The old resident of Alton Cakes the
visitor to tlie river bnnk In front of
the City Hall and. pointing across the
Mississippi to an Island heavily wood
d with willows, Informs htni that there
Is the "Lincoln-Shields Park." On the
C2d of September, 1812. writes Walter
K. Stevens In the St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
the stage conches rattled down
the long valley through the bluffs of
Alton and unloaded an extraordinary
passenger list at the Plasa Hotel. The
.people sitting and standing on the wide
double galleries of the three-story,
hipped roof, wooden hotel, looked and
wondered as James Shields,- the State
Auditor, accompanied by Col. Whlte
nldcs and several other well-known
Springfield politicians stepped down
from the eoach and went Into the ho
1el. They were amazed when another
vehicle delivered "Abe" Lincoln, the
lawyer; B. II. Berryman and William
"Butler. About the same time Elijah
TOtt and J. J. Hardin and several oth
ers, well-known public men of Illinois,
flrove into town. "Jim" Shields had
?hnllpnged "Abe" Lincoln and tbey
had challenged "Abe" Lincoln and they
were going across the river to fight on
Missouri soil with "broadswords," the
regulation cavalry sabres of the rol
led States Army. Those were the
years of "dragoons". In this country.
As soon as the ferry reached the lsl
nd Mr. Lincoln was taken In one di
rection and Mr. Shields In the other.
They were given seats on logs and left
to themselves while seconds and peace
makers discussed the situation. In a
short time a serious defect In the pro
ceedings on the part of Slilelds came
to light. The challenge had been sent
prematurely. The mistake Is explained
quite clenriy In the Alton trndltlcm
Lincoln had amused himself and had
-entertained the Whigs by writing fun
ny letters to a Springfield paper about
the Democrat, and signing his epistle
"Annt Rebecca." Mary Todd, who
fterwardB became Mrs. Lincoln, and
Julia Jayne conspired to add to the
gayety of the community by getine up
an "Aunt Rebecca" letter of their own
composition and sending It to the paper
along with Borne verses which they
signed "Cathleen." The letter which
the girls wrote went outside of poll
til's and contained a burlesque proposal
of marriage to Auditor ShlelSs. Now,
the Auditor, afterward a United States
LOVE AND FAME.
I looked for Fame,
And Love came flitting by,
But paused a while.
With bated wings, to sigh t
But still I looked for Fame,
And Love fled by.
Fame came at last,
When hope was almost sped ;
Fame came at last.
When youth and joy had fled;'
And thon I looked for Love,
But Love was dead.
T. Marshall. '
-M.
The Gypsy's Gem
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The first notes of the Toreador song
called a group of idlers and sightseers
n-ar and cordial handclapplng followed
the final note of the gypsies' music, for
there were singers In the band who
mw how to use their voices. The
I'fice neor the cottage afforded a bril
liant scene these gala days ; there were
always round about those curious ones
"who must have their fortunes told
uen as well as women, skeptics and
hellevers alike trying for a peep Into
the future through the eyes of the palm
reader, the horoscope Interpreter and
the oracle.
Elsewhere In the village were merry
tlolngs eating and drinking, all the
rough diversions of the early days, the
ways that men and women have ever
sought for whiling away the time. Be
neath a canopy were Mistress Madge
Hid prim companions In sewing Indus
try, while near the stile Miss Betsy lin
gered for a word with stalwart Hugh.
Crossing the village green In pairs and
groups were others of the comely maid
ens, and all the small boys of the town,
scorning more serious pursuits, played
merrily at leap frog, quoits and other
robust games. ,
Within the public houses were heavy
discourse of the stock, and clinking of
the glasses, and boisterous applause
when one would make attempt at witti
cism. Behind his counter smiled the
rotund keeper; among the tables and
the benches supple John moved con
stantly with potables and lights. From
all the meadow land and tenant houses
round, the men were come to share the
village cheer. These moved not at the
notes of any song from near the Hath
away garden, but burled their coarse
faces once again In cup or mug, and
gurgled contemplatively.
