Show ABOUT 11lI tJAJIP1 1 ng AURAHAM LINCOLN AT FonT ncss MONROE An UM Meldlee Iterelleelhenr or the sleeslesl C haraeIe Tile Ciunley tine ere Irnderdt11 I Irontl Itx I ailing lit huts Tit > flounce at lh In 1101 al force Ienroo Ire of HID mint Inlerctlliip nf mm Is tolimrl Ise I limn II nnunn an honor to West Point I I mil a ills Ihlltlllh oflrer dnrhug this 11 war lln wears ills polity year with rlgoY grace nml dignity and I mikes ulil ago mi envy rather than ti regret Sealed In Ins utiiily In Vw SotU ell or In beautiful llurllniflon VII t oionrH anion tells I such stories of tie urni malt ynuiigerirciieratlons ashamed at nut having lived In those stirring limes mut helped to make such nonitrons hlslory Colonel Con non aclod as ill le tin camp to Ocneral Wool I during lilt occuiallon I of tort rpM Monroe and to his I glory ha It sold was the first lo suggest and ullllo nrgroos ns lighters Nobiiy believed that thy rwilil bundle a gun II nml farn lire until Colonel Cannon proved their non iiniiiosllon < Ml brat I cry th whit n min was Incoln I PX I plalmnl the iri nhil colonel with tram In Ills oyfl u 1 few days I act I hive known Just two men In my llfn to tthoinl 1 low down Dinlal Uohitar anti lirnliain Lincoln Intellectually Webster seat giant Lincoln wat n giant nil our lie was nn irlginn 111101 I lIt I dill not understand I hto starlet nml Jokes I toiilil lint muko them liarmoiiUoullh the gravity oC the 11111111011 and the awful responsibilities responsi-bilities ol ho tomniaiiilcrln chloft bill ulipn I 1W hlo great human heart I used him as I have loved mi limn lo ma tin I Is I the greatest man IliU timntry has ever produced i The Jukl hero II full Colonel cannon Lincoln fare in painted I by William M Hunt who mn t have appreciated l the soul within that gaunt angular holy I I It I then Mill 1 drat I overgaied upon I think you lire rlllllL that tlIIIO thus o warn ut orlriss I 1in rot I remember re-member In May hilt I Lincoln ami Hlanlon canto from Washington 111111 I npre imarlorcd In the fort I gore up my room to lido president and slept aiittl lo on a cit lla was very fund of reading and ono day snld I upM a you ru no ucli thing an a Nhakspearr It would bo m illlllcnlt to IInil hero AI a bible On thin contrary Mr Irctliliint I replied you can lion bilk Ion oral Wool was a great lover III Hlmlc of jwarv At iilghlafterwork was over Wool would bring uut hU Nhakupearo and pout Ilka a slago struck school Ui > So iiilckly place I bafora Mil uln On mvsMil treasure whereupon hasald Nouve been working hard all duy Mt down nut rest Of course I obeys orders I was sun prlipil at tha Intalllfrence with which llniolu real aloud noino of lilt tutor Ito I passages 1lrtt ha tiirnmt to Macbolh then to King lcnri laUIr to Queen CtIIlucn uppeal to King 1 John on thin death of her ton VUlhly moved by thin iiiicul Lincoln pxclalinrj Cannon lilil you ever feel that > ou vote near c dear ft lend who had mated way and pct rtilllipd that thin feeling vat notluK lint a dream Vas this nut n rpinurkabla iite tloit it Vet Mr Irctldent I have wa lilY answer T hat U I lilY feeling tonnrd my boy Ulllle murmured tho blffhoarted man who laid hit lured head on hU nrm a upon th table In front of him mid Mibbud Ilka a child I Who the attasm nf wpcplnir ivaitod h Lincoln rose uy lug lot u > BO unit nit on thin rampurU followed him mid not another word did ho utter about the little boy no recently tiiken from him nor did ha aver again refer to thUchild lout hanlng shown ma hU heart once Lincoln ncitmed to trust ma and often aflornard allied ma lo nit with him 1111 tho ramparts when ha did tha talking what all ollrlollc lolonel and what a privilege erojou pretaut ut