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ARTICLE CAUSED LIBEL SUIT Hampton'* and Moffett Declare Upon investigation Oil Compariy Is Not Connected With Sale of Impure Candies. par ,«oi ^^wai iro hind the glory of her ^ WuO brp;cul tO tcaCu him "'6 thoughts and Ideals and to lisp the words of "Our Father, which art in heaven." Abraham Lincoln's career began at the knee of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, his mother. It was she who taught him to read from an old Bible he came to know so well, who told him the stories in Aesop's fables and helped him to study the "Kentucky Perceptor." It was she who taught him the letters of the alphabet and first trained his hand to scrawl them. It was she who instilled in him a hatred of slavery and by her own gentle loveliness inspired a regard and esteem for women which lasted throughout his life. Nancy Hanks Lincoln, one 01 the great president's historians declares, was "stoop- shouldered, thin-breasted, sad--at times mis­ erable;" a gentle, kind, uncomplaining wom­ an. whoee life had been one of hard labor, with few enjoyments, and who died before her prime. This was Nancy Hanks Lincoln, who lay on her deathbed, tired and worn, her face wan, her thin, bony hands clasping those of a fcineUeaj-old lad, whose deep-sunk eyes were filled with tears, and who, when he later be­ came "a liberator of a race of men," declared: "All that I am or ever hope to be I owe to my mother. Blessings on her memory." From his mother Lincoln once told his friend and law partner, William H. Herndon, he believed he inherited his power of analy­ sis, his logic, his mental activity and his am­ bition. Her memory remained with him, one of the dearest things of his life--"a noble type of good, heroic womanhood." N a*cy Hanks was five years old when her paints sold their farm in Virginia and went _ sneering westward toward Kentucky. Nancy was the youngest of a family of eight chil­ dren. Her father was Joseph Hanks and her mother Nancy Shipley, a daughter of Robert Shipley. Nancy was born February 5, 1784. The journey westward Vas a perilous one, and It is said Nancy was stolen by Indians while her parents were on the way. Roads were bad; iu ami, there was ooly a footpatu through the wilderness, where passed the long procession of women and children cm horse­ back, men trudging behind driving the cara- frans. ! Picture to yourself the procession, de­ scribed by Justice Robertson--"through pri­ vations incredible and perils thick, thousands of men, women and children came In succes­ sive caravans, forming continuous streams of |iuroan beings, horses, cattle and other domes­ tic animals, moving onward along a lonely and homeless path to a wild and cheerless land. "Cast your eyes back," he continues, "on that long procession of missionaries In the streams. And when spring came they dug tlie bard, stony ground and planted wheat and corn. Thus four years passed--four years of hard toll and hard living--and then Joseph Hanks died. Not long afterward the mother, worh with toll, followed; the brothers and daugh­ ters married, and Nancy, left alone, was taken In by her Aunt Lucy--a sister or her mother, who had married Richard Berry. This home was a happy one and Nancy grew up, cheerful and pretty. When Nancy's father died he left a will. It Is still on the records of the Bardstown clerk's office, and as will be seen, Nancy was the proud heiress of one heifer, a pet called Peldy. The quaint will, which was probated May 14, 1793, runs: "In the name of God, Amen. I. Joseph HankB, of Nelson county, state of Kentucky, being of sound mind and memory, but weak in body and calling to mind the frailty of all human nature, do make and demise this my last will and testament in the manner and form following, to wit: "Item: I give and bequeath unto my son Thomas one sorrel horse called Major. Item: I give and bequeath unto my son Joshua one gray mare Bonny. Item: I give and bequeath unto my son William one gray horse called Gilbert. Item: I give and bequeath unto my son Charles one roan horse called Tobe. Item: I give and bequeath unto my son Joseph one horse called Bald. Also the land whereon I now live containing one hundred and fifty acres. "Item: I give and bequeath unto my daugh­ ter Elizabeth one heifer yearling called Gentle. Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Polly one heifer yearling called Lady. Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Nancy one heifer yearling called Peldy. Item: I give and bequeath unto my wife Nanny all and singular my whole estate during her life, after­ ward to be equally divided between all my children, it is also my wish and desire that the whole of the property first above be- should be the property of my wife during her life." Here, too, can be found a record of the seed which budded so nobly in Joseph Hanks' grandson. Joseph Hanks, unlike most of the pioneers, owned no slaves. When Nancy Hanks later married Thomas Lincoln they bcught no slaves and never owned any. Nancy's life while she lived with her Aunt Lucy was happy. She grew Into a young miss of unusual beauty and became the belle of the countryside. She learned to read and write, and was considered exceptionally accom­ plished. When she married Thomas Lincoln she taught him to spell the letters of his name. There are but few and meager descriptions of Nancy Hanks. One learns that she was CaU.8e .°*. c^v"t^a^on > * Blight of figure, that her hair was pale golden. almost flaxen, and her eyes were blue. Her with their trusty guns en their shoulders, driv­ ing stock and leading pack horses; and the women, some walking with palls on their heads, others riding with children In their laps and other children swung in baskets on horses, fastened to the tails of others going before; see them encamped at night, expect­ ing to be massacred by Indians; behold them in the month of December, In that memorable season of unprecedented cold called the 'hard ", winter,' traveling two or three miles a day." And Imagine little Nancy Hanks, spindly- legged and golden-haired, Bhivering as she snuggled under blankets, pursuing the road of the pioneers. In the child who was to become the mother of Abraham Lincoln was now developed a courage and perseverance (which was to be Inherited and which after- ard marked one of the greatest of men. The family settled in Washington county, y„ in winter. Hard work confronted them, ven privation. Trees had be be felled, a log &bin built, and shelter erected for the stock. Little Nancy, with her sisters, Elizabeth and Polly, helped their mother, cooking and sewing and preparing the rude home, while the brothers, Charles, Joshua, William, Thom­ as and Joseph, went about with the father, clearing the land for cultivation in the spring, ffhey hunted animals and fished in the cold wit was nimble. Suitors thronged the parlor of Aunt Lucy's farm. But Nancy lost her heart to none; she laughed gaily at their protests, parried their Importunate proposals with Jest and was so good natured, BO mirthful and funny about it that all remained her friends. Nancy often went to the farm of Joseph Hanks, at Ellzabethtown, where she saw her cousin, Thomas Lincoln. Thomas was a car pent^r, and If the records are true, the beet In the country for many miles. He not only hacked and hewed and chlBeled wood with skill, but he did what none others had succeeded in doing--chiseled his way Into the heart of Nancy. Thomas Lincoln had a varied career. He was strong as an ox, temperate In als habits, an attendant at ©hurcb and was bitterly op­ posed to slavery. Both he and Nancy agreed in that. The couple entered Into a marriage bond on June 12, 1806. On June 14 the couple were married by a Methodist preacher, the Rev. Jesse Head, who besides being a clergy.- man, was an editor, country judge and car­ penter. And a wedding it was--with merrymaking and feasting. There were present the Mlt- 77Af U/YCOJL/f //V COjL£<J COI/JYTY, /JLL. cbells, Shlpleys and Berrys, Nancy's oousins, relatives and friends from the country round­ about. In a* pit near the house a great fire was built, over which a sheep was placed and barbecued. During the morning It roasted, covered by green boughs, and after the wed­ ding It was cut and served for dinner. There were venison, too, and wild turkey and ducks. The wedding was remembered for years. "There was no hint of future glory In the wedding or bringing home of Nancy Lincoln," wrote Nicolay and Hay. "All accounts repre­ sent her as a handsome young woman of twenty-three, of appearance and intellect su­ perior to her lowly fortunes. She could read and write--a remarkable accomplishment in her circle--and even taught her husband to form the letters of his name. He had no such valuable wedding gift to