Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-11-27

he would buy the bottle. Tn boit'e
we brought home with US as it proved
to be preparation ID use after
shaving.
The monolony of that day on the
the empty boat was in part broken by
two events. About eleven o'clock a
small boy came on to the boat and
from some lower region produced
suit of clothes. These be brought
straight 10 where sat watching him,
then stopped in front of me and with
ous w0rd, suddenly tossed them upl
over the wall into the captains room.
They must nave descended into the
room in some mysterious way, al
though the cabin seemed to have a
roof over it. About ten minutes after
the boy, still silent, had walked oft
the boat the great head Of burly
negro appeared over the wall OF the
cabin and thrust itself out under the
caves of tie roof. The shoulders, the
entire body followed, and the man let
himself down at my feet. Both of us
were too astonished to- do more than
cape at each other and the man walk
ed away without giving me any greet
ing, q strange thing for a SIP 9nish
speaking person to dc! Was he the
captain? What allied the door Of the
cabin that he did not use it? Was he
supposed to be locked into shat room,
or out of il? You will admit that he
was sufficiently startling apparition
to astonished me when we had sup
| posed the boat 10 be empty.
An Unpleasant incident.
One ether visitor had in the course
of the day. TIE agent insisted upon
coming 10 make the acquaintance of
the family CT the "revereudo doctor"
Pr: The poor agent vas drunk. Row.
erer, Mr.. Williams c1u'd not per-
suate him that it was totally unneces-
sary for him to welcome me. He
would do it and the best that Mr..
Williams could do was TO follow him
onto the boat and present him. We
will resign to oblivion the unpleasant
incidents of that painful interview.
It was late afternoon before we were
allowed to embark upon the boat that
had Iabored so strenuously all day to
get started. The quick darkness en-
veloped US even as we telt our way
along the greasy, slippery lower deck
and climbed the narrow ladder that
led to the upper deck. Not o0e of Us
escaped receiving a bump on the head
as we scrambled through the hole in
in the fl DOR of the upper deck, so
small was the aperture, and 80 badly
placed the slippery ladder. Once on
upper deck we were confronted by a
discouraging aspect. Filth every,
where, soiled clothing piled in cor
ners, dirty boxes Obstruct1ng the pas
sage way, an unspeakable condition
space on the deck large enough
to extend our two army-cots
except in the rooted space between the
engine room and the one cabin, the
captains, which was just tiny box of
a berth. Here we squeezed in the two
single cots and hurried up the nets as
the army of mosquitoes had already
arisen to the attack. There were no
side walls and the space was too small
to admit the length of the cots, so they
extended out into the open passage
way. What Of our boxes, cases and
belongings that we could not put on to
the beds, we were obliged to shove un-
der the cots-there was nowhere else
to dispose of them. 1t was already
threatening rain, so we hung two old
strips of canvas across the open sides
of our Groom" and hoped that the
storm would be a moderate one.
Tropical storms usually are free from
high winds, the floods pouring straight
down from the sky.
Soaked With Rain
1t ralned In torrents for hours. The
canvas became saturated and whipped
back and forth across the beds as there
was no way of securing it at the bot
tom. Our feet extended out from un-
der the shelter of the roof and the roof
commenced to leak in a dozen places.
[ rolled Margaret, the baby, into q
strip of oil cloth and set pail and a
pan, (psrt of our equipment for this
Tourney in the middle of the bed
where the most water was descending.
These were filled several times during
the night and spent the hours watch
ing and emptying them. Mr.. Will
liams and Newell had somewhat the
same experience in their bed.
The morning broke in a perfect flood
of joyous sunshine. The clear azure sky
looked inn ocens of ever having caused