The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21
AMarfne Wandering Jew !


place OF sail on the ocean I doubt if
the sailors yarn is what it was hfty
years ago, when the Black BAH line OF
clipper ships sped between the occident
and the orient. In my younger days-
I was but a lad-I sailed before the
mast in the Dreadnaught. Among our
crew was Seth Hawkins. an OLD salt
of forty. We considered him MENU
seIah, tall, thin man with profusion
of little red curls. he was very reii-
Eious, Observing all the commandments
scrupulously except the NINTH Thou
shalt not bear false witness" and IN
this he sinned only IN spinning yarns
which he always vowed were real hap
nenings. One starlight night On the
forecastIe while we were loungng
about the Gapstan he gave us the FOL
lowing:
you've all heard a lot about Judas
Iscariot. who was cursed with havin'
to live forever and wanderin' all over
the world. at one time bein' seen IN
Egypt, another in France, ana so on
always Ieavin' a trail Of misfortune IN
his wake. But don't believe any OF
you has ever hearn about his sat!in the
seas. There's no sense this, for now
could he have got to America. where
he's turned up often, unless he crossed
an ocean? Leastawsys I've seen hin
myself, and on the water too.
II first shipped on the Mark Matthews
on a voyage around the Horn to take IN
hides on the west coast of South Amer
len. We was Iayin' in the doiarums
one evenin' Just before four bells.
thick fog was all about US, and we
corldn't see n cables length All OIL
suddent heered bell. 1t struck four
+irnas Az soon as it stopped our bell
,,+,,,,,,,- 80 ,T,I,on tho foe, thfnned a lit
~ 81 ,,,s+ about half the ships
-, - -, 80, tho of11est Iookin'
III itOu- - - -, -, she ,vos
cra1t ever ci"Ppeu eSe9 =, o.
awful hign IN tne pup NV M.
waist and had head on ger DOW IKE
that of a sea sarpent. She had tw"
pnasts like q schooner, and the sails
,,-os hing IN ,em like they put 'em on
Cy1,,raso Irnl-a Of course they hung
80 ~. -
hInp lAe ouLn. ~, -, 60. 5,,7r,t
She was heau-on' "nu 'A-S -N9 -
let us see aoatt Gne loin1 sHe
forecastle stood the hgur OF an olu ll"t'
I couldn't tell you how old he looked
but there was somethIn' about him
+bot reminded me of a people long
r..sad ovnv He was u Jew and the
E -. iooI,,,,, Tav ever see. He
. 80 =, o1oox that looked
was wrapped IL mn, .I,,,I,,l,,
like a monks trock' me ',,
way he stared out o thein pilnAes
his'n was enough to send a cur yelpll
to his kennel. They was like the eyes
OF n sick man as hadn't slept durin'
+tousand vear voyage. There wasn't
a hit o. color IN his cheeks unless you
cal the Ieathery look o. the hides We've
Srr+ LeIov, color. and 1t seemed as IL 1
Gould see right through his CHASTITY lips
e., +Le fov tooth that was left in his
~ -. To bodr,+ any hat on. and
y J-.H.T,,+ noor onouph to see lust what
- i,otr ,ros mo except that he had
,t.ToI,+y IIttIa Brt somethir' was
---I,oyT,,, on Lis skuIl that looked like
.l,o-1ns whether Il was worms or
80. cor,Jn't Geo INT It must "a been
vorms for there wasn't the ghost OF a
49,, Mot.' ~ move even the finest hairs.
r. stoo6 tboro IooJZIn' Mt us without
ne e S ,Hto.0s ru =. +I,eT, nelsncholv ewes
al a, 49, 80 ~, o1,Iv motion he made
nS .-.'.S, h,s s,sInTv hands. pourln'
49,. sJIvor cr,Ds from one hand to
sio E,o.S, 49,. oncet in awhile he'd
800 .. - to +hrow the silver away,
LIZ tIr,A he conidnSt and eyery time he tried
un5 Fo'IoJ HE coce wouId take on an
III li'I..a AS,-' - o-'rS,,I ,emorae
..Tb,Io 10. IooIr,nS at him the two
-. 20 .o aIr,-S,I,, driftln' apart that
snIps V'"S ~ 10 ~, Inove 1The other
noSSy ,, c ooft,n, IN our stern. The
G, N T%S 60, .,-a. ,aoyin, about never
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