t was an old lady, very plainly dressed. She knew Mr.
Lincoln, but Mr. Lincoln did not at first recognize her. Then she
undertook to recall to his memory certain incidents connected with his
ride upon the circuit--especially his dining at her house upon the road
at different times. Then he remembered her and her home.

Having fixed her own place in his recollection, she tried to recall to
him a certain scanty dinner of bread and milk that he once ate at her
house. He could not remember it--on the contrary, he only remembered
that he had always fared well at her house.

"Well," she said, "one day you came along after we had got through
dinner, and we had eaten up everything, and I could give you nothing but
a bowl of bread and milk, and you ate it; and when you got up you said
it was good enough for the President of the United States!"

The good woman had come in from the country, making a journey of eight
or ten miles, to relate to Mr. Lincoln this incident, which, in her
mind, had doubtless taken the form of a prophecy. Mr. Lincoln placed
the honest creature at her ease, chatted with her of old times, and
dismissed her in the most happy frame of mind.

HOW THE TOWN OF LINCOLN, ILL., WAS NAMED.

The story of naming the town of Lincoln, the county seat of Logan
county, Illinois, is thus given on good authority:

The first railroad had been built through the county, and a station
was about to be located there. Lincoln, Virgil Hitchcock, Colonel R.
B. Latham and several others were sitting on a pile of ties and talking
about moving a county seat from Mount Pulaski. Mr. Lincoln rose and
started to walk away, when Colonel Latham said: "Lincoln, if you will
help us to get the county seat here, we will call the place Lincoln."

"All right, Latham," he replied.

Colonel Latham then deeded him a lot on the west side of the courthouse,
and he owned it at the time he was elected President.

"OLD JEFF'S" BIG NIGHTMARE.

"Jeff" Davis had a large and threatening nightmare in November, 1864,
and what he saw in his troubled dreams was the long and lanky figure of
Abraham Lincoln, who had just been endorsed by the people of the United
States for another term in the White House at Washington. The cartoon
reproduced here is from the issue of "Frank Leslie's Illustrated
Newspaper" of December 3rd, 1864, it being entitled "Jeff Davis'
November Nightmare."

Davis had been told that McClellan, "the War is a failure" ca