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ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S
- ARMS i
By STANLEY WATERLOO
A Hitherto Unpublished Incident
in the Life of the Martyr
President.
? Tmi T '' "Hi' f te most wonderful of
I '. HI dnys ill t i' w.piidcilul life of that
1 yj xplendid tiling uinoiiR man's crta
iions, tnc Wliitc City of IS'.fl. The hike,
almost wavidi'ns, lay extended like a vast
expanse of blue satin till it blended wit ii
tlie eastern fdsy, the ptocn of trees and grass
was vivid, the air was perfect and the mov
ing thousand anil tens ot uioutanus visit
ing the great world's fair stepped lightly
as they walked, and were full of life and
laughter. Among all the myriad groups
there was none in greater spirits than one
made up of half a dozen people, led by a
middle aged man and woman, who wer
evidently the host and hostess of the ocea-
."to V r'i "'Onu'ff nj'fiiloi J flcW.:ft-r
j M.reliuement, that of the man intellect
and jat strength of character. That the
two, husband and wife, had not tired u
each other throughout the years, that tl . y
were in perfect accord and lovers still.
m.mifcsted by the many signs reeogi . a'ole
to those who have the eyes ; i- such
things. There was understanun defer
erne ami thought fulness in glar.ee and word
in any suggestion regarding the movements
of t tie party, now on its way townrd the
Ferris wheel. Certainly to be congratulated
npon their partnership in li;c wee Mr. and
M-s. (lentil.
The proposal to ri-io in t! i I'rriiswleel
had not come from either M . or Mrs. Cm
til, but from one of the young ladies of the
group, though readily acquiesced in. None
had yet made the aerial journey in the steel
monster and, as they strolled along, much
curiosity was expressed as to what the sen
sation would be when lifted so far aloft.
Mr. t lentil ah. no did not express himself.
His wile was observing liim narrowly and
i! t i e grew a look of concern upon her face,
a was already apparent upon his. Ik' was
pel i urbed.
'i '": wheel was reached, the tickets se
piire l and laughingly distributed by Mr.
Cin:il and then, as if something forgotten
had just occurred to him, he explained hur
riedly: "I can't go up with you, after all. 1 must
return to the main grounds for a short
into the farming lands. For thousands of
fears the lake has cast up its sand on its
eastern shore, the winds have carried the
jrent drifts inland and o has ripen built
gradually this singular plateau. Centuries
ago, vegetation found n place in the huge
uplifted fcuud dunes and held them together
untii now thtie extends a mighty forest
wncre was oin e only n bare and dead e
fijfl
ill
btStim.'
"Leonard, why would! you come
the root with me? '
The nan flushed, laid down hi book and
looked up at her silently for a moment
or two. Then be spoke slowly:
-1 was afraid."
"Afraid of wbatr
"That I would fall off the roof."
"But there was no danger of that. It is
a, great, broad roof."
"That makes no difference. It seems to
me 1 would have fallen off, somehow."
"Was that tue .reason yon would not
climb ti e mountains in Switzerland? Was
that why you were alarmed at the Ferris
wheel!"
"Yes." lie hesitated, and then resumed.
"I'm glad you've spoken of it. We should
have talked the matter over long ago.
Where heights are concerned I am a coward,
and I can't help it. I've tried and failed.
I know others affected that way, but 1
thought I could show enough force of char
acter to gradually overcome the weakness.
I haven't done it. What are you going to
do about it, my girl?" and he laughed
rexedly.
"Nothing," she answered, cheerfully.
"It't only a queer physical weakness. May
be I can help you. Anyhow, we'll try to
gether. But how did it ever come upon
you?"
"I could not have answered you definitely
until this very afternoon," was the reply.
"I've been thinking backward since I came
down the stairs and 1 reali.c, now, just
when this trait in me began. I'll tell you
all about it.
