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i i ?HE ARGUS, SATURDAY, JANUAliY 2. 1900: OP THE VTB : OF -aTrDS: 3 FrrfaANiu 11 r A, r, ' - . -ni '.- -iff - i ifr RiiKhnil i 'v j J ' : )' 3 . 8 lfio4: i'T I ) ABRAHAM JJKCOZ'Sf REMARKABLE history was made in the last hundred years. The pages are crowded with the names of illustrious men. Centenaries to be observed in the present year will accentuate this fact. Few, if any, similar lists of statesmen, poets, artists and writers can be found In any hundred years of j In lg54 he was an successful eandi- any era in wnicn men or genius pmyea . date fop tlR UnU,a stato3 senate, a part. The realm of exploration and j Two yeur3 ,atcr lhe R.publican ,,a:.ty discovery seems almost to have Uoen j haJ become a fat.t0r sunt Lincoln circled. Research in science has been j wa3 ,ts at.knowiaSod leader in his farreaching. Thought along all lines state- In 185S occurrou the famous has been evolved which the sages of ! campaitrn witn Doui?las for the noml the preceding ceHtury would have al-' ti.n for United 3,03 s,,nator. and ' Lincoln was defeated. In this defeat there was no forecast of his nomination for president on the Re lied with madness. An English writer said a few years ago that if all history preceding the year lauu were losi-mere wouiu j publican ticket, but that occurred tv.o sufficient in the events since that time j V.arg aftr in X ) Ca.--r--A like to satisfy mankind and prepare for the , nat nad evf r boen kno,vn before in future. This may have been an ex- j tms country. nis (ut.ti0n made him aggeration, but it contained some , an int(.niali3!,al character. How he truth. i got to Washington in time for his in- The first centenary this year of the 1 au&urat.;on Ma,c!l 4. 13cl is a snu. most remarkable man in the history ! !ar cna,,t, r in .suiis. Thirtv-onn of his country is that of Abraham Lin- j.1vs ..fer he was -in orci. ho was coin. Thee was nothing in the ob- coflfrontod with t..c bitt. rt s and mo,;t scure birth of Lincoln or in the twenty j stubborn)y contested w:.r in modern years that followed to indicate that he I times The f.r-t "un vos fired at was marked for any higher destiny j Kurt""Sumtjr Amil"l2. 1S51. He 'ot than that attained by the average the titw of the ..gri.,u Mnoncipi;tor" man. A rapid chronology of the man j j ,n UGL, wh n ; f,isnva Ulc rman. te!!s the strange story that was cfjJatio.n prod-motion. Si:: months crowded Into a life of fifty-six years: from tllat (.vf : t t!le brttu of Gt.tty3- iorn in a log caoin on a xarrn nc bnra: was for.M. and V it-ksLtir"- ;-.:ir- Hodgenvllle, Ky., Feb. 12, 1S03; as c. , rendered. In 13iM he was re-elected straggling farm boy to Indiana in , 1re.sia. r:t - and was ' Inauumted for 1S17; motherless a year after. At th tht. second time in 1SC3. Thirty-six age of eleven he was given to the care days aftt;. Anpomattox end of hos of a stepmother. When he was six- j tiiiiie?. Six tkiy.s after the surrender teen years old his education at school j jie waa a'isassinnted was finished. Ho was st twenty-one j Therc wero tWv.niy.f.vlr (lay3. lif. when he WtfaoCsfl.lA BMaols. the state ; fervnce-betwoeaHho birtliday.-i of Lin ln which his career was fashioned. coln an(1 kst Allan Poe. The latter Lincoln a War Captain. was born in Boston. Jan. 13. 180.1. At He first emerged from private life J the n?e of tlevt n l'.n- was an or.;h?n. In 1832,-when he became a captain in The life of this piaster of romance the Black Hawk war. The same year I was a struggle.; His genius did not he had his- first defrat in public life, j come to its present rtaj;.' e-f rt coyni He was beaten as a candidate for the tion until he was -dead. Contradictory legislature.. The following year he be- j statements about his career occurred came a country merchant in the vil-i from time ta time, but iiis place as a lage of New Salem. . In 1SC3 he wa3 j genius in the literary world has been again a candidate for the legislature ' fixed. v f m0' m mImi : 'm WWW- 1 AWIM &pM and was elected. , When he was thirty three years old he and Mary Todd were married in Springfield, 111. Two years later Henry Clay was a candi date for the presidency, and Lincoln espoused his caus. In that c?inpi?n he showed the qualities of a political debater. Two years after he was elected to the lower house of congress. Me was: Rraujutc! from the Uni versity of Virgin: i when he- war' siv- ; enteen yesw ok!. Between that tii.ie j and three yeara lu.ter h. had yubllished thr-.e voiunios of ;nioms, "The liaven" appeared in the New York Evenir.s Mirror Jan. J. ISi".. He Wi'S puid S10 for it. Its authorship v.t.s credited to : another for rive months. He tried the ! olher monument to him in Richmond,' .regular army for two yeura r.nd thi.