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From that time on the spread of telegraph

lines was rapid, and Morse was acclaimed
by the world as a benefactor of mankind.
He received the highest honors from
foreign countries as well as his own, and in
,1858 ten European nations joined in an appropriation of $80,000 in recognition of the
benefits conferred by his invention.
Morse died April 2, 1872, in New York,
where a bronze statute in his honor was
erected in Central Park.

Leader

OURPAST

Thursday, May 28

The Great American Home

By C. C. BISHOP

The marriage ceremonies that

have been used in the past are
HENRY DESKINS WELLS, KDITOR
of interest to most people for the
JlMMlE GlLLENTINR, MANAGING EDITOR
simple reason that most people
MRS. DESKINS WELLS, SOCIETY EDITOR
are either married or they plan
to marry sometime.
^Entered as second class mail, Aug. 25,1900 at post
LINCOLN'S GRAMMAR
office at Wellington, Texas, under act Mar. 3, 1879.
The early Texans went through
An intimate momento of Abraham Lin- some very great embarassments
Any erroneous reflections upon the char- coln and his youthful sweetheart, Ann Rut.aeter, standinff or reputation of any person, firm or ledge, was recently received by the Library concerning marriage. According
to the agreement of the person
corporation which may appva.r in the columns of THE
LEADER will be corrected gladly upon-its being of Congress, where it will be preserved with receiving grants to establish colother relics of our first martyred president. onies in Texas, none but Catholic
brotiffkt it> the attention of the publisher.
It is the Kirkham's Grammar which Lincoln were allowed to settle. Therefore
$1,50 a year inside of trade territory
and
Ann studied in New Salem, 111., 100 the religion of the land was that
$2.50 a year outside of trade territory
of the Catholic church.
years ago.
Under these conditions only the
Textbooks
were
scarce
in
those
days
SOME BIBLE FACTS
priests were permitted to perform
and
Lincoln
obtained
the
grammar
secondDr. Thomas Home, an English Bible
marriage ceremonies and bury the
scholar and critic who died in 1862, devoted hand from its owner, walking a dozen miles dead. We find few, if any, of
to
secure
it.
This
was
in
1831,
when
he
was
several years to compiling interesting facts
even Catholic services among the
about the Bible, among them being the fol- clerking in a New Salem store and boarding American colonists. It appears
with Ann's parents. When he had mastered that the priests were never very
lowing :
The Bible is composed of 66 books con- its contents he gave the book to Ann, writ- numerous. There really were not
taining1,189 chapters, 41,173 verses, 774- ing on the title page, "Ann M. Rutledge is enough to bury the dead and marry the living. A Mrs. Dilue Har746 words and 3,666,480 letters. The short- now learning grammar."
est verse is John 11:35 and contains only It is said that Abraham and Ann be- ris in some reminiscent writings,
the two words, "Jesus Wept." The longest came engaged on July 4, 1833, shortly before gives this account of a funeral.
Lincoln's election to the state legislature. Harrisburg, May, 1833. Every \
verse is Esther 8:9.
Ann
was stricken with malarial fever and thing in Harrisburg was differThe
ord <<Lor
T ,. , ?
d" occurs 1,853 times: died August
25, 1835, and intimate friends ent from what we had been accus- I
Jehovah" 5,845 times: the word "girl" only
of
Lincoln
declared
he never recovered from tomed to. No church, no preach- i
twice: "Everlasting fire" is found twice;
his
grief
for
the
only
woman he ever truly er, no school house or court house. \
while the word "everlasting punishment,"
They had no use for a j a i l ; c v - !
loved.
eternity" and "reverend" occur only once
erybody
honest. We had been j
The book was presented by the Rutledge
each.
there but a few days when a man [
family,
finally
coming
into
the
possession
Several verses are duplicated thus four
My sister asked mother how 1
verses of the 107th Psalm are identical, of William Rutledge of Milton, Mont., a died.
