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INTERESTING REMINI8CENCE8 0V
THE ADMIRAL OF THE NAVY.
Thn Kiprrlmrnt Mud by tlio UnlUil HUtt
I tutor Ihn Civil Wnr Inaiiltlns Conduct
lUrltlra of Cntnrlm
IHprctal OnrnwpomlrncA )
Wasiiimiton, Oct. !. Admlrnl l'ot
ter octuiplpK ono of tho most luteri'Htlng
oft1cen In Wnnhlngton. It la n largo
room, nlKit )20 hy 1)0 feet, built over tho
carriage gato nt Ills homo on II ntreot.
Among tho thounnnrin of souvenirs of tho
mlmlrnra career hero preserved, repre
senting every Ktngo of IiIh public ncrvlceii
during tho past sixty yeara, nono nro
more Interesting than n nerloHof pictures
of catnola hanging upon tho walls amid
pictures of ships nnd guna. Curious to
know what a navnl olllccr could liavo
had to do with animals which no stretch
of tho imagination could associate with
tho navy, I questioned tho old ndmlral
nliout them whllo paying him a visit bov
oral months ago.
TIIK UN1TKD BTAT1CU MACHINK OUN UAT
TKUY MOUNTED ON CAMEL
"Thnt Is nn old story," aald tho ad
miral. lighting another of tho littlo
cigarn of which ho has ntuoked twenty
or moro a day for a quarter of a century.
"TIiobo pictures recall ono of tho
Btrangest Incidents of my career, nn in
cident in which JeiTerson Davis boro a
prominent part. In March, 1853, con
grcsa np)ropriated $J10,000 for tho pur
chaso of camols nnd dromedaries to bo
employed for military purposes. Jeffer
son Davis was then necretary of war,
and If I mistake not tho Idea was his.
At any rate, ho entered heartily Into tho
experiment, for of cottroo uxperiment it
was, nnd dotailod Maj. Wayno to go to
Asia for camels. I was dctaitod for a
similar service, nnd Wayno nnd I sailed
together In tho steamship Supply, which
I commanded. I remember now that wo
were much laughed nt by our brother
ofilcers', and they mndo many jokes nt
our oxpenso. Yet tho novelty of tho ex
pedition attracted us, nnd wo went away
determined to do nil in our power to
mako tho experiment n success. Wo ex
pected to hnvo nomo fun, anil had it."
Hero tho old ndmlral laughed heartily,
and after procuring another match with
which to relight his cigar, proceeded to
tell tho story of tho expedition:
"lyiriy in August wo arrived nt Tunis,
and bought there n camel, which we
waun.ii lor too purposo 01 making a
study of tho best manner of keeping tho
animals on board ship. Tho boy of Tunis,
hearing of tho purposo of our visit, pre
sented two very lino aulmnls to us. It
was ut Tunh we llrat learned thnt in tho
orient u camel trade is n good deal Hko n
horeo triulo in tho Occident. Wo bought
a camel of u trader. The animal had
ft lino pedigree, nnd was warranted
sound and freo fiom disease. Wo had
not hud him long before wo discovered
ho was diseased, nflllcted with tho itch
nnd lame. Wo dually gave him away,
nnd ono of those presented us by tho Iwy
of Tunis nlso went wrong, and wo sold
him for a souir. It did not tuku us lot..'
"to get our eyes open on tho camel busi
ness, ana boioro tluishing our trip wo bo
came pretty sharp traders ourselves.
"An instanco of this occurred nt Alox
undrla during our second visit to tho
orient. Whllo wo woro in that part we
received word from our consul gonernl
that tho viceroy of Egypt desired to
show his esteem for tho president of tho
United States by presenting us with six
flno dromedaries. Wo wero naturally
much delighted at this, for wo know his
highness, tho viceroy, had many dno
animals, and that ho had been engaged in
drilling u dromedary corps on tlio Per
sian system, each animal to carry two
men armed with carbines. Wo were
also aware of the fact that oriental po
tentates, in making presents, tako prido
In giving nothing but tho choicest Our
joy was, however, soon turned Into
chagrin.
