Show s:fcxxxftxxxxxxxxx: 1 H M LINCOLN’S I Bodyguard M 8 H K H I s I a W ' HERE are yet living from half a dozen to a dozen men who may be said to have known Abraham Lin coin Intimately and per aonally Of all these for mer associates of the martyr president however none can rival Col William H Crook In the possession of vivid and unique recollections of the war president Moreover Col Crook’s reminiscences of the most Interesting portion or his long public career have been kept ever fresh In hla memory by continuous service at the White House In Washington of which he has been an attache for more than years and where he constantly sees objects and Incidents that remind him of the kindly executive who occupied the presidential mansion when he first took up his duties there Col Crook who Is now in his seventieth year has been for a long time past the disbursing officer of the presidential business establishment but during the Lincoln administration he was the president's bodyguard and thus naturally came more closely and continuously In contact with the great American than did almost any other Individual Crook was little more than twenty years of age when the civil war broke out and as soon as he was 21 he unlisted In the union army At the expiration of his term of enlistment he secured a position on the police force a the national capital and It was while serving In this capacity that he was chosen as the principal bodyguard of the chief magistrate Under present conditions the ' president of the United States need scarcely exchange a word with his secret service protectors who usually walk or ride some little distance behind him but Lincoln was wont to Insist that his bodyguard walk by his side after the manner of a personal friend rather thah an official protector The president took quite a fancy to Crook who was young and as be confesses a In his trifle bashful at the outset walks about tle capital and his nightly tramps from the White House to the war department — there was no telegraph office at the White House in those days and the president went to the department to get the war news at first hand — Lincoln talked on a variety of subjects with bodyguard Crook and even discussed at times the possibility of some person attempting to do him harm Col Crook’s recollections of the president on these night pilgrimages to the news center portray a tall figure wrapped In a rough gray shawl and wearing a tall beaver hat Often the kindly sympathetic chief magistrate would draw his bodyguard to his side and walk hand In hand or arm In arm with the younger man When Crook was on duty at night at the White House he would take his station after the president retired In the corridor on the second floor of the mansion upon which the president’s He always night oi the assassination refers to bis absence on this occasion with deep regret for he had a special the system o his own for guarding such public appearances president and ue it convinced to this day that if he had been at his usual station at the door of the president’s box Booth could never have passed him There would seem to be some ground for Cook s confidence for the bodyguard did frustrate the plans of a man who to audience with Lincoln gain' sought during the 'atter’s famous visit to City point and who when refused admission made threats against the president At the time the man gave the name of Smith but Crook has always been confident that It was none other than tbe notorious Surrat with whose conditions appearance under normal he was familiar through having lived In the same county in Maryland before the war The Lome of eoi Crook In the city of Washington is a veritable museum of relics and mementoes of Lincoln and other presidents Probably the most prized of all tbe keepsakes Is a card in Lincoln’s handwriting which the president addressed to the provost marshal general when Crook and anSmith other bodyguard Alexander were drafted lor service In the army The president wrote that he could not spare the men and asked the official to “please fix” the matter This precious bit of paper reposed for years In the war depart- TIT FOR TAT IMPORTANT PART WAS TRUE LERC1IA1IT MAKES STATEHEHT CHICAGO After Spending Thousands of Dollar! and Consulting the 21 ost Eminent Farmer Huskworthy— See here! I want ter know what yer mean by Bleepin’ around here? Ye’ve been snorin’ so loud they kin hear ye a mile away! If ye’d keep yer mouth Shut ye wouldn’t make so much noise! Bo Bill— Neither would you RAW ECZEMA ON HANDS “I had eczema on my hands for ten I had three good doctors hut years none of them did any good I then used one box of Cutlcura Ointment and three bottles of Cutlcura Resolvent and was completely cured My hands were raw all over inside and out and the eczema was spreading all over my body and limbs Before I had used one bottle together with the Cutlcura Ointment my sores were nearly healed over and by the time I had used the third bottle I was entirely well To any one who has any skin or blood disease I would honestly advise them to fool with nothing else but to get Cutlcura and get well My hands have never given me the least bit of trouble up to now "My daughter’s hands this summer became perfectly raw with eczema She could get nothing that would do a them any good until she tried She used Cutlcura Resolvent and Cutlcura Ointment and in two weeks they were entirely cured I lave used Cutlcura for other members of my family and it always proved sucMrs M cessful E Falin Speers Ferry Va Oct 19 1909” She (to her fiance with whom