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Show before I sot loose. Myhorsa jumped over a small log:, which I caught with my arm and pulled off ray boot, thus saving myself from being; dragged to death. I lay by the roadside until I was rolled over and searched several times by the fleeing: Johnnies, feigning all the time to bo dead: but when I heard our boys raise a shout in the rear, I raised on my elbow to see what was en mine, and at the same time Gen. Forrest's staff was but a short dis-tance to the left of me, and one of his oflicers drew a revolver, pointing it at me, and with an oath that 1 shall never forpet, he told me to get up, which I did as quickly as 1 could, for I did not care to take tiny chunccs on his carrying out his threat. Just at that time two more dis-mounted rebels came along, and ho told them to take me along, and to shoot mo if they had to leave me (words that were not very comforting to me just at that time). They helped me along for a considerable distance, when I asked them to leave me to die, as I could go no farther: which they consented to do, and I crawled under THE CAMP FIRE. P A5ICSISG INCIDENT WHICH IX MISSOURI. IVIIhou Raid General Warren Increase of ray I'rlconer of War Som-ething Abuui Ieerier Kte. When the disabled veterans of the National Home are fighting the battle o'er again, says F. Hogge, in Toledo Blade, I am always an interested list-ener, ready to catch the drift, for I dearly love a war yarn, even if it fla-vors just a little of the late Baron Munchhausen. The following was told by u one-legg- warrior from "Illinoy," whose word is never doubt-ed by his friends that gather around him in the smoking room. This is how he told it: 'Boys, while the big guns on Island No. 10, down the Mississippi, were slinking nearly all tho glnss out of the windows s in Cairo, and scarin' most women into fits, mo and some other follers were skirmishing around for grub in tho rear of JSew Madrid. o hadn't been sol-diering very long, you know, an' wasn't used to hard tack an' salt hog, you soo. We had mot with some luck durin' the day, but had lots of room in our crazy old wagon. Towards evening we struck the Aikens planta-tion, 'bout half way between Madrid and Sikeston. Golly, boys, but I shall never forgot to my dyin' day what a powerful streak of the darndest luck we run into right there! Christmas couldn't hold a candle to that! Pigs squealin' in a friendly way, half a dozen young fat calves bellerin' for all that was out; whole trees full of chickens, just fixin' for the night; bee gums all round the yard, and more corn than you could shake a stick at. "For a spoil we didn't see a single cuss, white or black, about the farm. No, not till Joe McMillan, who was chasin' a big, fat socesh hen, crawled tinder a great long crib after her. " llello, Joe!' says I, down on my knees; 'have you got her? " 'No,' says he; 'tho crazy critter's got away somewhere.' "All at onco there was awful doin's goiu' on under tho blessed crib. My hair kind o' raised straight up under my hat, for thinks I, Joe's struck a nest of graybacks, sure as I am a sin-ner, and our cake's dough.' " 'Lordy, massa! old missus dono gib mo dem red-to- p boots, kaso she's 'inazin' 'ticular 'bout her niggers!' "While I was lookin' round, kind ' bamboozled, Joe came crawfishin' out from under tho crib, draggin' a greasy-looki- n' young duffer, with a face blacker than the ace of spades, after him. " 'Now darn you and your red-to- p boots. ' says Joe. 'You've nearly scared the life out o' me under yonder, and besides that, you black devil, you caused me to lose the fattest hen in a oig pine log ana lay mere until our boys came up, when a comrade, whom I would liko to hear from, assisted me back through the lines, where we found Serg't Miller looking for the missing or wounded of , his company. He got me on his horse, and after leading him to where my dead comrades lay, took me back to where the wounded were at a farm-house, whence we were taken toPlant-ersvill-e, and left on cotton beds in er church. Remained there a week or ten days, during which time we received a visit from Gen. Forrest and his body-guar- d; he having es-caped being captured at Selnia, Ala., took the back track and called at the church where we lay. I hoard him tell tho surgeon in chargo that he shot a captain and one private in tho fight at Bogue's creek. C. W. Sher-wood. 17th Indiana Mounted Infantry, in National Tribune. rserler. My experience, says the Secretary of War, confirms an obser-vation which I made