DR. TALMAGE in this discourse
advocates a Christian evolution in
contradiction to an infidel evolu-
and declares that the only radically
provuig force in the worm is nriu-
tJaiuty; text, Romans L, 22, "Profess
ing themselves to be wise, they became
sob and changed the glory of the uneor
miitible Cod into an image made like to
SBBtTuptible man, and to birds and four
sated beasts and creeping things."
This is a full length portrait of an evo
lutionist who substitutes the bestial origin
s the divine origin. I showed you last
week that evolution was contradicted by
the Bible, by science, by observation and
hf common sense; that the Bible account
mt the creation of man and of brute jnd of
the world, and the evolutionist's account
SBailided with each other as certainly as
two express trains going in opposite direc
tions at 60 miles the hour, their locomo
tives meeting on the same track. 1 showed
that all the evolution scientists, without
amy exception, were pronounced infidels:
that evolution was a heathenism thou
sands of years old; that such men as Agas
sjis and Hngh Miller arid Farraday and
Uawson and Dana had for that doctrine
f evolution unlimited contempt. I show-
d job that their favorite theory of the
rvival of the httesi" was an absurdity
an untruth, and that natural evolu-
i funs was always downward and never up-
warfl, and that there had never been any
Improvement for man or beast or world
. wxcerit through the direct or indirect influ-
ice of our glorious Christianity. And in !
ah closing part of that sermon I told you j
'.; 1 was no"tti pessimist, but an optimist, that
taatead of it being 11 o'clock at night it is
' i sw past a in the morning,
that evolutionists are trying to impress
fist .pat masses of the people with the
Sdea that there is an ancestral line lead
Ana; from the primal germ on up through
the serpent and on up through the quad
tfuped and on up through the gorilla to
jSJqiul They admit that there is a "miss-
tlagTirfk," as they call it, but there is not i
. missing link it is a whole chain gone
Mween. the physical construction of the j
ighest animal and the physical construe-!
jhM l.ino f man t V ora ia s f h TTi A a t
wide as the Atlantic ocean. Evolutionists j
tell usvfeat somewhere ia central Africa
tlorneo there is a creature half way i
tttmfi the brute and the man, and that ! Pl " 61? OI oot ln
kaL creature is the highest step in the J" of ' r hmh.
EdnuU c-e..t and the lowest step in the notwithstanding all hat there u some
VnZn creation. But what are the facts? tb.t tell, us we are of ,e-
be brain of the largest gorilla that was j ! tigree. Not of the moLuak. not
fenffld m thirty cubic in- hes, while the J 'h ? " of thp Pnmal g.-rm but
the most ignorant man that was ' the hvmg and omnipotent God. Lin
ver found is 70. Vast difference between of the skies. Genealogy of heaven.
and"0. It needs a bridge of 40 arches I tell you plainly that, if your father
to span that gulf ' j vrag a niuskrat and your mother an opos-
Kvldeace o IMvine Power.' I s."rn n1 ?our preat-aunt a kangaroo and
1 Besides that there is a difference be-jtke toads and the snapping turtles were
tween the goriila and the man- differ-1 your illustrious predecessors, my father
nr of blood globule, a difference of & Cofl. I know it, 1 feel it. It thrills
erve, a difference of muscle, a difference through ffie with an emphasis auJ an
f bone, a difference o; sinew. The horse wtasy which all your arguments drawn
fts more like man in intelligence, the bird from anthropology and biology and zoo
h more like hiio in musical capacity, the"0"' and noro!ogy and paleontology and
sjuatiff is more like him in affection. That ftli the other ologies can never shake.
