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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1017
H0NE8T ABE.
I.
HONEST Abe was a simple
man,
A simple man and rare.
His mind was a true di
vining rod.
He marched straight on and hd
marched with Ood,
Loving the soil on which he trod
And mankind everywhere.
11.
Honest Abe was a loyal man,
A loyal man and true.
His eyes shone bright with right
eous light.
He marched straight oft In the
darkest night,
Cheering the weak with his words
of might.
Giving each one his due.
111.
Honest Abe was a noble man,
A man of the helping hand.
His soul was filled with freedom’s
song,
It’soulided Clear as he marched
along
Seeking the way to right a wrong
Heavy upon the land.
, . IV.
And Honest Abe was a working
'man,
Born of a lowly name.
By the cabin door that gave him
birth
He learned the labor of the earth,
While he marched straight on to
.’ take his worth
Into the halls of fame.
—1Thomas Tapper.
_1
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
’.'>A4)raham Lincoln, the sixteenth
president of the United States of
America, was born February 1, 1S09, j
in ,>#ardin County, Kentucky. His |
grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, and1
lft father, Thomas, was born in Vir- j
ginia. His mother, Nancy Hanks,
was also born in Virginia.
His ^ancestors, on his father’s side,
were from Berks County, Pa.
About 1781, while his father was ;
‘ still a lad, the family of Abraham
'Lincoln’s grandfather moved to Ken
tffreky. When Thomas Lincoln, the
“firther’-t*f the future president was
;hfbrAit six years old, his father, Abra
fialtoV was shot and instantly killed by
- Indian, t while working in a corn
field-nfWar Ms. home. When Abrahan
LihcSrarttre- future president, was 8
yeavs^dld ***father sought a home
amid the fdrfests of Indiana, in what
is now known as Spencer county. Here
the family lived in a rude log cabin,
and young Lincoln was engaged daily
in the hard'work incident to a pioneer
life- Pdblic' schools had not then
reached the .far west. A private school
Was-opened oecasioanlly in these re
mote settlements by wandering teach
ers. who were able to instruct in the
: merest rudiments of learning. Lin
coln attended such school at times,—
in all not more than ten or twelve
months. His mother, a woman of fine
physical organization and of great
force of character, and possessed of
shrewd, practical common sense, com
bined with deep religious feeling and
great gentleness of manner, taught
him to read and write. She died in
1818 when Lincoln was nine years of
age.
At 19 years of age Lincoln made a
trip to New Orleans as a hired hand
on a flat boat and on his return his
father moved to Macon County, Illi
nois. Lincoln got out the timber for
a log cabin and built it, and enclosed
ten acres of land with a rail fence of
his own making. On account of tbo
unhealthfulness of the region at that
time the family abandoned the place
soon after. Soon after, being 21 years
of age, Lincoln hired himself to a Mr.
Offut, living in Sangamon County, to
build a flat boat and float it down the
Sangamon, Illinois and Mississippi
rivers to New Orleans. He then be
came a clerk in Offut’s store at New
Salem. He diligently employed his
ppare time in reading and study, es
pecially English grammar, receiving
assistance occasionally from the vil
lage schoolmaster. The next year,
1832, the Bltcl; Hawk war broke out.
and Lincoln volunteered. He was
elected captain by a company in Sar
gamon county, and served for a term
as a soldier. He was very popular
with the soldiers because of his great
strength and agility and his story tell
ing ability. In 1832 he was a candi
date for the Illinois legislature, but
was defeated. He was appointed post
master at New Salem. The small
store which he had opened at that
place was not a success and an oppor
tunity presenting itself to assist the
county surveyor, Lincoln eagerly ae
cepted the employment, and although
he had never studied surveying he se
cured a treatise on the subject, and
mastering it, did the work and did
it well.
He then took up the study of low,
borrowing all the books available, and
in the autumn of 1836 obta*ned a
license to practice law, and rose r lp
idly in his profession. Two years be
fore this in 1834, he had beer, elected
to the Illinois legislature, and was re
elected in 1836, 1838 and 1840
Stephen A. Douglas also became a
member of the legislature Iv 1336.
and the two men quickly became par
ty leaders on their respective sides of
the House, and thus their political
courses and political rivalries began
almost together.
While a member of the legislature
Lincoln first evinced his decided aver
sion to slavery, taking the most deci
sive stand on the subject when some |
strong pro-slavery resolutions were j
passed by the legislature, and putting
bn the journal of the House a formal j
protest against the resolutions.
