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...Washington of a decade past was far less than that of the present day. Biographies containing new facts and exposing new angles have recently been written. The leader once considered the head of an ordered, unified whole has now become the great binding force in an aggregation of thirteen turbulent units. He is no longer the majestic, legendary figure of the old schoolbooks, but a human being with the usual quota of human frailities...
...while Lee was on leave at Arlington, a rabid Abolitionist named John Brown, with five Negroes and thirteen whites, stormed and captured Harper's Ferry Arsenal. Terror and violence were in the air. A small band of militia attacked; Brown held his own. The next day relief came, the U. S. Marines! At their head rode Colonel Robert E. Lee. The arsenal was recaptured. Brown, whose soul was to go marching on, was captured...
...Thirteen of those 15 grave men who have been directing the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. to crescent prosperity last week made themselves comfortable in the directors' room of the company's Manhattan suite and, having digested the predigested reports of the road's efficacy during the past year, made a decision which they knew would be pleasing to their stockholders who are to meet at Topeka, Kan., the last Thursday of this month...
WALT?Elizabeth Corbett?Stokes ($2.50). When Walt Whitman was seven years old he saw a shipwreck. "It made me shake, but I like to shake that way." When Walt was eleven Aaron Burr recommended the Arabian Nights to him. When he was thirteen Samuel Clemens told him of a Quaker preacher he had exhumed to make a death mask. Whitman shook again. By the time he was twenty he had successively been a typographer, reporter, editor, carpenter, novelist, teacher. A few months on a job and he shuffled off to another. He had such...
...Bishop Darlington specifies thirteen 'joys,' which he thinks should, when all is taken into account, make the ministerial calling attractive to a young man. Here are the thirteen, numbered in the order in which the bishop gives them: 1. The ministry is mentally stimulating; the minister keeps up with secular knowledge as well as with religious events. 2. It is physically attractive; pastoral calling means much fresh air, walking and driving a car. 3. It is spiritually helpful to the minister; building up the faith of others, he also builds up his own and so has few spiritual...