Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1901-10-17
CAPE MAlEA HERMIT,
PATHETlO STORY OF AN EN-.
oLlSA SEA CAPTAIN.
stricken While Young Man by the
DrOwninR Of His Bride During tae
HOnsymoon, He Lived for Many Ysara
Amoag Ignorant Greek GoathsrdA


Drownina Of Hia Bride During tae
Honsymoou, He Lived for Many Yeara
Amons Ignorant Greek Goathsrds
About twenty-five years ago there
was young sailor who, by dint Of
hard work. integrity OF character and
firmness OF will, reached at the age OF
~ the summit OF his ambition-be'
coming a master Of what then would
DO called q Eood-slxed steamship
some 900 tons register. Upon this ac'
cesslon to good fortune he married
the girl OF his choice, who had pa
tiently waited for him since as boy
and girl sweethearts they parted ON
his first going to sea. And with rare
complacency his owners gave him the
inestimable privilege OF carrying his
young bride to sea with him.
How happy he was! How deep ana
all-embracing his pride, as steaming
down the grlmy Thames he explained
to the light OF his eyes all the wonders
that she was now witnessing for the
nrst time but which he had made ta'
millar to her mind by his ott'repeated
sea stories during the few bright days
between voyages that II had been able
to develop to courtshlp. The ship was
bound to several Mediterranean ports.
the time being late autumn, and conse'
uuently the most ideal season for
honeymoon that could possibly be I'M
agined. Cadlz. Genoa, Naples, Venice,
a delightful tour with not one weary
moment wherein to wish for something
else Even flying visit to old Rome
from Naples had been possible, for the
two officers, rejoicing In their happy
young skipper's joy, saw TO 1t that no
unnecessary cares should trouble him,
and bore willing testimony, in order
that he should get as much delight out
OF those halcyon days as possible, that
the entire crew were as docIle as could
be wished. devoted to their bright com
mander and his beautiful wife. Then
at Venice came orders to proceed to
Galatz and load wheat for home. Great
was the glee of the girl-wife. She
would see Constantinople and the Dan.
ube. Life would hardly be long enough
to recount all the wonders Of this most
wonderful OF wedding trips, And they
sailed. with hearts overbrimming with
Joy as the blue sky above them seem
ed welling over with sunlight.
Wind and weather favored them.
nothing occurred to east n shadow over
their happiness until nearing Cape Ma.
lea at that fatal hour of the morning,
just before the dawn, when more col
lisions occur than at any other time,
they were run into by blunderlng
Greek steamer coming the other way,
and cut down amldships to the waters
edge. To their peaceful sleep or quiet
appreciation of the nights sIlvern
splendors succeeded the overwhelming
flood, the hiss and roar OF escaping
steam. the suffocating embrace of
death. In that dread fight for life all
perished but one, he so lately the hap
piest Of men. the skipper. Instructive
~ cffnging TO rrusmrnt Of wrocirasc.
he had been washed ashore under Cape
Malea at the ebbing of the scanty tide.
and his strong physique reassertlng IT.
self enable him to reach the plateau
Here he was found gazing seaward by
some, goat-herds, who, In search OF
their nimble-footed flocks, had wander
ed down the precipItous side of the
mountain. They endeavored to per
suade him to come with them back to
the world. but in vain. He would live,
gratefully accepting some of their poor
provision, but from that watching place
he would not go. And those rude peas
ants, understanding something of his
depth of woe. sympathized with him
so deeply that without payment or hope
of any, they helped him to build his
hut, and kept him supplied with such
poor morsels Of food and drink as suf.
feed for his stunted needs.
And there, with his gaze fixed during
all his waking hours upon that Inscrut-
able depth wherein ali his bright hopes
had suddenly been quenched, he lived
until quite recent years, ''the world
by the world forgot" lIv-
ing monument Of constancy and pa
tient, accomplishing grief. BY his hum
BILE friends, whose language he never
he was regarded as saint,
and when one day they came upon
his lIfeless body fallen forward upon
his knees at the little unglazed window
through which he was wont to look
out upon the sea where his dear one
lay. they felt confirmed in their opinion
Of the sanctity of the hermit of Cape
Malea. London Spectator