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IIAYKS WASHINGTON M'KF. II.
It would undoubtedly be unfair to
3refident Roosevelt to charge him with
the responsibility for the words of in
cendiarism uttered by thenetrro lawyer
Hayes in Washington last week, but it
Is evident that his recent innovations
at the white house are having their
effect on the bast r desires of some
negroes ami caused th'-tn t tret un-j
UHuallv bold in ivin expression to I
Some Salt
Water Ghosts
Copyright. 1002. by U. 8. Halo.
In March, imil'. the luuk Schuylkill
Of Philadelphia ciieomiti red n lirlj;, the
Speedwell. In the hay of ISmcay with
a slKtial of dlsfrcHH tlyiiijr.
The Speedwell hud a cargo of coal
for Gibraltar. She win also a new
crnft, this bebiK her third voyage.
While lying In the I towns at anchor nt
night the crew had leen frightened
by a moaning in the fo'cantle.
At dark, on the night before the
Schuylkill cauie up, mate and all went
away In the longhont ana lert me cap
tain alone.
In June, I ran away from the
Marblehend whaler Jositih ISeinis in
the Dort of Tort St. Louis, island of
Mauritius. A week after she had
sailed away there came into port a
them.
ft is tructhat Haves does not repre
sent the neym race in his uiteraiios
nor is his conduct endorsed by ihc
better element of his people, but such
lanuruaj.'e hacked by the inilueuce of
rtvent happeninys at the white house
will have its effect oil tin- c il-lliinded
f the lleirroes.
As for the white people of the south
they do not care for such things, as
they would be abundantly able to take
care of themselves if the spouter's ad
vice were taken and an attempt made
to carry into e IT eel his policy, and it
could only recoil on the heads ofthosc
who attempted it.
Hayes is a fool lawyer who evident
ly liecame carried away with himself
because of his nearness to the place
that had recently seen the honoring- of
meinlx-rs of his race, and hoped for
a MVinpathetic. response from his hear
ers, but the repudiation of his senti-;
metits by negroes of his home city has
had some effect, no doubt in cooling'
off his ardor for taking up "tire and:
fWOI'(l."
The incident is of no signilicanc'only !
in that it recoils on the heads of Ills;
own people and consequently makes ,
i them suffer for the utterance of senti-
ments by some one else to which they j
do not subscribe. i
The Washington I'ostin commenting
The intemperate harangue of the
negro lawyer, Hayes, last .Monday
nitfht will cause neither astonishment
nor alarm. Richmond is quite- able to
take care of any sword and torch
regime that he may undertake to set
u In that city, and the same may be
safely said of Virginia at large. It is,
of course, possible, though not at all
probable, that disturbances here and
there ma.v occur, hot only in Virginia,
but In other southern states. These.
j (hlp called theiiolden Horn, owned by
' nn Knlisli firm in Itoinbay. She had
touched at a port In Ceylon and was
j bound for Liverpool, mid the crew had
forced the captain to put in at St.
; Louis on account of the ship being
haunted. Very little of the story
leaked out when the six of us who bad
; deserted the whaler shipped aboard of
her.
The captain and loth mates were
English, and there were two English
sailors in the fo'castle. Of the thir
teen men forward there were five
Portuguese. The cook was a negro and
the steward an Irishman. Of those
arriving in the ship at Tort St. Louis
only the captain and lirst mate re
mained. Cook, steward and all others
were new hands. Four of the Ameri
cans were educated young men who
' had shipped for a whaling cruise in a
i spirit of adventure. The captain and
i both mates were above the ordinary,
; and even the cook was a man of con
' slderahle education who had been
' driven to sea by hard luck ashore. I
, tell you this because we had a mys
; tery aboard, and superstition played
; no part in It.
I Such of us as had heard the gossip
! about the ghost from the old crew had
; forgotten it when the Golden Horn was
: three or four days out. She was a fast
j craft, well found In every particular,
j and there was nothing to find fault
with. One night, while I was acting as
i lookout on the Ikiws, the hour being be
! tween 1 and 2 o'clock, I turned my face
for a moment and saw a man standing
about five feet away. I was in the
captain's watch, which is really the
second mate's watch, and Mr. Leslie,
the second mate, was pacing the quar
ter deck, as I could see. It being a
quiet night, with all sails full, the other
men of the watch on deck were lying
about to catch a wink of sleep, but
ready to spring up at a call.
