Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 10, 1895, Page 18

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1895 Boys and Girls. [ —== LITTLE MR. THIMBLEFINGER. The Cnlldren’s Second Visit. By Joel Chandler Harris, (Copyright, 1865.) XI. THE KING OF THE CLINKER Chickamy Crany Crow and Tickle had stopped frolicking and were now listen- ing o the storles. While Mre. Meadows was telling about the lucky conjuror, Tickle-My- Toes became very uneasy. He moved about restlessly, pulled off his big straw hat, put it on again, and seemed to be walting impa- tently for the time to come when he might say something. 80, when Mrs, Meadows had finished, she | Jooked at Tickle-My-Toes to see what he wanted. The rest did the same. Dut Tickle- My-Toes blushed very red, and looked at his feet. “You acted as It you wanted to say some- thing,” sail Mrs. Meadows, “and it you do now’s your chance, What's the matter? Have you run a splinter in your foot? You look s it you wanted to cry.” “I aid- want to say something," replied Tickle-My-Tocs. “What was 1t?" Mrs. Meadows inquired. “Nothing much,” answered Tickle-My-Toes, putting his finger in his mouth “I declare, I'm ashamed of you," exclaimed Mrs. Meadows, ‘Hore you are mighty near @as old as I am, and yet trying to play boo- hoo baby. i “1 don't think you ought to talk that way, sald Tickle-My-Toes. "I thread your needles for you every day, and I do everything you ask me.” e “I know what's the matter with you,” re- ynarked Mrs. Meadows. “You want me to take you up in my lap and rock you to aleep, “Oh! I don't!" cried Tickle-My-Tocs, blush- ing again. "I wanted to tell a story T heard, | but I'll go oft somewhere and tell it to my- elf.” i Phore wouldn’t be any fun In that,” sug- gested Buster John. “No,” sald Mrs. Meadows. “Tell the story right here, 50 we can enjoy it with you. “You'll laugh,”” protested Tickle-My-Toes. “Not unless there's something in the story laugh at.” e 1§ o laughing story. Its Just as golemn as It can be,” explained Tickle-My- Toos. f “Good!” exclaimed Mr. Rabbit. “If there's anything I like, it is one of those solemn storles (hat make you feel like you want to £o off behind the house and shake hands with Yourselt and cry boo-hoo to the ell-and-yard and the seven stars.” Mr. Rabbit's enthusiastic remark was very encouraging to Tickle-My-Toes, who, alter seratching his head a little, and looking around to see It he could find a place to hide when the time came, began his story in this wise: “Onco upon a time, and in a big town away off yonder somewhere, tliere lived a 1ittlo boy who had no father or mother. He was so small that nobody seemed to care anything about him. But one day a woman, the wife of a baker, heard him crying in the Btreets and carried him into the house and gave him something to eat and warmed him By the fire, and after that he felt better. “The baker himself grumbled a great deal when he came home and found what his wife had done. He sald he wouldn't be sur- prised to come home some day and find his no time to lose! Show yourselves! about! Be lively!" “With that hundreds of little men swarmed out of the ash heap behind the oven, some of them sncezing and some of them rubbing thelr eyes, but all jumping about with mo- tions as quick as a flea jumps. ““Oh, please don’t talk about fleas,” pleaded Mr. Rabbit, shuddering and scratching him- self behind the ear. “It makes the cold chills run up my back, T never hear ‘em named but I think I ean fe:l 'em crawling on me." “Anyhow, that's the way the little men jumped about,” sald Tickle-My-Toes, resum- ing his story. hey swarmed in and out of the oven, hot as it was; they swarmed In and out of the flour barrels; they swarmed in and out of the trough where the dough was kneaded, and they swarmed in and out of the wood s d. “The king of the Clinkers stood sometimes on the edge of the oven, sometimes on the edge of the flour barrels, sometimes on the edge of the trough, sometimes on the wood- pile, and sometimes at the door of the furnace. And wherever he stood he waved his tiny poker and told the others what to do. “Some of the litfle men carried wood to the furnace, some carried flour and water to the trough, some carried dough to the oven, and some Brought out the hot and smoking bread. Sparkle Spry watched all this with go much surprise that he didn't know what to say or do. He saw the loaves of bread rise up in rows as high as the ceiling, and he sat and watehed It as dumb as an oyster. He had seen bread baked, but he had never seen such a baking as this. : “Finally the eye of the king of the Clinkers fell on Sparkle Spry. ‘Don’t sit there doing nothing,’ he cried. ‘Go fetch wood and pile it here by the furnace door. You can do m'n';pnrkle Spry did as he was bid, but though he brought the wood as fast as he could, he found that he couldn't bring it fast enough. Pretty soon the king of the Clinkers ed out to him: “You can rest now. The flour is all gone, and we have hardly begun.” A “Therc's plenty in the storehouse,’ said Sparkle Spry. “‘How many barrels? the Clinkers. “ Pwo hundred,’ Sparkle Spry answered. «The king of the Clinkers wrung his hands in despair. ‘Hardly a mouthful—hardly & mouthful! It will all be gone before the chickens crow for day. But run fetch the key. Two hundred