Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-10-21

new found mothers breast.
ooh, it will get along all right, y
said one.
"Yes, SO long as it eats, the gns are
good,' said another.
"Just so you don't give it TOO much, u
remarked an elderly woman who was
watching the proceedings.
"But fear it lie all over with the
old gent" whispered one OF the women
who had just returned from the adioin-
ing room where the men were working
with the child's elderly companion.
The men were rubbing his arms and
legs, and irons were being heated to
place at his feet. Some brandy had
been forced through his lips. but it
was slow in showing encouraging
effects.
His eyes were fixed in his head, his
features were as pale as death. His
firm lips were set as il in his last con-
scious moment he had fixed his determ-
ination upon some given object.
| He was little more than five feet
as he lay upon the bed. Still he was
rather plump and well-kept for his age.
But his skin was smooth and his mus.
cles soft, which indicated that he had
not been man of toll.
When the hair was pushed back
from his face broad intelligent fore
head was exposed. Had those fisher
men been able to read chronological
signs they would have discovered that
the aged man before them was no Or
binary being. His intellectual fore.
head, small feet and hands, dress and
general appearance indicated that he
had followed one of the professions.
In the meantime the village physi.
clan arrived and aided in resuscitating
the old man. The child gradually
passed away to sleep after its wants
were satisfied and slept as soundly as
if its own mother still lowered over it.
1t was soft sweet sleep such only as
is seen in the repose of the innocent
before the trials and tribulations of
life have come to their knowledge.
1t knew not of its lost mother and
father, the fearful storm at sea, the
hours in the water, the terrible night
among the driftwood on the beach. 1t
slept in repose akin to perfect bliss.
'She's darling little GIRL" said
the woman who had shared her own
child's clothing with the little sleeper.
what pretty blue eyes she has,"
remarked she who had warmed the
milk.
"Such dainty little limbs" said the
woman who had run about the place
nervously trying to do everything and
had accomplished but little.
''But look what pretty features and
sweet lips" said the one who had
nursed the child to sleep, with an air
Of superiority.
The child did not exceed one month
in age. 1t was probably younger. Its
light hair, fair skin and pretty blue
eyes even at SO young an age showed
that it was born beauty. Still its
features were much like those of the
Finlanders, so many of whom had set
tied along the Columbia in the fishing
districts.
"They think the old man is dying"
said one of the women in a whisper
who had been watching the men work
with the aged sufferer.
ooh, such pity" remarked the
women in a subdued chorus.
"We will never learn the child's
name or anything about the tate Of its
mother or father"
at must have been born on the voy-
age" said one, "for they say the ship
was Finnish vessel and has been
many weeks at sea-"
cold Seadog's action in tie matter
is mystery to everybody. Why he
made such quick haste to board the
ship is beyond all understanding. And
he actually pointed firearms at the men
when they attempted to go aboard the
vessel" said woman who had just
been talking with her hus band on the
outside. "But the officers will ravel
the matter OUT" she continued as she
remembered the details OF the episode
as given her by her husband.
Then there was commotion out
side. A fisherman had Just arrived
from the sand spit. He had brought
news of the arrival of officers at the
scene of the wreck.
cold Seadog and his boys are all un.
der arrest" was whispered from lip
to lip.