Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 23, 1894, Page 10

oy gaaar A DAILY BRE: SUNDAY, DE LETTING IN TH Further Adven ————Y RUDYARD (Copyrighted 1804 His plan was simpler, but much morc thorough, and he laughed to himself when he thought that it was one of old Bulde tales told under the peepul tree in the even- ing that had put the idea into his head. “It was a master-wo Bagheera whis- pered in his ear. “They were fecding by the river, and they obe; as though they were bullocks. Look where they come now Hathi and his three sons had arrived in their usual way without a sound, The mud of the river was still fresh on thelr flanks and Hathi thoughtfully chowing was greon stem of a young banana tree that he | had gouged up with his tusks. Dut line in his vast body showed to Bag who could see things when he came across them, that it was not the Master of the Jungle speaking to a Man-cub, but one wh was afraid of coming before one who was not. His three sons rolled side by side, be- hind their father. Mowgli hardly lifted head as Hathi gave him “Good hunting.” He kept him swinging and rocking and shifting from one foot to another for a long time befors he spoke, and when he opened his mouth it was to Bagheera and not to the elephants. “I will tell a tale as was told me by the hunters ye hunted today,” sald Mowgll. *It concerns an elephant, old and wise, who fell into a trap, and the sharpened stake in the pit scarred ‘him from a little above his heel to the crest of his shoulder, leaving a white mark,” Mowgli threw out his hand, and as Hathl wheeled the m.onlight showed a long white scar on his side as though he had becn struck with a red hot whip. “Men came to take him from the trap,” Mowgli continued, “but_he broke his ropes, for he was strong, and he went away till his wound was Healed. And T remember now that he had three s:ns. These things happened many, many rains ago, and very far away—among the flelds of Bhurtpore. What came to those fields at the next_reaping, Hathi? “They were reaped by me and my three sons,” eald Hathi. “And to the ploughing that f llows reaping?” sald Mowgli. “There was no ploughing,” said Hathi. And to the men that live by the green crops on the ground?’ said Mowgli. “They went away.” “And (o the huts in which the men slept?” said Mowgli. “We tore the roof to pieces and the kingle swallowed up the walls,” said Hathi. “And what more beside?” said Mowgll. “As much good ground as T can walk over in two nights, from the east to the west, and from the north to the south, as much as I can walk over in three nights, the jungle took. We let in the jungle upon flve villages, and in those villages and in thelr lands, the grazing ground and the soft crop grounds, there is mot one man today who gets his food from the ground. That was the sack of the fields of Bhurtpore, which I and my three sons did, and now I ask, Man-cub, low the news of it came to thee? said Hathi, And now I sce even Buldeo can speak the truth. “A man told me. Tt was well done, Hathi, with the white mark; but a second time it can be done better, for the reason that there is a man to direct.” Thou knowest the village of the man-pack that cast me out? They are idle, senseless and cruel; they play with their mouths, and they do not kill the weaker for food, but for sport. When they are full fed they would throw their own breed into the Red Flower. It is not well that they should live here any more. I am tired of them. “Kill, then,” sald the youngest of Hathi's three zons, picking up a tuft of grass, dust- ing it against his fore legs and throwing it away, while his little red eyes glanced fur- tively from side to side. “What good are white bones to me?" Mow- gli answered angrily. “Am I cub of a wolf to play in the sun with a raw hend? I have Kkilled Shere Khan, and his hide rots on the Council Rock, but—but I do not know where Shere Khan is gone, and my stomach is still empty. Now I will take that which I can see and touch. Let in the jungle upon that village, Hathi Bagheera shivered and cowered down. He could understand, if the worst came to the worst, a quick rush down the village street, and a right and left blow into a crowd, or systematic killing of men as they ploughed in the twilight, but their scheme for deliber- ately blotting out an entire viliage from the eyes of man and beast frightened him. Now he saw why Mowgli had sent for Hathi. No one but the long-lived elephant could plan and carry through such a war. “Let them run as the men ran from the flelds of Bhurtpore, till we have the rain water for the plough and the noise of the rain on the thick leaves for the pattering of the spindles—till Bagheera and I lair in the house of the Brahmin, and the buck drink at the tank behind the temple. Let in the Jungle, Hath “But I—but we have no quarrel with them, and it needs the red rage of great i paln ere we tear down the places where men sleep,” sald Hathi, doubtfully. “Are ye the only eaters of grass in the Jungle? " Drive in your peoples. Let the deer and the pig and the Nilghal look to it. Ye need never show a handsbreadth of hide Il the fields are naked. Let in the jungle, Hathi." “There will be no killing?’ My tusks were red at the sack of the flelds of Bhurtpore and I would not wake the smell again." “Nor I! I do not wish their bones to be on the clean earth. Let them go and find a every cera, his the “WE ARE CUBS BEFORE THEE. new place. They cannot stay here. 1 have seen and smelt the blood of the woman that gave me food—the woman whom they wonld havo killed but for me. Only the smell of the new grass oo their doorsteps can take away that smell. It burns in my mouth, Lot in the jungle, Hathit" “Al!" said Hathl. “So did the scar of the gtake burn on my hide till we saw the vil- lages die under in the spring growth. Now I sce. We will let in the jungle.” Mowgli had barely time (o catch his breath “he was shaking all over with rage and bate—before the place where the elephants bad stoad was empty and Bagheera was Jooking at him with terror. “By tho Broken Lock that freed me" said the Black Panther at last, “art thou the naked thing I spoke for in the pack? Master of the Jungle, when my strength. goes speak for me—speak for Baloo—speak for us all! Wo are cubs before thee! Snapped (wigs under foot! KFawns that bave lost their The Idea of Bagheera being a stray fawn et Mowgli altogether and he laughed and Bauxht his breath and sobbed and laughed again til he had to jump into a pool to make himself stop. Then he swam round and round, ducking In and out ef the bars of the mooulight like the Frog, his namesake. $y (his time Hathi and his three sons had turned cach to one polnt of the compass, and were striding silently down the valleys a mile away. They went on and on for (wo days' march, that is to say, a good sixty miles, through the jungle, and every step they took and every wave of thelr trunks was known and noted and talked over by Maug and Chil and the monkeys and all the bidrs of the fors Then they began to feed, and fed Quletly for & week or 80, Hathl and bis sons the | E JUNGLE. tures of Mowgli, KIPIUING. by the Author.) are like Kaa, the Rock Python. hurry till they have to At the end of that time, and no one knew who had started it, a rumor went through | the Jungle that there was better food and | water to be found in such and such a valley The plg, who, of cour:e, will go the ends of | the earth for a full meal—moved first companies, scuffling over the rocks, and th | deer followed with the little wild foxes that | live on the dead and dying of the herds, and the heavy-shouldered nilghal moved parallel with the deer, and the wild buffatoes of the swamps came after the nilghal. The least little ~ thing would have turned the scat'ored, st:aggling droves that grazed and sanntered and drank and | krazed again, but whenever thero was an | alarm some one weuld rise up and soothe them. At one time it would be Sahi, the | porcupine, full ¢t news of good feed just a little further on; at another Mang would cry cheerily and flap down a glade to show it was all empty; or, Baloo, with his mouth full of ro-ts, would shamble alongside a wavering line and half frighten, half romp_it clumsily back to the proper road. Very many creatures broke back or ran away or lost interest, but very many were left to go for- ward. At the end cf another ten days or so the situation was this: The deer and the pig and the nilghai were milling round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles radius, wh'le the eaters of flesh skirmished round its And the center of that circle was the village, and round the village the crops were ripen- ing, and in the crop sat men on what they They never by | rush after the heat of the summer. Then they waded out, men, women and children, through the blinding hot rain of the morning, but turned naturally for one look at their | homes, They heard, as the last burdened family filed through the gate, a crash of falling beams and thatch behind the walls, Then they saw a shiny, snake black trunk lifted for an instant, scattering sodden thatch to and fro. It disappeared, and then there was | another crash, followed by a squeal. Hathi hat been plucking off the roofs of the huts as you pluck water }il'es, and a rebounding | beam had hit him. It on'y needed this to un- chain his full strength, for of all things in the jungle the wild elephant enraged is the most wontonly destruetive. He kicked back- | ward at a mud wall that crumbled at the stroke, and as it crumbled melted to yellow under the torrent of rain. Then he and squealed and tore through the narrow streets, leaning against the huts right and ft, shivering the crazy deors and crumpling up the eaves, while his three <ons ragad behind as they had raged at the sack at Bhurtpore. “The Jungle will swallow these shells,” said a quiet volee in the wreckage. “It is the outer wall that must lie down,” and Mowgli, with the rain zluicing over his bare shoulders and arms, leaped back from a wall that was settling like a tired buffalo, “All in good time,” panted Hathi but my tusks were red at Bhurtpore! To the outer wall, children. With the head! Together! Again! With the tusk stab and weaken! Now!" The four were in line side by side, and the outer wall, bulged, split and fell, and the villagers, dumb with terror, saw the sav- age, clay-streaked heads of the wreckers in the ragged gap. Then they fled, houseless and foodless, down the vallay, as their vil- lage, smashed and overturned, shredded and tossed and trampled, melted behind them. A month later the place was a dimpled mound covered with soft, green, young stuff, and by mud wheeled “on, BROKE OFF THE POLES WITH THEIR TRUN call machams—platforms like