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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAI.; Friday, January 27, 1933 APTLY NAMED A friend was moving, and potnted out to us tbe building in which his new apartment Nas situated. It was one of those apltrtment ho\Jses which. ln their signs. go in for abbreviations -"the Soandso Apts!' f'Wbf in the world," we asked, out "does anybody label an apartment 811 apt?" urr you'd see how abbreviated these rooms are,'' said the friend, gloomily, "you'd know the slgn Is qulte correct. They aren't sure-enough apartments. They're nothing but apts."-tos An~ geles Times. HERE'S QUICKEST, SIMPLEST WAY TO STOP A COLD FOLLOW DIRECTIONS PICTURED BELOW 3 Drink Full Gla3s of Water. Take 1 or 2 Bauer Aspirin Ta_ Jis. Almost Instant Relief In This Way U you have a cold-don't take and dlssolved in a half glass of warm water, repeating every 2 or 3 hours as necessary. Sore throat eases this way in a few minutes, incredible as this may seem. chances with "cold killers" and nostrums. A cold is too dangerous to take chances on. The simple method pictured Ask your doctor about this. And above is the way doctors throughout the world now treat colds. dissolve almost instantly. And thus work almost instantly when you That is because the real BAYER solve with sufficient speed and completeness. leaving no irritating particles or grittiness. Get a box of IS take them. And for a gargle, Genuine Bay~ Aspirin Tablets dis- Aspirin embodies certain medical Linccln. 1 the Hoosier Youth qualities that strike at the base of a cold almost INSTANTLY. (In FortWe;yne, Ind) By ELMO SCOTT WATSON 12 or bottle of lOOat any drugstore. You can combat nearly any cold you get simply by taking BAYER Aspirin and drinking plenty of water every 2 to 4 hours the first day and 3 or 4 times daily there- SCORES o! cities and villages throughout 'th~ United States nnd Ill several foreign co1,1Utries stan~! statues and other memorials to the gre-at American whose birl:hday \Ve wilJ celebrate on February 12. Most after. If throat is sore, gargle with 3 BAYER Aspirin Tablets crushed or them, bavlng been erected to commemorate his servlces as Presi- If\ dent during a critlca1 period in the nation's history and his wor1d-wlde renown as 1t N=-=o=-=T=A:::B:-:-L=n=s:-A::-R::-E::-:G:::e"'N"'u::,N:::-E BAvER =As=P::-IR:::I:::N:-:w=JTH=OUT=:-:T:::H::Is=-c=R:-::o~ss great humanitarian. portray blm as t.he bearded man of mature years and benign countenance, the Great Emanclp:ttor, t11e ''lran of Sorrows.., the martyr. In recent years, however, there has been a tendency to perpetuate in bronze and stone certain incidents in hls earlier life which will mem- orialize those formative years when the chAracter of the future American lmmortal wus beIng sbnped and UlOlded. So we bnve the "RnUSplitter" statue tn Garfield pnl'l\ ln Chicago, the "Black IInwk Wnr Captain" statue in Dixon. Ill., the "cand1clute" stntue ill Cinclnnntl, 011Jo, and the "Young Statesman" statue In Louisville, Ry. The newest of these "youtbfnl Lincoln" statues is the one which was erected last yenr on the plaza ot' the Lincoln National Life Insurance company at Fort \Vayne, Tnd., and vthlch portrnys "Lincoln, tlte Ransier Youth." It ls the work of the famous sculptor. Paul Manship. Tbe main facts of Lincoln's earlier years are well known to most Americans. thanks to U1e painstaking lnbor of such biographers as Rev. WILliam E. Barton, Senator Albert J. Beveridge and Cnrl ~anrlburg and others who seem to have brought to light e"'ery single fact wblch was slgniftcnnt in making Lincoln the man tltat he became. But ft Is doubtful If' anything more 1nt€'resting has ever been written about that pe.. riod or Lincoln's life tban the report of sm ..o,·erlooked lntervie\V'' wltb Dennis F. ITnnks, a couRID and close com-panion of Lincoln. which was set down by Robert Mcintyre. nn attorney of l\lnttoon, Ill., ln May, 18f.l2, a copy of which has recently come into the hands of the author ot this article. Tbe- interview in part follows: I found him hale and