She told him of the sums, "Which," said she, "I have all down here in my account book."

On looking it over, he saw that her debts ranged from fifty cents to a dollar and a quarter, and amounted in the gross to something less than twelve dollars; not a very startling thing even in those days of small things.

He succeeded in putting the little book into his coat pocket without attracting her attention, and went out, looked up the various parties, and paid off all the little sums according to the memorandum, and returned in the afternoon with the acknowledgments of payments in full. On his returning the account book to her, she exclaimed: "Why, Tommy Lincoln, have you gone and paid off all my debts?"

"Yes," he said,

"and you will marry me now?" "Yes," said she, and they were married the next morning at 9 o'clock. Mr. Haycraft, the narrator of the 'story, was present at the ceremony.

An old Englishman who resided in Springfield, Ill., hearing the result of the Political Convention åt Chicago, could not contain his astonishment. "What!" said he, "Abe Lincoln nominated for President of the United States? Can it be possible! A man that buys a tencent beefsteak for his breakfast, and carries it home himself!"

MR. LINCOLN being asked by a friend how he felt when the returns came in that insured his defeat, replied that "he felt, he supposed, very much like the stripling who had stumped his toe; too badly to laugh and too big to cry."

A YOUNG man bred in Springfield speaks of a vision that has clung to his memory very vividly, of Mr. Lincoln as he appeared in those days. His way to school led by the lawyer's door. On almost any fair summer morning, he could find Mr. Lincoln on the sidewalk, in front of his house, drawing a child back and forth, in a baby carriage.

In the old country church near the Lincoln place, near Rockport, Indiana, is a pulpit which was made by Abe Lincoln and his father. There is a book case in the Evansville Custom House made by the same carpenters and taken there for preservation. Near where the old house stood is a dilapidated corn crib with a rail floor, the rails for which were split by young Lincoln.

IN South Starksboro, Addison County, Vt., says the Burlington Free Press, there are residing triplets, sons of Leonard Haskins, born May 24, 1864, and named by President Lincoln. They have in their hand a letter from the martyr-President, and the names given were Abraham Lincoln, Gideon Welles and Simon Cameron. They are the children of American parents.

MR. LINCOLN never made his profession lucrative to himself. It was very difficult for him to charge a heavy fee to anybody, and still more difficult for him to charge his friends anything at all for his professional services. To a poor client, he was as apt to give money as to take it from him. He never encouraged the spirit of litigation. Henry McHenry, one of his old clients, says that he went to Mr. Lincoln with a case to prosecute, and that Mr. Lincoln refused to have anything to do with it, because he was not strictly in the right. "You can give the other party a great deal of trouble," said the lawyer, "and perhaps beat him, but you had better let the suit alone."

IN one of Lincoln's early speeches against slavery he said: "My distinguished friend, Stephen A. Douglas, says, it is an insult to the emigrants to Kansas and Ne

braska to suppose they are not able to govern themselves. We must not slur over an argument of this kind because it happens to tickle the ear. It must be met and answered. I admit that the emigrant to Kansas and Nebraska is competent to govern himself, but (the speak

er rising to his full height), I deny his right to govern any other person without that person's consent, That touched the very marrow of the matter, and revealed the whole difference between Lincoln and Douglas.

AN old gentleman in Rockport, near the early home of the Lincoln's in Indiana, lives to tell of the last time he saw Lincoln. He was visiting the Lincoln homestead, and as he was coming away they found a trespassing cow hanging about the gate. The cow had given the Lincolns much annoyance by entering their garden and committing depredations. Young Abe was dressed in a suit of jeans, without any coat, as it was summer time, and on his head he wore a broad-brimmed white straw hat, part of which was cracked and broken. cow standing hypocritically meek at the gate, leaped astride of her back, and, digging his into her sides, the astonished animal broke away down the road in a lumbering gallop. "The last I saw of Abe

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Lincoln," the old gentleman relates fondly, "he was swinging his hat, shouting at the top of his voice, galloping down the road on that thunderstruck cow."

FROM the original manuscript of one of Mr. Lincoln's speeches, these words were transferred: "Twenty-two years ago, Judge Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then-he a trifle younger than I. Even then we were both ambitious,-I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure-a flat failure; with him, it has been one of splendid success. His name fills the nation, and is not unknown even in foreign lands. I affect no contempt for the high eminence he has reached. So reached that the oppressed of my species might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.