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Newspaper Page Textrti5papppfj,rT .iwiwiMHfrwwwwl " W fll f"1 DAILY OAPITAI. JOURNAL SALEM, OREGON. TllCTBDAY. MAlini SI, 1007. Respect J iff vjri SYOUR tomach IVE it food that will not irritate or retard the performance of its natural functions, and it will reciprocate in away agreeable and comforting. No single ingredient contributes so largely toward wholesome, nourishing, agreeable food as Royal Baking Powder. Royal Baking Powder's active ingre dient, Grape Cream of Tartar, is the most healthful of the fruit products. This is why Royal Baking Powder makes the food finer, lighter, more appe tizing and anti-dyspeptic, a friend to the stomach and good health. Imitation Baking Powders Contain Alum "The use of alum and salts of alumina In food should be PROHIBITED. The con stant use of alum compounds exerts a deleterious effect upon the digestive organs and an irritation of the internal organs after absorption. "EDWARD S. WOOD, M. D. Professor of Chemistry "Harvard Alcdlcal School, Boston." nOYAL BAKINQ lOWDCH CO., NEW YORK WILL l)l4IIATi;rmNT8 I'AHH. Hiilcin Mluli Hehool 'I'm i n I' ft for (hiuilN I'iinh Today Will Do- halo Tonight. Tlio Bulom high nclioot dohutlng team, composed of CIiiuIoh 1). Har rison, William Perkins mill Howard Klmmurmun, luft this morning for (JiiiiIb I'uhh, whoro thoy will mwet (ho duhutura of tlio high school thwro to Jiiorrow. TlitH promises to he on of tlio hnrdost-fought ronlests of the iimiHoii. Doth tonniH huvo wurkod hard on tholr Hithjoct. and liavo dem onstrated In previous huttloa that thoy huvo tlio qualifications of shrewd debater. Tlio contest Ih or unusual lutoreet, from tlio fact that It will doclilo tlio ahnmploiishlp of tlio vlml oru Oregon HlBh School Debuting Luufctio. The subject will ha: "llo solved. That tlio United Stilton Rlinitld Own and Operuto It Own Hallroadi." ilupertutundeut I'otfora iirooinpiutled tlio Imxil team. Tom Cornelius rutnriu'd homo this moinliiK ft iiit Itnstrrn Oregon with Get an Education Brain Mat ter Pays Greater Dividends Than Brawn It. (i. lluoU'i Ih tlu Mntl man of tlio Intermit lniuil roiTotpoml euro KiIiooIn, Hentiitou, I'u., (o mipply jou with nil tlio Information (IonIiviI without any obligation on your unit. Von don't need to hike liU stunt about tlio hcIiooN hutliiK Miecoful and nntlslled Mil tloutu, hut allow him to Ntihmll you a llt of IiIh Naloni MiulriiU alone, uho till, or any 0110 of them will testify for Tlio Interim tlonal Corivupondouco HcIiimiN, TIiIh m-IiooI In tlio liuuest In tlio world. Ono million (.Indents HOW (HIIMI WK UK Hl'CCKSS. lTli IP VK HID .NOT IIAVK M'(VKSSI'Tli STl'DUXl'S'.' .Make iic of Uduw coupon mul I will Mud you tlmilur on cour.o you arc IntrroMed In. TIIHIIII IH HKIMi KOUMHD IN HAliKM AM) VI CINITY A t'tA'll of nettly enrolled Mudcutn, anil all who mmiiI In belntv coupon, MipplyhtK tholr mimes ami nddros will lie- entered on our club lUt, lawby entitling them to a nimm'IhI discount, Pro vidian tholr imiuo reaches my nfllco Murv Mnrrh :I0, 1007. Tho oltlco U open TiU'Mlny, Thumdny and Saturday evening from 7 p. Ill, lo UtMO p. m. Jlil oftlco U equipped with IkiuiuI volumes, draw ing ouIMIm, electrical outllu and circular mutter, with which hy looking over on rail hecouin thoroughly acHmliitcd with tho schools and Um wonderful method of educating. I.NTKIINATIONAI. amtllCSrOMlKNCK Kt'UOOUS. I'lcuao explain, without further ohlhjnthm ou my part, how I ran qualify for a larger Hilary and Mdvancfincut to tho poltlon lHforo which I luoo innrked MX.M Moclmnlcrtl Kntfintftir Mnchlno Donlituer Mvohaulral DratUmnu Koreuian Mnchlultt Poroumn ToolmaUvr Koremnu I'attorntukoi Foromuiv Moldor HofrUvrntlon KsiKlncor Qtt KuslntHr Kloctrlral KuKlneor Kloetrlclnu KUctrlo IdKhtlnu 8upt Klectrlo Haltwny Hupt. Telopbottu Kn:luor Toh'raph llnslnoor Wlroitua Dyunmo Tundur Btutlonnry Knlnor MnrluA