The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-02-12
Lincoln IN Youth

The world unwilling any per-
sona life public Abraham Lincoln the president
Of than half century shall be lost Books
monographs dealing with the opinions
coin multiply from year year.
Boston of publishers Houghton Mn company some time
the wknown artist Lester Horribly Illinois make
places memory
home Some of these drawings published the Century Maya
and they the volume by the publishers named with
the title Lincoln Illinois, The of this book Octavia Roberts;
she native Of Springfield Ill., the city that will be associated
with the memory of the great president.
In the the young
his first trunphs The well told the following will
show:
The month March year 1892 The prairie
the bottom of Illinois When the spring shall give place summer,
prairie grass high the
horseback will be barely denbe but today foot be
plainly from the of his coonn the edge of his buck
skin beeche though and feet feet four
The who strides along the road years.
He lean but w backwoodman every inch of him.
with watching him would he strides and
the rough that leads settlement the Illinois
called Beardstown.
Once this he mixes socially with the young tells
Salem
Sangamon the landing the ama steamboat hourly expected
from Cincinnati her maiden the interior Of Illinois To
further questions he that he born Kentucky raised in
Indiana and that he has but recently Illinois seek his fortune
When the steamer miles creeps Boards
and throws her gangplank amid rejoicing the young
the first board He seeks the captain explains that he has
y made from New Salem New Orleans Aatboat and
knows the Sangon the tributary whose the Tman
proposes
himself pilot guide the steamboat that only the hopeful
call navgb The he the unknown oneAba
ham Lincoln The bargain struck The pilots for the round
from Beardown the Illinois Springfield the Sangmon to be
$50. Abraham Lincoln takes the wheel.
On and goes the Talsman creeping down the shallow stream,
picking the obuding fallen avoiding the
shadows If the make this the
of the expedition believe that the markets of the East will
Springfield and the adjoining settlements for freight longer will have
to be hauled overland to St. Louis.
chugs bright weather, past
good purpose orucon in the the first and only
steamboat that the Sangamon.
The nsper of the expedition, Captain Bogue, mill
the Sangmon his mill likely landing but the crowd
the shore landmark Wheel who dwet
during of his wenh lonely places He looks with In
the and children that line the Shore shout
and cheering their delight steamboat Sangmon
Many horseback but someahd the youth with
profound Aourihng carriages One eqpage has lemon
yellow body black leather covered with that be
lowered for ady descent Young Lincoln had the like before
The readers attention called ncon defeat for the legislature
his the Black Hawk his life storekper New
Sam and the episode of his love for and loss of May
Ruledge
In days board ST week and good Illinois land could be
bought $3.50 The with Lincoln Spring
details of the life the capital associated with the home at the
State house. where Lincoln defeated Lyman Tmbu and where
later still Lincoln lost the senaohp Stephen A. Douglas
the presidency his old time rva.-Seleced