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THE COliVALLIS GAZETTE, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1894. LINCOLN'S PLUG HAT. A VERITABLE "JOINT OF STOVEPIPE" WITH ROMANTIC BRIM. It Served as a, Tile Back and at One Time Was the Fostofflco of New Salem Its fr. Liveliest Experience Was When It Served : mm m f ODioaii ror uiaies. mere are enongn or. runny inciaenr.3 'T'eported of Mr. Lincoln's hat to make it "fabled in song and illumined in ' story." For example, it served as a " football on the night of his election to tho presidency, when the ladies at the ofd homestead testified their glee over His good fortune. 1 nescens would have done credit to the great game between Yale and Princeton on Manhattan field. This ia tho story as told by an eyewit ness: "A few of na Iadie3 went over and helped Mrs. Lincoln prepare a little sp- ., per for tho friends of Mr. Lincoln, who had been invited in to hear the retnrua. Every half hour or so wo would pass around coifee and cakes. About 1 o'clock in the morning enough had been learned to warrant the belief that the rail split ter had been elected. , I think it was when we heard the pews from New York. The men rushed op Mr. Lincoln and shook his bauds, while some of tho women actually hngged him, and I might as well admit it I kissed him. "Then some one went into tho hall and took from the rack the eld silk hat that he wore, i:nd which was as long as n A 1-1 nf CTiHTiri? tin -o i d, olwinf na cliQ Yri " dual ly to my mind, and it was thrown up to the ceiling. As itcrme down some one gave it a kick, and then the women joined in the fun,'and we played foot ball with that hat until it was an indis tinguishable 'mass. We were simply be yond control. What a ridieulons Ecene 2 1. 1.1 1 1 4. . f 1 " 11. wuuiu nave uet ii iu uuu looking in withont knowing what prompted it! "It waa all the moro so, so far as I was concerned, for originally I had been a Seward woman. While, the conven ; tion was in session in Chicago we were waiting to hear the news. It had been whom I Lad several friendly spats dur ing tho campaign preceding tho nomi nation. I beard the cannon- shot, and the next moment I saw Mrs. Dubois ' running across the street. She had been -making a shirt for her husband, who was abont tho size of tho lato Judge Da vid Davis so yon may have some idea nf thfi ftiza at the CMrment fihp w:is wnv- irjg. She rushed into the house and .flaunted it in my face. It made me mad. and. I Silt dnwnnnil lipran rrvitifr. , - - - 0 - - (- - ''The good woman put ber arms around me, utrjjgeu tuy laiuuii uuu kish-ju me, . and from that time we were Lincolu women. She took part in the football match." As if not content with his C feet 4 or 5 inches of gaunt stature, Lincoln bad his bow historic hat made fully a foot high, wtha brim almost as big as a ' southern sombiero. It seemed to have been a combination of all styles then in "existence, and in this respect it reflected Lis own early experience in havinu been a .storekeeper, . soldier, surveyor . aj.d finally a solicitor. It was a veritable '"joint of stovepipe," and-its remarka ble and romantic brim made it, alike : serviceable in rain or shine. It might have been called with propriety a "plug iigly," after the name cf the mob in 43altimore that threatened hiui in his journey to the capital. Daring Lincoln's great debate with Douglas the hat fairly loomed into space. 'The smallness of the latter'a stature caused him to be nicknamed "The Little Giant." arid when Lincoln stood beside, him with his hat on the difference between the two 6eeined all bot immeasurable. Curiously enough, when Mr. Lincoln came to bo inaugu rated at Washington and took off his bat on the stand pieparatory to making his inaugural address Douglas held the high hat so that no careless person might put hie toot in it. Representative Springer, who hails from Lincoln's old home, knew the bat ' well, and in speaking of it recently said: "Mr. Lincoln's high hat was the most indispensable thing of his whole outfit. In it he carried all his valuable papers. In fact, it was a sort of file rack. Here , weie all the briefs of his various law cases. Curiously enough, he carried the accounts in his bead, and that is. why he lost so much money. Had he re- ' versed the process and kept bis accounts in bis hat and the cases in his head, he would have been better off. His bat ! served for his satchel on a journey, and all that was needed besides this were his saddlebags and his horse. . It was large and capacions, and a great many documents and data could be crowded into it without seriously discommoding the wearer." But Mr. Lincoln had still a better use for his valuable tile, which seems to have had more virtues than those re hearsed in the nursery tale of "Jack and the Beanstalk." When be was post master at New Salem, his hat became a most important part of his office equip ment. As soon as the mail was received each day the young postmaster would put the letters in bis hat and take a stroll through tho village. Tho villa .gers knew that he was a peripatetic postoffice, and of coarse everybody was anxious to know the contents of the hat, which seemed to promise as much to thi'm as a hat in the bauds of a sleight of hand performer. Washington Cor. St. Louis Republic. A Remarkable Diary. A man who died in Berlin. Rensselaer county, at the age of 7 left a record which he began when 18 years old and continued for C2 years. The book, filled with methodical entries, shows that in these 52 years the man had smoked 628, 715 cigars, of which he received 43,629 as presents, while for the remaining ,585,086 he paid about $10,433. In 52 j years,- according to his bookkeeping, he j bad . drunk 28,786 glasses or Deer ana 86,081 glasses of spirits, for all of which he spent $5,350. The diary closes witb these words: "I have tried all things. I have seen many. I have accomplished nothing.