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the Mexican war He became sec
ond lieutenant Of artillery at time
when they shot nothing but solid cam
non balls, on July !, 1S47. The second
Oldest graduate of the Military Acad-
emy is Gen. Abbott, who is the surviv-
ing member OF the class of 1854
II served i'm Mexico for a year un-
der Gen. Scott" Gen. Gibson explained.
First 4 went to Pueblo and then on
TO Mexico city. There wasn't much
ighting around there at that time and
we were an army of occupation. | was
in the city of Mexico in 1S4s, in the
citadel, when they hauled down the
American flag and hoisted the Mexican
flag. That was the end OF the Mexl-
can war. and the army, having never
numbered more than 100000, went on
back across the border.
"Gen Robert ". Lee | first saw In
Mexico city. He was at the time chief
engineer OF Scotts army. Inever In
my life saw finer looking man than
Gen. Lee"
Gen. Gbsop knew many officers of
the Confederacy. He met them as a
student at West Point, having gone
there in 1s43 as cadet appointed from
York. Pa Some of the members OF
his class of lslT went high in the Con-
federate army. the list including Gems.
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Perhaps the most beloved memento
in the possession of Mrs. Saunders
is little daguerreotype of Lincoln,
sent by him while in the Presidential
chair to her brother, Robert Rutledge.
This was during the civil war, and
Robert. through appointment by the
President, was United States Marshal
for the State of Iowa. A little, old
fashioned gold frame encircles the
picture, which Is said to be, an un-
usually true likeness of the donor.
With Lincoln living in their home,
it was almost inevitable that he and
the eldest daughter should be drawn
together. Ann was also a student by
nature, ambitious, and said to be SUI
perior tos any girl Lincoln had ever
known. The Rutledges were descend
ants of distinguished family, whose
ancestor was one of the signers of the
Declaration of independence.
Ann was very beautiful girl, with
hair of pale gold and eyes large and
deep blue. She was slight, graceful
and supple, her lover towering above
her in his great height.
Her sister remembers her as vi
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Progress of. the Filipino

various stages OF progress TO the ad-
vaneed degree of civilization to which
the natives have attained. In the col
lection are fantastic headpieces of the
lROrots, bamboo shields and head axes
when the head hunters used when
they went juaramentaro,' and the
basket i'm which the victorious warrior
cHrriedythe head of his selected victim,
y There are rudely carved sodheads
Quaint musical Instruments OF reed
and bamboo, samples OF native wear
ing apparel in the jungle: and through
the various stages the progress of the
tribesmen is shown In the bandicrafts
which they have, been taught by the
missionaries: and so dowu TO the
Bibles in the native dialect and the
deiicately carved ivory cases in which
the Filipino converts carry their chez
ished baptismal certificates A collec-
tion OF the books and pamphlets on
the Philippines which the Episcopal
department Of missions has issued is
also Included in the display. and Ahe
whole is surmounted by large photo
graph of Rt Rev. Gouverneur r..
Mosher., -. d.. missionary bishop TO
the Philippines who u directing the
work OF the church there.
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vacious, but sincerely religious and
unusually gentle and tender hearted.
Together the lovers studied gram
mar and spelling during the long win
ter evenings. The little grammar,
gift from Lincoln to Ann. was pre-
served and is in one Of the historical
museums of the country. Inscribed on
the fly leaf in his handwriting are the
words Ann Rutledge is learning
grammar"
The wedding of Ann Rutledge and
Lincoln was but three weeks off when
Ann died. In a rational moment she
sent for her lover to tell him her
hour was near. The pair had one
anguished hour together, in the liv-
ing room of the pioneer cabin. AIMS
stricken family left them alone. What
was said between them no one ever
knew. When Ann sank back into un-
consciousness Lincoln stumbled out Of
the house, blind and cropping.
The Saunders family moved to Cali
fornia in 1881. Recently Aunt Sallie
sent to the Old Salem Lincoln League
some mementos she had preserved of
the martyred President.
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Hill. Heath and Blake. Most of these
officers served also in the Mexican
war.
"Of course I didn't see a great deal
of the fighting in Mexico" Gen. Glib
son continued. "I got there late, and
besides was only a second lieutenant.
served as a Lieutenant until the out
break Of the civil war. meantime serv-
ing in California.
when the Mexican war ended and
the troops came out | applied for a
transfer to the Western Coast. The
discovery of gold there was one of the
attractions. and I started toward Cali
fornia In 1S4S, arriving i'm 1s49--so you
see am one OF the Forty miners.
california was a wild country in
those days. San Francisco, of course,
was the chief town, and 1t consisted
only of few adobe houses. / was
there when the first frame houses were
built. Los Angeles also was much the
same kind of a town.
Both San Francisco and Los An
geles were vegy Wild said Gen Glib
son. THE Spaniards and Mexicans
had been there. along the old Mission
route, and had done much good in
teaching Christianity to the Indians
But with the rush of miners and boom
conditions these peaceful little places
were turned into towns of the Kind
you read about in stories OF frontier
life. And there was gambling all the
time. A miner would work for weeks
gathering together sack OF gold and
then come to town and put II on the
ace and tray in faro.
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A Great Life in the Wild
With Town Site as Prize

