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What Was in the .Overeoat.
It was during the late war, and imme
diately after one of those sharp, hotly
contested skirmishes which are so apt to
befall the flanks, or outposts, of big, op
posing armie. Having been mostly a
cavalry scrimmage, there were an unusual
number of bad-looking wounds as com
pared with the number of deaths. As
soon as the fight was over, the wounded
were borne from the field, and a hospital
improvised in an old barn, wjhich offered
plenty of room, though not much pro
tection from the weather.
Among the wounded was Corporal Silas
Timms, one of the very bravest and best
natured of our men. A bullet had shat
"TCred one of the bones of the leg, between
the knee and .the ankle, but he had man
aged, with the aid of two muskets for
crutches, to make his own way to the
barn. When there, however, the effort
told upon him so severely that he fainted
dead away, and was lifted by some of his
comrades to a grain-chest which chanced
to stand near.
Not long before this event a squad of
assistant surgeons, fresh from the medical
schools, had joined the army, and two
of these ''young gentlemen," in search of
information, fell upon poor Silas. They
found the bullet-hole in the leg, and
quickly determined that a bone had been
broken.
"Say, Tom," said one to the other,
"here's just our opportunity. Now we'll
determine about the bifurcation of that
popliteal artery, and see whether there
are more than two branches."
Sawbones Number Two jumped at the
chance, and a case of new and untried
instruments was opened.
One of the lieutenants of Silas's com
pany was in the barn, and near enough to
hear the remarks of the fledglings, and
to see their ghastly preparations. He
didn't believe there was auy need of cut
ting that leg off. And, mercy! the butch
ers were going to cut the leg off above
the knee. Aye they meant to have the
whole popliteal space for examination.
The lieutenant indignantly interfeied.
He protested against any amputation at
all until the regimental suigeon could be
'consulted.
The young surgeons had learned the
privileges of their position. They turned
upon the presumptuous lieutenant tow
eringly. They would have him kicked
out from the barn if he did not take him
self off out of the way. They were able
to take care of their own affairs. And
they proceeded to strip the wounded leg.
Ordinarily the lieutenant would have
planted his fist in the face of such a
heartless fellow, under such provocation,
but just now his wish was to save the
poor corporal's leg, and, most likely, his
life. Aud he started off eagerly inquiring
for the surgeon.
At this point a man stopped him an
elderly man, wearing the overcoat and
cap of a hospital steward and asked
what was the matter. The lieutenant
told him.
"Come and show me," said he.
And the two went together to the grain
chest, where the would-be amputators
were trying to asphyxiate their victim
"with chloroform, aud he, just returned to
consciousness, struggling for dear life.
"Hallo! gentlemen, what is all tnis?"
The high and mighty twain turned and
beheld, as they supposed, an antiquated
hospital steward, probably of the regular
army. They did not stop to consider
that another man, suddenly called from
his rest, might have thrown on the first
over-garments that came to hand. They
looked at the presumptuous mortal with
ineffable contempt, and the spokesman
was selecting the words with which he
should reply, when a loud voice at the
entrance of the barn cried out :
"Is the Surgeon-General here?"
"Aye what is it?" replied the man in
the steward's overcoat.
"Ah, General, Doctor Rowe would like
to see you at the house just over the way.
Colonel Bangs is badly "
"All right. I'll be there in a few mo
ments. Now, young gentlemen, what is
the trouble here?"
We need hardly tell how those two
youthful experimenters "went back into
their boots." Suffice it to s&y that Silas
Timms is living to-day, the owner of two
good legs; and he knows that he owes
the blessing to his devoted lieutenant,
and to the elderly gentleman in the hos
pital steward's overcoat. S. C. Jr., in
New York Ledger.
