OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1911
WHY LINCOLN
GREW A BEARD.
Woman Whose Suggestion s Lit
tle Girl Changed Emancipator's
Face For History Now Tells
About the Incident.
THE woman who as a child of
eleven was the direct cause of
JSL Abraham Lincoln's growing a
beard Is still living and Is now
a resident of Kansas. She Is Mrs.
Grace Bedell Billings now, but when
In 1800 she wrote the note that led
President , Lincoln to wear a beard
for the first time she was Grace Be
dell and her home was in Westfleld,
N. Y.
Mrs. Billings' father was a Itepub
llcan and had been a Whig prior to
the formation of the Republican party,
and her two brothers were Democrats.
One day during the campaign of 1800
her father brought home a poster
which had on It pictures of Lincoln
and Hamlin, candidate for vice presl-
MB. LINCOLN AS HR LOOKED IN 1860, WHEN
OBACK HBDKLL UEQUKSTKD HIM TO G110W
A BKAKD, AND AS HE LOOKED IN 1801,
WHEN HK KISSED HER AT WlSSTFIELU,
H. X.
dent, surrounded by a rail fence.
Childlike, the girl told her mother that
she thought Lincoln would look better
with a beard. Her mother suggested
that she write to Mr. Lincoln.
"I remember the day very well,"
said Mrs. Billings recently, "but I do
not recall the exact wording of my
letter, though I told Mr. Lincoln that
I thought he would improve his ap
pearance by raising a beard. I also
told him that the rail fence was all
right, and I agreed that if he would
grow whiskers I would try to get my
brothers to vote for him, although
they were Democrats. I remember I
said that I supposed he had little girls
of his own and that they would feel
as I did about those whiskers.
"A couple of days later I got a let
ter from blm, and I still have It among
my most precious possessions. It
reads thi8 way:
"Springfield, 111., Oct. 19, I860.
"Miss Grace Bedell:
"My Dear Little Mlsa Your very agree
able letter of the 16th Is received. I re
Bret the necessity of having to say that
I have no little girls, but I have three
boys one seventeen, another nine and the
youngest seven years old and they, with
my wife, constitute my entire family. As
to the whiskers, having never worn any,
do you not think people would consider It
a piece of silly affectation If I were to be
gin wearing them now?
"ALINCOLN.
"In the latter part of February, 1SG1,
Mr. Lincoln stopped at Westfleld on
his way to be inaugurated in Washing
ton. He made u brief speech from the
platform of his car, and at Its end he
said, 'I have a little correspondent here,
and if she is present I'd like to speak
to her.'
"Who Is It?' the crowd shouted.
'What is her name?'
"Mr. Lincoln gave n:.v name, and I
was found ou the outskhts of the
throng and passed up tu him. He took
me by the band and said:
" 'You see, I've let these whiskers
grow for you, Grace."
"Then he kissed me, nnd his train
moved away.
"That was the only time I ever saw
Mr. Lluioln, but for several years I
heard from him frequently through
Mr. Bewurd. After his death Mr.
Eeward's secretary sent rue a piece of
napkin that had been bound about the
president's head and tbut was stained
with his blood."
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
H. L. Ward, a prominent merchant
of Jefferson, passed through this city
Monday on his way to Portland,
where he purchased a large consign
ment of valentines for his store.
Chester Miller, of Portland, was an
Oregon City visitor Monday.
Miss Edra and Nora May. of Port
land, were the guests of Miss Zida
Goldsmith Monday afternoon.
Mrs. M. B. Farey, of Willamette, is
very 111 from pneumonia.
INGERSOLL'S
TRIBUTE TO
LINCOLN''
flT RANGE
mingling
of mirth
and tears,
of the
tragio and
grotesque,
of Soc
rates and
Rabelais,
of Aesop
and Mar
cus Aure-
litis, of all that is gentle and
just, humorous and honest, mer
ciful, wise, laughable, lovable
and divine, and all consecrated
to the use of men, whilo through
all and over all an overwhelm
ing sense of obligation, of chival
ric loyalty to truth and upon all
the shadow of the tragic end.
Lincoln was not a type. He
stands alone no ancestors, no
fellows and no successors. He
knew and mingled with men of
every kind, and, after all, men
are the best books.
Lincoln never finished his edu
cation. To tha night of his
death he was ar pupil, a learner,
an inquirer, a seeker after
knowledge.
