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...drove some time ago from Hopewell into Petersburg and noticed this sign...
Fearless son of a rich Brazil coffee-planter and engineer, he inherited and indulged a mechanical bent. At 10 he drove a Baldwin locomotive in his father's private railway. That year he saw a balloon ascension at a Sao Paulo fair. Sent to Paris at 18 to finish his education, he had his first balloon ascent at 24 with Machuron, designer of Explorer Salomon Auguste Andree's famed balloon. Straightway he began fiddling with lighter-than-air craft, built ten airships of which No 6 won the 100,000-franc Deutsche prize for the first flight around...
...sacrifices by the American people. ... He did appoint one Andrew W. Mellon Ambassador while a resolution for the impeachment of the said Mellon was being heard. . . . Treated with contumely the veterans . . . sent a military force heavily armed against homeless, hungry, sick, ragged and defenseless men, women and children and drove them out by force of fire and sword. . . ." When the clerk finished reading, North Carolina's Pou, senior House Democrat, declared: "Mr. Speaker, I move to lay the resolution on the table." A great cheer went up as the Democratic majority, party politics aside, massed in defense...
Cautiously the British District Magistrate, supported by armed native police, advanced to reason with the sword & arrow men. Twang! went an arrow, killed a policeman. Opening fire the police killed three tribesmen, wounded four, arrested 16, drove the rest out of town...
Believing that battles were too often a showy waste of time, Sherman avoided fighting whenever possible. He drove back his able Southern opponent, Joseph Johnston, by continually outflanking him, got almost to Atlanta without a battle. Sherman annoyed his enemy by going at war in a businesslike, persistent way. By products of his campaign, such as living off the country, crippling the enemy by destroying property, began to make him more hated than "Butcher" Grant. But he was successful. News of his capture of Atlanta came just in time to save Lincoln from defeat at the polls. Sherman...