Year: 1876

portant event of his existence. Had he
been familiar with the Neapolitan prOverb,
See Naples and then die, he would doubt
less have paraphrssed it to suit the Occa-
sion. There vas, however, cloud in the
otherwise clear sky Of his enjoyment. He
had an apprehension that when he returned
TO his people in the Far West, they might
not believe that he had seen the Great
rather and talked to him face to face as il
was his great privilege to do then and there.
| Hence he would like to return to his people
laden down with presents-''shining all
| over like lOOking-glass' prove to them
the friendly relations which existed between
himself and the Great Father.


There was no resisting this, and there
was some good humored laughing, but the
faces of all the Indians remained serious
and reserved.


MIR. President" said the interpreter,
''the chiefs would be glad to hear you
talk"


10 which Mr.. Lincoln intimated that he
would eRdeavor to do so.


My red brethren, said Lincoln, ''are
anxious to be prosperous and have horses
and carriages like the pale faces. propose
to tell them how they may get them.


At this the dusky men were all attention,
and manifested their satisfaction by the
usual Indian gutteral sounds.


1.-The plan is a simple one, said the
President, as the interpreter turned his
words into the tongue Of the red men,
Their curiosity was fully aroused. Even
the spectators looked inquiringly at Mr..
Lincoln, to know how he was going to pro-
vide horses and carriages for those who
thus bluntly asked for them.


ssVor, oil bova land - said IinnOIn ave
will furnish YOU with agricultural imple-
ments. with which you will turn up the
soil, by hand, if you have not the means to
buy an OK, but l think with the aid which
you receive from the Government, you
might at least purchase one OK to do the
blowing for several. You will plant corn,
wheat and potatoes, and the money for
which YOU will sell these you will be able
each to buy an OK for himself at the end Of
the first year. At the end Of the second
year, you will each be able to buy perhaps
two oxen and some sheep and pigs. At the
end of the third, you will probably be IN
condition to buy horse, and in the course
of few years you will thus be the possess
or of horses and carriages like ourselves.


This plan for becoming proPrietors OF
horses and carriages was not rellshed, for
it meant work, and the faces Of the Indians
bore disappointed expression as the Pres
ident unfOlded it.


Il do not know any other way to get
these things, added Lincoln. ut is the
plan we have pursued-at least those OF US
who have them. You cannot pick them
off the trees, and they do not fall from the
Clouds"


Had it not been for the respect which
they owed to hespeaker as the, Great Faith
er, it was plain that they would have ex-
claimed against his words with the 'untu-
tored energy of their Indian nature. As
he was well acquainted with that nature
having served as Captain in the HpPeeenOe
war, and spent his early life on the from
tier, suspicion entered my mind that ne
was blending with the advice little chat
ing. To change the subject and restore
them to good humOr, he requested one OF
the attendants to roll up large globe o
the world which stood in a corner on
three legged support on wheels. The Pres-
ident placed his hand on the globe and
turned it round, saying:


''We pale faces believe that the world IS
round, like this"


At this point Lincoln caught the inqulr-
ing eyes of the Indians fastened like note
Of Interrogation on the legs Of the globe.


without the legs" continued Lincoln,
in answer to the mute interrogation, with
a twinkle in his eye. ''We pale faces can
get into big canoe, showed by steam
here, for instance, at Washington, or Bal
timore, near by-go round the world and
come back to the place from which We start
ed"


With due respect to The Great Father,
they evidently thought, to give it mild
term, that he was given to exaggeratl0n.
He started off again, to tell about the north
pole, the tOrrid zone, the length and breadth
OF the United States, and how long 1t
would take man to walk from one end OF
1t to the other, in which he got somewhat
entangled; then seeing q well-known man
Of science on his right, Lincoln placed his
hand on his shoulder, gently urged him for
toward to position in front Of the Indian
to whom he said:


1'But here is one of our learned men, who
will tell you all about it,


Saying this, Lincoln bowed and with
drew, and the saUaRt, taken by surprise en-
desgored to extricate himself from the dit-
ficuity as best he could, by continuing the
theme where the President left OF.


One somber event followed the Indian
reception. Big Wolf, who expressed his
desire to have sausages like white men,
satisfied his appetite in the hotel on this
food without STINT, and it was this product
of our civilization which was his bane. In
a word, sausage killed him.


ST. Nicholas for NOU.