"When word came that the six flno
dromedaries awaited our pleasure in tho
palace yard I sent an officer for them,
lie camo back in a fow minutes and
told mo tho animals woro bo wretched
in appearance and so rotten with
aBTTINd TUB CAMHL, ON BOAIU),
disease that ho would not tako
tho responsibility of accepting them
without further orders. I went to look
at tho animals, and found them in
finitely worso than they had been repre
sented. They are not dromedaries at all,
but tho common strcot camel of Alexan
dria, tho most ill-used and wretched
looking bcust in tho world. To mukc
mutters worso, two of thcM camels
had been purchased by Maj. Wayno at
Cairo and Icfgo bgolrrnt Alexandria be
cause they wero diseased. Actually,
theso two animals which wo had already
rejected wero' tho best in tho lot of six
offered" tis ivjtlr'gnnt ilourlsh or triun
peta by his higlinesH tho viceroy.
"You cau linafdno how nngry I was,"
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tld tho old admiral, savagely biting the
nd ofT n cigar. "It lookctl llko n studied
Inmilt, drolgnod to turn tho wholo expo
dltlon Into rldlonlo. I refused to ncccpt
Iho nnlinnln, nnd nnttlnwn mid wroto tho
viceroy n letter which must havo mado
Jils cars tlnglo. Ono paragraph of it, I
remember, wiw llko thin: 'Wo hnvo too
good n country, my dear nlr, to allow
any otio to dcprcciato It With mich offer-
Ings. Crowned heads In their Inter
course with each other omit no courto
sles, nnd mako no present thnt thoy
may hlush to show, There Is ns much
duo to our Intelligence an to any crowned
head of ICurope, and wo will not accept
any gift uiiIchh mndo In n proper man
ner.' "Perhaps tho viceroy was startled to
receive such a letter from a young lieu
tenant of tho American navy, but ho
promptly sent us nn apology, and sought
to mako nmends by sending for moro
nnimnk Tho viceroy nlso said ho would
severely punish his servants for tho
shameful manner In which thov had ex
ecuted his orders. Ho did Rend us somo
moro animals, which wero fairly good
ones, though not such ns wo should havo
purchased.
"Of course wo learned n grcnt deal
nbout camels and dromedaries," ndded
mo uuiiurni, "nnu i must say that my
respect for tho animal was greatly In
creased by familiarity. In all my ox
pcrienco I invariably found them tho
snmo enduring, uncomplaining, gentlo
creatures. They labor on from day to
day, under brutal drivers, nnd kneel
down nt night, nftor n hard day'8 work,
tho pictures of meekness, to chow their
smnll nllowanco of food, always ready to
start at a moment's notico, and rarely
exhibiting signs of fntlguo. Tlioro nro
two kinds of camols tho Dactriau, or
two humped, found In Tnrtary nnd tho
northern jwrtlons of Central Asia, and
tho Arabian, or enmel with ono hump.
Tho dromedary is simply a ono hump
camei usou as n Bwitt courser, or racer.
"A burden camolcnn carry moro than
half n ton of load, though of courso not
at great speed. I havo frequently seen
them loaded with 1,500 or 1,000 pounds
nnd moving off nt n fair gait. An aver
ago load, under favorable circumstances,
Is nlxnit 000 pounds, nnd this n camel
will carry easily, without pushing, twen-
ty-llvoor thirty miles n day. Col. Mo
Mlndo told Maj. Wayno thnt In Gen.
Nnpler's campaign against Slndo they
had nn efllclent corps of 1,000 men
mounted on 600 dromedaries, two men
to each dromedary, both armed with
rifles nnd sabres. In battlo tho animals
wero mndo to kneel in n square, under
tho charge of 500 of tho men, forming n
base of operations from which tho othor
600 oik' rat od as lnfnntry.
"In casoof extremity tho thousand men
could And shelter behind tho animals,
which wero prevented from rising by a
hobblo on tho fore leg. This corps fre
quently marched Boventy miles in twclvo
hours. I havo heard somo romarkablo
tales of tho speed of dromedaries. An
Arab told mo ho had traveled GOO miles
In a week on tho back of his dclool, but
this was simply an cxamplo of tho ori
ental habit of amplification. Ah, what
liars thoy aro in tho east. It Is true,
however, that whllo a horso can outrun
a dromedary in a short rnco, tho latter
will tako a load of four or flvo hundred
pounds nnd mako his tlfty miles a day
for a month.
CAMEL ON BOAltD SHIP DURING A STORM.
