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Odftcraflon after generation has tct tts stakes
ot the road of progress, and the xcorld has
moved up and moved y and moved
on and act other stakes, tut crime
and disease and the dema
gogue are still In the
procession.
Come Forward and Help
THEItE nre families in this town without
enough to cat, families of men who have
worked hard all their Uvea and would bo
Working hard now if they could lind any work
to do.
There are children actually Buffering from
want of sufficient clothing or means of sus
tenance. There Is a call from the Innocents
for help, n call to nil Who have a store frorn
"which to Rive, a call for sacrifice, a call for
the sort of human sympathy that translates
itself into material contributions.
Mora than $100,000 is spent In Philadelphia
every day for things not absolutely neces
sary to the spenders' comfort. Tens of thou
sands of nickels and dimes go for little lux
uries. Forget that midday cigar! What It
costs will keep a baby ullvo n day and may
uven save Its life. Make the lunch a light
one for one day and convert the saving Into
assistance for the needy. There are a thou
sand and one ways In which sacrifice can
manifest itself. One hundred thousand dol
lars Is the goat set. Every cent of It should
be In the coffers of the Emergency Aid Com
mittee by midnight tomorrow.
How better can the birthday of the Great
Emancipator be celebrated than by making of
it a day of self-sacrifice, a day of brotherhood,
a. day made glorious by a new demonstra
tion of the humanity and sympathy that are
In us7
Give! Give!! Give!!! There are agonies
and sorrows which can be dissipated by your
generosity.
--. One Dollar Is Enough
THE sole object of a marriage license fee
is to cover the cost of maintaining a rec
ord. It is not to raise revenue, nor is it to
dlscourago marriage. There are countries
where the marriage license fee is so high as
practically to prevent legal murrlage among
the very poor. But it does not prevent Il
legal marriage, to the demoralization of both
parents and children.
If the General Assembly is seriously con
sidering the proposition to raise tho mar
rlpge license fee from $1 to $2, it ought, in
stead, to turn about face and decide to let
well enough alone. One dollar Is all that any
mart ought to be asked to pay for a license,
' and it the purpose of the license Bystem, to
secure an orderly and decent entrance into
the marriage relation, could be effected by
n. 50-cent fee, it would be better to halve
than to double tho present legal rate.
An Example of Pernicious Efficiency
GANG politics, and nothing else, is in the
Stern bill to chango the method of filling
a. vacancy in the office of Mayor, At present,
If a vacancy occurs, the succession falls upon
the Director of Public Safety, the Director of
Publla Works and on the other members of
the cabinet in a fixed order, nnd this acting
Mayor la to serve until the next municipal
election.
This arrangement assures the continuance
of the ppllcy which the voters indorsed when
they elected a Mayor, and it guarantees that
there will be no change In that policy until
the voters themselves have had an oppor
tunity to order it at a regular election.
Tho Stern bill provides that a vacancy (n
top office of the Mayor shall be filled by
Councils, meeting in Joint convention with
in ii hours after the vacancy occurs, and
that the man so chosen shall serve until the
next municipal election.
The purpose of the bill is to provide against
future contingencies In the Interest of the
Organization by empowering Councils', which
Is more, likely than the mayoralty to be con
trolled by the Machine, to elect a Machine
Mayor- Its preparation and Introduction Il
lustrate the thoroughness with which the
Gang does, its work. It can be de'eated only
tiy similar vigilant thoroughness on the part
ot the friends of good government.
The Great Discovery
S rriUE most interesting discovery or tno
"4- year I that people are Just folks. It is
ot new. but when things are running
umaethly, and there is no unusual drain upon
Ue-r$aerve of brotherhood. It seems as If
i(ie woifftp who dresses -in. Ml. wears line
fyr, $tm ta the opera In a limousine, wrap
ped m tdvuta,-that set oft the warm satjn
ut her neck and shoulders, is made of differ-'
ent Muff from the wife of the man who
.lnv the car. And to the average English
ip. n duchess Is something so far above
i-onuneti mortals that aha must not be men
tioned In the some brtatlj. pf course, when
atUuk of it, we remember that God mad?
