I WHERE 1 LANDMARKS ASSOCIATED O £ P$ WITH THE EMANCIPATORS SFCI WL EARLY LIFE IN KEHTUCKY sup \ML. AMD INDIANA Wjt American loyal clt- UgP/g jaja lzen Is momen tarily turned to the thought that upon that day, just k so many years ago, Abraham Lincoln, one of the world's greatest men, was born. Some merely give the celebration a thought, but those who have made the life of Abraham Lincoln a study, and those people who live in Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois look upon the birthday an niversary as something more than the mere passing of a milestone. Each of these states claims a right to being the home of the man who has made for himself an immortal name in the history of the world's greatest men. Historians say that Lincoln was born in Hardin county, Kentucky. In fact, he was born in La Hue county, which, however, is a subdivision of Hardin county. Chroniclers continue with their biographies and say that •he, together with his father, mother and a sister, went to Indiana and en tered a claim to a piece of land in Spencer county. As a matter of fact, he entered a claim to a piece of land In Warrick county, but which has been set aside and named Spencer county. The Lincolns went to Indiana in 1816, the same year that Indiana was ad mitted to the union as a state. He entered a quarter section of land, built a log cabin and lived tnere until 1830. It was known that Thomas Lincoln, father of Abraham Lincoln, was in poor circumstances. To say that Abra ham Lincoln was the son of a poor carpenter and farmer gives an insight Into hard conditions that little Abe had to face when he was a youngster. When he went to Indiana he was just CO^ seven, and remaining in Indiana until 1830 he spent 14 years of his life in Indiana, or until he was 21 years of age. After 1820 Spencer county had, at Rockport, its county seat, a public library of several hundred volumes of the standard works of the day. Thomas Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln were at Rockport at least two times dur ing the year, but the name of Abraham Lincoln does not appear as a borrower of books at the library. The field from which Abraham Lincoln could glean knowledge in that neighborhood was very limited, though he borrowed every book that he could get. During Abraham Lincoln's If! years of life in Indiana he had read and re read this list of literary and histori cal books over and over again. His good nature among Lincoln City peo ple was not unnoticed; all agreed to his honesty and good nature. Ques tions of dispute and petty differences were at first submitted to him in a Joking way, and later on in a sincere way, until he was complimented for his honest and Just way in settling disputes and differences. Me was told more times than once that some day he would turn out to be a lawyer. Having read all the literary books and what few there were of law in and around Boonville, Lincoln heard of the court at Boonville. He resolved togo down to that place, 20 miles distant, and learn what he could in the real court, which was in session there sev eral times during the year. The court bouse in Boonville, then a small ham let of less than 300 inhabitants, in sfrong contrast to the beautiful new structure that now adorns th« beautiful littlo town, stood in the very spot where the new one now stands, in the center of a large court square. It was a frame building; the architeo ture was, to say the least, very novel. A ditch, two feet wide and two feet deep, was filled with smoothly 1 ">wn logs, on which was built a stone wall 18 inches high. This furnished the foundation upon which the building proper rested. The building itself was never entirely completed. It was weather boarded, but neither plastered nor lathed. It remained in this condi tion until 1836, which was after the I.incoln family had moved to Illinois. It was capable of holding only a hun dred people and could only be used in the summer. In the night the cattle which grazed about town would go there for shelter. Such was the struc ture where President Lincoln received his first impulse to become a lawyer. Here it was that he received his first rudimentary practice in pleading cases that afterward aided in making him the lawyer of the reputation he had, It was to attend court in this rudely constructed building that the young man walked 20 miles from Lincoln. City to Boonville, Ind. He was an ardent listener and the lessons that he painted upon his memory at this place are the ones that inspired the great man to become the lawyer he after ward became. And, from this fact the little town of Boonville claims the distinction of furnishing to