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Show i this can be arranged?" "I know of no possible way sir President." ' "I-et me see the resignation " It was banded to him. e examined exam-ined the document carefully and then deliberately tore it across and Into Bhred. -This." he said, turning to .the secretary and to the little moth-"thl moth-"thl I one way to do It." Thus the officer remained with thi Union because of bis wife and the president, and the service-record ol tbU southern captain is among the brightest In the annals of our naval hl.tory --Affair, at Wablngtn." by Joe Mitchell Chappie. In National Magazine. Lincoln's "Way To Do It." A new story on Lincoln emanate from the navy department; tut the great emancipator' "way to eo It" In thl case would be ratber dngerou for general adoption. Early In the war a naval captain decided to enter the Confiderate service. HI wife pleaded with him to remain with the Union, not only because of loyalty but because It meant the support of bis family, (tut the resignation wa dispatched to the department at Washington, and the wife, left alone with her little family, decided that rhe would go to the cap-Itol cap-Itol and would herself see ir some thing could not be done. At the navy department she told her story, but the oT.clals said thnt the was quite too late, because the resignation had been accepted. Finally Final-ly the secretary, touched by ber appeal, ap-peal, suggested that there wa one person In the country who might do something for ber that President Presi-dent Lincoln. With ber luncheon basket on her arm and with her little tot tuggln; at ber skirts, she made her way to the White House. She found the president, pres-ident, and be, having heard her story, at once ent over for the secretary of the navy, that be might ee the paper In the ce. The eecretary, who wa himself won to the cause. irwented the fact. A Uncoln looked -t the anxlou little wire, be asked: "Mr Secretary. U there no way that |
