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of Mr.. Staples, and he was afterward
mustered into the service.
This is about all the information |
can give you with reference to the
matter, and would suggest that if you
desire to learn anything about the
private life of Mr.. Staples you might
write to the postmaster or some other
person at Stroudsburg, Pa, where
Mr.. Staples lived and where he died
January II, 1855"
(signed) ]. L. DAVENPORT,
Commissioner.
There are several people still living
In Stroudsburg who knew Staples and
remember that to him belonged the
unique distinction of representing
Lincoln on the field of battle. Among
their number are J.. T. Palmer, post
master and principal of the public
school; c. L. Drake, editor Of the
Stroudsburg Times, and Representa-
tive A. Mitchell Palmer of Pennsyl-
vania. It was characteristic of Lin
coin that he kept the matter from the
public press, and a like modesty
seems to have imposed silence on the
young soldier who served his country
SO well.
One does not have to make a very
exhaustive study of Lincoln's charac-
ter IN order to understand the motive
which led him to send a substitute to
represent him in the scenes Of the
bloody drama then being enacted
throughout the land. His conscience
was not Of that easily satisfied variety
which contents itself with allowing
things to remain as they are, without
%indulging in eXertion for the common
good. His was the hand which was
steering the Ship of State through
tempest and crash of hostile guns, yet
great as was the task assigned him,
he perceived with the eagle eye that
watched the course of action, a post
still untitled, ar unoccupied niche
where a combatant could be placed to
strike In behalf of the Union. To that
sentative, that he might be practical
ly In personals he was already in
spirit-on the red field of carnage. 1t
done quietly, In that simple, unos
tentatious manne that distinguished
all of Lincoln's acts, whether in Off
cial or private life. He lever played
to the gallery, and the verdict of his
own conscience was all he cared
about.
While this is probably the only case
in history where the leader of a ma
ton SEN a substitute to fill his place
in the ranks of fighting men, a sort Of
precedent may be said to be found
in the custom, but recently fallen into
disuse, Of appointing a kings cham
pion," who was supposed to offer his
body in opposition to any challenger
of the reigning monarch of Great
Britain. Until the accession of the
late King Edward VII. to the crown
of England, this functionary was a
member of the royal encourage. When
the new king was publicly crown
ed the champion" appeared before
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Marty O'Toole, the expensive piece
of pitching bric-a-brac purchased by
the Pittsburgh Pirates last summer.
has signed for next season.
Plans for the training trip OF tao
Chicago Cubs have been changed by
dropping West Baden, Ind, where the
team has practiced for several years.
Horace Fogel, president of the Phil
lies, is making arrangements to estab-
lish a training camp in Bermuda,
fearing meningitis. He says, I'm
taking no chances with my boys"
Edmund Lamy of Saranac Lake,
late amateur skating champion, won
two out of three races from Morris
Wood, professional champion, in the
two-day series for the professional
title of America.
Although his right hand vas Grip
pied in the sixth round Eddie Nc
Goorty, the Oshkosh middleweight,
who has championship aspirations, de-
feated Walter Coffey of California in
a hard ten round bout in New York.
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WEEKS NEWS BY
TICK AND FLASH
Whatlnterests the World Chron-
icIed by Telegraph and Cable.
GLANCE AT FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Washington Looms Large as a Center
Of Interest-Legislatures Busy In
Many States-The Lights and
Shadows of the News.
Wdshin6fOn

The pension appropriation bill, car
rying $780, O0, 900, was introduced.
The steel bill passed by the louise
was introduced in the Senate, and the
bill creating a children's bureau was
discussed
Federico Alfonso Pezet, the new
Peruvian minister to Washington,
will also retain the post of minister 10
Panama.
Secretary Meyer denounced the ac-
ton of the Democratic House caucus
in voting against construction OF pat
tleships as another Illustration OF
government by snap judgment"
Representative Hobson will lead a
fight against the Democratic caucus
action eliminating appropriations for
two Dreadnoughts from the Navy
bill.
The Department of Justice will
soon begin an investigation of the
Central Leather Company, or Leather
Trust, to ascertain if it is violating
the Sherman law by working in com
bination with the Beef Tru-t and
thereby hosting the prices of leather
products.
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Choose Your Friends.

