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Evening star., 1915-06-06

they knew or anyone knew that there had
been single death. saw the foolhardy
joker who came out laughing; | saw the
tltterlng chorus girl suddenly thrust into
the street in her tights; | saw people in
abJect terror; saw men brave and strong.
saw the first fireman enter the build
ing just as the flame and hot air confined
behind the proscenium arch burst out,
the belch of death that killed so many
people in their seats. When that oc-
cured this first fireman was on a ladder
set against the frame of the window
above the front entrance. He was mid
way up the ladder when the heav. plate
glass, loaded and ponderous. fell outward
and broke on him. He had a seconds
warning in the crash above. bent forward
Il little, and received the weight on his
helmet and shoulders. reeled, and seemed
about to fall; but. though bruised and
cut, he went on up the ladder and entered
the inferno. followed by whole line of
Others. There We're no reporters on the
ground at the time. No great crowd
witnessed it; but saw how brave man
goes to almost certain death.
Evening star., 1915-06-06
How Men Die
By JOHN H. LLOYD

When he was dying and knew it, | stood
by him, and said:
"You have lived your life and spoken
to no man of your faith; but before you
leave this world would you like to say to
your family that you are trusting God,
and would you like to have me pray9"
For answer he pressed my hand and
into that clasp he put the silent wounded
faith of years, and died with smile.
| have seen men face what they thought
was certain death, and have seen the
cringing of the coward and the fine hero
ism of the brave man. | was diagonally
across the street from the Iroquois Thea
ter in Chicago on that fatal day when it
took fire, and was early on the ground
before a crowd gathered The panic
stricken people We're still emerging from
the exits when got there. Some of them
did not know that there was really any
danger. Some We're scolding because they
had left their wraps in the checkroom.
talked with people as they came out before
Evening star., 1915-06-06

slipped away. Such a death is one of the
noblest exhibitions of character, measured
at high tide.
L have seen coward die, cringing,
frightened, "driven to his dungeon like
a quarry slave" have seen brave man
die, to whose pure life death had no ter
rors.
Recently | was at the deathbed of an
old soldier. He had been brave man, but
areticent one. In his early life he had been
interested in religious matters; but there
came to him terrible shock, and he never
recoveredfrom it. He had little son whom
he loved. and the boy was taken sick.
The father caught an hour away from
the boys bedside to attend to some nee
essary business, and in that hour the
child died without warning. The father
was stunned by the blow. He was by
inheritance Scot Covenanter, and when
his faith was shaken it seemed to break.
All his life he lived in uprightness; but
no one ever heard him speak of his faith.
Evening star., 1915-06-06

AM minister, and have seen many
men die. Physicians give less oppor-
tunity for contrast now than in former
years. When they see death approaching
they administer sedatives, and patients
sleep their lives away. Yet it is not al
ways so.
One of the most inspiring scenes have
witnessed was the death of Il good man
who refused to lose single minute of
his consciousness. When he knew that
he was dying he refused the anodyne
that his physician had prepared for him.
He asked how long he might probably
live. and was told that it might be an
hour, or two, or four, but could not he
long. He asked his wife to summon
three or four of his best friends by tele-
phone. His minister was already there.
Propped up in bed. and steadily growing
weaker watching himself die, yet with
thoughts above death, he talked on great
themes, so long as he was able to talk,
on life and duty, and the joys that had
been his of employees and people in need
whom he wished cared for, and almost
to his last breath, fully conscious, he
Evening star., 1915-06-06

an Mike Padula. You know, by the Car
Barn Gang by Afenue A."
They did know! The Car Barn Gang
was about the best known of political
cadet and gun-fghting gangs on the upper
East Side. Nick and Mike Padula were
the personal lieutenants of it's local pa
drone-bOss protector.
WELL, I'm "a An, by Jinks! Just for
that I'm goin' to ask him another!"
"What iss? Oh, zum Tefel-"
"Your fXer lad-where do we get to
him."
Behind that "torch-man" on the sill
those Lolnochy rooms now seemed full of
fire. "1ou are crazies!' he yelled raul
cously. "You are madt alretty! You will
burn yoursclds!"
Sure we're mad-dang mad. An with
everlastin' dang good cause! That tixer?"
"Herron-AIaXey Herron' Again it
came in shrek. "He iss barkeep-in
the oldt mans place in williamsburg
"Could you beat it?"
Say, wouldn't that-wouldn't that"
For the "old man" was that district
boss and protector himself.
Evening star., 1915-06-06

