The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1914-03-26
DISCIPLINE AT SEA.
Penalties and Privileges Aboard Ship
In Former Days.

Penalties and Privileges Aboard Ship
In Former Days.
Some remarkable advice to seafarers
is given in an old Portuguese book pub
ished for the guidance of mariners.
Among other things it deals with the
rights of captains to assault sailors
and the methods in which the attacks
are to be legally met.
The sailor was advised to bear calmly
any verbal abuse that an irate skipper
may hurl at him, but if words passed
to blows he was to run away into the
bows and firmly take his stand beside
the anchor chain.
Should an Infatuated master armed
with a Delaying pin or other lethal
weapon chase. him to his stronghold
the mariner was to slip round to the
farther side of the chain. Should he
still be pursued he was to call his
messmates to witness that the master
had broken the rules by circumventing
the chain.
Then at last he was to defend him.
self, and let us hope he would do it
we'll. Other little matters of discipline
are set out, and they show noble eff
fort to make the punishment fit the
crime.
The ships clerk, privileged person
who acted as bookkeeper, purser and
cargo master, was liable to be branded
in the forehead. to lose his right hand
and to forfeit all of his property if he
made wrong entry in the ships book
or connived at such an entry.
A seaman who fell asleep on his
watch was only put on a diet Of bread
and water unless the offense was COM
mitted in hostile waters. In that case
he must be stripped naked, fogged by
his messmates and ducked thrice in
the sea.
If he were an officer, however, he
would only lose all food except his
bread and have a pail of water flung
over from the head downward.-Lon-
don Tit-Bits.
Literary and Musical PiIIase.
Bernard Shaw's defense of literary
''pillage" was anticipated by his fellow
countryman, Balfe, the composer or
''The Bohemian Girl" who used to
borrow generously from other peoples
scores. On one occasion, the London
Express recalls, he was rehearsing
new opera at Drury Lane and the first
fiddle, an Italian, was Mortified to come
upon page after page of familiar
music. ''Mr. Balfe, Mr.. Balfe,': he
said in horror, ''dat is Mozart" "And
a capital man, too," was the Irishman's
reply. "Get on with the rehearsal.'-
indianapolis News.
A Japanese and His Wife.
A lady residing in Pasadena was
recently asked by her Japanese gar
dener for the three days wages due
him, as he was about to leave for
Japan with his wife and baby. His
written explanation was: Twill you
please give me, if you can, as my wife
is want the wages, and buy some
things you know-I do not like to say
such small thing, but every woman's
mind are very small. Ny wife is more
small."-Exchange
Success Without Bitterness.
Success in industry, in art or in love
is saved from bitterness and disap-
pointment because we regard our
achievements far more symbolically
than we know and rest far more than
we are aware upon the backing Of
God.-Dr Richard G. Cabot
..5 Ell Only Undevetoped.
HeIt has been said that a woman
can make a fool Of any man.. Do you
believe it? She-Of course not The
best she can do is to develop him