6Ut f otte ptey ail Uie p$oplw ftf the eart,h.
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WKaltb 1 anctry create supwfteial di
UotuHt o marked WU they ar seif using.
Out nr u) tar?pe arj unraplyjft6$ in
Ik i u,taM( StAMM bate shckd ua it $-
ts.waet mfmmm aWw wNn a tajW
John D. It6ckefeller, Jr., that she had
thought he was some sort of a monster, in
stead of tho nmlftblo youngi man ho Is, try
ing to do hln bost, according to his lights,
the poor women who have been compelled
lo seek relief from tho Emergency Aid Com
mittees hero and In other cities have dis
covered that tho wives and daughters ot tho
rich, administering tho business ot those
committees, aro women nlso, nnd not crea
tures of another race too fine for human na
ture's dally food, The fashionable -women
have discovered, In turn, quntltlcs of mind
and heart In the very poor which would do
honor to the highest station. Tho English
farmers' boys aro fighting side by side on
the Continent with the sons of the castle
in the park, nnd the mothers nt home are
drawn together by a common dread that
tugs at the strings of their common tnothor
hcart, Alt ranks arc leveled In tho face of n
great danger. Though wo do not hear so
much about conditions In Germany nnd
Russia, tho same leveling process Is nt work
there.
It Is this rediscovery of a common hu
manity that will bo responsible for what
ever wave of democracy sweeps over Europe
after the war. Tho privileged classes nre
learning that the great privilege Is to serve.
Noblesse oblige. And the masses nre re
ceiving nn education In self-confidence nnd
self-assertion on tho field of battle the
effects of which will later bo shown in poll
tics. Tho whole world Is kin, after nil. and
why should wo not be kind to those of our
own family?
McNichol Driven Into Line?
CJENATOn McNICHOT, now declares that
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ho is In favor of rapid transit, that ho
recognizes tho necessity for It, that Ills fight
is morely an Incidental one relating to
methods; and ho broadly Intimates that his
position has been misunderstood. It Is even
asserted that he will permit tho Finance
Committee to report tho transit ordinances
out at tho meeting next week.
This Is good news. It Is to bo hoped that
tho Senator's change of mind will bo perma
nent and that he and his allies will Join
heartily In the movement to begin transit
work this year. It will not do, however, for
citizens to forsake tho fight a minute. It Is
more than ever imperative that they remain
on the firing line and stay there until abso
lute victory has been achieved. Habit
might unfortunately get the better of the
obstructionists. An nrmy of fighters to re
mind them of the new road they hao set
out to travel should always bo at hand.
The. public is not interested in technical
details. It simply knows that this or that
move will block transit. It understands
clearly that the failure ot Finunce Commit
tee to report tho transit ordinances out at
the next meeting will delay transit a year.
A failure to report them would be construed
as a betrayal of the city. That Is what It
would be.
Senator McN'ichol controls Finance Com
mittee. Let him, through it, make good his
promise that l.e is for rapid transit.
American Factories Will Decide War
THE result ot tho war in Europe will not
bo determined on the battlefields of Eu
rope, but in the factories of tho United States.
That fact has been apparent for weeks. It
is said that money decides wars, but that
presupposes goods which money can buy.
So generally has the conflict tied up the man
ufacturing nations that the United States
alone is left In full possession of her means
of production. This Is the only great mar
Uet open, and whichever side has access to
It derives therefrom an ud vantage which is
certain to tell eventually.
Too Much Congress
JUST about tho time business men begin
to get cheerful again the President de
cides that Congress must continue to sit.
No sooner is one "major operation" com
pleted, than some politician or other dis
covers a new disease, real or Imaginary, and
before anybody knows what has happened,
the Administration takes the thing up in a
fanatical sort of way and declares that more
operating Is necessary to save the country.
About the time any business begins to move
along smoothly and Is earning profits, it
gets a Jolt from Washington.