erect, ready to recount tor th~ ben~fit of a younger generation, the lncldentf:; which marked the youth of the martyred Pre~ldent. His name is Dennis F. Hanks, and he Is a cousin to Lincoln. Uncle Dennis, as he 1s called, ts a typical Kentuckian, born In Hardin county, 179!). His face is sun-bronzed nnd plowed wltl1 furrows of time: n resolute mouth with firm grip of the j:tw; brand forehend above a pair of unweariable eyes. The eyes Reem ont of plnce, ln the weary, faded fllC'e: they glow and flusll like two diamond sparks, set 1n rld~es of dutl gold. The face is a serious one, but the piny or light in the eyes. unq\Jen<'hnhle by time, betr(IYS the nnture full of sunshine nnd elate life. A sldewlse glance ot the profile show·s a face strikingly Llnroln·lilte. prominent clH'f'k bones, temples, nos.:> and chin; but best of all tllnt t«•Inkling drollery in the ere thRt flaRhed Jn tlH" White Rouse dm·in~ the dart< dnys of the Civil war. To my query he repliE-d cheerily: "()ertnlnly, <'ertnlnly, sir. £'11 talk to _vm1 :I flout Abe. 1 kin tnlk, too. hein' as I am the only Uvln' man that knows all about him." ''Bow old was i.\fr. Lincoln wben you first met him?'• .;About 24 hours, hardly ttlat: 1 ["ekolect I rnn all the way, over two miles, to see Nancy Hanks' boy bnby. ·'Twas common then for connexlou to getber in them days to see uew babies. Her name was 1'\anc,· Hanks before she married Thomns l~l ncoln. l beJel the wee one a minnlt. I wa~ ten years old. o.ud it tickled rue to hold thl? pulpy. r~d. little Li.ueoln." "WllE'D clid .roo move to ln.diaua ?'' '"Wl\en Abe wa~S fthout nine. Mr. l..tncQln moved 61·st, and built n camp of brush In Spencer county. \Ve came out a yeft.r later, and lle then had a C'Abhl uri, ftOd he gtl\'e us the shanty. On this spot Abe grew to manhoorl." '•flow f11r apart were your cabins?" ",.\hunt fifteen rods. Abe killed a turkey the da) we E:'Ot the1·e, An' couldn't get tbro tellin' nbtlnt it. Th(' m:JmE' wns prcmounced Lfnkhorn real BAYER Aspirin Tablets. They recognized as the QUICKEST, spiest, surest way. For it will check an ordinary cold almost as fast as you caught it. It ' when you buy, see that you get the the Candidate (In Cincinnati, Ohio) by the folks tlleu. \Ve \\U~ au unedducated. Aft· er a spe1I we learned better.'' "in the .'Li!e of Lincoln,' published after bls nomination, It is stated that you taught him to read." "Yes, sir, l did. 1 caught him to spell, read and cipher. lle knew his letters pretty wellish: but no more. His mother taught htm bts let· ters. U ever there was a good woman on earth she was one, a true Cbristian of the Baptist church; but she died soou after we arrived, and left him withou.t a teacher; his fnther couhln't rend a word.'' 40 L'3, It possible be had no schoollnr:?" ''Only about one-quarter: scnrcely that. 1 then set in to b.elp him: I didn't 1\.now much, but I did thP best I could." .. What books did he read first?" "Webster·s speller. When I got him through tbat, r only had a copy ot Indiana statutes. Then he got hold of a book; r can't rikkolect the name; maybe you kin if r tell you somethln' et waa tn it. rt told a yarn ahout a feller, a nigger or suthin', that ~ailed a flatboat up to a roclt, and tbe rock was magnt>tized and druwed the nails out of' his boat, and be got a duckin', or drowned, or snthin', I forgot now." "Tbnt is the story of Slnbad, in the ·Arnblan Nig-hts'.'' wrhat's it; that's the book, Abe would loy on the floor with a chair under his head and laugh over them Habtan Nights by the hour. 1 told h1m it was likely lies rrom end to end, but he lenrned to re:ld right well tn lt.'' "Bad he any other books?" "Yes. 1 bonowea for him the 'Lire ot Washington' and tbe 'Speeches or ll(;'nry Clay.' 'l'hey had n powerful influence on him. He told me afterwards, in the White Llouse. he wanted to live Uke washington. His speeches show that; but the other book dJd the most amazing work. He was a Democrat, like bls fnther and nil or us, when he began to read it. Wl1en he closed tt he was a Whig, heart and ~oul. and he went step by step till heo bfi.'rame leader or the Re· publicans.