DANGERS OF ASSASSINATION.

The President said philosophically, "I long ago made up my mind that if anybody wants to kill me, he will do it. Besides, in this case, it seems to me, the man who would succeed me, would be just as objectionable to my enemies-if I have any."

One dark night, as he was going out with a friend, he took along a heavy cane, remarking good-naturedly: "Mother' (Mrs. "Mother' (Mrs. Lincoln) has got a notion into her head that I shall be assassinated, and to please her I take a cane when I go over to the War Department at night-when I don't forget it."

"One

Mr. Nichols relates this thrilling incident: night I was doing sentinel duty, at the entrance to the Soldier's Home. This was about the middle of August, 1864. About eleven o'clock I heard a rifle shot, in the direction of the city, and shortly afterwards I heard approaching hoof beats. In two or three minutes a horse came dashing up. I recognized the belated President. The President was bareheaded. The President simply thought that his horse had taken fright at the discharge of the firearms.

"On going back to the place where the shot had been heard, we found the President's hat. It was a plain silk hat, and upon examination we discovered a bullet hole through the crown.

"The next day, upon receiving the hat, the President remarked that it was made by some foolish marksman, and was not intended for him; but added, that he wished nothing said about the matter."

INCIDENT IN LINCOLN'S LAST SPEECH. Edward, the conservative but dignified butler of the White House, was seen struggling with Tad and trying to drag him back from the window from which was waving a Confederate flag captured in some fight and given to the boy. Edward conquered and Tad, rushing to find his father, met him coming forward to make, as it proved, his last speech.

The speech began with these words, "We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart." Having his speech written in loose leaves, and being compelled to hold a candle in the other hand, he would let the loose leaves drop to the floor one by one. picked them up as they fell, and impatiently called for more as they fell from his father's hand.

Tad

LINCOLN'S LAST AFTERNOON.

During the afternoon the President signed a pardon for a soldier sentenced to be shot for desertion, remarking as he did so, "Well, I think the boy can do us more good above ground than under ground."

He also approved an application for the discharge on taking the oath of allegiance, of a rebel prisoner, in whose petition he wrote, "Let it be done."

This act of mercy was his last official order.

Miscellaneous Stories

and Incidents.

SONG COMPOSED BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

Read in honor of his sister's wedding, and sung at that time by the Lincoln family:

ADAM AND EVE'S WEDding song.

When Adam was created,

He dwelt in Eden's shade,

As Moses has recorded,

And soon a bride was made.

Ten thousand times ten thousand
Of creatures swarmed around
Before a bride was formed,

And yet no mate was found.

The Lord then was not willing
That man should be alone,
And caused a sleep upon him,
And from him took a bone.

And closed the flesh instead thereof,
And then he took the same

And of it made a woman,

And brought her to the man.

Then Adam he rejoiced
To see his loving bride,
A part of his own body,
The product of his side.

The woman was not taken
From Adam's feet, we see,
So he must not abuse her,

The meaning seems to be.

The woman was not taken

From Adam's head, we know, To show she must not rule him'Tis evidently so.

The woman, she was taken
From under Adam's arm,

So she must be protected

From injuries and harm.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LINCOLN IN A SINGLE
PARAGRAPH.

The compiler of the "Dictionary of Congress" states that, while preparing the work for publication in 1858, he sent to Mr. Lincoln the usual request for a sketch of his life, and received the following reply:

"Born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Ky. Education defective. Profession, a lawyer. Have