Show 1 7 I SEA FIGHTER TElU TELLS OF CRUISE FOR JOHN SURRA T Veteran Aided to Capture Accomplice of Assassin of Lincoln By Selma Miller Although picking off of Huns on the th S western front or engaging otherwise I with the enemy on that famous strip of ot land land No No Mans Man's Land Land are are not no among the deeds for tor country done by b Boyd veteran seaman of this thi city yet his bit to the preservation of ot o f the Stars and Stripes was wag nevertheless less lees unusual and of ot Importance to the th welfare of the nation To avenge the death of ot the man that tha delivered the negro from tram bondage Boyd BO d took a perilous trip Just as the th Yanks Yanks are doing now for the man max whose Intention It Is to free tree the world from the yoke of autocracy TO FAR EGYPT When Abraham Lincoln was assas assassinated John the accomplice of ot Wilkes Booth the assassin fled to ti Egypt The whole whale country was was clamoring clamoring clamoring clam clam- oring for tor the revenge for tor the murder murde r of ot the beloved president And right here Is where this hearty old salt appears on an the scene At that time he was fourteen years year of at age His world at that time consisted con con- of a pleasant home hame and the city of ot Philadelphia But one day the ex excitement excitement excitement ex- ex of ot the times coupled with Juvenile curiosity Induced him to join iou the American navy From that moment moment moment mo mo- ment things began to happen for tor him He lie was assigned to the ship Swat era L belonging to the Atlantic squadron un under un- un der the command of ot Admiral Farragut Farra Farra- gut SAIL UNDER SEALED ORDERS The was ordered to proceed pro pro- at once to the Mediterranean under sealed orders The eyes of ot the thi little American were soon opened to ti the wonders of ot the world for tor the th cruiser touched at the the Azores at Portugal Por Por- and passed through the straits strait S of ot Gibraltar Like the mystery of ot the mission o of the ship was the country to which they sailed The sailor lad awoke one oni morning to find tind that the anchor had hat be been n dropped in the port of at Alexandria Alex Alex- andria Egypt A shore leave never SC so heartily appreciated was the one had hat by young Boyd upon this occasion The narrow streets filled tilled with the tIu white clad swarthy people of ot the desert desert des des- ert the street venders with their baskets bas baa of ot luscious dates figs and fruits and above all that atmosphere of ot subtle sub sub- tie tle mystery and antiquity filled tilled to re re- re the brain of ot the young sailor Meanwhile the mission of the in the Egyptian port was unknown to tc him ASSASSIN IS SEIZED I The mysterious mission of th the cruiser finished the anchor was lifted and tho the homeward voyage begun But Bu t the tho evidence of ot the success of ot the cruise was on board the ship John the accomplice of ot Wilkes Booth the assassin of Americas America's I backwoods president In chains ac accompanied ac- ac I ao-I companied the ship this time When fled tied from America he took ship to Egypt and entered the Egyptian Egyptian I tian army I But the eyes of ot Uncle Sams Sam's secret I j i service were too many and too keen I and his presence there was soon saon dIs- dIs covered Upon reaching America j I was turned over over- overto to the authorities au au- au- au and he was publicly hanged I for tar being implicated in the assassination tion of Lincoln Thus did this Jolly old Jack tar engage in an Important mission for the United States However However- this d. d not finish his service to the country because for ye years rs he sailed the seas I and helped to give the American j navy the prestige which It enjoys to day He further has done dane his bit for when the Spanish-American Spanish war broke brake out he quickly sent his eldest Idest son to fight for tor both of ot them and at the present time his baby boy la Js enrolled iz in the service of the United States as is a defender of democracy AGED LOG lOG BOOK An old log book 55 years old and now naw yellow and musty is Js one of ot th thi treasures tr belonging to Boyd This h ht i kept beginning with his the voyage on on and if It one should r read I between the lines the heart throbs throbs' I of ot a little American sailor far tar from I home would be revealed i Many years he sailed the seas an 1 I j heathenish Turkey with its veiled i and mysterious women the sacred sac II F streets of the Holy Land and historic Rome nome were among tho the many places visited by him I Favorite among the profusion prolusion of tattoos on on his arms is Js a faded blue one pricked on his forearm by a Scotchman one of the heroic crew of the Monitor the ironbound turret launched by the Union during the Civil war which inflicted a a. severe punishment on on the Merrimac of the Confederacy and Incidentally ushered in the era of Ct steel ships |