Just after it was poured out and before I
could take hold of it, that right leg of mine
lifted itself up and kicked over the whole
contraption--glass, and jug, and bar, and then in
spite of all I could do, stumped me back to camp!
And on the way I passed the chaplain who was being
dragged out _to_ the bar, while I was being pulled
away from it. Then I knew what had happened in the
hospital; they had put each leg on the wrong man,
and I must carry around the chaplain's leg as long
as I lived. The leg took me to church; at first it
was pretty tough, but I got used to it. That leg
brought me to Chautauqua, and here I am to-day,
brought by the chaplain's leg. Some time ago I
gave by request a lecture with pictures in the
Sing Sing prison, and there among the convicts sat
my old friend the chaplain, wearing a striped
suit. What brought him there I can't imagine,
unless--well, I don't know what it was.

The Assembly of 1887 was fifty-eight days in length, from July 2d to
August 28th. The schools were still growing in the number of students
and enlarging their courses. Some of the new departments were the Arabic
and Assyrian languages, mathematics, chemistry, oratory and expression,
stenography, mineralogy, and geology. To house these classes and the
army of students, buildings were urgently needed, and this year a
College Building arose overlooking the lake. It stood until two years
ago, when on account of its dilapidation as well as its incongruity with
the modern plans of the schools, it was taken down.

During the season of 1887, the Fourth of July Address was given by Hon.
Roswell G. Horr, member of Congress from Michigan. Dr. Fairbairn from
Oxford was with us again, also the Rev. Mark Guy Pearse of England, Dr.
Charles J. Little, Dr. John A. Broadus of Louisville, one of those
scholars who know how to present great truths in a simple manner,
Chaplain McCabe, Dr. Charles R. Henderson, on social questions of the
time, and Mrs. Mary A. Livermore. Rev. Sam P. Jones was also on the
platform for the second season. He gave his powerful sermon on
"Conscience" with not a sentence to provoke a smile, but a strong call
to righteousness. Another address, however, contained an application
which called forth a smile all over the audience. It was known tha