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TIIK WniTK CZAK.
BY H W. 1.0NGKKLI.OW.
p.ist thou stHi on the rampart's height
That wreath of mist, in the light
Of the iniiluight moon ? Oh, liia
Jt is not a wrenth of mA ,
It is the Czar, tlie White, Czar,
Batyushka ! Gosudar !
He has heard, among the dead,
' The artillery roll o'erliead ;
The drums, and the tramp of fec-t'
Of his soldiery in the street :
He is awake ! the White Czar,
Batyuxhka ! Ctostidar !
He has heard in the grave the cries
Of his jx ople : "Awake I arise S'
lie has rent the gold brocade
Whereot his shroud was made,
lie has risen ! the Whitp Czar,
Batyushka ! Gosudar !
From the Volga and the Don,
He has led his armies on,
Over river and morass.
Over desert and mountain-pa8 ;
The Czar, the Orthodox Czar,
Batyushka ! Gosudar !
He looks from the inouutain chain
Toward the seas that cleft in twain
The continents ; his hand
Points southward o'er the land
Of Iloomeleo ! O Czar,
Batyushka! Gosudar!
And the words break from his lipa
'1 am the builderof ships,
And mv ship3 shall sail those eas
To the Pillars of Hercules !
I say it ; the White Czar,
Batyushka ! Gosudar !
"The Bosphorus shall be free ,
It shall make room for me ;
And the gate of its water-streets
Be unbarred before iry fleets,
I say it ; the White Czar,
Batyushka ! Gosudar !
"And the Christian shall no more,
Be crushed, as heretofore,
Beneath thine iron rule,
0 Sultan ol Stamboul !
1 swear it ! I, the Czar,
Batyushka J Gosudar !
The t'are-Hco.
The bones and implements of the
. Cave-men are found in association with
remains ot the reindeer and bison, the
arctic fox, the mammoth, and the woolly
rhinoceros. They are found in great
abundance in southern and central Eng
land, in Belgium, Germany, and Swit
zerland, and in every part of France;
but nowhere as yet have their remains
been discovered south of the Alps and
Pyrenees. A diligent exploration of the
Pleistocene caves of England and France
during the past twenty years, has thrown
some light upon their mode of life. Not
a trace of pottery has been found any
where associated with their remains, so
that it is quite clear that tho Cave-men
did not make earthenware vessels. Burnt
clay is a peculiarly indestructible
material, and where it has once been in
existence it is sure to leave plentiful
traces of itself. Meat was baked in the
caves by contact with hot stones.or roast
ed before the blazing fire. Fire may
Lave been obtained by friction between
two pieces of wood, or between bits of
flint and iron pyrites. Clothes were
made of the furs of bisons,
reindeer, bears, and other am
mals, rudely sewn together with threads
of reindeer sinew. Even long fur
gloves were used.and necklaces of shells
and of bear's and lion's teeth. The
stone tools and weapons were far finer
in appearance than those of the : River
drift meu.though they were still chipped
and not ground. They made borers
and saws as well as spears and arrow
heads; and besides these stone imple
ments they used spears and arrows
headed with bone, and daggers of rein
deer antler. The reindeer, which thus
supplied them with clothes and weapons
was also slain for food; and, besides,
they slew whales and seals on the coast
of the Bay of Biscay, and in the rivers
they speared salmon, trout and pike.
They also appear to have eaten, as well
as to have been eaten by, the cave-lion
and cave-bear. Many details of their
life are preserved to us through their
extraordinary taste for engraving and
carving. Sketches of reindeer, mam
moths, horses, cave bears, pike and seals,
and hunting scenes have been found by
the hundred, incised upon antlers or
bones, or sometimes upon stone; and
the artistic skill which they show is
really astonishing. Most savrges can
make rude drawings of objects in which
they feel a familiar interest, but such
drawings are usually excessively gro
tesque, like a child's attempt to depict a
man s a sort of figure eight, with four
straight lines standing forth from the
lower half to represent the arms and
legs. But the Cave-men, with a piecu
of sharp-pointed flint, would engrave, on
a reindeer antler, an outline of a urus so
accurately that it can be clearly distin
guished from an ox or a bison. And
their drawings are' remarkable not only
for their accuracy, but often equally so
for the taste and vigor with which the
subject is treated.
