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Show t : - ! t rlv.-, 1. - . . t .t : l t -,. , : .- f- ' - .a-4. .)!;. 1 t v ; tir. -son t- ) ' '- t : ".I ; c .ronaij ; r i i .. . 1 . . ( .1 cf I'.jbt I ' v . t - . O t i cl h;l r . l ; . . : i c 8 r .1 c tha 1 t l's. ';':.en he ricked up a, etc-r.e to t 'i t. i k- p en tre botton. end " i" ' . 1 ivir. r t.-.e lines cor-rar-.l t 1.1 e.s rcpe ty m hlch be as to te r - r 1 1 acit whenever he save a c ;r.;l (.' si.arp pulid. PounrleJ by the Ice and chi'.'.ed to the narrow by ' the cold water, Taiano Btrui;'.eJ on. The water ros over hla head, but the heavy atone he carried enat;d him to keep on the bottom. Now he could walk a little fa-ster. for he waa fret from the battering; Ice; but as he reared the center of the Btream the current grew iwlfter and swifter, until. If It had not been for the Btone be carried. It would have swept him clown. He trew numb from the cold, and It took all his etrength, stout swimmer aa he was. to rise to the surface and stay there long enough to breathe. Tet te dared not drop the weight, for he knew he could not g-et down to the bottom, a rain. 8o he worked, with Watanabe piayin out the rope, until he felt the bottom rlslrj and knew he was beyond the middle of the stream. Almost tense-less, tense-less, Takano struggled along-, striving to carry out the letter of his orders and reach the opposite bank. But not even Japanese nature could stand euch a test, and Watanabe, waiting on the bank., felt the long, steady pull on the rope that told hfm Takano had lost , . consciousness. With all hi might the corporal hauled In the line, and soon had the unconscious sergeant-major out of the water. A brisk rubbing and the content of hi flask. finally revived Takano, who got Into hit" warm, dry uniform again and started back with the corporal across' the Island. But when they reached the place where they had left the boat. It was gone. The third man. concluding that they had been captured by the Russian, had started back. There wa nothing for It but to Bwim, ao In the two men plunged. The floating float-ing Ice hammered them and the cold water numbed them. o that they could -not make headway against the current, and were carried down stream. But fortune for-tune had not deserted them, and they drifted against the boat In which their comrade wa trying to scull back to shore. He, too, had been wept down tream by the awlft water and the Ice which hindered hi cuUlng. He hauled them In. and soon they were landed on the Wlju lde, to be commended ty their captain for howing the real spirit of Yamato Damashll. Oscar King Da 4 Vis, in November Century. - A Japanese Hero j Banko Sakano, sergeant-major,, special spe-cial duty, belongs to the Second company, com-pany, Second cavalry regiment. Second division. On a dark night in early April, soon after hla egiment had reached the Yalu river, he and Lance Corporal Shlnobu Watanabe were sent out with a third man to ascertain the width and depth of the main stream of the river where it flows between two large Islands opposite Wlju. They crossed the first channel In a boat which the aergeant-major and the corporal cor-poral left on the first Island In charge of the third man. Then the two worked across the Island to the main stream. The Russian occupied a little village on the opposite aide, directly across from the place where Takano and Watanabe struck the river. Takano law that It would be very difficult to set across without attracting, y'r |