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Show REPUBLICAN. SALT LAKE LINCOLN . TH Anecdotes, Saws statement In Illinois, and a Sayings that Made His of the world, to announce President Lincoln the betrothal of the prince It was a very solemn occasion-one of the international ceremonies that called for all the dignity of diction and rotundity of phrase which an English minister could command. Secretary Seward, with inward quakings as to the manner in which the plain Lincoln, learned more in the Bible than in the phrases of diplomacy, would reply, was, nevertheless, constrained to bear the minister company. Lord Lyons had his announcement cut the full width of the court cloth. "May it please your excellency,"' he observed, "I hold in my hand an autograph letter from my royal mistress, Queen Victoria, which I have been commanded to present to your excellency. In it she informs your excellency that her son, his royal highness the is about to contract a matri- monial alliance with her royal highwess the Princess Alexandra of Denmark." "Lord Lyons," returned Mr. Lincoln, with all due solemnity, "go thou and do likeWISE. That rejoinder herd The hogs of hogs, to feed did their own ber, and the to Kill tnose deep.' gained an international "INCOLN story has come more to mean, however, some anecdote that fs pat to an emergency Ever since the great man's death there havo been industrious collectors of Lincoln stories- and, indeed, "Old Abe's Jokes, Fresh from Abraham‘s Bosom,' made a falrly sizable volume before Booth''s bullet cut short the career of the one man to whom the nation might well look for adequate solution of all tho Tearful problems consequent upon the Civil War, The assiduity in collection has continued during the generations, Yet today it is doubtful whether even the most astute authority on Lincoln's Hfe could vouch for the authenticity of many Lincoln stories universally accepted as his. It Is equaliy doubtful whether hundreds of pungent anecdotes, told around the world, do not belong, at least by light of sponsorship, to that foremost American raconteur, About all the more well authenticated stories attributed to him there is a characteristic savor, unmistakable to the faithful student of his humor. He never hesitated to tell a story because the point of it cut into his own vanity-probably because, of all men, he had the least "Case there wag ""T all but A New York firn while he was practicing law in Springfield, wrote asking for the facts as to the financial standing of a neighbor He recommendingly and a corner acquainted First of all, worth which table worth a rge rat with him, and know his cli he has a wife and baby; the) Secondly, he has any man. $5,40 to there are three chairs worth, say, $1 Last of all, there is In one which is worth looking into $1.50 hole "Respectfully, "A. LINCOLN e *¢ he was re-elected his cabinet held one sccretary, at least, who was notoriously a candidate for the presidential nomination. That particular cabinet office need- scratched only one his he answer, suppose it'll go I can see for It If the thousand, the ranks the and terrible asked my brother let that horse be bit- up.' "'¥ou can't, eh? said my brother. ‘Why, you num skull, that cuin-fly was all that made him go "Now." concluded the President, "if any member the cabinet happens to have a presidential) chin-fly biting him, I'm going to keep him and his chin-fly, too, if Only the pajr of them will plow the furrow quickly." ERHAPS coln's no story of Linwas told under conditions and more emphatic application than that which closed the famous interview on the steamer "'Riyer Queen,' at Hampton Noads, between Mr, Lincoln, Secretary Seward ind. the peace commissioners of the Confederacs The discussion had reached its kernel, , : slavery. ' [he force, southern urgument, int all its impressive was brought .orward. If f the South were to consent to & peace on the basis of emancipation of the slaves, 18 >t southern soctlety would be plunged id , into irremediahle ruin. d cultivated; whites and an potatoes the field. he leaned Before will be over the you are ready frozen a foot thought gave it. it over; pretty hard with their is, root, hog, or die.'" @ but snouts; * the Civil War, day he hurried went wild over a jump in the price off to a famous wheat speculator before him rich before a plan by nightfall, which both of them of wheat. and laid become "What do you think of that?' ho aemanded. Well,' answered the grain operator, ‘my advice is that you stick to your business' " ‘But,' asked the visitor, ‘what is my business?' ""Darned {f I know,' rejoined the operator. ‘But, whatever {ft is, you stick to it.' "' es . . > © There were a number of cmateur heroes who were convinced that their services were needed as officers in the army; previous experifence counted for IUttle in the estimation of most of them. Among the mass of applications that passed to the President for his review was one in which It was the writer unfortunate modestly that he requested had not appointment specified brand of general he preferred, and a clerk to file it, at least, in its proper