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330 BOOBBVBIiT AMD KUUOHING IT. icaj stuff and your brain seems as though the wlieels needed oil and there, are hot boxes which appear to burn the cranijiniihow soothing and restful do you not find the tin cup of coSee wiVii some b£ieon and bread 6n a.tin platb, with the beautiful green sward for a table cloth; and better stiU, when you have shot yourself a brace of quaU or even a young rabbit, yet. more a deer, and are able to have some venison! Ab! the stupid epicure knows not what heaven is, and without fear of being successfully refuted, the asser- tion is made that a few weeks of such living vsdll do the average overworked business man more good than all the medicine he can swaUow, And so our party who are camping on the banks of the Missouri are surely roughing it, but are happy and know nothing of business worries. But we ought not to, pass by Leavenworth in pur suing our course without saying hello! For this place is one of our dear old Uncle Sam's proteges, and is worthy of a few moments. Near here are located two prisons, the United States Federal Prison and the Kansas State Penitentiary; also a very large Soldiers' Home and other public institutions. But Port Leav- enworth is the. desired place to notice. In 1827 Cantonment Leavenworth was occupied, the name be-, ing derived from General Henry Leavenworth, but the Frenchified "Cantonment" was dropped and "Fort" was substituted. It would require a book to properly treat of this place, but you may be assured that the Government has expended a vast, sum of money in making it an ideal place for storing military sup:)lies and for quarteiring soldierss The grounds