap and
Ointment. 7 had used the Cuticura
Ointment previously on my children's
scalps with good effect. / did not use
the Soap exclusively, but ! rubbed the
Cuticura Ointment into the base of
the nail every night thoroughly, and
as often beside as I could. / had not
used it but a few weeks before my
nails were better, and in a short time
they were apparently well. There
was no more suppuration, nor inf1am-
nation, the nails grew out clean
again. One box of Cuticura Ointment
was all that I used in effecting a
cure" (Signed) Mrs. I. J. Horton,
Katonah, N. Y, Apr. 10, 1910. On
Sept. 81, Mrs. Horton wrote: "I have
had no further return of the trouble
with my finger nails"
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suaded the people that he was one Of them the
moment he made his appearance on the plat
form-his LONELINESS and his intimate and apt
use Of the simple speech they could understand.
There are anecdotes which are intended to show
that even in a community OF persons not noted
for manly beauty he was considered prominently
the reverse. Yet, although this was the subject
Of jests at his expense, no one thought any the
less OF him for 1t. This homeliness-cal 1t ug-
illness IL you will-of his face. the awkwardness
Of his form, and the ungainliness of his gestures
and attitudes seemed to the people to go natu-
rally with his goodness Of heart and the simple
iy OF his nature.
In their eyes when advocating the cause of the
oppressed and when opposing the forces which
would destroy the nation he became to many pos
iuvely handsome. As years afterward one old
man who knowed' him said:
Lots OF 'em will tell you he was homely.
Seems to me that's about all some folks around
here has to tell about Abraham Lincoln. Yes, I
knowed him. they say. He was the homeliest
man In Sangamon county Well, now, don't you
make no mistake. The folks that don't tell you
nuthin' but that never knowed MIR. Lincoln. Meb-
be they'd seen him. but they never knowed him.
He want homely. There's no denyin' he was
long and lean, and he didn't always stand straight,
and he wasn't pertikeler about his clothes, but
that night up to Bloomington In ten minutes after
he struck the platform, I tell you he was the
handsomest man / ever see"
"1 AhO hhOhI ultcI A5 nSN OlcCtlOA IuO puphNo-
ton Once a Week in London printed the follow
ing personal sketch of Lincoln:
Abraham Lincoln Is a garnt giant more than
six feet high. strong and long limbed. He walks slow,
and, like many thoughtful men Wordsworth and
Napoleon, for example). keeps his head inclined
forward and downward. His hair is wiry black.
his eyes are dark gray. his smile is frank. sim
cere and winning. Like most American gentle
men, he is loose and careless In dress, turns down
his tapping white collars, and wears habitually
what we consider evening dress. His head Is
massive. his brow full and wide, his nose large
and feshy. his mouth coarse and full; his eyes
are sunken, his bronzed face Is thin and drawn
down into strong corded lines. that disclose the
machinery that moves the broad Jaw. This great
leader of the Republican party-this abolitionist
this terror OF the Democrats'-this honest old
lawyer. with face h~alf-Roman. half-Indian. SO
wasted by climate. SO SCARED by a LIES struggle.
was born in 1909 in Kentucky. His grandfather.
who came from Virginia, was killed by the Indi-
ans. His father died young. leaving a widow and
several children. They removed to Indiana, Abe
being at the time only six years old. Poor and
struggling. his mother could only AFFORD him some
eight months rough schooling; and in the clear
Tags IL that parE. and unsettled country the
healthy stripping went TO work ~ hew hickory
and gum trees. to grapple with demonstrating
bears. and to look out for the too frequent rattle
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snake. Tall. strong. 1.-THE and smiling, Abe toiled
on as a farm laborer, mule driver. sheep feeder
deer killer, woodcutter. and, lastly, as boatman
on the waters of the Wabash and che Mississippi"
Another English writer In describing the pres
ident is still more realistic than his countryman
when he says:
""To say that he ia ugly is nothing; to add that
his figure Is grotesque is to convey no adequate
impression. Fancy a many six feet high, and
then out OF proportion; with long bony arms and
legs. which somehow seem to be always in the
way; with great rugged, furrowed hands, which
grasp you like a wise when shaking yours; with
q long shaggy neck and a chest too narrow for
the great arms at its side.
add to this figure a head cocoanut shaped
and omewhat too small for such a stature, COW
cred with rough, uncombed and uncombable hair,
that stands out In every direction at once; a face
furrowed, wrinkled and indented, as though it
had been SCARED by vitrioi, a high, narrow fore
head: and sunk deep beneath bushy eyebrows two
bright, dreamy eyes that seem to gaze through
you without looking at you; a few irregular
blotches of black bristly hair In the place where
beard and whiskers ought to grow; a close set,
thin Tipped, stern mouth, with two rows OF large
white teeth, and a nose and ears which have
been taken by mistake from a head twice the
size.
"Clothe this figure, then, in a long, tight, badly
fitting suit of black, creased. soiled and puckered
up at every salient point of the figure land ev-
cry point OF this figure Is SALIENT, put on large,
~ilfitting boots, gloves too long for the long, bony
fingers, and a fluffy hat, covered to the top with
dusty, puffy Grape; and then add to this an air
Of strength. physical as well as moral, and a
strange look OF dignity coupled with all this gro
tesqueness, and you viii have the impression left
upon me by Abraham Lincoln"
Ward Lamon, who knew him intimately, goes
more into details. He says: Mr.. Lincoln was
about six feet four inches high, the length OF his
legs being out OF all proportion TO that of his
body. When he sat down in a chair he seemed
no taller than an average man, measuring from
the chair to the crown OF his head; but his knees
rose high In front, and a marble placed on the
cap of one would roll down a steep descent to
the hip. He weighed about $50 pounds, but he
was thin through the breast, narrow across the
shoulders, and had the general appearance of a
consumptive subject. Standing up, he stopped
slightly forward; sitting down. he usually crossed
his long legs or threw them over the arms of the
chair as the most convenient mode Of ~disposing
OF them. His head was long and tall from the
base of the brain and the eyebrow" his fore
head big and narrow. but inciining backward as
It rose.
The diameter OF his head from ear to ear was
6M inches and from front to back eight inches.
His ears were large. standing out almost at right
angles from his head; his cheek bones high and
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-02-10

