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
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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.
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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,
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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.
GOOD THINGS TO EAT
the
most
erenm. it adds to
appetizing.
—~Whip
ful of
add a pinch
«alt and =a
spoonful of vanil.
la. Just
serving,
one
of
spoonful of raspberry or
jam for each zerving.
Ginger Waldorf Salad. Fold to.
gether one cupful each of diced tart
apple celery, one-half cupful of broken
nut meats, one-half cupful of mayon-
naise and one-fourth cupful of can-
died ginger. Marinate with french
dressing and rub each salad leaf with
a cut clove of garlle. Serve at once
after adding the nuts,
Cheese Sticks.—8lice six slices of
bread and dip into melted butter, then
into grated parmesan Toast
on both sides and serve after draining
on a paper. Nice with a lettute
galad,
Lobster Newburg.Put three table
spoonfuls of butter into the blazer of
chafing dish or in a saucepan, add one
cupful of mushrooms, cook five min.
add four tablespoonfuls of flour
and a pint of milk, Add one and one-
half cupfuls of Jobster meat or shrimps
or crabs. Mix two egg yolks with a
little of the sauce and stir into the
lobster, Cook just long enough to set
the eggs. Season with lemon juice, a
bit of nuimeg, cayenne pepper and
salt,
Oxtails en Casserole.~Cut the talls
in sections and cook In boiling water
to cover; cook five minutes, then drain,
dredge with flour, fry In fat with a
small minced onlon, Season well,
place in a casserole with two cupfuls
of strained tomato juice, one teaspoon
ful of salt, one-fourth teaspoonful of
viorcestershire sauce and one finely
minced carrot. Cover and cook in a
glow oven th» and one-half hours,
adding more er a3 needed. Ten
minutes befor. ¥ rving add a eupful of
cooked peas. Add flour to thicken if
needed, and serve the gravy with the
meat,
Nerele Magwest
cheese.
utes,
When
Babies
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OUNG BILL FREEMAN, Jr,
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i t three months of my life my
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didn't like my disposition—and
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—either castor oil or an enema, and
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PITRE . y
ay 0 q
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morning. { am five months old now,
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n
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me
as
an
A A
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wonld
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