Show woJ WEARE Wi ARE ALL ALL' famUlar with the letter of Lincoln written to o tine ie le mother who lost five live eo during the Civil war 4 There has haa recently appeared In hi Inthe hithe the news columns a a aletter letter said to have been been written by the Kaiser to toa toa toa a German mother who has lost nine eons sons during the present war The spirit of these letters is so I different in fact tact they portray so vividly the characteristics of the two nations that they are worth while studying t Lincoln's Letter Dear Madam Madam t dam I have been shown in tho the files tiles of the War D Department i a statement of the adjutant general adjutant ge os 08 Massachusetts that you are th the mother of five sons wh who have died I gloriously ron on on the field of battle I 1 I feel eel how weak and fruitless must be e any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming But Dut ButI I 1 cannot refrain retrain from tending to you FOU the that may be found In n the thanks of the republic they died to 1 I pray pray that our Heavenly Heavenly enly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved oved and lost and the solemn pride hut must be yours to fo have laid so costly cosily a n sacrifice upon the altar ot of freedom The I Letter HIn MaJo lf the 1 R. R Kaiser hears that than you have have sons in defense defense of the Fatherland ath rland In In th the present war war- HIs lits Majesty is immensely immensely im im- gratified at the fact and in recognition Is II pleased to send iou you his photograph with frame frame and autograph autograph au au- au- au signature signature The woman oman to whom the above I letter was wal sent has it I Is sal said sald since a beggar beggar- for lor tood on the streets of Oldenburg Olaen 1 Leschen's Hercules |