him the material that aided in his after suc cess. To claim so great a distinction if it could not be verified would be falsa and unfair; but from the history of young Lincoln while he was a visitor here attending court, and from the as surance that he received the knowl- edge he did, which inspired him to be come the lawyer he did, it is another laurel for the little city in southern Indiana. Shortly after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln a picnic party from the little town of Dale went up to Lincoln City to the Lincoln farm and spent the day. The excitement %as so high at that time that old people as well as young went to the farm and enjoyed themselves visiting the his torical places in and about the Lin coln farm. The cabin was still standing and but a short distance up on the hillside was a marble slab that marked the spot where the good mother of Abraham Lincoln lay beneath the sod. While there the picnickers went through the cabin where Lincoln saw his mother pass away and from which place he returned to Kentucky to get a minister to come to Indiana and bury his moth er. Nancy Hanks Lincoln. A few old relics were found, among them being an old knot maul ami an old fashioned inouldboard plow, both of which had been left there when the Lincolns moved to Illinois. The old plow was brought outside and an old man by the name of Gabriel Medcalf stood be tween the handles while one of the party caught a picture of the old Lin coln cabin. The old man carrying the pole was Joseph P. Haines, better known as Uncle Borter Haines. The picture of Lincoln's second log cabin was made from the original taken at the time this party went to the horn* along in the seventies. _ CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1908 WORN OUT WOMEN Will Find Encouragement in Mrs. Mer ritt's Advice. Mrs. W. L. Merritt, 207 S. First Ave., Anoka, Minn., says: "Last win fter I began to suf fer with my kidneys. I had pains in my back and hips and felt all worn out. Dizzy spells both ered me and the kidney secretions were irregular. The first box of Doan's Kidney Pills brought decided relief. lam sure they would do the same for any other woman suffering as I did." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. What Hubby Missed. "I was telephoning the other night," said the girl, "and a voice crossed mine, a whispering voice. I couldn't help wondering what the game was. " 'What are you whtispering for?' I asked. " 'Hush,' she said, still In the whis per. 'l'm trying to talk under my breath. I don't want my husband to hear. Please get off the wire. Won't you?' "I got off the wire, but I couldn't sleep very well that night for wonder ing what it was she didn't want her husband to hear." CUTICURA CURED FOUR Bouthern Woman Suffered with Itch ing, Burning Rash—Three Little Babies Had Skin Troubles. "My baby had a running sore on his neck and nothing that I did for it took effect until I used Cuticura. My face was nearly full of tetter or some sim ilar skin disease. It would itch and burn so that I could hardly stand it. Two cakes of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment cured me. Two years after it broke out on my hands and wrist. Sometimes I would go nearly crazy for it itched so badly. I went back to my old stand-by, that had never failed me—one set of Cuti cura Remedies did the work. One set also cured my uncle's baby whose head was a cake of sores, and another baby who was in the same fix. Mrs. Lillie Wilcher, 770 Eleventh St., Chat tanooga, Tenn., Feb. 18, 1907." It's easy for the average man to make a bad break. Don't worn- about your complexion— take Garfield Tea, the licrb laxative and blood-purifier! An improvement will be seeu iu a week. By the way, are you acquainted with any man who flatters his wife! Commissioner Smith vs. The Standard Oil Do. Mr. Herbert Knox Smith, whose zeal In the cause of economic reform has been in no wise abated by the panic which he and his kind did so much to bring on, is out with an answer to President Moffett, of the Standard Oil Com pany of Indiana. The publication of this an swer, it is officially given out, was delayed sev eral weeks, "for business reasons," because it ■was not deemed advisable to further excite the public mind, which was profoundly dis turbed by the crisis. Now that the storm clouds have rolled by, however, the Commis sioner rushes again into the fray. Our readers remember that the chief points In the defence of the Standard Oil Company, as presented by President Moffett, were (1) that the date of six cents on oil from Whiting to East St. Louis has been issued to the Standard Oil Company as the lawful