Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1910 — ENOUGH TO SINK HIM. [ARTICLE]

ENOUGH TO SINK HIM.

Colonel Chauricey Dewey, - Inspector General of the Illinois National Guard, told at a dinner in Chicago a Fourth of July story. “One of our Admirals,” he said, “showed the proper Fourth of July spirit at a Fourth of July banquet of the American colony in London. . ■ “An English Admiral, discussing Dreadnoughts with our own sea dog at this banquet, said: “ ‘You and I are seamen, and you can sympathize with me when I tell you, sir, that the one dream of my life is to command a British Dreadnough, and to lav her alongside .of an American Dreadnought of the same strength for 20 minutes.’ ‘‘ ‘Twenty?* said our Admiral. ‘Oh, 10 would be enough/ ”