These were momentous days. The
court, was come. In brave array were
courtiers and warriors and sailor bold,
H picnicking. The servants ran about
liveries resplendent. Important per
onages stalked hither and away in
Heavy grandeur. Court ladles and their
maids looked on the village and the
country folk disdainfully in part, but
wne took interest and made acquafht
ce here and there. .
The latter, friendly ones, flocked up
near the gypsies sing, and when the
son
A1W J AJJ
Senator from three States, and a brave
general of two wars, was . fiery young
man. While Springfield laughed.
Shields began an Investigation. He de
manded of the editor the real name of
"Aunt Rebecca." The girls became
frightened. Bunn, the banker, went
over to Mr. Lincoln's office and said :
"We've got Into an awful fix."
' !3llat'" the matter?" aed Lincoln.
The girls have written some poetry
on Shields," said Bunn. "Didn't yon
see It In the paper? Well, Shields savs
he won't stand It What shall we do
about It?"
"You go back and when you meei
Shields tell him I wrote It," said Lin
coln. Shields accepted this without verifi
cation and sent the challenge. The
peacemakers, . hurrying to Alton,
brought the true story of the author
ship. The facts came out in the con
ference on the Island, and the seconds
began the interchange of notes. Shields
saw the error of the proceeding further
when he learned that Lincoln was not
the writer. For an hour or more the
writing and exchanging of notes went
on. Meantime the population of Alton
stood in a dense mass on the river
bank looking across the channel and
having a good view of all of the move
ments. "Bill" Souther, a newsnnner
reporter, kept his eyes on the prin
cipals, lie told that for some time
after the landing Lincoln and Shields
sat quietly on their logs. Lincoln said
nothing, and Souther thought he looked
serious. After awhile something hap
pened, and Souther said that when he
saw It he "nearly blew un." The bun
dle of sabres had been laid down near
the log where Lincoln was sitting. Lin
coln reached out and took nn one of
the weapons. He drew the blade slow
ly irom tne ecaunara, and Souther said
"It looked as long as a fence rail."
Holding the blade by the back, Lincoln
looked closely at the edge, and then
after the manner of one who has been
grinding a scythe or a corn knife, he
song was ended clapped and sought to
know from members of the band what
good or 111 future held for them. One
vlBitor," a youth, a short and sturdy lad,
with bearing and with bronze of open
air and Boa, looked In the faces of the
gypsies and strayed about from place
to place to hear what patrons of the
soothsayers might have learnt.
A gypsy hiss made bold to ask him :
"Sir, have your future told for gold; a
bright career may wait thee; I'll tell
thee whom for friends to hold, aud who
they are that hate thee."
"Nay, lass, but are all the members
of thy company In sight?" he asked. '
"All but one maid who readeth
palms," she answered him.
"Then will I wait." he said, "and
see if she can tell me what I wish to
know. It is the one who is the most
demanded that must know the' most,
and I will wait to have her peer Into
the dark for me."
But there were those who wore not
so determined, and would buy forecasts
Indiscriminately, so she left him and
told others pleasant fibs to make them
smile and mostly spared them what of
painful truth she read that fate was
holding back for them.
Then came that one to view who had
been In demand a riot of the gypsy
colors, with burning eyes that melted
Into mischief in a flash, and teeth and
lips so perfect one could guess they
never would foretell unhappiness.
He ran to her. "Now read my palm,"
he said, "and I will pay thee well."
"It is my line," she answered him.
"The good cause needeth funds, and I
will tell thee truly what the future
holds for thee. I pi-ay thy palm be
smooth and hard, then hast thou for
tune's high regard. But. if It be all
lined and crossed, then shalt thou be
most tempest-tossed."
Together then they sat and, redden
ing, he stretched his hand where she
might see the palm.
She reached to take it, and showed a
sparkling gem upon her finger. And
when he touched the gem he thrilled
In all the nerves that carry shivers to
and fro, but whether from her touch or
from the magic of the stone be could
not say.
"Alas," she said, " 'tis lined and
scarred; thy calling works thee over
hard. But hard means triumph at the
last ; tho,u shalt be rich ere years have
passed.". . :
"So rich that I shall own a stone
like that?" be questloned-
"then thy palm is wrong."