Daniel Webster gave a reception to
some Western lawyers one evening, short
ly after the succession of President Tyler
and the dissolution of President Harri
son's Cabinet. Among those present
were Mr. Stanbery, late Attorney-General,
and a bashful gentleman by the name
of Leonard. They were presented, made
their compliments to their host and host
ess, and Leonard, to get out of harm's
way, made for one of those nonsensical
little gilt and satin chairs wThich are not
made to be sat in, but which adorn all
drawing-rooms. To make things dead
sure, Leonard tilted his chair backward,
and down it went, smashed, crackling in
a crowded drawing-room, and, of course,
Leonard the unfortunate was also Leon
ard the observed. Webster rushed to the
wreck of the "Buckeye," extended both
hands to him, and hauling him up, said :
"Why, Mr. Leonard, you ought to know
that no cabinet-work will hold together
here." There wTas a general laugh, and
Leonard did not again try satin chairs
that were not made to be sat in.
New Orleans is built upon a forest
of cypress trees. For GOO feet down this
is the foundation ! Rows upon rows of
4-he stumps of the cypress are found
ff growing over each other superimposed,
each of which layers it is calculated has
required a thousand years to form !
Concerning Duels.
In the time of Henry III., in a single
province of Prance, 220 gentlemen were
killed in duels in tix months. In the
reign of Henry Quartre 4,000 were killed
in two years. In those days seconds as
well as principals engaged in the quarrel.
The good King granted over 14,000 par
dons for quarrels alone. From the be
ginning of the reign of George III. to
1840 upwards of 200 leading duels took
place in England, including 400 princi
pals and as many seconds. In three of
them both combatants were killed ; in the
others, about SO killed, 120wounded,oue-
half of whom desperately, the other half
slightly; the rest escaped unhurt. It is
estimated that one's chance of life in a
duel is one in five, and one-half, more or
less, are severely wounded. Twenty
tiials occurred; some were found guilty
of manslaughter, four of murder, two
were hanged, the rest imprisoned.
The world haa been ever full of men
ready to fight for a fancied grievance at
the drop of a hat; or if tiiey had no cause,
then to make one. The nobleman who
fought fourteen duels to prove that
Dante was a greater poet than Aristo,and
on his death-bed admitted that he had
never read either, was no more cracked
brain than one of Washington's aids, who
fought a general second in rank in the
revolutionary war to prove that Wash
ington was equal to the official position
he held, and that,as a private gentleman,
he was entitled to consideration and re
spect. Some gossiping babbler once told La
Fontaine, the fableist, that a certain cap
tain was too intimate with his wife, and
that he must fight him. Buckling on his
sword he encountered the officer, told him
his object, and announced his intention of
fighting him. The officer disarmed the
poet, and, assuring him of the ridiculous
ness and falsehood of the rumors, said if
he was the cause of so much trouble he
uould come to his house no more. The
officer's conduct so pleased La Fontaine
that he immediately declared that come
he must, and if he did not he surely
would fight him. Caglistro, the quack
and charlatan of Louis XV's time, was
challenged by a physician. The renowned
professor of legerdemain pioposed that,
it being a medical duel, it be settled me
dicinally; that the parties swallow two
pills.oue poisonous,the other innocuous. It
is needless to baj the duel was off.
Marquis De Teutauiac, from Brittanny,
once challenged the whole pit of a theatre.
Stepping from behind one of the shove
scenes of the stage he shouted out some
thing which the pit hissed. Advancing
to the footlights, in the full gaze of the
audience, he said: "Ladies and gentle
mcn,with your permission a piece will be
pei formed to-morrow, 'The Insolence of
the Pit Criticised,' by Marquis De Teu
tauiac, in as many acts as may be de
sired." No one responding, the crack
brained duelist was removed.
Prince Delgoroucki challenged ax old
Russian general named Zus', and at the
same moment the Swedish artillery was
heard, and news came that the enemy
were attacking a redoubt. The two at
once engage in their duel by standing in
their embrasure till one or the other was
struck. The Prince was cut in two by
a cannon ball, and the general made a
masterly retreat. Count De Tolstey and
a naval captain fought. The latter in
sisted on a naval duel, and proposed that
they sieze each other and jump into the
water. The Count said he could not
swim ; the captain charged him with cow
ardice, and rudely seizing him, jumped
into the sea. Both were tescued, but the
captain's injuiies were so severe that he
died a few days after.
Perhaps the most ridiculous story is
that told of General Putnam of revolu
tionary wolf-fame, known as "Old Put."
