| Show A OT Two 0 PRESIDENTS AN TWO IWO Will Being Some Episodes in the Life o of Capt Daniel Delehanty in Which Lincoln Archbishop Hughes V f I Roosevelt Bob Evans Cervera and John D Long Figure in a Way to Delight the Heart of i Old and Young Alike t i ii tit 9 II fM r rL 4 c J N the day darn of th civil war wai IN Is I wh when n the th soldier nt of f the th south uth wore fre un news fliM Abraham Lincoln J summoned to lit Washington t I i eminent men rf f New SiW York Tork tf he h said LIIl U cher l I is Im Ini that the th v is ill III Iw Le I d I by y England and nd You Vou i nn min do cI more mor to t It II than th any an other two twit I men now 0 living You he h sold tu t one mina on of f them 1 link nek Ilk to In BO tro to England and anil In the therill rill II mid d In III the thA in n Uv the tb and nd In the Id uw use 11 oil nil great lit ers of In 10 tit the taunt of or the 1101 north nerd You ou hr of Bald wUrt rt tu to the tho other th man 1 n to K go o I 10 thI franc Irah e where I hv hy byr r ason of or your our gifts of oratory t your our of flip In to the tho and I yOa tt wi wide le Influence you Day inay be t able to 0 what n no other man could do 1 un tan all make no nil higher tall call In upon neon your rw P m than t I now am making A later th true h two eminent men mn Henry ard Ik a M r and John If of Now New York were we on their way WilY arms actress 11 th the Atlantic N Never Nev vt flirt did two more brilliant speakers K ItO go to 10 toI I plead the Ih cause u of freedom fr fn edun KIWI and never did two men lIIn fulfill their mission wisher 1 The 11 was ra 11 the lh first to 10 re n return turn Ho Ito reported 1 that the north had bd no friends or III r among the thi rich the and AmI the tho In Prance JnO and that thai tI the he O danger of f the em empire pire 11 rt nw the Confederacy cy was Willi Willivery very great gnat W I It II not 11 lIt new flews n for fur Mr III Lincoln to hut but th thiv the l president iv l planked hint him In that thai i plate way lie he lied with all mien men I 1 xi th Ii Mid said the ilia in I I Lent nt that Ihal there 1 her V vv a as H that I could do that you desire would the th debt of under antler which you have havo IlIn placed me I 1 there you want for rf or any of sour jour our people ppl any of your frend Nothing replied n the I J am am worry sorry the president Nut Hut nt as he h WILE about bollt to go the arch archbishop ar h bishop 1 There Is le rite ono thing Mr Pr I III hr wild nl One Otte of my door friends has hall hasa n a 1 boy hoy ho too young oung to go Into Inlo tho the army but lii t whom hepa ii 1181 ml It In Is to tu top p v me a noli lor Jf Jr l he go to Wish Point Pont And Is that alit allT nil aek a asked kod d the pro prod dont dent That hi It alt all n d vl the th In New Sw York the Ih following day till the hop sent It for the lay hoy l oy and told 1101 him how the of f th the United hl had 41 to him to Wet West WestPoint Point Jollit Rut hut ea mil H III id the Ih I bo o I 1 dont want wantI In to I n ga t I to Nest ent Point I 1 want ant to KO go to 0 Ann AnnII I 1 want 1 in t pi If go In the navy The 11 nr ur It lie Its had what ahat hat the boys boy rather father had said vald Id about the lad beds atoll Well W II he hr declared there thre I no nom mending m It now 00 The ha has h appointed d you ou to AVent t and to Wet est 1 Point you yuu mu must t RO go o Hut But the Ih bo by bv had no ambition except fur for the thO imy tins and nothing the arch could rould 11 say a could change him the tl archbishop told him to go home hom and If h he did not change hi hl Ills mind over night and th to RO go to toWe tot We West t tin the tit would write to the president and tell him hint th the ap aI appointment could not be he That night the bur bor bo very wry little and mud the following day da went to the and told Aim halm he lie h de desired lr d nothing on earth lo o much as a to tc go to toAn An The archbishop hop could cou not net see e why a