Bread Cast Upon The Water

It generally pays to Co a tellow creature a good turn even when there is no thought or prospect of a future profit. Fifteen years ago, in the winter of 1879-80, Congressman MiekJeJohn, of Nebraska, was a law student at Aun Albor. He expected to be a congressman., eventually, as do all the law students of the U. of M.i Irat his immediate prospecte were not flattering. He tlid not propose to slip iip thirough ony fault of his own and so he worked away night and day hobnobbing with Coke, sleeping with Blackstone and attending lectures by everybody. Presently, with the hai'd work and lack of exercise his liead went wrong and he becanie a victim of fever. Tliere were hundreds of aspiring young sawbones who were willing to practice on him but he had no friends to speak of, and was leffc to the tender miereies of a college boarding house with ali the racket made by the ircpressible inmatcs. Under these circumstances he had not a ghost of (i show for recovery. Very fortunntely for Mieklejohn. tliere was another law student, older than he. and a married man, who took pity on his condition and carried liini to his own house. The youiiff man was suffering from a eritical case of typkold fever, and the Oood Samaritan took him into his home, gave ihim the best of nursing and engaged competent physicians to i.-ikc pare of his pase. He slowly recovered froni the dread disease and finished Jüs course of study. The Good Samarltan went away and feil into evil ways. His natural desires were such that he should have been born a Musselman. It was i not his fault, poor man, that he was born dn the wrong environment, where the law says a man must get alang with one wife, and be thankful that ehe is not a termagant. Eventually he fonnd the restraint of ("hiistian laws too irksome and he started a modest sort of a harem. Then Jiis troubles began. His foolish liut faithful wife made a tearful protest and then surrendered to the inevitable ; but his later ventures were not so easily managed. The first thing the Good Samarltan knew he was held up to public scorn as an cxample of shocking depravity and became the defendant in one of the nastiest criminal cases in the history of the New York courts. Saltpeter and all the quibbles of the law could not save him from Sing Sing, and there he went. And the poor student, who was befriended 15 years ago, carne to the front with .all the power of his legal learning, and all the influence and prestige of his position as a congressman, and moved heaven and earth to secure a pardon for the Samaritan, no longer good. The Samaritaji is none other than Col. William B. Hayes, who was pardoned from Sing Sing prison a few days ago.-