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by his circuitous movements. He was now in one province, now in anotlier, and gave himself actively to the execution of tlie orders and decrees of the Cuban revolutionary government. When the war between Spain and the United States be- gan, Gen. Gomez readily agreed to put his army at the disposal of his American allies, and co-t)pfrated with them. After hostili- ties ceased he bound his men to the ob- servance of the peace protocol. In an open letter to his son, written in Au- gust, 1899. Gomez emphasizes the fact that the American in terven tion has pro- duced so far all the favorable results which might reason- ably have been ex- pectetl from it. "It IS absolutely false,"

he asserts, " that

great differences exist between the Cubans and Spaniards, between the Cubans and Americans, or among the Cubans themselves. Ou the con- trary, all is going well. More could not have been done in so short a time. An impatient popu- lace does not realize that it is not the work of a day to organize society. The turbulence of high-strung minds must have time to abate in a people thirsting for liberty. The intervening power will fulfil the obligations it has incurred, and the Cuban people, heroic and sensible, will take the situation calmly, working and waiting for the independence which the future will surely bring. As to the suggestion that the intervening riwer contemplates robbing Cubans of their own, do not l)elieve it. Such a niraor is a calumny against an honorable tteople." Gen. Gomez has written various pamphlets on Cuban revolutions, published in Jamaica. New York, and Cuba. Among his works are " Mi Asistente." "Carta k Tomas Kstrada Paliiia," " Pancliito Gomez," and "Mi Hscolta." See " In the Saddle with Gomez," by Mario Carrillo (New York. 1K98): "The War with Spain." bv Ilenrv Cabot Lixlge; an<l "His- tory up to Date'." bv XVilliam A. .lohnston (1899).

GONNEVILLE. Bluot Paulinier de, naviga- tor, descended from a noble family of the parish of Gonncville-les-Honfleur, in the bailiwick of Koiien. of whose birth and death no dates have l)een discovered. lleeiiibHrkccI with sixty [icrsims from Ilonfleur. 24 June. 1503, in the " Kspoir," of 120 tons, for the Kiist Indies, but. owing to a vio- lent tem|)est. was cast on a southern shore, the sit- uation of which remained for a long lime an insolvable problem to the geographer. But d'Avc- zac and otiier specialists have determined that he found land in Hni/.il. January, l.')U4. and harbored his vessel in the Kio San Francisco do J^iil under 2(1' 10' south latitude. lie embarked again for France about 1 Jan., l.WS, and when on his way was forced by a tcinjiest to put into a port of Ire- land for repairs. lie was again on his course — in view of the coasts of Xorinandy near the islands of Jersey and Guernsey. 7 .May. iriO.') — when a ca- tastrophe Wfell him. hdward Blunt. of Plymouth, re-enforced by another vessel from Urittnny, at- tacked him. He defended himself, but the profits of the voyage were lost. Thirty-one of his men died from fever, or at the hands of the pirates. His daughter was espoused in 1521 to Essomerie, a native of the land he had visited, and who took his name. A great-grandson of this marriage, Jean Paulniier de Courtonne, published an account of his ancestor's vovage in his " Memoir touchaiit rEtablissement d'une Mission Chretienne dans le TroisiOme .Monde" (Paris, 166.3). See also d'Ave- zac's " Kelation aiithciitique du Vovage du Capi- taiiie (le Goiineville " (1869).

GOOD, Jeremiah Haak, clergvman, b. in Rehrersbnrg, Pa.. 22 Nov., 1822 ; d. in TilTin, Ohio, 25 Jan., 1888. After graduation at Franklin and Marshall college, he studied in the theological seminary and wius ordained to the ministry of the Reformed church. He was pastor and also prin- cipal of a high-school at Lancaster. Ohio, till 1848, when he established at Columbus the "Western Missionary." which he edited for five years. At Tiffin he took an active part in establishing Hei- delberg college, the new theological seminary, and a classical school, with his brother Reuben, in 1859. He was professor of mathematics in the college in 1850-'66, and held thechairof dogmatic theology in the seminary till shortly before his death. The degree of D. D. was conferred on him by Franklin and Marshall in 1868. Dr. Good did much toward directing the policy of his synod, and his services in the peace commission were of great value in bringing the dissensions of the church to a close. He was one of the translators- of a new edition of the Heidelberg catechism, and published a new hymnal and a jjrayer-book.

GOODELL, Consstans Liberty, clergyman, b. in Calais, Vt.. 16 March, 18;«); d. in St. Louis, Mo.. 1 Feb.. 1886. He was a grandnephcw of Dr. William Goodell (o. c). lis was graduated at the University of Vermont in 185.5, and at An- dover theological seminary in 1858, was ordained to the ministry of the Congregational church, and installed [Uistor of the South church at New Brit- ain, Conn., in 1859. In 1872 he was called to Pilgrim church. St. Louis, where he remained till his death. He was one of the founders and a trustee of Drury college. Springfield. Mo., in 1873, the only Congregational institution then in the southwest, to which he contributed financially, and gave 200 valuable books to begin a library. Through the work of church extension that he organi/.e<l the churches of his coininunion in- creased from four to twelve in St. Louis. The Uni- versity of Vermont gave him the degree of D. I). Among addresses delivere<l by Dr. Gootlell, the one t)efore the American home niis«ioiiary society, in May, 1881. calling for "a million dollars a year for home missiiins," obtained wide celebrity. He pub- lished " How to Build a Church " (St. Louis. 1883), from a series ff articles in the "Advance."

GOODRICH, Casper Frederick, naval officer, b. in Philailelphia, 7 Jan., 1847. lie was gradu- ated from the U. S. naval academy at the head of his class in 1864. promoted master in 1866. and lieutenant two years later. In 1869 he was made lieutenant-commander, in 1884 commaiidir. atid in 1897 he was ailvanced to his present rank of cap- tain. He was naval attache on the stalT of .Sir Garnet Wolseley diiringthe Tel-el-Kebircampaign of 1882. commanded the "Jamestown." "Constel- lation," and "Concord," and in 1897-8 was [iresi- dent of the naval war college. During the Span- ish-American war Capt. Goodrich commanded the cruiser "St. Louis" and the U. S. steamship Newark, renilering impfirtant service in both of those vessels, and in July, 1899, he was assigned to the command of the battle-ship "Iowa."