Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-19
BY S. TEN EYCK BOURKE

mother on sunny days, from the village the
bay on the mainland to the OUTLYING strip of sand that
held the life saving station with its adjacent boathouse
and runway skis, and served breakwater between
the ocean and the inland waters.
1t the that Raja hated, hated he loved the
baby with the whole strength of his exed heart. The
terrible piess sea- which tore out the lives OF ships and
battered the bodies of poor sormen on strange Shores
He had another reason-as the big, silent lite savers
knew and did smile atm the little llock of sand
down shore, whittier the sober faced castaway cook
made occasional pigrmages with offerings of colored
glass and curousy carved seashells once, even Car
nahan had found on the sandy mausoleum tiny pam
nikn of milk
ale sure thought whole lot O that there Tom," the
big Captain said to Bresn who also knew the history
of defiant courage in darkness and Storm reckless
heroism which only sailor can fully understand.
@Them Kanakys thinks cats is kind o joss that
keeps EN- from shipwreck an death. N1ebby that it,,
the Captain went on.
at sure worked with him." Bresin said, @watever
it'll do again"
That guess may not have been so good the former
one; but the comradeship with the baby proof that
Raja's heart still held full of love, while his
gratitude to the big life saving Captain knew mar
bounds. But for the hated ocean alone his lonely
mans life could hold no other sentiment.
The ocean, and the treacherouS reef rocks that made
white and angry the waters beyond the station, Raa
coupled in his hatred 1t circumvent and cheat
those of their victims that he set himself with
deliberate purpose to become wise IN all the ways OF lite
saving.
boatman he already was, and an eel in the water;
but he learned all the mysteries of rockets and Costen
gagged with his appointed duties in the station
Kitchen he walked beat at night with the beach patrol
his little body wrapped in oilers if need be- and with
rubber boots that enveoped the lower half of his figure
and beled in about the chest instead of the waist
He out with the boat at practice drill scorning
the regulation cork jacket for water could drown
him, and he mourned only his inability to handle the
sixteen-foot sweeps.
But in all things calling for skill and courage he
not wanting. An unrvaled cook he sought the way to
the rough boamens hearts through their stomachs and
he pitted his wits against them to share their pro-
fessional abors. On bitter nights he secreted himself in
the bow of the white eboat and fought with the crew
to be allowed peril his life in the cold and storm Left
alone in the station he perched in the lookout tower,
scowng at the mad tumbing ocean, or following with
blazing eyes the trail of the boat and rockets.
For these and other things by the time little English
Raia the of Reef Rock Life Saving Station
had overlooked his insignificant stature To them Cook
Raja the "kids nuss, already man. six feet high
and filled in proportion. Even the Captains wife
had ceased to look upon him as @furrin with necessarily
underlying menace And with the coming of Raja to
man estate, came also his life's epic
Una sultry, overcast day, during ul in the stormy
~ season, great event took place in the white life
saving station the sandspt 1t the birthday OF