rate by employes of the Alton, (2) that the 18-cent rate on file with thelnterstate Commerce Commission was a class and not a commodity rate, never being intended to apply to oil, (3) that oil was shipped in large quantities between Whiting and East St. Louis over the Chicago & East ern Illinois at GV* cents per hundred pounds, ■which has been filed with the Interstate Com merce Commission as the lawful rate, and (4) that the 18-cent rate on oil was entirely out of proportion to lawful rates on other commodi ties between these points of a similar char acter, and of greater value, such, for example, as linseed oil, the lawful rate on which was eight cents. President Moffett also stated that thousands of tons of freight had been sent by other shippers between these points under substantially the same conditions as governed the shipments of the Standard Oil Company. This defence of the Standard Oil Company ■was widely quoted and has undoubtedly exert ed a powerful influence upon the public mind. Naturally the Administration, which has staked the success of its campaign against the "trusts" upon the result of its attack upon this company, endeavors to offset this influ ence, and hence the new deliverance of Com missioner Smith. We need hardly to point out that his rebut tal argument is extremely weak, although as strong, no doubt, as the circumstances would warrant. lie answers the points made by Presi dent Moffett substantially as follows: (1) The Standard Oil Company had a traffic department, and should have known that the six-cent rate had not-been filed, (2) no answer, (3) the Chi cago & Eastern Illinois rate was a secret rate because it read, not from Whiting, but from Dolton, which is described as "a village of about 1,500 population just outside of Chicago. Its only claim to note is that it has been for many years the point of origin for this and similar secret rates." The Commissioner ad mits in describing this rate that there was a note attached stating that the rate could also bo used from Whiting. The press has quite generally hailed this statement of the Commissioner of Corpora tions as a conclusive refutation of what is evi dently recognized as the strongest rebuttal argument advanced by the Standard. In fact, It is as weak and inconclusive as the remainder of his argument. The lines of the Chicago ft Eastern Illinois do not run into AN ADVERTISING TRICK FOR WESTERN FARMERS. Real Estate "Agents" Go After Men with Land for Sale and Reap Rich Harvest. A smooth scheme for separating farmers from their money has been worked with much success in South Dakota. An oily grafter calls on a farmer and makes a bid for his land. The figures are absurdly low at first, but by degrees are raised as high a3 S6O an acre, and the farmer consents. Then the visitor explains that he is only an agent, but that he can sell the land at the price named if the owner will agree to pay for advertising at the rate of fifty cents an acre. The "agent" promises orally that the ad vertising money will not bo payable until the land is sold, but this stipula tion is not contained in a contract that the farmer signs. In a few days he receives a copy of an ad and not over-courteous demand for money. It is said that twenty two agriculturists were caught with this bait in Brown County and that one of them gave up $320. Others de clare hotly that they will not pay but they will make a fight in the courts. Not for Murphy. Mr. Murphy—Oi want to buy a pair of gloves. Clerk—Here's something I believe will just suit you. It's a suede glove. Mr. Murphy—Niver, begorra! Ol want Irish gloves. Swade gloves, In €ade!--Kansas CHy Timc3. Important to Motners. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for Infants and children, and see that it In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. However things may seem, no evil thing is success, and no good thing failure. —Samuel Longfellow. Many Old People Suffer from Bronchial Affections particularly at this time of year. Brown's Bronchial Troches give immediate relief. After the First Kiss. • Geraldine—Well, I like that! Gerald —All right; have another. ONI.Y ONE "BROMO OlIININE" Tliot Is I.AXATIVIS lIKOMO QUININK. Lock for ttio signature " r W. UKOVi£. UsoU tlio World uvcrto Cure a (JJIU in One Day. 25c. Talk 13 cheap—unless a lawyer la handing it out. Mrs. WIIIBIOW'H Soothing Syr ap. For children t?»»»tl)ln;j, softens thepurns, reduces In flammation, allay b ;>aln, cure* wind colic. bottlo. Show us a man who lives the simple lifs and we'll show you a cynic. From the Railway World, January j, igoß. Chicago. They terminate at Dolton, from whict point entrance is