Show A N 1 V A is is i T f A rt ft by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN 01 ol M I 1 tit lit I 1 lii licin In 4 1 li reits N v ir by far ir it 1 li li if it a li if ri alej alim til I 1 n I 1 ai in tit gun a sfa SF 1 el it 1 in fit of fi i 1 14 lioi hot i ie I 1 v I 1 un eimm i to the tile I 1 if i 0 nn fin I 1 tomb of the lie si i r if f ills countr ih 1 Is first I 1 tae instated 1 ram anted the insuring Insl ring g spectacle of almost alil lost axx W I 1 iowa lona and alisi uri scho I 1 pa ila ing lug homie hoi nige ut fit the tile springfield shrines it vas was a crusa ie le of of of lie the lit litro ro vi worship that eternal in the young amerl can breast tor for 11 washington ai lilington and I 1 in 1 I lu ili anil the great and find KOI good of our national hist r it ws a declaration 0 of o f faith in ili I 1 n on in s bett gettysburg asburg ail ad dress kour or and nil years ago our st it tro sight forth upon thia this conti nent a BW nation conceived in liberty and nil to the proposition that all men are ar I 1 avat 1 euil and that go of tile ih people pe ople by the people und and far for t e ts foulk i a all kill not trum the barth tue the lurati ut of tin tilt lill grimage waa to aln str D th un an I 1 rei re 0 rence urence by aitu altu al at t v N flit it e at a lual pi III icis here lemoin aej H ved ail and corked tr ked and had his ills being before lite fial loon ailed him to tae tl corli ork for aleli diane lim him up ull and und to the tomb in which lie ike alei llis lucre cre are many I 1 lincoln shrines nes albut aff erv v pot intimately connect ed ulith lah lil hlo lle life 1 Is known and marled marked and the lancola meinord al at tn in hington Is a thing ut of beauty and find a jo if ieler in ili time ill tie e I 1 in celuk higi aa si if arning tile c will in be worthy ut of his name and fanie faille but its I 1 is jimb ti nib will ill be 1 s nil sirane ua 1 I lails hiss I 1 arst il ill ei gi linage image grew out of a lu etting list l suni bu trimer nier in lit ringfield bli si bon larl 1 arl it 11 erguson of doah la an I 1 it 11 11 II the 1 elul luts of the to ciplis spoil spon red 1 it it firt life pilgrimage ai a I 1 I lanned funned for tile children of 1 4 nl nia ollir isbit r tomia toi heard of it and ua A Illic lir childen chIld rn might be I 1 spread froin from loa oer the state line into n rim rinus teru MI and when the time fluie caine tar for the start noless than 22 1 und missouri gitles and donins ditre anted by bos bo and the start vas us made maide from sherad doah and ill all shenandoah doah and lue the fur for bialles amund around out to bid the pilgrimage godspeed and find safe ret i Is it took three ipe il it 4 f r 41 rs ri to hold the tile s rs ind thaw bentru entrusted cited with r his ai ani ant those three irk ir i r rs I 1 t re in I 1 to it 1 of f steel ca ra and the al tit ich dearel the track for it him m SI P lal instructions were ere I 1 aisel along the line no chances were pre t iki n ii with till 1 R ft A school child ritu from I 1 m a mil till 1 M 11 bourl to towns na got goin ing to I 1 i hornage t I 1 ln ins ln in shrines I 1 did v ii it eur we a whole train load of school children hildren off I 1 in n an adaven lure ture ell let our imagination wo work rk 0 overtime the tile was nas hectic during the tile pirl eirl hours of the night hout bout lie the only 1 who insisted Insl eted dpn preserving ing dignity were vere the boy la ins aa guarding cuir ding a boung oak tree to be planted on the morrow and the girl who had been selected for the honor h nor of laying the li wreath reath on the tomb kut but the excitement and merriment finally did die down doan and the special fumei nurses and chaperons finally got a chance to go from seat sent to seat tack tuck ing in some of the smaller children ani making them comfortable for the night some of the lie older onea oness declared they were ere going to stay awake ali all night so as to be gure sure to see the mississippi when lien they crossed it ofay 1 he be they did hut but lots and lots of the pilgrims had to be roused up out of the sound st kind of sleep steep for tho th first stol jackson Jacksonl lle ill where the kl ki club of that city served break fast at 7 30 at 9 O 0 the trains rolled into field the pil pilgrims left their cars at tot the old babash abash station a freight office 1 hya by 7 because it was from that that lincoln I 1 departed for ashington to take up the th duties of the I 1 residency they were nel comeil in befitting style by he the boys band of the springfield high school victor ryan made the mel welcoming address kod nd victor icylin stood by the tablet marks the where I 1 lincola tik oln stood on february lebr uary 11 1861 when he delivered his farewell address to his friends friend 