Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 496, 14 January 1902 — EXPLORERS NIGHT ON TANTALUS [ARTICLE]

EXPLORERS NIGHT ON TANTALUS

Attorney Hatlheinian Enjoys Nocturnal Mountain Eipedition. loses bis say. bouse m dog TRUSTY CANINE FOUND ASLEEP IN THE BRANCHES OF A TREE. In Sleet. Wind. Cold and Ram the Rising Lawyer Has a Tantalizing Time Watching for the Rising Sun—His Wife Spends Anxious Vigil Waiting His Return. T:.* way of the transgressor of mountain trait* is at times very banl, at all event* so think* .lank Matthewman. the well known attorney. who on Sunday w*-nt for a ride 1 11 Tantalus remaining then- all Sunday night although it was not the * -passing beautiful -(••nery that enchanted hint and kept him from his owl, h'-aiti and home. Early Sunday morning Matthewman started on horseback up the mountain, followed by his trusty dug Nick. He went up to the top of Tantalus and enjoyed the trip Immensely unti the sinking sun warned him that he must return home. He consequently startisi down ih< 1 rail hut had only gone a short distance when ho discovered —hor--101 Hi horrors that, he had lost his The Darkness of Night. Datknes was falling fast, the trees and bushes assumed the regulation nightly fa tit astir .appearances, strange .'O ind- whieh m glit emanate from ghosts -or rows —whispered through f!i< air. Jack thought of those v : out he had left at least two miles and a quarter away in Honolulu, lie also thought of Itis dinner and ih riiled to make « supreme effort to i‘i .11 li them all. He dismounted and started on foot fo find the trail I'ur quit•' awhile he wandered around trying to to. ate the path but with no sii 1 i <s. Frantically he disarranged hi- frisute and called upon the gods of his grands res In far aw ay Now England to help hint But only echo answered. Finally ho gave up the si an h and went to find his horse. Alone With “Nick." B it the horse had disappeared and li. was left alone on Lie fearful >’.i(ii - of Tantalus, alone save for the ■ mpany of hi* faithful dog Nick He tii.sl to find his horse but was unable !. tio -ii, mi at lasi when the fog 1 atv.e rolling over the mountain and it Is gait to rain, he virtuously covered lums- with a fig leaf and laid h mself tindt i one of Wray Taylor's forest reservation tree*, while the mynah hi:'ls. who evidently took him for one of the “haties in the wood." cam* along and put ti leaves over him During the long, dark and stormy night the unhappy explorer watched waited while the sleet and rain l<oured down in torrents, the wind hi"vanti the thermometer felt like making his position decidedly •it’. >mfo; table. Down in town his » fe also watched and waited for the o; th' house, and her eyes yes let lav show»*d symptoms of a shortay 'ti her sleep account Ccifl. Wet and Hungry . In the morning Jm k arose and nibbed several acorn and pine neetil* s .ait of his eyes. After carefully putting them back on Wray Taylor's forest reservation he started for the nearest telephone and sent word to town that he still lived. Then he begar. search for his horse- and also h - t■ . fly' dog which had also disappeared during the right He found the horse grazing quietly with a band f o - !;■ - ho -es, and finally espied Nick s’, .ping soundly in the branch- . s of a tree into which he had fallen by toppling over a precipice. Oanu's doughty explorer secured his dog and h’.s (torso and sadly and more wisely winded his way homeward, where a fatted chicken was kiled to celebrate his arrival and satiate his hunger. Results of the Exploration. V Ix-autiful poem beginning in the balmy night on Tantalus." which was written during his night's staymay soon appear in print. In the meantime 'Jack" is busy answering questions on the delights of exploration and the difficulties of pioneers. He has made one discovery, namely, that the pangs of thirst can be alleviated by chewing wet gras*.