Show 1 LINCOLN TOOK HER HERTO HERTO TO THE CIRCUS I rh There r lIl died n near here the tho other day daya dayI a a. woman who in ht h her r younger g el days I learned to love lovo Abraham Lincoln as ja a a. father am and who met InN him In a a. most rl peculiar manner He Ile paw her crying lone tore t one lay day because she sho could not attend a circus In this city Il n fie Be promptly a took tool her h by the tho hand and 10 together t ley Y walked to Danville Oan anti and saw w Iho tho show how I The Tho woman wa was Mrs 1 Anna Pierce She lived on u a farm in h her 1 younger pr days and th the the- family had l but bUl little I mon money Circuses Circuses- wore were not everyday o and when ono came to this I 1 I city the family supply of or cash had been exhausted ted The little girl sat on I tho the front doorstop doorstep and was bemoaning bemoan bemoan- lug ing h her r disappointment when Lt eoln walking town down tho the middle of or the tho rO road as aR wa was his wont woot saw h her l' l in her sad plight H fl G l on your our now new dress and I wi wild wiil tak you Oll he ho said ald and while she I changed her clothes s ho lie sat ItIl ii on nn th the Iho thel l front step slop and played whir a n. small maJl brother I of or the iho girl Ir I In III later lalI years when whon Lincoln br- br tart runo president pl iH re e did lie not nUl forget hi his friend but hut often called on mr her 1111 f tit hor lIr homo Noma Chicago Ocean Inter |