Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 73, Hammond, Lake County, 5 September 1918 — Page 10

Boys of Mosquito Fleet, Who Find French Ports Dreary and FuSl of "Homesickness Germs," Go Back to Their Ships Cheerful and Ready for Anything after Meeting the Women Workers Who h ave Gone "Over There"

to Make France Look as Much Like Home as Possible. EY REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN ALTnOron he va a mere' rfvbre and cried n little and told lad ho didn't ln.sk a day 1 j ou to send home ail your socks f..r pvpr spventt'fu he wore the . mending, aiij your father'd sbakeu uuifonii of a sailor in tbe i Lands with you ami cleared his throat Uniteo States Navy., lie had come mid said you'll It coming back to J" to thj? little room, opening off the , put him out of business, and vou'd Maip roet cf the dreary French ! held your head hini and joked if tfOU ith just a bit. of a swagger. you remember that, yon will ngro.; 'Oct riffarettt .," he said, and flung 1 with nie that to bo homesick is t. upon the counter a fifty-franc bill. ! be as miserable as it is possible fur

w nat rr.'ind lt yon preter: asked the pi rl-bebind-t he-counter. Instantly, that faint Lint of bravado passed front the ltoyish face, leaving it clean and manly glad, too, and yet wistful. '(iee he cried. "You're an American, aren't you? threat runs, tuit it's good to hear American taUed in this town.'' He drew out. as long ns h-? dared, the details of h.t. purchase, llr went away slowly, aud presently returned and b tight some more cigarette, lie fcurg abnit the room, and then bought still more. He ostentatiously pulled out a shining cigarette op so from a pocket, and filled it. The clerk couldn't help a smile "Ycu must smoke a great deal," she paid. The sailor blashed. ' It's not that," Le confessed, "but '.veil, just to tear you talk is like home '." II -fur-bled with the cigarette case. "See that':" he ssld. "I got it to day from mv folks in Post on. TL It tiionogram the guessed nayhe re my initials. i ther',1 send me ci'i - rettes. but I didn't expe.-f t cae As it was, the case came alone." "It's -very pretty." said the .lerk. "It's til" first word I've ha 1 fr.m hon.e for three months.' t' "They don't write?"' He turned away. "I mails are all balle.bup." co ess the "Still, r.,u J U did jrr-t tile case." LETTERS, THE DEMAND "Sure; but I'd ratl.er had a letter than a hundred cigarette cases. )f course I m giati I oniiste." ; hut, if the tfonle at home krie-.v how baa lis felh.ws wanted letter--. th.-v'd writ every day, even if tiny didn't have nothin' trulv.' If th. to say exeept v onlv kn-v 1" 'Yours H,at sailo lor was a fair example of our ifiun: seari-.en in France : unfaltering in his dtermiunti.in to do his duty, but unre.-nittingly homesick. The renin in which he revealed his heart was one of many suoh rooms where, daily, many of mir enlisted men are moved t- similar confessions : their one healthy substitute for home, the y. M. V. A. hea i.piarters at a French port. These hoys are the kerpers-up of oommer.-e, the f i.d brir;er, the sleepiest guides and guaf.li'ins of our troops that or. ss t!i-- s. i. "The work of the M-"'o is nothing short of v. Freuoh admiral recenrly Tn the !a.t report of t .v find fifty shins c-nvoyed. Ifts-es w,,- i. j orte.-l , siri' e onito I'leet c.aire b.u-e. the i'o Fleet rf a fb-riared. hundred ilv three the MosS. (). "s. calls due t.i mil.' - and submarine at.r ki have decreased f.fty yr cent." Thee restilts a re achieved only by labor tht. is hard, danger. .us, end n itlicut recorded praise. There i,re days when won have to si tod on wat' h f r fourtten hours without relief; v. !:.e Tuvaes when the guncrews ba e never tnovt-1 more than five feet from their gitns. snatching flee;-. o-i the rain-washed decks; fluruises when the men in the fire room and before the engine have never c.ree b -en at.le to come up for n brerith ( t fre di air. VviTHCUT A WHIMPER. Yet all hat is born" without 8 -whimper. Th" sailors read, now and th-n. a stray houie paper find see he ao.-ourifs of cheering crowds bid ding tlod-j ' t-.l to this or that depart--.z re'.'iroeT.f ; they feel that all the jtii! lie's heart is going out to the srtny. Th. y don't at nil realire tlieir o- n fieveti. n. and their attitude -t tiiir.o.-t that t.f ao.lojy for not more rrt.-t..i"'i1nr!r serving their country. The ili tell you that they are glad th.y '-j;:-a;;c. r:ai! !tm;;s to the irnns. but every new of friends that I and have won commis day er : sions at. the He-serve Officers Training t'amps. Ami then the ship comes back to port, and there ;re liberty pa-ties g.-itnr ashore. The Pi-irish pallor Is given his drink ratio:-; the British Y. M. C. A. serves light beer. It isn't thus with our men. At sea there obtains only the taut rule of fiat virtue, ami the man that goes Habere is his own master. lh you beiin to see now the problem that our Y. M. C. A. has to face? Any American sailor man will get romesick afle week here. and it's just hc.n'tesicknes that's the matter with most of these bids: if they can't be cured of it, they'll PO sometbiotr to f.-rget it." T" be hrunesick and. if oti rerr;en.her your first, boarding school

