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0* C, RPTTONj Editor and Propr. i)R; IALMAGE 3 SERMON. RETURM FROM THE CHASE. Text : “In the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil." Uenosis, xiix. 21. There is in this chapter such an affluence of simile and allegory, sucha <«f meta ('hers, that there are a thousand Thoughts in in it not on (ho hi since. (i!d Ja oh, dying, is telling the fortune! of h!s children. He prophecies the devouring propensities of Benjamin and his dos ell.hints. W,tli his < iui old eyes he looks off and sees the hunters going out to the fields, ranging them all day andat nightfall coming home, the game slung over the shoulder; and reaching Hi ' do t ctf the tent the hunters begin to distribute the pa.ne, and one Infers U < <ney nml anoth.r a rahb.t flttd him;her h roo. "Jit the morning he Shall devour the prey, ami at night ho ehnl! divide the spoil." Or. it may be a rct tfahee, tto the habits of hold beasts that slay Hieir prey, and then drug it back to the cave oh lair and divi lo it among the young. There is nothing lnorc lasciuat ng tnan the Jite of d hunter. On a certain day in all Kng lnn 1 von can licdr the crack of the sports mah s guii becaus • grouse-hunting has begun; atid every man tiiac <dn afford the time ami anm l.tiba a i l can draw a bead starts for th •11 ids. t'ij tl e f'Oth of Oct obi ri ur woods an I forests will re-ound with the shock of lirearm : , and will he tracked of pointers and s -Itersbecause the quail will then be a lawful price for the spoitsmnu. Xenophon grew < loqtieut in regard to the art of hunting. In the far Fastp oplo, elephant-mounted, chase th? tiger. Idle Ameiicau ladiai cart. his arrow at the buff alo until the frightened herd tumble over (he ro,-ks. European nobles are often found in the fox chase and at the stag hunt. * l-'ram is I. was called the l ather of hunting. Moses declares of Nino oil: -‘He was a mighty hunter beforo tho Lord.” Therefore, in ail ages of the world the imagery of my text ought to bo sugge-tive whother it means a wolf after a fox or a ma i after a lion. “In the morning ho shall devo ir the prey, ami at night ho shall divide t ho spoil.’’ I take my text in tlio first place ns dex -rip five of those people who in the morning of their life give themselves up to hunting the world, but afterward, by the grace of (toil, in the evening of their life, divide among themselves the spoils of Christian churn tor. There are aged Christian men and women in this house who, if they gave testimony, would tell you that, in the morning of their life they n ere after the world as intensely as a homul after a hare, or as a falcon Swoops upon a gazelle. They wanted tho world’s plaudits and tho world's gains. They felt t hat if they could get this world they would have every thing. Some of them started out for tlio pleasures of the world. They thought that the man who Inughe l loudest was happiest. They tried repartee and conundrum and burlesque anil mad* i igal. They thought they would like to ho Tom Hoods, or Charles Lambs, or Edgar A. Toes. They m ngled wino ami music and the spectacular. They wore worshipers of the harlequin an 1 the M Try Andrew and the buffoon and tho jester. Life was to them foam„.ai»( bubble and caehinuafio - mid roystering and grimace. They were so full of glt-e they could hardly repress their mirth even on sol emn occasions, and they came near burst ing out hilariously even at the burial, lie cause there was something so dolorous in the tone or countenance of the undertaker. After awhile misfortune struck them hard on ttie back. They found there was something ! they could not laugh at. Linder their late hours their health gave way or there was a death in tho house. Os , every green thing their soul was exfoliated. They found out that life was more than a joke. From the heart of Go.l there blazed into their soul an earnestness thoy had never felt beforo. They awoke to their sinfulness j and their immortality, and here they sit to- i day at sixty or seventy years of age, as ap preciative of all innocent mirth as they ever I were, but they are lient on a style of satisfa-- tion which in early life they never hunted; 1 the evening of their days brighter than tho morning. In the morning they devoured the prey, but at night they are dividing lhe spoil. j Then there nro others who started out for financial success. They see how limber a man's hat is when he bows down before some one transpicuous. They felt that they would like to see how the world looked from the window of a three thousand dollar turnout. They thought they would like to have the j morning sunlight tangled in the hendgi ar of ! a dashing span. They wanted the bridges in j the park to resound under tho