SPREADING LIGHT IN ASIA.
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I!
mA dnngcrotifl business too clangor-
s -nus lor mo: i wonucr now uicao lire-
men Ret tho ncrvo to rlak tholr llvoa
llko UintT" nml tho grocery clerk who
liad lioon watching a crow of flromon
liulld a chain of ladders up tho sheor,
fiald Rldo of tho blazing tenement
liouso opposite, dodged to get out
of tho way of a tiro engine.
Unmindful of tho suffocating nmoko
and tho flamea, firemen wero sailing
lho high wnll. By means of ladders,
'consisting of hickory stlcka, from
which branched short pogs for steps
on either bIiIc, with a hook nt tho end,
'to hang tho ladder from tho window
sill above, thoy built a porpcndlculnr
Btalrcaso from tho pavement to tho
roof. Then, climbing nimbly from sill
o sill, thoy begnn tho work of res
cuo. Tying ropos around tho half
razod tenement dwellers, they low
crod them swiftly, but snfely, to tho
utroot, or, grasping children In tholr
arms, thoy themselves sprnng Into tho
.air, and by moanB of tho life ropo
twlstod around tho hooks In tholr
"belts, they slid down to tho street aa
lightly .as a ball of down.
Thoso who, llko tho grocery clerk,
wonder how tho fireman gets his
mervo, imny lenru tho reason by visit
ing flro ihuadquarters, In East Sixty
seventh street. In tho big yard to
itho rear, which faccB In Sixty-eighth
wtreot, tho raw recruits who hopo
omo day to wear tho bluo uniform
and flro nx buttons of a Now York
Jlroman, nro taught how to savo llfo,
and, most of nil, how to get n llr.0
Mian's nerve. '
Tho morning class was thus bolng
put through tholr round of work ono
day recently, nnd one of ,ho pupils
liad fastened his scaling ladder In tho
top window on tho sixth' lloor of tho
I-'Iro Headquarters building, on tho
.rear of which tho then aro drilling,
j-whon Capt. Andrew F. Fltzgorald, who
,vas Instructing tho class In tho ah-
isonco of tho chle'.', shouted:
.,. . "1,oy. thoro,. No. 4, what's tho mat-
orr Afraid'" Tho man had fnstoned
jus 'oador aiVl was climbing up to tho
window nbovlp with a cautious, ner-
.vous tread, nk ir ho expocted overy
'instant tho bidder ho wns on would
.urealc and ho (would go crnshlng down
into tho llfo nlot below. No. 4 mndii no
!;BWcr' b,,t I'nly clung to tho ladder
;WWf,,pt" Hhouted tho Instruc-
-7fn'6"?iig'3 your hands, your ladder Is
"""uHut." ,Jt No- climbed still
moru cautiously, and reaching tho
troof at last, slowly drew himself over
Itho jpdgo.
"That follow will never mako a fire-
.man," said tho Instructor, In an under-
tono. "Ho wants to do tho work, but
ho can't. Ho can't got tho ncrvo."
jiThon, aftor a pause, tho captain said:
"Now watch this man ami seo tho
difference. TIiIb fellow Is born for
tho business." Turning around to the
class, ho shouted:
"No. G, build n chain."
No. 5 leaped from hU scat, graspod
scaling ladder, hung tho two-foot
stool hook at Its end on tho sill of tho
second story window, and then, lightly
tWmi
If P. lilf i-iJIL
WW It if
Using Life-Lines and 8callng Ladders,
as a cat ho climbed up Its peg steps,
ltoachlng tho second story sill, ho
fastoncd tho hook nt his belt Into tho
laddor and then throw back his body
till it hung at an nnglo of thirty do
rees to tho wall. Hero ho wnltod
until a comrado from below reached
tip to him another scaling laddor.
With his body still hanging by tho
hook, No. 5 quickly hung tho ladder
liardod htm, to tho sill of tho third
story window, nnd then, unfastening
Tils hook, ho nimbly climbed up to tho
next story. Again ho hooked himself
fast, caught another lndder, hooked
It Into tho next window and so, quick
ly and apparently without tho least
fenr or shrinking, mounted to tho roof
with n dash and a spring, which mailo
the crowd of children who wero watch
ing Mm In Sixty-eighth street, give a
mingled howl of torror and admira
tion. With tho samo confidence In
himself, No. 5 descended from his
lofty perch, unhooked tho ladders,
passed them down to tho mon below
him, nnd finally leaped to tho ground
with a broad smile on his face.
