Abraham Lincoln and religion . e turned from the Western frontier. Theiraccounts of their adventures and thestrange sights they had seen fired theyouths imagination, and after that col-lege became too dull a place for him. With ten dollars his father had givenhim. the young man set out upon a wan-dering life through the West that lastedfor over ten years. Once he was travel-ing with two other youthful adventurerswhen their combined funds stood almostat the vanishing point. Shaw proposedthat they put on a show at one of thelocal opera houses. The others caughteagerly at the idea, and in the par
Abraham Lincoln and religion . e turned from the Western frontier. Theiraccounts of their adventures and thestrange sights they had seen fired theyouths imagination, and after that col-lege became too dull a place for him. With ten dollars his father had givenhim. the young man set out upon a wan-dering life through the West that lastedfor over ten years. Once he was travel-ing with two other youthful adventurerswhen their combined funds stood almostat the vanishing point. Shaw proposedthat they put on a show at one of thelocal opera houses. The others caughteagerly at the idea, and in the part ofMordecai David, young Shaw gave alecture on mesmerism that brought downthe house and helped to restore theirfinances for a short time. But this was only a makeshift. TheYankee traveler had to do various things—farming, running a coal mine, pilotingan Ohio River steamboat, auctioneeringand selling real estate. The West musthave lost its charm after a while, for in1858 Shaw returned East and settled(Please turn to page 45). One of the moat recent statues to be erected to Abraham Lincoln is foundin Hingham, Mass., where his first American ancestors lived. In 1637Samuel Lincoln (his great-great-great-great-grandfathcr) left his nativetown of Hingham, England, and joined his two brothers who had helpedto found this New England town; they named it after their home in OldEngland. The Old Ship Church, where Samuel and his family stands, and in the chiu-cbyard one finds many Lincoln graves February 8, 1942 He Made Lincoln Laugh (Concluded from page 41) down as an auctioneer and real-estateoperator in Poughkeepsie, New Vork. Here his literary career began under acurious circumstance. He tried writingfunny articles for the local papers, and atfirst they attracted no attention when the versatile auctioneer pat-terned after Artemus Ward and re-sorted to the crude spelling of the bewil-dered rustit, a startling success read his paragraphs an
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