The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-04
EDITORIAL NOTES

-eIghfeenth century and the town or Dayton was laid out 118 years ago to- day, Nov 4 1795. The city is now all most fully recovered from the effects of the terrible flood which swept IL only a few months ago. The Cash Register City, has long been famous as manufacturing center It was incorporated as a town in 1905, but re- raained unimportant until the opening in 1929 of the Miami canal, connecting it with Lake Ere Additional connec- tions with the outside world were soon acquired by the construction Of the Mad River & Lake Erie and other rall- ways, including the Cincinnati, Ham lton & Dayton, the Dayton & Western' the Dayton & Michigan. the Dayton & Cincinnati, the Dayton, xenia & Bel ore and the Greenville & Miami In 7sz5 hydraulic canal was built, glV- ing the city an immense water power and Dayton soon became one of the foremost industial cities If interior America For many years Dayton pa- per mills supplied a large part of the West.
 Four dollars a week would hardly be considered a lavish expenditure for d Honeymoon by the newlyweds of this day and age, yet Abraham Lincoln and his bride, Mary Todd, found that sum quite sufficient after their marriage, which took place in Springfield, H., seventy-one years ago today, Nov 4, 1s42.
 The coming White House wedding has revived interest in the romances of mast occupants of the executive mansion at Washington. Of these, the love seory of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd is far from being the least interesting. Nobody, least of all Lin coin himself, dreamed that the young attorney would become President of the United States, and one of the greatest names in American history. There was violent opposition to the match on the part of Mary Todd's rel atives. who based their objections on IdncoIn's extreme poverty.
 After the marriage ceremony, which was performed at the home of the brides sister, Mrs. Minian W. Ed wards, the young couple went directly to the Globe Tavern in Springfield. There they spent their honeymoon, at a cost of s4 a week for board and room for the pair. Lincoln did not have enough ready money to pay for a honeymoon trip to the next county, much less to Niagara Falls or Europe.
 Lincoln's bride was not the heroine of his first romance. At an earlier date he was engaged to Mary Owens, a young woman somewhat older than himself. Later he repented-it has been alleged that in the interval of waiting Mary lost some of her beau TE-anQ SuH6TSQ aROn10S O1 T011OTS0. He wrote to his hancee,- pointing out his extreme poverty. fFYou nave not been accustomed to hardship and it may be more severe than you irn- agine,'' wrote the far from impas- stoned lover, and added that "My opinion is that you had better not do it.'' Mary Owens agreed with him in a letter characterized by a great deal of petulance, for which she was not without excuse.
 Some years before this, when Lin coin was a clerk in a country store, he well in love with a young girl named Ann Rutledge. She had been engaged to a farmer who had tilted her, but Abe comforted her so eff Actively that she transferred her af- factions to him Poor Ann Rutledge became the bride of death, and the be faithful to her memory, and would never marry. He swore the same oath a second time after his romance with Mary Owens was blasted. In a letter he wrote, tI have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying"
 Within a year after arriving at this decision, Lincoln was paying marked attentions to Mary Todd, who, like himself, was a native of Kentucky The opposition of her relatives only added to the determination of the low er- Mary Todd had many suitors, including Stephen 4. Douglas, who was later to become Lincoln's rival in politics. but Abe was the accepted one
 Even in this case the course of true love was not entirely smooth. Some months before the marriage Mary Todd accused her afianced of being cold and indifferent, and in the quar- rel that followed the engagement was broken That night Lincoln wrote to D friend: 'I am now the most miser- able man living, and if what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family there would not be a cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever get better I cannot tell Rwfully forbode that I shall not. To remain as am is impossible. must soon patched up, and, on the fourth of November, 1S42, Mary Todd be- came Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, and commenced that four-dollar-a-week honeymoon.
 Eden Phi1lpotts may not be the Ereafest Irving novelist, but as has a host of admirers on both sides of the Atlantic who are firmly convinced that he is entitled to that distinction4 The man who has made Dartmoor world was born in India ffty-one years ago to-day, the son of an Eng fish officer and political agent. As a boy he returned to the land of his fathers. and was educated at Ply mouth, after which he became a clerk in an insurance office. It was his ambition to become an actor, and he EDent some time in studying for the