Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-05-29

deIts in the early days of the school, and that
of sufficient age to have done shade duty for many
generations of sailors before their day, still
standing, the march of modern improvements hav-
ing been directed to pass the ancient mon
archs by.
The midshipmans life small as its compass is
intricate and full of interest The externals. if
they really may be accounted externals, have a
world of significance The young sailors are
hemmed in with incentives to a heroic discharge
of duty. West Point has its battle flags and its
memorial tablets to the men who served their
country against its enemies land At Annapo-
lis gathered the trophies of the and there
many of them. for the defeats of the ships
of the American navy few that line or
two of historys sufficient to record them
Perrys pennant. which few from his flagship,
the Lawrence at the battle of Lake Erie, is here
1t is a red ensign with the words of Lawrence en-
broidered it in white letters-words that are
the rallying of the men of 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
few months before Perry engaged the enemy but
his last injunction to his already had become
the Yankee tars' watchword- The Lake Erie flag
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 academy's
keeping Capt Burrows the American command
killed in the 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
sells sunk taken by the American McDonough at
the battle of Lake ChamDlain-
Possibly the interesting of all these spoils
of the American fights is the great wooden
figure of the British lion wearing a and
with paw resting globe representing the
world. For arrogance of presumption the concep
ton has few equals. 1t of course. carrying out
sculpture the idea of the world sovereignty
Great Britain. When Decatur, in the ship United
States, defeated and captured the British Mace
DOMAIN the lion with its globe found its
forward deck
There two iron Tong 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 indentation made By a
shot from gun of the American fleet during
action. The British commander. Commodore Down
lie, killed in this lake fight. IS a matter OF
record that he to his death by getting
the way of the recoil of of the cannons now
in the Annapolis museum
Charles Stewart, the American grandfather OF
the Irish leader Charles Stewart Parnell made
possible the addition of flag trophies to the
Annapolis collection When in command of
Constitution cold Ironsides") he captured two
British men-of-war, the Cyane the Levant
which he fought the of the Madeiras
Stewart the fight,
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 &c
the service