lfiw “1 i'n , adequate 'tEulness and honor with which th-= - into the town. GRANT, IN THE D’AYSOFCI-VILWM: .. '1he North and South Will Unite in R - calling His Career. This year the birthday of Genera! Grant, which occurs on April 27, is to . be celebrated in a memorable way a: his old home in Galena, Illinois. ., the first time a. veteran of the Confect- erate army, Judge Emory Speer. 0! ' Macon, Georgia, will deliver the mem- =or1al address. In answer to the invi- , 'tation to give this address, Judge S069?- 'wrote: “I do not hesitate to accept th invitation, and if I can give an‘ expression of the carc- frenown of that great American is- "cherished by his countrymen who dwell in the Southern States i ‘shall be happy indeed." This is 11 significant occurrence. the honoring: ' of the leader of the blue by a soldier (of the gray; and heralds the complete establishment of the‘ ‘era of good feel- ing.” Judge Speer served in the 5th Kentucky Regiment, which was a part of the famous Orphan Brigade. He is an eloquent speaker; and his tribute ' to the memory of the man who con- quered him, along with several hun- dreds of thousands of comrades, will be of unusual interest. At Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, the day is to be commemorated by the un« veiling of an equestrian statue of Gen- eral Grant. In New York city the Grant Monument Association will give, a banquet in memory of the great Soi- dier; and the services at the tomb, while lacking the pomp and cir- c'urnstances of the grand dedication ceremonies of one year ago, will yet be a fitting echo of that notable event. It is interesting to note among the trustees of the Grant Monument As- sociation the names of three Confeder- ate generals. The most striking strait of General Grant's character was his modesty. In the makeup of the man egotism had no part. He never boasted and never posed. He had no vanity to feed. A distinguished literary critic, after read- ing. Grant's “Memoirs,” made there- mark: “This is the only autobiogra- phy I have ever read which is totally devoid of egotiSm. ” Shortly after the close of the ‘wa'r General Grant visited Bethel, where his father had lived. The good people heard of his coming, and after “theimanner of country folks sought to do honor to him. They hired a band and carriages, and the judges and politicians rode out to meet and to escort him, With befitting pomp, On the way they met a middle-aged, care-worn man driving . a team of horses hitched to‘a surrey. He looked like a co antry merchant out for a drive. “Didn’t hear anything of General Grant coming along this way, did you?" the leading citizen inquired. The man in the. surrey nodded. “Yes; he is on the road now,” he re— plied :n‘a jogged on. For. \VEEKLY - NORWALK - _". Shortly after the __ _ stranger had vanished one man said to the rest: “I believe that was Grant himself.“ ' 3i , The man was right. The care- worn, plainly-dressed, middle-aged man jogging along contentedly in the surrey was General Grant. The judges and politicians" could hardly: believe their eyes. They had expected the great general would appear in full uniform, with his staff, likewise in glittering uniforms, trailing behind him. Another trait, rarer even than is modesty in great men, was his absolute truthfulness. Few men know Gen- eral Grant better than did General Horace Porter, who thus writes of him: “He was without exception the most absolutely truthful man I have ever encountered in public life. An incident will illustrate this trait’. One day, while busy writing in his bedroom at the White House, a servant brought n a card. “Say the President 5 not in,” ordered an importunate sfilcer to. the servant. General Grant overheard the command, and, turning suddenly in his chair, called out to the tervant: "Tell him no such thing. i. ion’t lie myself, and I don’t want any- me to lie for me.‘ General Grant was one of the very 'ew men who never displayed the ilightest nervousness-during a battle. No matter how great the personal dan‘ fer or momentous the occasion, he was ilways outwardly calm, imperturbable. At Belmont one of his staff exclaimed: 'We are entirely lost, General. They have surrounded us." “Then we will :ut our Way out,” he replied, indiffer- entiy. During the attack on Peters- ourg Grant and his staff halted on the summit of a. small hill, which over- ;ooked the battlefield. The position was exposed to the fire of the enemy, ‘ who, probably noticing the gathering of officers, began to pay particular at- :ention to that particular spot. Gen- 1nd gave no attention whatever to the calls flying all around him. The members of the staff began to grow ineasy, and suggested that he move :0 a less exposed position. Grant con- :inued writing. When he had finished the despatches and had taken a final view of the enemy, be mounted his iorse, remarking as he rode quietly may: “Well, they do seem to have got the range on us." General Grant was never great in :ittle things. He could not. success- fully manage a farm; but he led great armies to victory. He was unable to cope with his townsmen in a petty election; but he directed a negotiation :hat averted a war between England 1nd the United States, and won the ad- miration of diplomatists. He was a soldier and statesman; not a business man; but even here he needed the spur it great responsibility to force out all i he latent powers of his masterful l nind. ' I ~ Dedicated to Miss Belle Sarzeron. plain-looking~ aral Grant was busy writing dispatches , 4" Q The Fury of a June Storm About Key West and the Cuban Coast. - , Will the Cuban question drag along until the summer which is the