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 A POPULAR CONCEPTION OF LINCOLN. 
 
 From one of Captain Hall's portraits. He now finds his memory of 
 Lincoln's face more closely accords with the "Lyons' Bible photographj" 
 (found in an old family Bible of a Montrose lady, who fjave three sons to 
 the Union,) and which appears on the cover. Captain Hall is now engai;ed 
 in painting a portrait, aided by this photojjraph. 
 
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 (Offirrrs 
 
 President — Captain George Edward Hall. 
 First Vice-President — Rev. C. G. Langford. 
 Second Vice-President — Mrs. Mollie W. Kent. 
 Third Vice-President — Mrs. H. F. Manzer. 
 Secretary — Miss Mildred Bray. 
 Treasurer — Mrs. J. G. Wilson. 
 Chaplain — Dr. C. H. Yatman. 
 
 Board of Control — Captain George Edward Hall; Rev. C. H. Yatman, 
 Rev. C. G. Langford, Mrs. Rebecca Benedict, Mrs. Mollie W. Kent, Wm. H. 
 Warner, H. P. Read, Mrs. Lou K. Wilson, Miss Ellen Searle, W. W. Aitken, 
 C. F. Pross, Mrs. Clara G. Miller, Miss Mildred Bray, H. F. Manzer, Mrs. 
 H. F. Manzer, H. E. Cooley, Miss Fannie Bunnell, Mrs. Emily L. Ainey, 
 Mrs. Agnes P. Little, F. R. Cope, Jr. 
 
 Cnmmtttrrii. 
 
 Welfare — F. \. Alden, R. F. Lesh, C. G. Langford, E. G. N. Holmes, 
 A. T. Hrodrick. 
 
 Finance — Mis. J. G. Wilson, C. F. Pross, W. H. Warner. 
 
 Art — Mrs. H. F. Manzer, Miss Elian Searle, Mrs. Mollie W. Kent. 
 
 Agriculture — C. F. Pross, B. H. Engle, E. P. Vogel. 
 
 Patriotic — W. H. Warner, F. L Lott, F. R. Cope, James T. DuBois, 
 Mrs. R. B. Little, Mrs. H. B. Benedict, Miss Ellen Searle, Miss Annah James, 
 Mrs. Merle Hamlin and Miss Fannie L. Bunnell. 
 
 "Honest Abe and Honest Art" is our motto. 
 
iFfluuiiinr; flf tl|p i>nni^ti| 
 
 Montrose is not only one of the 
 most beautiful towns of the great 
 state of Pennsylvania for location, 
 health and natural scenery, but one 
 of the most fortunate in the advant- 
 ages that are vested in the institu- 
 tions that make their homes among 
 us. The Torrey Bible Conference has 
 given Montrose a place on the map 
 of our state, which no other town of 
 its size can boast. "Nothing succeeds 
 like success" Now comes the Lincoln 
 Agricultural and Art Society of 
 America. 
 
 Captain George Edward Hall, of 
 New York, an artist of ability, came 
 back last summer to his native heath, 
 to spend a vacation and to rest after 
 a year of strenuous v/ork in his New 
 York studio. He had not been in 
 Montrose but a short time before he 
 decided to make ths dream and object 
 of his life a reality, viz., to found 
 "The Lincoln Agricultural and Art 
 Society of America." 
 
 This he has done, and to evidence 
 his sincerity and high ideal, he has 
 made provision whereby the society 
 
 shall inherit his whole estate. The 
 purpose of the L. A. & A. S. is beau- 
 tifully altruistic, but simple. It is to 
 find young meii and young women 
 who have a decided natural bent 
 toward art and agriculture, and where 
 they lack the necessary funds to de- 
 velop their gift to provide means for 
 their education. 
 
 The founder of the L. A. & A. S. 
 is an advocate of the free evolution 
 of Nature, both in mind and in plant 
 life. Originality is to him one of 
 man's greatest assets, while custom 
 and the conventional have no vii-tue 
 which he feels compelled to follow. 
 The high aim and motive of the so- 
 ciety cannot be questioned, nor can 
 it be exceeded. 
 
 Lincoln lives on! and works on! 
 Saints, societies and sinners, all 
 join in an army of toilers, whose pur- 
 pose and plan is to work and give, 
 that genius and soil may be set free 
 to live that larger life of liberty, love 
 and productiveness which may come 
 to this good land and people. 
 
 Irasnu for ICurattuu i'onrty at fUnutniaf 
 
 (By George Edward Hall) 
 
 I have often been asked the ques- 
 tion, "why organize in the town of 
 Montrcsea society intended for all 
 America and, indeed, for the whole 
 world? Why not give it birth in the 
 metropolitan city?" 
 
 First. — Because Susquehanna is the 
 county of my birth, and where sleeps 
 mv .sainted rnother. .\nd it was from 
 
 here that I enlisted and went out to 
 join Lincoln in his war for the flag 
 which is the symbol of power and 
 freedom. 
 
