Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-10-19

to I'll temporary vacancy In a Metro
pcitan church. The cultured congregation,
the press of the city, the strongest rosi-
| lions i'm his sect are waiting eager and
ready. If he has the talent and has i'm
proved the waiting years with consccn-
| tous and tirelesS work he stays and
grows If not, he drops back TO become in
time one of the army of the unemployed.
General Grant was an excellent cadet, ana
In the Mexican campaign mastered the
art of war. His talent was for the tented
field and not the pursuits of peace He
! was a poor farmer and worse tanner.
At forty the opportunity came and found
him ready. Faithful preparation made him
command success and with the fall OF the
Confederacy the world recognized the
foremost soldier of the age. Lincoln he
came President at fifty-one. He met and
,trumphantly solved the most difficult
problems ever presented to an American
President But by a quarter of n century
OF patient labor in Legislature and Con-
gress, in hs study and in Titantic debate,
he had mastered all the questions which
were to be decided during the periods Of
civil war and reconstruction. Admiral
Dewey was sixty before fortune confront
ed him
He left this University with honor. He
had "a creditable record at the Naval
Academy at Annapolis. He did daring and
Drlllant DEEDS on the MlSSlSSlppl ana
learned Invaluable lessons under that
grand old naval hero of the civil war.
Admiral Farragut. At sea and on land,
on his ship and in the navy department
at Washington. with resistless energy and
intelligent work, he became known as the
most thorough and able officer N both
the theory and practice Of naval warfare.
The Idle days, the wasted hours. the
health-wrecking designations which ac-
count for most of the failures in a career
were never the experience of this en-
thusiast in his profession. He had no faith
n luck or chance, or accident or i,eniua
He believed in work His ideals were to
, have a great opportunity and be so
thoroughly equipped for every contingent
Cy that fate must surrender to prepara-
tion.
The three-score milestone was behind
and the retiring limit near when COM
, modore Dewey was placed in command of
the Asiatic squadron. A message WAS re-
ceiVed at Hong Kong from the secretary
of the navy that war had broken out with
, Spain. and the commodore must ut once
go to sea and find and capture or destroy
the Spanish fleet, Edward Everett Hale's
story of the man without country has
Interested generations of readers. With
Commodore Dewey We're the fascinating
possibilities and perils of a fleet without
home or port. He six thousand miles
. from the t'nited States and the neutrality
nocded s,,,nlios wore contr,b,od nf war
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