Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-28

present, about everything bearing ever so
remotely ON the occasion we were celebrat-
ing, the crowd adjourned to the Captains
room for u smoke.
The Captains cabin, in this ship, is a
large and most luxuriUusly furnished room
in the forward part of the deck. Here the
jolly Captain Beers was on deck again, and
at home, and right royalty. and most
courteously did he continue to entertain his
guests in his own room. 1t goes without
saying, in this port, that Captain Beers has
hosts Of good friends in Para, and the many
expressions of good will to him come from
sincere hearts. 1t would perhaps be unfair
to attempt TO describe too miputely the
many funny and jolly scenes that were en-
acted on the deck of the Segurance that
night, on the bosom of the broad Amazon.
ALL WERE BOYS AGAIN.
Old men, whose hairs were gray, and who
at home or in business affairs were severely
dignifed, became as little children, and
toasted indiscriminately with the boys"
who may have been their clerks.
There was only the Southern moon to look
down on the pranks of these "old boys"
and, by the way, the moon is one OF the
best things we have in Para-like the sun,
it is very close to us. While in the Cap
tain's room discovered that the jolly tar
wore on his coat lapel the small buttons of
the G.. A. r. and Loyal Legion. These en-
blems are quite too common in our country,
perhaps, but here on the Amazon river,
5000 miles away from home, had found
new charm in the emblems. The old vet
eran sailor we were celebrating was COM
rade, and under such impulses, as those
only can appreciate who have served in a
war, 1 took his hand, and, pointing to the
badge on his breast, told the assembled for
eigners that they we're being entertained by
an American nobleman-that the Loyal
Legion button on his coat proved that his
breast had been barred in the defense of his
country, and that the only aristocracy we
had was that which entailed the privilege to
our children:
A TOAST TO THE CAPTAIN.
81 propose good health and happy old
age to Captain Beers, said /, "who served
to save his country and is now again serving
to advance her prosperity as the commander
of the finest American ship carrying the
American flag 10 Para"
There are bonds of all sort in this world of
ours.
Fetters of friendship and ties of flowers,
And true lovers knots, ween;
But there was never bond. dear friends, like
this:
We have drunk from the same canteen.
Twas brought down by the practical OBJ
servation of the German Consul, t'Bullyi
we will squeeze speech out of the Consul
yet" But they did not.
This sort of thing lasted until the wee,
short hours, just be ore the ship sailed, when
we re-embarkedlon the tug, and, with cheers
and shouts, parted company. On the tug
there was grand tumbling match. Digni-
fled men lay down ON the deck and kicked
and squalled like infants that sadly needed
spanking; hats were thrown about as balls;
but everything was taken in good part.
THE FOREIGN ELEMENT.
again take the opportunity to say that
the foreign element of the place are, with
but few exceptions, clever and courteous
gentlemen; but they will have their good
times without regard to the consequences;
and it is this fact that mitigates against
their more general entry into the genuine
Brazilian society. Perhaps they do not care
for this. The poor fellows who are ban
ished here in a most inhospitable climate
and are deprived of all the sweet comforts
OF home life, and have to pay excessively
for the barren necessities of life, which they
may be able to extract from a miserable ex-
istence under the tropics. are to be excused
for their occasional indulgences of this sort
when genial spirits from Gods country
visit them here.
do not claim to be model man-not bv
any means-and am not addicted to dissipa-
tion; but 1 confess to having experienced
when first came here a most intense incli-
nation toward strong drink, such as had
never previously felt at home. Probably it
came of the desire 10 drown ones sense of
Loneliness and of exile, by the use of stimu-
lants; but tits very dangerous practice in
this climate. j. G. KERBEY., n