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Show LINCOLN'9 CALL TO DUTY. Thcro the Republican candidate for the presidency stood tall as4 ungainly un-gainly In hla black suit of nppewntly new but III tilting clothes, his long, lawny neck emerging gauntly from hla "turn down" collar, hla iseUn choly eye sunk deep In his hafgard face. Most of the meiubera of the committee li.nl never aeen him bo rout, and khiiiI at Mm with aurprlseil curiosity Ho certainly did not present the appearance of n alnteaman, aa people usu nlly picture It In their linaxlna Hon Hlnnillng up with folded bands, ho qulell). without visible cinbarraat il223 THE HUT IN WHICH LINCOLN WAS DORN. Thla log cabin was removed I am the Lincoln farm, In Kentucky, and carried about the country for a me time by a showman. Later It vas dumped Ignomlnlously Into a c liar In New York city, from whle i It waa rescued and restored to Its native na-tive etate. ment or emotion, listened to the list nlfied little speech oililr, used to tutu by Mr Ashmum, the pn .ulnit ol the convention, nnd then riponded llth n few appropriate, eartust and well shaped sentences, ivpn-sslng I hla gratitude for the confldi nco repfi' d In him, bis doubts of hla own abllltha nnd Ills trust In a helping Pruvldifp e. Then follow oil some Informal fiilk, partly of a Jovial kind, In which line hearty simplicity of Lincoln's naRiro shone out, and after the usual hand shaking the committee took lAe Ono of Its members, Mr KelleyN of Pennsylvania, remarked to me aslwa passed out ot tho house "Well.flwe might Imvo dono a mora brllll-int thing, but we could h.lrdly hava djlne a belter thing" From Hemlnll.ni ces of a Long Life, by Carl Scblira. lu McClurea M |