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Show ' vNavy-Tulkirs Popular. . A number of naval onicors wore t talking the other nlgh't "t th" club of ibo luuiH'hhig'or tho Wlsofiisln. and fronnthat iho tadc drifted into recol- ( lections of'i.ncideiits on warships Just Holog Into coHiinli'slon. , "Till? habit that soma commanding (Ulcer4 havo of pinking ", iH'uMfil. wabbly IHIlo ppfech nil ' Jnii(ls wlwn the jack goes up oil. a slilp ntid'elie.l'-' formally put iH'comml'Pbui ' rmay,bo'all right," said ont"f the tar's of tho quarter deck, "but I don't bu-jlevoaiiy bu-jlevoaiiy eli'tnout oC tho orovy, olllccrs iirnion forward, takes much slock In such spei clio-). Tbo murt forward. don't like a tiarrllous commanding oilb-of. Tbey are Ukoly to famcn tho appolla. tion. 'nii'.n-'War chaw.' on a skipper wlioiuiiikt'S tt pp'Otlco or haranguing tbum. Captain Josepli Fife, opo of the old school of man.o'.war skipper anil a man who had the respect, conll'loncit and affecMon of all tho otilljted mop. that over servcil on ono 'bf.hlHj!ilp,. had a groa eonU'nipt for UkanviMioss' on tho part of u Hklppcr p'varrtilp. Ho was a plain. Jdanv. Jrpiap, and "Vry oplcor nmninnA;fio WJ a Hhlpmato vltli .'CaptaVv' knuW that ho warf bound. to feyfeUUtli" waa, comlHg.tiJrar I 8ln. ur tacbe(?tllf tl.ttMWat Captain Fife mitt&fo' :comml8iKI Whun al wns rviHfiici'utlKlcer passed tho fmm 1,11 nnierod aft. rK)""1 coreTfioulos. Caii-tain-'nfracd to the maai, ch'areil bis throaWnyJMvnstend of VmndrirliiR yR lpto uapceell, said he, in nnrdl- ffcopvorsi.tloinl tone; 'fPni JoeFIfu. You all Mow we: Krirtl'a a" thwo was to hift. speech, ty(ll tho same. It 't! elfeolvo on? of tho sort 1 ever heard. It nf..do a hit with tho men. liny were so much taken with tho straight, dircet on-tiit-levol llttlo speech that they proved themselves tho Ijtiest cinn BfbWjapketi I'a ver hlpmaw Svltlj. Washington Post. |