There is nothing fundamentally wrong
with business. It la suffering from shock,
sympathetic hysteria, neurasthenia, superin
duced by politics. The logical, sensible, way
out is a defined area of free operation for
business, but no sooner is the area defined,
than Congress undertakes a new definition.
There are intelligent men who are convinced
that Congress not in session would be worth
Jl, 000,000 a day to the country. It is a pity
that men who live In Washington so soon
get out of touch with conditions in the na
tion Itself.
Count Zeppelin will be welcomed on this
side of the ocean with one of his airships If
he will only leave the bombs behind.
If a dog without a license can be shot in
the public streets, why can not he be shot in
the parks when he Is attacking the deer?
Once more the attempt to hold religious
meetings in the public school houses has
failed, and It should fall every time It is
made.
Bread a day old can be freshened by moist
ening It and putting It In the oven, for a
few moments; but what can be done to re
lieve a hunger St hours old?
The rich men who have appeared as wit
nesses before the Industrial Relations Com
mission took what was coming to them in
the shape of fees and mileage allowed,
As to segregation, there are times when It
seems as If the problem could be solved most
easily by providing separate quarters for
the Jevel-heaijed there are so few of them.
Tho anti-suffragists who object to prayers
In the General Assembly for the psssa'ge of
the suffrage amendment tP the Constitution
are "Ply asking that thejc opponents play
fair.
I.-, " -j "
jt Is wicked for the opponents of the ship
purchasa bill to filibuster for Its defeat, but
f yhtn the friends of the measure filibuster
dalay a vote until iney nave rallied all
ir forces ttiey are ac.tJng patriotically!
if the whale British merchant fleet should
ly the Limed states nag, tne Stars and
gtrlpea woujtt dominate the sea onc more
Perhaps tWs Is ttMt oeiy way that the dom
Iniuce Ttt sV4) mlf Oiey get s, Mttle wiser
iif WmMMm
THE PRESIDENT'S REFUSAL
TO PLAY WITH THE TEAM
Hnrdly a Dozen Democratic Senators
Aro nt Heart in J?nvor of tho Ship
ping Bill The Party Objects to Too
Much Wilson.
By J. C. HEMPHILL
I WAS told tho other night by n Democratic
Senator this! "There are not 12 Senators
who are at heart In favor of the ship purchas
ing bill, which Is delaying tho public business
and threatening tho dissolution of tho Dem
ocratic party, t don't want It nnd will Mot
Vote for it; my people do not want itj the
business Interests of tho country wilt, not bo
served by It; it Is wholly un-Democratlc be
cause it Is purely Socialistic; It seeks to do by
Indirection what the Democratic party has
always fought ngalnst the granting of sub
sidies to ships; It Is time-serving becauso tho
best that is claimed for It by Its most mouthy
advocates Is that It is Intended only lo meet
a passing emergency.
"Congress is asked to authorize the expendi
ture of something like $30,000,000 in the pur
chase of ships, of which tho Government Is to
be part owner. These ships aro to be used for
the transportation of American goods and
produce to foreign markets nt rates far car
riage that will be less than tho rates charged
by the owners of ships that arc engaged in
tho sea-going trade. The rates are said to be
extravagant and the United States Govern
ment is to spend an enormous sum of money
to set up In business for the spaco of two
years or 12 months, In competition with the
people who aro employed In this trade. And
the whole people nre to be taxed to cnablo tho
Government to do this un-Democratlc thing.
The Spell of the "VrTitle House
"It Is worso, far worse, than tho Govern
ment ownership of railroads and the telegraph
nnd telephone Industries of the country, be
cause It will subject us to the danger, at least,
and not a remote danger, of complications
with foreign nations engaged In tho sea-going
trade. All this has been pointed out by the
Senators who have spoken against this new
nnd very dangerous departure In the func
tions of the Government.
