Eugene weekly guard., April 16, 1908, Page 6, Image 6

'male attendance mure Imperative
with Lincoln, that the audience as­
sembled in expectation of their com­
ing might not be disappointed. So,
with Mrs. Lincoln and two young
friends, the president was driven to
Ford's theatre, but a few blocks
away, arriving after the performance
bad begun. The actors suspended,
the orchestra broke into the inevita­
ble "Hall to the Chief,” and ¿he au­
dience rose in greeting that was a tu­
I House that, against his inclination, mult of enthusiasm as I.incolq, con­
i f<-r he preferred to reserve what he spicuous everywhere because of his
! had to say for a formal gathering great height, made his way along the
¡planned for Tuesday night. Lincoln wall of the gallery to the box that
;addre ed them. He made an end had that morning been reserved for
I of his impromptu speech by saying: his occupancy and decorated in bis
honor.
”i propose now closing uy request-;
Beautiiui and balmy as tne morn­
Ing you to play a certain air or tune.
I have always thought "Dixie” on»- of ing had been, the night was coJd, and
th- best tunes I ever heard. (Laugh­ f «-ling after a time a sense of cbil-
ter.» 1 hav»- heard that our adver­ linens, Lincoln put on again the over,
saries over the way have attempted coat he had removed. Seated in an
to appropriate It for a national air. arm chair, he appeared to enjoy th»-
Between
I Insisted yesterday that we had' perforniam »• thoroughly.
fairly’ espiured 1». 1 present, d the the acts his box engager] a larger
question to the Attorney-General, share of the attraction of the audi­
nnd he gave his opinion that It was ence than was usual, for Grant's ap­
pearance there was m ¡nu-ntarliy ex­
our lawful prize.”
pected and all were anxious to Hee
The unrated popular enthusiasm th«- silent general who had achieved
compelled his reappearanc ■ later the such world-enduring victories.
came afternoon, and he made a for-.
The hum of low-toned coversatlon
Abraham Lincoln
i mal speech on the night of the next |
day, Tuesday, April 11. -Meanwhile ros«- while the orchestra's brisk music
n»’Ws from the armies fanne») the g -n-1 supplied the entertainment of the In.
era! delight to continuous ecstacles. | ermlsslons. Literature, politics and
(/.. •: t Miller In Pacific Outlo«k.) Shertuan had learned on the r2th of finance doubtless formed the sub­
Lee's surrender, had captured Gov-1 jects then, as they d-> now. Our Mu­
it -my net be given to tn:» gen­ ernor Vance of North Carolina the tual Friend, by Dickens, was then
eratio. ■> realize with what nearly next day and was awaiting an inter- running as a serial, as was Armdale,
by Wilkie Collins.
Thackeray had
Infinite j.;v the n< w- of I.... . sur­ : view with General Johnson set for died but a little more than a year be­
After an attack lasting
render we* ■ "• dve<| over the entire | the 16th.
Speculation ran riot In the
North.
No Imaginings may supply ; nearly two weeks. Mobile surrender­ fore.
shares of Pennsylvania oil companies.
the < xperlencis of those four years of ed on the 13th. and .Montgomery, Al-
dreadful strife.
There was not a I ubama, th” first Confederate capital People still talked of the adventures
of the Wateree, a war vessel which
’>e In all the land In which the has been occupied
had sailed from Hampton Roads the
• did not erect an altar of ancrl-
April 11, 1x65, jlpwned on Wash- yi ar before to round the continent
to Its necessities, whereon even Ingtoti with nil the promise of a per-1
poorest made offerings of life feet day. The very soul of spring1
-reasure.
The news that was was In the air. It was one of the
d over the country In the two lovely days that come In that lattl-
i
, “Lee surrenders” meant the tude after the last siigg stion of wln-
cessation of the frightful require­ ; ter has departed. The whole earth
ments the war increasingly made. At <...nuele»'tj. esiv seemi-d to respond to
length U was all over. The natbm 1 • soft v. cinga of that ethereally
had been preserved. Tens of thous­ I :»utlli:l day. What wonder that
ands slept in soldiers' graves, a huge i Wai.let;
wrought to »’xaltation
debt weighed down the republic, but I y -A 'i ev its, w;i-' acutely suscept..
the union had been perpetuated, and I Iblt to th« the oxhll rations of th»’
a great Joy overwhelmed the whole i ason. The Illumination of the
people.
