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Show UTAH STATESMAN V0000)(yo00s0v i FOUR SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO OUR FATHERS BROUGHT FORTH ON THIS CONTINENT A NEW NATION CON- COME THAT FOR T bi-nau- u HAVE .TION OF G PLACE TE-- AL IT IS A THAT ERTHTING. tout IGHT LIVE DPROPER j r-- - U?5JriNA-- LARGER DEDICATE iTWE WE CAN NOT HAL BRAVE MENNJVI ABVE ADDORrDETOiCT. LON LITTLJNOTE FORGET WHAT TH well-know- n SECRATED O WHAT WE SAY HE CAN D. THE D WHO STRUGGLED HEREH IT FAR If Back Hurts Begin on Salts THEIR ERE LIVES BUT POWER TO fcDRLD WILL EMBER ifSANJEVER DID HERE.HT FOR US THE LIVING TOBEJ D HERE TO THE UNFINISHED WORK WHICH THEY WHO FOUGHT HERE HAVE THUS FAR SO NOBLY ADVANCED. IT IS RATHER FOR US TO BE HERE DEDICATED TO THE GREAT TASK REMAINING BEFORE US -- THAT FROM THESE HONORED DEAD WE TAKE INCREASED DEVOTION TO THAT CAUSE FOR WHICH THEY GAVE THE LAST FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION -- THAT WE HERE HIGHLY RESOLVE THAT THESE DEAD SHALL NOT HAVE DIED IN VAIN THAT THIS NATION UNDER GOD SHALL HAVE A NEW BIRTH' OF FREEDOM fesT -- AND THAT GOVERNMENT OF THE fS0 PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THE EARTH. Rough Trail of Pioneers to History Tom Lincoln wus looking for n to travel through life with, for better or worse. Ho visited at the pluce of Christopher Hush, a funner who came from Herman parents and had raised a family of sous with muscle. Also there were two daughters with muscle and with shining faces and hard-workin- g CBIN WHICH IN THE BOV LINCOLN LIVED steudy eyes. Tom l.lncoln pusml l llatimili and gave his hcM Jokes ! that Sarah limit. Hut It liupN-neSarah Hush wanted Dunit'l Johnson for a husband and he wanted her. Another woman Toms eyes fell on was a brunette sometimes called Nancy Hanks she wus a daughter ot Lucy Hanks, ami sometimes culled Nancy Sparrow because she was uu adopted (laughter of Thomas uml Klixalicili SNtrrow and lived with Hie Sparrow family. Liny Hanks had (leleomed her child Nancy Into lire in Virginia In ITS I mid had traveled the Wilderness mad arrying what was to her a precious bundle through rumhcrliiml gup into Kentucky. Sad With Sorrows. Tom Lincoln hud smii this purlieu lur Nancy Hanks (there were several other Nancy Hankies In Hardin conn ty) and noticed she was shrewd uml dark and Ioiicm'iiic. . . . Her dark skill, dark brown hair, keen liltle gray eyes outstanding forehead, sons'wlml body i. ecc ntfd shin hi d i l'.eeklsines. r slender build, welgldng about lb pounds these formed the outward s'Hpe id a womiiu carrying something strange and cherished along her ways el hie. She uu- - sad with sorrows like tlaik slurs in blue mist. . . . The day Came when Thomas Lin Iss-atis- coin signed a bond with his friend, Richard Berry, In the courthouse at Springfield, In Washington county, over near where his brother, Mordecal. was farming and the bond 'gave notice: "There is a nutrriage rtiortly intended between Thomas Lincoln and It was June 10, 1800. Xnncy Hanks. Two days' Inter, at Richard Derrys place, Boeclilnnd, a man twenty-eigh- t years old and a womun twenty-thre- e years old came before Rev. Jesse Hend, who luter gave the county clerk the names of Thomas Lincoln ami Nancy Hunks, as having been "Joined togetlicr In the boly estate of matri-iimn- y agreeable to the rules of the Methodist Lpiscopal church." . . . Carried Off His Bride. The new husbtmd put his June bride on his horse and they rode away on the red clay road along the timber trails to Elizabethtown. Tlielr new home was in a culiln close to the courthouse. Tmn worked at the carpenter's trade, made cabinets, door frames, window sash und coffin. A daughter war Uirn and they mimed tier Sarah. , . . The same your saw the Lincoln moved to a place on Hie Dig South fork of Nolin's creek, ulmut two and a half tulles from Ihidcnvllle. They were trying to farm a liltle piece of ground und rniike a Imme. The house they lived lit wus s culiin of lugs cut from tlie tlmier near hy. due morning In February of till, came out of year, isut), Tom Litu-oli- i Ids