You can be on good terms with a
good many people whose fundamental
attitude toward life does not match
your own. You cannot afford TO be on
intimate terms with a man who is
acking in reverence. in unimpeaeha'
BE honesty, in profound respect for
womanly purity or In definite serious
purpose. These are the four cardinal
attitudes: toward God, toward truth,
.pward women. toward ones self.
Charles Reynolds Brown.
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U. S. TROOPS WATCH MEXICO.

Army of $4,000 Ordered Ready t,
March to the Border.
MISUNDERSTANDING half the
regular army in the United States was
ordered to hold itself in readiness to
move southwark at a moments notice
to protect the frontier along the Rio
Grande.
The war department regards the
situation in Mexico as extremely seri-
Gus and alarming.
A regiment of infantry from Whip
pie barracks and attachments of field
artillery from Fort Sill, Okla, and
Fort Logan NJ. Root, Ark, have moved
to Fort Bliss, FL Paso.
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Personal

The Gear granted a pension OF So
600 a year to the widow of Count Leo
Tolstoy.
Emperor William in an official note
thanked the German people for cele-
brating his own birthday and the bi-
centenary of Frederick the Great.
The Empress Dowager of China de-
cided to accept the conditions laid
down by the republicans in their de-
mand for the immediate abdication of
the throne.
President Taft spent a day in Co.
lumbus, O., made four speeches, de-
spite the huskiness in his throat, and
received many comforting political as
surances.
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Does History Repeat Itself?

Rome is like some famous woodland
glade that every artist paints; she is
like some problem in bodybuilding,
at which every engineer tries his
hand. Thus, in the days when his
tory consisted of and battles,
men studied Rome as the great man
ual of military experiences; and when
our conception of history advanced SO
az to include governmental problems,
II was Rome that was the great text
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Nourishment for InvaIids,

When the appetite has failed, as in
the ase of convalescents and many
weak children, nourishment is of
prime Importance. There is a capital
way to administer 1t, which rarely fails
in extreme cases. To the white
of an egg add the juice of an orange
and the least bit Of sugar. Strain the
mixture carefully and set 1t away I'M
til 1t is very cold. Then 1t may be
served as Orange jelly" either with OF
without a cracker.
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book in the history of legislation. In
very recent days we have suffered a
reaction from the formaiity of the
classical school of history, and we
have entered upon the orgies OF real
ism. Starting out from a half-digest-
ed theory that because antiquity in
some respects resembled the pres
ent, therefore 1t must have been ex-
actly like the present, we have
reached strange and marvellous re-
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suits. Yet this presupposes that his
tory repeats itself. We can of course
v prove that 1t does not; but we
can assert that 1t does not, with all
the intensity of the faith that Is in
us. We are not squirrels going round
in a cage, and could We see any COM
pick epoch In the past as we'll as we
can any period in the present. we
should see the difference; and where
the eye of the mind fails we have the
right to see by the eye OF faith
Jesse Benedict Carter. In the Allan
tic.
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aMy lines are in Thy hand.O

Desire only the viii of God. Seea
him alone. and you surely will hna
peace; you shall enjoy it in spite OF
the world. What is it that troubles
you? Poverty, neglect, want OF sue
cess, external or internal troublesl
Look upon everything as in the hands
of God and as real blessings that be
bestows upon his chlldre4. of whict
you receive your portion. Then the
world may turn its face from you, but
nothing will deprive you of peace. =
Fenelon.
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In the ranks of the Grand Army of
the Republic assured me that they
were certain that "Old Abe" was un-
represented in the ranks of the bovs
in blue. For all that it seemed to me
that the story was something more
than n of those romantic incidents
30 frequently quoted as having &C.
Cured in the lives of famous men aft
er they had passed over to the great
majority; incidents lending color to
laudatory biographical sketches. hut
rejected by the thoughtful historian
as being formed of the stuff dreams
are made Of" Lincoln, with his ex-
allied Ideals, his stern devotion to
duty, his undying love for the Union
and all that it represented. was ex-
actly the type of mar tt consider him
self at fault If he neglected to make
every possible sacrifice in his power
to the he held dearer than life.
l corresponded with the federal au-
thorities at Washington on the sub
ject, but the replies | received did not
tend to bring me any closer to the
goal. Instead they asserted positively
that the reported tradition was entire
ly without foundation. A letter from
the wal department stated emphatic
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"Let Not
Your Heart
Be
Troubled''

