'is trouziz!"



_One of Lincoln's Little Notes_

President Lincoln once wrote to General McClellan, when the latter
was in command of the army. General McClellan, as is well known,
conducted a waiting campaign, being so careful not to make any
mistakes that he made very little headway. President Lincoln sent
this brief but exceedingly pertinent letter:

"_My Dear McClellan_: If you don't want to use the army I should like
to borrow it for a while."

"Yours respectfully,
A. LINCOLN."



_Fair Play_

A group of drummers were trading yarns on the subject of hospitality,
says "Lippincott's Magazine," when one of them took up his parable
thus:

"I was down in Louisiana last month travelin' cross country when we
kinder got lost in a lonesome sort of road just about dark, and when
we saw a light ahead I tell you it looked first rate. We drove up to
the light, findin' 'twas a house, and when I hollered the man came