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THE BKOOKLYX DAILY EAGLE. JSTEW TOHlL, SUNDAY, FEBKUAKY 13, 198. MISCELLANEOUS. MISCELLANEOUS, ft speck behind the centuries, when the republic shall have crumbled from her niche UNION LEAGUE CLUB'S TRIBUTE 10 LIICOll 4 1JII vv SSI PATENTS APPLIED FOB. BEWARE OF SPURIOUS AND IMITATIONS, put tip in similar form and S3ld unscrupulous dealers, who falselv state thev are ii as good as Pim Olas, and offer them at cheapej pnees.

Be sure this is on labels, caps and bottles. DO NOT BE IMPOSED UPON ACCEPT Pim Olas are a most delicious relish, consisting of finest Spanish Queen Olives, from which the pits have been extracted by mechanical process, and a stuffing of Sweet Spanish Pimientos substituted, combined with a delightfully flavored sauce, the secret of the manufacturers. AT ALL FIRST CLASS cannot dig under Baltimore; they must come through Baltimore. Good An Analysis of the War President. Let us now analyze Mr.

Lincoln. He la bo much like a sphere that he projects in all ways farthest, and so analysis is difficult. But tho beginning of his greatness Is to be found in the way God Almighty mixed the mud out of which he was made. He was not made out of any fool mud to begin with. Then the foundation of his actions was his moral sense.

He asked always concerning everything. Is it right? This answered, you knew what Mr. Lincoln would do. The next element of his character was his reason. He was not an intuitive man.

By an intuitive man I mean one who jumps at a conclusion and sticks to it; ono Who in religious matters has a private wire. You can never argue with a man with a private wire; he always has the last word from headquarters. He runs his wire up to the summit of his egotism and it is so long that he thinks he is talking with God. but he is not. Mr.

Lincoln was not that kind of a man. He was a reasoning man; he tested his premises to the utmost, then put his foot Torward upon them and cautiously straightened up to stay. This made him what Mr. Gough called "awful sot. 1 remember we sent two great preachers from a war meeting in Chicago down to Washington to talk with Mr.

Lincoln about emancipating the slaves. They were received and seated. Mr. Lincoln came in, sat down in front of them, put one leg over the other, hooked the toe in around the calf of the permanent leg, crossed his arms in his lap, and said: "Well." That meant. "Gentlemen, you are turned on." They said: "Mr.

Lincoln, God has sent us down here to tell you that you must emancipate the slaves." Mr. Lincoln tipped his head a little more to one side and with a twinkle in his eye said: "Well, that's real queer, isn't it? I thought I was running this thing and if God has anything to say about it He would speak to me, wouldn't He, and not go off to that wicked city and talk to you chaps about it?" This means that Mr. Lincoln trusted his own judgment. I remember a bright preacher who prayed the Lord to give Mr. Lincoln backbone, when he had the stoutest old spinal column that ever stood perpendicular to the earth's surface.

The next element in his character is his common sense, the most uncommon thing to be found in men. These three his moral sense, his reason and his common sense are the three fixed points through which the great circle of his majestic character was drawn. Had he lacked either of these he would have failed and we would have been hurled beneath the ruins of the republic. Had he lacked the first he would have been a villain; had he lacked the second he would have been a fool; had he lacked the third he would have been a dreamer; but having them all he was Abraham Lincoln. Intellectual Greatness of Lincoln.

Let us now look at some of the indications of his massive intellectual greatness, for we cannot measure Mr. Lincoln by his stories any more than you can measure one of our North Atlantic greyhounds by the foam about its prow. The first indication that the public eye and the public ear was Mr. Lincoln's ability as a 'speaker. He stands at the fore front, with absolutely no one of record ahead of him.

As a stump speaker he was far away the greatest the world ever sav. He could extinguish an antagonist in thirty one seconds. Talking with a lawyer down in Ilinois, who had great prodigality of language and great parsimony of truth, Mr. Lincoln answered him saying, "Gentlemen of the jury, you must not blame this man for what has been going on. He knows nothing about it.

He is like a little steamboat that went snorting and cavorting up and down the river. It had a boiler five feet long and it. had a whistle twelve feet long and every time it whistled, it stopped. So it is with this gentleman. When he keeps his mouth shut he seems to be a man of integrity, but when he opens his mouth he shuts his intellect.

So he knows nothing that has happened," Mr. Lincoln was a perfect master of all the tricks of the stump speaker. In his great speeches there is not the slightest sign of this ability. His reply to Douglas '54, after the repeal of the Missouri compromise, bis "house divided against itself" speech, his Cooper Institute speech, show no trace of this gift. The Cooper Institute speech measured by all the tests a great has but one other spece'h of record worthy of a place by the side of it, and that Is Daniel Webster's greatest speech, his reply to Hayne of South Carolina.

Take that Gettysburg speech. Edward Everett, New England's favorite orator, for two hours delivered one of his greatest orations. When he had finished Mr. Lincoln delivered that brief speech and when he had finished Mr. Everett, in great excitement, ran up to him saying, "President Lincoln, I would gladly give you my two hours for your twenty sentences," and well he might, for those twenty sentences would carry him as a matchles orator for twenty centuries.

The University of London seeking specimens of perfect English, to b'e studied by her pupils has taken from this side the Atlantic but one specimen a nd that is Mr. Lincoln's Gettysburg speech. The President's State Papers. Mr. Lincoln was greait in his state papers.

No man ever made as many state papers in the White House as Mr. Lincoln. The questions were all up and he could not afford to extemporize blunders. Let mp of the chives two or three specimens. When they had been in office about three weeks Secretary Seward said, "Mr.

Lincoln, I have prepared a letter for our ministers abrqad Mr. Lincoln said, "I will see the letter if you please." Secretary Seward was surprised but handed over the letter. I have carefully compared the letter handed back by Mr. Lincoln to Mr. Seward, with the one handed by Mr.

Seward to Mr. Lincoln. The letter when returned to Mr. Seward by Mr. Llnco'n was marked thus: "Strikeout that." "Change that." "Don't say that." "Put in 'that." And so all the way through.

