Life — March 11, 1897 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF HORATIO NELSON TUBBS, LIEUTENANT, U.S. N. February 3, 1897.—This is undoubtedly destined to be an eventful day in the lives of the men who compose the crew of the battleship ‘Sockdologer."” It is nowga.m. We have just received sealed orders to sail, and all is hustle and bustle. The sailors are excited, the officers seem to be laboring under intense anxiety, and crowds of our relatives have gathered around the dry-dock to bid us farewell. Nine Thirty and they have been executed without a single mishap. coming greater, Ten O'clock.—The engineer announces that he has thirty pounds of steam. The commander has just fallen over a marlinspike and skinned his nose. Every member of the crew is on the alert, but, unless some unforeseen circum- stance arises to confound us, we are likely to get out of the dock before nightfall. leven Fifteen A. M.—The wives and children of our gallant crew are weep= ing and wailing, People are flocking from all directions to take a last farewell look at our noble ship. She cost $6, 20, and is almost as good as new. I have decided to inclose these pages in a bottle when the word is given to start the machinery, and intrust them to the waves, Twelve O'clock.—Luncheon has been ordered. The strain is becoming almost overpowering. Our beautiful silver service is to be used perhaps (who knows?) for the last time. One Thirty.—We are feeling more cheerful, although we have only twenty cases of champagne left to last us on our perilous journey. Two Fifteen,—The engineer reports a full head of steam, Everything 1s now in readiness for the start. People are beginning to put out in boats for the purpose of rescuing us. Adieu, adieu, my native land! Two Thirty.—Alas, our worst fears have been realized. We have run upon a hitching post, and may not be able to get off until the spring thaws set in. Nobody knows who is to blame. It isterrible. The captain is weeping, and ix A. M.—The engineer has given orders to start the fires, The excitement is be nearly everybody else is drunk with excitement and other things. ship is ruined, and I am going home to mother.—C/eveland Leader. Our noble A BUSINESS man accustomed to-hard work for many years usually finds idleness irksome. Men who have been actively in the harness as a rule do not like to retire, although retirement in old age is the goal of the average worker, A successful Chicagoan, who has reached sixty years, said to me the other day: ‘Iam going to quit. 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