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Show PRESIDENT LINCOLN. Sunday is the annive'sary of Lincoln's Lin-coln's birth. Be was born in 1809 and if alive today would have been eighty four years old, Gladstone and Tenny-sen Tenny-sen were born the same year and the fame of all three is world wide: His life is an object lesson to the youth of America, and in fact the whole world, on the possibileties of life. Lincoln was raised on a farm received but one years echooling, and at the age of twenty-eevon began stDdying law, His industry and natural ability raised him to the highest position in the greatest nation on earth, and it is safe to say that he had more obstacles to encounter in.his career than one out of a thousand American boys have. . In consideration of his services to the negro it is gratifying to note the following fol-lowing from a correspondent. In the exposition gronnds at Chicago will stand a model in wood, covered with "stuff" to represent stone, of a monunient waich is to be of granite, and stand in Springfield, Ills. It is to be the tribute of the colored people of the United States to their hero-patron, Ab-rahant Ab-rahant Lincoln. The base will rise four ftet from the ground and be thirty-six fct square, and from the center of this basj the monument will rise seventy feet and be surmounted by a life size figure of a colored soldier, Around the monument are pedestals resting on the base for eight bronze statues, stat-ues, each eight feet high and representing represent-ing Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglas?, Doug-las?, Charles Sumner. Robert Brown Eiliott, .John Brown, Wendell Phillips, Owen Lovejoy and William Lloyd Gar-lieon- The totsl heljht, seventy-four feet, represents the years of slavery under un-der tha constitution, 1789-1863. Many inscriptions corirmemorate canons Incidents Inci-dents connected with slavery and emancipation. eman-cipation. The bronze statues will be set upon the nionnmeat model at the World's fair and will afterward be transferred' to the permament monument at Springfield. Spring-field. The 6olection of subjects for the statnes has been made by Hon.S. M. Cullom, of Illinois; Hon. Robert Smalls Socth Carolina; Hon, Wiliiam B. Allison, Alli-son, Iowa; Hon. John R. Lynch, Mississippi; Missis-sippi; Hon John J, Ingalls, Kansas, and Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll. Governor Fifer and Senator Cullom, of Illinois, are the trustees of funds and Dr. George VV. Bryant, the commissioner commis-sioner general of the association, is now in Boston at 99 Charles street, to whom snbscriptions for the monument may be sent, : |