| Show destroying NATIONAL RELICS A few days day ago mention was made in these theme columns of the tact fact that the private car in which president lincoln used to visit the army and in which his body was brought back to spring field for interment was lying alyin in a wrecked condition at north blatte platte nebraska it occurred io 10 us ui that a r relio elio of that dark and dreary period around which clustered memories so BO sacred acred and abiding should have better treatment in its old age that it ought to be given a quiet corner in some place where it would be accessible to anyone who wished to visit it and there secure boure from the weather and the vandal be allowed to sink into dissolution by the abrading hand of time but it seems our nation is not alone in the matter of neglecting cynosure a of that kind our cousins across the water are just as bad perhaps worse they have apparently leu less sentiment regarding trophies of national worth when these them are once baoe permitted to tumble turn into the channels of trade and to traffic than WO we the hull bull of the 1 Nel nelson sons grand old warship at Trafalgar was recently sold by order of the british admiralty the purchaser being 4 a german speculator mind and the price paid comparatively miling the part purchaser haser proposes cut ug it up into small email pieces and selling three theme throughout the world as historical curiosities several britons became so shocked at the idea that they started a subscription for the purpose of buying the ship back but the owner wants for it iti and at latest advices advises the entire amount subscribed was about oue one twentieth of that so it la in probable the sacrifice will he be made and fragments of the fou bryant ith the pu purchasers reha sers certificate certifies te of af genuineness attached will be on the market |
