The evening world. Newspaper, May 28, 1903, Page 15

Sach aa aeiaceie tana tea alee This Story Began Monday uA (i = (By Permission of George Munro's Sons.) 7 John M’Alister Ruy, student of medicine, serving as ehip’s doctor aboard the\ whaler Pole-Star.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Gonn McAlister Ray, a Scateh medical stud girl named Fiorn, tn hie own, country. 0 aia ips as cargeon aboard the whaler “Pole. foam tar north cng'in imminent pert! of being icestoand fer the winter, Imost reach the point of mutiny, no great is their desire to ramle, bi refuses to return. This captain is history no one knows, but wha labors under some jen_gorrow or maystery. The discontent of the cram fs aug- mented by a rumor that the is haunted. Woird sounds have ac- sompanted her througliout the voy nd Manson, tho second mate, tells of seeing a ghostly white form like thet of « women gilding amadg the fee-floes. unable to ahake tho crew's terrified bellef that some following the “'Pole-Star.” snip ta haunted became universal On hearing, of ‘by Manson, Capt, Craigie becomes greatly cette, fqueatione conceralag the apsarition. and ape of the next day on the bridge, smweping the horison with bl srarch of something. Ray becomes gradually convinced that Craigie medman. He is partially led to this batter by apeing the capi “with an exprension in which horror, surprise a Joy’ are minglec. Craigie cats on Ray to obee tomething he thinks he seos there Ray can see nothing and Cral . captain will pay is that what he saw on the cemions te eaolais, Ail Ul teen ‘with the eyes of love.” He thon begs Ray not to speak ef the ‘Tho captaiv knows that Ray bel question. trying to prove himse Py Before ths evor-advancing wlater shall render return | impossible but by m mpeech of great eloquence persuades the men parture for « time. ‘The Impression that the ship Is Nasated Wild beante of the Arctic ragtons shan the —- ore CHAPTER IV. The Ghost Once More. ENTERED the mysterious apartment with some curios- a i a J ity, It was a bare little room, containing a washing~ stand and a few books, but little else in the way of lux- ury, except some pictures upon the walls. The majority of these are small cheap oleographs, but there was one water- folor sketch of the head of a young lady which arrested my attention. i Ht was evidently a portrait, and not one of those fancy types of female beauty which eaf‘ors particularly affect. No artist could have evoived from his own mind such a mixture of character and weakness. ‘The languid; dreamy eyes, with their drooping lashes, and the broad, low brow, unruffied by thought or care, were in trong contrast with the clean-cut, prominent jaw, and the Fesolute set of the lower lip. Underneath it in one of the corners was written, "M. B., act. 19.” ‘That any one in the short spate of nineteen years could Gevelop such strength of will as was stamped upon her face seemed to be well-nigh incredible, @he must have been an extraordinary tures have thrown such a glamour over me that, though T had but a flecting glance at them, T could, were I a draughts- man, reproduce them line for line upon this page of the f woman. Her fea- Journal. I wonder what part she has piayed in our captain's life. He has hung her picture at the end of his berth, so that his eyes constantly rest upon ft. Were he a less reserved tian I should make some remark upon the subject. Of the other things in his cabin there was nothing’ worthy of mention—uniform coats, a camp-stool, small looking-slass, tobacco-hox, and numerous pipes, Including en Oriental hhookah—which, ty the by, gives some color to Mr. Milne's story about his participation in the war, though the connec- thon may seem rather a distant one. 11.0 P. M.