POLITE BARGEES.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 44, 2 December 1913, Page 1

POLITE BARGEES.

STRUGGLE AGAINST SWEARINC. Down by the banks of llio KimSwale, winch runs by Sit liiigboiii no u> the Medway, there i"s a little band of bargemen who, thanks to the "Bargemen's Bishop," otherwise Key. A. I'arry-Evans, viear of Sitiingbuiirue, became imbued about .July last with rho desire to demonstrate to the world the fact Unit it was a gross libel "to talk of bargees as men who habitually used the worst kind of unprintable language -states' 'The Daily .vi.iil' of a recent date). They formed tlie Hrn. therhood," and one of the eunditi..:;.-; of membership was that each man should try all he know not to use bad language. The membership grew rapidly, and branehes were iormed to e: V e gardoin parties and converts. It must be admit led that the imm had a vcrv hard time ol it at firs!. One of them told a 'Dally Mad' icprcsenlative. what happened under the new n•lime. He is the mate of the barge |i... Linda, ami tike conversation look place on the odoriferous banks of a muddy creek which runs down in Ihe Swab. The mate was unloading sacks of coal, and in sfyite of the fact that the ship's cat was continually getting between ids legs, he accoinnlished his task without uttoriiiu; a single bad word.

Speaking a Naw Language. "Yes." ho Siiid, as .'ho lit his pipo whet* the. last sack had been dumped' on tin* wharf, "it did mine wry 'aid at iirst. It was like 'aviii' to speak ;i now 'language :i!J > I' a siiddi'ii, am! there. was some shookin' mistakes made. It was very I'uiiiiy '■(inii'tiiiH's, though. My skipper, \> his a terrible temper, and when 'e tried In say wot 'e ihutteht o' the oat when she upset is hivaktasfc on 'is stitore-goiu' suil, we tnought ho was goin' to 'avo a. lit. Nearly hurst a bloodvessel, V did. "I 'ad a 'ard time ei' ii ineseli. t. o, and more'il onee I 'ad to give the hoy ;i flood 'iding to relieve my leelin's. Sometimes down 'ore you'd see three or i'm:r men stiunpin' around and waving their lists in the iiir. They simply didn't <lare to open their mouths f;.r i'ear of savin' somelhin' ihey ought not. They hive to do all manner of things to keen themsx'ives from bivakin' out like they listed to. Some ot' them tries to W islie, but most ,:f them finds it's a good tiling to put something in their mouths, not, solid things, you know. '<au>v iliey might swallow them. "Yes, it's made a -real diiletvneo down 'ere. You see, it isn't only that we mustn't, use had language, hut we've got to lie very polite as well. Some of tho chaps, be'aves like deoks. You wouldn't know Cap'n Jaeobs if you could soil 'im doubling 'isself 1:1 two 'iindin' round cakes at our garden partics at the vicinage, and the Hhans get lift in' their 'ats and bowin' and seraph; 1 to each other's missis, bo's you'd think they wanted to borrow & frying-pan gy something. The N#w MMwfcer.

"New members:- Yes, they're Avufk (;oihiiig in. My young joined last .week. That's Mm, over there. Looks as though ,'o'd shallowed » wabj>. doesn't 'c?" The man nulieated was certainly giving all the outward signs-of heing in, intense agony. Suddenly he spun round and ran hard in the direction of a riverside public-house. "It's tiettin' too iniieli lor 'tin. explained his brother. "He's going to nut something in his mouth. .It s the only wfiy. Think I'll g<> aml « H> ,low getting along. Thank you, sir;-''