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POPULARITY Wliv Some Officers ai ?V Wctshin If there be any truth in that recent cable dispatch which told of the de liberate disabling of the machinery of the Spanish torpedo boats by the engineers, who are said to have done this bad bit of work in order to post pone or evade the necessity of moving on to Cuban waters-and taking the consequences of what their appear ances in Cuban waters might involve -it is an evil showing for the men of the quarter deck of the Spanish navy. Such a thing as this could never hap pen in the American navy. There are dissatisfied officers in our service in time of peace, but never disaffected officers iii time of war. Among the enlisted men in the United States' two military establish ments, when there is nothing doing in the way of war, there is always a cer tain amount of distemper under fancied imposition, and this distemper is manifested in many ways. But the men who carry the swords in the American service do their growling in their mustaches. Even the very worst of the men forward on an Amer ican man-of-war would scorn to engage in a i ob such as the "cranking" of machinery, if there existed any like lihood of their ship being called upon to fight at short notice. Such a thing has occasionally been done in the United States navy in time of peace, although the crime has never been fastened upon any individual man or collection of dissatisfied men forward. When a chief engineer on a United States man-of-war acquires, in time of peace, the dislike of the "black gang" under him, the men of the gang are capable of making heavy trouble for him, and they have done this on numerous occasions-never, however, when a cloud of war loomed on the horizon. Aside from the commanding officer, it might almost be said that of all the officers attached to a modern war ves sel it is most necessary for the chief engineer to possess the devotion of men immediately under him. The chief engineer is held strictly account able for the preservation in good con dition of the ship's machinery. A loose screw may very easily disable an engine, and it ia the simplest thing in life for a dissatisfied enlisted man to loosen a screw without any one being tho wiser. One cut rivet may make a boiler useless, and crown plates are very easily let down. It is a matter of common knowledge -rather, it has been in the past, but probably will not be in the future, or ' at any rate while the war is under way-that those chief engineers who are unpopular with the enlisted men ander them have by far the most trouble with the machinery and boil ers in their chnrge, and some of these disliked chiefs have had to expend a great deal of ink and paper in exp]ain ing to the department the many break downs in the gear over which they have control. It is quite possible for an aggrieved coal-passer to get his chief engineer tangled up with a Court of Inquiry. Moreover, it often has happened that an unpopular chief engineer has been unable to get his men to make steam. The firemen apparently work hard enough, but they don't get the revolutions out of the propellers. News travels just as fast from the cabin to the forecastle as it does from the foreoastle to the cabin, and when the firemen hear that their unpopular chief engineer has been ordered by the commanding offi cer to get the ship to such and suth a port at such and sneh a time, they catch each other's eyes, and the ship doesn't get there or anything like it. It would make no difference if the chief engineer himself were to stand watch in the fire rooms twenty-four hours at a stretch. The steam regis ters wouldn't take any upward leaps on account of his presence. The as sistant engineers also stand in need of the good will of the engine room force. On ships attached to which there have been two assistant engineers, one of them liked and the other out of favor with the men below, it has frequently been observed that the speed of the ships during the watohes of the dis liked engineer has fallen short by knots of the speed got out of the engines by hist brother officer. A man-of-war ship's company with a grievance means trouble for the officers aft, while an army post in which the enlisted men are dissatis fied requires very careful handling. Officers of experience in both services know these things, and take care not to pat the enlisted men out of humor. Officers of the navy thoroughly under stand, if they are experienced, how well it pays them to make, themselves popular with the men forward. The unpopular naval officer has no easy thing of it in his dealings with the blue jackets. In the old navy it often happened that officers who had earned the ill-will of the blue jackets feared to go forward at night after lights out, and there was reason for their IN THE NAVY. :e Disliked by Enlisted !en. glon Star. fear. Such officers would no sooner set foot in or under the forecastle, where, after lights out, there was only the dim illumination of a single stand ing light, than they would have to dodge all manner of missiles, "soup and bully" cans, chocking blocks, mess gear, boots, anything and every thing throwable that the sailors and marines, in or out of their hammocks, first laid their hands upon. On such occasions the disliked officers'had but one thing to do, and that wa# to travel aft as fast as their legs could carry them. They could make com plaint to the commanding officer the next day, but they rarely secured the punishment of the men. When one of the fighting admirals of to-day was a commander he was regaled one morning with the tale of woe of a snappy young ensign who had been treated to a dose of flying gear under forecastle on the previous night. "Do you know the men?" the com mander asked the ensign. The