In April, 1836, Lincoln removed j
from New Salem to Springfield, the j
capital, which was afterward his per-1
manent abode. In the presidential1
campaign of 1844 he made a number'
of strong and effective speeches for j
Henry Clay. In this and other cam- j
paigns his reputation as an eloquent j
and influential public speaker was
greatly increased. In 1846 he was1
elected to Congress as a Whig by a |
large majority. At the expiration of |
his term of office he devoted himself j
as assiduously to the study and prac-!
tice of law, while still doing duty in '
the field of politics.
i In 1S46-50 lie was a candidate for
United States senator before the 1111-;
nois legislature, but was defeated.
With the repeal of the Missouri Com-;
! promise came on anew and with ad
!ded force the slavery agitation. Tht,
Kansas-Nebraska bill, with the vio
lence and iniquities connected with it
!stirred to its very depth the soul of
I Mr. Lincoln. Regarding all this ac
tion as a most unjustifiable breach »>•
| political faith he sprang to the front
I to denounce its injustice and wrong.
1 He was at once the acknowledged
!anti-slavery leader of Illinois. His de
1 ates with Stephen A. Douglas on th,j
slavery question were of a masterly
character. His fame began to widen
beyond the boundaries of his own
I state. In 1856 the Republican party
|of Illinois was formally organized.
Lincoln took an active part in the or
ganization of the party and was its
first candidate for United States Sen
a tor.
In his great speech following the
Springfield convention of 1856 at
which he was nominated as United
States Senator, he said, “A house di
vided against itself cannot stand, f
believe this government cannot en
dure permanently half slave and half
free. T do not expect the Union to
be dissolved—I do not expect the
house to fall—but I do expect it will
cease to be divided. It will become
all one thing or the other. Either the
opponents of slavery will arrest the
further spread of it, and place 't
where the public mind shall rest in
the belief that it is in the course of
ultimate extinction, or its advocates
will push it' forward till it shall be
! come alike lawful in all the states
jold as well as new. North as well as
South.”
His great speech at Cooper Insti
tute. New York City, February 27,
1860, made him a lasting reputation
throughout the country and the world
as a speaker. He closed that speech
with the ringing words: "Let us have
faith that right makes might, and in
that faith let us to the end dare to do
cur duty as we understand it.”
On May 6, 1860, the Republican
national convention met at Chicago
"No extension of slavery” was the
cardinal feature of its platform. Wil
liam H. Seward was the principal
competitor of Mr. Lincoln for the
presidency, but on the third ballot
Lincoln was nominated. On Novem
ber 6 Lincoln was elected president,
;and was inaugurated at Washington
on March 4, 1861. As soon as his
election had been assured the extreme
partisans of slavery had consummat
ed their preparations for an insurrec
tion, and a movement for separation
from the Union had already com
menced in South Carolina. The slave
states of Georgia, Alabama, Florida,
Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas went
with her into secession, and a provi
sional government was organized
termed the Confederate States of
1
America, with Jefferson Davis as pres
ident.
Lincoln In his inaugural address
declared the acts of secession null and
void. He maintained the Union was
perpetual and Inviolate, and announc
ed with great firmness the determina
tion of the government to assert its
authority and hold all forts and places
yet under its jurisdiction.
Then followed four years of a de
vastating war, during which Abra
ham Lincoln displayed the qualities
of statesmanship which gained for
him the honor and esteem of the en
tire world, and title of the greatest
president the country had ever known.
Lincoln was again nominated for the
presidency, and again elected to of
fice the following November.
On the evening of April 4, 1865, ac
companied by Mrs. Lincoln and two
friends, the President attended a per
formance of “Our American Cous- J
ins” at Ford's Theatre, in Washing
jton. In the midst of the play John
Wilkes Booth, an actor, stealthily en
tered the box occupied by the Presi
jdent and his party, and discharged a
pistol at the President’s head, inflict
ing a wound from which he died the
! following day. Booth was found 12
days later and shot.
Mr. Lincoln was a man about six
feet, four inches In height, thin, wiry,
sinewy and raw-boned. He was nar
row across the shoulders and thin
through the chest, and slightly stoop
; shouldered, yet he was a man of great
j physical strength, lifting with ease,
when ip his prime weights of six and
even seven hundred pounds. Home
ly in countenance he was yet prepo
sessing in features. He was a man
of the working classes, a child of the
West, a typical American, self-reliant,
self-made and honest to the core. He
was a charming conversationalist,
I ever full of enlightening and inspirit
ling humor.
