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:.i iT -1 • . *i i ' r •• r • «$¥*•• * }hi *W\ Tb tydla E. Pinkham'i Vegetable Compound flaatttffla, )Oou.~ M I wan* to tall think •trans* that I am tin Mitt woti AIM • pate of m/fam- tad bearine* a* tf they will take aojtrsaty ewer with- •&L&. l\ OIW NCt •II tall then sod wflHnfto TimwailB.f^iii4ltnai.¥Vili ffssa aP—*w MOTHINQ AT ALL. \, H?r\ *7? B R. LINCOLN'S per- sonal appearance haa been the snb- Jeet of Innumerable anecdotes \and Jokes. He was not unaware of the od- dity of bis figure tad the character- Isttes of bis face. He came of a lanky race, gaunt, powerful people; and. capable; of great endurance. Their bard nves were not condnaive to grace of fig- ure or motion'and their faces ware often seamed and strongly marked. Climate, toll and Improper or Insuf- ficient food had much to do with giving to the western and southern pioneers the pecullarltlee of form and action: and the facial markings which Identified them geographically aa easily an aid their speech. Lincoln newer was ashamed of these things—at least he never [•engirt Ma batons when be came Itab amVriH' jpmwMMtum, tut tanr ffmi^wmmw of them did not arise from affectation. They were natu- ral to him and ho was not willing to have one set of manners for Wash- ington and another for the people back In Illinois. That he was careless of his ap- pearance there was no doubt When he sat for a photographer he never straightened hit tie or smoothed his ankacopt hair, but. like Cromwell, told the picture man to take him HJHGTwasT Ha •anew\ ThaTriwnalt would hare said, would not have been recognised In Springfield, and he didn't want them to think ho was putting on airs because they had elected him to the presidency. It was his homeliness wl' \StW& •ZWiJi I '<\' fa*'-* »lf NO CH/fMCfZ. * t> tivsrr.i: •i*ic-y Puggles—May I offer you my hand and fortune? - Jesale—No, thanks, dear boy. Tout fortune's too small and your hand's too large. FRENCH BEAN COFFEE, A HEALTHFUL DRINK Tho healthiest ever; you can grow It In your own garden on a small patch 10 by 10, producing 50 pounds or more. Ripens In Wisconsin 90 days- Used In great quantities in France, Germany and all over Europe. Send 16 cents in stamps and we will mail you a package giving full culture di- rections aa also our mammoth seed cata)og free, or send 31 cents) and get In addition to above 10,000 harnnls unwupweimpfr «ejpmah*r and noessr Mads—enough for bustuls <\t rose* tables and flowers. John A. Seiner Seed Co., 182 S. 8th St, La Croaae, Wis. / -What your son doesn't know ;**•** borne rada* isnt worth know- .Walter—And what he does know ; ^ffimst It teat worth knowing, either. ;••'*. HvHVfV few ewBKww I*e •HBHO, sflnostf mid Wobbles. -1 (ear jwu>e been In the chicken bust- ***** •»* Brnkn. ?1sade anything out of It?\ asked fen,* aald Blake. \Ten thousand w thousand dollars in the chick- sneaar demanded Wbobles. * Out of it,\ said Binka.— 's Weekly. *r p* ^Fc^^x *-v^- H» r-**. \^A .vr>?; C aj t „ —•c lafa-^ ir E£* x - :\ /.-- imat» »*» RjcafflSmiS353IS *n w tjf A Hint. -I hare been trying for sno to get the room so quiet eould hear a pin drop: I hare emsg#ed the pin aereral times but ytefaa*e been making so much noise fsat It has been impossible to hear it Wmad ae you think we had better do, etnssmmr „ \< Bsawj Backrow—Tie a dumb-bell to It next time, teacher.\ - The Scorcher's Fate, ha Cannibal King—See here, what mat dish you served up at lunch? ha Cook-rStewed cyclist, your ma- Cahnibal King—It tasted-rery burnt M r The Cook—Well, he was scorching .<!&•$.. when we caught him, your majesty— ^''F^mmtch. W- M\ m: m. m- /~— • !—\ If You Knew How Good axe the sweet, crisp bits of Post Toasties • ?>&•• you would, air least) try 'em. The food is made of per- fectly ripe white corn, cooked, sweetened,rolled and toasted. It is served direct from the package with cretin or milk, and sugar if desired— A breakfast favorite 1 ••The Lingers\ i POSTUM CEREAL CQ.. ltd., Ba-tle Crwk, Mich. luaded the people that he waa one of them the moment he made his appearance on the plat- form—his homeliness and his Intimate and- apt use of tbe__sjmple speech they could understand. There are anecdotes which are Intended to show that even in a community of persona not noted for msniy'beauty he was considered pre-eminently the reverse. Yet, although thla was the subject of jests at his expense, no one thought any the leu of him for it This homeliness—call it ug- liness it you will—of his face, the awkwardness of his form, and the ungainllnem of his gestures and attitudes seemed to the people to go natu- rally with his goodness of heart and the simplic- ity of his nature. In their eyes when advocating the cause of the oppressed and when opposing—the forces which would destroy the nation he became IT many pos- itively handsome. As yearn afterward one old man \who-knowed'Vhlm said: \Lots of 'em will tell yon he was homely. Seems to ma that's about all some folks around here has to tell about Abraham Lincoln. 