Show NO ehly I 1 aa RN AIDA CAU I 1 N L WAS born in a one room cabin in the backwoods of kentucky and died in a tiny bedroom in a boarding house at the nation nations s cap ital while president of the united estates he ile never nener had all told more than a years year s school ing in the most elementary subjects yet he lived to write impeccable eng and to be judged by learned professors as master of purest literary style 4 he ile grew up far removed from cul cut tural influences and the niceties of po lite society yet wooed and won in marriage a kentucky aristocrat a society belle and an accomplished lin dulst miss mary alary todd he ile never had the heart to kill any living thing cooled 1001 ed with disfavor on flie fit e arms bit became by virtue of his high office the commander in chief of the un on forces in a war which re suited in half a in ilion slain he ile was smooth shaven for fifty one of his big fifty six years and grew a beard the winter before his inauguration in go d i alured compliance with the sug of a I 1 atle girl who thought the change might improve his looks he ile 11 s 3 a voracious reider as a boy and young min man borrowing many a treasured volume but he never owned a I 1 arary of as many as a hun I 1 volumes excluding his law books he did not unite with a church tho thoi i h b he wis vis x frequent sometimes caad a free thinker he 4 he was a voracious reader was unusually familiar with the bible and during his presidency on his own confession was a prating man 0 he was often of a melancholy ingoe subject to seasons of gloom and rief yet was inas as often buoyant faugl in heartily over a good joke and told droll stories inimitably he ile loved greatly all children and was most indulgent with his own per mitt life tig tad to 0 make a play room of his oth caan caln the IN white bite house he ile neva near could wear gloves with eige formal society functions bored him and at his first inauguration he was pulled as to the d of his gold headed beaded cine and hi high b hat until his great protagonist stephen A dolglas do eglas cime to his relief he ile wrote a neat hand devised cear clear and uninvolved sentences avo ded big words never padded ins his speeches was frequently laconic and pointedly brief tip q s fon I 1 of p earv li rote verses of a homely sort ind lit ed best poems of a somber or betic appeal as tor for elaml ie le the I 1 it leaf ind 0 why should the spirit of mortal be pro d AI he ile observed the faults and foibles 0 r ii q rp r e 11 I 1 q in i n I 1 n tes b t se set dom c upon their shorthorn short com corn ings and never reh reb I 1 ed them e ther lher A AJ A t t in public or private for a nota stance Will william iain H herndon a intemperate habits he ile revered george washingto gt tJ mired thomas jefferson at oi or idolized henry clay read WAL the speeches of daniel he numbered among his fri brij unusually large company of r ri of the gospel yet when he aej pres dent only three of the tw jwj ministers in springfield voted sie with he loved to sit with the he bo about the stove in the village it ila store tore winter evenings crack jokes ani an listen to the file gossip of the neighbor hood delighted in minstrel shows was tickled by the antics of clowns and comedians thought a traveling circus was great fun he had one of the best forgetter ies les of all our public men thus he forgot the shabby treatment he received at the hands of edwin al stan ton in cincinnati 1855 and appointed him secretary of war in his cabinet he ile was indifferent as to his per bonal attire yet was d in his cho ce of a h gh topped hat long tong tailed failed coit and a black bow tie worn around around a low turned down collar he ile was in life mercilessly criticized treacherously misrepresented cruelly maligned and basely slandered and in death he was all but deified lie ile was scrupulously honest long suffering and patient beyond most mortals magnanimous and lust just for giving and a stranger to hate he was not a demigod but very hu man he be made mistakes and profited by them he was a lover of his kind and made generous allowance lowance il for the imperfections of humanity humin ity and be cause of these all too rare virtues now he belongs to the ages detroit news |