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That's what a Spreader will do if
used as it should be.
One Tie Salemite Insists thnr TW
Lincoln told this latter story. ("with tte literary men of Salem.
xjtraiura ssuasespejire ana isurns, Mr.
Kelso was likewise very' fond of fish
ing and could catch his game when no
other man could get a bite. Mr. Lincoln
hated fishing with all his heart But It
Is the testimony of the countryside
from Petersburg to Island Grove that
Kelso drew Lincoln after him by his
talk; that they became exceedingly in
timate; that they loitered away whole
days together along the banks of the
quiet streams; that Lincoln learned to
love inordinately our "divine William"
and "Scotia's Bard," whom his friend
mouthed in his cups or expounded more
soberly in the intervals of fixing bait
and dropping line.
Finally he and Kelso boarded at the
same place, and, with another mer-
Mr. Lincoln had a hand In originating i. 7 a m? -' or rastes conSen-
lt The catalogue of literature in whloh i ouu wlts BS Keen as eiso's, tney
he particularly delighted at New Salem
Is completed by the statement of Mr.
Rutledge that he took great pleasure In
"Jack Downing's Letters."
Mr. Lincoln still relished a popular
song .with a broad point or a palpable
moral In it as much as he had ever en-
1rVvl the vrwa I pfFnrta nf nmnio TTonta
and his rollicking compeers of the Gen-! i T " , V &pnngDel(l
" ly from New Salem and apparently
from the recollection of men. Of Offutt
not a word was ever heard. To use the
expressive language of Mr. Lincoln
ABRAHAM LINCOLN AS A SUBVETOR.
embezzlements" femhulllsh
tnererorene lis nrmiy "convinced" that
were always found together, battling
and arguing. Bill Green ventures the
opinion that Lincoln's incessant read
ing of Shakespeare and Burns had
much to do in giving to his mind the
skeptical tendency so fully developed
by the labors of his pen In 1834-35 and
in social conversations during many
jm uavw loans or mafr. tn nmaH vn. - - t . - - . ,
i. . K , . -" i iJiam acres 01 corn or wneat,
or nave a 25 acre meadow wa wi.l tl! mn hn on -on .i i . .,
rrr. u nn q m . . ' '""a ura iw ui fuur crop mis year
t per acre or more than enough to pay for a spreader. We issue; a 48-paee book
en,,e! Prac."cal Expenenca With Barnyard Manures." which.explaina the whole situation.
. Z . eory. " is an actual fact, backed up by actual experiments extending over
period of 18 years. To nve yon an idea of what this book imn. . ... ' . .
mitinih u f i , pen-
nd S 1. .VT- " IT ,uaaB manure were spread, per acre by the old method,
This Book will be sent free to an rone writimr nm it l wnwli ciaa nn M i ' .
fl'J?,, L'i? ' d. ""f B??d'. il. T9U. any barm. Write ns now and let us mail
The Smifii IrsiiiK I Jiirn
Endless Apron Manure Spreader
try ville grocery. He even continued his
own unhappy attempts, although with
as little success as before and xjuite, as
much to the amusement of his friends.
To the choice collection of .miscella
neous ballads acquired in. Indiana he
now added several new favorites; like
Old Sukey Blue Skin," and some selec
tions from the "Missouri Harmony,"
with variations by. himself. He was
also singularly fond of an Irish song
'which tells how. St. Patrick came to
be born on the 17th.day of March."
Shy of the Ladies.
'You ask me," says Mr. Ellis, "if I
remember the first time I saw Mr. Lin
coln. Yes, I do. I was out collecting
back tax for General James" D. Henry.
I went from the tavern down'to- Jaooh
Bales', old mill, and then I first saw Mr: I
Lincoln. He was sitting on c saw log
talking to Jack and. Kial , Armstrong
and a man by the name of Hohammer.
