The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-02
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1900 Dinner.
P. NJ.
LOO Turn to. Pipe down aired bed
ding, Pipe down clothes, if
dry. For the next two and a
half hours complete any drills
the divisional officers may de-
signate-for the day.
4.30 Knock off work. Pipe down
clothes.
500 Evening quarters, setting-up
drill.
600 Supper.
$50 Turn to. Scrub clothes on TO-
castle. Scrubbing clothes in
the evening is heartily en-
couraged, so as to leave the
forenoon as free as possible
for ship work.
$50 Hammocks.
500 Evening exercises, searchIights,
signals, etc.
900 Tattoo.
$50 Taps.
1t dawned upon this country boy,
with the flush of youth still on him,
that here was far harder life than
he had ever led The injustice of that
beguiling colored recruiting card prick
ed him to retaliation. Moreover, there
was so much OF this ceaseless work for
which, in his supreme wisdom Che had
led his class in ancient history, he
could see no reason. Why did they
scrub clothes every night and change
them every other day. Why did they
scrub hammocks and bags once every
two weeks2 Why did they spend those
precious two hours every morning, that
might have been so much better ex-
pended in bed, holystoning the cinders
from the decks that must be dritied i'm
mediately again, almost before the of
ficers could get to them for their after
breakfast smoke? And why the bright
works That was the cruel thing-the
bright-workl. Every nut, every bolt,
every rod, every outstanding piece of
metal on the ships surface had to be
rubbed down every day with polish and
rags. Why not do it once a week, or
just before they got into port? | have
heard an old bos'n say that bright
work has caused more assertions for
Uncle Sam than any other one thing,
just as it was often asserted by the
French that the white paint of the Rus
sian Navy did more to cause dissatis
faction than the tyranny of the Gar.
Yet the boy was getting along. After
his service in the brig he held to com
fortably for a month, till it came his
turn to clean spit-kits. That was too
much. He bolted square in his tracks,
as a colt does who has been broken to
harness and knows the reins, and is
growing to feel the power of the tugs,
and fondles the rest of the thilis
against his sides, and knows, that back
there turks ever-ready the lash of the
whip, but who, suddenly, for the first
time, has piece of paper firted across
his face. The spit-kits finished him.
He refused-pointblan refused. The
next morning they took him to the
AS / am relating. with some imagi-
mast; that afternoon to the brig again.
native detail, the record of a recent
case of desertion [ had the opportunity
of observing, permit me to finish with
this boy before discussing the ques
ton at large. He did not last much
longer, and the case had its pathos; he
was a likely youngster, with wide,
forth-seeing eyes, adew with longing,
clean, handsome, with a bit of a spoil
in the under droop of his lip and he
had temper; one who could be led
long ways, but who gave correct imi-
tation of bareback when you tried
to drive him.
The boy served his second sentence in
the brig, and two days after he got
out the ship dropped anchor in
foreign harbor. The boy watched the
curling shore-line with relief and sui
len JOY, and then he heard the order
read that only special first class m.u
would be allowed liberty. He did not
know what special first-elass men could
be, but he knew well enough about
elderly: that had been the talk of
the ship since he first joined. He felt,
vaguely. that his derelictions would
keep him out of that mysterious
Especial frst-class, but he was not
so sure even of that, for it had not
seemed to matter much with his mates
that he had been twice in the brig,
and, aside from his two refusals to
follow routine. he had been of stu
dious, intelligent and energetic dispo-
sition- A c. P o. (ehief petty officer)
had told him one day he would 'tdo,
in time So he went to the yeoman s
office where the men were asking for