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ONLY JO JONES.
BY AMELIA E. BARR.
officers of her
sjesty’s Twenty-
Afourth and Eighty.
_ fourth Infantry were
. sitting round their’
2 mess table, in Castle-
2 town, the capital of
-'% the Isle of Man, one
\: evening more than
+ forty years ago—that
is, all of them except
one; but’ then that
one was only Jones.
Nobody minded Jones; even his peru-
liarities had begun to be an old subject.
for ¢‘chaffing; "7 and, indeed, he had
attention to their
¢‘chaffing” that they had come to find
it little pleasure; and after some weeks
of discomfort, Lieutenant Jones had been
allowed to choose his own pleasures
without much interference.
These were not extravagant. A favor.
ite book, a long walk in all kinds of
weather, and a sail when the weather
was favorable.
he said it hurt his health; he would not
shoot—he said 1t hurt his feelings; he
would not gamble—he said it hurt his
conscience; and he did not care to flirt
or visit the belles of the capital—he said
it hurt his affections. Once Captain De
Reuzy wondered whether it was possible
1 #*hurt his honor,” and Jones calmly
sred that ‘‘it was not possible for
Captain ‘De Reuzy to do so.”
Indeed, Jones constantly violated all
these. géutlemen’s idea .of proper be-
havior, but, for some reason or other, no
one brought him to account for it. Ii
‘was easier to shrug their shoulders and
call him ¢‘queer,” or say, ‘it is only
Jones,” or even to quietly assert his
cowardice.
One evening, Colonel Undewood was
discussing a hunting party for the next
day. Jones walked into the room and
"was immediately accosted.
"wiSomething new, Lieutenant. I find
there are plenty of hares on the island,
and we mean to give puss a run to-mor.
row. I have heard you are a good rider.
Will you join us?”
«¢¥ou must excuse me, Colonel; such
a thing is in Deither my way of duty i nor
my pleasure.”
$¢You forget the honor the Colonel
does you, Jones,” said young Ensign
Powell.
“I thank the Colonel for his courtesy,
but I can see no good reason for accept-
ing it, I am sure my horse will not ap-
prove of it; and Iam sure the hare will
not like it; "and Iam nota good rider; |,
sir.
therefore 1 should not enjoy it.”
“Youneed not be afraid,” said the
Colonel, rather sneeringly; “ithe country
is quite open, and these low Manx walls
arc easily taken.’
«Excuse me, Colonel. I am. afraid.
If I should be hurt, it would’ cause my
mother and sisters very great alarm and
anxiety. Iam very mich afraid of do-
ing this,”
What was to be done with a man so
obtuse regarding coaventionalities, and
who boldly asserted his cowardice? The
Colonel turned away, half contémptu-
ously, and Ensign Powell took Jones's
place.”
The morning proved to be a very bad
one, with the prospect of a raising storm;
and as the party gathered in the bar-
racks-yard, Jones said earnestly to his.
Colonel:
“I am afraid, sir, you will meet with
a severe storm.”
«] think so, Lieutenant; but we prom-
ised to dine at Gwynne: Hall, and we
shail get that far, at apy rate.’
Bc they rode rather De away in:
the rain. Jones attended to the mili-
tary duties assigned’ him, and then,
about noon, walked seaward. It was
hard work by this time to keep his foot-
ing on the narrow quay; but amid the
blinding spray and mist he saw quite a
crowd of men going rapidly toward the
great shelving Scarlet Rocks, a mile be-
yond the town. He stopped an old
sailor and asked:
¢Is anything wrong?”
“4A little steamer, sir, off ta Calf of
Man; she is driving this way; an’, in-
teet, 1 fear she will be on ta rocks afore
* ta night.”
Jones stood still for a moment, and
then foliowed the crowd as fast as the
storm: would lot him. When he jolned
them they were gathered on the summit
of a huge cliff, watching the doomed
eraft. Bbe was now within sight, and it
was evident that her seamen had lost
almost all control over her. She must,
ere long, be flung by the waves upon the
jagged and frightful rocks toward which
she was driving. In the lulls of the
wind, noc only the booming of the min-
ute gun, but also the shouts of the im-
periled crew cculd be heard,
+¢What can be done?’ said Jones to
"‘an old man, whose face betrayed the
strongest emotion.
“Nothing, sir, I am afrait. If she
had managed to rount ta rocks, she
would ‘have gone to pieces on ta sand,
and there are plenty of men who ‘would
But: how
are we to reach them from this height?”
' ‘How far are we above water?”
¢+This rock goes down like a wall,
, sir.”
of water at the foot”
ty feet or more.”
