Show gheri mans an DEATH country he served so well remembers Lincol ns work with gratitude T TWENTY minutes past ten AT A friday evening april ll 14 11 l l 1865 abraham lincoln was shot ahot by john wilkes booth in the back of tile tha head behind the left ear and mortally injured at 22 minutes past seven the next morning saturday april 15 he be died there have been many and vast changes since that fateful day and the prayer which lincoln prayed that the country might be one again has baa been answered in a way th that atwould would have rejoiced hla his great heart not an anniversary ot of his birth and death has passed since his cruel taking off on which some tribute has not been paid to hla his memory demori memori and so BO it will be to the end of time among generous americans wherever their residence or in berated sentiments for however he may have been misjudged in the contusion confusion and stress of antagonistic opinion there is none now who does not praise him for his courage and his bis faithfulness to his honest convictions lie ile was born bom in kentucky february 12 and died in washington april 1 15 15 ISM in his hia atty arty seventh year at the very zenith of his powers the books are full of the story of his big life ind and work but there are still many interesting te jacas connected with him that have not yet been noted notwithstanding the industry of those who have collected great masses of everything they could find in any way con coa decked with his life and death mr lincoln as everyone knows was shot ahot by booth while he was waa attending a theatrical performance perform anco at fords theater in washington our american cousin held the boards that night and laura keene was playing the part of florence trenchard for the tha last time she had already performed the tame part for a choup thousand and nights flye years before she ehe had bad played the role at theater in chicago the night ot of the day on i which mr lincoln was nominated for or president by the republican convention in may 1869 1860 and all of the terrible tragedy aho sho played splayed with uncommon cleverness and while yet the theater was ringing with laughter and applause came the tha crack of the pistol shot from the box boa that plunged the country into mourning after mr lincoln had been shot he was removed across the street from the theater to the residence of william petersen a highly respected merchant tailor who lived directly opposite the playhouse at BIG tenth street this house la is still standing as is also the old F ford ord theater and both are ara now owned by the government there have been few changes lu in the Peter petersen sev house bouse for 40 years osborn 11 II has been devoting himself to the assembling sem bling together ot of an invaluable collection in which are included more than khan three thousand relies relics which constitute sti tute as elizabeth porter gould has hag said one ot of the most interesting and valuable ever collected in behalf ol of a human being the collection contains funeral tuii trul sermons about seventy pieces of music a thousand vol umes umea relating to lincoln portraits busts and medals photographs ot of booth pictures of the assassin the family cradle in which the lincoln children were rocked an original black locust rail split by the young man then never dreaming of the place he was to fill in the history of the world the family bible from which lincoln mother rend read to jilin him when he was a boy and literally thousands of other things in soma sort associated with the murdered president |