"If the President should ndvlsc Congress to
appropriate J30,000,OOQ to bo expended with
tho shipbuilders of the" United States In tho
building of ships to be UBcd under Govern
ment direction and ownership In the business
of carrying the manufactures and produce of
this country tn foreign markets, don't jou
know that would raise a howl? If u voto
should be taken In tho Senate on the question
ot voting direct subsidies to ahlpbulldets, do
ou think for a moment such n proposition
would meet with favor from tho very Sena
tors who nro now backing tho picscnt meas
ure, and backing It. I believe, simply because
they arc under the spell of tho White House?
It Is admitted that the purpose of tho bill Is
to cover only a passing emergency, and I can
not understand why wc should do this foolish
thing that will riso up to condemn us when
wo have recovered from our hysteria and
resume our old rulo of fighting for 'prin
ciple.' "
This. In substance. Is what one of tho oldest
of tho Democratic Senators said about the
whipping bill which Is Impeding tho public
business that tho President may scoro
another personal triumph. Tho "team" does
not want it, the country does not need it.
As one of the Elder Statesmen said last
night: "Government ownership of ships is
the first step toward Government ownership
of railroads, and ownership of railroads
means. In fact, railroad ownership ot Gov
ernment. There are over 2,000,000 railroad
employes In the United States and 'team
work' among them would not leave very
much for the rest ot us."
Not the Same McAdoo
There was a gtcat outcry last summer nnd
fall for relief for the cotton growers of the
South nnd the efforts of Congressman "Bob"
Henry, of Texas, to have the Government
issue $250,000,000 special currency to help them
In tholr distress constituted one of tho most
pathetic spectacles in the legislative history
of the country. Secretary McAdoo prevailed
against tho taldeis and the Treasury was
saved, and the conditions have so much
Impiovcd In the South that there is little or
no talk of the starvation and ruin from
which It was contended there could be no
escape. The McAdoo who was so strong and
effective in saving the situation then was not
the same McAdoo who now stands for the
shipping bill,
Thero is much objurgation of the filibuster
of the Republican Senators against the bill,
and tho seven Democratic Senators who have
Joined them in opposition to the measure aro
to be burled without benefit of clergy; to fill
buster Is a crime against the people, and the
infamy of the men who are making this fight
will endure, and nil that. But the men who
protest so vigorously against th wickedness
of the filibuster In this case forget the time
when precisely tho same sort of tactics was
regarded by the Democrats as the only se
curity of the South and its civilization when
the Itepubllcan majority was seeking to en
act the Lodge-force bill.
The Preiident'a Usurpation
WhJ' should the President insist upon
doubtful, unnecessary and un-Democratlo
things? This shipping bill is not in any
sense vital. It is Socialistic In Us tendencies;
It has not been demanded by any considerable
number of people; It Is designed to relieve a
manufactured emergency; yet the President
fights for It Just as If there was somo great
principle Involved In It and as if without it
the prosperity of the country would be utterly
destroyed. He has done many good things
for which h I commanded of all men. IJe
could rest his case on the new currency sys
tem which John Joy Edson, one of the high
financial lights In this community, declared
last Saturday night would give the United
States the greatest financial system the
world has ever known, but he Insists upon
doing things' that are unnecessary and of
doubtful expediency, If not utterly Indefen
sible. The pundits say that there will be a deficit
of something Ilka SO,000,000 at the close ot
the present fiscal year, and this in spite of
the fact that we have a war tax, an Income
tax, a corporation tax; and greatly increased
revenue from Internal taxation. Hoiy much
better It would have been had the President
not Insisted upon free eugar, which gav us
a rather steady revenue of about (50,000,000
annually, and had he regarded tho suggestion
of Oscar Underwood that this sugar tax
should ba retained, and that a small duty on
wool would be of advantage to the Govern
ment. And how much better would it have
ben if Mr. Underwood had Insisted upon his
views on those matters Instead of yielding to
the President's opinions on the ground that
tbU U Mr. Wilton's Administration.