4 aad and net neighbors ebors I 1 los may hate have had a premonition that he 1 was l as never to return his was as a strange s soul seemingly at t times closely in touch with the infinite he lie spoke to about one hundred hund reil people largely per asanall firle s it was maill a ead sad address af his responsibilities and of the times ti tb come here are his exact words my friend friends no one on not in my iny oft can the th sadness I 1 fel fee se at thi I 1 parting to this popl ople I 1 owe all that I 1 am heire I 1 hae hane hired lived mor more than quarter ter of 0 a century her here rny my children wre bom born and her here one on of them ili iles burled I 1 know not how oon soon I 1 hall shall rosse you again A duty devolves dvo lv upon me m which la is perhaps ir reater than that mat which I 1 tai an dt 44 pon upon any ny other line since it tt a any u tot of A k h 1 n i n woul anever ivr t a ve sun 11 I 1 x o 0 tt r f the a aai id f 1 n i I 1 jones i he it it all 11 ilin I 1 1 I the lh I 1 a 1 I w i not nn h game arl I 1 III i akk 8 11 ll and na 14 i like ll 11 sao if A 1 hing H 11 ing ln I 1 t II 11 r fab rills ian 1 f so is I 1 apo dort and I 1 h r my irion to wit ILI i p V y will that hat I 1 may ivo bokr lh civi so Is itrice nc will i chiefe ope I 1 ann a t i bill 5 jeri with nith which h ok 64 Is i ps 1 wells ago AK bid I 1 you it all 11 an at IT log ion T atis t farewell rr wl buu oil li to t 11 I 1 so aills i a lip fine aln 1 fir 11 lindis this hit 1 plU ebrus nry iry in inurn ii r n I 1 ita ill f had no thought that I 1 they were ere lik artolia hie his vole voice for tt if litt lost ilbok yot so 0 o it was o 0 I 1 ir I 1 a o 0 to W 1 am irr a 4 der tot life pal kit its it to am ion lot n c agnf tomb fl iwo to journea four latair was the most ji won onal Irful erful flin funeral eral groces procession odon ever wit t nesi fin in this airth a funeral pro ir 1 I n 2 AN miles in length and parti lo 10 blat fl in 13 1 untold thousands vi febo hak lined the tracks I 1 ty y night anil by day a and nil stood with ith uncovered ered heads as the cortege by raf boung ung pilgrims formed in col ml fining of four leaded by the band rhey marched up tip the lie street t k a left turn and reache reachel 1 the t arst ires I 1 r hy terlan church there lincoln at do tended services there I 1 is pew ti Is kept just as it ati when ahen he tie sat in it be aa As tte tie children if of the arst train left P tho th hurch those of tin thi second train IOU k roni the church the march was as to 14 the old frame house where here I 1 cincola lived here they were escorted through in a steady stream of all the sections sec tlonA tiona followed lunch at the SO echo schol I 1 in lincoln square all join joint if d in planting ahe 1 I he lincoln oak I 1 a lemorl memori al at to the emancipator and of the pu grimage gri niage then the little pilgrims filed slowly ell up the ridge in oak the sun 1 darkened tark lark ened and the nind ind turned chill little the pilgrims cared they were or approaching the tomb of lincoln at 11 the tomb the lines of three abreast le broke into single file and one by one 1 the iowa and missouri school children lot of the first pilgrimage man majhed hed 1 slowly past the sarcophagus of the ta martyr president not a word wa was I 1 said the faces of the young pilgrims fill were studies in to the solemnity of the 11 mosil moment lent im mary I 1 aulse brower of shenandoah le placed the wreath of the pilgrim pilgrims it iles beside the wreaths of off and land of I 1 lod george and of ganv others of the great of earth let us hope I 1 that lincoln in the spirit was as pr sent lif at the lading laing of that wreath the second Ill I 1 grimage was that I 1 of chicago hoy boy scouts led by their ol 01 scout exe executive cutie george stephe isol hi and george F blepp president of th it kiwanis club of chicago the boy my scouts were ere bidden godspeed by kill mayor devir and glun a letter from kor him commending tit in to mayor 1 s A bullard ullard Il of springfield I 1 in n route films depicting scenes in I 1 dincola Is life were ki shown shola and appropriate speeches made it was vias subzero meather vent her but 70 andl youngsters oung made the pilgrimage A car on the chicago alton ter landed them at 3 TO 10 p in they were welcomed by the hiti kiwanis ants club and were mere taken in automobiles to the tile lincoln lot home and tomb flie file only ere mony the placing of a wren area b at t ithe the tomb fla the portrait of II lincoln In cepro I 1 iced ifal herewith Is to from a photograph take in 1857 by alexander healer t hi ago 1906 kit it was as the first likeness that was aug ido 11 tit 13 circulated lincoln let his beird irk grow for the first time in 1801 1861 an eaf th wore a full beard at his 1113 Inaugural 1 ind |