campaign, at Las Guasimas 1898

The Scots under Robert Bruce
defeated the English at Bannockburn 1314

25. Battle of Little Bighorn--The
Custer Massacre 1876

26. The Federals under Fitzjohn Porter
defeated the Confederates
under Longstreet at Mechanicsville,
Virginia 1862

27. Peter the Great defeated Charles
XII at Pultowa 1709

George II defeated the French at
Dettingen 1743

Indecisive battle between the Federals
under McClellan and the
Confederates under Lee at
Gaines Mill, Virginia 1862

The Confederates under Johnston
defeated Federals under Sherman
at Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia 1864

28. The American sloop Wasp captured
the British sloop Reindeer 1814

Capture of Silistria by the Russians 1829

Battle of Fort Moultrie, Charleston,
South Carolina 1776

Washington defeated Clinton in
the battle of Monmouth 1778

How They Got On In The World.

Brief Biographies of Successful Men Who Have Passed Through
the Crucible of Small Beginnings and Won Out.

SUBDUED ARMED PUPILS.

Young Teacher, Destined to Be a Famous
Statesman, Enforced Discipline in the
Class-Room.

James G. Blaine's early youth was spent on the banks of the Monongahela,
where he received the rudiments of his education from his father, an
extremely cultivated man. A common-school course followed, and in due time
he entered Washington College, from which he was graduated at the age of
eighteen.

A few years later he became a teacher of mathematics in a college in
Kentucky, where he gained the respect of his neighbors by quelling,
unarmed, a serious rebellion against his authority, notwithstanding the
fact that his opponents were armed with guns and knives.

It was in Maine, however, as half owner of the _Kennebec Journal_, in
Augusta, and later of the Portland _Advertiser_, at a salary of two
thousand dollars a year, that he first entered the political field.
Possessed of a remarkable memory for facts, and having the minutiae of
local politics at his tongue's end, he was handicapped by a dislike for
stump-speaking. One of his first speeches w