The morning call., 1894-10-24
TEMPEST TOSSED.
Return of the Schooner
Evanelia.
BROTHER CASE WAS SICK.
And the Vessel Jumped About
too Much for Comfort.
SOME UNHAPPY MISSIONARIES.
1t Is Bad Time of Year for Small
Boats to Go on Long
Voyages.
BROTHER CASE WAS SICK.
SOME UNHAPPY MISSIONARlE.

The missionary schooner Evanelia, that
sailed from section of the seawall last
Saturday on voyage to the South Sea
Islands, with Brother Burton and his wife
and Brother Case and his spouse has re-
turned through the heads and is anchored
at Sausalito. Brother Burton was obliged
TO bring the little vessel back because a
fierce storm ragged outside the bar. The
Evanelia look water, likewise did her
crew. Wise mariners. who judged the
schooner by her tubby appearance when
she reposed by the city docks, shook their
heads and said. 81 told you so."
When the Recognized Church of the
Latter Day Saints donated $4,000 toward
the building of the Evanelia it did not
think that the craft would prove a reed
easily shaken by the wind. 1t was duly
believed that she would plunge boldly
through the storm, that the tempest and
the waves would be ridden as lightly as the
stormy petrol skins the surface of old
Neptune's whiskers. But the wind blew
and the com bers combed. Brother Case,
being a landsman TO :he manner born,
was disturbed inwardly, but declared that
he would never turn back. He calmly
faced the rollers and only thought of the
DOR naked savage.
But there is one species of pang that
twitches in spite of the mind cure; the
psng of seasickness. 1t is a pang tina,
passeth all understanding and registers
equally with the small tooth and the large
ache. 1t came to Brother Case simultans-
ously with the rising of certain seas and
bothered him whole lot.
When the Evanelia was towed out to sea
last Saturday the men on the wharf said
that no one was at the tiller. She described
astonishing geometrical figures on the sur
face of the bay and might have come to
grief had not Steward Niemann and
Brother Scott, the mate, suddenly dis
covered that something was wrong. Me
mann left the secluslon of the cabin and
turned steersman.
The sea, the sea. the open sea was
reached at last, and the Evanelia CON-
menced 10 dance on the tops of the waves.
| Brother and Sister Case dreamed sweetly
of the cornfields of Iowa. and Brother Scott
comforted them with cheering words OF
balmy days to come. But there were un-
mistakable signs of Brother Case desiring
TO lean over the DO rt rail.
! A big sea swept over the boat and buried
her. The cabins filled with water. and
! Sister Case and Sister Burton for the first
| time realized that going to sea IN 40-foot
| boat is not job calculated to improve
ones health. Then Sister Case had a
twang of discomfort that glued her to q
schooner's water bucket. All thought oi
the green fields of Lamont vanished into
the thipnest of thin air, and Sister Cass
was pronounced very i'll.
Brother Neiman n, who is not a Latter
Day Saint, but an apostle of the tribe!
who do bake bread for a livlIhood. de
clared that there was that within hin
which he felt obliged TO let out. lie could
contain himself no longer. The galley
stove swan in an imaginary sea, and pots
kettles and pans played tag with them.
selves. Brother Niemann came on decl
and joined Brother Case. who was by thi
time with b., head toward the keel an(
| his feet toward the maintOp.
Brother Burton. who is captain and wh,
is also a good navigator, held consulta
ton with Brother Scott and il was decided
to be bad weather for missionary work
Charity begins at home, so home they
came.
Whether the Evaneia will ever ventur,
on her perilous voyage or not is the ques
ton. She is perfectly seaworthy, bu
ought women to venture forth in a Graf
that is not large enough to comfortabl
accommodate any but yachting party
around the bay? Without auy desire t.
criticize too much, the maritime community