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Theyre talking nowadays right
smart about the great Napoleon said
Uncle Dan but when tother day the
boys asked me who I thought the greatest
man I says I dont know Theres Wash
ington an Alexander an Napoleon an
lots of others but my way of thinkin
Old Abe Lincoln is ahead of em all
Greatness isnt jest a bein stern and
olemn like Now Uncle Abraham could
hoe his row with any of em argyin an
yet some way he had the swing of them
-old prophets That struck me wnen tne
war broke out an afore I knew it I
caucht the fever carried coal oil lamps
-around with the rest of the crowd got
howlin about John Browns body molder
ing in the ground and By Jinks says I
Til jine
Of course Billy must stay at home to
plow and sow and make the corn and hay
Hed just turned fifteen but as I marched
away blest if there wasnt ma cryin in
his arms an Billy yellin like mad I
want a chance to strike for liberty Bless
me again in less than a year if I didnt
Tiear one day that Billy had enlisted too
How I watched that boy Sometimes
praying when he kept by my side in bat
tle sometimes swearing too maybe
when he exposed himself too carelessly
At Yicksburg he fell back crushed and
maimed by the parapet fire and I took
him in my arms and bore him back an
half crazy with fears dashed at the fort
gain Well he rallied from the wound
but somehow he never seemed so sound as
before There was a wandering strange
ness in his manner like he didnt zactly
know his mind and one night when skir
mishes were daily an Sherman an Hood
was trying to get the chance for a win
ning fight Billy was placed on picket duty
where danger hovered thick I told him
to keep his eyes wide open but after Id
got into my blanket in camp I couldnt
sleep I took my gun and hurried silent
ly to the outposts reached a spot close
underneath the hill and my heart stopped
for there was a scuflle a cry and I saw
the forms of half a hundred men It
want no time to think 1 raised my gun
The good old musket rang out the alarm
the rebels turned and ran The boy
There he lay his form stretched out upon
the ground asleep at his post
He turned to me an put his arm
around me lovingly I couldnt help it
dad he said smiling his old boyish smile
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and marched away between the guards
I begged I plead I swore that Billy
wasnt like himself No use The sen
tence came I appealed to the generals
I got only one answer The death sen
tence of the court has been approved
Then I went to Washington to see the
President
It was my last hope They wouldnt
let me in They even pushed me back as
a carriage drove up I saw who got out
I tried to attract his attention Who is
this man says he Only a soldier after
an interview says the officer Only a
soldier says he musingly Periling his
life Only a soldier fighting the battles
of this awful war Thank God to speak
to me you need no other name Only a
soldier Come in my man And he led
me up the stairs while ministers and gen
erals waited outside
I told him with sobs half choking me
the story of my grief His face was sad
and furrowed and he bowed his head
as he listened He looked over the pa
pers carefully Then he turned and
smiling gently said Well let the other
fellows do the killing I think the coun
try will get along with this young fellow
running round alive And then he wrote
This sentence disapproved Restored to
his company A Lincoln Just there I
lost my grip I only cried like a baby
You tell your boy says he I count on
him to fight
In six months Billy stood upon the roll
as second corporal Then he became color
bearer of the regiment We marched
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through Georgia until we faced the guns
of Fort McAIister A charge was order
ed but at first the rebels fired at such a
rate that the ranks wavered Billy with
face aflame carried the flag far up in the
advance Bring back the colors to the
regiment cried the colonel Amid the
crack and crash of the guns the boy re
plied You bring the regiment to the
colors Then with shouts and cheers
the brigade rushed madly on and before
they fairly sensed it the day was won
Billy had gone down They had to
pry his fingers loose from the flag There
was a smile on his face a thousand years
cant make me forget Redeemed at last
the general came and said and placed
his name among the heroes They wrap
ped the Stars and Stripes around my son
When they put him in his new uniform
that night they found his treasures and
among the rest was a picture of Old Abe
and written on its back were the words
a prophecy Ive fought great friend
and died for liberty
LINCOLNS SWEETHEART
She Was a Beautiful Kentucky Girl
and Had Many Suitors
Lincoln first met Ann Mayes Rutledge
in 1832 when she was 19 She was a
beautiful girl and as bright as she was
pretty So fair a maid was not of course
without suitors The most determined
of those who sought her hand was one
John McNeill a young man who had ar
rived in New Salem from New York soon
after the founding of the town Ann be
came engaged to McNeill but it was de
cided to put off marriage on account of
Anns youth After a while McNeill left
for his home in the East saying that he
would return in time with his parents
Then it came out that McNeills real name
was McNamar The New Salem people
pronounced him an impostor A few let
ters were received from him by Ann but
finally the lover ceased to write to her
In the spring of 1835 Ann agreed to be
come Lincolns wife New Salem took a
friends Strange to say McNamar prov
ed to be an honest man and a faithful
though careless lover
THE IMMORTAL LINCOLN
An Apotheosis in His Memorable
First Inaugural
In an epoch of convulsion and cataclysm
and chaos Abraham Lincoln was intro
duced into presidential power He held
