The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-29
Made Lincoln tumble His Hair.

The death of Joseph Medill recalls the
story of a picture Of Lincoln, the one
by which he became known to the coun-
try, says the New York Sun. 1t was very
soon after the first nomination of Lincoln
for the Presidency. The story of tn
picture is given in Mr.. Medills words as
nearly as they can be recalled:
I 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 his
nomination. l think 1 sent for him. 1
said TO him after he had talked of more
important matters:
"'Abe, there are not many people in
the country who know how you look. You
must have your picture taken. Get ready
and 1 will go with you
Snapshots were unknown then and so
were newspaper artists. as they are call
ed. Lincoln went TO the hotel to fix up
and 1 called for him at the appointed
time. 1 think he saw that I was sur
prised.
How do 1 look?' he asked. His coat
was buttoned from top to bottom. But
1t 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 IRON
unnatural
1T will never do I said as soon as
could recover my breath. Abe, you never
could be elected President if the country
thought you wore your hair that way
He looked at me as If he were dazed.
He had the heart of child. He had plas-
tered his hair down in that way honestly
and innocently. 1t 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 hurri-
cane. Then he looked at me. and I told
him that was more like him. We walked
to the photographers, 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 pur-
poses were made, and whatever carica-
lures and cartoons were made of him dur
ing the campaign were suggested by that
picture"
The strongest trait in Mr.. Medill's 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 a stand,
a few lemons, and some sugar and open
ed a lemonade stand in front of the ele-
vator entrance of the building. He had
been there two days before Mr.. Medill
saw him. Mr.. Mednl bought a glass OF
the old mans lemonade, and after he had
tasted it, asked:
What are you doing here?'
Making lemonade" was the reply.
"Why are you not at work.
81 have been discharged"
''You will have to go to work again. You
can't make lemonade"
Mr. Medin was too much of a discipline
rian to go over the head of a department
without good reason. He did not reinstate
the old employee, but gave him work in
another department, and he still has the
job.
Mr. Medill never taxed his memory with
the contents of his paper except it's edi-
torial page or matters of material inn
portance This led to some humorous in
cidents He was an inveterate 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
we'll When he was in Ireland some years
ago he found a newspaper printed some
where 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 weH-known Must J
NJ" and mailed them to Chicago. or
his return he inquired for the Issue of hi:
paper containing his Irish clippings. The
inquiry necessitated the explanation tina
they had not been printed, or rather, thai
they had not been reprinted. They hat
originally appeared In the Tribune under
the direction of MIR. Medill. The Irish pa,
per had purloined them without credit. HI
was quite deaf and sometimes his affiic
ton was utilized to his advantage In hi:
case when the explanation had been giver
he looked out of the window and to the
sky and said:
Yes it looks like a Storm
An hour later he dumped seven column:
of reprint on beet sugar on the managing
editors desk with the instruction that ht
wanted twenty-five copies of the paper
next day. Every correspondent In the coun
try was instructed that night to keeI
everything down, and at 10 o'clock the
managing editor was served with a re-
quest to send over to Mr.. Medill proof:
of that reprint article on beet sugar"
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