I night before had by no means ex-
Lincoln himself became a wonder­ ; hsusted Joy In Its expression. Like
fully changed man in the few days ' the country, the capital still Intoxi­
that were given him of life after L<-e's cated with enthusiasm.
surrender sealed the end of the Con­
T ie White House overflowed hap­
federacy. He had borne the burdens
Robert, the son, returned
of »he war and of th»’ nation, and in piness.
a day they were partly lifted, from 'that miming, bearing to bls father)
his weai led shoulders. The end for I details < f the events that followed in
which he had fought had been ‘ sin h swift sui cession after th»’ pres-
achieved or was measurably within I Ident sailed down the river on April
attainment, and he became possessed 8. Grant had com»- to the front to
of a high serenity that transformed discuss with Lincoln the problem |
his very being. He does not seem to that was still to he solved. It was ■
have had any premonition of the fate ‘Friday, then, as now,* a regular day
that even then brooded In the swiftly ¡of meeting of th»’ cabinet, and recon-'
advancing days. It has been urged . strip lion was the theme that day con­
that when returning to Washington sidered, Grant being In attendance.
from City Point he read to Summer I How Lincoln's kindly heart beat then
of Massachusetts the lines from Mac­ with generous emotions. There was by way of th«> Straits of Magellan,
no thought of revenge, of punshment and with Its 20 officers and 186 men
beth:
or of harsh measures In that great, had been given up as lost. The stage
"Duncan Is In his grave:
After life's fitful fi ver, he sleeps sugai Ions mind. There was but one It If supplied subjects for enter­
¡object th»’ restoration of unity, and taining gossip the while, during the
well;
Treason has d ine his worst; nor steel . for the method sought that which Intermission after th«- second act, the
should attain that single object most audience still scrutinizing the pres­
nor poison.
Malice domestic, foreign, levy, noth­ surely and with the least friction or idential box. Had not Edwin Booth,
at the little White Garden theatre in
[ delay.
ing.
Can touch him further!”
In the afternoon ho drove, uh was New York, but Just concluded a
If, when ho read, he mad»1 person­ I Ills wont, with Mrs. Lincoln his sole three months' run of Hamlet, regard­
al application of any Of these lines to I companion.
Keturnlng, he read to ed as "an Incident in Shakesperiau
himself, there Is nothing to show friends from some late book of Idle hl--tory quite unprecedented!”
that h<> did so, because of apprehen­ humor, protracting his reading so
At length the curtain rose tor the
sion of his Impending death. There that dinner was delayed because of It. third act. Grant had not route, and
Is, opposlngly, abundance of evidence A theatre party had been planned for hope of his coming was now aban­
to sustain the belief that he looked the night. Laura Keene was giving doned. The audience addressed it­
forward confidently to the carrying a performance of "Our American self to enjoyment of the play, as did
out of the nobly generous recon­ Cousin,” which was at once her fare­ the occupants of the presidential box.
struction policies he meditated.
well and her benefit. Grant was to The first scene over, the second was
On Monday, the day after Lee's have been a guest, with Mrs. Grant, In progress. » Bo completely did the
surrender, so great a number of peo­ and th»’ very fai t that Grant's «hang­ action of the stage engage attention
ple gathered In front of the White ed plana took him from Washington that few noted, fewer heeded, the
CLOSING DAYS OF
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S LIFE
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movement through the theatre ut a
man extremely pale and extraordina­
rily handsome.
Entering the door
that opened on the passage in the
rear of the president's box. he closed
and barred it behind him. Opening
then unnoticed th«- door to the box
Itself, he stood within a few teet of
the president. Lincoln'» countenance,'
so lined and seamed with heavy cares,
was relaxed in smiles. His sad. deep-
sunken eyes, darkened with great |
troubles so long a time, gleain>d in
humorous appreciation. He release»!
himself to the ehjoyment of the hour
in the happy consciousness that with I
the union and himself, all went well. ;
The uninvited comer raised his
Derringer, took deliberate alm and ;
fired. The ball sped true to its lodg-j
meat in Lincoln's brain, piercing the
left side of the skull just behind the
ear. There followed a few hours of
unconsciousness. Then, his life Work
done, Lincoln passed, as Stanton said
with inspiration, into the possession
of the ages.
1*1 Nell'S
TltlBlTE TO
Sir John Tenniel, the chief artist
of England's Punch, during the
course cf the war be’ween the states,
drew many cartoons in most of which
Lincoln was caricatured. .Home were
amusing, some were merely cynical,
and some were brutal. But when Lin­
coln was assassinated Tenniel drew a
cartoon that appeared over the cap­
tion, "Britannia Sympathizes With
Columbia,” in the- Issue of May 6,
1866, representing Britannia laying
a wreath on the martyred Lincoln’s
bier. It was accompanied by these
verses:
You lay a wreath on murdered Lin­
coln's bier,
You with mocking pencil wont to
trace,
Brood for the self-complacent British
sneer.