pigeon perches made of sticks at the top of four poles—to scare away birds and other stealers.e Then the deer were coaxed no more. The eaters of flesh were close on them and fcreed them torward and onward. It was a dark night when Hathi and his three sons slipped down from the jungle and broke off the poles of the machans with their trunks and they fell as a snapped stalk of hemlock in bloom falls, and the men that tumbled from them heard the deep breathing of the elephants in their ears. Then the vanguard of the bewildered armies of the deer broke down and flooded into the village and grazing grounds and .the plowed fields, and the sharp-hoofed, rooting wild pig came with them, and what the deer left the pig spoiled, and from time to time an alarm of wolves would shake the herds, and they would rush, to and fro desperately, treading down the young barley and cutting flat the banks of ‘the Irrigating channels. Before the dawn broke the pressure on the outside of the circle gave way at one point. The eaters of flesh had fallen back and left an open path to the south and drove upon drove of buck fled along it. The others, who were bolder, lay up in the wild sal thickets to finish their meal next night. But the work was practicaliy done. When the villagers looked in the morning they saw their crops were lost. And that meant death it they did not get away, for they lived year in and year out as near to starvation as the jungle was near to them: When the buffa- loes were sent to graze the hungry brutes found that the deer had cleared the grazing ground, and so wandered Into the jungle and drifted off with their wild mates, and when twilight feil the three or four ponies that belonged to the village lay in their sta- bles with their heads beaten in. - Only Bag- heera could have given those strokes, and only Bagheera would have thought of inso- lently dragging the last carcases to the open street. The villagers had no heart to light fires in the flelds that night, so Hathi and his three sons went gleaning among the pump- kins and what was left of the maize; and where Hathl gleans there is no need to fol- low. The men decided to live on their stored seed corn until the rains had fallen, and then to take work as servants till they could catch up with the lost year; and as the grain dealer was thinking of the well filled crates of corn and the prices he would levy at the sale of it, Hathl’s sharp tusks were picking out the corner of his mud house and smash- ing open the big wicker chest heaped with cowdung where the precious stuff lay. When that last loss was discovered it was the Brahmin's turn to speak. He had prayed to his own gods without answer. It might be, he said, that unconsciously the village had offended some one of the geds of the jungle, for beyond doubt the jungle was against them. So they sent for the head man of the nearest tribe of wondering Gonds —little, wise and very black hunters, living in the deep jungle, whese fathers came of the oldest race in India—the aboriginal owners of the land, Thoy made the Gond welcome with what they had, and they stood on one leg, his bow in his hand, and two or three polsoned arrows stuck through his topknot, looking hali afraid and half con- temptuously at the anxious villagers and their ruined fields. They wished to know whether his gods—ihe old gods—were angry with them and what sacrifices should be offered. The Gond sald nathing, but picked up a trail of the vine that bears the bitter wild gourd and laced it to and fro across the temple door in the face of the staring old Hindco image. Then he pushed with his hand in the open air along the road to Kan- hiwara and went back to his jungle and watched the Jungle people drifting through it. There was no need to ask his meaning. The wild gourd would grow where they had worshiped their god, and the sooner they saved themselves the better, But it 18 hard to tear a village from its moorings. They stayed on as long as any of thelp summer food was left to them, and they tried to gather nuts in the jungle, but shadows with glaring eyes watched them and rolled down b:fore them even at noon, and when they ran back afrald to their walls on the tree trunks they had passed not five minutes before, the bark would be stripped and chiseled with the strok> of some great taloned paw. The more they kept to their vil- lage the bolder grew the wild things that gamboled and bellowed on the grazing grounds by the Walngunga. They had no time to patch and plaster the rear walls of the empty byres tacking onto the jungle, so the pig trampled them down, and the vines hurried after and drew their ¢lbows over the new-won ground, and the coarse grass whis- tled behind the vines like the lances of the goblin army following & retreat. The single men had -left eariler and carried the news far and near that the village was doomed. Who could fight, they sald, agafnst the jun- gle, or the gods of the jungle, when the very cobra had left his hole in the platform under the peepul? So their little commerce with the outside world shrunk as the trodden paths across the open grew fewer and fainter; and the nightly trumpetings of Hathi and his three sons ceased to trouble them, for they had no more to lose. The crop on the ground and the seed in the ground had been taken. The outlylng fields were already los- ing their shape, and