barrels will keep us busy whilo they-last.” “Sparkie - Spry brought the key to the store house door and the little men swarm- od in and rolled the barrels out in a jiffy. Only one accident happened. In taking the flour out of one of the barrels, after they had roffed it nmear the dough trough, one of the little men fell in and would have been drowned, but for Sparkle Spry, who felt around 3iatie loose flour and lifted him ut.”” “ibrownedr” cried Sweetest Susan. “Of course,” answered Tickle-My-Toes. “Why not?.I ought to have said ‘smoth- ered, but now that I have said ‘drowned’ I'll stick to €7 “Better stick to the story,’ remarked Mr. Rabbit, solemnly—"better stick to the : “Now, T tiffik he’s doing very well, Mrs. Meadows In an encouraging tone. “Well,” sald Tickle-My-Toes, *‘the little men_ worked away until they had baked the 200 barrels of flour into nice brown bread. Stir asked the king of THE KING. — houso full of other people’s children. But his wife replied that it would be well ‘enough to complain when he found the house full. As for this little brat, sho said, he wouldn't il & milk far it o were put in it, uch less a great big house. m"":rhhn baker growled and grambled, but his wite pald no attention to him. She sat in her easy chair and rocked and sang and was just @s good-natured as she could be. —After awhile the baker got over his grumbling and began to laugh. He told his wife that he Bad old all ‘his bread that Joy and had for as much the next day. OBt ourac, said ‘she, 'but it T had left that child crylng in the streets your busi- mess would have been ruined before the year 18 out.’ « Maybe 80, replled the baker. ‘Well, the little boy grew very fast, and was as lively as a cricket. The baker's wife thought as mueh of him as if he had been mer own. scn, and tho baker himself soon ‘came to be very fond of him. He was very smart, too. He learned to watch the fire under the big oven and to make hmself wseful in many ways. He played about the oven 5o much, and was so fond of watching the bread bake and the fire burn that the baker's wife called him Sparkle Spry. “For many years the country where the baker and his wife and Sparkle Spry lived mad been at peace with all the other coun- tries. But one day a man from a neighbor- ing country had his nose pulled by somebody in the baker's country, and then war was declared by the kings and queens and the ople fell to fighting. P ow, when peop'e fight they must be fed, and the cheapest thing to feed them on is bread. A part of the army camped near the town where the baker lived and there was a great demand for bread, The baker's oven ot a large one, and by running it night day he could only bake 300 lcaves, “He and his wife baked until they were tired out. They told Sparkle Spry to watch the oven so that the bread wouldn't burn o wake them when it was brown. They were ®0 tired that Sparkle Spry was sorry for them, and he wondered why he wasn't big endugh to take thelr places if only for one day and night. While he was thinking and wishing he saw something moving. — He yubbed his eyes and looked agan, and then he saw an old man no bigger than a broom- stick, and no taller than a teacup, peeping from behind the oven. A‘l"e they all gone? he whispered, com- dng forward a little way. “HAN who?' asked Sparkle Spry. “The old ones—the blg man and the fat an?' “They have gone to bed,” said Sparkle . ‘I can call them! ""‘S’Na. no! cried the old man, ‘They are * guch fools! They don’t know what is good . for them. 1 have been walling for years to t & chance to show them how (o bake bread. ce 1 showed wyself to the man and he thought I was a snake; once to the woman and she thought I was a rat. What fools they 'Who are you? inquired Sparkle Spry. idn't like to hear his friends abused. “Who—me? I'm the king of the Clinkers s=twice plunged in the water and twea burned in the fire’ “ ell, tonight you can bake all the bread you want to,' sald Sparkle Spry, ‘The baker and his wite have been trying to supply the army that is camped here, but their oven s too emall. They have worked untl they <can work no longer, and now they have gone 10 bed to rest.’ *‘Good!" eried the king of the clinkers. “Shut the door so they can't hear us! I'll ‘}lu a thing or two about baking he walked close to the hot oven, on b with a little pok: ~belt and Wake This made 500 barrels they had used, and that was all the baker had on hand. The 1,600 pounds of flour made twenty hundred and odd loaves, and these the king of the Clinkers had carried into the store house. “When all this was done, and nicely done, the kingy'of the Clinkers went to the door of the rogm where the baker and his wife were sleping. They were snoring as peace- fully as tio good people ever did. Then he went to the. street door and listened. “‘Get ‘home—get home!' he cried to the littlo men. . ‘L hear wagons rumbling on the pavementi they will be here presently for bread.’ ‘““The lttle:men scampered this way and that, behind the oven and Into the ash heap, and’ in a few geconds all had disappeared. “ Now,’ sald the king of the Clinkers, ‘T want to tell you that I've had a splendid time, and I'mi very much obliged to you for it. 1 have enjoyed myself, and I want to make some return for it. ~Pretty soon the bread wagons will-ba at the door clamoring for bread, You will wake the baker and bis wife, When they find all their floun made into nice bread they will ba very much sur- prised. They will ask you who did it. You must tell them the truth. They will not be- lieve it, but they'll be very proud of you. They will bo willing to give you anything you want. Tell them you want a ‘wooden horse. They will bave it bullt for you. It must have a window on each side and strong hinges in the legs. Good bye! I hear the wagons at the door.' “The king of the Clinkers waved his hand and disappeared. behind the oven. The wag- ons rattled near the door, the teamsters cracking thelr whips and calling for bread for the hungry army. Sparkle Spry ran to the baker and shook him and ran to the baker's wife and shook her. They were s0on awake, but when tho baker learned that the wagons had come for bread he threw up both bands in despalr. - “I'm rulned!” he cried. ‘I ought to have been baking and here I've been sleeping! And the army marches away today, leaving me with all my stock cf flour on hand. Ob, why dldn’t the boy wake me?' ‘Come,’ sald h's wife ‘we'll sell what vo got and not cry over the rest.’ “They went into the storchouse and there they saw such a &ight as they had never secn before. The room was so full of steam- ing bread that they could hardly squeeze in at the docr. From floor to celling it was stacked and packed. They sold and sold until every loat was gone, and then, lnstead of the bread, the baker and his wife had a sack full of silver money. “The baker went in to count it, but hip wife took It away from him. ‘Not now,' she sald; ‘not unt!l we have thanked this bey, Wi You are right,' crled the baker. ‘It's the most wonderful thing T ever heard of. How did you manage it? “‘Some little men helped me,' Sparkle Spry, “The woman answerad ized his hands and kissed e are the little men,' she 1 ‘thing I'm sorry for, said Sparkle Spry. **What 15 tha * “Why we had to burn so much wood.! *‘Don't mention it—don't mention it,' pro- tested the baker,’ ““Now,' sald the baker's wife, emb: Sparkle Spry again, ‘you deserve some for making us rich. What shall it be ““The baker frowned a little at this, byt brow cleared ‘Bparkle Spry replie b vnmh:;l n hurlrd bull “You 8 e It,' el e o cing ng bis that baker's wife, * ‘Yes, indeedh,- assented ‘baker, | fAs be cont'nued.y flnlnocu#‘l Want. 9 A Koyul Gift. Mr. W. W. Coreoran, the great 2 of Wasbiugion, wau friend to thé poor and sorrowful, never los- ing opportunities of doing good; the great men of his early days loved him, and de- pended upon his business ability and gener- osity, so long as they, or he, lived. On the 7th of March, 1850, Daniel Webster made his great compromise speech In the cenate. Everybody predicted it would be the crowning address of his public life. Hours before the senute met the sergeant-at- arms went to his house to tell him that al- r:«,;.ly hundreds of people were waiting out- side. Danfel Webster's speeches were national events in those days. Mr. Peter Harvey, an old and faithful friend, was visiting Mr. Web- ster. Turning to Mr. H. he sald, “Peter, I feel that my public life is getting toward its close; I am not sorry. People are good to show me attention and crowd the senate chamber, but all speeches are o misunderstood; this will be.” Then, turning to the sergeant, he said: “'Save good seats for my friend here, and an- other for my good wife.” “Peter, I'm a failure as a manager; my speeches don’t bring me good senso, in silver and gold.” The senate was a most brilliant assembly that day. The most noted people were there. Mr. Corcoran went early and sat not far from his dear friend, the speaker. He loved Mr. Webster as a brother. . With deep-set eyes, flashing intensely; with a deep, sonorous voice, ringing through the crowded senate chamber, Mr. Webster flashed his eloquence upon the waiting, silent_listeners, On and on flowed his uninterrupted, magical words. Mr. Corcoran watched and listened intent- ly. He said to a senator who sat near him, when Mr. Webster took his seat, “That man’s fame will cutlive this marble capitol; no wonder he has no time to fix up his bank accounts!” The next morning Mr. Webster, his wife and Mr. Harvey were taking breakfast to- gether. A messenger sent in to Mr. W— a large white envelope. Turning to his wife, he sa'd: “Some note, or bill; don't let it spoil our coffee.” They laughed, but Mrs. Webster opened the envelope and read aloud the little note. My dear friend, allow me to faintly ex- press my deep gratitude and @elighit at your sentiments so grandly expressed; on compro- mise, yesterday in the senate chamber, by sending you this token of my warm appreci- ation. Your admirtng friend, 4'W:-W. CORCORAN.” Enclosed was a check for §1,000, and dis- counted notes to the amount of $4,000. Mr. Webster simply sald: “What a royal gift from a royal friend!” SRirec ™ Roltor Bt A magnificent new game for boys especi- ally and clso those of a larger growth Is “roller ball,” and clubs are now being formed in all parts of MasSichii “and some few in New York City to play the game. Briefly it Is a species of foot ball, but is played with the hands, and thergfore;-whie giving every opportunity for activity and display, it is not so dangerous or so rough. It is, how- ever, no girl's