Show MRS LINCOLNS BEG Mrs Abraham Lincoln is again the subject of a good deal of newspaper talk in this country In pastyears there have been two or three conspicuous conspic-uous occasions when this lady excited I much comment in the American newspapers Then aa now money was at the bottom of the business or at least things with a money value She is again posingwhether agreeably agree-ably to herself or otherwisebefore I the country not exactly as an old I olo1 woman as formerly but as a povertystricken creature sick in want and suffering not for luxuries but for absolute necessities It maybe may-be true that Mrs Lincoln is sick and in povefty in which event there is twice occasion for regret but why should there be all this anguish all this agony Congress gave to Mrs Lincoln 25000 ind voted her an I annual pension of 3000 The pension pen-sion was not strikingly generous but we will undertake to say that until Lincoln was president he never spent eo much upon his whole family in a year It is not large enough to justify swell living or the putting on of style yet it is sufficient to make ft single lady raised as Mrs Lincoln was not only comfortable but provide pro-vide her many luxuries Comparatively Compara-tively few ladies in America epend fO 1 much for themselves But there is another thing in connection with this matter whioh is forced upon the public pub-lic mind Why should Mrs Lincoln come before the country as a beggar for alms while her son is drawing 10000 a year and perquisites from the national treasury Robert Lincoln Lin-coln is secretary of war solely because he is the eon of his father His fathers services gave the young man the position and the salary is in the nature of a pension to the Lincoln family The sum is large enough that Robert can pay his mothers doctor bills and still eave something while living far beyond the style to which he was accustomed even as the son of a President in the White louse He is unlike most eons i1 i be would not be proud of the privilege of supporting his mother and milking milk-ing her comfortable and happy The ordinary young man would blush at he thought of his mother asking alma It is questionable if Mrs Lincoln would have come before the country at this time as a pauper had it not been for the too generous conduct of the American public m bestowing some hundreds of thousands upon the widow of the late President The relict cf the martyred Lincoln cranky as she has sometimes shown herself to be is sharp enoughto see that Mrs Garfield was the pet of the people in a finanoialway and she Undeubtedly thinks that now is afgood time to bid tor popular sympathy Depriving this matter of all sentiment senti-ment looking at it without the anguish which some are putting Ion I-on and considering it in the mood of cool reason one can hardly brine himself to believe that more should be done for Mrs Lincoln It seems impossible th she should be suffering for anything but if eho is in want her children not the country should be proud of the privilege and ability to take care of her |