- On February 12, 100 years will have passed since Abraham Lincoln, considered by many the greatest fig- ure in American history, came into the world. It is an old story, the life of Abraham Lincoln, yet an ever fas- <¢inating one. To the younger gener- ation Abraham Lincoln has already become a half mythical figure, which, in the haze of historic distance, grows to more and more heroic p ortions, but also loses in aistinctn@@ of out- line and feature. This is indeed the common lot of popular heroes. As the state of society in which Abra- ham Lincoln grew up passes away, the world will read with Increasing wonder of the man, who, not only of the humblest origin, but remain- ing the simplest and most unpretend- ing of citizens, was raised to a posi- their consent. As a politician and a statesman he took no steps in ad- vance of the great mass of our peo- ple. At times I thought that he was timid, over-cautious; but in the end he was right and I was wrong." From an address delivered by Jos- eph H. Choate, before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, November 13, 1900: ‘He was born great, as distinguished from those who achieve greatness or have it thrust recognized by the educational intelli- chose him for their ruler in a day of deadly peril.” A Man of True Greatness, Hon. George E. Boutwell, ex-Sec- retary of the Treasury: “His chief history; who was the gentlest and most peace loving of mortals, unable {0 see any creature suffer without a pang in his own heart, and suddenly found himsell called to conduct greatest and bloodiest of our wars; and who, in his heart the best friend of the defeated South, was murdered because a crazy fanatic took him for its most cruel enemy. It is almost needless to rehearse the events in the life of this illus- trious hero. He was born in what is now La Rue County, Ky., on Feb- familiar with bis early life in State and in Indiana and Illinois, his Black Hawk War, as student, store- and statesman, As time passes the character of Lincoln becomes meliowed and most sanctified by the growing gen- eration, and it is interesting to record the estimates placed upon him by as- sociates and those who had been drom time to time brought into per- sonal contact with the great Ameri- can. The tributes found below are from men who had occasion to view the character of Lincoln from various standpoints, and it is notable that in all these separate views of it, there is nothing that breaks the harmony of the whole. From every s'de at which we are called to look upon his character we see something noble. He Is small nowhere. A Wonder of History. “Whether it was in the small things or in the great things with which he had to deal,” said the Hon. Henry IL. Dawes, former United States Senator from Massachusetts, “he was equally matehless. And all this was born in him. Neither edu- <ation nor experience nor example had anything to do with the produc- tion of this great central. controlling foree in the greatest of all the crises that ever came upon the nation, He grew wiser and broader and stronger as difficulties thickened and perils multiplied, till the end found him the wonder in our history.” From His Law Associate, From Mr. Herndon, for twenty-five years Mr. Lincoln's law partner: “Mr. Lincoln was conscientious, Just, truthful and honest, and hence thought that every other person was Just, truthful and honest: but in this belief he was often sorely disappoint ed. He had an infinite fa'th—trust ~in the people, and in thelr instinet of, and mental insight into, the fun- damentals of government. He trust. eG the people and saw no creature made purposely to rule them withont to enduring fame must rest upon service, in the causes of liberty and the Union. It is not enough to say that in his office as President the oppor- tunity came to him to save the Union and to emancipate millions from slavery. Another man as President might have done as much; but Mr. Lincoln so conducted affairs during the period of war that no stain rests upon him, so conducted affairs that the nation is not called upon to make explanations, nor to invent apolo- gles.” Hon. Thomas LL. James, ex-Post- master-General: “Mr. Lincoln looked forth upon the world, as we of to-day realize, with almost Shakespeare's his er quality of his, that subtie capacity to fathom the human heart, to under and so understanding to be guided i the discipline which it possible for him in great fairs, and in made ture were familiar to him, And yet, | 80 strong was his sense of humor that no ridiculous event or situation es caped his notice.” Hon. John T. Morgan, United States Senatag from Alabama, and an ex-Confederate™ general: ‘The char- acter of Mr. Lincoln was clearly dis- played in his conduct of the war, but he was deprived of the opportunity for its full development in a period of peace and security. His most con- spicuous virtue, as commander-in- chief of the army and navy, was the absence of a spirit of resentment, or oppression, toward the enemy, and the self-imposed restraint under which he exercised the really abso- lute powers within his grasp. For this all his countrymen revere hls memory, rejoice in the excellence of his fame, and those who failed in the great struggle hold him in grateful esteem." Carl Schurz: “There never has been a President