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Show A VALUABLE SOUVENIR. Photo and a Khyma by J. Wllkei liooth, tha Annaiuln. Mr. Howard Kemp, the attentive clerk of the Templeton, has a souvenir which he values beyond price. It is a card photograph of J. Wilkes Booth which he gave ou the night he assassinated assassin-ated Abraham Lincoln to Mr. Kemp's cousin, a young lady residing at Washington. Wash-ington. Booth had written with pencil on the back the following: Oh I thus lie it ever when tyrants shall raise Their hands aacrileglous 'gainst a nation's devotion, And the arm that strikes letherlilst iry's praise Triumphantly snatch from oblivion's ocean. On the end of the face of the card in pencil the assassin had written "J. Wilkes Booth, the Nation's Avenger." Yesterday was the twenty-sixth anniversary anni-versary of the assassination of President Presi-dent Lincoln. |