lily, but I tell them Of my good friend,
your Vegetable Compound, and that
there will be no backache and bearing
down pains for them if they will take
1T as / have. / am scarcely ever with
out it in the house.
ST will say also that / think there Is
no better medicine to be found for
young girls to build them up and make
them strong and well. My eldest
daughter has taken Lydia f. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound for pain.
full periods and irregularity, and 1t has
always helped her.
"I am always ready and willing To
speak a good word for the Lydia Il.
Pinkham's Remedies. i tell every one
L meet that / owe my health and hap
piness to these wonderful medicines,
Mrs. JIG. JOHNSON, Scottville. Mich,
RID. 3. /.
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotics or harm
full drugs, and to-day holds the record
for the largest number Of actual cures
Of female diseases.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-02-10
FRENCH BEAN COFFEE,
A HEAlTHFUL DRINK

The healthiest ever; you can grow
1t in your wi garden on a small
patch 10 by 10. producing so pounds or
more. Ripens in Wisconsin 80 days.
Used in great quantities in France,
Germany and all over Europe. Send
is cents in stamps and we will mail
you a package giving full culture di.
rections as also our mammoth seed
catalog free, or send 81 cents and get
in addition to above 10000 kernels
indispensable vegetable and flower
seeds-enough for bushels Of vege-
tables and flowers. John A. Salzer
Seed Co., 1872 s. Sth St., La Crosse, Wis.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-02-10

n wasn,r a Sire.

The principal OF one of the New
York East Side night schools was en-
rolling a new pupil, who was logged
out in a suit of clothes 10 new that
1t hurt him. Just before the boy came
in the principal had heard the sound
of fire engines in the street.
What is your manner" the principal
asked the lad.
tom Dugan," was the reply.
Where was the fire, Tommy"
asked the principal as he wrote down
the name. There was no reply; only
a scowl.
Il say, where was the fre?" repeat
ed the principal.
Don't git gay wit me-" was the
somewhat astonishing answer. "Dere
wasn't no fire, see? / bought dis here
suit and / paid s~even-ffty for IT."
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-02-10
ploolno Spruce Gum.

