‘The Image-Maker. And yet, O Sculptor, for the sake Of puch an efigy as I— The superscription like the Disfigured now, and hard to trace Didst Thou thyself consent to dio. -John B. Tabb, in the Atlantic, face YAMATE THE SAILOR | RY THEODORE A, CUTTING, Es25e52525252 52 5e52525e525252525258 fhe most skilful master of catboat- sailing that Never, 1 adreit hand tiller. He conld the wind and there at think, was more than his sheer up close bowl along as if it blew across his beam. Always, too, he knew exact amount of sail to spread, and could carry more in rough water than of his fellow fisher men, Yamate Japanese. | a sheet into the any of the also the jolliest first saw him from head the at Monterey as I stood watching the salmon-boats re- turn. There was a stiff offshore breeze, to which the foremost boats paid by single or double reefs cd wut presently came Yamate full canvas, his boat rocking until the tip of the boom dipped the his mouth curved in a gleetui gri and his eves danc- ing with the joy of swift motion He shot in to the pier and drifted up to landing without a stroke of where had had recourse an awkward tack, or even to under a swinging boom that batte] them upon head and shoulders. It was dur smelt one vear was of pier respect sad! ; in nade Waves, close the ar, to the others rowing ir a run of salmon and in June that Yamate's put to a test that taxed the utmost. gale, which end to all third all b> the sailing was even his There {wo ing: but were out ment of the fishermen, salmon mad decd, wore of the men began to sought few ran Among the latte Nakamura The propitious fer asmuch seq from the rendered a shore his uasual the very formed, to skill to had been a had put an pon the again fizsh- ats fays To Heanppoint- howevar, the So fow, ine. taken that moat their hooks and mackerel; thers grounds; and =a for smeit scattered ta he drew ast for rocktish coast . r were Yamate and fay was not very taking this fish, in was stilk a heavy ecent wind-storm, which approach to the But Yamate, with earlessness, ran in tn along which the break cast his net. great swell rose his and then down In each hollow it sank again the thin edge formed and uri under the very keel, the boat escaped being in the down the ts there <0 dangerous tine ars Up with each little craft, suceessive Sometimes began but always overwhalmed The wind, sufficiently brisk for the fore-and-aft was increasing: but this'was no cause of worcy to.Yamate, who preferred a gale to a calm He was jubilant too, from the success of his zelne. for each draw was satisfactory: for the (elicately flavored smelt there was always a market, With Nakamura it was otherwise Wall beyond line of breaker: fished while slatted But only taste less surf soreh a savdiae came to his met Envicusly he who still lav a Conatant eye shells. yer and more daring and Creep up apoa each it seemed, comber For tinued ro fish in To Yanat: kamura At survey ged rocks pounded, ran In plentiful Hardly was the fisherman's net ont when he took alarm at an approach- Ing swell Quickly he threw the till ar over and hanled upon his sheet. His" canvas had put hegun to draw when the wave reached him: but of its own accord it held together until it was several yard: to leeward. Nakamura was sorprigsed at the rapidity with whith it had come npon him, and a lttle nervous: Lut since the danger way bad come “eves little ‘water, he made fast the shoot and brsiod himself with straighten ng the small » ine, “Look cnt! Look out! A big one'™ suddenly shouted Yamate, fo already precarious sail, and the he perseveringly, his sal breeze, ind n the few in at Yomate surf-line, but with upon the incoming gain he draw his into the wind just in o sscape from a gigantic looked mn the saw i yivirads Sheet tle on time Orn an two lionirs more th the same came no harm and te fish in Nati Lo. ait $ ta Nakamura, after a timorons breakers and the jag beyond, againet which thay slacked off his shegt and the smelt seemed so he where Owey and shot a twinkling. ful or two of water: but for all that, the I'ttle erat cut its way through to safely and stodd off on a tach. Mat: so with Nakaiourm, Easily enougs dud he squared away and rin down late the breakers with the wind, but to work back In its toeth was suother thing. As before, he prapared to draw slowly away on a long (nck, but in an instant the great Wave wag upon hin broadside. Prom stem 5 stern it tumbled into the | sailboat, Piling her lu a tries, Over , she wv, boom and galt withing i y ————— ” | down into the sea, and the next mo- ment was bottom up, driving rapidly | toward