Show i j Mr Bailey of Duluth 1611s l the Wash J j Ington Post that I J i I If any man thinks the American sailor tr Is I thing or the post he should spend a j while on the Great Lakes Tho American I freahwaicr nailer is freshwaer onior every bit aa phi pll I turcsqua I personage as was the salt of early days who carried our merchant olr Hal Into every port of the world His life Is just nt full hardships and Just is full of dangers There Is 71 large heeL of three and fourmasted Bchoonors led anl fchoonor I tho lakes and stories of the wrecking of them como with even big storm A blS nastier body of water than Lake Eric I when It comes on to blow can be found nowhere and some of tho experiences I tho llfosavlnc crowo along Its shores are I the mot thrilling In this history ot the service Tho men who man the big lako I steamars of course hare not much ro mnnco In their lives but there arc enough I of tho old calling vessels left to keep a I considerable army of men employed Any skipper who can navigate n schooner from Duluth to Buffalo rs I a good enough millor to call around tho world nnd ho Will do aa woll as tho next man to take euro of his vessel in the roughest sea the Atlantic was eor ablo to blow upTake up-Take a sailor off Lake Erie after three or four yean practice and put him on the Atlantic give him a taste of her gales and he would say This Is too easy Lake Eric faa shallow i lake with the result that when a I 1 storm comes on It gets up the meanest chopped seas that any one ever saw and many and many an oldtime sailor that has buffeted l the gales of the big shoreshaker gets as sick as a landsman under the chopping and twisting of Lake Erie difference In 1 about the same as time between riding a bloodhorse and R mustang The bloodhorso can Jump sometimes but his arc honest square Jumps and there can be a pretty all calculation made of what he Is going to do But the man on the 01 hurricanedeck of a 1 mustang when he puts his nose between be-tween his forelegs elevates his back grows rigid In tho limbs and starts tho goat movement IB In the fix of tho Irishman who was In the same position when his friend called to him to jump off His reply was Be dad I h oal I can do to remain where I am |