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12, 1927, a i THE DAILY PANTAGRAPH BLOOMINGTON, ILE. itoan flbiiora ilftraiam Lincoln, Born in Kentucky 118 Years Ago Today America SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY unw a A HAM TJNCOLN SELECTED THE JURY IN THE FAMOUS ALMANAC TRIAL LINCOLN'S RESTLESS NIGHT IN BLOOMINGTON HOTEL GAVE BIRTH TO IMMORTAL PHRASE Residence of Captain W. H. Weaver Famous Pike House Where Lincoln Stayi -limiM fed -M'5 -i when It waa over. The court was or.

of the most important held In this section of Illinois. I lememher Daviij Davis of Bloomington, JmU Plnckney H. Walker of Macomb, d. T. Logan of Springfield and other prominent lawyera of the period.

Captain Weaver never talked about this trial unless he waa particularly requested to hy some Inter, ested person but he took a natural pride in the fact that ha heard and saw Lincoln at the historic trial ami that be remembered It so keenly. Even in his last years he waa keen eyed, clear headed and with hair brown and thick aa It was twenty years earlier. He carried on an tlve Insurance buslntsa until the on. set of his last Illness. In the Civil war he volunteered at the and at the olose he was captain of Companv K.

Illinois Volunteers. Jealous Bear Kills Mste. Angered, apparently, by the favor. Itlsm shown by visitors to Its mate, a large Russian bear at the Aurk. land, Z.

too, turned on the favors Ite and killed It recently. Specta. tors Ignored the large bruin and threw buns, fruit and meats to a small female of the same species tht had recently arrived from Londfn. Showing signs of Jealous rage, tl- large animal attacked his mate and Inflicted wounds that caused It death. Mlee Ethel A Blrehland, of West, port.

probably knows about highways and building nf go. A roads than any other woman. Pi Is secretary and the only ejnmnn member of the American Road fcilM. era' association. by-' Ths above pletura ihowt the residence of the late Captain W.

H. Weaver at Petersburg, near Old Salem, the early home of Lincoln. PWtih in ni- 'li inn ri ii i i i 111 11 miii i i ii i 1 aMsaiealillaum-eam-am- Captain W. H. Weaver.

Who Was an Eye Witness Also Relates of Weaver Sneak in Illinois Political History Acquittal of Duff Armstrong, Son of an Old Friend, in 1858. Was an Outstanding Legal Event of Pioneer Era. By Hazel E. Funk. The anniversary of Abraham Lincoln a birthdav Is celebrated in many places but In no place more fitting than In Petersburg, the town that succeeded the village of Old Nw Salem which Cail Sandburg has described so faithfully in his "Prairie years." Every vear on Feb.

It the Old Salem Lincoln League, organized ten years ago for the purpose of preserving the site of the vanished village of New Balem holds its annual business meeting and banquet at Petersburg. Visitors come from all parts and the citizens of the town attend with loyal devotion. This year ther will hold their usual banquet but Instead of after dinner speeches the program will consist of making plans for the big pageant to take place In 192S. Capt. Wsavsr Tells Story One mote of the few survivors who knew Abraham Lincoln In his earlier years will be missing at the table this year.

Captain William H. Weaver has passed away since the last banquet took place. He would have reached hla ninetieth year on his neit birthday and until his death he held the unique position of being one of the few men living who was present In 185S at the famous Armstrong trial at Beardstown. 111., when Abraham Lincoln won an acquittal for Duff Armstrong, the son of hla old friend. Captain Weaver waa a Voung man of twenty-two at the time of the trial and mature enough to remember It intelligently and his recollection of the dramatic trial and episodes connected with it were as fresh nearl seventy years later as when the trial took place.

At one Old Palem Lincoln banquet, though then In his eighty-eighth year Captain Weaver gave his reminiscences of this trial a part of tfea program. His voice was as firm as any of the younger speakers snd he was clearly heard at the furtherest end of the tahle. He wa.i frequently called upon hy reporters and blosrrnnhers nf Lincoln to tell the storv of the trlnl from the viewpoint of an eve witness. He had been requested to write down the story- In fifll and often promlsea to do en hut It wa learned from hl dnttrhter. Mrs Kills T.

