THE GRANDEST MAN ON THE GLOBE.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 2264, 12 May 1891, Page 4

THE GRANDEST MAN ON THE GLOBE.

. ■ -r-r. r ■-.-.♦, — .This is how Eey, Dr T. L. Ouyler qiice spoke; -of '..Abe. Lincoln :■ — " The most-remarkable ; man that .ever tro.d the streets of ;Washingtpn in the last fifty years-r-I need not tell you who he was, his name saturates the very air to ithis hourr-rthat man, poor and a^stranger,. walked into a store in Springfield when he was a young man, c'aiprying, a carpet bag in his hand,; tlfot Held all his Worldly effects. He ; skid ftp tKelJstorekeeper: 'Speed, I am coming jto /Springfield to practice law. I ? wait '■[£ room and a little^furniture—table^aiid;"a,'bedj and a washstand, a chair ; orjtwb.i .How iiiuch will it cost, Speed-? '' ' fo S peedf figured on i t awhile and7then:;said : <; Aibej it will cost you' I7 d Hollars;* ji ; * OP° Havpri*t as much as thaf m the wprlcL' '\ ' I'll tell jouy

Abfj' said Speed, « what I'll do. I have a double bed upstairs ; come up and bunk with me till you get money; enough to buy the chairs aud the bed.' The tall gaunt young man, with the great soft eyes that were a mile deep, went upstairs, tossed down his carpet bag, came down and said he : ' Speed, I'm moved.' That was all he had. That was the start of a career that sent him on, carrying the great heart lof America with him till he stood 'before the throne with -1,000,000 broken manacles in his hands, and when.: .he was gone, the Czar of Russia, told by a friend of the news, staggered up from the chair and said : ' Good God ! is Lincoln dead ? He was the grandest man on the globe.' What word was the key-note of the career ? Courage ! Courage to fight poverty, courage to fight wrong, courage of convictions."