Superstition Of The Sea

There is a story told by sailors of a haunted ship that Uoed to sail out of Liverpool. The last voyage shemade as an ordinary ship with no ghostly accompaniment, she had asupercargo j who ivas a violimcst. He used to taks his violin and go up into the main crosstrees, where he would sit and ■ play, his favorito tune being "The Girl I Loft Behind Me." On this voy, age the supercargo became insane and jumped o erboard. Ever after that occurrence on stormy nights, when wind and waves were high, and the ship groan ed and creakedas shöStruggled through the waves, the si.ilors, flounderiug about on the dark, slip: pery decks, heard above the bowling of the tenipest the sound of a violin playing "The Girl I Left Behind Me" in the main crosstrees. Not many years ago there died in a little Cai:e Cod fcown a retired sea captain. Once when he followed the sea he carne across a sinking bark off Cape San Eoqne. A gale was blowing at the time and a heavy sea was running. Added to this night was coming on, and then tho poor wretches begged fiiinticaliy to be taken off, the captain sailed away and left them to fate. The memqry of the doonicd crew of the sinking bark, stretching their hands out appealingly and watching his ship sail away with despairing eyes and ghastly faces, linnered with the heartless captain all the rest of his life, and in his declining days he frequently complained that the crew of the bark were baunting hint, and said that soine day the ves sel itself would sail into harbor and take him away. Ore stormy winter aftereoon the old man lay on his bed dying. Just a.s the ebb tide began to run he sprang up and shouted: "Dou't! don't! 1 11 stand by tillmorning. I'll take you all off!" and feil back dead. The watchers by 1 1 ï . - bedside said atterward that through the window which overlookod the bay they saw a bark come sailing into the . harbor at that moment, and then vanished before their eyes. - ' butia Herald.