game. ° The ground on which it is played Is a field not less than 300 feet long by 160 feet wide, and it is marked off with whitewash 50 as to clearly define the outer limits. At each end are the crdinary foot ball goal posts, and the ball is a large leather ball like a foot ball, but perfectly round, about thirty- £x inches in diameter, and weighing twelve pounds or mcre. In the game this ball must not be kicked either with the feet or the legs, although if it bounds, which is very seldom, it may be forced forward by the in- tervention of the body, from which it will rebound. A kick of any descripticn counts two points against the side kicking. Tackling between hip and neck is allowed, and per- sonal interference by placing the body be- tween the attempting roller and the ball, but no “hacking” or “running trip” is allowed, and only the player right at the ball may be tackled. It will thus be scen that the element of accident (of a more serious nature than a bruise or a slight sprain, is reduced to a mimimum. Kleven players for a side ls the correct number, but boys will play any number, and have fun. The two sides toss for position, and then line up in the center of the field, cach side ten yards distant from the ball, which lies in the very center. The word is given by the umpre and one boy from each side rushes at the ball, tho others re- maining motionless until the ball is touched. These two start the play and the first one to reach the ball gives it a “spat” with his hand to one side, or straight, as scems best, and away go the rest of the players trying to drive it, with their hands only, to the op- ponents’ goal, or to a touch down, which is marked the same as in foot ball, The only scoring 18 a goal 4, or a touch down 2. The latter gives the right to punt for goal, and then the players arrange them- selves as in foot ball, except that the puni- ing side select their two tallest men and these two hold the ball high in the air be- tween them, while the most skilful player on their side takes a short run, and with his hand knocks the ball from their hand over the crossbar. The game is played in ten- minute halves, with five minutes Intermis- sion between each half, and it will be found that this time will. giyg all, the play the average player can stand. dt 18 hustle from start to finish, not child’s play, but full of magnificent encrgy, and ~ strategic expertness. ‘WILF. P. POND. Toramy und Xoodie. “Tommy, whero is Toodle?'" Tommy sat up en his hind legs and hung his paws besecchingly, | That was bis way of eaying: “I don't know where my dear Toodle Is myself, but if you will find her for me I will be very much obliged.” Temmy is & pug dog and Toodle is his dolly. He loves her a¥ much as If he wers a little girl; his mistress has never allowed other little boys to laugh at him for playing with a doll. It was his mistress who was asking him about Toodle mow; she was a pretty young lady named Miss Fanny. ‘“Tommy,” she asked again, this time very slowly and sol- emnly: “Where is Toodle? Poor Toodle. Tommy doesn't love Toodle,” Where Is Toodle.” Tommy saw she was not foing to find his doll for him, so he gave a sharp little bark as he got down onto hip four legs again and ran out of the house, It was in the summer and he was living in a cottage cn a quiet seashore, where the front doors stood cpen all day long, Tommy knew all his neighbors and now he trotted over to fhe next house. There was a little girl named Mabel. Mabel was playing with her doll Amy. She was bigger and prettier than poor Toodle, who was cnly rubber. “‘Have you seen Toodle?” asked Tommy, but Mabzl had never learned dog talk, and she only dropped her dell and began to run away, crylng: “Tommy's barking at me, I'm *fraid."” Then Tommy did a dreadful ‘thing; he picked up Amy in his teeth and broke fer home with her as hard as he could go, and when Mabel saw that,she began to cry in good earnest, Tommy went straight to Miss Fanny and showed her the baby he had kidnapped, but he bezan to run agaln whenever she tried to come near him; Mabel soon followed, panting and sobbing out, “he'll kill her, Miss Fauny, he'll kill her.” on't run after him, or he will by acel- dent; he don't mean to hurt her,” said Miss Fanny, while Tommy walked sedately out onto the back porch and lay down with Amy still fn his mouth, “Do you know where Toodle 15?"" said Miss Fanny, and Mabel understood her and sald yes, Toodle was at thelr house on the garret stairs where Tommy had left her. You see Tommy had remembered leaving her there :vhen he went over and asked Mabel about her. “You go get her," sald Miss Fanny. “I'll watch him while you are gone, and he'll give up Amy when he sezs his own dollie.” And sure enough that was just what he did; Amy was prettier, but poor rubber Toodle i vo :lflo;h'ukan Jias the ave bo loved. o gave ook when Miss Fanny showed her to bfy, and ‘then ran and grabbed her in his mouth, setled himself with her Just as yo! e Bim in the plcture. Miss Fanny photographed him, “Isn’'t’ he naughty, Miss Fanoy, don't you think he is?” sald Mabel, after she had gathered Amy to her bosom, and made up fl::mmd to play she'd been carried off by a " “Well, he's an ouly ebild, you kuow, and only children are always spoiled, sald Miss Fanny, but the truth was, she thought he was the sweetest dog In the world. V. R PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTETS. Little Girl—Does yoar mother talk much about woman's rights? Little Boy—No; she jus' has ‘em without any talkin', Little Miss Mugg—I bet you never saw such a beautifully dressed doll as mine. Lit= tle Miss Freckles—No, 1 never did. Its clothes are so fine that you look like a hired nurse besida it. “Tommy, T wish you would try to bs a gen- tleman.” “I do try, mamma.” “Well, you don't succeed very well.” ‘No, Mamma, I guess it ain't in the blood. Johnny (who has jammed his finger)— Plague take ItL Teacher—Oh, Johnny, you shouldn't say that!