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AT THE LYRIC.
Not many years ago, actors, actresses
and all those who performed on the
stage for their livelihood were eschewed
by society in general. But with the
fast growing, intelligent growing public,
all this has been changed, until to-day,
the ties which bring us all closer to
gether and make the whole world kin
are stronger than adamant. It is even
more so in the relations between the
stage and the people. Playgoers realize
that much pleasure and knowledge can
be gained from puro, wholesomedramos.
The drama has advanced considerably
during the last century and this fact has
had much to do with the popularity of
the theatre. But as Hamlet said "The
play is the thing" and he wisely knew
whereof he spoke. The days of unwhole
some shows are past and any drama to
be successful must be human as well as
interesting. One play which can really
boast of beine among the best of its kind
is "The Volunteer Organist" which is to
be produced at THE LYRIC Thursday
xcd. its. it is pastoral in aunospnere,
vet it tells a human, engrossing etonr.
The characters are true to life and with
every tear there.U a laugh. Sunshine ia
blended with gloom said it teaches a
moral which goes straight to the heart.
One Hundredth Birthday
ANNIVERSARY
OF
ABRAHAMUNCOLN
Suitably Observed Under Direction
of the
Ladies Circle of the C. A. R.
Addresses by A. T. Searle
Rev. Dr. W. H. Swift
and Homer Greene.
APPROPRIATE MUSIC
On Friday evening last, February 12th,
the Court House was filled to over
flowing with an audience which includ
ed the veterans of the G. A. R. and Co.
E, of the 13th Regiment, National Guard
of Pennsylvania, all full of a patriotism,
and showing their love for the martyr
ed President by outbursts of applause
whenever his name or deeds we're men
tioned. The meeting was opened with
prayer by Rev. Will H. Ilillcr, after
which the chairman, Dr. Homer Greene,
with one. of his characteristic talks, ex
plained how the arrangements had been
made for the celebration, giving the en
tire credit to the Ladies of the G. A. R
Circle, omitting the fact that practical
ly the major part of the work had fallen
lb Ins own lot.
The Gettysburg address by Lincoln
was declaimed by Reuben J. Brown, in
a manner that showed he possessed un
usual ability as an orator.
The Musical Programme was most ex
cellent, and every selection was well
rendered, Frank Jenkins acting as lead
er of the choruses. Mrs. Harry Rock
well rendered a solo in a superb manner,
which elicited loud applause. Mr. Jones
and Mrs. Heft, the other soloists, cap
lured the audience with the excellent
rendering of their respective parts. The
orchestra dispensed faultless music, while
the Fife and Drum Corps stirred themar-
tial spirit of the audience to the highest
pitch. The chairman in his usual felic
itous manner introduced A. T. Searle,
who spoke as follows :
In the picturesque and beautiful Har
din county, Kentucky, now Larue coun
ty, on Feb. 12th, 1809, was born the
man of the century, our Abraham
Lincoln.
His father, Thomas Lincoln, was a
man of undoubted integrity but of im
provident habits, yet beloved by all;
his mother, Nancy Hanks,. ft slender,
pale, sensitive woman, of heroic nature,
of whom Mr. Lincoln always spoke
with the greatest affection, and on one
occasion, with tears in ins eyes sam,
"All that I am or hope to be, 1 owe to
my angel mother ; blessings on her meni-
More has been written and said of Mr.
Lincoln's character and of his fascina
ting and wonderful career than of any
American citizen, and every phase of
his life, from his humble birth to that
terrible night of April 14, 1805, is in
structive and interesting. History, myth,
gtory and song have already almost
translated him to the realms of Heroes
and given him attributes possessed by
no mortal man. As Secretary Stanton
said on that fatal morning when the
great President drew his last breath,
"He now belongs to the Ages."
But Lincoln was a real, true, live man,
and it is well for us to consider those
characteristics of the man which we may
emulate and hope to attain.
It is Lincoln, the man, who, each day
since his death, has won his way deeper
and deeper into the hearts ot the Amer
ican people. Books can be written upon
his many manly attributes ; of his great
love for each and every human being,
For that reason, the black race has al
ready crowned him, and to that race he
is the very ideal of power and goodness,
and his mcmorv will live in the hearts
of those unfortunate people while they
exist upon the earth.
