The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-05-28

we nave mouEHeu we s"V~ $3.50
who died In the service OF the nation.
and VIC havo put tho Malne's men with
the Lawrcnces, with Perry on Lake
ERIC. What 10 more. We have rcsainea
faith IN ourselves ns o nation; politics
and aulbbl,ng and the dollar have been
forgotten, and we have stood out loyal
and strong, It has been lesson show
Ann the world that In o period of stress
we have NOT lost ourselves 10 Mysteries,
nut instead have been cain and SELF
held, " tho men Of tho Maine died.
their deaths did national service, and
showed that old.fauh!oned patriotism
existed, Now there was q man OF the
Maine OF whom there's story. some
sterIes are turo, although thcH may 90
called stories,
John Demo, seaman, United States
rayy, was a hero when no was IN Ms
native town, II Is q little town, with
hmm stroct, among tho Southern New
York hills, Done would return on Ills
sntrcquent leaves, md people would
point him out:
THAT'S Jack Dene." they would say,
awed by the mystery OF over the seas
that lay in his swinging gait-the SAIL
or's broad lounge.
Dene would sit on q sugar barrel in
the grocery where the gossips congre.
gated, and whitfield and talked OF Nelr
neighbors' affairs as they do in small
Communities, and would spin the most
wonderful yarns that ever were heard,
OF far-away mysterious countries, OF
ports OF plg-tailed Cinnamon, OF sunny
beaches In far south seas, OF what
lieutenant NJ. or Ensign +. was like, OF
things he had done or seen. Perhaps
he was Inclined to exaggerate what he
had done; that was but his human ma
ture: he had done deal, or he had done
a little. You would think-and there
were those, on other boxes about that
rural club, who believed him-you
would think that the whole manage
ment OF the good ship had been his.
Those others, who had attended the VII
lace school with him, were quite awed
BY him. He brought to them, whose
lives and experiences were lined by the
New York hills, the breath of the great
err world, OF strange adventure and ro-
nance. As for the policy Of the gov
eminent, they discussed that, too. They
talked of Hawaii In an exhaustive way
that would have astonlshed q congress-
moa. who might have put his presence
into that country grocery II he mad
feit the need Of votes: and as for the
Standards. and what was going on IN
Cuba, Dene had but opinion.
"Those dagos!" he expressed II.
Now the antagonism OF Anglo-SaSon
and Latin Spaniard Is an. old matter,
dating before the Armada, and intensi-
fed nv the contest of the two races Tor
ascendency In the western hemisphere.
The two great peoples fought, and went
To Diplomacy, with all its intricate as
socIations. oh, we'll, you know that old
story. You know how one OF the great
est empires since Rome's dwindled un-
I'll only two West Indian Islands were
left! and now II an American or English
sailor has a particular aversion, It's for
your Spaniard. Perhaps they hate US
quite as devoutly-the rank and file OF
the people. The impertinence OF these
Americans to encourage, II not officially.
ut least with their paperS-and their
fillbusters-this Cuba which Is ours by
right of Chritopher Columbus!
Dene, on his sugar barrel, would talk
this over. He was quite confident that
we could blow them, IL not of the earth,
at least OFF Cuba.
So you must picture our sailor VII
lager returned with quite the air Of q
man OF the world For all the time OF
his duties-when he was part Of that
great machine called the American navy
when he had no mind save to obey or
hn hol mr., fhaga hrinf narin6g
OF leave, the rare privileges of posing
as your man OF the world-as the village
conceived O man of the world; Of being a
bit of a boaster. He was Jack come
home again.
Now, up the long street was little
house with twenty acres about 1t, where
lived good woman with no pride In the
world greater than this same Jack Dene
When he was away, she worried about
him. Every night she would kneel by q
white bed and pray for him and think
OF him, and perhaps cry over him, as
mothers will. Mothers bring us nearer
to God; IL oil the world turns on u;
they stand out for US; they forgive ant
fear for US as Jesus Of Nazareth for
gave and feared for us.
John Dene In the company of this lit
tie faded woman was as modest as HI
would have been IL an officer had sud
denly passed.
But there was girl. It's good for
man when there's one particular girl
He was rather boastful in her presence
It's natures fiat that all creatures
including man-should strut a bit befor
the female that has taken the hear,
Sallie had taken John Dene's, surel
enough; II dated from the time when h
had been boy and she tomboy together
To Sallie. Dene (this Is an old. yer
simple story posed the hero-until-af
rs you know that until! d.#
And then he was as modest as eve
you please.
AS reaction from this modesty h
would return to the grocery and pos
again. AS for sallie, he really had n
need Of posing before her; he was here
Ism and perfection itself for her.
Home tugs and pulls at our heart
wherever we may be. A man who hash
the home feeling is ct best poor crca
ture. Far over the seas Dene woul
think OF two persons, Mrs Dene an
sallle. The coterie at the grocery RI
ferred to him, on their part, as n ma
who had gone into the mysterious, gree
world again. ,'s
As for this leave. It came 10 an EN-