in such constant and active contact with the public opin- { fon of thé country as there never has while at the | been a President who, i head of the Government, remained 80 near to the people. Beyond the { eirele of those who had long known him, the feeling steadily grew that the man in the White House was ‘honest Abe Lincoln still, and that every citizen might approach with complaint, expostulation or advice, without danger of meeting a rebuff from power-proud authority, or hu- miliating condescention, and this privilege was used by so many and with such unsparing freedom that only superhuman patience could have endured it all.” General Sherman's Tribute, General Sherman: “Lincoln was the purest, the most generous, the most magnanimous of men. He will hold a place in the world's history loftier than that of any king or con- queror. It is no wonder that the par- laments of Europe, that the people throughout the civilized world should everywhere speak of him with rev- erence; for his work was one of the greatest labors a human intellect ever sustained. 1 have seen and heard many of the famous orators of our country, but Lincoln's unstudied speeches surpassed all that [ ever heard. I have never seen them equalled, or even imitated. It was not scholarship; it was rhetoric; it wad not elocution; It was the unaf- | fected and spontaneous eloquence of ' the heart, There was nothing of the { mountain torrent in his manner—it { was rather the calm flow of the riv- er." Henry Watterson, at the recent i banquet of the Confederate veterans, {held at New York: “His was the | genius of common sense, Of perfect | intellectual aplomb, he sprang from a Virginia pedigree, and was born in | Kentucky. He knew all about the | Bouth, its institutions, its traditions {and its peculiarities. From first to {last throughout the angry debates | preceding the war, amid all the pas- | sions of the war itself, not one vin- dictive, proscriptive word fell from his tongue or pen, whilst during its progress there was scarcely a day { when he did not project his great per- i sonality between some Southern man or woman and danger. Yet the South does not know, except as a kind of hearsay, than this big brained, big COMMERCIAL COLUNL Weekly Review of Trans and Lates' Market Reoorls. Bradstreet's says: “rade ig rather quieter thls week, exceptions being a few points in the West, Southwest and Pacific North- west, where more is reported doing At most markets new demand: is still conser- yative, and ind!sposition prevail'ng to buy heavily pending the gettle- ment of tariff, crop or other uncer taintles and the tendency is, a# througnout most of last year, to buy in small lots for quick shipment L'neg showing especially quiet con- ditiong just at present are iron and steel, in which demand is disappoint. ing, despite reports of cuts in finish ed lines calculated to enlarge busi- ness, cotton goods line, where demand is steady, despite recent advances, ‘Bus ness failures in the United States for the week ended January 28 were 311, against 307 last week, 259 in the like week of 1908, 211 in 1907, 228 in 1906 and 239 in 16405. “Wheat, including flour, exports from the United States and Canada for the week aggregate 3,044,693 bushels, against 3,058,219 last week and 4,328,205 bushelg this week last year, Corn exports for the week are 1,365,299 bushels, against 749 078 bushels last week and 1,847.- 827 bushels in 1908.” Wholesale Markets New York. — Wheat — No, 1.08% @ 1.09%, elevator: No. 1.10%, f._ 0. b. afloat; No. 1 North- ern Duluth, 1.18%, f. o. b. afloat; No. 2 hard winter, 1.16%, f. 0. b. afloat. Corn—No. 2, 71. elevator, and 68%. f. 0. b. afloat; No. 2 white nominal and No. 2 yellow, 60%, I. ©. b. afloat, Oats—Mixed, 26@ 32 64%; natural white, S54@57%; clipped 1bs., 6635 G62. Eggs — Pirmer; receipts, 6,823 cases, State, Pennsylvania and near- by fancy, selected, white, 34c.: do. falr to choice, 31@ 23: brown and mixed, fancy, 31@32; do., fair to choice, 283 @ 30; Western firsts, 29% @ 20; seconds, 28% @ 29 Poultry Alive, dull; Western chickens, 12%e¢c.; fowls, 13; turkeys, 12@ 18. Dressed, weak, 2 red, 2 red, 5 54 @ ibs. 32940 ibs. 26@ a2 2 white, Philadelphia. —Wheat higher: contract $1.08601 08%, Corn-—Firm, fair ary, 663% @ 66 4c. Oats Quiet, but steady; white, natural, 56@ 56 ¥%e, Butter—Firm: Western creamery lc. higher; extra Western creamer; 81c.; do., nearby prints, 32e¢. Eggs — Firm le. higher: syivania and other nearby 32¢. at mark; do., current in retuhnable cases, 3l1c. at Western firsts, free cars, 32c. at mark: do., current receipts, fre: cars, 30@ 31. Cheese—Firm, good demand: New York full creams, choice, 14% @ 14%e.; do, fair to good, 13% @ 11 Poultry——Alive, quiet but s'eady. fowls, 13% @ 14¢c.; old roosters, 10; spring chickens, 13% @ 14; ducks 13@ 14; geese, 11@ 12%; turkey: 16@ 17. Baltimore Wheat No Western, 1.084%c.; contract spo! 1.08: No. 3 red, 1.08; steamer No 2 red, 1.05; steamer No. 2 red West. ern, 1.05%. The closing was January, 1.0Re.. bid; 1.08%; May, 1.10%. Corn——Western opened epot, 668% @ 67; February, 87; March, 67TY, @67%. Oats—We quote: White—No. 2, 5@ 55%e.; No. 3, 64@54%; No , BI@53%. -Mixed-—No. bide. 0.3. 