The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-31

ton QieQ. The Well ihlioMA7 oulAAOA scientist, from Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
 died of consumption brought on by over
 work and the inhospitable climate Of
 this far-away land; and when he knew {
 that the end was near, requested that
 his remains be paid on top or San Es-
 peyan. We made pilgrimage to the
 spot in honor of his memory, going out
 from Puno in a canoe, against the pro- tests of the villagers, who assured us that we could not possibly land any where on the island, it being colnpIetely surrounded by an impossible marsh, But as a number of Protestant for eigners have been buried there since poor orton was laid away; for lack or any other place to put them in the vi- cinity of pious Puno, we reasoned With ! in ourselves that, despite the swamp people must land there oceasionatly. At any rate we would try it. Padding all around the illand, ouh boatman | found a place where the swampy solI I seemed somewhat firm, and using thick growth of reeds for improyised 1 bridges, by dint of leaping that would l have done credit to Aldorado (Cortez man, you remember, who saved hlm- | self by Jumping an incredible distance on his spear, in escaping from the eh- \ ragged Mexicans)-and the trifling lncen-
 venience of going considerably over shoe in the ooze, we succeeded in pass ing the barrier. The island is nothing but d high rocky hill, rising so precipi- tously out of it's marshy border lnat
 goat could hardly scale 1t, except on the
 farther side, where the ascent IS not
 very difficult, though winding and patn-
 less. and one is often compelled to stop
 and recoved breath in the thin air or
 this high altitude. Though Professor
 Orton's books find place in every IT.
 brary. his last resting place remains 10
 this day unmaked. Not many years
 ago a. friend and fellow professor, from
 Rochester, N. Y, came here and in
 quired the cost of putting up plain
 slab, or at least a cairn of cementeo stone like those which mark the graves of Captain Pemberton and the Spanish soldier. He was told that the lowest cost would be three hundred dollars, not !. | including the tablet, which must be , sent engraved, from the United states The latter might never reach here; II ! ! did, would probably never be placed | unless somebody made the long Journey , 1 to see it done--all of which would bring the actual cost of the simple tomb-stont up to very large sum. The memor! of Professor Orton does not need to b, i, kept alive by such means. He lives Il ; the heats of his countrymen and !. more enduring monument was wrough : | by himself in the books and scientifi : researches which he gave to future gen | erations.
 .i Standing on the lonely, Wind-sWep island. with the graves at our feet, an
 the mysterious lake spreading on ever 2 side its waters of unknown depth-th ! only link that connected us with tn
 living world being the frail balso z t reeds propelled by an Indian-th : words of another who, like orton, spef < the best years of his life in this strans . country, came with new force to m < mind, as perfectly describing th scene and it's effect upon the beholdel $. .sViewed from the crest of the cordille ' "a, we have spread out before us a { ' zion unlike any other on the face of Il
 earth-one which seems to be lifte :, above the rest of the world, in spirit = well as in fact; to be looking down upe !. 1 1t coldly and calmly as the winter star : sparing none of it's sympathy, and di , turbed by none of it's alarms. The s. lent, wondering vicuna, the bliding H. . ma, and the condor circled high in Il , air; the absence of forests, the whi .%s % clouds surging up from the plains { = either side of the Andes, only to be di :. sipated by the snowy barriers tht .a cannot pass; the clear metallic blue ae 1e the sky, the painful. slience--all irl Y press the traveller with a feeling tn s sa he is no longer in the same world ,t has known before,
 . FANNIE B. WARD.