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The times., 1894-02-09

AUTHENTIC PICTURE OF LINCoLN's DEATH
expression as il the picture man had
said, "Now, gentlemen, look pleasant,
please" as he dropped the cap from the
camera.
This picture represents Mrs. Lincoln
kneeling at the bedside. She was not
present at the time of the death of her
husband. She was with him few min
utes after he was removed from the the
ater, but owing to his condition and her
great grief, which she could not repress,
she was taken away and did not see him
again until after he was dead. The
deathbed scene as given in this article is
authentic. 1t is from copy of the orig
inal in the Oldroyd collection. Its cor
rectness was made certain by statements
from Mr.. Welles and others who were in
the room at the moment, and each in the
position and place as represented in the
cut.-Chicago Tribune.
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creased the price of clothing. Soldiers
were allowed "a year each for cloth
ing, and whatever they found it neces-
sary to draw over that amount was de-
ducted from their pay of $l3 month.
The price Of overcoats was raised from
80 to $12, pants from $500 to $4 and SO
on. Well, on the evening of the day that
this order was promulgated we all got
about the campfire and began to discuss
the situation very earnestly. Mr.. Lin
coin was sitting on the veranda, and we
knew we would soon attract his atten-
tion. After awhile Lincoln left the We
randa and came down and stood just out
side the circle. Finally he called the
sergeant out and asked what all the loud
talk was about. The sergeant explained
with great particularly of course. The
president listened very gravely.
"This is entirely wrong" he said, and
went back to his place on the veranda.
The next day the obnoxious order
was rescinded, as we knew it would be.
On another occasion one of our men
drew two pairs of socks. They purport-
ed to be of woolen, knit ribbed or seam
ed, and looked like very comfortable,
serviceable footwear. But they were
shoddy of the rankest sort. The soldier
put one pair on in the morning and was
in the saddle all day. At night his stock
ings came off in strips with his heavy
cavalry boots. The man was in his tent,
of course, but the highly original re-
marks which he made as he surveyed the
wreck of that pair of stockings were ut
tered in so high key as to be audible
for some distance from the canvas shell
ter. While he was cussing loudest the
flap of his tent was pulled aside, and
face and voice made themselves mani
fest. Need / say they were the presi-
dents?
Corporal, said Mr.. Lincoln, ''don't
you think you are using rather strong
languageY'
"Well," was the reply, ''it's enough to
make man swear" and the corporal
held up the strips that remained to the
ribbed woolen socks.
Mr.. Lincoln understood in moment.
He asked if the corporal had another
pair, and being answered in the affirma-
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LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS IN 1858.

LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS IN 1858. -
cacy of the cause that he represented.
During the years that he had been the
leader of is,party in the state he had
surpassed all his contemporaries in the
hold he had got upon the confidence and
respect of the voters. He was believed
to be e-eminently fitted to battle with
Douglas concerning questions then of
current issue, and in truth no other can
didate was thought of at all.
The event justified the faith that was
reposed N Lincoln, for his speeches in
the famous joint debate attracted the Sc
rious attention of the entire country
early in the campaign. His aim seemed
clear that they could be comprehended
by the most unframed mentality, and in
that chief requisite to political oratory of
a high class his speeches were pre-emi-
nent. In their logic and their language
nothing was left to be desired. Lincoln
said of these addresses, 'I do not seek
applause, or to amuse the people, but to
convince them"
1t was by reason of his clear and forci-
BILE presentation of his views during that
campaign that his name was not an un-
known one when it was presented to the
Chicago convention of 1860. He had al
ready won fame as one worthy to be
ranked among the foremost of the anti
slavery champions. The idea that he
was nominated over Seward and Chase
because he was unknown, that he was
dark horse" in the present acceptance
of the term, is erroneous.
On the first ballot but one candidate
had more votes than Lincoln; on the sec
ond he was but 81 votes behind the lead
er; on the third he was winner by
more than a two-thirds vote. 1t is true
that some trading" had been done in
order to bring about this result, but it is
also true that sooner or later it would
have been accomplished without trad
ing, for he was logically the only avail.
able man. 9. T. ALLING.
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PRESIDENT a. LINCOLN
Died in This House,
April 10, 1865.
Rhymes Attributed to Lincoln.

