The Harlowton news. [volume], June 23, 1911, Image 4

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incoln's Second
Inaugural Address
March 4. 1865
ELLOW COUNTRYMEN-At this second appearing to take
the oath of . pres at office there is less occasion for
an extend address tha here was at the first. Then
a statem nt somewhat in detail of a course to be pur
sued see fitting and oper. Now, at the expiration
of four y are, during w ch public declarations have
been consta ly called to h on every point and phase of
the great co test which a I absorbs the attention and en
grosses tb energies of nation, little that is new could
he prese ed. The pr s s of our arms, upon. which all
else c efly depends, is a well known to the public as to
myse , and it Is, I trust, easonably satisfactory and en
cour sing to all. With h hope for 'the future no pre
dict n in regard to it is ve red.
n the occasion correspo ding to this four years ago
all thoughts were anxio sly directed to an impen ng civil war. All dreaded
It; all sought to avert While the inaugural a ress was being elivered
from this place, devot altogether to saving the nion wit sur
gent agents were in th city seeking to destroy it wit du r, seeking t is
solve the Union and vide effects by negotiation. Both parties ted
war, but one of them ould make war rather than let the t survive, and
the other would accept ar rather than let it perish, a e war came.
,One-eighth of the ole population were colored slaves, not distributed
generally over the Union, ut localized in the southern art of it. These slaves
constituted a peculiar an powerful interest. All kne that this interest was
somehow the cause of t war. To strengthen, perpet ate and extend this in
terest was the object to which the insurgents would end the Union even by
war, while the govern nt claimed no right to do m re than to restrict the
territorial enlargement f it. Neither party expected or the war the magni
tude or the duration w ich it has already attained. either anticipated that
the cause of the confi1 t might cease with or even b fore the conflict itself
should ceases Each loo ed for an easier triumph and a esult less fundamental
and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and
each invokes his aid gainst the other. It may seem strange that any men
should dare to ask a not God's assistance in wringin their bread from the
sweat of other men's aces, but let us judge not, that e be not judged. The
prayers of both could not be answered. That of neith r has been answered
fully. The-Almighty a his own pqrpeees. "Woe un the world because of
offenses, for it must ne that offenses c ut woe to that man by
whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppos that American slavery is one
of those offenses which, in the rovidence of G , must needs come, but which,
having continued through his appointed tim , he how wills to remove, and
that he gives to both north nd south thi terrible war as the woe due to
those by whom the offense ca e, shall we scern therein any departure from
those divine attributes which he be'ievers in a living God always ascribe to
him? Fondly do we hope, fe 'ently do w pray, that this mighty scourge of
war may speedily pass away. Yet if God wills that it continue until all the
wealth piled by the bondsm 's 250 year of unrequited toil shall be sunk
and until every drop of blocd drawn with the lash shall be paid by another
drawn with the sword, as w said 3,000 ears ago, so still it must be said
"the judgments pf the Lord ar true and rigl eons altogether."
WITH MALICE TOWARD ONE, WITH C Y FOR ALL, with firma
ness in the right as God gives us to see t r strive on to finish the
work we are in to bind up the n Ion's ounds, to care for him who shall
have borne the battle and for his wi n his orphan, to do all which may
achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace. among ourselves and with all
sations
Memorials at Lincoln's Birthplace
UpPER PICT1URE SHUOWS IINCOI\N STATE ERECTED IN HODGEN.
VILLE, KY., AND SOME OF' T'll WOMEN WHO RAISED THE
FUND. LOWER PICTURE SHIIOW\N L\1MORIAL BUILDING DEDI.
CATED ON HUNDIREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF LINCOLN'S BIRTH,
BUILT AROUND LOG CABIN IN W11U1CH ULE WAS BORN.
Goinj Him One Better.
"Oh, yes, we have a wonderful cli
mate," said the man from southern
Texas. "Why, only last season we
raised a pumpkin so large that aft
-r sawing it in two my wife used
the halves as cradles in which to
sock the babies."
"Yes," replied the man from New
York, "but in my state it's a com
mon thing to find three full grown
policemen asleep on one beat."
'pincott's.
One Thing Missing.
A woman living in a small town,
says Everybody's, purchased from an
art dealer there a water color outfit.
with printed directions for its use.
These directions included. among oth.
er things, instructions to moisten the
brushes for the first time with saliva.