to the syllogistic and spurned figurative
speech No fustian found favor in his
prejudices
Coming to the end of his first inaugural
Lincoln reached these words In your
hands my fellow countrymen and not in
mine is the momentous issue of civil war
The Government will not assail you You
can have no conflict without being your
selves the aggressors You have no oath
registered in heaven to destroy the Gov
ernment while I shall have the most sol
emn one to preserve protect and defend
it
I am loath to close We are not ene
mies but friends We must not be ene
mies Though passion may have strained
it must not break our bonds of affection
The mystic chords of memory stretching
from every battlefield and patriot grave
to every living heart and hearthstone all
over this broad land will yet swell the
chorus of the Union when again touched
as surely they will be by -the better an
gels of our nature
Lincolns Trust in Goil
What I did I did after a very full de
liberation and under a very heavy and
solemn sense of responsibility said Lin
coln with reference to the emancipation
proclamation I can only trust in God
I have made no mistake I shall make no
attempt on this occasion to sustain what
I have done or said by any comment It
is now for the country and the world to
pass judgment and may be take action
upon it
Looking a difficulty square in the face
will often kill it dead
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cordial Interest in the two lovers and
presaged a happy life for them and all
would undoubtedly have gone well if the
young girl could have dismissed the haunt
ing memory of her old lover The possi
bility that she had wronged him that he
might reappear that he loved her still
haunted her so persistently that she took
to her bed Her death speedily followed
Lincolns grief was intense He was seen
walking alone by the river and through
the woods muttering strange things to
himself He seemed to his friends to be
in the shadow of madness They kept
a close watch over him and at last Bowl
ing Green one of the most devoted friends
Lincoln then had took him home to his
little log cabin half a mile north of New
Salem under the brow of a big bluff
Here under the loving care of Green and
his good wife Nancy Lincoln remained
until he was once more master of himself
But though he had regained self-control
his grief was deep and bitter Ann
Rutledge was buried in Concord Ceme
tery a country burying ground seven
miles northwest of New Salem To this
lonely spot Lincoln frequently journeyed
to weep over her grave My heart is
buried there he said to one of his
SAW LINCOLN SHOT
WHO WITNESSED
GREAT TRAGEDY
THE
Story of the Man Who Was the First
to Kcach the Side of the Wounded
President His Clothing Stained by
the Blood of the Martyr
Our Nations Darkcnt Day
There now lives in Philadelphia a gen
tleman who saw the whole scene of Lin
colns assassination and was the first to
reach the wounded man in the prevailing
panic William Flood is the gentlemans
name and he gave the following graphic
account which is taken down in his ex
act words
At the time the President was shot
said he in answer to a query I was in the
United States navy and was acting en
sign and executive officer on board the
steamship Teazer Captain Silas Owen
was the commander and the ship was lo
cated at the navy yard on April 14 That
evening Captain Owen who had been
over in the city during the day came
ho the ship and suggested that we go to
the theater that evening as Laura Keene
was to play Our American Cousin and
the President was to be there We went
to the theater and secured seats in the
parquet or orchestra chairs The Presi
dent occupied the second box up from the
orchestra and second from the stage Just
as the curtain fell on the first act I heard
a shot and saw a man jump from the
Presidents box to the stage As he jump
ed his foot caught in the folds of the flag
that draped the box and he fell sideways
on the stage It was quite a good jump
and he came very near falling back into
the orchestra He got up and limped
away across the stage brandishing a
great long knife in his right hand and
shouted Sic semper tyrannis
In less time than it takes to tell it 1
was on the stage How I got there over
the heads of the orchestra I really dont
remember Just as I reached the stage
Mrs Lincoln looked out of the box She
was crying and wringing her hands and
said They have shot papa will no one
come I answered that I would come
and immediately climbed up the side of
the boxes to the one the President occu
pied
The President was sitting as if he
had fallen asleep He was breathing
however and we at once laid him on the
floor of the box I looked for the wound
but at first did not discover it Miss
Keene brought a pitcher of water and I
bathed his forehead with that so as to re
vive him I then discovered the wound
in the back of his head where the ball had
entered and the blood ran out on my arm
and down the side of my coat Some army
officers brought in a stretcher and he was
placed on that and carried out I then
went to the front of the box and motion
ed for the audience to remain quiet Every
one was talking and there was a general
uproar As soon as it ceased for a minute
I told them that the President was still
alive but had been shot and was no doubt
mortally wounded Captain Owens and I
then went out to the front of the building
and found a platoon of police in the
street The sidewalks were so crowded
with people that we had to get out in the
middle of the road to get down the street
We went to the National Hotel and by
the time we got there the mob was so
dense we could get no further so a couple
of police took us through the hotel to O
street at the rear and we got a cab and
were driven to the navy yard I was so
bloody from the wound my right hand
