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Show M LINCOLN SAW IT ALL H INTUITION OF THC GREAT H war president. H Knl IK Jlnir.l lo lie Any Art H ihe I'roper Time iana Ila H Raw Ilia latara Ihmili H "' ollnlultlon. JH eurpttec bo one that dreamera Kj and poem, or even philosophers, should B be InflurMtHl by ilresras sod preeentl- BHHH Inents, but when mm of practical H minds, who are capable of directing I ho j affair of Ration. such men Abrt- f him Uncoln end Napoleon 1 , give H heed (o the e Inn o( superstlthm, lw- H rr men wonder and speculate Bad ad. B vance theorle of their own to arrount H the phenomena. H I The IlonapartHi always were miner- H atllloiia, especially the mother of Na- H poleon. She always had a presentl- H went that the rise and (all of h 'Vf H lly would occur In the same ccnturi, H that the glory wblrh u prophesied H for them would be followed by dlsas- H ler. And the prediction waa mMcd. H flh died In her eighty-seventh rear, H having lived long enough to aeo tho H downfall of her H Napoleon I. always feared December H an unlucky day. and It la related H nf him that before every Important H battle he would throw dlra to alter- H tain If he were to Iota or win. The H "red men" whom he atwaya saw go- H Ing to battle with him waa a delusion H that cauied him much auRcrlnr. H Among crowned headi, Loul XI. of H France waa one of the flrmrat bellov H la superstition, lie It waa who j hail an unfortunate astrologer brought H before him who told him that a beau- H tlful woman, a friend of the king's, H would die . nn A few daya later the H woman died, and Louis, enraged at the H verification of the prediction, aant for H the astrologer, and wbtn he waa H brought before him ordered hla eosr- H tleri to throw him out of a window of Hj tho palace. Ilefore the order waa B obeyed he asked the astrologer with H a aneer If he could tell him (the kin) 1 tbe hour of hla own death, "8lre," replied the quick-witted as- H trologer. bowlnic low, "I ahall hate the H honor of dying juit three daya before H your majesty." H Not only did the astrologer tare hla H life then, but be waa treated with the j greatest care that hla valuable llfo H might be Indefinitely prolonged. H Uke Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln at- B waye believed he waa a man of dee- tiny. He thought he would rise lo m aome lofty atatlon In life, but that he H would hate a audden foil. He waa H pleaaed. yet alarmed, at what he look H ed upon aa a rent In the yell which WM lIea the future from mortal eight, for fcK tbe vision he aaw waa on of glory and B - blood. H f Uncoln' friend never willingly al- m ' lowed him to dwell on hla faith In oc- H cult Influeacre, and not until the dark M ibidow be anticipated bad fallen did H they aee a atrango fatality In hla re- H curring visions. The one that moat H Impreeied him happened In Bprlngfleld H In 1850. Ha waa lying on a lounge In H hla own chamber, when, glancing Into 1 a mirror that bung near, he aaw a V' double Imago of hlmielt reflected H there. At that time Uncoln B waa In tbe full glow of health H and hope, but In the mirror H the face ahnwed a mortal pale- B neaa. Again and again he tried tbe B eiperlmeut, and alwaya with the aame ghaatly rrault. Afterward he tried It H In tbe ciecutlvo manalon, but there It r "" 'Id not attach o much Import 1. ance to' thla Tlalon or Illusion until H 11(1, on the day of hla renomlnatlon at H Ilaltlmore. On that day Uncoln waa at the war department In telegraphic H communication with General Grant, H who waa at Itlchtnond, A telegram B arrlircl at the While Houee Informing H Ilncolu of hla renomlnatlon aa preil H dent, but though he went home for a H iioaty lunch he did not atop to read the H telegram. On returning to the war H department, a dlapatch waa handed to H him telling him of the nomination of H Andrew Johnaon for the vlce-preal- H dency, 11 r. Lincoln waa aurprlacd, and H eald: "I thought It waa cuatomary H to nominate tbe president tint." H On being told of the tint telegram he aald. mournfully recalling tho lm- H age In the mirror: H Til nerer lire through my second H term. That belonga to Johnson at B least tbe beat part of it." H Shortly before hla nssaselnatlou Lin- B colu had a atrunge dream, which ho HH related to bla wife and Mr. Laraon, H hla former law partner. H "I retired late, for I had waited up H for lmiortant dlipatchee, and I soon H fell Into a light slumber t dreamed B thcro waa a deathlike stillness about BHML roe I"1 '"'I I cou1'1 nr,r the aubdued BQK' aobs of a mimWr t mpl. I left iy Bin room, weut all through (he bouae In gM my drriim. everywhere tho same woep- KH log and walling, but 1 could see no- EgPRI lody, Klnally I went Into the east KuU room, and there I oaw a coffin with LHJ many aoldlers aa guard. LaUf " 'Who la dead In the White IlouseT" HH B,kKl' BUB " 'Why, don't you know,' eald one KMK of the soldiers, 'the president has been Mjm assassinated.' Then n loud burst of H gr'ef came from the crowd, and with HH that I awoke." K Mrs. Uncoln remembered the dream H on tbe fatal night of hla dontb, and VHH cried out: jfiMM "Hla dream waa prophetlcl" BflH Uncoln had one fortunate dream, H which be often dreamed, und which H he aald was always welcome, as It In H Tarlably preceded n great union tIo- IH tory. He aald ho dreamed It before HL the battle of Antletam and again bo- H fore that of Gettysburg and several B other eneagementa. He dreamed that B he saw a badly damaged ablp sailing away rapidly, while ursolng vesie'a overtook and demolished tbe wreck. Thla drram alwaya comforted him. When Sir. Lincoln would be called lo task by hla friends for his belief In dreams he would Invariably quote the lllble for his authority. After hi most Important dream he Mtd: "In the morning when I took up my lllble tbe first chapter 1 opened at was the twenty-eighth of Genesis, relating Jacob's wonderful dream. I looked through the lllble and everywhere I smed to And the same lessen. Sixteen Six-teen chapter In the Old TeeUment and four or five In tbe New Testament Testa-ment that reveal God' meaning In dreams." Ills former partner, Mr. timun, mrs' "The more Intenee the light which I poured en what may be Mr. Lin-coln'e Lin-coln'e weakest point the greater nnd grander will hla character nppeor." |