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i c noun siefc ami j et to give a home j to the bo-iit less is to be .something very nearly heroic. Of that I saw, iu , this port, a recent instance: j I came across three little children ! Loys standing in a doorway on a ! quiet street, the oldest perhaps tuelve yfiirs old, the youngest not a j day over five. They would have been : remsrKi, ,e nm-uz t!:e -t!:er child l'-f this s-i:,euh.:r r-f.vdv r-..rt if o I for their -leanlinei and for the I cleanliness of the elh r'y woman that was mmo!. ! They er, : cause caili i the band of stly oaring ' tLe;a. abb; lietap, tm tile renin rk wore a sao.r's which was ln.-o: bed the name of a certain boat iu the Mo. i'lno I- :eet, and because they WPr ' ' urease.;! m an n:fart,:e replica -f fie uniform .if ,tbie t-earnen in ti Fnifed States Nave. They were shy little boys, but thvon, an ;n charge of th, m explained : ALIV r , ii - .. - n t axiLUhi AKt WORTHY, ' eie, yes, monsiHiir. J nev were ail that was left of a fa nun". T:.. father wis kiiled at Vtrlun, th. mother died in an aecident at -i fa.t:ry of jr. hi. it i, us : , that good end ot upon (.t.e of y.mr ountrv' Hit 1 hios l.av- a.loptel them, "a:. I ;,r keeping the-n. u n.l wtll filiate th pi They have rente! for th.-tu rooms i, this hou-e. ami they have emplovemo to keep them, at."), whenever thes.np is in ,rt. t:.es-. sailor.-, ther fail tot to c "i" lore and r-.-.-ive wor it the!r w-.t-.U; .,,.1 a, t. give i i.o f-iat till the 1 T io on s are ill. I 'i..it. tb th.. . ' Oiior-, ,!.-!( .s matter t There , o.i, .to- t,,r- t i r.in r.-r men who wi;l take up..-) them.- Iv.t snrh oblirr.it inns as this. So-uei!,,;,,., worth doinir a nd floY. M. ('. A. is tryir.tr to do it. There aro a headquarters and other bud linrs in every Fr-neh port that is used by our navy fifty buildings in all conducted by workers w hose pa v does not quite 'meet their expense? an.l whose tasks continue from sun to sun. MANY DIFFICULTIES. At no one place are there often more than three hundred m.-n ashore at a. time, and -t it is ea-ier to , t t - t . t-Mnnnsu ine pers.ori bf-tween the assitciati' I relat iitiini!i n vorker and the sailor than b. en w.ukt r and er huts at th" .t 'ho ports are ramp .stn-tfiies 's, so that t loii h t he r.av.i 1 S"ltiier in toe American rairji. i.i V. e:t;e, whereas th. a mon im re villa forces figau-st v branch ,f th,, y 4f r A. 1 h:A to cor.teri.i are the stronger. I win to mi evening enter'aiument t'ivea 1 y the !!ritih Y. ;i. '. A. for the Anieri.an Y. M. ('. A.' patrons in the rooms of the French equivalent of the association. There ns a re.idi-ie- r..tou fill of ma ea.:ne and a p-owintr lil.rarv, fr.-e vtritiu" iroili'rl.ic, a r no i,r '"!; ei a t uro Utcl Wb rus t,t --h'' ws. -.ball : franc j. I ii a di was rounds, pi. eo a hixurv .-o-i vtpel t vjrrouped a day I men, ni'n jut; ; for ba-l;et ball. a b; fifty clean nitrhf and b. ds ef a a c! m b as Ml ns a. tm "i i n: .r i o ofijeers permant nf ly vet.'., mi ..veil a -More a pliOTi'ttrraph lonely lad s:t or which fve : 11 afternoon lnntii'i: ut sonrrs rpuiniKviit hood, a canteen that of his , hild dd chew "Utr. and candv. The.-e may sou like trifles to A nieriea n at home. 1 t to the American sailor abroad, to M. C A. urovld-. whom onlr the them, they become sometldntr lar'te and vital. Tlo-v beeonie Amoriea. '"Theie's eo,,d rub on ,-ir tub., but not cnouch that's swo"f. fiimnie sf.nie more of thoso jrum-drops." "UrSat's thi' Lemonade? Yes. hut what's it made of- C'itrousyrim and selt7or! And you call that hmnnoSr? Oh. well, give tis nnnthT glass of it: it's as dose as a f.l'ow ran come to it over here. V. hen "are you g"tin to be a bin fr afford n soda-fountain ." MEETING FRENCH GIRLS. Tt I heard those comment onee rlurincr an afternoon that T paol hi a naval Y. M. C. A.. T heard them a dorm times. T'nbelievalde quantities cf chocolate are sold in a form that be heafej and drunk durinsj night-watches nf sea. and the millionaire that wants to do effect iv work aeainst ah-fdinlim could do none more effective than to done soda fourtatcs nn' hot eho"oh-ife rr.'sehines to the association in these pets. 0 One Innovation Introduced rc'erdlr Is thus far workinr; well; partis cf

