The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-07-23

Where's old y ,-!,li:-
The man 10 whom b.. ~poEe stared ;
the speakera moment, looked at IL
burning house and calculated:
THUNDER
''What's Tint asked Brown, wh
had just been advising some of fla
homeless people TO move their proPert
into an abandoned log cabin near by.
"OId W-.sh-h- amt come ont,
reckon, " drawled The first speaker.
Where il hel" asked Brown quickly
lyon don't mean to say hes in the hous
yet?'
well, | low / do though" reptile,
tii- man with another diawI "IIe liv
ed all 10y bisself la the top floor and
reckon he didn't hear we uns when-Je
ruSalem.
The last word of This sentence was de
tachrd and spoken with emphasis as Mr.,
Brown started on rapid run ia tile
| direction OF his own store He was back
within five minutes with Il reel OF
three quarter iDch rope OH his shoulder,
while in one hand lac held a ball OF
heavy cord and one of those half pound
bars of soft lead which hunters used to
buy TO mould into bullets II" tied the
lead to tli'. end of the cord and threw it
across the hoHss.
Somebody go behind aud haul it
over lively, lac shouted.
Several men started, aud one man
who did not go roared:
''Hooray for Brown sto which sug
gestion there was loud response.
"Much obliged, boys, said the young
storekeeprr, hastily tying the other end
of the cord to the rope Now keep
paying ont rope somebody lrins tiiat
ladder here"
The ladder-quitea long one, hut too
short 10 reach the upper tory windows
was brought and the rope securely
fastened to it, Brown carried it up to
the front of the. building, out Of which
the flames had not yet burst, tied por
ton of the rope To the lower rounds, and
then said in low tULe but very hur-
riedly:
''Now tell 'ein TO haul away. I'll get
on the roof this way, ladder and all, go
through the scuttle, bring out old Welsh,
tie him to tie ladder So he can't tumble,
and tie myself too. When | wave my
hand haul US down, and tell the boys on
the other side to let go easy. Now
times PreciousT
Three or four men hurried behind the
house to give the word, several Others
stradied the ascending ladder, and 9th
ers who couid find nothing else to do
joined in rebuling "a youth vino attempt
I'd to raise three cheers The ladder and
Brown safely reached the roof, and
Brown managed 20 get it close beside
the scuttle- He forced the door
open, disappeared and soon reappeared,
followed successively by the head, shirt,
pantaloons, and bare feet of old Welsh.
The Old man did not seem half awake,
but did seem terribly scared and very
much more inclined ia share the fate of
the house than ia risk the ladder, but
brown forced him out, made him lie
down on the ladder and submit to being
tied.
Suddenly the flames burst from the
front of the house, and warning shout
came up from the men Oh the ground
Brown took in ipa 81 sai son at q giauge,
threw himself upon the ladder, grasped
it tightly with one hand, and waved ihe
other enerGetlaaily. The men at the
rope at the foot of the ladder behaved
admirably; they hauled slowly and
steadily, they avoided any violent slIak-
ing of the rr;iil skeleton wh;c!: 1vid two
lives, p,,s 1t was impossible to prevent
drawing it through small portion of the
flame Old Welsh howled as he felt the
fierce heat, bat he gasSai quickly
lhfbus5h f'a .ttth eAtA wv titAiS isit
As Brown was lowered, however. the vol
ume Of the flame suddenly increased, the
young man threw his heal back, Ills
grasp relaxed and lac fell 4 dozen men
hurried tu break his fail, and hc tum-
bled into the aIuIs of Deacon Icpes,
wing had culy tie day peyofe whispered
tn liS wife fear that mt the next cleo
tion Brown would get the supervisor
ship and leave the Deacon out in the
cold.
i'lIry carried i:in 10 the nearest house,
and both the Noun! Zion doctors hur-
ried to his side, looked into his eyes, ey-
amined his lips anXioGsiy, and then
locked desParinsly into each others
faces. The minister edged one of the
doctors aside, and whispered in the
dying mans ear. Mr.: Brew" apenod
his ir,GaeiasG Iiis little wider, smiled
trinity, gasped, and died.
"Poor fellerl" groanei Deacon Peter
son, Ibis wuz a promisin' career, ql,t
short of . sgddaa,"
"Cut shortI" echoed Deacon Jones,
with more anger than a deQeon should
have so easy of access. Hes took the
shine out of all of us at everything else
and now lie has got into heaven afore
u.s."
And his opinion became that OF the
public at large.