The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-05-11

You can't atfoFu 10 n6gtecL your
education and grow UP in ignorance,
you can't AFFORD TO neglect your health
and so to a premature grave; you
can't afford to neglect blowing the
ground and planting the seed; you
can't afford to neglect your business
and become a bankrupt, and il you
were in a sinking ship and the last
life boat was putting away YOU could
not afford to neglect to avail your
self Of that; IL you were in a burning
building you could better afford to
neglect yourself of the only OF
escape.
when The Minneapolis Tribune
building burned years ago., the people
were hurriedly driven from the rooms,
The Associated Press dispatch rooms
were on the upper floor. A friend of
mine, now the editor Of a paper in
Sank Center, Mimi, told me he was
next to the last man to leave the
room.
"He turned to the other man and
said:
Come on, come on, Jack but Jack
laughed al him, but my friend hur-
ried and was the last man to leave the
room.
Presently Jack sent this message:
They have all closed their keys
and left; I am the only operator In the
room. The flames have reached the
floor upon which the press rooms are
situated and the flames are
He Was Too Late.
And he closed the key. He ran to
the stairway and the flames leaped ur
like hungry serpents, He rushed to
the elevator shaft and it looked like
old Mount Vesuvius in an eruption
He hurried to the fire escape and il
was red hot where the flames had shot
u
His only means of escape was to
thread his way, hand over hand
across the alley on the telegraph wires
to the roof of a building, but the
flames had shot out and swirled and
they burned the flesh from his hands
HE lost his hold and fell and with
a shrek of agony he whirled and
struck the pavement below. His
brains were dashed out. He had wait
ed too long.
Some of the greatest calamities
this world has ever known have come
through neglect.
Years and years ago there were
g~rumblings heard in the earth on ar
island in the caribbean sea, and
great crack by and by burst open ii
the side Of the mountain, and the melt.
ed lava poured down and destroyed
sugar plantations and other things and
they sent to Martinique for the French
scientists.
Up they came and they made theii
surroundings, and they listened will
a tack hammer on the ribs Of the earth
and they said:
" There is no danger, no danger.
and they went.
Listen to mel For two weeks they
could not get O flock Of sheep, or o.
horses. or of cattle within three miles
of the base Of the mountain. Ser.
penis were seen by thousands to wig
gle away. Birds left their fledglingl
in their nests, and their eggs, and flew
away and would not go near it, ant
one morning the people bought, the!
sold, they danced, they laughed, the!
cursed, they bIasphemed. At 8 o'clocI
all was sunshine and joy, and at II
minutes past $4,000 people lay dead
They heard but they would not heed
The Bridge Gave Way.
years and years ago a man ii
Cleveland, o., received an order from
the Lake Shore Railroad Co., to buil
a bridge at a certain point, AM
in casting the great steel Orders the,
say there was a defect in one of tn,
moulds and particles Of air crept II
with the molten metal and left a spac,
several feet long.
THE cracks were filled UP with
preparation, the beam put in place, an
there it stood.
zone dark, stormy night q train o
eight coaches, drawn by two locomo
tives, dashed around the curve, head
ed into a northwest wind, dashed OF
to that bridge, it trembled and dow
it went, and eighty-seven lives wer
lost at Ashtabula, among them p. F
Bliss, the famous gospel hymn writer
and when the news reached Cleveland
o., Amassa Stone sent a bullet through
his brain.
II say some Of the greatest calam
tiles the world has ever known hav
come through neglect.
Years and years ago a civil engi
neer received an order from the Penn
sylvania Railroad Co, to build tn
best bridge, at a certain point, tina
his mechanical skill could produce.
He started to dig deep and lay tn
foundation on the base of the noun
tain, and some Of the old engineer
were jealous of his success and said
Throw in some concrete and it wi
do just as WE'LL
said he:
This company is constantly in
~creasing the number OF its trains an
!, the rest of its rolling stock and / d
not know what this bridge will be call
ed upon to endure, but / will bull
the best / know how
i HE created that bridge, and Their
it stood for years. with nothing NOR
} than the ordinary weight of train
passing back and forth to test i
Twenty years ago it rained, and rain
ed, and rained, and drizzled for tw
j weeks. day and night. until every riv
ulet and rilI was a roaring torrent.
1.-THE Monongahela and Alleghen
rivers leaped their banks and crept u
. the streets of Pittsburg and Alleghen,
The Dam is Breaking.
"The Ohio was one vast expanse {
sea. Away back on the Alleghen
mountains, 100 miles back, was a
! artificial lake three miles long, a mil
wide and in some places 100 or is
feet deep. made by the m~illionaires {
Pittsburg, and the water ran in owe
the mountain sides, until the wate
reached an unprecedented stage.
"A mar discovered the possibility {
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