The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-09-25

veried to his vocabulary OF Connemara
Gaelic. The gist of his short address 10 all
hands. who were assembled on the Toe sic
taking the thing in. was that the bland
faced Chinaman was hired emissary of
tho American Protective association. 1 aid
TO insult o'-war's -men of the Amer
lean navy in particular. The Chinaman ie-
garded the wild Mulligan with a look of
stupor, but he went right on with the IA
T. A." lettering. Tie only knocked of
when Madlgan sailed up to him. gave him
one hare poke under the left eye. aud
then. picking him UP in his arms as a
small boy handles fox terrier. Carried
him to the starboard gangway and chucked
him into the East river S a hod CARR
relieves himself OF o load OF bricks The
Chinanau couldn't swim, but he had u
swim. He was picked up by a ships cor
poral and tho scene was funny whel he
stood at the mast before the commanding
officer, accusing the still red hot Mulligan.
M3digan talked Irish to the skipper and
the Clinaman sputtered Cantonese. The
commanding officer couldn't make head or
tail ot what it was all about. Before him
stood a very wet and dismal look ng &c es-
tial on his left, and, coll by the u as
teg-at-arms, as mad an Irishman as ever
sawed the atmosphere OF quarter deck.
on his right This skipper got il all wrong
at first as TO the real culprit, and was 70:
having the Chinaman doubleironei in the
brig.
Then the officer OF the deck walked in
and explained the thing properly, produc-
ing the orange hued ditty box as a BIZ o
evidence, and the skipper turned aft to
hide his grins. In honor of the day Madgan
was turned loose. but he regards all Cai
nese mess attendants in the navy as hired
sp es of the American Protective associa-
ton down to the present time.
A couple of years ago the flagship OF the
Mediterranean squadron left Nice just in
time to take Tim Donavan, chief carpea-
ters mate along Donavan had been
ashore two days overtime, and when he
came aboard, just as the mudhook was De-
ing lifted he was tired. He looked tired,
too He wasn't slammed into the brig
for his liberty breaking. but the skipper
decided to reserve good roast for him
when the Mulligan should get sober enough
to attend to him. The anchor came up
and away the ship started for port a
hundred miles or SO away. Donavan had
gone forward when he came aboard and
went TO sleep with his legs sticking down
one of the torpedo tubes. Nobody paid any
attention to HIM in the excitement of get
ting under way. After the ship was out OF
the port OF Nice ten knots or so, one Of
the shipwrights, missing his chief, began
to go over the ship with the inquiry,
Where's Donavan?"
No one had seen Donavan since he
plunked himself down in the eyes OF the
ship, with his feet hanging down the tor
pedo tube. A search was made for him
He couldn't be found. The commanding Of
fcer was notified. An official search was
made for Donavan, and every nook aud
Granny Of the ship was overhauled. Dona
van was on the list of the missing. He
was hunted even in the ward room. where
the officers thought lie might have taken
refuge under the inspiration Of the chi
anti he had found in Nice, but he wasn't
10 be found
"Dopavan went to sleep with his legs
hanging down one OF the for'ard torpedo
tubes" reported the chief master q. arms
TO the commanding officer. and when We
struck the swell he probably slipped
through and went overheard"
Good Lord" said the commanding Of
ficer nervously, this is too bad Are not
there enough Of you fellows forward TO
take care of shipmate when he comes
aboardship with drop too much? Shame
on you. TO let the man meet such fate
But 1t had to stand that way. Donavan
was Immediately marked in the log as
having accidentally gone over the side and
the skipper cogitated upon the sort of re-
port he would have 10 make upon 1t. The
men forward assembled when the smoking
lamp was lighted and talked of what good
all around Mulligan he had been. They
felt rather cheap that they hadn't taken
better care OF him.
Next morning "All hands, was sound
ed Just beforc the ship pulled into the port
she was making for. There was scene
of life and activity aboard The officers
were all at their stations. as usual. when
"All hands' goes before an interesting
mort is about to be made.
One Of the younger marine officers had
charge Of the rapid fire guns on the for
ward fighting top. He thought he'd take
a look at his station near the top Of the
forward stick. and he climbed up the