The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1898-05-28

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back fighting drunk.
"Three Of them were men who would
singly have been more than a match in
strength for John L.. Sullivan. The Or
der was given to put them in irons, and
it was found impossible to carry out
the order, for the men were dangerous.
Dewey was notified of the situation. He
was writing q letter in his room at the
time.
"He went to the place where these
giants were, and he told them to come
out and submit to the irons. They did
not stir. Then Dewey said quietly to
an orderly, Bring me my revolvers,'
and when he had his pistols he again
called upon the men to come out, and
they did not move. Then he said: Il
am going to count three. If you are not
out here with your hands held up on
the third count, you won't come out of
that place alive
"He counted one, then he cooked the
revolvers, and he counted two. We all
expected to hear the report. for we
knew that Dewey meant what he said.
The men knew it too. They stepped out
just in time to save their lives and held
up their hands, and they had been par
TALLY sobered by their fright and the
moral effect Of Dewey glance. &
Zone Of them said afterward that
when he saw Dewey's eyes he knew
that he would either be a dead Jacky In
moment or he would have to yield,
and when the irons were put upon him
he was as sober as he ever was in his
life. Dewey went back to his room and
finished the letter he was writing.'
Early in the f1fties, when Dewey was
a boy, Major 2. K. Pangborn, now
resident Of New Jersey and for 80 years
the editor Of The Evening Journal Of
Jersey City, being then fresh from COL
lege, undertook the management Of q
district school at Montpelier, Vt. The
school had been in rebellion for q long
time, and the boy Dewey was the lead
or of the antiteaoher brigade, says the
New York Sun. Several previous teach.
ers had been removed, one had been
stood upon his head in q snow bank, and
it was generally said at Montpelier that
nobody could govern that school.
When Mr.. Pangborn appeared at
school, the first day of the session he
noticed Dewey throwing stones at small
boys. He told him quietly that he must
stop that. The reply was that the teach
or could "go to- the place reserved for
a certain class Of departed mortals.
School went very smoothly that day,
but there were Indications that showed
the teacher that trouble was coming.
So he provided himself with nice raw
| hide whip. which he tucked away over
the door, and then placed several sticks
\ Of good hickory on the top Of the pile
| in the old wood box.
Next day the fun began. Another boy
4 who was disorderly was told to take his
! seat. He did SO, and seven Of the big
4 boys joined him on his bench. Then
Dewey stepped up and coolly informed
the teacher that they were ''going to
give him the best licking that he had
ever had" Dewey struck out, and the
next instant the rawhide was playing
catch and go all over him. The other
"biggest boy" entered the fight, and
/ was promptly laid low with a blow
| from one Of the hickory sticks. The
\ teacher won The fight In the first round,
the rebellion was over, and Mr.. Pang-
! born had no further trouble with that
school. .-.tr-s 81. r-.r ?
Young Dewey remained at school. He
soon became good scholar, and under
his friends tuition fitted for the An
napolis academy. Years after these
events he was won't to visit Major Pang.
born at his home in Boston, where the
former teacher was editor of the old
Atlas and Bee. Dewey was at this time
a young lieutenant in the navy and q
chum of Major Pangborn' g brother, who
\ was also young naval officer. The two
B spent much time at Major Pangborn' 8
home, and be always speaks Of Dewey
as Zone Of my boys" and is naturally
very proud Of him.
It is not on record that the commo-
dore has ever been beaten since or that
he has ever been known to fight in q
bad cause. ~
Commodore Dewey's wife is now
dead. She was the daughter Of Govern.
or Goodwin, New. Hampshiro's war
governors fighting Democrat, who at
bis own expense fitted out the First
New Hampshire regiment rather than
call an extra session Of the legislature.
The commodore has one son, George
Goodwin Dewey, who was graduated
from Princeton university last year and
is now in business in New York city.
The commodore loves children, and
when he returned as a captain to Mont.
pelier he would gather the boys and
girls in the afternoon from the capitol
grounds across the way into the grounds
around his home. He took them driv.
ing, he told them stories about sailor
men until the little girls were almost
frightened and all the boys were deter
mined to be- captains in the United
States navy. He had. one fine story
about the voyage Of Noah's ark that
Montpelier boys who are men now still
remember. The boys and girls called
him "Uncle Captain. -
Martial Law in Che Canaries.
LONDON, May 27.-The Daily Chron.
icle publishes % letter from "a CORE.
spondentt In Las Palmas, Canary isl.
ands, which says: Martial law has
been proclaimed throughout the Canary
islands and is very rigidly enforced.