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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1896)
GHOST OF THE "PENGUIN." BI WHJ, U8ENBBB. For more than a week tins Penguin had laid at anchor in the little harbor at Basils. She was a small schooner, a , weather-beaten, lubberly craft, with her yards splintered nnd ene of her masts broken, yet she looked strongly picturesque, standing with bare poles agamst toe naming sunset sky, as I allowed my little boat to drift before the gentle brecie. Aboard the craft there were no signs of life visible, and I knew that Mug gins must be ashore, tilling himself with rum, as was his custom when Capt. Darke was absent. My old friend, the captain, had been beatii!" about the Mediterranean with his lubberly schooner for half a score of years, and so he might still have been engaged, but for the arrival of a letter at Bastia telling him of a newly-inherited fortune left hhn by as uncle who had been living in Florence. Hut upon receipt of the goods new he was off at once, leaving his disabled schooner in charge of Muggins, an old sailor who was more honest than sober. . As my boat drifted alongside the Penguin I perceived a rope trailing over the port side, and, making my lit tle craft fast, I drew myself upon deck. I looked about me, but no one was visible. It waa evident that I was the only soul aboard the Penguin. I threw myself on a camp-stool in the shadow of the sail and fell to regard ing the range of dark hills that rose back of the romantic little citv. Pres ently I was interrpted by the sound of oars, and a few moments later Mug- gins' tawny head appeared over the rail. He started when he saw me, and was about to beat a hasty retreat when my voice stopped nun. "Bless me, I thought you were ghost, I did, by the powers!" he said, seeming well pleased that his fears had not been realized. "Well, now, what the deuce is there about me, Muggins, to make you think me a ghost ?" 1 asked. in, it isn t that you look like a ghost, .Mr. Eaymond," he returned, apologetically. "But, you see, when a cove is looking to see a ghost, he's pret ty certain to take t he first live thing his eyes tall on for what he s looking for." inen you were expecting to see something of the supernatural kind?" "That's a fact, Mr. Raymond, though 'tain't often a cove is believed when he tells such a atory. There's a ghost on this old hulk, or else I'm losing my eye sight." - , "And you really believe in such non i sense?" "I believe what I sees, that's all." - "What did yon Bee?" "Well, since you ask, I don't mind telling you. You see, since Capt. itorke went away and the crew was dis charged, the Penguin has been under my care, and I have been sleeping aboard the vessel nnd spending most of my time here. Iast night about two o'clock I woke, thinking I heard some thing moving near me. I was peeping in. my cot on the deck, and as I looks about me I sees a woman, all in white, moving like a specter right by the hatchway. While I was watching, it seemed to sink into the deck and disap pear. I'm not the man to run from a single night-prowler, but I felt queer dike at this, and can't see how a woman could be on the Penguin. Thinking she might have descended the comimuion- ladder, I goes down with a lantern, but Suds nothing. Then I looks all over the ship with the same result. I slept no more that night, and though I look niter the ship during the day, I shan't sleep here again if I know myself, call it ghost or what you will." With this he picked up a lantern and descended to his boat that lay along side. "Then I shall spend the night here , nnd lay your ghost for you," 1 said. "You'll greatly oblige me if you will," he returned, "though I'll be blowed if I think you succeed. Good evening, Mr. Raymond. I'll drop alongside early in the morning and see how you have fared. There's the key to my cabin," he added, tossing the key upon the deck. "You'll find pipes and plenty of tobacco, and a. sip of rum in a decanter, if you look close. 'Now again good night to you.". - His oars dipped into the water, and he was gone. Dusk was already settling over the water.- itookascutoatliedeckandlit n cigar, and began running over in my mind some of the events that had be fallen me since my arrival in Corsica. For more than three months I had l)-cn staying in the romantic little island, finding a restful charm in its quiet seclusion t hat was a pleasing con trast to the life I had been spending for the past two year, in the gay capital of the restless and pleavure-loving French. One is not likely to expect to meet with adventures of the thrilling kind in tiie peacef ul precincts of Bastia, yet something bordering upon this had - come to my lot less than a month be fore. For the amateur artist the quaint lit tle city will furu'tfh many subjects for the pencil and brush, and I had made good my opportunities since my ar rival. The most prized among my collec tion was the portrait of Veda, the little Coisican fruit-seller. There was some thing fascinating in her very pose, and the dark hetiuty of her face had drawn me to her as if by some subtle witchery. One evening, as I was strolling thiouh the streets, I heard a cry of mcrli.i fcircr come from.tlHMSourt of a ni'r.cd l:u!ldinrf wli3ro several poor :t.:rX'.'