Arizona republican., 1898-09-09

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 "Chase yerselves,' said the cop. "Let de old sea-geezer snooze, can't ye?"
 Then the cop resumed his place against the pillar and watched the still peacefully sleeping old timer for an- other five minutes. Then he went up to the old man and gave him a gentle dig in the ribs with his extended fin- gers.
 Hey, there, grampa,'' said the cop, "all hands on deck"
 The old quartermaSter came to, rub bed his eyes and looked around him. He was apparently puzzled He gave a re-and-aft tug at his bell-bottoms, and said to the cop:
 Mate, I'm adrift as to me port. What dye make out this to be-Mon- tevideo or Tangier? By the standin' lights. should call it. here a lucid interval took hold of him "oh, me eye, it's tn old town!"
 That's wot, Jack,' said the cop. An ye've got too much gilt in that bag t be snoozin' in the sight O. so many grafters. Better steer a course for shore hammock an turn in. Can Iye navigator
 The old timer held up his horny hands and looked at the red and blue compasses tattooed on the backs of them.
 Not unless I can git me bearin's from these,'' said he.
 Then the cop escorted the old man across the street and had him put to bed in Park Row hotel.
 A few nights ago a pair of the sail ors-a gunner's mate and an oiler- were walking up Broadway, arm-in- arm. Their caps were very much over their ears, and the sidewalk seemed to be deck in a squall for them, so cir cIitous seemed their navigation. The proprietor of one of the swellest ho- tels in New York happened to be com i ing from the other direction The boniface looked as if he might have diued pretty well himself
 ''Avast there, shipmates!" called out the proprietor Of the hotel, as he got alongside the pair Of tars.
 Of course no man in the United States navy, or in any other navy, ever heard any such expression as that Captain Marryatt and Fenimore Coop CT to the contrary notwithstanding and so they kept on their circuitous way.
 Hey, there, Jack!" called out the hotel man, and the Jacks, still arm-in- arm, wheelsd as one man.
 Well ride" said the hotel man. cut of hand, and he signaled to a cabman.
 Mi as we'll ri as walk,' assented the two tars, and they stepped into the cab, the hotel man following and sit : ting between them on their laps. The hotel man directed the cabman to drive i to his hotel. When the three arrived at the hotel, the hotel man got out and conducted the two tars to one of the private diring rooms and began to open wine for them. Men about town began to drop in, and the hotel man in- vited them into the private dining room to meet the man-C'-war's men. It was a very tumultucus couple Of hours for all hands. When the tarS had arrived at that stage that is called out over here, the hotel man had them put to bed in the suite of rooms in his hotel that is reserved for dis itinguished visitors from abroad and for the great men of this land visiting New York There were six rooms to the suite, an olive satin room, a white and gilt room, and so on. The hotel man awakened the two tars at 10 o'clock the next morning himself. The hotel man spread for them breakfast such as very few men in New York or anywhere else could have had on that morning. When the two tars left the hosiery at noon with the whole slack of their mastering shirts stuffed with fifty cent cigars, they looked like men in a trance.
 Another effervescent young New Yorker who had a temporary staff, for rip-roaring purposes only, of the man-o'-war's men following in his wake, corralled Rough Rider on one of the Coney piers to complete his party. Then he led the bunch around, showing them the whole thing. They came to one Of the stalls where you pitch rings at canes and get the canes you encircle with the rings. The most unsoher man among the bluejackets was q huge seaman, with a dancing girl iattooed on the back of his hairy right hand. Now, quoits is game that is played in the United States navy when the ships lie in, smooth ports. The huge seaman picked up a handful of the rings, and began throwing them with discriminating eye. He picked cut the good canes-the canes with the big handles, difficult to encircle. He'd probably have been winning canes yet if the supply had held out and the boss of the cane game hadn't stopped him after he had acquired twelve of them l-the pick of the lot.
 De games closed,' said the boss of the cane game, after he had lost an even doZeIt of his best ones; "try de stan furder down. I ain't runnin' no Spanish feet"
 Each carrying a couple of canes, the party next halted at a shooting gal lery. The Rough Rider-he didn't seem so very unsteady On his legs-got hold of the first gun. It was a maga- zine shooting gallery rife, and away under the weight Of the rife the troop er-an Oklahoma man-was accustom- ed to. He picked it up gingerly hefted it and said with grim
 Say, if any feller was to shoot me with this thing, and I'd find it out, I'd slap him on the wrist
 Then he started to shoot He just . described half circle with the muzzle
 of the rifle, and the bells rang out like young chimes. The magazine was charged again and inc Rol1oh Rider