rataplan of , their swift hoofs. They wanted a gilded baldriek. and so they started on the dollar - hunt. They chase 1 it up one street and chased it down another. They followed it ! When it burrowed in the cellar. They treed it in the roof. Wherever a dollar was ex- ! pected to be they were. They chased it n r iss the ocean. They chased it across the la ml. They stopjied not for the night. Hearing that dollar even in the darkne-s thriPed them os an Adirondack sportsman is thrilled by a loon's laugh. They chased that dollar to the money vault. They chased it to the Government treasury. They routed it from under the counter. All the hounds were nut--a!l l he pointers and setters. They leaped Iho hedges for that dollar, and they cried: “Hark, away! a dollar! a dollar!'’ and when at last they came upon it and had a -tu ally captured it, their excitement was like that of a falconer who had successfully flung his first hawk. In the morning of their life, oh how they devoured the prey! But there came a better time to their soul". They found out that an immortal nature cannot live cm Government bonds. They took up a North ern Pacific liond and then- was a hole in it through which they could look into the un certainty of all earthly treasures. They saw tom - Ralston, living at tho rnto of £25,00) a month, leaping from the San Francisco wharf because he could not continue to live at the same ratio. They taw the wizen and pa ra ta tic bankers, who liud change I their souls into molten gold, stamped with the image of tho ea-th, earthy. They saw so m* great souls by avarice turned into homunculi, and they said to themselves: “I will seek alter higher treasure.’’ From that time they did not ‘-are wbothei- th-y walke 1 or rode if Christ walked with them; nor whether tlr-y lived in a man sion ->r abut il they dwelt under the shadow of the Almighty; nor whether they were robed iu French broadcloth or in a homesnun if they had the robe of tho Saviour s righteousness; nor whether they were sandaled with mo rocco or calf skin if they were shod with tho preparation of the Gospel. Now you see pcatfo on tneir countenance. Now that man says: “What a fool I was to be enchanted with this world! Why, I have more sal i fac tion in five minutes in tho service of O. d than I had in all the first years of my life while I was gain get'ing. ! li'.o this evening o!' my day a great d -al Is-tt r ttan I did the morn ing. in the morning I greedily devoured the . prey; but now it is evening, and I am glori ously dividing the spoils.” My friends, this world is a poor thing to j hunt. It :s healthful to go out in the woods ! nnd hunt. It rekindles the lustre of the eye. It strikes the brown of the autumnal leaf into tho cheek. It gives to tbs rheu matic limbs a -trength to leap like the roe. Christopher North’s pet gun. the muckle- ■ mounted meg. going off in the summer in Ihe forests, had its echo in the winter time j in th * eloquence that rang through th» Uni- ®hc Jtloifgowict| iuomiot. | varsity halls of Edinburgh. It is healthy to i go hunting ill the-field-: but, t toll you thnt. I it is belittling and bedworfing ana bcUuning 1 for a man to hunt this world. The .hammer comes down on thegun iap and the barrel explode! and kills you instead of that which . | von are pursuing. When you turn out to j hunt tlio world, tho woHil turns out to hunt you: and as many n sportsman aim | mg his gun at a panther s heart has gone „ ' down under th* striped claws, so while you ] have been attempting to devour this world, I tho world bus Ivc -n devouring von. So it was with Lord Byron. So it was with Cole f ridge. So it was with Catherine of Russia. - I Henry 11. wont out hunting for (his world 1 nnd it! lam es stuck through Ills heart. Frnn < ! cis T. aimed at the world, but the astossin's - i dagger put an end to hi.s ambition nnd hi! , life with qro stroke. Mary, Queen of Scots, s Wrote on tlie window of her ca-tie: . “From the top of All my trust , Mishap li-i'.it jaid ind ill the dust. 11 tho Qiiet-n tXrofcgiT Os Navarro was i offered for lier wediiitig day ri costly and i beautiful pdir tjf glove! ami she piit them on; but t hey word poison? 