SMfogixed beast of which we hear so much, Evolution w one great mystery. It
presented on the walls of cities thou- hatches out fifty mysteries, and the fifty
sjUHb of years ago, is Just as complete as hatrh "t U, and the 1,000 hatch out
It i now, showing that there has not been UiOO.OOO. by, my brother, not admit
w particle of change. Besides that, if a the 0I,e sreat mystery of God, and have
air of apes had man for descendant, that settle all the other mysteries' I can
why would not all the apes have the same D'"re paail.T appreciate the fact that God,
V.-'t of descendants? Can it be that Unit I b? on gtroke of hlg omnipotence, could
. -ivored pair only was honored with make man than I could realize how out of
1 i progeny? Besides that, evolution 5.WXJ.000 ages be could hsve evolved one,
:i.. ;hat as one species rises to another Putting on a httlc here and a little there,
pedes the old type dies off. Then how is " would have been just as gr-af a mira
t tha there are whole kingdoms of chim- cle Go'' !u ! sve turned i orang ont-
sjanzee and gorilla and baboon? I
The evolutionists have come together
stud have tried to explain a bird's wing,
f heir theory has always been that a fac
dty of an animal while being developed
Boat always be useful snd always bfticfi
sdal, but the wing of a bird, in the ibon
tjscdj of years it was being developed,
W far from being any help must have
i a hindrance untU it could be brought
practical use away on down in the
Host there not have been an in
telligent will somewhere that formed that
wradiTful flying instrument, so that a
fhlid 50() times heavier than the air can
ant It and put gravitation nnder claw
beak? That wonderful mechanical
Castrament, the wing, with between twen
Cf and thirty different appurati curiously
ssjaMtrocted, does it not imply a divine in
'CtUgenc? Doe It not imply a direct
Mt Of swme outside being? All the evo
Itionlsta in the world cannot explain a
UraTa wing or an insect's wing.
8t they ar confounded by the rattle of
;fSs rattlesnake. Ages before that rep.
jt had any enemies this warning weapon
'created. Why was it created? When
js reptile, far bark in the ages, bad no
Makf, why thto warning weapon?
JSM wast bar been a divine Intelligence
lutein and knowing that in ages to
that fmt4 won Id have enemies, and
1 ttia warning weapon would be
tiat iatto aae. Too see evolution at
y step is a eontradictioo or a mon
StS. At every stage of animal Ufa
Just avery stag of human Iff
t la yvUawM f direct action of di-
49 atwaah) Mm aaMl lisit,
. - that, II I vary widest from an
t that w art aa entirely differ
M lai fiM fteft h do kinship.
i In -k Um kwm or saontha
1 " ' jattfc tad u tafrt etro
t; m im far tt Irat
' Nimali to eoa
V Xka ckiafe JwC aatM
"its afc if Nk rn
-a wZ ifeo Cms, m
-JaslMtetr
- itrjaf
ft "It- ft a.
have (iii d of oid a;;- This how there
in no kinship, there is no srmiUritj-. If
we hud leea born of the beast, we would
have hud the beast's s tv!.gh at the s:art
or it would have had our weakness. Not
only different, hut opposite.
Darwin admirtedethat the dovecot
pigeon has not ch.i(l in thousands of
years. It is demonstrated oyer and over
again that the liz.ird on the lowest forma
tion of rocks wag just as complete as the
lizard now. It is shown that the ganoid,
the first fish, was just as complete a the
sturgeon, another name fur the same fish
now. Darwin's entire system is a guess,
and Xluxley and John Stuart Mill and
Tynddl and especially Prof. Haeckel
come to help him u the guess, and guess
about the brute, and gm-j-a about man,
and guess about worlds, but as to having
one solid foot of ground to stand on they
never bare had it and never will bare it.
I put in opposition to these evolutionist
theories the inward consciousness that we
have no consariguiniJy with the dog that
fawns at our feet, or the spider that
crawls on the wall, or the fish that flops
in the frying pan. or the er-iw that swoops
on the ffrld carcass, or the swine that
wallows in the mire. Everybody sees the
outrage it would be to put aside the Bible
record that Abraham beitat Isaac, and
Isaac begat Jacob, and Jai ob beat Ju
dah. for the record that the microscopic
auimalcnlae lei-at the tadpole, and the
tadpole Uyat the polliwog. mid the polli
wog beat the -n-ut aiid the serpent b-
g.-tt the quadruped, and the quadruped be
gat the baboon, and the baboon begat
uian.
The evolutionists tel! ng that the ape
were originally fond of climbing the trees,
but after awhile they lost their prehensile
power and therefore could not climb with
auy facility, and hence th-y surrendered
monkeydom and set tip In busiuets as
men. Failures as apes, successes as men.