To the soldiers of the Rebellion, he
will ever be an ideal man. Whenever
victory was won in the fields, he never
failed to give credit to the nicn behind
the guns. When President, his thoughts,
his hopes, his sympathies and his pray
ers were always with the Boys in Blue
His heart bled through those terrible
years, and ueep lurrows came m ins
face, which .was filled with inexpressible
sympathy at the thought of the suffer
tng which the war was causing.
Books have been written upon his
humble life and origin ; of the hired la'
borer, the clerk, the surveyor, the cap
tain, the legislator, the lawyer, the de
bater, the orator, the politician, the
statesman, the emancipator of a race
the President and savior of the Republic
Permit me to speak briefly of Lincoln
as a lawyer. To judge him as such, wo
must consider a few of his leading char
acteristics as a man.
He was an intensely religious man.
He believed in God and that he was un
der His control and guidance, and he
had the utmost faith in the power and
ultimate triumph of the right. Though
so strong and powerful, he loved justice
and never used his strength except to
right a wrong or punish some evil. He
was as tender-hearted as a woman, with
sympathy towards all mankind. We see
him going hack in Ids journey while on
bis way to court end soiling bis clothe
to get a poor pig oat of elough hole.
In his whole treatment of mankind he
had "malice toward none and charity
for all."
We see his honesty illustrated by ins
walking several miles to rectify a mis
take in making change and correct an
underweight, unintentionally made in a
half pound of tea.
As a young man, he acquired the title
of "HoncBt Abe."
His aim was high ; he certainly "hitch
ed his wagon to a star." On one occa
sion, talking to a friend, he exclaimed,
"Oh, how hard it is to die and not be
able to leave the world any better for
one's life in it!"
His love of books, deep study and
patient research were well known. He
loved justice and hated deceit and a lie.
He never loved money nor slaved to
acquire it. Towards the latter part of
his practice, he said, "I have my house
and about eight thousand dollars, and
when I get twenty thousand will have
nnnnnli fnr nnv man "
With such characteristics as a man, it.
is not difficult to picture the lawyer.
There was no place in his practice for
bullying and bragging, nor the deceitful
tricks of the pettifogger. He did not
look upon the law as a series of sharp
practices by which the doing of the
right could be avoided, but as a princi
ple of action and rule of conduct for the
orderly, upright and just regulation of
affairs.
To the debtor who consulted him to
devise a new way of paying old debts)
lie turned' a deaf car. He never stirred
up litigation. He was a weak lawyer
when engaged by the weak side. He
had a genuine interest in the establish
ment of justice between man and man.
When his clients had deceived him, he
forsook their case in the very midst of a
trial.
He was a remarkable advocate. No
man in Illinois had such power before a
jury as he. "He applied the principles
of law to the transactions of men with
great clearness and precision. He was
a close reasoner. His mode of speaking
was generally of a plain and unimpas
sioned character, and yet he was the
author of some of the most beautiful
and eloquent passages in our language."
Judge Breese, in speaking of Mr. Lin
coln as a lawyer, said, "For my single
self, I have for a quarter of a century
regarded Mr. Lincoln as the finest law
yer I ever knew, and of a professional
bearing so high-toned and honorable as
justly, and without derogating from the
claims of others, entitled him to be pre
sented to the profession as a model well
worthy of the closest imitation."
Judge Thomas Drummond of Chicago,
representing the bar of that city, said,
"I have no hesitation in saying that he
was one of the ablest lawyers I have
ver known." In addition, he said,
no intelligent man who ever watched
Mr. Lincoln through a hard-contested
case at the bar, questioned his great
ability." Judge Drummond's picture Of
Mr. Lincoln at the bar, and his mode of
speech and action is so graphic and so
just that it deserves to be quoted :
"With a voice by no means pleasant,
and, indeed; when excited, in its shrill
tones, sometimes almost disagreeable :
without any of the personal graces of
the orator ; without much in the outward
man inaicating superiority oi intellect;
without great quickness ot perception
still, his mind was so vigorous, his com
prehension so exact and clear, and his
judgment so sure, that he easily mas
tered the intricacies of his profession,
and became one of the ablest reasoners
and most impressive speakers at our bar.
