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I. i tovfllt' j ,2 " ' GKATEFl'L nation hua two anything but tardy In affording f I tangible evidence of 1U grati-tude grati-tude to the man who at I'rent- t, dent of the republic guided the f!T"CTJSfn t'nlon through the nioHt trying i3 BiiiJ 'n mar)'c an4' bronze to Abra-harn Abra-harn Unroll are to be found In all part of the United State, Sofe' and ''lltlou to the list are eonBtantly elng made, latterly lat-terly there f.as tieen a dlnpodl-tlon dlnpodl-tlon on the part of our puLllc men and Influential Influen-tial citizen to devlne In recognition of the erlce of the Civil War President memorial of even more elaborate and Impoalng character than the Btalue thnt hve been erected In o ninny of the glutei that ho labored to keep under one flag. A rewnt notable hiBtnnce of thl trend wnk found in the provision of an liiiprelve memorial memo-rial Btructure on the famou "Lincoln farm" In Kentucky. The erection of thl monumental edifice, which wan dedicated by I'rexldent Taft only a fw month ago. repnuenti hut one phase of an ambition project to restore and protect the birthplace of Uncoln and the cene of bl early life, making It. as It Bhould be. a patriotic meera to which great number of Lincoln' fellow-countrymen will make pilgrim-g pilgrim-g Just a they do to the home of George Washington at Mount Vernon, and to the home , d tml of Tbomai Jefferon at Charlotte- nile, Virginia. Evea mor pretentious Is the project now before congress for a $2,000,000 memorial to Lincoln that hall be in the fullest ene a tribute from the reunited nation. Visitor to the eat of government In recent year have often eipressed wonder that wherea there are In Washington appropriate testimonial to the rather of HI Country and other national Idoli, there ha ben no memorial commeni. rat with the commanding ptace which Lincoln Lin-coln hag occupied In the history of the country. coun-try. The government hag not been uneon-gctoug uneon-gctoug of thl lack, but merely deferred action until aucb time a there could be provided a tribute worthy of the great man who inspired It. Thl I now ataured. owing to the liberal turn that will be expended In thl labor of love. From the time It was decided that the occa-alon occa-alon bad arrived for congreag to take definite action with reference to a national Lincoln memorial there baa been dlgcuaalon and difference dif-ference of oplnlou a to the form which thl acknowledgment of the nation' gratitude ' hould take. Most of the men having voice in the matter eem to have come to the con-clulon con-clulon that the Ideal memorial will be a maa-Ive maa-Ive monumental itructure a gort of temple of fame to be built of white marble on the bankg of the Potomac at Washington and adorned with statue of Uncoln and representation repre-sentation of person and event conspicuously conspicu-ously Identified with hi career. The effect would be, of cour. to create a companion patriotic ahrtne to that at George Washington' Washing-ton' Mount Vernon estate a few mile farther 1own the same river. However, many person 0f prominence have along argued In favor of other form of emorial. A memorial bridge between the gaUonal capital and the national cemetery at Arlington beyond the Potomac has repeatedly keen suggested and io ha a memorial arch. '"' howg Lincoln seated, was a gift t " the South Side of Chicago by bequet L- of the late John Crearar of that clw , The St. Gauden head of Uncoln wa selected by the national governmen , for reproduction on the Lincoln con: j niemoratlve postage stamp, whlcl j was Issued by the Post Office Depart I J ment a venr or so ago. I The work of the sculptors who an called upon to reproduce the featurei of Lincoln In marble or bronze li greatly facilitated by the fact tlia there are In existence excellent llfi and death masks which faithfully por tray the countenance of the klndlj ruler at the time he first took ofllci ra ""d ft' various periods up to hli lYs'xf d"""1- 'rlle nuking of the life njael f Lincoln was. by the way, a rathe! "ifr"") ,r'l,IK or1,?a' ror 'n president. wh 5 wag obliged to sit for an hour wit! the plaster covering his face, but no. In terfering with big eyesight or breath Ing. Mr. Lincoln himself assisted In remov Ing the niank. a particularly dlincult task ow ' ing to his high cheekbones, but the undertak Ing wag entirely successful, the mask comlnf off In one piece and being especially satlsfac tory In that it Included the Impresg of bott