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brinfircr are formed, vender maternal haperonage, to noet. nailors of their own sort that have some knowledge of the Fmicn liinguage. It h at these gatherings that the sailor t-i' mot i reedy, ai.J most lightly, of hia work. "Ijfioking for subs?" I heard ore say to bis newly met companion. "I am poino; blind iug it 1 There is the sub th.it makes up to I. .ok bk" a s.ub .njr ve.s.-el, and the one that hides its Pi-riatope behind an imitation .-h.wk-tin, and now they've got one that spt. uts w ater 1 ke a whale. The por-poi-es 1 1 r i v e ns cray : some! hino i aroe dashing at roir boat the other day; its track was exactly lil, a t rpeio's. llittnrdirev saw i r.r-tt. He pointed it oo tills t ime '.' he and wo saw i call pc.rpoi-r-s m We're o.,ne o'l if j;iiU'e I. y torpedoes' ! Ti, was a ; II nnnrrc now."' Th" Vren. h pirl w.int al'UL rescues it i (tea. 'd to know PICK UP SURVIVORS 'T.a st t rip." - .. wa picked up tii:ee rn informed, "we 11 hi ats w itii lif'y-uine men in them. A. tout half of those men were i rom a ship that had been torpedoed the dav before. The v L'ot awav and w ere taken on 1 passing stt-ime and th.v b aun iiet-ii al.t ar ! her for twelve hours before .-he was torpedo, d. t...,. 'e jrot, thoso ft Hows into the drum-room and laid them ov.-r the boilers. Whenever we sigh a life boat the com misary steward starts sup lies of I'onjt and coffee, so we had plenty of the warm stuff ready for them, and we lent them our cbdhes while their own were drying." lT-n corntianion laurrhed. "W!r,' (!o.i't you t.ll the rf t ?" he a-Kd. '"Oh. what's the use'." grumbled the first, sailor. "Then I 11 tell if," perls', d the set-oici. ( tur crew h , cirt were m b better than the slops the resuie, 1 men had ct me aboard in tba me of the rescued fore-of I It i ilSMO r own duds before th"V back to th. t a-hi e. If y..u i. any stray unitovms walking ai'-ini'i mis ir.v. n. t hcv're ours." llowevt"-. if good e. n-pany is a moral lol'.-e not. on regu-e,e,j. -,, is good tooii. ami m t uai- pariicucir (he Y. 71. ". A. lots thus far been , .- t ,1 J rtunate. There is a ctorv fold in one port, wlice it'eent Astor nabeen staving' wicmi on -hore leave, to the o.l'ect 1 1. be v a - mi phi initio; of the restaurant in h - ho'.d -You can't -et -., really th"re," said Astor. iod uieaT VHERE TO GET GOOD MEAL Tlis auditor ha opened t s a ' . s -sort ol a good he o ufa. t u ii v fre-h 1 1 re-taurant. "I i;: in an. 'titer t now had liiuner at the Y. tur.-d. "( 'h . there ! "' ;-a i you did. The y. eat me place in t. ". A.," 1 Astor. "Of course M. f. A.'s the be t t n . " Mr. Ajt'tir ought t i k now, icau---' that eating place j-t of his wise's making. Mio 1 ought and turned over to tht association the one really go' I restaurant that could be found, er-d she has ever metbet p"' -ona'l active in its arrangements. "You got real food there." a sailor recently told me. "TVa! food. You know- what I tr.ea n ha m-an'-egcrs an' sf ec.k-an'-frlod-onion-.'; It is said thet Mrs. Astor used to help weit on table when th" service was short hande d. and that one of the first persons upon whom she waifpd a newly enlisted man In the T'nited States Navy who. until a month previous, had been the dining room steward on Mrs. Astor's own ya.-ht. "rice." the steward is reported to hav corrimecterl. '"when T ned o wait on her, T had to wr r evening plot hps The'eort cf men. then, with which,