ono year ago that "tho pith of the whole matter (desertions) is to mako the service worth seeking, and then enough "good men will seek it and bo glad to stay in it." The pay of Second Lieutenant is $116.67 per month, and that of a First Sergeant only $22, and unfortu-nately this difference in pay largely regulates the actual distance between their relative positions. It would be a 6tep in the right diroction to in-crease somewhat the pay of the non-commissioned officers, that every man who enters the service may find in it the possibility of a mod-est future. With a view to the same end I would recommend a change in the law relative to the selection of en-listed men for appointment to the grade of Second Lieutenant. Practic-ally, it is now possible for company commanders to give these valuable ap-pointments to young men who have en-listed for that sole purpose. In order to insure exact justice to all, and give full effect to tho beneficent purpose of Congress, the initiatory step should be with the men themselves. Any en-listed man of two years' service, who all Missouri. By , I've the all- - firedost notion to skin you alive!' "Down went Mr. Nigger on his knees, anda-prayi- n' sohard that 1 told him to git up and not make a baby of hisself. The shoes my partner wore wore awfully holy big toe lookin' out o' ono, hoel out o' tother and Joo swapped them off, even up. Tho nigger had a stavin' good bargain his life and a pair of Uncle Sam's nt shoes, ard as the red-top- s didn't fit Joe's feet at all, but fit me to a T, of course I had tho best of them both." Gen. Warren. A bronze statute of Gen. G. K. Warren, Chief Topographical En-gineer of the Army of tho Potomac under Gens. Hooker and Moade, and afterwards commander of the Fifth Corps, is to be put up in the Cemetery of Evergreens just as soon ns tho Grand Army Post in New Yrork City bearing his name can raise tho funds. Henry Baerer, tho sculptor, has a miniature model of the proposed statue molded in clay. It represents Gen. Warren discovering Hood's Tex-an- s about to occupy Little Round Top on tho second day of the batt le of Get-tysburg. The head is well thrown back, the field-gla- ss in his right hand has just been lowered to tho level of his breast, and his left hand is appar-ently trembling with excitement. Tho uniform is that of a Major-Genera- l. Gen. Warren, when he visited Little Eound Top on that eventful morning, found his signal corps gathering their flags and preparing to leave tho hill, and discovered Hood's Texans. who had got around Gen. Sickles' flank, advancing to take that advantageous position. Realizing the damage the Texans could do the Union army if they gained this point, he ordered his signal corps to wave their flags boldly, as if tho hill were defended by a large force, while ho dashed off in search of troops. Ho met Barnes' Division of the Fifth Corps, and, on his own responsibility, detached Vincent's Brigade with Hazlitt's battery, and led them up the heights. They reached tho summit just as Hood's men came up the other side, and a fierce hand-to-han- d fight occurred, resulting dis-astrously to Hood's men Nat. Trib-une. Wilson' Raid. Seeing an account of tho Wilson raid, written by Capt. AV. E. Doyle, I would say that I am more than pleased to hear from him, and can vouch for the truthfulness of his ac-count, ns I was a member of his regi-ment (17th Ind.). and was in the front , four that charged ihe battery at Ilougo's Creek, receiving three severe wounds in the fight. I was within 15 feet of Capt. Jamos D. Taylor when he was, killed by Gen. Forrest, and claim the honor of sabering Gen. Forrest in the arm, and was shot from my horse an instant later. The foot of my wounded leg fastened in the lirrup, and I was dragged a long way is a citizen of the United States.should, under certain fixed rules, be permit-ted to compete for a commission. The Prisoner. R. B. Dunn, Company I, 59th Ohio, says he was fourteen months a pris-oner, and while in Richmond was in the Pemberton, and saw the rebel guards arrested tho morning after the oflicers made their escape through tho tunnel. On Feb. 17 he, with a num-ber of others, was taken out of Pem-berton and sent south, soon arriving at that hell-hol- e, Andersonvillo. They were tho first prisoners to arrive at the stockade, which was only half completed at that time, as the south end was built after their arrival. They wore confined there until Sept. 7. Then he, with others, was sent to Savannah, where they remained 20 days, and started forMillon. The train