The Gavelyte, January 1909

l () --------- ·--------------'------·------ ha ii been shioping .fifty-pound typewriters by mail under the franking privilege. Ohio is now enjoying her sixth Democratic governor since the war. Harmon has appointed an out-and out liquor l!lan as his private secretary, and the Senate is claimed to be wet by two majority. The present plan is to do nothing at this session but pass the necessary appropriation bills and go home. The recess appointments of Governor Harris are in peril, as Harmon may remove the appointees for cause. The dry counties in Ohio now number sixty-two, and campaigns are starting in Springfield and Clark county generally. In foreign affairs the most notable is the earth-quake of two weeks a~o which destroyed one hundred thousand lives in Southern Italy. Large citiPs were destroyed and the country left desolate. Relief is being rushed there from all parts of the world; Congress, among others, appropriating eight hundred thousand dollars. Could Aristolle in his wildest imaginings about. the lost Atlantis have guessed that aid would ever come therefrom to the descendants of his fellow-countrymen in the Greek colony of Messina? Europe is very quiet, and the rest of the world is following her ex– ample "Happy is the people whose annals are brief." Abraham Lincoln. DR . W. R. M'CHES t KY. ( ( ' on ti 1111Pcl l Mrs. Thomas Lincoln, number two, encouraged her step-son; Abraham, in his studies, and made him realize that he was really a human being and infused him with noble purposes . He read everything within reach and made companions, so to speak, of ROBINSON CRUSOE, PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, WEEM'S LIFE of w ASHINGTO 1, and a HISTORY of the U ITED STATES, and his step-mother frequently said that the BIBLE was his favorite book. H_is first knowledge of law was gained from the study of the Indiana Statutes, borrowed from a constable. He possessed a great memory and a taste for public speaking. The first wages he earned amounted to $6 a month for nine month . on a ferry over the Ohio river. His first venture into the world came in 1 2 , whfrn he went on a flat-boat to ew Orleans. It was while