iers, "that there is no North. The Seventh Regiment is a myth. Rhode
Island is another. You are the only real thing."

And again, after pacing the floor of his deserted office for a
half-hour, he was heard to exclaim to himself, in an anguished tone:
"Why don't they come! Why don't they come!"

GRANT'S BRAND OF WHISKEY.

Lincoln was not a man of impulse, and did nothing upon the spur of the
moment; action with him was the result of deliberation and study. He
took nothing for granted; he judged men by their performances and not
their speech.

If a general lost battles, Lincoln lost confidence in him; if a
commander was successful, Lincoln put him where he would be of the most
service to the country.

"Grant is a drunkard," asserted powerful and influential politicians
to the President at the White House time after time; "he is not himself
half the time; he can't be relied upon, and it is a shame to have such a
man in command of an army."

"So Grant gets drunk, does he?" queried Lincoln, addressing himself to
one of the particularly active detractors of the soldier, who, at that
period, was inflicting heavy damage upon the Confederates.

"Yes, he does, and I can prove it," was the reply.

"Well," returned Lincoln, with the faintest suspicion of a twinkle in
his eye, "you needn't waste your time getting proof; you just find out,
to oblige me, what brand of whiskey Grant drinks, because I want to send
a barrel of it to each one of my generals."

That ended the crusade against Grant, so far as the question of drinking
was concerned.

HIS FINANCIAL STANDING.

A New York firm applied to Abraham Lincoln, some years before he became
President, for information as to the financial standing of one of his
neighbors. Mr. Lincoln replied:

"I am well acquainted with Mr.---- and know his circumstances. First of
all, he has a wife and baby; together they ought to be worth $50,000
to any man. Secondly, he has an office in which there is a table worth
$1.50 and three chairs worth, say, $1. Last of all, there is in one
corner a large rat hole, which will bear looking into. Respectfully,
A. Lincoln."

THE DANDY AND THE BOYS.

President Lincoln appointed as consul to a South American country a
young man from Ohio who was a dandy. A wag met the new appointee on his
way to the White House to thank the President. He was dressed in the
most extravagant style. The wag horrified him by telling him that the
coun