need all the waterways possible to handle the developing commerce and industry of America. Development of Canada will help America just as development of the United States has helped Canada."

Like Washington, the kindly and considerate character of Mr. Lincoln finally won for him the love and veneration of his countrymen and the world, and in the end he accomplished with the aid of an army, which in the meantime had become thoroughly organized and trained, the defeat and subjugation of the Confederate forces. Continually surrounded in Washington by dangerous enemies and the friends of the Confederacy, as well as those who were dissatisfied with the methods of the administration, Lincoln was hampered on every side, and thus prevented in the earlier accomplishment of his purposes. Then when victory was finally obtained, in an unguarded moment, a misguided and impetuous young traitor treacherously assassinated the wise, generous, patient, and forgiving head of the country. He might, like most rulers of Europe under similar circumstances, have protected his person and it would not have excited criticism from any reasonable man; and it was due from the nation that he should have been constantly guarded, so that he might have lived and carried out the well-organized plans of reconstruction which he had formulated in his mind.

It is my opinion that many of these assassinations, were brought about by the injudicious, or intentional influences of irresponsible writers or public speakers who incite the popular mind. Reckless men rush off and seek to settle some real or imaginary wrong by killing some prominent leader or official.

A body-guard should be furnished by the government for all its presidents, from the time they are chosen until the termination of their term. This should be done as a matter of course by the government, and the president should have no authority to object to such protection, for it is as necessary here as in the most severe despotisms in the world. There are not only many treacherous assassins to guard against, but also crazy individuals like Guiteau, who are liable to attack public men without any reasonable ground.

During my life, besides the President Abraham Lincoln, the following noted Americans have been attacked or killed by assassins:

NOTED AMERICANS ASSASSINS' MARKS.

Here is the appalling list of attempts, successful and unsuccessful, on the lives of prominent Americans since 1881.

1881-July 2: James A. Garfield, President, shot twice in the

back by Guiteau. One bullet lodged two inches under pancreas. Died at Elberon, N. J., on September 19, 1881.

1891-December 4: Russell Sage, attacked with bomb by Henry W. Norcross of Boston. Sage unhurt, but William R. Laidlaw, used as a shield, wounded in 180 places and recovered. Norcross instantly killed.

1892-July 23: Herny Clay Frick, in Homestead strike, stabbed twice in body and shot once by Alexander Berkman. Frick recovered in three weeks.

1893-October 28: Carter Henry Harrison, Mayor of Chicago, shot near heart, in abdomen and in left hand by Eugene Pendergast. Harrison died in seventeen minutes.

1901-September 6: William McKinley, President, shot by Leon Czolgosz. One bullet penetrated stomach and lodged in muscles of back. McKinley died September 14, 1901.

1907-January 6: Richard Rushton, head of Fourth Street National Bank, Philadelphia, attacked with bomb by Rollo Steele. Steele killed. Cashier W. J. McLear and W. I. Crump died shortly. Rushton injured in many places; recovered in two months.

1910-August 9: William J. Gaynor, Mayor of New York, on deck of steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, shot by James J. Gallagher. Bullet struck from back under ear and split. One piece lodged there, the other piece in floor of mouth, near angle of jaw. Gaynor was fully recovered September 24.

1912 October 14: Theodore Roosevelt, candidate for President, shot by John Flamming Shrank, at Milwaukee. Bullet flattened on fractured forth rib four inches from breast bone. Roosevelt was about in two weeks and rapidly recovered.

1914 April 17: John Puroy Mitchel, Mayor of New York, shot at, but missed, by Michael P. Mahoney. Bullet struck Frank Polk, Corporation Counsel, in jaw, knocking out two teeth and lodging under tongue, so it was easily removed. Mr. Pulk recovered in two weeks.-New York Times.

OLD ENGLISH HOME OF THE WASHINGTONS TO BE RESTORED. SULGRAVE MANOR, PURCHASED RECENTLY BY BRITISH COMMITTEE FOR CELEBRATION OF CENTENARY OF PEACE BETWEEN ENGLAND AND UNITED STATES, SOON TO BE PUT IN SHAPE.

(Special Correspondence of the Monitor.)

LONDON-As announced in Monitor cable dispatches, the signing of the documents necessary to complete the purchase of Sulgrave Manor, the old English home of the Washingtons in Northampton

shire, took place at the close of a meeting of the British committee for the celebration of the centenary of peace between England and the United States. The signatories were the Duke of Teck, Lord Shaw, chairman of the executive, and Lord Cowdray, chairman of the finance committee.

The completion of the purchase of the Manor has cost the committee the sum of £8400; this leaves over a considerable amount to be expended on the restoration and furnishing of Sulgrave, as well as on the provision of a permanent maintenance and endowment fund. Steps have already been taken to form an international committee of management of the property, which includes, besides the old house, nine acres of land adjoining.

The chairmanship of this committee has been accepted by the American ambassador on his own behalf and on that of his successors. The other members are Lord Grey, Lord Spencer, Lord Bryce, Lord Shaw, Lord Cowdray, Lord Weardale, Robert Donald, Harry E. Britain, Andrew Carnegie, John A. Stewart of New York, and W. B. Howland of New York.

At the close of the business dealing with the purchase of the Manor and its maintenance, a letter was read from Lord Bryce, conveying the gift of a copy of the only genuine portrait of Mary Ball Washington, mother of George Washington, from Mrs. Lanier Washington, New York. The picture will be framed and will eventually be placed at Sulgrave. At the close of the meeting an announcement was made to the effect that the sum of £50,000 was still necessary to complete the centenary fund for carrying out the British program for the celebration.