With a probity of character known to all,
with an intuitive insight into the human
heart, with a clearness of statement
which was itself an argument, with un
common power and felicity of illustra
tion, often, it is true, of a plain and
homely kind, and with that sincerity
and earnestness of manner which carried
conviction, he was, perhaps, one of the
most successful iurv lawyers we have
ever had in the country. He always
tried a case fairly and honestly. He
never intentionally misrepresented the
evidence of a witness or the argument
of an opponent. He met both squarely,
and, if lie could not explain tne one or
answer the other, substantially admitted
it. He never misstated the law accord
ing to his own intelligent view of it."
It is well, on these occasions, for each
person to take au inventory of his own
character. And these occasions, with
the opportunity for self-inspection and
emulation of his virtues, will be of great
good to all.
His simplicity of character, honesty,
truthfulness, and love of right, are all
qualifications any may successfully strive
to attain, and every struggling, well-
meaning man can read of him and gain
courage in his own battle in life.
Hid character was one which will grow
and will become the basis of an ideal
man. It was so pure, and so unselfish,
and so rich in its materials, that fine
imagination will spring from it to blos
som and bear fruit through all the cen
turies. After appropriate music, Rev. Dr. W,
H. Swift was introduced and spoke, in
part, as follows :
"Now he belongs to the Ages," said
Secretary Stanton, when the end came
and that great heart ceased to beat. The
prophecy is finding its fulfillment to
day, when, all over uie land, in every
city and town and hamlet, almost, men
and women and little children are think
ing and talking together about the rug'
ged; gentle, martyred President, who
first saw the light one fcundred years
ago to-day,, Not .only at . home is his
name revered and honored and bis mem
ory cberUbed and the story, of bis life
again told and its lessons enforced by
by those, who apeak tenderly the- name
of Lincoln because thoy lovo him ; but
wherever the love of liberty burns on
thp altar of the heart, among" high or
low, rich or poor; wherever the sun
shines on human souls, this day ia a
holy day, and the tones of the voice are
softer and the heart beats faster and the
Cyc is moistened and patriotic fervor runs
high and the old songs thrill us and the
flag he loved and stained with his own
blood we press to our hearts, and give
to the breezes, with higher, nobler, finer
resolves wntten with our prayers, all
through its ample folds. 'Tis true as
one has said : "When God made Abra
ham Lincoln He used a pattern never
used before, and when the work was
completed He broke the mould so that
the world will never look upon his like
again." For that hour He, who flings
the stars to right and left with a lavish,
omnipotent hand, called to a special
work the Kentucky boy.
"He who sits on no precarious throne,
Nor borrows leave to be."
always has His man, with his grip on
th(J ,,elm when the honr and minute
hands on the dial of history point to the
need. His clock that strikes the cen
turies only, for all time has registered
FEBRUARY 12th, 1809.
Let us look for a moment at his en
vironment in that homd in Hardin coun
ty, Kentucky. 'Twas a log cabin in
which be first saw the light. A one
room, log cabin, with one window, one
door and a fire place. His father could
neither read nor write except to "scrawl
his signature ;" poor, shiftless a man
with no force was he, and in such a
home as that was born a man of force
incarnate the man we love to honor be
cause he rose above his environment
and compelled his very poverty to min
ister to his greatness of soul. There was
in that home a mother as well as a fath
er, and here as in countless other homes
we find that the secret of the after-Lin
coln was the guiding hand, the sacrific
ing love, the pravers of the devoted
Christian mother. She could read but
not write, and she was his teacher. So
indelibly did she in that home of pov
erty impress herself upon her greater
son, that although she laid down the
cares and burdens of the earthly life
when the boy was but nine years of
ace. he not only mourned her loss but
in later years said : "All that I am and
all that I hope to be, I owe to my angel
mother !" One year schooling, all told,
the boy had. After a hard day's work,
he would stretch himself on the dirt
floor in front of the old-fashioned fire
place and spreading the ashes thin,
would with a hickory stick for a pencil
solve problems. And yet this man with
such an environment became a master,
ave. a past master in the use of the
English language.
But poor as ne was, he had a magnify
cent library. One shelf held the books
and there were live of them "Esop's
Fables," Pilgrim's Progress," "A Life
of Washington," "Burns's Poems," and
the "Bible." And that Bible, as well
as the other books, he knew by, heart,
And 'tis this man, with such a start
life, whom to-day we are honoring, in
whose memory the flags float, and who
draws from the strings of the universal
heart the sweetest music. This is the
man of whom the historian Motley
wrote: "He went through life bearing
the load of a people's sorrow with
smiling face. As long as he lived he
was the guiding star of a whole brave
nation, and when he died the little chil
dren cried in the streets." 'Twas of
this man the London Spectator, in an
article on Cromwell said: "there is
no other name in the long and splendid
history of our race, unless it be that of
Lincoln, which can claim more respect
for wisdom, for true patriotism, for
dutifulness in its highest sense."