Lincoln was a many sided man,
acquainted with smiles and
tears, complex in brain, single
in heart, direct as light, and his
words, candid as mirrors, gave
the perfect image of his thought.
He was never afraid to ask,
never too dignified to admit that
he did not know. No man had
keener wit or kinder humor.
He was no, solemn. Solemnity
is a mask worn by ignorance
and hypocrisy. It is the preface,
prologue and index to the cun
ning or the stupid. He was nat
ural in his life and thought,
master of the story teller's art,
in application perfect, liberal in
speech, shocking Pharisee and
prudes, (using any word that wit
could disinfect.
He wai an orator clear, sin- .
cere, natural. He did not pre
tend. He did not say what he
thought others thought, but
what he thought.
If you wish to know the dif
ference between an orator and an
elocutionist, between what is
felt and what is said, between
what the heart and brain can do
together and what the brain can
do alone, read Lincoln's won
drous words at Gettysburg and
then the speech of Edward
Everett. The oration of Lincoln
will never be forgotten. It will
live until languages are dead
and lips are dust. The speech
of Everett will never be read.
Lincoln was an immense per
sonalityfirm, but not obstinate.
Obstinacy is egotism firmness,
heroism. Hft influenced others
without effort, unconsciously,
and they submitted to him as
men submit to nature, uncon
sciously. He was severe with
himself and for that reason
lenient with others. He appear
ed to apologize for being kinder
'than his fellows. He did merci
ful things as stealthily as others
committed crimes.
He knew others because per
fectly acquainted with himself.
He cared nothing for place, but
everything for principle; noth
ing for money, but everything
for independence.
He knew neither tyrant nor
slave. He neither knelt nor
scorned. With him men were
neither great nor small) they
were right or wrong. Through
manners, clothes, titles, rags
and race Tie saw the real that
which is. Beyond accident,
policy, compromise and war he
saw the end.
He was patient as destiny,
whose undecipherable hiero
glyphs were so deeply graven
on his sad and tragic face.
It is the glory of Lincoln that,
having almost absolute power,
he never abused it except on the
side of mercy.
Wealth could not purchase,
power could not awe this divine,
this loving man. He knew no
fear except the fear of doing
wrong. He spoke not to inflame,
riot to up
BOBT. G. ISQERSOLL.
pearls of joy on the cheeks of
a wife whose husband he had
rescued from death.
Lincoln was the grandest fig
ure of the fiercest civil war. He
is the gentlest memory of our
world.
W. J. E. Vick, of Liberal, is an
Oregon City visitor today.
W. H. Brenner, of Hubbard, trans
acted business in this city Monday.
The machinery has arrived for the
new planing mill that Is being erected
on Molalla avenue by Frank Welch.
It will be set up immediately and (be
mill will soon be In running order.
Miss Lena Chamberlain, of the
Holmes Store, Is ill at her home in
Gladstone, Mrs. Chas. Van Orden tak
ing her place in the store during hei
absence.
Chris Schwartz and Carp Offen left
v
braid, but eTA;nr-.-K79
to con- f Sk
vince. He ff iVJj
raised his , t"
hand, not 4 fM
to strike, fc " ?
but in ben- A
ediction. $ 4
He longed yjf' JJt
to pardon. 1
He loved
to see the
wffc HARTY P0I ALU
L incoln's Second
IB
Jl
its
-5S7
March
3 I
il ELLOW COUNTRYMEN At this second appearing to take
jfS??! sued scenJed fitting and pfbper. Now, at the expiration
jg ? ' ? of four yars, during wujcb public declarations have
I" ' - - been constantly called fotfii on every point and phase of
UoKMn, : ,!, .fill oWrha tha nttentlnn nnd on.