Knfilnoor Civil Unfilnwr llydrnullo HuKlmvr Municipal Knglncor UrldRO Kimluwr It. It. Construction Kug Surveyor AUnltiR Ktiglnwr Mltttf Koroutatt Texillo Mill Bupt. Forotunu I'lumbor Hm(& Vontllnt. Has. llulldluK Goutraolor Arohllot Archttot't'l nraftmu Structural KttKlncor fltruotural Draftsman CtiemUl Ad. Writer Show Card Writer Window Trlnuuor ShiHt Motul DrafumnH Orimnuutnl I)oIkw Navigator flookkpor Stenographer Qlvll Sorvloo Hxatm. To Speak Fwuoh To apMk 0riuan To Spimk SpanUh gtreot aud No City ,..... ' Slato K. U. MU.YrKK, Unutth. !M4y Hoamu mt (XPctHoom IN, UiM A Hwh llulldlnx, BaKuu, 5 Or. tHH4rk rN fcf AHioortxl by TvU-yfou MU 43 f. M.l.mn.ll I tWWWWfrWW-Hj BardBtown HIS BIRTHPLACE AND HIS BIRTH- LINCOLN i I ."My RIGHT-WHY HE WAS OUR GREATEST STATESMAN t p.n.ln niiiiiiiiiiiiiiii imi 1 1 1 1 1 1 h H-y-m-i-n-'i'i mi' enlarged upon them. In deed, It was not until porhnps twonty-flvo years ngo that tho matter wns taken up serioitBly and an Investigation bo gun. This haa heon going on at In tervals cvor Blnco, until I venture to gny that fow persons born In a plo Among tho many wrongs of his tory and they are legion thero Ib nono In our Amorlcan chapter at least which la graver than that whjch has been done tho parents, nnd par ticularly tho mother, of Abraham Lincoln. Of course, I refer to the widespread tradition thnt Lincoln noer community, as Lincoln was, ana wn born to thnt class known In the as early as 1809, havo tholr llnoago south as "poor whltos," that his on both sldos as clonrly established father was not Thos. Lincoln, as his nn that of Abraham Ilncoln. It takes blographors Insist on doolarlng, but indeed, a most amazing credulity for n rich and cultured plnnter of an- any one to bollovo the stories I have othor Btnto than Kontucky, nnd thnt nlluded to aftor having looked at Ills mothor not only gavo a fathorlow tlio records of his family. Lincoln boy to tho world, but herself was a , himself, bnckod by tho record In tho Lincoln family BIblo, Is the first au thority for tho tlmo nnd plnco of his birth, as woll as tho namo of his fathor nnd mother. Tho father, Thomns Lincoln, far from being a "poor whlto," was tho son of a pros perous Kontucky pioneer, n man of honorable and wcll-ostnbllshed llne- ngo who had como from Vlrglnln ns n frlontl of Danlol Boono, nnd had thoro bought largo tracts of land and begun to grow up with tho country, whoro ho wns killed by tho IndlnnB Ho loft a lnrgo fumlly. By tho law of Kontucky tho eatato went mainly to tho oldost Bon, and tho youngest, Thomas Lincoln, wns lort to shift for himself. This youngost sou grow to manhood, nnd on Juno 10, 180C, was mnrrlod, nt Uoochlnnd, Kontucky, to a young womnn of n fnmlly woll known In tho vicinity, Nancy Hnnks. Thero Is no doubt whatovor about the tlmo nnd tho plnco of tholr mar rlago. All the logal documonts ro nulred In Kontucky ut thnt porlod for a ma rr Intra nro In oxlstonco. Not only havo wo the bond nnd tho cer tificate, but tho mnrrlago Is duly en terod In a list of marriage roturns made by Jesse I loud, ono of tho host known early Methodist ministers of Kentucky. It Ib now to be seen In the records of Washington county, Kentuck Thoro Is even in exist Kentucky. Thl3 will I shows that at tho tlmo of his death T Joseph Honks had eight living chll T dren, to whom he bequeathed prop I'erty. Tho youngest of these was daughter Nancy," ns the will puts It. , Mrs. Hitchcock's first query on reading this will, was : "Can It ho that this little girl sho was but nine years old when hor father died Is tho Nancy Hanks who sixteen years later becamo the mothor of Abraham Lincoln?" Sho determined to find out. She learned from relations nnd friends of the family of Joseph Hanks still living that, Boon after her fa ther's death, Nancy went to Hvo with an uncle, "Richard Berry, who, tho records showed, had come from Vlr- to shift for , had been fn.... . " llft for hlm,. . ::t ,',1 -- w.u ueen n ,. . -la bis wandi.n-,.r,,,Ui hni.n. ;..". ,ae otrwTT -t.andh.Vrr; .uoneplacelnthetIL',,ll tuckv M--.