-n the city he luved so well. Near PoeV returned to the . field in which he br j grave la - that of the man who slew came w ' famous. It is' sn'ti that he Lincoln. , ! was recognised in France bt fore his j t ! own country admitted hi? 'worth. l:i j Hiimes, America's "Grand Old Man." the words of a bio-n.phr. "the ric.i . . ja the "gatabre! roofed" house hi; currents ot msn, ccoicn, ir.ngiisn and ; CambrWso. . JJass.. Oliver Wendell: American woou were in- ris veins. At the age of twenty-six lie married his cousin. Miss . V!rs-;ir.i:i. CJ mm. II.'. died in Iialtiniore Oct. 7, -1313., The monuiiient which m:.rkV. the site, where '. he is buried war, placed there a'q'ua'r- ' ter of a century after.' There' is an- : Holmes, our "grand old man of let ters," was born Aug. 29. 1803, and he died in Boston Oct. 7, 1SS4. The se renity of hia' life was the sam f t home and abroad. Honors came to light of children. His teniperam was pre-eminentiy syniUathwifcr'' He was well born and bred, whether in speaking about hJ:n or to him he was always addressed i.i adjectives of en dearment. Hi' belongs to that group which includes Hawthorne, Longfel low, Thoreau, Emerson. Lowell. Whit- tier and Margaret Fuller. He was graduatt ": from Harvard in If 2!i ::sid then went a.i'r.);-,il. He was twice nia.r- ri?d. A son who be:irs his father's v hon name is the only utirvivin;; child of Dr.: fame tliat he was the embodiment of hint whereverThe went. ,' Hj v.aa ' tl-e j Holmes. 'As editor, humorist, critic, j reform. Born a Tory, he left that consolation of age as he was the de-1 poet, novelist, he pained quick recog-: party in 1S43. He held to the privilege ! nition at home and abroad. As a citi zen he was public spirited and gentle. Gladstone the Reformer. It remained for a commoner of Eng- ! land, to leave an indelible impress on the time in which he lived. William E. Gladstone was that man. The cen tenary of his birth will occur Dec. 29, for he was born in Liverpool on that I date, 1803. ie deserved the title that was bestowed upon him in the after- noon of his life, "Grand Old Man of England." Ke was prime minister several times during the rei&n of Queen Victoi ia. He wa3 a power so long ego that it seems as if he lived in a very remote age. He ruled the British empire before Balfour was horn. Churchill iir.d not opened his eyes when Gladstone was a force. Strenuous in many respects, in diplo macy Gladstone was always fair and always for peace. It was said of him he was at the zenith of his of changing his views when conditions seemed to him to warrant a change. Thus, after he had' held to opposite views, he became an advocate of Irish, autonomy, and as late as 1893 he In troduced measures for Irish self gov ernment In a masterly 6peech. He re tired from, active life in. March. 1894, and died in his old home, Hawarden castle. May 19, 1898. He was burled In Westminster abbey. - .. -.. , , In the current year one will easily recall In the list of poets and authors the name of Edward Fitigerald, born in England March 31, 1809. He died June 14, 1883. His works are not nu merous. The most important is hla celebrated translation of . the "Rubal yat" of the Persian semipessirnistlc astronomer-poet Omar Khayyant. The beauty of Fitzgerald's poem Is greaUl. admired. He was the friend c nyson and Carlyle. .1 Eminents In Music. i Somebody has said that' it is, f ul whether the history of anj musician disclose so wide a co tion of qualities as does that oj delssohn, the great German con who was . born In Hamburg 1809. The man's life is reflectej j thought, in many of his best i ' sit ions.' All composers who mi were entranced with his genius of his customs .was to have in musical performances in his h alternate Sunday mornings. rected, his sister presided at the; and his brother played on the while his second sister sang. H iri Leipzig Nov. 4, 1847. - Chopin is another musician wl be recalled during the year, if ! he is ever forgotten. He was b Poland March 1, 1809. He d Paris Oct. 17. 1849. He was the first of pianists, and his p like his music, was marked, t biographer, by a strange and i ing grace. j What is pronounced the "ma tertaining book of genuine trav4 written" was the story of the around the world by Charles DarWin, the naturalist, who wa in England Feb. 12. 1809. No writer is held In higher esteem j country than Darwin. He wa nent in geology, zoology and 1 All countries honored him with i and other distinctions. He d London April 19, 1S82. and was! In Westminster abbey. i Few, if, indeed, any, English pd so generally read and admired j country as is Tennyson. His reserved and moody nature, kn well in his own country, wa known here save as accounts j characteristics reached Americ it was his poetry that appea I people here. He was born in E i Aug. 6. 