| Show 4 N A t wa 4 Z owl is wi 1 45 40 the nation recently ac 7 cepter brorn in association of patriotic citizens the martyred marty red presidents early home in kentucky beautiful memorial hall houses log cabin in v hick he first saw light of day I 1 lip T abrahamn lincoln ses bar N in sells my ty or just n mont age be 4 the s pace became a IIII 1111 I 1 p er it it 1 it allson accepted it IE on behalf f of ie nation imbert from the lincoln far farm a as sedation I 1 the be oten occasion allm was marked with 10 club orate rate ceremony of course and thou sands of visitors bitters It were we P pt present t franc n 31 parts parta of the country ninny of them per persons s as of real importance this was as ard the third time the people of lotus lame bonef hes haie SS seen a president of t the he st t them he in ia seven yera deais the first exer exercises chas held 1 in asame connect tion lion with the lt lincoln n cola far farm lifter after it ft was as proposed to glit gie it to the united states S tates were nere held february 12 1909 st when lien president laid tile the cor car aei stone ne of the lineal lincoln Mens memorial mild hall on november 9 1911 president tuft taft P presided 1 ded at I 1 ceremonies a to the he dedication of memorial II ifill hull bell and it then president preside t INUS failson OR na went nat t time for the finishing touch it is unlikely that uno another thic president will ajl 9 go to L LS lame S county for a long long time t to a come the stars and stripes flew bravely and ad defiantly from the lincoln tires in public sq square are it at the latest celebration lela bration just opposite tile the courthouse was as draped lavishly in red white and blue and yet only ten lea yen years ago 9 in august the courthouse bore bane a it decoration ratio of if rather another kind it was a a plain hand bill which ellich advertised the fait fact that the lincoln farm on was to is be sold to in settle tile unpaid repaid taxes ED the main memorial rial hall built at a cot of WO I 1 iq the center of this rew new national par park the halt hall houses the cabin 1 in which lincoln was use born this is IS the nal toes rescued tr from a wa warehouse hona in new lork I 1 rk lifter after it had been carried around the countie tor for exhibit exhibition mn purposes over oter the abrama doors to memorial lif marked hall are am inscribed these theae words nords H here over r t the R 1 1 og K cabin athera abraham man wa b born destined a ahm d 0 to preserve 0 tte union ece and to tree the elave people e haio d dial ea bated his memorial 1 to unity peace and IJ broth hoad among m these be late within the liall hot tile the cabin occupies the principal place it is surrounded by a heavy bronze chain for no one Is permitted to enter or touch tile the cabin 1 the first owner ounce of the farm which has passed late into possession of tile the no na tion lien was s so far re aa records tell a man named duckworth chui coui t records do not show hw how he cime came to own it but t it Is hi he secured it in a diet distribution th n of public lands by the he state or laderal government no land giant or deed has ever eser bela beco found to pro proe his ligal onner ownership ship L local I 1 agree in 11 the statement based on the declarations of old it citizens of lane county that uhe when a th thorans lincoln and nancy henry bank I 1 I 1 in cola coin moved to tale take up their residence shortly after their marriage they were squatters and moved into the lug cabin winch they found vacant the couple ave never held a deed to a rout loot ot or ground I 1 in a lame in county a nty labare the il huge uge c crowd at the farm boob great interest in that which probably bly c caused sed 7 lumme lt lincoln to select elect tills this spot pat for his home the OR lineal lincoln spring this never tailing failing stream fr or of water state 1 comes mes from tile the ground to today do S as it did E in LI lincoln LII I s time chell the farm ab abe was boa born tor far several years their eldest daughter bill is was oa born the there when abs abe was use about four yes yeorg m old the family moed caused to acome ahome a home a on sent knob creek crack there occurred the fis eldont which I 1 ichuin remembered vividly all h his a life v where here he A waa as an ed from drou drowning ning in a creek by A austin in t golla he her from this farm the lineal lincoln I 1 fare fam d alv moved to indiana the farm fell fail into tile the p possession passo asso of macajah 11 middleton who so sold d to rich old ard A onal real the lineal lincoln to farm ns it stands today creel creal built a new log home slid and tor far many anny y years used the cabin in A which aich abah abraham LI lincoln LII I was as ae born as 88 a car corn rib at the it dittli or of crest creal the farm passe passed d into tile the hand of his heirs car ill many years after t the I 1 bo death of lincoln I 1 the term farm began to grow in farne fame as lincoln a birthed birthplace many people came to see it ond and among due them was alfred W D denett tt n R wealthy hatim restaurant E owner