| Show A aad 1 this is the anniversary of a dark day in the history of the united states thirty three years ago this evening president abraham lincoln was brutally assassinated while temporarily mItt mitigating mittian gan g the cares and trials through which he had been passing for four long years the war was happily ended peace haf had come to the land and tranquility except in remote localities and among irrational people was established from border to bd border but the work had been so ao exact tai teXi the strain upon the executives executive Pe tn taril was so prolonged the anguish nadreen nad been so intense andrt Fer pro fress ogren of the conflict so it Sf with lie its outcome so BO uncertain that e 1 when the end came the confederates h had given up and all ail the implements af war were idler idle seemed to be a fitting 60 occasion casion for such mental diversion ag 0 would amount to a long needed tonic he must have rest refit and found W it nt not of the kind looked for but one which no alarums of mortal strife ver disturb one into which contentions and discords do not enter the perfect though violently wrought calmness of a repose which Is ceaseless became his he died the tollow follow I lne morning surrounded by every token of affectionate regard which a stricken people could bestow and his name wears a lustre which the corrod ing am hand of time will never be able to leetroy so long as books remain and waa remembers |
