WW fed IN connection with the celebration of Lincoln's birthday it will not be out of place to reproduce from the New York Herald a part of the description of his assassination given by the poet, Walt Whitman, who was present in Ford's Theater when the foul deed was done: "There Is a scene in the piny ('Our American Cousin') representiiiK a modern parlor, in which two unprecedented Kn lish ladies ore informed by an impossible Yankee that he is not a man of fortune, and, therefore, undesirable for mnrriapte catching purposes; after which, the com ments being finished, the dramatic trio make exit, leaving the stage clear for a moment. "At this period came the murder of Abraham Lincoln. Great as was all its manifold train circling round it, ami stretching into the future for many a cen tury, in the politics, history, art, etc., of the New World in point of fact the main thing, the actual murder, transpired with the quiet nnd simplicity of any commonest occurrence the bursting of a bud or pod In the growth of vegetation, for Instance. "Through the general hum following the stnge pause, with the change of po sition, came the niullled sound of a pistol shot, which not one-hundredth part of the audience heard at the time, and yet a moment's hush, somehow, surely a vague startled thrill, and then, through the ornamented, drnperied, stnrred and striped space way of the President's box, a sudden figure, a man raises himself with bands nnd feet, stands a moment on the railing, leaps below to the stnge, a distance of perhaps fourteen or fifteen feet, falls out of position, cntching his boot heel hi the copious drapery the American flag falls on one knee, quickly recovers himself, rises ns if nothing hnd happened (he really sprained his ankle, but unfelt then). "And so the figure, Booth, the murder er, dressed in plain blnck broadcloth, bare beaded, with full glossy, raven hair, nnd night before enough had been learned to warrant the belief that our candidate had been elected. We went nearly wild with joy, and congratulated Mr. Lincoln most heartily. Someone saw the famous "stovepipe" in the hall, and, seizing it, threw it up to the ceiling. Another caught it, and then It went the rounds till it fell to the floor, when one gnve it a kick, and then an other, nnd another gave the hat a send- off, until it was so battered that it hnd lost all resemblance to its original shape. Mr. Lincoln looked on and smiled good naturedly at the childish performance, l'hiludelphin Iiecord. Such hb ben prlke with cupldes mocloun. Takvng tbeyr ehoyfe, astueyr sort dots fall; But 1 love oon which excelleth alle. It has never been satisfactorily explain ed why the 14th of February is called St. Valentine's Day. It has been ascribed as being named after Valentine, who suffer ed martyrdom ns a presbyter of the church, under Claudius, aliout 270, but nowhere in the history of his life enn there be found the least incident connected with him that could possibly have given rise to the practice of that day, unless as some authorities claim, Valentine being a man possessed of great love and charity, his name was thus honored and revered, but this idea does not seem plausible. Some authorities have given the suppo sition credence that It Is possibly deriv ed from the custom practiced by the an cient Church of Home, to choose on this day patrons for the ensuing year, and wns perhaps taken up by gallantry after it was dropped by Compulsion by the sup erstitious at the reformation, for since LINCOLN AS A DOORKEEPER. How Abe Pinned on the Badge and Did Duty for a Time. James Klter Is one of the olde doop keepers in the War Department at SVaslv ington, and has been stationed at the Seventeenth street entrance of the Win der Building for many years, occupying a chair in which President Lincoln sat while he acted as doorkeeper in place of Mr. Elter. Speaking of the incident, Mr. Elter said; "One day a tall, lank gentleman came to the entrance and asked me if the Sec retary was in, and I told him no, that it was too early for him. lie then asked at what hour he would be likely to find him, nnd I told him. With a pleasant 'Thank you' (something we don't always get) he walked away. At the hour I told him the Secretary would be in he again walked up the steps and asked mo if I would not go to the Secretary's room and tell him that be wished to see him. I told him I cojild not leave my post. " 'Oh, that is all right. I am Mr. Lin coln, and I will keep door while you de liver my message. Tell him that I want to see him here in the lower ball.' With this the President unpinned my badge, stuck it in his own coat, and took my chair. I hastened to the Secretary's room, and soon the two were together near me, but in quiet and earnest tnlK. I never did know why Mr. Lincoln did not want to go to the Secretary's room, but I know that I prize this chair. 