Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-06-04
How to act in Case Of. Fire.

keep cool in case they discover a fire
. and this is the reason why more fire
are not put out in their incipien
stages, before any great damage il
done, SIC 5re ot..-f
! In case you are walking along tn,
street and discover chimney burning
out, make up your mind that the whole
house has got to go unless your own in
dividual exertions prevent. Therefore
jerk the gate off the hinges, kick the
front door in on the astonished family,
and yelf'fire!" Your first yell needn't
be louder than the common Indian war
whoop, but after the first you must ex-
ert yourself in grand efforts to beat any
other man in that town who ever
yelled over a burning chimney. The
family may desire an explanation as the
front door falls in and you bound over
it and begin to throw the chairs
around. There is no set answer to re-
peat, but most men manage to say:
'sFire!-fi re.-your house-get out
-fire-hurry-blazes = fire hang it
fire-fire -
They will generally accept the expla-
nation without argument, and you can
go ahead and rescue the contents, of the
house. Always commence on the parlor
ornaments first. If you haven't time to
save anything but chrome, half of a
marble-top table, and the head of a
piece of statuary, you don't know how
far these things would go toward
setting the burned-out family to house
keeping again. The windows were made
to throw things through. If you can
fling all the ornaments out, wrench the
SOFA to peices, and break the legs off of
the chairs, you can consider you have
saved everything in the parlor worth
saving. III there is stove i'm there
tip it over as you rush to save the bed
ding and other furniture. Don't throw
a bed from the chamber-window moth
ing will break feather-bed all to peic-
es as quick as fall. Take them on
your back and carefully carry them
from two to four blocks away and de-
posit them on doorstep. et
But the case is different with crock
cry and looking-glasses; you can heave
them out on the pavement with perfect
confidence that they wouldn't even get
a flaw. Don't try to save whole bed
sted, but wrench it to peices, and
throw. three or four stats out, and then
grab the bureau. Bureaus are cumber-
some articles to handle, and its best to
divide them in halves with an ak, and
throw down the portions separately.
l had forgotten to say that it is posi-
lively necessary for you to yell "fire !"
twice per second, from the time you
kick the door in till the fire is out, or
the house is burned down. If you
didn't do this some of the family might
forget that the house was on fire and
make arrangements to go visiting, or
put on dried apples to stew, or go to set
ting emptyings.
An ordinarily cool man will clear a
house of all worth saving in about fif-
teen minutes especially if he has lit |
tie help. Ifthe housego FOR it, the
family will not fail to remember that
but for you, they might have been roast
I'd alive; and if the flames are subdued,
they'll pick up the looking-glass frames
lrawer-knobs, pitcher-handles and chair
legs, and move back in with hearts full of
gratitude that you noble hero, through |
your GOODNESS and selfpossession saved |
Ill that was worth saving.