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Show ijursday. February THE 25. 1909. TRI-WEEKL- JOURNAL; LOGAN, UTAH. Y PAGE-THRE- chil- mor pride than dren and therefore indulged the untusuaHuxury of white shirts for Sunday. Awkward' he perhaps was, hxt hat he was the lout sometimes pictured vyas farthest from the truth. .Indeed, he waami garded as the brightest most ambitious hoy in the the-othe- The Boyhood of Lincoln v 1809 The Lincoln Centenary 1909 r - Insatiable Craving to Know Things He Even Read While "He Ate Simplicity and Democracy . .. Copyright, 1908, by the American Press Association By JAMES AEDGERTON. ncivh-lorhoo- His who i anted j lie didnt, know bow to log shanty with leggedmeriean boy and who, to do a mean thing or think a floor and lighted to know everything att earthen win-dospent mod of his spare time in mean thought. Wlieu (Jod made a glazed paper only by Old Abe he left that out fur Abraham Lineoln was born. playing pranks', reading every -other men to divide up - among on he his hands book could hand get died nr a theater by- the Did you 'em. a bald statement and asking, questions. d an actor. Asof his arrival and eer see a boy like 'that? It 'flu-b- qualities which were so of the method is not very promisi- seems to me I have seen several conspicuous in Lincoln the man departure that of it?- It is not thousand., Tt is hardly possible were ako in evidence iu Lincoln ng But what of a souTs entering that they will all be president, the hoy. lie fought, worked, the manner but they are starting right. fished, hunted, played, read, the world or leaving JtjhatJpllg, told is Did ever reflect it that courted, stories, played you its conduct while fte story, but ahd did the other things Nazareth was this very fact of Lincolns being jokes', re. Jrsus of so that else so like and cattle healthy, genuine hoys do. It yet everybody horn in a stable among the, thatT was different not the doing or not doing has endeared him a criminal and was executed as of of these that differentiated to the of the He world? heart any mueli radiance hut there was so AY him from his felloyvs. hat, reflected a has revealed to us how divine in his life that it has AY was it? noble and in comnot as and the beautiful it tliep. this both .manger and cross. glory over of his thought lying hack made mon life can he made. To walk habits In like manner Lineoln has of all in his very soul texthe we amid the these, theatalong walk, entrance and a way a log cabin ture, in the. indefinable quality er exit honorable. After all, it dust, vexations and annoyances, meet to the and counts and not temp- of his innermost life that comhardships jg the man that tations we meet, to he cast down pelled him to remain close to the accidents that surround him. and yet to go through it all with truth and mercy, that made him Many writers profess to believe and' honesty, with truth, witb strength democratic, genuine and simple, flat with a less humble birth re- and with good nature that does that forced him to go to the bob-torrearing Lineoln would have ' of everything and that would not sound so difficult or wonderI 'cbo not mained unknown. him do or think a mean not let and yet that is the very way it. Despite Ins ephemeral ful, be-hre- an one room I the form of a man he epitomizes the path from a log cabin to the Whiteilou$e, from the deepest obscurity to the most In- luminous fame. c CjS ( i canissn. 3 W - . r he-lie- - ; tilt a cheer back by the tdiimbley, put his- feet on he rung an set on his backbone an', read. Aunt on the Sairv always put a candle s mantoLtroe piece fur'htnflf 'She had one. An as like as not Aoe 1 eat his supper tliar, takin anyshed give him that he could thing gnaw at an read at the same time. Ive seen many a feller come in an look at. him, Abe not knovvin anybody was round, an sneak out agin like a eat an say. ) Vell, seem Ill he d. 4 It didnt darned! natural, nohow; to see a feller read like that. Lincolns insatiable Traring to know things did not manifest itself alone in a desire to read. Every stranger that came to the house would he questioned liy the youngster until the- elder LinIftT wa s as percoln interfered. - sistent a questioner as Li Hung Chang. When Robert, Owen s colony was started at New liar- mony, Ind., young Abraham most worried himself sick because Cancer Gur c Pay Until Cured wi t l i r if y s f a n d a r ds Without Knife or r even with modern standards IN WOMANS BREAST anywhere Lincoln' was shabbily ANY LUMP IS CARDER Jr'escd. was poor, lacked ediu-Imnal advantages and was FREE BOCK-C- URE YOURSELF AT HOME environ-men- t. an inferior by ' It Is not" just to compare by such standards. TIis boyhood Pain-No Co m p a red a Siyr-)"-und- oeeuned