The Nevada County picayune., 1909-05-27

dents in the early days of the school and that are of sufficient age have done shade duty for many generations of sailors before their day, are stl standing the march of modern improvements haV-
 ing been so directed as to pass the ancient mon archs by.
 The midshpman's life, small as is it's compass. is
 intricate and full of interest. The eXternals' II they really may be accounted eXternals nave d world of significance The young sailors are hemmed in with incentives to heroic discharge of dutv West Point has it's battle flags and it's memorial tablets to the men who served their country against its enemies on land. At Annapo-
 lis are gathered the trophies of the sea, and there are many of them, for the defeats of the ships of the American navy were so few that line or two of historys pages sufficient to record them
 Perry's pennant, which flew from his flagship. the Lawrence, at the battle of Lake Erie, is here IL is red ensign with the words of Lawrence em broidered on it in white letters words that are now the raying cry of the men or the American navy: Don't give up the ship Capt Lawrence had been killed in the action of his ship, the Chesapeake with the British ship Shannon only a few months before Perry engaged the enemy, but his last injunction to his men already had become the Yankee tars' watchword. The Lake Erie flag is in an almost perfect state of preservation.
 The flag of the British brig Boxer. Capt. Blyth commanding captured by the American brig En- terprse off the coast of Maine is in the academys keeping Capt Burrows, the American command CT was killed in the very hour of his victory Near the Boxer trophy the flags of four of the British vessels captured by Perry at the battle of Lake Erie-the Lady Provost, the Hunter, the Little Belt the Chippewa, and the Detroit With the Erie flags those of the Confidence, the Beresford, the Chubb and the Linnet, British sels sunk or taken by the American McDonough at the battle of Lake ChamDlain.
 Possibly the most interesting of all these spells of the American sea fights is the great wooden figure of the British lion wearing a crown and with one paw resting a globe representing the world For arrogance of presumption the concep- tion has few equals. It was, of course carrying out in sculpture the idea of the world sovereignty of Great Britain When Decatur, in the ship United States defeated and captured the British Mace donian the lion with its globe found on its forward deck,
 There are two iron long Toms" in the trophy collection that fell into the hands of Commodore McDonough after the victory of Lake Champlain One of the guns has deep indentaton made by action The British commander. Commodore Down ie was killed in this lake fight It is matter of record that he came to his death by getting into the way of the recoil of one of the cannons now in the Annapolis museum
 Charles Stewart the American grandfather of the Irish leader, Charles Stewart Parnel made possible the addition of two flag trophNs to the Annapolis collection When in command of the Constitution cold Ironsides') he captured two British men-of-war the Cyane and the Levant which he fought the coast of the Madeiras. Stewart won the fight,
 The navy of the United States had it's full share of making the country's history There is no pres ent intention the part of the who have the midshipmen in charge to let them become for getful of the past and the glory that has come tc the service