"An odd thing in camel driving is that
they must not bo pushed. They will set
their own gait, moving slowly whero the
road Is unfnvorablo and making up lost
tlmo of their own volition on tho good
Btrctchos, Tho camel has ono great ad
vantago over n horso. Ho can llvooff
anything, llko u goat. Hd browses on
overy shrub nnd plant that grows, even
tho thistle nnd tho prickly pear. Ho
can also travel, in emergoncy, three,
four, oven six or Boven days without
water or food. It Is his ugly looking
hump thnt enables him to do this. Com
losed of gelatinous fut, tho nnlmnl lives
off it by reabsorptton. In tho cast tho
condition of n camel after a long jour
noy is judged by tho slro of Ida hump.
"It is not uncommon to seo camels
como in, after long nnd painful jour
neys, with backs almost straight, their
humps having nearly disappeared. I
was much surprised to learn that tho
hump does not Boom to bo intimately
connected with tho animal's vitality.
Linant Bey told mo ho had often opened
tho humps when thoy became so large
from high feeding as to prevent tho
saddle dttlng properly, and taken out
largo pieces of fat without injuring tho
animal or affecting his health. It Is
generally supposed, too, that tho camel
thrives better in hot than in cold coun
tries, but this is not true. I seo no rea
son why tho camel should not do well
and bo vory useful In tho climato of
Texas and on all of our southwestern
plains.
"Thero is much to commend tho cam
el. Ho is always gentlo and submissive.
His only fault is stubbornness, but ho is
not as bad as tho tnulo. Ho kneels to
get his load, and will carry all ho can
riso with. Ho eats littlo more than the
horse. Ho is bo patient that ho will
march until completely exhausted, then
falling, never to rlho ngnlu.
"As a result of our two voyagos," con
cluded tho ndmlral, "wo landed in Texas
soventy-flvo cumels. Wo had somo very
rough weather at sea. und several ani
mals died, but wo actually landed with
ono moro than wo had started with. In
storms tho unlinala kneeled on deck and
woro lashed to a spar. Our experiment
in Texas did not turn out successfully.
Ono uftor another of tho nuimals died
I for lack of intelllgent'curo and -feedlug,
i ueiicve, nun niter mo war began in
1601 nothing more was heard of the
piojeet. Hut for several years a number
of ihonuimuUdid very well, juul tlfejr
usefulncbx w.a put to many tests." "
WALTKIt WlUXMAN.
RU8SIAN PEASANTS AT HOME.
An Kntertalnlng fatter from the Pen
I)tI(I Ker.
(Special Correstndenco. '
New Yohk, Oct, 54. "These nro tho
men who carry tho wholo Russian em
pire on their shoulders," said n noted
Nihilist leader to mo ono flno summer
evening in tho Russian vlllngoof Ostnsh
koto, ns wo stood watching n passing
group of mujlks (peasants), "nnd tho mo
ment thoy dud thnt out and feel tholr
backs beginning to ncho with its weight,
down comes tho wholo concernl"
Theso prophetlo words camo back to
my momory with ominous forco n year
later, as I sat in front of my tiny log hut
In tho hamlet of Dogorodskoo (on ono of
tho tributaries of tho Upper Volga) to
watch tho red sun sink lmhlnd tho shad
owy pines, whllo tho peasants of tho
littlo village, men, women and children,
camo filing past mo, somo hot and dusty
from their labor In tho fields, others
looking pnloand tired after sitting nt
work all day in their closo nnd unwhole
somo huts.
There thoy go, tho sallow, (warded,
low browed, heavy look in ir tollors. with
hard wooden faces and shaggy hair, who
"carry all Russia on their backs." Somo
of tho younger nnd moro well to do men
wear red calico shirts outsldo their other
clothes: but tho majority keep to tho
traditional sheepskin frock (swnrmlng
with "indigenous creepers") which serves
Ivan Petrovltch nil tho year round, tho
wool lHslng worn outsldo in summer nnd
insido in winter.