Tho Instructor had not said a word
through tho whole performance, until
No. 5 had taken his sent, when ho
said:
"Good work, No. 5. No. 7, build a
chain," and another man started t
Firemen Using the Scaling Ladders tc
Get From a Window to the Roof,
Over a Cornice,
repent tho feat. After tho work ot
building chains of Indders, teams of
two men each wero put to work
"standing on the sills," and thus ono
man would stand on the sill of n win
dow, and hook a ladder Into tho win
dow above, while his comrado would
stand Inside nnd hold fast to his belt.
In this way two men, with a slnglo
ladder, would quickly mount to tho
roof. Tho font of "straddling tho
sills" followed, where a man without
tho help of a comrado within, hung
to a window nnd hooked his ladder
Into the casement nbove.
"I wouldn't order any or them to
do that kind of work when they first
eomo hero" said tho Instructor. "I
don't believe In endangering tho lives
of tho men. I work them higher us
thoy develop nerve. All these mon
aro what aro called probationary men.
After making out an application for a
position on tho force, they aro given
a mental and physical examination,
nnd If successful thoy aro sent hero
for Instruction. After tho three weeks
ot work here, learning to handlo scal
ing InddorB, to tlo knots, and, most
of all. to got norvo, tho probationary
man Is assigned to a flro station,
where ho learns tho alarms, tho ap
paratus of trucks, engines, harness
and all tho various appliances of flro
machinery. After ho has shown hi?
fitness hero ho gets his uulform."
"How mnny of ;:ics- probationary
men get tholr uniforms?" was asked.
"Nearly all," was tho answor.
"Xhoso follows linvo matlo up their
mind to bo flromon before they mako
application. Thoy have a pretty good
Idea of the work. Although they do
not, perhaps, realize fully the hard
ships of tho life, they know It Is no
barkeeper's Job. They como to tho
training yard and seo what a course
of sprouts thoy will bo put through,
and tho cownrds quit beforo thoy
start A few llko No. 4 show soon
that thoy can't got their norvo, and
drop out from sheor fright. Tho out
sldor says that wo risk our lives.
Woll, wo do sometimes; but, as tho
llfo Insurance companies will toll you,
thoro Is no greater porcentago of
denths among firemen than In tho
average tade. And that Is becauso
wo hove confidence In ourselves. In
other words, wo get norvo. They fol-
low this llfo becauso thoy lovo It."
New York Exchange.
The Pleasures of Polo.
James II. Proctor of tho Myopia
Hunt club, Boston, treasures a unlquo
souvenir of his last gamo of polo. Ho
recently received a terrific blow In
tho mouth from an opponent's club.
Tho Jaw was broken and ono tooth loft
deeply Imbedded In tho bend of tho
mallet. This pleco of Ivory In Its
wooden setting is now ono ot tho
most conspicuous trophies In Mr.
Proctor's collection.
First Railway In 1825.
Europe had Its first railway In 1825,
America two yours later.
THE LC9T
When yen have p-tsard, nnd earth, grown
dark liehlnd you,
I.tca far upon the outworn verse of
tlrno,
When my hand, searching, mny nu
longer Und you
In nny clime,
If I but dream your utep by bill or hollow
Has left It. eeho falling on tho wind,
I will arise uml Klnl myself nml follow
ThoiiKh I bo blind.
Or If clear sighted, I hall but discover
That, In the. dew ot dawn, your foot
prints ll)
Where, through long fields, tho nlilitlliu;
of the pluvi r
Comes like n rich.