'Yea, I snowed him,' they say. 'He was the homeliest man In Sangamon county.' Well, now, don't you make no mistake. The folks that dont tell you nuthhV but that never knowed Mr. Lincoln. Meb- be they'd seen him, but they never knowed him. He wa'nt homely. There's no denyin' he waaj, long abd lean, and he didn't always stand straight; and he wasn't pertlkeler about his clothes., but< that night up to Bloomlngton In ten mlnntea after' he struck the platform, I tell you he was the handsomest man I ever see.\ The month after his first election the publica- tion Once a Week in London printed the follow- ing personal sketch of Lincoln: \Abraham Lincoln is a gaunt giant more than six feet hlgh.strong and long limbed. He walks slow, and, Hko many thoughtful men (Wordsworth and Napoleon, for example), keepa his head inclined forward and downward. Hie hair la wiry black, his eyes are dark gray, his smile Is frank, sin- cere, and winning. Like moat American gentle- men, he is loose and careless In dress, turns down his napping white collars, and wears, habitually what wo consider evening dress. Hla head Is massive, his brow full and wider his nose large and fleshy, his mouth coarse and full; his eyes are sunken, his bronzed face is thin and drawn down into strong corded lines, that disclose the machinery that moves the broad jaw. This great leader of the 'Republican' party—this abolitionist —this terror of the •Democrats'—this honest old lawyer, -with face half-Roman, half-Indian, so wasted by climate, so scarred by, a life's struggle, was born in 1809 in Kentucky. His grandfather, who came from Virginia, was killed by thelnui- ans. His father died young, leaving a widow and several children. They removed to Indiana, Abe being at the time only six years old. Poor and struggling, ihis mother, could only afford him some eight montlia^roqgh schooling; and in, the clear- ings of that new and unsettled country tho healthy stripling went to work to how hickory and gum trees, to grapple with remonstrating bears, and to look out for the too frequent rattle- snake. Tall, strong, lithe and smiling. Abe tolled on aa a farm laborer, mule driver, sheep feeder, • deer killer, woodcutter, and, lastly, as boatman on the watora of the Wabash and the Misslsslppt.\ Another English writer In describing the pres- ident Is sUU more realistic than hla countryman when he says: 'To say that he is ugly la nothing; to add that J his figure la grotesque is to convey no adequate impression. Fancy a many six feet high, and then out of proportion; with long bony arms and legs, which somehow seem to be always In the\ way; with great rugged, furrowed hands, which grasp you like a vise when shaking yours; with * a long snaggy neck and a chest too narrow tor the great arms at its side. \Add to this figure a head cocoannt shaped 'and somewhat too small for such a stature, cov- ered with rough, uncombed and uhcombable hair, ' that stands out in every direction at once; a facet furrowed, wrinkled*and indented; aa though it had been scarred by vitriol; a high, narrow fore- head; and sunk deep beneath bushy eyebrows two bright, dreamy eyes that seem to gase through you without looking at you; a few Irregular blotches of black bristly hair In the place where beard and whiskers ought to grow; a close set, thin lipped, stern mouth; with two rows of large , white teeth, and a nose and ears which have been taken by mistake from a head twice the \ site. •<• \Clothe this figure, then, in a long, tight, badly fitting suit of black, creased, soiled and puckered up.at every salient point of the f~ure (and ev- ery pokit of thla figure is salient), put on large, ill-fitting boots, gloves too long for the long, bony fingers, and a fluffy hat-, covered to the top with dusty, puffy crape; and then add to this an air of strength, physical %s well as moral, and a strange look of dignity coupled with all this gro- tesqueness, and you Will have the Impression left upon me* by Abraham Lincoln.'.' Ward Lamon, who knew him intimately, goes more into details. He sayst Mr. Lincoln waa -about six feet four inches high, the lengths of hla legs being out of all proportion to that of his body. When he sat down in a chair he seemed no taller than an average man, measuring from the chair to the crown of his head; but his knees rose high in front, and a marble placed on tho cap of one Would roll down a steep descent to the hip. He weighed about ISO pounds, but he was thin through the breast, narrow across• the _^sjte>ulders r .and had the general appearance of a consumptive Bubject Standing up, he stooped slightly forward; Bittlnx down, he usually crossed his long iegS' or threw them over the arms of the chair as the moat convenient mo.lo of disposing of them. His \head was ion* and tall from the base..of the brain nn<l the ryohrow;\ hln.fore- head big affid