European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes tuesday february 11, 1986 faces n places honest Abe would t know his old offices from press dispatches the Law offices used by Abraham Lincoln in Springfield iii., will reopen on wednesday then la anniversary of his birth bul there s hardly a Trace from honest Abe s Day left in the building being preserved As a museum. The Post office downstairs has been replaced by an orientation theater for visitors. The Steps the 16th president climbed to the third floor of the redbrick building have been replaced by stairs that conform to today s fire codes. The original furniture is gone. In its place arc period pieces Wood stoves bookshelves and desks. The floor boards n few old newspapers and some documents arc the Only authentic links to Lincoln s time. Experts say the changes Don t diminish the historical importance of the offices Lincoln used from 1841to 1849. He practice Law in at least four buildings in Springfield but this one restored As a museum by the state historic preservation Agency is the Only one still standing. Lincoln historians say the office was unpretentious in fact shabby and its furniture was dilapidated. This was a Man s world said Richard Taylor a research historian for the Agency. The Bare furnish Ings and haphazard collection of furniture All re acct that you re in a Man s  the state bought the offices hot Augu or $435,000, completing the Springfield Lincoln Sites that include the president s bomb and Home. A Lour gives visitors the impression that the Law was much More informal in Lincoln s time. His office for example was located above the Federal court and included a trap door that allowed him to peer Down into the second floor courtroom. Legend has it that Lincoln once leaned Down through the trap door to defend a speaker who was being threatened by angry spectators in the court. Gentlemen Lincoln is supposed to have said let us not disgrace the age and the country in which we live. This is a land where Freedom of speech is  the jury room also was in an unusual spot just outside Lincoln s Corner office allowing him and his hats off to the millionaire How Dott a Battory mall Tanaro Pond hit Money curb Sharp who won $5 million in Tho now York Hottory fought a ill Bod Nom Homo a Diamond ring and a whole Bunch of hit trademark Dorby half. To Plant on marketing a kno of Curt Sharp Dorthi. Everybody know my Duby to Tayt. All i Havo to do it put it on and Puoplo thou  million do Lorman " partners to Chat casually with jurors. We d consider it a violation of Legal ethics when we Don t consider it quaint and kind of Frontier ish said Taylor. The Legal culture was qualitative y Lincoln argued 175 cases before the Illinois supreme court winning 93. He is said to have handle most cases for $5 or Sio and biographers believe he never earned More than $300 in any year he prac tired Law. Father daughter in race Cynthia poo by Carswell s announcement that she s running for Burke county . Sheriff caught at least one person off guard her father Billy Ray Posiey who is also . 35, a Democrat would be the county s first elected female sheriff if she wins the May 6 primary and then beats her father who is running on the Republican ticket. She surprised me All right but we Aren t that close. We Don t see Eye to Eye at All Poovey said. Carswell a Mother of two teen agers agreed that she and her father Are not  we have different ideas she said. Water Bill adjusted Linda and Alco Brame of Detroit Are getting a $1,351,957.14 adjustment of their water  sounds a lot better mrs. Brame said after being told by the Detroit water and sewerage department that she would have to pay $40.86 instead of the $1,351,998 on a Bill they received last week i almost knocked the roof off she said about the first Bill. "1 shouted and screamed and stomped around the , she said she figured it must be a computer error. She was right. Lady Bird leaves Hospital lady Bird Johnson has been released from the Austin Texas Hospital where she had been admitted last week after  73-year-old former first lady was released sunday from St. David s Community Hospital said a nursing , widow of former president Lyndon John son also was suffering from an injury to her left knee after a fall tuesday evening her office said. 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