Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 56, Number 13, Jasper, Dubois County, 16 January 1914 — Page 7

A IWbfffl Til m IDififcfaiif

4 t

HAN TOMS of the deep strange shapes that come in the darkness on mis sions of terror and death these are among th visions that haunt the brain of every old sailor man. It is when the few remaining sailing vessels come into por; from their long voyages that thes

tales are usually forthcoming. The bark Annie M. Reid of New York is the last vessel to bring in a tale of mystrry. svV wro standing by the mizzen topsail halliards when the shackle broke and the yards crashei down," said the sailor who cold the story. "We came tip into tho m ind and hove to. and it was at that moment that we saw the strange tradrr at least Vi thought it was a trader, probably to tii. Western island: . off which we w re. We signaled for help, for we did not know how We were coming out of the squall. The strange steamshipa tramp we took her to be was not more than an eighth of a mile away, but she made no reply whatever and kept right on her course. If there had been anybody alive os th. t-amp he certainly would have seen us, as there was no fog to interfere There are only two things to think of, either every soul on board was doad or we had seen one of those phantom ships they tell about. It

couldn't have been a warning of death, however, for we came out of It all right. ,f A ship that sails by in the moon'ight and does not answer when spoken, nor show any light or sign of life on board, is an even stranger apparition of the deep than those manv phaut ;m vessel which havo loomed upon the sight of sailor men from out tho fog or :arkness. The crow of

the Hengist, out of Liverpool, Captain Thearston of Liverpool in command, once saw such a spector. ('apt. J. C. Norton, who was first officer of the bark Hengist, when the phantom ship passed her by, tells the story of the weird vision: "It was In the Indian ocean that we saw her the strange ship that 1 have never forgotten." said Captain Norton. "We were out of Calcutta, bound for New York, and although there was a haze the moon shone and the hazo was so light that we could see perfectly well across the water. The haze was just enough to make a nice, pretty silvery veil that made everything look sort of mysterious and interesting without closing us In at all. Thor. were no lights on the vessel and we couldn't see a soul on board. W spoke to her, but she dldnt answer. She passed right under our stern about a biscuit's toss away, and we thought she was going o foul us. She was so near that we could feel the wind of her sails as she passed, bnt not a sign did she make to all our signaling just sailed away into W ä U v ...11 1 A. T a

Vv V M I

nnnnnnnnnr

HAPPENINGS INDIANA

had run down a ship in a fog. The ship had gone down with all on board before anything could be done to save thom. and this man had seen the last of her crew leaning over the side and cursing at him horribly, just before he was sucked into the water. " 'He promised to find me out and to do for me wherever i should go,' said the shuddering wretch, 'and he'll do it, too. I look for him every night and I know he'll get me before long.' "I warned him to keep 4uiet about his fears and not mention his story to Captain Stebbins nor to any of the crew, for as luck would have it, with such a captain, we had on board about as superstitious a lot as I have ever

Xew York and Liverpool, that a specter appeared with such persistency that for a long time, until the vision vanished forever, no member of the crew ever consented to make a second voyage. The Nottebohm was one of the old Liverpool packet ships, which carried steerage passengers as well as freight. During one of her previous voyages the captain and several of her crew had had a terrific struggle, in the course of which the captain had been so injured that he had died as a result of his wounds. No matter what the skeptical might say, crew after crow which shipped o,n tho Marianne Nottebohm after this tragedy left the vessel at the end of the

seen. Italians most of them, and so ! voyage swearing that every night o

bound to tell their stories of apparitions that the captain had already caught one of them at it and had him Hogged as an example to the others. "My man didn't look any more contented as the days passed and I caught him more than once whispering with some of the Italians. I asked him what they were talking about and at first he mumbled that it was nothing, but at last he admitted that the sailors had several of them seen strange sights during the night watch. They all decided that again and again they had seen a figure with wildly waving arms appear from the dark ness. The man was always cursing horribly, but he was gone in a second and they could not tell exactly what he said. "I tried to comfort Gould with the

lue mat since me man naa not appeared to him there was no reason

v -,mS1u. CA(, ua we , peared to him there was no reason had a terrible gale, one of the worst j that he should regard the apparition that I renember whilo I was at sea. as that of the man he had run down and everybody though the phantom 1 but he would not let this ease his

iu com to give warning. ay j mind in the slightest. It was just mmW Mtm. arm m, aal Jm mm mm L. , A9 Was!