made over the Belt Line Whiting, where the oil freight originates, is not on the lines of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois which receives its Whiting freight from the Belt Line at Dolton. The former practice, now discontinued, in filing tariffs was to make them read from a point on the line of the fil ing road, and it was also general to state on the same sheet, that the tariff would apply tc other points, e.g., Whiting. The Chicago & Eastern Illinois followed this practice in filing its rate from Dolton, and making a note on the sheet that is applied to Whiting. This was in 1895 when this method of filing tariffs was in common use. Now let us see in what way the intending shipper of oil could be misled and deceived by the fact that the Chicago & Eastern Illinois had not filed a rate reading from Whiting, Commissioner Smith contends that "conceal ment is the only motive for such a circuitous arrangement," i.e., that this method of filing the rate was intended to mislead intending competitors of the Standard Oil Company. Suppose such a prospective oil refiner had ap plied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for the rate from Chicago to East St. Louis over the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, he would have been informed that the only rate filed with the commission by this company was cents from Dolton, and he would have been further informed, if indeed he did not know this already, that this rate applied throughout Chicago territory. So that whether he wished to locate his plant at Whiting, or anywhere else about Chicago, under an arrangement ol long standing, and which applies to all the in dustrial towns in the neighborhood of Chica go, he could have his freight delivered over the Belt Line to the Chicago & Eastern Illi nois at Dolton and transported to East St, Louis at a rate of 6% cents. Where then ia the concealment which the Commissioner ol Corporations makes so much of? Any rate— from Dolton on the Eastern Illinois or Chap pell on the Alton, or Harvey on the Illinois Central, or Blue Island on the Rock Island, applies throughout Chicago territory to ship ments from any other point in the district. So far from the Eastern Illinois filing its rate from Dolton in order to deceive the shipper, it is the Commissioner of Corporations who either betrays his gross ignorance of transpor tation customs in Chicago territory or relies on the public ignorance of these customs to deceive the public too apt to accept unques tionlngly every statement made by a Govern ment official as necessarily true, although, as in the present instance, a careful examination shows these statements to be false. The final point made by President Moffett that other commodities of a character similar to oil were carried at much lower rates than 18 cents, the Commissioner of Corporations discusses only with the remark that "the 'reasonableness' of this rate is not in question. The question is whether this rate constituted a discrimination as against other shippers of oil," and he also makes much of the failure of President Moffett to produce before the grand jury evidence of the alleged illegal acts of which the Standard Oil official said that other Moravian Barley and Speltz, two pre.it cereals, makes growing and fat tening hogs and cattle possible in Dak , Mont., Ida., Colo., yes, everywhere, and add to above Salzer's Hill ion l)ollar Grans, the 12 ton Hay wonder Teosinte, which produces 80 tons of green fodder per acre. Emperor William Oat prodigy, etc., and other rare farm seeds that they offer. JUST CUT THIS OUT A*D KETUBJ* IT with 10c in stamps for packing, etc., to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., and get their big catalog and lota of farm Beed samples. K. & W. This Is the law of benefits between men: The one ought to forget at once what he has given; the other ought never to forget what he has received. —Seneca. Do You Eat Pie? If not you are missing half the pleasure of life. Just order from your grocer a few packages of "OUR-PIE" anil learn how eusy it Is to make Chocolate and Custard pies that will please you. If your grocer won't supply you, go to one who will. What a man thinks he knows about women a woman knows be doesn't know. PII.ES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DATS. PAZO OINTMENT la guaranteed to euro ANY CUB of Itrhinp, Jilind, liiemllnK or Bto 14 days or money refunded. &oc. It's a sweeping assertion to say that a new broom sweeps clean. "OUCH, OH MY BACK" NEURALGIA. STITCHES. LAMENESS. CRAMP TWINGES. TWITCHES FROM WET OR DAMP ALL BRUISES. SPRAINS. A WRENCH OR TWIST THISSOVEREIGN REMEDY THEY CAN'T RESIST ST JACOBS OIL { Price 25c and 50c 1,1 OFTHEFAMILY, 8 V, "* P. MEN, BOYS, WOMEN. MISSES AND CHILDREN. ft jgV, , -f5 k $ ftr?. W. L Oougfna maktta snrf M/te more q JBjpk /1l 8 mon'as2.SO,s3.Ud»atlSS.BOahoes /JfJmtkff than c.l* other manofneturor In the^vJjjgKWt-. JJ®* wor/r/, benauao thojr haitS their V •;■>>::' v-// rati shape, fit bctiaft or«Ja*» fa»)ffe», and \ tgjw'J&hxY Color *£S» spo of OTBafop i rn/uo than any Other *CK'i Kvritin ahocs In the tvoeld 10-ifmy* W® r d , i W. L. Douglas $4 and $5 Gilt Edgo Shoes Cannot Be Equalled At Any Price *«*<•*«*. OV I'AI TIOV. V.