bestow upon her; he brought her to a little house in Ellzabethtown, where he and she and want dwelt together In fourteen feet square." For two happy but needy years the couple lived in a log cabin on the banks of what wfis then known as 'Mill creek. Picture to your­ self that home of the young bride--a single room, with a huge fireplace, where logs burned in winter; an Iron pot suspended from a crane, rough chairs hewn by the carpenter husband of logs, a number of crude benches, a bed made of rough trees from which the bark had not been removed, a spinning wheel by which the industrious wife sat and wove the mate­ rial for clothing; a room lacking in comforts, typical of the pioneer cabins of those days, with an opening above Into a loft, reached by a ladder, where things were stored. There, one day In 1807, Nancy's first baby was born. It was a little girl, and was called Nancy, after the mother. Later the little girl's name was changed to Sarah. That was when Thomas Lincoln married bis second wife, &&• rah Bush. ' Thomas Lincoln owned a farm near BufTalo, which he had bought in 1803. During the two years he lived on Mill creek he cultivated the farm. Improving the ground, and there he moved the spring following the birth of Sarah. In their life of Lincoln Nicolay and Hay write: "Thomas Lincoln settled down in this dis­ mal solitude to a deeper poverty than any of his name had ever known; and there, in the midst of the most unpromising circumstances that ever witnessed the advent of a hero into this world, Abraham Lincoln was born on Feb­ ruary 12, 1809." The family, however, could not have been extremely destitute, for, we are told, they had a cow and a calf, milk and butter and a feather bed. What wealth! When Abraham was four the family moved again--this time to a cabin, situated on Muldraugh's hill. There a third child was born, which died when a few months old. , Of the life of Nancy Lincoln at this time nothing has been written. Of his boyhood Lincoln himself seldom spoke. But one can Imagine the patient woman, alone and unas­ sisted, performing the work of her household, tending the cows and milking them, making butter, cleaning the meager!y furnished cabin In which the family lived, cooking and spin­ ning cloth of which she made the garments for her husband, little Sarah and Abe. Nancy Lincoln's beauty faded; the roses fled from her cheeks, her body became wasted and her shoulders stooped. But her happy spirit never left her; she had a word of cheer for all her neighbors. Stories are told of how she visited the ' sick and comforted them, and how, when her neighbors were in difficulty, her ten d e r h e a r t w a s moved and she helped them as best she could. Her life was hard. But there was cause f o r J o y I n N a n c y Lincoln's life. Little Abe was her con­ stant delight At n i g h t , w h e n h e r work was over, she would open the "pre­ ceptor" book and teach the two chil­ dren the letters of the alphabet. With .what tenderness and love she must have watched them as they studied--so hard to memorize the A s, B s and C's--and with wha| doting fondness she must have trained little Abe's tiny hand to trace the letters on a slate! Dearly Nancy Lincoln loved the Bible, and there were readings from the Bacred book; there was told the old, old story. And these stories Lincoln nevffr forgot. When, in after life, he electrified the world by his eloquence, his mastery of pure and perfect English and his tempestuous oratory, he retold the same stories--the stories he heard at his' mother's knee. Life was not prosperous with the father. He left Kentucky and went prospecting in Illinois, where he took up land on Little Pigeon creek. In Spencer county. And again the hard-worked wife was called upon to move her home. With their furniture packed In a wagon and their cow behind, the family started on their long pilgrimage in 1816. During the winter of 181G and 1817 the family lived In a camp. The winter was rigorous. Uncomplainingly the tender, gentle woman bore her lot, but her health slowly gave way, her face became more wan. A rough cabin was begun In the spring and life opened anew. Land was cleared. Thomas Lincoln piled his trade among the scattered Inhabitants of the solitary region. Th^y began to prosper. But the life had been too hard for the tender, loving wife and she sank under the burden. One day in October, 1818, as