we're goin' to nail one little torch-man,
anyways!"
He sped around the airshaft, across to
the next house scuttle stairs, and down
the half-fight to the Zonochy hall.
Meanwhile Gosh too was once more hot
upon his heels. He ran to the front of
the roof, did his wigwagging, and then
whipped back to his place above the fire
escape. If that "torch-" or "touch-off
man" did not show himself at the one get
away, he must show himself at the other.
Could anything be surer?
ONLY this: For once a very slight mis-
calculation in the use of that tin pail,
and for once fire so instant and leaping
that within ten seconds it had barred the
fire escape. Within twenty it was racing,
blue-green wrath, through the second
room and the third-and the door was
barred! And, within some fifteen seconds
began to come, seemingly from the air.
shaft, kind of gibbering cry for help.
"Bucky!" he yelled. "Bucky!"
And they ran to it together
Their man had fought his way out
through the mddle-room window, had
managed too to force it down behind him;
which, for several minutes, would keep
the fire inside. He was standing on the
sill, clinging to a big clothes-line hook.
And as he stared upward, "Safe mel" he
was crying, "Safe mel"
well, I'm son of a gum" said Thomas
Gosh jackson, and "Wouldn't that
wouldn't that eat you up?' said John
Buck McCreary; for if that "torch-man'
was to be saved at all, thing that at
least seemed necessary, they could do it
only by "that highest feat of fireman der
ringdo, the Human Pendulum!"
FROM the street outside there whirled
up to them first shouting, and then
the slrening, gonging oncome of 300 en-
gine and 3SS truck. The house itself too
was now wildly awakening. And within
three minutes, to make a way for the
water the men of 3SS would have their
work in clearing the strangled halls.
But from neither street nor halls could
anyone see the arshaft. And again, the
human vocabulary being limited under
conditions of stress, "Safe mel" screamed
the man who had made the fire, "Ah,
mein GoH, safe met"
"Oh sure! Nothin' to it," "Sure well
save you! Amt you heard us recitin' it
for a month? These acts is our speciality"
Just behind that airshaft parapet, and
half-dozen feet to the right of the win
dow, was an iron vent pipe, the ideal leg
hold Gosh crooked himself to it, and
with the swift deXterity of unnumbered
rchearsals Buck went down and over
him. Gosh's large rooty arms and wrists
knotted themselves around Bucks hooks
Evening star., 1915-06-06

First afenue. An Messing-he fixes efery-
things-oh, mein GoH!" And again he
took the downward jerk. From every
sash joint, too, of that middle window
there was now whiting that sharp, gray.
blistering smoke which must turn to spout
ing flame at any moment.
$50 on-go on!"
"Ee fixes the broker an adjuster. They
are together alretty at the Capitol-at
Heide's cider Stube-tonight. All iss in
Messing's expense book too. They haf
made forty, fifty, touch-offs-'
And-barely in time-with one last
heave and swing that human pendulum,
and the evidence for most memorable,
comprehensive, and satisfying arson trial,
came safely to the roof
THEY were still lying where they had
rolled when two fellow members of
'Ss company, in dress uniforms, tried
desperately to burst their way past the
truck and pipemen down below They
had just come from Clarion Hall, crazily
and in taxi, with pause en- route to
get information at the firehouse
Its all right, too! It's all right they
kept repeating. "Theyve got the time to
make it yet. If they'll only beat it now
you can phone them we're comm by
James the act II be re lar grand funalley!"
AT the Eleventh Grand Annual Fire
mems Concert and Benefit the Hon.
Chauncey was making one last prelimi-
nary announcement and explanation.
Though late the hour, no seat had vet
been emptied, and the rapt hundreds sat
eXpectant.
"And, Ladies and Gents, he continued,
"far and on the contrary from havin' to
make any apology for said delay, | am
now in position, and l say it with new
pride in this the greatest fire department
in the world--I am now in a position to
inform you of the circumstances why the
said delay has been caused and taken
place. Ladies and Gents"
Concealed only in part by the scenery
OF the act one member of "The Human
Pendulum company moved rapidly back
ward, his large, red Adams apple rose
two inches, and well, I'm son of a
gum he said While from beside him.
in voice already thick with nervousness,
there came a "Wouldn't that-wouldn't
that eat you up?"
But neither artist could have had less
real cause for apprehension. The curtain
rose upon an audience already laundering
its artistic commendation The red fire
leaped. From her window sill the lady
of wax and wire leaned inspirngly. The
spotlight centered to its appointed work.
And-verbatim and without an error
".Sare me! Sare mel"
"Sre, Madam, sure we'H sare your
"These sort Of acts is our specialHH"
Evening star., 1915-06-06

