Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-12-11

perform apparently from = notebook
-whereupon q hurried and agitatsd
hand had penciled this brief notice:
The Mary, clipper ship, Of Boston,
10th Nov, 1851, momentarily expected
to go down-pumps worn out, and the
leaks gaining Captain and first mate,
with all the boats. washed away-God
help usv'
'The goth OF November? II WAS on
that night we encountered the heavy
gale" said Weston.
We had been on the skirt OF the tenn
pest. as Hislop maintained while the
Yankee ship had probably suffered all
the fury OF it, From the main-cross-
trees Capt Weston swept the sea with
his telescope. in vain, for any trace Of
her; so il that melancholy scrap OF pa
per told truth, all WAS doubtless over
long since with the Mary and her crew.
In the cabin that night converse
ton on the probabilities of her de-
struction or escape led to a recurrence
to the miraculous manner in which the
unlucky Dutch schooner had noated so
long with me; and mentioned to Wes-
ton and Hislop the additional terrors
] had endured by the effect of magma
tim, and a recollection Of the strange
incidents told me by Capt. Zeervogel;
but they ridiculed the story Of the poor
man, chiefly, | thought. because ut was
the yarn of Hollander."
Though l am Scotchman," began
Hislop-
And come OF people naturally SUI
perstitious," suggested Weston, paren-
thetically-- ~
"As all large-brained races are," re-
torted the mate, while filling his clay
pipe with tobacco.
We'll, what were you about to say?"
asked Weston. But first fill your glass
and pass over the tobacco bag"
II was simply about to reiterate that
/ don't believe in ghosts, or value
them any more than l do the Yankee
sea serpent, ropes end, or piece of
old junk; | never saw one, or knew
man who had seen one; but every one
has heard of a man that knew another
ghost. 1t is at variance with the laws
Of nature, which are SO ordered that
no such erratic spirit can be-"
IT don't know about that" replied
Weston; earth and water have their
inhabitants, so why not the air also?"
And why not the FREE"
There you go, right before the wind,
into the troubled sea of argument
you Scotchmen are all alike"
II, xxskr
workings OF Divine wisdom, and we all
know what Jones of Nayland says
thereupon."
mo, we don't" said Weston; who
the deuce was he-what port did he
hail from"
HE who cannot see the workings
Of Divine wisdom In the order Of the
flowing of the tides, the operation of
the wind and other elements, the struc-
ture of the human body, the circulation
Of the blood, the instincts of beasts,
and the growth OF plants, is sottishly
blind and unworthy the name Of man."
you hear him, Mr.. Rodney" said
Weston; now he has got both his an
Choir and topsails a-trip; he can pay
put whole speeches in this fashion, all
At breath, as fast as the chain-cable
through the hawse-pipe."
Being fresh from Elton, I WAS not
going to let our learned Scotch mate
nave it all his own way, when Wes-
ON resumed:
IF you will listen you shall hear a
strange story in which 1 bore prom
nent part"
'As the ghost?" said j.
mo; but you will soon acknowledge
whether or not I had cause for fear"
And after he had replenished his
lass and pipe, Capt Sam Weston be-
IAN in this manner:
About fifteen years ago I found
myself at Matanzas, in Cuba, the same ,,
'ort we are bound for now--adrift,
Without = ship, and almost without a
emmy in my pocket, among foreigners,
paniards and mulattoes, mestees and
uadroons, black, white and yellow. ..
ad gone there as second mate of . ship .
rom Boston, but the tyranny of our !
kipper wellnigh drove me mad. Dur
az the voyage he had nearly killed
hree of our men for being slow In :
ending down the top-gallant yards on !
sQually night He beat them until =
hey were black and blue with a hand ,
pike. and kept them for forty-eight .
ours. dashed to ringbolts In the ice !.
,uoppers. that the sea might break
yer them. as he said. and cure their r.
,res 4,