Show 0 i i M P ea as 14 4 f i av 71 7 V rk I 1 t pt j 3 it i E I 1 s i 1 I 1 4 1 II 11 column 11 1 i I 1 X 1 r 4 i K I i A X MK LINCOLN HIS BIRTHDAY tile the following Is from a speech made at Lincol ns centenary celebration by the late tamed famed chauncey depew pr president ident lincoln rarely with all his big wit humor and faculty lor for apt illustration said anything which would hurt the feelings of her hearer he cared little tor for poetry but in ill early youth he had found in an old almanac a poem which lie c committed amt bitted to memory and repeated often all through his life it was entitled mortality and the first verse was oil oh I 1 why should the spirit of mortal tie be proud like a fast flitting meteor a fast flying cloud A flash of lightning a break of the wave he passes from life to his rest in the grave 11 he reverenced reveren ced the sentiment of that poem probably reminiscent of the loved and lost he often repeated this verse from oliver wendell holmes the mossy marbles rest on the lips he has prest in their bloom and the names he loved to hear kave have been carved tor for many a year on the tomb with malice toward none with charity for all this line in one ol of his in augu rals summed up the philosophy of his life lie he was six feet tour four inches in I 1 height with muscles of steel and in early life among the rough cruel hard I 1 drinking I 1 youth auth of the neighborhood wasi was the strongest of them all but his strength was always used to protect the weak against the strong and to humble the bully v ho he Is the terror of such corn com 1 1 muni ties during his youth and early manhood he lived where drinking was so common it was the habit and the young men were all addicted to whiskey I 1 and tobacco chewing but the singular purity of 0 his nature was such that noti 1 withstanding the ridicule of his bis sur roun soundings dings he be never used either alcohol or tobacco he is our only president who came to that great office from absolutely original american frontier conditions I 1 I 1 first saw mr lincoln when nhen he stepped oft off his car for a few minutes pt et peek i skill while on his way to washington i i for his inauguration he was cheerful and lighthearted light hearted though he be traveled through crowds many of whom were enemies part of the time in secret and i all the time in danger of assassination I 1 I 1 met him frequently three years afterward when care anxiety and long con tinned overwork had made him look prematurely aged 1 I v use as one of the committee in charge of the funeral train which was bearing his body to his big home while on its way through the state of new york the hostile hosts of tour four years before were now standing about the roadway with bared heads beads weeping As we sped over the rails I 1 at night the scene was the most pathetic ever witnessed at every crossroad the glare of innumerable torches illumined the whole population irom from age to infancy kneeling on the ground and their clergymen leading in prayers and hymns the casket was placed in the capitol at albany that we all might have a farewell 1 l I 1 look at the great president the youthful confidence of my first view was gone also the troubled and worn look of the closing years of his labors but there tested rested upon the pallid face and noble brow an expression in death of serenity peace and happiness we are celebrating within a few months of each other the tercentenary of milton and the centenaries centen cente aries narles of poe and darwin our current literature of the dally daily weekly and monthly press Is full of eulogy of the puritan poet of his I 1 influence upon english literature and the engleh language and of his immortal work paradise lost there are not in this vast audience twenty people who have read paradise lost while there is scarcely ecar rely a man woman or child in the united states who has not read Lincol ns at gettysburg few gathered to pay tribute to that remarkable genius edgar allan poe and yet in every schoolhouse in the land today the children are reciting or hearing read extracts from the address of lincoln darwin carved out a new era in scientific research and established the truth of one of the most beneficent principles for the progress and growth of the world yet carwins Dar wins tame fame and achievements are for the select few in the higher realms of liberal learning but tor for lincoln the acclaim goes up today to him as one of the few foremost men of all the ages from statesman and men of letters of every land I 1 from the halls of congress and of the legislatures from the seats of justice from colleges and universities and above and beyond all from the homes of the plain people of the united states CHAUNCEY DEPEW a ai a RULES LIVING I 1 abraham lincoln once said do not worry eat three square meal a day say your prayers be courteous to your creditors keep your digestion good steer clear of biliousness exercise go slow and easy maybe there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy but my friend these I 1 reckon will vill give you a good lift a 5 ai B F LETTER the fol following loing letter written by abraham lincoln has been engrossed framed and hung in one of the oxford english university halls as a specimen of the purest Engli english bli and elegant diction extant dear ml madam I 1 have been shown in the flies files of the war department a state 1 I mont merit ot of bethe the adjutant general ot of mas sac huset that you ore are the mother ot of five sons song who have died gloriously la in the field of battle I 1 feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the alief of a loss so overwhelming but I 1 I 1 cannot retrain refrain from tendering to you yo j the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic they died to save I 1 pray that our heavenly father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement and leave you only the cherished memory of 0 the loved and lost na all the solemn pride that must be yours aft to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the I 1 altar of freedom yours very sincerely and respectfully ABRAHAM LINCOLN H A afi L K 1 LINCOLN AND THE BIRDS one of the most interesting and pathetic incidents of which I 1 have ever read or heard Is connected with the memory of one of the greatest and noblest men of all times abraham lincoln in company with some other candidates who were out on a political campaign over halt half a century ago in the wild west he saw in the woods near the close ol of the day some baby birds that had been blown out lout ot of their nest asking to be allowed to get down from the carriage which passed on ahead mr lincoln picked api upi up the tiny creatures and restored them tol to their little home on reaching the inn annj lie he was asked the cause of his delay and astonished his hearers by telling them of the humane act declaring that had bad he not returned the birdies to their i mo mothers therB care he could not sleep at I 1 1 night what a tender loving heart I 1 H P F S PERRY oklahoma I 1 ai S 9 S V fi GOOD LUCK MR MELLON congratulations mr mellon congratulations mr mills president hoovers appointment of the greatest secretary of the treasury since hamilton as ambassador to great britain gets that gentleman out of an embarrassing barr assing proposed impeachment proceedings ce in congress and gives ogden L mills the goal of which he has dreamed of course the legislative boys on the hill who had a good cause against mr mellon must now take off their fighting togs cogs and the country misses a good show however let andy have a try at solving the glave international economic problems he was chairman ol of the original ivar debt funding commission and no one can say he has not had experience as a financier POHN TO 11 AND AMI SOCI ILL PO POSITION S N says bays the christian science monitor undersecretary of the treasury ogden L mills will drop the under more and more his mature superior officer has bee been n in trusting to him the great tea or of the treasury billet he is 13 credited i with originating some of the principal financial relief measures now before congress mr mills was born to wealth and social position and was given educational culture and the glacel of esteemed contacts his going into politics serving ing in I 1 congress then working bib way up pain sta kingly and brilliantly in the treasury department bespeaks the man he might become a master ot cf hounds among imposingly pink jacketed fox hunters if his difficult lob job take all ot of his day mills can call be epitomized in tour four fulsome cords he bo chooses cheeses to serve |