The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-15

ambitious young sailor men; could study nas6fcfns. Then planned free eating houses for truspsy s81 l was going to use some oflmy wealth to invest gate the private life of . Sunday school svpernL would come to a bad end. You sss, ws nsvsv esn judge Of our own mentn condition st fAs tfms. TFs only when you look back that you can take stoek of yourself The result Of this mental 6fst0r6asc< upon me was insomnia. couldn't get to sleep b1f kept track Of the ship, and worried fhe fsrs< Dutcbmen and the Jap into trimming sal vsss necessary,
 Wed got up to the 1atftude Of fbs Bermu1ss, I think and was beginning to hope Inst sss syrss nsd for we av1ss had ssssss sss ss ing, when the gan topsa1s were blown s.s1, s1f vs four men-77for the Jap was useless on desk-vsrs trying to get a couple Of reefs fs tss nsfss<H, Wagner suddenly hew1ed out Iot m Dvses tsf guage and jumped overbosrd, flung hfn hss> but he wouldn't take f. snd passed ssssTss T1~ be, Did you ever notice t fn Germans, svsa sss best7 When things % wrc1E tbs1 kfn Themselves They're something like fbe Chinese fn t1fs,
 ,ap ~ss . spesa s1y sss sssa z s,s s s @ time to snug that schooner down to s1ssss yssfs and one head ssiL The water in fs bsl1 ss1 it. then knocked oil, and dropped sows es s>sx for snooze. We were dead best, asf ts11 fse e>ss ss ssnsa ss # ass, s vsS ss s. sss @
 and cold; for '' you can't ant Sleep sleep @ Ss sses s7ss s s thirty.six % north. % The Jap was foolsns rerss sse galley, and the schooner with tf5s wheel bsske<s1 was lifting up and falling on, practically sssssns herself by.the-wfnd. Of course, fb11ztH 1 fss water in the hold, and sounded ths well There vss four feet of wet line, and knew that things vsgs ssa s tp Then sss Duysos wsns .S sna ss em
 each with the little pink marks under shs ssss
 "well,I naturally went more (or 1sss ers9z took that Jap by the throat and asked hirs -. left to sleep and rest, sorry for us, and trz1nx to cook us a good meal. when vs wsksnsf Hs vss eased up. What was the use of anesr and sss>tees in the face of this horrible thrsat Of d1esk vh5Ie you slept7 We hove the two.bodses oyeTposs1 ss1 lessen the water in the hold, and at last e&se cleared away boat. and stocked tt with rstsr and grub for two. Meanwhile shaped . courss for the Bermudas and steered if after fashion; hoping that might beach the schooner and get, out W court of salvage, part of that seven millions down in the hold.
 "But had to steer and keep the deck, fov fhe Jap useless. kept 1t up until vs dehted land and then fopped, done up. tired out utterly exhausted by work, and yet unable to sleep sang out to the cook, as lay down on the hatch e ty and steer toward that blot of blue on the horizon and then passed into semidazed state of mind tnAt was not sleep, nor yet wakefulness; could hear and through my halfopened eyeds, could sees ys> T was not awake. for T. could not guard myself tive murderous gIint in his beady eyes. heard fhe soft pat of his feet the wet deck and heard his suppressed breathing. But could not move speak.
 "IIe came and stood over me- then reached fown and softly pressed the tips of his forenngsrs into my throat just below the ears and back Of fss cheek bones. Softly at first, so that hardly felt t. then more strongly, and sense of vesknsss oR body came over me, something distinct from the weakness that had felt while sinking dovn to tv and sleep. It seemed stopping of breath. could not move, yet, but could see, out of the cornsTs of my eye and hateful, murderous facs never afflicted me than the face of that Japxusss cook.
 nHe kept it up steadily increasing the ryessurss and soon I realized thatI wHs not breathing Then, do not 1know why, there came to me the thousns vice. to pray when in trouble. forgot my groucn- T said to myself God help me, God help me- and I wakened. I found that could move. shook oz the Jap and he staggered back chuckling and cius< tering in his language. to my feet, weak and shaky, and he ran away from me; but fosz1 myself without power to follow. was more than Y could not Speak tried to. but the words would with wit regard to the condition Of the schooner, sad my own helplessness psinfuny climbed into the boat had stocked and cleared away the davft falls
 T have dim remembrance of that sleep fn fhs boat of waking occasionally to drive that covsr1lys Jap off with uprased oar; of my utter inability to speak to him. and the awful difficulty of taking long breath. But the final plunge of the schooner stands out was awake, or as nearly awake as could be. The Jap was m forward and, and the deeEs s got out my knife to cut the falls when the boat foated. did this successfully for. though could not speak, could move, and as the schooner plung- ed under, and the screams of that heather rang in my ears cut the bow tackle then the stern tackle, and found myself adrift in aetPrmoi Sof vrrlpools
 q was picked up few days later by 2 fruiteTs and taken into New York found my hair had turned white. I've been working as waiter most of the time since. hoping to enlist somebody interest toward salving that schooner: but It's no go. I'm going to Cuba. where I've heard of pot of money in the Santiago hills Want to go alongT
 "No," answered.. But. tell me. what killed those men?"
 "The Jap must have been expert in jiu rtsus the wrestling game of that county I've made stagger ~at studying medicine sfhce rnsnss and learned little The pneumogastrfc nerve did tho business It passes from the base of the sTsln- down past the heart and lungs and ends near -t.s stomach. It is motor. sensory, and sympatnetie, - in one Gentle pressure fnhibits breathing. con tinued pressure stimulus, parayzes the voc0 chords: continuance of the stimulus reBdeD - unconscious and a strong pressure brings sD~0 stoppase of the heart asktAA and death"