Show ONE OF LINCOLNS STORIES Senator Foraker Uses Anecdote to Draw a Parallel Before Senator Forakcr was elected to tho office he now holds lie practiced law in Cincinnati Buys the New York American It Is said of him that his fees wero larger than those of any other attorney In Ohio It Is generally known that ho Is a poor man so fur as earthly possessions go Senator Platt of New York asked him not long ago why he held himself down to a 5000 job whereas if ho confined himself to legal practice ho could grow enormously rich I am told that you get bigger fees I said tho New Yorker that any I other attorney out your way Which reminds me of one of Mr Lincolns stories answered tho Ohioan Ohio-an When ho was a boy one of his mothers neighbors was so poor as to excite tho pity of all those who knew I her Site had a world of children and It was sold of them that they never had enough to eat When young Abe was trudging schoolward ono mornIng morn-Ing he met one of tho boys His heart melted at tho sight of the gaunt and hungry appearing lad and quickly his hand went Into his luncheon basket and drew forth a ginger cake Ho broke it in twain and tho boy gobbled I gob-bled It up He gave him the other piece and that went down tho boys throat In one gulp II You like ginger cakes dont you Inquired the of tho widows boy I I dons was his answer I likes om more and Bits less of m than any boy In Sangamon county And that Is my story continued tho senator When I practiced law I liked big fees better thai any one on earth and got fewer of tnom than any other lawyer out ray way |