1
began to feel gingerly the edge Ttlth
the ball of his thumb. By this, time
"Bill" Souther Tas tremendously In
terested. Holding the sabre by the
handle, Lincoln stood up and looked
about him. He evidently saw what he
was looking for in a willow tree sev
eral feet away. Raising the mighty
weapon with his long arm, Lincoln
reached and clipped one of the topmost
twigs of the willow. When he had
thoroughly satisfied himself as to the
efficiency of the broadsword he sat
down. A few minutes later the corre
spondence was closed on terms "honor
able to both parties."
As the boat put' back to Alton the
spectators on the bank were horrified
to see lying prone upon the deck a fig
ure covered with blood, while a well
known Altoniau leaned over the figure
plying a fan vigorously. Not until the
boat was close In shore was It seen that
the figure was a log of wood and th.it
the "bloody" covering was a red flannel
shirt. Wentworth dropped the fan,
stood up and grinned.
Lincoln was 6 feet and 4 inches, with
an arm length in proportion. Shields
was 5 feet G Inches, chunky and short
limbed. "Bill" Souther marveled much
over the willow tree exhibition, and
wondered how long Shields could have
stood up agatnzt such odds.
"There is not wealth enough to "buy
It 'tis my luck stone, lad," she said.
"Now this line here, a bold, ' full
curve, denotes a trained and steady
nerve ; it is of Intersections free thou
must a gallant sailor be."
"All but the gallant," he broke In. "I
have never done a gallant thing. The
suitor's life Is one of good, hard toil
aud sudden perils, if you will, but
landsmen are the ones to whom are
offered chances to conduct themselves
with gallantry."
"Thou dost not read thy life and
duties right," she said. "Each time
thou swlngest mid the lofty sails or
flyest up and down the roues thou eom-
est nearer to the captaincy, the goal of
thy highest hopes. The stone I wear
upon my finger tells me where thy
thoughts most linger."
A peal of laughter startled them and
they looked up to see more of the gyp
sies, listening. "She hath a promising
subject," whispered one. "Aye, he has
a simple hand," the second said. "Beth,
tell him true," another counseled, "or
he'll haunt your days. Let him know
the worst and best; clear away the
haze."
And they danced away to other
parts, telling one another of their win
nings and of how they had almost been
trapped by some sharp-witted patron
trying to deceive them with false Infor
mation, just to lead them on.
"I read, too, that thou are In trou
ble," said the girl.
"Thou are the first to know It," said
the youth, readily, but wincing in her
sight. "How can a man who is most
times abroad have troubles? Tell me
that."
"Thy trouble bides at home," she
softly said.
"Then dost -thou truly know," admit
ted the youth. "Now tell me what I
shall do, for. I will not longer sail the
sea in such uncertainty as has cursed
my voyages of late. I am a man" he
said it as a youngster doth who feels
the blood bounding in him each day
more swiftly than before "I am a
man ; I pray thee bid me take my trou
ble by the throat and strangle it"
"Best take it by the hand and plead
with it," she said, or look it in the eye
and say your inmost thought." ..
"Aye, look it in the eve and be
abashed," he answered. "I cannot say
my Inmost thought without some help.
Is there no firmness or no readiness of
speech writ In my palm, dear gypsy?"
"A plain all curleycues and talis the
owner's purpose always falls," she
hummed.
"A miserable outlook," he said, and
set his face.
"But thine hath no curleycues nor
talis, nor anything but well-defined ami
proper lines a lifeline long and red
and deep, denoting friendship good to
keep. Thou Iovest one who is fickle?"
8h asked pointedly.
"I cannot tell," he said. "I rnavhaD
should have brought her palm as well?"
"It is not needed now," the gynsv
said. "Come, here's an arrcwwell de
fined, sharp-pointed, short and blunt at
end. What is the message fate design
ed by this war token us to send?"
The arrow must mean the service
7 I
of fhe king," he said promptly. "T am
in the navy."-
"The" arrow means not service." she
returned. "It signifies, rather, loyalty.
