The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-30

were alone that during his visit to the President the night before he told Mir. Lincoln new story. The Pres ident delayed him at the reception, saying: Andrews, l forgot the point of that story you told me last night; repeat 1t now"
 "I am accused of telling a great many stories," MT. Depew quotes Lincoln. They say that it lowers the dignity of the presidential office, but I have found that plain people (re- beating with emphasis plain people), take them as you find them, are more easily influenced by broad and hu- morous illustration than in any other way and what the hypoccriticial few may think, don't care.
 ~ 'In speaking MT. Lincoln had a peculiar cadence in his voice, caused by laying emphasis upon the key word of the sentence. In answer to the question how he knew so many anecdotes, he answered:
 "T never invented a story but I have good memory and, I think, tell one tolerably we'll My early life was passed among pioneers who had the courage and enterprise to break away from civilization and settle in the wilderness. The things which happened to these original people and among themselves in their primitive conditions were far more dramatic than anything invented by the pro- fessional story tellers.
 For many years I travelled the circuit as a lawyer, and usually there was only one hotel in the county towns where court was held. The judges, the grand and petit juries, the lawyers. the clients and wit nesses would pass the night telling exciting or amusing occurrences and these were of infante varity tnd in- trest'"
 Referring to Lincoln's adroitness in handling men and his personal humility, Mir. Depew said
 Able Cabinet
 "No President ever had a cabinet of which the members were so inde- pendent, had so long individual fol- lowings and were so inharmonious. The Presidents sole ambition was to obtain the ablest men in the country for the departments which he as- signed to them without regard to their loyalty himself. One of MT, Stewards secretaries would frequent ly report to me the acts of disloyal- ty or personal hostility on the part of MT. Chase with the lament: The old man-meaning Lincoln-knows all about 1t and will not do a thing l" Mir. Depew tells how he started on business career that finally brought him to the presidency of the New York Central railroad. He had just been nominated and confirmed as United States minister to Japan at F,5000 year and an outfit of s9 900. At the same time he had been offered the attorneyship for the New York and Harlem railroad at less salary. When he told Commodore Vanderbilt about 1t, the commodore remarked: t"Railroads are the career for a young man; there is nothing in politics. 1 Don't be a damned fool"
 That decided him and the result was that on January l. 1921, MT. De- pew rounded out 55 years in the rail- way service of this corporation and its allied lines"
 The future senator was admitted to l the bar in 1858 and immediately opened an office in Peekslill, N. Y., his home town. His first client was farmer who wanted an opinion on a complicated question. Young Depew | prepared the case with great care" The farmer asked him what his fee and he said 50. His client replied: "A dollar and seventy-five cents is enough for a young lawyer like you" and Dewpew accepted 1t only to learn that the farmer had later gone to an older lawyer and paid $500 for the same advice.