S" ' jM
s . i.AnnAntAa
i!nysef, and It Is, I
couraging to ail.
diction In regard to
in the occasion
nil thoughts were ahxloisly directed to
i8i
: :-SS
it; all sought to avert ft. While the Inaugural address was belngdelivered
from this place, devotejl altogether to saving the ronton witJyetrF'wat-ljiBur-gent
agents were In the city seeking to destroy it withdutHrtSr, seeking tojlls-
solve the Union and divide effects by
war. but one of them 4ould make war
the' other would accept war rather than
One-eighth of the whole population
generally over the Unlon,)but localized
constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All kne that this Interest was
somehow the cause of tlifi war. To strengthen, perpetiate and extend this In
terest was the object toi which the Insurgents would rend the Union even by
war, while the government claimed no right to do mire than to restrict the
territorial enlargement if it. Neither party expected
tude or the duration wiich it has already attained.
the cause of the conflict might cease
should cease. Each looked for an easier
and astounding. Both) read the same
each Invokes his aid i gainst the other. It may seem strange that any men
should dare to ask a , ust God's assistance in wringing their bread from the
sweat of other men's l aces, but let us j'.idgo not, that we be not Judged. The
prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered
fully. The Almighty has his own purposes. "Woe unJpJthe world because of
offenses, for It must ncls-4ie that offenses enme hiit woe to that man by
whom the offense cometh."' Ifwe shall suppose that American slavery Is one
of those offenses which, In the brovldence of Goja, must needs come, bnt which.
having continued through his
appointed
that he gives to both north and south
those by whom the offense car
he, shall
those divine attributes which the be'ievers
him? Fondly do we hope, fenvently do
war may speedily pass away.
Yet If
wealth piled by the bondsman's 250
nnd until every drop of blocd
drawn
drawn with the sword, as wab said
3,000
"the judgments of the Lord art true and
WITH MALICE TOWARD ONE, WITH ci-TAetTY FOR ALL, with firm
ness In the right as God gives uslto see tlrf' rlgWrlet-ns strive on to finish the
work we are In to bind up the nylon's wtounds, to care for him who shall
have borne the battle and for his wluWinq his orphan, to do all which may
achieve and cherish a Just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all
nations
Memorial. &t LmcclnV Birthplace
';r . -i I
itV-lrJ. I
UPPElt riCTUltK SHOWS LINCOLN STATUE ERECTED IX HODGEN
VILLE, KY.. AND SOME OF THE WOMEN AVHO RAISED THE
FUND. I.OWEIt I'lCTLItE SHOWS MEMORIAL BUILDING DEDI
CATED ON HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OK LINCOLN'S BIRTH,
BUILT AROUND LOG CABIN IN WHICH HE WAS I!ORN.
Monday night for Chico, Cal., where
they expect to work.
Marshall Lazelle Iade a bnsiness
trip to Portland'Tliursday.
Mrs. Hewett, wife of Jodce Hewett
of Albany, who has been the gufst of
her sister, Mrs. W. R JEllis in Green
Point, left Wednesday morning for
her home in Albany.
Georg J. Hall, manaaur of the
Pacific Telephone Company, who Iihs
been on the sick list for the lat.t few
days, is improving.
VLawn Parrish of Prinevillr, was
n Oregon Citj visitor Wednesday.
inaugural Address
4. 1865
the oath of OafpresIaTEMal office there Is less occasion for
an cxtendd address than3there was at the first. Then
a statement somewhat imdetall of a course to be pur-
"K'" ' .
Niotiat An HttlA that la npw mil rt
lu; presented. The progrtss of our arms, upon, which all
else clrfefly depends, is a well known to the public as to
trust, reasonably satisfactory and en
With hlgJi hope for the future no pre
It Is veritured.
corresponding to this four years ago
an Impending civil war. All dreaded
negotiation. Both partlesjjepwiited
rather than let the rJttBn survive, and
let It perish, a
e war came.
were colored
slaves, not distributed
in the southern
part of It. These slaves
'or the war the magnl-
Iteither anticipated that
with or even bi
fore the conflict Itself
'esult less fundamental
to the same God, and
triumph and a
Bible and pray
time; he now wills to remove, and
thisr terrible war as the woe due to
we df
seem therein any departure from
in a living God always ascribe to
we
pray, that this mighty scourge of
God
wills that It continue until all the
year!
of unrequited toll shall be sunk
with
the lash shall be paid by another
ffiara ago, so still it must be said
riglilteous altogether.1
?Bwf
Miss Ethel Toozo, who has been
the enest of the family of her nnole,
O. T. Tooze, f"of Gladstone, returned
to her home .in ;Fall City, Wednes
diy. The Qnuen of Avilion, of the Pres
bvteriati Snnday School, will give a
valentine somnl in the church parlors.
Monday evening, February 18. A
musical program will be given and
candy and valent no will be on sale.
