Show NAUTICAL NOVELTIES furnished by the U S navy recruiting station salt lake city the custom of manning the rall rail sn in the united states navy is now an honor accorded only to the president ot of the united stats states the president of a foreign republic a tor eli airn agn sovereign or members ot of royal families it is sometimes known as manning the side formerly in days of sailing ships the ceremony then called mabi manning ling the yards was leable more picturesque than now imaging how a tull full ship c the ithe linc aine would look irth ti its sail TS equally anil avni metrically i long the yards lew fow thi oil iram ly develop ci WP we do not know in the tha log og of 0 the U S sloop poop ontario Om tarlo for the year 1882 we recall seeing the record of the yards being manned in honor of the visit of lord byron the english poet when that vins was anchored at leghorn roads altal italy Y when Ps and Qs were tre watched in alehouses Ale houses I 1 in olden times when chalk scores were marked upon the the wall or bei behind i and the door izilor ot of a taproom ta it was customary 10 to lo put he initials P at ald head of every mans account coshow to show the number of pints and I 1 quarts for which he was in arrears ani we may presume many a friendly rustic to have tapped his neighbor on oil the shoulder and to have exclaimed as he pointed to the chalk score mind your Ps and Qs man blind your Ps and Qs DUCKS and ducks on the file rivers of china flocks of 0 ducks sometimes as many as a hundred often take their owner to market the owner sits in his sizable rowboat while tho the ducks tied to the craft tow him film up the stream the biggest boost in salary an enlisted man of the navy receives is after the first tour four months of his naval service the increase amount ing to about 70 percent sixteen years ago a sailor ahr who had just received ills his honorable discharge from the ille united states navy vowed that lie he would become governor of texas and now that ambition has been realized governor jimmie Jimm le allred served in the navy during the war var he was born in in bowie texas on march 29 1899 which made hism hi n only thirty six years old upon his inauguration in to tho the gubernatorial chair and thereby becoming the second young eit man an in the history ot of texas to fill the position of the highest Ill executive ot of that sovereign state slate A testimonial regarding the value ot of naval training to him is 14 displayed in the navy recruiting office at salt lake city utah thirty two 32 men will be enlisted in the navy from salt lake district during the month of 0 april |