As you go down through the letter it rises in dlgnity and power till it is more than 100 per cent, greater than it was when it came from the hand of Secretary Seward. All the claws are taken out of it. There is nothing left in it to scratch the British lion, and the British lion was itching all over to be scratched. Lord Russell was looking everywhere Tor causes of war. But he could not find It in this lot ter, but he did find a man six feet four inches high, standing on his two feat, with his two hands open by his two sides looking straight out of hU two eyes into the two eyes of the British lion, and he felt that in tho sixteenth millionth part of a second that man could shut up those two hands and knock rhut those two eyes.

But there were no threat. Secretary Seward took the and read it very carefully jturned around and looked at the rail splitter; turned back and re read the letter with care, and said: "President Lincoln, this is a very great state paper." and I say it took a very great man to say that under the circumstances. Even In the difficult and delicate business of diplomacy the rail splitter from the Sangamon Bottoms was the teacher of the sage of Vuiburn Take another paper. "The Second Inaugural Address." i remember just where I strad when I first read it. 1 read down a little way and came' to something like this "Every drop of blocd drawn by the las paid for by a drop drawn bv the" sword I said, that sounds like Elijah.

Little farther down I struck something like this: "With malice toward none and charity for I said, 'that sounds like the sermon on' the Mount. It had the strength of the and the tenderness of Se gcspel. X0 wonder the French minister said no sucCi document as that ever before came to the French ccuyi Take another document. "The Proclamation of Emancipation." Antletam came, and An t'eiani was our first great victory. Mr.

Lincoln came into the cabinet with a paper in his hand. The secretaries gathered ab jut the great 'table. Mr. Lincoln laid down the paper and reached out for the Bible, drew it to himself and opened it and deliberately read a chapter. After this act of official worship and recognition of God, he said: "Gentlemen, I do not want your opinion us to whether I shall issue this document or not, for that I have settled myself.

If you have any suggestions concerning minor points, when you have heard it read, I w'll he glad hear them." Then he ad d'ed in a lower tone of voice. "I have not told anyfocdy 1 promisea cnyse.t; 1 tow the Ljrd." Sectary Seward said: "President Lincoln, what did I hear you say?" Lincoln faced squareiy about upon Seward and said: "Secretary Seward. I told the Lord that if He would drive the rebels out cf Maryland I would emancipate the slaves, and I will do it." And he did. I know of but three other documents to put by the side of it. They are che Magna CUaita, extorted from King JY.Vin; the Declaration cf Independence, frcm the pen of Thomas Jefferson, and the Ukase of Alexander II of Russia, giving liberty and land to the serfs.

These are 'the milestones marking the onward and upward march 0" mankind, and this one upon which the name of Mr. Lincoln appears will never grow dim beneath the hurrying feet of the ages. For uben the great, war shall have shriveled to THE CELEBRATED oca taM uj ixcaua luc iizii ui cite: i Highest Grade Pianos. I AVTION. The buyicp public xvi pleas not otifonnd the SOHMEH Piano with oc of a sliuiJar otindfng' name of a.

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ISl'ILDlNCi, 170 Fifth Ave, cor. ii street, about Jfebruar; MONEY FOB PARKS IS CUT $100 Below Commissioner Dettmer's Allowance for Last Year. ONLY $20,000 FOR INSTITUTE. Total Amount Available for Commissioner Brower's Use $420,000 for Park Purposes, and That Amount, With the $20,000 for Institute Maintenance, Is $10,000 Less Than the Tax Levy for Park Purposes Alone Brower Asked I for $566,000 Little Chance for Any Park Improvements This Year, Unless the Board of Estimate Relents. I In response to inquiries made by an Eagle reporter in Manhattan borough yesterday it i was learned that Commissioner Brower's mon ey resources for park purposes in Brooklyn borough will be anything but what that official asked of the Board of Estimate, and far below the expectations of those who take an interest In the parks on this side of the river.

It is stated that the Board of Estimate has accorded Brooklyn parks only $420,000, which Is 530,000 less than the Brooklyn Board of Estimate put In the budget of parks during the present year, and $130,000 less than was expended by Commissioner Dettmer for nark pur poses last year. The Brooklyn Board of Estimate allowed Commissioner Dettmer $650,000 for 1SD7, but out of this he had to pay the park police $100. 000 and for lighting the parks, which must now ba done by the borough, an item of about $25, 000. All along Commissioner Brower has expressed himself as sanguine of getting what money he needed for the parks. The outcome seems to be hardly what he has expected, for wRh $100,000 less cash than Commissioner Dettmer had, the prospect is not cheerful for any improvements whatever and the indications are that there will have to be a decided modification in the bare administration of the parks.

Commissioner Brower asked for $202,400 for labor and salaries at Prospect Park; $40,000 for supplies, $11,000 for music. $90,000 for improvement of smaller parks, in Brooklyn, and $15,000 for park purposes in Queens; $67,000 for maintaining parkways, and $40,000 for support and maintenance of the Museum of Arts and Sciences, and other items footing up $560,480. The $40,000 for the Institute was not provided for in the budget of the Brooklyn Beard of Estimate, as it was not then a charge on the Department of Parks. Under the charter the Institute must now be maintained by the Park Department in this borough. Tie allowance made by the new Board of Estimate is.

for the institute. $20,000, or just half of what Mr. 'Brower asked for The institute allowance and 'the $420,000 given to Mr. Brower fcr general park purposes, makes up a total of $440,000, or 510,000 less money than was collected in the last tax levy for the parks alcne. and $100,000 less than Commissioner De tuner spent solely for park purposes last year, not including his payments fo police and lights, which are not a charge upon the department now.

The situation is not a ple.vsant one to contemplate. The old City of Brooklyn and County cf Kings spent several million dollars on purchases of park sites within the past few years. Many of these parks are now in aibout the same condition as When they were brought. Some of them have been Improved, partially, but others are nothing more than waste lands. This is the case especially with Dyker Beach Park, which cost $229,042, and Canarsie Boach Park, costing" 5100,000.