stopped at Law-to- n Station and tho prisoners were ordered off tho curs, where they re-mained until Nov. IU, when they again started for Savannah. They were paroled on tho 20th of Novem-ber, and sent down tho river to our flag-shi- p. It is utterly impossible to toll how happy they were upon seeing the Stars and Stripes onco more. Nat. Tribune. The Itenowned Win. II. J. Peters, Co. E, 126th Ohio, having seen something about "fresh fish," says in the Nat. Tribune, that he was at one time a "fresh fish," but 15 months in tho different prisons caused him to become somewhat stalo, and he expects to keep that staloness the balance of his life in the shape of chronic diarrhea and kindred diseases. Ho was captured at Locust Grove, Va., Nov. 27, 1803, and was about two weeks in Libby, two months on that cold, miserable bar on Belle Isle, a few weeks in Pemberton Castlo, and, on Feb. 22, was sent to Andersonvillo. He was nearly shot one day by Wirz, whom he asked for something to oat, whilo Wirz was counting off the pris-oners. Wirz pulled ono of his re-volvers, placed it against tho writer's breast, and said, "You tammed Yan- - kee. if you bodder mo somo more whilo I kounts deso men I puts a hole through you sluist as shure as dor is powder and lent enough In der Confederacy to do it." A Wine rrrrantlnn. Col. Grey top "Miss Upton. I would like to introduce an old friend of mine a soldier one of the Balaklava Six Hundred." Miss Upton "One of th elx hundred! Oh, Colonel, hadn't better see mamma first?" Indifferent, is it any wonder,, get little good help. In the city, eirB activity and intelligence generally com-mand nearly what they are worth. They are just as essential on the fana as anywhere. ' Changing Kgg. One of the practices among fanners is changing eggs with each other in or-der to avoid In the first place, tho eggs themselves are a risk, as no ono can tell what they may pro-duce, perhaps no two chicks from them being alike and no breeding of value in the stock. In the next place, the changing of eggs makes the flocks in a community all of ono blood, so that nothing can bo gained by the practice after it has been persisted in for a while. Get pure-bre- d males from some source, or eggs from some breeder of pure breeds. If you must cross, do it correctly. ' Do not waste time in the attempt to better your flock by chang-1"S- J eggs for some nondescript stock that has no merit nor possesses any ad-vantage. To improve a flock, ono should know the kind of stock ho is us-ing, and what can bo expected from it. The changing of eggs is a practice usu-ally pursued by those who do not know the value nf the breeds, and such per-sons should not lw encournged. liroad Tire. The broad-tire- d wagons of forty years ago are coming into fashion again. They save roads greatly, and in some places there is a robato on the toll a very proper thing whore they are used. About the only draw-bac- k to them is that on slippery mud roads, such as occur after a light shower, they slide around too much when the surface Is not level. On fields and meadows they are much to bo preferr-ed to tho common narrow tires, which cut up the soil. Illiterate r'armera. r There are few illiterate farmers who succeed, but when one such does, it will bo found that he is chock full of mother wit, alias common sense, nlias science; and such men are successful because they can't help it. It is quiU edifying to watch sharp-eye- d farmer, who can neither rend nor write, jog. ging along through life gathering up dollars at every turn. FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. HEN HOUSES MAY BE CHEAP YET COOD ENOUGH. 4 Woman' Opinion on tha Suldert A Good Rerloe for Whitewash--No- t. Ion l'lant and How to Kill Themllouie Mutter. ( heap Hen I!oiie. Costly hen-hous- nro very nice, I suppose, and to be desired when your pocket will admit of it, writes a prac-tical man in the Kural Home, but ny object is to show how some farm-er's wife liko myself, can keep a small lock of hens with profit, and very small jutluy outside the resources found on ;very farm. My hen-hous- e is just one-ha- lf of the building erected for a pig-pe- n; it is par-titioned off and boarded up separate 'rom tho part occupied by tho hogs; it s small and I never try to keep a large lock. It is tilled between the studs vith sawdust, and covered overhead vith the same. It has ono south and me east window, both small, having fnch six lights of seven by nine glass. Ml the 'fixings'' inside is an old pan orinerly used to boil maple sap: it is lbout six feet by