"Our work in the West was mostly
keeping order. helping with railroad
and similar surveys and making
treaties with the Indians. They were
not SO very hard to deal with. You
could make a treaty with them ali
right, but when you had made IL
the Indians knew about as much
about the provisions as a dog would
know about it's father. Still. it was
a great life, We didn't get much
pay, only about $50 "A month as. a
Lieutenant. but now and then we
made up for II by surveying town
site.
when the civil war started l APP
piled for transfer to the East, and
IL led to my attaining the rank OF
Captain. During the first part OF
the war 1 was with the Army OF the
Potomac and, Of course. participated
in all it's engagements"
Gen. Gibson saw Abraham Lincoln
once. 1t was In 1853. on New Years
Day, at the white House. and Gibson
on a mission TO Washington, attended
He passed through the line of visitors
and shook hands with President Lin
coin.
AS years went on and Gen. Gibson
advanced in grade he saw manS Pres.
ldents--every one. In fact, from An.
drew Jackson to Woodrow Wilson. He
never however has seen President
Harding, for the simple reason that
he is unable to get about as much nov
as in the old days.
II saw Andrew ackson--'Andy'-
when was boy 6 years old lie wu'
riding a horse in the streets in Pnila.
delphia and the people were cheering
haven't much recollection about hin
though--only a child's recollection that
he had gray hair and sat his horse
we'll"
In the civil war Gen. Gibson es
capped without wound, although {
bullet that went through his overcoa
and carried away his saber hit Gen
Rayard in the abdomen, causing his
death This was during the battle o
Fredericksburg.
Gen Gibson, starting in as a Cap
tain. went through the civil war, at
tanning advanced grades until he, wal
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Got s1o Worth of Gold
Out of the Earth Himself

"I mined some gold myself in Cali
fornir. was out one day With de-
tachment making treaties with the In
dams when | came across n miner
panning gold down in n gully. | asked
him TO lend me his cradle for a little
while. which he did. | got $40 worth
OF gold out myself and when I got
back TO San francisco sent II back
TO Baltimore to my mother. she took
it to the mint and had 1t made into
coin.
BY the time I got to California the
Indians were taking on some OF the
conditions of civilization. Most of
them wore clothes. but now and then
In the batkwoods you would hnd some
of them wearing blankets.-All Of them
had rifles ana pistols, and Trey could
shoot One Of them shot me, so
know hut that is another story.
During the fourteen years I vas in
the West before the civil war ! trav-
eled up and down the coast. into the
Oregon country, and back again. Thre
were no trains, Of course, ana We re
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
The Poet Whitman Tells of
His Acquaintance With Lincoln

