The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-09

lief OMcer kerr-at the city hall, who
sent him with an escort to the office
of the associated charities. The man
was so worn out and suffering with
were numerous scratches and cuts
where bramble and branch had left
their mark, the eyes were sunken and
wearied, and there was scarcely half
an inch on the back of the hands
which were exposed that did not bear
an ugly blackish red mark where the
wounds were healing. The flesh in
some places seemed to be gouged out
in small pieces. The man wore grey
flannel shirt without collar. which ex-
posed hairy throat tanned with the
weather, and black coat which was
shrunken and creased out of all shape
by exposure to sun and rain. His legs
were encased in trousers of the same
texture of the coat, and were badly
torn in many places. He had discarded
his socks during his wanderings, and
over a pair of rough worn boots,
which were laced only half way up
the bare flesh, showed shockingly cut
and SCARED. Afterwards he showed
his legs to the knees, and they were a
mass of bruises and sores. The man
leaned upon rough staff that he had
bark was broken and cut.
Physique Saved Him.
Joseph Sherreh is a man who has
worked upon the farm all his life, and
1t was only because Of his wonderful
physique that he was able to With
stand fatigue through days of stren-
uous wanderings. He was plainly a
very illiterate man, but In his story
n v1yhf fS1{ {Yn 1o{ int ,f
the agony of body and mind he must
have suffered. He told of his experi-
ence in matter of fact way that re-
f1ected a character that was Injured to
the hardships and vissitudes of life.
II left home on the first harvest ex-
cursion on August 49," he said, "and
we were probably on the road two
days when 1 became lost. l was COM
ing out to harvest with party of
seven or eight from my own town, and
on the way we had lots of drink.
guess l was drunk when fell off
the train or was left behind at some
station. for only remember finding
myself lost in the mountains. Yes,
there were mountins everywhere, and
the trees seemed million miles long.
l lived on bunch berries all the time,
although had never eaten them be-
fore, and l did not know but what
they were poisonous. They were very
bitter. l just eat one meal a day.
think I lost about ninety pounds.
had no matches, nothing to smoke or
chew, and I had to drink all kinds of
water. The mosquitoes and flies pes
tered me until l was almost crazy. I
had $40 with me, when l was on the
| IN hut 7 to-,
guess. l also had my harvester's
ticket" This was produced, and was
so badly worn and disfgured with
rain water, where it lay in an inside
pocket. that the printing and writing
upon 1t was almost obliterated.
i Surrounded by bears.
ut rained all night one or two
nights and up in the mountains there
were several showers during the day.
At night, when it was dark, 1 lay
down wherever was, upon the
ground, and as soaked through when
1t rained. I was afraid of wolves, but
never saw any, or heard anything
through the night. l saw lots of
bears, though, yes, remember one
night there was five of them stood
around when was lying myself down.
And saw lots of those things too
(pointing to deer head ornamenting
the walD saw one or two almost
every day, and they would just snort
like and run off.
"Once or twice I was pretty nearly
all in, and l thought l was going tu
faint, but became all right after a
rest. 1T times vas walking through
water and deep mossy stuff up to my
knees, and my legs became so chaffed
and sore that / thought they would
give out l walked around big lakes,
only to find more big lakes or rivers
and climbed over mountains and
down steep hills, and I never saw a
livin;. roul. l ploughei through ev-
erything just because wanted to get
somewhere, but had no idea where l
was going; guess God rust have
guided me. Some of the days it was
awfully hot walking. but never stop
/ ped. I used to wonder how it would
all end, and I forgot what the days
were. 1t seemed as il was lost for
a month.
when I struck the track there
were some navvies working there. aud
the foreman took me to the .ook car,
where All English cook gave lie a good
square neal. He wouldn't let me eat
too much though. although l wanted
to resc;l ..ut for more Chen rIt tn
a c. p. r. train, and the conductor
didn't want to take r!y ticket, nut he
finally did. l don't know even the
place on the track ! landed out at,
and have no idea how far | Travelled,
but it must have been long way
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