Telegram-herald., 1889-06-09


tesss~ &C ssit soieAaiy 20 h1n2sslt, ssa
thsaxhs II rs ao1as 80 near bat shieh Be
could ast react: q his wifs Sad chllereR.
+ quietly aslssP Ih<Esor waiting az retaFn,
aBd II as buslasss Uhlch - other had
o. hand csaid grasp Sna sass froEa rais.
Bat for those beloved ones. snd ths
need he felt that be should i've for rhela.
death would have bsen a welcome relief
g AIS anguish. lie recalled stories q
shiDwreeksd msa znd women cliaging
al u gat l0ag 20 rock or frozen rigging
exposed 10 the asshiEg waves aud stEtTg
blast, ana hs resolved 70 Dc - brave IS
they.
gain and again he tried % extricste
himself aud again and again lie called
T VIII - tat ghost Of voice he had left lt
seemed a. II he must have been two or three
hours Ia ths water, and that he could not
sustain himself many minutes LONGER,
+ bat be changed the hands be held On By.
putting one after the other ia the water
10 keep them from freezing and stlll
clunx
Suddenly be heSrd voices, and "a
strange spisshing in the water. Looking
n the direction from which the s0unds
Z came he the read ,gieam Cf lantern
low On the Ice, and a moving human tx
ure welding something Ike heavy pole.
+ The pole would be drawn up, and then
! pushed cut again and brought down with
resOunding blow upon the new ice of
the canal. Herman also perceived an
+ other man with pole on the opposite
I eide. and lie knew they were breaking up
I the Ice, IN order - keep the channel open
/ foF the business of tie following day.
lie could hear distinctly their voices,
and every movement of the poles; he
+ could even see short pipe IN the mouth
F OF one, who stopped 70 take the lantern up
and move II along on the thick ice that
+ edged the canal. But he could no more make
+ himself heard than II they had been deaf.
I No doubt the crushing and splashins
I they made with their poles prevented
I them from hearing him; bat IL did not
I prevent him from getting into rage Of
/ impatience al their seeming stupi diiy.
"Will you let me drown herey you
idiots, he shrieked, and making last
| dangerous effort, he tried as he had tried
50 many times before, 10 chamber out.
Perhaps his rage inspired him; hut ons
Thug helped him more than rage. lie
laid hold of his overcoat; IL did not yield
as before To his hands; it was frozen down.
moment later he was on all fOurs on
the ice, dripping like a half-drowned
sheep, and unable, weak as he was, and
with the weight OF water he carried 10
rise 10 his feet.
At the same time the men heard him,
and the one Oh his side Of the canal ran TO
his assistance.
"Where in the did you come
from - nf. - tnfta.H ,s-ifb "a l..
able profanity, at the amazing spectacle
OF a human being crawling out of the
lake AT that hour OF the midwinter night.
"Don't cali it by that name till they've
warmed the water little" said Her
man. hoarse and shaking. why didn't
you come before? I've been yelling for
you this half hour"
I'VE haven't been on the ice five min
utes," said the man "Mr. Day" recogniz-
ing him and helping him up. "How did
you get ini"
81 ran into your internal canal" Her
man replied, somewhat inconsistent III
the choice of an epithet, with my tri-
cycle. Right here. Don't move that coat;
its frozen down, leave it to mark the
spot. Now get me home, you fellows"
The second man had by this time come tc
tNtll AEOuEU tine eiQ OI lAc CGUai. one
at each side. Make me run. | shall die
on your hands if you don't"
When Mrs. Day, still lying awake and
anxiously listening. heard voices and
footsteps on the garden walk few min
utes later, and looked out, il did not
occur to her as an explanation of the
strange sight She saw, that her husband
was leading" home two men in the con-
ventional fashion. She had too much
faith in his sobriety of character for that
unworthy suspicion; she knew at once
that some frightiul accident had hap
pened.
It was almost relief to find that Il was
nothing worse than "a little wetting," as
he assured her, in shuddering accents
and with numb lips, when the men
pushed him before them through the
door she flew to open, and he staggered i
into the dark entry. They followed, and
helped get him into the warm kitchen,
where she turned up the gas; dry coat
they had covered him with, fell off, and
she saw by his livjd face and half-frozen
hands and still dripping clothes what
pitable condition he was in, despite his
affected good spirits, and how near he
had been to perishing In the ice.
she bore up DraEely, however; the men
did their part, pulling off his boots and
heavy clothing and rubbing him dry
with towels; and it was not long before he
was in q warm bed, with a glass of some
thing hot and Il very grateful heart inside
of him. 1t WAS then a quarter to one
o'clock, and he was forced TO conclude
that he could not have been in the water |
half au hour, interminable as the time
had seemed.
Thanks to good nursing and a good con-
stitution, he was able 10 go out the next /
day and see TO the raising of his tricycle.
from its watery grave The men had /
taken care of his overcoat, but left other
marks 10 distinguish the spot. The water /
there was only about fifteen feet deep. and \
with the long poled ice-hooks of the com
pauy the machine was easily found and 4
fshed out. /. was sent to the shop to he
overhauled and cleaned and il came out
Of the process not much worse than the
owner himself, for their mid winter bath
in the lake
One Hundred Years iro.
Fortunately there were no sewing ma