The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-09-19

work carrying rations ashore from TN
craft when suddenly they stopped an
sent up lusty cheer. A little tugllk
steamer had pulled mp alongside, am
from II stepped a tall, awkward maj
dressed I'm rusty black and wearing
napless silk hat The sergeant recog
nized the president and saluted.
your boat is well named, sergeant,
said the latter gravely.
The soldier was puzzled. He did moi
know that the steamer had name and
said so.
The president took him by the arm
and led him back ON the tug. There
the stern OF the "Pittsburger' loomed
above them, and on It's dirty white sur.
face In tarnlshed gilt letters a yard
long appeared the single word, Mist.
YES" said Lincoln, "lt's very well
named indeed, sergeant All those
boats need is n mist, and they'll run
anywhere.
years ago." he continued, II was at
tending court In Cairo, Ills, when the
Ohio was so low that all the water
there was between It's banks was what
had spilled over from the Mississippi.
Those 'Plttsburgers' were passing and
repasslng all the time. One night there
came up n little shower that raised the
level maybe a half inch. One OF 'em
got out OF the channel, slid ashore
and grounded In the mud right beside
the courthouse.
ut was there the next morning, and
/ remarked TO a brother attorney that
that boat was aground TO stay. He
was from Egypt and knew more
about 'Pittsburgers' than | did. He
merely smiled aud said, You wait and
see
"rhere came on another shower that
afternoon. l heard an engine pulling
and looked out OF the courthouse win
dow. Maybe you'll think I'm exaggcr.
atIng, but there was that boat steam
Ing down the road toward the river,
and In two minutes she was back I'm
the Ohio, just as the shower was over.
II expressed my surprise TO the
Judge. but he said that vas nothing.
If the shower hadn't come up IN time.
the captain would simply have hired
boy with n sprlnklng pot TO go ahead.
They're great boats, sergeant. Likely
as not this one got here by coming
across country"
President Lincoln repeated this ex-
trayagant story without the ghost OF n
smile. During It's recital Secretary
Stanton and Generals Halleck and
Sherman--the last named having run
up the day before from his march
through the Carollnas-whO were with
the party, had approached the presl-
dent. General Sherman smiled broadly,
but Stanton looked annoyed. The pres
ident caught his glance and. with n
wink at the others. said, "But maybe
you've heard this before, Stanton"
every likely | have" the secretary
grlmly responded. "but would sug-
gest. Mr.. President. that General Grant
Is awaiting u.s."
The CLEAN OF amusement left the
kindly mans eyes. He grayely turned
aud shook hands with the sergeant and
then strode after his companions as
they made their way ashore.-Roe l..
Hendrick In Youths Companion.
A Nay Dream OF Tennyson.
In the "I.ife OF Tennyson" occurs the
following:
"a kind OF waking trance have fire.
Quently had, up from boyhOod, when
have been all alone. This has generally
come upon me through repeating my
own name two or three times to myself
silently. an all at once, as Il We're out
OF the Intensity OF the consciousness
of individuality, the individuality itself
seemed TO dissolve and fade away into
boundless being. and this not In n con
fused state. but the clearest OF the
clearest, the surest OF the surest, the
weirdest OF the weirdest, utterly be-
yond words, where death was an al
most laughable imposslbllity, the loss
OF personality or so II were) seeming
no extinction but the only true life,
This might be the state which St Paul
describes, whether In the body can
not tell. or whether out OF the body
cannot tell,' l am ashamed OF my fee
BILE description Have | not said the
state is utterly beyond wordsG But in
a moment when | come back TO my
normal state OF sanity l am ready TO
fight for meln liebes Ich and hold that
Il win last for eOns and @ons."