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,t found * great disiiiling plant, the output each day being truly vast-lii (lie country- between . Barcfe-town und Buffalo arc to be found roads winding in and out, some-times you ore ascending, soon descending. torturous as- a; sumls shell, hut o)way? -bcfliiiilul and picturciquc. ' 'After passing Athertonvillc wo came to ' Buffalo/ One and 0110-iliali from Buffalo is to bofound tlie* '‘Lincoln_ Fnnn.;r It U n troly beautiful farm, maiiitniiied by the gOTomnicnt. ‘While waiting. ioVdinner we drove out to the fa.rzu . und had the pleasure of entering -the log cabin in which .our’ great 'Lincoln, tow horn, also drank from a spring fed by 3ii’ underground stream. Tlio cabin .is protected fay being i?i-dosed within the walls of n mmi-s-olcum built out of marble from the flcorgin quarried’.’ -This stands upon the. ex net spot where'our martyred president wus born. Upon the walla of this enclosure lire lo .be fouiul noted inscriptions, one of which we copied:’ Of Lincoln, ftdwin Markham has written: . ■ • •:TUe color of the ground wns in him, tlic red curlh,The smell and emaek of elementnl Brings,The TnrriluiJe and patience ’of thn cliff.The good-will of the rnin that lores the leaves..Tlio Iriondly welcome of the -way-sido well.The coiirugu of the bird that dares the fivn,The £)nilnc«y nf tlin wind thnt shakos the- corn.The mercy of the snow lliat. hides all scars,The secrecy nf llic *-ircnms ihflf make their way Bd n'a |li the mono Inin lo llm rifl-ud rock,The underlying justice of the light Thnt gives as freely to the shrinking flower As to the grunt ouk flu ring in l he wind.To the glare’s low hill as to the M ullcrhom Tim I Hhinddera out the sky.” lloturning ti Buffalo wo pnrtook nf n banntifnl dinner, such n dinner no our mother* iinjd to prepare in our childhood dp™.After II riinrl TOtl vre coitlilllicdour trin. niruiii finding iho tortuousB
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Portsmouth Weekly Times
Portsmouth, Ohio, US
Sat, May 15, 1915
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