of new ew york city dinett denett bought the farm arm P ping pacing ing the cleal heirs and the deed to the proper property tc was a made tie february arly 12 1895 jut just 86 years after afler the birth of lin win coin derett denett had pit plans for far the purchase of the farm by congress and byner stan slon into a national park and spent considerable I 1 money in an attempt to get a successful hearing bearing of his orpo dahm at washington but failed its he was the first to attempt any real im in provement pro act of the property lie ile built a far fence amal it cleared away the rod underbrush baash and ad made ad a dethy di leeway fr from the enhance I to the famous spring fr he was planning to build a house over tile cabin it to protect it flam the elements when ahra b business bess ess reverses forced him aliu to make re nn assignment just before this he tied had complied a with ith tile request t of or the officials of the exposition in nashville tenn team and had shipped the lineal lincoln cabin to be placed on exhibit exhibition im titers there from nashville the catin cat in went t to nee york lork where b it visa vi aa exhibited kesead beveral months month S later it e was as at stored red in a 4 var warehouse enouse A I 1 few ans das before making an as sign ment denett demelt did deeded it the farm and cable cabin to david R clear treasurer of if the C christian and MisAo missionary nary alliance of new york lork as 08 payment on a note lie he had bad given them in a contribution ills S er creditors diters brought suit in larue laram counte to have this transfer set raids aside tills this was mas done at the tery muy term a of count leob and once more the line lincoln farm with taxes in arrears jamr was use on an the he market for best prices obtainable aprice it t was a sold it at t ot the rem t house do door 1 i abst end ad an ans bought bv to richard II 11 I I jones representing representing robert bobert J C I 1 oilier alier he organized or anfred the Lin lincoln coll farm arm association which rate raised it WO i b by Y popular subscription erected emt the Afe memorial mortal hall made on the ms nece cessar ssan bria improvements 1 in the property and turned it onar to the government as a national if I 1 palk in receiving the gift on I 1 behalf ol at the nation at president 1 IN ilson made mad a 0 mit noteworthy orthy address ile he said I 1 in it pert part no moie anne significant memorial could hse have been presented to the nation than this it expresses so much ot of ahat V hat 1 h singular and ad noteworthy te in the his tory of the country it suggests a many of 1 the a that list we us prin prie mos highly in our or life and ad in our system arut I 1 in a 0 9 government how cloa eloquent I 1 th this 1 hill house a within this shrine Is 19 ot of the vigo ot of democracy I 1 there that I 1 Is nowhere ban 1 in the lead land flo adv home bace so remote so humble that 1 if may not at contain t I 1 it t the power of mind and start heart id and conscience Il lente to which no na them beld and I 1 history submits its pro pm besses ress antem pas im ao tribute ti it nilst I subscribes to no DO emed creed ol 01 1 caste renders render fealty to no monarch 01 afta master of say any name or kind d goniu dmn is 18 no such snob jt it does not run after title or seek k b by y preference the hish circles of society art v it SIT affects it humble company as well it as a g gibat cut it pava no special tribute to universities or learned societies or e bon conventional selY md standards to of 9 greatness r estness eat ness ant serenely cho chooses a it its ow n III comrades its own oun hannes its own oun india cradle even and its own life of allen adventure ture rod and of training heie dole is is proof of it this little but as the cradle of one me of uie the great sons of men a man of singular delightful vital genius who abe presently presenta presen tl emerged upon tile the greit great stage of if the iltha alt h tort gaunt sh shy on onildo ildr but ant dominant rod and ma jestly a natural ruler rider of me men himself I inevitably tile figure of the great plot lot here no less hides the mystery of 0 11 atho he hall chall au guess title thia secret secre cre of ad nature and ad providence dence and a free pot 3 I 1 whatever Wha tevor the vigor and vitality of the stoc vigar it from rom which chich lie he its mere mem vigor and od soundness madness do no not explain in nh where ire it this I 1 at man got at his great grant heart th that at seemed to comprehend all 11 mankind in its esthetic catholic end and benignant sp atha the mind that set sat enthroned behind those brooding mel anchovy ekes ees whose hose aslon laj a swept ahmoi many say a horizon lah those beat about b him 1 dreamed team ad not of that mind that corn core arc landed A what hot 1 tt hamd he had caa never s 1 seen I and ad understood tile the language age of ariam aith w ath tile the ready ease as of on one to the manner bar born u ri or that nature u hit Is as seemed d in I 1 its varied d rich to in be b the familiar of men in of every ry way nay of life |
