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PASSED UP THE INVITATION
Sinister Significance In Occupations OF
Men Who Had Invited Politician
to Address Them.

A political speaker who had received
an invitation from the leaders Of his
party in a distant village. before re-
plying, sought to discover what sort
of reception he would be likely to re-
ceive, and placed the letter of invita-.
ton before a friend whom he knew
came from the same district.
Think I'd better accept?" inquired
the politician.
Il wouldn't, II I were you" replied
his friend, shaking his head gravely.
"Why?'
Well" replied the other, II don't
like the signatories of the letter of In
vitation.'
Aren't they men of influence"
Yes, decidedly they have influence
in the party" replied the friend; but
of the four one is the local under.
taker, the second is the monumental
stonemason, the third is a dry goods
dealer who makes a speciality OF
mourning orders, and the fourth is
known to gamble largely in life insur-
ance policies
The politician did not accept the
invitation
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LINCOLN LIKED THE DRAMA
Showed Preference for Shakespeare
Tragedies and Serious
Histories.

Lincoln liked the drama, the New
York Evening Mail observes. Perhaps
IL he had not liked it so much he would
have lived many years longer. since
otherwise he would hardly have put
himself in Wilkes Booths way on thai
fatal night in April, 1865. But he
never pretended to any knowledge or
connoisseurship whatever. Most Of
his life had been passed in country
town-and at time when few great
actors ever appeared in such small
places as Springfield, Ill
In a sale of the autographs. prints
and playbills which belonged to the
late Douglas Taylor there is a copy OF
a letter from Lincoln to James II.
Hackett, dated Washington, August
H. 1863, afterward printed in this
form for private circulation. which
contains the following
have seen very little Of the drama.
Some Of Shakespeare plays | have
never read, whilst others | have gone
over perhaps as frequently as any
unprofessional reader. Among the lat.
ter are Lear Richard H. Henry
VIII Hamlet, and especially Mac.
beth think the soliloquy in Hamlet
commencing, o, my offense is rank
surpasses TO be or not TO be ="
No one but the modest Lincoln
would have gone out Of his way to tell
Shakesperean scholar that he had
never read some OF Shakespeare's
plays It is interesting to see that Lin.
coins preference fixed itself upon the
tragedies and the most serious OF the
histories. His choice OF %. my offense
is rank" over ITO be or not to be"
seems rather strange. The soliloquy
is the kings desperate bemoanins OF
his perfidy and cruelty in murdnfinl
his brother
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INSPIRATION IN PEN in NATIONS HEART
More Enduring Than Granite Me-
mortal Is Inscribed Lin
coins Name.
WE have raised tall granite columns
w in memory of men

W. have raised tall granite columns
W in memory of men
Whose deeds have won them glory
and their lives heroic been;
Memorials, lest we forget the kind Of
of men they were,
To keep alive the gratitude that
thought of them should stir
We weave their names in story. song
and euloeistic speech,
While remembering the lessons that
noble lives should teach,
One needs no granite columns to per.
petuate his fame
Deep craven on the human heart is
Abraham LincoIns name.
His youth spent midst the ruegeo
scenes Of western frontier life,
When every day meant hours of toll
and every hour meant strife;
Where face to face with nature he her
free-born spirit breathed,
And was heir to sturdy manhood by
fearless sires bequeathed.
his companions were,
Though the sources then of knowledge,
compared with now, were rare;
But inch by inch and step by step he
forward pressed his way,
Until he found himself the peer Of
leaders of his day.
AS lawyer, legislator and as congress,
man he shone
With grim originality and power all
his own,
And when the nation called him to the
presidential chair
They found In him a leader we'll
equipped to do and dare.
His memory is history, how well he
did his part
Is proven, for his names inscribed
upon the nations heart,
His life a benedction, falling like some
holy psalm"
We know him now as they did then, as
"Father Abraham
The dear old flag he loved so we'll un-
sullied still remains,
With not a single mark or spot Of trea-
sons cruel stains;
Ger united land II waves from noun
tain top to sea,
An emblem is to all the world of jus
tice, liberty.
Fraternal bonds bind all the states in
one united whole;
What now exists was clearly seen by
his prophetic soul.
Though massive monuments we raise.
thus honorins his name,
Yet in the hearts of patriots shall live
his truest fame.
Augustus Treadwell, in New York
Times.
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School and Bad Habits.

