Five-Minute Chats About
Our Presidents
By JAMES MORGAN.
LINCOLN AWAKENED A GREAT FRIEND
1861~~March 4, Abranam Lincoln
Inaugurated sixteenth pres.
ident, age fifty-two,
April 14, Fort Sumter sur.
rendered,
April 15, Lincoln called
for 75,000 volunteers.
1862—Sept. 22, emancipation
proclamation,
1863—Nov. 19, Lincoln's Gettys.
burg address.
1864—Nov. 8, Re.clected presi.
dent
1865—April 14, shot by John
Wilkes Booth.
| April 15, died, aged fifty-
1 five.
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1 HE stone
House
1809—Feb. 12, Abraham Lincoln
born to Thomas and Nancy
Hanks Lincoln, near Hod-
genville, Hardin County,
Ky.
1816-—Moved to Indiana,
1830—Moved to Illinois.
1835.43—In the Illinois
lature.
1847.9—In Congress.
1858—Ju'y 24, challenged Doug-
jas to the great debate,
November, defeated for the
Senate,
1860—May 18, nominated for
President by the Repub.
lican national convention
at Chicago.
Legis
Q
the White
in
walls of
no more shut Lincoln
O
RD navy yard, breaking |and sorrows and pride, than did the
the stillness of a March dawn in 1854) unhewn logs behind which he shivered
with its 100 exultant roars over the | in the cabin home of his youth. One
repeal of the Missouri compromise, | "1ght he dreamed that he was in a
awakened Lincoln to the great mis-|crowd, when some one recognized him
sion for which his whole life had been | as the president gnd exclaimed
an unconscious preparation. After g{suipiser tHe 13 a very common look-
single term in congress, where his erit- | ing man.’ Whereupon he answered:
jelsm of the Mexican war in the midst | “Friend, the Lord prefers
of that conflict had left him unavall- | looking people. That is the reason he
uble for a second term, and after | makes so many of them.”
provi lentially falling to obtain the snug |
berth of commissioner of the general |
land office, he had retired to his dingy |
law office in Springfield.
The out the dead line |country thinking. He
against the spread of slavery aroused | the source.
him from his indifference to political| As he fi
| senators and
? ari
kept in touch with the mass,
not have to take the word of
| clans or newspapers about what
¢ was went
of
wiping
the bigwigs, he plur
"
Seated in
thrown over its ar
+}
opinion t ath.
1
{ with one leg
received the motley crowd
of his
door
y «1
at ease
iin through the wide open
office. The who ap him
Ee
awe found themselves in
of a friend,
sald to every
speech to a regi
porarily to
House, I am
any one of your childs
here my father's
The man fairly exhaled
fraternity, equality. e
that Lincoln
man he ever met who
consciously or nnconsci
occup
fn
n
| come as
lag said the
did not
usly that
white
SNOW
recognized his color,
Sympathy a
| stream from its fountain in this great
heart. A
flowed in
mother's tears, a baby's ory,
| sleeve never failed move Lincoln.
to
he said as he stopped the shooting of
under sentence
i
ia soldier,
martial
Lincoln in 1850,
£3 oo. die
¥ iM hier s ler
ht n .
drew
who pleaded for the life «
ner,
and from his re
tirement. “I know there is a God and
that he hates
he said shinply to
storm coming know hi
it. i he and \
me—and I ie has, I believe I am H ont j
ready.” incol
The
his duty
questions
you have com
and slavery,”
“1 see the
hand
work
and trut
- ind
wear hoops
A TH
fot and I'll be
arilan fry *
mrdon hin
¢ aos twin
i 8 Of ©
neh four
mrey,
party. 3
n Illinois;
came
to his
in the
vice president in
date for nator
phen A.
peal.
While L’/ncoln
campaig
ining the
at nce {ts leade
own
surprise, the second
balloting for
1856,
in R50
suglas, the author of
man
its for
1808 against
made ready for that
as always in every honr of
He
no hint of
decision, he retired within himself.
united no one and
his line of attack called to
gether a dozen friends and read to
them his opening speech, which began
with those immortal words: *A house
divided against itself ceonot stahd. |
believe that this government cannot
endure permanently half slave and
half free It will become all
one the other.”