category. plied the missing detail He wrote: ‘Major General, I reckon. <A. Lincoln the was anxious Lincoln sup- HE famous story of how the President refused a pass through the army lines to an applicant who had been refused by seyeral members of his cabinet, on the score that he had very little influence with the administration, was paralleled, on am more important occa~ sion, when General Phelps, early in the war, island, near New Orleans. The a megniloquent proclamation, took possession of Ship general promptly issued freeing the slaves. That was something no general had the smallest right to do. but President Lincoln who was always cautious In any action that might have far-reaching consequences, took no notice of it. Finally, a friend told him that his apparent indifference to his general''s action might put him In a false position. "Oh," returned the President, "I feel about it a food deal as Jones did about his wife. He was a pretty meek sort of a man, and much henpecked. Ons efter his wife had been seen driving him on the house with a swi._-h a friend sald to him: "Jones, I've taken your part whenever any one dewho ped ag you lets were his a wife henpce-lked beat old him idiot ought to yut be "Jones patted his friend on the bact "*Don't.-you wi-ry about me," he no ide ldn''t hurt me any; and you've f good it did my Sarah Ann." any ho man rsewhlt biacks starve, for the freed av would undoubtedly abstain wholly from labor i resident for Seward to ‘ fective r joiner But the experienced statesman could At length, Lincoln framed the anir oc 2 > tl Sauer Wee mia tite in a phrase that gave common curreney ¢ a colloquialism, coined among the log cabinge of negroes and poor whites ‘Gentlemen.' addressing the commircloners, ‘your nelehbor Sometimes in an one dead children place, Lord, there's were wont confident of to his tell a as being words It WAS sald of Lincoln at the bar that. when he thought hoe was wrong he was the weakest lawyer his colleagues ever saw. In one case, closely contested, he had proved client an account for a opposing exposed as an unmitigated rascal, even to the production of a receipt for all the indebtedness Lincoln the courtroom. The sent for him to ap pear, as counsel for his client. "Tel] the court," said Lincoln, when the messenge found him at the nelghboring hotel, "that I can't come That case has left my hands so dirty that If over rnust stay here to clean Mrs. one election for Old Jake had a fever, and, last day was come, and he world. He had some rather the the of my heard crying Salile would : ain't children his that second he was term than delirious, he imagined was required to judge coherent ravings, Lin- toll?" oa "Oh, well, ven der water was low, undt der shdones dull, maype it was I dit dake too much toll." "So-oh! Chon, you musd go to der left, mid der goats." One after another, old Jake called up his neighbors, until he came to himself. Vell, Chake, vat "Chake Tullwater, com' mal hier! pees yo in der verldt?" ‘Me? I pees a miller." "So-o-oh! Vell, Chake, dit you effer dake too much toll?' "Ach, yes-ven der water vas low, undt der shdones vas dull, maype I dit dake too much toll." "Ach, Chake-ach, mein poor Chake-Chake, vot you do mit dot toll?" "Me? I gif him to der poor." "So? Vell, Chake, you kin slide righd in amongst dsheep. But, Chake, Chake-id vos a tam tight squeeze." . . * . e Lincoin''s powerful good sense always enabled him to Judge the man Instead of the clothes, despite popular notions that he preferred ent in plain homespun to talent In broadcloth. But metimes his insight let him emphasize the distinction he habitually mado between tho clothes and thelr wearer. He had appointed to.a South American consulate an Ohlo young man who was very much the dandy. The appointee, dressed in gorgeous style, was on his way to the White House to thank the President for his appointment, when he l ar int who liked a joke as well as he knew the tropics, "Sorry for you, awfully sorry," he told the rejoicing young consul. "Why, down ‘there, they have bugs that'll bore holes clean through you before you've been consul a week.' It took out of the ippointee all the starch except what he had in his shirt. When he saw the President, it was a downcast who said to Lincoln: "Mr. President, I can't say I'm so very glad of this appointment, after all Wh;, I hear they have bugs down there that re Hable to it me up inside of a week.' Lincoln meditated; ther W ing mar tt ehina ‘ I 1 clothe r wa none of hi most ragic nights, when news if the Union deffat at Fredericksburg reached hifm that the official meseenger who broug! the new of the» reverse gawy how Lincoln, in the most pro iidst of. his preserve a ound anxieties, umor ible bootstraps, lose read se © 8 due claimed as belng vanished from Lineoln quietly before giving his decision, judge be then coln explained, although he gave question and answer in his own fevered tones and dealt out justice only to those of his neighbors whose names occurred to him "Chon Schmidt, you com' mal hier! Vass pees you in der verldt?" "Me? 1 pees a miller.'' "So-o-oh? Vell, Chon, dit you effer dake too much is »w of "I to If to ever lift quality man himself that picture The hands, he enger, the speedily 7, 1909 man Lincolr resting head of dejection, his heard the disheartening story pitying him conquer keenl the vided 1 wish news. better it were wish South; or, at his heavily on Tho how of was by to in the TELLED. fact that his tail on reflection, he was o's: or f « the House was President; most the me be le 8 up this get one of his tail j Mr, President, I will not call for assistance unead I find it Impossible to do with what I already nave,'.'