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at cur navy's port? in Frar.'e, the V. M. C. A." has to deal, is ail .v.rt s. Tl'.ey ar-- of the two- cvtrenies an 1 every trade t,.f.'en, but 'i.ce they are in Fiicie Yarn's naiv th.-re is tm tii-tini ii. n. Ihi.-u ina'i is offering all he has to Jiis coun'ry; th tt make-, them kin. i , ( ;.,. evempli :'v : I was ii;st Ciuuirie- j.. tt on mv f,rsf '.rili.se Wlt-l th .to ' I. t-1 T

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Up at the front with tho An.criran .army are two jobs tot i loeoiy related they are om the artilleryman's and the observer'.-.. The bi'et uolivei.s tho gootb-. the second I' lbs. him what doorstep to lca e it on, atid cftrrocts any misapprol-on:-!-i:.s bo may Lave as !u v. licit' i.o is 1 'aving it. I'uiiug i;o s,ii;ht inor had boon n troiuor.elou si barrngo. Hi, ml rods of guns of all -je- ami v..ict s had

made if oxcooiliiigly uuvotrionaldo t o- I- rttzio, vbo is port died on ;i fa user is mountain which sooins or.ly a Motto's throw ;nvay. The guns heol !ii". d for two hour-- ;n:d our follows had gmo over the top ami corny buk with prisoners and captured inathi'.o guns. In die r.ioniii.g I wont br.ck to th-j nearest battery to a.-k how t hoy w rit about it. Tho battery 1 1-;:. is't 1 of French rineties and sovonty-tives. They w:-o hi'ldon away in liomb proof .nipbicemont.s of interesting consinH-ika. Tho o instruct :o:i bad to lie interest ing; 1-ycause Fritz know tht battory was tho're. and paid i" -. n.-idor-ablo nt!ontj.i:i. Kvry ern e in a w hily bo would drop a. -shoi! n"ar by. A general sb.owod ns bis wall n-ap of t ho vicinity on whi'-h w a ; tnai k' d ev t y (lei i:vn; t rc neb anil post.

i every stouo ami tuaiio or gra;-.-, it i je plained thy Lan'a.'.

PURPOSES OF LARRAGE "Thn theory was t.) vail in that section of trenches." he salt!, "i'.irt of tho guns enclosed the locality in a ban ago while or hers or -is play oil on tho communicating; trenches to Keep reinforcements from tuning up. Tho idea is to keep in the area all tho men .'-ho are I here and to let nobody come in to help them." "Hut. you can't see thoso trenches. How do you know you are billing them?" "Observers.'' was the curt answer. "We know tho location of tho trench and then register upon it. The observers correct our tiro until wo have the range exactly, an.) then wo wait ;r the time. Orders come that ih"!'" will be sip-h and such a barrage on "J" clay and zero hour. And wo are ready." The thing that tapped one on the pluuilder about those boys was their attitude toward tho putts. They seemed to feel toward them as a person might, foci toward a sj b iidid lighting bull dog. The seventy-fives called out tho highest esteem. The nineties were good; they did tho business, but tho Fpventy-fives' Now there were gun. "They won't let us fire but Fix times a minute," a sergeant sa'd with tho air of a man who had been personally o fie-ticiod. TORN BY HUN SHE' LS All around the emplacements the ground was torn and upheaved by Hun shells which had been sent over a.' a eornplimot-t to this battery. Out in the field were two great craters sharply visible over the rest. "Hey," called a man from the other end of the line of bomb proofs-, "here comes a Y. M. C. A. man with eats." Boys oozed out of caves and bomb proofs with their tongues fairly hanging out. Their station is with their guns, ad their mess is on the spot so they have little chance to get over to the canteen. The

