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The man who made the remark was a short, stout person, who seemed, as a rule, disin- clined to talk. Somebody had quoted Macaulay’sâ€" ' well he may, For never saw I promise yet, of such a bloody fray, Strike where ye see my white plumes shine above the ranks of war, And be our oriflamme to-day, the hel- met of. Navarre! That led to the stout man removing a very big cigar from. his mouth to make the above assertion, and, as usual, Clarence had a story to “point the moral."’ If my stganrdâ€"bearer fall, as fall full “I’ll tell you what I saw with my own eyes at Port Galla, in Ceylon,” he said, “and what I heard w1th my own ears What makes it stick in my memory all the inore is, that it was the last thing I remember happening before I left Ceylon. “I had got myself and all my traps on board the P. and O. steamer to leave. But in those daysâ€"I don’t know how it is nowâ€"the steamers us- ed to be kept waiting at Port Gang. for other steamers from other ports. Sometimes, if the currents about Cape Comorin or the straits were particu- larly unreasonable, you might have to put up with forty-eight hours of wait- IHE [OVER AND HE ”SEER. mg. This time we had to wait more than. a day for a boat that was bring- ing passengers from Singapore and Hong Kong. In that way I became acquainted before we weighed anchor with a particularly interesting group of passengers. This group consisted of an elderly lady, wife of a judge up country, her daughter and two men, The daughter had been ordered home to England for her health. The two menâ€"well, that’s where my story comes in. "My sympathies ought to have beene with the elder of those two, because", he was a coffee planter, and so was I, or I had been until a few weeks be-l fore. This coffee planter man wasi evidently on familiar terms with Mrs. E J udgc and the young woman, and _ Mamma seemed to treat him with dis- 1 tinguished consideration. From that! I gathered that he was the favored? suitor. The other man was a perse-i vering lover, evidently, but not near-‘ ly as likely to win as his rival, judging E by the signs of parental inclination: He was a young subaltern in a British 1 regiment stationed up country, and that was how and where he had made the acquaintance of Miss Edithâ€"I may as well say at once that his name was Cropleyâ€"Lieut. Cropley. I soon picked up the whole thread of Crep- ley’s story. It was an old story; the only new feature in it, to me, was the promptness with which the young man QUiSitivenessy ‘ sure. whether were with the coffee planter anu .ucu. , mother or with Cropleyâ€"that is, until ' the morning after we had all gone on board and waited a night in the bar- bor. Until then, I thought she was rather indifferent, with, perhaps a slight natural preference for the younger man. But then it was easy to see that the poor girl’s health was “Cropley and I made friends very fast. He was an ingenuous, whole- :souled youngster. From his way of ; talking to me, as we sat together late I that night by the ship’s rail and smok- led, watching the lights of the har- bor, it was plain that he was anxious to find some one to tell his troubles to. He was not rich, I found, and the coffee planter, I guessed, was. If he rich as his rival. u cBad mvg" I fluid. has a long start of 7 If you give up you throw away your 3“ Cropley 8e by the interest I took 19 his afigirs. He went to bedâ€"or to hrs bunkâ€"m a ‘ morning, mther earne on deck he joined them, utterly unabashed by either the pres- ence of the coffee planter or the sev- ere politeness of Mrs Judge. And the plan seemed to work, too, for Edith "With all guy 1y enterprise and in- couldn’t find out far the girl's sympathles coffee plan_ter end hex; 0 Say, ‘Yes’, he leave the army [on as a coffee he did talked to Cmpiey, listened to Cropley, and asked Cropley questions about the i harbor, and the funny boats, and the% pearl divers, which questions, for the* most part, he had to either refer to me or give up. "It was a beautiful morning, and the goose seemed to hang high for poor Cropleyâ€"so much so that his rival was beginning to look as dejected as a man in spotless white duck, with a. shining, freshly shaven face, can look. I made up my mind to tell Cropley at the first opportunity not to push things too hard, or the mother might resort to stringent measures, and forbid {Edith to talk to him at all. That was the danger which I foresaw at that , time. “But then Cropley suddenly burst into a blaze of glory a_.