Whlpn after his death, that he had not done so and the storv Is preserved only throneh the different accounts related In Interviews to Interested listeners. In a persons! Interview not tone before his death he srave his own conclusfons on some of the reasons that made Abraham Lincoln so remarkable ss 1urv lawver. Descrlh-n" the Armstrong trial, he said- 1 can see him as ptnln today then, leaning across the tahV. his tall flriire forceful and earnest." aid Cantaln Weaver. "And can remember tb of the Jurymen "hen he talked, turned no to him like so many children.

That was Lincoln's genius! He had a power with men. His 1 In knowln-how to pick a Jury. He chose mer Lincoln Photograph Owned in Lincoln Lincoln as he looked In his forties, and who 'had actually watched him conduct a trial back In 186S and was recalling It with clear memory more than elxty-eight yeara afterward. Features of Trial In 1858 Lincoln was an attorney of wide repute throughout the state. Some say this trial la the one that made him famous but it is more likely Lincoln that made the trial famous by his clever handling of the evidence and testimony.

The fact that It was a murder trial gives It a dramatic flavor. In describing the trial Captain Weaver said: "Armstrong and a comrade were accused of the killing of a man named Metz-ger one night at a camp meeting held In the woods on a farm near Masoh City. I attended every session of the' trial which lasted three or four days and my recollection Is that night sessions were held in order to save the time of the court. Lincoln came from Springfield to defend Duff for his old friend Hannah Armstrong. The trial was held at the Mav term In 158.

At the time Lincoln began his defense the state had built up a strong case against Armstrong based largely upon testimony of a witness named Allen. "In his cross examination Lincoln asked Allen at what time of the night the crime was committed and the reply waa after dark In the early part of the nluht. He asked how he waa able to see and he said by the light of the moon. Well he made him talk and talk about the full moon and the exact hour until the Jurors had those two points firmly fixed In their heads. Then he produced an almanac from his pocket which showed that on that night Aug.

29, 1857 the moon was less than half full and onlv an hour above the horizon at the time of the murder proving that the witness could not possibly have seen any one kill the man. He handed the almanac to Milton Logan, foreman of the jury and asked him to pass It along to the other Jurors as proof that his statement was correct." Personally Knew Jurors. "As have said I knew personally all of the Jurors and thev were men of more than average Intelligence, not more than two of them being beyond forty years of age. This particular trial hrourht many attorneys to rteardstown. who came as a matter of Interest and to take ut other cases Tells of Trial CAPT.

WM. H. WEAVER. that would listen to reason. He knew how to JudKe -n by types." Lincoln Knew Human Nature Here the captain leaned forward earnestly.

"You know there are four types of humans, the nervous, the bilious, the lymphatic and the sanguine. The fourth tvne is a mixture of the three others I believe that Lincoln used tUs knowledge. I watched him when they impaneled that jury and on some excuse or other he always rai.t out the decidedly dark, coarse-haired brunette or the very blond thin-skinned applicant. Everv one of those twelve men were types of medium coloring in hair and eyes: men who would not he swayed by nervous emotion or who would not aelze upon an idea and hold to It like a bulldog. But men who could be rolled on to Judge by Intelligent reasoning." Whether the process of selection was Captain Weaver's own theory, or was actually Lincoln's custom, conscious or unconscious, one cannot sav but his analysis was interesting.

Here sat a man who remembered i rJ 1 Birthday Anniversary Story of How Abraham Lincoln Kept His Room Mate Await by Talking Politics Far Into the Night in the Old Pike House, and in the Early Morning First Gave Utterance to His "House Divided Against Itself" Aphorism Which Elected Him President Later. A restless. lcoplN'K n'Pht hy Abraham Lincoln in the old Tike i (h 1 n.tm Houw. the principal ington in the 'S's. gave- of the most famou.

in history, and a one of the rnk in the rnhU-h Lincoln rrWnt rf lhe 1 1 rocnlled at thnt time on the dvent of the anniversary of Lincoln'! birth hy who releted to Lincoln on that fateful nlht. The pr n-riple which revolving In the hend of the (treat etateeman thin- That the American union could not endure half alave and half frThla princlpl now1knTn; everv echool boy In America who has Mu.ii.-d the life of Lincoln, for It publicly acclaimed by him In the i-ear JRS8 in the old etat. houae at tprlnsfleld In opening hia campaign arH'nst lounlaa for senator. the principle in first formulated four yeara earliei. That Is in 18S4.

when Lincoln tossed and moaned the ntitht houra in hu bed In the Pike House. Jlie he.lfellow on that was T. LvIb Plckev. afterward Ju.lBe Dkey. who was an uncle of J.