Among uncivilized races of men now
living, there are none which possess this
remarkable artistic talent save the Eski
mos; and in this respect there is com
plete similarity between the Eskimos
and the Cave-men. But this is by no
means the only point of agreement be
tween the Eskimos and tho Cave-men.
Between the sets of tools and weapons
used by the one and by the other the
agreement is also complete. The stone
spears and arrow-heads, the sewing
needles and .skin-scrapers, used by the
Eskimos are exactly like the similar im
plements found in the Pleistocene caves
of France and England. Tlta necklaces
and amulets of cut teeth and tlio daggers
made from antler, show an equally close
correspondence. The resemblances are
not merely general, but extend so far
into details that if modern Eskimo re
mains were to be put into European
caves they would be indistinguishable in
appearanco from the remains of the Cave
men which are now found there Now.
when these facts are taken in connection
with the facts that the Cave-men were an
arctic race, and especially that the musk
sueep, wuicu accompanied tue advance
of the Cave-men into Europe, is now
found only in the country of the Eski
mos, though its fossil remains are scat
tered in abundance i 11 along a line
stretching from the Pyrenees through
Germany, luissia, and Siberia when
these facts are taken in connection, the
opinion of Mr. Dawkius, that the Cave-
meu were actually identical with tho
Eskimos, seems highly plausible. Noth
i i .
ing can ue more probable man that, in
early or middle Pleistocene, tj no.- the
' H atout the Arctic Circle
in Siberia and Northern Europe as well
as in North America; that during the
coldest portions of the Glacial period
tney found their wav as far south as the
Pyrenees; along with the rest of the
sub-arctic mammalian fauna to which
they belonged; and that, as the climate
grew warmer again, ana vigorous
enemies from the south began to press
into Enrope and compote with them,
thev gradually fell ' back to the north
ward, leaving behind them the innumer
able relics of their former presence.
which we find in the late Pleistocene
caves of France and England. The Es
kimos, then, are probably the sole sur
vivors of the.Cave-men of the Pleistocene
period; among the present people of
Europe the Cave-men have left no repre
sentatives whatever. May Atlantic.
How Ocean Cables Are Laid.
The second American ocean cable was
completed a few days ago. I The history
of the steamer Faraday s connection with
the laying of these two ocean cables is
an eventful one. Towards the close of
1880, Jay Gould called for subscriptions
for the purpose of laving - his cables
across the Atlantic, to be used in com
petition with the English cables, and by
May, 1881, the cable steamer laraday
left England jwith the first half of cable
No.l, which 'consists of. seven different
sizes, the largest being laid near the
shore. The center wire, used for tele
graphic purposes, is a large copper one,
and of the same dimensions throughout
the whole length of the cable. The Far
aday soon succeeded in laying the first
half, which was buoyed in mid-ocean,
with a flag attached to it, and- an electric
light capable of burning thirty days.
Going back to England, the steamer took
on board the second half of the first
cable, which was connected with the por
tion already laid, and the cable was soon
completed across the Atlantic to Nova
Scotia. " i
By October, 181, the first half of the
second cable was laid, but while tho mid
ocean end Was being buoyed, some por
tion of the machinery aboard the Fara
day broke, and the end of the cable was
lost overboard, and while grappling un
successfully for the lost cable, they had
the misfortune to break the first one.
The Faraday then returned to London,
leaving all these cable ends jn the bot
tom of the ocean, in nearly four miles of
water. Leaving London again about
the first of Jamiarv of tho present vear.
with the second half of the second ca
ble, the steamer proceeded to mid ocean,
and after several weeks succeeded in
grappling and recovering all three ends
of the cable" from their beds at the bot
tom of the ocean. When it is considered
that this work was done in water some
four miles in depth, j a faint idea of the
task required in laying and recovering
cables from the ocean can be arrived at
by landsmen. After, buoying the cable
ends the Faraday was forced, through
the roughness of the waves, to wait
thirty days before it was smooth enough
to attempt to connect the first cable laid.
This was done, however, and the fir&t
steamer coming to Nova Scotia com
menced laying the last half of the sec
ond cable, and oh Monday last this was
successfully connected with the remain
der of the cable in mid-ocean. So that
at the present time, beside the English
cables, which have been so useful, we
have two cables across tho Atlantic in
ownership of American capital. Bos
ton Journal.
