But their physical energy will soon be exhausted, while ours will steadily increase.

Patience, coolness, and determination will be sure to bring us the triumph in the end.

These raw recruits, that are at present worthless before trained soldiers, distrusting themselves as we distrust them, will yet become veterans, worthy to rank with the best soldiers of the Old World." The civilian passengers on a railway in Missouri are essentially different from the same class in the East.

There are very few women, and the most of these are not as carefully dressed as their Oriental sisters.

Their features lack the fineness that one observes in New York and New England.