Charles A. Van Matre, former super
intendent of the Delaware county pub
lie schools, says that in Anderson the
other day a small boy got into some
kind of difficulty with the teacher and
the latter sent a note to the boy S
mother to come to the school building
and talk the matter over with her,
The mother, who is a Woodworking
woman whose time is well occupied,
not to be outdone in the underwriting
business by mere teacher wrote the
following:
Miss Blank have to work and
amt got no time to be running around
to schoolhouses. Besides they amt
any use Of it. Johnny is good boy
and couldn't have any bad habits be-
cause this is only his first year in
school. Indianapolis News.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-02-11
SAGE TEA DARKENS GRAY
HAIR TO ANY SHADE. TRY It'll
Keep Your Locks Youthful, Dark.
Glossy and Thick With Garden
Sage and Sulphur.

When you darken your hair with
Sage Tea and Sulphur, no one can
tell, because it's done so naturally, so
evenly. Preparing this mixture.
though, at home Is mussy and trouble
some, For so cents you can buy at
any drug store the readytouse tonic
called "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
Hair Remedy" You just dampen a
sponge or soft brush with it ana
draw this through your hair, taking
one small strand at time BY morn
ing all gray hair disappears, and. after
another application or two, your hair
becomes beautifully darkened, glossy
and luxuriant. You will also dis
cover dandruff Is gone and hair has
stopped falling
Gray, faded hair, though no dis
grace, is a sign Of old age, and as we
all desire a youthful and attractive ap.
pearance, get busy at once with Wy.
eth's Sage and Sulphur and look years
younger ADV,
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Some Thouc'ls on the Gettys-
burg Grafton, Well Described
as Immortal.

r. HE FACT that President Wilson
] writes his messages in shorthand
and then transcribes his notes on
typewriter has given rise to some spec
ulation as to whether this contrib
utes to the style of his state papers.
The variety of methods used by au-
thors makes 1t unsafe to dogmatize on
the subject. But that the writing out
Of his messages by hand benefits the
style cannot be doubted. While short
hand suggests speed, it does not nee
essarily imply it when the writer is
committing his own thoughts to paper.
He might linger as long over pot
hook as over an ordinary character.
But the writer who uses a pen feels
a certain inspiration in it, and as he
writes various synonyms come troop
ing through his mind and he has the
time to select the one that expresses
his meaning with the greatest nicely.
says the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A magazine writer, in discussing
the presidents method, suggests that
when one operates a typewriter the
cessation of the click of the machine
interrupts the continuity of the
thought. This disadvantage is not so
obvious as that arising from the fact
that the speed of the typewriter pre-
cludes careful selection of synonyms.
ferable to dictation, for dictation
causes proliXity and the speed pre-
vents fine discrimination in the use of
words. 1t Is also responsible for
many extreme utterances. The famous
letter General Egan wrote about Cen
eral Miles affords an illustration.
Much of its heat was generated in the
process of dictaton.
Lincoln's Gettysburg address is es-
teemed a model of conciseness. 1t
composition. AS a boy Lincoln had
neither slate nor scratchpad. He
wrote on single with a piece of
charcoal. The only way he could erase
his writing was by shaving the single.
We have the testimony of one Of the
teleSTdpHeTS III lie NdT department
that President Lincoln, when compos-
ing :. telegram, whispered it over to
himself before committing it to paper.
The telegrapher knew nothing of the
single, but we may trace the habits
Of the man to his childhood. Is it too
much to argue that had Mr.. Lincoln
been accustomed to debating to a
stenographer we might have never had
the Gettysburg classic? And is it not
possible that tie limited library of
the Lincoln boy proved blessing to
him? 1t was composed of the very
best books in our language and he
read and reread them and then wrote
the essence of them on his Single
and told them to his p!aymates in his
own language. The self-education of
Lincoln is one of the marvels of his
tory.
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b1ttlemented tower 100 feet high,
containing fine chime Of eight bells
cast originally in 1919, on one Of which
is inscribed: 'Omnis, sonus, laudet,
Dominum.'
THE nave, one of the best exam.
pies of fourteenth-century architec-
ture, has five clere-story windows on
each side. 1t is separated from the
aisles by pillars resting on quatrefoil
columns. Formerly at the east ends
Of the two aisles were chapels, prob
ably erected early in the fifteenth cen
tury. The east window of the south
aisle is one Of very great Beauty, con-
tanning a mixture of geometrical and
flowing tracery. The other windows
to the north were probably once the
same, but have since been replaced
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-02-11
LINCOLN AND BURNS ALIKE
Similarity In the Two Famous Men on
Account of Love for Beast
and Bird.

