Show GRAND HEROISM A mohican war veteran abo died dieci to save I 1 a woman and tier her italic babe A of battle scarred veterans veteran 4 were sitti sitting ncr 7 around a comfortable tiro fire in general gener 0 thomi thomis s A office ollire tile the other day spinning int yarris yarns of dar daring and het heroism oisille such as would make tile blood of the eol coldest dest ting I 1 ingle lewith with pleasure able excitement during it i lull if in tile the coliver aaion tile the general aroused himself I 1 from a reverie into which lie had dropped and with a sigh A began be in crall I bays youve been telling talc jalcs of battles battled of men wito who risked their lives for their count rys 1 good but you one arid and ill all have forgotten to mention the name of a man mail known to you all and a against aina whose one act of self ng bravery 0 your stories sink into insignificance 1 I 1 refer to ser sergeant cant jolin john lytle a veteran of the mexican m war who survived that struggle amle only to perish peri h later in a nobler and more heroic manner than did ever mortal mart mail on a battlefield john was wag it a brother of bob lytle who is now in tins the delinquent tax office in 19 49 lie was one of the first to get the gold fever and leave for california lie he was one of tile the few who struck luck and after a time lie n got yot toc together rether quite a anu snug little fort fortune tine it was wag then lie he tired of the slope and decided to move into mexico which lie he did about ab ut 1887 1867 or 1868 embarking in the cotton and 11 I 1 it coffee raising business and alo interesting esting himself in silver mining after a time liis his health began bean be 0 an to fail mid and lie he stir skirted ted overland to california for his herlth heil th this was in 70 for some soine reason or other lie he never coni completed p feted his journey but instead tool took p passage ishige zi on oil the steamer te anier continental with captain st lucas bound for mexico when the vessel was about three days out cufr there came up tip one of the choso go terrible terrial cyclones that s sometimes ynes strike the pae pacific ocean ind and against which iio 0 vessel vc s s ea is isable able to salt well the continental was not in an overly strong ship and it sprinta sprung i leak then began the lowering of the lifeboats life boats but one by one is as they reached the water the wind would dash wern them a against the side of the vessel and smash them to smither smithereens cens at last tile the storm subsided arid and it was well it did forthe for the ill fated continental was rapidly sinkin sink sinking in 0 it WAS found that there were verc but atit t two wo lifeboats life boats lef leffand tand at least seven more persons on board than they would carry what was to be done some sole one suggested am casting cathi lots to see who should escape arid and who sili should remain and perish lytle was lucky and drew dreng a release ticket for tile last boat boal it was lowered and john was put into it just is as it was about to push free from the hie vessel there wasa was a terrible shriek heard and there on oil tile the fast sinking 0 ship I 1 stood si men and a woman it was alie latter who hall had uttered the alie cry in her arms was a babe scirce a year old lull and on oil her face a look of anguish in and terror that poor lytle could not stand stop the boat boys lie said and take that woman and her child on oft board ill take her place on the vessel ashes young and stroll strong g while it at tile the most I 1 a great while to live I 1 mi might lit as well die now is as later and despite ill all pro protests teits lie took his place on oil the conti continental cental while the unknown i woman full her babo babe elit entered ered tile lifeboat be aland and were saved The seven nien men on oil the boat built a raft and when tile the ship sunk stink east cast out to sea on oil it alloy were nvere neverseen never seen or heard of after latles relatives after a time wrote to the consul atAl at mexico exico and tried to recover or flud find out something about lik hii hi i estate aist tc but to chiq day have received no reply ilia his uley money if lie had any full and it is believed lie had lias has been confiscated by somebody or other and all that roi is s tile alio Illen memory lory of his noble life and antl death 11 pittsburgh leader |