There will be a crusade in spruce
gum digging in the Maine woods this
winter. About twenty men will leave
S~kowhegan within a short time to be-
gin gum digging operations near jack
man Gum has grown scarce in the last
few years and the demand is SO great
that it has become a business to many
Maine men. Last year James Carey.
Frank Croning and Joe Cass dug 1900
pounds and sold 1t all in Maine. 1t 10
estimated that from $4,000 to 100000
pounds will be dug this season.-Ken-
nebec (Me.) Journal.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-02-10
Feminine.

A local ironworker who had been
married a couple of years always de-
clared that his first SON should be
named Mat, after one OF his best
friends.
Learning that the ironworker and
his wife had recently been blessed
with a charming baby, the friend
smiled all over his face when he greet
ed the father on the street.
WELL" he beamed. "how is little
Mat?"
Mat, nothing" answered the fs-
Their; sits Mattress. "-Youngstow
Telegram.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-02-10

prominent; his eyebrows heavy and
jutting forward owe small, sunken
blue eyes: his long. large and
blunt, the tip of it rather rudy ana
slightly awry towards the right hand
side: his chin, projecting far and
sharp, curved upward to meet q
thick. material lower lip, which
hung downward; his cheeks
labby, and the loose skin fell In
wrinkles or folds; there was a large
mole on his right cheek and an I'M
commonly prominent Adams apple
on his throat; his hair was dark
brown in color, stiff, unkempt, n
as yet showing little or no sign OF
advancing age or trouble: his com
nlexion was very dark, his skin vel
low. shriyeled and ''leathery." In
short. to use the language OF Mr.
Herndon, she was a thin. tall. wiry.
grisly, raw-boned man." looking
woe-struck." His countenance was
haggard and careworn, exhibiting all
the marks Of deep and protracted
suffering.
Every feature OF the mantle
hollow eyes, with the dark rings be-
meath: the long, sallow, cadaverous
face. ~intersected by those peculiar
deep lines; his whole air, his walk
his long, silent ~reveries. broken at
long intervals by sudden and start.
ling EXPLANATIONS, as II to confound
an observer who might suspect the
nature of his thought-showed ne
was a man of sorrcws-not sorrows
of today or yesterday. but long treas
ured and deep-bearing with him
q continual sense nj WEAKNESS and
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-02-10
UNKIND.

Wifey-I smell something like leath-
er burning! is it that cigar?
Hubby--No; but l wouldn't wonder
II it's the crust of that pie you just
put INTO the oven.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-02-10

When the millennium m there
will be schools to which janitors and
railway porters will be sent to learn
something about ventilation.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-02-10

He came of a lanky race, gaunt,
powerful people. and capable OF
great endurance. Their hard lives
were not conducive to grace OF fig
ure or motion and their faces were
often scanned and strongly marked.
Climate, toll and improper or insult
ficient food had much to do with
giving to the western and southern
pioneers the peculiarities of form
and action and the facial markings
which identified them geographically
as easily as did their speech.
Lincoln never was ashamed OF
these things-at least he never
changed his habits when he came
into national prominence, but his
continuance Of them did not arise
from affectation. They were natu-
raj to him and he was not willing to
have n set of manners for Wash
ington and another for the people
back in Illinois.
That he was careless Of his ap-
pearance there was no doubt When
he sat for a photographer he never
Strengthened his tie OF smoothed his
unkempt hair, but, like Cromwell,
told the picture man to take him
as he was. He knew that a portrait
of a "slicked up" Lincoln, as he
would have said, would not have
been recognized in Springfield, and
he didn't want them to think he was
putting on airs because they had
elected him to the presidency.
1t was his LONELINESS which per
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-02-10

v Ia DIE CON-
pound and Sanative
Wash have done me-
I live on o farm and
have worked very
hard. L am forty
five years old, and
am the mother OF
children
Many people think
lit strange that lam
not broken down
with hard work and
&1n 90 ro 70 NV fo~
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-02-10

It's easier to borrow from a now
friend than 1t is to pay hack what
you owe an old one.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-02-10