Dickey Tern, plnton. long ass.Kiatd with the First National hank in this city, who yea-terday recalled the circumstances of the occasion In 1S54 when Lincoln lirst gave utterance to the immortal tenet which apclled the doom of alav-erv Mr Templeton had heard the Morv told by Judge Dickey after the death of Lincoln, but lta authenticity was not dependent alone upon the recollection of the Hloomlnirton citizen The incident was referred to in one of the works on Lincoln life as written by a man associated with him in life. Told By Fredariek T. Hill. At the centennial of Lincoln's birth, Jn 1909, tie Illinois Historical Bociety published a number of paper on the life of Lincoln as read at that meeting One of these was by Horace White, who dealt with the year 154 as it bad to do with he career of Lincoln.

In that paper, Mr. White nnnt from a book on Lincoln as a lawver by Frederick Trevor Hill, in which occurs this paragraph: "Lincoln was attending court on the circuit when the news (of the passage of the Nebraska bill) reached him. Judge Dickey, one of his fellow practitioners, who was sharing hia room in the local tavern at the time, reports that Lincoln sat on the edge of the bed ana oiscussea political situation far Into the night. At last Dickev fell asleep, but when he awoke in the morning, Lincoln was sitting up in bed, deeply absorbed in thought. 1 tell you.

Dickey," he observed, as though continuing the argument of the previous evening, 'this nation cannot exist half slaver and half free'." Mr. Templeton remembers that his tmcle'used to tell the story in much the same way. only recalling that when Lincoln continued to talk over the subject long after he went to bed. Judge Dickey fretfully said to him: "Oh, Lincoln, go to sleep." About Judge Dickey. Judge T.

Lyle Dickey was born In Bourbon county, Kentucky, in 1811 but moved to Illinois and in 1835 was admitted to the bar. He was a cantaln in the first regiment in the Mexican war. the colonel of the Fourth Illinois cavalry. He was on Grant's staff at the battle of Bhl- loh and was General Grant's chief of cavalry In the west and south. "But notable as were his services in arms, his highest laurels were those of peace and won within the lines of his profession.

From 1S75 to his death In 18S5 he was elected from Cook county to the Bupreme court in Illinois, and his opinions are found In forty volumes if the Illinois reports. He was a brother of the late Mrs. M. D. Templeton of this city, and an uncle of J.

Dickey Templeton. Quotes From Jefferson. The political truism which the sleepless night in the Pike House In liloomington crystallized into an outspoken plank of his future platforms, was not perhaps first conceived alone in the brain of Lincoln. Thomas Jefferson said something very much like this, but in less sententious phraj.e. In 180, when the Missouri Compromise was enacted.

He then said" "A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated and every irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." Lincoln had quoted these very words from Jefferson in his eulogy on lay In 1852, yet they did not cause his heart to burn within him they did not come to him as a revelation they did not set the American union before him as a house divtled itself, until the Missouri 'omiironiise was actually repealed. repeal was like a blow on the head, which causes a man to see In the daytime. Lincoln and Clay. Abraham Lincoln was a follower of Henry Clay. On July IS, 1852, he delivered in Springfield a funeral oration on the great Kentuckian in which, among other titles to distinc tion, he named him aa the chief ator In framing and passing the Missouri Compromise act of 1820.

The Missouri Compromise was an agreement between the north and the south, in congress assembled, by which Missouri was admitted to the union as a slave holding state on condition that slavery ehould be forever prohibited i the territory west of Missouri and north of the line of 36 degree 80 minutes north latitude. In 1852 slavery waa not the excit- lna- subiect of controversy that it hecame a few yeare later, and a Hen ry Clav Whig in central Illinois was not likely to catch lire from the CANDLE-STICKS FROM HOME OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN NOW OWNED BY BLOOMINGTONIAN (Political Advertisement) .5 C. B. Whitmer Republican Candidate for Alderman of the Fourth Ward Subject to the Republican Primaries Feb. 22, 1927.

