The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 6, 1900, Page 9

THE SUNDAY CALL. steam and steel d st famous for former made him - im: m When M!f' g to die summoned his {e - all without me, t I'm going to do r my old roem, , at you ean't w that I ever left the seaman wiped ce days later when the have dis. oak QQWQQ d every officer who was of the early opportunjty irguishing the berth, though fe ng to admit any ghostly exper But among the sail- ors of about the pa R ghost began within a féw weeks of his departure. The cariiest yarns were spun for' the men on duty in the storerooms and pay y night they reporte tering around a DT T Haunted Ships on the deck by the men, the pay yeo- the sick bay. His iliness he told the doctor one morning that his time had surely come, for dead paymaster had stood by his beds! two bells in the middle watch and beckoned him away. And, as a mat- ter of fact, died In a day or two. three months after this Passed 4 t F m: er 8— joined the ship. He was a lively young chap. had no superstition whatever, he sald,y installed himself fn room side. The evening of s one of unusual merri- nt in the me: The ship was home- d bound with a fair wind and the sistant paymaster was the jol- liest man on board. About two hotrs after everybody had turned in the entire A D DTS and cheerfully No. 2 on the por April 23 3, 1885, w fl}néhg ldomen Who Must HaVe a Pet in the fouse < THE CAVY & Is the Very katest Fad. and the so- pet is the are extremely quite intelll- ed and well-bred long hair. Some hair in such an odd u cannot tell that there underneath. Some make hese are comsidered Since the baby had pets have been the been the long, silky and the hairless Mex- woolly test fad s lat “ There are three distinct kinds ofcav- jes—the English, Peruvian and Abyssin- jan. The first mentioned are the mqst numerous and the most widely distrib- uted, being the original stock from which the more fancy,Peruvian and Abyssinian cavies were produced. Thelr most dis- tinctive feature is their short, glossy coat, which entitles them to the term “smooth coated,” as many fanciers are wont to call them. Of,the English cavies those of broken colors are the most pop- ular and are found in many combinations. The black and white, -especialiy when evenly marked, are the most attractive. The Abyssinian, by reason of its strange coat of short and wiry hair, growing in numerous rosettes, attracts much at tion. These little fellows come in white red and broken colors. But it is th Peruvian cavy, with the long, silken hair that is the fad, Its halr, fine and glossy, falls in a natural fringe over the mnost and in a thick mane on each side of the head, trafling upon the ground in the rear. Length of coat and quality of hai on the head are the determining char- acteristics of the superior quality. Peru- vians are mostly found in mtxed colors, but there is a pure white Peruvian whose most attractive characteristics are its delicate pink eyes and prefty pink pawsi The Angora, a distinct variety, differs from the Peruvian in having long straight hair on the bedy and short hali on the head. 4 l S ‘STTLL WAUNTED BV THE GHOST OF wardroom was awakened by an unearthly vell, followed by a noise of a man falling. The officers turned out, lights ~were struck, and there was — doubled ov an upset chair and moaning wu gibly. When asked what was matter he pointed to the door of the room “It's theré! It's there!” he murm A “What's there, old man?’ was the query. “A dead thng M A eorpse fn my bérth-- one eye and a red beard—cold and hor ble!"” “The moonlight coming in through the port woke m: he continued, after a pause; “I was very cold, and at first I thought I had a chill. I raised myself up- on my elbows to get a better things. As I meved I came in contact with something clammy and my and icy cold. By the dim light I saw that I had a bedfellow—a dead man, his one eye staring and his red gled with seaweed. The thing is there now—lying in my bed.” The officers crowded 2. Nothing was fo ing, though there is tale that when exar berth they discovered twe pleces of barnacled seaweed strange occurren e an established le d i 2 on the port side of the Monc unoccupied untll the rec r Few officers with the Monon view of head e door of No. ely noth- a v cruise; but the foll ing strange °n roga has been told rank now in the department telligence and anot ed with the Bureau of Ticonderoga was « snongahela class, a wooden ons dis- placement en good ser- vice during the Amohg her officers on a crui South Atlantic during the early ant surgeon belief in the cule that was heaped other members of very bitter. “All right,” he would say. “You fellows can laugh at the truth as much as you please, but if I should die while any of you are attached to the Ticonderoga I'il come back and haunt the blamed old lug- upon him by the the mess made him Cavtary Huon 11 all be glac d to apply for Well of h t storm off the the young officer died suddenly t disea t in a howling Braszil. His body s committed to the deep next day, and that night the trouble began. Strange rap- pings were heard from W—'s stateroom, and though the office who w investigate @ :d nothing, they were séixdd by an overpowering fealing of coast e ta cov dread.” In the sick bay that night a sallor who was very with onsumption started from his sleep with a scream of terror, He declared that a shadowy hand had felt his pulse with the famillar touch of the dead ship’s doctor who h - tended him so long. The mani tions countinued while the ship was at sea, and did not stop unti: after she reached New York. A day or two following her argival a dinner was given on board. in the cour wkich one of the officers related th of the strange occurrence. As he cluded’a hush féll over the company, a in the midst of the hush g raps followed by a sharp from the haunted s party denly The tions o Crimina's Jracksd by Perfuma. nitesimally slight are some of the cl ave led to arrest and ul- tion of notable criminal: may not he surprised to learn g and inefface- able odor of ain perfumes and scents murderers and thileves have cre now been brought meanors Probably the.queerest > in this con- nection is, says Answers, that of a noto- rious burglar who was arrested in Paris a few months back solely because he had a partiality for eucalyptus. The facts are these: An eclderly lady awoke one night to find that the jewel box at the side of her bed was in the act of being robbed by a burly and closely-masked man. The lady had the self-control to feign sleep and make a mental note of the fact that there was one distinguishing feature of the ma- rauder. This was the strong odor of eu- to book for their misde- GHBRED AWNLORA CAVY WEARS RIS HAIR “A DEAD MAM, HIS ONE- EYE STARING AND HIS RED the man captured for a co erable period. Then one afternoon there called at the office of a Hebrew pawn- broker way of business a gen- tleman! w d with st of the e ocea- slon, and at ¢ the trinke! the present cu: pledge were n s box he had of the burgl and re- arks of the las odor. pervading the thief's Now, this man’s garment. of the fragrant oil. One hardly have vonsidered this similarity such as to warrant the apprehension of the pledger, but pawnbrokers are a venture; men, and the ane referred to called a po- liceman and gave the customer In charge. Nor did he err in so doing, for the man proved to be a notorious burglar, and, in- deed, the thief of the gems. The articles he was on the point of elled e set of n Uncle Dam’s Mavy # Boat to Run Fifty Imles an Four. to examine t might be ed cruiser, a r of light »n for her feet; beam, 42 matimum draught, 14 feet: displacement. 2800 t indicated horse power, 0, there would be two tiers of wate boilers; these, with the engi ¥ coal bunkers, etc., would occupy the whole of lower por- tion of the vessel: the crew’s quarters and guns would be on the upper decks. There would be elght propellers of nine feet in dlameter revolving at about 40 revolu- tions per minute, and her speed would be about forty-four knots. He oy o e e o S O S R AT A L THA AT T AT A A T T T A < A AT O S S SO @