cabin to the mad. stopi'od a neigh him to tell the granny hor und wimiiiiii," Aunt I'eggy Walters, that Nancy Mould need help soon. Lincoln's Birth. On the morning of February l'J, a Sunday, the granny woman was there at the cabin. And she und Tom Lin und the moaning Nancy Hanks welcomed Into u norhl of buttle an I bliod. of whispering ilnmms and wish fill (lust, a new child, a Imy. A little later that morning Tom l.ln colli threw some extra wood mi the lire, uml an extra lieurskiti over Hie mother, m ciit out of the cahin. urn! milked IM'O milcK up the road to where the Sparrows, Tom and Retsy, lived HeiiiilH Hunks, the nine yenr-ulhoy ndoplfd by tlie Sparrow. met Tom ui lie door. In Ills slow way of talking lie was a slow and ipilet man Tom Lincoln told them, "Nancy's got a hoy baby.' look Mils in his eyes A as though may In' more babies were not wanted in Kentucky Just then. The Ihi)', I lentils Hanks, tuck to Ids feet down the road to the Liiirnhi cabin. There lie saw Nancy (Links on a bed of poles c lea led to a cc ucr of "Don't leave any snakes about tonight I" was the closing remark of Ur. 8. G. Finch, president of the Naturalists' club, Chelsea, England, at a recent meeting of the members. That may sound a curious exhortation, yet on this occasion It waa a By T. E. STEWARD w m: ikm nece scary one. The members of this club are In the habit of taking their pets which cover a wide range to meetings held In the parlor of tlie BIx The Banana Bells, Chelsea, and on a previous occaDOTAN18TS know positively that some sion had Inadvertently left D Hie banuus is a nutive of soutli-easte- behind a one snake. Later the landgrass Asia and that R grows wild lady bad discovered the reptile and In tlie Malay stutea, teyliui, and Cowas terrified. chin China, bul an unsettled arguEvery member of the club has a ment still goes on as to whether or nut it la also a native of the New particular Interest One breeds fish tn an aquarium, another studies antev world, la the cultivation of the la Interested In butterflies, and In giving it cummcrciul Im- yet another Is an authority on while the president port mice, Atiierlcun countries have bis specimens of which get to slugs, Rut all oilier long surpassed district. a simiimiry of the evldet.ee seems to know him so well that they feed out Indicate tliut it la au Old world plunt, of his band. coming originally from the Malay peninsula, whence It was curried to India, thc.ice to Africa and. Ilnally, to America hy the enrly Portuguese und Spanish explorers aud settlers. This fiiniiuia fruit, then, la a herl- tage nf mankind from prehistoric days, j Greek, Latin und Arab literatures Flush Your Kidneys Occasionally fer In It ns a remarkable plant of by Drinking Quarts of luilia. Good Water Now here In tlie accounts ot New ) Columworld travels und conquests by bus, Pirizou, Vespucci or Cortes Is the No man or woman can make a misbummu (alter writers, mentioned, however, begin to Include It ntnong the take by flushing the kidneys occasionauthority, ally, says a native products of America. lluinlHildt, one of the greatest of Too much rich food creates adds naturalist und a famous student of which clog the kidney pores so that Latiti'AmerU'iiii plnni and onlmuls, Is they sluggishly filter or strain only the chief among those who have held part of the waste and poisons from to the belief that the banana Is a na- the blood. Then you get sick. Itheu liver trouble, tive of the western, continents. Proof mntlsm, headaches, Is Incontestable that It la nutive of nervousness, constipation, dizziness, the Old world. Humboldt's nrguuicut sleeplessness, bladder disorders often being that It Is also native to Hie come from sluggish kidneys. The moment you feel a dull ache In At one place In his writing New, the kidneys or your back hurts, or if be said: "On the banks of the Orinoco, of the urine la cloudy, offensive, full of the Cusblquulre or of the Reul rivers, sediment. Irregular of passage, or atbetween the mountains nf Ksnierulda tended by a sensation of scalding, beand the hank ol the River Cumny, In gin to