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Gen Rufus Saxton I t > I THE WASHINGTON II E It AL D SUNDAY DEe EM BE R 9 1 9 06 i three shots from mY revolver pointblank- brigadier general in 1862 and brevetted NEW BOOKS AT LIBRARY- at you and never fazed you It was one major general in 1 He retired with April r of those shots that killed my sergeant the rank of brigadier general in The recommendation on tho part of Gen was captured that day also 1904 and since that time has boon living Frost ¬ the Commissioners that railways enter officers quietly at his beautiful home 1821 Six- BOOKSB- and lacking accommodations for on his Ing Washington be required to use THE WORLD OF GEN RUFUS SAXTON- friend of Frost he teenth street He works at times and having been a some- ¬ some form of smokeless traction In night captor memoirs which he hopes will add shared my bed and that thing to the history of his times Proba ¬ order not to disfigure the new union and captured rested together bly no man in Washington was more in ¬ station and the city generally directs Mrs timately acquainted with Mr and to subject of the electri- ¬ go making much attention the HECTOR FULLER A MEDAL OF HONOR VETERAN The qualities that to the Jefferson Davis than he and lie has fication of steam railways To furnish Y successful soldier arc various con- ¬ of interest to add to what is already t of a tho sources ot Information on this sub- ¬ one thing Is known of the personal side of the leader tinued Ge Saxton but enjoyed ject of current Interest the following must absolutely suppress of the Confederacy He has the ss Imperative he friendship of many of the great men of list of recent magazine articles has his feelings as to suffering or the cost I If his time lie counted Lincoln a personal been prepared The article by William Dreams hook are tacit n world and took rre know nd modestly hlH Ralcllers glory wore able do this and IUs mednJj bravely of war Grant was to and dear friend His memoirs ought to Maver Jr In the current Review of Arc a substantial world both pure and good wonBurrdll deemed no sacrifice too great to win vic ¬ make a highly valuable work and most Hound these with tendrils strong n llcnh and blood Reviews Is perhaps the most generally nail our Imnplne ivlll grow A fine and Inspiring example of the and I set about making the best defense tory for his country McClellan was too interesting reading Interesting Our pastime professional aoMier Is Gen Rufus Saxton possible wjth the limited means at my tenderhearted and It cost him dear I j Wordsworth MILLS and steam tracttecu BnstoeeriB MaeaaiM- who years continuous Con only men and once where my failed- CHILD LABOR HT BIte ¬ after sixtyone ot ind had 200 remember heart 2j 9i NOT lies long been a moot question wheLk MW serve a a fawdatfam et tit neuptoa1 dtaiefaa- In camp It cf Ilk rep Wve persoaaMr by flw rrvice in the army of Uncle Sam now these were poorly equipped and unused It was at Port Royal We were BaufajKawt1ri a Great Itattread ScteaUtts er inspiration or education Is the most adapted b at the age of eightytwo has retired to active service The key to the whole there and were constantly exposed to a Twelve Hours nt Night for 30 Cent rioAmerican April fl 36 p 3S Known French and Bogflsh btotgaptem Electric KaSways OeMfcr 3- prolific source of poetry Educated In from his labors Surrounded by many position I soon sw was a heavy bat ¬ galling shell flre from a Confederate and a Mile Walk Home Traction M Steam In his Confessions it will be recalls 1 TK9 April tOOt the reel sense of the word as we use it that Rousseau Mid not a little above friends asia blessed in his family he tery on Maryland Heights 20W feet above One night shell landed from the PMfedelphfe Public L d r Btoetrie HBgiiww manofwar a we Traction m Sieaa lUttways today Shakespeare WAS not neither was the conspiracies against him by men f spends his wellearned leisure indulging sea level Up these height there was no right by the side of my tent penetrated- By working two shifts a day leg Ma urine 22 568 Fck MS u Walt Whitman yet both rank high in letters who he thought were jealous roatI no climb rocky ex- ¬ got our money for 2 per cent Electric Tnetloii on the arnpton Railway A his taste fur reading in fathoming the animals could the the ground for some feet and then nearly every ¬ of him but even if this fact ia proved to p GradenvilU SckntMe American April 7 M06 the poetic galaxy Pretty of bridge in conning precipitous sides of the mountain but I ploded blowing me out of bed The shock In these words silk manufacturer p 3- have been true Is intricacies and up body at some period of his life seems to it still a little difficult over the memories of the past Glorious had strong ropes fastened to the guns was terrific and I did not recover from in the hard coal regions summod