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 s'Lifs ofssmuel Chapman Armurons," Founder of Hampton InstItuts-New Issus of MT. HniberI's "Quelparte''- "Facts About Peat" - For.hco ming Books-MagazIns Notes.
 A strikingly interesting and valuable work, is the Life of Samuel Chapman Armstrong, g new book published by Doubleday, Page & Co.,, New York, written by MT. Armstrong's daughter, Edith Armstrong Talbot Mrs. Talbot has indeed made an exceedingly inter esting picture of the noble work in which Gen. Armstrong played pion- eer's part. Gen. Samuel Chapman Arm strong, it is well maintained, as the founder of Hampton institute, which trained Booker T. Washington and started the whole modern movement of manual training for the blacks, did more to bring about the transformation of the Negro and the Indian into use ful American citizens than any other one man. MT. Ar1nstrong's career was unusually varied and interesting. A general in the Union army at 20, he took an active part in the work of the freedman's bureau, and in the founding Of Hampton institute. Later and still fresh in mind was his valuable work for the Indians, while at the other end his boyhood in Hawaii supplies the bi ographer with picturesque material. That no life has previously appeared is due to his disreish for publicity, and his daughter penned the biographical study in the belief that had he thought it would strengthen single impulse for good or encourage a single strug- gler," he would have given his assent to such an undertaking.
 Armstrong's life was wonderfully aggressive and potential life for good He came of earnest, devoted Christian parents, who were missionaries for 30 years in the Sandwich islands, where he was born and reared. Armstrong; s father was man of strong character and unusual ability. He saw splendid fruits of his missionary labors, and when the country had become to large extent Christianized, he took part in various ways in helping to
 
 important public offices Young Armstrong came of good stock physically and morally, his fa- ther being Pennsylvania Scotch Irish, K his mother Massachusetts Puritan. The lad was full of vitality and courage. He revelled in the sports of his native Hawaii, which require strength, dexter ity and courage Nothing he wrote, t.:s lnanently popular than swimming in the great, deep mountain basins, of which Kapena Falls answered our pur- pose best. The great feat was to jump from the cliff, some forty feet, into the depths below, where we played like fishes A horseback tour around the island of Oahu was a great lark, with the races on the long, lovely seabeach and the nights at Kaneohe Kualoa and Waialua. It was exciting to jump into the cattle pen with lasso and catch young steer by the horns, while an other lassoed his hind leg and a third pulled him over and branded him. In a few moments he was released, and then race for the fence ensued to keep out of the way of his fury. Though we did r this a dozen times, I do not think that any one of us was ever hurt
 Young Armstrong received his early education at the Royal school at Puma hou, founded for the training of the young chiefs. Here he had for school mates Kalakaua and his sister Liliuo- kalani, each of whom came later to the throne. In 1855 this school was renamed Oahu college, and became an institution for higher learning, and here he prepar- ed for admission to Williams college, ot which institution his father was a grad nate. He came to the nited States ir 1860, entering the junior class of Will Hams in the winter of that year.
 He was graduated in the summer oi 1882 and at once entered the army be- ing commissioned captain in the 125tt New York volunteers. He served through the war, having been regularly promoted from captain through the va. rious military degrees to brevet briga- dier general. He was present at the surrender of Lee at Appomattox, and laterwass ssent in command of the Stl United States colored troops to the Mexican border to look after our bound. ary lines. The Republican insurgents were working for the overthrow o Maximilian, and it was thought best by our government to have small force of observation on the spot.
 Soon after the close of the war, Gen. eraI Armstrong entered the service ot the Freedman's bureau, and was sta tioned at Hampton, Va. Here his grea life work began. He had been only z twelvemonth in his new berth wher there began to grow in his minC thoughts of educational institutions fol the negroes" Soon after the war Hamp ton institute was founded, with the ait of the American Missionary association TO it's development General Armstrong devoted twenty years of his busy life ''two-thirds of his immense energe! were spent in getting money to carr, out the ideas that his brain was contin ually evolving. Between 1878 and 1S9 no less than IS large buildings, at cost of $423, 400 were erected and Gen eral Armstrong was obliged to rais yearly from $50,0OO to $SO,oOO to keep tn wolf from the door,
 General Armstrong died at Hampton May II, 1893. After military funera his body was laid, by his own request among those of his students, Negro ant Indian, who had died at the school, an, ,.l-- k. II IL.