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30</CENTER></P> 31 32<P><EM><STRONG>Midwest Today</STRONG></EM><STRONG>, February 1993</STRONG> 33<HR ALIGN=LEFT><IMG SRC="lincoln.gif" WIDTH="145" HEIGHT="228" 34ALIGN="LEFT" BORDER="0" VSPACE="5" HSPACE="10" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3"><BR> 35<BR> 36</P> 37 38<H1>IN SEARCH OF THE <BR> 39REAL ABE LINCOLN</H1> 40 41<H3>He was on the national stage only six years, but in that period 42this enigmatic man from the Heartland became the human fulcrum 43that kept the American nation from collapsing</H3> 44 45<P><BR> 46<BR> 47<I>"Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know 48me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower 49where I thought a flower would grow." - Abraham Lincoln</I> 50<BR> 51<BR> 52<A HREF="abequotes.html">Two Short Quotations About Lincoln</A></P> 53 54<P><HR ALIGN=LEFT><STRONG>By LARRY JORDAN</STRONG> <BR> 55<BR> 56One of those rare men uncorrupted by vast power, Abraham Lincoln 57has been more written about than any other head of state with 58the possible exception of Napoleon. But something of a personal 59mystery remains.</P> 60 61<P>A highly secretive man, easy to underestimate, whose inner 62musings were for the most part unknowable, Lincoln remains endlessly 63fascinating to school children, scholars and all those who view 64his life in epic terms.</P> 65 66<P>He was the most severely tested of our leaders, as he held 67the nation to its founding principles, from Illinois prairie towns 68to battlefields where 600,00O Americans died. In a situation without 69precedent, through events of the greatest horror, with almost 70no consistently faithful allies, Lincoln never wavered in his 71resolve.</P> 72 73<P>One-hundred and 84 years after his birth in a Kentucky cabin 74on February 12,1809, myths about Abe Lincoln abound.</P> 75 76<P>Humble he was, and honest - but not a simple country boy whom 77fate thrust unexpectedly into the spotlight. Once, after his election, 78Lincoln told a friend, "You know better than any man living 79that from my boyhood up my ambition was to be President."</P> 80 81<P>Still, almost from birth, Lincoln seemed likely to wind up 82an "also ran" in life's race. He was poor and had little 83formal schooling. He failed in business as a storekeeper. He was 84unlucky in both love and politics.</P> 85 86<P>His youthful sweetheart, Ann Rutledge, died. The first woman 87he proposed to, turned him down. His subsequent marriage to Mary 88Todd proved a stormy one. He lost more elections than he won. 89Anticipating defeat in his first race for a seat in the Illinois 90legislature in 1832 - and he did lose - Lincoln wrote: "If 91the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the 92background, I have been too familiar with disappointment to be 93much chagrined."</P> 94 95<P>When his business failed, leaving him debt-ridden, he became 96a village postmaster. Had he succumbed to his tendency to melancholy 97and self-doubt, young Abe might well have disappeared into the 98mists of history, just another obscure frontier failure.</P> 99 100<P>But he persisted. He turned to the study of law and grammar. 101Slowly his star rose.</P> 102 103<P>"Lincoln was not a type," said Robert Ingersoll. 104"He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors."</P> 105 106<P><B>Still Emerging</B></P> 107 108<P>One reason it has taken scholars so long to assess the man
109is that the time in which Lincoln lived was rich in expressive 110evidence. Letter-writing was still a fine art, because pens and 111pencils were the primary means of transcribing words. And Lincoln 112was a prodigious correspondent. Researchers didn't even have access 113to many of the President's personal records for a generation, 114because his son, Robert Todd Lincoln, didn't turn over his father's 115private papers until 54 years after the President's death, and 116they were not opened until 1947.</P> 117 118<P>Historians generally cite these defining moments and characteristic 119in Lincoln's life:</P> 120 121<UL> 122 <LI>The simplicity of his life on the frontier taught Lincoin 123 to value democracy and equality, and gave him a burning sympathy 124 for plain people struggling against the odds. 125 <LI>A man of action when circumstances demanded it, Lincoln's 126 tremendous strength came in handy in tussles on the frontier, 127 such as when he vanquished the town bully in a wrestling match 128 in New Salem.. 129 <LI>"The Rail Splitter" was a title Lincoln earned. 