§ a hero. “We were all standing at the stern rail-five of usâ€"looking at the small craft below us dancing about on the light swell. A native seamenâ€"a Las- car from some piratical part 01 the Malay Peninsulaâ€"came skipping nim- bly along the tOp of the rail that was to hang in blghts from spring hooks for some purpose or other. Be a ologiz- ed for disturbing us and passe on. In less than a minfite after h hm] pass- ed we heard the cry, ‘Man ove. b ard I' behind us. “Of course it was the Lamar who had dropped from the taflrail. livery- body ran to the starboard side u: the deck, and there was the poor devil’s head bobbing up and down like a cork, while his shipmates were running every way at once to get out life buoys. . ‘; “Just for one moment it was hor- rible. There was not a ripple near the } man as yet, but we all expected to see gthe ripples in another moment, and :nmn_nm and of it. Edith’s mother “You see, there was no danger of his drowning. You can’t drown a Lascar, unless you anchor him in ten fathoms with a two-fathom cable. The danger was in sharks; that was why all the dingheys and sampans that were paddling about within a few yards of the man held off from him so, they were afraid of being upset by the scramble of sharks that were sure to come. And then, you see, the man was only a Lascar, anyhow. A white man or a high caste native would have been different. huv gory-vâ€" â€"â€" -~__ thenâ€"the end of it. Edith’s mother drew her back from the rail. We three men seemed momentarily para.- lyzgq. - Q \ ___ _ _. n..-“‘" kn “Then, suddenly, young Cropley bez- gan getting his arms out of the sleeves of his loose Chinese silk jacket. 1 shall never forget the way he set about it. There was an expression on his face, which I can only describe as pouting. “ ‘Confound it,’ he said, ‘I suppose I must go.‘ “And the next moment he was over the rail and flying, arms and legs all spread out, through the air, down to the shining, swelling water where the Lascar’s head was bobbing up and down. “What struck me about it all was ‘ l the tone in which he said those words, ‘ ‘Confound it, I suppose I must go.’ It ; was just as if the bugle call had inter- l rupted him in a game that interested ‘3 hm) deeply. Things had evidently be- ; gan to look bright for him, because; Edith was smiling, and I suppose he! thought it ‘a beastly bore, don’t you know,’ for this fool of a Lascar to go and drop into that shark pond on this particular morning. ‘ “And I suppose Crop‘rey had quite ; made up his mind that there would be ' no coming back for him. He was only ld-oing it all, I believe, because it was i ‘the thing’ to do, and because it would ! be a disgrace to the flag if this Lascar were eaten up like that without an I l had none of us counted on one very lsimple fact in natural history, name- ly, that sharks, with all their ferocity, ,are very timid. The splash Cropley {made as he dropped into the water saved two lives. Probably it came ing away from the splash, as they al- ways do, though they may be counted on to come back as soon as everything gets quiet again. But before they could come back one of the ship's boats that had been moored at. the foot of the companion ladder was alongside the Lascar and the English- man. They were both pulled in 8316. "That (1053 illustrate saying about heroes n01 speeches, doesn’t it 2” “Well, I dop't quite I _‘:A 1 with young Cropley‘ abpuf it this time. fr? Lte what you were not making heroxc DIVERS NARROW ESUAPE. THIS TRUE STORY IS MORE THRIL- LING THAN FICTION. Helpless lla- Bobblng lead Downward a Five loinâ€"Wu, Dragged Fro-I ““9 c Bottom of the Sea Alive and Blunt-1 5 British Blue Jacket‘s Perilous Adven- I tut-e. t The adventures and perils encounter- t ed by submarine divers have been the E subject of stories innumerable, even~ ] from before the time at Jules Verne’s : celebrated “Ten Thousand Leagues EUnder the Sea." In all the fact and {fiction written of the submarine diver, ‘ however, there is nothing more thril- , ling than the following veracious and i plainly told story lot an adventure which befell Sea-man Diver Young, of 'the British battleship Hood, in Suda ‘Bay. off the Island ofi Crete; } A 'lORPEDO LOST. I A practice torpedo launch-2d from the 'ship had, through a disarrangcmsnti of .ts m c;.ai.i m, plunged stra gut; J jucxx'nwurd uni buried nearly half its' lazgku .n in; ehcky mm 78 feet below the