The Ruling Passion

One oí the most peculiar incidente ! di ,t occurred during the wár is told by I Luke Brennañ, the one-legged veteran who conducta the pcst-offlce corner stand. Luke was in the battte of Perryville, Ojtober 8, 1862, and le'ft his leg on the field. He was taken to a church and huil on a bench. That night he was alone except that in owl siationed itself on a rafter and hooted at him. As it was a bird oL ill omen, Luke expected to die there. The next morning 200 wounded men were brought info the church. Luke was smoking a pipe and rnaking himself as comfortahle as he could be under ; the circumstances. A soldier shot through the breast was lai.i next to Luke, and a colloquy sprung up hetween them. "Where are you hit?" asked the dying man. "In the leg," replied Luke. "Where are you ?" "I ;:m shol through : can'i get well. May die any minute ; and, comrade, I want you to lo me a gret favor." "1 can'i move with my legs, but ii il is anything 1 can do, I will," said Luke. "I am dying and want you to let me havo the pipe you are smoking." Luke handed him the coveted pipe. "Anything else? Anv messages or that sort of thing?" "None; I want to stooke while 1 ani dyihg. That's all. Many thanks." The soldier raised his head, took a few strong whiffs at the tobáceo, and died with the pipe in his mouth. Once iieed, Dr. I'ierce's Pellets ave always in Javo-r. Speoiflc for eon.-! ipatiun, piles, bilioueness, and headacne.