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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1904)
, ,.,M The Commoner. VOLUME r4, 'NUMBER 4, 8 conducfodBy y y o n Q tt rn fcrl 1 L y Tribute lo Abraham Lincoln. (The following remarkable poetical tribute to Abraham Lincoln was com posed in a foreign land and was pub lished in a comic paper. During the civl war Tom Taylor, of the Loudon Punch, had made the great president a target for his shafts of ridicule and had poured fourth an unceasing stream of sarcastic detraction in prose, in verse, and in pictorial cari cature. The tragic death of the presi dent, at the close of the mighty strug gle, suddenly and sharply brought in to view the grandeur and beauty of his character and his leadership, and on May 6, following his death, this immortal wreath was laid on the mur dered Lincoln's bier by Tom Taylor. We publish it by request of several of our readers.) You lay a wrcatn on murdered Lin coln's bier You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace, Broad for the self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled hands, his un kempt, bristling hair, His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at-ease, His lack of all we prize as de bonair, Of power or will to shine, of art to please; You, whoso smart pen backed up the pencil's laugh, Judging each step, as though the way were plain; Reckless, so it could point its para graph, Of chief's perplexity, or people's pain! Beside this corpse that wears for winding sheet The stars and stripes he lived to renew, Between the mourners at his head and feet. Say, scurrilo jester, is there room for you? Yes: ho had lived to shame mo from my Bneer; To lamo my pencil and confute my pen; To make mo ovn this hind a princes' peer, This rail-splitter a true-born king of men. My shallow judgment I had learned to ruo, Noting how to occasion's height ho rose; How his quaint wit made homo truth seem more true; How, iron-like, his temper grew by blows. How humble, yot how hopeful he could be; s How, in good fortune and in ill, the same; Nor bitter in success, .. nor boastful he, Thirsty for gold, nor feverish for fame. He went about his work such work as few Ever had laid on head and heart and han3 As one who knows where there's a task to do Man's honest will must Heaven's graco command, Who trusts tho strength will with the burden grow, That God makes Instruments to work his will, If but that will we can arrive to know Nor tamper with the weights of good and ill. So he went forth to battle on the side That he felt clear was Liberty's and Right's, As in his peasant boyhood he had plied His warfare with rude Nature's thwarting mights. The uncleared forest, the unbroken soil, The iron hark that turns the lum berer's axe, The rapid, that o'erbears the toat . man's toil, The prairie, hiding the mazed wan derer's tracks, The ambushed Indian and the prowl ing bear Such were the deeds that helped his youth to train; Rough culture, but such trees large fruit may bear If but their stocks be of right girth and grain. So he grew up, a destined work to do; And lived to do it; four long-suffering' years, Ill-fate, ill-feeling, ill-report, lived through, And then he heard the . hisses change to cheers, The taunts to tribute, the abuse to pralso, And took both with the same un wavering mcod; Till, as he came on light, from dark ling days. And seemed to touch the goal from where he stood, A felon-hand, between the goal and him, Reached from behind his back, a trigger pressed, And those perplexed and patient eyes grew dim, Those gaunt, long-laboring limbs were laid to rest The words of mercy were upon his lips, Forgiveness in his heart and on his pen, When this vile murderer brought swift eclipse To thoughts of peace on earth, good will to men. The Old World and the New, from sea to skv. Utter one voice of sympathy and shame. Sore heart, so stopped when it at last beat high; Sad life, cut short just as its tri- A deed accurst! Strokes have been struck before By tho assassin's hand, whereof men doubt If more of honor or disgrace they BntJiL f,Ul iC,rIme' likG Cain's stands darlclv nnH ' Vile hand that brandeat murder on u auui', Whato'er its grounds, stoutly and nobly striven; And iSL th? martyrB crown thou crownest a life 'foSn.t0 Pralse' ltle t0 Thorough Mastication. AWtn"kllown Plan, writing to an exchange, has this to say: "Eat ing Is an 'art which the majority of people fail to observe. Digestion properly begins in the mouth, but the manner of eating with most people forbids this. Food should stop long enough in the mouth to be tasted. Taste, you know, has its intellectual side, and this requires fine chewing and turning over and over slowly in the mouth; a great deal of satisfaction is obtained in this way, and the food is finely comminuted and reduced to a pulp, thoroughly mixed with saliva, and the starchy portion of the all went is largely digested before V. if swallowed. When this fine-minced mass reaches the stomach, it is in a, decidedly favorabie state for the ac tion of the gastric juices. It is thor oughly moist, soit and crumbly, and the work of conversion is soon per formed. A failure to properly masti cate the food is one of the direct causes of indigestion. Dyspeptic pa tients should chew their food thor oughly to the last particle, and should swallow no food until well mixed with saliva; coffee, tea, or water shoufd be drunk separately not to -wash down the food. If people