they
could
bury the man without i
6-OSH,THE WATER UOOtf S GCeAT. I HAVE A HUNCH I'LL
and the 36th chapter of Isaiah and the 19th nephew of Ann. From him it was borrowed a hearse and carriages. In the i
by
Miss
Jane
Hamand
for
the
public
library
TAV\E A PLUNGE BEFORE THE DAY is OVER- -*
chapter of II Kings are exactly alike.
evening the funeral came. Mr.
No original manuscript of any portion of Decatur, 111. Not long ago, with Mr. Rut- Lytlc with his cart and oxen
of the Bible is in existence. The oldest manu- ledge's consent, she presented it to the Con- (there was not a dray or wagon j
script known, a fragment of the llth qhap- gressional Library. There is may now be in the place), conveyed the corpse;
but .]c wouldn't do It.
ter of the Psalms, thought to have been writ- seen in the case which also contains Lin- men, women and children walkT. s. Dean amused at a certain
ten in the third century, is preserved in the coln's Bible in which he inscribed his family ing. Brother and I went with
young lady when she bumped ht-r
them. I don't remember the man's
British Museum. The Bible as we know it records with his own hand.
By C. N. C.
head setting out of a car,
name. He came to Texas from
has come down to us through many transThere
isn't
much
difference
between
New York, with the four Harris
J. B. Curtricr and J. W. Payne
lations, the first complete English transtalking about the good rains as
lation having been made by John Wycliffe life in a big city and in a small town. In brothers. A Mr. Choate conductv "
ed the
i,in. burial.
u u r m i . The
j ne man
man was
was a M
,Pf>nho>wll
, . , rt _ ...t- ,. t .. m t
who died in 1384, and his fellow workers,' the city the autos run down a lot of peo- t-u
n
4
*
n n d l , a a wnlo, many morning.
ple arid in the town the gossips do the same stranger in a strange land, but *)d' arai
Nicholas and Purvey.
Joe West dodging traffic at a
was nursed and buried bv the good *? .. "8 an'!. PPlc are busy
William Tyndale was the first to print thing.Olivia Times.
*The planting for a big summer and fall street intersection.
0
people
and
mourned
by
all.
the Bible in English, beginning in 1525 He
lilllc ! met Mr
wai j and farmers are working in their
O. Q. Hollcy -md I. E. Emrnert
Why keep picking on Al Smith because ncxt
- Choate was
> i fields, I saw
printed all of the New Testament and a
u le Fourth of
j
interested
. vl
July-un He e played! Hay Wells loading some kind of i planting, in t\ conversation about
small portion of the Old, but his translation he plans to "take a walk" during the presi-|1110
t n o vlohn
for thc;
tial ramrjnie-n?
HP knows his HmirnHnnsI
y & !> l'le to .plants on the trailer of his c a r l Alabaw Sumner gesturing with
campaign? He
limitations!
came under displeasure of the ecclesiastical dential
no he
v,/-, has
i-ioc. tried
f;n,-i v.,,v.o*- TLouis
,-,.,; o*,,,,
n;n.
running.St.
Star- i dance.
rp,
,
,
. .
. P a t c in the afternoon,
authorities. After 15 months' imprisonment as
hfs hands as he explained someI he above funeral shows the I p au ] R(? ]j
Times.
-he was tried and burned at the stake for
( t h i n s to J. s. Madtiox.
scarcity
of
the
priests
in
this
re|
f
soda
pop
|
0
o
heresy on October 6, 1536.
Some ' 15. W. Bourman and a neighbor
at that time. None but t h e j O n c was
o
A contemporaryj ..
claims ..
that ..
the ,
av- jgion
pause
.farmer discussing farm problems
priests were allowed
to
marry
allowed to marry j that refreshes.'
optimistic since the recent
AN ARTIST INVENTOR
erage span of human life has lengthened, couples. Where a priest was not John n ciiem, trvin < S6 . - ' ---looks
,
rains.
On October 1, 1832, Samuel F. B. Morse, It looked that way for a while, 'but we I available the contracting parties wife to carry i H i i i ,
'* ,*"
Moore sitting on the court
an American painter who had been study- think the automobile has taken up all the [gave a legal bond, pledging them- j --^^1-i^
slack.Yakima
Republic.
selves to
m;ir.-i:i<rr> ~

ing the old masters in Europe, sailed from Slack.Yakima Republic.