An old friend of mine named Cabaniss
recently told me that Abraham Lincoln
worked for his father in 1882. At that
time great rise occurred in the San
CANON river, and steamboat, taking
advantage of the high water, came up
the stream. My friend was then child,
and the whistling of the boat frightened
him. Lincoln, then tall, angular young
man, took him in his arms and carried
him aboard the boat. After the depart
ure of the craft Lincoln wrote some
rhymes about the incident, one verse of
which the Cabaniss family preserved. 1t
ran thus:
The Illinois suckers, green and raw,
Collected on the Sangamaw
To see a boat come up the stream;
They surely thought IL was a dream.
For this doggerel he'invented melo-
dy, and he and others sang it. The song
never found its way into print. The
elder Cabanjss always told his children
that the amiable, kindly Lincoln would
develop into great man. San Antonio
Tex Letter.
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One of the Maryels of History.

Abraham Lincoln is assuredly one of
the marvels of history. No land but
America has produced his like. This
perilous hour was the son of a thriftless
and wandering settler, bred in the most
sordid poverty. He had received only
the rudiments of education, and though
he afterward read eagerly such works as
were within his reach it is wonderful
that he should have attained as speaker
and writer mastery of language and a
pure as we'll as effective style. He could
look back smiling on the day when his
long shanks appeared bare below the
shrunken leather breeches which were
his only neither garment. His frame was
gaunt and grotesque, but mighty.
He had astrong and eminently fair un-
derstanding, with great powers of pa
tient thought, which he cultivated by
the study of Euclid. In all his views
there was simplicity which had its
source in the simplicity of his character.
His local popularity was due largely to
his humor. At the same time he was
melancholy, touched with the pathos of
human life, fond of mournful poetry,
religious, though not orthodox, with a
strong sense of an overruling providence,
which when he was out of spirits some
times took the shape Of fatalism. His
melancholy was probably deepened by
his gloomy surroundings and by misad-
ventures in love.-G Goldwin Smith.
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THE FRONTIER STORE.

dition that Lincoln contributed liberal
ly. He liked neighborly chat and dis
cussion, and his fondness for political
debate and his gifts in tale and jest made
him the most popular man in every store
that he entered.
''It is commonly believed that this fa-
miliarity with coarse talk did not after
ward disappear, so that he never became
fastidious in language or in story. But
apologists of this habit are doubtless cor
rect in saying that vulgarity in itself
had no attraction for him. 1t simply
did not repel him when with it there
was a flavor of humor or useful point.
Apparently it simply meant nothing to
him-a mental attitude which is not
difficult of comprehension in view of its
origin"
Placed against such background,
Lincoln the young man stands in vivid
relief, although in close sympathy with
the community amid which he lived. AS
he grew in mental stature and his hori-
zon became wider his power to keep in
touch with his background, so to speak,
grew proportionately. The same quality
that made him not much superior when
young man to his almost vulgar en-
vironments expanded with the broaden
ing circle of his influence and made him
what he was in his later years. The
biographer quoted above says in speak
ing of this quality of Lincoln:
1T is through this that we get con-
tinuity in him; without it we cannot
evade the insoluble problem of two men
two lives--one following the other with
no visible link of connection between
them; without it we have physically one
creature, morally and mentally two be-
ings. If we reject this trait, we throw
away the only key which unlocks the
problem of the most singular life, taken
from end to end, which has been wit
messed among men, life which many
have been content to regard as an un-
solved enigma. But If we admit and
really perceive and feel the full force
of this trait, developed in him to de-
gree probably unequaled in the annals of
men, then, besides the enlightenment
which it brings, we have the great salts
faction of eliminating much of the disa-
greeableness attendant upon his youth
full days. Even the comlnonness and
painful coarseness of his foolish written
expressions become actually an exponent
of his chief and crowning quality, his
receptiveness and his expression of hui
manity--that is to say, of all the human
ity he then knew. At first he expressed
what he could discern with the limited,
inexperienced vision of the ignorant sou
of wretched vagrant pioneer. Later
he gave expression to the humanity of a
people engeged in purpose physically
and morally as vast and as grand as any
enterprise the world has ever seem"
Mr.. Morse considers Lincoln TO have
been 1.-The most individual man whoever
lived, with humsneness of nature as his
greatest, most distinctive and abiding
trait"
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HE HAD NO GREAT PoLIcY.D
Mr.. Lincoln Thought 1t Lucky For the
Country That He Had Not.

