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Show a man of the people (By Francis Bellamy.) INCOLN, thou chouldst be living at this hour; Am erica hath need of thee!" Thus to apply the Unea of opening Wordsworth1! famous "Sonnet to Uilton to the great President whose birthday falls this week seems a not unpardonable violence at this peculiar period of our his- tory. England, at the time Wordsworth wrote, a century ago, was "a fen of stagnant waters;" the true English, y-loving spirit, which Milton a century and a half before had voiced at its 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, unlllumined 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 this nation. - But he was the man of the people to the end. He never lost the Initial He never was uncertain how the common man would regard a measure. The common man knew that his opinion had weight with the homely libert- them so well that mey 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 As the seranother consciousness. vant of his countrymen he enveloped himself with their convictions as they grew. ConsiHiuently 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 is leaders who, without hypocrisy, love the people, know the people, obey the people. out-paci- ng mpulse. President Lincoln was no faster than the plain people could follow. Herein again he embodied their history. He and they seemed to develop He held back till he felt together. their impulse unmistakably pushing him. Radical men complained at his slowness. Wendell Phillips raged at him with frensled abusiveness. But W aba ter on Secession. While freedom lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise! When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union, on states, dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drench- - ONE OP LINCOLN'S STORI-fS- . Su Who Triad ta AdThe Fat of tti! vertise OAnpowder at The following anecdote by Lincoln is recounted by General Horace Porter. It was told during Lincolns visit to the front at City Point: In the course of the conversation that even- ' ing he spoke of the Improvement in arms and ammunition, and of the new powder prepared for the fifteen-inc- h ' guns. He said he had never seen the diflatter article, but he understood It fered very much from any other powder that had ever been used. I told him that I happened to have in my tent a specimen which had been sent to headquarters as a curiosity, and that I would bring it to him. When I returned with a grain of the powder about the size of a walnut, he took It, turned it over in his hand, aifd after examining it carefully, said: "Well, Its rather larger than the pofrder we used to buy in my shooting days. It reminds me of what occurred once in in Sangamon a country meeting-hous- e county. Tou see, there were very few newspapers then, and the 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 the time while the people were waiting by notifying them of any new arrival of an attractive line of goods. "One evening a man rose up and said: Brethren, let me take occasion to say, while were that I have jest received a new lnvice 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 har in front of one o them grains Jest Ilk it was a lookin-glasHope 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, I'rayer-MaaMa- c- : j prayer-meetin- s. powder-mercha- , Marriage is a crime, punishable with life AN AFFLICTED MOTHER. imprionMUicnt. FYota th Tin irt. Paw Pair, IB. A retddent of this town who has lost two children during ike paxt six yearn, by violent deaths has len utterly prostrated lv the shock, and seriously sick as a result of (aged U) was killed by a cyit One child clone in VO while at school ; another, three later was run over tiy a Burlington !'ears train. That griefs and misfortunes may ao pray on the mind as to lead to serious physical disorders has been well demonstrated in this case. As a result of them, her health was shattered and she has beeu a constant sufferer siuce 1SJ0. Her principal trouble has been neuralgia or tha stomach which was very paiufui, and exhibited all the symptoms of ordinary neuand indigest ion. ralgia, nervousness did her no good whatever. She was discouraged and abandoned all hope of getting well. Finally, however, a cerpill was recommended tain (Dr. Williams 1iuk Pills for Pale People.) 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JACOBS OIL Is the Master Cure for RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, SCIATICA, LUMBAGO. U se only one heap- ing teaspoonful of J0SIHH CRAWFORD LINCOLN WORKED HOUSE WHERE flSfl FARMHAND 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 that a house divided principle stand. can not Itself againstwas regarded by His position the abolitionists as pitifully inadequate. But it set the people to thinking and reasoning, while the vehement abolition leaders had been chiefly successful in arousing them to rancor. When inaugurated as President, amid the unutterable gloom and fear, while state after state was passing its ordinance of secession, he seemed to many as willing to sacrifice the main idea which had lifted his party to power if the South would consent to return. Nothing so plaintive, yet so manly, was before heard in a speech by the head of the nation. The Northern radicals called it weakness, and groaned for the stronger tones of Seward. But it won the people. It broke down party walls and almost Republican, and created unanimity. 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. Seward's high hand would have made a gulf where Lincoln's subtle sympaof a single heart thy mads a nation Ills secret was that he loved the peohe sprung, and knew ple from whom - . WELL DUO-- BY LINCOLN ON CRAWFORD PLACE . ed, It may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its .arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for Its motto, no such miserable Interrogatory as 'What is this worth? nor those other words of delusion and folly, Liberty first, and Union afterwards;' but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and STORE. RT SR LEM ILL., KEPT BY LINCOLN . ONCE Jumped up and cried out: 'Brethren, I hope youll not believe a single word Brother Jones has been sayin about that powder. I've been down thar and seen it for myself, and I pledge you my word that the grains is bigger than the lumps in a and any one Schilling s Best Bak- ing Powder to a quart of flour. 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