Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1895 — A Cruel Wrong Inflicted on Sailors. [ARTICLE]

A Cruel Wrong Inflicted on Sailors.

A sailor on a troopship informs me of a curious grievance from which he and his mates suffer. ‘‘The ship’s company is limited,” he writes, ‘‘to two parrots for each mess of about twelve men, and if these are not in uniform cages they are thrown overboard.” Tastes, of course, differ, but I should myself have thought an allowance of one parrot to every six men on board a troopship was not an unreasonably small one. ‘‘A. B.” evidently thinks otherwise, however, and this is not strange, perhaps, when it is remembered on the authority of Mr. F. C. Burnand’s once popular lyric, that Jack’s ‘‘heart is true to his Foil."