Mr.. Lincoln Thought 1t Lucky For the
Country That He Had Not.
Hon. John M. Palmer of Illinois, in
the course of long interview upon Lin
coin, told correspondent the following
story which sheds significant light upon
the character of the great rail splitter:
"I went to see him." said Mr.. Palmer,
"by appointment at o'clock in the
morning. / sat in the anteroom long
time, while Buckingham of Connecticut
walked in and out of Lincoln's room
several times. AT last Buckingham left
and went in. l found Lincoln with a
towel round his neck getting ready to
shave.
Got to get shaved sometime, Palm
err he said. Il couldn't shave while
Buckingham was here, but you are home
folks, and it doesn't matter with home
folks
1--WE chatted till the barber reached
his mouth, when he couldn't talk with
out running the risk of getting cut.
There was a pause. During it thought
of the great war that was going on and
of the man near me conducting it.
"'Mr. Lincoln said, If / had known
there was going to be so great a rebellion,
l should never have thought Of going to
one horse town for one horse lawyer
for president
Lincoln stretched forth his arms,
pushed the barber aside and abruptly
wheeled round to me. l thought he was
angry because of what had said, but he
replied:
"'Nor / either. It's lucky for this
country no man was chosen who had a
great policy and would have stuck to it.
If such man had been chosen, this re-
bellion would never have reached sue
cessful conclusion. have had no great
policy, but l have tried to do my duty
every day, hoping that the morrow
would find that I had done right
"And that" said the senator, ''was the
last time | saw Lincoln alive."-Ex-
chappa
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His Reception Of an Old FRIEND.

1t was during the dark days OF 1868,
on the evening of a public reception Civ
en- at the White House. i
A young English nobleman was just
being presented to the president. Inside
the door was an honest faced old farmer,
who shrank from the passing crowd un-
til he and the plain faced old lady cling
ing to his arm were pressed back to the
wall. The president, looking over tho
heads of the assembly, said to the Eng
lish nobleman, Excuse Inc. my lord,
there's an old friend of mine"
Passing backward to the door, Mr..
Lincoln said, as he grasped the old farm
er's hand, why, John, I'm glad to see
you. haven't seen you since you and
made rails for old Mrs. - in Sanga-
mon county in 1S47. How are your"
The old man turned to his wife with
quivering lip, and without replying to the
presidents salutation said, Mother,
he's just the same old Aber'
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"GO BACK TO YOUR REGIMENT, MY BOY"
tive asked further the privilege of exam
ining them. The stockings were handed
to him, and he tore one of them into
strips and took it and the uninjured one
away with him. The next day he Sc
cured the name of the contractor who
furnished such socks for the soldier boys
and the inspector who passed them. A
fortnight later the corporal had the
privilege of escorting these gentlemen
ON little journey to Albany. They had
been sentenced to a seclusion Of two
years in the penitentiary there, having
been tried and convicted of their offenses
in the meantime.
The last cine ever saw Mr.. Lincoln
was few months later than the events
of which have told you. My regiment
had gone to the front, but | was still in
Washington, where had been detailed
to do clerical work. / had been ordered
to join the regiment, but l naturally de-
sired to remain where l was. A certain
general also desired Inc to remain, but
Secretary Stanton, to whom the matter
was referred, said that it would rest
with the president. Owing to the friend
ship felt for me by the general men
toned, was admitted to Mr.. Lincoln's
presence while my request was put be-
fore him. This was very unusual, but
/ thought that surely would be per-
mitted to stay. The president sat in a
window seat swinging his leg while the
talk was going on.
young man." he said, when the case
had been stated, you are young. You
are good fighting timber. You are strong
and healthy, and it will do you good to
sleep on the ground under the stars.
You go back to your regiment, my boy.
Men who can make figures in books and
fill out reports, but who cannot fight
or haven't the nerve to stand up and face
the music, can be found in plenty to do
the work in Washington. You go and
do your duty like man."
went, perforce, and l have never
been sorry that Mr.. Lincoln treated the
matter just as he did.
/. d. MARSHALL.
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THE DEATHBED SCENE.