aboy atoy toy boy should hould be o obstinate TO II COL COLell Well Poll ell he mid Bahl finally Ill not ask aik the president to the appoint appointment appointment ment but It If you 00 want to go to Rash Wah Ington anti and a uk ask k him yourself Ill give th thou you ou a letter to him The lay boy bo wa wu delighted The archbishop wrote a letter litter and an as anthe the lad was wan wa leaving the archbishop stud raid to him hint My I toy lioy I 1 doubt whether you K see e Mr Lincoln livery Every min minute minute ute mite of or hi Idi time Ume I is III taken up with great grent affair and lId he In Is II surrounded by 1 so many mall that It l is III to got gat gatun gotan un an audience Hut nut there IlIre 1 I one man nan there who will get ret you to him If any anyone anyone ny nyon one on can ah When hen you go to 10 the White While louse Houe Inquire for tor him Tell him you have hav a letter to the Ih president from John Jolin Hugh HughTo e eTo To Washington wont went Daniel Dele Del Delhanty Delehanty hanty with the archbishops letter leUr Th Tho rho Thoman rhoman man mall to toe tM named wa was one of the lIIng me enKen You Y ou have a II letter from John ho and ami you wont want nt to see th t the j wait It a minute said 1111 1 the When ban h he HI he told the tho th toy boy the th thI president h haul l been In to council with tho the thoc cabinet cabin c I net but trot he had called him out I 00 Oo up the there then the The Th president president dent d nt In is welting waiting Dont detain him a 1 moment court m than 15 la h he ht urged Up the thi stairs Mat th troy boy and anal 1 when hn he gut got ot to 0 the th top tOil und mind hl enel up III he h stood before what seemed to him to be the tallest laurel strangest look lookIng lookIn lug Ing In man he ever aver saw 11 Hut But the t fay boy 00 did lId not look at nt tile the Neut tie lie 11 was a so ee u fluttered flustered he could not lk at first lint and to add to his hie embarrass embarrassment anent ment a pair of eyes It seemed to be look took lookIng lug Ing at him from the presidents pr feet air Lincoln hud had on a II pair of ered cJ slippers pen and nd worked In a vamp of the th slippers lI l or t rA were beads bead d to represent the eyes eye e of some animal Them Thene eyes fascinated the boy lay and he h could not draw hi his hili attention from them Queer Qu notion come romp Into om ones mind In time thus of or agitation and the one Olle tiling thing tho boy hoy thought thu ht of just then thell mote more than any anything thin thing else eloe I was that those were real realey eyes eye ey that were looking at him out of the Ibe slippers slipper maybe tiger e eI I J DONE Then suddenly he lie was a from hi his hili odd thoughts thou ht by the sound uund of Mr lIr voice voles You ou have a letter etter for me from Hughes Inquired the president The boy 00 handed the let letter letter letter ter to him and the president read I It Itu Vim Tau u want lint to go fIO to Annapolis asked lI the tho th president p dent looking at the boy fay with hi his hilt sad Kid deep eyes eye Oh Yes Ye Mr Lincoln the tho boy 00 re piled 11 The president took the th prelates prelate let letter letter ter tr placed It against the watt wan and wrote on It ItI ItI I wish h this done A LINCOLN N Take this to the th navy rl my fay boy 00 he said Mid placing hi his hand hund on the lads lAd head hand a moment Then Th n he turned to gO BO back bark to the cabinet meeting The Th buys hoy bo mind wa w was crowded with I words ot of thanks but somehow t he h could not Hive give 6 u expression pr to tn them th hI Instead he said Id Mr Ir President never r what hat you have done dOIl this day Mr Lincoln smiled limited that sad Md strange mil qt f lit h lira and before he hi reached the thedoor door doer 1 of or the cabinet room the tho boy had bounded bounder down the stairs and was wao rac racing racIng racing ing toward the navy building In IS U minute he had hi his hla commission