and arm being covered that it is a wonder
that I was not hanged by that mob They
were intensely excited at the time and it
would have taken very little to have
driven them into a frenzy
The next day our ship went down the
river to head Booth dff and did not return
until after he was killed I was then
sent for to go down and identify him I
recognized him very readily as he jumped
from the box as J Wilkes Booth
Talleyrand never was in love but
once and that was when he was about
16 years old When Napoleon ordered
him to marry and picked out a wife for
him he pleaded this youthful attach
ment which was immediately scoffed
at by the great match maker aaa piece
of nonsense J
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NOTES ON EDUCATION
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO PU
P1L AND TEACHER
Some of the Advantages and Disnd
vantajses of Collece Kducatlon How
to Teach Spelling Reasons for Op
posing the Pensioning of leachers
College Education
I was interested recently in an article
in the Forum on this subject I can
not recall many of the arguments but
will give a few thoughts suggested by
the writer
It is conceded that a college education
is desirable in many ways It gives a
man self confidence polish bieadth of
view and clearness of Tjereeotion But
on the other hand it may be claimed
that a college education often unfits a
man for the hardships of life
If for instance a hundred college bred
are selected on one side and a hundred
men of equal caliber who have not had
a college education are selected on the
other hand and these two separate com
panies of men are delegated to accom
plish certain results demanding cour
age valor perseverance industry and
grit and the college bred men are sur
passed by their opponents this is an
argument against college life This is
precisely what is claimed that college
life induces men not to undertake that
which is disagreeable or which sub
jects them to privations or discomf ortsr
or to those things which involve risk
The question is asked Would Com
modore Vanderbilt have achieved his
wonderful success as a railroad man
had he been college bred The intima
tion is that he would not that college
life wrould have led him to see more
dancer in the undertaking than he-
otherwise would see and would have
caused him to shrink from the danger
of the undertaking and would have led
him to lead a life of greater ease and
personal comfort
Surely a man needs in his battle with
adversity and competition all the vigor
and pluck that nature has bestowed up
on him If college life diminishes this
store of necessary endowment it is- a
disadvantage to a certain extent but
the disadvantage is counterbalanced in
a degree by the advantages which the
college life assuredly gives
Attention is called to the fact that
college bred men often hold themselves
aloof as superior to the average mass of
humanity In so far as this is actually
the case college life is a disadvantage
No snob can be much of a success in any
of the departments of life and if col
leges breed snobbery thej are a dis
advantage
There is no rule which will apply with
equal force to all men and all colleges
There are men which no amount of
training would develop into a snob
There are men also whose valor would
not be diminished by any amount of
study association or any amount of
culture There are colleges which are
endeavoring to do away with any ten
dency along the lines mentioned But
I am certain that if the opportunities
were offered many college men to be
come successful in business or in a pro
fession and they were told the- amount
of hard work discomfort and the hun
dred and one privations endured by a
successful man in attaining bis business
or professional success the college man
would say I prefer not to be successful
rather than to undergo all this- discom
fiture
On the other hand the benefits of a
college training are not to be overlooked
by those who have children and who
are considering the question of their
education I desire that my boy shall
have a college training I shall en
deavor to instruct him so that college
life will not spoil him and shall rely
somewhat upon his natural supply of
common sense to direct him against
snobbery or indolence After all a
boys inherent character will tell along
this line as in almost every other case
But undoubtedly there are many men
spoilt by a college life as there are
many men who are ruined by prosper
ity College life puffs thenr up as pros
perity puffs up many people and the
earth has no use for puffed up people
A watch is built for actual service
service is the principal object If you
place about your watch an extravagant
case of highly polished gold in many
tints with expensive carvings studded
with diamonds you are fearful lest it
should be contaminated by everyday
wear You are afraid some one will
waylay you upon the street and take it
from you by force You are tempted to
carry it in a buckskin bag eager that
it may not become scratched This illus
trates one of the dangers of high cul
ture upon a young man who is not even
ly balanced or has a tendency to be
affected along the lines indicated Ex
change
Teaching Spelling
What about spelling It is the ob
servance of the arbitrary usage of wri
ters of English as to the arrangement
of letters in words This usage is with-
out reason so that he who thinks least
spells best Only memory of mechan
ical symbols is involved in learning to
spell As a separate branch of study
and test of culture spelling has long
been an educational fetish Time was
when it occupied a chief place in the
programs of all elementary echoolsand
yet the spelling of the older genera
tion among us is certainly not above
criticism The children of to day spell
better This fact is undoubtedly due to
the very large amount of written work