/ it went from end to end of the land. When Tyler was President, he had a trip to make sent his son, Bob, to arrange for a special train rallroad superintendent was a bitter Whig ‘This road,' he told the younger Tyler, ‘‘doesn't run epecial trains for the President or for anybody else s "Didn't you furnish a special for the funeral of Gen- and The eral Harrison?" emphatic response, "You bet we did,' was the then, "And look here You bring your father here neartily Harrison was, and I'll in the same condition as General e him tho best train on the road, gladiy." = T WAS James B. Fry who Was selected to act as escort and companion to Mr. Lincoln when he went from Washington to participate in the celebration of the first anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg. When Mr. Fry arrived, the carriage was at the White House door, but the President was still unprepared for departure When, at length, he did appear, Mr. ry remarked: "I am afraid you will have to hurry; there is scarcely time to get there." Lincoln smiled easily and rejoined: "We'll be there in time, Out in Illinois the sherift was taking 2 convict to the gallows, nnd the people, all eagerness to see the execution, kept crowding the sheriff and his prisoner, pushing and shoving to reach the foot of the gallows, until the convict called out to them: "‘Boys, you needn't won't be any fun until be in such a I get there.'" hurry. There The "war Governors" of the various states had heir pet pecullarities, and sometimes the air of the White House and the departments was none too pleusant during their visits to Washington, One state Governor, filled to the brim with wrath over troubles in cident to the drafts in his commonwealth, went to with Washington and "had it out first Secretary After a stormy Stanton, to a huge increase in his tre interview such as Stanton alone could supply on demand, the Governor betook himself to the President prepared to make the administration respect what he eoncelved to be his rights and those of his fellow citizens y,. who deThree hours passed, while James B waited for the seribed the occurrence watched and er » Smiling outcome. At length the and happy Mr, I*ry he remarked, "I see you have sent the Goy"Wellil." ernor away satisfied. Did you have to concede very much to him?" responded eT <6 nothing,' Mr. Lincoln r simply worked around him, it , r n reminded myself o farmer ou i log lying in the middle of his best field his neighbors won¢e ho he long there was his crop before as you please, and 1 the farmer was as be. Th[ asked how he had g¢ rt rid of the hy,' sald he, ‘that durn log was and too Knotty to éplit and oo soggy ust plowed around jit gin of Gr int's uncomplaining ible resolution in achieving re Ile g heard doggedness and results with his about sharply "Daniel boy wash. Daniel Webster as w boy at school. He ra. O "Jocko f on rmy it prettyy said he thought he could command little more tall So i 6 animals } hada it over, and spliced. more tail to him Lhe his inereased consider now te 4 «ehile ‘ tall admiringly, what was best to be <plained that the and done eal sald he trouble than presented the The teacher right hand, studied its gratified to hear is in it," entire answered "Yes, indeed; and there is only one other influence now, that you need bring to bear in order to stop the pernicious practice of fighting battles on Sunday." "What is it, Mr. President?" "Why, just see the Confederate generals, and get them to let our soldiers alone." URING one of the public receptions at the Whita House, a farmer from ons of the border counties of Virginia, used {t as the occasion for demanding that the President attend immediately to his claim for relmbursement for some hay and a horse that had been levied on by Union soldiers. "But, my friend, if I wero to take up such cases during such a wer I could make work for twenty Presidents," But the farmer was persistent; his loss obscured, all the emergencies the war. The President of his frontier days. "Seo here friend," had he of the government and to revert to observed, the recourse "your case and mine remind me of what happened to a husky old Iilinols riverman I used to know, From being a mighty good raftsman, he got the job of being captain on a steamboat, 4 "He knew the river well, and he could trust only his own hands at the wheel when his boat went through the raplds. One day the old craft was plunging and wallowing in the boil of the waters, and her captain was hanging on to the wheel for dear life, when a boy pulled his coat-tail anxiously: "Say, Mr. Captain,' sald