on
foot; carrying from one neighbor what of his store he could spare to
another, and bringing back in return something of his store sorely
needed. Men living five, ten, twenty and thirty miles apart were called
'neighbors' then. Young Lincoln was always ready to perform these acts
of humanity, and was foremost in the counsels of the settlers when their
troubles seemed gathering like a thick cloud about them."

CREDITOR PAID DEBTORS DEBT.

A certain rich man in Springfield, Illinois, sued a poor attorney for
$2.50, and Lincoln was asked to prosecute the case. Lincoln urged the
creditor to let the matter drop, adding, "You can make nothing out of
him, and it will cost you a good deal more than the debt to bring suit."
The creditor was still determined to have his way, and threatened
to seek some other attorney. Lincoln then said, "Well, if you are
determined that suit should be brought, I will bring it; but my charge
will be $10."

The money was paid him, and peremptory orders were given that the suit
be brought that day. After the client's departure Lincoln went out of
the office, returning in about an hour with an amused look on his face.

Asked what pleased him, he replied, "I brought suit against ----, and
then hunted him up, told him what I had done, handed him half of the
$10, and we went over to the squire's office. He confessed judgment and
paid the bill."

Lincoln added that he didn't see any other way to make things
satisfactory for his client as well as the other.

HELPED OUT THE SOLDIERS.

Judge Thomas B. Bryan, of Chicago, a member of the Union Defense
Committee during the War, related the following concerning the original
copy of the Emancipation Proclamation:

"I asked Mr. Lincoln for the original draft of the Proclamation," said
Judge Bryan, "for the benefit of our Sanitary Fair, in 1865. He sent it
and accompanied it with a note in which he said:

"'I had intended to keep this paper, but if it will help the soldiers, I
give it to you.'

"The paper was put up at auction and brought $3,000. The buyer afterward
sold it again to friends of Mr. Lincoln at a greatly advanced price, and
it was placed in the rooms of the Chicago Historical Society, where it
was burned in the great fire of 1871."

EVERY FELLOW FOR HIMSELF.

An elegantly dressed young Virginian assured Lincoln that he had done a
great deal of hard manual labor in his time. Much amused at this solemn
declaration, L