I shook hands with the Armstrongs and
Hohammer and was conversing with,
them, a few minutes, when we were
Joined by my old friend and former
townsman, George Warburton; rettv
tight, as usual, and he soon asked me
himself, he literally "petered out
Mr. Lincoln was often annoyed by
company. His quarters at the tavern
Spread all kinds of
toms andoommercial fertiliior rry...i'.
condition. Sfrods as much in m day a MS men
can b hand. Spreads the largest load in 2 to 4
minutes. Makes the same amount of manure go
tkrtt timet as fur and produce tetter results;
makes all manure fine and immediately avail
ab!e for plant life.
rton-Bunchable Raka hrmi
... , . ..vftrm., uu.ua
all hard chunks in enntnnt wlK huu.
thoroughly pulverized.
Endlesa Aoron is on, ontinnT. n.
is - . ... biiiwiii mui
apiuu; inerc.Tore annoys ready to load. You
Balanced I on front and rear axles. The team is
" o idu bs ( can worK. front and rear
aeries are me same tenrt and wheels track;
beater shaft runs in ball and socket bearings
therefore do friction. Beater is 23 inches in di
ameter, seat turns aver when loading. Machine
turns in its own length.
Simplicity. There are only two levers on our
m a-ine" n8 which raises the hood, locks it
.- j ."a uufiura ixi gear at me same time.
It can then be thrown in and out of gear without
lowering the hood. One lever -which changes
E v w uun, maaing it so simple
back into position after xarh lmrf a U
by hand: it it atrreat nu
Strentftk and Durfthilifv s. .
J . . v ' . . musi
luvuiiuiiiiuuianiDg consiaered tn a manure
" cautji. j ae ureas urestern Has a good, strong
durable wheel. Extra, stronr Books nnA rtm
heavy steel tires. Strong, well braced box with
heavy oak sill. Oaktommu kL-k Jnnki.t....
malleable castings, gears andstrociett all keyed
"- wmnzea nooa. every part is made extra
louaraiess oi col. It is made for tke man
inn aest, moat t four sues. 3S. so,
70 and too bushel car acity.
Immm4aa GL.tJ - . . .
.7 I . u- ore ax, wear out or
There la no Gearind aVtni
to break and cause trouble, , it is always up out
of the way of obstructions as it does not extend
below axle. Spreads evenly from start to finish
and cleans out perfectly clean.
Hood and End Gate keeps manure away from
beater while loadina : nrevent rhnkinn f Ko
er and throwing out a bunch when starting and
acts aS Wind shield when nnrAaHin it t- -
graduating lever andean be regulated wkiU s e7trA Zr.?Tl' OT
menta spread thick or tkin, ,t. S load for of charge. WXc.ThTlateTt
LUM Draft because the load is nearly equally .We best results. manura to
Write in st theas mnrAu tm m 1- - 1-.. . .
perience with RarnrH MnMr. v, ?7i?ll? "uu Tr . rTacacal Ex-
Do it now before you baaiyour maiiure owrpaTe f or aw crop. ' 700 free-
Smith Manufacturing Co., 162 Harrison St, Chicago
Better times were made not
long ago when 1,000 pigeons were
tossed at Templet ombe to race to
Lnmlnn A coictn k n.-
.ooieiru UY t SUUlll-
west wind, they traveled so rapid
ly that many of them had reached
their cotes some time before their
owners even thought of looking
tor mem. une bird actually cov
ered 10S miles in 94 minutes. main
taining through' the long journev
a speed of nearly 69 miles an hour;
anomer aid equally well by trav
eling to Chelsea at the average
rate of 2,018 yards a minute;
while one bird out of every ten ex
ceeded GO miles an hour.
. A very remarkable journey,
which illustrates the endurance
and courage of a pigeon, was made
some time ago by a bird called
Silver Queen, belonging to a mem
ber of the Homing club of South
xnisuurg. un August 7, 1900,
this bird, with several others, was
liberated from the roof of the
Brown Palace hotel, Denver, in
the presence of a large gathering
of persons, interested. .The pigt
eons when released made several.
" voawjwar-qf ; xnejr. wer$. first
heard of four days later, when a
letter dated August 11 reached
the Pittsburg club from Henry
Homeyer, of Zickrick county
South Dakota, saying that a car
rier pigeon had arrived at his
place that afternoon just after
the last of several terrific hail
storms had cleared away. Mr
Homeyer fed and watered the
bird, which, afterward identified
as Silver Queen, resumed its flight
as though quite refreshed.
