The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-09-09
THE WHIKLIGlG OF TINE.

Some yeats ago a young officer OF
the United States navy was on the ex-
ecu!ive stall under Admiral Porter,
superintendent of the Naval Academy
at Annapolis. The head of the de-
partment of drawing was Lieutenant
Commander Sampson, Lieutenant
Commander Casey was in til. depart
ment of ordinance and Windfield S.
Schley, also lieutenant commander,
was head of the department of gun
merry. There were others stationed
there whose names have become house
hold words. Lieutenant Commander
Dewey was in charge of ships, Lieu
tenant Phil. Cooper, who, rs captain,
takes command of the Chicago when
she goes into commission this week,
was an instructor, and Captain A. S.
Crowinshield, now chief of the Bureau
of Navigation, was Junior officer on
executive duty with Lieu. Comman-
der Frederick V. McNair, the one who
is spoken of in the first lines of this
paragraph and who has returned with
in few days to Annapolis as superin-
tendent of the academy. This period
was nearly thirty years ago, and in
June of one of those years, say in 1869
or 1870, there came many distinguish
ed guests to Annapolis to attend the
b..,,ii of the graduating class. Among
these guests came General W. L.
Sherman, escorting Jessie Benton Ere
mont, daughter OF Senator Bentos
wife of the ''pathfindcr,' mother d
Lieutenant John G. Fremont, Jr.,
commanding the torpedo boat Porter
in Cuban waters, and, had she lived
grandmother of John c. Fremont, Jr.,
H., cadet midshipman, also serving in
the fleet with his father. Lieutenant
Fremont was then fourth-class man
and just entered the navy. General
Grant, then President, brought his
daughter, Nellie, to her first ball
General Babcock was there, Adolph
Borie, the Secretary of the Navy, es-
corted thither host of Philadelphians,
General Sheridan, Captain Stephen B.
Luce, Lieutenant Commander Mahan,
now rear admiral, were there and the
innumerablc throng of military and
naval people about whom this screed
mad no concern. Frederick McNair
shared the duties of host and enter
tanned in lodgings in bachelor row a
young naval attache of the Spanish le-
CATION by name and rank Lieutenant
Cervera. The young Spaniard danced
with Nellie Grant and Mrs. Fremont,
and it being Lieutenant Commander
McNair's night Of duty as officer in
charge, his bed was vacant for the use
of Cervera, and he occupied it. The
next day the visitors drifted off to
their various places and McNair hav-
ing given his guest breakfast bade him
bood-bye to meet him again thirty
years later in the same place, this
time, as before, as host, the Spaniard,
like himself, an admiral, but in the
added relation of prisoner. This is
coincidence of meetings that is inter-
estins and curious, but the hospitality
of the American probably lacked
nothing that entered into it so long
ago, although the past situation gave
it peculiar quality.
IT is JUST AS IMPORTANT
That you enrich and purify your blood
in the Fall as in the Spring. At this
time, owing to decaying vegetation,
low water level, and other causes, there
are disease germs all about us, and a
weak and debilitated system quickly
Yields to attacks of malaria, fevers, etc.
By purify ing and enriching your blood
with Hoods Sarsaparlla You may
build up your system to resist these
dangers, as we'll as coughs, colds,
pneumonia and the grip which come
with colder weather. To be on the
safe side, take Hoods Sarsapariila
now, and always be sure it is Hoops
and not something else represented to
be ''just as good
"Now, Thomas" said certain
bishop, after taking his servant to
task one morning, "who is it that sees
all we do, and hears all we say, and
knows all we think, and who regards
even me in my bishops robes as but a
vile worm of the dust p And Thorn
as replied, The missus, sir