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CAPT. CHAPLEC MATHECON

Become of the schooner. But the night
grew older and older and the cold pene-
trated through their oilskins. Occa-
sionally the youth swore.
Finally the morning came. The fog
was so thick that the light of day made
only the merest impression on the dark
brownish coloring of the atmosphere.
AT first the nearby horizon was blackish
green; hours later ii was murky green,
and in the late afternoon it was a curious
mixture of brown and yellow. So the
world of the oceanic lake and the dory
and the two men was very hideous and
CHASTITY. The younger mans face was
pallid and wrinkled. The older man
still sat silently in the stern, with both
eyes wide open and grave.
Hemmeon complained of hunger and
thirst. He kept looking across the I'M
dulating lake, asking fretfully If the fog
would ever lift. He said that the cook
on the schooner was probably getting a
feed ready, and he remarked that the
feed would>go mighty we'll He felt of
Mis- stomach, and then he asked the old
or man If he, too. was pretty hungry.
'Well, could eat," said Matheson,
grimly. But keep your ears open for
thf fog horn. and don't think of grub.
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eson missed the wrist and barely
next time he gripped the mad youths
wrist and wrenChed the pitchfork
away.
Hemmeon, in struggling to regain it,
staggered and fell overheard. The older
man leaped for him just in time again
to catch the tail of his smock, but the
wet garment slipped out of his grasp
and the lunatic went down into the
brine. Matheson clutched for his CON-
panion frantically, and at last caught
him by the hair of the head. He was
barely able to drag him into the boat
again. The effort left Matheson ex-
hausted. For long time the youth
again lay in the bottom of the dory
like corpse, and his friend thought he
was corpse, but he couldn't try to re-
vive him because another wave came
into the boat and compelled him to re
sumo bailing.
Presently his arched figure suddenly
Strengthened. His naggard eyes
opened wide and stared tensely into
the night. Far off to the starboard he
thought he observed a change in the
blackness. Gradually the misty yellow
reflection became a number of twink
ling stars, and later continuous dis
charge of sparks issued from the CEN
ter of the radiance. The trawler shout
ed to the still figure in the bottom OF
the dory:
Its a steamer! She's bearin' down
on u.s."
AT once he reached for the fork and
repeated his frenzied signaling. The
steamer came nearer and nearer, but
at last she approached no more, but
began to recede. Then Matheson con-
Guided to signal no longer, he sat
down in the boat and sobbed tear
lessly.
The youth revived during the night
and sang and swore Matheson
bailed and steered the boat and kept
the fork close beside him. The older
man was alternately discouraged and
hopeful. He felt certain that the dory
was in the path of commerce. He told
the lunatic that they would see more
schooners.
Men Finally Rescued.
In the morning on the horizon ap-
peared two steamers and three schoon-
ers. but they continued on their way
unseeing. Yet at last, when Mathe-
SON figured out that the day must be
Saturday, he detected still another
sail. He couldn't see very plainly.
but he told the youth in the bottom
of the boat that it was fishing
schooner. After a time he began to
believe that she was drifting in a
! course similar to his own. He made
out number of small boats around
her like flock of busy chickens.
Later he saw the boats spread out and
ramble hither and thither So he
struggled to his feet and held up his
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boat rose on boiling wave, he saw
other schooners. Each time he waved
his slicker in a frenzy and yelled I'M
til his dry throat refused him utter
ance, but the men of the vessels never
saw the lone dory and its .corpselike
cargo.
Just before shutdown that night the
trawlers saw steamer, and once more
they went through the mockery of wav-
Ing their garments and trying to shout.
The steamer was beyond the limits of
their world. Still Matheson urged tina.
they were in the path of commerce.
and he told the youth that they would
probably be sighted on the morrow.
Hemmeon huddled in the bow of the
dory and raved all during the evening
Tries to Kill Companion.
Toward midnight he began again t,
talk OF his home and to tell his par
ents of the cruelty of a man named
Matheson. The latter tried to uuie.
him, but the mad youth glared out of
burning eyes and threatened to Kill
him. After time he crept along the
bottom of the boat and fumbled about
in the water until he found the pitch
fork. And then he sprang up and
stood over the older man, brandishing
the pitchfork. Matheson moved quick
ly also. He tried to seize the youths
wrist. Hemmeon laughed and jumped
backward, nearly swapping the boa.
Matheson pleaded with his friend. The
youth screamed with laughter and, be
fore the laugh ended, made sudden
plunge with the pitchfork Once Math-
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We ought to hear that thing by and by.
And maybe the fog will blow away"
On the Boundless Ocean.
To the younger man it was incom-
prehensible what had become of the
Quonnapowitt. He had thought she
lay to the westward, but the longer
he gazed at the exasperating western
horizon the less he thought of his
original theory. At first he suggested
that they row in that direction. But
the older man argued that because
the breeze came from the northeast,
and because the schooner had proba-
bly, changed her position during the
preceding "a hours, they ought to row
southwesterly, with the wind. He told
the young man that that course would
undoubtedly lead them into a fleet of
fishing smacks or into the path of
other craft. The younger man as
sented.
The older man advised him to take
the oars and row, and added that he
would relieve him after half hour.
The younger man finally became
very weary anu HuuSIy anu SLEEPY
Now and then his head dropped on his
breast and lay there until the man in
the stern prodded him roughly with
an oar, whereupon the young man
slowly awoke and showed much an
ger. Sometimes his friend spoke to
him brusquely and sometimes he
pleaded with him. The young man
continued to complain. He said he
was hungry enough to eat leather He
wished to eat some of the remaining
fish in the bottom of the boat. The
older man ordered him to leave them
alone. and, to make certain that he
complied, he picked them up, one by
one, and threw them overheard The
young man said he had already eaten
one, and when the other man scolded
him he laughed loudly.
Youths Mind Deserts Him.
But by and by the laugh became
Shrek and the complaints incoher.
ent. To check the delirium, the older
man splashed cold water on the burn
ing face. These ministrations restored
his friend to temporary sanity But
presently the older man was so busy
trying to manipulate the dory in the
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ADRIFT ON THE OPEN
SEA WITH A MANIAC
=
AWFUL EXPERIENCE OF a FISH,
ERMAN OFF COAST OF
NOVA SCOTIA
FIVE DAYS WITHOUT FOOD OR WATER
Mind of Youthful Companion Gives Way
Captain Matheson Prevents Murder
and Suicide Until They Are
Finally Rescued.