narrow, but' Inclining backward as It rose. I The diameter of his h*ad from tar.to ear was d% inches and from front to back eight Inches. His ears were large, standing, out almost at right - angles from his head; his cheek bones high and prominent; his eyebrows heavy and Jutting forward over small, sunken blue eyes; bis none long, large and blunt, the tip of It rather ruddy and fiMgfrtlT *wry towards the right hand •Mo- Ms cnta,~pVoJ^Gng t*f~TBft ~antrpT wren upward io mejet\ * thick, material lower Up, which hung downward; his cbeeks •were flabby, and the ^roose skin fertl to wrinkles or.folds; there was n large mole on hla right cheek and nn un- commonly prominent Adam's applo on his throat; hla hair waa dark brown In color, stiff, unkempt, and as yet showing little or no sign of advancing age or trouble; bin com- plexion was very dsrk, his skin yel- low, dhrlveled and \leathery.- . I» short, to use the language of Mr. Herndon, \he waa a thin. tali. wiry. • grialy. raw-boned man.'* \looking woe-struck.\ His countenance waa haggard and careworn, exhibiting all the marks of deep and protracted suffering. Every feature of the .mnn—-the hollow eyea, with the dark rings be- neath; the long, sallow, cadaverous face, intersected by those peculiar deep lines; his whole air, bin walk. km loogv silent reveries, broken at long Intervals by sudden and atari- ling exclamations, as If to confound an observer who might suspect the nature of hla thought—showed he was a man of sorrows—not sorrows of today or yesterday, but long treas- ured and deep—bearing with bun a continual sense of weariness and pain. He was n plain, homely, sad, weary-looking man, to whom one's heart warmed Involuntarily, because he seemed at once miserable and kind. James B. Fry. who became intimately acquaint- ed with Lincoln early In the letter's political ca- reer, says: Lincoln waa tall and thin; hla long bones were united by large joints and he had a long neck and an angular face and head. Many like- nesses represent his face weir enough, but none that I have ever seen do Justice to the awkward- jtess and nngalnliness of his figure. Hla feet, hanging looaely to his ankles, were prominent objects, but his hands were more conspicuous eren than his feet—due perhaps to the fact that cere- mony at times compelled him to clothe them in white kid gloves, which always fitted loosely. Both lb the height of conversation and in the depth' of reflection hla hand now and then ran over or supported his head, giving his hair habitually a dis- ordered aspect His expression in repose was sad and dull, but hla ever-recurring humor, at short Intervals, flashed forth with the brilliancy of an electric light I observed but two well defined expressions In his countenance; one that of a pure, thoughtful, hon- est man, absorbed by a sense of duty and respon- sibility; the other, that of a humorist so full of fun that he could not keep It all in.. His power of analysis was wonderful. He strengthened every case he stated and no anecdote or joke ever lost force or effect from his telling. hApsepos of his large feet there is an anecdote told of Lincoln when he was in the\ legislature: He had walked his hundred miles to Vandalla, in 183C, as he had In 1834, and when the session closed he walked home again. A gentleman of Menard county remembers meeting him and a de- tachment of the \long nine/' on their way home. They were Tdi mounted except Lincoln, who had thus far kept up with them^on foot. If he bad any money he was hoarding it for more important pur- poses <tht%Jftat.--of saving leg wearlneas and leather. The weather was raw and Lincoln's clothing was none of the warmest Complaining of being cold to one of his com- pantonsrt'hls Irreverent^ memberof the \long nine\ told his future president that It was no wonder that he waa cold-r\there was so much of him pn the ground.\ None ot the party appreciated this homely Joke at the expense of his feet (they were doubtless able to bear it) more thoroughj|y than Lincoln did. We can imagine the cross fires of wit and humor by which the way was enlivened during this cold and tedious journey. ..• .The, scene w^rcertainiyZa, rude, one and seems more like a dream /than a reality, when we re- member that it occurred not many years ago, in a stale which now contains hardly less than three millions of people and 7.C00 miles of railway. Caftsius #i. Clay In describing an address. which \el at Springfield hi 185C paya: \Lincoln Ing lay upon the ground whinilnR sticks ,me throughout with marked attention. Jn io my appointments, I saw him ilien never shall forget his long, ungainly plain but even then sad and thoughtful A \Friendly Mateh.\ I sneak of a \friendly match,\ not at all forgetting that dictum of the Boot to whom hla opponsnt. breaking some trivial rale, said: 1 suppose yoe wont claim that in a friendly match r Trrlendry match!\ was the reply. 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