surface of the bay. A pracdce or “baby” Lurp:do costs about. $2,000., and efforts to recover the lost one were at once put, under way. Diver Young had donned a brand- new dress for the occasion. He went over the side of the small boat, his weights were put on over, his shoulder- era, the cranks of the air pumps began to revolve, and with the signal, “All right,” given by two pats on the top of his helmet, John Young gently sank beneath the waves, easing himself |down his shot-rope as he went. ‘ THE FIRST BLUN1)ER. It would appear that in Suda Bay fthere must have been a. submarine 'current, probably only very slight, {but nevertheless sufficiently strong when Young descended to turn him agradually, but completely, round, so ithat ere he touched the bottom he had iunknowingly already got his life-line I and air-pipe foul. Utterly unaware of this, and finding the torpedo immediately Young gave the signalâ€"a pull on his life line -â€"- which had already been agreed upon. and which meant that he was ready for the five-inch hawser to be lowered to him. This being done, and catching hold' of the end of the hawser, he groped his way to the torpedo, wading through the heavy bottom mud, which was nearly up to his knees. Making the hawser fast to the tail of the torpedo he must have moved completely round {the submerged weapon from left to lright, thus making another foul. ‘ TRIED 1‘0 ASCEND. The hawser being made fast Young ‘now started to ascend up the shot 'rope, quite unaware that he had made a hitch round both it and the torpedo ,with both his air-pipe and breast-line. .By this time Young must have come to the conclusion that he was fouled, for he had ascended a short distance, and then found he could not move. Therefore, like a wise man, he went down again and tried to find out where the trouble was; but, owing: to its be!- ing pitch dark where he was, it is not to be wondered at that he failed to do Almost desP-airing of being able to free himself, and dreading to resort. to the last resource, that or cutting him- self clear with his knife, lest he should get foul again while going up, the un- fortunate man gave four pulls on his air-pipe. 'l'his is the most urgent signal that a diver can send to his friends above. It means "Pull meup at once by my life-line." '. COULDN’T PULL HIM UP. At first the operators hesitated to act on this, but on the urgent repeti- tion of the signal the o_rder was g1ven DOV“ v- vâ€"‘ on the launch to haul in the life-line. But on commencing to do this the operators found it was impossible to bring up more than a fathom of the line. Worse still, the only result of this operation was to turn Young com- pletely Upside down! The very first pull on the line â€" entangled as it was round the torpedo - must have done I'm Now, once a diver loses his perpendj. cular and gets horizontal, the air gets into the legs of his dressâ€"up they go, and then nothing that he can do will ever bring them down again. He in a mere helpless wind-bag, quite incapfi able.of reversing himself. This is k’ VVVVV J "â€"v" â€"r __ Young. The loop of his life-line round the torpedo pulled him on to his chest; the helpless man's legs immediately went up, buoyed with air. and so he remained, bumping about on his head in total darkness, 78 feet at the bot- tom of the sea. Of course, those above could not tell what had happened. Un- able to bring the driver up‘ and get,- . -â€" '-v vv ting no more signals from him, a 50 candleâ€"power electric submarine lamp was lowered down to bind at 7.30 -p.m. To this was attached a slate and pen.- cil, so that the helpless man could write on the slate and inform those above precisely what his dflem the sea, SUD” UL Luv 036w. floating at the I casional thumg his head into the mud. During the next hour all other expedients to communicate with him were tried, but all proved equally fruitless. And new number grave danger. entered upon the extra- ordinary scene. The cylinders of the air-pump, which had been working continuously for som: eight hourg “showed signs of overwork, and were rapidly getting redhot. In this case they would have to be stopped alr- together. However, luckily there was ,a plentiful supply of ice on board the iHood, and by packing this continually around the pump it was kept cool ‘enough to work. the monotony being .irar‘ied ‘by his While these operations were going on Her Ma jesty’s sloop Dolphin hove in sight and joined her huge consort in Suda Bay. A signal