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W&W. --A ;sJ.W'.!Bwyw 1 hi I hi i ' ! -J. - A-.-..--ia.-..at4,'-g.fa;mt-k-1,jjl;1--T...-.-r ,,,!, Lincoln's Abraham's School Days. Abraham began his irregular attend ance at the nearest school very soon after he fell under the care of the sec ond Mrs. Lincoln. It was probably ia the winter of 1819, she having come out .in the December of that year. It has been seen that she was as much im pressed by his mental precocity as by the good qualities of his heart. Hazel Dorsey was his first master. He presided in a small house near the Little Pigeon Creek meeting house, a mile and a half from the Lincoln cab in. It was bnilt of unhewn logs and had "holes for windows," in which "greased paper" served for glass. The roof was just high enough for a man to stand erect. Here he was taught read ing, writing and ciphering. They spell ed in classes and "trapped" up and down. These Juvenile contests were very exciting to the participants, and it it said by the survivors that Abe was even then the equal, if not the superior, of any scholar in his class. The next teacher was Andrew Craw ford. Mrs. Gentry says he began peda gogy in the neighborhood in the win ter of 1S22-23. He "kept" in the same little schoolhouse which had been the scene of Dorsey" s labors, and the win dows were still adorned with the greas ed leaves of old copybooks that had come down from Dorsey's time. Abe ,was now in his fifteenth year and be gan to exhibit symptoms of gallantry toward the weaker sex. He was grow ing at a tremendous rate, and two years later attained his full height of six feet four inches. He was long, wiry and strong, while his big feet and hands and the length of his legs and arms were out of all proportion to his small trunk and head. His complexion was very swarthy, and Mrs. Gentry says that his skin was shriveled and yellow even then. He wore low shoes, buckskin breeches, linsey-woolsey shirt and a cap made o the skin of an opos sum or a coon. The breeches clung close to his thighs and legs, but failed by a large space to meet the tops of his shoes. Twelve Inches remained un covered and exposed that much of "shinbone, sharp, blue and narrow." "He would always come to school thus, good humoredly and laughing," says his old friend, Nat Grigsby. "He was always In good health, never was sick, had an excellent constitution and took care of it" Lessons In Etiquette. Crawford taught "manners." This was a feature of backwoods education to which Dorsey had not aspired, and Crawford had doubtless introduced it as a refinement which would put to shame the humbler efforts of his prede cessor. One of the scholars was re quired to retire and re-enter as a polite gentleman is supposed to enter a draw ing room. He was received at the door hy another scholar and conducted from tench to beach, uqtll he had been in troduced ta ail the "roan ladles and gentlemen" in ft room. . Thought, and -vrlueii lias been, nas borne the signature of been made under bis per- snperrision since its infancy. Signature of WARD HILL LAMON, His Friend. Partner a.nd Bodyguard less times. If he took a seribus'view of ABB WAS GBAVKLiT LED ABOUT, SHAME PACED AJTD GAWKY. the business, it must have put him to exquisite torture, for he was conscious that he was not a perfect type of man ly beauty, with his long legs and blue shins, his small head, his geat ears and shriveled skin. If, however, it struck him at all funny, it must have filled him with unspeakable mirth and given rise to many antic tricks and sly jokes, as he was gravely led about, shamefaced and gawky, under the very eye of the precise Crawford, to be in troduced to the boys and girls of his most ancient acquaintance. But, though Crawford inculcated manners, be by no means neglected spelling. Abe was a good speller and liked to use his knowledge not only to secure honors for himself, but to help his less fortunate schoolmates out of their troubles, and he was exceedingly ingenious in the selection of expedients for conveying prohibited hints. One day Crawford gave out the difficult word "defied." A large class was on the floor, but they all provokingly fail ed to spell It D-e-f-i-d-e, .said one; d-e-f-y-d-e, said another; d-e-f-y-d d-e-f-y-e-d, cried another and another. But it was all wrong. It was shameful that, among all these big boys and girls, nobody could spell "defied," and Crawford's wrath gathered in clouds ever his terrible brow. He made the helpless culprits shake with fear. He declared he would keep the whole class in all day and all night if "defied" was notspeUeO. There was ameng then a. ftUss Bob?, a trtrt fifteen aeaja e. tag, whom we jj! nn 1 1 ii ii ii itr ""I'mv' i Boyhood must suppose to have been pretty, for Abe was evidently half in love with her. "I saw Lincoln at the window,"; says she. "He had his finger in his eye and a smile on his face. I instantly took the hint that I must change the letter y into -an i; hence I spelled the word; the class let out I felt grateful to Lincoln for this simple thing." A Humane Boy. Nat Grigsby tells us, with unnecessa ry particularity, that "essays and poet ry were not taught in this school," "Abe took it (them) up on his own ac- x count" He first wrote short sentences against cruelty to animals and at last came forward with a regular com position on the subject He was very much annoyed and pained by the con duct of the boys, who were in the habit of catching terrapins and putting coals of fire on their backs. "He would chide us," says Nat "tell us it was wrong and would write against it" The third and last school to which : Abe went was taught by a Mr. Swaney j in 1826. To get there he had to travel four and a half miles, and this going back' and forth so great a distance oc-; cupied entirely too much of his time, j His attendance was therefore only at ! odd times and was speedily broken off j altogether. The schoolhouse was much like