According to the evolutionists, a man is a
bankrupt monkey.
God the Father,
I pity the person who in every nerve
and muscle and bone and mental faculty
and spiritual experience does not realize
that he is higher in origin and has hud a
grander ancestry than the beasts which
I- """"W.u.n.s.
U'J '" " '"J
foundered on the rocks of crime ana ssn,
and though we shudder as we pass them,
nevertheless there is something within us
that tells us thi-y belong to the same great
brotherhood and sisterhood of our race,
and 0Hr sympathies sre aroused in regard
to them. But gazing upon the swiftest
gazelle, or upon the tropical bird of most
flamboyant wing, or upon the curve of
grandest courser's jjeck. we feel there is
no consanguinity. It is not that we are
stronger than they, for the lion with-one
stroke of his paw could put us into the
dust. It is not that we have better eye
sight, for the eagle can descry a mole a
mile away. It is not that w e are fleeter of
toot, for a roebuck in a flash is out of
sight- just seeming to touch the eanh as
tDe animal creation sur-
mlv " ml,u " lu ujnr "u oui ami
out, the one job just as big the other.
Give God a Mace.
It b perns to me we bad belter let God
have a litfle place in our world some
where. It seems to me if we cannot have
him make all creatures we bad better
have him make two or three. Tnere ought
to be son.e place where he could siay
without interfering with ihe evolutionist.
"No," says Itarwin, and so for yvars he
is trying to raise fantailed pigeons and to
turn these fantail pigeons into some other
kind of pigeons or to have them go into
something that is not a pigeon turning
them into quail or barnyard fowl or
brown thrasher. But pigeon it is. And
others have tried with the ox and the doi,
and the horse, but they staid in their spe
cies. If they attempt to cross over, it is a
hybrid, and a hybrid ia always sterile and
goes into extinction. There has been
only one successful attempt to pass over
from speechless animal to the articulation
of man, and that was the attempt which
Balaam witnessed In the beast that he
rode, but an angel of the Lord with draw n
sword soon stopped that long-eared evolu
tionist. But says some one, "If we cannot have
God make a man, let as have him make a
horse." "Oh, no!" asys Huxley in his
great lectures in New Tork years ago.
No, he does not want any God around the
premises. God did not make the horse.
The horse came of the pliohippnn, and the
pliohippus came from the protohippus.and
the protobippns came from the miohlppus,
and the miohlppus came from the mesbo
hippus, and the menhohippu came from
the orohippna, and so away back, all the
living creatures, wt trace It In a line until
wt get to the moneron, and no evidence
of divine Intermeddling with the creation
until yon get to the moneron, and that,
Huxley says, is of so low a form of life
that the probability la It just made Itself
or was the result of spontaneous genera
tion. What a narrow escape from the na
caastty of having a God!
Aa near aa I eaa tall, thaaa rvolntlonlats
.Ota to think that God at tba atari had
at made va hit mind aa to exactly vkai
vatld make, and baring mad at hla
lad nartfaUy ha haa hatn ehaaglng It all
mi fat igaa. I b'-ovt that Ood awdt
, f wrU aa I wn ad to hava It, aad
that the happiness of all the species will
depend upon their staying la the species
where they were created.
An Absurd Theory.
My friends, evolution is not only infidei
and atheistic and absurd. It is brutaliz
ing In its tendencies. If there is anything
in the world that will Make a man bestial
in his habits, it is the idea that be was
descended front the beast. Why, accord
ing to lie idea of these evolutionists, we
arc only a su;rkr kind of cattle, a sort
of Alderney among other herds. To le
sure, we browse on better pasture, and
we have better stall and better aecom.no
dations. but then we are only Southdowns
among the great flocks of sheep. Horn of
a beast, to die like a beast, for the evolu
tionists have no Idea of a future world.
They say the mind is only a superior part
of the body. They say our thoughts are
nly molecular formal ion. They siiy
when the body dies the whole nature dies.
