Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-01-15
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IN a s.Sink me-, int / hope he'll float highe1
y Ii litsratoDr than he did In the deep lses
y Sunday school trace, - Mr.. Barnacle OBJ.
N served, with much feeling, az the lubbe1
Joined the lnsri,4er III the sailor boarding
4 house. S5 II Y u
4. q Already this here skipper the one
i with tie s.scst sro,ycd brain locker In any
1 navy-shas launched one book labeled,
sThe influence Of Sea Power on History,
+ but don't overhaul no remarks In u
about his Bible class, which ! was one d
'em." IL. III Il * $s In 5s4
Where did yon ever attend Sunday
SCHOOL, the huber asked. 8t e
"Urdcr tits Captain Alfred T. Mahan,
q. S. N. Didn't yon see in the papers
recent where he had quit the navy to ship
as an ablebodied thought writer in Har-
lemP"
ITO be sure" said Bill His fgger-
head was also posted at the same time, and
proper good likeness 1t was too How
sumeyer, Bible lessons amt In his line
lenstwise, not with the kind Of pupils he
had, wot was mostly pirates in spirit. ]
hope the captain strikes smooth sailing as
q author. &5 US re- 5Sss 'fh
"When Mahan gives this here pink Sun
day school. lie was lieutenant commander
Of the Jliited States sloop OF war Wachn-
sett, since broke up III the Mare Island
navy yard. While peace was raging fright
full In Peru in 1888, Mahan comes to Cal
laound relieves one I'ierson, wot had bully.
ragged Tie crew for year, and cussed
plenty besides. For five months Pierson
had allowed! no able seamen closer in shore
than the ship herself, wot always anchored
! well ont. With gin only 60 cents per bot.
tie half leneue away, and all hands kept
on board, suffering In the Wachusett hung
thick with mutiny till Mahan takes COM
mand. INV.
"Being skilled to sail true gospel
course, and without posting no why's or
no wherefores, the new commander pipes
all hands to psalms and prayers the first
Sunday In Cal,ao. Down In the berth deck
forward we rigs a proper Sunday school
with capstap bars resting on deck buckets
tor seats and alter made of moss tables
and flags. Commander Mahan pitches the
tune, and, with two Swede qunners chok-
Ing solemn groans out of uccordions, VS.
Marbles Pull For the Shore, Sailor, Pull
with great-wot is 1T you calls its''
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES" suggest
ED the lubbsr
+ Bust me If it WASH t more like gale-o
Sailors wot was sunk in crime to the eye
brows perches on tho foremost bars and
bowls similar to regular chorus girls, and
when the order comes to stand by for
PRAYERS their knees hits the deck like SOL
adiers grounding arms on stone pavements.
Mahal Is much pleased and prays feryent
for his pious crew. Ameis is frequent and
likewise SOUS by marinors wot Is deep and
ora1ty. %7 .%
:" Sext morning this hero Bible class
bears s,wn CT tho Slipper, proper humble
and meek, I'D says: t4
Please, sir, may we have spell
ashores' a,m az.
s :" - 'l,dn't see you at Sunday schools'
the skipper says.
AYE, aye. sir; our thoughts flows In
spiritual channels, they do replies the
able sUamon. n e. ~
Z !" Then you may all 60 ashore for ten
hours, us we sails tlmorrow.' @
We all departs for ten hour liberty
Bill said, with Z reminiscent chuckle,
!" but It's ten days heiore some of lem gets
iback. BlooL hounds and police In Cal]aO
- IN pursuit day and night, and conflicts
with clubs ard knives mars the able sea.
men terribly. Nine sailors arrive short
handed in features, and some OF the class
ts stripped to the hide, having sold their
toys for moro gin. Wy, the mariner wot
served out pss.lnlbooks and wanted to pass
the hat In Sunday school reports like q
bundle Of goods with newspapers rolled
around him.
. Did the Bible class meet AGAIN."
Well they has the mess tables, likewise
the capstap bars and buckets, but the
pupils is derelict. Them wot was to stove
Up to crawl out on deck stood by for the
gospel drill, but they didn't have no gustu.
30 the skipper, being took fiat abaok with
disgust, allows this here Bible class to be
null and void. "-Charles Dryden in New
York Journal. "A .,.os, =