the boy, ‘I wish you'd stop your boat for a minute, I've lost my apple overs board.'" Crt: @-; Oe FRIEND, a prominent Illinois judge, and Lincoln were bantering each other as to thelr knowledge of horses, ""Tell you what, with its schoolshocking lights shades, and announced: "Daniel, if you will find another hand in. this schoo) as filthy as that, I will let you off this time." "Daniel promptly produced his left hand for inspection. "‘FHlere it is, sir,' he answered "And the teacher let him off." real horse trade. I'll it blind, too. Each of must his "*'You I can,' declared Jones l 1 bulld a bridge to hades, if you want one "The committee was profoundly 10ck So was Brown; but e had only less faith in' Jone: ant politiclans had Democra "‘Gentlemen,' he exclaimed, know Mr. Jones 30 well, and he !s so honest a man and so good a bridge builder, if. he states positively he can build a bridge I believe him But I feel bound to say doubts bout the foundations on the infer the subject was one that was in Lincoln's own cabinet prone to leap upward liko ire, until the habitual Linthe recurring blaze, often coln magnanimity quenched with characteristic humor asked "What," was the question most frequently done with Jeff Davis?' ' answered Mr. Lincoln, "there was a boy in Springfield once who saved up his money and bought a coon. After the novelty wore ofl, his pet became a great nulsance. One day, leading the coon through the streets, his clothes half torn off and his hands bleeding from the onslaughts of the little vixen, the seat down on a curbstone, fagged out boy "What's the matter, sonny?' inquired a man who passing "Oh," answered the boy, ‘this coon is such a trou- ‘Why don't you lock him up" ‘Don't you see he's "*Hush! answered the boy gnawing off his rope? I'm geing to wait till he does ft, and then I'll go home and tell the folks he got away from ine, Sera te \ gentleman named Shrigley, of Philadelphia, had been nominated for the post of hospital chaplain. He was a Universalist, and a delegation from his home eity called on President Lincoln to protest against the uppointment "Weare here withdraw what Ile - one iment; for Mr. fact?" "It {s,' hy. Ys ict \ as ask you." Shrigley the {ts chairman net sound announced, jn his theo- as to what points?" is unsount thing, he does not believe In eternal punanother, he believes that even the rebels themselves will "Gentlemen," the to Mr, Shrigley's nomination." reason?' asked Mr. Lincoln. sir, the be finally saved." asked Mr, Lincoln whole for God's sake GtOrs DF chaplain. reverent man, liglous forms . solemnly, "is that committee rejoined. that, and {f there's any he rebels can be saved and the rebels' ‘ sake, 1 et t he man eee oe but fr. chars Lincoln now, swap even. and and we If go us bring are elthher of committing wa ynenable limself enough to of refuse the exchange, he must forfeit $25." "The judgo agreed. A crowd assembled while wwe sought the horses. By and by the judge arrived witl: his-the bonlest, most swaybacked, foundered, galled jade, blind in both eyes, that I ever saw. I followed, with the carpenter's horso I'd reed on. Everybody roared, but I knew tho Joke was on me. "*Judge,' I told him, ‘I'll stand by the bargain-but it's the first time I've ever got the worst of it In a horse trade.' rE did know horses; he learned them in a hard school. In his years ha had a political convention to attend, and that in a hurry. The oni) liveryman in the place favored ths opposition, and took good care to harness up the slowest animal he had in the stable. Nevertheless, WLincolit rea¢hed the convention In time, for he could have got horse he offered the judge. speed out of t*+ carpenter's But when he returned he owed backhanded thanks, which ne duly for funerals, this horse "Keep "No, not a bit of it," answered an HE::-OU BS: Tst. ON; as-A0 what should be done with the members of the Confederate governmen was one that was an absorbing tople of sion, and, whatever the final decision was to be, for a long time the heat of publi rancor appeared whenever the topfc mrose Nowhere was it more wrathfully moot than in the capital, and was g0, horse; us The nomination of two separate tickets .by the Democratic party's northern and southern sections in i860 elicited from Mr. Lincoln the comment: "I must say I belleved the politicians who told me hat the two factions of the Democrats could be harmonized, but I always had my doubts nbout oither one being able to find a foundation for its harmony in the other. Reminds me of a good, religious man named Brown, who was a member of a committee, as ober and plous a he was, for the building of a bridge over a dangerous river out West "Ono bridge bullder after another pronounced the job impossibl intil Brown went to see Jones, who never falled in ad bullt a number of bridges, and ny contract he undertook, On Brown's recommendatloy the solemn committee called in Jones ‘Mr. Jones,' they asked' him, ‘can you build this ridge remarkthe men Lincoln gave him his con that, when Mr lieutenant general, the President observed at this time, to tell you a little stor} re é war among