The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1913-05-23
MANNERS
OF The PAST
Many Famous Names Can
not Be Recalled.
Slip Ones Memory As Soon As
School Days Become Thing
OF The. Past.

The place that looks at a battle,
more or less important, to keep its
name fresh and green in tn public's
memory has about as much of a
chance to realize its ambition as a
man whose hopes Of immortality de-
pend on q cigar that bears his name.
Recently you have read and heard
much Of Kirk Killisse. Lule Burgas,
Tchatalja, Mustafa Pasha, Salonika
and Adrianople, but what are these
names going to mean to you In three
o four decades, Providence granting
you at least that much longer.
Some idea of the answer may be
had by going back thirty-five years,
when the Balkan Peninsula was the
scene Of another great struggle, the
Russo Turkish war. We have talked
with persons who read all the war
nsws OF the day and they have for
gotten the names of practically all the
places which at the time were fire.
quently mentioned in the dispatches.
Plevna is recalled, but then three i'm
portant battles we're fought there.
The other names exist only on the
map and in histories of the conflict
Shipka Pass, Nikopol, Loocha, Yer
boca, etc. But to return to Kirk
Kills. Lule Burgas, Mustafa Pasha
and the rest. Even a few years from
now the man who did not make a
special study of the present war will
as likely as not wonder, when he
hears the names, who preached at
Kirk Kilisse and If Mustafa Pasha
and Lule Burgas were related to
each other.
Another little test, since some may
consider thirty-five years unfair. What
names of the Turco-Italian war, which
as yet is not two years old can you
recall?
Tripoli, that's good. What else?
There were cases, too, but then you
could not have been expected to re-
member their names.
The class in one-year-old history
will please tell what part the follow
ing played in the Turco-Italian war:
Preveza, Umberto, Benghazi. dab
ruzzi and Bersaglieri.
The names of battles in foreign
wars may be remembered we'll enough
but as time elapses they lose much
of the important battles of the Russo
Japanese war, Port Arthur. which
Is hardly ever mentioned any more,
still holds its own in the public
mind, but what was the number OF
the Meter Hill that figured 80 prom
inently in the news dispatches at
the time Of the attack.
The following provides further in
stances of the ephemeral interest
possessed by places suddenly brought
into prominence by war: Chemulpo.
Yula River. Win. Kinchow. Nan
shan Telissu. Liaoyang and Feng-
But to come nearer home to names
that a respectable person can pro-
nounce without being accused OF
swearing. Our war with Spain added
to American history names that the
large majority of patriotic citizens
can recall without difficulty, and.
what is more. can give some idea OF
what they stand for In our history.
Yet these same places are tout OF
date" 80 far as their receiving any
particular attention for their war as
sociations is concerned.
To Americans no battle names are
better known than those OF the revo-
lueionary and Of the civil war. but
some of the former have a tendency
to slip ones memory as school days
rather than the battles themselves
become more and more a thing Of
the past. Many northener knows
certain places In the south only
through the civil war but the places
with which he ism ost familiar are
those that somehow or other get in
to the news Of the day.--New York