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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July 28, 1906. 
THE ROBERTS SAFETY LAUNCH AND YACHT BOILER. __ 
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“The 
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INDIAN MODEL <t 9400 
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Houseboats and Houseboatin# 
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Small Yacht Construction 
and Rigging. 
A Story of Lincoln. 
The following anecdote by Lincoln is re¬ 
counted by General Horace Porter in his 
“Campaigning with Grant’’ in the Century. It 
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City Point: 
In the course of the conversation that evening 
he spoke of the improvement in arms and am¬ 
munition, and of the new powder prepared for 
the fifteen-inch guns. He said he had never seen 
the latter article, but he understood it differed 
very much from any other powder that had 
ever been used. I told him that I happened to 
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of the powder about the size of a walnut, he 
took it, turned it over in his hand, and after 
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march squar’ through the sulphurious flames 
surroundin’ you without the least danger of an 
explosion.’ ” 
WINNERS, 1905 
Free on Request. 
An attractive booklet giving names of clubs, officers 
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