HE WAS ALWAYS COURTEOUS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 440, 25 January 1890, Page 3

HE WAS ALWAYS COURTEOUS.

New Story of President Lincoln. A certain soldier who bears the mark of a rebel bullet in his face is looking for a place in the post office under the new regime. He wants to be a stamp clerk. To-day a friend of his temarked : ‘You are nou handsome enough to be a stamp clerk. A nice little dude will probably get it.' * Well,’ replied the soldier, ‘ Old Abe wasn’t handsome, but he got there, just the same. And he was one of those chaps that could be courteous to high mid ow. Early in ’6l I went over to the Capitol to see Repr< eentative Potter, who was trying to get a Bill through letting old soluiers’ ietteis go free in the mails. I wanted to get a package of envelopes franked. 1 ran again.-t a man on the Capitol steps and asked him if he knew wh re Mr Porter’s office was and he said he didn’t, but thought he could hunt it out h r meHe turned back and stuck bis head into every door until he came to the right place, and he lelt, saying : “Porter is in there. I saw him through the chinks.” Four or live clerks rushed up and wanted to know what 1 wanted, and one of them said: “Do you know who was with you?' I answered that I didn t, and he said : “ Why, it was Mr Lincoln, the President.” *