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Show I INffll Letler From the Great President Continues to Do Good Washington, April 4. Forty-seven years ago, April 13, 1SG1, Abraham Lincoln "paused -la the cares of. civil war for orie"ofhostr,kInd and"homcly acts which have lived after him. It wns to pen a personal letter to the postmaster general, asking that official of-ficial to employ 51iss Susan Dugger, a young woman of Carlinaviile, 111 , who was the sole support of her brother, a Union soldlo" crippled at Shlloh. Miss Dugger got a position and preserved the letter. Secretary 5IacVeagh, after reading the same letter yesterdaj though the paper has yellowed with ago and the Ink is dim ordered that 5Ilss Dug-ger's Dug-ger's name be not dropped from the treasury's list of emplojes, though she has been III for more than a year. When an employe has been absent without pay that length of time, it is customary to strlko tho name from the rolls. Senator Cullom brought the letter to Secretary 5IacVeagh who promised that 5IIss Dugger may have her -Md position If she is ever able to work again. She is now 70 years old. 5Iiss Dugger was transferred from the post-office post-office to tho treasury soon after President Pres-ident Lincoln's letter got her employment em-ployment and became an expert in detecting de-tecting counterfeit money She has handled billions of dollars some good and manj bad In the 45 years' service for the government. |