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...spotted-wing species (hageni), which does 95% of the damage, has eaten its way up from Washington, D.C., to Trenton. N.J. A tiny Southern species, virginicus, has been found on the farthest tip of Long Island. Farther west, the hesperus termite has crossed the border into Canada...
...separate action with another convoy, the British destroyer Hesperus in two days attacked three U-boats, probably destroyed at least...
...schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; . . . Thus, nearly 100 years ago, did Longfellow begin his famed ballad of the wreck of the Hesperus on the reef of Norman's Woe. Last week, another schooner Hesperus, hailing from Gloucester, a few miles north of Norman's Woe, was sailing the sea off Cape Cod when...
...night the Hesperus wallowed deeper & deeper. Finally, as "the billows frothed like yeast" over her deck, the sailors gave up the struggle, tumbled into nine dories, headed for the open sea in hope of encountering the fleet at the fishing grounds. Day later they did so, were picked up suffering only from exposure...
...which butted a respectable Philadelphian into a watering trough or Uncle Rastus and His Mule. Literature particularly attracted the Professor. He made illustrations for such things as Evangeline, Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles Standish, Elegy in a Country Churchyard (32 pictures in this set), Othello, The Wreck of the Hesperus. One of his favorites was Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight! Long before Minnie Maddern Fiske transposed the scene from Britain's Civil War to that of the U. S., and swung to theatrical fame on the clapper of a cardboard bell, Joseph Boggs Beale had produced a lively drawing...