Lincoln and Burns were kindred
spirits in their tenderness, though one
was so much stronger than the other
in moral muscle. says a writer in st.
Nicholas. There was the Scotch plow-
man, sorry to uproot the mountain
daisy and scatter the field mouse's
nest; sorry to scare the water fowl
from the dimpling loch; heart panied
when he saw the wounded hare, and
waking at night in the whirlng snow
storm, thinking of the 'ourie cattle
and silly sheep" and the wee, help
less" covering birds.
There was the Illinois woodsman
with his hundreds of unrecorded sym
pathies, for he left no poems to tell
them. No one will ever know how
often he scorned a chance to rob a
nest or bring down with his gun a
feathered mate; or how often, instead
Of the thought of cruelty, there flut
tered over his rough face that look Of
tender understanding which always
came when when woou creatures or
men were at his mercy.
The boy Lincoln had argued, IAN
ants life is as sweet to 1t as ours to
US" and as his first incensed boy
speeches had been against cruelty to
animals, now, as man, he would stop
to seek nest from which two young
birds had fallen because he could not
have slept otherwise: or pull a pig
out of the mud ito take the pain out
of his own mind"
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homework or attend to my baby was
soweak. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound did me world of good, and
now l am strong and healthy, can do my
work and tend my baby. | advise all
suffering women to take it and get
well as | did. Mrs. FANNIE COOPER,
RID, Bridgeton, M.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotic or harmful
drugs, and to-day holds the record Of
being the most successful remedy for
female ills we know of, and thousands
of voluntary testimonials on file in the
Pinkham laboratory at Lynn, Mass,
seem 10 prove this fact.
For thirty years it has been the stand
ard remedy for female ills, and has re-
stored the health of thousands of women
who have been troubled with such all
ments as displacements, inflammation,
liberation, tumors, irregularities, etc.
If you want special advice
write to Lydia Il. Pinkham Med
icine Co., confidential Lynn,
Mass. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by n woman
and held in strict confidence.
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and somewhat bored by the attention
showered upon him.
Il dc not believe there is another
man alive who Witnessed that affair,
and ! surely doubt if there is another
alive who can recall the first words
that ever passed between Lincoln and
Grant
1T was understood in Washington
at the time that there was some doubt
about Grant accepting the commits.
sion. He took the ground that If II
required him to relinquish active duty
in the field and come to Washington
he would prefer not to accept IT, 1t
was finally arranged that he should
continue in active duty in the field
and take charge Of the movement ON
to Richmond which vas much talked
about in that day
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''CASCARETS' FOR
SLUGGISH BOWELS
No sick headache, sour stomach,
biIiousness or constipation
by morning.
Get a 1o-cent box now.