Thou are a loyal man?" she asked.
"Always, everywhere." he boasted.
Then why seekest thou Information
of thy love affairs of soothsayers " she
persisted.
"TIs writ that soothsayers know,"
he answered vehemently, "and I do not.
I nnot tell If I am cherished in her
heart or if In my absence I am half
forgot. I cannot even tell If I am
present in her mind wheu I am near,
for then eonversoth she most flagrantly
with other and less worthy men"
"Less worthy men. Indeed."
"1 deem them so."
"But Is thy Judgment much to be
deonded on? Thou seemest but a
youth ; thy blood Is quick to take of
fense; thy heart protesteth over trifles
and standeth round in way of buffet
ing. When thou are older, thou wilt
letter know the other sex and realize
that when thou art most flouted thou
art most regarded when thou seemest
most madly to pursue, shouldst thou
but hesitate, she would run unto thee."
"Thou shouldst know women well,"
he said, "but how know I that thou
sayest true of what my power will be
come with years?"
"The stone upon my linger tells ma
all of thee and of thy maid who Is so
steeled ; how that she seemeth firm as
any wall yet that if thou persist she
shall yield."
"Thou wbuldst counsel firmness and
good hope?"
"As I know the future and the sex."
"So be It, then," he said, "but I much
fear thou knowest gypsy maidens only,
and 'tis no gypsy maiden that hath cast
her charm on me."
"No gypsy maiden? Then thy palm
Is wrong. Take back thy fee straight
way and run along."
He shook his head. "She Is no gyp
sy," he explained, "only a niakelxs
lleve." Buffalo Express.
TIPS IN SCOTLAND.
An Example of How Some Servants
Win Their Wii'i.
A gentleman was Invited to a shoot
In Scotland at two places close togeth
er. He arrived at the first place, and
Immediately after his arrival at the
first house received a telegram calling
him back to town. He. however, deter
mined to have one day's shooting and
to proceed to town by the night mail.
1 At the end of the day he gave the
head keeper 1 and asked him to send
his gun and cartridge bag over to the
other place for which he had an invi
tation and where he projwsed proceed
ing in three or four days time.
On his arrival there after his visit to
town he found his gun, etc., had not ar
rived, whereupon he wrote to the keep
er, asking him to forward It at once,
and he received a reply stating that
wheu he (the keeper) had received the
other 4 to which he was "entitled"
the gun would be forwarded. It was
detained till payment was made.
The gentleman wrote to the keeper's
master and received a reply that "he
(the master) never Interfered between
his guests and his servants In the mat
ter of tips." The gentleman ascertain
ed that the master In question paid
the keeper no wages, but left him to
pet w;hat he could out of the guests.
London Times.
A Mortal "Immortal."
It may be gathered from an anec
dote found In the Gaulois that there
was a time when some members, at
least, of the French Academy shared
New England's former respect for cor
rect spelling.
One day Bolssler arrived at Renan'a
house with a teaming face. ,
"Now," he began. Til tell you a
piece' of news that will take down
your crest. My autograph has fetched
a higher price than yours."
"That does not surprise me," Renan
said, serenely. "Where did you bear
this?"
Bolssler then explained that at an
auction a day. or 'two before a Kenan
autograph had sold tor three francs
and one of his own for five.
"Let me tell you the reason," said
Renan. "There were three mistakes in
the spelling of your letter, which is
now lying here on my writing-table.
A friend of mine was at the auction
and made a high bid for the letter,
after noticing the artificial gems that
.adorned your prose. .
"He brought it to me In order that I
might return It to you.;' If it got
abroad," concluded Renan, smiling,
"the public might get a bad impres
sion of the accomplishments of mem
bers of the' French Academy."
One Tblnic He Could Not Have.
" Although there was no sort of top
which could be bought and for which
Harold had expressed i desire that wo
not in his possession, he still had bis
unsatisfied longings. "1 know what
I wish I was, mother," be said one day
when his own big brother had gone
away and the little boy across the
street wag ill.
