Show r REMINISCENT In going into the battle of Trafalgar Lord fjord Nelson ordered the signal man to cause the signal to fly from rom the mast England expects every erO man to do dohis his duty one Forty years afterward in 1846 that signal signalman m man mail n John was re recognized selling watercress water water- cress cressand and red herring at lie He deserted after the battle of or Trafalgar which caused him hlin of corse to forfeit his Ilis pension He He was recognized by by bya a surgeon who was in iti inthe the battle There was n a struggle gle made nde to get him hima a pension but hut the thc government refused but at last lat lasta J a place was found for him in Greenwich hospital where here he hc remained all his life He TIc probably felt that after Nelson was Idl killed ed there was nothing in inthe inthe the he navy worth fighting for but his being found selling watercress find and herrin herring is another example that we cannot tell cr very much about men when we ce meet them Probably th the old oW women who quarreled quarreler with him over his watercress and herrings who iLo tried id to beat him down after the manner of or the the lie fishwives fish fish- wi wives wies es of London called him him an old swindler never nevet- imagined that it was that old broken down dow own fish ped- ped ale w who o stood beside Nelson on the deck of the Victory Vieto Vie Vie- to tory and ran up imp the thc signal which is an heirloom now i In B. B British history It is i's an another ther reminder that na nations na- na nn-I nn I ons are re prone to tb be neglectful of their heroes and andI I J. J I that we cannot tell in looking in mens men's faces what wha the thc measure of the soul is Lord Cardigan who led lcd the charge of the GOO a at Balaklava on returning to England stopped wit with some companions at a beer house in Germany tI pu put up a hand before his face as the thc beer seller went t to open a bottle whereupon that functionary laughed and exclaimed You would have made a bad showing show show- ing lug at Balaklava and Car Cardigan igan did not dispute th the point with him for really it was not necessary fo for fori he who f. f Rode into the jaws of death Into the mouth of hell It was not necessary for him to dispute the matter of his courage with a German beer seller And this all reminds us what a man Lord Nelson was HP lIe was like Jobs Job's warhorse lIe He U smelled the thc battle from afar When Napoleon had every country o of Europe under his feet Nelson had hud every port block block- tided He Ic set the thc pace for English sailors and for that matter for American sailors and the dream o of tile the American na navy from the time first has been to be like Nelson That was in s thought when lashed to lo th time the crosstrees of the tho old Hartford as he pushed his n's way over oyer the torpedoes into Mobile bay it was wasill in ill Deweys Dewey's mind when in the earl early morning he hc pushed rushed his wa way into Manila bay bar It was in the minds of all the thc captains off Santiago and if any foreign power ever eyer sends its ships up against the American navy in jim battle they will do it with the that every ery petty officer on board all he time ships will be saying to himself figuratively Victory today or Westminster Abbey n |