Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, February 12, 1921, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextBATI R! • A Y, FKttHVARY Ili, IMI. GHANTH rV* DAILY COVIUKK -J. A TRIBUTE OF LOVE Entrance to Lincoln Farm Why Not Electric Cooking? Pathos in Aged Negro'« Offering in Lincoln's Honor. Humbl« Flower« Had a Deeper Sig nlfleanc« Than tha Costly Prod ucts of th« Florist’« Art. I California-Oregon Power Co. NOTICE! going scout, vour on our route, and you G OOD arc broken down. hero, with high class gear, the A SSISTANCE best within this town. here is where, your treated fair and never R IGHT treated mean. your pace, and rest your face, and get A RREST some gasoline. jobs we’ll make small, we handle all, G REAT from big machine jobs to small. your woes, save your E ’ SCAPE do what you desire. "Th« moat touching tribute ever paid to Lincoln,’’ la the way a newspaper man described an Incident which he wltneu«e<l a few years ago In Wash ington. The statues of famous Amer leans stand In the national capitol, and It la the practice of various pa trtotlc societies to decorate these stat uee with flowers each Decoration day Among these marble effigies of th«- dead Is the splendid G Utzon Borglum bust of the martyred President. Th«- pathos of a great heart, breaking un der the woes of a nation divided against Itself, has been chiseled IntC the stone l>y the Inspired sculptor. On tide particular Decoration day the choicest products of the hothouse and the garden hud been placed lov ingly ou the brows of Washington, of lx»e, of Grant and many others. A wreath of the rlchert rosea the art of the florist could produce lay upon the brows of the Lincoln bust. The women whose reverent han«!» bud put these tributes In place bad gone, when Into the great rotunda of the capitol, almost deserted as always It Is on n holiday, hobbled at> old ne gro, holding by one hand a little boy. a grandchild, perhaps. In his arm« the old negro carried a great mass of the golden-centered daisies which grow In luxuriant profusion In every- Weld around Washington. To keep the flow ers fresh a dampened cloth was bound about their stems Across the marble floor shuffled the aged negro and Ills little «'barge. With a directness that showed he had made the siicr«'«l pilgrimage oftentimes l>«- fon*. the one-time slave led the way to where the Lincoln buwt rested upon Its pedestal. The negro, with eyes dimmed with age and tears, gazed for a few minutes upon the face of the martyred President, his lips moving as If In tdh-nt prayer. Then his tribute, the tribute of a race set free, he laid, not on the |>etle*tal with the costly trophies of the hothouse, but humbly In the dust at the pedestal's foot. LINCOLN’S OLD CHAIR. And make «our GARAGE a place for vour car to lodge. Fashion Garage & Machine Shop PHONE 163 SERVICE OUR MOTTO DAY OR NIGHT Ardencraig Farm For Sale Complete With Stock and Equipment at $50,000.00 For «ale only by owner or auth The office chair used by Lincoln in hie law office at Springfield. III., when he was elected President in 1860. It was in this identical chair that he sat when he formed his first cabinet and drafted hia first Inaugural address be fore leaving for Washington. OWED MUCH TO STEPMOTHER oriwd agent« Lincoln Was Always Ready to Admit Hla Great Debt to the Patient, Kindly Woman. Sewing Machine». Walnut Fait Grower. “1 often think of the stepmother of There 1» n popular prejudice that Lincoln ns an example of the deep aud black walnut Is a slow grower, but quiet and ¿ar reaching power of a the fact Is that In fertile, loamy soils woman, a woman who thinks and loves. underlaid with firm but not overly A commonplace woman, no doubt, most hard clay subsoils, moist yet well people thought her, and she probably drained, it 1« one of the most rapid thought herself so, too; a woman cer growers of America’s more valuable tainly, whose daily work was humble forest tree», «ays the American For enough to all appearances, a pioneer estry Magazine of Washington. It woman meeting the many needs of the should never be placed In coarse, rough and hard pioneer life—that was gravelly, stiff, heavy clay, or thin nil she seemed to lie. sandy soils. “If any one of you had seen her tn the little rough log cabin at the home Brighten Up Brown Leather. ly. never-ending household tasks while An excellent renovator for articles the boy Lincoln lay stretched before made of brown leather, such as shoes, the fire reading one of the few books suitcases and traveling bngs, Is made that that life and community afforded Massage tn Vogue In Japan. Massage Is much In vogue In Japan of two ounce« of soft soap, four ounces you would hardly have thought of her and a notable feature of any Japanese of beeswax, two ounces of turpentine as a woman of Influence. Yet those town toward evening fa the blind mas and half an ounce of neat’«-foot oil. deft hands of hers that you think of seur aa he walka along, announcing