Brooklyn Forest Park, for which $1,150,000 was paid, will need the expenditure of at least $10,000 on roadways this year to be of any greait use to the public. Other recent park purchases which are in need of many improvements are, New Lots Playground, cos Linton Park, cost, Cooper Park, Saratoga Square, cost, $121,975, and a half dozen of the older, and smaller parks. In addition there are 22 irailes of parkways and boulevards to be maintained, of which the Ocean Parkway alone needs an expenditure of many thousand dollars to put it in proper shape. The Commissioner, with, the short allowance given him by the Board of Estimate, will, therefore have a prc.blem of no small magnitude, even to meet the expenses maintenance. If the residents of this borough want any park betterments they will have to look to some further concessions from the Board or Estimate to get theim.

It is 'hinted that the sum allowed for the salaries of the Borough Department Staff is far too small to provide for even the small staff which is absolutely necessary. If there is not more money forthcoming for this item it may be that there will be no deputy commissioner and perhaps a further reduction of the contemplated staff. FOUND DEAD IN BED. Schramm Had Carbolic Acid Near Him. Had Left His Wife.

George Schramm, 35 years of age, was found deed in his room at 411 East Twenty ninth street. Manhattan, yesterday afternoon. It was at first thought that the man died from natural causes, but a further investigation bv the police leads to the belief that the case was one of suicide. The coroner has been notified. Schramm up to a week ago lived with his wile and two children at 407 East Twenty ninth treat.

Then he went to George Fitzgerald, a laboring man who lives at 411 East Twenty street, and said that he and his wife had had trouble and he had left her. He asked lor room and was accommodated. The Fitzgeralds thought that the breach would heal over in a day or bo and humored Sohramm. Fitzgerald stated that yesterday morning Schramm left the house earlv and he left noon afterward. He returned to the bouso at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and looking into the room occupied by saw him lying on the floor.

He thought he was asleep. A few momenta afterward he wont to arouse Kchramm and ascertained that ho was dead, 'floeer investigation was made and a. bottle of irbolic acid wis found by Fitzgerald in the lr)om occupied by Schramm close to whero he as found lying. The lips of Schramm were rot cauterized, as is tho case of nerBons taking Che drug. The police notified the coroner and assumed charge of the body.

ROBBED OF HIS STUD. John J. Iteilly, of 21 Fourth avenue, reported to tho police of the First Precinct night, that he was robbed of a 100 diamond stud while in tho lobby of tho Star Theater, shortly after 8 o'clock. There was a crowd in and about the theater at the time. his work for the republic, isn't that what we want?" There is George B.

McClellan, the great officer, in may respects, but not in all respects, a great drill master. He created the great Army of the Potomac. He could do everything but fight. Mr. Lincoln held him on his hand.

If he had turned his hand up edgewise, McClellan would have dropped into oblivion like a bullet, hut Lincoln held him, and while ho held him McClellan was writing home saying: "I despise the old dotard, he defers to me so much." When I read that I folt as if I wanted my privilege in the gospel enlarged so I could express my mind. Lincoln went one night to McClellan's headquar McClellan was out attending the wedding of a aiaff vjiiAuci uiucuiu wiuteu turee nours tor his return. McClellan returned and went up stairs. Lincoln, thinking he had not been told, sent a servant to tell him that he wanted to seo him on important war matters. McClellan send back this beautiful word: "Tell Lincoln that General McClellan has gone to bed." Lincoln never minded it.

It was only a personal insult and he was too great to Jjeed that. Lincoln had an engagement vtth McClellan and two officers; the officers came and McClellan did not. The officers said bad words. Lincoln said: "Hush, I would hold McClellan's horse if he would only do something for the republic." 4 The President as a Christian. I present Mr.

Lincoln as the best specimen yS, Chrisitian man I have encountered in public life. I remember a speech he made me and some classmates: "Young men, American slavery Is either right or wrong; if it is Tight We milSt rarsfnl i. uu nc 11CUI It its wrong, for God will deal with us; it it is wrong, we must he careful how we deal with it as right, for God will deal with us. If American slavery is not wrong, then nothing is rong." God was in all his thoughts. On the 11th day of August, 1837, Mr.

Lincoln ent out from Springfield, 111., to Salem, to attend a camp meeting. He went out in a band wagon with six other lawyers and two doctors The doctors were local preachers in the Methodist Church. On the way out Lincoln joked about everything. There Peter Akers, the greatest Bible preacher this country has produced, preached on the dominion of Jesus Christ, showing from the Scriptures that the dominion of Jesuit Christ could not come in America till American slavery was wiped out, and that it would be wiped out by the crash of the Civil War. For three hours he piled up his argument, while the pro slavery crowd above him were wild with excitement.

Coming to the summit of his argument and the description of the Civil War, he called out at the top of his voice, as if touched by the breath of inspiration: "Who shall tell us that the man who shall lead us through this trlfe may not be standing in this presence this hour?" Mr. Lincoln stood down the aisle about thirty feet away. Going back to Salem that night, Mr. Lincoln was silent. One of the doctors asked him: "What do you think of that sermon?" He answered: "I never thought such power could be given to mortal man.

Those words are from beyond the lips of the speaker. The doctor has persuaded me that American slavery will go down with the crash of a Civil War." After a few minutes' silence he added, "Gentlemen, you may think it strange; you may laugh; but while the doctor was describing the Civil War, I distinctly saw myself, as In second sight, bearing important Ttni It, 1 riaV rr1n Av. I. t. mui null lUttk UUiC to the end he never really doubted the great part he would have in the overthrow of slav oiuk uptmtru.

tutvuru due luuuite. me he was shot that night at 8 o'clock, seven i.ccu iiiiuuLea, eastern lime at 6 C10CK in v. v. uttu a. JXli the memfbers of the cabinet were present.

General Grant was there. He had come up from Appomattox. Lee's Army was no more, but Grant was anxious about Sherman, for Rhprmnn war in frn nf Tnhn. son, the great fighter of the Confederacy. Lincoln said, "General Grant, dismiss your tears.