—Captain just gone to bed after a long and in- teresting conversation on general toples. When he chooses he can be a most fascinating companion, being remarkably well read, and having the power of ex- pressing his opinion forcibly without appearing to be dog- matic. I hate to have my intelectual toes trod upon. He spoke atiout the nature of the soul, and sketched out the views of Aristotle and Plato upon the subject in @ mas- terly manner. do seems to have a leaning for metempsy- chosis and the doctrines of Pythagoras. Im discussing them we touched upon modern spiritualism, and I made some Joking allusion to the impostures of Slade, upon which, to ny surprise, he warned me most impressively against confusing the !nnozent with the guilty, and argued that 1t would be as logical to brand Christianity as an error because Judas, who professed that religion, was @ vi‘lain, He shortly afterward bid me good night and retired to his room. The wind fs freshening up, and blows steadily trom the north. The nights are as dark now as they pre in Mngland, I hope to-morrow may set us free {rom our frozen fetters, Bept. 17.—The bogle again! Thank Heaven that 1 have strong nerves! The superstition of these poor fellows, and the clroum- stantial accounts which they give, with,the utmost earnes: ness and self-conviction; would horrify any man not accu tomed to their ways. ‘There are many versions of the matter, but the sum total of them all is that something uncanny has been fitting round the ship all night, and that Sande McDonald, of Peterhead, sang" Peter Williamson, of Shetland,” saw it, as also gi4 Mr. Milne on the bridge—so, having three witnesess, they oan muke x wetter case of It than the second mate did. I spoke to Mipe after breakfast and told him that ho should be above ews}. nonsense, and that as an officer he ought to set the men a better exampte. Ho shook his weather-beaten head ominously, but an- @wered with characteristic caution: “Mebbo aye, metibe na, Doctor," he sald; “I didna ca’ it @ ghaist. I canna’ say I preen my faith in sea-bogies an’ the iike. though there's a mony as claims to na’ seen a’ that ‘and aaur. I'm no easy feared, but maybe your ain bluld would aun a bit cauid, mun, if Ynxtead o' speerin’ about ft in daylicht ye were wi’ me last night, an’ seed an awfu’ like shape, white an’ gruesome, whites here, whiles there, an’ it @reetin’ and ca’'ing in the Garkness lke @ bit lamble that hae lowt its mither. Yo would na’ be eae rady- to put it a’ doon auld wives’ gavers then, I'm thinkin’, ' iin cin it per with him, a9 contented my- porioa te ss Staite ee and Will End on planes. such an opportunity might never arise. As I had hoped, the white desert behind us has become broken ly many thin streaks of water which intersect it in all directfons, Our Intitude to-day was 8 degrees 52 minutes north, which shows that there {s a strong southerly drift upon the pack. Should the wind continue favorable it will break up as rapldiy as it formed. At present we can do nothing but smoke and wait and hope for the best. I am rapidly becoming a@ fatalist. When dealing with such uncertain factors as wind and 'ce @ man can be nothing eise. Perhaps it was the wind and sand of the Arabian deserts which gave the minds pf the! original followers of Mahomet their tendency to bow to kismet. These spectral alarms have a very bad effect upon the captain. I feared that It might excite his sensitive mind, and en- deavored to conceal the absurd ntory from him, but unfor- tunately he overheard one of the men making an ailuelon to it, and insisted upon being informed about it, As I had expected, it tfought out all his latent lunacy In an exaggerated form. I can hardly believe that this is the same man who dis- coursed philosophy last night with the most critical acumen and coolest judgment. He is pacing backward and forward upon the quarter-deck tke a caged tiger, stopping now and again to throw out his hands with a yearning gesture and stare fmpatiently, out over the fce. He keeps up a continued mutter to himself, and once he called out: “But a little time, love—but a little time!” Poor fellow; it 's ead to see a giant geaman and accom- plished gentleman reduced to such @ pass, and to think’ that imagination and detusion can cow a migd to which real anger wan but the salt of life. Wes ever a man in such a position as I, between a demented captain and a ghost-seeing mate? I sometimes think I am the only really sane man aboard the vessel—except, perhaps, the second engineer, who Is & kind of ruminant, and would care nothing ¢or all the flends not disarrange his tools. ‘The Ice is stifl opening rapidly, and there is every prob- ability of our being able to make a start to-morrow morning. They will think I am inventing when 1 tell them at home ali the strahge things that have befallen me. 12 P. M—I have been a