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Saratoga across the Atlantic and joined
Commodore Perry's feet off the coast of
Africa She plyed the Mediterranean and
up and down the west coast for two years.
and then under command of Commander
l. Shubrick joined the squadron of Com
modore Conner in the West Indies and later
that of Commodore Rousseau at Brazil.
Late in 1915 she was ordered to join the
Pacific fleet, but for some reason not
chronicled in the department records she
did not double the Horn, but returned to
Hampton roads early in 1916.
In the following. year the command of the
Saratoga went to the famous David G.
Farragut then a promising young COM
mander. He joined the squadron of Com
modore Perry in the West Indies and
cruised in South American ports. In 1913
Commander w. c. Nicholson was given the
Saratoga, which still remained with Com
modore Perry in the West Indies. A year
later Commander William S. Walker took
the Saratoga around the Horn and across
the Pacific and Joined the squadron of
Commodores P. F. Voorhees, and j. H.
Aulick in the East Indies. The Saratoga
cruised in oriental waters for nearly ten
years. participating in many chickering's
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her riding, they cut her masts off close
to the deck and pred the wreckage into
the sea. When it cleared they found them
selves riding easily few rods to windward
of as nasty rim of breakers as live on
the New England coast Had they delayed
anchoring while the skipper looked at his
watch the Saratoga would not have done
the things to be further chronicled and the
Merrimac would have had another COM
mander than this same Tattnan.
They towed the hulk back to the yards
and In a few months sent her out again. a
stanch, kite-fying, wind TANNER, with a
goodly store of ammunition to feed the
big muZzle-loaders in her batteries. Her
armament as sloop-of-war consisted of
six eight-inch smoothbores twelve smooth
bore thirty-two-pounders, one light smooth
bore elve-pounder, one Dahlgren rifled
thirty-pounder and two rifled twelve pound
ers. 1t should be stated here for the bene-
fit of the uninitiated that the classification
OF the Saratoga as sloop-of-war is based
on her armament, not rig. AS will be seen
In the illustration, she was full-rigged
ship of the fine old type and not a fore-and-
after, as the sloop rig Is termed.
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BE hivens, bachelor that lam an there
fore onselfish, onprejudiced an sincere L
wudden't undertake to advise amy young
fellow what career he shud take up. To
young lady l wud give tn gin'ral in
sthruction: Grab tn first wan that comes
along. They're all alike But what wud
1 say to a young man who come to me
to pick out job FIR him? There are so
NANNY jobs in tn worruld an few iv
thin are worth havn'. Ye have to hunt
tn good jobs, but tn other kind seize ye
whin ye'er off ye'er guard an hold we fr
tn rest iv yeer life. They're tn kind iv
office that seeks TIL man. Whin / was a
young fellow l used to think I'd like to be
a king an impror but there's very little
future FIR king nowadays an as FIR an
impror he's ayether got to larn tn business
iv sellin' cotton pants to tn Chineymen like
tn Impror Nv Germany or spind his days
an nights in a chilled steel safe like tn
Impror iv Rooshya. l wanst wanted to be
a MILLIONAIRE an clank me goold watch
chain to make tn multichood mad at me.
But who wants to be a millyonaire now
adays whin there are pleasanter ways iv
gettin' into Jail? Watch ye'er boy an see
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tn young are wasted on thin. They're
selfish, impertinent meddling. self-indul-
gent class that's what they are TIL idee
iv batthered, barnacled old derelict like
yeersilf undhertakin to map out a coorse
in life FIR a bright intelligent boy like
Packy. l don't See how he puts up with
ye-er impydince. l suppose he's good
natured. Ye call it respect f'r yeer age
an expeeryence. Be hivens I've seen tn
day whin I'd punch man in tn eye f'r
shown me tn kind iv respect youth feels
FIR age. Is it respect that makes you help
, a blind man off car" Go on with We. Ye
can't fool ye'ersilf an we can't fool tn
childher. Ye-know an they know that old
age is on-y kind iv disease that has but
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mo. sir, I wouldn't know how to advise
a young man, but I've often thought that
if l had me life to live over again I'd be