earg something that In many Instaneeg must be omitted In the securance of a life mask. One of the most Interesting of all the Lincoln Lin-coln statue I the bronze figure In Uncoln Park at Washington, which show Lincoln freeing the slave an emblematic figure of th great emancipator striking the shackle from the hand of a kneeling n-gro. The lgnlfl-cant lgnlfl-cant feature In connection with thl unique statue Is that it wa erected by money contributed con-tributed through popular uberlptlon by the freed lave. Another interesting memorial to Lincoln at the capital he saved I found In a simple llver plate on the pew which he alway occupied In the church, a few block from the White House, of which he wa a member. Congress hag paid 130,000 for the house in which Lincoln died, and will. In all probability. In time convert It Into a Lincoln 'emorlnl Museum under governmental auspices aus-pices Thl will Involve the expenditure of considerable money, because the building 1 now closely hemmed In by other building which ought to be torn down In order to prop-er!y prop-er!y safeguard the historic building agalnt Are. The city of New York, which ha notable memorial to so niBny f the nation heroe I deficient In testimonial to Lincoln, but thl lack I soon to be remedied If the project launched by Joseph H. Choate and other prominent prom-inent New Yorker meet with aiicces Thl contemplate, the erection In the metropoll or ome fitting memorial, possibly a magnificent magnifi-cent arch such a the Arcb of Triumph, which I one of the chief glorle of Pari A very appropriate form of Uncoln memorial I the present task of placing In all our national cemeteries bronie table',, bearing Uncoln'. Gettysburg address. Ultimately these tablet. IT Li ? flu aI, rpat numh"" of .cbcol. public buldllngg. etc. but probably sentiment baa been strongest for a Uncoln memorial boulevard or highway. The proposal ha been to construct thl highway a a connecting link between the national capital cap-ital and the battlefield at Gettysburg where Uncoln delivered hi Immortal speech. The chief objection to thl- icheme 1 that the highway could bo used and enjoyed only by people who had automobile or other rehlcle of their own or the mean to hire such conveyance. con-veyance. While on the subject of these elaborate Lincoln Lin-coln memorial it may be noted that first place In thl category belong, of course, to the Uncoln Un-coln tomb at Springfield, Illinois. The monument monu-ment to Lincoln at Springfield, alike to the monument to our other martyr presidents Garfield and McKlnley Is not merely public but national. For the Lincoln monument the urn of $200,000 wa collected. Of thl cum $28,000 came from the loldler of the Civil war. and $8,000 or thl amount wa contributed by the negro troop out of the first money they ever earned The Lincoln monument has had to be reconstructed everal time and entirely rebuilt once, owing to the character of the foundation, and thee circumstance necessitated necessi-tated the removal of Lincoln' body, which, all told, baa been moved some ten or twelve time since the original burial. Certainly one of the most commendable of all the existing memorial to Lincoln la the Lincoln Memorial University of Claiborne county, Tennessee, which wa founded by Gen. O. O. Howard, one of the most devoted of Lin-coin' Lin-coin' admirer, and the object of which I to benefit the people from whom Lincoln prang, the mountaineers of the Cumberland Gap region. re-gion. The ground of the university contain six hundred acres and there are several building build-ing upon them, although more are needed. The university wa chartered by the State of Trnneasee on Lincoln' birthday In 1S97 and hag already performed a tremendoug service for the op!e of an Isolated region which may be said to offer no other similar educational educa-tional advantage. It ha been claimed that owing to the handicap which Lincoln hlinaelf ustaJned In early life, owing to Ignorance and poverty, be would. If be could choose, probably prefer thl memorial In the Tennessee mountain moun-tain to any other that could be reared to hi memory. Of the numerou itatui of Uncoln which have place In citle and town all over the United State the most notable, from an-artl-tic standpoint, are two executed by the late Auguatu St. Gauden, Amercla' great culptor. Iloth of theae tatue are figure of heroic ilxe. One which represent Lincoln standing ha been erected in Lincoln Park In the city of Chicago, wherea the other, which |