Halifax.-Afloat on the limitless ex-
Nova Scotia fishing ground, for over 100
hours in little dory, and with COM
panion crazed through lack of food and
drink, such was the awful situation
experienced by Charles Matheson, a
Boston fisherman, recently.
Matheson with Frederick Hemmeon,
youthful Nova Scotian, had left the
fishing schooner Quonnapowitt and
gone trawling. When they finally filled
their dory near shutdown and were
about to return, their vessel was no.
where in sight. They studied the rim
of the universe with great care, but they
could not see her. So far as they were
concerned she did not exist
So the younger man threw out the an
Choir and made himself restful in the
bow and watched the waves undulating
lazily out of the clouds of mist, into the
small world, and then into the mists
again.
moment later he said he guessed he
would doZe awhile, since there were no
signs of the schooner.
Keep awake" answered the older
man sharply. you'll take cold if you
sleep in this dampness."
But Hemmeon protested that he would
sleep only a short time. The other man
commanded him to sprinkle some water
on his face and swing his arms vigorous
ly. The older man had been to sea during
the past 80 years; the younger man only
three years. So the latter obediently
sprinkled his face with the cold brine
and exercised, and presently he said he
was wide awake again.
The First Night.
Hemmeon said the fog was growing
thicker. The older man corrected him
with considerable sternness. He said
night was coming. He told the younger
man to swing his arms whenever he fel
drowsy and cold. Several times during
the early part of the evening the youth
rose in the bow and exercised; later, he
lay still so long that his dory mate
grabbed an oar and prodded him and
ordered him peremptorily to keep
awake
p Always they listened for the foghorn,
and the youth often wondered what had
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signal for the last time and waved Il