Every man in the little group warn-
ed him that if he delivered the speech
it would him for the senate,
“If I had to draw a pen Across my
record and erase my whole life from
sight,” he quietly replied, “and I had
one poor gift or cholee left as to what
1 should save from the wreck, I should
choose that wpeech and leave it to the |
world unercsed.” i
Douglas carried a few more legisla- | "PON him, and often he joined the
tive districts and was re-elected, put | Children in their boisterous games In
Lincoin iA] in the aggregate popular | 1° White House grounds,
vote. i In the dark days when the nation
Lincoln had met his Bunker im, | self was at death’s door, one of the
The great mnknown, who had dared to boys “died. For weeks the grieving
cross swords with the foremost cham- father strove in vain to win a spirit of
pion of “he repeal, piqued the curios. | Tesignation, dropping his work for a
ity of the country. Accepting an inyi- | 90Y t a time and surrendering to his
tation to spenk In New York, bls | HOETOW. Doubtless the fortitude he
Cooper union address established his guined ot last ie deh
intellectual and moral right to lead | rich lifted him above the general
the nation.
Nevertheless, when A ich {despair when the fortunes of the
: as, en zealous neigh: ppjon sank lowest.
bory ad first entered hil a8 # CW: | After Willie's death, the other boy
date for president, he protested that|,.,..ivaq a double share of paternal af-
he Was hot fit for the place. Until the
of 1900 actually met in Chi fection. Tad was in the habit of going
4 T No n'y me n i to his father In the evening and mak.
a ise ah ra mentioned | ne q report of all that had happened
for the honor outside his own state.|g... morning, usually falling asleep
Two-thirds of the delegates really fa- |, wo niidet of his prattle. Laying
vorad the nomination of William H. the Hite fellow on the floor by the
Sevard, but as so-tften happens in
side of his desk, Lincoln returned to
Bultic, the rors Dre aa 1, GAY SASks Sati be ow long Gay
mle. In the end Lincoln was nomi ows Jong, when Ho tak Ms Sideping
pated largely because he was the least shou
off to bed,
known man ov the lst of candidates. (Croyright, 1920, by James Morgan)
Cons gn
ve
until he
thing all
or
defeat
Abraham Lincoln.
&
THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL, PA
a a i Se En a
ns i, AA, OA ——— II
Rann-dom Reels
THE FALL SKIRT
———
of the American woman, the fall skirt
will have the same kind of lining us
the silk stocking, but the latter will
contain g trifle more mmterial
(Copyright)
HE fall skirt {8 a neat garment
which looks a good deal like the
spring skirt, but costs more, owing to
the European war, which has caused a
grent scarcity of everything except
campaign bunk.
The fall skirt was gotten up last
February in the heart of Paris,
Frunce, and sent over here to be sold
to women who do not care to look like
any of their neighbors. To the duil
and unpracticed eye of man it is hard
to tell a new fall skirt of the 1917 mod-
ei from the one his wife wore twice
in the early spring and discarded aft-
er making the horrifying discovery
that it was three-quarters of an Inch
too long to be strictly nu fait. There
nothing more depressing than =a
new skirt which is only 75 per cent
au fait and folds carelessly about both
ankles, instead of tilting back rakish-
ly and blinding the innocent bystand-
er In both eyes,
Memories -
By GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS
>
T IS the faculty of Remembering
and constantly calling to mind
what has gone before, that makes it
possible for us to tread Forward It
is what saves us from becoming fos-
sllized. It is what enables us to throw
off the decaying shell of Self and to
renew our strength in Effort and En
thusiasm and in Achievement, :
All that you now have of the Old |
Year are its Memories, How ure you
going to use them?
Every single life has its Stumbling
Times. Every single life has its Climb-
Hours. It is the Memory of the
thrilling moments, that fairly
sur whole consciousness glow with |
power and satisfaction, that make mi
feel we are worthy as fighters in the!
game and as aspirers for a portion of |
he Joy of this world.
All that you have of the Ol4 |
Year ure its Memories. How are you
going to use them?
