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HANS ANDERSON, SOLE SURVIVOR
OF A HISTORIC CONFLIOTJ
The Veteran Sailor Gives a New and Inter-
esting Version of theLFight \Vith the
Famous Confederate Borg. 1DIerrimaAI
Near Hampton Roads.
Hans Anderson, the last survivor of
the fighting volunteer crew of the Mons.
tor in its memorable battle with the
Merrimac, was born in the western
part of Sweden in 1823, and comes
from a seafaring line of ancestors. In
181-7, just fifty years ago, he arrived in
America, and sailed hence all over the
world on board the‘ fine American
ships of that period. In 1856 Anderson
joined the American navy, serving on
board the frigates Faimouth and Con-
gress. How he came to be'one of the
crew of the Monitor he tells himself
in an intcrcsting way, all the more hr
tcresting, perhaps, because his account
of the battle differs somewhat from
the official report. As Anderson is the
only surviving witness of the battle—
Commodorc “'orden having been tak-
en away early in the fight on account
of his injuries—~his recollections are
certainly of some historical value.
HANS ANDERSON.
“I came up to New York 011 the fri-
gate Congress just before Christmas,
1861,” says Anderson. “I heard that:
the Monitor was ready to go to son, but
lacked some of her crew. I went at
once to the rendezvous in Cherry street
and offered myself as one of the volun-
teer crew. I was accepted. and the
next day we started down the East
liver from the navy—yard. The piers
all the way round to Castle Garden
were black with people, ‘who cheered
and shunted as we passed them by.
On Saturday night we arrived at
Hampton Roads, and a little tug
steamed out and asked, ‘What little
thing is that?’ \Ve answered, ‘It is the
United States Monitor,’ and they had
soon reason to rem-ember us. The Min-
nesota was aground, and we wont
alongside of her until the next morn-
ing. IVe had nothing to eat since leav-
ing Brooklyn except abit of salt pork
and some bread, and we did not get a
square meal until we were through
with the Merrimac.
“In the morning the Merrimac was
seen. I was on deck looking at her
through a glass, as was the oflicer of
the deck. I was the only one who had
ever seen the Merrimac before and told
the oflicer that it was the boat they
wanted, but at first he rather scouted
the idea. ‘Why, she looks like the roof
of a house,’ he said. I told him that
was just what she did look like. Well,
he sent me to report to Lieutenant
‘Worden. The lieutenant came on deck
and after the Merrimac had maneu-
vered some and sent a shot at the Mom.
tor we got in shape for action and sent
a shot at her. It went high, or rather
it glanced into the air from the slop-
ing deck of the enemy. Lieutenant
Worden ordered the gunners tode-
press the guns and take lower aim. The
second shot was still too high, and the
lieutenant shouted to the gunners to
take the elevating screws in their
hands and let the guns come down.
The third shot went all the way
through the rebel. Just before this,
however, one of the shots from the
Merrimac had struck. the Monitor at
the pilot house, and the shell exploded
just as one of the protecting bars of
the pilot house broke. Powder flew
everywhere, and Lieutenant Worden’s
face was blackened. He started out
on deck to get some air, and on his
way went through the firing turret.
The enemy’s sharpshooters would be
sure to pick him off, and I took the lib—
erty to grab hold of the lieutenant, tell-
ing him he must not go out. He con-
sented to remain inside, although in
great pain.
“Signals were given to some of the
other ships of the fleet to come and
take the lieutenant away, and this was
done. In the meantime the Merrimac
had signaled to the battery ashore for
assistance, and, looking through the
peephole'of the turret, we had the mor-
tification of seeing the Merrimac towed
down in safety by vessels sent out from
Norfolk, when with a brave command-
er we Nvould have. sunk her. The
Merrimac was sinking and all ready to
hoist the white flag because of her con-
dition, when she suddenly saw that it
was not necessary. It was a pity that
the brave W'orden was wounded so
early in_the battle. If he had contin-
ued in command we would have sunk
the rebel, or she would have sunk t‘ 10
Monitor.