1 call it Abe Lincoln. No doubt that was the only time a President ever acted as q doorkeeper." n ;. 4mmmw m A VALENTINE. SNAKES BY THE BUSHEL. by a Dear little maid In the scarlet hood, I know you're merry, I'm sure you're good: Year little blue skirt Is patched and frayed, You've u shoe-string bow ou your towsleds braid. Your shoes are stubby, and square, nnd old. Your ravelling mittens let In the cold; Hut you pass each day wUeu the scbool-bell rings, Merrily making the best of things. Ilopplty-sklpplng, 1 watch yon come, Arms entwined with a giggling chum, Home on the crest of a wave f girls, A motley tossing of hoods aim curls, Friends behind you and friends before Surging In shouts to the schoolliouse door Homely and happy, and shabby and proud, The laughing queen of the chattering crowd. Wise little maid of the hundred friends. Cheerily taking what fortune sends. Your nose Is snub and your mouth Is wide (I've seen a cooky tucked whole Inside!) And freckles nil over your round cheeks lie Like cinnamon sprinkled on pumpklu-pie; Hut your eyes are gay, and your laugh Is sweet, As you hopplty-sklp down the dingy street Dear little maid In the scarlet hood, I am your friend, and will you be mine? I know you're merry. I'm sure you're good, And I'd like you, please, for uiy valentine. Youth's Companion. More than 200 Rattlers Killed Mowing Machine. It is not necessary to go to the far West or South for up-to-date snake stories. One which Is vouched i for by reliable New York farmers comes from Hancock, Delaware County, and is made public by the Walton Report er. Joseph Darrow, says this truthful newspaper, has a farm just below Hau cock village, lie employs as a farm hand Henry Vail. Henry is a native and to the manor born. He is not the least bit afraid of snakes, but since his experience of last vveek he has more respect for tha reptiles that he had be fore. After earing his dinner Friday he hitched up the team and started mow ing around a mendow about sixty rods from the barn. It was a terribl) hot day. The thermometer stood ninety In the shade and aoi-nt two hundred in the sun. Henry had mowed about half a dozen times around the place, his horses taking a slow, steady gait, when all at once they pricked up their ears, and with a terrific snort sprang for ward, throwing him from the machine. The same Instant the knives stuck In to a squirming, writhing -ball of rat tlesnakes, rolled tightly together and as large as a bushel basket. The horses started full speed for the barn, and the heads and rattles flew in all directions. The horses, the mow ing machine and the ground behind it were covered with snakes. Henry leap ed to his feet as he struck the ground, and, seizing a stick, whacked right and left for his life. Wherever he struck he could hot fail to hit a snake. He waded through the myriad of squirm ing serpents working his stick like a flail on a thrashing floor until he clear ed the hissing mass, and then he ran with all the speed he could muster for the barn, which the horses had already reached. The team were none the worse for the run, though it took some time to get the machine righted. It was liter ally "covered with ground rattlesnakes. The heads and bodies of twenty-six rattlesnakes were counted, and Henry estimates that there must have been two hundred In the nest. The next day thirty rattlers were killed up Gee Brook, about four miles from the village, and a big one on Beers' flat, near where Vail had his encounter. W 19 MEN Kid! If vou suffer from any of the ill- Mr Specialist on the Pacific Coast, DR. JORDAN & CO.. J 051 Market St Est'd 1852. You siff men and middle aired men who are suffering I from the effect! of youthful indiscretions or ex cesses in maturer years. Nervous and Physical 1 IebllU.v,Impoieiicy,JLot ttanlnoil in all its complications; Wpermatorrhijea. i Proatatorrhwii, Clonorrliwn, Ul?et, Frequency of tlrlnntiiiff, etc By a i combination of remedies, of great curative pow er, the Doctor has io arranged his treatment i that it will not only afford immediate relief but m permanent cure. 