I know thait Sherman has whipped, or is whipping Johnson tg. cT.ay." Grant said, "President Lincoln, how do you know?" Lincoln said, "General Grant, I know it. I had mv riTrt Itoo Ion. nI t.l u. 1.

before every great victory; I had it before uuciom, ueiure lviurireesocro, Deiore vicks burg, 'before Gettysburg, and I had it again last night." A side opened toward the Infinite. Had he lived in the days of the old prophets he would have been counted among them an Elisha I think, with a double ui uic rt, caiieu, auointeu, euu cated, elervated, to lead this great nation through to peace. How Lincoln Used to Pray. He said as he was creeping out of Springfield on the steps of the car, "Pray for me." He said again and again, "I am driven to my knees, for I have no where else to go." He said, "I would be the greatest blockhead on the footstool it I thought I could carry the uie 111 tills, place for a single day without the help of Him that auuvu an. It came to be an open secret in the White HnUSe.

Whpn Ihou eanr "XT. TUrtnIn uivuui 1 CamiUg out for his Bible and starting for his private room, they knew that somewhere in the wide armies or the republic a battle was on, or about to be on. Then they would hear him praying mightily for the men about to die for the republic and to save the nation. James C. Murdnnk Ihp rrraat rAaHni.

tA anrr. a guest at the White House. He made' this statement over his own name: "I could not sleep. I got out of bed. It was 2 o'clock in the morning; I went out into the hall; I heard a strange moaning.

Going along the hall I saw a door open a little way. Looking In I saw Mr. Lincoln on his face on the floor, praying mightily for God to give him wisdom and save the nation. I went away silently as I could over the velvet carpet, feeling every step I took that I was in the presence of Almighty God. I never doubted after that which way the war would terminate." General Sickles lost a leg at Gettysburg; he was In the hospital In Washington.

Mr. Lincoln visited him. General Rusling was present. Sickles asked Lincoln, "Were you not alarmed during the Gettysburg days?" Lincoln said, "No, general, I was not. Some of our people were.

Stanton thought wo better put the archives in a gunboat, but I thought we would come out all right." Sickles said, "Presidents Lincoln, why were you not alarmed?" Lincoln said, "Now, general, you have asked me and I will tell you. I went into my room and locked the door; I got down on my knees and said, 'God Almighty, I have done everything I absolutely can for the army and now you must and God told me that He would give me Gettysbury, and I believed Him." Lincoln's Big Heart. Mr. Lincoln had the biggest heart that ever beat among men. Joshua F.

Speed told me this: "Lincoln said, 'Why don't you come and see me?" I said, 'Everybody comes to see He said, 'Yes, but they all want something. I want somebody to see me. Stay to night after the It was Thurs day. I stayed. At 11 o'clock the people were 1 gone.

Lincoln pushed the great chair toward me, saying, 'Now, Joshua, we will have a i good I sat just where I could see his face, and the window curtain making a strange movement I saw he thought what I i did that some one was there to assassinate him. In a second face was the picture 1 of power. Quick as a cat and as strong as a tiger, he bounded to the window, tore away 1 the curtain, dragged out two large human I figures dressed In women's clothes. Putting i them on the floor he said, 'What are you do ing here, skulking about my They! began to whimper. They were two Irish I women from Potter County, Pennsylvania, i there to secure the pardon of a Potter Coun ty draft rioter.

In a second Lincoln's facs was full of pity, he lifted the women to their feet, holding their hands, so they could not get their arms about him, and asked: 'Where are your 'Haven't got any. Cost 510. Could not Lincoln said, know aDout tnem, tnere are twenty two of them; they shall come out Sent a boy to the War Department. Soon came In a lieutenant colonel with the papers. Lincoln began to write the order for their pardon on their papers, when the colonel protested, saying they were the worst scoundrels in the country and ought to rot in their cells.

Lincoln said: 'Go on, colonel; you make a good speech; I like to hear you But he kept on signing his name. When he had finished the list he said: 'Colonel, you do that if you know what is good for The colonel went out muttering about the clemency of the President." "Mr. Lincoln turned around to Speed saying: 'Now, Joshua, I have done somethiug, this pays me for this day's Speed said: got up. Lincoln said to me, "Don't go, Joshua." I said: "It is after midnight, you must rest." Lincoln said: "Joshua, this is Thursday night, and I never sleep Thursday nights." I said: "What do you say, Mr. Lincoln, what do you ntean?" Lincoln said: "Joshua, to morrow is execution day In the Army, and if I do not put my name on the boys' papera they will bo shot, but the officers have demonstrated that It costs more lives to pardon them than It does to shoot.

In the frails of history, and when the lan guage of the Anglo Saxon shall be mumbled only by the tongue of the stranger, tben this document, bearing the name of Mr, Lin coln, shall make radiant this martyr age of tno republic. Something of His Political Sagacity. Mr. Lincoln was great in his political sagacity. Away back in the forties he said.

"We shall not see the peaceable extinction i of slavery, for the party that wants the peace 'j aDie extinction of slavery has gotten itself 'peaceably extinguished." Take his treatment of Douglas in their joint debate. They ar I ranged that one should speak an hour, the other an hour and a half, the first to have half an hour in which to reply. The man who spoke first and last had ail the advantage. This advantage was to be alternated. Down in Southern Illinois Lincoln allowed Douglas to speak first and last every night.

Lincoln's friends objected. He said, "Gentlemen, you do not understand the situation. Don't you know that this is Egypt and all these are Douglas' friends. Tf he speaks last they will stay to hear bim and I' will get a chance at them to educate and spoil them for him." There was nothing weak about that. Take his handling of slavery.

I remember that on the day after the firing on Fort Sumter many of us wanted to see slavery wiped out right away, we could not wait. But If Mr. Lincoln had undertaken to wipe out slavery then we would have been wiped out. And I will show you. Forty thousand men came out of the single State of Kentucky into the Union Army.

If that forty thousand men had gone into the Confederate Army It would have changed the Issue of the war, ror that would have made Kentucky solid for the confederacy; would have carried all the border states; would have pushed the line of battle one tier of states further north; would have made the confederacy too large to be subjugated. Mr. Lincoln saw that he must JOHN M. THURSTON, U. S.