the other one near the Pigeon Creek meeting house, except that it had two chimneys instead of one. The course of instruction was precisely the same as under Dorsey and Crawford, save j that Swaney, like Dorsey, omitted the great "department of "manners." "Here," says John Hoskins, the son of the settler who had "blazed out" the trail for Thomas Lincoln, "we would choose up and spell as in old times every Friday night" Abe never went to school again in In diana or elsewhere. Mr. Turnham tells us that he had excelled all his masters, and it was no use for him to attempt to learn anything from them. But he continued his studies at home or wher ever he was hired out to work with a perseverance which showed that he could scarcely live without some spe cies of mental excitement. He was by no means fond of the hard manual la bor to which his own necessities and those of his family compelled him. Many of his acquaintances state this fact with strong emphasis, among them Dennis Hanks and Mrs. Lincoln. His neighbor, John Komine, declares that Abe was "awful lazy. He worked for me; was always reading and think ing; used to get mad at him. He work ed for me in 1829, pulling fodder. I say Abe was awful lazy. He would laugh and talk and crack jokes and tell sto ries all the time; didn't love work, but did dearly love his pay. He worked for me frequently, a few days only at a time. Lincoln said to me one day that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it." Writing on a Shovel Abe loved to lie under a shade tree or up in the loft of the cabin and read, cipher and scribble. At night he sat by the chimney "jamb" and ciphered by the light of the fire on the wooden fire shovel. .When the. shovel was fairly covered he would shave it off with his father's drawing knife and begin again. In the daytime he used boards for the same purpose out of doors and went through the shaving process everlast ingly. His stepmother says: "Abe read dili gently. He read every book he could lay his hands on, and when he came across a passage that struck him be would write it down on boards if he had no paper and keep it there until he did get paper. Then he would rewrite it look at it, repeat it He had a copy book, a kind of scrapbook, in which he put down all things and thus preserved them." John Hanks came out from Kentucky when Abe was fourteen years of age and lived four years with the Lincolns. We cannot describe some of Abe's hab its better than John has described them for us: "When Lincoln Abe and I returned to the house from work, he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of corn bread, take down a book, sit down on a chair, cock his legs up high as his head and read. He and I worked barefooted, grubbed it, plowed, mowed and cradled together; plowed corn, gathered it and shucked corn. Abraham read constantly when he had an opportunity." Among the. books upon which Abe laid his hands were ".SSsop's Fables," "Robinson Crusoe," Bunyan's "Pil grim's Progress," a "History of the United States" and Weems "Life of Washington." All these he read many times and transferred extracts from them to the boards and the scrapbook. He had procured the scrapbook because most of his literature was borrowed, and he thought it profitable to take co pious notes from the books before he returned them. David Turnham had bought a volume of "The Revised Statutes of Indiana;" but aa he was acting constable at the time, he could not lend it to Abe. But Abe was not to be baffled in his purpose of going through and through every book in the neighborhood, and so, says Mr. Turn ham, "he used to come to my house and sit and read it" The Bible, according to Mrs. Lincoln, was not one of his studies. He sought more congenial books. At that time he neither talked nor read upon religious subjects. If he had any opinions about them he kept them to himself. The Spoiled "life." Abraham borrowed Weems' "Life of Washington" from his neighbor, old Jo si ah Crawford. The "Life" was read with great avidity in the intervals of work and when not in use was care fully deposited on a shelf made ot a clapboard laid on two pum. But just behind the shelf there was a great crack between the logs of the wall, and one ngbt while Abe waa dreaming In fbeIoft a storm came up, sad the rain, tttown"tiKKM .the. 6epML soafceA 4a previous dook' rroin coverTto" cover. Crawford flatly refused to take the damaged book back again. He ; said that if Abe had no money to pay for It he could work it out Of course there was no alternative, and Abe was oblig ed to discharge the debt by pulling fod der three days at 25 cents a day. ; At home with his stepmother and the children Abe was the most agreeable fellow in the world. "He was always ready to do everything for everybody." When he was not doing some special act of kindness he told stories or cracked jokes. "He was as full of his LINCOLN CIPHERING ON A BOABD. yarns in Indiana as ever he was in Illi nois." Dennis Hanks was a clever hand at the same business, and so was old Thomas Lincoln. Mrs. Lincoln was never able to speak of Abe's conduct to her without tears. In her interview with Mr. Herndon, when the sands of her life had nearly run out, she spoke with deep emotion of her own son, but said she thought that Abe was kinder, better, truer, than the other. Even the mother's in stinct was lost as she looked back over those long years of poverty and priva tion in the Indiana cabin, when Abe's grateful love softened the rigors of her lot and his great heart and giant frame were always at her command. "Abe was a poor boy," said she, "and I can say what scarcely one woman a mother can say in a thousand. Abe never gave me a cross word or look and never refused, in fact or appear ance, to do anything I requested him. I never gave him a cross word in all my life. His mind and mine what lit tle I had seemed to run together. He was here after he was elected presi dent." (At this point