The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-01
In . Ferryboat Pilot House.

shall stop you a moment and ask you to step on the upper deck of New
 York ferryboat. You must not expect
 me to ask you into the pilot-house. as.
 unless you have a pilots license. the law forbids 1t. and If we should have a collision the court may think that you
 "rattled" the pilot, and muict our boat | in damages. Now look around and see the everyday life of the lower Hudson. There to the southward you will see an fpcean tramp threading his way along. fAstern are steam lighter and tug with a car afioat In tow. while couple more tugs are hunting around for jobs. like beagles searching for trail. The giant Campania Is backing out of her berth, her monster stacks witnessing the industry of her stokers, who are | now beginning to shovel coal to again lower the eastbound record. A Sound | steamer Is making her pier further down, while one of the steamboats bound for Coney Island is rushing | down stream and an excursion tow Is heading slowly for Glen Island. In be- tween them all, steadily and surely, a dozen ferryboats are carrying their hu- man freight to the daily work of the great metropolis. All this is crowded | self Is moving to or from the sea at two and half miles an hour.
 Now think of the problem set to the ferryman. He must carry, in safety, across this crowded harbor, with Its rapid and changing currents, a large portion of the business population of one of the worlds great centers of bus mess. It is estimated that the yearly passenger trips between New Jersey and New York number 70,000,000; that the total for all New York ferries will exceed 10000, ,000; that the number of boat trips equals 1,S00, ,000. and the num- Der of teams carried 5,O0O,00o All this immense traffic is carried on with re- markable safety. The lamentable ac- cident to a Staten Island ferryboat, some twenty years ago, and single collision afford the only cases of death from accident on record among North river ferry passengers. There have been other cases of death, but they are such as are not directly connected with the risks of the business, such as fall ing down companionways, being run over by teams, etc.-Cassier's Maga- zine.
 The Indians Belief in Mag ic.
 Very reluctantly do cilized Indians give up their ideas of magic. The idea sof wor-shipping growing objects is quite settled one among the tribes. and some Of the stories which connect corn and flowers with beneficent de- tiles are very pleasing and attrac- tive. Animal too, are spoken of in a very singular and superstitious manner, and the dfferents sizes of beats which are hunted IS accounted for in story of the creation which is even more realistic and practical then the one This story, which is frequently repeat ed with variations, is that at the time of the creation all the beasts of the for rial, and one after another was being ests ests clamored for priority in size. Mach was vain-glorious and dictate humbled by being made smaller than a hated enemy, the idea being that everything human and otherwise that was born had a prior existence. and came into the world with the benefit of experience thus derived. The doc Urine of the transmigration of souls Is so general among Indians of various tribes that there was nothing at al peculiar about this, and it is very probable that some of the early writers on this subject got their ideas from ex-
 ceptionally intelligent exponents of Indian Buddhism, or something very similar to it-St. Louis Globe-Demo- crat.