-packed, block the sitting-room and hall-ways; Polly flies up-stairs and down distractedly, Molly spends hours uncounted (but not uncharged-for) at the dressmaker's, Dick burns midnight oil over guide

acc

preparation, what must be the commotion on a war-ship starting for the Far Ea

he Osprey had their hands full in

d the thousand and one minor articles that are needed on board one of the larger war-ships. The ship's crew lend a han

possible space, for every inch counts in the narrow limits of a ship. Then, too, they must be so stevedo

ded can be reached on the instant. Emergencies often arise in which the safety of the ship itself is dependent on having needed appliances or material in the hands of certain officers without a moment's delay. It may be n

e extract, chiccory, chocolate, Swiss cheese, English cheese, New York dairy cheese, canned tomatoes, canned peaches, canned onions, canned asparagus, canned peas, canned corn, canned beets, olives and olive oil, sauces and catsups, oatmeal and flour, limes and lemons, fruit jellies, condensed meats, beef extracts, Jamaica ginger, mustard and spices, cigars and tobacco, corn-meal and hominy, sago and tapioca, crackers and biscuits, lime juice, fresh and limed eggs, baking powder, canned cherries, canned plums, canned pears, canned rhubarb, dried apples, ca

ch in itself would make a long roll. Of course the delicacies mentioned above are for the officers' use alone. When in port or on a short cruise the sailors get fresh meat, bread, fruit, vegetables and milk. On a

es fresh water pumped in from the sea by ingenious machinery contrived for the purpose, and the supply is limitless. From this fresh water ice is manufactured in

usually stored forward under the berth deck. Such stores as cloth and made-up wearing apparel go in the low

a point a little abaft of midship. Thus the coal afforded protection to the machinery from projectiles ai

throbbing heart of every war-ship in the navy; the wires radiating from it like veins and art

andle, throws a flood of radiance streaming out into the black night, disclosing the enemy and rendering futile his attack or escape as the case may be. Oth

there, the guns would cease firing, every light would be extinguished, every officer cut off from rapid communication with his men; and the delay consequent on thi

e, Hallie, before retiring. She was visiting friends in the West, and he had no opportunity to see her before starting on what was doubtless to be a cruise to the other side of the world. This is a part of a naval officer's life. "Detached," from this place to that, from one ship, or one d

who knows accurately the pay of every man on board. Look over his shoulder and read in his "Regis

SEA DUTY.

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ine 7,5

Nine 5,

Bureaus ..

ns 3,5

ers 3,0

Commanders

ants 1,

Junior Grad

s 1,40

en per cent. upon the full yearly pay of their grades for each and every period of five years' service, as increase for length of service, or 'longevity pay.'" Still, thirty-fi

ts and warrant machinists are paid (for sea duty) from $1200 a year for the fir

ter, and a few others, draw pay ranging from $50 to $70 a month. The pay of first-class petty officers, of whom there are about twenty var

Second-class or "ordinary" seamen draw $19 a month, and third-class s

wages for this sort of service on a war-ship run from that sum down to the

e the orderly entered and announced Fred Larkin,

reason for your sudden orders. A number of our ships are to rendezvous at Kiel next week, to take part

be time for us to get over there before the end of the review, even if we made a regular 'Oregon' voyage o

ny day, to start for Japan or Korea. Of course I should go by way of San Francisco. If th

United States will of course have nothing to do with the scrap. Still, it's as we

s may be involved any day, with China as an uncertain force just behind the scenes. You know France is bound to take a hand if two nation

moorings, and dropping down the quie