it was time to throw themselves on the eharity of the English at Kanhiwars Native fashion, they delayed thelr depart- ure from ose day to another till the first rains caught them and the unmended roofs let in & flood, and the grazing ground stood ankle deep. And all nature came on with a the end of the rains there was the roaring jungle in full blast on the spot that had been under plow not six months before, “TurIe A gentleman who has always believed that a good sermon could not be preached by a man in a short coat recently went to hear Rev. John W. Chadwick of Brooklyn. The shortness of Mr. Chadwick’s coat on that day was only equalled, ot by the length, but by the goodness of the sermon. And the visitor was so surprised that he at once sat down and wrote the following letter to Mr. Chadwick's tailor: “My Dear Sir—The short coat was a brilliant success in the pulpit. What do you charge for them? I should like to get one as soon as possible. I want to have it made broad across the chest, and with a gesture pocket on each side. I sus- pect there are not a few ministers and con- gregations who would banish the gown and the frock if they could have the Chadwick short coat. I suggest that your cutter make a tour through the theological seminaries and take orders.” ) . At a place of worship in North London a funny incident cecurred on a recent Sunday. A young man who carried a collecting plate after the service, before starting put his hand in his pocket and placed, as he sup- posed, a shilling into the plate and passed it around among the congregation, which included many young and pretty girls. The girls, as they looked on the plate, all seemed astonished and amused, and the young man, taking a glance at the plate, found that he had put, instead of a shiliing, a conversation lozenge on the plate with the words, “Will you marry me?" in red letters staring every- body in the face, while one of the congrega- tion had capped it by a second lozenge, on which was printed, ‘‘Name the day.” wee An absent-minded preacher remarked in a eulogy from his pulpit lately that *Death loves a mining shark.” Thereupon four stockbrokers and a man with a brother in Colorado got up and left the sacred building. oer Rev. Dr. Shouter—I shall create a decided sensation with my sermon this morning, Mrs. Shouter—Are you not a trifle over- confldent? Rev. Dr. Shouter—No; you see of absolutely nothing but religion, it treats ——— RELIGIOUS It is said that the only lineal descendent of John Knox, the Scotch reformer, is a mem- ber of the congregation of the Holy Cross at Notre Dame, The permanent fund of the board of rellef of the Presbyterian church has reached the handsome sum of $1,386,776.74, Grab-bags, wheels of fortune, and gipsy camps at church fairs have been decided by a New Jerscy court to be in violation of the law against lotteries. Rev. D. M. Moody has lately completed three weeks of revival services in Toronto, Canada. A large hall, holding nearly 4,000 people, was completely filled at nearly every one of the forty meetings. Less than one-third of our population are church members. Out of a population of about 63,000,000 in 1890 only 20,600,000 were even nominal Christians, Ex-Senator Edmunds is said to be In Washington for the purpose of conferring with prominent Episcopalians on the subject of building a cathedral in Washington, The Presbyterian church in Pennsylvania numbers 191,000 communicants, 200,000 Sun- day school scholars and 1,170 ministers. The churches number about 11,000, and gave last year $3,000,000. The McCormick Theological seminary of Chicago has refused to submit to the con- (rol of the Presbyterian generai assembly. Lane seminary, at Cincinnati, took similar action, and Western seminary, at Pittsburg, deferred action in response (o the reques of the general assembly. A number of Protestant clergymen will appear before the coming Wisconsin legls- lature to urge the passage of a bill taxing all church property. The movement has grown out of the fact that certain religlous bodies have made exceedingly large invest- ments In real estate, which, of course, is exempt from taxation. According to latest returns there are in the city of New York 522 churches of all denominations. These afford a seating c pacity of 400,000. The most numerous churches are Eplscopalian, with 103 churc edifices; then come the Roman Catholics with eighty-four; the Presbyterians follow with seventy; the Methodisis have sixty- five, and the Baptists fifty; the Jews have forty-six, and the Congregationalists only seven. A Methodist church has declined to accept & subscription from a clgarette manufac turer. Yet, why should not the devil's money be taken to bulld churches with which the more strongly to fight the devil? This was the policy of an old preacher, who thundered against the liquor power, yet was never known to refuse a coniribution from a saloon keeper. He argued that there was no better use for money, no matter by whom it was given, than in bullding God's temple and carrylug on God's work. And & pretty good argument it was, MERIT The 01d Eu/][inbrla Way of Securing Efficiency in thefervice, TEST FOR FIREME FOURTEEN ‘V_SARS‘ TRIAL IN | CHICAGO Rigid Examingtions Insure Competency in Every Branch—No Favoritism Shown ~Nurlous Effective Tests Applied. The proposed reorganization of the Omaha fire department