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quartermaster leaned against the si r i fui rd 1 a it. "I 'hat. :....y." lie s to a blackened, hap if m a hat.-iiv. ay . I :e- h at Harvard 1. as he n". led ot hid emerging "got. honor.- in ! ia -f. spring." as a common etaA ut iie s her tnau?" I wondered. ' As a coal heaver," the quarter-n-a-trr correct etl me. "'We've pot a

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in France!" lot of relle-e men aboard. They'ie volunteer-. ' 'f course, they've all had ya'htmg experience, but the bred-tot tie-servire tell.o'.s laughed it thetn till a certain title thing happened 'in the voyage over. "A fire started in our port coalbunkers when w- were three days out of the port we were bound for. A hatch 'd been left opt n and there 'd :kos, cookies, canned stuff, for running ove Paid the 'lieuten-

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;mi. ue sure appreciate i:. That seems to be the attitude of the officers and men at tho front towards the Red Triangle. "Much obliged and we appreciate it. iay. if it wasn't for the "Y" we sure would be up again.-! it." "I'm going ahead to some of the oi serva'ion posts," the "V" man told mo. "Want to take a e hnr.ee?" We arrived at a town and found a lieutenant sitting down in a trench. I'.efore him a narrow slit opened. i:,to a pile and into utter b'ackacss. HOW OBSERVER WORKS "Observation post." said my conductor. The lieutenant was glad to see us, especially when I told linn I was so recently front homo, and took us within. Tlrre. in a little room in which one could barely stand upright, was the paraphernalia by which the Htm is supervised in his goings nr.d comities, and by which our artillery is informed if it is hitting the mark. Facing the Hun was a. narrow horb'or'al slit across the wall. Over this hung a curtain, because Frit in his observation posts across No Man's Hand might see that slit through his glasses if light wore allowed to pass through it ami then very shortly there would lie no obu-vatUm post. Provided it suited Fritz's humor to abolish it. We looked through the glFses at the benutiful mountain slope opposite, famous in the history of the war. and which row is the most formidriide bar in the way of our troops if they sot ou to take back from (rormany a city which Franco claims for her own. With the raked eye this mountain s!oti.- seems

epiiet and peacef.il. There is no s;c-"! of life, not i

even of smoke from a mess fire. , Thr" ugh the glasses, as they are directed by the lieutenant, barbed wire entanglements. 1'res of trenches, cenore'e gun emplacements and what not can be sharply distinguished. WHAT FRITZ IS DOING "Hook nlong the top of that ridge. What do you make out?" ''Nothing." "Right under the hair in the glass now. Sharp. The hair is touching the top of it." Still I made out nothing. y "Camouflage." Just then a shell came over ami burst on top of

a stone wall behind us. Maybe it was intended f or j ns, and maybe it was just a warning for us to be-j have ourselves. Anyhow I war, irnj resr-.-d. j "See." said the lieutenant. "They could get us if they wanted to. G:;y, Wharton," Wharton was the! "Y" secretary. "Give me a can of peaches on the i strength of that." j High in the air over our heads we could hear thy planing-mill burn of a couple of American aeroplanes j taking a look-see. They were not fighting planes, j but observation planes. Their duty was to get moret direct and accurate information than could be had! from any listening post. "This morning the F.oche got one out there,"' said! the lieutenant. "They wer sfter him wi'it machine' guns. I saw he was in trouble and saw b:ni corninsdown. His machine was en fire and he junpd out with his bands up. He hadn't a chance-. And they came out and get him."

