The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-03

but they ridiculed the tory'of@theip poor
man, chiefly, | thought, because lit was
the yarn Of q Hollarder."
Though | am a Scotchman,' began
Hislop-
And come of a people naturally SUI
perstitious," suggested Weston, paren-
thetically-
LAS all large-braiued races are" re-
torted the mate, while filing 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"
Il was simply about to reiterate that
| don't believe in ghosts, or value
them any more than | do the Yankee
sea serpent, a ropes end. or a piece Of
old junk; I saw one. or. knew a
man who had seen one; but every one
has heard of a man that knew another
man who saw, or believed he saW,-a
ghost. 1t is at variangs, with the laws
Of nature, which are so ordered that
no such erratic spirit can he" -.
Il don't k~now%about ; that; replied
Weston; earth and water ha7s>their
inhabitants, so why not the air also?'
And why not the fire." "
"There you go, right before the wind.
into the troubled sea of argument
you Scotchmen are all alike"
Ghosts are at variance with the
workings Of Divine wisdom, and we all
know what Jones of Maryland says
th%ereupon."
mo, we don't" said Weston: "whc
the deuce was he-what port did he
hail from?' p.
He who cannot see the workings
of a Divine wisdom in the. order Of the
heavens, the change of the seasons, the
flowing Of the tides, the operation OF
the wind and other elements, the struc-
ture Of the human body; INSTRUMENTATION
of the blood, the instincts of beasts
and the growth OF plants, is sottishly
blind and Unworthy the name~of man.
You heair>him, Mr.. Fodney,". said
Weston; now he has got%.both his an
Choir and .topsails a-trip:: he. can pay
out whole speeches in this fashion. al,
at a breath, as fast as the chain-cable
running through the hawse-pipe."
Being fresh from Elton, l was not
going to let our learned Scotch mate
have it all his W way, when Yves
ton resumed: "%~, g..
"If you will listen you shall hear ;
strange story in which bore a prom
inent part.
CAS- the ghost?' said l..
mo; but you will: 500 acknowledge
whether or not l had. cause for fear
And after he had replenished hiE
glass and pipe, Capt. Sam Weston be
gan in.this
about f~ifteen%years & I fount
myself at Matanzas, in Cuba, the sam
port. We are, bound for @noW-adrift
without a ship, and almost. without
penny in my pocket. among foreigners
Spaniards and mulattoes. mestees ant
quadroons, black, white and yellow.
had gone there as second mate Of a shil
from Boston,, but the tyranny Of. on
skipper Wellnigh drove me mad. Dur
ING lilC NOSoSS LIZ ioo hSolly 80
three of our men for being slow il
sending down the top-gallant yards o.
a squally night. He beat them unit
they were black and blue with a hand
spike, and kept them for ~forty-eigh
hours, dashed to ringbolts in the ice
scupppers, that the sea might brea,
over them, as he said, and cure thei
sores.
when I interfered to save a poo
cabin boy, whom he had hung up b,
the heels from the main-boom, and wa
scourging with a heavy colt till hi
back was covered with blood, he pro
duced a bowie knife and revolver
threading to shoot or rip me up
/" d. :Just at hat moment we were pass
ing a Spanish ship of war which wa
at anchofhn,th bay, about half a mil
from us, and had the red and yelloy
Jack of CASTLE and Leon flying at hi
gaff peak. One of the poor fellows VIII
had been so severely beaten was the,
in the foretop, so I hailed him to max
a signal of distress to the Spaniard.
(To be continued.)
FAMOUS EUCkSPORT CAPTAIN