for tor the naval More loro than X Z years yearn of service Dan Daniel DanIel Dantel iel tel had given Riven to his country climbing steadily In rank when one day he received an Intimation that he lie would be bf asked to take Inke the governor governorship governorship ship hip of Snug l harbor The navy has nothing to do with the harbor but tho the old salts salt In the th Institution had lied started to 10 mutiny and the trustees had applied to tn the secretary of ot the navy to help them by b letting them have an officer of high administrative a ability and well able alle to handle handl men Capt all Delehanty had haul served In the Asiatic squadron and the Pad lie It North orth Atlantic station and at the naval na 1 acad academy emy my He lie lead uI been on the Sar Summit titue the theIn Independence In the Colorado the Cats Catskill kill the the time Atlanta Adams the the th Tetras and other war warship warships ships ship awl and had ha 1 b lINn been en supervisor of ot New NewYork NewYork NewYork York APPALS TO Ordinarily U governorship gov of Sail Sailors 11 ors ore or Snug harbor harbot would be a R sll t berth but Ji Jl Just t at that time rapt RIK Dele lent did not Mt wart want It HI Ills friend Theodore l v elt jt was assistant sec Me secretary secretary of or the tt navy nav and he went to 0 se see e hits him Mr Ir Secretory Secretary he said we 0 are go going goIng going ing to 10 have II a war r with and when It oom amts I I dont want to 10 be left on the beM beads h I Previously JI In conversation with the captain Mr Ir had expressed eed th t the opinion n that war waa wa certain but taw now h he wild said that th the affair wa was 41 being no so that there would be no of iwas 1 TIM The ln was wa nut not convinced by what Mr Ir lt Bald 1181 1 and aud Mr 11 Koo iv welt velt lt jumped up and went ent in fn to toke tobee ke bee th the chief Secy Scy lang Lorn langLo Long Lo K sale y to take tako it ho no announced when h he be ratum returned d Maybe he saw doubt still shadowed In the captains C foes face At any allY rate rat he lie said 4 Captain there Is I no reason r on why you yeu take It lt In the piece there Is le I going to be no Hr war and andIn nd In lu tin the second place lace If Ie there re I II a war warI ar I 1 premise y you ID is n gl give e you OU Ii a ship You YU promise T said Id Captain D Dele l lYea Yea 1 I 1 promise sell Mr AU All right rl bt Ill 11 go said Mid the captain To Sailors Harbor west went the II n hardly had taken char thew t h 6 before 0 Um the Main lain was wu blown up In the harbor of Havana In a day the native nation was aflame War AVar ar WM was In inthe th tM the air It wwi was UJ UN useless M for the tb gov p rR of the tb two t countries du COMMA CODO to 10 try tt to 10 settle NUle the tile trouble by br diplomatic Millions Million of t parlors cried out for lor for or ore tit ibis e hundreds who went wont to 0 death nn on th the e Mat Male Outwardly O protesting that war was war w not Intended rind and lId would not be r ro I lid to all other efforts tailed flUted both tb tM the United state and ami rushed n bH tb their tr preparations for or th the he con conflict Pet that bulb boUt knew w wits was Inevitable ran FOR WAR WARIn W WARIn AK AKIn In Waa tU U the navy department mas Nas to bring being Into play pity Its It inot fore force Night und mind day II III the I studied stud I th tM the of t i and on lit littlon Ivry commander sew saw In to th the coming an min u ol to tu win winfor fur for a high place In hi h his noun coun country try tr rad fliP and ROO a nicks Bleke perhaps In la th Ute the of Mm I IN Roe r more mor than M IQ My y Seers r th tb the nation had ell at peso Ice arvi In In tU the Ibe navy 1 had toad b boon u dull Mid and lUll offered lull reward Men IM had given the Il lt uan teru ar of at lives liven II v to tu It and had bd grown old stud and gruy without hat hal hating haling 1 ing lote attained much In III tit tb the way of ur tank tankA IlIn IlInA A r