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white hot. -- ... j in-, inn con was i 1 K . 1 1 . , . e conn Co at first as tO ri!3V the etoa n .K.-.. . V, tj . oil ;i ana hVr-'1 m fe'a,nin? for twenty-four T was on the brid-f at 2 30 next morr,.r.p- ha ! the midnight to 4 wa1t'-whpn th" starboard .U..h.T bkw out fi h .TT'V !hiP- W,J o.ir bet; .-.it t.eforo 4 nVWl- .v .- "XI. . v ..,eir were tnrea nf on the and thct. e knew tiiat ;t . : . - t- iims tor aesperate measure?. a,d he warded , thn down ir,to that furrm-e h,.,. wrth fatal ra.-fellow, ,ha- would 'k stra,?ht into tho 1. arath and shovel away ,hp ton" so as to llr,OVPr thp b,)rni That was the only way to eave th. COLLEGE BOYS FIRST. "Well, sir the first tr. ""ere the r,,' I ' , r -tr:pe.s pave the;D the job. "I'y souads of f,.nr u . . nf.J. hovel? nu or.ht i,-..-lp"n them Three t;,,';,; - A..-" they were to work, but they Wt,r9 ,i !i U11CKIV mar .W.. I.:--. wer- carried out." one ri-ht after tha "tner, on the baelcs -.f tt-i- .. , ' i-'ril Bli p-r-.a.c s. -a bones stood on dock with the pulmotor ard , j through. b,lt ale, Ter7 ,-a c ,- OS.UU. ii was a- tough a ,ob as Fve ever ,. ,6 sea. but those boys did it: thev conquered the fire and saved the io ; mre then, yon don't hear much -anghmg at the College Kids Somehow that quartermaster had given me a hint about himself '.?"at'! 'vc'rr l!ege?" I asked. Vale, ninety-four." he said. "Rnt I m aD old hand. It was these fids I was talking about. Don't mention mv being a college man to anrbod-c a. oard. I don't want to seem to b putting on side."' That is one example. ' Fere's anot her: To an orderly entertainment at a i- -U. 0. A. bllildincr ramo -:v a brilliantly, illuminated boatswain's mate He was a tnionu of physical manhood, six feet thr-e M""r?. "a a? narct as nails But ha was intent on "tart;-rr mm.tL; He stopped, with nno t,'nr,.,-r command, the finwr nr, 4t,o He knocked down two of his protesting friends, sr.illerl a crcr-.-UJ k'-v i . - k.e.j criir.i and swaggered up to the secretary in elisre-e with the maiestr nf o sweeping toward the beach. ''I'm going to break up this show" he said. It looked rery mueh as if He would, too. Now. the secretary in charge wa a oniet an! unassuming man. He hii done wonder, jn bis work among our fleet m French waters, but he sook n a small voice and moved eentlv "if T were you."' said tne secr. tarv. "I wouldn't interfere " "Tne hell you wouldn't!" said the boatswain's mate and shook ft might v fist. A MISS AND A HIT. '"Please don't."' said the secretary. The big fist shot forward It didn't hit anything. It wis shunted aside as a little wist of the 'hm switch shunts a train of coal ears. It dragged the boatswain's mate after it into vacant space and, ,",s the b'-atsTiin's mate went by, something caught him something on commonly like an express engine on the point of the jaw, and sent hira r-mahing to the floor. Then ti e quiet secretary picked the giant up in bos arms and carried him to a back room, of which the two were the onlv occupants. "I hope I haven't hurt you." said the secretary. -J tried not to."' The secretarv was a IYeshyternn m mis; er. Il was .tl-o a oWad.-i rancher. And a Is,, he hrol been t!r b-t boxer in Princeton during his biy there; Ins name i. ( t. F. (Jardner. He nur-H t'-at boatswain's mite 1 ;ck to sobriety and g' t him on hia si:p in time to escape reprimand. The next night the sailor turned up again at the Y. M. C. A. building. "I've come here to apologize." he "That's al risrht,'' said the secretary. "Vo. it ain't," the f.iilor persisted. 'T made a ,mi--ance of myself bef.1,0 ell tbis crowd, and i's before thi whole crowd fiat I've got to apotog'7. Here, you swipes: he ItllowcJ. BOATSWAIN'S APOLOGY. livery man in the room fell silent. The boatswain's mate addressed them : "I want to tell you fellows." he said, "that I was a f.tnj best night, and got what was cimin to me; but I'm ii"t such a tool but what I ran learn a le.-son. I'm euttin' out the bonze. That man there treated nio square, ar.d s i e e l me from troubl aboard ship, and after tonight if any dob tries to get fresh around this place, why any such guy's got to tackle the two of us." Some coilerte men and some m"n that have hardly been to school ,it all. a groan if millionaire and a si atteri.ig of rough-necks, but every one M-uind at. heart and brave in actio;: these make up the Moqtr.t Fleet. The jcr-t aren't had, tiie.v prt only lonely. Thn best are enduring a d.-ingorous ard, what is more, a hideously monotonous, life afloat and one beset- with the temptation of emotional reaction ashore. For bo'h -orts the ci"oi.e pes solely- befwper) the snrdidness of a foreien port mi the Y. M. f. A. W'-bh are vou for the Y. M. C. A. or th" -"'Tt ?

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