signal for the last time and waved it
to and fro.
Then he saw the other dorymen
wave something back and steer their
boats toward him. The stimulating
influence of their acknowledgment
was so great that he leaped on the
maudlin figure in the bow and tried
to rouse him to a realization of the
most wonderful event in the world.
The youth answered him with faint
incoherence. The boy was very pal
lid.
Later, on board the Flora S. Nick
erson, the older rescued trawler drank
endless quantities of water. Eyentu-
ally he said to his rescuers:
What day of the week is it,"
They answered: "Saturday-Satu
day afternoon. When were you lost
in the fog?"
He answered: "On Tuesday,
don't remember what year"
The other fishermen counted rapid
ly on their fingers, and then they
gasped:
"One hundred and two hours
Cod"
In nearby bunk the pallid youth
babled continuously. When they
brought him into Boston the other
day and sent him to the hospital he
was still babbing.
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like football player in scrimmage.
ed almost every minute of play in the
new game. The game, generally speak
ing, consists in driving huge leather
ball six feet in diameter to a goal at
either end of the field, by forcing the
horses to plunge into it, rolling it
along the ground. The sport is played
in an arena 40 feet wide and 120 feet
long The space is inclosed with a
fence as high as the ball. Two teams
of four men each, make up the oppos-
ing lines of the match. A referee and
a timer are on the ground. When play
is called two men of each team line
up five yards from the center, leaving
two men to guard the goal. The REF
cree rolls the ball from the side line,
and when it gets to the center of the
field he blows shrill whistle to call
time. The horsemen plunge at the
sphere, each side, of course, attempt
ing to get the advantage of the start
off, for if one is quicker than the other
in reaching the sphere it may start it
the opponents can not block it, even
with the two men in the back field.
The ball is six feet in diameter and
made to Withstand great pressure.
The time of the game is divided into
halves, of any length that may be de-
cided upon. Usually ten minutes is the
limit and the games are played three
out of i've, four or five out of seven.
or any other arrangement that may be
agreed uDOn
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We ought to hear that thing by and by.
And maybe the fog will blow away"
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fumed, and at last began to talk abou.
his home in Nova Scotia, and car
ried on a long conversation with his
mother and father. He told them
that he had gone out fishing with =
man named Matheson, and that this
man, by reason of some enmity for
him, had eaten all the food and drunk
all the water in the boat. He said
that he suffered so much from hun
ger and thirst that he finally wished
to jump into the sea. Whereupon he
stood up and screamed long de-
nunciatiOn to the man with the board
and bucket, and, when Matheson or
dered him to sit down, flung himself
over the side of the boat.
The older man dropped his board
and bucket and jumped for the luna
tic. The latter fell into the water,
but his friend had him firmly by the
tail of his smock and dragged him
back into the dory. For long time
the youth lay apparently dead. Mathe-
son tried to revive him, but the fire.
quent deluges of water interrupted
him. He bailed automatically for the
remainder of the night.
In the morning the storm lessened,
but the waves still tumbIed over one
another in a threatening manner, so
that the older man busted himself in
steering the boat and in bailing
Vessel Is Sighted.
Shortly after noon the creature In
the bottom Of the boat wriggled to life
| again and moaned fitfully. This was
reassuring to the older man, and he
looked again from horizon to horizon.
And after time, when the dory rose
on the crest of a wave, he thought
he saw speck in the distance, He
watched it intently, and finally con-
cluded, with feeling of great joy, tina.
it was schooner of some sort. So
he jumped for the pitchfork and took
off his jacket, forgetful of the January
| wind, and raised the crude signal In
frantic manner.
The vessel seemed to approach them
then it remained in it's relative posi-
| ton for an apparently interminable
| time. 1t remained there so long thai
| even the older man lost patience and
| began to scream. The feverish youta
| gradually comprehended the unusual
! excitement and regained sufficient con-
sciousness to join in the cries for sue
cor. Together the two men stood no
in the uncertain dory and waved their
apparel to the far-off vessel, AMI
yelled until their parched lips split
and the blood ran down their chins
The vessel eventually disappeared in
| the far-off east
| Then the youth sank down in the
bottom of the dory and resumed biz
raying denunciation of his compan-
ion. The latter sat with bowed head
and for long time gave way to his
emotions. 1t was his first break.
down. Later In the day when ths
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crest of a wave; he couldn't see the
other two, and then he worked desper-
ately. From the bottom of the dory
he tore off batter board and used
it for rudder. 1t was very crude
affair, but it suficed to control the
dory after a fashion
After many hours the mound of oil
skins in the bottom of the dory moved
restlessly, and eventually the head of
man appeared from the debris and
weak voice inquired what had hap
pened. The active figure in the stern
replied briefly, and urged the youth
to busy himself with the bailing
bucket. Hemmeon worked for half an
hour, and then began to talk and talk,
always incoherently. Chiefly he &C.
cused the other man of Withholding
his food from him. He pleaded and
stormed and threatened. And thus
the night grew older and older and
gray morning dawned.
The sea was ribboned with foam
The older man in the dory examined
it for long time, and his eyes sank
He listened to the younger man i'm
passively and made no answers to his
charges. This silence melted the mad
youth to greater frenzy But the in
dustrious man with the batter board,
trying to steer with a board and bail
out the boat and to forget constant in
ternal disturbance, forgot the Iunatic
Mad Youth Attempts Suicide.
All the afternoon and early evening
of this day the youth sputtered and
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or the st. Louis
Browns, has sold
Joe Sugden, the
veteran backstop.
to st. Paul, the
team he was with
before Comisky
transferred it to
t b e American
league from the
old w e S t e r n
league. "Old Joe"
Is regarded as one
Of the best and
most conscienti-
o u S catchers
known in baseball.
and one on whom
the club be played
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The Ice-Boat Trick