lawyer IT'S a noble profssyon. It's nobler
now thin 1t used to be in tn old days whin
a lawyer had to go into coort an holler till
he was hoorse to arm his fee. In thin times
twas no snycure, as Hogan says. If had
throuble with Y. ye hurrid off to wan
lawyer an l to another, an tn next month
we were down in tn courtroom hearin
what tn larned counsel had to say about
us. No matther how tn judge decided
got me moneys worth whin me attorney
shook his finger a ye an alluded to tn
fact that ye are Iow-browed ruffyan with
a squint in yeer eye. Thin his remarks
about me. What a good fellow l was; how
1 sacrificed meslf f'r me friends; as he
told tn story iv me life he wept an L
wept too, although this was the first I'd
crd iv it. | n4ver cud feel that h. was
doin' it FIR thirty dollars. An thin whin
he come to dhrag out tn authorities to
support mel l wnt to law with ye be-
cause l was cross an wasn't sure whether
| cud lick ye in a rouSh-an'- tumble fight,
but, whn me lawyar begin to talk, l seen
at wanst that l il coort to perform
d.sagraeable jooty IN tn INTERESTS iv civvy-
all on my side. Be hivsns it looked as
though they were all written with an eye
TO this particular case. 1t didn't make amy
diff renee whether tn decision was about
tn capture iv fugitive slaves consarnin'
tn goold standard, it fitted onto my case
as though it had BEEN measured FIR it, D ye
raymimber Grogan? He was me lawyer in
thin days whin l had wrongs that l didn't
propose to have thrampled on. | took thin
to Grogan an Grogan PRESENTED him to tn
coort. Dear me, but twas threat to see
an hear him. He'd been a pedlar in his
youth an We cud hear his voice far
tn Indyanny state line. Whn he talked
to tn judge ye'd think he was hollerin' in
sthructons to a shipwrecked sailor against
tn wind. l can see him now as he knelt
on tn flure an called heaven to witness
tn justice iv his cause. stalked acrost
tn room to where opponent sat an
Kissed in his ear, 'Polthroon. Whin he
spoke iv tn other lawyer me- larned
brother he done it in such a way that ye
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and launched July 26. 1912. When she took
the dip and slid her Prov into the brine
naval architects said they had pronounced
the last word in shipbuilding Of the day.
She was 80 feet in length, with 3I-foot
beam and 10 feet depth OF hold. Her dis
placement was So tons. She was the
largest sloop-of-war in the navy. and was
christened in honor of the famous frigate
that won the battle of Lake Erie in the
war of 1872 She cost to build $3.50 161. and
in eight years her repairs had cost the
government 6,S47. Alongside one of the
batteships of our present navy she would
stack up like a smal-siZed coal barge. but
when they rugged her at the Portsmouth
yard in the forties they thought her a gal
liant ship enough and credit to American
naval architecture.
Her first commander was Josiah Tattnal,
afterward in command of the Confederate
ram Merrimac. precursor of the present
day armor-clad sea forts. Commander
Tattnall took the Saratoga out of Ports
mouth one clustering day in March, 1913.
1t blowing hugely from the nor
nor'east so the records say, when TAFT
nall drove her out into the buster. He
figured on making offing and getting
enough sea room to nose out through the
gale. but when he got outside where the
fun might of The storm had play 1t was
found expedient to turn tail and hike for
harbor under storm trysails. According to
the records 1t thick that bearings
were lost and soundngs were the only
protection from driving ashore. Finally
Commander Tattnall hove to in the teeth
of the blast and anchored Not satisfied
with all tue anchors on board, he made
cables fast to the heaviest guns and
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wan endin'. An as FIR ye'er experience
what more is it thin a faulty recollection
iv tn foolish things ye done: tn record
amt iv amy value except a curiosity.
Packy will find his own foolish things to
do: he'll injye thin while he can, an he'll
regret thin whn he must.
Hogan was in here yesterdah with tn
same song Me son an heir he calls him.
It's ali right to be Hogans son. but he II
have to wurruk hard if he's his heir. Well,
sir, this here projidy iv HoSan's is hardly
old enough to penetrate tn cunning dis
guse that Hogan assumes whin he's in tn
bosom iv his family. Up to now he thinks
Hogan puts on tn appearance iv a deep
an thoughtful an gloomy man as a joke
an It's highly amusin to tn offspring.