r Miuuiu nave oeen ravoroa I don't j the night after our conversation wh

uui, or course, tnere is always ! he

know

a reason why those ships are seen by one vessel and not by others. Sometimes they mean harm for everybody on board, and sometimes they come idmpTy to give a friendly warning. There was one man on board who believed that our phantom ship came to wnrn us of the gale because her captain had boon a friend of our own raptain and when his ship went down with all on board he continued to haunt the soa. Naturallj as he felt Meatfly, he would show himself or his ship before a sorm. I can t amy I believed all that myself. All that I know was that the phantom ship did CI M just as I've described it." One of the most thril'iu: tales of the fateful appearance of phantom ships is told by a retired first mate, who in his youth sailed under ('apt. John Stebbins on the steel tramp Marietta. lound from Madeira to Brazil. "Captain Stobbtns was a bluff, di rect. matter-of-fact person." said tho mate, 'and he had little tolerance for what h declared was merely superstition, so the crew were not apt to speak over loud of their supernatural experiences. That thev had thorn, how vor. was sure enough, and as I

wm i bit more approachable than most men in my position, they were Ten VOW to tell their stories to nu "There was one fellow among them Wed Could, whom I could not help watching because of the strained and almost hunted look on his face. I mad- frirnds with him on purpose to get at the reason for his qaeer look and one day when I caught him white and shuddering on the forward deck I got N out of him. "It seemed that a couple of year.? tofore he had oeen on the bridge of a passenger vessel running bot ween Kings on and New York when they

en of

was on watch that the ellmn-r

the thing came. "I heard a terrific scream from tho

bridge, and so did everybody else on board. I was the first up there, but the poor fellow, who was whiter than any human being I have ever seen, could not tell me what had happened before Captain Stebbins had run up on the bridge and was shaking him. declaring that he had a relapse of the fever, which we all knew he had suffered after coming off the voyage when he had run down a vessel. "The fellow had been too much startled, however, this time to be managed even by Captain Stebbins. 44 'I did see him.' he declared, 'and he was cursing and waving his arms at DM just as he did when he went down. The ship came up Just like it did before out of the fog. There it was all of a sudden a groat gray thing, and there was he waving his arms and screaming curses at me. And then we kept right on. running straicht through the ship. "That was all of It, and so far as I know he never saw the apparition again and he had no more hard times than fall to the lot of most sailors Hut here was the remarkable part of the thing. If he had been thf only one to know that anything stratihad happened, then you night think It just the figment of a brain overwrought with fever. Hut it wasn't

spectral figure appeared from the pilot house and wandered over the

vessel, seeking everywhere apparently for something or somebody. There was a terrific storm one night and the apparition was for once in a way pretty well forgotten In the more pressing perils of the moment The night was very black and no one felt any too secure as they slipped on through the darkness. Suddenly they felt the ship come about so swiftly that they knew something strange must have happened. "Unusual as it was," said Capt. F. C. Norton, who tells the story, "we could not stop to find out about It that night, for every man was too hot on his own part of the work to pay much attention to any other's. "After everything was all over and we could take time to talk about it the next day the helmsman told us that a spectral figure he had at first thought to be the captain had stood beside him, showing him how to lay his course. It was not until the

helmsman had handled a charm his daughter had given him that he discovered his visitor was a spirit. The power of the wraith was broken at that and the helmsman put about just

In time to avoid an uncharted reef the spectre had evidently been guiding him onto. "Hut the Swede and his Italian mate must have seen something of the vision that night, also, for in the morning they looked like dying men and they could not be persuaded to ship again for the next voyage. Afterward we heard that they had been members of the crew which attacked the former captain of the Marianne. No doubt the murdered captain came back looking for some of ris old assailants and when he found them sought to drive the vessel on the reef."