1 gloves and they took i her life. Better ft bn io hand iff cold priva tion than a warnfnml poisoned glove of r ruinous su-eoss. “Oh,” iays some young j man in tho audience. “I believe wlnit you are preaching. lam going to do tlmt very thing. ’ In the morning of my lift! 1 am going to devour the prey, and in the evening I shall divide the spoil of Christian character. I j onlv want a little while to sow my wild cats I and then T will lie good.” Yo\tng man, did you overtake the rensusof all the old people? ; How ninny old people are .there in your house? One, two or noue? How many in it 1 vast assemblage like this? Only here nnd j there a gray head, like the patches of -ii >w here and there in the fields on a late 1 April day. The fact is that the tides of the years are so strong that men go down under | i them before they get to be sixty, before they | l get to be fifty, before they get to he forty, before they get to he thirty; and if you, niv young brother, resolve now that you will spend the morning of your days in devouring , tho prev, the probability is that you will never divide the spoil in tho evening hour. H ■ who postpones until old ago therc'igion j of Jesus ( hrist, postpones it forever. Where ! are the men who, thirty years ago, resolved j to become Christians in old age, putting 1 it- off a certain number of years 3 They never got to bo old. Tho , railroad collision or tho steamboat j explosion or the slip on tho ice or tho falling ladder or tho sudden cold put an end to their opportunities. They have never had an op , 1 portunity since nnd never will have an o|i -1 portunity again. They locked the door of Heaven against their souls anil thy threw away the keys; nnd if they could noiv break , ja’lan l eomo up shrieking t > t-liis audience, I do not think they would tak? two minutes to persuade us nil to repentance. They chase I tho w orld and they died in the chase. Tho wounded i tiger turned on them. They failed to take the ; game that they pursued. Mounted on a swift i j courser they leaped the hedge,but the courser j fell on them and crushed them. Proposing to barter their soul for tho world they lost both and got neither. While this is an encouragement to old peo ple who are yet unpardoued, it Is no encour agement to the young who nro putting off tie day of grace. This doctrine that the old rra.y be reiientant is to be takmi cautiously. It is medicine that kills or cures. Tl--. a.me medicine given to different pirtiencf in one case saves life and in tho other destroys it. This possibility' of repentan'-o at, tho close of life may euro the old man while it kills tho young. Be cautious in taking it. Again, my subject is descriptive of those I who come to a sudden and radical change. ! You have noticed how short a time it is from J morning to night in winter —eight or ton hours. You know that a winter day has a ] very brief life. The heart of the longest, day | beats twenty-four time! and then it Is dead. ! How quick tho transition in tho character of tbeso Benjaminites! “In the morning they I shall devour tho prey, aud at night they shall divide tho spoil.” Is it possible thnt thoro shall bo such a trans formation in any of our characters? Yes, n man may bo at seven o’clock in the j morning an all-devouring worldling, and at seven o’clock at night ho may be a peaceful • distributive Christian. Conversion is in stantaneous. A man passes into tho kingdom of God quicker than down the sky runs the ; zig-zag lightning. A man may be anxious about, hi.s soul for a great many years; that does not make him a Christian. A man may pray a great while; that docs not make him a Christian. A man may resolve on the refor* I mation of his character and have that reso lution going on a great while; that does not | make him a Cbristiau. But tho very instant when ho (lings his soul on tho mercy of ! Josti: Christ, that instant is lustration, emancipation, resurrection. Up to that ! point lie is going in the wrong direction; after that isiint ho is going in the right, <ii : ro lion. Beforo that moment lie is a child fid: after that moment ho is a child of God. Before that moment, bellward; after that moment, heavenward. Before that moment, devouring tha prey : after that moment, di viding tha spoil. Five mimitis is ai good as five years, My hearer, you know very well thnt, the best things you have done you have done in a flash. You made up your mind in an instant to buy or to s?ll or to invest or to stop or to start, If you ha<l missed that one chance you would have misse lit forever. Now just as precipitate and quick ami spontaneous will he tho ransom of your soul. This morning you are makiug a calculation. You are on the tru-k of some financial or social game. With your pen or pencil you are pursuing it. This very morning you "are devouring the prey; but to-night you will he in a different mo .-d. You find tlmt,all heaven is offered you. You wonder bow you can get it for yourself end family. You wonder what resources it i will give you now and hereafter. You are | divi ling peace and comfort and satisfaction and < ‘hristian reward iu your sou). You are dividing the spoil. <ln a Lal-li.