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Phantom Craft That Are Said to
Haunt the High Seas. '
A CURIOUS ENGLISH RECORD.
The Log of the Warship Bacchante
Under Date of July 11, 1331, Bears
the Entry, “Flying Dutchman Cross
ed Our Bows'*—The Goblin Ship.
There are numerous legends and sto
ries of ghostly vessels that roam the
briny deep, and many hard headed
mariners, free from the common su
perstition of the ordinary sailorman,
stoutly maintain that they have at
least once in their maritime career en
countered what was undoubtedly a
phantom ship.
Best known of those mysterious
craft that haunt the high seas is. of
course, the famous Flying Dutchman,
or phantom ship of Vanderdecken.
How the story originated is doubtful,
but it has been ascertained that there
was a seaman of repute who many
years ago sailed from Holland to the
east via the Cape of Good Hope, but
was never again heard of.
Some authorities say that meeting
with contrary winds off the cape, he
swore a terrible oath, in consequence
of which the divine wrath decreed
that he should be occupied till the
crack of doom In endeavoring to
weather the headland. Others state
that this punishment was meted out
to him in retribution for a terrible
murder be com mitt (Hi before commenc
ing bis fateful voyage.
Whatever the cause of this ancient
gentleman's monotonous wandering
may be. it is probably In eonfcx'tion
with him that the most authennc and
cold blooded record of any phantom ex
ists either afloat or ashore, for it ia
stated that in the log of 11. M. S. Bac
chante while on a voyage round the
world with the little princes in 1881
there appears on July 11 the entry,
“Flying Dutchman crossed our bows."
The log hook of one of the then largest
of her majesty’s warships Is certainly
the very last place to expect to find
that which is generally associated with
the hysterical of either sex.
January, 1047, a vessel left
New Haven, Conn., on her maiden voy
age, but was never again beard of. In
the following June, Just before the
hour of sunset and after a severe
thunderstorm, the missing ship was
seen sailing up the river. The inhabit
ants, tuking their evening stroll, were
overjoyed at her return, but the most
observant of them noticed that there
was something uncanny nl>out her, es-
I>ecinlly in that she appeared to he
sailing up against the wind.
’ Then, to the consternation of all, she
gradually faded away l>efore their eyes
.and entlreley disappeared. We may he
assured that there were not wanting
those who maintained that the vessel
in spirit bad paid q last visit to he£
port before resting for" good on the
ocean l>ed.
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At all drag stores.
i ship is seen off Cap d'Espoir. in Gospe
j bay. Lights are seen aboard her. and
| her decks are crowded with men. By
i the foot of the bowsprit a man is con
i spieuously standing and facing toward
j the shore, with a lady clinging to his
j arm. Gradually the lights go ont and
| the vessel sinks It is said to be the
' ghost of the flagship of a fleet which
was sent out to reduce the French
forts, the vessel l>eing lost with all
bands.
To come to British waters, there are
numerous instances related in local
history the visitations of ghostly
vessels, tlie west of England, as might
be expected, being most prolific In
these records, says a writer in the Lon
don Globe. Indeed. Cornwall boasts of
a goblin ship probably unique the
world over, as she not only sails the
water, hut proceeds most unconcerned
a good distance inland.
This is the S|ecter ship of Porthcurr
no. and in Robert Hunt's book on “Ro
mances of the West of England” are re
lated the exi>erienees of a local Inhab
itant who witnessed one of her esca
pades. She is described as a black
square rigged Bingle masted vessel,
sometimes towing a small boat. No
crew are ever seen: presumably they
are down below. The personal narra
tive goes on to say:
“On came the craft. It passed stead
ily through the breakers, glided up
over the sands, steadily pursued its
course on the dry land as if it bad been
water. On it went to Bodelan, where
St. Leven formerly dwelt. It then
steered Its course to Chygwiden and
there vanished like smoke.”
An Awful Blow.
“Yes.” said Slithers. “Miekley was
my dearest friend, nnd I shall never
cease to mourn his death. It was a
terrible blow, from which I shall never
recover.”
