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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 6 Feb 1913, p. 6

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•m **• sr twr*,.,w\ |§^ 1" « , H%% ">%^« '^1^ f J r * • f q a f r q ^ < • *'?'iy ?*^"h"-,*• ^7^®S.HV £ ? * '*$*•-IISj ' CUT THIS OUT Reelpe that Break* a Cold In a Day and Quree Any Curable Cou^h. "^*Pm your druggist get half ounce t " ~ . " •ey; shake well and use In dose# of on® ? Of Globe Pine Compound (Concentrated . ' ^ two ounces Of Glycerine, ake these two ingredients home and rat them into a half pint of good whls' KN RUTLEDOE waa comply, of agr*»» able disposition, likewise bright to all these facts the accounts are one. She waa, moreover, of excellent stock, could boast of the very best southern blood, and could count among her ancestors one of the sign­ ers of the Declaration of Indepen­ dence, a chief Justice of the Supreme court of the nation and a leader in the American cobgress. Her father was an Illinois pioneer, orig­ inally from South Carolina, and long a resident of Kentucky. He was well-to-do and able to afford her better than the usual schooling of the west In that primitive place and period. It was at his hotel, or tavern, as then termed. In New Salem, 111., in 1834 that Abraham Lincoln met her. He was 25 years old when he came to board at the Rutledge tavern, was postmaster of the village, a surveyor by profession and a member of the state legislature. But Ann, though thus circumstanced, was un­ happy; she had. In a missing lover, an ache of the heart. Before Lincoln appeared on the scene one James McNeill, a pros­ perous young merchant and farmer of the place, had won her affections. She was only 1? when this occurred, and the family council therefore agreed that, for a time at least, the marriage eould watt. This was the state of affairs when Lincoln came to the Rut- ledge house to board. McNeill had accumu­ lated $12,000 In New Bar­ ton and his prospects were still bright; but In 1883 he began to display a strong desire for a change He wanted to CO back east, he said. to New Tork state, to to two teaspoonfula after each meal and at bedtime." Smaller doses to chil­ dren according: to age- But be sure to get only the genuine Globe Pine Com­ pound (Concentrated Pine). Each half ounce bottle comes in a sealed tin screw- top case. If your druggist does not hsv® It he will quickly get It. Many mix­ tures are of large quantity and cheaper, but it is risky to experiment. This formula comes from a reliable doctor and la certain. This was first pub ltshed here six years ago and druggists say it has been. In constant fcmamd ever since. Published tejr the Q|om Pharmaceutical laboratories of Chicago. proved true. Ha made no explana­ tion for his long silence*. And he did not sorrow long. Within a year he married. ^f§ Toother -I his people there and bring his parents back him. And then they would marry. So the following spring he sold out his store and start- ad. The journey in that day was a long and slow aae, but it was months, far beyond the usual, hafore they heard from him. He had been down, . ha wrote, with chills and fever. He wrote again i few limes after, but at length cut short the . . f»rrespondence altogether. w.'j It was through Lincoln, as postmaster of the little western village, that the girl received her letters. An absent sweetheart and no letters-- we can imagine her state of mind. It was not long until every one knew it. The girl then con­ fided in friends a confession of her lover's, aamelj, that his true name was not McNeill, but McNamor; that he had come west to retrieve a fortune lost by his father in business; and had changed his name to be rid, for a time, of his people and thus be the freer to do so. When i this story wss made public, as it speedily was, (he hard common sense of New Salem naturally rejected it. There were reasons, good ones, pub­ lic opinion said; criminal, perhaps--who knows? , . --some even hinted. The girl was nigh heart- 4 broken. Meanwhile blossomed in the heart of Lincoln sympathy first and then affection for her. It wae, long, however, ere he revealed his feelings to her, and longer still ere she would listen to JUtm. At length, however, convinced that McNeill Waa gone for good, she consented In 1835 to take the Lincoln name. But first she was to go away „ us*01" «• while and finish at an academy, during Which time he was to continue his law studies, and when she had ended her course and he had , rheen admitted to the bar, the next spring, they | ̂ < «rould be married. I ^ very £°°d; this plan was followed; but the It seems, though she loved Lincoln, could not dismiss so easily remembrance of her old ;j lover. "A torturing conflict," we are told, "of >4 »emory, love, conscience, doubt and morbidness | . , tey like a shadow across her happiness and jhr ' wore upon her until she fell seriously ill. Event- Wally her condition became hopeleas. Lincoln fe . Was sent for, they passed an hour of anguish to­ ll | jpether, and soon after this deathbed parting. f, ; August 26, 1835, she died. | . Lincoln took It hard. That melaiufeoly which Waa of his fiber and which marked his face took full possession of him. He was found by a fWend, a ce«aln Bowling Green, wandering about muttering to himself, as if hi# mind had been affected. Green took him to his home and kept him there until once more he was himself. Aqn Rutledge was buried in Concord cemetery, near New Salem. "My heart Is burled there," her sor- jawing lover said after the funeral. Curiously ' McNamor, did return to New Ann's death. And his story The Second Affair In the fall of the year 1836. when Lincoln was 29, a