Three weeks more passed, and
as no further news of anv one of
the five birds was received they
were given up as lost. But on Sei
tember 6 Albert Greb, of Pitts
burg, the owner of STlvpr Onon i
- r-ly-w !n l'Ii . '
ni.c lu U1S ion early in the morn
ing was astonished to see his bird
perch on the window sill. She
had thus accomplished a flight of
1,700 miles within a period of 30
days, during which .she passed
through many most severe storms
of hail,, rain and,$ut-
toitell him' the old story about- Ben
Johnson and Mrs. Dale's blue dye, etc.,
which I didi And then Jack Armstrong
said, 'Lincoln, tell Ellis the story about
Governor J. SIchner, his city bred son
and his nigger Bob,' which he did, with
several others, by Jack's calling for
them. I found out then that Lincoln
was a cousin to Charley Hanks of Is
land Grove. I told him I knew three of
fco boys Joe,- Charley and John and
Ms uncle, old . Billy Hanks, who lived
np on the north fork of the Sangamon
river, afterward near Decatur:"
This Interview took place shortly aft
2C the Black Hawk war,.but It was not
until the next year (1833), the period at
which we have now arrived, that Lin
coln and Ellis became. Intimate. At
that time Ellis went there to keep a
store and boarded at the same log tav
ern where Lincoln was, Lincoln, being
engaged In no particular business,
merely endeavoring to make a lawyer,
ORAVE; OF LINCOLN S . MOTHEBV NANCTC
HANKS LINCOLN.
afforded him. little privacy, and the
saaae or tne tree m rront of the grocery
was scarcely a suniclently secluded sit
uatlon for the purposes of an' ardent
student There were too- many people
to wonder and laugh at a man studying
law with his feet up a tree; too many
to worry him for the stories and jokes
' which it was supposed he could furnish
on demand.
Lincoln Breaks Down. .
For these reasons it became necessa
ry that he bhould retire to the country
occasionally to rest and study. Some
times he went to James Short's,, on the
sand ridge, sometimes to Minter Gra
ham's, sometimes to Bowl in Greene's,
sometimes to Jack Armstrong's and as
often, perhaps, to Abie's or Row Hern
don's. All of these men served him
faithfully and signally at one time or
another, and to all of them he was sin
cerely attached. ,
When Bowlin Greene died, in 1842,
Mr. Lincoln, then in the enjoyment of
great local reputation, undertook to de
liver a funeral oration over the remains
cainoun was the type of a perfect
gentleman, brave, courteous, able and
cultivated. He was a Democrat thpn
and&Daii6crat-!wnen hS'diecL t the
time we spealCof che , was one of the
most popular men In the state of Illi
nois and was one of the foremost chief-
I tains of the political party which In
variably carried the county and the
I district In. which Mr. Lincoln .UecL
tie Knew Lincoln and admired him
lie was well assured that Lincoln
knew nothing of surveying, but he was
equally certain that he could soon ac
quire it He wanted a deputy, with
common sense and common honesty.
He chose Lincoln because nobody else
possessed tnese qualities in a more em
inent degree. He hunted him up, gave
nun a book, told him to study it and
said that as soon as he was ready he
snouia nave as much work as he could
do.
Abe Becomes a Surveyor.
Lincoln took the book and retired to
the country that is, he went out to
Minter Graham's for about six weeks,
in which time, by the aid of that good
master, he became an expert surveyor
ana was duly appointed Calhoun's dep
uty, or course he made some money,
merely his pay for work, but it is a re
markable fact that, with his -vast
knowledge of the lands in Sangamon
and adjacent counties, he never made
a single speculation on his own ac
count ' .
