THAT GAMBLING SPIRIT.

Evening Star, Issue 15074, 4 January 1913, Page 2

THAT GAMBLING SPIRIT.

The Rev. Joseph H. Twite hell, for nearly fifty years pastor of tile Asylum Hill Congregational Church in Ha'nford, United Stales, saw three years of service in the Civil War as chaplain nf the Seventy-first New York Be-girr.ent. In the course of his sen-ice ISTr 'lVitchcil's -experience*? were, of course, manv and varied: One-of them, of a serio-comic nature, has (fays the. New York ' Sim '! been recently made, public. After a certain light the surgeon told the chaplain • that one poor fellow ws*. quite beyond hope. The chaplain leaned ever the dying soldier. "Well, my dear fellow," he began in a voice of deep emotion, " you are very badly wounded, and if you have anything to eay or any word that you want sent to your family tell me. now." The- poor fellow understood. "Mv inside coat pocket," he breathed painfully. The chaplain felt a pocket book tjiere unci took it out. "Is that what you want?" "Yes," was the faint reply. "Open it." , . " Hers is a lOdol bill. Is thai vrhat you want?" ■■' "Yes." "What shall I do .villi it?" Then the soldier said in a. whi?p«r: "Bet you that'that I don't die." And he did not.

There are three chapels in 'the United Kingdom known as Chapels Royal—one at St. James's Palace, one at Hampton Court Palace, and the Chapel of the. Savoy. The first two are governed by a dean—usually the Bishop of London—who acknowledges no superior but the reigning sovereign. In Siam, when there is a question at law between two parties and a scarcity of witnesses to establish the truth in the case, it is customary to resort to the water test. Both parties are required to dive simultaneously into deep water, and the one that stays the longest tinder is adjudged tha truth-teller,'and'gets..the verdict.