The slab of the sepuicher is not a mile
otoue on the journey upward, but a wall
shutting us into eternal -nothiuguess. We
all die alike the cow, the horse, the
sheep, the man, the reptile. Aunihilation
is the heaven of the evolutionist. I'rom
such a stenehful and damnable doctrine
turn away. Compare that idea of your
origin an idea filled with the chatter of
apes and the hiss of serpents and the
croak of frogs to an Idea in one or two
stanzas which I quote from an old book
of more than Demosthenic or Homeric or
I)antesque power: "W ljut is man that
thou art mindful of him? And the son of
man, that thou vis'.test him? Thou hast
made him a little lower than the angels
and hast crowned him with glory and hon
or. Thou msdent him to have dominion
over the works of thy hand. Thou hast
put all things under his feet. AH sheep
and oxen- yet, and the blasts of the field,
the fowl of the air ami tiie fish of the sea,
and whatsoever passeih through the paths
of the seas. O Lord, our Iord, how ex
cellent is thy p.sme in all the earth."
A Great Unrolling.
How do you like that origin? The lion
the monarch of the field, the eagle the
monarch of the air, behemoth the mon
arch of the de-ep, but man monarch of all!
Ah, my friends, I have to say to you that
I am not so anxious lo know what was
my origin as to know what will be my
destiny. I do not care so much where I
came from as where I am going to. I am
not so interested iu who wag my ancestry
10,0u0,0u0 years ago as I am to know
where 1 will be 10,000.000 years from
now. I am not so much interested in the
preface to my cradle as I am interested
iu the appeudix to my grave. 1 do not
care so much about protoplasm as I do
aliout eternasm. The "was" is over
whelmed with the "to be." And here
comes in the evolution I believe in not
natural evolution, but gracious and divine
and heavenly evolution evolution out of
sin into holiness, out of grief into glad
ness, out of mortality Into immortality,
out of earth into heaven. That ia the
evolution I believe io.
Evolution from evolverc, unrolling! Un
rolling of attributes, unrolling of rewards,
unrolling of experience, unrolling of an
gelic coii'paniotiship, unrolling of divine
glory, unrolling of providential obscuri
ties, unrolling of doxoiogies, unrolling of
rainbow to canopy the throne, unrolling
of a new heaven and a new earth in which
to dwell righteousness. Oh, the thought
overwhelms me! I have not the physical
endurance to consider it.
Sloaarchs on earth of all lower orders of
creation and then lifted to be bierarchs In
heaven. Slasterpiece of God's wisdom
and goodness, our humanity; masterpiece
of divine grscc, our enthronement. I put
one foot on Darwin's "Origin of the Kpe
cies," and I put the other foot on (Spen
cer's "Biology," and then, holding in one
band the book of Moses, I see otr Gene
sis, and, holding in the other baud the
book Itevelation, I see our celestial ar
rival, for all wars I prescribe the Beth
lehem chant of the angels, for all spul
chers I prescribe the archangel's trumpet,
for gtl the earthly griefs I prescribe the
band that wipes away all tears from all
eyes. Not an evolution from beast to
man, but an evolution from contestant
to conqueror, and from the struggle with
wild beasts in the arena of the amphithe
ater to a soft, high, blissful seat in the
King's ralleriea.
Copyright, 1SH8.
S'lort Sermons
The Future A thousand years hence
men will be sifting and arranging all
the exciting events of these days, and
then will be Interpreting the deeds of
to-day. Iter. U. Mackenzie, Presbyte
rian, San Francisco, Cal.
Defense of the Bible. The adherent
of the IJible do not object to criticism.
They welcome raOier than deprecate It
It Is unfair crlfjclsm to w hich they are
opposed.-Itev. Deau Duffy, Eplscopa
Han, Brooklyn, N. V.
Standing StilL There aeews at times
iu our national successes a period of
standing still, and thi we believe arisen
from the feebleness of the devout ele
ment In the people of God. Itev. J. A.
Ilenry, Presbyterian. Philadelphia, Pa.
Pushing a Hefunn. There Is aa much
devotion to principle In abstalulcg from
pushing a reform too soon as there la
In fighting for It when the time Is ripe.
Itcforina are like apples they are un
healthy when green. Itev. Dr. Crane,
Methodist, Chicago, UL
God Is with Is. If we may, then,
believe in a present God, a God near
by, a Cod who cares, why then, wa
can bear anything, we can walk
through darkness, we can face any en
Liy. In the midst of poverty, we can
be patient and we can be strong. Iter.
