Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1910-10-01
THE UNWRITTEN LAW?
Two Sides To All Stories
Here's The Other Side--An-
napOIiS Bellies Chances
FOR MARRYING INTO NAVY
0ftenlimes Spoiled By The Queen Her.
SELF Gold Brick" Takes 4 Fall
Out OF The Other Side
Jest, and youthful Jollity Milton.


Jest, and youthful Jollity Milton.
There's always two sides to story,
and it wouldn't be fair to hold the
midshipmen up to the mirror of JUS
tice without giving them a chance to
defend themselves. Please bear in
mind that what "Gold Brick" utters
here is based upon absolute facts. The
embellishments to the story are
what puffs and switches are to the
address of womankind the dress
ing.
Q, the joys that came down
shower like! !-Cole ridge
Since the beginning of these pen
pictures a letter has reached the
desk of the editor of the Capital. who.
in turn, passed it on to the writer.
TIE sender hid behind the charming
non de-plU ae "A Stranger. From
tie writiig it was evident that the
sender tried to disguise his or her
handwriting, but be that a, it may.
there was one thing in it tiAt CON-
mands attention, and while won t
be quoted here ad lib. ore portion
will be touched upon, to show the
mistaken idea obsessing some that
navy men are gods.
Honest labor bears q lovely face.
Decker.
No one to the writer's knowledge,
ever made claim that the navy man
ruled by "divine right whether he
be big or little navy man, and not for
one minute does Gold Brick en-
tertain the idea that navy men are
ashamed of their parental heritage
AS a matter of fact, there are only a
few scions of noble blood in the
Academy General Bancroft had a
very democratic idea about the men
who were to guide the navy in the
good old days when he was a prime
mover in its inception. The sons of
nobility-or quasi-royalty might be
said find no foothold in the navy
The roster is made up of the sons of
man.
Nor grandeur hear with dsdain-
full smile.-Gray.
There is nothing more noble than
a noble man and whether he be de-
scended from banker, politician,
farmer or deliver in the earth, he can
be a man. Most of the boys that
come among us are manly. Their
conception of right and justice is born
in them and fostered and nurtured
as they grow to mans estate, but
and here's the rub-those who do be-
come snobbish have Annapoltans to
thank for it. That seems a broad
statement. but let's get the fact un-
der the microscope.
Where angels tremble while they
gaZe.-Gray.
The candidate for the Academy
comes here an utter stranger. He
I is introduced by letter or in person
to one of the many places who make
a speciality of extracting one dollar
a day from him for board anC
room. 1t is possible that the ser.
vice is worth that much money. HI
meets the daughters of the house,
and they in turn treat him as
member of the household, nothing
more. He is only a candidate, anC
the queen cannot go too far TOWARD
making him altogether in love will
ways Annapolitan, because "h,
might not pass. Here is where tn,
girl makes her first mistake.
knowledge is pow er Bacon.
But, if the gray matter contained il
J l. &c g nF WI
he does pass the examining board
the atmosphere instantly clears. Th'
homes barred against him in his can
didate days are open to him, but We
not very wide, because he is only {;
plebe, and he hasn't much liberty a
the granite mansion as yet. But il
/ his second year, if fate has been kint
to him, and he is allowed to go to th
hops-throw up your hands at once ?
be blossoms into a society boy, AM
the queens are buzzing around hin
like bees. Now unless he is ''ret
mike" and many are, how can tha
poor little farmers boy pick ONI
from FORTY. 1t becomes a problem
that the science of algebra doesn'
treat upon He can't work out tn,
problem by logarithms. He is bask
ing in the light of forty stars, eacI
to him as brilliant as the other, an
all of the first magnitude. He can
choose one, or the other thirty-nin
would cut him." He must do as hi
compeers have done "jolly then
along.
Everyone can master a grief but
he that has it.-Shakespeare.
Let's look at a case that came ur
der the writer's observation. A can
didate travelled almost half wa
across the country to live with US
He prep-ed as is the custom, and wa
taken half-heartedly into the "bosor
of the family" He was invited I
church and he went. Only thre
people apparently missed him whe
he didn't attend-the Lord, tn
clergyman and the man who passe
the plate for the offertory. Well, h
came to the conclusion after a Will
that he didn't care much about goin
to a church where nobody talked t
him as he entered; he met no one; h
didn't feel at home, so he ouit oainp