would thoroughly masticate their food, there would be little occasion for medicine, other than simple digestive secretions, and without this thorough chewing there will always be trouble lrom an over worked stomach. People who eat deliberately, tasting and chewing their food thoroughly so that digestion be gins in the mouth, do not eat too much, yet receive a lively satisfaction from what they do eat; the silent monitor which advises them that the needs of the system is supplied is always heeded. Those -who eat im properly have for their portion dis comfort, distress and disease. They always eat too much, and mistake the craving of the stomach for rest for its craving for food." Overcasting is overhanding done on a raw -edge, such as cut, or tern edge to prevent fraying. The stitches are taken deeper and further apart than where selvages are joined. L. M. H. i Here is a contrivance which just meets your wishes, and I copy it from The Housekeeper for you: "Nail a wooden cleat to tho wall just above the cooking table; a strip of elastic is nailed to the wall a few inches above the cleat, and the cook-book, open at the right place, rests on the cleat, and is slipped bav.k of the elastic which holds it in place. Thus one may glance repeatedly at the cook-book without touching it, or having it on the table where it may become soiled." Query Box. Mrs. M. K. The Sacred lilies and narcissus will not bloom again in the house. As soon as the weather will permit, set them out in your yard. They will make a new growth next year, and will not bloom again for several seasons, in most regions, but will make a nice clump of foliage, and will then bloom, though more' sparingly, as other hardy bulbs. R. B. B. Advises the lining of socks the good old-fashioned, nonie knit ones with heavy canton flannel, the nap next the flesh, as a sure cure and preventive for chilblains, as ex perience has demonstrated the value of it in his own case. The frost should certainly be kept out by this method M. J. T. Tn thn TTrT Tk 1 : of several weeks ago, recipes were given for tho making of warm breads with soda and sour milk; one Sitwhi wT .d,u8courasinB results with this kind of bread, as the milk varies in acidity. Mrs. Roror says: The laws of chemical action a?e based upon a law of exact propor tions. Soda breads must be made oln?yV fr the dough a sapy oaor and strnno- non r ..- vhvj or milk is sufficiently 'sou oovTz clabber it will require a level Tea spoonful of bicarbonate of sodEm (saleratus) to neutralize ? wMS either in biscuit or mJkfnc?,ty ingTuseSdShe,term' M ing, is used to designate the makimr of a very flat seam by sewimr ftf selvage edges together, edge to SJ5? Joining WWe M aUanesdgoCf joining plaids and matching stapes. Mental Attitudes. It is getting quite the fashion for writers on domestic topics to discuss learnedly the causes and cures of the various ailments to which the chil dren of men and especially the daughters are subject, and to ascribe certain symptoms emphatically to certain mental attitudes; the correc tion of thesenttitudes declared to be an infallible cure for the disease. Es pecially is this claimed of headache, sallow complexion, face blemishes, fretful stomachs, irritable nerves, and even the detested wrinkles. I am not at all satisfied to attri bute all our aches and pains and phy sical imperfections to the fact that we do wrong thinking. To think aright is undoubtedly "good medi cine' and right thinking will gen erally insure right living; but to my mind, the trouble seems to. lie in the facL that most of people do not think at all. 0 O We are too prone to allow other people" to think for us; to follow in grooves; to take the medicine an other prescribes without at all ask ing if the prescription may be relied upon to meet the requirements' of our own case. Some active brain sets the pace which, in their own case, may be eminently proper, and, without stopping to reason whether the treat ment suits our. symptoms, we rush headlong after the leader, not always what we expected them to be; but we feel that we are "in the swim," WELL POSTED A CoJlfornlOc Doctor With 40 Yejvrs Experience. In my 40 years' experience as a teacher and practitioner along hy gienic lines," says a Los AngeleE phy sician, "I have never found a food to compare with Gratfe-Nuts for the ben efit of the general health of all classes of people. I have recommended Grape-Nuts for a number of years to patients with the greatest success and every year's experience makes mo more enthusiastic regarding its use. "I make it a rule to always recom mend Grape-Nuts and Postum Food Coffee in place of coffee when giving my patients instructions as to diet for I know both Grape-Nuts and Pos tum can be digested by anyone. "As for myself, when engaged in much mental work my diet twice a day consists of Grape-Nuts and rich cream. I find it just the thing lo build up gray matter and keep the brain in good working order. In addition to its wonderful pffects as a brain and nerve food Grape-Nuts always keeps the digestive organs in perfect, healthy tone. I carry It with me when I travel, otherwise I am al most certain to have trouble with my. stomach Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Strong Indorsements like the above from physicians all over the country, SUtamped arape-NutB the most scientific food In the world. There'B a reason. imC in ach l5& for the famous little book, "The Road to WellvilleV feagi gytatoMim'tjiiw .-.