Show w 14 rf THE E PERILS OF TH THE DEEP SEA r i r The W V World orld tells a pitiful story of hardships ps a at t rJ a asea sea but hut it is a thrilling story nevertheless Not No Noman t ii man many nany of us know what men sometimes suffer who E d go down into the sea in ships La Mimosa l was a s French rench fishing schooner on the banks of f Newfoundland Newfound Newfound- land J nd Louis V with a was in a a dor dorI dory y I V fishing A great storm came on separated the tor dory y r from the schooner a big sea washed overboard V VolT Vol Vol- 01 lets let's T let lets let's Js and he with but a single oar ar was left lef t with only a little supply of water and food In th the e midst of the storm he watched with no craft in sight Nothing before or nothing behind but the sky ky an and d the ocean f r. r lIe JEfe fought that out for fourteen days He wen went t i through all the stages of the insanity w which ich conies cone s i from roin starvation and anxiety in ip despair he sees th the e bin s n sink down in the night night hope hope revives as it rises I i out of the sea in the morning In the night h he strains trains his eyes for the sight of a ships ship's lights afraid d f i to tb sleep but half delirious delirious s wj with h hunger and c cold ld h he e t sinks into a doze in m which friendly faces mock him hit i with offers of bread He wakes up to find he lie ha has s i been been gnawing at his mittens then voices come to hi him m y rand and he stops his ears to keep from hearing them ci sp specters dance before his eyes 5 t The rain comes on and he drinks the drops as he 4 can catch them then greedily greedily-a a ship comes up out of the f j horizon orizon l the feeble hands he strains toward it and Aeries cries ies out i. i in 1 a cry that is but a whisper It passes 1 without seeing him and he sinks back and prays to t x U v Our Lady of the the- Sea to help him When hope had rt 1 gon and he was lying in the shadows the great fliner liner Carmania comes by and and seeing the prostrate m man n in the dory With a magnificent feat of maneuvering maneuvering maneu- maneu vering ering the ship was was' brought around and the helpless t inan nan man almost in a dying state picked up J 7 Theres There's no more beautiful spectacle than to see se a af Vii f great eat steamer out in in halt and send out a boat to rescue rescue a shipwrecked crew in a a gale That t i is a call of manhood that thrills the onlooker It is a n L call too on the hum humanities for there arc are no questions v asked ed as to th the status of the unfortunate in the peril vand and d excitement all aU men are brothers the common sailor becomes hero a and when the boat crosses crosses the 1 hills f and valleys valleJos of the sea and picks up th the helpless helpless help- help less it is a feat to make the hearts of lookers on l beat beat fast and the thrills that sweeps through their souls r are never forgotten |