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Show auEnrt onocn for seamen. ljUfll.il Jaclales )bllj..l l.i II ackn U S. on Orlatn deration, Ajre'l'l'"' order on board certain ot I'ngland'aTcaaeit of war, and ono delivered de-livered by"ali olllcer with bis awu hands and faco nrtflcall' I'1""011. ' "All hands black facial W ll0n' cllh" er during tho maneuver?' 'r time. It Is determined tbatVj!ei10 or gunboat shall attack at nlgntVvror' living soul on board la ordered black up of tho aamo dim y color nV Is borne by tho whole vessel or all lu outward parts, for the single speck of light color afforded by one human faca might spoil the whole plan of a doe-perato doe-perato attack. All tbo officers of tor-pedo tor-pedo vessels and gunboats keep, as a part of their kit, a special pigment, of very much the same kind as that usod by stage darkles, ever ready for emergencies, emer-gencies, and ono torpedo order book has special recommond itlons ss to blacking up for tbo men Then, again, all steam launch and boats' crows ordered or-dered off on mining, rrconnolterlug and. other duties aro compelled to blacken all parts of their skins that may show, and no man Is exempt, however high bis degree In the serv-Ice. serv-Ice. Military offlcors defending harbors har-bors and working torpedoes from the shore aro also ordered on no account to show themselves nt night uoar the defenses unless blackened up. |