The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-01

nave affected the admiral III SlIlllhf
fashion. From the time he was in the
public schools up to his arrival in New
York he has been almost fastidious in
dress. In Washington ne was consid-
cred the best dressed man in the navy.
and scores Of stories are told about
him in this regard. His ships are
sweeter than the best hotels in the
world His men look as if they were
always on dress parade, and his own
cabin, to quote a young lady who saw
it in Leghorn, was so awfully neat
that she was half afraid to go in 1t
lest she should disarrange the place"
One of Dewey's lieutenants once sum-
med up his superors peculiarities by
saying that his rule for governing sail
ors were three in number. First, make
them keep their clothes clean; second,
make them keep themselves clean:
third, make them keep them both clean.
The child is father to the man, and the
teachings and practices of youth. The
faultless order and discipline of the
Olympia and it's sister ships at Manila
We're nothing more or less than those
of Montpelier life so years before. In
the New England ethical code truth
fitness and honesty, simplicity and
tues. The Yankee boy is ashamed to
put on airs or to draw the long bow,
ito make money by sneaking or to shirk
chore. Life is a hard struggle in
Vermont and New Hampshire, and to
succeed requires the exercise of the
good qualities of the man Evil quail
ties do not pay in the long run and
evil people are by degrees worked out
or the community and thrown into
other states The Vermont boy who
goes from home to naval school or
college, to military academy or insti-.
tuition of professional learning, carries
1,t tell, -
equipment in the shape of well-develop-
ed and Well-regulated moral forces.
They stand in good stead for the bat
tile of life, and when added to a health
full body and a normal intelligence they
guarantee that success which is the
hope of every true man and woman.
Dewey's early education, / found by
my visit here, as well as his heredity,
gave him great advantage in this re-
spect. Behind him was long line of
doctors, clergymen, farmers and pion-
GERS, none over wealthy, none poor, and
all marked by sturdy and sterling char
acter. He was brought up in the way
pursued by such people. and no mat
ter whether the battle of Manila had
been fought or not, he would have been
the same simple heroic parsonage in
whatever career he chose. There was
no accident about the mans success.
There was no chance in respect to his
work and its outcome. He typified the
manly forces developed by two CEN
turtles of New England life, and when
these came into opposition with those
engendered by three hundred years of
Spanish misrule there could be only
one result.
Montpelier and Vermont lie out Of the
highway of national and immigrational
growth. Vast streams Of European hu-
| manity go westward and rarely north
wards. Its more ambitious children
leave the sterile farms and little houses
for the larger opportunities presented
by Boston, Springfield, New Haven,
New York and Chicago, and only tlre
poor French Canadians and the no.
| madic Irishman cross and settle within
| the borders. The Montpelier of to-day
| is very much the same as when Dewey
! was boy. It is handsomer, richer and
more prosperous. The gardens are
| brighter, the wonderful lawns greener,
the trees broader and shadier and the
| houses larger and more numerous. The
streets and roads are better paved, tie
| diaries more extensive, and the evil
| denee of wealth more palpable. But to
the man who went away in 1850 or 1869
| and returns to-day there is no such sur
| prise as greeted Rip Van Wrinkle in the
romantic village of Falling Water. The
children play in the orchards and the
maple sugar farms the same as Dewey
| did in his boyhood, and the chief change
is that they now have bicycles where
he had a small express wagon and an
| d-fashioned country sled. The little
folks sail their boats, row their skiffs