An Old Man Wearing Army Button Shines Shoes WASHINGTON. Have you seen him? And did you have to swallow a lump? WW Maybe you have missed him, so far, for he doesn't stay put. His business requires circulation. And. besides, you can't stay still in November

when you have no overcoat. You've just naturally got to keep going. Yesterday he was down by the soldiers' monument an army button on his coat and a shoe brush in his hand waiting and waiting until Providence came by in the shape of a man with one of those loud, cheery voices that God gives to many men, but which only Dickens could describe. "Why, bless my soul! Where did you get that old kit? Give me a shine." He put a foot on the small shoe-shine box. Remember when the kiddies used to shine 'era up on the streets? Gee, its a long time back! And the other man creaked his joints into a crouci and proceeded to put on a polish.

To a woman who had happened along it did not seem probable that a customer wearing as good clothes as a tailor can make would really enjoy having his shoes smeared over with blacking that you can bet your life wasn't Day & Martin's, or that he wanted them scratched up With a cheap brush by a wavering hand. Stilf, you can't always rely on the sex supposings of a spinster soul whose only knowledge of man has been of the mail note the spelling, please mail correspondence variety. Anyhow, whatever nis reason, the man put one foot and then the other on the box and told the other man about how he used to be a bootblack before the shoeshine kiddies vanished with the coming of the asphalt. Atid did it pay? And wouldn't it be better to get something more profitable and sheltered from the weather a watchman's place, for instance? Anv man who had fonsrht for

a flag ought to be fit to guard a store. The woman had to leave them there, so that she can never know how the job turned out. but If you don't come across an old man with a gone-by shoe box on his back, waiting around for a chance to shine 'em up, you may know that he's got a job as a watchman.

Congressman Finds His Boyhood's Wish Fulfilled

n EPRESEXTATIYE CLAUDE WEAVER of Oklahoma finds in his coming IV to congress the fulfillment of a wish expressed ever since he was nine years old. At that age he began his dairy with the statement that he was hours on his hands, decided to go out in the

suburbs and rehearse his oration. Ho selected a secluded spot on the road along which ran a long, high brick wall, with a gate at the end. Weaver did not know it, but this was the state lunatic asylum. Up and down the road he paced, talking most vehemently, gesticulating wildly to an imaginary determined to be one of the nation's representatives. And ever since then he has worked with this object in view. Wearer settled in Oklahoma when there were few white people living there. Hut in one of his trips in Texas, to deliver a political speech, he had an adventure which seemed at the time much more serious than it does now. He reached the town to which he was billed and. as he had a few

audience, shaking his head and pounding one hand upon the other who passed shook their heads sadly.

Presently, as he neared the great iron gate, four uniformed men rushed out, grabbed him by the arms and legs and carried him, kicking and fighting inside the grounds. Weaver, choking with rage, demanded an explanation of such an outrage. "Aw. g'wan!" chortled one of the brawny guards, setting Weaver on his feet with a jerk. -What you handing us-we ?;nows you is one of them bugs outen ward C. ..r Un,ati,C,!- yelled Weaver who now saw into what spot he had landed. Lunatic? Why, I am a politician and expect to go to congress!" "Well," drawled the guard, with a grin, "I don't know but what you've got to just the same kind of place now!"

(oyner. has held will be

(Another

People

Senator Went to Capitol Only Half Dressed

(COLLAR

Cecil Rhodes's Eggs. Cecil Rhodes used to take a coop of hens on board to provide fresh eggs on his numerous voyages between England and South Africa. Rut those were threo weeks' journeys, and not a mere five-day crossing of the Atlantic Hence another prominent South African personnel was asked why he did not follow Rhodes' example and provide himself with the luxury of newlaid eggs at sea. "Oh. I don't bother to take a coop of fowls nn

hoard.

's s eges.

he replied, "hut T

. - v H cue

, . . . " " " 'wn.'' a ir IV II OOPS ? flfin-i Oil'.' I üronni tUnt V, 1 a. . - lit IIS.

iiiaL uiougni caprain and I get Rhodes

mv ni running to nis side. Just at I

Had Right to Select Place. "Hobby, my son' exclaimed the dismayed mother as she saw al' her boy's belonging! sticked in a corner of the closet, -haven't I tried over and over ! to tearh you that you should have a

Bitte for everything" "Yes. mother" said the boy cheerfullv -nnri t?.. i-

. - j t . . . - i3 between j the place."

me nmo when he saw the phantom hip and as our own vessel went through it, every man on board fe't a peculiar sensation. It was something like an earthquake and semethink: like the shock that mtgfel come from runnint: a vessel down." Tt was on board the Marienne ot-

leooam. a ireighter sailing

GLOW WORMS ANESTHETICS

IWore he begins to feast the low orm administers an anesthetic writ. ig Hnri Fahre in tfefl (Vntury He , nloTCfbm his victim, rivaling

Mi n

long, drv

r'ltll

serves. He frequents the edges of the Irrigating ditches, with their rool nil

- "

ineir varied

inirg.