Tho short skirted women mnny of
whom, though barefooted, wear showy
earrings havo their sunburned faces
turbaned with Bcarlet handkerchiefs, for
tho Russian is as fond of bright colors ns
tho negro, und his word for "very beau
tiful" means literally "bright red." Tho
unmarried women aro distinguished
from tho rest by tho peculiar plaiting of
their bnck hair, and among them I no
tico ono young girl (with a light woodon
yoko balanced acrooH her loft shoulder,
and a poll of water attached to either end
of It) whoso bright fnco and ringing laugh
might well nmazo any ono who (likomv.
self) was nwaro that sho had been tried
only a fow months before for tho murder
of her Illegitimate child, and that, al
though saved by an ingenious leiral
quibblo, sho was believed guilty by
overy ono who know anything nbout tho
matter.
Many of tho faces show consldornblo
marks of beauty desplto their worn np
poarnnco, but all allko, whether men or
womon, are spoiled by tho characteristic
defect of all Slavonian races, viz., tho
heavy mouth nnd broad bulldog jaw a
drawback which marred (in my eyes nt
least) ono of tho handsomest women in
Russia, a maid of honor belonging to tho
household of tho czar's sister, tho present
Duchess of Edinburgh,
Tho houses of tho "mujlks" nro as
queer as themselves. Many of tho tiny
huts nro built wholly with tho hatchet,
without n nail or iron fastening of any
kind, tho ends of tho logs being jointed
Into each other, llko tho corners of a
schoolboy's slate. Tho crevices nro flllcd
with a mortar mado of clay, moss and
dead leaves, nnd tho roof is either shin
gled or thatched with reeds and dried
grass. Tho ordlnury izba (cottago) has
two rooms and a loft, but not n few of
them (as was tho caso with tho hut which
I myself occupied) havo only ono, Tho
furniture usually consists of nn enor
mous bed covered with a quilt of colored
patchwork, which looks liko n colossal
map of. tho United States n hugo tiled
stove, with n "lojankn" (bed plnco) on
tho top of it a rough deal tablo, a stool
or two, n portrait of tho householder's pa
tron Balnt in ono corner, with a tiny lamp
burning In front of It, nnd n pious roach
making a laborious pilgrlmago around its
gilt f ramo; ami last, but not least, a big tea
urn of brass or copper, known as a
"samovnr" (self boiler). This last item,
indeed, is tho most important of all, tho
Russian peasant being bo fond of tea that
ho oven culls n present of monoy "nut
dial" (something for tea), and ho might
fnirly assume a tea urn as his heraldic
crest, with tho motto, "Iu tea Bjernvi."
I am just beginning my supper when
my attention is drawn to n bustlo of ex
citement among a group of peasants, who
aro having n kind of impromptu tea
drinking in front of tho next hut, tho
stir being evidently caused by a tall
young fellow who has just joined tho
party, nnd seems to havo brought some
very startling piece of news.
"U'b as truo as tho holy book, bro
thers," cries the now comer. "I heard
with my own ears our starosta (vlllago
bailiff) tell it to Feodor Nikeetin just this
minute."
"What has happonod, thou?" asks tho
host, a scarred Crimean veteran.
"Theso Nihilist dogs nro nt their tricks
again. Ono of thorn throw a bomb yes
terday at Father Alexander Aloxandro
vltch (tho czar) in tho streets of St. Peters
burg. However. Qod saved him from
harm; but tho man wasn't caught."
"Nor over will bo," growled another:
"tho jKjlico aro cleverer at arresting tho
wrong man than tho right ono, nnd you
may trust a Nihilist to save his own
skin I"
"Say what you will, though, brothers,
our father, the (iosudar (emperor), seems
to bo afraid of them."
"Afraid?" echo half a dozen voices.
"Tho emperor afraid."
"Well, why docs ho shut himself up in
Uatchlnu and never stir out? And why
did ho wait two wholo years before
going to 'mother Moscow' to bo crowned
lest they should kill him? It's no use
talking, brothers when ono Is afraid,
ono is!"
"Truo," growled tho old soldier: "but
to think of n Russian czar fearing any
mortal man! What would Nikolai Pav
iovltch (Nicholas, son of Paul) havo said
to thut? Ho feared no danger: ho mndo
dauger fear lihn! He reigned tldrty
years, and no ono dart d touch him. Wo
hall nover hnvo such another czarl"
"But didn't ho opprens tho people,
Undo Meeshn?" (Mlclwcl).
"Perhaps, but lie let no ono else oppress
them."
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truth, ono tyrant is always moro endur
able thun many. David Ken.
26, 1889
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