And should they leutl me down to Death's
MICHIGAN AT
Whnt part did Michigan take In tho
battle of Gettysburg, tho crowning vic
tory of the civil wnr, nnd what was
her loss? Of tho seventocu loyal
Btntes engaged, her loss was tho third
In numbers and the first In the propor
tion to tho numbers engaged. Tho
following- Michigan organizations,
numbering 4.S34 men, wero engaged
at the bnttle of Gettysburg: First
Michigan Infantry, Third Michigan In
fantry, Fourth Michigan Infantry,
Fifth Michigan Infantry, Sev
enth Michigan Infantry, Six
teenth Michigan Infantry and
Twenty-fonrth Michigan Infantry,
Companies C, I, K nun IS, Herdan's
Sharpshooters; Duttery I, First Ar
tillery; Michigan Brigade of Cavalry
under the gallant Custer, consisting of
the First Michigan Cavalry. Fifth
Michigan Cavalry. Sixth Michigan
Cavalry and Seventh Michigan Caval
ry. MIchlgnn hud killed, wounded
and missing, 1,131; killed, 191.'. Many
died afterwards from wounds receiv
ed. In 1S87 the legislature of Michigan
appropriated $20,000 for monuments
to be erected on tho battlclloid In tho
"A MONTANA BLUFF"
What Is regarded ns one of tho tall
est "bluffs" on record furnished Capt.
Edgar Russell, chief signal officer in
tho Philippines during the Insurrec
tion, with u story, which ho tells as
au example of western nerve.
"Wo wero outbldo of Manila In
some little scrap," said the captain,
"and about seventy-five natives wero
lying In a trench ahead ot us, shoot
ing away merrily, but not hitting any
body. "By and by I noticed a little dis
turbance In our front. Presently four
Montana troopers trotted out of our
Hno3 and started straight for tho Fili
pinos. Everybody looked at them
with wonder, and waited to seo them
all killed. Ilullcts whistled nil nround
them, but they never halted.
"Slowly, just at n trot, they Jogged
GIRL MADE GOOD SOLDIER
A story Is told that whllo tho Union
army was at und near Chattanooga,
Col. Burke, of tho Tenth Ohio, ex
changed a largo number of prisoners
with tho rebels. Tho colonel noticed
a particularly natty young soldier
among thoso ho received. Tho soldier
gave tho namo "Frank Henderson, and
cnld "ho" belonged to tho Nlnetoontli
Illinois. It developed that this soldier
was a young girl, and that sho and
her brother at tho outset of tho war,
had enlisted in tho Eleventh Illinois.
Tho pair wero orphans and woro
devoted to each other. Sho could not
bear tho thought of being soparated
from tho brother who had been her
only companion from babyhood. At
tho expiration of her enlistment for
three months In this regiment sho was
WHEN STEEDMAN LAUGHED
"Among tho Ohio Democrats who
wero In tho army early," said tho cap
tain, "was Gen. James B. Steedman,
and ho has a monument at Toledo.
Steedman had been a canal contractor
and a '49er, and was given to rough
usage of mon, and when his regiment,
tho Fourteenth Ohio, was organized,
the boys did not tnko kindly to their
colonel's rough language and ready
profanity. On ono occasion ho order
ed a sergeant on duty to remove a
pile of cracker boxes from a particu
lar spot In camp and to do It as
quick as the Lord would lot him. as
ho had decided that his own tent must
stand Just whoro somo lnfernnl idiot
had placed tho boxes.
"Tho sergeant, Irritated, but not
THE FOURTH
Ono of tho most famous organiza
tions in Washington on tho occasion
of tho Grnnd Army encampment was
tho Fourth Army corps.
Tho corps wub distinctly a lighting
machine. It was born of a great
battle. It obtained Its namo and
splendid birthright from tho consolida
tion of tho Twontlcth and Twenty
first army corps, which had boon re
duced In numbers on account of dis
ease nnd bnttle losses, aftor Chlcku
innugn. No body or defenders of the
Union saw and boro moro of tho brunt
of the groat strugglo than this organl-
TRACK.
black liver
And, by tbo rooks 1 bear tho whirl
pools Hllll,
Though Iwart and soul shall quail and
body quiver,
I will wndu In.
O Iteartl beyond tho tumult of the cross
ing If thero should bo no voice nor any
truce,
Only strange wind on leagues of gruaaes
forming
And the wide space,
Only Eternity with world to wander,
A soul milling the unknown souls of
men,
And, u my heart, no clue, no footprint
yonder.
