Show A MAN OF THE PEOPLE (By Francis Bellamy) INC0LN thou shouldst be living at this hour America hath need of thee! Thus to apply the lines of opening Wordsworth’s famous to “Sonnet Milton to the great President whose 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 spirit which Milton a century and a half before had voiced at its best was paralyzed 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 moBt 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 imHe never was uncertain how pulse the common man would regard a meas- ure The common man knew that his opinion had weight with the homely libert- y-loving ( President Lincoln was no faster than the plain people could follow Herein again he embodied tbeir hisHe and they seemed to develop tory He held back till he felt together their Impulse unmistakably pushing him Radical men complained at his Wendell Phillips raged at slowness But him with frenzied abusiveness them so well that they ptood 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 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 No other statesman In the standard 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 athr 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 ONE OP LfMCOlN’3 STORKS The ret of Site Mm Who Tried to Ad vertUe Qhnpovrdev 1 Prayer- - Meet ln The following anecdote by Lincoln is recounted by General Horace Porter It was told during Lincoln’s visit to the front at City Point: In the course of the conversation that evening he spoke of tbe improvement in arms and ammunition and of the new powder prepared tor the fifteen-inc- h guns He said he had never seen the latter article but he understood It differed 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 an’d after examining It carefully said: “Well it’s rather larger than the poWder we used to buy in my shooting days It reminds me of what occurred once in in Sangamon a country meeting-hous- e county You 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 to be late In coming to a prayer-meetin- g 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 that I to say while we’re of a new inv’ice received have jest are so The grains sportin’ powder small you kin sca’cely see 'em with the naked eye and polished up so fine you kin stand up and comb yer ha’r in front of one o’ them grains Jest like Hope you’ll it was a lookin’-glas- s come down to my store at the crossroads and examine that powder for Webster 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 Bun in yourselves’ heaven may I not see him shining on “When we had got about this far a in the meeting the broken and dishonored fragments rival of a once glorious Union on states who had been boiling over with indigdissevered discordant belligerent on nation at the amount of advertising a land rent with civil feuds or drench- - the opposition powder was' getting powder-mercha- AN AFFLICTED MOTHER From the Times Paw Paw III A resident of this town who has lost two children during the past six years by violent deaths has been utterly prostrated by the shock and seriously sick as a result of it One child (aged 9) was killed by a cyclone in ’90 while at school auother three ears later was run over by a Burlington R train’ That griefs and misfortunes serimay so prey on tbe mind as to lead to demous physical disorders has been well onstrated in this case As a result of them her health was shattered and she has been a constant sufferer since 1890 Her prinhas been neuralgia of the cipal trouble stomach which was very painful and exhibited all the symptoms of ordinary neuand indigestion Phyralgia nervousness sicians did her no good whatever Bhe and abandoned all hope was discouraged of getting well Finally however a cern pill was recommended tain' (Dr 'Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People) She supplied herself with a quantity of them and had not taken them two weeks when she noticed a marked improvement Marriage is a crime punishable with Ilf imprionsment well-know- A Constant Sufferer She continued taking the hi her condition pills until seven or eight boxes had been consumed end she considered herself encured She can now eat all kinds of tirely which Is something she has not been food able to do for years She is not troubled in the least with nervousness as sh6 was time of her stomach troub es during the bhe is now well and all because of Dr Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People a complete cure has been made more of the If any one would like to bear details of her suffering and relief gained by tbe use of Dr Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale Feople they may be obtained probdirect She is ably by writing nthe lady residents Mrs one of our Ellen A Oderkirk Paw Paw 111 The Denver cigarette license is 61000 ORS Both the method Syrup of Figs is taken it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys Liver and Bowels cleanses the system effectually dispels colds headaches and fevers and cures habitual Syrup of Figs is the constipation only remedy of its kind ever produced pleasing to the taste and acceptable to the stomach prompt in its action and truly beneficial m its effects prepared only from the most healthy ana agreeable substances its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50 cent bottles by all leading druggists Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute well-know- CALIFORNIA FI0 SYRUP CO CAL SAM FRAMCI8C0 loumm mew ky rout r nt X X X X X X X X AFTER NEARLY 14 OF A CENTURY The record Is unbroken The record still goes on ST JACOBS OIL Is the Master Cure for NEURALGIA LUMBAGO RHEUMATI8M SCIATICA Use only one heap- ing teaspoonful of JOSIftH CRAWFORDb HOUSE WHERE LINCOLN WORKED RSfl FARMHAND WELL DUG- BY LINCOLN until his peowere ready to move with him What profound leadership was in :hls leaning back against the people! For Lincoln was leading most when tie 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 rudimentary asserted only divided house a that principle stand itself can not against was by regarded His position the abolitionists as pitifully Inadethinkquate But it set the people to vehement the while and reasoning ing 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 lifted his party to Idea which had would consent to South If the power Nothing so plaintive yet bo return manly was before heard in a speech The Northby the head of the nation and weakness ern radicals called it of Setones the stronger for groaned ward 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 Out of a divided North so Unionists divided that the Southern leaders calculated upon Its Inaction Lincoln made a compact mass The kuccess of the war hung upon this Judicious leadership of the people Seward’s 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 tbe peoand knew ple from whom he sprung ed it may be In fraternal blood! Lincoln could not move ple ST0R£ - ON CRBWFORD KEPT PLRCE T ILL SALEM Schillings' Best Baking Powder to a ONCE BY LINCOLN Let Jumped up and cried out: ‘Brethren I hope you’ll not bdlieve a single word Brother Jonea 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 e the lumps in’ a and any one of you brethren ef you was in your future state could put a bar’l o’ that powder ou your shoulder and march squar’ through the sulphurious flames surroundin’ you without the least dan- 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’ hut everywhere spread all over in characters of living light blazing on all Its ample folds as they float over the sea and quart of flour ger of an explosion’ Poor of other baking powder You must use two tcaspoonfuls coal-pil- too ” Joha Brown John Brown belongs class of men whose with history His life to that rare names grow commanded reHis honor death was and spect marked by a singular pathos a sadof the ness that won the sympathy people Excepting Lincoln and Grant y the best rememhe remains bered man of half a century ‘‘They heaven'' and hung him up between earth as a sign that justice must be done but they did pot dream that the future would speedily take them at their word and visit upon them the penalty of their own philosophy History has disclosed the truth and com- CANDY fJCKER CATHARTIC vegetable Purely Palatable of taste Perfume tlio breath Pleasant of action Powerful yet mild Potent but Perfect laxative Positively guaranteed toy WILL KEEP YOU DRY to-da- the story of his desperate exand his willing and pathetic sacploit rifice He lost his life but he gained pleted his object” ills “Did he leave LINCOLN IN 1863 (Brody Wash) over the land and in every 'wind under the whole heaven that other sentiment dear to every true American heart: Liberty and Union now and forever one and Inseparable!” There Is a tavern in Switzerland to every A32 inhabitants Leaving his wife much when I don’t know as to ‘‘Well died?” he that but he used to leave her about every night when he was alive” uon-grlpln- Don't be fooled with a mackintosh or rubber coat If you wantacoat I that will keep you dry In the hard- est storm buy the Fish Brandi If not for sale In your Slicker town write for catalogue to A J TOWER Boston Mass J7L CURE CONSTIPATION tsss ’or People That Are! 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