1T is u nurse who has fallen. She
knows well that we are not insured
against accidents to working people"
What next will the domestics of to-
day invent to vex their employers?"
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LINCOLN'S per-
8 o appearance
has been the sub
ject of innumerable
a n Q C d o t a n d
Jokes. He was not
unaware of the Cd
dity Of his figure
and the character
istics Of his face.
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OWES
! HER
HEALTH
To Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Scottville, Mich.-"I want TO tell
you how much good LydiaE i. Pinkham's
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Pure Lambs Wool Blankets,
white, with wide silk binding
and handsome border. I'm
matchable value. Regular $40
value at .~..............- .%6
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COMFORTS

At SIS, regularly $3.50. down
flied and covered with fine
floral figured and sateen and
plain border. Each .%5
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NOTICE.

TO THE HON. COUNTY JUDGE OF
JEFFERSON COUNTY.
We the undersigned citizens and
taxpayers, respectfully pray your
Honor to grant a new road as said
description ask for:
Beginning at a point on the road
known as the Middle Road at or near
the Geo. Meter place and running
east about IA miles on the section
lines between 90 and 80 and IS and
SO T. 6 r. 9 West and intersect the
macadam road at \. Tops place.
Respectfully submitted
j. S. Ingram,
G. D. Mcvay.
]. r. Dean,
]. a. Hanlins,
c. P. Atkinson,
l.. d. Owen,
W. F. Monk.
W. H. Ellington.
B. G. Bailey,
V Phelps,
r. NJ Hudson,
]. r. Price.
]. T. Wilson.
y. Il. Gresham.
2 T eo.tam.
. " e.:,5. -
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We deliver prescriptions prompt
ly-Mann-T ankersley Drug Compa-
nv Phone 20. 8 4 tt
If you need Furniture see Anchor
Furniture Co., they will save you mo-
ney on all house furnishings.
Still giving 25 per cent discount
Oh all Iron Beds, Davenports and
Ranges at Reap e Crawford Furn Co.
We have a messenger In walt
ing Mann-Tankersley Drug Com
pany. Phone 80. 8 4 If
Davenports, Iron Beds and Ran
ges still going at 25 per cent discount
at Reap C Crawford Furn Co.
FOR SALE-Stand desk, ceilin fans
and shafting, counter, railing desk,
etc Apply Daily Graphic.
General Thomas Green ST., is
able to be out again after servere
illness at his home on South Main
street Mr.. Green was taken sick
some time ago at Lew.sville.
When your physician calls ask
him to leave the prescription, phone
us and we will dispatch messenger
for same immediately.-Man
ersley Drug Co. Phone 80. a tt
Commissioner G. e. Lyle under
an order from the chancery court,
yesterday sold at public auction Lot
in Block IL of Tannehill and Owens
addition, to the highest bidder at the
court house door. The property was
purchased by Charles We'll and Ferd
Havis, after spirited bidding. The
property was ordered sold in the case
of Sylvia Wooten against Buster
Cleveland The successful bidders
paid 1900 for the property.
Several committees from the Re-
tail Merchants Association were out
yesterday among the merchants and
manufacturers urging them to enter
floats in the big industrial parade that
is to be held in this city Oh the even
ing of White Way Day-September IA.
|
The committees met with much sue
cess and practically all of those visit
ed assured them that they would be
represented in the parade.
"A car inspector named Mitchell,
employed at the Cotton Belt shops,
was badly injured yesterday morning
at an early hour when he fell from the
ton Of a box car Ilolderness' ambu-
LARGE removed him to the Davis Hos
pital.
Mrs. A. p. Paul, a we'll known re-
sident Of Grady, WAS brought 10 the
city yesterday af ernoon very i'll with
fever. She WAS moved from the Iroa
Mountain train to the home of her re-
latiVe. E. l.. Paul, at No $40 West
Second avenue. She is very sick and
will probably BE placed in a local hos
Wital in a few days for treatment
Another large shipment of Chi
Namel. One coat over your floors will
make them look like new and you
can wash them without turning them
white Sold only by Cleveland-Mat-
thews Hdw. Co.