53G53%. Rye—We quote, per bu: No. 2 Western rye, R2G82%c.; bag lots, as to quality and condition, 75@ 81 Hay-—We quote, per ton: timothy, large bales, $14.50@ 15.00: No. 1 timothy, small blocks, $14.50 @ 15. Butter — We Creamery fancy, 29@29; good, 20@ 24. Eggs-—We quote, per dozen, lose off: Maryland, Pennsyvivania and hoary firsts, 28¢.; Wesiern firsts, 28. «Firm, ce grade, January, demand; Janu. No, 2 Penn- firsis, receipts mark: 2 red firm; spot and February firmer 66% © » 3 “sy 4 N quote, per Ib.: 30@ 30%: choice, 22925; imitation Live Stock. Chicago.—Cattle-~Market steady Steers, $4.60@7.15; cows, $30 5.50; heifers, $3@5.76; bulls, $3.40 @3.90; calves, $3.50@ 8; stocker® and feeders, $2.50@ 4.50. Hogs — Market 6 to 10ec. lower Choice heavy shipping, $6.35 @ 6.40; butchers, $6.30@ 6.40; light mixed $5.85@6; choice light $6@ 6.05; packing, $6.10@ 6.25; pigs, $4.75, 5.60: bulk of sales, $6@ 6.30. Sheep-——Market 15@ 26c. lowes emergencies to stand forth as a man of true greatness, which makes the consideration of him as fresh, invig- orating and timely as it was when those great affairs of which he was the master were occupying the coun- try's eye.” General Egbert L. Viele: Mr. Lin. coln was a man of the highest de- gree of self-culture, in so far as re- gards a knowledge of the most beau tiful and sublime writings in. the English language. His memory was photographic in character, He could repeat from memory almost any pas- sage after he had read it once, and nothing delighted him so much as to sit down of an evening among his im- mediate friends and repeat whole stanzas from Byron or Browning or the plays of Shakespeare. Most of souled man was a friend, a friend at | court, when friends were mcst in need, having the will and the power to rescue it from the wolves of bru- tality and rapine whom the history of all wars tell us the lust of victory, the very smell of battle, lures from their hiding to prey upon the help- less, the dying and the dead.” | From a public address by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “He is the true history of the American people in his time. Step by step he walked before them; slow with thelr slowness, quickening his march by theirs; the true representative of the continent; ap entirely public man; father of his country, the pulse of twenty millions throbbing in his heart, the thought of their minds articulated by his Longue.” 7.656; yearlings, $60 7. Kansas City, Mo.—Market for steers steady to 10c¢. lower: other: steady. $5.75@ 6.60; $4.76@85.75; stockers fair to Western steers and feeders 65.70; Bouthern cows, $2.50@4.25; $3.10 $3.50@ 6.50. Hogs—Market Be. strong. Top, $5.65 @ 6.25; heavy, $6.15@6.27% butchers, $5.80@ 6.20 pickers and ight, $5.50@ 6; pigs, $4@ 5.25. 8h Market 10c. lower; lambs, $6.25@ 7.60; Western sheep, $4 $80: stockers and feeders, $3 . . ws ow Pa. — Cattle — Cholce, $6.25 @6.35; prime, $5904 6.10, Sheep — Prime wethers, $5.10@ 5.25; culls and common, $2@ 3.50; lambs, $5@ 7.40; veal calves, $8@ Hogs—Prime heavies, 8.60 6.66; mediums, $6.40 Sa! ee Aso i sca G0 roughs, $5@ ET . § dhbbbbdddd Jno. F. 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Probably there is no man who has more respect for a whale, even if ft did dine on ten of his wood decoys, than William F. Hallett, who has a camp on Sandy Neck. He relates the his head seem like white coot Cape Ccd. Mr. Hallett gaid 1 out before daylight in morning and put out about thirty decoys, all wood He th shit he was about a mile or a and a half from the beach, twenty feet of water T wind was light, with no sea Just as the he saw a black whale following the shore down from Plymouth Point, about the same dis- tance {rom ; as he was He thought nothing abo it, as the birds had commenced to fiy ning was good The next this eames up and was t yards off The few minute. around, first at him and then at the bunch of Mr. Hallett sail { was no doubt tninking which would make the Dest starter for breakfast. Mr. Hallett said to his best judg- meat the whale was about eighty feet long and fifteen feet across the back During the time the whale was sizing up Mr. Hallett and his outfit he was cir ling around the boat stowly. Hal lett said he did not dare 0 make a move to try to haul in the anchor and row away, as he thought if the whale saw him move it would be more likely to take after hin: so he gat Jow in the bottom of the skiff. with his hair standing end, ex- pecting that every minute would be the last, as the whale seemed 0 Lake more notice of him than it did of the decoys, After the whale had made three turns around the outfit it backed off and made a dash for the bunch of woods with its mouth open. The whale sucked down ten of the woods, lines and all. After it ap- parently tried to swallow one that and four shooting fifteen one the made hours minutes morning on back 16 went just the i miie about fa i "he sun came up and the gun- £ he k ov 2 new the whale lowing about 100 great creature lay the water, a ooking un woods on seemed to get angry and lay on the water and thrashed its tail until the water was like a boiling vat. Mr. Hallett was kept busy bailing, flew all over him. About the time to give up, as his boat was low in the water and one or two more sweeps of the mighty tail would send him to | the bottom, the whale turned around | until headed off toward Province- town.. 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