Show 1 tr l i A MIRAGE AT SEA i 2 On her last Western voyage the steamship Phila- Phila f a j delphia sailing on a perfectly smooth sea sea and under J. J ja a gray and sunless sky ky gave the people on b board ard a 1 spectacle worth seeing Far ahead of the Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- I phia there was a dim smoke trail coming of course fit i from the funnels of some ship but the tale ship was below r J j tit the e horizon The commander of the he P Philadelphia told tolda Jf a passenger that he suspected that it was La Lorraine LorI Lor Lor- I J Hi raine raine e. e In a few minutes all uncertainty nty was taken f away aY for the ship was seen upside down in m the sky t and nd the passengers on her ller deck were walking as flies i f walk alk on the ceil ceiling in the beautiful v vision sion It was a wonderful mirage It was was was' the more strange str under such a sky and over such a a se sea One ne f 1 i t Yi J i can an hardly understand how the air air could be so re refracted refracted re- re re-I re as ris to tomake make the picture The passengers were in in plain sight and the officer on the bridge stood outmost outmost out most prominently one of the officers of the Phil Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- a del phia jokingly said that he could almost make out put the brand of cigarette that he was smoking On the Phil Philadelphia was James L L. Rogers Rogel's until i recently American General Consul at Shanghai Until Until Until Un Un- til his departure he was eng engaged ged in distributing food sent to China for the stricken famine He believes believes believes be be- that the relief sent saved the lives of people One incidental effect of the gifts has has has' been that they have killed the b boycott against American an goods |