The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-18
HUNGRY ON AN OCEAN LINER
DIDN'T Know What "Breaifast" Meant and
SO Got Nothing to Eat.

- WV Nothihk 10 Eat.
when man who Is on board bio ocean
gong steamship, with his fare paid for all
the service OF first cabin goes without
eating for "a hours, IL Is USUALLY beoause
n Is seasick, but that was not the case
win Weber. Weber, after serving his fnll
time In the German army, decided IN do
as thousands of his countrymen had done
ana come to America. He Thought New
orleans would be nice place TO make bis
home, but there were no steamers LEAVING
German ports for New Orleans. SO Weber
decided to buy ticket for New York and
then TO re-embark for the southern port.
he landed In New York all right and
found that his boat for the south was IN
leave the same night. The task of getting
his baggage through the custom house.
purchasing his ticket and getting aboard
the second boat kept him SO busy that he
mad no time to get anything to eat AS a
soldier he knew how to fast and decided
10 walt until the morning meal So he
sought his stateroom and went soundly To
sleep. He was awakened in the morning
by the sound, as he called it, of tomtom
beaten with considerable force. Opening
the stateroom door, Weber looked out and
saw big negro walking down the CORR
dor, beating gong and calling In loud
tones, Breakfast, breakfastl''
Now, Weber knew half dozen conti-
mental languages, but he did not know
English Having heard that Americans
were half savage race and feeling by the
rolling of the ship that she was out at sea,
he thought that the negro and the gong
were part of some propitiatory rite to Nep-
tune. But the word breakfast" puzzled
him, and he determined TO find what it
meant Getting out his dictionary, Weber
looked for breakfast" 1t was an hour
before he found the right word and dis
covered its meaning. Then he made a
hasty toilet and rushed to the dining
room, only to find the door closed and
breakfast over.
The morning passed. He had had moth
ing TO eat since noon of the day before and
was getting decidedly hungry. He did not
want to be cheated again, and getting out
his German dictionary learned the English
equivalents for all the words he could
think of that had anything to do with eat
ing.
At IL o'clock the negro and the gong
again appeared. This time the negro was
shouting, Lunch, lunch!"
LuHCD WAS not IN WeDer'S CASTRO
nomical vocabulary, and for time be did
not regard the summons as having any
thing TO do with the dining room. Then
he searched his dictionary. 1t was a small
one and did not contain the word. An
hour was spent In the search. Then be
reasoned that if the negro and the gong
meant something to eat the first time they
appeared it was probable they meant the
same on the second occasion. So he hur-
ried off to the dining room. The doors
were just being closed when he got there.
Determined not TO be cheated again,
Weber decided to watch the negro for the
rest of the day. All the afternoon no
trailed him about the ship. At o'clock
the negro picked up the gong. Weber
dashed for the dining room.
"Dinner' shouted the negro.
"Humphl" said Weber. II need not
have worried. knew that word. Chi
cago Tribune.