"When I was a small boy," he resumed,
"I climbed trees as recklessly as did the
other boys; I scampered along the beams in
the barn, and heights did not affect me more
than they did any other healthy youngster.
My family, as you know, lived in Spring
held, 111 It was one day late in the '40s,
when 1 was a boy of about ten, I believe,
that I wandered into the old state house,
now the courthouse, and upstairs into a
big room where a group of attorneys and
ollieials were gathered, talking polities and
telling stories. A story was in progress
as 1 sidled in, and it was being told most
graphically by a gaunt young attorney,
man of extraordinary height, who was sit
ting in the open window. 1 had hung about
to hear him tell stories before and knew
his peculiarities. lie had a way of work
ing a story up to a climax, then, at its close,
rising suddenly from his chair, uplifting his
arms and bringing them down with a sweep
as some droll point was made. Then he
would drop lazily back into his chair. I
stood listening this afternoon, open-mouth
ed and fuscinated. The story-teller went
on, reached his climax, rose, threw up his
arms and sat back suddenly, not into his
chair, as he imagined in his absorption and
unconsciousness, but Into the open win
dow! He shot backward and outward, but,
ti the same instant, two enormously long
arms shot upward and the outstretched
hands with the fingers barely eiutched the
edge of the sash above! The man drew
himself upward and inward with a grim
smile upon his face, but the faces of the
others in the room were white, and hearts
topped beating. Finally some one spoke:
" 'Abe, if your arms hadn't been five
inches too long, you'd be a dead man!'
"Somehow, I've never recovered from the
effect of that strange scene. I've been
afraid of heights and death. Had that man
fallen, one of the grandest figures in history
would never have loomed to its splendid
height. The history of the United States
would have been changed. Mary, that man
was Abraham Lincoln!"
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Lincoln's Clemency
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l WAS AFRAID," SAID NR. GENT1L.
time. It doesn't matter. I will meet you
at the entrance to the Transportation build
ing." There were regrets, and the man hur
ried away, though his wife for a moment
rested a lightly detaining hand upon his
arm. Half an hour later the party had
rejoined him, and at luncheon and through
out the afternoon be was its life and spirit,
for he had wit and tact and good-hearted-ness
and the many qualities which make a
gentleman.
Six weeks later Mr, and Mrs. GentQ were
visitors at one of the lake shore towns of
Michigan, enjoying to the full the drives,
the fishing and the society of others upon
their outing. South of this town for miles,
rlose to the lake, rise a long plateau, ex
tending back into the country for nearly a
mile, whtn it slopes downward gradual)
Iin SHOT BACKWARD.
f.ansc. Singularly enough, this soil thus
nought iroiii the lake's bottom proved the
one thing tor the nourishment of the beech,
ind the beech woods there are made up of
nonster trees not exceeded in size by those
rowing elsewhere upon the continent,
l'hey lower aloft like oaks and crowd out
other growths. Standing splendidly upon
;he lone highlands, they tempt visitors to
exploration of their dusky corridors and to
the coolness of their depths. Upon the
lake side have been built summer cottages
nd resorts of more pretension. One of
these, visited by the Gentils, had a broad
(lat roof, from the water side of which
iv.is a sheer fall of a hundred Frcm
this roof was afforded a wonderful Tiew of
sunsets on Lake Michigan and here the
visitors thronged each evening. It chanced
that Mrs. (ieutil wished to enjoy the view
with others, and her husband accompanied
her up the long, tortuous stairway. He
reached the roof, gte ene fj-i-.k errr
about, turned pale and stumbled hack to the
stairway, his wife assisting him. She said
nothing, save to ask him if he were ill, and
he but replied that he would be better in a
few moments. She returned to the roof
alone.
Perfect ns had been the life of the den
tils, there had existed one little mar. Very
proud of her husband was Mrs. Gcntil, as
the had a right to be. He was, and is,
man among men. His record was not of
the present ulone, but extended back almost
to boyhood. He was young when he led
his company gallantly in some of the fiercest
sattles of the civil war. He never flinched.