1809, and died Oct. 6. 18$ j was created a peer with the ( ' baron in 1884. . I Other' noted people on the. . honor whose names will be esj ' remembered this year are: i ' Kemble, the actress; Frederick ; Barnard, the American : edi i Richard M. Milnes, Lord Hoi j poet; Hannibal Hamlin, viceji dent of the United States; Jol Blackie, English critic; Ja4p t , 2i.e., i;iuzit:t?r ueruiiaui; ju.ar ! robert, French soldier; Juu : French statesman; Mary : Clarke. English Shakespeare '. A. Dahlgren, American navj ; Kit Carson, pioneer, and ; Russian author. All the were born In 1809. FRANK H. Bi Valley 'orge H ome : of Philander Chase 4? N the site where Baron Steu ' Ji ben drilled the ragged Con M tinentals In 1777-8, while the J American congress was in session at York. Pa., stands the 'fa vorite home of Philander Chase Knox, who will be secretary of state in the t'abinet of President Taft. The official home Is in Washington, being the mansion that was. built by George W. Childs of Philadelphia. There is an other home in Pittsburg, and still an other summer home Is on the Beverly farms in Massachusetts. On the Valley Forge farm the home life of the Knox family is seen at its best. After the official Btrain- at Washington is over Mr. Knox hastens first to Valley Forge. There he plays golf, gallops across the historic acres, drives, walks, reads in hia library or on the great veranda, receives and en tertains his friends, walks under the shade of the great trees, looks in at the stables where his blooded horses are cared for and, returning, plays poker with any who may care to meet him in the game in which , he is an expert. When all this is- over he likes to listen to young Phil play ragtime on the pianola, which was put in to please the' -young man. .When not otherwise engaged, Mr. Knox can be found looking 'at his flock of fine sheep, which he says trims the lawns as they should be trimmed. "It is an ideal life at Valley Forge. Every member of the family enters into the spirit of it. Valley Forge is twenty-four miles west-northwest from Philadelphia. The entrance to the lawn of the home Is on the Forge road, one mile from the old village. The mansion stands 200 feet from the pillared gateway. The house is conspicuous on account of the bright yellow hue of the wall3 and its roof of dark maroon colored shingles. The antique windows are quaint, some of them being glazed in colors. Ivy. wobine and red Ram bler roses clamber about the veranda and ' the walls. Great native trees shade the lawns. . The library, con taining thousands of volumes, is on the second floor. A big flat desk on which ere r.trewn the latest period icals and books stands In the center of the room. Spacious chairs suggest rest and comfort. The drawing room is- furnished with solid . mahogany. The dining room is Inoak. y Pictura of, the Heme.?-, ; .' ' The house is a typical specimen of colonial architecture, and it was oc cupied by General Henry Knox when he was Washington's chief of artillery. It was the headquarters of General Knox when the Continental army was in cantonment at Valley Forge in 1777-8. It is in the garden spot of 300 acres. It looks out upon rolling hills, vales, meadow and wood. Old Forge creek babbles musically near by. The present occupant of the house claims no relationship to the family of General Knox. He laughingly con fesses that for some time after he took the property a good deal of his time was taken up in denying that there was any connection between the two families. The industry of the farm is the breeding of fine horses, although there is an extensive, dairy on the place which is under the management of Reed Knox, one of the sons, who re lieves his famous father of politics by talking of cows and the' best way to make butter. The crack team of the stables, which is always trotted out for visitors, cost $9,000. The chief delight of Mr. Knox is to sit behind this team and engage in spirited brushes . with his neigh bors.' At one time this team held the record, 2:10. It was.. made while ! Mr. Knox held the ribbons. The per- j formance gained for the owner the ! reputation of being the best horse- j man in the United States. j When the family first went to Val- i ley Forge it consisted of Mr. and Mrs. j Knox, three sons Phil junior. Hugh. j Reed and . the daughter, Rebecca. The latter married afterward, '.becom ing Mrs. James Robert Tir.dle of Pittsburg. The love of the family for : this home was expressed oy Mrs. Knox to a friend in Washington when j she