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Splendid Photogravure Will Be Given Free to
Our Subscribers on February II With Special
Lincoln Edition of The Bee.
THE BRADY PHOTOGRAPH OF MARCH, 1854

On February will celebrate Day by
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This engraved portrait of Lincoln published
truest the portrayed by
the camera
This special Lincoln Edition of particular now
view of the celebration of hundredh birthday
dedication February 18th next of the Lincoln memorial
the Lincoln farm Hodgenve by President Roosevelt
The story Of Linsolns Porrai
The portrait was made in Michigan 1884, the time
Grants visit to Washington to receive his commission Lieuten
the United States.
reached Washington the evening March Sth
his the hand President Lincoln March
9th visited the headquarters Of the Army of the Paoma the
10th and left Washington for the West the 11h From the
corded details of the he has given his Memoirs
almost with certainty fix March 9th the day the picture
taken.
The occasion its relation the conduct and
of the aud beyond this, Grants visit had peculiar
first meeting 1t quite in keeping then with Lncons
having his picture taken that he should Grant
visit to the photographers the meeting and the
event of the day. They accordingly repaired to the studio of
Brady Pennsylvania and the photographs then taken
both that Lincoln considered the
portraits of them extant Lnccns fuface che eyes look
and revealing the the 1t the face de-
crbed by William H. Hendou, Lncon law partner who
In has 'Life Of Lincon':
"He not pretty man by any MEANS he ugly
he homey man. careless of his looks panOokng
painacng Bat when gray every
lit the inward soul in fires of emotion then that
all those apparently ugly features spang into beauty
sunk themselves inspection that sometimes hooded his
face Sometimes it to that Lncons soul just
fresh from the presence of it's Creator"
And of it, b. Carpenter the artist who spent six months in
the White House while painting his great picture of the F
Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation "Absorbed
his he would become of while
nen studied line and shade Of expression in that fur
repose the saddes
days when could scarcely lock into without crying The
expression which Carpenter Lincoln in the
which hangs the Capitol of Patience
coy kindness and perhaps faint touch of humo In this
suggestion of humOr only the qualities here 1t the
Lincoln who in the immortal speech Gettysburg four months
before had put into single sentence the supreme
meaning and purpose of the war; the mghe struggle the world
had seenThat this nation, under God shall have
birth eedom and the Government of the people, by the people
for the people, shall not perish from the earth"
the eyes hint of the burden he bearing
pagn when there wrung from him the exclamation Coax
How willingly would exchange places to-day with the soldier
who sleeps the ground in the Army of the Poomacl"
This the Lincoln who In the autumn of this year
1884 to be entrusted by his counymen with the