The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

fighting. Each time the General saved me. Ill never forget the day he wa4 arguing in the Navy Department WILL Secretary Robeson for my restoratio9 The Secretary told him.
 But General. this young man IS always fighting. t.
 Naval Academy for h its not to teach men to fight said the old General hotly as he pounded the table with hrs fist. If you are going to run sewing circle or a knitting school. you had better shut the blamed thing up. But if you are trying to teach men to fight what on earth do you mean ny expeIling man who knows how te fight and who does it9
 "But l got through somehow l got through with all sorts of credit in my studies and no sort of credit In any thing else"
 As he told his story I picked out anew the picturesque chapter of thls sea rover's life. It was such a story as Conan Doyle ought to tell-this story of Decimur Saxon of the West this latter day Francis Drako who went down to tho sea in iron clads and dynamite cruisers when men were hunting each other down with eight inch rifles in floating fortresses of steel
 T saw .the rich literary opportunity of this tale of adventure this story of the man who crossed the world. to draw a sword--who stepped from the bridge of man O war of one coun- try and moved over to take the conI- mand of cruiser of anather, for no other reason than that It's flag was the flag of a nation at war, and flew over an embattied fleet.
 The story of the rescue of the De Long expedition by a United States cruiser--the moving account of twer- ty-six days spent in an open whale boat in the Arctic Ocean-I heard from him, the ensign of the expedi- tion. Out of his familiarity with their, private and professional lives got new insight into the deeds of men whose exploits have made their names familiar to the people of their coun- | try. This one's misfortul es, this onss sorrow, the scandal that had embittered the life of c1notfNr, the weakness that had wrecked the career of another--all these things Mount knew as he talked familiarly of the life he had put behind him. | There was. too, the chapter ot the American officer at the bridge of a | foreign vessel. commanding a strange crew of fierce adventurers There came out of this tale of disciplining a reckless set of bravadoes, a deeper appreciation of the lessons that are I learned at Annapolis. Nor did the frank and graphic life story fail to show the treachery and eupidity of South American leaders--those adyen- turers who dishonored their own coun- try and preyed upon their own peo- I ple--iR the remorseless purpose of enlarging their private store of dol. lars.
 A strange thing. that this man should be as he was-his effort ended. his fights stayed and his life in easy oblivion that promised nothing I To him 1t was no tragedy. He was as careless over the final blank chap ter of his life-as indifferent to the lpromiseless future-as regretless of the departure of the past as though he had known no other career than the hum- b1e and mnnotonous one of his event less preselt.
 We left the launch at thes broken wharf as twilight fe1l. In the midst lof a talk over the storm and its pos Liabilities, Mount broke in suddenly:
 Say, don't you find this job mighty ldry work2" l caught the drift of thil Heading remark and smiled.
 Do you know" I said, 'T haven Ignored the laws of appreciative hos ,pitality Intentionally. But they'v,
 cIosed the saloons here during thi.
 storm excitement. But for this pC
 have done my fulls duty. But you're z
 native here and no doubt know the
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