Show new lincoln story A washingtonian who was a mere hoy at the breaking out of 0 the civil war recently related a small incident that Is as typical of lincoln as a any ot of the thousands ot of others that have gone before this man had bad enlisted in the first regiment enrolled in the capital city the recruits had bad been drawn up on pennsylvania avenue and reviewed by tn president and his secretary ot of war sir seward these two dignitaries passed down the line of troops and as they passed the man who now relates the incident president lincoln remarked seward I 1 suppose there are a hundred men in these theae ranks who could hold bold your job or mine |