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Show 1 ' 'Jk4f a ,,"41 fi r?lWiW"V 1 m i J i By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN pais , INcuLMANA Is jirowins ' S 1 (io fast Hint It is hard H vv,,rl keep truck of It 1 Kvery tiny In ihe year the J yi-fcK ireases throw olT a book : or l"""Plllt uhout Abru- f ttT llal" l'ilK'"ln' 'lllls output I 4gV la not contlnetl to Anier- t ffir. icu; It la world-wide. To I ttYJlul '""' " '"(iinpifiieiislve 1 ylHxyi- LUwA" bihlliiuiihy Is an tiniiisiiiii i.i.i I hiiixiKsibllity for the rea- I uu Uuu lietme it tun bt; got into punt 'j It in piiictlcully out of Unto. ; The new a, apers and iiii ludk nlti nre nhvuys mi the ulert to print iuythln' that is di.sioveied. nuid mid d.-no uhout I Lii:coln. The tlt'iilh t L-.clt.lt, Wis., of "Mail Tiask, eighty-mil! years old. In.t survivor in this region of those who ut-tended ut-tended Llm-oln-Douglns debute -it Fret-port," gels two sticks. I'lxon, 111., proudly tells the world in a ipiarter of a column that the Lincoln Highway, fls It passi-i, through that city, "tom bes ; the very Kile of the blockhouse where J Abraham Lincoln was tiiiutcivd while I serving in tlie Black Hawk war of I 1S."2." The placing of a wretith on j p Lincoln's tomb by (ieorge Oemenceaii i gets u column or two. And so Lin- colnlaim grows. J j Clemeiiceau's visit to Springfield was ( really a noteworthy is-cusion. Tne t war-worn, cynhul old "Tiger" Is one , of the hum striking Humes of the times and is still as ten peramental lis a prima ihmi.a, In spite of bis l eighty-one years. He was taken to ,:" the Lincoln home at his request, was 1"" Ben ted In Lincoln's armclsilr and wns presented with a pen made from the flooring of Lincoln's room with which he signed the visitors' register, t; I At the lo'iih he blazed with wrath i j, fit the hard-hoped movie operators who i violated all ethics of the sacred spot end cursed them tlnently in all the many lai g: a :es at his command. Ami ns he plated his u i caili on the sar- i cophagus w'thin the crypt It was seen f Hint he was moved almost to tears. lie snM as much a litt'e later when j Iio spoke to a notable gatlieiiti.: of the f I "greatest Ainei lca;i." as he phrased It. j I ' He declared that he had always been I J ft clime stialei t of Lincoln's life and ?3 (services nnd that Ihe Lincoln totuu h'ld i been a llxed spot in his American I? itlnetary, determ'ned before his le- i pui'turc from I'nrK ' f Illstor'atis will presumably see few S points of resemhla m e bet 'M-cn L'ncnlti fl and Cleim iiccau. Nevertheless. It Is a safe gin ss t! til the "Tiger" p'aced that wreath because I e wauled to. nnd that (very old l.e mi id came straight from bis heart. The American book output, enormous enor-mous as it is. Is steadily lncreab g. Some of It i o course of trivial Im-i Im-i pop li lice ami even the best of It seems 1 to add IlirV In history. O; e feature J of It. lone e.-. 's of real value. The f Speclali t on various pi a 'es of L'ti- j; coin's career bii made hN nppe.-ir- y ami! anil h's evh-niMtive reeire,t,s al- i' most liivarinli'y add a mite to our fi J;nw b-ilge. A U'"Hi example of this J tltld i f o. k is Llnco:r Lust Hav." 'd by .lolt'i W. St if. Jr. The atiihor D nccoi't.ts fur nlnii'St evert iicnutc of 8 Linco'n - ! fv clve I oura. lie -' ill- staniii'tes ill j text wlih moie than lif.y notes and c!:. more limn sixty nil- 1 thorlth - I' ' i eultilly be makes many correct i ns id ei rors contained In se . ernl " hh ''. read works on Lincoln. I'i I'tMsiMy it s of compniiii Ively l.tt'e " J tni)o ' i '" b"'' Lincoln pent t!..i-' . last lion:-. V-vertbeless. Mr. Starr Jijisj pri ll ' e t .oniething which will be of linioi"aiice v ben the u.usier biog- rnpher ih i s I Is w ork. I Kort' i-r S'.... fi.- Ailiert J. Bcverldge of Inil'aii.i has the amliiflcn to be thai I master Idom anl er. Oefialed at the last elect 'mi In Ids effort to renin to I the senate, lie now has leisure tor the 1 work and if no'inces that he has h"g:in . "L'fe if Abrahnm Lincoln." In at i least four volume.. lie says he i planned I" write It while he was finishing bis "Life of John Marshall." "My Idea," he says, "Is to try to write a companion piece to my life of the great chief Justice. Who took up and curried forward Marshall's philosophy philos-ophy to its conclusion? What man best represents In bis life the evolution evolu-tion of that philosophy of government V It was Lincoln, of course. It therefore there-fore seems to me It would be useful to write this coi tluuatlon of the development de-velopment of American Institutions as presented In the life, work and thought of Abruhum Lincoln. This bus never been done. All tliut litis been done thus far. excellent as much of It Is, has been little more than the collection of material. Kven that