to have a reirular
regular marriage
O
ceremony performed as soon as
Havre, France, for New York. On the voyage
The alphabetical agencies may have a priest should come into the comhe discussed with fellow passengers the
Shall Dreams Come True?
properties of the electromagnet and the fa- cost the country a lot of money, but not munity.
Strange
as
it
may
seem,
on
sevmous discovery of electro-magnetic induc- as much as WAR.Norfolk Virginia-Pilot.
eral occasions it was so long betion by Faraday the year before.
o
fore
a priest arrived that the
As a result, he got the idea that signals
Mussolini says he's willing to negotiate
>
might be transmitted by means of electric with Ethiopian government officials on a wife would hold her baby in her
sparks, and while still on shipboard he made give-and-take basis. Yeahgive 'em the arms while the ceremony was
performed. At one wedding
rough drafts of the necessary apparatus, dickens and take their country.Grand being
of this type the couple had two
which he showed to his companions. It was Rapids Press.
children, the father holding one
not > U ntil 1836, however, that he completed
and the mother one.
an instrument that would work.
Now would be the ideal time to let the We give you here a. copy of a
After many discouragements he finally Communists take control of the country legal bond that was used by a
succeeded in getting the government to if only to see how they'd divide up the $11 - couple that were wanting to marbuild a telegraph line between Baltimore and 000,000,000 deficit. Judge,
" '
ry and did not wait for the priest
Washington, which was used for the first
-oto arrive.
time on May 24, 1844, to send the now hisSome society people move in exclusive "Know all mon by these prestoric message, "What hath God wrought?" circles, others in triangles.
ent, that we, Eben Havens, of the
State of Coahuila and Texas, De
Witt Colony, who was born in
the State of New York in the year
of 1805, and Drusilla Lockhart of
the State of Coahuila and Texas,
and born in the State of Virginia, in the year 1802, are held
and f i r m l y bound to the governor
of the State of Coahuila and Texas, or his successor in office, in
the penal Hum of ten thousand
dollars, lawful money of the United States of Moxioo, for the payment of which, well and truly be
made, we, and each of us, bind
ourselves, our heirs, jointly and
severally and firmly by these presents. The condition of the above
obligation Is such that hereas, the
above named Eben Havens and
Drusilla Lockhart, having mutually agreed to enter into the
solemn bonds of matrimony, and
there being as yet no church or
legally established ecclesiastical
authority in this colony, by which
"We'll take that trip to Europe 'when
means matrimony may be legally
I've
made my pile'." You've said it.
solemnized, and therefore it is unThousands of others have said it. But
derstood, that as soon as the said
only a very few ever realize their
authority is legally established,
dreams and most of those find themthe said parties agree to be legalselves too old to enjoy the realization
ly married, and if either should
fail or refuse to comply, the above
when it comes.
obligation to be in full force
Fortunately there IS a sure, dependagainst the party so failing or
able
way.
refusing as aforesaid, otherwise
if they comply with the above
Start saving for that trip, that home,
condition, the above condition to
those other pleasures. Lay aside a
be forever null and void.

house steps looking at the lawn.

He was probably thinking of how
soon the grass would need cutting.
Ruth Marie Hill leading little
Mignon Nunnelley down the street
trying to answer her numerous
questions.
T. M. Cornelius and W. W. Sugg
enjoying talking about pioneer
days.
D. M. Blanton, Jr. and R .M.
Horn with their sweat shirts on
either trying to keep warm or
starting to play tennisor maybe
they just like to wear them,
Cecil' Coe directing Dr. J. w
Harper to some farm house by
describing a certain windmill and
a gate.
Ernest Stall looking in every direction as he went up the street.
W. M. Cook telling Dr. E. W.
Jonee that he carries a walking
stick so he will have something to
hit W. H. Ooforth with.
W. H. Vaughan going toward the
postoffice with a letter in his
hand.
Lester Ben^e shaking hands with
friends and saying that he Is glad
to he hack home.
Mrs, A. B. Smith and daughter,
Frances, ftboprting flt different
dry goods stares.
Mrs. Glenn Brickey having trouble opening her mail box.
Glen Anderson carrying two sections of picket fence across tho
I (reel-- don't know whether he was
i builcjinir a garden fence or taking
! it to the drug store.

I SAW

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of February, 1881.
Eben Haven (Seal)
Drusille 'Lockhart (Seal)

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