Sad as is often the loss of an eminent military or naval hero, it is something to be expected, as a matter of course, when the war-drum throbs and the cloud of battle lowers. "One man down, another take his place," is a common saying with men who make their physical prowess the business of life. Soldiers, in short, differ from poets inasmuch as they are rather made than bora and consequently, even when the admitted risks of swepping horses in midstream are entailed, there is not that sense of irreparable loss which the world feels when one of ite menial lights is extinguished. The passing of @ Spencer or a Darwin is more Keenly felt, if we may say so without un-if all Many of his served in the Tretjakoff collection at Moscow. On board the Petropavlovsk he was the honoured guest of the ill-fated Admiral who g0 untimely accompanied him to that bourne where is no strife or war.
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