The Saint Paul globe., 1900-11-25

the morning a turtle hove in sight.
Inc ehronicler in the law case doesn't
tell OF the efforts to get the turtle, but
suillce 1t to say that 1t was landed in
tne yawi and killed. The turtle was a
Goosend IN truth, for it lasted until the
twelfth day.
1t is easy to speak of so many days
coming and going, but to describe the
suHerlhgs during those twelve days
Is not Within the bounds of human eff
lott. what then must have been the
physlcd ands mental pangs of the suf-
Iefers when another sunset came on,
ana another and another. Each morn
noon and eve found them weaker than
eeIofe and With the waning of physical
strength, horrible things were whispered
from one end of the yawl to the other.
VICTIM WAS CHOSEN.
The men had now ceased to look for
sHlps or lapd Or sea birds or anything
else. 1t cost too much effort They pre-
Ierred to lie down in the yawl and
cream deliriously of the past. The pangs
of thirst We're not as great as those of
munger. Rain had fallen several times
ana a considerable amount had been
caught in the 7ofl-skin capes This had
TASTED until the fourteenth day After
mat there wassneither food nor water
Nineteen days were the men afloat and
sun no change. Another sunset; another
dawn. Now all were desperate, ready
LOT anything. Again there was ominous
whispering between man and man. The
Youngest man in the boat was little
more than youth, being only eighteen
years old. He was the weakest and vet
q the most desperate. He haG been drink
ing salt water, which had only served to
make him weaker. Tt was he who dared
to speak UP first
Men, said ahe, in a cracked voice,
let cast lots to see who dies
No sooner said than done. Hunger
was king. A man took some paper out
OF pocket, tore it in bits and numbered
each bit
The man Who gets number one dies"
said hei and no +one answered but
reached eagerly for the hat wherein the
numbers had been placed.
The boy-his Eame was Brooks, by the
Way-got number one.
I'm glad of it," he said, but his smile
did not look as if he. meant it,
FWhou kill the bOy?" was the next
question
No one would kill him
Lets cast lots" was proposed.
Again papers were secured and num-
bered and distributed. Again one of the
men secured an un!uc!1y number.
Hurry up said one man, do the
job quickly"
Eyes. don't let him suffer" said
another
Here's knife said q third.
SLAYER WAS A HERO.
Just then the =boy rolled oyer and it
was seen that he was unconscious. He
had heard the conversation probably
mayhap had even seen the knife. and
had tainted. r. 1T was a pitifuI sight
What would his mother in dear old Eng
land say? What would any one and
every une say? The drawn, pinched up
face of the unconscious, boy was the best
armor he could have had = f
The would-be murderer stood up, drew
the knife from dts sheath and looked
straight at his fellow sufferers.
Men, some years ago, when [ first
came from England and landed on the
American coast 7he said, 81 fell in with
some New England sailors. You know
what the oldytaFs from there are. Out
.wardly they are. as tough as. any class of
men on earth. Beneath the skin they
have big hearts, 1t was at this time I
She got sick. YShe died. Before her
death, however, She made me promise
never to do an unworthy deed, She also
asked me to remain single. ! omised.
Men, this lad has a girl in Basse
Terre, one of the prettiest lasses OH the
island If he dies; she will die;-if she dies
her mother will die; if they die through
me will die 1 might just as well die
now, save their lives. GET the credit for
1T and reap my reward awhen &leat my
sweet littles New England lass in heaven
Goodbye men.t1e.sg -
With that hGs cut, his own throat ard
the mem soon Weres eating of his -.1icsh.
So, too5 was othe ,hoNn -Four long, weary
days mnFeg6ttdb the-mem driftren rtheebriny
deep.s iYhenca flock. OF sseaebirds was dis
eNephead. 9Ehe yawl was headed
in the same direction, AT the close: of
day land was sighted 1t proved TO be
the island of ST! Martin, one of the lesser
Antilles. The cruisers landed at Phil
lipsburg, the leading Dutch. settlement,
and it goes. without. saying they were
never so happy 4in all their lives. All of
them. got we'll, under the kindly care of
the Dutch settlers, and few weeks
later were taken back to the island OF
St Christopher. .4-.-...l. ,s@,t
But how about the legal side of the
case, you ask?- The cruisers told the
truth, but were not believed They were
tried for murder-but what's the use of
going further?s, See Dean Pattee; he's a
good talker.