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number of tales of strong sensational interest, as Blade-o'-Grass, Bread and Cheese and Kisses and The Betrayal of John Ford-ham. He died on Aug. ist, 1903.

Farley, John M., archbishop and Roman Catholic metropolitan of New .York, was born in 1842 at Newton Hamilton, Ireland, and came as a youth to America. He studied for the priesthood at Fordham and at Troy, N. Y. He was ordained in 1870 at Rome. Archbishop Farley held many special and responsible positions, and for some time was rector of St. Gabriel's Church, New York. In 1902 his name was unanimously suggested by the diocesan rectors, provincial bishops and American archbishops for the vacant see of New York; and he received his pallium in 1903 from Pius X. Archbishop Farley is a valuable force in the conversion of thousands of motley immigrants into good citizens.

Faroe (fdfro) Islands, a Danish group of 22 islands, 17 of which are inhabited, lying between the Shetlands and Iceland. Toward the sea they are rugged cliffs, from 1,000 to 2,300 feet nigh, while in the inland portions they rise into flat-topped mountains some 3,000 feet in height. The largest island is StromOe, on which is situated the capital, Thorshavn, with a population of 984 people. There are no trees found on the islands, timber being imported from Norway. Coal and peat, however, abound. The industries of the people are sheep-farming, wild-fowling and fishing. The people speak the old Norse dialect and belong to the Lutheran Church. Population of the islands, which have an area of 540 square miles, 18,000.

Farragiit (f&r'd-gtit), David Glasgow. The ranks of vice-admiral, rear-admiral and admiral of the United States Navy were created successively to reward the services and acknowledge the genius of this greatest of American naval heroes. The operations which resulted in the capture of New Orleans and Mobile are comparable only to those of Nelson at Copenhagen, the Nile and Trafalgar. The difficulties to be overcome were infinitely greater, and the operations extended over a longer period of time. The exploits of Dewey at Manila and of Togo in the Japan Sea were accomplished under such different conditions, due to modern inventions, as to place them in a class apart from sea-fighters of even a generation ago.

Farragut was born on July 5, 1801, in a * pioneer  cabin   near   Knoxville,   Tennessee, of a Spanish-descended father and a Scotch mother. Owing to his father's friendship

with Commodore Porter the boy was shipped on the frigate Essex before his tenth birthday. Our naval academy was not established until 1845, so cadets were educated and trained at sea. When only 12, Midshipman Farragut took a prize-ship (War of 1812) into Santiago, Chile, and acted as powder-boy in the battle of Valparaiso. Forty-five years of routine duty followed, on cruisers, on training ships, testing ordnance in the department at Washington and in charge of the work of establishing the naval station at Mare Island, San Francisco. When the Cival War began he was in his 6oth year. Of southern birth, with a Virginia wife and home, he decided that his fealty belonged to the nation. In February, 1862, with the rank of admiral he was given a fleet of 48 vessels, of 200 guns, the largest ever fitted out by the United States up to that time, and ordered to take New Orleans and clear the Mississippi of Confederate forts and gunboats.

Not one of his ships was an ironclad; some were propelled by steam, others were sailers; all had been built for sea-service. With these he had to operate in a narrow, shifting river-channel, pass two forts, break through chains connecting anchored barges, turn aside blazing fire-boats, risk torpedoes, sink the fleet of the enemy above all these obstructions and reduce the city. He accomplished the task in three months' time with a loss of only 37 men and one vessel. For 16 months thereafter he was so continuously under fire as he moved up the river, and so invariably the victor, that he won the nickname of Old Salamander. In January, 1864, he captured Mobile in one of the most brilliant engagements of naval history. When the dead were laid out on the deck of the flagship, he wept like a child.

Farragut was such a master of detail that he could have taken the place and done the work of any man in his fleet. Honest, upright, religious, of tender sympathies, he inspired respect, enthusiasm and personal affection. The war wrecked his health, so that he died in Portsmouth, N. H., on August 14, 1870. Congress purchased Vir-

§inia Ream's  statue  of him  for  Farragut quare,  Washington,  and  New  York  City has  one  by  Augustus  St. Gaudens. You will remember this couplet from a tribute to him by Holmes:

The Viking of the River Fight, The Conqueror of the Bay. See Life by Loyall Farragut, his son.

Farrar (far'dr), Frederick William, a clergyman of the Church of England and dean of Canterbury, was born at Bombay, India, on August 7, 1831. He received his early education at King William's College, near Castleton, Isle of Man, and afterward attended King's College, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge, from which he graduated in 1854. Soon after his

DAVID G. FARRAGUT