Show ONE OF LINCOLNS STORIES His Speech to the Juy in Answer to an Oratorical Lawyer The Kansas City Times prints the following fol-lowing story of Abraham Lincoln told by Senator Vorhees in an interview Speaking of his numberless stories I recall one he once told during the argument argu-ment in a law suit The lawyer on the other side was a good deal of a glib talker but not reckoned as deeply profound or I much of a thinker He war rather reckless reck-less and irresponsible in his speechmaking speechmak-ing also and would say anything to a jury which happened to enter his head Lincoln in his address to the jury referring re-ferring to all these said HMy friend on the other side is all right or would be all right were it not for the physico mental peculiarity am about to chronicle chron-icle His habitof which you have witnessed a very painful specimen in his argument you in this caseof reckless I assertions and statements without grounds need not be imputed to him asa i as-a moral fault or as telling of moral blemish He cant help it For reasons which gentlemen of the jury you and I have not time to study here as deplorable deplor-able as they are surprising the oratory of the gentleman completely suspends all action of his mind The moment he begins be-gins to talk his mental operations cease I never knew of butane thing which compared com-pared with my friend in thins particular That wash small steamboat Back in the days when Iperformed my part as a keel boatman I made the acquaintance of a trifling little steamboat which used to bustle and puff and wheeze about in the Sangamon fiver I had a fivefoot boiler and S sevenfoot whistle and every time ever tme it whistled it stopped n |