you say he was once badly wounded?

"Then, as the Scriptures say that in the shedding of blood is the
remission of sins, I guess we'll have to let him off this time."

SURE CURE FOR BOILS.

President Lincoln and Postmaster-General Blair were talking of the war.

"Blair," said the President, "did you ever know that fright has
sometimes proven a cure for boils?" "No, Mr. President, how is that?"
"I'll tell you. Not long ago when a colonel, with his cavalry, was at
the front, and the Rebs were making things rather lively for us, the
colonel was ordered out to a reconnaissance. He was troubled at the time
with a big boil where it made horseback riding decidedly uncomfortable.
He finally dismounted and ordered the troops forward without him. Soon
he was startled by the rapid reports of pistols and the helter-skelter
approach of his troops in full retreat before a yelling rebel force.
He forgot everything but the yells, sprang into his saddle, and made
capital time over the fences and ditches till safe within the lines. The
pain from his boil was gone, and the boil, too, and the colonel swore
that there was no cure for boils so sure as fright from rebel yells."

PAY FOR EVERYTHING.

When President Lincoln issued a military order, it was usually
expressive, as the following shows:

"War Department, Washington, July 22, '62.

"First: Ordered that military commanders within the States of Virginia,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas
and Arkansas, in an orderly manner, seize and use any property, real
or personal, which may be necessary or convenient for their several
commands, for supplies, or for other military purposes; and that while
property may be all stored for proper military objects, none shall be
destroyed in wantonness or malice.

"Second: That military and naval commanders shall employ as laborers
within and from said States, so many persons of African descent as
can be advantageously used for military or naval purposes, giving them
reasonable wages for their labor.

"Third: That as to both property and persons of African descent,
accounts shall be kept sufficiently accurate and in detail to show
quantities and amounts, and from whom both property and such persons
shall have come, as a basis upon which compensation can be made in
proper cases; and the several departments of this Government shall
attend to and perform their appropriate parts towards the execut