nearly a century ago on the Jhi.s world, his education, mostly self acquire!.1 was Vetter than the average: his poverty was, lit tie or no worse K-that of those around him-- , his dress was as good Us or better I WILL GIVE $1030 IF I FAIL TO CURE AKY CAKCEH 1 TREAT BEFORE IT Muir that of his boy friends. To POISONS DEEP GLANDS ridicule his peoplior his circum- Without Knife or Pain, at Half Price for to utitd curiii. Absolute Not a dollar stances or his dollies is to ridicule Guarantee. S4 je&rs txp rfenve. those of all frontiersmen of his MOTHER AMO DAUGHTER CURED OF 3 BREAST CVXCERS Dr. Ch&mly cuivd a Iar:e cantor day. Any one guilty of such a home In ivrf. In my breast At Two ears bt fore that be tilled try reflection hut advertises his own niotuer of Urge Yanecr in rich breast. We ba both wen entire y narrowness and the undue stress wt'll ever ainre. Mother and I JFf fretber know tf fit Itaat lit W h.fi he places on outer things. AAliat vVw? almost miracnloua cur. Dr. I ChamleV uw! ur live and apa do the Lineoln clothes amount to write to anyone wannup information about b wonderful painios treatment Mrs. Artbor Bulat he, Vallejo, Calanyway ' They were the most BALDWIN CURED OP 3 CANCERS LUCKY superficial part of the man and it me frreat pleasure to xav to tbe world that Dr. 3. R. are important only in the eyes of Cbamley cored a larire cancer In my lip and two in my throat. I the most superficial people. Why bad tried other doctor, and to and daily grew worae- I into with Dr. Chamley'a wonderful they spoken of more than treatment, and In ton daa tbe V.' 5 cancer were out and I have been those of any other president? well over 6 years. E. J. Baldwin. Arcadia, Cal Beat Book on Cancer ever printed Lineoln himself was too big to SENT FfcfcE to those who de.cnbe their cancer. Write for the book new. Cancer be conscious of them, poiaona DEEPER every day. DR. AND HRS. DR. COAYLEY & C& But little removed from this is iMrwu 147 S. Mein St. Suite , Los Angeles, Cal. the continual, reiterated, everlasting reference to his great height. AY hat if he was tall? There have been other tall men in history of whose longitudinal measurements little' or nothing is said. Why keep it so in the foreground with Lincoln? AYhy make it so prominent that" ft obscures infinitely Does more important things? 56 W CenterSt. his stature in history depend on the length of his hones? Are we If It Is Worth Seeing It Is At The to measure his oul with a ? Globe. We Get The First Run On Are his bodily dimensions Films. Difficult Pictures Explainmore to be regarded than his ed. Program Changes Mondays character? Are his inner glory and Thursdays. and beauty always to be veiled SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT behind a homely exterior? There Every Tuesday and Friday have been other ugly men In his- evening until further notice, a tory concerning whose lack of dance will be held after the performance. Tickets to dance' 25 personal pulchritude1 not as been has nradv part cents, ladies free. said. AYhy not talk more of the Dance for children after matinee, inner Lincoln and his mission of Saturday. Ticket, admits to both mercy rather than spend so much 10 cents. time on his outer mask and the 2 accidents that surrounded him? The most noteworthy things WHEN SICKNESS COMES about Lincoln 'the hoy were not It is necessary to have the the length of his trousers and the means of reaching doctor, nurse or drugstore without shortness of his purse. They were his love of justice, his love of delay. Loss of time when knowledge', his love of truth. somebody is ill often means These were shown in a thousand consequences that one does not consider with calmness. ways. They are the lights that him. It is especially important With all due respect reveal to everybody, I am infinitely tirin cases of contagious dis- ed of vall the nonessential rubbish ease when $ that is .foisted on the world in the THE HOUSE IS QUARAN- name of- Lincoln to the obscuraTINED tion of his greater and better To be able to keep in direct self. touch with tbe i personal AYhen a Roman emperor won a world outside. When you war jhe was given a triumph. are forbidden to come and Lincoln likewise had a triumph, go in person or to write, it but the processions were in black becomes necessary to hate and were accompanied1 by dirges, . other means of- securing tears and the tolling of bells. Yet supplies and assistance, and no tribute ever paid was so great, then, more than at any othas no ever won was just victory er time, so momcntoau.It was not a section that gained the day, . but self YOU NEED A TELEPHONE One of our instruments in government and the rights of the home solved the proman. It was not one