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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
NLY about
proverbial “blue
is ‘there published na
book which is so im
portant as to
in regarding its appear
ance as “news.” In order
attention as
the
moon”
ance ‘in
to deserve
a news event, it
has to reveal
facts
considerable
usualy
hith
subject
OMe
erto unknown about n
which is of
a large number of
cases a new biography will
up to that standard, but it is a
paratively occurrence for
thing, both
tance, to be discovered
great enongl
tion of “considerable
large number of people
about the
would he true
and Lincoln.
There
interest to
some
15Ure
com
any
impor
people In
me
rare
and of vital
about a
answer the qualitica
new
Han
1 to
interest to =
=. in
only men of whom
would be Wi:
America
this
shington
heen so mn hooks
written Abraham LL
nomber runs into the
the whole field of Lib
heen so zhly
not seem discover
anything new about him Nor is It
iikely that a new Lincoln hook would
ordinarily excite than casual
interest and However
within recent has ap
peared a new work on Linceln which
has heen “news.” In that news stories
have been written shout it, This ad
ditlon te the store of knowledge about
the Great Emancipator is the
volume work
Albert J. Beveridge,
States senator from Indiana, under
the title of “Abraham Lincoln, 1800
1858." and published by the Houghton
Miffiln company.
It Is a striking fact ahout this
“Lincoln™ that the literary critics
have been unanimous in pronouncing
it the most important study of Lin
coln that has yet been written and
one newspaper devoted no than
a full ‘page to a review of it hy a
man of national prominence. He was
Maude G. Bowers, “keynoter,” at the
Democratic national convention, at
Houston, last year, a friend of Bev.
eridge and himself a biographer and
historian of renown, In his review
he sald: "It seems Incredible that we
have had to walt for almost seventy
years for a biography of Lincoln deal
ing adequately with the first afty
years of his life. The monumental
hingraphy of Nieolay and flay was
written with frank partisanship and.
worse still, under the critical eye of
Robert Todd Lincoln, who, until the
end of his long life, appeared more
prone to concegiment than to reveln
ation. The Herndon hiography was
mnquestionably the most starkly hon.
ext but Hs very honesty danmed it in
the eyea of those who preferred to
deify rather than te explain its sub
ject. By that time we had entered
spon the myth-making period, fol.
lowed with a flood eof hiographiles
written in the spirit of extravagant
praise, and the result has been that
the Lincoln who lived before the de
hate has been comparatively unknown
uot now.”
So we have had the great number
of books on Lincoln written by every
type of person-—by biographers and
professional historians, hy teachers
and preachers, by lawyers, hy poets
nnd by novelists, And, as one re
viewer has pointed out “Hitherto
every new book on Lincoln has been
have
ahout oln--the
~and
wolniana hus
that It
hundreds
thoroug combed
does possible fo
ninre
discussion
months there
two
inate
United
written by the
former
loss
Adopted Elephants
It is a well-known fact in the ele
phant camps of India that a calf,
when left an orphan for any reason,
is looked after by the herd and, if a
suckling, Is taken over by a foster
mother. This has happened again and
again and on one ocension in our ex-
perience at a teakwood lugging camp
a calf that lost its mother at the
stage when it was being weaned was
taken over by a tusker of uncertain
FPretures Gourbesy, —
ox #5 blows SNS rrr Corry nary
conception of Li
Beveridge, under
present, not Beveridge's Lin.
but Lincoln What Is
Beveridge did what he started
i
"
ncoin
however,
more,
out to do.
How then that the
Lincoln has
does it hug
ut last
nen
I
been revealed
answer
Mr
statement by
Bowers In win
the fact
commented uj
which he
that
true
Donglas as it
leveridge does justice
of Stephen A
done
greatness
has never been
storian before, fe writes
ps vi
understand
There was haologicnl
for the
Douglas
probably na
Beveridge
reason
for there are some
both
Iwo
resemblunces in the
gifts careers of the men
and
Both were orators, fighters
and a certain nw
both
chairmen of
DOSBOSHed]
f dash isterfuiness
‘
f
won renown early:
the
manner ;
hoth were
committee on ter
senate
ritories
isiation that mad
the
their
mold leg states:
enmity of powerful
own party.” in
sald that
had an understanding of
both =
statesmen in
sense of the word and in
urred
elements in
the
leveridge
same way It may he
Lincoln becanse ere skiliful
ians who became
truest
his own disappeointipent in the arenn
Beveridge could apprect
the disappointment whieh
early In hiz political ea
secs entirely
CRIN
neoln
plausible
that when “a looks at Lin
Lin
when evolution of the
into siafesman was
taking place, as it was in the period
Beveridge covers in his
onld result an
understanding of the
which were shaping his life and which
make hiro the great man that
statesman
especially at the period In
the
the
coln's life
two
there sb nde
forces
were to
The story of how this latest Lin
coin blographer set about and accom
plished his task is in itself a romantle
Several years Beveridge
noted principally as a brilliant orator
and one of the outstanding person
alities in the United States senate
amazed the literary world with his
two-volume “Life of John Marshall”
It was halled by scholars not as only
one of the finest blographies that had
ever heen written by an American,
hut as a noteworthy contribution to
American history because Beveridge
had made a sweeping and magnificent
interpretation of the early days of
the republic through the life of the
great chief justice, When In 1022
leveridge suffered his final disap
pointment in politics and saw that he
had missed a promised greatness in
this field of activity, he again turned
to writing .and determined to take up
again the thread of the American
stary, interpreting an later phase of
it than the Marshall phase in terms
of the eareer of a man greater even
than Marshall—Abraham Lincoln.