 Secondly. — Montrose is situated in 
 an agricultural eminence and in the 
 great Keystone state, the state of our 
 flag's nativity, and in which Lincoln, 
 in his Gettysburg address, gave the 
 flag rebirth and immortality. I come 
 and ask you to unite with me in pro- 
 
senting Abraham Lincoln, the great 
 American, to the lovers of freedom 
 of every nation. Especially do I ask 
 my comrades, their daughters and 
 their sons. If the voice of the im- 
 mortal Lincoln could be heard from 
 across the "Great Divide," he would 
 say: Guard well the old flag which 
 has led us to become a united country. 
 To your tender hearts and hands we 
 commend and commit it. Transmit 
 
 your love and veneration for the flag 
 from child to child, and from genera- 
 tion to generation, until our beloved 
 country shall be free from every vice 
 and evil. Go with it to the graves of 
 our dead, with the flov/crs which you 
 strew, bow and pledge yourselves to 
 give aid to those who have proven by 
 deed, not only that ihey are worthy, 
 but that their need is greater than 
 your own. 
 
 (Tc^ttatn iJalfii llieiiui m\ Art 
 
 Captain Kail's vie\v:^ on art as a 
 whole, are unusual and we believe, 
 progressive. His pictures, painted 
 after seventy years of age, are re- 
 markable in many ways. His trees 
 in the California red wood pictures 
 show great vigor and strength, and 
 stand out in the foreground with ex- 
 traordinary skill and lifelikeness. His 
 theory to eliminate unnecessary fore- 
 ground, bringing the principal object 
 to immediate attention and promi- 
 nence, is amply demonstrated in these 
 pictures. 
 
 The water scenes show wonderful 
 atmospheric effects, not unlike Turn- 
 er, whom he admires. He considers 
 that the Impressionists are on the 
 right track, but that they have still 
 much to learn, and claims that the 
 "great art of the future will consist 
 of the technique of sight and the man- 
 agement of light:" that "the truth 
 in art demands geometrical propor- 
 tion, rather than optical vision," 
 which, latter, he says is defective and 
 delusive. One of his favorite state- 
 ments is, that "the focal vision con- 
 tracts the physical main object, and 
 
 enlarges te.xtures" (stage properties 
 in other words) all wrong! 
 
 His ideas are, in a sense difficult 
 for lay members to grasp, but to stu- 
 dents in art, they appeal stronrfly, 
 and w'll. no doubt, have their bear- 
 ing and influence in the future. In- 
 deed, a man of so broad and philan- 
 thropic a nature, one who works with 
 such enthusiasm in getting effects 
 tliat have attracted the notice and 
 -tii'l" of artists, and critics, cannot 
 fail to leave impress in the field of 
 art. He has worked independentlv of 
 tradition or prescribed methods, ev- 
 idently with some inner t uth and 
 .'is'on that he hopes m.ay be caught 
 and brought out by some you ^er 
 minds and lives. 
 
 Cecau'se of his own belated efforts, 
 his great desire is, that some younn' 
 talented students shall be given cy- 
 poitunity to carry to fuller comple- 
 tion what he feels he has only begun. 
 
 Heaven taught himself one of Na- 
 ture's noblemen, with a true artist's 
 soul. Captain Hal! says: "We can- 
 not in-tru't Nature, pnd if we are 
 to be properly taught, we must let 
 Natu e instru't us." 
 
 Brpnrt nf Ayrirultural (tiuuiuitlrr 
 
 Lincoln said: "No organic law can 
 ever be framed with a provision 
 specially adapted to every question 
 which may occur in practical admin- 
 istration." 
 
 Captain Hall has said: "We can- 
 not instruct Nature, and will do best 
 to let Nature instruct us." 
 
 We are of the opinion that both 
 are right, and the committee on agri- 
 culture is preparing to make ri;rid 
 experimentations along this lint. 
 
 The views of Captain Hall, along 
 one line of horticulture is indicated 
 in the following article from the New 
 York Times: 
 
 FEB 21 1917 
 
Grafting Experiments. 
 
 I inserted, according to the size of the 
 trunk. The object v/as to form a 
 In an interview, George Edward ^rown around the trunk. 
 
 Hall, an old horticulturist, said 
 
 "A freak of nature in the plant 
 world is produced by some inter- 
 ruption resulting in something en- 
 
 "The top of the trunk was covered 
 with wax composed of one pound of 
 beeswax, three pounds of rosin, two 
 pounds of tallow and one pound of 
 
 tirely new, better or worse than its soap. This was applied hot, com- 
 parent- To establish the best fruit mencing at the center, being careful 
 or cereal find the best freak and ner- not to damage the bark with the heat 
 petuate it, or cross it with the next , of the application, sealing tightly the 
 best and produce still better. In for- cracks around the scions. The earth 
 est, size is wanted; in orchard, qual- 1 that had been removed was then re- 
 
 ity. 
 
