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Saturday,
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Tuesday,
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A SECTION.
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"TALKIES" AT SEA.
Innovation on the President Boats.
NOVEL SHOW.
the
The Dollar Steamship Company eyes with fear and despair. The are to be complimented upon their rolling of the ship and the sintting decision to instal "talkies" aboard of the sails against the masts their President liners. They have and rigging added to the eerie bul the silent films for some, little spell of that elemental inertia. time, but it is evidently the opinion Daily the molten sun burned its that the "talk" has come to stay, slow journey over them. Nightly and the change-over is now being the stars mocked them with their made. CARRIER OF A CURSE.
golden grandeur.
Last night, aboard the s.. Pre- Sometimes a ship's crew would aldent Madison, ahout sixty guests The hoodoo was more dreadedbe nearly out of their minds, (including representatives
the Flying Dutchman, nearly dying of thirst.. I gather-China Mail) were entertained at writes A. E. Cooper in the led that if anyone had blown a toy dinner, after which a demonstration, Glasgow Herald, and continues: trumpet they would have answer-of the new entertainment was given. His existence had яз much ed it gladly as the summons from Two Paramount films were shown, authority behind it and his story Gabriel. Always the end came in one being a short novelty reel, which. as much justification-how much, the same way. Beelzebub told the included songs by Chinese artistes, in your view, depends upon whe- truth in his sleep. He was a man and the "feature" SOUTH AMERICA (West Const) vin Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles, ther you are a blase, matter-of-with a curse upon him. Having "Sweetle" with Nancy Carroll in the a filma named Mexico & Panama.
fact fellow, or one who has gone discovered that the captain of his principal part. ANYO MARU
down to the sea in sailing ships. ship was taking home secretly a
The cloice of films Unlike Dutchman, the ruby of great value, he had tinctly fortunate, the main picture hoodoo did not dash into sight poisoned him, and the captain's having and vanish. He could not have comprehensive curse, of which he touches, the whole story, one of very humorous won his grim reputation so easi-was the object, had brought about college life, being realistically pre- ly. He was a stayer. He linger-disaster. Down came the cyclone, sented. ed with ships' crews till they were and down went the ruby, the ship, sick of the sight of him, till they and the crew, Beelzebub lived to prayed fervently that he would carry on the curse. die and be damned. Originally of i normal flesh and blood, he shrunk
Sunday, SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) vin Singapore, Cape Town & Ports,
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Monday, 5th May.
1st June.
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The voices, for the main art, could be heard quite clearly, and the musical numbers were much appreciated by the audience.
Cargo.
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Lite for a Life.
The installation on the President With the cause of their suffer. Madison' is the first to be put in on to a thing of skin and bone, fear-ing revealed, sailors on the hoodoo any of the Company's Trans-Pacific ed, reviled, ex-communicated. He ships wanted to punish the mur-liners, and one can say without was the spectral terror of the deror at once. He had confessed, bositation that the experiment will Bay.
The results of his sombre and air gave overwhelming evid
to a monstrous crime. Sky, sea, prove to be a popular success. regime were traditional in the ence of his guilt. A life for a life eighties of the last century, so was good law, and their own lives, WRECK PLUNDERED. that in gathering up the threads of were at stake. Justice and ven- his story from old salts afloat at geance cried out for action. Re Stripped of Fittings and that time and from benchcombers llection, however, idling among the palms of Mergui thoughts of possible consequences.
induced] Archipelago I do, not pretend to Who could tell what would hap be historically accurate or to u more than weave into a rough texture what may seem to icono clastic moderns to be the fabric The baptismal, name of the hoodoo was said to be Bell, but on most ships the sailors, always apt him Beelzebub and meant It Though the beginning of his carcer as a hoodoo is obscure as regards years, there is no dispute about the way it started.
HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP Via Singapore of these men's dreams. Colombo, Suez and Port Said.
AMUR MARU ANDES MARU
.... Thursday, 15th May.
Sunday, 8th June.
BIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES Via Saigon, Bingapore, masters of nomenclature, called
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Wednesday, 28th May.
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ho killed him? There Plundered of everything mov-1 was that comprehensive curse, able and with her back broken, which might be transferred to his the s.8. Cogandale, which ground- executioners. No one would take ed on the James and Mary Quick- the risk. So they prayed for the sands in the Hooghly on March death of Beelzebub. They pleaded 12, is to be blown up piecemeal. with him to hasten it, to jump. Hundreds of villagers, swarm- hang himself from the yardarm, boats, have removed every article, overboard, to cut his throat, toing round the vessel in country And he he would have liked to they could carry away. Doors finish it all, for the curse was have been wrenched from their constantly ringing in his ears, hinges and even the wooden making his life one long horror. planks of the deck have been sawn But he dared not, because some-through
taken where under the surface of the Souvenir hunters even went to ashore. Bay of Bengal his late captain the length of forcing the rivets In the last stages of exhaus and the men he had drowned were from their sockets. tion, he was picked up by a barque waiting for him. He was afraid A small police force was from floating wreckage in ap to meet them. Perhaps he less against the crowd. VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Yle Japan Ports from proximately latitude 16 north, thought he would elude them if he
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says the Statesman, for the What then
One day the gaunt crew of the Cogandale's Rs. 60,000 cargo ef happened on the barque hap-barque would see a ship drifting Aden salt is gradually vanishing pened on all the other vessels gullelessly into their malignant The villagers used buckets on the he joined. The old salts and the calm. The barque would hoist a lend of bamboo canes for scooping benchcombers spoke plaintively signal for water. A boat contain-it out of the hold. of their experiences after his aring Beelzebub then left for the The Cogandale is about a mile rival. His reputation became ship, and he was warned by the from the shore and is just on the known up and down the coasts, captain of the barque that he edge of the navigable channel. Ultimately, in order to persuade would be shot if he came back. With her stern already submerged men to sign on ships going He hid himself on the ship, and she is settling into through the Bay of Bengal board when the boat returned without sand.--
the quick- ing masters swore that Beelzebub him a light breeze filled the sails had "kicked the bucket."
of the barque and she moved The barque that first rescued northward out of that tragic him had run from Liverpool in a area: Beelzebub's new ship lay little over two months, and the be-calmed. So he was passed junk, was fined $10 this morning at Weng Shing, a foki on board a www.skipper calculated that she would from ship to ship.
make one of the smartest pass-
the Marine Court, when he appeared
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attend the Statistical Congress at October 20. the soft white clouds melted magi- gum a hundred years previously cally from the sky.
with the theft of, the ruby. He
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