Show HE THE OMEN A ballora Sa llora superstitious ilium prediction or of alq hl sister followed follows d by ula own death of sailors bai lors superstitions superstition d ibe alio llio geteian lighthouse keeper josh acoves of sea iea islo isle city reminds mo me of till nn incident inc ulcia that happened halt a century two bigo off tile five fathom bank li lightship m which a sailors predict prediction ion bawd based on in an cinca resulted fatally to the prophet himself A bright winter mo riling had bad caused the crow crew of tile the lightship to row a short distance away in a small email boat in search of codfish which aie nery mary abundant off the capes in winter time A few hours fishing resulted iu in a goodly catch and a leburn was made to tile tho lightship the fish were cleaned and the refuse tb thrown rown overboard but a calm sea with not a breath of air to disturb it caused the refuse tod to drift in a circle around the fhil toward noon a largo flock of geese came in sight and settled under the lightships very bows and commenced to teed feed the waterfowl became vory tamo tame suid and swam chattering and hissing close to the ships sides josh crowell a grizzled old mem her bor of tho the crew shook check his head bead and predicted death to some ancon one on board within 21 24 2 1 hours ho be said that whenever geese became so tame taine as to feed around a vessels bow or stern it was an unfailing omen of impending death on board crowells companions laughed at his fear but lie he told them to bide their time toward noon a strong ralo gale came out of tho the foreast Do roast and kicked up a heavy beav y sea crowell was on tile the forward or bow watch many mady of tho the crew were in the mall main cabin below enjoying a social game of euchre checkers or dominos dor when suddenly they heard tho the sound of a chain lunning rapidly through the he starboard bow scup pois we blushed on deck iu in dismay thinking the windlass gearing g had given way tile the sight bight witnessed will never be forgotten crowell had bad been baug caught lit in tile the relief chain and gionni around the rapidly rev revolving revolved olviD 9 windlass his death was instant his hia omen camo came true new york herald |