RIOT ON AN EMIGRANT SHIP

The M©ntfort,frora Liverpool for Mon treal with one thousand Russian Jews on board, called at; Bt John Newfound land lately on account of a rict among them because fish was not on the menu. When the first meal of meat was served I they threw it o?erbiard, and, upon learn ' ing that ther« was liitle else on board they threatened the ship's officers wi'h knives, beat the stewards, brok*l iuto tho store rooms, threw awa? pork anl (th< r objectionable food. Meanwhile they violently kept the decks for themselves. It was impossible to reason with them on account of their iterance of English. The oaptaii accordingly isolated them, removing all ladders, dosing all doors and stationing sailors with b«,l*ying bins •t all strategio points, the most vulner able of which were reinforced with hope carrying steam. They aad rstood this and suspended hostilities pending the Ship's arrival at St John's for herring,

Mr Atkins as a Practical Joker

Fun in Babracim and on thk Battlbfiild

If the British soldier is a better fighter and harder worker than any other to dier in Europe, he is also, whether in barracks or on the battle field, the heartiest and most ingenious player.

Tommy is, Rbove all, an expert, in practical jokes, which w-e, perhaps, at times a little cruel in effect, although note in intention, As he himself may at some time make thn practic-tl acquaintance of » court-martial, he loves especially to mimic this military tribunal. His victim is generally a raw recruit, who is charged with some trivial or ev t n imaginary offence

A c urt-niartia! fa formed, with a corporal or sergeant as president, the prisoner ie led before it, and t! c trial begins. Counsel are employed to prosecute and defend, witnesses are heard, and sentence gnvely pro nooncad If, as usually happens, tho puoißhment is death, the condemned man is led to execution. A brawny private stands armed with an axp, by the side of an improvised block ; th< convict's eyes are bandaged, and his head placed in position for the fatal blow—and then, just as he ia getting seriously alarmed, he receives a kick from behind, and is assured by the Bhrieks of laughter that he has been reprieved at the laat moment.

This may ba taken as a type of Mr Atkins's practicU jokes, which, how-

ever, take a hundred different forms, all rough and harmless, but all intensely diverting to him. Even on thi battlefield Tommy cannot restrain bio propensity for poetical joking, and many a soldier has awoke to find himself in the grip of Boers, and bound and blindfo'ded, carried away into captivity, only to be dumped down on the veldt and (o hear the sound of laughter and Hying feet

But on the b»Ulefi«ld Tommy loves baat to make a butt of the enemy, and the present war has afforded him many opporf unities of doing ihia successfully. In the trenches at Ma'eking he has often succeeded in 4J pulling the ]?<* " of the guileless Boer, One d%j one of our men took his concertina with him to the trenches and began to play it seductively, while hia comrade?, with rifles in hand, awaited developments. After a time the bead of a curious Boer appeared ever the neighbouring trench of the enemy, then another and a thiid made their appearance to the wooing of the music. This was the coveted opportunity, and " bang " went every rifle, with the result that some of the heads would never pop up any more. Cruel ? Yea, but it is war, and Tommy laughed.

A favorite joke with Tommy haa been to manufacture a dummy soldier or gun, and nuke his sides ache with laughing whils bullets and shell rained round and through their counterfeits, No wonder that the Boer is amazed at the reckless way in which the British soldier exposes himself, and at his capacity for sticking to his post, even when riddled with bullets;

At Spion Kop this love of the prac tical joke saved the lives of some at least of oar men. When a body of the enemy displayed the wbite flag our soldiers resorted to the crafty expedient of patting their helmets oh the muzzle ends of their guns, and slowly lifting them above the rocks, in imitation of man rising to their feet. No Boonttr, however, did the helmets make their appearance than they were greeted by a volley of ballets from tbe very men who had made overtures of surrender.

To this amiable habit of < fooling,' too, two Highlanders owed their liberty, if not their lives, at Magere foratein. The Highlanders had been taknn prisoners, bat had succeeded ira evading their escort, and were lying behind a bush when another body of Bo^ra came in their direction. The 1 old soldiers ' immediately began to groan in the most piteous way ; and the Boerp, concluding that they were wounded men, like the Pharisee passed them by, and gave them the opportu nity of making good their escape Tommy is never happier than when on a raiding expedition, and theJaumour of Bitting down to a substantial meal just deserted by the prudent enemy appeals to him with especial force

Mr Ralph tells an amusing story of one of these foraging expeditions. Some of the men at Modder River, wishing to provide a really tempting mml for their captain, started on a foraging expedition over the veldt. Doming to a Boer farmtoaao they suc ceeded ia commandeering (after an ex» citiog chase) a pigeon, a dock, and a hen, 'J hey then raided the garden, and procured a large and promiscuous stock of vegetables, and then laid the farm-kitchen under contribution for cooking utensils

After an hour or two oE anxious consultation and manipulation they converted their p'under into a dish which, according to its purveyors, the grateful captain pronounced to be ' the finest ragoo he had ever tasted.'

THE ASHIURTON GUAEBfAisr • MONDVY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1900

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