three, and is filled with road dust, wood ashes, and a iinall admixture of slacked lime, and is )f great value as a dust box. Besides '.his there are three or four common "store" boxes nailed on tho walls for lests, (we never need traps to catch ihe eggs , and keep the hens from eat-n- g them) and some three by four icantling for roosts. Contrary to all established rules, this ion-hou- is never cleaned more than nre during tho winter, sometimes not sven once. Kvery few days they are jiven a light scattering of straw or haft", and when this begins to get damp )r dirty, more is thrown on the top. Their feed is thrown into this, making t necessary for them to scratch for heir living, which is tho first and most inportant requisite of success. Their jests are filled with cedar boughs of straw, and we have found this s a sure exterminator of lice. We give hem as much of a variety of feed ns lossible, sometimes hnin, shorts or nci',1, wet with warm water, or better it.ill, with tho liquid meat lias been Hairy rointfr. Bo sure and keep your finger nailt short, always. Never wet your fingers whi'o milk-ing, especially with milk. Sell your kicking cow to tho butchery she has no valuo in tho dairy. Never drive a cow nor a fattening stoer faster than a slow walk. You have no use for a dog on a dairy farm, except it bo a well trained collio. A oaUlo chain or a strap with a snap is a better tio than the stanchion. A warm and comfortable stable will save food, and straw or dry leaves are softer than oak plank. In cold weather take tho chill from tho water you use in messing cowsj they will liko it better. Remembr thtit a cow is like a closet or cupboard; you c'-.- tuke nothing out unless you put something in. Handle your heifers every day and make them gentle; it will save much trouble when they become fresh. I'o yssr .cow.iS in heat, present the malo as soon as possible, and separate her for that day from the heard. Give your cows a tablospoonful of salt oneo a day in their mess of mill-fee- d: it will keep them in good health. If you want tho best results from your cows feed thorn all they can as-similate and digest, but remember it takes close watching to reach that point. Have all your milking apparatus scrupulously clean; milk being a futty substance you may need pure soap in the cleaning; use scalding hot water afterwards. A milker wh can use only ono hand at a time, or who will milk with thumb and finger, never should bo entrusted with a cow either in a largo dairy or in a private stablo. Household Hint. Uso turpentine and machine oil to polish your sowing machine, and rub briskly. Uso flannel to wash tho children with in winter, and they will bo good-n- a. tured while bathing. When suffering from overstrained and tired eyes, bathe them in hot water several times a day. It is never safe to remove wool stock-ings from an infant till it has missed iu )oilcd in, if not very salt; sometimes :orn, barley or oals. All tho egg shells used during tho itimmer, when the hens have free run, ire saved nnd fed in winter, with a narked influence on egg production; nit better yet is tho saving of all liv-r- s, hearts, and refuse scraps of meat, vhich our neighbors food to their dogs, or the hens. A little mess of this nee or twice a week will mako them ay bravely, and never think of eating 41 egg. Warm water is better than ,old, and warm milk either sweet or our, bettor than either. A feed once r twice a week of chopped cabbage eaves, (the loose outside ones, that are lover cooked) onion tops, apples, jroken or burned bones, etc., help reatly and costs nothing but a little fork. When I cannot get gravel andily, I food finely pounded crockery nd find it answers every purposo. A'ith such treatment our hens lay .plendidly, with tho mercury many do-fro-es bolow zero, for this is a cold winter even for Canada. A Recipe lor Whitewash. A recipo for whitewash, suitable for on a farm, something .hat will not rub off and not injure ;roes, can bo tinted: For ono barrel if color wash use half a bushel whito .imo, throo pecks hydraulic cement, ;en pounds umber, ten pounds ochre, me pound Venetian red, one-quart-er pound lamp black. Slake tho lime, jut tho lamp black with vinegar and mix well together; then add tho ce-ment and fill tho barrel with water. Let it stand twelve hours before using, and stir it frequently whilo putting it on. Humus In the Moll. Almost all farmers know the value of humus or vegetable mold in the soil. Often they hold exaggerated ideas Of its importance. It is not of itself necessarily