the aged speaker turned away to weep and then, wiping her eyes with her apron, went on with the story.) "He was dutiful to me al ways. I think he loved me truly. I had a son, John, who was raised with Abe. Both were good boys, but I must say, both now being dead, that Abe was the best boy I ever Baw or expect to see. I wish I bad died when my husband died. I did not want Abe to run for president; did not want him elected; was afraid somehow felt in my heart; and when he came down to see me aft er he was elected president I still felt that something told me that something would befall Abe and that I should see him no more." Y Oratorical Beginnings. Abe had a very retentive . memory. He frequently amused his young com panions by repeating to them long pas sages from books he had been reading. On Monday mornings he would mount a stump and deliver, with a wonderful approach to exactness, the sermon he had heard the day before. His taste for public speaking appeared to be natural and irresistible. His stepsister, Matilda Johnston, says he was an indefatigable preacher. "When father and' mother would go to church, Abe would take down the Bi ble, read a verse, give out a hymn, and we would sing. Abe was about fifteen years of age. He preached, and we would do the crying. Sometimes he would join in the chorus of tears. One day my brother, John Johnston, caught a land terrapin, brought it to the place where Abe was preaching, threw It against the tree and crushed the shell. It suffered much quivered all over. Abe then preached against cruelty to animals, contending that an ant's life wa!j,.ns sweet to. It .as ours. to us." (To be Continued.) COUNTRY CORRESPON DENCE BEIJLEFOTJNTAIN. Last Saturday night at the grauge, hall, the Bellefountain band gave a free concert to a full house. Great credit is due the members of the band for the splendid work they are doing. Friday evening the 27th., at the hall will oe given an entertainment under the management of tbe Ladies' Aid Society. A splendid program has been prepared and everybody with their families are expected to be present Sirs. John Jackson, of Sherman county, is visiting at the home of her father, Bev. A. Larkins. Mrs. Dr. Bennett has been in Belie fountain lor several days with her people. j Spring leading k about completed; fall crops look quite progressing. ;-j4 ' Van Dodge, the cream man. Is making two trips a week to the Corrailia cream ery. Several new separators are being ordered and the business seems to e . aking a steady growth in the south end of the county. i A. H. Haw ley has sold his band of j -beep consisting of about 340 to Mai Wilhelm George Hall, while stretching some wire fence had the misfortune to gasti is hand qnite severely on a barb wire, j here is being a good deal of fencing . r ere about all of wire Mr. Hall boil' I fie fence around the Simpson chap I lot. Mr. White, of Junction, is visiting at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. H . Edwards. The ooe of Frank Pwrter, where the local te ephone .s kept, came near going up in smoke the other day, but was dis covered in time to save what would hav been a conflagration. The public school cloeep the 11th ot Mav. A fine entertainment is being prepared fot that occasion. The election is over and the general opinion of the primary law is that it is still open to improvement. ST. PATRICK'S DAY IN JAPAN "Finding of the Christians" a No table Feast in the Church of Mikado's Islands. It is a little known fact among those who have watched St. Patrick's dav celebrated with pomp and circumstances, that in far off Japan the 17th of March is celebrated as a great feast day by the Catholic church. The day is known as the Feast of the Finding of the Christians. The traits of valor and loyalty that the world has recently dis covered in Japanese character fit very well with the remarkable story of faith told in the annals of the church in Japan. This feast day is celebrated in honor of 15,000 Japanese Chris tians who, on the reopening of the country to missionaries on March 17, 1865, were discovered to have kept the faith unsullied, though absolutely isolated for three cen turies, since 1640, when more than 1,000 Augustinians, Dominicans, Franciscans and Jesuits, together with 200,000 native Christians, suffered martyrdom and the faith preached by St. Francis Xavier was apparently stamped out. It is significant of Japanese character that when St. Francis Xavier left Japan, in 1551 Japan then possessed 500,000 converts he wrote: "So far as I know, the Japanese nation is the single and only nation of them all which seems likely to preserve unshaken and forever the profession of Christian holiness if once it em braces it." At this time the annals of Chris tianity in Japan began to parallel Rome under Nero. In 1587 the Mikado Hideyoshi, who otherwise was a splendid ruler, ordered all Christians out of Japan in 20 days. On February 5, 1597, 26 Jap anese Christians were crucified at Nagasaki. This persecution only seemed to inflame the people's faith, and soon almost 2,000,000 Christians figured among the population of Japan. Under the next emperor, Yepasu, from 1614 to 1640, the very name of Christians seemed to be wiped from the land, 40,000 Christians being massacred at one time. Nearly 200 years afterward a Japanese junk was wrecked on the shores of the Philippines and the 20 Japanese survivors were found to be wearing Christian medals which they reverenced. They proved to have been baptized and properly instructed by their par ?nts, who in turn had descended from the early Christians. The next year, 1832, missionaries- visited their ancient field, but they were not allowed to talk Christianity to natives until a church was built on the site of the Nagasaki martrydom in 1865, and that favor was granted through political pressure by America, France, England and other na tions. 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