M. J. Savage, Unitarian, New York
City.
War and Peac. Men of thought
should be the steadiest opponents of
war when It la honestly avoidable.
They should bend every effort to carry
It to a swift, a noble and enduring end
for tbe sake of everlasting peace, when
once the atrlfe Is undertaken. Rer,
Henry Van Dyke, Conttgarionaiiat,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Tbe Dawa of Religion. My own bo
lief la that the Christian religion la
just beginning to be understood, and
that Its power over tbe tbongbta and
lives of men Is destined to be far mora
commanding In tbe century before ua
than In any of the centuries behind na.
Rev. W. Gladden, CongreganloaaUbX
Columbus, O.
Mora firm and anra the kaad of oar
age utrlkca when K obys tba wmtdy
fol aya af aauUon-Thaasaaoav
pflkWEHTOH
The average walking pace of a
hen It by man or woman Is said to be
seventy-five steps a minute.
Great Britain lias a longer seaeoast
line than any oHmt nation In Europe.
It niensures 2.7.V miles, with Italy sec
ond, 2.472 miles. Hussia ranks third
and France foiirlh.
At the Stockholm Exhibition a firm
of candle-nmnufacturers as their ex
hibit had an Immense stearlne candle
eighty feet high and over eight feet
thick. It was carried by a brick struc
ture representing a candlestick. The
brick was silvered with nlnmlnum
bronze jiowdcr. A model candle fac
tory whs Installed in the candlestick.
The driving of a bicycle at ten miles
aa hour has leen ascertaired to re
tire about oui! twenty-third of a
horse-power. An exjiert rider for a
short time may exert one-third of a
horse-power. For rapid work, not
scorcfilng, one-seventh Iiorse-iower Is
needed. These figures are the result
of a scientific Investigation.
Professor Michelson, of the National
Acn leuiy of Sciences, Washington, has
lnvnted a new form of spectroscope,
made by building up steps of equal
thh kness of optical glass. With twen
ty elements, five millimetres thick the
resolving power Is one hundred thou
sand, or pbout tbiit of the best diffrac
tion gratings. It Js eun!ly pond for
the examination of single lines, and the
study of the effects of broadening the
thlftlng or doubling of the lines.
According to the "undul.'itory the
ory." which Is now generally accepted,
light is the vibration, or utidtilatory
motion, produced by a luminous body
iu an elastic, weightiest!, everywhere
present medium called ether. These
waves travel at the rate of 180.000
lallcs a second. Those producing blua
and violet nre shorter than those that
UiaUe yellow and red. Of the former
there lire about sixty thousand or nlr
ty-five thousand to an Inch, and of the
latter only thirty-five thousand or forty
thousand.
Professor Wright, of Netley, recom
mends ollve-oll, heated to, the fry'iiK
temperature, for the sterilizing of hy
podermic syringes and other surgical
Instruments. Dipping In boiling wa
ter Is not sufficient, because the boil
ing temperature Is so little above that
v.'hlch Is fatal to mlcroblc life that a
jong exposure to It Is necessary to
itiflke the process effective. But oil at
a temperature of PiO degrees to 3."0
degrees Fahrenheit sterilizes Instant
y. When tlio proper temperature lias i
!.een attained, a bread crumb dipped .
Into the nil becomes brown and crisp.
At tbe annual reception of the New j
York Academy of Sciences there was
nn exhibition which contnlnwl a sug
gestion of cruelty, but the excuse fori
which was found In the light that It j
may throw upon biology. It was the
production of "tandem"' moths, and
other similar monstrosities, through j
I the grafting of cocoons. In some cases j
the cocoons of different species were
grafted together. One of the grafted'
cocoons hatched out during the exhlbl-
tn tlw. p..-,llt n-nu n f , rwlum " .
. , , ,
two mot is lie ng joined to one another
, ., , ,.u . . .
lengthwise, with but a single head.
,, i.i. ..u
Moths were also to be seen with two
of wings, with bodies growing out of
one another at right angles, and so on.
; tr-.
Frank In a Diplorn- tio Way.