SENATOR FROM NEBRASKA Whose Toast Was "Ulysses S. Grant, the Companion of Lincoln In the War." hold the border at all costs. Now look at the varying views. There was a great host of voters that went with that magnificent prince, Charft Sumner, who would not have touched the war with a ten foot stick if they had not believed that slavery was dead. I heard Wendell Phillips say during the war: "I am not an abolitionist, for the first gun that was fired at Fort Sumter shot slavery dead." Then there was a great host of voters who went with that majestic statesman, William H.

Seward of New York; who went for the war without reference to slavery. Then there was another host of voters who went with the Little Giant Douglas of Illinois; who were willing to stand by the Union and the war, but not one word must he said about slavery. Then there was still another great host of voters all along the border who went with Winter Davis of Maryland and the Blairs of Missouri, who in the beginning would not have touched the war with a forty foot stick if they had not believed that slavery would come out of the strife, sanctified as she went in. All these great blooded, spirited steeds were running, whirling, dodging in every possible direction, round and round in the great ring of the North, and it took a big man to spread himself over them. And Mr.

Lincoln did it. He settled himself about his task so gently, chatting, telling stories, laughing that" he seemed like one taking his repose but he picked up the continent by its rim he shook It till our lakes boiled and our rivers gurgled like opened arteries; shook it until he shook the vulture out of our Eagle, the coward out of our citizen, and the bondman out of his chain; shook us up into one great united, free unconquerable nation. Seward and Lincoln. Mr. Lincoln was great in that he was President.

When he had been in office about four weeks Secretary Seward wrote him a peculiar letter, saying: "We have been in office four weeks. We have done nothing. Somebody must fix a policy, and you must see that it is carried out." Mr. Lincoln wrote a nice love letter to Secretary Seward in reply, saying: "We have been in office four weeks; we have done this, and that and that enumerating enough things to last the government twenty years in time of peace and then said: "Secretary Seward, I think this will do for one month. Now we shall have a policy, and I ill fix that policy." Secretory max iei.i.i;r ana me one the week before, about nis foreign ministers, put the two letters together and showed them to a friend of mine, who was in his office and said: "The Republican party in Chicago made no mistake about tho man they put at the head." And I say, it took a prince of the finest fiber to say such a thing under the conditions.

And from that day to the end Secretary Seward was as true to Mr. Lincoln as the needle to the pole. Seward went down to City Point to talk with some gentlemen about the estate of the dying confederacy. As he went out Mr Lincoln said: "Secretary Seward, observe and report; conclude nothing. I will attend to that." General Grant had Lee by the neck at Appomattox, and ten days must nd it Lincoln telegraphed to Grant: "Make no treaties with Lee; that belongs to another department of the government." Lincoln could stand alone.

During the Vlcksburf days, the dark days of the war, everything seemed going against us. Foreign nations threatened intervention. The great states went wrong at the polls. The government seemed unpopular, the national credit was dying and every military man of note protested against Grant's campaign tor the capture of Vicksburg, and every public man wiho bad acceas to the White House urged Mr Lincoln to remove General Grant. A committee of fiftp.ort on rhr, Miulirnf rt vi uie war urged him to remove Grant.

Mr. Lincoln ueuutuicn, 1 nave never seen this chap, but he is the only man that Is doing what I sent him out to do. I reckon I'll stick to him. You'll sea if I don't." Lincoln was the great commoner. Educated in the cabin and in the wilderness, his calloused palms never slipped from the poor man's hand.

He was as accessible in the White, House as he had been in the cabin. Lincoln's Magnanimity. Mr. Lincoln was the mos magnanimous man that the sun ever shone upon. Now, Chase was a great secretary, but he was so anxious to be President that his head was as sore as a boil.

Every disappointed, man that made his way into Washington drifted into rha' I Cave of Abdullam. and there they comforted each other talking about the "old foal," the "old coward," the "old dotard," "Congress ought to Impeach him," etc. All this was I faithfully told over to Lincoln. He answered it, saying: "it noes not make it so, does it? Mr. Chase Is a good secretary, and that is what we want, Isn't It? I guess we will keep him at it." A man ran into Mr.

Lincoln's office one day aud asked, "Do you know whero Mr. Chase is?" "Yes." "Do you know he haa gone down to Ohio to make a speech at the Republican convention?" "Yes." "Don't you know he wants to be President, and you ought to keep him at home?" Lincoln said "Don't worry about Chase. He has as gcod a right to want to be President as any man in juiiuiii ii. nuu 11 Lue people want mm to be President then I want him to be President I And you cannot beat that in sixty centuries "Don't worry about Chase. When I was a boy I I worked on the farm; we Dlowed mm I the horse and a neighbor boy held the plow; 1 tne norse was lazy.

1. pounaea Mm with my heels; the nighbor boy threw dirt at But he would not go much, till by and by a blue i head lit on his back close to the roots of his tall, where he could not switch him off, and I put in his work; then the horse put in hia work. The boy said: 'Abe, Abe, knock off! mat Diueneau, anu 1 saia: 'iso you don isn't that Just what we want?" If Secretary CThrt has got anything In his head that will make The Pi'iino'lvania Limited for tlic West Is the business man's train, because it is quick tho tourist's train, because it is a. club on wheels the pleasure seeker's train. DOeeuse It is luxurious; the ladles' train, because there is a ante to atteud them.

Adv. Continued From Page I. ninth annual celebration of his birthday by this club. A man of the people chosen by God to lead this country to a higher freedom, through blood and carnage; never fearing the results, and ever faithful to the duties imposed upon him by his high office as President of the United States (and to my thinking, no higher office can be bestowed on any man). At last stricken down by the hand of the assassin, a martyr to the cause he loved so well.

He who by a single stroke of his pen, freed over four million bondsmen, thereby endearing himself to freemen In all nations of the earth. Look where we may, in all human history, no grander character presents itself for our admiration. He was truly a born leader of men, and he led justly and without fear, always in faith, with absolute confidence in the ability of the American nation to maintain itself against internal violence and external antagonisms. "He was purely and devotedly loyal to his country, his party and his god. 'With malice toward none, with charity for all," but firmness withal, and for the right, dared maintain his principles as a patriot and an American.