.at h:il taken their abode, and en lei v." htr.tiljr I perceived an aired v. c-.m, v ithcrei hag, with uplifted !.r.!f.?, fa t'.y? fqj,tff striking a girl who . . ,3 c-eu-fl.fjj the corner of the wall. I stiuci4ic knife aside, and the trttolil-M inurusnst fUa, Uatiiif m face to face with Veda, the Intended victim. She only paused a moment to press a kiss upon my hand; then she slipped through a gap in the wall and was g'oiie, That was the lust 1 had st-en of her. To my inquiries regnrdicg her where abouts I received n information, ex cepting a bit of her past, history which told me that she had belonged to a wealthy and infiueutial family, and that she had received a finished educa tion. But reverses had conic; her fa ther had fallen a victim to a dreadful vendetta, nnd she had finally been left a penniless orphan. I waa deeply interested In her, but no oue could give me the slightest clew as to whither she hathfted. Still I had lingered about the places I used to see her. Was I in love with the little Corsican beauty? Her face would come before my men tal vision asleep or wnking, bringing a sweet sensation I had never before experienced; nnd yet I tried to dismiss her from my mind. I sat' smoking for some hours upon the deck of thu Penguin, watching the yellow lights dancing in the romantic little city, and drinking- iu the fresh, sweet air of the night that stole up from the Mediterranean. It was about 11 o'clock when 1 stretched myself upon the cot which Muggim had placed upon the deck. I fell asleep soon after, and dreamed of Muggins' ghost. It seemed that some strange pres ence came to me a woman, beautiful beyond any dream; and just as I reached out to touch her she vanished, leaving only a faint odor of some strange, sweet perfume. I awoke sud denly with that inexplicable sensation that sometimes tells us of the unseen presence of another. : I sat up and looked about me in vague bewilderment. The moon had risen out of the sea and was flooding the deck with its mellow radiance. As my mind grew more composed I detected a subtle perfume on the night air, the same that had come to me in my dream. Was it only theeffect of my imagina tion? No; there could be no mistake as to Its reality. Something white lay at my feet; 1 picked It up: it was a del icate piece of lace embroidered linen, and exhaled the breath of perfume that had before greeted my senses. While I stood bewildered at 1 lie amaz ing circumstance, I perc. ived a white form emerge from the hatchway nnd move forward, with a slow, gliding movement. I stood immovable, watching the fig ure as it came toward me. As it drew near, I perceived that it was a girl, and as the moonbeams fell on the pale face I recognized it as belonging to Vedi Dorloe, the litue fruit seller. Her eyes were wide open, and staring vacantly ahead in a way peculiar to the somnambulist. She was o sleep walker! The thought came to mc like a flash. Yet, what could account for her presence aboard the Penguin ? Without attempting to answer the puzzling question, I started toward the figure, but as I did so, the sound of something lUvedhe. dropping of an oar in a boat came from over the port. Then moment later the dark figure of a woman tlm same Iliad seen makingt he assault on thelittlefruit-seller slipped noiselessly over the rail. She paused for a moment to glance about the ship, then, with a cry of rage that might have proceeded fom some wild ani mal in deadly combat, she leaped upon the unconscious girl, the blade of a long knife glinting in the rays of the moon. Housed to action by the sight of the? murderous intruder, I leaped quickly forward, and, before the knife descended to do its deadly work, I caught the hand that held it. But If I reckoned on an easy victory in subduing my adversary, I soon dis covered my mistake, for the woman, though aged to all appearances, seemed to possess the strength of theBtrongesit man, and, finding herself foiled in her murderous attempt, she turned upon me witii the fierceness of a panther. Coming unexpectedly as the attack did, it caught me off my guard, and before I realized my peril, the hand that held the kn if e was wrenched from my grasp '. then there was a swift blow, a keen pain in my shoulder as the blade en tered; then a mist gathered before my eyes, and I sank unconscious upon the deck. When my senses returned it was broad daylight; and I was lying on a cert in Muggins' cabin, the beautiful but troubled face of Veda bending over mc. It was about a week before 1 wai able to get ashore, and, though I had a trained nurse from Bastia, Veda re fused to leave me entirely in the hands of another, Well, in that week I had learned to love the little Corsican beauty with such an intense devotion that I could not bear the thought of separation. Her life had been one of tails and misfortunes, The old hag who had twice sought the life of Veda, was prevented from taking my life by the timely ar rival of Muggins, who lutd come over to the vessel in his boat just before day break 'to see how I was faring. Find ing herself thwarted, 'she, leaped into the bay, and was drowned before she could be rescued by Muggins. She was the. lastof the Baralodo fam ily, between whom and the Dorloa a dreadful vendetta hod existed, and H was to escape the vengeance of the old woman that Veda had stowed herself aboard the Penguin, hoping to be car ried to some foreign land, and thus es cape the violence and death that con stantly threatened her, Veda and I were married, and a month later sailed for America in the Penguin with my old friend Capt. Darke, who had returned and had the vessel repaired. Muggins was much elated ewer the happy ending of my attempt to "lay" his ghost, though he always declared I hod made a most lucky failure, and instead of laying the tfhost, I had try Mlf tan kfH ltnti t. Mfir, i SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. Uenerully speaking, wc say that the eurvut lire of the earth amounts to actuil soven inches to the statute mile; It h exactly tl.'