Edith There Is one thing In particu
lar that I like Mr. Tactlu for. He Is so
fiank, you know. He always tella uie'
r .. h i wi... i
tion. That was the agreement I caused
hhn to make.
Bertha And you mean to say that
you do not get angry with biin?
Edlth-Never.
Bertha Tell me some of the faults
he has found In you?
Edith Oh, he hasn't found any yet
When I ask hlru to name them he al
ways says that I am faultless. Boston
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Onrfew for Vorean Men.
i t!,.i i.
tc !,m which makes It obligatory for . rtHUnBU,.C 8n 8haK
overv man to retire to his home when ! ,3 hauled up to the eastward,
inc. Wo bronze boll of the city pro-' M tl,a tn '""""
claims It to be the hour of sunset and "'", 7 U J? crulslu off-
the time for closing the gates. N,MDi,fco trotw tot ml1". "
Is allowed in the streets after that hour ! tl0? ! nibt at a'"ght 1,18 Te"'B,!ta
under pain of flogging, but the women
are allowed to go about and visit their
friends.
Far from Civilised Oase.
African explorer (duuifounded)
What, you, Clarence Vere De Vere, in
tbe heart of darkest Africa! What In
the world are you doing here?
Clarence Vere De Vere I'm wearing
the necktie Misa Darllcg gave ma for
Christmas. I promised ber I would
you know. ruck.
Dasoerrrotyte.
A Boston man la atill taking dsgaer
rotypes, and baa been doing so orar
half a century, tie lnslsta that. In
spite of all modern processes In photog
raphy tbey remain the moat co tract
likenesses ever produced.
Papa'a Eatlmate or Willie.
Marle-I told papa, Willie, dear, that
I thought you were Juat too lovely for
any uaa
Wlflle And what did hoaay, darting?
Marie He said he feared aa nock,
Now what cqnld he have meant by that,
WOlie, dear J Detroit Free Preea.
Knaltahj peafcl Peovle.
One-f ourt of tba laad orfaae of Oa
globe la occupied b alanHeaJrJssj
ople,
SOLDIERS AT HOME.
THEY TELL SOME INTERESTING
ANECDOTES OF THE WAR.
Bow the Bora of Both Armies While
Away Llfa ia lasp-'oraia- Ka
periencen, Tlreione Marchea-Thrll-ling
Fcenea on tbe BvttlcBeld.
Kannlng the Blockade.
Two articles on "Confederate Com
merce Destroyers" are printed In the
Century. "The Tallahassee's Dash In
to New York Waters" Is written by
John Taylor Wood, her commander.
Col. Wood says of the escape of the
vessel from Wilmington:
Ten days lutliwtl to get things In
working order, and the crew Into
shape, when we dropped down the river
to wait a favorable time for running
the gantlet, which was only when
there was no moon and when the fide
served. I determined to try the east
ern or new Inlet, and on the night of
Aug. 4 the outlook was favorable. Ev
erything was secured for sea. The
lights were all carefully housed, except
the binnacle, which was shaded; fires
were cleaned and freshenud, lookouts
were stationed, and the men were at
Vielr quarters. The range lights were
ilaced; these, In the absence of all
buoys and lights, were neciwsary In
trossing the bar, and were show n only
when vessels were going In and out
The Mound, a huge earthwork, loomed
up ahead, looking In the darkness like
a black cloud resting on the horizon.
We started ahead slowly, but brought
up on the "rip," or Inner shoal. Two
hours of hard work with the engines,
and with a kedge astern, were lost be
fore we got off, and then it was too late
for the tide. We turned up tbe river a
short distance, and anchored. The next
night we had the same experience, ex
cept that we grounded so badly that It
required three steamers to tow us off.
Finding that with the state of tbe
tide and our thirteen and a half feet
draft the eastern U.lel was Impractic
able, I determined to try the western
one. Steaming down to Fort Caswell,
we waited for darkness. Only a few
fleeting clouds were Iu tbe sky. As
the moon went down on the night of
Aug. 0. at 10, we approached tbe bar,
fearful of a repetition of our previous
mishaps; and as the leadsman called
out the water In a low tone, our hearts
rose In our throats as It shoaled: "Hy
the mark three, and a quarter less
three, and a half two, and a quarter
two." She touched, but did not bring
up. Then came the joyful words: "And
a half two."