·• "\VIII you describe him when ll boy?'' "\Yell, he was at this time- not grown, only 6 feet 2 inches high. He wns 6 feet 4% when grown-tall. lathy and gangling-not much appearance. not handsome, not ugly, tmt peculiar. This kind of a fe,!ler: lf a man rode up horsebnck. Ahe would be the fi.rst one out, nn on the fence l\!);k.ing: Qll\'!itions. till hfs father would give him n knock side o' his hea<l; then he'd go and throw at ·s nowbirds or suthln', hut llODdPrln' all tl1e wl1lle," "Wns be ac-tive and strong?" "Be was th:;~t. I was ten years older, but I couldn't rA~~lf' hltn rl.own. Rfs letr~ wn~ too lont: for me to throw hlm. He would fling one foot upon my shoulder and make me swing corners swift, and his arms so long and strong 1 My l how he could chop! His ax. wonhl flash and bite into a sugar tree or sycamore, and down 1t would CQme. It you beard him fallin' trees In a clearin' you would say there was three men at work by tbe way trees fell. But he never was sassy or quturrelsome, l've seen blm walk Into a crowd o:t sn~vin' rowdies, and tell some drole yarn, and bust them all un. U was the same when he w s a Hnvyer; alJ eyes, whenever he rlz were on him; thct·e wns a suthi.n' peculiarsome about him. 1' "What did you teach him to write with?'' "Sometimes he would write with a- piece of c.harcoal or the p'lnt of a burnt stick on the fence or fi,oor. We got a little paper at the country town, and I made ink out of blackbury briar·root and a little copperas in it. It was black: but the copperas would eat the paper after awhile. I made his _. tirst pen out or a turkey buzzard feather; them's good for pens. We bad no geese hem dars. After he learned to write he was sqrawtln' his name everywhere: sometimes he would write tt in the whlte sand down on the crick .bank, and leave It tnl the fre!bet , would blot it out." "Did you have any ldea of his future great· ness?'' "No; Jt \Vas o new country, and he was a raw boy; rather a bright an' · lil~ely lad 1 but the l>tg world seemed far abend of him. We were slqw goin' folks, but he had It In him, though we never suspected 1t." "Did he take to books eagerly?" "No, we bad to hire him at Hrst. But when he got a taste, It was the old story-we had to pull the sow's ears to glt her to the trough, and pull her tall to glt her away. He read a great deal and had a wonderful memory, wonderful. Ne"er forgot anything." "Bow did the lad fare for rood and clothing?" "Plenty. such as It was-corn dodger, bacon, and game..some ftsh, and wlld fruits. I've often seen him take a dodge-r to the fteld and gnaw at it when plowing. We bad very little wheat Hour. The nearest mill was 18 miles: n boss mlll 1t was, with a plug pnllln' a sweep around; and Abe used to say .his hound conld stand and eat the flour aU day as fnst as it was made, and then be ready for hls supper. For clothing he hnd Jeans; he was grown befo1·e he wore allwvnl pa.n ts." "Did you move with bim to Ollnois?" "Yes; I bought a little improvement near ntm, six miles tram Decatur. Here the famous rails were split that were carried .. around tn the cam paign. They were caiied his rails; but nobody can tell about that. I split some of 'em, and we had a t·aJl frolic and rollcs came and helped us split. He was a master-hand maunn rails. 1 heard him say In a speech one day about these rails-'If I didn't make these, I bave made many just as good.' Then the crowd yel1ed. 1' One more question: ' 1Did he get his rare sense and sterling princjples rrom one parent or both?" "Both: his strong wtll from hls_ rather. . I'll tell :rou an incident: H!s rather uset.l to swear a little, and one rlny his baby girl picked np a foul oath and was hrulsin' the bitter morsel In her sweet mouth, wh('n Nancy called 'Thomas i. and said: 'Listen, husbnnd.- Fie stormed tllat hab1t thar; never swore again. But Abe's kind· ness, humor. Jo,·e of hurunnlty, hntred of slo.very all came from her. r am frf'e to ~ny Abe was · a mother's boy." 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