“Why—l thought you married his
widow?" said Jimpson.
“Why—er—ahem!—why. yes. I did;
but”—
Here Slithers subsided into a deep
and uncomfortable silence.—Harper’s
Weekly.
Poor Comedy.
"Why did she cut you?”
“She doesn't like my comedy.”
“now’s that?”
"She made the statement at a party
last night that she was twenty years
of age. and I said. ‘Yes, I knew that
fifteen years ago.’ “—Houston Post.
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there is prudence.—Juvenal
, The Greedy One.
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Dudley Kidd, the author of “The Es
sential Kaffir," once accused a native
of being greedy. The native turned
eyes of reproach upon him.
"Me greedy, baas?” he said. “It takes
two Kaffirs to eat a sheep in a day, but
only one Hottentot. Hottentot greedy,
not Kaffir.”
- Tbe question every morning is not
how to do tbe gainful thing, but how
to do tbe Just thing.—Johu Ruskin.
Who Would V Bonn ’Erl
Some hundred years ago a small boy,
one of four brothers, heard a visitor
say to his mother. “What a pity one of
your boys lmd not been a girl.” Drop
ping his game, so the story runs in
Woman’s Work In America, he called
out: “Well, I'd like to know who’d ’a’
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For several yea”s we have nad
dinned info onr ears doleful
dales of woe of what was to hap
pen to the country dealer when
the parcel-post juggernaut ar
rived. An analysis of this sen
timent. which was and is yet
honestly entertained by thousands
of sraaOl. country merchants is
interesting. The suspicion is not
wholly wanting thad the express
companies had early knowledge
of this impending doom*/ a large
number of the trade papers, of
which there are hundreds, with
a surprising unanimity became ob
sessedi with the idea that a par
cel post meant the end of the
country dealer, with the easy eon
elusion. “No country dealer, lit
tle need for the trade paper.”
Hence for years the trade paper
has carried its weekly message to
death to p&rcel post, nnd little
jwondjr that the dealer became
infected. ! H
The main line story was that
parcel post was the dream: of that
arch enemy of the country mer
chant, the mail-order house.
This statement became an
accepted fact not even worthy
of discussion. Now. the parcel
system will doubtless be of some
advantage to the big mail order
houses, but nothing like what we
have been' told. The articles
which they sell practicaj to
send by mai! are not so many
after all. What the mail order
houses make their money on are
not sales under one dollar but
over ten. It costs them practi
ally as much to put a dollar ordei
through the house as it does for
on e for twenty-ffve dollars.
And if their entire business
were in single shipments of.
dollar articles, they wouldn’t
make much money. The low
priced articles of common use,
of which there are hundred
are sold nearly as cheaply at the ,
corner store. For instance, a.
man wants a 5-gallon can which
his home dealers sell for $1.20
The mail order house sells the
same identical can for 95 cents,
But by the time the customer
bufys a money orded and pays
for parcel postage it has cost him
$1.50 and a week or two to
it here. Ift the buyer is order
ing a few goods that’s
another matter hut the shipment
then goes by freight, not parcel
post.
Another angle which does not
seem to be taken into account
but which very soon will be, is
the advantage of the parcel sys
tem to the small country dealer.
A customer comes in to order,
say, an unusual size of screw
driver: Dealer is out; in fact
the last call for one was a year
ago, therefore he cannot afford
to stock up. He explains to the
customer and says he can have
one in two days. Very good,
lie spends one cent on a postal
card ordering from his jobber in
tlie eity who mafils it 300 mile
for 7! cents, tt has cost the
merchant 12 cents for the tool
a{nd 8 cents postage, total 20
cents and it retails for 30 cents
with a net profit of 10 cents ur
50 per cent. Under the Cflß
regime the express char|P|M
would have absorbed all the i
profit, V)r more.
The country dealer should use
his local paper to put before the
people the different things he
'carries and prices, and in this
way overcome the country
“rufyijntijbfn of the country
dealer,” the mail-order house—
-51. H. Windsor, in Popular Me
chanics Magazine.