"Yes, dear," said his mother. "Per
haps you can be it, Harold; mother
.will help you. Is it to play soldier?"
"No, Indeed!" said Harold, scornful
ly. "I Just wish I was two little dogs,
so I could play together." Youth's
Companion.
(Mrs. Blunder has Just received a
telegram from India) What an ad
mirable Invention the telegram is! she
exclaimed, when you come to consid
er that this message has come a dis
tance of thousands of miles, and the
gum on the envelope Isn't dry yet
Tit-Bit
SOME
BIBLE
T1 T. lVlie Pill V mmmlcstniiihl tha nnlm RAnolrtflnM fft
Ul revise the text of the Vulgate, a revision of which Is now going
I on, the 15! Clementine edition of Jerome's version of tbs
1 T ! V. 1 1. . n V. . . . t . .
muwu n ure uigHie, una oeen sunjenea io no revision.
During these three hundred years several revisions of the Eng
lish Bible In use among Trotestanta have been made the latest
being the work' autboriied by the American committee of re
vision and completed In 1001. England was behlud the other Christian coun
tries In having a Bible In her own tongue. In Egypt, Armenia and Rome the
people almost from the earliest days of Christianity had read the Scriptures
In their own tongue, but In England the Latin Bible held sway. -
The Bible as a whole was never translated Into Anglo-Saxon, though
metrical paraphrases of some of its parts appeared as early as the seventh
century. The first of these poetic renderings of the Scriptures was made
by Caedmon, a monk of England. In the eighth century appeared
Bede'a rendering of the. Gospel of John and the Lord's Prayer, and other
paraphrases made by different ecclesiastics. In the tenth century Alfred the
Good Interlined a Latin manuscript with translations of the Exodus into
Anglo-Saxon.
John Wycllffe's translation was the first complete English rendering of
the Bible. A revision of his translation was published In 1SSS, Just sixty
seven years before the first book printed in Europe with movable types was
published. Between the appearance of this first English Bible of John
Wycllffe's In the fourteenth century and the publication of Tyndall's Bible
In 1520, the printing press, making possible the easy multiplication of books,
had been Invented. The first book, finely printed In Europe, was a Latin
Bible, 'Before Tyndall's English Bible appeared the other European coun
tries Germany, Italy, France, 'Flanders, Spain, Holland and Bohemia had
their vernacular Bibles In print, so England was slow In giving to Its people
the Scriptures In a language which they could understand.
The first complete English Bible was ths work of Myles Ooverdale, an
Augustinlan friar. He undertook the work at the suggestion of Thomas
Cromwell, Minister of State to Henry VIIL lie really revised and se
cured circulation for Tyndall's New Testament The first edition of his
Bible, appearing In 1533, was not suppressed by the government, which
proves that the popular demand for the Scriptures was making Itself felt
lTie second edition, ready In 1587, was printed with the King's most precious
license, being the second Bible to receive it The first to be thus authorized
by the King was the Bible edited and published by John Rogers, under ths
name of Thomas Matthew, In 1587. The Matthews Bible was a compilation
of Tyndall's and Coverdale's translations made by Rogers, whose work was
that of an editor. The notes in the Matthews Bible did not please Cronv
well, so he commissioned Richard Taverner to revise it Taverner's task was
to tone down the notes and to Improve the English. Ills revision was the
first published by the King's printer, yet, despite this, it appears to have ei
ercised little Influence on later Protestant editions.
During the religious persecutions In the reigns of- Mary and Elizabeth
many English, both Catholic and Protestant, had to seek asylum In foreign
lands. Some of the Protestant faith drifted to Geneva, where a company of
Genevan pastors, among th;nn ' John Knox,' Myles Corerdale and William '
Whlttlngham, brother-in-law of Calvin, published what Is known as the
Genevan Bible. No one seemed satlBfled with it and as King James was
equally dissatisfied with the Scotch authorized edition, the Genevan Bible,
he was ready to yield to the appeal for another version. In 1611 the King
James version was published. Though known as the authorized version, It
has never been formally sanctioned by any authority, ecclesiastical or tern- 1
poral. Westeott, in his "History of the English Bible," says: "A revision
which embodied the ripe fruits of pearly a century of labor and apiealed
to the religious Instinct of a great Christian people gained by Its own internal
character a vital authority which could never be secured by any edict of
sovereign rulers. In their work the men who prepared the King James ver
sion consulted Tyndnll, Matthew, Coverdale, the Great Bible and the Genevan
all of the noteworthy English versions. Nevertheless, the King James ver
sion encountered fievore criticism and was revised In 1020. The American
edition, as a recension of the English Revised Edition, retains the atatellness
the majesty and the simplicity of the King James version.