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administrative, advisory; Mr. Underwood's
business was legislative, and whatover the
failure of tho tariff legislation tho blamo Is
to bo attached to the man who mado tho law
rather than tho man who advised It. If the
President would play with tho team now and
then InBtcad of requiring tho team to play
with him always thero would bo less friction
nnd discontent among many of his ardent
supporters In Congress.
MTO THE GERMAN ARMY"'
Earl Curzon Turns Poet ttf Express His Feeling
Toward the Teuton Foe.
DISPATCHES from Germany have told of
tho popularity thero of "The Song ot
Hate," having for Its themo the bitterness of
feeling of Germans toward the British. Tho
Kaiser decorated tho author.
Now Earl Curzon of Kedlcston has written
a poem expressing his personal hatred of
the Germans. Earl Curzon married Mary
T-ellcr, ot Chicago. She died several years
ago. Ho has long been prominent In British
official life, having been Viceroy of India.
His poem, published in a London newspaper,
is entitled "To tho German Army: A New
Tear's Prayer, 1915." It follows:
I pray that every passing hour
Your hearts may bruise and beat.
I pray that every step you take
Mnv scorch and sear your feet!
I pray that beauty never more
May cliui-m your eyes, your ears,
That you may march through day and night
lteneath a heaven ot tears.
Blind to the humblest flowers that In
The hedgerow corners bloom,
ncaf to whatever sound or cry
May wake In you the memory
Ot dear ones left at home.
1 ptay your guns may be engulfed ,
Beneath the loam our loam!
I pray the streams our streams may leap
In floods above their banks and sweep
Your trampling hosts to doom!
1 ptay the spectres of our slain
May haunt jou In your tents
Ylgll ot sleep, whlche'er you Beck
Naught smelling but tho' bloody reek
Of our Holy Innocents.
I in ay the ruins of our homes
May crush you like a worm,
Your brains beneath, the torment reel.
Doubt from your hearts their fury steal.
Fear drive you llko brute beasts that squeal
Ami fly before the storm!
1 pray that you may live to writhe
'Neath every pang we've known;
Then haply may Almighty God
Spare the supreme avenging rod.
The eternal anger of His nod,
Arid say the miles that you have tiod
Shall of themselves stonel
Social Insurance in Germany.
From the New Orleans 8tat.
German statistics bIiow that Just before the
war ll.POO persons were protected by compul
sory sickness Insurance, 24,(00,000 by compulsory
accident Insurance and 10,000,000 by old ace and
invalidity Insurance, exclusive of several mil
lions of salaried ,employes who were brought
under compulsory Insurance by recent legisla
tion. This gives a rough Idea of the all-around
security enjoyed by the average German work
man In pructlcally all Industries and many of
the trades of the empire.
Sincerity
No man can produce great things who Is not
thoroughly sincere In. dealing with himself, who
would not exchange the finest show for the
poorest reality, who does not so love his work
that he Is not only gljid to, give himself for
It, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice In the
surrender. James Itussell Lowell.
O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!
O Captain! my Captain) our fearful trip lb done,
The ship has weathered every rack, the prlza
we sought Is won,
The port U near, the bells I hear, he people all
exultlnr,
Whlla follow eyes the steady keel, the vssiel
grim and daring;
But O heart) heart! heart!
(i the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain Ilea,
Fallen cold and dead,
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the
belts;
nise up-for you the flag Is flung for you the
huale thrlHs. ,
For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths for
you, the snores a-crowdnr,
For you they pall, the swaying miss, their
eager faces turning;
Here, Captain) dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on th deck
You've fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, hi, lips are pal
and till. "
My father doea not feel my arm, he has no pulsa
nor tv ill.
The ship Is anchored safe and sound. Its voyage
sloie and done.
From fearful trip the vietor ship comes in with
object won,
Exult. O shores, and ring. O bells'
But i with mournful tread,
Walk ttia deck my Captain tits.
fallen told and dsld.
" -rWlt"WJlt83B.
DEAF J
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SUCH WAS HE, OUR MARTYR CHIEF"
The Man Who "Bound the Nation
of Lincoln That Reveal Something of a Many-Sided Personality.