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Bio --ill1 i Plf Vii I a 1 feaejissiSlsMlflieYyjMIJIIIIItlll Lincoln's Bedfellow 4 4t JUDGE T. LYLE DICKEY. tarch of Garrison In Boston, or even from that of Elijah Lovejoy in Alton. Nevertheless, the mind of Lincoln was brooding over the Abyss, as we discover from some loose scraps of paper in his handwriting. Who Stirred Him.

On January 4, 18S4, Senator Douglas of Illinois reported from the committee of territories a bill to organize the territory of Nebraska, embracing the country west of the s'ate of Missouri and north of north latitude. It provided that said territory when admitted as a state or states, should be received Into the union with or without slavery, as their constitution might prescribe at the time of their admission. The Missouri Compromise act of 1820 was not repealed by this provision. Three days later a provision was inserted by Douglas that all questions pertaining to slavery In the territories, and in the new states to be formed therefrom, should be left to the decision of the people residing therein. Even this did not repeal the Missouri Compromise.

Twelve days later Senator Dixon of Kentucky offered an amendment to repeal the Missouri Compromise outright, and after some resistance, Douglas accepted it A few days later he brought in a bill dividing the territory into two parts, Kansas and Nebraska. This was a new Missouri compromise founded on the ruins of the old. This bill became a law May 10, 1854. It was based on the principle of "popular sovereignty." It was open to more than one interpretation. Only one thing was certain, apd that was that the territory barrier which had excluded slavery from the territory in question was swept away.

With that, the political discussions In Lincoln's office became more animated. "The day of compromise is past," he said. He held that the two opposing ideas of freedom and slavery could no longer be kept apart. Like two wild beasts, they would eventually fly at each other's throats. Is It any wonder that on that fateful night In rhe Pike House at Bloom-ington, Lincoln should have spent long a.nd restless hours, and that in the early morning he should have proclaimed to his bed-fcllow that immortal principle which should go ringing down the ages.

Man and the Ape. Berlin. In a peech which Professor Westenhoefer, Professor of Path ological Anatomy In Berlin Univer sity, recently delivered at an anthro pological conference at Salzburg the theory that man and the anthropoid ape are descended from a common ancestor was decisively rejected. Professor Westenhoefer says that man did not, aa Darwin suggests, come from the ape, but 'rather that the ape descended from -man. The Intensified brain development accounted for man's supremacy over other animals, whose over-dovelo-ment of body had been at the expense of the brain.

Man, the Professor Implied, Is not an exalted mon key, but the monkey Is a man de based. Paper Milk Bottle Popular. Milk bottles of paper have made a hit in London, where they recently appeared. The containers are of stout transparent paper, the base be ing of heavy material and the top sufficiently light to be sealed hermi-tically with a metal cap after the milk: has been coured in. The con sumer cuts a slit in the top.

The bottles are made by one machine and art sterilized. 1 mmtm 51 TIT Enflravlng made from one of the very few or glnal photograph of Abraham Lincoln, owned by A. F. Dougherty of Lincoln, III. A law suit was filed In 1921 by Mr.

Dougherty to seek to regain possession of a negative made from this original photograph, possession of which was thought to be worth a large sum. Interesting Memento of Family Friendship Given by Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln to Stephen Smith and Wife in 1860 When Lincolns Were Preparing to' Remove to Washington Family of Bloomington Merchant, Now Deceased, Preserve the Souvenir of Martyred President as Mark of Former Neighborly Relations in Springfield Before the Civil "vVar. A set of candle-sticks which for merly adorned a mantel in the house of Abraham Lincoln at Springfield, are now and have been for many years a prized ornament In a Bloom-ton home.

They were the personal gift in I860 by r. Lincoln and his wife to their friends and neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen. Smith, who later removed to Bloomington, where Mr Smith for many years one of the leading merchants of the city.

The candelabra are now the property of Miss Nettle Belle Stnlth in her apartments at 805 West Monroe street. The picture of the candelabra as here published was taken only this week, thru the courtesy or Miss Smith. They are shown as they rest upon a dresser, which is itself a piece of funiture of considerable Historic Interest. The story of how the candle-sticks came into the possession of the Stephen Smith family is a very natural one, being an incident which might transpire between any two neighboring families. When the Smiths were residents of Springfield along In the days before the clvli war, there was a brother of Stephen Smith.