now done in all schools We must
teach spelling We must teach it sys
tematically and persistently But it is
not taught by putting spelling books
into the hands of children and having
classes stand in rows and take turns
in guessing at the spelling of words in
which they are not interested As a
school exeriise nothing more senseless
could be devised No one ever did
learn tospell in this way No separate
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mar grades without great injury It te
believed that these opinions are in har
mony with the thought and experience
but not the patience of the educational
world
How shall we teach spelling Chil
dren learn to copy all the words they
learn to read during the first months In
school Later they leurn to copy into
scrip the printed words In their read
ing lessons As a third step they learn
tb write lists of well known words and
easy sentences from dictation During
the recitation hour they pronounce over
and over the list of words in their read
ers With books open they name the
letters in these words They sound
these same words and cultivate accur
acy in pronunciation They write little
statements in which thej use these faa
miliar words The teacher calls spe
cial attention to difficult imphonetic
words and teaches the children to spell
them As pupil progress they learn
to spell the new words in all lessons
They write much and learn to consult
their dictionaries- for the spelling of
words They learn to spell by aliening
The teacher takes little time in examinrj
ipg the pupilsr one at a time in spelling
but much time In actually teaching
them to spell Midland Schools
Pensioning Teacher-
We have before us a communicatiou
urging that there should be Incorpo
rated in the proposed city charter a
provision for granting pensions to
teachers in the public schools who
have become superannuated or who
are unable to continue their work
We are very emphatically opposed to
the proposed plan- We look upon this
pension business as a veritable cancer
of government and paternalist We
believe heartily in the early American
idea of personal liberty and independ
ent individualism The pensioning of
public servants no matter in what de
partment they are employed has a
withering effect upon all those sturdy
virtues of a strong self reliant
ter
The public service is not more dan
gerous than other fields of employ
ment A man or a woman who re
ceives fair wages until no longer lit lor
service and does not save something
for old age would not do so in any
other occupation and is certainly not
the best servant for the public
There is no reason whj the frugal
and industrious should be made to pay
taxes to support those who as a rule
receive proportionately larger sums for
their services than they do Those
who choose to become teachers usually
do so because they like the work and
because they think it furnishes the
best opportunity of earning a living
We beliv e in the utmost liberality
in providing for our public school sys
tem We are in favor of paying good
salaries to good teachers but we are
emphatically opposed to the idea of
pensioning teachers or any other set of
officials- There is no reason why be-
cause a person decides to follow the oc
cupation of teaching those who are j
not teachers should be compelled- to
pay for the support of such teachers
as become old or have suffered misfor
tunes which all mortals are heir to-
Teachers are employed less days ins
the year than most people and receive
proportionately higher salaries They
ought to save money for the rainy day
just the same as all of the rest of vs
must do and if they are wastef uliy ex
travagant or if any of them chance to-experience-
heavy misfortunes then
they must be content to receive the
benefits similar to those available to
all other mortals They should have
no special privileges The Leadier Is
opposed to the idiea of pensioning pub
lic school teachers and it will never
cease to voice its opposition so long as
there is any likelihood that a pension
ing provision may be incorporated in
the new charter- New Haven Leader
Trained as
The shooting of a big dog by a cus
toms officers inthe north of France some
time ago gave rise to some queer dog
stories in the French papers The offi
cer shot the dog because he was sus
piciously fat
An examination revealed the fact
that the animal wore a leather coat
made to look like his own skin and
skillfully fastened at the shoulders and
haunches in such a way as to complete
ly conceal the ends in the hair- In this
coat the dog carried several hundred
cigars and quite a large quantity of to
bacco
On the Spanish frontier smuggling
with the aid of trained dogs has long
been a flourishing business and now
the same practice has reached Belgium
Cigars jewelry and lace constitute the
trade the animals receiving a special
training for the profession
The practice consists in traveling
from one place in Belgium to another
in France and vice versa avoiding the
high roads and revenue men
The latter they are taught by bitter
experience to avoid for the smugglers
who train them keep a supply of uni
forms of revenue officers on hand
The uniforms are donned by confed
erates whom the dogs have never seen
and these fellows beat and stone the
dogs nnmercifuily The result Is the
dogs run whenever they see a genuine
officer
When a dog is started off on his jour
ney with his load the smuggler sets cut
for the someplace but he takes the di
rect road ox travels boldly by rail oar
ing of course nothing for any inspec
tion of his baggage that may be made
Iron in the Body
There are about 100 grains fSi iron 1a
the average human body and yet so
important is this exceedingly small
quantity that its diminution is attend-
Od with very serious resolts
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