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Show Blast Have Tobncc". "Some people may not believe this," said Capt. Reynolds, when in a rem-.niscent rem-.niscent mood, "but I have known ships at sea to display the signals of listress when there was nothing at all che matter except that the men had run out of tobacco." At first glance ;his did seem somewhat of a mariner's avn, but when the captain went on to explain it appeared all clear. "When a ship sails she lays in so much tobacco to-bacco for each man with an allowance for any ship that may be met in mid-ocean mid-ocean which needs more. When the sailors run out of tobacco they become be-come restless and nervous and it is hard to keep them together. So, to be out of tobacco in mldocean is really a matter of distress and is relieved by any ship hailed. Once we saw a vessel ves-sel flying distress signals at a time when there was a heavy sea and it was with difficulty that we got a boat to her. All that was wrong was lack of tobacco, and we divided with her. It was no uncommon thing, at least twenty-five years ago, for ships to ba thus hailed." Omaha World-Herald. |