Ninety per cent of the words In the King James version are of Snxon
origin, showing the strong Influence of Wycllffe and of Tyndall. who fixed
the standard of the literary style, determining that it should be popular
rather than acaden, c. Save In the matter of spelling and of some refln
nient owing to the development of the language, it has not so far departed
from the first English Bible-thnt of Wycllffe- . may be seen in t e ex
tract from a ninnuscrlpt of the fourteenth century
"In the blgyntilng God made of nought! hevene and erthe, forsothe The
erthe was ldll and voyde, and derknessls weren on the face of denn. , .1
the Spiryt of the Lord was borne on the watrls. Ami S Vv.te M.t l
maad, and light was maad. And God saw the llsht t,nt it L .
be depart.de the light from d,.,kness,s. and Z. I' ,e" le g tid 1W
derknessls night; and the eventld and morn.ld was maad oil fit."
NEW PRESIDENT 07 HABVARD.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell, author, law
yer, Eaton professor of the science of
government and distinguished scholar,
who succeeds Charles. W. Eliot as pres
ident of Harvard University, Is a son
of one of the first families of Massa
chusetts. The city of Lowell was named
after bis maternal grandfather, Abbott
Lawrence. He was born In Boston
on Dec. 13, 1856, a son of Augustus
Lowell and Katberlne Blgelow Law
rence. Augustus Lowell was one of
Boston's foremost financiers In his time.
He founded Lowell Institute, which has
been managed so ably by the man who
Is to succeed to the helm of the great
Cambridge university. Augustus Low-
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PROTESMNT
REVISIONS,,
e l s father left as a monument, l,e-
him, te uoston m, rxm,pl,
cultlcs t'0,",tr"'te, um,or Breit dim-
Cpon graduation. Prof. Lowell entere.l
Harvard Law School, and before h
took -off his mortar board there saw a
year's active practice in the law offices
of Putnam & Russell. He was gru.lu.
ated from the law school Vh honors,
and In a partnership with .rii,;:e p c
Lowell, a cousin, entered active prats
tlce of law. During the year 1801 this
partnership was enlarged to Include
Frederick J. Stimson. Six years later
Prof. Lowell resigned from the firm to'
become a lecturer on government at
Cambridge. For the next three years
he enjoyed a good-sized chamber prac
tice, but be fouiid time to write "The
Transfer of Stock in Conioratloim," a
treatise which is a standard text book
In law schools. Ills books on govern
ment and politics have earned for hliq
an International reputation.
1 i ... - i . .'
Orljfln of Doiulnoe.
The origin of dominies has been at
tributed variously to the Greeks, the
Chinese and Jews, but a Paris contein
porary has discovered that the. ever-',
popular game owes its invention to tbs
Benedictines of Mont Cnssln. Two of
the order were sent Into lengthy re
treat, aud they hit upon a method ot
whiling away the spare time without
infringing the rules of silence by play
ing with square stones mon which varl
ous dots were marked. While perfect
lug themselves they perfected or rather
evolved the game, and were accustomed
to frequently repeat when placing lu
the evening psalms from Vespers, esjw
dally the first that Is Psalm 100, '
which begins "Dlxls Domlnus Domino
meo." When the retreat was over ths
game was soon known In the convent
Then its fame spread to the village and
beyond. The verse was reduced to on
word "Domino," hence the name as w
have received it
. When a widower is rich, and good
looking, he attracts as much talk as
any widow that ever walked the fact
of the earth.