Just listen to his own words: "When
we read about men, great men, we
somehow imagine that they were born
great, and had little to do with their own
development." 'Twas not so with Lin
coin. "Some men are born great;
Mr. Lincoln achieved greatness. "I
never went to school more than six
months in my life : but I can eay this
that among my earliest recollections, 1
remember how, when a mere child, I
used to get irritated when anybody talked
to me m a way I could not 'understand.
I can remember going to my little bed
room, after hearing the neighbors talk
of an evening with my father, and spend
ing no small part of the night walking
up and down, and trying to make out
what was the exact meaning of some, to
me, dark sayings. I could not sleep,
although I tried to, when I got on such
a hunt for an idea, until I had caught it;
and when I thought I had got it, I was
not satisfied until I had repeated it over
and over ; until I had put it in language
plain enough, as I thought, for any boy
I knew to comprehend. This was a kind
of passion with me, and it has stuck by
me; for I am-never easy now, when I
am handling a thought, till! have grasped
it."
Tbink.of this child, who was father to
the man, demonstrating every proposi
tion till be let in daylight. We could
well afford to stop right here, for the
one lesson the young may learn from
this career, which was also a mission, is
this: No obstacles, no mountains of
difficulty that oppose our progress, can
stand in the way of the boy of Indomi
table will, who is determined to succeed.
He who masters himself, and roasters
circumstances, will some day wear the
crown. Hindrances are only challenges
to the best that is in ns, and, if we win
it,- we can win ont-and touch the goal;
Just one though!, now", in connection
with- his political life. It was openly
said, when ho declared, "A house divid
ed against itself cannot stand ; I believe
this government cannot endure perma
nently half slave and half free ; I do
not expect the Union to be dissolved ;
I do not expect the house to fall ; but I
do expect it will cease to be divided," it
was openly said that he -threw away all
chance of being elected United States
Senator from Illinois, simply because he
stood for great principles, and in the
end, though temporarily defeated, saw
those principles triumph.
It must not be supposed for one mo
ment that Mr. Lincoln was as uncouth,
as lacking in all refinement as some
seem to think. That is our inheritance
Jrom the cartoonists of his time, and the
men who hated him. Indeed we must
remember that there were rivals for the
Presidency in his own Cabinet, who had
little patience with him; independent
men ; that there were great newspapers
opposed to his policies, so that Mr. Lin
coln at one time said in his droll way :
I seem to have very little influence
with this administration." He was a
gentleman who observed the proprieties,
free lance though he was, and no slave
to the rules of polite society. Yet Ed
ward Evcret, the polished gentleman,
statesman and orator, to whom Harvard
pointed with pride, said: "I recognize
in the President a full measure of the
qualities which entitle him to the per
sonal respect of the people. On the only
social occasion on which I ever had the
honor to be in his company, at Gottys
burg, h sat at the table of my friend
David Willis, by the side of several dis
tinguished persons, foreigners and Ameri
cans, and in gentlemanly appearance.
manners and conversation, he was the
peer of any man at the table."
Awkward he was. He had little time
for the superficial, but was always the
gentleman, because his great heart beat
true to the highest ideals. He had the
gentleness of a woman, the heart of a
child, and, during the civil war, 'the
furrows deepened on the care-worn face
'Twas a heavy burden he bore, a burden
lightened for a moment as the flashes of
wit and humor lighted up that heavenly,
beautiful face, beautiful because of the
wondrous eyes through which the great
soul shone.
