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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1940 Bonnet, Sun Suit and Frock for Tot I TSING this one ^ (1928-B), you clever pattern can make a pretty complete play wardrobe for your young hopeful. It includes a scrap of a sun-suit, a sweet little frock, and a nice, scoopy, eye- shading bonnet, and every one of the three trifles takes practically no time to make. They’re all just as comfortable to play in as tiiey are cute to look at. The sun-suit consists of straps and gathers in the back, and is perfectly straight in the front. The yoke of the frock is extended into wings of kimono sleeves, and rows of braid trim every possible edge of both the frock and the bon net. Simple as it is, the pattern includes a step-by-step sew chart as well as complete directions. Gingham, seersucker, percale and chambray all come in colors which are particularly nice for tots’ play togs like this. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1928-B is designed for sizes 2, 3, 4, 5, and € years. 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(From a drawing in Harper’s Weekly, April 29, 1865.) IN SPRINGFIELD—Outside the old Globe tavern, where Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd spent their honeymoon, members of the martyred President’s cabinet and other dignitaries awaited the arrival of the funeral train in Lincoln’s home town. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) T IS the evening of April 14, 1865—Good Friday. On the stage of Ford’s theater in Washington the fa mous actress, Laura Keene, is playing in a delightful comedy, “Our American Cousin.” Join ing in the laughter that sweeps through the audience from time to time is a gaunt, sad-faced man sitting at ease in a high- backed, satin-upholstered rock ing chair in an upper stage box. Abraham Lincoln is forgetting for a few minutes the crushing responsibilities which he, as Chief Executive of a nation torn asunder in civil war, has been bearing for four long years. The third act of the play be gins. The President leans over to whisper something to Mrs. LincolnwRositsbesidehim. Nei ther the Lincolns nor Maj. Har ry R. Rathbone and a Miss Har ris, who accompanied them to the theater, notice that a dark- moustqphed young man has slipped through the door at the rear of the box and is now standing behind the President. The next moment there is the muffled sound of a shot. It is un noticed by the players on the stage or the audience, still chuckling over the last funny line they have heard. But the President’s head drops for ward on his breast.* Startled, Major Rathbone looks around. Through the smoke he sees the dark young man with a pistol in his hand and hears him mutter something which sounds like “Free dom!” The major leaps to his feet and grapples with the intruder, who slashes at him with a knife, tears loose from the officer’s grasp and springs to the front of the box. As he vaults over the railing, his spur catches in an American flag which drapes the front of the box. He drops heavily to the stage with one leg doubled under him, then scrambles to his feet. With blood streaming from his wounded arms, Rathbone rushes to the front of the box. “Stop that man! Stop him!” he shouts. “The President has been shot!” But everyone is too stunned to move for a moment. The young man, waving aloft the bloody knife, drags himself across the stage and disappears in the wings. But be fore he does so, the startled actors recognize in the white face and the black eyes blazing with fanatical hatred the familiar features of one S f their own profession — 'John Rilkes Booth. All this has taken place in less time than it takes to tell it. The next moment Ford’s theater is a pandemonium of screaming women and shouting men, shoving, push ing, breaking chairs, crashing through railings and trampling upon each other as they surge toward the stage or try to climb up to the box where the moaning Mrs. Lincoln is supporting her stricken husband and Major Rathbone is trying vainly to open the door which the assassin had barred from the inside. Now the soldiers of the Presi dent’s guard come bursting into the theater and with fixed bayonets and drawn pistols they charge the mill ing crowd. Their hoarse shouts of “Clear out! Clear out, you sons of hell!” rise above the tumult as they drive the half-crazed audience out of the theater. Meanwhile Rathbone has succeed ed in unbarring the door to thie box and several people, among them a surgeon, rush in. They see the tall form of the President slumped for ward in his chair, his sad eyes closed, never to open again. Some one brings a shutter, torn from a building near by, and they lay his gaunt form upon it. They carry him out of the theater to the house of Charles Peterson across the street. Ford’s theater is empty, deserted now. Its curtain has been rung down upon the comedy, “Our Amer ican Cousin”—and upon one of the greatest tragedies in American his tory. Death at 7:22 A. M. The next morning Washington newspapers carried this story: “The body of President Lincoln, who died from an assassin’s bullet at 7:22 o’clock this morning, was removed -from the Peterson resi dence opposite Ford’s theater to the executive mansion in a hearse and wrapped in the American flag. It was escorted by a small squad of cavalry and by Gen. Augur and oth er military officials on foot. A dense crowd accompanied the remains to the White House, where a military guard excluded the people, allowing none but persons of the household and personal friends of the deceased to enter. Gen. Grant arrived here at 2 o’clock in a special train from Philadelphia. His presence tends somewhat to allay the excitement. The last lines penned by Mr. Lincoln were written on a card about 8:15 p. m., while seated in his carriage in front of the White House just be fore he started for the theater. They were addressed to the Hon. George Ashmun and were as follows: ‘Allow Mr. Sherman and friends to come to me at 9 a. m. tomorrow. ‘A. Lincoln.’ ” Leaf through the pages of James G. Blaine’s “Twenty Years in Con gress,” published in 1886, and read there this description of the events which followed: “The remains of the late Presi dent lay in state at the executive mansion for four days. The entire city seemed as a house of mourn ing. The martial music which had been resounding in glad celebration of the national triumph had ceased; public edifice and private mansion were alike draped with the insignia of grief. “Funeral services, conducted by the leading clergymen of the city, were held in the east room on Wed nesday, the 19th of April. Amid the solemn tolling of church bells, and the still more solemn thundering of minute guns from the vast line of fortifications which had protected Washington, the body, escorted by an imposing military and civic pro cession, was transferred to the ro tunda of the Capitol. “The day was observed through out the Union as one of fasting and prayer. Services in the churches throughout the land were held in unison with the services at the exec utive mansion, and were everywhere attended with exhibition of profound personal grief. The South in Sorrow. “In all the cities of Canada busi ness was suspended, public meet ings of condolence with a kindred people were held, and prayers were read in the churches. “Throughout the Confederate states, where war had ceased but peace had not yet come, the people joined in significant expressions of sorrow over the death of him whose very name they had been taught to execrate. “Early in the morning of the 21st the body was removed from the capitol and placed on the funeral car which was to transport it to its final resting place in Illinois. The remains of a little son who had died three years before were taken from their burial place in Georgetown and borne with those of his father for final sepulture in the stately mau soleum which the public mind had already decreed to the illustrious martyr. The train which moved from the national capital was attended on its course by extraordinary mani festations of grief on the part of the people.” As for the story of that sorrow ful journey westward, no one has ever told it better than Carl Sand burg, poet and Lincoln biographer. The closing words of his master piece “Abraham Lincoln: The War Years,” (published this year by Harcourt, Brace and company)— words whose stark simplicity remind one of such writings as the Gettys* burg Address—are these: “There was a funeral. “It took long to pass its many given points. “Many millions of people saw it . . . “The line of march ran seventeen hundred miles. “Yes, there was a funeral. “From his White House in Wash ington—where it began—they car ried his coffin, and followed it nights and days for twelve days . . . “Bells tolling, bells sobbing the requiem, the salute guns, cannon rumbling their inarticulate thunder. “To Springfield, Illinois, the old home town, the Sangamon nearby, the New Salem hilltop nearby, for the final rest of the cherished dust. “And the night came with great quiet. “And there was rest. “The prairie years, the war years, were over.” “The Name Is Familiar— BY FELIX B. STREYCKMANS and ELMO SCOTT WATSON A Garrison Finish 'T'HEY said you couldn’t possibly do it, that you hadn’t a ghost of a chance to win. But in the last mo ment you “came through” and won —and that was a “garrison finish.” It’s called that because it’s the way Edward H. (“Snapper”) Garrison, one of the most famous jockeys in American turf history, won a race in 1886 when he came from nowhere with an outsider, to take the Great Eastern handicap at Sheepsljead Bay, N. Y. The term stuck to “Snapper,” who never liked “front runners.” He held ’em back until they reached the stretch where, as he was accus tomed to remark, “the money is.” Garrison’s most famous race was his victory on Boundless in the World’s Fair Derby in Chicago in 1893. On one pretext or another, such as fixing his straps and his saddle, he delayed the start for *an hour and 42 minutes. He spent most of this time on the ground, thus keeping the weight off his horse, while the other jockeys fumed and their horses wore themselves down prancing and plunging. “Snapper” was fined $1,000 for de laying the race but he didn’t care. He booted Boundless, a 15 to 1 shot, home in first place and that “garrison finish” was worth just $60,000 to his owner! * • • E. H. Garrison Silhouette T HE silhouette got its name from Etienne de Silhouette, who was not an artist but the French minister of finance in 1759. By sheer economy, he tried to remedy the evils of a war that hid just ended, leaving the country finan cially exhausted. He enforced so many rules that only very plain liv ing was possible for even those who had money. Clothes were made without folds or frills, snuff boxes were of plain wood and table plate had to be melted down to provide money. So it was that everything came to be a la Silhou ette, which meant very plain and in its simplest form. And about this same time there originated the fad for having portraits done merely in outline—no colors, no details—in other words, just in their plainest and simplest form. They were known as pictures a la Silhouette. Etienne de Silhouette’s rules were too strict and the people rebelled. After only nine months Finance Min ister Silhouette was forced to re sign and the people went back to their customary ornate ways of life. But the outline pictures remained in vogue and they were called silhou ettes in memory of the man who tried to take away all the color and glamour from the French people. A Silhouette Morris Chair HE next time you sink back into the comfort of that old morris chair, you might remember grate fully the man who made it possible for you. He was an Englishman named William Morris. Born in 1834, he was successively—and suc cessfully—a poet, an architect and a painter. He built a house in which furniture, wall paper, drapes and household utensils were all specially designed. That suggested a new occupation —interior decora tor. With several others, Morris organized a firm which did all sorts of interior decorating. Out of the work of this firm, devoted to the “revival of sounder ideas of construction and workmanship” and to winning the English “back to the massive simplicity of plain oak fur niture” came the chair which bears the name of this “painter, designer, scribe, illuminator, wood engraver, dyer, weaver and finally printer and papermaker.” Oh, yes! He was also interested in politics, first as a Liberal and then as a Socialist, for whom he wrote a rallying song, “Chants for Socialists.” But when they drifted toward anarchism, he lost confi dence in the movement and went back to his first love, the arts, to which he devoted himself until his death in 1896. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) 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