Walt Whitman found in Lincoln a
great theme for his poetry. His con-
tribution to the book compiled by Mr..
Rice is brief 1t has been questioned
whether or not Whitman ever talked
with Lincoln. Yet he says here:
1T was my fortune through 1862
to 1865 to see. or pass word with
or watch him personally perhaps
twenty or thirty times. And
as l dwell on what | myself heard or
saw of tine mighty Westerner, and
blend it with the history and litera-
ture of my age, and of what / can
get of all ages. and conclude it with
his death. it seems like some tragic
play, superior to all else / know
vaster and firier and more convul-
sionary, for this America of ours, than
Eschylus or Shakespeare ever drew
for Athens or for England
And the poet adds this quotation
from his war notebook, under date of
August II, 1864:
II see the, President almost every
day, as | happen to live where he
passes to or from his lodgings out of
town. He never sleeps at the White
House during the hot season, but has
quarters at healthy location some
three miles north of the city-the
Soldiers Home. 1saw him this morn
ing about $3.50 coming in to business
riding on Vermont avenue near /.
street. He always has a company of
twenty FIVE or thirty cavalry, with
sabers drawn and held upright over
their shoulders. The party makes no
great show in uniforms or horses. Mr..
Lircoln. on the saddle, generally rides
good sized. easy going gray horse,
is dressed in plain black, somewhat
rusty--arrd dusty; wears-a black stiff
hat and looks about as ordinary in
attire. as the commonest man. A
Lieutenant with yellow stripes rides
at his left. and following behind, two
by two, come the cavalrymen in their
yellow striped jackets. They are gem
orally going at slow trot, as that
is the pace set them by the One they
wait upon. The sabers and accoutre-
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miral Porter by his side. Captain
Adams of the navy, Lieut.. Clemens OF
the Signal Corps and the Presidents s
son Tad.
Near at hand was a Lieutenant di-
recting the construction of a bridge
across the canal. The men under his
charge were negroes.
would you like to see the man
who made you free?' said.
"Yes, massa.'
"'There he is, that man with the
tall hat,
"''Be dat Massa Linkinn?'
THAT is President Lincoln
'Hallelujah Hurrah, boys Massa
Linkinn's comet He swung his old
straw hat. slapped his hands and
jumped into the air. In an instant the
fifty negroes were shouting it, They
ran toward the landing, yelling and
shouting like lunatics. 1 could hear
the cry running up the streets and
lanes, Massa Linkinn, Massa Linkinn,
and the next moment there was a
crowd of sable hued men and women
and children with wondering white
eyeballs rushing pellmell toward the
landing.
Il recall negro woman who was
jumping in ecStacy, clapping her hands
and shouting, GLORY, Glory! Glory!
rhe tropical exuberance of sentiment
characteristic OF the African race
burst into full flower. Abraham Lin
coin was their savior their Moses
who had brought them through the
Red Sea and. the desert to the prom
ised land
I'VE reached the base Of Capitol
Fill. The afternoon was warm and the
President desired to rest. The pro-
cession halted. The crowd had be.
come so dense that it was difficult to
advance. and cavalryman rode tc
Gen. Shepley. who was in command OF
the city. for an escort.
"An old negro, wearing a few rags
whose white, crisp hair appeared
through his crownless straw hat, lifted
the hat from his head, kneeled upon
the ground, clasped his hands and
said:
MAY de Good Lord bress and keep
you safe, Massa President Linkum."
"Mr. Lincoln lifted his own hat and
bowed to the old man. Thes moisture
gathered in his eyes. He brushed the
tears away, and the procession moved
on up the hill, half dozen cavalry
men with Gen. Shepley opening the
way. The procession reached Wirtzers
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Study Of Poetry ndDrama