ensign named a few of them. "It serves you blasted good and right," said the commander, who was and still is rough and ready and a trifle profane. "The men you've named are the best men I've got on my ship. I've been shipmates with some of them ever since my middy days, sir, and I never had any trouble with them. If you had treated them right they'd have treated you right, and as an officer on my ship should be treated. I'd advise you to put in an application for your transfer, sir." The young ensign, now a senior lieutenant, tells this story upon him self, and as he afterwards became one of the most popular officers in the navy among the men forward, he evi dently profited by the lesson. While such acts as heaving missiles at disliked officers are not done in the navy to-day, the blue jackets adopt other methods of getting back at severe or imperious officers-in times of peace, that is. For example, they "lay down" on the disliked officers. The amount of work that a disaffected ship's company can't do within a given space of time is simply prodigi ous. In coaling ship, for example, the men forward seize the opportunity to make the disliked officer an object of derision among his brother officers and to pat him in a very embarrassing predicament before his commanding officer. They wait until the officer who has incurred their displeasure takes the deck and assumes command of the work of coaling, and then they proceed to give an exhibition of how frantically a gang of sailormen can work without doing anything. They shovel away furiously, bat, somehow or other, very little coal seems to find its way over the side and into the bunkers. The blue jackets in the coal lighters pant and perspire under the strain of labor that looks quite terrific, bat there is a lack of headway in the coaling of the ship. The offi cer of the decks disliked by the men may chafe and mutter deep, dark things under his breath, but this doesn't get the coal into the bunkers. When he makes his report to the commanding officer of the amount of coal that has been got aboard during his watch, it is found by comparison that it is only about one-third the amount that was hoisted over the side daring the watch of the preceding officer of the deck, who happened to be popular with the men. A matter of this sort always sets a commanding officer to thinking; for men who are old enough to be commanders of men of-war have learned by experience that it is as easy as launching a dingy for a naval officer to acquire and hold the good-will of enlisted men, and that the usefulness aboard ship of an officer who has sacrificed the confidence and respect of the men is seriously impaired. There can hardly be any such thing as discipline on board a man-of-war when the dissatisfaction of the ship's company is not directed against any single officer, but. includes the whole after part of the ship. About twenty years ago one of the big wooden ships, with a crew of nearlp 400 men, on a long cruise in the South Pacific, put in at tlie Island of Tahiti. The men forward were sullen and ugly. Some severities that they considered un warranted had been inflicted upon them in the course of the cruise. The plug tobacco dished out to them hy the paymaster was musty and unsmok able. They had not received what they considered a due allowance of fresh provisions at the ports at which the vessel had touched. The com manding officer, they declared, was constructed of putty, and they had no redress at the mast for the injustice put upon them by the inferior officers. The chief petty officers were in just as bad a frame of mind as the blue jackets, and so were the marines. When the ship's anchor was drop ped in the harbor of Tahiti the men began to let themselves quietly over the side in parties of twenty or more and to swim ashore. They did this under cover ot' darkness. By the time the officers began to notice the thinning out of the crew there were not men enough left aboard to spread mess-gear. The crew had simply taken French leave, practically in body. Every man had a months pay along with him in American gold, for monthly money had been served out the day before. The deserters i eluded nearly all of the chief petty officers, as well as a majority of th marine guard. The officers were puzzled. Th commanding officer had a conference with them, but they could not decide upon what to do. The skipper, with some of the ward room officers, wen ashore on the following morning an found the men walking around in an orderly fashion, on good terms with the natives, and all still speechless and sullen. Those of them whom th skipper met he ordered back to the ship. None of the men made an reply, and none went back to th ship. The blue jackets remained on ?he beach at Tahiti for more than week, conducting themselves with perfect orderliness, but very bitter in their talk about the ship out in th harbor. It looked as if most of the sailors intended to settle down at Tahiti and grow up with the country and meanwhile the ship grew dirtier and dirtier, and had a general un worked look. Then an American merchant living on the island got the blue jackets together and talked to them. The blue jackets told him that the officers had made the ship so un comfortable for them that they ha declined to stand for it, and that they had no intention of returning aboard The American, who was a man of tact went aboard the ship and had a talk with the officers, and then returned and talked again with the men. He was a pretty good arbitrator, for t!i men returned to the man-of-war in body in a lighter and went to work Some of the old-time blue jackets who were ashore at Tahiti on that occasion say that the remainder of their South Pacific cruise was like yachting. Mosby and Fitzhugh Lee. The conversation had naturally drifted into war channels, and the Major had the floor. "Well, Colonel Mosby, you know was a good fighter, but when General Grant sent him to China the Virgin ians turned the cold shoulder to him One day he was making a speech in Alexandria. He told the Virginians that they ought to vote for him. "'Why,' said the Colonel, 'I fought all over northern Virginia for four years. Talk about my war record Why, my war record is a part of the State's history. Why, gentlemen, I carried the very last Confederate flag through this town.' " 'Yes,' replied Fitzhugh Lee, 'for I was here at the time.' " 'Thank you for your fortunate re collection/ gratefully exclaimed Mos by. 