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Show A Tit AVIU.lt tell tho following story t Whllo returning from Kurojvo ou a WhltuRtarstoamer last summer the cupbiln told roe a story of how ho onto utilized Hindoo superstition to have his ship worked. Ho was In command of au Iiidlaniuu, and tho majority uf tho crew were Hindoo. A long na thu weather waa warm they che-orfully did their work, but wheu u cold storm lalnn up they positively seemed to shrivel and within a short tlmo betook Ihcmselvi to tho hold, from which they could not Isi driven by threat or persuasions. Tho captain was at his wits' end, but uddenly a bright thought struck him. He renumbered Iho Hindoo horror of tho pig, conlait with which mean loss of caste. There haj pencil to boawell-fud porl er on ' board, which ho took from It jieii, tlH a ropo to its leg and loworo! it Into the strikers' quarlers, Tho tiled was ileo lrlt.il. With a wild yell every man rushed to the deck to levo'd contact with the unclean renlmal nnd there waa no further dlfllculty lu getting them to work In the coldest weather. |