Many Pictures Have Been Made of 1t.
Here Is an Authentic One.
No census taker or student of figures
and statistics has undertaken to sum up
the number of 'deathbed scenes" of
Lincoln. For awhile just after the un-
happy event it seemed as if every artist
in the land was seized with desire to
make the picture, and they all tried
their hands. Some of these are very
amusing to critical eye. There is one
in which nearly every prominent man Of
that time is represented as being pres
ent. Only the doctor seems interested
in the dying statesman. All the others
are looking at the camera, each with an
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Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. Is, 1909.

The birthday of Abraham Lincoln
may well recall the principles which he
represented, for which he labored and
for which he endured a martyrs death.
There is no more popular figure in Amer
lean history than that of Abraham Lin
coin. He was pre-eminently a man of
the people. Sprung from the people, he
always remained one of them. Men ad-
mired George Washington, but it was
an admiration mingled with awe. The
people both loved and revered Lincoln.
President or rail splitter, he was the
same plain American citizen, in whom
honesty was an instinct, and whose pa
triotism was part of his very SOUL
Charles A. Dana.
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It Introduced Lincoln to the People Of His
Countrywide Convention Of 1900
The mistake has often been made that
Lincoln was chosen to make the race for
the Illinois senatorship in 1858 without
full knowledge and appreciation OF his,
ability as thinker and politician. In
fact, some writers and speakers have
treated this period in his career as If it
were the result of sort of lucky acci-
dent. No mistake could be more vital
than this in seeking to arrive at just
and accurate view of Mr.. Lincoln's life
and character.
When he was selected as the best man
to pit against Stephen A. Douglas. Abra-
ham Lincoln was known to the people
of Illinois as man of commanding
powers. His friends had no misgivings
that he would fail in the effective advo-
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feet always appeared to be uneasy in
the stirrups. which were invariably too
short. His knees were usually up to
the withers of his iron gray horse. His
arms were longer in proportion than his
legs, and his elbows were always flap
ping as he rode. Sometimes he went to
the White HOUSE in barouche.
When we got into camp at night aft
er supper, it was our custom to gather
about the campfire and talk over cur
rent news, the events of the day in the
camp, our grievances and the like. Mr..
Lincoln used to leave the house, come
down near the edge of the camp and
pace up and down as IL in deep thought
Whenever he heard loud talking, he
would send in and inquire its cause. We
soon appreciated the situation, and when
we had been i'll treated we used to make
1t point to talk the matter over in loud
tones.
Once the duartermaster general i'm
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HOW HE KEPT HIS vow.
When Lincoln Got His Chance, He Hit
Slavery a Hard Blow.

Slavery Hard Blow.
On the 22d day of September, 1862, the
most glorious date in the history of the
republic, the proclamation of emancipa-
tion was issued. Lincoln had reached
the generalization of all argument upon
the question of slavery and freedom-a
generalization that never has been and
probably never will be excelled
'In giving freedom TO the slave we as
sure freedom TO the free"
This is absolutely true. Liberty can
be retained and can be enjoyed only by
giving it to others. The spendthrift
saves, the miser is prodigal Ia the realm
Of freedom waste is husbandry. He who
puts chains upon the body of another
shackles his own soul
The moment this proclamation was is
sued the cause of the republic became
sacred. From that moment the north
fought for the human race. From that
moment the north stood under the blue
and stars-the flag of nature-sublime
and free.
In 1881 Lincoln saw in New Orleans a
colored girl sold at auction. The scene
filled his soul with indignation and hor-
ror. Turning to his companions he said,
"Boys, if ever get chance to hit slav-
cry, I'll hit it hard" The helpless girl,
unconsciously, had planted in great
heart the seed of the proclamation.
Thirty-one years afterward the chance
came, the oath was kept and to 4,OOO, 900
slaves-men, women and children-was
restored liberty, the jewel of the soul.
In the history, in the fiction of the world
there is nothing more intensely dramatic
than this.-Robert G. Ingersoll.
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LincoIn.s LausI,.

Lincoln had great laugh-a high,
musical tenor-and when he had listened
to or told a story which particularly
pleased him he would walk up and down
the room, with one hand on the small
his back and the other rubbing his ha r
in all directions, and make things ring
with lauehter.-D. w. Voorhees,.
The times., 1894-02-09
The House Where He Died.

