The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1913-02-13

Lincoln to stamp out that terrible
traffic.
Lincoln had come from family of
prominent men in public affairs in
New England, and had also been emil
nent in the earlier wars of the land.
The family went further into the pi-
oneer wildness following the fortunes
of Daniel Boone, and settled in Ken
lucky, blazing their way to the home
they established three miles from a
neighbor and a mile from water. 1t
was here the scourge of cholera left
Lincoln's mother in an unmarked
grave.
When nineteen years of age Lincoln
went down the Mississippi on a craft
to New Orleans and that trip
was the first glimpse he ever
had of the outside world, and it gave
him an impulse that every student IN
college life should take trip to gain
spirit of practicability, hence the ex-
pedition of the agricultural college
Of today.
1t was while in the south on this
trip to New Orleans that Lincoln saw
slaves sold on the block and it was
then that he determined to hit that
| traffic hard if he ever had the op-
( ortunity.
Later he practiced law in Illinois,
and from the legislature he went to
| congress, but the question of slavery
was always an issue with him and t
seemed his birth was like that of the
| Savior. His address at Coopers Union
lead to his election and in only thirty
years he became the greatest central
| figure of the country in the greatest
| question that ever involved the world
| His giant mind influenced his actions
always, and his Gettysburg speech
read by Miss Mary Gibbens, was re-
cognized as a masterpiece in the
classics.
In his farewell remarks he said "a
Lincoln that just the other day friend
had suggested that Lincoln's picture
and his Gettysburg speech should
in the state. President Worst
also told of how he had stood
at the place that had mark
ed the battlefield of Gettysburg, and
I that as he stood there all nature seem
| ed to speak a name, even the listless
| leaves of the trees and the surround
| ing barren rocks seemed to breath :tr
| immortal name-and that name was
Lincoln.
The Gettysburg Address.
One of the especially interesting
and pleasing features of the after.
moons programme was the reading oi
/
Mary Gibbens, daughter OF Senator
/ Gibbens, and her remarkable talen
| and ability as a reader and elocution.
/ ist was presented to splendid advant
age. ...
To Watch Ger Thee was sung by
the college "Y" quartette, and th'
manner in which it was received by
the large audience was proven by th'
hearty applause and the quartettt
| -
The Yellow and Green. The Vacan
Chair was another very fine number
and it was we'll appreciated by thu
The "Flour" Girls,
The final number of the afternoon
programme was a very pleasant sur,
prise. Up to that time only the yount
men representatives of the agri
cultural college had been in evidence
and when ten pretty young ladies pu
in their appearance, and distribute,
among the audience samples of thei
work in the domestic science depart
ment of the agricultural college, the!
were warmly received. Cookies, cake
and candies were passed aroun,
among the legislators, and there wer
many compliments passed around a
Iwen.
| Appreciation Expressed.
| Senator Gilbert arose and expresse,
arpreciation in behalf of the legisla
I. ture for the kindness shown by tn
young ladies, and in thanking them
he expressed the wish that later o.
they might be as successful in maxim
some young man happy as they hat
been in pleasing those whom they ha
Just served.
Miss Eugenia HUFF, stewardess 4
the A. c., responded in a pleasin