Whin he larns that It's seeryous an that
Hogan ra-aly expects his family to look
up to him as kind iv model instructor,
guide judge an hangman combined. l don't
know what he'll think. But at this minyit
Hogan has charted tn whole coorse iv life
FIR him. ri not let him wild tn way
1 done says he. He'll profit be me ex-
peeryence,' says he. Ohio. says I, TIL
ashes are goin' to INSTRUCT tn fire how to
burn says I. 'Niver mind says he, I'm
goin' to study his pecooiyarities an give
itiiI d SHOVE III way ne seems inclined 10
60 says he. AS tn twg is bent tn three's
Inclined says he. Well sir, says l. he
starts with great advantages. Very few
childher' in my time has had tn binifit iv
TIL experience iv man that be sober in
dusthry, great intelleck an INTREPID cour-
age has rose firm almost nawthin' to be an
inspector iv gas meters. Has he tipped
himsilf off in amy way? Has he given We
amy indication that wud show ye whether
We ought to dig down into tn vast threas-
ury iv yeer knowledge an larn him boxing
step dancing or thrigonomethry Not yet
says he. Some days l think he's goin' to
be great MUSICIAN FIR even now he can
sing king Wllum was King Georges
Som SO ye can tell it apart firm Home
Sweet Home He shows a good deal iv
hunger an thirst? says l. He does says
he He sleeps well?' Like thrain dis
patcher.' He wants his own way? An
without raison? There's no REASONING
with him, so 1 niver thry. Well, thin,
says l, I can see his future What's
that?' says he. He'll be Hogan says l.
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syon. It's a business. ! made 4 bigger
honoraryum last year conSolidItn' tn
glue INTERESTS that aftherward., riut into
tn hands iv a receiver. which Is ne thin
Danl Webster liver thought was in tn
goold mines iv tn wurruld / can't prom
ise to take case FIR We an boot me rea-
sons FIR thlnkin' ye'er right into tn ears
iv harmed judge. I'm a poor speaker.
But If liver ye want to do something that
We think ye oughtnt to do, come around
to me an I'll show ye how to do it, says
he
lis a grand profiSsyon. An if a
mans a lawyer he can be ivrything else.
When we want man to do amy thing in
this country firm conductin' war to
runnfn a polls foorce we hire a lawyer.
Nearly all prisidints have been lawyers.
All tn la-ads in tn cabinet are lawyers.
Whn an admiral comes home fr' m bravin'
tn terrors Nv tn seas an tn strange
drinks Nv foreign lands it's to 4 lawyer
he reports. Whin ginral has com
manded our gallant army IN tn Philip
poems an suffered NANNY savage
thrust firm tn bolo and tn Springfield
Republican. he comes home to injye tn
greatest honor that sojer can injye
tn honor iv reportin to tn head iv the
army. gallant warryor firm n Yale
Law School TIL on'y man in tn gov
ermint that amt a lawyer is Tiddy
Rosenfelt hmsilf. But he gets tn best
legal advice there is goin'. He has a
cabinet iv lawyers an he consults thin
an they tell him he's perfectly right An
so he is. Fr what is done today is tn
law tomorrow
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In 1863 she was turned over to Com
mander George Colvocoresses and sent to
the Delaware breakwater to guard shipping
there. She was already considered out OF
date and too old to participate actively in
any naval engagements of heavy character.
But in January. 1864, she was sent to block
ade duty with the south Atlantic squadron
off Charleston. S. c., and in the next year,
in command of Lieut. George E. WEIGH.
performed blockade duty off Georgia. 1t
was during that summer that the officers
and men of the old vessel performed serv-
ices that brought to them a general order
of commentator from Rear Admiral John
A. Dahlgren.
In August the Saratoga sent out boat
expedition to Mcintosh Court House, Ca,
which resulted in the capture of large
number Of prisoners and the destruction of
two important bridges. as well as the burn
ing of a large encampment. Later in the
same month another successful expedition
was sent out, in which many prisoners
were captured at South Newport, Ga, a
large number of Enfield rifles taken, to-
gether with a great quantity of sabers
shotguns, cartridges and powder, two of the
largest salt works on the coast destroyed
and bridge over the South Newport river
demolished
At the close of the war the Saratoga was
sent to Annapolis, where for years she was
used as gunnery ship and experimental
battery and as a schoolship for naval ap-
prentices. She made many short cruises
along the coast and was stationed at vari-
GUS times at the different navy yards
Finally, In 1890, she was sent to League Is
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Admiral Robie was with the Mississippi
when she circumnavigated the globe the
first voyage of the kind made by a stes n
vessel of the American navy. She sailed
from Norfolk in November, 1852, crossed
the Atlantic, touching at Madeira and ST.
Helena; thence down the coast to Cape
Town. through the Indian ocean to Ceylon
and Singapore; then to Hongkong, whore
the Saratoga was picked up. and then to
Japan for the memorable visit. In "a the
Mississippi left the fleet and proceeded
alone to Hawaii and San Francisco; thence
down to Panama and the coast to Val
paraiso' on southwark to the straits of
Magellan. through the passages to the
south Atlantic and up to Rio Janeiro and
thence straight to New York, which port
made in April, 1855.