-ith night at th; close of the ser vice, I said to some persons; “When did you first become seriou- about, your soul?” and i they told me: “To-night.” Arid I said to others: “When did you give your heart Pi . God!” and they said: “To-night.” And J. ; said to still others: “When did you resolve to serve the Lord all the days of jrOifr life?” nnd they said: “To-night.” I saw by their . apparel that when the gra--e of God struck them they were devouring tho prey; but I saw also in the flood of joyful tears, mid in | the kindling raptures on their brow, and in ! th -ir exhilarant and trail-porting utterances that they were dividing the spoil. At night with one touch of ele 'trinity a'l tlie-e lights blaze. Oh, I would to God that th ■ darkness of your souls might Is- broken up, and that by ol* quick, overwhelming, instantaneous j flush of illumination you might be brought int? the light un i the liberty of the sons of j God! You see that religion is a different thing from what some of you jieople Ml PJK s-d. You thought it was decadence: you thought religion was emaciation: you thought it was highway robbery: that it struck one down and left him lialf dead: that it plucked out the eyes; that it plucked out the plumes of the wml; that it broke tho wing and < rushed the . b -ak as it came clawing with its black talons j through the air.No.that is not religion. Wbat ; isreligi.n! It is dividing the spoil. Itistak- I ing a defenseless soul anil panoplying it for ! eternal conquest. It is the distribution or i pri'-es by the Kings hand; every medal stamped with a coronation. It is an exhil aration, an expansion. It is imparadiaation. It is enthronement. Religion makes a man master of earth, and death, and hell, it MT. V ERNON. MONTGOMERY CO., OA„ THURSDAY, JUNE IT, I88(i. ' [goes forth to’gather the mcln’ls of victory 1 f won by Prince Emmanuel, an I the diadem.* ? I of heaven auij th- alori'vs of realms'terms - ' trial mill celestial, and t li-'il, after 1 i ranging all yt’or.di (or everything that is i resplcudeijt, it divide: ill? spoil. What was > it thnt .lames, Turner, the f,muons English; ; evangelist, was doing when in his dying moment he said: “Christ is all!, ('ln is' is i all!” Why, ho was entering into light; ho i was rounding tho Cape of Good Hope; h? was dividing the spoil. What was the aged Christian Quakeress doing when at eighty years of a?? she arose in tho meeting one ilay nnd said: “The time of my departure I is come. Mv grave clothes ore falling off." She was dividing the spoil. “She longed with wings to Hv away. And mix with that eternal day.” What is Daniel now doing, the lion tamer? ami Elijah, who was drawn by the flaming coursers? ami Paul, the rattling of whose 2haius made kings quake? aud all tho other , victims of flood nnd fire and wreck and guil- I lotinid Where are they! Dividing the spoil. "Ten thousand times ten thousand, lu sparkling raiment bright, The armies of the ransomed saints Throng up the steeps of light. "Tis finished, all is finished, Their fight with death and sin; Lift high yout golden gates , Anil let the victors in.” Oh, wlirit, a grflnd thing it is to boa Chris , (inn? We begin onertrth to divide the spoil, but tho distribution will not be completed to all eternity. There is a poverty-struck soul, - there is a business-despoiled soiil, there is a sin-struck soul, there is a bereaved soul why do you not come and get the spells of i hristmn character, tlio comfort, the joy, the j leave, the salvation that I am seut to offer you in my Mas ter's names. Though your knees knock together iu weakness, though your hand tr- inble in fear, though your eyes rain 1 urs of un--. nt.rolable wcoping—-onie and get t he spoils. Host for all the weary. Pardon for all tin'guilty. Harbor for all the bestormed. Lifo for all the dead. I verily believe that there are some who liavo come in here out cast because the world is against them, and because they foel God is against will go aivay to-day saying: “I came to Jesus as I was, Weary and worn aud sad I found in Him a resting-place, And lie has made me glad." Though you came in children of the world, you may go away heirs of heaven. Though you wero devouring the prey, now, all worlds witnessing, you may divide the spoil. Why lie Liked It. I watch her play tho violin, An-1 every motion of her arm, Beneath her little dimpled chin, Has to my mind a varied charm. To sec her draw tho roeiued Vow B.incv, to my cheek a happy glow; But then l think 1 lik? it Iwst, Because it gives her cliiu a rest. Tid-UiU. A Knight of Labor. fqffc lllff |! j k /? wo j Ik mm — Judge. Wanted One of His Own. Once ujion a time, rn-iny, many years ago, theic were two little boys who live I iu Western .Massachusetts, away up among the Berkshire Hills. One morn i ing one of these little boys came to tho house of the other with a fine gamecock uinl -r his arm, and he said : “Bill I want to swap tliis rooster for yours.” Bill askid: “Is lie a good rooster, Cyrus'?" And Cyrus replied that he was the best lighting cock in the country. Then Bill s zed: “II he is tlio best rooster in tho country why do you want to swap him lor mine?” And Cyrus made answer: “Oh, thi. rooster 5s father’s and I want to soap him so that I can have one of my own.”