“The next day,”
eran, “President Lincoln and Secre-
tary of the Navy Gideon \Velles came
on board and complimented us. The
11,000 men stationed at Fortress Mun-
roe offered to subscribe $1 apiece for
a fund for our crew, but President Lin-
coln said: ‘No; those men have done
nobly, and the country for which they
have fought and achieved such a vic-
tory is willing and able to reward
Fine words, but we ‘never got
anything. Yet I don’t kick, I got my
little pension, enough to live on with
what ‘ .uy wife earns. "
‘ A Process in, W
concludes the vet- _
STRANGE?CQLQEERHQTOGRAPHS.
I 86- Pigmnts or C01-
and. t,Wmheo‘gare Used.
The Londond’ll‘lmes says a 'privatc
exhibition was gfien a day or two ago
of some of the results obtained by the
new. processlof color photogiaph)1
which has been devised by a Cornisl;
man, Mr. Bennetto.The1.1ethods and
indeed the principle employed, remain
the secret of the in ventoqr and it is in-
tended, that they shall remain so“ until
several more details and applications
of the invention'have been more fully
worked out. All that is at present
known is that the inventor, who 1111:;
been occupied with the subject for the
last eight years, claims to have dis-
covered the first true and direct sys-
tem of color photography by which
can be transformed -to a photographic
negative and thence printed on glass
or paper the exact natural colors (11'
the object toward which the camera
has been directed. He employs no
pigments, his plates have not to be
washed with various colored solu-
tions, and it is not necessary to view
his pictures through any combinations
of tinted glasses. The colors are 1111-
printed on the plate just as are 1111
light and shade in an ordinary mono-
chrome photograph and are directly
visible to the eye. It may be men
tioned that Mr. Bennetto in his earli-
est experiments could get no effects
with a less exposure than three 111111-
utes; now he is able to work with ex-
posures of sixtecn'seconds.
Whatever may have been the meth-
ods used. the pictures produced by
them attain a high standard of excel-
lence. One of the best specimens
shown was a study of a sunrise, 1:1.-
ken early one morning in the middle
of June, 1895, iu'which the‘fiery orange
of the dawn and the heavy masses of
clouds were admirably represented.
The clouds, again, were excellent in :1
typical picture of Cornish seashore
scenery, and the tints of the sand and
rocks and their reflections in the pools
were faithfully reproduced. 011 the
other hand, in some pictures flowers
were rather lacking in lustre. I’ossi-
bly this is a question of exposure.
Perhaps the picture which best illus-
trated the capabilities of the process
was one of a champagne bottle stand-
ing on a white tablecloth and sur-
rounded with various fruits. Here
there were three or four different
whites which were all distinguishable,
but which it would probably have
taxed the powers of any artist: to rep-
l‘cscnt by painting. The gold foil on
the bottle was exactly rendered, and
it was possible to tell that it was full
by the prismatic gleam of the liquid.
The one unsatisfactory, thing in the
picture was a spoon, whose sparkle
was quite lost; it looked as if it might
have been made of cardboard, covered
with dull silver paper. The inventor
looks forward, among other things, to
revolutionizing by this process the il-
lustration of books and magazines, and
hopes to show in the future how to
flash :1 picture on a screen so that a
permanent copy may be left behind.
————-¢
Hunting Down South.
The most patient man on earth and
the most uncommunicative is the
cracker of Florida,
I employed one to go With me and
carry my traps on a deer hunt. I had
been informed that there were plenty
of of the '
swamp.' I accosted a native:
“I am informed that there are deer
in this section?"
“Yaas.”
“Are there?”
“Yeas.”
“Can I hire you to carry my lug-
gage?" .
“Yeas.” ‘
We got ready, and I asked:
“What direction?”
“Don’t keer.”
We trumped all day, cracker carry-
ing the traps and not saying a word.
We camped out at night, the cracker.
building a fire and cooking supper.
The next day we found no indication
of deer, and still the cracker said
nothing. That night I asked:
“How soon do you think we will
find any deer?”