I at first thought the man to be the
captain, though it would be strange If
he came forward. Looking closer, I
A Woman's Cour&ge
Undaunted by Fire
Purlng a recent fire in a Snn Fran.'
clseo boarding house a young wotnac
exhibited ouch coolues and nerve In
most terrifying situation that she there
by saved her life. The fire occurred at
3 o'clock in the morning. Most of the
hoarders managed to get out of the
house with whole skins and little else
very ssn after the fire was discovered,
;ut one young lady, Mrs. Adeie Itepath
of Seattle, who occupied the uppei
front room, did not awake until ai;
possibility -of getting out by way of
the stairs was cut off,
Without hesitation he threw up the
window and stood waiting for help to
arrive.
As the heat became more Intense
.Mrs. Kepath clambered on to the win
dow sill and
however, will be the result of recent
appeals of the vanity and credulity of I saw that he was a total stranger. He
tja half-educated and pretentious. I jva a tall, heavy man and had on oll
Thtywil not bgdue to, .any folly on skins, though the night was fine. If
malignltTwr tfie part of the race at ' niasaueradine was not almost a crime
large. In any event, the punishment
will fall upon the dujies of the impu
dent and vicious incendiaries who stir
up passion and invoke violence from
a safe distance never upon the incen
diaries themselves. We have always
wondered why discontented neyro
leaders like Lawyer Hayes and Kditor
This, and BishopThat jiersist in cling
ing to neighborhood and latitudes
where their virtues and accomplish
ments art unappreciated. The whole
country north of the Potomac is
masquerading was not almost a crime
on shipboard, I might have thought it
the cook or steward dressed up Jo
play a joke. I could see the man at the
wheel, aud the mate and I looked
about and counted the men in the
watch. Then I advanced upon the
stranger,, and he backed up a few feet,
glided to the port rail and swung him
self over and out of sight
I listened for the splash, but none
came. I climbed upon the rail, but no
onen to them, vet thev obstinatelv nri- wue " WZ. I WUS Still lOOKing
"here to an environment which they de- anJ wondering when Mr. Leslie came
nounce as brutal and tyrannical. forward, and when he had heard my
Why do they do this? What is their ; story he admitted that It was the ghost
idea in perietuating an arrangement that had driven the other crew away,
which so cramps their development The spook had been seen by every man
and wounds their sensibilities? The , wllQ gtood watcU fr0Q) mldnlght to 2
white people do not want them. Nine-! 0vlock but bv no one el8t nn"d a, no
tenths of thecolored people would bone-! y
fit by their departure. Why do thev ottxer tlme-
not migrate to New England, or Kan- i 1 promised to say nothing to any of
sas, or Indiana where anxious thous- the men, aud I kept my word, but
ands await their advent and will hail J next night it was seen by the lookout
with gratitude their civilizing and ex- , Just as I had seen it, and after two or
uung mnuencer uawyer uayes talks turee Uavs more tue thing was out.
- i u. ' ".r.TiTlw Portuguese flunked at once and
i ii,. i .,..i ii..i.:i,: . ' almost
dually let her
self out and. like
an athlete on
horizontal liar,
lowered herself
to annV length
holding on to the
window sill.
T h e re ah
hung, swaying
slight! y. the
light of the
f 1 a m e s from
above and be
low showing her
tigure in white
nightrohe in the
corner nest the
adjoining build
ing.
Suddenly there
was a crash of
glass just beloTf
and to the rlgil
of her. and the
tiau:es burst
through fron
the floor below.
For a s.'cond
or two agony
was pictured It
every feature oi
the young woman, who still held on
grimly as the clanging bells told of the
arrival first of Fire Chief Sullivan
then of the hook and ladder companj
and the steam fire engine.
Chief Sullivan appreciated the peri
of the young woman's position the mo
ment he had alighted from his buggy
and. forming a trumpet of his hand?
he yelled: s
"Hold on for your life! Don't Jump!
Then to the ladder company he shout
ed, "Ladder No. 1, quick!"
I!nth orders were obeyed. The fire"
men threw 4be bidder against the burn
ing house. i j-
The end reached above her head, and
she had to jump up to catch. But jumx
she did, catching a rung on the under'
side of the ladder.
