Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-03-24

tef .atsa rms, Tt,s aonly rlghFHnq .prQpGr:
that Aons should li4kve United States
gd & YW:1gden there one At Hand, while
You're Rforeign parts. I've 'f Gotta :, g;;artgk
of $50 MEN here, all ablelootIfed J. and So
s% 3o H2efsaf &3}}aa bS y3f S2%2
the uniform of Uncle Sam. !: Young
women, i'place that guardat your dis
position durin' the cruise ta this here
heN fire lake. we've Poundlfor.' -. -
hvSsKhe girls lsvere$;one and af1bednlighted
With the idsa, aid the girt;Who had first
spoken told the master atss3ar1ms. SO in
enti1aSiastic terms. / .,:-;.':,
,>.,.t!Is1ft he master att arms safuted grayely;:
and wa ked. bacl<atosswheresthe blue
Jackets were standing, ready to start.
He called the whole gang to attention,
picked nout~four@ tt>worthJy~1n Ell, and:
said to them: -.
"'Search all hands, and stack up here
every: bottle;9f rum found :. -.
i" :Well. just leave this .rum,here until
we get back said he. :.sTkere's COACH
full" Of young women. from. back
home just starting out for where we're
bound for. They're all right young
women, too, and they teach school some
where's back inland: Being as they're
going TO the same place as we are we've
got to be decent. If we drink rum we
can't be decent. Therefore, there's not
a-goin' to be. a drop O. rum drunk on
this trip. Anyhow, we're on duty; we're
escort for. this party O. young women.
There won't be no drunk business on
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
$50 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 at
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 I 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-
tons, 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 debarlzed for
luncheon. The young women were es-
corted into private dining-room, and
the sailors, who were expected, ate in
the main dining-room. They were
happy, good-natured lot, whereas, if
they had brought their drink, about a
quarter of them would already have had
broken heads.
''Well, 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 to walk in there.
But the man that does it'll walk out
again with his nose on the other side of
his mug ..~t.&. ....>:@@*,' Y.
Z g Delay there, mate, were not banker
in for ru'n,' said the men, cheerfully,
and they put in the evening like de-
cent citizens, for the visit to the burn
ing lake was not to take place until the
next day. All hands went the nextday,
the girls from Detroit still enjoying tre-
mendously their escort of mounted
bluejackets. The descent was made in
just as good#order as the ascent had
been, the expedition arriving back in
Hilo on the evening Of the: second day.
The leader Of the young women from
Detroit mad a pretty little speech to
the bluejackets. 81 -' Il.
: Tn sure she said, that none of
you shall ever regret shaving treated us
with so much kindness knig ht illness, \
T mi almost say-ffor, you see, when
we get. back ito thft United States, we
shall all do all in our power To alter the 4
general opinion held Of sailors when !
they are on. land. That on is, you
know l:rl that sailors of the navy, orsany
sailors s1 in fact, when they. get ashore,
drink and carry on ~ ~. 81 s.. s. i.
'sThet blue ackets all gr:iinIned il .
body. s s, " .S s S.. {
6 But we shall certainly tel them diff !
ferently,' and 50 on. The young WON
an did her part neatly, babe the men
goodz7by in the name of all her COM
panions and then the dozen school
/ teachers from Detroit embarked on the
steamer that was Is take them back to
Honolulu.