The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-03
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SAILOR MAN UNLoADs a FEW TO
"A REPORTER.
Strange Tales Of Foreign Lands and
How the veracions Narrator Rescued
an Indian Maiden from the Perils
Which Surrounded Her-Will Return
wed Her Maybe.

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Uncle Sans marine corps is to be
very much Minneapolitan if Sergeant
Neohl and Private Stephens continue
to spin yarns at the new recruiting sta
ton, SO Washington avenue S. Every
day half dozen or more young men
drop into the station thru curiosity and
leave inspired with the idea that their
walk in life IS to serve their country
and at the same time visit all the won
derful places in the world where won
derful things really happen. Captain
George Thorpe is in Duluth, but it is
said that when he starts to tell the
innocent landlubber of life on the sea,
it takes but thirteen minutes and forty
four seconds to persuade the youth that
has country IS waiting for his services.
YOU =. see it's this way said Pri-
twist in his necktie and sat down after
the fashion Of the Bengali, "what we
marines don It see in the course of five
years you couldn't hire a pink haired
African pigmy to squirt at thru one
of those diamond telescopes that are so
common over there that you never
think Of bringing them home.
| We been three years on the San
helped put down revolution lae in pretty aty
nearly every s tuppenny,ha penny,
that's English for the Russian word
nixivitch republics that you never
heard of. I've lived on alligator pears
for weeks at a time in the Jungle, fight
ing mosquitoes with one hand and tigers
and elephants with the other. Whv,
we fellows get SO covered with medals
by these dusky kings for bravery in
putting down rebellions that we have
to get the butcher to knock 'em off
like fish scales.
Fighting Water spouts.
"Then. for excitement, there is daily
practice in the tropics, when on board
ship, fighting water spouts I've been
on the San Francisco when the Indian
oceans been covered as far as the eye
could see with water spouts, but our
gallant captain would order all hands
to the guns and let drive. IF YOU hit
the spouts in the center they are
done for all right; but when one gets
AFTER you from the stern it all off
Tor while. Sometimes the boat gets
carried up two or three hundred feet
IN the air, but always gets down if the
engineer keeps his head. .
One OF the things we marines are
FAMOUS for is the rescuing of lovely
woman In distress. We hadn It dropped
anchor in Bombay fol, a day before I be.
gan to see that in the eyes of the ma
yves our uniforms were better than a
Title, and when we .Weren't saluted as
aon1rals we were commodores.
put on dress uniform one day and
sIroiIe s9 around the town and then I'D to
the hills, where the native princes Hold
: f2 sl q WIS wal ling dawn 3 long row
: OF OF royal palms henI glancsd up and
saw vi re q palace slses 81 TIE
: in when he comes to thu opera season Il
. the Parsee town: ookling thru the
trees saw one Of those Hindoo maidenl
) standing on balcony. Nobody is eve
: supposed to see their faces unveiled. bu,
!. there she was, with her hair hangins
I over. her shoulders, kind of taking a sui
!; bath, l guess. Is WASH It for me t,
q :. know their customs or that she was
. princess, so up steps and whistles sor
o Home -
, My Beautiful Princess.
j "She, looked, like a startled fawn, a
we were sitting under a mango ire
IS talking Hindustanee ninety knots
% minute. Her name was Alaha and he
1t dresses were made out Of didamond an
t. ruby meshes. There g no use sayin
n that she was beautiful, all of those hig
caste Indian maids are, but she was til
n koh-i-nor of the lot. ~.
Everything was all right until on
d day some of the Rajah' g guard spotte
10 US and when I started up to the hill
u the next day saw long winding pre-
le cession all in white making their way u
to the summit of the hill. Perhap
7, you We heard of the Towers of Silenc,
III The Parsees take their dead up to tn
, towers and place them inside and tn
. vultures devour the flesh. No one 81
le cept the priests ever enter the tower
N crawled. up the hill as fast as I coul
= and pretty soon the procession went b,
Lying on the litter was my princess.
o1 felt like I did the first day out to Sc;
III u until saw what looked to be Just til
y smallest kind Of wink.
at "After they got all thru with the
~ ~ funeral services I watched for tt
a priests to go into mess and I crawle
up to the top Of the tower and let m,
"a self down inside by sticking my toes
~ thru the cracks. It wasn't ten minut,
u before I had the Princess Alaha. Jul
90 then the moon began to shine and I sa
that the floor was covered with hui
dreds of pieces Of jewelry that tt
vultures had left.
"Where's the princess9 Well, I a
going back to India right away quic
n when my service is over