Why not resolve here and now that |
vou will just let slide, silent from you,
unple
Great care has been taken, accord-
ing to the fashion periodicals, to muke
the full skirt so that it be |
ing
long Cun made
You'ng weicome TO Tus.
F Suck A LoKG Seals MEANS
ANYTHING tn YOUR Youné
now
asaht memory of the past,
gathering up tying to |
while, every Pleasant Memory |
past has giv Make!
and make
vou bolder, braver and bigger. For |
All you of the Old!
Year Years Memories. |
How them?
wna securely
*
the
vou
that
then
th
the en to you?
spurs incentives to
tint now have
and
are its
Pid Aare you going to use
Just Folks
By EDGAR A. GUEST
EVERYWHERE IN AMERICA.
Not somewhere in America, but every-
where today,
Where snow-crowned mountains hold
their heads, the vales where chil-
dren play,
Beside the bench and whirring lathe,
on every luke and stream
And in the depths of earth below, med |
of freedom und of right, |
And once sgain in honor's cause, they |
rally and unite, |
Not somewhere In America 1s love of |
country found i
But east und west and north and south |
once more the bugles sound
And once again, us one, men stand to :
break their brother's chains
make the world a better place, |
where only justice reigns,
The patriotism that is here, 1s echoed |
over there
And
everywhere,
O'er humble home and
the starry banner flies
And far and sear throughout the land
the men of valor rise.
mansion rich
The flag that flutters o'er your home |
is fluttering far nway
Ixes sway
in tnnt states,
white and blue
The same fmpu
souls of men
red, the
Means to one hundred
t means to you,
courage resolute
dis
he
on strong.
what
. you
ing Discovery That It Was Three.
Quarters of inch Too Long to
Be Strictly au Fait
h wit
¥
it
to trip over one of
ano player.
The
thing
winter, b
ski will
that costs m
ut
4
defects
be mn
than |
be
wor
ore lid last
wili not ranted
agninst of ship o
material, Stripes will be worn a great |
deal by women who woul ook better |
some solid,
The
ninld
pinic
in
taffeta.
Scotch
vives whose
Hor in gl
he
DID YOU DREAM OF FIRE?
HBGARD to fire
sitirely agreed
that slmply
nof an bi a favorable omen
re i
4 ’
woe of them atla ivorable
‘ Tly fime
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to different circumstances
arise in
nny with
them predict
3 conflagration
iieh your house or your place of
1
connection
fire. Many of
favorable
while
bummed, a one. |
authorities agree that 10
down. you sill bave | dream of fire,;is a promise of good
: | tuck, it also means that you are likely
te have n quarrel with a friend, though
some declare that you must see the
fire start suddenly to be sure of al
quarrel, and all agree that the dispute |
willbe over a trifle. If you extinguish i
the fire, a surprise is In store for you. |
To see a sparkling fire on a hearth or |
in a stove, denotes plenty of money.
If a woman builds a fire without any
trouble, she will be happy and have
children.
not most
Tyger 113 f
renin of a ost
them all right
you
Others say |
see a fire in which the |
have fallen down It}
most favorable omen and not so
good a one If the houses still stand. |
The consensus of opinion 1s that to!
see nny fire and not get burned by it!
denotes health, fortune and happiness.
that if
houses
To burn yourself In your dreams Is |
not a favorable prognostication, but to |
dream that you touch the fire and are | many
If she has difficulty in making the
fire burn, the omen Is the reverse.
The selentists regard the fire dream
glmply as a reminiscence from
nursery days when we were warned |
not to play with matches and schedule
this dream of the typical or
standard ones,
As the scientists don’t entirely agree
our
ns one
entirely agree among themselves with
regard to the significance of dreamn-
fire, It would seein to be a case where
ench of the rest of us wae entitled to
his own opinion,
(Copyright)
Serve chilled, with any de
MOTHER'S ‘a
COOK BOOK by Pertie Mor wal
The art of cooking cannot be learned | baked In layers: Take one-half a can
out of a book any more Juan he rt ot | of pineapple, add one cupful of sugar
a 1 pros Phrded the Best guide is and the yolks of two eggs with a
sentiment. ~Louls XV. tablespoonful of corn starch. Cook |
all. together, except the eggs. for an
few minutes, then cool, add the eggs
What to Eat. and finish cooking; add when thick a
For a change in serving potatoes | ¢anjespoonful of butter and cool be. |
try: ’ * fore spreading.
io! Sauted Potato Balls. preading. ,
Cut balls from ‘potatoes with a
French cutter. Cook ten minutes in
boiling water, slightly salted. Drain,
put into an omelet pan with n table
spoonful of butter, a sprinkling of pa-
prika, cover and place on the back
of the range and cook until delicately
browned. Shake the pan occasionally
so that the balls will brown evenly.