 "Years ago, in California, I pur- 
 
 placed. 
 
 "The scions used were from four 
 
 chased an old orchard that at one inches to two feet long, from which 
 time had been famous, containing all all but four or five of the upper bud 
 
 the best Eastern apples, but it had 
 long been uncultivated and the trees, 
 seemingly, were worthless. It had 
 
 had bean removed, thus forming a 
 small trc3 the first year. Growth be- 
 came rapid, especially after the first 
 
 been planted in deep soil, and this year, and gained greatly over nur- 
 facilitated my work with the roots, sery trees planted, fruiting three to 
 The worn-out and diseased trunks "ve yairs sooner. 
 
 were cut off below the surface of the | "Last season I added a new fea- 
 soil and the roots uncovered. I found ture to this experiment in the state 
 in some instances immense root for- : of Vermont- Instead of using wp->- 
 mation quite out of proportion to to cover the stump top, I waited until 
 the growth above ground and vice the bark peeled, then cutting from 
 versa. , the bark of the fallen trunk a piece 
 
 "Wherever there was a large root ' the size of the top of the stump, 
 there was better top growth in every tacking it down carefully, binding 
 case I found also that the difi'er- ' fii™ly over the bark remaining on 
 ence in the size of the roots began the stump so the cambium layers, 
 in the nursery bed, where the trees 'ving between the bark and the wood, 
 we-e originally started, and this leads ' matched properly. In this case the 
 me to believe some of the greatest scions were set a little below the top 
 mistakes in orchard work are enacted , of the stump by slashing the bark 
 in the nursery. Root stock is fre- at right angles, opening one of the 
 nuently produced from feeble seeds, lower corners, inserting the wedge 
 In Vermont, last summer, I learned , cut scion, which was afterward wax- 
 that nurserymen were paying good ed and tightly bound. Late last 
 prices for apple seeds gathered from autumn this stump was examined, and 
 the pulp of cider apples, and as a rule the bark which topped the old stump 
 the poorest apples only find their way was growing nicely together with the 
 to the cider mill. Trees from this side bark and the scions were doing 
 seed will produce a large percentage well. 
 
 of poor root producing stock, and "The habit of using feeble buds or 
 consequently, no matter from what scions, as well as splitting the heart 
 stock the buds or grafts may be sup- of trees, I consider most pernicious, 
 plied, but poor trees will result. "i recommend that aged or dis- 
 
 "After sawing off the trunks of eased trees be cut down, the stump 
 the trees in the California orchard removed after sawing off the leading 
 the cut surface was smoothed over roots, the ends of the roots lifted 
 carefully, so as not to injure the ei;- into the air and light, and properly 
 circling bark, vertical slashes were capped with wax or bark, they will 
 made about three inches downward, send forth new shoots, perpetuating 
 opening the bark to receive a scion their kind, or they can be grafted as 
 cut wedge shape to fit the opening, described. After its first season of 
 pressing it well down to the round growth, drop the root and its grow- 
 of the scion. Four to ten scions we;e ing trunk back into the trench that 
 
its junction may he covered and thus jfrow. If you want it farther away, 
 protected. follow one of the leading: roots out 
 
 "Wherever a feeble or aged tree toward its terminal to the place vou 
 is found, nature's effort at recovery choose, dig and lift up the root to the 
 can be seen in adventitious sprouts sun's warmth and an heir will soon 
 or suckers appearing from the more appear that will surpass the growth 
 vigorous roots. If you want a new of the parent." 
 tre« quickly let one of these sprouts 
 
 ^krtrh nf Ca^ttaiu i^all's ICifr 
 
 Captain George Kdward Hall, the 
 founder of the Lincoln Agricultural 
 and Art Society of America, was born 
 in 1837, on a farm located upon the 
 beautiful Sus(iuehanna river, near 
 Hallstead, Pa. He left the farm at 
 the age of 1 1 years, and from that 
 time made his own way, educating 
 himself. He was one of the first in 
 Susquehanna county to respond to 
 the call of PresideTit Lincoln for vol- 
 unteers in 'fil. 
 
 He was made first lieutenant of his 
 company. He was wounded at the 
 battle of Bull Run and lay wounded 
 upon the battlefield for five days. 
 He re-entered the army as a member 
 of the Invalid Corps, afterwards the 
 U- S. V. R. Co., where he' did import- 
 ant guard duty to the end of the war. 
 
