hing that should encourage customers to come to the place, full of
pleasantries, patient, and alert.

On one occasion, finding late at night, when he counted over his cash,
that he had taken a few cents from a customer more than was due,
he closed the store, and walked a long distance to make good the
deficiency.

At another time, discovering on the scales in the morning a weight with
which he had weighed out a package of tea for a woman the night before,
he saw that he had given her too little for her money. He weighed out
what was due, and carried it to her, much to the surprise of the woman,
who had not known that she was short in the amount of her purchase.

Innumerable incidents of this sort are related of Lincoln, and we should
not have space to tell of the alertness with which he sprang to protect
defenseless women from insult, or feeble children from tyranny; for in
the rude community in which he lived, the rights of the defenseless were
not always respected as they should have been. There were bullies then,
as now.

A STRANGER AT FIVE-POINTS

(ADAPTED)

One afternoon in February, 1860, when the Sunday School of the
Five-Point House of Industry in New York was assembled, the teacher
saw a most remarkable man enter the room and take his place among the
others. This stranger was tall, his frame was gaunt and sinewy, his head
powerful, with determined features overcast by a gentle melancholy.

He listened with fixed attention to the exercises. His face expressed
such genuine interest that the teacher, approaching him, suggested that
he might have something to say to the children.

The stranger accepted the invitation with evident pleasure. Coming
forward, he began to speak and at once fascinated every child in the
room. His language was beautiful yet simple, his tones were musical, and
he spoke with deep feeling.

The faces of the boys and girls drooped sadly as he uttered warnings,
and then brightened with joy as he spoke cheerful words of promise. Once
or twice he tried to close his remarks, but the children shouted: "Go
on! Oh! do go on!" and he was forced to continue.

At last he finished his talk and was leaving the room quietly when the
teacher begged to know his name.

"Abra'm Lincoln, of Illinois," was the modest response.

A SOLOMON COME TO JUDGMENT

BY CHARLES W. MOORES

Lincoln's practical sense and his understanding of human nature enabled
him to save the life of the son of