AMES WHITCOMB RILEY was born in Green Jheld, Indiana, about 1852. He was engaged in various pursuits until 1875, when he began to contribute verses of poetry to local papers in the Western district which gained wide popularity for him. His published works in dialect and his serious poems have also proved very popular. A A PEACEFUL LIFE (LINCOLN) PEACEFUL life; just toil and rest— To read the books he liked the best Beside the cabin fire. God's word and man's;-to peer sometimes The onmarch of his dreams. A peaceful life;-to hear the low Or woodman's axe that, blow on blow, A peaceful life! They hailed him even As One was hailed Whose open palms were nailed toward Heaven And lo, he paid the selfsame price And will us, through the sacrifice WT 7ILLIAM WILBERFORCE NEWTON, born in Alleghany, Pennsylvania, March, 1836. Was graduated at Franklin and Marshall College in 1853. Studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1867. He served as Captain and Assistant Adjutant General of U. S. Volunteers in 1861-5; was Editor of the Philadelphia Press and President of the "Press" Publishing Co., from 1867 till 1878. He is the author of Vignettes of Travel and has been largely engaged in railway building in Mexico. LEADER OF HIS PEOPLE AW you in his boyhood days SAV Bending to the settler's ways Yon poor youth whom now we praise- Saw you in the days of youth Saw you in his manhood's prime With a faith transcendent? Saw you in the hour of strife Saw you when the war was done (Such is Lincoln's story) Him whose strength the strife had won Sinking like the setting sun Crowned with human glory? Hero! Hero! Sent from God! Leader of his people. Saw you in our country's roll Hero! Yes! We know thy fame; Thou to us art still the same; Great thy strong endeavor! T HE charm which invested the life on the Eighth Circuit in the mind and fancy of Mr. Lincoln yet lingered there, even in the most responsible and glorious days of his administration; over and over again has the great President stolen an hour. . . from his life of anxious care to live over again those bygone exhilarating and halcyon days . . . with Sweet or me.' -Henry C. Whitney in his Life of Lincoln. ILBUR HAZELTON SMITH was born in the WILB town of Mansfield, New York, March 28, 1860. His early education was obtained from the district school and he began teaching at the age of sixteen. After completing an academic course he went to Cornell University from which he was graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1885. He at once became a teacher and after a few years started the first Current Topic paper in the state, The Educator. Later he edited a teachers' paper, The World's Review. Perhaps he is best known as publisher of the Regents' Review Books used in nearly every school in the United States. His death occurred October 19, 1913. U LINCOLN NLEARNED in the cant and quip of schools, Ungodly, if 'tis creeds that make divine; In station poor, as judged by human rules, O simple world, and will you ever learn, Schools can but guide, they cannot mind create? In meanest forms we priceless gems discern; |