she lay in her bed in the little cabin, she called her two chil­ dren to her. "She took the hands of Sarah and the thin, serious-faced boy. "Be good to one another," Bhe said, brokenly, with infinite tenderness. Then she closed her eyes. The wonderful smile deepened. The sunlight faded into even­ ing, and little Abe, leaving Sarah kneeling by the bed, crept away and climbed the pegs In the wall to the garret, where he flung himself on the mattress of leaves. Night fell, and from the loft came a stifled sound of Bobbing--sobbing repressed, checked, restrained, yet so poignant, BO keen, so heart- forlorn that the father, returning home, paused hearing it, his heart sinking. I^e knew the sun­ light of the boy's life had departed. Many years afterward people wondered at the sorrow moulded indelibly on the face of Lincoln--like agony graven on a figure of stone. Before the next December Thomas Lincoln married Sarah Bush Johnston, a widow, who. It is said, had rejected him many years before. In later years, when Lincoln, again shrouded in sorrow, sat by the bedside of his little son, Willie, who was dying, he cried in despair: "This is the hardest trial of my life. Why is it? Why Is It?" A nurse who had lost her hus­ band and children told him of her loss, adding, "But I trust In God. I rely upon his will." Lin­ coln shook his head sadly. On the day of the funeral he asked the purse and some friends 1o pray for him. "I will try to go to God with my sorrows," he said. "I wish I had that childlike faith you apeak of. I trust God will give It v> me." Then his memory traveled back over the years and his first loss by death came to hid mind. He told of his mother's confident belief in the wisdom of God. "I remember her -pray­ ers,** he said In a low voice, "and they have always followed me. They have followed me all my life." New York.--in the matter of thtt libel suits brought by the Standard Oil company for $250,000 damages against Hampton's Magazine and for $100,000 damages against Cleveland Moffett. the former the publisher, and the lat­ ter the writer, of an article in the Feb­ ruary issue of the magazine which de­ famed the company in connection with the sale of glucosc and candy in Philadelphia, the following retractions have been signed In the office of Shearman & Sterling, the Standard Oil company's lawyers in the case, and have been issued from the com­ pany's offices at No. 26 Broad­ way: "Hampton-s Magazine, 66 West Thirty-fifth St., New Yo.rk, "Jan. Si, 1911. "Standard Oil Company, 26 Broadway, . New York. '"Dear Sirs: In the February Issue of Hampton's Magazine there was published an article written by me, entitled, 'Cassidy and the Food Pols- oners.' In that article I referred to the investigation of Mr. Cassidy, with respect to the manufacture and sale of impure candles In Philadelphia, and made the statement that your com­ pany manufactured and sold impure material which went into these can­ dies and that, when the various deal­ ers were arrested and fined, at the In­ stance of Mr. Cassidy, your company paid the fines. "Upon Investigation I have ascer­ tained that your company was In no way concerned with the transactions referred to and I hasten to retract In the fullest manner all charges made against your company and to express my sincere regret that I should have fallen into this serious error. Yours truly, Cleveland Moffett." "Jan. 31, 1911. "Standard Oil Company, New York City. "Dear Sirs: Referring to foregoing letter of Mr. Cleveland Moffett to you, we beg to state that we are con­ vinced that Mr. Moffett was in error in his statements with reference to your company. We greatly regret that these errors should have been made. It is the desire of Hampton's Maga­ zine to be accurate and fair in all things. In our March number we will publish this letter and the foregoing letter of Mr. Moffett. Yours truly, Benj. B. Hampton, President, Broad­ way Magazine, Inc." MUST TELL GRAFT STORY Women Need the Trivial #-- 6t»rr«n Would Be Most Feminine Life Wore It Swept Clean of Trifles. Marie BashklrtselTs journal Is full fg laments that find an echo today In the wall of half the women %ho work. Thftt young genius was furnished with * ftill complement of female relatives Who did not woflt, and she suffered ac­ cordingly. "Marie! You are not go­ ing to work today! Why, we've planned to go shopping!" "Marie, put up your work