The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-07-20

| walking around
The tramp took it and shuf1ed
away, but he never came back;
| neither did he go to the recruiting
office. The note was to this effect:
"Col. Fielding. The bearer is
anxious to go to the front and die
| for his country. Cant you give him
chance? A. L.
This story proves that while some
of the people may be fooled some of
the time, and some of the people may
be fooled all of the time, all of the
people cant be fooled all Of the time.
In his youth Lincoln ran ferry on
the Ohio river at the mouth of An
| derson creek. The only passenger
for a whole day was being ferried
| over, and to enliven the journey he
told the story of Washington throw
ing a silver dollar across the Rap
pahannock at Fredericksburg.
"Well," remarked young Abraham
sadly, che couldn't throw one across
the Ohio at the mouth of Anderson
unless he was doing more business
than I am, or unless he stole it,
Some question has arisen as to Mr..
Lincoln's religious opinions, but this
story may put to rest all doubts
about his position. A Southern wo-
man who had come to see Lincoln
about her husband, who was confined
in a Northern prison because of his
"pernicious politics." mentioned the
fact that the prisoner was religious
man.
81 am glad to hear that" said Mr..
Lincoln, cheerfully, and the lady
smiled hopefully in response. Then
he went on: because any man who
wants to disrupt this Union needs all
the religion in sight to save him" .
Mr.. Lincoln's love for the soldiers
was well known and he was a fire.
quent visitor at the hospital in Wash
ington. A young doctor was show
ing him around one afternoon to let
him speak to the men. The guide
took him past the entrance to large
room, saying that he didn't suppose
the president wanted to go in there
as they were "only rebels"
"But I do want to go in there"
said Lincoln, ''and don't you call
them 'rebels;' call them 'Johnnies.
It sounds friendlier. Would you
want to be called a 'Yank' and neg
lected because you did the best you
knew"
A New Yorker at the White House
said to The president that it seemed
strange that the president of the
United States and the president of
the Confederate States should have
been born in the same State.
"Oh, I don't know about that,
laughed Mr.. Lincoln. ''Those Ken
lucky people will tell you that they
can raise most anything in their State
and 1 reckon they're mighty near
right"
Some one told Lincoln that dis
tinguished and aristocratic Southern
statesman had referred to him in a
speech as ''rail splitter.
"Well," said Mr.. Lincoln, musing-
ly, 81 suppose there is difference in
men. Some are rail splitters and
some are nation splitters. I think
I prefer to split rails"
Although Lincoln's accomplish
ment in the Black Hawk war was
hardly Napoleonic, he was no coward.
Some one said to him as he was de-
parting for the 'front.', "You are not
afraid of Black Hawk, are you?'
"Well, I guess not" replied the
youthful captain proudly, I'm no
chicken" Literally he was not, but
in years he wasn't much more than a
broiler.
When the civil war was practically
over Mr.. Lincoln responded at once
by an improvement in health and
spirit, but he did not want to go to
the theatre on that fatal night, and
not from any presentiment of evil.
The play was "Our American Cousin"
and he had seen it once. It was
funny enough and Mr.. Lincoln loved
funny things, but not twice in the
same place, even for company's sake.
He tried to get out of going, but Mrs.
Lincoln would not permit it. She
had had troubles Of her own with
that theatre party from outside
Gen. and Mrs. Grant having been
called away at the last minute-and
she did not propose to have her own
husband desert her. She insisted on
his going.
call right" he said in his meek,
cuhrniceiuo NOV whom ha found re-