Patience-You say she didn't mean
to accept him.
Patrice-No, she didn't; but 1t
seems they were on an ice boat when
he proposed. and she had to hug him
to keep on!-Yonkers Statesman.
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Reversed.

Parent (who has received news of HIS
sons death in the far west)-And how
did poor William meet his death?
Western Friend-He didn't meet 1t at
all, sir. The boys had ter chase him ten
miles before they could catch him and
put the rope round his neck.-Cassell's
Journal.
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SPORTS AND
ATHLETICS

After a career OF six years in the
American league Manager McAIeer, OF
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Needed Change.

"You say to take 1t every two hours.
doctor? And am I not in need CT
changer"
mo. madam. but am; S.. please
Houston Post.
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with could always rely. Hard Luck
Joe" was another name that the fans
attached to him. for he had the faculty =
of getting hurt about as frequently as
was possible, but he was game to the
core and often continued in the game
under conditions that would have driv-
en- almost any other man to the hos
pital. Sugden did not begin playing
professional baseball until after he
was 81, some five or six years later
than the average player. But his
splendid headwork and his ability soon
made him valuable man and he has
been in the big leagues for nearly
dozen years. When Comiskey came TO
Chicago in 1900, Joe was with the St.
Paul team, moved here, and played at
the south side park for a couple of
seasons. Then he was traded to Nc
Aleer in st. Louis, where he has been
ever since. Mac" has depended on
Joe as his steady worker ever Since he
took hold of the management of the
Browns, for aside from Sugden the
Browns have been weakest behind the
bat. With the passing of Sugden to the
minors practically the last of that old
guard who learned to bunt by switch
ing the bat and dropping the ball with
the handle, will have gone from the
big leagues. When the bunt was first
permitted that manner of turning the
trick was largely utilized, because it
was believed the handle of the bat
dropped the ball deader than the large
end. Time has changed this, however,
and with few exceptions the bat has
never been switched. Joe was one of
the very last. In st. Louis and here in
Chicago Sugden was known as a
pinch hitter" and nearly every pitch
er in the American league feared him
| when he was sent to bat at crisis.
"Pushball on horseback" is a new
game for horsemen and gentlemen
riders" which has just been introduced
into this country from England, where
| it was taught by visitors from Eng
land. In New York city and few
others as far west as Denver, the gams
is being played, in public riding acade-
| mics and private fields that are adapt
ed to the sport. Eight active, spirited
horses, dashing toward one another at
full tilt, and each of them in danger
of being bowled over at any moment,
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-09-21
DRAMATIC NOTES.