WORK OF UNKNOWN ARTIST FROM WHICH NAME OF ETCHER AND DATE HAVE DISAPPEARED, WHICH WAS PRESENTED TO CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY TODAY, ALONG WITH MANY OTHER RELICS. (Copied from original by a staff photographer of the Chicago Daily News.) Choosing Abraham Lincoln's birthday as being timely, James Edgar Brown, Chicago, attorney and past president of the Illinois Society of the War of 1812, today presented to the Chicago Historical Society a number of historical documents and relics, chief among which is a rare etching of President Lincoln and Mrs. Lincoln. Experts and connoisseurs have examined the work, from which all trace of the name of the artist and the date have disappeared. All of them have rendered the verdict that the etching is an excellent piece of work.

The relics were donated to the Illinois Society of the War of 1812 by Dr. C. B. Lyman of Rockford, Ill., being handed down by his forefathers. The collection contains a copy of the Columbian Sentinel, a Boston newspaper dated Oct. 8, 1793, containing the oration of Joseph Clarke, right worshipful master, P. T., on the laying of the southeast corner of the national capitol in the City of Washington on Sept. 13, 1793, and the Thanksgiving proclamation by John Hancock, then governor of the commonwealth of Massachusetts and owner of the bold signature signed to the Declaration of Independence.

In the collection is also an illustrated campaign poster of the election of 1829, with the title, "Some Account of the Bloody Deeds of General Jackson," describing the execution of American militiamen after the battle of New Orleans, the massacre of the Indians, the assault on Senator Benton and other political opponents, illustrated with wood cuts of caskets and a drawing of General Jackson in the act of stabbing an adversary. A $5 bank note issued by the Bank of Detroit, 1806, on which the signature of Judge A. B. Woodward is affixed; a check signed by Lawrence Washington, United States senator in 1864 and close relative of President George Washington, who lived in and owned the Virginia estate, "Wakefield," the birthplace of the first President of the United States, dated March 16, 1848, for $105, being the purchase price of a horse, and another, signed by his son, Col. John T. Washington, confederate officer, killed in 1864, dated Nov. 29, 1853, for the amount of $28.87 for taxes, are among the collection. A book on "The Life of Gen. Francis Marion," written by Brig.-Gen. P Horrp and L. M. Weems in 1839, is another article.

"I am directed by the officers and directors of the Society of the War of 1812 to turn these documents over to the Chicago Historical Society. I believe it is yet to be determined whether they are to be donated or loaned," was the statement given by Mr. Brown in a letter to Miss Caroline M. McIlvaine, librarian of the Chicago Historical Society.

Abraham Lincoln did not look like the clumsy statue created by George Gray Barnard. Although very tall, measuring 6 feet 4 inches, and large in every way, including his head, he was not an embarrassed or ungainly figure when moving in society or as a member of the legislature.

I knew Abraham Lincoln as early as 1847, when I was only 7 years old. He often attended social gatherings at our house in 4th Street, Springfield, meeting other prominent politicians like Lyman Trumbull, Stephen A. Douglas and James Shields. Miss Julia Jayne, afterward Mrs. Lyman Trumbull; Miss Todd, afterward Mrs. Lincoln, and other friends of my sister were invited to these parties. When

Mr. Lincoln was present he was always treated with a great deal of cordiality and proved to be in many cases the life of the company and in no way appeared out of place among the guests. Had Mr. Lincoln at this period of his life employed a good barber and an artistic tailor his large, strong body would not have seemed quite as awkward as it did in ready-made clothes, which in some cases did not fit.

As he advanced intellectually, becoming a distinguished orator, and his dominating mind gained greater control over his body, impressing his characteristics upon his features and personality, as is the case with most men of marked ability, much of his early original ungainliness disappeared.

I met Mr. Lincoln the last time in 1865, being presented to him by a congressman in his business office in the White House, and also at receptions about two months previous to his assassination. He was then usually dressed in a well fitting suit of broadcloth and he appeared when seated much like the painting by Healey. Robert T. Lincoln has this original painting in his library.

At this period, in the prime and vigor of manhood, when moving about the White House, Lincoln appeared no more out of place among prominent society people than Washington when he was President. Both were large, powerful men, physically and mentally; the latter being 6 feet 2 inches high, and had, it is stated, a very large hand. Lincoln's hands and feet were probably no larger than his. They were not out of proportion to his large body.

When a sculptor undertakes to produce a statue of a mature man he is not doing justice to his subject by copying prominently early defects in his immature and ungainly body, instead of portraying his finally well developed proportions. He also should strive to perpetuate the spiritual and intellectual characteristics, and in this case the benevolent appearance of his subject, as well as the physical representation. This is what Barnard has utterly failed to accomplish in his statue of Abraham Lincoln.

"DAD" RICHARDS, OF HAZARD, KY., WHO SAW LINCOLN SHOT By W. A. Stanfill

An eyewitness to the greatest murder in modern history-the assassination of President Lincoln-lives in the mountain town of Hazard, Ky.

He is D. C. Richards, known to his mountain friends as "Dad," for many years a newspaper correspondent in Knoxville, Tenn., and now an accountant, who is, as he expresses it, "70 years young."

When he was 15 years old his father, at that time manager of a large rolling mills company in Pennsylvania, decided to take him to Washington. His father had taken an active interest in politics