It was not long until he acquired a
considerable private business. The ac
curacy of his surveys were seldom, if
ever, questioned. Disputes regarding
"corners" and ."lines" were frequently
submitted to his arbitration, and the
decision was invariably accepted as
final. It often happened that his busi
ness kept him away from New Salem
and his other studies for weeks at a
time, but. all this while he was gather
ing friends against the day of elec
tion. In after years from 1844 onward
It was his good or bad fortune fre
quently to meet Calhoun on the stump,
but he never forgot his benefaction to
him and always regarded him as the
ablest and best man with whom he
ever had crossed steel. To the day of
Calhoun's death they were warmly at
tached to each other. In the times
when it was most fashionable and
profitable to denounce Calhoun, when
even Houglas turned to revile his old
friend and coadjutor, Mr. Lincoln was
never known to breathe a word of cen
sure on his personal character.
On the 7th of May, 1833, Mr. Lincoln
was appointed postmaster at New Sa
lem. His political opinions were not
extreme, and the Jackson administra
tion could find no man who was at
the same time more orthodox and equal
ly competent to perform the duties of
the office. He was not able to rent a
room, for the business is said to hav
been carried on in his hat; but from
the evidence before us, we imagine that
ho kept the office In Mr. Hill's store.
Mr. Hill's partner, McNamar, having
been absent since 1832. He held the
place until late In 1836, when New Sa
lem partially disappeared, and the of
fice was removed to Petersburg. . For a
little . while, before his own appoint
ment he is said to have acted as deputy
postmaster under Mr. Hill.
The mail arrived duly once a week,
and the labors of distributing and de
livering it were by no means great.
Eat Mr. Lincoln was determined that
"the t-ignity of tlie p!ace should not suf
fer while he was the incumbent. He
therefore made up for the lack of real
business by--deciphering t'ae letters of
the uneducated portion of the commu
nity and by reading the newspapers
r.Ioud to th? assemble J inhabitants in
tront of mil's store.
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successive insertions; or 50 eta pei
month; for all op to and including ten
additional words. cent a word for each
insertion.
For all advertisements over 25 words,
I ct per word for the first insertion, and
i ct per word for each additional inser
tion. Nothing inserted for less than 25
cents.
Lodge, society and church notices,
nther than strictly news matter, will be
charged for."
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a purveyor ana a politician of himself. , of his beloved friend, but when he rose
f l -f , ! f to ;t E!nS t0 speak Qis ico was choked w?S
and Ellis' business. fleen pmrrfw ha 1
He also used to assist me in the while his lips quivered In the effort to
TrZYlZ "55 S . -rds of fervent praised
""j "i ninaa w Walt.
One of Lincoln's Jokes.
Cut his easy good nature was some
Lines imposed upon by inconsiderate
acquaintances, and Mr. Hill relates one
of the devices by Which he sought to
stop the abuse. "One Elmore Johnson,
an ignorant but ostentatious, proud
man, used to go to Lincoln's postoffice
every day sometimes three "or f oui
times a day, if In town and inaulre
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xients; curbing made to order; clean
ing and repariDgdone neatly: save
agent's commipsion . Shop North
Main St.. Frank Vanhoosen, Prop. o2tt
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S. R. BRYSON' ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office in Poet Office Building, Corval
lis, Oregon.
WANTED
WAiTTE 0 500 SUBSCRIBERS TO THE
Gazette and Weekly Oregonian at
$2.55 per year.
BANKING.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
Corvallis, Oregon, transacts a general
conservative banking buaineBs. Loans
money on approved eerurityi Drafts
. bought and fold anl money transferred
to the principt.1 dtme of the United
States, Europe and foreign countries.
ng for meV
This bored Lincoln,
i
I
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on the ladles. He preferred trading
with the men and boys, as he used to
sayv I also remember that he used to
sleep In the store, on the counter, when
they had too much company at the
tavern.
"I well remember how he was dress
ed. He wore flax and tow linen panta
loons I thought about five Inches too
short In the legs and frequently he had
but one suspender; no vest or coat He
wore a calico shirt, such as he had In
the Black Hawk war; coarse brogans,
tan color; blue yam socks and straw
hat old style and without a band.