good deal atartled, though I focl steadier now, thanks to a stiff glass of brandy. J am hardly myself yet, however, as this handwriting will testify. ‘The fact 1s that I have gone through a very strange ex- perience and am beginning to doubt whether I was justified | in branding every one on board as madmen because they ed to have seen things which did mot seem reason- 6 to my understanding. Pshaw! Iam a foo} to let son a trifle unnerve me; and yet, coming as it does, after all these nlarme, dt has an ad- dittonal significance, for f cannot doubt elther Mr. Manson's ‘ory or that of the mate, now that I have experienced that which I used formerly to acoff at. ‘After all it was nothing very alarming—a mere sound, and that was all, I cannot expect that eny one reading this, {f any one ever should read it, will sympathize with my feelings or realize the effect which {t produced upon me at the time. Supper was over, and I had gone on deck to have a quiet pipe before turning in, The night was very dark—so dark that, standing onder the querter-boat, I was unable to see the officer upon the bridge. I think I have already mentioned the extraomiinary silence which prevatis in these frozen seas. In other parts of the world, be they ever so barren, there ¢# some slight vibra- tion of the ain-same faint hum, be it from the distant haunts of men, or from the leaves of the trees, or the wings of the birds, or even the faint rustie of the grass that cov- era the ground. One may not actively perceive the sound, and yet if It were withdrawn {t would be miased, It is only here in these Arctic eeas that stark, unfathomable stillness obtrudes Itself upon you fn all Its gruesome reality. You find your typanum straining to catch some little mur- mur and dwelling eagerly upon every eocidental sound within the vessel, In this state T was leaning upon the bulwarks when there arose from the ice almost directly underneath me a cry, sharp and shrill, upon the silent alr of the night, beginnin as it seamed to me, at a note such as prima donna never yeached, and mounting from that ever higher and higher until {t culminated tn @ long wail of egony which might have been the Inet ery of a lost soul. ‘The ghastly scream {2 still ringing in my ears. Grief, unutterable grief, seemed to be expreased in it and @ great longing, and yet through it all there was an occasionat wild note of exultation, It shrilfed out from close deside me, and yet as I glared into the darkness I could discern nothing, I waited for frome little time, but without hearing any repetition of the | sound, so [ esme below, more shaken than I have ever been in my Mfe before. As I came down the companion I met Mr. Milne coming up to relieve the watch. ‘Weel, doctor,” he sald, ers tae? Did ye no hear It wictrling? persteetion? What d'ye think o't nog?’ 1 was obliged te apologize to the honest feilow and acknowledge that I was as puzzled Ly it as he was. Per- haps to-morrow things may look different. At present I dare hardly write alt that I think. Reading it again In days to come, when I have shaken off all these associations, I should despise myself for having been 80 wenk. “maybe that's auld wives’ clay- Maybe that’s @ eu- (To Be Continued.) COULDN'T STAY IMPERSONAL. Out in 8%, Louls, where the beer comes from, a man connected with that industry wae buried last week. The officiating minister preached a lengthy discourse on the lesson of the man’s sudden taking off, but tactfully avoided rererence to his occupation. There was a sigh of satisfac- tion when he ended from friends whom he had wearted and Bie See, Coren’ be Seas S6re des werner’. #2 UP in the Red Sea 6o long as they would leave him elone ana spec ‘we HOME »# MAGAZINE z) BRIEF CHAPTERS IN THE oo HOME MAGAZINE. IV.