The war over, coming back as did so many
thousands of good men to a future prospect
without much definition, he showed the
same unllinchinguess. He completed a col
lege course under exceptional difficulties,
helping others in the meantime. He took
ip a professional career and fought it out
as bravely as he had fought out anything
before. When he fell in love he was not to
be denied, and the woman he sought, the
one with him now, found herself his wife
almost before she had become accustomed
to the breath of his swift wooing. lie bad
won fortune and some fame.
He looked the man lie was, too, this Leon
ard Gentil. liroad of forehead, keen of eye,
stern of jaw, erect of figure and decided
of movement, his wife admired him as she
must, and yet she sometimes wondered
and was troubled. She wanted him per
fect, and he was not quite that. He ex
hibited, at times, what seemed a sort of
cowardice. She could not understand it.
Once they had made a trip to Switzerland
and 'in bad stayed in the chalet below while
even she, a woman, had done mountain
elimr1" with their friends. Time and
! ! -i tuiiijs Uad happened, but tueiu
had cm no explanation. She knew her
ho.iand's aensitivenees, but, to-day, some
impi 're led ber to speak outright. It might
!e t .at she could aid him. She found him
n t ( ir room at the hotel, where he was
incVi'ig tranquilly and reading. She ad
earn ed to his side, patted kia head and then
put U.t question limply:
RITIXG on "Appeals to Lincoln's
Clemency," Mr. Leslie J. Perry saya,
in a recent issue of the Century,
Unit in all his many-sided aspects Abraham
Lincoln is perhaps better understood and
more thoroughly appreciated than any oth
er great American, for his life was as open
as the day. His heart went out spontan
eously to the lowly, whose hopes and as-
'pirations he understood. He was very ap
proachable. With a cause to plead, the
' meanest as well as the greatest could reach
Lincoln's ear at all times. Lincoln hated
strife and bloodshed, yet his career culmin
ated in the greatest war of modern times.
He was made miserable by the trial and
misfortunes of his country; his honest heart
w wrung by cases of cruelty and hardship
incident to a state of war that were dailyj
brought to his attention on appeal in some
form. The tender-hearted president was
the terror of military despots and brutal
jailers everywhere. Through appeals to hint
I ( r J
PRESIDENT SAVES A LIFE.
many ' criminals' richly deserving punish
ment were allowed to go free.
It was almost impossible ut first to se
cure Lincoln's consent to the execution of
a soldier for desertion, and through im
munity for this crime the nn iv just after
Fredericksburg was actun.!) threatened
with dissolution. He could not withstand
'the agonized tears of fathers, motherland
friends of the condemned; scemirgly would
not understand why a man who had enlisted
to be shot by the enemy, ; r .ips, should
, be shot m cold blood by f.i ;.n friends.
' In some respects the foicg-ilng would ap
pear to characterize an e--'-'!!y weak,
womanish nature; but Linc-jm , - far from
beiDu a weak man, tho-t;h evi:;, -ooved by
' misery and suffering, and apparently totally
free from every sort of prejudice. On occa
sion he couM be as firm a 1 1 o- U when he
thought juries s iould be vina cited, and
especially so whtn the ft'll-benig or lives
, of the struggling soldiers at tut front were
involved. In rases of the watton murder of
union soldiers it was svldcm that an appeal
lor clemency wa lucctssful.
G4, flat Lsariaui.
Willie Hard
Is bis father's Joy.
He's fourteen and
Is a smokeless boy.
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Mrs. Stubbs Ah, John, I rouiemter
the time vihen you to'd u t you wished
the who distance was through a cun
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niesaed Amoiiu: AVomrn.
"She Is hnppy in her home life?"
"Presumably. She ban had the
same husband for ten yenrg, and the
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Reporter Here is the r.ntice of two
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Editor Head it. "Piittlnc Two nnd
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