The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-05

very important" The captain Of marines
comes and stands before the executive o1ff-
Ger saiutes and conveys the important in
lorna don that all are present or account
ed for Then he saIutes rises on his toes.
piVots around and departs IN great solem>
nifty.
The engineer comes up from the bowels
/ OF the ship and says the boiler is all right.
| Ihere IS less style about the engineer, be
cause he has been doing this for many
years. His salute is merely a Renaissance,
I not haf so prim as the young cadets,
/ VINO was having collie when the engineer
/ had MS commission. All the officers re-
/ port ana then the executive officer tells
/ the captain as much he thinks ht. I'm
/ mensely solemn function il is. almost pom
/ tllcai in its ritual The bugler tOots a tune
/ ana then begins the monkey drin" as the
/ sahor calls his exercise. The ranks sepa
/ rate ana the space between each man is
increased and squads are formed. with a
| corporal or bcsuns mate in command.
! Inere are eighteen movements which
! nave TO be gone through every evening
| ney are like those that used 20 be taught
| ia the public schools. only better. The
| men double up their fists and shove out
Hrst one arm aud then the other with
enough violence 70 get the good Of it,
Iney extend arms horizontally then reach
them up and drop them down. They reacn
the arms out front and swing them back
as TAR as possible. They extend the arms
horizontally and wabble them so as to de
scribe small circles in the air. They bend
the body forward as far as possible, then
pend back to the same limit, stopping q
straight up between each motion because
Jacks brain cannot stand being sloshed
| around violently any more than anybody
ese's, They lean over sidewise so as to
look up TO the fighting tops with the right
eye and then with the left eye. This mo-
I - q loo, F-.-1 1t
the same thing is gone through with,
but IN the later motion the arms are ex-
tended. That opens the upper part Of the
lungs.
Then comes the hardest movement of
all The men stand stiff-legged, heels
together, and bend over until the knuck-
les of the closed fist tough the deck 1T
looks easy. Try it. If you are not in
training you viii find that 1t isn't. Link
your thumbs together and swing for &C.
and If it doesn't stretch the muscles of
your legs and back, then Jacks dead and
SAILS a widow.
There are other motions of stepping out
wide with one foot and then the other
that show off the muscles of the upper leg
to the best advantage, though the squat
ting motion, perhaps, does that best of
all.
The skipper keeps an eye on such a man,
and If he thinks Jack is trying to doge a
little health-giving exercise the chances
are that there will be a little two hours
extra duty ready for him.
In the army these setting-up drills are
the perquisite Of new recruit. They linn
Der him up and he is kept at 1t until he is
as sore as boil all over. But In the navy
it is an every day thing. Maybe then his
stomach would behave better and he
wouldn't dream about falling off roofs and
things like that.
Jack is undeniably picturesque. but
never is he more interesting to look upon
than at this same monkey drill" He
looks well when he is swinging the big
guns: Extreme range forward! Extreme
range aft Extreme elevation; Extreme
depressionH Then you see him putting
his back to 1t and doing his
best TO swing the long, glossy
steel tube OF a gun in the best possible
time, but the gun itself and the mechan-
ism and the rest Of the drill detract the
mind from the contemplation of Jack him
self as well-put-up man. The monkey
drll accumulated that
This is not to say that the man-of-war's
man is always an Adonis or a Hercules
for manly beauty. Some of them. how
ever, come pretty near It. Their trousers
are laced up at the back and fit so snugly
above the knees that Il they have any kind
of figure at all they look fine The loose
shirt gives big look to the chest, and
their necks being free the muscles have
more of a chance to develop than if they
were boxed up In starched collar and
shirt. You can see the play of the mus
Giles, and the monkey drll' is always a
pretty sight
Admiral Sampson himself took part in
this drill to encourage The men and the
night before they expected the big battle
he had got them in such a condition that
| they were really anxious to fight
The gunner does not do hard work but
he must be an athlete or he cannot con-
| troll the electric burton with sufficient
quickness. The sailors must be ready 20
lower the boats at q fatal she'll and climb
down like cats ready to escape for their
lives in case an unfortunate charge
touches the ships magazine. All of this
drilling puts him in condition for the
fight
Great Britain made the discovery a wear
ago that her sailors We're too beefy and
she changed her diet and gave them few
er potatoes and more cereal food Uncle
Sans boys get beef twice a day and no
tatoes when they want them, as much
fruit as can be shipped aboard and a lit
tie grog for the stomachs sake. Very Wig
orous exercise keeps down the fat.
No one seeing a sailor with rolling gait
amble along the pavements with his
hands in his pockets would
suppose his day to be so
strictly meted out and disciplined, but let
any average man exchange places for one
week with a sailor aboard the New York
ana he will find that he is a tired fellow
after he has lived Jack Tar's life for one
day
MOZLEN'S LEMON ELIXIR.