d I guess you
will have to put me in the army.'

"The President looked up from his work and said, good-humoredly:
'I'm making generals now; in a few days I will be making quartermasters,
and then I'll fix you.'"

NO POSTMASTERS IN HIS POCKET.

In the "Diary of a Public Man" appears this jocose anecdote:

"Mr. Lincoln walked into the corridor with us; and, as he bade us
good-by and thanked Blank for what he had told him, he again brightened
up for a moment and asked him in an abrupt kind of way, laying his hand
as he spoke with a queer but not uncivil familiarity on his shoulder,
'You haven't such a thing as a postmaster in your pocket, have you?'

"Blank stared at him in astonishment, and I thought a little in alarm, as
if he suspected a sudden attack of insanity; then Mr. Lincoln went on:

'You see it seems to me kind of unnatural that you shouldn't have at
least a postmaster in your pocket. Everybody I've seen for days past has
had foreign ministers and collectors, and all kinds, and I thought you
couldn't have got in here without having at least a postmaster get into
your pocket!'"

HE "SKEWED" THE LINE.

When a surveyor, Mr. Lincoln first platted the town of Petersburg, Ill.
Some twenty or thirty years afterward the property-owners along one
of the outlying streets had trouble in fixing their boundaries. They
consulted the official plat and got no relief. A committee was sent
to Springfield to consult the distinguished surveyor, but he failed to
recall anything that would give them aid, and could only refer them to
the record. The dispute therefore went into the courts. While the trial
was pending, an old Irishman named McGuire, who had worked for some
farmer during the summer, returned to town for the winter. The case
being mentioned in his presence, he promptly said: "I can tell you all
about it. I helped carry the chain when Abe Lincoln laid out this
town. Over there where they are quarreling about the lines, when he was
locating the street, he straightened up from his instrument and said:
'If I run that street right through, it will cut three or four feet off
the end of ----'s house. It's all he's got in the world and he never
could get another. I reckon it won't hurt anything out here if I skew
the line a little and miss him."'

The line was "skewed," and hence the trouble, and more testimony
furnished as to Lincoln's abounding kindness of heart, that would not
willingly harm any human be