Iowa Remembers Lincoln

It is a mistake to think of Mr. Lincoln as an un educated man.The "kindergarten and pri mary courses were taken in a Kentucky cabin, with his mother as "principal.' Possibly he never learned at his school to make maps, but he did learn "manners and morals.At the age of nine he entered the academy to prepare for college.This "school of learning was located in a "clear ing on his father's farm, a little house in the woods'' in the State of Indiana.Here his attention was first directed to "physical culture."This study he was not permitted to neglect.The "gym nasium" was well furnished with "apparatus"axes, wedges, mauls, log-chains, cross-bars, swinging saplings, etc.Then came "nature study out on the campus."He found spring beauties and sweet williams, May-apples and purple grapes, and, out beyond, the prairie grasses and the wild rose.From these, from trees, shrub and plant, from form, color and perfume, came that sense of beauty embodied in those exquisite prose poems which we so much love to read.This branch of study included zoology.He learned the names of animals, their nature, habits, instincts, history and language.He knew when the birds mated and how they built their homes, and he learned well the lesson best worth learning from science -to be kind and gentle to all animals./. 5.