We had Just grazed the "Lump," a
bad shoal In mid-channel, and were
over the bar. Chief Engineer Tynan
was by my aide on the bridge. I turned
v" vj uci um, on,
uul "'l Der Ior 811 8Ile ' worm.
nn a noumi ne was in the engine
room, and Iu a few moments I knew
from the tremor of the vessel that the
ortfer-wjuM(Lyal. ami wlib a full head
of steam we leaped on. "A sharp look
out ahead!" was the order passed for
wartl. We were hardly clear of the bar
when back came the words: "A steam
er on the starboard bow!" "A ateamer
ahead!" The two made us out at the
same time and signaled. I hailed the
forecastle, and asked how the steamer
under our Ikiws was heading. "To the
southward, was the reply. The helm
was accordingly ported, and we passed
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between them, so close under the stern
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of the one that was ahead that a b scu t
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quick words pf command of the officer
In charge of the after plVot: "Hun out!''
"Starboard tackle ahdsonielyJL" "Ele
vate!" "Steady!" "Stand dear!" Then
the flash from the muzzle, like a gleam
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fluent, and a heavy shell flew singing
over our beads, leaving a trail like a
comet It was an excellent shot. That
order, "Elevate!" had saved us. The
steamer on the starboard aide opened,
and our opponents, now on our quarter,
Joined In; but their practice was wild,
and In a few moments they were out of
sight I did not return their fire, for
It would only have shown our position,
and I did not wish our true character
to be known, preferring tha,t they
should suppose us an ordinary block-
nria riiriTiui-
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""" " uiruv me mu hj uie soutn-
that might come out during the night
and these were the fastest and most
efficient blockaders. I was not sur
prised when, at daylight the next morn
ing, a cruiser was reported In sight
astern, hull up. As we were outlined
against the eastern sky, she had seen
ua first and from the dense smoke Issu
ing from her funnel I knew she was In
sharp chase. At eight another steamer
was made out ahead. I changed our
course eight point, bringing one on
each beam, and the chase became In
teresting. One we made out to be a
targe slde-wbeeler, and ahe held her
own. If she did not gain. Mr. Tynan
made frequent visit to the engine
room, trying to coax out a few more
revolutions; anl he succeeded, for we
brought them gradually on our quarter,
and by noon had lowered their bulla
two or three atrakea. It waa at tlmea
Ilka thla that the ahlp and enginea
proved tbemaelvee reliable; for bad a
acrtw looeened Qi a Journal heated wa
should have been lost
Flsrerad la Fasaoaa Dead.
Commodore John Orlttendoa Wataon
figured In one of tba moat romantic la
tfdtaNe of tbe war an Incident li
wbtb poeta and artlata found Ineptrv
tion for noma of tbelr beat and meat
aylrited work. He It waa who, when a
yaerag lieutenant, laihed tba aaUlaat
Farm gut to the rigging during the baW
tie of Mobile bay. The Incident is thaw
briefly related;
Tbe, powerful Confedwate ironclad)
Tennessee attacked the Hartford fierce
ly. Farragnt took up b! position In tfla
port mlzzen rigging, the better to
serve the progress of the fight and to
direct ui'd cheer on his men. I.IetiU
Watson, giving the groat danger to
which tbe Intrepid admiral was expoe
lng hlumcli", procured a rope and lashed
him to his place. In a letter which
Lieut Watson wrote to his mother af
ter the battle he mentions In detail the
bravery of FarrMgtit. He statea that
he vainly lugged the old lighter not to
stand in such au exposed place, but to
no purpone.
The relations between Farragut and
the young lieutenant were of the most
affectionate nature. The admiral In hla
official report of the Mobile battle par
ticularly mentioned Watson's bravery
and devotion to duty.
Hnking of the Horida.
