The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-06

houn, Cass, Seward, Evarts, Blaine
Bayard, all presidential aspirants. II
was the "eorly bird" that caught the
presidential worm Jefferson, Madl-
son, Monroe, Adams, Van Buren,, Bu-
chanan. AS to third term president
the failure of Gen. Grant to be re-
nominated, so Mrs. Grant still thinks
was due to the "treachery" of Gen
Garfield, the soldier of fortune" who
was congressman, senator and presl-
dent "all in a heap. The people have
never decided the question at the bal
lot box, and this seems good time for
Stephen Grover Cleveland to test it by
a popular vote. Bryan and Watterson
might be counted on to be his Aaron
and Hur in the campaign by their
vigorous opposition.
/ see that Col Estill has given Early
county a nice historical sketch, but he
fails to tell his readers that Blakely,
the county seat, was named for one of
Americas early naval heroes whose
name and fame seem to be somewhat
sighted in these later days of IRON
clads and big steel guns. He didn't
annihilate whole navy in a brief en-
gagement, like Dewey and Schley, but
when he mat a British war vessel he
came off victor. Capt. Paul Jones
commanded the United States sloop of
war wasp III d lGIIlDlG OdItlC WIN IAio
British sloop of war Frolic, in October,
1912, and won a splendid victory But
Capt. Blakely commanded another. or
the reconstructed, sloop of war Wasp.
which made her first cruise from Ports
mouth, N. FL, early in May, 1873, and
soon after met the British brig OF war
Reindeer. with nineteen guns and 1lS
men. The battle was kept up for more
than two hours, the Americans losing
xHrn1
and the British twenty-five killed, in
GLIDING the captain, and forty-two
wounded. The Reindeer was so badly
damaged that she was destroyed by
fire. Capt. Blakely, in September, cap
tured the British sloop of war Avon,
of twenty guns, and on Sept. %, cap
tured the British brig Atlantic and sent
her home with prize crew. rms IS
the last that was heard of this heroic
naval commander, and it is not known
whether the Wasp and all on board
persisted in a fearful storm or in a
bloody and disastrous battle with some
more powerful British war vessel. In
either case the United States Navy lost
one of it's bravest and best comman-
ders, and Early county honors itself
in honoring his name in her county
seat. Fort Blakeley, in Alabama, was
not named for Capt. Blakely.
"Our School Boy Soldiers" by Day
Allen Wiley in the June Munsey Mag
azine, is a most valuable and finely il
Illustrated article of ten pages, which
treats of 1.-The remarkable development
of Military Training as a Feature OF
American Schools and Colleges" and
of 'the value of discipline to the boys.
and the value to the nation of young
men who are trained for service" l
have several times referred to the fact
that many of the best religious schools,
| mean schools controlled by churches
or denominations, have military or
cadet department. Mr.. Wiley also
notes this fact and adds that "the
names of leading clergymen and other
men of peace" appear as patrons or
principals of academies where boys are
taught to handle saber and gun. If the
father consults his sons preferences,
he will choose the school that gives
military course, no matter how exact
ing its scholastic standard may be.
Under a most attractive picture of
cadet company, in the article, the
writer SAYS: THE ambition of the boy
soldier is to march, to stand, to dress,
like a West Pointer" Mr.. Wiley might
have added that the cadets of the Vir-
ginia Military Institute and the Michi-
gan Military Academy are also fine
examples.