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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS. JUNCTION. UTAH United States Far Ahead in Patents Fatents abound In years of Industrial activity, und 1025 has set a rec0 ord for the United States with of these indices of American creative Ingenuity. As far back as 1790 congress passed the first national act providing for the granting of patents. Hut the comprehensive modern legislation dates from 1830, when all former statutes were repealed. We Issue fur more patents than all other countries combiued. Out total is double that of Great Britain or France and nearly four times that of Germany, having passed the 1,500,000 mark. The figure for 1925 is nearly double that registered for 1900. 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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man wholl git me a book I aint i M read. A. Lincoln. 'H' l l l., DeWITT J. MASON I1E story of Abraham colns thirst Lin- for knowl- edge, when he was a boy, growing up in his Indiana home, is one that is Interesting to this day. The farm boys in their evenings at Jones store in Gentryville about how Abe Lincoln was always reading, digging into books, stretched out flat , on his stomach in front of the fireplace, studying till midnight and past midnight, picking a piece of charcoal to write on the fire shovel, shaving off what he wrote, and then writing more till midnight and past midnight. The next thing Abe would be reading books between the plow handles, it seemed to them. And once trying to speak a last word, Dennis Hanks said : There's suthin peculiarsome about talked Abe. lie wanted to learn, to know, to live, to reach out; he wanted to satisfy hungers and thirsts he couldnt tell about, this big boy of the And some of what he wanted so much, so deep down, seemed to be in the books. Maybe in books he would find the answers to dark questions pushing around In the pools of his thoughts and the drifts of his mind. He told Dennis and other people, The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man wholl git me a book I aint read. And sometimes friends answered, Well, books aint as plenty as wildcats in these back-wood- s. parts o Indianny." This was one thing meant by Dennis when he said there was suthin about Abe. It seemed that Abe made the books tell him more than they told other people. All the other farm boys had gone to school and read The Kentucky Preceptor," but Abe picked out questions from it. such as "Who has the most right to complain, the Indian or the negro? and Abe would talk about It, up one way and down the other, while they were iu. the cornfield pulling fodder for the winter. When Abe got hold of a story book and read about a boat that ame near a magnetic rock, and how the magnets in the rock pulled all the nails out of the boat so it went to pieces and the people in the boat found themselves floundering in water, Abe thought it was funny and told It to other people. After Abe read poetry, especially Bobby Burns poems, Abe began writing rimes himself. When Abe sat with a girl, with their bare feet in the creek water, and she spoke of the moon rising, he explained to her it was the earth not the moon the moon only seemed to rise. What he got In the schools didnt satisfy him. lie went to three different schools in Indiana, besides two in N , altogether about four Kentucky months of school. He learned his how to spell, read, write. . And he had been, with the other barefoot boys In butternut jeans learning man- Anners" under the drew Crawford, who had them open a door, walk in, and say Howdy doT' Yet what he tasted of books In school school-teache- r, was only a beginning, only made him hungry and thirsty, shook him with a wanting of more and more of what to the British parliament, For GodS was hidden between the covers of sake, then, my lords, let the way be books. instantly opened for reconciliation. He kept on saying, The things I I say Instantly; or it will be too late want to know are In books; my best forever. friend Is the man wholl git me a book The Weems book reached some deep I aint read. spots in the boy. He asked himself Besides reading the family Bible and what It meant that men should march, figuring his way all through the old fight, bleed, go cold and hungry for the arithmetic they had at home, he got sake of what they called freedom." hold of Aesops Fables, Pilgrim's Few great men are great in everyRobinson Crusoe," and Progress, said this book. And there was thing, The Life of Washington. Weems a cool sap in the passage: WashingThe book of fables, written or col- tons delight was in that of the manlected thousands of years ago by the liest sort, which, by stringing the Greek slave known as sank Aesop, deep In his mind. As he read through the book a second and third time, he had a feeling there were fables all around him, that everything he touched and handled, everything he saw and learned had a fable wrapped in It somewhere. One fable was about a bundle of sticks and a farmer whose sons were quarreling and fighting Instead of sticking together ; and the farmer took a bundle of sticks, gave them each a stick, asking them If they were strong enough to break it, which they did easily ; then he handed them a bundle of sticks and asked them if they were strong enough to break it; and they tried their strength to the limit but could not break the bundle of sticks; whereupon the farmer told them : In union there is strength." The style of the Bible, of Aesops Fables, the hearts and minds back of those books, were much in his thoughts. His favorite pages In them he read over and over. Behind such proverbs as Muzzle not the ox that treadeth out the corn, and lie that ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that taketh a city, there was a music of simple wisdom and a mystery life that touched of common, every-dadeep spots in him, while out of the fables of the ancient Greek slave he came to see that cats, rats, clogs, horses, plows, hammers, fingers, toes, people, all had fables connected with their lives, characters, places. There was, perhaps, an outside for each thing as It stood alone, while inside of It was Its fable. One book came, titled The Life of George Washington, with Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honorable to Himself and Exemplary to His Young Embellished with Six Countrymen. Steel Engravings, by M. L. Weems, formerly Rector of ML Vernon Parish." It pictured men of passion and proud Ignorance In the government of England driving their country Into war on the American colonies. It quoted the warning of Chatham y far-vision- limbs and swelling the muscles, promotes the kindliest flow of blood and spirits. At jumping with a. long pole, , or heaving heavy weights, for his years he hardly had an equal. Such book talk was a comfort against the same thing over again, day after day ; so many mornings the same kind of water from the same spring, the same fried pork and corn meal to eat, the same drizzle of rain, spring plowing, summer weeds, fall fodder pulling, each coming every year. Lincoln was thankful to the writer of Aesops Fables because that writer stood by him and walked with him, an invisible companion, when he pulled fodder or chopped wood. Books lighted lamps In the dark rooms of his gloomy hours. Well he would live on ; maybe the time would come when he would be free from work for a few weeks, or a few months, with books, and then he would read. God, then he would read. Then he would go and get at the proud secrets of his books. Ilis father would he be like his fathbr when he grew up? He hoped not. Why should his father knock him off a fence rail when he was asking a ifeighbor, passing by, a question? Even if it was a smart question, too pert and too quick, it was no way to handle a boy In front of a neighbor. No, he was going to be a man different from his father. The books his father hated the books. Already Abe knew more than his father; he was writing letters for the neighbors ; they hunted ont the Lincoln farm to get young Abe to find his bottle of ink root and copwith blackberry-brie- r peras in It, and his pen made from a turkey buzzards feather, and write letters. Abe had a suspicion sometimes his father was a little proud to have a boy that could write letters and tell about things in books and out run and, outwrestle and any boy or man In Spencer county. Yes, he would be different from his father; he was already 'so; It couldnt be helped. rough-and-tumb- " le |