Use the left-over pleces for mashed
potatoes.
Pineapple Filling for Cake.
Any layer cake recipe may be used
with this filling or a sponge cake
——-
Noodles.
Break two eggs into a bowl, beat
and then add as much flour as can be
stirred Into them. Roll out Into »
very thin sheet, cut In strips and dry !
for. half an hour, then cook io the |
soup ten to fifteen minutes.
« Tomato and Pepper Salad. :
Secald the tomatoes, peel and cut in |
halves, Place on a lettnce leaf cur |
side up. Scoop out some of the pulp
and piace four or five aspasagus tips |
In the center of ench tomato. Cut |
rings from peppers and adinst for’
Southern Steak.
Roll beef or veal In seasoned flour
and fry In a little butter until brown
cover with milk and bake until the
niflk ts absorbed. Cover the pau
while baking.
(F) 1920, Western Newspaper Union)
sss, Pesssmanisamsssis
~MILITANT-MARY ~
ro
AS AN AIS
EALTH IN WEST
Canadian Farmers Confident of /
Record Grain Crop.
Boston Banker, Returning From Trip
Through the Country, Telis of Rich
Yields of Great Northwestern
Wheat Fields.
A Poston banker, desiring to. re-
cuperate from a season of strenuous
work, did what most bankers or
should do, took a holiday, from
the confines of the city Ul Canada
wis In his mind, He would make the
trip, learn something of the country,
breathe of its ozone and return ex.
hilarated both In mind sand body. On
his return a few dave ago, he told the
reporter of the Wall Street Journal of
the richness of the vast flelds of
én groin that he saw
through the Canadian ¥
he broke his jour
Canadian Rockies Jong enon
an
help It, as from the car
t soe
do,
AWAY
fe
goid-
on his trip
x?
ent, Doubts
lews ney into the
1 to make
could
Were
inspection of them
to he
miles
ranged
the
or Ir
gonaen
BLOOKS Away
ba
rst
row upon row
horizon? He
got
£8 tn is
have done
buck to the H
usinsm over }
with
§
its,
Canada
for a
chased
Canada has never known
in Crome
fail
ahonl :
the country
ich
There are districts
zg ®
» partial have been. but
sideration he giver the
that
wi
n the prese
»
is from sever
length by
oR In
— a ee
-. 2
breadth
arkahle
great deal of
gt proport 31
fre POI
Wit or
attention
developin
pment of this Indust
sn adaptable to the count
federal
Advertisement.
nnd provincial governn
Where She Erred.
Miss Gerty Gad called
tartly
the new mi
and sald
“If you don’t improve, Maria
have to dispense with your ser
“But 1 Maria
“Yesterday afternoon you
a fri { mine.”
“Why, 1 never even—
“When Mr. Gumson
with his golf
g. ammed the door
“Was that a gotfbag be had?”
“Yes”
“I'm sorry, miss, but d
was an umbrella mender”
do my hest”
ww
called for me
he said you
in his face.”
inh
thought he
“Eatonic, in Four Days Did
Me $20 Worth of Good”
So writes Mr. Edward W. Bragg of
Mecca, Ind. who suffered . from
stomach troubles for a long time but
eatonlec a test. It quickly removed
appeared. Of course, when the cause
must get well, Eatonle is quick, sure
and safe, and the lasting benefits
come in pew strength, life and pep.
Your druggist will supply you with
entonie at a trifling cost and every all
ing person should get it today. Adv,
Hard to Tell.
“Why do women cry at a wedding?”
“I don't know. I can't make up my
mind If it's the bride or the groom
they are sorry for"
Thinking over our own faults makes
us talk less about those of other peo-
ple. y .
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