— Baton Adterluer. Edward Han lax, ex-champion of tho world is in good condition, and is in dai ly practice opposite tho island called aft or him in iortmto. Can. It is generally lieleived that Haitian has been, in Uif last two years, rather careless in hi? preparation for contests, the result, no doubt, of his easily earned victories, ilaniari now, however, realizes the fact that to win a race bo must train, and his good condition so early in the seaxon is a good sign for the future. people ora too modest, and others too impudent, to accomplish their . ,: ‘*t work in thin world. I favor j ust mopgh modesty to conceal impertinence. | ••sun T>EO FACIO FOIITTTER." SALMON P. CHASE. Romnnfic incidents In tho Life of tlio Chief .frrstico. His Struggles in Early Life and Love for a Beautiful Southerner. Eugene L. flidicr, at one time private secretary in Chief .fit-dice' Salmon I*. Chase, recites in the New York Mdil niiil Rrprais some interesting instances iu the career of this noted man. Mr. Jlidier says: “I had a hnvd enough struggle in my early life,” said Chief Justice Chase to to me, one afternoon; as we were walking from the Capitol together. “When 1 first came to Washington to push my fortune, 1 asked an uncle who was a Sen ator, to obtain for me a clerkship in one of the departments. He told me he would rather give me a dollar to liny a spade with which to work my way in the world. I thought my uncle was unkind, but 1 have long since known lie acted wisely iti not getting me an olliee, and 1 attribute all my good fortune in life to that refusal# llad I secured a clerkship at that time, 1 should probably have re mained a clerk all my life, and, instead of now being the Chief Justice of tho United States, be (lie chief clerk of a de part ment.” Salmon P. Chase worthily won nil the high honor that he gained. For years after removing to Washington lie went through tlio daily drudgery of teaching a hoys’ school, studying law during liis spare hours under William AVirt, the fath erof one of his pupils. It was nt Mr. Wirt’s house that he met tho beautiful Miss Cabell, and then began the only romance in his lie. He was thrown into her society every day, and each day added to his interest in the lovely Southern girl. Love inspired him to write verses which, however, were intended to express tho passionate sentiments of a lover. The proud Virginian beauty accepted Mr. Chase as an escort to parties, receptions nnd the theater, and site found him a very agreeable companion in the parlor, for he was clever and intelligent, but sin- would not think of marrying a poor young school-teacher with his own for tune to make and apparently witli little prospect of making it. at that time. Miss Cabell made the same mistake in declining Mr. Chase’s addresses as the lady did who refused to mary Louis Na poleon when he was living an obscure ex ile in England after his escape from tho prison of Ham, and thereby “refused a crown,” as tho future Emperor said to her. Perhaps Mr. Chase’s unfortunate love affair was file cause of his leaving Washington and removing to Cincinnati, which lie did soon after passing the bar. He got so bravely over his passion, how ever, for Miss Cabell, tlmt he, lived to marry and bury throe wives, before lie was forty. The aroma of that early love still lingered many years afterward. Once, when the Chief Justice was visit ing Richmond with his daughter, a niece of Iris first love—another Miss Cabell, (*|ually celebrated as a belle and beauty —called upon Miss Chase, her father re called with tender feeling the circum stances of his youthful love and the re sult. When he spoke of his first sweetheart there was a pathos in the voice of the calm and dignified Chief Justice, which was as rare as it was interesting. When I became the private secretary of Chh f Justice Chose, ho was in his sixty-second year, and to all appearance in the full vigor of liis magnificent manhood lie was six - feet high anil weighed two hun dred pounds and was ns straight as a Tuscarora Indian, lie had a very com manding appearance, anil ns he walked along the marble corridors of the Capitol iris presence was felt. He was naturally a very austere man and seldom unbended, even at home. He hud little or no ap preciation of humor, and rarely indulged in a joke. He was just as abstemious in his words as in ail other things, lie talked little, drank little, and never u-? <1 tobacco in any shape