Show I I LETTER OF oi LINCOlN RETAINS PLACE fOR O TREASURY Was Written seven Forty Years Ago but Is Still Effective W WASHINGTON April 4 seven Forty years ears ago April 13 13 1864 1861 Abraham Lincoln Lincoln Lin Lin- coln coin l paused In the tIme cures cares of ot civil war for tor forono torone ono one of ot those kind and homel homely acts which ha have o o lived after him It was to pen a n personal onal letter lotter to the thc postmaster g general asking asking- that official to employ Miss MItis Susan S Dug Duger cr a young joung woman of or Ill 1 who was wis the solo support of oC her brother a Union soldier sol dier crippled d nt at Shiloh Miss 1185 Hugger got gota ot a position and preserved cd tho the letter Jotter Secretary after r reading tho tim same letter yesterday though though the tha paper has ello with age and the Ink Is din dim ordered ordered that tho t Miss lIs Du Duggers Dugger's name b benot be benot not dropped rOm from the treasury's treasur's list o of e ets 9 though sho she has been ill for or more than a n year ar When an employee has been absent without pit pay that length lenth of time It l lf Is customary to atrie e tho name from time the rolls Senator r Cull Cullom m brou brought ht the tho letter to toS S Secretary Macveagh who promised cd that Miss I D Dugger may have ha her position I If she sho ho Is ever er able to work again aln Sho She isnow Is IsI Isnow now 70 0 0 y years ars old Miss Dugger was transferred transferred trans trans- erred from front the time to 10 the tr treasury asur soon soomi after President Lincoln's letter gother pother pot got her hel employment ment anti and became an expert opert It Ij detecting counterfeit money mone She Rhe has I handled billions of seine dollars som good and anti man many bad bad tn In tho the forty forty five five years eaIS service ser service Ii vice for tho the government go |