Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-02-05

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coin in the presidential chair did not worry Lincoln
half SO much as H. did the Jobs comforters who
surrounded him. To one of these Lincoln said,
You were brought up as a farmer, wern't you!
Then you know what chinfy Is My brother and
| were once blowing corn on a farm, driving the
horse and he holding the plow. The horse was
lazy, but on one occasion rushed across the fields
so that I, with my long legs, could scarcely keep
pace with him. On reaching the end of the fur
row found an enormous chinfy fastened upon
him and knocked him OF. My brother asked me
what did that for. told him didn't want the
old horse bitten in that way. Why said my broth
er, that's all that made him CO. Now, II Mr..
Chase has a presidential chinfy biting him am
not going to knock him of IL 1t will only make
his department CO."
Edward Dcey, in the Spectator, gives the i'm
preston made by Lincoln's outward appearance
on the mind Of typical cultivated Englishman.
ITO say that he is ugly is nothing; to add that
his figure is grotesque is to convey no adequate
impression. Fancy a man feet high and thin.
bony arms and legs, which, somehow, seem to be
always in the way, with large rugged hands which
grasp you like a vice when shaking yours, with
a long, scraggy neck, and a chest too narrow for
the great arms hanging by his side; add to this
figure a head cocoanut.shaped and somewhat too
small for such stature, covered with rough UNI
combed and uncombable lank, dark hair, that
stands out in every direction at once; face fur-
rowed, wrinkled and indented though 1t had
been SCARED by vitriol; high narrow forehead.
and sunk deep beneath bushy eyebrows, two
bright, somewhat dreamy eyes, that seemed to
gaze through you without looking at you; few
irregular blotches Of black bristly hair In the
place where beard and whiskers ought to grow;
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 Of 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
hgure-and every point Of this figure is salient
put on large, illftting boots gloves too long for
the long bony fingers and fluffy hat, covered to
the top with dusty, puffy Grape; and then add to
all this an air Of strength, physical as well as
moral and q strange look Of dignity coupled with
all this grotesoueness and you viii have the Inn
preston left upon me by Abraham Lincoln. You
would never say he was q gentleman. You
would still less say he was not one there
are men to whom the epithet appears ut
terly lncongruous, and Of such the president Is
one. Still there is about him a complete lack Of
pretensIon and an evident desire to be courte-
Gus to everybody, which Is the essence II not the
outward form Of high breeding. There Is a soft
ness, too, about his smile. and q sparkle Of dry
humor about his eye. which redeem the express
sion OF his face and remind one more Of the late
DR.. Arnold. as childs recollection recalls him TO
me. than any other face ] can recall 70 memory.
He Il humoriat. not button.