3. The words of Lincoln seemed to grow more clear and more remarkable as he approached the end. His last inaugural was characterized by a solemn, religious tone, peculiarly free from earthly passion. Listen to his words:

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

4. Perhaps in no language, ancient or modern, are any number of words found more touching and eloquent than his speech of November 19, 1863, at the Gettysburg dedication.

After Edward Everett had delivered his masterly oration, President Lincoln rose and read the following brief address:

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation—or any nation so conceived and so dedicated - can long endure.

5. "We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We are met to dedicate a portion of that field as a final

resting-place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

"But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here; but it can never forget what they did here.

6. "It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us; that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

7. The audience admired "Everett's long oration, but at Mr. Lincoln's few and simple words they cheered, and sobbed and wept. When the President had ended he turned and congratulated the distinguished orator from the Old Bay State on having succeeded so well.

Mr. Everett replied with a truthful and real compli

ment: "Ah, Mr. Lincoln, how gladly would I exchange pages to have been the author of your

all my hundred twenty lines."

Time has tested the strength of this short, simple address. After more than one-third of a century, its glowing sentences are as familiar to the American people as household words.

THE LORD OF BUTRAGO.

Translated from the Spanish

BY JOHN C. LOCKHART.

"YOUR horse is faint, my king, my lord! your gallant horse is sick,

His limbs are torn, his breast is gored, on his eye the film

is thick;

Mount, mount on mine, oh, mount apace, I

mount and fly!

pray thee,

Or in my arms I'll lift your grace. Their trampling hoofs are nigh!

My king, my king! you're wounded sore, the blood

runs from your feet;

But only lay a hand before, and I'll lift you to your

seat;

Mount, Juan, for they gather fast! - I hear their coming

cry,

Mount, mount and ride for jeopardy—I'll save you, though I die!

"Nay, never speak; my sires, Lord King, received their land from yours,

And joyfully their blood shall spring, so be it thine secures; If I should fly, and thou, my king, be found among the

dead,

How could I stand 'mong gentlemen, such scorn on my gray head.

"Castile's proud dames shall never point the finger of disdain,

And say 'There's one who ran away when our good lords were slain!'

I leave Diego in your care; you'll fill his father's place; Strike, strike the spur and never spare! God's blessing on your grace!"

So spake the brave Montanez, Butrago's lord was he
And turned him to the coming host in steadfastness and

glee;

He flung himself among them as they came down the hillHe died, God wot! but not before his sword had drunk

its fill.

1. THE General's death was a great shock to Miss Jessamine, and her nephew stayed with her for some little time after the funeral. Then he was obliged to join his regiment which was ordered abroad.

One effect of the conquest which the General had gained over the affections of the village was a considerable abatement of the popular prejudice against "the military."

Indeed, the village was now somewhat importantly represented in the army. There was the General himself and the postman and the Black Captain's tablet in the church and Jackanapes and Tony Johnson and a trumpeter.

2. Tony Johnson had no more natural taste for fighting than for riding, but he was devoted to Jackanapes. And that was how it came about that Mr. Johnson bought him a commission in the same cavalry regiment that the