Arizona republican., 1920-02-12
It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any other path of safety except that of duty.
 -Aughey.
Two Pictures of Lincoln

We printing morning pictures of < Abraham Lincoln. There Lincolns not only at different stages of the greatest of American presidents throughout trying period of the To of those who him he seemed the saddest, the serious of To other serious souls whose long with a humorous anecdote appeared take the lightly. His political sometimes called him buffoon.
 One of these pictures taken just after Lincoln's E election the presidency a feeling fully his responsibility. The weight of a war would be thrown nina which would de- 2 termine whether this government should perish from the earth He might be the last of American presidents. The dream of the founders the g public might about to vanish.
 There a disaster to the north looming when this picture of the president again presented:
 The lines deeper presidents face $ than when I home, cheeks sunken. They nd anxiety. For eighteen months he had borne such burden has fallen upon few
 With bowed head and rolling down his
 furrowed cheeks, his face pale and his
 breast heaving with emotion Lincoln passed
 through the room"
 the Lincoln as presented the people, not determined all times by the gravity of the situation. The moments frightened by flashes of wit and humor which those scared abnormally serious though there were none who bore such weight as Lincoln, seemed ncongrous and brought criticism upon him. It perhaps, in that that he renewed and kept his great strength of body and mind which at last held the nation together.
 He allow himself weakened and dissipated by grief and worry It this smiles and of sorrows and jokes and burdens. that made Lincoln strong and lovable may have been this mixture that saved the union.
 And he smiled to the end. for it is recorded in thelast chapter.
 The very last moment of his life found a
 smile his face. The theater audience turned
 toward the presidential box where the assassins
 bullet had reaped its harvest Only in all that house heard nothing, saw nothing, thought
 nothing. His head had fallen quickly on his
 breast, his had relaxed a little, smile
 still on his lips "a
 A of seriousness depression such circumstances of 1s61- -65 would have produced in a ordinary have become fectious It would have permeated whole govern ment. would have spread through the army the nation. and all might have been lost
 Lincoln's life presents lessons his trymen than that any other valuable this phase emotion must be too long sustained, just part of the human body be too long subjected
 continuous strain without serious bodily harm
 Rather apart this have hitherto and often spoken of the tendency Americans carry all their problems back Lincoln. We inquire what he would have done in this crisis; whether it could have arisen under the wise guidance Lincoln. We reminded of this again by a state ment of admrer of Lincoln that if had Linconism, we could same time have bolsheyism.
 That easily believe be true. If the , strong, practical good of Lincoln nation, there would be in it for the unsub- stantial dreams and theories which bolshevsm . has