the rocks. Nakamura, at besf but a laborious tewimmer, found himself under a | tathom of water in a heavy coat, His feet, moreover, had become entangled in the length of net, From the loosstiting overcoat | nranaged to get free, but from seine about his feet he could j extricate himself. Indeed, it seemed i but to tighten with his struggles. arms alene, however, he | his way to the surface, and caught a ! half-breath. But upon the part of his inhalation {ing brine, Strangzling and suffocating, he wore away his strength trying to get free from the net. More and more fren- zied and confused became his thrash ings. Not a single breath of pure air could he get: when it was not water that he sucked in, it was froth and spray Soon he sank helplessly beneath the green surface: and then the long, sobbing inhalation that he took was from the depths, Yamate's eyes, even while he ed his own craft to safety, were turn- ed back toward his less skilful coun tryman; and when he saw the cap- size, he immediately threw over his into the breakers with the wind astern. A great as he ran, of sail he formed beneath him with the full spread pace with it, riding high upon it as it rolled in toward the rocks. At last, as if fretful of its load, the billow reared to a crest, and all but pitched the boat forward headlong. But at brought to below, and the smother lived. Close keel of wave and kept was rocks In still instant it the Spray. rait the same its Knees crumbled foam by into of the «¢ the upturned boat the wate oould see bolling water, down and d ! ay Nakamura's capaized ‘fisherman Ya nothing. All was which here suc) away, and there Then the wih a crash upon rim aan leaped twenty alongside but of white swirled bubble rth again vighty Tock, billow fe’! stone and the whippe¢ in the Had not it hand also Yamate's it the tiller, thoat would in like his have crashed led obedient to the vet rch cance: turned aside from out- rock and drove far her toward the solid abutment of the mainiand, that could dodged. Still the daring had sight of Nakamura tumul- on not be Japanese Upon the the contents of a floatirg mass can, basket, but of the man not a Then an kind vard) anite the of boat lines, and a sign indistinguishable mass bubbled f the the surface, not an Instant a turn of the sheet about grabbed with the other hand a gaff, and leaned far out over the gunwale He aescured and pulled the ob ject It was the coat same instant corks and an empty the two oars some within It up ple of did bt Ya He took the gtern COs to mate lost Ip ampt: his quick ove sight of a second shadow in waters, which rapidi: the shape of a black head of halr Yamate hooked again and brought Nakamurz by the arm. With his stomach and so holding Ht, triman Inboard did thre in the augnt the assumed ne in cver the tiller, in the things next instant he resunged and “ev his attention the none too agile swung round broadside to and a billow of than six vards Jdistant There was but one chance of CHCR ng It off the wind’ turned He had the waves upon Aas Donal no “iyo waa less to slack befgre Q rock This Yamate did. letting go the sheet upon the instant the craft fame round and taking the ses upon the stern. The distance lost was ap palling: it seemed that the grip tne wave would not loose until! it had borne them to the very rocks. The instant it passed, Yamate jerked In the sheet to bring boat about: but It was not to be. A second more followed so closely that once more (he had to turn back. Then Yamate for an Instant lost hope, for cer sainly If no thine wore given him be twean breakers to turn, he could not draw out of them. Boats do not sail backward. Sual! as hig hope had become, how- ever, the Japanese stood alert at helm and sheet. To his joy, he saw that the third was far behind the two that had fallen in such quick succes #*lon. Amidst the flurrv even before the billow had passed, he bdre over | the tiller and stood away. The boat cmme whirling round and ; ied down through the foaming j trough of water with the speed of a | 2ull. Bo cloge It wes upon the rocks. Fthat the bom end almost serapod lin turning; so close, too, that the un. devrtod helped to sweep it back. But the boat Jived, there was i the whole tumbling line of breakers taat stood hetween her and safety, Bill she was headed toward the apen sea, amd for Yamate that was encugh to stir hope, although be knew that every inch of the way must he fought for against wind and wave, With the sheet somewbat free to acaulre momentum, he ran off on » long tack almost parallel with the shore, When the foremost wave reached Him