Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-03-09 | Page 34 | Boy Who Painted Lincoln

a HOY nen WHO Vl 10 rEO LINCOLN I time the body of Abraham Lincoln l lB lay In state st.-ite at ot Chicago on its Journey journo i from Crom Washington l to tu Springfield among the tho thu thousands who thronged to time the courthouse to peer peel mournfully limb Into the sad SH-d still MUll face was a little bo boy 0 years ears old Ho lie had bc been u In the tho street nearly all day r. r standing in line with a a. regiment regi ment ament of or school children waiting to tak take th their lr places In time the funeral procession lon Iud and ho lie remembers still sUlI the furious that kept him company compan during dur dur- lug ing the thc long hours At Al length however the children swung into the line lino of oC march the c courthouse was wa reached and the bo boy bob looking down into the dead ead Presidents President's face It II W was not the first time he had seen Lincoln Indeed when ho u. was wast 4 t years cars old the tie big man had taken him him on his lap asked his name an and amid smiled upon him hint with his grave tender eyes But Hut between that first look 1001 and the tIme last much had happened to Lincoln Lincoln and and to America J lie Ito It had been heen nominated for forthe forthe forthe the presidency of or the United States elected and inaugurated lie hind had be been n rc to the time presidency enc he tic had seen scon the time w war r blou brought ht to tou a rl righteous and glorious end he hc had seen tho the union saved he lie had freed treed slaves cs he lie had been hailed as al hero savior savior sa- sa sa ama- vior emancipator and slain lain That little boy bor IH is a a. great artist ArUt now nn and tho the Douglas Volk Voll portrait of at Lincoln Lin coIn coln j Js lam ono ono- one one-of- of the best If It not the not the best ever c Dla c. c The Christian Herald Herald-