an evidence of great fertility, because it may lack, and in some localities generally does lack, the needed mineral elements for making crops of grain and grass. But where humus is abundant, tho complete fer-tility that is wanted may bo easily supplied by tho uso of the needed mineral fertilizer, potash or phosphate, one or both. "second summer,'' or cut its canine teeth. Bent whalebones may bo restored to shapo by soaking them iu warm watoi a few hours, or by 'warming over a lamr. or fire. Hands may bo kept smooth in cold weather by avoiding the use of warm water. Wash them with cold water and soap. Cold water may bo drank freely in all fevers, except when the fever i connected with lung troubles, and in such eases it might chill tho patient. It is wonderful how often a case of stomaehic trouble will yield when the feet are eovered with wool hose and a ' woolen bandage worn over tho abdo-men. To strengthen tho hair, dissolve an ounce of borax and ono ounce of cam. phor in two quarts of water. Wash the hair with this twice a week, clip-ping the ends occasionally. Keep the back, especially between the shoulder blades, well covered; also the chest well protected. In sleeping in a cold room establish the habit ol breathing through tho nose, and never 'with the) mouth open. , f ; One who writes' as with authority j upon improving thet complexion, re-- j commends bathing tho face at nigh' with .water as hot as it can bo borne, followed by a quick dab. of cold water and drying with a .soft towel. If tiifl water is hard it can be softened with a few drops of ammonia or ' a, liti bora. Wild 1'lant. Wild carrot is another bad weed which unless treated rightly, becomes a permanent nuisance. This is a bien-nial plant and seeds tho second year. Wild mustard is a similar plant, and for all such weeds tho best way is cutting them, if in grass land, before tho flower appears and again later when new flowers will appear, so ns to prevent seeding, will entirely rid the land of these and other similar woods In two years. To cut, or otherwise prevent the seeding of annual woods, will get rid of them in one year, ex-cepting such as will hereafter grow from other seeds in the soil that may bo turned up by the plow. (.rowing New Vurictlr nf Corn. The false ears of corn that sometimes nppenr on the ends of tho stalks among the tassels possess individual pecul-iarities of their own. If planted, they will produce new varieties, whilo the grain grows regularly on the stalk follows, unless it has been crossed by somo other variety, the parent seed. When tho com crop is a goofi ono, these tassel cars should bo planted,, as they will produce better sorts. When,, it is a poor one tho seedling will bi inferior. I'ay What. I aoor I Worth. Yhe complaint that the smartest and most active young men prefer work in cities is largely the fault of farmers. If they pay so much a month, with per-b.u- p t- -' r $3 variation to good, bad or WIT AND HUMOR. As they parted: "A bus," sighed he. "Ali, men," wept sue. S. Y. Herald. Saints are not made in a day, but sin-ners can be made in a moment. At chi-ton (Jlobc. Tlie survival of the fittest is the doc-trine that always wins iu a dog tight. Ji nn's Horn. t The man who lias never been dis-satisfied can r.cvcr realize content-ment. Klmira Uazcttc. Primus "Hoes ho foot his wife's bills?" Secuudus "I've seen him kick at them." Kpoch. These courtships by telegraph may bo properly called sparks from the wires. Han Francisco Alia. When a woman goes to invest in sealskins slio soon reliy.es that $,')0 will not go fur. Boston Herald. It brings joy to tho heart of Anthony Comstock to read about a ship skirl-iu- g a bare headland. Huston Courier. In order to stand up under misfor-tune it frequently bctotne; nwimarv to stand up one's friends. 'Texas Sift-ing. Ireland's peasants need not be so down-hearte- d. Adam and Eve com-menced life with nil eviction. Motion Traveller. "Young Jiggers is no', wholly bad." "No, there are several styles of wick-edness ho has not heard of yet. Indian-apolis Journal. Ha (11:55 p. ni.) "I declare, the lamp is goiug out." She Yes; the lamp seems toliavo some idea of time." Harper's Bazar. He "I always pay as I go." She. (yawniug) "Well, how is it lhat when von are paving attention vuu never go?" A', i'. herald. She "What do you suppose has taken all the color of her cheeks?'' He "Her husband's nose, 1 should think." Munscy's Weekly. Tho most dreaded result of the In-dian excitement is the revival of all jokes on that sub-ject. thiuvlclpliia Times. First