Transcriber Note Emphasized text is displayed as: _Italic_. Where music scores were included, [MUSIC] was inserted below the title and authors names and the verses and choruses were transcribed. LINCOLN DAY ENTERTAINMENTS [Illustration] FLANAGAN COMPANY CHICAGO * * * * * [Illustration: _Augustus St. Gaudens_ STATUE OF LINCOLN, LINCOLN PARK, CHICAGO] * * * * * LINCOLN DAY ENTERTAINMENTS RECITATIONS, PLAYS, DIALOGUES, DRILLS, TABLEAUX, PANTOMIMES, QUOTATIONS, SONGS, TRIBUTES, STORIES, FACTS EDITED BY JOS. C. SINDELAR A. FLANAGAN COMPANY CHICAGO Copyright, 1908 BY A. FLANAGAN COMPANY PREFACE It is especially fitting to issue this book--in fact, any book on the life and work of Abraham Lincoln--at this time, just preceding the centennial of his birth. Insignificant as the little volume may seem, it will have earned its right to publication if it bring, in whatever small measure, before the growing mind of the country a better realization of the grand life of the noble Lincoln--the loved and martyred President--inspired by God and divinely prepared for a great purpose: to guard and preserve a free and united country. One hundred years seem but a day! One thousand years hence a deeper feeling will be felt for everything concerning Lincoln, as with each passing year he grows in the affections of the people. His body is dead, but his memory will live in the hearts of the people as long as our country shall cherish freedom and liberty. He was a born king of men, with an intense and yearning love for his fellows and their welfare, which knew neither rank, race, nor creed, but gathered within its boundless charity all mankind.