Sabbath.
1T n nothing be anxious;
Es~L but in everything bJ
IEE@@ prayer and su%pplicatioG
I&WEZN with thanksgiving let
AS your requests be mads
- known unto God. And
the peace OF God, which passeth ali
understanding. shall guard your hearts
and our thoughts in Christ Jesus
My God shall supply all your
need according to his riches in glory
by Christ Jesus. Phil A: 8, z; Col.
4: 10.
Monday.
Offer unto God thanksgiving. and
pay by vows unto the most high: aud
call upon me in the day OF trouble;
l will deliver thee. and thou shalt
gIorify me. Psalm so: II. Is.
Tuesday.
Why sayest thou, o Jacob, and
speakest, o Israel, my way is hid from
the Lord, and my judgment is passed
over from my God? Hast thou not
known, has thou not heard, that ths
everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator
of the ends Of the earth, fainteth not,
neither Is weary? There is no search
ing OF his understanding They that
wait upon the Lord shall renew their
strength; they shall noun up with
wings as eagles; they shall run n
not be weary. and they shall walk
and not faint. lisa. 40: 27-3I.
Wednesday.
Thus saith the Lord that created
thee, o Jacob, and he that formed
thee, o Israel, fear not; for | have
redeemed thee, l have called thee by
thy name; thou art mine. When thou
passest through the waters. | viii be
with thee; and through the rivers,
they shall not overflow thee; When
thou walkest through the fire, thou
shalt not be burned; neither shall the
flame kindle upon thee. For | am the
Lord thy God, the Holy One OF Israel,
thy savior. lisa. 10: 1-3.
Thursday.
We know that to them that love
God all things work together for
good, even to them that are called
according to his purpose. he that
spared not his own son, but delivered
him up for us all. how shall he not
also with him freely give rs all things?
Grid yourselves with humil-
ity, to serve one another: for God
resisteth the proud, but giyeth grace
to the humble. Humble yourselves
therefore under the mighty hand OF
God that he may exalt you in due
time; casting all your anxiety upon
God, because he caTeth for you. Rom
s: %. go; l Pet. 5: ST.
Friday.
Consider the lilies OF the field how
they grow; they toll not, neither 90
they spin, yet | say unto you tina
even Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these. If God
doth SO clothe the grass of the field.
shall he not much more elothe you.
o We OF little faith? Be not therefore
anxious. saying, What shall We eat?
or, What shall We drink? or. Where
with shall we be clothed? for your
heavenly father knoweth that ye have
need OF all these things. But seek We
first his kingdom, and his righteous
ness; and all these things shall be
added unto you. Mctt. s: 2S.S3.
Saturday.
The Lord is my rock, and my fort
ress, and my deliyerer; my God, my
strength. In whom | will trust; my
buckler, and the horn of my saliva
ton. and my high tower. l will call
upon the Lord, who is worthy to be
praised; so shall l be saved from mine
enemies. Psalm Is: 2, 8.
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the assembled multitude clad in mar
tial gear, and casting down a gauntlet
upon the ground, defied to mortal COM
bat any person or persons having
quarrel with or denying the right of
the potentate to reign over the land.
This custom dated back to the siren
uous days when a monarch was also
an active man-at-arms, and likely to
meet In a h~and-to-hand engagement
with some persistent foeman at any
time or place. Hence the institution
OF kings champion" appointed to
keep all challengers at bay, a heredi-
tary honor, and n that was held for
many generations by the descendants
Of the Dymoke family. But Edward
VII. who possessed an unusually
strong sense of the ridiculous, refused
to permit this heroic burlesque of a
medieval custom to be introduced
into the splendid pageantry at his cor
nation and abolished the office of q
warlike substitute forever.
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support of and denial or It's truth.
Now, for the first time, evidence is
here presented that the story of Lin
coins substitute Is correct-evidence
in the unassailable shape of an official
acknowledgment from the federal gov
eminent.
The exemption Of the president OF
the United States from the taking up
of arms, or serving on an actual field
of battle, is provided for by a special
statute drawn up to meet such a con-
tingency. But there is nothing to
prevent the nations chief executive
from sending forth a substitute to
fight in his place, although Lincoln
was the only occupant of the White
House who eve took advantage or
this fact. The man who represented
In his person that of the martyred
president was John Symmetrical Sta
pies, whose body now lies at rest In
a little cemetery at Stroudsburg, Pa.
The tombstone above his grave, pho
tograph of which is here reproduced,
testifies not only to Staples war
record, but states in granite letters
the fact of his having served as Abra-
ham Lincoln's substitute. The inscrip-
ton in question reads as follows:
j. Summerfeld Staples,
a Private Of
Co. c., 176 Regt., P. v.
Also a Member of the
2Reg. D. C. Vols, as a
Substitute for
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Died Jan. II, 1888,
Aged AZ Years, 4 Mos, Is Days.
His grave also bears the G. A. R.
marker, a metallic star upon which
the words Post $50" appear. A small
American flag futters in the breeze,
but The outside world seems little in
f-rmed as to the career of this patri-
otto and distinguished soldier boy.
l had heard the tradition that Lin
coin during the dark days of 1864 had
sent a substitute to the front. But
to confirm the truth of the tradition
was quite another matter. The popu-
lar opinion of those l consulted ap-
peared to be that the tale of Lin
coins substitute belonged in the myth
category, and had no more foundation
in sober fact than the legend of Wash
iDgton and the cherry tree. Men high
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TO DANISH
Governor Tener Appoints Commission
to Study Execution Methods.