all Bkctridty M a MoUta Powor n Tnu Lies C to ae how it win tttrew say more gen- ¬ ¬ be moved like Silas Wogg to drop into and a thousand men dragged the heavy the reasons which result in the bar- L de Mora North Ataerfean K S S Ptay tle light on a personality which ba Mm memories they must be too Extending it tor a loqg time I thought it was of fitt1- verge so in ¬ ¬ but out of the thousands self drew back to the year 1815 when as a cadet 9inch Dahlgren guns with their ammu- about time to stop that sort of work and- barisms of the silk mill night shifts etrtctty for the edification of the wpefg M a Maths I wr en Trm LIBeL C spired the verse of quality endures and as a sop to his inordinate nition to their position in Battery Stan spoke to a young officer me ask- ¬ Throughout the hard coal field silk VanderbOt Jforth Anmfcan Ki TMa Dee that vanity at the Military Academy he first donned I under IK Js once while de- ¬ ton Once In position battery cpm up every ffloruiBtiatiOB of Wftnarn very slight But in a S a a the uniform which he was to wear with the ing him It be were willing to try and mills have been set in little Iammmr Traste j young- norpara Weekly So- fying all cornea some mended Bolivar ifeights London Heights reach the ship torpedo He toWn to advantage of the cheap Wacu 45dW ML Den the roles A volume of the sort much needed In onor through many a bitter fight mem with a at take i I seems from and all the approaches to Harpers Ferry because children are so ster who Maps in numbers this growing age of unfaUh aa xg DC iiks that tell of the friendship of Lln once expressed his willingness and I told labor and Bleetriacatioo of Steam Xaflways WQUam laT to have Gen Jackson made several night attacks- to men lay parents so very Indif- jr Beviow Beriewa Deeemhtr V9L p 7K the time of articulate utterance fancied conflict between modern aeteape oln Stanton Buchanan Grant Sher him gt his together and hi very cheap and tf ¬ on the position but we always repulsed j plans He got a and had his tor work their BlmtiiOmdea of tile sew Yet the gift in him and it comes seem- and ancient rrila1onl8 Reason te iruin and of Jefferson Davis and his oat ferent the manufacturers taVs 1ee1 ¬ 9t Lines flrtoHHic AMritaa Sopnleaint U c 3 ingly without the aid of schools or dog- hot by the Washington c1I = t faced wife who were proud to mills days and night and by wing the K9K- achola Fraa- t ma Such a youth has recently been SWali 4L A D D umber the young soldier among their machinery twice each day they got BteetriQrtoK the St Oalr TtaneL SefeBtitfc Anon The vohnsw te Ia caD Feb l7 discovered in Louisville Ky He to a boy examination into the rat tonal saitf yftflr- rix nds The sword fe laid away but- their money for 3 per coot list by Slut Bhrtric Trash Hattma is Grist Britain of ten quite normal in other respects sophfcal content of the nulMian bUMi i ie memories TWIStS with the sword All night Ions children stand the Ameriam friBptoMst and 9OOt lAtESt they say who together with hIs love for Starting with Kants generar cronslfl- r ut away Medal of Honor frames and work little children who tIcto saL is the awarded doqtrln of the unity ot apaOTecptioii fct sun In ItOS Large Etoetrie and Steam LwMoattoe SrJMtifli healthy outdoor sports carries with him o the soldier whose skill and energy should be in bed with the ¬ sonT aa basis American Snvftemtat Set B IlK j S M- a Jove of reading and hag been a haunt- the the of an rvfaUoa and beat back the leglohe of Jack- ¬ the Anthracite Strike Commission lractk Mtttjr uf alt knowing pro Sewall ecurtty fer JteBroaos Cacmt er of the public library He baa display- ¬ has canieA taa son and stopped at a crltfealSaiLnie what found Helen Stsaack a mite of agirl Utentare M4H UMM Ma- principle to its results not only as urocfa Stupendoua of ed a fondness for the books of Eugene Threatened to become a hostile Investment vlin for a year had been working Tnste Greater Sew efc fniiarMk- lag the eactetaice and pensonatity of God as AMriaan Sent n EM p a Field and James WhJtcomb RUes and but as relating to the other great of Washington- night shifts She gore her ace Troth CdMiMtKiM with ReJhtMh R Men funds the childverses of Stevenson but if these of the reUgtatt vo- toiled in > mentals Christian r flfveiu For twelve hours she Atieatie a 4 June nt pote Col and Brevet JtfaJ Gen Rufus Sax over a tulle of Following is a selection front the new have inspired him to become a iatlon incarnaUon immortality aalva this mill then walked which to his announced ambition there tion The whole treatise is predicated ton was born in Greenfield Mass Octo- For this books recently added to the Library barren fields to her home te little In the quality of his work to on the nod for an aye like the sysa ber 1 ISL He was not lire so many
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