he whet up ints and through without misfortune, and Inimedintaly slacked away again to get ap epost tor meeting the sceond. of the | althoush helt of breakers, where three already definitely formed waves were racing toward him. 7TRe first two were of moderate size, gathering height womentum ag they advanced; but the third and most remote gent a chill to his heart. It was far out, rising and looked to the troubled sailor like an unstable mountain ridge coming against him, While the spell of that sight held him, the nearest of the three waves upon his starboard bow. Al- though he had mechanically forced over the tiller to meet it, the boat was not fully in position; and in con- sequence sea-water came over the gunwale, Yamate did what he could to brine the eraft properly up, and then, as the breaker passed, stood away as before, One favoring circumstance not desert him-—the breeze swept from the sea without gust or lull. that he would before now to grief. the tremendous ridge of higher and higher, and thinner, Al ready the crest was forming and glints of white were beginning to ghow. , The wind caught away the and made cf it streaming pen- of mist. So high and thin the that it became trans. green, beautiful but ominous. Meanwhile the intervening billow wag threatening the ds Japanese sallor. It was perfectly able to over whelm the boat if allowed to catch it broadside, and in absence of Its overtowering pursuer, it would have caused anxiety But Yamate met and cut through it without taking aboard a drop B00 « Hut have Up came witer, rising growing thinner for come rants gperate the 1 Te OBEY followed the mountain. mags of the great third wave that Japanese did attempt an: tack He immediately tore t mast from its step, al might heaved it, to gether with =all and rigging into the sea Then back ran into the stern-shects again caught the the not other forward, and with sprang he wi His he and tiller. Down upon them came the smother of foam. The seething poured in upon the two fishermen from port, Nakamura, as bottom of the ime swallow. flood starboard and stem. he ] in the second 1 lay limply boat, was for a ed up by the sea, Yet the craft fil, for Yamate rpare and Lelped to cut came through Yamate did held at completely The too, they not her the irge ANYASs prow, a passage; and and re ttle snatched the oars struggle A very them now, low the gunwale., Bat Onl oily swells which lapped gently bows and rolled on Yamate was glad of asshniance the flshing-boat that in to and to tow the wave would _O peat Water was worst them, WARE Dast. met the Yet from came Japanese lend a hand of danger Nakamura was dragged from under. to was presently he Came Io farther uassist tralling rigging, and presently was again under his own but still effective can Comuanion. and Yamate, refusing drew In his vas. --Youth's The Perssvering Guesser. Aked, John DD. Rockefeller's was praising the perseverance suffpagettes, who, he eaid, roads undergo imprison and fo sacrifice their lives to what they decided an intoler- wrong.” Then, with a sumead : "It I= amazing what perseverance will achieve sven misdirected per severance has achieved marvels There is the case of Robson, great Notts ericketer “Robson, during his Australian tour, was determined, one scorching afternoon, that his side shouldn't do the hard work of fielding. “Well, when the Australian cap tain spun the coin, Robson shouted: "Woman! “Then, seeing that heads lay up permost, instead of acknowledging de. feat Robson sald, with perseverance and nonobalance: "“ "Wellrwe'll go in “ ‘But-—er-I thought ' said the pu: zgled Australian, ‘you see, 1 don’t quite know the English meaning of “wom an.” “Then, maid ‘We'll toss again.’ Dr pastor, tho “stood of to right Dr. Aked amle re. Robson, gallantly, toss. Robson calied heads, and talla came up. at this point have surrendered in de spair, but not so Robson. " "Honors are now easy,’ said he, with a pleasant smile. 'On with the rutfber.’ “The AusiraMan a third time fp ed the toss correctly, the persevering Robson led his side to the benches” Bureau of Education. A national department of odaen: Hon, with a georetary in the esabinet, congress to the national bureau of education, Commissioner Brown experts to make important education make his modest bureau mission originally outlined fulfil Its Tor aed od KILLS WOMAN AND SELF. Youthful Telephone Inspector Shoots 18-Year-Old Companion, Reading. While speeding along in a taxicab here Stella Rocktashel, 18 years old, was shot and killed, her companion, George BE. Knaut, 20 vears old, after directing the chauffeur to hurry to a hospital, turned that killed the girl upon himself and ssnt a bullet Into his heart, dying almost instantly. Whether there had been a quarrel, the had agreed to die gether, has not been determined. Lewis Becker, the chauffeur. 