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THE BATTALION.
made a break for the doors, and other places. I saw sever
al Chinamen go through a trap door at the entrance, and I
made a break for it myself. When I went through 1 must
have fallen about twenty feet when I hit the ground. Mr.
Adams came tumbling after me. We found ourselves in a
dark, foul alley. We were soon at police headquarters.
Glaring at myself in a mirror, I found nearly all the paint
worn off my face and my wig awry. I washed, dressed my
self, and after thanking Mr. Adams, bade him goodbye.
The disturbance in the restaurant, I learned afterwards,
was a squad of police making a raid on the place
A VOYAGE ACIAOSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.
R. H. B.
On the third of Jnly of the year nineteen-hundred, I left
the city of Bremen, Germany, overjoyed to be on the road
to see my family and my native land, after an absence of
four years.
After a tiresome trip by rail, which lasted about four
hours, I arrived at Bremerhaven, where 1 was go aboard to the
steamer, “Kaiserin Maria Theresia”, which is about the
third largest ship of the North German Lloyd line. But the
sea was rough and the giant ship could not enter the harbor;
so that the passengers found themselves forced to board a
small excursion steamer in order to be conducted to the