Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-06-15

place-tnat rlveted my Attention I,,,
sne race and physique 81 ihe me-
mere strong This Is but a brief de-
h ,rsion. but l viii let 1t stand az
Mo s written l. because II this sim
meaning | intend, 10 wnrds ~ ,,,rs
eati make you understand.
NY compenion paused Tor n .,ona,,
,M.n,lng until the player had finIshs1
~, shot ana looked up from The tahie
Ineh my attention YVES diyiaed -
.wsen Two thinEs-one, the awful scar
.hut ulsiigured the whole LEFT side of
.he mans face end heck. How ona
Ii ,, nave received such a mark. and
, 49, WIS the Instant question in my
iuliu. but there was another thing
which took my mind from this. When
.neir eyes met the Old Beau bowed
WIN more cordial ceremony than
nau ever seen HIM use toward any
OTHER man-and smile of exquisite
sympathy passed between the two.
There. said the Old Beau, when we
We're fairly seated, meeting and an
sMerihB the question that my eyes
asked. THERE'S man And this
thing OF which I am about to tell YOU,
was deed"
He paused, as n to find words 1T for
the telling OF II. And when he had
chosen them he went on slowly. speak
ing IN a low monotone, and reverently
as u In the presence Of the deed itself
II was one night in August. The
DAY had been Internally hot. and the
night came ON worse than the day had
been. Finding comfort nowhere, had
stroiled down INTO the lower portion OF
the city, where the poor are nuddlcd to-
gether like rats-perhaps because I
like TO see human misery. and wretch
edness. and squnlor. ] had card an
alarm OF gre and raw the engines rush
ing past me, but until / had turned
into B. street did not know the
conflagr6iion was so near. II was a
tenement house fire. A great hive
swarming with humHn beings had al
ready become a mass OF leaping fame.
So much headway had been made that
the force could do little but confne the
fire TO the building In which Il had
started, and let It burn itself out there.
The great heat Of the night, added to
the burning furnace of the fire, made
the work OF the brave men perilous
and almost intolernble. But they never
fiinched. for lives We're at stake. The
building was old. and Its passage ways
narrow. tortuous and dark--eNcepi
where the fire lighted them. Some Of
the people, In their fright and in tlsp
suddenness Of the alarm, had become
hemmed in, and the firemen rushed into
that seething heftto save them. Women
and children were carried out, faintinP
and suffocated. Men staggered into
the outer air as though heavy with
drink. Prayers. screams and cries toi
helm rose nbova the roar Of the flames
aud the steady boom OF the engines
Husbands wera searching franucNllY
for their wives, women for their babes
At last, the chief gave orders FOR az
TO come out, forbade his men TO rish
Go Hnnrg
were falling. and II was almost certain
death 10 enter the building now.
.'Just as his order was given, mar
hurled himself out from the snarllnt
nre. a man choked by the smoke ano
soaired where the burning fingers q
the flame had touched him, yet WIN
some power Of speech sun lett "
him. .. .r,as, ~,
hrother' And he pointed TO the &c
henna out Of which he had come, hli
words were taken up and carried lot
ward by the unthlniing crowd;
nriest: a priest. The cry was hear.
above all thal horrible babel OF sound
''Then out from the throng came
man. his huge shoulders breasthg am
pushing aside the human sea that nov
would have stopped him. He PAUSED
only while YOU could count one, LOOK
Inc 10 see whittier he pointed VINO ha'
nist come from the IRE And then
dravyinp the sleeve OF his gown acros
Ma face TO keep from breathing tn
fiery death, he strobe forward
You may talk about me courus
| of tho six hundred. That was the coui
900 ~ numbers. And they knew ma
tion would sing their death song I'M
man was alone. Remember that
1--WE waited and held our breatt
while the man who had come out, toll
us his brother lay there. pinned pe
meath q great timber, and the IRE a
about him. And knowing that ne mus
| die. with the instinct OF ialth, ne M
lied FOR priest And the priest ha
sbeatd ana had gone. So we waltel
while the flames roared and the I'm
| hers fell and the fire reached It's crln
| son arms toward heaven, as thouB
| a. had been the fire from cunsecrate
! altar Instead OF an accursed hell.
III wns a long time that We stoo
| there. while the people grew sun
| death. for they had given UP mop,
! And then. when we thought II wa
I'll over. the priest came out burned
| checked scarred-but still alive. An
no MAD found and comforted the dyin
| aoul with the last sacred rites Oh NJ
The old Beau paused, and / pushe
,he bottle toward him. But he wave
IL aside, and took deep drausI
OF pure water
,arhis to his honor" he said: 81 car
not what his church or creed--ther
was a man" 4,
Then he told me the rest OF II
story:
Letting no one know his name, {
where he belonged, the priest hurrie
away. They would have carried hi
In their arms They would have throS
themselves down and let. him wal
upon their PROSTATE bodies. Bur
waved the people aside and went o
Ms way alone, though sorely in nee
Of aid. But l followed, and learne
who he was. And the next night
came here and told this story to q
club. And without the Formally OF
ballot. we made him a member. tt
club knows neither church nor cree
but II knows man. Come, let n
Introduce you. 1t is an honor to tour
his hand"
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