130 His vagabond farmer father put an ax in his hand when Abe was 131 only eight. As President, he understood the character of the 132 backwoodsmen, and shared their love of lonely forests. 133 <LI>Rivermen in Civil War day found a President who knew their 134 problems. Abe was a flatboat oarsman who rode the Mississippi 135 waves as a youth and knew the Iowa shores. 136 <LI>His romance with Ann Rutledge ended with her death of malaria. 137 But her love inspired him, and deepened at an early age the emotions 138 which eventually were to crystallize in Lincoln the humanitarian 139 and emancipator. 140 <LI>The small businessman had Lincoln's full sympathy after his 141 own unsuccessful venture in storekeeping in New Salem. 142 <LI>Sword in hand, Captain Lincoln drilled his volunteer company 143 at New Salem, IL., for the Blackhawk Indian war. It was a little-relished 144 foretaste of the day when he would be forced to call for Northern 145 volunteers in the Civil War. But it broadened his conception 146 of the soldier's task. 147 <LI>Marriage to the socially prominent Mary Todd united Lincoln 148 with the ambitious woman credited with driving him to the Presidency. 149 Mary's fiery character helped to push the gentle frontiersman 150 to great heights. 151</UL> 152 153<P>Abe entered politics by becoming a candidate for the Illinois 154state legislature. He promised that, if elected, he would use 155$2.50 of his $3-a-day salary to pay off the debts of his store. 156(He won the election).</P> 157 158<P>Forged in the fires of his debates with Stephen A. Douglas 159was the steel of Lincoln's oratory.</P> 160 161<P>Nearly 128 years after his death, more than 6,000 people subscribe 162to a monthly journal about Lincoln's life. Schools in Canada, 163Australia and England offer Lincoln study fellowships; Taiwan 164has a Lincoln Society and Tokyo's Meisei University even has a 165Lincoln Center. There are three or four dozen new biographies 166of the 16th President produced every year.</P> 167 168<P>In Lincoln's hometown of Springfield, IL., in the basement 169beneath the Old State Capitol where Lincoln gave his famous "House 170Divided" speech in 1858, is the Illinois State Historical 171Library which contains thousands of documents and hundreds of 172personal items. Curator Thomas Schwartz fields scores of queries 173on a daily basis.</P> 174 175<P><B>Log Cabin Birth</B></P> 176 177<P>Born on a farm three miles south of Hodgenville, Kentucky, 178Lincoln moved with his parents and sister Sarah to what is now 179Spencer County, Indiana when he was seven. Two years later, his 180mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, died of milk sickness, and the next 181year his father remarried. When Abraham was 19, his only sibling, 182Sarah (who had by then married), died in childbirth.</P> 183 184<P>In 1830, Abe and his father, stepmother and other relatives 185moved to a site ten miles southwest of Decatur, IL. on the north 186bank of the Sangamon River (now Lincoln Trail Homestead State 187Park). And when he was 22, he left home.</P> 188 189<P>Apparently, Abraham Lincoln was always a bookworm. A contemporary 190of his recalled having encountered young Abe during his stint 191as a clerk in a general store, "at full length on the counter, 192his head resting on a bolt of blue denim as he studied a book 193in his hand. He wore the same shirt and one suspender and the 194linsey trousers which he had worn in the dooryard of the tavern, 195but his feet were covered only by his blue yarn socks."</P> 196 197<P>As a village postmaster, Abe also got a chance to read the 198newspapers that came in, thus learning about the world. But for 199all his erudition, Abe could also be hot-tempered. A proposed 200duel between Lincoln and another man was averted only after friends
201on both sides intervened.</P> 202 203<P>In 1842, Lincoln and Mary Todd were married after having at 204one point broken off their engagement for 18 months when Abe became 205bedridden with depression, and they lived at the Globe tavern 206in Springfield. Eventually, they paid $1,200 for a house now known 207as the Lincoln Home in the business district of town.</P> 208 209<P>While riding the circuit as an ambitious young country lawyer, 210Lincoln also got a chance to preside on several occasions as a 211judge over county court.</P> 212 213<P>People forget that after a stint in the Illinois legislature, 214Abraham Lincoln became a Congressman (in 1847) though his record 215was not exemplary.</P> 216 217<P>That same year, he made his first ten-day speaking tour of 218New England.