The Portland daily press., 1901-02-13

and shook his head. "Auother bright
young man gone wrong" ne said. And
when, In the very darkest hours CT the
civil war, the immortal Lincoln put his
name to a proclamation that aroused the
moral senss of the world, turned the tide
of European sentiment and preserved the
Union quite as much as any great victory
in the field, the Anti.imerialist of his
time was right at his side, still shaking
his head. lie didn't like the style OF the
emanoipator' chirography. The ink
was too Dold, the pen too aggressive,
Oh, he Is wonder, this anti'imperiai-
ist of his time. lie always gets there
with his knife, he will be around be-
fore the new elevator is done.
And IL is thoroughly characteristic that
In the.present crisis he offers no substitute
for the course that is being pursued
heavy, and he begins to reap his old re-
ward:
"Ihe blame OF those ye bettsr,
The hate OF those ye guard"
mis- only suggestion is, "Haul down the
iIag and 90 cut OF commission"
The American nation was not built
that way. The civiliz alton or the world
the progreEs or this giant among nations,
have come not because OF, but In splits OF
suon sentiments. Always upward, al
ways onward--that Ia the mission OF the
Kepu blicsn party, that Is the lesson In
the character and career OF Abraham
Liucoln.
The next speaker was DR.. e. L. Holt,
whose scholarly and brilliant effort was
punctuated with general applause. DIR.
Holt sail. In part;
An "illusion which appeared to Ahra-
| nam Lincoln has never been explained
upon rational ground so far as my ohser-
yations go.
j. 5. q, Abbott, the historian, cites a
quotation as coming from President Lin
/ coln, IN which the time OF this "lllu-
sionH 10 given as occurring just atter mis-
nomination at Chicago, but j. u. hol-
land, the historian, quotes from an arti-
Gle which appeared in Harper Magazine
for july, 1865, written by John HAY. one
| of his priysts secretaries, and now Score
tary OF State, placing the time just after
| mis- frat elsction. In answer to my letter
stating these facts, the Secretary OF
state writes me that Noah BROOKE oil
Casttne, Maine, at one time private
secretary OF President Lincoln, is the
authority for this statement. MIR. Brooks
is out of the country, SO his statement,
at this present time as TO the time OF It's
occurrence, cannot be given. According g
to the latter authority President Lincoln
1 q reported to have said:
"It was Just after my election In 1860,
when the news had been coming In thick
and fast all day. and there had bean Q
great 'hurrah boysl' SO shat / was well
tired out and went home TO rest, throw
ing myself upon lounge In my onam'
ber. Opposite to where lay was a pu'
reAu with q swinging glass upon it and
| looking In that glass saw myself re-
| tiected nearly at full length; but my
| face, / noticed, had two separate ana dls'
tinct images, the tip OF the nose OF one
being about three inches from the tip oi
the other was little bothered. perhaps
| eKRf N
glsss, but the illusion vanished. On ~
| ing down again, SAW 1t second time,
palmer, If possible. than before, and
| then noticed that one OF tke faces was a
little paler-say five shades-than the 9TH
or, l got up ana the thing melted away,
and went of, and, in the excitement or
| the hour forgot all about it,-nearly, but
| not quite, for the thing would once In q
while come up, and give me little pang
| as though something unoomfortaple nau
happened. When L went home, 1 told
my wife about it, and few days alter
/ tried the experiment again, when, sure
enough, the thing came back again; but
| never succeeded In bringing the ghost
| back after that, though once tried very
Industriously to show Ii to my wire, VINO
was worried about 1t somewhat. She
Thought it was "a sign that WAS TO he
| elected TO q second term OF office, and that
the paleness of one of the faces was an
omen that should not sea life through
tbs last tenn
Now this ''illusion" likehlothers that
haunt people, as this did Abraham Lin,
coin, can be explained upon rational
grounds when ali the facts are known
and rightly interpreted
AS he lay there upon the couch, every
muscle became relaxed as never before.
Little did he dream OF the years OF weary
toll, care, and anxiety that was to be hii
lot and the tragic death that was to take
him on In the zenith OF his career,
career that has tixei upon him the eyei
of the whole civtlized world, ana maj
given him q place In the affections OF tins
American people, unsurpassed In Tn.
history of this republic. In this relaxed
condition, in a pensive mood, ana In al
effort to recuperate the energies OF
wearied mind, mis- eyes fell upon the mir
ror In which he could see himself &C ful
length reclining upon the couch. AL
the muscles that direct control, and Keel