Melt the soap, wax and oil together, mainly as washing dishes and cooking himself with his peculiar whistle. In then remove the mixture from the food and doing other sundry homely search of work, which be can always fire and add the turpentine. Stir well. tasks, were molding, helping to mold When cold apply with a brush. all the while—no one knows Just how find tn plenty. far that help went—a nation’s des 1. . I -- ■■ tlnles. For the boy Lincoln was grow Ing up under her Influence, Was grow AN ELECTRIC TOASTER ing up to he that man to whom a makes golden brown toast in a whole nation will always r««n<ler lov minute or two. The stand on Ing homage. When he became a great top keeps It hot or can be used man Lincoln loved to acknowledge that to keep the coffee or tea warm. It was the wise, Just and far-reachln If you see It used you’ll want Influence of his stepmother—this plain hard-working woman, remember—tha one sure. It will be a pleasure he owed most that was good and In to us to show you. fluentlal in himself."—Woman’s Hone Companion. About tin ixio.i* o feet of lumber tire un <*<1 annually In tin1 manufacture of Mwlng machine«. (inks and red gum supply nearly two-thlrds of the lum ber, and yellow poplar nntl black wal nut each a little mon' than one-eighth, the remainder lielng made up of tu pelo, cheatnut, cottonwood, maple, basswood. birch, sycamore. mahogany, yellow pine ami redwood. Top« of sewing machine« are usually made of hardwood veneera such aa oak or wnl nut, or of other woods stained to Imi tate mahogany. GRANTS PASS ELECTRIC CO. Next door to water office Harry 8. Clapp, Electrician PAO» = Phone 350-R The Urjml rolle< tlon in South ern Or«-gon at Pries«« That Sell 1 Atterbury, 314 ton, long wIiH-lhene, late m«Hl«4, lumber rolls, guaran teed let class condition, quick eale ......... «2000.00 2 Federal 3J4 ton, long wheelbase, u>f! one sea son, lumtx-r rolls, «-very part in good order and ready to go, for. .«2300.00 On this tract Is ousted the marble memerial, which «tends the log cabin. the birthplace of the morial, erected through the effort« of the Lincoln cepted for the nation, with impreaaivo ceremonies, ham Lincoln’a birth, February 12, 1909. Education Might Be Termed Passion of Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln once gave to • casual acquaintance whom be met on a railway train the following particu lars as to hla education: “Well, as to education, the newspa pers are correct. I never went to echpol more than six months In my life. I can say this: that among my earliest recollections I remember how, when a mere child. I used to get Irritated when anyone talked to me In a way I could not understand. I do not think I ever got angry at anything else in my life; but that always disturbed m.v temper, and has ever since. I can remember going to my little bedroom after hearing the neighbors talk of an evening with my father, and spend ing tio small part of the night walk ing up and down and trying to make out what was the exact meaning of some of their, to me. dark sayings. I could not sleep, although I tried to, w hen I got on such a hunt for an Idea until I had caught It; and when I thought I had got it I was not satis fied until I had put it in language plain enough, as I thought, for any boy I knew to comprehend. This was a kind of passion with me and has stuck by me; for I am never easy now. when 1 nin handling a thought, until 1 have hovndod It north and bounded It south aud hounded it east and boun«l<*«l It w est." Supple). elitlng these reminiscences by a few extracts from an article in the En'-yclnp-slla r.rltnnnlca. we learn of Lincoln that “Its own mother taught him to read, and his stepmoth er urge«l him to study, lie rend and reread in early boyhood the Bible. Ae-op, 'll bln«on Crusoe,' ‘Pilgrim's Progress,’ ’Weem’s Life of Washing ton.’ am! 'History of the United States, and Inter rend every l>ook lie could borrow- from the neighbors. Bums and Shakesimare becoming fa vorite«. lie borrowed a grammar and other books, sought explanations from the village schoolmaster, ami began to read law. In 1834 his political friend and colleague, John Todd Stu art. a lawyer in full practice, had urged him to fit himself for the bar. and had lent him text books: and Llni'oln. working diligently, was ad mitted to the bar In September. 1S.".fl. His mental qualities were—a qujck analytic perception, strong logical pow ers. a tenacious memory, a li!>eral es timate and tolerance of the opinions of others, ready intuition of human nature: nnd perhaps his most valu able faculty was rare ability to di vest himself of all feeling or passion In weighing motives of persons or problems of state. His speech and diction were plain, terse, forcible. Re lating anecdotes with appreciative hu mor and fas«'inatlng dramatic skill, he used them freely nnd effectively In conversation and argument. He had unchanging faith In self-government. 'The people.’ he .