- Johnny—You'd oughter hear my papa when-he hurts hisself! “Jack,” said mamma, ‘‘run into the parlor and see whether your father is asleep or not.” “Not quite,” exclaimed Jack, on his return. “He is all asleep but his nose.” Hostess—1 w divn to leave you a little while, What can (do for your amusement while T am out€ Tttle Visitor—I wish you would let mes look_at your family album, Hoste Do yéu thfnk you will enjoy that? Littlo Visitor-—-I-guess s0. Mamma says every body laughs over it, Mother—I cafihof ‘allow you to play with those naughty children, Willle. They are rough and rude. Willle—But you don't mind my fighting with them, mother, do you? Mother—Why o you pack up your toys so carefully, Ethel? Kthel—To keep them for my children, mamm: Andsuppose you never have children?” Then they'll do for my grandchildran. = Little Johnny-Mamma says Mrs. High- mind is a very superior woman. What does that mean? Little Ethel—I don’t know, ex- actly, but Mrs. Highmind has traveled a good deal, and maybe she can read a rafl- road time table all by herself. “‘You say you thing your sister is interested In me, do you?" said the caller, delightedly. “Now whatever made you think that?’ I heard her last night,” answered little Ellen, telling ma she wonderpd where your manners were. - Teacher (of class in physics)—Remember the whole is greater than any of its parts. Juvenile Pupil—Not always. Wlere my Paw’s hair parts, ma'am, it's greater than all his hair. The little girl was nursing her dolly very carefully. “Is dolly sick?" asked the child’s mother. “Yes, mamma. The poor littie sing can’t digest all 'at sawdust what she's eated.” “Johnny,” gaid the Boston mother, “I am afraid you have told a deliberate falsehood.” *No, mamma, I can -assure you that I have not. I told it In a hurry. - WHAT ARE WE COMING TO? Toston Traveller. By an evolution frantic A maiden once romantic Assumes the prerogative of man; In all that's scientific She simply is terrific, Knows Latin, Grack, Hebrew, the Koran, For athletics she's a notion; To foot ball her devotion Makes her entirely oblivious to pain, In her padded knickerbockers She lives up with the “blockers,” And causes her opponent contusion of the brain, The clubs that she selects Are free from all defects; (Dogs and men and But cigar:tt Whiskies old By the pressing of a button are exhibited). In politics she's strong, She never knows: sh To gbstacles she never will To argue long's her mis: (She votes by intuition, But no surprises ever strike her dumb). wrong, uccumb, on, She has not a touch of meekness, And if she has a weakness It's a masculine desire to be tall. To everything you mention She's given her attention, And congratulates herself she knows it all. _Armenian Protestants in Turkey raised §57,000 last year for the suppart of their churches 2nd schools. Archbishop Koloftski, metropolitan of the Roman Catholic churchein Russia, has Just rcolved from the ezar a cross adorned with diamonds. ' 3 4 Rev. W. T. Hall, 'pastor ‘of the First Pres- byterian church”of Lynchburg, Va., has ac- cepied an appolntment to the chair of the- ology at the Columbia (S. C.) theological seminary. As an exampld ofCthe extent to which bet- ting is carried Rev. Mr. Bak:r asserted that one woman In Phifadelphia had won $6,000 upon tht result of ‘dne of last fall's football games, ook The Woman's Foréign Misslonary _soclety of the Methodist Episcdpal church has issued over 5,000,000 pages” of missionary literature during the past year. It has 6,128 organiza- tions with 153,503 hembers, Some on2 has estimated. that we have spent nearly $470,000,000 In building churches in this land and $500,000,000 in building jails, and that it costs $50,000,000 a year to run ;he churches and ' $400,000,000 to run the ails. i The board of home missions of the Presby. terian church reports receipts from April 1, 1884, to January 1, 1895, $470,344, a total gain on thosa for the corresponding period of last year of §112,421. This includes a galn in_the “receipts of the Woman's executive gommittee of $14,078, and 1u legacies of §69,- Rev. Dr. Washington Gladden of Columbus, 0., recently returned a clerical pass which a raflroad company- sent him, with the fol- lowing explanation: “I mever use clerical tickets, because I know, no reason why clergymen should ‘have privileges not granted to the mechanies and laboring men, and be- caus2 T am not satisfled that railways have any right to grant the favor to anybody.” The Presbyterian churches of Australia and Tasmania. have formed n federation, the federal assembly, meeting on S:ptember 31 in Melbourne, with Dr. Cosh of Sydney as moderator. It has no legislative cr execu- tive rowers, so (hat the meetings were in the nature of a conference. There was a re- port in regard to missions, and a large ad- vance in their support was urged. But the chief business was the consideration of a profect for the organic union of the churches of the six colonies of New South Wales, Vic- toria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania, A baldachin was unveiled in St. Luke's Protestant Epizcopal church, New York, on Christmas morning. ‘The baldachin in Ameri- can churches, while a novelty to the present generation, i rzally nothing more than the preservation of an old auxiliary to worship. In olden times it was customary to provide in the chancel a canopy, from the center of the dome of which depended an almost in- visible connection with the chamber contain- ing the bles:sed sacrament, The baldachin s, in fact, a canopy spread like an open um- brella over the chancel, and beneath which the holy sacrament I8 placed, and fro which it is distribyted. The one dedica in St. Luke's church ls made of brass, and is the largest and most magnificent piece of this kind of ecelesiastical furniture in this country. A pan-American congress of religlon and education, to which Protestants, Catholics and people of all bellefs in North and South America are o be invited, fs « be held during the coming Summer in the United States. Archbishop Ireland on behalf of the Catholic, and other-disiinguished divines on behalf of sther churches, Lave promised c operation, and a committee has been ap- pointed {o make preliminary arrangements. One of the members of the committee Is Rey. Dr. D. J. Burrell, formerly of Dubuque and Minneapolls, but,now of New York, A very ignorant apd weaithy woman who was fond of talking about her “art gallery,” says the Minneapolls Times, one day met at the house of an acqyaintance a lady who had not called on hep, although they lived in the s2mo town. - “Come to see me,'do!” said Mrs. B——, the patron cof art, as the other lady was taking her leave.+ 0 “Thenk you wery® much," i “We've got a wewspleture, 1o That cught 1o tempt you to_come, if 1 can't,” “I should be ¥ery glal indeed to see it was the mon- “Such a lovely picture! Sometimes it seems to me 1 couldilook at it all day long.” “What Is the subjget of your picture, Mrs. B—?" Ipquired the hostess, “Jupiter and Ten," remarked she with as- surance. Then some one & *‘Jupiter .and loj* ture. mbered that the name attached to (le ple- LIFE OF NEW YORK FIREMEN The Hardships They Undergo and the Dangers They Fearlossly Face, HOW A MODERN COMPANY FIGHTS A FIRE A Chiet Among Chiefs, After Thirty Years' Bervice, Fluds Death in the Flames— Sketch of the Careor of isat- tallon Chlef Bresnun, (Copyright, 1505.) IW YORK, Feb. 7.—One cold, sunny aft- ernoon, just before Christmas, I stood for a moment on a curbstone to watch two or threo fire companies as they went by at full speed, their gongs sounding a sharp warning to foot passengers and drivers. Leading the hook and ladder and engine companies was a single seated wagon, in which sat two men, one of whom I recognized as one of the very best firemen that ever wore the uniform of the New York department. I waved my hand to him in friendly salute as ho passed, but he did not see me. A dozen blocks away a black column of smoke was tsing, and on this his keen eyes rested trom time to time as he drove swiftly and with marvelous skill through the crowded thoroughfare, That was my last glimpso of John J. Bres- nan, chief of the sixth battalion of the New York fire department. A few days later, in the very middle of the holiday scason, ho met’ his death, in company with John L. Rooney, his assistant foreman, in the smoke and flames of another fire, to which he had been summoned with his men in the early morn of a bitter cold day. Although an Irishman by birth, Chiet Bresnan, was a thorough New Yorker, His parents settled in the Sixth ward when he was but 3 years of age, and it was there that ho grew to manhood and acquired his first. tastefor tho caling which he followed to the very' moment of his death with a zeal and” Bithusiasm that more than thirty years of toil and danger had not dimmed. A FIREMAN BORN AND BRED. In the words of one of his old playmates, now a high official in the police department, “John wasa-fireman born and bred,” and no sooner was he able to handle tools than he constructed a miniature fire engife, which was looked upon as one of the wonders of the neighborhood, and made its proud owner the envy and admfiration of all his little friends. As 6 Erew=up his natural bent was de- velpoed by constant association with mem- bers of the volunteer department and his fondness for running with the engines to every fire that occurred in his quarter of the town—a fondness that was shared by nearly every boy and young man of his acquaint- ance. The enthuslasm with which the work of putting: out fires was undertaken by the old-time vqtunteers begat in the hearts of the boys of that period an intense admiration for the red-shirted heroes of the ladder and hose and an ardent desire to share the glory and excitement: of their self-imposed work. Bresnan's first real service was as a mem- ber of Fulton Engine company No. 21, with which he remained until the organization of tho