Show WHEN LINCOLN DIED In a few days in different places arrangements will ill be perfected to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary an an- of Abraham Lincoln's birth Before us is the story of his death Robert Lincoln Secretaries Stanton Wells and Usher Attorney General Speed Senator l Private Secretary Hay Dr Gurley his pastor and several physicians and friends were present They had waited all night A little after daylight the breathing grew quiet and the face became became be be- came more calm The doctor doctors at his side issued a bulletin at 6 G o'clock that read Pulse failing that at It Still failing that of 7 o'clock Symptoms Symptoms toms of immediate dissolution and then at 7 22 he lie died His rus death was immediately followed by a prayer then there was a hush for a moment and then the so solemn sol voice oice of Stanton broke the stillness with the words Now he lie belongs to the ages And that was true As long as the centuries ebb and flow his memory will ill ill belong to the ages The Tho impression he lie made on the world during the last few months of his life and through the close of his Ids life will increase rather than diminish It was said of Emmet that he ho sprang from the scaffold to immortality It is just as true that from the hand of the assassin the soul of Lincoln rose to everlasting peace and left an au impression so profound upon the world that it will stir mens men's hearts as long as the world lasts |