“Never.”
“I thought you said there were
plenty. “I"
“Not by ar. "
“Well where are they?”
“T’ otl1e1 side swamp’
“Why didn’t you say so long 5. 1:0.
asked, angr‘il).
"Yo' never axed me.”
The next morning we retraced our
stops and two days later reached the
other side of the swamp without an-
other word from the cracker. We had
not been there an hour before I killed
a line buck, and we secured four the
‘rst day. It was a. beautiful huntmg‘
n 11111111, and I was surprised to sud-
denly come upon a large residence.
I could not understand how the deer
remained so close.
“Who lives there?” I
c1acke1.
“Jedge Simmons ”
“Who is he?”
“The man as owns this park and
these deer.”
I did not wait to interview the
Judge but paid the cracker and left
that part of the State. —NeW York
Wor.ld
rm
H
asked the
A Misnomer.
The stage manager was thoughtful.
“I think we e’d better cut that line,”
he said.
“What
man.
“The one that reads
proclaims the man.’ ”
“I don’t see why. .. It has come down
to us Without protest from the day
that Shakespeare wrote it until now,”
said the manager, irritable, “of course
it was all right when it was written.
There were no'girls in knickerbockers'
then, and very likely there was a good
deal of truth in it.”-Pear_son’ s Weekly.
line?” asked the leading
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IA'I‘RICAI: GUS S.SIP
AMY BUSBY \NEDS EUGENE H.
LEWIS, A NEW YORK LAWYER.
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The Pretty Actress Has Quit; “ Sec‘rct
Service ” toEnter Domestic Service-
My Friend from India, So Popular Now,
This Often Thrown Down by Ilianagers.
I’1etty Amy Busby, who was the
leading lady in Gillette’s “Secret SL1.
v1ce" at. the Garrick Theatre, was mar-
ried at her home in Rochester, to Eu-
gene H. Lewis,.a prominent New York
lawyer.
Tee ceremony was performed by the”
Rev. Dr. William R. Taylor, at the
Brick (9'11urcl1.in the presence of near
18111111 es of the biide.
Ellie -.-.1.11ouucement of the matria' Is
11:1..- 21 complete SL 1"p1is e to the many
11‘ 9111's 75 the young acties 55, since Miss
Liaby 11—cently authorized the state
:1 out that she had no intention of mar-
11a11e to any one.
MU. Lewis made the statement tl‘ at
t‘zc 1.\ .«mmg had been hastened some
who: by the unwelcome freedom with
which the daily press had endeavored
to discuss Miss Busby’s affairs.
. AMY BUSBY.
My Friend from India is the work of
a New York newspaper man, and is
one of the best money-making attrac-
tions on the road, no less than five
companies now playing it. Yet this
some play was rejected by every
prominent manager in New York. It
was ofiered to the men who assume
to set in judgment on things theatri-
cal, and one after another of them pro-
nounced it bad; knowing all 'about
such things, they. said it was rot and
rubbish, and they would have noneoi
it. Now that their ruling is disap-
proved, these same mighty minds say
the public don’t know enoughto dis-
criminate, and they cling blindly to
the egotistical idea. that they know it
all. This calls to mind the fact that
when John Habberton sent “Helen‘s
Babies” to the publishers it was re-
jected, and was finally actually thrown
into a barrel of waste paper. Some-
body fished out the manuscript and be-
came interested, and eventually the
most popular book of its time was
printed. Then “Jack” Habberton,
who had never done a lick of newspa-
per work, was offered $100 a week by
one of the New-{York papers. Hoyt,
the famous farce maker, had a simi-
lar experience. He wrote play after
play that managers wouldn’t even
read. Finally he got a hearing, and
then-11c couldn’t grind them out fast
enough. The menwho had assumed
the judgment seat would have none of
him until he broke into the sacred pro-
cincts of the drama in spite of them;
then all the things they had scorned
became marketable, and he grew pros-
,pcrous and married Caroline Miskel. '
A New York theatre manager has dc-
clared war on the theatre hat—not in
the old-fashioned method of issuing a
pronunciam-ento on the theatre pro-
gramme, but by adopting a persuasive
method worthy of imitation by his fel-
low- -mauagers.
