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Show ohc TvC rtoraii 'on ofijc Lincoln Home Complete Jdnvights hi:i have prevailed In many n.-' .' .ir'i.K. !v Tf"f Is time ' yet, however, f.ir m : b A- vas:t' nn In this way g-cat rare la taken. Spark from lo.m:.iive rr.sicn have been rr.-.titrd :th starUng mary of the- forest fires, or.i to a certila -' 1'iit this bei.f is .ru.ial.ly well founded. Hul If i..mr einerlmenU ; conducted by a . coil's f t to be relied upon tne locomotive la a much ra fruitful source than ! generally gen-erally believed. The elperime.its 101-. 101-. sisted In setting pans covered wl:h I Inflammable cicnh at varying distances from a railioad track on a heavy grade j where many trains passed every day i pulling their hardest and throwing out Innumerable cinders. Bill It wj i found that In no instance waa the cloth destroyed, only small bole be-, be-, lng burned In It In several pans where a live riuder had dropped but which i did not have life enough to last long. 1 At the l-jrt ae, sinn of the legislature of Illino.s t.' "0 aa appropr.ated f .r repairs on the hrn: of Abraham I. Inert In-ert n. f! gliih an I Jac kion tnt4.s. th s ity. Lndto- the direction of Albert 8. Edwards the repairs have Just been completed and the hlr-.Tlc louse Is ones again throun open to the public The greatest care h.ia been taken to avoid any radical alteratlona. aa It la the Intention of the state authorities to preserve the bonne la Ita original condition aa long aa beam and rafter will succwfifully hold together. The appropriation waa spent principally Ita first two senator and afterwards ! governor. S.nce hta Installation as I custodian at the request of Ro!rt I Lincoln. Mr. Edwards haa guarded the j bonne with affectionate rare and la j never weary of showlr; It to visitors : and pointing out the bedroom, l'brary. j and other rooms associated with Lin-i Lin-i coin. The Llm-.In borne Is the greatest at-j at-j traction which Illinois presents to : visitors. The carefully kept register j shows that the average yearly visita-. visita-. tiona to this shrine of loftiest Amerl- ra.itsm la over 15.000. an average of I This ex;eri!nent would seem to prova I that the loi-omotlve spark Is much lesl j I dangerous than Is generally supposed, ' and that the cause of many of the forest for-est fires credited to It must be assignel to tramps and car. le-s campers and builders of brush fires. PRESIDENTIAL VACATIONS. CUteUad InH to Lose lllmielf la hapeHe Hay. j Ordinarily the president while on vacation maintains communb-at'oa with the white bouse and with the de- . partrr.ents at Washington, but Mr. I Cleveland used to go away every now and (hen for a week, during which hi could not be reached by mail or wire, though he might have been hunted up In an emergency by a dispatch boat or a search party. He loved beyond all things to lute himself in the great Chesapeake bay, whiih haa been called the "presidential game preserve" because be-cause of the fondness which many ol our chief magistrates have had for THE LINCOLN HOME. 40 visitors daily. In a recent Inter-j Inter-j view. Mr. Edwards said: ! "It seems to me but eminently nnt-I nnt-I ural that patriotic Americans should find In Lincoln's home their mecia. ! Its simplicity, Ita unpretenaiousness, ' speak eloquently of the character of i the nation's savior and nowhere ran i a better Idea, a personal compn-hen-1 lon. so to speak, be obtained of the man than In this modest dwelling. Sheltered beneath the historic roof of ; MouM Vernon, where lived and died 1 the father of ,iU country, there is a ! prl le and patriotic devotion dear to every American heart. So. too. when one slowly Iinger3 in and about the rooms of the old Springfield home of Abraham Lincoln one cannot forg't the glory and grandeur his illustrious name has added to the pages of history. his-tory. It Is one of the most cherished realities of the nation's life. "The house Is now 60 years old, hav- ! lng been built In IS to. Lincoln pur- I chased It In 1S1I, two years after bis marriage, and ran It up another story. ! "It waa the only building in whic h i Lincoln ever kept house except the I White House In Washington, and he j lived here altogether almost 17 years i from 1SI4 until February II. lsi',1. when he left Springfield to take charge j of the affairs of the nation in the most crucial period of Its history. I J seeking recreation there In the pur-; pur-; suit of ranvasback ducks, snipe, and I other game, aa well as fish. Mr j Cleveland s favorite amusement wai j duck hunting, and more than once hi : found leisure for a spell of waterfowl j shooting with his friend Joe Jeffer- son on Orange Island a piece of real j estate belonging to the f.imo is actor. I whic h Is the crater of an extinct vol-j vol-j rano. much frequented by birds. Benjamin Ben-jamin Harrison as likewise a sports-i sports-i man and a good shot, notwithstanding I his unfortunate adventure with a ' j ilary U"" qig which he mistook for a . r ic cooa and k.n- '. He off. re 4 Jo pay I I for the unfortunate animal, but the ' negro who owned It declined to re- ! j celve compensation, considering It a ' I sufficient honor that his porker should ! j have been a target for presidential I j shot. Kings and queens arc apt to j travel extensively while on vacation. I hut there is an unwritten law which forbids the presidents of the I'nlted States to go ojt of the country that la to say, beyond the territorial borders bor-ders or pass the three-mile limit at tea. On one occasion, when Mr. Arthur Ar-thur breakfasted on board of a British Brit-ish iian-of-war. question was raised aa to tbe propriety of his doing so, inasmuch as the vessel was lawfully a part of foreign soil. He waa by ns-ture ns-ture a sybarite, and made every effort ef-fort to mitigate the cares of his great office, on one occasion escaping to the Adirondaiks and cutting off all connection con-nection between himself and civilization civiliza-tion for a fortnight. Rene Cache la Boston Transcript. la fighting the ravages of time. Crumbling Crum-bling foundation stones have been strengthened, an otvaaional piece of new lumber added where necessary, several of the rcxims were repainted and repapered and some of the slightly slight-ly !elap:dated furniture which did service In the days when Lincoln was a struggling Springfield attorney has been reuphoistered and repaired. All thore who have examined the house since Ita reopening, and the'r name ,s brlon, have been unqualified In their iir.ilse. j E'x-r-Vnator Palmer, who wa. a friend cf tlie gre.it emancipator ard ' wl.o renn i:.!iers the house as it f In the d.c)s when Lincoln lived and j worked there, remarked that the fur- j niture was arrancicd with all the nice- J ty characteristic of Mrs. Lincoln, and that the house looked Just as It did . w hen Lincoln commenced breaking up ' housekeeping in Springfield to take j up his residence In the White House. I ndoobtedly a considerable share of ' the credit for this careful, reverent ! restoration, which has not sacrificed I a single stone of the sacred structure j and has preserved everything intact Just aa it was a half century ago. be- j longs to Allwrt S. Edwards, the pres- , ent custod an of tbe Lincoln house, j Mr. Edward, is a nephew of President 1 Lincoln and is familiar with every stone and rnfter la the old house. His father was one of Springfield's mewt eminent cl'ixns. and his grand- fatr.tr. Nirlan Edwards, was the only ' territorial governor of Illinois, one of ' |