Mr. Lincoln was in those davs a
very shy man of ladies. On one occa-'
" "i-iv. nu uvcu ucu m mis -tavern
there came a family, conslstins of an
old lady and her son and three stylish
daughters, from the state of Virginia
and stopped there for two or three
weeks, and during their stay I do not
remember of Mr. Lincoln ever eating
at the same table when they did I
then thought it was on account of bis
awkward appearance and his wearing
apparel."
Offutt "Petered Out
There lived at New Salem at this
time and for some years afterward a
festive gentleman named .Kelso, a
schoolteacher, a merchant or a vaga-
sought to utter, and the tears ran down
his yellow and shriveled cheeks. Some
of those who came to hear him and saw
his tall form thus sway In silence over
the body of Bowlin Greene say he look
ed so helpless, so utterly bereft and
i pitiable that every heart In the audi
ence was hushed at the spectacle. Aft
er repeated efforts he found it Impossi
ble to speak and strode away, openly
and bitterly sobbing, to the widow's
carriage, In which he was driven from
the scene.
Mr. Herndon's papers disclose less
than we should like to know concerning
this excellent man. They give us only
this burial scene, with the fact that
Bowlin Greene had loaned Mr. Lincoln
books from their earliest acquaintance
and on one occasion had taken him to
his home and cared for him with the
solicitude of a devoted friend through
several weeks of great suffering and
peril. The circumstances of the at
tempted eulogy are mentioned here to
chow the relations which subsisted be- j
tween Mr. Lincoln and some of the '
benefactors we have enumerated. '
But all this time Mr. Lincoln had a
living to make, a running board bill to
pay and nothing to pay It with. He
was, it Is true, in the hands of excel
lent friends, so far as the greater part
of his Indebtedness was concerned, but
yet it amused Urn. Lincoln fixed
plan wrote a letter to Johnson as com
ing from a negress In Kentucky, say
Ing many good things about opossum,
aances, corn shuckings, etc.; 'John's,
come and see me, and old master won'1
kick you out of the kitchen any more
Elmore took it out, opened It couldn'1
read a word; pretended to read it, wenl
away and got some friends to read it
They read it correctly. He thought th(
reader was fooling him and went tc
others, with the same result At last h
said he would get Lincoln to read it
and presented it to Lincoln. It was al
most too much for Lincoln, but he read
It The man never asked afterward
'Anything here for me? "
It was in the latter part of 1834 thai
Mr. Lincoln's personal property was
sold under the hammer and by due
process of law to meet the judgment
obtained by Van Bergen on the note
assigned to him by Radford. Every
thing he had was taken, but it was the
surveyor's instruments which it hurt
him most to part with, for ,by theii
use he was making a tolerable living
and building up a respectable business.
This time, however, rescue came froir
an unexpected auarter.
To be Uontiuntrij.)
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Oro.. and ssrist. in arinor f.-r fl.ma
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and other duties in farm work com
monly done by ladies. If the lady'.
he a husband, son, or other male
relative, who is a good workpr in farm
work, he can have work at least part
of the time. In answering send refer
ences. Address: P. O. Box 344,
37tf Corvallis. Oregon.
Postmaster Robbed.
G. V. Fonts, Postmaster at River
town, la., nearly lost his life and was
robbed of all comfort, according to his
letter, which says : "For 20 vears I had
chronic liver complaint, which led to
punh a severe case of jaundice that even
my nnger nails turned vellow: when
rav "doctor perscribed Electiir Bittern-
which cured me and have kent me well
for eleven years.'- Sure cure for Billions
ness, Neuralgia. Weakness and all
Stomach, Liver, Kidney and Bladder
derangement. A wonderful Tonic. At
Alien & Woodward Drug store 50c.
A Happy Mother
bond, according to the run of his borm- : De wa3 Industrious by nature and want-
what variable lock. When other people : to working and paying as he
got drunk at New Salem It was the ' went- He "would not have forfeited the
usual eastern, tp tussle and fight and' Eood opinion, of those confiding nelgh
tramp oties for a lifetime of ease and luxury,
otoet noses but i when ,Keten. ant V lt wai taeref ore a most nappy thing
rn-fciuriBBis1i6& H&i aadb lett lt tp be v wheal
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if your baby is feverish and doesn't,
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