'It is pleasant to know that there still live some men who move aside envy and testify to the courage of their fellow beings. As I say, gentle men, my war record is a part of the State's history, for thc gentleman here will tell you that I carried the last Confederate flag through this town.' " 'That's afact,' said Fitzhugh Lee. 'I saw him do it. He carried the Con federate flag through this town, but Kilpatrick was after him, and he car ried it so blamed fast you couldn't have toL whether it was the Confed erate flag or a smallpox warning.' 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C., June 3.-Thc following will sound like a fish story to a great many in South Carolina and elsewhere, but notwithstanding this fact the story is absolutely correct : Your correspondent was informed a few days ago by a reliable gentleman, and a resident of Charlotte, N. C., that Mr. Fred. Oliver, of that city, and the general manager of the Char lotte Cotton Seed Oil and Fertilizer Company, sowed 250 acres of his farm in the outskirts of Charlotte, in wheat last fall, very late in the sea son, and expected to harvest 10.000 bushels, which will be an average of forty bushels to the acre. My informant, who has had a great deal of experience in harvesting and handling wheat, said that while he hardly thought the yield would reach the amount expected by Mr. Oliver, still he was satisfied that not less than from seven to eight thousand bushels would be harvested. Probably so large a crop has never before been raised on a single farm on the same number of acres, in either North or South Carolina or Georgia. The land on which the wheat was raised has been owned by Mr. Oliver several years, and he has spent large amounts of money in fertilizing and improving it. Last year it was plant ed in cotton, and had a remarkably fine crop on it, but as it is not first class "cotton land'' the crop failed to mature. Following are about all the facts your correspondent has been able to gather in regard to the preparation of the land and the seeding. About the latter part of November, after becom ing convinced that the heavy crop of bolls on the cotton stalks would not mature .anet open, Mr. Oliver put a large number of turning plows to work breaking up the land and turning un der the cotton and stalks. Next he thoroughly harrowed the land, and it was ready for the seed, which was put in with drills, together with 450 lbs. of ammoniated fertilizer to the acre. The crop has not yet been harvest ed, but will be during the next two weeks, and in order to harvest it at" the minimum of expense, Mr. Oliver has bought twe binders, and has also bought the largest and best threshing machine he could find to be used in cleaning it, or separating the wheat from the chaff. And this is not all. This shrewd business man, who has furnished such a valuable object lesson to the farmers of the South, has also bought a hay press and will put up all the straw in bales. It is estimated that he will have at least 325 tons, or an average of one and a half tons to the acre. The market value of the straw will more than pay all the expense in con nection with the crop, including the purchase price of the machinery for harvesting and cleaning it. Of course, the foregoing story has not been related with the idea of cre ating the impression that anybody can do the same thing, especially where the ordinary slip-shod methods are employed, but with the hope of con vincing some of the cottontots who may read it that the threadbare asser tion that wheat cannot be profitably raised in South Carolina (Mr. Oliver's wheat field is only about 10 miles from the dividing line between North and South Carolina) is not based on fact. Several weeks ago your correspondent visited Hyatt's Park, Columbia,S. C., where the volunteers were encamped. Ile went out on the electric car, and on the right of the car track going out, possibly two miles from the city, was very much surprised to see an un usually fine field of wheat, almost ready to be harvested. He had an idea that no effort was ever made to raise wheat in this State that far south. If wheat can be successfully grown in sight of Columbia it is safe to say that at least three-fourths of the State could raise all that is needed forborne consumption, and some to spare, and do it at not exceeding one-half the cost of Western flour, especially where it is bought on time.-News anti Cou rier. - Nearly all the officers of the Uni ted States navy above the rank of lieutenant are from the Northern States. The reason of this is apparent. No officer who entered thc navy since the close of the war has yet reached the rank of commander. The navy was a favorite avocation for Southern ers, and at the breaking out of the war that section had its full quota and, perhaps, more on the official list. But with few exceptions they resigned as their States seceded, and during thc war none came to the Academy from the South. The Southerners in the service now, are those who entered after the reconstruction. 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