He carried the dollars due from him as postmaster of New Salem, for years, until the government sent a balance sheet to him, and then he said (he was then a lawyer, I believe) "Yes, I have put it here on the shelf somewhere." He had taken the money due the government and put it in an old sack, and kept it for years, until the government called for it, then handed it over. He had integrity, not alone in great things, that all the world knows about, but in the little things that we encounter when no one is looking.

It has been said that a man of true courage will perform an act of valor when he is alone just as readily as when he is in the eye of millions of people. A man of integrity will do acts of honesty when no man knows it, when it is in the smallest of matters, because it is not the praise of the act that makes the man. It is that character that is within him.

Self reliance! You will need that, my young friends. There is nothing you will find more irksome at times than to make up your minds. Lincoln was a man that never asked advice as to what he should do, after he had determined upon it. He listened. He was a man that touched life, as I have endeavored to express, as a wireless telegraph, to every corner about him. He knew more about the political situation of a state, or a city, or community, than anybody, because he was in tune with it. When he had made up his purpose he was as immutable and immovable as a rock.

When disasters were falling upon the army, when this battle and that was being lost, when men discontented were almost shrieking out, when Horace Greeley, his old friend, was criticising him, he would have been moved if he ever was.

Independence! He earned his living. Every dollar that he ever spent, he earned. Truthfulness! He had a scorn for anything but the absolute truth in regard to every matter.

I could go on and enumerate and illustrate his qualities. You know them. You have read them. My thought is to you today, "Be like him." Our public schools have given you great advantages.

It was my privilege, while I was in the government employ, to have the public schools in charge, and it has always been a matter of great consolation and gratitude to me that you have twenty per cent of our pupils in the high schools.

Now then, a word about the future and I will close. You have the future in your control. If you will exercise the qualities that he developed, and give to your country the character that it now has, and keep it so, you need not fear any sudden shock. You will carry with you the weapons to meet the emergencies of the future. If the call of battle summons, you girls will see your brothers and husbands go, as you men yourselves will go, at the call of duty; and you will have the same courageous determination to perform the daily task that is before you that Lincoln had; and with that will be achieved that morality which Lincoln in his first inaugural address demonstrated we must preserve.

I thank you for your kind attention. I have a deep sympathy with you. I am proud that I have been given the opportunity by your instructors to be here; and if in this feeble address I have been able to aid you to a single thought that will better your lives and help our country, I shall be most grateful.

AT THE LINCOLN HOME

In the afternoon a reception was held at the Lincoln Home by the Daughters of the American Revolution, at which addresses were made by Mrs. Donald McLean of New York and Mrs. E. S. Walker of Springfield, and by Ambassadors Jusserand and Bryce. From the Lincoln Home the assemblage repaired to the rooms of the Young Men's Christian association where a banquet was spread under the management of the Daughters of the Revolution at which addresses were made by Mrs. E. S. Walker, Mrs. William J. Bryan, Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, Mrs. Jessie Palmer Weber, Mrs. Chas. V. Hickox, Mrs. Donald McLean and others.

This reception and banquet were largely attended by ladies from neighboring cities and states and both met the highest hopes of the managers.

AT THE HISTORICAL LIBRARY

On the evening of the 11th a reception was held at the rooms of the State Historical Library at the Capitol. Among the guests that thronged the rooms were a number of persons who knew Mr. Lincoln well before his election to the Presidency. The meeting was quite informal, the addresses extemporaneous and largely reminiscent in character. Hon. Reddick Ridgely presided and brief talks were made by J. McCan Davis; B. F. Shaw, Dixon; Paul Selby, Chicago; W. T. Norton, Alton; W. M. T. Baker, Bolivia; H. W. Clendenin and T. J. Crowder.