. Have you plenty of light,
He would not drink— |
Sc
“Do you know, old meu, what ‘surf
swimming’ is? I have dived through
the surf at Nukuheva.”
~$‘God bless you, sir! I thoaght no
white man could do that same.”
«While this conversation was going
Jones was divesting himself of all i Bing
fluous clothing, and cutting out the
sleeves of his heavy pea-jacket with his
pocket-knife. This done, he "passed
some light, strong rope through them.
The men watched him with eager in-
terest, and seeing their inquisitive looks,
he said;
“The thick sleeves will prevent the
rope cutting my body, you see.’
Ay, ay, sir, I see now what you are
doing.”
“Now, men, I have only one request:
Give me. plenty of rope as fast as I draw
on you. Whenl get onboard, you know
how to make a craddle, I suppose?”
‘Ay, ay, sir; bat how are you going
to reach the water?’
“I am going to plunge down. I have
dived from the main yard of the Ajax
before this. ‘It was as higha leap.” |
He passed a double coil of the rope
round his waist, examined it thoroughly
to see that there was plenty to start with,
and saying: ‘Now, friends, stand out of
the tvay, and let. me have a clear start,”
he raised his bare head toward heaven,
and, taking a short run, leaped, as from
the Spring-board of a plunge-bath.
Such an anxious crowd as followed
that leap! Great numbers, in spite of
the dangerous wind, lay flat on tneir
breasts and watched him. He struck
the water at least twenty-five feet beyond
the cliff, and disappeared in its dark,
foamy depths.
‘When he rose to the surface, he saw’
just before him a gigantic wave, but he
had time to breathe, and before it
reached him he dived below its center.
It broke in passionate fury upon the
rocks, but Jones rose far beyond it. A
mighty cheer from the men on shore
reached him, and be now began in good
earnest to put his Pacific experience. into
practice. ;
Drawing continually on the men for
more rope—which they paid out with
deafening oheers—he met wave after
wave in the same manner, diving under
them like an otter, and getting nearer
the wreck with every wave, really ad-
vancing, however, more below the water
than above it.
Suddenly the despairing men on board
heard a clear, hopeful voice:
¢“Throw me a buoy!”
And in another minute or two Jones
was on the deck, and the cheers on the
little steamer were echoed by the cheers
of the crowd on the land. There was
not a moment to be lost; she was break-
ing up fast; but it took "but a few min.
utes to fasten a strong cable to the small
rope and draw it on board, and then a
second cable, and the communication
was complete.
*¢There is a lady here, sir,” said the
Captain. ‘We must rig up a chair for
her. She can never walk that danger:
ous road.”
‘But we have not a moment to waste,
or we may all be lost. Is she very
heavy?”
“A slight little thing; half & child,
At her here.”
There was no time" for ceremony.
‘| Without a word, save a few sentences of
direction and encouragement, he took
her under his one arm, and steadying
himself by the upper cable, walked on
the lower with his burden safely to the
shore. The crew rapidly followed, for
in such moments of extremity the soul
masters the body, and all things become
possible.
There was plenty of help waiting for
the half-dead seamen; and the lady, her
father and the Captain had been put in
the carriage of Squire Braddon, of Brad-
don, and driven rapidly to his hospitable
hall, Jones, amid the confusion, &isap-
peared. He had picked up an oil-skin
coat and cap, and when every one turned
to thank their deliverer, he was gone.
‘No one knew him. In an hour the
steamer was driven on the rocks and
went to pieces, and, it being by this
time quite dark, every one went home.
The next day the hunting-party re-
turned from Gwynne Hall, ihe storm
having compelled them to stop all night,
and ‘at dinner that evening the wreck and
the hero of it were the theme of every
one's conversation.
+¢Such a plucky fellow!” said Ensign
Powell. ¢I wonder who he was.
Gwynne says he was a stranger; perhaps
one of that crowd staying at the abbey."
¢‘Perhaps,” said Captain Marks, *4it
was Jones.”
¢<+Oh, Jones would bs too afraid of his
mother,”
Jones made a little satirical bow, and
said, pleasantly:
+{Perhaps it was Powell;” at which
Powell laughed, and said: “Not if I
knew it.”
In a week the event had been pretty
well exhausted, expecially as there was
to be a great dinner and a ball at Brad-
don, aud all the officers had invitations.
This ball had a peculiar interest, for the
young lady who had been saved from the
wreck would be present, and rumors of
her riches and beauty had been rife for
several days. ' It was said that the little
steamer was her father’s private yacht,
and that he was a man of rank and 1n-
fluence.