What then? What then?
GETTYSBURG
different positions held by the differ
ent organizations, Tho Infantry regl1
Wilts' monuments cost each $1,350
the sharpshooters, $500 each, the bat
lory $1,000 and tho cavalry brigade
ono monument, cost $5,100. Tho First
Michigan monument Is located 01
what Is known on the battlefield at
"The I.oup;' tho Third Michigan In
fantry In tho Peach Orchard; tho
Fourth Michigan Infantry In the
Whcatneld; the Fifth MIchlgnn In
fantry on Cemetery Itldgo; the Six
teenth Michigan Infantry on Little
Koinul Top; the Twonty-fouth Michi
gan Infantry In Reynolds Grove near
Wlliowby Run; the Sharpshooters on
Little Round Top; the Battery Monu
ment on Cemetery Rldgo; tho monu
ment of the Cavalry Urlgado located
on Runnel's Farm, about three miles
east of the vllluge of Gettysburg. The
monuments were dedicated on tho
12th of .Juno. 1SS0. They nro a credit
to our noblo stato, and tho people ot
MIchlgnn can take a Just pride In her
volunteer soldiers who fought In this
glorious battle and the grand monu
ments erected to their memory on
the battlefield or Gettysburg. D. G.
Crotty, In Detroit Free Press.
on toward the enemy. Tho nntlvcs
tired and fired, but for so mo unknown
reason did not hit. On nnd on went
tho quartet, disdaining cover.
"At last, there was a. shout, and, to
our utter astonishment, we beheld the
seventy-flvo Filipinos Jump out of
their trenches and take to their heels
In mad flight. The nerve of the Mon
tana troopers was too much for them.
"When thoy had all fled, throwing
tholr rillos awny as they ran, tho
troopers came back, their arms full of
guns. That Is what the army has
como to call 'a Montana bluff.' It's a
sort of nerve that lota a man open a
jackpot on a pair of deuces." Now
York Tribune.
Nothing Is so great an Instnncc of
Ill-manners as flattery. Swift.
mustered out, and next enlisted In the
Third Illinois, where her sex wns not
discovered. In that rcg'.mont sho
made a most excellent record, but
being wounded In ono of tho engage
ments, sho was again discharged and
sent home, only to re-enllst in the
Nineteenth Illinois. Sho served In all
tho battles of Col. O'Mara'a regiment
and finally was taken prisoner at
Holly Springs.
Tho girl soldter was taken to Atlan
ta, Ga. Thoro In attempting to escape
sho was shot In tho leg, 'but oven In
her confinement to the prison hospital
her sex was not discovered. After
recovering from tho wound Inflicted
by tho prison guard sho was sent to
Graysvllle, where sho was exchanged.
She was sent to her Illinois home.
frightened, looked ovor tho ground,
returned, saluted, and asked, 'Whero
will you have tho boxea put, colonel?'
Tho colonel rose In his wrath and told
tho sergeant ho was a blankoty blank
fool. Tho sergeant saluted again
and said: 'But whoro will you havo
tho boxes put, colonel?' Steedman
roared: 'Tako them away, mau, I
don't caro whoro; tako them to holl.'
To this tho imperturbable sergeant
replied with a salute, 'Excuso mo,
colonol, but wouldn't thoy bo moro
out of your way and less likely to
trouble you again If I took thorn to
heavon?' Steedman was amazed, but
ho turned his back on the sergeant to
laugh In tho face of his adjutant aa
ho murmured, 'Tnko him away.'"-
ARMY CORPS
bation. It consisted of seventy-six
roglments of infantry nnd nlno bat
teries ot artillery, who boro their,
colors to tho front on ninny a hotly
contested field.
Tho states represented in tho corps
wero as follows: Illinois, Indiana,
Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Mis
souri, Kansas and Wisconsin, Tho
three divisions of tho corps wero com
manded by Major Gonornls David S.
Stauloy, Philip H. Sheridan, and
Thomas J. Wood. Goncral Granger
soon gavo placo to Gen. O. O. Howard,
and Sheridan to Gen. John Nowtou.