and the Inauguration of the merit system excite general interest and discussion. It is generally conceded that a radical reform is necessary to eradicate the petty Jealousies and faction spirit, and ele- vate the department to a high standard of efficiency. The merit system, fearlessly and consistently enforced, is shown by the ex- perience of older cities to be the one effec- tive means of securing permanent results. It Insures competency, faithfulness and that zeal and rivalry which the prospect of pro- motion instills in men, The merlt system has been In force in Chicego for fourteen years. To its rigid en- forcement is largely due the honor which Chicago enjoys of possessing the best fire department. It is conceded, says the Chi- cago Post, discussing the detalls of the system, that Chicago's gallant corps of fire- men is the best disciplined, the bravest, the most active and alert of that of any city at home or abroad. Obedient to their superior officers, drilled as soldiers in the regular army, they are called upon to face danger every day, and they never flinch. Whether it be to go down to death from a blazing tower of a cold storage warchouse or to brave it on the unknown ground of a smoke-darkened building, they go where they are told to go and never question the order. Courteous, brave, all honor to Chi- cago's fire brigade! With all the hardships the life imposes— flerce action or the harder idle waiting, one would suppose that applicants for appoint- ment to the department would be: few. But such is not the case. It is hard to secure appointment and it is made only after a severe examination, which considirs physi- cal, mental and moral qualifications. A clear mind and a steady nerve, coupled with a sound body in every particular, ons must posess before he Is allowed even ta enter on the probationary period. For a sixty days' trial is required before a man can hope to have his name placed on the rolls of the department. But should he be so fortunate as to secure appointment every step in promotion is gained after the most rigid examination, showing that he has carned it. Trial boards which try exist, and all infringements of discipline and lapses from duty are punished. FORCE CONSISTS OF 1,060 MEN. There are in the Chicago department 1,060 men. The officers are: One fire marshal, three assistant, fire marshals, fourteen chisfs of battalions, ninety-seven captains, 108 lieu- tenants, seventy-four engineers, eight marine engineers, eight: pilots, eight stokers and sev- enty-four assistant engineers. The pipemen, truckmen and drivers are divided into first, second, third 4nd fourth cl Thelr pay is graded dccerding to the but the duties of all lave the same. When a man prescnts himself | to Chief Swenie for ap- pointment to the department he is furnished With ‘a blank application in the following form: ] Instructions—Applicants for. appointment to membership-“m™~the Chicago firé department must present to the fire marshal ‘a petition in the following form, signed by not less than five well knoyn citizens of Chicago; it any part of the farm be altered or stricken out the petition wild'be rejected: - To the Fire Mayshal and Chief of Fire “Brigade of th ty: of Chicago: Sir—I here- With presént my japplication for the position --in the fire department of the city My age is.... occupa- «.--; place of nativity ; and I have resided in the state of Iilinois. ... years. . 1 am now a legal voter In the city of Chicago, I have never been convicted iof any crime ‘and T can read and write the English language understandingly. Signed. . Residence. 5 The undersigned respectfully request you to appoint........a member of the fire de- partment of the city of Chicago, and in- dividually and each ‘for himseif states and represents that he has known the seld ap- plicant intimately and well for the last.... years, and Is qualified to speak Intelligently in relation to his character and habits; that said applicant is a man of good moral char- acter, correct and orderly in his deportment and not In any respect a violator of law or good order; that he is a man of sober, temperate and industrious habits and not ad- dicted to the habitual use of intoxicating drink or other hurtful excesses. They fur- ther represent, as aforesaid, that they are willing and ready at any time to appear before you and make oath or affirmation to the truth of the matters herein stated. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS. Conditions—No person can be appointed to membership in the fire department of the city of Chicago who has ever been con- victed of crime. The applicant must be a citizen of the United States, a legal voter in the city of Chicago, between the ages of 21 and 33 years, and able to read and write the English language understandingly. He must be not less than five feet seven In height, and his weight and circumference of chest must be in accordance with the fol- lowing table: Min. cireum- Maximum. £'nce chest weight. (qulescent). 