 .-^fter the war he was employed by 
 the Appleton Company, of New York, 
 at a salary of $2,000 a year and ex- 
 penses. He went to California in 
 1878, and was married to Gertrude 
 Ghalliger, of San Francisco, a lady 
 of exceptional literary talent. To 
 fulfill a promise to his wife, which he 
 made before the nuptial, he gave up 
 the woik of art and, with his wife, 
 went to his large ranch amid the red- 
 wood district of California, where he 
 gave his time experimenting in hor- 
 ticulture, and made many valuable 
 discoveries. Returning to art work, 
 after twenty years of ranch life, 
 Capt. Hall returned to New York 
 and took up his ait work, at the age 
 of 70 years. No higher eulogy need 
 
 be spoken than is set forth by the 
 fact that Capt. Hall, after he had 
 passed the three-score-and-ten mark, 
 produced the master paintings which 
 hang in the Librarv building, and 
 which he has given to the Lincoln 
 Agricultural and Art Society of 
 America. 
 
 After a life of no little literarv 
 attainment, his wife, Gertrude Ghal- 
 liger Hall, died in New York, a little 
 over a year ago. 
 
 Leadership is bound up in brains, 
 blood and bone. Put potential power 
 and promising possibilities together 
 and add deep love with unselfish 
 vision and you combine in that pe'- 
 sonality one who leads the proces- 
 sion, or heads the list, or is preiid^nt 
 of the concern. 
 
 Such is a pen pi<-ture of the man 
 who is leader of the Lincoln Af^ri- 
 cultural and Art Society of America. 
 
 .\ny "Lincoln" society worthy of 
 its name, should have a commamler 
 who saw and had fellowship with this 
 country's great chief. This Captain 
 Hall had. He not only fought U'lder 
 him, in 1861, but won in the stiuggle 
 to live when wounded on the battle- 
 field, where he lay for five days be- 
 fore succor reached him. 
 
 Let one who helped form the body 
 guard of the Kmancipator gunrd and 
 ^■uide the interests of this society, 
 that the fruits of its labor may honor 
 at least two worlds — earth and 
 heaven. 
 
 i£uliniil nf iCtnailu 
 
 On the night of the 12th of Kebru- tu-ky a liabc who was destined to be- 
 ary, 112 years ago, there was born to come the world's central figure of the 
 a shiftless familv in the hills of Ken- century -.\braham Lincoln. 
 
GEORGE EDWARD HALL, COMMANDER. 
 
This phenomenon of nature from 
 remote ancestry received a powerful 
 mind and body and would have be- 
 come a marked man in any station of 
 life, without his quality — a quality so 
 fine and lofty that he could overiook 
 derision, and even insult, for the com- 
 mon weal. He could, when exegen- 
 cies demanded, make Edwin M. Stan- 
 ton his war chief, after he had inquir- 
 ed in a great law case: "Where did 
 this long-armed creature come from, 
 and what does he expect to do in this 
 case?" What the Nation needed in 
 its peril was enouarh for this great 
 soul. Surelv he had malice for none, 
 and charity for all I 
 
 Primitively, Lincoln was an idealist 
 in small things, with a poet's concep- 
 tiveness. His thought would go 
 straight to the mark, and from intu- 
 itive instinct he formed the right 
 judgment of things by a simple analy- 
 sis of cause and effect. 
 
 Slow and methodical, he looked 
 from all sides and would emneril no- 
 thing by undue haste. He didn't seek 
 to view a thing from the best position, 
 but from every direction. He sought 
 not only to know its exact appearance 
 — but why it appeared different from 
 various positions. Thus from realis- 
 tic impressions he formed an idealis- 
 tii' impression, a combined understan- 
 ding that made the thing more real — 
 a thing of life with its attributes of 
 life, each part well functioned, as in 
 his Gettysburg speech, wherein each 
 w'nged word went home to its place 
 like the swallow around the corner to 
 ts nest. Thus with a lofty directness, 
 with a philosophy born in him, he 
 went to the root of things with a tinge 
 of mysticism that takes hold of tl.e 
 imagination of mankind and holds him 
 in the place of libei-ator, patriot, ar- 
 tist and statesman. He followed no 
 craftsman. He walked alone. The 
 
 fields were his, the skies were his and 
 Earth his only instructor in the silent 
 throbs of nature. 
 
 He would not stoop to evil to do 
 good — all good must come in a plain, 
 honest way, come as the light falls — 
 and as the day and the night come. He 
 carried his proclamation of emanci- 
 pation in the factor of his being, in 
 the ardor of his blood from infancy to 
 the power of Presidency, and when he 
 saw the clanking chains on his trips 
 down the Mississippi river he said : 
 ''They shall be free." 
 
 Lincoln was an idealist in sorrows 
 of daily life. He would lift some of 
 the burden from a mule and bear it up 
 the hill. He felt what others see and 
 ignore. He would jest, but ahvays 
 give a helping hand. Always he was 
 the champion of right against wrong. 
 Thus he has passed into history, the 
 exalted exponent of realistic idealism. 
 .■\nd now, in the fulness of time and as 
 the anniversary of each day of his 
 birth returns, mankind bows in revei- 
 ence to the name of Lincoln — 
 
 Lincoln, the God-like. 
 Lincoln, the man. 
 Lincoln, our starlight. 
 Lincoln, the dayl'ght. 
 Lincoln, God's patriot. 
 