He was indeed a heroic figure. The memory of the great Abraham Lincoln will ever hold a place second only to the immortal Washington in the hearts of his countrymen, without any question of party. Democrats and Republicans vie in honoring his memory, as I think the respect and veneration for his memory grow as the years roll on. This club is honored to day in the presence of so many distinguished" guests, gentlemen honored in the state and nation, who will address you, bringing home again to your hearts love of country and emotions of patriotism. Our guests.

I greet and bid you all a most hearty welcome to the hospitality of this club and bespeak for you the loyal friendship of each member, proud of our acquaintance with you." (Applause.) Mr. McKeon then introduced Bishop Charles H. Fowler, which was the signal for more applause. Bishop Fowler responded to the toast of "Lincoln." Laughter and applause that frequently merged into cheers punctuated his remarks. He spoke as follows: Bishop Fowler's Address.

God's prophets have the right of way. They come by divine appointment. They open a new door, conquer a new foe, plant a new republic or found a new civilization. Serving most they are greatest. Mankind will never forget Abraham, or Moses, or Pericles, or Paul, or Richelieu, or Cromwell, or "Washington.

Mankind will never forget the hero we add to their little company, Abraham Lincoln, who had the faith of Abraham, the leadership of Moses, the statesmanship of Pericles, the massive intellectual force of St. Paul, the political sagacity of Richelieu, the integrity of Cromwell and the patriotism of Washington. In measuring Mr. Lincoln we must measure him as we do a building, below the water table as well as above it. He was born in the deepest poverty, in a shack hut.

open on one side to the universe, and we see him clamboring to his bed of leaves in the low garret of that one cabin; clambering up on pegs driven Into the logs. His poverty limited his life on every side, limited his schooling to less than six months inside the walls of a school house and limited his library to six volumes, the Bible, Pilgrim's Progress, Aesop's Fables Wiom's Life of Washington, a History of the United States and cne volume of law. Magnificent library, selected by the Supreme Powers for maturing a majestic character. We see Little Abe lying on his face before the fire in the fire place, copying off pages of these books with a piece of charcoal, upon the back and front of a wooden shovel; then memorizing the transcribed portion, then whittling off the memorized portion, then filling the shovel again, thus literally shoveling the contents of these books into his brain. Lincoln's Personal Appearance.

Mr. Lincoln had a good physique, and I am glad that, because I believe in a man's body as much as I do in his mind, and in many cases a great deal more, because there is very much more of it to believe in. Mr Lincoln grew and grew till he was six feet and four inches tall; had his full altitude at 16. was wrinkled from his youth up; had the saddest face you ever saw; large, nearly regular features, when in repose dull, but when he started after an antagonist or after an idea he illumined the whole front of the building. Ke dressed in a fashion better adapted to the frontier than to his architecture: he stuck through his pants seventeen inches, his pants were made out of tow he wore a hickory shirt, and on his big head he wore a coon skin cap, and nothing on his "Trilbys." He is described, when trying to get his boat off from a dam where it had lodged, as wading about in the water with his pants rolled up five feet high, and I believe it Possibly two of the feet were his natural feet' I am sure no one of us would have shot him for a dude.

What he lacked in personal beauty was made up to him by nature in preternatural strength. He could pick up a barrel of whisky by the chimes and lift it high enough to drink out of the bung hole but he never drank. This preternatural strength did for bim several things; made him chieftain yonder in the wilderness; enabled him to carry for four years, before the wondering eyes of mankind, the heaviest burden ever packed upon man or mules, and made him the best ultimate judge of the multiplied questions of the nation's life On February 22. 1861, Mr. Lincoln was hurried from Philadelphia to Washington with one companion in a sleeping car, and on the morning of February 23 he stepped out of that sleeping car into the streets of Washington to be welcomed as the President elect by only two men, William H.

Seward of New York; and E. B. Washburn of Illinois. Did ever before a man by so simple a process step into the gaze and into the wonder and into the admiration of mankind? But Mr. Lincoln was in Washington and beneath his feet was the solid rock of the government.

That solid rock soon turned to shifting sand, and he found himself alone in Washington, without "a army, without a navy, without munitions, and without experienced advisors; and all the questions came back to him for solution Lincoln the Final Arbiter. Mark this. Mr. Lincoln had to answer the questions; he was the final authority Mr Dana, who was Assistant Secretary of War under Stanton not long ago gave me this illustration of this great point. He said late in the war we received a telegram from Ported Ore that Mr Benjamin, a member of the Confederate Cabinet, had landed, evidently with the intent of making his wav through Canada to Europe.

Shall we arrest him" Stanton said: "Of course we will arrest him but wait a moment; go over to the White' House and ask President Lincoln." I went and asked Lincoln. He asked: "What does Stanton say?" I told him Stanton says "Of courso we will arrest him." Lincoln said "I reckon we won't; if you have an elephant bv the leg and he is trying to get away from you don't you think you had belter let him go." I remember one morning the dispatches announced that one of our captains had boarded a British vessel and taken off two magnificent rebels, Mason and Slidell. We knew that England would demand their return over the Great Xorth that day wc tightened our belts and swore by the Eternal God that we would fight but we would never give them up. Mr. Lincoln, almost alone, said: "I reckon we will give them up, that is what wo fought for in 1S12 15.

and we'll drink our own tea won't we?" Then he said to Secretary Seward "One war at a time, if you please." A gentleman told me he was one of' forty gentlemen members of the Young's Men's Christian Association of Baltimore, who went over to Washington and piously besought Mr Lincoln not "to undertake to bring Union soldiers through Baltimore, lest he should excite the reelings of the citizens of Baltimore 'He said: "Mr. Lincoln heard us to the end; asked an attendant to bring him a map. spread out the map on the table before us, and said Gentlemen, look at this map; there Is Boston, there is New York, there Is Philadelphia there Is Baltimore and here is Washington; the soldiers are in those cities; they must come into ihis; they cannot go round Baltimore; they cannot fly over Baltimore: they Sl Compound is the safest and surest remedy known for the prompt relief of the severe pains of Grip. It quickly fSmEC Coushs, Colds, Throat and S. Lune Troubles and prevents internal congestions from run ning jiiLv rncuuioniu uuu ioxisumption nr.

ucker's 59 Comp. 15 Bt 50 cts, 59 Cough Drona 5 10 cts. ONLY THE ORIGINAL another thing to see with clearness sufficient to demonstrate It. He saw slavery as it was. He studied its history until he was as familiar with its causes' and the course of legislation that had produced it, as ha was with the problems he learned to demonstrate.

