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Show f A . t THE WORLD AMERICAN FORK, UTAH, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY VOL. V. 1 MAN OF THE PEOPLE (By Francis Bellamy.) INCOLN, thou shouldst be llrlnc at thla hour; America hath need of thee!1 Thus to apply the opening llnee of Wordavortha fam- ous to Bonnet Milton to the great whose President birthday falls this week seems a not unpardonable violence at this peculiar period of our history. England, at the time Wordsworth wrote, a century ago, was a fen of stagnant waters;" the true English, y-loving spirit, which Milton a cena and half before had voiced at Its tury best, was paralysed by commercialism; the plain people were down, Toryism was up. The closing years of this present century In American politics seem in some respects not unlike that unhappy, unlllumlned period In England. Abraham Lincoln embodied the growth of the people. The pictures of his early homes and haunts are vocal with suggestion of whence his Impulses were drawn. He grew with the people through the varied stages of their growth, from the humblest poverty known amid the poverty of the frontier to a mastery of the most bewildering financial complications that have ever confronted thla nation. But he was the man of the people to the end. He never lost tbe Initial impulse. He never was uncertain how the common man would regard a measure. The common man knew that his opinion had weight with the homely President. Lincoln was no faster than the plain people could follow. Herein again he embodied their history. He and they seemed to develop together. He held back till he felt their impulse unmistakably pushing him. Radical men complained at his Wendell Phillips raged at slowness. But him with trended abusiveness. Lincoln could not move until his people were ready to move with him. What profound leadership was In this leaning back against the people! For Lincoln was leading most when he seemed to be moving forward least He hated slavery no less during his senatorial fight with Douglas than when he signed the Emancipation procBut during those exciting lamation. debates before the voters of Illinois he the asserted rudimentary only principle that a house divided stand. against Itself can not was regarded His by position the abolitionists as pitifully Inadequate. But It set the people to think- libert- and It broke down party walls and almost heart: Liberty one and created unanimity. Republican and Democrat as names were dropped for a time and men called themselves only Unionists. Out of a divided North, so divided that the Southern leaders calculated upon its Inaction, Lincoln made a compact mass. The success of the war hung upon this judicious leadership of the people. Sewards high hand would have made a gulf where Lincoln's subtle sympathy made a nation of a single heart. His secret was that he loved the people from whom he sprung, and knew them so well that they stood before him, with all their variations, as one individual. Because of this he led them from the start to the end, not once them, not once losing patience, yet steadily drawing them on while they believed they were themselvs the leaders and were pushing him. They trusted him through the blind era because they saw that he was obeying them. But this implied no deceit by him. As a man In his solely Individual relations he had decidedly Individual convictions. But as a man who stood as the representative of the people he had another consciousness. As the servant of his countrymen he enveloped himself with their convictions as they grew. Consequently he did not rule them.-,Clothed with new and almost dictatorial power, he used it solely at their own unquestionable pressure upon him. Never have we had so strong a President; never was one who ruled less. It may not be fair, altogether, to compare present leaders with him and to condemn them for falling below his standard. No other statesman In the world has possessed such fineness of human Instinct coupled with such unsurpassed experience of men and such extraordinary judgment of values as constituted the outfit of Lincoln. But on the other hand no such confusion of circumstances surrounds our modern executives. What we have right to demand In this day no less than in 1861 la leaders who, without hypocrisy, love the people, know the people, obey the people out-paci- ng . forever, Union, now and Inseparable!" ONE OF LINCOLN S bluKUo. Die Fate of tho Mao Who Tried to Aa Interesting Scene. The New York daily journals gave Gunpowder NO. 11. 