The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-11-19

Upon the preparation of
his Grafton he had spent months of research and
then had polished it until every phrase had become
classic In FORM every word precisely fitted to Che
preston of his thought.
Did you ever read the speech of Edward Everett?
Did you ever know person who has read it? If you
should now become curious to read it would you
know where to lay your hand upon it9
The other speech that somber November day
was made by gaunt and homely man; the child Of
abject poverty, painfully selftaught Pressed upon
BY the relentless duties Of the most difficult office
~ the world at the time of it's greatest crisis he had
put off the preparation of it until aboard the train
which was taking him to the historic site. And
then, with stumpy pencil he had scrubbed it, be-
tween train j0ts, on pieces of brown wrapping pa
per which fellow passenger mo less a parsonage
that the naughty secretary Of state, William H.
Seward-had tossed away!
But who has not read, who has not been thrilled
BY, who does not know by heart, the immortal ad-
dress of Abraham Lincoln the ral-splitter? Who
has not the great host of blue-clad warriors
which listened, in rapt silence fifty years ago. been
dedicated anew to hghly resolve that the dead in
whose honor that touching service was held "shall
not have died in vain; that this nation under God,
shall have new birth of freedom, that government
of the people, by the people, for the people, shall
not perish from the earth9'
Yet AT THE MOMENT Lincoln himself tho1Io1F
his speech failure because it lacked the classic IL
lusions, the wealth of scholarship, the polished per-
iods of the Everett oraon because instead of noisy
applause it's conclusion was followed by tense, al
most painful silence.
And it was not until days afterward when there
was borne in upon him the instructive response from
the beating hearts of the plain people of whom he
was THE PERFECT TYPE, that he began to real
lie that in his simple utterance he had caught the
full spirit of the occasion and added to the literature
NEVER DIE
FOR TT ISN'T SCHOLARSHIP. TT ISN'T POL
ISL, IT ISN'T PEDANTRY WHICH COUNTS IN
THE BIG CONCERNS OF LIFE. IT rs VISION.
INSIGHT, HEART TILE GREATEST HAVE AL
WAYS BEEN THE SIMPLEST AND 1T rs FROM
AMONG THE POOR THAT OUR FINEST GUID-
ANCE COMESi
Forty hundred Clevelanders have applied for
hunting licenses. They say there never were more
rabbits out Superior avenue way than this season.
Anyway, Foss came pretty near proving that he is
his own party-and all Of it.
Chicago,s chief probation officer announces that
all drunkaTds tell the truth lie this doesn't start
rush for the water wagon in Chicago, nothing will
Articles Of clothing from wood fibre are being
made in Europe. The material for suit Of clothes
costs about cents. The clothes cannot be washed
however. Big saving in laundry.
Business man in Berlin gets 14day jaial sentence
Tor staring at policeman. 1t must make the women
who are stared at wild for equal rights
Ohio doctors are all het up over the growth Of a
blond hair from the third finger of the left hand of
man with black hair. The ends of science were de
1feated when the hair was accidently broken off
Pennsylvania girl dies while washing dishes.
That II BE fine excuse for girls who want to shun
the dishpan,
Saloon keeper in Cincinnati dropped dead when
his friends told him his application for license had
been granted. There were several hundred saloon
men who almost dropped dead in Ohio, recently.
when their licenses were cancelled