drink soft water In quantities; the midst ot the thickest forests, al- also get about four ounces of Jad most everywhere Rial Indian trihea Salts front any reliable pharmacy and are found who have had no relation take a tablespoonful In a glass of wawith European settlements, we meet ter before breakfast for a few days with plantations of manioc und hu- and your kldnpys may then act fine. This famous salts Is made from the mmus." of grapes and lemon Juice, comadd Those who oppose him point to the bined with litliln, and has been used from names free of Indian scarcity fitr years to help flush dogged kid Spanish Influence used to dcscrilic the fruit nnd to the fact that In ueitlier ncys and stimulate them to activity, of (lie ancient languages of Peril or also to help neutralize tlie adds In Mexico wus there a word that cmihl the system so they no longer enuse irritation, thus often relieving bladder be translated hanann. One writer who strongly doubts disorders. Jad Balts Is Inexpensive nnd cannot that the Imimtia is American hits gone makes a delightful eflTerves- Injure; so far as to say that If It la Ilnally cent lithin-wate- r drink, which every-- i in western been the have ,o proved can now one and then to help take hemisphere before the coming of the dean and the blood the keep kidneys It would lielieve to he have Spaniards serious often pure, preventing thereby been brought across the Pad lie from kidney complications. Slum or some other 8si in southeastern Asia, partly hcruuse so strong Fair Uniting Countriea an Asiatic Influence is evident In the of the great Interest taken Recause In even and and architecture customs, the physicul appearance of the naiy Cuba, Porto Rico and Haiti in tlie tive peoples of South aud Ceutrul annual provincial fulr at Santiago, Dominican republic, the event la beAmerica. In scope. It coming is believed that (lie little fair will attract oilier Caribbean countriea, end Spinach result In uniting that area more closewith such vegetables ly In political, social and economic INnfCONTRAST ancient use as the cuhhuge, turnip and bean, eplnacb was Introduced Into Europe as recently as the Sixteenth century, at which time there wus controversy whether the mime should lie spunuchn. s vegelahle f'otn Spain, or spliindo, a vegelahle with prickly pods. Eventually It was shown that spinach wus s I'erslnu plant, almost certainly coining from the ancient empire of tlie Medes and Persians, whose hordes used conlinu-nHto menace the Greek from the East. The Persian mime Is ispuny or IspiirmJ. nnd the Hindu. Isfuny or plnni. That It has tm Sanskrit mime liiiliratca that even In those regions Its cultivation does not reach hark Into remote antiquity. Further evidence of Its I'ershm origin Is found In Its Chinese mime, which arc Irunsluied lierli of Persia." ot rplnarlt probably (iiltivnHon originated ulmut the time ol the Greek and Roman civilization, when the Pershm empire was also iloiirUn j lug. Its spread was slow, hoth to Hie east nnd to the west. No meniion id It In Chinese reeords Is found uni it between Hi x i and pnu A. D Eon j Rail her. a resident of Malaga mid a great trawler, reported cxidriiee Hi.it i It was ruined extensively in Nineveh anil Rahylon. which lie uh i tallied from Arabian writ lug. hccii Idea has Bpinneh frequently tlfled ns wild, lutt tlie farts mtc not A vaili'ty. wildly he.xond qiiestlnn spinni'la tetemlratii. Is found to Hie , south of tlie CalleiiKiiM la Tllrkestaii and in Persia, and the iiioilern spin ii eh may be a derivation Hirmigli nil . tlvalloii from this plant Teii'inlraia has hern lirought under cultivation In India nnd some IhiIiiiiIsis. alter a careful exiiuiiiiiitlon of the nu,!,iiij p'.'lilt, rial III Hint ll Is iilenlli'id with the garden spinach of the modern rn N TM How the Useful Plants Came to Mankind ooooOoooocii CEIVED IN LIBERTY AND DEDICATED TO THE PROPOSITION THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL NOW WE ARE ENGAGED IN A GREAT CIVIL WAR TESTING WHETHER THAT NATION OR SO CON-CEIVED AND LONG ENDURE. GREAT BATTLE Necessary to Watch Their