New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-03

all the country people would lounge round that store
up he was made a captain Then be went to the
Le gsiaure and studied law aud went to Congress.
The old man had dropped asleep again and went out
ua,9 me yard and skeched the house, story old
portlcoed door, With side n lights So many coats OF
pam. had been applied that the outlines OF the bricks
was stu asleep, the late afternoon sun playing
ms faded old face with It's soft hesh and sharpened
sssh,oni MIS- bowling, woman Of slS!y.nlns was
ana talked TO softly not to disturb her father
GRANDFATHER LINCOLN.
People don't know what Grandfather Lincoln was
was drinking days; he was moral and member Of
The Baptist Church. and honest as the day is long
Uncle Abe-wc all call him uncle-gOt them idys from
his father and his tongue from his mother. / guess
me me Hanks family was smarter than the Lncolns.
thought heap Of Abe When he was elected Presi,
dent he came over here to say goodby before going
said Abraham, / know you VIII never come back
something says they'll Kill you He said kind o. sad
like NANNY, don't be uneasy IN come back all
right but Mary SAYS that Abe thought himself he
never would, and then you know he really his
Mrs. Bowling Left the room Just then, and the
shutting OF the door awakened Old Dennis from his
A RELIC.
COME here he whispered mysteriously.
=, n you won't tell anybody III show you some
pulled from an inside sp PGSse' 10 he stss
ehaln' The chasing on the case was worn almost
smooth.
abe gimme that after he went to Washington.
went down thar to see him, and thar he was with
Dig gold watch and chain hangin all over his vest,
ana no says, 'Denns, bet you'd carry watch II
you had one. You needn't be so envious.' Then
have a gold chain. but wouldn't so he got me this
good steel chain, and I've carried 1t ever since. Pye
Thar amt many people even gets to see IT, eau tell
YOU lie slowed II back carefully In the hidden
and merry laugh:
when 1 went down to Washington to sec him 10
FOLKS here sent me 10 speak to Abe about him. It
was durin' the war, and thar was lot o. soldiers
around the White House sioldn' their guns In every
though looked round fur back door thInkln' to
sneak 10. porter stopped me, and asked as smart:
81 want to see Abe Lincoln says.
90 You can't sec him this time o'day,' he says as
You bet kim I answered him. He's not
goln back on Dennis Hanks his cousin, and the
boy he's rassled with, II ho Is the President.
halnt come here from Illinois TO be told can't see
lie .gnned and showed me tho Office. There was
lot OF ielers watin', but waded through en- aud
sfaddor, writin at an Old desk he TUX from Illinois.
"'Heyp / hollered. You're purity President
s sc you 70 d en- ~ Up hgyuy and shake hands amt
We'll Dennis & that youl I'm glad yO9 don't MT
Su Nc ic %G S Of hSS Go sn he got
tst gethered me n to him IKE they did IN the Bible
sn 50 T odPteS 1s s 50 saa W 70 tod bm what
@'im busy today, but I'll get stanton 10 hx
that up. You go down 10 the house. aud Mary VIII
give you something to eat and shake down
knowed II was too nne for me where Mary was,
for ne; so fist went to tavern and put up Next
morTlin' Abe had lot of papers for my case and
abe says /, blamed II know. whero the
plagueoned place is So no called Teller and sent
Ike jayblrd In a splke-talled coat, and snarled
about them papers but Abe BOT time TO sign en- ne
acted 50 ugly that when he went out said -.
little feller over my Inse and spank him. Abe,
he laughed aud said be guessed Stanton was bigger
man than he was IN some respects came nome
then aud the next spring Abe was shot,
THE TRAGEDY.
al heard OF II this a way. was sitting In my shop
Dennis, Honest Abe IS dead
dead Dead. Old Abe dead KEEP sayln' to
when she lived an alone after Tom. died and SAID,
Grandmother, Abe's dead yes, Know says she;
su yf s ssS ns Ss% ASKED II any Sodd
thought the earth stopped wbirlin fur few days ne
SbSsrss5g az baeS cloud that covered the SUM-
The dim old eyes became blurred By the sad memory
eanelin', iaihy awkward BOY hll o. fun and stories
and blindness 80 big AND strong ana sgn sm WIZ fu sV tS
dead-you don't remember u y
"Ho, don't remember itp
Them that docs has got a thing 10 think Of; why,
We stopped in the streets, strong men, and cried
don't believe the shonc again for weeks after he
was laid away az sprinKueld mar WASN'T any uAuih
done scarcely. Every house had black on it. IL was
like the plague tha, took Tho hstborn To HIT, to
strike him after the war vas over Dennis Honest
Abe's dead I've heard that IA the night and 10
dreams IN the daytime for twenty years, aud can
believe Il yitH Tho palsisd hand shook and the
some OF the preachers say you won't know any
body I'm Heaven, but be; you I'll know Abe Lincoln,
He's thar! / may never get thar, but Abe Lincoln
went right straight TO Heaven.
After say died, BOb-thai's Abe's boy-he came
down from Chicago and put up the tombstone iuf
her and Tom, and they lay thar Iogethef Nancy she
was buried IN Indiana and Abe helped his father saw
out her coffin when he wasn't mOre'n nine years old
never understood her, but they might knowed she
was good woman or Abe Lincoln neverd loved
her Abe could set whole lot OF men roatin' and
then go OF and study by himself aud look sad and
melancholy lie liked 10 listen 10 music, and there
was some poetry he read-Burns, ] rrckn. When
he lost his and his man was innocent ne Would
Just cry Ike child, the tears lynn IN the holets
OF hls checks. There won't be another man nke Abe
Lincoln this side OF Judgment Day 49,
Ono sentence of the afternoons talk remains with
me as fitting epltaph for the great man OK whom we
spoke with hished voices: Thar was list one thing
tket Abe Lincoln didn't know; he didn't know how
TO be mean TO do a mean thing or think mean
thought When Cod made Old ABE he lett that out
f1r ofheP 10 divide among en-