Literary Character "You've been stealing my ideas.'' .Second Lit-erary Character "That's a'l lirlit, I couldn't sell them." Kpuch. As a rule, tho young husband is w ill-ing to join his wife's church, but it is his privilege to lix the political status of tne family. J) .dias Sews. "Do you belong to the church?" in-quired the clergyman of the janitor. "No," replied the janitor, "tho church belongs to me.'" iV. Y. Hun. "Does the cellar leak?" "No. It's had two feet of water in it ever since I've been in the house. Not a drop has got out." Uarper't Bazar. When a man dies who never did a good thing dtiriug all his life it is the customary thing to talk of the charita-ble deeds ho did iu secret. Atchison aiobe. An Irishman wrote home to his friends over the briny that in this blessed laud everybody is so honest a reward has to be offered for thieves. Mam's Horn. "Do you beJieve iu cures effected by tho laving on of hands?" "I certainly do. Thcro is nothing like spanking to make a child behave himself." Munscy's Weekly. "Why do they call the boys in the galleries the cods. Mr. Trasredicus?" "To distinguish them from the devils who sit in the orchestra chairs and write criticisms." Boston Courier. He (rapturously) "I love the very ground which is trod by your fairy feet." Slio (innocently) "Are you aware that this land does not belong to niv father?" Drake's Maanziiie.. Bingo "Dear me. I'm tired. My wife got mo up at 6 o'clock this morn-ing." Kingley "What did she get you up so early for?" Bingo "Sli6 wanted to catch the noon train." S. Y. Sun. "Yes, I once failed for a hundred thousand," remarked the red-head-man who hadn't treated yet. "You see the girl was worth that in her own right aud refused mo." i'hiladel'plan Times. She "The trouble is that I can nev-er pitch my voice right." Ho "Why don't you pitch it out of the window, theu?'' "What good would that do?" "It might get the air, at least." m Timrft. "What is this thing called hypno-tism?" "A certain power possessed by some people of making others go to sleep." "Theu I've got a splendid antidote for it. Our new baby." TUiladelphia Times. Under the Pennsylvania "blue laws" the penalty for profanity is 67 cents per swear. Any woman who falls on a slippery sidewalk would consider that a cheap price for the privilege. Indianapolis Journal. Mr. Wiggles "The African race is wonderful for its adaptability to all climates. I knew one black as my hat who was born iu Ireland near Queens-tow- n. Mr. Jiggles "Wasn't that a case of burnt Cork?" Texas Sitings. "Another suspicious circumstance is that you are under an assumed name," said the Judge. "Well, your Honor, ain't we all sovereigns in this country? And ain't it fashionable for sovereigns to travel incog.?" Harper's llazar. "I have thought of one or two clever things in my lifetime," said Willie Wishiugton, "but I didn't say them." "Why not?" "It would have been such a disappoiutment whenever 1 opened my mouth afterward." Wash-ington Tost. "What fault have you to find with my 'occasional verses'?" asked the au-thor of the unacceptable communica-tion. "Sir," replied the able editor, "I find only oue fault with your occa-sional verses they are not nearly oc-casional enough." Vtineh. "Well, well," said a visitor at the hospital for the insane, "I am sur-prised to see that man here. Housed to have a regn nr position on a comic weekly." "Yes; when he lost his place became to us and has paid his board here ever since. He says it seems homelike." Washington tost. 4 ONE OF LINCOLN'S EARLY CASES. Cba Great Hen Whittled Little Wla-mi- ll to Convince tha Jarj. In the year 1818 there was a mem-orable lawsuit in Chicago between Parker and Hoyt over the infringe-ment of a patent right of a water-whee- l. Adams, Buttei tield and others were attorneys far the plaintiff and Abraham Lincoln appeared for the defendant. During; tho progress of the suit John Brink, Esq., now of Crystal Lake, III., chanced to be in the city, and the following is his account of it: The trial lasted thirteen days and excited an unusual amount nf interest. Wbtju Mr. Brink reached the city e found every one talking about the suit and the great Supreme court lawyer Abrnhatn Lincoln. Judge Drummond of tho United States District court pre-sided at the trial. He sustained Lin-coln iu all of his propositions to tha court, and iu nil of his objections to the positions taken by ilio opposing counsel. Iu the course of the trial a flume was made and water applied to the wheels lor the purpose of demonstrat-ing to the jurors the exact facts