He was the liberator of the slave.
| and the successful ruler of a mighty
people. Dignified, magnanimous, pa
Itient, considerate, manly, true; “with
| malice toward none and charity for
jail" his fame will ever grow brighter
as time passes and his great work is
'better understood.
ALASKA FARMING.
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In a recent issue of the Seattle P.-1
I. that paper states that there are
thousands of acres of rich valley lands
in the North on which the crops of the |
north temperate zone may be produc-j
ed in'abundance; where the growing j
l season is sufficiently long and warm
i enough to mature crops before early i
j frosts, and where the winters are not •
so trying as on the Middle Western
prairies. On these lands the P.-I. j
says that wealth will be produced in J
Igeneral farming and dairying. This
may be so; but in our opinion Alaska j
will never be a bright gem in Uncle !
Sam’s diadem of agricultural States j
for the reason that the winters are too j
long and the summers too rainy. The j
Territory has so many other possibili
ties of wealth that it is ridiculous to
try to call attention to the poorest
source—that of farming. A mar. can j
raise all the vegetables in Alaska he'
desires, for his own use; he may have ;
a fine flower garden, and many kinds i
of berries, hut when it comes to farm- j
ing for profit a man should be arrest- j
ed for fraud who would persuade a
horny handed tiller of the soil to
try to make a living at his trade here.
Alaska has millions in fish, in miner
als, in timber, and in water power,
and these should be played up to the
exclusion of that agricultural stuff.
Our winters are long and tedious, but
our summers are grand, though short.
There is no more comparison, how
ever, between the possibilities for
farming in Eastern Washington and
Alaska, as some boomers would have
the people believe, than there is be
tween the climate of Hawaii and San
Francisco.
By sticking closely to the truth and
playing up the true resources of the
Territory we will acquire a much
more contented and dependable pop- j
ulation than if we entice people to
come here expecting conditions which
do not exist only in the minds of a
few real estate boosters. While we
raise fine vegetables for our own use
the man who tried to make a living
trucking would soon go bankrupt. It
is true that milk sells for 25c per
quart and potatoes for $40 per ton,
but if they were easily raised and j
cattle did as well here as some Alas
kan papers would have outsfders be
lieve they would be much cheaper.
Alaska is one of the grandest
countries on earth, but we would not
advise our eastern agriculturists to
look with longing eyes on those thou
sands of acres of fertile land depict
ed in such glowing terms by> the P.-I.
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THE fact that a man seems wor
ried and uneasy at this time of year
is not always due to his conscience.
Maybe he has just taken off hid win
ter ones.
—
THINGS might be worse. Just sup
pose the fright kids went around
telling about the smart things their |
fathers said.
A BOV’S idea of hard luck is to he I
bom on Christmas Day.
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Good
Goods *
Phone 12
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When you see S & W on the label you know that the contents
of the package are of unquestionable quality. We have re
plenished our stock of. this brand of goods and ask you to
try some of the following
ROYAL ANNE CHERRIES
BLACKBERRIES
STRAWBERRIES
LOGAN BERRIES
RASPBERRIES
SLICED PEACHES
YELLOW CLING PEACHES
APRICOTS
GREEN GAGE IMAMS
PEARS
SLICED PINEAPPLE
STRING BEANS
ASPARAGUS
ASPARAGUS TIPS
CABBAGE
BEETS
TOMATOES
PUMPKIN
MIDGET SUGAR PEAS
ASSORTED .JELLIES
ASSORTED PRESERVES
In our delicatessen department you will always find a selection
to tempt the jaded appetite
Nl'EKCHATEL CHEESE
IMPORTED SWISS CHEESE
MMBURGER CHEESE
CHILE CHEESE'
PIMENTO CHEESE
AMERICAN CHEESE
OREGON CREAM CHEESE
( HIPPED BEEE
SLICED BACON
SLICED RAW HAM
KOI LED HAM
In smoked and salted fish we offer
EASTERN COAST PINNEN HADD1E
SALT MACKERAL
SALT HERRING
SALMON BELLIES
S. BLUM & CO., Inc.
GOOD GOODS
GROCERIES AND OFFICE LOCATED IN THE FORMER KING GROCERY BUILDING
WE’D like to bet that before Adam
took Eve for a stroll in the garden he
had to wait a half hour while she
matched fig leaves enough for a new
garment.