now. We are going calling this afternoon." "Marie, you must not spend so much time over your easel. It 1b Injuring your figure." "Marie, you must accompany your aunt She is going to walk." And so on to the end of the story. The old plaint of the literary wife who must wash the dishes before she wrote a sonnet is becoming the cry of half the sex. "Deliver us from count­ ing the waBh. Save us from afternoon teas, preserve us from knitting and crochet work! So shall our souls grow and the realms of art, business and politics be ours to command." It has often been observed that the forbearance of Providence is nowhere more beautifully exemplified than in the fact that certain hymns imploring the speedy death .of the singer, have been sung so long without fatal re­ sults. Womankind may still be graW ful that they are are absolutely taken at their word. It Is to be observed that Marie Bashkirtseff produced a number of fine canvasses though she died at the ago of twenty-five. "Wom­ an's work Is never done" is a cry that has been pessimistically answered, "Nor ever will be as long as she la a woman." Does not the heart of the matter lie in the fact that darning is still more important to the normal female mind than art, business or politics? How barren of entertainment would most feminine life be were it suddenly 8wept bare of the trivial! Nor, madam, is the trivial to be sneezed at. "The. sum of life is In trifles," says the philosopher. But If women are to spend their lives 1^ the pursuit of trifles, let them have the honesty to say, "Their importance is a sex habit of mind, and not a sex necessity."-- New York Evening Sua. The chief dealer in "spot^ and rots" In New York has boon rounded up and punished. Danville Judge Orders Prosecutor to Answer All Questions Put by Jury In Bribe Quiz. Danville, 111.--Judge Kimbrough In the circuit court handed down a de­ cision in the case of City Attorney Jones, who declined to answer certain Questions regarding vote selling and buying which the grand jury put to him. The court instructed Jones to an­ swer all questions. The opinion stated that, according to a decision of the Supreme court of the United States, a witness before the grand Jury is Immune from Indictment. The court also held that the city election law Is unconstitutional, which means that Jones cannot be questioned about hap­ penings more than eighteen months ago. This means that the investigation will continue until all the witnesses now summoned are examined. It is said that many Indictments have been voted, but whether they are for vote selling is not known. BUSINESS OF MORSE, RIVALS IN CHICAGO , IN FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF TELE* GRAPH PATRONAGE GETS 800 OF LARGEST USERS OF OLD SYSTEM TO CHANGE TO AUTO­ MATIC LI NE8--CORPORATIONS ESTIMATE BIG 8AVING8. Chicago: The fight that has been going on here for the last two months for control of the telegraph business between this city and the principal cities of Missouri, Nebraska, Indiana and Kentucky has reached an acute stage. The Telepost automatic tele­ graph company, which has been act­ ing as pacemaker for its older rivals, with its 1000 words a minute service and maximum rates of one cent a word, regardless of time or distance, has considerably the best of It to- date, as is shown by its acquisition of the patronage of more than 800 of the largest corporations, business houses and Individual users of the wire, who have heretofore used the Morse system exclusively to the points reached by the competing lines. The latter estimate that the change wf.ll &ave them thousands cf dollars a year Computing its proat on every 85 cent message at 11 cents, the Telepoet Is in the unique position of being able to provide service to telegraph users from 40 to 100 per cent, cheaper than Its competitors, with their slower and more expensive hand operating sys­ tem and make money out of It.' TOO MUCH FOR THE CORPSE Exhibition of Meanness That Galvan­ ized the "Dead" Irishman Into Indignant Life. "Don't be mean in your offerings,** said T. P. O'Connor, In a plea in New York for the Irish cause. "The Irish can't stand meanness. "No, no; the Irish can't stand mean­ ness. Take O'Grady's case. You know. In Ireland, some 60 to 70 years ago, when a poor family lacked a coffin they made the corpse beg for it. "This custom, alas! sometimes led to Imposture. Thus, Thirsty O'Grady and his friends wanted money badty once, and O'Grady was assigned to act the corpse. So tbey laid him oil , a bier outside the door and they put ' a pewter plate beside him for the pennies. "As O'Grady lay there, so still, with closed eyes, an old woman stopped and dropped sixpence into the plate. Then she began to take out change. A penny, tuppence, threepence sh« took out, and O'Grady couldn't stand such meanness. Corpse as he was, he said: " '-Arrah, now, don't mind the change.' "--Washington Star. 8AGACIOU8 FELINE. VOLCANO'S TOLL IS 700 Five Thousand Families In Philippines Have Been Wholly Ruined By Disaster. Washington.