C. M. Smith, who became a brother-in-law of Abraham Lincoln when he and Lincoln married sisters. C. M.

Smith married Anna Todd, and Lincoln married Mary Tod.t Very naturally, then, the Smiths, the Lincolns and the Todds were very close friends, and resided is the same vy Alt "ii lit; ifiiiS if neighborhood In the then eompara-tlvely small town of Springfield. Fame and high office came to Lincoln, as all the world knows. 'After his election to the presidency in 1860, Lincoln and his family began preparations for leaving their home In Springfield for removal to Washington. Among the smaller articles of household use which the Lincolns possessed was this set of candelabra, and Mrs. Lincoln gave them to Mrs.

Stephen Smith as a small remembrance of their friendship. Of course Mr. and Mrs. Smith brought these candelabra to Bloomington when they removed to -this city shortly afterward, and they remain to this day in the family. Another Interesting memento of the Lincolns which adorns the walls of Miss Smith's apartment Is one of the few copies extant of a printed memorial which was circulated in Springfield after --President Lincoln's tragic death and burial.

The text of the memorial la the farewel speech which Lincoln delivered to 2L 3 i 7 3 i IT 1. f' '4 Phots bj United Photo Shop, his fellow townsmen on his departure from Springfield to asume the presidency In Washington. The text la surmounted by symbolical figures representing the death of the president. When Stephen Smith came to Bloomington to embark in business here, he carried with him a letter of introduction to Judge David Davis from Abraham Lincoln, As is well known Lincoln and Davis were bosom friends and fellow lawyers In the riding of the circuit of the old Eleventh district. In after years, Judge Davis told the members of the Smith family that this letter from Lincoln concerning Stephen Smith was the most interesting document of its kind that he had ever seen, and he promised some day to turn It over to the children of Stephen Smith.

However, the death of Judge Davis followed before he had occasion to find the letter among his papers, and the matter was forgotten in the flight of the years. I 4- anrtti i Delavan Doctor Was Intimate Friend of A. Lincoln in '50's Delavan, Feb. 11, (Special.) Dr. Charles B.

Maclay was living In Delavan when Abhaham Lincoln made one of his campaign addresses here and as the doctor was one of the prominent citizens 70 years ago, they became acquainted. Mr. Lin- DR. CHARLES B. MACLAY.

coin presented Dr. Maclay with his picture in the form of a little daguerreotype, which was the proper form of picture at that time. Of course the family retained the pic ture Rnd later it was owned by Dr. Arch I Maclav. the son nf the older doctor, who succeeded to bis father's Urn, Lj J.

practice, and who died a few years ago In Delavan. The people of that community were In the hands of these two faithful doctors for three generations and their memories will always be. connected with the home Ufa of Delavan and Delavan prairie as the community for several miles around was called. Before the hard roads were thought of when Delavan had no railroad and no way out in the winter. Dr.

Maclay gave popular lectures without charge to the people who were able to get about town in the mud. It was quite different from the annual banquet of today, but conditions of today had their origen in the Ideals of the Ma- clays and others like them in Delavan jrairie. Cairo Likes French Opera. Lovers of music In Cairo racked the Kursaal opera house during the recent season of French opera and from the enthusiastic applause showed that they enjoyed the performances. Martha Ferrare, of the Paris Opera Comique, headed the company, and among the productions was "Pas sur la Bouche, which has been running in Paris the past two years.

Cairo Jails Meansst Thief, What is considered to be the mean est thief In Cfciro, if not in all Egypt, is now serving time in the Cairo Jail. He is said to have stolen from little girls gold earrings, such as are worn with great pride by Egyptians, and replaced them by others of baser metal. After a long search and many complaints from crying mothers and misses, the police arrested the man just as he was asking a little girl to show him her earrings. W. E.

Kershner, secretary of the Ohio teachers' retirement system, es timates that turnovers in the facul ties of grade and high-schools In th state cause an economic loss of 000,000 to 110,000,000 annually. Republican Candidate For Re-election For Mayor Primary Feb. 22, 1927. a.