 Was Lincoln, the man. 
 
 lyincoln, the wooer. 
 Lincoln, the doer. 
 
 Was Lincoln, the man. 
 
 Lincoln, the zealot. 
 Lincoln, the ideal. 
 Lincoln, the real. 
 
 Was Lincoln, the man. 
 
 Lincoln, the laborer. 
 Lincoln, the libei-ator. 
 
 Was Lincoln, the man. 
 Lincoln, our flower. 
 Lincoln, as Nation's power. 
 
 Was Lincoln, the man. 
 
 The Lincoln Agricultural and Art Society of America purposes to 
 have many branch organizations, working under its Constitution and By- 
 Laws. Communities which wish to organize are invited to correspond with 
 the Secretary. 
 
(ihtrrt 0f f atnntir (Eommtttrr 
 
 The Lincoln Agricultural and Art 
 Society of America pledfres itself to 
 the advancemc-it of American patriot- 
 ism and citizenship, to which end the 
 president appoints a committee to 
 further this cause. 
 
 This committee shall by co-opera- 
 tion with other patriotic societies and 
 educational agencies, by the observ- 
 ance of national holidays, and by the 
 inculcation of the privileges and 
 duties which belong to us all, teach 
 
 an appreciation of the American ideal. 
 This ideal, born amid the suffering 
 and sacrifices of our Colonial fathers 
 and preserved and sancitified by Ab- 
 raham Lincoln and his compatriots in 
 the dark days of the Civil war will 
 remain a priceless heritage ever to 
 be protected, honored and held aloft 
 for the inspiration of all Americans 
 and the lovers of liberty and equal 
 opportunity throughout all the earth. 
 
 ?JGturn Ill's tTriir IFarc. 
 
 (By George Edward Hall.) 
 
 Lincoln had a shield of honesty in 
 his face, in which every man could see 
 his own conscience; and Lincoln, 
 would judge from his embarassment 
 the man's character. This instantane- 
 ous knowledge of Lincoln rarely made 
 a mistake. 
 
 I came to meet Lincoln in this way. 
 I had nearly recovered from my 
 wound when I returned to Washing- 
 ton to find I had been honorably dis- 
 charged because of its severity. I de- 
 rided to see Lincoln about it. With 
 fear and trembling, I sent in my little 
 card, stating that I was a wounded 
 soldier. He at once admitted me, 
 leaving Generals, Senators and others 
 waiting. 
 
 I asked him if there was not some 
 wav I could serve my country more. 
 "Well, my boy, you are serving your 
 country by being wounded However, 
 I am glail you want to serve your 
 countrv more." 
 
 He was reading a letter as I enter- 
 ed. He looked at me over his spec- 
 tacles, then lifting them above his eyes 
 on his forehead, looked at me 
 searchinglv, as if looking for my 
 wound. Then he took off his glasses 
 and laid them on the table. I remem- 
 ber it was a long table piled with 
 maps and books. He arose and walk- 
 ed slowly around to where I stood — 
 no longer with fear, but as if I had 
 met my best friend. He put his hand 
 on my shoulder. "And you would 
 like to go back to the front? But 
 
 you are too badly wounded for that! 
 Wait a little. Go back home and get 
 well and strong. We are thinking of 
 organizing an Invalid Corps to dis- 
 place able men now on guard duty, 
 and when we are ready for wounded 
 recruits, send in your name and you 
 .shall do more duty for your country!" 
 He then asked me where and when I 
 was wounded. "Oh. yes, these bad 
 bulls that ran, but the last was not 
 so mad-bad as the first." He then 
 asked me about the management of 
 the second Bull Run battle. I told 
 him I felt my commander, McDowell, 
 had been sacrificed by the jealousv of 
 other generals, and I had the pleas- 
 ure of entertaining him quite a little 
 while the great men waited in the 
 lobby. This illustrates the great good 
 feeling of the man who gathered his 
 wisdom from the lowly multitude. 
 
 And L today, remember as if it 
 were but yesterday, that benevolent 
 face and the great hand that encom- 
 passed mine as he said, "My dear boy, 
 don't forget to send in your name for 
 the Invalid Corps. God bless you, 
 good-bye!" 
 
