The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-11-13
.AIas for him Who never sees


Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,
Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across the mournful marbles play;
Who has not learned in hours of faith,
The truth, 10 time and sense unknown,
That life is even lord OF death.
And love can never lose its own
A sad home coming was that O.
Mrs. Stocking, daughter of the. late
Justice Miller, who was spending the
year in Vienna, and immediately
upon receiving news of her fathers
illness left for Liverpool to take the
steamer home. In n lonely railway
carriage, journeying from London to
Liverpool, she CHANGED upon a newspa.
per and there read the neart-crusl ing
news of her fathers death. A great
grief is hard to bear even when sur
sounded by those the heart nolds
dearest and best, but isolation and an
guish cause the soul to cry out in un.
utterable agony.
THE JEANETTE MONUMENT.
Thursday of last week was mem.
orable day at Annapolis, when the
ceremony of unwilling the monument
to the heroes of the Jeanette ex
petition was performed in the pres
ence of several hundred distinguished
persons.
The cadets of the naval academy
attended in full battalion, their band
furnishing the music for the occasion.
All the officers of the academy were
in full uniform and made brilliant
display. After brief prayer by the
chaplain Commander Barber, chair
man OF the memorial committee, made
an address turning the monument
over to Capt. R. L. Phythian. Then
followed the Grafton by Hon. r. l..
Solely, assistant secretary of the navy,
who drew the veil and disclosed to
view the monument, which is an ar
tistic reproduction of the heap of
stones by which the companions Of
belong protected the remains of their
dead comrades on the bleak Lena
Delta. Surmounting the cairn
is the fac smile of the wooden cross
in stone, with only enough embellish-
ment to give artistic effect.
The monument bears this inscrip-
ton in bronze:
Commemorative
ofthe Heroic Officers and Men of the
United States Navy
Who Perished in the
Jeanette Arctic Exploring Expedition
1881.
Then follow the names of the brave
ones who sleep their last sleep in the
ice locked regions of the land of the
midnight sun.
Mr.. Soley's Grafton treated infinitely
OF the untold, unrealized agony of
those grand souls, and listening to his
vivil portrayal one could almost hear
the words of patient endurance, and
see the martyr spirit in the faces of
those who SO bravely defied death.
The closing sentences were thrill
ing. "Heartrending as is the burden
of that song borne to us upon the
wings of the Siberian wind, it is not
the mournful music of defeat. As
with their great Morse ancestors, the
sea heroes, the death chant of our
own sea heroes rings only with a
triumph we triumph also"
"P@ans sing high. What would we with q
dirge?
Proudly we weep over brave"
METHODIST BISHOPS.
Mention was made last week of the
meeting of the board of bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal church. They
convened on Thursday, the Both, in
the lecture room of the Metropolitan
church. The sixteen desks are ar.
ranged in semi-clrcular fashion, with
fancy waste baskets at convenient
distances, and at two sessions daily
the scholarly theologians are seated
to discuss the business connected
with their vast ministerial territory.
Their reports are from all parts of
the globe-India, China, Japan, hay
ing been visited during the year. A
grand reception was rendered the
reverend gentlemen by the denomi-
nation they represent, at which were
present many distinguished guests
from this and other cities. The local
Ai"ooSi NhiSh OASluCS llOSG III JGfpBU Is
the establishment OF the national
university, a matter in which not only
all Methodists are interested, but
which has met cordial response from
the Protestant community at large in
this and other cities. All denomina-
tions have offered liberal con tribu !
tions, not excepting the Catholics
one of the prominent business men
here having given a handsome dona-
ton. The site has already been pur-
chased and partly paid fora fine
ridge to the northwest of the city a. |
an elevation Of 400 feet, commanding
glorious view of the country as far
away as the hills of the Blaze Ridge,
sixty miles distant, and old Sugar
Loaf mountain, forty-fve miles away.
On Saturday an interesting pro-
gramme had been laid out; the whole
board of bishops, with many other
clergymen, were driven out to the uni
versity grounds, and each bishop was
to plant tree, which should bear his
name, but the wind blew so keen and
sharp on that high point that pru
dence suggested the tree planting
should be done by proxy. They will,