N7 W. Carr Jof Portland, hag ao
o pted the posiltinn Jin the JWestern
Union Telegraph Co. recently vacat
ed by Bay Barbour.
this Is Walt Wliltman's famous
poem on the death ot Abraham Lin
coln. It Is the
only rhymed
poem In the
complete
works of the
treat Ameri
can poet, phi
losopher and
seer, and It is
only partly In
rhyme. Dur
ing much of
the war Whlt
WALT WHITMAN, man was In
Washington,
ministering to the wants of sick
and wounded soldiers In hospitals.
Lincoln saw him one day and re
marked, not knowing him at the
time, "He looks like one of Plu
tarch's men."
0CAPTAINI My Captainl Our
fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather'd every rack,
the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the
people all exulting, '
While follow eyes the steady keel, the
vessel grim and daring.
But heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and deadl
0 CAPTAIN! My Captain! Rise up
and hear the bells;
Rise up for you the flag is flung
for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths
for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass,
their eager faces turning.
, Hene,.Captain! Dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on tha deck
You've fallen cold and dead.
MY Captain does not answer, his
lips are pale and still;
my Tamer aoes noi reel my arm,
he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor'd safe and sound,
its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes
in with object won.
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies
Fallen cold and dead.
LINCOLN ON ALABAMAS.
President Told England That On
More Privateer Would Mean War.
Samuel R. Moseley, editor of the
Hyde Turk (Mass.) Gazette, has writ
ten recently a highly interesting Lin
coln story.
An incident in tho sad and busy life
of Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Moseley - suys In
the Gazette, was unfolded to a num
ber of citizens of the town, of whom
the writer was one, during nn excit
ing state political campaign, an ac
count of which we have never seen
published.
Genertil Benjamin F. Butler was
making his campaign for governor,
and one evening he spoke In Everett
hull, and we never saw a larger audi
ence in the building before or since.
After tho rully General Butler pro
ceeded to the Everett House, where
ho wns entertained for an hour or
more before leaving for Boston.
At the time the Alubama was de
stroyed by tho Kearsurge there was
great excitement throughout the coun
try, the general said, especially In
view of the fact thut England hud an
nounced her Intention of permitting
another privateer to leave an English
port to destroy northern commerce on
the high seas.
The mere announcement was enough
to startle the country, and Mr. Lincoln
at once called his cabinet together to
consider the matter.
The north's resources were 'greatly
reduced by Its long strugglo with the
south, but there was an unmistakable
feeling ammig the loyal people that if
England permitted another privateer to
leave Its shore after the splendid vic
tory of Commodore Wlnslow at Cher
bourg the government would be Justi
fied In declaring war on our British
cousins.
At the meeting of the cabinet Secre
tary of State Seward and others took a
conservative view of the question, ad
vising delay, while Secretary of War
Stanton and Mr. Lincoln were more
aggressive and wanted the matter set
lied nt once.
. Finally Mr. Lincoln took n card from
tho table and quickly adjourned the
meeting after writing these decisive
instructions to his secretary of state:
"Mr. Seward You will say to Lord
Palmerston that one more Alabama
means war. A. LINCOLN."
R. L. Shepard, of Sellwood, has ac
cepted the position recently vacated
by Emery Noble In the office of the
Portland Railway, Light & Power Co.
Mr Jand JMrs Honry Streiblg en
tertained a number of friends at their
home Tues'lav evening. "fiOO" was
the game of the evening. Dainty rej
freshments were served and a pleas
ant time was spent by all present.
W. J. E. Viek of Liberal was an
Oregon City visitor Tuesday.
W. H. Brener of Habbard made 'a
business trip to this city Monday.
7
SfffBS
HOW LINCOLN
BEAT SEWARD.
Judge Keyes of Concord, Last
Surviving Massachusetts Dele
gate, Tells Story of Historic
Fight In the Wigwam.
IfUDGE JOHN S. KEYES of Con,
I cord, who until ho passed away
May 15 last wns the only survlv-
Ing delegate from Massachu
setts to the Republican national con
vention in Chicago that nominated
Abraham Lincoln for president In 1800,
sut In his library shortly before he died
and told a visitor how tho' Illinois rail
splitter came to be named for tho high
est officer in the land, as he recalled
the proceedings In the Wigwam, the
big hall built for tho occasion:
"George Ashuiiin had been taken by
both sides as chairman, but no one
ever knew which side he favored, and
nobody dreamed that Lincoln had
votes enough outside his own state to
make any showing against Seward.