paid department in 1865, when he promptly joined the new force. In fact, with the.exception of a six months’ term in the Sixty-ninth regiment during the war, his whole life was spent in the service of the New York fire department, in which he ranked at the time of his death as one of its bravest and most eflicient officers. A MORNING ALARM. That my readers may obtain an idea of the system of fire extinguishment by which the lives and property of New Yorkers are pro- tected and of the way in which men like Dresnan and Rooney go about their work, let us suppose that on a cold, rainy morning a sleepy watchman, making the rounds of an uptown hotel, discovers that a fire has broken out in a storeroom on one of the upper floors and that the flames, already beyond control, are spreading rapidly. The night clerk, dozing in his easy chair behind the marble counter in the gorgaously decorated lobby down stairs, hears the dreaded cry of fire and bidding a servant ring the alarm at once makes quick time to the scene of the re. And whila the watchman Is arousing the guests on the upper floors with his warning erate a full head of eteam in the space of & vety few moments, “he._sctual time consumed in getting out an engifie from the moment of the first stroke of the gong, which wakens the slecpers, to that in which the wheels cross the threshold, is about ten saconds, and frequently less, and the flerce rivalry between the different com- panies in the matter of getting to the fire first serves to keep the men constantly on their mettle. BATTALION CHIEF'S WORK. As they draw near to the burning hotel the battalion chief sees at once that the fire 1s Iikely to prove a serious one, and so while the men, working with the swiftness and pre- cision of a corps of picked veterans, are at- taching their coupling to the nearest hydrant and stretéhing hose, he laaps from his wagon, takes his key from his pocket, and gives it to his driver with instrictions to send out a second, or perhaps third alarm. It is related of the late Chief Brosnan on one occasion he drove eight blocks, sized up, the Importance of the fire, and omitting a' second alarm, sent out the third within two minutes from the time when the first stroke of the gong sounded in his own quarters. In tho case of such a fire as 1 have refer- ence to now, with the flames roaring up the elevator and perhaps filling the upper stories with smoke, the peculiar qualities which go to make up a true fireman, shine to their best advantage. It is at such a time also that one realizes the importance of the great principle which Chief Bresnan always maintained was the very essence of the whole system of fire extinguish- ment. Celerity was the motto of his life. A minute’s delay in getting to a fire might prove iatal to some one or permit the flames to gain a headway that would put them be- yond all ehanco of control until they had con- sumed thousands of dollars worth of p-oparty. GREAT STRATEGY REQUIRED. The diificulties which confront the chief at such a moment are numerous, and the dan- gors which beset him simply appalling. First of all, he must determine how to reach the point of fire without being cut oft with his men from the rest of the battalion. He must also guard against danger to his hose and ap- paratus and be able to judge instantiy whether or no the position which he pro- poses to take is the most advantageous ono possible under the circumstances and whether he will be able to hold it. 1t frequently happens that the men are able to hold a position successfully when the heat is so intense that it is necessary for them to bo relieved every minute, and, it is not at all uncommon for them to soak themselves from head to foot with water from their own hoso in order to prevent thelr clothing from taking fire, Great volumes of the smoke in the case of such a firo as 1 have described are liable to fill_the upper stories while the firemen are working at the source of the flames. To ob- viate this a number of men from the hook and ladder truck—who may fairly be termed the sapping and mining corps of the army of fire fighters—climb to the roof of the build- ing and relieve it of smoke by cutting holes In the roof, breaking in the skylights and opening the scuttles, Meanwhile other firemen have placed lad- ders against the wall of tho hotel and gone up to rescue a group of Panic-stricken guests who have awakened to~find themselves cut Off by the flames from the stair case and ele- vator. The work of life-saving is, of course, regarded as of first importance among. fire- men, and both Bresnan and Rooney were noted for their achievemenis in that way, the latter having won the Betiliett medal for his gallantry on the occasion of the burning of the World building about fourtcen years ago. LAST AND WORST DIFFICULTIES. It the fire continues to spread in spite of the most intelligent and-vigorous efforts to subdue it, the men are confronted by new dangers. ‘The flames may spread under the wooden floor, break out in some unlooked for place, and burn’ through a line of hose, thus suddenly cutting oft the fupply of water at the very moment when it Is most needed. The roof may fall and crush them, or the floor may give way under their feet, or they may find themselves suddenly cut off from their fellows