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Show ECONOMY IN LIFE SAVING. James Rankin Young. ex-Congressman, is responsible for this story about three drowning men. They were out in a rowboat which was run down by an excursion steamer on the Delaware river. The accident occurred close to the shore, and the captain of the steamer steam-er immediately had a lifeboat lowered. TVhlle the crew was pulling toward the struggling men nn excited individual individ-ual on the dock yelled out: "Sdve the red-headed man! Whatever What-ever you do, save the red-headed man!" All three men. however, were saved, and when they had been safely landed on the dork the captain turned to the excited individual and said: "Why did you want to save the redheaded red-headed man in preference to the others?" "BecauFe." wss the frank reply, "he owes me a dollar and a half." |