The house on Tenth street, Washing
ton, where Lincoln was carried to die
after he was shot in Ford's theater, is
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''Three months. and still upon this
hateful river, VIII it never end? /
have been in-so Ill that for two days
] could not feed it. l had net the
strength to 60 ashore to find food, and
/ fear that will die; die before can
get it home.
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Buffalo Against Tiger.

The forest land of southern India
possesses breed of buffaloes vastly
superior to the ungainiy creatures of
the plains. They are shaggy-haired
and massive, with thick, short horns,
and possess immense strength. A herd
of these buffaloes was grazing, when a
tiger came out of the forest near by.
The herdsman shouted, beat his staff
on the ground, and tried to scare away
the brute; but it would not be scared.
and sprang upon him, knocked him
down, and stood over him snarling.
He gave himself up for lost, when the
bull of the herd charged savagely up
on the tiger and knocked him fully
twenty feet. The attack was SO sud-
den, and the shock so great. that it
took all the fight out of the tiger. He
gathered himself up in a dazed way
and actually SUNK off INTO the forest.
The bull shook himself, beloved, pur-
sued his enemy a few yards and then
went quietly to feeding, as if vanquish-
ing tiger were an everyday occur
rence.-Golden Days.
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the days of Noah-the missing link be-
tween the reptile and the bird. To
this end | denied myself Good; denied
myself even precious medicine. In
spite of itself gave it all my quinine
and when the miasma crept up the
river at night covered it with my rug
and lay exposed myself. If the black
fever should seize ne,
''Three months. and still upon this
hateful river. VIII it never end?
have been ill-so Ill that for two days
] could not feed it. l had net the
strength to go ashore to find food, and
fear that l will die; die before can
get it home.
Been i'll again-the black feverl
But it is alive. 1 caught a vicuna
swimming in the river, and it sucked
it dry-gallons of blood. II had been
unfed three days. In its hungry
haste it broke its muzzle. / was al
most too feeble to put it on again. A
horrible thought possesses me. Sup
pose it breaks its muzzle again, when
am lying i'll, delirious, aud it is raw
enous? Oh, the horror of it. To see il
eating is terrible. 1t links the claws
of its wings together and covers over
the body, its head under the wings out
of sight. Bat the victim never moves.
AS soon as the vampire touches it there
seems to be a paralysis. Once those
wings are linked there is absolute
quiet. Only the grating Of teeth upon
bone. Horrible! horribiei But in
Germany / shall be famous. In Ger
many with my vampire!
"Am very feeble IT broke its muz-
zle again. but it was in the daylight
when it is blind. It's great eyes are
blind In the sunlight. 1t was a long
struggle. This black fever and the
horror of this thing! l am too weak
to kill it if / would / must get il
home alive. Soon-surely soon-the
reach the sea, reach white men. reach
home? But if it attacks me 1 will
throttle it. If we cannot go back to
Germany alive, we will go together
dead. will throttle it with my two
hands and fix my teeth in its horrible
neck and our bones shall lie together
on the bank Of this accused river"
This is nearly ali that was recovered
of the professors diary. But it i,
enough to tell us of the final tragedy.
The two skeletons were found to-
gether on the very edge of the river
4 4
years, had been washed away at sue.
cessive flood tides. The rest, when
put together, made up the man reptile
that, to use a Rabelaisan phrase,
"metagrobolized ell to nothing" the
University of Bierundwurst. - Con.
temporary Review.
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Fond Goodness, how you
look. child. You are soaked" frankie
please. pa, l fell into the canal"
"What. with your new trousers on?"
81 didn't have time, pa. to take EN-
Off. "-Hoston Home Journal
Gen. q, ". Curtis Lee has presented
TO the Washington and Lee university
the piano that belonged to his father,
Gen. Robert f. Lee. The piano has
not been opened except on one or two
occasions since the death of its illus
frinr1S nrNrnnr
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The geese and cranes of North
America commonly winter in the West
Indies and in the valleys of the ANA
zon and Orinoco, but great flocks o;
them have been seen crossing the
South Atlantic in the autumn, evi
IDENTIFY bound for Africa.
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Albany is named from the second
title of the duke of York, afterwards
James III. The title is Scottish, frou
the Celtic word Albyn. a native nam'
for Scotland