There she hung for on instant, swayV
ing in midair. Then she began the de
scent, hand over hand, down the lad
der. ' ' " 1 "
A fireman ran up the ladder, met bei
half way, grasped her In his strong
arm and bore her to safety.
if m
Mm
Engineer's Brave Act
Saves Life at Sea
however. There isn't money enough
in New York City to bribe him to lead
an uprising and head a charge upon
the hated whites. Lawyer Hayes, in
the secure asylum of a Washington
church, is merely "shooting off his
mouth," as they in the south of France.
He doesn't want bloodshed, if he has
o furnish any of the blood. He hasn't !
the faintest idea of falling upon any i
wmie man ana smiting him hip and
thigh. He is merely talking through
his hat. The trouble with the negroes
as a race is that, while they have
an instinct of kindness, and imperturb
able patience and amiability, a simple
and erene spirit of contentment, and
an incurable thirst for peace and quie',
tbey are destitute of the sense of hu
mor. Otherwise they would see the
threatened mutiny, but the
others of us, assisted by the officers,
went coolly at work to solve the mys
tery. Not one of us was a believer
even In dreams. We stretched ropes
across the deck, but the shadow
passed to the rail and over just the
same. We stretched a net along the
rail, but it went through the net aa a
puff of smoke would. We lighted the
decks, and we even extinguished the
binnacle light for a few minutes, but
It made no difference. On one occa
sion every man in the ship stood on
the spot and swung his arms and
sought to grasp something, but the
ghost came and stood and disappeared
just the same.
At Cape Town the Portuguese cut
THRONE LIGHTS.
absurdity of Lawyer Hayes as a factor "ticks, and four English sailors were
id modern civilization and pass him snipped, vve were now all English
on. I BDeakimr and all white man excent tha
cook. We were determined to 'lay
that ghost, and for at least twenty
nights after leaving Cape Town we ex
perlmented. Not one of us was afraid,
but the whole thing was considered a
' :'': -S-a':
Do what we .would, that shadowy
figure appeared. It came as we lay
becalmed, and it came as we were ly
ing to in a gale. No man saw Its face.
Ton simply saw a man there. As you
started forward he stepped back and
then to his left There was no sound
of feet, no noise at the ra!L From
forehead down to throat was a darker
spot In the shadow, as If veiled. The
arms seemed to hang down, but . you
also lost sight of the bands In the
shadow. Captain, - mates, steward,'
cook, every man aboard, went on look
out and saw the ghost. -
We took the ship into port, but ho
one wanted any more of her. The
story got out, and for six months she
was Idle. Then she got a charter for
Australia, was spoken twenty-two
days out and after, that was never
beard of again. M. QUAD. '
The crown prince of Germany la a
"fancy skater of the first order and
on the Ice every available day through
out the winter. -. ;
King Victor Emmanuel III. Is one of
the most enthusiastic automobillsts In
Italy.' His majesty is said to have ex-
ciaunea after a motor car ride. "The
only thing that now contents me is my
automobile until 1 can have an air
, King Edward TIL Inherited from his
mother an unusually valuable collec
tion of gold and silver plate. - Recently
an Inventory was made at Windsor,
with the result that the plate was ap
praised at a sum far in excess of ft.
00.000. 5.;.; ... 'vi..::
The empress dowager of China in
tends establishing a girls' school in the
palace at Peking. Ten daughters of
princes will be the students. The rea
son is that the empress needs Interpret
ers when entertaining the wives of for
'SO ministers. ,
three ton damper
Henri Pommier, assistant engineer
on the steamship La Champagne, saved
a life and secured his own promotiou
by an act of heroism seldom equaled in
"als of the sea. At the risk of
life he saved the life of u com
::d then by hanging head down
in the funnel of the big boat many feet
above the roaring furnace he fixed a
broken damper and prevented delay
and pogslbly Injury to the vessel
During a recent voyage In the midst
of a stiff gale an assistant reported
that the fires under the ofter funnel
were burning low. The chief .engineer
. . . . t M. " . . X 1 .
aeciuea tuui . we
within the fun
nel had become
unlatched ' , from
its position and
had fallen Into a
horizontal posi
tion, thus j shut
ting off the draft
v Pierre Yvot, a
greaser, was or
dered up the Iron
ladder to peer
over , the brink
Into ' the huge
stack. Yvot was
overcome by the
gas and bung
balanced, sense
less, on the edge
of the funnel.