 I sent in my n-^mc promptly and 
 was promptly appointed second" lieu- 
 tenant and ordered to Providence, 
 R. I., where I was again mustered into 
 the United States service, and from 
 there ordered to Washington, appoint- 
 ed to first lieutenant and placed in 
 command of the Fourth company of 
 this new corps, doing guard duty in 
 the vicinity of the White House. 
 Then I saw considerable of Lincoln 
 
until promoted captain and ordered 
 with my company to New York city to 
 guard " criminals. Then came the 
 saddest duty of my life — to guard 
 all that was mortal of the immortal 
 man while he lay in stats at the city 
 hall for the weeping multitude to gaze 
 upon. Little thought I when I saw 
 his face in life that I should so soon 
 be called to guard his face in death. 
 And now. at seventy-seven, I am de- 
 votedly trying to recall that sublime 
 face, that the people may see it as I 
 saw it then in life. I have no 
 help but my memory, for his face has 
 been commercialized by artist and 
 artisan until it har, become a carica- 
 
 ture, rather than a character. Even 
 a death-mask has been produced to 
 vilify his gentle face in death; and 
 one purporting to be a life-cast leav- 
 ing the mole off! If it had been from 
 life, Robert T. Lincoln would have 
 never written me: "As to a cast, I 
 have none and have never wanted one. 
 I don't like them." And God save the 
 mark! our halls and our parks are 
 filled with Lincolns that never were. 
 
 This is a gullible age! But there 
 is a time coming when the idealism 
 of Lincoln will go into effect and na- 
 ture will have her own in art as well 
 as in life. 
 
 IGinrnln'B iFirsl Snllar. 
 
 When he was about eighteen years 
 old Abraham Lincoln, who, as he said, 
 belonged to the "scrubs," people who 
 owned no slaves and not much of 
 anything else, built a raft to carry 
 some produce down the river to sell. 
 
 While he was looking at the work 
 of his hands and wondering if he 
 could better it, two men came down 
 to the shore and, looking over the 
 several small craft there, picked out 
 Lincoln's boat and asked if he could 
 take them and their trunks out to 
 the big steamship coming down the 
 river, there being no wharves in that 
 locality. 
 
 Lincoln sculled them out into the 
 river and put them and their trunks 
 
 aboard the steamship at the last min- 
 ute, reminding them that they had 
 forgotten to pay him. Each man 
 then threw him a silver half dollar. 
 
 "I could scarcely believe my eyes," 
 said Lincoln in relating the occur- 
 rence. "You may think it was a very 
 little thing, and in these days it seems 
 to me a trifle, but it was a most im- 
 portant incident in my life. I could 
 scarcely credit it that L a poor boy, 
 had earned a dollar in less than a 
 day; that by honest work I had earn- 
 ed a dollar. The world seemed wider 
 and fairer before me. I was a more 
 hopeful and confident being from 
 that time." 
 
 (i^br 3Jimatr (tlnualni nf llinrnln. 
 
 "I am not accustomed to the use 
 of the language of eulogy; I have not 
 studied the art of paying compli- 
 ments to women; but I must say that 
 if all that has been said by writers 
 and poets since the creation of the 
 world in praise of women were ap- 
 plied to the women of America, it 
 would not do them justice for their 
 conduct during this war." 
 * * * * * 
 
 "You charge that we stir up insur- 
 rections among your slaves. We deny 
 it, and what is your proofs? Harper's 
 
 Ferry! .John Brown was no Rer-ubli- 
 can ; and you have failed to implicate 
 a single Re^jublican in his Harper's 
 Ferry enterprise. If any of our par- 
 tv is guilty in that matter, you know 
 it or do not know it. If you know 
 it, you are inexcusable to assert it, 
 and especially to persist in the asser- 
 tion aftc- you have tried and have 
 failed to make proof. You need not 
 be told that persisting in a charge 
 which one does not know to be true 
 is simply malicious slander." — From 
 Cooper I'nion Speech in 1860. 
 
^apimia unh Stories of Htncolu 
 
 Consciences differ in different in- 
 dividuals. 
 
 Let us strive on to finish the work 
 we are in. 
 
 A house divided against itself can- 
 not stand. — 1838. 
 
 It is not safe to swap horses when 
 you are crossing a stream. 
 
 Gold is good in its place, but living, 
 brave, patriotic men are better than 
 gold. 
 
 Let us have faith that might makes 
 right, and in that faith let us, to the 
 end, dare to do our duty as we under- 
 stand it— Address Feb. 21, 1839. 
 
 With malice toward none, with 
 charity for all, with firmness in the 
 right as God gives us to see the 
 right. — Second Inaugural Address, 
 1865. 
 
 with whom I have ever talked, or in 
 whose presence I have ever been, who 
 did not consciously or unconsciously 
 betray to me that he recognized my 
 color. — Fred Douglass. 
 
 He was a patriot and a wise man. 
 His death was a calamity for the 
 country, but it left his fame vdthout 
 a fault or criticism. — Charles A. 
 Dana. 
 
 The next generation wall acknowl- 
 edge that the man who rose from a 
 log cabin to the Presidential chair, 
 who led a vast Republic through its 
 wilderness of perilous confusions and 
 its red sea of horrible carnage, was 
 a man who had no superior in the 
 American annals. — Theodore L. Cuy- 
 ler. 
 
 THAT SETTLED IT. 
 
 WHAT OTHER GREAT MEN 
 THOUGHT OF LINCOLN. 
 
 He was incontestably the greatest 
 man I ever knew. — Ulysses S. Grant. 
 