Turn the rascals out-the headache,
biliousness, Indigestion, the sick, sour
stomach and foul gases-turn them
out tonight and keep them out with
Cascarets
Millions of men and women take
Cascaret now and then and never
know the misery caused by a lazy
liver, clogged bowels or an upset stom.
ach.
Don't put in another day of distress.
Let Cascarets cleanse your stomach;
remove the sour, fermenting food;
take the excess bile from your liver
and carry out all the constipatad
waste matter and poison ? in the
bowels. Then you will feel great.
A Cascaret tonight straightens you
out by morning. They work while
you sleep. A 10-cent box from
any drug store means a clear head.
sweet stomach and clean. healthy liver
and bowel action for months. Chill
dren love Cascarets because they
never grippe or sicken. Adv.
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act creating the rank of lieutenant
general of the army" said Mr.. Rich
ards. While it was well understood
at the time that it was for the benefit
Of General Grant, he was not named
in the bill 1t was the first time con-
gress had authorized the rank to be
conferred In the army since General
Washington held It,
President Lincoln summoned Cen
eral Grant to Washington from the
Grant arrived at p. m. at the old
Willard hotel. At $50 he showed up
at the White House. l was there
1T was kind of reception, as / re-
call. The affair was proceeding in an
informal way, the president, some
members of his cabinet, and Mrs. Lin
coin being in the red room, where
persons were being received.
THE affair was suddenly Interrupt
ted by a cry, Here comes General
Grant,
President Lincoln Immediately left
his place In the receiving line and
hurried to the door leading to the red
room from the vestibule, where he
met President Grant He promptly
recognized the general. although they
had never met before. My curiosity
had led me to the center Of interest
Il heard Mr.. Lincoln say: General
Grant, believe this is the first time
we have ever met
ITO this General Grant replied:
Yes. Mr.. President, you are right
You are right; this is the first time
we have ever met
The rest of the conversation was
lost to me, as the two men came closer
together and moved away talking in
lower tones | recall that Seward
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Saw the Future Clearly.

| am glad | made the late race. II
gave me hearing of the great and
durable question of the age, which |
could have had in no other way; and
though / now sink out of view and
shall be forgotten, | believe have
made some marks which will tell for
the cause OF civil liberty long after |
am gone.-Lincoln's letter to DR.. A. G.
Henry, November 10. 1858.
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by perpendicular tracery. The chancel
window, &c feet high and IS feet wide,
is filled with ancient German glass dat.
ing back to about 1900 Apart from
its historic interest the church is well
worth visit by anyone who is inter
ested in church architecture. For the
building is quite the best preserved
of its style In England. York
Evening Post.
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MET IN THE CAPITAL
First Time That President Lin.
coin and General Grant
Greeted Each Other.

# HERE Is a man in the public serv-
ice in Washington who saw the
first meeting between President Lin
coin and General Grant in the White
House nearly sixty years ago.
Charles H. Richards, who for more
than fifty years has worked in the
stationery room of the senate, saw
the meeting. In an interview Mr..
Richards narrated the incidents con.
nected with the meeting and recalled
the first words ever exchanged be-
tween the two great figures on the
Union side of the Civil war Mr..
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IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG SPEECH

OURSCORE and seven years ago our fathers brought
4 forth on this continent nation, conceived in
A& liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all
men created equal.
Now engaged in great civil war, testing whether
that nation any nation conceived and dedicated
long endure. We met great battlefield Of that
We have to dedicate portion Of that field final
restngpace for those who here gave their lives that that
nation might live. 1t is altogether fitting and proper that
should do this.
But, in larger sense we cannot dedicate-~e cannot
cannot haow-this ground. The brave men,
living and Dead who struggled here, have consecrated
far above poor power to add detaC The world will
little long remember what say here, but
forget what they did here It for the living rather
to be dedicated here the unfinished work which they who
fought here have thus far noby advanced is rather
for be here dedicated to the great task remaining
before ustha from these honored dead take increased
devotion that for which they here gave the last full
of devoton that here highly resolve that these
dead shall have died in that this naon under God
shall have birth of freedom; and that government of
people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish
from the earthspeech
burg Cemetery, November 10. 1868.
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IN ENGLISH CHURCH
Bust of Great American Has
Been Placed in Country Of
His Ancestors.

IN THE parish church Of the village
! of bingham, in Norfolk, England,
near the old cathedral city Of Norwich,
lived many generations of Lincolns, an
cestors of Abraham Lincoln. A bust Of
the great American, set up In that
church by a committee of Americans,
is shown with the church. A descrip-
Gates, vicar Of the Chapel Of the In
tercession and secretary of the me-
mortal committee, is as follows:
"The building, dedicated to st. An.
drews, is constructed of rough flints
with free-stone dressings. 1t consists
Of a spacious chancel, a nave with
clere-story, north and south aisles. and
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Fitted for Great Pos ition.

