PROPOSED SPENCER COUNTY. IVD 7 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON OURTEEN states in the Union and some thirty ities have memorials sort Kentucky, gave him one of imposing magnificent temple at Hodgen- ville, where Is en. shrined the rude log cabin in which he was born on February 12, 1800, Illinois, which first sent him into pub- lic life and gave him. to the n its President at one of the most crit ical periods in its history, ha or Lion as XS RR SCOre more reminders of his greatness, in which he lived during the formative years of long time did not morial erected ia Lincoln. fourteen his life for a have a si honor of That state is Indiana, to which he came at It was in Indiana that he got most of his little schooling ; It was th that he earned his first dollar; it was that he first met with the neighboring youth in a country crossroads store, first read the newspapers and got in touch with the outside world, first began to discuss politics, first took part in pub lic debates and first read law. The soil of the Hoosier state was particu- larly dear to him because it holds the oody of the mother who bore him and that of his only sister who was mar- ried, lived and died there. The only exception to the statement that Indiana was strangely laggard in honoring a man whom she could prop- erly claim as one of her greatest sons is the fact that more than fifty years ago, after vandal hands had cut te pieces the first marker erected by citl. tens in Spencer county over the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, another and more imposing marker was erected there by Clement Studebaker of South jend. So it is especially appropriate that his daughter, Mrs. Anne Stude- maker Carlisle, should he the president of the Indiana Lincoln Union, whicl Is now engaged In the work of raising a fund of more than a million dollars to erect on Indiana soil a national shrine to commemorate the lives of Lincoln and his mother. the ange of seven. ere there Three years ago, on Mother's day, the executive committee of the union held memorial services at the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln and pledged K=elf to the patriotic task. On that occasion, an aviator zooming low over the grave and cabin site, dropped this message: TO THE MANES OF NANCY HANKS LINCOLN The men and here beside your grave Among the guarding their vow, your name Shall never die. And to the add our tribute, from the =kvy We are the artificers of whose handicraft Has gained the praise of men. stone and clay, With brush and pen, we leave expressions of found, But you--You dared to A living child, a plastic to mold Into a soul of love, an divine. Your genius Used an art that ours was side, To you then, Master Artist, we praise, Through devious paths the way, You led with kindly into the light of truth honest man. women of today are trees, to make r praise, the past, With w rought, tn truth we the tnke infant mind, instrument mean be. send our word of that masked hand And a child made an The memorial will include the spot where the Lincoln cabin stood and the grave where his mother lles buried. It is intended that it shall in all re. rpects typify the pioneer days when Lincoln was a youth, The plans of Frederick Law Olmstead, landscape architect of Brookline, Mass, which have been adopted, Include the com- plete restoration of the area with ap. propriate markers, a magnificent me morial hall and the pioneer atmo. sphere of native trees and shrubbery, with a small body of water and a clearing. The proposed national memorial will link the three states of Kentucky. In. EL TT é & 177 TEM EEN Ee Fe RY diana and Illinois in the of Lincoln's life and labors p great destiny, It the ploneer mother 3 perpet tory to his also hon- ors the memory of who gave him to the world. The story of that pioneer mother Is one of the most appealing in all Amer story. “A backwoods na,” Dr. William E. and in his book, “The Women Line hed hy av i t Bobbs dianapolis, he gives this grag picture of her life, and her des the state to which is given lege of caring for her grave: Sowmthern Indiana was reg and the settlement the Chloe river were few and There were at first no regular services, physicians, no Perhaps Thomas Lincoln did not r gret the absence of schools so much as Nancy <id. There i&8 no reason to believe that he opposed such educa- tion as his children se- cure, but apparently the was more intent on t} securing of an ed- ucation for her children than was the father, Abraham and Sarah bad at. tended = portions of two terms in Kentucky. They had learned to spell and had begun to read But there ware no schools in their neighborhood in Indiana during Nancy's lifetime. If Abraham Sarah learned anything they learned §t from Nancy, or from Dennis Hanks, whom Spar- rows had sent to school in the old Bap- tigst meeting-house on Nolin, and claimed, with some apparent reason, to have grounded Abraham Lineoln in the elements of his education, There were very few books in the home of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, and the same condition prevailed in all ether homes in the neighborhood. For two years Nancy Hanks Lincoln dwelt in Indiana, and saw some ap- proach to comfort in the conditions of her home. Gradually the cleared area of land and “deadening” around the cabin widened, and the acreage of corn increased, The stock of poultry and of bacon grew, and the “pinching times,” while not pushed far back into the were not at the door as they were at the beginning. Condi tions appeared to promise a reasons ably comfortable future for the family. Abraham Lincoln was old enough now to look with more possibility of appreciation on this mother of his, and to estimate somewhat her qualities. She was now approaching the age of thirty-five She was above medium height and had a slight stoop as though predisposed to consumption, She weighed about a hundred and thir ty pounds Her complexion was dark, and Wer face was thin and sallow. Her forehead was unusually high, and all her relatives commented on this feat. ure of her appearance as belonging to and exhibiting her intellectual nature. was usually cheerful, but her face in repose was sad, At times she dis- played a marked tendency to mirth, but she had moods of melancholy. braham had a boy's limitation of judgment; perhaps he 4id not appreci- ate these qualities so fully in his youth as he did later, but we have no reason to suppose that he was wholly blind to them. She was a good