The age-herald., 1899-03-25
MADE LINCOLN rUMBLH HIS HAIR.
MT. Medin's Firmness Gave the Country It's
 First Correct Idea of the Railsplittcr.

From the New York Sun.
 The death of Joseph Medill recalls the story of a picture of Lincoln, the one by which he became known to the country. It was very soon after the first nomination of Lincoln for the presidency The story of the picture is given in MT. Med.lls words nearly as they can be recalled:
 T knew him so well that l called him Abe and he called me Joe. He came to see me in the Tribune office soon after the nomination. I think 1 sent for him. I said to him after we had talked of more m- porbant matters:
 Abe, there are not many people in the country who know how you look. You must have your picture taken. Get ready and l will go with you
 Snapshots were unknown then and so were newspaper artists, as they are called. Lincoln went to his hotel to fix up and l called for him at the appointed time. L. think he saw that I was surprised.
 "'How do I look? he asked. His coat was buttoned from top to bottom. But it was his hair which caused me to look at him. He had evidently wet it and it was brushed to the skin and across his temples as smoothly as if it had been ironed It was so unlike him that he looked un- natural
 Tt will never do,' I said as soon as I could recover my breath Abe, you never could be elected president if the country thought you wore your hair that way
 lie looked at me as if he were dazed. He had the heart of child. He had plastered his hair down that way honestly and nnocently. It hurt him to think he had done something he should not. have done. That was his nature. He looked in the mirror, and then that expression of humor which never saw in any other face came out. He took both hands and showed them through his hair until it looked like a brush heap after a hurricane. Then he looked at me, and told him that was more like him. He walked to the photogra- pher's, several blocks, and my recollection Is that he scarcely spoke during the time When he sat before the camera he ran his long fingers through his hair again and then looked at me like a child that had been whipped. From that picture all copies for campaign purposes were made, and whatever caricatures and cartoons were made of him during the campaign were suggested by that picture
 The strongest trait in MT. Medilrs char acter was his sense of justice. An old man in his service had been discharged by the head of the department in which he was employed. The old man bought stand, a lemonade stand in front of the elevator entrance to the building. He had been there two days before Mr Medill saw him. MT Medin bought glass of the old mans lemonade and after he had tasted it he asked:
 What are you doing here?"
 Making lemonade" was the reply.
 "Why are you not at worlk?
 q have been discharged
 You will have to go to work again. You can't make lemonade"
 MT. Medill was too much of a disciplin- arian to go over the head of department without good reason. He did not reinstate the old employe, but gave him work in an- other department, and he still has the job.
 Mr. Medill never taxed his memory with the contents of his paper except its editor ial page or matters of national importance. This led to some humorous incidents. He was an tnveterate reader of exchanges. He read them wherever he went, and whether at home or in his travels in this country or abroad he sent nearly enough reprint to the office daily to crowd out the news and the advertisements as well. When he was in Ireland some years ago he found newspaper printed somewhere on the island in a remote town. When he finished clipping from 1t there was not much in the paper but holes. He inclosed the clippings marking on the margin of each his well known Must, J. ,M." and mailed them to Chicago. On his return he inquired for the issue of his paper contain ing his Irish clippings. The inquiry ne- cessitated the explanation that they had not been printed, or, rather, that they had not been reprinted. They had originally appeared in the Tribune under the direc- tion of MT. Medill The Irish paper had purloined them without credit. He was quite deaf and sometimes his affiiction was utilized to his advantage. In this case when the explanation had been given he looked out of the window and to the sky and said:
 "Yes 1t looks like & storm" An hour later he dumped seven columns of reprint on beet sugar on the managing editors desk with the instruction that he wanted twenty-five copies of the paper next day. Every correspondent in the country was instructed that night to keep everything down, and at 10 o'clock the managing editor was served with request to send over to MT Medill ''proofs of that reprint article on beet sugar."