iu the case. Indian meal was thrown into the water to show the jury more clear-ly the effect of the water on the wheels. Soon after this experiment had been made Lawyer Adams said to Mr. Brink: "Don't you think we have the best of the case?" Mr. Brink replied: "I do not know that I am a suitable judge, as I did not arrive here until the suit hud been iu progress two or three days. But this man Lincoln seems to hold you live fellows pretty snug." Then Adams said: "I would rather light every lawyer in the state of Illi-nois tlniu Abu Lincoln, because he is a natural man, a natural lawyer, a nat-ural mechanic, in fact a natural any-thing, and he knuws more about that waterwhcel than the man who made it, aud I don't know anything about While the attorneys for the plaintiff were making their pleas Lincoln sat there, and, although listening atten-tively, whittled out a pine stick about half an inch square and afoot long. From that he cut off two pieces about three inches in length, and with these two pieces he made t lie wings of a windmill. He fastened them together by running a pin through the center of the two wings and that pin into the end of the other and longer stick. After having put it together he blew upon it, and when it worked to his sat-isfaction he took it apart and placed it in his pocket. Thcro were eighty-fou- r witnesses on the two sides, and Mr. Brink thinks that Lincoln took no notes, but trusted wholly to memory. He requested the. witnesses to be present duriug his plea, aud said if tie made any mistakes in regard to their testimony he wished them to cor-rect him. While presenting his sida of the case he took out the above-mention-windmill from his pocket and, putting it together, blew upon it and explained it to the jury. He assured them that if any infringement had been made Parker had infringed upon the old-tim- e windmill, and that Hoyt had not infringed upon Parker. Ad-ams was to make the closing plea, and iu Lincoln's speech he anticipated what Adams would say, and by this means weakened the force of his plea, Lincoln won his case, and the jury were out only a little over two hours. Chicago Tribune. Afraid of a Splurge. One of the slickest games ever work-ed by confidence men is that of buying a farm. One of a pair looks over the country until he finds tho man he is after, and he then buys the farm at tho farmer's own price, paying from $50 to $200 down to bind tho bargain. Before the papers can be made out a confed-erate comes along, falls in love with the same farm, and offers the farmer $2,-0- more than the other did. The ag-riculturist sees a speculation hero and he buys the first purchaser o(T with a big bonus. Then both men drop out of sight, and the farmer learns some-thing new. I was stopping over night with a Connecticut farmer, who had sold out and taken $200 to bind the bargain. I was there when the second man called with his tempting offer. He waited at the barn, and Uncle Jerry came in aud said to Aunt Sally: "Seems liko a chance to make a clean thousand dollars. The first buy-er says he'll take a thousand, aid that will leave us the same. "Did we ever have $1,000 all nt once?" she asked. "Never." "Ever have a chance to splurge out and make fools of ourselves?" "No." 'D'ye think wo do it if we had the money?" "Wall, I was thinkin' of a new watch and a broadcloth suit." "And I was thinkin' of a silk dress and a new bonnet. Undo Jerry, we dasn't do it. We'd splurge in less'n twenty-fou- r lours." "Guess we would Aunt Sally, and so I'll sell out to the fust man." He sternly refused tho second offer, and even when $1,000 more was added he was inflexible. The first purchaser never showed up again, and to this day the old couple are holding the money and have the papers ready for the trade. Reorganizing the Earth. A certain M. Tchernooslienko' of Kharkoy, Russia, lias devised a new universal language, a universal relig-ion, and a universal form of govern-ment. His religion consists of the simplest, natural conceptions, the em-blems of which every ordinary child shouhl be ablo to understand; in his government he desires to have one czar rule all mankind, who should be elected from among all the ruling dy-nasties of the present. His language is to be w ritten in a sort of hieroglyphio alphabet, each letter to be represented by an object which suggests the souud. A man, tor instance, represents the sound a because every new-bor- n chijd cries b is to bo represented by the figure of a bleeting sheep; v by a howling wolf; g by a barking dog, and so on. |