His length of shambling limb, his
furrowed face.
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THE BON MARCHE
How
humble, yet how hopeful
could be,
How in good fortune and in all
same;
Nor bitter In siiceess, nor boastful
Thirsty for gold, nor feverish
fame.
UAN KELLY WILL
TRY OHCE MORE
New York, April 14.—It would;
seem that after th«- many criticisms i
Dan Kelly, the world's record sprin-l
ter aihOO and 220 yards,would about!
have to give up all hope of living up;
to the reputation which preceded him ,
from the West.
H? still believes.;
however, that he can make good, and
will make one more effort to do so i
before abandoning the track and con-1
fining himself to the broad Jump. To
this i n 1 ho has decld» d to quit New
York in favor of Philadelphia.
He will make that city his home
about May 1. There he will place
himself in Mike Murphy's hands and
train daily under the University of
Pennsylvania mentor's direction at
Frank'.in Field.
he
the i
he,
fur
Ilfs gaunt, gnarled hands, his un
kempt, bristling hair.
His garb uncouth, his bearing 111 at
rhe words of mercy were upon his
ease,
lips.
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His lack of all we prize as debon­
Forgiveness in his heart and upon his
air,
pen.
, Of power or will to shine, of art to
When his vile murderer brought
please.
swift eclipse •
To thoughts of peace on earth, good
You, whose smart pen backed up th«
wiy toward men.
pencil's laugh.
Judging each step as though the way The Old World and the New, from
were plain.
sea to sea,
Recklyss, so it could point is para­ Utter one voice of sympathy and
graph.
shame!
Of chief's perplexity, or people's pain Sore heart, so stopped when it at last
heat hixb,
Sad life, cur short just when its tri-
umph came.
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My shallow judgment I learned to
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Noting how in occasion's Ifeight he
-rose.
How his quaint wit made home truth
seem more true,
How. iron-like, his temper grew by
blows.
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Bargain Sale
0 riday
Yes, he had lived to shame me for
my sneer.
To lame my pencil and confute my
pen—
To make me own this hind of princes
peer.
This rail-splitter a true born king
of men.
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Beside this corpse, that boar» for
winding .‘■hi-et.
The Stars and Stripes he lovtil to
rear shew,
ietween the mourners at his head
and feet.
Say, scurril Jester, is there room for
you!
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BAI GH.MAN IINDOIISED
BY HOME PAPER
THAN TWO WARSHIPS
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auxiliary vesels to supply a fb-et with
the means absolutely essential to its
existence.
"It may be," he said in conclusion
"that this great mistake is due to
the fact that a collier which is as
essential to the efficiency of the navy
as a battleshit) is not so attractive,
d»» s not Involve the expenditBre of
so much money and does not afford
the opportunity for the same pyro­
technic display upon the ocean or
at the summer resorts along th«
coast, and for that reason we ha»«
made the mistake of building a new
that today, in order to mak ■ its voy­
age from one ocean to another, it
obliged to rely upon the vessels be­
longing to other nations.”
Ilac<- Track Bill I’ iism - s .
The house bill prohibiting race
track betting in the District of Co­
lumbia passed the senate today.
(Springfield News.)
H. C. Baughman, professor of the
Springfield schools, has been prevail­ CANDIDATES \ NSW EK
QUESTIONS Si BMITTEI)
ed upon for some time to file his pe­
tition for the nomination on the Re­
To the editor:—Thte following let­
publican ticket for the nomination of
County Schoo] Superintendent. Not ter has been'submitted to the candi-
until recently was he influenced to dat -s for the office for sheriff:
Dear Sir:—You are a candidate
even entertain such a thought, but
so strong was the sentiment that h* for the office of sheriff of Lane
could get the nomination that he has county at the coming election. As
at last decided to enter the race. For electors of Lane county we desire
the past ten years Mr. Baughman has to kn»)W your sentiments on the fol­
been one of Lane county's most suc­ lowing questions:
1. Are you in favor of the Local
cessful teachers.
For a time prior
to coming to Springfield he was prin­ Option law of this state?
2. If elected to the office of sher-
cipal of the Garry school at Eugene,
but at. the advanced salary he ac­ Iff, will you use your best effort«
cepted the schools at this place. Mr. for the rigid enforcement of this
Please answer yes or no to
Baughman has assisted with county law?
teachers’ examinations for four suc­ th se questions.
