The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-17
ows, ever replacing one another on &C., count of the climate.-Nfneteenth Gen. turv
THAT TWISTED GULF STREAM.

It, Tells of His Experience.
 Tt was an Ancient Mariner,
 And he stoppeth one of three
 By thy long gray beard and glitterint
 eye,
 Now wherefore stoppeth thou mel
 Captain Jonathan Glibton, of the bari
 Moonshine, just returned day before
 yesterday from trip to the West In
 dies, is one of the Gulf captains who
 brought to New Orleans the wonderful
 stories of things happening in the Gulf in which all the ordinary laws of tides and winds and specific gravity seemed to have been treated with contempt and
 to have been played and fooled with as l boy plays and fools with a young hornless goat. Before these stories were published in the newspapers Cap tain Glibton like an amiable and up- to-date ancient mariner, stopped every one he saw-so long as he could see, for
 the double barrelled storm had given
 him a cold and he was taking Scotch
 whiskey for tito tell about his most remarkable experiences with the erring Gulf stream, the truant winds and the agile waves; but yesterday he was the pursued. Everybody who had read the morning paper wanted to know more about these strange tricks of nature and in fact, some of the friends of Cap- tain Glibton were skeptical.
 The following about the disturbances had appeared in the morning papers:
 Marvellous stories are told about dis ttY,,1 +, Al~ "..1n sells report that nature seems to be turned upside down. The Gulf Stream which has for centuries been flowing in a certain direction, turned around and went the other way, and the waves, in- stead of beating on the shore, receded from it and met together in the middle of the gulf and formed a large bunch of water"
 Captain Glibton was very much dis turbed and indignant because his asser- tions had been treated with the slight est trace of doubt When seen yester- day he was in the marble hall of the custom house, having just transacted some business at one of the windows. The eyes of the captain were flashing, he was breathing hard, and, like a thunder god, he was replying to the nagging questions put to him by num- Der of doubtng Thomases.
 Now, captain" said one gentleman. do you really mean to say that the waves did not beat upon the shore, but receded and formed a big bunch of wa ter in the middle of the gulf?"
 Yes, sir" roared the captain, "by nf ,,to t& That was not the most remarkable part of my experience. Not at all. Why sir, l have been in the Indian ocean in that whirl and disturbance of a typhoon and have seen waves piled one on top of another like sardines-forty feet high, sir"
 But how could the Gulf Stream pos siby turn around and go in another di- rection?"
 Why? Why? Why?" stormed the "how do know? I don't run the Gulf Stream. tell you my experi- ence, that is all"
 Now captain, I don't mean to of fend,' exclaimed his questioner in a notifying tone; "only I would like to hear your experience in full Certain ly, there are at all times in the world wonderful things that we cannot under stand, and 1t is far from me to question your integrity just because you have come across something a little outside of the usual course"
 Yes, tell us your experience" chimed the chorus of voices.
 "Wedd gentlemen replied the cap oiy i, 1ar tCi, haI asked me in this polite way I will ac- ,ede to your request, though my recital will be short and concise. Last Tues lay night the Moonshine was just about the Gulf. There was gentle breeze, and we were gliding along un- Ter full sail. Suddenly a sweeping storm came down upon us. We reefed quickly and only dipped a, few seas. In l short while however, the storm passed away, and we had already begun 0 set more sail, when suddenly we saw he same storm coming back again, blowing a cloud of mist before it. Again we reefed, and again we careened lnti my sailors looked like flies walk ng on wall, Now, no sooner had the torn left us a second time when my irst mate yelled to me:
 "'Whats the matter with the Gulf l stream captain?'
 T did not have time to answer him, ecause I was thrown flat on the deck. | All my sailors were lying down, and all l were praying to beat the band. The | foonshine was whirling round and ound, like top. Gentlemen, the fluff Stream had deliberately turned round. and we heard it going away in he opposite direction, muttering loudly 9 itself. In a little while our rotary notion ceased, and we were about to roceed on our way again, although my len were very much frightened. Sud- enly, however, we began to so Q hun red miles an hour toward the center of ne Gulf I discovered that the going eolivity in the Gulf, and. that we were
 ding down this declivity just as fast 5 we could go. The chattering of our ,eth sounded like castanets. When we cached the center of the Gulf we saw 8 g bunch of water made by the piling D of the waves. By this time our mo- on had moderated, and we were able steer around 1t as if it had been a Naturally, with the leaving the Gulf Stream the waves would lsh to center, so this pile of water was ally nothing very remarkable, al- lough my statement with reference to