Speaking of Lincoln’s honesty, the same editor relates an anecdote. It was in Springfield, during the session of a Douglas-Democratic convention. Any man used to wire pulling would have been on hand with his schemes. Lincoln was seen standing in a direction opposite from the convention; and when asked where he was going, replied that it was to attend the funeral of an old neighbor. A point worthy of notice in Lincoln’s character is his temperance. While it was the custom of the lawyers of his association to drink, he never drank with them. Once in a while he would play a game of billiards. “I remember” an old citizen tells me, “the first game I ever played with him. When it came my turn to play, he said to me in a very legal-like manner: ‘now if this were my case, I would hit this ball, make it roll against that one, have it hit the cushion, and then roll back against the third ball there’.” The last words of Mr. Lincoln in our county, were uttered Feb’y. 11, 1861, at Tolono. He had been elected President of the United States, and was on his way to Washington. Secession in the South had already begun its work; and all eyes were turned towards the coming President. In passing through Tolono, in response to applause, which hailed his appearance upon the car platform, he said: “I am leaving you on an errand of national importance, attended, as you are aware, with considerable difficulties. Let us believe, as some poet has expressed it: ‘Behind the cloud, the sun is still shining.’ I bid you an affectionate farewell.” The train moved on and vanished in the East; and when next it returned it bore the form of Abraham Lincoln, cold and still, wrapped in black; while his soul had pierced “_the cloud_” and entered into the sunlight beyond. Abraham Lincoln was not a man of great intellect, but of rich heart powers. In the dark hour of our nation’s need he came, found his place and filled it. “Melancholy dropped from him as he walked”; yet all who knew him loved him. There are old grey-headed men and women in our midst, who speak his name with affection; for have they not known him, heard his voice, felt the grasp of his hand, and comprehended his great, warm heart. Such a man has lived and moved among us. The End. Transcriber's Note: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including non-standard placement of quotation marks. Underlined text has been marked with _underscores_. Characters preceded by a caret appeared as superscripts. The following is a list of changes made to the original. The first line is the original line, the second the corrected one. Page 1: have for us an aditional interest, since we know have for us an additional interest, since we know Page 2: student. When a boy, he had posessed but few student. When a boy, he had possessed but few over wich he used to pore like an ambitious school boy. over which he used to pore like an ambitious school boy. Page 3: