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All these things they may dream Of
but they don't. Not one In hundred is
thinking about Fort Constitution or Fort
Clinton, or Washington or kosciusko
who engineered 1t all, or Of the chain or
tho boom, or Benedict Arnold. What they
do dream of no one knows, but n shrewd
guess would DO very likely to strike pic.
ture of army life In welded bliss in some
fort, not q fort about which there are half
breeds and Indians, cowboys and cut
throats, but fort where all the guns
shine and martial music always sounds ms
delightfully."- as the strains coming from tho
West Point band across the "plain," q
fort around which there are beautiful
walks like Irritation" where they will
stroll and pick wild flowers. Here they
fancy n life with all the pleasures of peace
and all the fascinating accessories of war
But at last the season Is over; the cadet
goes back TO barracks or alone to his post
ON the frontier. And the girl Alas, IT.
is practical age, Most often sho Coos
back to her home, marries II broker or pork
packer, and settles in "stone front, 4"
though sometimes she realizes enough Of
the dream to go With the cadet to his fort
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ton. On May 81 BIsHoPW. A. LEONARD
1871, being then a little less than 20
years of age, he was ordained deacon by
Bishop Williams, at Middletown, Conn,
and on July 2l 1872, at Stamford, Conn.
tho Same bishop ordained him q priest.
While a deacon he served as assistant to
Rev. G. II. Hall, Of Holy Trinity church,
Brooklyn, the church which he attended as
youth and Of which his father was war.
den. Shortly after his ordainmcnt in 1872 no
became rector of the Church Of the Re
deemer In Brooklyn, and he continued TO
minister TO the spiritual wants OF that
congregation for nine years, refusing in
that time invitations from Toledo, st.
Louis and Chicago. He was in this time
lecturer and examiner of prominent
cathedral schools and chaplain Of the
Brooklyn Homeopathic hospital and Of
the Twenty third regiment, ". @. s. N. Y.
In 1870 he received the degree Of bachelor
Of divinity from st. Stephens college,
New York. In 1880 Dr. Leonard founded
and inaugurated the Brooklyn Free Ii
brary. In the same year he was made
missionary bishop Of Washington terri.
tory, but he declined tho office.
In February, 1881 DR.. Leonard was
called to Washington TO take charge Of
one Of tho most fourlshing Episcopal
congregations in the capital city--that of
st. Johns church. He has been there
ever since that time, and has done much
good work. He has published book for
holy week-"Vla Sacra"-and has written
number Of magazine and newspaper
articles. In April, 1878. DR.. Leonard
married Miss Sarah Sullivan, Of Brooklyn,
N. Y. His election to the bishopric was
n complete surprise to DIR. Leonard. He
was in doubt about It's acceptapce at first
but he has practically announced now that
he has come TO favorable conclusion.
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What II Really Means.

Did you ever think what it really means
to be tramp No home, no friends,
no work, no chance, nobody in all the
wide world to care whether You live, or
die in the cutters like dog. No heaven
for such vags to Inherit no decent grave
to hide them out of sight; no opportunity
To be anything, and no hand stretched out
TO give the greeting or the good by Of
love, Nobody TO feel an interest in you,
whether your bones ache from cold or
your skin cracks with fever. No spot in
all tho world to call your own, not even
the mud wherein your wandering foot.
step leaves its tleeting mark; no prospect
ahead, and no unbroken link TO bind you
to the past. A name like a curse to blight
every hope of manhood, and a reputation,
like ball and chain on your leg, TO hin.
der the way to any good accomplishment.
tell you, when we sit right down TO it,
and figure out what 1t really means 10 be
tramp, | guess we will not find it so
easy to withhold a piece of bread and
cup OF coffee next time one calls at our
door, Amber" In Chicago Journal.
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OLD CHAIN,

1 Ol.D ChhlN.
with diagram showing position Of chain and
I boom across the Hudson
obstacle, though the weight Of a modern
iron clad would probably cut it as IL it
were thread The chain and tho boom
were both removed in the winter, when
the tide carried the ice back and forth.
Ind when no such obsGuctions would
hold against the great cakes of ice and
none were needed.
= These obstructions held TIE river e.
the Americans, and West Point was dur.
Ing the whole period the key to the pas.
sage way between the northern and the
southern states. There was always a
considerable force kept there--at least for
that time-and Washington was fre.
Quently there himself. At the time of the
birth OF the Dauphin Of France, an order
was Issued TO celebrate the day in honor
OF the allies who were supporting the
states in their struggle against the king
An evergreen arcade was erected on the
plain" and on the very spot where Grant
Sherman, Sheridan, Meade and others have
since paraded about with a musket, Wash
ington led off dance with Mrs. Gen.
Knox. -
Tho academy was not born; IL was
evolved. After the revolution the ar
tillery was grouped into regiment and
the engineers into corps, and the head
quarters were at West Point. Cadets
were attached to each corps for instruc-
tion. In 1902 there were three professors
or Instructors, butthere were few to teach
and little TO teach them with. Congress
paid no attention TO the matter, and
Thomas Jefferson doubted whether the
government had constitutional authority
70 establish an academy, and the embryo
eraalo Of heroes came very near being
snnfisd out altogether.
However, the cradle kept a.rocking,
"nsn- during the first fifteen years Of
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ferred TO Baltimore city as the assistant
of Mgr, McColgan at St Peters church.
In 1866 he was commissioned by Arch
bishop Spaulding to establish congrega-
tion on the western outskirts of the city.
The results of his work for over twenty
years In this field are a beautiful church,
one Of the largest congregations of Balti.
more, and many excellent schools and
church societies, He is president of vari
Gus organizations of his church. He was
the public secretary for the last Plenary
council and he made all the arrangements
for the elaborate ceremonies in connection
with the comforting of the beretta upon
cardinal Gibbons. He is one of the car.
dinal's most intimate friends, and lie has
several times been prominently men.
TONED for bishop. No Clergyman in Balti-
more is better known or more highly es-
teemed, and his appointment is warmly
commended
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has been in Irish journalism DO correspon-
dence so widely read, no signature so
widely familiar and so deservedly popular
as that of Trans atlantic" and there has
been no writer so cordially hated by the
enemies of Ireland and so much looked up
70 by that country's friends. His letters
to Tho Irish World have always been
widely quoted, aud their brilliancy were
hpplauded on both sides of the Atlantic.
His extraordinary length of life (Which he
attributed TO his abstention from
alcohol and tobaccol, enabled him TO
read the signs of the times with a COM
prehensibility which rarely misled him,
Ind the solid aud telling work which he
performed for his country during his
ninety years can scarcely be overesti-
mated. His intellect remained clear to
the last, and he continued writing news
paper articles almost 20 his death.
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JoHHsoN's suor AS IT NOW APPEARS.