--The eruption of Taal volcano and the accompanying dis­ turbances in the Philippines killed 700 people In the town of Tallsay, ac­ cording to the report of the governor of Batangas province, which was ca­ bled to the war department by Gov< ernor General Forbes of the Philippine islands. The earthquake shocks continue, th« governor general added. Five thousand families have been ruined by the dis­ aster. The Philippine authorities are face to face with the absolute necessity of adopting relief measures in order to avoid suffering, as the falling mud and lava destroyed the crops within a considerable radius of the volcano. DECIES HONEYMOON IN EGYPT Vivien Gould, After Wedding to Eng­ lish Lord, Will Take Trip to Africa. New York. -- It Is announced that Lord and Lady Decies, the latter now Miss Vivien Gould, who are to be married February 7, will spend their honeymoon in Egypt. Tbey will leave America February 18 by the Cunard Mner Carmanla. In Egypt they will spend a few days In Cairo and then visit notable points In upper Egypt 8ays Hornet Was Unarmed. New Orleans. -- That the gunboat Hornet, seized recently by the Unit­ ed States from Honduran revolu­ tionists, has never been mounted with guns, is the statement made here by Otto Ahlborn, former chief engineer of the Hornet. "' jvs-n, .J >y- Refuse to Move Capital. Carson, Nev. -- By a tie rote, 2d to 20, the lower house of the Ne­ vada legislature defeated a resolu­ tion to remove the capital from Car- sou on Wlnnemucca. a TIaj JLiiwiy- -&ur&ly, Uiut ui u i'&bb!C The Cat--If she can make mistakes like that she ought to keep a restaur ant It Wasnt a i-ire. The principal of one of the New York East Side night schools was en* rolling a new pupil, who was togged out in a suit of clothes so new that it hurt him. Just before the boy came in the principal had heard the Bound of fire engines in the street. "What is your name?" the principal asked the lad. "Tom Dugan," was the reply. "Where was the fire, Tommay?" asked the principal as he wrote down the name. There was no reply; only a scrowl. "I say, where was the fire?" repeat­ ed the principal. "Don't git gay wit me," was the somewhat astonishing answer. "Dere wasn't no fire, see? I bought dis here suit and I paid seven-fifty for it." RESULT8 OF FOOD. Health and Natural Conditions C6nt« From Right Feeding. Man, physically, should be like a perfectly regulated machine, each part working easily in Its appropri­ ate place. A slight derangement causes undue friction and wear, and frequently ruins the entire system. A well-known educator of Boston found a way to keep the brain and the body in that harmonious co-opera­ tion which makes a joy of living. "Two years ago," she writes, "being In a condition of nervous exhaustion. I resigned my position as teacher, which I had held for over 40 years. Since then the entire rest has, of course, been a benefit, but the use of Grape-Nuts has removed one great cause of Illness in the past, namely, constipation, and Its attendant evils. "I generally make my entire break­ fast on a raw egg beaten into four spoonfuls of Grape-Nuts, with a little hot milk or hot water added. I like It extremely, my food assimilates, and my bowels take care of themselves. I find my brain power and physical endurance much greater and 1 know that the use of the Grape-Nuts has contributed largely to this result "It is with feelings of gratitude that I write this testimonial, and trust it may be the means of aiding others ia their search for health." Name given by Postum Co.,'Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book. "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Rea­ son." Bwr read tbe abavc lettert A mh appears fraai tla* to time. They •re (caalMt tnia, aad foil of ki lat«r«it