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February, [Centered] Tuesday, 11. [Right] 1873.

The King of Spain abdicated from the Spanish throne yesterday. Poor Amadeus descendant of the handsome Victor Emanuel was not the person to govern the common Spanish race. If the Spaniards wished to retain him and thus regenerate their race they must not restrict his powers. Today a republic was proclaimed in Spain. How long will it last?

[Centered] Wednesday, 12.

Today is the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. Lincoln was born in 1809 and was consequently at the time he was so barbarously murdered fifty six years old. Poor old Abe a good and honest man not withstanding his little faults. In his case we find one of the evils of a republic like this. Lincoln was a man whose private character was undarkened by any uproach [approach] and yet simply because he was one of the leaders of the Republican party how much has be not been abused, abused by scoundrels who are the scum of the Earth when compared to him whom they vilify. Lincoln’s deeds thank God are not to be ridged by these men but by future generations of man in whose eyes the rail-splitter will prove as good and as heal a man as any other in the whole range of history.

[Centered] Thursday, 13

Yesterday at one o’clock Martin Kalbfleisch ex-mayor of Brooklyn died at his residence Bushwick avenue and Grand Street. He had contracted a cold a month ago and this it was that brought on his death. The latest! On the 9th just a boy named Clarence Cole residing with his parents in Easton hung himself. He was made to do very servile work although his father is a carpenter in prosperous circumstances. This weighed upon the boy’s mind and he thus killed himself. The coroner's jury found a verdict of death by accident. What next? With Tom Murphy King at Albany and Tom Scott Emperor at Trenton with the papers day after day full of murders and official corruption we live in a most delightful period of America’s existence as a Republic. Today eighty four years ago Ethan Allen died. A true patriot was the Green Mountain boy. How changed is not the Republic now since the time Allen fought and bled for his country whose forty millions of free men rejoice in being called Americans. Truly then too much honor can not be given to the “Father of His Country” whose trusty swords have made us what we are day.

[Centered] Friday, 14.

St. Valentine’s Day! This good old day is once more here. What an excitement there is today among both young and old. How many anxious eyes follow the steps of the active letter carrier as the hurries on this allotted task. What hopes are there not that one of those letters may be for this or that one. Many must be the curses which the poor letter carrier involves on those persons who have so little to do that they must send so many nonsensical things through the mails. And yet though we pity the poor carrier as wearied out after a tramp of many miles he looks and sees oh horrible sight that he is but half through with his work nevertheless we would be less than human if we were not to rejoice at the pleasure so great though lasting such a short time caused by that little missive the valentine. George and Bill received a valentine today. I also received one. It had a picture of an Editor on it and some rediculous [ridiculous] rhyming lines beneath it. It was sent to me as it had got around that I was going to start a paper in the college. Alas the poor “Setonian” is but a dream of the past.