</P> 219 220<P>He applied (in 1849) for a patent on a "new and improved 221manner of combining adjustable buoyant chambers with steam boats 222or other vessels." Later that year, he declined first an 223offer of the secretaryship of the Oregon Territory, and later 224the governorship of Oregon. By 1856, Lincoln's political fate 225could have been foretold. He was spending more time on the road, 226as when he accepted an appearance that year to speak before a 227crowd of 10,000 in Kalamazoo, MI.</P> 228 229<P>Though having pressed his first attack on slavery as early 230as 1837, when he opposed an anti-abolitionist resolution passed 231by the Illinois House, "Lincoln was calculating and equivocal 232on the issue of slavery," contends political analyst Garry 233Wills. He also notes that Lincoln "was nominated [for President] 234by one of the most corrupt conventions ever held. He hid his views 235so carefully that he issued not a single statement, gave not a 236single speech, between his nomination and the 1860 election."</P> 237 238<P>By today's standards, it could also be said that Lincoln told 239racist and even obscene stories to make his points among his peers. 240One man who served with him in Congress recalled Lincoln's "story 241of the old Virginian stropping his razor on a certain) member 242of a young Negro's body."</P> 243 244<P>The first Republican to be elected President, Abraham Lincoln 245was given quite a send-off by his fellow Illinoisans: a torchlight 246parade lasting four hours, with elaborate floats - some of which 247were pulled by as many as 24 oxen. But after a 12-day trip and 248many speeches and public appearances, Lincoln had to sneak into 249Washington because of reports of an assassination plot at Baltimore.</P> 250 251<P>Ft. Sumter was attacked by the newly-organized Confederate 252army slightly more than a month after Lincoln's inauguration.</P> 253 254<P>While his conduct of the war overshadowed the other accomplishments 255of Abraham Lincoln's term in office, he is also credited with 256establishing the Department of Agriculture and a system of national 257banks, in addition to actions of lesser but equally enduring significance, 258such as proclaiming the first Thanksgiving.</P> 259 260<P>It is the Emancipation Proclamation, signed only after the 261ailing Lincoln could steady his shaking hand - and the Gettysburg 262address, delivered in 1863 - for which he is best remembered.</P> 263 264<P>Lincoln's address, with its eloquent simplicity, has moved 265people through the generations, the world over. No other speech 266contains so many familiar phrases, and no other has been so widely 267quoted.</P> 268 269<P>The world has carefully noted and will long remember what Lincoln 270said at Gettysburg.</P> 271 272<P>Interestingly, his speech, in which he had succeeded more incisively 273than the Founding Fathers in defining the American ideal, was 274relegated to an obscure position in the newspapers.</P> 275 276<P>The reason is that the speaker preceding him was Edward Everett, 277who as the foremost orator of the time, addressed the crowd of 27815,000 for an hour and 57 minutes.</P> 279 280<P>When it was his turn to speak, President Lincoln took a manuscript 281from an inside pocket, put on steel-rimmed glasses and stood high 282above the crowd.</P> 283 284<P>The audience was restless after three hours of ceremonies and 285began to drift away.</P> 286 287<P>Then he began to speak in the high, reedy-pitched southern 288Indiana twang his friends knew so well but which sounded foreign 289to these Easterners.</P> 290 291<P>Ten sentences - 269 words - two, perhaps three minutes, and
292the President had finished.</P> 293 294<P>The audience had scarcely settled back when it was all over. 295The applause was perfunctory, a few hand claps - polite recognition 296for a man who "also spoke."</P> 297 298<P>The President's "few appropriate remarks" - which 299the planners of the event had asked him to make only as an afterthought 300- fell flat.</P> 301 302<P>"That speech won't scour," Lincoln remarked afterward 303to a friend. "It's a flat failure and the people are disappointed." 304(Lincoln was again using a homely phrase. Any farm boy of his 305day knew that when wet soil clung to a plow,the mold-board wouldn't 306scour.)</P> 307 308<P>The next day, the <I>Chicago Tribune</I> was one of the few 309newspapers to praise the speech, correctly prophesying that it 310would "live among the annals of men."</P> 311 312<P>Another Chicago newspaper, <I>The Times</I>, called it "silly, 313flat and dishwatery."