of war meant Ht met mor In lu the th w way y of nr promotion than decades decade of st i tlc 11 vice In to of t pM peso To th Ik the who wh had powerful friends In III there was wag a the chance of appointment to tout mand ananoS A 1 n nt fleet t captain Delehanty I r t newly ly I installed In m his hI at et t dani i a nug jK II Jt i revel NIl I Ith the th new news day dlly by b day and Curry riy fl dry day dayh h he K tiro mo e and rr r ro Hia nat tale had been hoen HO en unkind to him hint After all hi hie to be tw l 1 or aide tracked just at nt the time when the door dour of opportunity seemed about to be ben n to the men of the navy naT was wa hard indeed That he would be he b brought out from snug Ku Harbor for service was AS most unlikely He lie II had no reason to expect t It except for tor the promise made madl by Theodore and that prom promise promIse ise undoubtedly would be forgotten In Inthe Inthe the tho strew stress of or activity and nd the multitude of ot things thing that would overwhelm tl the assistant secretary of Urn the navy In th the the preparations for fur the th war warDs Day Ds by day dR the tension tendon between Spain and the tho th United States State more strained In Congress the this war ar party grew stronger and stronger r and the demand de Ie demand mand upon tho the president to act att more Insistent And as a the tension tendon lm bo bome come came me more m strained and on as the war feeling ed Capt apt re is regret gist gret that he lie ever vr accepted the commis commission sloes Ion to Snug Harbor became more acute cutO WAR AR One On One day he wax was In 10 the city ctt riding down Iown In a car when h he heard the newsboys crying Ha tra In a voice that told Its own 01 story He Ile got off oft the th car and bou bought n a 1 pa paper r There Ihne across the whole twee l e ewas was the great new news War Var had been declared The United states tat and Spain were ware w to cattle their Ut lr differences by of arms The navies were ready rady to be hurled hurl l at each other Armies were HIre mumbling to meet inset each other and hAUl battle to th the death To the men trained to th the service the door doo of or opportunity wa was wide open OJ at Rt last but bul not to Daniel Delehanty neglected ne and nail for forgotten gotten burnt buried away afI at Sailors Bailors Snug bor after afler 36 16 years yearn of or service An As IM he I went seat ent down Broadway after artur reading the extra there wa was not it II sadder man In all aJI Now New York than Denial Daniel J U He crowed crossed cd the fur Car Carry furT ry T to lO Staten Island Inland and boarded the th train at 81 St George for tor Snug Sang Harbor with Nith little thought of anything but hl hi his own III fortune A he hf entered tire this tI gate at Snug Harbor an orderly stepped d f for tor r aunt saluted sainted and nd thrust forward a paper Telegram for you u sir air ho Bald eald and again lIn NOT The captain opened the tho envelope me mechanically Thon Then he lie read 1 War Val You may hAve com cOln command command mand of or Suwanee or Which do you 1011 prefer ROOSEVELT Assistant tant Secretary Navy a aIn In a moment the man titan who had been boen burdened with regret was transformed Into a mon nuan full of ot hope eagerness and und activity He hurried to the this telegraph office and antI rushed a message to Wash Washington ington In on In a few days he wan wea on cot his hit way WILY to take Ike command of the tho In a 1 few months he ho was In the great reat tight fight at ILl Santiago where tho navy of Spain was ws crushed In onn one of or the mot most remarkable r battles In ht the history of or naval warfare When hen the tight fight was Willi over lie be went In tn his launch to the battleship Iowa and anda an andas 1 a as he lie till climbed m bed up the companionway companions ay Fighting 1 I Dob Bob Evans I hurried forward flushed of or face and with both hands outstretched In greeting Delehanty he exclaimed 7 I |
