you seem to desire to personate, admonished all servants (slaves) to be
obedient to them that are their masters according to the flesh, in fear
and trembling.

"It would seem that neither our Savior nor Paul saw the iniquity of
slavery as you and your party do. But you must not think that where you
fail by argument to convince an old friend like myself and win him over
to your heterodox abolition opinions, you are justified in resorting to
violence such as you practiced on me to-day.

"Why, I never had such a shaking up in the whole course of my life.
Recollect that that good old book that you quote from somewhere says in
effect this: 'Woe be unto him who goeth to Egypt for help, for he shall
fall. The holpen shall fall, and they shall all fall together.'"

DEAD DOG NO CURE.

Lincoln's quarrel with Shields was his last personal encounter. In
later years it became his duty to give an official reprimand to a young
officer who had been court-martialed for a quarrel with one of his
associates. The reprimand is probably the gentlest on record:

"Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can
spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all
the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and the loss
of self-control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than
equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own.

"Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for
the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite."

"THOROUGH" IS A GOOD WORD.

Some one came to the President with a story about a plot to accomplish
some mischief in the Government. Lincoln listened to what was a very
superficial and ill-formed story, and then said: "There is one
thing that I have learned, and that you have not. It is only one
word--'thorough.'"

Then, bringing his hand down on the table with a thump to emphasize his
meaning, he added, "thorough!"

THE CABINET WAS A-SETTIN'.

Being in Washington one day, the Rev. Robert Collyer thought he'd take a
look around. In passing through the grounds surrounding the White House,
he cast a glance toward the Presidential residence, and was astonished
to see three pairs of feet resting on the ledge of an open window in one
of the apartments of the second story. The divine paused for a moment,
calmly surveyed the unique spectacle, and then resumed his walk toward
the War Department.