</P> 314 315<P>But even Everett was not deaf to what he later called "the 316unexpected masterpiece of oratory that fell from Lincoln's lips." 317He wrote to the President the very next day: "I should be 318glad if I could flatter myself that I came so near the central 319thought of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes."</P> 320 321<P>Lincoln replied that he was "pleased to know that, in 322your judgment, the little I did say was not entirely a failure."</P> 323 324<P><B>Always Improving</B></P> 325 326<P>What amazes Lincoln buffs was his capacity for growth, his 327intellectual resourcefulness, given the obstacles and miseries 328he had experienced during most of his life.</P> 329 330<P>Horace Greely wrote (in a book that's a favorite of President, 331Bill Clinton), that Lincoln "was not born king of men ... 332but a child of the common people, who made himself a great persuader, 333therefore a leader, by dint of firm resolve, patient effort, and 334dogged perseverance. He was open to all impressions and influences, 335and gladly profited by the teachings of events and circumstances, 336no matter how adverse or unwelcome. There was probably no year 337of his life when he was not a wiser, cooler, and better man than 338he had been the year before."</P> 339 340<P>For all of his serene amiability, Lincoln at six-feet, four 341inches not only towered physically over most of his contemporaries, 342but intellectually as well.</P> 343 344<P>His private secretary, John Hay, acknowledged that some cabinet 345members found insufferable Lincoln's alleged "intellectual 346arrogance."</P> 347 348<P>His law partner in Illinois, William Herndon, remembered that 349Lincoln "was not impulsive, fanciful or imaginative; but 350cold, calm and precise. He threw his whole mental light around 351the object." And his language "contained the exact coloring, 352power and shape of his ideas:"</P> 353 354<P>When he did not want to discuss certain matters, he loaded 355his sentences with what the political analyst Willmoore Kendall 356called "verbal parachutes" - phrases he could use to 357bail out of anything he said.</P> 358 359<P><B>Legacy of Words</B></P> 360 361<P>Historians have commented that Lincoln's was the only Presidency 362in our history which would lose its meaning if you took away its 363words. Lincoln even wrote statements and documents for underlings 364- cabinet secretaries and other government officials - in a sort 365of ghost-writing in reverse. So prodigious was his output that 366it greatly surpassed Shakespeare's one million words.</P> 367 368<P>More than most, Lincoln was in love with language. And his 369fascination with the telegraph influenced him to write and speak 370in an abbreviated, direct and the telegraphic manner. Garry Wills 371explains that Lincoln's rhetoric was "surprisingly masculine, 372with no filler .. [and] without copula. He didn't like to use 373pronouns. [But] in almost every sentence there's an echo of the 374previous." His style, says Wills, was "closer to poetry 375than prose."</P> 376 377<P>As Gerald Parshall commented in a cover story for <I>U.S. News 378& World Report</I>, (Oct. 5,1992): "When Lincoln ... 379wrote speeches, proclamations or letters, he was communicating 380with himself as much as anyone, thinking with the nib of his pen, 381discovering the path of logic. As a youth, he split logs with 382a single well-aimed blow from his ax. Later in life, the sharp
383edge of his prose found its mark just as efficiently, laying the 384truth bare with poetic, resounding whacks."</P> 385 386<P>Garry Wills notes that "Opponents would later exaggerate 387his crudity; but as a man on the frontier who neither drank whiskey 388nor smoked cigars, [Lincoln] used his disarming gifts as a storyteller 389in ways that later Americans have preferred not to remember."</P> 390 391<P>Someone has also observed that Lincoln was a country ham that 392couldn't be cured. "I laugh because I must not weep - that's 393all, that's all," he once explained.</P> 394 395<P>He read newspapers, the Bible and the Bard (especially "Macbeth," 396"Hamlet" and "Richard III") but surprisingly 397little else for a man acclaimed as a genius.</P> 398 399<P>It is also noteworthy that the primitive photography of his 400day, which required long time exposures and stiff poses, failed 401to capture Lincoln's spontaneity and animation. "Graphic 402art was powerless," wrote John Nicolay, "before a face 403that moved through a thousand delicate gradations of line, contour, 404light, and shade, sparkle of the eye and curve of the lip, in 405the long gamut of expression from grave to gay and back again 406from the rollicking jollity of laughter to the serious, faraway 407look with prophetic intuitions."