 He was the most perfect ruler of 
 men the world has ever seen. — Edwin 
 M. Stanton. 
 
 He was a man made and molded 
 bv Divine Power to save a nation. — 
 William H. Seward. 
 
 Lincoln is too sharp for me. Every 
 time I go near him he winds me round 
 his finger. — Horace Greeley. 
 
 Of all the men I ever met he seem- 
 ed to possess more of the elements 
 of greatness combined with goodness 
 than any other. — William T. Sher- 
 man. 
 
 Mr. Lincoln is the only white man 
 
 A prominent citizen of California 
 being in Washington for a few days 
 during the civil war, sought permis- 
 sion from General Halleck, whom he 
 had known well in the West, to pass 
 through the lines to see his brother 
 in Virginia. 
 
 Finally he obtained an interview 
 with President Lincoln and put the 
 case up to him. 
 
 "Have you asked General Hal- 
 leck?" Lincoln inquired. 
 
 "Yes, and he refused me flatly." 
 
 "Well, see Stanton," suggested the 
 President. 
 
 "I have seen him, and with the 
 same result." 
 
 "Well, then," said Mr. Lincoln with 
 a smile, "I can do nothing, for you 
 must know that I have very little in- 
 fluence with this administration." 
 
Prramblr. 
 
 Abraham Lincoln was an idealist in 
 small things with a poet's conceptive- 
 ness. His thought would go straight 
 to the mark and from intuitive instinct 
 he formed the right judgment of 
 things by a simple analysis of cause 
 and effect. Slow and methodical, he 
 looked from all sides and would imper- 
 il nothing by undue haste. lie didn't 
 seek to view a thing from the best po- 
 sition but from every direction. He 
 sought only to know its exact ap- 
 pearance but why it appeared differ- 
 ent from various positions. 
 
 Thus from realistic impressions he 
 formed an idealistic impression, a 
 combined understanding that made 
 the thing more real — a thing of life 
 with its attributes of life, each part 
 full functioned, as in his Gettysburg 
 speech, wherein each winged word 
 went home to its place like the swal- 
 low round the corner to its nest. 
 
 Thus with a lofty directness, with a 
 philosophy born in him, he went to 
 the root of things with a mysticism 
 that takes hold f the imagination of 
 mankind, and holds him in the place 
 of liberator, patriot, artist and states- 
 man. He followed no craftsman. 
 He walkad alone. The fields were his, 
 the skies were his, and the earth his 
 only instructor in the silent throbs of 
 .Mature. 
 
 He would not stoop to evil to do 
 jrood — all good must come in a plain 
 honest way, come as the light falls 
 
 and as the day and the night come. 
 He carried his proclamation of eman- 
 cipation in the factor of his being, in 
 the ardor of his blood, from infancy 
 to the power of Presidency, and when 
 he saw the clanking chains on his trips 
 down the Mississippi, he said: "They 
 shall be free." 
 
 Lincoln was the idealist in the sor- 
 rows of daily life. He would lift 
 some of the burden from a mule and 
 bear it up the hill. He felt what oth- 
 ers see and ignore. He would jest, 
 but always give a helping hand. Al- 
 ways he was the champion of right 
 against wrong. Thus he has passed 
 into history, the exalted exponent of 
 idealistic realism. 
 
 "The Lincoln Agricultural and Art 
 Society of America," is an idealistic 
 monument raised to the deeds of Ab- 
 raham Lincoln and represents the 
 hope that this society may bring out 
 of the darks of the Future, many more 
 gifted souls like Lincoln — some babe 
 cradled in the hut, in the cabin, in the 
 shop, from nowhere yet from some- 
 where — from some vine-clad cot in 
 the valley of the beautiful Susquehan- 
 na, from some shack on the plains of 
 the West — anywhere in our broad 
 land where life comes into being. Let 
 us i-each a hand to the obscure Lin- 
 colns, Eurbanks and Edisons and teach 
 them the enduring Idealism of these 
 men. 
 
 (Enuiitttuttnn. 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 Name of Society. 
 
 This organization shall be known 
 as "The Lincoln Agricultural and Art 
 Society of America." 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 Purpose of the Society. 
 
 The purpose of the Society shall be 
 to find those who have, by sober, ear- 
 nest, energetic effort, and untaught 
 study, proven that they possess some 
 unusual talent which might enrich and 
 advance the public welfare; 
 
 To bring their efforts before the 
 people in an honorable and efficient 
 way; 
 
 To render to such individuals need- 
 ed counsel and friendly acts of en- 
 couragement as well as practical as- 
 sistance in the securing of patents, 
 copyrights, etc., thus giving to the 
 poor equal rights with the rich. 
 
 The further object of this Society 
 shall be to give scope to the free evo- 
 lution of Nature, both in mind and in 
 plant life, untrammeled by fashiona- 
 i)le or conventional ideas and uncon- 
 fined bv the beaten track of Custom. 
 