Jones said he should not go to the
dinner, as either he or Saville must re-
main for evening drill, and that Saville
loved a good dinner, while he cared very
little about it. Saville could return in
time to let him ride over about ten
o'ciock and see the dancing. Saville
his place all the evening, and felt half
injured at his default. But Jones had
a curiosity about the girl he had saved.
To tell the truth, he was nearer in love
with her than Lo had ever been with any
woman, and be wished in calm blood to
‘see if she was as beautiful as hi
had rid ber during those £
he had held her
a
rather wondered ‘why Jones did not take
with his ney or talking to
her father, or leaning on Braddon’s arm,
and every time he saw her she looked
fairer and sweeter. Yet he had not.
courage to ask for an introduction, and
in the busy ballroom no one seemed to
remember that he needed one. He kept
his against the conservatory door
quite undisturbed for some time. Pres-
ently he saw Squire Braddon with the
beauty on his arm approachinghim. As
they passed, the squire remembered he
had not been to dinner, and stopped to
say a few courteous words, and intro-
duced his companion.
«Miss Conyers.”
‘Lieutenant Jones.® La
But no sooner did Miss Conyers hear
Lieutenant Jones's voice than she gave a
joyful ay, § and clapping her hands to-
gether, sai
1 = found him! Papal
I have found him!”
Never was there such an interruption
toa ball. The company gathered in
excited groups,and papa knew the Lieu-
tenant’s voice, and the Captain knew it;
and poor Jones, unwillingly enough,
had to acknowledge the deed and be
made a hero of.
It was wonderful, after this night,
what a change took place in Jones's quiet
ways. His books and boat seemed to
have lost their charm, and as for his
walks, they were all in one direction,
and ended ut Braddon Hall, In abouta
month. Miss Conyers went away, and
then Jones began to haunt the postman,
and to get pretty little letters which al-
ways seemed to take a great deal of an-
swering.
Before the end of the winter he had an
invitation to Conyers to spend a month,
and a furlough being granted,he started
off in great gles for Kent. Jones never
returned to the Eighty-fourth, The
month's furlough wasindefinitely length-
ened—in fact, he sold out, and entered
apon a diplomatic career under the care
o. Sir Thomas Conyers.
Eighteen months after the wreck,
Colonel Underwood read aloud at the
mess a description of the marriage of
Thomas Jones, of Milford Haven, to
Mary, only child and heiress of Bir
Thomas Conyers, of Conyers Castle,
Kent. And a paragraph below stated
that ‘‘the Honorable Thomas Jones, with
his bride, bad gone to Vienna on diplo-
matic service of great importance.”
¢¢ Just his luck,” said Powell.
*¢Just his pluck,” said Underwood;
¢‘and for my part, when I come across
any of these fellows again that are afraid
of hurting their mothers and sisters, and
not ashamed to say so, I shall treat them
as heroes just waiting for their oppor-
tunity. Here is to the Honorable Thomas
Jones and his lovely bride! We are
going to India, gentlemen, next month,
and I am sorry the Eighty-fourth has
lost Lieutenant Jones; for I have no
Papa!
a fort as bravely as he boarded a wreck.”
~The Ledger.
dies RRS ny
A Clever Trick.
Several years ago the postal depart-
ment was greatly annoyed by the large
number of registered letters opened and
their contents removed, and could
no clue to the thief. Neither the enve-
lope of the registered letter nor the out-
side envelope was in any of the cases
mutilated, and what made the matter
worse, robberies of the same kind were
reported from several postoffices at once.
The non-mutilation of the outside
registry envelopes showed that the rob-
beries were not committed while the
letter was en route, so the department
set detectives to watch several postoffices
at which letters had arrived apparently
robbed.
moisten the several stamps on a regis-
tered letter, remove them, and with a
very sharp knife cut a slit where the
stamps had been, take the money from
the envelopes, and then replace the
stamps over tae slit. That was the se-
cret. A professional thief had put the
clerk on it, as well as about a dozen
others at different postoffices, for a small
rake off. ‘When the stamps were care-
fully replaced a person could not tell
that the envelope had been slit.—Chicago
Mail,
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The average cargo of a fruit steamer
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largest bunches must weigh at least
fifteen or twenty pounds and at that rate
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The best of this brand brings $1.75 and
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Cornbread in Europe.
generosity of the American people in
fzeding the starving Russians may be re-
warded 1n an unexpected way, by the
demand that is likely to follow for corn
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the best efforts of the Depertment of
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A contemporary suggests that the
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