UrJt
iCfrtop'Jolj'o K&bomtyipg
'RE'S my neighbor hav
ing tho outside of his house
cnlcltnlned," grit 111 b led
Herr Mayer, under his
breath, "and I can't afford It for mlnot"
He looked disconsolately at the
workman who wns preparing to begin
the Job. Tho latter w&h. going about
It languidly, with nn Incident air of
abstraction, after the manner of house
painters. He had not finished tho pro
llnilnnrles before the clock struck mid
day. Then he took from his dinner
pail the wherewithal to compensate
him for so much physical exertion,
and, after consuming It, with the con
comitant ration of a quart of beer,
stretched himself out at full length
upon the scaffold. Soon afterward he
was sound asleep, snoring with that
full-toned vigor which bellts an honest
heart and an unclouded conscience.
Into the brain of the onlooker, who
was not overblessed with this world's
goods, there flashed the Idea of a
traitorous plot, as ho eyed the slum
bering figure. His neighbor was ab
sent for a couple of days on a Journey.
The street was deserted.
"Quick" he cried to nis faithful
spouse.
With her nld he moved tho scaffold,
with tho sleeping painter still upon It,
moat cautiously from tho front of ono
house to that of tho other, and then
hastened back to his chamber to noto,
from behind tho curtains, the progress
of events.
After a good half hour tho painter
got up, rubbed his eyes und yawned,
and then began to daub tbo house,
which to strain an Idiom had boon
placed under his nose. Tho good man
did not observe the change, but work
ed on and on, and so diligently that
actually two drops of sweat fell from
his heated brow.
Having finished the Job, tho painter
sinV-,
with a self-satisfied smirk was Just
refilling his plpo when suddenly Herr
Mayer, apparently much nstonlshod,
emerged from his house, and ex
cluimed: "Who gavo you the order to calci
mine this house?"
"Who gavo me the order? Why, tho
Herr household of the house, Herr
Muller, of course!"
"Herr Muller! But tho next ono Is
Herr Muller'tJ house; and this Is mine.
Confusion to you!" shouted Herr
Mnyer, with simulated anger, while In
wardly laughing at tho chopfallon
pnlnter.
"Blank tho blankoty-blnnk-blank-blank!"
audibly sighed the latter.
"There's nothing for mo to do but to
calcimlno tho right house to-morrow
and charge tho Herr household, Herr
Muller, for two days work, is there,
sir? What do you Bay to that?"
"Why, nothing nt all!" laughed Herr
Mayor, and he vanished within bis
own door, smiling llko the open faco of
a Waterbury watch.
From tho Fllgendo Blnetter: Trans
lated by Vanbenort Dupree lu tho Now
York Times.
An Unfortunate Giant.
At Warrnnnbool, Victoria, Australia,
an application for an "old-ngo pension"
has recently been mudo on behalf ot
a young mnn, named M'Lean, whoso
height is 7 feet 4 Inches and his ago
twenty-four years. It was stated that
owing to a heart weakness this
youthful Goliath would never bo ablo
to work, and that hu had no ono to
rely on for support. For some time
ho had been an Inmate of tho local
hospital, whero two beds had to be
placed together In order to accommo
date uIb recumbent form.
Gen. Booth's Long Tour.
William Booth, tho vencrnblo Salva
tion Army leath has a largo Itinerary
laid out for his visit to this country
that is, largo for a man of 73. He
will go as far west as San Francisco,
south to Birmingham, Ala., and cast
to Boston. Tho tour will bogln Nov.
9 and will Include twenty-flvo of the
I principal cities,
i 1 I III
-"TV, j ( y,', .
i i'l Lm Tii I 'Octj JL " civ
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(Villi iVllfeSl ' ' fi'S
IB! I ji
Rallroadc Being Laid Over Scenes of
Former Barbaric Splendor.