But, Lord, Bucky, you
better get him now!"
Sure" And, taking
Gosh's motion, a second
swing brought him almost
near enough to make his
catch. "Oh-h no! I'll find
the hold-because we want
you to keep on talkin'-an'
if you don't"
Again Gosh swung him in.
In a twitch he had found
his hobby the shoulders.
And next moment they were
bucketing back through
space in their first real pen
dulum sweep.
"An' now-the old man
for you betcha he's in
it too himself-how do we
get the goods on him."
"Ach-Himmel md Erde!
For security that he gets
hiss-I-I get him the poll
cies."
"Gawd" The pendulum
came back in another long
and fearful swing. And
from that sixth-foor level
the black but ruddied air.
shaft bottom looked as deep
as the floor of hell. The
voice of panic, too, that
now came from every room
and hall below was the
voice of hell. "Gawd! we'd
ought to-let you drop. But
your fire stuff-where does
it come from?"
"From Messing's the
Empire Bargain Store-on
The Cordova daily times., 1915-10-08

The cutting of large quantity of lumber at Portage Bay has aroused curiosity at Seward and the Gateway thorty the statement that Mssrs Edes and Riggs know nothing being for the government railroad The fact remains that large sawm is in operation at Portage Bay and three hundred thousand feet of lumber has already been cut Several months ago when John Enlund odtme Alas kan was in Cordova his way outside, he informed the writer that he had the contract for two million feet of lumber from the Engineering Commission and going to Seattle to get the necessary mill with which to cut this timber Since then actively engaged upon this work and judging from the conflicting statements made there somebody not telling the truth.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-10-08

Old Franz Joseph, emperor of Hungary tough old chap He recently passed his egthyh anniversary and has bee the throne sxyseven He began his reign with Hungary; he has had plenty of snce he has domestic sorowtrac and terrible enough to break and courage of ninety out of every hundred but up against everything and full of fight he half century ago. He certainly One of the real Auld stOck.''
The Cordova daily times., 1915-10-08

Over twenty secret indictments have been by the present grand jury and there aoat that of the people connected with the building of the rail Anchorage have been caught in the dragne The fishing the westward also included those against whom the law reaching out after but to the truth of these conctures which all they time alone will tell
 Judge Wickersham be with and the word has gone forth that he will take swng around the crcle' to see how his political fences standing up before again tern upon his duties at Washington Delegate to Congress from Alaska.
 Just why there should be dscriminatcn in favor of Anchorage in the press rate from SHt ass"th our understardno Rt mavh there's and if so would be glad to be enlightened.
 Anchorage is to have public school building, says Lieutenant Mears provided the residents of that town dig their pockets and subscribe enough to sustain the school.
 Inerant pedders taxed fifty dollars day in Cor1ova and day Seward There chance yet that our copper output will beat that burg-Seward Gateway
 Washington Oregon California lead the Union in good road expert says The West rapidly and good thoroughfares accelerate progress
 The determination of Japan to spread Buddhism in China should stimulate Christian missionaries to determination to win Japan knees. =.
 Col sleicher continues to truths about Alaska in Leses Weekly His series of articles this Norhland are well worth reading.
 return of the good old days at Nome IS apt to mateahZe placer strikes pan out and here's hoping that they do.
 In Russia they have been striking to force the to re- call the duma America Dumba recalled for promotngI strikes
 Villas envoy threatens anarchy Mexico if Carranza IS recognized But could matters be than they have been?
 The Texas quarane to keep out suspicious Mexcans ap propratey ranks troublesome with other microbes
 Life is dam thing after another but don't the dams give the power would have without them?
 Cupid has certainly been working overtime at the White House since the Hon. Woodrow Wilson became president
 While the moving finger writes and having writ moves on the moving picture fits and having fit moves E Germany determined to get Serba in pickle just at the height of picking time.
 Prisoners of usually accept capture sufficient war fora A
The Cordova daily times., 1915-10-08