About 2 o'clock on tbe morning of the
7th, Master's Mate T. T. Hunter, being
In charge of the deck at llie time, heard
tbe Hacbusett slip her cable, uud saw
at once that uhu was under way and
standing fur us. He had -Mr. Porter
called at ouco, tbe captain being on
shore; but us the latter reached the
deck the Wachusclt struck us In the
stai board miizcu-chaius, carrying away
our mi.zcUiiiast and niuiiitopina.st, both
of which came down ou our deck,
crushing our awnings, which were set
at the time down to the deck, and thus,
as it were, enveloping us In a bag. At
this time two shots were fired from
their battery, In order to make sure of
ulnking us, but their guns were de
pressed too much, and the shot only
struck the water lougside.
Oft-rcpcatcd and anxious Inquiries
were fjw made to know if we were
willing V surrender; but not until an
engine,, is sent below, and reported
the ship was rapidly sinking a report,
I may add, without a shadow of truth
did Mr. Porter and his adviser, Mr.
Sumo, agree to surrender the ship; nor
would they have surrendered had they
not believed she would sink before the
enemy could tow ber out During the
time which elapsed between the ram
ming and the surrender of the Florida,
a constant and heavy fire from small
arms was kept up, but, strange to say,
with only thn-e wounded as the result,
and they were on the Wachusett
It will doubtless te said that we
showed a want of vigilance iu permit
ting ourselves to be caught unprepared
to give battle as we were; but there are
some extenuating circumstances. As
previously stated, It was our Intention
to start upon a long and tedious cruise.
Our men, with few exceptions, had not
iK-eu on shore since we left l'.rest In Feb
ruary, and therefore greatly needed
recreation. The moment we sincerely
gave our pledge to make no attack upon
the enemy, we placed ourselves at a
dlsndvHbtHge, and It would have been
letter to have left the harbor at once.
When I say we placed ourseles at a dis
advantage, I mean that If a collision
occurred after that It must be l-gun by
the enemy; and tho attacking party,
particularly at night has greatly the
advantage.
Commander Collins gave ns an excuse
for thus attacking m In a neutral port
that his Government would never over
look bis permitting the Florida to es
cape him; but I leave it to the reader
to decide If the conversation between
the representatives of the American
consul and Captain Morris, and the
previous Interviews between the con
sul and Mr. Porter, looked aa if we In
tended to run away. But supposing
that such was oty Indention, the Wachu
sett was a heavier ship than ?ui, amr
had a larger crew. The formation of
the harlnir of Bah la was such that a
single vessel could have completely
sealed It nor can I think that an enemy
who would thus attack us In a neutral
port would hesitate long about blockad
ing such port ,
I am glad to be able to say that those
officers of the Wachusett who express
ed themselves to us on the subject dep
recated the manner In which wo were
taken; and I snould also add that our
treatment while on tho WachutMitt waa
uniformly courteous, to the extent even
of surrendering their rooms to us. Had
Captain Morris cared less for his word
thtn he did, the Wachusett would
probably have met our fate, as on the
tilght of our arrival, and certainly a
portion of the next day, a part of the
Wachusett's machinery was on shore,
and this was known to us at the time.
As soon as the ship was surrendered,
a prize crew was placed on board, and
nil our officers and men transferred to
the Wachusett, who took the Florida In
tow, and proceeded to sea, touching at
St. Thomas, where we met the Kear
sarge, with tbe prisoners taken from
the Alabama, arriving In Hampton
Roads In due course. Of course, . de
mand was made by Brazil to have tbe
Florida, with her oftleers and crew, re
turned to Bahla; but all the beautiful
rhetoric of Mr. Reward and the Brazil
ian minister was cut Hhort when a care
less tug accidentally ran Into and aank
tbe Florida while lying In deep water
In nampton Roads.
After this acldcnt we were released
from Fort Warren on Feb. 1, and were
permitted to go to Europe In a Canard
er. We were not obliged to place our
aelvea under any obligations to the ene
my, being permitted to pay our own
passage. The captures by tho Florida
and ber tenders, while under the com
mand of Captain MafBtt, amounted, to
flfty-flve vessels; but I bare no data
which would enable mo to giro tba
number captured during Captain Mor
ris command. Tby probably amount
ed to twenty ar twoaty five reaaala. t)
waa a lively aad brilliant entertain
ment; but John Ball kindly came la
when it waa at aa end. aad paJ4 the laV
eUefc-Cattwr.