«Id, ‘are the rightful masters of both congresses and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the constitution..’" These words. Just quoted, of this near Hodgeneville, Ky., In great Preaident The me Farm asaociatlon, was ac on the centenary of Abra j self-educated man, one of the greatest and simplest of Americans and ene who acquired by Indomitable will a j mastery of self-expression, have their bearing on our problems of today, which after all are not essentially dif ferent from the problems of those oth er “times that tried men's souls." PUT GRANT AT DISADVANTAGE Lincoln’s Llttls 8tory Probably More Effective Than Any Long Argu ment Could Have Been. One of the latest stories of Lln- , coin Is given here: The President was visiting Grant , In his Virginia camp, and the general was complaining of the Interference of the Washington bureaucrats. “The only use I have for the W»- depart ment,” he said finally, “is to furnish me soldiers and supplies. But the department mustn’t interfere with me. I am doing the country’s work, and mustn't be hampered." “That reminds me.” said the Presi dent. meditatively, “that reminds me of a man I knew out In Sangamon county. Illinois. He was a deacon, and had the long-winded exhortation habit. In fact, he had it so bad that people Is'gan to stay away from meet ing. One day the preacher met him. ‘Say. deacon,’ he said. ‘I don't want . to curtail your religious fervor, but you must shorten up your exhorta tions. You’re killing off the member ship of the church.’ ‘Can't help it,’ said the deacon, 'I'm doing the Lord’s work, and I mustn't be hampered.’" Grant laughed and temporarily dropped the subject. 3 Federal 2 ton, -tantlard wh'*ll>a*e, you will have to see this to realize a liar gain, in tip top <on- dition for ...... ....... «2000.00 3 Naah-Quad 8 ton, used one seaMm. coat «5500, Al condition, if yon want j»ow«n- on all i. its here for ................. «2500.00 5 Federal 3H ton, with 5 ton lav traih-r and log ging bunks .......... «4000.00 fl G. M. C. 3K ton, with dump body, used 3000 miles, cost «4500,00 without body, fine con dition, a snap __ «3000.00 7 Huffman. 2 ton, solid tires, stake rack Ixxlj, newly painted, used one season. 1920 model «1850 8 Maxwell 1 ton, solid tire«, stake rack body, newly painted, user! one season, 1920 model. ..«1350 9 Holt Caterpillar 45 trac tor, latest model, used only enough to ensures Its |>erfection, l«etter tlian new. get busy «4000 10 Two with tires new, price Reliance trailers, logging bunks, and springs, like used very little, each ............... «900-00 11 Ford Rug, thoroughly overhauled and newly painted. guaranteed, this will not be shown more than once at «225.00 12 Other trucks, cars, trail ers, tractors, some like new, all have attractive rrlces. Yon loose if you don’t look them over be fore buying. 13 Port Touring car. now paint, engine thorough ly overhauled, all new tires, this car Is a good buy for ............ «900-00 Those wishing to advertise and sell through ns must place Ve hicle in our Storage—None will be offered for sale that are not in First Class mechanical con dition. prices must lie attrac tive for quick sale John C. Signor MEDFORD. OREGON Tractors. Trucks and Farm Machinery The keys to the private box in which Lincoln sat when Booth assassinated him. A GLANC WERE A STEP IN ADVANCE Lincoln’s Unfaltering Belief. Abraham Lincoln was a tuan of pro found faith. He believe«! In God. He believed in Christ. He believed in the Bible. He believed in men. His life is a beautiful commentary on the words, “This is the victory that over- cometh the world, even our faith.”—B. B. Taylor, D. D. A Portrait of Lincoln. None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep though subtle and Indirect expression of this man's face. There is something else there.—Walt Whitman. Home of Lincoln’s Father How time flies and how we all progress. If a fellow wants to succeed nowadays he wants to keep a step in advance of his competitors. Those among you who are enjoying our san itary plumbing agree that we render superior service and sell a high grade of plumbing supplies. B. S. Dedrick S14 F Street PHONE 308-J NOTICE Rebuked Mob Spirit. Then* Is no grievance that Is a fl object of redress by mob law.—Lin coin. Used Trucks, Cars Trailers and Tractors Ths Lincoln Log Cabin Near Farmington, Coles County, Illinois, Built in 1S31 by Lincoln’s Father, who died In 1851. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the County Court of Josephine Coun ty, Oregon, will consider bids for the delivery, on or before September 1, 1921, of 125 cords of four foot body fir wood; said wood to be delivered at the Courthouse. All blds must be filed on or before i 10 a. m. on the 15th day of Febru ary, 1921. The court reserves the right to reject any or all blds, or award the contract to the beet Inter est of the county. By order of the county court of Josephine county, Oregon. F. U COON, County Clerk.