The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-08-16

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stumbled and feIl-and great was the
fall.
To-day Cervcra strolls along the slopes
of the Seven Il very silent man. lie IS
not monrose. He does not murmur. He
is a proud prisoner.
In his daily walks about Annapolis he
seems Il man at liberty. He, at least
knows better. He feels about him the
strong keenness of an unseen Sllk'n
thread. checking him if he would walk
abroad beyond the appointed time. Like
Josephine at Malmaison, Napoleon on his
~iron-bound island. Hortensc within the
prison walls of the Alps. Jefferson Davis
within the easement of Fortress Monroe.
Lee under the indens Of Lexington: like
the leaders of all lost causes. in all times,
Cervcra keeps his smile for men who
come and go-and his dcsolation for
himScl.. He moves in an envelope of
pathos. About him is an armor as in
visible as it is impenctrablc-like that e
Brunhilde's Knight-not. happily like the
armor of his own cherished CristOhal
Colon.
The American feels kind of close 10
what is called Il fair and square man.
SO it is that the good folk of Annapolis.
wit. the echoes of the voice of Wash
ington still heard from the State House
on the hill. look. forsooth, with some
sort of kindness upon this stricken man
of Santiago. who babe Hohson, indeed,
he of good cheer, but spared not himself
in the sea fight.
PEN PICTURE OF THE ADMIRAL.
c.rver, * full siv foot fall His le,s
,rn homo md bn,vv and SRA nnlinr Thcv
do not lo,l * if they were used ia
~v,lL;nm man not ovor fat thouph
he weirhs easily over two houndrrd
noundS His waist seems rirdIed with
muscle, and the body develops ponder
uuslv and with y succession of great
novcr nm to and about the shoulders He
must wear as much as = seventeen collar
Ground :. neck tbat looks hard and stub
horn and NOT too short. The back Of
hi; head comes more straieht down than
otherwise. without leaving the impress
sion of the intense and eztrayayant pas
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They were walking together Ccrvcra
and Euiate, when L saw them. Cerverl
with Father Cook. of st. MaryS. and
Eulate with Lieutenant CcrVera, the son
of the distinguished prisoner.
Cervcra was dressed in Il citizens sack
suit. an Inexpensive suit Of blue. and
walked with an umbrella, the morning
saw him. 1t was in interesting four.
Lieutenant Cervera. who by report saved
his fathers life and who by report $
an athlete, does not look the athlete. He
is a trim figure. small by the side Of
his father: a man of much bonhomic.
with reddish brown hair and beard.
worn Van Dyke. The priest father
walked along i'll Il long alpaca sack suit
and was duly shaver. but not shorn nf
his whitish hair. This very priest it is to
whom Ccrvcra speaks more freely. per
hans than TO any other person in An
papolis. The good father respects The
confidence, But he said to me. with a
look of pride entirely Just.
zine first voluntary act done by Adj
miraI Cervera after his arrival in An
n,nolis WAS TO attend mass. He arrived
in Annanolis Saturday night and attend
ed early mass Sunday morning.
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Admiral Cerycra spends much of his
time with Father Cook. and sometimes
when the crowds begin to get too curious
at early mass he slips OUT unobscrvcd
from the academy about halfpast ten
or eleven, and has u special mass said
for him Father Cook has had some CD
nortunitv ia oct ,t tho mental uuoIitv Of
Admiral Cnrynro. rs we'll as Licutcnam
,mm.ndnr Moore officer in charge Of
tho huiIdin~ and rrnunds or the Naval
Academy. Cervrra is not 4 reconcou: he
* NOT nhilosonhic Hc NAV he both but
nc has not cTinccd oitbnr G~u,ltv 10 Mr.
Moore or to Fatbcr cook 10 has i'm
dressed both AZ holm ohsorv,nt we'll
read and tactfu1 viii lircoro ,;yn;+v
pnt - =, ~ ! "i-"i's'
look at him str, iabt Almost GIn,r " h1na
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