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Valentines, three for five cents and
upward, at the Emporium. tf
—
—Building Boom This Spring—
Prove your faith in the future of
Valdez, by buying residence proper
ty. We have houses, cabins, and
choice lots for sale, all within .1 few
minutes walk from the heart of the
city. Alaska Inv., Co. 2t
■ - » # 1
Everything for lunches at Keystore
Produce Co. 3t
FOR RENT—Good cabins, $5.00
and up. Alaska Inv. Co. 2t
Try our Kraft Cheese in cans, mild
and mellow'. Keystone Produce Co. 3
New and Salted Nuts, Keystone
Produce Co. Phone 44. 3t
Valdez Miner. $3.00 per year.
WANTED:—Mill man's job as a
foreman; excellent references from
San Francisco Mint, and Seattle, Val
dez and Seward assayers. Expert
amalgamator on copper and silver
plates. Inquire at Prospector. If
Location notices, both quartz and
placer, for sale at the Prospector of
fice.
Rexall Drugs! Absolutely pure..Ow!
Drug Store. (
For Sale.
Lop-Eared Malamute Dog, 15 mos.
old, weight 103 lbs.; price f. o. b. Val
dez $75.00. Address, Box 232,
Douglas, Alaska. k3-l-17
It Leavens
Evenly
And thoroughly, hence
CRESCENT
BAKINS
POWDER
Makes deliciously light and
wholesome cakes, breads, etc.
SOLD BY GROCERS
POUND TIN 25c
CRESCENT MFG. CO.,
Seattle, Wash.
LOUIE’S CAFE
Open Day and Night McKinley Street, Below Table Office
Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes,
All Kinds of Pastry for Sale.
EVERYTHING THE BEST ANDY MAROVICH, Propr.
Candy Kitchen
L W. HUNT—b Owl Drm* Store.
FOUNTAIN DRINKS
HOT-COLD
ATLAS JUNK CO.
Wholesale and Retail Dealer* in
ALL KINDS OF JUNK
Buyers of Metal, Rubber, Ma
nila Rope, Sacks, Machinery,
Pipe, Hides, Furs and Bottles.
1043 Railroad Avenue, So.
SEATTLE, WASH.
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON. PROP
SlRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ays. Seward. Alaska
1
The Beet Place in Valdez to
Stop at le the
Arctic Hotel
I Ware, Lifkt Reoas—Tke Horn** of Comfort
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Rales By Ike Mead
I
; PHONE 133 MRS. STRING, Prep
VALDEZ CAFE
AND BAKERY
Freak Bread and Partly ahraya on kand
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
BERGSTROM A ROGSTAD. Propa.
PHONE 17 - Tfaae dam Waw Ow) Drat
In every nuc or manufactured ar-1
tides there is usually one maker who |
sets the standard of excellence. The |
Rexall Products set such a standard |
for the United States in Drugs, Per- j
fumes. Toilet Articles and in fact, for I
every article which they manufacture.
The OWL DRUG CO., exclusive agent3
f-r Va»dez. tf
A new stock of A1 Fruit Tablets
Candy Kitchen. tf'
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. S. WICKES MERRITT <
O flees over Valdes Drug Co.
Phoae *15 McKinley Street
Contract Surgeon, U. S. Army
A. A. Surgeon, U S. Public Health Serv
(Marine Hospital)
JOS. A. SILVERMAN, PH. 6. M. 0.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Over Owl Drug Co.
—OFFICE HOURS:
1 to 4 P. M. 7 to 8 P. M
Sunday by Appointment.
Res. Phone 1T6 Office Phone II)
ROBERT SIMPSON Opt. 9.
JUNEAU, ALASKA
Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground
DR. H. COCKERILLE
saxSJL-srs1 CilTtriltT.
DENTIST
Fourteen Yenn In Valdez.
PHONY) 110
Office Rooms ki Whaling Bn tiding
DONOHOE & D1MOND
ATTOHABVS-AT-LAW
oaee OfrMlte Court House
Phoue 84 VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LfONfc s * m ri.n:a
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORN ICY!U A’I .LAM
oaee* t* « saline Bulldlu*
Phoue i*i valdez. Alaska
TALDKZ LODQH
NO 108
Pm aad Accepted Huraa
Rtciltr Communications first Wed
nesday in each month in lleKlnley
HalL Visitors always welcome.
F. M. BROWN, W. U.
ED WOOD, Secretary. <
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miners
W. H. GARNER. Present,
Granite Mine
CHAS. McCALLUM, Secretary.
Valdes Alaska.