themselves, and one had a lot of trouble securing a commander, At they ic a monkey would about bill, and asked him whether he would more clergyman. and him like, you know that this administration with those sentiments?" had been detected in some small school offense, and was called up for punishment. That was the old-fashfoned ‘ferruling'-and Daniel's hands happened to be very dirty. So he spat vigorously on his right hand and conscientiously wiped it off on his breeches. "‘Give me your hand, sir!' the teacher commanded said "I'd 1. given "Do accord in his eyes, T was a bright May morning In Washington when the Sunday school children of Washington were marching through' the portico on the north side of the White House. President Lincoin watched the scene for some time and then turned to his companions, with the remark: "These school children recall a story Ll them." HE remarkable satisfaction which Lincoln took in Grant's silent, dogwed. persistence after the heart-breaking delays on the part of the who had leaders ceded him, is a of popular knowledge But it was General Grant himself who made a memorandum of the Lineoln story which may been the real orlhave Mr. Lincoln, as usual, Ustened attentively and respectfully When the full argument had been stated, he glanced upward with a smile, and observed: am 60°. ‘stories,' to that great current of popular Cpinion which so earnestly and s0 constantly deprecated the smallest lowering of the morality of the army-and had such continuous Incitements to deprecation. He was willing to issue orders urging decent behavior In camp on Sunday and condemning profanity at all times. At length it appeared that the gravest desecration of the Sabbath which wag possible for the Union armies war for them to engage in battle on the Lord's day. So an eminent theologian called on the President to make personal protest. "the good rid traditions of the White until Lincoln became least known, launched as The more They found more for him. "By this time they were winding ecolls of tail around his neck. And still they couldn't satisfy that monkey general, He kept on calling for more tail, and they kept on supplying more tall, until he simply broke down under the welght of his adornment and military supplies" "I understood the applic "*on of the story," added General Grant, "ana 1 replied tree dog needed you 28.2 humorous among the after that, the darn still. so they spliced on well pleased. But, he yet. and across head, dejected President's the came Up flitted the familiar smile: ils homely features who were "Reminds me of a couple of Illinols boys One of them climbed chased by a dog in an orchard it, He ran so fast . big tree; the other ran around that he kept gaining on the dog until he could catch hold of his tail. He hung on until his strength was going. Then he yelled to the other boy "‘Come on down and help! yelled to help too short convinced it.' "‘Help how" I need you was mes tell I could least, lay animals had to have their feneral, more tall for him. He was mighty Sallie family. he was of the first; and they told, too, of the graphic manner in which he phrased his doubts. The story of old Jake Tullwater, of whom the voters reminded him, is more pat today for certain aspects of charity than {t was then for the Lincoln campaign. pow "Whereas, Franklin W. Smith had transactions wi he Navy Department to the amount of $1,125,000; and whereas, he had tho chance to steal $250,000, and was charged with steallng only $2200-and the question now is about his stealing $100-I don't believe he stole anything at all. Therefore, the records and finding: are disapproved-declared null and void, and the defendants are fully discharged." whom counsel FEBRUARY a with big ejoined what Probably the most celebrated case of alleged mi public funds was that of Franklin W. Smith and hi otther. It was generally belleved that the two men been brought before a military tribunal organized to convict them, to ruln their business, to pursue them relentlessly, if for no other reason than as example: to others. The President, when the case reached hin simply annulled the whole proceedings against them "rade The Boston Board of while no officlal record of the terms of his decision could be obtained from the of the President' State Department, recelved a report T very It of Lincoln ad was generally accepted transcript of Lincoln' a would and f judgment that to a verbatim had beset yet!'" They less the who that of Mrs, me reminds "It mine, of her perils froid explained, President the of out-of-the-way exclaim: "'Thank devised should a joyous, too none Ward, see,' you "Why, smile him with his usual patience, through the whole rigmarole of the plan. Then- "I'll answer you with a story, There was a man in Chicago who never did a stroke of work in his life, One Tie But they, knowing as he did the Burnside, were amazed at his sang @ of position and were upper- most in the public mind, when a telegram reached the President, as he was talking with © a group of people, that announced: "Firing heard in the direction of Knoxville!' "I'm glad of it!" declared Lincoln, as he