mother to hiss, and he knew it, Hhe was ambi. tions for him, and desired that he should have the opporiunities which both she and her husband had missed, The autumn of 1818 hrought to south. ern Indiana a terrible sickness, afflict. Ing both man and beast. The cattle were first to suffer from it, contract. fing the disease from eating the foliage of snake-root, and as it was found to have been their milk that carried the fliness to their human owners, it wan ealled “the milk-slckness™ A number of the people in the neighborhood where the Lincoln lived contracted the disease and died. Levi and Nancy Hall disd, 2nd so did Thomas and Betsy Sparrow. Two uncles and nunts, one couple being her foster parents, were swept away as with a flood, Then Nancy herself contracted the Alsons, Thera war no physician with. in 35 milen. We have the testimony of a neighbor who was an eye-witness, that Abraham and his sister were faithful in waiting on thelr mother, and doing what they could for her, “She struggled en’ says this neigh- bor “a good Christian woman, and died can | madon Barton calls Love fishi company, $l on chur no schools " were able to other more, the who woods, She after she was tak. her Enew that he was very weak, over ber whil Piacing iI on | s head, she told ind and good te his father To both she sald ‘Be good ther, expressing a he they might live, as they had been taught by her, to love thelr : and worship God" Thus, at the of thirty-n tober 1818, this madonna of the backwoods, mother of Abraham Lincoln. on the sevent) ister to one ano pe that ndred Age died the an OO Doctor Barton then tells how Abra ham assisted his father in sawing out the planks from which he made the coffin, how they buried her em the hill beside her foster-porents and how no funeral seripon was preached over her grave until later, when Rev, David Elkins came that way and con ducted First there was an opening hymn with David Elkins “) ing out, two lines at a time,” “simple and heart-felt eulogy of the dead and a stern admonition to the living” and finally a closing hymn “with It rose the courage and faith of these who sang” months services, then a Then came the word of Blessing, and Thomas Lincoln took the hands of his two weeping children and led them back to his desclate home The feet of millions «of pilgrims have walked and will walk that path, They will stand within the granite temple that now enshrines the log walls within which, at Hodgenville, the maternal pain of Nancy Hanke gave to the world her son Abraham; and they will tread revently through the leafy aisles of the Siates park at Gentryville, where a massive mranit gtone now marks the spot which Abraham Lincoln in his boyhood watered with his tears He loved his mother while she lived, and he joved her memory afterward It was a pathelic memory, and had in it elements concerning which he was properly reticent: but as te his inherl. tance through her of the qualities which he deemed to be some of the best within him, he spoke with deep feel ing, “God bless my mother. All that 1 am or hope to be 1 owe to her” Al though in this utterance, her gon spoke of the mental traits he thought him- self (0 Kave inherited from Jer, rath- er than her direct Influence over him, it was of her mind and character he epoke when he said that however une promising her early surroundings might have been “she was highly in- tallectual by nature, had a strong memory, accurate judgment, and wns cool and heroic” To him, as he looked back from the standpoint of later experi ence, it seemed her life had been a tragedy, But we are not sure that the so regarded It. Bhe had sad ex- periences, and times of depression, but she had lived and learned and loved. She had known the joys of wifehood and motherhood, She had never suf. fered hunger or neglect, Always there were those who cared for her and for whom she cared. To her it may not have seemed that hers had been a sad life: and she left that which perma- nently brightened the life of humanity. upon i Though the world has acclaimed Abraham Lincoln as one of the great: est men who ever lived, they were simple people, this mother and this gon, So the simplicity of his char neter is stressed by the architect, Thomas Hibben of Indianapolis, In his design for the main building of the proposed Lincoln memorial, DOOOOO0 HH II I an CT he Kitchen Cabinet | OTE 1930, Westarn Newspaper Union, ) (&) When over the fafr fame of friend or foe shadow instead wwds of blame, or thus nd mo, something good be The of disgrace shall fall: Of wi proof of Let enid - fliley. OUT OF THE MOLASSES KEG molasses as think of sirup st of us Ad fa an shiloned which was used in grandmother s sweeten the bread, coolles and pies, that to her never forget However, molasses farther than grandmother's pan- try, for our Puritan grandparents used all their | ery, and the full molusses keg was a | large part of the food equipment. It | was eaten with mt | griddle enkes and all kinds of bread, | sweetened dried apple ples, baked ham, cakes and puddings, as there was no sugar in those days, such as we commonly use The molasses ! eandy pulls in those days just as they do goes back much mo lasses in cook. ish and cereals, on now, children enjoyed the today. tion to gen worth ke islana Pudding.—Take f 11 washed rice, fot c one-half cupful of ra il of New Orleans aspoonful of eact Mix and 8, stirring often during the first hour of baking. On the t stirring add tx spoonfuls of butter cup » half t well Southern Waffles Sift one pint flour, with ing powder, three teaspoonfuls of one-half teaspoonful of t. ther and one-four Rit fuls © 111 we Rs, id one th cup- whites and mix and beat two tablespoonfi of Add too then ited butter more New Orleans molasses one cupful Creole Sauce.—Cook 2 1 and butter together for fiye minutes. 1 from lemons two tablespoonfuls nke the fire and add the juice of two Serve as a sauce for collage pudding The Best Gingerbread —Take half cupful of melted shortening ane ~jard is good—one teaspoonful of salt, a ta- biespoonful of ginger, cupful of one pd sugar and one ¢ ful of molasses, one teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in one cupful of belling To three cupfuls of flour add the dry in- gredients, jeat add the sugar, then all other ingredients ang mix well, add the water in which the soda has been stirred at fast. Bake in 2 sheet or In This Is always good. water. one the rer eg. boliing the gem Cans. 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