-. 1,. Dooelbj n»n>« »wl pries U «t*inpocl on bottom. TiiUe 3Yo Sabaitltnte. Bold by the tiest alio© dealers everywhere. Shoes mauled from to any pnrt of the vrorld. Jllu»- trated Catalog free to auv address. UOIJftLAS, [«rooktuu, Mass. i large shippers in the territory had been guilty. Considering the fact that these shippers in ; eluded the packers and elevator men of Chi , cago the action of the grand jury in calling i upon President Moffett to furnish evidence of their wrong-doing may be interpreted as a de i mand for an elaboration of the obvious; but tho fact that a rate-book containing these freight fate 3 for other shippers was offered in i evidence during the trial and ruled out by Judge I.and is. was kept out of sight. Presi : dent Moffett would not, of course, accept the , invitation of the grand jury although he might have been pardoned If he had referred them i to various official investigations by the Inter slate Commerce Commission and other de , partments of the Government. We come back, therefore, to the conclusion of the whole matter, which is that the Stand ard Oil Company of Indiana was fined an amount equal to seven or eight times the val ue or Its entire property, because its traffio department did not verify the statement of the Alton rate clerk, that the six-cent commod ity rate on oil had been properly filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission. There is no evidence, and none was introduced at the trial, that any shipper of oil from Chicago territory had been Interfered with by the 18-cent rate nor that tho failure of the Alton to file its six cent rate had resulted in any discrimination against any independent shipper,—we must take this on the word of the Commissioner of Corporations and of Judge Landis. Neither is it denied even by Mr. Smith that the •"inde pendent" shipper of oil, whom he pictures as being driven out of business by this discrim ination of the Alton, could have shipped all the oil he desired to ship from Whiting via Dolton over the lines of the Chicago & East ern Illinois to East St. Louis. In short, Presi dent Moffett's defence is still good, and we predict will be so declared by the higher court. The Standard Oil Company has been charged with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors. Beginning with the famous Rice of Marietta, passing down to apostle of popular liber ties, Henry Demarest Lloyd, with his Wealth Against the Commonwealth, descending by easy stages to Miss Tarbell's offensive person alities, we finally reach the nether depths of unfair and baseless misrepresentation in the report of the Commissioner of Corporations. The Standard has been charged with every form of commercial piracy and with most of the crimes on the corporation calendar. After long years of strenuous attack, under the leadership of the President of tho United States, the corporation is at last dragged to the bar of justice to answer for its misdoings. The whole strength of the Government is di rected against it, and at last, we are told, the Standard Oil Company is to pay the penalty of its crimes, and it is finally convicted of hav ing failed to verify the statement of a rate clerk and is forthwith fined a prodigious sum, measured by the car. Under the old criminal law, the theft of property worth more than a shilling was punishable by death. Under the interpretation of the Interstate Commerce law by Roosevelt and Judge Kenesaw Landis, a technical error of a traffic official is made the excuse for the confiscation of a vast amount of property. By doing duty we learn to do E. B. Pusey. PATENTS !""' TP AD E NIA3K3 Ob " r." . . ~,T. ta.npil. (fri-.nuetl uuil pro** iited l>? AI.KXANIIKK A ll(> \V K ■.(-,, I'j.i.rl i.'^.rrZ. <Brt*biiii h e<ti(<67.) 6'i:;thHt.. n. \v„ Washington i..c. Book A of Information tent FHKIi niTFUTP P. rutppim, Pntnnt Atlnr |*«■ I B°|H H ne>, Wimhington, D O. idrlra ■ ■ rail ■ \Jr free. J . riur !uw, Highest r\ 112. "JlSlw ""ii Thompson's Eye Water' A. N., K.—C (1508 —5) 2215. 7
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