Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1901 — Six Hours Afloat. [ARTICLE]

Six Hours Afloat.

A London paper relates the trying experience of an English sailor. He could not swim, and was six hours in the water during a storm. He hod a life-preserver, but was in constant terror lest it should slip from his grasp. If it did he knew he could never regain it He had fallen off the bow-chains of the veaeeL and from midnight to daylight the life-boat was searching for him while the ship lay to. Many captains would have desisted in au hour or two, but this one persevered, and the men were finally rewarded with a sight of their comrade a mile away. A day’s rest restored his strength, and be resumed bis dangerous duties. In Austria, mushrooms are grown in coal-pits.