get to it."

A few days afterward a Methodist minister called on the President, and
on being presented to him, said, simply:

"Mr. President, I have come to tell you that I think we have got to Fox
River!"

Lincoln thanked the clergyman, and laughed heartily.

PRESIDENT NOMINATED FIRST.

The day of Lincoln's second nomination for the Presidency he forgot
all about the Republican National Convention, sitting at Baltimore,
and wandered over to the War Department. While there, a telegram came
announcing the nomination of Johnson as Vice-President.

"What," said Lincoln to the operator, "do they nominate a Vice-President
before they do a President?"

"Why," replied the astonished official, "have you not heard of your own
nomination? It was sent to the White House two hours ago."

"It is all right," replied the President; "I shall probably find it on
my return."

"THEM GILLITEENS."

The illustrated newspapers of the United States and England had a good
deal of fun, not only with President Lincoln, but the latter's Cabinet
officers and military commanders as well. It was said by these
funny publications that the President had set up a guillotine in his
"back-yard," where all those who offended were beheaded with both
neatness, and despatch. "Harper's Weekly" of January 3rd, 1863,
contained a cartoon labeled "Those Guillotines; a Little Incident at the
White House," the personages figuring in the "incident" being Secretary
of War Stanton and a Union general who had been unfortunate enough to
lose a battle to the Confederates. Beneath the cartoon was the following
dialogue:

SERVANT: "If ye plase, sir, them Gilliteens has arrove." MR. LINCOLN:
"All right, Michael. Now, gentlemen, will you be kind enough to step out
in the back-yard?"

The hair and whiskers of Secretary of War Stanton are ruffled and awry,
and his features are not calm and undisturbed, indicating that he has
an idea of what's the matter in that back-yard; the countenance of the
officer in the rear of the Secretary of War wears rather an anxious, or
worried, look, and his hair isn't combed smoothly, either.

President Lincoln's frequent changes among army commanders--before
he found Grant, Sherman and Sheridan--afforded an opportunity the
caricaturists did not neglect, and some very clever cartoons were the
consequence.

"CONSIDER THE SYMPATHY OF LINCOLN."

Consider the sympathy of Abraham Lincoln. Do you know the story of