the capture 01 Norfolk1 Not exactly but what mcmorlei that event revive1 Oinoral WII nude up I bin mind that ha would lake Norfolk Wo had led I notlilnjr but defeat III far anl Uool thought It wan time for victory on ourildt lint Norfolk U I well defended I on nil aides artfiied I vlho enemy U HI 003 strung whllo wo can only inintor an nttaclc ug force of 10030 hat mukcn lIlTerouo replied Wol Why IInl llnnnio I know the man In cots maud liea Iwon under mo and lion lire to run Morooter bas know that I corer not my foot Suppono IIIIIIt bcatni > Its not a iiippoiible our rirni In his opinion lenortl nol told Lincoln In ronnlu In 1orlroii Mon > 11 and ho s onld make him u prouiit of Norfolk I w u oiiimlvaly dlntnrbad by Wool Outcrnilnutlon III lie made un proimratlon for defeat liufrat uuant daitructlon lmta thou maltvr with yon an ed Lincoln and Stunlon when w > i throe urio alone 1uu look III M sir id I aint ° lion ooiiie thing wrong lmtUlt I fitfully tow wurmnd out of mo mv fours I admitting that the nxproHlon of them wn nn not of limibtmllmllon hatstobo done t Nothing but to rillur Itncral WNI of hu I aominand Lincoln did not dare to do thin nml nil of IIM I 011I1 II red un ujjoiu of mind nn tongue run lull nor Irlb OH went Will at nigh ssIth hU force mid all tko next day no liturl i i liotlilliL I won left In charge of the fortreni and watched for olgna of I nows from tow mniparU nothing i but o ca lonal mills When nljht Brow apace I persuaded Uaeoln and Stanton lo RO to bed and kept up the vigil with mich patience es I could minter lly and hI there were hounds from the water A boat appeared Nearer and nearer It 1 cam until I rieoirnliiil ono of tho rrllnbtlah fill nawn 1 cried Norfolk taken and there animal Nod and IdsinJT aliva and I rej ilclnir In the momentouii victory won with n ot more than eht I live lot on both ldet Url > was U-rl liL Ills oponing general had rout The news spread like wllJflre Lincoln had evidently not slept a wink here ho I utood In six feet of night skirt anil nothing else almost thn lint to reel WINI and thank Oat 1 that the tide bad I turned last Uc aMemhlid In tow prcnhlcnlt rolls nnil tilting on Lincoln hued lieneral Wool told the ktory of tho tipture Whore wa Slanton colonel Whore tins he Asleep I nuhea to his room and hook him awake Men of bin physique irunarally sleep oundlv Then fairly nntuoel itnn ton rolled out of bud I and IrlrJ to Ret I ntobl drawers In hU piellement Im couldn tell one end from the other pnttlnir them on wronyho hurried hur-ried to the prikldcnlii room where pmbrnclnir Uoul hit I waltzed round llki < mail I It wn Ohio funniest spec tacle I ever beheld Ilia contrast between be-tween Vool In full uniform not Stanton Stan-ton mid 1 haling on n to apculr wa lrro MIIy lulleronn Incoln I laughed iiilll he I cried ho ill I use all Ilniilly the presldent still This us I n picture for llmvj urllut who ore wnntln to paint rpinoles nf the war an the wulUof the IIIltl llnw will ltdo I to give rubs nn onlrr to paint tlm capture I of Norfolk nolccllnir the nicctlnif ofllomral Uool 1 and rcrc tarp Hlanlon as the uutplcloui mo mint Jn > t to khow 5s hilt ort of a lIOn htnnton svasl tflrr thl wild ebtalli Lion ha turned to Llnioln and urged him to brook 110 delay In Issuing n luoclnmatlon on rebel koll lien I and 1 thor itlll In HIP suite topicy turtry nttlrv clothed ilrlnclpill In a mnlle Stiinton lilt don n sal I ilktiitcil order lo bo klirncd by lose priklilenl and U I sled the following day It 1 wa lflorlon Ulth the mornlnif isina our dc partnra for NorfolkLincoln Stanton Stan-ton 101 01111 his clan and all After n while Lincoln wa inh cd I found him curled up lu a iiirnor readln the bible |