El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-13
Memory f. Immortal.

Memory Is Immortal.
Time passed, as passes timH with COM
mon souls
Whose thoughts and wishes end with.
every day;
For whom future is-whpse present
hours
Reveal no looming shade of that which
But Memory is Immortal, fur she comes
To me, from heaven or hell, to me, once
more!
AS birds that, migrate choose the ocean
wind
That beats them helpless, while it steers
them home:
So 1 this way driNen-I chose this
way
OF old my dwelling place. where all my
Are buried AT first Z was; enchanted
) here;
Impossible appeared the pail, the si1roud;
And in my spell, trod the grassy Streets
Where in the summer days mild oxen
The bristling: hay; and; fn the winter
SHOWS
The creahing masts and Knees for mighty
ships,
Whose hulls- were parted ON the coral
reefs.
Or four,dered. in the daoths. of Arctic
nights.
I wandered through the gardens rank
Wonderful once, when 7 was LIKE the
flowers;
Along the weedy- paths. grew roses still,
Surviving empire, but remaining queens
My mood established by the sluubrous
town
| (Slunrber with slurnber. dream with
| dream should bep
| I sought a mansion on, the lonely shore,
From which,. his feet made level with his
head
Saved . Vessel.
Springfield (MoD Correspondence to
ST. Louis Globe-.Democrat: Mrs. Sarah
Eversol, an old lady of this city, is
| trying to secure, pension for saving
! q government vessel from capture in
1861 Mrs Eversol then lived at Com
merce; Scott county, Mo. On Deem
Der 90, 1861, the rebel general, jeff M
Thompson, captured the town of Com
MERGE and a portion of the Federal
garrison stationed there. The Missis-
sippi river was then thrQnged with
boats in the government service, and
the City of Alton happened to be due
at Commerce on an upward trip about
1.-THE time the rebels entered the place.
Gen. Thompson had his eye on the
rich river prize as soon as the boat
1900
men behind some ricks of cord wood In
order to capture the steamer when it
should reach the landing. All the
women had been ordered to leave the
river bank, but Mrs. Eversol refused
to go away. and prepared to signal the
approaching vessel. She took a posi-
ton close to the landing and waved
her handkerchief in warning to the
| al foV IT,
cealed enemy. The signal was not un'
derstood, and the boat continued to ap'
proach, the landing. The steamer hat
rounded to, and the deck hands were
, getting ready to throw out the gang
way, when Mrs. Eversol shouted at tnt
top of her voice, Don't land! Th'
, rebels have captured the town.! Ihe1
, the captain of the vessel saw the dan
ger, and began to back away from tn
, landing. The rebels opened fire on thu
boat and ridd1ed the pilot house witt
bullets. No one on the vessel was hi
by the fire of the rebels, and the Cit!
f of Alton steamed back to Cairo.
t The story of Mrs. Eversols' loya
, deed spread among the rivermen ant
/ Federal officers, and soon she had NOR
= than local fame. After the capture o
= Fort Donelson, when Gen. Simon E
e Buckner was brought up the river
d prisoner, Mrs. Eversol went on to tn
: boat at Commerce to see the distin
e guished captive. The rebel genera
had heard of the Union heroine, an
showed her particular attention.
Several years ago Mrs. Eversol, VIII
t had become a widow, made an applica
r ton for pension, basing her claim o.
s the service rendered the government
e in saving the boat from capture. TIL
g proof of the war incident was mad
: out and placed in the hands of the con
r gresham from, this district. Befor
r the matter could be introduced in con
e gress all the papers were lost. Tn
T preparation Of the proof had cost tn
7 widow much time and considerabl
d money, and she was very unhappy o
d account of the misfortune. Mrs. Ever
+ sol has Just passed her 18th birthda!
J. She is poor, and an effort has bee
d started to revive her pension claims
l. Many of the witnesses whose evidenc
6 could once have been had to prov
If the story of the saving of the steam
d boat from the rebels are now deat
n and the woman fears it will be difficu
,t to establish her claims.
II Warfare for Years.
Thomas Moon, an Engiishman, al