Show SENATOR STEWART'S STEWARTS CARD CAHU The late Senator William M. M Stewart St wart who recently tIled died and who long lone represented Nevada evada In the upper branch blanch of oC Congress er very likely had S and and left to his heirs the heIrs the last writIng writ writ- ing of or Abraham Lincoln There has haa been a good deal of oC controversy on this subject Nicolay and nd Hay claim to trace the last actions of ot President Lincoln and to record the terms of his last writing But Senator Stewart not man many months ago told in public prints of his po possession e slon It was on the evening of oC that fatal February fourteenth 1865 when Mr Stewart with a companion was stroll stroll- ing past the White lIoU House e Just as l President Lincoln and Mrs Lincoln were getting Into their carriage for tor the tho theater The President paused with his foot toot on the step and hailed balled Stewart The Tho latter came hurriedly forward and pre presented his friend He lie sought an engagement for his friend with tIle the President and Mr 11 Lincoln happy happ and thankful at peace restored d took took a card from his pocket and wrote an order ordel for Cor tho the guard to letS let Jd S Senator Stewart and tho friend enter the private ate office of oC the executive mansion at nine o'clock on the tho following follow follow- luG ing morning Then Them he stepped into the tho carriage and went vent to tho the theater from Crom from which h he never emerged It In conscious life UCe This Thia IH Is some Bome h hours hour later latel than the tho latest latent writing claimed by anyone anono else Mr 11 Stewart was perfectly reliable in his statements and besides he pro pro- served l the c card anti and had It among hi his Posses possessions lons in the later days das o or of his Ills J life liCe l It was never presented to th the White House guard of or course because l long ong before the hour named Mr Ir L Lincoln Lincoln had bad been assassinated The thing I Is not especially Important important im Im- mi- p except as the relic of oC the m martyred President will be highly prized and prized p and more moro highly as the days go g o on And it se seems ms the incident sets r right ight one of the Impressive Incidents o of oC f history |