125 pounds 200 pounds 43 inches 14) pounds 26 pounds 34 inches 145 pounds 210 pounds $4% inches 160 pounds 215 pounds 35 inches 55 pounds 220 pounds pounds pounds pounds pounds inches 150 pounds 215 pounds 40 inches There should be a difference of at least two Inches between forced expiration and full Inspiration. Deception or attempt at deception shall be cause for rejection. Previous dismissal from the police or any other fire department shall be cause for re- Jection. The applicant must appear for physical ex- amination before the department surgeon, of which he shall bear the expense. He must, upon examination by the fire marshal, In addition to the above qualifica- tions, show himself to possess such other practical fitness, intellectual and physical capacity, as the fire marshal shall consider requisite. VENIZ SIZES HIM UP. When the applicant first appears Chief Swenie makes a mental note of him, and if the marsbal s Impressed with the idea that the would-be appointee would make a fire- man, in due time he s sent for to stand his examination; if’ otherwise, the application is “pigeonholed.” | When the candidate ar- rives he is given another form of applica- tion, which also must be filled out by him- self. The statements in this are made under cath, and they ‘cover the man's whole ante- cedents, The exdminations are made at Chief Swenie's office. A little room at the rear Is fitted up for this purpose. The ap- plicants strip, and then Dr. Ferdinand Hen- rotin, the physician of the department, and his assistant take them In charge for the physical examination. This is as rigid and strict as if the candidate were applying for a $100,000 life insurance in a conservative com- pany. The applicant's beight is taken on an in- genlous measuriog machine. The man is placed on a platform similar w that of a pair of scales. He Is put squarely on his fect, and if he (ry “to beat” the machine and’ add a fraction of an Inch to his helght by ralsing his heels and standing on his t little bell rings and the cheat is discovered A bar connected with an electric battery is concealed under the car- pet where the man's toes rest, and the slightest pressure zets the bell a-going. The tricky candidate may think he hears a telephone bell ringing, but mever suspeets that it is the signal of his little deceit. No man has ever attempted to strefsh his height to the minimum required—5 feet 7 Inches— without being detectsd, and many ludicrous situations bave followed. 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NTAL HOouse that people will keep and enjoy per= need not cost you any more that will have outlived its usefulness before you get it home |Why Not One of These: ROBI ROBE BOYS' SUITS. il 'BOYS® & IBOY RCOAT! F0OW ESSING GOWNS, LINEN COLLAR, LIN N COLLARS N COLLARS, PLUSH v PLUSH CAPS. PLUSH CAPS... CAPS.. most brokenhearted because they could not come up to the physical requirements de- manded. EYESIGHT AND HEARING TESTED. The eyesight and hearing ara tested, hands examined for weak or missing fingers —in short, the man is gone over from top to toe and no defect escapes the examiners. If the doctor's certificate and recommenda- tion be favorable the candidate is passed over for examination on his educational and other qualifications by Chlet Swenie. His manner and general bearing are consid- ered, and if altogether the chief thinks he Is a promising candidate he is put on trial, and then the real test of his abilities as a fireman begins. Ho is assigned to a fire house and placed under the instruction of the captain. It the new man is to be a driver he is in- structed in the cars of horses and how to drive on a run to a fire and make sharp turns of corners without injury to his ma- chine, horses or to the men. This is a very difficult and important branch of the service and requires skill and practice. But the majority of the candidates desire to be- come pipemen and truckmen, and these are always detailed at a hook and ladder house, The captain puts the new man through a regular course with the older men in the service In the use of all the tools required in fighting fires, For an object lesson in the training of a novice a visit was made with Chlef Van Horn of the First battalion to the hook and ladder house of Captain O'Connor on Franklin near Randolph street. Here the drills were gone through with, and the dif- ference between experienced, skilled firemen and one not fully trained to the work was demonstrated. LEARNING TO FIGHT FIRE. The scaling ladders, which would be a tax on one not accustomed to their use to lift, were swung with an ease and agllity from one man to another as if they were welking sticks instead of hickory and steel ladders weighing nearly fifty pounds each. In 2 moment an experienced fireman stood at the roof on the top of the string of four ladders, while each ladder below held its man. One of this team of four was a ‘‘new man,” who was learning the tricks of the trade and who in time will handlo a ladder, perhaps, as well as the best of them, but there was a marked difference be- tween his work and that of his associates, Another novice at this fire house s lald up with & sprained ankle recefved in training, but that s only an incident to learning the busine: These ladders are used to reach heights where the extension ladders fall short, and with them the highest bullding in Chicago can be scaled for saving life or carrying hoee. Scaling, holding the life net, as well as jumping into it from aloft, instructions on what to do at fires and in. £ide of bulldings and how to fight the fire- men's chief enemy, which 1s smoke and not fire; the Wse of tools, how to avold elevator shafts and other pitfalls are a few of the duties in