Philadelphia.-Opening the way for
changes in the mode of state execu-
ton of e~lectrocution for hanging and
the building of a centrally located
death chamber" Governor Tener
announced the appointment of a com
mission to investigate the present
methods of inlicting capital punish
ment here and abroad. 1t will bring
before the Legislature a report.
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Not Now.

There are multitudes who have add
ed to their many sins the ~saddening
sin of saying not now" to Christ
when the pressure of his claims were
lying heavy upon them.-Rev. c. F
Seltten, Methodist. Denver.
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SENTENCE INFLAMEs BRITISH.
Imprisonment by German
NAV prove fha act cfraNu

Lawyers imprisonment by Germans
May Prove the Last Straw.
London.-There is a rising tide of
anger throughout England over the
sentence to three and a half years
confinement in a fortress passed by
the German Imperial Court at Leipsic
on Bertrand Stewart, prominent Lon
don lawyer, on a charge of espionage
The feeling aroused promises to give
the affair IN importance second only
to that of the celebrated Dreyfus s.
in France.
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B%yppOfBERNAPD JCMpAND

BRAHAM LINCOLN had a
substitute who served as
a defender of the Union
through the bloody and
~epoch-making period of
the Civil war. This asser-
ton has been made many
times before. 1t has
aroused bitter contro-
versy in various quarters;
it has given birth to col
umns of print, both in
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There is an agitation at Medford for
the organization of a board of trade.
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Seventy-three fair-sized tacks were
found in a duck killed by Mrs. Warren
Vanneman, Of Pennsgrove.
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The State has begun the work Of
ditching the salt meadows of Lack
township to exterminate the mosquito.
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The Glover Club, of Bordentown
has elected George Lynch president.