There could have been no better or
more ideally fit man for the great task
which Lincoln was set to perform lie
was the gentlest, kindest man that
ever had such burden laid on him
So the nation does well to keep him
In remembrance Tor he Is iis uoblest
product
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Looked Ahead as Statesman.

While | desired the result OF the
late canvass to have been different.
| still regard it as an exceeding small
matter. think we have fairly en-
tered upon a durable struggle as to
whether this nation is to ultimately
became all slave or all free. and
though | fall early in the contest, it
Is nothing If | shall have contributed
in the least degree, to the final right
full result-Letter to II. ID. Sharpe.
December s, 1858
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a II q S I a n t o n
crowded forward
and greeted the
general and that
Mrs. Lincoln also
greeted him cor
daily.
General Grant
soon was hustled
into the east room
and as he sat on
a sofa he was
surrounded by a
great crowd. He
seemed modest
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ToIstoy's Teachings.

If people would but understand that
they are not the sons of some father
land or other, nor Of governments. but
are sons of God. and can, therefore,
neither be slaves nor enemies. one Of
another-thosa insane, unnecessary,
WORKOUT pernicious organizations
called governments, and all the suffer.
ings, violations, humiliations and
crimes which they occasion, would
cease.-Leo Tolstoy.
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Richards was APP
pointed to his
position in the
senate stationery
room on the rec
ommendation Of
Charles Sumner
and Henry VIII.
son. He is a ma
tive Of Massachu-
sets and was ap.
pointed from that
state.
Congress had
i,rst paSSpl the
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lrate Editor Ito reporter)-What do
you mean by writing Among the pref.
test girls at the dance was Captain
Fitzball?' The captain is man, |
presume.
Reporter-Yes, but he was among
the prettiest girls there the whole
time
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Not Bitter In Defeat.

The emotions Of defeat at the close
OF struggle In which | felt more
than a merely selfish interest, and to
which the defeat the use OF your name
contributed largely. are fresh upon
me; but even in this mood cannot
for moment suspect you of anything
dishonorable.- from Lincoln to
J. j. Crittendeu, November 4, 1858.
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IRVING to Eoraet.

He-Don't you remember me?
She-Why should |?
1--WE were engaged to be married
last summer at the beach"
Yes; but don't yeu recollect you
told me to forgive and forget you?"
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THIS WOMAN'S
SICKNESS
Quickly Yielded To Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
Bridgeton, NIL want to thankyou
\ thousand times for the wonderful

good Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound has done
for me. ! suffered
much from 9
female trouble. 7
had bearing down
pains, was irregular
and at times could
hardly walk across
the room. l was
unable to do my
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SaIzer's White Bonanza Oats.

Made c. J. johnson of Lincoln Co.,
MINI famous in growing 2i3 bushels from
212 bushels sown last spring. Can you
beat that in 1915? Wont you try
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The Requirement.
There are many methods of pun.
ishing naughty children"
Yes: but spanking takes the palm. "
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Some men are known by the things
they might have accomplished but
didn't-Atianta Journal
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So 20 Saw

So to Say.
1T must be awfully cold outdoors.
cause Arthur says it is"
Arthur
"Arthurmometer."- Of I. Siren.
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This preot
10, b,. taL-
on m - = !.
nr;,a. !
80 -
So : - a I Iasson
:, . ! p.
: J. o,,aha,t
'us''o',
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The PRINCIPAL One.

Are you familiar with the motives
of Blink's new play?"
Yes; he needed money"
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The New Grocer.

She-Haye you any good farmers
eggs?
He-Er-wouldn't hens eggs do,
ma 'am?-Phladelphia Ledger
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Daily thought.

Let US wipe out the past, trust In
the future-and rejoice in the glorious
Now.
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For the treatment of colds, sore throat,
etc, Deans Mentholated Cough Drops give
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Some men have brains but never
know when to use them