JoHNsoN's SHOP As IT NOW APPEARS
The trip had no such effect, and he was
made governor of Louisiana with head
quarters at st. Louis. One day he went
down the Mississippi TO Memphis, or
where 1t now stands, and started for
Washington on the Natchez trail. A
friend accompanied him. believing him to
be In suicidal frame of mind. One night,
while stopping at the home of Mrs Grin
der, pistol shot was heard and Meri-
wether Lewis was found dead with bul.
let through his brain. The old Natchez
trail runs near Columbia. 1t was built
by the government in lS0l-2, and was the
route Of Gen. jackson when he disobeyed
the secretary of war and went down to
Pensacola TO thrash the Spaniards It
was also used by Aaron Burr when he
went to see Jackson at his home.
The new arsenal will doubtless be 10.
rated on Duck river, 1t was located at
Columbia ON account of the city being the
center of an immense productive area and
natural supply center during the war
Fort Meisner was located on the top of
Pit. Parnassus, in the center Of the city,
but neither force fought for il. occupying
1t alternately to secure supplies Today
the fort is gone and the mountain has
been followed out for a stand pipe and
reservoir of the city water works Colum-
bia has demonstrated that cotton can be
manufactured at the point of supply with
profit, since its factory has recently de.
clared an annual dividend Of 10 . per cent.
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rs history. there were but few infant
prodigics Of war 20 be rocked. After that
the academy took start, and under tho
management Of its first superintendent,
Col. Thayer, became at once an excellent
institution. Little Is left Of the buildings
In which the cadets, who were there be.
tween 1902 and 1850, slept and ate and
rested The old South barracks and North
barracks and mess hall have passed away,
and in their stead have risen buildings Of
a more modern appearance and more dur.
able. Books, philosophical Instruments,
relics, portraits Of West Points great
generals, are now collected in these build
ngs, while without more than one monu-
ment has been erected 10 point TO her
past. A soldiers life is made up OF long
periods Of quiet, broken by intervals Of
Intense activity. His peace is more peace.
full, his activity is more active than that
of other men ID Is these brief periods OF
activity when the eyes of all have been
turned upon the sons Of West Point, that
have suddenly lifted them 70 tower over
those educated by other methods and for
pther paths. Most Of the regular officers
who participated In the Mexican war were
young and held low rank. II was only
when the civil war came on that names
Of those who had been entered on the
academy books as boys suddenly shone
out with dazzling brilliancy and passed
directly into history. II is this that has
given West Point, though but youth In
comparison to many American univcrsi.
ties, niche in history so much larger. or
at least filed with figures so much more
brilliant, than her rival institutions Of
learning. -.
For many years during the month Of
June there has been n gathering Of
strangers at West Point. Ii began by a
congregation Of the relatives OF the cadets
who were passing through their gradual.
ing exercises. Then West Point became
n summer resort, and for thirty years her
hotels have been filled with Young girls
and their mammas who attend them to
this paradise for women under 20. Those
who are attracted by the Military academy
go TO the West Point hotel, built very
near the spot where stood Fort Clinton
There on tho piazza the young girl dreams
away the summer afternoons with some
youngster who, with shinRled head and
wasp waist, has been given a short leave
Of absence for the purpose. There they
listen 90 such sounds as fon. over the
plain--the handling Of muskets, the roll
ing over the ground Of artillery, or tho
tramp Of horses in drill the strains Of
martial music. They may dream Of the
old chain and boom of Fort Constitution,
the site of which Is in view directly across
the river, and fancy they can see tho
antique looking Continental sentinel
pacing back and forth; Of Fort Putnam up
on tho hill. with its magazines once full
Of pork and powder, now a ruin.
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AT FAIR COLUMBIA.
AN ARSENAL WILL SHORTLY BE
ESTABLISHED THERE.