</P> 408 409<P>Lincoln was not an isolated, lonely man. He got out often - 410for carriage rides with his wife and visits to the Old Soldier's 411home, (where he stayed to escape the summer heat), to train trips 412to New York or conferences with his generals on various boats. 413At times, he also acted as his own R&D chief, quizzing inventors 414and even testing weapons on or near the White House grounds.</P> 415 416<P>Lincoln's office and cabinet room - "the shop," as 417he called it - was in what has since become the "Lincoln 418Bedroom" on the second floor of the White House.</P> 419 420<P>There, he sat in a horsehair swivel chair and worked on papers 421plucked from the alphabetized pigeonholes in his high postmaster's 422desk. Amazingly, he only had three clerks on his payroll to help 423him as he won the Civil War, secured the future of democracy, 424and dealt with a Cabinet of prickly men.</P> 425 426<P>Twice a week, he took what he called "public opinion baths," 427meeting with any citizen - war time or not - willing to stand 428in line to claim a moment with the chief magistrate.</P> 429 430<P>If he had one weakness, it was his indulgence of his wife. 431From all</P> 432 433<P>accounts, Mary was a woman with a mercurial personality, who 434was given to extremes of mood and extravagance. She was dictatorial 435and haughty, petty and jealous, and her life was dominated by 436fears.</P> 437 438<P>Reflecting on his marriage, Lincoln once confided to a friend, 439"My father always said, 'When you make a bad bargain, hug 440it the tighter.'"</P> 441 442<P>When his second Vice President, Andrew Johnson, showed up embarrassingly 443drunk at his swearing in at the Capitol, a fact which mortified 444the audience, Lincoln defended him. But privately he refused to 445see Johnson - except, propitiously, on the one day a clairvoyant 446Chief Executive might need his Vice President - April 14, 1865.</P> 447 448<P>In the weeks preceding his death, Abraham Lincoln was 35 pounds 449underweight. He was 56 but looked much older, his sallow skin 450and sparse beard attesting to his deteriorating condition. He 451walked slowly because his feet hurt, often wore a shawl and was 452increasingly given to bouts of depression. His extremities were 453frequently cold, and he slept fitfully.</P> 454 455<P>He was averse to food in general, dining on an egg and coffee 456for breakfast, a biscuit and apple for lunch, and some soup with 457meat and potatoes for dinner. He would eat dessert if it was apple 458pie.</P> 459 460<P>On one occasion he collapsed from exhaustion, and his physician 461worried the President was on the verge of a "nervous breakdown." 462So open was the concern about his health, newspapers began speculating 463what would happen to the country if Lincoln died.</P> 464 465<P>He confided to a friend, "I hardly know how to rest. It 466may be good for the body. But what is tired in me lies within, 467and can't be got at."</P> 468 469<P>Lincoln's grief over the loss of his second son, Willie, due 470to illness was so intense, he twice had the boy's body disinterred 471to gaze on his face.</P> 472 473<P>He thought and talked about death often - with sadness and 474resignation rather than fear. He reflected, "If I am killed, 475I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it is to 476die over and over again." To reinforce this point, one of 477the pigeonholes in his desk had a bulky envelope marked "Assassination." 478It contained 80 threats on his life. He was shot five days after 479the end of the Civil War, and after having dreamt vividly of his 480own demise.</P> 481 482<P>Thomas Schwartz says there are intimations that an unsuccessful 483plot against the leader of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, was 484hatched in the White House - contributing to later suspicions 485that Lincoln's murder involved elements of the South who may have 486retaliated by aiding the Booth conspiracy.</P> 487 488<P>As for his place in history, Lincoln was philosophical. "I'll 489do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to 490keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, 491what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings 492me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right will make no difference."