The money was paid him, and peremptory orders were given that the suit be brought that day. After the client's departure, Lincoln went out of the office, returning in about an hour with an amused look on his face. Asked what pleased him, he replied, "I brought suit against ----, and then hunted him up, told him what I had done, handed him half of the $10, and we went over to the squire's office. He confessed judgment and paid the bill." Lincoln added that he didn't see any other way to make things satisfactory for his client as well as the other. =CONSCRIPTING DEAD MEN= Mr. Lincoln being found fault with for making another "call," said that if the country required it, he would continue to do so until the matter stood as described by a Western provost marshal, who says: "I listened a short time since to a butternut-clad individual, who succeeded in making good his escape, expatiate most eloquently on the rigidness with which the conscription was enforced south of the Tennessee River. His response to a question propounded by a citizen ran somewhat in this wise: "'Do they conscript close over the river?' "'Stranger, I should think they did! They take every man who hasn't been dead more than two days!' "If this is correct, the Confederacy has at least a ghost of a chance left." And of another, a Methodist minister in Kansas, living on a small salary, who was greatly troubled to get his quarterly instalment. He at last told the non-paying trustees that he must have his money, as he was suffering for the necessaries of life. "Money!" replied the trustees; "you preach for money? We thought you preached for the good of souls!" "Souls!" responded the reverend; "I can't eat souls; and if I could it would take a thousand such as yours to make a meal!" "That soul is the point, sir," said the President. =MAJOR ANDERSON'S BAD MEMORY= Among the men whom Captain Lincoln met in the Black Hawk campaign were Lieutenant-Colonel Zachary Taylor, Lieutenant Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, and Lieutenant Robert Anderson, all of the United States Army. Judge Arnold, in his "Life of Abraham Lincoln," relates that Lincoln and Anderson did not meet again until some time in 1861. After Anderson had evacuated Fort Sumter, on visiting Washington, he called at the White House to pay his respects to the President. Lincoln expressed his thanks to Anderson for his conduct at Fort Sumter, and then said: "Major, do you remember of ever meeting me before?" "No, Mr. President, I have no recollection of ever having had that pleasure." "My memory is better than yours," said Lincoln; "you mustered me into the service of the United States in 1832, at Dixon's Ferry, in the Black Hawk War." =SETTLED OUT OF COURT=