woman of Lincoln's ac­ quaintance who w a s g o i n g t o Kentucky on a visit, proposed. In a spirit of fun, to bring back a sister of hers. M i s s M a r y Owens, for him to marry. Lin­ coln laughingly' accepted the pro­ posal. Time pass­ ed; the lady duly made tha journey and duly reamed, slster ia company, sure enough! Lincoln lshed. The bride proposed appeared to Mm a trifle too willing, but he gave her tha benefit of the doubt. There were other objections to her; for one thing, that, while her face was attractive, aha had no figure--she was uncommonly stout. For another, his own financial condition. He had settled at Springfield, capital of the state, and began here the practice of law, without, however, substantial result as yet. But he had told her sister, he says in letters quoted by Miss Tarbell, that he would take the lady for better or worse, and this he must do since it was a point of honor with him to stick to his word, particularly where, as in this case, others had been induced to act upon it. He corresponded with this lady, and waa firm in his resolution to marry her, and even planned how he might get along after tha marriage He took the precaution to write her from Springfield and gave her a strong hint of the poverty of his resources, asking her at the •ame time to "deliberate maturely." As this, however, drew from her no decision, after wait­ ing three months he wrote again, putting tha natter between them squarely up to her. "What 1 wish," said he, "is that our further acquaint­ ance should depend upon yourself." Miss Owens had the discernment to perceive his feelings. She answered, declining his offer of marriage. She found him, she said, "deficient in those little links which gD to make up the chain of a woman's happiness." Lincoln was "morti­ fied," sb he wrote a friend; his "vanity wounded" by the reflection that he had been too stupid to understarfd her, while, at the same time, never doubting that he understood her perfectly. The Third Affair. It was in 1839 or 1840 that Lincoln met Mlsa Maty Todd of Lexington, Ky.. rrhom he afterward married. Their courtship was Interesting and rather animated. One of its incidents was a broken engagement, and that, according to one authority, on the very day set for tha wedding. Lincoln was thirty or thirty-one when Miss Todd came to Springfield, and had been practic­ ing law in that place for some three or four years. The lady was the daughter of Robert S. Todd, a prominent Kentuckian, and was living, when Lincoln made her acquaintance, with her sister, Mrs. Ninlan W. Edwards, the wife of one of the notables of Springfield. She was handsome, stylish, witty and spirited, and soon after her arrival in the Illinois capital began to cut a fig­ ure in its society and to draw in her train the more prominent beaux of the town, among others who afterward rose to distinction, besides Lin­ coln, Stephen A. Douglas, the "Little Giant" lat­ er of the stump and senate, and Shields, hero of the Mexican war, and one of the most pictur­ esque figures In American life. Ere long it began to be apparent that among these suitors and frequenters of the Edwards mansion Lincoln was her favorite. As the inti­ macy with him grew her relations protested; he was not of their sort; they were wealthy and well-bred, and looked on him as of the plebeian cast, as one socially inferior. He Was of the humblest origin, crude and unpolished in man­ ners, snd, worst, of all, was poor. Miss Todd, however, was unmoved by their objections. She loved him, believed in him, seems" to have di­ vined his quality and had faith in his future. In 1840 they engaged to marry. But, as the proverb has It, "the course of true love never did run smooth." So, at least, ft turn­ ed out in their case. It la not perhaps strange, considering the difference In their tastes, their Ideals and breeding, that they did soon fall out Miss Todd was an exacting sweetheart; Mr. Lin­ coln careless. Ha was melancholia, Constitutionally n; In­ clined. In such a matter, we know, to the most morbid view. The upshot was, at all events, that on New Tear's day, 1841, the very day, as one account has it, which had been sat for tha Wedding, he broke the engagement According to Herndon, one of his biographers, who was also his law partner, he broke it as publicly as pos­ sibly by falling to make hit appearance on tha appointed wedding day. . The engagement was broken, no doubt of that; but Herndon's account of its breaking is not well authenticated, Lincoln took this trouble deeply ^to heart Ha abandoned his business and went away to forget it the following summer, making a visit with that purpose to his old friend Speed In Louisville, Ky. From this trip he returned in a better frame of mind. This, perhaps, because he had been called upon there to counsel with and resolve gome doubts of Speed regarding his own approaching marriage. Lincoln and Miss Todd remained ua* reconciled for a year and a half. In the summer of 1842 they were brought together unexpectedly by mutual friends, and met' secretly several times later at the house of Mr. Simeon Francis. At length the engagement was renewed. This came about through a circumstance of Mrio> comic features in which they both had part. This circumstance is a story in itself. It in­ volves, besides the two principles, James Shields --the same afore referred to as one of Miss Todd's admirers. He was an Irishman of ability and courage, as he afterward proved on the bat* tlefield In the Afexlcan war, when, to cleanse a wound through the lungs, a silk handkerchief was drawn throu£!rhls body. At the time of the Lincoln affair Shields wag a leading Democrat of Illinois and