, he turned to his next neighbor, an older
boy, and whispered, 'Here comes those "tormented Hebrews" again!'"

A Story About Jack Chase.

A farmer from one of the border counties went to the President on a
certain occasion with the complaint that the Union soldiers in passing
his farm had helped themselves not only to hay but to his horse; and
he hoped the proper officer would be required to consider his claim
immediately.

"Why, my good sir," replied Mr. Lincoln, "if I should attempt to
consider every such individual case, I should find work enough for
twenty Presidents!

"In my early days I knew one Jack Chase who was a lumberman on the
Illinois, and when steady and sober the best raftsman on the river. It
was quite a trick twenty-five years ago to take the logs over the
rapids, but he was skillful with a raft, and always kept her straight
in the channel. Finally a steamer was put on, and Jack--he's dead now,
poor fellow!--was made captain of her. He always used to take the
wheel going through the rapids. One day when the boat was plunging and
wallowing along the boiling current, and Jack's utmost vigilance was
being exercised to keep her in the narrow channel, a boy pulled his
coat-tail and hailed him with: Say, Mister Captain! I wish you would
just stop your boat a minute--I've lost an apple overboard!"

Stories Illustrating Lincoln's Memory.

Mr. Lincoln's memory was very remarkable. At one of the afternoon
receptions at the White House a stranger shook hands with him, and as
he did so remarked, casually, that he was elected to Congress about
the time Mr. Lincoln's term as representative expired, which happened
many years before.

"Yes," said the President, "you are from," mentioning the state. "I
remember reading of your election in a newspaper one morning on a
steamboat going down to Mount Vernon."

At another time a gentleman addressed him, saying, "I presume, Mr.
President, you have forgotten me?"

"No," was the prompt reply; "your name is Flood. I saw you last,
twelve years ago at ----," naming the place and the occasion. "I am
glad to see," he continued, "that the Flood flows on,"

Subsequent to his re-election a deputation of bankers from various
sections were introduced one day by the Secretary of the Treasury.
After a few moments of general conversation, Mr. Lincoln turned to one
of them and said: "Your district did not give me so strong a vote at
the last election as it did in 1860."