Admiral ROBBIE became a chief engineer
and was retired with a rank of commodore,
which a few years ago was raised by a
special act of Congress to that of rear
admiral.
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''Ye Have a Perfectly Good Case. I
Advise Ye to Do Nawthin. Ninety
Four Dollars, Please"

read We have to hook on spectacles that
make ye look like diver: We cant stay
awake afther ten o'clock at u.sht or
asleep afther four in tn mornin. We can
on y remember things that happened yas-
terday an forty years ago. # We remen-
Der anything else 1t gin'raIy isn't thrue
fe are hangin on to a ledge iv what We
call good health, but that wud seem like
a bad case Nv sickness TO young fellow
an all We can think iv dom is hawlin'
instructions to tn kids around We about
what they ought to do an say an think
an wear. There amt amy good. reIihIe
There are few time honored marks to
show where tn greatest dangers are an
most hardy sailor men sail as close to
thin as they can without gettin wrecked
If they go too far away they'll find no
wind to fill their sails. But no man can
chart 1t all out FIR amy other man TIL
ony thing we can do is to see that tn
boat made seaworthy an is well-pro-
visioned, toss out few simple hints an
lave it go at that. An owner is as much
a hoodoo on board as a parson. Ye can
sail an It's time FIR him an me to 60
ashore. We've told tn captain all we
know. Firm now on he must take his
chances an be tn look in his eye I guess
he's ready"
I'd like to have me own life to live
over" said Mr.. Hennessy.
Il wuddent," said Mr.. Dooley. L wud-
dent dare"
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''Sells Cotton Prints to tn Chineymen
Like tn Tmpror iv Germany"

if he shows amy signs iv becomin'
capitalist an, if he does, talk long an
earnestly with him. Tell him how tn
thirst FIR mon y grows on man; how he
begins be takin' little FIR socyability's
sake; thin he finds he can't do without 1t
he frequents tn banks habitchooly; wanst
ten thousand dollars wud go to his head :
it takes niilyons to affect him; fin'lly
he's took up be tn polls an his picture is
in tn gallery marked 'Habtchool mllyon-
are,' an, he's dom tn lock-step with prisi-
dints Nv railroad companies an other no
toryous malyfactors. Don't let tn lad de-
velop into milyonaire. Stop him now be-
fure it is too late. Don't give him amy
money. Ye won't, but don't.
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United States Navy of the days
b of the old windjammers-the
sIoop-of-war Saratoga-ls soon to
go to the final resting place of all
good yessels-the junk heap Condemneo
by government inspectors as no longer MT
for service as a cruising training ship, the
gallant old square-rigger has been put on
the block to be sold TO the highest bidder.
Several bids have been received, but as yet
none has come up TO the government hgure
OF $4,000 When sold she will be broke"
up for her metal and what good timber
there is in her hull and the world will
hear the last of her.
The SARATOGA, while never a spectacular
figure In our naval warfare, will be re-
menbered by the passing generation OF lit
tie brown men in the islands of the sum- Tor
she was one OF the fifteen ships that visited
Japan back In the fifties under the COM
mand OF Commodore Perry. an event that
will pass down in Japan's history as the
starting point of her advance as a world
power And there are many others. unless
they have long since passed into the be-
yond who will remember the gallant old
ship swarthy Spanish Americans. from
Panama and all around the coast to RIO;
dusky Polynesians of the south Pacihc
island clusters; naked black men from the
coast forests of western Africa. rescued
from the vile holds of slavers; shifty
Nalays with ugly creeses in their ION
cloths; burnoosed Arabs and turbanned
followers of the prophet; hideous Chinese
pirates swimming for their lives from the
battered, sinking hulks OF their junks,
smashed by the Saratoga's batteries-these
and many more have cause, If alive. to
remember the name of the now rotten,
dIsmantled seafghter.
For In her day the Saratoga was the
pride of the navy in her class. Among her
commanders were some of the most noted
men In the annals OF our naval history, and
she roamed the seas bravely and truly
under the good old flag. which IN the course
of her wanderings rippled from her stern
over the harbor waters of nearly every
Yves a good ship in her day is set down n
the Navy Department records, for as far
back as 1919 Commander w. c. Nicholson,
then on the quarterback of the Saratoga.
wrote In of his reports: Sails well
and steers well. and is weatherly; stands
Up remarkably well under canvas and rides
extremely well at her anchors; can dis
pense with all her ballast What that
note regarding her ballast says for the
saratogas stiffness and seaworthy qualities
any sailorman knows.