she has just broken off her engagement) —You deceived me everything that you told me about your family your position and your means was false He — It was true about my debts though Asking Too Much The mother of little Mary had told her a number of times not to hitch her sled to passing sleighs feeling that it was a dangerous practice It was such a fascinating sport however that Mary could not resist it and one day her mother saw her go skimming past the house behind a farmer’s “bobs” When she came in from play she was taken to task her mother saying severely: “Mary haven’t I told you that you must not hitch onto bobs? Besides you know it is against the law" “Oh” she Mary tossed her head said “don’t talk to me about the law It’s all I can do to keep the ten commandments!” — Woman’s Home Companion The girl who says she wouldn’t marry the best man living will probably live to have the satisfaction of knowing she didn’t WHEN YOU’RE AS HOARSE aiacrow When When you’ye an you’re coughing and guaping Physicians He Was Desperate CHICAGO ILLS— Mr d Q Becker of 34 Van Buren St a wholesale dry goods dealer states as follows: "I have had catarrh for more than thirty years Have tried everything on earth and spent thousands of dollars for other medicines and with physicians without getting any lasting relief and can say to you that I have found Peruna the only remedy that has cured me permanently "Peruna has also cured my wife of catarrh She always keeps It In the house for an attack of cold which it invariably cures in very short time' Young America The H’8 lived in the country kept chickens and lived the simple life One of their dally diversions was to Bit on the front veranda and watch the sunset and Roberta aged four sat and watched with them but It was a rather tedious as well as solemn occasion for her and one day after watching In silence for quite a while an explanation of the whole thing suddenly dawned upon her and with the delighted enthusiasm of a discoverer phe exclaimed: “Oh mamma I know now why It takes the sun so long to set It has to hatch out so many Httlo stars!”— Los Angeles Times What the Doctor Did Gustave Ullyatt has a little daugh- ter who hasn’t been well recently The other day a physician was called to the Ullyatt home to see her He examined the child with the aid of a When her father came stethoscope home that evening he asked tyhat the doctor had said “Nothin’” replied the little girl “What did he do?” asked Mr Ullyatt “He just telephoned me vall over" was the child’s reply — Denver Post cold take Allen'i Lung Hal Sold by all druggists 25c 60c and 1100 bottles Money Needed for Good Work tn Twelve years ago Massachusetts The face that lights up In conversamade the first appropriation for a state sanitarium Since that time tion Is not necessarily lantern-jaweover $10000000 has been appropriCURED IN 6 TO 14 DATS ated by state legislatures for the pre- PAZO PILES OINTMENT ' Isguaranteed to cure any case Blind Bleeding or Piles In vention of tuberculosis and about an oftoItching 60a li day tor money refunded Protracting ' ' f and sum ’ by county municipal equal Ruling Passion authorities The federal government It’s a pity that wisdom doesn’t grow “I knew Putt’s smoking would get has over $1000000 Invested In tuber- on a man like whiskers' him into trouble” t culosis hospitals and spends annually “Well?” Dr Pierce's Pellets small easy to about $500000 in their maintenance “At his wedding when it came to take as candy regulate and invigorate stomach the percentage of approliver and bowels Lto not gripe year Every Into hli he reached the ring part Mrs W H Crook priations made from public funds for The average man Is always paid av- pocket and handed the minister a ment files but when Robert T Lin- tuberculosis work1 has Increased match” wages erage While private societies have led the coln son of the martyr president was secretary of war he gave it to his way In the tuberculosis campaign every effort has been made to have father’s old guard Another of Col Crook’s souvenirs Is states cities and counties do their A bulletin of the national asa mahogany cane made from the rail share sociation states that the final success of the little spiral stairway whereby crusade deLincoln reached hfi office on the sec- of the ond floor of the White House — a stair- pends on every city and state providway long since torn away Col Crook ing funds to treat and prevent conhas some almost priceless specimens sumption of the china service which Mrs LinPractical Christianity coln selected for the White House and “On behalf of the sewing circle of declares which Col Crook to have been more beautiful than any table- this church” said the pastor at the ware purchased before or since for conclusion of the morning service “I use on the presidential table Among desire to thank the congregation for the pieces are a cup and saucer which 67 buttons placed in the contribution If now Lincoln used These like all of the box during the past month inclined donors the philanthropically pieces of this service are ornamented by a oroad maroon band and adorned of these objects will put a with the American eagle and coat of undershirts and three pairs of other arms In colors strictly secular garments on the plate next Sunday morning so that we may The Living Lincoln have something to ew those buttons How well I remember when Lincoln on we shall be additionally grateful” lived at Petersburg carrying the —Harper’s Weekly chain for a surveyor’s party and workIf you had positive proof that a certain remedy for