-Ule!r4irf MKI JSki ttf "SlaClurt't" Abraham Lincoln nnmolcss child. Tho tradition hnB always Inckod particularity. For In stance, thoro has boon largo dlffor onco of opinion' about tho plnnter who fathered Abraham, who ho was nnd whoro ho camo from. Ono story cnlls him Knloo, nnothor Calhoun, another Hardin ,nnd sovornl dlfforent utatos claim him. Only flvo yonrs ago u book was publlshod In North Carolina to prove that Lincoln's father was n roshlont of that Btnto. Tho bulk of tho testimony offered In this liiHtmico camo from mon nnd womon who had been horn long after Abraham "Lincoln, had novor seen Je was a l... . tradition may beV defender of hU wV. e4' Vows. He J? .S tat was already an H toholdnegreeaasslave,.'',!1' old friends ha, ..., .7 : !l wife, Nancy HnnV. .1 "Just steenort f., 'IB,,fi the wrongs of .!.-."???' of men. as eim.ii itt glnln to Kentucky nt the same tlmo ferson and Thomn d El,, that Joseph Hanks came. A Httlo facts show that he muit 7 furthor research, nnd Mrs. Hitchcokjmnn of some natural vH tounu mai mere nao ncen urouglit He had a trade and ownM That th,. nMh.-a, its hnr,r.M :. : "mmm ""i" mm mad h . r.iv -:;." "ea,i on,iioln -. . . "laM4l '"""""'s us inspired Akn Lincoln from his early JUl I mivo inetr names dark, i " .founded suspicions U 'J V ,?,'. """ CTerf Mft patriotic American ongbt to Wi face. If in carrylnc out it. project of making a natlonUffcJ U1U umucKy larm where Tin Lincoln and Nancy Hanh maim first homo tho directors do it moro than set forth the facts it e parentago or Aljraham Ltncolai will justify their underUilat Many buBlness men are ihorii In not looking Into things. Tttji untiy losing money by not i tho great Holllster Rocky Mors Tea sysytem. Makes them tffli keeps them well 35 cents. Tori nt Dr. Stone s store. BUHHl sbRHvHH IW54? ',!'', fMPfc 'LZ' Lincoln Monument. mt .fRTiiT. AiI.Mi't'llBuiFv - fv- I . , -- tj kij SElNt wit to light through tho efforts of frlonds of Abrnham Lincoln nil tho docu monts to show that In 180C Nancy Hunks und Thomns Lincoln wore married nt Boochland, Kentucky Now, ono of thoso documonts wns a mnrrlago bond. It wns slgnod by Hlchnrd Horry, tho undo of tho little girl rocognlzod In tho will of Joseph Ilnnks. Hero, thou, wns tho chain complete Tho mnrrlngo bond nnd mnrrlago roturns not only showed it.n, Vnnni. lln.itci ntiil Tlmmna T.fn coin woro married regulnrly throe years boforo tho birth of Abraham Lincoln, thus setting forever ut rest tho story of Lincoln's Illegitimacy, but thoy showed that this Nancy Hanks wns the ono named In tho will. Tho (suspicion In regurd to tho origin of Lincoln's mothor wns romovod by this dlscovory of tho will, for tho rec ognition of any ono ns his child by n man In his will Is cnnsldorod by tho law as Btiftlclent proof of pnternlty. Now what sort of people wero Thomas Lincoln nmj 'nncy Hnnks? It ban been Inferred by those who hu v mado no Investigation of Thom a LIurolu'H llfo thnt Nnncy Hanks mado a very poor cholco of n hus band. Tho fucta do not entirely war rant this theory. Thomns Lincoln The Leaders of Ctac & Sanborn.Teasand Colfe WHY? Because thfy buy tnd m moro tens and coffees this i othor firm. Thoy have the most tiprt too and coffee blenders la til world their blends doil chnnge with every sh.pmeit, like most of the other t;::di of cofes Evory order for coffM u roasted and packed thediycJ shipment. w carry four grades '.'. 30. 