season of awful tempests in West Indian and Carribean waters? Obviously it ought to be settled before summer or the advent of the rainy season on land and the hurricanes on sea will render it im- possible of settlement until fall. Throughout the summer months the risk of wreck in the northern part of the Carribean Sea is so great that the most powerful men-of-war are not proof against these sudden storms even while riding in harbor. In 178‘.J the Ville de Paris, the Centaur and the Ramilies foundered in a gale, and a whole fleet of West Indiamen was sunk ‘ in 1830, also while lying to in a hurri- cane. The wind suddenly shifted from west to east and blew equally heavy and every ship in harbor, says the London Nautical Magazine, “under a square course foundered with the loss of their various crews.” These southern storms which are generated under the equator move like the Gulf Stream in a northerly direc- tion and come into collision with the archipelago of islands in the northern limit of the Carribean Sea. Of these islands the three or four largest, name- ly Cuba, San Domingo, Hayti and Por- to Rico form a continual barrier op- posed obliquely to the trade winds. And as a mass of moving atmosphere, coming from the north, also presses down upon the islands in its southwes- tern progress, the obstruction which the islands thus affords produces a con-_ stant tendency to atmospheric distur. bance and a. consequent eddying mo. tion which sweeps along the coasts gathering rapidly increased powers 0! destruction as it proceeds. Probably the most thrilling example of these Southern ocean disasters was that which occurred in the harbor oi Apia, ten years ago. It was so terrible an event that it. is said to have actual- ly subdued a rebellion, and the natives certain that Heaven was angry with them were so awed by the storm of that year that no power on earth could again stir them to revolt. In 1888 there were complications be« tween Great Britain, Germany and the United States in Samoa. A native Chief Tamasese, was the Kaiser’s fav- ‘orite for the crown and the German gunboats Eber and Adler were sent to Apia in his behalf. England sent the Calliope and the United States de- spatched the Trenton and four other war vessels in order to check the Kai- . ear and to maintain order. One evening these various war ves- sels were all lying at anchor as proud- ly as Sennacherib's host in the harbor of Apia, awaiting hostilities on shore. Without much warning one of these fierce gales struck the harbor, and in less time than it takes to say “Cock 3912111,", _the attention of the seamen (— so; SHOTTISCHE MILITAIRE. Moderate. ( ( .::l:p': D.S. to Fine, then Trio. LOUIS MAZZETTI. >> O TRIO. ' BATTLING WITH THE ELEMENTS.~ _ . L was suddenly diverted from the deluge -of Tomasese and his fellow conspira- tors; hatches were battered down, top- sails reefed; the upper spars were 'girt; great guns were securely fastened in their places; additional anchors dropped and ample cables played out to allow the ships to heave to and fro in a heavy sea. The various captains were thundering orders to their crews and the latter were rushing madly to their posts of duty, when suddenly the cables dragged and the ~immense"war vessels were pitching hither and thith‘ er like chips in whirlpool while the terrified and crazed natives looked on in amazement, believing" as‘they did in their superstitious Samoan way that the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast. After a short but brave battle against "a terrific wind and a high rolling sea the German gunboat Eber went down, sending a last puff of white smoke into their as the wat- ers quenched the fires of her boilers below. Seventy-five brave seamen went down with her, four of their bodies be- ing sometime later washed on the Shore. The crew of the Nipsic, seeing their ship now dragging anchor before the storm detached a Krupp gun from the gun carriage and fastening it to an eight-inch hawser, sWung it as‘an additional anchor into the sea. While doing this the Nipsic was rammed by the Olga losing two of her boats in addition to other injuries and her smoke pipe, 'With her smoke pipe gone steam was impossible to be kept up so the Nipsic was beached upon the sands and in an attempt to lower one of her remaining boats some of the crew were thrown out and drowned; others with great difficulty, and by sliding to shore on life lines were saved in quite a miraculous way. In less than five minutes the Alder drifted broadside on the reef where her sister ship had foundered. In another mo- ment she was lifted bodily out of the sea on the crest of a gigantic wave and later pitched over on her side, drowning twenty of her crew. While this distressing series of incidents was happening in one part of the harbor, the Vandalia of the American squad- ron was in another place running be- fore the storm into the British ship Calliope She was beached with great difiiculty, many of her crew meantime dropping into the surging angry sea. In the last effort her brave captain was knocked down by a machine gun that had broken loose, rolling over him on deck and killing him outright. His body was washed off and he sank in a moment. Next morning when the muster roll'on the Vandalia was and no bird can safely fly through, sur- pass in their .horrible and lonely deso- lation those inhabiiable regions which Mr. Fronde in his ”Oceana" has marked for such marvellous achieve- ments of the human race. -—L. B. Connery. He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. G A 7. ET '1‘ 15. DON CARLOS, THE PRETENDER. Who May Yet Become the Charles Edward of the Carlist Cause. The