A portion of the great lobby of the
Harlem Opera House has been set
aside as a theatre-hat safe deposit
vault. It has been fitted up with tiers
of plush-lined boxes, big enough for
the reception of the most exaggerated
Gainsborough, and fitted with locks to
insure safety. The woman patron of
the house will hereafter be expected
to deposit her hat in one of these
boxes, which will then be locked and
the key given to the owner of the hat.
When the play is over she will not
only get back her hat, but will have
the assistance of an obliging maid,
full-length mirrors, and an unlimited
number of free hair pins in getting the
but back in its proper place.
May Irwin says during a recent c011-
versation: “I treat each houseful of
people just as I would an individual.
I can size up its particular kind in five
minutes. Then I play to it according-
ly, for I never stick to the same line
of work night by night. It is better
for the company; they don’t got to
playing their parts like a lot of ten
pins, and then the audience likes it."
The report comes from the West that
Francis Wilson has revolted from his
allegiance to the theatrical syndicate
commonly known as the Hnyman .11
Frohman Syndicate. The syndicate
includes managers and controls thea-
tres in various cities, and is formed
chiefly for booking purposes. Mr
\Vilson’s booking was done by the syn
dicate, but he rebelled when he \1 a~
asked to appear in certain 111081193 1.
Baltimore and Washington while 11.
preferred certain others. He intends.
it is said, to be independent of the syn-
dicate, even though he will have it
keep out of all the theatres whiz-h 11
controls, including mmg of the princi-
pal ones in some of the. principal
cities—Rose Fanc‘hon.
Rosa FANCimN..
He—-“'-."hy did Miss Oldly take tr-
the V'IOIII19"
She—“Because there's a how goes
with it. "»-Detroit Free Press.
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WEEKLY Non WALI‘. 1- oAzn'r'ra‘.
A SOURCE OF WEALTH..
Gen. Stone Says Good Roads Would Prove
Such to Farmers.
Cyclists are taking a livelier inter-
est in the subject of good roads at
present than ever before. President
Potter of the League of American
Vheelmen is one of the most earnest
workers in this cause, and he is laying
plans for an active campaign. Presi
dent Potter and General Roy Stone,
the head of the Good Roads Bureau of
the Department of Agriculture, hold
frequent consultations on highway im~
provement matters, Herewith is a re
port of a speech made at the good
loads congress at Albany recently by
Geneml Stone:
“You are fighting and working, not
for glory or scalps, but for practical re-
sults in the line of good legislation and
good roads. Your endeavor should i):
1; co-nciliate the farmeis, while 30‘3
1 cop the cities right for r'ef011n.Y01‘-
111.1111 t want to lose friends or to makc
1.11:11111ies. You might succeed in pass-
im: good road laws in spite of the farm.
(11‘s, but you would have to depend
upon the farmers at last for the CKL’(“.‘.~
111.111 of those laws. You must remem-
ber, moreover, that while you have:
been the active agitators for road im-
provement, and have swayed public
sentiment in this direction, the farm-
ers have, in some cases. taken up th:
practical work of ioall- building and
ied it out with marked success. It
the farmers who o11g1natcd the
to Aid law of New Jersey and who
. ve carried it into execution, with its
tly beneficial results,’ not only in
g ' 1: State, but as an example to many
fither States. And it was the farmers
who built the Canandaigua roads in
this State, at their own cost, by direct
taxation, and who petitioned the Leg-
islature for he right to increase the
legal limit of their taxation. Your
effort then should be to keep the farm-
ers with you, or. if possible, put them
in the lead and yourselves in their
suppott.
