Amador ledger., 1900-02-09
LINCOLN TO Be REMEMBERED
A Monument Will Soon Be
Erected.
SOAE ANECDOTES OF THE GREAT LIBERATOR
Schools Will Hold Short Exercises
and Will Also Help Swell the
Monument Fund.

Monday, February Y, 1900, will be
Lincoln Day, and throughout the
great system of schools in the United
States teachers and pupils will unite in
patriotic effort to praise the name of
Lincoln.
The Lincoln Monument League is
seeking the aid of the people on the
Pacific Coast to erect a companion
piece to the Statue of Liberty at the
entrance to the harbor of New York.
The Lincoln Monument to be placed at
the exit of the harbor.
To recall the life of that noble figure
in this nations history we give the fol-
lowing:
A story by Lincoln
EDUCATION A GROWTH.
Mr.. Lincoln, himself told the follow
ing story of his life:-'When was
about eighteen years old l went into
an Office to study law. After a while I
saw that lawyers business was
largely TO prove things, and 1 said to
myself, Lincoln, when is a thing
proved? That was a poser. ] could
not answer that question. What con-
stitutes a proof? Not evidence, that
was not to the point. There may be
evidence enough but wherein consists
the proof? | was reminded of the
German who was tried for some crime,
and they brought half-a-dozen respec-
table men who swore that they saw
the prisoner commit the crime. Vel
vot of dot?' said the Teuton; six men
schvears dot dey sees me do the pish-
ness, prings more as two tozen good
men, who schvears they did not see
me do it,. So, wherein is the proof?
l fairly groaned over the question and
finally said to myself, 'Ah, Lincoln,
you can't tell. Then l thought, what
use is it for me to be in law Office, if
[ can't tell a thing is proved? So
gave it up and went back home over in
Kentucky. Soon after | returned to
the log cabin, 1 fell in with a copy of
Euclid. l had not the slightest no.
tion what Euclid was, and thought
would find out. | found out; but it
was no easy job. | looked into the
book and l found it was all about lines.
angles, surfaces, and solids; but l
could not understand it ALL | there
fore began very deliberately at the be-
ginning. l learned the definitions and
axioms, demonstrated the first pro-
position; l said that is simple enough.
| went on to the next, and before
spring | had gone through that old
Euclid and could demonstrate every
proposition in it. l knew it from be-
ginning to end; you could not stick me
on the hardest of them. Ono day in
the spring, when 1 had got through
with it, l said to myself, 'Ah, do you
know now when thing is proved?'
and l answered out loud, Yes, sir;
do-and you may go back to the law
shop, In a few weeks l went, and to
this circumstance l owe all the logical
acumen that possess. 1 dug it out of
that old geometry, often by the light
of pine knots; but l got it, and l think
that nothing but geometry will teach a
man the power of abstract reasoning. "
From the Saturday Evening Post:
Senator Mason of Illinois recently
told new and characteristic story
about Abraham Lincoln. 1t was
while he was delivering his noted
speech against absorbing the Philip
pines. He said that in the great joint
debate between Lincoln and Douglas in
front of the courthouse in Chicago an
eye witness told him that Judge Doug
las forgot himself for moment and
charged Mr.. Lincoln with being an
AbOlitionist, adding:
Perhaps our candidate upon the
AbOlitionist ticket wants colored
woman for wife?"
Lincoln rose like the opening of
jack-knife. Without even addressing
the chair he stepped out in front of the
audience facing the hotel and looking
down the street, said