Show I 1 i I Lincoln and Temperance HE public generally will sympathize with the tho I THE caution of the Federated Council of or Churches 0 in tracking to its lair the story that Abraham Lincoln when Ien a boy worked in in a grocery storo store J e where liquor was sold As the keepers of the public c conscience J the church council coundi cannot bo ho too careful in pinning the blue ribbon of its indorsement upon I f the memory of the Great Emancipator Should it be proven that he lie was not the tho militant enemy of ot the demon rum nun that posterity could hope the shame hame f that would come corne upon the council for its approval or of him would woula he be a blow that thai would stagger its useful useful- I ness In these 0 days when the tho man in the t street is isI I invariably in a native of Missouri Missour and calmly dissects I t even evell t the he char characters ct ers of history's S 'S most sainted ted figures excessive precaution would be impossible any anchor an an- chor to l leeward oward is justifiable Contemporaries of Honest Abe assert that the I ability to mind his own business was ivas one oue of his bus chief I characteristics That the impulse to meddle in that I of others came to him Jim as to others is probably true trite but he harl hucl ha developed to the nth nUt power his capacity f for resisting it it Beyond furnishing those with whom he brushed shoulders a 1 splendid model of sobriety f and advocating abstemiousness when his advice was asked i Lincoln did not go The martyr President f dent ent found ample to engage his time and attention I without attempting to force his personal views upon t t. t I others In III this respect as in many others he was a n remarkable figure With V th the enthusiastic debate at the Saturday meeting of the Federated Council of Churches in inI Mr rr Lincoln's habits I I Chicago concerning personal i I non nono need quarrel since sinco even cven Jupiter nods occa- occa I and a. a l little nonsense now flOW and 1111 then is rel rel- n n o b by the best of men But most of us will prefer prefer pre pre- fer to remember that he gave the world an example of kindliness and unostentatious and single- single hearted devotion to duly duty that has endured If ho hoi i kept himself and mother from starvation by selling f I n a bit of frontier liquor in the ordinary course courso of duty ed C even that will not impel us to tear him from fromI the pedestal he be occupies in our inner consciousness I I 1 c oz i Ii I The Return of the Savage I A MERICAN i complacency received a serious s set setback H A back from an nn unexpected unc quarter the other day For or years it has proclaimed ed the beauty and wisdom of its treatment of tho the Indian and has ha mid laid special emphasis on the fact that if it did in earlier unregenerate days put t the he whisky bottle inthe in inthe n the bawls hauns of the red man it has now given him the spelling book We have taken the Indian say says Uncle Sam Sam Sai-n and and educated him Wo We Y 0 have taught him tho the glories of our way of living the fine fino points of our mode of thought the advantages of coming out from his stoicism and seclusion But have we wel 1 If the action of Thorpe tho the Indian Indian Indian In In- dian athlete at Carlisle can be bo taken as as typical in int t any anyway way the whole fabric fabri falls to the ground If it itis g is only individual then our system of education h hI has ha proved a failure in his case I Thorpe is the man who did such wonderful things in an athletic way and so many of them at the I Olympic games in Sweden He is an around all-around athlete ath ath- f Jete lete the most famous of his bis day and all things thing considered one of the most remarkable this land landI I has produced Yet let he ho quits his career in school justin just t in the tho zenith of it because o of his utter abhorrence t a of the public gaze an and l the tho large arge amount of notoriety I lIe he has received for his hu various stunts in the athletic world at the Olympian games and on his own native nathe I soil particularly in football and on the cinder path I Here is a confession that proves Thorpe doesn't a know what sc schools are for and wl what at is the duty of 1 the true collegian Any year old kid can tell him I the answer of the fi first t which is to I make the I IJ J team or the II eleven or to do something or other 0 I out ont of the tIle common in an athletic way for the glory glon of his school And the duty of the man who has s I 1 done something big in this way is to exploit himself as much as possible bring in his relatives too in 4 print and picture and make himself as 35 talked talked-of as asa asa I a a. dancer who was mistress of a king or a murderer who wh glories in his houlis l J I is ghoulishness i man tots tins D by seeking seclusion Thorpe has 1 1 assailed a lar large e share of the rest of mankind and I womankind who live to get their names in in the pa paT I. I pers Big business men sometimes have press agents to chronicle their deeds in finance and the social 0 world and if the average person supposes that the 1 I sole function of female secretaries to prominent I wom women n is to tab their keep on engagements he has I no knowledge of the ways they work the press the I pictures that are always ready for print the tales of J J madame's doings that are offered the newspapers Thorpe's attitude is an indictment of the great f motto of the day Be known I t tI f co II I I I Task of Reorganization I ITH the decision of the n Republican go governors WITH an and President Taft that the reorganization I of or that must await the party issue of events e I most members of it will unhesitatingly agree At a J time when the two wings of the organization are arc I sma smarting ting over the wounds each received and the tho pitfall pit pit- fall fan which they tiey jointly for themselves a compromise compromis of f the successful sort is impossible I since each still holds to his hL former opinion The I I ers ad adversity ty which has its sweet uses in renewing the bonds o of or those who vho quarreled in their prosperity I seems a lit hit laggard in beginning its duty Perhaps he the proper time for a council of all the e chiefs chief's and s sachems hems when hen the pipe of peace be may t lighted and passed solemnly about the circle will willI I I f arrive at the close of the first session of the next t I Congress Democratic policies will then theu be plainly 4 marked that all may know them and President elect Wilson will have shown his hand band The rhe opposition I to these principles will naturally crystallize without any effort to br bring ug it about And that opposition will vill be under the tho name mime of the Republican party and will include all aU those to whom Democracy does not appeal Then and not I I until then will a fl peace compact be possible and party parly solidarity become an accomplished fact I 1 Uncle Joe Cannons Cannon 8 recent interview concerning the future of the Republican party was interesting But bow hm much more exciting it would have ha bce been 1 had ad the wires ires given us an copy I IThe I I The first Chinese t name nume of the first Chinese aviator is Yu P Probably babl he b gave be e it to himself the first time he ate I. 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