The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-28

| perhaps would upon the spirits of any man similarly placed, be he ever so | game; and by the time he reached Japan he was distinctly of the opinion i that the raging main and everything
 appertaining thereto was a cold, out
 and-out frost. However, he had the
 good sense to bring his teeth down with
 a click and to resolve to take his medi-
 cine.
 When the ship reached Japan none of the ports was safe because the cholera
 was raging, as 1t was In most of the
 ports of China. So, for nearly three
 months, the vessel moved back and
 forth among the different Japanese
 ports, with no shore leave for anybody,
 officers included. At the end of that time when the vessel was in the har-
 bor of Hakodate, that place was pro-
 claimed to be free of the scourge, and
 it was decided to give the hands their
 first breach of liberty for something more than 8. quarter of year. The
 starboard watch was to go first, for
 twenty-four hours, and then the port
 which was to have its fling on the shore The scapegrace tar belonged to the starboard watch.
 The young man had a couple of thou
 sand dollars in loose change under his
 blouse when he went ashore that time
 with half his ships company. He de- cided to give them good time as long as his money held out. Two thousand dollars will hold out about four times
 as long in Japan as 1t would in the States under similar circumstances,
 It was jinrik' shas or nothing for all of this young mans mates of the star board watch. For six days the mer- chants and other citizens and their wives had to do without jinrik' 'shas; this landsman had all of the rik 'shas and the haulers thereof In Hakodate cornered for himself and bluejacket pals. He wouldn't hear of any of them walking block. He fed them on saki until the liquor ran out Of their eyes; he led their storming parties upon the tea houses and gelsha plants; he was, in short, the guiding spirit, as well as the financier of this effort on the part of 250 buejackets to make Hakodate look like pile of slats and to fire a volley over the debris.
 At the end of eight days-and the starboard watch, as stated, had re- ceived liberty for twenty-four hours the young man went aboard his ship, looking very innocent, and was straightway claped into irons. The rest of the bunch were still riding around Hakodate in his hired jinrik' shas; and every time the marine guard went ashore after them the 'rilk'sha pullers would sprint for 1t and haul the shouting tars out of sight In a jiffy.
 They all got back to the ship within ten days; in time to prevent their names going down as deserters. Most of them were whipped over the side in bos'n's chairs, being too wabbly with saki to climb the gangway; and it was a strange and almost unprecedented | thing to see a whole man-owar watch In double irons in the brig at the same | time
 They permitted the young Californian to take his dltty-bag and go when the | ship reached Yokohama. His superiors regarded him as a likely young man and all that, but they needed men to work the ship in port as well as at sea, and they didn't see much show of ever having them while this money-laden youth was a member of the ships conn pany, lasting a week in Yokohama, md when the mail steamer on which ne was a passenger steamed by the nan-o -war on which he had only re- gently been a sailor all hands forard manned the rail and gave him such a .hree times three, with a tiger to boot, IS perhaps was never before heard in Asiatic seas.-From the New York Sun.