Life — June 25, 1896 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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N old-time Southern politician tells the following : When Lincoln first came to Washington, I went to see him, so prejudiced against him beforehand that no man with less genius could have overcome it. I left the first interview, his friend. Noman ever came under the charm of Lincoln's personality without respecting him and, if permitted, loving him. One day, after we had become fairly good friends, I told him of my early prejudice. ‘Mr. Lincoln,’ I said, ‘1 had heard every mean thing about you except one. I never heard that you were too fond of the pleasures of life.’ Mr. Lincoln sat for a moment stroking his cheek thoughtfully, and then he drawled out in his peculiar Western voice : “That reminds me of something a boy said to me when I was about ten years old. Once in a while my mother used to get some sorghum and some ginger and mix us upa batch of gingerbread, It wasn't often, and it was our biggest treat, One day I smelled it and came into the house to get my share while it washot. I found she had baked me three gingerbread men, and I took them out under a hickory-tree to eat them. There was a family near us that was a little poorer than we were, and their boy came along as I sat down. ‘Abe,’ he said, edging close,‘ gimme a man.’ I gave him one. He crammed it into his mouth at two bites and looked at me while I bit the legs from my first one. ‘Abe’ he said, ‘gimme that other'n,’ I wanted it, but I gave it to him, and as it followed the first one I said: ‘You seem to like gingerbread.’ ‘Abe,’ he said earnestly, ‘I don't s'pose there’s anybody on this earth likes ginger- bread as well as I do,’ and drawing a sigh that brought up crumbs, ‘I don't s'pose there's anybody gets less of it.'"—Facts and Fiction, = Witue, didn’t I ask you to make less noise ?"’ said Mrs. Still at the dinner table. Yes, you did, mamma.” “Well, I will have to ask you again.” “Remember, mamma, you told me it was impolite to ask for anything twice at the table."— Yonkers States- man. “You must like prunes, Mr. Bolton? I notice you always take them.” “No, I hate them; but if I don’t eat them to-day they will come back to me as prune pie to-morrow."— Chicago Record. FINANCIER: You literary men haven't the first idea about business. Here you have about 10,000 manu- scripts piled up in this dark closet, and you say they are all paid for. EDITOR GREAT MAGAZINE: Years ago. “Just think of it! Hasn't it ever occurred to you, sir, that you are losing the interest on all the money you paid out for those useless bundles ?” “Huht You financiers haven't the first idea about literature, ery one of those manuscripts is from a different author, and the whole 10,000 of them will go on buying our magazine at 35 cents a copy until the articles are printed."—New York Weekly. Weary Wacotes: free concert las’ night! Dusty Ropes: W'y? * Dis here paper says de music was intoxicatin’. New York Press. An ter tink we skipped that HE UNDER SIDE OF THINGS. By Lilian Bel, Honor Ormthwaite, By the Author ot “Lady Jane’s Vagaries.” Jerry the Dreamer. By Will Payne. ‘A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. By Mark Twain, : STONE & KIMBALL, CHICAGO. dna Dike Shanty. By Maria Louise Pool. The Purple East, By William Watson. 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