his hand on his jeans-clad breast:

"Here is your aristocrat, one of your silk-stocking gentry, at your
service." Then, spreading out his hands, bronzed and gaunt with toil:
"Here is your rag-basin with lily-white hands. Yes, I suppose, according
to my friend Taylor, I am a bloated aristocrat."

WHEN OLD ABE GOT MAD.

Soon after hostilities broke out between the North and South, Congress
appointed a Committee on the Conduct of the War. This committee beset
Mr. Lincoln and urged all sorts of measures. Its members were aggressive
and patriotic, and one thing they determined upon was that the Army of
the Potomac should move. But it was not until March that they became
convinced that anything would be done.

One day early in that month, Senator Chandler, of Michigan, a member of
the committee, met George W. Julian. He was in high glee. "'Old' Abe is
mad," said Julian, "and the War will now go on."

WANTED TO "BORROW" THE ARMY.

During one of the periods when things were at a standstill, the
Washington authorities, being unable to force General McClellan to
assume an aggressive attitude, President Lincoln went to the general's
headquarters to have a talk with him, but for some reason he was unable
to get an audience.

Mr. Lincoln returned to the White House much disturbed at his failure
to see the commander of the Union forces, and immediately sent for two
general officers, to have a consultation. On their arrival, he told
them he must have some one to talk to about the situation, and as he
had failed to see General McClellan, he wished their views as to the
possibility or probability of commencing active operations with the Army
of the Potomac.

"Something's got to be done," said the President, emphatically, "and
done right away, or the bottom will fall out of the whole thing. Now, if
McClellan doesn't want to use the army for awhile, I'd like to borrow it
from him and see if I can't do something or other with it.

"If McClellan can't fish, he ought at least to be cutting bait at a time
like this."

YOUNG "SUCKER" VISITORS.

After Mr. Lincoln's nomination for the Presidency, the Executive
Chamber, a large, fine room in the State House at Springfield, was set
apart for him, where he met the public until after his election.

As illustrative of the nature of many of his calls, the following
incident was related by Mr. Holland, an eye-witness: "Mr. Lincoln being
in conversation with a gentleman