Valdez daily prospector., August 16, 1913, Image 3

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A LIVELY TIME AT SEA.
Whan tha Huga Apa Breka Looaa and
Triad to Run tha Ship.
Among the thrilling experiences
that have happened on shipboard
the one that befell Captain H. L.
McKay is not the least remarkable.
Captain McKay recounts the story
himself in the New York World:
We were trading from Singapore,
Hongkong and San Francisco. At a
small place in Borneo we had taken
on a consignment of anfinals, among
which was a huge orang outang that
stood six feet on his hind legs. 1
thought the bars of his box were
not very strong, but the man in
charge of the animals laughed at my
fears.
Like all big apes captured in ma
turity, this fellow was stubborn and
would not eat. The hungrier he got
the more he raved and tore at his
bars. On the fourth day we ran
into a terrific hurricane. It almost
set the boat on its beam ends. The
storm increased the orang outang’s
fury, and his yells became louder
and louder.
About midnight I left the bridge
in charge of Lowrie, the first mate,
and went below to try to get a wink
of sleep. I had hardly closed my
eyes when one of the sailors on
watch came rushing in with his face
as white as chalk.
“The big ape’s broken loose!” he
cried.
I snatched up my gun and rushed
on deck. The wind almost took me
off my feet, and the seas were wash
ing across the decks. Occasional
flashes of lightning lit up the night.
I looked down from the bridge, but
could see no sign of the orang ou
tang. Then I heard a terrible com
motion and cries for help.
“He’s breaking into the galley,”
said Lowrie, “trying to get the cook.
The rest of the crew have locked
themselves up in the fo’cas’le.”
The man in charge of the animals
had come on deck by this time, and
gun in hand he started toward the
ape. A moment later a shot rang
out, then came a scream and an
other shot.
Then a flash of lightning lit np
the deck, and I saw that the orang
outang had the keeper round the
waist and was dragging him aft. I
told Lowrie to take liis gun and fol
low me. The second mate had come
up and we left the bridge in his
charge. We clattered down the lad
der to the deck and ran after the
ape. I fired at the animal’s broad
back, but the shot made no impres
sion. Then Lowrie fired, and I fired
again. One of the shots hit the
mark, for the orang outang dropped
his burden and swung round on us.
Still firing, Lowrie and I began to
retreat along the swaying deck.
Lowrie ran up the bridge ladder
ahead of me, and I had just grasp
ed the hand rail when the orang ou
tang got hold of me by the sleeve
of my coat. I thought my end had
come.
But just as the beast caught me a
wave came over the side of the ship
that fairly smothered me. 1 clung
with all my strength to that hand
rail. I could still feel that viselike
grip clutching my coat. Then sud
denly I felt the grip torn loose. I
turned just in time to see the huge
orang outang, thrashing his long
arms furiously about, washed over
the side of the ship.
The animal keeper was not seri
ously hurt, and I escaped with a
bad shaking up, but I never want
to carry another orang outang on
any vessel of mine.
Clouded the Wedding.
He had attended his partner’s
wedding, and at t.he reception he
stepped gallantly forward to pay his
respects. “I hardly feel like a
stranger,” he said in his sweetest
tones, addressing the bride. “In
fact, I feel as though I ought to be
well acquainted with my partner’s
wife, since he has so often done me
the honor to read me extracts from
his dear Susie’s letters.” The faces
of the husband and the speaker were
studies as the bride drew herself up
and said, emphatically and distinct
ly: “I beg your pardon, sir. My
name is Helen.”
' A Life Saver For Some One.
It was their first quarrel.
“What,” demanded the young
wife angrily, “have you ever done
for humanity? I don’t believe you
ever did anything to save one of
your fellow men from suffering, did
you ?”
“Yes,” said the young husband.
“I saved at least one man from a
terrible fate.”
“What did you do ?”
“I. married you.”—Philadelphia
Ledger.
Obedient.
Policeman (to street musician)—
Have you a permit to play on the
streets ?
