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CREW WAGES DEADLY RACE WAR, SNAKES

BREAK LOOSE, AND YAKS CHASE OFFICERS

cars, Chinese and Hindus, and oh!

how they loved one another before

we were a day at sea. It was just

New York. Heave-ho, me hearties!

Gather round and listen to Capt.

Grant while lie- spins his latest deep

sea yarn. Oh, yes, it's true every

word. Capt. Grant of the good ship

Brilliant has Tiad salt in his whiskers

these 40 years, and has-the respect of

al lwho know him.

When the Brilliant reached here

after a sensational voyage of 115 days

from Hongkong, the captain told his

tale.

"There was something doing every

hour from the day we left Victoria

Island," he said.

"My Norwegian crew deserted ship

for a big drunk at Hongkong and I

recruited the best I could find Las-

A BLESSING

r.

"Your wife doesn't sing as- much as

she did a few years ago, does she?"

"No. We have two children now to

take up her time."

"What a blessing children are,

aren't they?"

o o

Admiral Prince Henry ot Prussia,

brother of the kaiser, has invented

and patented an electrical device for

cleaning windows of automobiles in

rainy or frosty weather. The device

is set in .operation by the pressing of

a button.

one terrific fight after another, night

and day.

"But that was child's play along

side the events following the ship's

'arrival in tropical waters. One after

noon about 3 o'clock the entire crew

rushed on deck like madmen and

went up the masts into the rigging,

splitting their throats with yells.

"I hurried down to the deck. There

I saw several objects squirming near

to the deckhouse. Fqur boxes, con

taining 200 cobras and other venom

ous reptiles, consigned to the New

York zoo, had broken'from Iheir fast

enings and the -whole mess ,of snakes

was loose! Well, do you think I could

get one of those crazy sailors down

out of the rigging to help Trill those

snakes? Not on your life. My offi

cers and I got clubs and we killed

them and we were just three we"eks

on the Job ! The snakes wiggled into

dark crevices everywhere from cock

pit to forecastle and we worked night

and day chasing them. The crew

stayed in the rigging most of that

time!

, "We had just about gotlhe snakes

cleaned up when five yaks 'began to

suffer from the terrific heat in the

Straits of Sundae. We took; 'em from

their cages and, by gosh, they sud

denly went mad and chased us all into

the rigging again. One of the officers

got a gun and we finally killed the

neat-crazed beasts and threw them

overboard. v

"The factional -waning among the

different .nationalities in the crew

kept up and every day I expected

murder.

"I've been at sea a good many

years, but never have I seen anything

to equal the excitement of this voy

age. The next time t take a mixed

crw it "won't be yellow and brown, bo-

Mievemel'

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