consisted in his having a purpose to have a mind rather than to have a good time. And yet, Lincoln loved joyful sports and he was a favorite in

mise than the turmoil of happenings among companions, or th

ife of Washington" seems to have given him his ideal of American character and statesmanship,

ven of the battlefields and struggles for the liberties of the country, and none fixed themselves upon my imagination so deeply as the struggle here at Trenton, New Jersey. The crossing of the river, the contest with the Hessians, the great hardships endured at that time, all fixed themselves in my mind more than any single revolutionary event; and you

tance of fifty miles. The industry with which he sought to learn and his unceasing endeavor to build up his mind w

and discuss the news. By the time he had become a man, in Menard County, Illinois, his neighbors went to him in order to know things, and he was a good custodian of the knowledge he had gained

nother boy has thought that he had few troubles more unbearable than the study of composition, but many another boy has not bee