Peculiar Pete ' ! the cabin, under a large, warm bear- skin. Site turned her dark head from looking at the buby to look at Dennis and threw him a tired, white smile from Iter mouth and gray eyes. He stood hy tlie bed, has eyes wide open, watching the even, quiet breaths, of this fresh, soft red baby. "What yon goln to name him, Nancy?" the boy asked. "Abraham." waa the answer, after his grandfather." Littls Dennis' Prediction. Little Dennie rolled up In a bearskin and slept by the fireplace that night. He listened for the crying of the newborn child once In the night and the feet of the falhpr moving on the dirt floor to help the mother and tlie little one. In the morning he took a long look at the baby and said to himself. Its skin looks Just like red cherry pulp squeezed dry, in wrinkles." And Dennis swung the buhy hack and forth, keeping up a chatter about how tickled he was to have a new cousin to play with. The baby screwed up the muscles of Its fare and began crying with no let-uDennis turned to Retsy Sparrow, handed her tlie baby und said to tier. "Aunt, lake him! lie'll never come to much." So rump Hip birth of Ahruliuin l.ln roln that twelfth day of February In the year IStHl In silence und pain from a mother on a lied of corn husks and henrsklns with an ) lnter-Antilliea- n No mother In tills enlightened age would give her buby something she did not know was perfectly harmless, especially when a few drops of plain Custorln will right a baby's stomach und end almost any liltle ill. Fretful-nes- s and fever, too ; It seems no time until everything la serene. That's tlie beauty of Castorla; Ita gentle Influence seems just wliut la needed. It does nil that castor oil might accomplish, without shock to the system.' Without the evil taste. It's delicious! Being purely vegets-ahl- e, you can give It as often as there's a sign of colic; constipation; diarrhea; or need to aid sound, natural sleep. Just one warning: it Is genulnn Fletcher's Castorla that physicians recommend. Ollier preparations may be just as free from all doubtful drugs, but no child of this writer's Is going to test them I Besides, the book on cure and feeding of babies that comes with Fletcher's Cnstorla Is worth Ita weight in gold. Children (W for W. N. U.p Salt Lake City, No. 5 -- 1928. Fish Conaume Mosquitoes In a recent paper prrpurcd for tlie Smithsonian Institution, Dr. David Starr Jordan treats of the efficiency of tlie mosquito flslt as an exterminator of carriers of malaria nnd other less dangerous but equully Irritating mosquitoes. In 1004 Doctor Jordan was Instrumental in introducing this ..fish Into the Hawaiian Islands, w here It has since become very abundant and bus practically rid the Islands of mosquitoes. In an Engliah Court Solicitor "Does your husband swear Woman Oh, no; h habitually?" leaves oft at times." i J ain-iin- I , J , GRAVE OP nancV HANKS UlfNCOUM t early M'ntllil liiuglilug liexer rliild ('OHIO III prnplui-- j lillill. And llmugli lie wus burn in a home M'itli only one door anil "tie wiiiiloxv. It wan written In would iinne m kt.uw ninny doers, ninny windows; lie wonM rend tunny riddles and doors and rin (lows.-Fr- om "Aliruliitni l.iiiiii!ii, tlie l'ralrie Year," by Carl Sundlitirg. world. In this rrspeef It di.lers uiurUnMx from Icliiicc. xvhldi lias lieen otiixel Idem Hied in the wild slate In a great xuriety of pho-cs- . ranging f"uin he Canary Maml nnd Algeihi to lenipiTaii sla. ami southern uml CldMi In lu.,r ll d"es i ' ; The whole world knows Aspirin as an effective antidote for Iain. But it's justes important to know that there is only one genuine Bayer Aspirin. Tlie name Bayer is on every tablet, and on the ltox. If it says Bayer, it's genuine; and if it doesn't, it is not ! I Icailadics arc dispelled ly Bayer Aspirin. So are colds, and the join tliat goes with them; even neuralgia, neuritis, and rheumatism promptly relieved. Get Bayer at any drugstore " with woven directions. Physicians prescribe Bayer Aspirin; it does NOT affect the heart iplrt la tha tnda auk ot Direr Muufutim ot UgniwerttracMaaM W Eitlrrl!:-t- S |