Such Stufl as Dreams ar) Made of.
Even in his sleep the tired journalist
dreams of his work, which is never done.
Last Saturday night a toiler for a
Chicago paper sought his home, wearied
out after a long vzeek of unremitting
toil. With littlo spirit to respond to his
wife's pleasant greetings, he threw him
self upon the bed and was soon fast
asleep. Presently, however, he began
tossing uneasily and muttering unintel
ligible orders about the "make-up" of
the paper.
"I must have two columns for that,"
at last his wife heard him say. '"It's the
biggest thing we've had in many a day."
"What's a big thing?" she asked.
"It's a scoop, ami worth making a
spread on."
"What's a scoop?"
"Why, that about Noah." J
"Who's Noah?"
"Why, old Noah that built the ark and
called it the Zoo. He's going to build
another yacht."
"What for?"
"To go in search of the north pole on
the next spring freshet. Oh, I tell you
he's a rustler. If he could only write
editorials as well as he can funeral no
tices he'd make a big hit." ;i
Just then his wife pinched him, and
he awoke and swore he hadn't touched a
drop not a eingle drop.
An insoct of the genus Pyralid, pre
viously quite unknown to entomologists,
has very generally ravished the con
plant in the Southern States during the
past year. It has recently been carefully
described by Professor Riley.
Sumner
burg.
In St. Peter -
Mr. Dallas was sitting in his office at
the Legation in St, Petersburg on a cer
tain,morning, when A young man, or
rather a boy, presented himself, with the
arms of his jacket out at the elbows, and
remarked that he "would like to see the
emperor."
"You would like to see the emperor?"
inquiringly rejoined Mr. Dallas, adding
the further interrogation, "What do you
want to see the emperor for?"
"Oh, I have a little business with
him," replied ithe youth.
"Well," said the Ambassador, "you
can't seo the emperor.
"Why not.: can't vou introduce mc-?'
earnestly inquirod tue boy.
"No. I could not introduce you,"
said the minister, smilingly.
"Arn't you the -American minister?"
said the boy.
"Yes, lam the American minister, but
I should not dare to introduce you,
if I am."
"But I am an American," replied the
boy, "and I have conie all the way from
Mount Vernon, the tomb of Washington,
on business with the emperor, for whom
I have a present, and I mast see him; and
I call on you as the Ambassador of my
country to introduce me to his imperial
majesty."
"The most I can do, my lad, is to in
troduce vou to one of his ministers." said
Mr. Dallas,"and if he pleases he may in-
troduce you to the emperor.
"Very well,'' said the boy, "that will
bo one step gained; just introduce me
to the minister of his majesty, if you
please."
At this point of the dialogue the Amer
ican minister took the boy to one of the
imperial cabinet, remarking to the digni
tary as he appreached him, "Here's a
boy who says he has come all the way
from Mount Vernon, in America, and
that he has some message for the emper
or, and demands an introduction; can
you gratify him?"
"I cannot introduce him without first
consulting his majesty," replied the au
tocrat's minister. "If he is willing I
will introduce him."
After a brief lapse of time the minister
returned from an interview with the em
peror, to whom he had related in sub
stance what had been previously said of
the boy. The curiosity of Nicholas being
excited as to tho boy's errand, he has in
duced to command the ministerial func
tionary to "bring him along."
"He says he will see vou, said the
minister, addressing himself to the
Yankee lad. And immediately they set
off for the palace, where the following
interlocutory discourse took place be
tween Nicholas and the ragged boy:
"Well, my little fellow. I understand
you wish to see me; wnai is your uusi-
ness
9"
"I came alkthe way from the
tomb of
Washington, at Mount Vernon, in Araer-
ica, and understanding tuat you iiKoutue
character of Washington "
"I have great veneration for the char
acter and memory of that illustrious per
sonage," interrupted the emperor.
"Well, said the youth, as he thrust
his hand into ins laciiei pocKet, ,l
rought this acorn from the tomb of
Washington, thinking you might like, to
plant it in your grounds and raise an
oak to his memory. Wtll you accept it?"
"Certaruly, replied theetnperor,''and
we will go out at once and plant it."
