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Show ; j Had Li-Vcly Career j Lieutenant Harris, of floston, the Hero of Many Inciting Adventures. i If there are any embryo romantic novelists v. ho are In ec.iich of a plot or ho are looking for a charactor to embody Into a thrilling romance of. the wester.) plains and wild Indians, or of the Arctic region, or of war or travel In the tropin, or of most anything In the line of blood running ailventiue, or hatr-brrndth em ape. It might be well for them to call on Frank Iyifajette Harris, lieutenant U. 9. N., retired, who la passing the cloelng dnys of a very lively career In tho city of lloston. Lieut Hams baa done most every, thing that a man can do In an ordlnhry life and live to talk about It to his own grandchildren, and other peoples grandchildren nt IIW age of 80 years. He has had adventures from 'Orceti-Innils 'Orceti-Innils Icy mountains to India's cornl Atrsnd," and at all the Intervening polnta from tho (filth parallel of north latitude to Capo Horn and around ahuut the world several times over. He Is the only surviving member of the Hayes Arrtlo expedition, which created a sonnatlon In the early 'fl hy penetrating farthest north and hy discovering dis-covering an open polar sea. He Is a veteran of the Mexican war, the civil war, and an Indian war on the plains, he Is an ex-forty-n!ner, a retired lieutenant lieu-tenant of the navy of the early daya, and has been round the world many times. He hss fought a duel single-handed single-handed wltn three fierce Indians and killed them all. He has been recommended recom-mended for brsvery at Malvern Hill, and smoked his first cigar with (ten. McClellan In the latter's tent after that memorable engagement. Stevenson would have found In him a tale as absorbing as "Treasure Island" Is-land" and a character more striking than any of those that spesk from the psges of romance. Lieut. Harris made his first voyage In the U. S. 8. St. I .on I round the word, and was stationed In the Pa-rlllc Pa-rlllc squadron, of which at that time lite frigate Constitution was the flag-ihlp. flag-ihlp. tin this ship he took part In the war with Mexico. When peace was declared Harris resigned from the navy, went cast and met young 1-ouls Dent and his brother, who were alrout to start on prospecting tour to the west, where gold had been discovered, and where men were supposed to make fortunes In a night. They went lo West river and began to hunt and opened up a small trading depot at which all the Indian trite" of the neighborhood soon beran to purchase their supplies. Here Harris had a dispute with a powerful Indian chief, Trankllmia, and gave blm a sound thrashing. The news spread tn all directions and It waa soou rumored that the Irdlan and two of his comrades were going to murder Harris the very first chaucs they got Harris woa Informed and armed himself. He started out one day single-handed to surprise the braves In a place which tbey had chosen aa an ambush. Ha came upon them very much .miner than he expected to and had barely lime to step behind a tree when they opened Ore. He awaited his chance, and on his first shot brought down his chief enemy with a broken leg. The three kept up the battle for over an hour, and Harrla waa hit In the shoulder; not a very serious, but a painful wound, that hied profusely. He changed hla position from a standing to a kneeling one, and managed to got In a good shot that laid out one of his enemies snd left the odds two to one, Willi the leader of the opposition badly the 8:d parallel, and Harris, as the little lit-tle boat In which the party came ashore touched the beach, lea, 1 out and ran as fast ss he could ahead of the rest and ascended a slight hill upon which he planted an IS starred flog "In the namr of Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United State, and of the union." The party had been absent since the preceding July, and none of them knew V lV-iO'j) LIEUT. ''f 111 L0OR TUUT' who was elected or what was going on u the states, and consequently had DO knowledge of the outbreak of the civil war and the secession of the southern states. Harris was. therefore, very much surprised when he got hack to civilization lo find that when he erected his 18-stnrred flag there were hut IS states In the union and that Abraham Lincoln was president. They were still fnrtl'cr surprised to find lit crippled. Alter this the llrlnx for an hour or so was desultory. ""'1 Ihcn the Indians plniinid a Htrnt.igiiu that almost al-most finished the white man. The uninjured rnlsUIn iole off and attempted to execute a I! ink movement whllti tho crippled Trnnkllcnii kept up a slendy lire from I bo front. Munis, after uiuuy i llorts. was fortunate enough to gel a chancu shol at the i flunking paily us he darted between two trees nnd killed him Instantly. He then slipped round behind the wound- ; ed (blif and tin lulled him with a single j shot. His return to the post was cele- hrnted in a very glorious ntsnner, and j the Indians, all of whom hnted Tran- j kllena very much. Joined In the hilar- j Ity with great lost, nnd during tho re- ! mnlndcr of their stay Harris waa re- j garded as quite a Hero. ' The most Important part of his career, however, Lieut. Harris considers consid-ers to have been his trip lo the Arrtlo regions with Hnyea In lsiid-ni. tin Mai ch 4, Hull, they reached their farthest point at Cairo Lleher, near Halifax teo consuls, one for the north nnd another for the south. There wns antno discussion upon the arrival at Halifax aa to whether tha Lieutenant Harris, (In hi youth.) party should return to lloston or go to New York, but Hsye derided, since the expedition left from Uoslon, that It wa no mora than proper that It ahould return there, and did ao. I'non arrival Lieut. Harris at once tried to enlist In the navy, but was unable un-able to do so, snd went aa a aoncom- i missioned officer In one ot the Maasa- ' chusotla regiments and served with ' great dl. Unction. He was retired as a second lieutenant, and la, therefore, entitled to double honors from both ' the army and the navy. |