Reminiscences about Abraham Lincoln . ent lives with her daughter, Kalbfell. Miss Mary Chapman, who wasborn at 1632 S. 6th St., on Nov. 30,1854, will observe her birthday inConcord, , where she has livedfor 73 years. She is an aunt of |S. Elwood Griffiths, of 1217 Lin-dale ave., Drexel Hill. Miss Chapman started teachingschool here when she was 18. Whenishe was 27, she went with her par-jents to Concord, N. C, for a visitI and remained there to teach after| she had aided a small boy with his| lessons and he asked her to stayj and teach school in his town. She| became a t
Reminiscences about Abraham Lincoln . ent lives with her daughter, Kalbfell. Miss Mary Chapman, who wasborn at 1632 S. 6th St., on Nov. 30,1854, will observe her birthday inConcord, , where she has livedfor 73 years. She is an aunt of |S. Elwood Griffiths, of 1217 Lin-dale ave., Drexel Hill. Miss Chapman started teachingschool here when she was 18. Whenishe was 27, she went with her par-jents to Concord, N. C, for a visitI and remained there to teach after| she had aided a small boy with his| lessons and he asked her to stayj and teach school in his town. She| became a teacher at a small mis-jsion school then opearted by the(Freedom Board of the Presbyteri-|an Church of Philadelphia, nowi Barber-Scotia College owned andi operated by the Board of Nationalj Missions of the Presbyterianj Church of the U. S. A. She taught for 32 years. Al-though confined to a wheel chair,Miss Chapman is active in churchwork and teaches a Sunday Schoolclass every week. I RAMIN, HENRY B. Lincoln As Americas Legendary Hero. IDA M. TARB&LL In the Footsteps of the Lincolns,by Ida M. Tarbell. Harper & Bros. Intimate Character Sketches ofAbraham Lincoln, by Henry ;nkin. J. B. Lippincott Co. England has King Arthur; France,Roland; Spain, Le Cld; Germany,Frederick Barbarossa; Russia, Peterthe Great; Italy, Garibaldi; Scanda-navia, Gustavus Adolphus. Everynation of the world has its hero, his-torical or legendary, generally acombination. America lacks so generaly accept-ed a national patron. We are toonear In point of time to our that there have not been candi-dates for this honor; and to datethree have appeared—George Wash-ington! Abraham Lincoln and Theo-dore Roosevelt. And at present thereIs by no means negligible party whowould exalt Woodrow Wilson to thatplace. Of the three, or four, AbrahamLincoln most nearly comes up* to therequirements. George Washington,it is to well-known, was an There has been too consciousan effort on the part Ro
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