Judge Wckersham be with and the word has gone forth that he will take ''swing around the circe to see his political fences standing up, before again terne upon his duties at Washington Delegate to Congress from Alaska
The Cordova daily times., 1915-10-08

Just why there should be anr discrimination in favor of Anchorage in the press rate from S0e asso our undersardino Rrt mavho there's and if so would be glad to be enlightened.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-10-08

Anchorage is to have a public school building, says Lieutenant Mear provided the residents of that town dg down their pockets and subscribe enough to sustain the school.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-11
THE ALLIES VIEW
By Albert W. Bryce
:. . E, o 9 . . q g . . o :, .

The French estimate of the dis
lance from which the Germans
dropped shells at Dunkirk is twenty
three and one-half miles. Fire at
such a range has long been a topic
of popular interest as possibility.
1t is now fact.
Travelling .swifter than a rifle
ball, shot fired at such range is
nearly two minutes on its way. At
As degrees elevation it rises more
than two miles above the Hottest
mountain, higher than man can
mount in a balloon and live. before
it begins to descend.
The great guns of warships can
not be elevated more than IS de-
grees. This is one reason why the
allies landed armies az The Darda-
nelles. Plunging fire from batteries
at closer range should be more effec-
tive against Turkish forts than 49,.
big guns of the Queen Elizabeth. No
warship could shell New York from
distance at sea equalling the range
of land artillery.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-11
THE GERMAN VIEW.
BY Hugo Won Klest.
u q . q q q = u u

Ut is accepted that the rules of In
ternational law do not forbid sales
of arms and ammunition. The rights
of German and Austrian govern
ments are not involved at all.
Germany does not even protest our
right to sell arms and ammunition;
although she has expressed her sur
prise at our enormous sales of am
munition to the allies and our fail
ure at the same time to insist upon
our undoubted right to deliver food
stuffs to the civilians of Germany
and Austria Hungary. The question,
however, is essentially one of our
own self-respect. What precedents
have we in own our history TO guide
us?
During our late difficulties with
Mexican merchantmen from deliver
ing arms and ammunition to one of
/ the Mexican factions. The German
ship was clearly within her rights;
but she yielded to our desire. What
was the foundation for action ?
Plainly our government did not SYM
pathize with the particular con-
signee. We objected to the giving of
aid to Huerta from any source. We
exercised a preference between two
belligerent actions even to the ex-
tent of interfering with the rights
of another power BY the same rule
we cannot now insist upon the right
to sell arms to the allies, and at the
same time escape the suspicion be-
fore the world and before our own
people that we are exercising pref
erence in favor of one and against
another friendly power.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-11
GEORGIANS TESTIFY
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Mayr's Wonderful Remedy gives
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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-11
NEWSPAPER CHARITY

