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Show TUP SU IV K r 11 IV IT I II It May Be RE? Daddy's am ivi me 0111 man J5ema.sM M iAJEveiii Fairy Tale vot pm'.t A RAINY NIGHT TL riii-tri'Uuft.r) turrriljr they fell on the pavement la li-- rtf jr M-OS Up vf rvrry uni danvj e d Lfv-- lto--y "W r . ran the In lr.want tht in. w 4 fiT lhf, - If, In miu wtiL Tbr)'v (obe The anj h tara vl.lf to the t--a Muofi lonijihi, W they aid, raining, fr Lka Moot) la having a Litlhd)," "Wa lionl know h h l.a di ha ana" one ;tt)a raindrop added, rjr. nil.' Very, When your Children Ciy trru.cl.dou!) Very rs, my army of raindrop f, el like riving tabling, and I them the thaura, arid Ling uf the floud. 1 Hha f.-- e ll-- L 1 t),-- "Thai I lie 11 the t tortile rlty, imo.ioI fine, very Iih!s -- Ihe alert rle li.lita, "Ukiii do joti want to do In order l have oottie full?" t-Ihe nun d op. "U to dome," the eb.lilc wi.t Bgi.U .,i L long l dune." mi!J tih, e i ope of ,e h'g elect! i light 1.11. "We n't love to d line In Ihe nil) We Ilka to have the ralnd op a our a 4 Li part tier, . little r.dt! keep on pot-lleg end Ldl.ng to the earilt, ami Ve will d.n.it up und down, tip and down, up and d wn wish glee," Mild another h trie n'gn. Ii will look gy In the cltv )-- raid tie for It jour holding." lie e attu'rd al t( light !. wilt y vi ld, a a Cavtaria U a rumfort when Baht U fretful. Sooner taken than Ihe llltl 'he ht mm. Jf refill-.- , a fi-- drop I bring ront utmenL No harm dona, .t for Cbfturla U a remedy, for babJe. perfectly safe tu give tl youngest Dfart ; you have the doctor' word for that! It I a tccet-dproduct and you could us It every day. But It lu an emergency that Cat-lo- t ttieati imo t. Font night when etnul-pa- t Ion aiut-- t relieved or colic iutn or other suffering. Never U wiiLoit It; some mot tier keep an extra bottle, onoened. to ttu.J.e sure there will n. i a in the hmie. It wax lie for older !dldren, too; road tha book that rr.te with IL ,o 1 1 M-- tm-ur- c Cut-tor- effi-itlv- e of the street light, even thou.-- It I rnitdhg. "We v. I'l and the city will Mi nt o alive." fell to the And mi the r.dmlrop end the fired, and Ilia pavitnetit In Ihe rain. light d.icn-The sign which were advertising many wonderful thing danced uml and the light the sit Ugh: d.im-ci- l on the or car d..need. ih. Olt. whnl n lime I toy all Imd! Ih-car and bright and happy they were! "liven though It' a night, wa ae making It Jolly," ihe raindrop! re ii How to Avoid INFLUENZA ra deeply affected hy Ann death. It hi rendition, described hy Lincoln wn entry a a lon." Although ntof of Lincoln' love affair were unfortunate, and followed by mental lapse. Including Id unhappy marriage m Mary Tdd from which he had otu-- "harked out," Beveridge' conclusion seetna to lie that It wa Id hitler In politic and the strain entic-by exceslv study and rending" which were principally reMinsllle for the melancholy which over look Idtn from time to time. of this very Among the other wenl:nee human being. Abraham Lincoln, which Beveridge show wa Id habit of writing nnonymoti letter to the newpaer. If was one of these which Involved Idtn In the famous duel with Junto Shield which "lenve one with the Lading that hy the standards of the day, Llneo'n deserved a thrashing." But the result of this wa. a Beveridge poltda out, At last hls Imhlt, formed In boyhood, of ridiculing other person through offensive anonymous letters, hnd been sternly What a Time They All Had. cheeked. . . . Never did Lincoln forget that . Shield . time of Front . the the experience. idd. "with the help of the electric dued Lincoln wns Infinitely circumspect and conIfghts." siderate In hls dealings with others. "It was n fine Idea of the electric nnd He wti a regular reader of newspaper lights to want to dance in the rain." especially the newspaper poetry of the time, said the King of the Clouds. many pieces of which he clipped. More thnn flint "They npprec'ate us," said the His he attempted to write