Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-19


 iim till I had apparently pumped
 diy. Regarding the birth of the
 Abe. I Ireproduee here his testimony
 own vernacular:
 | WIZ the custom in those days to
 md greet the newborn babe They
 me the Linkerns had 6 new baby
 h at their house, and so l run all the
 iogn thar. l guess 1 wuz on hand .F early, for 1 rikkolect when I held iffttle feller in my arms his mother ! Be keelful nv him, fur you air the stoy he's ever seen. The wimmen | already putin bout a name, and
 Fhile the ehatterin wuz a-goin on 1 10 swung him back and forth-a t2too peart, 1 reckon, fur with that
 Foungster soon begun to cry, and 4 handed him over to Aunt Polly,
 Euz standin close by. Aunt, se2 kake him. I don't care what you
 him, he'll never come to much, sllltell you he wuz the puniest, cry
 s little feller 1 ever saw. ''
 " the boys childhood in Kentucky
 was to be obtained at the time of
 Tlsit or that of Mir. Herndon either
 a then there was an air of loneli- about the neighborhood, feeling
 s0lation from the world outside fRn must have been more marked in $ years when little Abe spent his soli-
 days strolling through the woods saating pebbles in the branches. One sl was found who had been a clerk in
 Village store toward which Nancy saOn trudged with her little boy to o 4llSh at intervals her stock of fam 9 supplies. When interviewed, he
 a, as he looked through the rosy @ ol memory, to recall the forlorn Sqe with feelings of commingled
 and affection. 'tThe little fellow s
 lace, he testified, made deep Asslon on me as he sat on the top of @g While his mother bartered for her zga her coffee and dyestuffs, and l 8@ not refrain from dropping into
 aan reluctant palm lump of sugar and then. "
 sNaen he reached mans estate, Mir. 1eln had but little to say of his life Aentucky, because doubtless there zs 50 little of it. He remembered 8
 VI he early residents of the neigh z1Oo Tn which he was born, but he Nated that locality after he Is z" away from 1t with his parents in
 ne likewise could recall some of uclaents of his play days, but the 1ss. muy was so sparsely settled and his tsaA!ons sa. So few that part of his N NY { IS necessarily meager and dim. Ina u June, 1860, q Kentucky corre- lasA', learning cf his nomination to !ssa' sSsl1'sioency, invited him to visit his Ei piace. You suggest, <" he stated N II answer to the invitation 2 few
 a3ef that Q visit to the place of 5ss sssislty might be pleasant to me. |,la u would. But would it be safe? |,s sq not the people lynch me?a This h 1qalFy proved to be an unfortu- s4sgestion and led him finally into ] |h,, glement from which he with s,6, ssae difficulty released himself. Tn |tsa a ]. le'ter to the same correspondent, |sma dug l6, 1860, he writes: "A cor aasat of the New York Herald
 here a week ago, writing to |a aRss' Rs@pef' represents me as saying I N - invited to visit Kentucky, but h,e e4leeted I5te 1t was trap to inveigle oe ' rm kentucky in order to do violence |,ps. lills U Is wholly mistake. said |Sblhs ,qhing. T I do not remember, but ;., % ] did mention my correspond
 n;ll ;h you. But very certainly was EDjpia y IT stating or insinuating a k5,n - oi any intended violence, de- k m or other wrong against me by any other Kentuckian. Aug.