race that blem.. Through it you can was made free, but in the end all l races,-andreach, not only the friends all natipns. that live near you, hut Lincoln symbolizes all of this and relatives .all friends to us, and more. He stand for over the great events, but is greater iu ' : fN country. A Rocky Mounhimself than these events. The tain: Bell Telephone in the soul of a, man incloses .the s home is insqr-- , things it accomplishes, but is not . ance. inclosed' by them. We - are all J . bigger' than our destinies, just as Bell a creator is bigger than his creation. Lincoln means to us broken chains and re welded states, but his meaning does not end there. He is also a human expression of mercy and truth strength and i I meekness, democracy and Amen- L . fro-ntierrI- ; 3 I - - ' , -- 2 THE GLOBE Theatre Thc Elitc Theatre of The City foot-rule- th When noon come hed set under a tree an read an eat. would have a great, a loving and1 a mighty- soul who would have left his hit He was ip ss for good. not so nriy as to be dependent on mere happenings outside of to obody that amountssiffroundmgs he hen - faim-fcl- f- - is anythin.; 1(1 use 1,1 The fact that from humble Lin-el- n .begin-Dm"- s a place among the an infinite gen.ont to all other' hoys jdio need the example more than i Deeded the hardships. The ainiple lesson is that the soul un-forg- n ones is $ud .of 18 e en-cou- ra through any kind O'rcuinstances whatsoever. It not the h ginning, but the end the road, that counts. , e account of Lincoln have gyer was in an interview with Hanks which was pub-i- n .jj. oneof the magazines a r nr two ago. Dennis Hanks, much ,in J other 'way, was Lincolns Stood I Imu aU boyhood friend. thing was it not in these that lay the secret of Abraham Lincoln both asjioy and man? The corn germinates corn; the lily brings forth a lily; the oak begets an oak. If some one can tell of the divine seed that grows a soul lie can find the sources of the greatness of Lincoln hot otherwise. Neither heredity nor occasion environment, neither nor a combination, of all .three, comes within a million miles, of explaining such a man. One might as well ascribe the plumage of a bird of paradise to the water it drinksi. Lineoln went below the surface in studying any ques tion he approached, and we must go below the surfacer at that,- - in studying him. Returning to the Dennis Hanks interview, here is aii illuminat' , ing touch. Seems to me now, says the I neve? urepressible Dennis, seen Abe after he was twelve at he didnt have a book in his hand or in his pocket. HeM put t book inside his shirt an fill his pants pockets with corn dodgers an go off to plow or hoe. When noon come hed set. under a tree an read1 an eat. All- when he he said. J come to the house at night hed Lincoln went. The most apparent things about him, even in his boyhood, were his thoroughness, his fidelily to truth andhis mental honesty. If he did not believe a thing he said so, whatever its effect on himself. If a problem puzzled him he would dig down tp the very roots of it. make it all as dear as daylight to his own mind and then practice on giving it the plainest and simplest statement possible to others. Lincoln was honest with his ov.-.- i soul. There was not the slightest sham or pretense in his could makeup. If AVashington not tell a-- Lie, Lincoln could not think or live one. He simply had Bfut a meory 4 use oi the three he V left a graphic picture of .Playmate and, is worthy of iC sake if for iturea to reason"'r Little Abe, it .. just a plain,' long Lincoln e;.eS) rT - - didnt know,! heard there was a boat load of books along, and he wanted to break into this paradise of he knowledge. Books were not plen-tiful- in Indiana in those days, and the future president was known to walk for miles or work' 'for of days for the poor privilege '"one. or That buying borrowing was the pqverty the boy felt most., , One more quotation from the Dennis we and leave garrulous him. It is anent the Lineoln stories: , . Abe, says I, whar did you so blamed many "lies? An get hed always say: Denny, when a stpry larns you a good lesson it aint no lie. God tells truth, in parables. There easier fur common folks to understand an!ri-colle-c- t. His stories was like that. . Most writers on Lincoln insist dress, dwelling on the fact that his trousers did not meet his shoes, that his coat vyas too small, if he had a coat, and generally making his habiliments as ridiculous as a rather lively imagination .will permit. This is' scarcely fair. Lincoln dressed fully as well as those with whof-h-e associated. Indeed, the lively Dennis says that Abe had on describing his . - - inter-mounta- in first-clas- ? Rocky Mountain a . Telephone Company 2 |