pclotry ldmelf. army of raindrops In chorus. And so earliest poem Is Hip couplet which he the rain kept coming down and the scribbled In the ropy book when he was a boy: dancing continued. Such a very good time was had by n1 pen Abraham Lincoln, bis band dancing light nnd every rainevery lie will be good but God knows whin drop that the King of the Clouds But It wits during Ids career ns a legislator said: both state and national, that he became more Let us always have a dance In the ambitious as n versifier. Beveridge record one city when we come forth to have a Instance In which he wrote a poem of ten verses rainy evening. on the ancient topics of death, nnd the The raindrops agreed nnd the eler comforts of memory: and It was only one of four trie lights agreed, nnd so. ever since cantos." Beveridge reproduces one which he cull. then. In every city on a rainy night the best of the verse In this canto" ami re- the lights have danced when the rain marks "Fortunately, the remaining canto of this came down from the heavens. Then he production appear to have been lost Sometimes the dancing Is more exsays "Lincoln was thirtv seven years old when one time than another. iting he wrote these 'poems.1 Nearly twenty year were But there Is always dancing. to elapse before he produced the Se-oAnd no dance could be lovelier, Inaugural." gayer, brighter, or merrier. But It was also in this petlod that the I. in coin of Immortality wa being molded In the Jumping the Egg fiery furnace of these latter days of impenetrable Here Is a clever little stunt, hut It glootn." And one of the mvteries of Lincoln which Beveridge does not attempt to solve and requires an awful lot of practice nnd which may never he solved Is the suihh n genius lung power before it can be performed properly. Place two ordinary In the use of words which Lincoln developed at this period In hls career. Beveridge shows him wine glasses side by side. Put a hard-holleegg in one of them. Then working earenstly for a literary style, seeking the blow sharply down the side of the exact word or phrases nnd the musical cniuldtm egg nnd it will jump into the other tion which were to make the Gettvshma add re immortal. But there Is no reason whih can he glass. Try it. assigned for the change from the man vho wrote a very poor kind of poetry into the writer of Smelly Goat matchless prose. Little tomboy Fully had been begBut the fact remains that hy the time he wa ging for a billy goat and cart. Finalforty-five- , this small town ly, her mother said: unhappily married We could not lawyer and politician who differed only from hun Goats are too have one around. dreds of other lawyers of hi day smelly ! and generation only hy his Inflexible honesty, hls Sally refilled Indignantly: "Mom, great personal ambition and hit, purlina alternathat's just gossip! I smelt one today tions of gayety and gloom" was beginning to de nnd you'd be s'prised; it smelt velop Into the towering genius of the Lincoln-Dougla'licious I" debater and the only man who have led the nation safely through the tour yenr Indignant Jimmy Bv some strange alette iy of agony of isfil-do- . three, had come down Jimmy, aged this man whom Beveridge makes u see so in a new white sailor suit. stairs nn-was clearly, changing into the statesman One of the guests, thinking to tease leader who probably could never have existed Oh. Jimmy, I see you have witlmut the molding in the fiery furnaie" of his him. said: new some on pajamas." early years when he was disciplined hv hundlia I Jimmy turned and looked at her intion and driven to a ruthless self nc lysis hy dis- dignantly, saying: This Is the elotl.es So. for all that tin latest Idog appointment. I go w here In." Lincoln of from takes rnpher away many a js pretty legend, he lots given u an infinitely great V.Tiat He Meant er and finer character nnd one more worthy of i ' t Teacher you knew v'Lat the our respei and because through an litrie niou-- e does? Abraham Lincoln, human Now. being, we can ome nearer an understanding of Teacher Thats right Ahra'mui Lincoln, the immortal. no doubt wa rnuld nl account for one of Id friend, a (Alt By ELMO SCOTT WATSON from Lincoln, Beveridge's courtesy Houghton Mifflin Company.) 