Show hearers cold to great oration writing in n the news a few years ago mr air A 13 farquhar who was in an eyewitness thus recalled recall pd ml president Lincol ns delivery of the immortal gettysburg address after timing having breakfasted and talked with till acquaintances and friends whom we met I 1 walked around to the lie house of sir mr wills in order to see the dent come forth As lie he came out I 1 spoke to him lie he recognized me and shook me by the hand before he mounted its his horse to join the groces slon it was about eleven when tile the presidential party readied reached tile the pint phit form but mr air arverett Hv Rv erett the lie orator of tile the day was fully half an hour late and it was nearly noon before tie he be gan his fits address air everett till had fin n eng engaging nging personality an intellectual ant and refined fore face and an attractive appearance pen pe arance rance and tits his address which lie fie partly rend read from the manuscript which lie he held field in tits his hand hall was wa elo quent but it was too long probably an hour anil and a half in length tired of everetts speech the art it of oratory ans was much more extensively practiced then titan it la Is in tills day and mr Pv averett erett wits was one of the foremost orators of tile the time hut but the audience was wenry before lie he haft finished I 1 was ft as anxious fur for him to conclude in order that we might heir hear the president I 1 observed mr 1 lincoln closely lie he listened lily to tn mr it everetts speech hut but it appeared to me that it began to weary him film unit und tits hta face assumed an expression of care and sadness his mind evidently evident i heing preoccupied with anxious thoughts thou clita A small rustle rustic platform had bred boon beell erected for the lie speakers the flip site ili f which Is a now occupied by bv flip nit nii anent tipon which Is engraved tile hie im fill mortal words which were there en at the file conclusion or of K pret t q ad dross dress the president stopped forward and in a strong volee vole gh giant invina ine at n poper which w bit if lie fie held in tits ills hand spoke tile the fol fill lowing words tour our scort and seven years pars ngo ago our fathers fat liers brou bro unlit slit forth on nit hl a vonti continent nent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to tn lite lie tint thal till U men tire lire created equal for Us the now we tire ore engaged lit in a great civil war testing whether that nit mi alon or ciny nation so convolved ron donled led und po so dU diled can long endure we vf are met on a giedt battle field rf of that war we y hae come to oled dedicate lente ra portion tit of blat ns ast n eimil resting plate place for 1 I 1 nose lose who here gave bleir lives milt that netlon might live it Is altogether fitting end and proper that we should fin do tills this but in ID a 0 larger sense we cannot ded leate we ue cannot conal crate we cannot hallow tills ground the brave men eving hi ing and dead who struggled liere here haye consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract the wort world will little note nor long remember what we e say sai here but it will viii never forget whitt what they lid did here it s rather for us the living 11 ing to be here dedicated to the unfinished work which they who fought liere have ahne thus far so 80 nobly advance nhan ced it Is rather for us to be tier here dedicated to the rient great tusk remaining before us that from these honored hermort d lead we take increased devotion to cause for which fiad tile alie last full measure of devotion that wo we here highly resolve tit that at these blead shall nut not have died in biln that hint tills nation under god shall have a new birth of freedom and that government go eminent of the people ly fly the lie people for the people shall not perish from the earth these ns as I 1 niber them and I 1 have had an exceedingly good word memory were n ere tile exact words used by lincoln though the lie newspaper exports varied slightly from aiom tile text us as here given alie tile version revised by lincoln I 1 lili himself also varies from tills of mr farquharso Farqu liars hars the hushed applause there war nas some applause during the delivery delhery of tile the address but less tit at it iti in i conclusion than one would have expected I 1 can an only for myself when I 1 any that I 1 was too deeply im fin pressed vs ns though I 1 mid lisl listened ened to il i great sermon to loin join lit in lite tip I 1 fillice many fl fell 11 the wily way one lind the lie feeling I 1 hat alint it was in fact a solemn to the unfinished wort work which would lead whither we knew nut not hilt but that though the av might lie long tint and hard yat v t under tile Insi inspired llred leadership of 1 lincoln there could tie be hut but one outcome ohp srul conclusion of tile the war mr und a reunited nation the ibe esl dents countenance till and bergine animated during tile the dp allun of the address resume resumed I 1 its t 11 ae look or of sadness as though he were disappointed tit nt the reception of tits words it Is undoubtedly true that hla his henr ers did not appreciate it until thy luid it 11 chance to in read re id tile the address and ponder its menning meaning A newspaper iper in the lie neighboring iring on it i of if f arg failed to publish the lie presidents address remarking that tie he lind bud no risen alstn to the ocra occasion slon had made a few rumbling rambling remarks tind and exen even the lie new york tribune either through tigh vicel dent or design omitted it front from its account of the dedication mr air greeley Ore cley whom I 1 afterward met at an ain agricultural fair at elkton 11 md and to whom I 1 showed allowed the he westminster review article nodded I 1 ids Is head and admitted that the tribune had not grasped the significance of tile speech sit flors eap Is blood red then the sen sea and sky in the background have their share of tile blue paint pot A wave of paint hns hits come on the green shore and the brown root roof tit of tile nearby cot inge ago has slid into the sky all goes to show the boru of an ardent lover whose nerves have been upset by striving to express his desires sailors symbolize parting many of these valentines show sailors going to their ships for an eng lishmund lish mans muns life Is surrounded by water wafer their women have had generations ot of purling parting behind them adventuring ana conquering fur far horizons were not for the fraller frailer mates of those days must go while title their sweethearts rl re iraln euln and nd the file english valentines tell teli ot ol their brave partings the english tn tit their eagerness to hae hn e valentines with a lair flair imported them from france nince the most delight fill rench french valentines sold ir IP iki iRland were Min tily art and intricately fin ly by brench nuns A hand of would be in the ali enter 1 nf f the file aivre would tw tie a small ON thread and wonder ot of wonders the lie blowers had tita ami n most vialilly nia lilly nilY rut cut by Il pulling lilling the HIP tran tr ln they telescoped out then llie lite st rould could ket get a glimpse another page where a bold love lope declaration la would be shyly hidden under one nosegay of old fashioned lowers flowers the following verse was gleaned lurking under fairy flowers bally love shall ahall pass the hours on the land or on the stream thou art still my own day dream stay may the dearest gift of lire life like the tendrils of the vine guard auard thee from tile the woolda rude strife thou my chosen valentine made fun of the th love nest the curly coulle comic valentines sneered at love in many ways one amusing ng missive shows the entrance to lu a ruse rose covered cottage a sugary verse below Lisk ILig the alie beloved to open the dour door und see the future love nest and when the paper door la Is opened theres tile the kitchen scene children tumbling on oil tile the floor with cats pulling tails and screaming the haggard mistress of the love nest looking tike like a witch wrinkled and worn and weary so the old comics poked their wit at love in a cottage its usual to think of young ladles ladies receiving valentines sitting demurely by the window waiting for the post man but its rattier amazing to see thebold the bold ones they sent years ago keal proposals black on oil white with hearts and turtles and tulips to soften tile the idea heres a picture of a cozy chapel leaning against a little hill below the stark lines to a startled john first comes ills fits name then the ministers and lost last tiers hers while below Is written shamelessly 11 1 believe I 1 love thee very dear johnny will be true and faithful till III death us do part parl signed flora |