Clouds"--Battle of the Wilderness--Sherman's March
to the Sea--Richmond Surrenders and the War Closes 225

CHAPTER XXIV

THE WASTE OF WAR AND THE WEALTH OF PEACE

What is Seen on the Picture of History--A Reign of
Peace in America--The Ocean Cable and the
Railroad--Alaska and its Treasures--The Burning
of Chicago and other Disasters--Edison and His
Work--The Triumphs of Electricity 234

CHAPTER XXV

THE MARVELS OF INVENTION

Professor Morse, the Famous Inventor--His Struggles
and His Success--The First Message--Telephone and
Other Inventions of Electricity--New Ideas in
Machinery and the Comfort they Bring 242

CHAPTER XXVI

HOW THE CENTURY ENDED FOR THE UNITED STATES

The Nation's Birthplace--Centennial Exhibition and
Columbian World's Fair--Our People's Progress--The
Indians--Trouble in Cuba--War with Spain--Santiago
and its Fleet--Dewey at Manila 253

CHAPTER XXVII

HOW A HUNTER BECAME PRESIDENT

Assassination of President McKinley--Theodore
Roosevelt's Great Ride--His Election by the
People--The Panama Canal--Roosevelt Declines
Re-election and Goes to Africa 266

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

STEAM SHOVEL AT WORK IN CULEBRA CUT, PANAMA CANAL _Frontispiece_

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COLUMBUS AND THE EGG 25

WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE 137

THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS 191

THE STORMING OF CHAPULTEPEC 199

THE WRIGHT BROTHERS AND THEIR FAMOUS AEROPLANE 242

CUSTER'S LAST FIGHT 258

ROOSEVELT SURPRISED BY A GIANT HIPPOPOTAMUS 266

A TALK WITH THE YOUNG READER ABOUT THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY

IF any of the readers of this book should have the chance to take a
railroad ride over the vast region of the United States, from the
Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of
Mexico, they would see a wonderful display of cities and towns, of
factories and farms, and a great multitude of men and women actively at
work. They would behold, spread out on every side, one of the busiest
an