."J Inches, or 7.SW3 inches for n geographical mile. Scientists say that no negro has ever tamed an elephant or any wild animal, though negroes frequently perforin with wild animals after they have been cowed into subjection by white men. Lightning is zigzag because, as It condenses the air in the immediate ad vance of its path it flies from side to side in order to pass where there is the least resistance to Its progress, A gray, gteen or yellowish green sunset indicates rain. A red sunset meuns rain. A deep blue slty means fair weather. A growing whiteness, storm. Unusually bright or twinkling stars mean rain. Prof. Barnard's photograph of the milky way shows the existence of 500,- 000,000 suns, each supposed to be the center of a system of planets, where hitherto It wns thought to contain only about 80,000,000 such suns. A female codfish will lay 45,000.000 eggs during a single season. Piscato rial authorities say that were It not for tile work of the nnturnl enemies offish, they would till nil the available space in the seas, rivers and oceans. Snow appears white because It is an aggregation of an infinite number of minute crystals, each reflecting all tin' colors of the rainbow; these colors, uniting before they reach the eye, enmv It to appear white to every normal eye. The nautical term "trade winds" applies to constant winds which blow at sea to the distance of about 30 de grees on both sides of the equator. On the north of the equator they blow from the northeast and on the south from the southeast. GATHERS SKULLS. A Medical Student Who llbUM Ills Lite lo Get Them. About 46 miles below Portland, ou the Oregon side of the Columbia, the broad expanse of water flows without a ripple, and Is deep and as still as death. The bank rises high above the water's iovel ami stretci.i-s away back to the timber line. Just above this point is "Coffin rock," which was the starting place to "the happy hunting grounds' of the various Oregon tribes of Indian.' but the very hijru water of 1862 swepi toinn rocK ot mi or Its deposits to tin point below. It is a lonely place, with out sound, save the call of the crickc; in the grass, or the hoot of the screech owl nestled in the adjacent timber. Here the overflowing waters of nenriy a half-century ugo lodged the remain! of many trllxis high anil dry, litcnili; moving the last resting-place of the!, dead, for no Pacific coast tribe en-, buried their dead below the surface ol the earth. Some hedged tlieni nbou: with rocks, above the ground, leaving the face upward and exposed. Olhr.; put a bark covering over tiient, v !;: others were suspended from limbs :,, left in the forks of trees. -Tims- hai robbed every form of Its substarree.nnd left only the whitened bones and bleached skulls. Students, dentists and physicians lire eager to secure these trophies fur articu lation. So great is the demand that at least one man has for years folhnvcd the hazardous business of gathering these skulls for the market. It is risky, for the few remaining Indiansstlll keep vigil over the remains of their dead, and to be caught in the act would mean a prison in the recesses of the neighbor ing mountains, followed by a death of slow tenure, for no quarter or mercy would Le shown to the victim. Still knowing this, Howard Clause, a re cluse, nightly risks his life to gather these grinimig, wnitened skulls, anil every nov,- nd tiien a box of large and small slMills are shipped from Portland. ' Appreciated mid enjoyed by any Intel Ore., to the various noted seats of , """'l1; eve" "'""Kh he knew medical and dental learning in the east. 'e " iiotlilrignf bcieiice. ,an r rune seo ( ii, WOMAN'S IMPULSIVENESS. It Often Proves to He IIr Wors, JCnemy. If a thoughtful woman were asked; "What is the gresitext cib-bc of your sex.' she m;g;u svi.l nnawer: "im pulse." It is responsible f r almost all the mistakes made by tiic ,rj-ood-licarted among us. ilny it not be wifely saiil that a few minutcK' though! before speech' or aetion would prevent, most fatal blunders? Many of are !:; pos itive bondage to our bird-likequlrhnmii to feel, to show our feeling, to retort or to respond. If v.v arc hurt we must immediately "give ourj-clves uivay," as the phrase runs, if not by hitter speech at least by loolc and manner; yet re flection frequently brings the keenest regret for the lost dignity, the betrayed secret. Many a one has wrecked her own happiness for tijc want of the pa tient stoicism which would have led her to stand aside for awhile watching events until they brought with theni her opportunities. F.vcn when we ar" happy it is not always well to let the bright Btream bear us away rudderless. The impulsive manifestation it affec tion, the hasty proposal of marriage, the hastier acceptancehave they never proved the beginnings of misery? Or has a rash word never sundered tirue lovers, true friends? If these things are true It is likewise true that the fault in the commencement has been that of feminine impulsiveness. The de fect Is a generous one, and, therefore, commoner with us than it Is with men. o that it handicaps us unfairly in the struggle of life. And truly it is a weary task to be always "with a hor.t of petty maxims preaching down" one's heart. But we must do It; either we must, rule feeling or feeling will rule us. It Is n "oou servant, but a bad master. 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