In a day or two the dealer received
the following note:
Dear Sir-The outfit is complete as or
dered, except the saliva. Yours truly,
MRS. _.
Trouble teaches men how much
there is in manhood.-Beecher.
"THE HAT
DID IT"
By JANE PINCKNEY BENNETT
Copyright by American Press A se
clation, 1911.
"Here is the ring you gave me; take
it. I do not wish to see you or it
again."
She was striding back and forth,
her cheeks aflame, her eyes flashing
anger. She slipped a solitaire dia.
mond ring from her finger and handed
it to him. But instead of walking
away in high dudgeon he sat down
in an easy chair, rested his head back
on the cushion, his elbows on the
arms, and, holding the ring in his
hands before his eyes, examined it
critically. She cast a glance at him
and uttered an exclamation of anger
at his indifference.
"I must change that," he said to
himself, though aloud. "Can't use this
one again. I must get another."
"If you are saying all that for my
benefit," she said, "you are having
your trouble for nothing."
"I must apologize for having given
you a stone with a flaw in it. I was
deceived."
"I don't see that it makes any differ.
ence now."
"But the ring can't be used again."
"Used again! What do you meah?"
"Why, I have promised Sue that if
you ever got huffy and returned it she
should have it."
Sue is my sister.
"She said that, did she?'
"Oh, yes; she predicted this."
"Oh, she did!"
"Yes."
"And you're going to give her the
ring?"
"Oh, no; not this one. I'll get her-a
perfect stone. This is worthless."
"I have not noticed any blemish in
it. Let me take it a moment."
"No; it was given you as a token, a
seal to a contract. That contract is
broken by its return. You have no
more interest in It than you have in a
glass marble."
"I may have some curiosity, mayn't
I?"
"All you like."
"Then let me see the ring. I wish
to know if the man I have been en
gaged to had the effrontery, the mean
ness, to palm off on me a stone with
a flaw in it."
"What has been in the case of a
broken engagement concerns no one.
It belongs to a dead past. By your
returning the ring yotu annulled your
interest in my past and my future. It
doesn't make any difference to you
whether there is a flaw in it or not."
"Perhaps you will condescend to tell
me what you progose to do in the
case."
"Of the ring?"
"Yes."
"I shall take it back to the man of
whom I bought it and ask him for an
other, a perfect stone; that I shall
have set accrording to Sue's taste and
give it to ber."
This was very mean of him. She
remembered the day he had given her
the ring; how beautiful the rainbow
colors that sparkled from it; her thrill
of joy a't possessing it not only for it
self, but for what it represented.
"Since I gave it to you," he went on
brutally, "I've taken in a hundred dol
lars 1 don't know what to do with
I'll add that to the price and get a
handisomer stone."
"i)o you still care enough about me
to grant me one favor?"
"I will grant you any favor you ask."
"Then don't give the ring to Sue."
"Why not?"
"I always liked Sue. I know sis
ters-in-law don't often agree, but I be
lieve Sue and I would. This changes
all that."
"Well, supposing I don't give it to
her, who would you prefer should
have it?"
There was no answer to this.
"I don't see why you should feel en
mity to Sue for merely predicting that
you would get huffy. You have got
huffy, haven't you?"
"And what girl wouldn't get huffy
at being treated so brutally ?"
"How brutally?"
"Well, for one thing, of course, you
know, didn't you say I looked horrid
in that new hat I had tak~en so much
pains to hunt up and have trimmed?"
"I said the hat was horrid. What
else?"
She thought a moment, thbn said,
"I don't exactly remember the next
thing you said, but it was worse than
the first."
"Do you remember the next Ahing
you said?"
"Why, no, but I'm sure it was''t
very bad."
"Not especially so. It was simply
that I was bereft of the slightest genm
tlemanly Instinct."
"There was nothing in that."
"Nothing whatever-a mere pat of
a velvet paw."
There was silence for a few minutes,
when she said, "I've made up my mind
as to the person I would like to have
the ring."
"Well?"
"I think I would like it myself."
"What, with a flaw in it!"
"Don't be silly; there's no flaw in it."
"How do you know?"
"Because I looked for one when you
gave it to me. Do you suppose a girl
is given an engagement ring without
making a careful inspection of it?"
"I was not aware of that."
It was his turn to be astonished.
"And I don't believe Sue said what
you said she did, either."
"To be truthful, she didn't"
The rest of this story contains noth
ing new. Kisses are old as, the hills.
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