Of that ambitions project and what
it involved, Bowers says;
Needless to say, Mr, Deveridge dio
not approach his colossal task in the
spirit of an lconoclast; nor in that of
a blind worshiper, willing to prostitute
hia art as 3 blographer to the preser.
vation of a myth. We have heard him
say that he would hardly have had the
courage to undertake the task at all
bad he had the slightest! conception of
the superficiality with which the field
had hean searched before,
it was a tremendous task. It meant
weary months with musty manuscripts
searching the long deserted avenues
that promised the possibility of new
light, examining thousands of old let.
ane, HED
temper, to be brought up by him. He
allowed it to be suckled by a femule
until weaned, and so strong did his
affection for the calf become that he
refused to work except with the ealf
at heel.—Maj). A. W. Smith, in At
lantic Monthly,
Dried Human Heads
Grewsome little dried up human
heads are appearing in London. These
hetds have long heen treasured as
spoils of battie by certuln South
American tribes, and contracted by a
ALBERT «J.
BEVERIDGE'
ters, the inn
newspapers and
continent on
fruitful, jo
turning imerable pag
old, yellowing
ing over the
fruitless, as well as irney
Searcely ha
ppalled at the disc
fegquately the work had been done
Myth after myth faded
fore hia searchligl Thus
overy of how In.
wlfore
ter tha
that
been
of Linceln™
foulish
he
stride
ridge
monumental task is that
informat
COINS Creer
nals legisiat
ive hurried over this
only
tion on It is contained in the
which ure
volunes,
intive reports incionded in
huge
id having no index
f in small
printes
What Hev
eid
dust-covered volumes
ald of 8a magnifying
The
hasty
type ar
g0 10
g Springti
he
ig these
and with the
glass go over them all, result
para
Wographers
the 1 gis
devotes 137
instend of a few
such as other
written about Li
leveridge's study
pages to this period which had a vital
importance in shapiug the character
and later career of Lincoln Another
instance lies in the statement that he
wrote and rewrote the chapters of his
books, not once, nor twice, but many
times, One of them was rewritten 15
times before he was satisfied with it!
“Af this point the pen of the writer
stopped, leaving the chapter in its
first draft.” Buch i= the “statemen!
made at the end of the chapter on
“The Great Debate” in the second
volume of Beveridge's Lincoln. "At
Mr. Beveridge's elbow were the vol
umes of the Debates and Schurz's
autobiography, open at the pages
whence he had taken the last quota
tions or references. On the table, near
hig hand, were the heaps of nutes
prepared for the chapter, extracts
from letters, newspapers, proceedings
of conventions and legislatures, and
photostats of the more Important
manuscripts he had found im public
and private collection.” For Death
had stayed the hand of the great biog
rapher of a great man, In April, 1027
Albert J. Beveridge died suddenly in
the prime of his life with his story
half told. Barton, another noted Lin
coln biograph =, has well said of Bev
eridge’s “Lincoln” “It ends like Schn
bert's Unfinished Symphony.” “This
is. one of the greatest tragedies in
Hterary history,” says Bowers. who
pays this final tribute to Beveridge:
“However, we may rejoice in the
realization that he has done for the
first fifty years (of Lincoln's !ife) that
which has never heen done before, and
no other could do so well, He has
raised In his Marshall and Lincoln a
monument to himself which will out
inst marble and before which future
generations will pay homage to his
genius as an loterpreter of the Amer
ican spirit.”
have
lator,
neoin
special process of thelr own inven
tion till they are doll-dike in size,
These heads are moeh valued by col
lectors of queer relies In London, but
an expert says that there are =
ft ap
pears that medical students at Quito
have discovered the drying process
and are now helping themselves to
heads which have not fallen in battie
Rewards offered by the Indian gov.
ernment for snake killing resulted in
57,000 snakes being killed last year.
vy
Things of Importance
owner can often greatly
exterior appearance of
giving careful considera.
placement of sidewalks
The home
the
the home by
tion to the
drives,
There are many possibilities in de
grounds that form a
for the home. There
well-defined res for
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terraced effects add
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EOD
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The itself when bullt of
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seed may be planted
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in time becomes un
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Construction details should he gly
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ly be attractive in appear
permanent in character, In
ent type of
ab eight to ten
This will
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ance, but
the full
a six-inch sl
paverm ariveway
feet wide
tuke
such as
cnre
service
trucks, A
should be provided to
of heavy duty
ery nnd coal one
taken 10 see
which
nt 1s to lay Is brought to grade
drainage. Care must be
foundation upon
before concretl-
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| have to be into a
We could afford to
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well economize
neces
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Move to Bea tify Roads
The act passed at the last session
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