12, ISOS. at Frayar-Meellu- c. The following anecdote by Lincoln r. which is recounted by General Horace i or-te- an account of a competition It was told during Lincolns visit took place on Lincolns birthday beto tbe front at City Point: In tbe tween the children of the public course of the conversation that evenschools. A prise had been offered by he of the Improvement in ing spoke the Patrla Club for the best "salute to arms and and of the new ammunition, and the flag" original patriotic song. flfteen-ine- b for tbe The most dramatic feature of the exer- powder prepared seen tbe never said bad lie be guns, cises was probably the appearance of It difunderstood latter but he article, Russian hundred six children, who are powother fered fnom much any being educated by the fund given by der veryhad ever been used. I told that Baron de Hirsch. Most of these boys in my and girls had been less than six him that I happened to bare sent been tent a had which specimen months In this country, but with tbe and to a aa curiosity, headquarters extraordinary facility of their race In that I would When him. to it learning a language, they already I returned withbring a grain of tbe powder speak and understand English, and took It, show an enthusiastic admiration for about the size of a walnut, he aifd after In over his turned hand, It their adopted country. Well, said: They marched Into the great audi- examining It carefully, we the Ita than rather Pder larger of the torium Alliance (Educational It days. used to in shooting my buy building, each, child wearing an Ameronce In occurred me reminds of wbat ican flag pinned to his or her breast In Sangamon Their superintendent said to them, a country meeting-hous- e were very few You there see, You are no longer Russians; you are county. newspapers then, and tbe country storekeepers had to resort to some other means of advertising their wares. If, for Instance, the preacher happened g to be late In coming to a of an evening, the shopkeepers would often put In tbe time while the people were waiting by notifying them of any new arrival of an attractive line prayer-meetin- of goods. One evening a man rose up and said: Brethren, let me take occasion that I to say, while were have Jest received a new lnviee of sportin powder. The grains are so small you kin scacely see 'em with the naked eye, and polished up so fine you kin stand up and comb yer bar In front of one o them grains jest like It was a lookln-glas- s. Hope youll come down to my store at the crossroads and examine that powder for yourselves. "When we had got about this far a In the meeting rival who had been boiling over with Indignation at the amount of advertising the opposition powder was getting. Jumped up and cried out: Brethren, I hope youll not believe a single word Brother Jones has been savlnL about that powder. Ive been down thar and seen It for myself, and I pledge you my word that the grains Is bigger than and any one the lumps In a coal-pilof you, brethren, ef you was In your future state, could put a bar'l o' that powder on your shoulder and march squar through the sulphurlous flames surroundin' you without the least dan- Lincoln in ms. ( fBrody, Wash.) Americans. Let us see whether you can give three good American cheers. The cheers were given with sparkling eyes.' Thirteen boys carrying national colors marched forward, escorting a little girl dressed as Columbia, W abater oa Sacaaaloa. While freedom lasts, we have who carried ji large silk flag. As she unfurled It the six hundred little RusMgb, exciting, - gratifying - prospects sians repeated In chorus: our us and spread out before us, for of the Republic! Insplrer In Flag children. Beyond that I seek not to of our homes, whose battle, guardian penetrate the veil. God grant that In stars and stand for bravery, stripes not at my day, least, that curtain may Union : We salute and rise! When my eyes shall be turned truth, purity children of many lands thee! the We, to behold for the last time the sun In find rest under thy folds, do who on I not see him heaven, may shining the broken and dishonored fragments pledge our lives, our hearts and our of a once glorious Union, on states, sacred honor to love and protect thee, ger of an explosion."' and the liberty of the dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on our country forever." American people a land rent with civil feuds, or drench Poor John Brown. We salute thee! the the At words, In fraternal blood! Let ed, it may be. children were all Brown of the stretcharms John belongs to that rare their last feeble and lingering glance ed out to tbe flag, and than folded class of men whose names grow with history. His life commanded respect and honor. His death was marked by a singular pathos, a sadness that won the sympathy of tbe people. Excepting Lincoln and Grant he remains the best remembered man of half a century. They hung him up between heaven and earth as a sign that justice must be done; but they did not dream that the future would speedily take them at their word, and visit upon them tbe penalty of their own philosophy. History has disclosed the truth and completed tbe story of his desperate ex ploit and his willing and pathetic sacrifice. He lost his life, but he gained his object." powder-mercha- . T11E FAIR VIENNESE. Ad-vart- nt e; MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN ON THE CONTINENT. A City Whan Ufa I. Tory Gay North-or- a aad Saath.ra TcmpmaiiM aad Customs Haro Combined to Make Moral. Las (Special Letter.) HE women of Vienna are probably the most beautiful women In Europe. Indeed, Vienna has long been known aa the Paris of ths continent It has which advantages really place it above tbe French capital as the center of gayety and fashionable life on the continent Parisian women are not beautiful. They are animated, chic," and brilliant Faultlessness in dress, added to a certain dash and piquancy of manner, has always made up for defects of form and feature. The Viennese women, on the contrary, are magnificent specimens of womanhood. The mixed blood of Magyars, Csechs, Poles and Roumanians has produced a type of beauty