No sooner said than done, lhey pro
ceeded to the palace grounds, and, hav
ing raised the soil with a spade, the em-
jeror committed the acorn to the earth
with his own hand. Thanking the youth
or the simple but agreeable present, the
emperor inquired, " is there anytning
more that you wish of me, my ladf
The bov replied: "I should like to
see Moscow amazingly."
"What do you want to seo Moscow
or?" asked His Majesty.
"Oh. I have' long had a desire to see
hat city, and as you were pleased to
inquire for my further wishes, and as I
know you could gratify my desire, I
bought that I would honestly tell
yu- .. ...
"Well, you shall see Moscow, said'
Nicholas; and at once a barouche with
six horses was ordered, and the boy was
oted off to the ancient capital by His
Majesty's imperial command.
"The last I saw of the youth, said
Mr. Dallas, "he passed my office in St.
Petersburg in a coach with six horses,
and, as he deigned to look at mo, he
oyfully waved a white handkerchiof, of
which he had become the possessor, and
riumpkantly cried out to me: 'Hurrah,
I am going to Moscow! I am going to
Moscow! Boston Journal.
(haug ana Eng.
In answer to a correspondent who
writes to us for information on the above
subject we have compiled the following
information: Eng and Chang were born
simultaneously, April 15, 1811, and died
at the ag of G3 years. They were con
nected by a patent coupler, which en
tered the body of each in the region of
the vest pocket. This connecting ar
rangement necessarily threw them a
great deal in each othpr's society. When
they were boys their lives were more or
ess unhappy by their widely different
tastes. Eng was very fond of sour ap
ples in his youth, and when at night he
rolled and tossed upon his couch with a
arge stock of colic on hand, Chang had
o lie awake and get the benefit. Later
in life Chang developed a strange long
ing for tho flowing bowl; while Eng was
a Good Templar. When Eng went to the
lodge the worthy outside guard would
refuse to let Chang in, because he could
not give the pass-word, and as Eng
couldn't go iu and leave Chang in the
ante-room he had to go home and wait
till another meeting. Eng was a Mason
and Chang was a Knight of Pythias, and
Master George
thev used to give eaoh other away some
times, and have lots of fun. Eng was
half-breed, and Chang a stalwart, and
that was bad about attending caucuses
Chang joined the Episcopal Church anc
believed in sprinkling, while Eng was
Baptist, and not only got immersed him
self, but fixed it so that Chang had his
sins washed away at the same time
Occe in a whileChang would get an invi
tation to a private party in a set to which
Eng did not belong, and then they had
to settle the question by putting Etrus
can noses on each other as to whether
they should go or remain at home.
Chang died first and Eng a few hours
later as a matter of courtesy. 1Eng was
not tu jp -pr? to die and regretted that
e wtU'H.tfV-' consulted by Chtong before
this important step was taken but ho
saLr1 it would save the expense of two
funerals,' and he wanted to do what was
right. The lives of these two men were
somewhat peculiar in many respects.
There were many little nameless annoy
ances to which each was compelled to
submit, and which would not at first
occur to the student. For instance,
Chang had to go for the doctor in com
pany with Eng whenever Eng's children
had the croup; and whenever Chang's
wife thought there was a burglar in the
woodshed, Eng had to get up in his
night shirt and go with his brother in
search of the villain. They couldn't
ride the festive velocipede, and when
Chang got biling drunk, Eng had to go
the jug with him, and stay there till the
fine was paid. Among the many bless
ings wnicn cluster about us, ana are
showered down upon us through life,
we are prone to night of the fact
that with all of our sorrows and disap
pointments we are not born Siamese
twins. Laramie Boomerang. J
'he Found Xllm.
The Chicago Tribune vouches for the
truth of the following story:
A milliner of respectability married
dissipated tailor, who abused, neglected
and abandoned her. Several years hay
ing passed without a clue to his where
abouts, her friends advised divorce and
her acceptance of an advantageous offer
of marriage.
The woman persistently declined every
offer, and when she had accumulated a
sufficient sum, started off in the direction
her husband was supposed to have taken
when he left her. At Halifax, N. S., she
received a slight clue, and took the
steamer to Portland, Me. Thence she
followed his track to New York, where
she ceased for many months to hear of
him. Finally she found that he was
working in Albany, for which place she
immediately started.
She was about a week too late; he had
been discharged for drunkenness.