present turn in the aflairs of Spain would seem to be the one glori- ous' opportunity for Don Carlos, pre- tender to the throne, legitimate de— scendant of the Bourbon line, and Duke of Madrid. Time there Was when the cause of Don Carlos, which meant the intrenchment of absolutism’ and of clerical intrigue for the union of church and state, excited little more than passive disgust in this country. But now when such an opening as has not presented itself since the legacy of Ferdinand VII bequeathed a burning issue to the Bourbons and when the United States would be glad to hear of the royal claimant, there is not one word about “Carlism” or the “Carl- ists,” about “the Basque Provinces” or the “Pragmatic Sanction" which is not of interest. Don Carlos, who was born March 29, 1848, is'fifty years of age and is just now receiving the cordial respects of Spaniards on the fiftieth anniversary of his birth, which occurred at a. small inn at Layback in the Austrian States, and while his mother, who was an Arch-duchess'of Austria was en route to the Court of Vienna. He had be— come the heir of the Carlist fortunes by his father waiving his own claims in favor of' the son, after the death of. Don Carlos I, or as he was called Charles VI. The first Don Carlos was an amiable old humbug who preferred Te Deums to drilling camps It is not generally known perhaps that as England is indebted to the amourous tastes of one of its merry monarchs for an Established Church, so Spain has a Carlist cause through the intrigues or the lapses of virtue of one of her many Messalinas. The father of Ferdinand VII had two sons, Ferdinand and Don Carlos. Ferdin- and was the elder and in the closing years of his reign "was without chil- dren, though he had been three times married. While on a visit to Spain one of the Neapolitan princesses was badly snubbed by the sister-in-law of Ferdinand, that is to say by the wife of Don Carlos of that day, who was heir presumptive to the throne. This snub led to a palace war and it was planned to marry the old King to an- other Neapolitan princess, the daughter of Francis I of Naples, who thus be- came Fer‘dinand’s fourth wife. The marriage was a mere camarilla, and in due time to the consternation of all the courtiers the lady was about to pre- sent the King with a direct heir to the throne. The' secret records of the Court of Spain say that though-the King was the putative father, a cham- berlain, the son of a tobacconist, was the real father. However, in the lang- uage of politics. not desiring to “go behind the records,” we may let that pass; but, anyway, so that the Donna Carlos should never become Queen of Spain, the snubbed Neapolitan princess 822112 5:!- s L (..a__.__ -S. we. Codi. - ' over fifty years. arranged that the King should abroi gate the Salic law, through which; males no matter how remote succeeded to the Crown in preference to females . no matter how proximate in the di- i rect line of succession. This law would . secure the crown for the child of the . lady then encente, no matter what might be its sex. Ferdinand was ill - and gouty and also a mere mental crip- ple, who was alternately in the hands of a clerical favorite named Color- narde, and of this snubbed princess. He first proclaimed. the Pragmatic Sanc- tion which established the succession in females. as well as in males, but Colornarde at once induced him to re- voke this step- When the Neapolitan princess heard of this she was at Cadiz. Driving in - haste to Madrid, she went to Ferdinand and demanded that the King summon a COuncil of Ministers and there and then, in the presence of the Ministers. restore and re-avow the order which he had already revoked while under the influence of Colornarde. The King did as the lady directed and Don Car— los protested against this attempt to deprive him of the right of succession. Soon after the King died and in "the meantime the Princess Isabella—after- wards Queen” Isabella—was born. As Soon as the King died this fourth wife was appointed Regent of the Kingdom and guardian of Isabella. One of her first actions was to drive out Colornarde who also narrowly es- raped assassination. Her next act was to secretly marry the Chamberlain by whom she had ten more children not counting Princess Isabella. Colorn— arde’s party immediately raised the standard of rebellion in Catalonia, the Basque Provinces and Leon; and mass- es and Te Deums were mingling their sacred music together with the sound- af bugles up the valley sides, and along the fastn‘esses of Spain for Carlos VIII! "the King after God's own heart, the. Church’s King, the King Absolute andl Omnipotent, the King pure and un-’ adulerated.” Spain was now arrayed. into Apostolicals and Monarchists. These rival issues have divided Spain with slight subordinate shadings for The scandals of the court have been the gossip of Europe. The regent Christina, after marrying the Chamberlain, was herself driven' out. When her daughter Isabella II was proclaimed Queen, the Carlists dis- puted the succession the second time. in turn Queen Isabella followed in the footsteps of her mother, and the late King Alphonso was generally believed to stand in the same relation to Mar- shall Serrano, as had the heir, Ferdin- and, to the former Chamberlain. The Carlists hailed the coronation of Al- phonso as evén a huger joke than the birth of Isabella. The third Carlist war which was thus generated was carried on without pre~ tence of strategy, yet the party of Don Carlos made a stiff fight for the throne, Nothing emits a worse odor than a lull-en name. . a Fine. N .
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