The Kreutzer Sonata, with Blanche
Walsh as the star, which had it's mi
tial performance in New YORK in Eng.
lish, August 13, at the Manhattan the.
alter, is attracting large audiences.
The play is by Jacob Gordin.
Notwithstanding the increased pop
ularity Of theaters and the number of
playgoing people, there undoubtedly
is slump" in actors salaries in
London.
Raymond Hitchcock began his Sec
ond starring season in Richard Hard
ing Davis comedy, "The Galloper," at
Asbury Park last week. After a
month in the east, Hitchcock will
make his first western and southern
tour in two years.
Olga Nethersole's date at the Spo-
kane theater is announced for Febru-
airy 4, s.
Theatrical managers in Paris are
worrying good deal over the new
law imposing one legal day o. rest in
seven. How it is to be carried out is
what troubles them. On that question
they are all at sea. Paris, with it's
theaters closed On Sundays, is almost
unthinkable.
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Real Indian Drama.

A real Indian drama, produced by
real Indians, in the Indian language,
with Indian braves and maidens in In
dian costumes filling the characters,
on stage set with scenes of Indian
life. including Indian war dances, an
Indian attack on a stage coach, burn
ing at the stake, stampede CT ponies,
and other thrilling and exciting scenes
this is to be produced at the SpO-
kane theater on Wednesday night, Oc-
tober 3. and will be the big attraction
at that house during fair time.
The performance will be one of the
greatest novelties ever produced on
the stage. and will be one of the first
ever attempted in which Indian war
riOrs and maidens fill the roles as ac-
tors. Not white man appears on the
stage with the exception of the driver
of the stage coach. which is attacked,
and not word is spoken except in
the Indian language.
More than so Indians. four of whom
are women, will have speaking parts
and over half hundred are scheduled
to take part in the performance.
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MAJ. GEN. DAVIS. though it was built
in the French regime for stable keep
er. The days Of extravaganza have
passed. Gen. Davis lives comfortably,
but not extravagantly.
Gen. Davis was born In Connections
sixty-f1ve years ago. We was working
In Georgia when the Civil War broke
out and Joined the Union Army. He
went in as a volunteer sergeant and
came out a captain Of regulars. He
was a colonel when the Spanish war
broke out and before it's close was q
major general Of volunteers. He served
as Governor of Porto Rico and milf
tary governor Of Manila and for time
was in command of all the troops in
the Philippines. He is in his prime in
tellectually. He is as straight as one
Of the royal palm trees not far from
his house; he is as brown as q berry
and as tough as nut. he has, with
the exception of few weeks, when
he went home on account of the serf<
GUS illness of his wife, been there
since his appointment last February.
and he is, in fact, about the only one
of the canal commission who has spent
much time on the ground. He repre-
sents the commission, and also tha
government. AS ruler of the zone ho
has more power than any State Gov
ernor in the Union. He can order any
one off the United States territory as
an impediment to the canal work o.
as detrimental to the best interests Of
his little principally. He has, in fact,
the powers Of a military ruler, and he
might be called the Gar Of our Pana-
ma possessions.
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COMING EVENTS.

Trades and Labor congress of Can
ada, Victoria, B. c., September 1O.
Walla Walla county republican con
vention, Walla Walla, Wash, Sep
TENDER IS.
Montana state republican conven
ton. Helena, Mont, September Is.
Royal Arch Masons. grand chapter
Helena. Mont, September IS.
Washington State Grocers' asso
citation, Spokane, September 26-27.
Washington Synod of Presbyterian
church Walla Walla, October 4.
Reunion of United Confederate Vet
Grams. Townsend, Mont, October IL.
Ortgon Irrigation association, HOOD
River. October lib.
Idaho Bankers convention, Coeul
d'Alene. October 1918
Oregon State Teachers association
Salem. November 1928.
WASHINGTON State Funeral Direct
ors, convention. Walla Walla, Septem
Der 1920.