Spending her days at lucrative work and
her evenings at detective service, the un
wearying wife at length discovered that
he was employed by a large firm in
Chicago. She wrote there, and was an
swered that her husband had gojie away,
nobody knew where.
3 Not satisfied with this, she travelled to
that city and ransacked eyry concern
interested iu the tailoring business there
until she met a fellow countryman who
said that her husband, when last heard
from, was in Omaha. Sho wrote there,
got no answer, but went on. There she
learned that ho had gone to San Fran
cisco, where he had obtained a fine place
as cutter in a large firm. She of course
went thither, only to be told that her
recreant husband had been away
from his work several days and was
drinking hard. He had not even been
to his boarding house. This led her to
visit the station houses, and in ono of
them she ascertained that husband was
in jail for ten days. He was released
and prevailed upon to return home after
an absence of six year. All this occurred
eighteen years ago, and to-day the prod
igal husband of yore is a strict tomper
ance man in independent circumstances,
a model husband and "father and Te
spected citizen.
Parisian Marrlasre Etiquette.
Parisian etiquette makes the marriage
ceremonial differ in many details from
that practiced in America. There the
bridegroom calls for the bride and
friends, and takes them to church, just
as he does on the occasion of the civil
ceremony at the Maire. The bride takes
the place of honor in the first carriage,
her mother on the left. His father and
the chief witness sits opposite them. The
bridegroom's mother takes the right I
hand place, the bridegroom sitting on
her left. His father and the chief wit
ness for his side of the contract sit oppo
site. The bride's father leads her to the
altar, the bridegroom following with his
mother on his arm. Then comes the
bride's mother.leaning ou the arm of the
bridegroom's father; followed by four
couples, consisting of the bridegroom's
two witnesses, each with a lady of the
bride's family, and the bride's two wit
nesses, with two ladies of the bride
groom's family. When they arrive at
the altar a fresh grouping takes place,
the bride's family and witnesses seating
themselves on her vleft and those of the
bridegroom on her right. Before utter
ing the "oui," which takes the place of
"I will," both bridegroom and bride
turn toward their relatives as if to ask of
their consent.
An English geologist, Mr. J.C. South
all, endeavors to prove that man existed
in America in the pliocene period. It is
safe to say that no competent American
geologist assigns a greater antiquity
to man on this continent than the glaoial
epoch.
There is some reason to believe that
ants produce sounds of such high pitch
that they are inaudible to the human
ear.
Ancleat Vessels.
Magnificent and large as arasdme of
i
our modern steam vessels, they are very
inferior, if we may judge from descrip
tion, both in size and splendor, to the
vesse ls constructed by the kingspf Egypt
and Syracuse, on a scale of grande ir cor
responding to the immense preparations
of their sculpture and architecture.
Ptolemaems Philopater, king of Egypt,
built a Vessel 420 feet long, 6C feet broad,
72 feet high from the kennel . to the top
of the prow, but 80 feet to the top
of the
pood. She had four helms of Cd
feet;
her largest oars were 00 feet long1, with
leaden handles, so as to work more easily
by the rowers; she had two prows, two
sfn s, seven rostra or heaks, succes sively
rising out one over the over, the tepmest
one most prominent and stately; on the
poor and prow she had figures of ani
mals, and less than 18 feet high; all the
interior of the vessel was beau ti tie 1 with
a delicate sort oi painting ot a waxen
color; she had 4000 rowers, 400 cabin
boysl or servants; marines to do duty on
the decks, 2820; with an immense store
or arms and provisions, lhe fame prince
built another ship called the Tlialame
gus, or bed-chamber ship, whicii was
only used as a pleasure yacht for nailing
up a ad down the Nile. She was not so
long or large as the preceding, bul more
splendid in the chambers jand fi.rnish-
ings
Hitero. iving of Syracuse, built an
enermous vessel, intended for al corn
trader; her lengtn is not given. She was
built at Syracuse by a Corinthian
ship-
builder, and was launched by an
appa-
ratus devised by Archimedes. All her
bolts and nails were of brass; she had 20
rows of oars; her apartments were
paved
with neat square variegated
tiles, on
whidh was painted all the. stdry
of
tlomer s "iiiiad. ishe had a gymna
sium, wit.i shady walks upon her upper
decks, garden plots stocked with various
plants and nourished with limpid water
that mowed, circulating around them in
a canal of lead. She had, here and
there, on the decks, arbors mantled with
ivy and vine branches ' which flourished
in full greenness, being supplied
with
water from the lead canal. One
of her
chambers was particularly spl
endid,
whose pavement was agate and
other
precious stones, and the panelsJ
doors
and roofs were of ivy and wood
thval tree. She had a scholasteri
bf the
urn or
library, with five conches; its
roof
arched into a polus or vault, wi
h the
stars embossed; a bach with
all
its accompaniments, all most
its accompaniments, all most mag
nificent; she had on each side.pf her
decks, ten stalls for horses, with
odder
and furnishings for grooms and rit
ers; a
fish pond, full of fish, whose
waters
could be let out or in at pleasure;
she
had two towers on the poop, two on
the
prow and four in the middle,
full of
armed men that managed the machines
invented by Archimedes for throwing
stones of 300 pounds weight and arrows
18 fdet long to the distance of a furlong.