Hero Lived Two Men who Were After
ward Presidcnis--James X. Poik's law
Omce--Andrew Johnson's Tailor shop.
Tepneseec's Intellectual Center.
Columbia, Tenn, the home Of many
great men in times past. has recently been
thrust into prominence by She presidents
signature to bill for the construction
there Of mn arsenal for the storage, dis.
bursement, repairs and, In time. the manu-.
facture Of arms. The sudden and warlike
bristle Of the intellectual center Of the
state has not only startled tho town itself,
but Tennessee at large Here were To-
Gated the two most famous female schools
In the south, the AthenHum and the lnsti-
tute, almost contenarians. Here, too, tho
religious denominations OF the state had
recently organized the Tennessee Chautau.
qua under Dr. Edward Warren Clark, OF
the University Of Toxic, to open June 20,
when came the news of the innovation.
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Folks LAW OFFICE as rr ArEARED
WHEN TOXIN DOWN.
Office all covered with signs and occupied
by cobblcr. In other years II had served
Rs a law Office for President james X.
Polk. Upon tue hill. few squares away,
ttill stands the modest house he lived in,
and out six miles TO the west Is the
grand old farm whcro the Polks sur
passed the world in hospitality. The old
mansion Is burned down, but the
church is In eSistouCc which tho family
built for their own and the worship Of
their guests, In looking over tho old
records 1t Is found that Stnnley Matthews,
now n supreme court judge, while prac-
ticing law, kept an inn at Columbia and
was directed by The council not to sell
more liquor on Sunday than was neces.
Rary, IL also recorded that Thomas II.
Benton, local prll titioncr. was fined 81
for swearing IN opcn court. still he lived
to transcribe the events of thirty years In
the United States senate. Not far away,
in one out corner of the county on
lonely hill, a simple monument marks the
last remains of Moiwothcr Lewis, the
head of the Lewis and Clark exploring cx-
tedition.
Local tradition states that he was the
protege and intimate friend of Thomas
Jefferson, and on account of his great mel.
ancholy the president sent him on this
two years exploration tour. hoping TO cure
him
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kprinkling Of the practical thrown In, by
which soldiers are made. Once q year
bome half hundred Of these young men
hre turned loose, some to go at once into
civil life, some 10 spend few years in
Isleepy forts and garrisons, and then
mako break for activity, while others,
after passing n lifetime In the military
bervice. ut 64 are retired with the rank of
major or lieutenant colonel If they are
very fortunate they may reach TO the com.
mand Of regiment position attained
in war time by many youngster Of 23 or
"a years Of age.
| Much interest attaches to West Point
beyond that felt in the Military academy.
Every schoolboy fingers over tho story Of
ARNOLD and Andre, 'Gustavus" and John
Anderscn," and the three Continentals
who captured Andre, and their noble self
kacrifce IN not selling their country for
The yellow metal. Perhaps not one in
kwenty who have read the story Of Ar.
holds treason, of the capture and execu-
ZION Of an accomplished young British
bfhcer, really understands the strategic
Importance Of West Point to both tho
British and the Americans during the
revolutionary war.
At the time Of this struggle the Hud
bou's river, as IL was then called. was the
main artery Of communication linking the
houfhern. the middle and New England
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CURE OF
CANCER and ULCERS.

Judge 7. G. McIendon writes 70 the Swift
Specific Co, Atlanta, Ca, under date OF Feb
ruary II, 1855; 4" About three years ago. Jerry
Bradley, colored man. had a cancerous sore
on his face. near the right eye. II caused
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OF the eye. but wns finally cured of the cancer
by the use of swlft's Specific. This case 10
wellknown In Wilkes Co.. Ga. where he lived
tnear Danburyl and Of this case. !. myself.
had personal knowledge"
Mr.. L. Coz. of Arkabutls, Tate Co., Miss.
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Mr.. q. w. Pettis, OF Akin, s. O., writes: II
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Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
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rne I.a,. ar. InoInpson,

Rev. Edwin Thompson, one of the origi.
nal anti-slavery agitators of New Eng
land who died recently at East Walpole.
Mass, was born at Lynn, Mass, of
Quaker parents, in 1909. His sympathies
were aroused in the anti slavery cause
when n very young man. Being a good
stump speaker, with a good fund of anec.
dotes, he soon became prominent as an
itinerant preacher against slavery, and
was elected secretary of the Anti Slavery
society Of Lynn. He was also member
of the Mnssnchnsnii . Anti Sin ,n,.,, rr,nio...
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He was advised
by Wendell Phil.
ips to devote
himself to ne
cause, While
speaking in New
Bedford the cele-
b rated ex slave
Fred Douglass lis.
tened, and was
induced by Mr..
'Ihompson's elo.
quence TO bestir
himself in behalf
OF his race. The
efforts of Mr..
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- IHVIHPsOH HTOSe
from pure sympathy with the slave. lie
spoke without pay and travelled at his own
expense.
Mr.. Thompson was a member of the
'convehaos which formed the first TEN.
ance society, IN Essez county, Mass, and
he was also interested IN the first total
abstinence movement in the state. and
was connected with the first society of
that cause organized in the state, the
Massachusetts, Temperance union.
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BISHOP Or DETROIT.
Rev. John s. Foley, Who Was Recently
AuppiuteI

