Seagoing Hoboes

Nearly every ship that has gone out of port in the past two months has had one or more stowaways on board. As a rule, captains do not object to one or two, but when it comes to half a dozen or more it is a serious matter. The coasters to northeru porte have been most patronized by stowaways, and now it is the usual thiug for the captains of the sfiïps to make a tour through the hold of their vessels to make sure that they will not have more of a crew than they can feed. Ön the last trip of the Enoch Arden uorth uine meu were stowed away in her hold when she was towed out of port, and they did not show themselves iintil the tug was well out of hailing distance. When the vessel reached Seattle, she was nearly bare of provisions. The stowaways ou ships uorth are all bound for the lumbes-egioiis of iugton or the mines ot British Columbia, where they hope to get work. Those who manage to get away from San Francisco on ships bouud elsewhere j seem to have uo deflnite end in view excent to keen movinsr if it does not