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Show - 4 . I I aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabawSiitf tittjMi'i'ttMi ifi 1v'tYi i'VoonY,. old follpfr. and jjooijj NBjLJ lutU" nia, lysfdont ltoosi m voir ch Lo grnnrfal Hear Af invv "l,ral Nobley H. KnnM b5 tUollinnil'jiiHl gnld. fnrewc-ll to lilm nrul; ttio OtliCf )Ulf I'M r tlu s.i-nt Hoot now o?i Its vn.v tirn!ifIMelilc "Plslilliij;"' Bob" nnd his won .uv loiilitles lookW Ing forwnrd o tlu ndxeiitiiriN tliaK nnult tliom In roiiiulliiK the Horn nnd. Rnllfnc up Hie unst of Koutlt Aincrlca'f 'itnttlio fceiMic nt tllnt uu tin;; will not' soon be forgotten by them Tim grlni; T .1. t . Ai i i t nATTT.KSHir CONNKCTKOT STAnTINO OS, ,, TUK t.OMU C1IUISK. .' fwntnuiidei; In clijf of tliu fleet wlii-fl ho left bis flagship, the 1(1,000 ton b it. Htsttlp rJounccHcut, rind1 Ktepiwd oj ibbjtrd Ihd Mnj flower' to erect the presi .idcut, ike Lommandex.tn chief of botlj array nnd nay, seemed to feel the se-rlous se-rlous Import of the occasion -mid to be Impatient for tho farewell, to jc oer. When Sir, Itoosoeltjnd tupronr nd? -julrnls nuil captains of. the' fleet had iffrpup'cd thinielv'ea licfore n batterj" ?f cameras and tlibro" waHBomo fiimbllng among tho tmip ehootcra, this hero of 'many 'buttles exclaimed: "Uoie, jou fellows, shoot f.ist. I see you need some training at a uavy gun.'' Admiral IImuih liutv (itilto u Ktuttk of coining striding phrases, 'Recently, lie, as credited with Kiylug Uiat tho fleet lhTgolng to tho I'nclfle'wouULIx! ready for either u "light or a frolic." It was when he uiw nt.u ting for Cuban vn tors nt the outbreak of the Spanish war th.it ho mado the famous t ennui; to tho effect thatUf he once ( got after the ildtia he would uiakc KlimNli the prcvalttng l.uigu.igeuliij,liailepfor the ensulnp ten jeurs.K? PjajJlouiJ 'to the pntllnif of the Hoot ifromHampton Itoads all .liip.meso Bcrvlng In any capacity ca-pacity on any of tho (.hips weie discharged. dis-charged. It Is n coincidence In thU romiectlou that Admiral laus him. belf onco bud n Japanese In hU employ em-ploy u'l a servant. He once told n "jijtorj ubout hU worthy. "When I co'mfn.miled thb Now YorU somo years ago," he nnld, "I had n Jap servant with vfhom 1 was, cspet daily w;lf pleased. Ho was prompt, remarkably' (Julrlc to Warn ntid took BOch a deep Intrreit In cry thing that sometimes 8 in n se myejf I dox otqd not n little attention to explaining thliigs that he appeared not to tinder-Btind. tinder-Btind. A good waiter, too, ho wt.sj "Well, llnally he disappeared. Some time Inter when on tho European station sta-tion I inado 'a (Jail on a Jap battleship lying itl the harbor of Mitrsclll6s. The captain met! uli at tho gangway1 and cwoiteil us to bin eft til II.. As we word fcentnt ho ,tudddnly turned, threw off lil.'i hat ami v hipped a napkin, over bis arm. 'rue, captain wpua arinbV ho said In n tone I remcinhcrcd. 'Kato'.' I cried. Jumping to my feet, ''llie Bamc,' he said, bowing. 'Captain Kato of the mll.ado'HjuavyO" , Tlieie nun great rhalry 'ng the oftlcors of tho nay In (.pnnectlqn wl(i nhslgtimonts to dttty in the tlpet, Ouq of the, luckj hUtecu comm,)iidws of, 'battleships i m this cruise is Cnptalu Bcatou Kchtovder of tbq ,Vlrgluia. flq Ja one of the beat known olllccrs qf hts rank piirtlelpatlng In, the cruise. ,Uo was for somp Jlmo governor of Hie Isle of tiiuini, and during thoipcrlod of his rulq he fUdcaorcd o develop Uio pubi lie Bchool system. An enrthmmc came, along and destroyed schoo) pulldlngs courthouse nnd Jail., Ho tried to ,bulld somo good roads, too, but met with, difficulties again, among idem tho destruction de-struction wrought by a flood which demolished most of tho bridges. lie i ww ' ' , i ' CAtTAIM BEATON BCtinorDBr.V Isbuaiilan order regarding the mippres-slon mippres-slon of disorderly characters y. lilch occastonetl comment at the time. Captain Schrocdcr was appointed to tho Naval academy from South Carolina Caro-lina in 1801 and graduated In 1M1S. Ho has seen Important service In many quarters of the globe during his cateer and In the Spanish war was attached to tho battleship Massachusetts,. render-ing render-ing gnccounfoim |