Is not up to date; since the nppearance of the Nicolny-IIay 'Lincoln' In l.SIH) a vast amount of manuscript material has been discovered anil Is now nvnil-able. nvnil-able. There Is Lincoln data nearly everywhere; the-re are large collections collec-tions In Washington, hi Boston. In Illinois. The best collection of news-pais-rs of the period about five decades Is In the library of the American Ant'qunrlan society ut Worcester, Wor-cester, Mass." The late r'ranklln K. Lane, a cab-Ineut cab-Ineut member during the Wilson administration, ad-ministration, was often addressed by his friends ns "Sir. ('residential Impossibility" Im-possibility" which was their way of expiessing their bel'ef that If he bad not been bom on the wrong side of the M. Lawrence be could be Bresldciit of the Tnited Slates. He was a good American and will go down to history as the first secretary of the Interior to recognize In our national parks one of the nation's biggest natural resources re-sources and economic assets. After a serious operation a few davs before his death Mr. Lane was writing li's thought about 'tluit other land." as Is set forth In "The Letter., of Krank-lin Krank-lin K. I."ne." by It's widow. Anne W. Lane, and this unfinished fragment ii cpre"dhly touching to naw wno j love I. ticol i nnd knew Lane was the 'list word from it! noil : "l.ut fr in." heart's eo. lent In iliat new land. I think I'd rather loaf with L ni oln a'ong n river bank. I know I could iiinle'siaiid Ilia. I would not lane to learn who were lis friends nnd who Ids em mles, what ilie .r'e he was commit led to and what against. We could .lust talk aid open out our minds and t. II our doubts ami the loir-dugs of our heait ! that other nevr heard of. He wouldn't try to master me nor to ma':i tne feel ho v small I w as. I d dare t -as',- him thin: and l;uu 1 1 Si f he le't Mwkwanl mIioim them. inn. And I vi.idd find I know I would, thai he bad hit Id sb'n lnt on llnse very stumps that had h't me. We'd tal' of men a let tin- kind thev cull tic great. I would n'M find Id a -or fu. V t buys 1 at he klnnv In New Sulci, i would somehow appear larger In their wills than some of these that I had culled the gteut. Ills wise eves saw qualities that weighed more than smartness. Yes, we wojld ait down where the bank sloped gently to the quiet stream nnd glance at the picture pic-ture of our people, tie negnes being lynched, the miners' rlvll war. labor's holdups, employers' nthlessness, the subordination of huaaidty to Industry" Indus-try" Here lire severul ino, or less nter-esting nter-esting additions to what may be called "Llncohilana," made since the I.V.'K celebration of the annlverury of Lincoln's Lin-coln's birth: The United Confederate Veterans In convention ussembled In July at Richmond, Rich-mond, Vu., adopted a committee report re-port recommending for use in the schools of the South a certain pamphlet. pam-phlet. "This," says the report, 'presents 'pre-sents the otliclul evidence, gathered principally from the United States government archives, which proves the Confederate war was deliberately and personally conceived and Its inauguration in-auguration made by Abral am Lincoln, Lin-coln, and that he was peisonally responsible re-sponsible for forcing the war , upon the South." Public sentiment In the South, ss indicated by the press, did not .ii-prove. .ii-prove. "What has come over the old soldiers at th's late day. that thev should be guil'y of s;nb u I'cuilsh and niicalled-for attack on Lincoln, at a I time when ull Civil war nn!mos'tlc j should be dead beyond resurrection?" asks the I'.lrmln diiiin Age-llerabl. "The Civil war was an 'Irrepress'ble conlllcl.' a Seward truly phrased It." says Ihe I altiniore Sun. "Lew persons there are w h i do not hold the iuenio'-y of the tall, u'liunt, human mail from Illinois In highest reverence nnd re sped" says the Norfolk Ledger lis pa Kb. Illinois has bought the Metainoni I colli tin use. the only remain! . g conn J build IK hi Ihe H.iite where L ncolo appealed n a lawyer. The old lui Id ling will be preserved ns a I. Icob , Memorial nitieum. I A gnu ile marker lui been iledicat. '' j at the M' Lean county court Iioiim- it. ! rinomln.ttmi. If ''ni ne n 1 a-rel:ef of Lincoln's bus' and the words: "Akin l am Llneol r:u wled III!- ay a ! c rode Ihe clrart f the lvi-'' Hi .linli-'a' district or llbn !. V- '7 lsr.fi." T! whole eire'-'l v:ll Se mai l el. A las rccint i.f is."" In en .!, at Liliccn HI. which sho1' l!ai otn o ced l'np 'l't there o- t1 e iiiiith side ot Ihe einir'',ov-e iaae K. Si.ci iao koulei of Nc v Vol I city has found In Ihe ec iclnlia e il I ilesU i'nt belo lived ;o li s urand 'lit her. I'.en '.ui'ln I'. She.lncn t o lers from M'. Lined after 'i:' baud's ih atb. in wh'ih si c ,, . her mis. il '-!!n ti.r;, Cmue'lal t n:l e |