"That's what Harper's Weekly said
beforo the Cooper institute speech too:
'Mr. Lincoln of Illinois would add no
strength to the ticket.'
"Well, everybody thought so at that
time. Well, soon there was a call all
over the house for a ballot 10,000 peo-
WILLIAM H. SKWABD, LINCOLN'S OPPONENT
VOU PHBHIDENTIAL NOMINATION, WHO
BEOAMfl 1118 SEG11KTA1IY OP STATU.
pie can make a great noise and when
Chairman Ashmun could be heard he
said, 'It would be a great convenience
to the clerks If we did not proceed to
vote this afternoon, as the tally sheets
have not yet arrived and the citizens
of Chicago have Invited the visiting
delegates to a sail upon the lake.'
"Of course all Illinois and Lincoln
men voted for tho adjournment, for
they wauted to gain time.
"They worked all the night through
and talked over the delegates as best
thoy could, so that by the next day,
when the roll was called, tho whole
convention was leavened with Lincoln
sympathizers, though few dared to go
against the organized political prefer
ence of their individual states. They
had counted upon Comeron of Penn
sylvania and Bates, a St. LouIb man,
who also was the personal preference
of men from other states, to divert the
solid Seward vote. But if tho vote had
been taken on Thursday the Sewnrd
men could have surely nominated him
on the second ballot. Indeed, they
were so sure of victory that they pa
raded down to tho convention hall
with banners flying. Meanwhile the
loudest Lincoln voices were located in
the best seats on t lint Friday morning
when the nominations came.
"Mr. Evurts of New York nominated
William II. Sewnrd. Then Mr. Judd
of Illinois said, 'I desire on behalf of
the .delegation from Illinois to put In
nomination as a candldute for presi
dent of the United Stntea Abraham
Lincoln of Illinois.'
".Then the names of William L. Day
ton of New Jersey, General Simon
Cameron of Pennsylvania and Salmon
P. Chase of Ohio were presented, and
then C. B. Smith of Indiana desired
'on behalf of the delegation from Indi
ana to second tho nomination of Abra
ham Lincoln of Illinois, and Mr. Dela
no of Ohio, who also seconded Lin
coln's name, called him tho man who
could split rails and maul Democrats.'
"The second vote was very close,
Seward 184 and Lincoln 181. There
were only five Massachusetts men who
Toted for Lincoln on the first and sec
ond ballots and only eight Massachu
setts men out of the twenty-six, mind
5'ou, even on the third, which stood
231 for Lincoln and 180 for Seward,
and so Lincoln was nominated In the
midst of an uproar I shall never for
get. Governor Andrew of Massachu
Hetts was tho first to endeavor to make
the vote ununlmous, Lincoln ultimate
ly getting 804 votes. Andrew and
Evarts of New York made the first
addresses taujUiat end."
County Clerk William Mulvey is on
the siok list.
Attorney ' Thresher (of Milwaukie,
was transacting business in this city
Wednesday.
Jack Loder, the young son of Mr.
and Mrs. John W. Loder, who was
seriously injnred by the explosion of
a dynamite ca;! about two weeks ago,
has b"pn bronsrht home from Portl'd.
The little fellow is doing ss well as
con id be expected and the many
frb nds or the family wil be pleased
to hear that the sight of one of his
eyes has been saved.
Continued join page 2
Ijerotii flekl of private life. But Web
ster, could not have brooked four
years of comparative idleness. Be
sides, there was a continued need for
his services. The only railroad thor
oughfare between the northern Atlan
tic states and the capital was continu
ally threatened. Indeed, there was no
safety on any line connecting the capi
tal with the rest of the country. Even
dispatches were not safe in transit
The first work done by Webster after
foiling the Intention of the Baltimore
conspirators was to carry some impor
tant, naners through to the president.
Webster' found 'the railroad bridge
burned by the secessionists. Taking
the route through Havre de Grace,
where a long bridge was destroyed, be
was rowed across the river and hired
a wagon to take him onward. He was
obliged to pass through Perrymans
vllle, and the wagon was stopped by
the cavalry company in which Web
ster had enlisted for a spy. He was rec
ognized, but fortunately for him the fact
that he had revealed their plot to the
government was not known to them.