IN LIVING words Robert G. Ingcrsoll spoko
of Abraham Lincoln: "Strange mingling
of mirth and tears, of the tragic and gro
tesque, of cap nnd crown, of Socrates and
Rabelais, of Aesop and Marcus Aurclius; of
all that is gentle and Just, humorous nnd
honest, merciful, wise, laughable, lovablo and
divine, and all consecrated to the use of man;
while through all, and over all, an over
whelming sense of obligation, of chivalrlc
loyalty to truth, and upon all the shadow of a
tragic end."
We cannot look upon a groat man, however
Imperfectly, said Carlyle, without gaining
something thereby. In the hundreds of anec
dotes that have been told of Abraham Lin
coln we may find something of tho great
man's nature and golden worth. Even those
which have been most frequently repeated
are still profitable. The few stories which
follow do not comprehend the whole man
but who, indeed, may compass his many
sided personality?
An Unfettered Lawyer.
Lincoln the lawyer waB known for more
than his displays of rough and ready wit.
Says Doctor Oberholtzer, In his excellent
biography:
"In cases where wrong and Injustice had
been committed upon tho clients' whom he
represented his notes covering that portion
of his argument were brief: 'Skin the de
fendant.' He was a master of the florcest
invective when aroused, and if he could once
rid a case ot its technicalities ho and his
clients never feared the result. He could sway
a Jury at will when his heart was in his work.
A lawyer who accompanied him on the cir
cuit has related that Lincoln could take
greater liberties with the Court and still keep
within tho bounds of orderly procedure than
any one clso then pleading at the Illinois bar,
and this was largely because of his deep sense
of Justice and his cleverness in tho use of
apt and humorous anecdote.
"In the law, as in every field he ever
entered, Lincoln was oilglnal and unfettered
by the conventions of the world. To a man
who entered tho office of his firm In Spring
field one day to state his case, Lincoln made
this memorable reply:
" 'Yes, we can doubtless gain your case for
you; wo can set a whole neighborhood at log
gerheads; we can distress a widowed mother
and her six fatherless children and thereby
get for you six hundred dollars, to which
you seem to have a legal claim, but which
rightfully belongs, It seems to me, ns much
to the woman and her children as It docs to
you, You must remember that some things
legally right are not morally right. We shall
not take your case, but will give you a little
advice for which we will charge you nothing.
You seem to be a sprightly, energetic man;
we would advise you to try your hand nt
making six hundred dollars In some other
way.' "
A Rivalry in Height.
Many stories are told to illustrate the
unconventional democracy of Lincoln, The
experience of Joshua Douglas, a lawyer of
Meadevltle, In this State, will serve as well
as any. Ur. Douglas had business in Wash
ington and while there ho went to the White.
House to pay his respects. He entered the
President's office, where Mr. Lincoln was
busy at a desk. Mr, Douglas was a man as
remarkable as Lincoln for his height, Mr,
Lincoln looked up after a few moments and
saw the stranger,
"Who let you In here?" he demanded, with
a fine show of Indignation, "I never let any
man come in here who Is taller than I am."
Then with a smile he arose, held out his
hand, and asked, 'How tall are you, any
way? Let'a measure."
So the two stood back to back, and another
.caller acted as Judge and decided that the
two men were of the same height.
. "I "Wpuld not h,ve believed It," chuckled
the President. "Well, how are you, any
way, and how dd you grow so blgt" and
hey sat 4own and had a pleasant chat
together,
Jfe was equally unceremonious when he
came upon George Bancroft at a reception
at the White House. He seized Bancroft's
band in one of his an& -waved the other, high
In tho air and shputed:
"Now, don't tell me who you are. I know
you History American history Bancroft
George Bancroft! That's who you are,
George Bancroft, author of the History of
AmerJea," and h beamed with 4eUg Ut, while
the suttts arnica h! shouted with laughter.