or form, and did not like it to be used in his presence. Ili.s life was regular and his tastes simple, rising at 0 in the summer and 7 iti the winter. In good weather lie took a short walk before breakfast, returning in time to join Jiis family at morning prayer. Tin: breakfast hour was 8 o'clock, after which he joined his secretary in the libra ry, where lie- spent an hour reading over his letters, dictating answers to them, or preparing his opinions. At 10 he left his house to go to the Capitol, always walking when tho went!) J er was fair, and riding in the ears in bad weather. From 11 to 3he presided over the Supreme Court of the United States, after its adjournment walking back to his house. Arriving home,,he took a lunch of crackers and tea, and then went vig orously to work on liix opinions, remain ing so engaged until dinner, which was always served precisely nt 0 o’clock. Hi.s table was elegant, but not epicurean, ami consisted always of three courses nnd a dessert# The Chief Justice always dressed in black when in Washington, find i was very much astonished to see him afif*-ar in light pantaloons, sack coat and slouch hat on the morning that wo started on the Southern Circuit, in May, 1 Still. Miss Chase told me sfw? Was afraid her farther would become so attache'! to llie slouch hat that ho.would want to went it after hi.s return to Washington, which she seemed to think would be lowering the dignity of the Chief Justice. Some Historic lings. At a time when dogs, especially metro politan dogs, are somewhat under a cloud, says a writer in All (he Year Hound , il may bo well to recall some of the claims of our old friend to respect and esteem. Every one remembers tho dog of Ulysses, who died in greeting his master, just returned from bisking wand erings, and tin- story shows the consider ation in which tlio <log was held in the heroic ages of Greece. The old Persians, too, held tin- dog in high esteem; to tlio Alagians he was a sacred animal, tlio rep resentative uml friend of Ormuzd tho Beneficent, and tlio great satraps xvere distinguished by their trains of hunting dogs, ns was tlio King himself, and Xer xes set out for (lie conquest of Greece surrounded by a great body-guard of faithful dogs. Those most highly prized by the Persians came from India, so-call ed probably from the Ructriati regions, where the dog is still held in high repute. Captain Woods tells us that tho old-fash ioned U/.beg would think it no insult to bo asked to sell his wife, but would re sent an oiler for hi.s dog as an unpardon able affront, while among the border tribes of Turkestan tho epithet of tho dog-Bcilcr is one of tlio profoundcst con tempt. Indeed, the birthplace of na tions is probably the original homo of (lie dog, and when our Aryan ancestors lagan to migrate westward from their ancient scats with their (locks and herds they brought with them, no doubt, their fierce and faithful dogs, who liavo left their descendants of to-day, tho English mastiff, the Pyrenean sheep dog, the Al lianian wolf-hound. Ancient laws, too, record the estimation in which the dog was held: “A herd dog that goes for the sheep in the morning and follows them homo at night is worth tho best ox," s%y the ancient laws of Wales. Tlie host herd tlogsof the present day, perhaps, are the Breton slice]) dogs— rough, shaggy, uncouth— witli an aspect as if they hail a little of tho blood of bruin in their veins, Imt highly valued by their possessors, who arc not to bo tempted into parting with them iiy any tiling imdi-r the price of tlio best ox; and the Breton dog is one of the most saga cions of his kind, watching and tending Iris (lock with an almost incredible zeal aud devotion. The Ball Hint Wounded llnncocki Dr. Lewis W. Read, of Norristown, thus relates I In- circumstances of General Hancock’s recovery from his wound re ceived at Gettysburg: “I was medical director of the Pennsylvania Reserves, mid just before the Ist of November, J HG-z, I came home on twenty-four hours leave of nbfienee. 1 called to see the General, who was in bed at his father’s residence, i found him very much dis heartened. He had grown thin, and looked pale and emaciated. He said lie felt as if lie was going to die, and that he hud been probed nnd tortured to such an extent that death would be a relief. I endeavored to cheer him up, and as I was about bidding him farewell lie said: ‘Good bye, Doctor; i may never see you again.’. “I had my hand on the door knob of iris chamber when be said : ‘See here, Doctor, why don’t you try to get this hall out. i have hud all the reputation in tlie country at it; now let’s have some of the plin th al.’ “He was lying in tile bed with bis wounded limb actually flexed, and all the probing had been done with iris leg lient at rigiit angles. Tlie ball hurl Hit him just below the right groin, within an inch of the femoral artery, while he was silling in the saddle with his legs distended. I went down to my office fur a pro lie with a conceal'd blade, and on my return !)r. Cooper and myself sue '•ceded in straightening the limb and placing it us near as possible in the posi tion it was when tlie ball struck him. 1 inserted the probe and it dropped fully eight inches into the channel and struck tiic ball, which was imbedded in the sharp hone which you sit upon. In a weeks’ time tlie General was out on crutches, and in two weeks more he at tended a Masonic gathering at Odd Fel lows’ Hall. I forget the caliber of tlie bullet, but it was a big Minie ball.”— I‘hiladelphi/t, Tima. VOL. r. NO. IS. Lore Now. You will love me tho day I lio dying. Oh! lovo ma thou tWing, While yet from a full heart readying, I give to your giving. Wliat gain hath my lifetime of loving, 1 f you pass it all by To givo me l>iu'k treble my loving In the hour 1 ilio) All anguish, nil maddest adoring, Will lie vain in that day, Though you knelt to me then with Imploring, What word could I any? »)h! love me, then, now, that it quicken My heart’s failing breath. Why wait till to lovo »» to sicken At the coldness of death? y — lndependent. iiinoitots. A poor title Picking a pauper’s pock et. A new tiling in llannela—A baby born in ’8(1. The thermometer gains notoriety by degrees, so to speak. Is there any dilTcrenre between a trav eling dress and a walking suit/ The law has many members. VVlto has not heard of the limb of the law? The letter-carrier that gets around quickest is tho cylinder of a printing press. A mistake is a thing to which you are liable. Blunders are made by the other fellow. “I’ll marry nobody butter,” said the farmer’s son as ho run away with Um dairy maid. Home women swallow flattery as babies swallow buttons, without any idea of the trouble that may follow. The evil consequences of smoking •«: illustrated by Ml. Vesuvius, which con stantly sulTers from eruptions. A butcher is known to ho very prompt in all his engagements, especially those, in which lie promises to meat a man. “Is the tide going out?" said a sailor to a gentleman who was passing a house where a marriage had just taken place. The ancient Kgyptians honored dead eats, and no doubt they took earnest' measures to prepare them for the honors. Wo never hoar anything more of the phonograph, it has probably gone into a barber shop and been talked to death. Young housewife What miserable lit tle eggs again. You -really must tell them, Jane, to let tho liens set on them u little longer. Student (to servant at tho door) — “Miss Brown?” Servant—“ She is en gaged.” Student “I know it. I’m what she’s engaged to.” Larry Lazybones (who had been told to start in to do a week’s ploughing): “I wish I were dead that’s what I wish!” Humorous grandfather: “Yes, Larry, that’s jest like ye! Ye want to bo lyin’ in yorgrave, talcin’ it easy all the rest o’ yer life." “What did you do the first time you got into a battle?" said a young lady to an old soldier. “Os course you didn’t run?” “Oh, no, i didn’t run, miss; not at all, hut if I had been going for a doc tor, and you lmd seen me, you would have thought somebody was awful sick.” Looking out of the window one eve ning, a little girl saw the bright full moon in the eastern sky, and, apparently only a few inches from it, the beautiful planet Jupiter, shining almost as brightly as the moon itself. (lazing intently on them a moment, she exclaimed, “O papa! mama! see! The moon has laid an egg!” A lihyniiiig Witness. It is stated that a lawyer some time ago cross-examined a witness in a local court, when he asked; “Now, then, Patrick, listen to me. Did the defendant in this case strike the plaintiff with malice?” “No, sor, sure,” replied Pat, gravely,; “he struck him wid the poker, la-dad.” Again he inquired of the same witness: “Did the plaintiff stand on the defensive during the affray?" “Divil a diflinsive, yer Honor; he stood on the table.” A celebrity noted for being “a bit of a poet,” was brought up before a bench of local magistrates for an assault, when the following conversation took place. Magistrate—ls your name John Fray? Prisoner—lt is, Your Honor; so tho people say. , Magistrate -Was it you who struck man and caused the alarm? f Prisoner Sure it was, Your Honor; but I thought there was no harm. Magistrate -Now, stop that! Did you come here to make rhymes? Prisoner- No, Your Honor; but it -will happen sometimes. The magistrate, laughing at the fel low’s ready wit, said: “Go away, you rascal, get out of my sight!” Prisoner (smiling)—Thank ye, Your Honor; an’ a very good night, Chum ben' Journal,