'nsible

process the wonders of n !. rn v. which render the patient In-

before the surtcon or r:L

him. ine usual game is a unv n

nail, hardly the fz of a ehern, which In hot weather collects i::

cr. the stiff stuhLle and other

'IT arie1 VPPffnt nn

ZZTr wwwmw, in prorourui tne game on th

w..i,.,. mrougnout the scorching these conditions

Milium r qayg. it 1 m some curl, rt

m wava i Ol

mg place as this that I have often been privileged to ngUt upon the lampjrrla banqueting on the prey Mch he had just paralyzed on Its tbalcy support by his Ittrgic artifle,s T-k .

ur no is familiar uith

a favorite

Here he treats

cround and. under

It Is easv for m& tn

tf him at home and to follow the

.'-idiors performance down smallest detail.

to the

You Mav Go

Don't trust the fellow whn

borrow money for breakfast with th other pri promise of taking you out to dinner.

T UEY are tellmS this story on John R. Thornton, senator from Louisiana: Thornton arose absent-mindedly, dressed himself fully, he thought and went into the dining room of his hotel for breakfast. Tb.e head waiter

grinned at him a bit, but the senator, who was in a hurry, failed to notice it. He just caught a street car bound for the capitol and plumped himself between Postmaster General Burleson and Edward Keating, representative from Colorado. "See you're dressed for hot weather," commented the postmaster. Senator Thornton, attired in white linen, nodded his head complacently. "Yes," he said; "we of the south learn to do that." And he wondered why his hearers smiled in an embarrassed manner. When he reached the senate office building the elevator man said:

"Good morning, senator. I see you're prepared

This rather puzzled Senator Thornton, for he always wears linen in summer. The explanation of it all came when his son Gordon, who is also his secretary, saw him. "Say, father," he yelled as Senator Thornton entered his office. "What

on earth did you do with your collar?" Thornton grabbed at his neck wildly. He had on neither collar nor tie. He hustled his son back on the hotel for the necessary articles of raiment and then sat down and wrote apologies to both the postmaster and Mr. Keating, telling them that he hadn't intentionally gone downtown in the street car with them half dressed; it was only an oversight. "I intend to talk to that waiter in the hotel," he moaned, sadly. "Why didn't he teh me I was only half dressed?"

Representative Slemp Finds an Agent of Cupid

REPRESENTATIVE BASCOM SLEMP of Virginia was until recently a bachelor. A few years ago, however, when he was "heart whole and fancy free." he was speaking to a large assembly at a political gathering. The audi

ence was full of handsome women and pretty girls who were, of course, much interested in the tariff when it is explained by a young bachelor who lived in official Washington. Slemp got along famously, carrying with him the sympathy of the crowd. Hut at last a fellow in a back seat rose to make a statement. "I like Slemp." he roared. "Slemp's all right. The enly thing I have agin him is that he is not married. Now, I propose to this honorable gathering that we refuse to vote for him unless he promises to git married." Slemp was equal to the occasion. "I acknowledge my desolate state." he exclaimed, "yet it is not iry fault, but that of the fair ones who will not have me. If there is any one among the many lovely ladies in this audience who will

accept my heart and hand. I am only too willing to be ltd to the altar." The man jumped to his feet again excitedly. No. you don't," he exclaimed. "You 11 have to go to foreign parts to git your bride all the girls arouud here have got too much sense to take you!"