111 your discussion with the farmers
and their representatives you can
lning to hour
That it is time to do away with the
cruel injustice which places upon them
and upon the small fraction of the
iropcrty in the State which they hold,
the entire burden of building highways
for the whole people. In the State of
New York this burden is borne by one-
i'ourtccnth of the property of the State,
and every measure Which the wheel-
121111: are :11‘1vocating is in the direction
of :‘-- 1.1" “ ' lifting this burden off the
shoulders, instead of saddling
:1. heavier one upon them.
It is enforced idleness that makes
farmers; poor, and no farmer need be
idle a (lay on account of bad weather
or wet fields if only his roads are good.
011 a good road there is always paying
YV‘JI‘ii of some kind, and wet weatheris
just the time to go on the road. The
French farmer never loses a good day
in his fields. for he can do all his mar-
keting and hauling of fertilizers in
rainy times.
What prosperity would burst upon
this countr 1 if every farmer and farm-
er’s boy, not at school, and every farm-
hand and team could earn a full day‘s
wages every day in the year, rain or
shine!
When you have convinced your
neighbors in the cities, and especially
those of them who are candidates for
public life, that the interests of the
city population demand that they shall
come to the relief of the farmers, you
can go to the farmers with this assur-
ance of help and ask them to take into
careful consideration the practical
measures by which this relief can be
brought about, and especially the
measure for providing State aid and
for the use of convict labor. It is only
through State and county aid that the
cities and villages can help. If you find
the farmers clinging to the old ways,
say to them that these ways are main-
ly an unfortunate inheritance from the
mother country, which we brought
away with us and failed to shake off
when the system was abandoned
there; and that today in Great Britain
not only are the roads maintained at
the general cost of the people, but
Government loans are made ‘for any
specially heavy improvements that are
desired. Two hundred years ago the
great highways of that country were
kept up, so for as they were kept tip at
all, just as they are in this State to-
day. by local taxation, while they ac-
tually served the people of the whole
Kingdom.
Upon the convict labor question, let
them understand that a thousand idle
men are being marched about in Sing
Sing Prison today for exercise, whose
labor, if properly directed, could pro-
vide the material for thousands of
miles of good roads every year, and
that the honest industry of the coun-
try pays for maintaining these crimi-
nals in idleness. These things would
be incredible if told in England to-day.
They would be a bitter reproach to our
Republican institutions. And they
would add another argument, and a
most powerful one, for those who
claim that our system of government
cannot care for the economic interests
of the people as well as a monarchy.
it would be a fatal indictment against
our institutions, if it must be truly
said, that a free people, in a rich courr
try. cannot secure for themselves the
blessing of good roads.
1'12111111‘."
Bernhai (It a Teetotafer.
actress, Madame, Sarah Bern-
is a total abstaincr. She does
The
hardt,
not; use. and never has used, wine or"
and other intoxicants, and to this she —
largely , attributes the remarkable
preservation of her mental vigor and
mental power. She drinks but little
too. or coffee, confining her beverage
mostly to milk and water.’ She is lib-
eral with her baths, and takes abun-
dent exams.-. _,,¢o_;.~__,_
this powerful argument:
‘kinds.
“-— I'M
‘ no danger of such an event.
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«MAN 11.13 A MACHINE
NATURE CANNOT BE BEAT. IN HER
LABOR SAVING‘ DEVICESn
No Lost: ZiIotion or Excess of Parts in the
u uman Frame—Adam's Apple is Sort of
Safety Valve, and the Liver Does Police .
Duty .
Few people are aware of the won-
derful engineering skill and ingenuity
with which their bodies are construct-
ed. If patents were taken out for all
the clever contrivances to 'be found
there, they would probably keep the
staff of the Patent Oflice going for
three months.
Who would think that in his eye
there is a block and pulley, or
“tackle," as the sailors call it, as 00111'
Dlete and efficient as that with which
a ship hoists her mains-ail? There it
is, however; and whenever you look
at the tip of your nose the :muscle
that moves your eye-ball works in it.
There are several of these pulleys in
the body.