Musician—No, sir.
Policeman—Then accompany me.
Musician—Certainly, sir. What
do you wiah to aing?—New York
Times.
A TORRENT OF GERMS.
Let Loom In tho Open Air, They
Would Be Practically HarmleM.
Suppose a madman obtained/pos
session of the many millions of dis
ease germs stored away in the cul
ture tubes in the numerous bacteri
ologists’ laboratories in New York
city and cast them loose in the
streets or, because of an explosion,
the same deadly germs were sent
adrift. What would happen?
This question was put to the di
rector of the research laboratory of
the health department, after several
persons had had it put up to them,
each in his own way advancing what
would probably and possibly hap
pen.
Some of these persons figured
that the air would become poison
ed; that men, women, children and
even animals would be stricken with
the tiny microbes, and that in an
incredibly short time the streets
would be filled with pale and hag
gard citizens, dying by thousands.
Quarantine and health depart
ments would become helpless or use
less, they say. Business would come
to a standstill, and in what had
been a community of healthy, active
citizens there would be windrows
of corpses, from which a pestilence
the like of which history has never
known would spread everywhere.
That there is not the slightest
likelihood this ever could happen is
the opinion of the bacteriologist,
who, commenting upon this imagin
ed condition, says:
“What would happen , if a bottle
filled with disease germs were bro
ken or were scattered from a build
ing? Why, nothing so far as the
citizens were concerned. Whether
scattered from a building or drop
ped in the street, the result would
be the same. The entire outfit of
germs would die in the course of
half an hour. The sunlight would
kill them, or, if there were no sun
shining, then the air would accom
plish the same result, although not
in the 6ame time.
“The chance of any one being in- I
fected by the germs would be about
one to a thousand. In the first
place, one must consider that these
so called terrible germs are abso
lutely harmless unless they enter
the system through the mouth and
in that fashion get into the blood.
One might cover himself from hand
to foot with the little things, but so
long as they did not get into the
blood there would be no danger of
contracting any disease.
“Of course if some maniac man
aged to got hold of a great quantity
of typhoid or diphtheria germs and
spilled them into the reservoir the
probabilities are that a great
amount of harm would result, but i
taking matters on the whole I don t
think the public need lie awake
nights in dread of a horrible and
all enveloping cloud of unfettered
germs.”—New Y’ork Press.
Made Sure It Was Used.
An old farmer and his wife, noted
for their'niggardliness, had a cus
tom of allowing the servant only
one match to light the fire with each
morning.
One morning the match failed to
kindle, so the servant went to their
bedroom door and asked for another
one.
A whispered consultation was
held between the two, then audibly
the wife said:
“Will you risk her wi’ anither
ane, John?”
“I doot we’ll hae tae risk her,
Janet,” replied John, “but be sure
an’ seek a sicht o’ the ane she got
last nieht.”—Glasgow Times.
Rudyard Lake.
In the Staffordshire district of
England is Rudyard lake, which
gave its name to Rudyard Kipling,
for it was on a picnic there that
Lockwood Kipling, a designer in a
pottery factory at Stoke, met to
marry Miss Macdonald, daughter of
the Wesleyan Methodist minister at
Burslem. From the place of their
meeting came the novelist’s Chris
tian name. The two other daugh
ters of the Methodist minister in
the potteries married the artists
who were to become Sir Edward
Burne-Jones and Sir E. J. Poynter.
Discouraged.
“That last thing you sent in was
good,” said the editor; “we all en
joyed reading it very much.”
“Well, in that case,” said the
youthful poet, “I take back what I
said in the letter I wrote to you
yesterday about my determination
never to send you any of my work
again.”
The editor slowly shook his head.
“Don’t do that,” he murmured.
“That letter is what I referred to!”
Easing His Grouch.
Goodfellow (with newspaper)—
Here’s an old bachelor who died
and left all his money to the wom
an who rejected him.
Cynicus—And yet they say there
is no gratitude in the world.—Bos
ton Transcript.
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