Webster traveled on In company
with an Englishman whose confidence
he won, and the man revealed to htm
that he was bearing dispatches to
southern sympathizers In Washington.
When the two reached the environs of
the capital, Webster, meeting one
whom he knew to be a Union man,
sent word by him to the picket guard
that he wished them to arrest both
him and his companion. This was
done, but as soon as they were sepa
rated Webster was released and went
to the White House. There he was at
once admitted to Mr. Lincoln and,
taking off his coat and vest, ripped
open the lining and produced the dis
patches. They and those found on the
Englishman were of vital Importance.
Possibly the latter were the more Im
portant, since they revealed that the
president was living In a city where
numbers of the enemy's sympathizers
were plotting for the capture of the
capital.
Webster, though he did not serve
Mr. Lincoln personally, accomplished
a great work for him as president The
spy played a double game. He would
go south aa a southern man and enter
the service of the government for the
purpose of giving them Information of
the designs of the Federal govern
ment. There he pretended to be a
Federal spy when he was really a Con
federate spy. He was from the first a
Plnkerton detective, and when Pinker-
ton organized the military secret serv
ice bureau of the United States gov
ernment Webster entered that service
and worked for the pay he received
In It Ordinarily it Is hard to tell
which side a spy playing this double
game 'Is really working for. But
Webster In the beginning saved the
life of the president elect and con
tinued to take him important Informa
tion, while be had only to give the
Confederacy information that was un
true or would not avail It.
This being a story of Mr. Lincoln
rather than Webster, the many re
markable romances in the life of the
latter during his term of service must
be passed over without even a cata
logue of them. Finally, though suf
fering from rheumatism, be started
south In company with a Miss Lewis,
who was in his confidence. The trip
was to be bis last Incursion into the
south. Unfortunately be was laid up
a long while in Richmond with rheu
matism. Miss Lewis nursed him.
During this time nothing was heard
from him at Washington, and the
president and others who knew of his
mission became anxious about him.
It was determined to send the mem
bers of the secret service force south
to look for blm.
The two men went to Richmond.
They learned that Webster was lying
111 at a hotel and blundered by going .
directly to see him without communi
cating with blm. In bis room they
found a Confederate and were rash
enough to band him a letter from Al
lan Plnkerton which, they said, came
from a friend of his In Baltimore.
They came again and unfortunately
met an officer from the provost mar
shal's office. This meeting led to their
examination. They were Identified by
a person who knew them, and all was
lost.
When the news came to General Mc
Clclhin's headquarters that the two
men had been arrested as spies and
had Implicated Webster, Allan Plnker
ton hurried to Washington to see Mr.
Lincoln and discover if anything could
be done to save , thorn. Singularly
enough, Webster had saved Lincoln's
life, and now Lincoln was called upon
to save Webster's life.
Mr. Lincoln called a special meeting
of the cabinet to devise means to aave
tho spies' lives. Nothing could be
done except to communicate through
the secretary of war calling the atten
tion of the authorities at Richmond to
tho fact that the United States gov
ernment had always been lenient to
Confederate spies and had never tried
or sentenced to death any one caught
carrying Information. The message
closed with a threat of Inaugurating a
different code In future If the spies
were executed.
Neither the fact pointed out nor the
threat availed. Webster was hanged,
Miss Lewis was imprisoned for a
year, and the two men who caused the
tragedy were Imprisoned for twenty-
two months. It Is not probable that
they would have escaped had they not
Implicated Webster. But It must be
remembered that they had only Indi
rectly been spies.
The last event of similarity between
Mr. Lincoln and Webster occurred
three years Inter, when Mr. Lincoln
was again the object of the assassin's
bullet The double tragedy contains
two singular coincidences. Both died
for the cause, though neither of them
as a soldier, and both died tragi
deaths, one being banged for a spy,
the other murdered.
TAXES DUE AND PAYABLE.
Monday County Clerk William Mul
vey turned the tax roll books over to
Sheriff Mass. The tax roll has been
extended and collecting began today.
Extra help has been secured and the
courthouse will be a busy place for
the next few weeks. By paying the
taxes before March 15, a rebate of 3
per cent will be granted. However,
half tax can be paid before April 1,
and the second half between the
months of April and October.