During the French war he was challenged
by an English officer. He proposed that
each sit on a keg of powder, into the
bung of which was lighted a fuse. After
the fuse got well under wray, aud the
flame was uncomfortably near the hole,
the officer ran. "Hold on, my friend ; it's
only onion-seed!" Geutlemcn of the
cloth have not always been slow to resent
injuries. De Retz doffed his cowl and
priestly robes, and showed himself mas
ter of the fence and thrust as often as oc
casion required.
Purified Love. All men and women
must love something. If our thoughts
are pure we love birds, flowers, and all
beautiful things. In their contemplation
we are happy, and there comes to our
brain a steady strength. It is such a
rest from labor to look upon the fragrant
flowers placed each morning oritur desk
to hear our pet canary sing his rounde
lay of welcome to behold evidences of
thrift and neatness all about, as these
children of order and system reward the
senses. It is related of a man that he
called his wife, who was a hundred pounds
heavier than he, his little darling his
petite pet. People smiled at him because
they did not understand his actuations.
He held a warm, trusting, loving heart, a
great, manly love all about the object of
that love, and so she was his little pet
his darling. We are like chameleons, and
color as we feed mentally. If we love
the beautiful, we are happy. I'f we love
the coarse, the vulgar, the objects or in
fluences that give no sweet return, life
becomes a blank, the soul cracks and
shrinks into a bundle of nailrods to lacer
erate the mental man, and we are on the
direct road to ruin. What a beautiful
world this would be, if all persons would
only ornament their homes and their
hearts by cultivating and keeping alive
their love for pets, no matter what their
form or condition 1
-Texa's growsworse and1 worse. Three
years from now it expects to have twenty
Congressmen.
Adornment.
"It was one of those pretty 'houses,
surrounded by shrubbery and flowers,
about which almost every passer re
marked, 4Oh ! how I should like to live in
that pretty house!' " Such is the descrip
tion of a house we l&ve in our mind's
eye, and it could be true of almost every
farm-house in the land, did the occu
pants only will it so. A few flowers, a
little grass and a few shrub, all well
cared for at a trifling expense of nu-ney or
labor, and the thing is done. A little
care each day would keep everything
neat and in order, and a little thought
each week would regulate that care to
the best advantage. We do not live in
this world for ourselves alone; but for
the whole world. Upon this principle,
we know a woman who always keeps a
light in the front rooms of her house
ever- winter night because, as the says,
"we not only have the waini glow ot it
ourselves, but to every passer-by it gives
out a cheerful message which produces
in his imagination a picture of comfort
and happiness within. So it is with the
adornments around the house. They not
only give enjoyment to their possessors,
but to everyone who passes they send a
message of thrift, refinement, and hap
piness, which should alone be sufficient
compensation for the little labor and ex
pense they may cost.
Ve remember once passing through a
little village in whicn almost every house
was sui rounded with flowers, shrubs and
vines, and which left upon our mind an
ineffaceable impression. Though nearly
twenty years have passed since then, we
still think of it frequently with pleas
ure. Could the occupants of thote pret
ty village places only know of this, they
will doubtless feel amply repaid for all
their trouble. In all your calculations
on the profits of your crops, by all means
fail not to include your ciop of house
hold adornments. The profits on your
grain may be lasting, probably will not;
but the profits on your puie, God-given
pleasures, though not counted in dollar.
and cent?, can never vanish.
Advice to Office Seekers. The
other day 1 heard a cabinet ministei
talking to a young man wlm wanted a
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place. "My young frieud,f said he,
"don't apply. Saw wood, drive cows,
an thing honorable, but preserve your
independence. I have-a man in my de
partment who has been in forty years.'"
"Forty years?" "Yes, every day of it.
He came in 1S3G. Well, he gets about the
same salary he had to commence with.
The other day he came to me, saying:
4I ought to have died forty years auo.'
'You don't mean that,' I said. 'Yes,
said he, 'I mean that. I have been
buried in this building forty years, and
I had jut as well been buried in the
grave. What's the difference between
tombs? Of what advantage have I been
to myself in here? I had nothing when
I came in, and have got nothing now. 1
am disqualified for auything. If I wa
turned out to day, I would starve to
morrow.' " So much for government
position that young men are so anxious
to get. They had better let it alone.
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