McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-10-05
Washington Letter
Independent:

Independent:
Perhaps some reference to scenic
Washington will be of interest to the
readers of the Independent, especial
" those who have not visited our
national city.
The National Botanical Garden at
the foot of Capitol Hill is open to
visitors from s am. to 5 pm. Its
Conservatives contain large collec-
tions of rare plants from all parts of
the world. The travellers tree from
Madagascar; the Hotentot poison tree
ordeal; tree from the Cape Of Good
Hope; the Jesuit Bark (cinchona) from
South America; and specimens from
tie Sanwich Islands. Japan. Queens
land, Norfolk Islands. Sumatra and
scores of other distant lands afford
abundant interest. There are beauti-
full springipg fountains. North of the
Conservatory is the BarSholdi Foun-
tain, the work of the French sculptor
Auguste Bartholdi, famed for his
statue of Liberty in New York harbor
The great Center Market, Penn.
Ave. and 7th ST.. may be counted
among the haunts \ of great men.
This market covers one block and
has, perhaps, one hundred food re-
serves where all kinds of food supplies
may be bought. 1t is said that DAN
lei Webster, Chief Justice Marshall
and President VIM. Henry Harrison
would come in person to SHOP" in
these markets.
Ford's Theater, in which occurred
the assassination Of President Lin
coin, is now only a place of public
business, containing nothing of spe-
cial interest; while just across the
street is the Oldroyd Lincoln Museum,
the house in which Lincoln died. II
contains thousands of objects con-
nected with or pertaining to the mar
tyred president, few Of which are
the following: Family Bible in which
Lincoln wrote his name in boyhood;
log from the old Lincoln home; stand
made from house in which Lincoln
lived 1926; rail split by Lincoln
and John Hanks, 1880; discharge
given to one of his soldiers in Black
Hawk War, 1882; picture of Spring
field house; flag carried in Lincoln
and Hamlin campaign; Office chair in
which he sat to draft his first cabi-
net; farewell address to his neigh
bors; autograplrletters; life mask and
cast Of hands; hat worn on night he
was shot; chair occupied in theater,
bill Of the play "0ur American Cous-
ins;" $50 funeral sermons; 63 march
es and dirges: 263 portraits, some of
the earliest known; 209 medals and
over thousand volumes of Lincoln
biographies and works relative to slav-
cry and Civil War topics, The mere
mention of these items bespeaks to
the student in history the scope OF
the life and character of our Hon
est Abe.
AS notice the account of many OF
tthe boys, whom | knew, have been
called into the great. struggle with
our foreign foe. my sympathies &c
out for the homes in which there is a
vacant chair. ore missing at the
luncheon and freside because of this
fact. But, parents, friends, let us
console ourselves with the fact thai
they are enlisted for the purpose oil
liberating the world from tyranny and
oppression by wicked rulers. have
met hundreds of our soldiers per,
sonally, and have seen many thous.
ands of them. since coming here, auC
say. emphatically. shat America il
prold, and has a right to be proud oil
her soldier boys because they repre-.