He went in its midst and saw Its practical workings. The great wrong which was thus legalized left its' impress upon itls mind and soul, and strengthened and supported him in the blow he dealt which destroyed its life. The greatness of his accomplishment is "in many respects determined by the fact that he never took a step too early or too late. Understanding the subject to the point of a logical demonstration before acting, he was then as well equipped to act as man can for nothing can be superior to that, except a prophetic vision which sees he act and Its consequent result. This quality was strikingly demonstrated in his mastery of the art of war.

It is now, I believe, generally conceded by the best authorities upon the subject, that his plans of campaign, which he developed between the time of McClellan's organization of the Army of the Potomac and Grant's appointment as lieutenant' general of the armies, exhibit accurate knowledge ol the subject, and only needed capability in execution to make theni successful. The greatest thing" which he did, the things which shall live forever, he worked out and did alone. A mere glance at his history shows that this quality was the logical outcome of his whole course" of life and training. He settled that he must learn to a demonstration', and alone, without aid, he mastered the lesson. It was the secure foundation upon which he afterward built.

Three acts stand out which evidence his power to aot upon his sole judgment, as distinctly aa though the hand of the Almighty had traced the fact in flaming colors across the sky. When he determined upon the joint, debate) with Douglas, It was against the advice of" friends and political associates, and with the knowledge that it would cost him a seat in the Senate of the United States. When Pope was driven back at Manassas and a part of tho army poured into Washington, with littlo semb ance of order; when Lee was Invading Maryland and the Union power seemed paralyzed and panic stricken, ho determined to place McClellan again at the head of the army, and he issued the order without consultation with his great war secretary, full knowledge that his purpose would be opposed, not. alone by him, but by his cabinet. or nearly two years he resisted the clairior of a large section of his party, backed by Thad and other lading members; br the Christian element of the North, voiced by the innumerable delegations of its clergy and by the constant hammering of Horace Greeley through the columns of the New York Tribune, for the issuance' of tne Emancipation Proclamation.

But seeing clearly and understanding thoroughly, he endangered no inter '1 est, but waited until, th time was ripei ai4 when he did it he did it alone. He waHed'Toi a victory of the Union arms: to give" 'It point7 Lincoln used the materiarhe had' at He was never afraid. His tame is as great in the other parts of. the civilized world as In his own country. In no respect was he ever tried and found wanting.

Mr. Dana said that he possessed wisdom. So he did. He pos sessed love also ofthat kind which passeth understanding. He possessed a literary'' abll ity which matched the most perfect composition that, the world has ever produced.

The qualities which Lincoln possessed are not acquired they are born. The great gift comes to but few men, but it has the same source Who. ever saw the song of a bird? Where did the inspiration come from that gave the Scottish plowman power to touch the strings which reached to lower depths in the human heart than the world had ever felt before or since? From whence came the shaft of light that illumined the mind of the German priest and caused him to proclaim, with, throbbing heart, 'The just shall live by faith These things 'have but one source They come from God. So Abraham' Lincoln drew his inspiration from that fountain, as certainly as did ever a prophet. He did his great work well, he bore his great honors meekly, he served God and his; fellow men.

His monument lives among alf people and will endure unto all ages." The Rev, Dr. Iglehart Speaks. The Rev. Ferdinand E. Iglehart responded to the toast: "Lincoln, the Good." Mr.

Iglehart, after many fervid references to the goodness of Lincoln, said: "Kings are dead forever in this hemisphere. Thank God that little republic, Hayti, is encouraged by Uncle thank' God that Cuba, drenched in the blood of martyrs, is to be free." (Great chem Ing.) When the speaker referred to ie Incident of the De Lome letter the cheering lasted for several minutes. Specehes were, also made by Controller James A. Roberts, Dr. George L.

Porter, Justice Wllmat M. Smith, Justice William W. Goodrich, ex Mayor Frederick W. Wurster, ex Mayor Charles A. Schleren and many others.

REV. W. CH ADWICK ON LINCOLN That the course of free lectures arranged by the management of the Brooklyn Public Library, corner of Bedford and Jefferson avenues, is steadily growing in favor, was manifested last evening, when the Rev. John W. Chadwlck addressed a large and appreciative audience on the life and work of Abraham Lincoln.

DINNER TO MR. VAN COTT. The official staff qf the General Post Office in New York celebrated Abraham Lincoln's birthday by giving a complimentary dinner to Cornelius Van Cott, their chief, at the Colonial Hotel, One Hundred and 'Twenty fifth street and Eighth avenue, last night. In honor of his sixtieth birthday. Congressman Lemuel B.

Quigg was also a guest of the staff. Senator Thomas E. Piatt, Frederick Gibbs and Collector of Customs Bidwell were invited, but sent letters of regret, which stated that pressure business and being out of town, was the cause of their absence. Edward M. Morgan, assistant postmaster, presided.

RECEPTION AND CONCERT. Th Young Men's Republioan Club of the Seventeenth Ward celebrated Lincoln's Birthday last evening by holding a reoeption and concert in Keramos Hall, Manhattan and Greenpoint avenues. There was a large attendance. Thomas Foulkes presided, and among those present were Congressman James R. Howe, William A.

Prendergast, B. terbury. Assemblyman Edward C. Brennan, John K. Noal, Goorge D.

Frost, Former Assistant Pietrict Attorney John M. Wood. William C. Grinnoll, John A. Stnlz, JanjeB C.

Wallace and Louis Homer. AN EXCHANGE OF PULPITS. The Rev. Dr. James Henry Darlington of Christ Church, Bedford avenue, will exchange pulpits this morning with the Rev.

Henry T. Scudder of St. Stephen's Church, Patchen avenue. Dr. Darlington will speak on the diocesan missions.