which the candidate is instructed for sixty days. Drills are had three or four times a week, while instruction 8oes. on daily. At the end of sixty days the captain makes @ report to the chief on the applicant for a position. If the report says that the man 18 quick, intelligent and efficient and promises to become a good fireman, the chief appoints him to the department as a member in the fourth class at a salary of $800 a year, The same rule applies to drivers, who also are divided into four classes and each class re- celves the same pay as pipemen and truck- men in the corresponding class, Men in the third class get $900 a year, in the second class $1,000 and In the first $1,080 a year. After serving one year o any one class the men are graded up according to merit and the vacancies that may exist, the appropria- tions of council being mada to cover only so many men in each class. But a firema; must always stand an examination before is transferred to the next higher class, show- ing that he has profited by his ex; RULES FOR THE ENGINEEF Engineers and assistant engineers are skilled labor, and rigid examinations also are imposed for these positions. After an as- siatant engineer has served sixty days, on recommendation of the captain of his com- pany he may be assigned regularly to the ranks of the firemen in the second elass. After a year's service he Is eligible to ap- polntment as engineer, when anothier examina- ton s required. After four year's service, if @ pipeman has reached the first class he may apply for a lleutenancy in the depart- ment. For this position he must under- 80 8 regular service examination. This in cludes the rudiments of an English educa- bout a building on fire. What would he do it the engine broke down or refused to work? He is tested on the telegraph; he must tell the location of a box from which an alarm comes in; he is asked about the care of horses, how he would instruct drivers; what merchanglise is the most combustible. ~What class of goods is most easily damaged by water. It he wers going into a burning building with his men what precaution he Would take for safety. How he would handle his men as an executive officer—for some men can command and some can not. In short, if the first class pipeman passes this examination there is no doubt left that he Wil make a good lieutenant. If he does pass, his name is put upon the list, and in time he will be assigned to a house. If he be a man of large physique, perhaps he Will go to a hook-and-ladder campany—and Chief Swenie says that is the “right arm” of the service—as big men are usually chosen for that branch. But if not there, then to an engine company. TIME RULES FOR PROMOTIONS. One must serve one year as lleutenant he- fore lie can apply for a captaincy. His ex- amination for this promotion is all written, Nothing is asked foreign to the business of a flreman, but the applicant must show thor- ough knowledge of every detail of the busi- ness. He must know by name every part of an engine and be able to tell what he would do under the most trying and unexpected circumstances and mishaps during the ex- citement and hurry of a conflagration. Usually the oldcst men In the service are chosen for captains, unless a younger man, by his high marks in the examination, shows peculiar abllity and merit., The examining board consists of three members of the chief's staff, usually an as- sistant chlet and two chlefs of battalions. The board for assistant engineers is com- posed of an engineer of the department, the superintendent of machinery and a chiet of a battalion. Firemen as a rule stick to the business; resignations are few. Notwith- standing this fact promotions are rather rapid, owing to the necessary increase In the department from time to time to keep pace with the growth of the city. Ten new companies were established recently in one year. About 10 per cent go out of the de- partment a year through dcaths, resignations and discharges. COMPOSITION OF THE TRIAL BOARD. The trial board consists of Chief Swene, tho first assistant chief and a chief of a bat- talion, Charges against the men are made by the captains and charges against officers are made by the chief of the battalion in which they are. The charges specify the rule violated and give the particulars of (he offense, and punishment always follows vio- lations, the severity depending upon the gray- ity of the fault, In the regisiry of the de- partment kept in_ Chief Swenie's office the history and record of every man connected with the brigade may be seen at a glance The system of the whole office is perfect, gleaned by Chief Swenis In his forty-five years experience as a fireman in Chicago. He has been fire marshal since 1879, and the civil service rules have been de by him. Reports from every fire company in the city, of all its doings and those of each of the men, are made to headquarters daily, the day ending at 8 a'clock a. m. The chief goes over each one of these and he ke himself Informed of every detall in the de partment. The reports deal with the history of the company's action and that of the mem- bers in answering alarms and fighting fires, who were present and who were absent, and reasons of absence. The chiefs of battalions hold schools for officers six months in the year—three months in the spring and three in_the fall. Here all things