I never think of Lincoln, Lincoln the
big hearted, warmhearted, tenderheart
ed Lincoln ; stopping when on a press'
ing errand, with the cares of State oi
his mind, to replace abird that had fallen
from its nest; finding rest by looking
into the eyes of the children who loved
him so ; putting his great hoart under
the burdened heart of some lonely sol
dier boy's mother, as he wrote his sym
pathy in tears of blood, but that the
whole history of that awful Civil War
passes before me. Hastily we tramp
over hundreds of battlefields. Now we
are at Gettysburg ; here is Cemetery Hill;
there is Missionary Ridge ; yonder Culp's
Hill; now we stand on big Round
Top ; now across the wheat field, through
the Peach Orchard we go into 'the Devil's
Den ; then make our stand at the Bloody
Angle and together hold back the forces
of Pickett, as, flushed with anticipated
victory, they make thatsplendid charge ;
now we listen to the groans of the dy
ing and look in the pale faces of the
dead ; now we listen to the agonized
prayers of mothers in their far off moun
tain homes ; now we are with Sherman
in his march to the sea ; now with Sheri
den as he changes rout to victory ; now
with Hayes, as he makes his famous
charge across the swamp at Winchester
and saves the day ; now with Garfield
at Chattanooga as the stripes of a Major
HENKY Z. RUSSELL,
PRESIDENT.
ANDUEW THOMPSON
VICE PRE6IDENT.
HONESDALE NATIONAL BANK.
This Bank was Organized In December, 1836, and Nationalized
In December, 1864.
Since its organization It has paid In Dividends
to its Stockholders,
$1,905,800.00
The Comptroller of the Currency has placed It on the HONOR
1 ROLL, from the fact that Its Snrplus Fund more than
equals Its capital stock.
What Class
are YOU in
The world has always been divided into two classes those who have
saved, those who have spent the thrifty and the extravagant.
It is the savers who have built the houses, the mills, the bridges, the
railroads, the ships and all the other great works which stand for man's
advancement and happiness.
The spenders are slaves to the savers. It is the law of nature. We
want you to be a saver to open an .account in our Savings Department
and be independent.
One Dollar will Start an Account.
This Bank wlllie pleased to receive all,
or a portion. of YOUR banking business;
General mark his daring; now wMb
Grant as ho fights it out on this line.' 'iC
it takes all summer." till the sword of
Lee is offered him and returned. But,
beat of all, Lookout Mountain above the
clouds. We catch a glimpse, aye, a
prophetic vision oi what it means, yes,
and is to mean, in tho history of our be
loved land for all time to come, as the
gaunt form -of tho greatest of them all
offers himself a sacrifice for his country.
What does it all mean ? We arc only
beginning to enter into its fullness of
meaning. We are entering on the
reign of tho Common People from whom
Lincoln came; who were so dear to
him ; from whom, through his words
and life, the chains are being struck. The
common people are at last coming to
their own. 'Tis manhood that .is crown
ed in the story of Lincoln 1 Manhood 1
Ten thousand thrones and crowns could
add not one additional ray of luster to
that star that shines in the blue of the
national firmament. He who stands for
principle ; he who believes in eternal
right; he whose heart beats true in
patriotic fervor toward all the flag stands
for ; he who embodies in his life the
square deal, will win the crown and im
mortality. Worn by the weight of years
or in the full flush of life may you go,
but die you cannot. No, no! He lives
and will forever live, wearing the crown
of immortality placed on his brow by
the thoughtful love of a grateful people.
No, nol "Now he belongs to the Ages I"
At the conclusion of Dr. Swift's re
marks the choir of sixty voices rendered
"Marching Through Georgia," after
which chairman Homer Greene spoke
in his usual felicitous and impressive
manner, making interesting reference to
to his serial story now running in The
Youth's Companion, which is based
largely on incidents in the life of the
martyred president. His remarks were
enlivened by some pat anecdotes, which
kept his hearers in the best of humor.
Previous to the introduction of Mr.
Searle as the- first speaker of the even
ing Mr. Greene read a large number of
letters and telegrams from distinguished
persons expressing their regrets that
they were unable to be present. The
closing musical number was "America"'
in the singing of which the entire audi
ence joined..
ATTENTION I
I will be at the 80th anniversary of
the organization of the First Presbyter
ian church of Honesdale, which will be
celebrated Feb. 22d Monday next, in
the chapel.
This is the annual Martha Washington
Turkey Dinner.
A Square Deal and a Square Meal
All for 50c. First table at 5:30.
CITIZEN JOB PRINT means STYLE,
QUALITY, and PROMPTNESS. Try it.
EDWIN V. TORRKV,
CA8UIEK.
ALBERT C. LINDSAY.
ASSISTANT CAR1IIEII.
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