X
The Saratoga was built at the Portsmouth
IN. H. navy yard under government order
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OF the naval men who remember the
Saratoga she slipped into Yedo bay
back in the fiftes there is probably but ono
IN Washington today-Rear Admiral Ed
ward d. Robe, who was assistant engineer
on Commodore Perry's flagship Mississippi
during the Japanese expedition. Admiral
Robbie is one of six survivors of the 1874
officers that accompanied Commodore
Perry on this memorable occasion. The
other five are Rear Admirals ]. ii. Upshur,
Oscar F. Stanton George B. Balch, Edwin
Fithian and Rev. DIR. ]. s. Sewall, chap
lain.
Admiral Robe treasures his memories of
that visit to Japan. and his residence on
21st street contains many souvenirs of the
occasion. Among them are several paint
ings. arranged from s'-etches and da-
guerreotypes made at that time, showing
the landing of the American naval parties
and depicting various scenes and incidents
of the visit.
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land Pa. and became the public marine
schoolship there, taking short cruises under
the joint supervision of the state and the
city of Philadelphia. On last February
she started on what was to prove her final
voyage. AT sea she met a heavy storm.
which strained her old timbers and sticks
so badly as to necessitate putting back to
port. An inspection was ordered by the
Navy Department. and the old fighter
was condemned and ordered sold as junk.
She lies in the back channel at League IS
land dismantled hulk after sixty-five
years of honorable service under the Stars
and Stripes.
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But. anyhow, Hinnissy. don't ye
bother ye'er head about what's goin' to
happen to ye'er boy. WHATEVER is goin
to happen will happen. We can bet on
that. What makes we think We can pick
out a calm fr him? Here we ARE. goin
on l don't know how old. but yecI older
thin I am an / can prove it. Ye'er hair
has left We; ye'er brain goes as slowly to
wurruk as ye'er feet; whin ye want to
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~ NJ throubled about me son Packy''
- said Mi Hennessy.
what's happened to tn poor
Child?" asked Mr.. Dooley. Sure
it's nawthin' more thin boyish
prank. whativer it is. Has he kilt some
wan? F"rgit about it. It's on'y his youth
ful spirits
1T amt anything like that" said Mr..
Hennessy. He's good boy, but m won
dhrin' what I'm goin' to make iv him
What we're goin to make iv him." cried
MI Dooley well. niver in me born days
did | hear anything tn akel ~ that fr
check Tn more l see w parents tn more
1 think they're unfit to have childher to
look afther Thin TIL care an affection iv
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in below decks, temporarily at least. from
slavery on southern plantations.
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He was TIL great man an whin tn
likes iv him were alive twas some fun
goin' to law. But now, mind We, if We
consult a lawyer he receives ye in his
office. looks out iv tn window while
yeer tellin' tn story iv tn crool wrong
done we be ye'er neighbor. taps his nose
with his eyeglasses an says: Re have
a perfectly good case. l advise ye to do
nawthin. Ninety-fOur dollars, please Oh,
if we insist on thryin tn case III sind
tn Office boy over with We. He always
riprisints tn firm in coort.' Don't ye
liver go into coort? says l. What wud
1 'be dom in a smelly courtroom. talkin'
up to a man that was me chief clerk last
year,? says he. No, sir, TIL law Is diff
rent profissyon firm what it was whin
Dan'l Webster an Rufus Choate an thin
gas bags used to make mighty poor
Twin be shoutn' at judges that made
less. TIL law today is not ony a profis-
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expected tn other lawyer to reach FIR
gun And 1t wasn't all talkin' ayether.
Twas tn hardest kind iv exercise. His
arms were always in motion. He wud
bate tn table with his fist till tn coort
house thrembled. He wud shake his head
till ye'd think he'd shake it off If he was
tn lawyer in a case iv assault an batthry
he'd punch himsilf in tn jaw an fall over
Il chair to show tn jury how It happened
If twas a murdher thrile he'd pretind to
shoot himsilf through tn heart an sink
to TIL ground dead with his head in
waste-paper basket an his foot in a
juryman's lap. If twas breach i, prom
Use suit he'd kneel on tn fiure in front iv
Juryman that looked soft an beg him
to be his. There was no kind " acrobat
that ye liver see In a circus that c1d give
anything to Grogan. An whin he'd
filed tn air with beautiful language an
baten tn courtroom furniture into
slvers he'd sink down in his chair over
come be his emotions with tn tears
pourin' firm his eyes an give ye tn wink
firm behind his handkerchief
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NE of the last survivors of the
United States Navy of the days
of the old windjammers-the
sloop-of-war Saratoga-is soon to
go to the final resting place of all