The distant nnd almost legendary
regions In Asia Into which Russia la
Infusing a now civilizing spirit al
ways oxert over tho Imagination a
peculiar attraction. New Interest Is
dlrectod to them by the extension of
tbo trans-Casptati railway southward
towards tho Porslan Gulf. Tho sandy
composition of the soil explains the,
desolation of tho land, overal con
turlos of comparative sloV'i and neg
lect on tho part of tho Inhabitants hav
ing Intervened slnco tho time when it
was highly productive and boasted of
flourishing towns. Merv Itself, ono of
the lnrgest and most magnificent cities
of Contral Asia, was swallowed up by
tho sand and destroyed In the eighth
contury. Its ruins still glvo an Idea of
Its former greatness. But tho city of
this region above all others whose
name awakens tho memories of an
heroic past Ib Samarcand, known also
as Maracanda. It Ib one of tho oldest;
cities of the world, and has witnessed
many of tho mighty events of history.
At Samarcand Is still seen tho Kok
Tasche. a throne or stone upon which
tho ceremony of coronation was per
formed, ono of the finest relics of tho
reign of Tamerlane. It la an Im
mense block of grayish granite, with
black veins running through It, flank
od by four pillars and guarded by a
balustrade. On this stone Tanicrlann
Remains of University of Chlrdar. f
gave audience to foreign ambassadors
and to messengers and 'petltloneri
from all parts of his vast empire. H
nlso sat ujion It when pronouncing
Judgment of llfo and death, and a
great vaso of stono near at hand re
ceived tho hcadB of the countless vic
tims who were executed beforo hli
eyes.
For the Western visitor the point ol
chief interest In Samarcand is the
plaza called RIghistan, which, consid
ered lu Its relation to the rest of tha
city and tho veneration In which It la
hold by the natives, may well bo com 9
pared to tho Piazza dl San Marco, al
Venice. Hero was tho University ol
Chlrdar, once so famous In tho Orien
tal world. Architecturally, its ro
mains are still beautiful.
FINE INSTINCT OF ANIMALS.
Seem to Know at What Season to
Fear Human Beings.
An English periodical says: The
Instinct whereby wild creatures dotect
thoso of the human species who are
likely to be hostile to them nnd thoso
who may bo regnrded as harmless Is
of so subtle a quality that It almost
appears to partnke of tho nature of
metaphysics. In tho nesting season
plovers will actually buffet the angler
who Is fishing too close to their
broods; but by tho date of tho shoot
ing season they would not allow him
to get within two fields of them. The
wood pigeon soems to know exactly
tho range of tho modern fowling piece
and will flash boldly past at an inter
val of 100 yards and upward, but Is
careful quickly to put a tree between
himself nnd a sportsman It disturbed
at any rango within gunshot. The foi
knows that ho Is sacred from gum
and will audaciously seize a fallen
pheasant and decamp with It within
twenty paces of a retriever; ho li
quite awn 10 that tho latter Is no fox
hound.
Hawk Who Reasoned.
A strange instance of sagacity to
two peregrines is reported. They had
often been seen following trains Id
Croatia, Hungary, without any ex
planation suggesting Itself. Ono after
noon tho train suddenly put up 1
envoy of young partridges. Down
swooped tho hawk at tho covoy, ami
carried off one of them, and this gav
the answer to tho riddle. Tho cun
ning bird had surely noticed, while
soaring for his pleasure, that tho nols
of tho train often put up game, and
this gavo him the Idea of making us
of tho train as a beater for his cspo
clal benefit.
New England Fish Harvest.
The total harvest of sea fish sold al
Gloucester and Boston, which are tha
principal markets, during the past
year, officially reported, amounted tc
162,218,921 pounds, worth $4,385,102,
of which the Newfoundland banks pro
duced more than 65,000,000 pounds,
while tho grounds off tho New Eng
land coast yielded nearly 97,000,00?
pounds.
Helen Gould's Bodyguard.
Whllo traveling MU3 Helen Gould la
constantly attended by a man named
Tutt, who acts as hor bodyguard. One
of his special functions Is to keep ko
dak floods from taking pictures of
Miss Gould. During his long sorvlco
ho has boon arrested sovoral tlmoa
fer smashing cameras, but Miss Gould,
of course, always gots Cm q;. of the
trouble. He Is a giant In staturo and
weight.
Increased Use of Coke.
Coko, a byproduct In the manufac
ture of gas, has IncreaseJ 200 por cent
In price In five years.
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