Show I A story is told in a Boston dispatch through the Now York Sun which Is I I hard to believe The ship Ellen AHead A-Head just reached Boston from Manila i Ma-nila white I every member or the crrw WHS sick with malaria or dysentery I and the Captain C F Cann ot Tar mouth died The sallorH with the regular sailor superstition bollevcrl I there wan a Jonah on board and finally rtxcd upon n little mongoose on the ship Six sailors with Irons hentetl hi the gnlloy utovu attempted on June 30th to drive tho animal Into the sea Mipry onu of the auT I = UI bliian ant an-t h n tho t mongoohe Mfiapjjd From tho moment they vip bitten limo bailors bsun to Jmpioc In hi < ntili and soon 1 q they were entirely well Later they learned from two Filipinos on board that the mongoose Inhabits marshy ground and Is proof against malaria and swamp fevers Its bite In turn they were informed inoculated the sailors and had overcome the malaria In their systems The result was that the sailors changed their opinion and Instead of believing that the mongoose was 1 Jonah they look upon him as the savior of the crew and more ot them would fight to keep him on board than fought to drive him overboard |