The age-herald., 1899-02-21
MRS. MORRTSSETTE WRITES
 OF TRAVELLING LIBRARIES


 Perry patroled Long Island with lotilla of gunboats, made maps and faithfully drilled his men hoping that ere long Eng fish depredations would be met by declara- ton of war. War came and he was ordered in 1913 to Lake Erie to prevent the descent of the English from Canada. A vivid ac- count follows of his bitterly cold and peri ious journey across the northern frontier and of his success. His flagship named Lawrence, for the hero who had just laid down his life for his native land, his signal as they moved into line of battle, the dying words of Lawrence: Don't give up the ship" he fought with that courage and determination for which his whole life had been preparation, and was enabled to send the historic dispatch: We have met the enemy and they are ours"
 Keen personal interest is kept up in Perry's career to the close of our war with England through his Mediterranean expe- dition against the Dey of Algiers, and his final mission to the Venezuelan govern ment on which coast he became a victim of yellow fever, and, in the words of Decatur: "The American navy lost its brightest ornament"
 The ovations given to Perry on his visits home between his war cruises can be dis tinctly realized by American youth today who know of the grand reception on the Hudson river to Sampson, and of the hon
 
 try on the other heroes of the war with Spain.
 Farragut was born in East Tennessee in the early part of the century, and glimpse is afforded in the early pages of his life of the strength and courage with which the frontersman held the Indians at bay Going at to plantation in Louisiana while his father commanded a gunboat on the Mississippi he was taken from his home by Admiral Porter who adopted him, and who made himss at 10 years of age a midshipman on board the Essex (1S12), then sailing out to battle for free trade and sailors rights.
 In the battle at Valparaiso he carried messages for the captain, and brought powder for the guns, bravely holding his way while all around him men fell beneath the rain of shot and shell. He had the honor, though but 13, of being mentioned for gallantry in the official dispatches. Yet he became a dutiful schoolboy at Chester, Pa, while the terms of the surren- der of the Essex enforced his absence from the navy
 After peace with England he sailed on the Washington, that carried the American minister to Italy, and afterwards cruised in the Mediterranean. All the time that could be found for study was devoted to mathe- matics, literature and languages.
 In the 20s he was with Admiral Porter's mosquito fleet that rid the Weet Indies of pirates. Subsequently he occupied himself with teaching and studying and in the sos laid the foundations of the great navy yard at Mares Island, thirty miles out from San Francisco In 1861 he left his adopted state of Virginia, and offering his services to the United States, was soon made commander of the western gulf blockading squadron, where in 1862 he distinguished himself by passing the forts below New Orleans and by his capture of New Orleans. Soon after in Mobile bay he won what he called "the hardest earned victory of his life," having O