ing the Bar" sThe Lady of Shalott."
Maud"
John Keats: Sonnets, "The Eve OF
st. Agnes" "Ode on a Greclan Urn
william Wordsworth: lode to Duty"
"The World Is Too Much With U.s."
IL Wandered Lonely as Cloud"
Samuel T. Coleridge: "Kubla Khan"
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
"Christabel.'''
Robert Burns: '.ror a. Tnat and a
That" ITO Mouse
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sort
nets from the Portuguese.
Percy Bysshe Shelley: "To sky
tarls."
Lord Byron: '"rhe Isles of Greece"
Thomas Gray: "Elegy Written In a
Country Churchyard.'
oliver Goldsmith: "The Deserted
Village"
Alexander Pope: "The Rape Of the
Lock"
John Dryden: ALEXANDER Feast"
Robert Louis Stevenson: Requiem"
THE vasabond"' s.
Rudyard Kipling: "The Gypsy
Trail "Mandalay." "fsecessional."
William f. Henley: 'Invictus."
Edward FitzGerald: "The Rubaiyat
of Omar khayyam."
Edgar Allan Poe: "The Raven" ITO
Helen
The DRAMA.
Shakespeare: Hamlet" Macbeth"
Romeo and juliet" "Othello," King
Lear" Julius Cesar" Merchant OF
Venice Twelfth Night" "As You
Like IT, Midsummer Nights Dream
"The Tempest Henry W." Part I.
| Ben Jonson: "The Alchemlst,"
Every Man in His Humor."
beaumont and Fletcher: "philaster.'
William Congreve: THE Way Of
the World"
ri hard p, Sheridan: THE Rivals
THE School for Scandal"
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BY DONALD MaeGREcoR.
New York Herald Bureau. !
Washington. ID. C.. May q. J.

H RIG.-GEN. HoRATIO G. GLIB
* SON, L, s.. A, retired. who Is
L. just turning a5. sat putting at
heavy cigar to-day as he recounted
his adventures in the Mexican war Of
1S47. the gay time he bad in Califor-
mia during the gold rush of '4s. his
part as an officer in the civil war and
his memories Of the leading figures of
those old days, including. Abraham
Lincoln.
Gen. Gibson was born on May 22,
1897 hut he shows few marks OF age.
He recalls facts and figures without
the slightest hesitation. He hears as
we'll as he ever did and his sight is
good enough to permit the reading Of
books and newspapers without the aid
of glasses. He smokes six or seven
cigars day, Just as he. has every day
for. the last seventy. FIVE years. and
well. prohibition, while annoying, is
not interfering too much with his de-
sire to take an occasional drink.
Gen. Gibson ls the oldest living
graduate of the United States Military
Academy. having been commissioned
in the army just in time TO get into
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LincoIn's Story That
Convinced Lieut.. Gen. Grant

After Grant had been made Lieu.
tenant General, Lincoln told him a
story of war among the animals One
side was led by a monkey who de-
clared that he could win if his fol-
lowers would give him a longer tail.
So they spliced on a piece.
Still he called for more tail. and
there being no other place to coil it,
they began wrapping it around his
shoulders. He continued fhis call for
more, and they kept winding the adj
ditional tail about him until its weight
broke him down.
II saw the point" added Gen. Grant,
"and rising from my chair, replied
Mr. President, / will not call for more
assistance unless | find it impossible
TO do with what L already have"
Gen, Grant tells of taking the Presi-
dent to see the i'll fated Dutch Gap
Canal at City Point. He explained
how the work had been delayed.
Among other troubles was the filing
up of portion already. excavated by
the blasting of another section.
Grant" said Lincoln. do you know
what sthis reminds me, of? Out in
Springfield, ILL.,, there was black
smith named =----. One day when he
did not have much to do he took a
piece OF soft iron. that had been in
his shop for some time and for which
he had no special use, and starting un
his fire began to, heat it, When he
got il hot he carried 1t to the anvil
and began TO hammer it. rather think
ing ne would weld it into. an agricul-
tural implement He pounded away
for.some time until he got it fashioped
into some shape when he discovered
that the iron would not hold cut to
complete the. Implement he had in
mind. He then put it back into the
forge, heated it up again and com
menced hammering. with an i'll defined
notion that he would make claw
hamper, but there was more iron
than was needed Again he heated it
and, thought he would make an ak.
After hammering and welding ii. into
shape. knocking the oxydized iron off
in flakes. he.concluded there was not
enough iron left to make an ak.
"He was getting tired and disgusted
at the result of his various essays.
So he filed his forge full Of coal and
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A n important chapter in the lie
n of Abraham Lincoln, the tragic
4 \ story of his love for Ann Rut-
ledge, is perpetuated in the existence
of AIMS sister. the only surviving
member of the Rutledge family. she
is Sarah Rutledge Saunders. or Aunt
Sallie. who lives with her son James in
the little town of Sisquoc,f Santa Bar
bara county, Cal.
Mrs. Saunders is now in her s1st
year. but still active. She plainly re-
calls the sad day when her sister Ann
died and the deep grief of Lincoln.
When Lincoln, then gangling
youth of 25, a clerk in a grocery came
to live at the Rutledge tavern in the
pioneer village of New Salem, Ill, little
Sarah was but a tiny tot creeping
about the floor But the boarder re-
niained with the family several years,
and during the last year of that time
she clearly recalls the tall. kindly Mr..
Lincoln and the sweet tempered gol-
den haired Ann-the eldest of five girls.
Although i was just little girl
when Mr.. Lincoln lived with us and
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Of poetry and the drama
is as necessary to the busi-
~ ness man as to those in the


