Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1917 — Admiral Beatty’s Hero. [ARTICLE]

Admiral Beatty’s Hero.

Go into Admiral Beatty’s parlor and glance at the line of books which lie on the table, says the London Daily Telegraph. It Is “Nelson’s Dispatches.” Look on his desk and you will find a bust of the great admiral. The prints and pictures on the walls here commemorating great deeds of the navy also are lit with the light of the navy’s greatest inspiration. Here is the, dinner table of the captain of a famous ship of the first battle squadron. Note the centerpiece—a silver statuette. Need you ask whose it is? Nelson stands shining before him as sitting he drinks the king’s health in the way of the navy, and the statuette is his mascot. Only once did he leave it behind, and the ships had trouble. That was on maneuvers and never since has Nelson been forgotten. His servant, who knew the value the captain attached to it, asked before the battle of Jutland if he would stow the statuette safely away. “No,” replied the captain, “he must go through it.” And go through it the little statuette did, and the ship that carried him went through it, too, and earned fresh laurels.