St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-04-23

| with the idea. and the girl who had frs
spoken told the master at arms SO il
enthusiastic terms.
THE master at arms saluted grayely
and walked back to where the blue
jackets were standing, ready to start
He called the whole gang TO attention
picked out four trustworthy men, ant
said to them:
Search all hands, and stack up her
every bottle of rum found
We'll just leave this rum here unit
we get back, said he. There's coach
full of young women from basl
home just starting out for where we'r,
bound for. They're all right young
women, too, and they teach school some
where's back inland. Being as they're
going 10 the same place as we are we've
got to be decent. If we drink rum WI
can't be decent Therefore, there's ne,
a-goin' to be drop o rum drunk or
this trip. Anyhow. we're on duty; were
escort for this party o young women
There won't be no drunk business Oh
duty while I'm along. Ye all want to
understand that. Now. git aboard your
horses and into them land packets, and
remember the first blasted jack o We
that makes a break gets his head broke.
so the start was made. At the head
of the line was the coach of the young
women from Detroit. surrounded by
the bluejacket horsemen, the master al
arms in the lead, and the line of stages
containing the remainder of the party
of men-o'-war's men trailing after. The
school-teachers enjoyed the situation
hugely, from what | heard afterward
They made some efforts to engage the
master at arms in conversation, but he
didn't place much reliance on his con-
versational powers and didn't have
much to say. Anybody who has ever
made that trip from Hilo to the burning
lake of kilauea knows how superb the
ride is on the winding road. first
through beautiful green sugar planta
tions. then through the coffee lands.
and, before the Halfway house is
reached. through thick tropical jungle
When the Halfway house was reached
all hands,dismounted and debarked for
luncheon. The young women were es-
corted into private dining-room, and
the sailors, who We're expected, ate in
the main dining-room. They were a
happy. good-natured lot, whereas, If
they had brought their drink, about 9
quarter of them would already have had
broken heads.
We'll, they made Peter Lees Volcano
house, at the burning lake. in the even.
ing. and when the school-teachers had
gone to their quarters the master at
arms drew up the men and again ad.
dressed them:
THAT bar in there's wide open. you
see.' said he, and all any man o. yes
got to do to get rum.is tn-walk in there
But the man that does it'll walk out
lgain with his nose on the other side OF
MS mug
Belay there, mate. were not banker
n for rum said the men, cheerfully
and they put in the evening like de
.ent citizens, for the visit to the burn
ing lake was not to take place until the
next day. All hands went the next day.
he girls from Detroit still enjoying tre-
their escort of mounted
The descent was made in
ust as good order as the ascent had
,een. the expedition arriving back in
lilo on the evening of the second day.
Ihe leader of the young women from
Detroit made pretty little speech tc
he blueiackets.
"I'm sure she said, that none of |
-ou shall ever regret having treated us
With so much ightliness.
might almost say-for. you see, when |
We get back to the United States we
hall all do all in our power to alter the |
reneral opinion held of sailors when |
hey are on land. That opinion is, you
now, that sailors of the navy, or any |
ailors, in fact, when they get ashore.
rink and carry on
'-The hIuejackets all grinned in a |
,odv.
But we shall certainly tell them diff
erently,' and so on. The young wom-
n did her part neatly, bade the men
oodby in the name of all her COM
anions and then the dozen school
aachers from Detroit embarked on the
teamer that was to take them back to
honolulu.
We'll. those girls had no sooner got
ut OF sight than the devil broke loose
mong that pack of blueiackets. They
plit up into gangs, and within an hour
IL hands We're up to their necks in it.
ractically they tore the town of Hilo
, the ground and fired volley over it.
here was no stopping them. They
,uldn't be stopped. They invaded the
,wn. invested it, sacked it. There's a
ian named Lycurgus in Hilo. Greek.
no owns several rows of little one
,omed houses. The blueiackets rented
lese shaeks for the occasion. a pair Of
lem in each shack. and in these rows
houses they made their headquarters.
hence they would roll forth in parties
search of rum and other joys, such
! few dozen Kanakas to xiii, especial
Kanaka policemen. and in general
Ky hsia iHghit cHlON dUiS liilC. l
hen their three days' liberty expired
,out ten men came back to the shiEl
ore or less the worse for wear. The
her 40 stayed ashore enjoying them
Ives. Patrol guards of the port watch
ere sent ashore to haul their was
iling shipmates back to the ship.
hey were glad to get back themselves
he town marshal of Hilo swore in SO
ecial policemen. all Kanakas. They
I took to the mountains an hour after
ey were sworn in. That starboard
atch of ours Just simply owned the
ace. The finish came when they ar
red at the inevitable stage when they
gan fighting among themselves. They
sabfed each other so that it was pos
BILE for parties of the port watch to
} ashore and bring the physically
rocked men off to the ship one by one.
this way they were all gradually got
er the gangway or over the side in
s'n's chairs. II isn't strictly correct
d i'll accordance with regulations to
ugh about it. of course. but declare
ey were a funny-looking iot-the
smashedest-l set
hlua Jackets that r aver. r.xx- I,ofrro - /