Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1920 — Names. [ARTICLE]

Names.

Most men of high destinies have high sounding names. Pym and Habakuk may be pretty well, but they must not think to cope with the Cromwells and Isaiahs. And you could not find a better ease in point than that of the English admirals. Drake and Rooke and Hawke are picked names for men of execution. Frobisher, Rodney, Boscawen, Foul-Wather, Jack Byron are all good to catch the eye in a page of a naval history. Oloudesley Shovel is a mouthful of quaint and sounding syllables. Benbow has a bulldog quality that suits the man’s character, and it takes us back to those English archers who were his true comrades for plainness, tenacity and pluck. Raleigh is spirited and martial, signifies an act of bold conduct th the field. . . . —“Virglnibus Puerlsque.” by Louis Stevenson.