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Includes relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, and the railroad network.
Map of northern United States from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Ocean showing reliief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, forest and timber, Indian and military reservations.
Map of the western United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, and the railroad network coded by color. Shows lines as reorganized by Edward H. Harriman after the business depression of 1893. It was incorporated again in 1897 and assumed operation February 1, 1898.
Was it Providence A True Story of the Civil War It was in September ltj2 just before that terrible slaughter known as the bat tle of Autietam It was a time when tlie whole world looked on and held its breath The contending armies of the North and the South were about to meet iu a conflict that would go down iu history as one of the great battles of the world There arc those w ho remember how the old Iron Brigade went down as did the famous six hundred in its historic charge at Balak lava how but a remnant remained of that devoted band of heroes and that memory must be filled with horror as they recall the awful loss of precious lives One of the survivors of this Iron Brigade I believe but seven answered the rollcall after the hattle whm before it tin brigade was almost complete con sisting of two legimeuts the Sixth and Seventh Wisconsin Infantry then a mere boy of seventeen summers tells of a most remarkable incident which is the subject of this narrative and from the writers personal knowledge of the man there is no doubt of its truth The
Suggestions for Kindergarten Reform j 1 would like to see organized a work of rescue to deliver the modern kindergarten from the metaphysicians aud to give it over to the philosophical hygienists who should make it everywhere and first of ail a palace of health The needed reforms in the kindergarten must of course come with deliberation enough to be suie A committee of ten or moie might help provided they were not kindergaitners but were wise and com petent although a badly appointed com mittee would do harm by confirming old piactices Let me confess frankly that I do not myself know at present just what should be done or just how this grade of education should be best organized One of my dearest w ishes is to have adequate means placed at my disposal to experi ment a few years or until I could present a scheme ot detailed work That this could now be done from data that are accessible is ceitain Great improvements an entirely piacticable A tew things 1 shall venture to indicate The body must be strengthened The activi ties should involve more body movements and the strain upon the hand aud eye should
NEWS OF THE WEEK Maim Mattkiis At a sheriffs sale last week at the granite works of the Maine iranite Co at Hewetts Island the property was disposed of Jo the fol lowing parties A C lay A Co a large hoisting engine Mathew Baird of New York a derrick w itli hoisting gear Hen i ry Sargent a derrick with hoisting gear and also several cars used to carry stone Jerry Harrington a steam hoisting en gine M A Johnson a steam hoisting engine Sherman A Hoverthe hoarding house The sale netted about 8000 William P Lennox aged To years one of the leading citizens of that section of the State died at his home in AAis casset May 2 For many years lie was president of the AViscasset Savings bank lie had held the office of county and town treasurer and was a promi nent merchant for yearsAVashbum Bros of Thomaston will huiklfor apt AVilliam 1 Lermond formerly in com mand uf the ship 1 l Thomas a four masted schooner with a carrying capac ity of 8000 tonsThe Androscoggin county Republican convention is called for June T An invitation has been ex tended Congressman Littlefield to ad
NEWS OF THE WEEK Maine Matteks A great section of the estate of the late Jen SamuelF i Hersey was w illed to the city of Bangor for edr rational use Eighteen years before the testator had made his will a committee of the city council called upon totix tiie valuation fixed the value of the timber lands which he devised in trust to Bangor at 810108842 Six teen years later and two years before by the terms of the will the property could be divided the state assessors placed tiie valuation at 835378187 or 31200343 more than tiie valuation lixed by tiie trustees of the estate and the city council committee It is not surprising that the city is taking steps to secure its right to tin timber lands At tiie annual meeting of tiie Wo mans Aid Society of the Eastern Maine General Hospital at Bangor May 13th these officers were elected for tiie com ing year Pres Mrs Henry Lord 1st vice pres Mrs IN B Denio 2d vice pres Mrs K W Sawyer treas Miss Mary 11 Men ill sec Miss Jennie 1 Pickering The reports of tiie officers showed the hospital to he in a
THE HUMOR OF POLITICS Some Good Stories Told of Public Men by Hon Joint J Ingalls Some of the very best stories of poli tics were contributed recently to the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post by ExSenator John Ingalls First he says Charles Sumner had no more sense of humor than a hippopotamus but there was something excessively hu morous about his colossal selfconscious ness of which it is no paradox to say he was apparently unconscious llis egotism was inordinately vast though innocent in its simplicity it was far from conceit and led to no dis paragement of his associates Indeed 1 doubt if lie ever instituted compari sons Probably Irant whom he hated and abused came the nearest to sizing him up when he said The reason Sumner doesnt believe in the Bible is because he didnt write it himself lie bad large intellectual powers but not so large as he imagined He had no inliuence on legislation He was un able to endure opposition If he could not have his own will he would do noth ing But this is not intended as an an alysis of his work or his character 1 started out to say that
MRS POMFRET MAKER OF GENIUSES Alclton T Hatch was almost a prodigy Indeed to one ordinarily versed in the distinctive marks of embryo genius be might have seemed prodigy pure and simple Two circumstances however kept him out of the infant phenomenon class he was as yet a prophet in his own country and Airs Ioutlet refused to give Him his standing It was not known among the Apville people just why Melton T was outside the pale of genius hut all understood there was some good reason so it seemed openly schismatic of Airs Ilanslomthe new tailors wifeto declare that the hoy teas a genius positively And when Airs Iontret was quoted by the opposition Airs Ilanslom had laughingly added that comets were always more or less inconvenient to celestial bodies of fixed habits and that a certain person could not hope to order the universe forever and to keep alw ays intact her neat little assortment of carefully graded stars This remark made at the sew ing circle traveled straight to the lonely ears of Mrs homfret as she watered her gladi olai and mignonette in the early morn ing pending the arrival of the milkman with the
LETTER FROM ITALY Ve have been permitted to publish the following letter from Miss Fannie J liver to her fattier and mother Mr and Mrs 1 IV 1 yer of this city under date of Siena Italy June 1 1MOO If one wishes to have an easy time in traveling it is best to go into a person lid y conducted party and let somebody else attend to tickets luggage and other details But if one w ishes to learn a good deal about foreign ways there is noth ing like depending upon ones self We find too that it adds a spicy of novelty not to understand the language This necessitates the use of considerable pan tomime and it ii surprising how much in formation can lie conveyed by signs and tlie mere sound f the human voice 1 always know vs l en Ive made a mistake in taking a wrong street for example after inquiring of the natives by the way they shout and gesticulate making the most frantic efforts to set me right Along the well traveled routes one has no difficulty because French and Kng lisli are everywhere spoken But we are journeying just now
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES In the June number of The Maine Central appears Robert Rexdales poem on Maine entitled Motherland with an excellent likeness of the writer The poem was originally delivered before the Maine Club at hieago and its reproduc tion lias a special interest in view of Old Home Week J T Whelpley having recently given affairs in Cuba thorough and careful investigation describes in the July Atlantic Cuba of ToDay and ToMor row showing what the Spanish rule w as w hat the Americans have been and are doing since taking possession and how difficult and delicate is Hie task before u to regenerate and educate the Cuban people and lit them for ultimate Seltgoernment As an exsclmolc unuffttee woman Martha liaker Dunn in the July Atlan tic tells many wholesome and some un palatable truths as to the general mis manmanagenient ol educational ptob lemsthe often dishearti dug treatment of public school teachers andthecon scieneciess demands generally if not universally made upon them The slightly humoroustone which pervades the silicic makes it easy and attractive reading while it is none the less out spoken mid emphatic as to the need of rciitm for many crying evils