ion of
these orders.

"By order of the President."

BASHFUL WITH LADIES.

Judge David Davis, Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and
United States Senator from Illinois, was one of Lincoln's most intimate
friends. He told this story on "Abe":

"Lincoln was very bashful when in the presence of ladies. I remember
once we were invited to take tea at a friend's house, and while in the
parlor I was called to the front gate to see someone.

"When I returned, Lincoln, who had undertaken to entertain the ladies,
was twisting and squirming in his chair, and as bashful as a schoolboy."

SAW HUMOR IN EVERYTHING.

There was much that was irritating and uncomfortable in the
circuit-riding of the Illinois court, but there was more which was
amusing to a temperament like Lincoln's. The freedom, the long days in
the open air, the unexpected if trivial adventures, the meeting with
wayfarers and settlers--all was an entertainment to him. He found humor
and human interest on the route where his companions saw nothing but
commonplaces.

"He saw the ludicrous in an assemblage of fowls," says H. C. Whitney,
one of his fellow-itinerants, "in a man spading his garden, in a
clothes-line full of clothes, in a group of boys, in a lot of pigs
rooting at a mill door, in a mother duck teaching her brood to swim--in
everything and anything."

SPECIFIC FOR FOREIGN "RASH."

It was in the latter part of 1863 that Russia offered its friendship to
the United States, and sent a strong fleet of warships, together with
munitions of war, to this country to be used in any way the President
might see fit. Russia was not friendly to England and France, these
nations having defeated her in the Crimea a few years before. As Great
Britain and the Emperor of the French were continually bothering him,
President Lincoln used Russia's kindly feeling and action as a means
of keeping the other two powers named in a neutral state of mind.
Underneath the cartoon we here reproduce, which was labeled "Drawing
Things to a Head," and appeared in the issue of "Harper's Weekly," of
November 28, 1863, was this DR. LINCOLN (to smart boy of the shop):
"Mild applications of Russian Salve for our friends over the way, and
heavy doses--and plenty of it for our Southern patient!!"

Secretary of State Seward was the "smart boy" of the shop, and "our
friend over the way" were England and France. The latter bothered
President Lincoln no more, but i