El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-31

/ markable gentleness, could be fiercely angry
/ If there were good cause On one occasion
! an army officer who had been cashiered
/ reinstatement The president listened to him
patiently but even accepting his own state
/ ment Of his case. was unable to see that he
/ deserved any redress.
Lincoln Shows Anger.
The officer came back to the white house
/ twice again on the same erraud. and was
! heard each time with patience. When, final
I w. Mr. Lincoln said that he could not inter
{ fere in his behalf, the man rose to his feet
! and insole ltly exclaimed; It see that you
/ are determined not to do me justice."
The president instantly seized him by his
( collar and propelled him out Of the room.
saying as he did so: I give you fair warn
! ing never to SHOW yourself here again
! can bear censure. but not insult"'
I'm glad of that" said Mr.. Lincoln, when
Z Gap that firing had been heard from the
{ direction Of Knoxville where Burnside was
/ in charge Of military operations.
And why are you giad2' asked some
ITS like the case Of an old neighbor of
mine, Mrs. Sallie Ward" replied the presi-
] dent. "She was blessed with a multitude
, Of offspring; and one day, when happened
to be in her house, / heard an alarming yell
which evidently came from one OF them
somewhere in the immediate neighborhOod.
Rather to my surprise, the mother did not
/ seem at all concerned. All she said was.
Ihere.s one OF my young ones that isn't
one day. after mornings hard work in
I his office on the second floor OF the white
house Mr. Lincoln started to seek refuge
and a brief respite in the library, where he
| expected to find a cup Of tea and two or
I three slices Of bread and butter waiting for
; him.
Access to the library was mad by way
not open to the public But while passing
wall of a baby outside in the anteroom.
where people who wished to see him were
accustomed 10 assemble alllng MS servant
a negro named Daniel he said; rs there
yes Mr. President" replied Daniel "a
baby and its mother. She has been trying
/ TO see you for three days past
DO you know what she wants?" asked
Her husband is going to be shot. sir. She
has been crying a good deal"
You should have told me Of this before
Daniel I will see her at once
/ WhereupOn the president returned to his
: office and the woman, being admitted, ex-
planned that her husband, having provided
a substitute, was not subject to draft. But
| getting drunk one day, he had enlisted; and
IulIy kept IN the army When SUBSTITUTE al
ready represented him, he had deserted Be
ing caught and tried. he was condemned to
I be shot on the following Saturday.
Mr.. Lincoln asked her husbands name,
wrote two lines on piece Of paper with
ms signature attached and sent the woman
away happy. She had saved her man.
James NJ. ScOvel, friend and great ad-
mirer Of LincOln's writes: I went to Wash
ington to give the president a pair OF cuff
buttons had had made for him N Phila-
delphia. He was Joyous as a child-Lee had
surrendered on the 9Th Of April. He put the
sleeve buttons on in playful mood and
wore them on the night Of his assassination
IN the days Of the civil war, when Lincoln
was tenant Of the white house. four or five
cows We're kept on the premises, to supply
! the presidents establishment with milk, be-
ing allowed to Craze upon the grassy hill
locks where nowadays, on Easter MONDAY OF
each year, the children roll their eggs
There was then a dairy beneath the south
'front.' poruco Of the mansion. to which water
was brought by an inch pipe from spring
in Franklin square several blocks away.
During the succeeding administration, when
Andrew johnson ruled, Martha Patterson.
a at oTs RI
acted as mistress OF the white house, was
accustomed to get up every morning and,
IN MnIte apron and calico gown skim the
milk with her own hands
Up almost to Lincoln's time indeed. the
tract OF land surrounding the presidents
mouse Gas il used officially to be known was
a farm There was q fruit orchard where
now the great war, state and navy building
by the treasury building was a vegetable
Earden, which furnished the white house
win potatoes, peas and beans, onions, and
other such delfcacies
There came time, however, when it was
deemed eXpedent to extend a U-shaped
street around the mansion, separating it
from the treasury on the east and the war
department on the west Incidentally it was
deprived Of most of the farm originally per-
tanning to it, which included all the area
nov known as the white lot, as we'll as the
nil to the south on which the Washington
monument is located
White House Not Palace.
Inc white house II 1s:ncOln's time was by
no means the palace, replete with modern
conVeniences. that it is today The furnt-
80 was mostly rather shabby; the pump
ing was what we should now regard as hope
lessly antiquated, and in the stable there
as not even any water save for a small
supply obtainable from a we'll It was GUS
~ tSpIntlry, therefore, at that period, to take
ne presidents horses down to the Potomac
LIEer Iully half a mile distant, when they
wanted to drink. and frequently the Lin
washed
Somebody once asked Mr.. Lincoln how
many men the south had in the field. He
66eBBHed that he judged it to be about 1900
Ills ms questioner expressed both astonish--
LSLI ana dismay. WhereuDon odd ABE
VIII IN that eye twinkle of his. added
A., ne way get at the figures is this. At |
eLS present time the north is employing the (
services OF about 900 fighting men. But |
6oeIy time one of our generals gets licked, |
ne ne STATES that the force opposing him was |
~ least three times as large his own !
~ oI3llged to believe what my military com
llIaluers tell me. and conclude that the (
south has 1900, OOO"
as matter 70 fact from the beginning |
70 70 the end Of the civil war the north put /
I - IRe rield Qncluding those on ships) J
more than 100000 men.