-'' Albany Express. . Talking and Writing. talking and writing! It is mighty dull i correspondence where one person has to do all the .writing, but it is no unusual, thing to find a person whose idea of per fect conversation is where he does rll i the talking. Boston Traveller. ' THE YOUNG QUEEN VICTORIA. Her Majesty's Actions on Eeing Notified of the King's Demise. William IV was dead. The arch bishop of Canterbury and Lord Conyng ham were dispatched to inform the Princess Victoria of the fact. It was a warm night in June. The princess was sleeping in her mother's room, her cus tom from childhood, and had to be sum moned out of her sleep. The messen gers awaited her in the long, unlofty room, separated only by folding doors from that which was inhabited by the Duchess of Kent and her daughter. The young girl entered alone, in her night dress, with some loose wrap thrown hastily about her. The moment she was addressed .as "Your majesty" she put out her hand, intimating that the lords who addressed her were to kL's it and thereby do homage. Her schooling ana her instincts were admirable from the first. Self possession combined with perfect modesty came naturally to her. A few hours later, at 11 o'clock in the morning, the child queen met her council. In tho corridor at Windsor there ia a picture which cornmemoratea the event. Never, it has been said by an eyewitness, was anything like tlw first impression she produced or the chorus of praise and admiration which waa raised about her manner and be havior, ceitainly not v.-itliout justice. Her extreme youth and inexperience and tho ignorance of the world concern ing her for she had lived in complete seclusion excited interest and carios ity. Asked whether slio would enter the room accompanied by the great officers of state, f!ic said she would come in alone. Accordingly when all the lords of the privy council were assembled the folding doors were thrown open, and the queen entered, quite plainly dressed and in mourning, and took her seat for tho first time, a young girl among a crowd of men, including al tho most famous and powerful of her subjects. She bowed pud read her speech, handed to her by tbo prime minister. Lord Mel bourne, in a clear and finrtv'Voice and' then took the oath for the', security of the Church of Scotland. ' '"' Immediately the . privy councilors were sworn, the royal Dukes of Cum berland and Sussex first by themselves. It was observed that as these two eld men, her uncles, knelt before her, swear ing allegiance, sho blushed up to the eyes, as if she felt the contrast between their civil and natural relations. Her manner waa very graceful and engag ing, and she kissed tbem both, and ris ing from her chair moved toward the Duke of Susses, who was loo infirm to reach her. Fortnightly Review. .." ' . ISores. Tho greafj secret of boredom is to be found in two leading qualifications. A bore must bo unable to find, amusement in himself, and he must also be unablo to find amusement in any one else. lie must depend for his amusement neither on his own mind nor on the minds of hjs friends, but simply on tho gratifica tion which it is to him to give a special direction, or at least to suppose that he gives a special direction for he is a crqatnretjf the most unlimited credul ity, in. the art of magnifying his own in-flaence-r-to the minds of his friends. He is in despair unless he can imagine himself a person of influence, and un luckily he can never imagine himself a person of influence for he is a man of very limited imaginative power nnless he is. taking overt steps to-con vinco somebody of Something, whether it be of sdme technical doctrino like Dngald Dalgetty's strategic principle, or simply of his own importance, or even of the importance of his patrons, liko Mr. Col lins in "Pride and Prejudice." To be a first rate bore you mast have no re sources in yourself and no resources in your friends, but mast depend for your satisfactions on the real or fancied power of making yonr friends either think or do what they would otherwise not think or do. London Spectator. His Point of View. An odd illustration once given Emer son, the philosopher, of the fact that the laws of disease are as beautiful. as the laws of health is reported in his lecture on "The Comic." "I was hastening," he says, "to visit an old and honored friend, vho I was informed was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who rccosted mo in great spirits. 'And how is my friend, the reves end doctor?' I inquired. " "On, I saw him this morning. It is the most correct apoplexy I have ever seen face and hands livid, breathing stertorous, all the symptoms perfect.' And he rubbed his bands with delight, for in the country wc cannot find every day a casetnat agrees with the diagnosis of the books." Youth's Companion. The "Tomb or Cain." - Tho early traditions concerning the city of. Damascus are curious and inter esting, even though untrustworthy and contradictory. By some of the ancient writers it was maintained that the city stands on or near the site of tho garden of Eden, and just outside thero is a beautiful meadow of red earth from which, it is said, God took the material from which he created Adam. . 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