characterized by black hair, large, melting eyes, oval faces of warm Southern coloring and magnificently developed figures. These Viennese women have s tremendous chic and style. Probably no other court in the world can boast such a number of what might be termed women as the Hof burg of Vienna. They combine the mettle and the vim of the North with tbe languorous charm which belong! to tbe Southern races. In Central Germany the women of Vienna have not at all the reputatlos of being straitlaced. Vienna la gey, and Its social code la In harmony with Instincts of lte the pleasure-lovin- g mixed population. The free, half wild customs of the wild peninsula, composed of the sovereignties of Servie. Bulgaria and Roumanla, have broken down the restraints of social life to the north. Five years ago It was said that at these three courts there a prominent man or woman who had not been divorced at least once. The Influence of such license Is dearly traced In the numerous scandals which are constantly finding their way Into print out of the still greater number which are only whispered about. For example, the Archduke Rudolph was killed at Meyerllng several years ago, at his country house, after his rela-high-steppi- ng wal-no- t to-d- ay llMmarck of Jawlah Descent. Few people are aware that Prince Bismarck Is of Hebrew descent He derives bis Jewish blood from his father Anastasius whose mother, Menken, one of the favorite bureaucrats of Frederirk tbe Great was uf Hebrew parentage. Although of late it haa evidently appeared politic to the prince to countenance the movement both In Germany and Austria, yet while In office he invariably showed himself a good friend to the Jewish nation, and chose the HeCRAWFOADB brew banker, at Berlin, Baron Von WHERE HOUSE JOSIAH STORE: AT SALEM ILL., ONCE WELL DUG- BY LINCOLN LINCOLN WORK! I) W fl FIRM HHND. Blelchroeder, as his most trusted conKEPT BY LINCOLN . on CRAWFORD PLACE . fidant Indeed, In those days he was so well disposed toward the Jews that he even discussed the adrlB&blllty of rather behold tbe gorgeous of. upon their breasts. An original pa- marrying his sons of Jewesses, on tho lng and reasoning, while the vehement the republic, now known andensign honored abolition leaders had been chiefly sucand the ground that it would bring money into throughout the earth, still full high triotic song cessful in arousing them to rancor. were then sung with great the family again, and likewise imBanner" arms its and advanced, trophies enthusiasm. When Inaugurated as President, prove both morally and physically the amid the unutterable gloom and fear, astreaming In their original lustre, not was described as .scene a The or erased sinnor a great Bismarck breed. stripe polluted, while state after state was passing its n touched wblch object-lessotbe star heart motfor gle obscured, its bearing ordinance of secession, he seemed to no such miserable Interrogatory as of every child and every spectator. Diamond from flaliylon. many as willing to sacrifice the main to, Is this worth? nor those other What There Is much meaning In the old Idea wblch had lifted bis party to 4l".i diamonds are known to have Over words of delusion and folly, Liberty story of the woodsman who said, If been power if the South would consent to recovered from the ruins of Babyreturn. Nothing so plaintive, yet so first, and Union afterwards; but every- I am to raise pines fit for masts, I lon. Many are uncut, but most are on one or two sides. manly, was before heard In a speech where, spread all over In characters of must begin with the seed. polished living light, blazing on all Its ample we are to fill this country with by the head of the nation. The NorthIf ern radicals called It weakness, and folds, as they float over the sea and Intelligent, patriotic, honorable citiKansas City's fire engine houses are groaned for the' stronger tones of Se- over the land, and in every wind un- zens we must begin the work with the numherpd from I to IS, but there is der the whole heaven, that other sentiward. no No. 13. children. ment, dear tQ every true American But It won the jpeople. antl-semit- - Star-Spangl- ed ic A MAGYAR VIENNA TYPES, tlons to the Baroness Vetsera had become tbe talk of every court circle Ic Europe. Tbe Archduchess Stefflnl, his widow, has been conspicuous In several delicate affairs in and around the capital. In one of tbese affairs an a civilian who officer had gossiped too Indiscreetly of tbs Archduchess secrets, which he had been enabled to find out by reason of his high position at court It Is Interesting to note that nearly all the great writers acknowledged ths French charm of Viennese women. Nor Is the Vienna type of beauty confined to tbe PollBh and Czech or to that collection of many languages Included in the liofburg nobility. The working girls, who come to town to exchange the wages of 20 cents a day In the country for 36 or 40 cents In tbe city, are acarcely less attractive In face and figure. They are to be Been In the early morning aa they make their way to work, and In the evening at tbe dance halls which sprinkle the byways of Vienna and lta suburbs. These girls lead an intense life of toil and semistarvation. with full abandonment In their leisure hours to those frivolities which have given Vienna a reputation as the moat dissolute city on the horse-whipp- ed |
