Nothing more could be done. The ram was badly damaged, and there was no help for her save to put back to the port whence she had come. Twice afterwards she came out, but neither time did she come near enough to the _Monitor_ to attack her, and the latter could not move off where she would cease to protect the wooden ships. Tactically it was a drawn battle, neither ship being able to damage the other, and both ships being fought to a standstill; but the moral and material effects were wholly in favor of the _Monitor_. Her victory was hailed with exultant joy throughout the whole Union, and exercised a correspondingly depressing effect in the Confederacy, while every naval man throughout the world who possessed eyes to see saw that the fight in Hampton Roads had inaugurated a new era in ocean warfare, and that the _Monitor_ and _Merrimac_, which had waged so gallant and so terrible a battle, were the first ships of the new era, and that as such their names would be forever famous. A HINT. BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER. If only you'll think of it, dearie, When people are vexing and rude, And be pleasant for two, When one's scolding at you. You will conquer the contrary mood. If only you'll think of it, dearie, When a certain troublesome elf, With pease in his shoes, And a look of the blues, Comes calling upon you himself-- If _only_ you'll think of it, dearie, And laugh, like the sun, in his face, He will scamper away; You'll be happy all day; And _I'd_ like to be in your place. A CHINESE ENTERPRISE.