Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-10-26

IaSt WoruS Wulle dying Ut tu9 AstOr house,
New York, were: II thank God for all His
goodness to me. He has been very good
to me-" When he entered heaven, he did
not have to run Il blockade, for 1t was
amid the cheers Of u great welcome. The
other Christian admiral will be honored
above shall lick up the waters from be-
meath and there shall be no moro sea.
Oh, while old oceans breast
Bears u white sail
And Gods soft stars to rest
Guide through the gale,
Men will him ne'er forget,
Old heart Of oak
Farragut, Farragut-
Thunderbolt strokel
According to his own statement, Far.
ragut was very loose in his morals in early
manhood and practiced all kinds Of sin.
One day he was called int o the cabin OF his
father, who was shipmaster. His father
said, David. what are you going to be
follow the sea" "Follow the sea-" said
the father. land be kicked about the
world and die in n foreign hospital?"
NO." said David; 81 am going to COM
mand like you" "No." said the father;
ga boy OF your habits will never command
anything" And his father burst into tears
and left the cabin. From that day David
Farragut started on q new life.
Captain Pennington, an honored eide.
OF my Brooklyn church, was with him IL
most of his battles and had his intimate
friendship, and he confirmed, what I had
heard elsewhere. that Farragut was good
and Christian. In every great crisis of
life he asked and obtained the Divine di-
rection. When In Mobile bay the monitor
Tecumseh sank from a torpedo and the
great warship Brooklyn, that was to load
the squadron, turned back, he said he
60 tuhn har 70 nj
vance or retreat, and he says: II prayed.
% God, who created man and gave him
reason, direct me what to do. Shall go
on?' And voice commanded me, go
on and l went on" Was there ever
more touching Christian letter than that
which he wrote to his wife from his flagship
Hartford? MY dearest wife, write and
leave this letter for you. am going into
Mobile bay in the morning II God is my
leader, and I hope He is, and in Him I
place my trust. II He thinks 1t Is the proper
place for me to die, am ready to submit
TO His will in that as all other things. God
bless and preserve you, my darling, and
my dear boy, II anything should happen to
me. May His blessings rest upon you and
your dear mother"
Cheerful to the end, he said on board the
Tallapoosa In the last voyage he ever took,
The sublime Episcopal service for the dead
was never moro appropriately rendered
than over his casket and we'll did all the
forts OF New York harbor thunder as his
body was brought to the wharf, and we'll
did the minute guns sound and the bells
toll as In procession having In its ranks
the President of the United States and his
cabinet and the mighty men OF land and sea
the old admiral was carried, amid hum
dreds OF thousands OF uncovered heads on
Broadway, and laid on his pillow of dust in
beautiful Woodlawn, September 80, amid
IA ~ III n m n a
u We hail with thanks the new generation
Of naval heroes, those OF the year 1893. We
are too near their marvellous deeds to fully
appreciate them. A cehtury from now
poetry and sculpture and painting and his
tory will do them better justice than we
have been IN infinite disaster. Foreign
nations not over fond of our American in
stitutions would have Joined the other side,
and the war SO many months past would
have been raging still, and perhaps hun.
dred thousand graves would have opened
to take down our slain soldiers and sailors.
1t took this country three years to get
over the disaster at Bull Run ut the open
ing OF the civil war. How many years 1t
would have required to recover from q
defeat ut Manila in the opening OF the
Spanish war I cannot say. God averted
the calamity by giving triumph to our
navy under Admiral Dewey, whose coming
up through the Narrows Of New York har-
hor day before yesterday was greeted by
the nation whose welcoming cheers will
not cease to resound until tomorrow, and
next day in the capital OF the nation the
jeweled sword voted by Congress shall be
presented amid booming cannonade and
embannered hosts, and our autumnal
nights shall become connagratton OF
splendor, but the tramp Of these process.
sions ana the fash OF that sword and the
huzza OF that greeting and the roar Of
those guns and the illumination of those
nights will be seen and heard as long AS d
page of American history remains inviolate.
Especially let the country boys Of
America join in these greetings to the
work. The chief character In ail the
scene Is the once country lad, George
Dewey. Let the Vermonters come down
and lind him older, but the same modest,
unassuming, almost bashful person that
they went to school with and with whom
they sported on the playground. The hon.
crs OF all the world cannot spoil him. A
few weeks ago ut banquet in England
some of the titled nobemen wero af-
frouted because our American minister
plontpotentlary ass socinted the name OF
Dewey with that of Lord Nelson. As we'll
might We be affronted because the name
OF Nelson Is associated with that OF our
most renowned admiral. The one man In
all the coming ages will stand as high as
the other. SO this day sympathizing with
all the festivities and celebrations OF the
past week and with all the festivities and
celebrations to come this week, let us
anew thank God and those heroes OF the
American navy who have done such great
things for our beloved land. Come aboard
the old ship Zion, ye sailors and soldiers,
whether still In the active service or hon.
orably discharged and at homo having re-
sumed citizenship. And ye men OF the
past, your last battle on the seas fought,
take from me, in Gods name, salutation
and good cheer. For the few remaining
fights with sin and deaths and hell make
ready. Strip your vessel for the fray. Hang
the sheet chains over the side. Send down
the topgallant masts. Barricade the wheel.
Rig in the flying jib boom. Steer straight
for the shining shore, and hear the shout
of the great Commander OF earth and
heaven as He cries from the shrouds. ITO
him that oyercometh will give to eat of
the tree OF life which is in the midst of the