1s una- ble to throw any light on the affair, but the police believe, however, that it, was a case of deliberate murder and suicide. Started For Girl's Home, The engaged the in the business section of shortly before 2 o'clock A, M., the young man telling the chauffeur to drive to the girl’s home at 617 North Front Stregt When the vicinity of the young woman's home was reach- ed the chauffeur was startled by a revolver shot inside the cab. Simul taneously with the report the front window of the cab was shattered and the driver heard the whiz of a billet over his shoulder A moment later Becker declares the man in the cab yelled excitedly, “Drive to the hospital!” Recognizing that something seri- ous hal Becker rushed the Reading Hospital entered hospital was a second shot in- Halting at the hospital summoned night ¢ in turn called the in- and the revolver or two 10. couple taxicab the town geeurred, machine Just as grounds side the cab door Becker nur and sh ternes to the he the there the we Dead On Reaching Hospital, The woman was found teat of theeab: Her face with blood There was it formrnd that sho bullet wound in the head, together with told how Fired at close pasied through in a was wan right MW der had range, ti her the flegh, i examination of th was dead : igh the was nothing hospital ians could do, and they imme- notified police, w © man {00 hay } heart the ao ook lesnbhana eiephiong * dey eloped neEnector neg that sweral pe . Paying he want- uerade ball An mask ball here af the opinion nd sous to lend bim od to go there was no the authorities that the case f murder suicide Miss YO Rockins INE Wi She an for several Was a of lively 4d Epoti- Knaut had been Years Her fath- is George Rocktashel, 2a Reading Railroad engineer, and of the best known rallroad men in this see- tion Supposed They Were Engaged. Her mother sald: “Why thiz thing not explain Knaut ter had always been and I understood that gaged to be married a fine young man I do not know, but were at no piace where they not have been From another source it waz learn. ed that Knaut and the girl were at a social gathering In 2s asvening and that later they were in a Saloon, It was from there that they went to a nearby street corper, where the taxi- Prepossess- ing an tion friends one occurred 1 can and my daugh- good friends, they were en- I thought him Where they were I know that! they should home TOOK HIS OWN LIFE, i Farmer Adopts A Sare Method Of Ending His Tronbles, Warren Charles ¥.. Hull, of Grand Valley, despondent and seek- Ing death, committed suicide by blow- ing himself to atoms with the aid of dynanriite He placed 15 aticks of the explosive in a hollow stump, at- tached a battery to it and aa! on the sump while he touched off the im- provised mine Where the stump was there i= a hole big enough to bury a brick house The only portion of Hull's hody recovered was found in a tree iwo farms away For some time Hull brood ng over financial losses, farm wax to have been sold by the sheriff, He hunted out a great box had been blasting last year, and writing a note, he pinned it to a tree near his barn, then went to the woods, half a mile distant, to end his life in a manner which would leave no uncertainty as to the success of hig suic'de plan. The note which he left reads as fol. lows: “On the day of the sale my troubles will be over.” The sale was postponed STATE ITEMS. Tue Hate Health Department bag received word of three cases of cere hrospinal meningitis at Wilkes-Barre. They are the only cases of the kind in the State. Caught by the coat in machinery which he was watching at Drapér Colliery, Gilberton, 15-year-old Oscar Leibig, of Frackville, was mangled to death, tees of the Free Library of the Beth. lehems elected these officers: Presi. dent, Prof. J. L. Stewart, of Lehigh University; viee president, Abraham 8. Schropp;: treasurer, W. A, Wilbur; secretary, Miss Elizabeth A, Dinan. The body of an unknown woman was found In the Lehigh Canal at Easton. In a dress et waa found a half pint bottle of whisky and a 256 cents in it. The body Be | - No AAA AA AIA Abb bb blah Jno. F. Gray & Son (Sixteen 20,5, UMANT HOOVER Control Sixteen of the Largest Fire and Lite ~ ance in the World, . . , . THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST . . / No Mutuals No Assessments Before insuring r life sen the cont