The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-10
THE BAD JOSS.
It Frightened Captain Robert Glegg' S
 Sailormen.

Sailormen.
 Because Captain Robert Glegg of the British steamship Montrose would not cast to the fishes work of Japa- nese art which his Chinese crew thought was an evil joss, the Montrose was compelled on her way here from Yokohama to ship at Hongkong an entirely new crew, even to the serang.
 She got to Bush's Stores yesterday with the joss still on board, but there will be a feeling of relief when the thing is brought ashore, for the new crew became aware of its presence and though they did not mutiny they made many fruitless appeals to the captain to throw the joss overheard.
 The ''evil oneo is the stuffed body of an Eastern fish to which is deftly at tached a head shaped somewhat like that of man. but the expression on the papier mache face is one that would drive the most confirmed bacc- hanal to the water wagon. The fish is mounted on a lockwood base and when the Montrose sailed from Yoho- hama on August 23 occupied a con spicuous place in the room where the officers messed, There the chinese cabin boy spied it and it wasn't long before the news had spread to the forecastle,
 One by one the entire crew stole aft, peeped through the cabin port holes and ran forward.
 The second day out Wah Ling, the serang, went to the captain and told him that there was much disturbance among the crew.
 "They no like the joss you got here; they want him overboad,' said Wah. But the captain only smiled
 It wasn't long after that that the chief engineer found something wrong in the freroon, The pressure in the boilers was so low that the screw would scarcely revolve.
 The firemen were deaf to commands and threats. They would not work. They were not defiant. They huddled together trembling with wear when ever one of the officers went near them.
 "They no can work-It is the bad joss that keeps them from duty said the serang.
 But they must work, said the cap tain How am I to get the ship to D lrt2"
 You throw joss overheard they go back to work, said Wah but the cap tain stood his ground.
 If it had not been for the rising of a gale there is no telling what might have happened, Under the fear of wreck the men kept the fires going but the captain saw that there would be no use in trying to get to America with the crew and the joss. He wouldn't throw the joss away because he didn't propose to be dictated to by a Ut of yellow heather, as he describ- ed the men. So at Hongkong he paid the men off and as soon as they could get over the side they left the ship, There was no trouble getting a nwe little careful not to let them know 1 crew, though the captain had to be a why the others had left, and the joss was slowed in vacant cabin. Two days after arriving at Hongkong the Montrose was again on her way to New York, She hit a typho0n six hours after she got away, but managed to weather it without dam age After that the days passed un- evenetfully until three weeks ago. when in some way the presence aboard of the evil joss got noised about for ward. The new crew made repres- tentations. They knew that some terrible thing would happen to the ship. Again the captain refused to be guided by oriental superstition. He had only few thousand miles tJ go and he would land that fish in New i York at all costs.
 The crew did not mutiny, but they