Rev, John $, Foley, d. D.. the new
bishop of the diocese of Detroit, has for
number OF years been one of the best
known and most successful clergymen In
the Catholic church He was born In 1912
His family is one Of the most prominent
of Baltimore, and his brother was the late
Bishlp Thomas Foley. of the diocese of
Chicago. 1t is exceedingly rare that two
bishops are taken from the same family,
but the Foleys are exceptional people,
both In standing and mental capacity.
Father Foley began to study for the
priesthood at Mt. st, Mary's college, EN-.
mitsburg, Md, After completing the
course there he went to Rome, and fin.
ished at Apollinaris college with the do.
gree of ID, d. Returning to this country.
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Phillips academy.
Andover. Mass ,
st. Stephens col.
legc, Annandalc,
N. r., and Berk .
ely Divinity
school, Middle.
town, Conn. On
the completion Of
his course Of the
illogical study he
W ent a br o n d ,
where he travelled
a great deal and
com plcted his
general ed u ca
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he took charge of
the missions at
Canton, Port De.
post, Havre de
Grace and South
ern Maryland, and
increased I h c IN
wonderfully by
his activity. He
was then given
C h arge of the
church at Elliott
City, Md, where
his success was so
pronounced that
L. .,a.
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Columbia is city Of 5000 inhabitants,
located In the center Of the famous Blue
Grass region, from which cmanate the
fastest horses, the sleekest mules and the
fattest cattle. An old butcher shop
stands on the main street which was
formerly occupied by tailor of the name
Of James n. Shelton. Here was nm ap.
prentice Of the name OF Andrew Johnson,
who daily worked al the goose. Mrs.
Shelton taught him the alphabet and
looked after his welfare Having learned
the alphabet and the uses Of language. he
entered politics and became an alderman
In after years when the assassination Of
Lincoln elevated him to the presidency,
Andrew Johnson annually remembered
with gift the old lady, Mrs. Shelton,
who died several years since. About the
time OF her death Columbia wanted
hotel of size. One of the buildings IL
tore down to make room was an ancient
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BISHOP OF sovrneaN ONO.
Rev. william A. Leonard. Who Hss ne.
eeived the Appotntuneut.

ceived the Appointment.
Rev. William A. Leonard, who has been
elected Episcopal bishop Of southern
Ohio, was born In Southport, Conn,
July II, 1S4S. His grandfather, Hon.
Stephen D. Leonard. vas prominent
member Of congress, during the jackson
and Van Bureh administrations. His
father was for many years before his re.
cent retirement from business banker Of
some prominence In Brooklyn. lie is now
a resident Of that city.
Rev. w A. Leonard WINS educated nj
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PHIL SHERIDAN'S DASH.
HIS PERSONAL APPEARANCE DURING
The EARLY DAYS or THE WAR.

Lost Under Haiieck, Bueil and Rosecrsns
In the west-A Gagged Tiser-The Very
Incarnation Of BsttIs-JThe Northern
stobewail jackson.
Gen. Phil Sheridan always had about
him more OF the dash, more Of the mag
nctism Of general than any Of the others
who In the end came out the great leaders
of the war. For the first three years Of
the struggle he occupied subordinate posi-.
tions, and his tranAition from captain
and quarterInaster TO one Of the three
most prominent leaders Of the war was
even greater than that of Gen Grant, from
colonel Of volunteers TO general In chief.
As division commander In the west
Sheridan was never heard Of but he seems
to have attracted the attention Of Grant,
for II was Grant who called him from the
west to take command of the cavalry
forces Of the Army Of the Potomac.
When Sheridan was commanding a di.
vision In the Army Of the Cum berland he
was not the stocky person he was after.
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proportions t h at
IT h as ven
brought over the
greatest of politi-
cal parties and
the most illustri-
bus British states
man to the de-
inand of Ireland
for national self
government. In
I h i 5 generation,
md sp ecially
during the past
fifteen years, there