The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-16

three successive days, flashing the wa
ter into q fury of foam and turmoil, as
that part of the North sea where it
washes against the western coast of
the peninsula of Denmark. At such
times the air is frost laden and be-
numbing, even in midsummer. The
water itself is of an ominous, leaden
tint, like q battleship with her war
paint on. Even the foam which caps
the waves is not white and flaky, as it
is in the southern zones, but seems to
have been adulterated with some ref
use tint suggestive of the dirty suds
of wash day. The wind is as erratic
as the waves which chop numerically.
1t bowls and shrieks and roars with
deadly energy for time and then
means sullenly while it generates new
force for q more furious onslaught.
Deep sea sailors dread this region and
avoid it when they can, but the am
phibious Norwegian and the storm
born Dane love it as a savage loves the
wilderness.
If you should study one of the older
charts of this bad tempered sea, you
would discover that fifty-two miles off
the coast of Denmark, by the compass
north northwest from Tyboron, there
looms rock with an unpronounceable
Danish name, which, being translated
into English, means the Devils Nose.
At the present time it has disappeared,
for upon it had stranded so many YES
sells and to it was due the loss of so
many lives and so much property that
the Danish and the German govern
ments united to destroy it, 1t is not
located on the charts in use today, and
the deepest draft war vessel may now
pass over the spot in safety.
Originally it doomed sixty-four feet
into the air and from the westward
had the appearance of huge nose. the
more so when the tide was low, for
then at the waters edge could be seen
indentations that had been ground out
by centuries of pounding waves. and
these cavities were the nostrils of this
mammoth proboscis. To the eastward
it extended from the summit to the
water at an angle of IS degrees. This
part of the rock was concave in form,
and it broadened as it descended until
it finally disappeared beneath the wa
ter like the tines of a pitchfork, leav-
ing sheltered bay about 50 feet in
length by 80 in breadth and as deep as
the sea itself Many a belated craft
returning from q fishing voyage and
overtaken by furious nor westeI
found shelter here before the rock was
destroyed and in the little bay rode
out the gale in safety, and it was just
such an occasion as this which one
afternoon in August compelled two
men, the sole occupants of sloop
rugged craft, to seek the little haven
of refuge.
The gale had come upon them almost
without warning. They had reefed
and double reefed their sails, but the
wind, as if it enjoyed their dscom.
future, increased it's strength in proper
ton as they reduced the resistance tC
it, so that at last they were obliged tC
scud before it with only sail enough
left standing to give them steerage
way.
One of these men, almost Il giant IL
stature, held the tiller and watched
with unerring eyes the play of the say
age water around them. He knew
these waters as the half grown child
knows the d0oryard of its birthplace
and he loved the sea. the leaping waves
and the rushing wind with a passion
that was hereditary. He loved it, an'
he delighted to defy it's dangers. Hi
companion held the sheet rope, which
Notwithstanding the fact that he hat
taken two turns around the cleat, was
with each fresh gust of wind, almos
snatched from his grasp.
Wen make the Devils Nose, Grad
dock" said the big man at the helm
land Wen be there in ten minutes
time. Pass the sheet to me. can hol
it with my left hand. Now take tn
heaving line and go forward. Max
one end fast to the capstan, tie tn
other end around your waist, and whe
round to into the little bay jump an
swim for your life. She'll have heat
way enough to carry her into the nee
of the cove, but not bit more. Thel
is an iron ring set in the rock near tt
point on the north shore and anOtht
y
make one of them and get a hitC
through it before the line pulls taut, W
will be as safe as Il church. Put you
clasp knife in your teeth, Grad, and
you cannot make one of the rings
time cut yourself adrift and swi
ashore and wait I'll ride out the ga
alone, and then I'll come back for yo
Go forward now Not a world i
captain of this craft"
When the sloop was again upon Il
summit of a wave. Craddock from /
position at the bow could see the hu
rock to which his companion had l
ferred. He had heard him describe
many times, but he had never seen
before.
There is nothing so deadly uncerta
in the life of q sailor as runni
cs4t.o 10Th q ool 10 Of wind II