1. Abraham Lincoln In 1857. The smbrotype made by Alachuter In Urbana, III. From tha cob laction of Frctorlck H Mtratrvs. portraits NKIDIIRIMI (he fiM'i that ll deal with certain et of truths. inn.ti of which run he backed up hy docu. II In ru'her qm-e- r mentary evhlom-eIhnl there tiMilt have Iktii In the past nn-- l for I hu I urn tier, mill are no tunny way of writ lug hloii rnph.v. One el .tie. which mn nun h In vogue In the eurly dav of tld Republic, wnn the kind whlili nunle Lincoln suspicion of nil hlngrtipliy Ahr.iliinii For. in he e.ilil to hi frlcinl Herndon. "Blog The raplilc im written are false ami nullior f a life of hi hero pnlnl hint a a perami sup fect man nmgnltles hi perfection hi aucren describe the liiqwrfectlon prec if hi hero In glowing terms, never once hinting at hi failure anti blunder." Abraham Llnccln about 1318 From a daguerreotype formerly owned by Robert T. Lincoln, In the collection of Frederick H. Mecerve. '11 it It he tlu. the prophetic vision of till man of ilestlny iinnle Mill foresee what In biographers would tin ami caused him to utter those words? For Immediately after Ids death a perfect horde of writers began creating a Lincoln myth In tiimh the same fashion n Lincoln himself him It. Describing this process when ll w I Just beginning. Inirersoll declared "Washington I now only a steel engraving Of the real man who lived and loved and hated and schemed we know hut little. . . . Hundreds of people are now engaged in smoothing out the line on Lincoln' face forcing all features to the common mold so that he may he known, not a he really wa. hut. nceordlng to their poor standard, as he should hnve been." Somewhere between the extreme of the old nlldl nisi honunt" biographer and th st vie modern muekrnker. somewhere between the superficial "psychogrnphlo" biographer and the compiler of the dull facts of a "Who's Who." there lies the Ideal type of biographer who can so blend fact and opinion, who can so avoid hotli the creation of a mytldcnl superman and the delineation of a weak vessel of human rlny" and urn present the portrait of a man who Is both n hero and r believable human being. Modern biography has furnished at least one example of this type of writer, hnt the tragedy of It Is that dentb Interrupted his work before If was finished. For, such Is the study of the first fiO years of Abraham Lincolns life, hy the late Albert J. Beveridge, published recently by the Houghton Mifflin company Literary critics seem to he unanimous In the opinion expressed h,v one of them that On the whole, this Is Incomparably the greatest story of Lincolns life before hlj Presidency. It was a cruet Strok? that took Beveridge from us before he reached the Civil war. For Beveridge died soon after he had made the first draff of Ills chapter on the Lincoln Douglas debates nnd a another critic has Justly Unfinished Sym said, it ends like Schubert's phony. " For the Lincoln which stalks through the page of Beveridge's hooks ts a different Lincoln from that presented to u hy the He Is a far Uvs perfect but much more understand able figure a human being He had his weak nesses. Ills flaws, some of which are not wholly admirable themselves, hnt the man himself Is all the more admirable because he rose to the height he did In spite of those flaw. I espite the fact that Beveridge demolishes many of the favorite myths about Lincoln, lie Is not an li.le delmnker" nor hy a stretch of Imagination could he be classl tied the muekrnker He doe t not cringe before a fact that dissipate a cherished illusion It i the only thing an honest hlstori n can do So says ot e critic, and therein lies Ihe great yalue of what Beveridge lias done. The myth makers I'ml.ed" Herndon fot tolling