She had three masts and two ai tennaj or
yards, that swung with hooks and masses
of lead attached. She had round the
wnoie circuit ot ner ucck a rampart oi
4 ii I i
iron J with iron crows, which took noid
of ships and dragged them nearer i o de
stroy them. The tunnels or bowels on
her masts were of brass, with men in
eachh twelve anchors and three maits.
It was with difficulty they found a tree
arge and strong enough for her highest
mast). Great Britain an ominouh cir
cumstance for the superiority of British
oak-r-had the glory of bestowing upon
her a sufficient tree for that purpose. It
was round amid the recesses oi Albion s
brest by a swineherd. What is remark
able an the construction of this gigantic
vessel is that her sentina, or sink, though
arcrd and deep was emptied by one
man J by means oi a puian invented by
Archimedes.
The Herndon Monument.
Lieutenant Herndon, who was cap
tain of the steamer Central America
when she foundered on the 12th c f Sep
tember, 1877, on a voyage between New
Yorl and Aspin wall, was the fatier-in-
aw of President Artnur. The following
account of the trip of the President and
his children to the naval academy at An
napolis to see the monument in memory
of that gallant officer is given by tho New
Yorl: World of April 19th: The Presi
dent took his children over to Am apolis
to-day to sec the Herndon monument,
which stands within tha grounds of the
naval academy a tribute to the gal-
I 1 ll .1 Al
or meir grauuiaiuer.
It had been
amohcr the xamiiy pran3 ior a montn
i m . I it
back to makt the trip, but until yester
day a day could not be fixed for it.
Shoit notice was no drawback, ho vever,
to a party purposely small and unofficial,
and this morning when Mr. Garrett's
car was backed with the 9 o'clock train
into the Baltimore and Ohio depot all
but two of the party were ready for it,
and there were no spectators around ex-
cept
possibly twenty of their fellow pas-
sengers. A party more closely at cached
to the President's household could
hardly have been selected. The Presi
dent's son, who overtops his fat ler in
height, although lacking nearly four
years ot tne age oi cKizeosnin, nau
brought with him a New xork friend,
Mr.
T. Harvey Jackson. The JPresi
's daughter. Miss Nellie, a child of
with her plapmate, Miss Moore, of
den
six.
New York. The rest of the party were
Hunt, who stood as godmother to
President's children; her yonngest
and Mrs. John Davis, the daughter
ecretary Frelinghuysen, and an au-
ity in social arrangements at the
ite House. The day opened raw. An
eastern wind had been trying to! brush
away an avercast sky, but succeeded
only in gathering and scattering such
clouds as had become detached from the
leaden mass. So deficient in allure
ments was the day that Miss Freling-
MrcJ
the
son
of 8
tho
Wh
huysen, who was to have been one of th
party, decided at the last moment totaj'
at home. A slight delay grew ouf of
this mishap which kept Mrs. Davis back
until the train hour had passed, but onoo
out of fhe depot' -lost, time was mora
made good, and for an hojir and a half
fields fresh from the plow and orchards
pink with peach' blossoms relieved tho
sky and wind- of . much of their attract
iveness. Captain Ramsey, Superintend-, .
ent'of 'the academy, and Lieutenant Bar-
well were at the depot when the train
hauled up at Annapolis. Then It short
ride in carriages landed the party at Cap
tain Ramsey's residence 'within the Naval
Grounds. . T r T
The story of Captain Herndon'sdeath
has been told often enough, to have lost
its interest, if such stories were not en
dowed with perpetual freshness. He en
tered the navy at fifteen,' none too early,
it happened, to have accomplished the
deeds of daring and romance that crowd
ed hia short life. A lieutenant's com
mission rewarded his services in the
Mexican war when he was but 33. Then
he came here, and after three years of
preparation at the observatory, where he
was associated with his brother-in-law,
Dieutenant Maury, he was sent by the
Government with Lieutenant Lardner
Gibbon t South America, where, land
ing in Pern, he crossed the Andes and
explored the Amazon Valley eastward.