fYAulL CO TO 1

FÖKEICM PARTS TO

Shirley. Samuel Hadley eommitt! suicide by shooting himself

Kendal I vine. D. A. G. board of health secretary the office for 23 yars Springport. An election

held here soon to determine th qu

tion of incorporating as a town Nashville. Brown county Democrats will hold their primary to name a county ticket January 24. Evansville.Mr. and Mrs Anthony Schu have celebrated their golden 'iding anniversary. Bedford. A committee has been named to draf: a constitution and b -

law for the Lawrence fount y Historical association. Bedford Lero' St'ns has sued the Ohio & Western Lime compan for $10.000, alleging injuries while in its employ. Terre Haute. Oswald DeRossy. a Porto Riean student at a veterinary college, homesick, shot and kill- l himself in his room here. Waynetown. Walter Harvey has suer the T. H.. L & E. Traction company for $10.000. alleging injuries when run down by a car last summer Petersburg Hurley Cleman. twenty years old. who has disappeare.l

from his home here, is said to have passed a number of worthless checks. Nashville. -James M. Moore, sixt eight years old. iin jail on complaint of his wife, who says he attempted to shoot her. Cromwell. James Burwell, Jr . has filed suit for $10.00) for injuries sustained when he was run down by at. auto driven by Albert Addis. Evansville First District Progressives will hold their convention here January 20. Charles Finley Smith will probably be re-elected chairman. Petersburg Pike county commissioners have elected Will ( hew road superintendent; Dr. E. Bell of Wins low. health board secretary, and S W Dillin. attorney. Sullivan. Numerous robberies have caused the employment of a nUht pa trolman. Merchants have been ordere! to maintain a light in the rear of their stores. Evansville. Friends of William Wilson, serving a penitentiary term for shooting William Walters of Paducab. Ky., will ask his pardon at the next meeting of the board.

. voMiigion. i ne Fountain county commissioners have appointed former Commissioner James A. Copelan.i road superintendent, the position pay ing five dollars a day. Terre Haute. Sales of Red rme

seals in Vigo county aggregated $1.550, according to the report of Helen Kenbridge, who had charge of the distribution. Bluffton Wells county commissioners have chosen John E. Mark ley road superintendent and (leorge Mock as county attorney to succeed Frank C. Dailey, appointed Cnited States district attorney. Brazil. Lewis McNutt entertained the Clay County Bar association at a banquet in honor of his father, Judg James A. McNutt. celebrating the lat ters seventy-fifth birth anniversary, and fortieth year as a member of the bar. Goshen. Harvey Swoveland. forty-five years old, a well-to-do farmer, for the second time defeat d efforts of his wife to send him to Longcliffe asylum. He was given into the care of his brother and sister. Cp to date Swoveland has had three guardians. Terre Haute William Locke, aged seventy, for a third of a century cashier of the local branch of the American Distilling company, married Miss Kay Conkling at the res idence of his daughter. Mrs. Jan" Johnson, in Connersville. The first Mrs. Locke was a sister of the bride, who is sixty-three. South Bend. Announcement uir

made of the founding of scholarships at the University of Notre Damn and at St. Marys college in memory of the late Patrick O'Brien of this city. The foundation amounts to $15,000 and becomes available immediately. The scholarships wen awarded to Frank Mulcahy and Emil Reidman of Rochester, N. Y.. seniors. Marion. Crist Miste, twenty-ser-en years old. web struck by a Pennsylvania train near Sweetzer. six miles west of here, receiving injuria to his head and spine which caused death shortly after he uas brought to the city hospital here He had been working for the railroad company and evidently had started to walk 'o this city. His pockets contain-d $128 and papers which disclosed his name and that he had a wife and to children in Macedonia. EvansFlIle. Bertis E Capel. twenty years old. of Shawneetown. Ill . champion typist and former secretary to (Governor Deneen of Illinois, was arraigned here in city court on a charge of passing fraudulent checks aggregating $4::

Marion Miss Freda PrcKl. nineteen years old. was found by a neighbor on the floor of her home unconscious and suffering from chloro form poisoning. It is thought the poi son uas taken with intent to commit suicide, but the physician sas she will recover. Shelbyville For hunting on the farms of William fnilirf and Mrs. Agnes Sykes iihoit permission, fines were assessed here against three men. as follows: Alvin Bush. $15: Cecil Borders, $16; and William i Atm Atw jm mmm

routn. ' i ne mm entered r

p'eas

of guilty.