the truth about l.imoln many years ago. Beveridge has J'l.difiod I lei rah-t- i almost without exoepiion But. luid Beve-oLfixed, it is certain that t. e modern myth mi hi rs would not have dared try to The my t!u which Beveridge tuts demolished nre many. The picture of the hoy Lincoln reading hy the light of the fireplace, Beveridge shows to he Imaginary. The story of Ids industrious and energetic youth hnu been much overdone, for Beveridge show a that he had considerable of a distaste for manual labor, did It only when It was absolutely necessary nnd when he did "hire out" his employers often Imd reason to complain that he was more likely to tie telling stories than working The story of Ids letter to a minister begging hint to preach a sermon over his .notlier's grave I shown to lie Impossible been its nt that time Lincoln could not write. Another favorite story nlwmt Lincoln Is that of Ills witnessing the slave auction In New Orleans und hls declaration that when he Imd a chance lie would hit that Institution nnd "hit It hard." It Is true that he saw the slave auction hut there Is no record that he commented upon It either then or thereafter and for years Ids attitude toward slavery was chip of Indifference. Imperially wns this shown In Ills career ns a legislator In lll'nols when a decided stand on shivery would have made him very unpopular Lincoln had all the reason to keep silent on the slavery question then for hr a legislator he was more concerned with managing the fight for the removal of the capital from Vamlalla to Spring-field- . in hls own district, and he wns not faking any chances on antagonizing anyone who would have any Influence In that contest. No other historian has ever made a careful a study of Lincoln's career In the Illinois legislature as has Beveridge and from that study there Is only one possible conclusion to draw that Lincoln was a clever manipulator, a typical partisan politician, more concerned with results than methods and guided hy expediency. This was true especially of slavery, for ns Beveridge say: Two decades were to pas before Lincoln showed much concern over slit very." As a congressman. Beveridge shows Lincoln to have been pretty much of a failure Hls appeal for election wns not hcoairp of any specie I fitness for the Jolt, hut as he said. "Turn ahou. Is fair play you know that. Is m.v argument " After being elected he virtually "d. his constituents with a strong speech against the Mexican war which was popular In his state) and they were so Infuriated hy this that he was denied re election nnd hls whole political career seemed wrecked forever. Deeply humiliated, he returned to Illinois, a discredited man. and again took up Id profession of law At nhoiit this time he became sublet of fit of melancholy which bordered closely upon insan'ty According to the popular legend. It wa Id griei over the death of Ann Rutledge which was responsible for this condition. In view o. the recent furore over the publication of the pur ported love letters between Ann Rutledge uml Lincoln In the Atlantic Monthlv. it Is interesting to note that Beveridge shows that Ann was In love wilh a young man named John McNamar and not with Lincoln and that, although Lincoln nilsh-iidln- char-acterlr.e- two-volum-e myth-maker- s Todd Lincoln. From a print in tha collection of Oliver R. Barrett 2. Mary S. 4. Abraham Lincoln made at Macomb, III. Frederick H. Meaerve. lynch" til tu. In 1858. From The ambrotype the collection of There simply Is no answer to the facts which he present. r dt 1rUb In f linouftwa ftcun v mi a4 ition natmnou frm (mo mKini4lw.. ta KuUlnc kti nr til-t- Klvr' Ir., Ii In (irn-- i u fmt Sw-s-- l m funl rur Vx-- So mam tfm lUmflf Ik? ntooaht an bawl ntira, nmiHmi lh Iii'rm, tnrrn too, mint Vjiih owl mfnrtonn. at Toni- BrsaUC 0V a lf . r.tna li - Fooled the Monk monkey w:-.running around lofo at Angeles und a was delegated to eat eh It, poll. 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