that pertain to firemen's duties are discussed; papers are read by cap talns and everything that sheds light upon thoe science of their business is taken adva tage of. Company schools are held weekly. A good fireman, from the chief down, never stands still in the acquisition of knowledge of his business, and Chlef Swenie says he is learning something new all the time from the discussions of his subordinates, and that 1s one reason why Le now knows more than any other living man about how to handle fires. e Merry to the Last. It was the 21st of April, 1821. Dr. I P, Frank, the eminent governor of the Univer- sity hospital, Vienna, lay on his deathbed, and was expected every moment 1o pass away. Once wore the eight leading medical | mi OLD PLATE _LADIES' OR GENT'S SIZE, CUTTHISOUT and send it tous * WILh your name and address and. W wlilsend you this watch by ex- Dress for examination, A Guar- @ anteo for 5 Years and chain JYEA) 21d charm sent with It. = You Blexamine it and If you t it s bareain pay ouzsamplo price, o Lis yours. It 1 beaus &itully engry warranted T in tho 1 for the money and oqual appearance ton genuinesolld §) Gold Watch. Write to-dny, this offer will not appear agals, EASTLAKE MFG. CO., m Corner Adams and State Stgs CHICAGO, ILL: ram lay a French soldier and counted his wounds. ‘Sacre-blen!" e exclaimed, ‘it takes elght bullets to kill a French grenadler.’ Gentlemen, there are cight of you, too.' Thus he spoke, and expired in a fit of laughter. —_———— The fouvenir Craze. Occasionally it s possible to satisty the souvenir seeker without doing any damage in particular, says New York Truth. Th is the case at the tomb of George Wash- ington in Mount Vernon. A lady had just picked up a pebble from the walk in front of the venerated spot, to carry home with her, when a workman came up with a wheelbas row load of gravel which he dumped on the spot. “Have you—have you fixed up the place that way recently?’ the lady asked in @ slightly apprehensive tone. “Bless you, miss,” was the reply, “we has to do this about every two weeks so's t tourists can have something to carry awa; for momentums." ———— UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS, New Zealand Parllament Moving to Feuce Them Gut, The English colonies, especially New Zealand and Australia, are protesting agalnst importations of pauper Immigrants from the home country or other nations, In this line it may be interesting to note the follow= ing, concerning proposed legislation in the New Zealand Parliament. A press corres spondent at Dunedin writes: Two new measures Introduced to Parlia= ment are of so remarkable a character as to arrcst attention, The first of these is the Undesirable Immigrants Exclus'on bill. Ae- cording to the interpretation clauses o pros hibited person includes every contract works man, imbecile, pauper, habitual drunkard, a person likely from any cause to become a charge upon the public funds, or suffering from tuberculosis or leprosy, or who has been convicted of an offense which if com= mitted In New Zealand would involve im- prisonment for not less than twelve months, Immigrant includes every person arriving in the colony save such as aro certifled to as tourlsts, and even tourists, after six month; in the colo become prohibited persons unless th ve Is extended. But the term “pauper’ the richest thing of the bill, Any unmarri2d person not possess-d over and above goods und chattels of £20 Is a pauper, or If marrics, to avold the stigma, £30, in addition to £10 for every child, I needed, Every shipmaster must supply the answer to some’ twenty questions respecting cach person, such as by whom the passage was paid, how ch money the person bas, whether he bas 1 in @ prison or alms house, If the fm= migration officer is satisfled he shall issue & certificate to land, and any master landing a person without a ceptificate 1s liable to a penalty of £60. Should an immigrant become stitute within twelve months of belng landed, or become a ¢ B¢ upon the public funds, the owner of the ship which landed such person shall forthwith take such person to the port from whence he came, and shall pay the cost of malntenance and any other expense, unless such owner can prove that necessities of the person have not arisen causes existing at the time of landing, this the part dealing with Chinese and other Asiaties Is not alarming. Every ship owner or master carrying Chinese or Asfatics in excess of one to every 100 tons shall be liable to a penalty of £100 for each person, and for failing to supply a list, with a penaity of £200. Before any Aslatic s allowed to land the ster must pay a poll tax of £60 men of the capital gathered around his couch. All at once the patient burst out laughing. “What Is it that tickles your fancy?” his tion, and the candidate must show familiarity with the rules of the department. All sorts of bypothetical questions are put to him. He is asked (o tell io detail what he would do friends inquired. “A story has just come into my mind," was the reply, “On the battlefield of Wag- for each one. For a breach of the provisions, in addition to the penalty named, a ship may be selzed and forfeited. Asiatics belng British subjects, except Chinese, must sigi a dwk‘lunllun m;t to carry on the business o’ hawker or peddler. The bill is introduced by Mr. W. P, Reeves, minlster of labor, %