Lincoln's Kindly Character

Mr. Grow related a story about Lincoln which illustrated two phases of the tuartyr president's charaoter. Mr. Grow, then speaker of the honse, bad gone to the president to ask the appointment of a friend as a judge in one of the territories. The president made a note of the request A few days later, when Mr. Grow called at the White House not about the judgeship, but upon anotber matter, Mr. Lincoln at once began to apologize. "Mr. Speaker," said he, "I meant to appoint your íriend to that judgeship, but a woman carne in bere with nine stuall cbildreu and one at the breast and pleaded the bread act and breaded me out of it. " "While we were talking, however, Mr. Lincoln said that he would still attend to my matter and started to put down my friend's name. He went to bis hat, which was fllled with papers, and after remarking tbat he had a queer way of doingthiugs began fumblinguntil he found a blank sheet. I told the president that ií bis Lat should blow off a lot of state secrets would be scattered, but he only smiled, wrote down the name and said that he tiow knew where tr find it when the time to consider tbo