Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-04-23

81 I rsf. 4 . .
and we knew without any announce
ment that tho end had come
snatchcd the pencil from my pocket.
but my haste defeated my purpose.
The point caught IN my coat and
broke. and the world lost the prayer
u prayer which was only Interrupted
by the sObs of Sanion us he buried
his face in the bed clothes. AS THY
tremulous tones lioated through that
little chamber, Stanton raised his face,
the tears streaming down his cheeks,
and calculated while he looked, oh so
lovingly at the face of his beloved
clieftain:
"'TIe belongs 10 the ages now
"Oh, yes. ! was there, and as long
as sense remains to me shall never
forget The scenes accompanying that
awful tragedy. Young as was
wrote my old mother the next day that
didn't believe that | could prove
false prophet, when predicted that
time would show that in the death Of
that man, the South had lost one who
would have been her best friend in
The tronblous times that were to come.
The years have vindicated my predc-
IIUIl. anu llc ltSliIIlOny Has DGcll
through the years unlimited that the
leading veterans. writer's. and states
men of the South long since appre-
GATED il.
Romantic Reminder Of the Night.
There came to me only recently,
while 0;li in Indiana, Il most uneXpect-
ed postscript AMI strange reminder
Of the scenes of that night 1t was
early in the evening of the Saturday
previous to the election, and was
closing eight weeks of participation in
the campaign. | was on the Fairbanks
Special which had been touring Indi-
ana, and we were to wind up the cam
paign that night ut Indianapolis. At
Nashville. where mighty mass had
assembled. Fairbanks made ten.min-
ntc Speech and we passed on There
came aboard our train there young
lawyer from Chicago by the name of
Rnthbonc. He Ind been speaking al
RushviIle, and was TO leave the train
Mt M'lncie to make another speech
there that night. On the way from
Rushville To Nluncie sat in the same
section with him. and the committee
from Mnncie, which had gone to Rush
vile to meet us, was telling him about
arrangements for his meeting at Mum
Gle. Something was said about Abra-
ham Lincoln, and. he casually made
The Ito mel most interesting state.
ment that lie was the son of Mai. Rath.
hone. and the young lady, the niece
Of Senator Ira Harris, of New York,
who were in the box with the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Lincoln at the time the
foul shot was fired.
"a little later. when the committee
had drirted into another part of the
car, and he and | were in q measure
alone and could have n little private
conversation. I told him that his state
ment of his parentage was intensely
interesting to me. and then | told him
why. told him of seeing his mother,
then girl, as she twice supported
Mrs. Lincoln down the hallway to the
bed. of her dying husband.
Needless to say it took our
thoughts far away from politics, but
we were brought back to the then pre-
sent time most forcibly when our train
rolled into Aiuncie, and as far as we
could see there were tens and tens
OF thousands of people, shouting in al
most maniacal joy at the assured pros
pect of another President of their
choice and the immediate presence of
one of their own citizens who would
stand next in power TO the Chief"