Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-08-30

turned I'D at the door ef his own man. sion Ellis and his friends never learned.
 One day, hearing Mrs. Lincoln screaming, is the testimony of a neigh- bor, I ran across tie street and behela her in great excitement running uu and down the side porch By the time I reached the house Mir. Lincoln Tad emerged from the ilall aud holding in hls hand aneNspaper he had been reading exclaimed il tones of great surprise. Why, what in the world is fhenatter, Nary The latter was al- most breathless with excitement. sA big, ferocious man, she gasped. has just gone around to the kitchen. and I'm afraid of him. Oh, dear! Go drive him out. lie might murder us!' I start cd around to the rear door myself, but before l had gone two steps I met an umbrella menaer, an cid, unl1eInpt Ger man, with a large red nose. leislrely smoking his pipe, who, as is the CHS tom of his fraternity, was making his rounds. l knew at once he was inno- cent of any thought Of harm and al-
 
 passed the porch he saw Hrs. Lincoln backed up against her Husband and trembling like leaf Lincoln and. I coEld not help laughing, and the poor umbrella mender smiled too. As he paused to latch the gate he looked up at the porch i'll the direction of Mr. Lin coln Mine frielt, he ejaculated, T feel sorry for you. I dank Gott dot volnan is net my wife. ,
 After Lincoln's partnership with Stuart had been dissolved he formed another with Stephen T. Logan, who was then justly regarded as one of the best lawyers Ill the state This associa- tion proved very advantageous to Lin- coln, and he was led thereby to a closer and more thorough study of the law. An amusing letter, written by him dur ing this partnership with Logan, was recently placed ill my hands It bears evidence that he was rising gradually to the true dignity of the profession A client ill Kentucky, for whom they pur- chased at sheriff's sale piece of real estate, had asked them to care for the property and collect the rents occurring therefrom. This request seems to have nettled the professional dignity of the junior member of the firm. for he re- spends that they are not real estate agents, but lawyers. t.We recommend. , he blandly adds, that you give the charge of this matter to Mir Isaac S Britton, a trustworthy man and one whom the Lerd made on purpose for such business.
 After about four years with Judge Lo- gan the partnership, owing doubtless to the fact that both were aspirants for congressional honors, ceased, and Lin- coin took into his office William H. Herndon who remained his partner till the end. Other men have frequently passed for law partners of Lincoln, but that connection only existed with Stuart, Logan and Herndon in the order named. On the circuit he was often associated with and divided fees with other law yers. but partnership with them in the professional or commercial sense of the term never existed, and whatever the connection WAS it ended with the case in hand.
 Passing over the period beginning with Lincoln's $ marriage ill 1S42 and ex- tending Up to March, 1849. during which time he had served one term i'll congress, brings him back to Springfield disappointed if not disgusted poli- tician, an ex-congressman, "a lemon, a as the lamented Garfield expressed it, with all the juice squeezed out. " But it WAS no time to lament his downfall, and accepting the inevitable obscurity which befalls the returned but not re- elected congressional representative he went to work again at the law. A home and a growing family to be provided for stimulated him to unusual endeavors. Upon my return from congress, he relates ill one of his modest bits of au- tobiography, II went to the practice of the law with greater earnestness than ever before. In 1854 my profession had almost superseded the thought of poli- tics in my mind, when the repeal of the Missouri compromise aroused me as l had never been before. :"
 Mir Herndon, who spent a portion of  his time with Mir Lincoln Oh the cir cult, informs me that at this time Lin coln took up Euclid and mastered with ease all the propositions ill the first six books He seemed to have forgotten his former connection with the world of politics and applied himself tc study with as much assiduity and zeal as if the six years past had been wholly lost. The greater part of his time was spent on the circuit, q mode of litigation quite unknown to the modern generation of lawyers. Following the court around on the circuit was no doubt the greatest pleasure he ever experienced. h fact, he declined a lucrative offer some time before his nomination to the presidency to enter law partnership ill Chicago, because, as he contended it would, in addition to endangering his health by close confinement i'll the office, keep him