Show ian t j beath country lie serel so weh well remembers work with gratitude T TWENTY ml nut past ten AT friday evening april 14 1865 abraham lincoln IAn coln was shot by john wilkes dolth in the back of the bead behind the left fear tar and mortally anju injured red at 22 minutes past seven the next morning saturday april 15 1865 be he died there have been many and ani rait vast change tince since that fateful day and the I 1 ayer which lincoln prayed that the country might be one srn arn has been answered in a way thai thal would have re 1 foleen hie his great hurt not an anniversary of his birth and death has passed since bis bin cruel taking off on which some tribute has not been paid to b his memory ind nd so to it will be to tho the end of time among generous americans wherever their r residence or inherited sentiments for or however he be may have been misjudged lu III the chelon and stress of antagonistic opla ion on there Is none now who doea does oot not praise him for or bis his courage and hie his to hlo hir honest 6 he lie was born bom in kentucky february uarl to 1909 and diet died in washington april 16 15 1865 in bis his dily seventh year at the very zenith of his powers the books are fall full of the story 0 bis his life ind and work but therease there ther eAre are still many interesting te fact facts connected with hirn him that hare have not yet twin noted standing ahe be industry of those who ho hare have collected great masse masses et of every thing they could find ia in any a war way coa COIL rith his life and death mr bir Lib lAr colu clu as everyone knows know was shot by noth n ilc oth while he be a aix at ending lending a theatrical performance at cords a theater in washington our american cossia cousin held the boards thit that night and lura koene keene was playing the tile part of florence for ahn last jut time she hild ha already per fied the same part tor for IL thousand nights nw years wre she bad had owed th role fee a at t theater in chicago the night of the day oa on which mr lincoln vae nominated foi tot preil president dent by the republican convention in may 1860 and all of tho the terrible tragedy ahe clayed with uncommon cleverness and sahi 2 yet the theater was raging rj arg with laughter and app applause laube came the crack of the hot shot from the presidents preil dents box tast plunged the country into mourn ing after mr lincoln had been shot he was removed ackois acro ia the treet street from the theater to the residence of wll wil ilam slam petersen Peter cen a highly respected men chant tailor tallor A ho he ihei directly appo alto ite the playhouse at tenth street this housa Is still standing as Is aleo also the old rord 1 theater and both arc are now buol by us as been few changes I 1 in th the Peter sev honee houss for 40 yeara years osborn 11 II hue bat been devoting himself to the all sem dembling bling together of an collection in which are included more than three thousand aalice which con statute eti sti tute as elizabeth EKx abeth porter gould ha has aid said one of the moet most interesting erecting Int and valuable ever collected in behalf of a human being the collection con t line A I 1 a it funeral sermons about sev enty pieces of musac a thousand tot 1 umes relating to lincoln portrait portraits busts and medal medals 0 booth pictures of the assassin the family trad ie in which the 11 escala coln children wera rocked an original black locust rail rall split by the young man mm then never dreaming of the place be was wa to fill in the history of the world the facile bible from which lincoln mother read to him when a be was wa a boy and slid literally thousand thousands of oth other er thing things in some eort sort associated with the murdered president |