held the otfioa of auditor of state. He was a quick, Impulsive man, whose disposition put him often on tha defensive with the Whig leaders, for the Repub­ lican party was then unborn. Of these Whig leaders in that state* Lincoln, then Was one. Now, It was the custom at that time to carry on much political controversy through the press by means of personal communications, such as we know now as "Letters from the People." Great space and attention ware given these In the newspapers In that day. Just about that date Lincoln furnished such a letter to a Springfield paper; It was signed "Aunt Rebecca," and in It Shields, whose vanity and gal­ lantry often made him a mark, was most unmeit eifully ridiculed. It made a hit, this letter, and Miss Todd and a friend. Its real authors by tha way, followed It up with another and with some doggerel rhyme, which reached the paper In tha same manner as the first. Springfield laughed loudly at these communi­ cations--not so much "at the matter of them aa at the anger displayed by Shields. He acted promptly, sent a friend at once to the editor of the paper to demand the name of the writer of the articles. Dueling then was still a common incident of public life, and the editor called upon Lincoln, who, unwilling to bring the ladles into the affair, gave his own name as the author. While he was at Tremont, on the law circuit,, fifteen days later, two friends of his overtook him and advised him that Shields was on the way following him up to challenge. Shields and a friend arrived shortly, and Lincoln was soon in receipt of a written demand for the "satisfaction due a gentleman" in a full, positive and absolute retraction. "This may prevent," the missive said further, "consequencles which no one will regret more than myself." Lincoln refused to apologise. Seconds were im­ mediately named--Whiteside*, editor of the paper In which the matter had appeared, for Shields; B. H. Merryman for Lincoln. The seconds talked of peace, but WhitesldeB refused to discuss such a settlement with his principal. "Why," he said, "he'd challenge me next, and aa soon cut my throat as not!" That night they all went back to Springfield, with Lincoln's preliminaries to follow, since he was the challenged party, namely these: Weapons, cavalry broadswords. «Time, Thursday evening at 5 o'clock. Place, within three miles of Alton, on the op­ posite Bide of the river Mississippi. On the 2nd of September, 1842, they were all upon the ground. The arrangements for the af­ fair were about completed when the party was joined by frlendB. Among them was Colonel John H. Hardin, who knew Lincoln well. He had been warned of the fight by Eliza Lott, who had heard of It when the duelists stopped to breakfast going out Colonel Hardin and the rest managed to satisfy Shields that Lincoln was not the author of the articles, but was shielding an­ other, and to aid the seconds In settling the trors hie "with honor," as the phrase Is, "to all aon- aerned." Less than two months later a marriage license for Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd was issued. Miss Tarbell describes the event as "almost im­ promptu." The ceremony Interrupted a meeting of the Episcopal Sewing society at the house of Miss Todd's sister, the Mrs. Edwards alraadv mentioned. MS KNEW Smith--Friends are a great consola­ tion Jones--Not if you're broke. FACE A SIGHT WITH -TETTER Moberly, Mo.--"My trouble bej^an with a small pimple on the left side of my face and it spread all over -my face and to my neck. It would be scar­ let red when I got warm. My face was a sight. It looked very unpleas­ ant, and it felt uncomfortable. My face was something awful; it just kept me In agony all the time. Some said it was fetter,, and some said It was that awful eczema, but I rather think St was tetter. I hail been troubled with, it for about two years and! tried many remedies, but got no relief unl I used Cutlcura Soap and Ointment "Whea I would Utash my face with tha Cutlcura Soap and apply the Cutl­ cura Ointment It would cool my skin and draw great big drops of matter out of the skin. You would think t was sweating; It would run down my face Just ae though I had washed It It Itched and smarted and I suffered In the day time most I used the Cutl­ cura Soap and Cutlcura Ointment for a month and I was cured of it." (Sign­ ed; Mrs. J. Brooksher, April 16, 1912. Cutlcura Soap and Ointment: gold throughout the world. Sample of each fre«s with 32-p. Skin Book'. Address post-card "Cutlcura, Dept. L* Boston." Adv. To Pop Corn. Vary often corn will not pop quick­ ly, oven over a very hot Are. 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As an aftermath to the New Year's lebration comes this story, told by a , ; goember of an actors' club aa a little tribute to the generosity of a fellow- ~ bur of the club. ^ "After the performance we had the .usual 'bite,'"rhe said, "and then de- ; / Clde<S to do the cabaret* with some iS-'^jWher friends of convivial habits and - * love for 'turkey-trotting.* "I noticed that my comic friend 't do much of the dancing, but haggsd the tables rather Ught during the latter part of our stay in the va­ rious hospitable places. Finally we got back to our apartment, and I found that he had developed a most re­ markable 'thirst--for ice water. "Por­ ter. porter," he called every few min­ utes, 'another glaas of water--quick.' "At first I was inclined to remon­ strate with him for confusing me with the dusky servitors wso ae gra­ ciously--for a consideration--attend to our wants on tour. But I changed my mind. And by the time he tell •sleep he had given just f4.lt In tips. 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