'.Space and copies of his paper go
to make up the newspaper mans en-
tire stock in trade" says the Fourth
Estate in an editorial entitled, "Ob-
jects of Charity These two are
all that he has to offer for sale to
the public, and no one has ever yet
given any sort of satisfactory rea-
son why he should ever be asked by
anyone to donate them.
''One thing newspaper people will
never be able to understand is why
any person will walk into a news
paper Office and make himself or her
self an object of charity and insist
upon what they would disdain to
ask for in any other shop or place of
business in the town. The principle
is the same in the newspaper Office
as in the dry goods store, the gro
Gerry, the drug store, and what a
great many people need is to come to
recognize it as the same and get of
the newspaper charity list.
ADVERTISING SPACE IN THE
NEWSPAPER is FOR SALE, NOT
TO GIVE AWAY. 1t has certain
intrinsic value in itself that makes
it worth money. Copies of the
newspaper are for sale, not to give
away. If they are worth having,
they are worth the exceedingly
small price asked for them.
1.-THE public, or at least large
portion of it, has some very errqne-
Gus ideas about these matters, and il
is but just to the newspaper folks
that these ideas be corrected in ac-
cordance with the same business
principles that prevail in all other
business establishments.
''In the vast majority of cases
| this generous charity on the part OF
newspapers is blissfully taken fol-
granted, and the papers liberality
abused That which is purely ia
vor is accepted as matter o!
course, and what should be requests
are couched as demands.
when the courtesy has been per
formed there is rarely appreciation
and more often dissatisfaction
generally silence.
| "The result in many other towns
and cities has been that ban has
been put upon all free publicity, ne
matter what it's object-even upon
the church notice. In those cities
such favors as the press bestows are
properly appreciated and valued.
Exchange.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-11

STATE OF FLORIDA, COUNTY OF
POLK-JUSTICE COURT, 10TH
DISTRICT.
To j, C. Ramage:
You are hereby notified that writ
of attachment has been issued
against you and your property at
tached to satisfy the demand of l.,
W. Yarnall, amounting to $50 and
costs.
Now, unless You shall appear be-
fore j. P. Thompson, a justice of
the peace in and for said county, at
his office in Lakeland, said county
and state, on the 18th day of June.
A. d. 1915, Judgment will be rem
dered against you and your prop
erty sold for debt.
Dated this Sd day of May, 1915.
L. w. YARNALL,
fl'1 Plaintiff.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-11
CHRISTIAN ENDEAv0R ACTIVITY

An annual report came to us from
the Lakeland society in the ohrls-
tian church. Mrs. Walter wilson
is its secretary.
WE like to see such editorials as
that in the Tampa Times concern
ing Editor Powell of Clearwater
"Bouquets." both of flowers ana
kindly words, are the sort when
make life more livable.
The Lake Butler Times prints the
program of the local Junior society
in the Christian church every week
We sent our last copy to the new
State Junior superintendent, MISS
Nellie Rowley, in West Palm Beach.
Miss Ruth Coffin, in Johnstowh'
who was elected State secretary at
the jacksonville convention, is tai
ented C. E. family Her brother
Francis served one year as state
president, and when the Family
lived at Eustis. David Coffin held Of
fees as secretary and president Tor
Central district. The new society
of the First Christian church IN
Jacksonville is growing fast in mem
bership, getting up to about thirty
five when the organization was put
a few weeks old. This is a church
rich in young life and could nave
also intermediate and Junior socle-
ties.
! The Daily Tropical Sun and the
Tampa Times in the weekly church
! calendars, quote each church nav
! ing three societies, Young Peoples,
! intermediate and Junior. That OF
West Palm Beach is in the Congreea-
tional church, the other is United
Brethren Jacksonville Riverside
Presbyterians also have nice inter-
mediate and the two more common
kinds of societies.
A paper recently refused to give
us space with the excuse, The peo-
pie are not interested in Christian
Endavor " In two churches of this
town are there societies. Who do you
suppose is to blame? at pays to ad-
vertise," and seemingly these young
people had not kept their editor
posted about what they were doing
Next Sunday the topic is 'Why |
Believe in Christian Endeavor, and
it is to be a union service with the
Juniors. This is one Of the finest
subjects of the year Report to the
press secretary in Interlachen the
success of your meetings on the 10th
Mrs. Howard C.. Gates, who when
Miss Edith Krook, of Pomona, was
the splendid secretary for North,
eastern district, is reported doing
we'll after an operation for append.
citis in a Jacksonville hosital. When
she RECEIVERS the house in Lake Como
will sbe closed for the summer to be
spent at Mr.. Gates beautiful home
in Cleveland, Ohio. Many Endeavol
friends rejoice that Mrs. Gates has
such bright prospects ahead.
The Lakeland News has a poem
Look Pleasant. This is something
most difficult to do unless the habit
is cultivated, or is the outward sigr
of happy heart Better to combine
the two just named qualities.
GRACE A. TOWNSEND.
Interlachen, May 18th.