is as necessary to the bus-
~ ness man as to those in the
so-called learned professions" accord
ing to DR.. George b. Hotchkiss. pro-
fessor of business English in New York
University School OF Commerce
Prof Hotchkiss made his declaration
in urging a knowledge of poetry and
plays upon members Of his classes who
will be graduated this year into busi-
ness careers, and to facilitate the ac-
auisition OF this knowledge he gave his
classes n list OF poems and plays
which he said every business man
should know.
"'rhe average student at the School
+ OF Commerce at New York University
or at any other technical or profess
sional school," said he, probably reads
little. IL any poetry. He may have the
delusion that It is somewhat unprofi-,
table and effeminate pursuit for a
business man or one who intends to be
business man. Whatever his reason,
ne s cheating himself OF a great deal
of pleasure and very likely of that
which would develop his personality
and his capacity for success.
From the list I have felt 1t neces-
sary to exclude writers like Chaucer
and Spenser, whose language Is Zoo
archaic to be read without guidance
and help I have omitted many others
for lack OF space"
The two lists offered by Prof. Hotch-
kiss TO his classes follow:
POETRY.
Shakespeare: Sonnets and "Hark!
Hark, the Lark"
Milton: Sonnets, I'll Penseroso. +"
"Is4Allcero.'
Robert Browning: "Prospice. 1.-THE
Last Ride Together rabbi Ben
Ezra" MY Last Duchess" "Pippa
Passes
Alfred Tennyson; Ulysses" Gross
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BRIGGEN H. G. GIBSON us H. RETIRED OLDEST LIVING VI

made a Brigadiep-General Of volun-
teers. When the war ended. however,
he went back to his regular grade,
continuing in the army until retire
ment, on May %, 1891. His service
after that was largely in the field with
the artillery organizations.
Gen. Gibson keeps up with current
affairs, reading much, particularly
about the army and navy.
at would be dangerous for US to go
below 100000 men for our regular
army. This country is a large one and
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after placing the iron in the center
Of the heap took the bellows and
worked up a tremendous blast. bring
ing the iron to white heat With his
tongs he lifted it, from the bed of
Goals, and, thrusting it into a tub of
water near by. exclaimed. Well, if /
can't make anything else of you / will
make fssle anyhow"
And the modest General admitted
the application of the story to Dutch
Gap Canal. 1t certainly was not that
unlucky piece of engineering that won
the war.
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we must protect ourselves. There has
been ever since can remember a ten
dency to cut down the army and navy.
/ can remember when our army only
consisted of 5000 men. That was when
went into it. On one occasion Con-
gress applied the economy program so
rigidly that they took the horses away
from the dragons.
"All this talk about abolishing war
is trash. There will be war just as
long as there are men. Remember
that"
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been going through the country burn
ing houses and killing people. TIE
result was that considerable force
went after them.
zone morning, in the autumn, we
had retired back of the crest of, hill
20 a spring. where we were preparing
breakfast. Suddenly we were attacked
by Indians, who had come up on us
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to go on horseback. Some of the trails
were too much for the horses. how
ever. and now and then we had to
walk.
"In the Rogue River Indian cam
paign in oregon / was wounded.
learned, while out with a detachment
on my way to Camp Lane, that the
Rogue Indians were hostile. They had