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BOOTH KIKES THE FATAL SHOT. bis pj'ph like some mud nn'mml's, tlimliiiiK with light mid resolution, yet with n cer tain strnnge enliiiiii'KH, hold nlnft in one lmiid n In rue ltnire, wnlkn along, not much buck from the footlights, turns fully to ward the audience, his face of statuesque heniity, lit by those basilisk eyes, Hash ing, with desiieratlon, perhaps insanity, launches nut ill n linn and steady voice the words, 'Sio semper tyi'iuiuis,' mid then walks, with neither slow nor very rivid pace, diagonally across to the back of the stage, nnd disapears. "A moment's! hush, a scream, the cry of murder, Mrs. Lincoln leaning out of the box with ashy cheeks and lips, with in voluntary cry, pointing to the retreating figure, 'lie has killed the President!' "And Btill a moment's strange, Incred ulous: suspense and then the change! then that mixture of horror, noises, un certaintythe sound somewhere back of a horse's hoofs clattering with speed the people burst through chairs and railings und break them tip; there is Inextricable confusion nnd terror; women faint; unite feeble persons fall and are trampled -on; many cries of agony nre heard; the broad stage suddenly litis to suffocation with a dense and motley crowd, like some horri ble carnival: the audience rush generally upon it; at least the strong men do; the actors and actresses are all there in their play costumes and painted faces, with mortal fright showing through the rouge; the screams and calls, confused talk re doubled, trebled, two or throe manage to . . . . i. . i .. pass up water irom me singe io me i res ident's box; others try to cIiuuIht up. "In the midst of all this the soldiers of the President's guard, with others sudden ly drawn to the scene, burst in some lit HI altogether; they storm the house, through all the tiers, especially the upper ones, lullnmed with fury, literally charging the audience with tixed bayonets, muskets und pistols, shouting 'Clear out! Clear out!' "Such the wild scene, or n suggestion of It rather, inside the playhouse that Might. And In the midst of that pandemonium, Infuriated soldiers, the au dience and the crowd, the stage nnd all Its actors and actresses, its paint pots, npnnglcs and gns lights, the life blood from those veins, the best and sweetest In the land, drips slow ly down, and death's oor.e already begins its little ImbUlea on the lips," - I'outbiill with Lincoln's Hat. The favorite hut worn by Abruham Lincoln was a tall "stovepipe." It has been described ns a foot high, with a brim almost as wide as a Southern sombrero. Many anecdotes are connected with that famous tall hat. In It Mr. Lincoln car ried many valuable papers, the briefs of his law cases, and other documents. On the night of Mr, Lincoln's election , the nrcsldencr several ladles who hnd irnihered at the old homestead at Spring Held testilied their gleo by using the hat US IL f out Lull. A few of us went over to nssist Mrs. Lincoln about the supiht which was to lie given some gentlemen who had come tu to hear the returns. It waa afUr nud- thnt time the custom of choosing valen tines was a sport practiced by the Eng lish gentry as early as 1470 in their homes, but ns all this is an uncertainty, we nre left in the dark as to the true origin nnd purpose of St. Valentine's Day. "It is a ceremony," said Hourne, "nev er omitted among the vulgar to draw lots, which tney term valentines, on the eve before Valentine Day. The names of a select number of the sex are, by an equal number of another, put In some vessel; and after that everyone draws a name, which for the present is called their val entine, and is looked upon as a good omen of their being man and wife afterwards." Iu some places, we are told, the cus tom was considered heathenish, and to abolish it the names of certain saints were written in billets and given, and this may have been 'the true reason why Val entine was chosen to Ik; the saint for that day, but why the practice of sending or choosing valentines wns any more heath enish than many another custom is not clear. They were all foolish, supersti tious pastimes. In lull sport was Indulged in during the month of February, when the girls burned a figure which they stole from the boys, nnd which they called "A Holly Hoy," nnd the boys stole ti figure from the girls which they burned, calling it an 'lvy-(iirl." It is altogether probable that the cus tom of sending written love messages on that dny originated at the time of (Jueen ( iitherine, consort of Henry IV when I.y.dguto, the Monk of Hury, wrote the following lines in praise of the queen: Seynte Valentine, of ciiHtoin jeere by yevre Men have an usauuci In HiIn rcgloiiu To loke and aerobe cupldes kalcndere, Anil chose theyr ehoyw, by grete affec-eloun Poverty and Desolation Wafted on the Fuinous ISuby, Abraham Lincoln, the great wnr Presi dent, was horn in Larue (then Hardin) County, Keutucky, in a rude little log cabin, says St. Nicholas. This cabin has recently been restored and so far us pos sible made exactly as it was eighty-eight years ago, when a little baby boy was born to Thomas and Nancy Lincoln, or "Llnkhoru," as the name was then spell edhumble "settlers," wlnJ had moved to the neighborhood from Washington County four years before. The few living people who remember Thomas Lincoln, the father, say that he was n rather Improvident man, not work ing long at any one thing. He wns a hard worker, but was n poor manager, and the little family was often without more than the simplest necessaries of life. Thomas Lincolu cleared a few acres around his cabin nnd raised a small crop of corn nnd grain. Then he became a car penter and tinker, working at such oild jobs as he could find among the pioneer neighbor. He was away at work at the time Abraham was born. The neighbors heard that Mrs. Lincoln was in the cabin all alone with the little baby and had little to eat except corn and potatoes. They nt once visited the Lincolu cabin, taking such delicacies as their houses afforded. The father return ed in a few days and the baby wns named Abraham Lincoln, after his grandfather, who had been killed by the Indians when Thomus Lincoln was a little boy. A A St. Valentine's Tea. St. Valentine's teu niny be easily made a very charming little festivity. The guests should consist of a few bright young people, and the whole affair should be conducted in a spirit of fun nnd In formality. A sentlineiitnl quotation should be written on the mime card at each plate, taking care that it has some appropriate ness to the guest. The prevailing colors In ttowers or other table decoration should lie pink and white. All the dishes should be suitable to the occasion, nt least in name, nnd each one accompanied by a suggestive couplet, to be road aloud b. the server. A Good Postman. If I were n pustniiin I'd learn how tu lose The letlers that vex And that curry bud news. Hut I'd pack Kiich a stack In tuy bag, 'twould be queer If you didn't have valentines Twoh e times a year. Semitmrburoua Thibetans Knew Some thing About Compressed Air, It has been less than 10 years since civilized humanity used many odd de vices for the purpose of obtaining tire. In this country, then claiming to be "enlightened," the tinder box, with Bteel and flint, was the apparatus most generally used. However, If there was no tinder box In the house, the old flintlock musket, with a few grains of powder In the pan, together with n few shreds of paper or greased rags, was considered a household necessity. Rub bing sticks together until they were fired by frlctlou was the method used by the snvnges of that time In nearly nil the lauds of the globe. There was one singular exception, however, to all of the above, ns well as many other of the more common methods of "striking light," nnd that method was practiced by a rude tribe of semlsavages inhabit ing eastern Thibet. Curious ns It may seem, these rude savages obtained lire on strictly scientific principles, which Involved a wonderful knowledge of compressed air. The apparatus! used consisted of a wooden cylinder two and one-half Inches long by three-quarters of an Inch In diameter, which was closed at one end. Into this cylinder (which ta pered off at one end until It was not larger than a common lead pencil) was fitted an alr-tlght piston, which bad n large flat knob at the top; the other end of the piston was slightly hollowed out, the Indentation being Intended for the reception of a small piece of tinder or "punk." When this apparatus wns In use It was held In one hand, the pis ton being Inserted with the other and pushed about half way down. A very sharp blow wns theu given with the palm ou the piston. At the same in stant the fingers were closed nround the knob and the piston Instantly with drawn. If everything had worked to perfection the scientific snvage was usually rewarded by finding that the tinder had been lighted and a fire as sured. Sir William Gill, the English scientist, who Investigated this queer mode of strlklug a light, says that "it requires skill to use this fire-producing apparatus, as well ns science to in vent It." Sau Francisco Chronicle. Where itoyal Hones Itcposo. The kings and queens of France are burled In an old church at St. Penis, which was founded by King Hagobert In the year IU0. Iu this church the Maid of Orleans laid down her arms In 1421), and there, in 1S10, Napoleon was married to the Archduchess Marie Louise. The elligles of all the mou nrchs from Hagobert to Louis XVIII. lie on their backs ou marble slabs Iu rows like bodies in a morgue. The fa ther and mother of Charlemagne nre there, and many old chaps whose ex istence to us seems mythical. The kings and queens of England are burled lu Westminster abbey and iu the chapel of St. lieorge at Windsor. 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