That occupied him . until 1852, afUr
which he prepared a report which has
since been standard upon that subject.
At this time there were few naval ves
sels, and occupation for graduates of the
academy was not to be furnished by the
Government. It thus became customary
for officers unassicrned to entraaa with
8teem8hiD companies Dendinc? a ehanoe
I for regular service. This is how Lieat.
Herndon became captain of the Central
America, one of the line of steamers
from the isthmus and the West Indies to
New York. Tho Central America, on her. ..,
way to New York, sprung a leak in a gale
on September 11, 1857. There were 580
f passengers aboard. Pumps became use
ess on the afternoon of September 12. -Life-boats
were lowered for the women '
and children, and they were all saved.
Captain Herndon foresaw what was com
ing and could have saved himself had lie
chosen to leave passengers behind. He
chose otherwise and attended to the
wants of others so long as anything could
be done. At evening he went down with '
the ship, standing on the bridge in fall
uniform. The sea covered 427 bodies in
that disaster. Not long afterwards a
committee of naval officers, known as the
Herndon Monument Committee,, began
to receive subscriptions from their asso
ciates, which shortly aggregated enough
to justify a contract with the Quincy
Granite Company for a monument, con
sisting of a baso and shaft, the former
six feet square at the top and three feet
high, and the latter pyramidal, eighteen
feet high, four feet square at the base
and one foot six inches square at the top.
The name "Herndon" was to extend in '
raised letters across the -front of the
shaft, and the difte, "September 12,
1857, across the back. The work was
performed according to contract, at a
cost to the committeo of 81,201, includ
ing freight, and in June, 1800, the monu
ment was placed where it now stands.
Until' that time the academy grounds
were not much more than half their pres
ent width, and the monument was situa
ted on the site of officers quarters that
had lately been set back. The widening
of the grounds left it about midway
across on a slight knoll and in the most
favored spot within the gates. There are
two other monuments, both of marble,
more showy than this,4 and telling in long
inscriptions of the valor of the Tripoli
heroes and of others who gave up their
lives off Vera Cruz, but only Herndon
name and the date of his death pay the
tribute that inscriptions could not con
vey. A low iron railing has been built
around the monument, and on each side
a young tree is growing.
Sympathizing Caller
dent.
on the Presl
How the President enjoys his office is
told in a story just out, of a Missouri
politician and lawyer, who, in company
with a senator from his State, called on
the President a day or two ago. Tho
western politician, after he had been in
troduced to the President, said:
"Mr. President, I am very glad to
meet you. It is the first time I ever had
the pleasure of seeing you; in fact, yon
are the first President I ever saw. You
look fatigued."
"Yes," the President replied, "I am
annoyed very much, but the rush will
be over pretty soon, I hope.
The western statesman then resumed:
"I have often heard of you, Mr. Presi
dent, as being a very fine ward politician.
I presume you would rather be out
whooping the boys up than here, being
as yon are annoyed beyond measure for
office?" i
"The President laughed, and said
"Yes." f Washington dispatch to N. Y.
World. I .
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Distressed Mother. A touching
story of sheep gathering was recently
told me on good authority. " A shepherd
lost his large flock on the Scotch moun
tains in a fog. . After fruitless search he
returned to his cottage, biddine- hid
collie find the sheep if she could." The
collie, who was near giving birth to her
young, understood his orders and disap
peared in the mist, not returning for
many hours. At last she came in miser
able plight, driving before her the last
stray sheep, and carrying in her mouth
a puppy of her own. She had of
necessity left the rest of her litter to
perish on the hills, and in the intervals .
of their birth the poor beast had per
formed her task and driven home the
sheep. Her last puppy only, she
hail contrived to save.
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