cherish for rivals. This had not escaped the curious Lincoln; he
asked him, as he singled him out: "What is your height?"

"Six feet three. What is yours?"

"Six feet four." [Footnote: This will probably never be exactly
settled now. Speaker Reed agreed with this statement. But Miss Emma
Gurley Adams, in a position to know, published in the New York
_Press_: "Mr. Lincoln told my father that he was exactly six feet
three inches." This was at the end of his life. The contrariety of the
assertions simply baffles one.]

"Then, sir, Pennsylvania bows to Illinois," responded the judge.
"My dear sir, for years my heart has been aching for a President I
could look up to, and I have found him at last in the land where we
thought there were none but _little_ giants."

(Stephen Douglas, leader of the Democratic party, was a pocket Daniel
Webster and bearing the by-name of "the Little Giant.")


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MEASURES AND MEN.

The earlier audiences at the White House were inspired by ludicrous
ideas, far between patriotism and interest in the "tall Hoosier." The
habitual attendants and guards soon discovered that the chief was an
unrivaled host, adapting modes of reception to the differing kind of