BROTHER JONATHAN: “Well, that may be; but the fact is, OLD ABE is just where I can put my finger on him; and as for the other--though they say he’s some when out in the scrub yonder--I never know where to find him.” MOST VALUABLE POLITICAL ATTRIBUTE. “One time I remember I asked Mr. Lincoln what attribute he considered most valuable to the successful politician,” said Captain T. W. S. Kidd, of Springfield. “He laid his hand on my shoulder and said, very earnestly: “‘To be able to raise a cause which shall produce an effect, and then fight the effect.’ “The more you think about it, the more profound does it become.” “ABE” RESENTED THE INSULT. A cashiered officer, seeking to be restored through the power of the executive, became insolent, because the President, who believed the man guilty, would not accede to his repeated requests, at last said, “Well, Mr. President, I see you are fully determined not to do me justice!” This was too aggravating even for Mr. Lincoln; rising he suddenly seized the disgraced officer by the coat collar, and marched him forcibly to the door, saying as he ejected him into the passage: “Sir, I give you fair warning never to show your face in this room again. I can bear censure, but not insult. I never wish to see your face again.” ONE MAN ISN’T MISSED. Salmon P. Chase, when Secretary of the Treasury, had a disagreement with other members of the Cabinet, and resigned. The President was urged not to accept it, as “Secretary Chase is to-day a national necessity,” his advisers said. “How mistaken you are!” Lincoln quietly observed. “Yet it is not strange; I used to have similar notions. No! If we should all be turned out to-morrow, and could come back here in a week, we should find our places filled by a lot of fellows doing just as well as we did, and in many instances better. “Now, this reminds me of what the Irishman said. His verdict was that ‘in this country one man is as good as another; and, for the matter of that, very often a great deal better.’ No; this Government does not depend upon the life of any man.” “STRETCHED THE FACTS.” George B. Lincoln, a prominent merchant of Brooklyn, was traveling through the West in 1855-56, and found himself one night in a town on the Illinois River, by the name of Naples. The only tavern of the place had evidently been constructed with reference to business on a small scale. Poor as the prospect seemed, Mr. Lincoln had no alternative but to put up at the place. The supper-room was also used as a lodging-room. Mr. Lincoln told his host that he thought he would “go to bed.” “Bed!” echoed the landlord. “There is no bed for you in this house unless you sleep with that man yonder. He has the only one we have to spare.” “Well,” returned Mr. Lincoln, “the gentleman has possession, and perhaps would not like a bed-fellow.” Upon this a grizzly head appeared out of the pillows, and said: “What is your name?” “They call me Lincoln at home,” was the reply.