To find a way to continue right ten- 
 dencies and suppress evil forms of ed- 
 ucation and false growth and by de- 
 ductions from that which is Divinely 
 natural, form some practical philoso- 
 phy of growth to take the place of 
 science founded upon educated igno- 
 rance. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 Special Aims and Encouragemcntt. 
 
 This society shall have for its aim, 
 special encouragement to those who 
 have an original turn of mind to do 
 things in their own way; not only to 
 find talent and merit, but to foster the 
 new growth possible to the intelligence 
 of the human mind. It shall aim to 
 be especially considerate of any wom- 
 an who has given birth to a child who 
 has rendered gallant and faithful ser- 
 vice to the flag of his or her country. 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 Requirements from Prospective Mem- 
 bers. 
 
 This society demands personal re- 
 nunciation of mercenary gain from 
 the act of becoming a member. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 Membership. 
 
 The membership of this society 
 shall be open to all persons of good 
 moral character who subscribe to the 
 oath of membership, which is as fol- 
 lows: In becoming a member of the 
 "Lincoln Agricultural and Art Society 
 of America." I pledge to deny self 
 and promise mv good will to the ser- 
 vice of those who by deed prove they 
 nre more worthy of help than myself. 
 That I will give $1.00 a year to the 
 sutiort of the societv. so help me God. 
 
 Life membsrship $10.00. 
 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 Council. 
 
 The first twenty members shall be 
 the charter members of this society 
 and shall constitute a Council or 
 Hoard of Referendum to which all 
 (luestions under dispute shall be re- 
 ferred. Their decision shall be fii.al 
 in all matters. 
 
 Vacancies on the Council shall be 
 filled from the society members in 
 good standing, by a majority vote of 
 the remaining members of the Board 
 — provided only that no art dealer, 
 
 professional artist who paints for the 
 market, nor theorist who seeks to di- 
 vert the mind from that which is nat- 
 ural and true, shall become a mem- 
 ber of the Council. 
 
 ARTICLE VIL 
 Officers. 
 
 The officers of this society shall be: 
 President, three Vice-Presidents, Sec- 
 retary, and Treasurer. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 Election of Officers. 
 
 Officers shall be elected at the annu- 
 al meeting and hold their respective 
 office for one year. 
 
 Any officer may at the pleasure of 
 the society be re-elected to office. 
 
 Officers must, at the time of elec- 
 tion, be clear of all charge on the 
 books of the society. 
 
 ARTICLE IX. 
 
 Meetings. 
 
 The regular meetings of this society 
 shall be held monthly on the first 
 Wednesday of each month, at 7:30 
 o'clock. Ten members, including 
 President (or Vice-President) and 
 Secretary or Treasurer shall con- 
 stitute a quorum. 
 
 The annual meeting shall be held 
 on the first Wednesday in October of 
 each year. 
 
 Special meetings may be called by 
 the President, or five members of the 
 Boai-d, whenever occasion demands. 
 
 i ARTICLE X. 
 
 Dues. 
 
 The annual dues shall be one dol- 
 I lar, payable in advance on or before 
 the annual meeting. 
 
 ARTICLE XII. 
 Committees. 
 
 The President shall at the annual 
 meeting, appoint a Finance Committee 
 consisting of three members, one of 
 whom shall be the Treasurer of the 
 society, whose duty it shall be to au- 
 dit and approve all bills and accounts 
 before orders for payment of same 
 shall be drawn on Treasurer by the 
 President and Secretary. 
 
 The President shall also appoint a 
 Welfare Committee to be composed of 
 five members in good standing. All 
 
cases of worthy talent in need of as- 
 sistance or encouragement may be re- 
 ported to this committee for investi- 
 gation. 
 
 Recommendations from the com- 
 mittee for pecuniary assistance must 
 be referred to the Finance Committee, 
 subje I to the approval of the Presi- 
 dent and Council Board. 
 
 The President shall appoint an Art 
 Committee and an Agriculture Com- 
 mittee of three each whose duty it 
 shall be to keep well informed in the.se 
 several departments and make reports 
 and reviews from time to time to the 
 society at its monthly me<-tings to 
 stimulate the interest of the members 
 in the object of the society and to 
 keep them posted on matters bearing 
 upon its fields of operation. 
 
 The President and three Vice-Presi- 
 dents shall constitute a standing Exe- 
 cutive Committee for the general di- 
 rection of the society and the planning 
 of its work, with power to appoint all 
 committees not otherwise provided 
 for. 
 
 MEMBERSHIP FEES. 
 
 The annual dues of membership in 
 the society is one dollar a year. The 
 first year's dues are payable upon ap- 
 plication for membership. The local 
 membership committee is as follows: 
 Mrs. H. B. Benedict, Miss Ellen 
 Searlc, Mrs. H. F. Manzer, Mrs. Lou 
 K. Wilson, Mrs. Mollie W. Kent and 
 Wm. H. Warner. 
 
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