Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-12
BALTIMORE TO JACKSONVILLE
No. L.

us, take special pains to tell us what great
fools we are for going to Florida this time OF
the year how we will roast and fry and stew,
be stung to death by gnats and neas, and the
rest of us used up by the festive mosquito
Very well. l don't object to being called
tool, for hold that half the world are fools
and the other half rogues, anyhow, and l
prefer the former classification. We may
find it warm, yes but this journey is work
of necessity and go with the best grace in
the world, recognizing, as do, the absurdity
of kicking against the pricks Of business.
Besides il the mercury can possibly get
higher than il has been in Lancaster county,
shall reform at once Our faces are toward
the sunny South, and nothing human can
turn us now that we have bought our tickets
Previous TO that purchase we were on the
fence, but now business IL business, and we |
will go or die. OF course, that talk about |
dying is not nearly so heroic as II sounds, for |
we do not anticipate anything worse than |
sea-sckness, and my friend and have made |
| up our minds fully that we will not be sick, |
| for we argue, each asserting, that it is only |
weaklings and women who get sea-sick, and |
| not strong, robust, brave men with plenty of
| gravel in their gizzards. People may get sick
riding i'm an ox.cart If they give up--but as
| for us--fie!
| SAILING FROM BALTIMORE.
At four o'clock Monday afternoon tho good
| SttdtilSnlp w STdhc, Will ~ BTeat uchu
of splashing and putting on the ships part
and greater deal of handling ropes and
shouting and swearing on the part of sundry
| men, bears us out OF the city of Baltimore
| and takes MS down the bay among a swarm
of crafts of all sizes, shapes and nationalities,
and we feel we are leaving the world behind
us, and, as assume the world cares no more
for the separation than do think mutual
regrets are few.
Southern-bound passengers at this season
| of the year are few and we have plenty Of
room to walk bow-legged and straddie
around the decks. ! make the following
inventory OF the passengers at the supper
table that evening
We observe the captain, who sits Mt the
head of the table, likes to have the ladies at
| his end of the table /; and j, who sit at the
other end, would like also TO have them at
my end, but as Captain Billups evidently is
boss on this craft and gets the ladies, and |,
well, get a cadaverous young man opposite
me who says "wery;" and never says
"thank you;' holds his head half way down
to the plate while eating, and brings his food
up 10 his mouth with his knife, which he
holds in the middle and strikes against his
! teeth every time, That young man is a hog
: He is well dressed, but butchers tell us that
the fatter, bigger the hog the better he
dresses l hope that young man may sec
G this that he may get my opinion OF him.
9 But To the inventory: At the captains Is
!, right sits nice looking, plump lady in ging-
u ham, who is going to jacksonville; next her
V sit Charleston plumber and his wife who
!, are going home. j have no doubt that plum
. Der will bring in bill before this voyage is
+ over that will ruin the finances of the whole
n crew. Awhile ago when i explained to him
: that the homage paid him was inspired by
. the thoughts of his fabulous wealth. he as
II sured me, with all possible sincerity, that he
n was not one of the traditional plumbers, as
Charleston was the cheapest place in America
for his kind of workout shall Keep my
e | eyes on him.
:, At the captains LETT are two sisters o
III charity. feel very charitable toward them
Ie out of compassion that they have to weal
n such an uncomfortable looking head-gear
They are going to Savannah. no doubt wher
'e ever they go sorrow will be made lighter anc
re suilerings easiest, but it seems to me thu
"A | charity or the religion is always best tina
2" wears no livery. | shall keep good frlend
G. with these ladies' however, for If my theor,
m about, sea-sickness should prove faliaciou
:. aud should die or almost die, ! may nee,
III the charm of their beads.
III Next the sisters sits my friend, then
,f about whom we will allow the others to re
mark. We are going to Florida
Is Opposite me and next the plumber sits th,
is ghastly chap who is going to the devil, or a
,s least he ought to go there. | always have IN.
50 own opinion of people who eat fried potatoe
TO with their knves-and he'll sit opposite IN
40 the whole voyage. ] hope he'll get sick AM
, not be able to report at table.
- SOME PARTING SIGHTS.
IL After leaving Baltimore with her errati
ef crafts, and odoritc phosphate factories be
n hind us; the quarantine and Fort Mcllenr
nd covering us from the shore on the right
,f Fort Carroll, sleeping mid-water on the left
~ we steam and splash down toward the ocean
" On past North Point with her lighthouse
past Sandy Point with Its lighthouse witt
base painted red, looking like some fat mel
st maid rising out of the water with red dres
on; past Old sleeping AnnapOlis-nappinj
NC over on the Shore obliyious OF our passing
ut The sun has gone down and the revolving
y. light Of Thomas Point lighthouse flashes IA
to us, with fiickering path on the waite
a. And after awhile
of "Night drops her sable curtain down
And pins IL with star"
u and trails it far out over tho water, shutting
y out the land, leaving us only the beauty anC
- solitude of the water. Then a thunder storm
comes up and rolls and flashes and rains, an,
lis we go to bed and are rocked to sleep again a
as we were once good many years ago, befOr
IN we knew anything but love--before we knew
~ anything about the bad and unkind. | cal
VI feel the throb of the engine one hundred ant
OF twenty to the minute, as If had my heaC
ID resting OH some great heart.
rs OUT ON THE OCEAN.
m In the morning we find the sun has jus
IN beaten us up and is shining brightly on th
" long lines of white sand Of Cape Henry, ano
IN we are on the ocean. There il queer kline
ie of roll about our ship that makes at least on,
" stomach a little shaky, but the strong in
h. yigorating breeze from the ocean braces me
i. the waves rolling and breaking, flirting ant
10 endless stretch of beautiful blues find in me
10 lover, and won't be sea-sck one. / fee
IS | excellent but then that uncertainty abou
is my stomach If i can get my break fas
o | soOn am saved i seek the steward anC
= ask him how soon we will have breakfast
10 and he answers, " Eight o'clock, SIR" and
al feel my case is doubtful, with breakfast two
m hours beyond. ! have known people to die
is in less than two hours. l demonstrate with
s. the steward that the log book of my stomach
n has not had record since six o'clock the
- morning before, but he insists on obeylnl
u the rules and insisted upon damning them
D | But i can hold out, l know, or l think
n | know, or don't know whether i think
know or not-things are rather unsettled
PAYING TRIBUTE TO NEPTUNE.
o Eight o'clock comes, however, at last, and
n take my seat at table still undecided. The
food there is bountiful and excellent and
Q eat some, still undecided-I stop, lay down
y my knife and fork and long to go home-I
d am undecided no longer, rush on deck and
l. lean far out over the rail, looking down upon
the laughing, sun-kiss ed water and pray to
die. Again, again and again-Lord maybe
will die! and don't want to just yet I'd
like to go home and say good bye to the folks.
Soon feel better, braver and stronger.
o will not give i'm, although my stomach gives
u up. i will try breakfast again, but il is use
less lean over the rail again and give it
, all away; while up from the lower deck
I | comes the strODpast kind Of q tida Of IriSb IA