GOVERNOR BLACK'S RECEPTION. Albany. Ni February 12 Governor Black to day issued an order assembling the members ol his staff at the executive mansion on the evening ot February 22, io oesUtt iA receiving at h'la annual reception. I So I cannot pardon. But I never sleep Thurs uays.

stay witn roe Joshua." The biggest heart that ever beat among men. "Brothers, the great President is gone, and his cabinet la gone, and the great commanders, General Grant, General Sherman, General Sheridan, General Logan, General Thomas, and a great host of heroes have marched over and pitched their tents on fame's eternal camping ground. And those of us who tarry, who prayed for their success, or argued for their defense, or marched beneath the eagles, can see just before us the pontoon, and we, too, must shortly march over single file. In this presence, the presence of our mighty dead, we can afford to tell the truth, and I do no man any harm when I say that measured by what he did, God's measurement, he was truly great. He came to the government by a minority vote, without an army, without a navy, without munitions; he conciliated his rivals, compacted his friends, awed his enemies, put his hand on Wall street; he stamped on the earth and two millions armed men sprang up for his defense; he spoke to the sea, and the mightiest navy the world had ever seen crowned every wave; he breathed into the air, and money and munitions rained upon the people.

A moralist, he stooped from the summit of human power to the foot of the cross and became a Christian. A philanthropist, he gave liberty to one race and freedom to another. Measured by what he did, with malice toward none and charity for all, he towers from his girth up above every other man for six thousand years." When Bishop Fowler finished there was a wild scene and the orchestra took up "America," which was punctuated with cheers and yells from all sides of the banquet hall. Three cheers were given for Bishop Fowler and, following this, in strong contrast, came the silent toast to Lincoln. President McKeon read a telegram from the Union League Club of Baltimore congratulating the Brooklyn Club upon having as its guest their honorary mem'ber, Senator John M.

Thurston of Nebraska. Three cheers were given for Senator Thurston as he was introduced. He spoke in response to the toast, "Ulysses S. Grant, the Champion of Lincoln in the War for the Union." Senator Thurston said: Address of Senator Thurston. Mr.

President and gentlemen of the Union Laegue Club: This is the first time I have visited Brooklyn since you annexed New York. When your president invited me to be present to nigibt I recalled some of incidents my last visit and, with a view of strict non partisanship on this occasion (laughter), I selected the toast of U. S. Grant. (Applause.) My idea of non partisanship is carried out by the presence of Bishop Fowler, for there are no politics in the Methodist Church.

It was an Iristiman who wished to be buried in a Methodist cemetery, because he thought that would be the last place the devil would look for a Democrat. (Laughter.) I am glad to see ttot in Greater New York the millenium has come. In the millenium the lion and and the lamb were to lie dawn together. The Iamb of non partisanship Is lying down with the tiger this time, but inside the tiger. I am thinking now of the sentence or two spoken by Lncoln in 1858, which prevented uim from becoming senitor from Illinois, but aiterward made it possible for him to become the President cf the United States.

He said, 'A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cact endure permanently hal'f slave and bait free. I do ncft expect it to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, hut I do expect it will cease to be Pardon me for paraphrasing ttoat wonderful prophetic saying now. The Republican party cannoit stand here divided against itself.

I do not expect the house to fall, but it cannot permanently endure half Republican and Ijalf Citizens' Union. I do net expect the party to fall, but I do expect the party will get together. "I love to know," he continued, "that the people are giving more attention to the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. I know there is a namby pamby feeling that we should not take any notice of the great conflict of the past. I believe, for my part, that we should display the Stars and Stripes over the school houses of Che land.

I believe in maintaining the patriotism of the past and keeping up the old spirit of loyalty." Senator Thurston said that he was glad to be able to couple Grant and Lincoln. Both men were led on by divine power. Both were led on by God given devotion to their country. Both sprang from the American soil and were men of the people. They stood out as arguments against the doctrine of those who in these days would seek to stir up class prejudice.

"I love to chink of these two men, because they were the heads of the great army which went out to conquer a trained and splendid enemy. They were She heroes of the centuries, and men head and shoulders above all others." Senator Thurston paid eloquent tribute to the patriotism of the Union soldier." Senator Thurston ended his speech amidst a diapason of cheers. Following him came Edward W. Hatch, justice of the Supreme Court, who responded to the toast, "In All Things He Had the Courage to Do and the Fortitude to Endure." He spoke in part as follows Justice Hatch's Speech. "There are few of us who wish to work harder than the necessities of our condition require.

Most of the human family are content to slide Into the easiest place and abide there, if the place produce sufficient and is stable enough in tenure to quiet apprehensions of the future. This condition is not new. When our ancestors lived in caves an. ate uncooked flesh, althsfi they had the thirst for blood the effort and danger which attended upon its gratification were rarely overcome. They were content to feed upon the mussels, shell fish and roots which were more easily and safely gathered, and they were not above satisfying their hunger upon putrid remains, which accident or a more courageous character threw in their way.

There are some, other than human animals, possessed of courage and endurance, leaders of their kind, whose nostrils recoil from the smell of tainted things, whose fierceness requires fresh blood and quivering flesh. The'se are the kings of kind. They live in liigher atmosphere and rule their world. So there are men who seem to be stripped of all base alloy, and looking cut upon the world they see this human family, swayed by Its impulses, passion's and desires, and by the very fierceness of its struggles rock the pillars whose enduring power is their only hope. The Impulse of such a soul prompts sufficient effort to save and secure.

There is a sort cf genius quite common among men. It soars in realms of thin air: hut it brings to earth no substantial thing. That mind Is greatt and genius rare that foas the application which diga into things, and having found the principle bas the couTage to announce it, tho fortitute to susita'ln It and the endur aice which accepts and bears the consequences. Such characters have lived among men, else civilization would be a thing of the past. They shall live again, as the needs of men require and wills.

"Such a man was Abraham Lincoln. Born amidst Obscure surroundings, yet having. the right to be great, and making use of such opportunities as came to him, ho so improved his natural capacity as to become the leading personality of his time. was no subject so greait that he did not grapple wtih it. There was no detail so small as to escape his Inquiring mind.

He early learned, and has taught the lesson, 'that it 'Was one thing to have knowledge upon a subject, and aulte 1 likiluiiulii.