Two of the candidates, Harry Biwn
cessive years. Since taking the prin­
A deed accurst!
Strokes have been cipalship of the Sprlngfb’ld school and F. H.
Snodgrass subscribed
struck before
he has made very gratifying progress; ’ yes” to both questions, and er-
By the assassin's hand, whereof men for its betterment. The board are pressed themselves in favor of the
doubt
so well pleased with his discipline in rigid and impartial enforcement o!
If more of honor or disgrace they the school room that they have of-1 all laws.
were;
Mr. Griffin answered "yes" to the
fered hint and almost insisted on his
But thy foul crime,
like Ct
accepting the principalship of the second question, and that he «as ia
stands darkly out.
schools for another year, and have of­ favor oTthe enforcement of all laws.
fered hint a raise In salary. His ex-1 In regard to question No. 1 he stated
Vile hand, that brandest murder on a , ceptional ability, together with his I that he was not familiar with th»
strife,
great energy in i xpediaUng matters Local Option law.
Whate'er its grounds, stoutly and in the school room has given his staff
Mr. Nicklln's reply is as follows.
nobly striven,
of assistants and scholars perfect con­ "I am a firm believer in the strict
\nd with the martyr's crown crown­ fidence and has caused the Spring­ enforcement of all laws. If nom­
est a life
field schools to rank among the very inated and elected sheriff of L*D»
With much to praise—little to be best In the state.
Mr. Baughman county I promise a full and faithful
forgiven.
would make on«» of the most able and performance of my duty relative to
best qualified school superintendents the Local Option law as well as other
in Lane County. He is a man of' laws In force.”
«»(APT yin :
my captain :
Verv respectfully,
dignified bearing, yet his affable
ways and quick conception of the
O. F. HU RD.
(Abraham Lincoln, died April 15, necessities of the public schools over
Geo. A. DYSON,
Committee.
1885.)
| the county, should mage hint a strong
O Captain' my Captain! our fearful candidate for the nomination for
trip is done:
County Superintendent at the prl-
The ship has weathered every rack, maries. April 17th.
DON'T EXPERIMENT.
the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the'bells 1 hear, the
Y mi Will Mak.- No Mistake » Vo*
people all exulting.
Follow This Ctfizen's
While follow eyes the steady keel,
Advice.
the vessel grim and daring:
Louto E Bean will undoubtedly
But O heart! heart! heart!
receive a majority of the votes cast
O the hl»-eding drops of red.
Never neglect your kidney;
Where on the deck my Captain lies. in the Republican primaries for rep-
If you have pains in the back, •»“
res
ntatlv»-.
He
is
especially
well
Fallen cold and dead’
qualified for the position, and will Inary disorders, dizziness and
make a record creditable alike to vousness. It's time to act and no til»»
O Captain' my Captain! rise up and himself
and Lane county if elected. to experiment. These are all ’J'®''
hear the bells;
Mr Bean has grown up among our toms of kidney trouble, and
Rise up for you the flag is flung—■
people and they know that his char­ should seek a remedy which is know»
for you the bugle trills;
acter
has always been above re- to cure the kidneys.
For you
bouqets and ribbon'd
D»ian’s Kidney Pills is ' ■-P remedy
wreaths—for you the shores a- l roach, that he possesses goo 1 ability to use. No need to ex prime»!- It
and
is
Industrious
and
painstaking
crowding;
ase» !» Ea"
in h:s work. That is why th« v will has cured many stubborn < . of a S*
For you they call, the swaying mass,
gene.
Follow the advice
come
to
his
support
at
the
poll*
tn
their eager face» tu-nlng;
this his first appearance before the g ne citizen and be cured
« Ea«
Here Captain!
dear father!
Samuel Cluer. painter.
public as an aspirant for political
ay»:
This arm beneath yotir head'
Twelfth St.. Eugene. Or
lonors
and
responsibilities.
It is some dream that oa the d«"ck
"We have given Doan's Kidn V PII*
n 1 !>»»*
You've fallen co'd and dead.
several tests in otir famil
r to *
found
them
the
best
r>
n
V v Captain does pot answer,
kidn»«
lit
had
for
pain
in
the
back
!U)H\
lips ar«» pale and still;
and
other
symptoms
of
k
My father dm-a not f»*l my arr
e tt»*-
plaint. Doan'» Kidney Pil
,1 f»f
has no pulse nor will;
er failed to do what Is f
at» t*
them and I would never
its voyage closed and done;
recommend them.”
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