According to fruit experts the yield
In South Jersey the coming season
ought to be a record breaker. These
men declare that when the trees have
a coating of sleet and ice during the
winter the following season is prolific
in the yield as the ice kills any pests
that may have chung to the bark. Thus
far this winter there have been sleet
storms, and at present every tree in
Gloucester county has a half-inch ice
coating.
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The new $4,000 parsonage of Kings
ton Methodist Church is completed,
and the pastor, the Rev. j. Mercer
Hunt, and family have moved into it.
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Fort Stanwix Canning Company will
can beets next season, at it's Glassboro
factory, and has made an offer to
farmers of $12 per ton.
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The boom in real estate and build
Ing which has been evident in flights
town and vicinity the past year is still
on.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-05-29
The Best Way To Set Posts.

After many years experience I have
by placing the small end of
the post in the ground, q post will
last much longer than with the large
end down. The reason for this is
obvious. When limbs are cut of it
always leaves q cut that holds more or
less water and where worms have
worked the holes are always down.
ward. These poles hold some mois.
ture, but by placing the top end down
this moisture runs out and leaves the
posts dry.
AT irstthought II looks 81 though the
post with the large end up would not
make Q good appearance. However
says the Farm and Home, I have gen
orally found that the large end ia tn,
straight end and frequently there is
crook At the small end. II this b,
placed in the ground the fence whel
completed looks much better. I hav'
also found that small posts for wir'
fence last longer than large ones, 70
they do not hold moisture as long. /
post should never be reset until it i
we'll seasoned. The end posts shout
always be placed in concrete, the
there need be no brscing.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-05-29
SUGAR TRUST PROBE.
Government Brings Suit Against A.
legged Monopoly.

NEW YORK, May 20.-Chester S.
Morey OF Denver, q dominant figure
in the beet sugar industry for the last
decade, was the governments fret
witness today in the dissolution suit
against the American Sugar Refining
company and others alleged to consti.
tute a monopoly In restraint of trade.
Before calling Mr.. Morey, Assistant
District Attorney Knapp introduced
documentary evidence to chow that
Mr.. Morey had been president OF six
beet sugar companies in Colorado, ell
of which we're organized In l90l-03 and
dissolved simultaneously on April 20,
1907.
MI. Morey gave his occupation as
president the "Great Western Sugar
company" IN Office, he said, he had
held since 1908. He was also presi.
dent, he said, OF the Sterling Sugar
company and might have been presi'
dent Of another company, he was no,
sure.
Mr.. Morey also said he had beer
president of the Morgan County Con.
struction company from it's orgsniza'
ton to the present time, and he wal
president Of the Billings Sugar com
pany. Most OF these companies we're
capitalized at from $3.50, 600 to 3d.
soc, 600,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-05-29
A Business Man Visits Washington.

A business man went to Washington
recently, and, becoming interested in
the business side of the departments
and bureaus he learned q few facts
like these:
l. That IL a bureaus supply of sta
tionery runs out and its quarterly
limit of expenditures has already been
reached, there is no official alternative
but & allow clerks to warm their
chairs and be idle for as many days as
the quarter may yet have to run.
Buying stationery necessary to keep
them at work would put the chief into
the p~enitentiary.
2. That If q department executive
finds a la~bor.saving device Dr. system
which would at once make the labor
of q dozen clerks unnecessary at q
saving of perhaps $500 q week J, he is
prohibited from action, at least until
the next quarter, perhaps until the
next year. He is compelled by law to
hire a specified number of clerks q,
a specified salary, come what may.
3. That, though 81 executive real
ICES perfectly we'll that he might save
% per cent of his supply costs by pur
chasing a years supply, or more, a
the quantity rate familiar to all bust
ness, he can not act to make the "a
ing for the government, for he Is com
PEELED by law to buy just enough fol-
the current quarter-at the higher rate
of course.
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placing him in nomin alton for the
presidency before the Chicago conven-
ton next month.
This fact was announced today by
Lucius N. Littauer, former congress-
man, and one of the Roosevelt dele.
gates from New York to the national
convention. Mr.. Prendergast has been
q national figure in Colonel Roose-
velt's campaign.
Col. Harry S. New last night an
nounced United States Senator Elihu
Root as temporary chairman OF the
republican national convention. I,
has been common gossip that Senator
Root would be acceptable to both the
Taft and the Roosevelt forces.