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Sometimes Lincoln won pestered with vli
ltors who came on foolish errands. OnceJ
when his burden of sorrow and toll wis
almost greater than he could bear, a worais
came to him and said in an imperious, !',
clamatory manner: "Mr. President, you must
glvo me a colonel's commlslson for my son.
Sir, I demand it not as a favor, but as ft'
right. Sir, my grandfather fought at Lexlnjij
ton. Sir, my uncle was the only man who did
not run away at Bladcnsburg. Sir, my father!
fought nt New Orleans and my husband riil
hilled at Monterey." "I guess, madam," Un"
coin replied dryly, "your family has dons
enough for the country. It Is time to g'y
somebody else a chance." '
Lincoln had little conception of his own
greatness or Importance. When General Fryi
called at the White House to escort the Preil-i
dent to the trnin which was to carry him to
Gettysburg for the dedication of the nations!
cemetery he found that Mr. Lincoln was not,
quite ready to start. Tho General suggested
itaaa
that they had better hurry. "I feel aboutjS
mat," sam me lTesiaent, "as tne convict in
one of our Illniols towns felt when he wul
going to tho gallows. As ho passed along ttlejfl
mi
road In the custody of tho Sheriff, the people,'
eager to see the execution, kept crowding add
pushing past ltlm. At last he called out
'Boys.you needn't be In such a hurry to git
ahead. There won't bo any fun till I get
there.'" After delivering that beautiful anl
Immortal address at Gettysburg he sat down.
thinking he had not done himself credit, and
said to his friend Lamon: "Lamon, thjtj
speech won't scour."
sorrow iuixea wnti numor
Governor Curtln, of Pennsylvania, after t
battle of Fredericksburg, was summoned t
the White House. The Governor had Just
viewed that field of national disaster. Mil
coin showed great anxiety about the.
wounded, and asked many questions aboun
tho dead. As Allen Thornton nice decruH
the Interview, Governor Curtln replied: 'Mr,
President, It was not a battle, It was butcli'
cry," and proceeded to give a grsphlsj
description of the scenes he had witnessed.
Lincoln was heart-broken at the recital, snl
soon reached a state of great nervous excite
mcnl.
"Finally, as the Governor wns leaving t&i
loom." sava Mr. nice, "he went forward ana.
taking the President by the hand, tender!
expressed his sympathy for his sorrow. Hi(
said, 'Mr. President, I am deeply touched
your sorrow, and at the distress, I bay,
caused you. I have only answered yourj
questions. No doubt my Impressions hm
been colored by the sufferings I have seen, j
trust matters will look better when tA
official renorts come in. I would give all
possess to know how to rescue you from thK
terrible war.
"Lincoln's whole aspect suddenly change'
and he relieved his mind by telling a story,
" 'This, reminds me. Governor.' he said, '9,
an old farmer out in Illinois that I used
know.' He took .It Into his head to go I"!9-
Vintr.rnl.jlnn- TT spnt nut to Europe SI
imported tho finest breed of hogs he eooW
Villi. VWo. ni-lvA Vinrr wnn mlt In n. Tien, and tQi
farmer's two mischievous boys-James an
John warn inlrl tn ba sure not to let hint OU
Dut James, the worst of the two, let M
brute out next day, The hog went stralJ
for tho boys, and drove John up a tree- This,
the hog went for the seat of Jf"W
trousers, and the only way the boy couji
save himself was by holding on to the PPJA
tall. The hog would not give up bto hunjj
nor the boy his hold! After they had mftdei
good many circles around tho tree, the vlsj
courage began to give out, and he enoui u
his brother. ! sav. John, come down 1u'f,
and haln m lat fhla hosr srol' NOW. Governor
that Is exactly my cast. I wish some ooi
would come and. help me let this hog Bo-
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an interview with a Turkish Bultan JVl
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tn pnnv't Vihinim.il TV tn CihrtatU.Illtf'.
appear.) that the energstlo woman travel
Smyrna by water and frpot Iher trW ;
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fused to beeoms a Christian, he requestw .
to remain in bis dominions, and. vrsei'
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assort. The Quakers have lw.y b"
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