GET POWER ing for 75 cents a day The surveyor’s wife told me that she often Baw him female ills had made many remarkable cures would you The Supply Comes From Food on at seated cellar the studying night not feel like trying it ? door reading Blackstone often until If we get power from food why not If during the last thirty years we have not succeeded midnight by the light of the moon strive to get all the power we can Lincoln always took note of the That is only possible by use of skillwoman that Lydia E Pink-ham- ’s convincing every light and dark of the moons as Is fully selected food that exactly fits Vegetable Compound has cured thousands and thoushown by an incident which occurred the requirements of the body sands of women of the ills peculiar to their sex then we A during his early practice of law Poor fuel makes a poor fire and a murder was committed in the neigh- poor fire is not a good steam producer long for an opportunity to do so by direct correspondence borhood of the village and the son oi “From not knowing how to Belect the Meanwhile read the following letters which we guarantee the surveyor’s wife was arrested on right food to fit my needs I suffered to be genuine and truthful suspicion from the testimony of ac grievously for a long time from stomIn the meantime Lin ach troubles” writes a lady from a “eye witness” Hudson Ohio—" I suffered for a loner time from a weakness coin had swung out his shingle as inflammation dreadful pains each month and suppression little town in Missouri had been doctoring and receiving only temporary relief when a lawyer it Springfield and on this "It seemed as if I would never be he friend advised me to take Lydia E PInkham’s Vegetable Comoccasion nobly did prove that tbe able to find out the Bort of food that kindness of the surveyor was not for was pound I did so and wrote to you for advice I bare faithfully best for me Hardly anything followed your directions and now after taking only five bottles gotten by the student who read Black that I could eat would stay on my stomof the Vegetable Compound I have every reason to believe I am stone by the moonlight me heartach a well woman I give you full permission to use my testimoniaL gave attempt Every He went to the jail and questioned —Mrs Lena Carmocino Hudson Ohio 11 F D No 7 burn and filled my stomach with gas the young prisoner who asserted his I St Regis Falls N Y—"Two years ago was got thinner and thinner until I litinnocence and Lincoln took up the so bad that I had to take to my bed every month skeleton and in a became living erally case and it would last from two to three weeks was compelled to keep to my bed At the trial the witness swore that time wrote to you for advice and took Lydia E Pink-ham- 's “A few months ago I was persuaded am he saw the murder committed Vegetable Compound in dry form food and It had such to try am cured thanks to your happy to say that “Might you not be mistaken?” asked good effect from the very beginning medicine and good advice You may use my Lincoln “A dim light is deceptive — ever since use letter for the good of others Mrs that I have kept up its IL and it was a dark night” was surprised at the ease with which Breyere St Regis Falls N Y The witness hastened to relteraU II it It proved to be Just what is absolutely no doubt about the There that it was bright moonlight where I digested needed upon Lincoln promptly pulled from ability of this grand old remedy made from “All my unpleasant symptoms' the among his books an almanac and said the roots and herbs of our fields to cure the inflated feeling which calmly: My me such pain disappeared We possess volumes of proof of this fact “It Is not necessary for me to make gave increased from 98 a plea for no Jury can place any re weight gradually convince the most skeptical ’ enough to rounded out my llance on a witness who will sweat to 116 lbs my figure I now am and hack came For PInkham’s Vegetable 30 that It was a moonlight night when strength E years Lydia and enjoy It Compound has been the standard the almanac proves that It was the able to do my housework for s did it” female ills No sick woman doesremedy dark of the moon”— Daniel W Ayers justice to show will trial herself A who not will anyone ten this famous medicine days’ try In the National Magahlne Made some facts about food exclusively from roots and herbs and has thousands of cures to its credit A Difficulty Look In pkgs for the little book "The ”1 would like to take you apart Pinkham invites all sick women Road to Wellville” "There’s a Reason’’ p— " Mrs L— to write her for advice She has A aew letterf read the above sir” Em to time time eae from They appears gultfed thonsands to health free of charge “You can't taka me apart I ain’t are seaalM fall ef bam a a trse Address Mrs Pinkham Lynn Mass no human puzzle la terns t V in I 'tut I I Crook— Lincoln's Bodyguard bedroom opened Often as he paced up and down he could hear the great man 8lgh or moan in his sleep after a day of unusual anguish and anxiety Occasionally he would have to awake the sleeper t deliver some Important telegram but Crook declares that Lincoln never displayed any irritation at On one occasion yuch interruptions when he entered the president's room In response to the usual “Come in” he was surprised to find Lincoln busily Engaged in sewing a button on his “Just repairing damages” trousers explained the droll president with a half cmlle Crook who nad been on duty all day with the president did not accompany Lincoln to Ford’s theater on the Col W H I I J ut v |