was at once made to her from the flagship to send im- mediately a boat, with diver and ap- paratus. The Dolphin’s boat brought at once a couple of divers and a oneâ€" man pump. One of the divers went down as quickly as possible in search of Young, but he was a new band at the work, and speedily returned to the surface, having failed to see any one or Qanythingi AL 9 p.m., fill lines attached to Young, which had previously been kept taut as well as the hawser which h "had fastened to the torpedo, and the shot line â€"- all were simultaneously eased. The result of this was that the unfortunate man gradually ascendedâ€" though, of course, he was still head downward. At 9.45 p.m., the second Ldiver from the Dolphin descended, and by the aid of the electric light he found Young bobbing about in a per- fectly helpless condition. He shook the luckless diver by the ban and tried in other ways to attract h I at:- tention. Getting no response to his efforts, he came up and reported Young quite dead. The unfortunate. man was now actually sighted from the launch, legs up and head down, about 24 feet be- low the surface of the translucent wa- ter. There remained only one thing [to be done â€" namely, to pull up the torpedo by main force by means of the .hawser attached to it. It was a des- {perate and last resource. When all was in readiness the signal was given, “Full steam ahead." This was done twice, each time in a differ- ent direction, but without any appar- ent results. The torpedo firmly wedged in the clay would not budge! Then again once more -â€" this time spurt at right angles to previous pulls and at full speed. Again 80 brawny arms in the launch heaved and haunted with a "will; the steam pinnace panted and 'p‘uffed, her screw beating the calm‘ waters into a milky foam. Both boats were at a standstill, quivering with the immense strain put upon them from stern to bow. MAIN STRENGTH WON. rl‘hen, suddenly, and without any ap- parent warning, the torpedo, having given way at last, the helpless diver came shooting out of the water feet foremost, with an impetus that al- most landed him into the arms of the crew of the launch. The lost torpedo :came along side almost at the same ‘moment. 'l'he shot-line was found twisted round Young’s right arm, and the limb was apparently broken. The face plate was quickly removed from the poor fellow’s helmet, which was found three quarters full of water. The new dress had evidently leaked slightly, and all the while that Young had been bump- ing about on his head the sea had been slowly oozing through and accumu- lating in his helmet. It had reached his eyebrows when he shot violently ito the surface. Another quarter of an hour and his mouth and nostril: ,would have been covered. i t l The shot-rope was cut away. Every soul in the boat thought that~ the man had been dead some hours. They were beginning to cut away the sleeve of the india-rubber dress, so as to free his arm; when suddenly, and to the utter amazement of all present, the eyes of the supposed dead man opened, and a very sepulchral voice murmured in feeble protest: “Don’t cut the blankety dress; it's a new 'un!" t A \VONDERFUL SURVIVAL. An Mense cheer rent: the air, and was quickly taken up on board the warship. The whole vicinity was filled with the joyous sound, which told of the diver’s marvelous survial. Beyond the fact that. his arm was severely contused and painful Young appeared to be none t1_1e yvpxjge at _ tpo time and, after a good night's rest, ho was going about his duties as usual next day. W hen it is considered that he was under the water, 78 feet deep, for over five hours in total darkness most of the time upside down and hope- lessly entangled with two ropes and the torpedo, it can safely be said that his experience was unique, and in all the records of diving his escape may be taken as the most wonderful known. PAUPERISM IN OLD AGE. England is keenly exercised about the prevention of pauperism among the working classes in old age. It is stated that 344,000 men over sixty- five years old are in receipt of poor relief in England to-day, and that two out of every five ofthe wageâ€"earning classes over sixty-five become paup- PBUSSIA’S PECU LIARITY. The Emperor William has one pe- culiarity, which is that he will have every meal, of all of which he par- taka in turn. eâ€"-I wouldn’t marry you it you were the last man on earth. liraâ€"You wouldn't Ket O- W I’d “THE MAN IS DEAD." 1‘0 THE HE GOT EVEN.