35 and 40c and wii ! anyone n sample Itemember, we are H sc! nvunll for SalllD GlT3 I trial and l. tununJ 'V ' Is the best Moir Grocery Company intt Stato St. rhoB i Tho l.ir Caldn In Which Lincoln Wns Horn. him. nnd nevvr hettrd the tale thoy repented until long after hU elocttou to tho Presidency. Of the truth of thoso Htntmunta as to Lincoln's origin no proof bus ovor boon produced. Thoy were rumors, dlllguutly spread In tho llrst plnco by those who for political purposes were glad to ho llttlo a political opponent. Thoy grow with tolling, nnd curiously onough, two of Lincoln's best friends helped perpetuate thorn Messrs. I-nmoii and Horndon both of whom wrotoa lives of tho President which nro of great Interest and value. Hut neither of thoso mon was a student. and they did not tako tho troublo to look for records of Mr. Lincoln's birth Thoy accepted rumors and THE CHECKING ACCOUNT fOR THE FARMER Many fitrinci- kerp a check ing account with us regularly bo ratifco It U a irmt help nud run vtnlfiict in their t-wrjilay huiliuf.ti. With a chevkhiK nc cwuiit yu ran tell evnetly the total amount of )our n-cvlpt nud OMH'iullture for each mouth of tho ontlrw )ar. When )u KH jour farm priHluct, tloKtelt tho chock. Tho ohllgnUou-i jou We ran Ih raiicvlhxl ly check. When )ll UUtkO U pUtTllOM xy t,y rmCK. o mute you to try thU ty(ciit. Salem State Bant L. K. PAGE, Pmet H. W, HAZARD. QuAiW of the woddlug and the fanfare which followed by a guoet who was present, and who for years after was accus tomed to visit Thomas and Nancy. ThU guost, Christophor Colum'ms Graham, a unlquo and perfectly trustworthy mnn, n prominent cltUon of Louisville, dlod only n fow yoars, ago. Hut whllo theee documonts dlsposo offootunlly of tho question of tho par ontugo of Lincoln, thoy do not, of course clear up tho shadow which hangs over tho parontago of hU mothor. Is thero anything to show that Nancy Hanks horsolf was oftas clear and clean llnoago as her hus band? Thoro had been nothing what ovor until, a few years ago, through tho efforts of Mro. Carollno Hanks Hitchcock, of Cambridge, Mass.. who had in preparation tho genoalogy of tlio Hanks family in America, a llttlo .volume was published, showing what sho had established In regard to Nancy Hanks. Mrs, Hitchcock had begun at tho fur ond of tho line tho arrival of ono Uonjamln Hanks In Massachusetts In 1C99. Sho dlscoverod that ono of his sons. William, moved to Virginia, and that in the lattor part of the ISth century his children formed lu Amolla county or that state a largo settlement. Alt records of thoso ramtiioa sho found In tho Hall of Hecords In Hlohmond. Whon tho mi gration into Kentucky began, lato lu the century. It was Joined by many membors of tho Hanks sotttoment In Amelia couuty. Among othors to go was Joseph Hanks with hU wife, Nancy Shipley Hanks, and their chll dren. Mrs. Hitchcock traced this Joseph Hanks, by means of land rec ord, to Nelson county. Kentucky, wnero ana round that he died la J 1793, leaving behind a will, which she discovered la tho records of .AJHanhra y AIOl.'V J s 2M S nu LA' vj .Js S X t ' ' mJ to ask iod Floors In Cans Mfr f 'J sss "ff j Jf-l e i ... . .,... M r J t oprvau insni uii juu. vi floors ulih a good brush, ind nae an utwo-auc rcvcuuuu room, Ulning-room, niu or piiw.. Nstursl uood finish, tough, clastic n4 OWiW Varno-Lac . . .i Ua ...I.. ii.... .11 li... ws.-lc im m.ltrrhOWOlu """ At,llir luiliais .11 hue i ' - j. - ,.- ...I-.. J Tl. !.. .Ml... m.rl ,Slf fMU ItS U9 " produce good results. Avoid disappointment by tvumtmmt for Varno-Lac. M.4. kf Aani White Led Color VTofls, DctroivMkib 'JGEO. B. JACOB FRONT AND PI.VK STHECTS. ' N NOItTlI SAI.K3Ii Phone 401 I HsWsWM f Only One of a 9 - .mi ihrr IIccvIvIhk shipment of spring lusts eacii uJ Kind w no two of tlic&o liats alike la Salem. t, ONLY LARGE EXCLUSIVE MILLINERY STgggjNgg Is showlHR Uk Tcry aewest aad most up-to-Ute V Muroa te the lstem smrket ceatcrs, and a ut . ihT vorcd .Ibc Uio Beasoa opened, by a un,,rfCt!LuW w front people of taste, who prefer tho beit, and eppr cs In stylo and design. ,, 1Tc FISKIIATS. ""SLh- HaBd-tallowl stret aswl suit lt In Iatrt ? 0r JiOiMncr is direct frew the KsK. ! MISS M. D, EVANS, mJt & V. ' MM sbsMbsbsbwI tmMmmmmmmmmmmmHmmwmmmm J t.'tkKi.