Artemas Ward On The War

■Not many more cute things havo beoii id 3n the politioal managers of tlu Wfl-J' than the followir.g, which ocaurs ín Af' temus Ward's famous lecture on 'Bhögti1: The last subject of wbich I tboaghfc was the war, Wheu I was an appreatioe to the printing business, in liew Hampshire, having had a controversy witb my employer, I ran away. I had no money, and oouïd not beg, bo I cailed at a farm-house and Asked if they had any clocka to niend. ïhey said yes, and wished I would fix ií. I took the clock to pisees, ate my diuüsr, and then looked at the table, where ay the couutless wheels. j kuew that I oever could put that clock together agaje. So I told the folkg I was dizzy, and would go out and get some fresh air, and I fled across the ineadows like the bright-eyed gaeüo, or anything else that goes juick. Those politicians who went to vrork to take the Union clock to pieces to get their dinners, never meaut to put it together again. They have stolen their dinner, but they will not restore the elock. I haven't told you much about the ghosts, and it is so late now thatthere is not time. - But I shail speak in San JYanpisco in about four weeks írom thia timo, and all wbo hold tickets to this lepturo will be adipitted free, f3P lveading maketh a full man; conference a ready man, and writing an esnct man; and, therefore, if a man writo little he hath need have a great meinoi-y: if he conier little he hath need have a present wit; and if he ï'eacl little, he hath need hava much punnínfü to seetn to knovv what he dotlj notknow. - Bacon, 53P The last best fruit, which eomes to hite peffeetion even in the kindliest soil, is, tendoraess towards the hard, forbearance towards the unforbeariüg, warmth ot' lieart towards the cold, phildüthropy towards the philanthropic. . ui wir--