—A PERIOD OF REVOLT. HE last half of the eighteenth century was an exciting perio history of New York City. M[ngland had incurred a great 4 ing the seven years war with France—1755-2—and the Kin, isters sought to Impose a large portion of the consequent burden colonies and make the latter stand the expense of maintaining to the plan adopted during the recent war with Spain. tested agniast tho imposition of the taxes, and on Aug. 14, 1765, wh the guns in the fort. On Oct. 7, 1765, commissioners from the assemblies of all the met in New York and formally protested in an address to the King. and Broadway, and agreed not to import goods until the stamp tax pealed. The Lieutenant-Governor, Colden, was burned in effigy in chants who used stamps on their commercial paper were mobbed ai pelled to promise better behavior. Many Govemors came, attempte: dozen administrations. ures In restraint of trade, and although on March 8, 1766, the St was repealed, the agitation continued. The Dilleting of troops on ple became a great evil and was strenuously opposed, Collisions itizens and soldiers wee frequent, and when the n-ws of the battle of duties of the municipal officera in the preservation of the peace. George III., and broken to pieces July 9, 1776. The city had grown to the common where now stands the Ci and the outlying territory on the island was dotted with count: dences of the wealthy merchants. inaugurated first President of the United States. Caleb Heathcote, the richest New Yorker of his day, died leaving a fortune of £100,000. day this fortune equalled nearly $1,000,000. a school teacher, who was undoubtedly innocent; and two wome:, who were probably innocent, ani the burning of negroes, whose guilt was uever clearly establisn >, permitted any defense. Columbia Colloge (then King's) was founded fn 1753, “in the The money was raised by lottory. A ferry to Staten Island. wh: 2,500 persons lived, was estgb! and the first packet boat from Falmouth, England, ti voyages. The post road to Boston had been improv ried thither weekly instead of monthly, as formerly. The New York Chamber of Commerce was organized on April ‘at Fraunces's Tavern, Broad and Pearl streets, by twenty-four m: engaged in forcign trade. The merchants of New York had profited from the slave trade and from privateering during the seven years’ when the century closed these sources of gain had vanished. HISTORY OF NEW YORK. WRITTEN EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE EVENING WORLD standing army in America. Money was to be raised by stamp taxes similar The colonies pro- came of the passage of the stamp act a mob of New York citizens epiked Merchants of New York met in the Boreel Builiing, at Thames street coach, and the house of an offensive major of artillery was wrecked. cation and ebandoned the task to Lieut.-Gov. Colden, who survived half a New York became the centre of agitation against governmental meas- ton was brought a committee of safety was formed, which succeeded to the erate counsels were frequently disrogarded, and the gilded head statue of | in Bowling Green, which was erected in 1771, was thrown down At that period the City Hall was at the corner of Wall and Broad streets, where the Sub-Treasury now stands, and there Washington was |Curd stones and busy people on the city streets it is not take thelr friends careering round corners and so picturesque and 4s very uncomfortable for the When they pa: In purchasing power of the dollars of to-|bies and clut’s during t In 1741 a slave revolt ecare resulted in the hanging of John Urg, another white man and who were not of the capital,” as one writer has it, on a part of the Trinity Church farin ew York began its 1755. The following year a semi-weekly stage began tgirun to Philadelphia, C'S letters were car- MAY 28, 1903. 7 HE COACHING FASHION HAS din the jebt dur- g's min- on the a large en news colonies was re- his own Mer- ind com- d pacifi- across the street. in them. amp ast the peo- detween Lexing- Its mod- ty Hall, Ty resi- Jepple carts, nearly people at large. It 1s quite common, in 1735, time, expressions like t thirteen suburbs lished {11 8, 1768, erchants d greatly war, ‘but i: The toolera are coming, Hoorny, Mooray! ‘The toolers are coming, “Er eay, get ont of the way, Coaching tHaltad: U can hear New Yorkers humming the above refrain aa they stand on the comers gathering up any super- fiuous part of thelr garment preparatory to a dash ASrin betore breakfast - Or maybe a long, handkerchief in his “Dashed expenatv The newspapers are full of news of automobile and coach-|streets. Miss Evening Breeze waw dash down ing races and the hospitals are full of those who took part street to-day, don't ye know, and a foolish 086 under the wheels of the coach, bah jove! 8! The coaches and cavorting horses that leave from and ar-'prised if the dear girl were to be quite to Pompton-on-the-Canal to-day. AGAIN SGORUCK GOCGHAM GOWN. —ar Whereupon the wit of the party says: “Nags from Ireland, eh? ‘Cos you say, they were grea, don't ye know.’ Then the man whe wants another drink laughs wildly. a Janky man, with one ¢ye-giaes, end cuff, will eay: ‘@ work this tooling four in the Going to the races? old chap, dont you as ike this, Sometimes it haypens The toolers are a fancy lot, and, to show that rive at the Fifth avenue hotels every day lonk fine and bloomin’ lawyers and all that rot, don't ye know.” circusy in the country, but when they get tangled up with dashing automobiles, street cars, beer trucks, good drivers, pay enormous «ums for horses and over one of those great long trucks structural iron, on top of which 4a usually alti those days, to hear {n tbe hotel lob-| man handling the reins over eight or ten evening, about creme de menthe|usually turn up their noses; foreheads are broader than the rest have been seen to know, my wrists are boomin’ state; I togled stx green horses off their hats, ting ‘horses, though several of them aX te Pet HARNESSING FATHER OC pose for the past 6,000 years, eating habit up to standing for a gold-brick scheme for distillation ipto precious metals the Verltatly harnessing of good Deacon Neptune Mr. Morley Fletcher, after years of costly experiment pursued with a dogged perseverance, 1s being rewarded at | (VII The latest scheme ts! plungers. fonary sul the E). moving buoy, EAN TO D). The plunger-rods were attached to th smorged table, and the pump-barr worked up down and DRAW THE WHITE MAN’S BURDEN. |i HE poor old ocean has been used for nearly every pur- the waves, and a relative movement wag established between from discouraging the|the two (VII. Mr, Fletcher next fixed to these a coupe of pumps and e more » being fixed upon then Amusements. J Excursions TRY PROCTOR'S 7o:p4x. rved Every Aft. and ee d St} @ eait Bambang 4 ENCE REED, 1) WAULACE ERSKINE & All sto.k oth AY vorites, Big Veuss. Continuous. | 68th St.) THE SMA SMART SET. 125th St. { THe RAJAN, FLOR {ON THE WABASH. ADELAIDE {WILLARD | BL! Ail Stock Favorites. Biz Savage PRINCE OF PILSEN 3" a | ay. Jone $-SOUVENE 23TH ANNUAL IN TERCOLLEGIATE | H ATHLETIC GAMES, BERKELEY OVAL, CASINO [iT MUNA To-Night NN i R CLE | THE TORFADOR, Nat.W'k-The Geisha * | BELASCO TH! HEATRE Aer Warear DAVID BELASCO anes |G LEHR DARLING! BL Tes | OF THE G 2.15 “THE Dewey UTH ST Sa Top Bowery Perens USLUMMING" ~awWilson m lagt by a general recognition of the value and practicability| It was foun easy to connect a hose with an opening in of hif interesting method of utilizing the surface movement |the buoy capable of driving any handy machinery of the sea, says the Illustrated London News. The diagramatic sketch of ono of these buoys tn our A weighted hydrometer-tube (VII. A) floating in the water |iiustration (3) shows the mooring chment A ‘passing goes up and down fn accordance with the wave-movement. \through the submerged table C, the anchor chain D bein ‘Ae thet movement rapidly decreases, however, according connected to a ring at the foot B to the depth (as suggested by the two converging lines In| The buoy FE !s free to osciliate with the lenst movement VII. B), Mr. Fletcher found that by attaching @ heavy table lof the water round the joaded hydrometer-tube F storing to thy hydrometer-tube at a depth where the movement |air in an internal reservoir by means of tie pump was reduced to a minimum, tt became practically a Axed! A further development {s ahown In ally lighted post, no longer affected by the surface movement at all buoy (6), in which the eyrrent for the Iamp Is ed by f OF ME Ey 1p. Ma 7 (IE. ©). @ dynamo within the t me driven by a hydraulil AGADEAY °X WoeKiN Rates Wkinds? Round the upper part of the now stationary tube wag! Even a “dend-calm” sea possesses power-produ 4 es floated a cheese-shaped buoy, moving up and down freely with | motion. F if Amusements. ‘Amusements. Amusements MADISON Fefise Sunday Eve. | Tete CARDEN, patos | PASTOR'S ae $2 sue NORDICA & DE RESZRE| one, ronn acs J) preenerns ‘ele oe ee, “THE BRIGANDS,”* | WALLAGKS [205 J « | Vaudeviite and Muale tm the Open Alr. | Henry W. Savase sre Gp. 5Q. THA. 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