Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07

The Carmen and her tragedy had receded infinitely.
when the dying man heard the loud call of a steam
ers siren. And soon came human voices and
sensation as of lifting.
The Boy Was Found
THE big Orient Pacific liner Omrah Sydneyto Lon
J. don, had just left Gibraltar, and racing past
Cape St Vincent. Third Officer A. H. Fraser
the bridge, when he suddenly esped dark object
on the port beam,-Just speck that rose and fell,
Fraser told the Captain; and three four
spy glasses were focused on it. Soon it was clear
that the thing was scrap OF fotsam, and Captain
Sheford with the keen deduction of practical
sailor, argued that where wreckage there also
might be precious human life. With that thought
came brief order; the huge Omrah swung round
few points Frasers eye was glued to his glass, and
raft made of two dashed spars. In two three
minutes seven hundred well dressed people crowded
at the port rails. The engine telegraph changed;
the music of the boSnS pipe walled above the gale,
and volunteer mustered to take charge.
And no sooner had Fraser and his men dropped
from the davits than strong. arms sent the boat
through the waves in true SWltchback fashion.
The Spanish boy was reached, and every mans
heart went out to the helpless little figure with
CHASTITY face, mouth agape, body and limbs twisted
and contorted by the strain put upon his fastenngs
1t not long before Juan in a very warm bed,
with DR.. Lucas, the Omrah's surgeon, and his
assistant standing over him with restoratives and
stimuants. He was taken to London and presented
at the head Office of the Orient Pacific Line. The
directors, after giving him money, passed him
to the Spanish Consulate, and before the month
more in the of Andalusia.
Another story outrivaling fiction is that of the
French brigantne Valiant, Cherbourg to ST. Pierre
Miquelon, with seventy-four codfshers. Crawling
cautiously over the Grand Banks at midnight, there
suddenly doomed out of the cold mist stupendous
iceberg, drifting down memorable fate. The
Valiant crumbled like house of cards, and the half
clad men who escaped destruction by the rending
timbers rushed on deck in wild confusion and liter
ally threw the boats overheard. They swarmed into
the frail craft, capsizing or swapping them; but
thrty-five got away-twenty-on in the lifeboat,
seven in jolly boat and the other seven in a fiat
bottomed fishing dory.
No Food, No Water. No Sails
THEY had no food or water, sails, and even
oars Behold the poor creatures t us adrift cor
ing nothing to get away from that vast white
wall, seen like colossal ghost through the driv
ing spindrift! The high, drenching and chill
ing them through and through. Before dawn they
separated and the jolly boat was never seen again.
The Captains dog furnished one meal the second day;
but that night four persisted from exposure and
were cast overheard. But first their clothes
stripped from the stark bodies the better to protect
the living. Thirst allayed somewhat by sucking
scraps broken off the wilderness of minor bergs that
foated by in strange silent procession Seven more
died the third night, and after that all record
is lost.
1t was on the seventh day that the schooner
Victor bore down and picked up four frost bitten
creatures dead than alive Her master asked
questions about the mutilated bodies found under