The National tribune., 1908-08-20

etc. He has for 50 long been out OF
the public eye that the mass of the
people supposed him to be dead. He
leaves a wife and two sons. Mr..
Moody died a number of years ago.
The excellent behavior of our jack
les since they started with the fleet on
its triumphal tour has been most graf
| flying. Few landsmen can realize what
| 1t means to strong, healthy, young
sailor who, after having been shut up
on a ship for weeks with little diversion
and really hardly enough work to keep
his mind occupied, finds himself att at
| once free to do as he chooses on the
streets of some foreign city, with some
! money to spend. The temptations
which assail him are many and power
full, and 1t is no wonder that he some
| times gets into trouble. At no place
so far during the cruise have our blue
jackets left better impression than
at Auckland, Australia, where the fleet
has just been magnificently entertain-
ed, and from which port it has just
sailed. The Jackies were given a lib
eral amount of shore leave, and made
The most of their opportunities. seeing
all the sights and having a grand, good
time generally. A pleasing proof of
the good impression they made on the
Auckland people comes to us in the
story of the latter's interference when
they thot the patrol from the ship was
not treating our boys well. TIL pa
troll had been sent ashore to round up
stragglers and take them back to the
ships, and were handling some drunk
en- sailors pretty roughly, when a
crowd of sympathetic Auklanders who
were looking on took a hand, threaten
ed the patrol. and aided the efforts of
the boys to resist them. Things were
getting pretty lively when the police
came up, drove back the crowd, and
escorted the patrol and their prisoners
back to the wharves.
AS a general thing the comforting
hot water bag hangs, opening down.
on a hook in the bathroom entirely
unmolested thru the long Summer
months. Some sudden illness may call
upon its ministering service, but that
it could possibly be used for anything
but hot water has probably occurred
to very few. However, some unusually
sensible person has discovered another
use for it, and those people whose lot
it is to pass the Summer in the hot
city should rise up and call him bless
ed for his resourcefulness. On sitting.
sticky nights, when there isn't breath
Of air stirring and the very thot of
going into your hot room is night
mare; when your pillow is like burn
ing coal, and the light cotton sheet has
the weight ard warmth of a thick,
heavy comforter, with the prospect of
sleep as bad as could possibly be, then
arise and take from its peg in the bath
room the hot water bag and fill it with
ice water, not too full, but leaving it a
little soft. Wrap a nice, fine towel
smoothly over it and carry 1t to your
hot bed and put it in the place of your
hotter pillow. II you are fortunate to
own another bag, fill that in the same
way and put it at the bottom of your
bed. Then turn I'M once more, and
with your head on one bag and your
feet on another your whole body be-
comes delightfully."- cool, and you and
the drowsy god, so obdurate before,
are soon on the best of terms. A bet
ter plan still would be to fill as many
of these bags as you could afford to pos
sess with the ice water and place them
in different parts of the bed sometime,
before retiring. A heavenly, uniform
chillinss would then greet you as you
threw yourself down upon it.. The
Elysian fields-Paradise itself-would
fade into insignificance beside this in
effable bliss, as in sheer physical delight
you stretch out your limbs to seek the
beds deliciously cool recesses and pro-
coed to go to sleep without further de-