Show f v tf A 4 az IS re v j lop j 1 4 I 1 used by the lincoln family in the homestead at spring field III and the cradle li which all the lincoln chil dren were rocked have like wise been carefully pre served equally significant Is the old armchair arm chair which lincoln used tor for years in li his law offices at springfield and in which following his hi it Is little more than election to the presidency half alf a century since the death of r t he sat pon pondering derli ig by tn the abraham lincoln discoveries of f jr that hour over the problems tha heretofore unknown relics of the W v confronted him tm martyr president are of rare oc 1 a v byj ty abraham lincoln wai was I 1 currence indeed we hear of the is w something of an inventor In vento desclos disclosure re of additional relics of and one of the most highly aiu george washington more tre fre 1 3 prized ot of all the lincoln iff than of additions to the with his relics baa has to do known list of mementoes of the of anven efforts in the field fr civil war president one ethlan designed tion it Is a model atlon perhaps Is found in the fact workings of to illustrate the that here there are comparatively few private col f at S mv f f u mechanism toi for tw f x an ingenious sections ns of lincoln relics it Is as though the angles changing at will the wealthy hy men who have expended such vast or of the wheels of a wagon sums to unearth trophies of washington na other vehicle and the most mos d other heroes had not awakened yet interesting feature of 0 it is 1 to the of the souvenirs of lincoln that this little wooden ve v quest on the part of vate individuals tor for 41 lincoln relics would be pursued more en ergeti cally were it V not for the manifest 4 difficulty of securing lincoln a former be longings and the yet greater difficulty of 0 authenticating many b of the objects ts th that a t dovw purport to be lin coin coln relics the martyr president rose from comparative obscure ity and this in itself has made it difficult to locate he minor objects connected with his boyhood and 4 early life then too the circumstance that hi his activities covered widely separated localities in kentucky illinois etc has further complicated the task of tracing bis his onetime one time belongings lin coin coln relics when they do come into the market yla the medium of collectors autt lon sales in variably bring big prices A lincoln autograph or especially an autograph letter will always pr provoke r spirited bidding damaged and discarded discard ed pieces of the white I house china made tor for mrs lincoln and used on the presidential table dur ing the lincoln administration command prices of df 30 to 00 0 each and a lock of lincoln a s hair recently brought when sold at auction some of the most interesting of the lincoln elles are believed to be in the possession of mr robert lincoln the only living son of the martyr president however mr lincoln who has but lately retired as president of the pullman car kompany has not only never exhibited his relics publicly but has never taken the public into 0 his regarding the exact character of the mementoes he possesses or what ultimate dis position he has planned to make of them even more valuable however than the hobert robert T lin coin coln collection Is that which represents the life work ork of osborn H a veteran of the civil war and a most devoted admirer of lincoln it stands today as the greatest collection ever compiled by one man in tribute to a popular hero and its value has been variously estimated at from to the collector began to accumulate lincoln relics some time before the springfield lawyer was nominated tor for president and he has contin aed bis his labor of love ever since with the result that he now has considerably more than 3 pertaining to the great idol some years igo the congress of the united states gave him permission to place his relics in the house in washington in which lincoln died and this un pretentious brick structure which Is now owned by uncle sam has since been the home rent tree free of th a persistent collector and the treasures which he has gathered together from all parts of the country at great expense what Is generally accounted the most val valuable ble of df all lincoln relics has a prominent place in tn this belt self same collection it consists of a heavy heavy frame sheltering under glass the last commini cation ever penned by lincoln and attached to the precious missive a lock of LIn lincoln coIns s hair this souvenir ou venir which was originally in the posses slon of the man who was steward at the white house during the lincoln regime Is valued at 5 but it Is doubtful if even that sum would buy it today persons who have been ignorant of the existence of this relic have designated oth er i communications as the final handwriting of the martyr president but in reality the honor unquestionably belongs to this small white card with its few hastily penned lines novel and in te er resting esting are the circumstances connected with nith the chigin of this priceless memento As lincoln emerged from the white house on the fated night of april 14 1865 on his way to ford fords s theater the steward hurried after him to explain the predicament of two gentlemen who had been waiting at the white house for some time in order to obtain from the pre dent a per nit to pass through the union lines to peters burg va it was the theater hour and mrs lin coin was already seated in the carriage but the ever obliging president paused a few minutes to write a few lines explaining that no pass ivas vas necessary to go and return from petersburg and richmond and that people go and return just as they did before th war he handed this to the steward reiterating verbally the statement nade in the penned memorandum the steward ea liying that the written explanation was really and seizing a long sought city to secure a trophy of the beloved beloyed president retained in his own possession the bit of hand writing and repeated to the waiting visitors the president ident a oral assurances on the subject later liter the death of lincoln the steward induced k 7 oice used in aj aw 2 W office cyz ce 2 arti vrin a aa eld rf 7 the physician in charge to allow fallow him to have a lock of lincoln a hair one of the most interesting of the relics iden stifled with the life of 0 lincoln before he entered the white house la Is the family bible consider ably more than one hundred years old which contains the family chronicle usually recorded in the spaces provided in such a book from this well worn volume lincoln a mother read the scriptures to him when he was a boy and on the in side cover Is the autograph of lincoln written when he was nine years of age the cook stove A 4 ap 1 PLC zeev 0 hide hicle represents lincoln a own handiwork having been laboriously fashioned while he was a young lawyer waiting tor for clients in illinois another steamboat was as deposited model of a lincoln invention a in the patent office and Is now the posses slon sion of the united states government the life and death masks of abraham lincoln tremendously important as convey are ol 01 course and future generations the ing to the present exact appearance of this camous am ous man in life and in I 1 death A mask it will be und understood erswood Is a plaster which reproduces faithfully cast of a countenance its every detail one of the life masks of lin lincoln coln made in 1860 just after that has been preserved was lincoln a first nomination for president the work being done by a sculptor who accompanied the noti life mask springfield another fl fi catlon cation committee to month before lincoln a death was made about a the death mask Is perhaps the representation which he Is best known to shows the martyr president as the public through pictures among the relics that have been carefully preserved and by private indi se arved by the government visuals such as mr vr are many bearing which ended lincoln Lincol ni s ca upon the great tragedy reer one ol 01 these relics la Is the flag which was draped in front of the president presidents s box at ford fords a theater the night when lincoln lin coln was shot the flag shows plainly the rent in made ade by booth booths s spur when it caught in the folds as he leaped from the box to th the e stage another interesting rello which made trouble tor for the Is the spur itself assassin by causing him to tall fall heavily breaking bis his leg and in consequence seriously hampered bis his flight |