Show CHINESE BANSHEE CHASES BIG SHIP ACROSS THE OCEAN The respective merits of or a chow dogan dog an and a sn In n laying laying- a Chinese banshee In the Indian ocean were brou brought ht to light when the British steamship Schuylkill l arrived in n New York Just wh why a ban banshee should hould wander so far tar from Crom the shrouded mist mountains mountains moun moun- of Kerr Kerry and n that too on account account account ac ac- ac- ac count of a heathen Chinee is a ques question tion llon hard to solve but take it Il from the officers of or the Schuylkill it did Like all fat far a I estern steamships the thc crow crew consists principally of ot Chinese coolies two forty of oC whom call her home While in the China sea last December one Wet Wei Tok Tolt Tell roll overboard and was drowned This was con considered by the thc crew ere as its hs a most unlucky y circumstance It probably proba- proba bl bly would have been for a II seaman of ot my lily race but the Chinese declared that as DS Wet Vel Tok's bones could not be bo wrought brought to the land of ot his ancestors to tore re rest cat t peacefully evil e would follow fol- fol low ow the Schuylkill There Piece was much of ot Incenso and scattering of or ittle red reel papers overboard The evil c spirIts would have to stop to collect ach each piece of ot red paper and would be beo beso so 80 o much delayed that the they could coul not catch atch up with tine the vessel They The scattered scattered scattered scat scat- so much that U up to the time Ume the Schuylkill left Singapore on January Januar 6 the evil 11 spirits had not yet ct caught up Then they put on a sprint On the night of February 13 while the he Schuylkill f l was wan reeling off orr six It knots knot through the calm waters of ot the Indian ocean the officer on watch was aroused by squeals of terror and a moment later Vou Tee To bounced up the ladder to the tho bridge and with teeth chattering like castanets pointed out ut a mysterious phosphorescent glow off the thc port bow A A. weird whistling and anal groaning came from the direction of or orthe the unearthly light The Chinese be began an to throw over o flurries of f red paper devil U stoppers stop top stoppers toppers pers but ut without result Aa Ali A a final measure Vou Tee Tec picked up tip the pet chow do dos dog of William Fitzgibbon the second officer and ca cast t the tiro howling animal into tho the sea ca The second officer officer came camo on deck cleck time to sec see his pet pct And then the snatch snatch- block came camo Into action h Wielded by his brawny arms tho the heavy block rose rose roseand and tall foil on n the fan bad of ot II Chin Chia who promptly forgot ot el ei I Tok in their theil efforts to escape As the last man disappeared through the tha o door th the hl whistling stopped Tho rho sub subdued Celestials Ccle declared that the chow do dog ha had been accepted by In the evil 11 spirit but holds holds- that tine the timely Int intervention r nUon of or his snatch- snatch block save saved tho the day da day Pittsburgh Dis Dis- patch |