passed the dispatch to those around him, im- ad ten be becamo infallible plans for ending the Confederacy in a jiffy One of them was a farmer who succeeded In reaching the President after days of insistence. Lincoln, waylaid during some moments of his scant leisure, heard you ever saw. But, all of a sudden, that horse dashed across the field so fast that even my long legs could hardly keep pace with him. When we reached the end of the furrow, I saw an enormous chin-fly on him, and would and ', and and he strain retaining his appointee: "See here,'' he t -d one of his most protesting friends, "you were raised on a farm, weren't you? You ought to know what achin-fly is. My brother and I were plowing corn once on a Kentucky farm; he held the plow while I drove the horse. Mighty lazy horse that, laziest ing it he planted men of the Grand Army still survive by the there must be survivors by the hundred from of those geniuses and wiseacres, who, during long ed urgently an administration of the utmost energy and that particular cabinet officer was giving it just the vigor its administration required The political protests poured in Lincoln finally gave his homely reasons for off. did you do that for?' I answered, ‘I can't grew, URNSIDE'S. ‘ts dangers hus - 5 Was mystery to President Lincoin's always a friends why he so resolutely sank political rivalries and did not hesitate to appoint to the highest offices within his gift en who were his most ambitious rivals. When knocked it "*What ‘'Wiy,' digging, eee ared INCOLN was far from being a mere punster; yet occasion could bring from him a play on words, usually with a real laugh in it well they as soon as the whole herd into frost comes early. hogs, . - Rround A ‘Tam as UTAH. SUNDAY, TORY mo of a man out undertook to raise Finally in potatoes; and, grown, turned the circulation. It is one example of the wit of Lincoln, which had always under it a tang of humor that was irrepressible. cumstances. ought to be an office in But, them. to of Wales. prince of Wales, large conditions reminds name of Case, who ence, proud of his .Jea, A neighbor camo along. ""Well, well, Mr. Case,' he remarked, ‘this is a Srand Idea. But butchering time is 'way off in Decem- ORD LYONS, punctilious diplomat, unmarried, Englend's minister at Washington, had called at the White House, as other ministers were calling in the capitals the the big a job mense fleld ete fairly Meaning Clear other very too of by CITY, air of injured "Mighty glad coln, pleasedly. to the grave in innocence, of that-mighty "Ir you did you'd time for the rese sr + the liveryman gave: I suppose." the liveryman, only wilh glad," deolared Linnever get the ocorps# -ction." *# Lie was as pungent atacabinet meeting as he was ir politics or when "riding circuit." There was more thay enough anxlety over the greenback {ssue; and, when the notes were determined on, the question of the familiar legend, "In God We Trust," came up for discussion, Should the government use the legend on the greon~ backs? "Well," remarked the mined to put some legend gident, "if you are deter on them, why not quote from and gold Peter and Paul, and be frank sBlout {t-'Silver we have not; but what wo heve we'll give you.' " i ee His First View of a Slave Market HEN a young man, journey down the Orleans, where he the rough boatmen W month, New Orleans the of center time, in all its Lincoln made @ flatboat Mississippi river to New remained, living among of the water front for @ was then a rapidly growing city, 2 for the first here, and Industry, slave repellent aspects, Lincoln saw the slave market. One day he left the flatboat where he had been working and wandered along the river. A crowd attracted him, and he bent his way toward the multitude of eager, craning people-and then he stopped transfixed! Indignation, pity, terror, seized his soul There, in the midst of the hard, coarse-featured men, stood a young girl-not a negress with the black skin and gnarled face of far Africa, but a mulatto, with white blood in her veins, one of the most beautiful or those unfortunate slaves. An auctioneer was crying out her capabilities, exhealth and tolling the firmness of her limbs, her good girl the And voice, bawling loud, a in disposition, stood there, confused for shame, her head downcast ver thereafter Lincoln hated slavery. "This sight," declared him." To the his day cousin, of John Hanks, "ran its fron into his death Abraham Lincoln. respected And it was & religion with him. and rough the by granted were later, broken-hearted wives and {n his high office mothers and sweethearts sought him in the White House! How msny women thereafter women, revered and pardons many how kindly man, when, sale, one at that auction Lincoln hing youu Peer who knelt to too, the story of the woman remembers, him in gratitude after he had pardoned one she loved, and how he said, fushing: "Get ; don't Kneol ti me, but thank God and 50 Some who knew him declared the memory of the girl with the rose-red and ite face remuined with him then-a memory of sorrow. burning like ce a a ste ar In a night eee INTER-MOUNTAIN % ' 2 THE -- |