and with no chance of escape save by a dash through a solid wall of flames. But a more formidable danger lies in the gas escaping from broken chandiliers and from tho wires charged with currents of electricity of sufficient strength to cause instant death, The qualities to which John Bresnan owed his eminence in the department which he served so long and faithfully were remarkably aquick perceptive and inventive , faculties, scund judgment, a complete knowledge of the whole theory and practice of fire extinguish- ment and a thorough familiarity with every sort of apparatus employed in it. He himself invented, besides the engine torch already shouts, the servant rushes barcheaded across the way to the street lamp with the red glass, opens the alarm box and by simply pulling a hook transmits what Is called a “first alarm.” It is to meet precisely such emergencies as this that the alarm boxes were S0 ar- ranged that any one who discovers a firo can ring a first alarm, while only the proper officials are entrusted with the keys by means of which the second and third alarms, which summon more trucks and cngines, are sent out. The message sent from the alarm box is carried to the department headquarters in Sixty-seventh street, where operators are al- ways on duty, and sent from there to the companies whose quarters are nearest to the point from which the alarm came. There are two gongs in each company's quarters, and in order to prevent as far as possible any mistake, two alarms are sent, one by means of an ordinary, awitch and another by an ingenious automagic' machine. FIRST RESULT OF A NIGHT ALARM. And while this electric message is going up to S th street and back again the me eping soundly in the en- gine_ho dozen blocks away from the hotel. Two of them are on guard on the ground figar, where the engine stands ready to boctake -opti without a moment's delay, and t “are moving drowsily in their stalls. There §s mno- fire in the firebox cf the engine, cnly o heap of oil-soaked pine shavings and, kindling wood. But the water in the 'boiler 48 9ept Lot by means of a steam pipe rupning through the floor to the cellar, where @ big fire is maintained night d day. The act of starting the engine serves at_the samo time to break the con- neet’'on_withythe. generator in the cellar and shut off $86 pipe g0 as to prevent the escape of the steam. Into this engine house in the quiet, early morning hour the electric current brings its message \Jp the shape of a succession of quick_stroKes on the gong, which speak as 1o well trained fireman as if they ords graven on tablets of brass. “gurrent that rings the summons on the brazen gong releases the horses from thelr stalls, and they spring at once to their places beside the pole. The harness s suspended above them and the two men have only to snap the collars about their necks and attach the reins to their bits, counting meantime the number of strokes on the gong, which tell them from what station tho alarm has come. A PLUNGE INTO TURNOUTS. The same message has rung also on a gong in the rcom upstairs where the men are eleeping, each one with his “turnout” on the floor beide his bed. A *‘turnout’ con- sists of a pair of tall rubber bocts and so arranged that they may be drawn on with- out a sécond’s loss of time. Into their *“turn- outs” every one of these firemen spring, and without walting for anything else make thelr way down the smooth brass sliding poles tc the floor below. Their overccats and fire helmets are on the englne. They can put them on as they race through the streets. Tho driver and engineer sieep close to the eliding ladders in order that they may be the first to get down, and they climb at once to their places, the former on the seat In front, the latter on the ash pan, with the gap- tain of the company behind him. The lieu- tenant sits beside the driver' and the other men ride on the tender, or hose wagon, as it used to be called, which has been hitched up simultaneously with the engine. The driver takes the reins in his bands, and having sat- isfied himself with a quick glance that the harness has been properly adjusted, starts up bis horses without walting to see ¥ the other members of the company are in their places. That is thelr lookout. As the engine crosses the threshold the engineer lights one of the torches. that are hanging in a rack ahove the ashpan and throws it on the heap of cil-soaked shavings and kindling wood in the fire box, and then puts in the coal till the fierce biaze heats the hot water in the boiler to the bolling point. FIRING THE ENGINE. Tho toreh, which is ane of Chief Bresnan's many inventions, is simply @ pine stick with a quantity of olied cotton waste tied around t, from which protrude the heads of half a dogen matches. With the aid of this toreh the fire is kindled instantly and effectively 234 ‘the fwnes, fanued by the swift current of air as the engine passes through (he street, blaze up #o quickly and vigorously as to gen- described, the hose hoist and the distributing nozzle. But besides knowledge and skill, he had uribounded enthusiasm in his calling and a high degree of personal courage. More- cver, he knew: New York as no one else that I have even seen knew it. ON EVERY TONGUE. 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