As the steamer
rolled and pitch
ed he was In per
il of plunging ei
ther down the
chimney or fall
ing upon the fid
ley back. In' the
one e v e n t . he
would have drop
ped through, the
trapdoor-like
damper, to be roasted; In the other be
would hare been dashed to death.; '
Pommier jumped, to the rungs of the
vertical ladder, climbed to the top of
the funnel and brought down from his
Critical position the Insensible greaser,
who was borne to the hospital, where
he was soon revived. -.'.". , r-s
The heavy damper which bad shaken
.loose and closed itself bad then to be
turned and secured. Pommier. cheered
by. bis shipmates, again ascended to
the edge of the stack and risked his life
by allowing a seaman to grasp him by
the ankles while he hung head down,
with a sponge tied to mouth and nos
trils, within the chimney until he had
secured with extra lashings the damp
er to the inside of the funnel. The
sbntoff Is nearly nine feet below the
edge of the stack.
Strange Haunt of
The Refugio Mine
Still another futile attempt has Just
been made to explore the shaft and
underground workings of the so called
haunted Refugio mine in the Cluspa
mountains, sixty miles southwest of
Alpine, Tex.
The mine was worked by the Span
lards more than a century ago. It was
abandoned and forgotten until about
twenty years ago, when an American
mining engineer, Henry Boyd, while
looking up the title to a Mexican niin
ing property came across a mention of
It In the archives of the state of Coa
bulla at Saltillo. Mexico.
Mr. Boyd, accompanied by a Mexican
guide, left Saltillo to explore the mine
After a patient search tbey found it
In a deep canyon.
What occurred when Mr. Boyd at
tempted to explore the mine Is told in
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A TEKKIPIO EXPLOSION SHOOS THB MINE.
letter which he wrote to James E.
Mende, who resided at San Antouio at
that time, but has been engaged in
business in Alpine for several years.
The letter said:
A horrible and most astonishing
thing happened to me when 1 attempt
ed to explore the mine. My mozo
(servent), Pedro, let me down to the
bottom of the shaft, a distance of
about 100 feet, by means of a rope.
"The candle gave very poor light, but
I could see that a great deal of net ore
still remained in the workings, i bad
started to explore one of the drifts
when a noise like the bursting of a
thousand cannons sounded in my ears
and was followed by a most terrific
rush of air. which came from the drift
that I was about to enter.
"I was lifted off my feet and thrown
against the rock walls of the shaft
with such force that I was badly
bruised and almost knocked senseless.
The rush of ulr gradually subsided,
and as it did so there came echoing
'out of the murky drift one of the most
piercing and plaintive cries I have
ever heard. ' -
:: . "There was no response from above.
I yelled and yelled, but Pedro did not
come to the rope. I then realized that
he bad heard the mysterious demon
stratlon and bad tied In his superstl
tlous terror. ,
. "It was lucky that the rope was fas
tened to a mesqulte. trunk on the sur
face, as I was able to draw. myself ou
of the shaft band over hand, bracing
my feet against the walls. Just as I
reached the surface the underground
phenomena were repeated. -
"My Mexican was found at the home
of a sheep herder five miles away."
Mr. Boyd went to San Antonio to or
ganize an expedition to undertake the
work of exploring the mine. Before be
had got bis men together be died. , .
; Mr. Meade then took charge of the
expedition. They. spent three months
at the mine, but only one attempt was
made to explore the underground work
Ings, and that experience was so terri
fying that the men threatened to leave
If forced to make another effort.
Tbey sunk a shaft near the old one to
deptb of fifty feet, but the noises le
came so pronounced that the workmen
refused Jo go on with It, and the whole
project was abandoned. . . -
, Captain Louis 8efton was at the bead
of the latest expedition to the haunted
mine. He is one of the most prominent
stockmen In Texas and has a reputa
tion for great courage. In a spirit of
adventure be left bis ranch In Sutton
county a few days ago for the mine,
taking witb him a half dozen of. bis
cowboys. . f . ',
: They let the rope ladder down Into
the old shaft, and Captain Sefton and
two of his cowboys went down to the
bottom. . All was quiet, and they had
Just started to enter the drift n hen
the phenomena- suddenly broke forth
In all their fury. 1 - - -.
The three nuen were burled with
great force several feet and thrown
repeatedly against the jagged rocks of
the shaft It was only with the great
est effort that they could climb to the
curface. - Their bodies were covei-ed
with bruises, and their clothing was
torn.
"I am not superstitious," Captain
Pefton said In describing his experi
ences, "but If the Interior of that mine
is not an Inferno occupied by hellish
p!rits I won't believe that I see with
17 own eyes hereafter.'
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