Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-02-06

TO him there was a quality of truth
of possible realization in the famm,
document which thrilled and ennobIed
him. The real boy Lincoln was the
one who, in those days we call 50
hard, carried with him a faith in the
possibility of freedom and opportunity
for all men, faith which grew as be
toiled.
He is not the one to be pitied PITY
the boy who, surrounded by all the
thousands Of volumes which reheaN
the making and interpret the meaning
of the Declaration of independence
has never yet caught its vision Or fell 5
the fire of its inspiration.
His Craving for Books.
He must walk far for the book
beg it from neighbors who knew him.
build acquaintance with strangers into
confidence sufficient to borrow, Pity
him for that? He had to learn a great
thing-that the book is worth the
price-any price. What did he grudsa
that brought him Bobby Burns o.
Aesop or Plutarch or the Constitution
of the United States, or collection q
the strange and changing laws Oh men
that brought him anything that deal
with the workings of mems hearts all
minds?
Pity the book hunter! What II IN
chase was long, the path hard u'
footwear worn, the coat of hOmeSul
what was all that to him! way
the quarry, not the way, of when
thought. A book in hand, he WaS
homeward with the man lie had lOpn
Jefferson, Shakespeare, BunyA =
foe-and for days, whatever raa'
cold, short rations, hard labor, jena
son, Shakespeare, Bunyan, DefOe !"
by his side.
No, this boy is not to be pIIeu'
rather he who has never lOnged ~
book. never walked a mile to OO'y
one-he who when book IS !"
side can keep his hands from IL
can live among books daily, lnVO'"
unacquainted. Ia
The boy Lincoln did not reao
forgetfulness. The book was ~
sedative, a soporifc for him.
not take him out Of Spencer 'u'I
Indiana. but rather helped MIN ..,u
derstand Spencer county II in,s,r
ed to him the thing of when ~ w.,
Thomas Lincoln and Nancy
Lincoln, and all Of these nelSDO0
friends of theirs, were part
Read to Remember
The pioneer life had its ezclI dons
and allurements - discover" .omn
hone lifted it out of the t '~ h
place. Young Lincoln shared "a, an
and the book told him. as 'n'+ he
him could not, the meaning ~. 10
sons, behind it all. It traced -, ,D 4
that a long line Of forOeal9 'a a d
eled westward their sacilrb e
homes! Through the book :. ID
southwestern Indiana anu o ~, I'D
as a scene in a great ana Ho ononips
cow it's relation to the C gs,ne i
the new continent the upn 5,a foppi !
new kind of government, E, Wv odmt 4 d
81 or something which would a .nntis \
and more men to the oppOr''' Il
the earth. thing else
n,mmit helped him to unds snopt "a
was fnsatiate - their I tbelr q pc
thoughts, their passions THE boz Pa
nesses, !, rne eide ranges of human una =
r rial a. f pattent fD steady "a dsi az a
msp on pb believing men, ne f.r 1t
If riotous life, aud no, I,abtts. pb1 / a
Of Of petty livins-di f5gss n1D no n,'
u was curiously imperso anasht . rs
tacts with men. He HELPED BITS
t thetn Gpal the . book sn bss %
~ Of them helped annty . ntl
i the 'syf ;'ss aas and ,''a''
to life. -, hecaus' ~ pinp
steadier glow to . reso rejoice 81 'nd
read!