</P> 493 494<P> </P> 495 496<H2>ILLINOIS POET CARL SANDBURG</H2> 497 498<P><BR> 499</P> 500 501<H2>TALKED OF LINCOLN</H2> 502 503<P><B>(Sidebar)</B></P> 504 505<P>Fellow Illinois native and prairie poet Carl Sandburg was born 506in Galesburg, IL. 13 years after "Abraham Lincoln was shoveled 507into the tombs," while the Civil War was still being fought 508at the crossroads store. It was a section of the Heartland rich 509in Lincoln lore, and men still young who put on their blue uniforms 510on the Fourth of July often spoke of their neighbor who lay buried 511a scant hundred miles away and of the debate he held with "The 512Little Giant" at Knox college.</P> 513 514<P>These stories made an impression upon a sensitive boy, who, 515although he quit school when he was 13, read all he could find 516about Lincoln.</P> 517 518<P>Sandburg went on to win a Pulitzer Prize, do editorial work 519for The Chicago Daily News, and become a poet of international 520renown. He also wrote a book on Lincoln, which remains a definitive 521portrait even today.</P> 522 523<P>In a fascinating magazine interview published 54 years ago, 524the eloquent Carl Sandburg commented insightfully on Abraham Lincoln:</P> 525 526<P>"Lincoln was too big and too complicated to be painted 527in a few strokes. There is too much subtlety about him, there 528are too many delicate halftones; you cannot picture him in simple 529lines.</P> 530 531<P>"I should say that the two salient characteristics were 532his sadness and his humor - a sadness born of sympathy and understanding, 533and a humor which ran from the finest threads of irony to the 534coarseness of the livery stable.</P> 535 536<P>"He came from a breed and a region where the language 537of Shakespeare still persisted and he knew the value of obsolete 538words and did not hesitate to use them. He developed a style which 539was the result of natural feeling, deep thought and his early 540environment. He had the poet's sense of rhythm. To give you an 541example, in the last draft of the Gettysburg speech he substituted, 542'It is altogether fitting and proper' for the less euphonious 543'This we may in all propriety do.'</P> 544 545<P>"He was a dreamer and a man of revery, as all poets are,
546while at the same time he had the practical qualities of Edison 547- a combination you don't often find. Besides, he was endowed 548with New Testament patience and Old Testament stubbornness.</P> 549 550<P>"Although many people do not know it, he was a man of 551piety and of deep religious belief, and evidence of this is to 552be found in all his speeches and messages. But he did not parade 553his religion. While he attended church, he usually sat alone in 554the pastor's room, so that he might hear without being seen."</P> 555 556<P> </P> 557 558<P> </P> 559 560<P><HR ALIGN=LEFT></P> 561 562<BLOCKQUOTE> 563 <P><CENTER><A HREF="#TOP">Back to the top</A> <TABLE CELLPADDING="6" 564 BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="2"> 565 <TR> 566 <TD><A HREF="http://www.midtod.com/archive/"><IMG SRC="http://www.midtod.com/graphics/pastissues.gif" 567 WIDTH="54" HEIGHT="31" BORDER="0" ALT="Past Issues Archive" 568 NATURALSIZEFLAG="0" ALIGN="BOTTOM"></A></TD> 569 <TD><A HREF="mailto:[email protected]"><IMG SRC="http://www.midtod.com/graphics/comments.gif" 570 WIDTH="54" HEIGHT="32" BORDER="0" ALT="Contact Us" NATURALSIZEFLAG="0" 571 ALIGN="BOTTOM"></A></TD> 572 <TD><A HREF="http://www.ioweb.com"><IMG SRC="http://www.midtod.com/graphics/weaver.gif" 573 WIDTH="54" HEIGHT="31" BORDER="0" ALT="IoWeb.com" NATURALSIZEFLAG="0" 574 ALIGN="BOTTOM"></A></TD> 575 </TR> 576 <TR> 577 <TD COLSPAN="3"><A HREF="http://www.midtod.com/"><IMG SRC="http://www.midtod.com/graphics/footer.gif" 578 WIDTH="241" HEIGHT="29" BORDER="0" ALT="MidWest Today Address" 579 NATURALSIZEFLAG="0" ALIGN="BOTTOM"></A></TD> 580 581 </TR> 582 </TABLE></CENTER></P> 583 <P><CENTER>Contents copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999. 584 All rights reserved.<BR> 585 <!-- BEGIN LINKEXCHANGE CODE --></CENTER></P> 586 <P><CENTER><iframe src="http://leader.linkexchange.com/4/X902704/showiframe?" width=468 height=60 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 hspace=0 vspace=0 frameborder=0 scrolling=no> 587 <A HREF="http://leader.linkexchange.com/4/X902704/clickle" TARGET="_top"><IMG 588 SRC="http://leader.linkexchange.com/4/X902704/showle?" WIDTH="468" 589 HEIGHT="60" BORDER="0" ISMAP ALT="" NATURALSIZEFLAG="0" ALIGN="BOTTOM"></A></iframe><BR> 590 <A HREF="http://leader.linkexchange.com/4/X902704/clicklogo" 591 TARGET="_top"><IMG SRC="http://leader.linkexchange.com/4/X902704/showlogo?" 592 WIDTH="468" HEIGHT="16" BORDER="0" ISMAP ALT="" NATURALSIZEFLAG="0" 593 ALIGN="BOTTOM"></A><BR> 594 <!-- END LINKEXCHANGE CODE --></CENTER> 595</BLOCKQUOTE> 596 597</BODY> 598</HTML>
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