Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-07-24

raphy gives facts of value in an analysis Of
character. Here Is story Of how he prac-
ticed law:
"Mr. Lincoln, seated at the bsize-cov-
cred table In the centre of the Office, lis
tened nttcntively 10 a man who talked
earnestly and N a low tone. Lincoln At
length broke in, and shall never forget
his reply. Yes, he said, we can doubt
less gain your case for you we can set a
whole ncighborhood at loggerheads we
can distress widowed mother and her
six fatberless children, and thereby get for
you 1900 to which you seem 70 have legal
claim, but which riehtfully belongs, 1t ap-
pears TO me, as much 10 the woman and
her children as IT does 10 you. You must
remember that some things legally right
arc not morally right. We shall not take
your case, but will give a little advice for
which we will charge you nothing. You
seem 10 be n sprightly, energetic man We
would advise you to try your hand at
making a600 In some other way. {"
lie was not A reader and his biographer
doubts whethor he ever read through text
hooks on law. He knew men and was
an able and active politician. This life will
be criticised for its rough use of painful
facts, but for proper understanding Of
Lincoln's character with it's contrasts Of
gloom and humor a knowledge Of these
things il necessary.
Here Is the conclusion reached as TO
Lincoln's religious feeling, many having
doubted whethor he was a believer in
Christianity.
From that morning when, standing
amid the falling snowfinkes on the railway
car at Springfield, he ask ed the prayers ofhis
neighbors In those touching phrases whose
echo rose that night in invocations from
thousands of family affairs, to that meinor-
able hour when on the steps Of the capitol
he humbled himself before his Creator IN
the sublime words Of the second inaug-
ural, there Is not an expression known to
| have come from his lips or his pen but
proves that he held himself answ erablo
| in every act Of his career to a more august
| tribunal than any on earth. The fact that
| he was not a communicant of any church,
and that he was singularly reserved I'm re-
gard TO his personal religious life, gives
| only the greater force to these striking
! proofs Of his profound reverence and
faith. "
Captain King reels off romsnces by the
dozen. He has just finished another with
the sentimental title of "The Love Knot"
Mr., Gladstone is rewriting "Juventus
Mundi," first written a score of years ago
d. Lothrop company will bring out next
week new book by Mrs. NJ. +. w. Sher
wood. The titlo is "Swect Brier."
Andrew Lang relates his experienc,
Fishing in Tweed and Yarrow," humor
ously and practically in the August Wide
Awake.
UNCLE PETERS TRUST or Following
the Drums" by Geo. B. Perry. Illus
trated; Harper 4 Brother, New York
publishers.
Tho latest issue in Harper's YounJ
People Series will delight all boys. Uncl
Peters trust Is a boy rescued from tn,
waves by Uncle Peter, coxswain of th
lifeboat "Mercy." This boy, mere baby
and man who Is crazed by the horrors h
has passed through, are the only survivor
of an unknown vessel wrecked off tn
Cornish coast. The little boy, who the,
name Joe, wins many friends, too man,
we fear for real life, as 10 less than fiv
men in the course of the story wish to ador
him as their son, including ono who turn
ont to be the real father. One of joe
would be fathers wishes him
enter the navy and another the army. Jo
himself longs to be q soldier, and true
his resolutions begins his military lifo as
. drummer, unwilling to have commissio
!, purchased for him, as he prefers to win |
: As a drummer he sails for India at the tim
|, of the mutiny. As n bugler he wins tn
. Victoria Cross, and Immediately exchange
his bugle for n musket. Very soon W
hear of him Us corporal, then sergear
and In less than no time lieutenant. NJ
, Perry has managed TO crowd great de;
, into a short space of time. But what di
ference does 1t make, after all, if we al
, introduced to our hero, who is then n DO
oftwelve, and take leave of him at the ae
of fifteen? He is brave, lovable if in
possible boy, and all old boys who folio
: his fortunes will wish ho was their SON.
the five fathers by adoption did, and d
young boys will wish they were like hin
, But, boys, old and young, il is impossbl