said. "We exist for a few months in our Washington home, but at Val ley Forge farm we live" - The Family on the Farm. All the family reunions are held at this farm. The table in Washington Is supplied from Valley Forge farm. The fowl, the vegetables and the fruit are raised on the old home farm. Every new kind of vegetable or spe cial brand of stock or fowl that comes into market i3 duplicated on . the farm. A four horse vehicle, the device of Mrs. Knox, conveys visitors; to and from the depot when they go to spend I the day at the Knox farm. Another conveyance is an old fashioned coach ing car in which big and merry par ties are taken out to inspect the farm. The mistress of this ideal American home was Miss Lillian Smith, daugh ter of the" late AnUrew D. Smith of Allegheny. The popularity of her girl hood has been retained in the home life of Mrs. Knox. Mr. Knox since he acquired Valley Forge - has had occasion to say: re peatedly that ' he is not of Revolu tionary stock. He is Irish on the pa ternal Hdc, r.nd his mother's for-J &ers were English. His grandfather witiidrew from the Church of Eng land, but Mr. Knox has '.always re mained a member of the Protestant Episcopal church. There were one dozen children in the Knox family, and Philander Chase is the eleventh. He was named for Philander Chase, who was bishop of Ohio in the middle of the last century. The bishop wa an uncie of Chief Justice Kaimon P. Chase. Mr. Knox's boyhood friends called him "Phil." and 'he confesses that he always liked it. , When he is oat -official duty the dig nity which is supposed to hed.e an i?Ticial is not noticeable In him. . He Is old fashioned in his ways, and when he is smoking a cigar, of which habi: je i3 f-jn.l. he is the personification of bid school democracy. While the Washington home Is noted for its hospitality, those who have visited both place, the official residence and the Valley, Forge home, declare that there i3 a diEeiieiice between the two and that the difference Is in favor of the Valley Forge house. . While Mr. Knox is always access ible, he is not what 13 called a mixer. He. rather shun3 official society, There is something in his appearance and manner which suggests a French abbe of the eighteenth century. Polities! Nicknames. - . Wlicn Mr. Knox was mentioned a, presidential possibility . last year pe-ople made free with his character, as is the custom in this country when there is a prospect of such a promo tion. AH was good natured. of course, ana grew out of some notable act of Mr. Knox. Thus he was termed "trust buster." and then he was referred to as the "yoims David" of the McKin ley administration'';. And President Roosevelt factiously called-, him' "a sawed" oft cherub." If any. of these appellations ever had any effect upon Mr. Knox his most IntimatJ were never aware of it. Pro! public act of Mr. Knox gave ll prominence than the visit he Paris in the interest of the of the Panama canal. He invl on that occasion the ritrhts of the canal company. On hh the canal comnanv .was nald 000, and $10,000,000 was paid' ama. The head of the Knox he been before the public so long tie need be said about it .in tl ntjetion. He was the son of Knox, a banker in Brownsvl yette county. Pa. Mr. Knox in 1853. He was -educated ad Union college. Ohio, and gradJ the class of 1872. He was adi the bar in Allegheny in 1875. unusually successful in bis prd In 1876-7 he was assistant States district attorney in the Pennsylvania district. In 18771 came one of the firm of Knox j in Pittsburg. In 1901 he be torney general of the United! In the administration of Preside Kinley. In 1904 he-;' won known as the Great Northern ties merger fight. , r -'-; BRUCE 'M' HOLIDAYS A 'MISTAKI Dr. Toulouse, the' eminent' medical writer, -has Just publij book in which the holiday as ar tution is - unsDarintrlv - cor Above all, the doctor objects to Idea that-"it is necessary to r mind by exercisine the hnrl v " : I To take a long waTk. ; I or inj after several hcurs of intellect bor is simply adding one fatil another, he says."' x Fresh air an hour's walking per .day are alK . . t i tquirca. -' . v "we do not need long restVl- Wi short ones." goes on. the doe hot rest sixteen hours oer -wei Sunday, but four separate half j per uay. uo not rest one -' months per year after ten moni i intense life and work but divide! 1 two months Into occasional half ! of delightful laziness. - - - ; J r - vv hat would you say of a mai I ouiu worK unceasingly for six 1 and then spend a whole year in ' ness? -let this Is exartlv what on a smaller scale with our Su and our summer holidays." I But probably most of us will enjoying our Holidays V:y .. ., J r r V ':r to? n