Another clever dodge of Nature is
shown in the bones of the face. Ac-
complished engineer that she is, she
alway 5 uses the smallest quantity of
material sufficient for strength. In
making the bones of the face, she"
wanted a large surface to which to at-
tach the muscles; but, as she didn’t
wish to encumber us with beads as
heavy as an elephant’s, she burrowed
hundreds of little holes in the bones,
called air cells, and thus secured
strength, large surface and lightness.
When you get a severe cold you are
apprised of the presence of another
cute device—tho Eustachian tube.
This tube is two inches long, and
passes from the'insideof the car to
the back of the mouth. It was put
there to keep the air at the same pres.
sure inside the drum as outside. Oth-
erwise there would be no vibration of
the drum, and you would be almost
stone deaf. When you get a bad cold
this tube becomes inflamed and
blocked, and you are made quite deaf.
Adam’s apple, if it was once that
fruit that brought into the world all
our woe, is now a useful organ. It
serves as a sort of storage cistern of
the blood for the supply of the brain.
When the heart semis up too much
blood Adam’s apple intercepts it, 01‘
part of it; and when the direct supply
from the heart tempororily runs short
Adam’s apple gives up its store.
The liver is a most wonderful 01‘-
gan, containing facilities of several
But perhaps the most wonder.
ful thing in it is that part set aside to
look out for and arrest poisons.
All the food that you eat, except the
fat, has to pass through the liver be-
fore going to the heart and body gen-
erally; and in the liver there appear
to be stationed something of the na-
ture» of customs officers, who examine
every bit of food and remove from it
all substances dangerous to the body.
But they are only capable of dealing
with the small quantities in or-
dinary food, and when you are so
foolish as to eat poisonous mushrooms
of mussels they are overpowered.
Another protection from danger is
afforded you by the supply of. a small
quantity of hydrochloric acid to the
stomach. There are little machines in
the stomach specially designed for the
manufacture of this acid from the salt
you eat. and they are so regulated that
they produce a quantity equal to one-
fifth of 1 per cent of the contents of
the stomach. Experiment shows that
this is exactly the percentage required
to destroy the microbes that we swal-
low in thousands in our ,food. But
for this thoughtful provision of Na-
ture we would probably get a new
disease with every meal.
Most people know the use of the ep-
iglottis, which saves us f1om immi-
nent death every time we swallow a
bit of food. At the back of the mouth
the air passage and the food passage
cross each other, and, whenever we
swallow food, it would inevitably go
into the windpipe and choke us, only
that this little body pops down and
covers the entrance. It: is like the po-
liceman who regulates the traffic
where the streets cross. ’
The semi-circular canals, for Centur—
ies a physiological'puzzle, are an ex-
traordinary device for enabling us to
keep our balance. ,They are little
channels, hollowed out, in connection
with the ear, in the bones cf the
head, and partly, filled with fir-ll.
lymph. As our head or body sways
the fluid moves, acting like a spirit
level, and informing the brain wheth-
er we are standing in the perpendicu-
lar or at a dangerous angle.
So inventive was Nature when con-
structing our body that the difficulty
is to stop enumerating her clever
ideas. She saw that we would very
soon grow tired if we had to hold up
two heavy legs by means of muscu-
lar effort, so she made the hip-joint ,
air-tight, and the pressure of the air
alone keeps the leg in its place.
At: the same time, although she had
not discovered ball bearings, she
made the ball of the leg bone and the
socket of the hip so smooth, and oiled
the joint so well, that the friction is
practically nothing.
When the spinal canal in the back-
bone was made, great pains had .to be
taken, for, while it Consists of many
pieces and is freely movable, it con
tains the p1ecious spinal cor,d one nip
of which would be fatal. The meas-
urements are so accurate that there is
Wher-
ever there is much and frpe motion, as
in the neck, the canal is large and
open, and a nip is impossible.
But the most remarkable of all de-
vices is that for splicing broken bones.
The moment a bone is broken, a sur-
gical genius is at - once dispatched
from the brain to the spot. He pro-
ceeds-to surround the broken ends
with a ferrule or cartilage. Tde is
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