Lincoln’s kindly interest and perfectly democratic feeling attached to him many people whom he never met save on the streets.  Indeed his life in the streets of Springfield is a most touching and delightful study.  He concerned himself in the progress of every building which was put up, of every new street which was opened; he passed nobody without recognition; he seemed always to have time to stop and talk.  He became, in fact, part of Springfield street life, just as he had of the town’s politics and society.  By 1840 there was no man in the town better known, better liked, more sought for; though there were more than one whose future was considered brighter.

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[Footnote 1:  Reminiscences of Mr. Weir, a former resident of Sangamon County, related by E.B.  Howell of Butte, Montana.]

[Footnote 2:  Summary condensed from Moses’s “History of Illinois.”]

[Footnote 3:  The original of this letter is owned by E.R.  Oeltjen of Petersburg, Illinois.]

[Footnote 4:  Lincoln’s address on “The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions” is dated January 27, 1837, in most biographies, but it was published in the “Sangamo Journal” of February 3, 1838.  The address is preceded by the following resolution: 

    “YOUNG MEN’S LYCEUM,
    SPRINGFIELD, January 27, 1837[8].

    “Resolved, That the thanks of this Lyceum be presented to A.
    Lincoln, Esq., for the lecture delivered by him this evening,
    and that he be solicited to furnish a copy for publication.

    “JAS. H. MATHENY, Secretary”

The confusion as to the date of the delivery of this address evidently arises from the fact that the resolution here quoted bears the date of “1837”—­a mere slip of the pen, of course.  In January, 1837, Lincoln was in the legislature at Vandalia.  He had not yet become a resident of Springfield.  According to Mr. Herndon, who was a member of the Young Men’s Lyceum, that society was not formed until the fall of 1837.]

[Illustration:  THE WAVE “WENT OUT IN THREE SURGES, MAKING A CLEAN SWEEP OF A BOAT.”]

THE SHIP THAT FOUND HERSELF.

BY RUDYARD KIPLING,

Author of “The Jungle Book,” “Plain Tales from the Hills,” etc.

It was her first voyage, and though she was only a little cargo steamer of two thousand five hundred tons, she was the very best of her kind, the outcome of forty years of experiments and improvements in framework and machinery; and her designers and owners thought just as much of her as though she had been the “Lucania.”  Any one can make a floating hotel that will pay her expenses, if he only puts enough money into the saloon, and charges for private baths, suites of rooms, and such like; but in these days of competition and low freights every square inch of a cargo boat must be built for cheapness,